Hello and welcome,
welcome to Our Pillars
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of Our Faith
continuing preaching God's word
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here live from
Thompsonville, Illinois
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and to all the
world praise the Lord.
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Welcome, everyone of
you those that are here
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from different
parts of the United States
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and some from other countries.
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Welcome and we also
want to welcome our viewers
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from around the world.
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Thank you for joining
us, we have the opportunity
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to study God's word together.
Our speaker for this hour
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is Ty Gibson a wonderful
message, which you will hear
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about in just a moment,
but first we want to go to
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God's throne of
grace through music
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and I like to
invite sister Tammy Chance
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to come forward. We are
going to hear beautiful music
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from the heart of a
person that loves the Lord.
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From heart of a person
that ministers through her music
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and I would like to
encourage you to hear the words
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of this sermon and
song by sister Tammy Chance
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more than ever before.
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You know it's true, I
love you more than words
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could ever show, but forgive
me Lord for love at times.
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I haven't told you so because
you mean everything to me,
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your presence I do I
want to live each day
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in such a way you know.
I love you more and more.
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More than ever
before, Lord I love you.
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More than ever
before, Lord I need you.
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More than ever
before, I've got to tell you,
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I love you now
more than ever before.
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I love you then, I love you now.
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That much more love in hand, and
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till the end between us,
we find, he became my dream
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let's find, and with each day
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you will be in my way,
your love never known before
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I want to live
each day, in such a way
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you know I love
you more and more.
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More than ever
before, Lord I love you
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More than ever
before, Lord I need you.
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More than ever
before, I've got to tell you
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I love you now
more than ever before.
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More than ever
before, I've got to tell you
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I love you now, more
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than ever before.
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Amen. Where the outlines
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people should have Amen
when I'm preaching if possible.
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He has given us
many reasons to love him.
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Amen, Amen. And
continuing on this
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we have the blessing of
having Ty Gibson with us.
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We praise the Lord
that he was able to join us
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for this camp meeting
and Ty Gibson is a man
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that loves the Lord
as well, you can hear it
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as you talk to
him. You can sense that
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as you listen to his sermons
and you can also see that
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as you read one of his books
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that he has a
connection with the Lord.
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I would like to invite
Ty Gibson to come forward
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and he is going to present
a message from God's word.
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I encourage you to
follow along in scriptures
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and we leave the time with you
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in the message a
God named desire.
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Amen. May Lord bless you.
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Thank you. Thank you
John, how is everybody.
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Great. How many of you
actually like this humidity
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anybody, I went for a walk
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with a couple of
friends of mine last evening and
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as we were walking the
fireflies were beautiful.
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Aren't they? Just, just these
little electrical creatures
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that flash in the
night that was beautiful,
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the sound the crickets
that pretty nice isn't it?
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Oh! Just a nice
sound, we even heard some
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baritone crickets last night.
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But as I was
walking with these friends
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my precious
sister Cheryl she said.
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Oh! I just love this
weather, this, this, this,
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I said even the
humidity yes even the humidity,
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I have to make a
confession I said
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something kind of
not nice about this area.
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I shouldn't have
said This, but I said,
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I said you know what I
think the first thing that I do
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if I lived here is move.
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That's the first
thing, that's the first thing
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I do, is move. I
don't know I don't
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like to actually
feel the air when I go
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outside I don't like
it to grab me and anyways.
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But, I think I
move back real quick
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because the people are
so nice here, have so many
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good friends
here what a blessing.
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Are you eager to
launch into the God's word?
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Amen. I want to tell you if you
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have attended any of
the regional or the National
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ASI convention this is
just a little disclaimer
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at the beginning
here. If you have attended
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any of those ASI
conventions some of you actually
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may have heard the
short version of this message,
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I apologize in
advance I want you to know,
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I want to know however
that if you begin to get
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little drowsier, bored
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because it's
familiar information.
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Please understand that
if anybody ought to be bored
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it's me, I have
heard it every single time
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I have delivered it.
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And I am not bored
with it because this is a
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powerful truth that
gives us insight into the way
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God has made us and what it is
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that we are made for,
we are going to discover
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in our time
together that you and I
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Literally, we are
psychologically, emotionally
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and even
biologically we are engineered
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for a relationship with
God so we are gonna launch
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into that just
now, but let's pray.
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Father in heaven, we
open our hearts to you,
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we want to know you
more intelligently Lord
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permeates our intellects
in a rationale faculties
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with insights that
will ignite for you a deeper
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and more
increasingly passionate love
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for you Lord. We want
to know you as you are,
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please send your
Holy Spirit to preside
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over this meeting
over everyone of our hearts
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and minds Lord and give me grace
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to speak for you
effectively Lord.
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May your word be
powerful in our understanding
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in Jesus name. Amen.
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Well, I want to set the topic up
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this afternoon by
making some observations
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about human nature
and in order to get
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there I need to tell you that
according to my precious wife
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Sue, precious as
she has, she has leveled
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an acquisition against me.
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She thinks I am weird for a guy.
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I said baby why? Why
do you think I'm weird?
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She said because
you like shopping.
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You are not
suppose to like shopping,
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shopping is a
traditionally female venture
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and it's just strange
that you like shopping
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being a guy in all.
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Now, here's the
thing to make it even
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more un-guy like, I guess.
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It's not the tool
store, the boat store
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or the car store
that I like shopping at?
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It's a grocery store
and any grocery store will
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do really. In fact I
think that the reason my wife
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has this problem
with me is because she is,
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she is aware the fact
that I shop better than her.
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I'm actually a better
shopper, I'll tell you
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why because I
do it methodically.
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I enter the grocery
store, I always start
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to my right and I
make my way up and down
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every single aisle
on every visit, where
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as my wife on the other
hand she shops like a man.
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She has a short mental
lift she enters the premises
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and she kind a
spot shops consequently,
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she often forgets
things that we need
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and consequently
she never discovers
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any new yummy stuff.
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Where as my method
you never forget anything
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because you see everything,
so it triggers your memory
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yeah we need
that yes we need that
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and I have made so
many great discoveries
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in the grocery
store some of which
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have been introduced
into our permanent diet
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and that would not
be the case if I did not
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go occasionally. She
doesn't want me going,
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when I see her kind of
trying to slip out the door
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and I know she is
going grocery shopping,
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I will say. Hey Sue, can I go.
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And she only says in a
rather, rather emphatic tone,
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no, I'm in a hurry. I
just need to get the stuff and
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get home, but occasionally
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occasionally, she
has allowed me to go.
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She said okay I'll
stay home and you go.
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I don't want to go
with You, but you can go
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by yourself and
on this one occasion
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she sent me on the
mission to secure some salsa
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for the Mexican dinner she
was going to make that evening.
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She said please hurry
you don't need to go up
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and down every aisle, just
go get the salsa and get home.
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So, I was so excited
to have her permission
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I rush to the grocery store,
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I went straight
to the salsa aisle
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resisting the
temptation to go up and down
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every aisle and went
straight to the salsa aisle
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to prove that I
could went necessary shop
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like a man, but as I
entered the salsa aisle,
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I experience a
deterrent to my mission
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there was a woman
who was very studiously
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focused on the salsa and bodily
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she was positioned of
course in front of the salsa.
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So, what was I to do
I couldn't be in a hurry
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I had to exercise of
course proper grocery
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store etiquette. Nobody
should ever feel your breath
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on the back of their
neck in the grocery store.
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So, I came up
behind her just slightly
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off to her left of
course may be I don't know
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a foot and a half
two feet back behind her
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and I just stood appearing
forward over her shoulder
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looking at the salsa
options making my selection
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ahead of time so
that when she was done
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I can just grab the salsa head
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to the check
outstand and be home.
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But then suddenly
something completely
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unexpected and actually
it was a kind of frightening
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happened as she stood there
looking at the salsa herself
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and I stood there looking
at the salsa suddenly out of
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no where this woman
reached back her left hand
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and tenderly
clashed mine in hers.
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I was stunned, I was so nervous
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that I clutched her
hand a little tighter.
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Now, of course it
was flattering, but
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here's the thing she
was focus on the salsa
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she didn't release
that this was a mistake
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and then, and then as
she is holding my hand
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she says in a rather
romantic tone I might add,
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she says medium
or hot Sweetie Pie,
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Now as you might imagine I
am immediately in a quandary.
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I'm in psychological melt down,
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emotionally I'm
being damaged right now.
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So, we stand
there holding hands,
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and in my quandary
I'm having to figure out
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what to do because on the
one hand I know I'm not him,
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I'm not sweetie
pie, he is somewhere else
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in the grocery store
making new discoveries.
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On the other hand, I have
very, very definite opinions
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about salsa and
she did ask after all
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medium or hot and
I preferred mild so
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that you can taste
all the shuttle fusion
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of the salatrim,
the tomatoes and onions
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and the garlic
and if it's too hot
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you can't taste all of those
flavors. Can I get an Amen.
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Amen. On my own Salsa, okay,
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so as I am standing
there trying to figure out
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what to do of course you
have to understand this all
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happened in slow
motion, in about three seconds
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just as she says
medium or hot sweetie pie,
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she is in mid turn
and in full pucker,
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this lady is
about to plant one on me
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and of course I am a committed
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Seventh-Day Adventist Christian
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and I can't let that happen
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and so I
immediately began to blurt out
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as my head cranes back
toward the spaghetti sauce
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still holding
her hand so nervous
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that it's getting tighter.
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I say actually mam I prefer mild
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and just than our eyes
meet and she sucks in her pucker
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and leaves my
clutched hand into with hers
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and froze my
hand from her presence
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as if I have a
disease or something.
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She is shocked no doubt,
I know it was a traumatic
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experience for me
and for her. I thought
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it was hurry for her,
it was traumatic for me try
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making a salsa selection
in those circumstance is hard.
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Anyways, she rushes out
of the salsa aisle looking
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for her true love
just like all of us
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are, which is the
point, which is the point.
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Two things donned on
me as I was making my way
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to my car after
securing my salsa selection.
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Two things were
going through my mind
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the first one you've already
guessed it, I'm hoping that
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sweetie pie is a 6.6
of solid muscle covered
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with tattoos
looking for the troupe
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that held his girls
hand in the salsa aisle.
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So, I'm really in
a hurry to get home
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now, but the second
thing that I'm thinking is wow!
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That's all of our
situation, every single
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one of us, listen
to me carefully now
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every single one of us are wired
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in such a way that
we have relationships
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that are of an
intimate nature close friends,
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our grandma,
grandpa, an aunty and uncle,
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a mom and dad, little grandchild
00:18:17.53\00:18:21.74
and we all have matrimonial
ties or matrimonial hopes.
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We all crave true
love, we all want it
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at the most bedrock level
of our sentient human souls,
00:18:35.54\00:18:36.51
we crave that, we must
have it in fact or we die.
00:18:41.16\00:18:47.01
And science is
actually making this discovery
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and about the last
10 to 15 years science,
00:18:52.64\00:18:56.33
which has been tilted
heavily toward a survival of the
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fittest, evolutionary
world view in which by the way
00:19:00.72\00:19:04.90
the highest law of human
nature is self preservation.
00:19:04.93\00:19:08.30
Am I right? In that world view
00:19:08.33\00:19:12.25
listen there is no
such thing as love,
00:19:12.28\00:19:17.05
Richard Dawkins one of the most
00:19:17.92\00:19:19.61
prominent atheist and advocates
00:19:19.64\00:19:21.63
of atheism in our time,
himself a biological scientist.
00:19:21.66\00:19:27.38
Richard Dawkins says
that the experience of love
00:19:28.12\00:19:31.08
in human
experience, love is an illusion
00:19:31.11\00:19:35.62
he says, there is
no such thing as love
00:19:35.65\00:19:38.92
when a person
purports to love someone else
00:19:38.95\00:19:42.11
this is merely
evolutionary process operating
00:19:42.14\00:19:46.96
at a more sophisticated
level in order to secure
00:19:46.99\00:19:51.07
the advantage in
the relationship.
00:19:51.10\00:19:54.53
So, ultimately he says
that what we call love is
00:19:54.56\00:19:57.74
merely a more sophisticated
version of selfishness.
00:19:57.77\00:20:02.80
This is all evolutionary
science can do it, it's
00:20:02.83\00:20:08.10
all they know to do with
this phenomenon called love
00:20:08.13\00:20:13.53
that we human beings
experience universally
00:20:13.56\00:20:17.05
to one degree or
another and even when we are not
00:20:17.08\00:20:20.66
experiencing it, we
are yearning for it.
00:20:20.69\00:20:23.91
Wishing for it,
praying for it, wishing that we
00:20:23.94\00:20:29.42
had some close
friend in whom we can invest
00:20:29.45\00:20:35.19
our loyalty and whom we
can trust and experience
00:20:35.22\00:20:39.60
all the beautiful new
answers of two human beings
00:20:39.63\00:20:43.61
genuinely caring one for
the other more than themselves.
00:20:43.64\00:20:49.44
Well, science
doesn't know what to do with
00:20:49.47\00:20:52.42
this accumulating data
that is coming on to the table
00:20:52.45\00:20:56.59
before as you should
have an outline in hand
00:20:56.62\00:20:58.65
and I am hoping you
have a outline in hand.
00:20:58.68\00:21:00.05
Entitled the God name Desire,
00:21:00.08\00:21:01.57
how many of you
have that outline?
00:21:01.60\00:21:02.77
Wave that outline, I
want to make sure that Oh!
00:21:02.80\00:21:04.90
wow efficiency everybody
has an outline. I want you to
00:21:04.93\00:21:10.58
notice with me a book
entitled love and survival
00:21:10.61\00:21:15.37
please note the title of
this book, notice the title
00:21:15.40\00:21:18.32
of this book makes it
very, very interesting
00:21:18.35\00:21:22.70
jerks the position of two
words, Love and what's the
00:21:22.73\00:21:25.73
other word
survival, this is fascinating.
00:21:25.76\00:21:28.35
The author of the
book is Dr. Dean Ornish,
00:21:28.87\00:21:32.02
we are going to
discover in just a moment
00:21:32.05\00:21:33.76
that Dr. Dean Ornish does
not believe in the existence
00:21:33.79\00:21:36.61
of a personal third
party God who exist adjacent
00:21:36.64\00:21:40.71
to human beings
some where in reality.
00:21:40.74\00:21:43.98
In other words he
doesn't believe that God
00:21:44.01\00:21:47.03
exists as a being
distinct from creation itself
00:21:47.06\00:21:52.94
and humanity
itself. We will discover
00:21:52.97\00:21:55.03
that in just a moment,
but that's a little bit
00:21:55.06\00:21:57.03
of background on Dean Ornish.
00:21:57.06\00:21:58.41
Some of you are
into the health message
00:21:58.44\00:22:00.61
you've heard of
the Dr. Dean Ornish
00:22:00.64\00:22:02.36
because he is the
physician and scientist, who
00:22:02.39\00:22:05.48
discovered through multiple
studies that heart disease
00:22:05.51\00:22:09.08
could be reversed
by lifestyle changes
00:22:09.11\00:22:12.04
such as an exercise
regime and nutritious food.
00:22:12.07\00:22:15.34
Right. That's his claim to fame,
00:22:15.37\00:22:17.71
but his first
love is not the health
00:22:17.74\00:22:20.78
of the biological heart by
the health of the emotional
00:22:20.81\00:22:24.52
and psychological heart.
00:22:24.55\00:22:25.84
So, years before Dr.
Dean Ornish began his
00:22:25.87\00:22:29.70
research on the biological
heart the doctor began
00:22:29.73\00:22:33.62
accumulating evidence and
information to demonstrate
00:22:33.65\00:22:38.10
the thesis of his
book love and survivor,
00:22:38.13\00:22:40.76
which by the way went
straight to the New York times
00:22:40.79\00:22:42.84
best sellers list
as you might expect
00:22:42.87\00:22:45.04
because of the
topic, human beings are
00:22:45.07\00:22:48.66
universally
hungry for love and we
00:22:48.69\00:22:53.40
intuitively know,
in our hearts and minds
00:22:53.43\00:22:57.06
that we are utterly
and completely dependent
00:22:57.09\00:23:00.75
on love for our survival.
00:23:00.78\00:23:02.58
So, when we see
those two words adjacent
00:23:02.61\00:23:05.86
to one other Love and Survival,
00:23:05.89\00:23:07.17
I'll tell you what
I'm picked that book up,
00:23:07.20\00:23:09.05
and so did millions of people.
00:23:09.08\00:23:12.61
Notice on page 29,
it's in your outline
00:23:12.64\00:23:15.12
this is information
I wanted you to have,
00:23:15.15\00:23:16.99
so you can make use of
it yourself. Notice page 29,
00:23:17.02\00:23:20.81
this is the basic
thesis of Dr. Ornish's book
00:23:20.84\00:23:24.57
anything that promotes
feelings of love and intimacy
00:23:24.60\00:23:30.05
is what? What's
the word he uses,
00:23:30.08\00:23:31.71
healing. Anything
that promotes isolation,
00:23:31.74\00:23:37.01
separation, loneliness,
loss, hostility, anger,
00:23:37.04\00:23:41.10
cynicism,
depression, alienation,
00:23:41.13\00:23:44.98
that is relational
breakdown and related feelings
00:23:45.01\00:23:49.28
often leads to
what suffering disease
00:23:49.31\00:23:54.91
and premature
death from all causes,
00:23:54.94\00:23:58.03
every human
being without exception
00:23:58.06\00:24:01.80
Dr. Ornish is telling
us, we will experience
00:24:01.83\00:24:05.71
in a climate, in an
atmosphere, in a world
00:24:05.74\00:24:08.59
of intimacy and
love. We will experience
00:24:08.62\00:24:12.79
greater health, he
goes on to demonstrate that
00:24:12.82\00:24:17.14
a person, who lives in social
connections that are involving
00:24:17.17\00:24:23.35
trust and loyalty and affection
00:24:23.38\00:24:25.93
that these individuals
by enlarge are better
00:24:25.96\00:24:29.51
equipped biologically
to fight off any disease
00:24:29.54\00:24:32.51
that they might
be predispose to.
00:24:32.54\00:24:35.61
So they done controlled studies
00:24:35.64\00:24:37.45
and they've actually
shown that an individual who
00:24:37.48\00:24:40.36
lives in isolation
and anger and loneliness
00:24:40.39\00:24:44.66
who is predisposed to
heart disease for example
00:24:44.69\00:24:48.63
is much more likely
to die of that cause
00:24:48.66\00:24:53.16
in their
isolation and loneliness.
00:24:53.19\00:24:54.84
Where as an
individual who is equally
00:24:55.21\00:24:57.78
predisposed to
heart disease for example
00:24:57.81\00:25:00.43
who lives in an
environment of affection
00:25:00.46\00:25:03.23
and love and intimacy
surrounded with friends
00:25:03.26\00:25:05.64
and outgoing other
center service that individual
00:25:05.67\00:25:09.04
is far more likely to
survive the on slots of heart
00:25:09.07\00:25:14.00
disease and their
body will be better
00:25:14.03\00:25:16.04
equipped to fight it off.
00:25:16.07\00:25:17.55
It's amazing,
this is hard science.
00:25:17.58\00:25:21.04
In fact, Dr. Ornish
demonstrates that literally
00:25:21.07\00:25:24.56
the white blood cell count
that is your immune systems
00:25:24.59\00:25:28.36
ability to fight off
disease, the white blood cell
00:25:28.39\00:25:31.21
count literally
goes up in your body
00:25:31.24\00:25:35.04
through the simple
exercise of affectionate touch.
00:25:35.07\00:25:41.79
Touch the person next
to you, touch them, just
00:25:42.71\00:25:45.91
hold hands with somebody
you could hold hands with
00:25:45.94\00:25:48.61
okay, be careful
remember the lady in the
00:25:48.64\00:25:52.20
salsa aisle it's dangerous.
Okay, I want, I want you
00:25:52.23\00:25:55.98
know something even
though, even though you may not
00:25:56.01\00:25:58.36
be conscious of it
that simple act of you know
00:25:58.39\00:26:01.42
I walk up to one of the
buddies and I put my hand
00:26:01.45\00:26:02.97
on his shoulder.
David just came back stage
00:26:03.00\00:26:05.86
before I was to come
out here and he put his arms
00:26:05.89\00:26:08.09
around me and he hugged me tight
00:26:08.12\00:26:09.85
and my wife blood
cell count went up.
00:26:09.88\00:26:11.58
I was in conscious
of it at the moment
00:26:13.32\00:26:16.25
but the fact is that
because of my interaction
00:26:16.28\00:26:21.41
with David just
moments ago, I am better
00:26:21.44\00:26:23.90
equipped to
fight off anything that
00:26:23.93\00:26:26.67
might be come in my way today.
00:26:26.70\00:26:30.89
This is what's
being demonstrated.
00:26:30.92\00:26:32.55
Now, why are we like
this? Why are human beings
00:26:32.58\00:26:36.07
dependent on intimacy and love
00:26:36.10\00:26:41.23
for their health and survival?
00:26:41.26\00:26:43.82
Notice page 22,
backing up a few pages
00:26:43.85\00:26:46.57
in Ornish's book he
says the scientific evidence
00:26:46.60\00:26:49.92
leaves little doubt
that love and intimacy
00:26:49.95\00:26:53.93
or powerful
determinants of our what?
00:26:53.96\00:26:59.39
Health and Survival.
Now I want you to notice
00:26:59.42\00:27:03.64
carefully the word why
italicized, I didn't italicized
00:27:03.67\00:27:09.45
the word in the
book it's italicized,
00:27:09.48\00:27:11.41
this word is
italicized for emphasis
00:27:11.44\00:27:14.39
by Dr. Dean Ornish, he is
saying here the scientific
00:27:14.42\00:27:18.90
evidence leaves little
doubt that we are dependent
00:27:18.93\00:27:22.55
on love and
survival, on love and intimacy
00:27:22.58\00:27:24.73
for our survival and
health and then he says
00:27:24.76\00:27:27.14
but why, why they
have such an impact
00:27:27.17\00:27:33.63
remains what,
somewhat a mystery, now
00:27:33.66\00:27:36.09
now I want to ask you
is it a mystery to you?
00:27:36.12\00:27:40.33
Those of us gathered
here today for this event
00:27:40.36\00:27:43.09
digging into God's
word and seeking intimacy
00:27:43.12\00:27:47.47
with a third party
personal God of the universe
00:27:47.50\00:27:51.36
is it really all
that mysterious to you?
00:27:51.39\00:27:53.87
Does it comes as surprise
to you that biologically we are
00:27:53.90\00:27:57.65
wired for affection and
love. Is that surprising to you,
00:27:57.68\00:28:00.37
why is it not surprising to you?
00:28:00.40\00:28:02.43
Well because you
already hold a world view, yes?
00:28:03.26\00:28:06.84
A world view in
which love and intimacy
00:28:06.87\00:28:11.94
between individuals
has it's roots in a God
00:28:11.97\00:28:18.80
of love and intimacy
father, son and Holy Spirit
00:28:18.83\00:28:21.51
who have existed in
try you in fellowship
00:28:21.54\00:28:24.94
for all eternity past,
right. And have been existed
00:28:24.97\00:28:29.41
for all eternity
past in this beautiful
00:28:29.44\00:28:31.84
hub and flow of other centered
00:28:31.87\00:28:33.78
self giving love.
Father, son and spirit
00:28:33.81\00:28:36.49
moving in circular
motion giving, giving, giving
00:28:36.52\00:28:39.66
and receiving,
receiving, receiving from
00:28:39.69\00:28:42.23
one and another that's
the matrix of reality friends,
00:28:42.26\00:28:45.39
that is the ultimate
reality from which we hale,
00:28:45.42\00:28:50.10
we proceeded out of the womb of
00:28:50.13\00:28:55.18
the creative energy
of God and God is love,
00:28:55.21\00:28:59.45
so it doesn't come as
surprise to you and me.
00:28:59.48\00:29:02.46
That love and intimacy
would prove to be such powerful
00:29:02.49\00:29:07.11
influences in a
human beings life,
00:29:07.14\00:29:09.95
but why it is a
mystery to Dr. Dean Ornish
00:29:09.98\00:29:12.29
and to most of the
scientific community.
00:29:12.32\00:29:15.00
Because friends
the world view that
00:29:15.03\00:29:18.12
is presupposed is the
evolutionary world view
00:29:18.15\00:29:21.45
and in the
evolutionary world view again
00:29:21.48\00:29:25.33
biological
deduction, if we are mere
00:29:25.36\00:29:28.28
biological survival machines
that's all, if we are mere
00:29:28.31\00:29:33.04
biological survival
machines and the highest law
00:29:33.07\00:29:36.53
of our being itself preservation
00:29:36.56\00:29:39.64
move follow or
get out of the way.
00:29:39.67\00:29:41.66
Survival of the
fittest I just happened
00:29:42.82\00:29:46.83
to be my favorite
person and you had better
00:29:46.86\00:29:48.79
watch out as I climb to the top
00:29:48.82\00:29:52.98
and rungs on the
ladder may be your heads
00:29:53.01\00:29:55.92
that is the
evolutionary world view
00:29:55.95\00:29:59.42
in that world of view their
could be biological deduction
00:29:59.45\00:30:02.95
no such thing is a
truly altruistic love.
00:30:02.98\00:30:07.44
There couldn't be
anything like other centeredness
00:30:07.47\00:30:10.76
because in the
evolutionary world view
00:30:10.79\00:30:12.98
what would other
centeredness equate to?
00:30:13.01\00:30:16.62
Somebody said it
suicide, we would not be
00:30:16.65\00:30:22.08
able if love is the
primary constituent of human
00:30:22.11\00:30:27.27
experience, we wouldn't
be able to experience the
00:30:27.30\00:30:30.68
advancement of the human race
00:30:30.71\00:30:32.47
if people actually
loved one and another.
00:30:32.50\00:30:35.22
So it's a mystery to
the scientific community
00:30:36.68\00:30:40.64
at large, why it is
that all of this data seems
00:30:40.67\00:30:44.48
to be indicating that
you and I are literally
00:30:44.51\00:30:47.41
engineered for
love. It's very strange
00:30:47.44\00:30:50.34
to be evolutionary mind,
well I want you to notice that
00:30:50.37\00:30:54.16
Dr. Dean Ornish
proceeded because of
00:30:54.19\00:30:57.47
this mystery to
interview some 26 scientific
00:30:57.50\00:31:03.09
minds the brightest and the best
00:31:03.12\00:31:05.78
in their
various fields of study.
00:31:05.81\00:31:08.32
He interviewed each
one with one question.
00:31:08.35\00:31:11.09
I just want you to
answer one question
00:31:11.12\00:31:13.10
Dr. Ornish said to each of them
00:31:13.13\00:31:14.95
why do we like this,
it's strange, it's mysterious,
00:31:14.98\00:31:19.57
evolutionary science
contradicts it, I want
00:31:19.60\00:31:22.53
to know you're an
expert, you are highly educated,
00:31:22.56\00:31:25.82
why are we like
this? Some of the answers
00:31:25.85\00:31:31.88
that emerged are
quite fascinating
00:31:31.91\00:31:33.76
what where this
goes. On page 175,
00:31:33.79\00:31:37.44
Dr S. Leonard
Syme, said in response
00:31:37.47\00:31:41.68
to the question I
think that looking at
00:31:41.71\00:31:45.16
at this connection
between relationship,
00:31:45.19\00:31:48.46
notice another
word introduce here,
00:31:48.49\00:31:50.10
we got love,
intimacy and now what word,
00:31:50.13\00:31:52.20
relationship. I think
that looking at this connection
00:31:52.45\00:31:56.31
between relationship
and survival is the most
00:31:56.34\00:31:59.94
significant thing that
can be done in our field
00:31:59.97\00:32:03.71
right now notice the
most significant thing that
00:32:03.74\00:32:06.74
can be down in
our field right now,
00:32:06.77\00:32:08.75
because why we are in
a major what does he say.
00:32:08.78\00:32:12.47
We are in a major
crisis, what's the nature
00:32:12.50\00:32:15.89
of the crisis that is
facing the scientific community?
00:32:15.92\00:32:19.43
We are in a major
crisis we have tones of data
00:32:19.46\00:32:23.41
with no what? With no theory,
no way to connect all the
00:32:23.44\00:32:29.21
little bits and pieces
that have been accumulated
00:32:29.24\00:32:32.16
we have no
overwriting conceptual model,
00:32:32.19\00:32:36.09
he already saying, he is saying
00:32:36.12\00:32:39.52
I don't know why
we are like this?
00:32:39.55\00:32:41.66
We just know its
true, we know its true, but
00:32:41.69\00:32:44.88
it is really
quite a befuddlement
00:32:44.91\00:32:48.75
we don't know,
why we are like this.
00:32:48.78\00:32:51.49
We have got tones of
data proving that human
00:32:51.52\00:32:53.91
beings are not
biological survival machines
00:32:53.94\00:32:55.93
after all as the theory
of evolution has dictated
00:32:55.96\00:32:58.72
we should be, but rather
in fact we are psychological
00:32:58.75\00:33:02.06
emotional
spiritual love machines
00:33:02.09\00:33:04.10
that's what the
data is revealing,
00:33:04.13\00:33:07.96
we were made for
relationship with on and another
00:33:09.00\00:33:13.58
and ultimately
with God in which always
00:33:13.61\00:33:16.68
from my
perspective the other is first.
00:33:16.71\00:33:19.59
And always from your
perspective, who is first
00:33:20.18\00:33:22.87
the other, and always
from the God's perspective
00:33:22.90\00:33:25.90
who is first the other
and Calvary proves that
00:33:25.93\00:33:30.22
with crystal clarity
that God literally loves
00:33:30.25\00:33:34.96
all others above
and before himself.
00:33:34.99\00:33:40.28
Amen. But it's a mystery
we have got tones of data,
00:33:40.38\00:33:45.38
we have no
theory, we have no model,
00:33:45.41\00:33:48.40
we don't know how to
make sense out of this.
00:33:48.43\00:33:50.86
So, where did they have to
go? Dr. Ornish says on page 171
00:33:50.89\00:33:54.65
yet mystery remains
that is after interviewing
00:33:54.68\00:33:57.88
all of these highly educated
scientist mystery remains
00:33:57.91\00:34:01.45
nobody knows the
answers to this question
00:34:01.48\00:34:03.36
by the way we are
privilege in this room to know
00:34:03.39\00:34:05.66
the answer to this question.
00:34:05.69\00:34:06.79
We're about to
discover with greater clarity
00:34:06.82\00:34:09.00
in a just moment,
but for the scientist
00:34:09.03\00:34:12.32
mystery remains
notice what he says,
00:34:12.35\00:34:14.54
no one can fully
explain what is going on
00:34:16.20\00:34:20.25
that is why love and
intimacy matter so much,
00:34:20.28\00:34:28.38
so many of these people
talk about what's that word.
00:34:28.41\00:34:32.84
Energy. Energy. The ever elusive
00:34:32.87\00:34:36.27
and featureless energy
may the force be with you,
00:34:36.30\00:34:41.36
you know this concept don't you
00:34:42.89\00:34:45.52
this idea that ultimate reality
00:34:45.55\00:34:47.75
is an impersonal
vacuum of energy,
00:34:47.78\00:34:51.04
there is nothing really
there but some kind of ethereal,
00:34:51.07\00:34:55.50
impersonal,
non-relational energy,
00:34:55.53\00:35:00.90
it must be energy they
say thus making us like this.
00:35:00.93\00:35:04.26
Ah! Energy, energy I think not,
00:35:06.21\00:35:11.91
because energy by
definition in an of itself
00:35:11.94\00:35:16.62
is ultimately impersonal,
but love and intimacy
00:35:16.65\00:35:21.87
by definition are
personal to say that
00:35:21.90\00:35:28.31
this very intimate
personal dimension of
00:35:28.34\00:35:31.78
human experience
some how came out
00:35:31.81\00:35:35.19
of a very impersonal
non-relational matrix
00:35:35.22\00:35:40.42
is a contradiction in terms
and so energy is pointed to,
00:35:40.45\00:35:47.51
but now it needs to go a
step further in this line of
00:35:47.54\00:35:50.41
reasoning because
rethink this through with me.
00:35:50.44\00:35:52.56
If the evolutionary
model of reality is true
00:35:52.59\00:35:58.15
what is the pinnacle of
the evolutionary process
00:35:58.18\00:36:04.44
or rather, who
constitutes the zenith
00:36:04.47\00:36:08.62
of the evolutionary
process, who is at the top?
00:36:08.65\00:36:11.00
Is it the ants, the
mosquitoes, the lions,
00:36:11.03\00:36:15.88
the tigers, who is at the
top of the evolutionary chain.
00:36:15.91\00:36:19.69
Human beings are, so
ultimately in the evolutionary
00:36:19.72\00:36:23.75
world view we
each of us individually
00:36:23.78\00:36:26.88
and all of us collectively
reconstitute the pinnacle
00:36:26.91\00:36:30.06
of the reality, there is nothing
00:36:30.09\00:36:31.91
above beyond us
to which we might
00:36:31.94\00:36:35.46
relate, are you
with me? There is listen,
00:36:35.49\00:36:39.10
there is no one
there, 3.9 billion years
00:36:39.13\00:36:45.18
ago a massive
explosion occurred out of that
00:36:45.21\00:36:49.63
explosion eventually a
highly sophisticated order
00:36:49.66\00:36:54.13
occurred and
eventually the pollywogs
00:36:54.16\00:36:57.33
and slime curled up out
of the water and here we are.
00:36:57.36\00:37:02.49
How flattering and then
as this universe expands,
00:37:04.93\00:37:10.71
expands, expands, what
is the ultimate destiny of
00:37:10.74\00:37:14.85
the universe or
just like the bungee cord
00:37:14.88\00:37:17.67
that can't be
stretched any further eventually
00:37:17.70\00:37:19.97
as all going to,
it's going to implode.
00:37:20.00\00:37:23.18
The explosion is
going to eventually implode
00:37:23.21\00:37:28.86
and come back down to the
point at the end of a period
00:37:28.89\00:37:34.89
and we will have from
then on eternal non-existence.
00:37:35.27\00:37:38.73
It doesn't make you
wanna love your grandchildren
00:37:40.35\00:37:43.54
or be faithful to
your marriage at the house,
00:37:43.57\00:37:46.40
it certainly doesn't
make you want to look out
00:37:46.43\00:37:49.37
for the other guy and it
certainly doesn't instill
00:37:49.40\00:37:51.72
integrity, it puts
before us the most egregious
00:37:51.75\00:37:58.91
potential for self
centeredness that will view
00:37:58.94\00:38:02.73
that is imaginable. If I
am all there is ultimately
00:38:02.76\00:38:09.56
and you are all
there is ultimately,
00:38:09.59\00:38:13.00
well then eat, drink and
be marry for tomorrow we die.
00:38:14.01\00:38:17.66
Well, I want you to
notice something here
00:38:18.32\00:38:22.23
it goes in one
direction unavoidably
00:38:22.26\00:38:25.56
because as Ornish
continues his interviews
00:38:25.59\00:38:29.23
one of the
experts Jon Kabat-Zinn,
00:38:29.26\00:38:33.11
another researcher
interviewed by Dr. Ornish
00:38:33.14\00:38:36.02
affirmed that the
findings of science
00:38:36.05\00:38:38.20
are definitely
indicating that human nature
00:38:38.23\00:38:41.57
is innately
designed for intimacy.
00:38:41.60\00:38:45.56
So, Dr. Ornish puts the question
00:38:45.59\00:38:47.73
to Dr. Zinn,
what's the question again.
00:38:47.76\00:38:50.20
Intimacy with what? So
logical question, these guys
00:38:50.23\00:38:54.89
you got to give
to him least logical.
00:38:54.92\00:38:57.07
They are trying
to connect the doubt,
00:38:57.10\00:39:00.37
intimacy with what?
Because in the evolutionary
00:39:00.40\00:39:03.55
world view what is
there? What's that what?
00:39:03.58\00:39:05.63
Nothing there is nothing there,
00:39:05.66\00:39:08.48
so intimacy with what
Dr. Zinn notice his answer,
00:39:08.51\00:39:12.77
ultimately with
the sense of self wow!
00:39:12.80\00:39:20.72
With who you are?
then he says the eye itself
00:39:20.75\00:39:27.83
becomes the object of awareness.
00:39:27.86\00:39:30.89
Intimacy with what
Dr. Zinn, what with me,
00:39:30.92\00:39:35.53
you having intimacy
with you is that what.
00:39:35.56\00:39:39.19
Yes, that's what I'm saying,
ultimately this could only
00:39:39.22\00:39:42.00
mean that I have
my own ultimate person
00:39:42.03\00:39:49.14
to relate to because
there couldn't possibly
00:39:49.17\00:39:52.36
be anybody above or beyond me.
00:39:52.39\00:39:55.38
Intimacy with
myself, but Dr. Zinn fails
00:39:55.41\00:40:00.43
to recognize that
by definition the word
00:40:00.46\00:40:03.24
intimacy implies the
existence of some other.
00:40:03.27\00:40:07.32
It is self
contradictory to speak in terms
00:40:07.35\00:40:11.88
of having a
relationship with myself.
00:40:11.91\00:40:15.01
But that's the only
direction they can see
00:40:15.04\00:40:20.58
to go, there is a
language here remind you of
00:40:20.61\00:40:23.52
anything in scripture
ultimately then the "I"
00:40:23.55\00:40:27.45
me, myself and I
becomes the pinnacle of my
00:40:30.42\00:40:33.88
relational intimacy, I just
need to get close to myself.
00:40:33.91\00:40:36.95
Think of Isaiah 14
How are that fallen
00:40:41.25\00:40:45.68
from heaven, O Lucifer
son of the dawn for you
00:40:45.71\00:40:48.69
have set in your heart
I, I, I, I, how many times
00:40:48.72\00:40:55.29
I, How many? Five, I,
I will ascend to the very
00:40:55.32\00:41:02.15
pinnacle of
reality, I will occupy my own
00:41:02.18\00:41:06.86
total
consciousness and everybody else
00:41:06.89\00:41:10.30
including God had
better just get out of the way.
00:41:10.33\00:41:14.78
Well Dr. Ornish
himself doesn't know
00:41:14.81\00:41:19.08
what to do with this
data, so notice his conclusion
00:41:19.11\00:41:21.99
on page 146 this will
absolutely blow your mind
00:41:22.77\00:41:25.61
and yet logically
it's the only direction
00:41:25.64\00:41:28.49
we can go if we maintain
the evolutionary world view.
00:41:28.52\00:41:32.46
Notice page 145,
146, God is not something
00:41:32.49\00:41:38.87
so he introduces
God, but what is God is?
00:41:38.90\00:41:41.76
God is not something
we attain from out there
00:41:41.79\00:41:46.14
some where we realize
that God is in us, us, us,
00:41:46.17\00:41:55.09
we understood in this
context the realization
00:41:55.12\00:42:00.26
of God of our capital itself
by any other name is perhaps
00:42:00.29\00:42:08.49
the ultimate healing experience.
00:42:08.52\00:42:10.28
So, the book is inevitably
has to go in the direction
00:42:10.31\00:42:15.71
you rule out the existence
of a ultra-personal self
00:42:15.74\00:42:22.44
giving God of
love. If there is no God
00:42:22.47\00:42:26.30
then ultimately Dr.
Ornish says we need to realize
00:42:26.33\00:42:31.49
that our dependence
on intimacy must involve
00:42:31.52\00:42:36.40
a hyper self consciousness
and a hyper self-concern
00:42:36.43\00:42:41.98
it's all about me.
00:42:42.01\00:42:45.35
Wow! And I am God and your God
00:42:45.38\00:42:50.44
in collectively we are all God
00:42:50.47\00:42:52.51
it is the conclusion,
but I want you to notice
00:42:52.54\00:42:55.77
carefully the apostle
Paul commentary far before
00:42:55.80\00:43:02.63
any of this was
written because the human mind
00:43:02.66\00:43:05.33
has been thinking along
these lines for a longtime.
00:43:05.36\00:43:08.38
Notice the apostle Paul's
commentary and observation
00:43:08.41\00:43:11.42
on this frame work of thinking.
00:43:11.45\00:43:13.81
Roman's Chapter 1, 19
and 20 note the language
00:43:13.84\00:43:17.89
carefully what
may be known of God
00:43:17.92\00:43:21.98
is manifest, where everybody?
00:43:22.01\00:43:25.79
In them. In them. What
is Paul referring in them?
00:43:25.82\00:43:29.57
What may be known of
God is manifest in them?
00:43:29.60\00:43:34.62
That is in human nature itself,
00:43:34.65\00:43:37.42
there is testimony
to God's existence,
00:43:37.45\00:43:40.01
well later on in chapter
2 he begins to fill this out
00:43:41.16\00:43:45.99
and says well for example
chapter 2 he says gentiles
00:43:46.02\00:43:49.92
who do not have the law
as a written code that is.
00:43:49.95\00:43:52.51
Ten Commandments on tables
of stone he says in chapter 2
00:43:52.54\00:43:55.50
of Romans Gentiles who do not
have the laws or written code
00:43:55.53\00:43:58.72
yet still have the law
inscribed on their hearts,
00:43:58.75\00:44:03.66
he says when they do wrong
their conscious accuses them
00:44:04.87\00:44:08.45
and when they do what is right,
00:44:08.48\00:44:09.81
their conscious
affirms them. Whether
00:44:09.84\00:44:11.08
they've ever encountered
the Ten Commandments on
00:44:12.49\00:44:15.06
tables of stone or
not, can you imagine?
00:44:15.09\00:44:17.90
So, Paul goes on
and says that because
00:44:17.93\00:44:21.03
what may be known of
God is evident to manifest
00:44:21.06\00:44:24.79
in human nature for
God has shown it to them
00:44:24.82\00:44:28.73
for since the creation of
the world his that is God's
00:44:28.76\00:44:34.32
invisible what attributes
are seem to what degree
00:44:34.35\00:44:40.21
clearly seen being
understood by the things
00:44:40.24\00:44:44.24
that he has made even his
eternal power and God had.
00:44:44.27\00:44:53.11
Wow! That's mouthful
what has Paul told us here
00:44:53.14\00:44:57.11
he says well first of
all I want to understand
00:44:57.14\00:45:00.25
that a testimony
regarding the existence of God
00:45:00.28\00:45:04.84
is present in human
nature itself, in other words
00:45:04.87\00:45:09.11
God actually
created and designed us in
00:45:09.14\00:45:12.86
such a way that we know
the difference between right
00:45:12.89\00:45:16.36
and wrong and we
hunger for the good
00:45:16.39\00:45:19.07
we are recoiling
continually at the evil
00:45:19.10\00:45:21.97
when we encountered it,
we can't even tolerate evil
00:45:22.00\00:45:24.85
in ourselves without
our conscious pouncing on us
00:45:24.88\00:45:27.74
with guilt. If there is no God
00:45:27.77\00:45:31.60
and we live in a merely material
00:45:31.63\00:45:34.78
universe than their should
be no such thing as guilt,
00:45:34.81\00:45:38.54
there should be no such thing
as affirmation of conscious.
00:45:38.57\00:45:42.07
Paul says the
testimony of God's existence
00:45:42.29\00:45:45.68
is present in human nature,
but it goes further than this.
00:45:45.71\00:45:49.24
Because there is
another testimony in your heart
00:45:51.08\00:45:53.79
and mind, the holly
spirit is continually
00:45:53.82\00:45:57.28
whispering into
our consciousness
00:45:57.31\00:46:00.53
deep longings for
the ultimate relationship
00:46:01.29\00:46:06.97
with the ultimate
person and that is God.
00:46:07.00\00:46:10.36
We were tailor made
in the deep intricacies
00:46:10.39\00:46:16.47
of the way our
psychics are geared to operate,
00:46:16.50\00:46:20.35
we were engineered to
have a relationship with God,
00:46:20.38\00:46:25.42
on an emotional level we hunger
00:46:26.71\00:46:30.93
for the kind of acceptance
00:46:31.69\00:46:33.50
and affirmation and trust
worthiness and faithfulness
00:46:33.58\00:46:37.28
that only God can render to us.
00:46:37.91\00:46:40.13
We try to fill that
vacuum with many different kinds
00:46:41.70\00:46:46.61
of things
including one relationship
00:46:46.64\00:46:49.58
after another and
one time after another
00:46:49.61\00:46:52.49
human beings disappoint us.
00:46:52.52\00:46:54.67
One time after another
relationships are broken
00:46:56.27\00:47:00.60
and one time after another
as we come up empty handed
00:47:00.63\00:47:05.76
from our broken
relationships we find unabated,
00:47:05.79\00:47:10.54
a still more persistent
longing for a faithfulness
00:47:10.57\00:47:17.30
and a loyalty and an acceptance,
00:47:17.33\00:47:20.82
and the love that
finds it's only perfect match
00:47:20.85\00:47:26.12
in the heart of God.
00:47:26.15\00:47:28.35
And so Paul
says in so many words
00:47:30.57\00:47:34.11
we know God exist
because of the way
00:47:34.14\00:47:38.04
we are made, we
know God is there because
00:47:39.58\00:47:41.62
we long for him, even when we
00:47:41.96\00:47:44.58
don't know his name. Down
00:47:44.61\00:47:47.58
through history there
have been countless individuals
00:47:47.61\00:47:49.98
who never had a
Bible, the Scriptures
00:47:50.01\00:47:54.38
says we have them or
rather new development
00:47:54.41\00:47:57.02
in human history Enik was
translated without a Bible.
00:47:57.05\00:48:00.20
So was the Elijah,
there are been individuals
00:48:00.85\00:48:06.02
outside of the parameters
of the God's chosen people down
00:48:06.05\00:48:09.10
through history, the
Bible actually prophesied
00:48:09.13\00:48:12.66
that the Messiah who
would come to this world
00:48:12.69\00:48:14.77
would also be the
messiah and the savior
00:48:14.80\00:48:17.83
of the people of China.
00:48:17.86\00:48:19.41
China is named in
scripture as one of the people's
00:48:19.44\00:48:24.21
on the outline
world around Israel,
00:48:24.24\00:48:27.50
China is named as one of
the people groups in this world.
00:48:27.53\00:48:31.08
That God had his eye upon
and his affections set up on
00:48:31.11\00:48:36.33
and when the savior
would come Isaiah said
00:48:36.36\00:48:38.78
he would come, he would
come, not only for Israel
00:48:38.81\00:48:41.95
but for the people of Cin,
00:48:41.98\00:48:43.85
which is the
ancient word for China.
00:48:43.88\00:48:46.54
American Indians
who have never known
00:48:48.11\00:48:51.05
the name the Jesus in
early, the early history of
00:48:51.08\00:48:56.18
the development of
this nation never heard
00:48:56.21\00:48:58.80
the name of the
Jesus, never read the Bible
00:48:58.83\00:49:01.49
and yet they experience
the movings of the Holy Spirit
00:49:01.52\00:49:05.10
in their conscious and
those who yield to those movings
00:49:05.13\00:49:10.20
find rest and
peace to their souls
00:49:10.23\00:49:12.50
in the path of
righteousness and truth
00:49:13.58\00:49:15.87
and loyalty and
trust worthiness.
00:49:15.90\00:49:17.83
God has put the
testimony of his existence
00:49:20.10\00:49:23.96
in our very hearts.
00:49:23.99\00:49:25.05
Page 2 you're outlined
however helps us to understand
00:49:26.47\00:49:30.75
in more graphic
and concrete terms
00:49:30.78\00:49:36.10
precisely why human
nature is the way it is.
00:49:36.13\00:49:41.66
In rapid-fire succession
notes these mere sentences,
00:49:41.69\00:49:47.93
a couple of them mere
phrases from scripture
00:49:47.96\00:49:52.41
and note the
relationship of the ideas
00:49:52.44\00:49:55.04
to build this
picture in our minds.
00:49:55.07\00:49:56.84
Genesis 127 makes
the awesome declaration,
00:49:56.87\00:50:02.57
God created man that is mankind
00:50:03.72\00:50:07.23
male and female,
God created mankind
00:50:07.26\00:50:10.54
in his own what.
Image. In his own image.
00:50:10.57\00:50:13.77
That is to say
there is something
00:50:13.80\00:50:17.85
about God, listen
there is something about God
00:50:17.88\00:50:23.35
that is
replicated in human beings.
00:50:23.38\00:50:27.68
Are you with me? Yeah.
00:50:27.71\00:50:29.43
The image of God has
taken on form external to
00:50:29.46\00:50:35.25
himself in the human
nature and human experience.
00:50:35.28\00:50:42.47
God created man in his
image, what is that image?
00:50:42.50\00:50:45.01
I mean you could
pick one word in scripture
00:50:45.04\00:50:46.72
to define the core
essence of the divine
00:50:46.75\00:50:50.30
identity what
would that word would be?
00:50:50.33\00:50:52.58
First John 14:16,
God is love my friends;
00:50:52.61\00:51:00.06
I wanted you notice
something about this,
00:51:00.09\00:51:01.93
about this statement. This
statement is listen carefully
00:51:01.96\00:51:07.39
the only total
identity statement about God in
00:51:07.42\00:51:11.23
scripture, the only
statement in scripture
00:51:11.26\00:51:14.81
that defines in totality
who and what manner of person
00:51:14.84\00:51:19.91
is God is, you will
find other scriptures
00:51:19.94\00:51:22.87
that say God is holy,
but never God is holiness.
00:51:22.90\00:51:26.42
You will find
scriptures that say God is just,
00:51:27.34\00:51:30.70
but not God is
justice, God is merciful, but
00:51:30.73\00:51:35.55
never where you find a
scripture that says God
00:51:35.58\00:51:37.11
is mercy. The noun, all
the adjectives that pertain
00:51:37.14\00:51:43.29
to God, all the adjectives
and verbs that pertain
00:51:43.32\00:51:47.68
to God are
extensions of the one noun
00:51:47.71\00:51:50.75
that defines the totality
of God's essential being.
00:51:55.34\00:51:56.31
God is love and
therefore everything else
00:51:56.32\00:52:00.76
that is true of God is
true of God because God is love.
00:52:00.79\00:52:03.87
God is just because God is love,
00:52:04.06\00:52:06.69
Justice is in fact
a dimension of love.
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God is merciful
because God is what?
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Love, mercy is a
dimension of love.
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God is all that he
is because God is love,
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God created man in his
image the image of God is love
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that is other
centered self giving passion,
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we were made in that
image through the fall
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that image was
lost it was forfeited
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and right now you and I
are at the centre of an ache
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in the heart of
God. That is difficult
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for us to wrap our
imaginations around.
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God literally has
poured out all the resources
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of his heart and all
the resources of heaven
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to the inns degree of
personal self sacrifice,
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to save you and me
at any cost to himself.
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God is love he
made us in his image
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we forfeited that image
and now I want you to notice
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the next line here from
the Proverbs 19 verse 22
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as it is rendered in the
new international version,
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the best
translation that I could find
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of this text I want
you to notice something.
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We were made in God's image;
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we were made as replicas
of the other centered self
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divine phenomenon of
God's trinitary and love.
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We were made that
way, we forfeited that love
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and now this
statement of scripture
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makes a diagnoses say what?
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Diagnoses. A diagnoses
of the human condition.
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You want to know
what's really going on
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at the deepest level
of your heart and soul.
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You want to know what's
going on in the heart and soul
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at the bed rock
level of the lady,
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you bought your salsa
from at the grocery store.
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You want to know what's
going on in the heart and mind
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of the person whose
eyes barely met yours
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as you walked on the
side walk of your city.
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You want to know what's going on
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in the in most soul
of every child crying
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out for food in India.
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What a man scripture says
what a man, what a human being
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desires is unfailing
love, that's what we want
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more than anything else.
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That's what we long for
we want a certain quality
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of love that is unfailing,
a trust worthy faithful love,
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we long for its restoration
in all our relationships
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and in our ultimate
relationship with God.
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I got 2:7 confers
upon the coming savior
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my absolute
favorite name for Jesus
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in the whole Bible well
the last couple of months
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it's been my
favorite name for Jesus
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in the whole Bible, I
don't what's coming down
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the pike, but Jesus
is given a title here,
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friends I want to
just notice his name
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sometimes he is
called the Rose of Sharon,
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calling our attention to the
fact that Jesus is beautiful.
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Sometimes he is
called the bread of life
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because he is
accessed into our soul,
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One scripture in John
10 says I am the door,
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he is the door, he is
the bread, he is the water,
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he is the rose, he is
the lilly of the valley,
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he is known by many
names and metaphors.
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This one is incredible
Jesus is called by the Prophet
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the desire of all
nations that is to say
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Jesus Christ is the
quintessential desire of every
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human heart, he is the
universal craving my friends.
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Even when we
don't know his name,
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we long for him in
character and attribute.
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In the very longing
for love that pulsates
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in our heart we long for Jesus,
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whether we know his name or not
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and when we come
into vital connection with
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the Desire. Capital D,
when we come in the contact
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with the Lord Jesus
Christ. We know that we are
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finally, where we
were meant to be all along,
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it's as if we are
standing everyone of us
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in the salsa
aisle, holding somebody's
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hand longing for love.
Wishing we could have it
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and rushing up
and down the aisles
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of whatever this
world has to offer
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because we are frightened
by all the impostors around us.
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And my friends
when we meet Jesus
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we know that we are at home.
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We were made for
him no one can love you,
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like Jesus loves you.
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