All right, good morning.
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Did you have a good sleep?
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You didn't?
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It's a blessing to be here.
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You guys enjoy the
message this morning?
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Amen.
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We're gonna save time and
get straight into the message.
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The message I'm gonna
share this morning is entitled
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"Think Higher, Reach
Higher, Achieve Higher."
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Think Higher, Reach
Higher, Achieve Higher.
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Before we begin,
just invite you to please,
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if you don't have a
Bible, get a Bible if you can.
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Bible, smartphone, sit
next to someone who has a Bible
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because we'll be reading
on, study the Bible today.
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So bow your heads with me,
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as we pray and we get
straight into the message.
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Let's bow heads.
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Our Father in heaven,
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we just thank
You for another day.
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Lord, we thank You for
just bringing us here safely.
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We just want to pray,
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the prayer of David
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"Open thou mine eyes,
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that I might
behold wondrous things
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out of thy law."
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May Your Holy
Spirit be our guide
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and may You teach
us from Your Word,
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we pray this in Jesus
name, that we all say, amen.
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Now the concept of this chapter
has been taken from Evangelism
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is the chapter entitled
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Maintaining
High Moral Standards.
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But we gonna begin in
1 Corinthians 6:19, 20.
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1 Corinthians 6:19, 20
and I want you guys to say,
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amen or amen when you get there.
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1 Corinthians 6:19, 20.
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Amen? Amen.
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The Bible says
there, Paul here speaking,
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he says "What? Know ye not"
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I will just wait for
you guys to get down there.
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Few people can still
hear the pages flicking.
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1 Corinthians 6:19 we there?
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Amen.
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Bible says in verse 19
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"What? Know ye not
that your body is" a what?
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"Is the temple of the
Holy Ghost which is in you,
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which ye have of God,
and ye are not your own?"
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If we are not Your own
you belong to someone else.
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Now that someone else
in verse 20 the Bible says,
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what is the
Bible say in verse 20?
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"For ye are bought with a price,
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therefore glorify" who?
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"God in your body, and in
your spirit, which are God's."
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So if we are not our own
from verse 20, who are we?
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We are God's.
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We are His position.
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But why are we His position?
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Because He
brought us with a price.
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Listen to the language again,
verse 20 listen to the verse,
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"For ye are" what?
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"Bought with a price,"
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what's the very next word?
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"Therefore" what is that mean?
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Now that you are
brought with a price
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"therefore ye are
to glorify" who? "God."
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So based on this
principle, based on the fact
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that you and I are
bought with a price,
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this is one of the great reasons
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why we are
called to glorify God.
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Are we following?
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Listen to the verse again "For
ye are bought with a price,"
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what's the next word?
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"Therefore" what's therefore?
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Because we are
bought with price, do what?
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"Glorify God."
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So a call to glorify
God is base on this fact
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that ye are
bought with the price.
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Amen.
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Now my next question is
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what kind of price
were we bought with?
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Go to 1 Peter
1:18. 1 Peter 1:18, 19
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the message is "Think Higher,
Reach Higher, Achieve Higher."
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So the first message we learn
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is that a call to
glorify God is based on the fact
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that we are bought with a price
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Amen? Amen.
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Now the next
question is what kind of price
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were we bought
with or redeemed with?
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1 Peter 1:18, 19, say
amen when you there. Amen.
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We're studying-- amen,
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we're studying this is not
sermonizing, we are studying.
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1 Peter 1:18,
notice what the Bible says
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"Forasmuch as ye
were not redeemed
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with" what kind of things?
"Corruptible things," as what?
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"Silver and gold."
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So what does Paul call
corruptible in this verse?
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"Silver and gold,
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from your vain conversation
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received by
tradition from your fathers."
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So Paul is speaking
about how we were re--
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sorry this passage
sorry is talking about
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how we were redeemed
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and or the cost or the
price of which we were redeemed.
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Anyway we've been
told that we were redeemed
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what something not corruptible,
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but what were we redeemed with?
Read verse 19, are we there?
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Verse 19 "But with
the precious" what?
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"Blood of" who? "Christ,
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as of a lamb without
blemish, without spot."
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So we are told that the
price we are redeemed with
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was something more precious
thing gold or what? Silver.
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And what was that thing
that we were bought with?
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The precious
blood of who? Christ.
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So not only were we
bought with the price
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and therefore
call to glorify God,
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but the kind of
price we are bought with
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was the price of
blood of Christ Himself,
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an infinite price.
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Now you might think to yourself,
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what does this have to do
with high moral standards?
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Go to Isaiah
Chapter 13, Isaiah 13:12,
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we are bought with a price
therefore we must glorify God
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but the kind of price
that we are bought with
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is a price which is
more precious than what?
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Gold or silver.
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Now there's something
we learn about the price
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that we will purchase with
that helps us to understand
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the kind of potential
that we have as people.
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As you go there I want
to hear this quotation,
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Great Controversy,
page 598 paragraph 1,
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this is why we are studying.
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It says " It is not
enough to have good intentions,
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it is not enough to do
what a man thinks is right
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or what the" listen carefully
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"or what the
minister tells him is right.
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His earned soul's
salvation is at stake,
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and he should search
the Scriptures for himself."
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Listen to the next part
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"However strong
your convictions may be,
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however confident you may be
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that the minister
knows what is right,
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that is not your foundation."
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So as much as we here as witness
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and there are
ministers and leaders
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and preachers, preaching
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don't leave this
place quoting the minister.
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That's why we're
doing what? Studying.
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We don't want to
become a reflector
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of another man's thoughts.
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We want to
reflect what who says?
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God says, amen.
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So this is why
we trying to study
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and we are not
trying to sermonize.
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But when Isaiah 13
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and I want you to come
and let us reason together,
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so we are
reasoning this morning.
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And the next point we're
gonna reason from is Isaiah 13.
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Are we there? Isaiah 13:12.
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Notice what God has in mind,
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what kind of
potential He has for humanity.
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Isaiah Chapter 13, the
context is dealing with
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Isaiah seen an prophetic
vision their last days.
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You read in verse 11 he says
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"I will punish the
world for their evil,"
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and this is taking about
their great day of the Lord.
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But notice God's desire
for mankind in the last days.
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Verse 12, are we there?
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Listen to the language.
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"I will make a man" what?
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"More precious than" what?
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"Fine gold," stop there.
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What kind of price
were we bought with?
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A price more
precious than what? Gold.
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But we also now
see that God's desire
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is to make us more
precious than what?
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Fine gold.
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Read the next part.
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"Even a man than the
golden wedge of" what? "Ophir."
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Now do you notice a similarity?
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The price paid was more
precious than what? Gold.
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But the potential
or the desire of God's
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are to mold us is
also what? To be what?
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More precious
than? Are we reasoning?
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What did the--
listen to the verse again?
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Isaiah 13:12 "I will" what?
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"Make" what does that mean?
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Create, mold, 2 Corinthians 5:17
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"Therefore if
any man be in Christ,
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he is a new creature."
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God wants to recreate us.
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Now reason with me.
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I will create or make a man how?
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More precious
than what? Fine gold,
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but when we were bought,
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we were bought also with
a price which is also what?
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More precious than fine gold.
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So listen to me
carefully, reason.
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From understanding the
price paid for the purchase,
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we understand the
potential of that purpose.
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You look like
you're not following.
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The price--
listen to me carefully,
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what was the price?
More precious than gold.
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What's God's desire for man?
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To be more precious than gold.
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So the price of the purchase
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reflects the
potential of that purpose.
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Amen.
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Listen to this quotation,
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Gospel Workers
page 291 paragraph 2
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Ellen White writes this
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"Many who are qualified
to do an excellent work
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do not become what they might
because they attempt little."
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Let me say it again.
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"Many who are
qualified to actually
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to do an excellent work,
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accomplish little
because they attempt a little.
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Thousands pass through life
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as if they have no great
object for which to live,
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no high standard to reach.
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One reason of
this" listen carefully
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"is the low estimate
they place upon themselves."
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So because
individuals look at themselves
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as been of low value
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therefore they see
themselves of been low potential
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and they see themselves
have been low possibilities.
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And low possibilities
means you put forth low effort.
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And if you put forth low
effort and you attempt little
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what do you achieve? Little.
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So the value of Christ
dying for us on Calvary
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gives us an
estimate of our lives
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and it shows us
not only our estimate
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but our potential in Christ.
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And if we see that we were
bought with a high what? Price.
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We also have
high what? Potential.
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And many because we
do not see our high price
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we attempt a little.
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If you do not understand,
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if we don't understand the
high value God has on our lives
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we will fail to understand
the high what? Potential.
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Listen to the rest of the quote,
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"Christ paid an
infinite price for us,"
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what kind of
price? An infinite price,
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but remember the price of
the purchase reflects what?
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The potential of that purchase.
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So when Christ
paid an infinite price
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what kind of potential
would you think Christ has in us
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if we are in Him? Infinite.
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Listen to the quote, "Christ
paid an infinite price for us,
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and according to the price paid
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He desires us to
value ourselves."
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So Christ pays a price
more precious than fine gold
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and at the same time
He says that price I paid
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reflects what I
want to do with you.
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Are you following?
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You can make me get
excite about myself.
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I will make a man more
what? Precious than fine gold.
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What's the--
what's point number one?
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Point number one is this,
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the high price of
the purchase of Christ
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reflects the high potential
of that thing He purchased.
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Which is who? Us.
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We are talking
about high standards.
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One of the first things we find
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that leans us to
understand high standards
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is because
Christ paid a high price
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and therefore we have
high potential in Him.
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Are you following? Amen.
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Now my next question is this.
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Once we recognize that we
have high potential in Christ,
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what does that do to us?
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Go to Philippians 3:13, 14.
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Philippians 3:13,
14, Philippians 3:13, 14.
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Please think and reason with us.
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The last--
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the most tragic
thing that could happen
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is that we come
this whole weekend
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and we hear a whole bunch
of great sermons and messages
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but we haven't been thinking.
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And we leave here reflecting
what our favorite pastor said
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or favorite preacher
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not knowing what the Bible says.
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So this is why we must
study to show ourselves
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approved unto God,
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workmen and workwomen
that do not need to be ashamed.
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Rightly dividing
the word of truth.
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But in order to do that
we must reason and think.
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So we're reasoning this
morning, is that okay? Amen.
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Philippians 3 are we there?
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Philippians 3:13.
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Point one, the high price
of the purchase of sinners
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reflects the high potential
of that purpose in Christ.
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The fact that
Christ paid so much
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tells us that we can
become what? So much.
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Notice Philippians 3
notice what we find here,
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is a result when we recognize
our high calling in God,
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notice what it
does to our motives.
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Verse 13 are we there?
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Read verse 13, the Bible says
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"Brethren, I count not
myself to have apprehended,
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but this one thing I do,"
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what He is doing? "Forgetting
those things which are behind,
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and" doing what?
"Reaching forth" stop,
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that's attempt,
that's making effort.
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Here He is what? Reaching forth.
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But what do you reach forth?
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Do you reach forth to send here.
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Read the rest of the verse.
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"Reaching forth unto" what?
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"Those things which are" where?
Before them or ahead of them.
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So here, here He
only reaches forth.
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Why? Because
it's something where?
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Ahead of Him.
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And so here we find that
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when we see a high
potential ahead of us,
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it leads us to what? If
we see we can expect much,
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we will actually attempt much.
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Read verse 20, verse 14.
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What's the very first two words?
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"I press" stop
there, what's that?
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That's effort.
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I press, I push
forward, I go toward I--
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what's He pressing toward?
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When you think about
running or driving somewhere,
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you usually
drive to a destination.
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But you see that unless
you have the destination,
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why are you even gonna
make the effort to-- to what?
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Drive there. So when we--
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what we find as I said
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understanding
our value in Christ,
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understanding the
height of that purchase,
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the height of our potential
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gives us a great object in view.
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And something that is
ahead of us here we find
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that we reach forth unto what?
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Those things
which are? Before us.
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Verse 14 finish the verse,
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"I press toward" what?
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"The mark" stop that's a mark,
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that's an object, that's an aim.
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"I press toward
the mark for" what?
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What kind of-- "
for the prize of" what?
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What kind of calling?
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"High calling."
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But He has to what
toward that high calling? Press.
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Remember what the quote
said, many achieve little, why?
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Because they attempt little.
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But you know, why many
people attempt a little
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because they expect a little.
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And here we find that when
we see that God expects much,
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it He calls us to attempt much.
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So we speaking of high standards
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and one thing we
find here as said,
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the verse says I press
toward the mark, I push for--
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toward the mark for the
prize of the low calling?
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High calling?
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High calling leads
them to what? Press.
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High calling of God in who?
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What's the verse say? In who?
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What is the verse in
what? In who? Christ, Jesus.
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So this high calling is
not apart from Jesus but where?
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In Jesus.
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Why because? "I am the
vine, ye are the branches.
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He that abideth
in me, and I in him,
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the same shall bear much fruit
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for without me you
can do" what? "Nothing."
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Philippians 4:13 though,
"I can do all things in Christ
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which strengthens me."
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Are you following?
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Now listen to this quote
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Desire of Ages
page 73 paragraph 1,
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"Throughout His life on earth,
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Jesus was an earnest
and constant worker."
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Earnest and constant.
Listen to the next part.
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"He expected much, therefore"
guess what it's gonna say?
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"He attempted much."
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Let me say that again, Desire
of Ages page 73 paragraph 1,
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"Jesus,
Throughout His life on earth,
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Jesus was an earnest
and constant worker."
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Why? "He expected much,
therefore" what did He do?
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"He attempted much."
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Paul says, I have
what kind of calling?
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A high calling.
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So what this Paul
do toward that calling?
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He presses toward it.
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So if we expect a little, guess
what we will attempt? Little.
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But when we see
that God expects much,
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it leads us to
understand that we have a duty
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to attempt how much? Much.
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I hope you're following.
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Amen? Amen.
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Point numbers two,
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once we recognize this
high potential in Christ,
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based on the high price He paid,
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it will lead us
to put forth efforts,
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proportionate
through that potential.
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If that potential was high,
you know, this is for example,
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this is why many individuals
when they go to school,
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when many young
people go to school,
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and they don't make efforts
at high school or at collage
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because they don't think
they have high potential.
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Many people don't put
forth their efforts within them
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because they expect a
little, so they attempt little.
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Many people go through
higher who are in collage
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failing exams.
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Sometimes it's not even just
because they are disadvantage,
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but it's because
they simply expect little,
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so they attempt little.
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And if you attempt a little
guess how much you achieve?
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Little.
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What's our message?
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Think Higher, Reach
Higher, Achieve Higher.
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Think Higher, Reach
Higher, Achieve Higher.
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Many times we--
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you know, this is a
very practical principle.
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Many times we, you
know, relationships go wrong.
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And God has said,
listen, I can take broken homes
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and make them a home
with the atmosphere of heaven
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but sometimes because we
not willing to attempt much,
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we only want to attempt little.
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If we attempt little,
we will achieve little.
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But many times we attempt little
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because we what?
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Expect a little.
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We're speaking about
high moral standards,
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high standards
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and one of that reasons
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why God can call us
to high standards is
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because He's promised
us the potential in Him
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to reach those high standards.
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If you're
following with me say, amen.
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Amen.
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Now, go to Acts 24 and
we're gonna see one reason why,
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many times even
though we recognize
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that we have
these high standards
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that God calls us to
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and we're gonna speak
about this in a second,
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why God has such high standards?
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We're gonna see that these
high standards are not simply
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for the sake of
destroying our fun.
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Did you know, that's what
many young people believe,
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God does to people
when they obey Him?
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They think that
God's high standards
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are a restriction on their fun.
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They think that God--
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many times we think that
God's high level of living
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is a restriction.
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For the last time I checked
when God said no to one tree
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is because He said
yes to how many trees?
00:22:06.52\00:22:08.48
A whole planet.
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The proportion of
which God restricts
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is nothing to
compare, to what He gives you.
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One tree? No.
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A whole planet of trees? Yes.
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But what did
Adam-- what did Eve do?
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I don't want the
whole planet, I want one.
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Think-- like think about it,
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the proportion of
which God restricts
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is less than what God gives.
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And this is why we're
speaking about high standards.
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Now many of us may
have these standards
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and may be they
are not leaving them,
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but brothers and sisters,
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this is why we must
study to find that hope.
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Amen? Amen.
00:22:45.12\00:22:46.79
We are in Acts 24 reading--
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Acts 24:24, 25.
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Say amen, when you there.
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Amen.
00:22:55.29\00:22:56.47
I want you to see one reason
why even though we recognize
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we're bought with a high price.
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Even though we then recognize
00:23:01.32\00:23:02.57
that we have high
potential in Christ
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and that He has high standards.
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Even though we recognize that
we must attempt high standards
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because God
expects high standards.
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There are
sometimes even situations
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where we are
hindered by this one thing,
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and it's found in Acts 24.
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Are we there?
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Acts 24:24 here
Paul is standing,
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he's here before Felix
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and he's been judged
or he's been examined,
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based on his
behavior and on his ministry.
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And in Acts 24
Paul is trying to reason
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with Felix regarding something.
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Are we there in verse 24?
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The Bible says in verse
24 "And after certain days,
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when Felix came with his wife
Drusilla, which was a Jewess,
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he sent for Paul, and heard him
concerning the faith in Christ.
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And as he" what?
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"Reasoned" so did
Paul reasoned? Yes.
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Paul reasoned and
"As he reasoned of" what?
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"Righteousness,"
stop right there.
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What righteousness?
00:24:05.73\00:24:07.79
Psalm 119:172 "My
tongue shall speak of thy word,
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for all thy
commandments are righteousness."
00:24:11.55\00:24:14.56
Psalm 119:172.
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God tells us here Paul is trying
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to reason with
them about God's law,
00:24:19.52\00:24:22.21
the rest of this "reasoned
with them on righteousness,"
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what else?
00:24:24.83\00:24:26.25
"Temperance," and what else?
00:24:26.28\00:24:27.94
"Judgment to
come," and Felix did what?
00:24:27.97\00:24:31.20
"Trembled, and answered," what?
00:24:31.23\00:24:33.56
"Go" where? "Your way."
00:24:33.59\00:24:35.99
In other words,
bounce, get away from me,
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get lost, get lost, go.
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"Go thy way for this time, when"
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listen carefully
to the next statement.
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Notice what happen even though
Paul presents before Felix,
00:24:48.27\00:24:52.83
high standards, a high
calling, a high way of living.
00:24:52.86\00:25:00.59
Notice how Felix
response to Paul.
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Knows what
happens in verse24-- 25
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"Go your way for this
time, when I have" what?
00:25:07.56\00:25:10.98
Say the next word with me.
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Con-- what's was it would say?
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"Convenient" stop there.
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"Go your way" why?
00:25:17.85\00:25:20.47
For "Go thy way for
this time, when I have" what?
00:25:20.50\00:25:24.38
"A convenient season."
00:25:24.41\00:25:29.61
What was the reason why
00:25:29.64\00:25:30.83
even though Paul
presented high standards,
00:25:30.86\00:25:33.39
high calling, high potential
before Felix, Felix says,
00:25:33.42\00:25:37.48
it was not what?
00:25:37.51\00:25:38.98
Convenient.
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What it Paul said?
What that Felix say?
00:25:41.95\00:25:44.43
Come back when?
When it's convenient.
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Jesus says,
please make those changes
00:25:49.92\00:25:52.50
that I've told
you in your dress.
00:25:52.53\00:25:54.85
Well, it's not convenient.
00:25:54.88\00:25:57.25
Make those changes in your diet,
00:25:57.28\00:25:59.40
but it's not convenient.
00:25:59.43\00:26:01.60
Make those changes, I've called
you to these high standards,
00:26:01.63\00:26:04.26
make these changes,
leave away that wilderness,
00:26:04.29\00:26:07.03
was not convenient.
00:26:07.06\00:26:09.03
Put away those video
games which are corrupting the--
00:26:09.06\00:26:11.90
it's not convenient.
00:26:11.93\00:26:13.56
Stop spending time
in those movie theaters
00:26:13.59\00:26:15.87
which are not preparing you
to increase your love for Jesus,
00:26:15.90\00:26:18.84
oh, it's not convenient.
00:26:18.87\00:26:20.87
Brothers and sisters,
there are so many elements
00:26:20.90\00:26:23.11
to which God calls
us to a high standard,
00:26:23.14\00:26:25.45
He calls us to high potential,
00:26:25.48\00:26:27.24
but because it's not convenient.
00:26:27.27\00:26:32.29
Why you are in that
relationship with that person?
00:26:32.32\00:26:35.90
Why you unequally
at it? Why you here?
00:26:35.93\00:26:38.32
Why are you doing these things?
00:26:38.35\00:26:39.61
Why are you
going to those places
00:26:39.64\00:26:41.23
you know God cannot bless?
00:26:41.26\00:26:42.80
It's not convenient for me, God.
00:26:42.83\00:26:46.49
But the high purchase,
00:26:46.52\00:26:48.48
what kind of purchase
were we purchased with?
00:26:48.51\00:26:50.74
A high purchase.
00:26:50.77\00:26:52.24
What heights is that? Infinite.
00:26:52.27\00:26:55.45
And the infinite price paid
00:26:55.48\00:26:57.25
reflects what kind of potential?
00:26:57.28\00:26:59.01
Infinite potential.
00:26:59.04\00:27:00.93
Why? Because Christ promises
to be their infinite power
00:27:00.96\00:27:04.34
to bring us up
to that potential.
00:27:04.37\00:27:06.88
But here we find that
even though God brings us
00:27:06.91\00:27:09.34
and shows us our calling,
00:27:09.37\00:27:11.31
sometimes convenience
becomes our hindrance.
00:27:11.34\00:27:14.90
It's not convenient for me.
00:27:14.93\00:27:17.41
Just stop
working on the Sabbath.
00:27:17.44\00:27:19.86
It's not convenient for me
00:27:19.89\00:27:21.02
to not go and buy
and sell on the Sabbath,
00:27:21.05\00:27:23.12
even though Nehemiah 13:13-17
calls that an evil thing.
00:27:23.15\00:27:28.55
It's not convenient
for me because that means,
00:27:28.58\00:27:30.52
I can't hang around with
that group of friends anymore,
00:27:30.55\00:27:32.80
I can't do these
things and watch these things.
00:27:32.83\00:27:35.17
Jesus says, what kind of
price did I paid for you?
00:27:35.20\00:27:39.13
I paid a high price,
I have a high potential,
00:27:39.16\00:27:42.15
and yet you attempt a little.
00:27:42.18\00:27:46.07
Why? Because of one
word, what's that one word?
00:27:46.10\00:27:49.21
Convenience.
00:27:49.24\00:27:51.58
Brothers and sisters,
00:27:51.61\00:27:52.64
when God calls us up it's
not convenient, I'll be honest.
00:27:52.67\00:27:55.46
It's not convenient.
00:27:55.49\00:27:57.11
Romans 8:7,
00:27:57.14\00:27:58.99
for the carnal mind is not
subjected to the law of God.
00:27:59.02\00:28:01.69
For the carnal mind
is enmity against God,
00:28:01.72\00:28:04.31
for it is not
subject to the law of God,
00:28:04.34\00:28:06.89
neither indeed can be.
00:28:06.92\00:28:09.00
The carnal nature does
not like the calling of God.
00:28:09.03\00:28:13.13
It does not like a high calling,
00:28:13.16\00:28:14.94
it is enjoying low standards.
00:28:14.97\00:28:18.41
But God has called us
to what kind of calling?
00:28:18.44\00:28:21.09
What kind of calling?
00:28:21.12\00:28:22.56
A high calling.
00:28:22.59\00:28:24.65
Christ's Object
Lessons write this down.
00:28:24.68\00:28:26.54
Christ's Object
Lessons, page 331 paragraph 2,
00:28:26.57\00:28:32.47
Christ's Object
Lessons, page 331 paragraph 2,
00:28:32.50\00:28:37.93
Christ's Object
Lessons, COL, 331 paragraph 2,
00:28:37.96\00:28:41.93
"Let no one say,
00:28:41.96\00:28:43.63
I cannot remedy the
defects of character.
00:28:43.66\00:28:49.17
If you come to this decision,
00:28:49.20\00:28:50.88
you will surely fail at
obtaining everlasting life.
00:28:50.91\00:28:54.42
The impossibility
lies in your own will.
00:28:54.45\00:29:01.97
If you will not,
then you can not overcome.
00:29:02.00\00:29:08.09
The real difficulty lies
00:29:08.12\00:29:09.68
in the corruption of
an unsanctified heart,
00:29:09.71\00:29:13.74
and an unwillingness to
submit to the control of God."
00:29:13.77\00:29:19.36
Let me say that again,
00:29:19.39\00:29:21.07
Christ's Object
Lessons, page 331 paragraph 2,
00:29:21.10\00:29:24.64
"Let no one say," remember
what are we talking about?
00:29:24.67\00:29:27.12
Here Paul presents
high standards to Felix,
00:29:27.15\00:29:30.88
but Felix rejects and he says
go away it's not convenient.
00:29:30.91\00:29:37.32
It's not convenient for me.
00:29:37.35\00:29:38.98
And here we find as
in here we find here,
00:29:39.01\00:29:41.78
it says, "Let no one say,
00:29:41.81\00:29:43.26
I cannot remedy the
defects of character."
00:29:43.29\00:29:46.40
It says, "The
impossibility lies in your will.
00:29:46.43\00:29:50.03
If you will not, you can not."
00:29:50.06\00:29:54.16
And then we are told,
00:29:54.19\00:29:55.23
"The real difficulty
lies in the unsanctification,
00:29:55.26\00:29:59.54
the unsanctified heart,
00:29:59.57\00:30:01.14
and an unwillingness to
submit to the will of God."
00:30:01.17\00:30:05.00
What am I trying to say,
00:30:05.03\00:30:07.46
one of the great reasons
00:30:07.49\00:30:08.90
that we find us not
reaching these standards
00:30:08.93\00:30:11.06
is because even when
God presents it before us,
00:30:11.09\00:30:13.57
even when we
know it's to be right,
00:30:13.60\00:30:15.30
sometimes we
are just not willing
00:30:15.33\00:30:18.32
because of the convenience.
00:30:18.35\00:30:22.10
I have a job and I have
to provide for my family,
00:30:22.13\00:30:25.77
and the only I
can work is Saturday.
00:30:25.80\00:30:30.62
And if I give up my job, how am
I gonna provide for my family,
00:30:30.65\00:30:33.91
it's not
convenient to give that up.
00:30:33.94\00:30:38.72
I'm hanging around
with a group of friends
00:30:38.75\00:30:40.20
and the only days
they want to hang out
00:30:40.23\00:30:41.46
is Friday night
and go to the club.
00:30:41.49\00:30:43.34
If I stop hanging out with them,
00:30:43.37\00:30:45.14
it's not convenient for me
00:30:45.17\00:30:46.47
because in whom I
gonna hang out with?
00:30:46.50\00:30:50.51
If I'm not around, if I
stop playing these videogames,
00:30:50.54\00:30:53.71
if I stop going
to these theaters,
00:30:53.74\00:30:55.26
that's where my friends go,
that's the only place we click,
00:30:55.29\00:30:57.94
if I don't it's not convenient.
00:30:57.97\00:31:01.88
If I preach truth from
the fun, people won't like it,
00:31:01.91\00:31:07.07
so let me preach new
things it's not convenient.
00:31:07.10\00:31:11.33
Let us not preach cheats because
00:31:11.36\00:31:13.27
it might bring
uncomfortable feelings,
00:31:13.30\00:31:16.65
it's not convenient.
00:31:16.68\00:31:20.86
What's more
important, convenience or truth?
00:31:20.89\00:31:27.48
Truth.
00:31:27.51\00:31:29.42
But brothers and sisters,
00:31:29.45\00:31:31.03
let us
understand something about
00:31:31.06\00:31:32.63
why God standards are so high?
00:31:32.66\00:31:35.44
We can talk about
God's high calling,
00:31:35.47\00:31:37.00
we can talk about how
convenience can stop us
00:31:37.03\00:31:39.57
from reaching that calling,
00:31:39.60\00:31:40.63
but I want to give us the hope
00:31:40.66\00:31:42.15
to show us why God's
standards are so high?
00:31:42.18\00:31:44.74
Go to Romans 7, Romans 7:12,
00:31:44.77\00:31:48.21
Romans 7, point 3
00:31:48.24\00:31:50.30
one of the great failures
of us to reach this potential.
00:31:50.33\00:31:53.79
And brothers and sisters,
if we speak about failure,
00:31:53.82\00:31:56.01
we must speak about what?
00:31:56.04\00:31:57.34
A solution.
00:31:57.37\00:32:00.25
Ministry of Healing, page 363
00:32:00.28\00:32:02.25
"The gospel is a wonderful
simplifier of life's problems."
00:32:02.28\00:32:07.29
So if we show where we fail,
00:32:07.32\00:32:09.03
we must show where we can what?
00:32:09.06\00:32:10.69
Solve that failure.
00:32:10.72\00:32:12.41
And we're gonna find
solutions in Romans 7,
00:32:12.44\00:32:14.43
are we there?
00:32:14.46\00:32:15.69
Romans 7, notice
what we find here.
00:32:15.72\00:32:17.29
Notice the view we get
of God's law in Romans 7.
00:32:17.32\00:32:20.48
Are we there?
00:32:20.51\00:32:22.14
Romans 7 reading
verse 12, point 1,
00:32:22.17\00:32:25.23
point number 1 was this.
00:32:25.26\00:32:26.64
The high purchase, high price
of our purchase as sinners,
00:32:26.67\00:32:30.92
sinful beings in
Christ, reflects our high what?
00:32:30.95\00:32:35.38
Potential in Christ.
00:32:35.41\00:32:37.71
And then we found
is that when we realize
00:32:37.74\00:32:39.60
what God expects the
height of our potential in God,
00:32:39.63\00:32:43.36
it will lead us
to actually what?
00:32:43.39\00:32:45.28
Make an attempt to
reach that potential.
00:32:45.31\00:32:48.46
But one of the great things
that causes us to be hindered
00:32:48.49\00:32:51.57
in reaching that
potential is based on a word
00:32:51.60\00:32:54.52
standing with "C" Convenience.
00:32:54.55\00:32:58.99
Convenience,
it's not convenient.
00:32:59.02\00:33:02.49
But we're told in
Education page 57 paragraph 3,
00:33:02.52\00:33:05.39
"The greatest want of the
world is the want of men -
00:33:05.42\00:33:08.04
men who will not
be bought or sold,
00:33:08.07\00:33:09.58
men who in their inmost
souls are true and honest,
00:33:09.61\00:33:12.03
men who do not fear to
call sin by its right name,
00:33:12.06\00:33:14.64
men whose
conscience is as true to duty
00:33:14.67\00:33:17.04
as the needle to the pole,
00:33:17.07\00:33:18.30
men who will stand for the right
00:33:18.33\00:33:19.99
ye, though the heavens fall."
00:33:20.02\00:33:23.62
Men and women.
00:33:23.65\00:33:25.03
One time I see that quotation
00:33:25.06\00:33:26.19
and a woman came
up to me and said,
00:33:26.22\00:33:27.41
you just said men, you
just said men, women too.
00:33:27.44\00:33:30.28
It involves women and men.
00:33:30.31\00:33:33.35
High calling.
00:33:33.38\00:33:34.86
Then we find that convenience
is this great obstacle,
00:33:34.89\00:33:37.69
but what I wanted to see
00:33:37.72\00:33:39.09
is why does God
have such high standards?
00:33:39.12\00:33:40.98
Are We in Romans 7?
00:33:41.01\00:33:43.07
Romans 7:12 say amen
when you are there. Amen.
00:33:43.10\00:33:47.63
The Bible says there
"Wherefore the law is" what?
00:33:47.66\00:33:51.44
"Holy, and the commandment
is holy, and just, and good."
00:33:51.47\00:33:57.44
So what kind of law,
what kind of commandments
00:33:57.47\00:34:00.29
has gone called us to keep?
00:34:00.32\00:34:01.70
They are laws
that are what? Holy.
00:34:01.73\00:34:04.13
And remember Paul
in Philippians 3:14
00:34:04.16\00:34:06.54
"I press toward the mark,"
for the what kind of calling?
00:34:06.57\00:34:10.18
"High calling."
00:34:10.21\00:34:11.91
So we have a high calling,
a high standard, but want--
00:34:11.94\00:34:14.97
notice what we find
go to Proverbs 29:18.
00:34:15.00\00:34:18.81
Notice what we find
here, this is powerful.
00:34:18.84\00:34:20.83
Proverbs 29:18, notice why
God standard is high and holy?
00:34:20.86\00:34:26.13
Proverbs 29:18, Proverbs 29:18.
00:34:26.16\00:34:31.91
Why does God have to be so mean
00:34:31.94\00:34:33.62
and give us such high standards?
00:34:33.65\00:34:40.94
Why does God have to be so mean?
00:34:40.97\00:34:47.30
Proverbs 29:18,
00:34:47.33\00:34:49.39
convenience, convenience.
00:34:49.42\00:34:55.22
I remember there is a
church here in Australia
00:34:55.25\00:34:58.13
where there was a
young girl that I knew,
00:34:58.16\00:35:01.14
who was trying to
leave the ways of the world
00:35:01.17\00:35:05.37
and her and her mother,
00:35:05.40\00:35:06.87
she was trying to stop
doing her worldly things
00:35:06.90\00:35:08.51
and her mother was
coming to her and telling her
00:35:08.54\00:35:11.88
why do you have
to be so extreme?
00:35:11.91\00:35:14.46
Why do you have to be
so hardcore for Jesus?
00:35:14.49\00:35:16.61
Why can't you just
find a middle line?
00:35:16.64\00:35:19.29
Can't you just beat convenience
for the rest of the family
00:35:19.32\00:35:22.24
making things difficult?
00:35:22.27\00:35:23.30
But she-- I
remember she, you know,
00:35:23.33\00:35:26.19
and at the end of the day
she had to make a decision,
00:35:26.22\00:35:28.72
do I settle for convenience?
00:35:28.75\00:35:30.53
Do I settle
convenience even if it means
00:35:30.56\00:35:32.62
that something's are
gonna cause you know,
00:35:32.65\00:35:34.62
separation in some ways?
00:35:34.65\00:35:37.10
what do I settle for convenience
00:35:37.13\00:35:40.22
or for God has told?
00:35:40.25\00:35:43.20
Proverbs 29 are we there?
00:35:43.23\00:35:45.55
What is connected to the keeping
00:35:45.58\00:35:48.47
of this high and holy law?
00:35:48.50\00:35:50.45
Proverbs 29:18 are you there?
Notice what the verse says?
00:35:50.48\00:35:54.14
The Bible says
"Where there is" what?
00:35:54.17\00:35:57.32
"No vision," what happens?
00:35:57.35\00:35:59.13
"The people perish,
but" read the next part
00:35:59.16\00:36:01.15
"but he that" does
what? "Keepeth" us up there,
00:36:01.18\00:36:04.20
what is keetpeth mean?
00:36:04.23\00:36:06.06
Obey, to
follow, to follow truth,
00:36:06.09\00:36:08.33
to live, my--
00:36:08.36\00:36:09.49
what happens when
people live by something,
00:36:09.52\00:36:12.45
he that keepeth what?
00:36:12.48\00:36:15.32
What's the best side?
00:36:15.35\00:36:16.41
"But he that keepeth the law,"
00:36:16.44\00:36:18.71
now stop there, Romans 7
calls it what kind of law?
00:36:18.74\00:36:22.01
A holy law, a high law,
a standard which is high
00:36:22.04\00:36:25.57
but notice what
happens as a result
00:36:25.60\00:36:28.17
of living a high standard.
00:36:28.20\00:36:29.81
He that keepeth this
holy law what happens?
00:36:29.84\00:36:33.39
"Happy is he."
00:36:33.42\00:36:37.43
The pro--
listen to me carefully,
00:36:37.46\00:36:39.86
the reason why God's
standards are so high
00:36:39.89\00:36:42.59
is because he wants to
give you what kind of happiness?
00:36:42.62\00:36:46.29
High happiness.
00:36:46.32\00:36:48.85
Just went over your head.
00:36:48.88\00:36:50.94
Listen to me again,
00:36:50.97\00:36:52.07
the reason why God's
standards are so high
00:36:52.10\00:36:54.71
is because the
height-- listen carefully,
00:36:54.74\00:36:57.32
the height of God's standard
is the height of your joy.
00:36:57.35\00:37:03.14
That what the Bible says
00:37:03.17\00:37:04.22
the way of the
transgresses is hard.
00:37:04.25\00:37:08.82
"But he that
keepeth the law" what?
00:37:08.85\00:37:11.28
"Happy is he."
00:37:11.31\00:37:14.91
Psalm 119, go there with me.
00:37:14.94\00:37:16.64
Psalm 119:165, Psalm 119:165
00:37:16.67\00:37:23.27
one of the great
reasons, listen to me carefully,
00:37:23.30\00:37:25.23
one of the great reasons
why God standards are so high
00:37:25.26\00:37:28.37
is because the happiness
which comes as a result
00:37:28.40\00:37:31.98
of keeping that
standard is also, what?
00:37:32.01\00:37:36.75
High. Let me say that again.
00:37:36.78\00:37:38.24
If God's law is a
high law to keep right?
00:37:38.27\00:37:42.91
His righteousness is
very high, very deep,
00:37:42.94\00:37:47.36
but what we find is
that connected to a life
00:37:47.39\00:37:50.94
in obedience to
that law is also, what?
00:37:50.97\00:37:53.70
Happiness.
00:37:53.73\00:37:55.31
So one of the great
reasons why God calls us
00:37:55.34\00:37:57.81
to have these high standards
00:37:57.84\00:37:59.49
and He has shown us
we have high potential
00:37:59.52\00:38:01.96
is not to kill our buzz.
00:38:01.99\00:38:04.23
You know, God says I
can't go here anymore,
00:38:04.26\00:38:06.14
He is gonna kill my
fun, God says, I can't -- no,
00:38:06.17\00:38:08.96
God wants us to understand that
we must not look upon His law
00:38:08.99\00:38:12.41
and His requirements as
being a restriction towards we.
00:38:12.44\00:38:15.84
Because the verse just said he
that keepeths the law is what?
00:38:15.87\00:38:18.72
Happy.
00:38:18.75\00:38:20.35
Notice what we find in
Psalm 119:165 are we there?
00:38:20.38\00:38:24.63
Notice what else is bound
up with the love for God's law.
00:38:24.66\00:38:27.88
Bible says in Psalm
119:165 "Great" what?
00:38:27.91\00:38:31.82
"Peace" stop there.
00:38:31.85\00:38:33.44
Do you think that this is a--
00:38:33.47\00:38:34.61
this is something
that the word lacks?
00:38:34.64\00:38:36.90
Yes.
00:38:36.93\00:38:39.22
Jesus says, the
peace that I give,
00:38:39.25\00:38:41.44
the peace that I leave,
is not the peace which what?
00:38:41.47\00:38:44.85
The world gives.
00:38:44.88\00:38:47.04
The peace of the world
gives us a peace of compromise,
00:38:47.07\00:38:49.03
and let's just come
together and join ecumenically
00:38:49.06\00:38:51.75
and forget about doctrine
and don't worry about truth.
00:38:51.78\00:38:55.44
Don't worry about the Bible,
00:38:55.47\00:38:56.50
let's just God will
sow that up in heaven.
00:38:56.53\00:38:59.19
That's the kind of peace
that what calls for God says--
00:38:59.22\00:39:02.43
Isaiah 26:3
00:39:02.46\00:39:04.07
"Thou wilt keep him
in" what kind of peace?
00:39:04.10\00:39:06.62
"Perfect peace, whose" is what?
00:39:06.65\00:39:09.18
"Mind is stayed on thee
because he trusteth in thee."
00:39:09.21\00:39:12.68
God says another thing listen,
read the rest of the verse
00:39:12.71\00:39:15.67
"Great peace have
they which love" what?
00:39:15.70\00:39:20.16
"Your law."
00:39:20.19\00:39:21.65
Bound up with loving God's law
is not just happiness but what?
00:39:21.68\00:39:25.47
Peace.
00:39:25.50\00:39:26.53
Why does God
give high standards?
00:39:26.56\00:39:28.69
Because He wants, wants to
give us what kind of peace?
00:39:28.72\00:39:31.38
High peace.
00:39:31.41\00:39:35.59
Go to Psalm 37:31, Psalm 37:31,
00:39:35.62\00:39:41.06
and that we are gonna
rack this one to show us,
00:39:41.09\00:39:42.89
we're gonna finish off by seeing
00:39:42.92\00:39:44.20
how God wants to lift
us to these standards?
00:39:44.23\00:39:47.13
Amen.
00:39:47.16\00:39:48.20
This is all well
and good to talk about
00:39:48.23\00:39:49.52
these great standards
00:39:49.55\00:39:50.85
and how God has a high calling,
00:39:50.88\00:39:53.16
but what can
bring us to the point?
00:39:53.19\00:39:55.24
What can enable us?
00:39:55.27\00:39:57.54
Where can we find power directs
you reach these standards?
00:39:57.57\00:40:01.25
Because brothers and
sisters, let's be honest.
00:40:01.28\00:40:03.61
There are many
standards that we have
00:40:03.64\00:40:05.51
and choose that we know it,
00:40:05.54\00:40:06.97
and I'll be honest
that we are not living
00:40:07.00\00:40:10.09
from the least of the greatest.
00:40:10.12\00:40:11.74
We can be honest.
00:40:11.77\00:40:14.19
But what I want to see is
today is that God says listen,
00:40:14.22\00:40:18.61
I can bring you
up to that standard.
00:40:18.64\00:40:20.44
Amen.
00:40:20.47\00:40:22.22
I can do how many
things for Christ?
00:40:22.25\00:40:24.38
Some? All?
00:40:24.41\00:40:27.13
That includes
reaching these standards.
00:40:27.16\00:40:29.72
Now we are in--
00:40:29.75\00:40:31.02
where are we Psalm
37:31, are you there?
00:40:31.05\00:40:37.28
One last point
before we finish off.
00:40:37.31\00:40:40.63
Psalm 37:31, the Bible says,
00:40:40.66\00:40:43.95
"The law of his God is" where?
00:40:43.98\00:40:46.90
"In his heart."
00:40:46.93\00:40:48.67
And what happens as a results
of the law being in His heart,
00:40:48.70\00:40:51.38
what happens? And "none
of his steps" will what?
00:40:51.41\00:40:56.07
"Slide."
00:40:56.10\00:40:57.80
Not only do we find
God given high standards
00:40:57.83\00:41:00.15
for high happiness,
00:41:00.18\00:41:01.82
not only do we find God given
high standards for high peace,
00:41:01.85\00:41:05.37
but we also find God giving
us high standards in His law
00:41:05.40\00:41:09.30
for a high life,
00:41:09.33\00:41:10.61
where we "none of
his steps will slide."
00:41:10.64\00:41:13.11
How many times have we
made decisions without God
00:41:13.14\00:41:15.34
and our steps have what?
00:41:15.37\00:41:17.93
Have slide Him.
00:41:17.96\00:41:22.29
Our steps slide.
00:41:22.32\00:41:26.04
If you are following
with me say, amen. Amen.
00:41:26.07\00:41:28.71
Listen to this
quote, faith I live by it.
00:41:28.74\00:41:31.30
Praise God for the
Spirit of Prophecy.
00:41:31.33\00:41:34.33
One amen?
00:41:34.36\00:41:35.99
Two and four, four?
00:41:36.02\00:41:38.06
Come on man.
00:41:38.09\00:41:39.48
This is same with
the Adventists church.
00:41:39.51\00:41:41.53
Am I in the right
church? Yeah, okay.
00:41:41.56\00:41:43.71
This just checking.
00:41:43.74\00:41:45.95
Faith I Live By,
page 84 paragraph 6
00:41:45.98\00:41:48.36
listen to this quote,
00:41:48.39\00:41:50.62
"The law of the ten commandments
00:41:50.65\00:41:52.61
is not to be looked upon as
much from the prohibitory side
00:41:52.64\00:41:57.50
as from the mercy side."
00:41:57.53\00:42:00.80
Do you know how times
we think about God's law,
00:42:00.83\00:42:02.87
we think about
it as restrictions.
00:42:02.90\00:42:05.02
Listen to the quote again,
00:42:05.05\00:42:06.17
Faith I Live By,
page 84 paragraph 6
00:42:06.20\00:42:08.99
"The law of God's
ten commandments is not"
00:42:09.02\00:42:12.74
what do you think she says not
00:42:12.77\00:42:13.89
because that's how
many people look on that,
00:42:13.92\00:42:16.15
"is not to be looked upon as
much from the prohibitory side"
00:42:16.18\00:42:20.20
or the side of restrictions
"as from the mercy side."
00:42:20.23\00:42:24.91
It's-- its prohibitions
00:42:24.94\00:42:27.02
or in other words the things it
restricts us from doing is a--
00:42:27.05\00:42:30.59
listen carefully
is sure guarantee.
00:42:30.62\00:42:33.62
What did I say?
00:42:33.65\00:42:35.11
Sure guarantee of
happiness and obedience.
00:42:35.14\00:42:40.14
Let me say one more time.
00:42:43.59\00:42:45.21
Faith I Live By,
page 84 paragraph 6
00:42:45.24\00:42:47.31
"The law of ten commandments
00:42:47.34\00:42:48.75
is not to be looked upon as
much from the prohibitory side
00:42:48.78\00:42:51.92
as from the mercy side."
00:42:51.95\00:42:53.60
It's prohibitions
are the sure guarantee.
00:42:53.63\00:42:56.74
How sure can He
get to sure? Sure.
00:42:56.77\00:43:00.87
Sure guarantee of happiness.
00:43:00.90\00:43:03.34
Why? He that
keepeth the law what?
00:43:03.37\00:43:05.55
Happy is he.
00:43:05.58\00:43:06.73
Now go to Ephesians 4:32.
00:43:06.76\00:43:12.96
We're finishing off
with a few more verses,
00:43:12.99\00:43:15.92
few more verses.
00:43:15.95\00:43:17.27
Ephesians 4:32
00:43:17.30\00:43:19.60
if God has given
us these standards
00:43:19.63\00:43:21.83
surely He can't leave us
00:43:21.86\00:43:23.66
to try to reach
these standards on our own.
00:43:23.69\00:43:26.10
Amen? Amen.
00:43:26.13\00:43:29.12
Isaiah 64:6 "For we are
all as an unclean thing,
00:43:29.15\00:43:33.00
and all our righteousness
are as" what kind of rags?
00:43:33.03\00:43:36.24
"Filthy rags."
00:43:36.27\00:43:39.50
There is none
righteous, no not one.
00:43:39.53\00:43:42.49
But 1 John 2:1
"My little children,
00:43:42.52\00:43:44.86
these things write I
unto you, that ye sin not.
00:43:44.89\00:43:47.55
And if any man sin,
00:43:47.58\00:43:49.59
we have an
advocate with the Father,
00:43:49.62\00:43:51.81
Jesus Christ" what?
00:43:51.84\00:43:53.95
"The righteous."
00:43:53.98\00:43:57.84
What we need to
understand is that yes,
00:43:57.87\00:43:59.74
Christ paid a
high purchase, amen.
00:43:59.77\00:44:02.37
Yes, Christ has high potential
00:44:02.40\00:44:04.16
and yes, we must
label with Christ
00:44:04.19\00:44:06.39
and attempt this high potential
00:44:06.42\00:44:08.48
and not allow
convenience to hinder us,
00:44:08.51\00:44:10.86
but what we must
understand is that
00:44:10.89\00:44:12.85
without the enabling
grace and power of Christ
00:44:12.88\00:44:15.94
we will never reach
this high standard, never.
00:44:15.97\00:44:19.65
Doesn't matter how much
food, vegan food you eat,
00:44:19.68\00:44:23.49
that doesn't answer you.
00:44:23.52\00:44:24.55
These are the things
we do because we love who?
00:44:24.58\00:44:26.61
Christ.
00:44:26.64\00:44:29.47
Notice what we find
Ephesians 4 are we there?
00:44:29.50\00:44:32.81
Notice what we find about
this, notice why this is--
00:44:32.84\00:44:35.82
this is why when we try this
00:44:35.85\00:44:37.04
we are an
attempting an impossibility.
00:44:37.07\00:44:39.59
Ephesians 4:32 are we there?
00:44:39.62\00:44:42.07
Ephesians 4:32 "And be
ye kind one to another,
00:44:42.10\00:44:45.91
tender-hearted,
forgiving one another,
00:44:45.94\00:44:48.18
even as God for
Christ's sake hath" what?
00:44:48.21\00:44:50.95
Given "forgiven you."
00:44:50.98\00:44:52.37
So God calls us to
forgive others and be kind, why?
00:44:52.40\00:44:56.54
Because who forgave?
00:44:56.57\00:44:59.18
Who? God.
00:44:59.21\00:45:00.68
So who is our
pattern and forgiveness
00:45:00.71\00:45:02.87
according to that verse?
00:45:02.90\00:45:04.38
God but God is God, God is what?
00:45:04.41\00:45:06.97
Divine.
00:45:07.00\00:45:08.73
So here we have a divine
standard imposed on mortals.
00:45:08.76\00:45:14.14
So how can God expect
divine standards on mortals?
00:45:14.17\00:45:20.61
Did you just hear what I said?
00:45:20.64\00:45:22.90
It is a divine pattern.
00:45:22.93\00:45:24.41
So what I'm trying to say is,
00:45:24.44\00:45:25.64
how can God give us
such high standards,
00:45:25.67\00:45:28.44
such divine
standards on sinful mortals?
00:45:28.47\00:45:33.66
We gonna finish in Isaiah 55,
00:45:33.69\00:45:36.03
Isaiah 55:11.
00:45:36.06\00:45:37.61
I think I stole Cheri's verse.
00:45:37.64\00:45:39.76
Isaiah 55, I think
this is the verse you--
00:45:39.79\00:45:41.71
one of the verses she
used yesterday, last night.
00:45:41.74\00:45:43.76
But Isaiah 55:11,
00:45:43.79\00:45:48.00
Isaiah 55:11 as we close.
00:45:48.03\00:45:51.56
Do you understand what I did?
00:45:51.59\00:45:52.63
What we just read?
00:45:52.66\00:45:53.70
God called us to a divine
calling, a divine standard,
00:45:53.73\00:45:57.80
but this is
interesting, God calls us--
00:45:57.83\00:46:00.09
calls a divine
standard on sinful people.
00:46:00.12\00:46:02.70
God is what?
00:46:02.73\00:46:05.84
Divine, eternal, omnipotent,
omnipresent, omnibenevolent
00:46:05.87\00:46:09.66
and He calls divine standards,
high standards on mortals.
00:46:09.69\00:46:14.97
How?
00:46:15.00\00:46:16.96
Isaiah 55, are we there?
00:46:16.99\00:46:19.78
Verse 11, so--
00:46:19.81\00:46:23.72
Isaiah 55 I
awaits you get there.
00:46:23.75\00:46:25.45
Are we there? Amen.
00:46:25.48\00:46:27.64
We're gonna read verse
00:46:27.67\00:46:29.12
that says for does
who that works in you.
00:46:29.15\00:46:32.57
God that work us where?
00:46:32.60\00:46:34.67
In you, both to will and
to do of His good pleasure.
00:46:34.70\00:46:40.98
Isaiah 55:11, the Bible says,
00:46:41.01\00:46:43.58
"So shall my" what?
"Word be there" what?
00:46:43.61\00:46:47.30
"Goes forth out of" where?
00:46:47.33\00:46:49.08
"My mouth," what is that,
what's the very next word?
00:46:49.11\00:46:52.25
"It" stop there, what's the it?
00:46:52.28\00:46:54.84
The word, that's right.
00:46:54.87\00:46:56.15
"So shall my word be that
goeth forth out of my mouth,
00:46:56.18\00:46:58.90
it" the it, is the word
00:46:58.93\00:47:01.02
"shall not return unto me
void, but it" what's the it?
00:47:01.05\00:47:05.94
The word "Shall" what?
00:47:05.97\00:47:08.63
"Shall accomplish" what?
00:47:08.66\00:47:10.53
"That which I please,
and it" what 's the it?
00:47:10.56\00:47:13.92
The word, "shall" what?
00:47:13.95\00:47:15.57
"Prosper in the
thing where to I sent it."
00:47:15.60\00:47:18.23
So when God speaks a command
what performs that command?
00:47:18.26\00:47:23.29
His word.
00:47:23.32\00:47:26.00
You missed it,
you totally missed it.
00:47:26.03\00:47:28.71
Listen to what I just--
00:47:28.74\00:47:29.82
when God gives a command
what performs the command?
00:47:29.85\00:47:33.66
The thing He
told to do the command
00:47:33.69\00:47:35.21
or the command itself?
00:47:35.24\00:47:36.39
The command itself.
00:47:36.42\00:47:38.84
You missed it.
00:47:38.87\00:47:42.57
Listen to that, what's the it?
00:47:42.60\00:47:44.51
The word.
00:47:44.54\00:47:45.57
And so what accomplishes
the thing that God says, the it?
00:47:45.60\00:47:49.35
The word.
00:47:49.38\00:47:50.67
So the power that--
00:47:50.70\00:47:52.76
so when God gives a
high call, a high command,
00:47:52.79\00:47:56.26
the power to reach the command
is in the command itself.
00:47:56.29\00:48:00.46
Exodus 20:1, the Bible says,
00:48:09.78\00:48:12.49
we're not gonna
go there but listen,
00:48:12.52\00:48:13.80
what's find in Exodus
20, Seventh-day Adventist?
00:48:13.83\00:48:16.91
Commandments.
00:48:16.94\00:48:17.99
Listen to this Exodus 20:1
00:48:18.02\00:48:19.98
I've got two minutes 52
listen to this Exodus 20:1,
00:48:20.01\00:48:24.04
the Bible says "And
God spake all these words,"
00:48:24.07\00:48:27.48
what did I say?
00:48:27.51\00:48:28.54
All these words,
00:48:28.57\00:48:30.11
but what that we
find in Isaiah 55
00:48:30.14\00:48:32.66
accomplishes
the thing, the word.
00:48:32.69\00:48:37.04
So when God spoke
the words in Exodus 20
00:48:37.07\00:48:39.88
we call it the Ten Commandments.
00:48:39.91\00:48:42.46
Please follow with me,
I haven't got much time.
00:48:42.49\00:48:45.46
So when God spoke these words
00:48:45.49\00:48:47.86
where is the power
to perform those words?
00:48:47.89\00:48:51.37
In the Word itself.
00:48:51.40\00:48:53.26
So the high
standard, the high law,
00:48:53.29\00:48:56.03
the high moral code
that God has called us to
00:48:56.06\00:48:58.95
the power to reach that
command and that standard
00:48:58.98\00:49:02.91
is in the command
itself if we have faith.
00:49:02.94\00:49:07.36
I'm finishing on this quote
00:49:07.39\00:49:08.69
Christ's Object
Lessons, page 333 paragraph 1,
00:49:08.72\00:49:12.03
write this down, powerful.
00:49:12.06\00:49:15.48
Christ's Object Lessons,
333 paragraph 1 listen to this,
00:49:15.51\00:49:19.87
"As the will of man
cooperates with the will of God,
00:49:19.90\00:49:23.22
it becomes omnipotent.
00:49:23.25\00:49:25.52
Whatever" listen to--
00:49:25.55\00:49:27.34
what did I say? Whatever.
00:49:27.37\00:49:28.73
What is whatever
mean? Everything.
00:49:28.76\00:49:31.45
"Whatever is to be
done at" whose command?
00:49:31.48\00:49:35.06
"His command may be
accomplished in His strength."
00:49:35.09\00:49:40.95
One amen.
00:49:40.98\00:49:42.79
Are you awake?
00:49:42.82\00:49:44.31
Do you hear what this--
00:49:44.34\00:49:45.54
listen to that--
listen to that again,
00:49:45.57\00:49:49.10
" As the will of man
cooperates with the will of God,
00:49:49.13\00:49:51.48
it becomes
omnipotent" or powerful.
00:49:51.51\00:49:53.33
Why?
00:49:53.36\00:49:54.40
Because the will you
have allied yourself with
00:49:54.43\00:49:56.65
is all powerful,
00:49:56.68\00:49:58.53
and "Whatever is to
be done at His command
00:49:58.56\00:50:01.66
may be
accomplished in His strength."
00:50:01.69\00:50:05.10
Because the strength
to accomplish the command
00:50:05.13\00:50:08.20
is where?
00:50:08.23\00:50:09.27
In the command.
00:50:09.30\00:50:12.63
How much better could God be?
00:50:12.66\00:50:15.38
So put the power to
reach that standard,
00:50:15.41\00:50:18.25
the power to
reach those commandments
00:50:18.28\00:50:20.63
is in the command itself.
00:50:20.66\00:50:23.79
God is good.
00:50:23.82\00:50:26.82
Have you
understood the message today?
00:50:26.85\00:50:29.34
The message was "Think Higher,
Reach Higher, Achieve Higher."
00:50:29.37\00:50:34.18
Christ paid a high purchase
00:50:34.21\00:50:35.80
to tell us we have
what kind of potential?
00:50:35.83\00:50:38.47
High potential, and we see that,
00:50:38.50\00:50:40.28
we need to understand
we have high potential
00:50:40.31\00:50:42.46
so that we cannot any
attempt to little but how much?
00:50:42.49\00:50:45.10
Much.
00:50:45.13\00:50:46.16
And many times we achieve much
because we attempt how much?
00:50:46.19\00:50:49.64
We must attempt much.
00:50:49.67\00:50:50.99
But we see that
sometimes what gets in the way?
00:50:51.02\00:50:53.06
Convenience.
00:50:53.09\00:50:55.05
But we found that God
gives us high standards
00:50:55.08\00:50:57.93
for what kind of happiness?
00:50:57.96\00:50:59.44
High happiness.
00:50:59.47\00:51:00.51
High standards
for what kind of joy?
00:51:00.54\00:51:02.12
High joy.
00:51:02.15\00:51:03.25
And high standards
for what kind of peace?
00:51:03.28\00:51:05.03
High peace.
00:51:05.06\00:51:06.10
And the power to
achieve that is found where?
00:51:06.13\00:51:09.18
In the Word itself.
00:51:09.21\00:51:13.03
Let us pray.
00:51:13.06\00:51:16.45
Father in heaven,
thank You for this time,
00:51:16.48\00:51:21.36
thanking You for
allowing us to study Your word,
00:51:21.39\00:51:25.33
thank You for giving
us the power to achieve
00:51:25.36\00:51:29.82
these high standards,
00:51:29.85\00:51:32.16
if we have faith in Your word.
00:51:32.19\00:51:34.54
Thanking that You
have given us such a
00:51:34.57\00:51:36.38
bulletproof and airtight,
00:51:36.41\00:51:38.24
a sure word
that we can trust in.
00:51:38.27\00:51:41.27
Hebrew 2 tells us,
00:51:41.30\00:51:43.23
that many times we do
not benefit from Your words
00:51:43.26\00:51:46.55
because it's not mixed
with faith and knows it here.
00:51:46.58\00:51:49.48
And so Father, we pray
that You might give faith.
00:51:49.51\00:51:51.51
Lord, we believe
how thou our unbelief.
00:51:51.54\00:51:54.45
Father, help us to
live up to these standards
00:51:54.48\00:51:56.04
for we know that no man
can live divine standards
00:51:56.07\00:51:58.40
without Him who is divine.
00:51:58.43\00:52:00.78
Fill us with
Your Holy Spirit now,
00:52:00.81\00:52:01.91
we pray in Jesus
name and we all say, amen.
00:52:01.94\00:52:04.94