I wanted to talk to
you today about a subject
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that is so important.
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Many people in the
church don't understand it,
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don't realize what's going on.
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They have kind of
taken a world view
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and they
understand that, oh, you know,
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the grace of Jesus
Christ, everything is just fine.
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He, He takes care of everything.
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Well, that's true.
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But there's an
interesting scenario
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that the devil
doesn't want us to understand.
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And I believe the devil
has lied to us for a long time.
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Now, let me explain how
I started getting into this
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particular area.
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I had started
studying God's word about God
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desiring us to overcome.
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What is that really mean?
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Well, I was
sitting down in Guatemala
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near a river one time,
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just a little bit
of a vacation actually.
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And the Lord impressed me,
I start going through my Bible
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and highlighting
every place in my Bible
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where it speaks
about the power of God.
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God's desire to change us.
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God's desire to, to
help us to overcome.
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God's desire to take us
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from where we are
and put us up here.
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The Lord's great
tremendous desire to,
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to take us and make us
royalty to sit with Him
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in His throne for eternity.
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Well, when I got
done, most of my Bible
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was highlighted.
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I was astounded, I was amazed.
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Now I like to show
you that Bible today,
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but I can't because
that was stolen two years ago
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at the airport in Nicaragua.
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So I can't show you that one.
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But, you know, I
think when I get to heaven,
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I'm gonna meet somebody
hopefully that walks up to me
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and said, you know, I
stole your Bible in Nicaragua
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and it saved my life.
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So I'd praise God.
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You know, God can
use anything, right?
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Well, after I
did that I thought,
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I wonder what Ellen
White has to say on this
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particular subject.
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And I began building a
PowerPoint presentation.
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Well, man, after, in no
time I had a 100 slides.
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And then I
started taking this slide
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and I look at this
one, this one is better.
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And I put this one
and put it another one,
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this one in, this one
out, I did that for two years.
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And at the end of two
years I thought it's incredible.
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The woman has so much
to say on the subject,
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you can't begin to
comprehend it at all.
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It just began jumping
off the pages everywhere.
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And then I put all
these together the Bible
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and the Spirit of Prophecy.
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Now let me take a moment.
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I ran out earlier
because I want to show you
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something in a moment.
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I make absolutely no
apologies for sharing
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the Spirit of Prophecy with you.
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Wow. This is quite a
church to hear that bigger amen.
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Praise the Lord,
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because God says
in 2 Chronicles 20:20.
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"Believe His prophets
and so shall you prosper."
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Now, it sounds like
a lot of people in here
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want to prosper today.
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I do nothing the Lord says
"Except I reveal My secrets
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to his servants the prophets."
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You look at Josiah.
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When Josiah found the
law, they began reading the law
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and they thought, we
haven't kept the law,
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we're out of God's will.
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What did he do?
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The first thing he
did is he got his top men
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in his cabinet and sent them.
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He said go enquire of the Lord.
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And the first thing they did
is go enquire of the prophet.
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It's so
interesting that the church
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has such a stigma
against seeking God's
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will through His prophet.
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Now, I don't know if
you have ever seen this,
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since it's here in...
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In Australia but
Smithsonian Magazine.
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Smithsonian Magazine,
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at least in the
United States is,
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you know, it's a
huge scientific magazine.
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They did this particular issue.
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I had to pay $10
for this thing U.S.,
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only to share it
with everybody though.
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The 100 most significant
Americans of all time,
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of all time.
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Now they have a
lot of different people
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and a lot of
different things in here,
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but this is the
one I want to show you
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that is so
important and so incredible.
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Ellen White, two pages.
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Hardly anybody else in the
book gets two pages of anything.
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Two pages.
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Why are we as
Seventh-day Adventists
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want to hide all of this?
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The Barna Group, The
Barna Group did a study
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with pastors of
all denominations
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and they found that Ellen
White in the pastors age 40
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and under was one of
their favourite authors.
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This is of all denominations.
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So why do we as
Seventh-day Adventists
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gets so freaked out
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when somebody says
something about the prophet?
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I'd like to prosper.
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And hence that's
what I worked out
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to share with you
today is, is the study.
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Now I didn't always... I
shared with you this morning.
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I didn't always believe in God.
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Matter of fact, this
was my second go around.
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This was kind of a second time.
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I was still a "Seventh-day
Adventist Christian"
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at that time.
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I actually wrote a
little book called Second Chance
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on that subject.
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But today's study is
about transformation.
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How do we get from where we
are to what God wants us to be?
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That's what this
study is all about.
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"Religion today
is not transforming
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people rather it is being
transformed by the people."
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It is not raising the
moral level of society,
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it is descending to
society's own level,
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and congratulating itself
that it has scored a victory
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because society is
smilingly accepting
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its surrender."
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That's where we are
today. Listen to this though.
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"Had Adventist,
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after the great
disappointment in 1844,
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held fast their faith
and followed on unitedly
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in the opening
providence of God,
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receiving the
message of the third angel
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and in the power
of the Holy Spirit,
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underline that,
proclaiming it to the world,
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they would have seen
the salvation of God,
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the Lord would have wrought
mightily with their efforts,
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the work would
have been completed,
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and Christ would have come ere
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this to receive His
people to the reward."
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God would have
come shortly after 1844,
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after the
judgement hour message,
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after waking the world
up and shaking the world
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with that incredible message.
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The Lord was ready to
come, but His people were not.
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His people were not.
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But in that period
of doubt and uncertainty
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that followed
the disappointment,
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many of the advent believers."
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Did what?
"Yielded their faith...
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Thus the work was hindered,
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and the world was
left in darkness."
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God has always had a people,
always looking for a people
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that can shed His
light to the world.
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He chose at that time
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the Seventh-day
Adventist people.
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"Had the whole
Adventist body united upon
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the commandments of
God and the faith of Jesus,
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how widely different
would have been our history!"
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"How widely different
would have been our history?"
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He, Jesus, urged upon
men the necessity of prayer,
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repentance,
confession, and the..."
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What? "Abandonment of sin."
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That almost sticks in the...
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You know I don't have
to say craw here, chickens,
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you don't have craws.
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I'm a little
country boy, you know,
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it sticks in your
craw to almost see
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that abandonment of sin.
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Yes, God wants us to
abandon sin to turn away
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from sin
because sin destroys us.
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Sin eradicates
anything good in our lives.
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Charles Finney once
said, "To persist in sin is,
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not to abandon it."
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Not to abandon it.
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Hebrews 12:29 says,
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"For our God is a consume fire."
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I used to wonder,
what does that mean?
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Our God is a consuming fire.
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Well, then I came up
with what Ellen White says.
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"In all who submit to
His power the Spirit of God
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will consume sin."
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Praise God.
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Imagine, Jesus stands
at the door and knocks.
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Remember, He
doesn't force entry.
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Stands at the door and knocks,
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if anyone hear my voice.
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He comes in.
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And He comes in,
excuse me for the analogy.
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I don't have a
better one at the moment,
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but with His multi
trillion candle power light
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and He shines it in the
room and every place of sin,
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it hit sin, it
evaporates, it evaporates.
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He goes in the next
room, it evaporates.
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Who is doing all this? Jesus.
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Jesus is doing all this.
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But then He gets
over to the basement
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and we kind of stand
in front of the basement
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and say, oh, Lord,
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rather you didn't go
in that room right now.
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Now when Jesus comes
in the clouds of glory,
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His brightness, we
know it as a consuming fire.
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There are those
that cry for the rocks
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and the
mountains to fall on them,
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hide us from the
wrath of him to come.
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Why? Because to sin
and sinners it's painful.
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It's painful
because of His brightness,
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His glory destroys all sin.
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And when this
individual over here,
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if he chose to keep
Jesus out of one door,
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out of one room of the
home, and sin still lingers.
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What happens automatically?
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Automatically that
person is consumed.
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God doesn't want that to happen.
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He said, I wish that all
would come to repentance.
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I wish that all
would invite me in,
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so that I might
destroy the sin in their lives.
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Remember the lady
caught in adultery?
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Jesus is out there
meeting with the people
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and all of a
sudden the leadership
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brings this woman,
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cast her down in front of Jesus.
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She's been caught
in the act of adultery.
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Jesus never looks
up, never says a word.
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He just begins writings
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in the dust of
the cobble stones.
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And pretty soon, pretty soon
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all the general
conference leadership
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comes up and...
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They were right?
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They began peaking
over the shoulder of Jesus.
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That's my sins.
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They evaporate
one after the other
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and pretty soon
there's nobody around.
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Now praise God.
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I'd like to call your
attention to one another thing,
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Jesus with His finger could have
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etched in the stone their sins.
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But He puts him in the dust,
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so that one
little blows them away
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and so that no one else knows.
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God loves us so much.
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God is so incredibly caring
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that He does that kind of thing.
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He thinks about
every little nuance.
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Woman, where are your accusers?
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She finally dares to look
up. There aren't any, Lord.
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Neither do I condemn me.
Praise God, halleluiah, right?
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Jesus takes His
own righteous robe,
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He wraps it around that woman.
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And God looks at
her, He looks at her,
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you are righteous.
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But then He says
something else to this woman
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that we, we tend
to not think about.
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What is He saying?
"Go, and sin no more."
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Five other words.
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Well, Lord, that
must be a mistake.
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There's got to be
something wrong here.
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Go, and sin no more.
You can't be serious.
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Well, how about the paralytic
at the Pool of Bethesda?
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I had the wonderful opportunity
to film there one time
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and that pool was huge,
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it's way bigger than
I ever thought it was,
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monster pool.
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But Jesus comes
and hears this guy.
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He's 38 years,
he's been paralysed.
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He is waiting for
the waters to move
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and try to get over
there and some saint says
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that if he gets
in those waters first
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when they are
troubled, he will be healed.
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But it's never happened.
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And Jesus walks up to
him and scripture records
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a very interesting thing.
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"Wilt thou be made whole?"
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"Wilt thou be made whole?"
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And that comes
to each one of us.
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That, those very words
come to each one of us.
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"Wilt thou be made whole?"
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And of course we
know the next thing.
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He told that man,
take up your bed and walk.
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Wow.
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This guy feels the
energy surged through his body,
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he jumps up and
down in halleluiah.
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And he shouted and he runs
off to the temple to praise God.
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And I would submit
to you, anytime you have
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an encounter with Jesus Christ,
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you should run to the
temple and praise God.
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And Jesus then, He gets there.
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He gets there.
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He finds this man
at the temple later.
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And what does He say?
What does He say to this man?
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Boy.
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"Sin no more, Lest a
worse thing come upon you."
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Sin no more.
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The first time I
said it wasn't a mistake,
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it's not a
mistake now, sin no more.
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You see God desire us
to separate us from sin.
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He just doesn't want
to clothe us and make us
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beautiful
looking on the outside.
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He wants us
beautiful on the inside too.
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If your children, families...
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You have
children... Would you...
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If you have the power
to change their lives to,
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that they could
have the most glorious,
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happy vibrant
life, would you do it?
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Sure.
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I don't think there's
anybody in here that wouldn't.
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And God has the power to
change us if we allow Him to.
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He doesn't want us to, to
continually be burden with,
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with sin and plague with,
with filthiness in our lives.
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He wants to lift us
higher and higher and higher.
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That's our God.
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That's what He
has in store for us.
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He says, "Thou has
loved righteousness
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and hated iniquity."
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He loved
righteousness, hated iniquity.
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Remember this.
Christ always, how often?
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Always separates the
contrite soul from sin.
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He came to destroy
the works of the devil,
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and He has made
provision that the Holy Spirit
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shall be imparted to
every repentant soul,
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to keep him from sinning."
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To keep him from sinning.
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That's God's power
to keep us from sinning.
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Look it.
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"No conversion is
genuine which does not change
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both the character
and the conduct of those
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who accept the truth.
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The truth works by love,
and love purifies the soul."
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"To Him, God says, who overcomes
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I will grant to sit
with Me in my throne,
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that where I am
there, you may be also."
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Imagine, me such a sinner
who has spit in God's face
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so many times, God says,
look, I want to change you,
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I want to clean you up.
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And eventually I'm gonna
sit you in my throne to be
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a co-ruler with Me.
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A co-ruler in the...
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I'm gonna bring
my, my whole kingdom,
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the whole government
down here to planet earth
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and all of those who
love me are gonna sit with me
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and rule the universe.
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You know you've been
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faithful over a
few things over here.
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Here, I'm gonna give you
the set of plants over here.
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You take care of those.
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And you've been
faithful over here and this,
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I'm gonna give you this
chunk of the universe over here.
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Imagine them, what God is?
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It's unfathomable. It really is.
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How wonderful He is
and what He has in store
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for those that love Him.
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What He has in store
for those that allow Him
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to work in their lives?
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"It is His purpose
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that the highest
influence in the universe,
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emanating from the
source of all power,
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shall be ours.
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We are to have a
power to resist evil,
00:16:22.11\00:16:24.78
a power that
neither earth, nor death,
00:16:24.81\00:16:26.51
nor hell can master."
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Think about it.
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"A power that will enable us
to overcome as Jesus overcame."
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Jesus was our example. He
came to give us an example.
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"Being then made
free from sin..."
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Paul says.
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"You became the
servants of righteousness."
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It's in Romans. Found
in the Book of Romans.
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Romans is a very
interesting book.
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Three chapters
are on justification.
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God taking His
righteousness and wrapping us
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and making us
beautiful on the outside,
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six and a half chapters
are on just our sanctification.
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Twice as many.
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Over twice as many
chapters on what God can do in
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and through us to
transform us on the inside too.
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We need to
understand these things.
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Devil doesn't want
us to understand this.
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He'd like us to think that,
you know, it's pie in the sky,
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I can't do
anything in this lifetime
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until after Jesus
comes then I will be changed.
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"He restores my soul,
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He leads me in
paths of righteousness
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for his name's sake."
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You know I never really
understood the 23rd Psalm
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until I understood what
God was trying to say here.
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He leads me where? In
paths of righteousness.
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He doesn't lead me
in the sinful paths.
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He doesn't lead
me in this direction.
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Higher and higher and
higher is His desire for us.
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Now listen, this
is, this is a statement
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that I believe every,
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everyone should write on your...
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pin it on your
refrigerator door,
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pin it in the bathroom.
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If you had TV, pin it on the TV.
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"As the will of man co-operates
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with the will of God,
it becomes omnipotent."
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Here's the formula.
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My will, god's
will, one omnipotent will,
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when they are combined.
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Just think about that.
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God living in your
life can do anything
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God wants to do.
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And God wants to
make you an overcomer.
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God wants to move you
out of the, the everyday sin.
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You know there
was a time in my life
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when I continually came home
and cried over the same sins
00:18:33.68\00:18:37.68
over and over and over.
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I never even got a chance
to get on to any new sins.
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Same thing over and over.
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God wants to
deliver us from that.
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God wants to
change us from that.
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My will, God's
will, one omnipotent,
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all powerful will.
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"Whatever is to be
done at His command
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may be
accomplished in His strength."
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God says, "All My
biddings are enablings.
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Go, and sin no more."
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You see when you look at that,
00:19:08.84\00:19:10.18
"all His
biddings are enablings."
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Where is the focus?
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It's on God. It's on God.
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God desires it.
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And God can do
whatever God wants to do,
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but we have to allow Him.
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We have to invite Him
in to change our lives.
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"It is the will of God
to cleanse us from sin,
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to make us His children,
00:19:31.40\00:19:32.73
and to enable us
to live a holy life."
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That's God's will for your life.
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Whatever is going on
currently in your life,
00:19:38.21\00:19:40.21
that's God's will for your
life and He can make it happen.
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"And do not be
conformed to this world,
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but be transformed by
the renewing of your mind."
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Wow.
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Interesting
statement Paul makes.
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Be not conformed to this world.
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The devil wants every one
of us to conform to this world.
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We think we've got to
do this, we've got to,
00:20:00.13\00:20:01.90
you know, have
this and have that
00:20:01.93\00:20:03.63
and have all these things.
00:20:03.67\00:20:05.20
It's a lie of the devil.
00:20:05.23\00:20:06.57
God says, seek ye
first the kingdom of God
00:20:06.60\00:20:10.11
and all these things
will be added unto you.
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It's all about priority.
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What are the
priorities in your life?
00:20:13.88\00:20:17.78
That word transformed
is Metamorpho in the Greek
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or some you may Metamorphoses.
00:20:20.68\00:20:23.22
By the way, excuse
me for my accent, right.
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You know I've got
an accent down here
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and the fruit
that grows in the tree,
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you know, I say that's a date,
you'd probably say diet, right?
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Did I get it close? No,
didn't even get that close.
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How do you say
it? There is a date.
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You know, how come
I've seen so many say diet?
00:20:41.37\00:20:44.81
Yeah, well, you know.
00:20:44.84\00:20:46.17
But Metamorphose is change
from one form to another form.
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God wants to change us
from one form to another form.
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Thus it is that God desires
00:20:57.29\00:20:59.09
to fulfil for us
His purpose of grace.
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By the power of His
love, through," what?
00:21:02.16\00:21:05.09
Obedience.
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Oh, that's a word
that really hangs us up,
00:21:06.49\00:21:08.63
through obedience.
00:21:08.66\00:21:10.00
"Fallen man, a worm of the dust,
00:21:10.03\00:21:11.93
is to be transformed,
00:21:11.97\00:21:14.20
fitted to be a member
of the heavenly family."
00:21:14.24\00:21:18.31
To be transformed by
the renewing of your mind...
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Well, how does
that actually happen?
00:21:21.14\00:21:23.04
Think about this.
00:21:23.08\00:21:24.41
"Let this mind be in you,
which was in Christ Jesus."
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Philippians.
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''Who being in the form
of God thought it not robbery
00:21:29.62\00:21:31.45
to be equal with God,
00:21:31.49\00:21:32.82
but made
himself a no reputation.
00:21:32.85\00:21:34.82
He took upon himself
the form of a servant,
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became obedient unto death
even the death at the cross."
00:21:37.66\00:21:42.86
Now, that's called
basically a chiastic
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structure of
you, diagram that out.
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Jesus was up here God,
He stepped down, down, down.
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By the way, that spot
in Philippians Chapter 2
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is the last time you
see Jesus as the same God.
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Because at that moment
He took off the power to be
00:22:00.55\00:22:03.28
in all place at
once, never again,
00:22:03.32\00:22:04.99
because He took on humanity.
00:22:05.02\00:22:06.45
He's cumbered for all
eternity with humanity.
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I don't know
exactly what that means.
00:22:09.22\00:22:11.43
I don't know exactly
what that sacrifice is.
00:22:11.46\00:22:14.26
But I think through all eternity
00:22:14.30\00:22:15.70
we'll begin to
realize the sacrifice
00:22:15.73\00:22:18.10
that Jesus made for us.
00:22:18.13\00:22:20.54
And He stepped down, down, down,
00:22:20.57\00:22:24.77
all the way to the
cross, clear down at the bottom.
00:22:24.81\00:22:28.04
And then you find the
father for every step Jesus
00:22:28.08\00:22:30.85
takes down lifted
Him up, up, up, up,
00:22:30.88\00:22:34.98
until every name confesses
the name of Jesus Christ
00:22:35.02\00:22:38.49
to the glory of God, the Father.
00:22:38.52\00:22:39.85
I don't know about
you, but there are times
00:22:42.06\00:22:44.46
I'd like to flip that
structure the other way.
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I'll climb up, you
know, go up a little higher.
00:22:48.06\00:22:53.03
You will
appreciate this analogy.
00:22:53.07\00:22:54.77
I was preaching in a church
00:22:54.80\00:22:56.14
and I forgot
where it was exactly,
00:22:56.17\00:22:57.77
but it was, it was live,
we're at live television.
00:22:57.81\00:23:01.14
And I preached and you
know I got out in the car
00:23:01.18\00:23:04.65
and I'm like, Jim,
you did a pretty good job.
00:23:04.68\00:23:07.92
Driving down the
road and I looked down
00:23:07.95\00:23:10.15
and my fly is open.
00:23:10.19\00:23:12.45
I called a pastor.
Pastor, I got a little problem.
00:23:18.66\00:23:23.33
They immediately went
and checked the tapes,
00:23:23.37\00:23:24.93
he called me back and
said, Jim, you're okay.
00:23:24.97\00:23:26.74
They, you know,
your coat covered it.
00:23:26.77\00:23:31.94
It is much better
when we humble ourselves
00:23:31.97\00:23:35.34
than having God humble us.
00:23:35.38\00:23:39.05
There's a
statement Ellen White made.
00:23:39.08\00:23:40.98
And Wayne
Hooper put it to music.
00:23:41.02\00:23:43.49
It goes something like this.
00:23:43.52\00:23:44.85
If we would humble
ourselves before the Lord
00:23:44.89\00:23:48.29
If we would humble
ourselves before the Lord
00:23:48.32\00:23:52.23
Be kind and courteous,
tender-hearted pitiful
00:23:52.26\00:23:56.46
There would be one
hundred conversions to the truth
00:23:56.50\00:24:00.50
Where now there is but one
00:24:00.54\00:24:04.47
Having trouble in your
church with conversions?
00:24:04.51\00:24:07.64
Wow.
00:24:07.68\00:24:09.01
Humble ourselves, there
would be 100 conversions
00:24:09.04\00:24:11.45
to the truth, where
now there is but one.
00:24:11.48\00:24:16.69
Makes an amazing difference.
00:24:16.72\00:24:18.05
Allow God to
come into your life.
00:24:18.09\00:24:20.29
Allow the mind of Jesus Christ.
Well, what was that mind?
00:24:20.32\00:24:24.69
Jesus said I can do nothing.
00:24:24.73\00:24:27.00
"I can do
nothing of My own self.
00:24:27.03\00:24:29.53
As I hear,
through prayer and study,
00:24:29.56\00:24:31.83
my judgment is just,
00:24:31.87\00:24:33.20
because I do not
seek My own will,
00:24:33.23\00:24:35.80
but the will of the
Father who sent me."
00:24:35.84\00:24:38.77
There is the key,
never seeking our own will.
00:24:38.81\00:24:43.58
Never seeking our own situation.
00:24:43.61\00:24:47.52
I did a little film,
00:24:47.55\00:24:49.45
a little thing for a
little series covering,
00:24:49.48\00:24:52.12
model in your life
and I played on 3ABN here.
00:24:52.15\00:24:57.49
Driving down the road,
there's a guy white hair
00:24:57.53\00:25:00.40
and white beard,
he's standing there
00:25:00.43\00:25:01.76
with his thumb out.
00:25:01.80\00:25:03.13
And in the States, I
mean, this thumb out, you know,
00:25:03.16\00:25:04.87
he's looking for a ride,
trying to hitch hack a ride
00:25:04.90\00:25:07.00
and he's got a little
sign, he's holding north.
00:25:07.04\00:25:10.57
I pullover say,
you're going north, huh?
00:25:10.61\00:25:12.07
Yep. And you
wanted a ride, yeah?
00:25:12.11\00:25:15.08
Well, get in. No, I can't.
00:25:15.11\00:25:20.12
You wanted a ride? Yeah.
00:25:20.15\00:25:21.75
You're going north? Yeah.
00:25:21.78\00:25:25.09
But You're not gonna get in? No.
00:25:25.12\00:25:27.09
Well, what do you want?
He says, I want to drive.
00:25:27.12\00:25:31.96
I take off.
00:25:31.99\00:25:34.30
God does not want to be
a passenger in your life.
00:25:34.33\00:25:39.43
God wants to be the
driver in your life.
00:25:39.47\00:25:44.27
That is so opposite of
what we're told so often.
00:25:44.31\00:25:47.71
How we've been
raised even in the church.
00:25:47.74\00:25:50.85
Much of the church
suffers from the same situation.
00:25:50.88\00:25:53.82
We want to drive.
We think we know best.
00:25:53.85\00:25:56.18
And God is the only
one that sees the end
00:25:56.22\00:25:58.82
from the beginning.
00:25:58.85\00:26:00.36
God is the only one who
steps in and out of time
00:26:00.39\00:26:02.62
and can see how
everything fits together.
00:26:02.66\00:26:04.76
And says this is
the way, walk ye in it.
00:26:04.79\00:26:10.80
If you are
having certain problems,
00:26:10.83\00:26:12.77
may be, may be,
00:26:12.80\00:26:14.97
just may be some of
those are because you are not
00:26:15.00\00:26:17.21
allowing God to
lead in your life.
00:26:17.24\00:26:22.08
Well, the mind
of Christ in prayer,
00:26:22.11\00:26:24.41
we're told that "prayer
is the key in hand of faith
00:26:24.45\00:26:28.18
to unlock heaven's
storehouse, where are treasured
00:26:28.22\00:26:30.29
the boundless
resources of Omnipotence."
00:26:30.32\00:26:33.92
Wow.
00:26:33.96\00:26:35.29
The boundless
resources of Omnipotence.
00:26:35.32\00:26:38.09
You need a little help
connecting to God in prayer.
00:26:38.13\00:26:43.50
And then Christ knew God's word
00:26:43.53\00:26:46.63
and He applied it
in everyday situations.
00:26:46.67\00:26:49.20
You remember the devil,
the devil came to Jesus,
00:26:49.24\00:26:51.77
Jesus is out
there in the wilderness.
00:26:51.81\00:26:53.91
He'd been there 40 days.
00:26:53.94\00:26:55.28
Man, He's wind
blown, He's dust blown,
00:26:55.31\00:26:57.05
He's everything and
the devil comes to him
00:26:57.08\00:26:59.18
as an angel of light.
00:26:59.21\00:27:01.08
Says, hey, I've
come to warn you about,
00:27:01.12\00:27:03.28
well, matter of
fact, you look like the one
00:27:03.32\00:27:06.55
I've come to warn about.
00:27:06.59\00:27:08.26
If you're really
not the deceiver,
00:27:08.29\00:27:10.23
turn these stones to bread.
00:27:10.26\00:27:12.79
Well, now I
don't know about you,
00:27:12.83\00:27:16.63
but that's never a
temptation for me to turn
00:27:16.67\00:27:19.60
stones to bread.
00:27:19.63\00:27:22.97
Well, I can
turn bread to stones,
00:27:23.00\00:27:25.91
but not the other way around.
00:27:25.94\00:27:28.01
Jesus, Jesus has
got the Lamborghini
00:27:28.04\00:27:30.75
sitting at the stoplight.
00:27:30.78\00:27:32.61
And you know I'm the
guy in the VW bug next door
00:27:32.65\00:27:35.88
and I'm not gonna race.
00:27:35.92\00:27:37.95
But you see Jesus had the
horsepower under the hood.
00:27:37.99\00:27:40.62
He could do it.
00:27:40.66\00:27:41.99
He could have
turned the stones to bread,
00:27:42.02\00:27:43.36
therefore, huge temptation.
00:27:43.39\00:27:45.53
But he said, no, no,
00:27:45.56\00:27:46.90
"Man shall not
live by bread alone,
00:27:46.93\00:27:48.53
but by every word that proceeds
00:27:48.56\00:27:51.13
from the mouth of God."
00:27:51.17\00:27:54.00
He did it the way that
you and I need to do it.
00:27:54.04\00:27:57.71
He, He knew and
understood scripture.
00:27:57.74\00:28:00.64
If you want
victory in Jesus Christ,
00:28:00.68\00:28:02.88
you need to study God's word.
00:28:02.91\00:28:06.08
In 2 Timothy Paul says that,
00:28:06.11\00:28:07.72
"All scripture is
given by inspiration of God."
00:28:07.75\00:28:10.79
Profitable for
doctrine, for correction,
00:28:10.82\00:28:12.99
for reprove, for
instruction and righteous
00:28:13.02\00:28:14.76
that the man of God
may be thoroughly furnished
00:28:14.79\00:28:17.26
unto all good works.
00:28:17.29\00:28:19.56
That word
inspiration is God breathed.
00:28:19.59\00:28:23.70
God breathe and I think
about that all the way back
00:28:23.73\00:28:26.94
to Jesus created Adam
there in the Garden of Eden.
00:28:26.97\00:28:30.64
And Adam is a good
looking pile of dirt
00:28:30.67\00:28:35.44
until Jesus gets down,
00:28:35.48\00:28:37.05
bends over him
and he blows into Him
00:28:37.08\00:28:40.08
the breath of life
00:28:40.12\00:28:41.45
and he becomes a
living vibrant being.
00:28:41.48\00:28:44.55
You go to Ezekiel.
00:28:44.59\00:28:46.52
Ezekiel is looking
out over that field,
00:28:46.55\00:28:48.92
the dead men's bones and
God breathes on the bones
00:28:48.96\00:28:52.56
and he's got a living army.
00:28:52.59\00:28:55.00
Jesus before He
ascends to heaven,
00:28:55.03\00:28:57.03
He breathes on His
disciples and they receive
00:28:57.07\00:29:00.37
the Holy Spirit.
00:29:00.40\00:29:02.67
Brothers and sisters, you want
vibrancy in your experience?
00:29:02.70\00:29:05.54
You want real true life,
the Christian life that God
00:29:05.57\00:29:08.68
want you to have.
00:29:08.71\00:29:10.05
Get in and study God's word.
00:29:10.08\00:29:11.55
And I don't mean, I
don't mean spend, you know,
00:29:11.58\00:29:14.65
five minutes a day
00:29:14.68\00:29:16.52
with your hand
in a cup of coffee
00:29:16.55\00:29:18.49
and the other
hand on the doorknob
00:29:18.52\00:29:19.85
running out to work.
00:29:19.89\00:29:21.22
No. It will not work.
00:29:21.26\00:29:25.83
If my wife called right
now and I said, hello, hello.
00:29:25.86\00:29:32.43
Yeah, who is this?
00:29:32.47\00:29:35.37
Oh, Jeanine,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:29:35.40\00:29:38.91
Ladies, if you
called your husband
00:29:38.94\00:29:43.91
and your husband
didn't recognize your voice,
00:29:43.95\00:29:48.55
how long would you be married?
00:29:48.58\00:29:49.92
We need to spend
time with Jesus Christ
00:29:54.69\00:29:58.33
in order to recognize His voice.
00:29:58.36\00:30:01.16
And it's gonna be especially
perked it one day soon,
00:30:01.20\00:30:04.70
when He calls forth the people
00:30:04.73\00:30:06.74
in the first
resurrection to rise up.
00:30:06.77\00:30:10.14
And if you
don't hear that voice,
00:30:10.17\00:30:13.14
you're in trouble.
00:30:13.17\00:30:14.61
You've got problems. I
had a day mare one time.
00:30:14.64\00:30:17.35
You know a day mare?
00:30:17.38\00:30:18.71
A day mare is kind
of a like a nightmare,
00:30:18.75\00:30:20.08
only happens in the day.
00:30:20.12\00:30:22.65
And, and there I was.
00:30:22.68\00:30:25.22
I came up, I woke up
and, and this big bean is
00:30:25.25\00:30:28.96
standing in
front of me and says,
00:30:28.99\00:30:30.53
I resurrected you and
we can take that city.
00:30:30.56\00:30:34.66
Brothers and
sisters, wrong resurrection,
00:30:34.70\00:30:38.53
wrong resurrection.
00:30:38.57\00:30:41.17
You don't want
to be in that one.
00:30:41.20\00:30:42.67
And if you spend time
getting to know Jesus Christ,
00:30:42.70\00:30:45.57
falling so
deeply in love with Him,
00:30:45.61\00:30:47.58
allowing the Holy Spirit
to change and transform you,
00:30:47.61\00:30:50.78
you will be in the
correct resurrection.
00:30:50.81\00:30:56.15
None. Now listen to this.
This applies to all of us.
00:30:56.18\00:30:58.65
"None are so vile,
none have fallen so low,
00:30:58.69\00:31:01.49
as to be beyond the
working of this power.
00:31:01.52\00:31:04.43
In all who will
submit themselves
00:31:04.46\00:31:07.40
to the Holy Spirit a
new principle of life
00:31:07.43\00:31:10.17
is to be implanted."
00:31:10.20\00:31:12.20
This is great.
00:31:12.23\00:31:13.57
"The lost image of God is
to be restored in humanity."
00:31:13.60\00:31:18.61
That's what God wants to
do for you and me to restore
00:31:18.64\00:31:21.74
His image in you.
00:31:21.78\00:31:24.45
Think about this.
00:31:24.48\00:31:25.81
God, whatever is going
on in your life, whatever,
00:31:25.85\00:31:28.08
nastiness, filthiness, violence,
00:31:28.12\00:31:29.85
whatever is going on
now, God wants to restore
00:31:29.88\00:31:32.95
His image in you and
He is capable of doing it.
00:31:32.99\00:31:38.29
He just needs a
little cooperation.
00:31:38.33\00:31:41.10
You remember the
disciples in Jesus,
00:31:41.13\00:31:45.10
they dock the boat
there at the Gadarenes
00:31:45.13\00:31:46.84
and they get out the boat,
they start walking up toward
00:31:46.87\00:31:48.67
the graveyard,
it kind of shortcut
00:31:48.70\00:31:50.64
I guess to the city.
00:31:50.67\00:31:52.27
And on the way up out
comes this screaming maniac.
00:31:52.31\00:31:54.94
I mean he is stark naked.
He's been cutting himself.
00:31:54.98\00:31:58.41
He's bleeding everywhere.
00:31:58.45\00:31:59.78
May be he's been
tattooing himself
00:31:59.81\00:32:01.42
and cutting holes in
himself, all these things.
00:32:01.45\00:32:03.89
By the way you noticed that,
00:32:03.92\00:32:05.25
the closer we get
to the end to time,
00:32:05.29\00:32:06.76
the more it seem like devil
has control over everything.
00:32:06.79\00:32:09.42
The more people
are cutting themselves
00:32:09.46\00:32:10.89
and tattooing themselves
and doing all the crazy things,
00:32:10.93\00:32:13.53
that everybody...
00:32:13.56\00:32:14.90
You know I've been out
00:32:14.93\00:32:16.26
and seen the
Messiah and interviewed
00:32:16.30\00:32:18.07
Messiah warriors and
Messiah ex-witch doctors
00:32:18.10\00:32:21.34
and they have
got the big old ears
00:32:21.37\00:32:22.90
that are hanging down till here
00:32:22.94\00:32:24.37
and they have
got all these things,
00:32:24.41\00:32:25.74
but they have taken
all their stuff off,
00:32:25.77\00:32:27.38
they have taken all
the stuff and put it away
00:32:27.41\00:32:29.21
because now they
have become Christians.
00:32:29.24\00:32:31.25
They are following Jesus Christ.
00:32:31.28\00:32:33.05
You can just see
the world is separating
00:32:33.08\00:32:35.58
more and more and more.
00:32:35.62\00:32:37.25
And this man had
broken every restrain,
00:32:37.29\00:32:39.85
every restriction.
00:32:39.89\00:32:41.22
He wanted
nothing to hold him back.
00:32:41.26\00:32:44.06
And now, he comes
running towards the disciples
00:32:44.09\00:32:46.26
and Jesus and man, they
beat feedback to the book.
00:32:46.29\00:32:49.30
They are scared to death.
They go wailing and screaming.
00:32:49.33\00:32:52.00
May be I don't know,
just my part I added.
00:32:52.03\00:32:55.07
They get back to the
boat, they turned around to see
00:32:55.10\00:32:56.84
where Jesus is.
00:32:56.87\00:32:58.54
He's not there.
00:32:58.57\00:33:00.38
They looked and
He's clear back there,
00:33:00.41\00:33:02.64
He's clear back there.
00:33:02.68\00:33:04.01
And they finally
stir up the courage
00:33:04.05\00:33:05.51
and they head
back up that direction.
00:33:05.55\00:33:07.98
And what did they
find when they get there,
00:33:08.02\00:33:09.68
is kind of amazing.
00:33:09.72\00:33:11.19
"And they come to
Jesus, and see that He was
00:33:11.22\00:33:12.95
possessed with the
devil, sitting and clothed,
00:33:12.99\00:33:15.39
and in his right mind."
00:33:15.42\00:33:18.49
Bible records, this
man had 2,000 demons,
00:33:18.53\00:33:22.36
at least 2,000
demons in his life.
00:33:22.40\00:33:25.20
He couldn't even
openly respond to Jesus,
00:33:25.23\00:33:27.84
but we're told
through Sprit of Prophecy
00:33:27.87\00:33:30.44
that his heart
yearned to have deliverance.
00:33:30.47\00:33:34.48
And every time he tried
to say something to Jesus,
00:33:34.51\00:33:36.54
the demons would speak instead,
00:33:36.58\00:33:37.91
but Jesus read the
intent of his heart.
00:33:37.95\00:33:40.38
Brothers and sisters,
even if you can't speak,
00:33:40.42\00:33:43.08
God will read the
intent of your heart
00:33:43.12\00:33:44.95
seeking for deliverance.
00:33:44.99\00:33:46.72
And God delivered this
man. He cast out every demon.
00:33:46.76\00:33:49.69
And by the way there's
nothing too hard for Jesus.
00:33:49.72\00:33:52.36
Two thousand demons,
no big deal, no big deal.
00:33:52.39\00:33:55.63
You can't...
00:33:55.66\00:33:57.00
You cannot find a place
in the Bible where God loses.
00:33:57.03\00:34:00.94
Not one time.
God wins every time.
00:34:00.97\00:34:03.34
God is bigger than every problem
00:34:03.37\00:34:05.11
you've got going on
in your life right now
00:34:05.14\00:34:07.24
or ever will have.
00:34:07.28\00:34:09.74
He's an amazing God.
00:34:09.78\00:34:11.71
We just need to
keep our focus upon Him.
00:34:11.75\00:34:15.82
Now it says, He came
there and He clothed.
00:34:15.85\00:34:18.89
He was naked. Where
did he get the clothes?
00:34:18.92\00:34:20.66
Well, I like to
think that Jesus took off
00:34:20.69\00:34:22.29
His outer garment and
wrapped it around this man,
00:34:22.32\00:34:25.09
His own righteous garment.
00:34:25.13\00:34:27.86
And then says,
in his right mind.
00:34:27.90\00:34:29.46
Well, what mind is that?
00:34:29.50\00:34:31.40
He's got the mind
of Jesus Christ now
00:34:31.43\00:34:32.90
'cause he cast out
everything of the devil.
00:34:32.93\00:34:34.97
Praise God.
00:34:35.00\00:34:36.34
This is the most
beautiful example
00:34:36.37\00:34:38.01
of what God wants to do in,
for and through each one of us.
00:34:38.04\00:34:43.35
The will... Listen to this.
00:34:43.38\00:34:44.78
Now this is, this is
critical and key here.
00:34:44.81\00:34:46.95
"The will is the governing
power in the nature of man,
00:34:46.98\00:34:49.92
bringing all other
faculties under its sway.
00:34:49.95\00:34:53.66
The will is not the
taste or the inclination,
00:34:53.69\00:34:56.32
but it is the deciding power,
00:34:56.36\00:34:58.79
which works in
the children of men
00:34:58.83\00:35:00.23
unto obedience to God,
or unto disobedience...
00:35:00.26\00:35:04.67
The will is the
power of... What?
00:35:04.70\00:35:07.94
"Decision or choice."
That's what the human will is.
00:35:07.97\00:35:10.61
It's our
decision. It's our choice.
00:35:10.64\00:35:12.97
You see God on Calvary
died to give us free choice,
00:35:13.01\00:35:17.85
to give us that free will again.
00:35:17.88\00:35:19.88
See, Adam and Eve gave it away.
00:35:19.91\00:35:22.05
They were totally
under the devil's control
00:35:22.08\00:35:23.89
until God says I will come,
00:35:23.92\00:35:25.29
I will die as this
little lamb has died.
00:35:25.32\00:35:28.19
And He gave us back choice.
Now we can make the choice.
00:35:28.22\00:35:33.29
"It was from the
Father that Christ
00:35:33.33\00:35:34.86
constantly drew the
power that enabled him
00:35:34.90\00:35:37.10
to keep his life free
from spot or stain of sin.
00:35:37.13\00:35:40.77
It was this power
that enabled him to."
00:35:40.80\00:35:43.94
Do what? "Resist temptation.
00:35:43.97\00:35:47.88
Resist.
00:35:47.91\00:35:49.24
God will give us the
power to resist temptation.
00:35:49.28\00:35:51.98
It's not a foregone conclusion.
00:35:52.01\00:35:55.08
Now you remember Jesus
in the Garden of Gethsemane.
00:35:55.12\00:35:57.79
Everybody talks about
00:35:57.82\00:35:59.15
the cross of
Calvary and praise God.
00:35:59.19\00:36:01.22
The cross is amazing.
00:36:04.23\00:36:05.59
But it all started
back in the garden.
00:36:05.63\00:36:08.93
All started back in the garden.
00:36:08.96\00:36:10.30
Jesus, young man
in his early 30s.
00:36:10.33\00:36:12.03
What young man wants to die?
00:36:12.07\00:36:14.24
He came and said, Lord,
Lord, here's my situation.
00:36:14.27\00:36:18.37
Devil is telling me
that all my sacrifice
00:36:18.41\00:36:20.78
is gonna be worthless,
00:36:20.81\00:36:22.14
all of my disciples
have already left me
00:36:22.18\00:36:23.85
and I can't see past the tomb.
00:36:23.88\00:36:26.18
I've never been separated
from You in all eternity
00:36:26.21\00:36:28.58
and I can't see past the tomb.
00:36:28.62\00:36:32.05
I don't want to die.
00:36:32.09\00:36:35.02
But, look, what He says.
00:36:35.06\00:36:36.39
"Yet not My will,
but Yours be done."
00:36:36.42\00:36:40.50
Jesus is our example.
Jesus is your example.
00:36:40.53\00:36:45.37
"Not my will,
but Yours be done."
00:36:45.40\00:36:48.50
When you yield up
your will to Christ,
00:36:48.54\00:36:50.84
your life is hid
with Christ in God.
00:36:50.87\00:36:52.77
It is allied to the power
00:36:52.81\00:36:55.04
which is above all
principalities and powers.
00:36:55.08\00:36:57.35
You have a strength
from God that holds you
00:36:57.38\00:37:00.12
fast to his strength."
00:37:00.15\00:37:02.72
It's all about God
my brothers and sisters,
00:37:02.75\00:37:05.32
all about God.
00:37:05.35\00:37:07.29
Remember Matthew says,
"And she shall bear a son
00:37:07.32\00:37:10.79
and you shall
call His name Jesus,
00:37:10.83\00:37:12.69
for He shall save His people."
00:37:12.73\00:37:14.23
What? "From their's," Not in.
00:37:14.26\00:37:18.43
From, God wants to
separate us from our sins
00:37:18.47\00:37:22.10
to as many as received
Him, to them He gave power
00:37:22.14\00:37:25.77
to become the sons
and daughters of God.
00:37:25.81\00:37:30.05
God will give us that power.
00:37:30.08\00:37:31.65
You know, they walked to
Emmaus. Here's a real key.
00:37:31.68\00:37:34.15
We find, we find a
lot in there about,
00:37:34.18\00:37:37.22
what's really going on?
00:37:37.25\00:37:38.79
Cleopas, he was kind of a
distant disciple of Jesus,
00:37:38.82\00:37:43.12
but he saw Jesus
crucified that day,
00:37:43.16\00:37:46.53
he and his buddy
and all of his hopes,
00:37:46.56\00:37:48.83
everything in life were
dashed, absolutely dashed.
00:37:48.86\00:37:51.93
And they are walking back to,
00:37:51.97\00:37:53.57
it may seven and
half miles down the hill
00:37:53.60\00:37:56.40
and that's the way
their life is, down hill.
00:37:56.44\00:38:00.11
And the
stranger draws alongside,
00:38:00.14\00:38:01.81
he kind of blinds their eyes.
00:38:01.84\00:38:04.38
And he began sharing
with them all the scripture
00:38:04.41\00:38:07.05
concerning himself.
00:38:07.08\00:38:09.25
And by the time they get home,
00:38:09.28\00:38:11.02
the sun has gone down,
it's just about night time
00:38:11.05\00:38:13.99
and they are excited now,
they are feeling pretty good.
00:38:14.02\00:38:17.13
And they invite the stranger,
00:38:17.16\00:38:18.66
please come in
and abide with us.
00:38:18.69\00:38:20.50
Please come in
and share with us.
00:38:20.53\00:38:22.16
And apparently the
stranger is going to go on by,
00:38:22.20\00:38:24.43
but they pressed the invitation.
00:38:24.47\00:38:26.37
And he finally
comes in and he sits
00:38:26.40\00:38:28.87
at the head of the table
and like he done so often.
00:38:28.90\00:38:31.31
He takes the bread, He
holds it up to bless it.
00:38:31.34\00:38:33.68
And they see the
nail prints at his hand,
00:38:33.71\00:38:35.24
it's the Lord, He disappears.
00:38:35.28\00:38:37.61
Man, these guys,
they are stuck now.
00:38:37.65\00:38:39.71
They push out the door,
head up that rocks drove
00:38:39.75\00:38:41.98
road in the middle of the
night and what did they say?
00:38:42.02\00:38:44.12
Did not our
hearts burn within us
00:38:44.15\00:38:47.22
as he drew near to us.
00:38:47.26\00:38:49.82
I will submit to you.
00:38:49.86\00:38:51.29
You're not
gonna have any burning
00:38:51.33\00:38:53.09
if you don't draw near to God.
00:38:53.13\00:38:55.23
If you don't invite
Him to abide with you,
00:38:55.26\00:38:57.53
but if you invite Him
to abide in your life,
00:38:57.57\00:39:00.40
you life will burn, your
heart will burn just like
00:39:00.44\00:39:03.97
theirs did in that Emmaus road.
00:39:04.01\00:39:08.11
Spend that time with God.
00:39:08.14\00:39:10.08
Get to know Him as
your very best friend.
00:39:10.11\00:39:13.25
But many will say
to me in that day,"
00:39:13.28\00:39:15.02
at the judgment time.
00:39:15.05\00:39:16.38
Lord, Lord!
00:39:16.42\00:39:17.75
You know, did we not
prophesy in your name,
00:39:17.79\00:39:19.59
did we not through
your name, throw out demons,
00:39:19.62\00:39:22.39
through your name do
many wonderful works?"
00:39:22.42\00:39:25.03
This in Matthew 7, you know,
00:39:25.06\00:39:26.39
as a little
vineyard of the judgment.
00:39:26.43\00:39:28.23
Jesus is going
through the judgment books
00:39:28.26\00:39:30.17
and the church members come up.
00:39:30.20\00:39:31.70
And say, Lord, I've
got a right to be there.
00:39:31.73\00:39:34.97
I've done all these
things in your name, Lord.
00:39:35.00\00:39:37.17
I was a deaconess in the church.
00:39:37.21\00:39:38.84
I gave food to the poor.
00:39:38.87\00:39:41.04
Well, you remember that,
00:39:41.08\00:39:42.41
you remember that
house I painted for the widow
00:39:42.44\00:39:44.68
and on and on and on.
00:39:44.71\00:39:46.05
I cast out demons in
your name, healed the sick.
00:39:46.08\00:39:47.82
And Lord say, I'm
sorry, what was your name?
00:39:47.85\00:39:53.72
I'm sorry, I never
knew you. I never knew you.
00:39:53.76\00:39:56.83
And that, that
no is very intimate
00:39:56.86\00:40:00.30
like Adam and
Eve knew one another,
00:40:00.33\00:40:03.13
conceived a child,
it's very personal.
00:40:03.16\00:40:06.20
Do you have a personal intimate
relationship with Jesus Christ,
00:40:06.23\00:40:09.87
that's what gets
you to the kingdom,
00:40:09.90\00:40:11.57
not your name
on the church books
00:40:11.61\00:40:13.27
or your name on the church books
00:40:13.31\00:40:14.64
maybe an outward sign
00:40:14.68\00:40:16.14
of what's going on
inwardly in your life,
00:40:16.18\00:40:17.75
but not necessarily.
00:40:17.78\00:40:20.68
You've got to
have that friendship.
00:40:20.72\00:40:24.19
"I never knew you."
00:40:24.22\00:40:26.99
You do not want
that said of you.
00:40:27.02\00:40:30.33
As long as we're here on earth
we're going to have temptation.
00:40:30.36\00:40:33.60
But temptation,
brothers and sisters,
00:40:33.63\00:40:35.53
we need to
understand this, is not sin.
00:40:35.56\00:40:38.73
Temptation itself is not sin,
00:40:38.77\00:40:41.50
that only occurs when
we accept the invitation.
00:40:41.54\00:40:44.91
Billy Sunday
once said these words.
00:40:44.94\00:40:46.64
"Temptation is the devil
looking through the keyhole.
00:40:46.68\00:40:49.88
Yielding is opening the
door and inviting him in."
00:40:49.91\00:40:53.58
Big difference.
You see the difference?
00:40:53.62\00:40:55.88
Huge difference.
00:40:55.92\00:40:57.25
That's what happened to, to Eve.
00:40:57.29\00:41:00.02
She hung around and
she entered into that
00:41:00.06\00:41:01.52
conversation with the
devil, it was all over.
00:41:01.56\00:41:03.53
She opened the
door and invited him in.
00:41:03.56\00:41:07.03
And here where the whole
planet is in a situation now.
00:41:07.06\00:41:10.67
"No man or no one can
be forced to transgress.
00:41:10.70\00:41:14.97
His own consent
must be first gained,
00:41:15.00\00:41:16.84
the soul must purpose
the sinful act before passion
00:41:16.87\00:41:20.98
can dominate over reason
00:41:21.01\00:41:22.84
or iniquity
triumph over conscience."
00:41:22.88\00:41:26.01
You see it's all
again within our choice,
00:41:26.05\00:41:28.18
within our situation.
00:41:28.22\00:41:29.88
"Temptation, however strong,
is never an excuse for sin.
00:41:29.92\00:41:34.82
Jesus knows how strong are
00:41:34.86\00:41:36.19
the inclinations
of the human heart,
00:41:36.22\00:41:37.79
He will help us in
every time of temptation."
00:41:37.83\00:41:42.03
He will help us in
every time of temptation.
00:41:42.06\00:41:45.20
And when you have that binding
bonded relationship with God...
00:41:45.23\00:41:50.31
Let me give you an example.
00:41:50.34\00:41:53.17
I'm at the
supermarket. I love shopping.
00:41:53.21\00:41:55.31
I love shopping. I
love reading every label.
00:41:55.34\00:41:57.58
I think about cooking, you know,
00:41:57.61\00:41:58.95
and doingall these cool things,
00:41:58.98\00:42:00.32
doing all the stuff.
00:42:00.35\00:42:01.72
But then I get up to
the checkout counter.
00:42:01.75\00:42:03.28
Checkout counter is
the most boring place.
00:42:03.32\00:42:05.35
You know and
you're looking around.
00:42:05.39\00:42:06.89
And what do they have
at the checkout counter?
00:42:06.92\00:42:08.26
I assume they have it here too,
00:42:08.29\00:42:09.62
the same as they
do in the states.
00:42:09.66\00:42:10.99
All these magazines, right?
00:42:11.03\00:42:12.83
And in the states
all these magazine
00:42:12.86\00:42:15.13
have scantily clad women.
00:42:15.16\00:42:18.30
Now, ladies, you
may say, you know,
00:42:18.33\00:42:19.90
that's just a guy, yeah.
00:42:19.93\00:42:21.70
You're right. It
is a guy thing may be.
00:42:21.74\00:42:25.17
And you're looking,
wow. The first look is what?
00:42:25.21\00:42:29.08
Temptation. The
second look is sin.
00:42:29.11\00:42:33.42
Now someone asked me,
00:42:33.45\00:42:34.78
what if I never take my eyes off
00:42:34.82\00:42:36.15
if it's only one look?
00:42:36.18\00:42:37.52
Let me share something with you.
00:42:43.59\00:42:45.93
One of the big study
organizations checked out
00:42:45.96\00:42:51.97
men of faith and some of these
00:42:52.00\00:42:54.24
others big groups
lately and checked out
00:42:54.27\00:42:56.91
the Seventh-day
Adventist church within.
00:42:56.94\00:42:58.97
Within the church, worldwide,
00:42:59.01\00:43:01.84
not just the
Adventist church, churches now,
00:43:01.88\00:43:04.38
pornography is
a monster problem.
00:43:04.41\00:43:07.38
Like 50% to 60% of
everybody has viewed
00:43:07.42\00:43:10.65
pornography
within the last month.
00:43:10.69\00:43:13.99
The devil is
trying to destroy us.
00:43:14.02\00:43:16.62
He wants to
absolutely destroy us.
00:43:16.66\00:43:18.86
And if it comes
on your computer,
00:43:18.89\00:43:21.20
close the computer,
rip it out, do something,
00:43:21.23\00:43:23.97
ask God...
00:43:24.00\00:43:25.33
You will have the power
if you spend so much time
00:43:25.37\00:43:28.74
with God in your life,
when God is living there,
00:43:28.77\00:43:31.71
you will immediately
turn away because you'd rather
00:43:31.74\00:43:33.88
die than knowingly
commit a sin against your Lord.
00:43:33.91\00:43:39.65
But, man, I speak
directly to you at the moment.
00:43:39.68\00:43:42.45
Pornography will kill your life,
00:43:42.48\00:43:44.99
it will ruin your everything,
00:43:45.02\00:43:46.55
it will ruin your marriage,
it will ruin your family.
00:43:46.59\00:43:49.32
I had a friend, he
worked in the church,
00:43:49.36\00:43:52.99
about 37 years old,
00:43:53.03\00:43:54.36
he's now serving
115 years in prison.
00:43:54.40\00:43:58.77
Thirty seven years old,
the most talented young man
00:43:58.80\00:44:00.84
I ever knew and serving
00:44:00.87\00:44:02.90
in a high
position in the church.
00:44:02.94\00:44:05.34
It all started,
just a little bit
00:44:05.37\00:44:06.71
of pornography here
00:44:06.74\00:44:08.08
and then a little
more and little more
00:44:08.11\00:44:09.44
and remember the
little grain of sand here
00:44:09.48\00:44:11.31
and there and pretty
soon you're suck so far down,
00:44:11.35\00:44:13.95
it seems like
there is no way out.
00:44:13.98\00:44:15.65
There is a way
out, it's Jesus Christ.
00:44:15.68\00:44:18.29
You grab or hold
Him, get in the word.
00:44:18.32\00:44:19.72
Even if you don't like the word,
00:44:19.75\00:44:21.39
get in there and
ask God to help you
00:44:21.42\00:44:23.56
in study and pray and
help it to come alive for you
00:44:23.59\00:44:26.90
and it will change your life.
00:44:26.93\00:44:28.40
Peter, no, you
know, Peter's situation.
00:44:32.13\00:44:34.64
Peter gets up there,
00:44:37.74\00:44:39.07
Jesus, they have
taken him out of the garden
00:44:39.11\00:44:41.14
and now it's the
inquisition time.
00:44:41.18\00:44:43.55
And Peter goes up, you know,
00:44:43.58\00:44:44.91
and he begins
acting like he doesn't know
00:44:44.95\00:44:46.82
who, who this is at all.
00:44:46.85\00:44:48.62
And pretty soon he's
cussing and swearing like
00:44:48.65\00:44:50.65
an old fisherman.
00:44:50.69\00:44:53.09
Why did Peter get in a problem?
00:44:53.12\00:44:55.06
I think it's because this
text right there in "Mark.
00:44:55.09\00:44:58.53
He followed him
from a distance."
00:44:58.56\00:45:01.46
If you follow
Jesus from a distance
00:45:01.50\00:45:03.57
you will get into trouble.
00:45:03.60\00:45:05.73
You will eventually sin.
00:45:05.77\00:45:07.84
You will
eventually have problems.
00:45:07.87\00:45:09.20
You may end up
being out of the church
00:45:09.24\00:45:10.77
if you follow
Jesus from a distance.
00:45:10.81\00:45:13.01
This is no time in
earth's history to follow Jesus
00:45:13.04\00:45:15.48
from a distance.
00:45:15.51\00:45:17.21
But praise God
when Jesus looked back
00:45:17.25\00:45:19.38
and He connected
with Peter's eyes.
00:45:19.41\00:45:21.68
He saw no
condemnation. I love that.
00:45:21.72\00:45:25.49
He saw no condemnation
in the eyes of Jesus,
00:45:25.52\00:45:27.59
only, only hurt.
00:45:27.62\00:45:29.39
Maybe even shed a tear
and it broke Peter's heart.
00:45:29.42\00:45:32.33
He ran out all the way back
up to the Garden of Gethsemane.
00:45:32.36\00:45:35.30
And I like to think about...
00:45:35.33\00:45:37.60
What was Peter
thinking at that time?
00:45:37.63\00:45:39.97
And I think well, may
be he thought about this,
00:45:40.00\00:45:41.87
you remember.
00:45:41.90\00:45:44.14
You remember all
the way up to the time
00:45:44.17\00:45:46.94
when Peter was in the
boat, they thought it was Jesus.
00:45:46.98\00:45:49.64
And Peter said,
Lord, if it's really you,
00:45:49.68\00:45:52.05
tell me to get out of the boat.
00:45:52.08\00:45:53.42
How many here would be so
stupid as to just step out
00:45:56.89\00:45:59.85
of a good boat?
00:45:59.89\00:46:01.89
In a lake that
water is boiling up
00:46:01.92\00:46:03.66
and waves are going everywhere.
00:46:03.69\00:46:06.39
But, the Lord
says, yeah, come on out.
00:46:06.43\00:46:07.83
So Peter steps out
of the boat and wow,
00:46:07.86\00:46:11.33
it's solid, it's solid.
00:46:11.37\00:46:13.47
He's feeling pretty good
00:46:13.50\00:46:15.37
and he turns
around to his buddy,
00:46:15.40\00:46:17.01
say, you guys see me?
00:46:17.04\00:46:19.04
And what happens?
00:46:19.07\00:46:20.41
He turns back around,
waves separating him and Jesus,
00:46:20.44\00:46:23.01
he took his eyes off at Jesus.
00:46:23.04\00:46:24.45
And what happens when you
take your eyes off at Jesus?
00:46:24.48\00:46:27.78
You sink like a
rock. You sink like a rock.
00:46:27.82\00:46:31.15
And, man, he is
sinking like a rock
00:46:31.19\00:46:32.99
and he's crying out
to God, Lord, save me.
00:46:33.02\00:46:35.92
And praise God,
God will do that.
00:46:35.96\00:46:39.13
God will do that.
He was right there.
00:46:39.16\00:46:40.63
He lifted Peter up.
Now how many of you...
00:46:40.66\00:46:44.27
I always like to
ask the young people,
00:46:44.30\00:46:45.87
but how many of you
think that Peter swam
00:46:45.90\00:46:48.90
back to the boat that day?
00:46:48.94\00:46:50.77
Anybody?
00:46:50.81\00:46:52.14
Don't see any hands for
swimming back to the boat.
00:46:52.17\00:46:55.31
How many think
he walked arm in arm
00:46:55.34\00:46:57.61
with Jesus back to the boat?
00:46:57.65\00:47:00.02
Yeah. Amen.
00:47:00.05\00:47:01.88
He became a true
water walker that day.
00:47:01.92\00:47:04.65
He realized where
the power resided.
00:47:04.69\00:47:06.86
He was clinging
to Jesus that day
00:47:06.89\00:47:08.82
and he became a water walker.
00:47:08.86\00:47:10.79
If you want to
become a water walker,
00:47:10.83\00:47:14.00
cling to Jesus Christ.
00:47:14.03\00:47:16.36
You can walk above
the problems in your life.
00:47:16.40\00:47:18.70
You can walk above
the, all the turmoil,
00:47:18.73\00:47:20.97
all the situations in your
life if you cling and hold arm
00:47:21.00\00:47:24.21
and arm with Jesus Christ.
00:47:24.24\00:47:25.91
I just can't stress that enough,
00:47:25.94\00:47:27.61
brothers and sisters.
00:47:27.64\00:47:28.98
When we live here
in the last moments
00:47:29.01\00:47:30.35
of earth's history,
the devil absolutely
00:47:30.38\00:47:32.35
wants to destroy you.
00:47:32.38\00:47:34.55
He wants to destroy you.
00:47:34.58\00:47:36.69
Let me, let me
share a story with you.
00:47:36.72\00:47:39.39
And I'm going to deviate
from where I was in things
00:47:39.42\00:47:42.72
but I was, I was in Africa
and let see we're in Nairobi.
00:47:42.76\00:47:49.66
And I met this fellow that,
00:47:49.70\00:47:51.97
he had been a
Seventh-day Adventist
00:47:52.00\00:47:53.34
his whole life.
00:47:53.37\00:47:54.70
Adventist his whole
life as a young man,
00:47:54.74\00:47:57.21
but when he got old
enough he told the parents,
00:47:57.24\00:47:59.04
I don't want to be
an Adventist any longer.
00:47:59.07\00:48:02.14
He headed out.
00:48:02.18\00:48:03.51
And he said, I
became a truck driver.
00:48:03.55\00:48:04.95
And as a truck driver he said,
00:48:04.98\00:48:06.48
I did all the things
that truck drivers do.
00:48:06.51\00:48:08.45
And he didn't elaborate
whole lot and I didn't need
00:48:08.48\00:48:10.82
to hear all the gory details.
00:48:10.85\00:48:13.15
By the way, young
people, for those of you
00:48:13.19\00:48:16.66
and everybody who heard
me last service talk about
00:48:16.69\00:48:20.00
my own personal life and
all the things I had done
00:48:20.03\00:48:22.83
and everything and you
know, never followed God and now
00:48:22.86\00:48:26.33
you know, hey, look at
him, he's standing up preaching,
00:48:26.37\00:48:28.47
he doesn't look too bad.
00:48:28.50\00:48:29.84
So that means, I can
just leave the church
00:48:29.87\00:48:31.37
and I can come back
and well, it kind of means,
00:48:31.41\00:48:33.54
maybe I have to leave the church
00:48:33.58\00:48:35.18
in order to have
a real experience.
00:48:35.21\00:48:36.98
No. Let me tell you something.
00:48:37.01\00:48:39.31
What you can't
see is all the holes
00:48:39.35\00:48:41.72
that I've created in
my life, all the pits,
00:48:41.75\00:48:44.19
all the bomb craters
00:48:44.22\00:48:46.52
that I have to
continually walk around.
00:48:46.55\00:48:49.46
It's so much better if
you follow Jesus Christ
00:48:49.49\00:48:52.93
from the moment of your
birth, till the day you go to
00:48:52.96\00:48:55.03
heaven or die because
you don't need to be worried
00:48:55.06\00:48:58.50
about all the bomb craters.
00:48:58.53\00:49:00.40
I could share garbage with you
00:49:00.44\00:49:02.54
and it still causes me troubles
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because I had
left the Lord's side
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or never knew
the Lord or whatever.
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There's a huge difference.
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So please,
please, please, seek God,
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stay with God your whole life.
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But this young man he didn't.
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And as a truck
driver he always drove
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from the west side of
Kenya to the east side of Kenya,
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and that man, he
had to go through
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Tsavo National Park.
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Now, for those of you Google it,
00:49:26.93\00:49:28.50
don't do it right
now, but it's TSAVO
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and you can put in
man eating lions of Tsavo.
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Okay. Pops right up.
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There's the man's
eating lions of Tsavo.
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He said, because of
that we never wanted
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to drive through there at night.
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But the one time the
company calls and you know,
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we really need this load
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through to other
end of this country
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and we need it now,
we'll pay you big money.
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Wow. Big money,
that was the key.
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So he and his partner,
they jumped into the truck
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and they are driving
and matter of fact I think,
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they were
driving on the wrong side
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just like you guys.
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And so he's on the
opposite side over here,
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but same side as you
and they are driving along.
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And all of a sudden...
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Truck quits.
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Died, dead right
there on the spot
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and they are in the middle
of Tsavo National Park at night.
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He calls up the company.
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The company said, well, you know
00:50:25.69\00:50:27.02
it's gonna be
quite a while before
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we can get to
you, at least morning.
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Okay.
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So they roll up the
windows of the truck,
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turn on the radio.
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On the radio there's a preacher.
00:50:35.03\00:50:37.20
Today is the day of salvation.
00:50:37.23\00:50:38.77
Today if you hear
his voice hardened,
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knocked your
heart, reached over,
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they didn't want to
hear that, turn it off,
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turn it off.
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Well, they kind of sit
there a little bit longer
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and all of a sudden
on Ruben side of a truck,
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there's a big old male lion.
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I mean that lion,
you know, male lions,
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450, 500 pounds.
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He fills the
whole side of the truck.
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Little unnerve. Lion goes down.
00:51:00.62\00:51:04.23
Wanders out a little
bit, comes up and stares in.
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Now it's a mid-engine
truck, so no hood in the front.
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Stares in at Ruben,
stares in at his partner
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and then he gets
back, he walks back,
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walks back 20 yards
back, meets with the female
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and some cubs and they
mingle around for a while.
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He kind of looks
and then he takes off,
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and he's at a dead charge,
he flies through the air,
00:51:25.11\00:51:27.25
smashes through the
window, grabs Ruben's partner
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right out of the
truck and begins eating him
00:51:29.82\00:51:31.29
right on the spot.
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Rubens partners is
yelling, save me, save me,
00:51:32.69\00:51:34.79
and that's a come to
Jesus moment for Ruben.
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He says, Lord, please
I'll do anything you want.
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I'll serve you
the rest of my life,
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just save me.
00:51:41.36\00:51:42.70
And as his partner
continues to scream...
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and it just kept on,
kept on, and Ruben said,
00:51:47.60\00:51:51.81
I lost every bodily
function, I was so scared,
00:51:51.84\00:51:55.31
I continued to
pray to God to help me.
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He said, nothing I
could do for my partner.
00:51:57.28\00:51:59.71
And finally everything is
over and the lion comes back
00:51:59.75\00:52:04.22
and puts his paws upon
the windowless vehicle now
00:52:04.25\00:52:06.62
and looks right into
Ruben and then he backs up,
00:52:06.65\00:52:10.36
he backs up.
00:52:10.39\00:52:11.73
Charges again, just
like he'd done before,
00:52:14.30\00:52:15.83
he flies through,
00:52:15.86\00:52:17.20
slams his paws upon the vehicles
00:52:17.23\00:52:18.87
and jumps upon the top,
00:52:18.90\00:52:21.14
where he goes to
sleep all night long.
00:52:21.17\00:52:24.64
Now what I didn't tell you is,
00:52:24.67\00:52:26.57
just a few minutes
earlier this vehicle,
00:52:26.61\00:52:29.28
as Ruben's
praying God, deliver me,
00:52:29.31\00:52:32.31
drives up with the
lights on and stops.
00:52:32.35\00:52:33.92
It never goes and the
Ruben said, I thought,
00:52:33.95\00:52:36.08
I thought this
woman was too scared
00:52:36.12\00:52:38.19
to drive on with the person.
00:52:38.22\00:52:41.52
Next morning the guys
come, chased the lions away
00:52:41.56\00:52:45.39
and a little tiny
lady, I mean real tiny.
00:52:45.43\00:52:47.83
Ruben's about six foot four.
00:52:47.86\00:52:49.83
This lady gets out of her
car, wanders over the room
00:52:49.86\00:52:52.23
and pokes her
finger in his chest,
00:52:52.27\00:52:53.60
looks at him and
says, are you a Christian?
00:52:53.64\00:52:58.51
He says, well, I guess I
am. She doesn't know him.
00:52:58.54\00:53:03.78
At least we don't think.
00:53:03.81\00:53:06.78
You need to go
home and study and pray.
00:53:06.82\00:53:09.18
She turns and gets in
her car and drives away.
00:53:09.22\00:53:12.49
I said, Ruben, who
do you think that was?
00:53:12.52\00:53:15.52
Well, he says, I kind of
think it was my guardian angel.
00:53:15.56\00:53:20.13
We kind of did too.
00:53:20.16\00:53:21.76
Now Ruben's been
faithful to his calling.
00:53:21.80\00:53:23.63
He's a literature
evangelist in Kenya now.
00:53:23.67\00:53:26.07
We bought him a
motorcycle so he can,
00:53:26.10\00:53:28.17
he can travel around more.
00:53:28.20\00:53:29.80
But I want you
to think about this.
00:53:29.84\00:53:31.17
The Bible says, God's word says,
00:53:31.21\00:53:33.54
the devil is as a
roaring lion going around
00:53:33.58\00:53:36.78
seeking whom he may devour.
00:53:36.81\00:53:39.51
Seeking whom he may devour.
00:53:39.55\00:53:42.65
But I want to
share one of the story
00:53:42.68\00:53:44.02
with you in closing.
00:53:44.05\00:53:45.92
I was down at
Madagascar, met this lady,
00:53:45.95\00:53:49.76
that she grew up
in a family in a home
00:53:49.79\00:53:52.19
where they openly
talked and saw the demons.
00:53:52.23\00:53:55.26
This is not strange for
some of these countries,
00:53:55.30\00:53:57.73
but openly talked
and conversed just like
00:53:57.77\00:53:59.57
we're talking
now with the demons.
00:53:59.60\00:54:03.14
She says, when I was old enough
00:54:03.17\00:54:04.67
the demon said, we'd
like to make you a witch,
00:54:04.71\00:54:06.64
we'll give you great power.
00:54:06.68\00:54:09.54
Power sounds good.
00:54:09.58\00:54:11.51
Demon said okay, go down,
00:54:11.55\00:54:12.88
tomorrow we'll
meet you at the river.
00:54:12.91\00:54:14.35
She went down to the
river where she said,
00:54:14.38\00:54:16.18
she went under water
for a day and a half,
00:54:16.22\00:54:17.85
I stopped the interview.
00:54:17.89\00:54:19.52
I said, what did you say?
00:54:19.55\00:54:21.49
I thought,
certainly I missed something
00:54:21.52\00:54:22.86
in interpretation.
00:54:22.89\00:54:24.43
See, I went under
water for one and half days
00:54:24.46\00:54:26.90
where the demons fed me.
00:54:26.93\00:54:28.36
She said, they gave me power,
I could control lightening.
00:54:28.40\00:54:31.23
I could be shot with a
gun, it wouldn't hurt me.
00:54:31.27\00:54:34.94
So one day the
armies of the country
00:54:34.97\00:54:36.34
came to take over my village,
00:54:36.37\00:54:37.94
I created portions and
kept the entry army away.
00:54:37.97\00:54:40.74
It was in all the
national newspapers.
00:54:40.78\00:54:44.38
You see the devil at one time
00:54:44.41\00:54:46.82
was the fourth most
powerful being in the universe,
00:54:46.85\00:54:51.29
but who's more powerful?
00:54:51.32\00:54:53.49
The Father, the
Son, and the Holy Spirit.
00:54:53.52\00:54:58.43
She said, after a
while I made the demons mad,
00:54:58.46\00:55:01.33
I was sick, I couldn't get heal,
00:55:01.36\00:55:02.70
and I went to the
doctor, I couldn't get heal
00:55:02.73\00:55:04.07
and one day knocking
my door, two young ladies,
00:55:04.10\00:55:06.74
they dressed
very nicely and said,
00:55:06.77\00:55:08.50
we represent the
king of the universe.
00:55:08.54\00:55:10.11
We understand you're sick
and we'd like to pray for you.
00:55:10.14\00:55:13.91
Well, so the demons
haven't done anything for me
00:55:13.94\00:55:15.58
lately, go ahead.
00:55:15.61\00:55:17.78
They prayed for, she
was healed instantly.
00:55:17.81\00:55:19.91
And then they shared
more about Jesus Christ
00:55:19.95\00:55:22.12
and during the interview
she stopped me and said,
00:55:22.15\00:55:23.99
Sid, can you help me?
00:55:24.02\00:55:25.55
I said, help you to do what?
00:55:25.59\00:55:27.09
Well, Sid, help
me build a church.
00:55:27.12\00:55:28.46
She says, I have 100
people that I've shared about
00:55:28.49\00:55:30.43
Jesus Christ with.
00:55:30.46\00:55:31.79
Praise God. She was baptized.
00:55:34.03\00:55:36.36
I asked, I said,
where there any problems
00:55:36.40\00:55:37.73
during your baptism?
00:55:37.77\00:55:39.10
Because I've heard
that's a, you know,
00:55:39.13\00:55:40.47
I've seen actually,
that's a real problem.
00:55:40.50\00:55:42.14
Sometimes the
devil tries to drown
00:55:42.17\00:55:43.74
baptismal
candidates in these countries.
00:55:43.77\00:55:46.37
No, she said, because
the church prayed for me
00:55:46.41\00:55:49.04
and fasted for
me for seven days.
00:55:49.08\00:55:51.88
When is the last time we prayed
00:55:51.91\00:55:53.25
and fasted for seven days?
00:55:53.28\00:55:55.18
She said, but the
devil was so mad at me.
00:55:55.22\00:55:57.09
He came, when I
came up out of the water,
00:55:57.12\00:55:59.05
my house was
right near the river,
00:55:59.09\00:56:00.42
he burned it to the ground.
00:56:00.46\00:56:02.89
You know, she said, as
soon as the ash is cool
00:56:02.92\00:56:04.83
they went
kicking through the ashes
00:56:04.86\00:56:07.30
and I found my Bible.
00:56:07.33\00:56:09.06
I smelled it, it
didn't even smell like smoke,
00:56:09.10\00:56:11.23
it hadn't been touched at all.
00:56:11.27\00:56:12.90
And said, because
of that many people
00:56:12.93\00:56:15.04
in my village believed.
00:56:15.07\00:56:17.67
Brothers and
sisters, God is more powerful.
00:56:17.71\00:56:19.91
I read my bible,
cover to cover, God wins.
00:56:19.94\00:56:23.65
God wins.
00:56:23.68\00:56:25.01
Question is, will you
be on the winning team?
00:56:25.05\00:56:28.22
Will you be on the winning side?
00:56:28.25\00:56:29.98
You can be, you can be
because by simply choosing God
00:56:30.02\00:56:34.39
and putting your energy,
00:56:34.42\00:56:35.76
your focus in your
life in God's direction.
00:56:35.79\00:56:40.16
It's deciding today rather than
turn on the television today
00:56:40.20\00:56:43.77
and watch my favourite program,
then I'll get into God's word.
00:56:43.80\00:56:50.21
It's rather than, than
going to the football game
00:56:50.24\00:56:53.54
or something else, it's,
I think I'll stay at home
00:56:53.58\00:56:56.48
and study God's word.
00:56:56.51\00:56:58.51
Get to know my God better
00:56:58.55\00:57:02.32
because that's
where the power lies,
00:57:02.35\00:57:04.45
is in that
friendship and relationship
00:57:04.49\00:57:06.96
with Jesus Christ.
00:57:06.99\00:57:08.46
How many of you today would like
00:57:08.49\00:57:10.19
to choose that relationship,
00:57:10.23\00:57:11.93
would like to
choose that friendship?
00:57:11.96\00:57:13.29
Let me see your
hands. Amen. Amen.
00:57:13.33\00:57:17.33
And if you're
watching on television,
00:57:17.37\00:57:18.77
I invite you to choose this God.
00:57:18.80\00:57:20.97
Choose Him, join
with Him, partner with Him
00:57:21.00\00:57:24.24
and come to a local
Seventh-day Adventist church,
00:57:24.27\00:57:26.57
the family will
accept you with open arms.
00:57:26.61\00:57:29.94
Let's pray together, shall we?
00:57:29.98\00:57:32.55
Heavenly Father, we
desperately need You, Lord.
00:57:32.58\00:57:35.95
We need you so much.
00:57:35.98\00:57:37.62
We can't do it without
You Lord, but with You,
00:57:37.65\00:57:40.26
we can do all things
because You strengthen us.
00:57:40.29\00:57:45.06
You have pointed us to the way,
00:57:45.09\00:57:46.43
You have pointed us
in the direction, Father,
00:57:46.46\00:57:48.13
and You've given us the roadmap,
00:57:48.16\00:57:50.30
Your holy word.
00:57:50.33\00:57:51.80
So please help us to
follow you fully and completely.
00:57:51.83\00:57:54.90
Change this, Lord, You've seen
everyone raised their hands.
00:57:54.94\00:57:57.87
You know the people at
home that are watching this,
00:57:57.91\00:58:00.98
touch every single heart,
Lord, and give us Your strength,
00:58:01.01\00:58:03.78
give us Your
power and help us to be
00:58:03.81\00:58:05.65
with You in eternity.
00:58:05.68\00:58:07.78
Thank you so much
in Jesus name, amen.
00:58:07.82\00:58:10.52