Where can you find
hope for the hopeless?
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Opportunity for transformation.
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Peace amid life's storms.
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Only in God's free
gift of eternal life.
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From New York, join us
on the Pathway of Hope.
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I'm told, people go to church
for many different reasons.
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Some go to meet a friend,
some may go to find a spouse,
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some just go
because they have to.
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But more importantly,
we go to worship God.
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I have two true
or false questions
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for you today.
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True or false, the only
reason for going to church
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is to hear the
preaching of the Word?
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If you answer true,
sorry, the answer is false.
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In Acts 2:42,
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we learned that the
church is a spiritual community
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where there is
preaching, teaching, fellowship,
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breaking of
bread, and yes, prayer.
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Final question, true or false.
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The chief cornerstone of
the church is Jesus Christ?
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If you answer
true to this question,
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then you are correct.
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On today's program, Dr. Jules
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will help us understand
more about Jesus Christ,
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who is not only the foundation,
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but He is also
the chief cornerstone.
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Lord, I hear of
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Showers of blessing
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Showers of blessing
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Full and free
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Showers of blessing
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Showers of blessing
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Let so God bless us
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Full and free
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Showers of blessing
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Showers of blessing
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Let so God bless us
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Full and free
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Even me, Lord
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Even me
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Let some drops
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Now fall on me
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Even me, Lord
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Even me
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Let some drops now
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Fall on
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Me
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Amen!
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Amen.
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Let us pray.
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Loving Lord and our Father,
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our prayer today is
that as this word goes forth
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that you will
anoint to the hearts
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of those who listen.
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In our journey here in Earth,
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we are reminded often
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that whatever
You've started in us,
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You'll bring to its completion.
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May Your blessings rest
upon us as we listen this today,
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may our hearts be both
changed and challenged,
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and may we leave
this house of prayer
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having been lifted up by You
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and drawn ever closer to You,
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in Jesus' name we pray
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with joy
abundant and thanksgiving.
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Amen.
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Amen!
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There is a word
for us that comes
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out of the Book of Matthew
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16:16-19.
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It reads, "When
Jesus came into the coasts
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of Caesarea Philippi,
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He asked the disciples saying,
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'Whom do men say that
I, the Son of man, am?'
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And they said, 'Some say
that thou art John the Baptist,
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some Elijah, and
others, Jeremiah,
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or one of the prophets.'
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He saith unto them,
'But whom say ye that I am?'
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And Simon Peter
answered and said,
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'Thou are the Christ,
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the Son of the living God.'
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And Jesus answered
and said on to him,
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'Blessed are
thou, Simon Bar-Jonah!
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For flesh and blood hath
not revealed it unto thee,
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but my Father
which is in heaven.
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And I say also unto
thee, that thou art Peter,
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and upon this rock I
will build my church,
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and the gates of hell
shall not prevail against it.
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And I will give unto thee
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the keys of the
kingdom of heaven,
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and whatsoever
thou shalt bind on earth
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shall be bound in heaven,
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and whatsoever thou
shalt loose on earth
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shall be loosed in heaven.'"
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Most of us want to really
know what the future holds.
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When I went to college, I
was interested in knowing.
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When I'm through and graduate,
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and finished my course of study,
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who will hire me?
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Where will I be
working? Where will I live?
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We always want to
know what the future holds.
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When I was a single man,
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I always wanted to
know, who would I marry?
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What would my life be like?
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How would I enjoy marriage?
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Wanted to know
the future. Now I do.
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We all want to
know what lies ahead.
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When I read my Bible,
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I'm convinced
that God in His wisdom
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has given to us
enough confidence
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so that we can
keep running the race.
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Some of us would
give up if we didn't know
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that God would finish
what He started in us.
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Today out of this pericope,
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I wanna bring to you a message
on the triumph of the church.
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Now friends of mine,
let us set at the outset
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that the church might triumph,
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what is
important is if you and I,
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if we triumph with the church.
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When I look at this
text, it reminds me that
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in the very last some
of Jesus' earthly ministry.
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Before He went to
Jerusalem to be executed,
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He and His disciples
faced a severe crisis.
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Sometimes, ladies and gentlemen,
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when we think about the
life and ministry of Jesus,
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we look at the
events surrounding it
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and think of Him,
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walking from town
to town in Galilee,
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and coming back and
forth out of Jerusalem,
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followed constantly
by thronging multitudes
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pressing up against Him,
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all of them
wanting to hear every word
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that came out of His mouth.
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Actually, ladies and gentlemen,
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if we look carefully
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at the record of
the ministry of Jesus,
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we will see that
public opinion regarding Jesus
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was similar to the
New York's stock exchange.
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It was that volatile.
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It went up and down.
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There were times
towards the beginnings
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of His public ministry
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when the people were
clamoring with enthusiasm
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as they watched Jesus
perform a miracle here in Cana,
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then in Capernaum, and so on.
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But then there came a
point in His public ministry,
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where to the best of our ability
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to discern the
historical situation,
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people became disenchanted
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and disillusioned
with what Jesus was doing.
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This change in
attitude towards Jesus
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increased after He
had fed over 5,000 people
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from only five
loaves and two fish.
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After the people were fed,
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the Bible says
that they demanded
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that Jesus become their king.
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And when Jesus
refused to be made king
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and explained to them
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that they were following
Him for the wrong reason.
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They became angry, the
Bible says, and left Him.
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Then Jesus turned to the
few that remained and said,
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"Will you also go?"
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It was Peter who asked,
"Lord, to whom shall we go?"
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But not only were the
common people in Galilee
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changing their
attitudes toward Jesus.
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Growing consolidated opposition
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was taking place
also in Jerusalem.
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The religious
leaders were outraged
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by the teachings of Jesus.
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The Bible says
that they conspired
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to set traps for Him.
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Luke 9:9 says, "Herod Antipas,
who presided over Judea,
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was becoming very
suspicious of what he saw,
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as Jesus' political ambitions
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and he was
keeping a watchful eye
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over Jesus' activities."
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You see, ladies and gentleman,
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"The wicked flee
when no man is pursuing."
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It's a sad thing
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if you're the
president of the company
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and you can't sleep at night.
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CS Lewis calls this,
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"The sweet poison
of a false infinite."
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And all of these
things came together
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and produced a climate
in and around Jerusalem
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and throughout the
whole area of Judea
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that made it unsafe
for Jesus to remain there.
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The portrait of
Jesus into New Testament
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is not that of a coward
who flees from confrontations,
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far from it.
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But there were
occasions where He said,
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"My hour is not yet come."
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And when this
time of crisis came,
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Jesus with the
fear of His disciples
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went into retreat and
left Jerusalem and Judea
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and travelled up to the
northern tip of Galilee.
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They're in relative
seclusion from the masses.
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Jesus and His
disciples spent a short time
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in a little town
called Caesarea Philippi.
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Caesarea Philippi
had been built by Philip,
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the Tetrarch of that area,
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in honor of Tiberius Caesar.
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And so Jesus calls
His disciples together
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in Caesarea
Philippi, and He said to them,
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"Gentlemen, I know that you've
been mingling with the masses.
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I know that you've been
hearing their conversations.
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I know that you
have a pretty good pulse
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on what's on their minds.
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Well, tell me, "Who
do they say that I am?"
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Some of them said, "Jesus,
well, the pulses are divided.
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Some say that You're Moses.
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And some say that
You might be Elijah.
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And some say that You
might even be Jeremiah.
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They've been
watching You, Jesus.
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They've watched
the way You walk.
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They've listened
to Your propheticness,
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the way You act.
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And some of them are saying
that You sound like Moses.
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And others believed,
You preached like Elijah.
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And still, others say,
You remind them of Jeremiah,
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the weeping prophet.
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And, Jesus,
there are some others
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who don't know what in the world
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to think about You."
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Now, Jesus
looked at His disciples,
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recognizing that the
collective public opinion
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identified Him by what He
did as opposed to who He was.
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And Jesus probe even further.
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He said, "Fellows, tell me
whom do you say that I am?"
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No, no, no, it might
not be that important
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as so what other
people say about Jesus.
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But He's interested
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in about what His
children think about Him.
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Jesus says, "Hey,
gentlemen, get a little closer.
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Whom do you say that I am?"
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In that moment Peter said,
"Jesus, I can tell you now.
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Thou art the Christ,
the Son of the living God."
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And Jesus said, "Peter,
you just had a revelation.
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Flesh and blood did
not reveal it on to you.
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Yours is not something
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that's hatched
in an earthly oven.
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It's not an earthly product.
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Your answer was not
hatched in any human habitation.
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It was delivered
from My daddy in heaven.
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Fellows, if you
don't know who I'm...
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Peter, you'll go
back to your fishing.
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Matthew, if you
don't know who I'm,
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you're gonna go back
to your tax collecting.
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Andrew, if you
don't know who I'm,
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you'll start
mending your nets again.
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Nathanial, if you
don't know who I'm,
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you'll go back to
reading beneath the fig tree.
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Now Peter's
response was not informed
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by the arrogance of
the religious leaders.
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It was not the result of
deep intellectual cogitations.
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It did not occur
due to the analysis
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of any empirical
statistical data.
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But Peter was the recipient
of a divine revelation.
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You see, ladies and gentlemen,
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it was in Caesarea Philippi
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that Christ had asked
these disciples this question.
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Caesarea
Philippi had been an area
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where Kurds have proliferated.
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It was a region
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where many of the Caesars
and emperors of the early ages
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had established gods
to their polytheistic
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or multi-god community.
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It was in this region,
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where the grass was
now growing up to the steps
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to many of these
magnificent temples
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that had welcomed worshippers
to the idolatrous gods.
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It was in the
shadows of the ruins
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of these great
temples of marble,
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these great
architectural examples
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of excellence from
the classical age of man.
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Yet, they are now deserted.
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And cobwebs covered their doors.
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Their altars were empty,
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and their parishioners
had deserted, yes, right.
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They had fallen into disrepair.
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And it was in the
shadows of these ruined temples,
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that Jesus looks at the columns
and pillars falling down,
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deteriorating with
the weathering of souls
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of the inclemency of the ages.
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And says to His disciples,
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"Upon this rock,
I build My church.
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And the gates of
hell shall never prevail."
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Whenever you get to a
gate that's holding your back,
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Jesus says, "Let
Me give you the keys."
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When you're cut deeply
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and have no one
to wipe your tears,
00:17:37.89\00:17:40.12
when you wet
your pillow at nights,
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Jesus says "I've got the keys."
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When you find yourself lingering
00:17:45.06\00:17:46.76
in the seductive
lane of indecision.
00:17:46.80\00:17:49.76
Whenever you feel like
00:17:49.80\00:17:51.13
you're on an
island of abandonment.
00:17:51.17\00:17:53.64
And somehow your song turns sour
00:17:53.67\00:17:56.77
and your symphony
becomes unfinished.
00:17:56.81\00:17:59.84
When you've come to the
gate that's holding you up,
00:17:59.87\00:18:02.11
and it's marked cancer.
00:18:02.14\00:18:04.28
What do you do when
your world falls apart?
00:18:04.31\00:18:07.52
Go to the Word!
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Your marriage is broken
and no one seems to care.
00:18:12.59\00:18:15.42
Unkind children,
uncaring spouses,
00:18:15.46\00:18:18.26
you feel all
alone and miserable.
00:18:18.29\00:18:19.86
Everything in your
life seems to be failing.
00:18:19.89\00:18:22.03
What do you do when
you get to that gate
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and it's locked, and
you can't move forward?
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Go to the Word, Jesus
says, "I've got the keys!"
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You're broken and troubled
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and death comes
your way, run to Jesus.
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He will unlock
that gate for you.
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You see, ladies and gentleman,
00:18:40.95\00:18:42.28
divine participation
hinges on human invitation.
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Ask and it shall
be given unto you."
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Matthew 6 says that,
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"God knows your
needs before you ask Him."
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It is not when you pray,
that you're informing God
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about anything He doesn't know.
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When you're praying,
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you're just affirming
your faith in His ability
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to meet your needs.
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That's why He says,
00:19:04.24\00:19:05.57
"You have not,
because you've asked not."
00:19:05.61\00:19:08.98
So if trouble
destroys your dreams,
00:19:09.01\00:19:12.25
detours you from your destiny.
00:19:12.28\00:19:15.82
And despair is
your constant companion,
00:19:15.85\00:19:18.65
and if trouble uses your heart
00:19:18.69\00:19:20.99
as a headquarters for crisis,
00:19:21.02\00:19:23.79
go ahead, take the keys.
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In the day of trouble,
He'll hide you in His pavilion.
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Little while back,
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my wife and my children and
I were on our way to Boston.
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We were going up to Boston.
00:19:41.78\00:19:43.11
We would have been
there for about five days.
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I'm on the
highway, heading to Boston,
00:19:47.78\00:19:50.45
my daughter is
excited about the hotels,
00:19:50.49\00:19:55.12
excited about going
to the swimming pool.
00:19:55.16\00:19:58.76
She has in her mind that hotels
are nicer than our own house.
00:19:58.79\00:20:04.30
So we're on our way,
we're talking, we're excited,
00:20:04.33\00:20:07.30
we're happy about
this trip to Boston.
00:20:07.34\00:20:10.97
We'll be together
for about five days.
00:20:11.01\00:20:14.84
We left home,
filled up the tank.
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I'm driving and my phone rings.
00:20:16.95\00:20:20.62
And my assistant
from Virginia calls
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and she says to me, she says,
00:20:22.15\00:20:23.92
"Somebody needs
to go to Trinidad
00:20:23.95\00:20:25.82
and bring mommy back,
00:20:25.85\00:20:28.29
'cause she's not doing well."
00:20:28.32\00:20:30.93
Now that's the code
word for, "You've got to go."
00:20:30.96\00:20:36.70
Somebody really is always me.
00:20:36.73\00:20:40.97
So I immediately pulled aside,
00:20:41.00\00:20:45.61
got off the first exit.
00:20:45.64\00:20:47.91
Began to think about,
what I was about to do.
00:20:47.94\00:20:50.78
How was I going
to deal with this?
00:20:50.81\00:20:53.11
Headed to Boston with my family.
00:20:53.15\00:20:56.45
What am I going to do?
00:20:56.48\00:20:57.82
My wife says, "Well,
you know, you've got to go."
00:20:57.85\00:21:00.06
We stayed at the
side of the highway.
00:21:00.09\00:21:01.42
I called the
airlines, tried to get a ticket,
00:21:01.46\00:21:03.96
so I can go down
and get a ticket back
00:21:03.99\00:21:05.69
for my mother.
00:21:05.73\00:21:07.93
We took care of it, and
I said to my wife, I said,
00:21:07.96\00:21:11.17
"You know what, you all go on,
00:21:11.20\00:21:14.74
leave me at the
side of the highway.
00:21:14.77\00:21:17.67
I'm gonna find my
way back to my house."
00:21:17.71\00:21:20.88
She said, "We can't do that."
00:21:20.91\00:21:22.24
I said, "Yes,
you can, go ahead."
00:21:22.28\00:21:25.68
Well, I didn't think my
wife was going to leave me,
00:21:25.71\00:21:27.22
but she did.
00:21:27.25\00:21:28.58
It was a test and she failed.
00:21:35.06\00:21:39.36
She got in the
car, she drove off,
00:21:39.39\00:21:41.53
and they left me.
00:21:41.56\00:21:45.10
And I went into
the Hess gas station,
00:21:45.13\00:21:46.77
and sat down
and begun to ponder,
00:21:46.80\00:21:49.40
how am I going to get home?
00:21:49.44\00:21:50.81
Began calling everybody
00:21:55.31\00:21:56.68
and nobody is
picking up your cell phone.
00:21:56.71\00:22:00.58
Well, I said to myself,
00:22:00.62\00:22:01.95
somebody's
gonna come and get me.
00:22:01.98\00:22:04.39
I know,
somebody's going to get me.
00:22:04.42\00:22:08.32
If I couldn't
get somebody to leave
00:22:08.36\00:22:09.82
whatever they were doing,
00:22:09.86\00:22:11.19
and come and get me on
the side of the highway,
00:22:11.23\00:22:12.76
I'm not worth living.
00:22:12.79\00:22:15.36
If you can't have somebody
who will sacrifice for you,
00:22:15.40\00:22:19.20
something is
wrong, so I kept calling.
00:22:19.23\00:22:22.20
I finally got one person.
00:22:22.24\00:22:24.97
I got this young
lady, Janette Holmes.
00:22:25.01\00:22:26.84
I said, "Jan, where are you?"
00:22:26.88\00:22:28.68
She said, "I'm just about
15 minutes from your house."
00:22:28.71\00:22:31.35
I said, "Well,
you're far from me."
00:22:31.38\00:22:33.11
I said, "You
know what? I'm stuck.
00:22:33.15\00:22:35.42
I need you to come and get me."
00:22:35.45\00:22:38.35
She said, "Where are
you?" I gave her the address.
00:22:38.39\00:22:41.12
She said, "Okay, I'll
be there as soon as I can."
00:22:41.16\00:22:43.02
She drove, I sat down
there, and I'm thinking now,
00:22:43.06\00:22:46.80
my family is on their way.
00:22:46.83\00:22:49.23
We just had these great plans,
00:22:49.26\00:22:50.83
but it's all broken
up, we're separated.
00:22:50.87\00:22:54.87
She picks me up,
takes me back to my house.
00:22:54.90\00:22:58.07
I began to pack for my
journey the next morning.
00:22:58.11\00:23:01.78
Got on to plane, it
left, got to Trinidad,
00:23:01.81\00:23:05.48
turned around
about six hours later,
00:23:05.51\00:23:07.48
got back on another plane
and brought my mother here,
00:23:07.52\00:23:09.42
so she could get
medical attention.
00:23:09.45\00:23:13.12
On my way back,
I'm saying to myself,
00:23:13.15\00:23:15.16
if when I get to
John F Kennedy airport,
00:23:15.19\00:23:18.06
my momma is okay,
00:23:18.09\00:23:19.83
and I can get her to the doctor.
00:23:19.86\00:23:22.13
What am I gonna do now
00:23:22.16\00:23:24.13
from Saturday, Sunday,
00:23:24.17\00:23:27.84
Monday, Tuesday?
00:23:27.87\00:23:30.51
Am I gonna go and sit
down in this house by myself?
00:23:30.54\00:23:33.24
I finally got back.
00:23:38.35\00:23:40.32
Sister met us in the airport.
00:23:40.35\00:23:43.02
My mother was
okay. She was fine.
00:23:43.05\00:23:46.99
I dropped them off at the house,
00:23:47.02\00:23:48.46
and I now made a decision,
00:23:48.49\00:23:51.29
"I'm gonna go all
the way to Boston."
00:23:51.33\00:23:54.70
I'm gonna drive to Boston,
it's gonna take me three hours.
00:23:54.73\00:23:58.00
But I'd rather
drive the three hours
00:23:58.03\00:23:59.57
as tireless it can be.
00:23:59.60\00:24:00.94
When I get there, I'll
see my wife and children,
00:24:00.97\00:24:02.57
the people who left me.
00:24:02.60\00:24:03.94
I get there,
00:24:10.25\00:24:11.58
and they're in
the swimming pool,
00:24:11.61\00:24:12.95
and I ran to them.
00:24:12.98\00:24:14.78
And there was a
reunion that was broken,
00:24:14.82\00:24:17.65
because momma was sick.
00:24:17.69\00:24:21.82
Friends of mine, when
mother earth became ill
00:24:21.86\00:24:24.73
and began to groan,
00:24:24.76\00:24:26.53
there was a great separation
00:24:26.56\00:24:27.90
between God and
His people, His bride.
00:24:27.93\00:24:31.43
But when Jesus came and He died,
00:24:31.47\00:24:33.90
He died so that,
00:24:33.94\00:24:35.27
when He got back to JFK,
we can have the reunion again.
00:24:35.30\00:24:39.37
We can meet each other again.
00:24:39.41\00:24:41.28
Let me tell you,
00:24:41.31\00:24:42.64
there's a great
reunion coming in the sky.
00:24:42.68\00:24:46.82
And I don't know about
you, but I wanna be there.
00:24:46.85\00:24:50.55
I don't know about you,
but when my Jesus died for me,
00:24:50.59\00:24:53.56
He died that I wouldn't miss out
00:24:53.59\00:24:54.92
in that reunion.
00:24:54.96\00:24:56.76
He's calling His
church today to be faithful.
00:24:56.79\00:24:59.73
God doesn't want
you to be perfect,
00:24:59.76\00:25:01.66
He just wants you to be
willing to listen to Him,
00:25:01.70\00:25:04.13
and be obedient to His voice.
00:25:04.17\00:25:06.03
There's a great
call that's going on
00:25:06.07\00:25:07.40
around the entire world.
00:25:07.44\00:25:08.77
God is calling men and women
00:25:08.80\00:25:10.14
out of darkness, out of Babylon,
00:25:10.17\00:25:11.74
calling them to join
His church everywhere.
00:25:11.77\00:25:15.94
So that we can be
in that great reunion.
00:25:15.98\00:25:18.45
I wanna see Jesus one day.
00:25:18.48\00:25:21.32
Yeah, I wanna see Him.
00:25:21.35\00:25:23.32
I got some questions for Jesus.
00:25:23.35\00:25:26.15
I wanna see Him.
00:25:26.19\00:25:27.96
Because sometimes the
kind of pain we go through,
00:25:27.99\00:25:30.63
we wonder why He allows it.
00:25:30.66\00:25:32.99
But I wanna see Him,
00:25:33.03\00:25:34.60
I wanna see Adam, the first man.
00:25:34.63\00:25:37.83
I wanna see Abraham,
they named me after Abraham.
00:25:37.87\00:25:40.24
I don't know if
anybody would've known.
00:25:40.27\00:25:43.71
I wanna see Moses.
I wanna see Isaiah.
00:25:43.74\00:25:46.21
I wanna see the patriarchs.
00:25:46.24\00:25:48.04
I wanna see God's people.
00:25:48.08\00:25:49.68
What a day of
rejoicing that's gonna be,
00:25:49.71\00:25:52.45
when God's people from all ages
00:25:52.48\00:25:54.92
and to all ages will
be in the same place,
00:25:54.95\00:26:00.06
never to part again!
00:26:00.09\00:26:03.73
What a day of
rejoicing that's gonna be.
00:26:03.76\00:26:05.36
Some of you are very straighten,
00:26:05.39\00:26:07.83
very, very, very pristine and...
00:26:07.86\00:26:11.50
Can't say hey amen.
00:26:11.53\00:26:14.14
But I'm gonna tell
you this, on that day
00:26:14.17\00:26:16.17
folk gonna be dancing.
00:26:16.20\00:26:18.41
Somebody who
never shouted before,
00:26:18.44\00:26:20.71
is gonna shout,
00:26:20.74\00:26:22.08
because you'll be
shocked that you got there,
00:26:22.11\00:26:23.48
but you'll say, thank you Jesus.
00:26:23.51\00:26:25.55
This is mercy, this is grace.
00:26:25.58\00:26:28.02
What a day.
00:26:31.62\00:26:33.36
What a day!
00:26:33.39\00:26:35.26
What a day it's gonna be.
00:26:35.29\00:26:37.19
I don't know about you,
00:26:37.23\00:26:38.56
but when I think
about my own life,
00:26:38.59\00:26:40.96
I see me somewhere in
God's eternal kingdom.
00:26:41.00\00:26:44.33
I didn't give my life to
Jesus when I was 11 years old,
00:26:44.37\00:26:47.34
so that I'll miss out in heaven.
00:26:47.37\00:26:49.24
I gave my heart to Jesus at 11,
00:26:49.27\00:26:51.77
so that I'll be
with Him forever.
00:26:51.81\00:26:56.11
What can separate us
from the love of God?
00:26:56.14\00:26:58.01
Nothing.
00:26:58.05\00:26:59.68
And what will it profit a
man if he gains the whole world,
00:26:59.71\00:27:02.42
and loses his own soul.
00:27:02.45\00:27:04.35
There's nothing worth
losing your soul after.
00:27:04.39\00:27:07.79
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00:27:13.16\00:27:16.26
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