They've been looking for
Him for thousands of years.
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They've talked about
Him, dreamed about Him
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while they gave
instruction concerning Him,
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studied His life.
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But when He stood among
them, they didn't recognize Him.
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It's time to join
your guide Jim Ayer
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for an exciting
12th episode journey
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into remodeling your life.
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You're going to discover that
God's transforming power is real
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and He is ready to
provide that power to you.
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Now here is your guide Jim Ayer
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to take you on the
journey of a lifetime in amazing
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and dynamic experience with God.
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The Prophet John
understood in the Book of Daniel
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but Jesus was to appear
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in the
prophetic scene very soon.
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John had been appointed
to proclaim the message.
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When the
prophetic time clock struck
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the cosmic hour Jesus appeared.
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John stopped baptizing
rouse up out of the water
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and that behold the Lamb of God.
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Church leaders and members
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where all together
in the bank that day,
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the very people
should have recognized Jesus
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but they did not.
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He was the
foundation of their religion
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and no one knew Him.
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The question today
is, do you know Him?
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Is He real and personal to
you, would you recognize Him
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if He walked into your church?
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Maybe you've
already been fooled.
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Join as we discover
who Jesus really is,
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and His exciding
plans for your life.
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Plans that can
almost guarantee you,
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you've never heard before.
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I am Jim Ayer.
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I have a distant relative
by the name of Jim Ayer.
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We're confused a lot of
times, but he actually tells me
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that we're related years ago.
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You see I, send
him our genealogy
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and found back in
England in the 1600s
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we were all part
of one big family
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and we were royalty.
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But you know, as
great as all this is
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there's another book
that speak really plainly
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of an older genealogy,
the genealogy of human history
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and of royal blood.
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Humans were
created as a crowning act
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of God's creation.
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We were to be the
counterpart of God.
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We were created
in His own image.
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We were royalty.
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Our lineage was a pure strength
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directly from the heart
of the king of the universe.
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Just imagine the
sons and daughters of God
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but there were major
glitch in the perfect plan
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caused by someone else.
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Around, the time God
was going to institute
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the plans for
His new human race,
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the most powerful
created being in the universe
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started having an eye problem.
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No not an eye
problem but an "I" problem.
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You see, he started thinking
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he was so wonderful
and beautiful which he was
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then he figured he
should run the universe
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rather than God, His Creator,
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but because God
built in freewill
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into the genetic
pool or the gene pool
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the problem aroused.
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You see, His
planning had included freewill
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because His entire
celestial makeup exudes love
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and love does
not demand obedience
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or worship it only yearns for.
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You know, the due date
arrived for the creation birth
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of the new earthly
couple, Adam and Eve.
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While Adam was
fashioned my God's own hand
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and the couple was
made in God's very own image
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a reflection of Him if you will.
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The Lord spent a
great deal of time with them
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in the new home He created
for their absolute enjoyment.
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Nothing was missing.
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Think about an entire planet
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of unbelievable
beauty just for them.
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But then it was time to share
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the sad story of
the devils rebellion.
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The devil was kicked out
of heaven in open rebellion
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and he was on his way to earth
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with the heart
full of treachery.
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And all that
treachery was toward the crown.
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Father God instructed the
pair to stay away from one tree.
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Now is it, one single
tree on the entire planet.
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And they were
told that the devil
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was restricted to that one spot.
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But you may ask well,
why was he even restricted
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to that spot,
why I have any spots?
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Well, remember Adam
and Eve had freewill.
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The Father had built it
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into the genetic
makeup of Eden pair
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and they too had to
decide whose leadership
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was the best God or the devil.
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You know, we
don't how long it was
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before Eve found herself
in conversation with the devil
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but when she did talk
with him she was mesmerized.
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His lies sounded so convincing
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and it made God
seem like to lie.
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Now may be the Father did
want to withhold something
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she thought that was
really good for them.
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May be the
devil really is right.
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The couple ended up accepting
the entire pack of lies,
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sold themselves in the
slavery in all posterity.
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You and me, we were royalty.
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Parents were the prince and
princess of the planet earth
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and now they
were doomed to death
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for their act to
trees and against the crown.
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They lost the
crown and the castle.
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But the king of the
universe had a different plan.
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His love is so powerful
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that He would buy
us back from bondage.
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That's how
precious we are to Him.
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Jesus called over two little
lambs that were glazing nearby
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then He did something
that shocked the couple.
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He slit their throats,
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the throats of these
tiny little helpless lambs.
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They had never seen death.
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As the blood trickle
from the now lifeless bodies
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the Lord turned to
Adam and Eve and said,
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this is what you
deserve, this is death,
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this is the result of
choosing the way of the devil.
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His lies only result
in pain and suffering.
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But if you love Me,
you can choose My plan
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because one day
in the history of man
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I will die for your rebellion
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just as these
little lambs have died.
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I will earn the way to
give you My righteousness
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like the
covering of the lamb skins
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that now cover your nakedness.
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And I will live inside
of you to give you a power
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to once again resist the lives
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in the
temptations of the evil one.
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You can be restored
to your royal heritage
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and more if you
accept My free gift
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and invite Me to live in you
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so that you have
power to fight the devil.
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Please understand
how much I love you,
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this gift requires My death.
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Ever wonder why
your life doesn't reflect
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the powerful
change that supposed
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to be part of every
Christian experience.
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Do temptations way on
you and leave you saying,
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may be I'm not trying
hard enough for wondering
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if God's holding up
His end of the deal.
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Could there be some
secret everyone but you knows.
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Well, there is
a well kept secret
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and few Christians know about it
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or talk about it until now.
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The human race was
in drastic trouble.
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The devil had
caused an imaginable pain
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and separation through
God in the human family.
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But God would not let go.
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No price for Him
was too great to pay.
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While, Jesus had consented
to become as a helpless lamb
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He then reject
Himself directly in a pathway
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of the devils wrath to save us.
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Exactly, as the prophetic time
clock of Daniel 9:24 predicted
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Jesus arrived upon a
scene of human history
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to restore humanity.
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He stepped from the
throne, left the celestial city,
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removed His robes of royalty
becoming a child of the poor.
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No, no robes of royalty for Him.
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He was trained as a carpenter
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and as a follower
of the one true God.
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He now stood in
front of John the Baptist
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ready to begin the
public phase of His ministry.
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What was His mission?
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John 1:1 and 14
offering laid insight.
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"In the beginning was the
Word, and the Word was with God,
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and the Word became
flesh and dwelt among us."
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The word you see in
Greek for word is logos.
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It's our English word
where we get our word logo.
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If I asked you what the logo
was or actually that checkmark
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on the side of a
pair of tennis shoes
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you would know
immediately whose logo that was?
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Well, it's a symbol
that stands for the company,
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it stands for
everything they are.
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Even if you've never seen
their factories or their offices
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around the globe, you know them
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because they've
demonstrated product quality
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and their logo
stands for that quality.
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It seems true for Jesus.
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He is the logo of the guardian.
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Hope you seen
Jesus and you watched
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how He performs in His qualities
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and what He says, what He does
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or even know
you've never seen heaven
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or God's office
complex or the mansions
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that God has promised you.
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You know what God stands
for because you've seen Jesus.
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You know that company
representative the logo.
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This thing is what Jesus did.
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He set out on the
most aggressive campaign
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in the history of the universe
to reveal the lies of the devil
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and the set humanity
free from the bondage of sin.
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John 1:12 says "To
as many as received Him,
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to them He gave the power
to become the sons of God."
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Notice His desire to restore us
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to the former
position of royalty.
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He said about undoing the
damage the devil had caused.
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He healed the sick.
He cleansed the leper.
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He restored sight to the
blind, hearing to the deaf,
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speech to the
tongue of the dumb,
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He cast out demons and
He raised the dead life.
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Jesus broke up every funeral
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He ever attended
by raising the dead.
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Jesus can set anyone free
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from the bondage
of sin and the devil.
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But the ultimate
test and trail had come.
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This was time for
victory or defeat.
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The devil and his evil
legions poured everything
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into this battle and
the location of the battle,
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the Garden of Gethsemane
among the olive trees.
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Christ was in His early 30s.
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He was taken
humanity upon Himself.
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The devil told Him
that if He took upon Himself
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this rebellion
of the human race,
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the sins of the human race
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that he would be
forever identified with them.
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He would be separated.
He would be lost forever.
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He would ripped
from the Father's love.
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The mental anguish was
beyond human understanding.
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But He continued
to repeat these words.
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"Father, not my
will but Yours be done."
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Would He ever come out
of the tomb victorious?
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As a man He didn't
know but He made the choice
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that He did not want
to continue to be God
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unless we could
be with Him forever.
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Think about it,
you're that special to God.
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Any other word on the subject
is another lie of the devil.
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Our God has only one desire
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and that's to
abide with you forever,
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enjoying your
everlasting friendship
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and company for all eternity.
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Praise God.
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Janene and I had
been working in Bangladesh
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for a while and had befriended
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a very sweet nine-year-old
girl by the name Bedika.
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She was just adorable
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and we grew to
love her very rapidly.
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One night after work I arrived
home to find Janene in tears.
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They're going to sell Bedika.
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They're going to
sell Bedika and I said
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"What are you talking about?"
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And she repeated
those sorrowful words
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and then how did the
parents can't afford to keep her
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so they're going to sell
her as a slave or a prostitute
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because she turns
10-years old today.
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Later, we discovered that
this was the common practice
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in that region of the world.
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That the parents can't afford
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to keep their
children, they sell them.
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Well, needless to say
real absolutely heartbroken.
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The dinner table
conversation was only about
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our sweet little
defenseless girl.
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One of our friends said,
well, I don't you buy her?
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Wow, never thought of that idea,
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have you ever
thought of buying someone.
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Well, no, neither had we
but the more we thought about it
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the better the idea
sounded and guess what,
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we acted upon the idea
and we were successful.
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We bought her to be
able to set her free.
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We put her in school
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where she received
a wonderful education.
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She is provided for an everyway.
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Now she still lived in a harsh
environment in a harsh world
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but we did all we
could to provide her
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with love support and happiness.
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God has purchased us
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from the bondage
of sin and slavery.
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He has given us the opportunity
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to accept that free
gift just like Bedika.
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He accepted our free gift.
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When we do we begin
the reorientation process,
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our minds begin
to focus upon God
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rather than the
things of this world,
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rather than the
things of the devil.
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God has given us so much
to begin lifting our hearts
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and our minds
ever offered to Him.
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The only way to that is
to begin looking at nature
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as God's second book of
love designed just for you.
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This very thing
happened to Dwight L. Moody
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the day of his conversion.
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He said and I quote.
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"I remember the morning on which
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I came out of my room
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after I had
first trust in Christ.
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I thought the
sun shone a good deal
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brighter than
it ever had before.
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I thought that it
was smiling upon me,
00:14:11.54\00:14:13.96
and as I walked
out upon Boston Common
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and heard the birds
singing in the trees
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I thought they were
all singing a song to me.
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Do you know, I fell
in love with the birds.
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I had never
cared for them before.
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It seemed to me that I was
in love with all creation."
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The Charles Finney
added, "A state of mind
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that sees God in
everything is evidence
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of growth in grace
and a thankful heart."
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As the sunlight
dances across the snow,
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the evergreen trees
disperse their fragrance scent
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to gladden the day
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and the birds have
their anthem of happiness.
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It all speaks of
God's love to you and to me.
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There was no
sunlight, there was no fragrance
00:14:55.66\00:14:57.94
in Rich's life at all
until God reached down
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on that dirt floor
and touched his life.
00:15:01.52\00:15:06.32
I kind of got
derailed a little bit.
00:15:06.35\00:15:09.38
I made some bad
choices, some bad decisions
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and ended up using drugs
for quite, quite a long time.
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I had some scholarships to
go to some certain colleges
00:15:17.40\00:15:20.30
and what not and
congressmen wrote me a letter
00:15:20.33\00:15:23.50
wanting me to go to
West Point apply there.
00:15:23.53\00:15:26.38
But I chose not to do that.
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I kind of hung around
town, I loved working on cars.
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So I got a job as a mechanic
up at local Chevrolet dealership
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and I began drinking a
little bit with the boys
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and smoking a little bit
and one thing led to another
00:15:36.83\00:15:40.66
and got introduced to cocaine
and one thing led to another,
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ended up I was
living Downtown Sacramento
00:15:46.69\00:15:49.91
in a one room
shack with a dirt floor
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and had a little beer keg
with a front cut out of it.
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And I would put wood in that
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and I had a sewer pipe
running out the window.
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And that's where I kept warm
00:16:02.10\00:16:03.26
like that was my fireplace
it was a little beer keg.
00:16:03.29\00:16:06.09
And I had the chemicals
to cook the methamphetamine
00:16:06.12\00:16:08.52
buried in the dirt floor
underneath my sleeping bag
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where I slept every night
00:16:11.02\00:16:12.27
and ended up being a far
cry from class valedictorian.
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Its just it wasn't one choice
00:16:16.33\00:16:18.31
it was a series of small
seemingly insignificant choices
00:16:18.34\00:16:23.73
that I had made that took me
00:16:23.76\00:16:25.84
from one point to
where it looked like
00:16:25.87\00:16:29.39
I told like I would
never, ever, ever do that
00:16:29.42\00:16:32.07
but that's where I ended up.
00:16:32.10\00:16:33.93
I didn't run into the devil
00:16:33.96\00:16:35.98
because I was going
the same direction he was.
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And I didn't find that out till
later on after my conversion,
00:16:37.95\00:16:40.95
you know, that, that
when you're a general
00:16:40.98\00:16:43.35
in the devil's army he
isn't trip you up much.
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I mean life is
miserable but its not--
00:16:46.91\00:16:51.49
it's kind of hard to describe.
00:16:51.52\00:16:52.81
When you're in
it you're deceived
00:16:52.84\00:16:54.16
and you're just going for it.
00:16:54.19\00:16:56.47
My life was a
speedboat going through
00:16:56.50\00:16:58.98
a five mile an hour zone
00:16:59.01\00:17:00.24
leaving awake
destruction everywhere I went.
00:17:00.27\00:17:02.85
When I realized
that God wasn't trying
00:17:02.88\00:17:06.01
to get me in trouble
that I was already in trouble
00:17:06.04\00:17:08.78
and He was trying to make
something good out of my life.
00:17:08.81\00:17:12.53
He was trying to,
00:17:12.56\00:17:15.91
train me to be
something some type of royalty,
00:17:15.94\00:17:20.62
some type of
person that would I--
00:17:20.65\00:17:23.32
to get my dignity back,
to get my self-worth back.
00:17:23.35\00:17:28.61
Nothing dignified
about living on a dirt floor.
00:17:28.64\00:17:31.31
There is nothing dignified
about a lot of the things
00:17:31.34\00:17:34.78
that people do when
they're marching with the devil
00:17:34.81\00:17:39.19
and to and I and I realized now
00:17:39.22\00:17:42.59
that He was just simply trying
to restore the image of God
00:17:42.62\00:17:45.33
in me that He originally planned
for me and I messed that up.
00:17:45.36\00:17:49.17
And He is able
somehow and I don't know
00:17:49.20\00:17:51.10
how He does it but He
sweeps up that broken glass
00:17:51.13\00:17:55.27
of every wreck that we make
and He somehow sweeps it up,
00:17:55.30\00:18:00.34
cleans it all up and
starts its right there
00:18:00.37\00:18:02.79
right on the,
right direction again.
00:18:02.82\00:18:05.02
The difference in working
and living for Christ versus
00:18:05.05\00:18:09.36
working and living
for the devil there is a,
00:18:09.39\00:18:13.07
there is a peace
and joy that comes
00:18:13.10\00:18:16.18
from serving the
king of the universe
00:18:16.21\00:18:19.38
and understanding
that all He wants,
00:18:19.41\00:18:23.32
all He wants is for you to
come to Him and be restored back
00:18:23.35\00:18:30.25
to what He
originally had intended for you.
00:18:30.28\00:18:33.49
And, you know, when I learned
00:18:33.52\00:18:34.55
that it was not his plan
for me to become an addict
00:18:34.58\00:18:38.45
I messed that up but
He is willing to take me
00:18:38.48\00:18:43.65
and take me right where I'm at
00:18:43.68\00:18:48.26
and make me
something very, very special.
00:18:48.29\00:18:51.81
And I have always
been special to Him.
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And I didn't
realized that either.
00:18:53.43\00:18:55.93
You know, when you
have low self worth
00:18:55.96\00:18:57.97
that's an excuse
to treat yourself bad.
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And so if I just told
myself that I was worthless
00:19:02.02\00:19:04.83
then I could treat
myself like I was worthless.
00:19:04.86\00:19:07.33
And when God said yeah,
but you're not worthless
00:19:07.36\00:19:09.89
to Me you may
think you're worthless
00:19:09.92\00:19:12.26
but you, your
infinitely valuable to Me.
00:19:12.29\00:19:15.27
When I understood that
now He was doing everything
00:19:15.30\00:19:17.68
He could to get me in
the heaven not keep me out.
00:19:17.71\00:19:21.62
The thought of me being royalty
00:19:21.65\00:19:26.61
the thought of Him treated
me like He treats His son.
00:19:26.64\00:19:31.17
The thought Him
wiping everything clean
00:19:31.20\00:19:34.79
and say I won't bring it
up if you don't bring it up
00:19:34.82\00:19:37.68
that I'm here because God
because God loved me so much
00:19:37.71\00:19:44.93
that He was
willing to wipe clean
00:19:44.96\00:19:51.61
everything bad that
I had done towards Him.
00:19:51.64\00:19:56.13
Everything, everything
that I because, you know,
00:19:56.16\00:20:01.41
I spit in His face.
00:20:01.44\00:20:03.54
When people
would knock on the door
00:20:03.57\00:20:06.81
when I was
running with the devil
00:20:06.84\00:20:08.11
when people
would knock on the door
00:20:08.14\00:20:09.18
with Bibles and
wanted to do Bible study
00:20:09.21\00:20:10.55
I was slamming
door on their face.
00:20:10.58\00:20:12.56
And all it was, was God
trying to get my attention.
00:20:12.59\00:20:15.35
And He never gave up.
00:20:15.38\00:20:16.85
I can remember
laying facedown on my bed
00:20:16.88\00:20:19.97
on when-- screaming
at the top of my lungs
00:20:20.00\00:20:23.44
for God to help me.
00:20:23.47\00:20:24.98
Screaming, I
didn't care who heard me
00:20:25.01\00:20:27.14
I was all done I was all used up
00:20:27.17\00:20:28.94
and God's gonna
take someone like that
00:20:28.97\00:20:32.53
and make them
part of His cabinet
00:20:32.56\00:20:34.98
if you will, His
royalty, His ambassador
00:20:35.01\00:20:38.07
that we might be able to
tell people, tell other beings
00:20:38.10\00:20:45.29
what its like to be forgiven.
00:20:45.32\00:20:49.17
What its like to be loved
00:20:49.20\00:20:50.85
when you can't
even love yourself.
00:20:50.88\00:20:52.87
What its like to be
told that you are valuable
00:20:52.90\00:20:56.53
even when you
think you have no value.
00:20:56.56\00:21:00.25
And that's amazing to
me because He doesn't--
00:21:00.28\00:21:03.25
in my book He
doesn't have to do that.
00:21:03.28\00:21:06.04
I mean, I earned
death and God saved me.
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Jim was a drug
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00:21:53.62\00:21:56.16
If that was just the beginning
00:21:56.19\00:21:57.65
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He began wealthy,
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00:22:00.61\00:22:03.15
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00:22:03.18\00:22:05.68
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00:22:12.45\00:22:14.09
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The time coming very soon
00:22:21.84\00:22:23.54
when we're going to be reunited
00:22:23.57\00:22:25.02
with our Lord in
the earth made new.
00:22:25.05\00:22:27.65
We'll walk hand
in hand with Jesus
00:22:27.68\00:22:29.36
just like Adam and Eve
did in the Garden of Eden.
00:22:29.39\00:22:32.37
But here on this
old sin wringed world
00:22:32.40\00:22:34.55
the place where the
devil controls everything
00:22:34.58\00:22:36.93
sometimes we look no
further than our noses
00:22:36.96\00:22:39.25
but we must be orient,
00:22:39.28\00:22:40.84
we must begin
looking up for mighty God
00:22:40.87\00:22:43.33
the one who is smile
in us in His creation.
00:22:43.36\00:22:50.74
We're right here
on a main thoroughfare
00:22:50.77\00:22:52.53
and I had to stop here
00:22:52.56\00:22:54.11
because this old
place is really something.
00:22:54.14\00:22:56.51
It represents all the
death, the destruction,
00:22:56.54\00:22:58.80
the decay, the
sorrow and the heartache
00:22:58.83\00:23:01.31
that's all around this and
has been for very long time.
00:23:01.34\00:23:04.24
At least from a
human standpoint of time
00:23:04.27\00:23:07.23
as a matter of fact
it's been here so long
00:23:07.26\00:23:09.67
that most of us
have accepted this world
00:23:09.70\00:23:11.64
and the desolation of it
has the normal mode of life.
00:23:11.67\00:23:16.42
Most people have come to accept
00:23:16.45\00:23:17.84
this world of
slavery its absolute fact.
00:23:17.87\00:23:21.10
We really have little
or no frame of reference
00:23:21.13\00:23:23.30
to conceive of, you
know, anything else.
00:23:23.33\00:23:25.99
I think again of
our little slave girl
00:23:26.02\00:23:28.33
her name Bedika
she lives in a world
00:23:28.36\00:23:30.21
where a single
tin can is a big deal.
00:23:30.24\00:23:32.63
What do I need?
00:23:32.66\00:23:33.69
Well, we just
accomplished a lot of things
00:23:33.72\00:23:37.04
and more than Bangladesh
when we begin searching
00:23:37.07\00:23:40.24
for something else
to help someone to do
00:23:40.27\00:23:41.91
because we had a
little extra time
00:23:41.94\00:23:43.46
so we stopped in
the area hospital
00:23:43.49\00:23:45.73
and how is to take
and give some free help.
00:23:45.76\00:23:48.48
There is one tiny
hospital is responsible
00:23:48.51\00:23:50.81
for taking care
of 64,000 villagers.
00:23:50.84\00:23:54.25
Vast sewage was
running down the outside wall
00:23:54.28\00:23:57.19
where the plumbing was leaking.
00:23:57.22\00:23:59.02
It was unbelievable that paint
00:23:59.05\00:24:00.38
and plaster was
pealing off in sheets.
00:24:00.41\00:24:03.14
They've throw blood and needles
00:24:03.17\00:24:04.88
and all the surgical materials
right outside the windows.
00:24:04.91\00:24:08.03
They were all
piled up everywhere.
00:24:08.06\00:24:09.63
They just threw it all
out after they've used it.
00:24:09.66\00:24:12.76
Yes and you know, well,
00:24:12.79\00:24:15.50
I just can't hardly tell you
00:24:15.53\00:24:16.88
what it was really
like but we started painting
00:24:16.91\00:24:20.53
this place three
storey's and on the final day
00:24:20.56\00:24:23.31
one of our painting crew
handed out an empty paint can
00:24:23.34\00:24:26.50
to someone in the area.
00:24:26.53\00:24:28.05
Before we knew it a whole
mob had materialized around us.
00:24:28.08\00:24:31.01
They began fighting over
this remaining single paint can.
00:24:31.04\00:24:35.03
A struggle to get a dirty
paint can, can you imagine.
00:24:35.06\00:24:38.27
Well, we had all
jumped in the truck
00:24:38.30\00:24:39.62
and leave immediately
00:24:39.65\00:24:40.86
because we
feared for our safety.
00:24:40.89\00:24:43.07
You see, they have
nothing of this world's goods.
00:24:43.10\00:24:47.01
A can that can
be used for cooking,
00:24:47.04\00:24:49.61
can be used for
eating storing items
00:24:49.64\00:24:51.81
and well the list goes on.
00:24:51.84\00:24:54.15
This is the environment
of our former slave girl.
00:24:54.18\00:24:56.69
Environment she grew up in.
00:24:56.72\00:24:58.60
Now let assume
if we settled down
00:24:58.63\00:25:00.72
we begin to
describe how wonderful
00:25:00.75\00:25:03.11
a fairytale land is here in
North America, a theme park,
00:25:03.14\00:25:07.34
you know, with a water slides
00:25:07.37\00:25:08.94
and all the wonderful things.
00:25:08.97\00:25:11.04
And yes, we tell our Bedika
00:25:11.07\00:25:12.34
it's all up there it's
just a plane right away.
00:25:12.37\00:25:14.82
Well, then she
says what's a plane.
00:25:14.85\00:25:18.39
So you know matter how
well we explain it to her,
00:25:18.42\00:25:20.98
her frame of
reference is really difficult
00:25:21.01\00:25:23.42
almost impossible
for her to understand.
00:25:23.45\00:25:26.63
However, in explaining
the real magical kingdom
00:25:26.66\00:25:29.42
God has prepared for us
you can use the enlighten power
00:25:29.45\00:25:32.50
of the Holy Spirit
to help us understand
00:25:32.53\00:25:34.40
and grasp that which is beyond
our present realm of reality.
00:25:34.43\00:25:38.41
You see, God
specializes in the impossible
00:25:38.44\00:25:40.92
when describing the real.
00:25:40.95\00:25:42.83
I'm gonna read from God's word
00:25:42.86\00:25:44.81
what He has prepared
for us as former slaves
00:25:44.84\00:25:47.05
found in Revelation Chapter 21.
00:25:47.08\00:25:51.67
"And now I saw a new
heaven and a new earth,
00:25:51.70\00:25:53.60
for the first
heaven and the first earth
00:25:53.63\00:25:55.04
were passed away.
00:25:55.07\00:25:56.99
Also there was no more sea.
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Then I, John, saw the
holy city, the New Jerusalem,
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coming down out
of heaven from God,
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prepared as a bride
adorned for her husband.
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And I heard a loud
voice from heaven saying,
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'Behold, the
tabernacle of God is with men,
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and I will dwell with
them, and God will wipe away
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every tear from their eyes.
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Then there shall
be no more death,
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no sorrow, no
crime, no more pain
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for all these former
things are passed away.'
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And he who sat
on the throne said
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'Behold I make all things new.'
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And he said to be right
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for these things
are true and faithful.
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And he said to me 'it is done.'
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I am alpha and omega
the beginning the end."
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God is everything to
us and God is planned
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all these things
and then He says look,
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you're going to be
My son and daughter.
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I've given it all to you.
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I got it all prepared for you.
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We serve an amazing God.
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You see we get the kingdom back.
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We get it all back.
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God is going to
be moving the center
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of His government
here at the planet earth
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so He can
continue His original plan
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living with us for eternity.
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Do you really know Him?
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If you walk into
your church today
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or you're home
would you recognize Him?
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Would you really know God?
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Jesus came to
earth to dispel the lies
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told by Satan about who God is
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and He came to set us
free from the slavery of sin.
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I hope you'll
continue to join me
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for every episode of
this 12-parts series entitled
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Remodeling Your Life,
God's Transforming Power.
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You see God doesn't want
to leave you the way you are.
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He wants to grow you up
in to be pure and vivid being
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enjoying that direct connection
00:27:39.82\00:27:41.42
with the power
source of universe,
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God himself why, because He
is planning on you joining Him.
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And Jesus on the throne ruling
the universe for all eternity.
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Hard to believe? Yes, but sure.
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This means you
and I need training
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on now how to become royalty.
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How does it happen?
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Well, it all has to do with
getting to know Jesus far better
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than perhaps you
and I do it today.
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You see its, its all
about the relationship.
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Join me on our
exciting adventure
00:28:09.05\00:28:10.80
it will be come the
experience of the lifetime.
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