Now we've examined the samples
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and the lab
results are conclusive.
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I'm sorry to tell
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You and I have
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The infection is
going to be fatal
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unless drastic
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You know many
church members believe that
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they have
immunity to the sin gene.
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That it really
doesn't affect them.
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They think that simply
being a member of the church
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inoculates them
from the consequences
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of this deadly disease.
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But this idea is
farer from the truth.
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We're all infected
and there is only one cure
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the great
physician Jesus Christ.
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Jesus told one patient that
the cure was to be born again.
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Well, a radical teaching
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that this man
needed to be transformed.
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You see, our lives must
be completely remodeled,
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overhauled, change, transformed.
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Real life is no good.
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You see, we must
allow the master craftsman
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entrance into
our home to tear down
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and get rid of the old
rotten destructive material
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and replace it with the new
heavenly material, God's word.
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But many people have
a very different idea.
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They want to hang
on to the old worded
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rewrite Immanuel.
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We want to feel good religion,
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they want to shape and fit Jesus
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into their own desires
and their own perceive needs.
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But the choice is yours to make.
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Are you guilty of
attempting to shape Jesus
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into your own image?
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Allow me to
provide an illustration.
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You're home owner
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and you decide the home
needs a lot of improvements.
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Next you decide to
remodel it on your own
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but you have
little to know experience
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in the building trade.
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You do however have great pride
in your ability to handle it.
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After all how
hard can it really be?
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You watch some do it
all the time on television.
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Well, let's put
some boards here.
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Let's put some boards there.
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We'll do a little texture here,
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little tape there and
sure, you can manage it.
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Ordering the marble floors,
granite countertops yeah,
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it shouldn't be a problem.
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It shouldn't be too
difficult that all to do.
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Well, it took longer
than you thought now.
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But you know the job
looks really good you've done it
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and you're so
happy with yourself.
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It's a pretty good job
if you do say so yourself.
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Some years later you
decide to sell your home
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so you call a real estate
agent and put it on the market.
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You don't say a word about
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your remodeling
job and your expertise
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but you allow them to go
through house take it all in
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because you got such pride.
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The next day the agent
comes back with the price
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and listing papers.
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Well, your
expectations are great
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but he shares the price and man
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it's not what you
thought it was going to be.
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You thought it
would be a lot more.
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Why it's so low you'll ask?
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And then the agent
pauses and she says "well,
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it's very evident
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that the quality of
the workmanship is tacky
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and in many areas
it's just really lacking."
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Do you know if the home was
remodeled by the owner builder?
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Oh, I toured many
homes over the years
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and it's pretty easy to see
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which job were the
nonprofessional jobs
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by simply looking at their work.
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If you want the
remodeling job to turn our way
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you need a craftsman who
knows what they're are doing.
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But that means admitting
all your own inadequacy.
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But let's transition
to the spiritual realm
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because dynamics
are really the same.
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In your own mind you are great
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and you think everyone should
see things the way you do.
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Oh, as a matter of fact
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that's how it works for James
and John the disciples of Jesus.
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In one town they didn't put out
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the welcome map
for the disciples
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so they wanted to call fire
down from heaven and consume it.
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They must be
punished for their disrespect
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to their Lord they thought.
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Note they were
really thinking about
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their own
feelings at that point.
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And in their mind they just knew
that Jesus felt the same way.
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Jesus had to break
the news to them that
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they will way off base.
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See His character was
far removed from their idea
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who He should be.
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I would call myself a
Christian for many years
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and I dressed the padre,
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I acted the padre
even preached the padre
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but I was not much
different than James and John
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you see I'd would
become a sterilize sinner.
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If I was good enough I
would no longer infect others.
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Well, anybody I
came in contact with
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may be its right what I thought.
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My attitude was
that I loved Jesus
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and He was a wonderful Lord
but think is I had my own idea
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what the word Lord means.
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And it certainly
didn't mean Lord of my life.
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Now, I envision something
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a little more
along the lines of,
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you know, a general friendship.
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I put my money in
the offering plate
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and He blessed me for doing it.
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Well, I got all the benefits
of the relationship with
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no potential downslide.
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Like, needing to turnover
my life decisions to Him
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and allowing Him
to fully control me.
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You know that
would not have been
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that God I grew
up to know and love.
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Can you blame me?
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Imagine giving God
complete control of your life
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100% to do exactly
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what He wants
us do in your life.
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In my opinion the
many of Christianity
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the whole idea is to surrender
everything just seem to me
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and seems
probably to many people
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a little over the top.
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David Platt in
his book Radical says
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"We are starting to
redefine Christianity.
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We are giving in to
the dangerous temptation
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to take the Jesus of the Bible
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and twist him
into a version of Jesus
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we are more comfortable with."
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But you and I realize
what we're doing at this point
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we are molding
Jesus into our image.
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He is beginning
to look a lot like us
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because after all that is whom
we are most comfortable with.
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And the danger now
is that when we gather
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in our church buildings to sing
and lift up our hands in worship
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we may not
actually be worshiping
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the Jesus of the Bible instead,
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we may be worshiping ourselves.
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"Could this be the
reason so many non Christians
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look at the Church.
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Look at us and say
if that's Christianity
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I want nothing to do with it."
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When this happens the
devil could not be happy.
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Our actions had destroyed
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the witness of
the Gospel long ago.
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May be it's time to
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In you respect I
had to ask myself
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what happened.
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What was the reason I
didn't want to fully give God
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control of my life?
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It was really
quite simple actually,
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I was not converted.
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All I'd certainly had
my moments but over time
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those moments became
fewer and farther between.
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Is that sounds strange to you?
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Well, with God you're told about
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continuity of
commitment, life's direction.
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It's a little like this
pathway I am walking on today.
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When Jesus speaks to you
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and you decide to
answer the call you turn
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and you go the
opposite direction.
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You see you no longer
walk in the old direction
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and you don't run back
and forth from the path
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each day trying to
figure out a new path.
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You stick on the new path.
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And the only way that
you can make that happen
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is with God's help.
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This about faith means
your new path is diametrically
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opposite to the direction
of the rest of the human race.
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The old
attractions will fall away
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you'll begin a new
journey of the eternal life.
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Make no mistake about it.
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The allurements of the
world will continually call out
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that we have chosen the
new path in Jesus Christ.
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The siren call will
have little effect on us
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those things of this world.
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In the Book of Luke
Chapter 22 Jesus said to Peter.
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And these are my words
kind of Jim Ayer translation
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"the devil wants you
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but I have been
praying for you, Peter.
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And when you're converted
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you'll
strengthen your followers."
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When you're converted
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because at the end of
Jesus earthly ministry
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three and half years Peter
had walked along side of God
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and all that time he
still had the same whole heart
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as when he
originally joined the Church.
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It is true that he was
on a different path way
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but he had not
given his mental ascent
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to the direction he was going.
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He was still
looking for a top place
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in the new world order.
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Even have his eyes
focused on the right place.
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Does that make sense?
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At the end of time he saw
it no better options in life.
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No way to
measure those believes.
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It was the prudent thing to
do and it seems right to him.
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He enjoyed been
around the daily miracles
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and being part of
the casting out of demons
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while some days
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he felt like he
was on top of the world
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but in his heart
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he not fully
surrendered his own will
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to have this feet
guided every single day,
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ever single step of the way.
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Talking about the Christian
life I really like the way
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Dietrich
Bonhoeffer have to put it.
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"When Christ calls a
Lamb, He bids him come and die.
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Apostle Paul made
the same statement
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little bit different.
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He said, "I died daily."
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You got to ask what did he mean.
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Let's unpack this dying idea.
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What are these fellows
actually talking about?
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Well, it's evident that
Paul wasn't speaking about
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what happened to
him on physical level
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even he didn't die everyday
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nor was he
resurrected every night
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in order to start the
process all over again.
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You know, there
was some thing else
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and my illustration let
me share something with you.
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I was down in the
Dominican Republic
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invited there by a pastor to
do some evangelistic meetings.
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And the meetings
were going very well
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it was about a month long
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and the pastor
one night came to me
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and said "Jim, a fellow died
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and I need to do the funeral
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but I really don't
have a lot of time,
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would you mind doing it for me?"
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Well, that wasn't on the
top of my phone list but I
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you know I was staying in home
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and he it made
me feel like yeah,
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I kind of should so I said yes.
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The next day I began
talking within the moment
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because the funeral
was going to be that day.
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I said "was he a Christian?"
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No he wasn't.
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Well, can you tell me
a little more about him?
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Well, he didn't
even like Christians.
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Now, now I realized why he
wanted me to do the funeral.
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You know, I'm walking up
the street toward the funeral
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part of the home actually
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and as I get there,
there is a crowd everywhere.
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There's people everywhere
they're all waiting for me
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and immediately when I get there
they usher me into the house
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and they take me
right up against this wall,
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holds me right there
and there is a casket
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right in front of me.
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I mean, I didn't have
any room to move in there
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and on the top of
it it's an open casket.
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The little old man is
looking right above at me.
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I am thinking and
still thinking Lord,
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what am I gonna do?
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What am I gonna say these people
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of the guy who hated Christians,
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who hated all this
he was a grumpy old man.
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And then Lord
impressed me just to talk about
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the second
coming of Jesus Christ
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and that's what I did.
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I preached the whole message
on soon coming of Christ.
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And I invited people
there to come to my meetings.
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You know, people responded,
people came to my meetings
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and you know what that
little old man had to say about
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all of this preaching about
the second coming of Jesus,
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not a thing he is dead.
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You see and that's the point.
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That's the point.
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God want's us to die for self
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so we have no
opinions of our own.
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We allow God to
take all the pain.
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See both Bonhoeffer
and Paul were saying that
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in order to follow
Christ pathway of growth
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we must surrender our own
plans, our own will every day.
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We must guide ourself,
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after all does a dead person
have any will of their own.
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But how do you and
I reach this point.
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In ancient times if
you wanted to become
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particular teacher
or something like that
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you wanted to follow a rabbi
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and you wanted to
follow him very closely.
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You want to follow him
as closely as you could
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mimic every move.
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Listen to every
word they have to say
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and virtually imitate
every thing about them.
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You wanted to stay
right in their shadow.
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It was a saying that grew
out of this life experience.
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Basically it was this.
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May the dust of
your rabbi fall upon you.
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You see, there
could be no separation
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between you and your
teacher to experience
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the dust of your
rabbi falling upon you.
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How about you?
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Are you
following Jesus so closely
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that the dust of Jesus
sandals is falling upon you?
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In the garden of Gethsemane
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the disciple Peter made
a bold statement to Jesus.
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Over the years he made many
00:14:39.49\00:14:41.29
but this one was
really over the top.
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He shouted out for everyone
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to hear in his
brazen fishermen voice.
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"Even if
everyone else forsake you
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I will never leave you."
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But only a short time
later while trying to blend in
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with the very
crowd that arrested Jesus
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with his words fresh on his lips
00:14:56.59\00:14:58.77
he spewed out a
villous profanity
00:14:58.80\00:15:01.33
turning the air blue
in an attempt to deny
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any knowledge of Jesus Christ.
00:15:03.45\00:15:05.98
If we back track
back to the garden
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a short time earlier
in his boastful claim
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of never leaving Jesus
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we witness the
mob arresting Jesus
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and calling Him down
the hill to the city.
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The question is
what happened to Peter?
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Well, he pulled out a sword
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and he cut off
the ear of a servant
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which Jesus healed instantly.
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But from that point onward
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He is to be found
only in the shadows.
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The next scene is specifically
recorded in Matthews Chapter 26
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and speaking of Peter it says,
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he followed
Jesus from a distance.
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Now this short
sentence is full of meaning
00:15:38.59\00:15:40.31
because I believe it holds
a key to the Peters downfall
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in denial of Jesus.
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It says "that he
followed Jesus from a distance."
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Remember the saying I
shared with you earlier,
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may the dust of
your rabbi fall upon you.
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If you are going to be
influenced by the master
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you must stay close enough
to touch him at all times.
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Did Peter, purposely
put distance between himself
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and the master and
result he lost his way.
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But one of those curses
00:16:07.26\00:16:08.34
were still dripping
from his lying lips.
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He was compelled to turn
and when he did he saw Jesus
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standing in the judgment
hall looking right at him.
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But there was no condemnation
for Peter in that look
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there was only
sadness and sorrow
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seen in the eyes of Lord.
00:16:22.70\00:16:24.86
That single look
ripped Peter's hearts.
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Self had reigned
supreme in that heart
00:16:27.59\00:16:29.20
but it was torn apart laid bare
00:16:29.23\00:16:31.88
so he can realize that
human condition is evil
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above all things
desperately wicked.
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Blinded by a flood of tears
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he stumbled back at
the garden of Gethsemane
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where that image of Jesus
burdened was mind forever.
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Oh, he wished he
could die and he did.
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He died the self that
night so that Jesus could live.
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He experienced
what Christians called
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the born again experience,
the rebirth experience.
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He had a rebirth of
mind no longer his mind
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but the mind of
Christ now rein with him.
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From that day forward he allowed
Jesus to direct his life 100%.
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How do you know that
he had rebuilt experience?
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When you are
willing to follow your Lord
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with no distance between you
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then you're His disciple
00:17:14.44\00:17:15.73
and your actions
will demonstrate the fact.
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I think about Hudson
Taylor an amazing young man
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who followed Christ to
the other side of the world.
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At age 17 Hudson
Taylor accepted Jesus Christ.
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Soon afterwards he felt called
to be a missionary in China
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but that meant
leaving his beloved England.
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In 1853, at age 21
he did that very thing.
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He stood on the docks
there and talked to his mother
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the moment they
went up on the ship.
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And they knew that this
would be their final good-bye.
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And I would like to
share with you in his own words
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what that parting was like.
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"She sat by my side, and
joined me in the last hymn
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that should be sung
together for the long parting.
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We knelt down, and she prayed.
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The last mother's prayer
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I was to hear
before starting for China.
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Then notice was given
that we must separate,
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and we had to say good-bye,
00:18:15.82\00:18:17.38
never expecting to
meet on earth again.
00:18:17.41\00:18:20.04
For my sake she
restrained her feelings
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as much as possible.
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We parted and she
went to the shore,
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giving me her blessing.
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I stood alone on the
deck, and she followed the ship
00:18:28.39\00:18:31.53
as it moved
towards the dock gates.
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As we passed through the gates,
00:18:33.88\00:18:35.13
and the
separation really commenced,
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I shall never forget
the cry of anguish wrung
00:18:37.37\00:18:39.55
from that mother's heart.
00:18:39.58\00:18:41.02
It went through me like a knife.
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I never knew so
fully, until then,
00:18:42.96\00:18:44.86
what God so
loved the world meant.
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And I am quite sure
that my precious mother
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learned more of the love of God
to the perishing in that hour
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than in all her life before."
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What an amazing story from a man
00:18:57.20\00:18:59.82
who committed all
could the Jesus Christ.
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You see being been
fully God's men and women
00:19:02.03\00:19:04.43
means you will follow
your God to ends of the earth
00:19:04.46\00:19:06.90
if He asked you to do so.
00:19:06.93\00:19:08.98
Another person
who followed Christ
00:19:09.01\00:19:10.75
because he had fallen so in love
with Him was David Livingston.
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He wrote in his diary,
"Lord, send me anywhere,
00:19:14.81\00:19:17.55
only go with me.
00:19:17.58\00:19:19.23
Lay any burden on
me, only sustain me.
00:19:19.26\00:19:21.86
Sever any ties save
the tie that binds me
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to Thy service
and to Thy heart."
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David Livingston
experienced the amazing
00:19:30.55\00:19:32.52
transforming power in
his life that came from God.
00:19:32.55\00:19:36.34
Dr. Livingston was
from a past century
00:19:36.37\00:19:38.52
and the question is
00:19:38.55\00:19:39.60
does God still work
in the same way of today.
00:19:39.63\00:19:42.38
Well, let me share
story with you about a lady
00:19:42.41\00:19:44.24
I met in
Madagascar, an amazing lady.
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She grew up in a
household speaking with demons.
00:19:47.74\00:19:50.88
Yeah, that's right as
a little girl she grew up
00:19:50.91\00:19:53.55
speaking to demons in
this particular household.
00:19:53.58\00:19:56.84
And the demons said
we'd like to make you witch.
00:19:56.87\00:19:59.36
We'll give you amazing powers.
00:19:59.39\00:20:00.92
We'll give you
incredible power if you join us.
00:20:00.95\00:20:03.85
She said oh, that sound good.
00:20:03.88\00:20:06.06
The demons told her instructed
her to go down to the river
00:20:06.09\00:20:08.63
where she went to the river
00:20:08.66\00:20:10.52
and then they told
her to go underwater
00:20:10.55\00:20:12.17
where she stayed with the
demons for one and half days.
00:20:12.20\00:20:15.12
I stopped the filming
and I said what did you say?
00:20:15.15\00:20:17.99
One and half days.
00:20:18.02\00:20:20.29
She said yes, she said
while I was under water
00:20:20.32\00:20:22.22
the demons gave me
power of lightening
00:20:22.25\00:20:24.08
I could control lightening.
00:20:24.11\00:20:26.04
I could be shot with
the gun it wouldn't hurt me.
00:20:26.07\00:20:28.61
She said one day the armies
came to take over her village
00:20:28.64\00:20:31.84
I created a portion
kept the entire armies
00:20:31.87\00:20:34.02
away from my village.
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Friends, if you think you can
00:20:37.42\00:20:39.54
deal with the devil on your own
00:20:39.57\00:20:41.03
you are greatly mistaken.
00:20:41.06\00:20:42.45
The devil has incredible power.
00:20:42.48\00:20:44.00
You see he was the
fourth most powerful being
00:20:44.03\00:20:46.58
in all the
universe next to the God.
00:20:46.61\00:20:48.93
Amazing powers
but let me tell you
00:20:48.96\00:20:50.58
I've read my Bible from cover
to cover and God never looses.
00:20:50.61\00:20:54.25
God always wins.
00:20:54.28\00:20:56.27
Well, this lady one day
made the demons very mad
00:20:56.30\00:20:59.07
and she was sick
and she went to doctor,
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to doctor, to doctor
no healing, no healing.
00:21:01.09\00:21:04.83
In bed there was
knock at the door
00:21:04.86\00:21:06.48
one day these young
ladies came to the door
00:21:06.51\00:21:08.33
and said we
understand that you're sick.
00:21:08.36\00:21:11.32
We represent a God in
heaven who can heal you.
00:21:11.35\00:21:14.82
Well, she thought
the demons haven't done
00:21:14.85\00:21:16.94
anything for me lately go ahead.
00:21:16.97\00:21:18.90
And they prayed for and
she was instantly healed.
00:21:18.93\00:21:22.00
And then they said if
you listen to this program
00:21:22.03\00:21:23.94
which was a
program about Jesus Christ.
00:21:23.97\00:21:25.59
She said it will change
your life and it certainly did.
00:21:25.62\00:21:28.78
She fell in love
with Jesus Christ
00:21:28.81\00:21:30.69
and she said I was baptized.
00:21:30.72\00:21:33.03
And then I asked her a question
00:21:33.06\00:21:34.28
because I have seen this
happen many places of the world.
00:21:34.31\00:21:36.65
I said, did the demons do,
did the devil try and drown you
00:21:36.68\00:21:39.25
while you're in the water.
00:21:39.28\00:21:40.31
She said no she said
because people prayed
00:21:40.34\00:21:43.44
and fasted for me seven days
00:21:43.47\00:21:45.29
but the moment I
came up out of the water
00:21:45.32\00:21:47.29
she said the moment I came up
00:21:47.32\00:21:48.92
I had my house
laid next to the river
00:21:48.95\00:21:50.43
it burned to the ground.
00:21:50.46\00:21:51.49
The devil burned
it to the ground.
00:21:51.52\00:21:53.90
I went kicking through the ashes
when everything cooled down
00:21:53.93\00:21:56.91
and there she
said I found my Bible
00:21:56.94\00:21:58.75
completely untouched
and unhurt by the flames.
00:21:58.78\00:22:02.05
And because of that she
said many people believed
00:22:02.08\00:22:04.93
and then she stopped me
and she said can you help me.
00:22:04.96\00:22:07.35
I said help you do what?
00:22:07.38\00:22:09.16
Oh, she says help
me build a church.
00:22:09.19\00:22:10.99
I said why.
00:22:11.02\00:22:12.80
Well, she says I
have 100 people now
00:22:12.83\00:22:15.03
that I have shared Jesus with
00:22:15.06\00:22:16.48
and they've
accepted Jesus Christ.
00:22:16.51\00:22:19.18
My friends, the power
of God is transforming,
00:22:19.21\00:22:22.34
the power of God is amazing
00:22:22.37\00:22:24.02
and that power is
waiting for you too.
00:22:24.05\00:22:26.34
I'm often asked why we
don't see these happen in
00:22:30.87\00:22:33.15
here in United States
these amazing miracles.
00:22:33.18\00:22:35.85
Well, I think I have
got an answer for you.
00:22:35.88\00:22:38.42
Remember Peter and
John walked up to the temple
00:22:38.45\00:22:41.01
and there was a beggar.
00:22:41.04\00:22:42.69
The beggar got all excited
because the fellow stopped
00:22:42.72\00:22:45.36
but then John
pulls out the pocket
00:22:45.39\00:22:47.19
and he says you know
I don't have any silver.
00:22:47.22\00:22:49.19
And matter of fact
I don't have any gold
00:22:49.22\00:22:52.10
but what I have I give to you.
00:22:52.13\00:22:54.33
And he reached down he
took the beggar by the hand
00:22:54.36\00:22:56.75
and he lifted him up.
00:22:56.78\00:22:58.24
He was instantly healed.
00:22:58.27\00:23:00.05
Now the question is
here in the United States
00:23:00.08\00:23:03.11
what do we have?
00:23:03.14\00:23:04.64
Well, we have got all the
silver and we have all the gold
00:23:04.67\00:23:07.23
what don't we have, we
don't have the Holy Spirit.
00:23:07.26\00:23:10.40
What did Peter had?
00:23:10.43\00:23:11.53
Peter had the Holy Spirit.
00:23:11.56\00:23:13.56
See Dwight L.Moody once said
00:23:13.59\00:23:15.24
"Our greatest fear
should not be of failure,
00:23:15.27\00:23:18.24
but of our greatest fear should
of succeeding of something
00:23:18.27\00:23:21.63
that really doesn't matter."
00:23:21.66\00:23:23.96
There is only one thing
that matters in the world
00:23:23.99\00:23:26.52
in this life and
this relationship
00:23:26.55\00:23:28.58
and it's a
relationship with Christ
00:23:28.61\00:23:30.62
everything else is
going to be burned out.
00:23:30.65\00:23:33.45
And this is perhaps one
greatest books ever written
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on the biblical
teachings of Christ.
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Jesus use parables to open
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the vistas of
heaven to the people
00:23:49.37\00:23:52.19
and to expend their thinking.
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As the no other
book has ever done
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Ellen White unwraps the parables
00:23:54.69\00:23:56.63
allowing us to see
Christ our salvation
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There is a cost
associated with commitment,
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David
Livingston understood that.
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Livingston
spent most of his life
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faithfully
serving God in Africa.
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Is God calling you to Africa?
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Well, probably not
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but He has calling you to
place your complete trust in Him
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before all else, Jesus Christ.
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Livingston once said
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I will place more
value in anything I have
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or may posses excepting relation
to the kingdom of Christ.
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Jesus taught
radical commitment to him.
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He did not preach
a prosperity gospel.
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He was not looking to raise up
secret friendly mega churches.
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He was looking for
people who fell in love with Him
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and realized that
nothing else mattered.
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Let's look it
how Jesus interacted
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with those who came seeking Him.
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It's recorded in Luke Chapter 9.
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And it happened as
they were going their way
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one said and Lord, I
follow You wherever you go.
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Jesus said to Him
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"Foxes have holes
and birds have nests
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but the Son of Man doesn't even
have anywhere to lay his head."
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But you're going to
claim the kingdom of God.
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And the other
one also said, Lord,
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you know I will follow You
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but first allow me to take
leave for those in my house.
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Jesus said no, no, no
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first when a man puts
his hand on the plough
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he doesn't look back.
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You need to follow
the kingdom of God.
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Then a rich man
came running to Him
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saying Lord, I
want to follow You.
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I want to do every
thing I can to follow You.
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When Jesus heard this
story then He said look
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you lack one thing
sell all of that you have
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and distribute it to the poor
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and you shall
have treasure in heaven
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and come follow Me.
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And when he heard this
he went away very sorrowful
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because he was
extremely rich, extremely rich.
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You know, Christ was
on an absolutely role
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when you describe what real
and total commitment was to Him.
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Let me read from John,
then Jesus said to them.
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"Verily, verily, I say unto you,
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except eat the
flesh of the Son of Man,
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and drink his blood,
you have no life in you.
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Whosoever eats my
flesh, and drinks my blood,
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has eternal life
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and I will raise
him up at the last day,
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for my flesh is meat indeed,
and my blood is drink indeed.
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He that eats my
flesh, and drinks my blood,
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dwells in me, and I in him."
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When they heard these things
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they finally realized
what real commitment was,
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what God was asking them.
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And many Bible
records walk with Him no more,
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absolutely no more.
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They realized total commitment.
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And that's what
God is looking from--
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for each of us to is
complete and total commitment.
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Now Christ would not
be pastoring a mega church
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in the suburban metropolitan
area of the United States.
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It's very evident
that is interesting
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not focused on
mega church growth
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but the growth of the individual
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restoring them to the position
among the sons and daughters
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of His eternal family.
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Have you made that kind of
commitment to serve Christ?
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Real commitment is
not as scary as it sounds.
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It's simply giving the Lord
permission to remodel your life
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using His beautiful blueprints
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that are designed
to remake into royalty.
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You know, if you're feeling
conflicted about this decision
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that may be if God is
speaking to you right now.
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Our energy
transfers by saying yes Lord,
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I'm willing to let
You remodel my life.
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If you believe that
God cannot accept you
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because you've
been such a sinner
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may be even a
professed Christian
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sitting in the
church pew doing not much
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but it's a lie of the devil.
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God loves you.
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I invite you
join me the next time
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for a second chance.
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