Our second chance is
possible, God says yes.
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The Bible is
overflowing with examples,
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King David the
murderer, Samson the philander,
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Peter the unconverted Christian
and the list goes on and on.
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And examples outside the Bible
well, they're many there also.
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I am one of them.
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I am talking
about a second chance
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to board the bus
bound for eternity.
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You'll say you're already on
it but are you sure about that.
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Its time to join your
guide Jim Ayer for an exciting
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12 episode journey
into remodeling your life.
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You're going to discover
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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 a
journey of lifetime
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in amazing and
dynamic experience with God.
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You know, I was a thief
and alcoholic and a drug dealer
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when God reached into
my heart and spoke to me.
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I became a Christian
but then I quit studying
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and taking time of God
spending quality time with Him.
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But our spiritual
divorce would not finalize
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so I continued to
play church for years.
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Then God gave
me a second chance.
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You know I was
sitting in the church pew
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listening to the preacher
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when a flash of
convection hit me.
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I realized that I
was eternally lost
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unless I made a drastic change
in my relationship with God.
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He wanted to become
my very best friend.
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How would I respond?
How would you respond?
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You know, my
choice was clear cut.
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God asked me if I want to join
Him on the journey of lifetime.
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God's question really hit me
and I needed to give an answer.
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Should I stay where
I was or go with God?
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Do I continue placing
all of my time and energy
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into amassing
money how was this toys--
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and successes or
do I began placing God
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on the top of my priority list?
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Moses had been going toe to
toe with the pharaoh of Egypt
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and finally pharaoh said,
"I will let you go so that
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you may sacrifice to Jehovah
your God in the wilderness.
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Only you shall
not go very far away."
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Not go very far away,
that's actually the difference
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between freedom and bondage.
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You can be a slave to
the things of this world
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by holding on to the fancy
car, that boat, the motorcycle
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and at the same
time attempt to reach out
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and grasp with
the heavenly pride.
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I'm sure you
considered very strange
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to see an athlete
carrying a suitcase all the way
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around the racetrack
trying to win a race,
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attempting to
reach the finish line.
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Stupid you'd
say well, of course.
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But many
Christians are trying to do
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the same thing
in spiritual matter.
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The question is, "are you,
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are you trying to keep
your feet in both worlds
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and not travel
too far toward Go?"
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The most precious
gift in the universe
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can be hours for the asking.
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No matter how did
general we have become.
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We merely need to
raise our eyes heavenward,
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focus on the things of eternity,
the things that really matter.
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Satan is always very
happy to let us play church
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as long as we don't
get too serious about it.
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Well, especially
the God of the church
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because the word
church simply means
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those called out of the world
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by God to head
in a new direction,
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to enjoy an
unbroken friendship with Him.
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You see the
devil says, "Hey look,
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its okay to
look like a Christian
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and even attend
church but don't go too far.
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There is no reason to go
overboard with this God thing
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beside you don't
want any one thinking
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you're a radical, do you?
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You see, Satan
never gets worried
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when we are always
making plans to leave Egypt,
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but we never actually do.
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Please understand life begins
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when we're freed
from sin and slavery.
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The only way to be free is
to point our eyes toward God,
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to make our commitment
to Him and move our feet.
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We can't afford
to pause for a moment
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and look back toward
the old life in Egypt.
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The old life of sin but
that's exactly what I did.
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You see God called me
out of unbelievable darkness
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and when He called me
from the darkness to light
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I mean I was so excited,
I was absolutely thrilled.
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I began spending so
much time studying my Bible,
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so much time in prayer.
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I would go out early in
the morning under a tree
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and pray to God
may be for hours so.
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I mean it was
absolutely delightful.
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But then along the way,
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I began looking at
things of the world.
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I started in to real estate.
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I got into the top 4%
of all of Coldwell Banker
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agents in all of North America.
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I had my own radio talk show.
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I was, I was doing every
thing that people would say
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"Oh, wow, you
are so successful."
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I was making a lot of money.
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I had my
motorcycle, I had all the cars,
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I had property,
real estate, lands.
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I virtually had it all I
was lobbying on Capitol Hill.
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The Congressmen and senators,
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I was rubbing shoulders
with them on a regular basis.
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As the world looks at success
I was very, very successful.
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And I was, I was in church,
you know, I was dressed nicely
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matter of fact I was going
to places preaching all the time
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but you see
something had happened.
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There was is a real difference
because I was preaching
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without the
power of Holy Spirit.
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I had stopped praying.
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I had stopped really
studying, matter of fact,
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my study time was
almost nonexistent any more
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but I looked apart.
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I did every thing just
the way I was supposed to.
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As I traveled the places
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and I talked
about Jesus Christ like
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why no one would
probably know the difference
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unless you're
someone sitting in the pew
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and you had that converted
heart you've totally left Egypt.
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You had your long
experience with Jesus Christ.
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And you would be able to tell.
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But I doubted my own mind
that there was a lot of people
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who could tell because
unfortunately even today
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there are many
people who do not have
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that experience
with Jesus Christ.
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Who do not spend
that time on their knees
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and prayer and study with Jesus.
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One day sitting in the church
pew all of a sudden Lord said
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"Jim, the Holy Spirit is going
to be poured out all around you.
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You're never
going to recognize it
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or receive it however."
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Wow, all of a
sudden that woke me up
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I thought "Lord, what do I do?"
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I talked with a friend
of mine orthopedic surgeon
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he was having the same
problems that I was having.
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We said well, let's get
together on a Friday evening.
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Let's study together.
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We got together on
that Friday evening.
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He'd got hold the day Bible
study that we had to commit
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to spend about 45 minutes
everyday in prayer and study.
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And I looked at that and thought
"I'm too important for them.
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Spend 45 minutes a
day I can't do that.
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Right, I've got all
these other things to do.
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You know I've got to earn money.
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I've got to go places.
I've got to do things."
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Everybody else
signed but I didn't sign.
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Toward the end of the evening
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they plugged in a
video and I began watching
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that preacher was
preaching just to me.
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He said "Jim, you've piled up
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so much stuff in
front of your door
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and God does call you
to go on mission for Him
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you'll never be
able to get to the door
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to even answer the call."
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And I began,
begin shedding tears.
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Luckily the lights
were off. I hurried up.
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I wiped my eyes and
they turned the lights on.
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The video was over everybody
began walking out the door
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and I still had
in my hand that guide
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and I'm looking at that guide
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thinking what do
I do, what do I do.
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And finally at the
very end I signed my name.
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And I tell you it was a
most exciting second chance.
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God gave me an
amazing second chance
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and I woke up and guess what.
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The first thing I
did when I got home
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I got rid of all the
premium channels on television.
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And I had time to study.
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I had time to get
in God's word again
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and it became a life to me.
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It opened up again.
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I began praying
and talking with God
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on an amazing regular basis.
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Well, I
sometimes I spend an hour
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or two hours talking with God.
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I would have never
believed it before this time
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but it was such an
exciting experience.
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And my friends,
you know its time,
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its time we quit playing church
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and get on with the
business of following God
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and giving our lives
fully and completely to Him.
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What kind of commitment
is God asking us to make.
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A lawyer came to
Jesus and asked one day
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what he had to do to
inherit eternal life.
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An interesting response
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"and you shall love Jehovah
your God with all of your heart,
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with all of your soul,
and with all of your mind."
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That was Jesus response.
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The key is
found in the word all.
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Does that describe
your present experience?
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Well, if not the
same power that lifted me
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out of my prison
of sin and slavery
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is the same
power waiting for you.
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Ever wondered why your life
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doesn't reflect
the powerful change
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that supposed to be part
of every Christian experience.
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Do temptations weigh on
you and leave you saying
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may be I'm 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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Jim was a drug dealer
and alcoholic and a thief
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until God called him but
that was just the beginning
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as someone said he
has lived six lifetimes.
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He became wealthy,
lobbied on Capitol Hill
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and was a church leader.
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But he was lost until
God gave him a second chance.
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People tell us
when you start reading
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Second Chance you
can't put it down.
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You're loved ones
who may be wondering
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if God will give them a
second chance will love it too.
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I came across the story
by Max Lucado some years ago
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that to me really
represents the love of God.
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Story about Maria, Maria
was such a wonderful lady
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lived in a small
town had a difficult life
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but it was
wonderful in some ways
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because she just had
a daughter Christina.
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Unfortunately, her husband died
and she had a very tough time
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but now Maria was a proud
lady she was a wonderful lady
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and she decided to continue
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working hard to
raise Christina up
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in a little tiny
hovel which she have.
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But as Christina grew well
she became a beautiful lady
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but as she grew up
she kept saying "mom,
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I want to go to the city.
I want to go to the city."
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Maria said "honey, the city
will only bring you heartache."
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Because her
mother knew it will be
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so difficult to get a job there.
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She knew what
would happen to Christina
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and how her life
would change dramatically.
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One day mom
walked into the bedroom
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and there was a note on the bed
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that "mom, I have
gone to the city."
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And mother
immediately knew what it meant,
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what was going to happen
to her sweet little girl.
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She grabbed up a few
clothes put them in her suitcase
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and headed down
to the bus station
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on the way she
stopped at the pharmacy.
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And there at the
pharmacy they had a little place
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to take photos in a photo booth.
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She spent most of
her money on photos.
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She jammed all those black
and white photos in her suitcase
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and she got on bus
and headed to the city.
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She is praying the whole
time. She got to the city.
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She began to stopping and
searching every sleazy hotel
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every, every dive,
every bar, every place
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that women of the night hangout.
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And she got to each
one she placed a photo
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in the bathroom, near a
mirror, down the stairwell,
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every place she could find
the shrug may be her daughter
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with one day
discover that photo.
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But she finally ran
out of, out of money,
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she ran out of photos
and she had to go home,
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sitting on the
bus was very difficult
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and that homeward journey
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because she cried
the whole time thinking
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about her poor
Christina what would happen.
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About three weeks
later Christina walked
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down the stairs of
an old hovel of a hotel
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and as she got to the
bottom she looked and there,
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there was a photo of
her mother on a mirror.
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Wept and she choked up
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tears begin to comedown
her eyes as she reached over
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and she grabbed the
photo and she looked.
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She turned it over and
there on the back of the photo
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written on her own
mother hand writing said "honey,
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it doesn't
matter what you've done,
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it doesn't matter
what you've become
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I love you please come home."
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That's the way
God thinks about us.
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That's what our Lord
thinks about you and for me
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it doesn't matter what
we've done, what we've become.
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Matter of fact may be
you have been settling
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in your own church
for years but in reality,
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you haven't turned your
life completely over to God.
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You haven't surrendered 100%.
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But God says "Hey, I
want a friendship with you.
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I want a relationship with you.
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It doesn't
matter what you've done,
00:14:09.42\00:14:11.13
what you've become,
come home, I love you."
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I ask this question of church
congregation all the time,
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is there
anything too hard for God?
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What do you think?
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Can you think of a single
thing God cannot do, to give up?
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If you answered no, you
would have lot of company
00:14:28.20\00:14:30.98
but you would have been wrong.
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There is one thing
that God cannot do.
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He cannot save you if you
will not allow Him to do so.
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You see, the
devil can't make you do
00:14:38.60\00:14:40.63
anything against
your will and God won't.
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In other words God will never
force His way into your life.
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He will not push or change you
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or do anything if you
do not ask Him to do it.
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It's as simple as that.
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Your salvation,
my salvation depends
00:14:54.14\00:14:56.10
upon a solid understanding
of this biblical teaching.
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Let me share a story with you.
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This story is about
Mathew the tax collector.
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Mathew loved money.
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He was, he was
always collecting money.
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I mean people hated him
for it but he did everything
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he could to garner the
money of this worlds goods.
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That's all he focused on,
that's all he thought about
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money, money, money.
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But one day
Jesus came over to him
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and said "Mathew, follow Me."
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And immediately, immediately,
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he closed the cash
register of the day,
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he got up and he followed Jesus.
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You see, our first
parents gave away the right
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and the option of
free choice to the devil.
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But Jesus entered
this world as a man.
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He died to reestablish
the option of free choice,
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free choice to choose
00:15:42.60\00:15:43.89
who our leader will
be, God or the devil.
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Many people keep
themselves into believing that
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they have the third option
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but there is no third option,
there is none that exists.
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But God's love is so
liberating that even though
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those who have served the
devil for their entire lives
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can choose to be
transformed by God's power.
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You know Jesus was always
about His Father business.
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On this particular day He
traveled clear across the Sea
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of Galilee to meet one person,
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a man whose home
was in a graveyard.
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They got to the shore,
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Jesus and the
disciples get out of the boat
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and they proceeded to
go near the graveyard.
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And when all of a sudden
00:17:37.36\00:17:38.39
this man came
running out of the tomb,
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his hair was mad
and blood is coming down
00:17:40.45\00:17:43.10
probably form
self inflected wounds
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he'd been cutting himself.
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He broke every restraint--
nothing could hold this man.
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Well, the disciples were scared
to death, they took off running
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and as they're
heading to the boat
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they get down to the boat.
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And they turn around
and Jesus wasn't with them.
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They turned and they looked
00:17:59.80\00:18:00.89
and Jesus is back with
this man this possessed man.
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Matter of fact, he had
turned his life over to Satan
00:18:04.10\00:18:07.29
so long, so far, so
deeply that Scripture tells us
00:18:07.32\00:18:11.04
that could have
been 2,000 demons
00:18:11.07\00:18:13.17
residing in this
poor pitiful human being.
00:18:13.20\00:18:16.99
But Jesus didn't leave
the screaming, the hovering,
00:18:17.02\00:18:19.32
the viciousness of this man.
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Jesus stayed right there
because there was something
00:18:21.04\00:18:23.98
that had called out to Jesus
in this man and so Jesus came
00:18:24.01\00:18:26.82
specifically to meet with him.
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And He got there He had to stop.
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He could go no
further when Jesus was there
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and Jesus commanded
the demons come out of him.
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And all of a sudden by the time
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the disciples get back
form the edge of the water
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they looked and
Scripture records
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that this man was
clothed and in his right mind.
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Now, where did he get the cloths
because Scripture also says
00:18:45.65\00:18:49.24
"he was naked in the tombs."
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He was naked, where
did he get the clothes?
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I'd like to thank that
Jesus took of His own clothes
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His own righteousness and
wrapped it around this man.
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How beautiful, what a beautiful
example of Christ taking His
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and just, just masking
all the evils within his
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but He didn't want to
just leave him that way.
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Scripture also says
"he was in his right mind."
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What mind was this?
00:19:12.95\00:19:13.98
Well, I believe it was
the mind of Jesus Christ,
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this man had opened up to
Jesus and Jesus transformed
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and He gave him the
new mind, and new heart.
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Philippians 2 says
"Let this mind be in you
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which was also in
Christ Jesus." That's the mind.
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God wants to
give us His mind also.
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Jesus traveled clear across
the lake to reach this one man.
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You and I have
a similar destiny.
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You and I, why-- we were created
00:19:37.95\00:19:40.49
very unique and
very special for God
00:19:40.52\00:19:43.60
to do mighty
things in this world.
00:19:43.63\00:19:45.98
The question is will
you allow God to do it?
00:19:46.01\00:19:48.91
Will you allow Him to
come in transform your life,
00:19:48.94\00:19:52.06
wrap His
righteous robe around you
00:19:52.09\00:19:54.62
and also give you a new mind?
00:19:54.65\00:19:57.21
What a, what a God we
serve, choose this God,
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He will never let you down.
00:20:00.19\00:20:01.85
Have you ever wondered if
God can do the same thing today
00:20:04.78\00:20:07.20
like He did with
demoniac give someone new mind.
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He did just that for Susan.
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Yes, I was raised
going to catholic school
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from ages first
grade to sixth grade.
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And during that time we
went to church three times a day
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and catechism after school
00:20:26.61\00:20:28.12
and this was really
involved in the catholic life.
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I followed godliness it's--
it was more of going to mass
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and lightening the
candles and being present
00:20:36.37\00:20:38.78
but was it really something
00:20:38.81\00:20:40.35
that I understood or
took into a character.
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We never really attended
church we only attended church
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while we are going
to catholic school.
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So, my family didn't
attend church at all.
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And when I transferred
from in the sixth grade
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to seventh grade
into a public school
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is when I began to
head down the wrong road.
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Well, I was sexually molested
00:21:03.11\00:21:04.31
when I was
younger and I just knew
00:21:04.34\00:21:06.93
that I was never going
to be with a right person.
00:21:06.96\00:21:12.01
I just felt like
I was damaged like
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I had a deep
dark hole inside of me
00:21:13.66\00:21:16.37
and I just searched for a way
00:21:16.40\00:21:18.65
to get out to be
away from that pain.
00:21:18.68\00:21:21.61
And I could
just never understand
00:21:21.64\00:21:23.33
why God would allow something
like that to happen to me
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and because I didn't think that
I did anything to deserve it.
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So, when I-- at the age of
10 I started to drink and smoke
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so that I could
get out of myself
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and be somebody
different than who I was.
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And that just continued
to on and things got worse
00:21:38.63\00:21:41.56
and worse the further I
went down the wrong road.
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My drug addiction
lasted for 25 years
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and I did things that
00:21:48.95\00:21:51.51
I never dreamed that I would do.
00:21:51.54\00:21:53.62
And my drug
addiction took me to places
00:21:53.65\00:21:56.78
that I just had no
and it wasn't my plan
00:21:56.81\00:22:00.74
to end up a three time
felon and in and out of jails
00:22:00.77\00:22:03.61
and intuitions
and to ruin my life
00:22:03.64\00:22:05.79
and the lives of people
that I came in contact with
00:22:05.82\00:22:08.24
but that's what happened.
00:22:08.27\00:22:09.72
The way that God
finally got through to me
00:22:09.75\00:22:11.46
was the last time
that I was in jail.
00:22:11.49\00:22:13.50
I met a women and
she said to me "Susan,
00:22:13.53\00:22:15.71
why do you keep
doing what you're doing?"
00:22:15.74\00:22:17.22
And I said "I
knew no other way."
00:22:17.25\00:22:19.54
Since I was 10-years-old I
was seeking to cover the pain
00:22:19.57\00:22:24.97
that I had and
that's all I knew.
00:22:25.00\00:22:26.57
All I knew was being an addict.
00:22:26.60\00:22:28.13
And she said
"can I pray with you?"
00:22:28.16\00:22:29.60
And I said yes.
00:22:29.63\00:22:31.41
She prayed with me,
00:22:31.44\00:22:32.47
I don't even
remember what she said.
00:22:32.50\00:22:34.12
All I know is from that point
00:22:34.15\00:22:35.37
I never had the
obsession to use drugs again.
00:22:35.40\00:22:38.86
And my life I knew that
God was the one that freed me.
00:22:38.89\00:22:42.28
God was the one that,
that took that away from me.
00:22:42.31\00:22:45.21
So I began to search for Him
as hard as I searched for drugs.
00:22:45.24\00:22:49.14
So, He became, He became
my focus everything about that
00:22:49.17\00:22:52.90
I wanted to live I do no longer
00:22:52.93\00:22:55.11
wanted to kill
myself, I wanted to live.
00:22:55.14\00:22:58.07
And so, that's what I did
everything became different.
00:22:58.10\00:23:03.34
Now the way that I
look at my past that
00:23:03.37\00:23:07.90
there're always
varying circumstances
00:23:07.93\00:23:09.92
that are goanna
happen to all of us.
00:23:09.95\00:23:12.02
And now I have, I realized
00:23:12.05\00:23:14.59
that God has given me
a choice, how I respond.
00:23:14.62\00:23:18.56
See, before I taught
that it was everybody's fault.
00:23:18.59\00:23:20.97
I thought it was Gods
fault, my mom and dads fault,
00:23:21.00\00:23:23.01
why didn't they protect
me when it was the cops fault
00:23:23.04\00:23:25.27
and then my probation officer.
00:23:25.30\00:23:27.04
But now I recognized
00:23:27.07\00:23:28.13
that I have the
freedom to address life
00:23:28.16\00:23:32.31
the way that I want to so bad
things are gonna happen to me
00:23:32.34\00:23:35.16
but it's my choice to
look at the right way now.
00:23:35.19\00:23:38.88
So, now I no longer
God's someone that saved me.
00:23:38.91\00:23:42.08
You know He is one that
sustained me through all that
00:23:42.11\00:23:45.09
this 25 years of drug addiction.
00:23:45.12\00:23:48.23
So, I looked to Him as my Savior
00:23:48.26\00:23:50.13
and Redeemer and the person
who has reconstructed my life
00:23:50.16\00:23:54.23
because when I was
in jail the last time
00:23:54.26\00:23:57.17
I was you know 25 pounds
lighter than what I am today,
00:23:57.20\00:24:00.76
my hair is falling out,
my teeth were falling out.
00:24:00.79\00:24:03.26
I was in mess
and He has restored
00:24:03.29\00:24:05.16
not only me
physically but mentally.
00:24:05.19\00:24:08.11
So, yeah, He is the best.
00:24:08.14\00:24:11.97
And when I look at God
at the end of my addiction
00:24:12.00\00:24:14.26
I was incapable of
looking at myself in the mirror
00:24:14.29\00:24:17.59
because not only
did I have my past,
00:24:17.62\00:24:20.41
my past that happen to me
but I had all of the years
00:24:20.44\00:24:22.96
of regret
everything that I've done wrong
00:24:22.99\00:24:25.60
to everybody
including to myself.
00:24:25.63\00:24:28.10
And I was doing drugs
00:24:28.13\00:24:29.16
at the end of my
addiction in order to survive
00:24:29.19\00:24:33.07
because I had
done so much damage.
00:24:33.10\00:24:35.71
So, when He freed me you know
00:24:35.74\00:24:39.20
I could finally
be okay with who I am
00:24:39.23\00:24:43.13
and He, you
know, He tells us that
00:24:43.16\00:24:45.80
He were a new
creature in Christ,
00:24:45.83\00:24:48.17
right and all
things have passed away.
00:24:48.20\00:24:50.12
So that-- I don't even
know who that person is.
00:24:50.15\00:24:52.96
Now I tell my-- and you know,
I don't even think about it
00:24:52.99\00:24:56.23
and that's I want to,
everything is gone it's all gone
00:24:56.26\00:24:59.77
and I'm a new
creature in Christ.
00:24:59.80\00:25:03.15
What I tell
people when they need to
00:25:03.18\00:25:06.20
when they ask me
how I got out of it,
00:25:06.23\00:25:08.61
you know, what steps I took.
00:25:08.64\00:25:11.01
You know the
number one thing is prayer
00:25:11.04\00:25:13.43
seeking God and telling Him
00:25:13.46\00:25:16.69
letting Him
know how weak you are
00:25:16.72\00:25:18.53
and that you are not
capable of doing it on your own.
00:25:18.56\00:25:20.93
You don't know the
choices you need to make that
00:25:20.96\00:25:23.12
you need His
strength to direct you
00:25:23.15\00:25:26.02
because if you go to
Him and you tell Him I need
00:25:26.05\00:25:28.72
because a lot of
times we are saying
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I don't need you God, I
don't need you for anything.
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But if you go to Him you tell
Him I need You for everything.
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I need You to change my will,
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I need You to
change my thoughts,
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my surroundings,
He'll honor that.
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So that's going
to God and asking Him
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that ultimately to me is
the answer to the problems
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that we all have whether
you are an addict or not.
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You know what, there is
nothing you know a lot of times
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when we make
changes in our lives
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we think that we're not gonna be
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able to survive for
the fear of the unknown
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but there is no
greater happiness
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than having the peace
that passes all understanding
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because God is the only one
that can give us that peace.
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So yes we can
definitely be happy.
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A friend of mine
shared her daughters
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door to door
witnessing experience
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which perfectly illustrates
that Jesus and the person
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the Holy Spirit
is still actively
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pursuing a love
relationship with everyone.
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The two young ladies have been
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sharing Christ
in the neighborhood
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when they
ventured upon a large home
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with the hearse
parked in the driveway.
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They thought about skipping
the residence all together
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but then remember the
words of their trainer,
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go to every home
don't pass by any of them.
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Gathering up
every ounce of courage
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they could muster
they rang the bell.
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Within a heartbeat a
multicolored spike hair,
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body pierce, black clothes,
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bizarre looking
man stood before them.
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And after
gathering up their composure
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they invited him to
signup for Bible studies.
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It was a moment of
pause then he spoke,
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go ahead leave the card.
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They gave him the
card and rapidly left.
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Months later
while visiting a church
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a handsome young man
approached the girls and said,
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"Hello, you may not remember me
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but I'm the fellow
that had hearse parked
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in front of the doorway
at the home you came to.
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I was so unhappy with my life
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that I just prayed that
day at it really was a God,
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He would send
someone and you came."
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And God traveled across the sea
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to rescue a guy
living in a graveyard.
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He sent two young ladies to
save a whacked out young man
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and he reached Him in the church
to save me to from eternal ruin.
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What do we have all in common?
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Well, we all realize as devil
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is being lying to us
about the character of God.
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The Lord will enable you
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to get out of the
major mess we're in soon.
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Are you willing
to let Him after all,
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you have everything to gain
and sin and heartache to loose.
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