The English field
marshal, Montgomery or Monty
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as he was called
loved God so much
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that he once observed we sing,
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"Oh, Paradise, Oh
Paradise How I Long for Thee."
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But we do not
really long for that,
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we long to stay
here a bit longer.
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Then he added, I would
like to see an author write,
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oh, paradise, oh, paradise,
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I have a little shop
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and just as long
as prophets last,
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here I mean to stop.
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It's time to join
your guide Jim Ayer
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for an exciting
12th episode journey
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into "Remodeling Your Life."
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You're going to discover
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that God's
transforming power is real
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and He's ready to
provide that power to you.
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Now here's your guide, Jim Ayer
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to take you on the
journey of a lifetime,
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an amazing and
dynamic experience with God.
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We're not unlike the slave
nation Moses led out of Egypt
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or the Jews Nehemiah
hope to lead from Babylon.
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You and I are in danger
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of liking our
captivity far too much.
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It's always dangerous to
enjoy the things of this earth.
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That's why God sent us
his messengers of warning.
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I have a
beautiful painting of Jesus
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hanging on the
wall in my office.
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He's overlooking Jerusalem
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and He said these words
to the people of Jerusalem,
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"Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
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the one killing the prophets
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and stoning those
who are sent to hurt.
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How often I would have
gathered your children together
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even as a hen gathers her chicks
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under her wings
and you would not."
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God desired to call His
people from danger to safety.
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He desires to call you and me
from danger to safety as well.
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Sin placed a barrier
between dead and humanity,
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so God had to act fast,
shortly after the Eden tragedy,
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God began using
dedicated men and women,
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messengers to
speak on His behalf.
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From that time to
ours, He has continued
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to send messengers to admonish,
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to warn, to direct,
to counsel, encourage,
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intercede and instruct
human kind to call aside of sin
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and gather us
under His mighty wings.
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We do well to take
heat of the warning
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that causes from
danger to safety.
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The prophet Malachi
speaking of the Lord said,
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"Behold, I will
send my messenger,
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he shall prepare
the way before me."
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It is a dangerous thing to treat
lightly the warnings of God
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which are provided for
our help and protection.
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To do so is to
take a course of action
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not unlike that of the devil
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when he rebelled in heaven.
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Luke 17:32 says,
"Remember Lot's wife."
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Yeah, here was a woman
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who did listen to
countless warnings
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which ultimately
resulted in her death.
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The twin cities of Sodom
and Gomorrah had become so evil,
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the Lord had to do something
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before they
polluted the entire earth.
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But in one city His
servant Lot remained,
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so the Lord sent messengers
with the warning to get out now.
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Most of the
family would not listen
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but Lot, his wife and
two daughters finally left.
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On the way out, the
messengers gave the instruction,
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"Do not look back."
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But the wife's heart was
still closely tied to the city,
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she turned again
and she lost her life.
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God's never ending desire
is to separate us from anything
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that will cause us harm.
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God says in Isaiah,
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"Let the wicked
man forsake his way."
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You see, sin is
hormone steroids,
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why not take a moment right now
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to ask God for
help in recognizing sin
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and evil around you.
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Then ask him to guide you
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and your family
far away from it,
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before it's forever too late.
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There's a child you know,
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I was assigned to
sit in the back seat.
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I was the designated map reader.
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I would call out
every upcoming street,
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every turn for my dad
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especially in the streets
of San Francisco, I loved it.
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It was fun.
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I would sit back there and
guide and direct continually.
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Why? I was the
designated map reader.
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I could find my way
to almost any destination
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but when the
global positioning system
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or GPS came in,
why, things changed.
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Now a days, I don't think
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I could live without
that sweet voice saying...
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Turn left on Dobbin road.
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And my attention no
longer needs to be dangerously
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focused on negotiating
multiple lanes or traffic
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and trying to turn or
find the prefect off-ramp
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that I may not even
know where the off-ramp is,
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but with the GPS system,
it guides me there perfectly.
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I no longer need to worry
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that I'm turning
into one way traffic,
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well, most of the time.
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But it has helped me to avert
so many dangerous situations
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and kept me safe on
more than one occasion.
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Did you know that God
has His own GPS system?
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God, His
prophets and His spirit,
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they work far better
than any man made systems.
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Isaiah 30 says, "And your ear
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shall hear a word
behind you saying,
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'This is the way walk in it.'
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When you turn to the right hand,
when you turn to the left."
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See it's very convenient
unless we don't listen.
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Unless we don't really care less
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then it becomes an
annoying nuisance to us,
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but that's our problem.
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God has used
prophets like Isaiah
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throughout history
to guide His people
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you and me
safely on our journey.
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But God's people always
seem to have a problem listening
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to His prophets
and believing them.
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He says all stiff necked
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and
uncircumcised heart and ears,
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which of the prophets did
your fathers not persecute?
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But they did not
listen nor bow their ear
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but walked in their own plans
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in the
stubbornness of their evil heart
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and went
backward and not forward.
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Do you see a
pattern developing here?
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God has always labored to
bring us under His protection
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but we rarely listen to
the messenger or the message
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designed to bring us
from danger to safety.
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And after all, who
needs a GPS anyway.
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I'm doing just fine
following my own route.
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But God is the same
yesterday, today, and forever.
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He doesn't change, He
is still speaking to us
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through His
appointed messengers.
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Ever wonder why your life
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doesn't reflect
the powerful change
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that's 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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maybe I'm not trying
hard enough or 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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'Transformation,'
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that have
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from Christians for decades.
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Jim was a drug
dealer and alcoholic
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and a thief
until God called him.
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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 but he was lost
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until God gave
him a second chance.
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You have a family member
who no longer loves the Lord
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or who's wandered away in
spirit and not in reality?
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I believe the story of my life's
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second chance
could be a help to them.
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You see, I was a drug dealer
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and alcoholic and a thief
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and then God spoke to me
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and I became an on
prayer Christian for a time.
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Then the riches of the
world overtook me and I fell
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but God loves to
give a second chance,
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give your loved one a
'Second Chance' today.
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People tell us when you
start reading 'Second Chance,'
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you can't put it down.
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Your loved ones
who maybe wondering
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if God will give
them a second chance
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will love it too.
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You know, Samuel
was God's prophet
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and the visible head of Israel.
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He communicated God's
guiding desires to the nation
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but one day, the people
rose up and said to Samuel,
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now make us a king to judge us
like all of the other nations.
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Yeah, Samuel's hurt
but God's response was,
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the people have
rejected Me and not you, Samuel.
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So it seems that
rejecting God's messenger
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is in reality, rejecting God.
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That's why 2 Chronicles 20:20
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speaks the necessity
of following God's plan.
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"Believe in the Lord your God,
so shall you be established.
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Believe in His prophets
and so shall you prosper."
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You can't do one
without the other,
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they're joined
together as inseparable.
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You can't say you'll follow God
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but then not
listen to the very ones
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who've been sent to
guide us in the direction
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He is asking us to travel.
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The desire to
rebel against God's word
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and His
leadership has been embedded
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in our DNA since Eden.
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Our only hope with salvation
is to listen and follow.
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The guidance that
God wants to give us
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is through His prophets,
in rejecting God's prophets,
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Israel chose a
path of national ruin,
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no prophets, no prospering.
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And I'll be the first one
to tell you to be careful,
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don't listen to
just anyone or anything.
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Jesus did warn us
about false prophets
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trying to infiltrate the church.
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But logic tells us that
if they're false prophets,
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then there are real ones also.
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Notice Paul's statement to
the Ephesians' church members.
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And truly He, God gave
some apostles and some prophets
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for the
perfecting of the saints,
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so that we no longer may
be infants tossed to and fro
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and carried about by
every wind of doctrine,
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in the dishonesty of men.
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In the cunning craftiness
to the veils of deceit
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but you and I,
people of the 21st century,
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we often find it difficult
to look to a modern day prophet.
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I have a question for you.
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How many apples, how
many apples will be eventually
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produced from a single apple?
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You see, God knows the answer,
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then the same
holds true for your life,
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He sees the end
from the very beginning,
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He steps in and out of time
it will to examine and determine
00:11:06.66\00:11:10.08
the best route for
you and me to take.
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He's yearning for you
to utilize His GPS system
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so you can, as the Bible
says, prosper and be in health.
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We cannot continue to follow
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after the world
desiring to be like it
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in the very way Israel
did when they asked for a king
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rather than a prophet.
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I understand to
listening to God's counsel
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is diametrically
opposed to the view of the world
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and has been for much
of the church as well.
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From the beginning to
the plan of redemption,
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those standing in
opposition to God's plans
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and called His messengers
stupid, strange, and crazy,
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and even killed many of them.
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Remember now,
we're talking about
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the actions of
the church members.
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We must be so
careful and cautious to not,
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as the old saying goes,
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"Throw out the baby
with the bath water."
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We must study every
subject to know for ourselves
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what scripture says,
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do not take the
word of anyone else.
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Your safety is found
in solid Bible study.
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I cannot express to you
the intense desire of my soul
00:12:14.95\00:12:18.61
that you should seek the Lord
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most earnestly
why He maybe found.
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We are in the day
of God's preparation,
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let nothing be
regarded as a sufficient worth
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to draw our
minds from the working
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and preparing for the
great Day of Judgment.
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Get ready, let not cold unbelief
hold your souls away from God
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but let His love burn
on altar of your hearts.
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This message of
love and general caution
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was written by Ellen White
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and is very representative
of her council to God's people.
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Many of her
messages of love, rebuke,
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exhortation and guidance
00:12:53.80\00:12:55.55
were written while
living in this country home
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here in the
foothills of Napa, California
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during the early 1900s.
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After studying her counsel on,
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a millions of other
people around the world
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believe she has been used
by God to lead us into a deep
00:13:06.94\00:13:10.56
and lasting
relationship with Him.
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She tirelessly
labored for 70 years
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calling God's people
from danger to safety,
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lifting them ever higher
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to the Lord she so dearly loved.
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Paul Hardy in his noon time
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ABC radio broadcast of
1997 reported on Ellen White.
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"Her writings have been
translated into 148 languages,
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more than Mark for Tolstoy,
more than Agatha Christie,
00:13:41.63\00:13:44.72
more than William Shakespeare.
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Only now is the
world coming to appreciate
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her recommended prescription
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for optimum
spiritual and physical health.
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Ellen White, Ellen White,
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you don't know
her, get to know her."
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She was the fourth
most translated author
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in the entire
history of literature.
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She's the most
translated woman writer,
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the most translated
American author of either sex.
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Ellen White, get to know her.
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The children of
Israel could not prosper
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or be gathered on
the wings of the Almighty
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because they continually
stoned and killed the prophets.
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Satan is aware of the fact
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that he has a
much better opportunity
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to deceive God's people
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if we do not listen
to the guiding voice
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and warnings
delivered to his prophets.
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But that has never stopped God
from issuing messages of hope
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and warning to
His children, why?
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I shared it with you earlier,
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"Believe His prophets
so shall you prosper."
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God never stops
offering warnings and guidance
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because His love
compels him to help us prosper.
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I had the good
fortune of being able
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to spend a few
moments with a young man
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who is deeply in
love with His Lord
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and he
attributes his relationship
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to not only
listening to God's counsel
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but God's messenger as
well and following that word.
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Well, Jim, it happened
when I was in high school.
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I was actually headed to academy
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and as I prepared to leave,
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I was thinking of the things
that I would need in academy
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and I was in
public school before.
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And you know, I was getting into
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just about
everything I could at that time,
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that was the time
when hip hop music
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and rap music was just
growing and I was into that,
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I grew up with
Seventh-day Adventist
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but you know how it is,
you dabble and sample things
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and that's what I was doing.
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But as I prepared
to leave for academy,
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you know, I was like-- you know,
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I need to get my
life together with God
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and try to head
down the right road
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and all those things
started coming to me somehow.
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And I went to my
dad who was a minister
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and he said--Hey,
I've got two books for you.
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He gave me a two volume set
00:15:57.77\00:15:59.87
by this wonderful
woman, Ellen G. White
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called "Mind,
Character and Personality."
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And that two volumes had
really made an impact on me
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because it was very practical.
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Well, I think if anything
has changed it is been that
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I see even more
power in her writings today
00:16:14.99\00:16:19.36
than I did back then.
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As is often the case
with most Christians,
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I kind of strayed a
little bit, you know.
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Yes, I read those
things in high school,
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they were meaningful to me.
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But as you grow older,
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you think you know
enough and you can move on
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but I've come to see
now later on in life that,
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you know, the
writings of Ellen White
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are from the
very whispers of God.
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And they are intended
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for the entire length
and breadth of a life,
00:16:43.64\00:16:45.90
not just, you know for a moment.
00:16:45.93\00:16:48.14
So if anything has changed,
00:16:48.17\00:16:49.81
it is that I have
found her counsel to be
00:16:49.84\00:16:51.89
even broader and
wiser and deeper than I did,
00:16:51.92\00:16:55.38
you know back when
I was in high school.
00:16:55.41\00:16:57.46
It started then but
books like Desire of Ages,
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The fierce urgency of
the great controversy.
00:17:02.13\00:17:05.83
Books like, Steps to
Christ, the simple way
00:17:05.86\00:17:11.92
in which she talks
about walking with God,
00:17:11.95\00:17:14.25
those books have been
really meaningful to me.
00:17:14.28\00:17:16.98
And I don't want to suggest that
that I'm totally transformed,
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I'm not there yet, God
is still working with me
00:17:20.72\00:17:23.38
but an integral
part of that process
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has been His
writings through His servant.
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I believe that
when God gives light,
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it is for us to
filter it through His word,
00:17:31.57\00:17:34.47
to be sure it is
light but when we see it,
00:17:34.50\00:17:37.10
to follow the light
and I think in my life,
00:17:37.13\00:17:41.14
I've seen the
writings of Ellen White
00:17:41.17\00:17:42.92
had tremendous
impact on other lives
00:17:42.95\00:17:45.35
but I've also
seen where the truth
00:17:45.38\00:17:47.74
that God has given her
has impacted me greatly.
00:17:47.77\00:17:50.72
I stand here, today
I believe in this house
00:17:50.75\00:17:53.32
because God led me to this place
00:17:53.35\00:17:56.68
and led me to
this point in my life.
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My parents, my
father led his way
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into this truth and
his life was transformed
00:18:02.47\00:18:06.15
in large part by the writings
of this wonderful prophet.
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So I know what it means
to have history with her,
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the same thing that it
did to my dad, it did to me.
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And I believe that's nothing
but the hand of God moving
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upon His servant even
after her death, years now.
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He continues to lead
people to Him through her.
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I think the
counsel I would give is,
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number one, be sure that
God's word is the center,
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the fulcrum around
which you build your life.
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That's very important.
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And the second
thing I would say is,
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be sure that you make
the reading and the imbibing
00:18:39.08\00:18:42.44
of the writings of Ellen White
00:18:42.47\00:18:44.23
a part of your
Christian experience,
00:18:44.26\00:18:46.28
a part of your devotional life.
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I think you're gonna
find that those two things
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are like bookends that
help to keep you balanced
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and standing for Him.
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This beautiful mural
depicting the earthly journey
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of God's people is
located in Ellen White estate
00:19:01.63\00:19:04.00
here in Silver Spring, Maryland.
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Notice, Ellen has
portrayed experiencing
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the first of her
more than 2,000 visions
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used in guiding God's people.
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Her visions and life work
were focused on just one thing,
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Jesus Christ.
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Jesus Christ and
His eternal love for us
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and His power to
recreate us in His image.
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Some of her visions were
almost four hours in length.
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While in vision, examining
00:19:27.07\00:19:28.65
physicians found
her to have no breath,
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no eye movement
or blinking at all.
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On one occasion, she
took this very Bible,
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18.5 pound family bible
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and lifted it up
and extended it outward
00:19:39.16\00:19:40.88
at arm's length for
close to half an hour.
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This little lady was only 80
pounds in size and 5'2" tall.
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Now the messages
God gave her in vision
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help to create a health
work spanning the globe.
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Our health system is one
of the largest in the world.
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It all started with
Doctor J Harvey Kellogg
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located in
Battle Creek, Michigan.
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You know,
Kellogg's cornflakes fame.
00:20:03.40\00:20:05.90
From those humble beginnings,
00:20:05.93\00:20:07.25
our health work now
embraces 170 hospitals,
00:20:07.28\00:20:11.03
381 clinics and dispensaries,
00:20:11.06\00:20:13.59
a 115 nursing homes
and retirement centers,
00:20:13.62\00:20:16.62
36 orphanages
and children's homes
00:20:16.65\00:20:19.19
and the numbers are growing.
00:20:19.22\00:20:21.16
Because of the health message
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she shared, studies are showing
00:20:22.39\00:20:23.70
that Seventh-day
Adventist women live
00:20:23.73\00:20:25.47
6.1 years
longer than their peers
00:20:25.50\00:20:28.43
and men 9.5 years
longer than their peers
00:20:28.46\00:20:32.70
and it's all
because of Jesus Christ.
00:20:32.73\00:20:37.41
Ellen White's complete
focus is on Jesus Christ.
00:20:37.44\00:20:41.06
Let me give you an example,
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here are just a few of the books
00:20:42.15\00:20:43.18
that she
published out of the many.
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Christ's Object Lessons,
00:20:45.45\00:20:47.16
Thoughts from the
Mount of Blessings
00:20:47.19\00:20:48.34
on the
teachings of Jesus Christ,
00:20:48.37\00:20:50.24
the Desire of Ages,
the great masterpiece
00:20:50.27\00:20:52.22
on the life of Jesus
took 10 years in the making.
00:20:52.25\00:20:55.28
The Great Controversy
between Christ and Satan,
00:20:55.31\00:20:57.96
Steps to Christ, you know,
00:20:57.99\00:20:59.18
The Life of
Christ, Christ our Savior.
00:20:59.21\00:21:02.56
Jesus Christ is all
and all to Ellen White
00:21:02.59\00:21:05.01
and she wanted to
uplift Him to each one of us
00:21:05.04\00:21:07.14
and because of
that amazing guidance,
00:21:07.17\00:21:09.50
we have a publishing
work that encircles the globe
00:21:09.53\00:21:11.64
comprising 63 publishing houses,
00:21:11.67\00:21:14.28
17 literature
ministry seminaries
00:21:14.31\00:21:16.41
literature workers.
00:21:16.44\00:21:19.59
Due to Ellen's
urging and counsel,
00:21:19.62\00:21:20.90
our school
system expands the globe
00:21:20.93\00:21:22.69
with 7,761 universities
and schools in 145 countries.
00:21:22.72\00:21:29.14
God has been faithful
according to His word.
00:21:29.17\00:21:31.76
Because of
following White's counsel,
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the Seventh-day Adventist Church
00:21:33.43\00:21:34.46
is the fastest growing
denomination in United States
00:21:34.49\00:21:37.55
and the sixth
largest in the world,
00:21:37.58\00:21:39.77
expanding 209 countries.
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Would you like to prosper?
00:21:42.64\00:21:44.26
I hope you will join
with me and millions of others
00:21:44.29\00:21:46.67
who have been
blessed beyond measure
00:21:46.70\00:21:48.68
because we have
listened to the voice of God
00:21:48.71\00:21:50.83
he has shared
through His messenger.
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Hey, you going north, huh?
00:23:06.75\00:23:08.63
Yes, I am. I'm north bound.
00:23:08.66\00:23:10.59
Well, I'm going that
way too, you want a ride?
00:23:10.62\00:23:13.27
I would love one, but I can't.
00:23:13.30\00:23:15.81
Don't you-- you
want to go north?
00:23:15.84\00:23:17.92
Yes. I'm going north.
00:23:17.95\00:23:19.39
And you want a ride? I
would love to, but I can't.
00:23:19.42\00:23:23.55
Well, why not? I
would have to drive.
00:23:23.58\00:23:28.33
You'd have to drive?
00:23:28.36\00:23:29.49
We are so happy to let God
00:23:41.63\00:23:42.92
be a passenger in our
car but God wants to drive.
00:23:42.95\00:23:46.78
Are you aware that
99% obedience to God
00:23:46.81\00:23:49.39
is still 100% disobedience?
00:23:49.42\00:23:52.45
After years of following Jesus,
many disciples finally realized
00:23:52.48\00:23:56.42
that it required
radical commitment to Him
00:23:56.45\00:23:58.70
in order to enter the kingdom.
00:23:58.73\00:24:00.99
When they did, they
turned away from Him
00:24:01.02\00:24:03.05
and never walked with Him again.
00:24:03.08\00:24:05.12
They thought the
cost was just too high.
00:24:05.15\00:24:08.00
They cannot bring themselves
to the point of surrender.
00:24:08.03\00:24:11.49
God has put in place
a self imposed restraint
00:24:11.52\00:24:13.85
that restricts him from this
00:24:13.88\00:24:15.32
jumping into
our car and driving.
00:24:15.35\00:24:17.37
He won't do it unless
we invite Him to do so,
00:24:17.40\00:24:20.22
no matter how much He'd
like to help and protect us.
00:24:20.25\00:24:23.59
He will not operate
against your will or mine.
00:24:23.62\00:24:27.02
Paul Tripp said
it best when he said,
00:24:27.05\00:24:28.61
if Christ does not reign over
the mundane events in our lives,
00:24:28.64\00:24:32.06
he does not reign at all.
00:24:32.09\00:24:36.05
Addressing this
very issue of surrender,
00:24:36.08\00:24:38.39
Ellen White made a
surprising declaration
00:24:38.42\00:24:40.41
regarding the
spiritual state of God's people.
00:24:40.44\00:24:43.33
It is a solemn statement
00:24:43.36\00:24:44.59
she said that I
make to the church
00:24:44.62\00:24:46.75
that not one in twenty
00:24:46.78\00:24:47.91
whose names are
registered upon the church books
00:24:47.94\00:24:50.14
are prepared to
close their earthly history
00:24:50.17\00:24:53.04
and would be as
verily without God
00:24:53.07\00:24:55.24
and without hope in the
world is the common sinner.
00:24:55.27\00:24:58.66
This half and half work is
a constant denial of Christ
00:24:58.69\00:25:02.02
rather than a
confessing of Christ.
00:25:02.05\00:25:04.67
If we review biblical history,
it's a very sobering thing,
00:25:04.70\00:25:07.85
think about this, at the flood,
00:25:07.88\00:25:09.87
only eight
people out of--perhaps
00:25:09.90\00:25:11.72
millions accepted
God's gift of mercy.
00:25:11.75\00:25:15.20
At the borders
of the promise land,
00:25:15.23\00:25:16.72
Israel rebelled against
God and they were turned away.
00:25:16.75\00:25:20.80
Of the original
million plus church members,
00:25:20.83\00:25:23.13
only two men crossed
over the Jordan river,
00:25:23.16\00:25:25.70
40 years later to
enter the promise land.
00:25:25.73\00:25:29.41
Do you remember
the wedding party
00:25:29.44\00:25:30.59
of the ten virgins
spoken up in the Bible?
00:25:30.62\00:25:32.89
The percentage that went
with the groom was higher,
00:25:32.92\00:25:35.85
50% finally made it.
00:25:35.88\00:25:38.45
This may come as a
huge surprise to you
00:25:38.48\00:25:40.34
because those
numbers are not good on us.
00:25:40.37\00:25:43.75
Why gamble with
your eternal destiny?
00:25:43.78\00:25:46.39
The Lord is not
willing to initiate perish
00:25:46.42\00:25:49.13
but there will
be those who choose
00:25:49.16\00:25:50.74
not to accept His
wonderful gift of life.
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Following God and His prophet
at this time in earth's history
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is critical to your salvation.
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Generations have
not allowed the Lord
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to be the driver in their lives
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but it's time to allow
Him to control your destiny.
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AW Tozer said the true
follower of Christ will not ask.
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If I embrace this
truth, what will it cost me?
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Rather he will
say, this is truth,
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God help me to walk in
it, what come what may.
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Jesus knew that
in the last days,
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there would still be prophets
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because He said,
beware of false prophets.
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Notice He didn't say
beware of all prophets,
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only false ones.
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No, I'm not asking
you to immediately jump
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in with both feet on
this critical subject
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before you explore
the issue in depth.
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What I am asking
you to do is study,
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examine and seek God's
leading through prayer.
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He said to test the
prophets and examine their fruit
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and that's what
you should do as well.
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As part of your
study, I encourage you
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to obtain a copy
of this wonderful book
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written by Ellen White called
"Christ's Object Lessons".
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Many believe it to be
an inspired commentary
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on the parables of Jesus Christ
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with practical
application for everyday life.
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Here's Jean Boonstra to tell you
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This is perhaps one
of the greatest books
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ever written on the
biblical teachings of Christ,
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Jesus used parables
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to open the distance
of heaven to the people
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and to expand their thinking.
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As no other book has ever done,
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Ellen White
unwraps the parables,
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allowing us to see
Christ our salvation
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revealed in all of
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throughout each and every page.
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