You know with what
joy we look forward
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to His
appearing, but on that day
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when Jesus return's to earth
many will discover, too late,
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that all sin is
highly combustible.
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It's time to join
your guide Jim Ayer
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for an exciting
12 episode journey
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into "Remodeling Your Life."
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You're going to discover
that God's transforming power
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is real and He is ready
to provide that power to you.
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Now here's your
guide Jim Ayer to take you
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on the journey of a
lifetime, in amazing
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and dynamic experience with God.
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A French explorer
journeyed deep into the Congo
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while on safari many years ago.
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Each night his guides
would gather up the sticks
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and branches and dry
blades of grass of tender
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for building large
fires to illuminate
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and protect the camp.
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They would stoke
the fire all night long
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to keep wild animals
from venturing too close.
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Well, as the jungle travels
continue to cross many miles
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the Frenchmen begin to
notice large piles of sticks
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and dry grass arranged
in exactly the same way
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as his guides have done
each night to prepare the fires.
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Who is doing this, he asked.
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Well, the guide
said, the monkeys.
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The monkeys then you see
they watch us every single night
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and they mimic
all of our actions.
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They have absolutely everything
right except the fire.
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We must not be like the monkeys.
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We can no longer
afford the play church
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by building fake fires
and pretending to serve God.
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We must have the
fire of God's spirit
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burning brightly in
our hearts right now.
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It's with this fire
that God burns up the sins
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in our lives in
preparation for His return
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and His coming, the
Lord's of brightness
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will be like a
consuming fire to all sin.
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Peter asked the question
that should ring in our heart
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and in the minds,
when all these things
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are about to be
dissolved, what sort ought
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you to be and holy
behavior and godliness.
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Isn't it time to make sure
that God is given permission
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to burnout every
sin in your life,
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so you can become fireproof.
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Understand for
those who choose to claim
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to their favorite sins,
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those sins remain
as part of their DNA.
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When the Lord returns
He will not veil His glory
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and all sin will be burned up.
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If you're holding on to sin
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you will go up in
flames with those sins.
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This is the time
to become fireproof.
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In other words, it's
time to become like Jesus.
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You know, on my
own on going journey
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of becoming best
friends with Christ,
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He led me to start
highlighting my Bible.
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Jimmy and I where in Guatemala
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staying with a
friend over looking up,
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a beautiful jungle river.
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It was very relaxing
time and God impressed me
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to start reading my Bible
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with my yellow
highlighter in hand.
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I started marking
every text that spoke of
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the mighty power
of God and His desire
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to share that power with us.
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The desire of God do
separate us from sin.
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The happiness found when
we separate from that sin,
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the need to become
over comers in this life
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not at a future date and also
God's need to abide with us,
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to live in our lives to
enable us to become like Him.
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What I discovered
was God's amazing longing
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to give us victory over sin.
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His desire to
separate us from the devil
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and to keep us from
falling into temptation.
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Well, I was simply
overwhelmed with my findings.
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Let me give you some examples.
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Allow me to read
a sampling of text
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that simply amazed me
during my early studies.
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The first one is
found in 1John 2:1,
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"My little children
these things I write to you
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that you may not sin. "
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Another one is
found in Psalms 119:11,
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"Your word have
I hid in my heart
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that I might not
sin against you. "
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Whoever has been
born of God does not sin
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for his seed remains
in him and he cannot sin.
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Because he has been born of God
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and let me give you
another one in Jude 1:24,
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"Now to him was able to
keep you from stumbling,
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and to present you
faultless before the presence
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of his glory
with exceeding joy. "
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And the final one 1John 3:6,
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"Whoever abides
in him does not sin,
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whoever sins has neither
seen him nor known him. "
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I challenge you to
start highlighting your Bible
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as I have done and discover
what God has in store for you.
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Well, I don't know
about how it sorted,
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I guess it was pretty
sorted 'cause I'm going to rebel
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most of my early years
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and my mother was a
good Christian woman
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and tried to raise me
the best way she could
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but got caught up in
the things of the world
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like many of our young people do
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and however came a
cigarette but was my beer
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pull out the car as Las
Vegas my second home but
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I praise God for
His continue mercies
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and the prayers of a
good Christian mother
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they continue to try
to draw us somewhere else.
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Anyway my mom
invited me to come to church.
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I'm a Rebel.
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I have no interest
in spiritual things
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and she invites
me to come church,
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special speaker coming
towards church and I say-
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oh, mom, I am
probably working, day shift
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wouldn't be able to make
it and I was working 4 to 12.
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I drive up in the
church parking lot,
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brand new Corvette, I go inside,
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there is a man
speaking gives a real solid
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straight message that day,
really was interested in it.
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So I said, hey, John,
well, appreciate your messages.
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Well, I'm doing
evangelistic meeting coming up
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and I'd like to
invite you to come out
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and come to the
evangelistic meeting.
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So would I'll try to do that.
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Now the devil got me real busy,
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never made one of them but
about a month and a half later
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my mother says to me
that preacher you like
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so well he's at our church again
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and I'd like for you
to come out to church.
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Mom I'm probably, I'm
probably working dayshift again
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and anyway I was
working 4 to 12 once again,
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same thing, 25
after 11 I pulled up
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in the church parking
lot, brand new Corvette,
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go inside there's
a real solid message
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and this time he
has an appeal at the end
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and I would recommend appeals
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at your church
services all the time
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because God knows
there's some people there
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that need to have
their lives changed.
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He made an appeal and
as I was sitting there
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in the pew listening to that
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the Holy Spirit
spoke to me that day.
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Jim, just as clear, I
come from military back ground,
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law enforcement background
and you have to tell me
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pretty straight and the
Lord spoke to me that day
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and said Ron, you've been
playing the game long enough.
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Either choose to serve Me
today or you are a lost man.
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And I said Lord, I've
wasted all these years
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but if You'll
have me I'll serve You.
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He'd let me now in His kind
loving way that He will have me.
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I went forward that day with
tears streaming down my face.
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Didn't really know
what was happened to me
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but I went
forward and I must say,
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life hasn't been the
same since, praise God.
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Well, He did
take me on a journey
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and that journey,
I remember one night
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and I was struggling
with this because you know
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like I said I was
living this life as a rebel
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and now all of a
sudden things are starting
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changing in heart, in my life
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and all of a sudden the
things about going to Las Vegas
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wasn't so important anymore and
trying to figure this all out
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and I had married a
Philistine girl at the time,
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prior to that and
my Philistine wife
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didn't have a clue
what was happening to me.
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And so things started to change
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and one of the things
that started to change
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is the closer I
was getting to God,
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the more the devil
was working on my wife.
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He tried to do all
he could to derail me
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and she actually
became jealous of God
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and I don't know if
others experience that
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I'm sure they have
but the bottom line was
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it was either God or her.
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And so I had to let her
know in the one certain terms
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there wasn't anyone in the world
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that I loved anymore than her,
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but God had to come first
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and that's what I
wanted in her life.
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The Satan went to war,
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using the ones
closest to me at the time.
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I guess the biggest battle
I've ever fought in my life,
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Jim, was full and
complete surrender to the Lord.
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The battle didn't just
end when I made an alter call
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went front, went forward,
the battle really got started
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even very heated battle
and I remember one night
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when I was riding around
the patrol car and I just -
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this
overwhelming struggle going on
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and I remember going
out in the middle of nowhere
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and parking the car and
just getting out of the car
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and falling on my knees
in the middle of a field
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and just pleading with
God that He had to help me.
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There's just no way I
could possibly make it
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unless He helped me.
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I had some what
of a Jacob's struggle
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so to speak, I
will not let You loose,
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I will not turn You
loose unless You bless me.
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And the Lord
assured me again that night
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that He had a very special
purpose in my life for me
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and so I went
forward and I continued
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to work in law enforcement
for about two more years.
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During that time
though I got involved-
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the pastor of
the got me involved
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in doing evangelistic
meetings and series.
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I got involved in that,
as I was doing Bible studies
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and hospital
visitations et cetera.
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And the Lord was blessing,
with quite a number of baptisms
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I remember the
first little meeting I did
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and the Lord
blessed with 20 baptisms
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and next one was17 baptisms.
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Most of those people are
still in the church today,
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very active and
love God's church
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except for some that had
fallen asleep in the Lord
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waiting for the resurrection.
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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 life times,
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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 second chance
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could be a help to them.
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You see I was a drug
dealer, an alcoholic and a thief
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and then God spoke to me and
I became an on fire Christian.
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Poor time when the
riches of the world overtook me
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and I fell 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
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"Second Chance"
you can't put it down,
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your 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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Now here's the
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To this point in our
series we've touched on the part
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you play in a cosmic war
between Christ and Satan.
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Now we're going to
explore the subject of choice
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in greater depth.
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Salvation has been
paid for by, Jesus Christ,
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the road to eternity has
been paved with His blood
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and drenched in His tears.
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But they're all
hinges upon one of the gift
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He provided humanity
in the very beginning,
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free will the power of choice.
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Although I don't believe it
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was said with the ultimate goal
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of the
Christian's destiny and mind.
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William Jennings Bryan
got it right when he stated,
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"destiny is no matter of
chance it a matter of choice."
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and P.B Fitzwater was
spot on recognizing that
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"character is the sum and
total of a persons choices."
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Every choice you
make in your daily life,
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whatever it is leads you on
the ultimate road to destiny.
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Remember what Jesus
said because "Narrow the gate
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and constricted the way is which
is leading on into the life,
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and they are few
who will find it."
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TV, computers, magazines
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what every choice you
make throughout the day
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no matter how
small or insignificant
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it may seem with the
time has consequences
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that can
dramatically impact your life
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and the lives of those
around you for eternity.
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If you listen to our God,
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He will provide
us daily direction.
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He says, what is
man who fears Jehovah
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he shall teach him in
the way he shall choose.
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Every single
choice we make in life
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is absolutely life changing.
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I found a
couple exams on the web
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let me read them to
you about changes in life.
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My sister, her friend
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and I got caught stealing a
bunch of things in Wal-Mart.
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We had to go to court.
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I honestly never
thought it would happen to me
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and the one day I
try it I get caught.
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I wouldn't
recommend it to anyone.
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If I could take
it back, I would.
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And the second
one, about a month ago
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I sent a photo to someone.
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It was meant be
private but my step dad
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got a hold of the picture.
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My heart was crushed
and my spirit was broken.
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I feel like an idiot.
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I don't know how
to comeback from this
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I'm afraid that
my mom and my family
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will see this picture.
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Can someone give me some advice?
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You know, every choice we make
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is life changing,
every single choice.
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The Bible gives us some
interesting choices as well,
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choices that
affected entire outcomes
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or may be not only one person
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but in some cases
families and nations.
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King David, you
know, taking a moment
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in the middle of night
to peer over his balcony
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there he saw Beersheba
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and that moment
that-- moment of indiscretion
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led to the killing of
the husband and eventually,
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it virtually destroyed
his kingdom in so many ways.
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Then there was Achan.
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Remember Achan was
told do not touch anything,
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go in take over this city
but do not touch a single thing
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and later Achan he
just couldn't resist
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taking a little bar of gold
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and what he called it
goodly Babylonish garment.
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His entire family was
destroyed because of that.
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You see choices
matter, choices matter
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and on the flip
side on the good side
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there's some
very good choices too.
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I mentioned a
while back about Joseph,
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Joseph had worked in a household
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and there was a
lady in that household
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that wanted Joseph so badly.
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Well, Joseph one day
when the master was gone
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the lady virtually attacked him.
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He ran out of the house
with torn off, torn shirt
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and he ended up because of his
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faithfulness to God I
mean he ended up in prison
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but eventually God put
him as a second command
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of all of the Egypt,
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because he held
fast his choices.
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There is another one,
Moses, you remember Moses,
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why he said I'd
rather suffer affliction
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with all of my
people than sin for a day.
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Just for a little season
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I'd rather
suffer with God's people
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and you know what
happened to Moses,
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is one of the greatest
of all of earth's history.
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And then I thank of the
young lady named Esther.
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Why Esther because of
her faithfulness to God,
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her desired serve
God with all of heard
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saved an entire
mission the people.
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Absolutely,
choices are life change.
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Every single
choice we make in life
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affect our life for
one way or the other
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for good or for evil.
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Choices, your daily
moment by moment choices
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will make all the different
in your Christian experience
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and in your eternal destiny.
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Turn it my
warning in the Lord says
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"Behold, I will pour
out my spirit to you,
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I will make my
words known to you."
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Well, I cannot stress enough
just how responsible you are
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for your own salvation.
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God is paid for it but
you're responsible for it.
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God will lead you
to the water of life
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but it's up to you to drink, not
just once but every single day.
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Some Christians become
so hung up on justification
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they wanted throw our
transformation all together.
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They become highly
paranoid when anyone
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talks about the need to
change their ways and habits
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before Jesus comes.
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It's a sad mistake
because it's really all about
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the power of God
working in us and through us
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to do just that
to changes right now.
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But He continued to lead
me and one day He let me know
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that He was calling me after
to do some more work for Him.
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But long story
short my Philistine wife
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found a shoulder to lean on
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decided she didn't
want to married any longer
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and she decided
live a different life.
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Well, I studied
pleading with God at that time,
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Lord, if you ever
want me to marry again
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then You have to
choose for me someone
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that we continue
together to do Your work.
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Yes, I won't
marry I let You choose.
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And that two years
the Lord led me to someone
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and so we
continued to call each other,
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see each other
and in about two years
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we knew that God
was leading us together.
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So one day when I came
over after I had married again
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my beautiful wife
Pat I-- Lord impressed me
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that was time that
we turned in the batch,
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we gave up her state
retirement and it was time to go
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do something for the Lord.
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And so when I came home
and share with her about that
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I believe the God was
calling us out do His work
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in a full time basis.
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Not knowing where we gonna go
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and really what we
are gonna do knowing--
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not knowing the
financial situation
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but wife said well,
we need to get packing
00:18:43.74\00:18:45.95
and so we gave up
the state retirement
00:18:45.98\00:18:47.83
and not knowing the financial
situation what was gonna happen
00:18:47.86\00:18:50.53
we had two adopted
children at that time
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and but we knew that
the Lord was leading us
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and we
continued to seek the Lord
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and He shared the text
with us in Matthew6:33,
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"Seek ye first the kingdom
of God, and his righteousness
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and all these things
shall be added unto you."
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So, the Lord let us out
and start doing His work
00:19:06.95\00:19:09.24
in a move full time basis
and now we were run a ministry
00:19:09.27\00:19:14.94
called Project Restore.
00:19:14.97\00:19:16.94
And we-- by God's
grace we've been able
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to print over 50 million,
32 page full color magazines
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the full edition of
the Great Controversy.
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They are going out many
places around the world.
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Just recently a million
books went into New York City
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getting ready to do
other cities like that.
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We want to see Jesus
come. We must go home.
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Never, he has never
let us down we can never
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where is our never time
when we had to worry about
00:19:45.47\00:19:48.46
what we gonna eat
or be able to drive
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or whatever was to do, you
know, He's never let us down.
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We found out and I
found out a long time ago
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even before I
started coming back to church
00:19:56.26\00:19:58.51
if you're honest with God
in your tithe and offerings
00:19:58.54\00:20:01.84
and returning into Him,
00:20:01.87\00:20:03.88
He's promised He
will take care of it.
00:20:03.91\00:20:05.59
He has every
single step of the way
00:20:05.62\00:20:09.49
and yes He leads and He will
speak to us, He will guide us.
00:20:09.52\00:20:13.37
"Trust in the Lord
with all thine heart
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and lean not unto
thine own understanding.
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In all thy ways acknowledge him,
and he shall direct thy paths."
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Jesus shared many kingdom
truths in the form of parables.
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Through out His earthly ministry
00:22:00.00\00:22:01.51
He sought to
impress upon the crowds
00:22:01.54\00:22:03.61
the necessity of complete
and total commitment to Him.
00:22:03.64\00:22:07.56
In Matthew 13:44-46 we
discovered two such parables.
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They both focus upon
the discovery of something
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far beyond their wildest dreams.
00:22:14.93\00:22:17.44
Listen, "Again
the kingdom of heaven
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is like treasure
hidden in a field
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which when a man
has found it he hides it
00:22:22.95\00:22:25.39
and for joy he goes and sells
00:22:25.42\00:22:27.39
all of that he has
and buys that field."
00:22:27.42\00:22:30.61
Again the kingdom of
heaven is like into a merchant
00:22:30.64\00:22:33.54
seeking beautiful
pearls who only had found
00:22:33.57\00:22:36.52
one pearl of great price.
00:22:36.55\00:22:38.36
He went and sold all
that he had and bought it.
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The book Christ's Object Lessons
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sheds some beautiful light upon
00:22:44.35\00:22:46.37
this particular
subject of these parables
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that truly apply
to both parables.
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"In the parable the pearl
is not represented as a gift.
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The merchantman bought it at
the price of all that he had.
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Many question
the meaning of this,
00:22:59.57\00:23:00.96
since Christ is represented
in the Scriptures as a gift.
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He is a gift, but only to
those who give themselves,
00:23:05.07\00:23:08.45
soul, body, and
spirit, to Him without reserve
00:23:08.48\00:23:12.37
we must give everything.
00:23:12.40\00:23:13.64
All that we are, all the talents
00:23:13.67\00:23:15.72
all the capabilities we
possess, are the Lord's,
00:23:15.75\00:23:18.63
to be
consecrated to His service.
00:23:18.66\00:23:21.95
When we thus give
ourselves wholly to Him,
00:23:21.98\00:23:24.30
Christ, with all the treasures
of heaven, gives Himself to us.
00:23:24.33\00:23:28.61
We obtain the
pearl of great price."
00:23:28.64\00:23:33.56
What are you willing to give
in exchange for eternal riches?
00:23:33.59\00:23:36.68
I met Milo in
Nepal sometime ago.
00:23:41.51\00:23:43.97
Sweet little man I am
guessing he is about 65.
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Its difficulty they
live such a hard life
00:23:47.08\00:23:49.36
in some of those countries
hard to tell how old he was
00:23:49.39\00:23:51.83
but he shared with
me an amazing life.
00:23:51.86\00:23:55.05
You see, most of his
life he was a Buddhist monk.
00:23:55.08\00:23:58.90
Went to the temple every
day continually set his prayers.
00:23:58.93\00:24:03.52
He took me there to
that temple it was amazing
00:24:03.55\00:24:05.85
gold everywhere inside that
the symbols that would sound,
00:24:05.88\00:24:09.75
the trumpets that would blow,
00:24:09.78\00:24:11.08
the horns that
would blow and the music
00:24:11.11\00:24:13.38
everything told your senses
it's absolutely wonderful,
00:24:13.41\00:24:16.60
absolutely amazing but Milo said
00:24:16.63\00:24:18.83
I just had no piece in my
life just no piece whatsoever.
00:24:18.86\00:24:23.05
One day he said I
was tuning the radio
00:24:23.08\00:24:24.71
and I came across a program
00:24:24.74\00:24:26.54
it was talking
about Jesus Christ.
00:24:26.57\00:24:28.58
For the first time
in my life I had peace.
00:24:28.61\00:24:31.55
Jesus gave me peace.
00:24:31.58\00:24:32.90
He said, I could no
longer go to the temple.
00:24:32.93\00:24:35.02
I could no longer
listen to these things
00:24:35.05\00:24:36.58
and do these things
because now I had Jesus.
00:24:36.61\00:24:39.76
He said, now he said,
I everyday or every week
00:24:39.79\00:24:42.33
I should say I
saved up money all week on
00:24:42.36\00:24:45.06
so I could take a bus
and go to church in weekend.
00:24:45.09\00:24:48.86
The neighbors told me said oh,
00:24:48.89\00:24:50.19
you're just going to that
church because they pay you.
00:24:50.22\00:24:52.14
He said no, no, no, I
don't go there for that
00:24:52.17\00:24:54.59
he says I go there
because I love Jesus Christ.
00:24:54.62\00:24:58.40
Friends, that's
what its all about
00:24:58.43\00:25:00.47
surrender all to Jesus
00:25:00.50\00:25:01.73
and falling in
love with Him like Milo.
00:25:01.76\00:25:03.64
Milo gave up
everything in his life
00:25:11.48\00:25:13.62
for real treasure how about you?
00:25:13.65\00:25:16.55
Is the happiness and
peace that only comes from Jesus
00:25:16.58\00:25:19.23
worth everything to you?
00:25:19.26\00:25:22.09
Christ in heaven are
worth all we are in possessed.
00:25:22.12\00:25:25.95
Is there any part of your
life that is worth too much,
00:25:25.98\00:25:29.13
too precious to you to give
up in order to obtain heaven?
00:25:29.16\00:25:34.02
After 65 years Milo's focus
turned from himself to Jesus.
00:25:34.05\00:25:38.56
Well, that's
where real life begin.
00:25:38.59\00:25:41.04
The apostle Paul discovered
the pearl a great price
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is of who and not a what.
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Here Paul's onwards and
easy to read translation.
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He says at onetime all
things were important to me
00:25:48.66\00:25:52.66
but because the
Christ I decided that
00:25:52.69\00:25:55.06
nothing was worth
it, none of these things.
00:25:55.09\00:25:56.78
Not only these things but now
I think that all these things
00:25:56.81\00:25:59.78
are worth nothing compared
00:25:59.81\00:26:01.47
with the greatness of
knowing Christ Jesus my Lord,
00:26:01.50\00:26:04.69
because of Christ I
lost all these things
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and now I know that
they are worthless trash.
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All I want now is
Christ. I want to belong to Him.
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My friends, I
invite you to choose
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the most important Jesus Christ.
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Will you say with Paul,
I want to belong to Him?
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A letter came into my possession
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that brought
tears of joy to my eyes
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and I'd like to
share some of with you.
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"In all of my life I never knew
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there was any other religion
other that Hinduism and Buddhism
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but you've
introduced me to Jesus Christ.
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Thank You, for
allowing me to taste
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that sweetness of God."
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I hope it touches you
as much as its touched me.
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You know in Psalms 34 it says,
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"Taste and see
that Jehovah is good,
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blessed is the
man who trust in Him."
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I found these enlightening
words in the book of
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"Faith to Live By" that I
also like to share with you.
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"Our growth in grace,
our joy, our youthfulness
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all depend upon
the union with Christ.
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It is by communion
with Him daily, hourly
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by abiding in Him that
we're to grow in grace."
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Arnold Toynbee had
it right when he said,
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"Sooner or later,
man always had to decide
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whether he'll worship his
own power or the power of God."
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Giving time to make
sure that God has given
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permission to burn out
every sin in your life,
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this is accomplished
by following more deeply
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in love with Him
allowing Him to occupy
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every corner of your
heart so that nothing else can
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hence you become fireproof.
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I urge you see the
things of God's kingdom.
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