The disciples
were not good enough
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to be invited to enter
the school of the rabbis
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but as they were
tending their fishing nets,
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the call came from
the greatest teacher
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the world has ever known.
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Even though he had no home,
no visible means of support
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and the established
church was suspicious of him,
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they immediately left
their formal profession
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and followed the call
of the Galilee and Rabbi.
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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
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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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In training to
become fishers of men,
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these followers many of
whom were season fishermen
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crisscrossed the
rugged countryside
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aiding Christ in the
task of setting humanity
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free from the bonds of Satan.
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They walk countless dusty
miles in their worn sandals
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fishing for men
and catching every word
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that proceeded
from the mouth of Jesus
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as He shared the hope
and joy of eternal life
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with hungry masses.
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It took almost
three and a half years
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walking by Christ side before
truth were solidly anchored
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within their own hearts.
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And when it did take
hold, tangible results
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from His abiding presence
were seen almost immediately.
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The Book of Acts
records a thousands upon
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thousands of
people flooded the church
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in response to the fervent
pleas given by the once abrasive
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an uncouth fisherman.
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It becomes evident when
the abiding presence of God
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inhabits one's life
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and abundant
harvest is the result.
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I urge you to walk so
closely to your master
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that the ancient saying
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"May the dust of
your Rabbi fall upon you"
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become a reality.
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Jesus said that that
day you shall know that
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"I am in my Father and
you in Me, and I in you."
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Jesus stood before Governor
Pilate awaiting judgment
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when Pilate asked
the question of him
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"What is truth?"
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It was too bad
that the Roman governor
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didn't wait for Jesus
to respond to his question
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because he had the answer
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or should I say
he was the answer.
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Truth you see was
standing in front of Pilate
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staring him in the
face, truth is a person,
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Jesus Christ the God-man.
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In the Book of John,
Jesus said I am the way,
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the truth and the life.
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No one comes to
the Father but by Me.
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Thomas Kempis
has quoted a saying,
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"Without the way
there is no going,
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without the truth
there is no knowing,
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and without life
there is no living."
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Then Jesus
continued in John and said,
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"At that day you shall
know that I am in my Father,
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and you in Me, and I in you."
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When Jesus abides in you,
truth has taken up residence.
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When you have a quiet moment,
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take a piece of paper
and attempt to diagram
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that thought out
found in verse 20.
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And then try and wrap
your mind around that verse,
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it's a mind boggling situation.
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We may never fully understand it
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because God is
God and we are not.
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But we can at
least grasp the concept.
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It's the amazing
desire of the great I am
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to harmoniously
intertwine deity and humanity
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so closely together,
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that it becomes
impossible to distinguish
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where Jesus begins and you end.
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It had been nearly
4,000 years of separation
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but humanity and
divinity were once again united
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and in an unbelievable way
Jesus left his glory behind
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to enter into the human race.
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And John
describes it brilliantly
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"The word became
flesh and dwelt among us,
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and we beheld His glory
full of grace and truth."
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Each step and his ancient plan
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has continually
moved the Godhead
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closer and closer to us.
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His goal has always
been to draw us back
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into full
communion within Himself
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striving to
remove the barrier sin
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so that one day this process
can reach his conclusion,
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we must commit to
join him in the process.
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We must invite Him in to
come and dwell within us,
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to abide with us in our hearts.
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It is this abiding process
that will cause our hearts
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to burn within us
and free us from sin.
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He loved us so much
to reach across time
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and space to
live with us forever.
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Do we really want
to live sinful lives
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in response to
that kind of love?
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As the disciples
walk with their Lord,
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they became more
and more familiar
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with His many and
varied characteristics.
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Each revelation
giving a new gleaming insight
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in how wonderful God was.
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The scripture contains
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hundreds and
hundreds of names for God.
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Each sharing another
wonderful revelation,
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a gleaming facet of
His glorious character.
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Let me share just
a few names with you
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that are very special to me.
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Wonderful
Counselor, the Mighty God,
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the Everlasting
Father, the Prince of Peace,
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Bread of Life, the
Light of the World,
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the Word, the Living Water,
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the Creator, the good Shepherd,
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the Lamb of God, the Comforter
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and the Carpenter.
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I think it's so interesting
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that Jesus' earthly
profession was a carpenter.
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He could have been anything
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but He chose to
become a carpenter.
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The Master
Carpenter if you will,
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the perfect one
to remodel our lives.
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The sooner we get
connected with Him,
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the sooner the
process can start.
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There was a
pastor, he was in India,
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he was doing
evangelistic meetings
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and near the end of
the evangelistic meetings
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one of the
people from the audience
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came up and said
can I have that light?
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Can I have that light?
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Well, it was kind
of a strange request
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but this pastor had
been in India many times
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so nothing was
really strange to him.
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So he said okay, and he
got up on his little ladder
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and he unscrewed the
light, he gave it to the fellow.
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Next night he's
doing meetings again
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and the fellow comes back
with the light in his hand,
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he said it doesn't
work, it doesn't work.
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Pastor, what do you
mean it doesn't work?
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Well, I put it up,
and it doesn't work.
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He said how did you put it up?
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He said I took a
string and I tied it
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and I hung it off the ceiling.
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The pastor said look,
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you have to connect
it into the light source.
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Well, today I have got
two interesting light sources
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if you will,
amazing light sources.
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I'd like to think in
someway and please forgive me
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because this is not an
absolute perfect example
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because God is so massive,
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God is so large
and so wonderful,
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we can't give any
great examples of God
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but today here at school
I'd like to give you just
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some little example.
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On this side we
have a Jacob's ladder,
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it's 18,000 volts
and it's not geared down,
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I don't know the
scientific terms,
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please forgive me if
anybody in the viewing audience,
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you know, knows all
the scientific terms
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but 18, 000 volts
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and so we got to
stay always away from it.
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And I'm gonna plug it
in a second so we got,
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I believe the Father and
the Son they're up in heaven
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and then over on this side,
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we've got what I like to see as
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representative
of the Holy Spirit,
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the Holy spirit, this
one has 400,000 volts.
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There I say 18,
this one's got 15, okay
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and this one's got 400,000 volts
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but it's geared down
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so we can get
closer to this one.
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Like the power
of the Holy Spirit,
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God is changed it,
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he's kind of geared it
down so he can give that to us
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in our life to change and
transform us, to light us up
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so we can actually glow for God,
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just like the light bulb.
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See if I can do this...
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this one just
absolutely gets things going.
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Look at that.
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Notice that,
when you get far away,
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light begins to drop.
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You get closer...
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wow.
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Notice that I can even
feel that through my glove,
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amazing power.
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This is what happens with God.
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When you get closer to God,
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when you invite
God into your life,
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you begin lighting up,
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you're being glowing for God,
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God takes
possession of your life
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only with your
permission though,
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only with your permission.
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And that's for each one of us.
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God is looking for
permission to enter our lives,
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to come into our
lives to change us
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and transform each one of us.
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Now I hope you
-- hope you viewers,
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I hope you'll
look to God right now,
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invite God into your
life to transform you,
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to change you into His
image and His lightness
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because He's got
the 400,000 volts,
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He's got His omnipotence.
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God is an amazing
God, all powerful God
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that when He comes in,
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He can do anything in
your life He wants to.
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He enables you to go
and walk and glow for God.
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For all the disciples, it
had not been a happy week,
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it's certainly didn't end happy
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and now on the first day
of the week on Sunday morning
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when it's supposed to
be the resurrection time,
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disciples said,
Jesus was not resurrected.
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Everybody was
sorrowful, everybody was sad
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and two of the disciples,
they were actually from Emmaus.
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Now Emmaus was an
interesting road downhill,
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7.5 miles rocky, tough road
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and that's the way it
was for these two disciples,
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their whole
experience was downhill.
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One of them was named Cleopas,
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a stranger that
time drew near to them,
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and it was actually Jesus.
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Bible says it was Jesus
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but he kind of
blocked their eyes
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so they couldn't see who it was
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because He wanted to
share some very important
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information with
them from scripture.
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And started of all
the law and the prophets
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he begin expounding
about himself to these two men.
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Well, this journey
continued all day long
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and these men found
this a very exciting time.
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But as the day wore on
toward evening it was getting,
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sun was going down now
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and Jesus appears like
He's going to continue on
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and walk away.
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But they said, no, please,
please come and abide with us,
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stay with us.
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We want you to
come and stay with us.
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But Jesus again, He
takes the invitation,
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He kind of ignores it little bit
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and the disciples say no,
please come, stay with us.
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You know that's the way
the Lord is a lot of times.
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He wants us to
choose to invite Him in.
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Well, they finally
persuaded Him and He came on in,
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He sat at the head of the table
and they prepared the bread
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and like He'd
done so many times,
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He lifted up the bread
to give it the blessing
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and at that moment,
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I believe they saw the
nail prints in His hand
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because they
yelled, it's the Lord
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and as soon as they
did, poof, He disappeared,
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absolutely disappeared and
the two disciples said, wow,
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we've got to tell
all the other disciples
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and they began
pushing and shoving,
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to get out off the door
and they start running back up
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the rocks stone pathway
all the way back to Jerusalem
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and now on the way up they said,
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did not our
hearts burn within us?
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Did not our
hearts burn within us
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as He drew near to us?
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Oh, my friend, you see
that's what happens with Jesus.
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That's what happens with
Jesus when we invite Him in
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to abide in our lives, our
hearts will burn within us.
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And I wonder today,
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well, I actually
I want you to think
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about this for a moment,
had they not invited Him in,
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He would have kept on
going but they did invite Him in
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and I wonder about you,
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have you invited
Jesus in your life
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to abide in your
life, to come live with you,
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to connect into the living bond?
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The one that will give
all the nourishment to you,
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the one who will
change and transform your life
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fully and completely.
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If you haven't done it,
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I'd like to invite
you right now to do that.
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Choose Jesus, connect into Him
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and your heart
will burn within you.
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Could something be
missing in your walk with Christ
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as you focus on
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You see, it's all about
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Jim was a drug dealer
and alcoholic and a thief,
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until God called him.
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But that was just the
beginning, as someone said,
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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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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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Now here's the
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call us or visit us online.
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Have you
considered how transformation
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takes place in your life?
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Every fiber of your bean
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is to be either
laced on a cellular level
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with the parent stock
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absorbing the ever so
precious life giving nutrients.
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Constantly bathing
your DNA with light,
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peace, goodness and happiness,
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like every good farmer.
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When the father has
performed his task well,
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he expects to
receive a bountiful harvest
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from the vine
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he's been tending
to, that would be you.
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What kind of
crop is God expecting
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to receive from you?
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Well, let me give you a hint.
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In Galatians
5:22 and 23, it says
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"But the fruit of
the Spirit is love,
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joy, peace, long
suffering, gentleness,
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goodness, faith,
meekness, and self-control."
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Let me make a point
here, the spirit has one fruit
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but many flavors.
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Fruit productions requires
the help of the vine dresser
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to access and to remove
if necessary every twig,
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leaf and stray vine of your life
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to produce the maximum harvest
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or anything
worth anything at all.
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You can't tell God no, no,
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this area in my
life is off limit.
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You can't say that.
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The reason we prune every year
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is because the old crop
has come off of these vines,
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so we call the old word
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and as the
vine's going to dormancy
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and do go into
dormancy for probably
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two to three months each year,
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they'll turn
into this right here
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which is just a dormant vine.
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And about two weeks, these vines
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the new buds will come out.
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These are all the
new buds that are coming
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and they will be
this year's crop.
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If we do not prune
them, what happens is
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this becomes a great big
bush that hasn't been cut
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and if you don't prune it,
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what happens is you'll
get a lot of small bunches
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and too many for
the vine to handle
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which means you
won't sugar properly.
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And so you won't
have a quality grape,
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you won't have a quality raisin
which comes from the grape.
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And so therefore you have
to cut it back every year.
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This is a younger
vine, this vine --
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actually this is
the vine that's been --
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this was an old vine
and we had to cut it here
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because it had some problems
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and we reshaped
it so now a nice vine
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but usually
leaves six to eight canes
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depending on the
strength of the vine
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and then you'll have
quality grapes the next year.
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Down here at the root,
the stump had a little bit of
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damage done here,
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little maybe some
bugs or some things
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but one thing about these vines,
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these vines are planted I think
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this 20 acres that
we're on right here
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there's 40 total
that we own here.
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This side here was
planted around 1930.
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Think about that 1930.
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And if you take
care of the vines,
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fertilize them
irrigate them properly
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and cut them,
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prune them every year the
way they are supposed to be,
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they'll live forever.
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Fruit production is not an
optional exercise of the vine
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but a byproduct to being
connected with the parent stock,
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it's about choice,
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your choice of connecting
into the heavenly plant.
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In a summarized bible,
there is a beautiful thought.
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Jesus is the true vine
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in which the
life of the believer
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as abiding braches
is here abiding in Him
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the believer is able to walk
in purity of life with Christ
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sharing all the
interest of his life
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taking all the burdens to Him
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and drawing all
wisdom and strength from Him.
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It's only about the abiding
life that bears the fruit
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to the glory of the Father.
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This living
connection will assure you that
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you can weather
the storms of life
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brought against you
by the devil himself.
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I'd like to share a
word from Jesus with you
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because He knew that
you would be facing trials
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and troubles in this
life because not all is joy.
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"Therefore whoever hears these
sayings of Mine, and does them,
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I will liken him to a wise man
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who built his house on the
rock, and the rain cane down,
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and the floods
came, and the winds blew
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and beat on that
house, and it did not fall,
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for it was founded on the rock.
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And everyone who
hears these sayings of Mine,
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and does not do them,
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shall be
compared to a foolish man
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who built his
house on the sand."
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Notice there's two
choices, there are two paths.
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"And the rain came
down, and the floods came
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and the wind blew
and beat on that house
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and it fell.
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And great was its fall."
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Did you catch that?
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Everyone involved
in the building project
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and the cataclysmic
storm was a church member,
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understand that no one
was exempted from trial.
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My friends Jesus our
example went through trials.
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The disciples suffered trials
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and if you are expecting
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the trial of
life to just disappear
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when you became a
follower of Christ,
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well, you
haven't read your bible.
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Well, briefly we--
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we're indicted for conspiracy
against United States government
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for some income tax problem
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and ended up in
prison for 21 months.
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So part of that six
weeks of those 21 months,
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I was actually in a
medium security prison
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to be sent back to
India where I was born,
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'cause they didn't know
if I was American or not.
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Well, we hear
all the stories about
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when we go through
trials, we can call on God.
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He's there to answer our prayers
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and for most of my
life that was true.
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For this one occasion,
you know, God didn't answer.
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Well, obviously I didn't want
to go through this situation.
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Had it been 30-40 years ago,
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we wouldn't have gone
through this situation,
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but today is a different world.
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And I think it's
important that people understand
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that they're gonna
be some tough times
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and just because
God doesn't answer
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the way we want
those things to be answered
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doesn't mean He's not answering.
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He is answering, sometimes
we won't know the answer
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in this world, in this
life but He still is answering.
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That's the interesting point
there are a number of people
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in the church that
did rally around us,
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the church by
enlarge I would say did not.
00:20:17.31\00:20:21.10
In fact we had friends
from other denominations
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that were much more supportive
than our church members.
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And I don't fault them,
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it's just that
people don't realize it.
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When you go through
situations like this,
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a lot of people think you
don't want to talk about it
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and for most people I think
it's better to talk about things
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because you need to vent,
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you need to get
these things out.
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And when everybody kind
of steers the conversation
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around the problem,
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you can never kind
of resolve the problem.
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You know, I still wonder
why we went through this,
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some of the friends that have,
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that we have talked to
at length that said well,
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you have a lot to give to people
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who really want to know
what tough times are like.
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I don't know if that's
a real consolation or not,
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it's you know
I'm glad we can help
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although we haven't
done that that much.
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But I think it's
the biggest situation
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I would say with people is
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what's changed me the
most is to recognize that
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when you go through
tough situations like this,
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you've got to
remember who you are.
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You can be
stripped down to nothing
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and there I was a nobody,
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I had no degrees
after my name, nothing.
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But I was a child to God.
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Well, I'd say the
most important thing is
00:21:51.85\00:21:53.44
to keep your eyes lifted up.
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There are times when
it just doesn't seem like
00:21:57.11\00:21:58.86
God's answering
your prayer, no question.
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But He is faithful
00:22:02.20\00:22:04.59
and you keep
your eyes lifted up,
00:22:04.62\00:22:08.00
keep your eyes open
00:22:08.03\00:22:11.27
and you can start seeing
Him answer in little ways
00:22:11.30\00:22:14.77
that you know he's there.
00:22:14.80\00:22:16.35
He may not be
getting you what you want
00:22:16.38\00:22:19.24
but He's gonna be
answering, definitely.
00:22:19.27\00:22:22.32
And just remember who
you are, you're child to God,
00:22:22.35\00:22:25.11
just like Job, you know,
00:22:25.14\00:22:26.97
we get that story in
the bible for a reason.
00:22:27.00\00:22:29.37
Job went through
some tremendous problems,
00:22:29.40\00:22:33.34
that was not a cake
walk he went through
00:22:33.37\00:22:35.61
and yet God was there with him
00:22:35.64\00:22:40.53
and for some of our viewers
what they may be going through,
00:22:40.56\00:22:44.26
they may be in the midst
of the great controversy,
00:22:44.29\00:22:46.47
just like Job was.
00:22:46.50\00:22:48.37
Where God says I can trust
this person to represent Me well
00:22:48.40\00:22:54.17
and that may be
why they are doing it
00:22:54.20\00:22:55.69
and maybe the only reason.
00:22:55.72\00:22:59.26
You know the trials
and troubles of this world
00:22:59.29\00:23:02.10
are the means
that God uses to refine
00:23:02.13\00:23:04.40
and transform our character.
00:23:04.43\00:23:06.34
Each trial cuts
away the dead wood
00:23:06.37\00:23:08.07
it reshapes the crooked pyres,
00:23:08.10\00:23:09.75
it improves the
spiritual strength
00:23:09.78\00:23:12.31
that sharpens the
heavenly intellect
00:23:12.34\00:23:14.13
and fits you to live in
the company of holy beings
00:23:14.16\00:23:16.76
for all eternity.
00:23:16.79\00:23:18.96
God never said that
doing His will would be easy.
00:23:18.99\00:23:21.81
He only said that
it would be worth it.
00:23:21.84\00:23:23.90
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My wife and I were in a
flight to another country
00:24:34.67\00:24:36.62
and as usual I began writing,
00:24:36.65\00:24:38.37
in this case I was writing
for my book Transformation.
00:24:38.40\00:24:41.03
I want to share a
paragraph with you
00:24:41.06\00:24:42.46
that I was writing at the time.
00:24:42.49\00:24:44.71
Would you like to
become a more loving person?
00:24:44.74\00:24:47.32
Would you like to
experience greater joy
00:24:47.35\00:24:49.13
and peace in your life?
00:24:49.16\00:24:50.88
Well, most of us could
use a good doze of patience
00:24:50.91\00:24:53.03
as well as lots of
kindness along with some
00:24:53.06\00:24:55.13
goodness thrown in.
00:24:55.16\00:24:56.86
I doubt that
anyone would complain
00:24:56.89\00:24:58.75
if we were given
extra measure of faith
00:24:58.78\00:25:00.85
and if you ask my wife,
00:25:00.88\00:25:02.87
I could always
use an additional dash
00:25:02.90\00:25:04.51
of gentleness and self control.
00:25:04.54\00:25:06.55
Well, can't we all.
00:25:06.58\00:25:09.22
When I finished
this, we got off the plane,
00:25:09.25\00:25:11.67
we went to the customs agents.
00:25:11.70\00:25:13.56
Let me tell you we
ran into the custom agents
00:25:13.59\00:25:15.88
from another place,
00:25:15.91\00:25:17.26
they were having a bad day
00:25:17.29\00:25:18.86
and they asked me
where are you flying?
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Oh, excuse me,
where are you going to?
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Well, I said
we're going up north,
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I'm gonna speak at a meeting.
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That was the wrong thing to say.
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Had to go get our luggage,
ushered into another room
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and for half an hour
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we were questioned with very
kind of thing you can imagine.
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What meal I had
two weeks earlier?
00:25:35.55\00:25:37.60
Why we were
there? What was going on?
00:25:37.63\00:25:39.24
And my patience
level was dropping farther
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and farther and farther.
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I'd about had it
with these people
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and then they
began talking to my wife
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asking her why are you here.
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Well, I'm sorry, you can
almost see as I get going
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I start reliving
that moment of that day.
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In reality, you
know, it's a good thing
00:25:54.08\00:25:56.32
that transformation
is a growing process.
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We all continually grow
00:25:59.85\00:26:01.77
and God teaches
us to make more room
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for the Holy
Spirit all the time.
00:26:04.35\00:26:06.28
You know it's
exciting to realize
00:26:06.31\00:26:07.92
that when the Holy
Spirit abides in you,
00:26:07.95\00:26:09.49
the old character
traits begin passing away.
00:26:09.52\00:26:12.85
They're going out of your life
00:26:12.88\00:26:14.20
and the new fruit of
the Holy Spirit comes in.
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The more spirit you have,
00:26:17.07\00:26:18.88
well, the less of your there is.
00:26:18.91\00:26:20.71
It's an interesting
phenomenon that happens,
00:26:20.74\00:26:22.71
as the transformation
process just continues.
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You know when you
continue to study,
00:26:26.17\00:26:27.65
when you continue to
pray and walk with the Lord,
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the light of God
begins to radiate from you,
00:26:30.12\00:26:33.01
you know just
like the tesla coil,
00:26:33.04\00:26:34.81
you begin to light
up almost glow for God.
00:26:34.84\00:26:38.64
Yes, people will recognize
that you have been with God,
00:26:38.67\00:26:42.40
I can guarantee that.
00:26:42.43\00:26:44.19
As God allows himself to
be more fully come out in you
00:26:44.22\00:26:48.18
and abide in you,
it's an amazing change,
00:26:48.21\00:26:50.50
almost we might
say a magical change.
00:26:50.53\00:26:53.52
Now I do
apologize for that word,
00:26:53.55\00:26:56.07
but I'm at a loss to describe
how absolutely delightful it is
00:26:56.10\00:27:00.39
when the Holy Spirit
comes and abides in you
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and when God begins
to change your life.
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I hope and pray that
I'm presenting God's truth
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to you in the
very best way possible
00:27:11.47\00:27:13.66
so that you can
grasp the enormity
00:27:13.69\00:27:15.64
of all that God
wants to do in and for you.
00:27:15.67\00:27:19.07
Remember you're
in loyalty training,
00:27:19.10\00:27:21.39
He wants to draw your
daily experience ever upward
00:27:21.42\00:27:24.26
washing away all the past life
00:27:24.29\00:27:26.20
and filling you
with the kingdom life.
00:27:26.23\00:27:28.63
Changing you from what you were
00:27:28.66\00:27:30.67
to all you will
become as He abides in you,
00:27:30.70\00:27:33.63
you will not be
moved by the life,
00:27:33.66\00:27:35.71
the storms or the
temptations of the devil.
00:27:35.74\00:27:38.90
He is forever ready to fill you
to overflowing with His spirit
00:27:38.93\00:27:42.69
so you will shine out
to the world for Jesus.
00:27:42.72\00:27:45.08
And remember
remodeling your life
00:27:45.11\00:27:47.96
is all about God and
His power working in you,
00:27:47.99\00:27:50.51
transforming you into loyalty.
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