Well, you've made it this far.
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Question is, where
is this and now what?
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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 is real
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and He is ready to
provide that power to you.
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Now here's your guide Jim Ayer
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to take you on the
journey of a lifetime,
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an amazing and
dynamic experience with God.
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We are on episode 12 in
our transformation study,
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"Remodeling Your Life."
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And although this is
the end of the series,
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it's only the beginning of
your exciting marriage to God.
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The life of
transformation is on going,
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now that the honeymoon is over,
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the real work begins,
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maintaining your
connection with God
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takes
commitment to the marriage.
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Therefore, if
any man be in Christ,
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he's a new creature,
old things are passed away,
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behold all
things have become new.
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Notice what Paul says,
how many things become new?
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Yes, all of
them, every old thing
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is to be replaced by the new,
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the life that was
once polluted by sin
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is to be remade
into the image of Christ,
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the master craftsman Himself.
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Over the period of 11 studies,
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you've been led
by the Holy Spirit
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to walk in new pathways,
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discover new joys in Christ
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and to alter
various habits of living.
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It's now time
to extend your walk
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to new dimensions of
victory, new challenges,
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and fresh
directions in life's journey.
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Living the life of
transformation on a daily basis,
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in God's strength,
fully trusting in Him,
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you will create
spiritually strong habits
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and soon your
habits will recreate
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who you are to
become for all eternity.
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Andre' Gide made
it clear when he said,
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"Man cannot discover new oceans
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unless he has the courage
to lose sight of the shore."
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Now is your time to trust God
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and lose sight of
everything except Him.
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And the very
first wedding ceremony
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was officiated by God
Himself in the Garden of Eden.
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Christ's first recorded miracle
was performed at a wedding,
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the Bible portrays
Christ as the bridegroom
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returning for His
faithful bride, the Church.
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You know, the
marriage relationship
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is the closest example
that exists in the universe
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represents God's desire
to eternally unite with us.
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But too many people,
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too many Christians
end up in divorce court
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because they forget
that after the wedding,
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and after the honeymoon,
the daily grind of life begins,
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reality sets in,
choices now need to be made
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in partnership
with another person.
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You've done your own
thing for so many years,
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but now it's a new day.
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Well, long term benefits
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are reserved for
long term commitments.
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If you haven't already done so,
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it's time to make an
extended commitment to Christ
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that will result in new habits
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created to carry you forward
into God's eternal future.
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This means, radical
commitment to your prayer life,
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to your study life,
and to lifestyle changes,
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following His voice
in all He asks of you.
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The number one
reason for divorce
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is the lack of communication,
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this became the devil's
ploy from the very start,
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cut off all communication
between God and man.
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John Bunyan said, "The
truth that I have known best,
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I have learned on my knees.
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I never knew a thing well
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till it burned into
my heart by prayer."
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Prayer, you see is the
opening of the heart to God,
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as to a friend,
not that it's necessary
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in order to make
known to God what we are
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but in order to
enable us to receive Him.
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Prayer does not
bring God down to us
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but it brings us up to Him.
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You see in Step to
Christ, the darkness we are told
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that the evil one encloses
those who neglect to pray.
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The whisper
temptations of the enemy
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and tries them to sin
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and it's all because they do
not make use of the privileges
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that God has given to them
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in the divine
appointment of prayer.
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Why should the sons
and daughters of God
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be reluctant to pray,
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when prayer is the
key in healing the faith,
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one locked heaven storehouse
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we had treasured the boundless
resources of omnipotence.
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What a glorious saying that is.
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If Jesus is our example
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we need prayer or
how much more prayer time
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do you and I need then?
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Prayer time does not
happen automatically,
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you must plan for it.
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Can you imagine the storehouse
of God, the storehouse?
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Would you like to
tap into that storehouse
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of the omnipotent creator?
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We can and we must.
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In Mark Chapter 9,
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the disciples were
confronted by a demon
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that was--had complete
control of the young man.
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Their attempts to cast him
out were utterly frustrated
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and when Jesus
appeared on the scene
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however He didn't
even waste a sweat
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in casting out that fallen from.
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And then later the
disciples came and asked,
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"Lord, why couldn't
we cast out this demon?
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Why couldn't we do this?"
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And Jesus responded by
saying that this kind of demon
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could only be cast
out by prayer and faster.
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You know, it's a fact
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we cannot do battle
with the devil on our own,
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that's what the
prayer less disciples
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had attempted to do,
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can you imagine they
attempted to do it on their own.
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You know, when we're
required to make withdrawal
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from the intergalactic
bank of infinite resources
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to fight wickedness
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in our own lives
and the lives of others,
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you better make sure
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that you've been
making deposits in that bank.
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There is no over
draft protection option,
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prayer time does
not happen automatically
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you must plan for it.
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You must make a
daily conscious choice
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to form new prayer habits
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resulting in regular
high quality time with God.
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Really it's true that we should
always have prayer on our lips
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and in our
hearts but like our Lord
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when he walk in our
shoes here on earth,
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the more time you
spend on the mountain
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dedicated to
prayer the more easily
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you can handle the troubles
that come here in the valley.
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Prayer is not an
optional exercise for Christians
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in their lives, it's
the life of the Christian.
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If you want to stay
out of divorce court
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you need to talk with
the Lord on a daily basis.
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Can you imagine having
an invitation to invited
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to the White House,
to see the president,
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to meet with the
president of the United States?
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How awesome is that
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but, you know, in
reality each one of us
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have an invitation to meet
with the King of the universe.
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And in order to
maintain that relationship,
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well, it's all about
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the marriage
relationship with Him,
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it's an extension
of your prayer life.
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It's entering into a
conversation with God
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through His word, the bible.
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You see, the Bible
is God's living word.
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When you read the
Bible you've been assured
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into the audience
chamber of God Himself,
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you are in the
presence of the infinite One
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as He speaks with you.
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In the book, A
Call to Stand Apart,
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Ellen White says that
"The Bible is God's voice
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speaking to us, just as surely
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as if we could
hear with our ears.
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If we realize this with what
all we would open God's word
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and with what earnestness
we would search its precepts.
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The reading and contemplates
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and the
scriptures would be regarded
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as an audience
with the infinite One."
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Dwight L. Moody once said
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"I pray for faith
and thought that some day
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faith would come down
and strike like lightning.
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But faith did not soon come.
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One day I read it in
the 10th Chapter of Romans,
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'Now faith cometh by hearing
and hearing by the word of God.'
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I close my Bible
and pray for faith.
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And now I open my
Bible and begin to study
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and faith has being
growing ever since."
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Rick grew up as a Christian
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and was a very
devout pew warmer.
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You might say he was living
in the same house with God
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but it all but
filed a divorce papers.
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Yes, I've always
been in the church,
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I was raised in a Christian home
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and every week my
mom took us to church.
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So I grew up in the church.
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Basically was a
church, was a pew warmer
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I was a typical Christian,
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I--you know, I
believed I was saved,
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I was happy with my life
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and I didn't want to do
anymore than I had to do
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and I was happy
with way things were.
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Well, I believed in God's grace,
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I believed primarily
that I was a good person
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I was basing my
belief that I was saved.
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On my standards, I
believe that I was doing good
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and that I didn't
need to do anything more.
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Yeah, what happened is
that once I got into the bible
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I just couldn't
get away from it,
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if somebody mentions something
that I didn't know about
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I would come to office
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and I would lock
myself in my office
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until I figure it
out what the issue was.
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Because I realized I didn't know
as much as I thought I knew.
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Once I started
getting into the Bible
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I saw that there
was so many things
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that God wanted to
reveal if someone just sat down
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and took the time to study it.
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Well, the old
Rick was self centered.
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It was all about me,
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I look at the world in
terms of what's in it for me,
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you know, how
can I advance myself,
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you know, what's--what is there,
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what is there in the world
that's gonna make me happy.
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And I realize
that was the wrong way
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to look at things.
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Well, what I'm trying to
do now what happened is that
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after I gained
all this knowledge,
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I decided I needed
to share this knowledge
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and I had an opportunity to
go down to the rescue mission.
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And they allowed me
to give a Bible class.
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And it was a
great opportunity for me
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and the people they were
just willing to hear the word.
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And not only did this
helped me deepen my faith
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and my knowledge in the Bible
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because I had to
prepare for the classes
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I learned a lot
by the relationship
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and interaction
with the people there.
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One day in one of the
classes one of the guys
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we were talking about the law.
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And he ask me, he said,
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"Can any one
actually keep the law?"
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And I answered, I said,
"Yes, the Bible tells us
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there will be a man
that, that will keep the law."
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And he said, "You know
the Bible pretty well."
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He said, "You keep the law?"
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And I said, "No,
and then he said why?
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Why can't you keep the law?"
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And I said, "Well,
I guess I love myself
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more than I love God."
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And it was at that
time that I was convict
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that I saw that I had
an intellectual knowledge
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but my heart was
still not with the Lord.
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And so I always remember
what somebody told they said,
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"Give me your check book
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and I will tell
you what you love
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by how you spend your money."
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And so I looked at
it in terms of my time
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and I really wasn't getting
that much time to know Lord.
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You know most of
the time that I had
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I was using for myself.
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So it was at that
time I said you know
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if we're judged by our works,
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I said I have to show
that I do love the Lord
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more than I love myself.
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So it was that time
that I started to reach out
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and do things for God.
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Given the times were end
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my wish is that God will give me
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the strength and
the faith to stand
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because you can see
the time are changing
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and the more I
get into God's word
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the more convicted I am,
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that what I
really what I understand
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will be the truth
is actually the truth.
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And so that deepens my faith
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and it gives me confidence
to go out and share the word.
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Well, I would say
that do what I did,
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you're gonna have
to make an assessment
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of what your
relationship is with God.
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I know many people
that know the Bible
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but they are not spending
time doing things with the Lord.
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And I can see that lovers
is not a noun it's a verb,
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you may fell in
love for the Lord,
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I would say that I
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more peace and joy in
my life than I've ever had
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finally in my
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Jim was a drug
dealer and alcoholic
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and a thief
until God called him.
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But that was just the beginning,
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as someone said, he
has lived six lifetimes,
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he became wealthy,
lobbied on Capitol Hill
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and was a church leader
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You know, George
McDonald once said,
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"How often we look upon God
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is our last and
our feeblest resource.
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We go to Him because we
have no where else to go.
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And then we learn
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that the storms
of life had driven us
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not into the rocks but
into the desired Heaven.
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After God called me to
his side for the second time,
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I responded and again enjoyed
the wonderful Heaven of rest
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in the bosom of God.
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But there were still times
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when I was
bothered by the statements
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like the following one
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referring to
the saints in Heaven
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and I quote "A glorious
light showing above their heads
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and there were continually
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shouting and
offering praises to God.
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Well, this bothered be
because I was apparently
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not experiencing
that level of joy,
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nor did I feel like
experiencing that joy outwardly.
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Have you found
yourself in the same position
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why thinking went
something like this.
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And if I'm not
praising God all the time
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then may be He
isn't working in me.
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Well, I can now speak
to you with confidence.
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It was a lie of the devil,
he wanted me to be depressed.
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It's time to change our thinking
by changing our words also.
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As my walk with God progressed
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and my love for
my best friend grew,
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I found myself desiring
to praise Him for may things
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but it took time.
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What am I trying to say to you,
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well, I'm saying to
have patience with yourself
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because the
transformation process
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is exactly that, a process.
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This is lifestyle
change as you train yourself
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to think upon heavenly things
and lift your voice to God
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the praises and testimonies
that emanate from your lips
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will cause the devil
great pain and suffering
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and he will flee from you.
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Well, the apostle
James said it best he said,
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therefore submit
yourselves to God,
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resist the devil and
he will flee from you,
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draw nearer to God and
he will draw near to you.
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In Revelation we are told that
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they over came him
by the blood of a Lamb
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and because of the
word of their testimony.
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I think of the time
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when Ellen White was
walking through a garden
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and in her mind mentally
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this other lady
was walking with her
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and they were
enjoying all the flowers
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and the things and
all the beauty around
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but then this particular
lady began complaining
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about the
thorns and the thistles
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and the burrows and the brambles
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and the guy that
was with them stopped
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and said please, please
he said focus on the roses
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and the lilies and the pinks.
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You see we need to turn
our thinking towards heaven.
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You know, C.S. Lewis said,
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"Joy is the serious
business of heaven."
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And King David said
"My tongue shall speak
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of your righteousness of
Your praises all day long."
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Dave Waters was a machine gunner
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and a huey
helicopter in Vietnam,
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that's where he encountered God.
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Before I was put
in that helicop unit
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which was the 68
assault helicopter squadron.
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I was a mechanic in an outfit
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that had totally
gone down the drain
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you might say they were
into every sin there was
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and we were being attacked
on the primitive the whole time.
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Never got any sleep
and I was loosing it,
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I had been there
about 5 months in that unit
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and finally there
were other shoulders
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that were there they
were committing suicide
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and I was feeling-I
didn't want that to happen to me
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but I was feeling I
had to get out of there
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and I was decided into my mind
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I'm going to walk out of
here to up north to Cambodia
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and go on from there to
India and try to get home.
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Yes, I was in I
was in bad shape,
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couldn't talk,
couldn't relate to anybody
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then in my mind I thought well,
I've got to sit down and pray
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and I prayed little bit out side
but there was too much noise
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so went in and got in
a big freight container
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that take off a
ships close the door
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sat in there in the dark
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and prayed to God
for at least 3 hours
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and at the end of
that 3 hours I was crying,
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I was upset I was
trembling with fear
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because the next day I
was going on my first mission
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when I got to that unit.
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And so when I finally ran
out of all energy and all prayer
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we couldn't talk
anymore about it,
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I just got up to
start get up and walk out
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and all of sudden the
minute I stood up Jim,
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the fear in my body from
shaking just disappeared,
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it was awesome and
I was full of energy
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and I said a couple
of words and I went, wow.
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I can talk again
and I went out of there
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and I don't know to
be totally terrified
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and all of a sudden be free
of any fear at all was amazing
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that was total miracle and
I knew that God had done it
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because He answers prayer,
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I knew he was going to
didn't know when or how
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and He answered that prayer.
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So I went to the rest of
tour at Vietnam with no fear.
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Kind of like the in the movie
just sees one of those guys
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do that once in a while.
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I had no fear and I actually
could think better that way,
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I did my mission very
well, I got into missions
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that nobody had
ever been into before
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and bullets would go
through the chopper at times
00:19:16.69\00:19:20.85
and we got a crash landing once
00:19:20.88\00:19:22.45
that I had to we barley
made it to safety on that,
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we skid down this whole
runway and almost spun around.
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Anyway, I don't
want to go into details
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but with fear of God
I was able to do my job
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and it's been a
wonderful experience.
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I had not even a scratch
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when I got out of the
service out of Vietnam.
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I was so prefer purple heart,
00:19:41.86\00:19:43.79
but I didn't even get a scratch.
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Nobody in the ships I
was in ever got hurt or shot
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and everything
that happened to us
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was a total miracle
that we didn't get hurt.
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Now that was God's
power, if I ever saw it.
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When we need God the most
especially in foreign country
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so we are totally unaware
of what's going on around
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this most of the time
and what the rules are,
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God is with us I've seen it
over and over and over and over.
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Everyday God does some miracle
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that some people
realize and some don't,
00:20:14.43\00:20:17.76
but you just have to step
out take one step in faith
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and just go from there.
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What can one person do Jim?
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One person can do a lot,
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it's endless what
one person can do.
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With God in his
heart, with God leading him.
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One person can
complete any chore
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put in his hands to do.
00:20:35.01\00:20:37.96
But the biggest
thing I've learned is Jim,
00:20:37.99\00:20:40.12
that when you love other people
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and you want to help
them to grow in Christ
00:20:43.52\00:20:47.63
and what I do in my ministry
00:20:47.66\00:20:49.07
is building
churches in foreign countries
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I love it, it's
so rewarded to me
00:20:51.16\00:20:54.35
and when I can get other
people that feel that same thing
00:20:54.38\00:20:57.36
by the end of the
trip most of them do,
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it's wonderful, I wouldn't
give up that for anything.
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You may be saying
what can I do for God,
00:21:04.48\00:21:06.68
I'm just one person,
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what can one ordinary
person can do for Jesus Christ?
00:21:08.16\00:21:11.14
Well, let me tell you,
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Moses was a
murder and a shepherd
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he delivered an
entire nation from bondage.
00:21:14.41\00:21:17.32
Abraham, was a old man and
a liar he fathered a nation.
00:21:17.35\00:21:21.07
Peter and John, well,
they were simple fishermen
00:21:21.10\00:21:23.82
but they rocked the
world for Jesus Christ.
00:21:23.85\00:21:26.31
John the Baptist
only preached for 6 months
00:21:26.34\00:21:28.48
but Jesus said
there was none grater,
00:21:28.51\00:21:30.92
he focused the worlds
attention upon the Lamb of God.
00:21:30.95\00:21:34.74
Noah, was the
worlds worst evangelist
00:21:34.77\00:21:37.58
he was the
father of the new world
00:21:37.61\00:21:39.06
and Lazarus he was dead
00:21:39.09\00:21:40.85
but God even used
him to tell the world
00:21:40.88\00:21:43.21
of the resurrection to come.
00:21:43.24\00:21:45.58
And Dwight El Moody, he
was simple shoe salesman
00:21:45.61\00:21:48.58
until the day he heard a
man say the world has yet to see
00:21:48.61\00:21:52.57
what God can do with and
for and in and through man
00:21:52.60\00:21:56.28
who is fully and
wholly consecrated to him.
00:21:56.31\00:21:59.52
Well, that changed moody's life
00:21:59.55\00:22:01.26
and my friends
it can change you.
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What can God do with you? What?
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He can do every thing,
there is no limit after all
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the King is your Father.
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This is perhaps one
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heaven to the people
00:22:25.31\00:22:27.14
and to expand their thinking
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Ellen White unwraps the parables
00:22:30.72\00:22:32.59
allowing us to see
Christ our salvation.
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Oh, I wish I was able to take
you to see the Holy city of God.
00:23:19.98\00:23:24.01
Where we will be meeting with
the Father for the first time
00:23:24.04\00:23:26.86
when Jesus comes to
takes us from this place.
00:23:26.89\00:23:29.71
I wish I could show you
00:23:29.74\00:23:30.92
the streets of gold
and glittering mansions
00:23:30.95\00:23:33.39
the loving Lord is
prepared for each one of us
00:23:33.42\00:23:36.23
but I can't all I
had to show you is this.
00:23:36.26\00:23:39.77
Everything that we are told
00:23:39.80\00:23:41.21
that would be
burned up in the last days.
00:23:41.24\00:23:44.10
All of this is
the devil's kingdom.
00:23:44.13\00:23:46.48
He has used lies to
steal it from our first parents
00:23:46.51\00:23:48.90
and he's used thousands of lies
00:23:48.93\00:23:50.99
and thousands of
years to demonstrate
00:23:51.02\00:23:53.23
what kind of
parent He really is.
00:23:53.26\00:23:55.43
And it's time it's almost done,
00:23:55.46\00:23:57.70
the pain and
suffering cannot continue
00:23:57.73\00:23:59.66
on forever it must end soon.
00:23:59.69\00:24:02.51
But God in His
infinite mercy and wisdom
00:24:02.54\00:24:05.01
has been waiting just
as long as he possibly can
00:24:05.04\00:24:08.04
until everyone
makes their choice
00:24:08.07\00:24:09.98
of who's plan is the best one.
00:24:10.01\00:24:12.17
Who will be the best parent?
Who is the best lord to serve?
00:24:12.20\00:24:16.28
Well, let me tell
you for me and my house
00:24:16.31\00:24:19.43
God is a hands down winner
00:24:19.46\00:24:21.49
and I'm speaking
from personal experience
00:24:21.52\00:24:23.33
because I served
both God and the devil.
00:24:23.36\00:24:25.81
You know, I travel down
every low road of this life
00:24:29.68\00:24:32.37
testing the temporary
trills of a drug dealer
00:24:32.40\00:24:35.20
enjoying the
momentary rush of the thief.
00:24:35.23\00:24:37.46
The sensual
pleasures of darkness
00:24:37.49\00:24:39.49
and the rush of gambling.
00:24:39.52\00:24:41.02
Well, the list is
endless but then God spoke to me
00:24:41.05\00:24:44.19
and then I answered
that beautiful voice.
00:24:44.22\00:24:46.60
But then the attractions of gold
and silver seem to backend me
00:24:46.63\00:24:49.61
so I filled my
pockets with homes, land
00:24:49.64\00:24:52.46
and what the
best money could buy.
00:24:52.49\00:24:54.79
But I think God
needed not forget my address,
00:24:54.82\00:24:57.76
oh, no not at all.
00:24:57.79\00:24:59.60
He came calling on me and
I answered Him once again.
00:24:59.63\00:25:03.34
He gave me a second chance
00:25:03.37\00:25:04.79
and now I speak to
you as child of the King.
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His promises are
sure His love is real,
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the new world is factual
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and it's powered to
give us the life of victory.
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So we can inherit the throne
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is anchored in the
solid rock, Jesus Christ.
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Yes, you can believe it.
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She's sealed the
agreement with his blood
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and he can't wait to pick you up
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from planet earth
zip you across the cosmos
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and personally guide you
through their new mansion
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and the heaven will be
made new all I tell you,
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your name is already there,
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your crown is
set in on the shelf
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just inside the door,
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it's waiting for
you the choice is yours,
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happiness wall to wall, or this.
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Remember it's all
about God, at your invitation
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He will remodel your home
your life by transforming you
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on the outside
and on the inside.
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Immediately after he gives
you a beautiful new exterior
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his righteousness the
Master Carpenter begins
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the process of taking the old
deteriorating sin laid inside
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and rebuilding you into
the image of Jesus Himself.
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This process requires
your complete cooperation
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so let's review the steps
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recognize that you
cannot rebuild your own life.
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Surrender your life completely
100% to the Master Craftsmen
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and at that moment
He instantaneously wraps
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a new exterior around you.
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Now He is ready to
start on the inside.
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He doesn't want you
to pretend to be new,
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He wants you to
be new everywhere.
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Because of your cooperation
and invitation to come inside,
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the Lord will go room to room
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cleaning out the
filth from the garbage
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the old rotten wood and give
you the most beautiful interior.
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A dwelling fit
for the Holy Sprit
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to live in forever.
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At times the process
can be painful dramatic
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and even a bit stressful
as you battle with self
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to allow God to examine
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and change every
dark corner of the old you
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but the results, you
will be out of this world.
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The Apostle John
fully understood,
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the transformation
process when he said
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we know that
when he shall appear
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we shall be like Him.
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The daily choices we
make determine our destiny
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so I urge you to choose wisely.
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I can't wait to meet up with you
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and the Father in
the celestial city
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what a day it's going to be.
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Let's make it a day shall we?
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You pick the galaxy
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and we can have
lunch together or dinner
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better yet you choose.
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