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>>GOOD MORNING,
FRIENDS, AND WELCOME AGAIN TO
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SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR.
NOW, OF COURSE, THINGS ARE A
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LITTLE DIFFERENT HERE ON THE SET
- NOT OUR TYPICAL SABBATH SCHOOL
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STUDY HOUR SET - THE REASON
BEING IS WE'RE IN ALBUQUERQUE,
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NEW MEXICO FILMING THE LANDMARKS
OF BIBLE PROPHECY. OUR AFCOE
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STUDENTS ARE HERE AND
THEY'RE THE AUDIENCE FOR TODAY.
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AND TODAY WE HAVE A VERY
SPECIAL PRESENTER FOR OUR STUDY
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TOGETHER.
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IT'S EVANGELIST AND TEACHER
CHUCK HOLTRY WHO WILL BE LEADING
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US THROUGH OUR STUDY
OF THE LESSON QUARTERLY.
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NOW THE LESSON TODAY, THAT WE'LL
BE LOOKING AT, IS LESSON #11, IF
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YOU HAVE YOUR LESSON
QUARTERLY, ON THE BOOK OF JAMES.
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AND IT'S TALKING ABOUT
PREPARING FOR THE HARVEST.
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WELL, BEFORE WE GET STARTED WITH
OUR STUDY TODAY, LET'S BOW OUR
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HEADS AND ASK GOD'S
BLESSING UPON OUR TIME TOGETHER.
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DEAR FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR
THE OPPORTUNITY THAT WE HAVE TO
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GATHER TOGETHER ONCE
AGAIN TO STUDY YOUR WORD.
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WE'D LIKE TO ASK THE HOLY SPIRIT
TO COME AND FILL OUR HEARTS AND
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OUR MINDS. LORD,
GUIDE US INTO A DEEPER AND
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A FULLER UNDERSTANDING OF
THIS VERY IMPORTANT SUBJECT THAT
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WE'RE GOING TO BE STUDYING ABOUT
TODAY, FOR WE ASK THIS IN JESUS'
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NAME, AMEN. I'D LIKE
TO INVITE OUR TEACHER
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TO COME OUT AND JOIN US
THIS MORNING, CHUCK HOLTRY.
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>>THANK YOU JËAN. GOOD
MORNING. HAPPY SABBATH.
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ON MY WAY HERE THIS MORNING
I WAS RUNNING INTO A LOT OF
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TRAFFIC. I WAS
LATE, AS I AM SOMETIMES,
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AND I WAS IN SUCH A HURRY AND
IT SEEMED LIKE EVERY LIGHT WAS
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YELLOW ABOUT 300
FEET BEFORE I GOT THERE.
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AND I WAS WAITING
AND WAITING AND WAITING.
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AND I FELT THAT I NEEDED
SOMETHING CALLED PATIENCE.
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YOU KNOW, AS I WAS LOOKING
AT OUR STUDY WE'RE GOING TO BE
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JUMPING INTO JUST SHORTLY,
AS I WAS LOOKING AT OUR STUDY I
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REALIZED THAT PATIENCE IS
PROBABLY ONE OF THE KEY ISSUES
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THAT GOD IS TRYING TO TEACH
US HERE IN JAMES CHAPTER 5.
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SO IF YOU'D OPEN UP YOUR BIBLES
WITH ME TO JAMES CHAPTER 5, AND
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WE'RE GOING TO READ
VERSES 7 THROUGH 12 -
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THE SECTION OF OUR
READING FOR THIS LESSON.
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JAMES 5, WE'LL BE
READING 7 THROUGH 12.
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AND THEN WE'LL KIND
OF JUMP INTO OUR SUBJECT.
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NOW, PATIENCE IS MENTIONED
TWO PLACES IN THE BOOK OF JAMES.
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THE FIRST PLACE IS
WHERE? CHAPTER 1 RIGHT IN THE
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BEGINNING, AND THE NEXT
PLACE IS HERE IN CHAPTER 5.
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LET'S GO AHEAD AND READ IT.
"BE PATIENT THEREFORE, BRETHREN,
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UNTO THE COMING OF THE LORD.
BEHOLD, THE HUSBANDMAN WAITETH
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FOR THE PRECIOUS FRUIT OF THE
EARTH, AND HATH LONG PATIENCE
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FOR IT UNTIL HE RECEIVE
THE EARLY AND LATTER RAIN.
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BE YE ALSO PATIENT;
STABLISH YOUR HEARTS:
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FOR THE COMING OF
THE LORD DRAWETH NIGH.
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GRUDGE NOT ONE AGAINST ANOTHER,
BRETHREN, LEST YE BE CONDEMNED:
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BEHOLD, THE JUDGE
STANDETH BEFORE THE DOOR.
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TAKE, MY BRETHREN, THE PROPHETS,
WHO HAVE SPOKEN IN THE NAME OF
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THE LORD, FOR AN EXAMPLE OF
SUFFERING AFFLICTION, AND OF
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PATIENCE. BEHOLD, WE COUNT
THEM" - WHAT'S THAT NEXT WORD? -
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"HAPPY WHICH ENDURE." - WOW -
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"WE COUNT THEM
HAPPY WHICH ENDURE.
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YE HAVE HEARD OF THE PATIENCE
OF JOB, AND HAVE SEEN THE END OF
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THE LORD; THAT THE LORD IS VERY
PITIFUL, AND OF TENDER MERCY.
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BUT ABOVE ALL THINGS, MY
BRETHREN, SWEAR NOT, NEITHER BY
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HEAVEN, NEITHER BY THE EARTH,
NEITHER BY ANY OTHER OATH: BUT
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LET YOUR YEA BE YEA; AND
YOUR NAY, NAY; LEST YE FALL INTO
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CONDEMNATION." THIS
SECTION REALLY FOCUSES ON
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SPEAKING TO
WHAT GROUP OF PEOPLE?
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SPECIFICALLY, THE BRETHREN.
IF YOU LOOK THROUGH THE BOOK OF
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JAMES, YOU FIND THE
BRETHREN ARE MENTIONED 15 TIMES.
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OF THOSE 15 TIMES, FOUR OF THEM
ARE FOUND IN JUST THIS SHORT
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SECTION OF SIX VERSES.
THIS IS A QUARTER OF THE TIMES
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IN THE WHOLE BOOK,
JUST IN A SHORT SECTION.
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BRETHREN, I'M SPEAKING TO YOU.
THE SECTION WE JUST LOOKED AT
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LAST WEEK, WE SAW WAS
SPEAKING TO THE RICH, RIGHT?
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NEXT WEEK WE'RE LOOKING AT A
BEAUTIFUL SECTION TALKING ABOUT
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PRAYER - AN ADMONITION TO
PRAY, BUT TODAY WE'RE LOOKING
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SPECIFICALLY AT THIS SECTION TO
THE BRETHREN - THIS ADMONITION
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OF CHARACTER
FOR THE END OF TIME.
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THAT BEING SAID, I'M GOING TO
PULL OUT MY NOTES HERE, AND I'D
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LIKE TO LOOK AT A
FEW ELEMENTS HERE.
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JAMES CHAPTER 1, VERSES 3 TO 4 -
YOU CAN JUST TURN THERE WITH ME.
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JAMES CHAPTER 1, VERSES 3
TO 4, THE BIBLE SAYS, "KNOWING
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THIS, THAT THE TRYING OF
YOUR FAITH WORKETH PATIENCE.
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BUT LET PATIENCE HAVE HER
PERFECT WORK, THAT YE MAY BE
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PERFECT AND
ENTIRE, WANTING NOTHING."
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YOU GET THIS VERY BEGINNING
STATEMENT SAYING YOU NEED TO
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HAVE WHAT? PATIENCE.
AND PATIENCE DOES SOMETHING
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GREAT FOR US.
WHAT DOES IT DO FOR US?
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IT MAKES US PERFECT
AND ENTIRE, ULTIMATELY.
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SO THAT IS PATIENCE. AND
THEN, IN THE END OF THE BOOK
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IN JAMES CHAPTER 5, WHERE WE'RE
LOOKING AT IT HERE, IT SAYS, "BE
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PATIENT THEREFORE, BRETHREN,
UNTO THE COMING OF THE LORD."
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- AND THEN IT TELLS US THAT THE
HUSBANDMAN DOES SOMETHING VERY
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INTERESTING. WHAT
KIND OF PATIENCE DOES THE
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HUSBANDMAN HAVE? I'M
LOOKING AT THE KING JAMES
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VERSION HERE, IT
SAYS HE HAS LONG PATIENCE.
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IT'S NOT JUST
PATIENCE, IT'S LONG PATIENCE.
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HAVE YOU EVER FELT THAT
YOU NEEDED LONG PATIENCE?
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I THINK THERE ARE SOMETIMES I
FEEL LIKE I NEED LONG PATIENCE.
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YOU KNOW, BEFORE I GOT MARRIED
I WAS A VERY PATIENT MAN.
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THEN AFTER A YEAR OR TWO
OF MARRIAGE, I BECAME PATIENT
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AGAIN. AND THEN
WHEN I HAD CHILDREN
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I STARTED QUESTIONING
WHETHER I EVER HAD PATIENCE.
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AND I REALIZE, AS I GO THROUGH
STAGES, GOD IS TAKING CHUCK AND
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HE'S WORKING
SPECIFICALLY ON PATIENCE.
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YOU KNOW, I BELIEVE HE'S
DOING THAT WITH ALL OF US.
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HE WANTS US TO BE PATIENT.
NOW, THE LAST PART OF JAMES -
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JAMES CHAPTER 5, VERSE 11 - I'M
NOT QUITE SURE WHAT IT SAYS IN
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ANOTHER VERSION, I SHOULD HAVE
READ THAT, BUT IT SAYS, "HAPPY
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ARE YE WHO ENDURE."
HAPPY ARE YE THAT ENDURE.
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I NEVER REALLY UNDERSTOOD THAT.
I'M GOING TO SPEND SOME MORE
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TIME LOOKING AT THAT A
LITTLE BIT LATER THIS MORNING.
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BUT DO THESE KIND OF SERMONS
HAVE ANY RELEVANCE TO US TODAY?
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I MEAN, I COULD UNDERSTAND IT
IN THE FIRST CENTURY CHURCH WHEN
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YOU'RE BEING PERSECUTED AND YOUR
LIFE ISN'T EASY AND EVERYTHING'S
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DIFFICULT, BUT TODAY, DO WE HAVE
TO THINK ABOUT HAPPINESS AND
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ENDURANCE? I
GUESS NOT. ABSOLUTELY.
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IT IS JUST AS RELEVANT TODAY -
THIS IDEA OF PATIENCE, THIS IDEA
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OF HAPPY ENDURANCE IS
VERY IMPORTANT FOR US.
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THERE ARE FOUR AREAS WE'RE GOING
TO BE LOOKING AT THIS MORNING.
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FIRST AREA IS WHAT
TO HAVE PATIENCE FOR.
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WE'RE GOING TO BE
LOOKING AT THAT IN VERSE 7.
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THEN WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING
AT HOW LONG DO WE HAVE PATIENCE.
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THEN WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING
AT ANOTHER PART WHERE I JUST
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FORGET. DO YOU
MIND IF I LOOK IT UP?
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YES, WHO HAS PATIENCE? WE
HAVE SOME EXAMPLES THAT HAVE
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BEEN GIVEN US, IN THE BIBLE,
OF THOSE WHO HAVE PATIENCE.
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AND FINALLY, WE'RE
GOING TO BE LOOKING AT WHY.
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WHY DO WE HAVE PATIENCE?
AND SO, WITH THAT IN MIND, DO
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YOU MIND OPENING UP - LET'S LOOK
- READ VERSE 7 TOGETHER AGAIN.
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VERSE 7, THE BIBLE SAYS,
"BE PATIENT THEREFORE, BRETHREN,
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UNTO THE COMING OF THE LORD."
- THEN IT SAYS - "BEHOLD, THE
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HUSBANDMAN" -
HOLD ONTO THAT THOUGHT.
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WE'RE GOING TO BE COMING BACK
TO THAT - "BEHOLD THE HUSBANDMAN
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WAITETH FOR THE PRECIOUS FRUIT
OF THE EARTH, AND HATH LONG
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PATIENCE FOR IT, UNTIL HE
RECEIVE THE EARLY AND LATTER
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RAIN." NOW, I
KNOW THERE'S BEEN A LOT
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OF FOCUS ON DIFFERENT ELEMENTS,
BUT PATIENT, HUSBANDMAN, THE
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WHOLE PICTURE THAT'S THERE.
YOU'VE HAD GARDENS, RIGHT?
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I'M GUESSING MOST OF YOU
HAVE PROBABLY HAD A GARDEN.
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MY DAUGHTER AND
I LIKE GARDENING.
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SHE'S FOUR YEARS OLD AND SHE'LL
COME OUT AND SHE WILL JOIN ME AS
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WE GARDEN. AND WE
HAVE FUN TOGETHER.
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AND WE ARE ALWAYS
DOING THE SAME EXACT THING.
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THE FIRST THING WE DO WHEN
WE GET TO THE GARDEN IS NOT TO
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WATER. THE FIRST
THING WE DO WHEN WE
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GET TO THE GARDEN
IS NOT TO PULL WEEDS.
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THE FIRST THING WE DO WHEN WE
GET TO THE GARDEN IS TO LOOK FOR
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FRUIT. 'DADDY, WHERE'S THE
TOMATOES?' 'WELL, WE'VE GOT TWO
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MONTHS TO GO.'
'DADDY, WHERE'S THE SQUASH?'
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'IT'S NOT READY YET.'
'DADDY, CAN I SEE THE POTATOES?'
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'YOU'RE NOT GOING
TO SEE THEM.' RIGHT?
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SO WE HAVE THIS LONG PATIENT
WAITING BECAUSE WE'RE LOOKING
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FOR FRUIT. NOW
SOMETIMES MY DAUGHTER AND I
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MAYBE AREN'T THE PATIENT
PEOPLE WAITING FOR FRUIT.
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YOU END UP PICKING GREEN
TOMATOES EVERY NOW AND THEN JUST
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HOPING THAT THEY'LL RIPEN UP AND
YOU CAN SAY, 'AT LEAST I PICKED
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MY FIRST FRUIT.' WAITING.
YOU KNOW, WAITING FOR SOMETHING
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THAT YOU REALLY, REALLY WANT
IS WHAT'S HARDEST. AM I RIGHT?
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I FIND THAT WAITING FOR THINGS
I DON'T CARE ABOUT IS EASY.
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IN FACT, I LIKE THAT. YOU CAN
PUT IT OFF AS LONG AS YOU WANT.
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BUT WHEN IT'S SOMETHING THAT
I DESIRE, SOMETHING THAT I WANT,
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PATIENCE IS HARD.
CAN YOU AGREE WITH ME?
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IT'S SOMETHING THAT
IS JUST VERY DIFFICULT.
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YOU KNOW, HUSBANDMAN,
WHO IS THIS TALKING ABOUT?
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IT'S A GREAT ILLUSTRATION,
ISN'T IT? BUT IS THERE AN
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APPLICATION THAT GOD IS BRINGING
OUT HERE IN THE BOOK OF JAMES?
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I BELIEVE SO, WITHOUT A
QUESTION. AND I'M GOING TO
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START IN THE VERY, VERY
BEGINNING IF THAT'S OKAY.
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WOULD YOU MIND GOING BACK
WITH ME TO THE BOOK OF GENESIS?
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GENESIS CHAPTER 2 AND VERSE 8
- GENESIS CHAPTER 2 AND VERSE 8,
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THE BIBLE SAYS, "AND
THE LORD GOD" - DID WHAT? -
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"PLANTED" - WHO PLANTED
IT? - "THE LORD GOD PLANTED."
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SO WE SEE FROM THE VERY
BEGINNING - SECOND CHAPTER OF
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THE BIBLE, FIRST PART OF THE
FIRST BOOK OF THE BIBLE, THAT
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GOD IS A PLANTER. COULD
I SAY FARMER? IS THAT OKAY?
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GARDENER? COULD I
EVEN SAY HUSBANDMAN?
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YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE CALLS HIM A
HUSBAND ALREADY SO I DON'T THINK
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I'M STRETCHING TOO
FAR OUT WHEN I SAY THAT.
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SO WE SEE - VERY
BEGINNING - JESUS IS A PLANTER.
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I'D LIKE TO LOOK AT ANOTHER
PASSAGE, ISAIAH CHAPTER 5 -
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ISAIAH CHAPTER 5 - AND THIS
REALLY TIES IN BEAUTIFULLY WITH
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WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT
HERE IN JAMES CHAPTER 5.
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WE'RE GOING TO GO TO ISAIAH
5 AND I'M GOING TO START WITH
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VERSE 1. I'M GOING TO START WITH
VERSE 1 - JAMES CHAPTER 5 AND
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WE'LL START WITH VERSE 1, "NOW
WILL I SING TO MY WELLBELOVED A
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SONG OF MY BELOVED
TOUCHING HIS VINEYARD."
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- WHO IS THIS SPEAKING OF?
IT'S SPEAKING OF JESUS, RIGHT?
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IT'S SPEAKING OF GOD - GOD
THE SON - "MY WELLBELOVED HATH A
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VINEYARD IN A VERY FRUITFUL
HILL: AND HE FENCED IT, AND
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GATHERED OUT THE STONES THEREOF,
AND PLANTED IT WITH THE CHOICEST
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VINE, AND BUILT A TOWER IN
THE MIDST OF IT, AND ALSO MADE A
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WINEPRESS THEREIN: AND HE LOOKED
THAT IT SHOULD BRING FORTH
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GRAPES, AND IT BROUGHT
FORTH" - WHAT? - "WILD GRAPES."
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SO HERE IT IS, WE SEE
THIS PICTURE OF GOD PLANTING A
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VINEYARD IN A VERY FRUITFUL
HILL; PUTTING THE VERY BEST
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PLANTS HE COULD PUT INTO IT AND
HE GOES TO FIND FRUIT AND WHAT
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DOES HE FIND? BAD FRUIT.
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OH, THERE'S FRUIT
ALRIGHT, BUT IT'S BAD FRUIT.
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NOW, IS IT NORMAL FOR GARDENERS
TO GO LOOKING FOR FRUIT?
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ABSOLUTELY, THAT'S WHAT I WAS
ILLUSTRATING WITH A LITTLE BIT
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EARLIER. THAT'S
WHAT WE'RE WAITING FOR.
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AS A GARDENER,
WHAT AM I WAITING FOR?
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FRUIT - GOOD FRUIT, THANK
YOU. "AND NOW, O INHABITANTS OF
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JERUSALEM, AND MEN OF JUDAH,
JUDGE, I PRAY YOU, BETWIXT ME
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AND MY VINEYARD. WHAT
COULD HAVE BEEN DONE MORE
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TO MY VINEYARD, THAT
I HAVE NOT DONE IN IT?
00:13:08.83\00:13:10.96
WHEREFORE, WHEN I LOOKED THAT
IT SHOULD BRING FORTH GRAPES,
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BROUGHT IT FORTH WILD GRAPES?"
HE SAID, 'I'VE DONE EVERYTHING I
00:13:13.30\00:13:18.00
POSSIBLY CAN WITH MY VINEYARD.'
SO I'M JUST TRYING TO LAY OUT
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THE POINTS HERE FROM SCRIPTURE
THAT GOD IS A HUSBANDMAN.
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WOULD YOU ACTUALLY LIKE TO
SEE THAT? LET'S TURN TO JOHN
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CHAPTER 15 - JOHN CHAPTER 15
AND VERSE 1 - JOHN CHAPTER 15 -
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AND YOU'RE PROBABLY, 'OH, YEAH,
THAT'S RIGHT, I REMEMBER THIS
00:13:34.90\00:13:37.03
PASSAGE - BEAUTIFUL PASSAGE
HERE IN THE BOOK OF JOHN.
00:13:37.03\00:13:40.53
JESUS IS
SPEAKING TO HIS DISCIPLES.
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THIS IS SOME OF THE FINAL
COUNSEL HE GIVES BEFORE HIS
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CRUCIFIXION. IN
JOHN CHAPTER 15, VERSE 1,
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JESUS SAYS, "I AM THE TRUE
VINE, AND MY FATHER IS" - WHAT?
00:13:47.60\00:13:54.20
>>VINEDRESSER.
>>THAT'S RIGHT, IT SAYS
00:13:54.20\00:13:55.90
VINEDRESSER BUT IN MY PASSAGE
HERE IT SAYS, "HUSBANDMAN."
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WOW, HE IS THE ONE.
WHO IS IT? MY FATHER.
00:14:00.06\00:14:05.23
GOD THE FATHER IS THE
HUSBANDMAN. NOW, I'D LIKE TO
00:14:05.23\00:14:09.43
EMPHASIZE ONE MORE POINT
AND THEN WE'LL CONTINUE ON THIS.
00:14:09.43\00:14:12.86
MATTHEW CHAPTER 15, VERSE 3.
WHILE YOU'RE TURNING TO MATTHEW
00:14:12.86\00:14:16.63
15, VERSE 3, I WANT TO JUST
EMPHASIZE ONE ELEMENT FROM JAMES
00:14:16.63\00:14:20.53
5 THAT WE LOOKED AT AND THAT IS
THE HUSBANDMAN HAS WHAT KIND OF
00:14:20.53\00:14:25.70
PATIENCE WHEN
HE'S LOOKING FOR FRUIT?
00:14:25.70\00:14:27.93
>>LONG. >>LONG PATIENCE.
00:14:27.93\00:14:29.70
AND SO WE'RE SEEING HERE THAT
GOD THE FATHER IS A HUSBANDMAN.
00:14:29.70\00:14:33.13
HE HAS WHAT KIND OF PATIENCE?
LONG PATIENCE. MATTHEW 15 AND
00:14:33.13\00:14:38.03
VERSE 13, "BUT HE ANSWERED
AND SAID, EVERY PLANT, WHICH MY
00:14:38.03\00:14:41.96
HEAVENLY FATHER HATH NOT
PLANTED, SHALL BE ROOTED UP.
00:14:41.96\00:14:45.16
I WANT TO EMPHASIZE JESUS
IS SAYING THE HEAVENLY FATHER
00:14:45.16\00:14:47.03
PLANTS THINGS. IF IT'S
NOT BEEN PLANTED BY HIM,
00:14:47.03\00:14:50.46
IT'S GOING TO GET ROOTED UP.
BUT IF IT'S BEEN PLANTED BY HIM
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IT'S A GOOD THING, AMEN?
HAS GOD HAD PATIENCE WITH YOU?
00:14:52.13\00:15:01.23
HE'S THE HUSBANDMAN, RIGHT?
I LIKE TO SAY THAT THE PRECIOUS
00:15:01.23\00:15:05.10
FRUIT WE'VE BEEN LOOKING
FOR IS COMING FROM YOU AND I.
00:15:05.10\00:15:09.13
IS HE WAITING
WITH LONG PATIENCE?
00:15:09.13\00:15:12.53
YOU KNOW, MY CHILDREN ARE QUITE
YOUNG YET, SO I HAVEN'T HAD THE
00:15:12.53\00:15:16.40
CHANCE TO
EXPERIENCE LONG PATIENCE.
00:15:16.40\00:15:19.16
SOME OF YOU WHO ARE PARENTS
MAY DISAGREE WITH ME AND SAY,
00:15:19.16\00:15:21.16
'YOU'VE ALREADY EXPERIENCED LONG
PATIENCE.' BUT THE REALITY IS, I
00:15:21.16\00:15:25.06
HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE.
WHEN I LOOK AT WHAT CHRIST HAS
00:15:25.06\00:15:27.00
DONE WITH ME - AND MAYBE
YOU CAN SAY THE SAME THING FOR
00:15:27.00\00:15:29.43
YOURSELVES, HE HAS
HAD WHAT? LONG PATIENCE.
00:15:29.43\00:15:34.66
YOU KNOW, I'M - I WON'T GIVE
YOU MY AGE BECAUSE THIS IS BEING
00:15:34.66\00:15:38.06
VIDEOED, BUT I'M
GETTING UP THERE.
00:15:38.06\00:15:40.90
AND HE'S HAD
LONG PATIENCE WITH ME.
00:15:40.90\00:15:45.46
HE STILL HAS TO SAY, 'CHUCK,
UH UH, NO.' HE STILL CALLS AND
00:15:45.46\00:15:50.40
WORKS ON MY HEART AND SAYS,
'THIS IS WHERE I LIKE YOU TO
00:15:50.40\00:15:53.46
WALK.' DOESN'T HE
DO THAT WITH ALL OF US?
00:15:53.46\00:15:57.10
HE HAS LONG PATIENCE.
WHAT'S THIS LONG PATIENCE FOR?
00:15:57.10\00:16:00.76
LET'S GO BACK
TO JAMES CHAPTER 5.
00:16:00.76\00:16:03.40
JAMES CHAPTER 5 - I LIKE READING
IT FROM THE BIBLE AGAIN, "BE
00:16:03.40\00:16:11.36
PATIENT THEREFORE, BRETHREN,
UNTO THE COMING OF THE LORD.
00:16:11.36\00:16:14.10
BEHOLD THE HUSBANDMAN WAITETH
FOR THE PRECIOUS FRUIT OF THE
00:16:14.10\00:16:16.06
EARTH, AND HATH LONG PATIENCE
FOR IT, UNTIL HE RECEIVE THE
00:16:16.06\00:16:18.66
EARLY AND LATTER RAIN." WHAT
IS THE HUSBANDMAN WAITING FOR?
00:16:18.66\00:16:21.83
THE BIBLE SAYS,
WHAT? PRECIOUS FRUIT -
00:16:21.83\00:16:25.26
"PRECIOUS FRUIT OF
THE EARTH." WHAT IS FRUIT?
00:16:25.26\00:16:29.73
YOU READY TO DO SOME MORE STUDY?
PROVERBS CHAPTER 12, VERSE 12 -
00:16:29.73\00:16:34.56
PROVERBS CHAPTER 12 AND
VERSE 12 - WHAT IS THIS FRUIT?
00:16:34.56\00:16:38.53
WHAT WE'RE FOCUSING ON IN THIS
FIRST SECTION - AND THERE'S FOUR
00:16:38.53\00:16:40.96
SECTIONS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT.
WHAT WE'RE FOCUSING ON IN THIS
00:16:40.96\00:16:42.73
FIRST SECTION IS THIS:
WHAT ARE WE HAVING PATIENCE FOR?
00:16:42.73\00:16:46.26
IN THIS CASE, WHAT IS
GOD HAVING PATIENCE FOR?
00:16:46.26\00:16:49.20
PROVERBS 12:12 SAYS THIS, "THE
WICKED DESIRETH THE NET OF EVIL
00:16:49.20\00:16:54.33
MEN: BUT THE ROOT OF THE
RIGHTEOUS YIELDETH" - WHAT?
00:16:54.33\00:17:00.66
- "FRUIT." SO THE ROOT OF
THE RIGHTEOUS YIELDS FRUIT.
00:17:00.66\00:17:03.36
SO FRUIT IS SOMETHING THAT
COMES FROM RIGHTEOUS ROOTS,
00:17:03.36\00:17:06.30
IF I COULD SAY
THAT AT THIS POINT.
00:17:06.30\00:17:07.83
LET'S LOOK AT ANOTHER PASSAGE
- ISAIAH CHAPTER 37 - ISAIAH 37
00:17:07.83\00:17:12.23
AND WE'LL BE
LOOKING AT VERSE 31.
00:17:12.23\00:17:15.50
ISAIAH 37 AND VERSE 31- ISAIAH'S
GIVING A PROPHECY OF WHAT WILL
00:17:15.50\00:17:22.80
TAKE PLACE, TO THE
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL.
00:17:22.80\00:17:25.50
"THE REMNANT" - IT
SAYS THIS - "AND THE REMNANT
00:17:25.50\00:17:27.66
THAT IS ESCAPED OF THE HOUSE
OF JUDAH SHALL AGAIN TAKE ROOT
00:17:27.66\00:17:33.10
DOWNWARD, AND BEAR FRUIT
UPWARD:" SO THERE'S A DESIRE
00:17:33.10\00:17:38.63
THAT JUDAH, THE
REMNANT OF JUDAH, WILL DO WHAT?
00:17:38.63\00:17:42.06
TAKE ROOT DOWNWARD
AND BEAR FRUIT UPWARD.
00:17:42.06\00:17:47.06
NOW LET'S LOOK AT ONE MORE
PASSAGE HERE - GALATIANS CHAPTER
00:17:47.06\00:17:50.76
5 AND VERSE 22. YOU,
OF COURSE, KNEW THAT THIS
00:17:50.76\00:17:53.80
WAS A PLACE WE HAVE TO GO
WHEN WE'RE DISCUSSING FRUIT.
00:17:53.80\00:17:56.03
GALATIANS
CHAPTER 5 AND VERSE 22.
00:17:56.03\00:17:59.10
I LIKE TO - WHAT I REALLY LIKE
ABOUT THE WORD OF GOD IS THIS:
00:17:59.10\00:18:03.30
WE CAN LOOK THAT THE RIGHTEOUS
HAVE FRUIT AND WE CAN REALIZE
00:18:03.30\00:18:07.93
THAT THE REMNANT
OF JUDAH HAVE FRUIT.
00:18:07.93\00:18:09.86
BUT IT'S NICE WHEN THE BIBLE
JUST SPELLS THINGS OUT, ISN'T
00:18:09.86\00:18:12.90
IT? AND HERE WE
SEE IT IN GALATIANS
00:18:12.90\00:18:14.56
CHAPTER 5, VERSES 22 AND 23,
"BUT THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IS
00:18:14.56\00:18:22.36
LOVE, JOY, PEACE, LONGSUFFERING,
GENTLENESS, GOODNESS, FAITH,
00:18:22.36\00:18:30.93
MEEKNESS, TEMPERANCE:
AGAINST SUCH THERE IS" - WHAT? -
00:18:30.93\00:18:35.43
"THERE IS NO LAW." SO
HERE IS THAT KIND OF FRUIT.
00:18:35.43\00:18:39.10
AND MY QUESTION FOR US TODAY
IS 'IS GOD WAITING TO SEE THAT
00:18:39.10\00:18:43.36
FRUIT IN OUR LIVES?' ABSOLUTELY.
00:18:43.36\00:18:46.50
YOU KNOW, HE'S
WAITING TO SEE US BE MEEK.
00:18:46.50\00:18:50.76
SOMETIMES THAT'S A
HARD THING, ISN'T IT?
00:18:50.76\00:18:53.03
ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE A
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST AND YOU
00:18:53.03\00:18:55.10
KNOW EVERYTHING. GOD IS
WAITING FOR WHAT? MEEKNESS.
00:18:55.10\00:19:03.10
GOD IS ALSO
WAITING FOR LOVE, ISN'T HE?
00:19:03.10\00:19:05.83
HE'S WAITING FOR US TO SHOW
TO THE WORLD WHO HE REALLY IS.
00:19:05.83\00:19:10.43
1 JOHN 4:8 SAYS
"...GOD IS" - WHAT? - "LOVE."
00:19:10.43\00:19:13.50
AND GOD IS WAITING
FOR THAT TO BE SEEN.
00:19:13.50\00:19:16.30
YOU KNOW, I GET AMAZED
OF WHAT GOD'S WAITING FOR.
00:19:16.30\00:19:21.33
NOW, I DON'T BELIEVE IT'S
JUST THE HUSBANDMAN, THE FATHER,
00:19:21.33\00:19:25.73
WHO'S WAITING FOR FRUIT. I
THINK ALL OF US NEED TO WAIT.
00:19:25.73\00:19:30.36
THE SAME EXACT PATIENCE THAT THE
HEAVENLY FATHER SHOWS ME, AND
00:19:30.36\00:19:34.60
YOU, IS THE PATIENCE I SHOULD
BE SHOWING TOWARDS OTHERS.
00:19:34.60\00:19:43.43
THERE'S NO 'AMEN'
JUST IF YOU'RE WATCHING.
00:19:43.43\00:19:45.90
THE SAME EXACT PATIENCE THAT THE
HEAVENLY FATHER SHOWS US IS THE
00:19:45.90\00:19:51.40
KIND OF PATIENCE WE SHOULD
BE SHARING WITH OTHER PEOPLE.
00:19:51.40\00:19:53.73
>>AMEN. >>GOD TELLS
US THAT WE NEED WHAT
00:19:53.73\00:19:57.00
KIND OF PATIENCE? LONG PATIENCE.
NOW I'D BETTER STOP ON THIS
00:19:57.00\00:20:01.60
SECTION OR I WILL CONTINUE AND
WE'LL FINISH UP WITH A SERMON.
00:20:01.60\00:20:04.00
WE NEED TO DO A
BIBLE STUDY, OKAY?
00:20:04.00\00:20:05.86
LET'S GO INTO OUR NEXT VERSE
- JAMES CHAPTER 5 AND VERSE 8 -
00:20:05.86\00:20:16.13
JUST LIKE THE HUSBANDMAN, GOD
THE FATHER, IS PATIENT - I LOVE
00:20:16.13\00:20:21.80
THE WAY IT STATES IT HERE -
"BE YE ALSO PATIENT;" - AND, OF
00:20:21.80\00:20:26.76
COURSE, THAT'S WHAT WE JUST
LOOKED AT - A GREAT CONNECTION
00:20:26.76\00:20:28.40
INTO VERSE 8 - "STABLISH YOUR
HEARTS: FOR THE COMING OF THE
00:20:28.40\00:20:31.90
LORD DRAWETH
NIGH." BE YE PATIENT ALSO.
00:20:31.90\00:20:39.53
STABLISH YOUR HEARTS -
WHY? "FOR THE COMING OF THE
00:20:39.53\00:20:43.36
LORD DRAWETH NIGH." HOW -
HOW CAN CHUCK HOLTRY BE PATIENT?
00:20:43.36\00:20:49.76
HOW CAN YOU BE PATIENT? I
BELIEVE IT'S IN THIS VERSE.
00:20:49.76\00:20:55.96
"STABLISH YOUR HEARTS:" - YES,
WE NEED TO BE PATIENT FOR THE
00:20:55.96\00:20:59.33
COMING OF THE LORD, AMEN.
I NEED TO STABLISH MY HEART.
00:20:59.33\00:21:03.96
THAT'S KIND OF
AN INTERESTING WORD.
00:21:03.96\00:21:05.43
I'M USED TO SEEING 'ESTABLISH.'
AND MAYBE THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS
00:21:05.43\00:21:08.16
IN SOME, BUT KING
JAMES IS 'STABLISH.'
00:21:08.16\00:21:11.30
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO
'STABLISH' ONE'S HEART?
00:21:11.30\00:21:14.86
I LIKE TO LOOK AT A FEW PLACES
AND THEN WE'LL GO AND LOOK AT
00:21:14.86\00:21:19.86
WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE
COMING OF THE LORD DRAWING NIGH.
00:21:19.86\00:21:22.16
'STABLISH' - ROMANS CHAPTER
16 - ROMANS CHAPTER 16 AND WE'RE
00:21:22.16\00:21:27.13
GOING TO BE LOOKING AT VERSE 25
- ROMANS 16, VERSE 25 - THIS IS
00:21:27.13\00:21:42.36
KIND OF AN ADDENDUM THAT'S
BEING ADDED HERE IN THE BOOK OF
00:21:42.36\00:21:44.66
ROMANS. YOU HAVE
YOUR AMEN IN VERSE 24
00:21:44.66\00:21:46.46
AND THEN YOU HAVE
ANOTHER 'AMEN' IN VERSE 27.
00:21:46.46\00:21:48.46
HERE IN VERSE 25 IT SAYS,
"NOW TO HIM THAT IS OF POWER TO
00:21:48.46\00:21:53.46
STABLISH YOU ACCORDING TO
MY GOSPEL, AND THE PREACHING OF
00:21:53.46\00:21:56.46
JESUS CHRIST, ACCORDING TO THE
REVELATION OF THE MYSTERY, WHICH
00:21:56.46\00:21:59.30
WAS KEPT SECRET
SINCE THE WORLD BEGAN," -
00:21:59.30\00:22:01.00
IT CONTINUES IN VERSE 26.
VERSE 27 SAYS, "TO GOD ONLY
00:22:01.00\00:22:05.23
WISE, BE GLORY THROUGH
JESUS CHRIST FOR EVER. AMEN."
00:22:05.23\00:22:07.93
NOW TO HIM THAT IS GOD -
THAT IS OF POWER TO STABLISH YOU
00:22:07.93\00:22:13.16
ACCORDING TO MY GOSPEL.
WHO? HOW AM I STABLISHED?
00:22:13.16\00:22:17.43
I'M STABLISHED BY WHO?
GOD, ACCORDING TO THE GOSPEL.
00:22:17.43\00:22:21.53
YOU KNOW, JAMES 5, VERSE 8
SAID, "STABLISH YOUR HEARTS."
00:22:21.53\00:22:25.73
AND SOMETIMES WE LOOK AND
SAY, 'YEAH, HOW IS THAT GOING TO
00:22:25.73\00:22:28.26
HAPPEN? HOW CAN I
STABLISH MY HEART?
00:22:28.26\00:22:30.40
I'M A HUMAN BEING. I'VE
GOT ISSUES.' THAT'S RIGHT.
00:22:30.40\00:22:32.76
GOD'S GOING TO STABLISH
YOUR HEART. ROMANS CHAPTER 16 -
00:22:32.76\00:22:36.36
LET'S LOOK AT ANOTHER PASSAGE
HERE THAT CONNECTS WITH THAT.
00:22:36.36\00:22:38.40
1 THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 3 -
1 THESSALONIANS, CHAPTER 3 AND
00:22:38.40\00:22:43.80
WE ARE GOING TO
LOOK AT VERSE 12.
00:22:43.80\00:22:46.13
"AND THE LORD" - THIS IS 1
THESSALONIANS 3 - I'M STARTING
00:22:46.13\00:22:48.83
IN VERSE 12 - I'LL GO THROUGH TO
VERSE 13, "AND THE LORD MAKE YOU
00:22:48.83\00:22:51.86
TO INCREASE AND ABOUND IN LOVE
ONE TOWARD ANOTHER, AND TOWARD
00:22:51.86\00:22:55.10
ALL MEN, EVEN AS
WE DO TOWARD YOU.
00:22:55.10\00:22:57.36
TO THE END HE" - THAT IS, THE
LORD - "MAY STABLISH YOUR HEARTS
00:22:57.36\00:23:01.40
UNBLAMEABLE IN HOLINESS BEFORE
GOD, EVEN OUR FATHER, AT THE
00:23:01.40\00:23:05.43
COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS
CHRIST WITH ALL HIS SAINTS."
00:23:05.43\00:23:07.73
THERE'S AN ESTABLISHMENT THAT
NEEDS TO BE TAKING PLACE - A
00:23:07.73\00:23:10.23
STABLISHING OF MY HEART, WHICH,
BY THE WAY, YOU MAY HAVE SEEN
00:23:10.23\00:23:12.73
THIS IN YOUR
SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON.
00:23:12.73\00:23:13.83
STABLISH MEANS WHAT? TO
STRENGTHEN - TO SET FIRMLY.
00:23:13.83\00:23:18.80
'GOD, I WANT YOU TO STRENGTHEN
MY HEART.' IT SAYS THAT GOD
00:23:18.80\00:23:22.03
STRENGTHENS, IN ROMANS
16, HERE IT SAYS THAT THE LORD
00:23:22.03\00:23:24.86
STRENGTHENS MY HEART -
OR STABLISHES - MY HEART.
00:23:24.86\00:23:35.50
I'VE BEEN TRYING TO FIGURE OUT
HOW 'NIGH' OR 'NEAR' FITS IN.
00:23:35.50\00:23:41.23
JAMES CHAPTER 5, VERSE 8 SAYS
THAT "THE COMING OF THE LORD
00:23:41.23\00:23:45.56
DRAWETH" - WHAT?
- "NEAR" OR "NIGH."
00:23:45.56\00:23:49.43
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED HOW HE
COULD SAY THAT 2,000 YEARS AGO?
00:23:49.43\00:23:54.76
2,000 YEARS AGO HE SAID, 'THE
COMING OF THE LORD DRAWS NEAR.
00:23:54.76\00:23:58.03
HOW CAN THAT BE? I WAS
PLAYING AROUND WITH IT A
00:23:58.03\00:24:00.90
LITTLE BIT THIS MORNING AND
WE SAY, OF COURSE, THE COMING OF
00:24:00.90\00:24:03.50
JESUS IS CLOSER TODAY
THAN IT WAS YESTERDAY, AMEN?
00:24:03.50\00:24:06.80
THE COMING IS A WHOLE
LOT CLOSER THIS YEAR IN
00:24:06.80\00:24:08.03
2000-WHATEVER THAN IT WAS
LAST YEAR. AND IN THAT WAY, YES,
00:24:08.03\00:24:14.40
THE COMING OF THE
LORD DOES DRAW NIGH.
00:24:14.40\00:24:15.66
BUT THERE'S ANOTHER WAY.
00:24:15.66\00:24:16.96
YOU AND I CAN LOOK AROUND US AND
WE CAN SEE PROPHETIC SIGNS - I
00:24:16.96\00:24:20.90
MEAN, WE'RE SITTING AT A SITE OF
A PROPHECY SEMINAR RIGHT NOW -
00:24:20.90\00:24:24.10
AND WE CAN SEE SIGNS ALL AROUND
US SAYING WE ARE LIVING WHEN
00:24:24.10\00:24:27.86
MOST OF THESE SIGNS ARE TAKING
PLACE - WE ARE COMING CLOSER TO
00:24:27.86\00:24:31.10
THAN WE'VE EVER BEEN
TO THE SECOND COMING.
00:24:31.10\00:24:34.10
IT IS NEAR, EVEN AT THE DOORS.
BUT THERE'S ALSO ANOTHER WAY.
00:24:34.10\00:24:39.03
I THINK, ON AN INDIVIDUAL
BASIS. THINK ABOUT IT.
00:24:39.03\00:24:42.16
WHEN WE DIE, OUR NEXT
CONSCIOUS THOUGHT IS GOING TO BE
00:24:42.16\00:24:44.96
THE COMING OF THE LORD.
00:24:44.96\00:24:46.46
SO YOU KNOW - I'VE HEARD PEOPLE
SAY, 'YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT - IT'S
00:24:46.46\00:24:50.06
NOT GOING TO BE IN MY LIFETIME.'
AND I HAVE TO DISAGREE.
00:24:50.06\00:24:54.20
I MEAN, YOU'RE RIGHT, IT'S NOT
GOING TO BE IN YOUR LIFETIME,
00:24:54.20\00:24:56.76
BUT IN ESSENCE, YOU ONLY HAVE
ONE LIFETIME TO BE READY FOR IT.
00:24:56.76\00:25:01.26
YOU ONLY HAVE ONE LIFETIME
TO LET THE LORD STABLISH YOU.
00:25:01.26\00:25:05.20
IT'S KIND OF A
NEAT THOUGHT, ISN'T IT?
00:25:05.20\00:25:07.70
FOR NONE OF US IS IT GOING
TO BE LONGER THAN ONE LIFETIME.
00:25:07.70\00:25:11.70
IT IS, BUT YOU
UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M SAYING.
00:25:11.70\00:25:16.33
I WAS REALLY LOOKING AT THIS
SAYING, 'HOW CAN I SAY THIS TO
00:25:16.33\00:25:18.83
MAKE SURE I'M NOT
SAYING THE WRONG THING.
00:25:18.83\00:25:20.56
BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?
WE HAVE ONE LIFETIME, AND THEN
00:25:20.56\00:25:24.53
WE SLEEP AND REST PATIENTLY
UNTIL THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS
00:25:24.53\00:25:27.30
CHRIST. WE HAVE ONE LIFETIME.
00:25:27.30\00:25:30.93
WHAT A - LET'S DO WHAT WE
CAN IN THAT LIFETIME, AMEN?
00:25:30.93\00:25:33.13
AND THAT'S THE PICTURE WE SEE.
IT IS DEFINITELY DRAWING NEAR.
00:25:33.13\00:25:39.26
NOW, THIS NEXT SECTION IN JAMES,
IS A LITTLE BIT MORE TOUCHY.
00:25:39.26\00:25:45.16
WE'VE LOOKED AT WHAT
TO HAVE PATIENCE FOR -
00:25:45.16\00:25:47.26
WHAT DO WE HAVE
PATIENCE FOR - FRUIT, RIGHT?
00:25:47.26\00:25:53.16
THERE'S A PATIENCE THAT WE'RE
WAITING FOR FRUIT AND WE'RE
00:25:53.16\00:25:55.86
BEING PATIENT ALSO
UNTO THE COMING OF THE LORD.
00:25:55.86\00:25:58.06
WE HAVE THESE TWO
PATIENCES THAT ARE COMING OUT.
00:25:58.06\00:26:00.33
WE'VE LOOKED A LITTLE
BIT AT HOW TO HAVE PATIENCE.
00:26:00.33\00:26:03.20
HOW AM I GOING TO DO
THAT? I NEED TO WHAT?
00:26:03.20\00:26:04.83
STABLISH MY
HEART. WE LOOKED AT THAT.
00:26:04.83\00:26:07.86
AND WHO DOES THAT STABLISHING?
GOD DOES. JESUS DOES THAT.
00:26:07.86\00:26:11.46
SO NOW WE'RE LOOKING AT THIS
NEXT PASSAGE IN VERSE - JAMES
00:26:11.46\00:26:17.10
CHAPTER 5, VERSE 9,
"GRUDGE NOT ONE AGAINST ANOTHER,
00:26:17.10\00:26:22.13
BRETHREN, LEST YE
BE CONDEMNED: BEHOLD,
00:26:22.13\00:26:24.33
THE JUDGE
STANDETH BEFORE THE DOOR."
00:26:24.33\00:26:27.50
YOU KNOW, WHEN I LOOKED I
SAID, 'HOW DOES THIS FIT IN?'
00:26:27.50\00:26:30.73
AND THERE'S A COUPLE DIFFERENT
WAYS IT FITS IN, BUT I'D LIKE TO
00:26:30.73\00:26:33.06
LOOK AT ONE, IF THAT'S OKAY.
HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE A GRUDGE?
00:26:33.06\00:26:37.96
DON'T RAISE YOUR
HAND. YOU EVER HAD A GRUDGE?
00:26:37.96\00:26:43.20
YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE COULD
HOLD GRUDGES BETTER THAN OTHERS.
00:26:43.20\00:26:45.50
BUT I THINK THAT ALL OF US
STRUGGLE WITH GRUDGING ONE WAY
00:26:45.50\00:26:46.93
OR ANOTHER.
SOMETIMES WE HAVE GRUDGES
00:26:46.93\00:26:48.96
AGAINST PEOPLE WHO HOLD
GRUDGES, RIGHT? GRUDGING.
00:26:48.96\00:26:53.80
DO YOU REALIZE THAT IF YOU HAVE
A GRUDGE, IT'S A SURE SIGN THAT
00:26:53.80\00:26:55.66
YOU DON'T HAVE PATIENCE.
YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT THAT?
00:26:55.66\00:26:59.33
IF I'M GRUDGING SOMEONE, IT'S
A SURE SIGN THAT I DON'T HAVE
00:26:59.33\00:27:02.16
PATIENCE. BECAUSE I
WAS TOLD THAT I NEEDED
00:27:02.16\00:27:05.33
TO HAVE LONG PATIENCE FOR FRUIT.
AND IF SOMEONE IS NOT SHOWING
00:27:05.33\00:27:08.60
THE FRUIT - AND I GET GRUDGING
AGAINST THEM BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T
00:27:08.60\00:27:10.83
SHOW THEIR FRUIT, I'M
LACKING WHAT? LONG PATIENCE.
00:27:10.83\00:27:15.66
"GRUDGE NOT ONE AGAINST ANOTHER,
BRETHREN, LEST YE BE CONDEMNED:
00:27:15.66\00:27:19.96
BEHOLD, THE JUDGE
STANDETH BEFORE THE DOOR."
00:27:19.96\00:27:22.63
WOW, WHAT A PICTURE - GRUDGING.
00:27:22.63\00:27:26.50
I WAS PLAYING AROUND
WITH THIS A LITTLE BIT.
00:27:26.50\00:27:30.00
A FRIEND OF MINE WAS LOOKING
INTO THIS PASSAGE IN JAMES
00:27:30.00\00:27:33.76
CHAPTER 5 AND HERE'S WHAT SHE
SAID, "WE NEED, AS CHRISTIANS
00:27:33.76\00:27:38.26
TODAY, WE NEED TO HAVE
A LIFESTYLE OF PATIENCE."
00:27:38.26\00:27:44.70
HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT OF
THAT? WE NEED TO HAVE A WHAT?
00:27:44.70\00:27:48.76
A LIFESTYLE OF PATIENCE.
IT'S ONE THING TO SAY, 'OKAY,
00:27:48.76\00:27:51.50
I'M GOING TO BE
PATIENT FOR MY GARDEN TO GROW.'
00:27:51.50\00:27:53.90
'I'M GOING TO BE PATIENT
FOR THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS
00:27:53.90\00:27:56.26
CHRIST.' GOD GAVE ME PATIENCE
TO WAIT, BUT THIS IS NOT JUST
00:27:56.26\00:28:00.43
SIMPLY PATIENCE THEOLOGICALLY,
THIS IS PATIENCE IN MY LIFE -
00:28:00.43\00:28:05.00
A LIFESTYLE OF PATIENCE.
00:28:05.00\00:28:07.66
IT'S NOT JUST SAYING, 'OKAY,
I'M WAITING FOR JESUS TO COME.
00:28:07.66\00:28:08.76
I'M GOING TO WAIT
PATIENTLY.' IT'S MORE THAN THAT.
00:28:08.76\00:28:12.23
GOD IS ASKING FOR A
LIFESTYLE OF PATIENCE.
00:28:12.23\00:28:15.40
NOW, I CAN'T ASK YOU WHAT IT'S
DOING TO YOU, BUT WHEN I THINK
00:28:15.40\00:28:18.93
OF LIFESTYLE
PATIENCE, I FEEL CONDEMNED.
00:28:18.93\00:28:21.80
AND I SAY, 'WHO NEEDS
TO STABLISH MY HEART?'
00:28:21.80\00:28:25.60
GOD, PLEASE HELP ME, AMEN?
MY MOM HAD THIS LITTLE PLAQUE -
00:28:25.60\00:28:31.00
I REMEMBER AS A KID GROWING
UP SEEING IT SITTING NEXT TO OUR
00:28:31.00\00:28:33.46
TOASTER OVEN. AND
THERE WAS THIS MOTHER WHO
00:28:33.46\00:28:36.03
WAS COMING FROM A CLOTHESLINE
WITH A BIG BASKET OF CLEAN
00:28:36.03\00:28:39.33
CLOTHES, AND THERE WAS HER
SON COMING IN COVERED WITH MUD.
00:28:39.33\00:28:43.26
AND THE CAPTION ON THE
PLAQUE SAID, 'LORD, GIVE ME
00:28:43.26\00:28:45.50
PATIENCE...BUT HURRY!'
AND, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES THAT'S
00:28:45.50\00:28:51.53
REALITY, ISN'T IT? I
WAS LISTENING TO A SERMON
00:28:51.53\00:28:55.76
RECENTLY AND IT WAS
TALKING ABOUT A FAMOUS PREACHER.
00:28:55.76\00:28:58.56
HE WAS A VERY KIND, LOVING MAN,
BUT ONE DAY ONE OF HIS FRIENDS
00:28:58.56\00:29:02.06
WALKED INTO THIS PASTOR'S OFFICE
AND HE WAS PACING BACK AND FORTH
00:29:02.06\00:29:05.23
INSIDE THAT OFFICE. AND HIS
FRIEND SAID, 'WHAT'S WRONG?'
00:29:05.23\00:29:08.10
BECAUSE HE HAD NEVER SEEN
HIS FRIEND SO AGITATED BEFORE.
00:29:08.10\00:29:10.43
AND HE SAID, 'I'M IN A
HURRY AND THE LORD ISN'T.'
00:29:10.43\00:29:15.13
YOU EVER FEEL
LIKE THAT SOMETIMES?
00:29:15.13\00:29:17.30
WE NEED TO BE HAVING
A LIFESTYLE OF PATIENCE.
00:29:17.30\00:29:22.13
AND PART OF
THAT IS GRUDGING NOT.
00:29:22.13\00:29:24.53
NOW I'M GOING TO TAKE A LITTLE
TIME DEALING WITH GRUDGING, JUST
00:29:24.53\00:29:26.46
BECAUSE IT IS SOMETHING,
I THINK, THAT WE DEAL WITH
00:29:26.46\00:29:29.56
SOMETIMES. AND IT IS
A DETRIMENT TO PATIENCE.
00:29:29.56\00:29:33.73
DO YOU MIND JUST
TURNING TO A FEW TEXTS WITH ME?
00:29:33.73\00:29:36.36
I LIKE TO LOOK AT
LEVITICUS CHAPTER 19 -
00:29:36.36\00:29:39.66
LEVITICUS
CHAPTER 19 AND VERSE 18 -
00:29:39.66\00:29:48.46
LEVITICUS 19 AND VERSE 18 -
WHILE YOU'RE TURNING THERE -
00:29:48.46\00:29:50.70
YOU'RE ALMOST THERE, YOU
KNOW IT SAID THAT WE'RE NOT
00:29:50.70\00:29:53.70
SUPPOSED TO JUDGE BECAUSE THE
JUDGE - WE'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO
00:29:53.70\00:29:56.53
GRUDGE BECAUSE THE
JUDGE IS STANDING AT THE DOOR.
00:29:56.53\00:29:59.13
YOU KNOW WHAT I
BELIEVE THAT MEANS?
00:29:59.13\00:30:03.60
AT LEAST IN APPLICATION? I
BELIEVE IT SAYS DON'T HOLD A
00:30:03.60\00:30:06.46
GRUDGE BECAUSE
THE JUDGE IS THERE.
00:30:06.46\00:30:08.13
IT'S FOR HIM TO TAKE CARE OF
AND NOT YOU. SIT BACK AND RELAX.
00:30:08.13\00:30:11.73
YOU KNOW, TOO MANY - YOU KNOW,
SOMETIMES WE LOOK AT IT - 'DON'T
00:30:11.73\00:30:15.06
GRUDGE BECAUSE YOU'RE GOING TO
BE JUDGED IF YOU GRUDGE.' AND I
00:30:15.06\00:30:18.16
WON'T DOUBT THAT, BUT I ALSO
BELIEVE THAT ANOTHER REASON WE
00:30:18.16\00:30:21.70
DON'T NEED TO GRUDGE IS
BECAUSE WE'RE NOT IN CHARGE.
00:30:21.70\00:30:24.20
WHO'S IN CHARGE? THE JUDGE
IS. LET HIM TAKE CARE OF IT.
00:30:24.20\00:30:28.00
LEVITICUS CHAPTER 19 AND VERSE
18, "THOU SHALT NOT AVENGE, NOR
00:30:28.00\00:30:32.70
BEAR ANY GRUDGE AGAINST THE
CHILDREN OF THY PEOPLE, BUT THOU
00:30:32.70\00:30:36.13
SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOR
AS THYSELF: I AM THE LORD."
00:30:36.13\00:30:41.20
WOW. DON'T GRUDGE, INSTEAD OF
00:30:41.20\00:30:43.80
GRUDGING WHAT ARE
YOU SUPPOSED TO DO?
00:30:43.80\00:30:45.93
OH, NOT JUST LOVE - LOVE
YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.
00:30:45.93\00:30:52.86
THAT'S THE PICTURE
THAT'S BEING PULLED OUT HERE.
00:30:52.86\00:30:54.16
LET'S LOOK AT ANOTHER PASSAGE.
1 SAMUEL CHAPTER 24 AND WE ARE
00:30:54.16\00:30:58.23
GOING TO BE LOOKING AT VERSE
12 - 1 SAMUEL 24 AND VERSE 12.
00:30:58.23\00:31:03.36
THIS IS DAVID SPEAKING TO SAUL
WHEN SAUL CAUGHT UP WITH HIM
00:31:03.36\00:31:10.76
TRYING TO KILL HIM. AND
HERE'S WHAT DAVID SAYS: "THE
00:31:10.76\00:31:14.56
LORD JUDGE BETWEEN ME AND THEE,
AND THE LORD AVENGE ME OF THEE:
00:31:14.56\00:31:21.23
BUT MINE HAND SHALL NOT BE
UPON THEE." WHAT A PICTURE.
00:31:21.23\00:31:26.06
IT'S NOT FOR ME TO
DO. GOD'S IN CHARGE.
00:31:26.06\00:31:28.70
NOW I WISH DAVID KEPT
THAT HIS WHOLE LIFE, AMEN?
00:31:28.70\00:31:31.20
BUT AT THIS POINT
THAT IS BEAUTIFUL.
00:31:31.20\00:31:33.03
WHAT A BEAUTIFUL
PICTURE HE'S GIVING US OF GOD.
00:31:33.03\00:31:34.90
GOD'S IN CHARGE,
I'M NOT IN CHARGE.
00:31:34.90\00:31:37.16
AND, YOU KNOW,
I'M GLAD, AREN'T YOU?
00:31:37.16\00:31:39.06
BECAUSE SOMETIMES YOU AND I CAN
AVENGE OURSELVES ON PEOPLE THAT
00:31:39.06\00:31:41.73
GOD WOULD - IS PULLING
AND DRAWING TO HIMSELF.
00:31:41.73\00:31:45.00
AND, AS A RESULT OF US TRYING
TO AVENGE OURSELVES, THEY ARE
00:31:45.00\00:31:48.63
PUSHED FURTHER AWAY FROM
GOD. LET GOD TAKE CARE OF IT.
00:31:48.63\00:31:52.70
THE NEXT ONE IS FOUND IN
JEREMIAH CHAPTER 15 AND VERSE 15
00:31:52.70\00:31:56.86
- JEREMIAH 15:15, "O LORD, THOU
KNOWEST:" - I'LL WAIT TILL YOU
00:31:56.86\00:32:04.86
TURN THERE, BUT THOSE FIRST FOUR
WORDS ARE BEAUTIFUL - OH LORD,
00:32:04.86\00:32:07.43
YOU KNOW - OH
LORD, YOU KNOW. DOES HE?
00:32:07.43\00:32:12.30
DOES HE KNOW WHAT YOU FACE?
DOES HE KNOW THE STRUGGLE YOU'RE
00:32:12.30\00:32:16.03
FACING WITH PATIENCE RIGHT NOW?
DOES HE KNOW THE PEOPLE WHO ARE
00:32:16.03\00:32:19.23
TESTING YOUR PATIENCE RIGHT
NOW? DOES HE KNOW THE STRUGGLE
00:32:19.23\00:32:22.03
THEY'RE HAVING? OH
LORD - WHAT IS THAT? -
00:32:22.03\00:32:25.90
YOU KNOW. "O LORD, THOU KNOWEST:
00:32:25.90\00:32:27.83
REMEMBER ME, AND VISIT ME, AND
REVENGE ME OF MY PERSECUTORS;
00:32:27.83\00:32:31.70
TAKE ME NOT AWAY IN THY
LONGSUFFERING: KNOW THAT FOR
00:32:31.70\00:32:34.50
THY SAKE I HAVE SUFFERED
REBUKE." YOU KNOW I USED TO READ
00:32:34.50\00:32:37.10
STUFF LIKE THIS FROM
JEREMIAH - ESPECIALLY DAVID.
00:32:37.10\00:32:39.26
YOU GET THESE PSALMS OF DAVID -
'KILL HIM FOR ME, GOD, PLEASE.'
00:32:39.26\00:32:43.46
HE DOESN'T QUITE SAY THAT, BUT
WHAT IS - YOU HAVE TO REALIZE
00:32:43.46\00:32:47.33
THAT THEY UNDERSTOOD
THAT GOD KNEW ALL THINGS.
00:32:47.33\00:32:50.83
AND IF GOD KNOWS ALL THINGS,
HE'S GOING TO BE RIGHTEOUS AND
00:32:50.83\00:32:54.40
HE'S GOING TO DO THE
RIGHT THING. IT'S A GOOD THING.
00:32:54.40\00:32:57.63
'OH GOD, YOU KNOW.' LET'S LOOK
AT ONE LAST PASSAGE ON THIS AREA
00:32:57.63\00:33:01.46
AND THAT'S ROMANS CHAPTER 12 AND
VERSE 19 - ROMANS 12 AND VERSE
00:33:01.46\00:33:08.60
19, "DEARLY BELOVED, AVENGE
NOT YOURSELVES, BUT RATHER GIVE
00:33:08.60\00:33:18.76
PLACE UNTO WRATH:" - IN OTHER
WORDS, DON'T GET ANGRY - "FOR IT
00:33:18.76\00:33:25.33
IS WRITTEN, VENGEANCE IS MINE;
I WILL REPAY, SAITH THE LORD."
00:33:25.33\00:33:33.13
WHY IS VENGEANCE GOD'S?
BECAUSE HE'S THE ONE WHO WANTS
00:33:33.13\00:33:35.96
TO HIT SOMEBODY?
WHY IS VENGEANCE GOD'S?
00:33:35.96\00:33:39.13
BECAUSE HE WANTS TO MAKE SURE
THEY GET THE PROPER PUNISHMENT?
00:33:39.13\00:33:41.66
WHY IS VENGEANCE GOD'S?
'OH LORD, YOU KNOW.' THAT'S IT.
00:33:41.66\00:33:48.50
SO WHEN YOU'RE DEALING WITH
FEELING LIKE GETTING A GRUDGE
00:33:48.50\00:33:50.53
AGAINST SOMEONE,
'OH LORD, YOU KNOW.
00:33:50.53\00:33:55.50
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M FACING, GOD.
YOU KNOW WHAT THEY'RE FACING,
00:33:55.50\00:33:58.00
GOD, YOU KNOW.' LET ME
BE - CAN I USE THE WORD?
00:33:58.00\00:34:03.80
- PATIENT. LET ME BE PATIENT.
00:34:03.80\00:34:08.50
WE HAVE A GOOD GOD,
DON'T WE? I GET EXCITED.
00:34:08.50\00:34:13.50
I - WHEN I WAS YOUNGER AND I WAS
STARTING TO IMPATIENTLY LOOK FOR
00:34:13.50\00:34:19.90
A SPOUSE, AS SOMETIMES WE DO -
'GOD, PLEASE, IS THIS THE RIGHT
00:34:19.90\00:34:26.00
PERSON?' I WOULD
PRAY AND BEG GOD AND
00:34:26.00\00:34:27.60
PRAY AND BEG GOD
- AND GOD WAS QUIET.
00:34:27.60\00:34:29.83
YOU KNOW WHY GOD'S QUIET
SOMETIMES, BECAUSE HE ALREADY
00:34:29.83\00:34:31.56
TOLD US AND HE
DOESN'T NEED TO TELL US AGAIN.
00:34:31.56\00:34:33.83
AND THEN ANOTHER TIME I'D PRAY
AND BEG GOD, 'PLEASE, PLEASE' -
00:34:33.83\00:34:36.40
AND I WAS ALL IMPATIENT - 'GOD,
I NEED THIS.' AND GOD'S JUST
00:34:36.40\00:34:39.30
SMILING - I DON'T KNOW IF HE
WAS SMILING, BUT I FELT LIKE IT
00:34:39.30\00:34:41.56
SOMETIMES. 'JUST
RELAX, CHUCK, HAVE
00:34:41.56\00:34:44.56
PATIENCE.' I REMEMBER I WAS
TALKING TO MY DAD ONE TIME ABOUT
00:34:44.56\00:34:49.73
IT AND HE SAID, 'SON, I HOPE
YOU FIND A PATIENT WIFE.' AND I
00:34:49.73\00:34:54.20
DIDN'T KNOW IF THAT
WAS A COMPLIMENT OR NOT.
00:34:54.20\00:34:56.80
'I HOPE YOU FIND A PATIENT
WIFE.' WELL, I PRAISE GOD I DID.
00:34:56.80\00:34:59.80
BUT I FOUND OUT THAT
PATIENCE IS NECESSARY.
00:34:59.80\00:35:05.60
AND I TELL YOU THAT PATIENCE
MAKES RELATIONSHIPS WORK.
00:35:05.60\00:35:10.93
PATIENCE, I MEAN, I DON'T
KNOW IF YOU KNEW THIS, BUT I WAS
00:35:10.93\00:35:13.83
DOING SOME RESEARCH FOR
THIS LESSON AND ON - THERE ARE
00:35:13.83\00:35:16.83
ACTUALLY WHOLE SEMINARS FOR
PROFESSIONALS - LEADERS - ON HOW
00:35:16.83\00:35:20.90
TO BE PATIENT.
PROFESSIONALS GO TO SEMINARS AND
00:35:20.90\00:35:25.60
PAY BIG MONEY TO
LEARN HOW TO BE PATIENT.
00:35:25.60\00:35:27.40
AND YOU GOT TO BE
HERE FOR FREE TODAY.
00:35:27.40\00:35:29.26
THIS IS FANTASTIC. AND
I HAVE TO ADMIT THAT THE
00:35:29.26\00:35:31.86
COUNSEL IN THE WORD OF GOD
IS BETTER THAN WHAT THEY GIVE.
00:35:31.86\00:35:33.30
WOULD YOU SAY 'AMEN?'
PATIENCE IS SOMETHING THAT
00:35:33.30\00:35:37.16
PEOPLE REALIZE
IS A KEY TO SUCCESS.
00:35:37.16\00:35:40.40
IF YOU'RE NOT A PATIENT MAN - IF
YOU'RE NOT A PATIENT WOMAN, PRAY
00:35:40.40\00:35:44.13
THAT THE LORD WILL
STABLISH YOUR HEART.
00:35:44.13\00:35:48.50
THAT HE WILL COME AND GIVE YOU
THE STRENGTH THAT IS NECESSARY.
00:35:48.50\00:35:51.46
YOU KNOW, JAMES DOESN'T
JUST TELL ME ABOUT WHAT TO HAVE
00:35:51.46\00:35:58.23
PATIENCE FOR. YES,
THE COMING OF THE LORD IS
00:35:58.23\00:36:01.13
PART OF IT, BUT I'M
HAVING PATIENCE FOR FRUIT.
00:36:01.13\00:36:03.93
AND HE DOESN'T JUST DESCRIBE HOW
TO HAVE PATIENCE, BUT HE ALSO
00:36:03.93\00:36:07.66
TELLS ME WHO HAS HAD PATIENCE IN
THE PAST AND I CAN LOOK AT THEM
00:36:07.66\00:36:10.96
AND GET SOME IDEAS.
JAMES CHAPTER 5 - JAMES CHAPTER
00:36:10.96\00:36:15.13
5 AND WE'RE GOING TO LOOK
AT OUR NEXT VERSE, VERSE 10.
00:36:15.13\00:36:26.33
"TAKE, MY BRETHREN, THE
PROPHETS." - THERE IT IS -
00:36:26.33\00:36:28.10
"TAKE, MY BRETHREN," - I KNOW
THIS - 'MY BRETHREN, LISTEN UP.
00:36:28.10\00:36:31.00
I'VE GOT AN EXAMPLE FOR
YOU - "TAKE, MY BRETHREN, THE
00:36:31.00\00:36:35.03
PROPHETS, WHO HAVE SPOKEN
IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, FOR AN
00:36:35.03\00:36:39.20
EXAMPLE" - AND IF I JUST STOP
THERE WE'D SAY, 'OKAY, GOOD.
00:36:39.20\00:36:41.73
WE'RE SUPPOSED TO GO OUT AND
SPEAK IN THE NAME OF THE LORD
00:36:41.73\00:36:45.10
AND EVERYTHING'S FINE?'
THE PROPHETS ARE OUR EXAMPLE.
00:36:45.10\00:36:47.96
LET'S JUST GO OUT AND GIVE IT TO
THEM. BUT IT DOESN'T SAY THAT'S
00:36:47.96\00:36:51.56
WHERE WE'RE SUPPOSED
TO TAKE THE EXAMPLE FROM.
00:36:51.56\00:36:53.73
IT SAYS, "TAKE, MY BRETHREN,
THE PROPHETS," - MY PAGES KEEP
00:36:53.73\00:36:58.80
TURNING - "WHO HAVE SPOKEN
IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, FOR AN
00:36:58.80\00:37:00.96
EXAMPLE OF SUFFERING
AFFLICTION, AND OF PATIENCE."
00:37:00.96\00:37:07.66
I WOULD MUCH RATHER HAVE ELIJAH
AS MY EXAMPLE SO I CAN GO OUT
00:37:07.66\00:37:14.50
AND BLAST AWAY THE SIN. AND HE
SAYS, 'UH UH, EXAMPLE OF WHAT?
00:37:14.50\00:37:22.86
SUFFERING AFFLICTION AND
OF PATIENCE.' OH, I WANT THAT.
00:37:22.86\00:37:32.13
I DON'T WANT THE
SUFFERING AFFLICTION.
00:37:32.13\00:37:33.40
I WANT TO CLARIFY THAT.
00:37:33.40\00:37:35.03
BUT I'D LOVE TO HAVE
THAT KIND OF PATIENCE.
00:37:35.03\00:37:37.56
THE PATIENCE THAT MY CHILDREN
WOULD ALWAYS SEE THE CHARACTER
00:37:37.56\00:37:40.43
OF GOD IN THEIR
FATHER. HOW ABOUT THAT?
00:37:40.43\00:37:42.83
THE KIND OF CHARACTER - THE
KIND OF PATIENCE - SO WHEN I'M
00:37:42.83\00:37:46.20
WORKING WITH MY FRIENDS THEY
DON'T SEE MY STRESSED OUT LOOK
00:37:46.20\00:37:49.23
WHEN I'M LIKE, 'UH UH,
YOU PUSHED ME TOO FAR.'
00:37:49.23\00:37:51.90
I'M SPEAKING TO
PEOPLE WHO KNOW ME.
00:37:51.90\00:37:54.43
I DON'T WANT THAT, I
WANT TO HAVE PATIENCE.
00:37:54.43\00:37:58.70
YOU KNOW, IT'S A BEAUTIFUL
PICTURE AND IF I WAS IN A CLASS
00:37:58.70\00:38:04.30
WHERE THERE'S A LOT OF
INTERACTION, WHAT I WOULD SAY
00:38:04.30\00:38:06.63
IS, 'COULD YOU GIVE ME SOME
EXAMPLES OF SOME PROPHETS WHO
00:38:06.63\00:38:09.86
SUFFERED AFFLICTION AND
HAVE GIVEN US AN EXAMPLE OF
00:38:09.86\00:38:13.26
PATIENCE?' AND YOU WOULD
PROBABLY BE ABLE TO LIST DOZENS
00:38:13.26\00:38:16.86
TO ME, FROM THE BIBLE. AM I
RIGHT? CAN YOU THINK OF AN OLD
00:38:16.86\00:38:32.26
I THOUGHT THIS WAS A
LITTLE BIT EASIER. YOU CAN'T.
00:38:32.26\00:38:35.60
WHEN YOU ARE CALLED TO SPEAK FOR
GOD - WHEN YOU'RE CALLED TO BE A
00:38:35.60\00:38:40.30
SPOKESMAN FOR GOD - WHEN YOU'RE
CALLED TO BE AN EXAMPLE FOR GOD,
00:38:40.30\00:38:43.16
DARE I SAY AN AMBASSADOR,
AS PAUL SAYS - YOU WILL SUFFER
00:38:43.16\00:38:47.20
AFFLICTION AND YOU
WILL NEED PATIENCE.
00:38:47.20\00:38:51.26
BECAUSE I GUARANTEE YOU IT'S
PATIENCE AND AFFLICTION THAT
00:38:51.26\00:38:53.56
DETERMINES WHETHER A
PERSON IS A CHRISTIAN OR NOT.
00:38:53.56\00:38:57.63
IT IS PATIENCE AND AFFLICTION
THAT DETERMINES WHEN A PERSON IS
00:38:57.63\00:39:01.56
A CHRISTIAN OR NOT. I
WAS OUT WITH MY FATHER.
00:39:01.56\00:39:06.16
MY FATHER USED TO BE A SALESMAN.
00:39:06.16\00:39:07.40
AND WE WOULD GO
FROM PLACE TO PLACE.
00:39:07.40\00:39:10.03
AND I REMEMBER I WOULD IN
SUMMERTIME I WOULD GO OUT AND
00:39:10.03\00:39:13.40
TRAVEL WITH MY DAD AND
MY DAD IS A PATIENT MAN.
00:39:13.40\00:39:17.30
HE'S NOT PERFECT, BUT HE'S
PATIENT. I APPRECIATE THAT.
00:39:17.30\00:39:21.20
AND WE WERE OUT AND MY DAD
WAS SELLING HIS PRODUCT THERE AT
00:39:21.20\00:39:24.23
THIS LOCAL STORE AND HE WALKED
IN AND THE MAN STARTED ANGRILY
00:39:24.23\00:39:29.33
YELLING AT MY DAD AND CURSING
AT HIM. AND MY LITTLE - I DON'T
00:39:29.33\00:39:33.70
KNOW WHAT I WAS - 8 OR 9 YEARS
OLD - MY LITTLE HEART WAS NOT
00:39:33.70\00:39:36.43
PATIENT AND IT WAS
DEFINITELY NOT WILLING TO SUFFER
00:39:36.43\00:39:39.40
AFFLICTION. AND I
GOT UP THERE AND I SAID,
00:39:39.40\00:39:41.90
'HOW COULD YOU SPEAK
THAT WAY TO MY DAD?' -
00:39:41.90\00:39:43.66
I DIDN'T SAY IT,
I WAS TOO SCARED.
00:39:43.66\00:39:45.30
BUT I WAS FEELING THAT INSIDE.
AND MY DAD JUST SAT THERE AND
00:39:45.30\00:39:49.36
LET THIS MAN JUST YELL AT HIM.
AND AFTER ABOUT 15 - 20 MINUTES,
00:39:49.36\00:39:55.06
MY DAD CONTINUED
WITH WHAT HE WAS DOING.
00:39:55.06\00:39:56.80
THE MAN ENDED UP BUYING HUNDREDS
OF - MAYBE THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS
00:39:56.80\00:39:59.40
WORTH OF PRODUCT FROM MY DAD.
NOW, OF COURSE I DIDN'T NOTICE
00:39:59.40\00:40:03.60
IT AT THAT POINT, I LOOK
BACK NOW AND SAY, 'MAN, MY DAD'S
00:40:03.60\00:40:06.30
WISE.' PATIENCE, RIGHT?
NOW AS I CRAWLED BACK INTO THE
00:40:06.30\00:40:10.90
CAR AND WE'RE TRAVELING BACK
DOWN THE ROAD, I LOOKED AT MY
00:40:10.90\00:40:13.06
DAD AND SAID, 'WHY
DIDN'T YOU SAY ANYTHING?
00:40:13.06\00:40:15.26
HOW CAN YOU JUST STAND THERE AND
LET SOMEONE LIKE - SPEAK TO YOU
00:40:15.26\00:40:18.10
LIKE THAT?' YOU KNOW
WHAT MY DAD SAID, 'JUST
00:40:18.10\00:40:20.60
BECAUSE HE GOT OUT ON THE WRONG
SIDE OF THE BED DOESN'T MEAN I
00:40:20.60\00:40:23.06
HAVE TO GET OUT OF THE WRONG
SIDE OF BED.' YOU KNOW WHAT HE
00:40:23.06\00:40:26.70
WAS DOING THERE? TWO THINGS.
00:40:26.70\00:40:28.86
HE WAS LOOKING AT THAT PERSON
AND SAYING, 'THIS PERSON IS NOT
00:40:28.86\00:40:30.43
NORMALLY LIKE THIS, MAYBE.
MAYBE THEY JUST HAD A BAD DAY.
00:40:30.43\00:40:32.56
HAVE MERCY ON THEM. AND
WHY SHOULD I BE UNKIND TO
00:40:32.56\00:40:36.53
SOMEONE WHO'S HAVING A
BAD DAY? MAKES SENSE, RIGHT?
00:40:36.53\00:40:41.50
PATIENCE. LONG PATIENCE.
00:40:41.50\00:40:45.40
YOU KNOW, I LIKE TO - THERE ARE
SO MANY PROPHETS, I CAN'T TAKE
00:40:45.40\00:40:50.63
THE TIME TO LOOK AT THEM,
BUT WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT ONE
00:40:50.63\00:40:52.60
PERSON
SPECIFICALLY. IS THAT OKAY?
00:40:52.60\00:40:54.20
LET'S LOOK AT CHAPTER 5 AND
VERSE 11 - CHAPTER 5, VERSE 11 -
00:40:54.20\00:41:02.06
THERE'S A CHINESE PROVERB
THAT SAYS, 'PATIENCE IS A BITTER
00:41:02.06\00:41:06.13
PLANT, BUT ITS FRUIT IS SWEET.'
PATIENCE IS A BITTER PLANT, BUT
00:41:06.13\00:41:11.60
ITS FRUIT IS SWEET.
JAMES CHAPTER 5 AND VERSE 11,
00:41:11.60\00:41:16.06
"BEHOLD WE COUNT THEM"
- WHAT'S THAT NEXT WORD?
00:41:16.06\00:41:20.03
- "HAPPY WHICH
ENDURE." HAPPY WHICH ENDURE.
00:41:20.03\00:41:27.10
I'M GOING TO STOP WITH THAT.
WE'LL GO TO OUR NEXT SENTENCE
00:41:27.10\00:41:28.43
LATER. BEHOLD,
WE COUNT THEM HAPPY
00:41:28.43\00:41:31.16
WHICH ENDURE. I LIKE ATHLETICS.
00:41:31.16\00:41:34.80
I LIKE WATCHING RACES - RUNNING,
SPECIFICALLY - I AM ALWAYS
00:41:34.80\00:41:38.53
AMAZED AT PEOPLE WHO RUN
MARATHONS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
00:41:38.53\00:41:41.03
I HAVE FRIENDS WHO DO
- ARE ULTRA-MARATHONERS.
00:41:41.03\00:41:43.53
AND WHENEVER YOU SEE A PERSON
RUNNING A MARATHON AND YOU CAN
00:41:43.53\00:41:46.56
SEE THEM PUSHING THROUGH THAT
WALL THAT YOU HIT AND YOU - I
00:41:46.56\00:41:53.76
CAN'T GO ANOTHER STEP - AND ONLY
BY SHEER WILLPOWER DOES ONE FOOT
00:41:53.76\00:41:57.70
GO IN FRONT OF THE
NEXT FOOT. THEY'RE ENDURING.
00:41:57.70\00:42:01.63
AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT THEM
RIGHT THEN, YOU DON'T THINK OF
00:42:01.63\00:42:03.66
HAPPINESS, DO YOU? DO
YOU THINK OF HAPPINESS WHEN
00:42:03.66\00:42:07.03
YOU SEE A PERSON AT THAT POINT?
THEIR BODY IS READY TO FALL
00:42:07.03\00:42:10.06
APART IN PAIN AND
THEIR MUSCLES ARE GIVING UP.
00:42:10.06\00:42:13.76
DO YOU CONSIDER THEM HAPPY?
HAPPY ARE THEY WHICH ENDURE.
00:42:13.76\00:42:19.40
BUT WHEN THEY CROSS THE FINISH
LINE, WHEN THEY FINISH AND
00:42:19.40\00:42:23.86
COMPLETE 26.2 MILES, OR WHATEVER
LENGTH OF RACE THEY'RE RUNNING,
00:42:23.86\00:42:27.90
HAPPY ARE THEY WHICH ENDURE.
00:42:27.90\00:42:31.23
HAPPINESS IN ENDURANCE MOST
OFTEN TAKES PLACE AT THE END.
00:42:31.23\00:42:37.86
NOW THERE IS A JOY IN THE
JOURNEY AND I'M NOT GOING TO
00:42:37.86\00:42:41.46
ARGUE THAT, BUT MOST OF THE TIME
WE DON'T SEE THE HAPPINESS UNTIL
00:42:41.46\00:42:46.63
THE END. YOU
KNOW, IF YOU WANT TO DO
00:42:46.63\00:42:49.73
WHAT'S EASY AND FUN NOW, AND
DON'T ENDURE, MOST OF THE TIME
00:42:49.73\00:42:54.50
YOU'RE GOING TO FIND
YOURSELF UNHAPPY. IS THAT RIGHT?
00:42:54.50\00:42:58.30
THINK OF THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE
WHO HAVE DONE WHAT WAS EASY AND
00:42:58.30\00:43:00.80
FUN WHEN THEY WERE YOUNG, IN
THEIR TEENAGE YEARS AND THEIR
00:43:00.80\00:43:04.86
TWENTIES - THEY DID WHAT WAS
EASY, WHAT WAS SIMPLE TO DO AND
00:43:04.86\00:43:08.76
DID NOT TRY TO
ENDURE. ARE THEY HAPPY TODAY?
00:43:08.76\00:43:13.76
MOST OF THEM WILL LOOK AT YOU IN
THE FACE AND SAY, 'I TRIED AND
00:43:13.76\00:43:15.53
IT DIDN'T WORK. I'M NOT HAPPY.'
HAPPINESS COMES IN ENDURANCE.
00:43:15.53\00:43:20.20
HAPPINESS COMES WHEN YOU PUSH IT
AS FAR AS YOU CAN, TRUSTING THAT
00:43:20.20\00:43:23.76
GOD WILL TAKE
CARE OF WHAT YOU NEED.
00:43:23.76\00:43:25.96
HAPPY ARE THEY WHICH ENDURE.
THERE'S A STORY I LIKE TO SHARE
00:43:25.96\00:43:31.00
OF A MAN BY THE NAME OF SHUN
FUJIMOTO. I'LL SHARE IT BRIEFLY.
00:43:31.00\00:43:35.50
SHUN FUJIMOTO WAS A JAPANESE
GYMNAST IN THE 1976 OLYMPICS.
00:43:35.50\00:43:39.96
HE WAS A GIFTED MAN, PROBABLY
ONE OF THE MAIN LEADING GYMNASTS
00:43:39.96\00:43:45.73
ON THE JAPANESE TEAM.
THEY WERE IN A BIG BATTLE
00:43:45.73\00:43:50.06
BETWEEN THE RUSSIANS - TRYING
TO SEE WHO WAS GOING TO GET THE
00:43:50.06\00:43:52.46
TEAM GOLD MEDAL - DOING
EVERYTHING THEY POSSIBLY COULD.
00:43:52.46\00:43:55.13
AND SHUN FUJIMOTO WAS THE
ONE WHO WAS NEEDED TO MAKE IT
00:43:55.13\00:43:57.33
HAPPEN. HOWEVER,
SHUN FUJIMOTO FINISHED
00:43:57.33\00:43:59.16
UP HIS FLOOR ROUTINE - HE
FELT SOMETHING POP IN HIS LEG -
00:43:59.16\00:44:02.73
LIKE AIR ENTERED IN. HE
FOUND OUT LATER THAT HE HAD
00:44:02.73\00:44:05.63
CRACKED HIS PATELLA -
HIS KNEECAP - EXTREME PAIN.
00:44:05.63\00:44:10.56
BUT HE DIDN'T WANT TO TELL
ANYBODY BECAUSE THEY KNEW THEY
00:44:10.56\00:44:12.16
NEEDED HIM TO WIN. SO HE DECIDED
HE WAS GOING TO DO WHAT? ENDURE.
00:44:12.16\00:44:16.93
SO HE WENT AND DID THE POMMEL
HORSE ROUTINE AND FINISHED WITH
00:44:16.93\00:44:19.86
A GREAT SCORE. BUT BY THAT
TIME PEOPLE STARTED TO NOTICE.
00:44:19.86\00:44:24.76
YOU KNOW, WHAT, THIS
MAN'S NOT DOING WELL.
00:44:24.76\00:44:27.60
BUT THE FINAL ROUTINE THAT HE
WAS SUPPOSED TO DO WAS AN EASY
00:44:27.60\00:44:30.66
ONE UNTIL THE DISMOUNT
AND THAT IS THE HIGH RINGS.
00:44:30.66\00:44:34.53
HIS JOB WAS TO GO OUT AND SCORE
THE BEST HE POSSIBLY COULD.
00:44:34.53\00:44:38.63
SHUN FUJIMOTO HOBBLED UP TO THE
RINGS, WAS LIFTED UP - YOU COULD
00:44:38.63\00:44:43.43
SEE THE PAIN ETCHED ON HIS FACE
AS HE WENT THROUGH AN ALMOST
00:44:43.43\00:44:45.86
SPOTLESS ROUTINE AND DID A
DOUBLE BACK ON THE WAY OFF AND
00:44:45.86\00:44:50.20
LANDED AND HELD HIS
STICK. INCREDIBLE. AMAZING.
00:44:50.20\00:44:56.16
YOU KNOW, HE FORGOT - HERE'S
WHAT HE SAID, AND I'M GOING TO
00:44:56.16\00:45:00.70
PARAPHRASE IT - 'I FORGOT MY
PAIN AS I LOOKED AT MY GOAL.'
00:45:00.70\00:45:08.13
I FORGOT MY PAIN
WHEN I LOOKED FOR MY GOAL.
00:45:08.13\00:45:11.30
HAPPY ARE THEM
WHICH - WHAT? - ENDURE.
00:45:11.30\00:45:15.93
LET'S LOOK AT THE LAST PART OF
VERSE 11 HERE, "YE HAVE HEARD OF
00:45:15.93\00:45:19.46
THE PATIENCE OF JOB, AND HAVE
SEEN THE END OF THE LORD; THAT
00:45:19.46\00:45:27.60
THE LORD IS VERY PITIFUL, AND OF
TENDER MERCY." IN OTHER WORDS,
00:45:27.60\00:45:29.40
YOU'VE SEEN WHAT GOD - THE END
THAT THE LORD GIVES TO PEOPLE.
00:45:29.40\00:45:32.63
YOU'VE SEEN JOB, YOU'VE HEARD OF
HIS PATIENCE AND YOU'VE SEEN THE
00:45:32.63\00:45:36.33
END THAT THE LORD
GIVES TO PEOPLE LIKE THAT.
00:45:36.33\00:45:39.53
AND THEN IT SAYS,
"THE LORD IS VERY" - WHAT?
00:45:39.53\00:45:42.30
- "PITIFUL, AND
OF TENDER MERCY."
00:45:42.30\00:45:44.73
HAPPY ARE YE WHICH ENDURE.
DID JOB UNDERSTAND WHAT WAS
00:45:44.73\00:45:54.90
GOING ON BEHIND THE SCENES?
YOU AND I CAN LOOK AT IT, RIGHT?
00:45:54.90\00:45:59.23
WE CAN LOOK AT JOB CHAPTER 1
AND JOB CHAPTER 2 AND WE REALIZE
00:45:59.23\00:46:01.33
THAT THERE IS THIS UNSEEN GREAT
CONTROVERSY GOING ON BEHIND THE
00:46:01.33\00:46:04.36
SCENES. BUT DID JOB
KNOW THAT? HE DIDN'T.
00:46:04.36\00:46:09.50
AND SO HE ENDURED PATIENTLY,
EVEN THOUGH HE COULDN'T SEE WHY.
00:46:09.50\00:46:16.43
THAT'S THE HARD PART, ISN'T IT?
IF I KNOW THAT I CAN FIGHT MY
00:46:16.43\00:46:21.90
RACE THROUGH AND I GET A CROWN
AT THE END, YES, I CAN DO IT
00:46:21.90\00:46:26.73
BECAUSE I CAN SEE WHAT THE
RESULTS OF MY PATIENCE ARE.
00:46:26.73\00:46:30.90
AND I KNOW THE REASON I'M
STRUGGLING IS BECAUSE IT'S
00:46:30.90\00:46:32.93
NORMAL TO STRUGGLE
WHEN YOU'RE RUNNING A RACE.
00:46:32.93\00:46:35.46
BUT IT'S HARD, SOMETIMES,
TO HAVE PATIENCE WHEN YOU DON'T
00:46:35.46\00:46:38.16
KNOW WHY YOU ARE
STRUGGLING. 'WHY GOD?'
00:46:38.16\00:46:44.06
HOW MANY TIMES HAVE WE
ASKED THAT QUESTION? 'WHY ME?
00:46:44.06\00:46:48.00
WHY THIS TIME?'
HAPPY ARE YE THAT ENDURE.
00:46:48.00\00:46:52.83
THAT'S PRETTY ROUGH
FOR JAMES TO CONNECT
00:46:52.83\00:46:55.90
'HAPPY ARE YE THAT ENDURE'
WITH THE STORY OF JOB. ISN'T IT?
00:46:55.90\00:46:59.23
I DON'T KNOW IF JOB
WOULD APPRECIATE THAT.
00:46:59.23\00:47:02.36
NO, I THINK JOB'D UNDERSTAND,
DON'T YOU? NOW WHEN - WHEN -
00:47:02.36\00:47:07.06
WHEN GOD CAME DOWN -
CONDESCENDED - TO SPEAK TO JOB
00:47:07.06\00:47:12.50
AND SAID, 'JOB, LET ME EXPLAIN
TO YOU WHY THIS ALL HAPPENED.
00:47:12.50\00:47:16.66
FIRST OF ALL, SATAN CAME UP TO
THIS COUNCIL AND HE TALKED TO ME
00:47:16.66\00:47:19.33
AND THEN I SAID TO SATAN YOU CAN
DO THIS BUT YOU CAN'T DO THIS.'
00:47:19.33\00:47:23.43
IS THAT WHAT GOD SAID TO
JOB? IS THAT WHAT HE SAID?
00:47:23.43\00:47:28.03
WHAT DID HE SAY? 'WHERE WERE
YOU WHEN I CREATED THE HEAVENS?
00:47:28.03\00:47:33.46
WERE YOU AROUND
WHEN I DID THIS?'
00:47:33.46\00:47:35.96
HE NEVER, EVER SAID, 'JOB,
HERE'S WHY YOU WENT THROUGH IT.'
00:47:35.96\00:47:39.33
HE JUST SIMPLY SAID,
'I'M IN CHARGE, JOB. RELAX.'
00:47:39.33\00:47:43.20
'THOU LORD, YOU KNOW.' I THINK
THAT'S OUR PHRASE FOR PATIENCE,
00:47:43.20\00:47:50.96
ISN'T IT? 'THOU LORD' - WHAT?
- 'YOU KNOW.' JAMES CHAPTER 5,
00:47:50.96\00:48:00.06
YOU SEE IN VERSE 8 - VERSE
7 - BEING PATIENT AND HOW THE
00:48:00.06\00:48:05.30
HUSBANDMAN WAITS FOR PATIENCE.
WE'RE WAITING FOR WHAT? FRUIT.
00:48:05.30\00:48:09.33
WHAT KIND OF PATIENCE DO WE HAVE
WHILE WE'RE WAITING FOR FRUIT?
00:48:09.33\00:48:11.30
LONG PATIENCE. THEN IN
VERSE 8, I REALIZED THAT
00:48:11.30\00:48:14.70
HOW I HAVE PATIENCE
IS I NEED TO DO WHAT?
00:48:14.70\00:48:17.30
I NEED TO STABLISH MY
HEART. PATIENCE IS A LIFESTYLE.
00:48:17.30\00:48:24.26
PATIENCE IS NOT JUST SOMETHING
THAT'S A LITTLE BIT HERE OR A
00:48:24.26\00:48:28.10
LITTLE BIT HERE.
PATIENCE IS SOMETHING THAT I
00:48:28.10\00:48:30.80
HAVE AT ALL TIMES. NOT
BECAUSE CHUCK HOLTRY HAS
00:48:30.80\00:48:35.26
PATIENCE IN AND OF HIMSELF
- WHO IS STABLISHING MY HEART?
00:48:35.26\00:48:39.03
THE LORD IS. GOD IS. THEN
I LOOK AND, OF COURSE THAT
00:48:39.03\00:48:43.20
TAKES IN THE
GRUDGING WE SAW IN VERSE 9.
00:48:43.20\00:48:45.20
THEN I LOOK AND I SEE WHO
HAS HAD PATIENCE, VERSE 10.
00:48:45.20\00:48:48.30
WHO'S HAD
PATIENCE? THE PROPHETS.
00:48:48.30\00:48:51.50
AND WE REALIZE THAT WE CAN'T
EVEN THINK OF A PROPHET WHO
00:48:51.50\00:48:53.70
DIDN'T SUFFER AFFLICTION.
THEY ALL HAD PATIENCE.
00:48:53.70\00:48:56.63
WHAT AN INCREDIBLE
PICTURE WE SEE LAID OUT THERE.
00:48:56.63\00:48:59.93
AND THEN WE FIND OUT THAT THOSE
WHO HAVE PATIENCE - THOSE WHO
00:48:59.93\00:49:03.43
ENDURE - I'M PUTTING THOSE TWO
TOGETHER EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE NOT
00:49:03.43\00:49:06.43
SYNONYMOUS, THEY'RE CLOSE.
THOSE THAT ENDURE - THOSE WHO
00:49:06.43\00:49:09.63
HAVE PATIENCE - END UP BEING
WHAT? WHAT'S THE DESCRIPTION?
00:49:09.63\00:49:13.66
HAPPY OR BLESSED,
RIGHT? I CAN SAY THAT?
00:49:13.66\00:49:20.03
PATIENCE, IT'S
A BEAUTIFUL THING.
00:49:20.03\00:49:28.26
I'D LIKE TO COMMENT BRIEFLY
ON JAMES 5:12 IF THAT'S OKAY.
00:49:28.26\00:49:33.80
AND YOU'RE SAYING,
'CHUCK WHERE DOES THIS TIE IN?'
00:49:33.80\00:49:38.00
YEAH, I WAS
THINKING THE SAME THING.
00:49:38.00\00:49:40.26
LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING -
JAMES CHAPTER 5, LET'S READ IT.
00:49:40.26\00:49:42.76
"BUT ABOVE ALL THINGS, MY
BRETHREN, SWEAR NOT, NEITHER BY
00:49:42.76\00:49:47.60
HEAVEN, NEITHER BY THE EARTH,
NEITHER BY ANY OTHER OATH: BUT
00:49:47.60\00:49:51.50
LET YOUR YEA BE YEA; AND YOUR
NAY BE NAY; LEST YE FALL INTO
00:49:51.50\00:49:56.50
CONDEMNATION." JAMES
- THE BOOK OF JAMES - IS
00:49:56.50\00:50:03.96
VERY CLOSELY CONNECTED WITH A
SPECIFIC SERMON OF JESUS. WHERE?
00:50:03.96\00:50:12.13
WHAT SERMON OF JESUS IS ALMOST
REPRODUCED IN JAMES, BUT A
00:50:12.13\00:50:16.26
LITTLE BIT MORE PRACTICAL - NOT
PRACTICAL, BUT IN ANOTHER WAY.
00:50:16.26\00:50:19.63
IT'S THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT.
00:50:19.63\00:50:21.23
MATTHEW CHAPTER 5, VERSES -
MATTHEW 5:6 AND 7 - THAT SERMON
00:50:21.23\00:50:26.30
ON THE MOUNT - IF YOU COMPARE
THAT WITH JAMES CHAPTER - JAMES
00:50:26.30\00:50:29.23
1, 2, 3, 4, AND 5 - THE WHOLE
BOOK OF JAMES - IT'S AMAZING.
00:50:29.23\00:50:32.13
JAMES IS JUST TAKING THAT SERMON
ON THE MOUNT AND APPLYING IT TO
00:50:32.13\00:50:36.26
THE EARLY CHURCH IN
A VERY BEAUTIFUL WAY.
00:50:36.26\00:50:39.23
THIS CALL THAT WE'VE SEEN
IN VERSES 7 THROUGH 11 FOR
00:50:39.23\00:50:43.66
PATIENCE, THEN WE SEE
HERE, IN VERSE 12, ANOTHER QUOTE
00:50:43.66\00:50:48.00
ACTUALLY, NOT QUITE DIRECT
FROM THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT.
00:50:48.00\00:50:51.33
THERE'S THIS TIE THROUGHOUT
IT. HOW DO I HAVE PATIENCE?
00:50:51.33\00:50:59.83
THERE'S ANOTHER
WAY TO HAVE PATIENCE.
00:50:59.83\00:51:01.63
IT'S FOUND IN
REVELATION CHAPTER 13.
00:51:01.63\00:51:06.03
REVELATION
CHAPTER 13 AND VERSE 10.
00:51:06.03\00:51:11.90
REVELATION CHAPTER 13 - THE
FIRST SECTION OF REVELATION 13,
00:51:11.90\00:51:16.60
VERSES 1 THROUGH 9
IS TALKING ABOUT WHAT?
00:51:16.60\00:51:20.03
ABOUT THE FIRST BEAST, RIGHT?
00:51:20.03\00:51:21.96
THIS BEAST IS GOING TO RISE UP
OUT OF THE SEA THAT IS GOING TO
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CHALLENGE GOD'S PEOPLE AND,
DARE I SAY, EVEN PERSECUTE THEM.
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DO WE HAVE ANY VERSES
HERE? ABSOLUTELY. LOOK AT IT.
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IN VERSE 5, "AND THERE WAS GIVEN
UNTO HIM A MOUTH SPEAKING GREAT
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THINGS AND BLASPHEMIES;
AND POWER WAS GIVEN UNTO HIM
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TO CONTINUE
FORTY AND TWO MONTHS."
00:51:39.80\00:51:41.70
SO HERE IS THIS POWER SPEAKING
AGAINST GOD - BLASPHEMING.
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AND THEN IN VERSE 7 IT SAYS,
"AND IT WAS GIVEN UNTO HIM TO
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MAKE WAR WITH THE SAINTS, AND
TO OVERCOME THEM: AND POWER WAS
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GIVEN HIM OVER ALL KINDREDS,
AND TONGUES, AND NATIONS."
00:51:50.70\00:51:54.36
WOW, I'VE GOT A POWER THAT'S
BLASPHEMING GOD, FIGHTING GOD'S
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PEOPLE AND HURTING THEM.
THEN, LET'S LOOK AT VERSE 11,
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"AND I BEHELD ANOTHER BEAST
COMING UP OUT OF THE EARTH; AND
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HE HAD TWO HORNS LIKE A
LAMB, AND HE SPAKE AS A DRAGON.
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AND HE EXERCISETH ALL THE POWER
OF THE FIRST BEAST BEFORE HIM,"
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- AND SOME OF YOU ARE SAYING,
'CHUCK, THIS IS NOT SUPPOSED TO
00:52:15.23\00:52:16.60
BE A PROPHECY SEMINAR.' HOLD
ON, THERE'S A BEAUTIFUL PICTURE
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THAT'S COMING OUT HERE
IN REVELATION CHAPTER 13.
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IT SAYS IN VERSE 15 THAT "HE
HAD POWER TO GIVE LIFE UNTO THE
00:52:22.50\00:52:26.60
IMAGE OF THE BEAST, THAT THE
IMAGE OF THE BEAST SHOULD BOTH
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SPEAK, AND CAUSE THAT AS
MANY AS WOULD NOT WORSHIP
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THE IMAGE OF THE
BEAST SHOULD BE KILLED."
00:52:30.83\00:52:32.50
MY FRIENDS, THOSE CHRISTIANS
THAT ARE FAITHFUL TO JESUS
00:52:32.50\00:52:35.16
CHRIST, WHO REFUSE TO WORSHIP
THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST, WILL BE
00:52:35.16\00:52:37.50
TRIED TO BE KILLED
- THEY WILL TRY TO.
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I'VE GOT A PERSECUTING POWER
- BEAST NUMBER ONE - REVELATION
00:52:39.23\00:52:44.40
13:1 THROUGH 9. I'VE
GOT A PERSECUTING POWER -
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BEAST NUMBER TWO - BEAST COMING
UP OUT OF THE EARTH - REVELATION
00:52:47.20\00:52:50.36
CHAPTER 13,
VERSES 11 THROUGH 18.
00:52:50.36\00:52:52.80
AND IN THE MIDST OF THESE TWO
POWERS, NOTICE WHAT IT SAYS IN
00:52:52.80\00:52:55.70
VERSE 10, "HE THAT LEADETH
INTO CAPTIVITY SHALL GO INTO
00:52:55.70\00:53:00.46
CAPTIVITY: HE THAT KILLETH WITH
THE SWORD MUST BE KILLED WITH
00:53:00.46\00:53:03.90
THE SWORD." - THEN
NOTICE THIS PHRASE -
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"HERE IS THE PATIENCE
AND THE FAITH OF THE SAINTS."
00:53:06.56\00:53:12.63
WHEN YOU'RE
SURROUNDED ON ALL SIDES.
00:53:12.63\00:53:16.46
WHEN IT SEEMS LIKE PERSECUTION
IS THE CUP THAT GOD HAS GIVEN
00:53:16.46\00:53:19.66
YOU, HERE IS THE PATIENCE
AND THE FAITH OF THE SAINTS.
00:53:19.66\00:53:24.96
WHEN IT SEEMS LIKE THERE'S
NO HOPE AND THAT THE WORLD IS
00:53:24.96\00:53:27.50
AGAINST YOU - AND IT WILL BE, MY
FRIENDS, IF YOU REMAIN FAITHFUL
00:53:27.50\00:53:30.90
TO JESUS CHRIST - HERE IS THE
PATIENCE AND THE FAITH OF THE
00:53:30.90\00:53:35.50
SAINTS. WHAT A
PICTURE IS BEING LAID OUT.
00:53:35.50\00:53:40.16
WHY FAITH? WHY PATIENCE?
00:53:40.16\00:53:44.33
YOU KNOW THAT IT'S ALMOST A
REPEAT IN ROMANS - EXCUSE ME,
00:53:44.33\00:53:47.73
REVELATION
14:12 14:12 SAYS WHAT?
00:53:47.73\00:53:50.30
HERE IS THE PATIENCE
AND THE FAITH OF THE SAINTS.
00:53:50.30\00:53:53.06
HERE ARE THEY THAT KEEP THE
COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND HAVE THE
00:53:53.06\00:53:54.93
FAITH OF JESUS. AT
BOTH PLACES - IN REVELATION
00:53:54.93\00:53:59.73
14 IT'S RIGHT AFTER THE
MARK OF THE BEAST ISSUE.
00:53:59.73\00:54:02.00
HERE'S THE PATIENCE AND
THE FAITH OF THE SAINTS. WHY?
00:54:02.00\00:54:06.03
YOU CANNOT HAVE PATIENCE
IF YOU DON'T HAVE FAITH.
00:54:06.03\00:54:14.66
THE FRUIT OF FAITH
IS PATIENCE. RIGHT?
00:54:14.66\00:54:24.83
I HAVE FAITH THAT GOD'S IN
CHARGE. 'OH LORD,' - WHAT? -
00:54:24.83\00:54:28.80
'YOU KNOW.' SO I HAVE PATIENCE.
00:54:28.80\00:54:34.26
I BELIEVE THAT GOD IS THE
ONE WHO TAKES VENGEANCE, BECAUSE
00:54:34.26\00:54:37.53
HE'S THE RIGHTEOUS JUDGE
AND DOES THE BEST FOR EVERYONE.
00:54:37.53\00:54:40.20
SO I HAVE PATIENCE. I
BELIEVE THAT GOD CAN DO A
00:54:40.20\00:54:46.33
MIRACLE IN THE HEART OF
US. I HAVE FAITH THAT HE WILL
00:54:46.33\00:54:50.60
JUSTIFY ME AND
SANCTIFY ME BY FAITH.
00:54:50.60\00:54:54.50
AND BECAUSE OF
THAT, I HAVE PATIENCE.
00:54:54.50\00:55:00.86
SOMETIMES, I BELIEVE, YOU AND
I, IF WE FOCUS ON OURSELVES, SEE
00:55:00.86\00:55:09.56
ALL THE BATTLES AT EVERY SIDE.
WE SEE THE ENEMIES ATTACKING,
00:55:09.56\00:55:15.33
EITHER THROUGH OUR MIND
OR THROUGH PEOPLE OR THROUGH
00:55:15.33\00:55:18.50
CIRCUMSTANCES AND WE SAY,
HOW AM I GOING TO SURVIVE?
00:55:18.50\00:55:21.10
AND I WANT TO SAY, 'HERE
IS THE PATIENCE OF THE SAINTS.
00:55:21.10\00:55:25.26
HERE ARE THEY THAT HAVE FAITH.
00:55:25.26\00:55:29.13
THIS IS HOW YOU
AND I CAN MAKE IT.'
00:55:29.13\00:55:34.76
I'D LIKE TO CLOSE
WITH THIS THOUGHT.
00:55:34.76\00:55:39.86
'HAPPY ARE YE THAT ENDURE.'
HAPPY ARE YE, BECAUSE BY FAITH
00:55:39.86\00:55:48.86
YOU AND I KNOW THAT THERE IS
AN END TO WHAT WE'RE LIVING IN.
00:55:48.86\00:55:52.90
THERE IS AN END
TO THE SUFFERING.
00:55:52.90\00:55:54.56
I WAS SPEAKING TO A GENTLEMAN
LAST NIGHT AND HE WAS JUST
00:55:54.56\00:55:57.10
POURING OUT HIS HEART TO ME.
HE WAS SAYING, 'CHUCK, YOU KNOW
00:55:57.10\00:55:59.70
WHAT I'M GOING
THROUGH.' AND I HAD NO IDEA.
00:55:59.70\00:56:02.33
AS HE SHARED WHAT HE WAS
STRUGGLING WITH, MY HEART BROKE.
00:56:02.33\00:56:05.80
I CAN'T IMAGINE
WHAT HE'S GOING THROUGH.
00:56:05.80\00:56:09.06
HAPPY IS HE IF HE
ENDURES. I BELIEVE HE WILL.
00:56:09.06\00:56:16.76
'HERE IS THE PATIENCE AND
THE FAITH OF THE SAINTS.' I PRAY
00:56:16.76\00:56:25.26
THAT FOR YOU. I PRAY THAT FOR
ME. MAY GOD GIVE US PATIENCE.
00:56:25.26\00:56:32.13
MAY GOD GIVE US FAITH
THAT HAS ITS FRUIT IN PATIENCE.
00:56:32.13\00:56:36.63
LET'S PRAY AS WE ASK THE
HOLY SPIRIT TO BE WITH US.
00:56:36.63\00:56:41.66
FATHER, WE PRAY YOU WILL DRAW
CLOSE TO EACH ONE OF US HERE.
00:56:41.66\00:56:46.23
FILL US WITH YOUR
SPIRIT. ESTABLISH OUR HEARTS.
00:56:46.23\00:56:52.30
AND FATHER, GIVE US THAT GRACE
TO ENDURE WITH PATIENCE BECAUSE
00:56:52.30\00:56:59.00
OF OUR FAITH IN YOU. WE
PRAY IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
00:56:59.00\00:57:06.36
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PRESENT AT THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM?
00:57:06.36\00:57:09.83
OKAY, MAYBE HE WASN'T IN
THE ROOM, BUT HE WAS ALIVE AND
00:57:09.83\00:57:13.50
PROBABLY TELLING
STORIES ABOUT HIS FLOATING ZOO.
00:57:13.50\00:57:16.53
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00:57:16.53\00:57:19.56
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FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, MAN HAS
WORSHIPED GOD ON THE SEVENTH DAY
00:57:42.50\00:57:45.80
OF THE WEEK. NOW,
EACH WEEK, MILLIONS OF
00:57:45.80\00:57:48.96
PEOPLE WORSHIP ON THE
FIRST DAY. WHAT HAPPENED?
00:57:48.96\00:57:52.60
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CREATE A DAY OF REST?
00:57:52.60\00:57:54.90
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MATTER WHAT DAY WE WORSHIP?
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