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>>HELLO FRIENDS, AND
WELCOME TO A VERY SPECIAL
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EDITION OF
SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR.
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AS YOU CAN SEE, WE'RE AT THE SET
OF THE 'LANDMARKS OF PROPHECY'
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BIBLE SERIES THAT'S
CURRENTLY TAKING PLACE HERE IN
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ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO, BUT
WE WANTED TO FILM OUR SABBATH
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SCHOOL LESSON TODAY SO WE
COULD KEEP GOING WITH OUR STUDY
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TOGETHER OF THIS VERY
IMPORTANT BOOK OF JAMES.
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NOW FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO MIGHT
BE JOINING US FOR THE FIRST
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TIME, WE'RE GOING THROUGH THE
LESSON QUARTERLY DEALING WITH
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JAMES AND TODAY WE'RE ON LESSON
#12 DEALING WITH 'HEALING,
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PRAYER, AND RESTORATION.'
WE HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT GOES
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ALONG WITH OUR STUDY TODAY AND
WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND THAT TO
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YOU. ALL YOU'LL NEED TO DO
IS JUST CALL THE NUMBER ON THE
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SCREEN AND ASK FOR THE
OFFER 'TEACH US TO PRAY.'
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WE'LL BE HAPPY
TO SEND THAT TO YOU.
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READ IT AND THEN PASS IT
ALONG. GIVE IT TO A FRIEND.
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WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR
STUDY, LET'S JUST BEGIN WITH A
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WORD OF PRAYER, ASKING
GOD'S BLESSING UPON OUR TIME.
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DEAR FATHER, ONCE AGAIN WE THANK
YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY AND THE
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PRIVILEGE OF GATHERING
TOGETHER TO STUDY YOUR WORD.
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AND AS WE LOOK AT THIS VERY
IMPORTANT SUBJECT, WE PRAY THAT
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THE HOLY SPIRIT WOULD COME AND
GUIDE OUR HEARTS AND OUR MINDS
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AND LEAD US INTO A DEEPER AND
A FULLER UNDERSTANDING OF YOUR
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WORD. FOR WE ASK
THIS IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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OUR LESSON TODAY WILL BE BROUGHT
TO US BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR.
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THANK YOU PASTOR DOUG.
>>THANK YOU PASTOR ROSS.
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AND I WANT TO THANK THOSE
WHO ARE PART OF OUR LIVE STUDIO
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AUDIENCE FOR COMING TODAY AND
BEING WILLING TO HELP US KEEP
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TAPING FOR OUR FRIENDS WE KNOW
THAT WATCH THE STUDY HOUR TIME
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ALL AROUND THE WORLD. AND
IT'S A BIG FAMILY ALL OVER
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THE PLANET STUDYING
THE QUARTERLY TOGETHER.
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TODAY WE'RE IN THE SECOND TO
THE LAST LESSON FROM THE BOOK OF
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JAMES. AND I'VE
REALLY ENJOYED THIS STUDY.
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THERE'S JUST SUCH
PRACTICAL BIBLICAL TEACHING.
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AGAIN, IT'S CALLED, 'PRAYER,
HEALING, AND RESTORATION' -
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LESSON #12 - AND
THERE'S A MEMORY VERSE.
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AND THE MEMORY
VERSE IS FROM JAMES 5:16.
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IF YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLES, I
ALWAYS LIKE IF YOU COULD SAY IT
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WITH ME. JAMES 5:16,
AND IT SAYS THERE - READY?
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- "THEREFORE CONFESS YOUR SINS
TO ONE ANOTHER AND PRAY FOR ONE
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ANOTHER THAT YOU MIGHT BE
HEALED. THE EFFECTIVE PRAYER
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OF A RIGHTEOUS MAN
CAN ACCOMPLISH MUCH."
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AS IT SAYS IN THE KING JAMES,
'THE FERVENT, EFFECTUAL PRAYER
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OF A RIGHTEOUS MAN AVAILETH
MUCH.' IT TELLS US THAT A LOT IS
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ACCOMPLISHED BY
WHAT KIND OF PRAYER?
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FERVENT, HEARTFELT AND EFFECTIVE
- PERSISTENT PRAYER OF A
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RIGHTEOUS MAN. NOW IN
THIS LESSON, YOU MAY AS
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WELL GET YOUR BIBLES AND
TURN TO THE BOOK OF JAMES AGAIN.
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WE'RE GOING TO BE REALLY
FINISHING UP THE BOOK OF JAMES.
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THERE'LL BE MORE OF A SUMMARY
IN OUR FINAL LESSON TOGETHER.
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SO I'M JUST GOING TO READ JAMES
5:13 THROUGH THE END OF THE
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CHAPTER AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO
GO BACK AND BREAK IT DOWN IN OUR
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STUDY PROGRAM.
QUESTION #13 - JAMES 5:13, "IS
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ANYONE AMONG YOU SUFFERING? LET
HIM PRAY. IS ANYONE CHEERFUL?
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LET HIM SING SONGS.
IS ANYONE AMONG YOU SICK?
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LET HIM CALL FOR THE ELDERS
OF THE CHURCH AND LET THEM PRAY
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OVER HIM, ANOINTING HIM WITH OIL
IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, AND THE
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PRAYER OF FAITH WILL SAVE THE
SICK AND THE LORD WILL RAISE HIM
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UP. AND IF HE HAS COMMITTED
SINS, HE WILL BE FORGIVEN.
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CONFESS YOUR TRESPASSES
TO ONE ANOTHER, AND PRAY FOR
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ONE ANOTHER, THAT
YOU MAY BE HEALED.
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THE EFFECTIVE, FERVENT PRAYER
OF A RIGHTEOUS MAN AVAILS MUCH.
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ELIJAH WAS A MAN WITH A
NATURE LIKE OURS, AND HE PRAYED
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EARNESTLY THAT IT WOULD NOT
RAIN; AND IT DID NOT RAIN ON THE
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LAND FOR THREE
YEARS AND SIX MONTHS.
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AND HE PRAYED AGAIN, AND THE
HEAVEN GAVE RAIN, AND THE EARTH
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PRODUCED ITS FRUIT.
BRETHREN, IF ANYONE AMONG YOU
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WANDERS FROM THE TRUTH, AND
SOMEONE TURNS HIM BACK, LET HIM
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KNOW THAT HE WHO TURNS A SINNER
FROM THE ERROR OF HIS WAY WILL
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SAVE A SOUL FROM DEATH AND
COVER A MULTITUDE OF SINS."
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YOU KNOW, THAT'S A BEAUTIFUL WAY
TO - TO END A BOOK - 'COVER A
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MULTITUDE OF SINS.'
ISN'T THAT WHAT JESUS DID?
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SO WE'RE GOING TO GO BACK NOW.
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WE'RE GOING TO KIND OF BREAK
THIS DOWN AND BE LOOKING, IN THE
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STUDY, DEALING SPECIFICALLY WITH
THE DIFFERENT PORTIONS THAT ARE
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BROKEN DOWN FOR
US IN THE LESSON.
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ALRIGHT, SO WE'LL START LOOKING
UNDER THAT SECTION THERE THAT
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SAYS, 'THE ESSENTIAL CHRISTIAN
TOOL KIT.' "IS ANYONE AMONG YOU
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SUFFERING? LET HIM
PRAY. IS ANYONE CHEERFUL?
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LET HIM SING SONGS."
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THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT VERSE
BECAUSE IT TELLS YOU THAT THE
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CHRISTIAN LIFE HAS ITS UPS
AND DOWNS - THAT YOU CAN BE A
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CHRISTIAN AND YOU'RE GOING
TO HAVE DAYS WHEN YOU FEEL LIKE
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YOU'RE SUFFERING AND YOU'LL
HAVE TIMES WHERE YOU'RE SINGING.
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AND, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN SEE BOTH
EXTREMES IN THE LIVES OF MOST OF
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GOD'S FOLLOWERS. SO DON'T BE
DISCOURAGED AND THINK, 'OH, I
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ACCEPTED JESUS. I THOUGHT THAT
THAT WOULD SOLVE ALL MY PROBLEMS
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AND 'THE JOY OF THE LORD IS MY
STRENGTH,' AND IT WOULD BE THE
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ABUNDANT LIFE.' BUT THERE
ARE GOING TO BE CLOUDY DAYS.
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JESUS SAID, 'YOUR
HEAVENLY FATHER SENDS SUNSHINE
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AND RAIN ON THE
JUST AND THE UNJUST.
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A FEW YEARS AGO I WROTE THAT
BOOK ON MARY MAGDALENE AND IT
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TRACES SEVEN TIMES
WHERE SHE'S AT JESUS' FEET.
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AND IT STARTS IN SORROW AND
REPENTANCE THERE IN THE TEMPLE
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AND IT ENDS WITH SINGING AND
REJOICING, PROCLAIMING THE RISEN
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LORD. AND YOU'VE GOT THE WHOLE
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SPECTRUM IN THE CHRISTIAN
LIFE. SO JAMES RECOGNIZES THAT.
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AND THEN HE TELLS US TO MAKE
SURE AND PRAY FOR EACH OTHER.
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SUFFERING IS
SOMETHING CHRISTIANS EXPERIENCE.
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I THINK IT'S UNFAIR WHEN A
PERSON COMES TO THE LORD AND WE
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LEAVE THEM WITH THE IMPRESSION
ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS ACCEPT
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JESUS AND ALL YOUR SUFFERING
WILL GO AWAY. WELL, ULTIMATELY
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IT DOES, BUT IN THIS LIFE
THERE'S SUFFERING. ROMANS 12:15,
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"REJOICE WITH THOSE WHO REJOICE,
AND WEEP WITH THOSE WHO WEEP."
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IT'S LIKE WHAT JAMES JUST SAID,
SUFFERING, PRAY; HAPPY, SING.
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PAUL SAYS, 'REJOICE WITH THOSE
WHO ARE REJOICING, WEEP WITH
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THEM WHO WEEP.' YOU
KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS?
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WE NEED TO BE EMPATHETIC.
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THE WORD IN THE BIBLE IS
'PATHOS.' IT'S WHERE WE GET THE
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WORD 'SYMPATHY' - IT MEANS
'TO FEEL FOR SOMEBODY ELSE.' AND
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PART OF BEING A CHRISTIAN
IS FEELING WHAT OTHERS FEEL.
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ISN'T THAT WHY JESUS
CAME, BECAUSE HE FELT OUR PAIN?
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UNLIKE THE POLITICIANS
THAT PROMISE THEY DO.
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ACTS 9:16, GOD SAID TO PAUL, "I
WILL SHOW HIM HOW MANY THINGS HE
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MUST SUFFER FOR MY NAME'S
SAKE." HE'S ACTUALLY SPEAKING TO
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ANANIAS, TELLING HIM
THAT PAUL IS GOING TO SUFFER.
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SO EVEN THOUGH HE CAME TO THE
LORD - HE SAID, 'YOU'RE STILL
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GOING TO SUFFER.' DID JESUS TELL
PETER HOW HE WAS GOING TO DIE?
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AND HOW WAS THAT?
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HE SAID, 'YOU'LL STRETCH FORTH
YOUR HANDS.' SO THE LORD TELLS
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US THAT THERE MAY BE SUFFERING
IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. OKAY,
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GO AHEAD DAVID, I THINK YOU'RE
GOING TO READ A VERSE FOR US.
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>>YES, 2 TIMOTHY 3, VERSE 12,
"YES, AND ALL WHO DESIRE TO LIVE
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GODLY IN CHRIST JESUS
WILL SUFFER PERSECUTION."
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>>HERE AT THIS SEMINAR WE'VE
BEEN LOOKING IN REVELATION - AND
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WHO'S THE DRAGON
ESPECIALLY WROTH WITH?
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THE WOMAN WHO DOES WHAT?
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KEEPS THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD.'
PAUL SAYS, 'ALL THAT DESIRE TO
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LIVE GODLY WILL
SUFFER PERSECUTION.
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THE DEVIL WILL TRY TO MAKE IT
DIFFICULT FOR ANYBODY WHO TRIES
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TO SERVE GOD. THE
BOOK OF JOB - 'JOB WAS A
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RIGHTEOUS MAN, FEARED GOD, HATED
EVIL' - WHAT DID THE DEVIL DO?
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HE ACCUSED HIM BEFORE GOD
AND JOB WENT THROUGH A TIME OF
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TESTING. AND SO,
ANYONE WHO BELIEVES,
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YOU'LL HAVE GOOD
DAYS AND BAD DAYS.
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YOU'RE GOING TO
HAVE TIMES OF SUFFERING.
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BUT DON'T GET DISCOURAGED.
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JAMES SAYS, 'RESIST THE
DEVIL AND HE WILL FLEE FROM YOU.
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DRAW NEAR TO GOD AND HE WILL
DRAW NEAR TO YOU.' HOW DO YOU
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RESIST THE DEVIL? HOW
DID JESUS RESIST THE DEVIL?
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THE WORD OF GOD AND PRAYER.
YEAH. 'AND HE WILL LIFT YOU UP.
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SO IF YOU'RE SUFFERING, JAMES
SAYS, 'PRAY.' 2 TIMOTHY 2:9,
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PAUL SAID, "FOR WHICH I SUFFER
TROUBLE AS AN EVILDOER, EVEN TO
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THE POINT OF CHAINS; BUT
THE WORD OF GOD IS NOT CHAINED."
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WHEN ARE
CHRISTIANS THE BEST WITNESS?
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WHEN CHRISTIANS ARE
GETTING EVERYTHING THEY WANT?
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YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY'VE
GOT LOTS OF MONEY IN THE BANK?
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AND, YOU KNOW, THESE PROSPERITY
PREACHERS SAY THAT IF YOU'RE
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REALLY GODLY AND YOU'VE GOT
ENOUGH FAITH, YOU CAN JUST NAME
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IT, CLAIM IT; BLAB IT, GRAB IT -
AND YOU'LL HAVE EVERYTHING THAT
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YOU NEED - YOU'LL BE
HEALTHY, WEALTHY, AND WISE.
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AND IF YOU DON'T HAVE THOSE
THINGS, THEY IMPLY, 'WELL, YOU
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JUST DON'T HAVE ENOUGH FAITH.'
BUT THE BIBLE REALLY SAYS THE
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OPPOSITE. WHEN ARE
CHRISTIANS THE BEST WITNESS?
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WHEN DOES THE LIGHT SHINE MORE
VIVIDLY, IN THE DAY OR AT NIGHT?
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AND IT IS THROUGH TIMES OF TRIAL
- THIS MORNING, FOR MY JUST
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PERSONAL BIBLE READING, I'M
READING THROUGH DANIEL - THAT'S
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JUST WHERE IT
HAPPENS TO BE RIGHT NOW.
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I READ DANIEL 3 AND SHADRACH,
MESHACH, AND ABEDNEGO - I KNOW,
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WE'VE BEEN STUDYING THAT - IT'S
JUST WHERE MY BIBLE READING -
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I'M READING
CONSECUTIVELY THROUGH THE BIBLE.
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THAT'S WHERE IT
LINED UP. GREAT STORY.
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I ENJOYED READING IT AGAIN.
YOU KNOW WHAT A TREMENDOUS
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WITNESS THEY WERE BECAUSE
THEY WENT THROUGH THE FIRE?
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BECAUSE THEY WERE TESTED LIKE
THAT, A DECREE WENT TO THE WHOLE
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CIVILIZED WORLD NOT TO SAY
ANYTHING AGAINST THE GOD OF
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JEHOVAH. BUT THEY
HAD TO GO THROUGH SOME
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BAD EXPERIENCE FOR THAT TO
HAPPEN. CHRISTIANS ARE OFTEN
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THE BEST WITNESSES WHEN
THERE ARE TIMES OF TRIAL.
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AND SO, GOD TELLS US JESUS
SAYS, 'YOU MAY HAVE TIMES OF
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SUFFERING.' NOW, WITH THAT, KIND
OF, INTRODUCING THE SUBJECT OF
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HEALING AND PRAYER FOR THE SICK,
WE'LL READ JAMES 5:14 AND 15
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AGAIN. SOMEBODY'S
GOT MARK 6:12 AND 13
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- WHO WOULD THAT BE?
ALRIGHT, YOU'LL BE NEXT THEN.
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JAMES 5:14 AND 15, IS
ANYONE AMONG YOU SICK?
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LET HIM CALL FOR THE ELDERS
OF THE CHURCH, AND LET THEM PRAY
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OVER HIM, ANOINTING HIM WITH
OIL IN THE NAME OF THE LORD.
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AND THE PRAYER OF FAITH WILL
SAVE THE SICK AND THE LORD WILL
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RAISE HIM UP." AND,
OF COURSE, THEY'RE SAYING
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THIS IN THE MASCULINE, BUT IT
WILL RAISE HIM UP - RAISE HER UP
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- "AND IF HE HAS COMMITTED
SINS, HE WILL BE FORGIVEN."
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SO THE WORD 'SICK' HERE DOES
NOT MEAN - DO ANY OF YOU HAVE A
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HEADACHE? IT'S ACTUALLY - THE
WORD 'SICK' MEANS - YOU NOTICE
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IT SAYS 'RAISE THEM UP?'
THIS IS A PERSON WHO IS GOING
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DOWN. THEY CAN'T COME TO THE
CHURCH, THE ELDERS COME TO THEM.
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THIS PERSON HAS SOME
INCAPACITATING ILLNESS.
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AND SO, WE SHOULD ALL
PRAY FOR BIG AND LITTLE THINGS.
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GOD CARES ABOUT THAT. AND
IT'S OKAY TO SAY, 'YOU KNOW,
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I HAVE A HEADACHE,
WILL YOU PRAY FOR ME?
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BUT THE KIND OF PRAYER THAT
REQUIRES CALLING THE LEADERS OF
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THE CHURCH TO COME TOGETHER
TO YOUR HOME AND ANOINT YOU WITH
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OIL, THE CONTEXT OF THE SICKNESS
HERE IS AT THE POINT OF DEATH.
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IT'S - AND IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU
HAVE TO BE AT DEATH'S DOOR, BUT
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I'M SAYINGS IT'S - YOU'VE BEEN
LAID OUT WHERE YOU CANNOT COME
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TO THE CHURCH AND ASK FOR
HEALING, THEY'VE GOT TO COME TO
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YOU. YOU'RE IN BAD SHAPE.
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THE BIBLE TIMES - IF YOU
GOT SICK, THEY OFTEN DIDN'T HAVE
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SIMPLE MEDICAL TREATMENTS THAT
COULD HEAL YOU AND IT COULD BE
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THE END. SO THEY NEVER KNEW.
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PART OF THE REASON I SAY THIS
- I REMEMBER I WAS PASTORING A
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SMALL CHURCH ONE TIME AND
A DEAR, GODLY LADY, SHE SAID,
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'PASTOR DOUG, I WONDER IF I
COULD HAVE YOU AND SOME OF THE
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OTHER ELDERS COME BY AND PRAY
AND ANOINT ME BECAUSE I'M JUST,
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I JUST CAN'T HEAR. MY
HEARING SEEMS TO BE GOING.
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EVERYTHING SEEMS FADED.' AND
I SAID, 'WELL, WE CAN DO THAT,
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SISTER, DO YOU THINK - FIRST LET
ME ASK, IS THERE A CONNECTION
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BETWEEN YOUR HAVING HEARING
PROBLEMS AND YOUR BEING 93 YEARS
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OLD? SHE THOUGHT FOR A MOMENT
AND SHE SAYS, 'ARE YOU TELLING
00:12:10.10\00:12:14.23
ME I'M GETTING OLD?' AND
SHE LAUGHED AND SAID, 'MAYBE
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THIS DOES NOT QUALIFY FOR
CALLING THE ELDERS TOGETHER.
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IT ISN'T NECESSARY, REALLY, WHEN
YOU'RE EXPERIENCING THE NATURAL
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PROCESS OF AGING, THAT YOU CALL
THE ELDERS BECAUSE YOU'LL HAVE
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THEM OVER EVERY OTHER YEAR TO
PRAY ABOUT THE NEW ONSET YOU HAD
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NO IDEA THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE
GOING TO GET THIS PAIN IN YOUR
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BACK OR, 'I JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT
IT IS, PASTOR, I CAN'T SEEM TO
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REMEMBER LIKE I USED TO,
COULD YOU COME AND ANOINT ME?'
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AND SO THAT'S NOT
WHAT THIS IS TALKING ABOUT.
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THIS IS TALKING ABOUT,
YOU KNOW, A SERIOUS ILLNESS.
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AND WE SHOULD PRAY FOR EACH
OTHER, EVEN THE SMALL THINGS,
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BUT WHEN YOU CALL TOGETHER THE
ELDERS TO ANOINT WITH OIL, IT'S
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USUALLY A SERIOUS DEAL.
NOW, GO AHEAD, READ FOR ME,
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PLEASE, A VERY IMPORTANT
VERSE, MARK 6:12 AND 13.
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>>"SO THEY WENT OUT AND PREACHED
THAT PEOPLE SHOULD REPENT.
00:13:03.26\00:13:07.30
AND THEY CAST OUT MANY DEMONS,
AND ANOINTED WITH OIL MANY WHO
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WERE SICK, AND HEALED THEM."
>>NOW WHO ARE THESE THAT ARE
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GOING OUT DOING THAT?
THESE ARE THE APOSTLES.
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AT WHOSE INSTRUCTION?
00:13:17.70\00:13:19.36
IF YOU READ THE PREVIOUS VERSES
IN MARK CHAPTER 6, JESUS IS
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INSTRUCTING THE APOSTLES WHAT TO
DO WHEN THEY GO OUT AND IT SAYS
00:13:22.63\00:13:27.40
THEY ANOINTED WITH OIL.
SO I'M SO GLAD THAT'S THERE.
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IT'S NOT JUST JAMES COMING
UP WITH THIS IDEA OF ANOINTING
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PEOPLE WHO ARE SICK,
WHERE DID THE APOSTLES GET IT?
00:13:32.16\00:13:34.96
JESUS TOLD THEM TO DO IT.
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IN ALL THE STORIES OF JESUS
HEALING, JESUS ANOINTED PEOPLE
00:13:37.83\00:13:41.16
WITH CLAY AND HE SPIT ON THE
GROUND AND HE TOUCHED THEM, HE
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SPOKE. HE DID A
VARIETY OF THINGS WHEN
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HE PLACED HIS HANDS
ON THEM AND HEALED THEM.
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WHERE DO WE EVER SEE
JESUS ANOINTING WITH OIL?
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YOU DON'T. BUT DID HE
TELL THE APOSTLES TO DO IT?
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WHY? WHAT IS
JESUS' LAST NAME? CHRIST.
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WHAT DOES CHRIST
MEAN? THE ANOINTED.
00:14:05.80\00:14:08.56
IT MEANS 'THE MESSIAH,' BUT
YOU KNOW WHAT MESSIAH MEANS?
00:14:08.56\00:14:11.40
MESSIAH IS HEBREW FOR
'ANOINTED.' CHRISTOS IS GREEK
00:14:11.40\00:14:14.80
FOR 'ANOINTED.' JESUS IS THE
- ANOINTED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:14:14.80\00:14:19.26
SO WHAT DOES THE OIL REPRESENT?
IT REPRESENTS THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:14:19.26\00:14:23.73
AND WE'VE GOT SOME VERSES ON
THAT: EXODUS CHAPTER 30, VERSE
00:14:23.73\00:14:28.46
25, GOD TOLD AARON, "AND
YOU SHALL MAKE FROM THESE A HOLY
00:14:28.46\00:14:34.10
ANOINTING OIL, AN OINTMENT
COMPOUNDED ACCORDING TO THE ART
00:14:34.10\00:14:39.33
OF THE PERFUMER. IT
SHALL BE A HOLY ANOINTING OIL."
00:14:39.33\00:14:42.83
THIS WAS AN OIL IN THE SANCTUARY
THAT THEY WOULD ANOINT THE
00:14:42.83\00:14:46.66
FURNITURE AND SACRIFICES AND
- EXODUS 30:30, "AND THOU SHALT
00:14:46.66\00:14:51.00
ANOINT AARON AND HIS SONS, AND
CONSECRATE THEM, THAT THEY MAY
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MINISTER UNTO ME IN
THE PRIEST'S OFFICE."
00:14:54.50\00:14:56.86
SO WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF
TAKING THIS HOLY OIL AND PUTTING
00:14:56.86\00:14:58.80
IT ON AARON - AARON
WHO IS THE HIGH PRIEST?
00:14:58.80\00:15:01.90
DOESN'T THAT - A SYMBOL FOR
JESUS WHO WAS ANOINTED WITH THE
00:15:01.90\00:15:05.96
HOLY SPIRIT. AND WHEN
YOU - THERE WERE ONLY A
00:15:05.96\00:15:10.93
FEW THINGS THAT WERE
ANOINTED IN THE BIBLE.
00:15:10.93\00:15:12.53
PRIEST - HIGH
PRIEST WAS ANOINTED.
00:15:12.53\00:15:16.80
THERE'S EVEN A PSALM - I FORGET
WHICH ONE IT WAS - TALKS ABOUT
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THE OIL THAT RAN DOWN ON THE
BEARD OF AARON, HOW PRECIOUS IT
00:15:20.00\00:15:22.73
IS WHEN BRETHREN DWELL IN UNITY
- WHAT IS IT, 1 - 133, YEAH.
00:15:22.73\00:15:27.50
SOMEONE'LL LOOK THAT
UP AND YOU CAN TELL ME.
00:15:27.50\00:15:29.20
THE PRIEST WAS ANOINTED. WHO
ELSE WAS ANOINTED IN THE BIBLE?
00:15:29.20\00:15:32.40
OLD TESTAMENT? KINGS. NOT
JUST DAVID BUT SEVERAL KINGS
00:15:32.40\00:15:35.83
WERE ANOINTED - THAT'S
RIGHT - AND A SACRIFICE COULD BE
00:15:35.83\00:15:38.83
ANOINTED. IS JESUS OUR PRIEST?
00:15:38.83\00:15:41.93
IS JESUS OUR KING?
IS JESUS OUR SACRIFICE?
00:15:41.93\00:15:47.13
YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT WHY
DID MARY MAGDALENE ANOINT JESUS?
00:15:47.13\00:15:52.46
SHE ANOINTED HIM AS OUR
KING, AS OUR PRIEST, AND AS OUR
00:15:52.46\00:15:57.06
SACRIFICE. PUT IT ON
HIS FEET, POURED IT ON
00:15:57.06\00:15:59.66
HIS HEAD - SHE ACTUALLY
DID BOTH, IF YOU READ ALL THE
00:15:59.66\00:16:02.43
ACCOUNTS - AND HE WAS ANOINTED
BEFORE HIS SACRIFICE BY THIS
00:16:02.43\00:16:07.46
WOMAN WHO WORSHIPED AT HIS FEET.
SHE'S LIKE A TYPE OF THE CHURCH.
00:16:07.46\00:16:10.56
AND SO, THAT ANOINTING IS
A SYMBOL FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:16:10.56\00:16:14.70
ULTIMATELY, WHAT
IS IT THAT HEALS?
00:16:14.70\00:16:17.23
GOD THE SPIRIT
BRINGING THAT LIFE AND HEALING.
00:16:17.23\00:16:21.36
THAT'S A SPECIAL FUNCTION OF
GOD THE SPIRIT THROUGH - 'IN THE
00:16:21.36\00:16:25.13
NAME OF THE LORD.' NOTICE THAT?
00:16:25.13\00:16:26.83
IT'S - WHAT RIGHT DO WE
HAVE TO HAVE ANY HEALING?
00:16:26.83\00:16:29.20
ANOINT THEM, PRAYING OVER
THEM, IN THE NAME OF THE LORD.
00:16:29.20\00:16:31.66
WHEN PETER AND JOHN TOUCHED THE
MAN AT THE BEAUTIFUL GATE - ACTS
00:16:31.66\00:16:35.60
CHAPTER 3 - AND HE WAS HEALED.
00:16:35.60\00:16:37.36
AND THE PEOPLE ALL CAME AND
LOOKED AT PETER AND SAID, 'WOW,
00:16:37.36\00:16:39.73
JOHN, WHAT KIND
OF MEN ARE THESE?'
00:16:39.73\00:16:41.30
HE SAID, 'DON'T LOOK ON US
AS THOUGH WE HAVE ANY KIND OF
00:16:41.30\00:16:42.90
SPECIAL POWER, IT IS THROUGH
THE NAME OF JESUS THAT THIS MAN
00:16:42.90\00:16:46.66
STANDS WHOLE BEFORE YOU.
SO THEY ALWAYS SAID IT WAS
00:16:46.66\00:16:49.20
THROUGH THE POWER
OF THE NAME OF CHRIST.
00:16:49.20\00:16:51.80
NOW, DOES THAT MEAN THAT IT'S A
SPECIAL UTTERANCE OF THE NAME OF
00:16:51.80\00:16:56.26
JESUS, WHERE YOU PRONOUNCE
IT JUST RIGHT AND THEN THERE'S
00:16:56.26\00:17:00.56
HEALING? OR IS IT
SAYING THAT BECAUSE OF
00:17:00.56\00:17:03.33
THE PERSON OF CHRIST THAT NAME
REPRESENTS, HE PURCHASED, WITH
00:17:03.33\00:17:07.30
HIS SACRIFICE, THE RIGHT FOR
US TO BE FORGIVEN AND HEALED.
00:17:07.30\00:17:10.70
BECAUSE WHAT WE
DESERVE IS DEATH.
00:17:10.70\00:17:12.36
SO WHY DO WE GET
THAT NEW LIFE AND HEALING?
00:17:12.36\00:17:15.03
IT'S THROUGH THE
NAME OF THE LORD.
00:17:15.03\00:17:16.96
IT'S THROUGH CREDIT
BECAUSE OF THE MERITS OF CHRIST.
00:17:16.96\00:17:19.96
LET ME GIVE YOU ANOTHER ONE.
00:17:19.96\00:17:21.50
ISAIAH 61:1, HERE THE PROPHET
SAYS, 'THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS UPON
00:17:21.50\00:17:26.96
ME BECAUSE THE LORD HAS ANOINTED
ME TO PREACH GOOD TIDINGS TO THE
00:17:26.96\00:17:31.66
POOR.' AND HE GOES ON AND HE
SHARES A NUMBER OF OTHER ASPECTS
00:17:31.66\00:17:34.96
TO THAT. AND THEN
YOU CAN READ IN ACTS
00:17:34.96\00:17:38.33
10:38, TALKING STILL
ABOUT JESUS BEING THE ANOINTED.
00:17:38.33\00:17:41.16
"HOW GOD ANOINTED JESUS OF
NAZARETH WITH THE HOLY GHOST" -
00:17:41.16\00:17:46.10
THERE YOU HAVE IT - "WITH THE
HOLY GHOST AND WITH POWER: WHO
00:17:46.10\00:17:49.53
WENT ABOUT DOING GOOD, AND
HEALING ALL THAT WERE OPPRESSED
00:17:49.53\00:17:53.10
OF THE DEVIL; FOR
GOD WAS WITH HIM."
00:17:53.10\00:17:56.00
NOW, JESUS IS THE
CHRIST - HE'S THE ANOINTED.
00:17:56.00\00:17:59.43
BUT HE SAID, 'AS THE FATHER SENT
ME, SO SEND I YOU.' WHEN GOD PUT
00:17:59.43\00:18:04.73
HIS SPIRIT ON SAUL, DID THE HOLY
- WHEN HE WAS ANOINTED KING -
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DID THE HOLY
SPIRIT COME UPON HIM?
00:18:08.86\00:18:10.23
WHEN GOD PUT HIS SPIRIT ON DAVID
- HOLY SPRIT COME UPON HIM?
00:18:10.23\00:18:14.00
WHEN ELISHA PRAYED FOR A DOUBLE
PORTION OF ELIJAH'S SPIRIT, WAS
00:18:14.00\00:18:17.53
HE ANOINTED
WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT?
00:18:17.53\00:18:19.30
THEN, CAN WE GO, AS CHRIST
WENT, ANOINTED WITH THE SPIRIT?
00:18:19.30\00:18:23.40
SHOULD WE PRAY FOR THAT
SAME ANOINTING WITH THE SPIRIT?
00:18:23.40\00:18:26.53
AND - THAT WE MIGHT GO OUT
AND HEAL AND TO DO THOSE THINGS.
00:18:26.53\00:18:31.20
NOW, IT ALSO SAYS THAT YOU PRAY
FOR THEM AND HE GOES ON TO SAY,
00:18:31.20\00:18:36.90
'IF THERE'S SIN, YOUR SINS WILL
BE FORGIVEN.' WE'RE GOING TO
00:18:36.90\00:18:39.80
TALK MORE ABOUT HEALING FOR
THE SOUL IN THE NEXT SECTION.
00:18:39.80\00:18:42.13
BUT I JUST WANT TO READ A QUOTE
TO YOU FROM THE BOOK 'MINISTRY
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OF HEALING' - THIS IS IN YOUR
LESSON - PAGE 228, "TO THOSE WHO
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DESIRE PRAYER FOR THEIR
RESTORATION TO HEALTH, IT SHOULD
00:18:49.43\00:18:53.13
BE MADE PLAIN THAT THE VIOLATION
OF GOD'S LAW, EITHER NATURAL OR
00:18:53.13\00:18:57.50
SPIRITUAL, IS SIN, AND THAT
IN ORDER FOR THEM TO RECEIVE HIS
00:18:57.50\00:19:00.96
BLESSING, SIN MUST BE
CONFESSED AND FORSAKEN.
00:19:00.96\00:19:04.36
EXAMPLE: SOMEONE CALLS YOU
UP AND SAYS, 'PASTOR, CAN YOU
00:19:04.36\00:19:07.43
PLEASE COME OVER, HAVE A PRAYER
AND ANOINTING SERVICE FOR MY
00:19:07.43\00:19:10.96
BROTHER, HE STRUGGLES WITH
ALCOHOLISM AND THE DOCTORS TELL
00:19:10.96\00:19:15.00
HIM THAT HIS LIVER IS FAILING.
PRAY TO HEAL HIS LIVER.' WELL,
00:19:15.00\00:19:19.26
YOU KNOW WHAT I WOULD SAY
DURING THAT SERVICE, IF WE WENT?
00:19:19.26\00:19:20.90
I'D SAY, 'BROTHER, ARE YOU
PREPARED TO SAY, BY GOD'S GRACE,
00:19:20.90\00:19:24.70
YOU WILL NEVER DRINK AGAIN?
YOU WANT US TO HEAL YOUR LIVER
00:19:24.70\00:19:28.83
THAT IS, YOU KNOW,
ALL RANSACKED BY ALCOHOL.
00:19:28.83\00:19:33.23
THERE SHOULD BE A WILLINGNESS
TO HUMBLE YOURSELF TO THE LORD,
00:19:33.23\00:19:37.90
TURN TO THE LORD, ASK FOR
VICTORY, AND THEN WE'LL PRAY FOR
00:19:37.90\00:19:40.23
YOUR HEALING. BUT IF
YOU'RE JUST WANTING TO
00:19:40.23\00:19:42.23
FEEL BETTER SO YOU CAN ENJOY
SIN MORE, IS THAT THE PURPOSE OF
00:19:42.23\00:19:45.40
ASKING FOR - MANY TIMES,
NOT ALWAYS, BUT MANY TIMES WHEN
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PEOPLE ARE SICK, IT'S
CONNECTED WITH THEIR SIN.
00:19:48.83\00:19:52.26
HOW OFTEN DID JESUS HEAL A
PERSON, HE SAID, 'GO AND SIN NO
00:19:52.26\00:19:55.90
MORE LEST A WORSE
THING COME UPON YOU?'
00:19:55.90\00:19:57.96
AND SO, PART OF A GOOD PASTORAL
VISIT WHEN YOU DO AN ANOINTING
00:19:57.96\00:20:01.93
SERVICE, I KNOW PASTOR
ROSS DOES THIS, I SHARE THIS,
00:20:01.93\00:20:04.46
I SAY, 'ARE YOU
RIGHT WITH THE LORD?
00:20:04.46\00:20:08.06
ARE YOU WILLING TO
MAKE A COMPLETE SURRENDER?
00:20:08.06\00:20:10.00
WE'RE GETTING READY TO ASK
FOR A VIRTUAL MIRACLE RIGHT NOW.
00:20:10.00\00:20:12.03
ARE YOU PREPARED IN YOUR HEART
TO RECEIVE THAT BY BEING FULLY
00:20:12.03\00:20:15.63
SUBMITTED TO GOD?' AND
SO A PERSON OUGHT TO HAVE A
00:20:15.63\00:20:18.76
HUMBLE HEART AND BE REALLY
SURRENDERED TO GOD BEFORE YOU'RE
00:20:18.76\00:20:21.80
PRAYING FOR - WHEN YOU'RE
PRAYING FOR ANOINTING, YOU'RE
00:20:21.80\00:20:24.46
REALLY ASKING FOR
A MIRACULOUS HEALING.
00:20:24.46\00:20:26.33
AND I'VE SEEN IT SO MANY TIMES,
WHERE THE LORD HAS DONE THAT.
00:20:26.33\00:20:30.33
I'VE JUST SEEN SOME
INCREDIBLE MIRACLES.
00:20:30.33\00:20:32.63
WE HAD ONE SISTER THAT I WENT TO
VISIT HER IN THE HOSPITAL - SHE
00:20:32.63\00:20:37.43
WAS HOOKED UP TO LIFE SUPPORT,
THE DOCTORS SAID THAT THERE WAS
00:20:37.43\00:20:41.63
NO BRAIN ACTIVITY, SHE HAD HAD,
EVIDENTLY, A MASSIVE STROKE, WAS
00:20:41.63\00:20:45.13
FOUND AT HOME, BREATHING
MACHINES, FAMILY WAS THERE
00:20:45.13\00:20:49.66
ALREADY DISCUSSING FUNERAL,
ESTATE PLANNING, THEY ASKED IF I
00:20:49.66\00:20:56.96
COULD PRAY, AND SO I PRAYED.
AND IN MY PRAYER - I'M DOING
00:20:56.96\00:21:03.36
THIS MORE FOR THE FAMILY,
REALLY, BECAUSE I - THIS IS AN
00:21:03.36\00:21:07.06
OLDER SISTER AND I FIGURED
THIS WAS HER FINAL ILLNESS.
00:21:07.06\00:21:09.20
AND I PRAYED, YOU KNOW, JUST I
DON'T KNOW WHY I FELT IMPRESSED
00:21:09.20\00:21:13.10
TO PRAY, AND I SAID, 'LORD, NOW
I DON'T WANT TO PUT IT PAST YOU,
00:21:13.10\00:21:15.30
YOU COULD STILL HEAL THIS
SISTER.' AND EVEN AS I PRAYED
00:21:15.30\00:21:18.46
IT, TO BE HONEST, I THOUGHT IT
WAS JUST SORT OF A ZINGER, YOU
00:21:18.46\00:21:22.70
KNOW, JUST MAY AS WELL THROW
THAT IN AND TRY AND ENCOURAGE
00:21:22.70\00:21:25.46
THE FAMILY, 'THERE'S STILL
HOPE.' THE BIBLE SAYS A LIVING
00:21:25.46\00:21:27.53
DOG IS BETTER THAN A DEAD LION.
WHERE'S THERE'S LIFE, THERE'S
00:21:27.53\00:21:29.70
HOPE. SHE'S
STILL ALIVE, WHO KNOWS?
00:21:29.70\00:21:32.40
AND SO I PRAYED THAT PRAYER
AND THEN KISSED HER GOOD-BYE AND
00:21:32.40\00:21:37.66
SAID GOOD-BYE TO THE FAMILY
AND THEY CALLED A LITTLE WHILE
00:21:37.66\00:21:40.33
LATER. THEY SAID, 'PASTOR,
HAVE YOU HEARD WHAT HAPPENED?
00:21:40.33\00:21:42.83
I SAID, 'NO.'
THEY SAID, 'MOM SAT UP.
00:21:42.83\00:21:45.46
THEY TOOK OUT HER
RESPIRATOR. SHE'S TALKING.
00:21:45.46\00:21:48.66
SHE SAID SHE'S HUNGRY.' SHE'S
STILL GOING TO OUR CHURCH NOW IN
00:21:48.66\00:21:53.46
SACRAMENTO. SHE'S
AT THE DOOR GREETING.
00:21:53.46\00:21:55.50
I MEAN, I HAD JUST TOTALLY
WRITTEN HER OFF AND IT WAS A
00:21:55.50\00:21:57.90
MIRACLE. BUT
WHAT IT BECAUSE OF ME?
00:21:57.90\00:21:59.56
IT WASN'T MY FAITH.
00:21:59.56\00:22:01.10
MAYBE THE FAMILIES HAD FAITH
OR, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES THE LORD
00:22:01.10\00:22:04.16
ANSWERS PRAYER FOR THE
INDIVIDUAL IN SPITE OF OUR LACK
00:22:04.16\00:22:06.50
OF FAITH, BUT GOD
DOES PERFORM MIRACLES.
00:22:06.50\00:22:09.63
ALRIGHT, 'HEALING FOR THE SOUL.'
PSALM 103, VERSES 2 AND 3, AND
00:22:09.63\00:22:14.93
SOMEONE IS GOING TO READ -
WHOEVER'S NEXT IS GOING TO READ
00:22:14.93\00:22:18.83
JAMES 5:15 - THAT'LL
BE IN A MOMENT OR TWO.
00:22:18.83\00:22:21.56
PSALM 103:2 AND 3, "BLESS THE
LORD, O MY SOUL, AND FORGET NOT
00:22:21.56\00:22:26.23
ALL HIS BENEFITS: WHO FORGIVES
ALL YOUR INIQUITIES, WHO HEALS
00:22:26.23\00:22:31.06
ALL YOUR DISEASES,"
- HOW MANY DISEASES?
00:22:31.06\00:22:33.53
HOW MANY
INIQUITIES? I LEFT A WORD OUT.
00:22:33.53\00:22:36.56
ALL - FORGIVES ALL YOUR
INIQUITIES - HEALS ALL YOUR
00:22:36.56\00:22:40.20
DISEASES. WHAT
CAME FIRST, HEALING OR
00:22:40.20\00:22:43.56
FORGIVING, IN THIS VERSE?
FIRST WE NEED THE FORGIVENESS.
00:22:43.56\00:22:48.16
NOW, SOME OF YOU
REMEMBER THE STORY IN - IT'S IN
00:22:48.16\00:22:51.53
MARK CHAPTER 2,
IT'S IN, I THINK, LUKE.
00:22:51.53\00:22:53.13
THERE'S THIS PARALYTIC MAN WHO'S
BROUGHT TO JESUS - CARRIED BY
00:22:53.13\00:22:56.50
FOUR FRIENDS - BY THE TIME
THEY GET TO THE HOUSE - PROBABLY
00:22:56.50\00:22:59.06
SIMON PETER'S HOUSE THERE
IN CAPERNAUM - THERE'S JUST
00:22:59.06\00:23:02.93
SWARMS OF PEOPLE
ALL AROUND THE HOUSE.
00:23:02.93\00:23:04.50
YOU CAN'T GET NEAR A WINDOW
OR A DOOR BECAUSE FOLKS ARE JUST
00:23:04.50\00:23:07.63
PRESSED SHOULDER TO SHOULDER AND
- BUT THEY CARRY THIS FRIEND A
00:23:07.63\00:23:11.10
LONG WAY BECAUSE, MORE THAN
ANYTHING, HE WANTS TO HEAR JESUS
00:23:11.10\00:23:13.50
SAY HE'LL BE FORGIVEN.
00:23:13.50\00:23:15.20
HE'S PARALYZED, HE'S SICK
BECAUSE OF HIS LIFESTYLE, AND
00:23:15.20\00:23:18.56
THEY WON'T GIVE UP.
THEY'RE HOPING HE'LL BE HEALED.
00:23:18.56\00:23:23.23
THEY FIND A WAY OUT BACK
AND THEY CLIMB UP ON THE ROOF.
00:23:23.23\00:23:26.26
THERE'S A WALL WITH NO WINDOWS
AND NO ONE'S THERE, BUT THERE'S
00:23:26.26\00:23:28.83
A LADDER AND THEY GO UP ON
THE ROOF AND THOSE HOUSES IN THE
00:23:28.83\00:23:31.30
MIDDLE EAST THERE, THEY OFTEN
HAD AN OPENING IN THE MIDDLE SO
00:23:31.30\00:23:34.16
WHEN THEY COOKED IN THE SUMMER
IT CREATED CONVECTION - AIR CAME
00:23:34.16\00:23:36.66
IN THE WINDOWS,
SMOKE WENT OUT THE TOP.
00:23:36.66\00:23:38.26
AND SO THEY DIDN'T TAKE AN AX,
LIKE FIREMEN, AND BUST UP THE
00:23:38.26\00:23:41.03
GUY'S ROOF, THEY JUST MOVED SOME
NATURAL TILES OUT OF THE WAY AND
00:23:41.03\00:23:43.36
THEY LOWERED THIS MAN DOWN RIGHT
IN THE MIDDLE WHERE JESUS WAS
00:23:43.36\00:23:47.03
PREACHING AND TEACHING.
AND PROBABLY THE SCRIBES AND
00:23:47.03\00:23:52.43
EVERYONE THOUGHT, 'WHAT A RUDE
DISTURBANCE. BUT THESE FRIENDS
00:23:52.43\00:23:55.66
WERE DESPERATE TO GET THEIR
FRIEND INTO JESUS' PRESENCE.
00:23:55.66\00:23:58.26
AND IT SAYS IN THAT STORY, WHEN
CHRIST SAW THEIR FAITH - NOW
00:23:58.26\00:24:04.03
IT'S NOT JUST THE FAITH OF THE
MAN WHO'S HEALED, BUT IT'S THE
00:24:04.03\00:24:07.16
FAITH OF THE FRIENDS
WHO BRING HIM TO JESUS.
00:24:07.16\00:24:11.43
SO WHEN JAMES SAYS, SPEAKING
ABOUT HEALING, THE PRAYER OF
00:24:11.43\00:24:14.86
FAITH, WHO'S FAITH?
THE FAITH OF THE SICK?
00:24:14.86\00:24:18.83
THE FAITH OF THE
ELDERS? OR MAYBE ALL?
00:24:18.83\00:24:21.30
WHY DID JESUS, WHEN HE RAISED UP
JARIUS' DAUGHTER, PUT EVERYONE
00:24:21.30\00:24:26.40
ELSE OUT EXCEPT PETER,
JAMES, JOHN AND THE FAMILY?
00:24:26.40\00:24:29.60
BECAUSE THEY WERE UNBELIEVING.
00:24:29.60\00:24:31.83
THEY WERE LAUGHING AND
SAYING, 'OH, THE GIRL'S DEAD.
00:24:31.83\00:24:33.56
AND SO, SOMETIMES, IF YOU
HAVE PEOPLE THAT ARE BRINGING
00:24:33.56\00:24:36.66
UNBELIEF INTO THE ROOM,
IT'S NOT COMING FROM GOD.
00:24:36.66\00:24:39.96
YOU MIGHT NEED TO SAY, 'WELL,
YOU KNOW, YOU MIGHT NOT WANT TO
00:24:39.96\00:24:43.53
- WE'LL COME TO YOU LATER.'
AND HAVE PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE THAT
00:24:43.53\00:24:47.46
GOD CAN ANSWER THAT PRAYER.
00:24:47.46\00:24:50.36
SO THESE FOUR FRIENDS, JESUS
SAID WHEN HE SAW THEIR FAITH, HE
00:24:50.36\00:24:53.90
SAID TO THE MAN SICK WITH PALSY,
'SON, YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN.'
00:24:53.90\00:24:57.66
AND THAT'S WHAT
REALLY BOTHERED THE SCRIBES.
00:24:57.66\00:25:00.16
THEY SAID, 'WHO IS THIS
MAN THAT SPEAKS BLASPHEMIES?
00:25:00.16\00:25:02.30
WHO CAN FORGIVE
SIN BUT GOD ALONE?'
00:25:02.30\00:25:04.00
NOW, WHAT DID THE MAN
WANT MORE THAN ANYTHING.
00:25:04.00\00:25:08.16
AND, BY THE WAY, THAT'S MARK 2,
VERSES 10 AND 11, "'BUT THAT YOU
00:25:08.16\00:25:12.53
MAY KNOW THAT THE SON OF MAN HAS
POWER ON EARTH TO FORGIVE SINS'
00:25:12.53\00:25:15.66
- HE SAID TO THE PARALYTIC, 'I
SAY TO YOU, ARISE, TAKE UP YOUR
00:25:15.66\00:25:19.30
BED, AND GO TO YOUR HOUSE.'" AND
YOU READ IN THE BOOK 'DESIRE OF
00:25:19.30\00:25:22.46
AGES' PAGE 267, "IT WAS NOT
PHYSICAL RESTORATION HE DESIRED
00:25:22.46\00:25:26.53
SO MUCH AS A RELIEF
FROM THE BURDEN OF SIN.
00:25:26.53\00:25:30.53
IF HE COULD SEE JESUS
AND RECEIVE THE ASSURANCE OF
00:25:30.53\00:25:33.36
FORGIVENESS AND PEACE WITH
HEAVEN, HE'D BE CONTENT TO LIVE
00:25:33.36\00:25:36.60
AND DIE
ACCORDING TO GOD'S WILL."
00:25:36.60\00:25:38.63
NOW, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT
IF I WAS SUFFERING LIKE THAT AND
00:25:38.63\00:25:42.76
I HAD TO CHOOSE, WHICH WOULD YOU
RATHER HEAR JESUS SAY, 'GET UP
00:25:42.76\00:25:47.86
AND WALK TO SIN ANOTHER DAY,' OR
YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN AND YOU
00:25:47.86\00:25:53.30
HAVE ETERNAL LIFE.' I MEAN, MORE
THAN ANYTHING WE WANT TO KNOW
00:25:53.30\00:25:57.53
THAT, ESPECIALLY IF
WE'RE SICK, 'AM I READY?'
00:25:57.53\00:25:59.96
AND JUST KNOWING - IF YOU KNOW
YOU'VE GOT ETERNAL LIFE, IF YOU
00:25:59.96\00:26:03.50
KNOW YOU'RE FORGIVEN AND YOU'RE
READY, YOU CAN TAKE JUST ABOUT
00:26:03.50\00:26:06.26
ANYTHING IF YOU KNOW
IT'S NOT GOING TO LAST -
00:26:06.26\00:26:07.90
AND THEN YOU'VE
GOT ETERNAL LIFE.
00:26:07.90\00:26:09.53
BUT ALL PHYSICAL HEALING, WHILE
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PRAYER FOR
00:26:09.53\00:26:15.40
HEALING, KEEP IN MIND, ALL
PHYSICAL HEALING IS, AT BEST,
00:26:15.40\00:26:18.43
TEMPORARY - UNTIL
YOU GET SICK AGAIN.
00:26:18.43\00:26:21.23
JESUS RAISED LAZARUS, WHO
WAS A SICK AS YOU CAN GET -
00:26:21.23\00:26:24.33
CAN'T GET ANY
SICKER THAN DEAD, CAN YOU?
00:26:24.33\00:26:26.16
IF YOU CAN, YOU
LET ME KNOW ABOUT THAT.
00:26:26.16\00:26:29.36
I GUESS THE SECOND
DEATH IS THE WORST SICKNESS.
00:26:29.36\00:26:31.86
BUT LAZARUS WAS
RAISED UP FOR HOW LONG?
00:26:31.86\00:26:35.80
WE DON'T KNOW - UNTIL
HE GOT OLD AND SICK AGAIN.
00:26:35.80\00:26:38.30
MAYBE HE DIED AS A MARTYR,
WE DON'T KNOW, BUT ALL OF THE
00:26:38.30\00:26:40.93
PEOPLE THAT JESUS
EVER HEALED ARE DEAD NOW.
00:26:40.93\00:26:45.56
SO HEALING, PHYSICAL
HEALING, IS TEMPORARY.
00:26:45.56\00:26:49.60
THE HEALING THAT REALLY MATTERS
IS THE ONE THAT LASTS FOREVER.
00:26:49.60\00:26:53.00
AND SO WHEN WE GATHER TOGETHER
TO PRAY FOR THOSE THAT ARE SICK
00:26:53.00\00:26:55.66
AND ANOINT THEM WITH OIL, WE
SHOULD MAKE SURE WE KEEP THAT A
00:26:55.66\00:26:58.66
PRIORITY - THAT WE MAKE SURE
THEIR HEARTS ARE RIGHT WITH GOD.
00:26:58.66\00:27:02.10
I HAVE - WE DID AN ANOINTING
SERVICE FOR A MAN THAT HAD
00:27:02.10\00:27:04.90
TERMINAL CANCER AND HE
TOLD ME A FEW WEEKS LATER,
00:27:04.90\00:27:08.73
HE SAYS, 'GOD JUST HEALED ME.
00:27:08.73\00:27:10.00
I WENT BACK, THEY TESTED ME,
AND THE TUMORS ARE GONE.' HE HAD
00:27:10.00\00:27:11.80
BONE CANCER AND HE
WAS IN A LOT OF PAIN.
00:27:11.80\00:27:13.63
BECAUSE I - THAT'S
WHAT MY MOM DIED FROM.
00:27:13.63\00:27:15.16
I THOUGHT THERE
WAS REALLY NO HOPE.
00:27:15.16\00:27:16.53
BUT WE PRAYED FOR BROTHER LEGG
- WAS HIS NAME. AND HE LIVED -
00:27:16.53\00:27:20.53
HE WAS ALREADY IN HIS SIXTIES
AT THAT POINT, BE HE LIVED, LIKE
00:27:20.53\00:27:23.16
TWELVE, FIFTEEN YEARS BEYOND
THAT, WITH GREAT STRENGTH AND
00:27:23.16\00:27:27.10
HEALTH. AND GOD DOES PERFORM
THESE MIRACLES OF HEALING.
00:27:27.10\00:27:31.26
SO I'VE SEEN IT.
JUST ON A PRACTICAL NOTE.
00:27:31.26\00:27:36.96
SOME WHO ARE WATCHING MAY BE
ELDERS - I'M SURE MOST PASTORS
00:27:36.96\00:27:41.16
ARE AWARE OF THIS - HOW DO
YOU ANOINT A PERSON WITH OIL?
00:27:41.16\00:27:44.80
YOU KNOW, IF YOU WATCH THE WAY
IT'S DONE SOMETIMES ON SOME OF
00:27:44.80\00:27:48.06
THE CHARISMATIC HOOTENANNIES
THAT THEY HAVE ON TELEVISION,
00:27:48.06\00:27:53.53
YOU MIGHT GET THE WRONG IDEA.
BUT TYPICALLY, THE OIL IS A
00:27:53.53\00:27:57.76
SYMBOL FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT.
AND TYPICALLY, WHAT I DO.
00:27:57.76\00:28:01.70
AND MOST PASTORS I KNOW, IS
YOU GET A SMALL VIAL, YOU - IT'S
00:28:01.70\00:28:07.10
NICE TO HAVE
SOMETHING ATTRACTIVE.
00:28:07.10\00:28:08.50
I ACTUALLY TOOK AN OLD COLOGNE
BOTTLE AND CLEANED IT OUT REAL
00:28:08.50\00:28:11.20
GOOD AT ONE TIME
BECAUSE IT JUST LOOKED NICE.
00:28:11.20\00:28:13.03
AND I PUT THE OIL IN THERE AND
IT STILL HAD A LINGERING NICE
00:28:13.03\00:28:16.40
SMELL TO IT TOO. BUT
YOU PUT THE OIL IN THERE.
00:28:16.40\00:28:21.93
YOU WANT TO KEEP IT COOL BECAUSE
I ONCE LEFT A BOTTLE IN MY
00:28:21.93\00:28:24.96
CHURCH - YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T DO
ANOINTINGS EVERY DAY AND I WENT
00:28:24.96\00:28:28.96
TO USE IT ONE TIME
AND IT HAD GOTTEN RANCID.
00:28:28.96\00:28:30.93
SO MAKE SURE YOU KEEP IT FRESH.
BEFORE YOU GO DO AN ANOINTING,
00:28:30.93\00:28:33.53
CHECK YOUR BOTTLE OF OIL.
DON'T COME TO THEM WITH A BIG
00:28:33.53\00:28:36.00
OLD THING YOU BOUGHT FROM THE
MARKET AND DUMP IT ON PEOPLE.
00:28:36.00\00:28:39.83
SINCE IT'S A SYMBOL - AND
SOMETIMES PEOPLE ARE DRESSED -
00:28:39.83\00:28:42.86
THEY'RE AT CHURCH, THEY'RE
PRAYING FOR AN ANOINTING, YOU
00:28:42.86\00:28:44.83
JUST TAKE A LITTLE BIT AND YOU
PUT IT ON YOUR FINGER - HAVE A
00:28:44.83\00:28:47.33
KLEENEX OR SOMETHING AVAILABLE
AFTERWARDS SO WHEN YOU'RE DONE
00:28:47.33\00:28:49.93
PRAYING, IF THERE'S ANY
DRIPPING, THEY CAN WIPE IT OFF.
00:28:49.93\00:28:52.63
THEY DON'T HAVE TO WEAR IT
THE REST OF THEIR LIFE, RIGHT?
00:28:52.63\00:28:54.60
IT'S A SYMBOL. DO WE ALL AGREE?
00:28:54.60\00:28:56.73
YEAH, AND SO I'M JUST BEING
PRACTICAL BECAUSE I'VE SEEN IT
00:28:56.73\00:28:59.00
DONE THE WRONG WAY AND I THINK
SOMETIMES WE NEED TO KNOW THAT.
00:28:59.00\00:29:01.20
YOU TAKE A COUPLE OF FINGERS
- ISN'T THAT RIGHT, PASTOR ROSS?
00:29:01.20\00:29:04.70
YOU JUST PUT IT ON THEIR
FOREHEAD - THEY MAY NOT WANT IT
00:29:04.70\00:29:07.06
IN THEIR HAIR - AND YOU JUST PUT
IT ON THEIR FOREHEAD. YOU PRAY,
00:29:07.06\00:29:12.00
AND USUALLY DURING THE PRAYER,
WHILE THE ELDERS ARE KNEELED,
00:29:12.00\00:29:14.60
YOU PLACE YOUR HANDS ON THE
PERSON, THEY MIGHT BE IN A BED,
00:29:14.60\00:29:17.03
THEY MIGHT BE KNEELING WITH YOU,
AND THEN DURING THE PRAYER THE
00:29:17.03\00:29:19.80
ELDER LEAD ANNOUNCES, 'NOW AS
WE ANOINT WITH OIL,' AND AT THAT
00:29:19.80\00:29:23.00
MOMENT HE TAKES HIS TWO FINGERS
WITH THE BOTTLE - YOU PUT IT ON
00:29:23.00\00:29:25.20
THEIR FOREHEAD AND - IT'S NOT
RUNNING DOWN, IT'S JUST A LITTLE
00:29:25.20\00:29:28.23
BIT, AND YOU COMPLETE YOUR
PRAYER AND IT'S A SYMBOL AND IT
00:29:28.23\00:29:31.63
MEETS THAT CRITERIA. AND
THEN YOU HUG EACH OTHER AND
00:29:31.63\00:29:35.66
YOU PRAY THAT GOD'LL BLESS - THE
HEALING WILL HAPPEN INSTANTLY.
00:29:35.66\00:29:38.30
IT MAY HAPPEN OVER TIME. IT
MAY BE A HEALING PROCESS THAT
00:29:38.30\00:29:41.73
BEGINS. WE'LL GET TO
THAT IN JUST A MINUTE.
00:29:41.73\00:29:44.93
ALRIGHT, STILL MOVING DOWN HERE.
00:29:44.93\00:29:47.30
HEBREWS, SPEAKING ABOUT HEBREWS
12:12 - TALKING ABOUT HEALING
00:29:47.30\00:29:52.86
FOR THE SOUL - "THEREFORE
STRENGTHEN THE HANDS WHICH HANG
00:29:52.86\00:29:55.73
DOWN, AND THE FEEBLE KNEES,
AND MAKE STRAIGHT PATHS FOR YOUR
00:29:55.73\00:29:59.83
FEET, SO THAT WHAT IS LAME MAY
NOT BE DISLOCATED, BUT RATHER BE
00:29:59.83\00:30:04.20
HEALED." GOD
WANTS US TO BE HEALED.
00:30:04.20\00:30:07.03
YOU CAN READ IN 1 PETER 2, VERSE
24, "WHO HIMSELF BORE OUR SINS
00:30:07.03\00:30:11.80
IN HIS OWN BODY ON THE TREE THAT
WE, HAVING DIED TO SINS, MIGHT
00:30:11.80\00:30:15.96
LIVE FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS - BY
WHOSE STRIPES YOU WERE HEALED.
00:30:15.96\00:30:19.63
FOR YOU WERE LIKE SHEEP GOING
ASTRAY, BUT HAVE NOW RETURNED TO
00:30:19.63\00:30:23.20
THE SHEPHERD AND OVERSEER
OF YOUR SOULS." DURING AN
00:30:23.20\00:30:26.23
ANOINTING SERVICE IT'S A
GOOD IDEA FOR THE ELDERS TO TAKE
00:30:26.23\00:30:29.36
TURNS PRAYING -
BEFORE YOU PRAY, READ SOME OF
00:30:29.36\00:30:32.73
THE PROMISES OF GOD
THAT ARE GOING TO BE
00:30:32.73\00:30:35.60
CALCULATED TO
ENCOURAGE FAITH IN THE PERSON.
00:30:35.60\00:30:38.56
TALK ABOUT REPENTANCE FROM SIN -
MAKE SURE THEY UNDERSTAND THAT -
00:30:38.56\00:30:42.13
TALK ABOUT THE PROMISES THAT GOD
SAYS HE WILL HEAL - BECAUSE YOU
00:30:42.13\00:30:45.23
NOTICE HOW OFTEN IT
EMPHASIZES THE PRAYER OF FAITH?
00:30:45.23\00:30:49.16
SO THERE ARE THINGS YOU
CAN ACTUALLY SAY AND IN YOUR
00:30:49.16\00:30:51.60
PRAYER TO
ENCOURAGE AND INSPIRE FAITH.
00:30:51.60\00:30:54.53
YOU REMEMBER WHEN A MAN CAME TO
JESUS - WELL, ACTUALLY BROUGHT
00:30:54.53\00:30:58.33
HIS SON WHO WAS POSSESSED BY THE
DEVIL THAT THREW THE BOY IN THE
00:30:58.33\00:31:02.36
FIRE AND THE WATER - TWO
OPPOSITE EXTREMES - TO KILL HIM,
00:31:02.36\00:31:05.40
AND HE HAD A CONVULSION
THERE AND THE DISCIPLES
00:31:05.40\00:31:08.50
COULDN'T HEAL HIM
AND JESUS HEALED HIM.
00:31:08.50\00:31:11.93
BUT THE FATHER CAME TO CHRIST,
HE SAID, 'LORD, IF YOU CAN DO
00:31:11.93\00:31:14.33
ANYTHING.' AND JESUS SAID,
'IF YOU BELIEVE, ALL THINGS ARE
00:31:14.33\00:31:17.53
POSSIBLE.' AND SO JESUS
OFTEN HAD TO SAY SOMETHING TO
00:31:17.53\00:31:22.10
ENCOURAGE FAITH IN A PERSON
WHO WAS ABOUT TO EXPERIENCE A
00:31:22.10\00:31:24.90
HEALING. WHEN
JARIUS GOT WORD THAT HIS
00:31:24.90\00:31:27.60
DAUGHTER HAD DIED, SOMEONE SAID
TO JARIUS, 'DON'T TROUBLE THE
00:31:27.60\00:31:30.20
MASTER ANYMORE, YOUR DAUGHTER IS
DEAD.' JESUS SAW THAT HIS FAITH
00:31:30.20\00:31:33.33
WAS SINKING AND HE
SAID, 'DON'T STOP BELIEVING.
00:31:33.33\00:31:35.93
LET'S GO TO YOUR HOUSE, BUT ONLY
BELIEVE.' AND SO YOU NEED TO
00:31:35.93\00:31:42.36
MAYBE ENCOURAGE THE PEOPLE
- BELIEVE THE PROMISES OF GOD.
00:31:42.36\00:31:45.66
AND FAITH - IT'S
EVERYTHING TO JESUS, AMEN?
00:31:45.66\00:31:49.70
ALRIGHT, NOW SOMEONE'S GOING
TO READ FOR ME JAMES 5:15 THAT
00:31:49.70\00:31:54.33
DEALS WITH THAT. >>"AND
THE PRAYER OF FAITH SHALL
00:31:54.33\00:31:56.96
SAVE THE SICK AND THE
LORD SHALL RAISE HIM UP.
00:31:56.96\00:31:59.40
AND IF HE HATH COMMITTED SINS,
THEY SHALL BE FORGIVEN HIM."
00:31:59.40\00:32:03.50
>>AMEN. NOW THAT'S ONE
ENCOURAGING THING, IF A PERSON
00:32:03.50\00:32:06.50
DOES RECEIVE AN ANOINTING
SERVICE, AND THEY'RE HEALED, YOU
00:32:06.50\00:32:10.96
CAN ALMOST BE SURE THAT THEY'RE
ALSO FORGIVEN, BECAUSE IT'S
00:32:10.96\00:32:15.26
CONNECTING THE TWO THAT I'M
GOING TO FORGIVE YOU AND I'M
00:32:15.26\00:32:18.76
GOING TO HEAL YOU. BUT
YOU NOTICE WHAT KIND OF
00:32:18.76\00:32:21.03
PRAYER? THE PRAYER OF WHAT?
00:32:21.03\00:32:22.53
THE PRAYER OF
FAITH WILL SAVE THE SICK.
00:32:22.53\00:32:24.76
LET ME JUST GIVE YOU SOME OF THE
OTHER VERSES IN THE BIBLE THAT
00:32:24.76\00:32:27.20
HELP ILLUSTRATE HOW
IMPORTANT THIS IS TO GOD.
00:32:27.20\00:32:29.36
JAMES 1:6 THROUGH 8, "BUT
LET HIM ASK IN FAITH, NOTHING
00:32:29.36\00:32:35.63
WAVERING. FOR HE
THAT WAVERETH IS LIKE A
00:32:35.63\00:32:38.46
WAVE OF THE SEA DRIVEN
WITH THE WIND AND TOSSED.
00:32:38.46\00:32:43.00
FOR LET NOT THAT MAN THINK THAT
HE SHALL RECEIVE ANY THING OF
00:32:43.00\00:32:45.16
THE LORD." - WOW,
THAT'S NOT ONLY SAYING
00:32:45.16\00:32:48.00
ASK IN FAITH, NOTHING WAVERING,
IF YOU DON'T ASK IN FAITH, DON'T
00:32:48.00\00:32:51.76
THINK YOU'RE GOING TO
RECEIVE ANYTHING FROM THE LORD.
00:32:51.76\00:32:54.26
IN OTHER WORDS, HAVE FAITH
YOU'RE NOT GETTING ANYTHING.
00:32:54.26\00:32:56.53
IF YOU DON'T PRAY WITH FAITH.
00:32:56.53\00:32:58.43
- "A DOUBLE MINDED MAN IS
UNSTABLE IN ALL HIS WAYS."
00:32:58.43\00:33:01.96
AND THEN YOU CAN READ WHERE JOHN
SAYS - 1 JOHN 5:14 - "AND THIS
00:33:01.96\00:33:07.70
IS THE CONFIDENCE THAT WE
HAVE IN HIM, THAT, IF WE ASK ANY
00:33:07.70\00:33:10.20
THING ACCORDING TO
HIS WILL, HE HEARETH US."
00:33:10.20\00:33:14.00
A COUPLE MORE VERSES ON THAT
THEME ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF
00:33:14.00\00:33:17.90
FAITH: JESUS SAID - MATTHEW 21,
VERSE 22 - "AND WHATEVER THINGS
00:33:17.90\00:33:22.26
YOU ASK IN PRAYER,
BELIEVING, YOU WILL RECEIVE."
00:33:22.26\00:33:26.73
WOW, THAT'S ALMOST LIKE
A BLANK CHECK FROM JESUS.
00:33:26.73\00:33:28.86
ARE THERE SOME
CRITERIA FOR THAT?
00:33:28.86\00:33:31.93
'IF YOU ASK ANYTHING BELIEVING"
- WELL, OF COURSE, JAMES JUST
00:33:31.93\00:33:35.53
SAID 'ACCORDING TO HIS WILL.' IT
NEEDS TO BE IN HARMONY WITH HIS
00:33:35.53\00:33:38.90
WILL, BUT BOY, IS THERE AN
EXAMPLE IN THE BIBLE OF ANYBODY
00:33:38.90\00:33:43.93
JESUS EVER ATTEMPTED TO
HEAL THAT WAS NOT HEALED?
00:33:43.93\00:33:47.90
THE CLOSEST YOU'RE GOING TO GET
IS A MAN THAT JESUS WENT TO HEAL
00:33:47.90\00:33:53.60
HIM OF HIS BLINDNESS, AND WHEN
HE OPENED HIS EYES HE STILL SAW
00:33:53.60\00:33:57.33
THINGS - HE SAW MEN AS TREES
WALKING - THAT MEANS THEY WERE
00:33:57.33\00:34:00.06
BLURRY - AND THEN HE WENT
THROUGH A SECOND STAGE OF THE
00:34:00.06\00:34:03.46
HEALING AND THEN HE
SAW ALL THINGS CLEARLY.
00:34:03.46\00:34:05.90
BUT EVERYBODY THAT JESUS EVER
ATTEMPTED TO HEAL WAS HEALED.
00:34:05.90\00:34:11.73
WHY? CHRIST ALWAYS HAD
FAITH. HE NEVER FAILED.
00:34:11.73\00:34:15.90
YOU KNOW, IF YOU READ IN THE
OLD TESTAMENT, ELISHA, WHO WAS A
00:34:15.90\00:34:19.23
TYPE OF CHRIST, CAN YOU NAME
ANYBODY IN THE BIBLE THAT EVER
00:34:19.23\00:34:22.80
CAME TO ELISHA FOR HEALING THAT
WAS TURNED AWAY OR THAT DIDN'T
00:34:22.80\00:34:26.53
GET A MIRACLE?
EVERYBODY WHO EVER BROUGHT A
00:34:26.53\00:34:29.30
PROBLEM TO ELISHA, HE
PERFORMED A MIRACLE FOR.
00:34:29.30\00:34:31.93
AT LEAST ALL THAT ARE RECORDED.
MATTER OF FACT, IT SEEMS LIKE HE
00:34:31.93\00:34:35.53
DID TWICE AS MANY AS ELIJAH,
WHICH MAKES SENSE BECAUSE HE HAD
00:34:35.53\00:34:38.43
A DOUBLE PORTION
OF ELIJAH'S SPIRIT.
00:34:38.43\00:34:40.03
LET ME READ ANOTHER ONE, JOHN
15, VERSE 7, "IF YOU ABIDE IN
00:34:40.03\00:34:44.86
ME, AND MY WORDS ABIDE IN YOU,
YOU WILL ASK WHAT YOU DESIRE,
00:34:44.86\00:34:49.70
AND IT SHALL BE DONE FOR YOU."
00:34:49.70\00:34:51.73
THAT'S RED LETTER -
THESE ARE THE WORDS OF JESUS.
00:34:51.73\00:34:54.03
SO CRITERIA ALSO IS PRAYING IN
FAITH, PRAYING ACCORDING TO HIS
00:34:54.03\00:34:58.36
WILL, AND ABIDING IN CHRIST,
RIGHT? ALRIGHT, NOW WHAT DO YOU
00:34:58.36\00:35:03.43
DO THOUGH - WELL, LET ME
READ ONE MORE. THERE'S A LOT OF
00:35:03.43\00:35:06.10
VERSES ON FAITH I COULD READ
YOU, YOU KNOW THAT. MARK 9:22 -
00:35:06.10\00:35:09.63
JESUS SAID, "...ALL THINGS ARE
POSSIBLE TO HIM WHO BELIEVES."
00:35:09.63\00:35:12.30
ALRIGHT, WHAT HAPPENS WHEN GOD
SAYS 'NO' - OR IT APPEARS THAT
00:35:12.30\00:35:16.13
GOD IS SAYING 'NO'
TO A PRAYER FOR HEALING?
00:35:16.13\00:35:18.43
YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD ABOUT
ANOINTING SERVICES WHERE MAYBE
00:35:18.43\00:35:21.73
IT WASN'T FOLLOWED BY A DRAMATIC
MIRACLE OR A HEALING AND THE
00:35:21.73\00:35:24.53
PERSON STILL GOT SICK
AND DIED. SO WHAT DO YOU DO?
00:35:24.53\00:35:28.10
HOW DO YOU PROCESS THAT?
00:35:28.10\00:35:29.36
DOES THAT MEAN WE
DON'T HAVE ENOUGH FAITH?
00:35:29.36\00:35:31.16
IS THERE AN EXAMPLE IN THE BIBLE
OF SOMEBODY FILLED WITH THE HOLY
00:35:31.16\00:35:34.66
SPIRIT, WORKING FOR GOD, THAT
GOT SICK, THAT WASN'T HEALED?
00:35:34.66\00:35:39.70
WHO WENT TO HEAVEN IN
A FIERY CHARIOT? ELIJAH.
00:35:39.70\00:35:44.93
WHO HAD A DOUBLE
PORTION OF GOD'S SPIRIT?
00:35:44.93\00:35:47.16
ELISHA. HOW DID HE
DIE? A LINGERING SICKNESS.
00:35:47.16\00:35:52.80
HE GOT SICK AND HE
GOT OLD AND HE DIED.
00:35:52.80\00:35:55.30
MATTER OF FACT, THE KING OF
ISRAEL CAME TO SEE HIM WHEN HE
00:35:55.30\00:35:57.83
WAS DYING AND SAID, 'OH MY
FATHER, MY FATHER, THE CHARIOT
00:35:57.83\00:36:01.36
OF ISRAEL AND ITS HORSEMEN
THEREOF.' AND ELISHA WORKED A
00:36:01.36\00:36:04.16
MIRACLE AND MADE A PROPHECY
RIGHT THERE ON HIS DEATHBED.
00:36:04.16\00:36:06.76
AND ELISHA WAS SO FULL OF THE
SPIRIT OF GOD, THAT EVEN AFTER
00:36:06.76\00:36:10.23
HE DIED AND HE WAS BURIED, THAT
IT TELLS US THAT SOME OTHER MEN,
00:36:10.23\00:36:15.73
SOME MONTHS LATER, CAME TO THE
SAME CEMETERY TO BURY ANOTHER
00:36:15.73\00:36:19.10
MAN, AND RIGHT ABOUT THEN THE
MOABITE RAIDERS CAME THROUGH THE
00:36:19.10\00:36:22.76
LAND AND THEY HAD
TO RUN FOR THEIR LIVES.
00:36:22.76\00:36:25.20
AND THEY SAID, 'BUT WE'VE GOT
THIS BODY, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO
00:36:25.20\00:36:26.93
DO?' AND THEY
SAID, 'WELL, LET'S JUST
00:36:26.93\00:36:28.70
DROP IT INTO THE TOMB OF
ELISHA.' AND WHEN THEY DROPPED
00:36:28.70\00:36:31.23
THIS MAN'S BODY AND HIS BODY
TOUCHED THE BONES OF ELISHA, HE
00:36:31.23\00:36:33.90
CAME BACK TO LIFE.
ELISHA EVEN PERFORMED MIRACLES -
00:36:33.90\00:36:37.63
AFTER HE DIED FROM
SICKNESS HE HEALED SOMEBODY.
00:36:37.63\00:36:40.36
SO HE HAD - BUT GOD LET
HIM DIE. WHAT ABOUT PAUL?
00:36:40.36\00:36:46.93
2 CORINTHIANS 12:9 - I'M SORRY,
SECOND CORINTHIANS 12:7 THROUGH
00:36:46.93\00:36:51.56
9 - PAUL SAID, "AND LEST I
SHOULD BE EXALTED ABOVE MEASURE
00:36:51.56\00:36:56.36
BY THE ABUNDANCE OF THE
REVELATIONS, A THORN IN THE
00:36:56.36\00:37:00.46
FLESH WAS GIVEN TO ME, A
MESSENGER OF SATAN TO BUFFET ME,
00:37:00.46\00:37:03.90
LEST I BE
EXALTED ABOVE MEASURE."
00:37:03.90\00:37:06.23
- HE USES THAT TERM
TWICE, 'EXALTED ABOVE MEASURE.'
00:37:06.23\00:37:09.10
NOW WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
00:37:09.10\00:37:11.46
PAUL WAS CAUGHT UP
TO THE THIRD HEAVEN.
00:37:11.46\00:37:14.03
HE SAW THINGS AND HEARD
THINGS THAT PEOPLE DON'T HEAR.
00:37:14.03\00:37:16.50
HE ACTUALLY SAW JESUS IN HIS
GLORIFIED STATE APPEAR TO HIM.
00:37:16.50\00:37:20.06
PAUL HAD AN
ABUNDANCE OF REVELATIONS.
00:37:20.06\00:37:22.36
ABOUT HALF OF THE NEW
TESTAMENT IS WRITTEN BY PAUL.
00:37:22.36\00:37:26.73
YOU EVER THINK ABOUT THAT?
00:37:26.73\00:37:28.70
I MEAN, THIS MAN HAD THE HOLY
SPIRIT WITHOUT MEASURE AND HE
00:37:28.70\00:37:32.73
SAID, 'LEST I BE EXALTED ABOVE
MEASURE.' GOD SAID, 'IN ORDER
00:37:32.73\00:37:36.86
FOR ME TO KEEP YOU WHERE I CAN
USE YOU, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A
00:37:36.86\00:37:40.63
PHYSICAL PROBLEM TO KEEP YOU
HUMBLE.' SOME OF YOU KNOW THE
00:37:40.63\00:37:46.46
STORY ABOUT ELLEN WHITE.
WHEN SHE WAS CALLED TO THE
00:37:46.46\00:37:48.33
PROPHETIC OFFICE
SHE WAS VERY FRIGHTENED.
00:37:48.33\00:37:51.73
SHE SAID THAT, YOU KNOW, 'I'VE
SEEN THINGS THAT ARE WONDERFUL
00:37:51.73\00:37:54.83
AND I'M AFRAID OF PRIDE.'
GOD SAYS, WHEN YOU'RE AT RISK OF
00:37:54.83\00:37:58.00
THAT, I'LL AFFLICT YOU
SO THAT IT KEEPS YOU HUMBLE.
00:37:58.00\00:38:02.80
AND SEVERAL TIMES IN HER
LIFE SHE WAS - WENT THROUGH SOME
00:38:02.80\00:38:07.03
SPELLS OF JUST TERRIBLE PAIN AND
STRUGGLE AND SUFFERING AND EVEN
00:38:07.03\00:38:10.26
RECOVERED FROM A
STROKE AT ONE POINT.
00:38:10.26\00:38:12.50
AND SHE KNEW THAT THESE WERE
THINGS THAT GOD WAS USING TO
00:38:12.50\00:38:15.13
JUST KEEP HER ON TRACK.
00:38:15.13\00:38:16.90
SOMETIMES GOD DOESN'T HEAL
US FROM AFFLICTIONS BECAUSE WE
00:38:16.90\00:38:19.83
MIGHT NEED IT AND PAUL SAID -
LET ME GO ON - HE HAD THIS THORN
00:38:19.83\00:38:25.46
- HE DOESN'T TELL EXACTLY WHAT
IT WAS - "IN THE FLESH, LEST I
00:38:25.46\00:38:30.10
BE EXALTED ABOVE MEASURE.
CONCERNING THIS THING I PLEADED
00:38:30.10\00:38:34.43
WITH THE LORD" -
THAT'S AS STRONG AS IT GETS.
00:38:34.43\00:38:37.43
HE'S PLEASING WITH THE LORD
- "THREE TIMES THAT IT MIGHT
00:38:37.43\00:38:40.40
DEPART FROM ME. AND HE SAID TO
ME, 'MY GRACE IS SUFFICIENT FOR
00:38:40.40\00:38:44.90
YOU, FOR MY STRENGTH IS
MADE PERFECT IN WEAKNESS.
00:38:44.90\00:38:48.83
THEREFORE'" - PAUL SAID - "'MOST
GLADLY I WILL RATHER BOAST IN
00:38:48.83\00:38:53.16
INFIRMITIES,'" - THAT THE POWER
OF CHRIST WILL REST UPON ME.
00:38:53.16\00:38:56.80
IF THAT'S WHAT IT TAKES FOR GOD
TO WORK THROUGH ME - FOR ME TO
00:38:56.80\00:38:59.16
HAVE THIS MALADY, THEN
PRAISE THE LORD. YOU KNOW,
00:38:59.16\00:39:03.30
AS YOU READ - AND THOSE OF
YOU WHO ARE AFCOE STUDENTS,
00:39:03.30\00:39:05.70
THIS IS PROBABLY A PRACTICAL
POINT TO REMEMBER: WHEN YOU READ
00:39:05.70\00:39:09.90
THE PERSONAL LIVES OF
MANY OF THE GREAT PREACHERS AND
00:39:09.90\00:39:12.16
EVANGELISTS, YOU'LL FIND
THAT ALMOST WITHOUT EXCEPTION,
00:39:12.16\00:39:14.63
THEY WERE ALL
AFFLICTED IN SOME WAY.
00:39:14.63\00:39:16.70
DID YOU KNOW THAT GEORGE
WHITFIELD WAS SO FRIGHTENED
00:39:16.70\00:39:20.03
BEFORE HE PREACHED THAT HE
SAID HE WOULD VOMIT EVERY TIME.
00:39:20.03\00:39:24.10
BOY, THAT'D BE TOUGH
IF THAT HAPPENED TO ME.
00:39:24.10\00:39:28.46
BUT HE WAS JUST SO - AND
IT WASN'T THAT HE WAS SO MUCH
00:39:28.46\00:39:32.63
AFRAID, BECAUSE HE WAS AN
ACTOR BEFORE HE WAS A PREACHER -
00:39:32.63\00:39:36.73
HE WAS - A
TREMENDOUS VOICE - HE WAS CALLED
00:39:36.73\00:39:38.86
'THE TRUMPET OF
THE LORD - GREAT VOICE.
00:39:38.86\00:39:40.23
BUT WHEN HE THOUGHT ABOUT
THE BURDEN OF SOULS - WHEN HE
00:39:40.23\00:39:43.13
THOUGHT ABOUT 'WHAT IF I
DON'T SAY THE RIGHT THING?
00:39:43.13\00:39:45.80
LORD, I'M AFRAID I'M GOING
TO NOT BE ABLE TO REACH THESE
00:39:45.80\00:39:49.23
PEOPLE - THAT THE STRESS OF
PREACHING THE GOSPEL - THAT HE
00:39:49.23\00:39:53.00
WAS CALLED TO DO -
JUST OVERWHELMED HIM.
00:39:53.00\00:39:55.03
IT MADE HIM NAUSEOUS VIRTUALLY
EVERY TIME HE PREACHED.
00:39:55.03\00:39:57.50
AND YOU COULD GO DOWN THROUGH
THE LISTS OF THE DIFFERENT
00:39:57.50\00:40:00.83
PREACHERS AND THEY ALL HAD
A VARIETY OF STRUGGLES AND GOD
00:40:00.83\00:40:04.06
SOMETIMES NEEDED TO DO THAT
TO KEEP THEM WHERE HE COULD USE
00:40:04.06\00:40:07.36
THEM. SO
SOMETIMES GOD DOESN'T HEAL
00:40:07.36\00:40:11.50
BECAUSE HIS STRENGTH IS
MADE PERFECT IN WEAKNESS.
00:40:11.50\00:40:13.70
ALRIGHT, SOME MODELS OF
PRAYER THAT WE'VE GOT HERE.
00:40:13.70\00:40:16.90
AND SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR
ME NOW, JAMES 5:17 THROUGH 18 -
00:40:16.90\00:40:21.70
WHO HAS THAT VERSE?
OKAY, YOU'LL BE NEXT - RIGHT
00:40:21.70\00:40:24.36
AFTER THIS SCRIPTURE. IN
1 SAMUEL - HERE'S SOMEONE
00:40:24.36\00:40:29.40
WHO'S A GREAT MODEL OF PRAYER -
1 SAMUEL 1:10 AND 11, "AND SHE"
00:40:29.40\00:40:34.13
- WHO'S THAT TALKING ABOUT?
HANNAH - "WAS IN BITTERNESS OF
00:40:34.13\00:40:37.63
SOUL, AND PRAYED TO THE
LORD AND WEPT IN ANGUISH.
00:40:37.63\00:40:42.13
THEN SHE MADE A VOW AND SAID,
'O LORD OF HOSTS, IF YOU WILL
00:40:42.13\00:40:46.36
INDEED LOOK ON THE AFFLICTION
OF YOUR MAIDSERVANT AND REMEMBER
00:40:46.36\00:40:49.40
ME, AND NOT FORGET YOUR
MAIDSERVANT, BUT WILL GIVE YOUR
00:40:49.40\00:40:52.96
MAIDSERVANT A MALE CHILD, THEN
I WILL GIVE HIM TO THE LORD ALL
00:40:52.96\00:40:56.00
THE DAYS OF HIS LIFE, AND NO
RAZOR SHALL COME UPON HIS HEAD."
00:40:56.00\00:40:58.36
GOD WORKED A MIRACLE FOR
HER, BUT SHE PLED WITH THE LORD.
00:40:58.36\00:41:02.70
SHE WAS PRAYING SO HARD AND
SO FERVENTLY - IT TALKED ABOUT A
00:41:02.70\00:41:05.43
FERVENT EFFECTUAL PRAYER OF A
RIGHTEOUS MAN OR A WOMAN - SHE
00:41:05.43\00:41:09.16
WAS ROCKING BACK AND FORTH,
SWAYING - JUST OVERWHELMED WITH
00:41:09.16\00:41:13.26
THE AGONY OF HER PETITION SO
THAT - WHAT DID ELI, THE HIGH
00:41:13.26\00:41:16.53
PRIEST, THINK? HE
THOUGHT SHE WAS DRUNK.
00:41:16.53\00:41:19.43
SO YOU SEE SOMEONE WHO'S COME
BEFORE THE LORD IN THE PLACE OF
00:41:19.43\00:41:23.30
PRAYER IN THE COURTYARD AND
THEY'RE JUST ROCKING BACK AND
00:41:23.30\00:41:25.40
FORTH WITH INTENSITY
AND HE THOUGHT, 'WOW!'
00:41:25.40\00:41:27.26
CAN YOU THINK OF ANOTHER
TIME IN THE BIBLE WHEN SOMEONE
00:41:27.26\00:41:30.50
SPIRIT-FILLED WAS
THOUGHT TO BE DRUNK?
00:41:30.50\00:41:32.66
PENTECOST, WHEN THE
HOLY SPIRIT CAME ON THEM.
00:41:32.66\00:41:37.40
NOW, I'M NOT SUGGESTING YOU ALL
STAGGER OUT OF HERE, I'M JUST
00:41:37.40\00:41:39.60
SAYING THAT, YOU KNOW, THE HOLY
SPIRIT SOMETIMES - WHEN YOU'RE
00:41:39.60\00:41:43.26
JUST FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT
- YOU'RE JUST POURING OUT YOUR
00:41:43.26\00:41:46.63
SOUL. ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD,
READ FOR US JAMES 5:17 AND 18.
00:41:46.63\00:41:50.56
>>ELIAS WAS A MAN SUBJECT TO
LIKE PASSIONS AS WE ARE, AND HE
00:41:50.56\00:41:56.16
PRAYED EARNESTLY THAT IT MIGHT
NOT RAIN: AND IT RAINED NOT ON
00:41:56.16\00:42:00.56
THE EARTH BY THE SPACE OF
THREE YEARS AND SIX MONTHS.
00:42:00.56\00:42:03.80
AND HE PRAYED AGAIN,
AND THE HEAVEN GAVE RAIN,
00:42:03.80\00:42:06.83
AND THE EARTH
BROUGHT FORTH HER FRUIT."
00:42:06.83\00:42:09.30
>>ALRIGHT, SO THERE ARE A
NUMBER OF MODELS OF PRAYER.
00:42:09.30\00:42:13.00
JAMES IS TAKING ONE THAT EVERY
JEW KNEW - IT SAYS ELIAS IN THE
00:42:13.00\00:42:17.26
GREEK - IT'S ELIJAH WHO PRAYED.
AND THIS TELLS US SOMETHING.
00:42:17.26\00:42:21.96
HE PRAYED THAT
IT MIGHT NOT RAIN.
00:42:21.96\00:42:23.60
WHY DID HE PRAY
THAT IT WOULDN'T RAIN?
00:42:23.60\00:42:25.80
WE JUST THINK ABOUT
PRAYING FOR BLESSINGS.
00:42:25.80\00:42:27.40
HE - THE PEOPLE WERE ESTRANGED
FROM GOD. THEY WERE WORSHIPING
00:42:27.40\00:42:31.86
BAAL AND HE THOUGHT, LOOK, IF
THE ONLY WAY TO BRING THEM BACK
00:42:31.86\00:42:34.33
TO GOD IS TO GIVE THEM A
DROUGHT, THEN SEND A DROUGHT.
00:42:34.33\00:42:39.00
WE'RE HAVING A PRETTY SERIOUS
DROUGHT IN CALIFORNIA RIGHT NOW.
00:42:39.00\00:42:42.83
IT'S SEVERAL YEARS INTO IT AND
I'M WONDERING IF THE LORD'S NOT
00:42:42.83\00:42:48.10
TRYING TO GET OUR ATTENTION
AND BRING US BACK TO HIM.
00:42:48.10\00:42:50.83
BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I
REALLY LOVE ABOUT THIS VERSE?
00:42:50.83\00:42:53.76
IT SAYS, 'HE WAS A MAN WITH A
LIKE NATURE AS OURS.' WE ALWAYS
00:42:53.76\00:42:58.30
THINK ABOUT THESE BIBLE PROPHETS
AND THESE APOSTLES AND WE THINK
00:42:58.30\00:43:01.96
THAT THEY ARE JUST HEAD
AND SHOULDERS SPIRITUALLY ABOVE
00:43:01.96\00:43:04.33
EVERYBODY ELSE BUT THEY
STRUGGLED WITH THE SAME PASSIONS
00:43:04.33\00:43:08.00
AND THAT MEANS THAT IF A NORMAL
PERSON CAN BECOME AN ELIJAH
00:43:08.00\00:43:12.56
THROUGH PRAYER,
THEN ALL OF US CAN.
00:43:12.56\00:43:15.23
THAT'S WHAT JAMES IS SAYING.
00:43:15.23\00:43:16.50
HE'S POINTING TO THESE PEOPLE
THAT ARE THESE GIANTS OF FAITH
00:43:16.50\00:43:20.20
IN THE BIBLE AND HE'S SAYING
THEY WERE JUST LIKE US, BUT
00:43:20.20\00:43:23.00
THROUGH THE SPIRIT OF GOD
AND THROUGH FAITH, THEY BECAME
00:43:23.00\00:43:25.76
GIANTS IN BIBLE HISTORY. WHO
WERE SOME OTHER GREAT EXAMPLES?
00:43:25.76\00:43:30.46
I'LL JUST LET YOU CALL OUT AND
I'LL REPEAT AFTER YOU SO THAT
00:43:30.46\00:43:32.83
PEOPLE LISTENING CAN
HEAR. WHO WERE SOME OTHER GREAT
00:43:32.83\00:43:35.33
EXAMPLES OF PRAYER IN THE
BIBLE? WHO'D I HEAR? NEHEMIAH.
00:43:35.33\00:43:43.23
OH YEAH, HE PRAYED THAT THE
ENEMIES MIGHT BE HELD BACK -
00:43:43.23\00:43:45.40
THAT THE WALLS MIGHT BE
COMPLETED - AND THEY WERE.
00:43:45.40\00:43:47.70
GOD HELD BACK THE ARMY.
00:43:47.70\00:43:49.13
I HEARD DAVID -
DAVID, ANOTHER GREAT PRAYER.
00:43:49.13\00:43:51.76
CAN YOU THINK OF SOME SPECIFIC
PRAYERS THAT DAVID PRAYED THAT
00:43:51.76\00:43:54.20
WERE ANSWERED? WELL,
THE PSALMS WERE FILLED
00:43:54.20\00:43:57.20
WITH - THE PSALMS, THAT'S
RIGHT - ARE FILLED WITH PRAYERS.
00:43:57.20\00:43:59.63
I REMEMBER WHEN DAVID WAS
FLEEING FROM HIS SON, ABSALOM,
00:43:59.63\00:44:04.03
AND THE WISEST MAN IN THE
KINGDOM WAS CALLED AHITHOPHEL,
00:44:04.03\00:44:07.16
AND DAVID PRAYED AND HE SAID,
'LORD, I PRAY YOU WILL CONFOUND
00:44:07.16\00:44:09.76
THE WISDOM OF AHITHOPHEL.'
AND GOD DID - AND THE COUNSEL OF
00:44:09.76\00:44:13.36
HUSHAI, THE ARCHITE, PRECEDED
IT AND IT BROUGHT THE KINGDOM
00:44:13.36\00:44:19.53
BACK AGAIN. THERE
WERE MANY PRAYERS.
00:44:19.53\00:44:21.23
NOW WHO - WHAT'S
ANOTHER NAME I HEARD?
00:44:21.23\00:44:23.60
DANIEL, YEAH, ONE OF THE MOST
BEAUTIFUL PRAYERS YOU'RE GOING
00:44:23.60\00:44:27.80
TO FIND IN THE BIBLE
IS IN DANIEL CHAPTER 9.
00:44:27.80\00:44:30.33
DANIEL PRAYS AND AN ANGEL COMES
- AND THAT WAS THE PRAYER THAT
00:44:30.33\00:44:33.73
REALLY WAS LIKE THE THRESHOLD
OF THINGS CHANGING WHERE DARIUS
00:44:33.73\00:44:38.73
ENDED UP - I'M SORRY, CYRUS
ENDED UP GIVING THE CHILDREN OF
00:44:38.73\00:44:43.23
ISRAEL A PASSPORT
BACK TO THE PROMISED LAND.
00:44:43.23\00:44:46.16
I HEARD ANOTHER ONE.
WHAT - ONE AT A TIME, NOW -
00:44:46.16\00:44:50.76
ESTHER, YEAH, SHE WAS PRAYING.
THEY DIDN'T - DO YOU KNOW THE
00:44:50.76\00:44:54.83
WORD 'PRAYER' IS NOT
MENTIONED IN THE BOOK OF ESTHER?
00:44:54.83\00:44:56.90
IT SAYS THAT THEY
FASTED FOR THREE DAYS.
00:44:56.90\00:45:01.23
DO YOU KNOW THE WORD 'GOD'
IS NOT MENTIONED IN ESTHER?
00:45:01.23\00:45:03.76
DID YOU KNOW
THAT? DO YOU KNOW WHY?
00:45:03.76\00:45:07.33
THEY WROTE IT WHILE THEY WERE
IN PERSIA WHERE THEY WORSHIPED
00:45:07.33\00:45:10.23
OTHER GODS, SO THEY WROTE
THE BOOK SORT OF IN A CODE WHERE
00:45:10.23\00:45:12.26
EVERY JEW KNEW, WHEN SHE SAID
'DON'T EAT OR DRINK FOR THREE
00:45:12.26\00:45:14.80
DAYS' THEY'RE
TALKING ABOUT WHAT?
00:45:14.80\00:45:16.90
PRAYING WHEN THEY WERE FASTING.
00:45:16.90\00:45:19.53
AND SO SHE FASTED AND PRAYED,
BUT SHE DIDN'T USE THE WORD
00:45:19.53\00:45:22.46
'PRAYER' AND THEY DIDN'T USE THE
WORD 'GOD.' BUT WE ALL KNOW WHAT
00:45:22.46\00:45:25.10
THEY WERE PRAYING ABOUT
AND WHO THEY WERE PRAYING TO.
00:45:25.10\00:45:28.60
ONE OR TWO MORE, I
HEARD SOME OTHER NAMES.
00:45:28.60\00:45:31.23
ELISHA - ELISHA
- OH, HIS PRAYERS.
00:45:31.23\00:45:34.56
YEAH, WELL HE PRAYED FOR
A DOUBLE PORTION OF ELIJAH'S
00:45:34.56\00:45:36.96
SPIRIT. YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.
AND DID I SEE ANOTHER HAND?
00:45:36.96\00:45:40.83
JEPHTHA - YEAH, HE PRAYED FOR A
VICTORY IN BATTLE AND HE GOT IT.
00:45:40.83\00:45:45.70
OF COURSE, HE MADE A VOW THAT WE
ALL ARE TROUBLED BY, REGARDING
00:45:45.70\00:45:48.66
HIS DAUGHTER. YEAH, MOSES'
PRAYERS. WHICH ONE? THE PRAYER
00:45:48.66\00:45:59.53
OF JABEZ, YEAH, HEZEKIAH -
HEZEKIAH PRAYED AND - YOU KNOW
00:45:59.53\00:46:03.80
WHAT I THINK WAS THE
MOST IMPORTANT PRAYER?
00:46:03.80\00:46:06.16
NOT THAT THE SUN WOULD GO
BACKWARDS, BECAUSE THAT WAS
00:46:06.16\00:46:08.36
THE PRAYER OF, REALLY, ISAIAH.
00:46:08.36\00:46:10.26
HEZEKIAH, HE JUST SAID, 'OH
YEAH, BACKWARDS WOULD BE BETTER
00:46:10.26\00:46:13.56
THAN FORWARD.' BUT WHEN HEZEKIAH
PRAYED, THE WHOLE ASSYRIAN ARMY
00:46:13.56\00:46:17.73
HAD SURROUNDED THE KINGDOM
AND THEY SAID, 'YOUR GOD CAN'T
00:46:17.73\00:46:20.03
DELIVER YOU.' HE TOOK THE LETTER
AND THE THREATS FROM THE KING OF
00:46:20.03\00:46:23.46
ASSYRIA AND HE BROUGHT THEM INTO
THE TEMPLE, LAID IT BEFORE THE
00:46:23.46\00:46:26.40
LORD - THAT'S ONE WAY OF PRAYING
- SAY, 'LORD, HERE'S WHAT
00:46:26.40\00:46:28.83
THEY'RE SAYING. CAN YOU
READ THIS?' AND HE PRAYED.
00:46:28.83\00:46:30.73
YOU KNOW WHAT
HAPPENED THAT NIGHT?
00:46:30.73\00:46:33.83
185,000 OF THE ASSYRIAN GENERALS
DIED IN THEIR SLEEP AND THE ARMY
00:46:33.83\00:46:38.66
WAS TURNED BACK TO - TO RETREAT.
LOT OF GREAT STORIES OF HEROES
00:46:38.66\00:46:43.23
OF PRAYER AND
FAITH IN THE BIBLE.
00:46:43.23\00:46:45.60
AND THEN JUDGES - 'AND SAMPSON
CALLED TO THE LORD AND SAID, 'OH
00:46:45.60\00:46:51.56
LORD, REMEMBER ME I PRAY, AND
STRENGTHEN ME I PRAY, ONLY THIS
00:46:51.56\00:46:54.96
ONCE, GOD, THAT I MIGHT
BE AT ONCE AVENGED OF THE
00:46:54.96\00:46:58.83
PHILISTINES FOR MY TWO EYES.'
AND HE WASN'T JUST PRAYING FOR
00:46:58.83\00:47:03.06
HIS PHYSICAL EYES THERE, HE
REALIZED HE HAD HAD PROBLEMS
00:47:03.06\00:47:06.70
WITH THE PHILISTINES. HE
HAD TAKEN HIS EYES OFF GOD.
00:47:06.70\00:47:09.13
AND GOD HAD A PLAN FOR SAMPSON'S
LIFE AND HE KEPT - GOT IN
00:47:09.13\00:47:13.50
TROUBLE LOOKING AT
THE PHILISTINE GIRLS.
00:47:13.50\00:47:16.46
AND IN ALMOST EVERY
CASE, THAT'S WHAT IT WAS.
00:47:16.46\00:47:19.03
AND DID GOD ANSWER HIS PRAYER?
WAS HE FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT?
00:47:19.03\00:47:23.13
AND SAMPSON IS A TYPE OF CHRIST.
HE KILLED MORE BY HIS DEATH -
00:47:23.13\00:47:27.33
OF THE ENEMY -
THAN HE DID IN HIS LIFE.
00:47:27.33\00:47:30.13
THAT'S LIKE JESUS: THROUGH
HIS DEATH HE DID MORE TO DEFEAT
00:47:30.13\00:47:33.16
THE DEVIL THAN
HE DID IN HIS LIFE.
00:47:33.16\00:47:34.63
SAMPSON STRETCHED OUT HIS ARMS
- JESUS STRETCHED OUT HIS ARMS.
00:47:34.63\00:47:37.40
ALRIGHT, TALKING ABOUT
RESTORATION AND FORGIVENESS.
00:47:37.40\00:47:40.30
THIS IS THE LAST SECTION.
AND SOMEONE'S GOING TO BE
00:47:40.30\00:47:43.33
READING FOR ME IN A
MOMENT, GALATIANS 6:1 -
00:47:43.33\00:47:45.56
WHO HAS THAT?
YOU'LL BE READY? OKAY.
00:47:45.56\00:47:47.80
AND NOW WE'RE READING THE LAST
VERSES IN JAMES - JAMES 5:19 TO
00:47:47.80\00:47:52.56
20, "BRETHREN, IF ANYONE AMONG
YOU WANDERS FROM THE TRUTH, AND
00:47:52.56\00:47:57.43
SOMEONE TURNS HIM BACK, LET HIM
KNOW THAT HE WHO TURNS A SINNER
00:47:57.43\00:48:02.63
FROM THE ERROR OF HIS WAY WILL
SAVE A SOUL FROM DEATH AND COVER
00:48:02.63\00:48:07.70
A MULTITUDE OF SINS."
THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT.
00:48:07.70\00:48:12.46
I REMEMBER IN NEW YORK CITY ONE
TIME, IT WAS RUSH HOUR - WE WERE
00:48:12.46\00:48:16.86
ACTUALLY DOING THE NET 99
PROGRAM - AND ALL THE PEOPLE
00:48:16.86\00:48:19.20
KIND OF GATHERED AT THE LIGHTS,
YOU KNOW, THERE'S LITTLE STREETS
00:48:19.20\00:48:21.43
EVERY, YOU KNOW, SIXTEENTH OF
A MILE ON A CITY BLOCK, AND YOU
00:48:21.43\00:48:26.80
STOP AND YOU WAIT FOR THE CARS
AND THERE WAS THIS KID THERE - I
00:48:26.80\00:48:29.83
DON'T KNOW WHAT HE WAS DOING.
HE WAS READING SOMETHING, HE WAS
00:48:29.83\00:48:31.86
AHEAD OF ME - I DIDN'T KNOW HIM,
HE WAS A STRANGER, AND HE JUST
00:48:31.86\00:48:35.46
WAS WALKING RIGHT
OUT INTO THE STREET.
00:48:35.46\00:48:37.23
I DIDN'T KNOW THAT HE KNEW THE
LIGHT HAD CHANGED AND A TAXI WAS
00:48:37.23\00:48:41.56
CAREENING DOWN THE STREET AND
I GRABBED HIM AND I PULLED HIM
00:48:41.56\00:48:46.03
BACK IN AS THE THING HONKED IT
WENT BY AND YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN
00:48:46.03\00:48:49.60
THE STUNNED LOOK - AND I FELT
LIKE 'I JUST SAVED HIS LIFE.' HE
00:48:49.60\00:48:51.50
WAS GOING TO WALK
RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE THING.
00:48:51.50\00:48:54.30
HE WASN'T PAYING ATTENTION.
AND WHO WOULDN'T DO THAT?
00:48:54.30\00:48:58.00
I'M NOT A HERO, I MEAN,
EVERYONE WOULD DO THAT, RIGHT?
00:48:58.00\00:49:00.90
IF YOU SAW IT HAPPENING.
WOULD YOU ASK PERMISSION FIRST?
00:49:00.90\00:49:03.66
WOULD YOU ASK THE PARENTS'
PERMISSION FIRST OR WOULD YOU
00:49:03.66\00:49:05.83
IMMEDIATELY DO SOMETHING BECAUSE
IT'S A LIFE AND DEATH DECISION.
00:49:05.83\00:49:08.50
WHY DON'T WE FEEL THAT WAY WHEN
WE SEE PEOPLE WANDERING FROM THE
00:49:08.50\00:49:13.13
FAITH? YOU NOTICE IT
USES THE WORD 'WANDER?'
00:49:13.13\00:49:15.56
WANDERING IS NOT
LIKE JUMPING OUT.
00:49:15.56\00:49:19.70
WANDERING IS KIND
OF LIKE BACKSLIDING.
00:49:19.70\00:49:21.53
SLIDING IS SOMETHING
THAT'S KIND OF GRADUAL.
00:49:21.53\00:49:24.00
YOU CAN BE SLIDING AND
NOT EVEN KNOW IT, RIGHT?
00:49:24.00\00:49:28.13
IT'S NOT CALLED BACK JUMPING
OR HOPPING OR SKIPPING, IT'S
00:49:28.13\00:49:30.40
BACKSLIDING. IT
HAPPENS SLOWLY. SHEEP WANDER.
00:49:30.40\00:49:34.10
YOU KNOW HOW A SHEEP GETS LOST?
THEY'RE JUST NIBBLING GRASS.
00:49:34.10\00:49:39.83
THEY ONLY SEE THE NEXT
TUFT OF GRASS AHEAD OF THEM.
00:49:39.83\00:49:42.80
THEY SAY, 'OH, THAT
LOOKS LIKE A GOOD ONE.
00:49:42.80\00:49:43.80
I'M GOING TO NIBBLE THAT ONE.
00:49:43.80\00:49:44.66
OOH, THERE'S
ANOTHER ONE OVER THERE.
00:49:44.66\00:49:45.93
I'M GOING TO NIBBLE THAT ONE.'
SHEEP DO NOT STAND UP ON THEIR
00:49:45.93\00:49:47.93
BACK LEGS AND SAY, 'I'M GOING TO
MAKE A RUN FOR IT.' SHEEP NIBBLE
00:49:47.93\00:49:52.23
THEIR WAY INTO BEING
LOST. AND ALL OF A SUDDEN, AFTER
00:49:52.23\00:49:55.33
NIBBLING FOR A FEW
HOURS, THEY LOOK UP AND SAY,
00:49:55.33\00:49:57.33
'WHERE ARE THE OTHER
SHEEP? WHERE'S THE SHEPHERD?
00:49:57.33\00:49:59.10
HOW'D I GET HERE?'
THEY DO IT BY JUST ONE
00:49:59.10\00:50:01.63
LITTLE TUFT OF
GRASS AFTER THE OTHER.
00:50:01.63\00:50:03.63
AND PEOPLE DO
THAT IN THE CHURCH.
00:50:03.63\00:50:05.03
THEY START WATCHING THE WRONG
THINGS, THEY MISS A WEEK, THEY
00:50:05.03\00:50:10.46
START LISTENING
TO THE WRONG THINGS.
00:50:10.46\00:50:12.46
THEY START HANGING OUT
WITH THE WRONG FRIENDS.
00:50:12.46\00:50:14.36
THEY START LOSING INTEREST -
AND IT'S USUALLY A WANDERING.
00:50:14.36\00:50:16.90
YOU NOTICE IT SAYS, 'A
WANDERING FROM THE TRUTH?'
00:50:16.90\00:50:19.63
SOMETIMES THEY GET OTHER IDEAS
OR THEY'RE READING THE WRONG
00:50:19.63\00:50:23.33
MATERIAL AND THEY START LOSING
AN APPRECIATION FOR THE BIBLICAL
00:50:23.33\00:50:26.70
TRUTH AND THEY'RE WANDERING.
JAMES SAYS THEY'RE DYING.
00:50:26.70\00:50:31.53
THEY'RE GOING TO WALK OFF A
CLIFF AND WE NEED TO RECOGNIZE -
00:50:31.53\00:50:35.63
IT'S VERY IMPORTANT - SOMETIMES,
IN EVANGELISM, WE'RE REALLY
00:50:35.63\00:50:40.13
INTERESTED IN CATCHING NEW FISH,
BUT WE DON'T CARE VERY MUCH
00:50:40.13\00:50:44.36
ABOUT THE ONES THAT ARE CAUGHT
AND THEY WANDER OUT THE BACK
00:50:44.36\00:50:47.26
DOOR AND WE SAY, 'OH, AS LONG AS
WE GOT THEM BAPTIZED WE'LL LEAVE
00:50:47.26\00:50:50.00
THEIR NAMES ON THE BOOKS.
IT STILL LOOKS GOOD. YOU KNOW,
00:50:50.00\00:50:52.63
WE GOT THE NUMBER.' AND
WE DON'T CARE ABOUT THE SOUL.
00:50:52.63\00:50:55.63
SHOULD WE CARE ANY LESS ABOUT
BRINGING BACK A SOUL THAT IS
00:50:55.63\00:50:59.56
WANDERING THAN ONE
THAT IS CAUGHT FRESH?
00:50:59.56\00:51:02.66
NO, MATTER OF FACT, IN
SOME WAYS IT SHOULD BE EASIER.
00:51:02.66\00:51:05.50
THEY ALREADY KNOW,
THEY'RE JUST LOSING FAITH.
00:51:05.50\00:51:07.60
AND SO, WE SHOULD BE JUST
AS INTERESTED IN EVANGELIZING
00:51:07.60\00:51:12.26
BACKSLIDERS - WE DID A SERIES
WITH AMAZING FACTS BACK AT THE
00:51:12.26\00:51:16.10
GENERAL CONFERENCE A COUPLE OF
YEARS AGO CALLED 'RECLAIM YOUR
00:51:16.10\00:51:19.00
FAITH' AND THE WHOLE THING WAS
FOCUSED ON TRYING TO GET PEOPLE
00:51:19.00\00:51:21.43
THAT ONCE KNEW THE LORD TO COME
BACK AGAIN BECAUSE THAT'S JUST
00:51:21.43\00:51:24.50
ANOTHER WHOLE FIELD - BRING THEM
TO REVIVAL. ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD,
00:51:24.50\00:51:28.83
READ FOR US THEN, THAT NEXT
VERSE IN GALATIANS 6:1, I THINK.
00:51:28.83\00:51:32.86
>>BRETHREN, IF A MAN BE
OVERTAKEN IN A FAULT, YE WHICH
00:51:32.86\00:51:37.20
ARE SPIRITUAL, RESTORE SUCH AN
ONE IN THE SPIRIT OF MEEKNESS;
00:51:37.20\00:51:41.73
CONSIDERING THYSELF,
LEST THOU ALSO BE TEMPTED."
00:51:41.73\00:51:45.16
>>YOU KNOW,
THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT.
00:51:45.16\00:51:47.36
IF YOU'RE GOING TO APPROACH
A PERSON THAT YOU SENSE IS
00:51:47.36\00:51:49.50
BACKSLIDING - WHETHER YOU'RE A
PASTOR, ELDER, OR CHURCH MEMBER
00:51:49.50\00:51:52.16
IT DOESN'T MATTER - AND YOU GO
VISIT THEM, FOR ONE THING, WE'RE
00:51:52.16\00:51:54.86
RELUCTANT TO DO THAT BECAUSE THE
MOST COMMON ACCUSATION YOU HEAR
00:51:54.86\00:51:57.70
WHEN YOU TALK TO A PERSON ABOUT
'HOW ARE YOU DOING WITH THE
00:51:57.70\00:52:01.23
LORD?' IT'S 'ARE YOU JUDGING ME?
00:52:01.23\00:52:02.96
WHAT MAKES YOU
THINK I'M NOT DOING WELL?'
00:52:02.96\00:52:04.63
AND SO A PERSON MISSES A COUPLE
WEEKS YOU CALL THEM UP AND SAY,
00:52:04.63\00:52:08.33
'WE NOTICED YOU WEREN'T HERE.'
'OH, YOU'RE WATCHING ME, HUH?
00:52:08.33\00:52:09.96
SPYING ON ME?' SO
SOME - WE'RE AFRAID THAT
00:52:09.96\00:52:12.86
PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE OFFENDED.
00:52:12.86\00:52:14.36
BUT WE OUGHT TO BE
WATCHING FOR PEOPLE.
00:52:14.36\00:52:16.80
DOESN'T THE BIBLE TELL US THAT
IF A SHEPHERD COMES HOME - HE'S
00:52:16.80\00:52:19.80
GOT A HUNDRED SHEEP AND ONE IS
MISSING HE GOES LOOKING FOR IT?
00:52:19.80\00:52:22.90
HOW DOES HE KNOW THAT ONE IS
MISSING? BECAUSE HE COUNTS THEM.
00:52:22.90\00:52:27.00
IT'S OKAY TO COUNT YOUR
SHEEP. HOW ARE YOU GOING TO KNOW
00:52:27.00\00:52:30.06
YOUR FLOCK'S GROWING IF YOU
DON'T EVER COUNT YOUR SHEEP?
00:52:30.06\00:52:32.30
AND SO, YOU'VE GOT
TO KEEP AN EYE ON THEM.
00:52:32.30\00:52:34.80
AND SO, IF YOU NOTICE, A GOOD
PASTOR AND ELDERS AND LEADERS IN
00:52:34.80\00:52:38.03
THE CHURCH, WE OUGHT TO SPOT
WHEN PEOPLE - 'HEY, WHERE HAVE
00:52:38.03\00:52:41.36
THEY BEEN?' MAKE A CALL.
00:52:41.36\00:52:43.76
YOU DON'T ALWAYS HAVE TO CALL
THE PASTOR OR THE ELDERS AND
00:52:43.76\00:52:45.83
HAVE THEM DO IT. SAY, 'OH,
BROTHER/SISTER ARE YOU OKAY?'
00:52:45.83\00:52:48.40
AND THERE'S NICE WAYS OF ASKING.
00:52:48.40\00:52:50.23
SAY, 'I DIDN'T SEE YOU THERE
TODAY.' OR 'CAN I COME BY AND
00:52:50.23\00:52:55.36
VISIT?' AND GO TO THEIR HOME.
00:52:55.36\00:52:57.40
YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES YOU DON'T
REALLY KNOW HOW A SOUL IS DOING
00:52:57.40\00:52:59.70
UNTIL YOU GET TO THEIR
HOME. YOU CAN LEARN A LOT.
00:52:59.70\00:53:03.00
AND I'LL TELL YOU A LITTLE TRICK
- A LITTLE INSIDE SECRET - IF
00:53:03.00\00:53:06.76
YOU'RE A PASTOR AND YOU'RE
VISITING WITH PEOPLE - WHETHER
00:53:06.76\00:53:09.03
OR NOT YOU'RE A PASTOR DOESN'T
MATTER - ASK BEFORE YOU LEAVE,
00:53:09.03\00:53:13.16
SAY, 'IS THERE ANYTHING SPECIAL
YOU WANT ME TO PRAY ABOUT BEFORE
00:53:13.16\00:53:15.60
I LEAVE?' YOU CAN
FIND OUT IN THAT ONE
00:53:15.60\00:53:18.73
QUESTION WHAT'S REALLY
GOING ON IN THEIR LIFE.
00:53:18.73\00:53:21.06
THEY'LL TELL YOU THINGS AND YOU
SAY, 'WOW.' IF THEY SAY, 'YEAH,
00:53:21.06\00:53:23.76
CAN YOU PRAY FOR OUR
MARRIAGE?' 'YOUR MARRIAGE?
00:53:23.76\00:53:28.20
I HAD NO IDEA THERE WERE REAL
PROBLEMS THERE.' AND JUST THAT
00:53:28.20\00:53:31.16
ONE THING, ALL OF A SUDDEN - OR
THEY MIGHT SAY, 'YOU KNOW, I GOT
00:53:31.16\00:53:33.96
A LAB REPORT AND THE
DOCTOR SAYS I HAVE CANCER.
00:53:33.96\00:53:37.30
CAN YOU PLEASE PRAY ABOUT THAT?
'OH, NO WONDER THERE'S BEEN A
00:53:37.30\00:53:39.76
PROBLEM!' AND SO, IN
YOUR PRAYING FOR THEM
00:53:39.76\00:53:43.23
YOU'LL LEARN
ALL KINDS OF THINGS.
00:53:43.23\00:53:44.96
SOMETIMES YOU NEED TO PLEAD FOR
THEIR SOULS AND SAY, 'HOW'S IT
00:53:44.96\00:53:48.53
GOING BETWEEN YOU AND THE LORD?'
AND ENCOURAGE THEM TO COME BACK
00:53:48.53\00:53:53.63
AND GIVE THEM THE
ADMONITIONS FROM THE BIBLE.
00:53:53.63\00:53:57.00
SOMETIMES - YOU KNOW
WHAT 'TO ADMONISH' MEANS?
00:53:57.00\00:53:59.36
SOMETIMES THAT'S STRONG
LANGUAGE, BUT YOU MIGHT NEED TO
00:53:59.36\00:54:01.93
JUST TELL A PERSON, 'HEY, YOU
KNOW, YOU'RE HEADING THE WRONG
00:54:01.93\00:54:04.50
WAY RIGHT NOW. IS THIS
REALLY WHAT YOU WANT TO DO?
00:54:04.50\00:54:06.46
ARE YOU GOING TO FIND WHAT
YOU'RE LOOKING FOR OUT IN THE
00:54:06.46\00:54:08.93
WORLD? DO YOU
REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS LIKE
00:54:08.93\00:54:10.93
OUT THERE WITH THE DEVIL?
AND YOU CAN APPEAL TO A PERSON.
00:54:10.93\00:54:13.70
THE BIBLE SAYS WHEN YOU DO THAT
YOU LET - YOU KNOW HE THAT TURNS
00:54:13.70\00:54:19.16
A SINNER FROM THE ERROR OF HIS
WAYS, WHETHER IT'S A NEW SINNER
00:54:19.16\00:54:22.20
OR SOMEONE
BACKSLIDING, IT DOESN'T MATTER,
00:54:22.20\00:54:24.93
WILL SAVE A SOUL FROM DEATH.
00:54:24.93\00:54:27.96
SO CHRISTIANS NEED TO HAVE A
PASSION FOR REACHING SOULS THAT
00:54:27.96\00:54:30.86
ARE LOST AND COVER
A MULTITUDE OF SINS.
00:54:30.86\00:54:34.46
DO WE COVER THEIR SINS OR IS IT
SAYING AND POINTING TO JESUS A
00:54:34.46\00:54:37.40
MULTITUDE OF SINS ARE COVERED?
THAT'S A WONDERFUL THING.
00:54:37.40\00:54:41.90
BY THE WAY, WHEN YOU BRING
A PERSON TO THE LORD WHO WAS
00:54:41.90\00:54:45.80
TURNING BACK TO A LIFE OF SIN,
YOU'RE SAVING THE WORLD FROM A
00:54:45.80\00:54:50.43
LOT OF SINS THAT THEY WOULD
COMMIT WHEN THEY HAD GIVEN UP A
00:54:50.43\00:54:54.46
HOLY LIFE.
THEY'RE GOING TO BRING -
00:54:54.46\00:54:56.86
WHEN THEY TURN FROM THE LORD
THEY'RE BRINGING ALL THAT SINFUL
00:54:56.86\00:54:59.43
LIVING BACK INTO THE WORLD
AND WHEN YOU BRING THEM BACK TO
00:54:59.43\00:55:02.13
JESUS YOU'RE
ACTUALLY MAKING THE WORLD A
00:55:02.13\00:55:04.00
BETTER PLACE TO LIVE IN BECAUSE
YOU'RE COVERING A MULTITUDE
00:55:04.00\00:55:07.40
OF SINS BY
LEADING THEM TO CHRIST.
00:55:07.40\00:55:08.76
ALRIGHT, ONE OR
TWO MORE THOUGHTS HERE.
00:55:08.76\00:55:10.60
YOU KNOW WHAT THE
MESSAGE OF JOHN THE BAPTIST WAS?
00:55:10.60\00:55:13.80
LUKE 1:16, "AND HE WILL TURN
MANY OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
00:55:13.80\00:55:19.80
TO THE LORD THEIR GOD."
THEY'RE ALREADY CHILDREN OF
00:55:19.80\00:55:22.60
ISRAEL, BUT
THEY'VE WANDERED FROM GOD.
00:55:22.60\00:55:24.90
THE MESSAGE OF ELIJAH, WHICH
IS A MESSAGE FOR OUR DAY ALSO,
00:55:24.90\00:55:28.30
IS TO TURN
PEOPLE BACK TO THE LORD.
00:55:28.30\00:55:30.93
HE WILL GO BEFORE HIM IN THE
SPIRIT AND THE POWER OF ELIJAH
00:55:30.93\00:55:33.86
TO TURN THE HEARTS OF THE
FATHER'S TO THE CHILDREN AND THE
00:55:33.86\00:55:37.23
HEARTS OF THE DISOBEDIENT TO
THE WISDOM OF THE JUST TO MAKE A
00:55:37.23\00:55:41.23
PEOPLE READY,
PREPARED FOR THE LORD.
00:55:41.23\00:55:44.30
I THINK THIS WORK OF
RECONCILIATION - BRINGING PEOPLE
00:55:44.30\00:55:46.66
BACK INTO THE CHURCH AND
REVIVAL AND RESTORING PEOPLE IS
00:55:46.66\00:55:49.46
SOMETHING THAT WILL BE HAPPENING
MORE - WHAT JAMES IS TALKING
00:55:49.46\00:55:52.70
ABOUT IS SOMETHING
WE SHOULD BE DOING -
00:55:52.70\00:55:54.63
RECLAIMING LOST SOULS
BEFORE JESUS COMES BACK.
00:55:54.63\00:55:58.53
THAT'S PART OF THE
ELIJAH MESSAGE, RIGHT?
00:55:58.53\00:56:00.23
WHEN PENTECOST HAPPENED AND
THE FORMER RAIN WAS POURED OUT,
00:56:00.23\00:56:04.16
PETER PREACHED - WHO WAS
HE PREACHING TO? THE CHURCH.
00:56:04.16\00:56:08.20
AND THEY SAID, 'WHAT SHOULD
WE DO?' AND WHAT DID HE SAY?
00:56:08.20\00:56:10.93
"REPENT AND BE CONVERTED THAT
YOUR SINS MIGHT BE BLOTTED OUT"
00:56:10.93\00:56:15.73
- THIS IS ACTS 3:19 - "THAT
THE TIMES OF REFRESHING MAY COME
00:56:15.73\00:56:19.60
FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD
THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT MIGHT BE
00:56:19.60\00:56:22.40
POURED OUT AGAIN." AND THERE'S A
MESSAGE THAT NEEDS TO GO TO THE
00:56:22.40\00:56:25.53
CHURCH - ONE OF REVIVAL, ONE OF
RESTORATION, OF RETURNING TO THE
00:56:25.53\00:56:28.43
TRUTH. NOTICE WHAT JAMES
SAYS, 'IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO'S
00:56:28.43\00:56:31.10
WANDERED FROM THE TRUTH' -
DOES THAT HAPPEN IN THE CHURCH?
00:56:31.10\00:56:35.56
DO INDIVIDUALS BACKSLIDE?
DO ENTIRE CHURCHES SOMETIMES
00:56:35.56\00:56:41.10
BACKSLIDE AND
WANDER FROM THE TRUTH?
00:56:41.10\00:56:43.10
WELL, I THINK WE'RE OUT OF
TIME FOR TODAY'S STUDY, FRIENDS.
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WE'RE GLAD THAT YOU
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I HOPE YOU READ IT, SHARE
IT WITH YOUR FRIENDS, AND GOD
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WILLING, WE'LL STUDY HIS
WORD TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK.
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WE'LL BE IN A DIFFERENT
LOCATION. GOD BLESS YOU.
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>>DID YOU KNOW THAT NOAH WAS
PRESENT AT THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM?
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OKAY, MAYBE HE WASN'T IN
THE ROOM, BUT HE WAS ALIVE AND
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PROBABLY TELLING
STORIES ABOUT HIS FLOATING ZOO.
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>>IN SIX DAYS GOD CREATED
THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.
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FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, MAN HAS
WORSHIPED GOD ON THE SEVENTH DAY
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OF THE WEEK. NOW,
EACH WEEK, MILLIONS OF
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PEOPLE WORSHIP ON THE
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WHY DID GOD
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DOES IT REALLY
MATTER WHAT DAY WE WORSHIP?
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