(MUSIC)
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>>WE'RE STARTING A NEW
LESSON QUARTERLY - ACTUALLY,
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THIS IS THE SECOND LESSON IN OUR
NEW LESSON QUARTERLY ENTITLED
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THE ROLE OF THE CHURCH IN THE
COMMUNITY , SO I HOPE THAT ALL
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OF YOU HERE HAVE
THE LESSON QUARTERLY.
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AS YOU KNOW, WE'RE THREE WEEKS
AHEAD OF WHAT IT ACTUALLY SAYS,
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AS FAR AS THE DATES GO,
IN THE LESSON QUARTERLY.
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AND, FOR OUR FRIENDS WHO ARE
JOINING US, IF YOU DON'T HAVE A
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COPY OF THE STUDY, YOU CAN GO TO
THE AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE - JUST
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AMAZINGFACTS.ORG - AND YOU CAN
DOWNLOAD TODAY'S LESSON - IT'S
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LESSON #2 ENTITLED RESTORING
DOMINION - AND YOU CAN STUDY
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ALONG WITH US. WE
ALSO HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT
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WE'D LIKE TO LET YOU KNOW ABOUT.
IT'S A BOOK WRITTEN BY PASTOR
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DOUG BATCHELOR CALLED
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?
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AND WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND THIS
TO ANYBODY WHO CALLS AND ASKS.
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THE NUMBER TO CALL IS
866-788-3966 AND YOU CAN ASK FOR
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OFFER #603. AGAIN,
IT'S 866-788-3966 - ASK
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FOR #603 - AND WE'LL BE
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HERE IN NORTH AMERICA.
WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR
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STUDY, WE ALWAYS LIKE
TO BEGIN WITH LIFTING OUR
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VOICES IN PRAISE. AND
I'D LIKE TO INVITE THE
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CHORISTERS TO COME FORWARD
AND MEET ME HERE ON STAGE AND
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THEY'RE GOING TO LEAD US IN SOME
WONDERFUL HYMNS THIS MORNING.
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(SOFT PIANO MUSIC)
>>THANK YOU PASTOR ROSS.
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IT IS LOVELY TO BE HERE AND
WE'VE BEEN WARMING UP OUR VOICES
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AND WE'RE READY
TO SING WITH YOU.
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ALL AROUND THE WORLD WE KNOW YOU
LOVE YOUR HYMNS, AND WE DO AS
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WELL, SO LET'S JOIN TOGETHER ON
OUR FIRST ONE, STANDING ON THE
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PROMISES . YOU'LL
FIND THAT IN - #518 IN
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YOUR HYMNALS - AND WE'LL DO
ALL THREE STANZAS. JOIN WITH US.
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(MUSIC) >>STANDING ON THE
PROMISES OF CHRIST MY KING,
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THRU ETERNAL AGES LET HIS
PRAISES RING; GLORY IN THE
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HIGHEST I WILL SHOUT AND SING,
STANDING ON THE PROMISES OF GOD.
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STANDING, STANDING, STANDING
ON THE PROMISES OF CHRIST MY
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SAVIOR; STANDING, STANDING, I'M
STANDING ON THE PROMISES OF GOD.
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STANDING ON THE PROMISES THAT
CANNOT FAIL, WHEN THE HOWLING
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STORMS OF DOUBT AND FEAR ASSAIL,
BY THE LIVING WORD OF GOD I
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SHALL PREVAIL,
STANDING ON THE PROMISES OF GOD.
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STANDING, STANDING, STANDING
ON THE PROMISES OF CHRIST MY
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SAVIOR; STANDING, STANDING, I'M
STANDING ON THE PROMISES OF GOD.
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STANDING ON THE PROMISES OF
CHRIST THE LORD, BOUND TO HIM
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ETERNALLY BY LOVE'S STRONG
CORD, OVERCOMING DAILY WITH THE
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SPIRIT'S SWORD,
STANDING ON THE PROMISES OF GOD.
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STANDING, STANDING, STANDING
ON THE PROMISES OF CHRIST MY
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SAVIOR; STANDING, STANDING, I'M
STANDING ON THE PROMISES OF GOD.
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>>AREN'T YOU THANKFUL FOR THE
PROMISES THAT GOD HAS GIVEN US
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THAT WE CAN STAND
ON? THEY ARE SURE AND
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THEY WON'T FAIL.
WHATEVER HE SAID, HE WILL DO.
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AND WHAT A
WONDERFUL HEAVENLY FATHER.
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WE CAN TRUST HIM JUST
AS A CHILD TRUSTS A PARENT.
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WHAT HEAVENLY MUSIC STEALS OVER
THE SEA ENTRANCING THE SENSES
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WITH A SWEET
MELODY. THIS IS ONE OF MY
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FAVORITE SONGS. I LOVE
THIS SONG FOR THE HARMONY
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AND THE WORDS - JUST IMAGINE
BEING IN HEAVEN AS WE SING THIS.
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YOU WILL FIND IT - #452 - #452
- WE'LL DO ALL THREE STANZAS -
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WHAT HEAVENLY
MUSIC . (PIANO MUSIC)
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>>WHAT HEAVENLY
MUSIC STEALS OVER THE SEA!
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ENTRANCING THE
SENSES LIKE SWEET MELODY!
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'TIS THE VOICE OF THE ANGELS
BORNE SOFT ON THE AIR; FOR ME
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THEY ARE SINGING; THEIR WELCOME
I HEAR. ON THE BANKS OF OLD
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JORDAN, HERE GAZING I STAND,
AND EARNESTLY LONGING, I STRETCH
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FORTH MY HAND; SEND A CONVOY
OF ANGELS, DEAR JESUS, I PRAY!
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LET ME JOIN THAT SWEET
MUSIC; COME, TAKE ME AWAY.
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THOUGH DARK ARE THE WATERS
AND ROUGH IS THE WAVE, IF JESUS
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PERMIT, THE WILD SURGES I'LL
BRAVE; FOR THAT HEAVENLY MUSIC
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HATH RAVISHED ME SO, I
MUST JOIN IN THAT CHORUS!
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I'LL GO! LET ME GO!
>>AT THIS TIME, PASTOR ROSS
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WILL LEAD US IN
PRAYER. >>LET US BOW OUR
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HEADS FOR PRAYER. DEAR
FATHER IN HEAVEN, WHAT A
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PRIVILEGE IT IS FOR US
TO BE ABLE TO GATHER IN YOUR
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PRESENCE TO OPEN UP YOUR WORD.
AND FATHER, WE ASK THE HOLY
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SPIRIT TO COME AND GUIDE
OUR HEARTS AND OUR MINDS.
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FATHER, WE WANT TO BE THE
PEOPLE THAT YOU WANT US TO BE.
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WE WANT TO BE THAT LIGHT ON A
HILL IN OUR COMMUNITY, SHINING
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FORTH THE LOVE OF JESUS AND
SHARING THE TRUTHS OF YOUR WORD.
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SO WE INVITE YOU TO BE WITH
US NOW AS WE STUDY ABOUT HOW THE
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CHURCH CAN BE MORE EFFECTIVE
IN SHARING THE GOOD NEWS WITH
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OTHERS, FOR WE ASK
THIS IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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OUR LESSON TODAY WILL BE BROUGHT
TO US BY THE ASSISTANT AFCOE
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DIRECTOR - AFCOE IS THE AMAZING
FACTS CENTER OF EVANGELISM - AND
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CARISSA MCSHERRY IS ONE OF OUR
TEACHERS WITH THE PROGRAM AND WE
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THOUGHT THIS LESSON, IN
PARTICULAR, LEANS TO THE SUBJECT
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MATTER THAT SHE TEACHES AT
AFCOE, DEALING WITH PERSONAL
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EVANGELISM AND SHARING.
AND SO, THANK YOU, CARISSA, WE
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APPRECIATE YOU BEING
WILLING TO SHARE WITH US TODAY.
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>>GOOD MORNING. >>GOOD MORNING.
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>>HAPPY SABBATH. ARE
YOU ENJOYING THIS NICE COOL
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SUMMER WEATHER?
WE CANNOT COMPLAIN.
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IT'S BEEN A BLESSING.
TODAY, AS WAS MENTIONED, WE'RE
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GOING TO BE LOOKING AT THE
TOPIC OF RESTORING DOMINION .
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YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU THINK OF
THE WORD 'DOMINION' IT DOES NOT
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SOUND VERY POSITIVE, CORRECT?
WHEN WE THINK OF DOMINION, WE
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THINK OF AUTHORITY, WE
THINK OF POWER - OF DOMINANCE
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- OF AGGRESSION.
BUT IS THAT THE ORIGINAL
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BIBLICAL MODEL OF DOMINION?
TODAY WE ARE GOING TO BE LOOKING
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AT THREE
COMPONENTS ABOUT DOMINION.
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FIRST WE'LL BE CONSIDERING
WHAT IS THE ORIGINAL BIBLICAL
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DEFINITION OF DOMINION, WHEN
WILL DOMINION BE FULLY RESTORED,
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AND HOW CAN WE OVERCOME THE
DEVIL'S DOMINION OVER OUR LIVES?
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BUT AS WE BEGIN, IF YOU WOULDN'T
MIND, WOULD YOU JUST BOW YOUR
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HEADS WITH ME FOR
ANOTHER WORD OF PRAYER?
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HEAVENLY FATHER, GOD, WE ARE
HERE ON YOUR BEAUTIFUL SABBATH
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DAY. LORD, WE
DELIGHT TO GATHER AND
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TO PRAISE YOUR NAME,
LORD, FOR YOUR BLESSINGS AND
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FOR YOUR PRESENCE. AND
NOW, FATHER, AS WE STUDY
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YOUR WORD, MAY YOUR SPIRIT
OPEN AND GUIDE OUR HEARTS,
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IS OUR PRAYER. IN
CHRIST'S NAME, AMEN.
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THIS WEEK, OUR MEMORY TEXT WAS
FOUND IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS.
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IF YOU HAVE YOUR QUARTERLY,
PLEASE OPEN IT UP WITH ME AND
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WE'RE GOING TO READ
THAT MEMORY TEXT TOGETHER.
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IT IS FOUND IN GENESIS CHAPTER 1
AND VERSE 26 - GENESIS CHAPTER 1
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AND VERSE 26 -
PLEASE READ WITH ME THERE.
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"THEN GOD SAID, 'LET US MAKE MAN
IN OUR IMAGE, ACCORDING TO OUR
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LIKENESS; LET THEM HAVE DOMINION
OVER THE FISH OF THE SEA, OVER
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THE BIRDS OF THE AIR, AND OVER
THE CATTLE, OVER ALL THE EARTH
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AND OVER EVERY CREEPING THING
THAT CREEPS ON THE EARTH.'" SO
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THAT, AGAIN, IS THE PREMISE
FOR OUR DISCUSSION TODAY.
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AS WE BEGIN TO TALK ABOUT
DOMINION, I WANT TO FIRST SET A
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FRAMEWORK FOR THIS DISCUSSION
AND THEN WE'LL LOOK AT SOME OF
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THE SPECIFICS FOR HOW
THIS APPLIES TO OUR LIFE TODAY.
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YOU SEE IN SABBATH AFTERNOON,
THE QUARTERLY BRINGS OUT A
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BEAUTIFUL PASSAGE FROM THE BOOK
SIGNS OF THE TIMES - FROM THE
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MAGAZINE - NOVEMBER 4 - THIS
IS 1908 AND IT READS, "NOT ONLY
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MAN, BUT THE EARTH ALSO HAD, BY
SIN, COME UNDER THE CONTROL OF
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THE WICKED ONE AND WAS TO
BE RESTORED BY THE PLAN OF
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REDEMPTION. AT HIS
CREATION, ADAM WAS PLACED
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IN DOMINION OVER THE EARTH, BUT
BY YIELDING TO TEMPTATION, HE
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WAS BROUGHT UNDER THE POWER OF
SATAN AND THE DOMINION WHICH HE
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HELD, PASSED TO HIS
CONQUEROR. THUS, SATAN BECAME
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THE GOD OF THIS WORLD.
HE HAD USURPED THAT DOMINION
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OVER WHICH THE EARTH HAD
BEEN ORIGINALLY GIVEN TO ADAM.
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BUT CHRIST" - AREN'T YOU
THANKFUL TODAY FOR THOSE TWO
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LITTLE WORDS? - THE
DOMINION THAT WAS TAKEN
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OVER BY THE DEVIL, "BUT CHRIST,
BY HIS SACRIFICE, PAYING THE
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PENALTY OF SIN, WOULD NOT ONLY
REDEEM MAN, BUT WOULD RECOVER
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THE DOMINION
WHICH HE HAD FORFEITED.
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ALL THAT WAS LOST BY THE FIRST
ADAM WILL BE RESTORED BY THE
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SECOND." AMEN? I PRAISE GOD FOR
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THAT RESTORATION. YOU
SEE, IT WAS AT THE CROSS
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WHEN JESUS DIED, THAT
THAT DOMINION WAS ASSURED.
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BUT IT WILL NOT BE UNTIL THE
SECOND COMING OF JESUS CHRIST
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THAT THAT
DOMINION WILL BE COMPLETE.
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IN OTHER WORDS, DOES THE DEVIL
STILL ROAM TO AND FRO ON THE
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EARTH TODAY,
SEEKING WHOM HE MAY DEVOUR?
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ABSOLUTELY, BUT WE SEE THAT
THERE WILL COME A TIME WHERE
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CHRIST WILL HAVE THAT FULL
DOMINION OVER THE EARTH WHERE,
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ONE DAY SOON, EVERY KNEE WILL
BOW AND CONFESS THAT CHRIST IS
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LORD. TURN WITH ME
TO THE BOOK OF DANIEL.
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WE ARE GOING TO, AGAIN, LOOK AT
THIS RESTORATION OF DOMINION -
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THIS FRAMEWORK - THIS MORNING
AND WE'LL BEGIN IN DANIEL
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CHAPTER 7. DANIEL
CHAPTER 7 - BEAUTIFUL
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PICTURE IS GIVEN
IN VERSES 13 AND 14.
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WE SEE THAT AT THE BEGINNING -
OR I SHOULD SAY, THE COMPLETION
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OF THE 2300-YEAR PROPHECY.
JESUS IS BROUGHT BEFORE THE
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FATHER DURING THE JUDGMENT HOUR.
IN VERSE 13 OF DANIEL CHAPTER 7
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WE READ, "I WAS WATCHING IN THE
NIGHT VISIONS, AND BEHOLD, ONE
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LIKE THE SON OF MAN, COMING
WITH THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN!
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HE CAME TO THE ANCIENT OF DAYS,
AND THEY BROUGHT HIM NEAR BEFORE
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HIM." AGAIN, WHEN
IS THIS SPEAKING OF?
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THIS IS SPEAKING OF 1844,
THE JUDGMENT HOUR. IN VERSE 14,
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"THEN TO HIM WAS GIVEN DOMINION
AND GLORY AND A KINGDOM, THAT
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ALL PEOPLES, NATIONS, AND
LANGUAGES SHOULD SERVE HIM.
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HIS DOMINION IS AN EVERLASTING
DOMINION, WHICH SHALL NOT PASS
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AWAY, AND HIS KINGDOM THE ONE
WHICH SHALL NOT BE DESTROYED."
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NOTICE THE LANGUAGE THAT IS
USED HERE IN DANIEL CHAPTER 7.
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IN DANIEL CHAPTER 2 -
WHAT IS THE EMPHASIS OF DANIEL
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CHAPTER 2? WHAT
DO WE SEE OCCURRING
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IN DANIEL CHAPTER 2?
THERE IS AN IMAGE, IS THERE NOT?
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NEBUCHADNEZZAR HAS A DREAM AND
IN THIS IMAGE YOU SEE BABYLON,
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MEDO-PERSIA, GREECE, AND ROME.
YOU SEE THESE GREAT KINGDOMS
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THAT ARE RISING UP. AT
THE CONCLUSION OF MENTIONING
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EACH OF THESE KINGDOMS,
A WARNING IS GIVEN, BUT
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THEY WILL PASS
AWAY. BUT THEIR DOMINION
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WILL NOT LAST.
BABYLON RISES, AND
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IT FALLS.
MEDO-PERSIA RISES AND IT FALLS.
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GREECE RISES AND IT
FALLS. ROME RISES AND IT FALLS.
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AND YET, HERE WE SEE, IN DANIEL
CHAPTER 7, THAT JESUS WILL COME
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BEFORE THE FATHER - THAT JESUS
WILL RECEIVE DOMINION AND HE
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WILL HAVE THE
KINGDOM THAT NEVER FALLS.
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IS THAT GOOD NEWS TODAY? AMEN.
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JESUS HAS THE
KINGDOM THAT WILL NOT FAIL.
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SO THAT, AGAIN, IS OUR FRAMEWORK
FOR OUR DISCUSSION TODAY.
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AND NOW WE'RE GOING
TO LOOK AT THE SPECIFICS.
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HOW DOES THE DEVIL'S
DOMINION APPLY TODAY?
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TURN WITH ME IN YOUR
BIBLES TO GENESIS CHAPTER 1.
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WE ARE IN GENESIS CHAPTER 1 AND
WE'LL BE CONTINUING THE PASSAGE
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FROM OUR MEMORY TEXT - GENESIS
CHAPTER 1, VERSES 27 AND 28 -
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GENESIS CHAPTER 1, VERSES 27 AND
28 - AND THE BIBLE SAYS, "SO GOD
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CREATED MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE; IN
THE IMAGE OF GOD HE CREATED HIM;
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MALE AND FEMALE HE CREATED THEM.
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THEN GOD BLESSED THEM, AND GOD
SAID TO THEM, 'BE FRUITFUL AND
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MULTIPLY; FILL THE EARTH AND
SUBDUE IT; HAVE DOMINION OVER
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THE FISH OF THE SEA, OVER THE
BIRDS OF THE AIR, AND OVER EVERY
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LIVING THING THAT MOVES ON THE
EARTH.'" HELP ME OUT HERE: AFTER
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JE- EXCUSE ME - AFTER ADAM AND
EVE WERE CREATED, WHAT DID GOD
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IMMEDIATELY DO? HE GAVE THEM...?
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>>DOMINION. >>DOMINION, CORRECT.
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AND THAT DOMINION ENTAILED
A JOB. THEY HAD EMPLOYMENT.
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THEY HAD A
PURPOSE, DID THEY NOT?
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HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD
LITTLE CHILDREN SAY, 'I THINK
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MOMMY AND DADDY ONLY WANTED
KIDS SO THEY COULD TAKE OUT THE
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GARBAGE.'? THEY ONLY
WANTED KIDS SO SOMEONE
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COULD MOW THE LAWN, RIGHT?
MAYBE YOU WERE THAT CHILD.
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MAYBE YOU WERE THE PARENT -
ABSOLUTELY - HEARING YOUR CHILD
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SAY THAT. IS THAT
WHY GOD CREATED ADAM?
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'WELL, I NEED A GARDENER.
IT'S A BIG WORLD SO I'M GOING TO
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CREATE A MAN TO
TAKE CARE OF MY GARDEN.'
00:17:04.55\00:17:07.02
IS THAT WHY GOD CREATED ADAM?
NO, BUT IS IT IMPORTANT FOR
00:17:07.02\00:17:15.66
EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US TO HAVE A
ROLE - TO HAVE SOMETHING, AGAIN,
00:17:15.66\00:17:22.00
THAT GIVES US THAT
PURPOSE AND THAT MEANING?
00:17:22.00\00:17:26.31
A STUDY WAS DONE BY THE
PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE, LOOKING
00:17:26.31\00:17:30.35
AT 6,000 PARTICIPANTS AND
THEY LOOKED TO SEE WHAT THEIR
00:17:30.35\00:17:36.02
SELF-REPORTED PURPOSE IS
IN LIFE? WHAT BRINGS THEM JOY?
00:17:36.02\00:17:40.62
DID THEY HAVE
MEANING TO THEIR LIVE?
00:17:40.62\00:17:43.39
THEN THEY DID A FOLLOW-UP STUDY
ABOUT NINE YEARS LATER TO SEE
00:17:43.39\00:17:47.76
WHAT THE RESULTS WERE. HOW
DID HAVING A PURPOSE IN YOUR
00:17:47.76\00:17:51.37
LIFE AFFECT YOUR LONGEVITY
AND YOUR QUALITY OF LIFE?
00:17:51.37\00:17:56.47
THEY FOUND, IN THIS FOLLOW-UP
STUDY, 569 OF THE PARTICIPANTS
00:17:56.47\00:18:04.31
HAD PASSED AWAY, WHICH WAS
ABOUT 9-PERCENT OF THE SAMPLE.
00:18:04.31\00:18:08.28
I'M NOT SURE I WOULD WANT TO
BE A PART OF THIS STUDY, RIGHT?
00:18:08.28\00:18:11.89
BUT WHAT THEY DISCOVERED IS
THOSE WHO HAD DIED HAD REPORTED
00:18:11.89\00:18:16.52
LOWER PURPOSE IN LIFE AND FEWER
POSITIVE RELATIONS THAN DID THE
00:18:16.52\00:18:23.73
SURVIVORS. IN
OTHER WORDS, IF WE DO NOT
00:18:23.73\00:18:27.67
HAVE A PURPOSE IN LIFE, WE
ARE MORE LIKELY TO DIE EARLY.
00:18:27.67\00:18:33.14
WE HAVE A DECREASED LONGEVITY,
A DECREASED ENJOYMENT IN LIFE.
00:18:33.14\00:18:39.15
IS IT IMPORTANT FOR
US TO HAVE A PURPOSE?
00:18:39.15\00:18:42.05
ABSOLUTELY, AND GOD RECOGNIZED
THAT EVEN IN THIS PRE-FALLEN
00:18:42.05\00:18:46.22
WORLD, EVEN IN THIS PERFECT
UNIVERSE, MAN STILL NEEDED A
00:18:46.22\00:18:50.39
PURPOSE - SOMETHING
THAT HE COULD ACCOMPLISH.
00:18:50.39\00:18:55.00
YOU SEE, AT EVERY SINGLE STAGE
OF LIFE THE QUESTION IS ASKED,
00:18:55.00\00:18:59.50
'WHAT IS MY PURPOSE?'
MAYBE YOU REMEMBER THOSE TEENAGE
00:18:59.50\00:19:04.27
DAYS AND YOU'RE ABOUT TO LEAVE
THE HOME AND YOU'RE LOOKING AT
00:19:04.27\00:19:07.14
COLLEGE OR EMPLOYMENT, 'WHAT
SHOULD I DO FOR MY OCCUPATION?'
00:19:07.14\00:19:11.28
THE UNDERLYING QUESTION
IS 'WHAT IS MY PURPOSE?'
00:19:11.28\00:19:18.12
YOU MEET MIDDLE AGE AND MAYBE
THAT MID-LIFE CRISIS COMES AND
00:19:18.12\00:19:22.62
THE UNDERLYING QUESTION, YET
AGAIN, IS 'WHAT IS MY PURPOSE?
00:19:22.62\00:19:26.93
YOU MEET RETIREMENT AND YOU
QUESTION 'WHAT IS MY PURPOSE?'
00:19:26.93\00:19:33.34
AND THAT, AGAIN, IS
WHAT WE MUST ESTABLISH -
00:19:33.34\00:19:36.00
WHAT IS OUR PURPOSE IN LIFE?
IF WE BASE OUR PURPOSE OFF OF
00:19:36.00\00:19:42.31
OUR EMPLOYMENT, OFF
OF OUR OCCUPATION, OFF OF
00:19:42.31\00:19:46.88
RELATIONSHIPS, WILL
WE EVER BE SATISFIED? NO.
00:19:46.88\00:19:53.72
THE JOB MARKET
CRASHES. THE ECONOMY CRASHES.
00:19:53.72\00:19:56.79
RELATIONSHIPS FALL
APART. WHO, THEN, MUST WE
00:19:56.79\00:20:00.50
FIND OUR PURPOSE IN?
IN JESUS CHRIST, CORRECT?
00:20:00.50\00:20:06.40
A PURPOSE FOUND IN JESUS CHRIST
WILL SATISFY ONLY AS IT IS MET
00:20:06.40\00:20:13.88
IN JESUS CHRIST.
PSALMS 138, VERSE 8 - AND THE
00:20:13.88\00:20:17.05
REVISED STANDARD VERSION TELLS
US THIS: "THE LORD WILL FULFIL
00:20:17.05\00:20:22.05
HIS PURPOSE FOR ME;" - THE LORD
WILL FULFIL HIS PURPOSE FOR ME -
00:20:22.05\00:20:29.82
IN OTHER WORDS, I FIRMLY BELIEVE
TODAY, JUST AS GOD HAD A PURPOSE
00:20:29.82\00:20:33.90
FOR ADAM IN THE GARDEN, GOD HAS
A PURPOSE FOR OUR LIVES TODAY.
00:20:33.90\00:20:41.87
CHRIST'S OBJECT LESSONS - THIS
IS FOUND ON PAGE 326 - AND THIS
00:20:41.87\00:20:46.07
MOTIVATES AND INSPIRES ME EVERY
DAY. WE ARE TOLD, "EACH HAS HIS
00:20:46.07\00:20:55.32
PLACE IN THE ETERNAL PLAN
OF HEAVEN. EACH IS TO WORK IN
00:20:55.32\00:20:59.69
COOPERATION WITH CHRIST
FOR THE SALVATION OF SOULS.
00:20:59.69\00:21:03.83
NOT MORE SURELY IS THE PLACE
PREPARED FOR US IN THE HEAVENLY
00:21:03.83\00:21:07.73
MANSIONS THAN THERE IS A SPECIAL
PLACE DESIGNATED ON EARTH WHERE
00:21:07.73\00:21:13.50
WE ARE TO WORK FOR
GOD." IS THIS TRUTH?
00:21:13.50\00:21:20.58
NOT MORE SURELY DOES GOD HAVE
A MANSION PREPARED FOR YOU IN
00:21:20.58\00:21:24.11
HEAVEN THAN GOD HAS A PLAN -
THAN GOD HAS A PURPOSE FOR YOU
00:21:24.11\00:21:29.12
ON EARTH TODAY. IT'S
REASSURING, IS IT NOT?
00:21:29.12\00:21:34.76
GOD HAS A PLAN FOR OUR
LIVES. YOU KNOW, YOU MIGHT HAVE
00:21:34.76\00:21:39.39
THOUGHT, 'WHAT IF MY PURPOSE
IS JUST GARDENING?' ADAM WAS NOT
00:21:39.39\00:21:44.83
TOLD TO GO CONQUER THE WORLD,
HE WAS GIVEN A SHOVEL, RIGHT?
00:21:44.83\00:21:49.84
HE WAS TOLD TO GO AND WORK
IN THE GARDEN AND IT MAY HAVE
00:21:49.84\00:21:52.54
SEEMED LIKE A MENIAL TASK - A
VERY SMALL ACCOMPLISHMENT, BUT
00:21:52.54\00:21:58.81
YOU SEE, ANY TASK THAT IS DONE
TO THE GLORY OF GOD IS GREAT.
00:21:58.81\00:22:04.15
THE GREATEST PURPOSE THAT
WE CAN FIND IS IN SERVANTHOOD.
00:22:04.15\00:22:09.62
HELEN KELLER ONCE SAID, 'I LONG
TO ACCOMPLISH A GREAT AND NOBLE
00:22:09.62\00:22:14.96
TASK, BUT MY CHIEF DUTY IS TO
ACCOMPLISH SMALL TASKS AS THOUGH
00:22:14.96\00:22:21.70
THEY WERE GREAT AND NOBLE.'
I WANT TO DO SOMETHING HUGE, I
00:22:21.70\00:22:27.24
WANT TO DO SOMETHING
SIGNIFICANT, BUT JESUS, IF YOU
00:22:27.24\00:22:29.64
WANT TO GIVE ME A SHOVEL AND
HAVE ME GARDEN, I WILL DO IT.
00:22:29.64\00:22:33.08
WHATEVER WE DO, MAY WE
DO IT WITH ALL OF OUR MIGHT.
00:22:33.08\00:22:39.99
IN MONDAY'S LESSON THEY
BEGIN TO LOOK AT DOMINION.
00:22:39.99\00:22:43.79
AGAIN, WHAT IS THE BIBLICAL
DEFINITION OF DOMINION AND HOW
00:22:43.79\00:22:47.86
CAN WE APPLY THE BIBLICAL
PRE-SIN DEFINITION IN OUR SPHERE
00:22:47.86\00:22:52.83
OF INFLUENCE TODAY?
WE FIND THAT DOMINION IS
00:22:52.83\00:22:58.04
THE HEBREW WORD 'RÂDÂH'. IT
INFERS THAT THERE IS A RIGHT
00:22:58.04\00:23:03.11
AND A RESPONSIBILITY TO
RULE. IT IMPLIES THAT THERE IS A
00:23:03.11\00:23:07.72
HIERARCHY OF
POWER AND OF AUTHORITY.
00:23:07.72\00:23:12.49
TURN WITH ME IN YOUR BIBLES
TO GENESIS CHAPTER 2 - GENESIS
00:23:12.49\00:23:16.83
CHAPTER 2 AND WE ARE
GOING TO LOOK AT VERSE 15.
00:23:16.83\00:23:20.93
IN THIS PASSAGE, WE WILL AGAIN
SEE THE EXPLANATION OF WHAT
00:23:20.93\00:23:25.03
DOMINION ENTAILS.
THIS IS IN GENESIS
00:23:25.03\00:23:28.40
CHAPTER 2 AND VERSE 15.
THE BIBLE SAYS, "THEN THE LORD
00:23:28.40\00:23:39.05
GOD TOOK THE MAN AND
PUT HIM IN THE GARDEN OF
00:23:39.05\00:23:42.05
EDEN" - TO DO WHAT? -
"TO TEND AND KEEP IT."
00:23:42.05\00:23:51.19
HE PUT HIM IN THE GARDEN
TO TEND IT AND TO KEEP IT.
00:23:51.19\00:23:56.20
AGAIN, THAT IS THE
BEST DEFINITION OF DOMINION.
00:23:56.20\00:23:59.37
WE SEE IT EXEMPLIFIED HERE: HE
GAVE HIM TO TEND IT AND TO KEEP
00:23:59.37\00:24:05.07
IT. AGAIN, LOOKING AT THE HEBREW
IN THESE WORDS, 'TO TEND', WHICH
00:24:05.07\00:24:11.38
FOR SOME OF YOU ALSO IS
TRANSLATED AS 'TO DRESS', MEANS
00:24:11.38\00:24:16.45
'TO WORK; TO SERVE; TO TILL.' TO
KEEP (SHAMAR) REFERS 'TO HEDGE
00:24:16.45\00:24:25.36
ABOUT; TO GUARD; TO PROTECT; TO
ATTEND; TO LOOK NARROWLY AFTER;
00:24:25.36\00:24:33.27
TO PRESERVE, REGARD, AND
RESERVE.' IN OTHER WORDS, HERE
00:24:33.27\00:24:38.94
ADAM IS GIVEN HIS DOMINION
AND HIS ROLE IS TO PROTECT, TO
00:24:38.94\00:24:43.35
SERVE, TO NURTURE. IS
THAT A POSITIVE UNDERSTANDING
00:24:43.35\00:24:49.45
OF THE WORD 'DOMINION'? THAT
SERVANT LEADERSHIP OF SORTS.
00:24:49.45\00:24:54.62
AGAIN, OFTEN WE THINK OF
DOMINION, WE HAVE VERY NEGATIVE
00:24:54.62\00:24:57.13
CONNOTATIONS.
WE THINK OF HITLER.
00:24:57.13\00:25:00.06
WE THINK OF SADDAM HUSSEIN
WHEN WE THINK OF DOMINION.
00:25:00.06\00:25:03.77
BUT THIS IS THE BIBLICAL MODEL
OF DOMINION - IT IS SERVANT
00:25:03.77\00:25:07.00
LEADERSHIP. TO
SERVE, TO NURTURE, TO
00:25:07.00\00:25:10.97
ENCOURAGE - THIS MODEL, GIVEN IN
THE PRE-SIN MODEL, IS THE MODEL
00:25:10.97\00:25:17.68
THAT CHRIST LONGS FOR HIS PEOPLE
TO FULFIL TODAY. TURN WITH ME IN
00:25:17.68\00:25:23.65
YOUR BIBLES TO THE BOOK OF 1
PETER. WE ARE IN 1 PETER CHAPTER
00:25:23.65\00:25:28.26
5 AND WE'LL BE
LOOKING AT VERSES 2 THROUGH 5.
00:25:28.26\00:25:33.50
1 PETER CHAPTER 5 AND WE'LL BE
LOOKING AT VERSES 2 THROUGH 5.
00:25:33.50\00:25:41.57
AS WE READ THESE PASSAGES
TOGETHER, CONSIDER WITH ME WHAT
00:25:41.57\00:25:45.97
IS THE DEFINITION OF DOMINION
AS FOUND IN THIS PASSAGE?
00:25:45.97\00:25:51.01
HOW CAN IT BE EXEMPLIFIED
IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE TODAY?
00:25:51.01\00:25:56.52
WE ARE IN 1 PETER CHAPTER 5 AND
WE WILL CONTINUE WITH VERSES 2
00:25:56.52\00:26:01.66
THROUGH 5. THE
BIBLE SAYS, "SHEPHERD THE
00:26:01.66\00:26:08.03
FLOCK OF GOD WHICH IS AMONG YOU,
SERVING AS OVERSEERS, NOT BY
00:26:08.03\00:26:14.67
COMPULSION BUT WILLINGLY, NOT
FOR DISHONEST GAIN BUT EAGERLY';
00:26:14.67\00:26:21.11
NOR AS BEING LORDS OVER THOSE
ENTRUSTED TO YOU, BUT BEING
00:26:21.11\00:26:26.05
EXAMPLES TO THE FLOCK; AND WHEN
THE CHIEF SHEPHERD APPEARS, YOU
00:26:26.05\00:26:30.99
WILL RECEIVE THE CROWN OF
GLORY THAT DOES NOT FADE AWAY."
00:26:30.99\00:26:37.16
YOU SEE, AGAIN, LEADERSHIP -
DOMINION - IS DEFINED IN THIS
00:26:37.16\00:26:42.43
PASSAGE. DO NOT LORD OVER THEM.
00:26:42.43\00:26:46.97
DO NOT ASSERT YOUR AUTHORITY,
RATHER LEAD BY EXAMPLE.
00:26:46.97\00:26:53.27
RATHER, NURTURE - RATHER
ENCOURAGE - RATHER SUPPORT -
00:26:53.27\00:26:58.31
JUST LIKE ADAM WAS CALLED
TO DO IN THE GARDEN OF OLD.
00:26:58.31\00:27:05.22
WOULD IT NOT BE POWERFUL IF THIS
PASSAGE WAS FULLY APPLIED IN OUR
00:27:05.22\00:27:08.69
FAMILIES, IN OUR
CHURCHES, IN OUR HOMES TODAY?
00:27:08.69\00:27:14.56
THE BIBLICAL MODEL OF DOMINION
- DID JESUS DEMONSTRATE THIS
00:27:14.56\00:27:19.43
MODEL? ABSOLUTELY.
IMAGINE AGAIN, HERE HE IS,
00:27:19.43\00:27:25.67
THE LORD OF THE UNIVERSE, THE
INFINITE AND ALL-POWERFUL GOD,
00:27:25.67\00:27:30.28
AND YET THERE HE IS,
NAKED AND BEAT ON A CROSS.
00:27:30.28\00:27:34.75
JESUS WAS WILLING TO GO THROUGH
THAT ABSOLUTE SURRENDER - TO
00:27:34.75\00:27:39.15
DEMONSTRATE WHAT IS
TRUE SERVANT LEADERSHIP.
00:27:39.15\00:27:43.73
YOU SEE, THE JEWS OF OLD LOOKED
AT JESUS AND SAID, 'HE CAN'T
00:27:43.73\00:27:48.63
POSSIBLY BE THE MESSIAH. WE
ARE LOOKING FOR A CONQUERING
00:27:48.63\00:27:52.63
KING THAT'LL COME IN HERE AND
DESTROY AND BEAT UP THE ROMANS.'
00:27:52.63\00:27:56.97
TO THEM, THAT WAS DOMINANCE.
TO THEM, THAT WAS POWER.
00:27:56.97\00:28:01.78
BUT DOES JESUS
VIEW IT THE SAME WAY?
00:28:01.78\00:28:05.28
TO HIM, DOMINANCE - TO HIM,
POWER IS SURRENDERING HIS LIFE
00:28:05.28\00:28:10.19
ON THE CROSS. THAT
IS THE EPITOME OF TRUE
00:28:10.19\00:28:14.32
LEADERSHIP AND THAT IS
THE EXAMPLE THAT WE ARE
00:28:14.32\00:28:17.89
CALLED TO FOLLOW TODAY. IN
TUESDAY'S LESSON: WE BEGIN TO
00:28:17.89\00:28:23.90
SEE THAT THERE WAS
A FALL FROM DOMINION.
00:28:23.90\00:28:27.27
WE SEE HOW SATAN CAME AND
TEMPTED ADAM AND EVE; HOW THEY
00:28:27.27\00:28:31.24
STEPPED OUT OF THE BOUNDARIES
THAT GOD HAD GIVEN TO THEM AND,
00:28:31.24\00:28:35.88
AS A RESULT OF THEIR ACTIONS,
SATAN BEGAN TO DOMINATE.
00:28:35.88\00:28:40.92
HE TOOK OVER THE
RULERSHIP OF THIS WORLD.
00:28:40.92\00:28:45.42
THE QUARTERLY BRINGS OUT, "EVEN
THOUGH SIN CAUSED HUMANITY TO
00:28:45.42\00:28:50.06
LOSE THE LEVEL OF DOMINION
GIVEN AT CREATION, OUR ORIGINAL
00:28:50.06\00:28:54.76
DOMINION WAS NOT
ENTIRELY LOST BECAUSE OF SIN.
00:28:54.76\00:28:59.30
THERE IS PLENTY THAT IS
WITHIN OUR CURRENT BOUNDARIES OF
00:28:59.30\00:29:03.61
RESPONSIBILITY. YOU
SEE, ALTHOUGH THE DEVIL
00:29:03.61\00:29:06.94
ASSUMED DOMINION OF THIS
EARTH, GOD APPOINTED ADAM TO BE
00:29:06.94\00:29:11.81
A CARETAKER OF THE
WORLD. DO WE STILL NEED TO BE
00:29:11.81\00:29:14.62
CARETAKERS OF THIS
EARTH TODAY? DOES GOD VIEW IT
00:29:14.62\00:29:18.52
AS IMPORTANT TODAY? ABSOLUTELY.
00:29:18.52\00:29:22.32
IN FACT, WE READ IN REVELATION
CHAPTER 11, VERSE 18, THAT GOD
00:29:22.32\00:29:27.23
WILL DESTROY THOSE
WHO DESTROY THE EARTH.
00:29:27.23\00:29:31.30
IN OTHER WORDS, GOD STILL LOOKS
AT HIS CREATION AND SAYS, 'THAT
00:29:31.30\00:29:34.57
IS VALUABLE TO ME.' THE HEAVENS
DECLARE THE GLORY OF GOD.
00:29:34.57\00:29:40.88
WE STILL SEE THE WORK OF THE
CREATOR THROUGH HIS CREATION.
00:29:40.88\00:29:47.42
OFFICIAL GENERAL CONFERENCE
STATEMENT ON THE ENVIRONMENT
00:29:47.42\00:29:51.49
SAYS THIS - I FOUND IT
RATHER INTERESTING - IT SAYS,
00:29:51.49\00:29:55.06
"HUMANKIND WAS CREATED IN THE
IMAGE OF GOD, THUS REPRESENTING
00:29:55.06\00:29:58.83
GOD AS HIS STEWARDS, TO RULE
THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT IN A
00:29:58.83\00:30:03.10
FAITHFUL AND FRUITFUL WAY.
THE ECOLOGICAL CRISIS IS ROOTED
00:30:03.10\00:30:07.54
IN HUMANKIND'S GREED AND REFUSAL
TO PRACTICE GOOD AND FAITHFUL
00:30:07.54\00:30:12.34
STEWARDSHIP WITHIN THE
DIVINE BOUNDARIES OF CREATION.
00:30:12.34\00:30:16.88
WE CALL FOR RESPECT OF CREATION,
RESTRAINT IN THE USE OF THE
00:30:16.88\00:30:20.78
WORLD'S RESOURCES, REEVALUATION
OF ONE'S NEEDS AND THE
00:30:20.78\00:30:25.82
RE-AFFIRMATION OF THE
DIGNITY OF CREATED LIFE.
00:30:25.82\00:30:31.69
IT'S TRUE, IS IT
NOT? WE DO HAVE A ROLE.
00:30:31.69\00:30:35.33
WE SHOULD, AGAIN, RESPECT THE
CREATION - THE PAINTING THAT THE
00:30:35.33\00:30:39.60
ARTIST HAS GIVEN TO
US. DID JESUS USE NATURE TO
00:30:39.60\00:30:46.71
DEMONSTRATE THE RELATIONSHIP
THAT HE DESIRES TO HAVE WITH US?
00:30:46.71\00:30:52.95
DID JESUS OFTEN POINT
TO NATURE IN HIS PARABLES?
00:30:52.95\00:30:57.72
I THINK, AGAIN, OF JESUS SITTING
THERE ON THE HILLSIDE AND HE'S
00:30:57.72\00:31:02.19
WANTING TO EXPLAIN TO THE
DISCIPLES ABOUT THE GLORY OF
00:31:02.19\00:31:05.46
GOD, ABOUT THE BEAUTY OF THE
UNIVERSE, ABOUT A RELATIONSHIP
00:31:05.46\00:31:09.90
WITH THE FATHER, AND YET, HERE
SITS A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO ARE
00:31:09.90\00:31:13.70
BICKERING OVER WHO IS
GOING TO BE THE LEADER.
00:31:13.70\00:31:16.84
AND HE WANTS TO EXPLAIN IT
IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY CAN
00:31:16.84\00:31:20.54
UNDERSTAND IT WITH
THEIR FINITE MINDS.
00:31:20.54\00:31:24.01
AND SO, HERE JESUS SITS AND HERE
HE IS CONTEMPLATING 'HOW DO I
00:31:24.01\00:31:28.12
DESCRIBE THE GLORIES OF
GOD TO THIS GROUP OF MEN?'
00:31:28.12\00:31:33.32
AND THE PICTURE IS PAINTED OF
JESUS SITTING THERE AND LOOKING
00:31:33.32\00:31:36.59
TO HIS SIDE AND
SAYING, 'CONSIDER THE LILIES.
00:31:36.59\00:31:42.33
I WANT TO SHOW YOU A BEAUTIFUL
PICTURE BUT YOU CAN'T UNDERSTAND
00:31:42.33\00:31:45.10
IT. LET'S LOOK
AT THE FLOWERS, THIS
00:31:45.10\00:31:47.84
LITTLE FINGERPRINT OF GOD,
AND SEE HOW THE LILIES RELATE TO
00:31:47.84\00:31:52.44
OUR CONNECTION WITH GOD TODAY.
WE FIND, IN DESIRE OF AGES THAT
00:31:52.44\00:31:58.11
JESUS OFTEN WENT UP INTO THE
MOUNTAINSIDE AND HE SPENT THE
00:31:58.11\00:32:03.05
MORNINGS IN NATURE -
HIS TIME WITH GOD - ALONE.
00:32:03.05\00:32:08.89
ONE OF MY FAVORITE THINGS TO DO
- ONE OF MY FAVORITE PASTTIMES,
00:32:08.89\00:32:13.46
IS GOING CAMPING WITH MY FAMILY.
00:32:13.46\00:32:16.70
AND, EARLY IN THE MORNING,
BEFORE ANYONE ELSE IS UP AND,
00:32:16.70\00:32:19.93
HOPEFULLY BEFORE THE BEARS
ARE TOO, I LIKE TO GO OUT INTO A
00:32:19.93\00:32:24.51
MEADOW AND TO JUST SIT NEXT TO
THE MEADOW OR NEXT TO A LAKE AND
00:32:24.51\00:32:29.48
JUST LOOK FOR OBJECT LESSONS
THAT TEACH ME ABOUT THE KINGDOM
00:32:29.48\00:32:33.15
OF GOD AND TO SING MY HEART OUT
TO GOD, THERE IN NATURE, WHERE
00:32:33.15\00:32:37.19
NO ONE ELSE CAN
POSSIBLY HEAR ME.
00:32:37.19\00:32:39.69
BECAUSE THAT'S THE ONLY
TIME THAT I SING IN PUBLIC.
00:32:39.69\00:32:42.62
AGAIN, WHEN NO ONE CAN HEAR, BUT
SINGING TO GOD OF HIS PRAISES.
00:32:42.62\00:32:46.23
AND I BELIEVE THAT THAT'S WHAT
GOD CALLS US TO TODAY - TO LOOK
00:32:46.23\00:32:49.06
AT HIS CREATION AND SAY, 'WHAT
CAN THAT TEACH ME ABOUT THE
00:32:49.06\00:32:52.27
FATHER'S LOVE. HOW
CAN THE BEAUTY OF HIS
00:32:52.27\00:32:55.70
CREATION, THOUGH MARRED WITH
SIN, HOW CAN THE BEAUTY OF HIS
00:32:55.70\00:32:59.14
CREATION TEACH ME OF THE FATHER
TODAY? ON THURSDAY'S LESSON THE
00:32:59.14\00:33:07.65
FOCUS IS ON THE
RESTORATION OF DOMINION.
00:33:07.65\00:33:12.62
YES, OF COURSE, AS WAS MENTIONED
EARLIER, JESUS WILL COME AND
00:33:12.62\00:33:16.02
THAT SECOND COMING - THE GLORY
OF THE FATHER - AND JESUS WILL
00:33:16.02\00:33:20.46
AGAIN RESTORE
DOMINION TO THE EARTH.
00:33:20.46\00:33:23.87
EVERY KNEE WILL BOW BEFORE
HIM. THERE WILL BE NO MORE SIN.
00:33:23.87\00:33:27.50
THERE'LL BE NO MORE DEATH,
NO MORE PAIN, NO MORE SUFFERING.
00:33:27.50\00:33:31.67
BUT CAN DOMINION BE
RESTORED IN OUR LIVES TODAY?
00:33:31.67\00:33:37.71
COULD THERE BE SOMETHING THAT IS
DOMINATING US, RATHER THAN THE
00:33:37.71\00:33:43.02
POWER AND THE
CHARACTER OF CHRIST?
00:33:43.02\00:33:47.79
IN PSALMS 119, VERSE 133 WE
READ, "DIRECT MY STEPS BY YOUR
00:33:47.79\00:33:53.40
WORD, AND LET NO
INIQUITY HAVE DOMINION OVER ME."
00:33:53.40\00:34:00.44
PSALMS 19 AND VERSE 13 SAYS,
"KEEP BACK YOUR SERVANT ALSO
00:34:00.44\00:34:04.71
FROM PRESUMPTUOUS SINS; LET
THEM NOT HAVE DOMINION OVER ME."
00:34:04.71\00:34:11.88
ROMANS CHAPTER 6 AND VERSE 14 -
TURN WITH ME THERE - WE'RE GOING
00:34:11.88\00:34:16.92
TO TURN TO ROMANS
CHAPTER 6 AND VERSE 14.
00:34:16.92\00:34:20.72
AGAIN, IT IS CONTINUING
THIS THEME OF DOMINION - ROMANS
00:34:20.72\00:34:25.46
CHAPTER 6 AND VERSE 14 - AND THE
BIBLE SAYS, "FOR SIN SHALL NOT
00:34:25.46\00:34:40.74
HAVE DOMINION OVER YOU, FOR YOU
ARE NOT UNDER LAW BUT UNDER" -
00:34:40.74\00:34:46.18
WHAT? - "UNDER
GRACE." SIN SHALL NOT HAVE
00:34:46.18\00:34:51.42
DOMINION OVER YOU.
NOTICE, DOES GOD SAY 'SOMEDAY
00:34:51.42\00:34:55.49
WHEN I COME IN THE HEAVENS AND
WHEN I REGAIN THIS EARTH, SIN
00:34:55.49\00:34:59.59
WILL NOT HAVE DOMINION
OVER YOU.' DOES HE PUT IT
00:34:59.59\00:35:03.13
IN THAT FUTURE TENSE? NO.
00:35:03.13\00:35:06.43
INSTEAD, JESUS IS SAYING, 'I
WANT YOU TO EXPERIENCE VICTORY
00:35:06.43\00:35:09.97
IN YOUR LIFE TODAY. I
DON'T WANT SIN TO HAVE
00:35:09.97\00:35:15.01
DOMINION OVER YOU ANY MORE.
I WANT YOU TO EXPERIENCE THE
00:35:15.01\00:35:19.75
FREEDOM OF A LIFE FULLY AND
COMPLETELY SURRENDERED TO ME.
00:35:19.75\00:35:26.29
TURN WITH ME IN YOUR
BIBLES TO JOHN CHAPTER 16.
00:35:26.29\00:35:30.03
AGAIN, JESUS IS SPEAKING TO
HIS FOLLOWERS SOON BEFORE HIS
00:35:30.03\00:35:34.50
CRUCIFIXION. WE ARE
IN JOHN CHAPTER 16 AND
00:35:34.50\00:35:40.04
WE'LL BE
CONSIDERING VERSES 32 AND 33.
00:35:40.04\00:35:45.27
JOHN CHAPTER 16,
CONSIDERING VERSES 32 AND 33.
00:35:45.27\00:35:56.22
AGAIN, REMEMBER THAT JESUS
IS TOWARDS HIS CLOSING HOURS.
00:35:56.22\00:36:00.82
HE IS LONGING TO GIVE THEM A
MESSAGE THAT WILL SUSTAIN THEM -
00:36:00.82\00:36:05.56
THAT WILL ENCOURAGE THEM,
ESPECIALLY AS THE CLOSING SCENES
00:36:05.56\00:36:10.33
ARE UPON THEM. IN
VERSE 32 WE READ, "INDEED THE
00:36:10.33\00:36:14.67
HOUR IS COMING, YES, HAS
NOW COME, THAT YOU WILL BE
00:36:14.67\00:36:20.18
SCATTERED, EACH TO HIS
OWN, AND WILL LEAVE ME ALONE.
00:36:20.18\00:36:24.75
AND YET I AM NOT ALONE,
BECAUSE THE FATHER IS WITH ME."
00:36:24.75\00:36:28.88
- VERSE 33 - "THESE THINGS I
HAVE SPOKEN TO YOU, THAT IN ME
00:36:28.88\00:36:32.72
YOU MAY HAVE" - WHAT? - "PEACE.
IN THE WORLD YOU WILL" - NOTICE
00:36:32.72\00:36:39.13
IT DOES NOT SAY 'YOU MIGHT'
OR 'IT COULD POSSIBLY HAPPEN' -
00:36:39.13\00:36:42.90
"IN THE WORLD YOU WILL
HAVE TRIBULATION; BUT BE
00:36:42.90\00:36:48.34
OF GOOD CHEER," - WHY? -
"I HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD."
00:36:48.34\00:36:55.71
'YES, IN THE WORLD
YOU WILL HAVE TRIALS.
00:36:55.71\00:36:58.08
YES, THERE WILL BE TEMPTATIONS,
BUT DO REMEMBER THAT MY DOMINION
00:36:58.08\00:37:01.78
IS ASSURED - THAT MY KINGDOM IS
THE ONE THAT WILL LAST FOREVER.
00:37:01.78\00:37:08.06
BE OF GOOD CHEER, I HAVE
OVERCOME THE WORLD.' YOU KNOW
00:37:08.06\00:37:14.93
WHAT AMAZES ME
ABOUT THIS PASSAGE?
00:37:14.93\00:37:17.77
JOHN 16 AND VERSE 33, WAS IT
WRITTEN - OR WAS IT SPOKEN, I
00:37:17.77\00:37:22.37
SHOULD SAY, PRIOR TO THE
CRUCIFIXION OR FOLLOWING THE
00:37:22.37\00:37:27.78
CRUCIFIXION? PRIOR TO THE
CRUCIFIXION. HERE IS JESUS
00:37:27.78\00:37:34.35
CHRIST KNOWING THAT SOON HE WILL
BE IN A GARDEN PLEADING WITH
00:37:34.35\00:37:40.39
GOD, 'IF THERE'S ANY OTHER WAY,
HELP ME NOT TO DRINK THIS CUP.'
00:37:40.39\00:37:45.36
JESUS KNOWING THAT SOON THE
PRESENCE OF THE FATHER WILL BE
00:37:45.36\00:37:49.50
WITHDRAWN, KNOWING THAT SOON
HE WILL BE BEATEN, HE WILL BE
00:37:49.50\00:37:53.80
MOCKED, HIS DISCIPLES WILL
ABANDON HIM - KNOWING THAT SOON
00:37:53.80\00:37:58.21
HE WILL GO THROUGH HIS DARKEST
HOUR AS THERE HE HANGS ON A
00:37:58.21\00:38:01.58
CROSS AND HE LONGS TO HEAR
THE ASSURANCE FROM THE FATHER.
00:38:01.58\00:38:05.85
HE LONGS TO HAVE HIS FATHER SAY,
'THIS IS MY BELOVED SON IN WHOM
00:38:05.85\00:38:10.69
I AM WELL PLEASED.' AND YET, THE
HEAVENS ARE SILENT, AND YET HE
00:38:10.69\00:38:16.69
GOES INTO THAT GRAVE WONDERING
IF HE WILL COME OUT AGAIN.
00:38:16.69\00:38:22.76
BUT NOTICE THAT JESUS CAN SAY,
BY FAITH, 'I HAVE OVERCOME THE
00:38:22.76\00:38:29.24
WORLD.' EVEN THOUGH HIS DARKEST
HOUR WAS BEFORE HIM, BY FAITH
00:38:29.24\00:38:35.31
JESUS COULD SAY, 'I HAVE
OVERCOME THE WORLD.' YOU KNOW,
00:38:35.31\00:38:42.15
BROTHERS AND SISTERS, IT
IS THE SAME FOR US TODAY.
00:38:42.15\00:38:46.72
SOMETIMES, IN THEORY, WE
SAY, 'WELL, THAT'S WONDERFUL.
00:38:46.72\00:38:51.33
SIN CAN BE OVERCOME. IT DOESN'T
NEED TO HAVE DOMINION OVER ME.
00:38:51.33\00:38:55.06
I CAN EXPERIENCE THAT FREEDOM.'
AND WE SEE IT AS THEORY, BUT
00:38:55.06\00:39:00.50
WHEN IT BECOMES APPLICATION
WE SAY IT'S IMPOSSIBLE.
00:39:00.50\00:39:04.97
'I'VE BEEN STRUGGLING
WITH THIS SIN FOR YEARS.
00:39:04.97\00:39:08.84
I'VE BEEN DEALING WITH
THIS FAMILY PROBLEM FOR DECADES.
00:39:08.84\00:39:13.42
IT'S NICE JESUS CAN HAVE
VICTORY, BUT HOW CAN IT BE
00:39:13.42\00:39:17.42
EXPERIENCED IN MY LIFE?'
AND YET, BY FAITH, EVEN IN HIS
00:39:17.42\00:39:22.29
DARKEST HOUR, JESUS CAN SAY, 'I
HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD.' NOT,
00:39:22.29\00:39:28.90
'I MIGHT'. NOT, 'I'LL TRY'.
'I HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD.' AND
00:39:28.90\00:39:37.04
I BELIEVE IT'S THE
SAME IN OUR LIVES TODAY.
00:39:37.04\00:39:40.91
WHEN THE DEVIL, LIKE THAT
ROARING LION, RAISES UP HIS
00:39:40.91\00:39:44.11
HEAD, WE CAN AGAIN SAY, 'SIN
SHALL NOT HAVE DOMINION OVER ME.
00:39:44.11\00:39:49.78
THROUGH THE GRACE OF JESUS
CHRIST, I HAVE OVERCOME THE
00:39:49.78\00:39:56.62
WORLD.' THE STORY IS TOLD OF A
CIVILIAN THAT WAS LOOKING ON AS
00:39:56.62\00:40:05.13
NAPOLEON WAS
PREPARING HIS ARMY FOR BATTLE.
00:40:05.13\00:40:10.21
THE BATTLE THAT THEY WERE ABOUT
TO FACE WAS ONE IN WHICH IT
00:40:10.21\00:40:15.44
SEEMED IT WOULD BE
IMPOSSIBLE FOR THEM TO WIN.
00:40:15.44\00:40:19.45
YOU SEE, THE OTHER ARMY WAS
MUCH STRONGER, THEIR WEAPONS FAR
00:40:19.45\00:40:24.12
GREATER, THE
NUMBERS WERE AGAINST THEM.
00:40:24.12\00:40:29.52
AND YET, AS THIS CIVILIAN LOOKED
ON, HE SAW A GROUP OF SOLDIERS
00:40:29.52\00:40:34.50
THAT WERE EXCITED - THAT WERE
SINGING - THAT WERE JOKING AS
00:40:34.50\00:40:40.87
THEY PREPARED FOR THE WAR
THAT WOULD OCCUR THE NEXT DAY.
00:40:40.87\00:40:46.17
THE CIVILIAN LOOKED ON IN
SURPRISE AND HE SAID, 'THIS
00:40:46.17\00:40:49.21
DOESN'T MAKE SENSE.
DON'T YOU KNOW THAT TOMORROW
00:40:49.21\00:40:52.88
YOU'RE GOING TO WAR?
DON'T YOU KNOW THAT THE ENEMY
00:40:52.88\00:40:56.45
IS SO MUCH GREATER THAN
YOU? HOW COULD YOU BE HAPPY WHEN
00:40:56.45\00:41:03.32
CERTAIN DEATH
FACES YOU TOMORROW?'
00:41:03.32\00:41:07.50
AND YET, THE SOLDIERS TURNED TO
HIM WITH A SMILE AND THEY SAID,
00:41:07.50\00:41:13.54
'WE ARE NOT AFRAID OF DEATH, FOR
OUR COMMANDER HAS NEVER LOST A
00:41:13.54\00:41:20.31
BATTLE. IT DOES
NOT MATTER HOW GREAT
00:41:20.31\00:41:24.48
THE OTHER ARMY IS, IT
DOES NOT MATTER HOW POWERFUL
00:41:24.48\00:41:27.88
THEY MAY SEEM. WE
ARE NOT AFRAID OF DEATH.
00:41:27.88\00:41:32.02
BRING ON ANY TRIAL, ANY
TRIBULATION, BECAUSE, YOU SEE,
00:41:32.02\00:41:35.56
WE SERVE A COMMANDER THAT HAS
NOT LOST A BATTLE.' I BELIEVE
00:41:35.56\00:41:41.83
TODAY, BY FAITH, WE CAN
CLAIM THE SAME, CAN WE NOT?
00:41:41.83\00:41:46.30
WHEN THOSE BATTLES - WHEN THOSE
TRIALS - WHEN SIN SEEKS TO HAVE
00:41:46.30\00:41:50.54
THAT DOMINION OVER US AGAIN
TODAY, WE CAN SAY, BY FAITH,
00:41:50.54\00:41:55.04
'NO, SATAN. BECAUSE
YOU SEE, I SERVE A GOD -
00:41:55.04\00:41:59.58
I SERVE A COMMANDER WHO HAS
NOT LOST A BATTLE.' GOD WILL -
00:41:59.58\00:42:04.89
GOD CAN BE VICTORIOUS
IN US. BY FAITH I HAVE
00:42:04.89\00:42:11.36
OVERCOME THE WORLD.
YOU SEE, WE HAVE BECOME SO
00:42:11.36\00:42:18.73
DESENSITIZED TO THE DEVIL'S
DOMINION, TO THE FALL FROM
00:42:18.73\00:42:24.87
PERFECTION THAT IS
EXPERIENCED IN THIS EARTH.
00:42:24.87\00:42:29.04
WHEN ADAM FIRST SAW A LEAF FALL
FROM THE TREE AND DIE, WHAT WAS
00:42:29.04\00:42:34.58
HIS RESPONSE? HE WAS
HEARTBROKEN - TEARS - HE
00:42:34.58\00:42:40.06
CRIED AS WE CRY TODAY
WHEN WE LOSE A LOVED ONE.
00:42:40.06\00:42:44.96
AND YET, TODAY, WHEN WE SEE
LEAVES FALL FROM A TREE, WHAT DO
00:42:44.96\00:42:47.96
WE SAY? ISN'T AUTUMN BEAUTIFUL?
THE FALL WEATHER IS GORGEOUS.
00:42:47.96\00:42:56.04
WE HAVE BECOME SO DESENSITIZED
TO THE EFFECTS OF SIN AROUND US.
00:42:56.04\00:43:03.55
IMAGINE ON THAT DAY WHEN
THE EARTH IS FULLY RESTORED.
00:43:03.55\00:43:09.58
IMAGINE ON THAT DAY WHEN
ADAM WILL SEE THAT NEWLY CREATED
00:43:09.58\00:43:13.69
EARTH - WHEN SIN WILL BE NO MORE
BUT THE LORD WILL HAVE COMPLETE
00:43:13.69\00:43:19.46
DOMINION OVER HIS
HANDIWORK YET AGAIN.
00:43:19.46\00:43:23.80
I WANT TO READ TO YOU A
BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL PASSAGE
00:43:23.80\00:43:28.40
FROM ADVENTIST HOME .
THIS IS FOUND IN PAGES 540 AND
00:43:28.40\00:43:32.44
541, ABOUT WHAT THAT REUNION
WILL BE LIKE WHEN ADAM COMES
00:43:32.44\00:43:38.38
INTO THIS
RESTORED EARTH YET AGAIN.
00:43:38.38\00:43:42.85
PICTURE THIS SCENE WITH
ME IN YOUR MINDS AS I READ.
00:43:42.85\00:43:48.46
"AFTER HIS EXPULSION FROM EDEN,
ADAM'S LIFE ON EARTH WAS FILLED
00:43:48.46\00:43:53.09
WITH SORROW. EVERY
DYING LEAF - EVERY VICTIM
00:43:53.09\00:43:57.40
OF SACRIFICE - EVERY BLIGHT UPON
THE FAIR FACE OF NATURE - EVERY
00:43:57.40\00:44:02.20
STAIN UPON MAN'S PURITY
WERE FRESH REMINDERS OF HIS SIN.
00:44:02.20\00:44:09.41
IMAGINE, AGAIN, ADAM LIVED FOR
HUNDREDS OF YEARS FOLLOWING HIS
00:44:09.41\00:44:13.25
SIN AND HE HAD TO WATCH
AS BABIES DIED, AS THE WORLD
00:44:13.25\00:44:19.09
DECAYED, AS PEOPLE
ACCUSED HIM: 'WHY DID YOU SIN?
00:44:19.09\00:44:23.32
WHY DID YOU EAT
THAT PIECE OF FRUIT?'
00:44:23.32\00:44:26.73
FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS HE
EXPERIENCED THIS DEFEAT IN HIS
00:44:26.73\00:44:31.37
LIFE. "FAITHFULLY," - IT SAYS
- "DID HE REPENT OF HIS SIN AND
00:44:31.37\00:44:37.57
TRUST IN THE MERITS
OF THE PROMISED SAVIOR.
00:44:37.57\00:44:40.78
AND HE DIED IN THE
HOPE OF RESURRECTION.
00:44:40.78\00:44:44.98
THE SON OF GOD REDEEMED
MAN'S FAILURE AND FALL AND NOW,
00:44:44.98\00:44:49.35
THROUGH THE WORK OF ATONEMENT,
ADAM IS REINSTATED IN HIS FIRST
00:44:49.35\00:44:53.72
DOMINION. PICTURE THIS WITH
ME NOW, TRANSPORTED WITH JOY, HE
00:44:53.72\00:45:01.40
BEHOLDS THE VERY TREES THAT WERE
ONCE HIS DELIGHT. THE VERY TREES
00:45:01.40\00:45:07.14
WHOSE FRUIT HE HIMSELF
HAD GATHERED IN THE DAYS OF
00:45:07.14\00:45:10.51
INNOCENCE AND JOY. HE SEES THE
VINES THAT HIS OWN HANDS HAVE
00:45:10.51\00:45:17.11
TRAINED - THE VERY FLOWERS THAT
HE ONCE LOVED TO CARE FOR. HIS
00:45:17.11\00:45:23.95
MIND GRASPED THE REALITY OF THE
SCENE. HE COMPREHENDS THAT THIS
00:45:23.95\00:45:28.29
IS INDEED EDEN RESTORED,
MORE LOVELY NOW THAN WHEN HE WAS
00:45:28.29\00:45:34.20
BANISHED FROM IT. THE SAVIOR
LEADS HIM TO THE TREE OF LIFE
00:45:34.20\00:45:39.50
AND HE PLUCKS THE GLORIOUS FRUIT
AND HE BIDS HIM TO EAT IT. HE
00:45:39.50\00:45:47.91
LOOKS ABOUT HIM AND BEHOLDS
THE MULTITUDE OF HIS FAMILY
00:45:47.91\00:45:52.05
REDEEMED, STANDING IN THE
PARADISE OF GOD. THEN HE CASTS
00:45:52.05\00:45:59.59
HIS GLITTERING CROWN AT THE FEET
OF JESUS AND, FALLING UPON HIS
00:45:59.59\00:46:03.76
BREAST, EMBRACES THE REDEEMER.
HE TOUCHES THE GOLDEN HARP AND
00:46:03.76\00:46:08.96
THE VAULTS OF HEAVEN ECHO
THE TRIUMPHANT SONG, 'WORTHY,
00:46:08.96\00:46:12.93
WORTHY, WORTHY, IS THE LAMB THAT
WAS SLAIN AND THAT LIVES AGAIN.'
00:46:12.93\00:46:19.71
THE FAMILY OF ADAM TAKE UP THE
STRAIN AND CASTING THEIR CROWNS
00:46:19.71\00:46:23.11
AT THE SAVIOR'S FEET, THEY
BOW BEFORE HIM." CAN YOU IMAGINE
00:46:23.11\00:46:29.55
THAT BEAUTIFUL SCENE? IMAGINE
WHAT IT WILL BE LIKE, BY THE
00:46:29.55\00:46:34.16
GRACE OF GOD, ONE DAY SOON TO
LOOK ON AS THE FIRST ADAM MEETS
00:46:34.16\00:46:40.26
THE SECOND ADAM. THE ONE
WHO DIED SO THAT EDEN COULD BE
00:46:40.26\00:46:46.20
RESTORED, SO THAT THE DOMINATION
WOULD NO LONGER BE UNDER THE
00:46:46.20\00:46:50.41
RULE OF SATAN BUT THAT JESUS
COULD, ONCE AGAIN, RULE OVER
00:46:50.41\00:46:54.08
THIS WORLD IN SERVANT
LEADERSHIP. IMAGINE, AGAIN, THE
00:46:54.08\00:46:59.58
PRIDE THAT ADAM MUST HAVE HAD
AS HE TRAINED THE VINES, AS HE
00:46:59.58\00:47:05.42
NURTURED THE FRUIT, AS HE VIEWED
THE BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS AND NOW
00:47:05.42\00:47:10.03
JESUS COMES TO HIM AND HE SAYS,
'YOU KNOW THIS TREE OF LIFE,
00:47:10.03\00:47:13.23
THAT YOU COULD NO LONGER PARTAKE
OF, THAT I HAD TO BLOCK YOU FROM
00:47:13.23\00:47:18.23
LEST YOU LIVE ETERNALLY IN YOUR
SIN?' AND JESUS TAKES A PIECE OF
00:47:18.23\00:47:23.77
FRUIT FROM THAT TREE
AND HE SAYS, 'EAT, ADAM,
00:47:23.77\00:47:29.44
BECAUSE YOU SEE, ALL THINGS HAVE
BECOME NEW.' I WANT TO BE THERE
00:47:29.44\00:47:37.29
ON THAT DAY, DON'T YOU? TO
SEE THE BEAUTY OF THAT DAY -
00:47:37.29\00:47:42.12
SIN NO LONGER HAVING DOMINION
BUT JESUS REIGNING IN OUR LIVES.
00:47:42.12\00:47:47.86
THE STORY IS
TOLD OF A MISSIONARY.
00:47:47.86\00:47:52.10
HE WAS RAISED IN A VERY AFFLUENT
FAMILY, A FAMILY THAT WAS
00:47:52.10\00:47:57.17
LOVING, THAT WAS NURTURING -
A FAMILY THAT ALWAYS DESIRED HIS
00:47:57.17\00:48:03.41
GOOD - THAT WAS AFFIRMING.
BUT YOU SEE, THIS MAN HAD A
00:48:03.41\00:48:07.72
BURDEN - A BURDEN FOR A
GROUP OF UNREACHED PEOPLE.
00:48:07.72\00:48:13.19
AND HE WENT BEFORE HIS FATHER
AND HE TOLD HIM OF HIS BURDEN.
00:48:13.19\00:48:16.56
YOU SEE, THIS GROUP OF
PEOPLE KNEW NOTHING OF GOD.
00:48:16.56\00:48:19.63
AND HE LONGED TO GO AND TELL
THEM THE STORY OF REDEMPTION.
00:48:19.63\00:48:24.80
AS HE GOES BEFORE HIS FATHER AND
HE PLEADS, THE FATHER, AT FIRST,
00:48:24.80\00:48:30.07
IS HESITANT TO GIVE HIM
PERMISSION BECAUSE, YOU SEE,
00:48:30.07\00:48:33.78
THESE PEOPLE WERE
QUITE A WAYS AWAY.
00:48:33.78\00:48:37.85
THE SON WOULD LIKELY HAVE TO
ENDURE GREAT TRIBULATIONS AND
00:48:37.85\00:48:41.75
TRIALS AND DEATH.
COULD HE LET HIS SON GO?
00:48:41.75\00:48:49.36
AND YET, FINALLY, THE FATHER
GIVES HIS BLESSING AND THE SON
00:48:49.36\00:48:54.20
BEGINS HIS JOURNEY.
THE STORY IS TOLD THAT WHEN
00:48:54.20\00:49:00.47
THIS SON ARRIVED, YOU
MAY HAVE EXPECTED HE WOULD
00:49:00.47\00:49:02.87
RECEIVE A HERO'S WELCOME.
AND, AT FIRST, THERE WAS SOME
00:49:02.87\00:49:06.71
GREETING, BUT IT WAS
NOT LONG BEFORE POLITICAL
00:49:06.71\00:49:10.81
RIOTS BEGAN TO OCCUR.
IT WAS NOT LONG BEFORE THIS
00:49:10.81\00:49:15.68
MISSIONARY HAD TO
FLEE FOR HIS LIFE.
00:49:15.68\00:49:20.56
THERE HE WAS, NOW A REFUGEE
IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY, BUT STILL
00:49:20.56\00:49:26.06
LONGING TO RETURN TO THIS
UNREACHED GROUP OF PEOPLE.
00:49:26.06\00:49:30.77
THEY WERE THE
BURDEN OF HIS HEART.
00:49:30.77\00:49:34.80
ONCE THE UPRISING CALMED DOWN,
HE SOON WAS ABLE TO RETURN.
00:49:34.80\00:49:40.61
THE FOCUS OF HIS LIFE - ALL OF
HIS ENERGY - WAS DEVOTED IN 'HOW
00:49:40.61\00:49:45.11
CAN I HELP THESE
PEOPLE? HOW CAN I SHOW THEM
00:49:45.11\00:49:48.68
WHO GOD TRULY IS?
HOW CAN I NURTURE THEM?
00:49:48.68\00:49:52.49
HOW CAN I HELP
THEM WHEN THEY'RE SICK?
00:49:52.49\00:49:54.32
HOW CAN I ENCOURAGE
THEM WHEN THEY'RE DEPRESSED?'
00:49:54.32\00:49:57.59
AS YOU COULD IMAGINE, ALL OF
THIS CARETAKING COULD QUICKLY
00:49:57.59\00:50:01.30
BECOME DRAINING. SO
THIS MISSIONARY MADE IT A
00:50:01.30\00:50:04.40
POINT TO GO OFF
INTO NATURE EVERY DAY.
00:50:04.40\00:50:09.84
AND AS HE WAS THERE IN NATURE,
HE WOULD READ THE LETTERS THAT
00:50:09.84\00:50:12.94
HE HAD RECEIVED FROM HOME -
THE LETTERS THAT SAID, 'SON, I'M
00:50:12.94\00:50:18.58
PROUD OF YOU.' 'SON,
YOU'RE DOING A GOOD JOB.'
00:50:18.58\00:50:23.95
'SON, I CARE ABOUT
YOU. I'M WITH YOU.'
00:50:23.95\00:50:28.72
AND HE WOULD READ THESE
LETTERS OVER AND OVER AND
00:50:28.72\00:50:31.73
OVER AGAIN UNTIL, QUITE
LITERALLY, THEY WERE MEMORIZED.
00:50:31.73\00:50:37.53
THE LETTERS FROM HOME THAT
HE TREASURED WITH ALL HIS HEART.
00:50:37.53\00:50:41.97
BUT IT WASN'T LONG BEFORE,
YET AGAIN, THERE WAS A POLITICAL
00:50:41.97\00:50:44.47
UPRISING. THIS
MISSIONARY COULD HAVE FLED.
00:50:44.47\00:50:49.04
HE COULD HAVE GONE HOME, BUT
THIS TIME HE CHOSE NOT TO FLEE.
00:50:49.04\00:50:55.92
THIS TIME HE SAID, 'I
WILL REMAIN EVEN AT THE COST OF
00:50:55.92\00:51:00.89
DEATH.' SOON HE
WAS INDEED CAPTURED.
00:51:00.89\00:51:05.69
SOON HE WAS
INDEED BROUGHT TO TRIAL.
00:51:05.69\00:51:10.87
BUT BEFORE THE VERDICT
WAS READ, IT WAS CLEAR.
00:51:10.87\00:51:16.30
HE KNEW HE WOULD
BE SENTENCED TO DEATH.
00:51:16.30\00:51:22.34
IMAGINE THIS MISSIONARY, AS HE
IS BEING LED TO HIS DEATH, HOW
00:51:22.34\00:51:29.18
HE LONGED TO RECEIVE YET
ANOTHER LETTER FROM HOME.
00:51:29.18\00:51:33.29
HOW HE LONGED TO, YET AGAIN,
READ THOSE WORDS, 'SON, I CARE
00:51:33.29\00:51:36.99
ABOUT YOU.' 'SON, I'M PROUD OF
YOU.' 'SON, YOU'RE DOING A GOOD
00:51:36.99\00:51:42.23
WORK.' HE LONGED TO HEAR THOSE
WORDS AGAIN, BUT YOU SEE, HEAVEN
00:51:42.23\00:51:48.97
WAS SILENT AS JESUS
HUNG UPON THAT CROSS.
00:51:48.97\00:51:56.85
NO WORDS FROM HEAVEN, NO LETTERS
OF AFFIRMATION - HEAVEN WAS
00:51:56.85\00:52:01.02
SILENT AS JESUS
HUNG UPON THAT CROSS.
00:52:01.02\00:52:05.62
YOU SEE, JESUS
DID NOT HAVE TO COME.
00:52:05.62\00:52:09.59
JESUS COULD HAVE SAID, 'IT
WAS YOUR CHOICE, YOUR FAULT.
00:52:09.59\00:52:13.50
NOW YOU REAP THE CONSEQUENCES
OF YOUR OWN DECISIONS.' BUT,
00:52:13.50\00:52:17.77
RATHER, JESUS LOOKED AT THIS
GROUP OF PEOPLE AND, EVEN THOUGH
00:52:17.77\00:52:20.64
HE WAS STILL IN PERFECTION,
EVEN THOUGH HE'S IN HIS FATHER'S
00:52:20.64\00:52:23.81
PRESENCE, HE SAYS, 'MY HEART
IS NOT SATISFIED AS LONG AS MY
00:52:23.81\00:52:28.84
PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING.' AND JESUS
WENT AS THAT MISSIONARY, WILLING
00:52:28.84\00:52:35.42
TO GIVE ALL SO THAT WE CAN
EXPERIENCE THE FREEDOM OF A LIFE
00:52:35.42\00:52:41.06
LIVED IN JESUS CHRIST. I
LOOK FORWARD TO THAT DAY WHEN
00:52:41.06\00:52:45.53
JESUS WILL COME AND WHEN JESUS
WILL TRULY MAKE ALL THINGS NEW -
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WHEN WE WILL SEE THAT DOMINION
IS FULLY RESTORED AND THAT THIS
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EARTH WILL BECOME THE
DWELLING PLACE OF GOD.
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DO YOU LOOK
FORWARD TO THAT DAY? AMEN.
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THIS WEEK MAY GOD BLESS US AS WE
CONTINUE TO GROW IN GRACE AND IN
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KNOWLEDGE OF HIM. (MUSIC)
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>>HAVE YOU EVER HEARD THE
EXPRESSION BEFORE, 'THEY EAT
00:54:17.65\00:54:19.69
LIKE A BIRD' TALKING ABOUT
SOMEBODY WHO HAS A MINUSCULE
00:54:19.69\00:54:22.62
APPETITE? WELL YOU
MIGHT WANT TO THINK
00:54:22.62\00:54:24.79
TWICE NEXT TIME YOU
USE THAT EXPRESSION.
00:54:24.79\00:54:27.30
FOR EXAMPLE, TAKE THE
HUMMINGBIRD: IN ORDER FOR IT TO
00:54:27.30\00:54:30.73
MAINTAIN ITS INCREDIBLE
METABOLISM, IT HAS TO EAT ABOUT
00:54:30.73\00:54:33.80
50-PERCENT OF ITS
BODY WEIGHT EVERY DAY.
00:54:33.80\00:54:37.47
TO PUT THAT IN PERSPECTIVE, IF
A HUNDRED-POUND WOMAN WAS TO EAT
00:54:37.47\00:54:40.78
LIKE A HUMMINGBIRD, SHE WOULD
HAVE TO EAT 50 POUNDS OF SUGAR A
00:54:40.78\00:54:44.05
DAY JUST TO MAINTAIN HER
BODY WEIGHT. IMAGINE THAT.
00:54:44.05\00:54:47.98
MAYBE YOU DON'T WANT TO IMAGINE
THAT, BUT PERHAPS YOU'LL WANT TO
00:54:47.98\00:54:51.22
CONSIDER THIS ANOTHER WAY: THE
HUMMINGBIRD TYPICALLY CONSUMES
00:54:51.22\00:54:54.49
BETWEEN FOUR TO SEVEN CALORIES A
DAY, ON THE OTHER HAND, A HUMAN:
00:54:54.49\00:54:58.03
ABOUT 3,500 CALORIES A DAY.
BUT IF YOU WERE TO EAT LIKE A
00:54:58.03\00:55:01.86
BIRD - A HUMMINGBIRD
- YOU'D HAVE TO EAT OVER
00:55:01.86\00:55:04.67
150,000 CALORIES A DAY.
THAT'S LIKE A MAN - 170 POUNDS
00:55:04.67\00:55:11.51
THAT WOULD BE
EATING 3,000 OREO COOKIES.
00:55:11.51\00:55:15.18
UNDER NORMAL CONDITIONS, A
HUMMINGBIRD NEEDS TO EAT EVERY
00:55:15.18\00:55:18.18
FIVE OR TEN MINUTES, BUT THERE'S
ACTUALLY ONE TIME DURING THE
00:55:18.18\00:55:20.98
YEAR THE HUMMINGBIRD WILL
EAT ITS ENTIRE BODY WEIGHT EVERY
00:55:20.98\00:55:24.32
DAY. YOU SEE,
ONCE A YEAR THEY MAKE
00:55:24.32\00:55:27.56
THIS MIGRATION 500 MILES ACROSS
THE GULF OF MEXICO FROM TEXAS
00:55:27.56\00:55:32.06
TO THE YUCATAN PENINSULA.
IN ORDER TO DO THAT, THE
00:55:32.06\00:55:36.67
HUMMINGBIRD FEASTS ON NECTAR AND
GORGES THEMSELVES ON THIS NECTAR
00:55:36.67\00:55:41.14
FOR ABOUT A WEEK,
DOUBLING THEIR BODY WEIGHT.
00:55:41.14\00:55:44.31
THAT'S THE ONLY WAY THEY CAN
STORE ENOUGH CALORIES TO HELP
00:55:44.31\00:55:46.68
THEM WITH THEIR 70-WING BEATS
PER SECOND OR ROUGHLY 4 MILLION
00:55:46.68\00:55:51.31
WING BEATS ON THAT JOURNEY.
YOU KNOW, IN THE SAME WAY,
00:55:51.31\00:55:54.68
FRIENDS, AS WE NEAR THE END OF
TIME, WE NEED TO BE FEASTING AND
00:55:54.68\00:55:58.02
GORGING OURSELVES ON
THE NECTAR OF GOD'S WORD.
00:55:58.02\00:56:00.96
WE'VE GOT TO BE ABLE TO HAVE
THAT STRENGTH TO GET US THROUGH
00:56:00.96\00:56:03.02
THE TIMES OF
TROUBLE THAT ARE AHEAD.
00:56:03.02\00:56:04.96
SO WHEN IT COMES TO THE BIBLE
AND YOUR PERSONAL DEVOTIONS, IF
00:56:04.96\00:56:07.93
YOU'RE GOING TO EAT LIKE A
BIRD, EAT LIKE A HUMMINGBIRD.
00:56:07.93\00:56:11.53
(MUSIC) >>AMAZING FACTS, THROUGH
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YOUR FAITHFUL SUPPORT, HAS HAD
A MAJOR IMPACT ON SOME OF THE
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LARGEST NON-CHRISTIAN
LOCATIONS IN THE WORLD.
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AFCOE GLOBAL OPENED UP CENTER OF
EVANGELISM SCHOOLS IN INDIA, THE
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UKRAINE, THE UNITED KINGDOM,
AND EVEN IN THE PHILIPPINES.
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>>IT'S PEOPLE ON THE GROUND, IN
THE CHURCH, ON THE DOOR, IN THE
00:56:50.04\00:56:54.04
HOME, DOING BIBLE STUDIES,
WITNESSING TO PEOPLE, WINNING
00:56:54.04\00:56:58.05
THEM TO JESUS, LEADING THEM TO
BAPTISM - IN ENGLAND, IN INDIA,
00:56:58.05\00:57:02.25
IN AFRICA - OR ANYWHERE AROUND
THE WORLD - BUT YOU'RE SEEING
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CHANGE, ON A
PERSONAL LEVEL, TAKE PLACE.
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>>YOU KNOW, EVERY WEEK WE HEAR
THE MOST INCREDIBLE STORIES FROM
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ALL OVER THE GLOBE, OF
LIVES THAT ARE BEING CHANGED AND
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HEARTS THAT ARE BEING
TRANSFORMED BY THE POWER OF THE
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WORD. AND NONE
OF IT COULD HAPPEN
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WITHOUT THE BLESSING OF
GOD AND OUR PARTNERSHIP - YOUR
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TEAMWORK WITH THIS
MINISTRY. GOD BLESS YOU.
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(MUSIC) >>DID YOU KNOW THAT NOAH
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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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