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>>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS,
WE'D LIKE TO WELCOME YOU ALL TO
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SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR. A
VERY WARM WELCOME, ONCE AGAIN,
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TO OUR FRIENDS JOINING US ACROSS
THE COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD
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FOR OUR EXTENDED
SABBATH SCHOOL CLASS TODAY.
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ALSO, A WARM WELCOME TO THE
MEMBERS HERE AT THE GRANITE BAY
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CHURCH AND THOSE WHO ARE
VISITING WITH US - ALSO OUR
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AFCOE TEAM THAT'S JOINING US
TODAY - A VERY WARM WELCOME TO
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YOU. AFCOE IS THE AMAZING FACTS
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CENTER OF EVANGELISM. WE
HAVE A NUMBER OF STUDENTS
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THAT ARE JOINING US FOR A
FOUR-MONTH TRAINING PROGRAM
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STARTING THIS WEEKEND. SO
WELCOME, GLAD YOU'RE HERE.
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NOW, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR
STUDY OF OUR LESSON TODAY, WE
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WOULD LIKE TO LET YOU KNOW ABOUT
A FREE OFFER THAT WE HAVE, A
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BOOK WRITTEN BY PASTOR DOUG
BATCHELOR CALLED THE TRUTH ABOUT
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MARY MAGDALENE .
IT'S A GREAT BIBLE STUDY
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LOOKING AT THIS IMPORTANT BIBLE
CHARACTER IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
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MARY MAGDALENE - IF YOU'D LIKE
TO RECEIVE A FREE COPY OF OUR
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OFFER TODAY, GIVE US A CALL ON
THE RESOURCE PHONE NUMBER - THE
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NUMBER IS 866-788-3966 AND YOU
CAN ASK FOR OFFER #801 - THAT
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NUMBER, AGAIN, IS 866-788-3966
- OFFER #801 - A BOOK CALLED THE
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TRUTH ABOUT MARY MAGDALENE AND
WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND THAT TO
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ANYBODY IN NORTH AMERICA
WHO GIVES US A CALL AND ASKS.
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BEFORE WE GET TO OUR
STUDY DEALING WITH JESUS SHOWING
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SYMPATHY - IT'S LESSON
#8 IN OUR LESSON QUARTERLY -
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WE ALWAYS LIKE TO
BEGIN BY LIFTING OUR
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VOICES IN PRAISE. SO
I'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR SONG
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LEADERS TO JOIN ME AND JOIN
IN WITH US AS WE SING TOGETHER.
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(SOFT PIANO MUSIC)
>>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS.
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WELL, THIS WEEK WE'RE
GOING TO SING ABOUT HEAVEN.
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THE WORLD IS REALLY IN A BAD
PLACE AND IT GETS WORSE EVERY
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DAY SO THE HOPE THAT WE HAVE IS
GOING TO HEAVEN AND WE'RE GOING
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TO SING ABOUT THAT.
HYMN #633 - WHEN WE ALL GET
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TO HEAVEN - WHAT A DAY
OF REJOICING THAT WILL BE!
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WE'LL SING THE FIRST, THE THIRD
AND THE LAST VERSES OF #633.
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(PIANO MUSIC) >>SING THE
WONDROUS LOVE OF JESUS, SING
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HIS MERCY AND HIS GRACE; IN
THE MANSIONS BRIGHT AND BLESSED
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HE'LL PREPARE FOR US A PLACE.
WHEN WE ALL GET TO HEAVEN, WHAT
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A DAY OF REJOICING THAT WILL
BE! WHEN WE ALL SEE JESUS, WE'LL
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SING AND SHOUT THE
VICTORY! LET US THEN BE TRUE AND
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FAITHFUL, TRUSTING SERVING EVERY
DAY; JUST ONE GLIMPSE OF HIM IN
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GLORY WILL THE
TOILS OF LIFE REPAY.
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WHEN WE ALL GET TO HEAVEN, WHAT
A DAY OF REJOICING THAT WILL BE!
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WHEN WE ALL SEE JESUS, WE'LL
SING AND SHOUT THE VICTORY!
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ONWARD TO THE PRIZE BEFORE US!
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SOON HIS BEAUTY WE'LL BEHOLD;
SOON THE PEARLY GATES WILL OPEN
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- WE SHALL TREAD
THE STREETS OF GOLD!
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WHEN WE ALL GET TO HEAVEN, WHAT
A DAY OF REJOICING THAT WILL BE!
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WHEN WE ALL SEE JESUS, WE'LL
SING AND SHOUT THE VICTORY!
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>>I PRAY THAT YOU ARE LOOKING
FORWARD TO THAT DAY LIKE WE ARE.
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AT THIS TIME, PASTOR
ROSS WILL LEAD US IN PRAYER.
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>>THANK YOU SO MUCH.
WHAT A BEAUTIFUL SONG.
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NOW, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY,
FROM TIME TO TIME HERE AT THE
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GRANITE BAY CHURCH, WE LIKE TO
HIGHLIGHT ONE MISSION ACTIVITY
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OR SOME OUTREACH THAT SOME
OF OUR MEMBERS ARE INVOLVED IN -
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MAYBE SOMETHING THAT AMAZING
FACTS IS DOING - AND SO I'M JUST
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DELIGHTED THAT
TAMMY IS WITH US AGAIN.
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TAMMY IS A MEMBER OF THE
GRANITE BAY CHURCH FROM THE VERY
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BEGINNING, BUT SHE AND HER
HUSBAND DAVE - TAMMY AND DAVE
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STEENSEN HAVE SPENT QUITE A
WHILE DOWN IN SOUTHERN MEXICO
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EMBARKING ON A MISSION ENDEAVOR
THAT THE CHURCH HAS SORT OF
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ENCOURAGED AND
PARTICIPATED WITH THEM.
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SO, FROM TIME TO TIME, TAMMY'S
ABLE TO GIVE US AN UPDATE ON
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WHAT'S BEEN GOING ON
DOWN IN SOUTHERN MEXICO.
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SO TAMMY, WELCOME -
WE'RE GLAD YOU'RE HERE.
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>>THANK YOU, PASTOR. >>I
AM GOING TO - IT'S ON - YES.
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>>THANK YOU, PASTOR. WELCOME
EVERYONE AND IT IS GREAT TO SEE
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MY CHURCH FAMILY HERE. I AM BACK
FOR FOUR MONTHS TO BE WITH THE
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AFCOE SESSION, BUT I JUST
RECENTLY CAME FROM MEXICO - I
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WAS DOWN THERE FOR EIGHT MONTHS.
AND WE HAVE, IF YOU DON'T KNOW,
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MY HUSBAND AND I - DAVID - HAVE
A HEALTH AND EDUCATION CENTER
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DOWN THERE IN A LOCAL VILLAGE
CALLED MASUMIAPAN VERACRUZ.
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>>ALRIGHT, WE'VE
GOT SOME PICTURES.
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I WANT TO GIVE YOU THE REMOTE -
AND IF YOU WANT TO KIND OF WALK
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US THROUGH THOSE PICTURES
IT WOULD BE GREAT TO SEE WHAT'S
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BEEN HAPPENING
DOWN THERE. >>THANK YOU.
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WELL, I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF YOU
REMEMBER BUT THERE WAS A FAMILY
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THAT WE WERE WORKING WITH - GOOD
FRIENDS OF OURS NOW - KNIT INTO
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OUR HEARTS. AND HIS NAME IS
SERGIO - HIS WIFE'S NAME IS ANNA
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AND THEY HAVE FOUR
PRECIOUS LITTLE CHILDREN.
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THERE'S ONE OF THEM MISSING OUT
OF THIS PICTURE OR TWO, BUT THEY
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HAD THIS HOME BEFORE - I
DON'T KNOW IF YOU REMEMBER THE
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PICTURES THAT WE SHOWED THE LAST
TIME WE WERE HERE EIGHT MONTHS
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AGO - AND THE PROJECT WAS
COMPLETED AND THEY ARE NOW
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LIVING IN THIS NICE
THREE-BEDROOM HOME WITH THE
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BATHROOM THAT HAS TOILETS THAT
FLUSH AND RUNNING WATER AND THEY
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HAVE A KITCHEN AREA - AND
SO THEY WERE BLESSED AND I WAS
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BLESSED WHEN I CAME BACK AND SAW
THAT FAMILY AND THEIR FACES WERE
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PRICELESS. CAN YOU
IMAGINE, WHEN THEY SAW
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ME COMING OFF THE PLANE THEY
WERE THERE TO GREET ME AND THEY
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BROUGHT ME BACK TO THE VILLAGE
AND I WAS ABLE TO SEE THEIR
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HOME FOR THE VERY FIRST
TIME. AND THEY'RE HAPPY.
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AND THEY'RE INVITING PEOPLE
IN AND HAVING FELLOWSHIP THERE.
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WELL, THEN AFTER THAT, I SAW THE
PROJECT - WELL, WE PUT WINGS ON
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OUR SHOES AND WE WERE OFF
RUNNING AND WE WENT FROM CHURCH
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TO CHURCH TO CHURCH TO
CHURCH TO CHURCH BECAUSE WHY?
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BECAUSE OUR GOAL AND OUR VISION
IS TO TRAIN UP LAY PEOPLE IN
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MEDICAL MISSIONARY WORK.
YES, WE HAVE A HEALTH AND
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EDUCATION CENTER OUT OF OUR
HOME, BUT WE ALSO LIKE TO DO A
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LOT OF TRAINING FOR THE
CHURCHES DOWN THERE IN MEXICO.
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AND ONE OF OUR BIGGEST PROJECTS
WAS A ONE-MONTH TRAINING OF
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MEDICAL MISSIONARY WORK IN
A PLACE CALLED TOBASCO CIUDAD
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PEMEX. AND WE STAYED THERE FOR
A MONTH AND ENJOYED OURSELVES
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THOROUGHLY. WE HAD
SOME MASSAGE CLASSES.
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WE HAD SOME SEMINAR - HEALTH
SEMINARS OF LIFESTYLE CHANGES
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THAT THEY COULD BE TAKING PLACE
IN THEIR LIFE AND WE HAD SOME
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COOKING CLASSES AND THEY ENJOYED
IT SO MUCH THAT THEY ASKED US TO
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COME BACK. THIS IS THE DOOR THAT
CHRIST WANTS US TO OPEN IN OUR
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COMMUNITIES EVERYWHERE.
THERE IS A TIME AND THE TIME IS
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NOW FOR MORE AND MORE
MEDICAL MISSIONARY WORK.
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I HOPE AND PRAY THAT IF
YOU'RE ABLE, YOU'LL PARTICIPATE.
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AND IF YOU'RE NOT, YOU WILL PRAY
AND SUPPORT, IN ANY WAY YOU CAN,
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THESE MEANS TO BE ABLE TO BRING
THAT TO THE PEOPLE OF OUR WORLD
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TODAY, TO BE A
LIGHT FOR CHRIST. >>AMEN.
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WELL, THANK YOU SO MUCH,
TAMMY, FOR SHARING WITH US.
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WE'RE VERY EXCITED TO SEE THE
REPORTS FROM TIME TO TIME, AND
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THIS IS REALLY TAKING THE GOSPEL
AND MEDICAL MINISTRY - PUTTING
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IT TOGETHER AND MINISTERING TO
THE PHYSICAL NEEDS OF PEOPLE AND
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THEN MOVING INTO
THEIR SPIRITUAL NEEDS.
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AND THAT SORT OF TIES IN
WITH OUR LESSON FOR TODAY.
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WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HOW JESUS
SHOWED SYMPATHY TO THE PEOPLE.
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THANK YOU, TAMMY, FOR
SHARING. WE APPRECIATE THAT.
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OUR LESSON THIS MORNING IS GOING
TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY OUR AFCOE
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DIRECTOR - AND AFCOE IS
THE AMAZING FACTS CENTER OF
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EVANGELISM. WE HAVE
A FOUR-MONTH PROGRAM
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THAT IS STARTING RIGHT HERE
AT THE AMAZING FACTS CENTER AND
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CHUCK HOLTRY WILL BE TEACHING
OUR LESSON TODAY - LESSON #8 -
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TALKING ABOUT HOW
JESUS SHOWED SYMPATHY.
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>>HAPPY
SABBATH. >>HAPPY SABBATH.
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>>IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU HERE THIS
MORNING. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO
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HAVE SYMPATHY? HOW DOES ONE HAVE
SYMPATHY? THERE'S ALL KINDS OF
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IDEAS OF WHAT SYMPATHY IS, BUT
TODAY WE'RE GOING TO TAKE SOME
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TIME TO GO STEP BY STEP THROUGH
OUR BIBLE AND UNDERSTAND WHAT IS
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SYMPATHY? HOW IS
THAT SYMPATHY SHOWN?
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WHAT DOES SYMPATHY CONSIST OF?
I'D LIKE TO START WITH A STORY:
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FEBRUARY 18, 1952, ONE OF
THE WORST STORMS TO HIT THE
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NORTHEAST COAST OF THE
UNITED STATES WAS BREWING.
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THE WAVES RIGHT OFF THE COAST
OF MASSACHUSETTS WERE REACHING
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SWELLS OF 40 TO 60-FEET HIGH.
THE WIND WAS BLOWING FORTY MILES
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AN HOUR. SNOW WAS COMING DOWN.
IT WAS JUST A TERRIBLE SITUATION
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AND THE CHATHAM COAST
GUARD STATION RECEIVED A CALL.
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THEY RECEIVED A CALL THAT
THERE WAS A TANKER IN DISTRESS.
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DUE TO THE HEAVY WAVES, THE
TANKER HAD SPLIT IN HALF WHICH,
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UNFORTUNATELY, HAPPENED TO QUITE
A FEW DURING THAT ERA, JUST
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BECAUSE OF THE
POOR CONSTRUCTION.
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TANKER'D SPLIT IN HALF AND SOON
A COAST GUARD TEAM WAS SENT OUT
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AROUND - TO GET OUT - THE SEAS
WERE QUITE DANGEROUS, BUT THEY
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WERE GOING TO GO AHEAD ANYHOW.
AND NOT TOO MUCH LONGER THEY GOT
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ANOTHER CALL THAT ANOTHER TANKER
HAD BROKEN APART THAT NIGHT AND
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IT WAS JUST A MILE OR TWO
OFF THE COAST OF CAPE COD.
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THE ONLY WAY TO GET THERE WAS TO
GO ACROSS THE BAR IN EXTREMELY
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DANGEROUS SEAS. THERE WAS A
MAN WHO WAS WILLING TO DO IT.
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HIS NAME WAS BERNIE.
BERNIE WAS WILLING TO DO IT,
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BUT GETTING A
TEAM TO GO WAS ANOTHER.
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IT WAS A VOLUNTEER GROUP AND
THEY SAID, AT THE TIME THAT THEY
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FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS, ALMOST
NO ONE WANTED TO BE THERE.
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THEY PUT OUT THE CALL AND
THEY LOOKED AROUND AND IT SEEMED
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EVERYONE WAS SCARCE, BUT
THREE MEN AGREED TO JOIN HIM.
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SO BERNIE AND HIS THREE MEN
JUMPED ABOARD A 36-FOOT COAST
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GUARD VESSEL TO TAKE ON 60-FOOT
WAVES AND 40-MILE-AN-HOUR WINDS.
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INCREDIBLE STORY - THEY HEARD
A CALL - AND THAT'S THE FIRST
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THING THAT I WANT TO SHARE
THIS MORNING, IS THAT - SYMPATHY
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HEARS. WE'RE LEARNING FOUR
THINGS TODAY ABOUT SYMPATHY.
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THE FIRST THING WE WANT TO
LOOK AT IS THIS: SYMPATHY HEARS.
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YOU GOT THAT?
SYMPATHY - >>HEARS.
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>>HEARS. IF YOU
OPEN YOUR BIBLES WITH ME
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TO JUDGES CHAPTER 2, WE'RE GOING
TO LOOK AT A FEW OLD TESTAMENT
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TEXTS - IT'S KIND OF BEAUTIFUL
BECAUSE IT GIVES A PICTURE OF
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THE GOD OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
HERE - JUDGES CHAPTER 2 AND WE
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WILL LOOK AT VERSE 16 - JUDGES
2 - STARTING WITH VERSE 16.
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THE BIBLE SAYS, "NEVERTHELESS
THE LORD RAISED UP JUDGES, WHO
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DELIVERED THEM OUT OF THE
HAND OF THOSE THAT SPOILED THEM.
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YET THEY WOULD NOT HEARKEN UNTO
THEIR JUDGES, BUT THEY WENT A
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WHORING AFTER OTHER GODS, AND
BOWED THEMSELVES UNTO THEM: THEY
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TURNED QUICKLY OUT OF THE WAY
WHICH THEIR FATHERS WALKED IN,
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OBEYING THE COMMANDMENTS OF
THE LORD; BUT THEY DID NOT SO."
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NOW JUDGES 2 IS INTERESTING
BECAUSE IT GIVES YOU A BIG
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PICTURE OF THE WHOLE BOOK OF
JUDGES. PEOPLE FALL DOWN INTO
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SIN. THEY GO THROUGH
- WHAT DO YOU CALL THIS?
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- THEY GO THROUGH A DIFFICULT
TIME UNDER ABUSE FROM ENEMY
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TRIBES AND THEN THEY SEE THEIR
DANGER AND THEY CALL OUT TO GOD
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AND A JUDGE IS RAISED UP
AND THEY'RE TAKEN OUT OF THEIR
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DIFFICULT TIME. AND THEN, ONCE
EVERYTHING IS OKAY THEY START
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DOING BAD THINGS AGAIN.
YOU HAD THIS CYCLE IN JUDGES.
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IN JUDGES 2 IT SHOWS THIS CYCLE:
IT SAYS, 'GOD FREED THEM.' BUT
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THEN THEY CHOSE TO GO AND
NOT FOLLOW GOD'S COMMANDMENTS -
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VERSE 18, "AND WHEN THE LORD
RAISED THEM UP JUDGES, THEN THE
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LORD WAS WITH THE JUDGE, AND
DELIVERED THEM OUT OF THE HAND
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OF THEIR ENEMIES ALL THE DAYS OF
THE JUDGE: FOR IT REPENTED THE
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LORD BECAUSE OF THEIR GROANINGS
BY REASON OF THEM THAT OPPRESSED
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THEM AND VEXED THEM." SO
HERE ARE THESE DISOBEDIENT
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ISRAELITES NOT DOING WHAT GOD
HAS ASKED THEM TO DO, TOTALLY
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TURNING THEIR BACK ON HIM, NOT
OBEYING HIM, BUT HE HEARS THEIR
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GROANINGS AND THAT IS GOOD
NEWS THIS MORNING. GOD HEARS THE
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GROANINGS EVEN OF DISOBEDIENT
PEOPLE. HE HEARS THE GROANINGS.
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HE SEES WHAT
PEOPLE ARE GOING THROUGH.
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YOU KNOW, ANOTHER TEXT OUR
LESSON GIVES - I LIKE TO LOOK AT
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- ISAIAH CHAPTER 54
- ISAIAH CHASPTER 54 -
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AND WE'LL LOOK AT
VERSE 5 - EXCUSE ME,
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VERSES 7, 8, AND 10 - ISAIAH 54
- WE'RE LOOKING AT VERSES 7, 8,
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AND THEN 10. "FOR A
SMALL MOMENT" - THIS IS
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GOD SPEAKING HERE IN VERSE 7
- "'FOR A SMALL MOMENT HAVE I
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FORSAKEN THEE; BUT WITH GREAT
MERCIES WILL I GATHER THEE.
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IN A LITTLE WRATH I HID MY FACE
FROM THEE FOR A MOMENT; BUT WITH
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EVERLASTING KINDNESS WILL I HAVE
MERCY ON THEE,' SAITH THE LORD
00:14:31.23\00:14:34.24
THY REDEEMER." - VERSE 10
- "'FOR THE MOUNTAINS SHALL
00:14:34.24\00:14:37.54
DEPART, AND THE HILLS BE
REMOVED; BUT MY KINDNESS SHALL
00:14:37.54\00:14:42.71
NOT DEPART FROM THEE, NEITHER
SHALL THE COVENANT OF MY PEACE
00:14:42.71\00:14:46.38
BE REMOVED,' SAITH THE
LORD THAT HATH MERCY ON THEE."
00:14:46.38\00:14:50.62
>>AMEN. >>THIS IS
ISAIAH SPEAKING TO A
00:14:50.62\00:14:53.56
REALLY DISOBEDIENT, UNFAITHFUL
CHURCH AND HE'S SPEAKING OF
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GOD'S HEARING. HE CARES
ABOUT THEM. GOD HAS COMPASSION.
00:14:59.26\00:15:04.30
GOD'S COMPASSION IS NOT
LIMITED TO OUR OBEDIENCE.
00:15:04.30\00:15:07.77
YOU CAN SAY 'AMEN'. >>AMEN.
00:15:07.77\00:15:09.84
>>GOD'S COMPASSION IS
NOT LIMITED TO OUR OBEDIENCE.
00:15:09.84\00:15:16.98
DID HE ONLY HEAR
PEOPLE THAT CLAIMED TO BE HIS?
00:15:16.98\00:15:20.58
>>NO. >>NO.
00:15:20.58\00:15:23.08
YOU KNOW, ONE OF MY FAVORITE
PEOPLE TO TALK ABOUT IS IN
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DANIEL CHAPTER 2 AND IT'S NOT
DANIEL, ALTHOUGH HE'S A GREAT
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MAN, IT'S NEBUCHADNEZZAR.
YOU MIGHT TURN THERE REAL QUICK
00:15:30.66\00:15:33.33
WITH ME - DANIEL CHAPTER
2. IN DANIEL CHAPTER 2 WE HAVE
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PAGAN KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR
WHO HAS JUST DONE SOME REALLY
00:15:38.00\00:15:42.40
BAD THINGS TO GOD'S PEOPLE.
YES, GOD'S USING HIM TO DO THAT,
00:15:42.40\00:15:46.81
I BELIEVE, CARRYING
OUT HIS PLANS, ULTIMATELY.
00:15:46.81\00:15:50.05
BUT IN DANIEL CHAPTER 2,
VERSE 29 DANIEL IS SPEAKING TO
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NEBUCHADNEZZAR AND HE SAYS
THIS, "AS FOR THEE, O KING, THY
00:15:55.78\00:15:59.92
THOUGHTS CAME INTO THY MIND UPON
THY BED, WHAT SHOULD COME TO
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PASS HEREAFTER:" - SO HE SAID
'YOU WERE SLEEPING ON YOUR BED -
00:16:03.96\00:16:07.60
YOU WERE LAYING DOWN THINKING
ABOUT 'WHAT'S THE FUTURE GOING
00:16:07.60\00:16:09.46
TO HOLD?' 'WHAT'S GOING TO TAKE
00:16:09.46\00:16:10.53
PLACE AFTER THIS?' -
"AND HE THAT REVEALETH SECRETS
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MAKETH KNOWN TO THEE
WHAT SHALL COME TO PASS."
00:16:15.10\00:16:18.54
NEBUCHADNEZZAR WAS LAYING ON HIS
BED THINKING, 'WHAT'S THE FUTURE
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HOLD?' AND THE GOD OF HEAVEN
CAME DOWN AND SAID, 'I HEAR YOU,
00:16:21.98\00:16:25.85
NEBUCHADNEZZAR. LET ME
TELL YOU.' THAT'S AWESOME.
00:16:25.85\00:16:30.79
>>AMEN. >>NOT
ONLY DOES GOD HEAR, AND
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HAVE COMPASSION ON THOSE
THAT ARE HIS PEOPLE, BACKSLIDDEN
00:16:33.79\00:16:36.93
THOUGH THEY MAY BE, BUT HE
ALSO HEARS THOSE THAT ARE PAGAN.
00:16:36.93\00:16:41.76
YOU KNOW, THERE ARE SEVERAL
INSTANCES OF JESUS DOING THIS.
00:16:41.76\00:16:44.90
YOU REMEMBER THAT CANAANITE
WOMAN WITH THE WOMAN THAT WAS
00:16:44.90\00:16:46.74
POSSESSED - WITH THE
DAUGHTER THAT WAS POSSESSED?
00:16:46.74\00:16:49.24
SHE COMES AND SHE BEGS
JESUS, 'PLEASE COME AND HEAL MY
00:16:49.24\00:16:52.47
DAUGHTER.' AND THEN JESUS
DOES THAT - THAT - THAT UNUSUAL
00:16:52.47\00:16:55.48
RESPONSE FOR JESUS, JUST TO SEE
HOW HIS DISCIPLES PAY ATTENTION.
00:16:55.48\00:16:58.88
YOU KNOW, 'SHOULD I
GIVE FOOD TO THE DOGS?'
00:16:58.88\00:17:03.08
REMEMBER HER RESPONSE?
'YES, BUT EVEN THE DOGS EAT
00:17:03.08\00:17:07.39
THE CRUMBS FROM THEIR MASTER'S
TABLE. YOU'VE GOT TO TAKE
00:17:07.39\00:17:08.96
CARE OF ME.' AND HE
DID. HE HEARD HER CRY.
00:17:08.96\00:17:12.63
DID IT MAKE A DIFFERENCE THAT
NEBUCHADNEZZAR WAS A BABYLONIAN
00:17:12.63\00:17:15.83
KING? DID IT
MAKE A DIFFERENCE THAT
00:17:15.83\00:17:16.90
THIS CANAANITE WOMAN
WAS OF A PAGAN TRIBE?
00:17:16.90\00:17:20.54
THERE'S THE CENTURION IN MATTHEW
CHAPTER 8, 'PLEASE COME HEAL MY
00:17:20.54\00:17:24.91
SERVANT.' THERE'S THE MACEDONIAN
IN THE VISION OF PAUL - 'COME TO
00:17:24.91\00:17:28.71
US.' GOD HEARS THE GROANING OF
THE PEOPLE ON THIS PLANET, NOT
00:17:28.71\00:17:33.78
JUST HIS FOLLOWERS, NOT JUST THE
BACKSLIDERS, BUT EVERY SINGLE
00:17:33.78\00:17:38.25
PERSON. AND IT
GIVES US A REASON, I
00:17:38.25\00:17:40.46
THINK, A REASON FOR EXISTENCE.
FOR THOSE OF US WHO ARE
00:17:40.46\00:17:44.06
FAITHFUL, BY HIS GRACE,
WE CAN SAY, 'PRAISE GOD.
00:17:44.06\00:17:48.10
GOD CARES ABOUT ME.' FOR THOSE
OF US WHO ARE BACKSLIDDEN, GOD
00:17:48.10\00:17:52.80
IS SAYING, 'I HEAR YOU. I
CARE ABOUT YOU.' AND IT GIVES
00:17:52.80\00:17:56.10
US A REASON TO
SAY, 'I'M COMING BACK.'
00:17:56.10\00:17:58.97
>>AMEN. >>AND THE
VERY FACT THAT GOD
00:17:58.97\00:18:01.01
SPEAKS TO PAGANS TODAY SHOULD
SPEAK TO THOSE OF US WHO ARE IN
00:18:01.01\00:18:04.05
THIS CHURCH, THAT WE NEED TO BE
WILLING TO GO AFTER THEM, JUST
00:18:04.05\00:18:08.35
LIKE GOD IS
WILLING TO DO SO. >>AMEN.
00:18:08.35\00:18:11.19
>>IF THEY'RE OUT THERE AND
THEY'RE HEARING THE VOICE OF
00:18:11.19\00:18:12.72
GOD, I WANT TO BE WHERE
GOD'S WORKING, DON'T YOU?
00:18:12.72\00:18:14.92
>>AMEN. >>AND
THAT'S A CALL FOR US,
00:18:14.92\00:18:17.06
AT THIS TIME. THERE'S A PASSAGE
FROM STEPS TO CHRIST PAGE 100
00:18:17.06\00:18:23.60
THAT WAS IN OUR LESSON. IT SAYS,
"HIS HEART OF LOVE IS TOUCHED BY
00:18:23.60\00:18:28.64
OUR SORROWS AND EVEN BY
OUR UTTERANCES OF THEM."
00:18:28.64\00:18:33.64
HAVE YOU EVER SHARED
YOUR SORROWS WITH SOMEBODY?
00:18:33.64\00:18:36.88
HAVE YOU EVER SHARED YOUR
SORROWS WITH NOBODY BECAUSE YOU
00:18:36.88\00:18:38.98
DIDN'T THINK ANYBODY
WOULD CARE? I'VE DONE THAT.
00:18:38.98\00:18:42.55
THERE'S SOMETIMES I'D GET ALONE
AND - I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS - MY
00:18:42.55\00:18:45.15
FIRST TEACHING JOB - I WAS
- I GET SO STRESSED SOMETIMES.
00:18:45.15\00:18:49.16
MY PERSONALITY NEEDS TO
LEARN TO HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE
00:18:49.16\00:18:50.99
CONFIDENCE IN GOD, AMEN?
ANYONE ELSE CAN CONNECT WITH ME
00:18:50.99\00:18:53.73
ON THAT? BUT I WAS
OUT WALKING ALONG THIS
00:18:53.73\00:18:56.90
COUNTRY ROAD AT THE SCHOOL WHERE
I WAS TEACHING, SAYING, 'GOD, DO
00:18:56.90\00:19:00.90
YOU HEAR ME?' AND
HE DOES. I KNEW HE DID.
00:19:00.90\00:19:06.17
I COULD SEE THE RESULTS
BECAUSE HE HEARD THE GROANINGS.
00:19:06.17\00:19:09.68
IT SAYS, "THE HEART OF LOVE IS
TOUCHED BY OUR SORROWS AND EVEN
00:19:09.68\00:19:12.88
BY OUR UTTERANCES OF THEM.
NOTHING IN ANY WAY CONCERNS OUR
00:19:12.88\00:19:16.62
PEACE IS TOO
SMALL FOR HIM TO NOTICE.
00:19:16.62\00:19:20.89
NO CALAMITY CAN BEFALL THE LEAST
OF HIS CHILDREN OF WHICH OUR
00:19:20.89\00:19:24.39
HEAVENLY FATHER IS UNOBSERVANT
OR IN WHICH HE TAKES NO
00:19:24.39\00:19:28.26
IMMEDIATE INTEREST."
DID SOMETHING HAPPEN TO YOU
00:19:28.26\00:19:31.90
YESTERDAY? THIS MORNING?
THAT MADE YOU FEEL OUT OF PEACE?
00:19:31.90\00:19:43.14
THINGS HAPPEN
LIKE THAT, DON'T THEY?
00:19:43.14\00:19:46.01
IT SAYS HERE THAT OUR HEAVENLY
FATHER OBSERVED THAT AND HE TOOK
00:19:46.01\00:19:52.52
IMMEDIATE
INTEREST. YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES
00:19:52.52\00:19:55.66
WE WANT A MIRACLE. NOT
ALWAYS DO THE MIRACLES COME,
00:19:55.66\00:19:58.46
BUT I WANT TO TELL YOU,
THE OBSERVATION IS THERE
00:19:58.46\00:20:00.20
AND THE CARE IS THERE. >>AMEN.
00:20:00.20\00:20:02.03
>>GOD HAS A DEEPER, FULLER PLAN
THAN I THINK THAT WE, AS HUMANS,
00:20:02.03\00:20:04.50
CAN REALIZE SOMETIMES, BUT IT
DOESN'T REMOVE HIS LOVE IN ANY
00:20:04.50\00:20:09.04
WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM. EXODUS
CHAPTER 2 - LET'S GO TO EXODUS
00:20:09.04\00:20:12.67
CHAPTER 2. THE CHILDREN OF
ISRAEL ARE SLAVES IN EGYPT AND
00:20:12.67\00:20:19.78
GOD SAYS THIS TO MOSES - EXODUS
CHAPTER 2 AND WE'LL LOOK IN
00:20:19.78\00:20:25.32
VERSE 23. EXODUS CHAPTER 2 AND
VERSE 23, "AND IT CAME TO PASS
00:20:25.32\00:20:31.73
IN PROCESS OF TIME, THAT
THE KING OF EGYPT DIED: AND THE
00:20:31.73\00:20:35.33
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SIGHED BY
REASON OF THE BONDAGE, AND THEY
00:20:35.33\00:20:41.24
CRIED, AND THEIR CRY CAME
UP UNTO GOD BY REASON OF THE
00:20:41.24\00:20:44.91
BONDAGE." VERSE 24 - "AND
00:20:44.91\00:20:48.11
GOD HEARD THEIR GROANING, AND
GOD REMEMBERED HIS COVENANT WITH
00:20:48.11\00:20:53.05
ABRAHAM, WITH
ISAAC, AND WITH JACOB."
00:20:53.05\00:20:54.68
- AND VERSE 25 SAYS, "AND
GOD LOOKED UPON THE CHILDREN OF
00:20:54.68\00:20:57.12
ISRAEL, AND GOD
HAD RESPECT UNTO THEM."
00:20:57.12\00:21:02.62
I DON'T UNDERSTAND, SOMETIMES
WHEN I READ THE WORD OF GOD,
00:21:02.62\00:21:11.30
BECAUSE IT SEEMS SO BEYOND
MY HUMAN COMPREHENSION, THAT THE
00:21:11.30\00:21:16.10
GOD OF HEAVEN, THE SOVEREIGN OF
THE UNIVERSE COULD HAVE RESPECT
00:21:16.10\00:21:20.21
ON A DESPISED, BACKSLIDDEN GROUP
OF SLAVES - AND YET HE DID.
00:21:20.21\00:21:28.62
DON'T
UNDERESTIMATE THE GOD WE SERVE.
00:21:28.62\00:21:30.25
>>AMEN. >>NOT ONLY
DOES HE FEEL THAT FOR
00:21:30.25\00:21:32.92
YOU, BUT HE FEELS THAT FOR EVERY
SINGLE PERSON ON THIS GLOBE.
00:21:32.92\00:21:39.36
JESUS SHOWS SYMPATHY.
SYMPATHY HEARS - SYMPATHY HEARS.
00:21:39.36\00:21:48.64
OFTENTIMES I THINK THAT WE HEAR
OUR OWN GROANINGS, BUT WE NEED
00:21:48.64\00:21:57.45
TO PRAY AND ASK GOD TO
GIVE US THE ABILITY TO HEAR THE
00:21:57.45\00:21:59.28
GROANINGS OF
OTHER PEOPLE. >>AMEN.
00:21:59.28\00:22:04.45
>>BECAUSE WE'RE NOT
THE ONLY PEOPLE THAT GROAN.
00:22:04.45\00:22:09.12
WE HAVE A WORLD THAT'S GROANING.
SO TRUST THAT GOD HEARS YOURS
00:22:09.12\00:22:14.36
AND THEN, IN THAT TRUST,
HEAR SOMEBODY ELSE'S, AMEN?
00:22:14.36\00:22:17.77
>>AMEN. >>SYMPATHY HEARS.
00:22:17.77\00:22:19.73
THE NEXT PART I'D LIKE TO GO TO
IS - I'M GOING TO CONTINUE WITH
00:22:19.73\00:22:24.01
MY STORY - IT'S FEBRUARY 18,
1952 - BERNIE AND FOUR MEN ARE
00:22:24.01\00:22:31.01
IN A 36-FOOT COAST GUARD
BOAT GOING OUT TO TACKLE 40 TO
00:22:31.01\00:22:37.92
60-FOOT WAVES. THE HARDEST
PART WAS CROSSING THE BAR.
00:22:37.92\00:22:42.66
TO CROSS THE BAR - YOU KNOW,
THAT'S WHERE THE SEA IS RAISED
00:22:42.66\00:22:45.36
UP - THE BOTTOM OF THE
SEA - IT'S VERY, VERY SHALLOW.
00:22:45.36\00:22:48.70
TO GET CRASHED IN THERE IS
VERY HIGH - HIGH LIKELIHOOD -
00:22:48.70\00:22:52.37
ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU
HAVE SUCH HIGH SEAS.
00:22:52.37\00:22:54.30
THEY KNEW THEY
HAD TO GET ACROSS.
00:22:54.30\00:22:56.67
THEY HAD TO TIME IT JUST RIGHT -
YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO THE WAVES
00:22:56.67\00:22:59.74
CRASHING - JUST THE RIGHT
TIME - GUN IT AT THE RIGHT TIME.
00:22:59.74\00:23:03.28
IN THEIR PROCESS OF GOING OUT,
ONE TIME THEIR SHIP WAS FLIPPED
00:23:03.28\00:23:08.18
UPSIDE-DOWN - COAST GUARD SHIPS
ARE ACTUALLY - THEY CAP - THEY
00:23:08.18\00:23:11.82
RIGHT THEMSELVES,
SO IT RIGHTED ITSELF.
00:23:11.82\00:23:15.66
THEY LOST THEIR COMPASS
- SMASHED OUT THEIR FRONT
00:23:15.66\00:23:20.26
WINDSHIELD - AND THEY KEPT
ON GOING AND SOMEHOW CROSSED -
00:23:20.26\00:23:24.90
ALMOST AN IMPOSSIBLE FEAT - THEY
CROSSED THE BAR AND GOT OUT INTO
00:23:24.90\00:23:28.04
THE OPEN SEA. SYMPATHY NOT ONLY
00:23:28.04\00:23:30.94
HEARS, SYMPATHY ACTS.
SYMPATHY SIMPLY DOES NOT HEAR,
00:23:30.94\00:23:37.28
IT ALSO ACTS - IT TAKES
ACTION - IT DOES SOMETHING.
00:23:37.28\00:23:42.78
YOU KNOW, IN OUR LESSON - THEY
QUOTED MATTHEW CHAPTER 14, VERSE
00:23:42.78\00:23:47.69
14 - A GREAT PASSAGE - BUT I
LIKE TO GO TO MARK 6 - LOOK AT
00:23:47.69\00:23:52.93
THE SAME CONCEPT BUT A LITTLE
BIT MORE CONTEXT - MARK CHAPTER
00:23:52.93\00:23:55.83
6, VERSE 31 - NOT ONLY
DOES SYMPATHY HEAR, IT ACTS - IT
00:23:55.83\00:24:02.34
TAKES ACTION - AND HERE WE'LL
SEE THIS IN MARK CHAPTER 6 AND
00:24:02.34\00:24:08.54
STARTING WITH VERSE 31.
"AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, 'COME YE
00:24:08.54\00:24:15.38
YOURSELVES APART INTO A DESERT
PLACE, AND REST AWHILE: FOR
00:24:15.38\00:24:19.89
THERE WERE MANY COMING
AND GOING, AND THEY HAD NO
00:24:19.89\00:24:21.62
LEISURE SO MUCH AS TO EAT."
SO JESUS AND HIS DISCIPLES WERE
00:24:21.62\00:24:25.39
LIVING IN A VERY BUSY TIME
- DOING GOOD THINGS, BUT THEIR
00:24:25.39\00:24:28.90
LIVES WERE VERY HECTIC - THEY
DIDN'T EVEN HAVE TIME TO EAT.
00:24:28.90\00:24:31.17
THE BIBLE CONTINUES IN VERSE 32,
"AND THEY DEPARTED INTO A DESERT
00:24:31.17\00:24:34.84
PLACE BY SHIP PRIVATELY."
SO THEY GOT ALONE, TOOK A SHIP
00:24:34.84\00:24:38.71
TO A FAIRLY UNINHABITED SECTION
OF THE SEA OF GALILEE - THE
00:24:38.71\00:24:43.38
SHORELINE THERE - JUST TO REST
AND TAKE SOME TIME - "AND THE
00:24:43.38\00:24:48.78
PEOPLE SAW THEM
DEPARTING," - VERSE 33 - "AND
00:24:48.78\00:24:51.55
MANY KNEW HIM, AND RAN AFOOT
THITHER OUT OF ALL CITIES, AND
00:24:51.55\00:24:55.19
OUT WENT THEM, AND
CAME TOGETHER UNTO HIM."
00:24:55.19\00:24:58.86
THE DESIRE OF AGES SAYS THAT
WHEN THEY WERE COMING INTO SHORE
00:24:58.86\00:25:02.06
THEY COULD SEE THE
CROWDS OF PEOPLE WAITING.
00:25:02.06\00:25:04.83
AND JESUS AND HIS DISCIPLES WERE
ABLE TO PULL OFF TO THE SIDE
00:25:04.83\00:25:08.80
UNOBSERVED AND HAD JUST A
LITTLE BIT OF TIME TOGETHER, BUT
00:25:08.80\00:25:17.91
VERSE 34, "AND JESUS, WHEN
HE CAME OUT, SAW MUCH PEOPLE AND
00:25:17.91\00:25:24.12
WAS MOVED WITH COMPASSION TOWARD
THEM, BECAUSE THEY WERE AS SHEEP
00:25:24.12\00:25:29.29
NOT HAVING A SHEPHERD: AND
HE BEGAN TO TEACH THEM MANY
00:25:29.29\00:25:32.39
THINGS." I'VE BEEN
TIRED IN THE MINISTRY BEFORE.
00:25:32.39\00:25:39.23
THERE HAVE BEEN TIMES WHEN I'VE
SPOKEN OR TRAVELED OR MINISTERED
00:25:39.23\00:25:45.14
SO MUCH THAT ALL I
WANT IS TO BE ALONE.
00:25:45.14\00:25:49.44
I DON'T WANT TO
BE AROUND ANYBODY.
00:25:49.44\00:25:51.75
I WANT TO JUST PULL OFF TO
MYSELF - SOME OF YOU KNOW WHAT
00:25:51.75\00:25:54.22
I'M TALKING ABOUT, RIGHT?
YOU'VE BEEN IN THAT SITUATION -
00:25:54.22\00:25:57.02
YOU'VE JUST BEEN AROUND -
JUST NEED A LITTLE BIT OF SPACE.
00:25:57.02\00:25:59.55
I WANT TO BE ALONE JUST A LITTLE
BIT. AND IT'S - THAT'S THE
00:25:59.55\00:26:04.16
FEELING THAT YOU SEE,
ALMOST, WITH THE DISCIPLES.
00:26:04.16\00:26:08.06
AND JESUS KNOWS AND HE PULLS
THEM ASIDE - AND THAT'S WHEN
00:26:08.06\00:26:12.10
THEY'RE SURROUNDED BY THE
MULTITUDE - AND THAT'S WHEN THE
00:26:12.10\00:26:14.94
FEELINGS OF COMPASSION
ARE SEEN IN JESUS CHRIST.
00:26:14.94\00:26:19.17
AND THAT'S THE HARDEST TIME FOR
ME TO HAVE COMPASSION AND I'M -
00:26:19.17\00:26:22.54
I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE SEE
THAT IT'S WHEN JESUS WAS AT HIS
00:26:22.54\00:26:27.28
END, PHYSICALLY, THAT HE
WAS STILL SHOWING COMPASSION.
00:26:27.28\00:26:30.59
>>AMEN. >>WHAT AN AWESOME GOD.
00:26:30.59\00:26:32.35
>>AMEN. >>HE SAW
THEIR NEEDS - AND
00:26:32.35\00:26:34.79
THERE'S TWO THINGS THAT CAME OUT
HERE IN MARK CHAPTER 6: HE SAYS
00:26:34.79\00:26:39.33
HE WAS MOVED WITH COMPASSION
FOR THEM BECAUSE THEY WERE A
00:26:39.33\00:26:43.37
SHEEP NOT HAVING A SHEPHERD.
ACTUALLY, I WANTED TO MOVE OVER
00:26:43.37\00:26:46.67
TO MATTHEW CHAPTER 9 - MATTHEW
9 TAKES THIS AND JUST ADDS ONE
00:26:46.67\00:26:51.37
ELEMENT TO IT - MATTHEW CHAPTER
9 AND VERSE 35 - VERSE 36 - I
00:26:51.37\00:26:56.41
LOVE HOW THE GOSPELS ARE WRITTEN
- IT'S LIKE FOUR PEOPLE WITH
00:26:56.41\00:27:01.48
FOUR DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES
WRITING THE SAME STORY.
00:27:01.48\00:27:05.29
IT'S LIKE MY WIFE AND I GOING TO
A WEDDING, RIGHT? TWO OF US WILL
00:27:05.29\00:27:09.62
GO TO THE SAME EXACT EVENT
AND SHE WILL TELL YOU ABOUT THE
00:27:09.62\00:27:13.86
DRESS AND I WILL TELL YOU
ABOUT THE FOOD. VERY SIMPLE.
00:27:13.86\00:27:17.83
AND SO YOU'RE SEEING THAT SAME
CONCEPT BEING PLAYED OUT HERE.
00:27:17.83\00:27:21.14
MATTHEW CHAPTER 9 ADDS SOMETHING
- MATTHEW, IN VERSE 36 HE SAYS,
00:27:21.14\00:27:26.24
"BUT WHEN HE SAW THE MULTITUDES,
HE WAS MOVED WITH COMPASSION ON
00:27:26.24\00:27:29.31
THEM," - WE READ THAT - HERE'S
WHY: "BECAUSE THEY FAINTED, AND
00:27:29.31\00:27:34.32
WERE SCATTERED ABROAD, AS
SHEEP HAVING NO SHEPHERD."
00:27:34.32\00:27:37.02
HE WAS COMPASSIONATE BECAUSE OF
THEIR PHYSICAL NEEDS - THEY WERE
00:27:37.02\00:27:39.85
FAINTING - AND THEIR SPIRITUAL
NEEDS - BECAUSE THEY WERE
00:27:39.85\00:27:43.26
SCATTERED AS SHEEP WITHOUT A
SHEPHERD. YOU KNOW, I BELIEVE
00:27:43.26\00:27:47.30
THAT WE SHOULD SEE THAT
TODAY PROBABLY MORE THAN EVER.
00:27:47.30\00:27:49.83
THERE'S A LOT OF SHEPHERDS -
FALSELY SO CALLED - IN OUR WORLD
00:27:49.83\00:27:53.30
TODAY AND WE HAVE A LOT OF
SHEEP THAT ARE GOING ASTRAY.
00:27:53.30\00:27:57.87
THE SPIRITUAL CONDITION OF
OUR WORLD, IN SOME WAYS, LOOKS
00:27:57.87\00:28:01.11
BETTER THAN, FROM AN OUTWARD
PERSPECTIVE, THAN IT'S BEEN
00:28:01.11\00:28:04.35
BEFORE. BUT, IN
MOST CASES, IT'S MUCH
00:28:04.35\00:28:06.82
WORSE THAN IT'S
EVER BEEN BEFORE.
00:28:06.82\00:28:08.62
WE HAVE SHEEP
SCATTERED WITHOUT A SHEPHERD.
00:28:08.62\00:28:12.19
IT SAYS HERE THAT
THEY FAINTED AS WELL.
00:28:12.19\00:28:14.42
THEIR PEOPLE WERE TIRED.
THAT'S ACTUALLY THE MEANING OF
00:28:14.42\00:28:17.06
THIS PASSAGE HERE - THEY WERE
TIRED. THEY'VE BEEN UP ALL DAY
00:28:17.06\00:28:19.23
LONG - THEY WERE TIRED.
WE HAVE TIRED PEOPLE TODAY.
00:28:19.23\00:28:22.83
SO HERE'S THE REASONS: THEY
HAD PHYSICAL NEEDS AND SPIRITUAL
00:28:22.83\00:28:26.80
NEEDS - AND THEN JESUS SAYS THIS
IN VERSE 37, "THEN SAITH HE UNTO
00:28:26.80\00:28:32.37
HIS DISCIPLES, 'THE HARVEST
TRULY IS PLENTEOUS, BUT THE
00:28:32.37\00:28:36.51
LABORERS ARE FEW; PRAY
YE THEREFORE THE LORD OF THE
00:28:36.51\00:28:40.42
HARVEST, THAT HE WILL SEND FORTH
LABORERS INTO HIS HARVEST.'"
00:28:40.42\00:28:43.15
WHAT A PRAYER - BECAUSE IF YOU
STUDY THIS - A MAN BY THE NAME
00:28:43.15\00:28:46.82
OF DEREK MORRIS PUT TOGETHER
A WHOLE BOOK CALLED THE RADICAL
00:28:46.82\00:28:49.16
PRAYER , BASED
UPON THIS. FASCINATING.
00:28:49.16\00:28:53.86
THIS IS A PRAYER THAT SAYS, 'I
WANT TO SERVE' - IF YOU REALLY
00:28:53.86\00:28:58.13
LOOK AT ITS CONTEXT.
WHEN YOU PRAY THIS PRAYER -
00:28:58.13\00:29:00.50
'LORD, SEND LABORERS OUT TO THE
HARVEST' - YOU'RE SAYING, 'LORD,
00:29:00.50\00:29:02.60
SEND ME.' THAT'S THE
PICTURE THAT'S BEING GIVEN HERE.
00:29:02.60\00:29:06.21
AND JESUS IS TELLING THEM
'I HAVE COMPASSION ON THEM.
00:29:06.21\00:29:09.54
I SEE THEIR NEEDS. NOW IT'S TIME
FOR US TO PRAY THAT GOD'LL GET
00:29:09.54\00:29:12.51
US OUT THERE.' SYMPATHY
HEARS AND SYMPATHY ACTS.
00:29:12.51\00:29:19.69
SYMPATHY HEARS
AND SYMPATHY ACTS.
00:29:19.69\00:29:21.92
LUKE CHAPTER 7 - LUKE CHAPTER
7 AND VERSE 11, "AND IT CAME TO
00:29:21.92\00:29:31.37
PASS THE DAY AFTER," - THIS IS A
- THE STORY OF THE WIDOW OF NAIN
00:29:31.37\00:29:35.07
AND HER SON - HER DEAD SON -
AT LEAST FOR PART OF THE STORY -
00:29:35.07\00:29:41.14
LUKE CHAPTER 7, VERSE 11, "AND
IT CAME TO PASS THE DAY AFTER,
00:29:41.14\00:29:44.41
THAT HE WENT INTO A CITY CALLED
NAIN; AND MANY OF HIS DISCIPLES
00:29:44.41\00:29:47.02
WENT WITH HIM, AND MUCH PEOPLE."
00:29:47.02\00:29:49.12
SO AGAIN, WE SEE
JESUS HAS A LOT HAPPENING.
00:29:49.12\00:29:51.92
HE HAS MANY OF HIS DISCIPLES
- THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE
00:29:51.92\00:29:54.06
SURROUNDING JESUS
AS HE GOES TO NAIN.
00:29:54.06\00:29:56.26
HE IS BUSY. HE
HAS A LOT HAPPENING.
00:29:56.26\00:29:59.93
VERSE 12 - "NOW WHEN HE CAME
NIGH TO THE GATE OF THE CITY,
00:29:59.93\00:30:02.80
BEHOLD, THERE WAS A DEAD MAN
CARRIED OUT, THE ONLY SON OF HIS
00:30:02.80\00:30:06.03
MOTHER, AND SHE WAS A WIDOW: AND
MUCH PEOPLE OF THE CITY WAS WITH
00:30:06.03\00:30:09.37
HER. AND WHEN
THE LORD SAW HER, HE
00:30:09.37\00:30:12.01
HAD COMPASSION ON HER, AND SAID
UNTO HER, 'WEEP NOT.' AND HE
00:30:12.01\00:30:17.41
CAME AND TOUCHED THE BIER" -
THE COFFIN - THAT'S NOT REALLY
00:30:17.41\00:30:22.28
A GOOD JEWISH
PRACTICE. YOU KNOW THAT, RIGHT?
00:30:22.28\00:30:24.52
TO GO OUT AND TOUCH THAT WHICH
CONTAINS A DEAD BODY - BUT JESUS
00:30:24.52\00:30:30.46
WAS NOT BOUND BY
RULES OF FORMALITY.
00:30:30.46\00:30:34.93
JESUS' COMPASSION - HIS SYMPATHY
- WAS NOT BOUND BY THAT - "AND
00:30:34.93\00:30:42.20
THEY THAT BARE HIM STOOD STILL.
AND HE SAID, 'YOUNG MAN, I SAY
00:30:42.20\00:30:44.97
UNTO THEE, ARISE.' AND
HE THAT WAS DEAD SAT UP,
00:30:44.97\00:30:48.91
AND BEGAN TO
SPEAK. AND HE DELIVERED
00:30:48.91\00:30:51.65
HIM TO HIS
MOTHER." BEAUTIFUL STORY.
00:30:51.65\00:30:56.02
TRUE COMPASSION IS NEVER TOO
BUSY. TRUE SYMPATHY - YOU KNOW
00:30:56.02\00:31:02.39
I'M USING THEM SYNONYMOUSLY AND
THEY ARE SOMEWHAT SYNONYMOUS -
00:31:02.39\00:31:05.86
THEY'RE NOT
IDENTICAL, BUT THEY'RE SIMILAR.
00:31:05.86\00:31:07.93
TRUE SYMPATHY AND COMPASSION IS
NOT BOUND BY RULES OF FORMALITY.
00:31:07.93\00:31:13.70
TRUE SYMPATHY AND COMPASSION
ACTS - IT DOES SOMETHING.
00:31:13.70\00:31:17.61
SO, WE HAVE TWO MAIN THINGS
WE'VE LOOKED AT - BROAD PICTURES
00:31:17.61\00:31:19.77
- SYMPATHY HEARS AND SYMPATHY
ACTS. IN 2004 - ACTUALLY 2000 -
00:31:19.77\00:31:29.88
YEAH, END OF 2004 - DECEMBER
26TH, SOMEBODY MAY REMEMBER WHAT
00:31:29.88\00:31:36.49
HAPPENED ON DECEMBER 26,
2004? MAJOR TSUNAMI, RIGHT?
00:31:36.49\00:31:41.83
MAJOR TSUNAMI IN THE EAST -
SORRY, THE FAR EAST - SUMATRA,
00:31:41.83\00:31:49.24
INDONESIA, THAILAND, INDIA -
IN THAT AREA THERE WAS A MASSIVE
00:31:49.24\00:31:52.71
EARTHQUAKE - CREATES A HUGE
TSUNAMI - ABOUT A QUARTER OF A
00:31:52.71\00:31:55.34
MILLION PEOPLE LOST THEIR LIVES.
HOW MANY OF YOU FELT SYMPATHY?
00:31:55.34\00:32:02.15
I REMEMBER THINKING,
'MAN, WHAT CAN I DO?'
00:32:02.15\00:32:04.55
AND A FRIEND OF MINE AND I
SAID, 'WE'RE GOING TO GO TO
00:32:04.55\00:32:07.69
INDONESIA.' AND SO WE STARTED
DOING EVERYTHING WE COULD -
00:32:07.69\00:32:11.43
STARTED PUTTING A TEAM
TOGETHER TO GO TO INDONESIA.
00:32:11.43\00:32:13.66
SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE TRIED
DOING THE SAME THING - YOU MAY
00:32:13.66\00:32:15.60
UNDERSTAND WHAT
I'M ABOUT TO SAY.
00:32:15.60\00:32:16.83
I HAD EVERYTHING PLANNED. I
WAS A TEACHER AT THAT TIME AND
00:32:16.83\00:32:19.70
I JUST TOLD THE SCHOOL 'WE
NEED TO START ACTING. WE'VE BEEN
00:32:19.70\00:32:23.27
TEACHING A LOT ABOUT RELIGION,
LET'S ACT RELIGION. LET'S GO.
00:32:23.27\00:32:26.11
LET'S TAKE A TEAM AND GET OUT
THERE.' AND THEY SAID, 'OKAY.'
00:32:26.11\00:32:29.31
PRAISE GOD I HAD
THAT KIND OF SUPPORT.
00:32:29.31\00:32:31.71
AND THEN I STARTED CALLING
AROUND TO FIND OUT WHO I COULD
00:32:31.71\00:32:34.32
GO WITH - WE'LL TAKE CARE OF
OURSELVES GETTING THERE BUT WHO
00:32:34.32\00:32:37.25
DO WE - HOW DO WE GET THERE?
00:32:37.25\00:32:38.79
AND THEIR RESPONSE WAS
VERY SIMPLE: 'YOU CAN'T GO.
00:32:38.79\00:32:42.16
WE'RE NOT ALLOWING YOU.'
'WHY? I WANT TO HELP.' 'SORRY.
00:32:42.16\00:32:47.66
THE WORST THING THAT'S GOING
TO HAPPEN IS YOU'RE GOING TO GO
00:32:47.66\00:32:48.83
OVER THERE AND YOU'RE GOING
TO GET KILLED BECAUSE YOU'RE A
00:32:48.83\00:32:50.07
FOREIGNER.' AND I REMEMBER BEING
SO FRUSTRATED BECAUSE SYMPATHY -
00:32:50.07\00:32:57.27
JUST THOUGHT IS NOT
ENOUGH. SYMPATHY MUST ACT.
00:32:57.27\00:33:04.18
YOU KNOW, THERE'S SOMETHING I
WROTE HERE AND I KEEP FORGETTING
00:33:04.18\00:33:05.65
SO I'M GOING TO READ
IT. TOO OFTEN SYMPATHY IS A
00:33:05.65\00:33:09.65
BRIEF, INTENSE
EMOTION. THAT'S NOT SYMPATHY,
00:33:09.65\00:33:13.72
THOUGH, REALLY.
SYMPATHY IS SOMETHING THAT HEARS
00:33:13.72\00:33:17.09
AND SYMPATHY IS
SOMETHING THAT ACTS.
00:33:17.09\00:33:24.17
BERNIE, ONCE HE GOT PAST THE
BAR, REALIZED - IN HIS LITTLE
00:33:24.17\00:33:30.57
36-FOOT BOAT - THAT HE WAS
MISSING HIS COMPASS, THE WINDS
00:33:30.57\00:33:36.54
WERE BLOWING 40 MILES AN HOUR,
THE WAVES, LIKE I SAID, WERE 40
00:33:36.54\00:33:39.21
TO 60-FEET HIGH, AND HE'S TRYING
TO FIND THE HULL HALF OF THE
00:33:39.21\00:33:45.02
TANKER CALLED THE
PENDLETON . 'WHERE IS IT?
00:33:45.02\00:33:49.29
HOW CAN I GET TO IT?' AND
AS HE'S DRIVING THROUGH THE
00:33:49.29\00:33:52.73
WAVES, HE GETS THIS SENSE - AND
I WAS READING THIS HISTORY LAST
00:33:52.73\00:33:57.57
- YESTERDAY - AT THE COAST GUARD
WEBSITE - VERY INTERESTING.
00:33:57.57\00:34:00.54
HE GETS THIS SENSE THAT THERE'S
SOMETHING IN FRONT OF HIM.
00:34:00.54\00:34:05.77
HE TURNS ON THE SPOTLIGHT
AND IN FRONT OF THEM HE SEES THE
00:34:05.77\00:34:10.41
PENDLETON STILL UPRIGHT, LIFTING
UP WITH 60-FOOT SWELLS AND
00:34:10.41\00:34:16.92
CRASHING DOWN IN FOAM
AND GOING BACK UP AND DOWN.
00:34:16.92\00:34:19.62
BUT THEN HE'S THINKING,
'IS THERE ANYONE STILL HERE?
00:34:19.62\00:34:22.16
IS THERE ANYONE ON BOARD?'
AND THEN HE SEES A LIGHT UP AT
00:34:22.16\00:34:24.36
THE RAIL - 33 MEN WERE
STILL ON BOARD THAT SHIP.
00:34:24.36\00:34:29.66
HE DIDN'T KNOW THERE
WAS 33 TO START WITH.
00:34:29.66\00:34:31.70
HE PULLED UP CLOSE, THEY THREW
A - I THINK IT'S CALLED A JACOB
00:34:31.70\00:34:33.77
LADDER - AND PEOPLE
STARTED CLIMBING DOWN.
00:34:33.77\00:34:38.11
HIS BOAT COULD HOLD 12 AND THERE
WERE ALREADY FOUR OF THEM ON
00:34:38.11\00:34:41.11
BOARD. WELL, ONCE
THEY HAD 12 THEN 14
00:34:41.11\00:34:46.75
AND THEN 16 AND THEN 18 AND HE
THOUGHT ALMOST EVERYONE'S READY
00:34:46.75\00:34:50.29
AND HE SEES A WHOLE LINE
OF PEOPLE STILL COMING DOWN.
00:34:50.29\00:34:54.32
THEY FIT 32 MEN - ONE OF THEM
ACTUALLY DIED - THE FINAL PERSON
00:34:54.32\00:34:59.03
TO GET OFF ACTUALLY DIED AND GOT
CRUSHED - BUT 32 MEN PLUS THEIR
00:34:59.03\00:35:06.40
FOUR - 36 ON A BOAT THAT WAS
SUPPOSED TO HOLD 12 - AMAZING!
00:35:06.40\00:35:14.48
THEY DID IT. SOMEONE SAID,
'IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO LEAVE.
00:35:14.48\00:35:19.61
YOU CAN'T TAKE ON ALL THESE
MEN.' AND BERNIE SAID, 'EITHER
00:35:19.61\00:35:23.12
WE'RE ALL GOING TO BE SAVED
OR WE'RE ALL GOING TO BE LOST.'
00:35:23.12\00:35:26.29
IT'S KIND OF A BOLD STATEMENT
FOR A CAPTAIN TO MAKE, BUT HE
00:35:26.29\00:35:28.62
MADE THAT CALL AT THAT
TIME. BERNIE BROUGHT IN 36 MEN,
00:35:28.62\00:35:35.96
INCLUDING HIMSELF,
ALIVE TO THE CHATHAM STATION.
00:35:35.96\00:35:38.60
MIRACULOUS? HE WOULD
SAY SO. HE SAID THE HAND OF
00:35:38.60\00:35:41.24
GOD WAS ON THE TILLER. AMAZING.
00:35:41.24\00:35:45.01
SYMPATHY NOT ONLY HEARS AND
ACTS, BUT SYMPATHY ALSO COUNTS
00:35:45.01\00:35:49.34
THE COST AND IS
WILLING TO PAY IT.
00:35:49.34\00:35:52.75
YOU KNOW, SYMPATHY TAKES ENERGY.
HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED THAT
00:35:52.75\00:35:56.58
YOU'VE EVER MET A
PERSON THAT NEEDS SYMPATHY?
00:35:56.58\00:35:59.22
MAYBE IT WAS YOURSELF, I DON'T
KNOW, BUT I'VE MET PEOPLE WHO
00:35:59.22\00:36:02.02
NEED SYMPATHY AND IT JUST
TAKES ENERGY TO GIVE SYMPATHY.
00:36:02.02\00:36:06.23
IT TAKES, SOMETIMES, MONEY
TO TRULY ACT ON YOUR SYMPATHY.
00:36:06.23\00:36:10.83
SOMETIMES IT TAKES TIME,
BUT SYMPATHY INVOLVES A COST.
00:36:10.83\00:36:15.47
THERE ARE SEVERAL PASSAGES THAT
ARE LISTED OUT IN OUR LESSON AND
00:36:15.47\00:36:18.24
THEY ARE JUST EXCELLENT. I
LIKE TO NOTICE THEM, IF YOU
00:36:18.24\00:36:21.01
DON'T MIND,
COLOSSIANS CHAPTER 3, VERSE 12.
00:36:21.01\00:36:23.75
WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT
COLOSSIANS 3:12 AND THEN 1 PETER
00:36:23.75\00:36:26.65
3:8 - COLOSSIANS CHAPTER 3 AND
VERSE 12 - AND THEN 1 PETER 3:8.
00:36:26.65\00:36:34.99
(PAGES TURNING) COLOSSIANS 3:12
STARTS OUT WITH THIS: "PUT ON
00:36:34.99\00:36:48.67
THEREFORE," - MAYBE SOME
VERSIONS SAY, 'THEREFORE PUT ON'
00:36:48.67\00:36:51.67
- I DON'T KNOW, BUT - "PUT
ON AS THE ELECT OF GOD, HOLY AND
00:36:51.67\00:36:57.11
BELOVED, BOWELS OF MERCIES," -
YOU KNOW, I USED TO LOOK AT THIS
00:36:57.11\00:37:00.48
AND SAY, 'YOU KNOW, THAT'S
KIND OF AN INTERESTING WAY OF
00:37:00.48\00:37:02.08
DESCRIBING' - I'M USING THE
KING JAMES VERSION HERE - THE
00:37:02.08\00:37:04.35
INNERMOST PART OF
YOU, FILL IT WITH MERCY.
00:37:04.35\00:37:09.69
YOU DON'T MIND IF I DO A LITTLE
BIT OF NEW ENGLISH PARAPHRASE,
00:37:09.69\00:37:12.13
OKAY? THE INNERMOST PART OF YOU,
00:37:12.13\00:37:13.50
FILL IT WITH MERCY,
"KINDNESS, HUMBLENESS OF MIND,
00:37:13.50\00:37:18.00
MEEKNESS,
LONGSUFFERING." WOW, PUT IT ON.
00:37:18.00\00:37:25.67
I WOULD ASSUME THAT IF YOU HAVE
TO PUT SOMETHING ON, IT WASN'T
00:37:25.67\00:37:27.11
THERE NATURALLY. >>AMEN.
00:37:27.11\00:37:29.68
>>AND I BELIEVE THAT'S
PROBABLY TRUE WITH MOST OF US.
00:37:29.68\00:37:33.05
I CAN'T SPEAK FOR YOU BUT I'LL
SPEAK FOR MYSELF: I TEND TO BE
00:37:33.05\00:37:37.79
WORRIED ABOUT MYSELF MORE THAN
I'M WORRIED ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE.
00:37:37.79\00:37:41.12
I TEND TO BE MORE SYMPATHETIC TO
MY NEEDS THAN THE NEEDS OF OTHER
00:37:41.12\00:37:43.39
PEOPLE. SO, TO
CARE FOR OTHERS - FROM
00:37:43.39\00:37:46.26
THE VERY INNERMOST OF MY BODY
- HAS TO BE SOMETHING THAT'S PUT
00:37:46.26\00:37:48.96
ON - SOMETHING
THAT GOD CAN GIVE.
00:37:48.96\00:37:53.54
IT'S INTERESTING, THAT PHRASE
'PUT ON' IS ALSO USED WITH THE
00:37:53.54\00:37:55.80
ARMOR OF CHRIST. DID
YOU KNOW THAT? PUT IT ON.
00:37:55.80\00:37:59.31
1 PETER CHAPTER 3, VERSE 8 -
1 PETER CHAPTER 3 AND VERSE 8
00:37:59.31\00:38:08.38
(PAGES TURNING) "FINALLY, BE YE
ALL OF ONE MIND," - I WOULD LOVE
00:38:08.38\00:38:21.60
TO SEE THIS IN A CHURCH
TODAY - BE YE ALL OF ONE MIND -
00:38:21.60\00:38:25.73
ACTUALLY, WE DON'T NEED A WHOLE
CHURCH TO BE ALL OF ONE MIND.
00:38:25.73\00:38:27.50
COULD WE JUST HAVE A CHURCH
BOARD THAT'S ALL OF ONE MIND?
00:38:27.50\00:38:29.50
THAT'D BE ALL
THAT WE NEED, RIGHT?
00:38:29.50\00:38:30.91
BE YE ALL OF ONE
MIND. WHAT IS THAT MIND?
00:38:30.91\00:38:35.78
VERSE 8 CONTINUES: "HAVING
COMPASSION ONE OF ANOTHER, LOVE
00:38:35.78\00:38:40.18
AS BRETHREN, BE
PITIFUL, BE COURTEOUS."
00:38:40.18\00:38:44.79
I BELIEVE
COMPASSION IS A MINDSET.
00:38:44.79\00:38:50.16
NOW I'VE ALREADY SAID THAT
COMPASSION HEARS AND COMPASSION
00:38:50.16\00:38:53.33
ACTS AND IT COUNTS THE COST,
BUT I BELIEVE FOR COMPASSION TO
00:38:53.33\00:38:57.00
COUNT THE COST AND BE WILLING
TO DO IT ANYHOW, IT HAS TO BE A
00:38:57.00\00:39:01.30
MINDSET. COMPASSION IS
NOT SOMETHING THAT WE DO;
00:39:01.30\00:39:05.77
IT'S SOMETHING
THAT WE ARE. >>AMEN.
00:39:05.77\00:39:09.54
>>AND THAT ONLY CAN
HAPPEN WHEN GOD PUTS IT ON.
00:39:09.54\00:39:14.15
IT CAN ONLY HAPPEN
WHEN GOD PUTS IT ON.
00:39:14.15\00:39:20.59
ONE MORE PASSAGE - 1 JOHN
CHAPTER 3, VERSE 17 - 1 JOHN
00:39:20.59\00:39:25.96
3:17 - AND HE USES THE SAME WORD
AS PAUL DID THERE IN COLOSSIANS
00:39:25.96\00:39:32.20
- "BUT WHOSO HATH THIS WORLD'S
GOOD, AND SEETH HIS BROTHER
00:39:32.20\00:39:35.30
HAVE NEED, AND SHUTTETH UP HIS
BOWELS OF COMPASSION FROM HIM,
00:39:35.30\00:39:40.81
HOW DWELLETH THE LOVE OF GOD
IN HIM?" THAT'S A PRETTY STRONG
00:39:40.81\00:39:46.08
STATEMENT. HE'S
SAYING, 'IT'S ONE THING TO
00:39:46.08\00:39:49.42
SAY; IT'S ANOTHER
THING TO DO.' >>AMEN.
00:39:49.42\00:39:54.82
>>SO WE'VE GOT A - QUITE A
FEW THINGS COMING - YOU KNOW THE
00:39:54.82\00:39:56.86
WORD 'COMPASSION' ACTUALLY MEANS
- IT COMES FROM THE LATIN WORD
00:39:56.86\00:39:59.43
'COMPATI' - I PROBABLY TORTURED
IT, BUT IT MEANS THIS: 'TO
00:39:59.43\00:40:04.87
SUFFER WITH' - THAT'S WHAT
COMPASSION MEANS - TO SUFFER
00:40:04.87\00:40:09.94
WITH.
COMPASSION IS NOT A PASSING
00:40:09.94\00:40:13.31
FLEETING THOUGHT, IT'S
A WILLINGNESS TO SUFFER.
00:40:13.31\00:40:17.55
I KNEW WE'D HAVE TO SAY
WHO WAS THE ULTIMATE SHOWER OF
00:40:17.55\00:40:19.55
COMPASSION? JESUS CHRIST -
HE SUFFERED WITH US, DID HE NOT?
00:40:19.55\00:40:24.42
>>AMEN. >>HE HAD
COMPASSION ON US.
00:40:24.42\00:40:33.66
THERE'S A LADY THAT I
HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF MEETING.
00:40:33.66\00:40:36.00
I THINK I'VE SHARED HER STORY
BEFORE BUT I WANT TO SHARE A
00:40:36.00\00:40:37.93
PORTION OF IT AGAIN.
SHE HAD SOME MEETING IN THE
00:40:37.93\00:40:41.04
COUNTRY OF THAILAND AND WHEN
I SPENT SOME TIME WITH HER I
00:40:41.04\00:40:45.87
REALIZED THAT SHE HAD
SOMETHING CALLED COMPASSION.
00:40:45.87\00:40:48.91
NOW, IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE THAT
WAY ALWAYS - FROM THE OUTWARDS,
00:40:48.91\00:40:50.95
SOMETIMES, WITH A PERSON, BUT
I COULD SEE, DEFINITELY, AS I
00:40:50.95\00:40:52.88
SPENT TIME WITH HER THAT
IS SOMETHING THAT SHE HAS.
00:40:52.88\00:40:56.22
SHE CAME AS A MISSIONARY TO
THAILAND 34 YEARS AGO IN HER
00:40:56.22\00:41:02.42
EARLY 40S - SHE IS NOW IN HER
MID 70S - GOES BACK TO HER HOME
00:41:02.42\00:41:06.96
COUNTRY A MONTH EVERY YEAR TO
GET REJUVENATED BUT SPENDS HER
00:41:06.96\00:41:10.90
LIFE IN THAILAND MINISTERING.
00:41:10.90\00:41:14.74
SHE, BY AND LARGE, EATS THE WAY
THEY DO, LIVES THE WAY THEY DO -
00:41:14.74\00:41:19.17
I'VE BEEN TO HER HOUSE - ALMOST
IDENTICAL TO THE PEOPLE WHO SHE
00:41:19.17\00:41:23.28
MINISTERS WITH.
SHE HAS COMPASSION.
00:41:23.28\00:41:25.95
SHE HAS LEARNED TO
SUFFER WITH - BEAUTIFUL.
00:41:25.95\00:41:33.25
IS THERE SOMEONE GOD'S CALLING
YOU TO SHOW COMPASSION ON?
00:41:33.25\00:41:39.33
THIS MORNING IS SOMEONE ON YOUR
HEART - OR SOME GROUP OF PEOPLE
00:41:39.33\00:41:42.66
ON YOUR HEART - OR SOME PLACE
THAT GOD HAS ASKED YOU TO HAVE
00:41:42.66\00:41:45.83
COMPASSION ON? MAYBE
GOD'S ALREADY PLACED SOME
00:41:45.83\00:41:48.94
PLACE ON YOUR HEART AND RIGHT
NOW YOU ARE SHOWING COMPASSION -
00:41:48.94\00:41:51.84
YOU ARE SUFFERING WITH -
AND I GUARANTEE YOU THAT YOU ARE
00:41:51.84\00:41:55.28
SHOWING THE LOVE OF GOD
IN A WAY THAT'S INCREDIBLE.
00:41:55.28\00:41:59.95
THAT'S WHAT GOD'S
ASKING. TO TRULY BE WITH HIM IS
00:41:59.95\00:42:05.12
ALSO TO HAVE HIS COMPASSION.
DID JESUS PAY A COST FOR US?
00:42:05.12\00:42:11.63
>>YES. >>HEBREWS
CHAPTER 2, VERSES 16
00:42:11.63\00:42:15.90
THROUGH 17 TELLS US THAT HE TOOK
ON OUR NATURE. THAT WAS A LITTLE
00:42:15.90\00:42:19.63
BIT OF A COST - AT LEAST
IF IT WAS A NATURE LIKE MINE.
00:42:19.63\00:42:23.04
THAT WAS DEFINITELY A
LITTLE BIT OF COST, RIGHT?
00:42:23.04\00:42:26.24
YOU COULD SAY AMEN. >>AMEN.
00:42:26.24\00:42:28.24
>>2 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 8 AND
VERSE 9 IS THAT HE WAS MADE POOR
00:42:28.24\00:42:36.28
SO THAT I COULD
BE MADE RICH. >>AMEN.
00:42:36.28\00:42:39.45
>>SO HE TOOK ON POVERTY - NOT
ONLY DID HE TAKE ON MY NATURE,
00:42:39.45\00:42:42.36
HE TOOK ON MY POVERTY.
00:42:42.36\00:42:44.29
PHILIPPIANS CHAPTER 2, VERSES 7
THROUGH 8 - STARTING IN VERSE 5
00:42:44.29\00:42:48.53
IT SAYS HE TOOK UPON - HE
HAD THIS MIND IN HIM, RIGHT?
00:42:48.53\00:42:51.17
THAT HE WAS WILLING TO GO TO THE
DEATH - EVEN THE DEATH OF THE
00:42:51.17\00:42:53.40
CROSS - SUFFER
HUMILIATION. HE PAID THE COST.
00:42:53.40\00:42:59.04
NOT JUST OUR NATURE AND POVERTY,
BUT DEATH AND HUMILIATION.
00:42:59.04\00:43:01.71
YOU KNOW, HEBREWS 4 ALSO TELLS
US THAT HE WAS TEMPTED IN ALL
00:43:01.71\00:43:04.48
WAYS LIKE YOU AND I
ARE, YET WITHOUT SIN.
00:43:04.48\00:43:06.82
HE WAS TEMPTED - WHAT A
COST. WHY WOULD HE DO THAT?
00:43:06.82\00:43:11.62
WHY WOULD ANYONE
PAY THAT KIND OF PRICE?
00:43:11.62\00:43:19.43
HE HAD COMPASSION. >>AMEN.
00:43:19.43\00:43:21.36
>>HE HAD SYMPATHY AND
SYMPATHY PAYS THE COST.
00:43:21.36\00:43:26.00
SYMPATHY HEARS, SYMPATHY
ACTS, SYMPATHY PAYS THE COST.
00:43:26.00\00:43:29.57
AND OUR FINAL POINT THIS
MORNING: SYMPATHY FEELS - OR I
00:43:29.57\00:43:36.31
COULD USE THE WORD 'WEEPS' -
SYMPATHY FEELS - SYMPATHY WEEPS.
00:43:36.31\00:43:45.25
A 17-YEAR-OLD GIRL, GOING
THROUGH THE STRUGGLES THAT
00:43:45.25\00:43:50.19
17-YEAR-OLD GIRLS GO THROUGH,
I GUESS - I WOULDN'T KNOW - BUT
00:43:50.19\00:43:54.73
THEN, SO MUCH MORE.
ENDED UP TAKING HER LIFE.
00:43:54.73\00:44:00.57
HER PARENTS WERE JUST IN
INCREDIBLE SORROW AS THEY SAT
00:44:00.57\00:44:04.27
THERE TRYING TO GRAPPLE WHAT HAD
JUST TAKEN PLACE IN THEIR HOME.
00:44:04.27\00:44:08.14
AND THE PASTOR CAME BY AND HE
SAT DOWN NEXT TO THEM AND JUST
00:44:08.14\00:44:17.15
SAT THERE AND TRIED TO GRAPPLE
WITH WHAT THEY WERE GOING
00:44:17.15\00:44:22.72
THROUGH. AFTER
AWHILE HE STARTED CRYING
00:44:22.72\00:44:25.43
UNCONTROLLABLY AND CRIED
UNTIL HE HAD NO TEARS LEFT.
00:44:25.43\00:44:31.57
AND THEN HE GOT UP AND LEFT.
THE HUSBAND AND WIFE DIDN'T NEED
00:44:31.57\00:44:40.44
WORDS RIGHT THEN, THEY SIMPLY
NEEDED SYMPATHY - RAW SYMPATHY.
00:44:40.44\00:44:48.85
THEY SAID LATER THAT IT WAS
THE BEST THING THAT COULD HAVE
00:44:48.85\00:44:50.35
HAPPENED TO THEM - SOMEONE COULD
JUST SIT THERE AND CRY WITH
00:44:50.35\00:44:53.99
THEM. SYMPATHY
WEEPS - IT FEELS THE
00:44:53.99\00:44:58.96
NEEDS OF THOSE WHO
WE ARE MINISTERING TO.
00:44:58.96\00:45:02.40
BY THE WAY, THAT SAME SYMPATHY
THAT WE SHOW IS THE SYMPATHY
00:45:02.40\00:45:06.43
THAT GOD SHOWS FOR YOU AND
I. HE WEEPS WHEN YOU'RE CRYING.
00:45:06.43\00:45:12.57
HE CARES ABOUT WHAT
YOU AND I ARE EXPERIENCING.
00:45:12.57\00:45:15.08
YOU KNOW, WILLIAM BOOTH -
GENERAL WILLIAM BOOTH, FOUNDER
00:45:15.08\00:45:19.38
OF THE SALVATION ARMY, MADE THIS
STATEMENT WHICH IS - I'M NOT
00:45:19.38\00:45:24.75
COMFORTABLE WITH THIS STATEMENT
RIGHT NOW BECAUSE IT IS
00:45:24.75\00:45:28.16
ATTACKING ME HARDER THAN I'VE
BEEN ATTACKED BY A QUOTATION IN
00:45:28.16\00:45:30.86
AWHILE. IT SAYS
THIS: "IF YOU CAN'T CRY
00:45:30.86\00:45:33.53
OVER THE CITY,
WE CAN'T USE YOU."
00:45:33.53\00:45:38.87
IF YOU CAN'T CRY OVER
THE CITY, WE CAN'T USE YOU.
00:45:38.87\00:45:43.67
THAT'S A PRETTY - ANYHOW, LIKE I
SAID, IT'S A LITTLE HARD FOR ME.
00:45:43.67\00:45:50.51
REMEMBER JESUS - LUKE CHAPTER 19
- LUKE CHAPTER 19 AND VERSE 41 -
00:45:50.51\00:45:55.45
LET'S - WE CAN ACTUALLY TURN
THERE - WE'VE BEEN QUOTING ONE
00:45:55.45\00:45:57.82
SO LET'S ACTUALLY TO THIS ONE
- LUKE CHAPTER 19 AND VERSE 41 -
00:45:57.82\00:46:09.76
THIS IS THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY
AS THEY'RE GOING - JESUS HAS A
00:46:09.76\00:46:13.40
TRIUMPHAL ENTRY SUNDAY, GOING
INTO THE - JERUSALEM - "AND WHEN
00:46:13.40\00:46:16.40
HE WAS COME NEAR, HE BEHELD THE
CITY, AND" - THE BIBLE SAYS HE
00:46:16.40\00:46:19.41
"WEPT OVER IT." VERSE 42 -
"SAYING, 'IF THOU HADST KNOWN,
00:46:19.41\00:46:23.68
EVEN THOU, AT LEAST IN THIS
THY DAY, THE THINGS WHICH BELONG
00:46:23.68\00:46:27.15
UNTO THY PEACE! BUT NOW
THEY ARE HID FROM THINE EYES.
00:46:27.15\00:46:29.92
FOR THE DAY SHALL COME UPON
THEE, THAT THINE ENEMIES SHALL
00:46:29.92\00:46:32.85
CAST A TRENCH ABOUT THEE,
AND COMPASS THEE ROUND, AND KEEP
00:46:32.85\00:46:36.26
THEE ON EVERY SIDE AND SHALL LAY
THEE EVEN WITH THE GROUND, AND
00:46:36.26\00:46:39.49
THY CHILDREN WITHIN THEE; AND
THEY SHALL NOT LEAVE IN THEE ONE
00:46:39.49\00:46:41.93
STONE UPON ANOTHER; BECAUSE
THOU KNEWEST NOT THE TIME OF THY
00:46:41.93\00:46:45.90
VISITATION.'" WHAT'S HE
SAYING? 'I CAME TO YOU AND
00:46:45.90\00:46:53.51
YOU DIDN'T REALIZE
IT. YOU KICKED ME AWAY.
00:46:53.51\00:46:57.18
YOU REJECTED ME AND YOU WILL
BE DESTROYED BECAUSE OF YOUR
00:46:57.18\00:46:59.95
ACTIONS. THIS IS NOT
FROM ME, THIS IS YOUR CHOICE.
00:46:59.95\00:47:05.32
IF ONLY YOU KNEW WHAT WAS
HAPPENING.' THE VERY PEOPLE WHO
00:47:05.32\00:47:09.62
KILL HIM, HE KNOWS ARE GOING TO
KILL HIM. HE'S NOW WEEPING OVER
00:47:09.62\00:47:15.33
THEIR FUTURE. I BELIEVE TO
WEEP OVER OUR SORROW IS HUMAN.
00:47:15.33\00:47:20.67
TO WEEP OVER OUR
ENEMIES' SORROW IS DIVINE.
00:47:20.67\00:47:23.37
>>AMEN. >>TO WEEP
FOR OURSELVES - WE ALL
00:47:23.37\00:47:27.78
DO THAT - BUT TO WEEP
FOR THE SORROW OF OUR ENEMY?
00:47:27.78\00:47:31.78
THAT TAKES GOD. THAT'S A
LOVE THAT'S BEYOND OUR HUMANITY.
00:47:31.78\00:47:36.25
BY THE WAY, HE CAN
GIVE IT TO US. >>AMEN.
00:47:36.25\00:47:38.52
>>I KNOW IT'S NOT IN ME, BY
NATURE, AND I WOULD ASSUME - I
00:47:38.52\00:47:41.72
HOPE YOU DON'T MIND ME STEPPING
ON YOUR TOES - IT'S NOT IN ANY
00:47:41.72\00:47:43.09
OF YOU, BY
NATURE, EITHER. >>AMEN.
00:47:43.09\00:47:45.86
>>IT'S ONLY FROM GOD, BUT THAT'S
THE KIND OF LOVE HE CAN GIVE US.
00:47:45.86\00:47:53.64
JOHN CHAPTER 11 - NOT ONLY DID
HE WEEP THERE - THERE'S A COUPLE
00:47:53.64\00:47:59.77
PLACES WHERE WE
SEE JESUS WEEPING.
00:47:59.77\00:48:01.38
THIS IS ANOTHER ONE - JOHN
CHAPTER 11 AND VERSE 35 - JOHN
00:48:01.38\00:48:11.35
11:35 - I GUESS IF YOU JUST READ
IT WE WON'T KNOW THE CONTEXT,
00:48:11.35\00:48:15.52
BUT I'M GOING TO ASSUME YOU ALL
KNOW THE CONTEXT: LAZARUS HAS
00:48:15.52\00:48:18.63
DIED - ONE OF THE CLOSE FRIENDS
OF JESUS - THEY ARE AT THE TOMB
00:48:18.63\00:48:21.96
WITH MARY AND MARTHA.
JESUS SEES THE GRAVE - HE SEES A
00:48:21.96\00:48:25.63
LOT - HE KNOWS A LOT OF THINGS
THAT ARE HAPPENING IN THE MINDS
00:48:25.63\00:48:27.37
OF THE PEOPLE THAT ARE
EVEN THERE MOURNING THE
00:48:27.37\00:48:29.34
DEATH OF LAZARUS.
THERE'S A LOT HAPPENING.
00:48:29.34\00:48:32.81
IT SAYS THAT JESUS - IN VERSE 33
- WAS GROANED IN THE SPIRIT - HE
00:48:32.81\00:48:35.94
GROANED IN THE
SPIRIT AND WAS TROUBLED.
00:48:35.94\00:48:38.11
AND IN VERSE 35 IT
SAYS, "JESUS WEPT."
00:48:38.11\00:48:42.12
WHY? WHY DID HE WEEP?
00:48:42.12\00:48:45.25
YES, I KNOW THERE'S A LONG
PROFOUND ANSWER THAT TALKS ABOUT
00:48:45.25\00:48:48.86
HE WAS WEEPING BECAUSE HE KNEW
THAT PEOPLE WHO WERE THERE WERE
00:48:48.86\00:48:51.19
ACTUALLY GOING TO TRY TO KILL
LAZARUS AGAIN - NOT THAT THEY
00:48:51.19\00:48:53.76
KILLED HIM THE FIRST TIME, BUT
THEY WOULD TRY TO KILL HIM AFTER
00:48:53.76\00:48:56.13
HIS RESURRECTION. THERE
WERE GOING TO BE ONES IN
00:48:56.13\00:48:57.93
THAT CROWD WHO
WERE GOING TO KILL HIM.
00:48:57.93\00:48:59.80
HE WASN'T WEEPING FOR LAZARUS
BECAUSE HE KNEW LAZARUS WAS
00:48:59.80\00:49:02.07
GOING TO BE
RAISED UP FROM THE DEAD.
00:49:02.07\00:49:03.81
BUT HE WAS ALSO WEEPING FOR
ANOTHER REASON: HE WAS WEEPING
00:49:03.81\00:49:05.44
IN SYMPATHY
WITH MARY AND MARTHA.
00:49:05.44\00:49:08.24
YOU KNOW, ROMANS CHAPTER 12 AND
VERSE 15 TELLS US SOMETHING -
00:49:08.24\00:49:13.62
ROMANS CHAPTER 12 AND VERSE
15, "REJOICE WITH THEM THAT DO
00:49:13.62\00:49:22.02
REJOICE, AND WEEP
WITH THEM THAT WEEP."
00:49:22.02\00:49:26.76
REJOICE WITH THEM THAT DO
REJOICE AND WEEP WITH THEM THAT
00:49:26.76\00:49:29.66
DO WEEP. I ADDED AN EXTRA 'DO'.
IT'S OKAY TO CRY WITH SOMEONE
00:49:29.66\00:49:38.81
JUST BECAUSE THEY
NEED TO BE CRIED WITH.
00:49:38.81\00:49:41.48
IT'S OKAY TO LAUGH WITH SOMEONE
BECAUSE THEY NEED SOMEONE TO
00:49:41.48\00:49:44.81
LAUGH WITH THEM. JESUS
DID IT. IT'S A CALL I THINK
00:49:44.81\00:49:48.18
HE'S ASKED US TO DO.
IT'S A PART OF MINISTRY.
00:49:48.18\00:49:51.62
SYMPATHY HEARS. SYMPATHY ACTS.
00:49:51.62\00:49:56.06
SYMPATHY PAYS THE
PRICE. AND SYMPATHY WEEPS.
00:49:56.06\00:50:04.90
"THE WEIGHT OF GRIEF OF AGES WAS
UPON HIM" - DESIRE OF AGES PAGE
00:50:04.90\00:50:08.30
534 - "HE SAW THE TERRIBLE
EFFECTS OF THE TRANSGRESSION OF
00:50:08.30\00:50:11.74
GOD'S LAW. HE SAW
THEN THE HISTORY OF THE
00:50:11.74\00:50:14.24
WORLD BEGINNING WITH THE DEATH
OF ABEL, THE CONFLICT BETWEEN
00:50:14.24\00:50:17.08
GOOD AND EVIL
HAD BEEN UNCEASING.
00:50:17.08\00:50:19.81
LOOKING DOWN THE YEARS TO COME
HE SAW THE SUFFERING AND SORROW,
00:50:19.81\00:50:27.49
TEARS AND DEATH, THAT
WERE TO BE THE LOT OF MEN.
00:50:27.49\00:50:34.36
HIS HEART WAS PIERCED WITH THE
PAIN OF THE HUMAN FAMILY OF ALL
00:50:34.36\00:50:40.30
AGES AND IN ALL LANDS.
THE WOES OF THIS SINFUL RACE
00:50:40.30\00:50:49.34
WERE HEAVY UPON HIS SOUL AND THE
FOUNTAIN OF HIS TEARS WAS BROKEN
00:50:49.34\00:50:54.62
UP AS HE LONGED TO
RELIEVE ALL THEIR DISTRESS."
00:50:54.62\00:51:00.36
THINK ABOUT IT: THE SORROW
OF ALL PEOPLE IN ALL LANDS.
00:51:00.36\00:51:07.30
SO I HAVE A SYMPATHY HERE
THAT JESUS HAS AND THIS SYMPATHY
00:51:07.30\00:51:12.00
HEARS THE CRIES OF ALL PEOPLE
- THE GROANINGS OF ALL PEOPLE.
00:51:12.00\00:51:16.27
THIS SYMPATHY ACTS UPON IT
AND DOES WHATEVER IS NECESSARY.
00:51:16.27\00:51:21.98
THIS SYMPATHY DOESN'T
WORRY ABOUT THE COST BUT PAYS IT
00:51:21.98\00:51:26.18
FREELY. AND THIS SYMPATHY FEELS.
THAT'S INCREDIBLE SYMPATHY AND
00:51:26.18\00:51:34.72
THAT'S THE
SYMPATHY OF JESUS CHRIST.
00:51:34.72\00:51:37.33
SO WHEN WE GO BACK AND WE LOOK
AT THIS CONCEPT OF HOW JESUS
00:51:37.33\00:51:42.00
SHOWED SYMPATHY, IT'S NOT THAT
HE JUST HAD SOME KIND OF INTENSE
00:51:42.00\00:51:47.07
FEELING OF 'THAT'S TERRIBLE.
I'M SORRY YOU'RE GOING THROUGH
00:51:47.07\00:51:49.37
THAT.' IT WAS SO MUCH MORE.
WHAT AN AWESOME GOD WE SERVE.
00:51:49.37\00:51:56.88
>>AMEN. >>SO HE CAME HERE.
00:51:56.88\00:52:00.75
HE HEARD OUR CRY. AND
2,000 YEARS AGO HE TOOK UPON OUR
00:52:00.75\00:52:06.92
NATURE - HE TOOK UPON OUR FLESH
AND HE CAME HERE AND HE ACTED.
00:52:06.92\00:52:15.43
THEN HE PAID THE ULTIMATE PRICE
- THE PRICE OF HIS OWN LIFE.
00:52:15.43\00:52:19.53
AND I WOULD LIKE TO TELL
YOU THAT TODAY HE STILL FEELS.
00:52:19.53\00:52:25.04
>>AMEN. >>HE STILL HEARS.
00:52:25.04\00:52:28.38
WE HAVE A SAVIOR
WHO IS AWESOME. >>AMEN.
00:52:28.38\00:52:32.75
>>I WOULD LIKE TO LEAVE YOU WITH
MARK CHAPTER - MATTHEW CHAPTER 9
00:52:32.75\00:52:42.79
AND VERSE 36 - MATTHEW 9, VERSE
36 (PAGES TURNING) "BUT WHEN HE
00:52:42.79\00:53:01.44
SAW THE MULTITUDES, HE WAS MOVED
WITH COMPASSION ON THEM, BECAUSE
00:53:01.44\00:53:07.92
THEY FAINTED, AND WERE SCATTERED
ABROAD, AS SHEEP HAVING NO
00:53:07.92\00:53:12.22
SHEPHERD." TODAY,
REMEMBER THE SYMPATHY OF
00:53:12.22\00:53:17.09
OUR GOD - HE HAS COMPASSION
ON YOU AND ON THE WORLD
00:53:17.09\00:53:20.53
THAT IS AROUND YOU.
CAN WE PRAY AS WE CLOSE?
00:53:20.53\00:53:25.90
OUR FATHER, WE'VE BEEN
MOVED AS WE LEARN ABOUT THE
00:53:25.90\00:53:29.80
INCREDIBLE SYMPATHY
OF JESUS TOWARDS US.
00:53:29.80\00:53:35.88
FATHER, WE JUST WANT TO
PRAISE YOU THIS MORNING FOR IT.
00:53:35.88\00:53:38.41
HELP US TO HAVE JOY IN THAT LOVE
- TO REST IN THAT COMPASSION AND
00:53:38.41\00:53:45.02
SYMPATHY AND THEN, FATHER,
TO SHARE IT WITH OTHER PEOPLE.
00:53:45.02\00:53:48.39
WE PRAY FOR THIS IN THE
MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS, AMEN.
00:53:48.39\00:53:54.93
WE HAVE A FREE OFFER - JUST WANT
TO REMIND YOU, IF YOU HAVEN'T
00:53:54.93\00:53:58.23
HAD A CHANCE TO CALL ON IT, IT'S
OFFER #801 AND THE NUMBER TO
00:53:58.23\00:54:03.20
CALL WOULD BE 1-866-788-3966
THAT IS 866-788-3966.
00:54:03.20\00:54:11.28
THANK YOU SO MUCH.
GOD BLESS YOU. (MUSIC)
00:54:11.28\00:54:22.32
HELLO FRIENDS, WE ALL
KNOW A MARATHON IS ONE OF THE
00:54:22.32\00:54:24.66
LONGEST AND HARDEST
RACES A PERSON COULD RUN.
00:54:24.66\00:54:27.40
BUT DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE
ULTRA MARATHON THEY USED TO HAVE
00:54:27.40\00:54:30.37
IN AUSTRALIA? IT WAS 544
MILES FROM MELBOURNE TO SYDNEY.
00:54:30.37\00:54:35.80
IT ATTRACTED AS MANY AS
150 WORLD-CLASS ATHLETES.
00:54:35.80\00:54:39.67
BUT THEN SOMETHING HAPPENED
THAT NO ONE WOULD EVER FORGET.
00:54:39.67\00:54:42.24
IN 1983 A 61-YEAR-OLD POTATO
FARMER NAMED CLIFF YOUNG DECIDED
00:54:42.24\00:54:47.42
TO ENTER THE RACE. NOW
PEOPLE WERE VERY AMUSED
00:54:47.42\00:54:49.92
BECAUSE HE HAD ON RUBBER
GALOSHES OVER HIS BOOTS AND
00:54:49.92\00:54:53.29
WHEN THE RACE BEGAN AND ALL THE
RUNNERS TOOK OFF, SURE ENOUGH
00:54:53.29\00:54:56.39
OLD CLIFF WAS LEFT BEHIND
SHUFFLING ALONG VERY SLOWLY
00:54:56.39\00:55:00.50
- BUT HE WAS
SHUFFLING VERY PERSISTENTLY.
00:55:00.50\00:55:03.23
NORMALLY, DURING THIS 7-DAY
RACE, THE RUNNERS WOULD GO ABOUT
00:55:03.23\00:55:06.67
18 HOURS RUNNING AND THEN THEY'D
SLEEP FOR 6 HOURS, BUT NOBODY
00:55:06.67\00:55:10.51
EVER TOLD CLIFF THAT.
WHEN THE OTHER RUNNERS STOPPED
00:55:10.51\00:55:13.51
TO REST DURING THE NIGHT,
CLIFF JUST KEPT ON RUNNING.
00:55:13.51\00:55:17.21
SOME PEOPLE WERE AFRAID OLD
CLIFF WAS GOING TO HAVE A HEART
00:55:17.21\00:55:19.18
ATTACK AND THEY WERE ASKING THE
RACE ORGANIZERS TO SHOW MERCY
00:55:19.18\00:55:22.38
AND STOP THE CRAZY OLD MAN.
BUT HE WOULD HAVE NONE OF IT.
00:55:22.38\00:55:25.92
EACH DAY HE WAS GAINING ON
THE PACK BECAUSE WHEN THEY WERE
00:55:25.92\00:55:28.89
SLEEPING HE WAS PLODDING ALONG.
DURING THE LAST NIGHT OF THE
00:55:28.89\00:55:32.93
RACE CLIFF PASSED ALL OF
THESE WORLD-CLASS ATHLETES.
00:55:32.93\00:55:37.03
NOT ONLY WAS CLIFF ABLE TO
RUN THAT 544-MILE RACE WITHOUT
00:55:37.03\00:55:40.97
DYING, HE WON - BEATING ALL
THE OTHER RACERS BY 9 HOURS,
00:55:40.97\00:55:45.24
BREAKING THE RECORD AND BECOMING
A NATIONAL HERO IN THE PROCESS.
00:55:45.24\00:55:49.34
WHAT'S REALLY AMAZING IS THAT
WHEN THEY TOLD HIM HE HAD WON
00:55:49.34\00:55:51.35
THE $10,000.00 PRIZE, HE LOOKED
CONFUSED AND SAID HE DIDN'T KNOW
00:55:51.35\00:55:54.95
THERE WAS A PRIZE AND HE DECIDED
TO SHARE IT WITH THE OTHER
00:55:54.95\00:55:57.52
RUNNERS. WHEN
ASKED HOW HE WAS ABLE
00:55:57.52\00:56:00.12
TO RUN ALL NIGHT LONG, CLIFF
RESPONDED THAT HE GREW UP ON A
00:56:00.12\00:56:03.12
FARM WHERE THEY HAD ABOUT 2,000
HEAD OF CATTLE AND, BECAUSE THEY
00:56:03.12\00:56:06.13
COULDN'T AFFORD HORSES, HE
USED TO HAVE TO ROUND THEM UP ON
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FOOT, SOMETIMES RUNNING
TWO AND THREE DAYS NON-STOP.
00:56:08.70\00:56:12.00
SO, THROUGHOUT THE RACE, HE JUST
IMAGINED THAT HE WAS CHASING
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AFTER THE COWS AND
TRYING TO OUTRUN A STORM.
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OLD CLIFF'S SECRET WAS TO KEEP
ON RUNNING WHILE OTHERS WERE
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THAT THE RACE IS NOT
NECESSARILY TO THE SWIFT.
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SOMETHING LIKE AESOP'S FABLE OF
THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE - THE
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TORTOISE JUST
KEPT ON PLODDING ALONG.
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THAT'S WHY JESUS TELLS US IN
MATTHEW 24:13, 'HE THAT ENDURES
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UNTO THE END, THE
SAME WILL BE SAVED.'
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NOW YOU MIGHT SLIP
AND FALL DURING THE RACE.
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YOU MIGHT EVEN GET
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WANT TO FINISH WELL.
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