(MUSIC)
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HELLO AND WELCOME TO ANOTHER
EDITION OF THE SABBATH SCHOOL
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STUDY HOUR. IT'S SO
GOOD TO BE ABLE TO HAVE
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YOU JOIN US HERE TODAY AS WE
COME TOGETHER, NOT ONLY WITH ALL
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OF US HERE THAT ARE LIVE
AND MEMBERS OF THE GRANITE BAY
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CHURCH, BUT ALSO, OF COURSE, WE
ALWAYS HAVE MANY THAT ARE ONLINE
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MEMBERS THAT ARE JOINING US -
OTHER VISITORS AND GUESTS THAT
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ARE ONLINE WATCHING
US LIVE EVEN HERE TODAY.
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IT'S ALWAYS GOOD TO BE ABLE
TO HAVE YOU COME AND JOIN US AS
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WELL AS THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING
THIS RECORDED ISSUE IN THE
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FUTURE ON VARIOUS
TELEVISION NETWORKS.
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IT'S ALWAYS GOOD TO BE
ABLE TO HAVE YOU COME AS WE COME
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TOGETHER HERE NEAR SACRAMENTO,
CALIFORNIA TO BE ABLE TO STUDY
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THE WORD OF GOD AS WE
COME TOGETHER AND WE LOOK AT A
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RELATIVELY NEW QUARTERLY THAT
WE'VE BEEN STUDYING NOW FOR THE
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LAST THREE WEEKS. AND
TODAY WE'RE LOOKING AT STUDY
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#4 - LESSON #4 WHICH IS ENTITLED
ESCAPE FROM THE WORLD'S WAYS -
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ESCAPE FROM THE WORLD'S WAYS -
AND, OF COURSE, OUR QUARTERLY IS
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ENTITLED STEWARDSHIP:
MOTIVES OF THE HEART .
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NOW, IF YOU DON'T HAVE A COPY OF
THIS PARTICULAR QUARTERLY YET,
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YOU'RE MISSING OUT ON
A LOT OF GOOD MATERIAL.
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AND SO, I JUST WANT TO HIGHLY
RECOMMENDED TO YOU TAKE THE
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OPPORTUNITY TO GO TO YOUR LOCAL
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH AND
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ASK FOR A COPY OF THAT.
NOW IF THAT IS NOT POSSIBLE WE
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ALSO WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO GO
ON TO THE AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE.
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THAT'S AMAZINGFACTS.ORG - AND
YOU CAN FIND, ON THAT WEBSITE, A
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LINK TO FIND A DIGITAL COPY AND
YOU CAN DOWNLOAD LOAD THAT ONTO
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YOUR COMPUTER, YOUR TABLET, YOUR
PHONE, OR WHATEVER WOULD WORK
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FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE.
SO, ONCE AGAIN, THANK YOU
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SO MUCH FOR JOINING US.
WE'RE HAPPY TO HAVE YOU HERE.
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WE ALWAYS HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT
WE LIKE TO GIVE YOU AS WELL AND
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I'M EXCITED ABOUT
TODAY'S FREE OFFER, IT'S CALLED
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ALONE IN THE CROWD
- ALONE IN THE CROWD.
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AND THAT'S OFFER #714 -
ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS DIAL
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1-866-788-3966 AND WE'LL
BE HAPPY TO GIVE THAT TO YOU.
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ONCE AGAIN, IF YOU'RE NOT ABLE
TO CALL AND, OF COURSE, THIS IS
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ONLY AVAILABLE FOR THOSE
WHO ARE IN NORTH AMERICA.
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IF YOU'RE OUTSIDE OF NORTH
AMERICA AND YOU'D STILL LIKE TO
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BE ABLE TO ENJOY THIS PARTICULAR
FREE GIFT, YOU CAN GO TO AMAZING
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FACTS WEBSITE AGAIN AND YOU CAN
FIND A LINK FOR A FREE DIGITAL
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DOWNLOAD OF THAT. AND,
AGAIN, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THAT.
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WE'RE GOING TO INVITE OUR
SINGERS BACK FORWARD - AS THEY
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COME FORWARD AND LEAD US
IN SONG - AS THEY ALWAYS DO SO
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FAITHFULLY FROM WEEK TO
WEEK AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
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(PIANO MUSIC)
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>>THANK YOU FOR SINGING WITH US.
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HAVE A BLESSED
SABBATH. (PIANO MUSIC)
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>>FATHER IN HEAVEN,
I WANT TO THANK YOU SO
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MUCH FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY
TO BE ABLE TO STUDY TOGETHER.
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WE THANK YOU FOR THE FREEDOM
TO BE ABLE TO OPEN UP YOUR WORD.
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AND GOD, AS WE OPEN UP YOUR
WORLD TODAY, WE WANT TO PRAY
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THAT YOUR HOLY
SPIRIT WILL BE WITH US.
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WE WANT TO PRAY THAT YOU WILL BE
WITH THE MIND OF PASTOR DOUG AS
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HE SHARES WITH US THAT YOUR
SPIRIT WILL GUIDE HIM AND LEAD
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HIM TO UNDERSTAND AND REMEMBER
ALL THAT YOU GAVE TO HIM TO
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SHARE WITH US
TOGETHER AS WE OPEN YOUR WORD.
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WE PRAY THAT YOUR HOLY SPIRIT
WILL BE OUR TEACHER TODAY.
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WE CLAIM THAT PROMISE THAT WHEN
WE COME TO YOU IN THE NAME OF
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JESUS AND ASK FOR YOUR SPIRIT
THAT YOU WILL GIVE IT AND THAT
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YOU'LL GIVE US UNDERSTANDING
AND GUIDE US INTO ALL TRUTH.
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HELP US TO DO THAT TODAY AS
WE LOOK AT THIS IMPORTANT AND
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RELEVANT SUBJECT.
AND WE PRAY IT IN THE
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PRECIOUS NAME OF JESUS.
AMEN. PASTOR DOUG, THANK YOU.
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>>THANK YOU, PASTOR SHAWN AND
THANK YOU TO MICHELLE AND OUR
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MUSICIANS - OUR
SINGERS - MORNING FRIENDS.
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>>MORNING. >>WANT
TO WELCOME YOU TO - IF
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YOU'RE VISITING TO GRANITE BAY
CHURCH, WE KNOW THERE ARE ALWAYS
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PEOPLE WHO ARE VISITING THAT ARE
WATCHING ONLINE OR WATCHING ON
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SATELLITE TELEVISION OR ONE OF
THE DIFFERENT STATIONS AND IT'S
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A LITTLE CONFUSING FOR YOU.
THIS WILL SEEM LIKE THE FOURTH
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INSTALLMENT IN OUR
STUDY ON STEWARDSHIP.
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AT THE TIME OF RECORDING IT,
IT IS THE FIRST SABBATH OF 2018.
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SO I WANT TO WISH THOSE OF
YOU HERE A BLESSED NEW YEAR.
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THIS IS OUR FIRST SABBATH IN
THE NEW YEAR AND A SPECIAL TIME.
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AND I ALSO WANT TO REMIND YOU IF
YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS REGARDING
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THE LESSON TODAY, FOR THOSE THAT
ARE WATCHING THE LIVE STREAM
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RIGHT NOW, YOU CAN GO TO
THE FACEBOOK PAGE AND SEND ANY
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QUESTIONS. IF
THEY GIVE ME THE SIGNAL
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HERE WE'LL BRING SOME OF THOSE
QUESTIONS TO YOU LIVE RIGHT
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DURING THE PRESENTATION.
AND WE'LL HAVE A FEW OF OUR
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FRIENDS HERE
ACTUALLY HELP US READ.
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OUR LESSON, AGAIN, TODAY IS
#4. IT'S ESCAPE FROM THE WORLD .
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AND THIS IS IN THE
MAJOR LESSON ON STEWARDSHIP.
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WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE.
MEMORY VERSE IS FROM PROVERBS
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11, VERSE 4 AND VERSE 28
PROVERBS 11:4 AND THEN VERSE 28
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- IT'S GOING TO BE EASIER FOR
YOU TO READ THAT RIGHT OUT OF
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YOUR QUARTERLY THAN
JUMP FROM VERSE TO VERSE.
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YOU READY? "RICHES
DO NOT PROFIT IN THE
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DAY OF WRATH, BUT RIGHTEOUSNESS
DELIVERS FROM DEATH."
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- AND THEN VERSE 28 - "HE WHO
TRUSTS IN HIS RICHES WILL FALL,
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BUT THE RIGHTEOUS WILL
FLOURISH LIKE FOLIAGE."
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SO THE THEME OF THIS LESSON
IS REALLY TALKING ABOUT THE
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PRINCIPLE THAT FULFILLMENT,
HAPPINESS, SUCCESS DO NOT COME
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FROM EARTHLY WEALTH AND A PART
OF STEWARDSHIP IS HAVING THE
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RIGHT PERSPECTIVE OF HOW DO YOU
LIVE IN THE WORLD WITHOUT THE
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WORLD LIVING IN YOU?
HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH THE
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PRACTICAL NECESSITIES OF THE
THINGS THAT WE NEED FROM DAY TO
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DAY WITHOUT THEM HAVING SUCH A
GRIP ON US THAT THEY CONTROL US?
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AND SO, WE'LL BE
TALKING ABOUT THAT LITTLE BIT.
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NOW JUST TO SORT OF PAVE THE
WAY. THERE IS A COUPLE VERSES I
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WANT TO BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION
AND ONE IS FROM - WELL, THEY'RE
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BOTH FROM DAVID - ONE
IS PSALM 34, VERSE 10.
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DAVID SAID, "THE YOUNG LIONS
LACK AND SUFFER HUNGER; BUT
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THOSE WHO SEEK THE LORD SHALL
NEVER LACK ANY GOOD THING."
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SO WE WORRY SOMETIMES
WILL WE RUN OUT OF THINGS?
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WILL WE HAVE THE
THINGS THAT WE NEED?
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I HEARD A FACT THIS
WEEK. I HEARD IT IN A SERMON.
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IT'S ACTUALLY AN OLD SERMON SO
IT PROBABLY NEEDS TO BE UPDATED.
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BUT IF YOU GO BACK A HUNDRED AND
FIFTY YEARS AGO THERE IS ONLY
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ABOUT THREE HUNDRED THINGS YOU
COULD BUY - A HUNDRED AND FIFTY
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YEARS AGO THERE WAS ABOUT
THREE HUNDRED THINGS YOU COULD
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BUY. RIGHT NOW THERE ARE
MULTIPLIED MILLIONS OF THINGS
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YOU COULD BUY. AND SO
THERE'S SO MANY THINGS,
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IT'S EASY FOR US TO BE CONFUSED
INTO THINKING THAT A MAN'S LIFE
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CONSISTS IN THE ABUNDANCE
OF THINGS YOU COULD POSSESS.
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AND HAVE YOU EVER HAD A GARAGE
SALE? HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO A
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GARAGE SALE TO BUY THINGS THAT
PEOPLE COULD NOT FIT IN THEIR
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GARAGE? AND THEN
YOU TAKE IT HOME AND
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YOU PUT IT IN YOUR GARAGE. I
MAY HAVE TOLD YOU A FEW WEEKS
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AGO I WAS WALKING AROUND HARBOR
FREIGHT TOOLS. SOME OF YOU MEN
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HAVE BEEN THERE MAYBE SOME
YOU LADIES HAVE BEEN THERE.
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IT'S A TOOL STORE AND THEY'VE
GOT JUST ALL KINDS OF DIFFERENT
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TOOLS THERE AND THEN SOMEHOW I'M
ON THEIR MAILING LIST SO THEY
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EMAIL ME WHEN
THEY'VE GOT A SALE.
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AND I GOT THEIR NEW
YEAR'S SPECIAL SPECIAL.
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IT HAD TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT OFF
ANY ITEM IN THE STORE, WHICH WAS
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KIND OF COOL -
WHATEVER IT IS, 25 PERCENT OFF.
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AND THEN IF YOU BOUGHT
SOMETHING, YOU GOT THESE KIND OF
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BONUS GIFTS FREE AND YOU COULD
CHOOSE. IT COULD BE SOME TARPS
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OR RAGS, SOME FLASHLIGHTS,
SCREWDRIVERS - WHATEVER I WANT.
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I THOUGHT, 'BOY, I'VE GOT GO BUY
SOMETHING ON SALE AND THEN I GET
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THESE FREE GIFTS.' SO I TOOK
MY COUPONS WITH ME AND I WENT TO
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HARBOR FREIGHT TOOL, AND I'M
WANDERING UP AND DOWN THE AISLES
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FOR QUITE A WHILE AND
SOMEONE SAID, 'CAN I HELP YOU?'
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AND I SAID 'WELL, PROBABLY NOT.'
- I SAID, 'I JUST KNOW THERE'S
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SOMETHING HERE THAT'S GOING
TO BRING ME LASTING HAPPINESS, I
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JUST HAVEN'T FOUND IT YET.' AND
THEY LAUGHED BECAUSE, YOU KNOW,
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SOMETIMES WE THINK YOU,
BUY SOMETHING THERE IS SOME
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TEMPORARY PLEASURE ON ACQUIRING
SOME NEW SHINY THING, BUT DOES
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IT LAST? A MAN'S
LIFE DOES NOT COME FROM
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THE ABUNDANCE OF
THINGS HE POSSESSES.
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BY THE WAY I DID BUY
SOMETHING - 25 PERCENT OFF.
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I GOT IT HOME AND IT WAS BROKEN.
I WAS SO EXCITED I HAD TO TAKE -
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I RETURNED IT THE NEXT DAY -
BUT I GOT TO KEEP MY BONUS GIFT.
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SO I DID COME OUT
AHEAD IN THE LONG RUN.
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SO - AND YOU KNOW, DURING THE
HOLIDAY SEASON, THEY SAY MORE
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AND MORE PEOPLE, NOW,
ARE BUYING GIFTS ONLINE.
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YOU EVER TRY AND SHOP ONLINE?
AND YOU JUST TYPE IN THE WORD
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AND THERE ARE
THOUSANDS OF THINGS.
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AND YOU KNOW WHAT THEY DO NOW?
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THIS IS IN KEEPING WITH
THE LESSON SO STAY WITH ME.
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THE COMPANIES AND GOOGLE AND
SOME OF THESE OTHER COMPANIES
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ARE SO SOPHISTICATED NOW THAT
THEY ARE ABLE TO TRACK WHEN YOU
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TYPE IN A SEARCH FOR
A PARTICULAR PRODUCT.
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I KNOW A FEW MONTHS BACK I TYPED
IN THAT I WAS LOOKING FOR SOME
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SHOES AND I ENDED UP BUYING
MY SHOES AT A LOCAL STORE.
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BUT SOMEBODY IN THAT DEEP DARK
SOPHISTICATED WEB FOUND OUT THAT
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DOUG WAS SEARCHING FOR SHOES AND
THEY SOLD THAT INFORMATION TO
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ALL THESE SHOE COMPANIES,
AND NOW EVERY TIME I SEARCH FOR
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ANYTHING THE SIDE OF MY COMPUTER
IS TRYING TO SELL ME SHOES THAT
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I DON'T WANT. YOU KNOW
WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT?
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IT'S JUST KIND OF
SPOOKY. THEY KNOW EVERYTHING.
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WELL, A LOT OF STUFF YOU CAN
BUY. BUT IS THAT WHAT HAPPINESS
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COMES FROM? PSALM 37, VERSE 25.
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KING DAVID SAID, "I HAVE BEEN
YOUNG AND I AM NOW OLD, YET I
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HAVE NOT SEEN THE RIGHTEOUS
FORSAKEN NOR HIS SEED" - HIS
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DESCENDANTS -
"BEGGING FOR BREAD."
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DAVID IS SAYING,
'DON'T WORRY ABOUT THINGS.
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GOD IS GOING TO
TAKE CARE OF YOU.
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IT'S LIKE WE SAID IN AN EARLIER
LESSON, 'SEEK FIRST THE KINGDOM
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OF GOD AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS AND
ALL THE OTHER THINGS THAT YOU
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NEED WILL BE ADDED TO YOU.' GOD
SAYS - OR DAVID SAID, 'I'VE BEEN
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YOUNG I'M NOW OLD. I'VE
NEVER SEEN THE RIGHTEOUS
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FORSAKEN OR HIS SEED BEGGING
BREAD.' DAVID LIVED IN A CAVE,
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HE HAD HIS UPS AND DOWNS.
HE RAN FOR HIS LIFE, BUT GOD
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ALWAYS MIRACULOUSLY,
SOMEHOW, TOOK CARE OF HIM.
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GOD'S PEOPLE IN THE
WILDERNESS, DID HE FEED THEM?
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DID HE PROVIDE WATER FOR THEM?
AND HE NOT ONLY - THE THINGS
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THAT THEY NEEDED, HE
EITHER GAVE IT TO THEM OR HE
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MADE IT LAST FOREVER.
THEIR SHOES LASTED 40 YEARS.
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I HAD A PAIR OF
SHOES LIKE THAT ONCE.
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THEY WENT OUT OF STYLE;
THEY CAME BACK IN STYLE.
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THEY WENT OUT OF STYLE;
THEY CAME BACK IN STYLE.
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AND - IT'S TRUE - I ONLY WORE
THEM ONCE A WEEK BUT THEY LASTED
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FOREVER AND EVER. SO
HE'LL BLESS WHAT YOU HAVE.
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SO WE SHOULDN'T BE PREOCCUPIED
AND WORRIED ALL THE TIME ABOUT
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STUFF BECAUSE STUFF IS - HOW
MUCH STUFF DO WE TAKE TO HEAVEN
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FROM THIS WORLD? YOU
KNOW I AM FREQUENTLY - AS I
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TRAVEL, I NOT ONLY GO TO SCHOOLS
AND I TALK TO YOUNG PEOPLE BUT
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SOMETIMES I GO TO SEMINARIES
AND I TALK TO YOUNG PASTORS
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THAT ARE TRAINING. AND
I TELL 'EM YOU'VE GOT THE
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BEST JOB IN THE WORLD BECAUSE,
WHILE I'M THANKFUL FOR AUTO
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MECHANICS, AND I LIKE WORKING ON
CARS MYSELF, ALL THE CARS THAT
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THE MECHANICS HAVE
WORKED ON WILL NOT GO TO HEAVEN.
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THEY'RE GOING TO RUST OR
BURN OR MELT WHEN JESUS COMES.
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AND I AM VERY THANKFUL.
FOR CARPENTERS THAT CAN BUILD A
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HOUSE OR MAKE A CABINET, BUT -
AND I LIKE BUILDING, BUT ALL THE
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HOUSES ARE GOING TO
BURN WHEN JESUS COMES.
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AND ALL THE THINGS THAT WE MAKE
AND WE DO AND WE CREATE HERE - I
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AM THANKFUL FOR PEOPLE
THAT ARE ARTISTIC AND CRAFTY.
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THEY CAN MAKE THINGS.
BUT NONE OF THAT STUFF
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IS GOING TO HEAVEN.
YOU'VE PROBABLY SEEN THE POSTER
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BEFORE WHERE IT SHOWED
A HEARSE PULLING A U-HAUL.
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IT'S A JOKE. YOU
CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU.
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RIGHT? AND I TELL
THE YOUNG PASTORS,
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I SAY, YOU'RE WORKING WITH
SOMETHING THAT YOU WILL SEE THE
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RESULTS OF WHAT YOU
DO THROUGH ETERNITY.
00:17:09.06\00:17:11.43
THE MECHANIC WILL NEVER SEE
HIS CAR AGAIN IN HEAVEN AND THE
00:17:11.46\00:17:16.16
CARPENTER WILL NEVER SEE
HIS HOUSE AGAIN IN HEAVEN.
00:17:16.20\00:17:19.43
BUT WHEN YOU WORK FOR SOULS,
YOU'RE WORKING WITH SOMETHING
00:17:19.47\00:17:21.77
THAT LASTS FOREVER.
SO THIS IS THE PRIORITY
00:17:21.80\00:17:25.61
THAT WE NEED TO KEEP. NOW
THE WAY SOME PASTORS PREACH
00:17:25.64\00:17:28.84
THE GOSPEL, YOU WOULD THINK
THAT IT'S ALL ABOUT STUFF HERE.
00:17:28.88\00:17:32.18
IT'S THESE PROSPERITY PREACHERS
- IT'S ALL ACQUIRING THE GLITTER
00:17:32.21\00:17:36.69
AND THE - AND THE
TOYS IN THIS LIFE.
00:17:36.72\00:17:40.49
I HEARD ABOUT ONE PASTOR THAT
SAID GOD HAD TOLD HIM THAT HE -
00:17:40.52\00:17:45.79
HIS CONGREGATION WAS SUPPOSED
TO BUY HIM A BENTLEY - A NEW
00:17:45.83\00:17:50.17
BENTLEY - AND HE SOMEHOW
PERSUADED THEM THAT WAS FROM THE
00:17:50.20\00:17:54.24
LORD. AND THEY BOUGHT HIM A NEW
00:17:54.27\00:17:55.94
BENTLEY AND HE DROVE
THAT THING AROUND AS EVIDENCE
00:17:55.97\00:17:58.07
OF GOD'S BLESSING.
BOY, THAT IS NOT THE GOSPEL.
00:17:58.11\00:18:02.31
THAT'S WHAT YOU
CALL DOCTRINES OF DEVILS.
00:18:02.34\00:18:05.15
IT'S MATERIALISM AND THAT'S
WHAT OUR LESSON IS ABOUT TODAY.
00:18:05.18\00:18:08.55
ESCAPE FROM THE WORLD'S
WAYS OF VIEWING THESE THINGS.
00:18:08.58\00:18:12.15
YOU KNOW, THERE'S AN INTERESTING
INTRODUCTION IN THE LESSON.
00:18:12.19\00:18:14.36
IT SAYS HERE "EVEN IF WE DON'T
HAVE MANY EARTHLY POSSESSIONS
00:18:14.39\00:18:18.03
THE PASSIONATE DESIRE TO ATTAIN
MATERIAL GOODS CAN BECOME A
00:18:18.06\00:18:21.63
TERRIBLE CURSE THAT WILL
LEAD A SOUL AWAY FROM SALVATION.
00:18:21.66\00:18:25.60
SATAN KNOWS THIS, WHICH IS
WHY HE USES THE LOVE OF MATERIAL
00:18:25.63\00:18:29.10
POSSESSIONS TO ENSNARE
AS MANY AS HE POSSIBLY CAN."
00:18:29.14\00:18:33.71
HE TRIED TO USE
THAT SNARE ON JESUS.
00:18:33.74\00:18:36.71
HE DID IT IN A
COUPLE OF DIFFERENT WAYS.
00:18:36.75\00:18:38.45
ONE IS, HE SAID 'YOU CAN
TURN THESE STONES INTO BREAD.
00:18:38.48\00:18:43.75
MONEY'LL BUY YOU FOOD AND
THE DELIGHTS OF THE SENSES.
00:18:43.79\00:18:47.66
OR' - HE SAID - 'I WILL GIVE
YOU ALL THE KINGDOMS AND ALL THE
00:18:47.69\00:18:51.66
GLORY AND ALL THEY CONTAIN.
JESUS RESISTED THAT TEMPTATION.
00:18:51.69\00:18:56.30
WE DON'T ALWAYS
HAVE THE SAME SUCCESS.
00:18:56.33\00:18:58.57
LOOK IN SOME - NOW SOMEONE'S
GOING TO READ FOR ME, IN A
00:18:58.60\00:19:01.37
MOMENT, MATTHEW 6:19 TO VERSE 21
SO YOU CAN GET READY FOR THAT.
00:19:01.40\00:19:08.28
I'M GOING TO READ HEBREWS 11:24.
"FOR BY FAITH, WHEN HE WAS
00:19:08.31\00:19:13.01
BECOME OF AGE HE REFUSED TO
BE CALLED THE SON OF PHARAOH'S
00:19:13.05\00:19:16.48
DAUGHTER CHOOSING, RATHER,
TO SUFFER AFFLICTION WITH THE
00:19:16.52\00:19:20.52
PEOPLE OF GOD THAN TO ENJOY
THE PASSING PLEASURES OF SIN.
00:19:20.56\00:19:24.99
ESTEEMING THE APPROACH OF
CHRIST GREATER RICHES THAN THE
00:19:25.03\00:19:29.13
TREASURES IN EGYPT, FOR HE
LOOKED TO THE REWARD.' YOU KNOW
00:19:29.16\00:19:37.57
MARK TWAIN WROTE A VERY
INTERESTING STORY CALLED THE
00:19:37.61\00:19:41.51
PRINCE AND THE
PAUPER ABOUT THIS POOR BOY.
00:19:41.54\00:19:47.82
IT'S KIND OF HISTORICAL FICTION
BECAUSE HE BASES IT IN ENGLAND
00:19:47.85\00:19:51.29
DURING THE REIGN OF ONE OF THEIR
KINGS - BUT A POOR BOY WHO JUST
00:19:51.32\00:19:54.16
HAPPENED TO LOOK
IDENTICAL TO THE CROWN PRINCE.
00:19:54.19\00:19:57.29
AND THEY GO THROUGH THIS SWAP.
WHERE THE CROWN PRINCE HE WANTS
00:19:57.33\00:20:01.56
TO FIND OUT HOW
THE POOR PEOPLE LIVE.
00:20:01.60\00:20:04.37
AND THE PAUPER JUST - WHAT
PAUPER DOESN'T WANT TO BE KING?
00:20:04.40\00:20:09.74
AND IT'S A VERY INTERESTING
STORY ABOUT HOW, YOU KNOW, IT'S
00:20:09.77\00:20:14.84
EN - ITS ENCHANTING TO PEOPLE TO
READ THE STORY BECAUSE SO MANY
00:20:14.88\00:20:18.75
PEOPLE THAT WANT TO GO FROM
BEING CINDERELLA TO BEING THE
00:20:18.78\00:20:22.58
PRINCESS THEY WANT TO GO FROM
BEING THE PAUPER TO BEING THE
00:20:22.62\00:20:25.22
PRINCE OR THE KING. AND
YET, IN THIS STORY, YOU'VE
00:20:25.25\00:20:29.59
GOT A KING WHO GOES TO PAUPER.
WELL YOU KNOW THERE'S A FEW OF
00:20:29.62\00:20:33.23
THOSE STORIES IN THE BIBLE
AND EVEN THOUGH MARK TWAIN WAS
00:20:33.26\00:20:37.07
PRETTY MUCH AN AGNOSTIC, HE
WAS PRETTY BIBLICALLY LITERATE.
00:20:37.10\00:20:40.74
HE USED TO READ IT AND YOU
WONDER IF THAT'S WHERE HE GOT
00:20:40.77\00:20:42.57
SOME OF THE IDEA. HERE
YOU'VE GOT THE STORY OF
00:20:42.60\00:20:46.91
MOSES WHO GOES FROM BEING
BORN A SLAVE TO BEING ADOPTED
00:20:46.94\00:20:53.38
BY THE PRINCESS. BUT
THEN HE REJECTS HAVING ALL
00:20:53.42\00:20:58.45
OF THE TREASURES OF EGYPT AND
HE CHOOSES TO SUFFER AFFLICTION
00:20:58.49\00:21:02.69
WITH THE PEOPLE OF GOD
RATHER THAN TO ENJOY THE RICHEST
00:21:02.72\00:21:07.40
KINGDOM AND ALL THE TREASURES
IT COULD AFFORD. EVERY CHRISTIAN
00:21:07.46\00:21:11.47
NEEDS TO MAKE THAT
DECISION. DID YOU GET ME?
00:21:11.50\00:21:15.60
YOU HAVE TO DECIDE
'WHERE DO I WANT MY KINGDOM?'
00:21:15.64\00:21:19.44
DO I WANT ALL THE TOYS AND THE
TREASURES IN THIS WORLD, OR AM I
00:21:19.47\00:21:23.18
WILLING TO SAY 'LORD, I'M
PUTTING EVERYTHING IN THIS LIFE
00:21:23.21\00:21:25.68
ON THE ALTAR. I WANT
THE ETERNAL KINGDOM.'?
00:21:25.71\00:21:29.52
THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU WON'T
ENJOY ANY OF THE THINGS IN THIS
00:21:29.55\00:21:31.49
WORLD, IT MEANS THAT
WILL NOT BE THE PRIORITY.
00:21:31.52\00:21:33.69
THE PRIORITY IS GOING TO
BE THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.
00:21:33.72\00:21:37.59
AND - PLEASE READ
FOR ME MATTHEW 6:19.
00:21:37.63\00:21:42.50
>>MATTHEW 6:19 "LAY NOT UP FOR
YOURSELVES TREASURES UPON THIS
00:21:42.53\00:21:48.27
EARTH WHERE MOTH AND RUST DOETH
CORRUPT AND WHERE THIEVES BREAK
00:21:48.30\00:21:54.41
THROUGH AND STEAL.
BUT LAY UP FOR YOURSELVES
00:21:54.44\00:21:57.85
TREASURES IN HEAVEN WHERE
NEITHER MOTH NOR RUST DOETH
00:21:57.88\00:22:03.62
CORRUPT AND WHERE THIEVES DO
NOT BREAK THROUGH NOR STEAL, FOR
00:22:03.65\00:22:10.13
WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS,
THERE WILL YOUR HEART BE ALSO."
00:22:10.16\00:22:16.67
>>VERY GOOD. THANK YOU.
THAT'S PRETTY CLEAR, ISN'T IT?
00:22:16.70\00:22:20.64
YOU NOTICE JESUS
USES THE WORDS 'LAY UP'?
00:22:20.67\00:22:23.54
IT'S NOT LIKE A GO MAKE ONE
PURCHASE, IT MEANS AS YOU GO
00:22:23.57\00:22:26.34
FROM DAY TO DAY YOU
ARE COMPOUNDING TREASURE.
00:22:26.37\00:22:31.38
YOU'RE EITHER DEVELOPING
- PILING UP TREASURE HERE.
00:22:31.41\00:22:35.42
YOU KNOW, AS TIME GOES BY, IF
YOU HAVE SPACE IN YOUR HOUSE YOU
00:22:35.45\00:22:37.99
WILL FILL THAT SPACE EVEN
HOMELESS PEOPLE COLLECT STUFF.
00:22:38.02\00:22:44.16
AND HAVE YOU EVER SEEN - KIND
OF - THE SAD STORY - A HOMELESS
00:22:44.19\00:22:48.93
PERSON THEY CAN'T EVEN FIT
IT ALL IN ONE SHOPPING CART -
00:22:48.96\00:22:51.17
THEY'VE GOT TWO SHOPPING
CARTS. YOU WILL COLLECT STUFF
00:22:51.20\00:22:55.04
AS YOU GO THROUGH LIFE.
SO WHERE ARE YOU COLLECTING?
00:22:55.07\00:22:57.57
ARE YOU LAYING UP TREASURE FOR
YOURSELF IN HEAVEN, OR ARE YOU
00:22:57.61\00:23:01.38
LAYING UP
TREASURE HERE ON EARTH?
00:23:01.41\00:23:03.98
BECAUSE WHEREVER YOUR TREASURE
IS, THAT'S WHERE YOUR HEART IS.
00:23:04.01\00:23:06.15
IF YOU GET TOO MUCH STUFF HERE
YOU START WORRYING ABOUT ALL
00:23:06.18\00:23:09.12
YOUR STUFF. YOU'VE
GOT TO INSURE YOUR STUFF
00:23:09.15\00:23:11.12
HERE AND YOU'VE GOT TO GET
ALARMS TO WATCH YOU STUFF HERE.
00:23:11.15\00:23:14.19
BUT - AND I THINK YOU MAYBE
HEARD ME REFERENCE THIS BEFORE,
00:23:14.22\00:23:19.56
THAT OLD SONG FREEDOM'S ANOTHER
WORD FOR NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE .
00:23:19.59\00:23:24.37
AND I THINK THAT WAS
WRITTEN BY KRIS KRISTOFFERSON.
00:23:24.40\00:23:30.37
SOMETIMES YOU HAVE GREAT PEACE
WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING.
00:23:30.41\00:23:34.68
AND THE MORE STUFF YOU HAVE THE
MORE YOU HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT.
00:23:34.71\00:23:37.18
BUT IF YOU TREASURE'S IN HEAVEN,
YOU'RE REALLY - YOUR HEART IS
00:23:37.21\00:23:39.98
GOING TO BE THERE
IN HEAVEN AS WELL.
00:23:40.02\00:23:43.45
ALRIGHT, I WANT TO READ
COLOSSIANS 3, VERSE 2, "SET YOUR
00:23:43.49\00:23:48.19
MIND ON THINGS ABOVE
NOT ON THINGS OF THE EARTH."
00:23:48.22\00:23:51.83
SO WHERE'S OUR FOCUS
AND OUR ATTENTION TO BE?
00:23:51.86\00:23:54.73
IT'S - WE'D BE FOCUSING THERE.
00:23:54.76\00:23:57.90
I REMEMBER HEARING A STORY
WHERE, YEARS AGO, JUST BEFORE
00:23:57.93\00:24:02.50
THE CIVIL WAR WHEN SLAVERY WAS
STILL IN AMERICA THIS PLANTATION
00:24:02.54\00:24:07.04
OWNER WAS BEING BURIED AND THE
PREACHER WAS TALKING ABOUT HOW
00:24:07.08\00:24:12.15
BROTHER CHARLES WAS UP IN HEAVEN
- WHATEVER HIS NAME WAS - AND
00:24:12.18\00:24:17.82
WHILE HE WAS PREACHING THIS
SERMON ARE ONE OF HIS FAITHFUL
00:24:17.85\00:24:20.76
SLAVES, TOM, WAS STANDING THERE
BY THE GRAVE SITE AND HE WAS
00:24:20.79\00:24:23.89
SHAKING HIS HEAD AND HE SAID,
'HE AIN'T IN HEAVEN.' AND THE
00:24:23.93\00:24:27.10
PEOPLE SITTING AROUND THOUGHT,
'WELL, THAT'S KIND OF A RUDE
00:24:27.13\00:24:29.06
THING TO SAY AT THE FUNERAL.'
AND THE PREACHER KEPT PREACHING
00:24:29.10\00:24:32.40
AND TALKING ABOUT HOW HE WAS UP
IN HEAVEN, ENJOYING HEAVEN AND
00:24:32.43\00:24:34.90
HE KEPT SHAKING HIS HEAD AND
SAYING, 'HE AIN'T IN HEAVEN.'
00:24:34.94\00:24:37.17
AFTER THE SERVICE SOMEONE
COULDN'T CONTROL THEMSELVES AND
00:24:37.21\00:24:39.84
SAID, 'TOM, WHY DID YOU
KEEP SAYING 'HE AIN'T IN HEAVEN'
00:24:39.87\00:24:41.94
DURING THE SERMON?'
HE SAID, 'BECAUSE I KNOW
00:24:41.98\00:24:43.51
MY MASTER' - AND HE SAID -
'WHENEVER HE WAS GOIN' ANYWHERE'
00:24:43.55\00:24:47.08
- HE SAID - 'HE WOULD PLAN
AND HE WOULD PACK AND HE'D MAKE
00:24:47.12\00:24:49.55
NOTES AND HE'D TALK ABOUT
IT.' AND HE SAID - 'HE NEVER
00:24:49.58\00:24:51.59
TALKED ABOUT
HEAVEN. HE NEVER PLANNED.
00:24:51.62\00:24:53.76
HE NEVER PACKED.' - HE SAID -
'HE'S NOT THERE.' IN THIS LIFE,
00:24:53.79\00:24:58.33
IF WE'RE GOING TO BE GOING TO
HEAVEN, WOULDN'T WE BE THINKING
00:24:58.36\00:25:01.16
ABOUT IT AND
TALKING ABOUT IT MORE?
00:25:01.20\00:25:03.57
>>YES. >>YEAH.
AND SO, WE SHOULD BE
00:25:03.60\00:25:07.04
PREOCCUPIED WITH THE
GLORIES OF HEAVEN. ALRIGHT.
00:25:07.07\00:25:11.57
PSALM 119 VERSE 11, IT SAYS,
"YOUR WORD I HAVE HIDDEN IN MY
00:25:11.61\00:25:16.14
HEART THAT I MIGHT
NOT SIN AGAINST YOU."
00:25:16.18\00:25:18.98
SO WHAT ARE OUR PROTECTIONS TO
DEVELOP THIS RELATIONSHIP WITH
00:25:19.01\00:25:22.98
CHRIST? IT'S THROUGH THE WORD.
00:25:23.02\00:25:26.22
IT'S THROUGH THE WORD WE LEARN
ABOUT HEAVEN; WE CONTINUE TO
00:25:26.25\00:25:28.36
GROW AND THINK ABOUT
THESE THINGS THAT ARE HEAVENLY.
00:25:28.39\00:25:31.76
LUKE 21, VERSE 34, "TAKE
HEED YOURSELF LEST YOUR HEART BE
00:25:31.79\00:25:36.73
WEIGHED DOWN WITH CAROUSING,
DRUNKENNESS, AND THE CARES OF
00:25:36.77\00:25:40.37
THIS LIFE, AND THAT DAY
COME UPON YOU UNEXPECTEDLY."
00:25:40.40\00:25:44.24
SO WE'RE GOING TO WANT TO BE
FOCUSING IN ON THE THINGS THAT
00:25:44.27\00:25:46.71
ARE GOING ON DOWN HERE.
NO, WE WANT TO BE FOCUSING ON
00:25:46.74\00:25:50.91
THE THINGS THAT ARE GOING
ON UP THERE. WHERE IS YOUR -
00:25:50.95\00:25:55.05
WHERE IS YOUR
MIND? IS IT IN HEAVEN.
00:25:55.08\00:25:57.75
THE BIBLE SAYS YOU CAN BECOME SO
PREOCCUPIED WITH THE THINGS THAT
00:25:57.79\00:26:00.49
ARE HAPPENING IN THIS LIFE
THAT THAT DAY OVERTAKES YOU AS A
00:26:00.52\00:26:03.89
THIEF. AND SO IT
CAN BE - IT CAN BE
00:26:03.93\00:26:09.16
VERY DISCOURAGING IF YOU
ARE JUST ALWAYS THINKING ABOUT
00:26:09.20\00:26:12.10
THIS STUFF DOWN HERE.
YOU CAN LOSE YOUR JOY.
00:26:12.13\00:26:15.70
YOU CAN BE WORRIED ABOUT IT
AND YOU'RE NOT PREPARING FOR
00:26:15.74\00:26:17.51
ETERNITY. AND THE
VERY FACT THAT JESUS
00:26:17.54\00:26:22.74
SAID, 'TAKE HEED TO YOURSELF
LEST YOUR HEARTS BE WEIGHED
00:26:22.78\00:26:26.28
DOWN.' NOW DO YOU
HAVE TO THINK ABOUT STUFF?
00:26:26.31\00:26:29.52
I PREACHED A SERMON A FEW WEEKS
AGO CALLED WORRYING ABOUT STUFF
00:26:29.55\00:26:33.89
. DO WE HAVE TO THINK
ABOUT STUFF? SOMETIMES?
00:26:33.92\00:26:37.59
I TRIED TO INSTILL IN MY BOYS
THAT YOU CAN'T JUST DRIVE YOUR
00:26:37.63\00:26:42.36
CAR, YOU HAVE TO
THINK ABOUT YOUR ENGINE.
00:26:42.40\00:26:46.74
YOU GOTTA CHECK YOUR OIL, YOU
GOTTA LOOK AT YOUR TIRE TREAD
00:26:46.77\00:26:50.31
AND THINK ABOUT THINGS
LIKE ROTATING THEM NOW AND THEN.
00:26:50.34\00:26:52.87
I SAID, 'YOU GOTTA THINK ABOUT
STUFF.' YOU GOTTA TAKE CARE YOUR
00:26:52.91\00:26:55.64
STUFF OR YOUR HOUSE FALLS APART.
BUT YOU DON'T WANT YOUR HEART
00:26:55.68\00:26:58.68
WEIGHED DOWN WITH STUFF, YOU
REALLY WANT THAT TO BE HAVING
00:26:58.71\00:27:03.72
THAT BE SECONDARY TO
YOUR LOVE FOR HEAVEN.
00:27:03.75\00:27:06.59
AND PHILIPPIANS - STILL TALKING
ABOUT WHAT WE THINK ABOUT,
00:27:06.62\00:27:09.66
"FINALLY BRETHREN, WHATEVER
THINGS ARE TRUE, WHATEVER THINGS
00:27:09.69\00:27:14.00
ARE NOBLE, WHATEVER THINGS ARE
JUST, WHATEVER THINGS ARE PURE,
00:27:14.03\00:27:19.10
WHATEVER THINGS ARE LOVELY,
WHATEVER THINGS ARE OF GOOD
00:27:19.13\00:27:21.97
REPORT, IF THERE IS ANY
VIRTUE, IF THERE IS ANYTHING
00:27:22.00\00:27:25.51
PRAISEWORTHY,
MEDITATE ON THESE THINGS."
00:27:25.54\00:27:30.65
YOU KNOW, ONE OF MY RESOLUTIONS
- I THINK I ALREADY FAILED.
00:27:30.68\00:27:35.02
I KNOW I HAVE, BUT I'M NOT
GIVING UP - IS I WANT TO BE
00:27:35.05\00:27:39.95
POSITIVE. IT IS SO
EASY TO GRAVITATE INTO
00:27:39.99\00:27:45.69
SAYING SOMETHING CRITICAL OR
NEGATIVE OR COMPLAINING, AND YOU
00:27:45.73\00:27:52.13
WILL ALWAYS FIND OTHER PEOPLE
THAT WILL COMMISERATE WITH YOU.
00:27:52.17\00:27:56.14
YOU KNOW WHAT COMMISERATE MEANS
IT MEANS CON MISERY - SHARING
00:27:56.17\00:27:59.31
MISERY WITH YOU. BUT
WHAT DOES PAUL TELL US WE
00:27:59.34\00:28:05.01
OUGHT TO BE THINKING ABOUT?
I WANT TO BE MORE POSITIVE AND,
00:28:05.05\00:28:09.38
YOU KNOW, HOW DO YOU
CHANGE SOMETHING LIKE THAT?
00:28:09.42\00:28:12.02
YOU PRAY FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT TO
HELP YOU NOTICE WHENEVER YOU'RE
00:28:12.05\00:28:16.76
BEING PULLED OFF
IN THAT DIRECTION.
00:28:16.79\00:28:22.13
AND SO JUST PRAY THAT GOD WILL
HELP US TO KEEP OUR MINDS ON
00:28:22.16\00:28:24.90
THOSE THINGS.
NOTICE WHAT HE SAYS: TRUE,
00:28:24.93\00:28:27.67
NOBLE, JUST, PURE, LOVELY, GOOD
REPORT, VIRTUE, PRAISE WORTHY.
00:28:27.70\00:28:35.68
THINK ABOUT THE POSITIVE THINGS.
AND FINALLY, I'M STILL UNDER THE
00:28:35.71\00:28:39.28
FIRST SECTION ON RELATIONSHIP
WITH CHRIST, IN EPHESIANS 6:18,
00:28:39.31\00:28:43.52
"PRAYING ALWAYS WITH ALL PRAYER
AND SUPPLICATION IN THE SPIRIT,
00:28:43.55\00:28:47.66
BEING WATCHFUL TO THIS
END WITH ALL PERSEVERANCE AND
00:28:47.69\00:28:50.93
SUPPLICATION
FOR ALL THE SAINTS."
00:28:50.96\00:28:52.73
IT SAYS, 'ALL PRAYER, ALL
PERSEVERANCE, ALL THE SAINTS,
00:28:52.76\00:28:58.30
ALWAYS PRAYING.
THERE IS EFFORT INVOLVED IN
00:28:58.33\00:29:05.27
MAINTAINING AN
ATTITUDE OF WALKING WITH GOD.
00:29:05.31\00:29:08.71
NOW, WHEN THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT
PRAYING ALWAYS SO YOU CAN KEEP
00:29:08.74\00:29:10.55
YOUR MIND ON THE THINGS ABOVE
AND NOT THE THINGS BELOW, DOES
00:29:10.58\00:29:13.92
THAT MEAN YOU GO
THROUGH YOUR DAY ON YOUR KNEES?
00:29:13.95\00:29:16.12
YOU CAN GO TO A HOME DEPOT
AND GET KNEEPADS AND YOU JUST GO
00:29:16.15\00:29:19.19
AROUND ON YOUR
KNEES ALL DAY LONG.
00:29:19.22\00:29:21.56
WHAT DOES IT MEAN
TO BE PRAYING ALWAYS?
00:29:21.59\00:29:24.86
CAN YOU REALLY PRAY ALWAYS
- LIKE WHEN YOU'RE READING A
00:29:24.89\00:29:27.03
RECIPE AND COOKING?
YOU CAN BE IN ATTITUDE OF
00:29:27.03\00:29:30.87
PRAYER, WHERE YOU'RE SENDING
UP LITTLE PRAYERS ALL THE TIME,
00:29:30.90\00:29:34.27
YOU'RE TALKING WITH THE
LORD YOU'RE COMMUNING WITH HIM.
00:29:34.30\00:29:36.57
WHAT DOES IT MEAN WHEN IT
SAYS ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD?
00:29:36.60\00:29:40.74
NOAH WALKED WITH GOD. THE
DISCIPLES WALK WITH JESUS.
00:29:40.78\00:29:45.21
BEING CONSTANTLY
AWARE OF HIS PRESENCE.
00:29:45.25\00:29:47.58
YOU FIND IF YOU DO THAT, THAT
YOU DON'T BECOME SO DEPENDENT ON
00:29:47.62\00:29:51.19
THE THINGS OF
THE WORLD AROUND YOU.
00:29:51.22\00:29:54.69
ALRIGHT, NEXT
SECTION, IN THE WORD .
00:29:54.72\00:29:58.16
AND THIS IS - IN THIS SECTION
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HOW TO
00:29:58.19\00:30:01.23
ESCAPE THE WORLD'S WAYS.
ONE OF THE WAYS TO ESCAPE THE
00:30:01.26\00:30:03.83
WAYS OF THE WORLD IS TO STAY
IN THE WORD AND NOT THE WORLD.
00:30:03.87\00:30:07.90
HEBREWS 4:12, "FOR THE WORD OF
GOD IS LIVING AND POWERFUL AND
00:30:07.94\00:30:13.24
SHARPER THAN ANY TWO-EDGED SWORD
PIERCING EVEN TO THE DIVISION OF
00:30:13.27\00:30:17.31
SOUL AND SPIRIT IN THE
JOINTS AND MARROW. AND IT IS A
00:30:17.35\00:30:20.58
DISCERNER OF THE THOUGHT
AND THE INTENTS OF THE HEART."
00:30:20.62\00:30:25.02
NOW IF A COMPUTER - LET ME
SAY THIS DIFFERENTLY - DO YOU
00:30:25.05\00:30:31.39
BELIEVE THERE'S SOMETHING
SUPERNATURALLY DIFFERENT ABOUT
00:30:31.43\00:30:33.23
THE WORD OF GOD?
I BELIEVE THERE IS.
00:30:33.26\00:30:39.57
I WONDERED WHAT YOU BELIEVE.
00:30:39.60\00:30:41.80
IS IT DIFFERENT
FROM OTHER WORDS?
00:30:41.84\00:30:43.91
CAN YOU READ A DICTIONARY
AND HAVE YOUR HEART CHANGED?
00:30:43.94\00:30:48.04
YOU CAN READ AN ENCYCLOPEDIA
AND YOU'LL BE A LOT SMARTER.
00:30:48.08\00:30:52.28
BUT THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT THE
WORDS OF GOD THAT ARE POWERFUL.
00:30:52.31\00:30:56.65
NOW ARE THE WORDS OF GOD
POWERFUL IF NOBODY HEARS THEM?
00:30:56.69\00:31:02.76
WELL, GOD SAID, 'LET THERE BE'
- AND THERE WAS, SO THERE'S SOME
00:31:02.79\00:31:05.53
POWER TO GOD'S WORD IN THAT
SENSE, BUT THE POWER OF GOD'S
00:31:05.56\00:31:09.20
WORD IN YOUR LIFE
IS AS YOU HEAR IT.
00:31:09.23\00:31:11.37
THAT'S WHY THE BIBLE
SAYS 'LET HIM WHO HEARS'.
00:31:11.40\00:31:15.70
SO HAVE YOU EVER HEARD THE
EXPRESSION 'IF A TREE FALLS IN
00:31:15.74\00:31:18.61
THE WOODS AND NO ONE'S
AROUND, DOES IT MAKE ANY NOISE?
00:31:18.64\00:31:24.18
YOU EVER HEARD THAT QUESTION?
AND THEN, YOU KNOW, THIS IS ONE
00:31:24.21\00:31:28.32
OF THOSE DUMB PHILOSOPHICAL
QUESTIONS, OF COURSE IT MAKES
00:31:28.35\00:31:30.45
NOISE, BUT HOW DO YOU
KNOW IF NOBODY IS THERE?
00:31:30.49\00:31:33.76
WELL YOU - NOW WE'VE
RECORDED IT SO WE KNOW.
00:31:33.79\00:31:36.22
WE LISTENED TO IT
LATER AND IT MADE NOISE.
00:31:36.26\00:31:39.69
BUT IF THE BIBLE - IF A
COMPUTER-GENERATED VOICE IS
00:31:39.73\00:31:43.83
READING THE BIBLE IN AN EMPTY
ROOM, IS THERE POWER TO CHANGE
00:31:43.87\00:31:47.40
HEARTS. DOESN'T HAPPEN UNLESS
00:31:47.44\00:31:51.91
YOU'RE LISTENING TO IT.
BUT WHEN YOU LISTEN TO THE WORD
00:31:51.94\00:31:56.54
OF GOD SOMETHING
SUPERNATURAL HAPPENS.
00:31:56.58\00:31:59.21
THE WORD OF GOD IS POWERFUL IF
IT'S SPOKEN - NOT EVERYBODY CAN
00:31:59.25\00:32:02.82
READ - THE WORD OF GOD IS
POWERFUL IF YOU READ IT OFF A
00:32:02.85\00:32:05.72
PAGE. I HAVE
LEARNED THE WORD OF GOD
00:32:05.75\00:32:08.59
IS POWERFUL IF YOU
READ IT OFF A TV SCREEN.
00:32:08.62\00:32:12.16
THE WORD OF GOD IS POWERFUL
IF YOU READ IT ON PAPER OR A
00:32:12.19\00:32:15.73
DIGITAL DEVICE.
THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT THE
00:32:15.76\00:32:18.90
WORDS OF GOD THAT HAVE A
SUPERNATURAL EFFECT THAT IT
00:32:18.93\00:32:22.40
CONVERTS, IT CONVICTS,
IT CHANGES, IT SOOTHES, IT
00:32:22.44\00:32:26.44
COMFORTS, IT INSPIRES.
AND IF YOU WANT TO KEEP YOUR
00:32:26.47\00:32:31.11
PERSPECTIVE RIGHT, THEN YOU
NEED TO BE READING THOSE WORDS.
00:32:31.15\00:32:35.62
IT'S LIVING, THE
BIBLE SAYS, IT'S POWERFUL.
00:32:35.65\00:32:39.45
IT'S SHARPER THAN ANY TWO-EDGED
SWORD PIERCING EVEN TO THE
00:32:39.49\00:32:42.26
DIVISION OF SOUL AND OF SPIRIT.
MATTHEW 4:4 JESUS SAID, 'IT IS
00:32:42.29\00:32:48.46
WRITTEN: MAN SHALL NOT LIVE
BY BREAD ALONE BUT BY EVERY WORD
00:32:48.50\00:32:52.53
THAT PROCEEDS FROM THE MOUTH
OF GOD.' NOW WE NEED THINGS.
00:32:52.57\00:32:57.27
WE NEED FOOD. WE NEED
HOUSES. WE NEED CLOTHES.
00:32:57.31\00:33:00.24
WE NEED JOBS AND STUFF.
BUT CHRIST SAID THAT'S NOT
00:33:00.28\00:33:06.58
WHAT YOU REALLY LIVE BY.
WHAT YOU LIVE BY S THE WORDS OF
00:33:06.61\00:33:10.12
GOD, BECAUSE THAT
SHAPES YOU. DO YOU KNOW WHAT?
00:33:10.15\00:33:14.16
THE WORD OF GOD IS SO
POWERFUL, IT EVEN SHAPES THINGS.
00:33:14.19\00:33:18.09
THE WORD OF
GOD'LL SHAPE GOVERNMENTS.
00:33:18.13\00:33:20.06
THE WORD OF GOD'LL
SHAPE PRODUCTS IN A COUNTRY.
00:33:20.10\00:33:25.07
IN HEAVEN, THE BIBLE SAYS THAT -
IT USES SOME POETIC LANGUAGE IN
00:33:25.10\00:33:30.04
ISAIAH AND IT SAYS WE ARE GOING
TO BEAT OUR SWORDS INTO PRUNING
00:33:30.07\00:33:34.48
SHEARS. THE
PRODUCTS ARE DIFFERENT. WHY?
00:33:34.51\00:33:40.25
BECAUSE OF THE WORD OF
GOD. WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE USING
00:33:40.28\00:33:42.45
METAL TO KILL, WE'LL BE
USING IT TO PRUNE, YOU SEE
00:33:42.48\00:33:46.79
WHAT I'M SAYING?
AND SO THE WORLD CHANGES
00:33:46.82\00:33:48.79
EVERYTHING IN YOUR SOCIETY, IN
YOUR LIFE, IN YOUR PRIORITIES.
00:33:48.82\00:33:53.43
HERE'S A FEW OTHER VERSES FROM
THE GOSPEL OF JOHN THAT JUST
00:33:53.46\00:33:56.70
TALK ABOUT HOW
TO STAY IN THE WORD.
00:33:56.73\00:33:58.90
JOHN 5:39, "YOU SEARCH THE
SCRIPTURES FOR IN THEM YOU THINK
00:33:58.93\00:34:03.04
YOU HAVE ETERNAL LIFE. THESE
ARE THEY THAT TESTIFY OF ME."
00:34:03.07\00:34:07.71
SO HOW MUCH OF THE WORD
OF GOD TELLS US ABOUT JESUS?
00:34:07.74\00:34:10.68
IF A CHRISTIAN IS A FOLLOWER OF
CHRIST AND IF WE WANT TO BE LIKE
00:34:10.71\00:34:13.42
CHRIST,WHERE DO WE GO
TO FIND OUT WHAT HE'S LIKE?
00:34:13.45\00:34:18.79
NEW TESTAMENT OR
THE OLD TESTAMENT? BOTH.
00:34:18.82\00:34:23.06
WHEN CHRIST MADE THAT STATEMENT
- JOHN 5:39 - "YOU SEARCH THE
00:34:23.09\00:34:26.76
SCRIPTURES IN THEM YOU THINK
YOU HAVE ETERNAL LIFE; THESE ARE
00:34:26.80\00:34:29.36
THEY THAT TESTIFY OF
ME." I MEAN JUST GET MY MARK.
00:34:29.40\00:34:32.37
MY POINT HERE JUST
OKAY. HERE YOU'VE GOT THE OLD
00:34:32.40\00:34:35.37
TESTAMENT - IT'S
APPROXIMATELY THREE QUARTERS.
00:34:35.40\00:34:38.54
HERE YOU'VE GOT THE NEW
TESTAMENT - IT IS ABOUT THREE
00:34:38.57\00:34:40.91
QUARTERS BECAUSE THIS BIBLE'S
GOT A LOT OF ADDITIONAL STUDY
00:34:40.94\00:34:43.28
MATERIAL IN THE BACK. HOW
MUCH BIBLE WAS WRITTEN WHEN
00:34:43.31\00:34:47.85
JESUS MADE THAT
STATEMENT? >>THE OLD TESTAMENT.
00:34:47.88\00:34:50.35
>>ALL THE OLD TESTAMENT.
WAS ANY NEW TESTAMENT WRITTEN?
00:34:50.39\00:34:53.62
SO DOES THAT MEAN JESUS CANNOT
BE FOUND IN THE NEW TESTAMENT?
00:34:53.66\00:34:57.56
NO, HE'S IN BOTH BECAUSE THE NEW
TESTAMENT TALKS ABOUT CHRIST.
00:34:57.59\00:35:00.93
BUT SOME CHURCHES DON'T REALIZE
THAT WHEN CHRIST MADE THE
00:35:00.96\00:35:04.10
STATEMENT THERE WAS
ONLY AN OLD TESTAMENT.
00:35:04.13\00:35:07.00
AND SO CAN YOU FIND
JESUS IN THE STORY OF JOSEPH?
00:35:07.04\00:35:10.57
DO YOU FIND JESUS IN
THE STORY OF ABRAHAM?
00:35:10.61\00:35:12.81
DO YOU FIND JESUS IN THE
STORY OF MOSES AND DAVID?
00:35:12.84\00:35:15.11
HE'S ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE.
AND SO, WHEN YOU READ THE BIBLE
00:35:15.14\00:35:19.45
WITH THAT IN MIND, YOU'LL FIND
CHRIST - YOU FIND OUT HOW TO
00:35:19.48\00:35:21.68
LIVE LIKE A CHRISTIAN
THROUGH READING HIS WORD.
00:35:21.72\00:35:24.92
JOHN 14:6, "JESUS SAID TO HIM,
I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE
00:35:24.95\00:35:29.82
LIFE. NO ONE COMES TO THE
FATHER EXCEPT THROUGH ME."
00:35:29.86\00:35:34.20
SO IF WE WANT TO FIND OUT HOW
TO BE SAVED - IT'S ONLY THROUGH
00:35:34.20\00:35:36.56
CHRIST - WHERE DO WE
FIND OUT ABOUT CHRIST?
00:35:36.60\00:35:39.60
CAN WE FLY TO THE
MIDDLE EAST AND TALK TO JESUS?
00:35:39.63\00:35:42.14
>>NO. >>WHERE DO WE FIND HIM?
00:35:42.17\00:35:46.14
HE'S IN HIS WORD.
BUT YOU CAN'T COME TO THE
00:35:46.17\00:35:48.31
FATHER EXCEPT THROUGH HIM.
YOU FIND HIM THROUGH SPEAKING TO
00:35:48.34\00:35:50.91
HIM THROUGH PRAYER
AND THROUGH HIS WORD.
00:35:50.95\00:35:52.88
JOHN 6:63, "IT IS THE
SPIRIT THAT GIVES LIFE.
00:35:52.91\00:35:57.59
THE FLESH PROFITS NOTHING."
JESUS SAID, "THE WORDS THAT I
00:35:57.62\00:36:01.52
SPEAK TO YOU, THEY ARE
SPIRIT AND THEY ARE LIFE.
00:36:01.56\00:36:04.23
THIS COMES UP, ACTUALLY,
LATER TODAY IN OUR MESSAGE.
00:36:04.26\00:36:07.66
THE WORDS THAT I
SPEAK, THEY'RE SPIRITUAL.
00:36:07.73\00:36:11.70
PAUL SAID SPIRITUAL THINGS
ARE SPIRITUALLY DISCERNED.
00:36:11.73\00:36:16.00
AND SO AS WE READ THE WORD OF
GOD WE NEED TO PRAY FOR THE HOLY
00:36:16.04\00:36:20.08
SPIRIT TO BRING THEM TO
LIFE. YOU KNOW, IF YOU'VE GOT A
00:36:20.11\00:36:25.35
HEARING AID AND YOU'VE GOT NO
BATTERY, IT'S NOT HELPING YOU.
00:36:25.38\00:36:30.55
SOME OF YOU OUT THERE KNOW WHAT
I'M TALKING ABOUT, IT WON'T BE
00:36:30.59\00:36:34.02
LONG BEFORE I KNOW
HOW THAT WORKS ALSO.
00:36:34.06\00:36:38.79
IF YOU'RE READING THE BIBLE
WITHOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT - HAVE
00:36:38.83\00:36:42.43
YOU EVER HEARD SOMEONE SAY,
'I READ THE BIBLE, I'M JUST NOT
00:36:42.46\00:36:44.33
GETTING ANYTHING OUT OF
IT'? DID YOU ASK THE AUTHOR TO
00:36:44.37\00:36:47.90
HELP YOU UNDERSTAND IT?
SPIRITUAL THINGS ARE SPIRITUALLY
00:36:47.94\00:36:51.91
DISCERNED AND WITHOUT THE
SPIRIT, YOU CAN'T DISCERN 'EM.
00:36:51.94\00:36:55.81
SO WHEN YOU READ THE
BIBLE AND YOU SAY, 'LORD I DON'T
00:36:55.84\00:36:58.55
UNDERSTAND' OR 'I'M NOT GETTING
ANYTHING OUT OF IT.' NOW HERE WE
00:36:58.58\00:37:02.55
ARE AT THE BEGINNING OF A
NEW YEAR. HAVE ANY OF YOU MADE A
00:37:02.58\00:37:05.59
COVENANT TO TRY TO READ THE
BIBLE EVERY DAY? A RESOLUTION?
00:37:05.62\00:37:10.23
DON'T HAVE TO RAISE
YOUR HANDS. I HOPE YOU HAVE.
00:37:10.26\00:37:12.03
YOU'LL GET MORE OUT OF IT IF YOU
TAKE A FEW MOMENTS BEFORE YOU
00:37:12.06\00:37:14.46
READ AND SAY, 'LORD,
HELP ME TO UNDERSTAND.
00:37:14.46\00:37:18.30
GIVE ME YOUR SPIRIT TO GUIDE
ME.' SO THE SPIRIT HELPS US
00:37:18.33\00:37:21.77
ESCAPE FROM THE
WORLD'S WAYS THROUGH THE WORD.
00:37:21.80\00:37:26.78
AND THEN YOU READ IN JOHN 8:36,
"THEREFORE IF THE SON WILL MAKE
00:37:26.81\00:37:30.75
YOU FREE, YOU
WILL BE FREE INDEED."
00:37:30.78\00:37:33.18
DO WE NEED TO BE ENSLAVED
TO THE THINGS OF THE WORLD?
00:37:33.21\00:37:36.38
NO, HE SETS US FREE
AND IT'S A REAL FREEDOM.
00:37:36.42\00:37:39.92
NOW THERE IS A PRACTICAL
CHALLENGE THAT WE ALL GRAPPLE
00:37:39.95\00:37:43.83
WITH AND IT IS THIS:
YOU'VE GOT TWO SIDES.
00:37:43.86\00:37:48.20
WE ARE PHYSICAL CREATURES
THAT LIVE IN A PHYSICAL WORLD.
00:37:48.23\00:37:51.20
WE'VE GOT PHYSICAL NEEDS -
WE NEED STUFF - WE NEED FOOD, WE
00:37:51.23\00:37:53.80
NEED SHELTER - WE
NEED THESE THINGS.
00:37:53.84\00:37:55.67
THAT'S CALLED THE CARNAL
SIDE - THE FLESHLY NEEDS.
00:37:55.70\00:37:59.37
WHEN YOU BECOME A CHRISTIAN YOU
DO NOT LOSE YOUR BODY AND ITS
00:37:59.41\00:38:04.31
NEEDS. YOU DO NOT
LOSE THE PRACTICAL
00:38:04.35\00:38:07.85
NECESSITIES OF LIFE THAT
NEED TO BE CONSIDERED EVERY DAY.
00:38:07.88\00:38:11.65
WHAT CHANGES BETWEEN
THE SPIRIT AND THE FLESH?
00:38:11.69\00:38:15.89
BEFORE YOU ARE CONVERTED,
YOU ARE CONTROLLED BY THE FLESH.
00:38:15.92\00:38:20.86
YOU MIGHT HAVE THE HOLY
SPIRIT CONVICT YOU BUT YOU ARE
00:38:20.90\00:38:23.26
CONTROLLED BY THE FLESH.
YOU MAKE YOUR DECISIONS BASED ON
00:38:23.30\00:38:25.27
THE FLESH - THE CARNAL NATURE.
AFTER YOU'RE CONVERTED, YOU MAKE
00:38:25.30\00:38:29.50
YOUR DECISIONS
BASED ON THE SPIRIT.
00:38:29.54\00:38:31.87
YOU'VE STILL GOT
THE CARNAL NATURE.
00:38:31.91\00:38:34.91
THERE'S A STORY I
LIKE TO TELL, IN THE BIBLE.
00:38:34.94\00:38:38.05
THIS MAN IS
CARRIED TO JESUS ON A BED.
00:38:38.08\00:38:41.75
HE IS PARALYZED.
HE CAN'T GO ANYWHERE.
00:38:41.78\00:38:44.32
HE DEPENDS ON
FRIENDS TO CARRY HIM.
00:38:44.35\00:38:46.72
HE GOES WITH THE BED - THE
BED CARRIES HIM EVERYWHERE.
00:38:46.76\00:38:49.76
JESUS HEALS HIM, AFTER
HE'S BROUGHT TO CHRIST.
00:38:49.79\00:38:52.29
HE STILL HAS THE BED, BUT WHEN
HE LEAVES JESUS, HE CARRIES THE
00:38:52.33\00:38:56.60
BED. CHRIST SAID
'STAND UP, TAKE YOUR
00:38:56.63\00:38:59.60
BED, AND GO YOUR WAY.' IT'S
KIND OF LIKE THE CARNAL NATURE.
00:38:59.63\00:39:04.14
YOU KNOW, BEFORE WE COME TO
JESUS, IT CARRIES US AROUND.
00:39:04.17\00:39:07.51
AFTER CHRIST YOU'VE STILL GOT IT
BUT YOU CARRY IT. SO YOU STILL
00:39:07.54\00:39:11.45
HAVE YOUR PHYSICAL NEEDS
BUT THEY DON'T CONTROL YOU.
00:39:11.48\00:39:13.95
HERE IS A VERSE THAT TALKS ABOUT
THAT - ROMANS 8:5 AND 6 - MATTER
00:39:13.98\00:39:17.52
OF FACT, YOU CAN READ THE
WHOLE CHAPTER IN ROMANS THERE -
00:39:17.55\00:39:20.06
CHAPTER 8, "FOR THOSE WHO LIVE
ACCORDING TO THE FLESH SET THEIR
00:39:20.09\00:39:23.89
MINDS ON THE THINGS OF
THE FLESH, BUT THOSE WHO LIVE
00:39:23.93\00:39:26.86
ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT
THE THINGS OF THE SPIRIT.
00:39:26.90\00:39:29.33
TO BE CARNALLY - THE WORD
'CARNE' MEANS FLESH OR MEAT - TO
00:39:29.36\00:39:32.73
BE CARNALLY MINDED IS DEATH BUT
TO BE SPIRITUALLY MINDED IS LIFE
00:39:32.77\00:39:38.24
AND PEACE." SO IF
ARE BEING CONTROLLED BY
00:39:38.27\00:39:41.31
THE FLESH - THE THINGS
OF THE WORLD, IT'S DEATH.
00:39:41.34\00:39:45.85
TO BE SPIRITUALLY CONTROLLED,
THAT IS LIFE AND PEACE.
00:39:45.88\00:39:48.82
NOW, HOW MANY OF
YOU WANT LIFE AND PEACE?
00:39:48.85\00:39:51.45
THEN YOU NEED TO BE
CONTROLLED BY THOSE THINGS.
00:39:51.49\00:39:53.66
THE NEXT IS THE LIFE OF
PRAYER. NOW SOMEONE'S GOING TO
00:39:53.69\00:39:57.39
READ FOR ME MARK
11:24. WHO'S GOT THAT?
00:39:57.43\00:40:02.06
ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD,
YOU CAN READ THAT FOR ME.
00:40:02.10\00:40:04.30
>>MARK 11, VERSE 24, "THEREFORE
I SAY UNTO YOU, WHAT THINGS SO
00:40:04.33\00:40:09.67
EVER YE DESIRE, WHEN YE PRAY
BELIEVE THAT YE RECEIVE THEM AND
00:40:09.70\00:40:14.94
YE SHALL HAVE THEM." >>SO
HE SAYS 'WHATEVER YOU ASK,
00:40:14.98\00:40:19.01
PRAY FOR IT AND YOU'LL
HAVE IT.' NOW, HOW MANY OF
00:40:19.05\00:40:22.12
YOU HAVE TRIED THAT?
AND MAYBE YOU DON'T GET IT.
00:40:22.15\00:40:26.35
MAYBE YOU DID. ARE
THERE CERTAIN CRITERIA?
00:40:26.39\00:40:30.69
DO YOU PRAY FOR STUFF?
JANICE JOPLIN USED TO TEASE
00:40:30.73\00:40:38.50
SOME OF THE
RELIGIOUS MATERIALISTIC PEOPLE.
00:40:38.53\00:40:42.24
SHE WROTE A SONG
THAT MANY PEOPLE REMEMBER.
00:40:42.27\00:40:44.91
'OH LORD WON'T YOU
BUY ME A MERCEDES BENZ.
00:40:44.94\00:40:48.84
MY FRIENDS ALL HAVE
PORSCHES I MUST MAKE AMENDS.
00:40:48.88\00:40:53.42
WORKED HARD ALL MY LIFETIME
NO HELP FROM MY FRIENDS.
00:40:53.45\00:40:56.95
OH LORD WON'T YOU
BUY ME A MERCEDES BENZ."
00:40:56.99\00:41:00.82
SOMETHING LIKE THAT. AND
SOMEONE ELSE MADE A SONG UP
00:41:00.86\00:41:06.29
TO TEASE - WOULD
JESUS WEAR A ROLEX?
00:41:06.33\00:41:11.20
- WHAT ARE YOU PRAYING FOR?
YOU KNOW, AT THE HEART OF EVERY
00:41:11.23\00:41:14.24
PRAYER IT OUGHT TO BE 'LORD WHAT
WILL BRING YOU GLORY' RIGHT?
00:41:14.27\00:41:18.64
NOW, WHILE I'VE BEEN TEACHING
WE'LL BACK TO THE LESSON IF TIME
00:41:18.67\00:41:21.84
PERMITS. WE DO
HAVE SOME QUESTIONS
00:41:21.88\00:41:23.58
THAT CAME IN ON FACEBOOK.
PASTOR ROSS IS SICK TODAY SO
00:41:23.61\00:41:27.62
I'LL BE - AND PASTOR BRUMMOND
IS TEACHING ANOTHER CLASS, SO
00:41:27.65\00:41:30.75
I'LL BE READING
SOME OF THESE QUESTIONS.
00:41:30.79\00:41:32.32
ONE PERSON IS ASKING, 'DOES
TITHE' - WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
00:41:32.35\00:41:35.56
MATERIALISM AND STEWARDSHIP
- 'DOES TITHE GO FOR A SPECIFIC
00:41:35.59\00:41:39.33
PURPOSE OR CAN YOU GIVE
YOUR TITHE TO OTHER NON-PROFIT
00:41:39.36\00:41:42.90
ORGANIZATIONS IN THE CHURCH?
00:41:42.93\00:41:45.47
WELL, LET'S TALK
ABOUT THAT FOR A MOMENT.
00:41:45.50\00:41:47.47
IF EVERYBODY IN THE CHURCH SAYS
I'M GOING TO SEND MY TITHE TO MY
00:41:47.50\00:41:52.34
FAVORITE MINISTRY, AND IF
THE PASTORS IN THE CHURCH ARE
00:41:52.37\00:41:57.05
SUPPORTED FROM THE TITHE,
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO PASTORS IF
00:41:57.08\00:42:00.38
EVERYBODY SENT THEIR TITHE
TO THEIR FAVORITE MINISTRY?
00:42:00.42\00:42:04.55
EVENTUALLY CHURCHES WOULD NOT
HAVE MONEY FOR THEIR PASTORS.
00:42:04.59\00:42:08.39
AND SO THERE NEEDS TO BE A
COMMITMENT TO SUPPORT THE - NOW,
00:42:08.42\00:42:12.09
YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE ACTUALLY
TALKS ABOUT A SECOND TITHE.
00:42:12.13\00:42:15.23
SOME PEOPLE PAY A SECOND TITHE.
00:42:15.26\00:42:17.33
IF THE LORD HAS BLESSED YOU AND
YOU CAN DO THAT AND YOU MIGHT,
00:42:17.37\00:42:20.27
YOU KNOW, SAY 'I'M GOING TO
MAKE A COMMITMENT TO ANOTHER
00:42:20.30\00:42:23.61
MINISTRY,' BUT TITHE NEEDS
TO GO FOR THE FURTHERANCE OF THE
00:42:23.64\00:42:26.71
GOSPEL AND THE SUPPORT
OF THE ORGANIZED MINISTRY.
00:42:26.74\00:42:30.98
'WHAT DOI DO IF MY SPOUSE
GETS UPSET WHEN I GIVE TITHE?'
00:42:31.01\00:42:34.05
YOU'VE GOT A BELIEVER
MARRIED TO AN UNBELIEVER.
00:42:34.08\00:42:37.35
UNFORTUNATELY, I'VE EVEN SEEN
WHERE YOU'VE GOT TWO BELIEVERS
00:42:37.39\00:42:39.95
AND ONE DOESN'T
BELIEVE IN TITHE.
00:42:39.99\00:42:41.89
SUPPOSED TO BE
BELIEVERS. WHAT DO YOU DO?
00:42:41.92\00:42:46.09
NOW THIS IS NOT AS MUCH A
PROBLEM IF THE ONE WHO'S DOING
00:42:46.13\00:42:50.57
THE GIVING IS THE
ONE WHO IS WORKING.
00:42:50.60\00:42:57.37
WHAT'S DIFFICULT IS IF
ONE, LET'S JUST USE THE TYPICAL
00:42:57.41\00:43:00.64
ANALOGY - YOU'VE GOT A HUSBAND
WHO'S WORKING THE WIFE STAYING
00:43:00.68\00:43:03.14
HOME TAKING
CARE OF THE CHILDREN.
00:43:03.18\00:43:04.61
THE HUSBAND IS NOT THE BELIEVER
AND HE SAYS, 'I'M NOT GIVING TO
00:43:04.65\00:43:07.58
THAT CHURCH. I'M NOT PAYING
00:43:07.62\00:43:10.45
TITHE - 10 PERCENT?
YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?
00:43:10.49\00:43:13.52
HOW ARE WE GOING TO GET BY
ON OUR BUDGET WITH 10 PERCENT?'
00:43:13.56\00:43:16.83
WELL, I WOULD SAY, TO
START WITH, YOU NEED TO HAVE
00:43:16.86\00:43:19.06
COMMUNICATION WITH YOUR
SPOUSE AND SAY, 'I WORK AT HOME.
00:43:19.09\00:43:24.60
I'M TAKING CARE OF THE KIDS AND
TAKING CARE OF THE HOME AND THE
00:43:24.63\00:43:27.37
OTHER AFFAIRS OF LIFE
THAT CAN BE A FULL-TIME JOB.
00:43:27.40\00:43:30.71
DOES ANY OF YOUR
INCOME BELONG TO ME?
00:43:30.74\00:43:34.81
DO YOU THINK I HAVE A RIGHT TO
ANY DISCRETIONARY INCOME OR ARE
00:43:34.84\00:43:37.45
YOU SAYING IT'S ALL YOURS?'
WELL YOU HAVE TO BE A PRETTY
00:43:37.48\00:43:42.38
DESPOTIC SPOUSE THAT WOULD SAY
'IT'S ALL MINE.' AND THEN SAY,
00:43:42.42\00:43:47.02
'ALRIGHT, WHAT PART
OF THE BUDGET IS MINE?
00:43:47.06\00:43:49.52
THEN I'M GOING TO PAY A TITHE OF
WHATEVER YOU BELIEVE IS FAIRLY
00:43:49.56\00:43:53.36
MINE. SO YOU
MIGHT NEGOTIATE THAT
00:43:53.40\00:43:55.96
WAY OR HE MIGHT SAY, YOU KNOW,
CONVINCE THEM 'DO YOU WANT GOD
00:43:56.00\00:43:59.53
TO BLESS ANY OF WHAT YOU
HAVE? GOD SAYS IT'LL BE CURSED
00:43:59.57\00:44:03.47
IF YOU DON'T PAY
TITHE. AND REASON WITH THEM.
00:44:03.51\00:44:06.34
SOMETIMES AFTER SPOUSES SEE THAT
THEIR FUNDS ARE BEING CURSED,
00:44:06.37\00:44:09.78
THEY SAY, 'WELL, MAYBE I
OUGHT TO TRY THE TITHE PAYING.'
00:44:09.81\00:44:13.05
DO YOU KNOW GOD WILL EVEN
BLESS THE TITHE OF A PERSON WHO
00:44:13.08\00:44:16.69
DOESN'T HAVE A
HUNDRED PERCENT OF FAITH?
00:44:16.72\00:44:18.92
DOES GOD KEEP HIS PROMISES?
HE SAYS, 'IF YOU PROVE ME IN
00:44:18.95\00:44:23.16
THIS AND SEE IF I DON'T OPEN FOR
YOU THE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN.' SO
00:44:23.19\00:44:25.46
I'D SAY ASK HIM TO PROVE GOD.
SO THAT IS A CHALLENGE THOUGH.
00:44:25.49\00:44:31.17
'I GIVE MY TITHE TO THE CHURCH,
BUT I ASK THEM TO GIVE IT TO THE
00:44:31.20\00:44:35.50
POOR. IS THAT OKAY?
00:44:35.54\00:44:37.64
WELL, IF YOU GIVE IT TO THE
CHURCH, ONCE YOU GIVE YOUR TITHE
00:44:37.67\00:44:39.97
TO SOMEONE YOU DON'T THEN
DICTATE HOW IT'S TO BE USED.
00:44:40.01\00:44:44.98
IF YOU GIVE SOMETHING TO SOMEONE
AND YOU TELL THEM WHAT TO DO,
00:44:45.01\00:44:47.08
YOU HAVEN'T REALLY GIVEN IT
YET. YOU'VE GOT TO GIVE - TELL
00:44:47.12\00:44:49.95
THEM WHAT YOUR SUGGESTED
RECOMMENDATION IS BEFORE
00:44:49.98\00:44:53.79
THE GIFT AND THAT'S
CALLED RESTRICTED INCOME.
00:44:53.82\00:44:57.73
EVERY NOW AND THEN AMAZING FACTS
WE GET A GIFT AND SOMEONE SAYS
00:44:57.76\00:45:00.06
WE WANT THIS TO GO TO CHINA.
00:45:00.10\00:45:01.60
WE, BY LAW - AND BY ETHICS,
NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT MONEY IS
00:45:01.63\00:45:05.07
REGISTERED - IT'S
ALLOCATED TO JUST CHINA.
00:45:05.10\00:45:08.64
AND SOMETIMES WE'LL RAISE MONEY
FOR A PARTICULAR PROJECT AND WE
00:45:08.67\00:45:12.77
GET IN MORE THAN WE
NEED FOR THE PROJECT.
00:45:12.81\00:45:14.78
WE KEEP IT IN A RESTRICTED FUND
AND IT MAY HELP WITH INDONESIA
00:45:14.81\00:45:17.95
OR CHINA - WHATEVER IT IS - FOR
YEARS TO COME UNTIL IT'S USED
00:45:17.98\00:45:20.62
UP, BECAUSE IT'S
RESTRICTED MONEY.
00:45:20.65\00:45:22.58
SO WHEN YOU GIVE TITHE THE
CHURCH HAS DESIGNATED WHAT THE
00:45:22.62\00:45:26.99
TITHE IS TO GO TOWARDS. IF
YOU WANT TO GIVE MONEY TO THE
00:45:27.02\00:45:29.42
POOR THEN DON'T GIVE IT TO THE
CHURCH AND THEN TELL THE CHURCH
00:45:29.46\00:45:31.43
WHAT TO DO, YOU
GIVE IT TO THE POOR.
00:45:31.46\00:45:32.99
BUT ARE YOU NOT SUPPOSED
TO BE DOING THAT WITH TITHE.
00:45:33.03\00:45:35.70
AND SOME - NO, I THINK MOST OF
THE TITHE GOES TOWARDS - THERE
00:45:35.73\00:45:44.54
WAS A SECOND TITHE IN THE BIBLE
WHEN THEY WENT TO THE FEAST THEY
00:45:44.57\00:45:46.98
COULD GIVE TO THE
POOR. AND READ ABOUT THAT
00:45:47.01\00:45:49.78
IN DEUTERONOMY.
OKAY, IS THERE ANY
00:45:49.81\00:45:53.05
OTHER QUESTIONS. YEAH.
00:45:53.08\00:45:54.78
ANOTHER QUESTION: 'SHOULD WE
GET RID OF ALL THINGS WE HAVE
00:45:54.82\00:45:57.75
COLLECTED IN LIFE, SO I'M
AVAILABLE TO GO WHERE GOD SENDS
00:45:57.79\00:46:01.39
ME?' MAYBE. YOU
KNOW, I THINK AS YOU AS YOU
00:46:01.42\00:46:06.86
GET OLDER - I'VE BEEN SENDING
THINGS TO OUR KIDS AND THEY SAY,
00:46:06.90\00:46:14.04
'WELL DON'T YOU
WANT TO KEEP THIS?
00:46:14.07\00:46:15.27
IT'S A GREAT MEMORY.' I SAID,
YOU KNOW, WHEN I'M GONE YOU'RE
00:46:15.30\00:46:16.94
JUST GOING TO HAVE TO GO THROUGH
THIS STUFF SO I'D JUST AS SOON
00:46:16.97\00:46:19.74
HAVE MORE ROOM IN MY
HOUSE NOW.' SO WE'RE DOWNSIZING.
00:46:19.77\00:46:24.11
YOU KNOW, KAREN
AND I SOLD OUR HOUSE.
00:46:24.15\00:46:25.21
WE MOVED INTO A SMALLER
HOUSE. SO WE MOVED OUT OF OUR
00:46:25.25\00:46:27.25
HOUSE INTO A SMALLER
HOUSE. WE'RE TRYING TO DOWNSIZE.
00:46:27.28\00:46:30.42
IT FREES YOU UP MORE.
SOME PEOPLE GET PETS AND YOU
00:46:30.45\00:46:35.22
CAN'T GO ON A MISSION
TRIP BECAUSE YOU CAN'T DO
00:46:35.26\00:46:37.03
ANYTHING BUT YOUR PETS. I
LOVE MY PETS BUT I'M AFRAID TO
00:46:37.06\00:46:40.23
GET ANOTHER PET BECAUSE I WANT
TO BE FREE AND AVAILABLE TO GOD.
00:46:40.26\00:46:44.23
SO I THINK EVERYBODY OUGHT TO
TRY AND DO WHAT THEY CAN SO THEY
00:46:44.27\00:46:46.84
CAN DO AS MUCH AS THEY CAN
IN MISSIONARY WORK AND SOUL
00:46:46.87\00:46:50.34
WINNING. IF YOUR
THINGS ARE WEIGHING YOU
00:46:50.37\00:46:52.27
DOWN, YOU MIGHT
WANT TO LIGHTEN THE LOAD.
00:46:52.31\00:46:55.38
YOU TRAVEL LIGHTER, YOU CAN
GO SOMETIMES FARTHER, RIGHT?
00:46:55.41\00:47:00.08
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? YEAH WE DO.
00:47:00.12\00:47:03.49
'I BELIEVE IN TITHING BUT
SOMETIMES I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH
00:47:03.52\00:47:06.12
MONEY FOR FOOD AND
BILLS. WHAT SHOULD I DO?
00:47:06.15\00:47:09.42
THAT'S TOUGH. WELL,
LET ME ASK THIS QUESTION.
00:47:09.46\00:47:14.13
IF YOU'RE SHORT ON FOOD
IS IT OKAY TO STEAL? NO.
00:47:14.20\00:47:21.84
WHAT DOES GOD CALL IT IF WE
REFUSE TO RETURN TITHE TO HIM?
00:47:21.87\00:47:25.74
>>STEALING.
>>STEALING. NOW I KNOW THAT MAY
00:47:25.77\00:47:28.64
SEEM BRUTAL AND THERE'S
SOME UNBELIEVER WATCHING THIS
00:47:28.68\00:47:30.61
BROADCAST AND THINKING, 'YOU
PASTORS, YOU HAVE NO COMPASSION.
00:47:30.65\00:47:33.58
YOU'RE TELLING PEOPLE THAT SAY
THEY'RE HAVING TROUBLE GIVING' -
00:47:33.62\00:47:37.05
WHAT DID JESUS SAY OF THAT WIDOW
THAT GAVE HER LAST TWO CENTS?
00:47:37.09\00:47:42.89
DID HE SAY 'WOMAN
ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?
00:47:42.92\00:47:45.86
HERE YOU MIGHT HAVE ORPHANED
CHILDREN AND WHAT ARE YOU DOING
00:47:45.89\00:47:48.86
COMING TO THE TEMPLE
GIVING YOUR LAST TWO CENTS?'
00:47:48.90\00:47:52.80
I MEAN SHOULDN'T HE HAVE SAID,
'NO, NO GIVE IT BACK TO HER.
00:47:52.83\00:47:55.77
SHE HAS NOTHING ELSE.' JESUS
COMMENDED HER FOR HER FAITH.
00:47:55.80\00:48:01.18
NOW DO YOU THINK THE
LORD LET THAT WOMAN GO HUNGRY?
00:48:01.21\00:48:03.45
NO. I AM
CONFIDENT THAT HE PROVIDED.
00:48:03.48\00:48:08.45
IT'S LIKE DAVID SAID, 'I
WAS YOUNG, I'M NOW OLD, I'VE NOT
00:48:08.48\00:48:11.32
SEEN THE RIGHTEOUS FORSAKEN OR
RECEIVE BEGGING BREAD.' YOU SEEK
00:48:11.35\00:48:14.79
FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND HIS
RIGHTEOUSNESS AND ALL THE OTHER
00:48:14.82\00:48:17.23
THINGS WILL BE ADDED.
AND SO PROVE THE LORD AND THE
00:48:17.26\00:48:20.66
VERY FACT YOU'RE
ASKING THIS QUESTION MEANS
00:48:20.70\00:48:22.53
YOU'RE STILL
ALIVE. WHOEVER ASKED LAST
00:48:22.56\00:48:24.50
QUESTION, RIGHT? WHICH
MEANS HE HAS TAKEN CARE OF
00:48:24.53\00:48:28.17
YOU AND HE WILL
CONTINUE TO TAKE CARE OF YOU.
00:48:28.20\00:48:30.81
ALRIGHT, WE'RE GOING
TO GET BACK TO THE LESSON.
00:48:30.84\00:48:32.14
WE STILL HAVE A FEW MORE
THOUGHTS - I LIKE THAT, WHERE
00:48:32.17\00:48:34.18
THEY JUST - SOME OF OUR VIEWERS
THAT ARE WATCHING RIGHT NOW ARE
00:48:34.21\00:48:36.24
ABLE TO GET INVOLVED IN
SHARING THEIR QUESTIONS.
00:48:36.28\00:48:40.02
ALRIGHT, SO WE READ THAT
VERSE, 'PRAY WHATEVER YOU ASK,
00:48:40.05\00:48:44.82
BELIEVING YOU WILL RECEIVE.' IS
THAT A CARTE BLANCHE STATEMENT?
00:48:44.85\00:48:49.79
IS THAT A BLANK CHECK?
'PRAY, JUST BELIEVE YOU'RE GOING
00:48:49.82\00:48:52.99
TO GET WHATEVER YOU
ASK FOR.' SOME PEOPLE HAVE
00:48:53.03\00:48:55.66
READ IT THAT WAY.
THERE ARE OTHER MITIGATING
00:48:55.70\00:48:57.47
VERSES YOU NEED
TO COMBINE WITH THAT.
00:48:57.50\00:49:00.24
FIRST OF ALL,
WILL IT GLORIFY GOD?
00:49:00.27\00:49:03.54
GO TO JOHN 14, VERSE 13,
"WHATEVER YOU ASK IN MY NAME
00:49:03.57\00:49:07.28
THAT I WILL DO, THAT MY - THAT
THE FATHER MIGHT BE GLORIFIED IN
00:49:07.31\00:49:11.71
THE SON. IF YOU ASK ANYTHING IN
00:49:11.75\00:49:13.72
MY NAME I WILL DO IT."
IF iT IS SOMETHING THAT WILL
00:49:13.75\00:49:16.48
BE GLORIFYING THE
FATHER AND THE SON.
00:49:16.52\00:49:19.32
AND THEN YOU ALSO NEED TO - YOU
CAN READ JAMES - JAMES 1:6, "BUT
00:49:19.35\00:49:24.99
LET HIM ASK IN FAITH NOTHING
DOUBTING, FOR HE WHO DOUBTS LIKE
00:49:25.03\00:49:28.10
A WAVE OF THE SEA
DRIVEN AND TOSSED BY THE WIND.
00:49:28.13\00:49:31.47
FOR LET NO MAN SUPPOSE THAT
HE'LL RECEIVE ANYTHING FROM THE
00:49:31.50\00:49:34.34
LORD." SO ONE OF
THE WAYS WE ESCAPE
00:49:34.37\00:49:36.97
FROM THE WORLD'S
WAYS IS WE READ THE WORD.
00:49:37.01\00:49:39.97
THE OTHER ONE IS PRAYER.
THESE ARE JUST SOME OF THE MOST
00:49:40.01\00:49:43.55
IMPORTANT ASPECTS TO
SUCCESS IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE.
00:49:43.58\00:49:48.32
BUT YOU CAN'T JUST PRAY AND
SAY 'LORD I WANT TO BELIEVE.'
00:49:48.35\00:49:51.92
YOU DO NEED TO ASK IN FAITH.
JAMES ALSO SAYS, IN THE SAME
00:49:51.95\00:49:55.12
BOOK, 'YOU ASK AND YOU DO NOT
RECEIVE BECAUSE YOU ASK AMISS
00:49:55.16\00:49:59.53
THAT YOU MAY SPEND IT ON YOUR
PLEASURES.' SO ARE THERE THOSE
00:49:59.56\00:50:02.50
WHO ASK AND MAYBE THEY THINK
THEY'RE ASKING IN FAITH AND
00:50:02.53\00:50:05.03
THEY STILL DON'T GET IT? WHY?
00:50:05.07\00:50:07.54
YOU'RE ASKING
FOR THE WRONG THING.
00:50:07.57\00:50:09.00
YOU'RE ASKING FOR SOMETHING THAT
CAN BE SQUANDERED SELFISHLY.
00:50:09.04\00:50:12.21
AND HE DOESN'T
PROMISE TO ANSWER THAT PRAYER.
00:50:12.24\00:50:14.31
WHAT IS ANOTHER CRITERIA TO
HAVING YOUR PRAYERS ANSWERED?
00:50:14.34\00:50:17.95
BIBLE SAYS IF I TURN AWAY
MY EAR FROM HEARING THE LAW, MY
00:50:17.98\00:50:21.45
PRAYER IS AN ABOMINATION.
SO IF THERE'S SOME AREA IN YOUR
00:50:21.48\00:50:25.05
LIFE WHERE YOU ARE LIVING
IN AN ONGOING AND DELIBERATE
00:50:25.09\00:50:27.82
DISOBEDIENCE - I'M NOT
SAYING THAT IF YOU SIN GOD WON'T
00:50:27.86\00:50:30.23
ANSWER YOUR PRAYERS. I'M
SAYING IF YOU'RE LIVING IN
00:50:30.26\00:50:32.16
KNOWN REBELLION TO GOD'S WILL,
AND THEN YOU'RE PRAYING AND
00:50:32.19\00:50:35.90
YOU'RE GIVING GOD
YOUR SHOPPING LIST.
00:50:35.93\00:50:39.30
IF YOU TURN AWAY YOUR EAR FROM
HEARING THE LAW YOUR PRAYER IS
00:50:39.33\00:50:41.90
AN ABOMINATION. THE
BIBLE ALSO SAYS 'IF I REGARD
00:50:41.94\00:50:44.51
INIQUITY IN MY
HEART HE WILL NOT HEAR ME.
00:50:44.54\00:50:48.11
IF YOUR HEART IS FILLED
WITH EVIL - WHAT ABOUT FORGIVING
00:50:48.14\00:50:52.45
OTHERS? IS THAT A CRITERIA?
00:50:52.48\00:50:54.95
SO WHEN YOU PRAY IN
JESUS' NAME WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
00:50:54.98\00:50:58.55
IS THAT LIKE JUST PUTTING
THE PERIOD ON THE END OF YOUR
00:50:58.59\00:51:00.62
PRAYER? YOU'VE
GOT TO ALWAYS SAY, 'IN
00:51:00.66\00:51:02.66
JESUS' NAME' AND THAT'S
SORT OF, LIKE, YOU KNOW, THAT
00:51:02.69\00:51:04.99
SEALS YOUR PRAYER?
IT'S THE MAGIC WORD AT
00:51:05.03\00:51:08.63
THE END OF YOUR PRAYER.
WHEN IT MEANS PRAYING IN JESUS'
00:51:08.66\00:51:12.53
NAME THAT MEANS
PRAYING IN JESUS' SPIRIT.
00:51:12.57\00:51:15.60
DO YOU HAVE
FORGIVENESS IN YOUR HEART?
00:51:15.64\00:51:17.24
DO YOU HAVE THE FAITH
OF CHRIST? ARE YOU ASKING
00:51:17.27\00:51:19.77
TRUSTING IN HIS MERITS?
AND SO IT'S THESE KIND OF
00:51:19.81\00:51:23.38
PRAYERS THAT HELP US ESCAPE.
ALRIGHT, LAST SECTION HERE THAT
00:51:23.41\00:51:27.25
WE'RE GOING TO PROBABLY HAVE
TIME FOR IS A LIFE OF WISDOM .
00:51:27.28\00:51:30.19
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ A VERSE
FOR ME - PROVERBS 3:13 AND 14 -
00:51:30.22\00:51:34.06
OKAY, MANJEET I'LL GET
TO YOU IN JUST A MOMENT.
00:51:34.09\00:51:36.06
FIRST I'M GOING TO READ PSALM
111, VERSE 10, "FOR THE FEAR OF
00:51:36.09\00:51:41.03
THE LORD IS THE
BEGINNING OF WISDOM.
00:51:41.06\00:51:44.03
A GOOD UNDERSTANDING HAVE ALL
THEY THAT DO HIS COMMANDMENTS."
00:51:44.07\00:51:47.44
YOU NEED WISDOM TO KNOW HOW
TO BALANCE YOUR SPIRITUAL NEEDS
00:51:47.47\00:51:52.24
WITH THE
PRACTICAL NEEDS OF LIFE.
00:51:52.27\00:51:54.58
BUT THE SPIRITUAL
NEEDS TO BE THE PRIORITY.
00:51:54.61\00:51:57.31
AND IT SAYS OBEYING HIS
COMMANDMENTS IS THE BEGINNING OF
00:51:57.35\00:52:00.98
WISDOM. GO AHEAD, READ
FOR US PROVERBS 3:13 AND 14.
00:52:01.02\00:52:04.69
>>PROVERBS 3:13 AND 14, "HAPPY
IS THE MAN WHO FINDS WISDOM AND
00:52:04.72\00:52:11.26
THE MAN WHO GAINS UNDERSTANDING
FOR HIS PROFITS ARE BETTER THAN
00:52:11.29\00:52:17.77
THE PROFIT OF SILVER AND
HIS GAIN THEN FINE GOLD."
00:52:17.80\00:52:23.27
>>ANYONE OUT THERE
WANT MORE GOLD AND SILVER.
00:52:23.30\00:52:27.41
WHAT DOES SOLOMON
SAY? DID SOLOMON HAVE A LOT
00:52:27.44\00:52:29.08
OF GOLD AND SILVER?
SOLOMON HAD ONE OF THE BIGGEST
00:52:29.11\00:52:32.35
INHERITANCES OF ANY PRINCE
THAT CAME INTO THE THRONE.
00:52:32.38\00:52:36.85
DAVID WAS AT THE ZENITH OF HIS
CONQUEST JUST BEFORE HE DIED.
00:52:36.89\00:52:41.12
AND YOU START READING THE LAST
FEW CHAPTERS THERE IN CHRONICLES
00:52:41.16\00:52:44.39
AND IT TELLS YOU ABOUT ALL THE
WEALTH THAT DAVID GOT FROM THE
00:52:44.43\00:52:47.30
EDOMITES, FROM THE MOABITES,
FROM THE AMMONITES, FROM THE
00:52:47.30\00:52:51.53
SYRIANS. TRADE WAS
COMING IN FROM EGYPT
00:52:51.57\00:52:55.00
AND, BASICALLY - HAVE YOU EVER
BEEN - YOU EVER DRIVEN ACROSS
00:52:55.04\00:52:59.24
A TOLL BRIDGE LIKE AROUND
SAN FRANCISCO - THE BAY BRIDGE -
00:52:59.27\00:53:02.88
AND YOU SEE THAT RIVER OF
CARS? FIVE DOLLARS A CAR -
00:53:02.91\00:53:07.32
IT'S A RIVER OF MONEY.
KAREN AND I WERE WATCHING
00:53:07.35\00:53:11.12
SOMETHING ON THE
PANAMA CANAL THIS WEEK.
00:53:11.15\00:53:13.39
YOU KNOW WHEN ONE OF THOSE
SHIPPING CONTAINERS GOES THROUGH
00:53:13.42\00:53:16.09
THE PANAMA CANAL, IT'S LIKE A
NINE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR FEE
00:53:16.12\00:53:20.13
AND THERE'S A ONE AFTER ANOTHER
AND THEN YOU LOOK AT THE TALL
00:53:20.16\00:53:24.20
SKYSCRAPERS IN PANAMA
YOU KNOW HOW THEY GOT THERE.
00:53:24.23\00:53:27.30
JUST A RIVER OF MONEY.
ISRAEL HAD A RIVER OF MONEY
00:53:27.34\00:53:30.74
COMING IN WHEN SOLOMON BECAME
KING BECAUSE ALL THE TARIFFS TO
00:53:30.77\00:53:35.24
PASS THROUGH THAT LAND
FOR THE TRADE ROUTE, THEY
00:53:35.28\00:53:37.68
WERE ON THE BRIDGE.
ISRAEL OWNED THE BRIDGE BETWEEN
00:53:37.71\00:53:42.12
ASIA AND AFRICA AND
EUROPE - MIDDLE EAST.
00:53:42.15\00:53:47.32
HE HAD A RIVER OF MONEY.
THE BIBLE SAYS THE SILVER WAS
00:53:47.36\00:53:50.96
COUNTED FOR NOTHING EVERYTHING
WAS MADE OF GOLD DURING
00:53:50.99\00:53:54.56
THE TIME OF SOLOMON. AND
YOU KNOW WHAT SOLOMON SAID?
00:53:54.60\00:53:57.10
'WISDOM IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN
ALL OF THAT.' WISDOM IS THE MOST
00:53:57.13\00:54:02.17
IMPORTANT THING. SO
PRAY FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT TO
00:54:02.20\00:54:04.44
GIVE YOU THE GIFT OF WISDOM.
AND I'M GOING TO JUST READ THE
00:54:04.47\00:54:10.68
LAST SECTION
HERE, THE HOLY SPIRIT.
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CHRIST SAID, 'NO ONE CAN COME TO
ME UNLESS THE FATHER WHO SENT ME
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DRAWS HIM AND I'LL RAISE HIM UP
THE LAST DAY.' THE HOLY SPIRIT
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MUST DRAW US. WE
NEED TO HAVE THE SPIRIT
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LEADING US IF WE'RE GOING
TO ESCAPE THE WORLD'S WAYS.
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1 JOHN 2:16 AND 17, "FOR ALL
THAT'S IN THE WORLD THE LUST OF
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THE FLESH AND THE LUST OF THE
EYES AND THE PRIDE OF LIFE, IT'S
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NOT OF THE FATHER BUT THE WORLD,
AND THE WORLD IS PASSING AWAY
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AND THE LUST OF IT.
BUT HE THAT DOES THE WILL
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OF GOD WILL ABIDE FOREVER."
SO WE NEED TO BE LISTENING TO
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THE SPIRIT GUIDING US AWAY
FROM THE THINGS OF THE WORLD.
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CHRIST SAID JOHN 16 13,
"HOWEVER, WHEN HE" - HOLY
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SPIRIT'S NOT AN IT, HE IS A HE -
"FOR WHEN HE THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH
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HAS COME HE WILL
GUIDE YOU INTO ALL TRUTH.
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HE WILL NOT SPEAK ON HIS OWN
AUTHORITY BUT WHATEVER HE HEARS
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HE WILL SPEAK AND HE
WILL TELL YOU THINGS TO COME."
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I JUST LIKE TO EMPHASIZE THAT
BECAUSE THERE'S SOME PEOPLE THAT
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STILL INSIST THE HOLY SPIRIT
IS JUST AN IMPERSONAL FORCE.
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IT'S THE ELECTRICITY
GOD USES OR SOMETHING.
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JESUS MADE IT PRETTY
CLEAR THE HOLY SPIRIT IS A HE.
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HE IS THE THIRD
PERSON OF THE GODHEAD.
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BUT HE WILL GUIDE
YOU. HE TEACHES YOU.
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HE SHOWS YOU THINGS TO COME.
WELL I THINK WE LEARNED SOME
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PROFITABLE THINGS ABOUT
HOW TO ESCAPE THE WORLD'S WAYS.
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WANT TO THANK THOSE OF YOU WHO
JOINED US AND REMIND YOU JUST IN
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TOGETHER AGAIN. THANK YOU.
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>>TIME. ALL THAT IS AND ALL THAT
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WITHIN THIS
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BUT WHAT IF THERE WAS A POWERFUL
BEING WHO IS UNBOUND BY THE
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CONSTRAINTS OF TIME?
A BEING WITH ABSOLUTE
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