Jesus said: "If you love
Me, keep my commandments. "
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Now people all over the
world are turning back to God's
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eternal moral law, claiming
His promise to write them
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in our hearts and our
minds. Live from the DC Armory
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in our nation's
capital, 3ABN presents
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The 10 Commandments Weekend.
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How many of you like music?
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Alright, somebody
didn't raise their hand.
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How many of you like good music?
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Oh, now every hand went up.
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Okay, I don't know how it
gets much better than this,
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but we have Angela Bryant-Brown
with us, and she's going to be
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accompanied by Reginald
Reid and she's going to be doing
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a beautiful medley
song "Salvation Medley".
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"What are those
things" they say?
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"Those horrible
things," they say.
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They say "You're not real,"
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don't understand what I feel,
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how do I let them know
to me the love You showed.
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They say that You're just a man,
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You're love they
can't comprehend,
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why You died on a
tree to set sinners free,
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how do I let them know,
to me the love You showed?
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When You wash my sins away,
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that's why I
praise You everyday,
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even before the world
began, You had a plan.
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You looked through
time and saw me there,
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You saw the pain
that I would bear,
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even before I had a name,
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Jesus, You washed my sins away.
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Yes, even before I had a name,
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Jesus, You washed
all of my sins away.
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There is a
fountain filled with blood
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drawn from Emmanuel's veins
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and sinners that
plunge their hope beneath,
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beneath that crimson flood,
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they lose all, all
of their guilty stains.
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Oh, yes, Hallelujah.
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We lose all of
our guilty stains,
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oh yes we do,
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I think I lose all,
all of our guilty stains.
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And sinners,
sinners like you and me,
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that go beneath,
beneath that crimson flood,
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we lose all, all
of our guilty stains.
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That's why I'd rather
have Jesus than silver or gold.
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Yes, I'd rather be His
than have riches untold.
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Yes, I'd rather have
Jesus than houses or land.
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Yes, I'd rather be led by
His nail, His nail pierced hands
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than to be a
queen of a vast domain,
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or to be held in
sin's dread sway,
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I'd rather have
Jesus than anything
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this old world affords today,
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than to be a
Queen of a vast domain,
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or to be held in
sin's dread sway,
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I'd rather have
Jesus than anything
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this old world affords today,
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Oh, yes, this sin
sick world affords today.
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I'd rather have Jesus.
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[Audience Claps and says Amen].
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Amen. Thank you
Angela, thank you Reginald.
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How many would
rather have Jesus today?
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Amen, praise the Lord.
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Our next speaker is
brother Jay Gallimore,
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and Pastor Gallimore is
the President of the Michigan
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Conference, and I've
known Jay a number of years:
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he and his brother,
Steve, do programs for 3ABN.
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Jay's a man who loves
Jesus with all of his heart,
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all of his soul, and I
praise God for leadership,
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and a church
leadership with men like Jay
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and Steve Gallimore, because
these men have given their all
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for Jesus, they show that
they would rather have Jesus
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than anything in this world.
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And we're going to be
starting with commandment Nr. 1.
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and we're going to be
working our way between tonight
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and tomorrow, commandment
Nr. 1 all the way through
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to commandment Nr. 10.
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So it's a privilege and
an honor to introduce to you
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tonight, Pastor Jay Gallimore.
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Jay, God bless you,
you know that we love you,
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- and we're praying for
you. - Thank you so much.
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What a wonderful work 3ABN
is doing all around the world
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and North America, and
so many wonderful places.
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And people are
hearing that message,
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that great message of
God's law has got to be given
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right at the end of
time, and certainly,
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we are approaching the
end of time and I praise God
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for what He's doing.
Tonight we're going to be
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talking about that
very first commandment,
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you have your Bibles with you,
I invite you to take your Bibles
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and turn with me, and
while you're turning there,
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let me give you that
setting. First of all,
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you have Israel going to
Egypt, becomes a great nation.
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There's probably 2
million people. 600,000 men,
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putting the women,
and the children, etc,
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you've probably got 2 million
people, plus all their animals,
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their herds, their flocks,
getting ready to leave Egypt,
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wanting to leave Egypt,
but waiting on the permission
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of the king, and finally,
God has to be the man's arm
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up behind his back
with 10 mighty plagues
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that destroys the land of Egypt.
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They come to that
awful horror at the end
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where every first born child
is destroyed by the destroying
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angel, God's
people are protected.
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Out they go, out of
Egypt. The Egyptians are saying
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"we're glad you're going.
Please go, lest we're all dead.
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" But then the king gathers his
mind, along with his priests,
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and they said
"Why'd you do that?"
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"That was probably
some natural phenomenon. "
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Can you believe how
stubborn sin makes people?
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Stubborn!
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He gets a whole Egyptian
army, goes to chase them.
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The cloud comes down between
them, God opens the Red Sea,
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Israel walks through on
dry land, and then they watch
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from the other side those
long knives that would have
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cut them and their
families to pieces,
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they end up being
drowned in the Red Sea.
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A few days later they
find themselves in front of
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Mt. Horeb, in
front of Mt. Sinai.
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There's not words
enough in the English language,
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perhaps any language, to
describe that awesome scene,
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we use the word
"awesome" so loosely today,
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but that grand and marvelous
scene, where God Himself,
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the Creator of the universe,
comes down on that mountain
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and begins to speak to
His own people, His own law,
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His own covenant law. Exodus 20,
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looking at verse 2 and 3.
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I want to quote the whole verse:
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[text on screen]
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When God met Moses at
the burning bush and He says
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"Moses, I want you to go
take My people out of Egypt. "
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Moses said "What will I
tell them when they ask me"
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"who sent me?"
And the Lord said:
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"I am the God of
Abraham, the God of Isaac,"
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"and the God of
Jacob," but He says,
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"You tell them that 'I Am
that I Am' has sent you. "
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And then you hear the
Messiah as He's challenged
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by the religious leaders
of His day: Where did You
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get that authority?
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And He responded by
saying "Before Abraham was,"
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"I am. "
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When you see in caps, at least
in my version of scripture,
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"LORD", that is "Yahweh
ways, we say it in modern terms,
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meaning "The One who is. "
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I kind of like the
old term "Jehovah",
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which means "The One
who was, The One who is,"
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"and the One who shall be. "
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The truth is that it's not that
God is unwilling to share us,
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the truth is
there are no other gods.
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He can only tell us the truth.
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He is the only one. Period.
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Somebody might say,
"Where did all these other gods"
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"come from?"
Because man invented them.
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Or supernatural beings that
are not gods, have deceived us.
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But those other gods
that were invented by man,
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they don't exist,
they're like superman,
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they're still in the DVD.
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They're not in reality.
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But God is in reality.
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The God of Abraham, the God
of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
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I don't want to offend
anybody, but I want to tell you
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that when God
chose to reveal Himself,
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He revealed Himself to
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
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and to their children.
He didn't reveal Himself
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in Africa, not that God
wasn't at work in Africa,
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He didn't reveal Himself in
Europe, He's at work in Europe,
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He didn't reveal Himself in
Asia, God is at work in Asia,
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but He revealed
Himself to the Jewish people,
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and to the fathers
of the Jewish people.
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The giving of the 10
commandments, however,
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was not just for
the Jewish people alone.
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The giving of the 10
commandments was for everybody,
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they were to be God's
ambassadors, and to share that
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with the world.
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The apostle Paul says
in Romans 3 that they were
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especially blessed because
they had the oracles of God.
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So, you see, the Jewish
people are like a symbol
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of the whole world,
they're a symbol of all of us.
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Their history is our history,
their promises are our promises,
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their hopes are our hopes,
their failures are our failures,
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their redemption
is our redemption
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because their God is our
God, and He's the only God.
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"I am the Lord your
God who brought you... "
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So where did you
come from anyway?
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Because I came from
my mamma and my daddy,
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where did they come from?
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All your ancestors just simply
showed up like you did one day.
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They didn't bring
themselves into existence.
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There's a mighty God
who spoke us into existence,
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who designed our genes
with a language so complicated
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that it's more complicated
than the one I'm speaking.
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In fact, after all of
that money that we've spent
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on evolution, who knows
the billions of dollars,
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all the great institutions,
all the learned doctors,
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I'm not making fun of
anybody, I'm just saying this is
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just the way it is.
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All the effort to
convince the American people,
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and world-wide people:
people from the Philippines,
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all of that money that's
been spent to tell everybody
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that we have all,
somehow, made ourselves
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what we are, through
the evolutionistic process.
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Still, only 20% of the
American people believe it.
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The other 80% don't believe it.
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Do you know why? Because
they can look around them,
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they can look at a
flower, they say "I don't think"
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"that just happened. "
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They can look at the
trees, and the forests,
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they can see God's
creations and the birds flying,
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and say "I don't
think that just happened",
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and they can hold a new
born baby in their hands and say
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"I don't think that happened. "
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As they come to the conclusion
that evolution is just plain,
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no offence, foolish...
now that's the nice way
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of saying it.
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Listen, you're very heartbeat
is in the hands of the Creator.
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"I am the Lord your God,
who brought you out of the land"
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"of Egypt. "
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What are we doing in Egypt?
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I thought we were supposed
to be in the Garden of Eden,
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well Egypt is Sin City.
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And what is sin?
How did we get there?
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The scripture teaches us
that sin is the transgression
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of the law, we'll
talk about that later.
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We can hear the cry of
Egypt, not of ignorance,
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but of defiance:
"Who is the Lord,"
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"that I should obey
him?" their pharaoh cried out.
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Let me tell you, that's
the cry of our world today.
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Everybody wants to
invent their own gods,
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have their own
gods, do their own thing.
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You can't do your own thing
and have the God as your God,
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you have to do His
thing if He's your God.
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That's the cry of our
world: "We have our own gods,"
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"thank you. We have
the lusts of the flesh. "
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Our world is filled with
gluttony and sexual perversion,
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we have the lusts of the eyes,
our TV's, our living rooms,
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are filled with electronics
gadgetry, the video games,
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our movies, we have
the boastful pride of life,
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we flaunt our
education, we flaunt our money,
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and we are the
"look at me" generation.
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I'm telling you, the
"look at me" generation
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may be the last
generation on planet Earth.
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The problem with Egypt is
that while it has its onions
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and its watermelons and
other things, it's also got
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a mean side.
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Egypt is filled with violence
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and hearts that
are evil, continually.
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It's filled with funeral
homes and graveyards and jails,
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"I am the Lord your
God, who brought you"
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"out of the land of Egypt, and
out of the house of bondage. "
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Listen, before you can
obey, you've got to be redeemed
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from slavery.
Redemption has to come first,
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because we've got a
problem: we're not able to obey
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on our own, that's why God
delivered Israel from Egypt,
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because under the power
of Pharaoh, they had no power
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to obey Him, so
He took them out;
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So the Lord, God, has to take
us out, and create a new heart
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in us.
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We were created to be
free, but we aught to call sin
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what it is: it is
slavery, it's mean, it's nasty,
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you might think you're in charge
of yourself, but the truth is
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that if you're a sinner,
you're enslaved to those sins.
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Sin is our willful violation
of God's law, and it always
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makes slaves out of us.
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1 John 3:4 says, in these
short words, easy to understand,
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not hard to
misunderstand: [text on screen].
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What is lawlessness? It's
rebellion against God's law.
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I'm happy to see Christian
churches all across America
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saying "it's
about time we talked"
00:19:44.21\00:19:45.55
"about the 10 commandments. "
00:19:45.58\00:19:48.39
Some of us have been
saying that for a long time.
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"We have a problem,
however," as Martin Luther,
00:19:54.07\00:19:56.59
the great reformer said,
"we breathe the very vapors"
00:19:56.63\00:19:59.68
"of sin," and people have
listened to the Beatitudes
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of Jesus, and heard that
first Beatitudes that says
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"Blessed are the poor
in spirit", understand what
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I'm going to say next, because
when you are poor in spirit
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you understand that
you have poverty of soul,
00:20:09.99\00:20:13.05
and you understand that
you can't save yourself,
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you understand that somehow,
someway, you've got to have
00:20:16.11\00:20:19.44
a savior.
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Listen, the result of
Egyptian rebellion was to bring
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on themselves 10
suffering plagues,
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and that's what sin
has done to the rest of us;
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sin plagues us
with its suffering.
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Sometimes you want to cry
out, you hear the sirens go down
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the road, as you attend
the funerals, as you see people
00:20:46.58\00:20:49.48
struck down with disease
and difficulty, and you see all
00:20:49.52\00:20:52.39
the problems and the heartaches,
00:20:52.42\00:20:54.97
you want to cry out, you say:
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"Oh Lord, God, somebody help
us, somebody take these plagues"
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"away from us. "
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Every time that God delivered
Pharaoh from one of those
00:21:03.02\00:21:06.10
plagues, the scripture
says that he hardened his heart.
00:21:06.13\00:21:09.22
We need a new heart.
00:21:13.34\00:21:15.61
You know this from Isaiah
53, Jesus was bruised for our
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transgressions,
wounded for our iniquities,
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and the chastisement
of our peace was upon Him,
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and I love this next part best,
with His stripes we are healed.
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He doesn't just
forgive our sins, He heals us
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from the awful iniquities.
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"I am the Lord your God, who
brought you out of the house"
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"of Egypt, out of
the house of bondage. "
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"Thou shalt not... "
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We don't like "no". I've
had people on [Call time?]
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say "can't you put
that in a positive way?"
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You ever had
anybody say that to you?
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"Can't get that a
little more positive?"
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"That's good, that's okay",
but God used "no" for a reason.
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"No" is a wonderful word
when you're about ready to put
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your hand on a hot stove.
00:22:10.57\00:22:12.96
My little boy was 2 years old,
we lived in Washington state.
00:22:13.90\00:22:16.99
We heated our house with a
wood stove most of the winter,
00:22:19.55\00:22:21.88
and thankfully I got one
of those with a tile on it.
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2 years old, you
know, 2's are funny times.
00:22:27.64\00:22:30.98
One day I say he was
about ready to put his hand
00:22:32.78\00:22:34.25
on that stove, now it wouldn't
take the skin off of you
00:22:34.29\00:22:36.25
because it had the
tile, but it was still hot.
00:22:36.28\00:22:39.20
I said "Son, No! Don't
put your hand on that. "
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"No. Don't! No!"
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I never will forget, he
looked me straight in the eye,
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just like this.
[audience laughs]
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Listen, the apostle Paul
says the commandments are life.
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They are not arbitrary,
you disobey them, you die.
00:23:10.12\00:23:15.62
The commandments are
a necessity for life,
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they're a
boundary. God said "No!"
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because if you go over the
boundary, you're going to hit
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a hot stove. God said "No!"
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because if you go over the
boundary, you're going over
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a cliff.
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God said "No!"
because if you go over that,
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you're going to
find destruction.
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God knew what He was
doing when He said no.
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No is not fuzzy.
No is not wishy washy.
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No tells you what to expect.
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It's hard to
misunderstand "No!".
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And no is not made.
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You trust who you
obey. You trust who you love,
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and then you obey who you trust.
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Do you believe
that? Some of you do,
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some of you question me.
00:24:14.38\00:24:16.03
Let me give you an illustration:
00:24:16.49\00:24:18.45
how many are comfortable
in the building tonight,
00:24:19.63\00:24:21.37
we're comfortable, sitting
on nice chairs, nobody's worried
00:24:21.41\00:24:23.78
about too much, but
let me ask you something:
00:24:23.81\00:24:25.96
if this building
begins to shake, what are you
00:24:25.99\00:24:28.11
going to do?
00:24:28.14\00:24:29.50
I'll be right behind
you. [audience laughs]
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Right behind you.
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Why?
00:24:34.74\00:24:35.95
Because the trust you had
in this building evaporated,
00:24:35.99\00:24:40.16
and your behavior
followed your trust.
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You act on what you
believe, and who you believe in.
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You see, redemption
gives birth to trust,
00:24:49.02\00:24:52.19
trust gives birth to
obedience, and obedience
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gives birth to victory over sin.
00:24:55.39\00:24:59.69
Now that's not something we
want to talk about nowadays.
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We're in the "grace
generation". I believe in grace,
00:25:03.18\00:25:06.59
thank God for grace, I wouldn't
be here tonight if it were not
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for the grace of God,
and neither would you be,
00:25:09.27\00:25:11.67
but we've come into a generation
where the world has interpreted
00:25:13.96\00:25:16.26
grace as a license
to misbehave and to sin
00:25:16.29\00:25:20.46
against God's holy law.
00:25:20.49\00:25:22.42
I won't name the church,
but it's a great, mega church,
00:25:23.18\00:25:26.08
you probably recognize
it, pastor's well known,
00:25:26.11\00:25:28.80
and I'm sure, well meaning,
but they did a survey about his
00:25:29.03\00:25:32.92
church members, and came to find
out that his church members'
00:25:32.95\00:25:36.81
behavior on the last 6
part of the 10 commandments
00:25:36.84\00:25:40.11
was not much different
than the world around them.
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I can tell you as a pastor,
if you're sitting underneath
00:25:43.97\00:25:47.34
my preaching and it
doesn't change your life,
00:25:47.37\00:25:50.22
there's something wrong with
the preacher and the preaching.
00:25:50.26\00:25:53.47
But he got up at the
worship service and said:
00:25:57.72\00:26:03.06
"Yeah, about the survey",
I'm not quoting verbatim,
00:26:04.05\00:26:07.47
my words, something
close, "You know, let's stick"
00:26:07.51\00:26:10.86
"our chests out a little bit.
Obviously we're sinners like"
00:26:10.90\00:26:14.30
"everybody else, and
we're in need of God's grace. "
00:26:14.33\00:26:18.41
Listen, God's grace was
never meant to be a ticket
00:26:18.45\00:26:22.50
for licentiousness.
Our problem in the churches
00:26:22.70\00:26:27.24
today is not
legalism, it's licentiousness.
00:26:27.28\00:26:31.79
Somebody should have
said amen. [audience] Amen.
00:26:31.98\00:26:34.50
Because there's not going
to be any change until people
00:26:34.54\00:26:38.17
understand that the grace of
God is not to lead us in sin,
00:26:38.21\00:26:41.81
it is to deliver us from sin,
00:26:41.84\00:26:44.70
and to make us new creatures.
00:26:44.99\00:26:47.82
So obedience gives
birth, based on God's grace,
00:26:49.22\00:26:52.79
gives birth to victory over sin,
00:26:52.82\00:26:55.29
a life of peace and
great joy in living.
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"Thou shalt have no
other gods before Me".
00:27:00.10\00:27:04.81
I hope you don't misunderstand
me, but your highest affections
00:27:10.31\00:27:15.87
belong to God, and
that's what that means.
00:27:16.53\00:27:19.43
I want to tell you, I love
my wife, she's precious to me,
00:27:20.31\00:27:23.52
I love my children,
they're precious to me,
00:27:23.55\00:27:25.01
I have a lot of other
people I love, very close,
00:27:25.05\00:27:27.71
very dear,
00:27:27.74\00:27:29.60
but my wife's security in my
love, and my children's security
00:27:31.16\00:27:34.33
in my love is because I love
the Lord more than I love them.
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Maybe you don't want to think
about that, maybe you don't,
00:27:39.15\00:27:40.92
but you've got to think about
"thou shalt have no other gods"
00:27:40.96\00:27:42.70
"before you. "
00:27:42.73\00:27:44.32
God deserves our highest
affections, and those affections
00:27:46.79\00:27:51.31
belong to Him because
we're all His children first.
00:27:51.34\00:27:55.89
The greatest commandment, Jesus
said, is to "love the Lord"
00:27:56.09\00:27:58.64
"your God, with all
your heart, all your soul,"
00:27:58.67\00:28:01.64
"and all your might. "
The secret of Christian living
00:28:01.68\00:28:05.96
is to practice this commandment,
the victory of Jesus
00:28:06.00\00:28:10.25
over sin and the
devil, and everything else,
00:28:10.28\00:28:13.67
was because He
practiced this commandment.
00:28:13.71\00:28:17.07
I want you to take your
Bibles and turn to Acts 2:23.
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We're going to the apostle,
Peter, he's preaching on the day
00:28:22.71\00:28:24.65
of Pentecost under the
inspiration of the Holy Spirit,
00:28:24.68\00:28:27.36
at the end of the day
3000 people are converted.
00:28:27.39\00:28:30.69
I don't have time to
get into all of this,
00:28:30.72\00:28:32.29
but the previous verse simply
says that Jesus had performed
00:28:32.33\00:28:35.86
all these miracles, and
God had given all these signs
00:28:35.89\00:28:37.87
and they knew who He was,
00:28:37.90\00:28:40.76
and in verse 23, him
talking about Christ Jesus,
00:28:41.55\00:28:45.69
[text on screen].
00:28:45.72\00:28:47.66
In other words, Jesus had
so submitted Himself to His
00:28:50.48\00:28:54.36
Father's will, that
Jesus did whatever His Father
00:28:54.39\00:28:58.24
told Him to do. It
was His father who sent
00:28:58.27\00:29:01.01
Him to Calvary's
cross. Now Jesus went there
00:29:01.04\00:29:03.78
not because He wanted
to, He had to go there
00:29:03.82\00:29:06.49
because He had to, the Father
reserved 12 legions of angels
00:29:06.53\00:29:09.74
to rescue Him if He needed to,
00:29:09.77\00:29:11.70
but He went there
with the foreknowledge
00:29:14.39\00:29:16.98
and the predetermined
purpose of God Himself,
00:29:17.02\00:29:19.67
and then the next
part of that says:
00:29:19.70\00:29:22.75
"You, having taken by lawless
hands", now Jesus didn't make
00:29:22.79\00:29:27.30
them lawless, God
didn't make them lawless,
00:29:27.33\00:29:29.46
they became lawless
because it was their choice
00:29:29.49\00:29:31.59
to become lawless.
00:29:31.62\00:29:33.52
"But you have taken
Him by lawless hands"
00:29:38.82\00:29:40.71
"and crucified
and put to death. "
00:29:40.74\00:29:43.26
Listen, at Calvary's
cross love took hold of sin,
00:29:43.30\00:29:48.42
sin took hold of love, and
there was a mortal struggle.
00:29:49.66\00:29:54.89
A struggle where one
must win and one must lose,
00:29:55.04\00:29:58.82
and as you watch that struggle
and you hear the cry of Jesus,
00:29:58.86\00:30:01.81
"My God, My God, why
have you forsaken Me?"
00:30:01.84\00:30:05.48
When you hear that cry and Jesus
sinks down below the cold waters
00:30:05.52\00:30:10.40
of death, the question
is: "Will He come back?"
00:30:10.70\00:30:16.05
"Who wins?", the
fate of the human race
00:30:16.08\00:30:19.52
held on that question.
00:30:19.78\00:30:22.48
But the apostle
Peter, doesn't stop there,
00:30:24.71\00:30:27.77
he goes to
verse 24, and he says:
00:30:28.10\00:30:31.41
[text on screen]
00:30:31.44\00:30:33.14
Hallelujah for Sunday morning,
there was a resurrection.
00:30:34.26\00:30:39.52
So when Jesus came up, it
spelled the death knell of sin,
00:30:39.83\00:30:43.40
sinners, and the
devil and his evil angels.
00:30:43.43\00:30:47.37
This is a very
fascinating text, it says:
00:30:47.95\00:30:50.45
[continues to
read text on screen].
00:30:50.48\00:30:52.95
In other words it says
that it was impossible for Jesus
00:30:56.77\00:30:59.76
to be held in the grave. Why?
00:30:59.79\00:31:03.55
Because the Bible tells us
that the wages of sin is death,
00:31:05.90\00:31:11.07
so if He's not a
sinner, you can't hold Him.
00:31:11.10\00:31:16.36
The law of the universe will
not let you hold a righteous
00:31:17.30\00:31:20.84
person in the grave.
00:31:20.87\00:31:23.47
So, Jesus came up because He
was perfect in His childhood,
00:31:23.99\00:31:28.17
He was perfect in His youth,
and He was perfect in adulthood.
00:31:28.20\00:31:32.35
What gave Him that power?
How was it that Jesus could
00:31:35.15\00:31:38.95
resist all of this,
and live that kind of life?
00:31:38.98\00:31:42.25
The apostle Peter
goes on in Acts 2,
00:31:42.28\00:31:48.26
and we hear him quote
from Psalms 16, but he's really
00:31:48.90\00:31:53.46
quoting the thoughts and
the statements of Jesus Himself:
00:31:53.49\00:31:58.02
[text on screen].
00:31:58.05\00:32:00.58
The Old Testament
says: "I set the Lord",
00:32:01.66\00:32:04.41
[continues to
read text on screen].
00:32:04.44\00:32:06.52
It was the practicing
of the first commandment,
00:32:13.02\00:32:14.72
"Thou shalt have no
other gods before Me",
00:32:14.75\00:32:16.59
Jesus says "I set the
Lord always before my face. "
00:32:16.63\00:32:22.44
That was the secret of
His great power over evil.
00:32:22.48\00:32:28.26
And it gave Him power over 2
great temptations that stalked
00:32:30.28\00:32:34.60
the human race. You
see, because God did not
00:32:34.63\00:32:37.68
create us as
robots, He created us free,
00:32:37.71\00:32:40.73
aren't you glad for that?
Aren't you glad that when you
00:32:40.76\00:32:42.85
hold your baby on your
laps and the baby says:
00:32:42.88\00:32:44.64
"I love you daddy", aren't you
glad it's not a tape recorder?
00:32:44.68\00:32:48.51
He creates with the freedom
of will, but the freedom of will
00:32:50.29\00:32:52.46
automatically
sets up a temptation.
00:32:52.49\00:32:54.43
You see, Lucifer was created
with the same freedom of will
00:32:54.47\00:32:56.66
and the angels in heaven, and it
was God's plan that of their own
00:32:56.70\00:33:00.60
free will, they
would carry out His will,
00:33:00.63\00:33:03.81
God doesn't want forced
service, He wants us to give
00:33:03.85\00:33:06.37
Him willing service.
00:33:06.40\00:33:08.96
So, I call it the
temptation from within.
00:33:12.00\00:33:15.01
The great temptation of
Lucifer and the angels with Him
00:33:15.79\00:33:19.37
was that they decided to use
their will to do their own thing
00:33:19.86\00:33:25.67
instead of being servant
to the one who created them.
00:33:25.70\00:33:30.00
The secret of Jesus'
fulfilling the highest
00:33:31.19\00:33:34.15
possibilities lay in setting
the Lord always before His face.
00:33:34.19\00:33:39.80
Jude 6 says [text on screen]
00:33:40.20\00:33:42.88
Listen, that was not their
punishment, that was their sin.
00:33:46.42\00:33:50.43
They left the Lord and His
service, but what about Jesus,
00:33:51.25\00:33:57.35
what did Jesus chose?
00:33:57.55\00:34:00.38
If you go to Philippians
2, if you have your Bibles
00:34:00.42\00:34:02.86
turn with me
there, Philippians 2:6-8,
00:34:02.89\00:34:07.38
it's talking about
Jesus [text on screen]
00:34:10.13\00:34:13.22
He's equal with God,
but notice what He does,
00:34:19.46\00:34:22.07
"taking on the
form of a bondservant"
00:34:22.10\00:34:23.88
Satan, who stood before God,
leaves God to do his own thing.
00:34:24.19\00:34:28.99
Jesus, who is equal with
God, steps away, turns in front
00:34:29.14\00:34:32.47
of His Father, and say:
"Father, whatever Your will is,"
00:34:32.51\00:34:35.81
"I'll do it. "
Now, if you're God,
00:34:35.84\00:34:37.61
you give the
orders, you don't take them.
00:34:37.65\00:34:40.56
Jesus became a servant
00:34:41.03\00:34:43.58
and that servanthood
took Him all the way to death,
00:34:44.41\00:34:50.26
even the death of a cross.
00:34:50.45\00:34:54.01
The secret of Jesus'
success was to keep His Father,
00:34:56.99\00:35:00.64
and His Father's
purposes always before His face.
00:35:00.68\00:35:04.30
Then there's the
temptation from without.
00:35:04.33\00:35:06.59
The scripture goes on to say
in Acts 2:25 [text on screen].
00:35:08.09\00:35:12.03
Psalm 16 says: For I
shall not be moved. "
00:35:15.78\00:35:19.01
It was Adam who fell
from the temptations without,
00:35:19.05\00:35:21.72
Adam and Eve.
00:35:21.75\00:35:23.85
All the temptations of the
devil are to sway our loyalty.
00:35:24.85\00:35:28.54
I wish we could get this.
00:35:28.57\00:35:30.81
He wants us to
switch our loyalty from God
00:35:31.50\00:35:34.38
to himself, but when you look
at Jesus: not the wilderness,
00:35:34.42\00:35:39.80
not flattery, not
power, not poverty, not wealth,
00:35:39.83\00:35:43.36
not argument, not popularity,
not betrayal, not pain,
00:35:43.39\00:35:46.89
not death could move
Christ from His loyalty
00:35:46.92\00:35:50.06
to His heavenly Father,
00:35:50.09\00:35:52.57
and the result was
victory over death itself.
00:35:53.29\00:35:59.16
That's why you hear
Jesus saying: [text on screen].
00:35:59.35\00:36:02.19
Each victory created the
opportunity for another victory.
00:36:04.02\00:36:07.20
"You will not leave My
soul in Hades," Jesus said,
00:36:07.23\00:36:10.61
"nor allow Your holy
One to see corruption. "
00:36:10.64\00:36:14.25
In the book of Revelation, Jesus
declares to the human race,
00:36:17.37\00:36:22.18
He says: "Do not be
afraid. " Can you imagine saying
00:36:22.70\00:36:24.92
that to a bunch of people who
are facing death all the time,
00:36:24.96\00:36:28.29
living in this kind of a world,
can you imagine Jesus saying
00:36:28.79\00:36:31.93
"don't be afraid",
but what He says is wise,
00:36:31.96\00:36:35.11
we should not be afraid.
00:36:35.14\00:36:37.19
He says: "don't be afraid. "
00:36:37.22\00:36:39.24
He says: "I have the keys. I was
dead, and I'm alive forevermore"
00:36:40.21\00:36:44.88
"and I have the keys to
the grave and to death. "
00:36:44.91\00:36:50.93
The devil may lock us up
and want to keep us there,
00:36:52.09\00:36:54.95
but we have a Saviour
who has the combination.
00:36:54.98\00:36:59.42
Listen, the secret of
the Christian success,
00:37:03.17\00:37:06.74
and this is where it gets tough,
00:37:07.78\00:37:10.19
is to trust Jesus with our life.
00:37:10.76\00:37:13.93
What that means is that I
put my life under His control.
00:37:14.07\00:37:19.28
I didn't like
that concept too much.
00:37:19.31\00:37:20.93
I've talk about
surrender all my life,
00:37:20.97\00:37:22.52
but a few years ago, I had
this vividly brought before me
00:37:22.56\00:37:25.60
and I argued with God
deep down inside, I said:
00:37:25.63\00:37:28.55
"Lord, I'm struggling with this.
What I'd really like to have"
00:37:28.59\00:37:30.70
"is veto power
during intercessory prayer"
00:37:30.73\00:37:33.15
"to overturn
whatever Your will is. "
00:37:33.18\00:37:36.01
Now, I believe that
God lets things come,
00:37:40.88\00:37:42.67
and I believe in intercessory
prayer, and God is a God
00:37:42.71\00:37:44.68
of changing outcomes,
aren't you glad for that?
00:37:44.71\00:37:47.64
But there are times
when we may not understand,
00:37:48.10\00:37:51.01
but we have to go ahead
and trust that God loves us
00:37:51.05\00:37:53.93
and He's doing
what's best for us.
00:37:53.96\00:37:56.14
And that's what Romans
8:28 means when it says:
00:37:57.45\00:37:59.42
"All things work together
for good to those that love"
00:37:59.46\00:38:02.75
"the Lord, and are called
according to His purpose. "
00:38:02.79\00:38:05.53
It's what Jesus meant
when He said, and this is tough
00:38:05.56\00:38:08.19
for a lot of Christians,
"but I tell you not to resist"
00:38:08.22\00:38:10.82
"an evil person. " Why?!
00:38:10.85\00:38:13.95
Why?!
00:38:15.05\00:38:17.66
Because once you've
given your life to the Lord,
00:38:18.17\00:38:20.27
nothing can touch you
unless the Lord allows it.
00:38:20.34\00:38:24.81
You've given Him your life,
that if He allows an evil person
00:38:25.70\00:38:30.03
to do you evil.
00:38:30.06\00:38:31.91
I love this quote
from a little book called
00:38:38.28\00:38:40.37
"Thoughts from the Mount
of Blessings" by E.G. White.
00:38:40.41\00:38:44.78
It says: [text on screen]
00:38:44.81\00:38:46.60
In other words, the
nails: His Father permitted,
00:38:59.26\00:39:03.30
the whipping:
His Father permitted,
00:39:03.45\00:39:06.52
but Jesus found comfort in
the fact that they couldn't
00:39:08.98\00:39:11.43
touch Him unless
His Father permitted.
00:39:11.46\00:39:14.17
He would say to His disciples:
"Don't worry about it,"
00:39:15.30\00:39:18.42
"they can't kill Me because
My hour has not yet come. "
00:39:18.46\00:39:21.55
"He who is imbued
with the spirit of Christ,"
00:39:24.94\00:39:27.07
"abides in Christ.
" That's what it means
00:39:27.10\00:39:29.11
to abide in Christ, you put
your life under His control.
00:39:29.15\00:39:32.69
[text on screen]
00:39:32.72\00:39:35.04
Aren't you glad for that?
00:39:37.01\00:39:38.06
How many blows has the
Lord Jesus taken for each of us?
00:39:38.10\00:39:41.49
[text on screen]
00:39:42.18\00:39:44.09
"and all things
that are permitted"
00:39:55.78\00:39:58.73
"work together for good to
those that love the Lord. "
00:39:58.77\00:40:04.04
I tell you, I had a
hard time understanding this,
00:40:06.17\00:40:07.93
or at least getting a
hang on it, and I finally said
00:40:07.96\00:40:10.18
"Lord, okay, look:
anything you want with my life,"
00:40:10.22\00:40:13.13
"it's Yours. I give up
my life, I have no future. "
00:40:13.16\00:40:16.04
I do not have a future
unless the Lord gives me
00:40:17.39\00:40:19.98
a future.
00:40:20.01\00:40:21.63
I don't have tomorrow,
00:40:21.98\00:40:24.05
but I learned a
little bit the hard way,
00:40:25.46\00:40:27.72
I'm still learning.
It's a hard struggle.
00:40:27.75\00:40:29.98
I was invited to go to Australia
to do a revival series,
00:40:30.59\00:40:33.58
and I have a
wonderful secretary - Jean,
00:40:33.61\00:40:35.82
she set up the
whole thing for me.
00:40:35.85\00:40:37.58
I got on a plane,
flew from Michigan to LA.
00:40:37.62\00:40:39.58
When I got to LA we
were changing planes
00:40:39.61\00:40:41.50
and I found out that
they had cancelled my flight.
00:40:41.54\00:40:44.19
You have to understand that
I told Jean that on that long
00:40:44.23\00:40:48.09
flight, 14 hours across the
Pacific, I wanted an aisle seat.
00:40:48.13\00:40:51.96
Nothing wrong with that.
00:40:53.88\00:40:56.16
At any rate, I got
there and they said
00:40:57.84\00:40:59.56
"We cancelled your
flight Mr. Gallimore. "
00:40:59.59\00:41:01.24
I said "Okay, well alright.
Just get me an aisle seat,"
00:41:01.28\00:41:04.84
"can you do that?"
00:41:04.87\00:41:05.84
"Mr. Gallimore,
the plane is full. "
00:41:05.85\00:41:08.13
I said "Oh, okay...
well do what you can do. "
00:41:08.44\00:41:13.05
"How about a window seat?"
00:41:13.16\00:41:14.38
"Mr. Gallimore,
the plane is full. "
00:41:14.42\00:41:16.69
She finally gave
me my seat assignment
00:41:16.72\00:41:18.96
and I said "Well, where is it?"
00:41:18.99\00:41:20.85
She said "Right in the middle. "
00:41:20.95\00:41:22.86
I was nice, but she said
it with kind of a clarity,
00:41:24.09\00:41:26.56
I think that was the providence
of God, because He was
00:41:26.59\00:41:29.03
trying to teach me something.
00:41:29.06\00:41:31.95
Because when she said
"Right in the middle",
00:41:33.76\00:41:34.83
I had a vision. I had ridden
across the Atlantic in one
00:41:34.87\00:41:37.35
of those planes that
has 5 seats in the middle,
00:41:37.38\00:41:39.54
and I was in the
very, very middle.
00:41:39.57\00:41:41.64
I had not planned to
repeat the experience.
00:41:43.27\00:41:46.60
So I'm pulling my
suitcase out towards the gate,
00:41:47.14\00:41:49.80
the carnal nature's beginning
to work, you feel the steam
00:41:49.84\00:41:52.64
coming up - maybe none of you
ever have problems like that.
00:41:52.67\00:41:55.44
And I begin to get worked
up, and said "What in the world"
00:41:56.97\00:41:58.99
"is wrong with this airline?"
It's a wonderful airline,
00:41:59.02\00:42:01.01
by the way, if I
happened to mention their name,
00:42:01.04\00:42:02.22
they're a wonderful airline.
00:42:02.25\00:42:04.73
I said "What's
wrong with this airline?"
00:42:04.93\00:42:08.20
"They couldn't call me and
let me know they cancelled"
00:42:08.24\00:42:09.49
"their flight so I
could get my seat fixed?"
00:42:09.52\00:42:13.01
It's about 2 or 3 o'clock
in the morning, Michigan time,
00:42:15.38\00:42:17.98
out on the west coast,
it was very late there,
00:42:18.01\00:42:20.76
I pulled out my phone and I
said: "I'm going to call Jean,"
00:42:20.80\00:42:24.03
"leave a message on her
phone and tell her to call"
00:42:24.06\00:42:27.93
"this airline and tell
them how disappointed I am"
00:42:27.97\00:42:31.81
"that they didn't get a hold of
me and tell me they cancelled"
00:42:32.11\00:42:34.11
"my flight. "
00:42:34.14\00:42:35.97
So I flicked open the
phone, got ready to dial it
00:42:36.62\00:42:40.27
and I heard a still,
small voice, and it said:
00:42:40.31\00:42:43.93
"Jay, did you
give Me your life?"
00:42:43.96\00:42:48.92
"Yes, I did. "
00:42:49.90\00:42:51.77
"Jay, if I want you to
ride in the middle seat"
00:42:52.99\00:42:56.80
"all the way to Australia,
isn't that my business?"
00:42:56.83\00:43:00.61
"Yes, Lord, and I'm
sorry for complaining,"
00:43:04.33\00:43:09.19
"and I will happily ride in
that middle seat to Australia"
00:43:09.90\00:43:13.94
"as long as it's Your will. "
00:43:14.49\00:43:16.46
I want you to know,
instantly the sweetest peace
00:43:16.97\00:43:18.75
flooded my heart,
00:43:18.78\00:43:20.84
and I was happy.
I came on the plane,
00:43:21.26\00:43:25.45
just happy and relaxed, planning
to sit in that middle seat.
00:43:25.49\00:43:29.89
But I got on the plane and there
were only 4 seats in the middle,
00:43:30.25\00:43:31.97
wasn't that nice?
00:43:32.00\00:43:33.99
But my middle seat
was by the window side,
00:43:34.25\00:43:36.43
and there were 3 seats
and I was in the middle.
00:43:36.47\00:43:38.11
I said: "Well Lord,
that's not so bad, I'm sorry"
00:43:38.14\00:43:39.75
"for being such a complainer. "
00:43:39.78\00:43:41.93
So I sat down in my
middle seat and in little while
00:43:42.85\00:43:45.25
the plane filled up, it
was really packed it seamed.
00:43:45.29\00:43:47.66
Pretty soon the
stewardess came by and they were
00:43:48.16\00:43:52.52
getting ready to
shut the door and I said:
00:43:52.55\00:43:55.86
"There's nobody coming
to sit on this aisle seat,"
00:43:55.90\00:43:57.81
"could I sit here
if nobody comes. "
00:43:57.84\00:44:00.36
She says "Sure, why don't
you go there and sit right now"
00:44:00.40\00:44:02.99
"because we're getting
ready to shut the door"
00:44:03.02\00:44:04.53
"and I don't think
anybody else is coming,"
00:44:04.56\00:44:06.00
"but if somebody does,
you just move back over. "
00:44:06.04\00:44:08.77
I said thank you and I
moved over to that aisle seat.
00:44:09.34\00:44:11.76
Pretty soon they closed the
door, and I want you to know
00:44:11.86\00:44:14.09
that I rode all the way across
the Pacific in an aisle seat
00:44:14.13\00:44:16.33
that I did not deserve.
00:44:16.36\00:44:18.52
I was preaching the series
and there was a young lady
00:44:20.65\00:44:23.51
that I didn't know about,
that she worked for this airline
00:44:23.55\00:44:26.78
and she came up to
me later and she says
00:44:27.38\00:44:29.63
"what's your
flight number going back?"
00:44:29.66\00:44:31.88
So I told her.
00:44:32.04\00:44:33.80
I found out that she worked
for the seating arrangement.
00:44:34.40\00:44:41.34
There was a note when I
checked in at the airline
00:44:44.06\00:44:46.14
and the lady who checked me
in says: "There's something"
00:44:46.18\00:44:49.55
"strange here,
there's a note here. "
00:44:49.58\00:44:51.23
I said: "Oh?" It
said: "I really enjoyed"
00:44:51.27\00:44:53.15
"the meetings, I hope
that you enjoy your seat. "
00:44:53.19\00:44:58.35
She had put me in an
exit row on the aisle,
00:44:58.54\00:45:00.78
and I could stretch my feet
all the way across the Pacific,
00:45:00.82\00:45:03.36
I rode in another aisle
seat back across the Pacific,
00:45:03.39\00:45:07.17
in a seat I didn't deserve.
00:45:07.20\00:45:09.47
I set the Lord
always before my face.
00:45:11.03\00:45:15.48
About a year and a
half ago my wife and I
00:45:16.50\00:45:18.81
had terrible news.
00:45:20.87\00:45:22.40
I was down preaching a
series in Coldwater, Michigan.
00:45:22.56\00:45:25.11
The doctor wanted
to come to our house,
00:45:27.59\00:45:28.70
they never want to come
to your house unless there's
00:45:28.74\00:45:30.53
something bad.
00:45:30.56\00:45:32.40
She'd been
diagnosed with lung cancer,
00:45:32.47\00:45:34.81
she grew up where there's no
smoking, no smoking in our home.
00:45:35.20\00:45:39.01
And that's a blow.
00:45:41.68\00:45:43.56
We had sold our home and
moved out in the country,
00:45:47.22\00:45:49.50
and just about this time we got
news that the sale on the house
00:45:49.54\00:45:53.27
fell through.
00:45:53.30\00:45:55.59
I thank the Lord for
His providence over her.
00:45:56.70\00:45:58.73
I still have her
today and she's doing good,
00:45:58.77\00:46:01.77
and I praise God for
her, I love her so much.
00:46:01.81\00:46:04.78
My friend was following me
out of the middle of Detroit,
00:46:08.58\00:46:10.61
she was at Wayne State
University being attended there
00:46:10.64\00:46:12.64
by some wonderful physicians.
00:46:12.67\00:46:14.87
I was on my way and somebody
under the influence of alcohol
00:46:15.89\00:46:20.37
hit my friend behind me,
threw his car into my car,
00:46:20.40\00:46:24.98
totaled them both, and we
were OK, and they were OK,
00:46:25.49\00:46:30.37
for which I was grateful,
00:46:30.40\00:46:32.43
but with all of that
piling in, I heard a voice
00:46:33.19\00:46:38.48
a few days or weeks,
or some time afterwards,
00:46:39.28\00:46:41.46
I heard a voice, it wasn't
audible, but I want to tell you,
00:46:41.50\00:46:44.49
it was almost audible.
00:46:44.69\00:46:47.54
It said: "Do you still believe
that all things work together"
00:46:50.85\00:46:58.73
"for good?"
00:46:58.76\00:47:00.71
I thank God for the
peace that was in my heart,
00:47:03.15\00:47:05.49
and I answered it out
loud, and I want you to know
00:47:06.67\00:47:10.14
the answer was
because of the grace of God,
00:47:10.17\00:47:12.06
not because of
anything within me,
00:47:12.09\00:47:13.91
but I answered that
voice out loud and I said:
00:47:13.95\00:47:17.46
"I still
believe!" [Audience] Amen
00:47:17.49\00:47:22.33
My dear brothers and sisters,
Jesus predicted that before
00:47:25.50\00:47:28.59
He comes, the
delusions would be so great
00:47:28.62\00:47:31.21
that it'll be possible
to deceive the very elect.
00:47:31.25\00:47:33.51
So skillful will be these
delusions in the end of time
00:47:33.55\00:47:36.75
that much of the Christian
world will come to believe
00:47:36.78\00:47:39.95
that Satan is their
friend, and accept his voice
00:47:40.09\00:47:44.83
as the voice of God.
00:47:44.86\00:47:47.81
If you just read the
predictions of Jesus,
00:47:49.82\00:47:52.51
just read them,
about the end of time.
00:47:53.40\00:47:56.93
How are we going to
go through all of that?
00:47:59.26\00:48:01.35
How are you going to
go through all of that?
00:48:01.39\00:48:03.45
Are you willing to
set Jesus, the Lord Jesus,
00:48:05.32\00:48:10.84
always before your face?
00:48:10.87\00:48:14.20
Jesus said in Matthew
7:22, He's talking about
00:48:15.62\00:48:18.01
the judgment day, there
are a group of Christians
00:48:18.05\00:48:20.41
He didn't let in,
and they protested.
00:48:20.44\00:48:24.48
They said: [text on screen]
00:48:24.91\00:48:27.42
Let me ask you a question:
where did they get the power
00:48:35.50\00:48:37.33
to cast out demons?
00:48:37.36\00:48:38.97
Where did they get
the power to do miracles?
00:48:39.01\00:48:41.02
Because Jesus in
the next sentence says:
00:48:41.05\00:48:43.03
"I don't know you. "
00:48:43.06\00:48:45.50
"Who are you?"
00:48:47.82\00:48:49.79
So they must have worked
those miracles by somebody else.
00:48:49.83\00:48:54.44
I believe in miracles, you
know I believe in miracles,
00:48:55.13\00:48:58.20
but the deceptions of the
end of time are going to be
00:48:58.92\00:49:00.63
something else.
00:49:00.66\00:49:03.26
Millions of people will
not be ready when Jesus comes.
00:49:07.72\00:49:13.40
But praise God,
millions will be ready.
00:49:13.43\00:49:16.41
Revelation 14:12
says: [text on screen]
00:49:17.12\00:49:19.99
You've got to have
both, the faith of Jesus
00:49:30.49\00:49:31.92
and the commandments of
God, just test everything
00:49:31.96\00:49:35.23
by the 10 commandments.
00:49:35.26\00:49:37.65
I don't know why it is
that some Christian religions
00:49:39.19\00:49:43.12
say the 10 commandments
have been done away with,
00:49:43.16\00:49:47.06
can you imagine
saying something like that?
00:49:47.09\00:49:50.54
I still love them.
00:49:51.45\00:49:53.50
Some religions have
taken the 10 commandments
00:49:55.82\00:49:57.72
and they just took
the second one out,
00:49:57.75\00:50:02.49
and split the last 1 in 2,
00:50:03.40\00:50:06.96
and they tinkered with
some of the rest of it.
00:50:08.20\00:50:11.14
Can you imagine a
poor, mortal, human being,
00:50:11.59\00:50:15.58
no matter how educated,
no matter how much influence,
00:50:15.62\00:50:18.38
no matter how much of anything,
tinkering with law of God?
00:50:18.42\00:50:25.14
That's the world, we live in it.
00:50:27.17\00:50:31.22
How is it that these
saints who keep the commandments
00:50:32.41\00:50:34.97
of God and the faith of Jesus,
how is that they got through
00:50:35.01\00:50:38.27
all of this?
It's because they keep
00:50:38.30\00:50:40.90
the Lord Jesus
always before their face.
00:50:40.94\00:50:45.10
Let us ask the question
this way: why couldn't the most
00:50:45.42\00:50:48.77
cunning of
deceptions shake their faith?
00:50:48.80\00:50:52.24
Why couldn't the most
horrible time of trouble
00:50:52.28\00:50:55.85
the world will ever
see disrupt their trust?
00:50:55.88\00:50:59.42
Why is it that they
can't be moved in their loyalty
00:50:59.75\00:51:04.76
to the God of heaven?
00:51:04.79\00:51:06.36
I'll tell you why:
because they have heard
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a voice from Sinai that says:
"You shall have no other gods"
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"before Me", and they have
heard a voice from Calvary's
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cross by means of the
apostle Peter, and they hear
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the Lord Jesus say:
"I have set the Lord"
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"always before My face,
He is at my right hand,"
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"and I shall not be shaken. "
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My dear brothers,
sisters, and friends,
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you have a choice:
you can serve yourself,
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you can make gods out of
your children, your wife,
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or money, or greed, or whatever,
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and you can serve them;
or you can set the Lord Jesus
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always before your
face and serve Him.
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The choice is yours.
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If there ever was a time
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when Jesus needed
me to bear His name,
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it is now I
pray He'll find in me
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a servant worth His pain.
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Father grant that I might stand
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a living light for all to see.
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I sacrifice my [?],
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that Your name be placed
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on me.
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I'll wear your
name, I'll wear it well.
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Never, Oh Lord,
my faith to sell.
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From my life all sin expel,
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I'll wear your name
and I'll wear it well.
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I have failed in times before
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to show this angry world
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Your perfect way.
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Lord forgive my sin of [?],
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grant the
strength to live each day.
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May I long to do Your will,
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trust your word
despite [?and still?],
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renounce the world
and all its thrills
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that Your name be placed on me.
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I'll wear your
name, I'll wear it well.
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Never, Oh Lord,
my faith to sell.
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From my life all sin expel,
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I'll wear your name
and I'll wear it well.
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When the angels' trumpet sounds
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and You break the
clouds before our eyes,
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call our loved
ones from the ground,
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nevermore to sin or die.
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And if there's
one who chose to sin,
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despite my urging him to win,
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may he admit from deep within
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that Your name was placed on me.
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I'll wear your
name, I'll wear it well.
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Never, Oh Lord,
my faith to sell.
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From my life all sin expel,
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I'll wear your name
and I'll wear it well.
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I'll wear your
name, I'll wear it well.
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Never, Oh Lord,
my faith to sell.
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From my life all sin expel,
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I'll wear your name
and I'll wear it well.
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I'll wear your name
and I'll wear it well.
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[Music for Credits]
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