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 nations
capital, 3ABN presents
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The Commandments Weekend.
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Hello, I'm Shelly Quinn
and welcome back to 3ABN's
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10 Commandment weekend.
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We're here in Washington
DC with a live audience
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and this sermon will be
the 7th hour of our 17 hour
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live broadcast, and
we're going to have brother
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T. Marshall Kelly, who is known
for being an ambassador of God's
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love and his message
today is "It's all about love. "
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But first we have a
very special person with us,
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who is going to sing a beautiful
song for us, and this pastor is
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really connected to T.
Marshall Kelly because it was
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T. Marshall who encouraged
him to stir up the gift that God
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had given him for singing.
Brother Kelly was his teacher
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in high school and that's
where he got his inspiration.
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So it's my joy to
introduce to you our brother
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Adrian Pressley, who
is an associate pastor
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for nurturing and counseling
at the Kansas Avenue SDA Church
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in Riverside, California.
He's going to be singing
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one of my
favorites "Holy, Holy, Holy"
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Holy, holy, holy!
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Lord God Almighty!
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Early in the morning
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our song shall rise to Thee;
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Holy, holy, holy,
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merciful and mighty!
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God in three Persons,
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blessed Trinity!
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Holy, holy, holy!
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Angels adore Thee,
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Casting down their bright crowns
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before the glassy sea;
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Thousands and ten thousands
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worship Lord before Thee,
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which wert, and art,
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and evermore shall be.
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Holy, holy, holy!
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Though darkness hide thee,
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though the eye of man
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thy great glory may not see,
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only thou art holy;
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there is none beside thee,
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perfect in power,
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in love and purity.
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Holy, holy, holy!
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Lord God Almighty!
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All thy works
shall praise thy name,
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in earth and sky and sea.
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Holy, holy, holy!
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Merciful and mighty,
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God in three persons,
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blessed Trinity.
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God in three person,
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blessed Trinity.
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Holy, Holy!
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[Clapping Shouts of "Amen"]
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Amen. Thank you.
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Beautiful.
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Beautiful.
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Wow.
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Well it's a great
privilege for me, and an honor,
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to introduce a man of God.
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I've heard T. Marshall sing
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for many many years.
I've only had the privilege
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of hearing him
preach on a few occasions.
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A few months ago we were able
to hear him preach about the
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commandments of
God and an overview.
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And I said, we need him at
the 10 commandments weekend.
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T. Marshall Kelly is somebody
who has been in ministry
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for over 45 years,
taught at Oakwood College
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for many years, he's
a pastor, he's a singer
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and he's literally
traveled the world,
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given his life for Jesus.
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People that I meet
around the world, students,
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former students,
and I told my family
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this morning the
thing that they always say
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about T. Marshall Kelly,
even when we were in college,
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and maybe we weren't
serious about the Lord,
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all Brother Kelly ever
did was love us back to Jesus.
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Oh to have a legacy like that
behind you that people would say
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"He always loved us and pointed
us to Jesus, no matter what. "
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So it's a privilege and
an honor once again to have
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Brother T. Marshall Kelly
as a feature speaker today
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and thank you Brother
Kelly, you know that we love you
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and appreciate you.
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I'm going to hug
you, ok? There you go.
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[Clapping]
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First of all, I'd
like to say I'm grateful
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I'm so grateful that
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elder Pressley sang,
since I can't sing right now.
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But I'm thankful
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and my father told me
when I was a boy, he said:
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"Son, never allow
your head to get big"
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"because your replacement
is already walking around. "
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Each of us has a
significant role to play.
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I want to thank
brother Danny Shelton
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and the 3ABN family
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for their invitation here today
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and my wife and I
are glad to be with you.
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I want to thank those of
you who have prayed for me
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through the years.
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You've written me
letters and told me:
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"I'm praying for you. "
And I want to say thank you
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because we are a family
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and I ask you today
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to pray that God
will speak to your heart.
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Let us pray.
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Eternal Father in Heaven
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I can't reach all of the
varied mind that are here today.
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Something that I might say or
do might turn them off, but Lord
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don't let them be turned off.
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I pray that the Holy Spirit
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will convict them of their sins,
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point them to Christ, who
is an all sufficient Savior
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and trouble their hearts
that they will not play with sin
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because the
judgment is in progress.
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May Jesus Christ be exalted
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May Thy name be glorified
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and Lord, make all of us
here today who are willing
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a channel of your love.
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This is our prayer
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in the worthy name of Jesus.
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I looked into the book of God
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and I ask you to turn in
your Bible to Jeremiah 31:3.
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I would appreciate
it if you wouldn't mind,
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those of you here
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in the Armory, if you would
read with me Jeremiah 31:3.
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And it reads, when you
find it join me please:
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"The Lord hath
appeared of old unto me,"
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"saying, Yea,"
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"I have loved thee
with an everlasting love:"
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"therefore with loving
kindness have I drawn thee. "
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"I have loved thee
with an everlasting love. "
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"Therefore with loving kindness"
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"have I drawn thee. "
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When we use the word "God"
there are terms that we use like
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"God","Omnipotent", "Omniscient"
"Omnipresent", "Ever lasting"
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we don't
understand what we are saying.
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How can a finite being explain
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even in his best vocabulary
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what it means to be infinite.
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So, when we talk about
God's characteristic we are only
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taking like a teacup of
sand on the grain of knowledge.
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I thought that I would check
in the World Book Encyclopedia
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and I came across this,
the Spirit had led me to look
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up the word
"galaxies". "Galaxies".
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When you talk about God's
greatness and God's goodness,
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we really are just
playing with words.
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How can I, who am finite
who could not lift 1000 pounds
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talk about someone
who is all powerful?
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The galaxies.
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"The galaxies," I wrote down,
"are a system of stars and dust"
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"held together by gravity. "
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I wanted to know how
many galaxies there were.
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And the World Book says this,
the World Book says that there
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are at least 100
billion galaxies.
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Now I can't even understand
1 billion, much 100 billion.
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When it says that there
are some galaxies that are
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200 million miles
across, I can't understand that.
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I've traveled to a lot
of places in the world,
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but none of them
are that far apart.
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So, I looked at the dictionary
and it said there that
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the smaller galaxies
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have a little
over a billion stars.
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It said larger galaxies have
approximately a trillion stars.
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So when you think
about God please do not try
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to put Him in a box.
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Please do not try
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to circumscribe
Him with Bible texts.
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You're talking about someone
who is so infinite and so great
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and yet He's a God of love.
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The message today is
"It's all about Love".
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When you think about all
of the galaxies that there are
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then you can read John
3:16, and let's say it together:
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"For God so loved
this little tiny world"
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"in the Milky Way"
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"that He gave His
only begotten Son"
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"that who so ever
believeth in Him,"
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"should not perish, but
have everlasting life. "
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God loves the world, God
has always loved the world,
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God has never loved one
country more than another,
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God has never loved one
ethnic group more than another,
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God has never just loved
your group and nobody else,
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He loves the world
and everyone in it.
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He loves the
agnostic, He loves the skeptic,
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He loves the atheist, He
loves the person that doesn't
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even believe He exists
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because His love is so
broad He is not afraid.
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I remember meeting
with some of my students
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who one time said
they were atheist.
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So I told them, I
said: "Don't worry,"
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"the Lord is not in
heaven biting His fingernails"
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"because you think
He doesn't exist. "
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I pray this day
that we will recognize
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that the 10
commandments were spoken by God.
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As sister Shelly
Quinn told us last night,
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they were written by God
not one time, but they were
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written by God twice.
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Anything that God
speaks once and writes twice
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has to be important.
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And yet, when God wants
us to Love Him, He knows that
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without Him we
can't even love Him.
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The love that we give
to God must come from God.
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We can't manufacture it.
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People can't
scare us into loving God
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by talking about hell.
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Fear is a weak motivation
for any kind of lifestyle.
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In fact, fear
doesn't last too long.
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You can't get but so afraid.
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And yet, love is so broad
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that the more you give away,
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the more you have to give away.
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One day, Jesus was confronted
by a Jewish scribe, or lawyer
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as they called him,
and I would appreciate it
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if you wouldn't mind
looking with me in the
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book of Mark 12:28-34,
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and I invite you,
please, to read along with me,
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I get lonesome when
I'm just hearing my voice,
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so would you just
read with me please,
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Mark 12:28-34.
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Let's read it together.
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"And one of the scribes came,"
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"and having heard
them reasoning together,"
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"and perceiving that he
had answered them well,"
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"asked him, Which is the
first commandment of all?"
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"And Jesus answered
him," let's read it together,
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"The first of all
the commandments is,"
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"Hear, O Israel; The
Lord our God is one Lord:"
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"And thou shalt love the Lord
thy God with all thy heart,"
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"and with all thy
soul, and with all thy mind,"
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"and with all thy strength:
this is the first commandment. "
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"And the second is
like, namely this,"
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"Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself. "
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"There is none other commandment
greater than these. "
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And then later
on, the scribe says:
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"You answered
right. " and the Lord said
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"Well, you're not
far from the kingdom. "
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"Love the Lord thy
God with all thy heart,"
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"mind, soul and strength. "
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I can't exhaust the
beautiful life of Jesus Christ.
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I just enjoy reading
about Jesus everyday.
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In the gospels,
throughout scripture,
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He is the central
figure of scripture.
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Not Abraham, Isaac,
Jacob, Paul, name the others,
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they're marvelous
servants of the most high God,
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but there's one central figure
that stands above all others
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and His name is Jesus.
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And I want to
encourage you to spend at least
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that thoughtful hour each
day on the life of Jesus Christ.
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You can't exhaust His
life, the more you study Him,
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the more you will want to
be like Him, and notice this,
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the more you
want to be like Jesus,
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the more you will hate sin.
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Unless you focus on Jesus,
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you'll find yourself
trying to manipulate God.
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Picking out the commandments
that you want to keep
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and ignoring the others.
But when you look at Jesus,
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God hates all sin. Many
of us hate certain sins,
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but only God hates all sin.
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As a result of that I want
you to consider Jesus' life,
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consider the fact that
He existed with the Father
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before He came to this world.
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In John 17:5 He
makes this observation:
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"And Thou, Father,
glorify Thou Me with the"
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"glory which I had with
Thee before the world was. "
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And then He comes down
here and allows Himself,
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according to Philippians 2:5-8,
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"Let this mind be in you,
which was also in Christ Jesus,"
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"who being in the form of God"
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"thought it not
robbery to be equal with God,"
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"but made Himself of no
reputation, and took upon Him"
00:20:06.65\00:20:10.29
"the form of a servant
and was made in the likeness"
00:20:10.32\00:20:13.90
"of man. And being
found in fashion as a man,"
00:20:13.93\00:20:17.31
"He humbled Himself, and
became obedient unto death,"
00:20:17.34\00:20:21.28
"even the death of the cross.
" Think about the incarnation,
00:20:21.31\00:20:26.76
how He came down
and walked the Earth,
00:20:26.79\00:20:29.36
He didn't ride,
00:20:29.39\00:20:31.49
He walked;
00:20:31.87\00:20:33.48
He got tired,
00:20:33.90\00:20:35.79
He got hungry,
00:20:35.82\00:20:37.64
He wanted human
companionship and when He needed
00:20:37.68\00:20:41.42
His disciples the
most, they were asleep.
00:20:41.45\00:20:44.78
On the way to the
cross, He said: "All of you"
00:20:45.02\00:20:48.35
"are going to forsake
Me and leave Me alone. "
00:20:48.38\00:20:51.84
At the time when He
needed them most, they ran away.
00:20:51.87\00:20:56.17
The more you read His life,
you can't exhaust His life.
00:20:56.53\00:21:02.17
And that's why,
when you look at Jesus,
00:21:03.46\00:21:05.81
and especially the
closing scenes of His life,
00:21:05.84\00:21:09.44
how He let human
beings that He had created,
00:21:09.47\00:21:13.29
slap Him in the
face, spit on Him,
00:21:14.24\00:21:18.11
put a crown of
thorns on His head,
00:21:18.43\00:21:21.34
hit His head with a stick.
00:21:21.44\00:21:23.26
On those crown of
thorns that drove the headthing
00:21:23.29\00:21:28.80
down into His brown
and the blood came down,
00:21:28.83\00:21:32.20
and then He allowed
them to make Him naked,
00:21:32.23\00:21:35.80
and crucify Him on a cross. Why?
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So that brother Kelly
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and all of you who are sitting
here today, and those of you
00:21:42.81\00:21:46.10
around the world, I
don't care how remote
00:21:46.13\00:21:48.48
your village, I don't
care how far away you are
00:21:48.51\00:21:51.94
from modern civilization.
00:21:51.97\00:21:54.14
God has a place you in His
heart that nobody else can take!
00:21:55.03\00:22:01.18
Stop putting yourself
down, or comparing yourself
00:22:03.72\00:22:07.37
with somebody else.
If God had wanted you
00:22:07.40\00:22:10.28
to be somebody else, He would
have made you somebody else.
00:22:10.31\00:22:15.03
If God made any two
people alike, one of them
00:22:15.17\00:22:18.04
would be unnecessary.
00:22:18.07\00:22:20.54
And no matter how old you
are, or how young you are,
00:22:21.45\00:22:25.70
and no matter how
badly people may treat you,
00:22:25.73\00:22:29.11
you have a place in God's
heart that God wants to fill,
00:22:29.14\00:22:33.19
and you have unique
talents and gifts and abilities
00:22:33.22\00:22:37.23
and skills and
potential, that you will never
00:22:37.26\00:22:41.21
fully realize until
you have everlasting life.
00:22:41.25\00:22:45.19
Don't think that
you were an accident.
00:22:46.23\00:22:49.42
No matter how you were
born, you had to come here
00:22:51.48\00:22:55.18
at the permission of God
00:22:55.21\00:22:57.96
and there's
somebody on this planet,
00:22:58.32\00:23:00.46
that will be influenced
by you to accept Christ,
00:23:00.49\00:23:03.94
that would not
be influenced by me.
00:23:03.97\00:23:06.68
Each of us has a
sphere of influence over which
00:23:06.71\00:23:11.50
God wants to use you and use me,
00:23:11.53\00:23:14.17
and use everyone else.
That's why there's never a time
00:23:14.20\00:23:20.98
to be rude to people.
00:23:21.01\00:23:23.63
Never a time to mistreat them,
00:23:23.67\00:23:27.62
to be unkind to them,
00:23:27.65\00:23:29.47
they don't even have to like you
00:23:29.99\00:23:32.69
when you say that
you are a Christian,
00:23:34.06\00:23:37.51
and you keep the
commandments of God,
00:23:37.77\00:23:40.05
the commandments, the first
4, deal with our love to God,
00:23:40.08\00:23:43.96
the last 6, our
love to our fellow man.
00:23:43.99\00:23:46.68
It's love all the way around.
00:23:46.71\00:23:48.92
How does God treat you
00:23:48.95\00:23:51.35
when you last
broke his commandments?
00:23:51.68\00:23:54.70
Did God just cut
you off like that?
00:23:55.65\00:23:57.98
Absolutely not!
00:23:58.01\00:24:00.48
And that's how He
wants you to treat people.
00:24:01.24\00:24:04.46
I read a quotation by
one of God's servants,
00:24:04.49\00:24:07.85
and it was this quotation:
00:24:07.88\00:24:10.05
"The love of Christ is
diffusive and aggressive. "
00:24:10.09\00:24:17.19
It's so important to remember
another quotation that I read,
00:24:18.52\00:24:23.40
and it said this:
"The most degraded person"
00:24:25.09\00:24:30.63
think in you mind now
who the most degraded person
00:24:31.27\00:24:35.51
might be, "The
most degraded person"
00:24:35.54\00:24:40.39
"should be treated"
00:24:40.55\00:24:42.89
"with respect"
00:24:43.18\00:24:45.09
"and tenderness. "
00:24:46.29\00:24:49.06
Not the nicest person you've
ever met, the most degraded.
00:24:49.85\00:24:54.52
And that's how Jesus treated us.
00:24:56.00\00:24:59.51
I brought this rope out here
00:25:00.20\00:25:02.58
sometimes when you work
00:25:04.91\00:25:07.98
with young people,
00:25:08.01\00:25:10.60
you try your best to
keep their attention.
00:25:10.64\00:25:15.61
I didn't always succeed
00:25:16.93\00:25:19.14
but I have this rope,
00:25:21.72\00:25:23.67
and I'm trying to untangle it
00:25:24.89\00:25:27.33
and I was talking
to a group of children.
00:25:29.18\00:25:33.01
So I said to the young people,
00:25:35.68\00:25:38.38
and I took out some money,
00:25:39.06\00:25:41.44
and I said: "Anyone here"
00:25:42.32\00:25:45.06
"that can come up here
and stand on this rope"
00:25:46.67\00:25:50.52
"and pull
themselves up off the floor,"
00:25:50.82\00:25:54.66
"I will give this $20 bill. "
00:25:56.28\00:25:59.14
Well I knew that no
one would even think
00:26:00.81\00:26:03.79
that was sensible.
00:26:03.82\00:26:05.99
But a little boy
ran out of the crowd
00:26:06.21\00:26:08.16
and said: "I can
do it pastor Kelly. "
00:26:08.19\00:26:10.05
I said: "Son, you can't do it.
I didn't mean to deceive you,"
00:26:10.08\00:26:13.68
"but you can't do that. "
00:26:13.71\00:26:16.15
"Oh," he said, "yes I
can, let me have it. "
00:26:16.19\00:26:17.87
So he got the rope,
00:26:17.90\00:26:19.21
and he put his foot on
the rope and he tried to pull,
00:26:19.24\00:26:22.53
and you could see the
veins coming out on his neck,
00:26:22.56\00:26:25.81
and his face turned
red and he was pulling,
00:26:25.84\00:26:28.02
and I said: "Son, I
didn't mean to deceive you,"
00:26:28.05\00:26:30.32
"you can't do this. "
00:26:30.35\00:26:32.57
And people
laughed, but let me ask you:
00:26:34.88\00:26:38.45
Can the
Ethiopian change his skin?
00:26:40.18\00:26:42.99
Can a leopard change his spots?
00:26:44.30\00:26:46.83
Then you can't keep
the 10 commandments of God
00:26:47.90\00:26:52.03
unless you allow Jesus Christ
to live out His law in you.
00:26:52.07\00:26:56.52
Paul said: "I am crucified
with Christ. Nevertheless,"
00:26:56.55\00:27:00.92
"I live yet not I, but
Christ liveth in you. "
00:27:00.95\00:27:04.50
When you tell a drug addict
"Just quit taking drugs. "
00:27:04.53\00:27:07.35
When you tell
somebody "Just quit stealing!"
00:27:07.38\00:27:09.68
tell somebody else
"Quit committing adultery. "
00:27:09.71\00:27:12.02
They can't quit in their
own strength, they have to have
00:27:12.05\00:27:14.32
a power outside of
themselves. If they are willing,
00:27:14.35\00:27:17.50
God is able to give
them power, but they can't
00:27:17.53\00:27:20.97
do it on their
own. Fussing at them,
00:27:21.00\00:27:23.42
trying to scare
them won't do any good.
00:27:23.45\00:27:25.72
People are not
scared into serving God.
00:27:25.75\00:27:28.05
People fall in love with Jesus
because of His great sacrifice
00:27:28.08\00:27:32.05
on the cross. That's what
makes them want to be His child.
00:27:32.08\00:27:36.90
Paul tried to scare me, I
was brought up into church,
00:27:37.09\00:27:40.06
tried to scare me with hellfire,
and 7 last plagues and all that,
00:27:40.09\00:27:44.85
I said: "Well look, the
way they lived, they'll be"
00:27:44.88\00:27:47.66
"right there along with me. "
00:27:47.69\00:27:50.37
But when my pastor told me,
00:27:52.27\00:27:54.63
he told me his only love.
00:27:56.55\00:27:59.57
He said: "What
would you do if somebody"
00:28:00.27\00:28:03.15
"had saved your life?
00:28:03.18\00:28:05.71
Would you be willing to
obey them, or help them?"
00:28:07.71\00:28:11.30
I said: "Yes. "
00:28:11.33\00:28:13.70
Well, it happened.
00:28:14.37\00:28:16.63
I wanted to learn how to swim
00:28:17.61\00:28:20.67
and I jumped into water
00:28:23.36\00:28:25.71
that was too deep for me.
00:28:27.50\00:28:29.61
I went down the first time.
00:28:34.56\00:28:36.81
I came up, I started
grabbing for paper on the water.
00:28:37.60\00:28:43.27
I started swallowing water,
00:28:44.81\00:28:46.99
I couldn't touch the bottom.
00:28:47.53\00:28:49.92
And I heard two men
sitting on the rocks said:
00:28:50.70\00:28:55.03
"That boy can't swim. "
00:28:55.06\00:28:57.62
One was an African American and
the other was a Caucasian man,
00:28:59.37\00:29:04.16
and they jumped in
the water in Lake Erie,
00:29:04.19\00:29:06.44
outside of Cleveland, Ohio,
00:29:06.47\00:29:08.89
and they pulled
me out of the water.
00:29:09.35\00:29:12.65
They said: "Young
man, what going on?"
00:29:13.89\00:29:15.56
I told them what
I was trying to do.
00:29:15.59\00:29:17.18
They said: "Don't jump
into water 16 feet deep"
00:29:17.21\00:29:20.31
"next time. "
00:29:20.34\00:29:22.33
I didn't ask those men
what church they went to.
00:29:23.72\00:29:27.25
I didn't ask them were
they agnostics or atheists.
00:29:27.28\00:29:31.39
I wanted my life, and
that's what Jesus did for us.
00:29:31.94\00:29:37.41
He came into this ugly,
sinful, selfish world and went
00:29:37.45\00:29:42.85
through all kinds of trouble
just to redeem us from our sins.
00:29:42.89\00:29:47.98
And I want you to
know this morning, that God
00:29:48.77\00:29:51.74
knows every sin in
your life and in mine,
00:29:51.77\00:29:54.69
and He hates sin,
00:29:54.72\00:29:56.22
and last night we heard
one of the pastors saying
00:29:56.26\00:29:59.97
how God wants to
separate us from our sins.
00:30:00.00\00:30:04.15
He loves the sinner,
but He hates the sin.
00:30:04.18\00:30:08.32
He can't take the sin
to heaven, but he can take
00:30:08.53\00:30:11.93
the sinner who will allow
Him to separate him from sin
00:30:11.96\00:30:15.60
on his way.
00:30:15.63\00:30:17.72
He gave us these commandments
which point out what sin
00:30:17.82\00:30:21.56
really is.
00:30:21.59\00:30:23.60
Now some people think,
and I must tell you this
00:30:23.64\00:30:26.94
in all honesty, Satan is a liar.
00:30:26.97\00:30:31.00
John 8:44.
00:30:31.62\00:30:34.77
Satan will lead you into sin,
00:30:35.44\00:30:38.29
and then let you get
away with it for a long time.
00:30:39.55\00:30:45.27
And then he'll come
to you and say to you:
00:30:46.72\00:30:49.33
"You know one thing,"
00:30:49.36\00:30:51.30
"you are one of the
smoothest, cleverest sinners"
00:30:51.34\00:30:55.70
"that ever lived. "
00:30:56.70\00:30:59.10
"You've been going
at that man's wife"
00:30:59.14\00:31:01.65
"for 10 years, and you're
still an elder in the church. "
00:31:01.68\00:31:07.26
"You been watching pornography
for 15 years and you're still"
00:31:07.66\00:31:12.33
"one of the head deacons. "
00:31:12.36\00:31:14.83
"You've been taking God's
tithe for at least 20 years,"
00:31:14.87\00:31:19.86
"putting on the tithe
line money that wasn't tithe. "
00:31:19.89\00:31:23.57
And by the way,
anything less than one tenth
00:31:23.60\00:31:27.16
is not tithe, it's a tip.
00:31:27.19\00:31:30.83
But you can take an envelope
and put it on the tithe line
00:31:33.99\00:31:38.81
and the church
doesn't know anything,
00:31:38.84\00:31:42.11
but God knows.
00:31:42.90\00:31:44.91
I beg of you
today, I hope none of you
00:31:45.68\00:31:48.55
tried to impress God that you
are something that you're not.
00:31:48.58\00:31:53.49
If you are a sinner and you
come to Him and say: "Oh Lord,
00:31:54.29\00:31:57.93
I need You, these are the things
in my life. " He already knows
00:31:57.96\00:32:01.54
what's in your life. He
sees you in the darkness,
00:32:01.57\00:32:05.60
He sees you in the
light. When you read Psalm 139,
00:32:05.63\00:32:09.62
and we need to look
at that Psalm today.
00:32:09.65\00:32:12.20
Psalm 139:1-5.
00:32:12.23\00:32:16.72
I would appreciate it
if you find it to join me.
00:32:16.75\00:32:19.99
"O lord, thou hast
searched me, and known me. "
00:32:20.02\00:32:23.34
"Thou knowest my
downsitting and mine uprising,"
00:32:23.37\00:32:26.65
"thou understandest
my thought afar off. "
00:32:26.68\00:32:29.74
"Thou compassest my
path and my lying down,"
00:32:29.77\00:32:32.90
"and art
acquainted with all my ways. "
00:32:32.93\00:32:35.82
"For there is not a word in
my tongue, but, lo, O Lord,"
00:32:35.85\00:32:39.23
"thou knowest it
altogether. Thou hast beset me"
00:32:39.26\00:32:42.98
"behind and before, and
laid thine hand upon me. "
00:32:43.01\00:32:46.67
"Such knowledge is
too wonderful for me. "
00:32:46.70\00:32:50.16
The Lord sees Brother
Kelly, He sees me 24 hours a day
00:32:51.28\00:32:54.89
7 days a week.
00:32:54.92\00:32:56.57
He has never been
impressed with anything that I
00:32:56.61\00:33:00.31
have ever done
because He reads my heart
00:33:00.34\00:33:05.62
and the motives that
prompt my deeds and my words.
00:33:05.66\00:33:12.35
He knows me.
00:33:15.11\00:33:16.97
I remember when
Jeroboam, his son was sick.
00:33:18.16\00:33:23.62
And Jeroboam
hadn't lived a good life.
00:33:25.91\00:33:29.10
So Jeroboam wouldn't dare
go to God's prophet by himself,
00:33:30.41\00:33:34.77
so he told his wife, he
told his wife: "Now wife,"
00:33:34.80\00:33:39.16
"don't dress up like a queen. "
00:33:40.04\00:33:43.67
Their little baby was sick.
00:33:43.87\00:33:46.25
"Dress up like
an ordinary woman"
00:33:46.76\00:33:50.58
"and go to the prophet,"
00:33:50.84\00:33:53.13
"the prophet has
failing eye sight anyway,"
00:33:53.33\00:33:56.82
"so he won't known. "
00:33:57.60\00:33:59.95
"And ask the prophet,
as an ordinary woman,"
00:34:00.14\00:34:03.90
"will our son live?"
00:34:04.97\00:34:07.88
Well here is a prophet
00:34:08.76\00:34:10.94
who has failing eye sight,
00:34:10.98\00:34:13.13
a woman disguised,
00:34:13.16\00:34:15.96
but don't you know God knows?
00:34:16.55\00:34:20.11
And the Lord told the prophet
00:34:21.42\00:34:24.21
"Jeroboam's wife is
coming to see you. "
00:34:24.91\00:34:28.24
"When her foot hits
the threshold of the door"
00:34:29.55\00:34:33.35
"I'll let you know. "
00:34:34.02\00:34:36.58
When her foot hit the
threshold of the door,
00:34:36.65\00:34:39.65
the prophet who had
failing eye sight said:
00:34:39.68\00:34:42.62
"Come in, wife of Jeroboam. "
00:34:42.65\00:34:45.96
"You want to know
whether your child will live. "
00:34:46.74\00:34:50.29
Brothers and sisters,
don't waste your time trying
00:34:50.32\00:34:53.81
to hide your sins from
God, it just won't work.
00:34:53.84\00:34:57.79
David thought he had covered
his sins for almost a year,
00:34:58.14\00:35:02.74
until the prophet came to him.
That's why the word of God says:
00:35:03.47\00:35:07.03
"If we confess our sins to
Him, He is faithful and just"
00:35:07.06\00:35:11.21
"to forgive us our sins,
and to cleanse us from all"
00:35:11.24\00:35:15.35
"unrighteousness. "
00:35:15.38\00:35:16.50
The commandments of
God, "who so becomes in sin"
00:35:16.53\00:35:19.22
"transgrethes also the law,
for sin is the transgression"
00:35:19.25\00:35:23.81
"of the law. "
00:35:23.84\00:35:24.81
And the law has two
parts, there's sins of omission
00:35:24.82\00:35:28.06
and sins of commission.
00:35:28.09\00:35:30.86
Every negative commandment
00:35:33.89\00:35:36.06
implies a positive, every what?
00:35:36.10\00:35:40.68
"Though shalt
worship the Lord thy God. "
00:35:41.79\00:35:44.26
"Thou shall
have no other gods. "
00:35:44.29\00:35:46.10
How's that summed up?
"Worship the Lord thy God with"
00:35:46.13\00:35:48.98
"all thy heart, soul and mind. "
00:35:49.01\00:35:51.59
I beg of you today, please,
00:35:52.38\00:35:54.96
we are so good at
leading double lives.
00:35:55.08\00:35:59.81
We're so good in
looking good and people
00:36:00.01\00:36:02.26
saying that we're good,
yet God reads our heart.
00:36:02.29\00:36:06.26
My mind's having
a little flashback.
00:36:06.44\00:36:08.82
My mind's
flashing back to Samuel.
00:36:08.85\00:36:11.87
Samuel was told to
go to the house of Jesse
00:36:12.07\00:36:14.78
to find the next kind of Israel,
and so, Samuel goes to the house
00:36:14.81\00:36:19.62
of Jesse and when he sees
this tall, good looking son
00:36:19.65\00:36:23.80
called Eliab, the first
born of the people of God,
00:36:23.83\00:36:27.91
the first born. Samuel said:
"Surely, this is the man. "
00:36:27.94\00:36:32.47
And the Lord spoke to
Samuel these words found in
00:36:33.35\00:36:36.17
1 Samuel 16:7, you
know what it says there?
00:36:36.20\00:36:39.68
he says: "Samuel, wait a
minute, don't anoint him. "
00:36:39.71\00:36:43.96
"Don't look at his stature,"
00:36:46.00\00:36:48.32
"how good looking he is. "
00:36:48.61\00:36:50.78
"I have refused him. "
00:36:50.98\00:36:53.11
And then this little
[?Jim?] is there, it says what?
00:36:53.15\00:36:57.34
"Man looketh on the
outward appearance, but God"
00:36:57.37\00:37:01.86
"looketh on the heart. "
00:37:03.26\00:37:06.23
May I share with you that God
read me and God reads you 24/7,
00:37:06.82\00:37:13.06
and that's why I need
Jesus every day of my life.
00:37:13.16\00:37:17.03
God is still working on me
00:37:17.06\00:37:19.17
and He's still working on
you. The Holy Spirit not only
00:37:19.20\00:37:23.27
convicts us of sin, but
He points us always to Jesus
00:37:23.30\00:37:27.34
and He doesn't let the
judgment slip up on us.
00:37:27.37\00:37:31.25
There's some people
who look good, talk good,
00:37:31.55\00:37:35.28
smell good, sound good,
00:37:35.31\00:37:37.83
but inside... inside...
00:37:39.84\00:37:43.61
One of my classmates
00:37:44.15\00:37:46.25
was always in the hall
00:37:47.88\00:37:50.40
getting after
the theology majors.
00:37:50.73\00:37:53.57
Trying to discredit
the Bible in some way,
00:37:55.86\00:37:59.75
and I wondered what
was the reason behind it.
00:37:59.85\00:38:03.93
So I said to him one day:
"You weren't born that way. "
00:38:05.03\00:38:09.66
"What happened?"
00:38:10.13\00:38:11.45
"I'm just a
thinker. " "I know, I know"
00:38:11.83\00:38:14.18
"you're a thinker but
there's something in you"
00:38:14.21\00:38:17.51
"that is rankling you.
I don't know what it is. "
00:38:17.54\00:38:20.80
So I just kept
trying to get it out of him.
00:38:20.83\00:38:23.74
I kept trying, and
finally, it came out.
00:38:23.77\00:38:27.08
We were in the
bathroom late one night
00:38:27.87\00:38:31.06
and he told me the truth.
00:38:31.54\00:38:33.65
"my father is a
deacon in the church. "
00:38:37.15\00:38:40.41
"And my daddy is loved"
00:38:42.35\00:38:45.71
"by everybody in the church,"
00:38:46.05\00:38:48.95
"they think he's
ready for translation. "
00:38:49.57\00:38:53.00
He said: "But he's
not ready for translation"
00:38:54.47\00:38:58.20
"because he is so
mean to my mother. "
00:38:58.38\00:39:01.57
"There are times he gets upset
with my mother and he will not"
00:39:02.63\00:39:06.40
"speak to her for two weeks. "
00:39:06.43\00:39:09.48
"When he wants to communicate
something he will say:"
00:39:09.92\00:39:13.51
"Tell your mother to do this.
Ask your mother about that. "
00:39:13.54\00:39:17.06
"But he won't
speak to her directly. "
00:39:17.09\00:39:20.26
Are you a Christian at home?
00:39:21.71\00:39:24.51
Or just at church?
00:39:26.13\00:39:28.43
God reads the heart.
00:39:30.42\00:39:33.16
If for some reason you
don't see Brother Kelly
00:39:33.92\00:39:37.24
in the kingdom of heaven,
00:39:37.27\00:39:38.79
God will have my whole
life history on a microchip.
00:39:38.82\00:39:43.00
In the event you want to know
what went on, it'll be there,
00:39:46.72\00:39:50.47
and there won't be any scenes
missing. You're talking about
00:39:50.50\00:39:54.19
a DVD. A DVD is nothing
in comparison to what God has
00:39:54.22\00:39:58.69
in His audio recording studio.
00:39:58.86\00:40:02.27
Pictures, sound and the motives.
00:40:02.30\00:40:05.68
No man can clip around
on his wife, be unfaithful
00:40:07.14\00:40:10.14
to his wife by accident.
00:40:10.17\00:40:12.73
No. 1: He has to get in the car.
00:40:13.98\00:40:16.81
Come out of his house, get
in the car, turn on the key.
00:40:18.04\00:40:24.07
Drive to the end of
the driveway, backup.
00:40:24.79\00:40:27.70
Notice all the
decisive things that he's doing.
00:40:27.73\00:40:31.58
Satan didn't
make him do anything.
00:40:32.31\00:40:35.17
He made a deliberate decision
and God knows when you have
00:40:35.93\00:40:40.20
decided in your mind
what you're going to do.
00:40:40.23\00:40:45.00
The church doesn't know
it, and you can fool everybody
00:40:46.21\00:40:50.09
but God!
00:40:50.12\00:40:52.40
And you can't even
fool all the people
00:40:53.04\00:40:55.92
because some
people know where you go.
00:40:55.95\00:40:59.07
Brothers and sisters,
the commandments of God
00:41:00.61\00:41:03.63
are going to stand forever.
00:41:03.66\00:41:05.91
In fact, when last have you
said all of the 10 commandments?
00:41:06.50\00:41:11.15
It would be a wonderful
thing for us to practice that
00:41:11.18\00:41:13.74
right now.
00:41:13.77\00:41:15.13
Let's see how many you
can say out of all the of the
00:41:15.68\00:41:17.70
10 commandments.
Now remember this,
00:41:17.73\00:41:20.54
there's no commandment greater
than any other commandment.
00:41:21.44\00:41:26.08
Can you say Amen to
that? [Audience replies] Amen
00:41:26.44\00:41:30.13
Let's say it together.
"And God"... don't start
00:41:30.16\00:41:33.63
with "Thou shalt not"
00:41:33.66\00:41:35.83
"And God spake all these words,"
00:41:36.46\00:41:39.60
"saying, I am the LORD thy
God, which have brought thee"
00:41:39.70\00:41:44.32
"out of the land of Egypt,"
00:41:44.35\00:41:46.90
"out of the house of bondage. "
00:41:46.93\00:41:49.46
"Thou shalt have no
other gods before me. "
00:41:49.79\00:41:53.78
"Thou shalt not make unto
thee any graven image, or any"
00:41:54.08\00:41:58.92
"likeness of any thing
that is in heaven above,"
00:41:58.95\00:42:03.06
"or that is in
the earth beneath,"
00:42:03.09\00:42:05.18
"or that is in the
waters under the earth. "
00:42:05.21\00:42:08.58
"Thou shalt not bow down thyself
to them, nor serve them:"
00:42:08.61\00:42:13.05
"for I the LORD thy
God am a jealous God,"
00:42:13.08\00:42:16.49
"visiting the
iniquities of the fathers"
00:42:16.52\00:42:19.28
"upon the children
unto the third and fourth"
00:42:19.31\00:42:21.96
"generation of
them that hate me;"
00:42:21.99\00:42:24.44
"And showing mercy unto
thousands of them that love me,"
00:42:24.47\00:42:29.14
"and keep my commandments. "
00:42:29.17\00:42:31.39
"Thou shalt not take the name
of the LORD thy God in vain;"
00:42:31.42\00:42:36.05
"for the LORD will not
hold him guiltless that taketh"
00:42:36.08\00:42:40.12
"his name in vain.
Remember the Sabbath day,"
00:42:40.15\00:42:44.10
"to keep it holy. "
00:42:44.13\00:42:45.72
"Six days shalt thou
labor, and do all thy work:"
00:42:45.75\00:42:49.37
"But the seventh day is
the Sabbath of the LORD"
00:42:49.40\00:42:52.94
"thy God: in it thou shalt not
do any work, thou, nor thy son,"
00:42:52.97\00:42:58.90
"nor thy daughter,
nor thy manservant,"
00:42:58.93\00:43:01.77
"nor thy
maidservant, nor thy cattle,"
00:43:01.80\00:43:04.79
"nor thy stranger
that is within thy gates:"
00:43:04.82\00:43:07.86
"For in six days the LORD
made heaven and earth, the sea,"
00:43:07.89\00:43:12.07
"and all that in them is,
and rested the seventh day:"
00:43:12.10\00:43:16.39
"wherefore the LORD
blessed the Sabbath day,"
00:43:16.42\00:43:19.51
"and hallowed it. "
00:43:19.54\00:43:21.03
"Honor thy father and
thy mother: that thy days"
00:43:21.06\00:43:24.66
"may be long upon the land"
00:43:24.69\00:43:26.60
"which the LORD
thy God giveth thee. "
00:43:26.63\00:43:29.68
"Thou shalt not kill. "
00:43:29.71\00:43:31.28
"Thou shalt not
commit adultery. "
00:43:31.31\00:43:33.72
"Thou shalt not steal. "
00:43:33.75\00:43:35.59
"Thou shalt not bear false
witness against thy neighbor. "
00:43:35.62\00:43:39.46
"Thou shalt not covet
thy neighbor's house,"
00:43:39.49\00:43:42.25
"thou shalt not
covet thy neighbor's wife,"
00:43:42.28\00:43:45.05
"nor his manservant,
nor his maidservant,"
00:43:45.08\00:43:47.81
"nor his ox, nor his
ass, nor any thing that is"
00:43:47.84\00:43:52.84
"thy neighbor's. "
00:43:52.87\00:43:54.71
Without Christ, it's like
trying to lift yourself up
00:43:54.75\00:43:59.41
by your boot straps.
00:43:59.46\00:44:02.12
Only when Christ dwells within,
when I'm crucified with Christ,
00:44:03.02\00:44:07.84
"Nevertheless, I live, yet
not I but Christ liveth in me. "
00:44:07.87\00:44:12.73
"So that the life which I now
live in the flesh, I live by"
00:44:12.96\00:44:16.56
"the faith of the
son of God who loved me"
00:44:16.59\00:44:19.56
"and gave Himself for me. "
00:44:19.59\00:44:22.94
When you take the commandments
of God and they point out sin,
00:44:23.05\00:44:27.96
they let us know
what God does not want.
00:44:27.99\00:44:31.01
And friends of mine,
there are people out there today
00:44:31.04\00:44:34.62
who need you to show
them Calvary's cross because
00:44:34.65\00:44:38.16
when they see Calvary's cross
they are going to want to turn
00:44:38.19\00:44:41.96
away from their sins
which put Jesus on the cross
00:44:41.99\00:44:46.94
in the first place.
00:44:46.97\00:44:48.89
Point up, exalt Jesus
Christ, exalt His life,
00:44:49.49\00:44:53.75
His sinless
life, His perfect life.
00:44:53.78\00:44:56.98
Exalt the fact that Jesus
suffered, Jesus died, Jesus
00:44:57.02\00:45:02.44
was resurrected, Jesus ascended,
Jesus is now our mediator
00:45:02.48\00:45:07.49
in the heavenly sanctuary.
00:45:07.52\00:45:09.47
And the more you look at Jesus,
the more you will hate sin.
00:45:09.50\00:45:15.01
It won't be because
you're scared, it won't be
00:45:15.48\00:45:18.94
because hellfire, it won't be
because of the 7 last plagues.
00:45:18.97\00:45:23.56
You'll turn from sin
00:45:23.59\00:45:25.24
because when you see
what my sins and your sins
00:45:25.27\00:45:28.47
did to Jesus, it'll make us
hate that sin, and we'll want
00:45:28.50\00:45:33.11
to help others, and we'll
not feel superior to each other.
00:45:33.14\00:45:37.91
There's no Christian
00:45:38.57\00:45:40.48
who should go anywhere
00:45:40.52\00:45:42.40
putting other people down
00:45:42.50\00:45:44.73
because "to whom much is given,"
00:45:44.94\00:45:47.56
"much is required. If
you know more than I know,"
00:45:47.66\00:45:51.72
"you should do more than I do. "
00:45:51.75\00:45:54.53
And there's a whole world
out there, and by the way,
00:45:55.34\00:45:58.56
believe it or not, Jesus said
00:45:58.59\00:46:01.17
the only way people really
know that you belong to Me,
00:46:01.27\00:46:05.73
take your Bible now and
turn to John 13 if you will.
00:46:05.95\00:46:10.07
John 13:35
00:46:10.10\00:46:14.67
And we're going
to read together.
00:46:19.67\00:46:22.38
And I can tell you brothers
and sisters that every time
00:46:22.41\00:46:26.22
I think about it, it amazes me.
00:46:26.25\00:46:30.24
Many of you
believe in washing feet.
00:46:31.62\00:46:34.92
Celebrating the ordnance
of humility, as they call it,
00:46:36.10\00:46:40.46
but how many of us
00:46:41.07\00:46:43.33
wash the feet of
people we don't know?
00:46:43.77\00:46:47.01
You can wash your friend's
feet for 35 and 40 years,
00:46:49.15\00:46:53.52
that won't prove very much.
00:46:55.88\00:46:57.32
How many of you have
washed a teenager's feet?
00:46:57.35\00:47:01.18
How many of you have
washed a little child that
00:47:01.66\00:47:03.92
had been
baptized, he's 10 years old.
00:47:03.95\00:47:06.38
How many of you have washed
a little child's feet 10 years
00:47:06.41\00:47:09.77
of age?
00:47:09.80\00:47:11.14
The purpose of that service
is not just to go through
00:47:12.00\00:47:15.23
a ritual.
00:47:15.26\00:47:16.55
It's supposed to let everybody
know that you're somebody,
00:47:16.69\00:47:20.74
because the same Jesus
that died for you, died for me,
00:47:20.77\00:47:25.16
and I'm honored
to wash your feet.
00:47:25.19\00:47:28.08
I praise the Lord,
and I ask you today,
00:47:28.78\00:47:32.09
let's read John 13:35,
this is what Jesus said,
00:47:32.80\00:47:36.15
I didn't say it, Jesus said it.
00:47:36.18\00:47:38.38
Let's read together:
00:47:38.41\00:47:41.29
"By this shall all men
know that ye are my disciples,"
00:47:41.33\00:47:46.96
"if ye have love
one for another. "
00:47:46.99\00:47:52.59
She missed him.
00:47:55.09\00:47:56.75
She was his
Sabbath school teacher,
00:47:57.90\00:48:00.78
and she missed him.
00:48:01.17\00:48:03.37
And so, she went to see him.
00:48:04.00\00:48:07.10
When she got to the house
00:48:09.93\00:48:12.32
the young man saw her coming.
00:48:12.89\00:48:15.36
He did not want to be bothered,
00:48:16.94\00:48:20.59
so he goes out of the backdoor
00:48:21.71\00:48:24.22
and she doesn't see him again...
00:48:25.67\00:48:28.40
that time,
00:48:28.67\00:48:30.47
but she comes back again.
00:48:30.51\00:48:32.89
He sees her, and
they have a game going on.
00:48:35.20\00:48:38.84
As she would
come, he would leave.
00:48:40.21\00:48:43.66
She would come
again, he would leave.
00:48:44.24\00:48:46.62
Oh, by the way,
00:48:46.65\00:48:48.56
that's the way the
Holy Spirit does you.
00:48:48.79\00:48:52.25
He's not going to
ever let you alone.
00:48:53.32\00:48:56.94
As long as there is
hope for your salvation,
00:48:58.09\00:49:01.88
He will come again, and again
and again, and I want to ask you
00:49:02.54\00:49:08.47
don't put people
down who don't respond
00:49:08.50\00:49:12.00
the first time. Stay with them,
love them, go back to see them,
00:49:12.04\00:49:18.57
care about them.
00:49:18.88\00:49:23.45
She went 19 times.
00:49:23.48\00:49:28.02
The last time she went,
the boy's father, who wasn't
00:49:30.11\00:49:34.05
a Christian, said these words
to her: "Lady, you sure must"
00:49:34.08\00:49:38.75
"love my son. "
00:49:38.78\00:49:41.46
He said: "I'm his daddy,"
00:49:41.64\00:49:43.81
"and I want you to
know that next week"
00:49:44.53\00:49:47.81
"he's going to be in
church. I'll see to it. "
00:49:47.84\00:49:52.29
What about the
teenagers in your church?
00:49:54.81\00:49:58.09
What about the people who
were dropped from the role
00:49:59.56\00:50:03.12
because of their
discipline and their behavior.
00:50:03.15\00:50:06.90
Do you still love them?
00:50:07.62\00:50:10.21
Will you go out of
your way to save them?
00:50:11.15\00:50:14.65
What about your
relatives? When you take out
00:50:14.86\00:50:18.28
your check book, how much
money have you spent on your
00:50:18.31\00:50:22.97
relatives? Your uncles,
aunts, cousins and others
00:50:23.00\00:50:26.08
who don't know Christ, How
much have you spent on them
00:50:26.11\00:50:29.53
to give them the
3 angle's messages
00:50:29.56\00:50:32.45
and tell them about God's love.
00:50:32.48\00:50:34.52
How much money have you spent?
00:50:34.55\00:50:36.76
How much time have you spent?
00:50:36.79\00:50:39.16
We buy shoes, dresses, cars,
boats, planes, travel wherever
00:50:41.23\00:50:45.37
we want to go, how
much money have you spent?
00:50:45.40\00:50:48.14
One sent his brother
the "Message" magazine
00:50:48.17\00:50:50.88
for 30 years.
00:50:50.91\00:50:53.54
As the Message
magazine came to the house
00:50:53.58\00:50:56.70
the brother would say: "My
brother is trying to make me"
00:50:56.73\00:50:59.35
"a Christian, I don't want
to hear it. " and he wouldn't
00:50:59.38\00:51:01.94
throw it away, he would just go
and put it over in the garage.
00:51:01.97\00:51:05.48
One day the Message magazine
came and it caught his eye
00:51:05.51\00:51:10.02
and guess what he
did, he started reading it.
00:51:10.92\00:51:14.65
He was changed.
00:51:18.00\00:51:19.98
He gave his life to the Lord
00:51:20.36\00:51:22.73
to walk in the 3
angle's message of light.
00:51:22.77\00:51:26.34
Don't stop loving people
because they turn you down,
00:51:26.61\00:51:29.87
because you don't want to
be bothered. Just ask God for
00:51:29.90\00:51:32.84
another way to go back to them.
00:51:32.87\00:51:36.44
And your children,
some of your children
00:51:37.64\00:51:39.92
are no longer Christians.
00:51:39.95\00:51:41.67
You brought them up,
learnt about Jesus Christ,
00:51:41.70\00:51:45.03
sent them to Christian schools.
00:51:45.06\00:51:46.97
Don't put them down
because they don't dress
00:51:47.00\00:51:50.17
like you want them to dress,
00:51:50.20\00:51:52.50
or look the way
you want them to look,
00:51:52.81\00:51:55.51
and don't tell them
that they embarrass you.
00:51:55.54\00:51:58.05
Look how we embarrass
God with the things He knows
00:51:58.08\00:52:01.35
about us.
00:52:01.38\00:52:03.40
Love you children.
00:52:05.13\00:52:06.60
They are free moral agents.
00:52:07.40\00:52:10.63
And stop saying
they embarrass you.
00:52:10.67\00:52:12.82
I embarrass Christ
by being overweight,
00:52:12.85\00:52:15.99
but He's working on me,
00:52:17.54\00:52:19.88
so don't let anything turn
you away from loving people.
00:52:21.20\00:52:25.73
That's what it's all
about, it's all about love.
00:52:26.67\00:52:28.80
The commandments are
all about love to God,
00:52:28.83\00:52:31.06
love to our fellow man.
00:52:31.09\00:52:33.21
I thank you today, I
just want to encourage you
00:52:35.95\00:52:39.03
to let God make you a channel
of His love to a lost and dying
00:52:39.06\00:52:42.77
world.
00:52:42.80\00:52:44.41
Be kind to people
who don't like you
00:52:44.45\00:52:47.55
because people are going to
bother you all of your life.
00:52:49.13\00:52:52.42
I hate to disturb your peace,
00:52:52.45\00:52:55.34
but Satan's going to see
to it that people bother you
00:52:57.25\00:53:00.21
until you die.
00:53:00.24\00:53:02.20
When you read Luke 6:27,28
do you know what it says there?
00:53:02.97\00:53:08.33
It says "Love your
enemies. " You do have enemies,
00:53:08.36\00:53:13.85
even if you think you are
the sweetest person in the world
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some folk can't stand you.
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He says also: "Do good
to those that hate you. "
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There's folk that hate you
they just haven't told you.
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He said "Bless
those who curse you. "
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And there are people who always
try to make you look small
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with their words.
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Then he said, the last
thing: "Pray for those who"
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"despitefully use
you and persecute you. "
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Notice, Christ never told you
00:53:48.88\00:53:51.37
to respond to
people who do wrong to you
00:53:51.40\00:53:54.47
the same way
they respond to you.
00:53:54.50\00:53:56.82
He says you have
got one up-manship
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He said
"overcome evil with good. "
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Jesus Christ loves
every one of us here today.
00:54:07.64\00:54:11.44
I want to say thank you
00:54:12.21\00:54:14.92
for your being
here and supporting this
00:54:15.41\00:54:18.37
10 commandment weekend.
00:54:18.40\00:54:20.34
But my greatest
concern is that you won't look
00:54:21.14\00:54:24.55
at Jesus Christ as your example.
00:54:24.58\00:54:27.29
There's no other example
that you have. He is your
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example and He loves you,
He died for you, He's coming
00:54:31.24\00:54:34.72
back again for you,
and if you don't make it,
00:54:34.75\00:54:38.86
it'll be nobody
else's fault but yours.
00:54:38.89\00:54:42.20
My daddy, he's
now sleeping in Jesus,
00:54:42.60\00:54:47.35
but I want you to know
that my daddy saw me going
00:54:48.39\00:54:52.14
up fools hill one time
00:54:52.17\00:54:54.95
and my daddy said to me: "Son,"
00:54:55.97\00:54:58.55
"your mother and I want
to be saved, but, now son,"
00:54:58.84\00:55:02.11
"in the event that you
don't want to be saved,"
00:55:02.14\00:55:05.72
"I still want to be saved.
" Then he said these powerful
00:55:05.75\00:55:10.30
words, he said: "Remember this,
I am not going to miss you"
00:55:10.33\00:55:14.85
"forever. "
00:55:14.88\00:55:16.56
"I will not be in
heaven miserable and crying"
00:55:17.73\00:55:21.63
"because you are not there.
I will enjoy all the fruit"
00:55:21.73\00:55:25.96
"on the tree of life"
00:55:25.99\00:55:28.05
"because God is going to"
00:55:29.17\00:55:31.07
"wipe away all tears from
our eyes and the former things"
00:55:31.10\00:55:36.42
"will not come to mind. "
and he said, "Son, if you're"
00:55:36.49\00:55:39.29
"not there, you're one
of the former things. "
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It's your decision
00:55:48.02\00:55:49.63
to live for Christ.
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Don't follow the crowd.
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I want the privilege on
day, of casting my crown
00:55:56.39\00:56:00.38
at Jesus' feet
00:56:00.41\00:56:02.51
and thanking Him
for so great salvation.
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Do you want to be
there to thank Him personally
00:56:06.44\00:56:09.05
for so great salvation.
Would you raise your hand
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if you mean it.
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Let us pray. Father
in Heaven, I thank you
00:56:13.70\00:56:16.22
so much for your matchless
love for each one of us
00:56:16.25\00:56:20.67
here today.
00:56:20.70\00:56:22.66
Lead us in obedience to
all of your commandments.
00:56:22.86\00:56:26.93
Not because we're scared
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but because of what you
did for us when you gave Christ
00:56:29.66\00:56:33.99
to us for eternity.
00:56:34.02\00:56:36.77
In His name we pray,
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let all the people say Amen.
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