I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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We gather together to
ask the Lord's blessing
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He chastens and
hastens His will to make known
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The wicked oppressing
now cease from distressing
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Sing praises to His Name,
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He forgets not His own
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We all do extol Thee,
Thou Leader triumphant
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And pray that Thou
still our Defender will be
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Let Thy
congregation escape tribulation
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Thy Name be ever praised!
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O Lord, make us free!
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Hello and welcome
to 3ABN family worship.
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If you're watching
on a Friday evening
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then you are just preparing
to go into the Sabbath.
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And depending on
where you are in the world
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you maybe into the Sabbath hours
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or on the eve of
the Sabbath hours
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or in expectance
see of the Sabbath hours
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and we welcome.
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If you are
watching on Saturday evening
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then you are
expecting a brand new week
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and you have just concluded
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or are concluding with
us the sacred Sabbath hours.
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So we welcome you
to our family worship.
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Now family as a word
means a lot of things.
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There is the blood family
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and we have blood
family members here.
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My wife is here,
Jorge Jaque and his wife
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and mother-in-law
and daughter are here.
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So that's family.
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But family can also
mean groups of people
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who are gathered together
by specific common bonds.
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By bonds of
faith, by bonds of love,
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by bonds of friendship,
by bonds of working together.
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So the word family
has many, many meanings
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and your family maybe those
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who are part of
your immediate family,
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your siblings, your
parents, your children,
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your cousins, your aunts,
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but there may be
people who believe as you do,
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who pray as you do,
who preach as you do,
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who go to the same church
they are also your family.
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Your neighbor friends
maybe part of your family.
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So whatever definition
of family you have today,
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we welcome you to this family,
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this there I say
rainbow family of different hues
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and different--
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we come different places
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but we are
heading to the same place
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and that's to
the kingdom of God.
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We are heading towards heaven.
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And so we want you
to join us this day
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as we worship God
in spirit in truth
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as we celebrate the Sabbath day
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which is either
just coming in for you
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or which has just
left regardless of how
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you find yourself
at this point and time.
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Would you now celebrate
with us as we pray together,
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sing together, worship
together on this family worship?
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We want to go to
a very popular song
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in the
Seventh-day Adventist church
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and really around the world
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and that's "Redeemed,
How I Love to Proclaim It!"
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If you have the hymnal
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it is 338, how it shall be.
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So let's go to 338 and sing
all three stanzas of "Redeemed,
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How I Love to Proclaim It!"
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Redeemed, how I
love to proclaim it!
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Redeemed by the
blood of the Lamb
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Redeemed thro'
His infinite mercy
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His child, and forever, I am
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Redeemed, redeemed
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Redeemed by the
blood of the Lamb
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Redeemed, how I
love to proclaim it!
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His child and forever I am
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I think of my blessed Redeemer
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I think of Him all the day long
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I sing, for I cannot be silent
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His love is the theme of my song
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Redeemed, redeemed
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Redeemed by the
blood of the Lamb
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Redeemed, how I
love to proclaim it!
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His child and forever I am
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I know I shall see in His beauty
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The King in whose law I delight
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Who lovingly
guardeth my footsteps
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And giveth me songs in the night
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Redeemed, redeemed
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Redeemed by the
blood of the Lamb
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Redeemed, how I
love to proclaim it!
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His child and forever I am
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Amen.
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Let me introduce to you
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the members of
this particular family
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for tonight's worship.
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We have Jorge Jaque, and
Lynette and Betty and Irma
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and Noelia and I'm C.A.,
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and welcome you to
our worship experience.
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In the ancient
Greek, just going back over
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some of the things
that we started in school
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on Friday the day
was called Paraskevi,
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which means the day just before
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or in preparation of or the day
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that stands along
side the Sabbath day.
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The Hebrew word was Yom Shishi
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which had the same meaning,
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the day that stands
beside the Sabbath day.
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And what is interesting
about the ancient Hebrew
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and the ancient Greek,
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you are confused
about the days of week
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because they were all
just opposed to the Sabbath.
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You had Kyriake or Sunday.
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The original term was
prote which was first day
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and then the Greeks
marked off the days,
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first day,
second day, third day,
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fourth day, fifth day, sixth day
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or eve of the
Sabbath and then Sabbath.
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So there was no
confusion about the days.
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This Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
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stuff came in a lot later.
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But you are
ancient Greek you would say
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I will see you on the third day.
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So there's no doubt about
the day that's gonna see you
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because three days of
now we are gonna be together
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or I would see you on
the eve of the Sabbath
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and the Hebrew's were much more
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dependent upon the
Sabbath for their numbering.
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Their days were one,
heading to the Sabbath,
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two, heading to the Sabbath,
three, heading to the Sabbath,
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four, heading to the Sabbath,
five, heading to the Sabbath,
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eve of the Sabbath and Sabbath.
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So you couldn't get confused.
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Yeah, it's interesting
that Portuguese right now
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has a modern language.
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Has the same-- I
mean, name for the days.
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Monday is the
second, Tuesday is the third
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and so on, so on until
Friday which is the sixth,
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sixth day of the week.
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They call it second, third,
fourth and till the sixth.
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And the Sabbath is Sabbath.
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I did not know
that, that's makes
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so much more much easier
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certainly to
figure out your days
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because everything is based
on the central day of the week
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which they say as Sabbath.
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So you had, one, two, three,
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four, five,
preparation, Sabbath.
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That's nice and neat.
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That alone
affirms the seventh day.
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If anybody ask a
question of calendars be changed
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or been tried to be changed
you cannot go wrong with them.
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Sunday eventually
became Kyriakos or Lord' day
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or Kyriake, Lord's day
but originally it was prote,
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proti which is simply first day.
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So your numbers weren't
right up towards Sabbath
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and particularly the
ancient Hebrews they--
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everything was
based on the Sabbath.
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On the Sabbath you had a
extra loaf of bread to eat.
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You had a nice Sabbath meal.
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They tried to make the
Sabbath a very special day,
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a very exciting day, a
very happy day for the family
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and for the young people.
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It wasn't a dry, formal day
but it was a day of gladness,
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a day of
celebration, a day of joy,
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a day that was looked forward to
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and a day that
was much anticipated
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by the ancient Hebrews.
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And I think that's
how we should celebrate
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the Sabbath day, shouldn't we?
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It ought to be a
day of celebration,
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a day of joy yeah,
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for those of us
who preach and teach
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it is not necessarily a rest day
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although it is a
change of Labor Day.
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You are not
working for yourself,
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you are working
for the Lord, right?
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Yeah, there are some--
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we have had this conversation
not too long ago with the kids.
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Sometimes like for instance,
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somebody needs to
help another person
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like a doctor or nurse,
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somebody got hurt
on the Sabbath day,
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Sabbath day say they service.
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So a doctor would serve
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somebody helping
them to feel better
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and same thing with our
firefighter for instance.
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If a house is burning
down we have to, we need help
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and Sabbath is a day of service.
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Yes, Christ had his
lawful to do good on a Sabbath.
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I'll tell you a quick story.
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Years ago one of my elders
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of my church in
Freeport, Long Island,
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his burnt on Friday night
and it burnt into the morning.
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So we are all in
church in our suits and ties
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and I got word
just before the sermon
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that his house
was still on fire.
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And so I stood
up for the sermon,
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I said the sermon for today
is go home, change your clothes
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and we are going
to help our elder.
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And someone said,
is that the sermon?
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I said that's it.
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Stand for the
benediction. God bless you.
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I will see you in Brooklyn
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and we spent the
Sabbath afternoon helping him--
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you know there
was water everywhere
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and some of the
ladies cooked food
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and we spent the
Sabbath day helping our brother
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who needed our help.
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And I think
that's also a good way
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leading to observe the Sabbath,
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yeah, helping
those who are in need.
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Yeah. So we have done that.
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And on Friday
evenings or in the night Sid,
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and she plays
the piano little bit.
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She doesn't like
to let that get out
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but she plays, she plugs
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and she has been
playing for many years.
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She plugs and we sing
and we praise the Lord.
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But it's good to
separate yourself from the week,
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from the work a day
week, from the rushing
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and the hustle and the bustle
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and kind of
slowdown a little bit
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and serve, and serve the Lord.
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You know, my
sister has a situation
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since last this last year.
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She is having two grandchildren
with her to go to school
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and so they
basically living with them.
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When she went for to
put in, in their hearts
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and their minds
about the Sabbath
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is that Friday
night-- the every Friday night
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they have the same exact meal.
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And the little one's like pizzas
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so every Friday
night they have pizza.
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So now when the children,
when Thursday is coming
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they are all very
excited for Friday
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that Sabbath is coming
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so we are having
pizza on Friday night
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and I think that's
such a wonderful thing
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because they are
coming into the Sabbath,
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very happy and
looking forward to
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not just the pizza
but reminds them of Jesus.
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Definitely, they love
the routine of Sabbath,
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it's really important
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and that's
something that my husband
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and I have been
trying to maintain
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and enhance and
allow to evolve if you will
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as the children grow,
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the same thing you did
when they were two or three
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isn't gonna ramp them
up and get them excited.
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So you find new
materials, new things.
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Sometimes it gets pretty silly
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when you are getting
ready to walk on the Sabbath
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and why shouldn't
it be a little bit
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so because that joyfulness
needs to come through,
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especially with the kids.
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You just want to make it
such a part of your family
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that they will carry
with them into adult hood
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and on to their families.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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The ancient
Hebrews really fought
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against making the
Sabbath a dry formal day.
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Now by the time of
Christ the Pharisees
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and the Sadducees in particular
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had put so much
legislation on the Sabbath
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in trying not to
offend the Sabbath
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they over
legislated the Sabbath.
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You going what 3,000 steps,
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you gonna do
this, you can't do that,
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you can do this,
you can't do that.
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They actually took
the joy out of the Sabbath
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but the original intent
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was for the
Sabbath to be a happy day.
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We used to sing in
school in Sabbath school,
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"Sabbath is a happy
day, happy day, happy day."
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You know, and to
have the young people
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and stand it is a happy day.
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It is a day for joy. It
is a day for excitement.
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And maybe just a
little silliness in the Lord
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so that they anticipate
the coming of the Sabbath
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and not dread the
coming of the Sabbath, yeah,
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and we praise the Lord for that.
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Got a little reading
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from our morning
watch that I found
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those very, very interesting
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and we want to just
take a look at this just now
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and then maybe I will
have you, you guys listen
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and then sort of
respond to this reading.
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It's entitled Kind
and Courteous words
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and it comes from Isaiah 50:4.
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"The Lord God hath given
me the tongue of the learned,
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that I should know how
to speak a word in season
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to him that is weary, he
wakeneth morning by morning,
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and wakeneth mine ear
to hear as the learned."
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Isaiah 50:4.
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"What Christ was in His earth--
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in His life on this earth
that every Christian is to be.
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He is our example,
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not only in His spotless purity,
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but in His patience, gentleness,
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winsomeness of disposition.
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He was firm as a rock
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where truth and
duty were concerned,
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but He was
invariably kind and courteous.
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His life was a perfect
illustration of true courtesy.
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His presence brought
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a purer
atmosphere into the home,
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and His life was as leaven
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working amid the
elements of society.
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Harmless and undefiled,
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He walked among the thoughtless,
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the rude, the uncourteous
amid the unjust publicans,
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the unrighteous Samaritans,
the heathen soldiers,
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the rough peasants,
and the mixed multitude.
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He spoke a word of sympathy here
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and a word there
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as He saw men weary
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and compelled to
bear heavy burdens.
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He shared their
burdens and repeated to them
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the lessons He had
learned from nature,
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of the love, the
kindness, the goodness of God.
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He sought to inspire
with hope the most rough,
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unpromising, setting before them
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the assurance
that they might become
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blameless and harmless,
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attaining such a character
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as would make them
manifest as children of God.
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Jesus sat an honored guest
at the table of the publicans,
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by His sympathy
and social kindliness
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showing that He recognized
the dignity of humanity
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and men longed to become
worthy of His confidence.
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Upon their thirsty
souls His words fell
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with blessed, life-giving power.
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New impulses were awakened,
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and the possibility of a
new life opened to" those
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or rather "to these
outcasts of society.
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The religion of Jesus
softens whatever is hard
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and rough in the temper
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and smooth's off
whatever is rugged
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and sharp in the manners.
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It is this religion
that makes the words gentle
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and the demeanor winning.
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Let us learn from Christ
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how to combine a
high sense of purity
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and integrity with
sunniness of disposition.
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A kind, courteous Christian
is the most powerful argument
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that can be produced
in favor of the gospel."
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I will read
that last line again.
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"A kind, courteous Christian
is the most powerful argument
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that can be produced
in favor of the gospel."
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It's a powerful reading.
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Anybody want to comment on that,
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what does it say to you
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this reading
about being like Christ?
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Always impacted the way that
Jesus related to other people
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and its repeated over
and over in the gospel that
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He wasn't surrounded
necessarily by the nice people
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or the
politically correct people.
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He was always
surrounded with people
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they were at the age
of being either thieves
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or not very good reputation
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and with that it seems like
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He was in a way involving
Himself with a wrong crowd.
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But what you've
read the last part
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that was so powerful
because a kind spirit
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this loving attitude
that He had to everybody
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it was transforming
the hearts of those people.
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So I always think
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how important for us is not
to discriminate against the--
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what we see or
recognize as something
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that is outside of a person.
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Well, I'm not gonna get involved
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with this person or that person
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because he is too rough
or they seem not very kind.
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By the contrary we
need to reach out to them
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and do what Jesus did.
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Yeah, it really
illustrates the potency
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of a Christ like life of
trying to live your life.
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You may never say a
word to them about the Bible
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but if they see you behaving
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in this wonderful
kind loving manner,
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it can turn aside
all sorts of their evil
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in their lives
and in their hearts.
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Well, said.
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Anything that
whatever there is a contrast
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that are people
that are going to observe
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and its gonna be
called the attention--
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Even if you don't
want them to be observing
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you, you need to be--
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Exactly. Living
true to your faith.
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And so the difference
between Christ example
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and the people surrounding
Him was a big contrast.
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And so it was something
to look and its what the way
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its supposed to be
with us now a days.
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A couple of things pop out
at me in thinking about this.
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I was saying someone--
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something to
someone the other day
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to the effect that
there is no really call--
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real call of the Bible
for people to be nice to us.
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The Bible doesn't say
people have to be nice to me.
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The Bible says I
have to be nice to them.
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So its not okay, well,
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you treat me nice,
I will treat you nice.
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You don't treat me
nice and-- that's not,
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Bible doesn't do that
kind of tit for tat thing.
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That's a very good.
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Yeah, there is no, there is no,
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there is no
calling that Bible says
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people have to treat me nice.
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The call is for me
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to let Christ love
shine out of my life
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regardless of how I'm treated
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and not to wait
to be treated nice
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but to start by treating nice.
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And usually nice begins nice.
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You know if you start
with nice, you send out nice,
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nice comes back
even if un-nice comes
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you got to send out nice
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because the call on
you is to live like Christ
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so that they can
see Christ in you.
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Is that not so, you agree?
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Absolutely. Absolutely.
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Yeah, so its very
important that we that--
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and then too and I like this
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we are told that
wherever Christ is in a life
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it tends to smooth
off the rough edges, amen.
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You know it does, it tends
to smooth off the rough edges
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and makes the Christian
kinder and more inviting.
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And here's a thing Imra,
Betty, Lynette, Jorge, Noelia.
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When I say to you Lynette,
how are you doing today?
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That's a courtesy
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and that's something
that Christians ought to do.
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But it doesn't necessarily mean
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that I'm ready to
hear every ache, pain,
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its glitch that you got.
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You know what I'm saying?
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If-- and I think
we need to be honest
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you are gonna having a good day,
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I'm gonna having a good day.
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But if every time I
see Lynette and I say,
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how you are
doing and I get oh boy,
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its-- I'm ready to
jump off the cliff.
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This is it, you know,
after a while I'm gonna say,
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hey God bless you.
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You know, I'm not gonna ask.
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So if God is in your life
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you got something to
praise that Lord for it.
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And no life is all party.
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No life is all sunshine.
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I have a good
Korean friend that says,
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if a person who
laughs all the time
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has a mental problem.
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It's a Koran proverb, you know.
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He says if he is
smiling lot of time
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something is wrong out there.
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But having said that
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there ought to be
enough in the Christian life
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for us to say
even in the bad times
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God is good and its
going to be all right.
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Don't you think?
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Yes. Yeah.
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I think also that to me
practice is very important.
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You know, there are things that
doesn't come out of us so easy,
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especially when
you are not having,
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you are not
having a good day or yes,
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you see people that, you know,
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don't necessarily
are too happy with but,
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you know, as you practice
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and as you ask God to
help you it comes natural
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and it really feels
nice when you are able,
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even if they
don't respond, you know,
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it feels good and
give you peace also.
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And we have some good
examples among our fellows here
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especially at 3ABN
we have Larry Mc Lucas.
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No matter what's
going on in his life,
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how are you doing, Larry?
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It's a wonderful day. Yeah.
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And he has been my role model
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because when people ask me
how are you doing, Lynette?
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That's like I'm
practically perfect
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in every way because it's true.
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God is working on
me. I'm getting there.
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Amen. Amen. Amen.
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Yeah, and I think if you can
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almost talk that into existence,
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if you talk that,
if you talk faith,
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you actually build faith.
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If you talk
hope, you build hope.
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If you talk joy, you build joy.
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To a contrary if you
talk morose, you talk sadness,
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if you talk evil that
attends a draw that to you
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and your life is
made better by your speech
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and you can talk joy,
I think into your life.
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Another important
aspect is that it helps me
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if I, if I'm positive
and have a positive attitude
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I keep telling these too my kids
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for instance that we always
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have to have a
positive attitude.
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So but if I preach this
but I don't practice it,
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it doesn't
really give the effect
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but if I really go
giving positive reinforcement
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to my wife for
instance it helps me.
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It will help her of
course but it will help me too.
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It will help me to
say, Lynette or mom how--
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are you having a good day?
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And if I do it genuinely,
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if I do it with
really wishing them
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that they are having a
good day or if they are not,
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if I'm really
genuinely interested in them
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that helps me.
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Now you were saying like,
you can say hi to somebody,
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how are you doing?
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Also there's
different ways to do it.
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You can say, how
you are doing and go on
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and just the next
person and the next person.
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Yes.
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I think we also have to do it
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with a intent of really making
the other person feel better.
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Yes. Yes. Yes.
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And you just
saying how you doing
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and how are you doing.
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When I came out of the
hospital after my surgery
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I had people coming to
me and saying you know,
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C.A., how are you doing?
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You know, and they
were projecting on me
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you are doing bad
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and I'm like
hey, `I'm doing great.
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I'm in pain and
I've got a new heart
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and I'm doing, I'm doing good.
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So your expectation
can come out in your way
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and I really believe that love,
begets love and joy begets joy.
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And you can push out joy,
joy is coming back to you.
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And whatever you send
out is gonna come back
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and if you send out
Jesus, Jesus is coming back,
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you know, that's the way it is,
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yeah, and I
really, truly believe that.
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So the reading here
tells us that words of sympathy
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and it isn't not to be a sermon
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or a long drawn
out kind of thing
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but just words of sympathy.
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I'm praying for
you is gonna be better,
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tomorrow is gonna
be a brighter day,
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does a lot to life
a person's continence
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and to help them along the way.
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Yeah, amen.
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Take a quick story and
then I want to go to prayer.
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The funeral I
ever did was a lady
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who tall, beautiful woman
who was struck with cancer
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and was sent to the hospital
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and one of those hospitals
that they have in New York City
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where you just
go basically to die.
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They will send you there
and they will kind of keep you
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medicated and quiet
and not so much pain
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but she sang every day
and she wasn't a great singer.
00:27:27.78\00:27:33.25
Betty, she is
like you say you are.
00:27:33.28\00:27:35.25
You know, she says, she is
not a great singer but she sang.
00:27:35.28\00:27:37.92
And when you sing with
Jesus so you miss a note
00:27:37.95\00:27:40.52
who cares, you
sing unto the Lord.
00:27:40.56\00:27:41.89
But she sang every
day and she had cancer
00:27:43.09\00:27:45.39
and she was I guess
about your height Lynette,
00:27:45.43\00:27:47.56
5.6, 5.7, 5.8 in that general
00:27:47.60\00:27:50.43
and when I met her she
was already down to 89 pounds
00:27:51.97\00:27:55.84
but still singing for the Lord.
00:27:55.87\00:27:57.67
And just
sharing joy in the ward.
00:27:57.71\00:28:02.64
And when she finally
passed and we had the funeral
00:28:02.68\00:28:06.31
many of the doctors and
nurses, the hospital attendance,
00:28:06.35\00:28:09.48
her oncologist they
all came to the funeral.
00:28:09.52\00:28:12.42
And when I questioned
them their statement to me was
00:28:12.45\00:28:15.62
we just wanted to
see the kind of church
00:28:15.66\00:28:17.49
that produces a
person like this.
00:28:17.53\00:28:19.73
It wasn't the
church that produced her,
00:28:19.76\00:28:21.23
it was Christ that
produced that life.
00:28:21.26\00:28:23.57
And her life for
Christ stayed strong.
00:28:23.60\00:28:28.20
Her love for Christ
rather stayed strong
00:28:28.24\00:28:30.21
till she closed
her eyes in death.
00:28:30.24\00:28:31.64
And that's what
Christ can do for you.
00:28:32.47\00:28:35.48
He can, He can keep you joyful
00:28:35.51\00:28:37.91
and when you ask her
00:28:37.95\00:28:39.68
there was a time at the
end where she could not speak
00:28:39.71\00:28:42.12
but if you asked her she was
she would say, I'm all right.
00:28:42.15\00:28:47.82
You know, I'm in
pain and I'm dying
00:28:47.86\00:28:50.23
I know that but my soul is fine,
00:28:50.26\00:28:53.19
my heart is fine,
I'm okay, I'm okay.
00:28:53.23\00:28:56.30
So you left the
room feeling better
00:28:56.33\00:29:00.00
than you did then
you did when you went in.
00:29:00.04\00:29:02.34
Because if you went
in down she boosted you
00:29:02.37\00:29:06.27
because you may have-- okay,
00:29:06.31\00:29:07.84
today I got a hangnail,
00:29:07.88\00:29:10.25
you know, today I'm
having a bad hair day.
00:29:10.28\00:29:12.11
This woman is down of
cancer and praising God.
00:29:12.15\00:29:14.18
So your hair ain't so
much, you know, it's not
00:29:14.22\00:29:16.75
because she's got something
but she's also got Jesus.
00:29:16.79\00:29:19.62
So the love of
Christ does soften you,
00:29:24.19\00:29:26.53
does change you,
00:29:26.56\00:29:27.90
does rearrange your thinking
and how you approach life.
00:29:27.93\00:29:31.30
Amen. Yeah. Yeah.
00:29:31.33\00:29:32.67
It is the only thing actually
00:29:32.70\00:29:34.50
because when we
cannot control our feelings
00:29:34.54\00:29:36.74
and our emotions
the Lord can, yes.
00:29:36.77\00:29:43.58
We've got a
couple of prayer requests
00:29:43.61\00:29:45.18
that have come in
00:29:45.21\00:29:46.78
and this prayer request
comes from Daniel who is age 50
00:29:46.82\00:29:51.99
and is alone and is
in severe need of a job.
00:29:52.02\00:29:56.12
He is a caretaker
and says please pray.
00:29:58.96\00:30:03.37
Then we've got Nicole in Germany
00:30:03.40\00:30:06.94
who is in an abusive
situation with her husband
00:30:06.97\00:30:09.74
now resides in the shelter
with her two-year-old son.
00:30:09.77\00:30:12.77
She asked for
prayer for her safety
00:30:12.81\00:30:15.48
that she can find work
so she can provide for her.
00:30:15.51\00:30:18.11
You know, when
you don't have a job
00:30:18.15\00:30:19.48
and you don't have a
way to support yourself
00:30:19.51\00:30:21.32
you feel so alone and so down.
00:30:21.35\00:30:24.12
And so there are many
who are asking for employment
00:30:24.15\00:30:27.96
so that they can take.
00:30:27.99\00:30:29.32
Bryan was involved in
a serious car accident
00:30:29.36\00:30:31.79
and need to have
several surgeries
00:30:32.03\00:30:34.30
in the coming months.
00:30:34.33\00:30:35.66
He is asking for prayer also.
00:30:35.70\00:30:37.83
Elva in Michigan
is in need of prayer.
00:30:37.87\00:30:40.57
She is being attacked by
a severe case of vertigo.
00:30:40.60\00:30:46.91
Dwight lives in London, England
00:30:46.94\00:30:49.08
and has been
diagnosed with glaucoma
00:30:49.11\00:30:51.45
and will have
to undergo surgery.
00:30:51.48\00:30:53.25
He doesn't know yet when
or where this can be done
00:30:53.45\00:30:59.15
but he knows he is going to have
00:30:59.29\00:31:01.06
to have glaucoma surgery.
00:31:01.09\00:31:03.56
I've had that surgery
00:31:03.59\00:31:04.93
and I praising God that
medicine has come a long way
00:31:04.96\00:31:08.90
so that that is not the trauma
and drama that it once was.
00:31:08.93\00:31:12.13
But any time you
kind of go under the knife
00:31:12.17\00:31:14.44
you want the blessing of God.
00:31:14.47\00:31:16.64
Shana in Texas going
through chemo surgery,
00:31:16.67\00:31:21.04
chemotherapy rather
and in need of prayer.
00:31:21.08\00:31:23.85
Robert needs strength from God.
00:31:23.88\00:31:25.31
He is facing spiritual warfare.
00:31:25.35\00:31:28.08
Delia, 15-year-old--
has a 15-year-old daughter
00:31:28.12\00:31:31.55
just released from drug rehab
00:31:31.59\00:31:34.22
has been drawn
into prostitution.
00:31:34.26\00:31:37.09
She also has a 14-year-old son
that is suffering with lupus.
00:31:37.13\00:31:41.73
Hardworking single
mom trying to do best
00:31:41.76\00:31:43.73
she can for her
family but needs strength,
00:31:43.77\00:31:45.90
perseverance and
the encouragement
00:31:45.93\00:31:47.80
that comes from prayer.
00:31:47.84\00:31:50.37
Want to just tell you Delia,
00:31:50.41\00:31:52.71
I know many stories of people
00:31:52.74\00:31:54.68
who are caught in prostitution
00:31:54.71\00:31:56.41
who God has freed
from prostitution.
00:31:56.44\00:31:58.95
Many of them I
have baptized myself
00:31:58.98\00:32:00.38
into the Adventist church
00:32:00.42\00:32:01.75
and into the kingdom of God.
00:32:01.78\00:32:03.12
So these
prayers are not in vain.
00:32:03.15\00:32:04.99
God is able I guarantee you.
00:32:05.02\00:32:06.96
It has happened
many, many, many times.
00:32:06.99\00:32:10.93
Michael in Illinois is in
need of a heart transplant.
00:32:10.96\00:32:15.83
He is combating any
number of heart issues
00:32:15.86\00:32:20.27
and we are praying for Mike.
00:32:20.30\00:32:24.57
Pray that God
protects and gifts favor
00:32:24.61\00:32:27.21
to my elderly mother
00:32:27.24\00:32:29.28
who will be
traveling throughout this month
00:32:29.31\00:32:31.78
and this is from-- we
serve God a lot to pray.
00:32:31.81\00:32:35.48
And I'm gonna
ask my wife to pray.
00:32:35.52\00:32:41.09
And Jorge, would you pray
in Spanish also if you will?
00:32:41.12\00:32:46.49
And let's remember
all of these prayers
00:32:46.53\00:32:49.10
they are any number
00:32:49.13\00:32:50.47
and we will ask God to
just bless these prayers.
00:32:50.50\00:32:54.34
Irma, if you
pray and anybody else
00:32:54.37\00:32:56.20
who wants to
pray you can begin--
00:32:56.24\00:32:58.71
and then Lynette,
Betty, if you wish to
00:32:58.74\00:33:00.71
and then Jorge,
if you would close.
00:33:00.74\00:33:02.24
All ready, shall we pray?
00:33:02.28\00:33:04.45
Our heavenly Father,
00:33:04.48\00:33:06.75
we thank in Lord
for being so kind
00:33:06.78\00:33:09.78
and so merciful towards us.
00:33:09.82\00:33:13.05
We gather here Lord,
00:33:13.09\00:33:14.46
to praise Your name
00:33:14.49\00:33:16.09
and also to bring
to do this petitions
00:33:16.12\00:33:18.96
from our audience
into us are blessing
00:33:18.99\00:33:23.90
and to provide
for all their needs.
00:33:23.93\00:33:26.84
There be
physical and spiritually--
00:33:26.87\00:33:29.77
spiritual or emotional.
00:33:29.80\00:33:32.87
We come today
because You have asked us
00:33:32.91\00:33:35.04
to come into bring our petitions
00:33:35.08\00:33:36.91
to You in our praises.
00:33:36.95\00:33:38.71
So Father, we with
the faith that we have
00:33:38.75\00:33:42.22
and knowing that You can give us
00:33:42.25\00:33:44.49
even a bigger faith
in what You are doing
00:33:44.52\00:33:47.72
and what You can do.
00:33:47.76\00:33:50.09
We just put these petitions
before the throne of grace
00:33:50.13\00:33:54.46
and ask that You attend
to them as You have promised
00:33:54.50\00:33:59.00
think it for Your
promise to answer our prayers
00:33:59.03\00:34:03.61
and give us a heart to
00:34:03.64\00:34:06.47
and the
willingness to accept Your will
00:34:06.51\00:34:10.15
whatever it is knowing
that You have the best interest
00:34:10.18\00:34:13.78
for each one of us
including all of these persons
00:34:13.82\00:34:17.25
who have asked
for healing or helping
00:34:17.29\00:34:23.93
whatever needs they have.
00:34:23.96\00:34:26.70
And we thank You Lord,
and we put them in Your hands
00:34:26.73\00:34:29.56
in the name of Jesus, amen.
00:34:29.60\00:34:32.13
Amen.
00:34:32.17\00:34:33.50
Amen. Amen.
00:35:47.08\00:35:48.64
Amen. Amen.
00:35:48.68\00:35:50.88
And we thank you
for those prayers,
00:35:50.91\00:35:53.58
they give us such strength.
00:35:53.62\00:35:55.15
I want to play a little game.
00:35:55.18\00:35:56.52
I'm going to start a
question and a statement
00:35:58.55\00:36:03.66
and then I want
each of you finish it.
00:36:03.69\00:36:05.03
Okay?
00:36:06.13\00:36:07.46
Okay, here's the statement
00:36:09.00\00:36:10.87
and then you each have
to put an ending on this.
00:36:10.90\00:36:14.14
Life is not perfect
sometimes it is rough
00:36:14.17\00:36:19.57
but I'm happy for--
00:36:20.54\00:36:23.14
and finish that statement, okay.
00:36:23.18\00:36:26.51
Who is first?
00:36:26.55\00:36:28.48
Life is not perfect
sometimes it is rough
00:36:28.52\00:36:32.72
but I'm happy for--
00:36:32.75\00:36:34.69
I'm happy for the fact
that God gonna answer my prayers
00:36:37.06\00:36:41.86
and kind of give
me peace and comfort.
00:36:41.90\00:36:44.70
Amen. Amen.
00:36:44.73\00:36:48.14
I'm thankful for my family
00:36:48.17\00:36:50.57
and the fact that God doesn't
give me more than I can handle.
00:36:50.61\00:36:53.64
Amen.
00:36:53.68\00:36:56.01
Or get to close sometimes.
00:36:56.04\00:36:59.88
He doesn't promise that
00:36:59.91\00:37:01.25
he wouldn't take it to the edge.
00:37:01.28\00:37:02.62
He does that you
probably that you all go over
00:37:02.65\00:37:04.35
and we praise the Lord for that.
00:37:04.39\00:37:07.36
Lynette?
00:37:07.39\00:37:08.72
God just know that He will
give me more than I can handle.
00:37:08.76\00:37:10.43
Praise the Lord.
Praise the Lord, all right.
00:37:10.46\00:37:13.90
I'm glad for the fact that
God is on the throne every day,
00:37:13.93\00:37:18.37
even when I can't
feel that he possibly is
00:37:18.40\00:37:23.27
and that He will never
leave me nor forsake me
00:37:23.30\00:37:26.71
no matter how wide
my path may wander.
00:37:26.74\00:37:31.31
From time to time He
always brings me back
00:37:31.35\00:37:33.78
and I have that just abiding joy
00:37:33.82\00:37:36.95
that He will not give up on me.
00:37:36.99\00:37:38.89
Amen. Amen.
00:37:38.92\00:37:43.12
Noelia?
00:37:43.16\00:37:45.36
I'm happy for my family.
00:37:45.39\00:37:47.30
It's just the most that
I never expected to have
00:37:47.33\00:37:54.47
this a wonderful
family that is among me.
00:37:54.50\00:37:57.61
I recently few weeks back
I lost my father 95 years,
00:37:57.64\00:38:05.28
94 almost 95-years-old
and he was a strong man,
00:38:05.31\00:38:12.55
minister of the gospel.
00:38:12.59\00:38:13.99
He was a pastor for--
00:38:14.02\00:38:16.16
He was a man of steel.
00:38:16.19\00:38:17.53
A man of steel like my
wife says, very much so.
00:38:17.56\00:38:21.50
And family to me as it
will always be an important,
00:38:21.53\00:38:26.33
very important
now I have my family
00:38:26.37\00:38:29.27
and I praise the Lord
00:38:29.30\00:38:30.64
that's I want to
complete the phrase with family.
00:38:30.67\00:38:33.31
Amen. Amen. Praise the Lord.
00:38:33.34\00:38:35.24
Noelia, you want
to jump in on this?
00:38:35.28\00:38:36.95
Thankful that God
gives us another day of lives
00:38:38.21\00:38:41.95
that we can spend
another day telling people
00:38:41.98\00:38:46.09
around the world
about the gospel.
00:38:46.12\00:38:48.22
Amen. Amen.
00:38:48.26\00:38:49.59
Well done. Well done.
00:38:49.62\00:38:50.96
You know, we talk about family
and this is family worship
00:38:50.99\00:38:53.66
and I have to
agree with you, Jorge.
00:38:53.70\00:38:55.50
I think the older you get
00:38:57.80\00:39:00.94
the more precious
family comes to you.
00:39:00.97\00:39:04.67
When I was in college
my mother used to say,
00:39:04.71\00:39:06.71
you will never
call, you will never call.
00:39:06.74\00:39:08.24
You know, you will never call.
You know, you will never call.
00:39:08.28\00:39:10.85
We send money down,
00:39:10.88\00:39:12.71
we never get it,
we never get a word,
00:39:12.75\00:39:14.22
we never call, you never call.
00:39:14.25\00:39:15.58
But as I got older
and got into ministry
00:39:15.62\00:39:17.92
and started working
00:39:17.95\00:39:19.29
I found myself calling
home two or three times a week.
00:39:19.32\00:39:21.12
You know, you just--
00:39:21.16\00:39:22.56
it becomes more precious to you.
00:39:22.59\00:39:24.16
When you are younger you
are little more disposable
00:39:24.19\00:39:26.39
as far as
relationships are concerned
00:39:26.43\00:39:27.76
but as you get
older you found out that
00:39:27.80\00:39:29.30
family is bedrock
however you define it.
00:39:29.56\00:39:32.70
And now I only
have my sister left
00:39:32.73\00:39:36.91
but I've got a new
family in Irma's family.
00:39:36.94\00:39:40.21
And her family and
it maybe a Latino thing
00:39:40.24\00:39:43.71
that they are very close
00:39:43.75\00:39:45.08
and they work very,
very close, you know.
00:39:45.11\00:39:47.82
And while we were
young, while we were dating
00:39:47.85\00:39:51.39
we go places and
everybody would okay,
00:39:51.42\00:39:54.46
well, whose got the hotel room?
00:39:54.49\00:39:55.82
Okay, we have
the hotel room, okay,
00:39:55.86\00:39:57.19
we are coming to
stay with you, you know.
00:39:57.23\00:40:01.63
And up until this
last General Conference
00:40:01.66\00:40:03.80
a couple of weeks ago we
had her brother and sister
00:40:03.83\00:40:07.40
who are very close to
and we travel together
00:40:07.44\00:40:09.34
and I got to learn
this whole Latino thing.
00:40:09.37\00:40:11.21
Why do you have two hotel rooms?
00:40:11.24\00:40:12.87
You got one hotel
room with two beds.
00:40:12.91\00:40:15.71
One couple in one bed,
one couple in the other bed,
00:40:15.74\00:40:18.58
what's the problem? You
know, so I had to learn that.
00:40:18.61\00:40:22.88
And now look, I kind of Jorge,
00:40:22.92\00:40:25.29
we traveled all
over Europe that way.
00:40:25.32\00:40:26.65
You know, that will just saves
the money and just pile in.
00:40:26.69\00:40:29.76
So we are at General Conference
whose got the hotel room?
00:40:29.79\00:40:34.30
Well, we do. Okay,
we are staying with you.
00:40:34.33\00:40:36.90
Oh, by the way our nephew
00:40:36.93\00:40:39.43
he is coming in with
his wife and two kids
00:40:39.47\00:40:41.14
and then the
other nephew is coming
00:40:41.17\00:40:42.60
with his wife and two kids.
00:40:42.64\00:40:45.31
So what's the problem?
00:40:45.34\00:40:46.68
You got a bed that
folds out to a couch,
00:40:46.71\00:40:51.41
we got an air mattress,
00:40:51.45\00:40:52.88
you know, there's two bathrooms,
00:40:52.91\00:40:55.05
what there is a problem?
00:40:55.08\00:40:56.42
You know, that's all
you just, you just pile in
00:40:56.45\00:40:59.22
and you find out
how important family is.
00:40:59.25\00:41:03.59
When I did the classic thing
00:41:03.63\00:41:05.36
I asked her dad for
her hand in marriage
00:41:05.39\00:41:08.16
and he sat on the couch
and cried and I was like okay,
00:41:08.20\00:41:11.13
what does it mean, you
know? Is this tears of joy
00:41:11.17\00:41:15.17
or else he is
regretting her fate?
00:41:15.20\00:41:20.38
I found out later
they were tears of joy.
00:41:20.41\00:41:22.91
But family is so
very, very important.
00:41:22.94\00:41:26.41
So I agree with you that
as long as you got family
00:41:26.45\00:41:31.15
you've got, you've
got and how you define it.
00:41:31.19\00:41:34.32
It could be your work
family, you family here at 3ABN,
00:41:34.36\00:41:37.06
your work
family, you media family,
00:41:37.09\00:41:39.39
your siblings, your
parents, your children
00:41:39.43\00:41:41.56
but as a Christian you
realize how important family is
00:41:41.60\00:41:45.67
and then once you
get to know Christ
00:41:45.70\00:41:48.07
your next burden is to get
your family to know Christ.
00:41:48.10\00:41:51.94
You know, because heaven
is not gonna really be heaven
00:41:51.97\00:41:53.88
if you got so many your members
00:41:53.91\00:41:55.44
on the outside looking in.
00:41:55.48\00:41:56.81
So you develop this
burden for your family
00:41:56.85\00:41:59.95
and it's very, very important.
00:41:59.98\00:42:01.38
It's interesting that
in the Latino community
00:42:01.42\00:42:03.42
also friends
sometimes had some--
00:42:03.45\00:42:08.62
some of them are
closer than a family.
00:42:08.66\00:42:10.66
They become your
auxiliary family.
00:42:10.69\00:42:12.03
Yeah.
00:42:12.06\00:42:13.40
If you don't have
enough they fill in the gaps.
00:42:13.43\00:42:14.76
They fill in the gaps, yeah.
00:42:14.80\00:42:16.30
Yeah. Well said, yeah, yeah.
00:42:16.33\00:42:17.67
Auxiliary family
I love that term.
00:42:17.70\00:42:19.37
Yeah, they come
and they just stay
00:42:19.40\00:42:22.30
like they were their
extension of their home,
00:42:22.34\00:42:25.44
own families if we
had very many times
00:42:25.47\00:42:29.28
that would all of the
sudden we will go with friends,
00:42:29.31\00:42:32.41
hey, can we spend
the night tonight?
00:42:32.45\00:42:35.82
Oh, well, let's
go and so and so.
00:42:35.85\00:42:38.85
I think we
barely know that person
00:42:38.89\00:42:40.56
but it was, you know, its come.
00:42:40.59\00:42:45.06
But I think that's
goes back to our roots.
00:42:45.09\00:42:50.07
We all are connected.
00:42:50.10\00:42:52.47
The other day I was
watching this program on TV
00:42:52.50\00:42:56.34
there coming with this
00:42:56.37\00:42:57.87
ancestry type of program.
00:43:00.54\00:43:03.75
Yeah, ancestral memory.
00:43:03.78\00:43:05.18
Something like
that so they will,
00:43:05.21\00:43:08.28
they can trace your
ancestors back to hundreds
00:43:08.32\00:43:11.75
and hundreds and hundred
and then they finally say well,
00:43:11.79\00:43:14.79
we are all some sort of cousins
or related to each other.
00:43:14.82\00:43:19.73
So there was this
person next to me say well,
00:43:19.76\00:43:23.67
let me look for your name.
00:43:23.70\00:43:25.03
So look at the
name and say oh, yeah,
00:43:25.07\00:43:26.47
we are kind of related.
00:43:26.50\00:43:27.84
So in a way that's what happens.
00:43:27.87\00:43:30.81
We are all family.
Yeah. Yeah. We really are.
00:43:30.84\00:43:33.98
And its-- it is
fun and to find that
00:43:34.01\00:43:37.85
and maybe it's a Latino thing to
00:43:37.88\00:43:40.48
because we will have
a dinner or something
00:43:40.52\00:43:43.32
with our daughter Becky
and she will say well, okay,
00:43:43.35\00:43:48.69
two people are coming
and I will prepare for that.
00:43:48.72\00:43:50.69
and then about five minutes more
00:43:50.73\00:43:52.19
I almost say, well,
I invited so and so.
00:43:52.23\00:43:57.13
And I invited so and so.
00:43:57.17\00:43:58.50
You invited two, okay,
00:43:58.53\00:44:00.00
well, that's and they
are brining so and so.
00:44:00.04\00:44:02.04
you know, and
they are brining some.
00:44:02.07\00:44:04.74
So now two and six
00:44:04.77\00:44:06.78
and you just, you put
another bean in a the pot
00:44:06.81\00:44:08.44
and you pray and praise the Lord
00:44:08.48\00:44:09.81
and some how the Lord blesses it
00:44:09.84\00:44:11.75
and that's all part of family,
yeah, it's a great thing.
00:44:11.78\00:44:16.28
One of my nephew is an Adventist
00:44:16.32\00:44:18.92
and I said to him well,
we may come to visit you
00:44:18.95\00:44:23.96
because we will be in the area.
00:44:23.99\00:44:26.86
He says, oh, at the end
once you would close the doors
00:44:26.90\00:44:31.13
he says anything
can become a bed.
00:44:31.17\00:44:33.57
So you just come.
00:44:33.84\00:44:37.67
I just wanted to share something
00:44:37.71\00:44:39.61
that maybe my wife or
Betty can tell the same story
00:44:39.64\00:44:44.61
because it touched our hearts
00:44:44.65\00:44:46.55
and I know that they
are gonna remember this.
00:44:46.58\00:44:49.08
We were in Pasco, Washington
00:44:49.12\00:44:52.72
and we were
looking for a church,
00:44:52.75\00:44:55.66
a church family
actually and something happened.
00:44:55.69\00:44:59.16
Can you tell
us-- I know, you know,
00:44:59.19\00:45:01.90
what we are talking about.
00:45:01.93\00:45:03.26
Somebody made a big
impression in our life.
00:45:03.30\00:45:05.70
Okay. Well, first things first.
00:45:05.73\00:45:08.14
Let's give credit,
well, credit is to my husband
00:45:08.17\00:45:10.61
snapped his Achilles tendon
00:45:10.64\00:45:13.17
and he was going through
physical therapy at the time
00:45:13.21\00:45:15.88
and the young man
who was doing his PT
00:45:15.91\00:45:18.05
said, "hey, you are Adventist?
Well, why don't you come up
00:45:18.08\00:45:21.55
into my church, I'm
sure you would like it."
00:45:21.58\00:45:23.25
And we had been
to a few churches
00:45:23.28\00:45:25.72
and you know, can
leave you sort of wanting
00:45:25.75\00:45:28.76
when you walk in
and everybody has got
00:45:28.79\00:45:31.33
their own little insulated world
00:45:31.36\00:45:32.96
in their own clicks.
00:45:32.99\00:45:34.76
Well, we went
into this churches--
00:45:34.80\00:45:36.40
Riverview SDA
Church in Pasco, Washington
00:45:36.43\00:45:41.47
and the first
thing that happened is
00:45:41.50\00:45:44.04
this lady came up to
us, this elegant lady.
00:45:44.07\00:45:46.94
She said hi, my name is
January and you are mine
00:45:46.98\00:45:50.71
and she wrapped
herself in a big hug.
00:45:50.75\00:45:53.98
I don't know how she
managed to hug my entire family
00:45:54.02\00:45:55.95
all at once but she
did and from that moment
00:45:55.98\00:45:59.52
that was our church
home out in Washington state.
00:45:59.55\00:46:01.89
Praise the
Lord. Praise the Lord.
00:46:01.92\00:46:03.26
Rather though little
kids would call me grandma.
00:46:03.29\00:46:06.03
It was Grandma Betty
and they still when they--
00:46:06.06\00:46:08.33
they are all taller than her now
00:46:08.36\00:46:09.86
which is indeed
hard to do at this point
00:46:09.90\00:46:12.13
but yeah, they all
call her Grandma Betty
00:46:12.17\00:46:14.84
and we have quite a bit
church family back there.
00:46:14.87\00:46:17.61
Yeah, see that's-- yeah, Betty.
00:46:17.64\00:46:19.47
I still have my
membership there.
00:46:19.51\00:46:21.08
I know, I should change it but--
00:46:21.11\00:46:22.58
Yeah, yeah that--
00:46:22.61\00:46:26.21
Now you are here
so you should come.
00:46:26.25\00:46:28.18
That's what the family does.
00:46:28.22\00:46:29.98
I will tell you a
story we are in New York
00:46:30.02\00:46:32.05
preaching a couple of weeks ago,
00:46:32.09\00:46:34.56
actually a month its all though
and a young man came up to me
00:46:34.59\00:46:37.86
and he was big and
husky and much bigger than I.
00:46:37.89\00:46:41.56
And I looked at the
face and I could tell
00:46:41.60\00:46:44.27
that there was some
connection in some past.
00:46:44.30\00:46:47.77
Thirty five years
ago he and his dad
00:46:47.80\00:46:51.74
had gotten into quite a fight
00:46:51.77\00:46:54.81
and his dad had
thrown him out of the house
00:46:54.84\00:46:57.35
and he really
was on the streets.
00:46:57.38\00:46:59.31
And for a weekend I
took him to my apartment.
00:46:59.35\00:47:02.35
I had a studio apartment.
00:47:02.38\00:47:03.72
Now there are parts of world
00:47:03.75\00:47:05.09
you don't know what
a studio apartment is.
00:47:05.12\00:47:06.45
Studio apartment is a
apartment without a bedroom.
00:47:06.49\00:47:08.62
It is basically
a large living room
00:47:08.66\00:47:10.73
with a foldout
couch and a kitchen area.
00:47:10.76\00:47:13.76
So it's called a
studio apartment.
00:47:13.80\00:47:15.70
Its very high class name
00:47:15.73\00:47:17.70
for basically an
apartment with no bedroom.
00:47:17.73\00:47:21.27
So I had a studio
apartment and so he--
00:47:21.30\00:47:26.01
we made put some
blankets on the floor
00:47:26.04\00:47:27.94
and he stayed with
me for the weekend.
00:47:27.98\00:47:29.48
Took him to church
and then he went back home
00:47:29.51\00:47:33.31
and I had not
seen him for 35 years
00:47:33.35\00:47:37.65
and he came, he is
fairer, fatter, he is married,
00:47:37.69\00:47:41.16
he's got children and
he said, "You don't know,
00:47:41.19\00:47:45.96
you have no idea what
that weekend did for me.
00:47:45.99\00:47:50.90
It turned me
around, it saved my life.
00:47:50.93\00:47:53.80
I was-- I needed to get
thrown out of the apartment.
00:47:53.84\00:47:56.07
I was bad to my father.
00:47:56.10\00:47:58.07
I was an evil young
man going on around world
00:47:58.11\00:48:01.11
but the fact that
somebody took a chance."
00:48:01.14\00:48:03.78
and he remembered
that I left my wallet out,
00:48:03.81\00:48:07.78
you know, he said, and
I saw your wallet there.
00:48:07.82\00:48:11.89
I saw your wallet
there on your dresser
00:48:11.92\00:48:13.79
because it is a
studio apartment,
00:48:13.82\00:48:15.16
there is no
place to hide anything.
00:48:15.19\00:48:16.59
He said, "you
left your wallet there
00:48:16.62\00:48:18.69
and I didn't have any money"
00:48:18.73\00:48:21.43
but I said, "this guy is
doing something good for me."
00:48:21.46\00:48:23.77
and now he has got a
job, he has got a family,
00:48:23.80\00:48:26.94
he is a member of the church,
00:48:26.97\00:48:28.30
his children are baptized.
00:48:28.34\00:48:29.67
Do you remember he
came up to me and hugged me?
00:48:29.70\00:48:31.64
He gave such he
lift me off my feet.
00:48:31.67\00:48:33.21
He is such a big guy but he was
a thin stripling of a young man
00:48:33.24\00:48:36.24
back in the early mind 70s
00:48:36.28\00:48:42.02
and he is doing wonderful now.
00:48:42.05\00:48:44.59
So the love of Christ can--
00:48:44.62\00:48:46.92
when shown can
really change a life
00:48:46.96\00:48:49.32
it can really
do so much for you.
00:48:49.36\00:48:51.73
And family the
definition gets expanded.
00:48:51.76\00:48:54.36
So we are family.
00:48:54.40\00:48:55.73
He is a family member I
haven't seen for 35 years
00:48:55.76\00:48:57.70
but he considers
me part of a family
00:48:57.73\00:48:59.53
and he part of mine because
00:48:59.57\00:49:00.90
there's something we
did one weekend 35 years go.
00:49:00.94\00:49:04.14
Yeah, so that's family,
00:49:04.17\00:49:05.51
yeah, and we
praise the Lord for that.
00:49:05.54\00:49:06.88
Those actions become
such cherished memories
00:49:06.91\00:49:10.11
for the person who
is affected by them
00:49:10.15\00:49:12.35
and you remain in
stases in their mind
00:49:12.38\00:49:15.48
and in their hearts
and when they see you
00:49:15.52\00:49:17.15
there is no age,
00:49:17.19\00:49:18.52
there is no years of
distance between you.
00:49:18.55\00:49:20.76
They just know that
you were that person.
00:49:20.79\00:49:22.62
Yeah. Yeah. Well said, because
it's kind of frozen in time
00:49:22.66\00:49:25.79
that moment in time.
00:49:25.83\00:49:27.16
Now having said that
before our times gets away
00:49:27.20\00:49:28.93
you've all got
some good letters,
00:49:28.96\00:49:30.30
some kind of positive
letters and these are letters
00:49:30.33\00:49:32.90
that kind of-- the Bible says,
00:49:32.93\00:49:34.34
"A good report
fattens the soul."
00:49:34.37\00:49:36.77
You know, you kind of
put on spiritual weight.
00:49:36.81\00:49:39.47
So let's you take a
chance and read just one
00:49:39.51\00:49:42.84
and then we will see
how much time we have left
00:49:42.88\00:49:44.48
before our time gets away.
00:49:44.51\00:49:45.85
We kind of
fatten up a little bit
00:49:45.88\00:49:47.22
on some good
reports of the Lord.
00:49:47.25\00:49:49.48
I have one that
is-- it comes from Eddie
00:49:49.52\00:49:53.36
from St. Louis,
Missouri and he says
00:49:53.39\00:49:56.19
"Dear, 3ABN, God is good.
00:49:56.22\00:49:59.59
What marvelous things are
being done since I started
00:49:59.63\00:50:03.53
wearing my 3ABN
lapel pin, people stop me
00:50:03.57\00:50:08.60
and ask all kinds of questions.
00:50:08.64\00:50:11.11
Most of the tenants do
not have access to 3ABN.
00:50:11.14\00:50:14.74
I explain to them
that I have a converter box
00:50:14.78\00:50:19.01
and then some of them
have already purchased
00:50:19.05\00:50:22.42
one while others
are planning to do so.
00:50:22.45\00:50:26.55
There is a Mexican
family here from-- who I met
00:50:26.59\00:50:31.56
through the lapel pin and
there is a joy in their faces
00:50:31.59\00:50:37.23
when they see the programs.
00:50:37.27\00:50:38.60
They-- then the
children love Kid's Time.
00:50:38.63\00:50:43.10
Thank you, may God
continue to bless you.
00:50:43.14\00:50:45.74
Love in Christ, Eddie.
00:50:45.77\00:50:47.84
Amen. Amen. All right.
00:50:47.88\00:50:49.94
This is from Barbara
from Pontiac, Illinois.
00:50:49.98\00:50:54.75
Dear 3ABN, your
network is so inspiring
00:50:54.78\00:50:57.75
and such a blessing.
00:50:57.79\00:50:59.35
I have been watching since 2014.
00:50:59.39\00:51:03.22
I didn't even know about it
and I came across it one day.
00:51:03.26\00:51:07.43
I feel like I
know everyone of you.
00:51:07.46\00:51:10.80
3ABN has helped me so much
00:51:10.83\00:51:12.53
because my husband
passed away in March.
00:51:12.57\00:51:15.24
Your prayers have
helped me feel not so lonely.
00:51:15.27\00:51:18.77
May God continue to
bless you sincerely, Barbara.
00:51:18.81\00:51:22.21
Amen. Thank you, Barbara.
00:51:22.24\00:51:23.95
This one is from our
sister Kelly down in Tennessee.
00:51:26.18\00:51:29.38
She says, dear 3ABN, I
do not have a home church
00:51:29.42\00:51:32.59
that I attend on a regular basis
00:51:32.62\00:51:34.42
however I do watch
00:51:34.46\00:51:36.12
many of the 3ABN
series that you air.
00:51:36.16\00:51:38.79
I've come to the realization
00:51:38.83\00:51:40.23
that Saturday
is the true Sabbath
00:51:40.26\00:51:42.23
and I have been
doing my very best
00:51:42.26\00:51:44.00
to observe it.
00:51:44.03\00:51:45.37
I sincerely appreciate
all that you are doing
00:51:45.40\00:51:47.37
for the kingdom of God
00:51:47.40\00:51:48.74
and spreading of the
three angels' message.
00:51:48.77\00:51:50.77
Your television has
definitely helped me
00:51:50.81\00:51:53.38
and opened my eyes to the truth.
00:51:53.41\00:51:55.88
Thank you for all you
do to further the gospel.
00:51:55.91\00:51:58.18
Keep up the good
work and God bless.
00:51:58.21\00:52:00.12
A friend and
sister in Christ, Kelly.
00:52:00.15\00:52:02.48
Amen. Amen.
00:52:02.52\00:52:05.59
This one is from
Marilyn in Tennessee.
00:52:05.62\00:52:09.66
Dear 3ABN, please tell
Danny Shelton thank you
00:52:09.69\00:52:13.29
for his faithfulness
and obedience to God.
00:52:13.33\00:52:16.36
Also a special
thanks to the engineer
00:52:16.40\00:52:19.03
that came to
Nashville, Tennessee to restore
00:52:19.07\00:52:21.84
a clear signal
for us in late March.
00:52:21.87\00:52:24.94
I was really praising the Lord.
00:52:24.97\00:52:27.31
3ABN has become
my favorite network.
00:52:27.34\00:52:30.88
I'm not Seventh-day
Adventist but I am learning
00:52:30.91\00:52:33.65
so much and seeking the
true and real relationship
00:52:33.68\00:52:37.42
with the Lord, Jesus Christ.
00:52:37.45\00:52:39.39
Please pray for
me, blessing Marilyn.
00:52:39.42\00:52:42.49
Amen. Amen.
00:52:42.52\00:52:43.93
Noelia, do you have one? Yes.
00:52:43.96\00:52:45.76
This one is from James
00:52:49.43\00:52:53.10
and it is from Homer--
00:52:53.13\00:52:56.74
Louisiana. Louisiana.
00:53:00.81\00:53:03.55
Dear 3ABN, your
book "Ten Commandments
00:53:03.58\00:53:05.98
Twice Removed" is excellent.
00:53:06.01\00:53:07.95
I will worship on
the Sabbath from now on.
00:53:07.98\00:53:10.65
Love and blessing to
you sincerely, James.
00:53:10.69\00:53:14.46
All right. Praise the
Lord. Praise the Lord.
00:53:14.49\00:53:17.06
Irma, back to you.
00:53:17.09\00:53:18.43
And I do have one more.
00:53:18.46\00:53:20.23
Sally, she doesn't give
us her hometown but she says
00:53:20.26\00:53:24.83
also dear 3ABN, we live
in South Africa and enjoy
00:53:24.87\00:53:30.17
watching 3ABN.
00:53:30.21\00:53:31.84
My husband who
sleeps very badly watches it
00:53:31.87\00:53:36.14
through the whole night.
00:53:36.18\00:53:37.81
May God bless you in
reaching the outside world
00:53:37.85\00:53:40.68
with the wonderful
work that you are doing.
00:53:40.72\00:53:43.99
Love in Christ, Jesus our
Lord, through the end, Sally.
00:53:44.02\00:53:48.26
Amen.
00:53:48.29\00:53:49.62
This one is from Calder, Idaho.
00:53:52.83\00:53:57.37
Dear 3ABN, my husband and I
became Seventh-day Adventist
00:53:57.40\00:54:01.40
after we
discovered 3ABN on our TV
00:54:01.44\00:54:04.94
and started watching every day.
00:54:04.97\00:54:07.18
We were both raised in
a devout catholic family.
00:54:07.21\00:54:10.91
We have been
married nearly 39 years,
00:54:10.95\00:54:14.08
we are now
baptized and serve the Lord
00:54:14.12\00:54:16.38
in our small church
in Middleton, Idaho.
00:54:16.42\00:54:19.32
Sincerely, Carlos and Francis.
00:54:19.35\00:54:22.16
Amen, for the
wonderful praise report.
00:54:22.19\00:54:25.56
I've got an email here from
our bother Buddy and he says
00:54:25.59\00:54:29.56
dear 3ABN, I thank God
that I found your ministry.
00:54:29.60\00:54:32.60
You have been a really
blessing to me and you have
00:54:32.63\00:54:35.44
managed to do what no
other faith could ever do
00:54:35.47\00:54:38.64
and that is give me a
complete understanding
00:54:38.67\00:54:41.11
of what God has planned for us.
00:54:41.14\00:54:43.45
You are the only ones who
preach Revelation a subject
00:54:43.48\00:54:46.45
that most
churches don't dare touch.
00:54:46.48\00:54:48.95
May God continue
to bless your ministry
00:54:48.98\00:54:51.09
and what you are doing
00:54:51.12\00:54:52.45
to make a real difference daily.
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Sincerely, Buddy.
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Wonderful. Very nice.
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All right, I've got one here,
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we've got a couple of good ones.
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The April issues of
the 3ABN World Magazine
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is outstanding.
00:55:06.07\00:55:07.40
I read it from cover to
cover and then reread it again.
00:55:07.44\00:55:10.01
I'm not an
Adventist but I worship
00:55:10.04\00:55:12.67
with your programs.
00:55:12.71\00:55:14.64
I especially like
Kenneth Cox and the professor
00:55:14.68\00:55:18.18
who leads on Saturday mornings.
00:55:18.21\00:55:20.78
Thank you for the
advice and fellowship
00:55:20.82\00:55:24.95
that we share in God's name.
00:55:24.99\00:55:27.09
And this is from Murray.
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She says, she is not an
Adventist but she worships
00:55:28.89\00:55:31.09
watching 3ABN and we
praise the Lord for that.
00:55:31.13\00:55:33.93
I'm not sure what professor
we've got Dwight Nelson,
00:55:33.96\00:55:37.47
on Saturday
mornings, we got Doug Batchelor
00:55:37.50\00:55:38.83
on Saturday mornings.
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We got lot of professors. Yes.
00:55:40.24\00:55:42.10
We have a lot in
professors on Saturday mornings
00:55:42.14\00:55:44.71
but if you are being
blessed we praise the Lord.
00:55:44.74\00:55:46.94
We praise the Lord for it.
00:55:46.98\00:55:49.41
These reports are so
encouraging to us one,
00:55:49.44\00:55:53.55
that people are finding
the Lord because I think
00:55:53.58\00:55:55.98
we all believe that Christ
is coming soon and this world
00:55:56.02\00:55:58.62
has not longed to last.
00:55:58.65\00:56:00.66
And so as quickly as
we can get to the word out
00:56:00.69\00:56:03.93
so that men and women
can come to Jesus the better
00:56:03.96\00:56:07.10
we are for it.
00:56:07.13\00:56:08.63
And when we hear that the
word is going out and people
00:56:08.66\00:56:11.40
are coming in it does make
you feel so very, very good.
00:56:11.43\00:56:17.34
We are coming
down to the end of our,
00:56:17.37\00:56:18.84
of our time together
and as I said at the opening
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maybe watching this on a
Friday evening which means
00:56:21.91\00:56:24.65
that we are welcoming you
to the Sabbath experience.
00:56:24.68\00:56:28.48
You maybe watching
on a Saturday evening
00:56:28.52\00:56:30.39
which means that
we are welcoming you
00:56:30.42\00:56:33.12
and asking God's blessing
00:56:33.15\00:56:34.62
upon you throughout
the week that is coming
00:56:34.66\00:56:37.66
as we prepare
for the next Sabbath.
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So on behalf of
Jorge and Lynette
00:56:39.59\00:56:42.63
and Betty and Irma and Noelia
00:56:42.66\00:56:46.33
and myself we wish
for you every blessing.
00:56:46.37\00:56:49.44
Keep on praising God.
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Worship Him morning
and evening and God will be
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with you always.
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Bye-bye and God bless.
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