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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Hello, and
welcome to 3ABN Today.
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I'm Chris Shelton
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along with my
husband Pastor Kenny Shelton.
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And we are so blessed
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to be able to come
into your home again today
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with another Bible
study on the today program.
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And we've entitled this,
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"Choose You This Day, Part Two."
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We did part one.
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So if you haven't seen part one,
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you might want to
call 3ABN and say,
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"Hey, I like to have
part one to go with part two."
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And we have a
wonderful panel with us,
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people that I'm sure
you're very familiar with.
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Lady of honor here is
Sister Mollie Steenson.
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She is the Vice President,
General Vice President of 3ABN
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and has been for
many, many years.
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Haven't you, Sister Mollie?
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Yes. Greg's the
general vice president.
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Oh, okay. Okay.
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So we have to...
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It's getting a
little confusing now
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that we've got
two vice presidents.
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And so Greg is the
general vice presidents
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and it's just a joy to be here.
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It's just always an
honor to be a part this
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to share what God has
placed in our heart with people.
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You know, our
prayer was, "Father,
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if You put
anything of value in us,
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let us bring it
to the people today."
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Amen. So that's our prayer.
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That's a good one. Amen.
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And that's always a
blessing to have you.
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You know, any time
we're doing a program here
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I call on you quite often.
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I appreciate that.
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It always blesses my heart too.
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And we have Jason Bradley.
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Jason is the
assistant to the general manager
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of Dare to Dream, right, Jason?
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Yes. Yes.
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And I know you do a
lot with Dare to Dream
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and now you're
traveling all over
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and working for the Lord.
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And I know that Kenny and I,
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we have just seen you
grow over the years in Jesus
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and we love to see that
love of Christ in your heart.
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You have something.
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I saw you guys are
gonna have some special.
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You always have special things
on Dare to Dream, aren't you?
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Special programs Yes, yes.
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So there is a program
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that's gonna be on
Daniel and Revelation.
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And there are some
really, really amazing speakers.
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Henry Wright, Mendenhall.
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So the list goes on.
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It's wonderful to...
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Two, two very
important books for the hour
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in which we live on this planet.
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These are two.
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God wants us to be studying
and to be able to understand.
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So it's pass time, right?
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That we really get into it
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and I know there's a
lot of different ones
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are doing studies and
bringing this to the forefront
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and I plea that's
signs of the times.
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God once again He's
warning us and equipping us
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for what lies ahead,
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'cause He doesn't
wants to be unaware,
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He didn't wants to be surprised.
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Choose You This Day.
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Choose You This Day
and we're happy about that.
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Choose You This Day
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and I'm looking
forward to that program.
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Pastor Kenny,
since this is part two,
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would you kind of give us
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a synopsis of
what was in part one?
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What did we cover?
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Yes, we actually,
we covered two parts
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and started on the third part.
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Some people say we
get a little long wind
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and your preachers do that.
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And anybody gets
together to study the word,
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there's always something
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that the Holy Spirit
impresses or inspires,
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that needs to be
said at that movement
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and I think we need to
be open to that spirit.
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Jesus was open to the spirit.
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We had to be open to the spirit.
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In our first
part, we got step one.
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There's six steps in
"Choose You This Day."
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And as we look
to these six steps,
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we will find that
they're all Biblical steps,
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they're all
steps that will lead us
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closer to Christ and guaranteed,
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if you do these
things by the grace of God,
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that we will have that
lasting relationship with Him.
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They talk about, you
know, return to our old ways,
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we're not going to
get into a position
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to where we just no
longer care or lukewarm,
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we will stay
hot in Jesus Christ.
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In our first and was...
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And God wake us up.
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I like that.
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God wake us up in
the morning, what for?
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For a Bible study.
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It's very important
that we get up early,
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in several passages,
as we looked at the study,
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we find one of our first text
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and Jesus is our example.
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He's our example in
all things. So I know this.
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We study this and we
use Jesus as our example,
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we follow that example.
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Victory and power is assured
to each and every one of us.
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Amen.
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And we mentioned this.
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Some people say, "I just
can't get up every morning."
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You've heard that.
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"I just can't... I
barely get to work in time."
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Then we need to pray.
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Was it Psalms
50:4? We must pray.
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That He wakens me
morning by morning.
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So we pray that
the Holy Spirit...
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Say, "Please, Holy
Spirit, wake me in the morning
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so I can get up and
spend some time with You."
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And certainly the Holy Spirit
will wake you up to do that.
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So it's very important, wake up,
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get started
before the kids get up,
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before you have to go to work,
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before you have
to fix breakfast,
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and all those things,
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so you're not side tracked
and God will do great things.
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And step number two
that we looked at was,
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give God
permission to take your heart.
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Ask Him to come into your heart.
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Consecrate yourself.
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David said, it was in Psalms 51,
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"Create me a
clean heart, you know,
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and renew a right spirit in me."
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And so as we look
at these things here,
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and then Joshua 24.
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He choose you this day
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where our subject
matter certainly came in.
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And so, as we
looked at these things,
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it's very important
to give God permission.
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He doesn't go
where He's not invited.
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So we have to every day...
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If you say, "Well, I
asked Him last year."
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Well, bless your heart,
you missed a lot of days.
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Every day, every
morning we must say,
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"Please come into
my heart and my life."
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I mean, I wake up in the morning
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and realized I
need, I need guidance.
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That's right.
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I need some help. I'm a baby.
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You know, I need
help taking my steps
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because I don't know.
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I need somebody that
will alter and direct my steps
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because I don't know
what to do for the day,
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I don't know the activity,
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I don't know
what's in store for me,
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that He does.
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So I give Him
permission, "Oh, take my heart."
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And certainly that is
the mind and the will.
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So we commit our will,
the mechanism that our mind,
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you know,
governing power to Him.
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And I said Him this,
"Lord, make every choice
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'cause I'm just not capable
to make the right choices."
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I don't know the
beginning and the end.
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Then step number three.
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We're looking at, it
was claiming the gifts
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that Jesus
received each morning.
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These are the ones that I got...
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I got excited about...
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I almost clapped
my hands here and say,
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oh, I got excited
because Jesus is...
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These are just
four, just four of them.
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And the first one is
where we can really begin,
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you know, after we have
music and prayer whatever else,
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but we only want to begin in.
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Even though we touched on this,
some of you hear what you say.
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Well, you
touched on that first one
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about the baptism
of the Holy Spirit.
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But you can't
touch on it enough.
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We can't spend enough time
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on the importance of
baptism of the Holy Spirit,
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it means a lot
of different things
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to a lot of
different people maybe.
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But the Bible
is very, very clear
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that we need that Spirit
in our heart and in our life.
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That's where we kind of
pickup and, and go from there.
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And I'm looking
forward to those four things
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which is baptism
of the Spirit, grace,
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bread of life,
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and then of
course, Lord use my words.
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I wonder how many
of us really pray that.
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The words that I speak today,
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Lord, use them,
have them to be anointed.
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Amen, amen.
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But before we do that,
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we are blessed to go to
the 3ABN Worship Center.
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Sister Mollie, this may be
one of the best musical projects
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who have ever done.
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They may even wanna
call in and get this,
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so they can see all of it.
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But we're gonna be
blessed by The Calvary Project,
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the "Hymn Medley."
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Amen.
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Were you there
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When they crucified
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My Lord?
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Were you there
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When they crucified
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My Lord?
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Oh
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Sometimes it causes me
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To tremble
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Tremble
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Tremble
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Were you there
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When they crucified
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My Lord?
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Were you there
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When they laid Him
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In the tomb?
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Were you there
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When they laid Him
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In the tomb?
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Oh
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Sometimes it causes me
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To tremble
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Tremble
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Tremble
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Were you there
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When they laid Him
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In the tomb?
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Jesus paid it all
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All to Him I owe
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Sin had left
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A crimson stain
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He washed it
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White as snow
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So I'll cherish
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The old rugged Cross
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Till my trophies at last
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I lay down
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I will cling
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To the old rugged Cross
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And exchange it
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Someday for a crown
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On a hill far away
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Stood an old rugged Cross
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The emblem
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Of suffering and shame
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And I love that old Cross
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Where the dearest and best
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For a world of lost sinners
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Was slain
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So I'll cherish
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The old rugged Cross
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Till my trophies
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At last I lay down
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I will cling
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To the old rugged Cross
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And exchange it
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Some day for a crown
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And exchange it
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Some day for a crown
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I will cling
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To the old rugged Cross
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And exchange it
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Some day for a crown
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Amen. Praise the
Lord. Hallelujah.
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Now you see why I said you
may want to write and call,
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and email, and ask
for your very own copy.
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It's a must. It's a must.
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That's so beautiful.
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I had these
spiritual goose bumps
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went over my
body and out my arms.
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I don't think I
fell on the floor
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and Sister Mollie
will have to see later.
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But that was just a
real, real blessing.
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We think about
that old rugged Cross,
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it just touches your
heart, it just softens you up,
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and one of these days
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we'll be able to
exchange that for that crown.
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For crown. Amen.
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Pastor, would you
have prayer with us
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as we open up this Bible study?
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Let's pray. Shall we?
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Though the home
pray with us please.
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Merciful Father in heaven,
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truly we thank You
for Your merciful love
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that You have for us
in Your long suffering.
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We thank You today
that we can call upon You
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in our time of need.
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And oh, Lord, we
have need of a Savior
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each and every
moment of our lives.
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Today we need You to
extend the Holy Spirit.
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Please, Holy Spirit, come
to our hearts and our minds
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and we may be illuminate
these beautiful truths
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that we read, draw us
to the foot of the cross,
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help us to see
Jesus in a special way.
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That old rugged cross.
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Oh, how wonderful.
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We set our hearts and our minds
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upon that, that one
these days we'll see
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the one that hung
on the cross for us
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to share His
blood in our behalf,
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so that we may
spend eternity with Him.
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Lord, bless us. We
pray in this program.
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Bless all Your children
at home, those who listen,
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those who view,
whatever the case maybe.
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Oh, Lord, so some
need a special touch today.
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Only You can make that
touch. And so I praise.
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We read the Word today
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that somebody,
somebody will find Jesus
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in a special, special way.
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And not just one or two,
but many in the name of Jesus'
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as we thank You,
bless each one here today.
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And again, those
who view and listen
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and we'll give You
praise, give You honor,
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and give You glory
because You are our God
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and You care for
us and You love us
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and all that wonderful
promise, "I will come again."
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Help us to be ready
in Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen.
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And that's why we're here.
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We want to be ready.
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When He comes
again, we want to say,
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"Lo, there is our God
and we have waited for Him."
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We don't want to be in the group
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that is crying for
the rocks to fall out
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and to fall on top of them
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because they
can't stand the glory
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that comes with
Christ in the second coming.
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So these six steps are
going to help us right, pastor?
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Amen. I believe you.
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And we are on step number three.
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Claim the gifts that
Jesus received each morning
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while He was in worship.
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We were gonna start
on number two, grace.
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But you want to jump back
to baptism of the Holy Spirit.
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We're gonna talk
about four of those.
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Baptism of the Holy Spirit.
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So go ahead. Lead us up.
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Tell us what's
on your heart today.
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Well, again, if this is
the experience of Jesus,
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then I need that experience,
I want that experience,
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I need to learn that experience.
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And these are the
things that enabled Him
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to go through life as He was...
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He's fully human
and fully divine.
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And that's so hard for
my little mind sometime.
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I don't know about those
of you or those who are here.
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Just a wrap.
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They say wrap your mind around,
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all that fully
human, yet fully divine.
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He was subject to all
the infirmities of man,
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the weaknesses of
man over 4,000 years,
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that's the way He came down.
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But yet He was willing, seeing
all in the beginning, right?
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Understood
everything what happen to Him
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and yet He choose to come.
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I thank Him for that.
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But realizing
with all that in mind,
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He recognized that when He came,
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He came to reveal the Father.
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That's right. To
show us the Father.
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So He emptied Himself of self,
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but He needed a
power inside as humanity
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and it was the Holy Spirit.
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I know, Sister
Mollie, you talk lovely about
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the Holy Spirit
many times, I heard you.
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You know, just give us maybe
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a thought about the Holy Spirit,
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the way it work with Jesus,
how it needs to work with us?
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Well, you say
Jesus was 100% man,
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but He was 100% God.
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One hundred percent humanity,
one hundred percent divinity.
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And so I think about that
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and I'm just
thinking of my own self.
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There are times
when I am so humanity.
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You know, just
stinking fallen flesh.
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But, you know, there are times
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when I'm submitted
and committed to God.
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Yes, yes.
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When I have clean
hands and the pure heart
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and the blood of Christ
has been applied to my life
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when I stand
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and I understand
about the divinity part.
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When yielded to the Holy...
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See if you yield
to the Holy Spirit,
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you say, "Oh, God, to
the degree that I know
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how I yield and submit
and commit my life to You
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and ask You to fill me
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to overflowing
with your Spirit."
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Oh, God, I want You
fill with Your spirit,
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more than You want to
be filled with the spirit.
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And I think about, you
know, the scripture that says,
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if we being man,
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if our children
ask us for a gift.
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We want to give bread to
our children if they ask us.
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How much more
the scripture says,
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will God give the Holy
Spirit to those who ask?
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And so the Holy Spirit is there.
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He is a person, and He wants
to fill you with His presence.
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And Acts 1:8.
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What does Acts 1:8 tell us?
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"And ye shall receive power."
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Dunamis, power.
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After that the Holy
Spirit has come up on you.
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Does that tell you
that the Holy Spirit
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comes up on us?
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We stinking humanity
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that we can be, and
we all are at times.
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The Holy Spirit
will come upon us.
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But why does it come upon us?
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So we can have those doodads,
the ooey-gooey in the doodads.
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No.
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It's, so that we
can be witnesses.
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Witnesses, it gives us power
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to be a witness unto our Savior.
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Amen. Amen.
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And He wants to equip us.
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He doesn't want us to
keep falling back and forth.
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Jesus wants us to continue
to move closer and closer
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and reflect His
image more and more fully.
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And we can only do that through
the gift of the Holy Spirit.
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It's only through God's power
that we can become over comers.
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And that's what He's working in
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and through us to
all be over comers.
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That was so beautifully said.
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And I think it would be...
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If we don't mention that
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there's more than one
spirit working in this world.
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And there are seducing spirits,
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spirits that used to be
in the kingdom of heaven,
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they know what
God Spirit is like,
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they know how it
feels, they know how it acts.
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And so they are seducing
men and women in this world,
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to thinking that a false spirit
is actually the true spirit.
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So we need to...
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You know, I love always
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that there is two
identifying marks.
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We don't worship God
and spirit and in truth.
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So if that false spirit
is coming when we're out
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and we're teaching
and preaching error
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and it doesn't go
along with the Word of God,
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then there is something
wrong, something wrong.
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It comes when
truth is being spoken.
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Brother J, do you have the
John 14:26, we did read it.
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If you have it find
it, if you don't we'll...
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I do. Please read that to us.
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"But the Comforter,
which is the Holy Ghost,
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whom the Father
will send in my name,
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he shall teach you all things,
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and bring all
things to your remembrance,
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whatsoever I have said unto you.
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Peace I leave with you,
my peace I give unto you:
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not as the world
giveth, give I unto you.
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Let not your heart be troubled,
neither let it be afraid."
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Amen. Yeah.
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Ain't that beautiful? It is.
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What kind of comfort
does that give us today?
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You know, to me
it gives me comfort
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and gives me an encouragement
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and then it
gives me direction too.
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I was reading there at
Christ's Object Lesson page 139.
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Just a couple of
lines very interesting.
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It says, "Daily He," daily who?
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Daily Jesus, notice.
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"Received a fresh
baptism of the Holy Spirit."
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And then He
tells us, John 14:24.
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"The Word which
you hear is not mine,
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but the Father which sent me."
00:21:58.78\00:22:01.02
So daily He did
what, which we need?
00:22:01.05\00:22:03.42
I need... I don't need day old.
00:22:03.45\00:22:05.65
I've had enough day old stuff.
00:22:05.69\00:22:08.16
You know, we were raised
and poured and we used...
00:22:08.19\00:22:10.73
Everyone wants to go
to the bakery Blades,
00:22:10.76\00:22:12.53
bakery here in West Frankfurt.
00:22:12.56\00:22:14.23
And you could buy a
dozen day old donuts for $0.25.
00:22:14.26\00:22:17.93
And you know
what they tasted like?
00:22:17.97\00:22:20.14
Day old donut.
00:22:20.17\00:22:21.87
Yes, they did.
00:22:21.90\00:22:23.24
But, you know, when you hardly,
00:22:23.27\00:22:24.61
you never got
to eat a fresh one,
00:22:24.64\00:22:25.97
that day old tastes pretty good.
00:22:26.01\00:22:27.34
What so bad it
was. It was so bad.
00:22:27.38\00:22:28.71
But once you...
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I'm glad you brought that.
00:22:30.11\00:22:31.45
But once you taste of the fresh
00:22:31.48\00:22:33.31
when they're
just brining them out,
00:22:33.35\00:22:34.68
you know, they bring it
out and immediately say,
00:22:34.72\00:22:37.05
they melt in your mouth.
00:22:37.09\00:22:38.42
I know somebody
right. So you know...
00:22:38.45\00:22:39.99
We are talking about
years ago, we come out.
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Now I'd say,
once you have tasted
00:22:42.36\00:22:44.49
and you see that he is
good, what the Bible say,
00:22:44.53\00:22:46.70
then you no longer
happy with the day old.
00:22:46.73\00:22:49.83
You don't want the day old.
00:22:49.86\00:22:51.20
It's cheaper, but you'd
rather pay the full price
00:22:51.23\00:22:54.27
as it were, calorie surprise.
00:22:54.30\00:22:55.94
And he says, Jesus got a
fresh supply of the Holy Spirit,
00:22:55.97\00:23:01.21
grace of God
every day, every morning
00:23:01.24\00:23:03.98
before it lighted up,
before the sun came up.
00:23:04.01\00:23:06.92
And that says, "Okay,
Kenny, you need that."
00:23:06.95\00:23:08.95
Yeah, He paid the price
to make it available to us.
00:23:08.98\00:23:11.75
And, you know, there is a
price for us to pray as well,
00:23:11.79\00:23:15.12
but we don't pay
it, we just pray.
00:23:15.16\00:23:16.93
We come to the Lord
and ask Him every morning,
00:23:16.96\00:23:19.59
fill me a fresh and you
know what they do every time.
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Amen. Amen.
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It makes me think
of the ten virgins
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because you had five,
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who, their lamps
were full of that fresh,
00:23:26.80\00:23:29.64
present, Holy Spirit,
00:23:29.67\00:23:31.21
but then you had
five with empty lamps
00:23:31.24\00:23:32.97
because they maybe
more than a day old,
00:23:33.01\00:23:35.14
may be a month, a
year, several years old
00:23:35.18\00:23:37.55
and they were
waiting for the bride groom.
00:23:37.58\00:23:39.51
But, and they were
asking for that fresh oil,
00:23:39.55\00:23:42.02
well, it was too
late, it was too late.
00:23:42.05\00:23:44.25
They couldn't give what they had
00:23:44.29\00:23:45.85
because it wouldn't
enough to go around,
00:23:45.89\00:23:48.66
they had to get it themselves.
00:23:48.69\00:23:50.33
And that's why
we're saying to you,
00:23:50.36\00:23:51.69
you have to get it yourself.
00:23:51.73\00:23:53.33
You have to
wake up every morning
00:23:53.36\00:23:55.13
and ask God for fresh
anointing of the Holy Spirit.
00:23:55.16\00:23:58.63
And you mentioned earlier too
00:23:58.67\00:24:00.34
about taking our
mind, our tongues,
00:24:00.37\00:24:02.50
how often I pray now.
00:24:02.54\00:24:04.31
And thanks to you
because you said years ago
00:24:04.34\00:24:06.61
you wanted to be
like, who was it?
00:24:06.64\00:24:08.94
Solomon. Solomon. King Solomon.
00:24:08.98\00:24:10.78
And the Lord
reminded him and He said,
00:24:10.81\00:24:12.55
"Kenny, what's
wrong with my mind?"
00:24:12.58\00:24:14.48
Amen. So I, I...
00:24:14.52\00:24:15.85
She won't let me
live that one down.
00:24:15.88\00:24:18.32
I admit it.
00:24:18.35\00:24:19.69
I pray often for
the mind of Christ
00:24:19.72\00:24:21.82
because that's what we need.
00:24:21.86\00:24:23.22
And if we have
the mind of Christ,
00:24:23.26\00:24:24.93
we're gonna be wanting
00:24:24.96\00:24:26.29
that fresh
anointing of the Holy Spirit.
00:24:26.33\00:24:28.30
We're gonna be wanting to study
that fresh bread every morning
00:24:28.33\00:24:32.07
and we're gonna
want these gifts.
00:24:32.10\00:24:33.60
In fact, as I was
studying for this,
00:24:33.64\00:24:35.04
I think I claimed every
gift that we're gonna read.
00:24:35.07\00:24:37.91
It was beautiful.
00:24:37.94\00:24:39.27
We should. We
should claim the...
00:24:39.31\00:24:40.68
You know, we used to
have testimony services
00:24:40.71\00:24:43.95
in our church.
00:24:43.98\00:24:45.31
Y'all ever had a
testimony service?
00:24:45.35\00:24:46.68
Oh, yes, yes.
00:24:46.72\00:24:48.05
And so how is the pastor
at the time and, he would say,
00:24:48.08\00:24:50.29
you know, testimony service,
00:24:50.32\00:24:51.89
everybody wants
to share a testimony.
00:24:51.92\00:24:54.12
It say, now, here's, here's
the one little thing though.
00:24:54.16\00:24:57.66
You can't share a testimony
if it's over a week old.
00:24:57.69\00:25:00.20
Yeah. Well, that shut it down.
00:25:00.23\00:25:01.83
Lot of people had to
just sit right back down.
00:25:01.86\00:25:03.97
No, we need a fresh experience,
with all our fresh testimony,
00:25:04.00\00:25:07.80
something fresh
and new every day.
00:25:07.84\00:25:09.60
Amen. Go ahead.
00:25:09.64\00:25:11.31
That's one of the things,
that's very important is that,
00:25:11.34\00:25:13.74
we spend time in the
word every single day.
00:25:13.78\00:25:16.41
And we're not
surviving of a meal
00:25:16.44\00:25:18.15
that we ate two
weeks ago or a week ago.
00:25:18.18\00:25:21.88
We have to get nutrients
00:25:21.92\00:25:23.32
and make sure we're getting
00:25:23.35\00:25:26.05
all of our
nutrients on a daily basis
00:25:26.09\00:25:28.32
because otherwise
we're not gonna survive.
00:25:28.36\00:25:31.43
And one of the things
that I like here in John 14:27
00:25:31.46\00:25:36.63
where it says,
"Peace I leave with you,
00:25:36.67\00:25:38.17
my peace I give unto
you not as the world giveth,
00:25:38.20\00:25:41.47
give I unto you.
00:25:41.50\00:25:42.94
Let not your heart be troubled,
neither let it be afraid."
00:25:42.97\00:25:46.01
You see the world offers
us a false sense of peace.
00:25:46.04\00:25:49.54
You know, it's
vary, it fluctuates,
00:25:49.58\00:25:52.01
it's not constant.
00:25:52.05\00:25:53.38
You know, but
when you accept Christ
00:25:53.42\00:25:54.78
as your personal Lord and savior
00:25:54.82\00:25:56.65
and you pray for the
outpouring of the Holy Spirit,
00:25:56.69\00:25:59.79
you have a new type of peace,
00:25:59.82\00:26:01.99
you have a
different type of peace
00:26:02.02\00:26:03.46
than that of the world.
00:26:03.49\00:26:04.83
You have one that it is...
00:26:04.86\00:26:06.23
It's almost, it's indescribable
that sense of inner peace.
00:26:06.26\00:26:13.10
Nothing replaces that,
also with like true joy.
00:26:13.13\00:26:18.17
You know, the world
offers this false sense of joy.
00:26:18.21\00:26:23.21
You know, may be if I
get this material things,
00:26:23.24\00:26:25.21
if I get this new Maserati...
00:26:25.25\00:26:26.95
I love Maserati,
I don't have one.
00:26:26.98\00:26:29.55
But if I get this Maserati
00:26:29.58\00:26:33.09
or a Ferrari or whatever,
00:26:33.12\00:26:37.69
you know, maybe I'll be happy.
00:26:37.73\00:26:39.33
Yes.
00:26:39.36\00:26:40.70
But then you get that,
00:26:40.73\00:26:42.06
then you want something
else, and then you want...
00:26:42.10\00:26:43.97
You're always chasing.
00:26:44.00\00:26:45.43
Just look at
Hollywood, right? Yes.
00:26:45.47\00:26:47.87
There's no true
joy outside the Christ.
00:26:47.90\00:26:49.90
Yes, that's the
true joy, true peace.
00:26:49.94\00:26:53.61
Yes, Acts of the
Apostles 50 and 51,
00:26:53.64\00:26:55.44
I jot this down and may we
might move on into our time.
00:26:55.48\00:26:58.65
It just really flies by
00:26:58.68\00:27:00.32
when you're
having fun in studying,
00:27:00.35\00:27:01.68
but I thought this
is interesting here.
00:27:01.72\00:27:03.42
It says, "Since
this is the means
00:27:03.45\00:27:04.82
by which we are
to receive power,"
00:27:04.85\00:27:06.96
talking about the Holy
Spirit why Jesus went out early,
00:27:06.99\00:27:09.22
why He was seeking the spirit,
00:27:09.26\00:27:10.59
why He wanted fresh in
His heart and life every day,
00:27:10.63\00:27:13.36
to meet what He was
going to be up again.
00:27:13.40\00:27:15.53
He knew He's gonna be
face to face with the devil
00:27:15.56\00:27:17.70
everyday of His
life 24x7 as it were.
00:27:17.73\00:27:20.77
And so He needed this special...
00:27:20.80\00:27:22.30
He needed power, he needed
grace from God, and His power.
00:27:22.34\00:27:25.87
So which we are
to receive power.
00:27:25.91\00:27:27.98
"Why do we not hunger and thrust
00:27:28.01\00:27:30.21
for that gift of the spirit?
00:27:30.25\00:27:32.11
We do not..."
00:27:32.15\00:27:33.48
Notice, "Why do we not
talk of it, pray for it,
00:27:33.52\00:27:36.42
and preach concerning it?"
00:27:36.45\00:27:39.15
If it's so vital,
why are we afraid?
00:27:39.19\00:27:41.82
Why are we afraid?
00:27:41.86\00:27:43.19
And all the time we don't talk
about, we don't preach on it,
00:27:43.22\00:27:44.89
we don't talk about it,
maybe we hid and we go on.
00:27:44.93\00:27:47.86
But this is vital
to our spiritual...
00:27:47.90\00:27:49.73
My concern is because
the Holy Spirit has been
00:27:49.76\00:27:52.87
so miss aligned
00:27:52.90\00:27:55.10
in the church world
today, in the media,
00:27:55.14\00:28:00.51
that we don't want to be
accused of being over here,
00:28:00.54\00:28:04.61
those that have taken it
00:28:04.65\00:28:06.85
to, to a place that
isn't holy and righteous.
00:28:06.88\00:28:12.29
So I'm concerned that we
maybe have back to way up yet
00:28:12.32\00:28:17.09
and we shouldn't...
00:28:17.13\00:28:18.46
We should embrace the reality.
00:28:18.49\00:28:21.10
Again, I believe that.
00:28:21.13\00:28:22.46
I have to have this
00:28:22.50\00:28:23.83
because I think we
backed away so much
00:28:23.87\00:28:25.83
that sometimes we
repress the Holy Spirit.
00:28:25.87\00:28:28.70
You know, God
inhabits our praises.
00:28:28.74\00:28:30.77
We need to be praising Him
00:28:30.81\00:28:32.97
and the Holy Spirit
wants to come in and walk in
00:28:33.01\00:28:35.94
and amongst us,
00:28:35.98\00:28:37.31
but He needs to be invited.
00:28:37.35\00:28:38.68
So we need to make that
a priority we must make.
00:28:38.71\00:28:41.62
I was reading in a devotional,
00:28:41.65\00:28:43.28
one of Sister White's
devotionals just recently
00:28:43.32\00:28:45.85
and she said
something to the effect
00:28:45.89\00:28:48.29
and I wish I
could remember quotes,
00:28:48.32\00:28:50.63
that, if the Holy Spirit
were to move in our services,
00:28:50.66\00:28:54.30
there would be
those, they would say,
00:28:54.33\00:28:56.10
"Look, at the fanaticism."
00:28:56.13\00:28:58.50
And I got to thinking about that
00:28:58.53\00:29:00.34
and I'm not one
to jump and shout.
00:29:00.37\00:29:03.67
But when the Holy
Spirit comes I cry, I weep,
00:29:03.71\00:29:08.18
that's just my reaction
to presence of God as I weep.
00:29:08.21\00:29:12.41
But what if Jason's, his,
00:29:12.45\00:29:15.52
because when the
Holy Spirit come,
00:29:15.55\00:29:17.32
we are emotional and
our emotions are touched.
00:29:17.35\00:29:21.32
So let's say the way Jason
responded to the Holy Spirit.
00:29:21.36\00:29:25.03
Was he shouted?
00:29:25.06\00:29:26.46
So I'm gonna sit here weeping,
00:29:26.49\00:29:28.36
saying, look at that fanaticism
00:29:28.40\00:29:30.53
or is he gonna sit
here shouting, saying,
00:29:30.57\00:29:32.50
look at that fanaticism.
00:29:32.53\00:29:34.04
Now we have to give room
to our brothers and sisters
00:29:34.07\00:29:37.47
that have a response
to the presence of God,
00:29:37.51\00:29:41.58
that is how God moves on them.
00:29:41.61\00:29:43.41
Oh, glory. I've
shouted few times.
00:29:43.45\00:29:45.88
Stomped my feet a few times,
00:29:45.91\00:29:47.68
jumped in the
air and I've cried.
00:29:47.72\00:29:49.62
So I've kind of get
involved with everything
00:29:49.65\00:29:51.45
because it's the joy.
00:29:51.49\00:29:54.19
It's not the joy of,
well, I don't know what I said
00:29:54.22\00:29:55.99
or what I did.
00:29:56.02\00:29:57.36
It was a joy of
the... There was a promise.
00:29:57.39\00:29:58.76
There was
something that God said.
00:29:58.79\00:30:00.30
It touched my life.
00:30:00.33\00:30:01.86
It's just like, oh,
it just made me so full
00:30:01.90\00:30:04.17
and so glad and so
grace, you know, of kind.
00:30:04.20\00:30:06.37
It says, O, God, so
kind and so gracious,
00:30:06.40\00:30:08.14
so good, that it's just...
00:30:08.17\00:30:09.97
Like it's going... If
you don't... This is me.
00:30:10.01\00:30:12.24
If I don't let it out,
00:30:12.27\00:30:14.24
you know, it feel
like I'm gonna just burst.
00:30:14.28\00:30:17.01
See, not everyone's that way.
00:30:17.05\00:30:18.38
So, but there are people
who will condemn that and say,
00:30:18.41\00:30:21.95
"You're too
noisy, you're too loud,
00:30:21.98\00:30:23.52
you're too dull."
00:30:23.55\00:30:25.25
Let me be who I am
and you be who you are,
00:30:25.29\00:30:27.89
you weep if you want to or just,
00:30:27.92\00:30:29.46
you know, be in the corner
00:30:29.49\00:30:30.83
and don't make any
noise, it's all right,
00:30:30.86\00:30:32.29
as long as your hearts
bursting inside with joy.
00:30:32.33\00:30:34.33
Absolutely.
00:30:34.36\00:30:35.70
How can we make all this noise
and shout for sports games.
00:30:35.73\00:30:38.93
Thank you.
00:30:38.97\00:30:40.30
Different various activities,
but not be excited about God.
00:30:40.34\00:30:43.81
I've done it, I've done it,
and I realized the difference.
00:30:43.84\00:30:46.54
One is important,
the other means nothing.
00:30:46.57\00:30:48.51
Yeah. That's right.
00:30:48.54\00:30:50.55
But when Alabama
scores a foot, touch down,
00:30:50.58\00:30:53.45
you know, Mollie is gonna shout,
00:30:53.48\00:30:55.18
that's just how it is.
00:30:55.22\00:30:58.05
I don't think there's gonna be
too many people that are quite
00:30:58.09\00:31:00.36
when those pearly
gates will open either
00:31:00.39\00:31:02.72
and when Christ was
standing in a square
00:31:02.76\00:31:04.59
in front of the gate
00:31:04.63\00:31:05.96
and He's placing the
crown on each of our heads.
00:31:05.99\00:31:08.13
Oh, my lands of love.
00:31:08.16\00:31:10.27
You know, when He comes
00:31:10.30\00:31:11.70
and takes us out of
this miserable world,
00:31:11.73\00:31:14.10
how many of us
are gonna be quite?
00:31:14.14\00:31:15.90
You know, "Oh, there He is."
00:31:15.94\00:31:17.27
Right, my feet might
start to work a little bit.
00:31:17.31\00:31:19.07
Maybe a lot of
shouting going on.
00:31:19.11\00:31:21.08
We were like, "I made it."
00:31:21.11\00:31:22.54
Hallelujah.
00:31:22.58\00:31:23.91
Best thing, when the Lord comes,
00:31:23.95\00:31:25.28
He says, I'm gonna
come with the shout.
00:31:25.31\00:31:26.65
Yes. Archangel. And
the voice of the archangel.
00:31:26.68\00:31:28.08
If He can shout,
then we can shout.
00:31:28.12\00:31:29.88
So, yes, hallelujah. I'm
excited. Okay, thank you.
00:31:29.92\00:31:32.29
But I'm gonna have to move us on
00:31:32.32\00:31:33.72
because we could probably talk
00:31:33.76\00:31:35.39
the rest of the time about that.
00:31:35.42\00:31:38.13
Yes, yes, there
are so many things.
00:31:38.16\00:31:40.80
In fact, I've got something
on the tip of my tongue,
00:31:40.83\00:31:42.66
I just got to let
it come out I guess.
00:31:42.70\00:31:44.47
Well, go ahead. Some
one asked me Sabbath.
00:31:44.50\00:31:46.57
They said, you know,
what are the benefits
00:31:46.60\00:31:48.70
of working in
ministry full time?
00:31:48.74\00:31:51.47
And I had to say, it's
when you see the Holy Spirit
00:31:51.51\00:31:54.28
move upon our
heart and a mining,
00:31:54.31\00:31:56.91
you see in their eyes.
00:31:56.95\00:31:58.55
Oh, the
conviction and the conversion
00:31:58.58\00:32:01.18
and they let go with
the things of this world
00:32:01.22\00:32:03.52
that has bound them
up for so many years.
00:32:03.55\00:32:06.19
That is true,
true, recompense for.
00:32:06.22\00:32:09.06
Next to worthwhile.
00:32:09.09\00:32:10.43
Yeah, given up so much to
work in ministry full time.
00:32:10.46\00:32:13.66
But we need to move on to grace.
00:32:13.70\00:32:15.36
And I guess I'll go
ahead and read this.
00:32:15.40\00:32:17.03
This is when I
claim this morning.
00:32:17.07\00:32:19.17
I was reading about it.
00:32:19.20\00:32:20.54
If we put it in context,
it's 2 Corinthians 12:9,
00:32:20.57\00:32:23.81
and Paul had an affliction.
00:32:23.84\00:32:27.44
And he had been praying about
the affliction and Jesus...
00:32:27.48\00:32:31.15
Basically he's saying,
00:32:31.18\00:32:32.51
you know, I don't need
to hear about this anymore
00:32:32.55\00:32:34.52
and this is how He
answered him in verse 9.
00:32:34.55\00:32:36.48
He says, "And He said unto me,
00:32:36.52\00:32:39.42
'My grace is
sufficient for thee,
00:32:39.45\00:32:43.22
for my strength is
made perfect in weakness.'
00:32:43.26\00:32:47.60
Most gladly
therefore," This is Paul,
00:32:47.63\00:32:49.63
"will I rather
glory in my infirmities,
00:32:49.66\00:32:52.17
that the power of
Christ may rest upon me."
00:32:52.20\00:32:55.10
So for whatever
reason and I know all of us,
00:32:55.14\00:32:58.34
as I was thinking
about this and contemplating,
00:32:58.37\00:33:00.68
you know, we've
all had sicknesses
00:33:00.71\00:33:02.48
and we prayed about it.
00:33:02.51\00:33:03.85
There's been times I have
seen the Lord work miracles.
00:33:03.88\00:33:06.72
Yeah. Absolutely miracles.
00:33:06.75\00:33:09.52
You know, our youngest
child was on life support
00:33:09.55\00:33:12.39
and after he and another
elder came in an anointed her,
00:33:12.42\00:33:15.62
within 30 minutes
00:33:15.66\00:33:16.99
all the buzzers
started going off in the room.
00:33:17.03\00:33:19.49
I collapsed because I
thought what else can happen,
00:33:19.53\00:33:21.63
she's not breathing,
00:33:21.66\00:33:23.00
her whole
respiratory system is shut down.
00:33:23.03\00:33:24.73
Does that mean her
brain is shut down?
00:33:24.77\00:33:26.17
What's going on?
They made me leave.
00:33:26.20\00:33:28.10
They came back
in about 30 minutes
00:33:28.14\00:33:29.94
and I'm just, I'm
just weeping and crying,
00:33:29.97\00:33:31.91
and praying, and, and they said,
00:33:31.94\00:33:33.54
"No, she began to breathe
and it messed the machine."
00:33:33.58\00:33:36.34
Hallelujah.
00:33:36.38\00:33:37.78
Yeah, so I've
seen Him work miracles
00:33:37.81\00:33:40.02
time and time and time again,
00:33:40.05\00:33:42.15
but then
there's other situations
00:33:42.18\00:33:43.95
that I've prayed about
00:33:43.99\00:33:45.32
for years and years and years
00:33:45.35\00:33:46.69
and they haven't
been taken like that.
00:33:46.72\00:33:50.13
But see this is what Jesus
says because He may know well,
00:33:50.16\00:33:53.43
if that had been taken, you
may not be in the same position
00:33:53.46\00:33:56.40
spiritually that
you are right now.
00:33:56.43\00:33:59.40
And, you know, so
He's saying to us,
00:33:59.43\00:34:01.47
even though I don't
choose to take that affliction,
00:34:01.50\00:34:05.41
"My grace is sufficient,
I'm gonna give you power."
00:34:05.44\00:34:09.21
You just show up.
00:34:09.24\00:34:11.35
Remember, how He told
you years ago, show up,
00:34:11.38\00:34:13.68
and I'll do the rest.
00:34:13.72\00:34:15.05
What do you guys think?
00:34:15.08\00:34:16.79
Well, have you ever had
00:34:16.82\00:34:19.35
a nagging sense of inadequacy
00:34:19.39\00:34:24.53
fearing that you just had
been weighed in the balance
00:34:24.56\00:34:28.26
and found wanted.
00:34:28.30\00:34:29.96
Absolutely.
00:34:30.00\00:34:31.33
Being
intellectually or physically,
00:34:31.37\00:34:33.77
or impulse case
it was, health wise.
00:34:33.80\00:34:38.61
And so this says,
"My grace is sufficient."
00:34:38.64\00:34:43.55
So I think about
sufficient grace.
00:34:43.58\00:34:45.81
What does He mean
by sufficient grace?
00:34:45.85\00:34:49.02
You're feeling inadequate.
00:34:49.05\00:34:51.49
It means, it's enough grace.
00:34:51.52\00:34:53.25
No matter what the situation is.
00:34:53.29\00:34:55.79
God's grace is enough.
00:34:55.82\00:34:57.63
He supplies, God
supplies just as much grace
00:34:57.66\00:35:03.77
as you need in the
situation you're in.
00:35:03.80\00:35:06.33
That's sufficient
grace. Yes, it is.
00:35:06.37\00:35:08.90
I know His mercies
are renewed every morning.
00:35:08.94\00:35:11.97
Now we talk about that.
00:35:12.01\00:35:14.54
But, you know, His grace
is never diminished either.
00:35:14.58\00:35:17.85
His grace is
always there for you.
00:35:17.88\00:35:21.72
That's right.
00:35:21.75\00:35:23.08
Ain't that beautiful?
00:35:23.12\00:35:24.45
It's always giving us
what we don't deserve.
00:35:24.49\00:35:25.82
And it's never
insufficient. It is...
00:35:25.85\00:35:28.26
Yeah, giving us
what we don't deserve.
00:35:28.29\00:35:30.49
I've heard a lot
of, you know, everybody,
00:35:30.53\00:35:32.19
a lot of definitions of grace.
00:35:32.23\00:35:34.90
And I was just
looking this morning
00:35:34.93\00:35:36.33
and studying a
little bit and I found one,
00:35:36.36\00:35:37.70
just a little bit different,
but still grace is grace.
00:35:37.73\00:35:39.77
Praise God.
00:35:39.80\00:35:41.14
By the grace of God we're here,
by the grace of God we live,
00:35:41.17\00:35:43.07
we move, we have our...
00:35:43.10\00:35:44.44
By the grace of God,
it's all by the grace of God
00:35:44.47\00:35:46.17
we gain victory,
00:35:46.21\00:35:47.54
preparation for heaven,
victory over sin, grace.
00:35:47.58\00:35:49.84
But this in here said,
00:35:49.88\00:35:51.21
"The greatest
manifestation of grace
00:35:51.25\00:35:54.15
is when the natural man
partakes of divine nature."
00:35:54.18\00:36:00.62
We have that privilege
to partake of divine nature,
00:36:00.66\00:36:05.79
heavenly nature
00:36:05.83\00:36:07.63
but it's only through grace.
00:36:07.66\00:36:10.63
Wow, think about,
everything deals through...
00:36:10.67\00:36:13.13
We got to go through grace.
00:36:13.17\00:36:14.50
Yes. It's there. It's wonderful.
00:36:14.54\00:36:15.87
And many times we wouldn't
partake of that divine nature,
00:36:15.90\00:36:19.34
if we didn't have an infirmity,
if we didn't have a problem.
00:36:19.37\00:36:23.11
Sometimes it takes
the furnace of affliction
00:36:23.14\00:36:26.82
to make us realize.
00:36:26.85\00:36:28.18
"Oh, I need help
and God is my strength."
00:36:28.22\00:36:32.22
You know, have you
ever heard anyone give,
00:36:32.25\00:36:34.62
they talked about here
00:36:34.66\00:36:35.99
and I'd studied that
this morning to talk about,
00:36:36.02\00:36:38.33
the absence of
grace in the life.
00:36:38.36\00:36:41.30
I can't imagine that. No.
00:36:41.33\00:36:42.66
But, yeah, to me
it's like, "What?"
00:36:42.70\00:36:44.67
Because when you ask
for a definition of grace,
00:36:44.70\00:36:47.44
it's always, it's the good
positive and it's what it is.
00:36:47.47\00:36:50.54
But what is grace?
00:36:50.57\00:36:51.91
What is the absence
of grace in the life?
00:36:51.94\00:36:53.74
And I'll just read that
Christ's Object Lessons 100.
00:36:53.78\00:36:56.38
It says, "Their natural
00:36:56.41\00:36:57.75
and cultivated
tendencies to evil
00:36:57.78\00:37:00.22
have not been submitted
to its transforming power."
00:37:00.25\00:37:02.98
The grace.
00:37:03.02\00:37:04.35
"Notice their lives reveal
00:37:04.39\00:37:05.99
the absence of
a grace of Christ,
00:37:06.02\00:37:09.02
unbelief in His power to
transform the character."
00:37:09.06\00:37:12.99
That's really powerful.
00:37:13.03\00:37:14.36
If we take time to
read it two or three times
00:37:14.40\00:37:15.83
and then dissect it.
00:37:15.86\00:37:17.83
But there is, you
know, the definition of grace
00:37:17.87\00:37:21.17
and a lot of definitions
are just grab you on the inside
00:37:21.20\00:37:24.31
and just, you know, just
really start to get thinking
00:37:24.34\00:37:26.84
and motivating you,
00:37:26.88\00:37:28.44
you know, how good God is,
00:37:28.48\00:37:30.45
and then you look at
that, there are many.
00:37:30.48\00:37:34.28
They don't know what grace is.
00:37:34.32\00:37:35.78
They never tasted
to see that it's good.
00:37:35.82\00:37:37.62
There's an absent of grace.
00:37:37.65\00:37:39.75
And when there's an
absence of grace in your life,
00:37:39.79\00:37:42.62
that means you simply
don't believe in the ability
00:37:42.66\00:37:44.96
that God has to come
inside of us through that grace
00:37:44.99\00:37:47.23
and transform our
character into His image.
00:37:47.26\00:37:50.63
That's kind of sad
when you think about it.
00:37:50.67\00:37:52.77
And we don't earn that
grace either, it's a free gift.
00:37:52.80\00:37:55.27
Free gift. Amen.
00:37:55.30\00:37:57.04
Huge blessing.
00:37:57.07\00:37:58.41
And I love how it says,
00:37:58.44\00:37:59.77
"For my strength is
made perfect in weakness."
00:37:59.81\00:38:01.34
You know, we have
to acknowledge the fact
00:38:01.38\00:38:03.41
that we're weak first
00:38:03.45\00:38:04.91
before that
strength can be made perfect.
00:38:04.95\00:38:06.68
We have to acknowledge
that. We have a need for Christ.
00:38:06.72\00:38:10.05
We need the Lord
in our lives like...
00:38:10.09\00:38:13.62
You know, any time before
you can start fixing a problem,
00:38:13.66\00:38:17.83
you have to recognize
that you have a problem.
00:38:17.86\00:38:20.26
And like you're
saying, affliction, and trials,
00:38:20.30\00:38:24.17
and stuff can point us to that
00:38:24.20\00:38:25.93
or driving down the street
00:38:25.97\00:38:27.80
and somebody cuts you off
00:38:27.84\00:38:29.20
can point us to
our need for Christ.
00:38:29.24\00:38:32.17
Real quick. Yes.
00:38:32.21\00:38:34.14
So I really like
that and it's comforting
00:38:34.18\00:38:37.65
that His strength is
made perfect in our weakness
00:38:37.68\00:38:40.42
because I don't know
the end from the beginning,
00:38:40.45\00:38:42.68
I can't solve all my problems.
00:38:42.72\00:38:45.22
And when I rely on
myself, things go bad.
00:38:45.25\00:38:49.19
Yes.
00:38:49.22\00:38:50.56
Is that an easy process
00:38:50.59\00:38:51.93
or any of you
found that easy process,
00:38:51.96\00:38:53.50
it's number one to admit,
00:38:53.53\00:38:55.60
that math, that we're a
little weak in this area
00:38:55.63\00:38:57.40
or really weak
in the certain area.
00:38:57.43\00:39:00.27
You know, I don't know if...
00:39:00.30\00:39:01.94
You know, I have felt
a good title for a book,
00:39:01.97\00:39:07.48
would be, "what I have
learned since I knew it all?"
00:39:07.51\00:39:11.61
What was that, Sister
Mollie, you want us to pounce?
00:39:11.65\00:39:14.42
What I learned
since I knew it all.
00:39:14.45\00:39:17.05
Remember back
when you knew it all.
00:39:17.09\00:39:19.55
Now you ask about feeling
hard to admit our weaknesses.
00:39:19.59\00:39:25.53
Yes.
00:39:25.56\00:39:26.90
And there was a time
00:39:26.93\00:39:28.26
when I felt like I
had all the answers.
00:39:28.30\00:39:29.93
And in my young,
much younger years
00:39:29.96\00:39:34.50
and it seems
like the older I get,
00:39:34.54\00:39:37.04
the more, more
quickly I recognized
00:39:37.07\00:39:40.88
my
insufficiencies and inabilities.
00:39:40.91\00:39:43.45
And at some point I found
that just owning your mistakes
00:39:43.48\00:39:46.55
is a lot better than trying
to blame, shift, and justify.
00:39:46.58\00:39:50.12
I know that might come
with the wisdom of old age,
00:39:50.15\00:39:52.55
I don't know.
00:39:52.59\00:39:54.06
But, yeah, it's
difficult to admit you're wrong.
00:39:54.09\00:39:57.46
I think in your younger years
00:39:57.49\00:39:59.33
when you got to
prove to everybody,
00:39:59.36\00:40:01.40
but at some point you realize
God's grace is sufficient.
00:40:01.43\00:40:05.97
And if I fail and make a total
00:40:06.00\00:40:08.07
and complete flop
of the whole thing,
00:40:08.10\00:40:10.67
God still loves me and
I'm still gonna make it.
00:40:10.71\00:40:14.21
And, you know, you said
maybe it's just part of old age,
00:40:14.24\00:40:16.95
but really that's grace.
00:40:16.98\00:40:18.71
That's grace because grace
is continually to teach you
00:40:18.75\00:40:22.68
of the spiritual things.
00:40:22.72\00:40:24.42
And as we grow older,
and we're growing in grace,
00:40:24.45\00:40:27.32
then we recognize these things.
00:40:27.36\00:40:29.19
So that's beautiful.
00:40:29.22\00:40:30.56
You know, how often
the Lord has to remind us.
00:40:30.59\00:40:32.39
It's difficult and probably,
00:40:32.43\00:40:33.96
maybe determined
by how you're made up.
00:40:34.00\00:40:38.80
You know, some of us are little
more prideful than others.
00:40:38.83\00:40:41.50
You know whether it comes
to anything of admitting that.
00:40:41.54\00:40:44.47
We can't do it or
we shouldn't do it
00:40:44.51\00:40:46.14
or we come to an age
where it really prohibits you
00:40:46.17\00:40:49.44
from doing without getting hurt.
00:40:49.48\00:40:51.71
And some of these things
we have to kind of go through
00:40:51.75\00:40:54.15
and one day we
seem like we're fine
00:40:54.18\00:40:56.08
and the next day it seems like
00:40:56.12\00:40:57.45
all these
things are against you,
00:40:57.49\00:40:59.19
that's telling you
that you're not the same
00:40:59.22\00:41:00.86
as you used to
be or you still try.
00:41:00.89\00:41:03.19
Yeah, good changes
that I can remember.
00:41:03.22\00:41:06.03
You know, in the
hospital after surgery,
00:41:06.06\00:41:08.93
and you know a
couple days after,
00:41:08.96\00:41:10.60
you don't hardly know
who you are or whatever...
00:41:10.63\00:41:12.50
You had no strength whatsoever,
just lapses everything.
00:41:12.53\00:41:15.44
But I still have that
desire that if I got the rest,
00:41:15.47\00:41:18.41
I'm gonna do it
myself, you know.
00:41:18.44\00:41:20.84
But no matter how hard I tried,
00:41:20.88\00:41:22.91
no matter what
effort I put forward,
00:41:22.94\00:41:25.25
I couldn't hardly move,
I couldn't move anything,
00:41:25.28\00:41:27.32
I could not do it
and I had to recognize
00:41:27.35\00:41:30.42
that I could
not do it physically
00:41:30.45\00:41:33.39
and then I needed help.
00:41:33.42\00:41:35.59
And help is something
I've always loved to give,
00:41:35.62\00:41:37.76
but never found the way
to, wanted to receive it
00:41:37.79\00:41:41.40
and that can be too
much pride sometimes,
00:41:41.43\00:41:43.67
which we don't
look at and say that,
00:41:43.70\00:41:45.03
it's just,
which we like to help.
00:41:45.07\00:41:46.84
But I found
that, if I needed help
00:41:46.87\00:41:50.04
and she was there to
help me as I was helpless.
00:41:50.07\00:41:54.74
Basically that's what
you, you know, at times,
00:41:54.78\00:41:56.68
all of us maybe
been there a time or two,
00:41:56.71\00:41:58.55
you're basically was helpless.
00:41:58.58\00:42:01.02
There was nothing I
could do for myself,
00:42:01.05\00:42:04.42
but that's when she was there.
00:42:04.45\00:42:05.79
You know, we come
that way spiritually.
00:42:05.82\00:42:08.22
We come to our
Father and say, you know,
00:42:08.26\00:42:09.59
there's nothing I can
really do it within myself.
00:42:09.62\00:42:11.69
And I think He
says, "Okay, good.
00:42:11.73\00:42:13.90
I'm glad you've learned that.
00:42:13.93\00:42:15.36
Now let me do it for
you. Let me fix you."
00:42:15.40\00:42:18.10
But you had to come to that,
00:42:18.13\00:42:19.47
so you realized
you need it fixed.
00:42:19.50\00:42:21.24
So I realized I need help.
00:42:21.27\00:42:22.60
So anyway that's, I think that's
00:42:22.64\00:42:24.17
very, very
important just to recognize it
00:42:24.21\00:42:26.54
and then don't try to fight it
00:42:26.57\00:42:27.91
because you make matters poor.
00:42:27.94\00:42:30.11
You dig yourself
a deeper hole. Yes.
00:42:30.15\00:42:32.08
In your insufficiency,
He's your all sufficiency.
00:42:32.11\00:42:34.88
In your inability,
He's your all ability.
00:42:34.92\00:42:36.55
And when we're
at the weakest...?
00:42:36.58\00:42:37.99
When we're
weakest, He's made strong.
00:42:38.02\00:42:40.59
Isn't that beautiful? Yes.
00:42:40.62\00:42:41.96
See, these are
promises. Too bad we don't...
00:42:41.99\00:42:43.79
We get that part of the lesson,
maybe those are good ones.
00:42:43.83\00:42:46.09
I'll be quite and then go ahead.
00:42:46.13\00:42:47.46
Oh, let's see if we can move on.
00:42:47.50\00:42:48.83
We've done two
00:42:48.86\00:42:50.20
and we're only on
step three of six.
00:42:50.23\00:42:52.67
So I know there's no way,
00:42:52.70\00:42:54.77
there's no way we're
gonna get through it today.
00:42:54.80\00:42:57.17
But we're gonna go to
part three of the gift
00:42:57.21\00:42:59.71
that Christ received and that
deals with the bread of life,
00:42:59.74\00:43:03.14
the word, He
opened the Word of God.
00:43:03.18\00:43:05.98
And back then He only had
the Old Testament, correct?
00:43:06.01\00:43:09.08
That's what He
studied from Matthew 4:4.
00:43:09.12\00:43:11.89
Let's look at that verse.
00:43:11.92\00:43:13.25
It reads, "But He answered
and said it is written,"
00:43:13.29\00:43:16.69
I love this, "'Man
shall not live by bread alone,
00:43:16.73\00:43:20.30
but by every
word that proocedeth
00:43:20.33\00:43:22.76
out of the mouth of God."
00:43:22.80\00:43:24.70
And that's what Christ live
by, that's how He met the enemy.
00:43:24.73\00:43:28.90
It is what? It is written.
00:43:28.94\00:43:32.61
It is written.
00:43:32.64\00:43:34.31
That's how He, and
that's why we need to be
00:43:34.34\00:43:36.28
studying God's Word
00:43:36.31\00:43:37.65
and putting it into
our hearts and our minds.
00:43:37.68\00:43:39.88
And there are so many times
that I'm sure you guys have
00:43:39.91\00:43:42.35
experienced this many times,
00:43:42.38\00:43:44.39
'cause I'm not the
best at remembering
00:43:44.42\00:43:46.69
where something is in scripture,
00:43:46.72\00:43:48.72
but I may know the verse.
00:43:48.76\00:43:50.53
And there's
times when you need it
00:43:50.56\00:43:52.89
and you've not prepared for it,
00:43:52.93\00:43:54.36
but the Lord has
put you in a place
00:43:54.40\00:43:56.13
where you're
witnessing with someone,
00:43:56.16\00:43:58.20
and all of a sudden these verses
00:43:58.23\00:44:00.00
they just begin to pour out.
00:44:00.04\00:44:01.67
But where did they come from?
00:44:01.70\00:44:03.30
I had to put Him in there first.
00:44:03.34\00:44:05.34
I had to do my part, right?
00:44:05.37\00:44:07.34
And if we do our
part then He blesses
00:44:07.38\00:44:09.51
and He does the
rest and He strengthens,
00:44:09.54\00:44:11.85
He gives the grace,
00:44:11.88\00:44:13.21
and He gives us the
word and do you see it.
00:44:13.25\00:44:15.42
Someone actually
had the best gift there
00:44:15.45\00:44:16.99
and, Jason, you think about it,
00:44:17.02\00:44:18.49
which had you'd
rather, you'd rather say,
00:44:18.52\00:44:20.39
you know, 1 John 2:4.
00:44:20.42\00:44:22.82
And I don't want to say
it, but I know that's...
00:44:22.86\00:44:24.59
No, I'd rather,
somebody quote me, what?
00:44:24.63\00:44:26.80
And then we'll get in the word,
we'll find out where it's at.
00:44:26.83\00:44:29.53
So that's the thing to do,
00:44:29.56\00:44:30.90
that word I've had in my
heart, we'll find the other.
00:44:30.93\00:44:32.40
If the Holy Spirit brings
it back to your remembrance.
00:44:32.43\00:44:34.94
Yes. Yes. Amen.
00:44:34.97\00:44:36.30
Those have been some
of the best Bible studies
00:44:36.34\00:44:39.11
that I've ever had.
00:44:39.14\00:44:40.48
You know, as you were
studying, as you're waking,
00:44:40.51\00:44:43.31
the Lord's waking you up
00:44:43.35\00:44:44.68
and you're
opening the bread of life,
00:44:44.71\00:44:46.18
that's another
thing we can pray for it.
00:44:46.21\00:44:47.72
Not only to have
the mind of Christ,
00:44:47.75\00:44:49.45
but to be a blessing,
00:44:49.48\00:44:50.89
and a witness and
if there be someone
00:44:50.92\00:44:52.72
that the Lord could send our way
00:44:52.75\00:44:55.02
that we can share
Jesus with to do that.
00:44:55.06\00:44:58.09
In fact, we could
tell another 30 minutes
00:44:58.13\00:45:00.80
of how the Lord did that
for you many, many years.
00:45:00.83\00:45:03.50
You know, when you were
still doing carpentry work.
00:45:03.53\00:45:05.93
And you said,
"Lord, send someone today
00:45:05.97\00:45:08.37
that I can witness to today."
00:45:08.40\00:45:10.54
And most of the day he
wouldn't do any carpenter work,
00:45:10.57\00:45:13.31
he would be
witnessing, but then he found
00:45:13.34\00:45:16.18
that he could do
eight hours in two or three.
00:45:16.21\00:45:18.21
Amen.
00:45:18.25\00:45:19.58
You know, when
he was witnessing...
00:45:19.61\00:45:20.95
Oh, the angels were
there working along with me.
00:45:20.98\00:45:22.58
That's part of our study here,
00:45:22.62\00:45:23.95
about the angels being
with us and doing for us.
00:45:23.99\00:45:25.89
Yes, amen. If we
get to that point.
00:45:25.92\00:45:27.26
I hope so. That's a
good point for sure.
00:45:27.29\00:45:28.99
Oh, wow.
00:45:29.02\00:45:30.53
You know, John 1:1
says in the beginning.
00:45:30.56\00:45:34.20
How we use to say,
turn to the beginning.
00:45:34.23\00:45:36.36
No, I don't mean
Genesis, I mean, John 1:1.
00:45:36.40\00:45:39.93
"In the beginning was the
Word, and the Word was with God,
00:45:39.97\00:45:43.54
and the Word was God."
00:45:43.57\00:45:45.34
John then 1:14.
00:45:45.37\00:45:46.91
"And the Word became
flesh and walked among us."
00:45:46.94\00:45:51.55
"The Word became
flesh and walked among us."
00:45:51.58\00:45:53.48
Now through the
power of this word,
00:45:53.52\00:45:54.92
our flesh takes on the
word and we walk among man,
00:45:54.95\00:45:58.82
so they can see
Jesus in the world again.
00:45:58.85\00:46:01.32
We take on this word
00:46:01.36\00:46:03.09
and the Parable of the Sower
00:46:03.12\00:46:06.49
that would be Mark the
fourth chapter I believe
00:46:06.53\00:46:09.23
and the Parable of the Sower.
00:46:09.26\00:46:10.73
What does it say
that the sower was sowing?
00:46:10.77\00:46:13.54
He was sowing seed.
00:46:13.57\00:46:15.20
What does then and...
00:46:15.24\00:46:16.57
when He tells about
the power, the parable,
00:46:16.60\00:46:19.61
what were the seed?
00:46:19.64\00:46:20.98
It was the word of
God. It was this word.
00:46:21.01\00:46:23.88
So the word is
likened to the seed.
00:46:23.91\00:46:27.58
So the word became
flesh and dwelt among us.
00:46:27.62\00:46:30.15
Now this word that we read,
this word of the living God,
00:46:30.19\00:46:34.46
it's the seed of the Lord Jesus
Christ, the first principle,
00:46:34.49\00:46:39.23
I share this quite often.
00:46:39.26\00:46:40.80
The first biblical principle
laid down in the Word of God.
00:46:40.83\00:46:44.37
I believe its Genesis 1:3.
00:46:44.40\00:46:47.57
"Its seed produces
after its own kind."
00:46:47.60\00:46:50.61
And so we take
this word and say,
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we've been
predestined to be conformed
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to the image of
the Lord Jesus Christ
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or we're not gonna be conformed
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to the image of the
Lord Jesus Christ externally,
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it's gonna be internally.
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We take this
word, we read this Word
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as Jesus devour the
word, we devour the word.
00:47:05.75\00:47:09.92
Our flesh takes on
the word and then the seed
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is going to
produce after its own kind.
00:47:15.26\00:47:18.90
We'll take on the very image,
and likeness, and character,
00:47:18.93\00:47:22.60
and nature of the
Lord Jesus Christ.
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And then people
can see something in us
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worth being
attracted to or don't your lamp
00:47:29.44\00:47:33.55
or put your
candle under the bushel,
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put it where people can see it.
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Let your light shine before
man that they will be drawn
00:47:38.65\00:47:42.92
and lift Jesus up,
people will be drawn to Him.
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Because it says
the importance of it,
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when you're
talking about this is...
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Because when we
read, every seed sown
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will produce a harvest,
whether it be good or bad.
00:47:52.03\00:47:56.57
Every seed, every
thing, they influence,
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every word that goes out,
every action that goes out
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will produce a harvest.
00:48:03.18\00:48:06.35
And we don't want
to be a bad harvest,
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we're gonna be
accountable for that.
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That's true. Yes.
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So we want to be the good seed.
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The enemy came
along and did what?
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He put in the bad seed, right?
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Remember for every
truth, there's a counterfeit.
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So there he's up to that too.
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So praise God for that good seed
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and the Word of God that
were to hide in our heart.
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Yes, and I want to,
I want to read on 8:32
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as it goes so well with
what she was just saying.
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"And you shall know the truth
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and the truth
shall make you free."
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So we talked a little bit about
seducing spirits in this world.
00:48:35.11\00:48:38.48
There are so many churches
that are built on feelings
00:48:38.51\00:48:42.62
and emotions, and most
people never pick up a Bible,
00:48:42.65\00:48:46.65
they're never planting
that seed in their heart,
00:48:46.69\00:48:49.72
it's not growing.
00:48:49.76\00:48:51.13
I spoke to someone last weekend
and they were talking about
00:48:51.16\00:48:54.00
some experiences
that they're having.
00:48:54.03\00:48:55.50
And I said, "Well,
what were you saying?"
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And she said, "I don't
know, but it felt good."
00:48:57.77\00:49:00.30
It was right, it felt good.
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So we've got to get back.
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If the Bible says, "The
truth shall set you free."
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Free from what? Free from what?
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Oh, sin and death. Exactly.
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Free from sin, because sin
separates us from our Father,
00:49:11.35\00:49:14.72
separates us from
our relationship with Him
00:49:14.75\00:49:18.25
and for our eternity
and living in heaven.
00:49:18.29\00:49:21.02
And so it takes the
word to show us who we are,
00:49:21.06\00:49:25.19
what we need to work on,
00:49:25.23\00:49:26.80
how we need to
submit and give our heart.
00:49:26.83\00:49:29.53
There's just so many things.
00:49:29.56\00:49:30.90
And all these promises,
these wonderful promises.
00:49:30.93\00:49:33.87
The beautiful
thing is, when we see
00:49:33.90\00:49:35.40
that we need this heart
surgery from the Word of God,
00:49:35.44\00:49:38.17
we don't have to worry about it,
00:49:38.21\00:49:40.04
because we can't
do that on our own,
00:49:40.08\00:49:41.81
only the Holy
Spirit, only God can do that.
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So He's in all, and He is
all and we can trust in that
00:49:44.68\00:49:49.02
and we can have faith
in that firm foundation.
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And it's very important that we
don't operate off of feelings,
00:49:51.39\00:49:54.22
but principle because
being honest sin feels good.
00:49:54.26\00:49:59.23
You know, it feels good.
00:49:59.26\00:50:01.26
So you can't go
off of, off feelings.
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It has to be
principles in the Word of God.
00:50:04.87\00:50:08.30
Yes. Can I share Matthew 5:6?
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Please. Oh, please.
00:50:10.44\00:50:11.77
"Blessed are those who do
00:50:11.81\00:50:13.14
hunger and thirst
after righteousness
00:50:13.17\00:50:15.74
for they shall be filled."
00:50:15.78\00:50:17.35
And you were
talking about people
00:50:17.38\00:50:18.78
that never read God's word,
00:50:18.81\00:50:20.92
they never have any
hungering or thirsting.
00:50:20.95\00:50:23.35
All today, let's pray
that we all, every one.
00:50:23.39\00:50:26.69
Well, God will just place
such a hungering and thirsting
00:50:26.72\00:50:29.32
in our lives
for the thing of Him
00:50:29.36\00:50:31.39
because as we hunger and
thirst go into God's Word,
00:50:31.43\00:50:34.50
He's gonna satisfy
that need that's in us.
00:50:34.53\00:50:37.67
You know, Sister Mollie,
there's been times in my life
00:50:37.70\00:50:39.83
where I didn't feel like I
had that hunger and that thirst.
00:50:39.87\00:50:42.90
But the good news
is, you can just pray
00:50:42.94\00:50:46.14
and ask the Holy Spirit
to give you that hunger.
00:50:46.17\00:50:48.51
Isn't that beautiful? Yes.
00:50:48.54\00:50:50.21
Convict me. Give me that hunger.
00:50:50.25\00:50:52.01
Give me that
thirst for righteousness.
00:50:52.05\00:50:53.95
Amen. He does everything for us.
00:50:53.98\00:50:56.45
Then pick up
your Bible and... Yes.
00:50:56.48\00:50:59.12
And go into
action, isn't that right?
00:50:59.15\00:51:00.89
And see how powerful that
hungering and thirsting is.
00:51:00.92\00:51:03.63
Yeah, the two words
we've been talking about here
00:51:03.66\00:51:05.69
really is the word, the
bread of life and grace.
00:51:05.73\00:51:09.33
How they work together.
00:51:09.36\00:51:10.73
How they're inseparable
00:51:10.77\00:51:12.20
that you can't
really separate them.
00:51:12.23\00:51:13.57
And two
testimonies 409 says this.
00:51:13.60\00:51:16.27
Just a couple of lines. Listen.
00:51:16.30\00:51:17.64
It's that, "It is
through His grace,"
00:51:17.67\00:51:20.08
and we're talking about alone,
00:51:20.11\00:51:21.44
the word of God,
grace, the word of God.
00:51:21.48\00:51:23.45
"That Satan can be successfully"
00:51:23.48\00:51:26.08
notice this, "repulsed."
00:51:26.11\00:51:28.12
We know it's through the word,
through the grace of Christ
00:51:28.15\00:51:31.25
that Satan can be repulsed.
00:51:31.29\00:51:33.19
He can be driven away.
00:51:33.22\00:51:34.72
And see, it is
written. We need that.
00:51:34.76\00:51:36.79
We have to understand that.
00:51:36.83\00:51:38.26
It is the word that's inside
00:51:38.29\00:51:40.90
and we're putting
inside by the grace of God,
00:51:40.93\00:51:43.30
that the enemy is
really repulsed by,
00:51:43.33\00:51:44.80
he can't stand the Word
of God, he can't stand Jesus.
00:51:44.83\00:51:48.30
You know, he
can't stand around that.
00:51:48.34\00:51:49.97
He has to... He has
to leave, isn't that?
00:51:50.01\00:51:51.74
I mean, you put those things
together, the bread of life.
00:51:51.77\00:51:54.48
And when I,
talking about the bread,
00:51:54.51\00:51:56.64
again, I want it fresh,
00:51:56.68\00:51:58.01
I don't want a
day old stuff, right?
00:51:58.05\00:51:59.78
Talking about
that day old stuff,
00:51:59.81\00:52:01.15
I want that fresh bread
00:52:01.18\00:52:02.52
and fresh bread
you can smell it.
00:52:02.55\00:52:04.62
And sometime it makes you...
00:52:04.65\00:52:05.99
Oh, but be careful.
00:52:06.02\00:52:07.36
You know, at times
makes you just want to,
00:52:07.39\00:52:08.72
just, just put a
little bit of butter on it
00:52:08.76\00:52:12.36
while it's still hot.
00:52:12.39\00:52:13.73
You know, what I mean?
00:52:13.76\00:52:15.10
It's just that, just
a little bit on there
00:52:15.13\00:52:16.46
and smell that
bread and it reminds you,
00:52:16.50\00:52:17.87
that's the way we want
to be spiritually, right?
00:52:17.90\00:52:20.47
That there is hot,
00:52:20.50\00:52:22.94
as good smell in the nostrils,
right, as we take it out.
00:52:22.97\00:52:25.57
And we've talked about it.
00:52:25.61\00:52:26.94
Maybe we only got
10 minutes of morning.
00:52:26.98\00:52:29.08
Look at this, our
time has gone by so fast,
00:52:29.11\00:52:31.51
but we can take that 10 minutes.
00:52:31.55\00:52:33.21
And we're gonna close it up,
00:52:33.25\00:52:34.58
we're gonna wrap it up
after this commercial break.
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