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Series Code: TDY
Program Code: TDY017091A
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00:01 I want to spend my life
00:07 Mending broken people 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:18 Removing pain 00:23 Lord, let my words 00:29 Heal a heart that hurts 00:34 I want to spend my life 00:40 Mending broken people 00:45 I want to spend my life 00:51 Mending broken people 01:07 Hello, and welcome to 3ABN Today. 01:10 I'm Chris Shelton 01:11 along with my husband Pastor Kenny Shelton. 01:14 And we are so blessed 01:15 to be able to come into your home again today 01:17 with another Bible study on the today program. 01:21 And we've entitled this, 01:23 "Choose You This Day, Part Two." 01:25 We did part one. 01:27 So if you haven't seen part one, 01:28 you might want to call 3ABN and say, 01:29 "Hey, I like to have part one to go with part two." 01:33 And we have a wonderful panel with us, 01:35 people that I'm sure you're very familiar with. 01:39 Lady of honor here is Sister Mollie Steenson. 01:42 She is the Vice President, General Vice President of 3ABN 01:46 and has been for many, many years. 01:48 Haven't you, Sister Mollie? 01:49 Yes. Greg's the general vice president. 01:51 Oh, okay. Okay. 01:52 So we have to... 01:54 It's getting a little confusing now 01:55 that we've got two vice presidents. 01:57 And so Greg is the general vice presidents 01:59 and it's just a joy to be here. 02:03 It's just always an honor to be a part this 02:07 to share what God has placed in our heart with people. 02:11 You know, our prayer was, "Father, 02:12 if You put anything of value in us, 02:15 let us bring it to the people today." 02:17 Amen. So that's our prayer. 02:19 That's a good one. Amen. 02:20 And that's always a blessing to have you. 02:22 You know, any time we're doing a program here 02:24 I call on you quite often. 02:26 I appreciate that. 02:27 It always blesses my heart too. 02:29 And we have Jason Bradley. 02:31 Jason is the assistant to the general manager 02:34 of Dare to Dream, right, Jason? 02:35 Yes. Yes. 02:36 And I know you do a lot with Dare to Dream 02:38 and now you're traveling all over 02:40 and working for the Lord. 02:41 And I know that Kenny and I, 02:43 we have just seen you grow over the years in Jesus 02:47 and we love to see that love of Christ in your heart. 02:50 You have something. 02:52 I saw you guys are gonna have some special. 02:54 You always have special things on Dare to Dream, aren't you? 02:56 Special programs Yes, yes. 02:57 So there is a program 02:59 that's gonna be on Daniel and Revelation. 03:02 And there are some really, really amazing speakers. 03:06 Henry Wright, Mendenhall. 03:11 So the list goes on. 03:13 It's wonderful to... 03:15 Two, two very important books for the hour 03:17 in which we live on this planet. 03:19 These are two. 03:20 God wants us to be studying and to be able to understand. 03:23 So it's pass time, right? 03:26 That we really get into it 03:27 and I know there's a lot of different ones 03:29 are doing studies and bringing this to the forefront 03:31 and I plea that's signs of the times. 03:33 God once again He's warning us and equipping us 03:36 for what lies ahead, 03:37 'cause He doesn't wants to be unaware, 03:39 He didn't wants to be surprised. 03:40 Choose You This Day. 03:41 Choose You This Day and we're happy about that. 03:43 Choose You This Day 03:44 and I'm looking forward to that program. 03:45 Pastor Kenny, since this is part two, 03:47 would you kind of give us 03:48 a synopsis of what was in part one? 03:50 What did we cover? 03:51 Yes, we actually, we covered two parts 03:53 and started on the third part. 03:56 Some people say we get a little long wind 03:58 and your preachers do that. 03:59 And anybody gets together to study the word, 04:01 there's always something 04:03 that the Holy Spirit impresses or inspires, 04:05 that needs to be said at that movement 04:07 and I think we need to be open to that spirit. 04:09 Jesus was open to the spirit. 04:11 We had to be open to the spirit. 04:13 In our first part, we got step one. 04:14 There's six steps in "Choose You This Day." 04:18 And as we look to these six steps, 04:20 we will find that they're all Biblical steps, 04:22 they're all steps that will lead us 04:24 closer to Christ and guaranteed, 04:26 if you do these things by the grace of God, 04:28 that we will have that lasting relationship with Him. 04:33 They talk about, you know, return to our old ways, 04:36 we're not going to get into a position 04:38 to where we just no longer care or lukewarm, 04:41 we will stay hot in Jesus Christ. 04:44 In our first and was... 04:45 And God wake us up. 04:47 I like that. 04:48 God wake us up in the morning, what for? 04:50 For a Bible study. 04:52 It's very important that we get up early, 04:54 in several passages, as we looked at the study, 04:57 we find one of our first text 05:01 and Jesus is our example. 05:03 He's our example in all things. So I know this. 05:06 We study this and we use Jesus as our example, 05:08 we follow that example. 05:09 Victory and power is assured to each and every one of us. 05:12 Amen. 05:14 And we mentioned this. 05:15 Some people say, "I just can't get up every morning." 05:17 You've heard that. 05:18 "I just can't... I barely get to work in time." 05:21 Then we need to pray. 05:22 Was it Psalms 50:4? We must pray. 05:25 That He wakens me morning by morning. 05:28 So we pray that the Holy Spirit... 05:29 Say, "Please, Holy Spirit, wake me in the morning 05:32 so I can get up and spend some time with You." 05:34 And certainly the Holy Spirit will wake you up to do that. 05:36 So it's very important, wake up, 05:38 get started before the kids get up, 05:39 before you have to go to work, 05:41 before you have to fix breakfast, 05:42 and all those things, 05:44 so you're not side tracked and God will do great things. 05:46 And step number two that we looked at was, 05:48 give God permission to take your heart. 05:51 Ask Him to come into your heart. 05:54 Consecrate yourself. 05:56 David said, it was in Psalms 51, 05:57 "Create me a clean heart, you know, 05:59 and renew a right spirit in me." 06:02 And so as we look at these things here, 06:03 and then Joshua 24. 06:04 He choose you this day 06:06 where our subject matter certainly came in. 06:07 And so, as we looked at these things, 06:09 it's very important to give God permission. 06:11 He doesn't go where He's not invited. 06:14 So we have to every day... 06:15 If you say, "Well, I asked Him last year." 06:17 Well, bless your heart, you missed a lot of days. 06:19 Every day, every morning we must say, 06:22 "Please come into my heart and my life." 06:24 I mean, I wake up in the morning 06:26 and realized I need, I need guidance. 06:27 That's right. 06:29 I need some help. I'm a baby. 06:30 You know, I need help taking my steps 06:33 because I don't know. 06:34 I need somebody that will alter and direct my steps 06:37 because I don't know what to do for the day, 06:39 I don't know the activity, 06:40 I don't know what's in store for me, 06:42 that He does. 06:43 So I give Him permission, "Oh, take my heart." 06:45 And certainly that is the mind and the will. 06:47 So we commit our will, the mechanism that our mind, 06:50 you know, governing power to Him. 06:52 And I said Him this, "Lord, make every choice 06:54 'cause I'm just not capable to make the right choices." 06:56 I don't know the beginning and the end. 06:58 Then step number three. 07:00 We're looking at, it was claiming the gifts 07:02 that Jesus received each morning. 07:04 These are the ones that I got... 07:06 I got excited about... 07:07 I almost clapped my hands here and say, 07:09 oh, I got excited because Jesus is... 07:11 These are just four, just four of them. 07:13 And the first one is where we can really begin, 07:16 you know, after we have music and prayer whatever else, 07:18 but we only want to begin in. 07:19 Even though we touched on this, some of you hear what you say. 07:21 Well, you touched on that first one 07:23 about the baptism of the Holy Spirit. 07:25 But you can't touch on it enough. 07:27 We can't spend enough time 07:29 on the importance of baptism of the Holy Spirit, 07:32 it means a lot of different things 07:34 to a lot of different people maybe. 07:36 But the Bible is very, very clear 07:37 that we need that Spirit in our heart and in our life. 07:40 That's where we kind of pickup and, and go from there. 07:43 And I'm looking forward to those four things 07:45 which is baptism of the Spirit, grace, 07:48 bread of life, 07:49 and then of course, Lord use my words. 07:51 I wonder how many of us really pray that. 07:53 The words that I speak today, 07:54 Lord, use them, have them to be anointed. 07:57 Amen, amen. 07:58 But before we do that, 08:00 we are blessed to go to the 3ABN Worship Center. 08:03 Sister Mollie, this may be one of the best musical projects 08:06 who have ever done. 08:08 They may even wanna call in and get this, 08:09 so they can see all of it. 08:11 But we're gonna be blessed by The Calvary Project, 08:14 the "Hymn Medley." 08:16 Amen. 08:43 Were you there 08:46 When they crucified 08:51 My Lord? 08:56 Were you there 09:01 When they crucified 09:05 My Lord? 09:10 Oh 09:18 Sometimes it causes me 09:25 To tremble 09:29 Tremble 09:32 Tremble 09:37 Were you there 09:40 When they crucified 09:46 My Lord? 09:54 Were you there 09:57 When they laid Him 10:00 In the tomb? 10:07 Were you there 10:11 When they laid Him 10:14 In the tomb? 10:24 Oh 10:31 Sometimes it causes me 10:38 To tremble 10:42 Tremble 10:46 Tremble 10:50 Were you there 10:54 When they laid Him 10:58 In the tomb? 11:01 Jesus paid it all 11:07 All to Him I owe 11:13 Sin had left 11:16 A crimson stain 11:22 He washed it 11:27 White as snow 11:33 So I'll cherish 11:36 The old rugged Cross 11:42 Till my trophies at last 11:45 I lay down 11:52 I will cling 11:54 To the old rugged Cross 12:01 And exchange it 12:03 Someday for a crown 12:10 On a hill far away 12:15 Stood an old rugged Cross 12:20 The emblem 12:22 Of suffering and shame 12:29 And I love that old Cross 12:34 Where the dearest and best 12:38 For a world of lost sinners 12:43 Was slain 12:48 So I'll cherish 12:51 The old rugged Cross 12:57 Till my trophies 13:00 At last I lay down 13:06 I will cling 13:09 To the old rugged Cross 13:16 And exchange it 13:18 Some day for a crown 13:25 And exchange it 13:27 Some day for a crown 13:35 I will cling 13:37 To the old rugged Cross 13:44 And exchange it 13:46 Some day for a crown 14:05 Amen. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. 14:07 Now you see why I said you may want to write and call, 14:10 and email, and ask for your very own copy. 14:12 It's a must. It's a must. 14:14 That's so beautiful. 14:15 I had these spiritual goose bumps 14:17 went over my body and out my arms. 14:18 I don't think I fell on the floor 14:20 and Sister Mollie will have to see later. 14:22 But that was just a real, real blessing. 14:25 We think about that old rugged Cross, 14:27 it just touches your heart, it just softens you up, 14:30 and one of these days 14:31 we'll be able to exchange that for that crown. 14:33 For crown. Amen. 14:35 Pastor, would you have prayer with us 14:37 as we open up this Bible study? 14:38 Let's pray. Shall we? 14:40 Though the home pray with us please. 14:42 Merciful Father in heaven, 14:44 truly we thank You for Your merciful love 14:47 that You have for us in Your long suffering. 14:49 We thank You today that we can call upon You 14:51 in our time of need. 14:53 And oh, Lord, we have need of a Savior 14:54 each and every moment of our lives. 14:57 Today we need You to extend the Holy Spirit. 14:59 Please, Holy Spirit, come to our hearts and our minds 15:02 and we may be illuminate these beautiful truths 15:04 that we read, draw us to the foot of the cross, 15:07 help us to see Jesus in a special way. 15:09 That old rugged cross. 15:10 Oh, how wonderful. 15:12 We set our hearts and our minds 15:13 upon that, that one these days we'll see 15:15 the one that hung on the cross for us 15:17 to share His blood in our behalf, 15:19 so that we may spend eternity with Him. 15:22 Lord, bless us. We pray in this program. 15:24 Bless all Your children at home, those who listen, 15:26 those who view, whatever the case maybe. 15:29 Oh, Lord, so some need a special touch today. 15:32 Only You can make that touch. And so I praise. 15:34 We read the Word today 15:36 that somebody, somebody will find Jesus 15:38 in a special, special way. 15:39 And not just one or two, but many in the name of Jesus' 15:42 as we thank You, bless each one here today. 15:45 And again, those who view and listen 15:46 and we'll give You praise, give You honor, 15:48 and give You glory because You are our God 15:50 and You care for us and You love us 15:52 and all that wonderful promise, "I will come again." 15:55 Help us to be ready in Jesus' name, amen. 15:57 Amen. 15:59 And that's why we're here. 16:00 We want to be ready. 16:01 When He comes again, we want to say, 16:03 "Lo, there is our God and we have waited for Him." 16:06 We don't want to be in the group 16:08 that is crying for the rocks to fall out 16:10 and to fall on top of them 16:12 because they can't stand the glory 16:14 that comes with Christ in the second coming. 16:17 So these six steps are going to help us right, pastor? 16:19 Amen. I believe you. 16:21 And we are on step number three. 16:22 Claim the gifts that Jesus received each morning 16:25 while He was in worship. 16:27 We were gonna start on number two, grace. 16:29 But you want to jump back to baptism of the Holy Spirit. 16:32 We're gonna talk about four of those. 16:34 Baptism of the Holy Spirit. 16:36 So go ahead. Lead us up. 16:37 Tell us what's on your heart today. 16:39 Well, again, if this is the experience of Jesus, 16:43 then I need that experience, I want that experience, 16:47 I need to learn that experience. 16:49 And these are the things that enabled Him 16:52 to go through life as He was... 16:54 He's fully human and fully divine. 16:56 And that's so hard for my little mind sometime. 16:59 I don't know about those of you or those who are here. 17:01 Just a wrap. 17:02 They say wrap your mind around, 17:04 all that fully human, yet fully divine. 17:06 He was subject to all the infirmities of man, 17:09 the weaknesses of man over 4,000 years, 17:11 that's the way He came down. 17:13 But yet He was willing, seeing all in the beginning, right? 17:16 Understood everything what happen to Him 17:19 and yet He choose to come. 17:21 I thank Him for that. 17:23 But realizing with all that in mind, 17:25 He recognized that when He came, 17:26 He came to reveal the Father. 17:28 That's right. To show us the Father. 17:29 So He emptied Himself of self, 17:31 but He needed a power inside as humanity 17:35 and it was the Holy Spirit. 17:36 I know, Sister Mollie, you talk lovely about 17:38 the Holy Spirit many times, I heard you. 17:40 You know, just give us maybe 17:42 a thought about the Holy Spirit, 17:43 the way it work with Jesus, how it needs to work with us? 17:45 Well, you say Jesus was 100% man, 17:48 but He was 100% God. 17:50 One hundred percent humanity, one hundred percent divinity. 17:56 And so I think about that 17:58 and I'm just thinking of my own self. 18:01 There are times when I am so humanity. 18:05 You know, just stinking fallen flesh. 18:09 But, you know, there are times 18:11 when I'm submitted and committed to God. 18:14 Yes, yes. 18:15 When I have clean hands and the pure heart 18:18 and the blood of Christ has been applied to my life 18:21 when I stand 18:23 and I understand about the divinity part. 18:27 When yielded to the Holy... 18:28 See if you yield to the Holy Spirit, 18:31 you say, "Oh, God, to the degree that I know 18:36 how I yield and submit and commit my life to You 18:39 and ask You to fill me 18:40 to overflowing with your Spirit." 18:43 Oh, God, I want You fill with Your spirit, 18:45 more than You want to be filled with the spirit. 18:47 And I think about, you know, the scripture that says, 18:50 if we being man, 18:53 if our children ask us for a gift. 18:56 We want to give bread to our children if they ask us. 18:59 How much more the scripture says, 19:02 will God give the Holy Spirit to those who ask? 19:05 And so the Holy Spirit is there. 19:08 He is a person, and He wants to fill you with His presence. 19:14 And Acts 1:8. 19:17 What does Acts 1:8 tell us? 19:19 "And ye shall receive power." 19:22 Dunamis, power. 19:24 After that the Holy Spirit has come up on you. 19:28 Does that tell you that the Holy Spirit 19:31 comes up on us? 19:33 We stinking humanity 19:35 that we can be, and we all are at times. 19:38 The Holy Spirit will come upon us. 19:39 But why does it come upon us? 19:41 So we can have those doodads, the ooey-gooey in the doodads. 19:45 No. 19:46 It's, so that we can be witnesses. 19:49 Witnesses, it gives us power 19:51 to be a witness unto our Savior. 19:53 Amen. Amen. 19:55 And He wants to equip us. 19:57 He doesn't want us to keep falling back and forth. 19:59 Jesus wants us to continue to move closer and closer 20:03 and reflect His image more and more fully. 20:05 And we can only do that through the gift of the Holy Spirit. 20:08 It's only through God's power that we can become over comers. 20:12 And that's what He's working in 20:14 and through us to all be over comers. 20:17 That was so beautifully said. 20:18 And I think it would be... 20:21 If we don't mention that 20:22 there's more than one spirit working in this world. 20:24 And there are seducing spirits, 20:27 spirits that used to be in the kingdom of heaven, 20:29 they know what God Spirit is like, 20:31 they know how it feels, they know how it acts. 20:34 And so they are seducing men and women in this world, 20:38 to thinking that a false spirit is actually the true spirit. 20:42 So we need to... 20:43 You know, I love always 20:45 that there is two identifying marks. 20:46 We don't worship God and spirit and in truth. 20:49 So if that false spirit is coming when we're out 20:52 and we're teaching and preaching error 20:54 and it doesn't go along with the Word of God, 20:56 then there is something wrong, something wrong. 20:59 It comes when truth is being spoken. 21:01 Brother J, do you have the John 14:26, we did read it. 21:05 If you have it find it, if you don't we'll... 21:07 I do. Please read that to us. 21:08 "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, 21:11 whom the Father will send in my name, 21:13 he shall teach you all things, 21:15 and bring all things to your remembrance, 21:17 whatsoever I have said unto you. 21:20 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: 21:23 not as the world giveth, give I unto you. 21:27 Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." 21:30 Amen. Yeah. 21:31 Ain't that beautiful? It is. 21:33 What kind of comfort does that give us today? 21:35 You know, to me it gives me comfort 21:37 and gives me an encouragement 21:39 and then it gives me direction too. 21:40 I was reading there at Christ's Object Lesson page 139. 21:44 Just a couple of lines very interesting. 21:46 It says, "Daily He," daily who? 21:48 Daily Jesus, notice. 21:50 "Received a fresh baptism of the Holy Spirit." 21:53 And then He tells us, John 14:24. 21:56 "The Word which you hear is not mine, 21:58 but the Father which sent me." 22:01 So daily He did what, which we need? 22:03 I need... I don't need day old. 22:05 I've had enough day old stuff. 22:08 You know, we were raised and poured and we used... 22:10 Everyone wants to go to the bakery Blades, 22:12 bakery here in West Frankfurt. 22:14 And you could buy a dozen day old donuts for $0.25. 22:17 And you know what they tasted like? 22:20 Day old donut. 22:21 Yes, they did. 22:23 But, you know, when you hardly, 22:24 you never got to eat a fresh one, 22:26 that day old tastes pretty good. 22:27 What so bad it was. It was so bad. 22:28 But once you... 22:30 I'm glad you brought that. 22:31 But once you taste of the fresh 22:33 when they're just brining them out, 22:34 you know, they bring it out and immediately say, 22:37 they melt in your mouth. 22:38 I know somebody right. So you know... 22:40 We are talking about years ago, we come out. 22:42 Now I'd say, once you have tasted 22:44 and you see that he is good, what the Bible say, 22:46 then you no longer happy with the day old. 22:49 You don't want the day old. 22:51 It's cheaper, but you'd rather pay the full price 22:54 as it were, calorie surprise. 22:55 And he says, Jesus got a fresh supply of the Holy Spirit, 23:01 grace of God every day, every morning 23:04 before it lighted up, before the sun came up. 23:06 And that says, "Okay, Kenny, you need that." 23:08 Yeah, He paid the price to make it available to us. 23:11 And, you know, there is a price for us to pray as well, 23:15 but we don't pay it, we just pray. 23:16 We come to the Lord and ask Him every morning, 23:19 fill me a fresh and you know what they do every time. 23:21 Amen. Amen. 23:23 It makes me think of the ten virgins 23:25 because you had five, 23:26 who, their lamps were full of that fresh, 23:29 present, Holy Spirit, 23:31 but then you had five with empty lamps 23:33 because they maybe more than a day old, 23:35 may be a month, a year, several years old 23:37 and they were waiting for the bride groom. 23:39 But, and they were asking for that fresh oil, 23:42 well, it was too late, it was too late. 23:44 They couldn't give what they had 23:45 because it wouldn't enough to go around, 23:48 they had to get it themselves. 23:50 And that's why we're saying to you, 23:51 you have to get it yourself. 23:53 You have to wake up every morning 23:55 and ask God for fresh anointing of the Holy Spirit. 23:58 And you mentioned earlier too 24:00 about taking our mind, our tongues, 24:02 how often I pray now. 24:04 And thanks to you because you said years ago 24:06 you wanted to be like, who was it? 24:08 Solomon. Solomon. King Solomon. 24:10 And the Lord reminded him and He said, 24:12 "Kenny, what's wrong with my mind?" 24:14 Amen. So I, I... 24:15 She won't let me live that one down. 24:18 I admit it. 24:19 I pray often for the mind of Christ 24:21 because that's what we need. 24:23 And if we have the mind of Christ, 24:24 we're gonna be wanting 24:26 that fresh anointing of the Holy Spirit. 24:28 We're gonna be wanting to study that fresh bread every morning 24:32 and we're gonna want these gifts. 24:33 In fact, as I was studying for this, 24:35 I think I claimed every gift that we're gonna read. 24:37 It was beautiful. 24:39 We should. We should claim the... 24:40 You know, we used to have testimony services 24:43 in our church. 24:45 Y'all ever had a testimony service? 24:46 Oh, yes, yes. 24:48 And so how is the pastor at the time and, he would say, 24:50 you know, testimony service, 24:51 everybody wants to share a testimony. 24:54 It say, now, here's, here's the one little thing though. 24:57 You can't share a testimony if it's over a week old. 25:00 Yeah. Well, that shut it down. 25:01 Lot of people had to just sit right back down. 25:04 No, we need a fresh experience, with all our fresh testimony, 25:07 something fresh and new every day. 25:09 Amen. Go ahead. 25:11 That's one of the things, that's very important is that, 25:13 we spend time in the word every single day. 25:16 And we're not surviving of a meal 25:18 that we ate two weeks ago or a week ago. 25:21 We have to get nutrients 25:23 and make sure we're getting 25:26 all of our nutrients on a daily basis 25:28 because otherwise we're not gonna survive. 25:31 And one of the things that I like here in John 14:27 25:36 where it says, "Peace I leave with you, 25:38 my peace I give unto you not as the world giveth, 25:41 give I unto you. 25:42 Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." 25:46 You see the world offers us a false sense of peace. 25:49 You know, it's vary, it fluctuates, 25:52 it's not constant. 25:53 You know, but when you accept Christ 25:54 as your personal Lord and savior 25:56 and you pray for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, 25:59 you have a new type of peace, 26:02 you have a different type of peace 26:03 than that of the world. 26:04 You have one that it is... 26:06 It's almost, it's indescribable that sense of inner peace. 26:13 Nothing replaces that, also with like true joy. 26:18 You know, the world offers this false sense of joy. 26:23 You know, may be if I get this material things, 26:25 if I get this new Maserati... 26:26 I love Maserati, I don't have one. 26:29 But if I get this Maserati 26:33 or a Ferrari or whatever, 26:37 you know, maybe I'll be happy. 26:39 Yes. 26:40 But then you get that, 26:42 then you want something else, and then you want... 26:44 You're always chasing. 26:45 Just look at Hollywood, right? Yes. 26:47 There's no true joy outside the Christ. 26:49 Yes, that's the true joy, true peace. 26:53 Yes, Acts of the Apostles 50 and 51, 26:55 I jot this down and may we might move on into our time. 26:58 It just really flies by 27:00 when you're having fun in studying, 27:01 but I thought this is interesting here. 27:03 It says, "Since this is the means 27:04 by which we are to receive power," 27:06 talking about the Holy Spirit why Jesus went out early, 27:09 why He was seeking the spirit, 27:10 why He wanted fresh in His heart and life every day, 27:13 to meet what He was going to be up again. 27:15 He knew He's gonna be face to face with the devil 27:17 everyday of His life 24x7 as it were. 27:20 And so He needed this special... 27:22 He needed power, he needed grace from God, and His power. 27:25 So which we are to receive power. 27:28 "Why do we not hunger and thrust 27:30 for that gift of the spirit? 27:32 We do not..." 27:33 Notice, "Why do we not talk of it, pray for it, 27:36 and preach concerning it?" 27:39 If it's so vital, why are we afraid? 27:41 Why are we afraid? 27:43 And all the time we don't talk about, we don't preach on it, 27:44 we don't talk about it, maybe we hid and we go on. 27:47 But this is vital to our spiritual... 27:49 My concern is because the Holy Spirit has been 27:52 so miss aligned 27:55 in the church world today, in the media, 28:00 that we don't want to be accused of being over here, 28:04 those that have taken it 28:06 to, to a place that isn't holy and righteous. 28:12 So I'm concerned that we maybe have back to way up yet 28:17 and we shouldn't... 28:18 We should embrace the reality. 28:21 Again, I believe that. 28:22 I have to have this 28:23 because I think we backed away so much 28:25 that sometimes we repress the Holy Spirit. 28:28 You know, God inhabits our praises. 28:30 We need to be praising Him 28:33 and the Holy Spirit wants to come in and walk in 28:35 and amongst us, 28:37 but He needs to be invited. 28:38 So we need to make that a priority we must make. 28:41 I was reading in a devotional, 28:43 one of Sister White's devotionals just recently 28:45 and she said something to the effect 28:48 and I wish I could remember quotes, 28:50 that, if the Holy Spirit were to move in our services, 28:54 there would be those, they would say, 28:56 "Look, at the fanaticism." 28:58 And I got to thinking about that 29:00 and I'm not one to jump and shout. 29:03 But when the Holy Spirit comes I cry, I weep, 29:08 that's just my reaction to presence of God as I weep. 29:12 But what if Jason's, his, 29:15 because when the Holy Spirit come, 29:17 we are emotional and our emotions are touched. 29:21 So let's say the way Jason responded to the Holy Spirit. 29:25 Was he shouted? 29:26 So I'm gonna sit here weeping, 29:28 saying, look at that fanaticism 29:30 or is he gonna sit here shouting, saying, 29:32 look at that fanaticism. 29:34 Now we have to give room to our brothers and sisters 29:37 that have a response to the presence of God, 29:41 that is how God moves on them. 29:43 Oh, glory. I've shouted few times. 29:45 Stomped my feet a few times, 29:47 jumped in the air and I've cried. 29:49 So I've kind of get involved with everything 29:51 because it's the joy. 29:54 It's not the joy of, well, I don't know what I said 29:56 or what I did. 29:57 It was a joy of the... There was a promise. 29:58 There was something that God said. 30:00 It touched my life. 30:01 It's just like, oh, it just made me so full 30:04 and so glad and so grace, you know, of kind. 30:06 It says, O, God, so kind and so gracious, 30:08 so good, that it's just... 30:10 Like it's going... If you don't... This is me. 30:12 If I don't let it out, 30:14 you know, it feel like I'm gonna just burst. 30:17 See, not everyone's that way. 30:18 So, but there are people who will condemn that and say, 30:21 "You're too noisy, you're too loud, 30:23 you're too dull." 30:25 Let me be who I am and you be who you are, 30:27 you weep if you want to or just, 30:29 you know, be in the corner 30:30 and don't make any noise, it's all right, 30:32 as long as your hearts bursting inside with joy. 30:34 Absolutely. 30:35 How can we make all this noise and shout for sports games. 30:38 Thank you. 30:40 Different various activities, but not be excited about God. 30:43 I've done it, I've done it, and I realized the difference. 30:46 One is important, the other means nothing. 30:48 Yeah. That's right. 30:50 But when Alabama scores a foot, touch down, 30:53 you know, Mollie is gonna shout, 30:55 that's just how it is. 30:58 I don't think there's gonna be too many people that are quite 31:00 when those pearly gates will open either 31:02 and when Christ was standing in a square 31:04 in front of the gate 31:05 and He's placing the crown on each of our heads. 31:08 Oh, my lands of love. 31:10 You know, when He comes 31:11 and takes us out of this miserable world, 31:14 how many of us are gonna be quite? 31:15 You know, "Oh, there He is." 31:17 Right, my feet might start to work a little bit. 31:19 Maybe a lot of shouting going on. 31:21 We were like, "I made it." 31:22 Hallelujah. 31:23 Best thing, when the Lord comes, 31:25 He says, I'm gonna come with the shout. 31:26 Yes. Archangel. And the voice of the archangel. 31:28 If He can shout, then we can shout. 31:29 So, yes, hallelujah. I'm excited. Okay, thank you. 31:32 But I'm gonna have to move us on 31:33 because we could probably talk 31:35 the rest of the time about that. 31:38 Yes, yes, there are so many things. 31:40 In fact, I've got something on the tip of my tongue, 31:42 I just got to let it come out I guess. 31:44 Well, go ahead. Some one asked me Sabbath. 31:46 They said, you know, what are the benefits 31:48 of working in ministry full time? 31:51 And I had to say, it's when you see the Holy Spirit 31:54 move upon our heart and a mining, 31:56 you see in their eyes. 31:58 Oh, the conviction and the conversion 32:01 and they let go with the things of this world 32:03 that has bound them up for so many years. 32:06 That is true, true, recompense for. 32:09 Next to worthwhile. 32:10 Yeah, given up so much to work in ministry full time. 32:13 But we need to move on to grace. 32:15 And I guess I'll go ahead and read this. 32:17 This is when I claim this morning. 32:19 I was reading about it. 32:20 If we put it in context, it's 2 Corinthians 12:9, 32:23 and Paul had an affliction. 32:27 And he had been praying about the affliction and Jesus... 32:31 Basically he's saying, 32:32 you know, I don't need to hear about this anymore 32:34 and this is how He answered him in verse 9. 32:36 He says, "And He said unto me, 32:39 'My grace is sufficient for thee, 32:43 for my strength is made perfect in weakness.' 32:47 Most gladly therefore," This is Paul, 32:49 "will I rather glory in my infirmities, 32:52 that the power of Christ may rest upon me." 32:55 So for whatever reason and I know all of us, 32:58 as I was thinking about this and contemplating, 33:00 you know, we've all had sicknesses 33:02 and we prayed about it. 33:03 There's been times I have seen the Lord work miracles. 33:06 Yeah. Absolutely miracles. 33:09 You know, our youngest child was on life support 33:12 and after he and another elder came in an anointed her, 33:15 within 30 minutes 33:17 all the buzzers started going off in the room. 33:19 I collapsed because I thought what else can happen, 33:21 she's not breathing, 33:23 her whole respiratory system is shut down. 33:24 Does that mean her brain is shut down? 33:26 What's going on? They made me leave. 33:28 They came back in about 30 minutes 33:29 and I'm just, I'm just weeping and crying, 33:31 and praying, and, and they said, 33:33 "No, she began to breathe and it messed the machine." 33:36 Hallelujah. 33:37 Yeah, so I've seen Him work miracles 33:40 time and time and time again, 33:42 but then there's other situations 33:43 that I've prayed about 33:45 for years and years and years 33:46 and they haven't been taken like that. 33:50 But see this is what Jesus says because He may know well, 33:53 if that had been taken, you may not be in the same position 33:56 spiritually that you are right now. 33:59 And, you know, so He's saying to us, 34:01 even though I don't choose to take that affliction, 34:05 "My grace is sufficient, I'm gonna give you power." 34:09 You just show up. 34:11 Remember, how He told you years ago, show up, 34:13 and I'll do the rest. 34:15 What do you guys think? 34:16 Well, have you ever had 34:19 a nagging sense of inadequacy 34:24 fearing that you just had been weighed in the balance 34:28 and found wanted. 34:30 Absolutely. 34:31 Being intellectually or physically, 34:33 or impulse case it was, health wise. 34:38 And so this says, "My grace is sufficient." 34:43 So I think about sufficient grace. 34:45 What does He mean by sufficient grace? 34:49 You're feeling inadequate. 34:51 It means, it's enough grace. 34:53 No matter what the situation is. 34:55 God's grace is enough. 34:57 He supplies, God supplies just as much grace 35:03 as you need in the situation you're in. 35:06 That's sufficient grace. Yes, it is. 35:08 I know His mercies are renewed every morning. 35:12 Now we talk about that. 35:14 But, you know, His grace is never diminished either. 35:17 His grace is always there for you. 35:21 That's right. 35:23 Ain't that beautiful? 35:24 It's always giving us what we don't deserve. 35:25 And it's never insufficient. It is... 35:28 Yeah, giving us what we don't deserve. 35:30 I've heard a lot of, you know, everybody, 35:32 a lot of definitions of grace. 35:34 And I was just looking this morning 35:36 and studying a little bit and I found one, 35:37 just a little bit different, but still grace is grace. 35:39 Praise God. 35:41 By the grace of God we're here, by the grace of God we live, 35:43 we move, we have our... 35:44 By the grace of God, it's all by the grace of God 35:46 we gain victory, 35:47 preparation for heaven, victory over sin, grace. 35:49 But this in here said, 35:51 "The greatest manifestation of grace 35:54 is when the natural man partakes of divine nature." 36:00 We have that privilege to partake of divine nature, 36:05 heavenly nature 36:07 but it's only through grace. 36:10 Wow, think about, everything deals through... 36:13 We got to go through grace. 36:14 Yes. It's there. It's wonderful. 36:15 And many times we wouldn't partake of that divine nature, 36:19 if we didn't have an infirmity, if we didn't have a problem. 36:23 Sometimes it takes the furnace of affliction 36:26 to make us realize. 36:28 "Oh, I need help and God is my strength." 36:32 You know, have you ever heard anyone give, 36:34 they talked about here 36:36 and I'd studied that this morning to talk about, 36:38 the absence of grace in the life. 36:41 I can't imagine that. No. 36:42 But, yeah, to me it's like, "What?" 36:44 Because when you ask for a definition of grace, 36:47 it's always, it's the good positive and it's what it is. 36:50 But what is grace? 36:51 What is the absence of grace in the life? 36:53 And I'll just read that Christ's Object Lessons 100. 36:56 It says, "Their natural 36:57 and cultivated tendencies to evil 37:00 have not been submitted to its transforming power." 37:03 The grace. 37:04 "Notice their lives reveal 37:06 the absence of a grace of Christ, 37:09 unbelief in His power to transform the character." 37:13 That's really powerful. 37:14 If we take time to read it two or three times 37:15 and then dissect it. 37:17 But there is, you know, the definition of grace 37:21 and a lot of definitions are just grab you on the inside 37:24 and just, you know, just really start to get thinking 37:26 and motivating you, 37:28 you know, how good God is, 37:30 and then you look at that, there are many. 37:34 They don't know what grace is. 37:35 They never tasted to see that it's good. 37:37 There's an absent of grace. 37:39 And when there's an absence of grace in your life, 37:42 that means you simply don't believe in the ability 37:44 that God has to come inside of us through that grace 37:47 and transform our character into His image. 37:50 That's kind of sad when you think about it. 37:52 And we don't earn that grace either, it's a free gift. 37:55 Free gift. Amen. 37:57 Huge blessing. 37:58 And I love how it says, 37:59 "For my strength is made perfect in weakness." 38:01 You know, we have to acknowledge the fact 38:03 that we're weak first 38:04 before that strength can be made perfect. 38:06 We have to acknowledge that. We have a need for Christ. 38:10 We need the Lord in our lives like... 38:13 You know, any time before you can start fixing a problem, 38:17 you have to recognize that you have a problem. 38:20 And like you're saying, affliction, and trials, 38:24 and stuff can point us to that 38:25 or driving down the street 38:27 and somebody cuts you off 38:29 can point us to our need for Christ. 38:32 Real quick. Yes. 38:34 So I really like that and it's comforting 38:37 that His strength is made perfect in our weakness 38:40 because I don't know the end from the beginning, 38:42 I can't solve all my problems. 38:45 And when I rely on myself, things go bad. 38:49 Yes. 38:50 Is that an easy process 38:51 or any of you found that easy process, 38:53 it's number one to admit, 38:55 that math, that we're a little weak in this area 38:57 or really weak in the certain area. 39:00 You know, I don't know if... 39:01 You know, I have felt a good title for a book, 39:07 would be, "what I have learned since I knew it all?" 39:11 What was that, Sister Mollie, you want us to pounce? 39:14 What I learned since I knew it all. 39:17 Remember back when you knew it all. 39:19 Now you ask about feeling hard to admit our weaknesses. 39:25 Yes. 39:26 And there was a time 39:28 when I felt like I had all the answers. 39:29 And in my young, much younger years 39:34 and it seems like the older I get, 39:37 the more, more quickly I recognized 39:40 my insufficiencies and inabilities. 39:43 And at some point I found that just owning your mistakes 39:46 is a lot better than trying to blame, shift, and justify. 39:50 I know that might come with the wisdom of old age, 39:52 I don't know. 39:54 But, yeah, it's difficult to admit you're wrong. 39:57 I think in your younger years 39:59 when you got to prove to everybody, 40:01 but at some point you realize God's grace is sufficient. 40:06 And if I fail and make a total 40:08 and complete flop of the whole thing, 40:10 God still loves me and I'm still gonna make it. 40:14 And, you know, you said maybe it's just part of old age, 40:16 but really that's grace. 40:18 That's grace because grace is continually to teach you 40:22 of the spiritual things. 40:24 And as we grow older, and we're growing in grace, 40:27 then we recognize these things. 40:29 So that's beautiful. 40:30 You know, how often the Lord has to remind us. 40:32 It's difficult and probably, 40:34 maybe determined by how you're made up. 40:38 You know, some of us are little more prideful than others. 40:41 You know whether it comes to anything of admitting that. 40:44 We can't do it or we shouldn't do it 40:46 or we come to an age where it really prohibits you 40:49 from doing without getting hurt. 40:51 And some of these things we have to kind of go through 40:54 and one day we seem like we're fine 40:56 and the next day it seems like 40:57 all these things are against you, 40:59 that's telling you that you're not the same 41:00 as you used to be or you still try. 41:03 Yeah, good changes that I can remember. 41:06 You know, in the hospital after surgery, 41:08 and you know a couple days after, 41:10 you don't hardly know who you are or whatever... 41:12 You had no strength whatsoever, just lapses everything. 41:15 But I still have that desire that if I got the rest, 41:18 I'm gonna do it myself, you know. 41:20 But no matter how hard I tried, 41:22 no matter what effort I put forward, 41:25 I couldn't hardly move, I couldn't move anything, 41:27 I could not do it and I had to recognize 41:30 that I could not do it physically 41:33 and then I needed help. 41:35 And help is something I've always loved to give, 41:37 but never found the way to, wanted to receive it 41:41 and that can be too much pride sometimes, 41:43 which we don't look at and say that, 41:45 it's just, which we like to help. 41:46 But I found that, if I needed help 41:50 and she was there to help me as I was helpless. 41:54 Basically that's what you, you know, at times, 41:56 all of us maybe been there a time or two, 41:58 you're basically was helpless. 42:01 There was nothing I could do for myself, 42:04 but that's when she was there. 42:05 You know, we come that way spiritually. 42:08 We come to our Father and say, you know, 42:09 there's nothing I can really do it within myself. 42:11 And I think He says, "Okay, good. 42:13 I'm glad you've learned that. 42:15 Now let me do it for you. Let me fix you." 42:18 But you had to come to that, 42:19 so you realized you need it fixed. 42:21 So I realized I need help. 42:22 So anyway that's, I think that's 42:24 very, very important just to recognize it 42:26 and then don't try to fight it 42:27 because you make matters poor. 42:30 You dig yourself a deeper hole. Yes. 42:32 In your insufficiency, He's your all sufficiency. 42:34 In your inability, He's your all ability. 42:36 And when we're at the weakest...? 42:38 When we're weakest, He's made strong. 42:40 Isn't that beautiful? Yes. 42:41 See, these are promises. Too bad we don't... 42:43 We get that part of the lesson, maybe those are good ones. 42:46 I'll be quite and then go ahead. 42:47 Oh, let's see if we can move on. 42:48 We've done two 42:50 and we're only on step three of six. 42:52 So I know there's no way, 42:54 there's no way we're gonna get through it today. 42:57 But we're gonna go to part three of the gift 42:59 that Christ received and that deals with the bread of life, 43:03 the word, He opened the Word of God. 43:06 And back then He only had the Old Testament, correct? 43:09 That's what He studied from Matthew 4:4. 43:11 Let's look at that verse. 43:13 It reads, "But He answered and said it is written," 43:16 I love this, "'Man shall not live by bread alone, 43:20 but by every word that proocedeth 43:22 out of the mouth of God." 43:24 And that's what Christ live by, that's how He met the enemy. 43:28 It is what? It is written. 43:32 It is written. 43:34 That's how He, and that's why we need to be 43:36 studying God's Word 43:37 and putting it into our hearts and our minds. 43:39 And there are so many times that I'm sure you guys have 43:42 experienced this many times, 43:44 'cause I'm not the best at remembering 43:46 where something is in scripture, 43:48 but I may know the verse. 43:50 And there's times when you need it 43:52 and you've not prepared for it, 43:54 but the Lord has put you in a place 43:56 where you're witnessing with someone, 43:58 and all of a sudden these verses 44:00 they just begin to pour out. 44:01 But where did they come from? 44:03 I had to put Him in there first. 44:05 I had to do my part, right? 44:07 And if we do our part then He blesses 44:09 and He does the rest and He strengthens, 44:11 He gives the grace, 44:13 and He gives us the word and do you see it. 44:15 Someone actually had the best gift there 44:17 and, Jason, you think about it, 44:18 which had you'd rather, you'd rather say, 44:20 you know, 1 John 2:4. 44:22 And I don't want to say it, but I know that's... 44:24 No, I'd rather, somebody quote me, what? 44:26 And then we'll get in the word, we'll find out where it's at. 44:29 So that's the thing to do, 44:30 that word I've had in my heart, we'll find the other. 44:32 If the Holy Spirit brings it back to your remembrance. 44:34 Yes. Yes. Amen. 44:36 Those have been some of the best Bible studies 44:39 that I've ever had. 44:40 You know, as you were studying, as you're waking, 44:43 the Lord's waking you up 44:44 and you're opening the bread of life, 44:46 that's another thing we can pray for it. 44:47 Not only to have the mind of Christ, 44:49 but to be a blessing, 44:50 and a witness and if there be someone 44:52 that the Lord could send our way 44:55 that we can share Jesus with to do that. 44:58 In fact, we could tell another 30 minutes 45:00 of how the Lord did that for you many, many years. 45:03 You know, when you were still doing carpentry work. 45:05 And you said, "Lord, send someone today 45:08 that I can witness to today." 45:10 And most of the day he wouldn't do any carpenter work, 45:13 he would be witnessing, but then he found 45:16 that he could do eight hours in two or three. 45:18 Amen. 45:19 You know, when he was witnessing... 45:20 Oh, the angels were there working along with me. 45:22 That's part of our study here, 45:23 about the angels being with us and doing for us. 45:25 Yes, amen. If we get to that point. 45:27 I hope so. That's a good point for sure. 45:29 Oh, wow. 45:30 You know, John 1:1 says in the beginning. 45:34 How we use to say, turn to the beginning. 45:36 No, I don't mean Genesis, I mean, John 1:1. 45:39 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, 45:43 and the Word was God." 45:45 John then 1:14. 45:46 "And the Word became flesh and walked among us." 45:51 "The Word became flesh and walked among us." 45:53 Now through the power of this word, 45:54 our flesh takes on the word and we walk among man, 45:58 so they can see Jesus in the world again. 46:01 We take on this word 46:03 and the Parable of the Sower 46:06 that would be Mark the fourth chapter I believe 46:09 and the Parable of the Sower. 46:10 What does it say that the sower was sowing? 46:13 He was sowing seed. 46:15 What does then and... 46:16 when He tells about the power, the parable, 46:19 what were the seed? 46:21 It was the word of God. It was this word. 46:23 So the word is likened to the seed. 46:27 So the word became flesh and dwelt among us. 46:30 Now this word that we read, this word of the living God, 46:34 it's the seed of the Lord Jesus Christ, the first principle, 46:39 I share this quite often. 46:40 The first biblical principle laid down in the Word of God. 46:44 I believe its Genesis 1:3. 46:47 "Its seed produces after its own kind." 46:50 And so we take this word and say, 46:53 we've been predestined to be conformed 46:55 to the image of the Lord Jesus Christ 46:58 or we're not gonna be conformed 46:59 to the image of the Lord Jesus Christ externally, 47:02 it's gonna be internally. 47:03 We take this word, we read this Word 47:05 as Jesus devour the word, we devour the word. 47:09 Our flesh takes on the word and then the seed 47:15 is going to produce after its own kind. 47:18 We'll take on the very image, and likeness, and character, 47:22 and nature of the Lord Jesus Christ. 47:24 And then people can see something in us 47:29 worth being attracted to or don't your lamp 47:33 or put your candle under the bushel, 47:36 put it where people can see it. 47:38 Let your light shine before man that they will be drawn 47:42 and lift Jesus up, people will be drawn to Him. 47:45 Because it says the importance of it, 47:46 when you're talking about this is... 47:48 Because when we read, every seed sown 47:52 will produce a harvest, whether it be good or bad. 47:56 Every seed, every thing, they influence, 47:59 every word that goes out, every action that goes out 48:03 will produce a harvest. 48:06 And we don't want to be a bad harvest, 48:08 we're gonna be accountable for that. 48:09 That's true. Yes. 48:11 So we want to be the good seed. 48:12 The enemy came along and did what? 48:14 He put in the bad seed, right? 48:16 Remember for every truth, there's a counterfeit. 48:17 So there he's up to that too. 48:19 So praise God for that good seed 48:21 and the Word of God that were to hide in our heart. 48:23 Yes, and I want to, I want to read on 8:32 48:27 as it goes so well with what she was just saying. 48:30 "And you shall know the truth 48:32 and the truth shall make you free." 48:35 So we talked a little bit about seducing spirits in this world. 48:38 There are so many churches that are built on feelings 48:42 and emotions, and most people never pick up a Bible, 48:46 they're never planting that seed in their heart, 48:49 it's not growing. 48:51 I spoke to someone last weekend and they were talking about 48:54 some experiences that they're having. 48:55 And I said, "Well, what were you saying?" 48:57 And she said, "I don't know, but it felt good." 49:00 It was right, it felt good. 49:02 So we've got to get back. 49:03 If the Bible says, "The truth shall set you free." 49:06 Free from what? Free from what? 49:08 Oh, sin and death. Exactly. 49:11 Free from sin, because sin separates us from our Father, 49:14 separates us from our relationship with Him 49:18 and for our eternity and living in heaven. 49:21 And so it takes the word to show us who we are, 49:25 what we need to work on, 49:26 how we need to submit and give our heart. 49:29 There's just so many things. 49:30 And all these promises, these wonderful promises. 49:33 The beautiful thing is, when we see 49:35 that we need this heart surgery from the Word of God, 49:38 we don't have to worry about it, 49:40 because we can't do that on our own, 49:41 only the Holy Spirit, only God can do that. 49:44 So He's in all, and He is all and we can trust in that 49:49 and we can have faith in that firm foundation. 49:51 And it's very important that we don't operate off of feelings, 49:54 but principle because being honest sin feels good. 49:59 You know, it feels good. 50:01 So you can't go off of, off feelings. 50:04 It has to be principles in the Word of God. 50:08 Yes. Can I share Matthew 5:6? 50:10 Please. Oh, please. 50:11 "Blessed are those who do 50:13 hunger and thirst after righteousness 50:15 for they shall be filled." 50:17 And you were talking about people 50:18 that never read God's word, 50:20 they never have any hungering or thirsting. 50:23 All today, let's pray that we all, every one. 50:26 Well, God will just place such a hungering and thirsting 50:29 in our lives for the thing of Him 50:31 because as we hunger and thirst go into God's Word, 50:34 He's gonna satisfy that need that's in us. 50:37 You know, Sister Mollie, there's been times in my life 50:39 where I didn't feel like I had that hunger and that thirst. 50:42 But the good news is, you can just pray 50:46 and ask the Holy Spirit to give you that hunger. 50:48 Isn't that beautiful? Yes. 50:50 Convict me. Give me that hunger. 50:52 Give me that thirst for righteousness. 50:53 Amen. He does everything for us. 50:56 Then pick up your Bible and... Yes. 50:59 And go into action, isn't that right? 51:00 And see how powerful that hungering and thirsting is. 51:03 Yeah, the two words we've been talking about here 51:05 really is the word, the bread of life and grace. 51:09 How they work together. 51:10 How they're inseparable 51:12 that you can't really separate them. 51:13 And two testimonies 409 says this. 51:16 Just a couple of lines. Listen. 51:17 It's that, "It is through His grace," 51:20 and we're talking about alone, 51:21 the word of God, grace, the word of God. 51:23 "That Satan can be successfully" 51:26 notice this, "repulsed." 51:28 We know it's through the word, through the grace of Christ 51:31 that Satan can be repulsed. 51:33 He can be driven away. 51:34 And see, it is written. We need that. 51:36 We have to understand that. 51:38 It is the word that's inside 51:40 and we're putting inside by the grace of God, 51:43 that the enemy is really repulsed by, 51:44 he can't stand the Word of God, he can't stand Jesus. 51:48 You know, he can't stand around that. 51:50 He has to... He has to leave, isn't that? 51:51 I mean, you put those things together, the bread of life. 51:54 And when I, talking about the bread, 51:56 again, I want it fresh, 51:58 I don't want a day old stuff, right? 51:59 Talking about that day old stuff, 52:01 I want that fresh bread 52:02 and fresh bread you can smell it. 52:04 And sometime it makes you... 52:06 Oh, but be careful. 52:07 You know, at times makes you just want to, 52:08 just, just put a little bit of butter on it 52:12 while it's still hot. 52:13 You know, what I mean? 52:15 It's just that, just a little bit on there 52:16 and smell that bread and it reminds you, 52:17 that's the way we want to be spiritually, right? 52:20 That there is hot, 52:22 as good smell in the nostrils, right, as we take it out. 52:25 And we've talked about it. 52:26 Maybe we only got 10 minutes of morning. 52:29 Look at this, our time has gone by so fast, 52:31 but we can take that 10 minutes. 52:33 And we're gonna close it up, 52:34 we're gonna wrap it up after this commercial break. |
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