I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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We gather together to
ask the Lord's blessing
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He chastens and hastens
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His will to make known
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The wicked oppressing
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Now cease from distressing
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Sing praises to His Name
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He forgets not His own
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We all do extol Thee
Thou Leader triumphant
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And pray that Thou
still our Defender will be
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Let Thy
congregation escape tribulation
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Thy Name be ever praised!
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O Lord, make us free
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Hello, and welcome
to 3ABN family worship.
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If you are
watching on a Friday evening
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then you are just
preparing to go into the Sabbath
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and depending on
where you are in the world
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you may be into
the Sabbath hours
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or on the eve of
the Sabbath hours
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or in expectancy
of the Sabbath hours
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and we welcome.
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If you are
watching on Saturday evening
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then you are
expecting a brand new week
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and you have just concluded
or are concluding with us
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the sacred Sabbath hours.
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So we welcome you
to our family worship.
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Now, family as a word
means a lot of things.
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There is the blood family
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and we have blood
family members here.
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My wife is here, Jorge Jaque
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and his wife and mother-in-law
and daughter are here.
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So that's family
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but family can also
mean groups of people
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who are gathered together
by specific common bonds,
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by bonds of
faith, by bonds of love,
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by bonds of friendship,
by bonds of working together.
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So the word family
has many, many meanings
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and your family maybe
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those who are part of
your immediate family,
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your siblings, your
parents, your children,
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your cousins, your aunts
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but there may be
people who believe as you do,
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who pray as you do,
who preach as you do,
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who go to the same church.
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They are also your family.
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Your neighborhood friends
maybe part of your family.
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So whatever definition of family
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you have today we welcome
you to this family, this--
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Did I say rainbow family
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of different
hues and different--
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we've come from different places
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but we are
heading to the same place
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and that's to
the kingdom of God.
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We are heading towards heaven.
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And so we want you
to join us this day
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as we worship God
in spirit in truth,
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as we celebrate the Sabbath day
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which is either
just coming in for you
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or which has just left
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regardless of
how you find yourself
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at this point and time
would you now celebrate with us
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as we pray
together, sing together,
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worship together on
this family worship.
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We want to go to
a very popular song
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in the
Seventh-day Adventist church
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and really around the world
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and that's "Redeemed,
How I Love to Proclaim It!"
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If you have the hymnal
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it is 330...
...338 my wife tells me.
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So let's go to 338
and sing all three stanzas
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of "Redeemed, How I
Love to Proclaim It!"
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Redeemed, how I
love to proclaim it!
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Redeemed by the
blood of the Lamb
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Redeemed through
His infinite mercy
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His child and forever I am
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Redeemed, redeemed
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Redeemed by the
blood of the Lamb
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Redeemed, how I
love to proclaim it!
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His child and forever I am
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I think of my blessed Redeemer
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I think of Him all the day long
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I sing, for I cannot be silent
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His love is the theme of my song
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Redeemed, redeemed
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Redeemed by the
blood of the Lamb
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Redeemed, how I
love to proclaim it
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His child and forever I am
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I know I shall see in His beauty
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The King in whose law I delight
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Who lovingly
guardeth my footsteps
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And giveth me songs in the night
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Redeemed, redeemed
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Redeemed by the
blood of the Lamb
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Redeemed, how I
love to proclaim it
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His child and forever I am
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Oh, great.
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Let me introduce to you
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the members of
this particular family
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for tonight's worship.
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We have Jorge and
Lynette and Betty and Irma
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and Noelia and I'm C.A.,
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and we welcome you to
our worship experience.
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In the ancient Greek,
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just going back
over some of the things
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that we started in school,
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on Friday the day
was called Paraskevi
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which means the day just
before or in preparation of
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or the day that stands
alongside the Sabbath day.
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The Hebrew word was Yom Shishi
which has the same meaning,
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the day that stands
beside the Sabbath day.
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And what is interesting
about the ancient Hebrew
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and the ancient Greek
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you weren't about
the days of the week
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because they were all
just opposed to the Sabbath.
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You had Kyriake or Sunday.
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The original term was
prote which was first day
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and then the Greeks
marked off the days,
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first day, second
day, third day, fourth day,
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fifth day, sixth day
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or eve of the
Sabbath and then Sabbath.
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So there was no
confusion about the days.
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This Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
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stuff came in a lot later.
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But you are
ancient Greek you would say
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I will see you on the third day.
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So there's no
doubt about the day
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that's gonna see you
because three days of now
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we are gonna be together
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or I would see you on
the eve of the Sabbath.
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And the Hebrew's were much more
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dependent upon the
Sabbath for their numbering.
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Their days were one,
heading to the Sabbath,
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two, heading to the Sabbath,
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three, heading to the Sabbath,
four, heading to the Sabbath,
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five, heading to the Sabbath,
eve of the Sabbath and Sabbath.
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So you couldn't get confused.
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Yeah, it's interesting
that Portuguese right now
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and has a modern language.
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Has the same--
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I mean, name for the days. Yes.
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Monday is the second,
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Tuesday is the
third and so on, so on
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until Friday which is the sixth,
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sixth day of the week.
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They call it second, third,
fourth and till the sixth.
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And the Sabbath is Sabbath.
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I did not know that,
that's makes so much more
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much easier certainly
to figure out your days
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because everything is based
on the central day of the week
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which they say as Sabbath.
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So you had, one,
two, three, four, five
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preparation, Sabbath.
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That's nice and neat.
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That alone
affirms the seventh day.
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It does.
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If anybody ask a
question of calendars be changed
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or been tried to be changed
you cannot go wrong with them.
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Yeah, Sunday
eventually became Kyriakos
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or Lord's Day or
Kyriake, Lord's Day
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but originally
it was prote, proti
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which is simply first day.
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So your numbers weren't
right up towards Sabbath
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and particularly the
ancient Hebrews they--
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Everything was
based on the Sabbath.
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On the Sabbath you had a
extra loaf of bread to eat.
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You had a nice Sabbath meal.
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They tried to make the
Sabbath a very special day,
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a very exciting day, a
very happy day for the family
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and for the young people.
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It wasn't a dry, formal day
but it was a day of gladness,
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a day of
celebration, a day of joy,
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a day that was looked forward to
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and a day that
was much anticipated
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by the ancient Hebrews.
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And I think that's
how we should celebrate
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the Sabbath day, shouldn't we?
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It ought to be a
day of celebration,
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a day of joy yeah.
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For those of us
who preach and teach
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it is not necessarily a rest day
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although it is a
change of Labor Day.
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You are not working for yourself
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you are working
for the Lord, right?
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Yeah, there are some-- we
have had this conversation
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not too long ago with the kids.
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Sometimes like for instance,
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somebody needs to
help another person
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like a doctor or nurse,
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somebody got hurt
on the Sabbath day,
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Sabbath day say they service.
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So a doctor would serve
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somebody helping
them to feel better
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and same thing with our
firefighter for instance.
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If a house is
burning down we have to--
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We need help
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and Sabbath is a day of service.
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Yes, Christ said is
lawful to do good on a Sabbath.
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I'll tell you a quick story.
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Years ago one of
my elders of my church
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in Freeport, Long Island,
his burned on Friday night
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and it burned into the morning.
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So we are all in
church in our suits and ties
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and I got word
just before the sermon
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that his house
was still on fire.
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And so I stood
up for the sermon,
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I said the sermon
for today is, go home,
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change your clothes
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and we are going
to help our elder.
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And someone said,
is that the sermon?
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I said, that's it, we
stand for the benediction.
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God bless you, I
will see you in Brooklyn
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and we spent the
Sabbath afternoon helping him--
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you know, there
was water everywhere
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and some of the
ladies cooked food
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and we spent the
Sabbath day helping our brother
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who needed our help.
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And I think
that's also a good way,
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Lynette, to observe the Sabbath,
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yeah, helping
those who are in need.
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Yeah. So we have done that.
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And on Friday
evenings or in the night sit
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and she plays
the piano little bit.
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She doesn't like to let that
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get out put she plays, she plugs
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and she has been
playing for many years
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She plugs and we sing
and we praise the Lord.
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But it's good to
separate yourself from the week,
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from the work a day
week, from the rushing
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and the hustle and the bustle
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and kind of
slowdown a little bit
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and serve, and serve the Lord.
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You know, my
sister has a situation
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since last this past year.
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She is having two grandchildren
with her to go to school
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and so they're
basically living with them.
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When she does for to put in,
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in their hearts and
their minds about the Sabbath
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is that Friday night--
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The every Friday night
they have the same exact meal.
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And the little one's like pizzas
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so every Friday
night they have pizza.
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So now well, the
children when Thursday is coming
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they are already excited
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for Friday that
Sabbath is coming
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so we are having
pizza on Friday night.
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And I think that's
such a wonderful thing
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because they are
coming into the Sabbath
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very happy and looking forward
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to not just the pizza
but reminds them of Jesus.
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Definitely, they love
the routine of Sabbath,
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it's really, really important
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and that's
something that my husband
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and I have been trying
to maintain and enhance
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and allow to evolve if
you will as the children grow,
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the same thing you did
when they were two or three
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isn't gonna ramp them
up and get them excited.
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So you find new
materials, new things.
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Sometimes it gets pretty silly
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when you are getting
ready to walk on the Sabbath
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and why shouldn't it
be a little bit silly
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because that joyfulness
needs to come through,
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especially with the kids.
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You just want to make it
such a part of your family
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that they will carry
with them into adulthood
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and on to their families.
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Yeah, yeah, the ancient Hebrews
really fought against making
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the Sabbath a dry formal day.
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Now by the time of
Christ the Pharisees
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and the Sadducees in particular
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had put so much
legislation on the Sabbath
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in trying not to
offend the Sabbath
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they over
legislated the Sabbath.
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You can only walk 3,000 steps,
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you can only do
this, you can't do that,
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you can do this,
you can't do that.
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They actually took
the joy out of the Sabbath
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but the original intent
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was for the
Sabbath to be a happy day.
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We used to sing in
school in Sabbath school,
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"Sabbath is a happy
day, happy day, happy day."
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You know, and to
have the young people
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and stand it is a happy day.
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It is a day for joy. It
is a day for excitement.
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And may be just a
little silliness in the Lord
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so that they anticipate
the coming of the Sabbath
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and not dread the
coming of the Sabbath,
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yeah, and we
praise the Lord for that.
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Got a little reading
from our morning watch
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that I found it was
very, very interesting
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and we want to just
take a look at this just now
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and then maybe I will
have you, you guys listen
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and then sort of
respond to this reading.
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It's entitled Kind
and Courteous words
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and it comes from Isaiah 50:4.
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"The Lord God hath given
me the tongue of the learned,
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that I should know
how to speak a word
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in season to him that is weary,
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he wakeneth morning by morning,
and wakeneth mine ear to hear
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as the learned" Isaiah 50:4.
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"What Christ was in His earth--
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In His life on this earth
that every Christian is to be.
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He is our example,
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not only in His spotless purity,
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but in His patience, gentleness,
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winsomeness of disposition.
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He was firm as a rock
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where truth and
duty were concerned,
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but He was
invariably kind and courteous.
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His life was a perfect
illustration of true courtesy.
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His presence brought a
purer atmosphere into the home,
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and His life was as leaven
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working amid the
elements of society.
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Harmless and undefiled,
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He walked among the
thoughtless, the rude,
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the uncourteous amid
the unjust publicans,
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the unrighteous Samaritans,
the heathen soldiers,
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the rough peasants,
and the mixed multitude.
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He spoke a word of sympathy here
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and a word there
as He saw men weary
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and compelled to
bear heavy burdens.
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He shared their burdens
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and repeated to them the lessons
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He had learned from
nature, of the love,
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the kindness
and goodness of God.
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He sought to inspire
with hope the most rough,
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unpromising, setting before them
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the assurance
that they might become
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blameless and harmless,
attaining such a character
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as would make them
manifest as children of God.
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Jesus sat an honored guest
at the table of the publicans,
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by His sympathy
and social kindliness
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showing that He recognized
the dignity of humanity
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and men longed to become
worthy of His confidence.
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Upon their thirsty souls
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His words fell with
blessed, life-giving power.
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New impulses were awakened,
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and the
possibility of a new life
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opened to "those or rather"
to these outcasts of society.
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The religion of Jesus softens
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wherever a hard
and rough in the temper
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and smooth's off
whatever is rugged
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and sharp in the manners.
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It is this religion
that makes the words gentle
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and the demeanor winning.
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Let us learn from Christ
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how to combine a high
sense of purity and integrity
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with sunniness of disposition.
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A kind, courteous Christian
is the most powerful argument
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that can be produced
in favor of the gospel."
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I will read
that last line again.
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"A kind, courteous Christian
is the most powerful argument
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that can be produced
in favor of the gospel."
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It's a powerful reading.
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Anybody want to comment on that,
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what does it say to you
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this reading
about being like Christ?
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Always impacted me
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the way that Jesus
related to other people
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and it's repeated
over and over in the gospel
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that He wasn't surrounded
necessarily by the nice people
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or the
politically correct people.
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He was always
surrounded with people
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that were at the age
of being either thieves
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or not very good reputation
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and with that it
seems like He was in a way
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involving Himself
with a wrong crowd.
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But what you've
read the last part--
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That was so powerful
because a kind spirit
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this loving attitude
that He had to everybody
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it was transforming
the hearts of those people.
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So I always think
how important for us
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is not to
discriminate against the--
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What we see or recognize
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as something that
is outside of a person.
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Well, I'm not gonna get
involved with this person
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or that person
because he is too rough
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or they seem not very kind.
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By the contrary we
need to reach out to them
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and do what Jesus did.
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Yeah, it really illustrates
the potency of a Christ
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like life of
trying to live your life.
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You may never say a
word to them about the Bible
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but if they see you behaving
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in this wonderful
kind loving manner
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it can turn aside
all sorts of their evil
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in their lives
and in their hearts.
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Well, said.
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They may think that
whatever there is a contrast
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that are people
that are going to observe
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and it's gonna be
called the attention--
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Even if you don't want
them to be observing you,
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you need to be--
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Exactly. Living
true to your faith.
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And so the difference
between Christ example
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and the people surrounding
Him was a big contrast.
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And so it was something
to look and it's what the way
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it's supposed to
be with us nowadays.
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A couple of things pop out at me
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in thinking about this.
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I was saying someone--
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something to
someone the other day
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to the effect that
there is no really call--
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real call of the Bible
for people to be nice to us.
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The Bible doesn't say
people have to be nice to me.
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The Bible says I
have to be nice to them.
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So its not okay.
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Well, you treat me
nice, I will treat you nice.
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You don't treat me
nice and-- that's not,
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Bible doesn't do that
kind of tit for tat thing.
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That's a very good.
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Yeah, there is no, there is no,
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there is no calling in the Bible
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that says people
have to treat me nice.
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The call is for me
to let Christ love shine
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out of my life
regardless of how I'm treated
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and not to wait
to be treated nice
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but to start by treating nice.
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And usually nice begets nice.
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You know, if
you start with nice,
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you send out
nice, nice comes back
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even if un-nice comes
you got to send out nice
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because the call on
you is to live like Christ
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so that they can
see Christ in you.
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Is that not so, you
agree? Yeah, absolutely.
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Absolutely. Absolutely.
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Yeah, so it's very
important that we that--
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And then too and I like this
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we are told that
wherever Christ is in a life
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it tends to smooth
off the rough edges, amen.
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You know it does, it tends
to smooth off the rough edges
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and makes the Christian
kinder and more inviting.
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And here's a thing Irma,
Betty, Lynette, Jorge, Noelia.
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When I say to you,
Lynette, how you're doing today?
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That's a courtesy
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and that's something
that Christians ought to do.
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But it doesn't necessarily
mean that I'm ready to hear
00:22:13.93\00:22:16.67
every ache, pain,
itch, glitch that you got.
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You know what I'm saying?
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If-- and I think
we need to be honest
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even I'm having a good
day, I'm not having a good day.
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But if every time I see Lynette
and I say, how you are doing
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and I get oh, boy, its--
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I'm ready to jump off the cliff.
00:22:33.85\00:22:35.92
This is it, you
know, after a while
00:22:35.95\00:22:38.85
I'm gonna say,
hey, God bless you.
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You know, I'm not gonna ask.
00:22:40.69\00:22:43.22
So if God is in your life
00:22:43.26\00:22:46.46
you got something to
praise the Lord for it.
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And no life is all
party. No life is all sunshine.
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I have a good
Korean friend that says,
00:22:53.57\00:22:54.90
if a person who
laughs all the time
00:22:54.94\00:22:56.67
has a mental problem.
00:22:56.71\00:22:58.04
It's a Koran proverb, you know.
00:22:58.07\00:23:00.18
He says if he is
smiling lot of time
00:23:00.21\00:23:02.08
something is wrong out there.
00:23:02.11\00:23:03.91
But having said that
there ought to be enough
00:23:03.95\00:23:06.95
in the Christian
life for us to say
00:23:06.98\00:23:09.55
even in the bad
times God is good
00:23:09.58\00:23:12.15
and it's going to be all right.
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Don't you think?
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Yes. Yeah.
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I think also that to me
practice is very important.
00:23:16.29\00:23:20.36
You know, there are things that
doesn't come out of us so easy,
00:23:20.40\00:23:24.67
especially when
you don't know how that
00:23:24.70\00:23:26.67
you are not having a good
day or yes, you see people that,
00:23:26.70\00:23:31.51
you know, don't
necessarily are too happy with
00:23:31.54\00:23:33.94
or but, you
know, as you practice
00:23:33.98\00:23:37.51
and as you ask God to
help you it comes natural
00:23:37.55\00:23:41.15
and it really feels
nice when you are able,
00:23:41.18\00:23:43.79
even if they don't
respond, you know, it feels good
00:23:43.82\00:23:47.69
and give you peace also.
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And we have some good examples
00:23:51.16\00:23:53.50
among our fellows
here especially at 3ABN
00:23:53.53\00:23:56.16
we have Larry Mc Lucas.
00:23:56.20\00:23:58.57
No matter what's
going on in his life,
00:23:58.60\00:24:00.37
how are you doing, Larry?
00:24:00.40\00:24:01.74
It's a wonderful day. Yeah.
00:24:01.77\00:24:03.64
And he's been my role model
00:24:03.67\00:24:05.31
because when people ask me
how are you doing, Lynette?
00:24:05.34\00:24:08.31
That's like I'm
practically perfect
00:24:08.34\00:24:09.98
in every way because it's true.
00:24:10.01\00:24:12.68
God is working on
me. I'm getting there.
00:24:12.71\00:24:14.58
Amen. Amen. Amen.
00:24:14.62\00:24:16.69
Yeah, and I think if
you can almost talk that
00:24:16.72\00:24:19.89
into existence,
if you talk that,
00:24:19.92\00:24:22.02
if you talk faith,
you actually build faith.
00:24:22.06\00:24:23.99
If you talk
hope, you build hope.
00:24:24.03\00:24:25.69
If you talk joy, you build joy.
00:24:25.73\00:24:27.76
To a contrary
if you talk morose,
00:24:27.80\00:24:29.76
you talk
sadness, if you talk evil
00:24:29.80\00:24:32.43
that attends a draw that to you
00:24:32.47\00:24:35.17
and your life is
made better by your speech
00:24:35.20\00:24:39.44
and you can talk joy,
I think into your life.
00:24:39.47\00:24:41.81
Another important
aspect is that it helps me
00:24:41.84\00:24:45.35
if I, if I'm positive
and have a positive attitude
00:24:45.38\00:24:49.28
I keep telling these
two my kids for instance
00:24:49.32\00:24:52.92
that we always have to
have a positive attitude.
00:24:52.95\00:24:55.96
So but if I preach this
but I don't practice it,
00:24:55.99\00:25:00.30
it doesn't
really give the effect
00:25:00.33\00:25:02.76
but if I really go
giving positive reinforcement
00:25:02.80\00:25:08.54
to my wife for
instance it helps me.
00:25:08.57\00:25:11.54
It will help her of
course but it will help me too.
00:25:11.57\00:25:14.58
It will help me to
say, Lynette, or mom how--
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Are you having a good
day and if I do it genuinely,
00:25:18.78\00:25:21.85
if I do it with
really wishing them
00:25:21.88\00:25:25.52
that they are having a good day
00:25:25.55\00:25:26.89
or if they are not,
if I'm really genuinely
00:25:26.92\00:25:30.93
interested in
them that helps me.
00:25:30.96\00:25:34.63
Now you were saying like,
00:25:34.66\00:25:36.70
you can say hi to
somebody, how are you doing?
00:25:36.73\00:25:39.47
Also there's
different ways to do it.
00:25:39.50\00:25:42.94
You can say, hey, how
you are doing and go on
00:25:42.97\00:25:45.71
and just the next
person and the next person.
00:25:45.74\00:25:48.68
Yes.
00:25:48.71\00:25:50.11
I think we also have to do it
00:25:50.15\00:25:53.92
with a intent of really making
the other person feel better.
00:25:53.95\00:25:57.49
Yes. Yes. Yes.
00:25:57.52\00:25:58.85
And, you know, just
saying how you doing
00:25:58.89\00:26:00.22
and how are you doing.
00:26:00.26\00:26:01.59
When I came out of the
hospital after my surgery
00:26:01.62\00:26:03.12
I had people coming to
me and saying you know,
00:26:03.16\00:26:04.93
C.A., how are you doing?
00:26:04.96\00:26:07.93
You know, and they
were projecting on me
00:26:07.96\00:26:12.40
you are doing bad, you know,
00:26:12.43\00:26:13.77
and I'm like
hey, I'm doing great.
00:26:13.80\00:26:16.24
I'm in pain and
I've got a new heart
00:26:16.27\00:26:19.01
and I'm doing, I'm doing good.
00:26:19.04\00:26:21.18
So your expectation
can come out in your way
00:26:21.21\00:26:23.41
and I really believe that love,
begets love and joy begets joy.
00:26:23.45\00:26:29.32
And if you push out joy,
joy is coming back to you.
00:26:29.35\00:26:32.12
And whatever you send
out is gonna come back
00:26:32.15\00:26:34.72
and if you send out
Jesus, Jesus is coming back,
00:26:34.76\00:26:37.59
you know, that's the way it is,
00:26:37.63\00:26:39.43
yeah, and I
really, truly believe that.
00:26:39.46\00:26:42.33
So the reading here
tells us that words of sympathy
00:26:42.36\00:26:49.20
and it isn't not to be a sermon
00:26:49.24\00:26:50.67
or a long drawn
out kind of thing
00:26:50.71\00:26:52.67
but just words of sympathy.
00:26:52.71\00:26:54.31
I'm praying for
you is gonna be better,
00:26:54.34\00:26:56.91
tomorrow is gonna
be a brighter day,
00:26:56.95\00:26:58.45
does a lot to life
a person's countenance
00:26:58.48\00:27:01.05
and to help them along the way.
00:27:01.08\00:27:03.25
Yeah, amen, take a quick story
00:27:03.28\00:27:04.82
and then I want to go to prayer.
00:27:04.85\00:27:06.55
The funeral I ever
did was a lady who tall,
00:27:06.59\00:27:11.79
beautiful woman who
was struck with cancer
00:27:11.83\00:27:15.00
and was sent to the hospital
00:27:15.03\00:27:17.47
and one of those hospitals
that they have in New York City
00:27:17.50\00:27:20.74
where you just
go basically to die.
00:27:20.77\00:27:22.57
They send you there and
they will kind of keep you
00:27:22.60\00:27:24.11
medicated and quiet
and not so much pain
00:27:24.14\00:27:27.84
but she sang every day
and she wasn't a great singer.
00:27:27.88\00:27:33.35
Betty, she is
like you say you are.
00:27:33.38\00:27:35.18
You know, she says,
she is not a great singer
00:27:35.22\00:27:37.05
but she sang.
00:27:37.09\00:27:38.42
And when you sing for Jesus
so you miss a note who cares,
00:27:38.45\00:27:41.12
you sing unto the Lord.
00:27:41.16\00:27:43.19
But she sang every
day and she had cancer
00:27:43.22\00:27:45.56
and she was I
guess about your height,
00:27:45.59\00:27:47.23
Lynette, 5.6, 5.7,
5.8 in that general
00:27:47.26\00:27:51.97
and when I met her
she was already down
00:27:52.00\00:27:54.10
to 89 pounds but
still singing for the Lord.
00:27:54.14\00:27:57.77
And just
sharing joy in the ward.
00:27:57.81\00:28:02.41
And when she finally
passed and we had the funeral
00:28:02.44\00:28:06.48
many of the doctors and
nurses, the hospital attendance,
00:28:06.51\00:28:09.28
her oncologist they
all came to the funeral.
00:28:09.32\00:28:12.32
And when I questioned them
00:28:12.35\00:28:14.06
their statement to me was
00:28:14.09\00:28:15.49
we just wanted to
see the kind of church
00:28:15.52\00:28:17.46
that produces a
person like this.
00:28:17.49\00:28:19.29
It wasn't the
church that produced her
00:28:19.33\00:28:21.16
it was Christ that
produced that life.
00:28:21.20\00:28:23.50
And her life for
Christ stayed strong.
00:28:23.53\00:28:28.10
Her love for Christ
rather stayed strong
00:28:28.14\00:28:29.87
till she closed
her eyes in death.
00:28:29.90\00:28:31.54
And that's what
Christ can do for you.
00:28:32.64\00:28:35.04
He can, He can keep you joyful
00:28:35.08\00:28:37.85
and when you asked her
00:28:37.88\00:28:39.48
there was a time at the end
00:28:39.51\00:28:40.85
where she could not speak
00:28:40.88\00:28:42.22
but if you
asked her how she was,
00:28:42.25\00:28:44.52
she would say,
00:28:44.55\00:28:46.12
I'm all right.
00:28:46.15\00:28:47.96
You know, I'm in
pain and I'm dying
00:28:47.99\00:28:50.09
I know that but my soul is fine,
00:28:50.13\00:28:53.29
my heart is fine,
I'm okay, I'm okay.
00:28:53.33\00:28:56.10
So you left the
room feeling better
00:28:56.13\00:29:00.27
than you did when you went in.
00:29:00.30\00:29:02.34
Because if you went in down
00:29:02.37\00:29:04.11
she boosted you
00:29:04.14\00:29:06.47
because you may
have okay, today,
00:29:06.51\00:29:09.28
I got a hangnail,
00:29:09.31\00:29:10.65
you know, today I'm
having a bad hair day.
00:29:10.68\00:29:12.01
Well, this woman is dying
of cancer and praising God.
00:29:12.05\00:29:14.05
So your hair ain't so much,
00:29:14.08\00:29:15.72
you know, it's not
because she's got something
00:29:15.75\00:29:18.19
but she's also got Jesus.
00:29:18.22\00:29:19.82
So the love of
Christ does soften you,
00:29:24.19\00:29:26.53
does change you,
00:29:26.56\00:29:27.90
does rearrange your thinking
00:29:27.93\00:29:29.73
and how you approach life.
00:29:29.76\00:29:31.40
Amen. Yeah. Yeah.
00:29:31.43\00:29:32.77
It is the only thing actually
00:29:32.80\00:29:34.20
because when we
cannot control our feelings
00:29:34.24\00:29:36.81
and our emotions
00:29:36.84\00:29:39.87
the Lord can, yes.
00:29:39.91\00:29:42.24
We've got a
couple of prayer requests
00:29:43.71\00:29:45.18
that have come in
00:29:45.21\00:29:46.55
and this prayer
request comes from Daniel
00:29:46.58\00:29:50.39
who is age 50 and is alone
00:29:50.42\00:29:53.29
and is in severe need of a job.
00:29:53.32\00:29:56.32
He is a caretaker
00:29:58.89\00:30:02.00
and says please pray.
00:30:02.03\00:30:03.37
Then we've got Nicole in Germany
00:30:03.40\00:30:06.90
who is in an abusive
situation with her husband
00:30:06.94\00:30:09.74
now resides in a shelter
with her two-year-old son.
00:30:09.77\00:30:12.74
She asked for
prayer for her safety
00:30:12.77\00:30:15.44
that she can find work
00:30:15.48\00:30:16.81
so she can provide for herself.
00:30:16.85\00:30:18.18
You know, when
you don't have a job
00:30:18.21\00:30:19.55
and you don't have a
way to support yourself
00:30:19.58\00:30:21.25
you feel so alone and so down.
00:30:21.28\00:30:24.12
And so there are many
who are asking for employment
00:30:24.15\00:30:28.02
so that they can
take care of themselves.
00:30:28.06\00:30:29.39
Bryan was involved in
a serious car accident
00:30:29.42\00:30:31.79
and need to have
several surgeries
00:30:31.83\00:30:34.20
in the coming months.
00:30:34.23\00:30:35.56
He is asking for prayer also.
00:30:35.60\00:30:37.80
Elva in Michigan
is in need of prayer.
00:30:37.83\00:30:40.04
She is being attacked
00:30:40.07\00:30:42.40
by a severe case of vertigo.
00:30:42.44\00:30:45.64
Dwight lives in London, England
00:30:47.08\00:30:48.74
and has been
diagnosed with glaucoma
00:30:48.78\00:30:51.11
and will have
to undergo surgery.
00:30:51.15\00:30:53.18
He doesn't know yet
00:30:53.21\00:30:54.55
when or where this can be done
00:30:54.58\00:30:59.02
but he knows he is going to have
00:30:59.05\00:31:01.09
to have glaucoma surgery.
00:31:01.12\00:31:03.49
I've had that
surgery and I'm praising God
00:31:03.53\00:31:06.23
that medicine
has come a long way
00:31:06.26\00:31:08.86
so that that is not
the trauma and drama
00:31:08.90\00:31:10.87
that it once was.
00:31:10.90\00:31:12.23
But any time you
kind of go under the knife
00:31:12.27\00:31:14.24
you want the blessing of God.
00:31:14.27\00:31:16.74
Shana in Texas
00:31:16.77\00:31:18.14
going through chemo surgery,
00:31:18.17\00:31:21.01
chemotherapy rather
and in need of prayer.
00:31:21.04\00:31:23.85
Robert needs strength from God.
00:31:23.88\00:31:25.28
He is facing spiritual warfare.
00:31:25.31\00:31:28.02
Delia, 15-year-old--
has a 15-year-old daughter
00:31:28.05\00:31:31.62
just released from drug rehab
00:31:31.65\00:31:34.16
has been drawn
into prostitution.
00:31:34.19\00:31:35.76
She also has a 14-year-old son
00:31:37.06\00:31:38.79
that is suffering with lupus.
00:31:38.83\00:31:41.93
Hardworking single mom
00:31:41.96\00:31:43.30
trying to do best
she can for her family
00:31:43.33\00:31:44.67
but needs strength,
00:31:44.70\00:31:46.03
perseverance and
the encouragement
00:31:46.07\00:31:47.74
that comes from prayer.
00:31:47.77\00:31:50.37
Want to just tell you, Delia,
00:31:50.41\00:31:51.74
I know many stories of people
00:31:52.67\00:31:54.61
who are caught in prostitution
00:31:54.64\00:31:55.98
who God has freed
from prostitution.
00:31:56.01\00:31:58.91
Many of them I
have baptized myself
00:31:58.95\00:32:00.32
into the Adventist church
00:32:00.35\00:32:01.68
and into the kingdom of God.
00:32:01.72\00:32:03.05
So these
prayers are not in vain.
00:32:03.08\00:32:04.89
God is able I guarantee you.
00:32:04.92\00:32:06.92
It has happened
many, many, many times.
00:32:06.96\00:32:09.66
Michael in Illinois
00:32:10.83\00:32:12.46
is in need of a
heart transplant.
00:32:12.49\00:32:14.63
He is combating
00:32:15.90\00:32:17.30
any number of heart issues
00:32:17.33\00:32:20.24
and we are praying for Mike.
00:32:20.27\00:32:23.30
Pray that God protects
00:32:24.67\00:32:26.01
and gifts favor
to my elderly mother
00:32:26.04\00:32:29.01
who will be
traveling throughout this month
00:32:29.04\00:32:31.75
and this is from-- so
we've got a lot to pray for.
00:32:31.78\00:32:35.42
And I'm gonna ask
00:32:35.45\00:32:39.89
my wife to pray.
00:32:39.92\00:32:41.26
And Jorge, would
you pray in Spanish also
00:32:41.29\00:32:45.19
if you will?
00:32:45.23\00:32:46.56
Oh, sure.
00:32:46.59\00:32:47.93
And let's remember
all of these prayers
00:32:47.96\00:32:49.30
they are any number
00:32:49.33\00:32:50.67
and we will ask God to
just bless these prayers.
00:32:50.70\00:32:53.97
Irma, if you pray
00:32:54.00\00:32:55.34
and anybody else
who wants to pray
00:32:55.37\00:32:56.74
you can begin,
00:32:56.77\00:32:58.11
Boo, and then Lynette,
Betty, if you wish to <><
00:32:58.14\00:33:00.61
and then Jorge,
if you would close.
00:33:00.64\00:33:02.24
All ready, shall we pray?
00:33:02.28\00:33:03.61
Our heavenly Father,
00:33:04.61\00:33:06.82
we thank You
Lord for being so kind
00:33:06.85\00:33:09.78
and so merciful towards us.
00:33:09.82\00:33:13.05
We gather here,
Lord, to praise Your name
00:33:13.09\00:33:15.69
and also to bring
to do this petitions
00:33:15.72\00:33:18.99
from our audience
00:33:19.03\00:33:20.70
into us blessing
00:33:20.73\00:33:23.57
and to provide
for all their needs.
00:33:23.60\00:33:26.70
There be
physical and spiritually--
00:33:26.74\00:33:29.70
spiritual or emotional.
00:33:29.74\00:33:31.57
We come to You because
You have asked us to come
00:33:32.87\00:33:35.38
and to bring our
petitions to You in our praises.
00:33:35.41\00:33:38.81
So, Father, we with
the faith that we have
00:33:38.85\00:33:42.08
and knowing that You can give us
00:33:42.12\00:33:44.22
even a bigger faith
in what You are doing
00:33:44.25\00:33:47.66
and what You can do.
00:33:47.69\00:33:49.02
We just put these petitions
00:33:50.16\00:33:52.73
before the throne of grace
00:33:52.76\00:33:54.40
and ask that You attend to them
00:33:54.43\00:33:57.17
as You have promised.
00:33:57.20\00:33:59.10
Thank You for Your promises
00:33:59.13\00:34:01.57
to answer our prayers
00:34:01.60\00:34:03.47
and give us a heart to
00:34:03.51\00:34:05.87
and the
willingness to accept Your will
00:34:05.91\00:34:10.31
whatever it is
00:34:10.35\00:34:11.71
knowing that You
have the best interest
00:34:11.75\00:34:13.88
for each one of us
including all of these persons
00:34:13.92\00:34:17.25
who have asked
for healing or helping
00:34:17.29\00:34:23.86
whatever needs they have.
00:34:23.89\00:34:26.80
And we thank You Lord,
00:34:26.83\00:34:28.16
and we put them into Your hands
00:34:28.20\00:34:29.53
in the name of Jesus, amen.
00:34:29.56\00:34:32.43
Amen.
00:34:32.47\00:34:33.80
Amen.
00:35:46.98\00:35:48.31
Amen. Amen. Amen.
00:35:48.34\00:35:49.98
And we thank you
for those prayers,
00:35:51.01\00:35:53.58
they give us such strength.
00:35:53.62\00:35:55.05
I want to play a little game.
00:35:55.08\00:35:56.58
I'm going to start a question
00:35:58.55\00:36:02.26
and a statement
00:36:02.29\00:36:03.69
and then I want
each of you finish it.
00:36:03.73\00:36:06.19
Okay?
00:36:06.23\00:36:07.56
Okay.
00:36:07.60\00:36:08.96
Okay, here's the statement
00:36:09.00\00:36:10.87
and then you each have
to put an ending on this.
00:36:10.90\00:36:14.20
Life is not perfect,
00:36:14.24\00:36:16.81
sometimes it is rough
00:36:18.07\00:36:20.54
but I'm happy for...
00:36:20.58\00:36:23.14
and finish that statement, okay.
00:36:23.18\00:36:25.65
Who is first?
00:36:26.65\00:36:27.98
Life is not perfect
00:36:28.68\00:36:30.69
sometimes it is rough
00:36:30.72\00:36:32.85
but I'm happy for...
00:36:32.89\00:36:34.66
I'm happy for the fact
00:36:36.76\00:36:38.26
the fact that God
gonna answer my prayers
00:36:38.29\00:36:41.86
and can give me
peace and comfort.
00:36:41.90\00:36:44.83
Amen. Amen.
00:36:44.87\00:36:46.57
I'm thankful for my family
00:36:48.27\00:36:50.57
and the fact that
God doesn't give me more
00:36:50.61\00:36:52.51
than I can handle.
00:36:52.54\00:36:53.88
Amen.
00:36:53.91\00:36:56.44
Or get to close sometimes.
00:36:56.48\00:36:59.78
He doesn't promise
00:36:59.81\00:37:01.15
that He wouldn't
take it to the edge.
00:37:01.18\00:37:02.52
He does that you
probably that you all go over
00:37:02.55\00:37:04.09
and we praise the Lord for that.
00:37:04.12\00:37:07.46
Lynette?
00:37:07.49\00:37:08.82
God just know that
He won't give me more
00:37:08.86\00:37:10.19
than I can handle.
00:37:10.23\00:37:11.56
Praise the Lord.
Praise the Lord, all right.
00:37:11.59\00:37:13.76
I'm glad for the fact
00:37:13.80\00:37:15.46
that God is on
the throne every day
00:37:15.50\00:37:18.37
even when I can't fathom
00:37:18.40\00:37:21.27
that He possibly is
00:37:21.30\00:37:23.44
and that He will never leave me
00:37:23.47\00:37:25.21
nor forsake me
00:37:25.24\00:37:26.74
no matter how wide
my path may wander.
00:37:26.78\00:37:31.35
From time to time He
always brings me back
00:37:31.38\00:37:33.62
and I have that
just an abiding joy
00:37:33.65\00:37:36.79
that He will not give up on me.
00:37:36.82\00:37:38.92
Amen. Amen.
00:37:38.95\00:37:40.52
Noelia?
00:37:43.26\00:37:45.03
I'm happy for my family.
00:37:45.06\00:37:47.46
It's just the most
00:37:47.50\00:37:51.13
that I never
expected to have this,
00:37:51.17\00:37:54.30
this wonderful
family that is around me.
00:37:54.34\00:37:57.31
I recently few weeks
back I lost my father
00:37:57.74\00:38:04.25
95 years, 94 almost 95-years-old
00:38:04.28\00:38:07.22
and he was a strong
man, minister of the gospel.
00:38:08.18\00:38:13.96
He was a pastor for--
He was a man of steel.
00:38:13.99\00:38:17.13
A man of steel
like my wife says,
00:38:17.16\00:38:19.59
very much so.
00:38:19.63\00:38:21.33
And family to me
00:38:21.36\00:38:23.37
has always be an
important, very important.
00:38:23.40\00:38:27.20
Now I have my family
00:38:27.24\00:38:29.10
and I praise the Lord
that's I want to complete
00:38:29.14\00:38:31.77
the phrase with family.
00:38:31.81\00:38:33.24
Amen. Amen. Praise the Lord.
00:38:33.27\00:38:35.24
Noelia, you want
to jump in on this?
00:38:35.28\00:38:36.98
Thankful that God
gives us another day of life
00:38:38.01\00:38:41.82
that we can spend another day
00:38:41.85\00:38:44.79
telling people around
the world about the gospel.
00:38:44.82\00:38:47.89
Amen. Amen.
00:38:47.92\00:38:49.32
Well done. Well done.
00:38:49.36\00:38:50.96
You know, we talk about family
00:38:50.99\00:38:52.33
and this is family worship
00:38:52.36\00:38:53.70
and I have to
agree with you, Jorge.
00:38:53.73\00:38:55.86
I think the older you get
00:38:57.70\00:38:59.97
the more precious
family comes to you.
00:39:01.00\00:39:04.64
When I was in college
my mother used to say,
00:39:04.67\00:39:06.68
you will never
call, you will never call.
00:39:06.71\00:39:08.08
You know, you will never call.
00:39:08.11\00:39:11.11
We send money
down, we never get it,
00:39:11.15\00:39:13.31
we never get a word, you
never call, you never call.
00:39:13.35\00:39:15.48
But as I got older
and got into ministry
00:39:15.52\00:39:17.89
and started working
00:39:17.92\00:39:19.25
I found myself calling
home two or three times a week.
00:39:19.29\00:39:21.12
You know, you just--
00:39:21.16\00:39:22.49
it becomes more precious to you.
00:39:22.52\00:39:24.09
When you are younger you
are little more disposable
00:39:24.13\00:39:26.43
as far as
relationships are concerned
00:39:26.46\00:39:27.80
but as you get
older you found out
00:39:27.83\00:39:29.16
that family is
bedrock however you define it.
00:39:29.20\00:39:32.57
And now I only
have my sister left
00:39:32.60\00:39:35.64
but I've got a new
family in Irma's family.
00:39:36.87\00:39:39.64
And her family and
it may be a Latino thing
00:39:40.04\00:39:43.45
that they are very close
00:39:43.48\00:39:44.88
and they work very,
very close, you know.
00:39:44.91\00:39:47.72
And while we were
young, while we were dating
00:39:47.75\00:39:50.15
we go places and
everybody would okay,
00:39:51.45\00:39:54.39
well, who's got the hotel room?
00:39:54.42\00:39:55.76
Okay, we have the hotel room,
00:39:55.79\00:39:57.13
okay, we are coming to
stay with you, you know.
00:39:57.16\00:40:01.63
And up until this
last General Conference
00:40:01.66\00:40:03.73
a couple of weeks ago we
had her brother and sister
00:40:03.77\00:40:07.10
who are very close to
00:40:07.14\00:40:08.47
and we travel together
00:40:08.50\00:40:09.84
and I got to learn
this whole Latino thing.
00:40:09.87\00:40:11.21
Why do you have two hotel rooms?
00:40:11.24\00:40:12.61
You got one hotel
room with two beds.
00:40:12.64\00:40:15.61
One couple in one bed
one couple in the other bed
00:40:15.64\00:40:18.41
what's the problem?
00:40:18.45\00:40:19.78
You know, so I
had to learn that.
00:40:19.81\00:40:23.08
And now I kind of, Jorge,
00:40:23.12\00:40:24.89
after we traveled
all over Europe that way.
00:40:24.92\00:40:26.62
You know, that will
just saves the money
00:40:26.65\00:40:28.26
and just pile in.
00:40:28.29\00:40:29.62
So we are at General Conference
who's got the hotel room?
00:40:29.66\00:40:34.00
Well, we do. Okay,
we are staying with you.
00:40:34.03\00:40:36.77
Oh, by the way our nephew
00:40:36.80\00:40:39.37
he is coming in with
his wife and two kids
00:40:39.40\00:40:41.10
and then the other
nephew is coming with his wife
00:40:41.14\00:40:43.37
and two kids.
00:40:43.41\00:40:45.54
So what's the problem?
00:40:45.57\00:40:48.64
You got a bed that
folds out to a couch,
00:40:48.68\00:40:51.31
we got an air mattress,
00:40:51.35\00:40:52.68
you know, there's two bathrooms,
00:40:52.71\00:40:54.95
what there is a problem?
00:40:54.98\00:40:56.32
You know, you
just, you just pile in
00:40:56.35\00:40:59.65
and you find out
how important family is.
00:40:59.69\00:41:03.53
When I did the classic thing
00:41:03.56\00:41:05.29
I asked her dad for
her hand in marriage
00:41:05.33\00:41:08.20
and he sat on the couch
and cried and I was like okay,
00:41:08.23\00:41:11.07
what does it mean, you know?
00:41:11.10\00:41:13.50
Is this tears of joy or else
00:41:13.54\00:41:15.94
he is regretting her fate?
00:41:15.97\00:41:20.18
I found out later
they were tears of joy.
00:41:20.21\00:41:22.88
But family is so
very, very important.
00:41:22.91\00:41:26.31
So I agree with you that
as long as you got family
00:41:26.35\00:41:31.05
you've got, you've
got and how you define it.
00:41:31.09\00:41:34.22
It could be your work
family, you family here at 3ABN,
00:41:34.26\00:41:37.16
your work family,
your media family,
00:41:37.19\00:41:39.33
your siblings, your
parents, your children
00:41:39.36\00:41:41.16
but as a Christian
00:41:41.20\00:41:43.90
you realize how
important family is
00:41:43.93\00:41:45.57
and then once you
get to know Christ
00:41:45.60\00:41:48.20
your next burden is to get
your family to know Christ.
00:41:48.24\00:41:51.84
You know, because heaven
is not gonna really be heaven
00:41:51.87\00:41:53.84
if you got so many
your family members
00:41:53.88\00:41:55.31
on the outside looking in.
00:41:55.34\00:41:56.68
So you develop this
burden for your family
00:41:56.71\00:41:59.65
and it's very, very important.
00:41:59.68\00:42:01.45
It's interesting that in
the Latino community also
00:42:01.48\00:42:04.45
friends sometimes had some--
00:42:04.49\00:42:08.76
some of them are
closer than a family.
00:42:08.79\00:42:10.46
They become your
auxiliary family.
00:42:10.49\00:42:12.76
If you don't have
enough they fill in the gaps.
00:42:12.79\00:42:14.86
They fill in the
gaps, yeah. Yeah.
00:42:14.90\00:42:16.23
Well said, yeah, yeah.
00:42:16.26\00:42:17.60
Auxiliary family
I love that term.
00:42:17.63\00:42:19.10
Yeah, they come
and they just stay
00:42:19.13\00:42:22.17
like they were their extension
of their home, own families
00:42:22.20\00:42:26.68
and we had very many times
that would all of the sudden
00:42:26.71\00:42:30.65
we will go with friends, hey,
00:42:30.68\00:42:34.42
can we spend the night tonight?
00:42:34.45\00:42:35.78
Oh, well, let's
go and so and so.
00:42:35.82\00:42:38.99
I think we
barely know that person
00:42:39.02\00:42:40.56
but it was, you
know, it's common.
00:42:40.59\00:42:44.89
But I think that's
goes back to our roots.
00:42:44.93\00:42:49.76
We all are connected.
00:42:49.80\00:42:52.17
The other day I was watching
this program on TV there
00:42:52.20\00:42:57.21
coming with this
ancestry type of program.
00:42:57.24\00:43:03.48
Yeah, ancestral memory.
00:43:03.51\00:43:04.95
Something like that so,
00:43:04.98\00:43:06.31
yeah, so they will--
they can trace your ancestors
00:43:06.35\00:43:10.49
back to hundreds
and hundreds and hundred
00:43:10.52\00:43:12.82
and then they finally say well,
we are all some sort of cousins
00:43:12.85\00:43:17.79
or related to each other.
00:43:17.83\00:43:19.53
So there was this
person next to that
00:43:19.56\00:43:23.20
and say well, let
me look for your name.
00:43:23.23\00:43:24.87
So look at the name and say oh,
yeah, we are kind of related.
00:43:24.90\00:43:27.47
So in a way that's what happens.
00:43:27.50\00:43:30.74
We are all family. Yeah.
00:43:30.77\00:43:32.21
Yeah. We really are.
00:43:32.24\00:43:34.08
And its-- it is fun
00:43:34.11\00:43:36.41
and to find that and may
be it's a Latino thing to
00:43:36.44\00:43:40.35
because we will have
a dinner or something
00:43:40.38\00:43:43.45
with our daughter Becky
00:43:43.49\00:43:44.82
and she will say well,
okay, two people are coming
00:43:44.85\00:43:49.52
and I will prepare for that.
00:43:49.56\00:43:50.89
And then about five minutes more
00:43:50.93\00:43:52.26
I almost say well,
I invited so and so.
00:43:52.29\00:43:53.90
And I invited so and so.
00:43:56.90\00:43:58.23
You invited two, okay,
00:43:58.27\00:44:00.00
well, that's
00:44:00.04\00:44:01.37
and they are bringing so and so,
00:44:01.40\00:44:02.74
you know, and
they are brining some.
00:44:02.77\00:44:04.61
So now two and six and you just,
00:44:04.64\00:44:07.24
you put another bean in
the pot and praise the Lord
00:44:07.28\00:44:09.44
and some how the Lord blesses it
00:44:09.48\00:44:11.15
and that's all part of family,
yeah, it's a great thing.
00:44:11.18\00:44:16.25
One of my
nephew's is an Adventist
00:44:16.28\00:44:18.85
and I said to him well,
we may come to visit you
00:44:18.89\00:44:23.93
because we will be in the area.
00:44:23.96\00:44:26.59
He says, oh, at the end
once you would close the doors
00:44:26.63\00:44:30.97
he says anything
can become a bed.
00:44:31.00\00:44:33.64
So you just come.
00:44:33.67\00:44:35.17
I just wanted to share something
00:44:37.47\00:44:39.47
that maybe my wife or
Betty can tell the same story
00:44:39.51\00:44:44.55
because it touched our hearts
00:44:44.58\00:44:46.38
and I know that they
are gonna remember this.
00:44:46.41\00:44:49.78
We were in Pasco, Washington
00:44:49.82\00:44:52.52
and we were
looking for a church,
00:44:52.55\00:44:55.22
a church family
actually and something happened.
00:44:55.26\00:44:59.06
Can you tell us-- I know,
00:44:59.09\00:45:01.23
you know, what we
are talking about.
00:45:01.26\00:45:02.90
Somebody made a big
impression in our life.
00:45:02.93\00:45:06.90
Okay. Well, first things first.
00:45:06.94\00:45:08.27
Let's give credit,
well, credit is to my husband
00:45:08.30\00:45:10.47
snapped his Achilles tendon
00:45:10.51\00:45:13.21
and he was going
through physical therapy
00:45:13.24\00:45:15.08
at the time and the young man
who was doing his PT said hey,
00:45:15.11\00:45:19.31
you are Adventist?
00:45:19.35\00:45:20.68
Well, why don't you
come up into my church,
00:45:20.72\00:45:22.28
I'm sure you would like it.
00:45:22.32\00:45:23.69
We had been to a few
churches and, you know,
00:45:23.72\00:45:26.45
how can leave
you sort of wanting
00:45:26.49\00:45:28.56
when you walk in and
everybody has got their own
00:45:28.59\00:45:31.69
little insulated
world in their own clicks.
00:45:31.73\00:45:34.43
Well, we went into
this church is Riverview
00:45:34.46\00:45:38.90
SDA Church in Pasco, Washington
00:45:38.93\00:45:41.67
and the first
thing that happened
00:45:41.70\00:45:43.54
is this lady came up
to us, this elegant lady.
00:45:43.57\00:45:46.84
She said hi, my name is
January and you are mine
00:45:46.88\00:45:50.51
and she wrapped
herself in a big hug.
00:45:50.55\00:45:53.82
I don't know how
she managed to hug
00:45:53.85\00:45:55.18
my entire family all at once
00:45:55.22\00:45:56.95
but she did and from that moment
00:45:56.99\00:45:59.49
that was our church
home out in Washington State.
00:45:59.52\00:46:02.92
Rather though little
kids would call me grandma.
00:46:02.96\00:46:06.19
It was Grandma Betty
and they still when they--
00:46:06.23\00:46:08.16
they are all taller than her now
00:46:08.20\00:46:09.86
which is indeed
hard to do at this point
00:46:09.90\00:46:12.07
but yeah, they all
call her Grandma Betty
00:46:12.10\00:46:14.77
and we have quite a bit
church family back there.
00:46:14.80\00:46:17.51
Yeah, see that's-- yeah, Betty.
00:46:17.54\00:46:19.17
I still have my
membership there.
00:46:19.21\00:46:21.14
I know, I
should change it but...
00:46:21.18\00:46:25.15
Yeah, yeah that--
00:46:25.18\00:46:26.51
Now you are here
so you should come.
00:46:26.55\00:46:28.05
That's what the family does.
00:46:28.08\00:46:29.62
I will tell you a
story we are in New York
00:46:29.65\00:46:31.89
preaching a couple of weeks ago,
00:46:31.92\00:46:33.25
actually a month it's all though
00:46:33.29\00:46:36.19
and a young man came up to
me and he was big and husky
00:46:36.22\00:46:39.46
and much bigger than I.
00:46:39.49\00:46:41.20
And I looked at the face
and I could tell that there was
00:46:41.23\00:46:45.10
some connection in some past.
00:46:45.13\00:46:46.74
Thirty five years ago
he and his dad had gotten
00:46:46.77\00:46:52.27
into quite a fight
00:46:52.31\00:46:54.44
and his dad had
thrown him out of the house
00:46:54.48\00:46:57.31
and he really
was on the streets.
00:46:57.35\00:46:59.15
And for a weekend I
took him to my apartment.
00:46:59.18\00:47:02.28
I had a studio apartment.
00:47:02.32\00:47:03.65
Now there are parts of world
00:47:03.69\00:47:05.02
you don't know what
a studio apartment is.
00:47:05.05\00:47:06.39
Studio apartment is a
apartment without a bedroom.
00:47:06.42\00:47:08.32
It is basically
a large living room
00:47:08.36\00:47:10.66
with a foldout couch
00:47:10.69\00:47:12.66
and a kitchen area.
00:47:12.69\00:47:14.03
So it's called a
studio apartment.
00:47:14.06\00:47:15.66
Its very high
class name for basically
00:47:15.70\00:47:18.23
an apartment with no bedroom.
00:47:19.63\00:47:21.30
So I had a studio
apartment and so he--
00:47:21.34\00:47:25.94
we made put some
blankets on the floor
00:47:25.97\00:47:27.91
and he stayed with
me for the weekend.
00:47:27.94\00:47:29.41
Took him to church
and then he went back home
00:47:29.44\00:47:32.98
and I had not
seen him for 35 years
00:47:33.01\00:47:37.65
and he came, he is
fairer, fatter, he is married,
00:47:37.69\00:47:40.99
he's got children and
he said, you don't know,
00:47:41.02\00:47:45.86
you have no idea what
that weekend did for me.
00:47:45.89\00:47:51.00
It turned me
around, it saved my life.
00:47:51.03\00:47:53.74
I was-- I needed to get
thrown out of the apartment.
00:47:53.77\00:47:56.04
I was bad to my father.
00:47:56.07\00:47:57.91
I was an evil young
man going on around world
00:47:57.94\00:48:01.01
but the fact that
somebody took a chance
00:48:01.04\00:48:03.68
and he remembered
00:48:03.71\00:48:05.95
that I left my
wallet out, you know.
00:48:05.98\00:48:08.28
He said, and I
saw your wallet there.
00:48:08.32\00:48:11.99
I saw your wallet
there on your dresser
00:48:12.02\00:48:13.76
because it is a studio apartment
00:48:13.79\00:48:15.12
there is no
place to hide anything.
00:48:15.16\00:48:16.49
He said, you
left your wallet there
00:48:16.52\00:48:18.56
and I didn't have any money
00:48:18.59\00:48:21.40
but I said, this guy is
doing something good for me
00:48:21.43\00:48:23.60
and now he has got a
job, he has got a family,
00:48:23.63\00:48:27.04
he is a member of the church,
his children are baptized.
00:48:27.07\00:48:29.34
Do you remember he came
up to me and he hugged me?
00:48:29.37\00:48:31.51
He gave such he
lift me off my feet.
00:48:31.54\00:48:32.87
He is such a big guy
but he was a thin stripling
00:48:32.91\00:48:35.38
of a young man back
in the early mid 70s
00:48:35.41\00:48:41.85
and he is doing wonderful now.
00:48:41.88\00:48:44.55
So the love of Christ can--
00:48:44.59\00:48:46.76
when shown can
really change a life,
00:48:46.79\00:48:49.36
it can really
do so much for you.
00:48:49.39\00:48:51.09
And family the
definition gets expanded.
00:48:51.13\00:48:54.30
So we are family.
00:48:54.33\00:48:55.66
He is a family member I
haven't seen for 35 years
00:48:55.70\00:48:57.60
but he considers
me part of his family
00:48:57.63\00:48:59.53
and he part of mine
because there's something
00:48:59.57\00:49:01.04
we did one
weekend 35 years go. Yeah.
00:49:01.07\00:49:04.11
So that's family, yeah,
00:49:04.14\00:49:05.61
and we praise the Lord for that.
00:49:05.64\00:49:06.98
Those actions become
such cherished memories
00:49:07.01\00:49:09.81
for the person who
is affected by them
00:49:09.84\00:49:12.18
and you remain in
stasis in their mind
00:49:12.21\00:49:15.38
and in their hearts
and when they see you
00:49:15.42\00:49:17.05
there is no age,
00:49:17.09\00:49:18.42
there is no years of
distance between you.
00:49:18.45\00:49:20.79
They just know that
you were that person.
00:49:20.82\00:49:22.46
Yeah. Yeah.
00:49:22.49\00:49:23.83
Well said, because
it's kind of frozen
00:49:23.86\00:49:25.29
in time that moment in time.
00:49:25.33\00:49:26.80
Now having said that
before our times gets away
00:49:26.83\00:49:28.76
you've all got
some good letters,
00:49:28.80\00:49:30.33
some kind of positive letters
00:49:30.37\00:49:32.07
and these are
letters that kind of--
00:49:32.10\00:49:33.44
the Bible says, a good
report fattens the soul.
00:49:33.47\00:49:36.57
You know, you kind of
put on spiritual weight.
00:49:36.60\00:49:39.21
So let's you take a
chance and read just one
00:49:39.24\00:49:42.74
and then we will
see how much time
00:49:42.78\00:49:44.11
we have left
before our time gets away.
00:49:44.15\00:49:45.48
We kind of
fatten up a little bit
00:49:45.51\00:49:46.85
on some good
reports of the Lord.
00:49:46.88\00:49:49.35
I have one that is--
00:49:49.38\00:49:50.72
it comes from Ed George
from St. Louis, Missouri
00:49:50.75\00:49:55.16
and he says dear,
3ABN, God is good.
00:49:55.19\00:49:59.26
What marvelous
things are being done
00:49:59.29\00:50:02.16
since I started
wearing my 3ABN lapel pin,
00:50:02.20\00:50:07.34
people stop me and ask
all kinds of questions.
00:50:07.37\00:50:10.61
Most of the tenants do
not have access to 3ABN.
00:50:10.64\00:50:14.34
I explain to them
that I have a converter box
00:50:14.38\00:50:18.58
and then some of them
have already purchased one
00:50:18.61\00:50:22.88
while others are
planning to do so.
00:50:22.92\00:50:26.22
There is a
Mexican family here from--
00:50:26.25\00:50:30.26
who I met through the lapel pin
00:50:30.29\00:50:32.96
and there is a
joy in their faces
00:50:32.99\00:50:36.90
when they see
the programs. They--
00:50:36.93\00:50:39.40
then the
children love Kid's Time.
00:50:39.43\00:50:42.70
Thank you, may God
continue to bless you.
00:50:42.74\00:50:45.81
Love in Christ, Eddie.
00:50:45.84\00:50:47.84
Amen. Amen. All right.
00:50:47.88\00:50:49.88
This is from Barbara
from Pontiac, Illinois.
00:50:49.91\00:50:54.45
Dear, 3ABN, your
network is so inspiring
00:50:54.48\00:50:57.85
and such a blessing.
00:50:57.89\00:50:59.29
I have been watching since 2014.
00:50:59.32\00:51:03.12
I didn't even know about it
and I came across it one day.
00:51:03.16\00:51:07.26
I feel like I
know everyone of you.
00:51:07.30\00:51:10.67
3ABN has helped me so much
00:51:10.70\00:51:12.53
because my husband
passed away in March.
00:51:12.57\00:51:14.94
Your prayers have
helped me feel not so lonely.
00:51:14.97\00:51:18.51
May God continue to
bless you sincerely, Barbara.
00:51:18.54\00:51:22.01
Amen. Thank you, Barbara.
00:51:22.04\00:51:25.91
This one is from our
sister Kelly down in Tennessee.
00:51:25.95\00:51:29.18
She says, dear 3ABN, I
do not have a home church
00:51:29.22\00:51:32.42
that I attend on a regular basis
00:51:32.45\00:51:34.36
however I do watch
00:51:34.39\00:51:36.16
many of the 3ABN
series that you air.
00:51:36.19\00:51:38.93
I've come to the realization
00:51:38.96\00:51:40.30
that Saturday
is the true Sabbath
00:51:40.33\00:51:42.33
and I have been doing
my very best to observe it.
00:51:42.36\00:51:44.90
I sincerely appreciate
all that you are doing
00:51:44.93\00:51:47.24
for the kingdom of God
00:51:47.27\00:51:48.60
and spreading of the
three angels' message.
00:51:48.64\00:51:50.61
Your television out
reach has definitely helped me
00:51:50.64\00:51:53.44
and opened my eyes to the truth.
00:51:53.48\00:51:55.74
Thank you for all you
do to further the gospel.
00:51:55.78\00:51:58.25
Keep up the good
work and God bless.
00:51:58.28\00:52:00.42
A friend and
sister in Christ, Kelly.
00:52:00.45\00:52:02.35
Amen. Amen.
00:52:02.38\00:52:05.25
This one is from
Marilyn in Tennessee.
00:52:05.29\00:52:08.32
Dear, 3ABN,
please tell Danny Shelton
00:52:09.32\00:52:12.59
thank you for his faithfulness
and obedience to God.
00:52:12.63\00:52:16.10
Also a special
thanks to the engineer
00:52:16.13\00:52:18.83
that came to
Nashville, Tennessee to restore
00:52:18.87\00:52:21.80
a clear signal
for us in late March.
00:52:21.84\00:52:25.04
I was really praising the Lord.
00:52:25.07\00:52:26.74
3ABN has become
my favorite network.
00:52:26.78\00:52:31.01
I'm not Seventh-day Adventist
but I am learning so much
00:52:31.05\00:52:34.12
and seeking the true
and real relationship
00:52:34.15\00:52:37.39
with the Lord, Jesus Christ.
00:52:37.42\00:52:39.45
Please pray for
me, blessing Marilyn.
00:52:39.49\00:52:42.42
Amen. Amen.
00:52:42.46\00:52:43.79
Noelia, do you
have one down there?
00:52:43.83\00:52:45.43
Yes.
00:52:45.46\00:52:49.36
This one is from James
00:52:49.40\00:52:53.03
and it is from Homer...
00:52:53.07\00:52:56.81
Louisiana. Louisiana.
00:53:00.84\00:53:03.41
Dear, 3ABN, your book
00:53:03.45\00:53:04.91
"Ten Commandments Twice Removed"
00:53:04.95\00:53:06.78
is excellent.
00:53:06.82\00:53:08.15
I will worship on
the Sabbath from now on.
00:53:08.18\00:53:10.72
Love and blessing to
you sincerely, James.
00:53:10.75\00:53:14.46
All right. Praise the
Lord. Praise the Lord.
00:53:14.49\00:53:17.23
Irma, back to you.
And I do have one more.
00:53:17.26\00:53:19.66
Sally,
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she doesn't give us her hometown
00:53:21.20\00:53:24.00
but she says also dear
3ABN, we live in South Africa
00:53:24.03\00:53:29.24
and enjoy watching 3ABN.
00:53:29.27\00:53:31.67
My husband who sleeps very badly
00:53:31.71\00:53:35.28
watches it
through the whole night.
00:53:35.31\00:53:37.58
May God bless you in
reaching the outside world
00:53:37.61\00:53:40.62
with the wonderful
work that you are doing.
00:53:40.65\00:53:44.02
Love in Christ, Jesus
our Lord through the end,
00:53:44.05\00:53:47.66
Sally. Amen.
00:53:47.69\00:53:52.59
This one is
from Caldwell, Idaho.
00:53:52.63\00:53:57.30
Dear, 3ABN,
00:53:57.33\00:53:58.93
my husband and I
became Seventh-day Adventist
00:53:58.97\00:54:01.44
after we
discovered 3ABN on our TV
00:54:01.47\00:54:04.51
and started watching regularly.
00:54:04.54\00:54:06.84
We were both raised in
a devout catholic family.
00:54:06.88\00:54:10.55
We have been
married nearly 39 years.
00:54:10.58\00:54:13.65
We are now
baptized and serve the Lord
00:54:13.68\00:54:16.18
in our small church
in Middleton, Idaho.
00:54:16.22\00:54:19.12
Sincerely, Carlos and Francis.
00:54:19.15\00:54:22.12
Amen, what a
wonderful praise report.
00:54:22.16\00:54:25.66
I've got an email
here from our brother Buddy
00:54:25.69\00:54:28.93
and it says dear 3ABN,
00:54:28.96\00:54:30.50
I thank God that I
found your ministry.
00:54:30.53\00:54:32.63
You have been a
really blessing to me
00:54:32.67\00:54:34.80
and you have managed
to do what no other faith
00:54:34.84\00:54:37.11
could ever do
00:54:37.14\00:54:38.47
and that is give me a
complete understanding
00:54:38.51\00:54:41.01
of what God has planned for us.
00:54:41.04\00:54:43.24
You are the only
ones who preach Revelation
00:54:43.28\00:54:45.91
a subject that most
churches don't dare touch.
00:54:45.95\00:54:48.95
May God continue
to bless your ministry
00:54:48.98\00:54:50.95
and what you are doing
00:54:50.99\00:54:52.32
to make a real difference daily.
00:54:52.35\00:54:53.86
Sincerely, Buddy.
00:54:53.89\00:54:55.76
Wonderful. Very nice.
00:54:55.79\00:54:58.36
All right, I've got one here,
00:54:58.39\00:55:01.66
we've got a couple of good ones.
00:55:01.70\00:55:03.47
The April issues of the 3ABN
World Magazine is outstanding.
00:55:03.50\00:55:06.87
I read it from cover to
cover and then reread it again.
00:55:06.90\00:55:09.40
I'm not an Adventist
00:55:09.44\00:55:11.67
but I worship
with your programs.
00:55:11.71\00:55:14.61
I especially like Kenneth Cox
00:55:14.64\00:55:16.68
and the professor who
leads on Saturday mornings.
00:55:16.71\00:55:20.35
Thank you for the
advice and fellowship
00:55:20.38\00:55:24.49
that we share in God's
name. And this is from Murray.
00:55:24.52\00:55:28.76
She says, she
is not an Adventist
00:55:28.79\00:55:30.13
but she worships watching 3ABN
00:55:30.16\00:55:31.79
and we praise the Lord for that.
00:55:31.83\00:55:34.10
I'm not sure what professor
we've got Dwight Nelson,
00:55:34.13\00:55:37.40
on Saturday
mornings, we got Doug Batchelor
00:55:37.43\00:55:38.80
on Saturday mornings.
We got lot of professors.
00:55:38.83\00:55:41.07
Yes.
00:55:41.10\00:55:42.44
We have a lot in
professors on Saturday mornings
00:55:42.47\00:55:44.64
but if you are being
blessed we praise the Lord.
00:55:44.67\00:55:46.78
We praise the Lord for it.
00:55:46.81\00:55:49.41
These reports are
so encouraging to us,
00:55:49.44\00:55:52.31
one, that people
are finding the Lord
00:55:52.35\00:55:55.18
because I think we all believe
that Christ is coming soon
00:55:55.22\00:55:57.75
and this world has
not longed to last.
00:55:57.79\00:56:00.56
And so as quickly as
we can get to the word out
00:56:00.59\00:56:03.73
so that men and
women can come to Jesus
00:56:03.76\00:56:06.53
the better we are for it.
00:56:06.56\00:56:08.30
And we hear that
the word is going out
00:56:08.33\00:56:10.70
and people are coming in
00:56:10.73\00:56:12.17
it does make you
feel so very, very good.
00:56:12.20\00:56:17.41
We are coming
down to the end of our,
00:56:17.44\00:56:18.81
of our time together
and as I said at the opening
00:56:18.84\00:56:21.81
maybe watching
this on a Friday evening
00:56:21.84\00:56:23.68
which means
that we are welcoming
00:56:23.71\00:56:26.18
you to the Sabbath experience.
00:56:26.21\00:56:28.28
You maybe watching
on a Saturday evening
00:56:28.32\00:56:30.25
which means that
we are welcoming you
00:56:30.29\00:56:33.09
and asking God's blessing
upon you throughout the week
00:56:33.12\00:56:36.29
that is coming as we
prepare for the next Sabbath.
00:56:36.32\00:56:39.43
So on behalf of
Jorge and Lynetteand Betty
00:56:39.46\00:56:43.67
and Irma and Noelia and myself
00:56:43.70\00:56:47.10
we wish for you every
blessing. Keep on praising God.
00:56:47.14\00:56:50.91
Worship Him morning and evening
00:56:50.94\00:56:52.84
and God will be with you always.
00:56:52.87\00:56:55.04
Bye bye and god bless you.
00:56:55.08\00:56:56.95