I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello and welcome to
3ABN Today Family Worship.
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We are so thrilled
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that you're joining us
for worship this evening.
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And I just want to
introduce everyone at the table.
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My name is
Shelley Quinn. It's JD.
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JD Quinn and I
have the privilege
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of being this
wonderful man's wife.
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And that's one of
the greatest blessings
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God ever gave me
was a godly husband.
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Yeah.
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And I'd also to introduce
Kenny and Chris Shelton.
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And you all are
not a stranger on 3ABN.
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You have "Behold the
Lamb" as your program.
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And you're with
"Behold the Lamb Ministries."
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And we're just so thankful
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as part of our 3ABN family
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that you are joining us
at the table this evening.
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We are excited. Thank
you for the invitation.
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We love to talk about Jesus.
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I know you do.
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And I know you've always
got something wonderful to say.
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And then over on this end,
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we have got my sweet
precious co-handed...
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Praising hands.
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Jason Bradley.
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We call you Jay,
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but you are the
assistant to the general manager
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of Dare to Dream.
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Yes.
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And who would that
general manager be?
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Well, she's been
my boss for 29 years,
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Dr. Yvonne Lewis a.k.a. mom.
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Oh, Jay, we're so glad
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that you're
joining us here as well.
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And then on the piano
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we have our precious
sister Jill Morikone.
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We're so thankful
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that Jill agreed to play for us.
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And as part of the family,
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we just welcome
you to the table.
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And we hope that tonight
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as we're
welcoming the Sabbath...
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Now depending on where you are,
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you may be saying
goodbye to the Sabbath
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if you are that
much ahead of us in time,
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but we're here to
welcoming the Sabbath.
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And we're going to begin
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by singing "Amazing Grace."
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Amen.
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This is hymn number 108
in your Adventist hymnal.
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But also the words
will be on the screen.
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So join us.
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Amazing Grace!
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How sweet the sound
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That saved a wretch
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Like me!
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I once was lost
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But now am found
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Was blind
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But now I see
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'Twas was grace that taught
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My heart to fear
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And grace
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My fears relieved
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How precious
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Did that grace appear
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The hour
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I first believed
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The Lord has promised
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Good to me
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His word
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My hope secures
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He will my shield
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And portion be
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As long
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As life endures
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Amen. Praise the Lord.
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And what a song
of praise that is.
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That's why I call
that song they were singing
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about the
wonders of God's grace.
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And that's what we're
gonna be talking about tonight.
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We're gonna be talking about
grace alone and grace always.
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Amen.
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You know let me
share something with you
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before we pray.
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I once, when I grew up
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I didn't ever hear about grace.
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In the
denomination in which I grew up,
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I knew nothing of grace.
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And then I started studying
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and I studied my way out
into a different denomination
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and I start going to
nondenominational church,
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where that's all they
talked about was grace.
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But somehow
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there wasn't
balance on either side.
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And you know the
devil doesn't care
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which side of the
ditch you fall out,
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whether it's liberalism
or whether it's legalism.
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But, so God when He
called me to full-time ministry,
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He said, forget
what you're thinking off,
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come sit at my
feet, I'm gonna teach you.
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And He was teaching me on grace.
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And I said, Lord,
give me an illustration
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that I just want to
share this illustration
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with all of you and
with those of you at home.
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Here's what God showed me.
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That, God's heart just
wells over with love for us.
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Yes.
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God is love. Amen.
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And His heart
wells over for love.
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And that love, that grace,
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He sends down in a
pipeline from heaven
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and then the way that we
tap into His grace pipeline
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is by faith.
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Amen.
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And what is the
foundation for faith?
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Trust.
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Now, what is the
foundation for trust?
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If we're gonna trust in the Lord
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with all of our heart,
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it is relationship.
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And, then what's the relation--
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foundation of a relationship?
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It's love.
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See, it's full circle.
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We love God
because He first loved us.
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And the more we
understand God's love,
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then the closer
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and more intimate
our relationship will be.
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And more intimate
that relationship,
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the more we trust Him.
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The more we trust Him,
the more we pray with faith
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and the more we tap
into His grace pipeline.
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Right. So
everything is by grace.
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But I have to say this,
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grace includes obedience.
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That's right. Sure.
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We can only obey by grace
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and I know we're gonna
talk about that tonight.
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So why don't we now just
begin with a prayer of praise.
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There's not gonna be
any particular order.
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These are just kind
of like prayer sentences.
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If you have something to say--
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Even if you've already prayed,
come back in and pray again.
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JD, why don't you
begin our prayer praise?
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Father, we thank
you for the Sabbath day.
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Amen.
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We thank You, Lord,
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that You have
indeed set it apart
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and we thank You, Lord,
that we can be part of it.
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We thank You Lord
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that we're brothers
and sisters in Christ.
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We thank You
that we have family.
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And we just ask, Lord,
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each one that they
also take this time
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to lift Your name above all.
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We love You and thank You.
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Amen. Amen.
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Heavenly Father, as
we continue this prayer,
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just thank You
so much for the love
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that You've extended to
each and every one of us.
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Thank You for
bringing us out of the darkness
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and into Your marvelous light.
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And, Father, as we
sang an amazing grace,
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what a wonderful, what
gifts You have given us
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that we don't even deserve.
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Yeah, that's right.
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Father, thank
You for bringing us
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here at the Sabbath day
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and all of our friends
and family around the world,
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may Your name
make the love of Jesus
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be uplifted around this
table here this evening.
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And we give You all the praise
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and all the glory and
all the honor, Father.
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Amen. Amen.
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Heavenly Father, we praise You
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because You are
worthy of a praise.
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Father, how we thank You
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for Your salvation
planned for Your plan of grace.
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And we thank You for the gift
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of our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ,
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Your greatest gift of grace.
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And we thank You,
Father, for Your Holy Spirit,
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Your second
greatest gift of grace
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and for Your word, oh Lord.
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We thank You for
the Sabbath day, Lord,
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that reminds us
that You are our Creator
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and the One who recreates
us in the image of Jesus.
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And, Father, You
said in Exodus 31:13
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that the Sabbath is a sign
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that You are the
one who sanctifies us.
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Amen.
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We are even sanctified by
grace as we cooperate with You.
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So, Lord, all of--
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With all of our hearts,
we give You thanksgiving.
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With all of our
hearts, we praise You.
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And we thank You for
the answer to the prayer.
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Thank you.
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Amen. Amen.
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Dear Heavenly Father, we
want to thank You so much
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for the sacrifice
that You have made for us,
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so that we may have a
chance at eternal life, Lord.
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I want to thank You
for all the many blessings
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that you bestowed upon us,
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the air in our
lungs, our health,
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food in the
refrigerator, gas in our cars,
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a shelter, a roof
over our heads, Lord.
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All the things
that we take for granted
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on a day-to-day basis,
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Lord, we want to
lift You up right now.
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And we want to
thank You and praise You
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for all those wonderful
things that You've done for us.
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And thank You, thank You
again for Your sacrifice.
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Amen.
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All in heaven we thank
You and we give You praise
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and give You honor
and give You glory.
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Our hearts rejoice.
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We're exceedingly glad
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because you set
aside a certain day
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that we'd to fellowship,
not only with one another,
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with all of heaven.
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We thank You for the Sabbath.
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We thank You
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that the promise where two
or three are gathered together,
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You would be in our midst.
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As the wonderful, beautiful
pages of Your word is opened,
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we pray Your Holy Spirit
will accompany every thought,
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every word, every action.
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May each one of us be
pointed to Jesus Christ
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who is the author and
the finisher of our faith.
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Lord, we praise You.
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Bless those who are
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fellowshipping
with us right now.
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They are taking their Bibles.
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There's many are
kneeling right now.
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They are praying.
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They are opening
their heart to You
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and we serve a
wonderful loving God
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who promised to hear
and promised to answer.
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May this be a wonderful,
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wonderful time that
we spend together here.
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We're gonna give
You praise in advance.
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We're gonna know that
You're going to guide,
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you're going to
direct our hearts and minds,
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the words that we speak.
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You said, if I be lifted
up will draw all men to you.
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I thank You for that in
Jesus' precious Holy name
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we thank you, amen.
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Amen. Amen.
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Well, we've
sung a song of praise
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and that's what I
consider as a song about God.
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Now we're going
to sing a song of--
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That's like a
sermon to put to music.
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So this is a true
worship song. Amen.
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And for those of you at
home, if you're joining us.
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This is hymn number,
oops, hymn number 334.
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But the words will
also be on the screen.
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Come, thou Fount
of every blessing
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Tune my heart to sing Thy grace
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Streams of mercy, never ceasing
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Call for songs of loudest praise
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Teach me ever to adore Thee
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May I still Thy goodness prove
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While the hope of endless glory
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Fills my heart with joy and love
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Oh, to grace how great a debtor
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Daily I'm constrained to be!
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Let Thy goodness like a fetter
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Bind me closer still to Thee
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Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it
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Prone to leave the God I love
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Here's my heart,
oh, take and seal it
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Seal it for Thy courts above
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Amen. Halleluiah.
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Wow. Praise the Lord.
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Yeah, I love that song.
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Mercy.
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You know
especially the part that--
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Do you ever feel like
your heart is prone to wander?
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Oh, boy, I'll tell you.
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And to know that,
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that someone
else experiences that
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and, and God's got the answer.
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Yes, He does.
That's what so wonderful.
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Amen.
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Okay.
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Tonight we are going to be
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using life affirmations
from scripture as our book.
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And we're going to be
looking on page 87 and 88,
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"Grace Alone and Always."
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Now, had you all ever done
an affirmation from scripture?
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Never.
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Good. That's what
I get to teach you.
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Amen.
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We'll talk about
it for those at home.
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Essentially an
affirmation is just,
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it's taking a scripture,
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you're praying
it back to the Lord
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or you're
speaking it over your life.
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You are affirming
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that you agree
with God's testimony
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about who you
are in Christ Jesus.
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You are affirming
your total faith in God.
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You are also claiming
that promise at the same time.
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And it's a beautiful way.
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I confess, I
don't like to memorize.
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So I've never tried--
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I'm not good at that.
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But, there's a lot of
the scripture in my heart
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from just doing
life affirmations.
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I'm going to read
the introduction to this.
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And in this introduction,
our all the scriptures
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that we're going
to study tonight.
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And I hope you
have your Bible with us.
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But these are scriptures
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that now I have put
into an affirmation,
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then we're
gonna read and discuss
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each one of these scriptures.
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But, let me
quickly read that for you.
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Here is what it says.
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"I am what I am,
by the grace of God,
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everything
concerning God's kingdom
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comes to me by grace.
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Grace is the unearned,
undeserving gifts of God.
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His greatest gifts are
Christ in me, my hope of glory,
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the Holy Spirit
in His written word.
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These gifts may grace more
than merely unmerited favor.
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Grace is the force
of divine assistance
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working within me,
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God's supernatural
power for salvation."
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Now, Chris, why don't you
read the second paragraph?
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Okay.
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"By His grace and
through my faith in Him,
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I have been given
the gift of salvation.
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His grace empowers me
to obey as Jesus obeyed
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and secures my
eternal salvation.
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I am sanctified by
grace to obey by grace.
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As God works in me to will
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and to act according
to His good pleasure.
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And Jay. Praise the Lord.
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Amen.
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"Saved by God's mercy
I'm justified by grace.
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My works
evidence my justification,
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just as the works
of Abraham and Rahab
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deemed them to be in
right standing with God.
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I am made righteous by grace
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to practice
righteousness by grace."
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"And by His grace,
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His supernatural
power for salvation
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working in my life.
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God will complete the
good work He has begun in me."
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Amen.
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"I am what I am by His
grace alone and always."
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Praise God.
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Now some of you at
home may not understand
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obedience is being
part of God's grace.
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But everything
that we just read,
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we're going to
look at in the scripture
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so that you can see.
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And I'll take
the first scripture.
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This is 1 Corinthians 15:10.
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And this is the
Apostle Paul speaking.
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And he says,
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"By the grace of
God I am what I am,
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and His grace toward
me did not prove vain,
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but I labored even
more than all of them,
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yet not I,
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but the grace of God within me."
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Amen. Yes.
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This is something
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that Paul who was
such a legalistic person,
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who is out persecuting
the early Christians.
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When he had that
Damascus road experience
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and he had that
personal meeting with Christ
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when he was born again,
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he became God's
greatest ambassador for grace.
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But Paul never
let go of the idea
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that obedience was by grace.
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Paul is saying,
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hey, I labored
more than all of them,
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but he
recognized no, it's not me,
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it's the grace of God in me.
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If we recognize Christ
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as being God's
greatest gift of grace.
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It's Christ dwelling in us
by the power of the Holy Spirit
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that enables us
to do God's work.
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Amen. Beautiful.
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Yes.
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Wonderful. Amen.
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Amen. That's balance.
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You know as I'm looking at this,
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I like the way that
it's put together here
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as we read in
the first paragraphs.
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By the grace of God,
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the definition of grace,
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there's the force
of divine assistance.
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Yes. Amen.
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So by the force
of divine assistance
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being God that I am what I am.
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It's His--
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Grace is His divine
assistance through the spirit,
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the hope through
Christ, the spirit and the word,
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but it's also His supernatural
power for salvation.
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Grace is wonderful.
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Wonderful.
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I love what you're saying
about the obedience part as well
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because I think that, that's
a common misconception is that,
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oh, we're saved by grace.
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So does that mean we
can go out and steal?
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Does that mean we can go out
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and just break
all the laws of God?
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Does that-- you know,
and I think that's something
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that gets neglected a
lot is, is you can't go out
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and just
deliberately disobey God
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and say I'm saved by grace.
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You have to in a relationship--
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You know you two are married,
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you want to do things
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that would make
your husband happy,
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and you want to do things
that would make her happy.
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And so that's the
same thing with God
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as we have to obey God
and out of love for Him.
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Amen. Amen.
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And following that vein in
what I was just saying here.
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The everyday grace is the
force of divine assistance.
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Divine assistance is
not going to assist you
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in doing something that's wrong.
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So you know that's all,
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Michael gonna shut
that door right there.
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Well, and you know,
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that's, if you recognize
God's greatest gifts of grace
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is being Christ the
spirit and the word.
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When that power,
the power of Christ,
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the power of the
spirit, the power of the word
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is dwelling within you,
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certainly grace cuts us
free from Pharisaical Legalism.
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But to say that anyone
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that mentions obedience is
unlearned in grace is wrong
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because grace--
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Christ living in me,
the Holy Spirit living,
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isn't gonna give
me license to sin.
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So your point is well taken.
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Why don't you do
the next scripture?
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Sure.
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This comes from
Ephesians 2:8-10.
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"For by grace you have
been saved through faith,
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and that not of yourselves,
it is the gift of God,
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not as a result of
works, so that no one may boast.
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For we are His workmanship,
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created in Christ
Jesus for good works,
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which God prepared beforehand
so that we would walk in them."
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Yes.
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So essentially can
we ever save ourselves?
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No.
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There's nothing we
can do to save ourselves.
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So is there, Pastor Kenny?
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And going back to
what he said earlier
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and what you alluded to
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in the beginning of the program.
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So many people
will look and take these
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and dissect
them out of scripture
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and they see, see, it
doesn't matter what I do.
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It doesn't
matter which day I keep.
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It doesn't matter what I eat.
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I'm saved by grace.
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Once saved always saved.
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But the beautiful thing
is, we're taking the Bible
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and we're
beginning to put it together
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and letting it
answer all these questions.
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And it's so beautiful
as you study into grace,
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you see there's so many
varied facets of the meaning
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and there's
power in grace alone.
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Amen.
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A good book,
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"Ten
Commandments Twice Removed,"
00:21:57.01\00:21:59.05
that was a good book,
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dealing with the laws
and all that stuff as well.
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But you know what I
love about this scripture
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right here in Ephesians 2:8-10.
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"By grace you have been saved."
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There's nothing-- I mean--
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It says not of works.
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So being a vegan,
being, you know, tithing.
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I mean you can give the
10th of your merit like this,
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the Pharisees did.
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This isn't what
saves us. That's right.
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You know the old
and the New Testament
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both say
salvation belongs to God.
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I have to insert
this personal experience
00:22:30.85\00:22:34.08
with what you just said.
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Because, be, even
when I was younger,
00:22:35.72\00:22:38.39
you know, my
heart was to please God.
00:22:38.42\00:22:40.69
And many times
we adopt principles
00:22:40.72\00:22:43.29
that are not so
clear in scripture,
00:22:43.32\00:22:45.09
but we hear others
preaching and presenting them
00:22:45.13\00:22:48.40
and it seems to be right.
00:22:48.43\00:22:51.00
And so you begin
that journey of works
00:22:51.03\00:22:55.34
because you want to please God
00:22:55.37\00:22:57.17
and pretty soon you
no longer see Jesus.
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You see, can I do
this? Can I wear that?
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Can I say this?
00:23:03.31\00:23:04.85
You know can I go here?
00:23:04.88\00:23:06.31
And it's all about works
00:23:06.35\00:23:08.12
and the joy,
the love, the peace,
00:23:08.18\00:23:10.35
the happiness is gone.
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It is gone.
00:23:12.45\00:23:13.79
It is the wrong
balance or something wrong.
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But you know like you said,
00:23:16.56\00:23:17.89
it doesn't matter
which side the fence is on
00:23:17.93\00:23:19.36
as long as you're off.
00:23:19.39\00:23:21.03
The devil's gonna be happy.
00:23:21.06\00:23:22.40
But it's like--
00:23:22.43\00:23:23.77
That's what Paul
told to Galatians.
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He says, you who are
trying to be justified by works
00:23:25.17\00:23:28.27
are, have fallen from grace.
00:23:28.30\00:23:30.14
You're estranged from Christ.
00:23:30.17\00:23:31.94
And we're judgmental,
criticizing one another.
00:23:31.97\00:23:36.58
But right here in
this very scripture--
00:23:36.61\00:23:40.92
Kenny, just comment on this.
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He says, we are His workmanship
00:23:42.32\00:23:46.52
created in Christ
Jesus for good works
00:23:46.55\00:23:49.86
which God prepared beforehand
so that we should walk in them.
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See, to me
that's just so powerful
00:23:56.40\00:23:58.33
when you think about it.
00:23:58.37\00:23:59.70
And then it draws my mind back--
00:23:59.73\00:24:01.07
I think it was your
passage that you read.
00:24:01.10\00:24:03.64
I'm so thrilled when
Paul made that statement.
00:24:03.67\00:24:05.77
But he said, His grace
toward me did not prove vain.
00:24:05.81\00:24:10.51
Amen.
00:24:10.55\00:24:11.88
The grace that is
applied to each one of us
00:24:11.91\00:24:14.15
is not in vain if
we respond to the call.
00:24:14.18\00:24:17.79
God has begun the work,
He will finish the work.
00:24:17.82\00:24:21.19
He's created us so
we may witness for Him
00:24:21.22\00:24:23.89
and work for Him.
00:24:23.93\00:24:25.83
We may be able to get
this message to the world
00:24:25.86\00:24:28.16
so that Jesus can come.
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So we can rightly
represent Him to the world.
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And again part of that you guys,
00:24:33.77\00:24:35.10
you have been talking
about is the joy in the Lord.
00:24:35.14\00:24:38.47
I feel sad sometimes
00:24:38.51\00:24:40.28
that maybe we've lost
a little bit of that joy,
00:24:40.31\00:24:42.41
a little bit of that freedom.
00:24:42.44\00:24:44.18
You know, somebody said,
why you guys are so legalists,
00:24:44.21\00:24:46.01
you know you won't obey?
00:24:46.05\00:24:47.38
And I said I'm so free, I
can do anything I want to do.
00:24:47.42\00:24:49.55
They said, oh, what do
you mean you're Christian?
00:24:49.58\00:24:51.79
You can't do
everything you want.
00:24:51.82\00:24:53.15
I said I'm free in God.
00:24:53.19\00:24:54.52
I can do anything I want to do.
00:24:54.56\00:24:56.06
Yeah.
00:24:56.09\00:24:57.43
I choose just--
00:24:57.46\00:24:58.79
I choose by the grace of
God not to do the other things.
00:24:58.83\00:25:01.03
That's freedom.
Well, and He changes--
00:25:01.06\00:25:03.70
You know, when the Bible
says He works in us to will
00:25:03.73\00:25:06.84
and to do his for pleasure.
00:25:06.87\00:25:08.20
He aligns our will up with Him
00:25:08.24\00:25:10.04
and He makes us desire His ways.
00:25:10.07\00:25:13.41
We're His workmanship,
00:25:13.44\00:25:14.78
absolutely He wants us to
be like Him as an end results.
00:25:14.81\00:25:17.55
And it's out of love-- I think.
00:25:17.58\00:25:19.35
That He wants us to worship Him,
00:25:19.38\00:25:21.35
not out of fear.
00:25:21.38\00:25:22.72
He loves us so much
that He gives us the choice
00:25:22.75\00:25:25.29
to serve Him.
00:25:25.32\00:25:26.65
We can go the other way.
00:25:26.69\00:25:28.02
Yes.
00:25:28.06\00:25:29.39
And as we progress
that's who we become.
00:25:29.42\00:25:32.29
Absolutely. Yes.
00:25:32.33\00:25:33.66
Because I mean and
that's where we're happy.
00:25:33.70\00:25:35.66
Absolutely. Let me do this.
00:25:35.70\00:25:37.47
I forgot to pray
my scripture back.
00:25:37.50\00:25:40.07
And then I want you to
pray your scripture back
00:25:40.10\00:25:42.34
because we're trying to
00:25:42.37\00:25:44.01
really learn how to
make this an affirmation.
00:25:44.04\00:25:47.11
So let me pray
00:25:47.14\00:25:48.48
1 Corinthians
15:10 back to the Lord.
00:25:48.51\00:25:51.61
Father, I thank you
that it is by your grace,
00:25:51.65\00:25:54.98
I am who I am,
that we are who we are.
00:25:55.02\00:25:58.02
Yeah.
00:25:58.05\00:25:59.39
I thank You,
Father, that Your grace
00:25:59.42\00:26:01.32
does not prove vain,
00:26:01.36\00:26:03.93
but, that Lord, You work in us
00:26:03.96\00:26:06.29
that we might labor
00:26:06.33\00:26:08.76
by the power of your grace.
00:26:08.80\00:26:10.60
Amen.
00:26:10.63\00:26:12.33
Dear heavenly Father,
00:26:12.37\00:26:13.70
I thank You that it
is by Your grace that
00:26:13.74\00:26:16.74
and my faith in
You that I am saved.
00:26:16.77\00:26:18.87
Amen.
00:26:18.91\00:26:20.24
I want to thank You for
again Your precious sacrifice.
00:26:20.28\00:26:24.68
And wanting us to
worship You out of love
00:26:24.71\00:26:29.65
and not fear.
00:26:29.68\00:26:31.02
That's right.
00:26:31.05\00:26:32.39
And so as we have this worship
00:26:32.42\00:26:33.96
we just, we just
want to praise You.
00:26:33.99\00:26:36.32
Amen. Amen.
00:26:36.36\00:26:37.69
Amen. Amen.
00:26:37.73\00:26:39.13
All right. You want
to do Hebrews 5:8, 9.
00:26:39.16\00:26:45.33
All right.
00:26:45.37\00:26:46.70
"Though he" He being Jesus
00:26:46.74\00:26:48.97
"was a Son, yet
He learned obedience
00:26:49.00\00:26:51.87
by the things which he suffered.
00:26:51.91\00:26:54.18
And having been perfected,
00:26:54.21\00:26:55.54
he became the
author of eternal salvation
00:26:55.58\00:26:58.11
to all who obey him."
00:26:58.15\00:26:59.58
Oh, there we go.
00:26:59.61\00:27:00.95
Well, there's very few people
who know about this scripture.
00:27:00.98\00:27:04.22
Well, I know.
00:27:04.25\00:27:05.59
As I was reading it earlier,
00:27:05.62\00:27:07.19
boy, I just jumped off the page.
00:27:07.22\00:27:08.72
But, He learned obedience
00:27:08.76\00:27:10.33
by the things
which he had suffered.
00:27:10.36\00:27:12.69
Man, I think that if we will...
00:27:12.73\00:27:16.36
I certainly haven't
suffered what Christ suffered.
00:27:16.40\00:27:19.93
You know, I mean
that's just unbelievably
00:27:19.97\00:27:21.87
thank that you
consider Him assimilate
00:27:21.90\00:27:24.24
every human as ever lived
00:27:24.27\00:27:25.97
and being part of, of your gift.
00:27:26.01\00:27:30.05
But I know that there
are things that I have done
00:27:30.08\00:27:32.48
and I have to suffer
the consequence of it.
00:27:32.51\00:27:34.72
Yes.
00:27:34.75\00:27:36.28
And by doing that, you
know, I have learned obedience.
00:27:36.32\00:27:40.12
Oh, yes. Yeah.
00:27:40.16\00:27:41.49
Yes. Amen.
00:27:41.52\00:27:42.86
I thought that
often, it's about that we...
00:27:42.89\00:27:44.63
God is so gracious and so good,
00:27:44.66\00:27:46.46
the grace that cleanses
us from all unrighteousness.
00:27:46.49\00:27:50.13
But when we do the
wrong things, there are scars
00:27:50.17\00:27:53.50
and He does not
take those scars from us.
00:27:53.54\00:27:56.60
They are always there,
but the healing is there
00:27:56.64\00:27:59.37
and the forgiveness is there.
00:27:59.41\00:28:01.61
But those scars
remain as a reminder
00:28:01.64\00:28:04.65
of the mistake or the
choice that we have made.
00:28:04.68\00:28:08.62
And some of the
greatest victories I think
00:28:08.65\00:28:10.72
come sometime as when
we do the wrong thing.
00:28:10.75\00:28:14.26
We recognize it. We come to Him.
00:28:14.29\00:28:15.92
We ask for
forgiveness and really mean it.
00:28:15.96\00:28:19.06
We've learned a lesson to say,
00:28:19.09\00:28:20.90
I never by God's grace
never want to go there again.
00:28:20.93\00:28:25.63
I thank God for that.
00:28:25.67\00:28:27.10
I said second
chance, that's like grace.
00:28:27.14\00:28:29.40
He is the God of new beginnings.
00:28:29.44\00:28:31.21
But you know verse 9 here.
00:28:31.24\00:28:33.71
There's people who
tell me, still to this day,
00:28:33.74\00:28:36.95
I'll have people say,
you're being legalistic
00:28:36.98\00:28:38.98
if you are
talking about obedience.
00:28:39.01\00:28:40.98
And right here, Hebrews says,
00:28:41.02\00:28:43.35
"He became the
author of eternal salvation
00:28:43.39\00:28:46.99
to all who obey him."
00:28:47.02\00:28:49.12
Amen.
00:28:49.16\00:28:50.49
Now let me...
00:28:50.53\00:28:51.86
We're talking
about salvation by grace.
00:28:51.89\00:28:54.36
We're talking
about the grace of God
00:28:54.40\00:28:57.87
and yet this scripture says,
00:28:57.90\00:28:59.60
"He became the
author of eternal salvation
00:28:59.63\00:29:01.54
to all who obey him."
00:29:01.57\00:29:03.30
How do we...
00:29:03.34\00:29:05.64
How do we justify or
rectify these two thoughts?
00:29:05.67\00:29:10.75
He became the
author of eternal salvation
00:29:10.78\00:29:12.61
to those who obey him.
00:29:12.65\00:29:13.98
Oops wait.
00:29:14.02\00:29:15.35
I thought we
were saved by grace.
00:29:15.38\00:29:16.72
And the whole point
is, we are saved by grace.
00:29:16.75\00:29:20.46
But if you understand that
His greatest gifts of grace
00:29:20.49\00:29:25.03
are Christ, the
Holy Sprit and the word,
00:29:25.06\00:29:29.20
when Christ is living
in your heart through faith
00:29:29.23\00:29:31.37
by the power of the Holy Spirit
00:29:31.40\00:29:32.90
and the Holy Spirit is
bringing God's word to you.
00:29:32.93\00:29:35.04
Remember, you, if you love Him,
00:29:35.07\00:29:38.17
He says, keep my commandments.
00:29:38.21\00:29:39.57
You will walk in obedience.
00:29:39.61\00:29:41.31
That's right.
00:29:41.34\00:29:43.75
Obedience is simply
an outward expression
00:29:43.78\00:29:47.05
of an inward experience.
00:29:47.08\00:29:48.42
That's right.
00:29:48.45\00:29:49.78
So if I've been saved by
grace, I will walk in obedience.
00:29:49.82\00:29:54.99
Absolutely.
00:29:55.02\00:29:56.36
And then, whose example
are we supposed to follow?
00:29:56.39\00:29:59.83
We're supposed to follow Jesus.
00:29:59.86\00:30:01.20
Follow in His footsteps.
00:30:01.23\00:30:02.56
So if you're doing things
00:30:02.60\00:30:03.93
that Jesus wouldn't do
00:30:03.97\00:30:06.07
and you're saying,
oh, I'm saved by grace.
00:30:06.10\00:30:08.00
It's all right.
Yeah, that doesn't work.
00:30:08.04\00:30:09.67
That doesn't work.
00:30:09.70\00:30:11.04
We're supposed to
follow His example.
00:30:11.07\00:30:12.97
Therefore, we
should do as Jesus did.
00:30:13.01\00:30:14.98
Amen. You know, when we--
00:30:15.01\00:30:16.34
Go ahead, honey. You got it.
00:30:16.38\00:30:17.71
Oh, I was just gonna say
that, that as we were walking,
00:30:17.75\00:30:20.38
as we develop this
relationship with Jesus,
00:30:20.42\00:30:23.05
as we're spending time
everyday in study and worship
00:30:23.08\00:30:26.59
and singing songs
as we're doing here.
00:30:26.62\00:30:29.06
Then our hearts
become molded and fashion.
00:30:29.09\00:30:32.49
Our mind becomes more
like the mind of Christ.
00:30:32.53\00:30:35.30
And then to do these
things become our privilege.
00:30:35.33\00:30:38.80
It is my privilege
to dress for Christ.
00:30:38.83\00:30:41.87
It is my
privilege to eat the way
00:30:41.90\00:30:44.17
He would ask me to eat.
00:30:44.21\00:30:46.21
It becomes--
00:30:46.24\00:30:47.58
See the whole process,
our whole thought is changed.
00:30:47.61\00:30:50.98
It's no more
works and focusing in
00:30:51.01\00:30:53.58
on what I have to do
and when I have to do
00:30:53.62\00:30:55.58
at what time, it's
focusing in on Jesus
00:30:55.62\00:30:58.49
and then He begins
to do the heart change.
00:30:58.52\00:31:01.46
That's the
beautiful part of grace.
00:31:01.49\00:31:02.99
It's the power of
grace. It is exactly.
00:31:03.02\00:31:05.06
It's the grace in us
00:31:05.09\00:31:06.43
that is working to
do His good pleasure.
00:31:06.46\00:31:08.76
Amen. And you know.
00:31:08.80\00:31:10.13
And that's what
sanctification is.
00:31:10.17\00:31:11.50
Yes. Thank you.
00:31:11.53\00:31:12.87
But there's a
statement that I've always used.
00:31:12.90\00:31:16.17
A little banner if you will.
00:31:16.20\00:31:18.17
That rules, R-U-L-E-S,
00:31:18.21\00:31:20.18
rules without relationship
result in rebellion.
00:31:20.21\00:31:24.28
Kids who are brought up
00:31:24.31\00:31:26.08
that you can't do
this, you can't do that,
00:31:26.11\00:31:27.78
you must do
this, you must do that,
00:31:27.82\00:31:29.52
and they don't have that
heart connection with God,
00:31:29.55\00:31:33.82
it's not joyful.
00:31:33.86\00:31:36.22
And they do rebel.
00:31:36.26\00:31:37.66
But what you said is,
00:31:37.69\00:31:39.16
as you develop that
heart connection with God
00:31:39.19\00:31:42.03
and you understand
00:31:42.06\00:31:43.57
His commandments are like
a protective fence around us.
00:31:43.60\00:31:47.30
It's your privilege to
be walking in this pathway.
00:31:47.34\00:31:48.97
Yes. Yes.
00:31:49.00\00:31:50.41
Good. 1 John mentions that.
00:31:50.44\00:31:51.87
It says, "We ought
to walk as he walked."
00:31:51.91\00:31:53.78
We must walk as He walked. Amen.
00:31:53.81\00:31:55.14
I mean to me that's
just so simple to say,
00:31:55.18\00:31:57.78
we don't know what
to do in this life.
00:31:57.81\00:31:59.48
Look at the life of Jesus.
00:31:59.51\00:32:01.22
Study His
character. Study what He did.
00:32:01.25\00:32:03.39
Study how He talked to people.
How He dealt with the people.
00:32:03.42\00:32:06.29
Decisions that He
made and what He did
00:32:06.32\00:32:08.49
and then I walk as He walked.
00:32:08.52\00:32:10.36
You cannot go wrong.
00:32:10.39\00:32:11.79
Victory is assured
00:32:11.83\00:32:13.16
if we keep our eye on
Him and not each other.
00:32:13.19\00:32:15.56
When you said
about the relationship--
00:32:15.60\00:32:18.67
Like when you
have that relationship
00:32:18.70\00:32:21.47
you want to please God like--
00:32:21.50\00:32:25.27
Out of that relationship
00:32:25.31\00:32:26.64
I was in the
world for quite sometime
00:32:26.68\00:32:29.28
and I viewed things so
much different back then.
00:32:29.31\00:32:34.32
Like I viewed things as a burden
00:32:34.35\00:32:37.29
more so than in
terms of religion
00:32:37.32\00:32:40.26
and laws and you know,
00:32:40.29\00:32:41.66
Ten Commandments
and all the stuff
00:32:41.69\00:32:43.16
as a burden,
00:32:43.19\00:32:44.53
as opposed to all these
things were for my benefit.
00:32:44.56\00:32:49.00
Everything that
the world is offering
00:32:49.03\00:32:51.10
liquor and drugs
and all the stuff,
00:32:51.13\00:32:53.50
it's killing you, you know.
00:32:53.54\00:32:55.40
And God wants to sustain us.
00:32:55.44\00:32:57.51
He wants us to live a
healthy, happy, fruitful life.
00:32:57.54\00:33:00.28
Amen.
00:33:00.31\00:33:01.64
And so now, it's like
00:33:01.68\00:33:03.01
being on the
other side of all that--
00:33:03.04\00:33:04.41
How beautiful.
00:33:04.45\00:33:05.78
And having a
relationship with Christ,
00:33:05.81\00:33:07.82
it's a whole another--
00:33:07.85\00:33:10.25
I view
everything so much different
00:33:10.29\00:33:12.65
like it's not a
burden, it's a blessing.
00:33:12.69\00:33:14.96
But you know, His
commandments are a burden
00:33:14.99\00:33:18.09
if we're trying to
keep them, to walk in them
00:33:18.13\00:33:22.40
by the power of our own flesh.
00:33:22.43\00:33:24.67
It is our own life as
you've been born again.
00:33:24.70\00:33:28.97
And now all of a sudden
what was a burden to you
00:33:29.00\00:33:32.07
because you were trying
to work it out in your flesh
00:33:32.11\00:33:35.98
has become a blessing
00:33:36.01\00:33:39.58
because it is God working in you
00:33:39.61\00:33:41.72
to will and to do
His good pleasure.
00:33:41.75\00:33:43.42
And you know and you're
filling that void with joy.
00:33:43.45\00:33:45.55
Amen.
00:33:45.59\00:33:46.92
The Lord says, it's
who you are becoming,
00:33:46.96\00:33:49.19
you know, it's
really something--
00:33:49.22\00:33:51.39
But I do.
00:33:51.43\00:33:52.76
You know, that, boy,
00:33:52.79\00:33:54.13
we hit on something a while ago,
00:33:54.16\00:33:55.50
I think that
everyone certainly needs.
00:33:55.53\00:33:57.37
There's not a person on,
there's not a person here,
00:33:57.40\00:33:59.93
there's not a person out there
00:33:59.97\00:34:01.97
that hasn't
experienced some scars.
00:34:02.00\00:34:05.77
That scars is part of it.
00:34:05.81\00:34:08.04
But drop those
scars and let them heal
00:34:08.08\00:34:10.58
and we transplant that,
be transformed with the joy.
00:34:10.61\00:34:14.55
Amen. Amen.
00:34:14.58\00:34:15.92
It is the way. Amen.
00:34:15.95\00:34:18.69
You know and to
add to that because
00:34:18.72\00:34:20.56
they both were emphasizing
00:34:20.59\00:34:22.26
that they had
done something wrong.
00:34:22.29\00:34:23.63
Many times trials
come to test the character,
00:34:23.66\00:34:26.43
to test the fruit,
00:34:26.46\00:34:28.03
to see just how
sanctified we are in Christ.
00:34:28.06\00:34:31.40
To see how much love
and patience and goodness--
00:34:31.43\00:34:33.07
And what is that
word that sanctified mean?
00:34:33.10\00:34:35.07
Yeah.
00:34:35.10\00:34:36.44
To be made holy,
to become like Him.
00:34:36.47\00:34:38.97
To be separated from sin.
00:34:39.01\00:34:40.58
To be separated from sin
00:34:40.61\00:34:41.94
and to know whether
one is sanctified or not,
00:34:41.98\00:34:44.98
we'll be by the
fruits of the spirit.
00:34:45.01\00:34:47.58
Because when those fruits
of the spirit will take over,
00:34:47.62\00:34:50.65
they are what are
expressed in the life
00:34:50.69\00:34:53.89
the way you
talk, the way you act,
00:34:53.92\00:34:55.59
the way you deal
with other people and so--
00:34:55.62\00:34:57.56
And the fruits of the spirit
are love, joy, peace, patience,
00:34:57.59\00:35:00.56
kindness, goodness,
00:35:00.60\00:35:02.06
gentleness,
humility, long suffering,
00:35:02.10\00:35:05.50
so it's as the Holy Spirit,
00:35:05.53\00:35:08.57
and we can't have
that without His spirit.
00:35:08.60\00:35:11.37
Can we? That's right.
00:35:11.41\00:35:12.74
You know what?
00:35:12.77\00:35:14.11
I read a long time ago
00:35:14.14\00:35:15.78
and it kind of like
00:35:15.81\00:35:18.58
disheartened me in a sense,
00:35:18.61\00:35:20.15
but yet it drove me
to the foot of the cross
00:35:20.18\00:35:23.79
because I read "The
Spirit of Prophecy."
00:35:23.82\00:35:26.76
It says, unless
we as God's people,
00:35:26.79\00:35:29.76
I have every one of
those fruits of the spirit,
00:35:29.79\00:35:32.69
heaven will never be our home.
00:35:32.73\00:35:34.96
Amen.
00:35:35.00\00:35:36.33
And I looked at
every one of those fruits
00:35:36.36\00:35:38.87
and I failed.
00:35:38.90\00:35:40.74
See this is self examination.
00:35:40.77\00:35:42.10
No one else needs
to look at each one
00:35:42.14\00:35:43.47
and say what you did.
00:35:43.51\00:35:44.84
I looked at my own life
and I looked at that joy
00:35:44.87\00:35:48.44
and that
long-suffering and that peace
00:35:48.48\00:35:50.18
and that
gentleness and that meekness,
00:35:50.21\00:35:51.65
that kindness,
and that goodness,
00:35:51.68\00:35:53.28
I failed the test.
00:35:53.31\00:35:54.68
But also realized I said,
00:35:54.72\00:35:56.89
by God's grace I'm
going to come back.
00:35:56.92\00:35:59.79
I'm going to
come back and ask God
00:35:59.82\00:36:01.16
to give me these
victories in every area.
00:36:01.19\00:36:03.36
If not, this is heavy.
00:36:03.39\00:36:04.73
If not heaven,
will not be our home.
00:36:04.76\00:36:07.20
We can't fail on one of them
00:36:07.23\00:36:08.56
and there's no
need to by God's grace.
00:36:08.60\00:36:10.67
He keeps coming back.
00:36:10.70\00:36:12.03
And He keeps
giving us that power.
00:36:12.07\00:36:13.40
And when we fail, He comes back
00:36:13.44\00:36:14.77
and He gives more grace.
00:36:14.80\00:36:16.14
It's a second chance.
00:36:16.17\00:36:17.51
Brothers at the
church sometimes says,
00:36:17.54\00:36:18.87
oh, second chance, he
is a God of second chances.
00:36:18.91\00:36:20.24
And I said, oh,
praise God, thousands for me
00:36:20.28\00:36:23.08
for knowing the
grace that bound so freely
00:36:23.11\00:36:25.98
that I needed it
and I'm so grateful
00:36:26.01\00:36:27.58
and thankful that
He looks over that.
00:36:27.62\00:36:29.28
And it keeps going back
00:36:29.32\00:36:31.35
to that divine assistance,
the divine assistance.
00:36:31.39\00:36:33.25
It's supernatural power.
00:36:33.29\00:36:35.39
Amen. All right.
00:36:35.42\00:36:37.29
I Thessalonians 5:23, 24.
00:36:37.33\00:36:42.73
Go ahead. Okay.
00:36:42.76\00:36:44.10
Good. All right.
00:36:44.13\00:36:45.47
It says, "Now
may the God of peace
00:36:45.50\00:36:47.50
Himself sanctify you entirely,
00:36:47.54\00:36:50.07
and may your spirit, soul,
00:36:50.11\00:36:52.07
body be preserved complete
00:36:52.11\00:36:54.54
without blame at the
coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
00:36:54.58\00:36:57.81
Faithful is He who calls you,
00:36:57.85\00:37:00.68
and He also will
bring it to pass."
00:37:00.72\00:37:02.78
That's a two hander, is it?
00:37:02.82\00:37:04.15
It is a two hander.
00:37:04.19\00:37:05.52
It's a promise and how can we--
00:37:05.55\00:37:06.99
How can we miss it.
00:37:07.02\00:37:08.56
You know when I looked at that,
00:37:08.59\00:37:09.92
I say thank you, Lord,
00:37:09.96\00:37:11.29
because I'm trying to
learn in my Christian experience
00:37:11.33\00:37:14.26
because
previous to these verses,
00:37:14.30\00:37:16.20
I love these verses,
that's why I read over this.
00:37:16.23\00:37:18.87
Oh, I like to talk about
it just for a minute or two.
00:37:18.90\00:37:21.60
Because previous to this
00:37:21.64\00:37:22.97
Paul was,
00:37:23.00\00:37:24.37
was going over
with the believers
00:37:24.41\00:37:26.88
and he set such a high standard
00:37:26.91\00:37:29.48
in the cause of Christ.
00:37:29.51\00:37:31.18
It was a standard
of that scares people,
00:37:31.21\00:37:33.45
a perfection and
holiness without,
00:37:33.48\00:37:37.19
the man will not
see God, you know.
00:37:37.22\00:37:38.95
And so he set that high standard
00:37:38.99\00:37:40.79
and people begin to question.
00:37:40.82\00:37:42.16
And the Jews would say,
00:37:42.19\00:37:43.53
well, if it's
such a high standard,
00:37:43.56\00:37:44.96
then that must cover
every area of our life.
00:37:44.99\00:37:49.66
And Paul said, yes, it does.
00:37:49.70\00:37:51.03
And in that passage he goes on.
00:37:51.07\00:37:52.80
He talks about
being holy unto the Lord.
00:37:52.83\00:37:56.30
What is holy? Holiness.
00:37:56.34\00:37:58.11
It's an attribute of God.
00:37:58.14\00:37:59.67
And then it's just--
00:37:59.71\00:38:01.04
Yes.
00:38:01.08\00:38:02.41
I want to share
something real quick
00:38:02.44\00:38:03.78
just because it's a
great place to interject it.
00:38:03.81\00:38:06.01
God is love and I
believe it is His love
00:38:06.05\00:38:09.08
that separates Him from sin.
00:38:09.12\00:38:10.79
His love
establishes Him in holiness.
00:38:10.82\00:38:14.89
And the more we have
that divine love in us,
00:38:14.92\00:38:17.49
He will
establish us in holiness.
00:38:17.53\00:38:19.69
Go ahead. Isn't
that, you know us.
00:38:19.73\00:38:21.06
Go ahead.
00:38:21.10\00:38:22.43
No, go. Okay.
00:38:22.46\00:38:23.80
You know, I'm just
thinking, I felt that how,
00:38:23.83\00:38:25.17
how wonderful that is
00:38:25.20\00:38:26.53
that we may know that He says
00:38:26.57\00:38:27.90
that He's going to
sanctify you entirely.
00:38:27.94\00:38:31.47
So then I would pose a question.
00:38:31.51\00:38:33.88
I posed it to myself.
00:38:33.91\00:38:35.48
I don't try to
pose it on someone else
00:38:35.51\00:38:37.18
or you know try to
say, well, this is--
00:38:37.21\00:38:38.78
I looked at it and I said, okay,
00:38:38.81\00:38:40.28
He said He's going
to holy sanctify me,
00:38:40.32\00:38:43.69
make me holy,
prepare me for heaven.
00:38:43.72\00:38:45.55
"Sanctify them through
thy truth, thy word is truth."
00:38:45.59\00:38:48.19
And I thought
there cannot be any--
00:38:48.22\00:38:50.36
There can be no such
thing as half, half sanctified.
00:38:50.39\00:38:56.50
So it has to be all the
way or nothing in the sense.
00:38:56.53\00:39:00.90
In the sense that you can't say,
00:39:00.94\00:39:02.97
I want to be holy sanctified
in this aspect of my life.
00:39:03.00\00:39:07.38
But there's a thing or two,
00:39:07.41\00:39:08.74
maybe my eyes or my
ears that I don't want,
00:39:08.78\00:39:11.88
then it's the
spirit can't do it.
00:39:11.91\00:39:13.68
So it has to-- You can't.
00:39:13.72\00:39:15.05
So you have to lay
it all out on the table
00:39:15.08\00:39:17.69
and then it goes into
body and soul and mind
00:39:17.72\00:39:20.69
which is the whole
total being of the person
00:39:20.72\00:39:24.56
to repopulate heaven,
certainly means we have to gain
00:39:24.59\00:39:27.90
victory over sin which
most people just can't.
00:39:27.93\00:39:30.07
They can't get that.
00:39:30.10\00:39:31.43
They don't want
to talk about it.
00:39:31.47\00:39:32.80
And I found this, as because
they are not really banking
00:39:32.83\00:39:34.57
on the promises they made.
00:39:34.60\00:39:36.37
The grace of Jesus Christ,
00:39:36.40\00:39:38.17
what He can do in
me and through me.
00:39:38.21\00:39:41.04
We look at our self and we
look in the mirror and say,
00:39:41.08\00:39:43.18
you total, oh,
you fail, you're not--
00:39:43.21\00:39:45.58
We are. We are exactly.
00:39:45.61\00:39:46.95
Can't you look in the
mirror and say, oh, you failure,
00:39:46.98\00:39:48.68
but because the
grace of God, right?
00:39:48.72\00:39:50.69
These are gonna be victories
that He's going to give me.
00:39:50.72\00:39:53.49
And He's going to give them
00:39:53.52\00:39:54.89
and he went over the body
and the soul and the mind.
00:39:54.92\00:39:59.29
Which is, again he's
talking about the mind
00:39:59.33\00:40:01.10
and then He's talking about--
00:40:01.13\00:40:02.46
When he said body,
the Jews thought this.
00:40:02.50\00:40:03.83
When you said the body,
00:40:03.87\00:40:05.20
it represented
actually flesh to them
00:40:05.23\00:40:07.40
and bones and so on
00:40:07.44\00:40:09.17
which gets to the
health message even.
00:40:09.20\00:40:12.17
They realized
that what we've taken--
00:40:12.21\00:40:13.54
Our body is a temple.
00:40:13.58\00:40:14.91
And then what we take
in needs to glorify God.
00:40:14.94\00:40:17.28
If it's glorified God,
00:40:17.31\00:40:18.65
Holy Spirit come in
by the grace of God,
00:40:18.68\00:40:20.68
the mind becomes pure and clean.
00:40:20.72\00:40:22.48
We make right
choices, right decision.
00:40:22.52\00:40:25.15
And so it's that
circle that goes on.
00:40:25.19\00:40:27.76
So it has to be the mind,
00:40:27.79\00:40:29.46
it has to be the senses,
00:40:29.49\00:40:31.16
that's what He talked
about soul if you can separate--
00:40:31.19\00:40:33.09
He talks about here,
you know the body and soul,
00:40:33.13\00:40:35.26
when we come they are same,
00:40:35.30\00:40:36.67
separate them, one
deals with the mind,
00:40:36.70\00:40:38.50
the other deals with the senses,
00:40:38.53\00:40:40.97
our taste everything.
00:40:41.00\00:40:42.34
Our eyes what we
behold what we hear.
00:40:42.37\00:40:44.01
So the Jews then said, uh-huh,
that means the complete man,
00:40:44.04\00:40:48.48
bones, thinking, what I
see, what I hear, what I taste.
00:40:48.51\00:40:53.68
Oh, the mind, the
choices, all through Him
00:40:53.72\00:40:57.32
who wants to
sanctify you and me holy.
00:40:57.35\00:41:00.39
I want to show, look at. I know.
00:41:00.42\00:41:01.99
Now that's exciting thing
what we can do if we submit.
00:41:02.02\00:41:04.69
He says right.
00:41:04.73\00:41:06.06
He will be preserved blameless
00:41:06.09\00:41:07.96
at the coming of
our Lord and Savior.
00:41:08.00\00:41:09.50
And faithful is
He who calls you,
00:41:09.53\00:41:11.70
He will bring it to pass."
00:41:11.73\00:41:13.40
We can't.
00:41:13.44\00:41:14.77
You know that word
sanctifies simply means
00:41:14.80\00:41:18.71
that you are set apart from sin.
00:41:18.74\00:41:20.98
You are set apart for God.
00:41:21.01\00:41:23.18
Sanctifying holiness
are actually synonyms
00:41:23.21\00:41:25.91
and mean the same thing.
00:41:25.95\00:41:27.38
To be holy means to
be separated from sin.
00:41:27.42\00:41:30.99
Thank you.
00:41:31.02\00:41:32.35
And you know 1
Thessalonians 3: 12, 13.
00:41:32.39\00:41:36.26
Paul writes saying,
00:41:36.29\00:41:37.63
"May you abound
and increase in love
00:41:37.66\00:41:40.60
by the power of
the Holy Spirit."
00:41:40.63\00:41:43.00
So that may God cause you
to abound and increase in love.
00:41:43.03\00:41:46.47
So that you may be
preserved blameless,
00:41:46.50\00:41:50.97
in holiness
00:41:51.01\00:41:52.34
at the coming of our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
00:41:52.37\00:41:55.88
So as God pours His
love into our hearts,
00:41:55.91\00:41:59.68
by His divine love we can--
00:41:59.71\00:42:01.68
Only by His divine love.
00:42:01.72\00:42:03.05
Can we love Him
with all of our hearts,
00:42:03.08\00:42:04.69
soul, mind and strength
00:42:04.72\00:42:06.05
and then we're gonna walk
in obedience by His power.
00:42:06.09\00:42:09.16
Only by His divine love,
00:42:09.19\00:42:11.06
can we love one
another as we love ourselves?
00:42:11.09\00:42:13.26
So we're not going
to sin against this.
00:42:13.29\00:42:15.86
But He is the one
that's gonna do it.
00:42:15.90\00:42:18.50
I Shelley Quinn
can't save Rochelle.
00:42:18.53\00:42:20.27
We can't do it.
00:42:20.30\00:42:21.64
You quoted basically in Jude 24.
00:42:21.67\00:42:23.91
Yeah.
00:42:23.94\00:42:25.27
He says, "If we're really
sanctified by the grace of God,
00:42:25.31\00:42:29.01
then He will keep us
and then He will present us
00:42:29.04\00:42:32.21
followers to the Father."
00:42:32.25\00:42:34.28
Oh, I got goose bumps
again. He will present.
00:42:34.32\00:42:36.38
And get it, it's
nothing about us.
00:42:36.42\00:42:38.49
It's nothing about the word.
00:42:38.52\00:42:39.85
Well, I'm
preaching all the time,
00:42:39.89\00:42:41.22
we're teaching all the
time, we're doing this all--
00:42:41.26\00:42:43.06
Nothing to do with that.
00:42:43.09\00:42:44.49
We get to heaven because
of the blood of Jesus Christ.
00:42:44.53\00:42:46.96
It's His life. It's His merits.
00:42:47.00\00:42:48.63
And the key word here
00:42:48.66\00:42:50.00
in the last
sentence is faithful.
00:42:50.03\00:42:51.70
Faithful. Faithful.
00:42:51.73\00:42:53.30
Faithful. Faithful.
00:42:53.34\00:42:54.67
But you know we do have a part.
So we don't have to doubt it.
00:42:54.70\00:42:56.40
Yeah, we're
gonna get to your part.
00:42:56.44\00:42:57.77
We do have a part
00:42:57.81\00:42:59.14
because we have to
be willing to submit.
00:42:59.17\00:43:01.98
We have to be
willing to allow Him in.
00:43:02.01\00:43:04.78
Thank you. And He
will continue this.
00:43:04.81\00:43:06.98
That's why we hear that
this work of sanctification,
00:43:07.02\00:43:09.78
it takes a lifetime
00:43:09.82\00:43:11.15
because it's a
daily, daily decisions
00:43:11.19\00:43:13.79
that we make
with Christ every day.
00:43:13.82\00:43:15.72
Amen.
00:43:15.76\00:43:17.09
Well, let's-- You
want to pray that back?
00:43:17.13\00:43:18.79
Sure. Let's pray.
00:43:18.83\00:43:20.50
Our loving Father in heaven
we thank You for this passage
00:43:21.70\00:43:24.60
and all the
passage we have read.
00:43:24.63\00:43:26.20
We thank You that we
serve a God of peace.
00:43:26.23\00:43:29.90
Lord, I thought
about this, God of peace.
00:43:29.94\00:43:32.17
You are in the
word that God of peace
00:43:32.21\00:43:34.51
and that means
You want to draw us.
00:43:34.54\00:43:35.98
You're drawing us back
00:43:36.01\00:43:37.35
into right
relationship with You always.
00:43:37.38\00:43:40.28
Thank you that You
promised that You want to,
00:43:40.32\00:43:42.75
You want to
sanctify us entirely.
00:43:42.78\00:43:45.29
Thank You that
You've included so that,
00:43:45.32\00:43:47.02
at least in my
simple minds and my thought
00:43:47.06\00:43:49.86
that You said, Kenny,
it's the mind, it's a soul,
00:43:49.89\00:43:52.53
it's the body and
You want to preserve them
00:43:52.56\00:43:55.96
and You want them to be holy,
00:43:56.00\00:43:57.33
You want them to be
without blame at Your coming.
00:43:57.37\00:43:59.80
And it can only be
through Jesus Christ,
00:43:59.83\00:44:01.70
our Lord and our Savior,
00:44:01.74\00:44:03.14
through the power
of the Holy Spirit,
00:44:03.17\00:44:04.51
through grace.
00:44:04.54\00:44:05.91
And, Father, I thank
You and I give You praise,
00:44:05.94\00:44:08.01
I give You honor
and give You glory
00:44:08.04\00:44:09.41
because I long for that day
00:44:09.44\00:44:10.78
that You will
present us faultless
00:44:10.81\00:44:13.28
before the throne room of God
00:44:13.31\00:44:15.08
and none of us will
stand there and say,
00:44:15.12\00:44:16.58
that's right,
it's because I did,
00:44:16.62\00:44:18.05
we will throw our
crowns at your feet
00:44:18.09\00:44:19.85
and say, it's because of Jesus,
00:44:19.89\00:44:22.46
because of His grace
and His long suffering.
00:44:22.49\00:44:25.19
Thank you, Holy
Father, in Jesus' name, amen.
00:44:25.23\00:44:27.26
Amen. Amen.
00:44:27.30\00:44:28.63
Why don't you go ahead
and take the next one as well.
00:44:28.66\00:44:30.57
I Peter 1:2.
00:44:30.60\00:44:33.34
Oh, okay. I like this one too.
00:44:33.37\00:44:36.17
You know, I like this one too.
00:44:36.20\00:44:37.54
It said, it said, "Who
are chosen and foreknown
00:44:37.57\00:44:40.91
by God and
Father and consecrated,
00:44:40.94\00:44:43.18
that's sanctified,
made holy by the spirit-- "
00:44:43.21\00:44:45.91
And the word
again comes out to be
00:44:45.95\00:44:47.52
"obedient to Jesus Christ."
00:44:47.55\00:44:49.88
He's talking about the messiah.
00:44:49.92\00:44:51.49
I thought how interesting
that is because people say--
00:44:51.52\00:44:54.06
And again
there's some go on and on
00:44:54.09\00:44:55.46
because you're
getting predestination.
00:44:55.49\00:44:56.99
You can get the
call and the elect.
00:44:57.03\00:44:59.93
The call, He calls everyone.
00:44:59.96\00:45:02.30
But the whole
difference is, you have chosen.
00:45:02.33\00:45:05.10
God's people
today, you must choose.
00:45:05.13\00:45:08.10
Amen. You have to choose.
00:45:08.14\00:45:09.47
You are the elect.
That's simply means chosen.
00:45:09.50\00:45:11.54
He's calling each
and every one of us
00:45:11.57\00:45:13.27
to be saved in the kingdom.
00:45:13.31\00:45:14.88
He's made every
preparation for it.
00:45:14.91\00:45:16.95
Knowledge, people say,
oh, in the foreknowledge
00:45:16.98\00:45:18.91
simply means He knows
everything, that's good.
00:45:18.95\00:45:21.12
But you can use--
00:45:21.15\00:45:22.48
I think it's
Romans, of what 8:28, 29.
00:45:22.52\00:45:24.85
Yes.
00:45:24.89\00:45:26.22
And it just gives some
real good thought about,
00:45:26.25\00:45:27.79
if you want to go
about predestination.
00:45:27.82\00:45:29.79
But we're
predestined should become,
00:45:29.82\00:45:32.39
be conformed to
the image of the son.
00:45:32.43\00:45:35.06
He knew that
everyone who chose Christ
00:45:35.10\00:45:37.20
was gonna become like
him because that is His job.
00:45:37.23\00:45:40.47
Amen. Amen. Praise God.
00:45:40.50\00:45:41.84
But the interesting thing
here in 1 Peter 1:2 to me is,
00:45:41.87\00:45:45.14
it's saying, "You are
chosen and foreknown by God,
00:45:45.17\00:45:46.94
you are
consecrated by the spirit"
00:45:46.98\00:45:49.38
for what purpose?
00:45:49.41\00:45:51.08
You are
consecrated to be obedient.
00:45:51.11\00:45:55.48
There goes that word again.
00:45:55.52\00:45:57.65
But she's saying,
the call of the Lord.
00:45:57.69\00:45:59.79
She said, together with what?
00:45:59.82\00:46:01.36
The sanctifying
power of the Holy Spirit.
00:46:01.39\00:46:03.99
The grace of God leads
us to obedience every time.
00:46:04.03\00:46:08.06
If we're sanctified
by the grace of God,
00:46:08.10\00:46:10.10
we will be the loving obedience.
00:46:10.13\00:46:11.63
Yes.
00:46:11.67\00:46:13.00
But you know
what, I just realized
00:46:13.03\00:46:14.37
we've only got ten minutes left.
00:46:14.40\00:46:15.74
And we've got a lot
of scriptures to go.
00:46:15.77\00:46:18.37
But, JD, why
don't you take this one
00:46:18.41\00:46:20.38
because I don't
think we'll finish,
00:46:20.41\00:46:21.74
but this is such an
important scripture.
00:46:21.78\00:46:23.11
Yeah, this is a good one
right here Philippians 2:13.
00:46:23.14\00:46:26.58
"It is God who works in you,
00:46:26.61\00:46:28.18
both to will and to
do for his good purpose."
00:46:28.22\00:46:32.39
So basically God, the
Creator of the Universe
00:46:32.42\00:46:36.56
by His word it was spoken.
00:46:36.59\00:46:38.59
God, who works.
00:46:38.63\00:46:40.60
It's God that energizes us.
00:46:40.63\00:46:42.86
He's the one that empowers us.
00:46:42.90\00:46:44.27
He's the one that enables us
00:46:44.30\00:46:46.17
to, to will and to do.
00:46:46.20\00:46:50.47
In other words He enables that
and what His good purpose is.
00:46:50.51\00:46:54.78
He said, He wants
each one of us to be saved.
00:46:54.81\00:46:57.78
Yes.
00:46:57.81\00:46:59.15
And so He is the stimulus.
00:46:59.18\00:47:00.65
He is the one that
starts the thing rolling
00:47:00.68\00:47:04.12
and then you brought
the word a while ago,
00:47:04.15\00:47:06.19
Chris, cooperation.
00:47:06.22\00:47:07.79
Yes.
00:47:07.82\00:47:09.16
Then if we choose to cooperate,
00:47:09.19\00:47:10.96
He's given us the stimulus.
00:47:10.99\00:47:12.69
He's put the water in there.
00:47:12.73\00:47:14.30
Now do I want
to drink it or not?
00:47:14.33\00:47:15.66
There you go.
00:47:15.70\00:47:17.03
That's right. Yes.
00:47:17.07\00:47:18.40
Vanity and
humanity together. Yes.
00:47:18.43\00:47:21.27
And you know here's,
00:47:21.30\00:47:22.64
here's what the Lord
showed me on this scripture.
00:47:22.67\00:47:24.87
And this is so funny
when I recognized it.
00:47:24.91\00:47:27.78
It's really funny.
I was sitting at home.
00:47:27.81\00:47:29.71
This is when I--
00:47:29.74\00:47:31.08
I've just become an Adventist
and I started watching,
00:47:31.11\00:47:33.28
I was watching 3ABN
and Dick Nunez was on
00:47:33.31\00:47:36.69
and they were doing
an exercise program.
00:47:36.72\00:47:38.95
Right?
00:47:38.99\00:47:40.32
Well, I'm sitting watching.
00:47:40.36\00:47:42.36
I'm sitting back
watching this exercise.
00:47:42.39\00:47:44.29
Watching an exercise program.
00:47:44.33\00:47:46.59
And I thought, you know,
I need to start exercising.
00:47:46.63\00:47:49.06
I really do need.
00:47:49.10\00:47:50.77
God was working in me
00:47:50.80\00:47:52.13
to cause me to
will, to want to exercise.
00:47:52.17\00:47:56.57
But you know something?
00:47:56.60\00:47:58.77
Until you--
00:47:58.81\00:48:00.18
When God works in you
to change your desires,
00:48:00.21\00:48:03.08
align your desires,
00:48:03.11\00:48:04.68
He aligns your will up with His.
00:48:04.71\00:48:06.18
He aligns your
desires up with His.
00:48:06.21\00:48:08.28
But until you
take one step in faith,
00:48:08.32\00:48:11.52
it isn't gonna do any good
because it can't work in you
00:48:11.55\00:48:15.92
until you step out in faith.
00:48:15.96\00:48:17.49
You take one step
and the power of God,
00:48:17.53\00:48:20.06
the Holy Spirit shows
up and He works in you.
00:48:20.10\00:48:23.97
So it is this cooperating.
00:48:24.00\00:48:27.14
It is you and the
spirit working together.
00:48:27.17\00:48:30.91
That's right. Amen.
00:48:30.94\00:48:32.27
Oh, glory. That's a good one.
00:48:32.31\00:48:33.64
Amen, Chris, let's
get you in it here.
00:48:33.68\00:48:36.38
I tell you what I wish
we had more time for sure.
00:48:36.41\00:48:38.48
Well, bless your heart.
00:48:38.51\00:48:41.28
Well, because it's so good.
00:48:41.32\00:48:42.68
I think there's so many things
00:48:42.72\00:48:44.25
that we could continue to talk.
00:48:44.29\00:48:46.35
And I believe it would
be a tremendous blessing.
00:48:46.39\00:48:49.46
You know, you talked
about predestination.
00:48:49.49\00:48:51.29
There are people
that truly believe
00:48:51.33\00:48:54.16
that they do not have a choice,
00:48:54.20\00:48:56.87
that, you know, either God
has chosen them for eternity
00:48:56.90\00:49:00.17
in heaven, or
for eternity in hell.
00:49:00.20\00:49:03.00
And you know, it's
just, there's so many facets
00:49:03.04\00:49:05.77
that we could cover in
this to help people to balance.
00:49:05.81\00:49:09.01
And hopeful maybe
they want to get this book,
00:49:09.04\00:49:10.98
get these scriptures,
00:49:11.01\00:49:12.35
so that they can
start to put this together
00:49:12.38\00:49:14.85
the way God wants us to.
00:49:14.88\00:49:16.58
But Titus 3, the
whole chapter is wonderful.
00:49:16.62\00:49:19.89
It's dealing with all
these character traits.
00:49:19.92\00:49:23.29
All these things that we
need those test and trials for.
00:49:23.32\00:49:26.90
But looking at
verses 5 through 7.
00:49:26.93\00:49:29.66
It reads, "He saved us,
not on the basis of deeds-- "
00:49:29.70\00:49:33.97
Those things which we have done,
00:49:34.00\00:49:35.74
"Which we have
done in righteousness,
00:49:35.77\00:49:37.74
but according to His mercy--"
00:49:37.77\00:49:40.48
Not giving us what we deserve.
00:49:40.51\00:49:42.58
"By the washing
of regeneration."
00:49:42.61\00:49:45.35
You know when
you look at that word
00:49:45.38\00:49:46.78
regeneration right there,
00:49:46.82\00:49:49.05
it's, it's not just,
00:49:49.08\00:49:50.59
because it talks
about renewing too.
00:49:50.62\00:49:52.22
It's not just renewing,
00:49:52.25\00:49:53.59
but it's actually
bringing back to life."
00:49:53.62\00:49:55.96
Amen. Amen.
00:49:55.99\00:49:57.59
Bringing to life. Yes.
00:49:57.63\00:49:59.96
Because we are
dead in our trespasses.
00:50:00.00\00:50:02.90
We are dead in our sense.
00:50:02.93\00:50:04.97
Even you were talking earlier
about the things in the world,
00:50:05.00\00:50:07.80
the drinking, the
drugs, the alcohol.
00:50:07.84\00:50:10.31
You know people
that do not know Jesus,
00:50:10.34\00:50:12.21
they are looking
for the same thing.
00:50:12.24\00:50:13.58
They are looking for peace.
00:50:13.61\00:50:14.94
They are looking for happiness
00:50:14.98\00:50:16.31
and the enemy gives
them such a façade to say,
00:50:16.34\00:50:18.88
it's over here, look
at the twinkling lights,
00:50:18.91\00:50:21.12
listen to that
music, it's over here.
00:50:21.15\00:50:23.69
But it's just like,
it's like a mouse trap.
00:50:23.72\00:50:26.55
You know, it's really his trap
00:50:26.59\00:50:28.19
and he wants to hold on to you.
00:50:28.22\00:50:30.83
Looking back at
what Jesus has to say.
00:50:30.86\00:50:33.26
"By the washing of
regeneration and renewing-- "
00:50:33.29\00:50:37.40
That is renewing our
heart, renewing our minds
00:50:37.43\00:50:40.50
back to what they are supposed
to be by the Holy Spirit.
00:50:40.54\00:50:43.67
"Whom He poured
out upon us richly
00:50:43.71\00:50:46.57
through Jesus
Christ our Savior."
00:50:46.61\00:50:50.15
Yes.
00:50:50.18\00:50:51.51
"So that being
justified by His grace,
00:50:51.55\00:50:54.58
we would be made heirs
00:50:54.62\00:50:56.28
according to the
hope of eternal life."
00:50:56.32\00:50:59.19
And we could spend an
hour on this one, huh?
00:50:59.22\00:51:02.32
That's what I say
these are all so good.
00:51:02.36\00:51:05.43
It's hard to sit
here and not participate,
00:51:05.46\00:51:08.16
not say something about
each and every one of these.
00:51:08.20\00:51:11.47
You know being
justified, being made,
00:51:11.50\00:51:14.97
like Christ by
his grace, what love?
00:51:15.00\00:51:18.47
What love when the
enemy comes at you and says,
00:51:18.51\00:51:22.14
Jay, you're a sinner.
00:51:22.18\00:51:23.51
You can't be saved.
00:51:23.55\00:51:24.91
You look him
straight in the eye and say,
00:51:24.95\00:51:26.38
but Jesus loves me.
00:51:26.41\00:51:28.48
That's right. That's right.
00:51:28.52\00:51:29.85
He's given everything for me.
00:51:29.88\00:51:32.09
The Father loves us.
00:51:32.12\00:51:33.46
He emptied all of heaven
for us and that is grace.
00:51:33.49\00:51:37.79
That is grace.
00:51:37.83\00:51:39.16
That is power that we
can't even understand.
00:51:39.19\00:51:41.56
Amen.
00:51:41.60\00:51:42.93
Taj, we just finished
Anchors of Truth here.
00:51:42.96\00:51:48.64
And he was giving his testimony
00:51:48.67\00:51:51.87
and that he got into the
drug world etcetera, etcetera.
00:51:51.91\00:51:54.98
But then I think it was Joel,
00:51:55.01\00:51:56.38
don't hold me
with this Joel 2:25,
00:51:56.41\00:51:58.38
but don't hold
me to that at all.
00:51:58.41\00:51:59.75
All right.
00:51:59.78\00:52:01.12
But I do what you
can hold me to is that--
00:52:01.15\00:52:04.45
Well, Jesus says, I will restore
00:52:04.49\00:52:07.36
what the locust has taken away.
00:52:07.39\00:52:09.69
Amen. And that is a promise.
00:52:09.72\00:52:12.59
So you see, you're
talking about the regeneration,
00:52:12.63\00:52:14.96
renewing, you know, that
just rocked it to my mind.
00:52:15.00\00:52:16.53
Beautiful. Beautiful.
00:52:16.56\00:52:18.07
Bringing us back from the dead.
00:52:18.10\00:52:20.87
Do you want to pray
that scripture back?
00:52:20.90\00:52:22.97
Okay.
00:52:23.00\00:52:24.47
Sure. Let's go ahead.
00:52:24.51\00:52:26.47
Heavenly Father, we
just thank You so much
00:52:26.51\00:52:30.01
because as we're
putting scripture
00:52:30.05\00:52:31.81
where we're
looking at line upon line,
00:52:31.85\00:52:34.92
we realize that our very
best deeds are as filthy rags.
00:52:34.95\00:52:39.12
That's right.
00:52:39.15\00:52:40.49
We have no righteousness
of our own, but by Your grace,
00:52:40.52\00:52:44.39
You're giving us
Your righteousness.
00:52:44.43\00:52:47.10
You're calling us
back from the dead,
00:52:47.13\00:52:49.90
literally dead and
trespasses the sins.
00:52:49.93\00:52:53.00
And we're calling us
back to life eternal.
00:52:53.03\00:52:55.80
You're renewing a
clean and a pure heart,
00:52:55.84\00:52:59.57
giving us those
fruits of the spirit
00:52:59.61\00:53:02.08
and enabling us to
live by those fruits
00:53:02.11\00:53:05.01
each and every day,
00:53:05.05\00:53:06.38
as the trials and
temptations come our way.
00:53:06.41\00:53:08.98
You're refining,
you're perfecting us,
00:53:09.02\00:53:11.49
you're getting us ready
to live in heaven with You.
00:53:11.52\00:53:14.69
God, we thank You
for these promises,
00:53:14.72\00:53:16.76
these precious
promises in Jesus' name, amen.
00:53:16.79\00:53:20.66
Amen.
00:53:20.70\00:53:22.03
Amen. Oh!
00:53:22.06\00:53:23.40
You know I'm gonna do--
00:53:23.43\00:53:24.87
We've just got three minutes.
00:53:24.90\00:53:26.23
So I don't want to leave
one out, but I do want to--
00:53:26.27\00:53:29.67
I'm gonna read 1 John
3:7 and 8 very quickly
00:53:29.70\00:53:33.48
It says, "Little children,
let no one deceive you.
00:53:33.51\00:53:38.35
He who practices righteousness
is righteous," Just a minute.
00:53:38.38\00:53:44.05
There's only one kind of
righteousness in the world.
00:53:44.09\00:53:46.32
That's righteousness by faith
00:53:46.35\00:53:47.69
because the best that I can do.
00:53:47.72\00:53:49.36
Isaiah 54:6 says,
00:53:49.39\00:53:50.73
"It's nothing but
filthy rags before Him."
00:53:50.76\00:53:53.16
But yet John
turns around and says,
00:53:53.19\00:53:55.70
"He who practices
righteousness is righteous,
00:53:55.73\00:53:58.77
just as He is righteous.
00:53:58.80\00:54:00.24
He who sin is of the devil,
00:54:00.27\00:54:01.77
for the devil has
sinned from the beginning."
00:54:01.80\00:54:04.07
But here's the point.
00:54:04.11\00:54:05.61
"For this purpose the
Son of God was manifested,
00:54:05.64\00:54:09.84
that he might destroy
the works of the devil."
00:54:09.88\00:54:13.65
So it is--
00:54:13.68\00:54:15.02
As God is working in
us by grace, by the power,
00:54:15.05\00:54:19.39
the three
greatest gifts of grace,
00:54:19.42\00:54:21.59
Jesus Christ, His
Holy Spirit, and His word.
00:54:21.62\00:54:24.29
As He works in us--
00:54:24.33\00:54:26.80
Yes, He accepts
us just as we are.
00:54:26.83\00:54:29.06
He receives us as we are,
00:54:29.10\00:54:30.80
but He loves us too
much to leave us like that.
00:54:30.83\00:54:34.17
So He justifies us,
00:54:34.20\00:54:35.60
we've reaped the penalty of sin,
00:54:35.64\00:54:37.97
but then He
sanctifies us by the spirit.
00:54:38.01\00:54:40.48
We are--
00:54:40.51\00:54:41.84
Then we are rid
of the power of sin.
00:54:41.88\00:54:45.05
Sin becomes powerless over us.
00:54:45.08\00:54:47.05
And we practice righteousness.
00:54:47.08\00:54:49.15
That simply means
00:54:49.18\00:54:50.82
we're walking in
God's right ways that--
00:54:50.85\00:54:54.62
He has stood us up.
We're no longer bent over.
00:54:54.66\00:54:58.06
He stood us up
00:54:58.09\00:54:59.43
and we're walking in
the ways of the Lord.
00:54:59.46\00:55:02.16
Halleluiah. Halleluiah.
00:55:02.20\00:55:03.53
Halleluiah.
00:55:03.57\00:55:04.90
His grace toward
me did not prove vain.
00:55:04.93\00:55:06.97
In vain. Yes. Okay.
00:55:07.00\00:55:08.34
That's what we read. Thank you.
00:55:08.37\00:55:09.70
JD?
00:55:09.74\00:55:11.07
Philippians 1:6.
00:55:11.11\00:55:12.44
We talked about the
word faithful while ago.
00:55:12.47\00:55:14.08
How faithful God is.
00:55:14.11\00:55:15.84
"He who has begun a good
work and He will complete it
00:55:15.88\00:55:20.48
until the day of Jesus Christ."
00:55:20.52\00:55:22.18
I believe it. Amen.
00:55:22.22\00:55:24.69
He started the
work of salvation,
00:55:24.72\00:55:26.69
that's what He
wants for each one of us.
00:55:26.72\00:55:29.09
And so He says
that I will complete it
00:55:29.12\00:55:31.49
and confidently
I will faithfully,
00:55:31.53\00:55:34.30
I will do my job
00:55:34.33\00:55:35.66
until He comes
and takes us home.
00:55:35.70\00:55:38.70
Yes. Isn't that wonderful.
00:55:38.73\00:55:40.07
What a promise. Absolutely.
00:55:40.10\00:55:41.50
You know He tells us
that He will not leave us,
00:55:41.54\00:55:43.97
He will not forsake us,
He will always be there.
00:55:44.01\00:55:47.28
So thank you, Jesus. Amen.
00:55:47.31\00:55:49.38
And this is a scripture
that has brought me hope.
00:55:49.41\00:55:53.21
I don't know about you all.
00:55:53.25\00:55:54.58
The closer I get to the Lord,
00:55:54.62\00:55:56.12
the closer you get to
the light of the Lord,
00:55:56.15\00:55:58.39
the more you
recognize your own sinfulness.
00:55:58.42\00:56:00.96
And then there are
times that you can just get
00:56:00.99\00:56:03.89
caught up in what
you're doing for God,
00:56:03.93\00:56:06.36
ministering for God
00:56:06.39\00:56:07.73
to the point where you might not
00:56:07.76\00:56:12.40
be keeping that
intimacy with Him any longer.
00:56:12.43\00:56:15.07
And then I'll feel like
I come under condemnation,
00:56:15.10\00:56:17.77
then He reminds me,
00:56:17.81\00:56:19.14
there's
therefore no condemnation
00:56:19.17\00:56:20.51
for those who
are in Christ Jesus.
00:56:20.54\00:56:22.08
And He reminds me that He
will complete the good work.
00:56:22.11\00:56:25.05
Yes, amen.
00:56:25.08\00:56:26.41
Amen. Also, amen.
00:56:26.45\00:56:27.78
I'm telling you
we're going to have to pray
00:56:27.82\00:56:29.68
after the program
because we have a few seconds.
00:56:29.72\00:56:32.45
But I just want to
thank you, Chris, Kenny.
00:56:32.49\00:56:35.39
Thank you so much for being here
00:56:35.42\00:56:37.76
and the Lord used you
today in what you've added.
00:56:37.79\00:56:40.33
And, Jay, thank you
00:56:40.36\00:56:41.70
for you being here
in what you've added.
00:56:41.73\00:56:43.33
And we're just--
00:56:43.37\00:56:44.70
Honey, of course
00:56:44.73\00:56:46.07
we don't do
anything without each other.
00:56:46.10\00:56:48.67
But we are so grateful
00:56:48.70\00:56:50.17
that you've
joined us for worship.
00:56:50.21\00:56:51.77
Our prayer for you
00:56:51.81\00:56:53.14
is that the grace of our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
00:56:53.17\00:56:56.28
The love of the Father
00:56:56.31\00:56:57.98
and the
fellowship of the Holy Spirit
00:56:58.01\00:57:00.12
will be with you always.
00:57:00.15\00:57:02.75
God bless.
00:57:02.78\00:57:04.12
Amen.
00:57:04.15\00:57:05.49