Participants: C. A. & Irma Murray (Host), Jaque Family
Series Code: TDYFW
Program Code: TDYFW016002A
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00:02 I want to spend my life
00:07 Mending broken people 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:19 Removing pain 00:24 Lord, let my words 00:30 Heal a heart that hurts 00:34 I want to spend my life 00:40 Mending broken people 00:46 I want to spend my life 00:51 Mending broken people 01:08 Hello, and welcome to 3ABN Family Worship. 01:11 And we welcome you to our family this night 01:14 whether you are at the beginning of the Sabbath, 01:16 getting ready to enter into the sacred Sabbath hours 01:19 or if you've just gone through the Sabbath 01:21 and getting ready to enter 01:23 the vicissitudes of a brand new week. 01:25 We pray that God has been with you and indeed, 01:28 we'll be with you 01:29 as you spend a little time together with the Lord. 01:32 I'm in the company of my wife, Irma. 01:33 Irma, good to have you here. 01:35 Good to be here. 01:36 And our smoothie partners, this is the Jaque family 01:41 and we actually do have worship with them 01:43 and we have smoothies with them. 01:45 I don't know if brother, 01:46 Jorge is the best smoothie maker in the world 01:49 because I've not had everybody's, 01:50 but he's the best smoothie maker I know. 01:53 And he in concert with his wife Lynette, 01:56 are excellent smoothie makers. 01:58 So if you're ever in Southern Illinois, 02:00 you must go to the Jaque home and demand of them a smoothie 02:04 because they are excellent smoothie makers, 02:07 worth the trip on its own just to have them. 02:09 And Novelia is with them also. 02:12 Good to have you guys here. 02:13 Thank you. Yes. 02:14 Thank you. Thank you. 02:16 And if they can find the Jaques 02:17 because they live way into the country. 02:19 Yeah, they are out of Illinois, yeah. 02:20 It's beautiful up there though. 02:21 Yes. 02:23 So we're having worship time together 02:26 and we invite you to join us 02:27 and we pray that God will bless you, 02:29 we'll spend just an hour 02:30 to get the talking of the things of God. 02:32 We want to talk today about how to make your religion real. 02:38 It is one thing to worship to the Lord on Friday night 02:41 or Saturday evening or in church on Sabbath, 02:43 but it is another thing also to take that, 02:46 that experience with you throughout the week. 02:48 So that the power that God has 02:50 keeps you each and every day of your life 02:52 in the decisions that you make in your life. 02:54 You know, guys, I was thinking that 02:56 sometimes we mistake worship for Walmart. 03:01 We think that coming to church or going to worship 03:03 is something you get from God. 03:06 But I'm convinced that 03:09 if you bring something to the worship experience, 03:12 then you'll take something back. 03:13 It's not-- worship is not consumerism, 03:16 but if you bring the right spirit, 03:17 if you bring joy in your heart, 03:19 then you'll take from that, from that experience, 03:23 joy and a blessing, 03:24 but if you come just looking to consume, 03:27 you may go away disappointed. 03:29 That's true. 03:31 It's giving, it's like anything in life. 03:34 You are blessed when you give 03:36 more than you, when you receive. 03:39 And it's interesting because in a worship environment 03:43 and in a spiritual sitting, sometimes we think, 03:46 "Okay, well, I'm gonna go to church to receive blessings, 03:49 to sit there and listen to the sermons 03:51 and listen to people talking to me, 03:52 going to Sabbath school, etcetera. 03:55 But it's very important to keep in mind 03:59 what you just said, it's important to share because 04:01 that blesses others and by blessing others 04:04 we receive blessings. 04:05 Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. 04:07 Yes, I like God because 04:10 many times you have an idea or even a conviction. 04:14 And then sometimes you have even questions 04:17 and when you share with others in a group. 04:18 Yeah, even your questions can be a blessing for others. 04:20 Yes, it can be answered 04:22 without even asking the question. 04:24 The Lord blesses us and because He teaches us. 04:27 Right. Yeah. 04:29 It's can also instigate among your fellow, 04:32 if you ask that question and they like, wow. 04:36 Or I have the same, I have the same-- 04:38 The same question. 04:39 Problem or the same question. Yeah, precisely. 04:41 Because I thought it was just me, right. 04:43 And the truth is you can't beat God giving 04:45 no matter how you try. 04:47 So if you give God a little prayer, 04:48 a little praise, a little joy 04:50 He gives you so much more in response 04:53 because He is waiting to bless you. 04:56 You know, I used to tell people, 04:58 never say I'm gonna go to church to get filled 05:01 because what happens during the six days when you're empty? 05:04 You know, what's your life like when you're empty? 05:06 If you just tank up on Sabbath and run down during the week 05:09 you're, kind of, your religion is kind of like this, 05:11 you know, you're up and down and up and down, 05:12 but you want to get up there 05:14 and kind of stay up there, don't you? 05:15 So that you have something to hold you during the week 05:17 and we're gonna talk about that today because 05:19 we've got some life lessons. 05:20 What you get on Sabbath 05:23 ought to keep you till next Sabbath, 05:24 so that you're not running up and down 05:26 and tanking up and going dry, 05:27 tanking up and going dry, 05:28 and tanking up and going dry. 05:30 I want to read something from Ellen White, from 2014, 05:34 rather 2015's Morning Watch and she says, 05:40 "Family worship not to be neglected. 05:45 We should be much happier 05:46 and more useful in our home life 05:49 and social intercourse 05:51 if they were governed 05:53 by the principles of Christian religion 05:55 and illustrated the meekness and simplicity of Christ. 05:58 Let visitors see that we try to make to all around us happy 06:02 by our cheerfulness, sympathy, and love." 06:04 That's what we're gonna talk about. 06:06 When you, when you are happy, first of all, 06:07 it makes you nicer to be around. 06:09 You know, people want to be around you 06:11 when you're happy. 06:12 And then that cheerfulness spreads out to others 06:15 and then it comes back to you. 06:19 "While we endeavor to secure 06:20 the comfort and happiness of our guests, 06:22 let us not overlook our obligation to God. 06:25 The hour of prayer should not be neglected 06:27 for any consideration." 06:29 So prayer ought to be upfront, 06:30 don't let anything push that apart, aside. 06:33 "At an early hour in the evening, 06:35 when you can pray unhurriedly and understandingly, 06:37 present your supplications and raise our voices in happy, 06:41 grateful praise." 06:42 I always tell people in-- when I was pastoring, 06:46 prayer doesn't have to be the last thing you do at night. 06:49 You know, some people say, 06:50 "I got to pray last thing at night 06:52 so that you get to bed, your mind is on sleep. 06:56 So, you know, you're there trying to function 06:58 and you're trying to talk to the Lord and it's like, 07:01 dear Jesus, so you throw up this, kind of, half-hearted-- 07:05 You give God your leftovers. 07:07 Precisely, exactly. 07:08 You're giving him, kind of, the leftovers of the day. 07:10 So if you push that a little earlier into the evening, 07:14 when you can take sometime with the Lord, 07:17 you can have a more refreshing-- 07:20 I'll tell you a quick story. 07:21 We had a friend, well, you know him, 07:24 I'd better not call his name. 07:25 But when we're in college, we had rented this apartment. 07:29 All of us, you know, had our own room. 07:31 And we'd all go into one room, 07:33 have prayer then go back to our rooms and go to sleep. 07:35 Three bedroom apartment, and our friend, myself, 07:38 and my best friend, and another friend, 07:40 we were praying altogether, 07:41 we finished and we noticed 07:43 that our other friend was still praying. 07:45 So we tip-toed out of the room, you know, to go our room. 07:48 And about 2 o'clock in the morning, 07:49 I got up to go to the restroom, 07:51 but I noticed the light was still on. 07:52 So I went and looked in the room 07:54 and there he was still in that position, you know. 07:57 And so I called my other buddy, I said, 08:00 "Come and look at this." 08:01 So we made a big noise and he said, 08:07 "Amen." 08:09 And then he got up and got in bed. 08:12 So we said, "Hey, man, 08:15 you've been praying for the last three hours?" 08:18 He said, "Yeah, I had a burden." 08:19 Well, his burden was sleep, it was sound asleep. 08:23 And so sometimes that happens 08:25 if you wait till last thing at night. 08:27 I don't think God is offended 08:29 if you push it a little bit earlier, 08:30 obviously, that's what Ellen White is saying. 08:32 Move it up a little early in the evening, 08:34 so you can spend sometime with the Lord. 08:35 And it doesn't necessarily have to be 08:37 the last thing you do before you close your eyes 08:39 because that prayer, it'll keep through the night. 08:41 And you can give God the product of a fresh mind 08:44 and not a mind that's really thinking about going to bed 08:46 and going to sleep. 08:48 That's interesting because we just, 08:51 last night we had this discussion at home. 08:53 I said, "We need to move this family worship 08:56 a little bit earlier in the evening. 08:58 So we can enjoy it more." 09:00 And we like to sing and talk and the things like that 09:03 and then sometimes when it gets too late, 09:06 we don't enjoy having to cut it short. 09:09 Yeah, yeah. It's true. 09:11 At that point you're just thinking about going to sleep, 09:16 and so your mind closes-- 09:20 I want these kids in bed. 09:22 Yes. That's it. 09:24 See that's the thing. It's been a long day. 09:25 Yeah, it's been a long day. 09:26 When we were dating, 09:28 we used to talk to each other on the phone 09:29 because we lived 100 or 150 miles apart. 09:31 And we'd always try to make the last thing 09:33 before we say good night, prayer 09:34 and many times, 09:37 she will pray or I will pray and it's like amen, hello. 09:43 Amen. 09:44 Hello and you click, 09:46 and the next morning you compensate, 09:47 "Did you kind of leave me last night? 09:48 Yeah, I did. 09:50 That kind of thing, because your mind is tired 09:53 and your prayers reflect that, you know, that fatigue. 09:56 So let me just, a little bit more 09:57 and then we'll move on. 09:59 So I repeat, "At an hour, 10:01 at an early hour of the evening, 10:03 when you can pray unhurriedly and understandingly, 10:06 present your supplications 10:08 and raise your voices in happy, grateful praise. 10:11 Let all who visit Christians see 10:14 that the hour of prayer is the most sacred, 10:16 the most precious, 10:17 and the happiest hour of the day. 10:19 Such an example will not be without affect. 10:22 These seasons of devotion exert a refining, 10:24 elevating influence upon all who participate in them." 10:28 So prayer meeting in the home lifts your spirits 10:33 and refines you and makes noble in Christ. 10:36 "Right thoughts and new and better desires 10:38 will be awakened in the heart of the most careless. 10:42 The hour of prayer brings a peace and rest, 10:45 and rest grateful to the very spirit, 10:48 for the atmosphere of a Christian home 10:51 is that of peace and restfulness. 10:54 In every act, the Christian should seek 10:57 to represent his master 10:59 to make his service appear attractive." 11:01 Now we're gonna comeback to that in little bit 11:03 and some little things we have coming. 11:05 "But in every act," she says, 11:07 "The Christian should seek to represent his master 11:10 and make his service appear attractive." 11:12 Here you go. 11:13 "Nine-tenths of the trials and perplexities 11:16 that so many worry over are either imaginary, 11:21 or brought upon themselves by their own wrong course." 11:24 That's a little slap on the wrist. 11:27 "Nine-tenths of the trials and perplexities 11:31 that so many worry over are either imaginary," 11:34 so they don't exist, " 11:35 or are brought upon themselves by their own wrong course." 11:41 So sometimes, we put ourselves in hot water, 11:44 you know, and we want to blame the Lord. 11:47 "They should cease to talk of these trials, 11:49 and cease to magnify them." 11:51 You know the more you go over things, 11:52 the bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger it gets. 11:55 "The Christian should commit every worriment, 11:58 every disturbing thing to God." 12:01 Either say, sometimes tough to do, amen, yeah. 12:04 Yes, it is. Absolutely. 12:06 But we can do it because the Lord said we can. 12:08 And he's waiting to take those trusts. 12:10 "Nothing is too small 12:11 for our compassionate Savior to notice, 12:13 nothing is too great for him to carry." 12:15 I think every Christian ought to remember that, 12:17 everything that touches you, touches Christ, 12:19 everything hurts you, hurts Him, 12:20 nothing is too small and nothing is too big, amen. 12:24 Amen. 12:25 Yeah, that reminds that I'd say God is love. 12:29 So it's not that He has love for us, He is love-- 12:32 It's our impatience that makes it difficult 12:35 to commit these things because 12:37 we want that microwave satisfaction, 12:40 we want 20 seconds and bam! 12:42 It's there. 12:43 And when it takes years you get depressed 12:46 and you start wallowing in your own self pity 12:49 and it makes you a duller Christian 12:51 and no one wants to be around you. 12:53 That is so very, very true. 12:55 You know, it's easy to just think, well, 12:57 God is not hearing me. 12:59 You know, this is my third time with this prayer, 13:01 you know, how many times I got to ask this prayer? 13:03 And sometimes we, 13:04 we short change our blessing because 13:05 we don't stick with it, 13:07 you know, stay with the Lord. 13:08 He may not want to give you 13:10 an instant hot chocolate kind of answer, 13:12 He may want you to stay in 13:13 and work with that a little while. 13:14 You know, you got, you got instant oatmeal 13:16 then you got that long cook stuff 13:18 that takes five minutes. 13:19 The instant is quick, but there's no nutrition, 13:22 you know, you need that long kind of thing. 13:24 So you need to kind of stick in there with Him. 13:26 Just a little bit more then we're done. 13:27 "Let us set our hearts and homes in order, 13:30 let us teach our children 13:31 the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, 13:34 and let us, by a cheerful, happy, well-ordered life, 13:38 express our gratitude and love to Him 13:41 who giveth us richly all things to enjoy. 13:45 But above all things, let us fix our thoughts 13:49 and affections of our hearts on the dear Savior 13:52 who suffered for guilty man, 13:53 and thus opened Heaven for us." 13:55 Last paragraph, "Love to Jesus cannot be hidden," 13:59 agree? 14:00 Yeah, if you love Him it's gonna leak out, 14:02 it's gonna come out. 14:04 "But will make itself seen and felt. 14:07 It exerts a wondrous power. 14:10 It makes the timid bold, the slothful diligent, 14:15 the ignorant wise. 14:16 It makes the stammering tongue eloquent, 14:19 it rouses the dormant intellect into new life and vigor. 14:23 It makes the desponding hopeful, the gloomy joyous. 14:27 Love to Christ will lead its possessor to accept 14:30 responsibilities and cares for his sake, 14:33 and to bear them in his strength." 14:38 So love for Christ does a lot for us 14:40 and spending the time in worship to Him 14:42 fortifies our soul. 14:43 So to neglect worship is really, kind of, 14:46 just not like putting, trying to run your car 14:49 or putting gas in your tank. 14:50 That if you, 14:52 if you want to go somewhere, you need to tank up. 14:55 And we praise the Lord for that. 14:57 Let's go our hymnal just now. 14:59 "There Shall Be Showers Of Blessing" 15:00 is hymn 195 in our hymnal 15:03 and we ask you to join with us 15:04 as we sing the first and last stanzas 15:07 of this great hymn of the church, 15:09 "There Shall Be Showers Of Blessing." 15:12 Here we go. 15:14 There shall be showers of blessing 15:19 This is the promise of love 15:23 There shall be seasons refreshing 15:27 Sent from the Savior above 15:31 Showers of blessing 15:35 Showers of blessing we need 15:39 Mercy drops round us are falling 15:43 But for the showers we plead 15:48 There shall be showers of blessing 15:52 Oh, that today they might fall 15:56 Now as to God we're confessing 16:00 Now as on Jesus we call 16:04 Showers of blessing 16:09 Showers of blessing we need 16:13 Mercy drops round us are falling 16:17 But for the showers we plead 16:22 Let's go quickly to, I think it's 470 and indeed it is 470. 16:29 "There's Sunshine In My Soul Today," 16:31 moving from "The showers of blessing," 16:33 to the sunshine of Christ's love. 16:35 We're gonna sing stanzas one and four, 16:38 "There's Sunshine In My Soul Today." 16:41 There is sunshine in my soul today 16:46 More glorious and bright 16:50 Than glows in any earthly sky 16:55 For Jesus is my light 17:00 Oh, there's sunshine, blessed sunshine 17:05 When the peaceful happy moments roll 17:10 When Jesus shows His smiling face 17:15 There is sunshine in the soul 17:18 I want there is gladness. 17:20 There is gladness in my soul today 17:25 And hope and praise and love 17:29 For blessings which he gives me now 17:34 For joys "laid up" above 17:39 Oh, there's sunshine, blessed sunshine 17:44 When the peaceful happy moments roll 17:49 When Jesus shows His smiling face 17:54 There is sunshine in the soul 18:01 And our last song is "Redeemed" 18:04 338, 338. 18:09 And you'll know that there are two redeem, redeems, 18:12 redeemed in our hymnal 337 is redeemed 18:16 and 338 is they sort of alternate version 18:20 that is actually much newer, 18:23 the word they're both by Fanny Crosby, 18:25 but in about the mid 1960s or so, 18:28 this new version came out and many of us like, 18:31 it is very, very beautiful. 18:33 "Redeemed How I Love Proclaim It." 18:35 All three stanzas, 338. 18:39 Redeemed, how I love to proclaim it 18:44 Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb 18:49 Redeemed through His infinite mercy 18:53 His child, and forever, I am 18:58 Redeemed, redeemed 19:02 Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb 19:07 Redeemed how I love proclaim it 19:11 His child, and forever, I am 19:16 I think of my blessed Redeemer 19:21 I think of Him all the day long 19:25 I sing, for I cannot be silent 19:30 His love is the theme of my song 19:34 Redeemed, redeemed 19:39 Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb 19:43 Redeemed how I love proclaim it 19:48 His child, and forever, I am 19:53 I know I shall see in His beauty 19:57 The King in whose law I delight 20:02 Who lovingly guardeth my footsteps 20:07 And giveth me songs in the night 20:11 Redeemed, redeemed 20:16 Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb 20:20 Redeemed how I love proclaim it 20:25 His child, and forever, I am. 20:31 That song always makes me sway in my seat. 20:33 I'm not quite sure why. 20:35 It kind of makes you look back and forth. 20:40 It's a beautiful song. It is. 20:42 It is a beautiful song. 20:43 And that arrangement is very nice. 20:45 It's very beautiful. 20:47 Guys, have you ever had to make 20:49 a tough moral decision in your life 20:52 and wondered what was the right decision to do? 20:55 Many times. Absolutely. 20:57 Many times, many times. Many times. Yes. 20:58 Sometimes far too many times and we think about, 21:01 but the Spirit of prophecy, Ellen White tells us 21:05 that we can get so close to Christ 21:08 in our, in our living, in our life 21:10 that when we make these decisions, 21:12 we're sort of outworking Christ's will in our lives. 21:17 And I've always wanted that kind of relationship 21:20 because I--many times, 21:21 I'm sure you have to struggle with stuff sometimes, 21:24 Lord, what should I do? 21:25 And you almost want say, 21:27 "Okay, Lord, come in, sit down next to me 21:29 and tell me exactly how to get through this." 21:31 You know, but he doesn't do that. 21:33 He says, "Pray and read 21:35 and use a tools I've given you." 21:37 But sometimes we get some decisions in life 21:39 that are, kind of, tough 21:41 and yet as Christians 21:43 we've got to submit them to the Lord. 21:45 And you got to just make a decision, you know. 21:48 And so today we're gonna look at some, some decisions 21:51 that people made and I want to discuss them 21:54 because these are the kind of the things 21:56 that can sort of come down upon you in any life 22:00 and hopefully we have enough Jesus 22:02 and enough Holy Spirit in our lives 22:04 to make the right decisions, all right? 22:05 You've got those papers, I'm gonna read them, 22:07 then I want to get your input on these. 22:10 We've used these-- I've used these 22:11 in past for some of my youth meetings, 22:13 but these are life decisions 22:16 and, you know, this idea of filling up on Sabbath 22:20 and emptying out during the week. 22:22 Well, if these decisions come at your empty stage, 22:25 you can, kind of, make some wrong moves 22:26 and some wrong decisions. 22:27 So let's go into them. 22:29 First one, we call keep it to yourself. 22:31 Chuck didn't have the money. 22:35 It would be another six months 22:37 before he couldn't afford to buy that new stereo. 22:40 He couldn't believe the prices, even on sale, 22:45 he couldn't afford the stereo system that he wanted. 22:48 Chuck's mother had given him some money 22:50 for his birthday to buy a stereo. 22:52 She agreed with Chuck's reasons for wanting to buy a stereo. 22:57 Chuck wanted to listen to Christian music, 23:00 but there wasn't much of it on the radio. 23:02 I guess, nowadays we probably want a computer 23:04 to play the stuff on, you know, the download stuff, 23:06 but this is a stereo. 23:08 If Chuck had a stereo, 23:10 he could listen to some Christian records. 23:12 His mother thought it was a great idea. 23:15 Now Christian record, of course, 23:17 that CDs now or MP3. 23:20 I may have to update this a little bit, 23:22 but you get the point. 23:23 One afternoon Bob, a friend of Chuck, 23:26 stopped by the house, 23:28 when Chuck explained his dilemma 23:30 Bob's eyes lit up, 23:32 a friend of Bob's had several stereo systems 23:36 that he was selling and they were cheap. 23:39 The boys went to look at the stereos, 23:41 Chuck couldn't decide whether to buy one or not, 23:44 to buy one or not. 23:45 He told Bob's friend that he would be back later. 23:48 When Chuck was alone again with Bob, 23:51 he asks where Bob thought his friend 23:53 had really gotten those stereos. 23:56 Bob said, he believed 23:58 it was best not to ask questions. 24:02 What you don't know won't hurt you 24:05 was Bob's philosophy. 24:07 Besides what could happen to them, 24:10 if the stereos were stolen it wasn't Bob, 24:14 Bob's or Chuck's fault. 24:16 They were innocent customers. 24:20 Chuck went to his mom for advice 24:22 he explained that he really wanted a stereo, 24:25 but couldn't afford to buy a new one. 24:28 He told her that Bob's friend had a stereo 24:30 that would be perfect 24:32 and was cheap enough for him to afford. 24:35 Chuck's mother told him to do 24:37 what he believed was best for him. 24:39 Now of course, he didn't tell his mother the whole story. 24:42 Chuck decided to buy the stereo from Bob's friend. 24:46 It sounded great 24:48 and Bob believed he did the right thing. 24:52 Now he had a stereo to listen to Christian music. 24:54 Now we justify things, 24:56 I'm listen to the Christian music, 24:57 you know, so it's okay, it's Christian music. 24:58 Sounds familiar. 25:02 Okay, to earn some money to buy records, 25:04 Chuck decided to get odd jobs around the neighborhood. 25:07 One day while cleaning the neighbor's garage, 25:10 Chuck overheard a phone conversation. 25:13 Apparently, the neighbor 25:15 had been robbed the night before. 25:19 The thief had taken his stereo and television. 25:22 Say, I've had this happened, I came in one day 25:24 all of my TVs, all of my stereos, 25:26 computers, everything was gone, so it does happen. 25:30 When the neighbor got off the phone 25:32 he told Chuck about the robbery. 25:35 The police had told the neighbor 25:36 that robberies of this sort were going on 25:40 for the past several months. 25:42 The police had not been able to catch the thief. 25:45 The neighbor asked Chuck 25:47 if he had any clues about the robberies. 25:50 Chuck didn't know how to respond. 25:52 Interesting. 25:54 Should he go to the police about Bob's friend, 25:57 should he say something to the neighbor? 26:00 Chuck finally decided that Bob was right, 26:04 what you don't know won't hurt you. 26:07 Chuck said nothing and kept the stereo. 26:12 All right, ladies and gentleman, 26:15 let's walk through this. 26:19 You know, this asks 26:21 that you rank the people from best to worst. 26:23 I don't know if we want to rank from best to worst, 26:25 but we do want to take a look at Chuck. 26:28 I'll be giving-- Jorge, what do you think? 26:30 It's interesting story 26:32 because, he has radio for options 26:38 that different people here 26:40 should have made different decision. 26:43 It's interesting when you think 26:46 that because you are not directly involved in something, 26:51 it's not your fault. 26:53 Aha. Yes. 26:55 And we tend to say 26:57 well, sort of a typical answer 27:02 what you don't know-- What was it? 27:04 What you don't know won't hurt you. 27:06 Yeah, hurt you. 27:08 I was watching the weather channel 27:13 and they were interviewing people 27:15 because in winter time when snow falls, it keeps on-- 27:21 And when you keep your car outside, 27:23 not in the garage, 27:25 that car sometimes get a lot of snow 27:27 on the top, on the roof. 27:29 And when the weather gets colder 27:33 that snow freezes and it gets, coverts into ice. 27:38 And what happens is 27:40 sometimes cars are in the driving, 27:42 drivers are going on the roads, freeways, highways, 27:47 and those chunks of ice will fall 27:50 and will hit the drivers. 27:51 Right. Yes. 27:53 And it's about-- 27:54 And it's interesting because it in a way is not my fault. 27:58 They were interviewing this guy, 27:59 he said, the people were there, 28:02 he said, "You know, do you know that you could 28:04 cause a lot of damage on another car?" 28:06 And he sounds, I didn't put the ice, 28:09 I didn't put the snow on my roof. 28:11 So it is my responsibility 28:15 even for things that I didn't cause, 28:18 but it is my responsibility to say something. 28:22 Or stand for what is-- 28:24 That's what I tell my kids every morning, 28:26 "Stand for what is right, 28:29 do something that makes a difference." 28:32 And so I think, in this case of course, 28:37 Chuck took the wrong direction 28:40 and led the wrong path on his decisions. 28:45 Because yes, we are responsible even for things 28:48 that other people if we know about it. 28:53 And I think that decision is tough. 28:56 It can be tough 28:57 because if you take the right decision 29:02 and to take it the-- what really you should do, 29:06 you're going effect more than one people. 29:09 You know, you're gonna be embarrassed, 29:11 you're going to be-- Your mother is going to be, 29:14 if he's really young kid, 29:16 and worry about what the mother is going to say 29:18 because he didn't tell the whole story to the mother. 29:23 Then his friend Bob obviously, he knew something 29:28 because he tells Chuck that, you know. 29:32 What you don't know won't hurt you. 29:34 Don't worry about it, 29:36 just don't say anything, just buy it. 29:38 Nobody's gonna know. Nobody's gonna know. 29:42 Yeah, what about taking counsel from, from friends? 29:46 You know, 'cause he was-- 29:47 Chuck may have been a little wavering, 29:49 but he, kind of, listened to Bob's friend-- 29:52 but don't worry about it, you know, kind of thing. 29:55 You know you are responsible 29:57 for the counseling you take from people. 29:58 Yeah. Yeah. 30:00 Exactly, that's a good point. Yes, yes. 30:01 I mean, even, even when we take advice from somebody, 30:05 be careful because it may not be the right advice. 30:10 So he tells his mother, 30:12 he doesn't tell his mother the whole story. 30:15 And, and you know, the Lord, many times, 30:18 will put you in a position where you got to make a choice. 30:22 You know, and there are several times, 30:25 one, the person that was robbed asked him, 30:30 you know anything about, have you anything about--Look, 30:33 so now you got to lie. 30:35 You know, you've moved, moved it from 30:37 not, just not saying anything 30:39 to actually telling -- because you do know. 30:42 Irma, have you heard anything? 30:44 No, I don't know. 30:45 Or even just a strong suspicion. 30:47 I mean you need to divulge these things. 30:49 Yeah, yeah. 30:51 And then the police are saying 30:53 a lot of people are being robbed. 30:55 So there is this bunch of stereos, you know, there. 31:01 So he knows, but, you know, how many times do we, 31:05 you know, well, I'm gonna listen a Christian music. 31:08 So we justify it because I'm gonna do something good, 31:11 I'm gonna, you know, 31:13 I'm listening to the Christian music. 31:14 So you know, I have a stolen stereo, 31:16 but I'm listening to Christian music, 31:18 that kind of sanitizes the whole thing. 31:19 Yeah. And it really doesn't. 31:24 Exactly. Precisely, yeah, yeah. 31:26 All right, well, now 31:32 it becomes a legal issue also 31:35 and then he is lying about something that happens-- 31:40 from something that apparently was, an innocent -- 31:46 he was in that fault because he didn't-- 31:48 But now he's being asked and he said no, 31:50 that makes even-- now he's in trouble. 31:53 Yes, yes. 31:55 And that's-- 31:56 How about if you think that, 31:59 well, I know, I don't want to get these guys in trouble, 32:04 maybe I should go and tell them to face up, 32:08 would that relieve him from the responsibility? 32:15 I would think that it would not because in this case, 32:19 poor old Chuck is still in possession 32:20 of the stolen goods. 32:22 And he's trying to, like we said, 32:24 sanitize it by spreading, you know, Christian dust on it, 32:28 you know, make it a good thing. 32:29 And my wonderment with this particular story is 32:33 how can he sleep at night 32:35 knowing that he has been a party to this? 32:38 I think the guilt alone would drive me nuts. 32:43 I couldn't, I couldn't go-- 32:44 Yeah. Right. 32:45 And to be so far from God that you're buffered 32:49 from the conviction of the Holy Spirit 32:52 when you've made misstep is frightening concept. 32:56 It makes me remember when I was in school 32:59 and I was probably like, Noelia's age 33:02 and was a time that, you know, 33:06 the kids will copy from each other 33:08 when they're doing a test so that they get good grade. 33:11 And now I was very worried 33:14 that I had not been able to study enough. 33:16 And I so worried 33:18 that I was going to get bad, a bad grade. 33:22 And a friend of mine says, "Oh, don't worry, 33:24 you just sit next to me 33:26 and, you know, you can just look." 33:29 And oh, boy, I'm so thankful that I could not do it 33:33 because I was so nervous, I was so nervous 33:36 and I said, "You know, 33:38 if I try, I will probably get caught right away." 33:42 So just relaxed and do my job. 33:45 And so I was glad I made that decision, 33:48 but, you know, sometimes you are faced with decisions 33:52 that are very difficult to make. 33:55 And because you think of all the-- 33:58 Let me ask you a question. 33:59 Did you get a good grade or did you do bad? 34:02 No, I got a good grade, praise the Lord. 34:04 I was almost hoping that you'd say that you did bad, 34:06 I'll tell why. 34:08 It's because it botches my point, 34:09 because sometimes you do right and suffer for it. 34:13 You know, you suffer for it, but still right is worth doing. 34:16 You know now praise the Lord you got a good grade. 34:18 Yeah I did, I was very happy then I figured that-- 34:20 But had you gotten a bad grade, it still was worth it 34:23 because you did the right thing. 34:24 Yeah, now, Noelia, what do you think about this? 34:29 Well, it really 34:34 doesn't make any sense. 34:40 I know. 34:42 It's tough. 34:43 Did Chuck do the right thing or the wrong thing? 34:45 Put yourself in Chuck's place. He did the wrong thing. 34:47 He did the wrong thing. Yeah. 34:49 Did you find times in school 34:51 that kids are doing something wrong 34:54 and you find yourself also 34:55 that should I say or should I not say? 34:59 Thank God because-- 35:00 Yeah lucky, she goes to a Christian school, 35:02 everybody does perfectly. 35:03 Praise the Lord. 35:06 I really think that what you just said a minute ago 35:10 was very important to highlight even doing the right thing. 35:15 It's not gonna really make you have better outcome 35:21 and whatever you're doing, even, doing right-- 35:25 Sometimes we say, I'm gonna do the right thing, 35:26 even If I lose money. 35:28 We'll do the right thing even, even if 35:33 I will have something that is not positive in my life 35:37 but, but at least I'm gonna have a peace of mind. 35:39 Yeah. Yes, that's the true. 35:41 That is something that we really need to think. 35:46 Peace of mind is priceless. 35:48 It is. it is. 35:50 I think, I also-- 35:53 Comes to my mind that this is one of the trials 35:57 that the Lord puts in our path also to strengthen us 36:01 because once you've made the right decision, 36:04 you not have peace, you have joy, 36:06 and then it's so much easier for the next time 36:09 to stand for the, for the right to do. 36:14 And then it also is the opposite 36:18 if you give in then you're weakened 36:21 for the next time also. 36:22 It's much easier to-- 36:24 Become a slippery slope. 36:25 Yeah, exactly. 36:27 What if he loses Bob as a friend? 36:30 Those are things to consider. 36:33 Well, I don't think 36:34 Bob was a friend in the first place. 36:35 Yes, that's true. 36:37 When you-- 36:39 It's like your friend, like Irma's that "friend" 36:43 that say, just look what I'm--Really in reality, 36:48 she or he wasn't really be a friend. 36:53 He was enticing you to do something wrong. 36:57 It's that we have to look at that aspect and say, 37:01 is he really now my friend? 37:03 If you are trying-- that I can do something wrong 37:07 and then you're not my friend. 37:09 And Chuck is the Christian, 37:12 there is nowhere that show Bob was a Christian. 37:14 Chuck is a Christian. 37:16 So he's taking his cues 37:18 from a person who has no God consciousness. 37:20 So you got to be very, very careful 37:22 when you're taking advice from somebody 37:23 who doesn't believe in the Lord. 37:25 And you know, at the back end, and then we're gonna go 37:27 go to our next one in just a moment. 37:29 It says, "Chuck didn't know what to do. 37:35 Chuck didn't know how to respond." 37:37 Now why did he not know how to respond? 37:39 Because he's been compromising all along. 37:41 So you get to the point 37:43 where you're actually confuse, babe. 37:44 You know, Chuck, he listened to his friend, 37:48 what you don't know won't hurt you. 37:51 So now when you're, when you're at the point 37:53 where you need to make a decision for Christ, 37:55 you don't know how to respond 37:57 because you've been caving all along. 37:59 And had he stood at the very beginning, 38:02 he'd have known how to respond, 38:03 just keep on going the way you're going. 38:05 But now he's confused, I don't know what to say. 38:06 Should I not? Should I not? Should I not? Should I not? 38:08 And that's the way sin is. 38:10 You don't, as the rule, dive into the pit all at once 38:13 you, kind of, just work your way down to the pit. 38:15 Stop waiting in. 38:16 Precisely, you're waiting one step at the time. 38:18 It's another thing that is very common these days, 38:22 is everybody is doing it. 38:24 Yeah. What? 38:25 What's your problem? Everybody does it. 38:29 Yeah, and we're doing it. 38:31 So again, we were told by Ellen White 38:36 that every day ought to be submitted to the Lord. 38:39 Take yourself to the Lord every day for that day 38:43 and He will give you strength to make these decisions. 38:45 Because again, you make these little decisions, 38:47 you make these little-- Oh, next time, I need a TV set, 38:50 I'll go back to this guy and get a TV set now. 38:52 You know, and once you begin making these decisions, 38:57 it becomes easier to make these type of decisions 38:58 as you well said. 39:00 Okay, so Chuck needs to-- 39:05 He's gonna lose a friend if he does right. 39:07 We know that. 39:08 But maybe it wasn't-- as you said, Jorge, 39:10 it wasn't a real friend in the first place. 39:12 And there's a song we used to sing, 39:14 oh, the best friend to have is Jesus. 39:16 And you can't have 39:18 these kinds of friends and Christ the same. 39:19 Ellen White says, "Righteousness is right doing." 39:22 Not right thinking, not right talking, right doing. 39:25 And Chuck didn't do right. 39:26 Agree, Noelia? 39:28 Amen. Okay, okay. 39:30 All right, I think we have time for one more. 39:33 Look at my time. Yes, we do. 39:34 'The food store robbery.' 39:38 The automobile factory where Ed has worked 39:41 for the past 10 years is experiencing hard times 39:46 because of a recession 39:48 and is forced to lay off a number of employees. 39:52 Management has left the responsibility 39:55 to each of the plant managers. 39:57 Ed's plant manager has been protecting his job 40:00 for a long time 40:02 and has always been worried that Ed might get his job. 40:06 He lays off Ed to remove this threat. Okay. 40:12 Ed cannot find the job anywhere, 40:14 for 18 months of unsuccessful job hunting 40:18 is unemployment runs out and Ed is forced to sell his-- 40:23 To sell his insurance, 40:25 so his family can have food and have-- 40:29 And make the house payments. 40:31 When that money runs out, 40:33 Ed and Hilda discuss the possibility 40:37 of applying for welfare. 40:39 Hilda will not hear of it. 40:41 She considers it degrading and a sign of failure. 40:44 In fact, Hilda considers Ed a failure 40:49 and constantly nags him 40:51 to do something about their situation. 40:53 Have mercy. She threatens to leave him. 40:57 One evening, 40:59 one of Ed's children is playing in the street. 41:01 The child has been warned many times 41:03 to stay out of the street. 41:05 A stolen car driven by a 19-year-old runaway 41:08 runs into Ed's child seriously injuring him. 41:13 The child requires hospitalization 41:15 and the bills will be enormous. 41:19 Of course, the runaway does not have an insurance 41:22 or money. 41:23 In desperation, 41:25 Ed goes to the bank to apply for a loan. 41:27 Ed does have good credit, but the bank refuses the loan. 41:32 The banker has involved the bank's money 41:35 in a number of questionable investments 41:37 and has over extended the bank's loan limit. 41:41 Ed explains the situation to Hilda. 41:43 She explodes into a rage 41:45 and hysterically threatens to leave 41:47 and calls Ed a failure and a no-good 41:50 who doesn't care about his children and his wife. 41:54 She gives him an ultimatum 41:56 to be gone when she returns and stomps out of the house. 42:00 Distraught and confused, Ed robs the local food store. 42:04 When his wife returns, 42:05 he shows her the money and explains 42:07 that a close friend loaned it to them. 42:10 The use of the money-- I'm sorry. 42:12 They use the money to purchase food 42:14 and clothing for the children, 42:16 but within a day Ed is arrested by the police. 42:19 He explains, "All I wanted to do was feed my family." 42:23 After discussions with the city officials, 42:26 the prosecutor decided to drop the case 42:28 if Ed will pay back the money 42:30 and seek counseling with the welfare department. 42:33 But the store owner is a strong law and order advocate 42:36 and refuses to drop the charges. 42:38 He believes that Ed is a thief and ought to be punished. 42:41 Ed is forced to go to trail and he pleads-- 42:44 Where he pleads guilty and is sentenced by the judge. 42:49 Which person is most responsible 42:51 for the robbery of the food store? 42:54 Then of course, we are asked to rank the characters. 42:56 Okay, so let's read what that question. 42:59 Which person is most responsible? 43:03 Well-- 43:04 Is it the boss who fired Ed just protect his own job? 43:08 Is it Ed's nagging wife? 43:10 Is it the manager? 43:17 Who is responsible for Ed's action? 43:19 It's pretty clear. 43:22 It's good old Eduardo himself. 43:25 Yes. Yeah. 43:26 Because he had-- 43:28 I don't know if Ed's a Christian in this 43:31 or not. 43:33 Let's assume that he is. 43:35 He would know right from wrong to begin with. 43:37 And if your wife is that unsupportive 43:42 then you need to turn to the Lord 43:46 and his examples, I mean, Job comes to mind 43:50 when I read about the nagging wife, 43:51 it's like he obstructing his guns 43:54 even when they hurt real bad. 43:57 But no, it's-- 43:59 You have choice in all matters. 44:03 No matter how awful or good they may be, 44:06 you have that choice and the ultimate deal 44:11 ultimate responsibility is yours. 44:14 That's true. 44:15 That's true, I was watching a program. 44:21 This is the second time I mention 44:22 that I've been watching a program on TV, 44:25 so doesn't mean that I'm glued to the TV. 44:28 But it's true, few years ago, I was quite, 44:32 I'd say, over 10, 12 years ago, 44:37 there was a documentary title, 44:40 the title was "The Blame Game" 44:43 forgot this TV anchor that was a very-- 44:47 He himself as a success story. 44:50 But anyway their documentary was about people 44:53 who always have an excuse to do wrong. 44:59 And it was called "The Blame Game." 45:02 And The Blame Game is so popular. 45:05 I did it because I didn't have any other choice. 45:10 And it caused from, 45:12 yeah, even the welfare situation 45:15 that is mentioned here is-- 45:19 I have nothing to say about that, 45:20 but many people say, 45:21 "Well, I'm gonna just go welfare 45:25 and it's not my fault." 45:27 And I'm -- unemployment until the last bit of money 45:31 and then the government need to help me sort of thing. 45:37 Other blame games like that, 45:39 and this one is I think it's the perfect example. 45:43 Ed, like Lynette said, had a choice 45:49 and the choice to do the right thing. 45:52 So I basically, yeah, 45:53 even we can sound a little bit-- 45:56 Unsympathetic. 45:59 Unsympathetic and, yeah, but it's true. 46:03 It is true. It's a game that we play. 46:08 Well, the Bible tells us that we do what Satan do 46:14 and Satan made Adam and Eve, you know, she blame. 46:18 Yeah, 46:20 she took the apple first he blame then-- 46:25 Yeah. Adam blame Eve. 46:28 And we do this all the time too 46:31 because it is in the human nature 46:34 to take the responsibility and say, wow, 46:36 when you hear something, you know, you're responsible. 46:40 David in the Bible, said the Lord 46:43 that he was a man of His own heart. 46:47 And when you look at his life and all the things that he did, 46:50 you can say to yourself, 46:52 you know, yourself, "Oh, I will never do such things, 46:55 that was just terrible." 46:57 But God was not looking at what he did. 47:02 He was looking at his reasons and the purpose, 47:07 but when David faced it, he never, 47:13 you know, shied from it, he-- 47:14 He never pointed fingers. He never pointed finger. 47:17 And then the Bible tells that very clear. 47:19 And that's a really good example for us 47:23 and I think that he goes very well with this example. 47:27 Was Ed a victim? Yes. 47:30 Was he a victim? 47:31 Well, was in a way, was a victim of the economy. 47:35 It's not his fault 47:37 that his company's doing not so good, 47:42 but being a victim doesn't justify. 47:47 There you go. That's where I'm going. 47:48 Because it doesn't justify developing a victim mentality. 47:53 Now economy went bad, that happens. 47:58 His boss trying to protect his own job 48:01 got rid of Ed first because Ed was a threat. 48:04 So he was the victim of someone else's fear 48:07 and manipulation. 48:09 So He's put in this situation through no fault of his own. 48:13 Now sometimes we say, 48:15 well, it wasn't my fault that I'm here. 48:18 Now I got to do the best I can." 48:21 But that's the time 48:22 when you have to trust in the Lord. 48:24 He didn't put himself in that situation, 48:27 but he found himself in that situation. 48:29 And now you really have the lean on the Lord 48:32 to get you out of a situation that is not of your making. 48:35 You know, he was just put there. 48:38 He's got a spouse who's non-supportive. 48:41 And, you know, 48:43 sometimes you have differences of opinion, 48:45 you have a non-supportive of spouse, 48:48 but none of that can be used as justification 48:52 for robbing a store. 48:54 And praise the Lord, the judge cut him some slack, 48:59 but the store owner wasn't willing to do so. 49:01 You know, maybe he'd been robbed before, 49:03 maybe he's tired of being a victim himself of people... 49:05 I'm putting my foot down on this. 49:07 An example of him. Yes. Make an example of him. 49:10 So he doesn't relent. 49:15 I think, you know, they say, what I do with my money-- 49:19 Show me a person that owes you money, 49:20 I'll show you the kind of person he is. 49:22 When your money is running out, and you got kids to feed, 49:27 and a mortgage to pay, and car notes, 49:31 and you don't have any cash 49:34 that really squeezed your faith. 49:36 Oh, absolutely. 49:37 You know, it squeezes your faith. 49:38 I've had people come to me 49:40 when I was pastoring with every itemized bill 49:44 and say, I can't, I can't pay tithe. 49:47 Here is my rent. Here is my car note. 49:50 Here is food. 49:51 Here is putting my son in the Adventist school. 49:54 There's no money left for God. 49:58 And when you look at the numbers, 50:01 she's right, there is no money left for God. 50:04 But what do you do? 50:07 You know, do you say God comes first 50:12 and then I push these things down 50:13 or do I look at what's in front of me and say, 50:16 there's just no way God can be put into that thing, you know. 50:20 It's tough. 50:22 That brings us to a whole new different subject 50:26 and it has to do with faith. 50:27 Yes. Yes. 50:28 What do we do with faith or what do we do without faith? 50:34 And it's easy to say-- But don't you have faith in God 50:40 that He's gonna bless you? 50:42 But the person who is going through the issues 50:44 and the problems is the one who-- 50:47 But at the same time, you know, it is faith. 50:49 It is. Yeah. 50:51 And God promised that there's no place in the Bible 50:56 that I can find that God has not fulfilled His promises. 51:01 So if He tells you, do this, somehow, somewhat 51:05 He is gonna come at the end with a solution to the problem. 51:09 That's the thing. 51:11 So there is a difference between a person 51:13 who exercises or uses the faith 51:16 that God gives us all to solve issues, 51:21 and the issue of not having it. 51:24 Because it is very easy to become the Robin Hood 51:28 type of syndrome, I say. 51:29 Yeah. Yeah. 51:31 Yeah, rob the rich to feed the poor. 51:32 To feed the poor. Yeah. 51:34 No, the Bible is clear-- that's the point now. 51:39 We need to go back to what is the basic, 51:41 the fundamentals of our lives, we need to go back and say, 51:46 "Oh, we're here in this world for a reason. 51:48 God put us here, therefore there's-- 51:51 He must have answer." 51:54 It's always encouraging to me read 51:57 in The Book of Joshua. 52:02 When he is talking to, at the end of the book saying, 52:08 there's just one verse that it says to the people of Israel, 52:14 "Not even one of the great promises 52:19 that God made has not been fulfilled." 52:22 All of them were fulfilled. 52:26 So and then that's one example. 52:29 There're so many thousands and thousands of examples. 52:30 Yeah, and you got to move faith to faith. 52:33 You know, you start out with little faith, 52:34 but if you never exercise the muscles you have, 52:37 you never get stronger muscles. 52:38 You got to, you got to step out. 52:40 This is the tough situation, when you have no money 52:43 and you got a mortgage coming up, 52:45 and you don't what to be on the street, 52:47 and the kids have no food. 52:50 That's the time when you-- If you got anything, 52:53 it's gonna come to the surface, you now. 52:54 It's really tough. 52:56 And you may end up in the street. 52:57 And you may end up in the street. 53:00 But God has not forgotten about you, 53:02 you know, and loves you still. 53:04 It's really, really tough when it comes down 53:07 to the last couple of pennies. 53:08 The answers are not always-- 53:10 The solutions are not always instant, 53:12 like we were talking about it earlier. 53:14 You can't have this microwave Christianity 53:17 where it just is, instantly answered your prayers 53:20 and your solutions come quickly. 53:23 Sometimes you have to go through, 53:26 you know, you hit rock bottom, well, guess what? 53:28 You're just on the ledge. 53:29 You're gonna go a little deeper. 53:31 And God is still with you, 53:32 but you're gonna have to work at it. 53:35 It's not gonna be easy, 53:36 it's not gonna be handed to you on a silver platter. 53:39 This is, this is-- 53:40 this is a growing, God has plan for us. 53:44 Getting to heaven is not-- No one said it would be easy, 53:48 but the Lord said it is possible. 53:50 You know, when you look at the crossing-- 53:52 And I think we're coming down to our last few minutes. 53:54 If you look at the children of Israel 53:55 when they cross the Red sea, they went over on dry land. 53:59 The Lord dried it up for them, no problem. 54:02 When they were going into the Canaan land, 54:06 crossing the Jordan, He didn't dry it up for them. 54:09 He said, "You need to get in there and get wet, 54:12 get your feet wet then I will stop the flow." 54:15 So it's little more faith, the river's dry, 54:19 you're walking on the sandy beach 54:20 through the water, no problem. 54:22 Now the river saw flowing, He says, 54:24 "Get in there and get wet, then the miracle come." 54:26 So now He is increasing their faith, you see? 54:29 And it's that way in our lives. 54:31 You take this little baby step, and then you get the strength 54:33 to take another baby step. 54:35 But if never have that first step, 54:37 if you never lift that first weight, 54:39 you'll never be able to take the increased weight. 54:41 And the increased weight is coming. 54:43 And you kind of feel sorry for a guy like this, 54:45 but each of us has these kinds of baby steps to make 54:49 from faith to faith, from glory to glory, 54:52 from strength to strength. 54:53 Yeah. Yeah. 54:55 For that reason, the Lord is giving us all these, 54:58 not rules, but guidance for us, 55:01 because He knows we are gonna encounter 55:04 all these problems. 55:07 So we, as long as we are with Him 55:10 and we want to follow, we have nothing to worry. 55:15 Nothing to fear. Don't fear. 55:17 Indeed. 55:19 And as we said, and both of these stories 55:21 have the aspect of that you may suffer for your faith, 55:27 you don't get a pass on suffering, 55:29 but Christ is right there with you 55:31 and you do not suffer alone. 55:34 He told Joshua, Joshua 1:9 on the first verse 55:37 I've ever committed memory 55:38 "Have not I commanded thee? 55:40 Be strong and of a good courage. 55:41 Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed 55:44 for the Lord thy God is with thee 55:46 whithersoever thou goest" 55:48 So where ever you go, whatever you're going to do, 55:50 you're not going through it alone. 55:51 And that's the thing to keep in your memory. 55:53 Some of you have forgotten the only one, 55:54 no one else has ever had this. 55:56 I am the first one in the history of the planet, 55:58 you know, and Christ doesn't know. 55:59 We've seen this before, you know, 56:01 and we've dealt with this before 56:02 and we can deal with that again. 56:03 And that is the point also, keep the big picture in mind. 56:09 Yes. 56:10 You always think not just this particular moment 56:14 or situation that I am going through. 56:16 Think, think back, how God to care of you. 56:20 Yeah. Yeah. 56:21 That is the great point, Jorge. 56:23 Keep the big picture in mind. 56:25 The same God who brought you here 56:27 will get you home. 56:28 This is no time to jump ship. 56:30 Stay in the ship because the ship 56:31 is going through into harbor 56:34 and we thank you for that. 56:37 So some good stuff, some interesting life lessons 56:41 that tell us, you need to take the name of the Jesus with you 56:44 every day because your faith will be tested 56:46 and challenged and tried every single day. 56:49 Amen? Amen. 56:51 Yeah, we praise the Lord for that. 56:55 Jorge Jaque, Lynette Jaque, Noelia Jaque, 56:58 Irma Murray, C. A. Murray here. 57:00 We're gonna close with prayer and hopefully, 57:02 we've said something that will encourage you, 57:05 that gives you some strength to go through the Sabbath 57:07 and go through the week, to hold on to Jesus Christ 57:10 because you're faith will be tested. 57:11 But you can be a victor and an overcomer 57:16 if you keep your hand in the hand of Jesus. 57:18 There is no way He will ever fail you, 57:20 there is no way He will ever leave you 57:22 nor forsake you. 57:23 The companion text for Joshua 1:9 57:26 is Hebrews 13: 5, 6 which repeats that statement, 57:30 God will never leave, He will never forsake you, 57:33 He is always by your side. 57:34 Have a good week in Jesus. |
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