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 happy Sabbath.
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And welcome to
today's Family Worship.
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We just welcome
our family at home.
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And we welcome our
family here at 3ABN.
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It's so good to have
each and every one of you.
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And we have some
blood family here today.
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Pastor Kelly.
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We're all
blessed, praise the Lord.
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Yeah, brethren in Christ,
that's right but this one--
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That's exactly.
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That's the way we feel about.
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We've got your
baby sister, Tammy.
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Oh, that's right;
it's a treat for us.
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I love babies
that's, that's good.
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At my age, that
sounds wonderful.
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That's exactly right.
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But by the way, my
name is Chris Shelton,
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this is Pastor Kenny Shelton.
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And the baby
sister is Tammy Chance.
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And her husband next
to her is Bruce Chance.
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And then we have,
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our dear sister in the Lord,
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Jill and her
husband Greg Morikone.
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Nice to be here Always a treat.
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It's a privilege
to open up God's word.
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And you know, to
share worship together.
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It's a privilege.
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It truly, truly, truly is.
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As you know, we
prepare to give and to share
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with those of you are at home.
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We're always blessed.
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We grow, we grow in
the spirit of Christ.
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Amen. So it is--
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We always, we don't
always look for an opportunity.
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When someone says,
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you don't need to do a
program or come together,
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I always think of
word in due season.
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There's somebody
that needs a word.
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Somebody needs an encouragement.
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Someone needs to be
drawn close to Christ.
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Someone's in the
valley of decision.
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Someone thinking even
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really, everyday, every
moment, taking their own life.
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Or maybe taking
the life of others.
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They need a word in due season.
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And we always pray.
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I know each one of us,
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we pray everyday
that God will help us
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to be able to give
that word in due season
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to give hope to
someone who seemed hopeless.
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You know, just to
reach out and touch someone
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and I know that
God's gonna do it
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to this program.
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The Holy Spirit's
gonna do, I just know it.
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And you know, we have one
more family member with us
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and she's at the
piano, ET Everett.
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I know you've seen her
on 3ABN many, many times.
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She is going to
be playing for us.
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And for those of
you who's been watching
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our Family Worship
when Pastor Kenny and I,
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he always gives a disclaimer
that we're really not senior.
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So I'm assuming, I'm
assuming that he can't
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really get that
disclaimer across the board
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because we've got his sister
and we know she's a singer.
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So what we've done is,
we've given it all over to her.
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So Tammy, what you
gonna sing for us today?
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Lead us in song. Okay.
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Well, I want to say this--
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kind of going on what Kenny said
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about songs, words, the Bible.
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Everything can
touch a person's heart.
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Sometimes it's a song,
sometimes it's a sermon.
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I talked to
someone recently who--
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and this is nothing about me.
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This is she said,
"I had lost all hope
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and you sung a particular song."
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And she said, "The
words to that song,
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it gave me hope."
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And I just cried
whenever she said that
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to think that
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God could even use
me as an instrument.
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So, right now, we want
all of you at home to join us.
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We're gonna sing a
couple little courses.
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I want to say that
everybody out to know.
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Everybody Ought To Know.
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That's a good Sergey. Wonderful.
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And Into My heart.
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So I think, most of
the viewers out there
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you can join us, and
please sing louder than us
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because we're not a practiced
rehearsed group for sure.
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So, we want you to join in
and sing as loud as you can
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and we're gonna start out
with Everybody Ought To Know.
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Everybody ought to
know Everybody ought to know
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Everybody ought to
know Everybody ought to know
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Everybody ought to
know Everybody ought to know
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Who Jesus is Who Jesus is
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Everybody ought to
know Everybody ought to know
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Everybody ought to
know Everybody ought to know
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Everybody ought to
know Everybody ought to know
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Who Jesus is Who Jesus is
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He's the lily of the valley
He's the lily of the valley
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He's the brightest morning star
He's the brightest morning star
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He's the fairest of ten thousand
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He's the fairest of ten thousand
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Everybody ought to know.
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Everybody ought to
tell Everybody ought to tell
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Everybody ought to
tell Everybody ought to tell
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Everybody ought to
tell Everybody ought to tell
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Who Jesus is Who Jesus is
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Everybody ought to
tell Everybody ought to tell
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Everybody ought to
tell Everybody ought to tell
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Everybody ought to
tell Everybody ought to tell
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Who Jesus is Who Jesus is
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He's the lily of the valley
He's the lily of the valley
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He's the brightest morning star
He's the brightest morning star
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He's the fairest of ten thousand
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He's the fairest of ten thousand
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Everybody ought to know.
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Everybody ought to
know Everybody ought to know
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Everybody ought to
know Everybody ought to know
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Everybody ought to
know Everybody ought to know
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Who Jesus is Who Jesus is
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Amen. Thank you.
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Praise the Lord.
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Doesn't ET do a wonderful job?
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Yes, she does.
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Beautiful chords. Awesome.
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When I get to heaven,
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I want to be able
to play like that.
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Me too, me too!
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Oh, Jill!
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Jill, you're there.
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I' am not.
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I put my request in already.
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Next one is Into My Heart,
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so I'm sure most of
our viewers know that one.
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It's simple little chorus.
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And after that we'll
have Pastor Kenny pray.
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Into my heart
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Into my heart
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Come into my heart
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Lord Jesus
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Come in today
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Come in to stay
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Come into my heart
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Lord Jesus
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Out of my heart
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Out of my heart
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Shine out of my heart
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Lord Jesus
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Shine out today
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Shine out always
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Shine out of my heart
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Lord Jesus
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Glory. Amen.
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Like to invite those
of you who are at home.
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You know, this is the
time we gathered around.
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Some of you maybe even
can be in the fireplace yet.
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Some of you, just
your family altar.
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You've open your Bible,
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you want to receive
what God has for you.
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Why don't we just
pray about it right now?
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You can kneel where you're at.
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We're gonna bow
our heads and pray
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for the power
of the Holy Spirit.
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Let's pray, shall we?
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Merciful Father in Heaven,
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truly we thank You
for another Sabbath day.
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We thank You for Your love,
we thank You for your mercy.
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We thank You for Your
long suffering with us.
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You've been with us.
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You've given us
victory through another week
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and we thank You for it.
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Lord, we praise,
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we open the beautiful lovely
pages of the word, Your word
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that they will
be come live to us,
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that we will be
able to hear Your voice
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speaking to us.
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Lord, we need
to hear your voice.
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We need to be encouraged.
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We need to be
strengthened in this hour
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in which we live.
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When there seems no
hope, there's hope in You.
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When our burdens are too heavy
that we just cannot carry them.
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You said You'll
lighter our burden.
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When it seemed
like no one cares,
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You said You care for us.
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And so Lord, we pray
as we open the pages.
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You will speak to us.
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Gather our minds, enlighten them
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that we may hear Your voice.
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We pray for each
one who's at home,
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those who are
going through things
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that we, we have no idea
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what they're
going through right now
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but you do.
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And so Lord, we
lift each one up to You.
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We're thankful that
they have joined us.
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We're thankful that by accident
as it were some have tuned in.
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And I know You'll
give a word in due season.
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Lives will be changed,
hearts will be touched,
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decisions made.
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Not just for now
but for eternity.
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I thank You for this privilege
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and for those who
gathered around the table.
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Those around the
world, 3ABN. Bless us.
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Now we pray
with thy Holy Spirit.
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We only want to hear You.
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We only wanna know what truth is
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and we thank you in Jesus' name.
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Amen. Amen.
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Amen.
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Praise the Lord.
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I have more worship.
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you know? you
already sense Jesus.
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Amen. Yes that's Holy Spirit.
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But we're going to begin today
by talking about our defense,
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my defense and temptation.
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And we are all tempted.
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We've all been
born on this earth.
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And we all live in
this great conflict
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between good and evil.
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And our opening scripture
is Psalms 119 and verse 11.
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And it reads, "Thy
word have I hid in my heart,
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that I might not
sin against thee."
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We could talk the
whole hour on that one verse.
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On that one verse.
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People read it and they don't
really give it much thought
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but how many of us are
hiding God's word in our heart.
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Every day, every
moment of everyday
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because that is our defense.
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That is our
defense against temptation.
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We need to be
filling up with Jesus.
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Filling up with his word.
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And that's how God
communicates with us.
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It's through His words. Amen.
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So we're going to talk about--
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Well, you know, you
talk about that word
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about by, have I hid-- My heart.
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I know we were to
hide it in our heart.
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But I believe this
is not to stay there.
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You put it in
here which is means
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heart and mind interchangeable,
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certainly in
scripture and we look at it.
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We put it in here and here.
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So that we not
only help ourselves
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but we may give it to
someone who is in need.
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So, He wants to
let our light shine.
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We hide it, that means
we know, we understand it
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and we give it to others.
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And didn't we just sing
Everybody Ought To Know?
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And everybody ought to know
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because God has
given us this light
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and so we need to be
sharing, what we're reading,
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what we're
learning with our fellowmen.
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And the best way,
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Jill, I know you've got
something in your heart,
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did you see it?
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That the best way
that I've seen for years
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is to pray for an open door.
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Amen. That's powerful.
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I was just going back to
what you were talking about,
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hiding God's word in our hearts.
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And you know, you think.
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If I just do surface reading.
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If I open up my Bible,
say in the morning, and I say,
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"God, I only got
five minutes today,
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that's all I got".
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And you start to
read, and you rush off.
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That's not hiding in
deep, do you know I'm saying?
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And to me, if we want
God's word to be a defense,
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at least in my experience.
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If I want God's word to
be a defense against Satan,
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a defense against
temptation, it's got to go deep.
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You know, you got to
spend that time in word of God,
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like open up and
eat it, you know?
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And get that in your
heart and in your mind
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because then when Satan
comes with the temptations
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then we have that defense.
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And it comes out again.
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And I think
that is so important.
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It's so important to
remind everyone at home
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because we see
time and time again
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that the in the enemy
is trying his very best
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to throw the Bible out.
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To discourage people,
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to tell us it's
not relevant anymore,
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it doesn't fit
our lifestyle anymore.
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And so we need to
change it, you know?
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God says, "He's the same
yesterday, today, and forever."
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And so, He doesn't
change, His word changes not.
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And yet, here we think
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human individuals,
erring sinful people
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that we can take God's Holy word
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and change the scripture.
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Sister Jill, would you mind
to read that first paragraph?
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Oh, you don't have
to read the whole thing.
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You can stop and
start wherever you like
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but just start it.
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"If we would not be
misled by error and falsehood,
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the heart must be
preoccupied with truth."
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Can you stop there?
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I wanted to stop
there. Thank you.
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I just thought I got to stop.
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All right. Go ahead.
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No, I was just thinking
that preoccupied with truth.
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Because it's so easy, Bruce,
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as you know to go
and turn on the radio,
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and this and that,
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and be preoccupied
with everything thing else.
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And we have to sometimes
cognitively make decisions
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that what I'm going to listen to
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is something that's
going to be uplifting something
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that will draw us, you know.
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Even if it's not
bad within itself.
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You see, sometimes you know
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the enemy still tries to
occupy our thought and our time
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so we don't get the dig,
dig up the soil of truth,
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dig down deep,
plant the seed deep.
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You know, when the
rain comes and all this.
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So I think about it
in myself some times,
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getting caught up in things
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that are not bad
within themselves.
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But just caught up
enough that I'm preoccupied
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till I can't spend the
time that I need personally.
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And there would be
sometime, we'll talk about it.
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Because I'm going into
the room close the door.
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Because it's good to drink water
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but you can
drink too much water,
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you know what I'm saying?
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So it comes down to
balance like you're saying,
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you can be way out of balance
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on something that
may seem sort of good.
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I mean, God's word, you really.
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I mean, to focus
in on God's word,
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that's the key right there.
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Because you can
memorize God's word.
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But if it doesn't do
anything in your life,
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that's also, you know,
like the Pharisees, Sadducees,
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they knew God's word,
they knew the scripture
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but it's more than just also
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knowing and
memorizing the scriptures.
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This how, is it
affecting your life
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for the positive,
for what God wants.
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In my old age, God's
given me a great nugget
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and of course, this could be
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a whole another
topic for worship, I guess.
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...will say some old
age, that's not true.
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You're not old age. Thank you.
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She's at least 27.
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She's at least 27 now.
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All right, Greg, you
check after we're done.
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All right, all right.
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Anyway, I'm sorry I've
interrupted your thoughts.
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That's okay.
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I have found by
the same way that--
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how can I say it--
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The scripture tells us
to pray without ceasing.
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I don't think I
used to understand that
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really what all that entailed
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because it was, you know,
in my mind when I was younger,
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I would think,
"Well, how can you
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go in about your life
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and be praying without ceasing?"
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I find myself doing
that constantly, constantly
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because I need the help.
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I don't know about anybody else.
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But I need the help.
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I don't like to
worry about things.
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We worry about our children.
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We worry about
everything you can think of.
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And you know,
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it's detrimental
to our mental state,
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to our physical state.
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And so, along with this
is, is to pray without ceasing.
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And so I find
myself just talking to God,
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like I was
talking to you right now,
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all day long and say,
"Oh, Lord, help me here"
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Or, "What's
going to happen here?
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Well, I'm going to
put this in your hands
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because I can do
nothing to change
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whatever the situation is.
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And so, and I'm going
to be entrust it to you."
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And you know what?
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I'm healthier for it.
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And I am healthier
for it. Absolutely.
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I am. Amen.
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Physically and mentally. Right.
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Praise the Lord. Good thought.
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It is a great word
there was at the occupied.
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And I'm just
interrupted my wife.
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That's right.
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It says, the heart
must be preoccupied.
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And that is a
great word to describe--
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I'm going to interrupt her too
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'cause I know she's
got some on her heart
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but don't you would know
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that the devil
knows this verse so well?
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Absolutely.
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That is why he's
preoccupied us in the children
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from such a very young age
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because as we're occupied
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and actually
changing our thought patterns,
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changing the way we think.
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And I believe,
even through our food,
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by changing the food,
it's changing our hormones.
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And so the way we
think, the way we react,
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that is so different.
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Look at the
children, it's ADD and A-what.
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You know, all these
different initials now
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for all these children
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that you can't
hold their attention.
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Nothing can
hold their attention.
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And I mean, that is
making Satan hilariously happy.
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Jill, you've
got to be about to--
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Come on. Pour it
out. Light it up.
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No, it's a preoccupation,
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exactly what we've
been talking about.
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Because I think Satan is good
at whatever God wants us to do.
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Say, marriage, then
Satan has a counterfeit, right?
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So God says, "Keep
my Sabbath day holy,
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Satan has a counterfeit."
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So whatever God made for us
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for our
betterment, for our good,
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Satan has a counterfeit.
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So I think this
word "preoccupy,"
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Satan has a counterfeit.
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You know, it
causes preoccupy your mind
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with the word
of God, with prayer
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I love what you said, Tammy.
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And Saint says, I
have a counterfeit.
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It's called, video games.
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Come on. TV.
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Social media. Yeah.
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Internet.
Music. Everything. Yes.
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Anything that will draw
our minds and hearts from God.
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And that's not saying
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you're not supposed to
keep up in with what's going on.
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I'm not saying that.
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But it's the balance.
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Exactly, it's the balance.
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We're preoccupied.
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I'm going to throw
a disclaimer in there,
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not 3ABN TV.
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Thank you. Thank you honey.
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Just secular TV.
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All the others but
not 3ABN. That was good.
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I'm glad you
caught that. Thank you.
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Yeah. Very good. Good thoughts.
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Because he wants us preoccupied
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but in things of the
world, not the heavenly things.
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Heavenly things, right?
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It helps give us
the victory that we need
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when the temptation comes.
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So tell me it is that growth?
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Oh, absolutely. Yeah.
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And there is growth, right? Yes.
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And this talk about here,
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we're to hide the
word of God the truth.
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John 17:17, "Sanctify
them through thy truth,
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thy word is truth."
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And someone already mentioned.
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We talked about truth
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is you put it in
your heart and your mind.
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But again, I
could, if I could memorize
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every book of
the Bible every word,
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that doesn't
mean I'm born again,
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doesn't mean I'm
going to heaven at all.
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That's why I've said many times,
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people come up and--"
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I want to do this
nicely." They'll come.
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And I'm glad that there are
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third and fourth
generation Adventist.
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That if they come up, shake hand
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and they'll say, "I am a third--
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I'm a fourth
generation Adventist."
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And I say, "So what?"
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Yeah. Yeah.
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It just jars us to
the reality and it's good.
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But I'm just saying
that the reality is,
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that's not going to save you.
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The word of God,
truth hid in the heart
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that changes my life.
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This word would
change my life, the truth.
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And error will
not, error won't change.
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You know, the other way,
it keeps you in the work.
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But truth would change you.
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So we need to take it
in, let it do its work inside
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and the fruits
will certainly come out.
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Sanctify them to the truth.
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Preparation for heaven.
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Okay, let's throw
it back over to Jill,
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see if you can
get anymore of that--
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Let's get more of this stuff.
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"The Word of God
will furnish the mind
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with weapons of divine power,
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to vanquish the enemy."
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Weapons in our mind power.
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You know, it makes me
think of 2 Corinthians.
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It says, "Casting
down imaginations,
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and every high
thing that exalts itself
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against the knowledge of God,
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and bringing into
captivity every thought."
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Every thought. Praise
the Lord. Every thought.
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And how
important that is? It is.
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And you know that I'm
just being honest here,
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with you here at home too.
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That verse used to terrify me.
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It's I think,
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"God, I have thousands of
thoughts every day, right?"
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There's no way I can bring them
00:20:58.45\00:20:59.95
into captivity
to your work, right?
00:20:59.99\00:21:02.86
It's just, "I
can't, God, I can't."
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And I gritted my teeth
and I tried I couldn't.
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No you couldn't.
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And God says, well,
you give them to Me,
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where you let me come
into your heart and mind
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and work with that.
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Yeah. Absolutely.
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Beautiful.
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And going back to the
title, how well that fits
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with the defense and temptation?
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Because we were all so tempted.
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And not just was secular things
but it was religious things,
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with religious confusion.
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And so the
verse you just quoted,
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that's what we-- and
this is why the Bible
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and bringing the
Bible to the forefront
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to those of you
at home listening,
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don't listen when they
tell you it's irrelevant.
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It's God's word.
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He moved upon men
through the Holy Spirit.
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And it was Him that,
that enabled these people
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to pen these
words for our admonition
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and to help us.
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So, as we study, then our
mind slowly become changed.
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And I'm sure we've
all been in the same boat
00:22:04.75\00:22:06.59
where we think there's
no way I can be like that.
00:22:06.62\00:22:09.59
But the more time you spend,
the more time I spend with God,
00:22:09.62\00:22:13.56
your thoughts change.
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Amen.
00:22:14.96\00:22:16.30
Your thoughts change.
00:22:16.33\00:22:17.97
Your dreams change.
00:22:18.00\00:22:20.24
Everything begins to change.
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Praise God.
00:22:22.24\00:22:23.57
But you have to,
you have to hold fast.
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Just thinking of your 2 Timothy,
00:22:25.84\00:22:27.18
a letter Paul wrote to Timothy
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and at 1:13, I
think 1:13 it says,
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"Hold fast the
form of sound words."
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So, the sound words, the
truth you have to hold faster
00:22:35.38\00:22:38.62
because the devil
is going to do his best
00:22:38.65\00:22:40.79
to take it out of your hands
00:22:40.82\00:22:42.46
in any form, any fashion,
any way in which he can.
00:22:42.49\00:22:44.89
He studies the
human, the man, the woman
00:22:44.93\00:22:47.23
every day of their life.
00:22:47.26\00:22:48.96
And I thought how
do I how do I hold fast
00:22:49.00\00:22:50.87
these form of, of sound words.
00:22:50.90\00:22:53.34
And what does that really mean?
00:22:53.37\00:22:54.84
And really, sound
words are healthy.
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I need to hold fast
to the, to the healthy,
00:22:57.27\00:22:59.77
to the whole, to
true, it talks about here.
00:22:59.81\00:23:03.41
The uncorrupt words.
00:23:03.45\00:23:05.25
I mean you think
about all this stuff here
00:23:05.28\00:23:08.08
that's good for
preaching and teaching
00:23:08.12\00:23:10.05
and conviction and conversion,
you know, of hearts and lives.
00:23:10.09\00:23:13.82
So, this is what its--
00:23:13.86\00:23:15.19
when you found a truth,
00:23:15.22\00:23:16.56
my brothers and
sisters, hang on to that truth.
00:23:16.59\00:23:19.33
Don't let it go
because it's firm,
00:23:19.36\00:23:20.93
because it's sound,
00:23:20.96\00:23:22.30
because it's built upon the rock
00:23:22.33\00:23:24.10
which is Jesus Christ.
00:23:24.13\00:23:26.57
We need that firm, foundation
and certainly that is a rock.
00:23:26.60\00:23:30.14
And Kenny, to add to
that, we've got to remember,
00:23:30.17\00:23:32.94
Satan is the master of deceit.
00:23:32.97\00:23:34.78
So we can't
fight him on our own.
00:23:34.81\00:23:36.81
That's true. Thank you.
00:23:36.85\00:23:38.18
Only through Jesus
Christ. That's right.
00:23:38.21\00:23:39.65
You know, what a
good, what a good thought.
00:23:39.68\00:23:41.08
I was reading the other day.
00:23:41.12\00:23:42.45
Brother Bruce, as said.
00:23:42.48\00:23:43.89
And of course, we're
talking Jesus and God.
00:23:43.92\00:23:46.45
Talked about this
with spirit prophecy,
00:23:46.49\00:23:48.26
one of the line, it said,
00:23:48.29\00:23:49.79
"Only God can hold
converse with the Devil."
00:23:49.82\00:23:54.56
Only God can defeat the enemy.
00:23:54.60\00:23:57.27
You talk about, of
course, Jesus, God.
00:23:57.30\00:23:59.67
They're the only ones
00:23:59.70\00:24:01.30
that could be do battle with him
00:24:01.34\00:24:02.97
and win the battle on their own.
00:24:03.00\00:24:04.54
I thought how awesome that is.
00:24:04.57\00:24:06.64
I need that help. Yeah.
00:24:06.68\00:24:08.51
Where I'm gonna
go down and defeat.
00:24:08.54\00:24:10.51
My son Josh, he has a
line that he says all the time.
00:24:10.55\00:24:14.02
He says, "A person needs to
find their passion in life."
00:24:14.05\00:24:18.69
And wouldn't that be wonderful
00:24:18.72\00:24:20.49
if all of our
passions was Christ
00:24:20.52\00:24:23.29
and sharing the gospel
and getting closer every day
00:24:23.32\00:24:26.86
to the character
that God wants us to have?
00:24:26.90\00:24:29.33
That should be our
passion first and foremost.
00:24:29.36\00:24:32.17
Amen. Amen.
00:24:32.20\00:24:33.54
Do you want to be a
part of that 144,000?
00:24:33.57\00:24:36.81
That's what we need
to be doing right now.
00:24:36.84\00:24:39.47
There's no time to waste. Amen.
00:24:39.51\00:24:41.84
Jill? Oh, go ahead.
00:24:41.88\00:24:43.35
I'm just going
back. I like this.
00:24:43.38\00:24:44.71
Again, the word of God
00:24:44.75\00:24:46.08
will furnish the
mind with weapons.
00:24:46.11\00:24:47.92
I mean that's,
when I think of that,
00:24:47.95\00:24:49.28
I think of the
Ephesians 6 where he talks about
00:24:49.32\00:24:50.65
put on the whole armor of God.
00:24:50.69\00:24:52.02
You might have been
thinking about that too, Bruce.
00:24:52.05\00:24:53.39
Yeah, you know,
the shield, the helmet.
00:24:53.42\00:24:55.86
And all of that yeah.
00:24:55.89\00:24:57.23
It's God's word is a
weapon against Satan.
00:24:57.26\00:24:59.86
'Cause we're on a
war, warfare aren't we?
00:24:59.89\00:25:01.23
We are. And this is a battle.
00:25:01.26\00:25:02.83
Yeah, not
against flesh and blood.
00:25:02.86\00:25:04.20
That's right. Yes.
00:25:04.23\00:25:05.57
Principalities and powers.
00:25:05.60\00:25:07.97
It's heavy duty.
00:25:08.00\00:25:10.11
All right, let's see if we can.
00:25:10.14\00:25:12.67
"Happy is the man,
we could say or woman--"
00:25:12.71\00:25:14.68
Thank you.
00:25:14.71\00:25:16.04
"--who when
tempted finds his soul
00:25:16.08\00:25:18.55
rich in the
knowledge of the scriptures,
00:25:18.58\00:25:21.18
who find shelter
beneath the promises of God."
00:25:21.22\00:25:25.65
"Thy word of the hot sun
mist have I head in mine heart.
00:25:25.69\00:25:29.49
And that I might
not sin against thee."
00:25:29.52\00:25:32.49
You know what
strikes me in that sentence?
00:25:32.53\00:25:34.83
It says, "Find shelter
beneath the promises of God."
00:25:34.86\00:25:37.83
I would have
thought we were above.
00:25:37.87\00:25:39.60
Like the rest on the
promises, who knows that song?
00:25:39.63\00:25:42.60
"Standing on the
promise and you know,
00:25:42.64\00:25:44.07
then long rest
on God's promises."
00:25:44.11\00:25:46.57
But here we're
finding shelter beneath.
00:25:46.61\00:25:50.25
Remember like his wings--
00:25:50.28\00:25:52.91
Covering us. Covering us.
00:25:52.95\00:25:54.78
I don't know, that
just came to my mind
00:25:54.82\00:25:56.58
when you were questioning.
00:25:56.62\00:25:57.95
And he covers us
like, like baby chicks.
00:25:57.99\00:26:00.26
She you knows
we're His children.
00:26:00.29\00:26:01.96
And you know--
00:26:01.99\00:26:03.76
Shelter. Yes.
00:26:03.79\00:26:05.63
And in so many ways we
are beneath those promises
00:26:05.66\00:26:08.33
because it's only by grace.
00:26:08.36\00:26:10.40
It's giving us
what we do not deserve
00:26:10.43\00:26:13.64
that we have opportunity
to even have those promises.
00:26:13.67\00:26:17.21
Amen.
00:26:17.24\00:26:18.57
You know, Book of
James talks about here--
00:26:18.61\00:26:19.94
And again, everybody, you
just need a word in season.
00:26:19.97\00:26:21.58
Just say that I--
00:26:21.61\00:26:22.94
it remind me of
James Chapter 1, verse 12
00:26:22.98\00:26:25.05
because it talked
about, "Happy is the man."
00:26:25.08\00:26:26.51
They said
blessed, happy, cheerful
00:26:26.55\00:26:31.02
is the man that
endures temptation.
00:26:31.05\00:26:32.89
'Cause why?
00:26:32.92\00:26:34.26
"For when he has tried,
00:26:34.29\00:26:36.09
he shall receive
the crown of life."
00:26:36.12\00:26:38.59
Other words,
unless we're tried what,
00:26:38.63\00:26:40.20
we're not going to
receive a crown, are we?
00:26:40.23\00:26:42.43
And then prove victorious.
00:26:42.46\00:26:44.03
That's what the Crown indicates,
00:26:44.07\00:26:45.40
"Which the Lord have
promised to them that love him."
00:26:45.43\00:26:48.10
Here's is the
love thing, praise God.
00:26:48.14\00:26:49.97
We have to love him the
whole heart, soul and mind.
00:26:50.01\00:26:52.81
So the crown, the
victory is promised.
00:26:52.84\00:26:54.81
"But blessed is a man
who endures temptation."
00:26:54.84\00:26:57.38
So if you're going
to test and trials,
00:26:57.41\00:26:59.31
bless your heart at home
00:26:59.35\00:27:00.78
and you want to just give
up and say, "What's the use?"
00:27:00.82\00:27:02.75
Let me tell you, you're
in for a rude awakening.
00:27:02.78\00:27:05.42
Do not give up on Jesus.
00:27:05.45\00:27:07.16
They can get worse, trust me.
00:27:07.19\00:27:08.52
It can get worse, stay in there.
00:27:08.56\00:27:09.89
And it will get worse. It will.
00:27:09.92\00:27:11.26
It will get worse
00:27:11.29\00:27:12.63
'cause we've read
the end of the book.
00:27:12.66\00:27:14.00
So there is no hope without God.
00:27:14.03\00:27:15.56
Without God. Yes.
00:27:15.60\00:27:17.20
Absolutely, absolutely.
00:27:17.23\00:27:19.87
Well, reading on it says,
"This word, the word of God,
00:27:19.90\00:27:24.11
is to ever be in our
hearts and on our lips."
00:27:24.14\00:27:26.64
And it can't be there
unless we're putting it, right?
00:27:26.68\00:27:29.71
So we have a
play, a part to play.
00:27:29.74\00:27:32.18
So many people say,
"Well, I'm covered by grace,
00:27:32.21\00:27:34.32
I don't have to do anything.
00:27:34.35\00:27:35.68
I believe, you know."
00:27:35.72\00:27:37.05
I met people years ago, Tammy
00:27:37.09\00:27:38.92
that said, that they were saved
and they never open the Bible.
00:27:38.95\00:27:42.22
In fact, if you
went to their home,
00:27:42.26\00:27:43.69
you never heard
anything about Jesus
00:27:43.73\00:27:45.46
but they were saved.
00:27:45.49\00:27:47.20
You know, but when you
begin to open the word of God
00:27:47.23\00:27:50.73
and to actually put it into
your heart and into your mind,
00:27:50.77\00:27:54.07
we begin to see that it
reads a little bit different
00:27:54.10\00:27:57.64
than what many times
we presumed that it does.
00:27:57.67\00:28:01.14
I like this next part. Me too.
00:28:01.18\00:28:03.01
You Jesus gave
this example. Amen.
00:28:03.04\00:28:06.38
It is written,
"He's to be our anchor."
00:28:06.41\00:28:11.85
Our anchor, what
does an anchor do?
00:28:11.89\00:28:14.49
Holds you.
00:28:14.52\00:28:15.86
Amen. I know, we've--
00:28:15.89\00:28:17.23
Storm too. You
know, that's right.
00:28:17.26\00:28:18.59
Yes, we've been in a boat
00:28:18.63\00:28:20.33
in the storm and
the wind blowing.
00:28:20.36\00:28:22.70
And that's frightening
if the anchor is not there.
00:28:22.73\00:28:25.90
And it's not always
the size of the anchor.
00:28:25.93\00:28:28.60
But that the
anchor has a firm grip
00:28:28.64\00:28:31.81
on what they're going
they are holding in place.
00:28:31.84\00:28:35.18
You know, and so we
don't have an anchor.
00:28:35.21\00:28:37.45
We're just drifting we're just,
with every wind of doctrine.
00:28:37.48\00:28:41.85
We're going this
way, we're going that way
00:28:41.88\00:28:44.29
as we hear different
things without the anchor
00:28:44.32\00:28:47.29
without it is written.
00:28:47.32\00:28:49.02
I like it is written.
00:28:49.06\00:28:50.39
It reminds me we're
just studying recently
00:28:50.43\00:28:51.83
in the Sabbath
school last thing.
00:28:51.86\00:28:53.19
You know, we're talking
about the Great Controversy now,
00:28:53.23\00:28:55.03
and it reminds me
of Matthew Chapter 4
00:28:55.06\00:28:58.63
and Jesus' example
00:28:58.67\00:29:00.00
when he went through temptation.
00:29:00.04\00:29:01.97
You know in three times,
00:29:02.00\00:29:03.34
Satan came against him
with those temptations.
00:29:03.37\00:29:06.37
And each time he
said those three words,
00:29:06.41\00:29:09.74
"It is written."
00:29:09.78\00:29:11.58
And remember the
second temptation,
00:29:11.61\00:29:13.42
Satan actually
misquoted the Bible,
00:29:13.45\00:29:15.58
do you remember that?
00:29:15.62\00:29:16.95
He quoted it to Jesus
and, and Jesus came back again.
00:29:16.99\00:29:22.49
He knew the word of God,
00:29:22.52\00:29:23.86
he knew exactly
what the word said
00:29:23.89\00:29:25.23
and he came back
again with, "It is written."
00:29:25.26\00:29:27.46
And they're all back
reference to Deuteronomy.
00:29:27.50\00:29:30.07
All the scriptures he
quoted go back to there.
00:29:30.10\00:29:32.63
And I just think,
God, Jesus had the words
00:29:32.67\00:29:36.87
so buried in his heart
00:29:36.91\00:29:39.54
that no matter
what the temptation was
00:29:39.57\00:29:42.21
instantly--
00:29:42.24\00:29:43.58
He came back. A
scripture came out.
00:29:43.61\00:29:45.71
And I thought,
"Oh, I want that."
00:29:45.75\00:29:47.68
You know, I want that in my life
00:29:47.72\00:29:49.18
and in my, my walk with God.
00:29:49.22\00:29:50.75
Sometimes you got
to bring a scripture.
00:29:50.79\00:29:52.49
"Okay Jill, this is
what you need in this man."
00:29:52.52\00:29:55.29
But sometimes I'm like,
00:29:55.32\00:29:56.66
I'm not sure
what does that mean.
00:29:56.69\00:29:58.33
I got to get in
the word of God more.
00:29:58.36\00:29:59.69
That's right, that's right.
00:29:59.73\00:30:03.30
I'm sorry, I'm losing my voice.
00:30:03.33\00:30:06.53
We can, like my
memory is terrible--
00:30:06.57\00:30:09.14
I mean it's just got worse,
it's just really terrible.
00:30:09.17\00:30:11.74
I can hardly remember
what I did yesterday, you know?
00:30:11.77\00:30:14.48
I'm sure I'm the
only one like that
00:30:14.51\00:30:15.94
but anyway.
00:30:15.98\00:30:19.81
I used to-- can
memorize when I was young.
00:30:19.85\00:30:21.92
I could memorize with
really no effort whatsoever.
00:30:21.95\00:30:24.95
And now I have to
read, read and read,
00:30:24.99\00:30:27.52
you know, to get it to soak in.
00:30:27.56\00:30:29.32
And yet as Jill said,
00:30:29.36\00:30:31.29
someone will come with
a problem or a question
00:30:31.33\00:30:33.53
and it will just come to--
00:30:33.56\00:30:34.90
The scripture
will come into my mind
00:30:34.93\00:30:36.26
and I will speak
it and I will think,
00:30:36.30\00:30:38.13
"Where did that come from
00:30:38.17\00:30:39.50
because I can't
remember what I ate yesterday?"
00:30:39.53\00:30:41.60
You know, it's the Holy Spirit
00:30:41.64\00:30:43.64
because he says he
will bring it to our,
00:30:43.67\00:30:45.51
to our mind when we need it.
00:30:45.54\00:30:47.01
And so he can't
bring anything to your mind
00:30:47.04\00:30:49.34
that you not have
her already put there.
00:30:49.38\00:30:51.81
So we have to put it
there, then it will come out.
00:30:51.85\00:30:55.18
That's correct. And due season.
00:30:55.22\00:30:56.55
So the importance,
00:30:56.58\00:30:57.92
so that's a good and
certainly a good point.
00:30:57.95\00:30:59.29
Absolutely.
00:30:59.32\00:31:00.66
But Tim, can I
throw it over to you?
00:31:00.69\00:31:02.02
Would you continue reading
in that second paragraph?
00:31:02.06\00:31:04.53
Okay, where we are at?
00:31:04.56\00:31:05.89
Those who make--
00:31:05.93\00:31:07.26
Okay, "Those who make
God's word, their counselor
00:31:07.30\00:31:10.33
realize the
weakness of the human heart
00:31:10.37\00:31:13.20
and the power
of the grace of God
00:31:13.23\00:31:15.67
to subdue every
unsanctified, unholy impulse.
00:31:15.70\00:31:20.58
Their hearts are ever prayerful
00:31:20.61\00:31:22.44
and they have the
guardianship of Holy Angels.
00:31:22.48\00:31:25.95
When the enemy come in
00:31:25.98\00:31:27.32
like a flood, the spirit of God,
00:31:27.35\00:31:29.32
the lifts up for them
a standard against him.
00:31:29.35\00:31:32.49
There is harmony in the heart
00:31:32.52\00:31:34.52
for the precious,
powerful influences of truth.
00:31:34.56\00:31:38.03
Bear sway."
00:31:38.06\00:31:39.39
Boy, each word was so powerful.
00:31:39.43\00:31:42.60
"The
guardianship of Holy Angels."
00:31:42.63\00:31:45.13
I was just gonna to say that.
00:31:45.17\00:31:46.50
Part of one of
my favorite verses
00:31:46.53\00:31:47.87
that I wrote down
here was Psalms 34:7.
00:31:47.90\00:31:51.37
"The angel of the Lord in
camp with round about then
00:31:51.41\00:31:53.98
that fear him and
to live with him."
00:31:54.01\00:31:57.35
What a promise.
00:31:57.38\00:31:58.71
And I have claimed
that promise many times.
00:31:58.75\00:32:01.62
And God has been
faithful each and every time.
00:32:01.65\00:32:06.29
I also like,
what you read there,
00:32:06.32\00:32:07.79
"The power of grace."
00:32:07.82\00:32:10.63
We don't often think
about grace being powerful.
00:32:10.66\00:32:14.93
What's your thought about that?
00:32:14.96\00:32:16.67
It's the most powerful, I think.
00:32:16.70\00:32:19.83
When, when God
bestows grace upon us.
00:32:19.87\00:32:22.40
There can be
nothing more powerful
00:32:22.44\00:32:24.31
because we are so unworthy,
00:32:24.34\00:32:25.87
we're sinners, we don't deserve.
00:32:25.91\00:32:28.41
Exactly, we
don't deserve eternity.
00:32:28.44\00:32:30.85
So, God be forced, so it can--
00:32:30.88\00:32:32.21
Right, right.
That's good. That's right.
00:32:32.25\00:32:33.95
We've read stories about
kings that granted grace,
00:32:33.98\00:32:36.82
you know, to their subjects.
00:32:36.85\00:32:38.95
What more
powerful thing is there
00:32:38.99\00:32:40.99
than that in grace?
00:32:41.02\00:32:42.39
By grace, by
grace, we're saved, right?
00:32:42.42\00:32:44.53
Through faith--There's
no, there's no other way.
00:32:44.56\00:32:48.13
You know, a lot
of times people say,
00:32:48.16\00:32:49.50
"Well, you're an Adventist.
00:32:49.53\00:32:50.87
You know, their legalists
they believe in by keeping,
00:32:50.90\00:32:52.23
and by doing, and by
working, and by eating."
00:32:52.27\00:32:55.37
Bible says, "By grace
are you saved through faith."
00:32:55.40\00:32:58.44
It is a gift of God.
00:32:58.47\00:33:00.14
Only way we always say
it is by the grace of God
00:33:00.18\00:33:03.01
because you
mentioned, brother Greg,
00:33:03.04\00:33:04.98
one of the death penalty.
00:33:05.01\00:33:06.35
Yes, we are. Think about.
00:33:06.38\00:33:07.88
We're on the death
penalty and the only way
00:33:07.92\00:33:09.88
we can be saved by
the grace of Jesus Christ,
00:33:09.92\00:33:12.05
one who was
willing to come down,
00:33:12.09\00:33:13.89
one who is
willing to take my place,
00:33:13.92\00:33:15.52
one who is willing to be,
you know, take the lash too
00:33:15.56\00:33:18.23
and the whip,
nailed to the cross
00:33:18.26\00:33:19.59
and every time--
00:33:19.63\00:33:20.96
I love that song,
When He Was On The Cross,
00:33:21.00\00:33:23.23
I Was On His Mind.
00:33:23.26\00:33:25.37
And I really
believe that. I did too.
00:33:25.40\00:33:26.87
When he was there,
he could have come down,
00:33:26.90\00:33:28.64
he could have
called 10,000 angels.
00:33:28.67\00:33:30.81
He could have done it.
00:33:30.84\00:33:32.17
But he looked down
the stream of time,
00:33:32.21\00:33:33.54
you see the every man and woman
00:33:33.58\00:33:34.91
on the earth
would have been lost,
00:33:34.94\00:33:36.28
every human being
would have been lost.
00:33:36.31\00:33:37.65
Everything was on his
shoulders and what did he do?
00:33:37.68\00:33:40.85
He endured the cross.
00:33:40.88\00:33:42.38
He counted--I got so excited,
00:33:42.42\00:33:43.92
I could not
understand what he said.
00:33:43.95\00:33:45.29
He endured--he with joy.
00:33:45.32\00:33:47.06
He endured the cross.
00:33:47.09\00:33:48.62
He brought him
happiness and his heart
00:33:48.66\00:33:51.83
to say, I could do
this because I love so much.
00:33:51.86\00:33:55.73
If we had that kind of love--
00:33:55.76\00:33:58.00
And I mention
this one time before,
00:33:58.03\00:33:59.40
I though how awesome this is,
00:33:59.43\00:34:01.94
that we have to have
those fruits of the Spirit.
00:34:01.97\00:34:04.41
We have to love one
another the way Christ loves us.
00:34:04.44\00:34:09.51
And I have to pray all the time,
00:34:09.54\00:34:10.88
"Lord, give me
love for my fellowmen.
00:34:10.91\00:34:13.42
Give me love for you.
00:34:13.45\00:34:14.78
Help me to love you,
help me love the truth,
00:34:14.82\00:34:16.48
help me to want
to teach the truth,
00:34:16.52\00:34:17.85
help me to give the
truth, help me live the truth."
00:34:17.89\00:34:19.45
So it's always about the truth,
00:34:19.49\00:34:21.12
to have it in my
heart, in my mind.
00:34:21.16\00:34:23.49
But to love--
00:34:23.53\00:34:24.86
That's right.
00:34:24.89\00:34:26.23
Listen, unless we love
people the way Jesus loved them,
00:34:26.26\00:34:28.60
heaven will never be our home.
00:34:28.63\00:34:30.07
When I read that, I
had to cry about it.
00:34:30.10\00:34:32.97
I came up short. Yeah, me too.
00:34:33.00\00:34:34.94
Not meaning to, not say,
00:34:34.97\00:34:36.30
"Oh, you just like,
this person you don't see
00:34:36.34\00:34:37.67
this had nothing to
do just individually."
00:34:37.71\00:34:40.58
I have to and I
thought about this.
00:34:40.61\00:34:42.14
And you know, we
are talking about people
00:34:42.18\00:34:43.98
and doing things.
00:34:44.01\00:34:45.35
And we really when we,
unless we love them enough,
00:34:45.38\00:34:48.48
that we're willing to
give our life to them,
00:34:48.52\00:34:50.95
we would never
say anything to them,
00:34:50.99\00:34:52.45
unless we love, we'd
never go to them a question.
00:34:52.49\00:34:54.62
Unless we
willing to give our life.
00:34:54.66\00:34:57.03
And I honestly, it
seems like an impossibility
00:34:57.06\00:34:59.76
to think that you have to
love everyone no matter what.
00:34:59.79\00:35:03.16
It's not our human
nature but yet I find that
00:35:03.20\00:35:07.90
with the
scripture speaking to us
00:35:07.94\00:35:09.80
and with the
constant being in prayer,
00:35:09.84\00:35:12.61
that all of a sudden
00:35:12.64\00:35:13.98
did you
changed, you mind changes
00:35:14.01\00:35:16.61
where that you don't
maybe look so harshly
00:35:16.64\00:35:19.05
on somebody that's
maybe getting on your nerves
00:35:19.08\00:35:21.25
or you know, causing you grief
00:35:21.28\00:35:23.35
that you start to
show them more mercy
00:35:23.39\00:35:26.62
because God is working in
your mind and in your heart.
00:35:26.65\00:35:29.92
And you think.
00:35:29.96\00:35:31.29
"Well, you know maybe
it's not impossible for them."
00:35:31.33\00:35:33.36
Because no more than you
get right yourself with God,
00:35:33.40\00:35:37.07
the more other
people don't look so bad,
00:35:37.10\00:35:38.80
you don't see
their mistakes so much.
00:35:38.83\00:35:40.44
That the grace of God.
That is the grace of God.
00:35:40.47\00:35:41.94
And we're talking about grace,
but that is the grace of God,
00:35:41.97\00:35:44.47
working in our hearts and lives.
00:35:44.51\00:35:47.48
We're saved by grace.
00:35:47.51\00:35:48.84
Thank you.
00:35:48.88\00:35:50.21
And it's not only that,
00:35:50.25\00:35:51.58
I think God perfects his
character in us by grace.
00:35:51.61\00:35:54.82
You know, his work in our
lives and we can't do that.
00:35:54.85\00:35:58.62
But it's God working in us,
00:35:58.65\00:36:00.49
both to willing to
do of his complexion.
00:36:00.52\00:36:02.49
Isn't the song perfect?
00:36:02.52\00:36:03.86
"There is no other
word for grace but amazing."
00:36:03.89\00:36:05.96
I love that
word, "grace." Me too.
00:36:09.80\00:36:11.73
I thank God for it, yes.
00:36:11.77\00:36:14.44
Exactly what you
said, sister Jill,
00:36:14.47\00:36:16.44
"The power of grace of God
00:36:16.47\00:36:17.94
to subdue every
unsanctified, un-Holy.
00:36:17.97\00:36:22.71
Now, listen to
this, "An impulse.
00:36:22.74\00:36:26.38
An impulse we haven't
always put into action."
00:36:26.41\00:36:28.98
Well, now.
00:36:29.02\00:36:30.59
But an impulse. That's right.
00:36:30.62\00:36:32.09
That's what you said,
that's what I've said,
00:36:32.12\00:36:34.06
that's what she said
00:36:34.09\00:36:35.42
because our hearts,
our minds begin to change.
00:36:35.46\00:36:38.19
There truly is power.
00:36:38.23\00:36:41.30
Power
converting, convicting power
00:36:41.33\00:36:43.93
in the grace of God.
00:36:43.97\00:36:45.30
And why do we need to have
00:36:45.33\00:36:47.27
our
unsanctified, unholy impulses,
00:36:47.30\00:36:50.04
our actions, our
deeds, our thoughts, everyday?
00:36:50.07\00:36:52.07
Why do we need
to have them change?
00:36:52.11\00:36:53.88
Why, aren't we good
enough just as we are?
00:36:53.91\00:36:57.75
Wouldn't heaven be happy
00:36:57.78\00:36:59.11
if I just popped
up there right now?
00:36:59.15\00:37:00.48
I don't know. I don't think so.
00:37:00.52\00:37:01.85
I follow my impulse
00:37:01.88\00:37:03.22
as I might slap
somebody once in a while.
00:37:03.25\00:37:05.82
I'm glad I'm over here now.
00:37:05.85\00:37:08.52
Well, think about it, though.
00:37:08.56\00:37:10.19
Why is it so important?
00:37:10.23\00:37:12.06
And you guys are
laughing about it.
00:37:12.09\00:37:13.70
There may be somebody at home
00:37:13.73\00:37:15.56
that's saying, really,
why is it so important?
00:37:15.60\00:37:19.00
You know, it's powerful
00:37:19.03\00:37:20.37
because not only do we
have that predisposition,
00:37:20.40\00:37:22.14
you know, to sin.
00:37:22.17\00:37:23.87
That's the simple human nature.
00:37:23.91\00:37:25.57
But this is a couple lines down,
00:37:25.61\00:37:27.08
and you read it.
00:37:27.11\00:37:28.44
"When the enemy
comes in like a flood",
00:37:28.48\00:37:29.81
taken from Isaiah 59,
00:37:29.84\00:37:31.51
"The Spirit of God
00:37:31.55\00:37:32.88
lifts up for them a
standard against him."
00:37:32.91\00:37:34.25
So Satan's coming in
with so many temptations
00:37:34.28\00:37:37.19
like a flood.
00:37:37.22\00:37:38.92
God says, "I want
to rise up a standard."
00:37:38.95\00:37:41.06
That's Grace.
00:37:41.09\00:37:42.42
Pushing back to
sanctify our hearts
00:37:42.46\00:37:45.36
and to push that back.
00:37:45.39\00:37:46.73
And I just think
Satan comes against us
00:37:46.76\00:37:48.56
with temptations, doubts--
00:37:48.60\00:37:51.07
Questions, fears,
00:37:51.10\00:37:54.37
any number of
worries, any number of things.
00:37:54.40\00:37:56.81
He comes against us with,
00:37:56.84\00:37:58.17
and we can
claim the word of God.
00:37:58.21\00:38:00.21
By the power of your spirit,
00:38:00.24\00:38:01.58
will you lift up a
standard against him right now
00:38:01.61\00:38:04.28
and give me a
victory in the situation--
00:38:04.31\00:38:05.68
Amen. Yes.
00:38:05.71\00:38:07.05
In this circumstance.
00:38:07.08\00:38:08.42
And that your way
ahead, way ahead and,
00:38:08.45\00:38:10.85
and I sure haven't conquered
it but I'm sure working on it.
00:38:10.89\00:38:13.92
But you're,
you're way ahead in life
00:38:13.96\00:38:16.22
if you can say,
"In this situation.
00:38:16.26\00:38:18.69
No, matter how
bad, how tore up I am,
00:38:18.73\00:38:21.36
how worried I am.
00:38:21.40\00:38:23.00
There's nothing I can do."
00:38:23.03\00:38:24.87
There's nothing you can,
you can do to a certain extent.
00:38:24.90\00:38:28.14
You can help somebody, you know?
00:38:28.17\00:38:29.94
Whether it's financially fit.
00:38:29.97\00:38:31.31
You, you could
help to an extent.
00:38:31.34\00:38:33.31
But this thing is, is to
say, "You know what, Lord?
00:38:33.34\00:38:36.78
There's nothing I can do.
00:38:36.81\00:38:38.55
I can't be preoccupied
00:38:38.58\00:38:40.88
with, with this on my
mind, with this worry.
00:38:40.92\00:38:43.62
I have to hand it to you
00:38:43.65\00:38:44.99
because I can't
control this situation.
00:38:45.02\00:38:47.59
That is one of
the hardest things
00:38:47.62\00:38:49.32
in the world for me to do.
00:38:49.36\00:38:51.13
But I know it's for the good.
00:38:51.16\00:38:52.76
It's for the greater good."
00:38:52.79\00:38:54.93
Absolutely.
00:38:54.96\00:38:56.30
You know in the Bible,
it's in Matthew 6, it says,
00:38:56.33\00:38:57.67
"Take no thought for the morrow,
00:38:57.70\00:38:59.60
for the morrow
take thought of itself
00:38:59.63\00:39:01.20
sufficient unto the
day is the evil thereof."
00:39:01.24\00:39:03.67
That's right.
Don't have tomorrow.
00:39:03.71\00:39:05.57
You know, yesterday's gone.
00:39:05.61\00:39:07.24
I have this moment
that I need to be right.
00:39:07.28\00:39:09.54
Do the right thing.
Make the right choices.
00:39:09.58\00:39:11.45
Make the right decision.
00:39:11.48\00:39:13.11
And we're calling
that grace of God,
00:39:13.15\00:39:16.58
which you mentioned
character a while ago.
00:39:16.62\00:39:18.02
Praise God for that
00:39:18.05\00:39:19.39
because character wouldn't
have perfection of character,
00:39:19.42\00:39:21.22
one for his grace.
00:39:21.26\00:39:22.69
But he keeps coming back
00:39:22.72\00:39:24.06
giving us extra
measure of grace,
00:39:24.09\00:39:25.53
and more grace, and more grace
that we may become like him.
00:39:25.56\00:39:28.83
We talked about it
in the other program.
00:39:28.86\00:39:31.83
The vine and the branches,
and so many people say,
00:39:31.87\00:39:35.30
"Well, you know, we just
do, you know, so much in this."
00:39:35.34\00:39:37.87
Or, "Don't worry about
being perfect in this life.
00:39:37.91\00:39:39.84
Just do the best you can
00:39:39.87\00:39:41.21
and you're going to
be saved in the kingdom."
00:39:41.24\00:39:42.58
And that's not a truth
as far as I'm concerned.
00:39:42.61\00:39:44.08
I don't mind to stand on there
00:39:44.11\00:39:46.15
and do it two hour
discourse if we need to
00:39:46.18\00:39:49.08
on about gaining victory
in your life in the Bible.
00:39:49.12\00:39:52.22
It's very, very important.
00:39:52.25\00:39:53.69
Not because we're,
we're there, so we go there.
00:39:53.72\00:39:57.39
The Bible has the answers
of what he would have us to be.
00:39:57.43\00:40:00.63
And the most
simple, it was John 15
00:40:00.66\00:40:02.66
about the vine in the branches.
00:40:02.70\00:40:04.73
I'm the branch, He's the vine.
00:40:04.77\00:40:06.23
And where do I get all my--
00:40:06.27\00:40:07.60
It's simple but
some of you've not heard,
00:40:07.64\00:40:08.97
the rest of you have
heard, you understand
00:40:09.00\00:40:10.34
but where do I get
my, my nourishment from?
00:40:10.37\00:40:13.54
From the vine, on the branch.
00:40:13.58\00:40:15.81
So the branch becomes
exactly like the vine.
00:40:15.84\00:40:18.98
That's the whole plan.
00:40:19.01\00:40:20.35
That Jesus, and so if I take
everything right and go ahead.
00:40:20.38\00:40:23.22
And the sap goes
up through the vine.
00:40:23.45\00:40:25.72
The whole spirit.
00:40:25.75\00:40:27.19
That's the grace,
that's his strength,
00:40:27.22\00:40:28.92
that's his courage, that's
00:40:28.96\00:40:30.53
when things are
just going haywire,
00:40:30.56\00:40:32.19
we can look up and say, "I
know he knows what's best."
00:40:32.23\00:40:35.80
So grapes, and I
think of the vine,
00:40:35.83\00:40:37.23
I think we had some as kids
and so we are improving them.
00:40:37.27\00:40:40.54
So there is a little
bit of clipping here,
00:40:40.57\00:40:42.17
and a little bit
of clipping there
00:40:42.20\00:40:43.54
and putting it out on
the little wires, you know,
00:40:43.57\00:40:45.27
put in the great
vines out on the wire,
00:40:45.31\00:40:46.78
so this is a
bit of training too,
00:40:46.81\00:40:48.61
so it's part of that
process that we go through.
00:40:48.64\00:40:51.31
Sometimes like, "Ouch, oh, man.
00:40:51.35\00:40:52.71
That hurts a little bit."
00:40:52.75\00:40:54.08
We're clipped.
00:40:54.12\00:40:55.45
That's all part of the
growth that when we look at it,
00:40:55.48\00:40:57.39
the big picture, it's
God doing a work in us
00:40:57.42\00:41:00.32
but the thing is
that I got to be willing.
00:41:00.36\00:41:02.16
Because what if
the grapes kept saying,
00:41:02.19\00:41:04.16
"Well, I don't want to
be wrapped around this wire,
00:41:04.19\00:41:05.79
I want to go that way."
00:41:05.83\00:41:07.16
You know I mean?
00:41:07.20\00:41:08.53
That's a disobedient
grape vine so to speak.
00:41:08.56\00:41:10.10
You know what I'm saying?
00:41:10.13\00:41:11.47
I've seen few of
those grape vines.
00:41:11.50\00:41:12.83
You think they had a
brain, but they don't
00:41:12.87\00:41:14.90
because they want
to go their own way.
00:41:14.94\00:41:16.57
Well, sometimes I'm that way.
00:41:16.60\00:41:17.94
I'm like, "God, I
don't want to do that.
00:41:17.97\00:41:19.31
I'm going that direction."
00:41:19.34\00:41:20.68
And it's, yeah.
00:41:20.71\00:41:22.04
And it's not
the right way to go.
00:41:22.08\00:41:23.41
But sometime isn't though.
00:41:23.45\00:41:24.78
We, we don't actually
just come out and say,
00:41:24.81\00:41:26.45
"I'm just going to do it.
00:41:26.48\00:41:27.85
Whether you like it or not God,
this is what I'm going to do."
00:41:27.88\00:41:30.29
But we find ways around it
00:41:30.32\00:41:31.65
to almost
justify why we're doing
00:41:31.69\00:41:33.66
because of all the circumstances
00:41:33.69\00:41:35.12
and situations.
00:41:35.16\00:41:36.66
Remember
circumstances, is that right?
00:41:36.69\00:41:38.06
We're to never, you know,
00:41:38.09\00:41:39.56
we just operate on circumstance.
00:41:39.59\00:41:41.16
That's right. We're to control.
00:41:41.20\00:41:42.53
We are to control. That's right.
00:41:42.56\00:41:43.90
Remember?
00:41:43.93\00:41:45.27
Don't let
circumstances control you
00:41:45.30\00:41:46.74
but by the grace of God,
you control circumstances.
00:41:46.77\00:41:49.94
Everybody say,
"Well, the circumstances.
00:41:49.97\00:41:51.31
I was caught in this.
00:41:51.34\00:41:52.67
And this happen
and this took place.
00:41:52.71\00:41:54.34
" By the grace of
God, you can control.
00:41:54.38\00:41:56.14
He will give you
great strength, give wisdom,
00:41:56.18\00:41:58.05
introduce you to
people, help you get, get out,
00:41:58.08\00:42:00.12
of the this whole mess
that we're in some time.
00:42:00.15\00:42:03.85
"Subdue every unsanctified
survive unholy impulse."
00:42:03.89\00:42:08.92
Let me add a disclaimer here.
00:42:08.96\00:42:10.29
Ok. Well, go on.
00:42:10.33\00:42:11.66
By no means or any of those here
00:42:11.69\00:42:13.26
saying that we've got to be.
00:42:13.29\00:42:14.83
Thank you.
00:42:14.86\00:42:16.20
No, way we, we
struggle every day--
00:42:16.23\00:42:18.57
He's still working on me.
00:42:18.60\00:42:19.93
--He's still working on
me and we don't want our,
00:42:19.97\00:42:22.47
our viewers to think,
"Well, if, if I make a mistake,
00:42:22.50\00:42:25.71
if I'm done for."
00:42:25.74\00:42:27.08
That's where the grace comes in,
00:42:27.11\00:42:28.71
that's where the
forgiveness comes in.
00:42:28.74\00:42:30.65
Yes, we all fail.
00:42:30.68\00:42:32.01
We all come short
of the glory of God.
00:42:32.05\00:42:33.72
We sin daily
00:42:33.75\00:42:35.38
but God gives us the
grace and the forgiveness.
00:42:35.42\00:42:38.52
So I want people to
understand not give up hope
00:42:38.55\00:42:41.22
if you have a problem in you.
00:42:41.26\00:42:42.72
You know that
problem keeps reoccurring
00:42:42.76\00:42:44.96
and you find it you
are having a hard time
00:42:44.99\00:42:47.93
resisting whatever it is.
00:42:47.96\00:42:49.90
There is hope,
00:42:49.93\00:42:51.27
there's still
hope, there's power.
00:42:51.30\00:42:52.63
You just have to keep
working and working and working.
00:42:52.67\00:42:54.97
You got to work on
anything that is worthwhile.
00:42:55.00\00:42:57.37
You have to,
you have to submit--
00:42:57.41\00:42:59.21
That's good 'cause the
Bible, it is very clear that,
00:42:59.24\00:43:01.28
you know, the Bible
talks about what you said
00:43:01.31\00:43:03.28
what have you that
seen not, but if we see him.
00:43:03.31\00:43:06.31
We have an
advocate. We have an advocate.
00:43:06.35\00:43:08.02
His purpose for us is
to live a sinless life.
00:43:08.05\00:43:10.75
Other words, to live
his life and I thought that
00:43:10.79\00:43:12.85
if I have say, with me, church.
00:43:12.89\00:43:15.92
"If, if I have
the mind of Christ--"
00:43:15.96\00:43:18.99
Like we are
counseled to do in the world.
00:43:19.03\00:43:20.50
If I have the mind of Christ
then I will react like Christ
00:43:20.53\00:43:24.80
in every given situation
regardless how hurtful it is,
00:43:24.83\00:43:27.97
regardless of
what somebody is doing,
00:43:28.00\00:43:29.40
regardless to
what someone saying.
00:43:29.44\00:43:31.17
If I have his mind,
00:43:31.21\00:43:32.84
I believe it's a possibility
by his grace and his strength,
00:43:32.87\00:43:37.01
who he is?
00:43:37.05\00:43:38.45
Because why would he say,
"Let this mind be in you,"
00:43:38.48\00:43:41.35
which was also in Christ, Jesus,
00:43:41.38\00:43:42.72
if it wasn't possible.
00:43:42.75\00:43:44.09
That's right, he
wouldn't have said.
00:43:44.12\00:43:45.45
Again, if I look at
myself in the mirror,
00:43:45.49\00:43:46.82
I get discouraged.
00:43:46.86\00:43:48.22
Say, look at all
the disappointment
00:43:48.26\00:43:49.96
but I'm to look to Jesus
00:43:49.99\00:43:51.66
who is the author and
the finisher of my faith.
00:43:51.69\00:43:54.20
He is my example,
not any someone else.
00:43:54.23\00:43:56.06
I'm to look to him,
00:43:56.10\00:43:57.43
that's who I am
to measure against.
00:43:57.47\00:43:59.23
"Well, I'm not going to church
because the preacher he said,
00:43:59.27\00:44:01.14
'There's an
elder, he did all this.'
00:44:01.17\00:44:02.70
" You're looking for
excuses, my brother and sister.
00:44:02.74\00:44:04.51
Don't look for excuses.
00:44:04.54\00:44:05.87
You look to Jesus.
00:44:05.91\00:44:07.24
He will never let you down.
00:44:07.28\00:44:09.21
He wants us to live that life.
00:44:09.24\00:44:10.91
When we go down
those baptismal water,
00:44:10.95\00:44:12.91
when we come up, are we,
00:44:12.95\00:44:14.28
are we not a new
man or woman in Christ?
00:44:14.32\00:44:16.18
Old things are
what? Passed away.
00:44:16.22\00:44:17.82
A whole lot of
things become? Nill.
00:44:17.85\00:44:19.39
That means our life is gone sin,
00:44:19.42\00:44:21.06
it's gone at that moment.
00:44:21.09\00:44:22.42
You stand
righteous sinless before.
00:44:22.46\00:44:24.73
Whoo, glory, I'm on a preach.
00:44:24.76\00:44:26.09
Amen.
00:44:26.13\00:44:28.90
If it wasn't
possible to overcome,
00:44:28.93\00:44:32.40
if it wasn't
possible to overcome,
00:44:32.43\00:44:34.14
He has set us up for failure.
00:44:34.17\00:44:35.57
That's right. Thank you.
00:44:35.60\00:44:36.94
That's not the
kind of God I served.
00:44:36.97\00:44:38.31
No.
00:44:38.34\00:44:39.77
We don't do anything on our own.
00:44:39.81\00:44:41.44
It's his power.
00:44:41.48\00:44:43.04
So we just have to be willing.
00:44:43.08\00:44:44.71
We have to be willing.
00:44:44.75\00:44:46.41
And He say, "It
doesn't happen overnight,
00:44:46.45\00:44:48.62
it's a daily effort."
00:44:48.65\00:44:50.55
We must die daily.
00:44:50.59\00:44:52.79
We must study daily.
00:44:52.82\00:44:54.66
And I like this
text, I love this because--
00:44:54.69\00:44:57.39
Did you add 2
Timothy 2:15 in there?
00:44:57.43\00:45:00.80
"Study to shew
thyself approved unto God?"
00:45:00.83\00:45:02.66
Come on, church.
00:45:02.70\00:45:04.03
"a workman that needeth not--"
00:45:04.07\00:45:05.40
"--to be ashamed--"
00:45:05.43\00:45:06.77
"--rightly
dividing the word of truth.
00:45:06.80\00:45:08.74
That means
exerting-- It's an action word.
00:45:08.77\00:45:11.17
It means what?
00:45:11.21\00:45:12.54
It means to, it means
to exert, does it not?
00:45:12.57\00:45:14.68
When you study the
show, we have to exert.
00:45:14.71\00:45:17.28
We have to exert oneself.
00:45:17.31\00:45:18.71
Put yourself into that moment.
00:45:18.75\00:45:20.22
Do everything you
can at that point.
00:45:20.25\00:45:22.28
Be, be diligent.
00:45:22.32\00:45:23.75
Endeavor to do the will of God.
00:45:23.79\00:45:25.45
Labor, Hebrews talks
about, so all of these things.
00:45:25.49\00:45:28.62
But how many of us do that?
00:45:28.66\00:45:29.99
You're going to have to
make a conscious effort.
00:45:30.03\00:45:31.93
We're going to have to make
some real changes in our home,
00:45:31.96\00:45:35.26
real changes with our children,
real changes with our spouses.
00:45:35.30\00:45:38.80
If we're ever going to
really, really reflect Jesus
00:45:38.83\00:45:43.87
and understand
what we're reading,
00:45:43.91\00:45:45.24
what we're talking about,
00:45:45.27\00:45:46.61
we've got to make
changes as a people.
00:45:46.64\00:45:49.68
And sometimes
it takes a lifetime
00:45:49.71\00:45:52.01
of striving and
working to make those changes.
00:45:52.05\00:45:54.75
I just don't think
00:45:54.78\00:45:56.12
we have much time, to be honest.
00:45:56.15\00:45:59.79
I know that
sanctification is a lifetime
00:45:59.82\00:46:02.49
but boy, oh boy,
I don't want to say,
00:46:02.52\00:46:05.49
what's on the
news just here lately
00:46:05.53\00:46:07.80
but, we're in trouble folks.
00:46:07.83\00:46:09.90
We're in a trouble as
a country, as a nation.
00:46:09.93\00:46:14.14
You know, and it's not
anything new to anybody
00:46:14.17\00:46:18.24
but our country, the
highest court in this land,
00:46:18.27\00:46:22.24
has passed laws that
go directly against--
00:46:22.28\00:46:24.71
The word of God.
00:46:24.75\00:46:26.08
--institutions that
God has put in place.
00:46:26.11\00:46:28.78
And who are we?
00:46:28.82\00:46:30.15
We're no different
than Sodom and Gomorrah.
00:46:30.19\00:46:32.92
Mock God. Yes.
00:46:32.95\00:46:34.69
They mock God.
00:46:34.72\00:46:36.29
We're no
different. That's right.
00:46:36.32\00:46:37.66
Look what happened in the past.
00:46:37.69\00:46:39.03
He will not, He will not
remain silent much longer.
00:46:39.06\00:46:40.90
He cannot, He will not.
00:46:40.93\00:46:43.10
And you know, I think
Oh, I'm sorry, Pastor Kenny.
00:46:43.13\00:46:45.27
I think we live, we
live in critical times.
00:46:45.30\00:46:46.84
Yes we do.
00:46:46.87\00:46:48.20
You know, you think
what's going on in our country,
00:46:48.24\00:46:49.84
in the world today.
00:46:49.87\00:46:51.21
It's critical times.
00:46:51.24\00:46:52.57
And we just want to make
an appeal to you at home.
00:46:52.61\00:46:54.44
I can't just
put this on my heart
00:46:54.48\00:46:55.98
that don't put
off accepting Jesus.
00:46:56.01\00:46:58.98
Don't put off, saying,
"God, I know I'm a mess.
00:46:59.01\00:47:02.18
I know I'm not perfect."
00:47:02.22\00:47:03.55
As Tammy just
mentioned, but I just ask
00:47:03.59\00:47:05.95
I claimed first on
one night over my life.
00:47:05.99\00:47:08.19
I'm confessing
right now, my sins.
00:47:08.22\00:47:09.82
I know you're a
faithful in justice
00:47:09.86\00:47:11.66
to forgive me and to cleanse
me from all unrighteousness.
00:47:11.69\00:47:15.13
And then, to me the key is,
00:47:15.16\00:47:17.10
day by day, do
what God tells us.
00:47:17.13\00:47:19.43
Just submit to him.
00:47:19.47\00:47:20.80
When He says,
"Jill, put that aside."
00:47:20.84\00:47:22.50
I need to put that aside.
00:47:22.54\00:47:23.87
That's right. It's
making those choices.
00:47:23.91\00:47:25.44
He says, "Jill, get in My word."
00:47:25.47\00:47:27.28
I need to get
in the word of God.
00:47:27.31\00:47:28.68
You know, when He says,
00:47:28.71\00:47:30.05
"Okay, I want you to
go over here and do this."
00:47:30.08\00:47:32.18
We need to go over
and be His spokesperson
00:47:32.21\00:47:34.42
and do what He says.
00:47:34.45\00:47:37.09
I'm almost, I'm
almost as young as she is.
00:47:37.12\00:47:41.19
And I was thinking, you
know, how long it has taken me
00:47:41.22\00:47:45.46
to get to the place
even more I'm at now.
00:47:45.49\00:47:47.96
Yeah.
00:47:48.00\00:47:49.33
And I think about our children.
00:47:49.36\00:47:50.70
Go on. Our grandchildren.
00:47:50.73\00:47:53.30
And it's tough. Yeah.
00:47:53.34\00:47:55.20
The decisions need
to be made in our homes
00:47:55.24\00:47:58.01
and I understand if
you're making these decisions,
00:47:58.04\00:48:01.08
you're going to be under attack.
00:48:01.11\00:48:03.08
But go back to God,
plead, ask for another angel.
00:48:03.11\00:48:07.65
Ask for help.
00:48:07.68\00:48:09.02
He's willing to help
but we have to cry out.
00:48:09.05\00:48:11.75
This next, this
next sentence is powerful
00:48:11.79\00:48:14.42
because we've been talking
00:48:14.46\00:48:16.32
about our defense and temptation
00:48:16.36\00:48:18.13
and we realize
that it's knowing,
00:48:18.16\00:48:19.89
it's understanding,
00:48:19.93\00:48:21.26
it's having the mind of
God that we can only do that
00:48:21.30\00:48:22.93
with putting his word,
hiding his word in our heart.
00:48:22.96\00:48:26.74
I love this.
00:48:26.77\00:48:28.50
"The word of God is a channel."
00:48:28.54\00:48:31.71
A channel.
00:48:31.74\00:48:33.07
It's a way the
channel communication, right?
00:48:33.11\00:48:35.58
A channel of
communication with a living God.
00:48:35.61\00:48:41.88
That's
beautiful, like, I'm sorry.
00:48:41.92\00:48:43.55
I just have to
chuckle, I love that.
00:48:43.59\00:48:45.35
Who are we?
00:48:45.39\00:48:46.72
Who are we?
00:48:46.76\00:48:48.09
Sinful man, worthless, nothing,
00:48:48.12\00:48:50.03
that we can commune
with the living God.
00:48:50.06\00:48:53.09
I mean that just, just.
00:48:53.13\00:48:54.76
I just want to almost
jump up, and run around.
00:48:54.80\00:48:56.36
I'm sorry, church.
00:48:56.40\00:48:58.43
And it is to think about
00:48:58.47\00:49:00.00
we can communicate
with the living God.
00:49:00.04\00:49:03.77
Yeah. That's wonderful.
00:49:03.81\00:49:05.37
What good news that is.
00:49:05.41\00:49:06.74
How much He cares for us
is just to me is so exciting
00:49:06.78\00:49:09.28
to know that we can.
00:49:09.31\00:49:10.65
And He cares about us
and He will listen, okay?
00:49:10.68\00:49:13.11
Go ahead, honey. I'm sorry.
00:49:13.15\00:49:14.48
I know we don't get very far,
00:49:14.52\00:49:15.85
so if you could just
read that next sentence.
00:49:15.88\00:49:17.69
I think the next sentence.
00:49:17.72\00:49:19.05
"He who feeds"
00:49:19.09\00:49:20.42
He who feeds.
00:49:20.46\00:49:22.82
"He, who feeds upon the
word, will become fruitful.
00:49:22.86\00:49:25.96
And all good works."
00:49:25.99\00:49:27.33
Bring it on.
00:49:27.36\00:49:28.86
"He will be the discoverer
of rich minds of truth,
00:49:28.90\00:49:33.23
which he must work to
find the hidden treasure,
00:49:33.27\00:49:37.97
when surrounded with temptations
00:49:38.01\00:49:39.74
the Holy Spirit
will bring into his mind,
00:49:39.77\00:49:42.14
the very words
with which they meet,
00:49:42.18\00:49:45.81
which meet the
temptation at the very moment.
00:49:45.85\00:49:49.08
Which they all must--"
00:49:49.12\00:49:50.45
Praise the Lord, yes.
00:49:50.49\00:49:51.82
"And he can use
them effectively."
00:49:51.85\00:49:54.86
Isn't that
beautiful. Isn't that beautiful.
00:49:54.89\00:49:57.26
So it's not even up
to us, to try to say.
00:49:57.29\00:49:59.19
Now, what is that scripture?
00:49:59.23\00:50:00.56
You mentioned that Tammy.
00:50:00.60\00:50:01.93
God's the one who
brings it back to us
00:50:01.96\00:50:04.70
but we have to put it.
00:50:04.73\00:50:06.13
That's the key,
00:50:06.17\00:50:07.50
it's to put it
in the first place.
00:50:07.54\00:50:08.87
And then God's going to bring it
00:50:08.90\00:50:10.24
back at the right time.
00:50:10.27\00:50:11.77
In Colossians
1:10, it talks about
00:50:11.81\00:50:13.27
we're to be
fruitful in every good work.
00:50:13.31\00:50:16.95
Not just... well, I'm selective.
00:50:16.98\00:50:19.45
I'm just working at history;
I was working in this area,
00:50:19.48\00:50:21.85
that's all, you
know, in ever good,
00:50:21.88\00:50:23.92
everything that God
has here, this good...
00:50:23.95\00:50:26.79
We need to be involved
00:50:26.82\00:50:28.16
and do what we can for
the cause of Christ right now.
00:50:28.19\00:50:30.23
Tim, you have some...
00:50:30.26\00:50:31.59
Sorry, I'm
jumping right on in here.
00:50:31.63\00:50:32.96
No.
00:50:32.99\00:50:34.33
I'm getting excited
about all this stuff.
00:50:34.36\00:50:35.70
I was thinking it's
like when you're in school.
00:50:35.73\00:50:37.37
I mean you; you
have to put it in,
00:50:37.40\00:50:40.04
the knowledge, to
pass the test, right?
00:50:40.07\00:50:42.54
Let's go let's bring it.
00:50:42.57\00:50:44.71
That was it. True, that's true.
00:50:44.74\00:50:46.24
I have to put it
in to pass the test.
00:50:46.27\00:50:47.61
And, and that's
basically what we're saying.
00:50:47.64\00:50:49.31
You folks at home, you know,
00:50:49.34\00:50:51.15
brothers and sister in the home,
00:50:51.18\00:50:52.85
we all, you, us, all together,
00:50:52.88\00:50:55.58
we have to put this book
in in order to pass such as.
00:50:55.62\00:50:57.95
That's right.
00:50:57.99\00:50:59.32
And you know, some
will say right now, honey,
00:50:59.35\00:51:00.69
they'll say, "Well,
I don't like to study."
00:51:00.72\00:51:03.09
Hold now, stop.
00:51:03.12\00:51:04.76
Listen, I didn't like
to study school, in school.
00:51:04.79\00:51:07.66
I didn't like to
study but I tell you
00:51:07.70\00:51:09.13
I love this
study the word of God.
00:51:09.16\00:51:11.07
Studying of the word of
God illuminates your mind.
00:51:11.10\00:51:15.10
Your mind actually
grows like nothing.
00:51:15.14\00:51:17.11
When you read the word of God,
it does something inside you.
00:51:17.14\00:51:20.01
This is
scientific, this is true.
00:51:20.04\00:51:22.31
It does something to
the mind to expand it.
00:51:22.34\00:51:24.78
Its energized with the
spirit of the living God
00:51:24.81\00:51:26.98
to help you
understand and to grow.
00:51:27.02\00:51:30.02
And again, to memorize
00:51:30.05\00:51:31.39
and to put in your
heart and your mind.
00:51:31.42\00:51:32.75
Absolutely. Like no other book.
00:51:32.79\00:51:35.19
I heard a man say
one time, he said,
00:51:35.22\00:51:36.56
"Well, you know? I
just cannot read the word.
00:51:36.59\00:51:39.83
I just cannot
read the word of God,
00:51:39.86\00:51:41.36
I just can't focus very long."
00:51:41.40\00:51:43.23
But he could said,
"Oh, somebody pray for me."
00:51:43.26\00:51:45.50
So he sat down everyday
and he read the newspaper
00:51:45.53\00:51:47.70
from beginning to end.
00:51:47.74\00:51:49.40
And he knew everything
that was going on in the world.
00:51:49.44\00:51:51.07
We could not read, that's why...
00:51:51.11\00:51:52.57
And then he said,
"Well..." And another thing.
00:51:52.61\00:51:54.14
He said, "You
need to pray for me."
00:51:54.18\00:51:55.51
He said, "I just
can't stay awake a church."
00:51:55.54\00:51:57.45
I said, "You can."
00:51:57.48\00:51:58.81
But he could get
down and something...
00:51:58.85\00:52:00.42
He just put
something he enjoyed doing
00:52:00.45\00:52:02.62
and be for hours on end.
00:52:02.65\00:52:05.02
And I knew him well,
I won't trying to judge,
00:52:05.05\00:52:06.96
for and never, ever act
like he's getting sleepy.
00:52:06.99\00:52:10.13
But soon as he sat down
church, he went to sleep.
00:52:10.16\00:52:12.03
There's wife
doing this all the time.
00:52:12.06\00:52:14.36
It's interest.
Are we interested?
00:52:14.40\00:52:16.97
It goes back to that
first word that preoccupied.
00:52:17.00\00:52:19.37
Preoccupied. Yes, yes.
00:52:19.40\00:52:22.10
Because the enemy has put
us basically under a spell.
00:52:22.14\00:52:26.17
Sure has. You
know, audio, visual...
00:52:26.21\00:52:28.71
There's people, if
you're watching movies,
00:52:28.74\00:52:31.51
there's always explosions,
there's always high drama.
00:52:31.55\00:52:34.42
They can, they can go
through the worst situation
00:52:34.45\00:52:36.52
and then an hour and
half hour, it's all solved.
00:52:36.55\00:52:39.49
Or you know
hold, on to the next,
00:52:39.52\00:52:41.02
and you've got this
adrenaline flowing all the time.
00:52:41.06\00:52:44.09
And then
suddenly, we go to church.
00:52:44.13\00:52:46.56
And we're
hearing the word of God.
00:52:46.59\00:52:47.93
And it may just be being read
or, or somebody up singing and.
00:52:47.96\00:52:51.57
There's no explosions,
there's no lights flashing,
00:52:51.60\00:52:54.07
there's no background music.
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You see what I'm saying? Yeah.
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And so, we're
under a hypnotic spell.
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So there again, we have to...
we have to submit and retrain.
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If it's five minutes a day,
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Jill said, start
with five minutes.
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Because I guarantee you,
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if you start with five minutes,
it's going to go to ten.
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Yes, it's going to
grow. It's going to grow.
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It's going to
got to 50 and an hour
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and pretty soon hour and a half.
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Now that's long enough.
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You've got to
pray to get up earlier,
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pray to go to bed earlier.
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You said big word.
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And we don't have
time to go into...
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maybe if, for another subject.
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Let me tell, the
enemy uses hypnosis.
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I believe that.
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He hypnotizes people.
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He gets them...
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I usually see people focused on
something that they shouldn't.
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They got the
glassy eye, you know?
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He did Adam and
Eve in the Garden.
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It's a
challenge for study to see
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what the enemy and what he does,
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and what he does
today for mankind.
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With the mind you
preoccupy things of the world.
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And you he was going to
do, he's going to keep us busy.
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Somebody stay with me.
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He's going to keep us
busy until probation closest.
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Yes.
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And then it's too
late when probation closes.
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And I'm telling, my
brother and sister today,
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that a probation door,
probation I hear it closing.
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This isn't like the
gate you can just hear.
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It's closer than it's
ever been to shutting.
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And then when what did to...
How happy we're going to be to.
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It's parties,
and it's game time,
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and it's play time and all this.
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When the, when it's pronounced,
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"He who does
righteous be righteous,
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he the filthy, will be filthy,"
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that not another person
will ever come to Jesus Christ.
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This is how close that we are,
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should we not spend our
time we're talking in study.
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My defense in temptation,
that I might gain the victory,
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that might help
others to gain the victory.
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So, you can look at me
in my poor pathetic life,
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or whatever your
life and just say,
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"Look, God has
given them victory,
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he can do the same for me."
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In closing, we are
almost out of time.
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I want to share a
couple of verses of scripture
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is found in
Psalms 5 verse 11, 12.
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I just encourage
you to claim this,
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to make this a part of
your daily life with God.
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It reads, "But let all those
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who put their
trust in the rejoice,
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let them ever shout for joy."
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Amen. "Because
thou defend us them.
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Let them also that
love thy name be joyful."
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It's joy, it's
love in Jesus. Amen.
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"Love in thee thou Lord
will bless the righteous,
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with the favor and will thou
come pass him with a shield".
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Beautiful,
beautiful promises. Wow.
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Pastor if you'd like
to bring us to a close,
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we need to pray I know.
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Oh, I know we do.
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And I know there's,
there are many out there
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who are watching and
I'm so thankful for this,
00:55:32.96\00:55:35.46
this program that
we have to bring people
00:55:35.50\00:55:37.73
into the right attitude
with beginning of the Sabbath.
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And everybody,
00:55:40.70\00:55:42.04
whether you're
Sabbath keeper or not,
00:55:42.07\00:55:43.41
I know you're watching.
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We need to be
focused in getting our hearts
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right for the coming of Jesus.
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Now, I encourage you
today, bless your heart.
00:55:48.38\00:55:50.45
If you haven't made
that decision for Jesus,
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would you do it now?
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Why not do it now?
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We're going to have
prayer in just a moment,
00:55:55.12\00:55:56.45
we're gonna be praying for you.
00:55:56.48\00:55:57.82
I know that the Holy
Spirit is working on you.
00:55:57.85\00:55:59.25
I know he said his
word would not return void.
00:55:59.29\00:56:01.36
And I know the Spirit of
spoken to your heart today.
00:56:01.39\00:56:03.83
You've had things
going through your mind
00:56:03.86\00:56:05.19
that shouldn't be.
00:56:05.23\00:56:06.56
You're going to
be making decisions
00:56:06.59\00:56:07.93
that you shouldn't but right now
00:56:07.96\00:56:09.30
you're gonna let Jesus
help you make those decisions.
00:56:09.33\00:56:10.67
Honey, I think we need to
pray for those folks right now.
00:56:10.70\00:56:12.17
There will be decisions made.
00:56:12.20\00:56:14.14
3ABN is going to get
some letters and say,
00:56:14.17\00:56:15.50
"I was one of those."
00:56:15.54\00:56:16.87
You know, we want you to do that
00:56:16.91\00:56:18.24
because it's an encouragement
to others around the world
00:56:18.27\00:56:20.58
that the Holy Spirit
is interested in you,
00:56:20.61\00:56:22.54
interested in the
world to bring him
00:56:22.58\00:56:24.31
to the close for salvation.
00:56:24.35\00:56:26.72
And I'm thankful
to be a part of this,
00:56:26.75\00:56:29.78
to be able to just Bible
study, just kind of sit around
00:56:29.82\00:56:32.05
and talk about the word of God.
00:56:32.09\00:56:33.42
We need to close
with a prayer. Yes.
00:56:33.46\00:56:35.62
Are you going to
close with prayer today?
00:56:35.66\00:56:36.99
Bless your heart.
Let's pray, shall we?
00:56:37.03\00:56:39.16
The most
gracious heavenly Father,
00:56:39.19\00:56:40.76
thank you for reminding us
00:56:40.80\00:56:43.26
of the importance of your
word, of the power of Grace,
00:56:43.30\00:56:47.17
of how much You
want Your pleading.
00:56:47.20\00:56:50.31
You've done everything
possible that's come down
00:56:50.34\00:56:52.77
to reach out and
to take our hearts
00:56:52.81\00:56:55.84
and our minds and remold
and make us for your kingdom.
00:56:55.88\00:56:59.88
Thank you for
blessing this time together
00:56:59.91\00:57:02.05
with our family at
home and our family.
00:57:02.08\00:57:05.62
God we praise
You and we love You
00:57:05.65\00:57:07.52
in the name of Jesus.
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Amen. Amen.
00:57:09.49\00:57:11.53
Well, God bless you.
00:57:11.56\00:57:12.89
And we're glad
again that you joined us.
00:57:12.93\00:57:14.46
And we're so
thankful to have our family
00:57:14.50\00:57:16.60
around the table here.
00:57:16.63\00:57:18.13
To open the word of
God. To open the word of God.
00:57:18.17\00:57:21.00
There's power. There's power.
00:57:21.04\00:57:22.37
Lead us, sister.
There's power in the blood.
00:57:22.40\00:57:25.41
Well, there is a
power in the name of Jesus.
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That's right.
00:57:27.04\00:57:28.38
And the song, Power
in the name of Jesus.
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Amen. Where else can we go?
00:57:30.61\00:57:32.88
To the Lord. Just
the Lord. God bless you.
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We'll see you next time.
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