I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people.
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Hello, and welcome to
our 3ABN Family Worship,
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and what a blessing,
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we've made it
through another week.
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Amen.
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It is the Sabbath,
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happy Sabbath to
all of you at home,
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happy Sabbath to all of you here
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and we are so blessed to have
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so wonderful family
members sitting with us.
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That's right, amen, good.
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Pastor Kenny, first of all,
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I guess better
tell them who I am.
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Go for it.
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I am Chris Shelton,
and this is my husband,
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Pastor Kenny Shelton.
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And over to his
left is his sister,
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so we have biological family
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and just family
in the Lord today.
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Yes, you're right. That's right.
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His sister, Tammy and
Tammy's husband, Bruce,
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our brother-in-law,
and then over to my right,
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I have a wonderful
sister in the Lord.
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Sister Shelley Quinn,
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that is not a
stranger to any of you at home.
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And then to her right is her
wonderful husband, J.D Quinn.
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That's right. Amen.
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And we have
another family member
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that we are just
so blessed to have.
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Well, that's right.
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I asked him what he'd
like for me to say about him.
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Just recently,
we've rode on a airplane
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to and from England with him
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and on the way back, he
was my, my plane partner,
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so he was really, I
like to say you were rowdy,
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but you just
weren't, he was busy,
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he was busy on his
computer writing music.
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That's right. I
bet he was doing that.
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And he had all this music going
through his head and he just,
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you know, spent most of
the time there, but I would,
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I would nudge him once
in a while and bother him
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and that is Brother Tim Parton.
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Tim, we're so
thankful that you're here--
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Thank you.
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With us on that
piano and let me tell you,
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he is gonna burn up
those keys in just a moment.
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We're gonna start
out with the peppy song,
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not all of, just a few verses of
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"Do Lord," so Tammy,
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you're gonna lead us
in the song, so go ahead.
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Yeah! Yes.
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This is a peppy
song to get you going
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and get your energy up and well,
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we don't want get it up too much
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so where we can't
concentrate here on
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what we are doing,
but it's pretty nice
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to get started this way.
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I've got a home in gloryland
that outshines the sun,
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I've got a home in gloryland
that outshines the sun,
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I've got a home in gloryland
that outshines the sun,
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Way beyond the blue.
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Do Lord, oh, do Lord, oh,
do you remember me I said,
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Do Lord, oh, do Lord,
oh, do you remember me
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Do Lord, oh, do Lord,
oh, do you remember me
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Way beyond the blue.
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I took Jesus as my
Savior, you take Him, too
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I took Jesus as my
Savior, you take Him, too
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I took Jesus as my
Savior, you take Him, too
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Way beyond the blue
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Do Lord, oh, do Lord, oh,
do you remember me I said,
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Do Lord, oh, do Lord,
oh, do you remember me
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Do Lord, oh, do Lord,
oh, do you remember me
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Way beyond the blue.
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Do Lord, oh, do Lord, oh,
do you remember me I said,
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Do Lord, oh, do Lord,
oh, do you remember me
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Praise the Lord.
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Do Lord, oh, do Lord,
oh, do you remember me
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Way beyond the blue.
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Amen. Praise the
Lord, hallelujah.
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Oh, I love that song, don't you?
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That's a touch of heaven
on that piano and that music.
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Wow! Oh! It is, it is.
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Wow!
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And you know what, there's
a challenge to all of those
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who would be
listening and watching,
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accept Him as your
Lord and Savior today.
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Why not today? Yes.
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Amen. That's right.
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And then you have
a home in gloryland.
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That's right, we
don't sing another one?
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Do you Tammy?
Sister Tammy will lead us.
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We are, we're
just at little chorus
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of turn your eyes upon Jesus
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'cause we feel like all
of our viewers are gonna,
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gonna know that little chorus
and it's good to turn your eyes
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upon Jesus before
we go into the study.
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Good. So...
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Amen. I've
always loved this story.
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Yes.
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Turn your eyes
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Upon the Jesus,
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Look full in His
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Wonderful face,
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And the things of earth
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Will grow strangely dim,
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In the light of
His glory and grace.
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Sing it through
with this one more times.
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Turn your eyes
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upon the Jesus,
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Look full in His
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wonderful face.
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And the things of earth
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will grow strangely dim,
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in the light of his
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glory and grace.
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Praise the Jesus.
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Wow! Hallelujah. Oh. Wow!
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You know, with that being sung,
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wouldn't it be
good time now for us
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to take our
petitions and our, you know,
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our thoughts, and our cares,
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and whatever you
maybe caring tonight.
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We're gonna take
them to the Lord and pray.
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Would you just, some of you are
going to have the opportunity
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to kneel, why
don't you just do that?
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We're gonna pray and ask God's
blessing upon this program,
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there may reach
somebody for him, let's pray.
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Merciful father in
heaven, what a privilege it is
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to be counted as
part of the family of God.
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Thank you for Calvary,
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thank you for the blood
that was shed in our behalf.
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Lord, we can't thank You enough,
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we can't praise You enough.
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Amen.
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There's no way heaven
could ever be our home
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before we are
enough for Calvary.
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The subject that we
want to just touch on,
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we can only touch on,
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and we can only be
inspired by the Holy Spirit
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for what we are
capable of understanding.
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We know that the,
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for the life's gonna
be given to us as we,
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you know, share heaven together,
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and we ask you to bless
those who view, those who watch,
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those who listen, those who--
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Who want to come
to know You're better.
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We pray that your Holy
Spirit will open the hearts
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and the minds of
every one of your children
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and each one of us
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as we look at this subject
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that's so
inviting, so encouraging,
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so empowering.
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Yeah. Bless us, Lord.
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We pray with Thy spirit
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that may we hear the sweet
voice of Jesus speaking to us.
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May we be filled, and may
a decision be made right now
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as we're at the family altar,
and we thank You in Jesus name.
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Amen. Amen. Amen.
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For tonight, we are
going to topic of our message
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or our discussion here tonight.
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Oh, it's good, I like it.
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Is peace through the
cross, peace through the cross.
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I want to read a little
quote from Desire of Ages.
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It's on page 83, excuse me.
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It reads, "It would
be well for us to spend
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a thoughtful hour each day
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in contemplation of
the life of Christ."
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Yes.
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"We should take
it point by point,
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and let the
imagination grasp each scene,
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especially the closing ones."
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And we have an opening scripture
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that goes with this,
too, with that thought.
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"Each day, thinking
about what Christ did for us.
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What heaven opened up
and sacrificed for us."
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Amen.
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We're gonna look at Romans 8:1,
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Brother Bruce, could
you read Romans 8:1 for us?
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Hm-mm.
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"There is, therefore
now no condemnation to them
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which are in Christ Jesus,
who walk not after the flesh,
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but after the Spirit."
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Don't you love that no
condemnation, you know,
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no longer under the penalty
of death because of the law,
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you haven't broken the law
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because you're
walking in the spirit now,
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rather than under breaking,
sinning against God's law.
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All right.
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I thought it was very, you know,
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very interesting when you talk
about peace through the cross,
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and just in my own
life, my own heart,
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that there's
something when you think about
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the cross of Calvary,
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it's like when you
say the name of Jesus,
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there's something powerful,
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there's something
that begins to work
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and I want to say turn,
inside of me that the spirit
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and I think about
the cross and then,
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what happens in my life
I thought about the cross
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and someone who was sinless,
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and who was
willing to come and die
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for somebody, like me,
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it touched my heart.
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It helped to change my life
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because I began to
contemplate Calvary
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and try to contemplate
heaven for he gave up.
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Amen.
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In the study, we hope, a
lot of this will be brought out
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because this will change
us if we just study and think
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contemplate you mentioned,
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about that last
hours may be get ceremony.
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You could, a lot of
things you can think
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about the life of Christ
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but Calvary, he went
there and I want you to listen.
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I want you to take
it personal, please.
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He did for you, if
you were the only one,
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and, you know,
sometimes as human beings
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Sister Shelley, you know,
I feel like sometimes, we--
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That concept of just for one,
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kind of, goes over our
head and we want the big group
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and we want a lot of
people and Jesus said,
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"I would do it just for you,"
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I mean, what
kind of love is that?
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Amen.
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You know, I've been doing
just what Sister right suggested
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there is spinning time
each day contemplating,
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Gethsemane contemplating
the trail of Christ
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in the crucifixion, and
the idea of just for one,
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you know, you
wonder I understand
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why He was
crucified, He had to die,
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He had to shed his
blood for our sins.
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But have you ever wondered
why He had to suffer so much?
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In Gethsemane and through
the trail of the beatings
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where it tore His flesh, I mean,
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it literally we
think of torn flesh
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of just
superficial out tear enough,
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but it literally
tore through the muscles,
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and He was beaten in such a
way and you think, "What, lord?
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Why did you suffer so,
but I believe, you know,
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as Hebrew 2:17
tells us here that
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"They'd become
like us in all ways,"
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and He had to understand
and be tempted in all ways.
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And that is something that
when we think of our savior,
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He did not just
come down to die for us,
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but He came down to live for us,
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and to be tempted in all ways
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and show us how to
overcome those temptations.
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Amen.
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So He understands
and that's beautiful.
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One thing I haven't heard,
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dwelled on very much
is we can't comprehend
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what He did and
what He went through.
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But on the other hand,
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we look at from God's
point of view, His Father.
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Yes.
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Can you imagine
seeing your child
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go through what
Jesus went through?
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God had to make that sacrifice
to send His son because to me,
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I just, I can't comprehend
to say your child go through
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what Jesus went through.
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And yet, He did it for us,
He did the sacrifice for us.
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And I think the part of what
our program is about tonight,
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peace through the cross
is actually asking questions,
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like why was He beaten?
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Why did He go to the cross?
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What was the purpose,
He was the god of heaven,
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He was right there in a place
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that we can only imagine, peace.
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They didn't understand,
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they didn't know
this type of cruelty.
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Why did He do that?
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Why would He do that for
each and every one of us?
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At first, I would
like to and turn a light
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because this is the
direction we need to go,
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just take that walk along
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so that, we're
personally involved.
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Who does this apply to
and it tells us in John 3:18,
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which is segues
into these, John 3:18,
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"He who believes in Him
is not condemned," so there,
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hopefully, everyone is watching
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or sharing this evening with us,
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you know, that
they do believe in Him
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so that they will
stand accordingly.
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"But he who does not
believe is condemned already,
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because he has not believed
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in the name of the
only begotten Son of God.
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So this is the condemnation
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that the light has
come into the world,
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and men loved
darkness rather than light,
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because their deeds were evil."
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But, you know,
"Those that loved the light,
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he who does not--
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He who does love the
truth comes into the light
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that his days might be
clearly seen that they have,
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and what that means,
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through the sacrifice of
Jesus made to each one of us.
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And so as we
are taking this walk
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now as you were saying,
Chris, what does that meant?
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You know, So I might,
here's for we're trying
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to appreciate
that oneness with Him.
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Amen.
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It was interesting,
we've, this last week,
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we were
preparing for the opening
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and we have a young man that's
playing the role of Jesus,
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as he is hanging on
the cross, and we take--
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Now this is, kind of, Calvary...
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This is an
opening for camp meeting?
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Opening for camp meeting that
we're talking about Calvary,
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and so, as he is lying
there, that he came and says,
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"Is this enough blood?"
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Now this is just
artificial blood,
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you know, to make this,
and each one of us were like,
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"No, He went through
much more blood than this."
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But I mean you can
overdo it because in my mind,
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He was cursed from hand to toe.
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Point. He's found his way to--
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Like in the Book
of Romans 5:9 says,
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"We are justified by his blood".
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See that, to me that's powerful
we're talking condemnations,
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so really all of us are under
that death penalty, aren't we?
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Because we've all seen they
come shower the glory of God
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that I want to
encourage the people are some
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who...some times that they tune
in may be accidentally they say
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and there...
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you know,
there's you have no fear
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that God's not
going to accept you.
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Amen.
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God will accept
you if you come to him.
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If you behold him, say
simple if we confess our sins,
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He is faithful
and just forgives us
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and cleans us
from righteousness.
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So thank full, we look at it
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and we think of the
blood you were talking about
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thinking about Calvary
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and the
whippings and the beatings,
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we look at with the
stain almost on one hand
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and on the other hand, I
am gonna say it like this,
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hope no one takes it wrong,
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it gives me some
peace in my heart
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to know that he
took what I deserved,
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he took it and without it,
heaven can never be our home,
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the world could
never be in one bag.
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You are starting to
touch on my original question.
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My original question
was why did He do this?
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Why would heaven empty itself
of the Savior and give Him
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and allow Him to live this life,
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allow Him to go to
such a brutal death?
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It was to show us
the sinfulness of sins.
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Amen. Just how sinful.
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The penalty of sin is death
and that and you touched on it.
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He died the death
that each of us are guilty,
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we're guilty.
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We are the ones that are really
are supposed to die that death,
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but because He loved us so much,
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He said Tammy, I
can't let you do that.
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I think of my husband.
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He took what we deserves. Yes.
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I think of my husband here,
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because I know if he
thinks anybody's in trouble,
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he's gonna take it first.
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Right.
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And it doesn't
matter how hard it hurts.
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And our Savior was like that,
it didn't mattered how hard,
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how difficult His path was.
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J.D, He loved you so much.
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And we've all sinned
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and come short
of the glory of God,
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and so therefore, we needed him.
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If there was to be
any hope, we are in need
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'cause we are
lost without a Savior.
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And so that I think
needs to be our premise
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because why, why dwell
upon somebody being beaten,
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why dwell upon
them hammering nails
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through His flesh?
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Without the
knowledge of that's my penalty
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He's taking, it
really means nothing.
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That's what sin caused,
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that's why sin
must be eradicated,
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that's why sin
will eventually burn up,
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that's why Jesus is
calling His people and saying,
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"I want to reproduce my image
in you so that you can come
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and live in this
glorious kingdom with me.
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This is where you belong."
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That's what it's all about
that's why we think about it.
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When you say
that we dwell on it,
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I don't think we
dwell on it nearly enough.
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That's right, that's right.
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When you know, we
sanitize the crucifixion,
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I mean, you know, even putting
a lowing cloth over Christ.
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He hung there
naked. That's right.
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I mean what, how humiliating
for the creator to, you know--
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And here's, here's
the thought that I had
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when you were speaking is that.
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I think the
reason, Sister White said
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that we should especially
look to these last moments,
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you know, now, the Bible writers
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just, kind of,
tell us, just enough,
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they didn't have to
explain to their audience
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how the scaring,
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how it literally
went to the bone.
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People knew, they knew
the Romans had no limitation
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they would, they would beat him
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until, I mean,
Christ lost a lot of blood
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during the beating.
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But then when
they put the nails in,
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it was such that
it hit the nerves
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so those the nerve
pain in the arms was horrid
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and you're hanging there.
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His shoulders would come
out. They become disjointed.
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It was a horrific death.
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But I think the reason,
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Sister White, tells
us to contemplate this
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is I had this
thought in the Old Testament,
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during the old
covenant, they knew
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that everything pointed
forward to Christ, right?
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They knew the lamb
that they were sacrificing.
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But just think about this.
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You've got this precious
little one year old lamb
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that is absolutely spotless
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and you know
the lamb had to live
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in their home with them.
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Even the passed over lamb had
to be in their home with them
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for at least four days,
but generally it was longer.
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So you get
attached to this innocent.
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You know, and
you love your dogs.
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So you get attached to
this precious little lamb.
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And then you would have to
go take it into the outer court,
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the priest hands you a
knife, put back it's chin
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and then you had to be
the one to slit the blood
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and watch the blood
drain tell it dropped.
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That gave you, just as you said,
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if during that time
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they had an idea of
the sinful of innocent sin,
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they knew what it meant
to have someone have to be
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or a thing blood to be given
as a substitute for theirs.
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They understood it, we don't.
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But as we take time,
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hopefully, on a daily
basis as we look at this,
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then if you
consider Christ sufferings,
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I think it makes us more aware
of how sinful we really are.
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Well, it surely
brings to our mind,
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boy, what fantastic news.
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Let me tell you the good news
for I don't have to sit here.
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We grew, grew up raising sheep
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and so we had our little orphans
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and we had our
little Spot, little Spot,
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bless his little
heart, he was our best friend.
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We had Lassie, the
collie and then we had Spot
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and they were best friends.
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Where Lassie
went, here came Spot.
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And so I know what it is
00:22:01.75\00:22:03.15
to have a sweet little
lamb grow up in the family
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and then to think that
you've got to take his life
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and you know
what's going to happen
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and your heart's breaking.
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The fantastic news is,
is that we have somebody
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that went to the
cross, that took that place.
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I don't have to worry about
taking precious little Spot
00:22:20.64\00:22:23.74
and slicing his throat.
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But I've got to keep
my eyes focused on Jesus.
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What you--
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I met a man one
time I talked to him
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and you know, we all
meet people we talk to them
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and they're very interesting
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and of course, usually
sometime, I get those who just,
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they don't
believe there's a Jesus.
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They don't believe in God.
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They're not a
Christian and they'll tell you
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right out front.
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Well, I began to
talk to him one day,
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he's come,
reminds me about this.
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When he's talking he, kind of,
opened the door for a question
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and he wanted to
know a little bit he said,
00:22:51.77\00:22:53.40
"I've heard somebody,
people talk a little bit
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about something,
about a sanctuary.
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I'm not sure well that means."
00:22:58.14\00:22:59.47
And he said.
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But there's--
00:23:00.88\00:23:02.21
It's sure sometime,
the world thinks deeper
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than us as Christians.
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I will give illustration.
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I was talking to him
about it now same thing I said,
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you know, the lamb was
brought and slipped a little
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and, he looked at
me and he said, "Why?"
00:23:16.22\00:23:18.29
He said, "Why?
00:23:18.33\00:23:19.66
That lamb did not
do anything to anybody.
00:23:19.69\00:23:23.06
It was harmless it
wouldn't hurt anybody,
00:23:23.10\00:23:25.07
so why would it have
to be a harmless lamb
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that had to shed its blood."
00:23:27.77\00:23:29.74
And I said, "Man, what a point,
it brought tears to my eyes."
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He is basically an
atheist a Non-Christian person,
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he doesn't know anything
and he can look at the lamb
00:23:34.34\00:23:36.18
which we know represents Jesus.
00:23:36.21\00:23:38.18
And he said, "It
didn't do anything to anybody.
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Why?"
00:23:41.55\00:23:42.88
I thought how good, it's
opened the other door for more.
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We need to think deeply,
00:23:45.59\00:23:46.92
of what you were talking about
all of us talking about here,
00:23:46.96\00:23:49.22
about peace in the
midst of a storm at the cross.
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At the cross where
I first saw the light
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and the burden of what?
00:23:56.97\00:23:58.67
And my heart rolled away.
00:23:58.70\00:24:01.24
See this is what it's all about
what we're talking about here
00:24:01.27\00:24:03.51
because I think it's
in 2 Corinthians, it said,
00:24:03.54\00:24:06.91
"Christ became sin for us."
00:24:06.94\00:24:10.95
That just, yeah, 21.
00:24:10.98\00:24:12.45
That is just
awesome he became sin.
00:24:12.48\00:24:15.78
He suffered it.
00:24:15.82\00:24:17.15
But I believe this
with my whole heart
00:24:17.19\00:24:18.52
that he, he suffered
00:24:18.55\00:24:20.09
more than all the
physical pain was horrible,
00:24:20.12\00:24:22.89
he probably can't
say, he didn't notice it.
00:24:22.92\00:24:25.73
But it was the eternity,
00:24:25.76\00:24:27.10
the possibility of eternal
separation from his father.
00:24:27.13\00:24:31.47
From the very beginning,
He had never been separated
00:24:31.50\00:24:33.94
and that the pain of the thought
00:24:33.97\00:24:35.80
of the separation
that sin cost us today
00:24:35.84\00:24:39.47
and sin, my brother and sister,
will separate you from God,
00:24:39.51\00:24:41.94
it separates you
from your family,
00:24:41.98\00:24:43.55
it will separate from
things that you want to love.
00:24:43.58\00:24:45.51
Go ahead, brother, J.D.
00:24:45.55\00:24:46.88
And it was so serious, I mean,
00:24:46.92\00:24:48.25
I was just getting
ready to touch on it,
00:24:48.28\00:24:49.62
it was so serious that
the white of everyone sin,
00:24:49.65\00:24:53.76
everyone's
inequity was coming down
00:24:53.79\00:24:56.06
and this was,
this was pre-planned.
00:24:56.09\00:25:00.13
But yet, yet, it came time
00:25:00.16\00:25:04.07
and before he knew
that it was a done deal,
00:25:04.10\00:25:07.24
he had to go back to his father.
00:25:07.27\00:25:08.77
That's right.
00:25:08.80\00:25:10.14
He said, "Listen,
daddy, 'Did we do good?
00:25:10.17\00:25:13.71
Did we do good?'" Yeah, yeah.
00:25:13.74\00:25:15.24
Before that. That's
heavy, that's heavy.
00:25:15.28\00:25:16.64
That's heavy.
00:25:16.68\00:25:18.01
Before that, He did, He would
not even come out of the tomb,
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He had the power--
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He resurrected himself.
00:25:22.62\00:25:24.15
But He would not, He
was obedient until death
00:25:24.19\00:25:28.02
and until the angel
came to this tomb and said,
00:25:28.06\00:25:31.39
"Thy father calls thee."
00:25:31.43\00:25:34.03
He did not resurrect himself.
00:25:34.06\00:25:37.67
He was obedient, that's hard
00:25:37.70\00:25:39.63
and the other thought
here is just look at our world,
00:25:39.67\00:25:43.71
how the enemy is
working in the world
00:25:43.74\00:25:46.04
to make sins like
this of no effect,
00:25:46.07\00:25:49.41
to make sin seem less
sinful, like it's no big deal.
00:25:49.44\00:25:55.08
You know, we've talked out
on different programs all of us
00:25:55.12\00:25:57.62
of how people
think that they can do
00:25:57.65\00:25:59.89
and act and live
anyway they want.
00:25:59.92\00:26:01.89
And everything's fine,
00:26:01.92\00:26:03.26
you just go to
church once a week,
00:26:03.29\00:26:04.63
sing happy songs
and, and eat donuts
00:26:04.66\00:26:07.76
or whatever they might offer you
00:26:07.80\00:26:09.53
and go your merry
way, and everything's good.
00:26:09.56\00:26:12.63
And yet, when you begin to
open and dissect the scripture
00:26:12.67\00:26:15.47
you see, it's so
totally different,
00:26:15.50\00:26:18.37
if that's the way it were,
if that's the way God intended,
00:26:18.41\00:26:22.41
Christ would not
have gone to that cross.
00:26:22.44\00:26:24.91
And I, I'd like to be
rewind for just a second
00:26:24.95\00:26:27.85
because we commented
00:26:27.88\00:26:29.62
on the B part of
2 Corinthians 5:21
00:26:29.65\00:26:32.12
that, "He became sin,"
00:26:32.15\00:26:34.32
but actually what
the scripture says is,
00:26:34.36\00:26:37.26
"He God made him,
Christ, who knew no sin,
00:26:37.29\00:26:43.73
to be sin for us
00:26:43.77\00:26:46.57
that we might become
the righteousness of God."
00:26:46.60\00:26:49.84
Amen.
00:26:49.87\00:26:51.21
So the point is for everything
we said about Christ suffering,
00:26:51.24\00:26:56.21
that was just the
tip of the iceberg.
00:26:56.24\00:26:59.71
The true suffering was
when this perfect sinless,
00:26:59.75\00:27:06.35
perfectly human,
perfectly divine person
00:27:06.39\00:27:09.42
had to take the
burden, the agony, the guilt,
00:27:09.46\00:27:13.80
the condemnation, the
weight of all of our sin on him.
00:27:13.83\00:27:18.67
That's where the real
pain was because as you said,
00:27:18.70\00:27:21.70
"That's what
separated Him from His father."
00:27:21.74\00:27:26.88
And to your point,
00:27:26.91\00:27:29.78
the scripture we
began with Romans 8:1,
00:27:29.81\00:27:32.78
"There is
therefore now no condemnation
00:27:32.81\00:27:35.28
for those who
are in Christ Jesus."
00:27:35.32\00:27:37.69
I had a friend who
no matter what she did,
00:27:37.72\00:27:40.69
it was like
"Hallelujah, I'm not condemned.
00:27:40.72\00:27:43.06
I mean in Christ."
00:27:43.09\00:27:44.43
And I said, "You know, you've
got to look at what it says."
00:27:44.46\00:27:47.76
'Cause first of all,
let me put it this way,
00:27:47.80\00:27:50.57
if the
commandments were done away with
00:27:50.60\00:27:54.44
at the cross
which some people teach
00:27:54.47\00:27:57.47
when Christ died in
vain, why did he have to die?
00:27:57.51\00:27:59.77
That's right, because
the law had been broken.
00:27:59.81\00:28:02.48
He died because the law
00:28:02.51\00:28:04.38
and if God want gonna
to keep that law in place,
00:28:04.41\00:28:06.48
he wouldn't have had his
son going through all of that.
00:28:06.51\00:28:08.78
Witness the greatest testimony
00:28:08.82\00:28:10.85
that the Law has
not done away with it
00:28:10.89\00:28:12.92
because the Christ came to die
00:28:12.95\00:28:15.82
and paid the
penalty, I thought how.
00:28:15.86\00:28:18.83
When you say
penalty, I remember who said
00:28:18.86\00:28:20.30
penalty in all different things,
00:28:20.33\00:28:21.66
but I'm talking
about in my mind,
00:28:21.70\00:28:23.26
every wrong
action, every wrong word,
00:28:23.30\00:28:27.20
every wrong thought.
00:28:27.24\00:28:28.57
Yes.
00:28:28.60\00:28:29.94
Every sin,
whether it's made no not.
00:28:29.97\00:28:32.51
He paid the price, you
talking about how heavy.
00:28:32.54\00:28:35.48
Sometime, we know better
and we might do something,
00:28:35.51\00:28:38.71
it becomes very heavy.
00:28:38.75\00:28:40.32
That's just our own life.
00:28:40.35\00:28:41.95
What if we had the weight
of the world on our shoulders?
00:28:41.98\00:28:45.39
Our heart would break.
00:28:45.42\00:28:46.76
Our heart, our
heart would, would break.
00:28:46.79\00:28:48.12
Can even in
death, he kept it. Good.
00:28:48.16\00:28:51.43
So I mean, even in
death he kept the Sabbath.
00:28:51.46\00:28:53.50
Yes, yes. I mean.
00:28:53.53\00:28:54.96
He was setting an
example even in death.
00:28:55.00\00:28:57.33
Of keeping the law
00:28:57.37\00:28:58.83
'cause it was the law
that have been broken.
00:28:58.87\00:29:01.20
Tammy, would you read that.
00:29:01.24\00:29:03.27
Second paragraph
there it starts with,
00:29:03.30\00:29:05.31
"As your conscience."
00:29:05.34\00:29:06.81
Kind of comes up what
we've been talking about.
00:29:06.84\00:29:08.78
As your conscience has been
quickened by the Holy Spirit.
00:29:08.81\00:29:12.65
You have seen
something of the evil of sin.
00:29:12.68\00:29:15.92
Of it's power,
it's a guilt, it's wall.
00:29:15.95\00:29:19.45
And you look upon
it with abhorrence.
00:29:19.49\00:29:22.02
You longed to be forgiven,
to be cleansed, to be set free.
00:29:22.06\00:29:26.76
Harmony with
God, likeness to him.
00:29:26.80\00:29:29.30
What can you do to obtain it?
00:29:29.33\00:29:32.20
That's powerful. Powerful words.
00:29:32.23\00:29:34.50
Yes. And a powerful question.
00:29:34.54\00:29:37.64
To quick and quick
00:29:37.67\00:29:39.04
and by the Holy
Spirit your given life.
00:29:39.07\00:29:41.74
So you begin to understand.
00:29:41.78\00:29:43.71
Oh, wow!
00:29:43.75\00:29:45.08
What I've been
doing is not right.
00:29:45.11\00:29:46.85
You know, people are always
looking for something that,
00:29:46.88\00:29:49.08
makes them happy, happiness.
00:29:49.12\00:29:51.45
But many times, they're
looking in the wrong place,
00:29:51.49\00:29:53.52
they're looking at the
night club every weekend.
00:29:53.56\00:29:55.52
You know, can't
wait till Friday comes,
00:29:55.56\00:29:57.36
because we're going dancing
00:29:57.39\00:29:58.73
or we're going to
hear we're doing that.
00:29:58.76\00:30:00.33
We're going to the skating rink.
00:30:00.36\00:30:02.10
That's Southern Illinois.
00:30:02.13\00:30:05.93
Not much else to do,
to go to the skating.
00:30:05.97\00:30:09.34
But once, once you have
a touch of the Holy Spirit
00:30:09.37\00:30:14.54
in your Spirit becomes quick
00:30:14.58\00:30:17.01
and it becomes a
live and you realize,
00:30:17.05\00:30:18.51
"Wow! There is
something different.
00:30:18.55\00:30:20.52
I want that."
00:30:20.55\00:30:22.05
I can remember being,
as a child even in meetings
00:30:22.08\00:30:25.09
and listening to different
messages being presented
00:30:25.12\00:30:28.02
and all of a
sudden you feel this.
00:30:28.06\00:30:29.56
These Goosebumps and
feel the spirit come over you.
00:30:29.59\00:30:32.86
And you talk to
somebody they didn't experience.
00:30:32.89\00:30:35.76
What's going on?
00:30:35.80\00:30:37.13
But it made me want more.
00:30:37.17\00:30:38.77
I want more of his presence.
00:30:38.80\00:30:40.97
And you begin to see this
sinfulness of sin it's guilt.
00:30:41.00\00:30:46.41
You talked
about, "What would we do
00:30:46.44\00:30:48.14
if we had the whole
world sin on our shoulder?"
00:30:48.18\00:30:52.85
I said, "It would
break our hearts."
00:30:52.88\00:30:54.22
It's guilt that destroys you,
00:30:54.25\00:30:56.55
even if you
think you're hiding it.
00:30:56.58\00:30:58.39
It just growing rushed.
00:30:58.42\00:31:00.26
Crushed some time
because, someone says,
00:31:00.29\00:31:02.26
something unpleasant.
00:31:02.29\00:31:05.09
Some people put them
in bed for a week or two.
00:31:05.13\00:31:07.43
I mean that's.
00:31:07.46\00:31:09.50
We've got to grow in the grace
and the knowledge and wisdom
00:31:09.53\00:31:11.73
and strength of Jesus Christ,
00:31:11.77\00:31:13.13
because everything that
can be said, will be said.
00:31:13.17\00:31:16.07
If the devil cannot get
you to do the wrong thing,
00:31:16.10\00:31:19.24
I'll put it that
way we understand it.
00:31:19.27\00:31:21.08
If you can't do that then
he will attack your character.
00:31:21.11\00:31:23.55
Yes, we die.
00:31:23.58\00:31:24.91
If he can't get
you off, of the track,
00:31:24.95\00:31:26.28
to get you out doing something
open or whatever it might be.
00:31:26.31\00:31:28.82
He will attack your
name, your character,
00:31:28.85\00:31:31.89
and he will try to
drag you through the dirt.
00:31:31.92\00:31:34.19
And the dust and the mire
00:31:34.22\00:31:35.76
hoping you'll
never rise up again.
00:31:35.79\00:31:37.83
I say, "We serve a savior,
00:31:37.86\00:31:39.79
that can pull us out
of that mud, that mire,
00:31:39.83\00:31:42.46
that mud, that quicksand." Amen.
00:31:42.50\00:31:44.73
"That devil's
trying to throw on us."
00:31:44.77\00:31:46.23
If you ever been were
cars been struck years ago,
00:31:46.27\00:31:48.64
you get off the road
and it's down the axles.
00:31:48.67\00:31:50.64
And some are saying,
"Hey, give me a push.
00:31:50.67\00:31:52.74
Give me a..."
00:31:52.77\00:31:56.08
we did one time on a Sabbath.
00:31:56.11\00:31:58.01
Had a suit, everything on
00:31:58.05\00:31:59.61
nothing would but
we get behind the car,
00:31:59.65\00:32:01.35
three or four of us
got behind the car and.
00:32:01.38\00:32:03.55
It was just completely mud.
00:32:03.59\00:32:06.92
Lot time there's
mud swimmers out there.
00:32:06.96\00:32:09.42
You know, and we
probably fall down in times past
00:32:09.46\00:32:11.99
what we serve a savior.
00:32:12.03\00:32:14.46
Who will forgive
us, and clans us,
00:32:14.50\00:32:15.83
and set our feet
on the right path.
00:32:15.86\00:32:17.93
There's a question quickly
I thought it was interesting.
00:32:17.97\00:32:20.57
It says, I read
one time, it says,
00:32:20.60\00:32:22.00
"We are not to be
anxious about what Christ
00:32:22.04\00:32:27.74
and God think about us."
00:32:27.78\00:32:30.01
Now, that's
going to blow us out.
00:32:30.05\00:32:31.71
We are not to be
anxious about what Christ
00:32:31.75\00:32:34.08
and God think about us.
00:32:34.12\00:32:36.52
And you say, "Well, what is it?"
00:32:36.55\00:32:38.95
But what God
thinks about Christ?
00:32:38.99\00:32:43.43
Because, he's my substitute.
00:32:43.46\00:32:45.79
I'm getting
loose by those. Amen.
00:32:45.83\00:32:47.60
I'm getting
Goosebumps right now.
00:32:47.63\00:32:49.40
Which goes back... To my surety.
00:32:49.43\00:32:50.87
Yes. Amen.
00:32:50.90\00:32:52.23
He's my substitute.
00:32:52.27\00:32:53.60
God doesn't look
at this poor mess.
00:32:53.64\00:32:56.20
He looks at his Son
00:32:56.24\00:32:57.57
and I've excepted his
Son as my Lord and savior,
00:32:57.61\00:32:59.37
I got his blood cleans me.
00:32:59.41\00:33:01.11
I'm going his blood
work on me every day.
00:33:01.14\00:33:03.45
If we're not to be anxious
about what God thinks of us.
00:33:03.48\00:33:07.42
Why should be
anxious about people
00:33:07.45\00:33:09.58
that want to
know the sling darts.
00:33:09.62\00:33:11.79
You know, a lot, of
people I've heard they say,
00:33:11.82\00:33:14.56
"I don't go to
church anymore because,
00:33:14.59\00:33:16.09
so and so offended me you
know, and when they said."
00:33:16.12\00:33:18.73
And Kenny, our mother
had no patience with that.
00:33:18.76\00:33:21.76
You know that?
00:33:21.80\00:33:23.13
She said, "I don't care
what anybody says, about me
00:33:23.16\00:33:26.03
they're not going to
drive me from my church."
00:33:26.07\00:33:29.60
He just told me that this week.
00:33:29.64\00:33:31.34
He told me the very same quote.
00:33:31.37\00:33:33.17
That's what she said, you
know, you like he said sometimes
00:33:33.21\00:33:36.58
and put somebody in bad for
you know, weeks and you know,
00:33:36.61\00:33:39.88
I just I want to say,
"Kindly snap out of it."
00:33:39.91\00:33:42.48
Yes.
00:33:42.52\00:33:43.85
You know, if we're not anxious
about what God thinks about us.
00:33:43.89\00:33:46.92
Yes.
00:33:46.96\00:33:48.32
Can I... Yes.
00:33:48.36\00:33:49.89
This is because, it says here,
you asked that you question.
00:33:49.92\00:33:54.13
You long to be, forgiven
to be clean to set free.
00:33:54.16\00:33:57.27
Lord to be set free, and
so I was looking this up,
00:33:57.30\00:34:00.24
and in 1890 Ellen White,
wrote this and signs of times.
00:34:00.27\00:34:03.74
And boy, it
encouraged me because,
00:34:03.77\00:34:05.57
of one word that
she was using in here,
00:34:05.61\00:34:08.24
that allows you to be set free.
00:34:08.28\00:34:10.35
"To those who, "so this is who
are being set free all right.
00:34:10.38\00:34:13.82
"To those, who believe in except
00:34:13.85\00:34:15.32
"the generous portions
and provisions of the gospel
00:34:15.35\00:34:18.52
"and who in
faith commit themselves
00:34:18.55\00:34:21.76
"to the lives of
living obedience,
00:34:21.79\00:34:23.89
Christ offers
justification in freedom."
00:34:23.93\00:34:26.33
Yes. Now listen to this please.
00:34:26.36\00:34:29.43
There may yet be the fish,
he and my believers character
00:34:29.46\00:34:35.54
or that's important to hear
00:34:35.57\00:34:37.11
how is boy we could get
under so much guilt sometimes.
00:34:37.14\00:34:39.81
Because, we are not
doing something right,
00:34:39.84\00:34:42.91
"There my get be deficiencies
in the believers character,
00:34:42.94\00:34:46.55
but when it is in the
heart of God to obey him."
00:34:46.58\00:34:49.92
Yes. Come on now.
00:34:49.95\00:34:51.52
"When efforts are
being put forth to this
00:34:51.55\00:34:53.76
and then Jesus
accept this deficit.
00:34:53.79\00:34:58.23
And efforts as
man's best service
00:34:58.26\00:35:00.16
than hey my
except for the deficient.
00:35:00.20\00:35:01.96
Yes, he does. There you go.
00:35:02.00\00:35:03.77
And then it goes on.
00:35:03.80\00:35:05.33
So we're talking about
peace through the cross,
00:35:05.37\00:35:08.10
we're talking
about condemnation,
00:35:08.14\00:35:09.70
then it ends
with a last sentence.
00:35:09.74\00:35:12.01
For such, there
is no condemnation
00:35:12.04\00:35:15.41
because if you have a
deficiency he's saying there,
00:35:15.44\00:35:19.08
if you're doing
the best that you can,
00:35:19.11\00:35:21.88
then I'm there to make
up for their deficiency.
00:35:21.92\00:35:24.62
It's our tendency.
It's our tendencies.
00:35:24.65\00:35:25.99
So now we are on
our way to this cross.
00:35:26.02\00:35:28.12
Kind of like having
done all of the stand.
00:35:28.16\00:35:29.49
Amen. That's true.
00:35:29.52\00:35:30.86
He made the trend,
to where you're heading,
00:35:30.89\00:35:33.40
what you're
trying, it's the motive,
00:35:33.43\00:35:35.46
motive of the heart.
00:35:35.50\00:35:36.83
Amen, amen. Amen.
00:35:36.87\00:35:38.20
I want to read the next part
of what you both have just read.
00:35:38.23\00:35:42.44
Because right after,
it says, "To be set free,
00:35:42.47\00:35:45.24
harmony with
God, lightness to him,
00:35:45.27\00:35:48.31
"and here's the
question I want us to answer.
00:35:48.34\00:35:51.15
What can you do to obtain it?
00:35:51.18\00:35:54.95
What can you do to
obtain the harmony,
00:35:54.98\00:35:57.99
to have that
forgiveness, to have that peace,
00:35:58.02\00:36:02.29
that sets us free,
to have that assurity
00:36:02.32\00:36:05.99
that our names are written
in the Lamb's Book of Life.
00:36:06.03\00:36:08.76
What can we do?
00:36:08.80\00:36:10.63
When we started
in Romans in 8:1,
00:36:10.67\00:36:13.80
we didn't
finish the whole verse,
00:36:13.84\00:36:16.44
the next part of it says
"The law of the Spirit of life
00:36:16.47\00:36:20.34
in Christ Jesus has made me free
00:36:20.38\00:36:23.45
from the law of sin and death".
00:36:23.48\00:36:25.91
Christ Jesus make us
free from sin and death,
00:36:25.95\00:36:29.08
that's what we can do, is
give our hearts to Christ.
00:36:29.12\00:36:31.75
Does it stop there?
00:36:31.79\00:36:34.06
No, continues on for--
00:36:34.09\00:36:35.42
No, I mean does it stop
there? Giving your hearts?
00:36:35.46\00:36:37.59
Giving your heart to
Jesus, does it stop there?
00:36:37.63\00:36:39.96
No, absolutely not.
00:36:40.00\00:36:41.63
Because we're supposed
to improve our characters,
00:36:41.66\00:36:44.80
we have deficiencies, we all do.
00:36:44.83\00:36:46.74
I have many deficiencies.
00:36:46.77\00:36:49.34
But we're
supposed to be continuing
00:36:49.37\00:36:51.17
to work on those deficiencies
to come closer to him.
00:36:51.21\00:36:54.11
To be-- show a
character like Christ had.
00:36:54.14\00:36:57.65
And really it has to be him.
00:36:57.68\00:36:59.71
You know the Bible says
00:36:59.75\00:37:01.08
that we can't
change our hearts any more
00:37:01.12\00:37:02.65
than a leopard
can change its spots,
00:37:02.68\00:37:04.22
Ethiopian change its skin.
00:37:04.25\00:37:06.15
It's all about you being
00:37:06.19\00:37:09.12
to the control
of the Holy Spirit.
00:37:09.16\00:37:11.96
It's like, it's
giving Him permission,
00:37:11.99\00:37:14.00
we used the
surrender, it is saying,
00:37:14.03\00:37:17.33
"Okay have your way with
me, Lord, because He promises,
00:37:17.37\00:37:20.80
He's the one would do this."
00:37:20.84\00:37:22.50
I just want to go...
I keep rewinding here,
00:37:22.54\00:37:26.04
but it says there's
no condemnation for those
00:37:26.07\00:37:29.01
who walk in Christ
Jesus, who are in Christ Jesus.
00:37:29.04\00:37:33.65
Who do not walk
according to the flesh,
00:37:33.68\00:37:37.05
but according to the spirit.
00:37:37.09\00:37:38.65
What does it mean to
walk according to the flesh?
00:37:38.69\00:37:41.56
'cause you're asking,
how do we obtain this,
00:37:41.59\00:37:43.63
once you've given
your heart to the Lord,
00:37:43.66\00:37:46.19
there is still this day-by-day
of giving up the old ways.
00:37:46.23\00:37:52.70
I'm gonna read
this from the Amplified
00:37:52.73\00:37:54.30
'cause I love how it reads.
00:37:54.34\00:37:56.30
Galatians 5:19-26
00:37:56.34\00:37:58.87
here what it means
to walk by the flesh.
00:37:58.91\00:38:02.54
"Now the doings, the
practices of flesh are clear,
00:38:02.58\00:38:06.85
immorality, impurity,
indecency, idolatry, sorcery,
00:38:06.88\00:38:10.65
enmity, strife,
jealousy, anger, ill temper."
00:38:10.69\00:38:14.79
You know, some people will say,
"I don't preach about temper
00:38:14.82\00:38:18.26
'cause, I've never had
problem with the temper."
00:38:18.29\00:38:20.56
But I will say this to anybody
00:38:20.60\00:38:22.33
that's got a problem
with controlling their temper,
00:38:22.36\00:38:25.00
they're not walking under--
00:38:25.03\00:38:26.53
in surrender to the
control of the Holy Spirit.
00:38:26.57\00:38:29.20
But, "Ill temper, selfishness,
divisions, party spirits,
00:38:29.24\00:38:32.84
factions, heresies, envy,
00:38:32.87\00:38:35.41
drunkenness,
carousing, and the like.
00:38:35.44\00:38:37.41
I warn you, just
as I did previously,
00:38:37.45\00:38:39.78
those who do such things
00:38:39.81\00:38:41.15
shall not inherit
the kingdom of God."
00:38:41.18\00:38:44.25
So just can't say,
"Oh Lord I accept you,
00:38:44.29\00:38:47.22
now I'm gonna go out
and get drunk," you know.
00:38:47.26\00:38:50.06
But the fruit of the spirit
00:38:50.09\00:38:52.59
when his
presence is living in us
00:38:52.63\00:38:56.33
and that's what it is,
it's day-by-day asking God
00:38:56.36\00:38:58.93
to lead us by His spirit,
to fill us with His spirit.
00:38:58.97\00:39:01.74
When the fruit of the
Spirit is, love, joy, peace,
00:39:01.77\00:39:07.88
that's something
we experience here,
00:39:07.91\00:39:09.61
the love, the joy, the peace.
00:39:09.64\00:39:11.91
Patience, kindness, goodness,
that's what we show to others
00:39:11.95\00:39:18.15
and then gentleness,
which means humility,
00:39:18.19\00:39:22.56
meekness,
self-control and faithfulness,
00:39:22.59\00:39:26.86
that's what we show to God.
00:39:26.90\00:39:29.03
It's actually--
00:39:29.06\00:39:30.97
we say fruits of the
spirit too incorrectly.
00:39:31.00\00:39:34.14
It is the fruit,
it is a single fruit
00:39:34.17\00:39:38.77
that produces these
nine characteristics,
00:39:38.81\00:39:41.21
so what do we do to obtain this?
00:39:41.24\00:39:44.61
Day-by-day we got to
get up and we got to pray,
00:39:44.65\00:39:47.52
we got say fill me
with your Holy Spirit
00:39:47.55\00:39:50.35
and then follow his
leading to walk as Christ walks.
00:39:50.39\00:39:55.52
'Cause we don't see--
00:39:55.56\00:39:57.89
When we say flesh many times,
00:39:57.93\00:39:59.33
we don't really
understand the sinfulness,
00:39:59.36\00:40:02.26
the rottenness of the flesh.
00:40:02.30\00:40:05.70
It's a Roman 8: 8.
00:40:05.73\00:40:07.64
It talks about the flesh
here, we talked about the flesh,
00:40:07.67\00:40:12.21
"If you're in the
flesh you can't please God."
00:40:12.24\00:40:13.81
Yes. It's what it
says. I paraphrased it.
00:40:13.84\00:40:15.18
"If you're in the
flesh you cannot please God."
00:40:15.21\00:40:18.71
It's kind of
like the faith factor
00:40:18.75\00:40:20.18
but you can't please
him and so we realize
00:40:20.22\00:40:22.18
that there is that
issue going on about flesh,
00:40:22.22\00:40:25.52
lust against the spirit.
00:40:25.55\00:40:27.52
You were talking about
in Galatians 5 maybe 17
00:40:27.56\00:40:29.66
if you read the 17.
00:40:29.69\00:40:31.19
So there is a
battle royal going on
00:40:31.23\00:40:33.73
and the ones gonna win
that battle, I love that--
00:40:33.76\00:40:36.53
I always say that
fruit of the spirit.
00:40:36.56\00:40:38.27
You take nine of them
there and I've often said this.
00:40:38.30\00:40:41.57
Yeah, when I really read
Him, I want to say this way,
00:40:41.60\00:40:44.67
best for me in
spirit and understanding,
00:40:44.71\00:40:47.54
I wept because
I failed everyone.
00:40:47.58\00:40:52.85
I did my own heart searching
and as I read those things,
00:40:52.88\00:40:57.29
I say can you fail
every one of those.
00:40:57.32\00:41:00.76
But Sister White
says, "Everyone--
00:41:00.79\00:41:04.59
if we lack one of the fruits,
fruit of the spirit, nine,
00:41:04.63\00:41:08.76
heaven will never be our home."
00:41:08.80\00:41:11.07
So with that balance in my mind
00:41:11.10\00:41:12.77
and what the scripture said,
00:41:12.80\00:41:14.14
I said, "Oh God
I need some help."
00:41:14.17\00:41:15.94
And Some of you
maybe saying that,
00:41:15.97\00:41:17.44
"Oh, I'm too far gone,
00:41:17.47\00:41:19.21
I've dug so deep
in, I'll never get--"
00:41:19.24\00:41:21.14
No you're not,
you're not that deep
00:41:21.18\00:41:22.61
that God can't get
you to the Holy Spirit.
00:41:22.64\00:41:24.75
You're never can't
have done anything so bad
00:41:24.78\00:41:26.68
that God can't forgive you.
00:41:26.72\00:41:28.45
Think about it, there's no
sin that God cannot forgive.
00:41:28.48\00:41:31.49
And Calvary proves that. Amen.
00:41:31.52\00:41:33.76
So I'm very
grateful and thankful.
00:41:33.79\00:41:35.92
I like Shelley mentioning love,
00:41:35.96\00:41:39.23
because love covers
all and it's part of all.
00:41:39.26\00:41:43.40
Yes. Amen.
00:41:43.43\00:41:44.77
So I noticed you
name that number one.
00:41:44.80\00:41:46.57
Yeah that's the essence
of Him. That is the greatest.
00:41:46.60\00:41:49.60
That's the greatest gift. Amen.
00:41:49.64\00:41:52.51
In my old age, peace
has become "The Word",
00:41:52.54\00:41:57.28
you know, and we say jokingly,
00:41:57.31\00:41:59.18
"I just want
peace, I just want--"
00:41:59.21\00:42:00.82
But you know what, in
this horrible, sinful world
00:42:00.85\00:42:04.72
that we live in, you
realize how elusive peace is.
00:42:04.75\00:42:08.99
Yes Ma'am. It is so elusive.
00:42:09.02\00:42:11.89
If you don't have Jesus
00:42:11.93\00:42:13.76
and you don't have
that hope in your heart,
00:42:13.80\00:42:16.16
how can find
peace in this world?
00:42:16.20\00:42:18.17
You can't. You can't.
00:42:18.20\00:42:19.53
You can't. You can't.
00:42:19.57\00:42:20.90
Was did Bible
say about the wicked?
00:42:20.94\00:42:22.27
Yes, exactly. Right?
00:42:22.30\00:42:23.64
There's now
peace. There's no peace.
00:42:23.67\00:42:25.01
Anybody that has grey hairs
had enough life experiences
00:42:25.04\00:42:28.01
that you get tired of
hassles and we do want peace
00:42:28.04\00:42:32.21
and quietness and confidence.
00:42:32.25\00:42:34.25
And so if any of you question,
"Well, where do I get this?
00:42:34.28\00:42:38.15
Well, it's right here
in His Character and well,
00:42:38.19\00:42:41.32
this is the direction.
00:42:41.36\00:42:42.69
I want to share, because
you guys are touching about it,
00:42:42.72\00:42:45.66
but as a sinner coming to Jesus,
00:42:45.69\00:42:48.26
as a sinner saying,
"You know, I want that,
00:42:48.30\00:42:51.63
I'd like to taste that,
00:42:51.67\00:42:53.10
I want to understand this fruit,
00:42:53.13\00:42:54.80
I want to taste this fruit."
00:42:54.84\00:42:56.40
It doesn't happen overnight.
00:42:56.44\00:42:59.07
You're just not all of
sudden patient and loving
00:42:59.11\00:43:02.44
and kind and have peace.
00:43:02.48\00:43:05.88
It just doesn't
always happen overnight.
00:43:05.91\00:43:07.65
I want to share a little...
00:43:07.68\00:43:09.02
It could've happened overnight.
00:43:09.05\00:43:10.39
Let's just challenge you
but that could've happened.
00:43:10.42\00:43:12.39
It could, I've seen people
who've been pretty changed.
00:43:12.42\00:43:15.22
And you're right.
00:43:15.26\00:43:16.59
You're on target,
00:43:16.62\00:43:18.79
because it's the
battle that I've put up.
00:43:18.83\00:43:21.90
He can give me victory
in every area of my life,
00:43:21.93\00:43:24.43
except when I fight Him.
00:43:24.47\00:43:26.30
And so when we
don't gain a victory,
00:43:26.33\00:43:27.67
brothers and sisters,
it's because you're fighting.
00:43:27.70\00:43:29.47
That's exactly right.
00:43:29.50\00:43:30.84
I want to share
this because it--
00:43:30.87\00:43:33.14
and the reason
I'm being laughed at
00:43:33.17\00:43:34.58
is because I've been
trying for a long time.
00:43:34.61\00:43:36.98
Because there is
a component missing,
00:43:37.01\00:43:39.38
you know, so often I
just listen to sister Shelley
00:43:39.41\00:43:41.92
and some others, the other night
00:43:41.95\00:43:43.49
and they were talking about,
00:43:43.52\00:43:44.99
"Well, you can't give the Bible,
00:43:45.02\00:43:46.35
you can't give the Bible."
00:43:46.39\00:43:47.72
But what they were trying to do
00:43:47.76\00:43:49.09
is really what it was saying is,
00:43:49.12\00:43:50.89
you've got to live the Bible.
00:43:50.93\00:43:53.13
That's should've
been what was said.
00:43:53.16\00:43:54.50
And you've got
to live the Bible.
00:43:54.53\00:43:56.10
You can't live the
Bible if it's not in you.
00:43:56.13\00:43:59.13
So I'm gonna read
two little quotes here
00:43:59.17\00:44:01.47
that pertain to help
give us the foundation
00:44:01.50\00:44:04.37
that we must
build upon day-by-day.
00:44:04.41\00:44:07.01
It doesn't just stop, its not
a once I accept and I'm gone.
00:44:07.04\00:44:11.48
Right. Okay.
00:44:11.51\00:44:12.85
So Prophets and Kings,
00:44:12.88\00:44:14.25
it says,
"Christians should be preparing
00:44:14.28\00:44:16.62
what is to soon
break upon the world
00:44:16.65\00:44:18.95
as an overwhelming
surprise and this preparation
00:44:18.99\00:44:22.86
they should make by diligently."
00:44:22.89\00:44:25.16
Diligently, I'm gonna
say it again, diligently.
00:44:25.19\00:44:28.33
It's not like, "Well, let
me pick it up and put it down."
00:44:28.36\00:44:31.37
If that's all you can
do to start then do it.
00:44:31.40\00:44:34.37
'Cause the Holy
Spirit's gonna get your heart
00:44:34.40\00:44:36.50
and you will be
getting to study longer
00:44:36.54\00:44:38.77
and more diligently.
00:44:38.81\00:44:40.14
"Studying the Word of
God and striving to conform,"
00:44:40.18\00:44:44.85
there's that other word again,
00:44:44.88\00:44:46.72
"conform their
lives to its precepts."
00:44:46.75\00:44:50.62
So I don't know how to love,
I don't know how to be patient
00:44:50.65\00:44:54.36
and kind until I
begin to dig into the word
00:44:54.39\00:44:57.66
and I begin to diligently pray
00:44:57.69\00:45:00.30
and diligently even practice it.
00:45:00.33\00:45:02.80
And when that old man
starts to well up inside of me,
00:45:02.83\00:45:06.43
sister Shelley,
that old woman and said,
00:45:06.47\00:45:09.40
"You know, you really
need to tell Him like it is."
00:45:09.44\00:45:11.57
No mercy.
00:45:11.61\00:45:12.94
I've have to dart
up a prayer and say,
00:45:12.97\00:45:14.78
"God help me."
00:45:14.81\00:45:16.14
Control my tongue,
control my thoughts.
00:45:16.18\00:45:18.18
This next one is from
The Great Controversy,
00:45:18.21\00:45:20.55
just one little
sentence, it says,
00:45:20.58\00:45:22.68
"None but these have fortified,
00:45:22.72\00:45:24.75
none but those who
have fortified the mind
00:45:24.79\00:45:27.56
with the truths,
00:45:27.59\00:45:29.29
you fortified your mind
with the truths of the Bible
00:45:29.32\00:45:32.13
will stand through
the last great conflict."
00:45:32.16\00:45:34.73
Mercy.
00:45:34.76\00:45:36.10
And I'm gonna say even
before that last great conflict,
00:45:36.13\00:45:38.97
unless you're
fortifying your mind
00:45:39.00\00:45:40.84
each and every day
00:45:40.87\00:45:42.20
you can't stand through
the conflicts of your home.
00:45:42.24\00:45:45.51
You can't stand through
the conflicts of your marriage,
00:45:45.54\00:45:49.41
of the children that
are being disobedient.
00:45:49.44\00:45:51.78
Oh, mercy. Of the
loss of loved ones.
00:45:51.81\00:45:54.92
You know we've had
trials here this past week.
00:45:54.95\00:45:57.05
It makes me want to
cry just thinking about it,
00:45:57.09\00:45:58.92
our family here.
00:45:58.95\00:46:00.29
We'll all cry together.
00:46:00.32\00:46:01.66
And we cannot stand
00:46:01.69\00:46:03.22
without the
fortification of God within us.
00:46:03.26\00:46:05.79
We realize we have
hope. We realize we have hope.
00:46:05.83\00:46:08.66
Amen.
00:46:08.70\00:46:10.03
And God doesn't, God, I'm sorry.
00:46:10.07\00:46:11.40
God doesn't say that it's
all gonna be smooth sailing.
00:46:11.43\00:46:14.20
No.
00:46:14.24\00:46:15.57
We are not gonna ha--
00:46:15.60\00:46:16.94
It's not that we're
not gonna have trails
00:46:16.97\00:46:18.54
and temptations and
troubles, we know that,
00:46:18.57\00:46:22.54
but we know the
one to take them to.
00:46:22.58\00:46:25.05
Because we can control
no circumstances on our own,
00:46:25.08\00:46:28.55
only God can
control the circumstances.
00:46:28.58\00:46:30.95
One thing that I like,
00:46:30.99\00:46:32.32
'cause my mind works
in a very practical way,
00:46:32.35\00:46:34.09
at least I like to
think that it does,
00:46:34.12\00:46:36.29
is that, thank you
Jesus that it's Biblical
00:46:36.32\00:46:39.39
that we start of with milk.
00:46:39.43\00:46:41.53
Come on. Yeah that's good.
00:46:41.56\00:46:43.70
Progressive revelation.
00:46:43.73\00:46:45.17
And that's how we
have the opportunity
00:46:45.20\00:46:46.97
you know, to grow,
'cause we're a work in progress
00:46:47.00\00:46:50.44
and you know, one thing
that Shelley used to say
00:46:50.47\00:46:54.01
that really tattooed on my mind,
00:46:54.04\00:46:56.18
that helped me personally,
00:46:56.21\00:46:58.01
is that I'm
willing to be made willing,
00:46:58.05\00:47:00.28
thank you Jesus, at
least I'm a work in progress,
00:47:00.32\00:47:03.62
thank you that I do
have the opportunity,
00:47:03.65\00:47:05.99
'cause this is as Biblical as be
00:47:06.02\00:47:07.66
that I can go from
milk to pabulum to meat,
00:47:07.69\00:47:10.86
to you know and
then grow accordingly.
00:47:10.89\00:47:14.23
But as we read, yes we
do have those deficiencies.
00:47:14.26\00:47:17.77
But that's part of
His Salvation plan.
00:47:17.80\00:47:22.27
It is, brother JD.
00:47:22.30\00:47:23.77
Is it important
that we allow someone,
00:47:23.81\00:47:28.48
say in the church, to grow?
00:47:28.51\00:47:30.91
Well, certainly.
00:47:30.95\00:47:32.28
See lot of time
we're not doing that
00:47:32.31\00:47:33.65
and we're running people out
rather than welcoming them in
00:47:33.68\00:47:36.38
and nourishing
them, and encouraging them
00:47:36.42\00:47:38.45
or presenting Jesus to them
00:47:38.49\00:47:40.02
and his
forgiveness and work with them.
00:47:40.06\00:47:42.32
It's like every time
we see a little something,
00:47:42.36\00:47:44.09
we feel our obligation go in
00:47:44.13\00:47:45.46
and almost, like,
beat him to death with it.
00:47:45.49\00:47:47.16
Yeah, we're supposed to
be the fishers of the men.
00:47:47.20\00:47:49.16
We're not the ones
who clean up the fish,
00:47:49.20\00:47:51.00
we should be praying for them.
00:47:51.03\00:47:54.17
Some person called the other day
00:47:54.20\00:47:55.97
and she says could you explain
something very simply to me
00:47:56.00\00:47:59.74
about the
preciousness of communion,
00:47:59.77\00:48:02.34
what are the
directives for communion?
00:48:02.38\00:48:05.65
And number one in
the Adventist Church
00:48:05.68\00:48:07.78
is an open communion.
00:48:07.82\00:48:09.45
If you believe in Jesus pray.
00:48:09.48\00:48:11.89
So a person
doesn't have to show up
00:48:11.92\00:48:13.66
in a three-piece suit.
00:48:13.69\00:48:15.82
You know and just go through
everything exactly right.
00:48:15.86\00:48:19.06
If a person--
00:48:19.09\00:48:20.43
I do believe that we
should wear our Sabbath best.
00:48:20.46\00:48:23.37
If whether that's
pair of blue jeans,
00:48:23.40\00:48:25.23
if that's the
best that they have,
00:48:25.27\00:48:26.63
make sure that it's clean.
00:48:26.67\00:48:28.44
But the main thing
is that you accept them,
00:48:28.47\00:48:31.27
not totally perfect
and if they're not perfect,
00:48:31.31\00:48:37.78
then we've got to discuss this.
00:48:37.81\00:48:39.28
By beholding we become
changed and that's what it is.
00:48:39.31\00:48:42.72
Yes. Yeah.
00:48:42.75\00:48:44.09
Go ahead. No, go ahead.
00:48:44.12\00:48:45.45
I was just gonna say--
00:48:45.49\00:48:46.82
we were talking about,
00:48:46.86\00:48:48.19
how do we obtain
this, this harmony with God?
00:48:48.22\00:48:50.33
We have to become like Jesus,
00:48:50.36\00:48:51.79
and as she said diligent
study is extremely important.
00:48:51.83\00:48:58.07
But we can study about
love forever and not have it
00:48:58.10\00:49:04.01
unless we're asking
the Holy Spirit to fill us,
00:49:04.04\00:49:09.64
because it is--
00:49:09.68\00:49:11.01
Romans 5:5 says,
00:49:11.05\00:49:12.75
"It's God who pours
His love into our hearts
00:49:12.78\00:49:16.52
by the power of the Holy Spirit.
00:49:16.55\00:49:18.85
So, you know, I used to--
00:49:18.89\00:49:20.26
I remember I was
claiming Mark 12:13-31 one day
00:49:20.29\00:49:24.49
and I was
praying and I was saying,
00:49:24.53\00:49:26.09
"Oh, father, thank you that
I love you with all my heart,
00:49:26.13\00:49:29.06
soul, mind and strength
00:49:29.10\00:49:30.43
and I love my
neighbor as myself."
00:49:30.47\00:49:32.27
And then I started crying,
00:49:32.30\00:49:34.27
and I said, "Lord
I'm not there yet nor--"
00:49:34.30\00:49:37.14
That's right. Yeah.
00:49:37.17\00:49:39.37
But point is, we can't
love God the way He wants us to
00:49:39.41\00:49:45.45
or love one another
the way He wants us to,
00:49:45.48\00:49:47.62
unless He pours that
into us and the Holy Spirit
00:49:47.65\00:49:51.35
it's the essence of God's
being is love and then we see.
00:49:51.39\00:49:58.36
You know we read He
empowers us by the Holy Spirit.
00:49:58.39\00:50:02.76
Then we read and
we feel something
00:50:02.80\00:50:05.83
and we understand that,
what you said is so wonderful,
00:50:05.87\00:50:09.67
it isn't loving to have somebody
00:50:09.70\00:50:13.27
who's walked into church
00:50:13.31\00:50:14.64
and suddenly you're
correcting him on everything.
00:50:14.68\00:50:16.64
"Don't do this, don't
eat that, don't do this,
00:50:16.68\00:50:18.25
you know, you shouldn't
comb your hair that way or--"
00:50:18.28\00:50:21.08
There might be, you know,
00:50:21.12\00:50:22.45
you got to teach him
with gentle and love,
00:50:22.48\00:50:25.15
but to say about inappropriate,
00:50:25.19\00:50:27.16
you know, if it's
immodest clothing,
00:50:27.19\00:50:29.42
but there are people who
just come down on people,
00:50:29.46\00:50:32.53
that's not the spirit of love.
00:50:32.56\00:50:34.76
When I was young, a cousin
that had never been in church
00:50:34.80\00:50:39.53
and had not been
raised in church, she came,
00:50:39.57\00:50:42.30
she decided on her own
00:50:42.34\00:50:43.71
and she was
about 13 at the time,
00:50:43.74\00:50:45.67
she decided on her own
00:50:45.71\00:50:47.04
that she wanted to
start coming to church.
00:50:47.08\00:50:49.31
First Sabbath that she
came, this was back in the day
00:50:49.34\00:50:52.25
when the mini
skirt and everything,
00:50:52.28\00:50:53.85
you know, was in, and
the first time she came,
00:50:53.88\00:50:56.62
she had on a really short skirt
00:50:56.65\00:50:58.99
and someone in the
church one went up and said,
00:50:59.02\00:51:01.42
"You don't wear that
kind of stuff to church,
00:51:01.46\00:51:03.66
that's immodest, you know,
00:51:03.69\00:51:05.59
you should know better,
basically, don't you do this."
00:51:05.63\00:51:09.26
She didn't step
foot again, for years,
00:51:09.30\00:51:11.57
back into the church because
that hurt her feelings so bad.
00:51:11.60\00:51:15.04
We can't land on
people that are coming.
00:51:15.07\00:51:18.24
They don't know these
things. Those words hurt.
00:51:18.27\00:51:20.41
They hurt. They hurt.
00:51:20.44\00:51:21.78
They're embarrassing.
00:51:21.81\00:51:23.31
This is part of our group,
00:51:23.35\00:51:24.68
this is what I'm
talking about, beholding Christ,
00:51:24.71\00:51:26.05
peace to the cross we will have.
00:51:26.08\00:51:27.72
If you have that real peace,
00:51:27.75\00:51:29.08
when somebody
walks through those doors
00:51:29.12\00:51:30.92
and makes an
effort to come to church,
00:51:30.95\00:51:32.89
grab them by the hand,
00:51:32.92\00:51:34.59
help them in and encourage them.
00:51:34.62\00:51:36.52
Let them sit
down, let them enjoy,
00:51:36.56\00:51:38.16
encourage them, don't look.
00:51:38.19\00:51:39.89
I had a friend, one time,
00:51:39.93\00:51:41.43
that no matter
what you would do,
00:51:41.46\00:51:42.80
he was in a health
ward and no matter--
00:51:42.83\00:51:45.13
he came up to you
00:51:45.17\00:51:46.50
and you profess
one thing or the other
00:51:46.53\00:51:47.87
and you may have
something in your mouth
00:51:47.90\00:51:49.54
or you may be
eating some you tend to do.
00:51:49.57\00:51:51.57
He would never ever look
at anything you were doing.
00:51:51.61\00:51:55.38
He'd look in your eye
00:51:55.41\00:51:56.75
and shook the
guys hands and say,
00:51:56.78\00:51:58.11
"Hello, brother, In
our mission we love you,
00:51:58.15\00:51:59.48
we're so glad."
00:51:59.51\00:52:00.85
And that just changed the heart.
00:52:00.88\00:52:02.52
He never looked at anything
00:52:02.55\00:52:04.39
but I had another
friend that walked in the door,
00:52:04.42\00:52:06.25
and this may not
hit for some folk.
00:52:06.29\00:52:08.22
I'm not trying to
make an issue of it,
00:52:08.26\00:52:09.89
but she had not been
for many years to the church
00:52:09.92\00:52:13.93
and she grew
accustomed to the world
00:52:13.96\00:52:17.37
and all of the things so
she decided to look good,
00:52:17.40\00:52:19.50
that she needed things
on ears and every finger
00:52:19.53\00:52:22.40
and everything else
when she came in jewelry,
00:52:22.44\00:52:24.47
but they're heavy.
00:52:24.51\00:52:26.11
And she walked in the
door, the deacon of the church,
00:52:26.14\00:52:28.68
I happened to be standing there,
00:52:28.71\00:52:30.05
I see him look and he said,
00:52:30.08\00:52:31.41
"Oh we haven't seen
you in so many years,
00:52:31.45\00:52:32.78
it's good to see you.
00:52:32.81\00:52:34.15
I hope you don't
fall in the pond,
00:52:34.18\00:52:35.52
you'll drown
with that stuff on."
00:52:35.55\00:52:36.89
Now how sad she
walked out of that door
00:52:36.92\00:52:38.79
and has never come back since.
00:52:38.82\00:52:42.02
We're saying, this is
hopefully a warning to people,
00:52:42.06\00:52:44.33
please don't do that.
00:52:44.36\00:52:45.79
God accepts us as we
are. He says come as you are.
00:52:45.83\00:52:49.03
He'll do the changing.
00:52:49.06\00:52:50.40
Right. Exactly.
00:52:50.43\00:52:51.77
He will work
through the Holy Spirit
00:52:51.80\00:52:53.13
to bring that as
we behold the cross
00:52:53.17\00:52:54.50
that we've been
talking about here.
00:52:54.54\00:52:55.87
We'll break the heart
00:52:55.90\00:52:58.14
and we want to
become more like Him.
00:52:58.17\00:53:01.24
Amen.
00:53:01.28\00:53:02.74
When we kneel in
faith at the cross,
00:53:02.78\00:53:06.51
we as God's children have
reached the highest place.
00:53:06.55\00:53:10.09
Amen. Amen.
00:53:10.12\00:53:11.45
Amen. To which man can attain.
00:53:11.49\00:53:13.89
And as we're
drawing this worship time
00:53:13.92\00:53:16.39
on the Sabbath to a close,
00:53:16.42\00:53:19.16
I just want to
give this invitation
00:53:19.19\00:53:21.03
that's found in
"The Faith I Live By,"
00:53:21.06\00:53:22.90
it says, "Thank God for
the gift of His dear son
00:53:22.93\00:53:28.37
and pray that He may not
have died for you in vain."
00:53:28.40\00:53:35.14
The spirit invites you at home,
your family, your children,
00:53:35.18\00:53:39.28
your loved ones,
all of us are here,
00:53:39.31\00:53:42.08
invite you today
00:53:42.12\00:53:44.45
come with your
whole heart to Jesus
00:53:44.49\00:53:47.79
and you may claim His blessing."
00:53:47.82\00:53:51.39
As we come to
Jesus and he fortifies,
00:53:51.43\00:53:54.06
he quickens our
heart with his spirit.
00:53:54.10\00:53:56.77
Then we begin to learn, to love
00:53:56.80\00:54:00.34
and to deal with each other
the way we are supposed to.
00:54:00.37\00:54:03.27
Yes.
00:54:03.30\00:54:04.64
Go ahead, sorry
what are we reading?
00:54:04.67\00:54:06.01
No, somebody needs to read.
00:54:06.04\00:54:07.38
Do you want to
instead? Okay, go ahead.
00:54:07.41\00:54:09.71
Again we're reading
it, it says, "Go to Him,
00:54:09.74\00:54:12.38
go to Christ and ask that
He will wash away your sins,
00:54:12.41\00:54:16.75
give you a new heart.
00:54:16.79\00:54:18.12
Then believe that He does
this because He has promised.
00:54:18.15\00:54:22.99
It is our privilege to
go to Jesus and be cleansed,
00:54:23.02\00:54:26.36
and to stand before the
law without shame or remorse."
00:54:26.39\00:54:30.17
I love that.
Ain't that beautiful?
00:54:30.20\00:54:31.53
I mean you think about
it, it says, I read it said,
00:54:31.57\00:54:33.54
Christ will
never abandon the soul
00:54:33.57\00:54:36.44
for whom He has died
00:54:36.47\00:54:38.64
and you think about
it that it was Peter
00:54:38.67\00:54:40.84
that was boisterous,
00:54:40.88\00:54:42.24
you know, and he was, you know,
00:54:42.28\00:54:43.61
all kind of
thinks he had to say,
00:54:43.65\00:54:45.41
Jesus loved Peter
and He said to him
00:54:45.45\00:54:48.05
and it was in Luke 20:22,
00:54:48.08\00:54:50.72
he said, "Peter,
I'm gonna pray for you."
00:54:50.75\00:54:55.32
He said, "I'm
gonna pray for you."
00:54:55.36\00:54:56.69
I thought how wonderful that is,
00:54:56.73\00:54:58.06
that the enemy
has desire to have you
00:54:58.09\00:55:00.36
but I gonna pray that he
doesn't sift you like wheat.
00:55:00.40\00:55:03.43
The enemy is capable
of sifting each one of us
00:55:03.47\00:55:05.77
like wheat, it's
nothing in his hands
00:55:05.80\00:55:08.07
if it were not for Jesus Christ.
00:55:08.10\00:55:10.01
If it wasn't for that sacrifice.
00:55:10.04\00:55:11.37
I'm part of the family of God.
00:55:11.41\00:55:12.74
You're part of
the family of God.
00:55:12.77\00:55:14.11
Church is a
hospital. Woo! Bring it on!
00:55:14.14\00:55:15.91
Ezekiel 36:26 says,
00:55:15.94\00:55:18.38
and I'll kind of go
through what she just read,
00:55:18.41\00:55:20.68
"A new heart
also will I give you."
00:55:20.72\00:55:22.68
That's a promise.
00:55:22.72\00:55:24.05
You can claim that promise,
affirmation of scripture,
00:55:24.09\00:55:27.46
"A new heart will I give you,
00:55:27.49\00:55:29.49
a new spirit will
I put within you,"
00:55:29.52\00:55:32.56
so our spirits begin to change,
00:55:32.59\00:55:34.06
we don't think the
same anymore Tammy.
00:55:34.10\00:55:36.40
Tammy when you and I
were kids, we would--
00:55:36.43\00:55:38.43
I remember the
first time I met you,
00:55:38.47\00:55:39.97
was that at little grassy lake?
00:55:40.00\00:55:42.10
We didn't think the
same way then as we do now.
00:55:42.14\00:55:44.84
Oh my, I know. Not even close.
00:55:44.87\00:55:47.04
Praise God.
Praise God that we don't.
00:55:47.08\00:55:50.05
It says "I will
take that stony heart
00:55:50.08\00:55:52.85
out of your flesh,
00:55:52.88\00:55:54.22
he's gonna do a heart surgery
on each and every one of us,
00:55:54.25\00:55:57.49
and I will give
you a heart of flesh."
00:55:57.52\00:56:00.39
You know as you put
that, before wrapping it up
00:56:00.42\00:56:02.56
somebody, may be
saying I won't accept Christ
00:56:02.59\00:56:04.29
as my Lord and savior.
00:56:04.33\00:56:05.66
First thing, well,
we have to say is say,
00:56:05.69\00:56:07.16
I know I'm a sinner.
00:56:07.20\00:56:08.53
I know I'm a sinner
and I certainly what?
00:56:08.56\00:56:10.40
I have no manners, so I
have no goodness of my own,
00:56:10.43\00:56:13.00
so I come to you Father
00:56:13.03\00:56:14.84
and I present the
blood of Your son.
00:56:14.87\00:56:17.64
Amen.
00:56:17.67\00:56:19.01
My substitute and I'll tell you
the Father will accept you in.
00:56:19.04\00:56:21.68
Ain't that wonderful to
know today that he accepts--
00:56:21.71\00:56:24.08
So how do you present the blood?
00:56:24.11\00:56:26.11
You said you'd
present the blood.
00:56:26.15\00:56:27.52
If somebody is
watching and they say,
00:56:27.55\00:56:29.12
"I don't know what he
means, presenting the blood."
00:56:29.15\00:56:31.79
How do you do it?
00:56:31.82\00:56:33.15
You just pray and ask for Christ
00:56:33.19\00:56:34.86
to be your savior and--
00:56:34.89\00:56:36.22
Amen, that's right.
00:56:36.26\00:56:37.59
And I like I
said, you behold cross,
00:56:37.63\00:56:38.96
at Calvary and
that blood that we shed,
00:56:38.99\00:56:40.56
without shedding the
blood no remission of sins,
00:56:40.60\00:56:42.26
so it goes.
00:56:42.30\00:56:43.63
He is able, you can
say it to the uttermost,
00:56:43.67\00:56:47.30
you know, we need to make
sure even around this table
00:56:47.34\00:56:49.44
and all those at
home, those of you,
00:56:49.47\00:56:50.87
those who watch it,
is to make that choice,
00:56:50.91\00:56:52.91
that decision right now.
00:56:52.94\00:56:54.78
I'm going to take a
thoughtful hour each day.
00:56:54.81\00:56:56.95
I'm gonna think
about the cross of Calvary,
00:56:56.98\00:56:58.51
I'm gonna think
about what Jesus did for me
00:56:58.55\00:57:00.15
and I guarantee,
00:57:00.18\00:57:01.52
your life will not
ever be the same again.
00:57:01.55\00:57:04.89
Take that step of
action. Step of action.
00:57:04.92\00:57:07.06
We just have few seconds left,
00:57:07.09\00:57:08.42
we need to have closing--
00:57:08.46\00:57:09.79
Prayer. Prayer, that's right.
00:57:09.82\00:57:11.16
Sister Shelley how about you,
00:57:11.19\00:57:12.53
would you just
dismiss this here with prayer?
00:57:12.56\00:57:13.90
Certainly, certainly. Yes.
00:57:13.93\00:57:15.26
Heavenly Father, we've
come in the name of Jesus,
00:57:15.30\00:57:16.63
thanking you Father for
the sacrifice that He made.
00:57:16.67\00:57:21.10
Thanking you that
you loved Him enough
00:57:21.14\00:57:22.94
to send Him to die us for
while we were yet sinners.
00:57:22.97\00:57:25.74
Thanking you that
there is no condemnation
00:57:25.77\00:57:28.21
for those who
are in Christ Jesus.
00:57:28.24\00:57:30.25
We thank you, Father
00:57:30.28\00:57:32.28
for the fact that you
will complete the good work
00:57:32.31\00:57:35.25
that You've begun in us.
00:57:35.28\00:57:37.02
Thank you for this Sabbath
day, in the name of Jesus.
00:57:37.05\00:57:40.09
Amen. Amen.
00:57:40.12\00:57:41.59