Participants: Kenny & Chris Shelton (Host), Bruce & Tammy Chance, J.D. & Shelley Quinn
Series Code: TDYFW
Program Code: TDYFW016010A
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00:01 I want to spend my life
00:07 Mending broken people 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:18 Removing pain 00:23 Lord, let my words 00:29 Heal a heart that hurts 00:34 I want to spend my life 00:40 Mending broken people 00:45 I want to spend my life 00:51 Mending broken people. 01:06 Hello, and welcome to our 3ABN Family Worship, 01:10 and what a blessing, 01:11 we've made it through another week. 01:13 Amen. 01:14 It is the Sabbath, 01:15 happy Sabbath to all of you at home, 01:17 happy Sabbath to all of you here 01:19 and we are so blessed to have 01:21 so wonderful family members sitting with us. 01:23 That's right, amen, good. 01:24 Pastor Kenny, first of all, 01:26 I guess better tell them who I am. 01:27 Go for it. 01:28 I am Chris Shelton, and this is my husband, 01:31 Pastor Kenny Shelton. 01:32 And over to his left is his sister, 01:35 so we have biological family 01:37 and just family in the Lord today. 01:39 Yes, you're right. That's right. 01:40 His sister, Tammy and Tammy's husband, Bruce, 01:43 our brother-in-law, and then over to my right, 01:47 I have a wonderful sister in the Lord. 01:49 Sister Shelley Quinn, 01:51 that is not a stranger to any of you at home. 01:54 And then to her right is her wonderful husband, J.D Quinn. 01:57 That's right. Amen. 01:58 And we have another family member 02:00 that we are just so blessed to have. 02:01 Well, that's right. 02:02 I asked him what he'd like for me to say about him. 02:04 Just recently, we've rode on a airplane 02:07 to and from England with him 02:09 and on the way back, he was my, my plane partner, 02:13 so he was really, I like to say you were rowdy, 02:16 but you just weren't, he was busy, 02:18 he was busy on his computer writing music. 02:21 That's right. I bet he was doing that. 02:22 And he had all this music going through his head and he just, 02:25 you know, spent most of the time there, but I would, 02:27 I would nudge him once in a while and bother him 02:30 and that is Brother Tim Parton. 02:32 Tim, we're so thankful that you're here-- 02:33 Thank you. 02:34 With us on that piano and let me tell you, 02:36 he is gonna burn up those keys in just a moment. 02:39 We're gonna start out with the peppy song, 02:41 not all of, just a few verses of 02:43 "Do Lord," so Tammy, 02:45 you're gonna lead us in the song, so go ahead. 02:46 Yeah! Yes. 02:48 This is a peppy song to get you going 02:50 and get your energy up and well, 02:52 we don't want get it up too much 02:54 so where we can't concentrate here on 02:55 what we are doing, but it's pretty nice 02:57 to get started this way. 03:09 I've got a home in gloryland that outshines the sun, 03:13 I've got a home in gloryland that outshines the sun, 03:18 I've got a home in gloryland that outshines the sun, 03:22 Way beyond the blue. 03:27 Do Lord, oh, do Lord, oh, do you remember me I said, 03:31 Do Lord, oh, do Lord, oh, do you remember me 03:36 Do Lord, oh, do Lord, oh, do you remember me 03:40 Way beyond the blue. 03:45 I took Jesus as my Savior, you take Him, too 03:50 I took Jesus as my Savior, you take Him, too 03:54 I took Jesus as my Savior, you take Him, too 03:59 Way beyond the blue 04:03 Do Lord, oh, do Lord, oh, do you remember me I said, 04:08 Do Lord, oh, do Lord, oh, do you remember me 04:12 Do Lord, oh, do Lord, oh, do you remember me 04:17 Way beyond the blue. 04:21 Do Lord, oh, do Lord, oh, do you remember me I said, 04:25 Do Lord, oh, do Lord, oh, do you remember me 04:29 Praise the Lord. 04:30 Do Lord, oh, do Lord, oh, do you remember me 04:34 Way beyond the blue. 04:41 Amen. Praise the Lord, hallelujah. 04:43 Oh, I love that song, don't you? 04:45 That's a touch of heaven on that piano and that music. 04:48 Wow! Oh! It is, it is. 04:49 Wow! 04:51 And you know what, there's a challenge to all of those 04:53 who would be listening and watching, 04:55 accept Him as your Lord and Savior today. 04:57 Why not today? Yes. 04:58 Amen. That's right. 05:00 And then you have a home in gloryland. 05:01 That's right, we don't sing another one? 05:03 Do you Tammy? Sister Tammy will lead us. 05:04 We are, we're just at little chorus 05:05 of turn your eyes upon Jesus 05:07 'cause we feel like all of our viewers are gonna, 05:09 gonna know that little chorus and it's good to turn your eyes 05:13 upon Jesus before we go into the study. 05:15 Good. So... 05:16 Amen. I've always loved this story. 05:18 Yes. 05:28 Turn your eyes 05:32 Upon the Jesus, 05:37 Look full in His 05:40 Wonderful face, 05:46 And the things of earth 05:50 Will grow strangely dim, 05:56 In the light of His glory and grace. 06:03 Sing it through with this one more times. 06:06 Turn your eyes 06:10 upon the Jesus, 06:15 Look full in His 06:18 wonderful face. 06:25 And the things of earth 06:29 will grow strangely dim, 06:35 in the light of his 06:39 glory and grace. 06:46 Praise the Jesus. 06:47 Wow! Hallelujah. Oh. Wow! 06:49 You know, with that being sung, 06:50 wouldn't it be good time now for us 06:52 to take our petitions and our, you know, 06:54 our thoughts, and our cares, 06:56 and whatever you maybe caring tonight. 06:59 We're gonna take them to the Lord and pray. 07:00 Would you just, some of you are going to have the opportunity 07:03 to kneel, why don't you just do that? 07:06 We're gonna pray and ask God's blessing upon this program, 07:08 there may reach somebody for him, let's pray. 07:11 Merciful father in heaven, what a privilege it is 07:15 to be counted as part of the family of God. 07:18 Thank you for Calvary, 07:19 thank you for the blood that was shed in our behalf. 07:23 Lord, we can't thank You enough, 07:25 we can't praise You enough. 07:26 Amen. 07:27 There's no way heaven could ever be our home 07:29 before we are enough for Calvary. 07:30 The subject that we want to just touch on, 07:32 we can only touch on, 07:33 and we can only be inspired by the Holy Spirit 07:36 for what we are capable of understanding. 07:39 We know that the, 07:41 for the life's gonna be given to us as we, 07:43 you know, share heaven together, 07:44 and we ask you to bless those who view, those who watch, 07:47 those who listen, those who-- 07:48 Who want to come to know You're better. 07:50 We pray that your Holy Spirit will open the hearts 07:53 and the minds of every one of your children 07:55 and each one of us 07:56 as we look at this subject 07:58 that's so inviting, so encouraging, 08:01 so empowering. 08:03 Yeah. Bless us, Lord. 08:04 We pray with Thy spirit 08:05 that may we hear the sweet voice of Jesus speaking to us. 08:09 May we be filled, and may a decision be made right now 08:14 as we're at the family altar, and we thank You in Jesus name. 08:17 Amen. Amen. Amen. 08:19 For tonight, we are going to topic of our message 08:24 or our discussion here tonight. 08:25 Oh, it's good, I like it. 08:27 Is peace through the cross, peace through the cross. 08:32 I want to read a little quote from Desire of Ages. 08:38 It's on page 83, excuse me. 08:41 It reads, "It would be well for us to spend 08:44 a thoughtful hour each day 08:48 in contemplation of the life of Christ." 08:50 Yes. 08:52 "We should take it point by point, 08:54 and let the imagination grasp each scene, 08:58 especially the closing ones." 09:03 And we have an opening scripture 09:05 that goes with this, too, with that thought. 09:07 "Each day, thinking about what Christ did for us. 09:12 What heaven opened up and sacrificed for us." 09:16 Amen. 09:17 We're gonna look at Romans 8:1, 09:19 Brother Bruce, could you read Romans 8:1 for us? 09:22 Hm-mm. 09:25 "There is, therefore now no condemnation to them 09:29 which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, 09:33 but after the Spirit." 09:35 Don't you love that no condemnation, you know, 09:38 no longer under the penalty of death because of the law, 09:43 you haven't broken the law 09:44 because you're walking in the spirit now, 09:47 rather than under breaking, sinning against God's law. 09:52 All right. 09:53 I thought it was very, you know, 09:55 very interesting when you talk about peace through the cross, 09:57 and just in my own life, my own heart, 10:02 that there's something when you think about 10:03 the cross of Calvary, 10:05 it's like when you say the name of Jesus, 10:09 there's something powerful, 10:10 there's something that begins to work 10:12 and I want to say turn, inside of me that the spirit 10:17 and I think about the cross and then, 10:19 what happens in my life I thought about the cross 10:21 and someone who was sinless, 10:23 and who was willing to come and die 10:24 for somebody, like me, 10:27 it touched my heart. 10:28 It helped to change my life 10:31 because I began to contemplate Calvary 10:35 and try to contemplate heaven for he gave up. 10:37 Amen. 10:39 In the study, we hope, a lot of this will be brought out 10:40 because this will change us if we just study and think 10:44 contemplate you mentioned, 10:46 about that last hours may be get ceremony. 10:49 You could, a lot of things you can think 10:50 about the life of Christ 10:52 but Calvary, he went there and I want you to listen. 10:54 I want you to take it personal, please. 10:56 He did for you, if you were the only one, 11:01 and, you know, sometimes as human beings 11:03 Sister Shelley, you know, I feel like sometimes, we-- 11:06 That concept of just for one, 11:08 kind of, goes over our head and we want the big group 11:11 and we want a lot of people and Jesus said, 11:14 "I would do it just for you," 11:15 I mean, what kind of love is that? 11:17 Amen. 11:18 You know, I've been doing just what Sister right suggested 11:21 there is spinning time each day contemplating, 11:25 Gethsemane contemplating the trail of Christ 11:28 in the crucifixion, and the idea of just for one, 11:32 you know, you wonder I understand 11:34 why He was crucified, He had to die, 11:38 He had to shed his blood for our sins. 11:40 But have you ever wondered why He had to suffer so much? 11:44 In Gethsemane and through the trail of the beatings 11:47 where it tore His flesh, I mean, 11:49 it literally we think of torn flesh 11:51 of just superficial out tear enough, 11:56 but it literally tore through the muscles, 12:00 and He was beaten in such a way and you think, "What, lord? 12:04 Why did you suffer so, but I believe, you know, 12:07 as Hebrew 2:17 tells us here that 12:10 "They'd become like us in all ways," 12:12 and He had to understand and be tempted in all ways. 12:15 And that is something that when we think of our savior, 12:18 He did not just come down to die for us, 12:22 but He came down to live for us, 12:25 and to be tempted in all ways 12:26 and show us how to overcome those temptations. 12:28 Amen. 12:30 So He understands and that's beautiful. 12:33 One thing I haven't heard, 12:35 dwelled on very much is we can't comprehend 12:38 what He did and what He went through. 12:41 But on the other hand, 12:42 we look at from God's point of view, His Father. 12:45 Yes. 12:46 Can you imagine seeing your child 12:49 go through what Jesus went through? 12:51 God had to make that sacrifice to send His son because to me, 12:56 I just, I can't comprehend to say your child go through 13:00 what Jesus went through. 13:02 And yet, He did it for us, He did the sacrifice for us. 13:05 And I think the part of what our program is about tonight, 13:09 peace through the cross is actually asking questions, 13:12 like why was He beaten? 13:15 Why did He go to the cross? 13:17 What was the purpose, He was the god of heaven, 13:20 He was right there in a place 13:22 that we can only imagine, peace. 13:24 They didn't understand, 13:26 they didn't know this type of cruelty. 13:28 Why did He do that? 13:29 Why would He do that for each and every one of us? 13:33 At first, I would like to and turn a light 13:35 because this is the direction we need to go, 13:37 just take that walk along 13:39 so that, we're personally involved. 13:41 Who does this apply to and it tells us in John 3:18, 13:46 which is segues into these, John 3:18, 13:49 "He who believes in Him is not condemned," so there, 13:55 hopefully, everyone is watching 13:57 or sharing this evening with us, 13:59 you know, that they do believe in Him 14:01 so that they will stand accordingly. 14:03 "But he who does not believe is condemned already, 14:07 because he has not believed 14:08 in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 14:11 So this is the condemnation 14:12 that the light has come into the world, 14:14 and men loved darkness rather than light, 14:16 because their deeds were evil." 14:18 But, you know, "Those that loved the light, 14:22 he who does not-- 14:24 He who does love the truth comes into the light 14:26 that his days might be clearly seen that they have, 14:30 and what that means, 14:32 through the sacrifice of Jesus made to each one of us. 14:36 And so as we are taking this walk 14:40 now as you were saying, Chris, what does that meant? 14:44 You know, So I might, here's for we're trying 14:49 to appreciate that oneness with Him. 14:53 Amen. 14:54 It was interesting, we've, this last week, 14:58 we were preparing for the opening 15:01 and we have a young man that's playing the role of Jesus, 15:03 as he is hanging on the cross, and we take-- 15:08 Now this is, kind of, Calvary... 15:09 This is an opening for camp meeting? 15:11 Opening for camp meeting that we're talking about Calvary, 15:14 and so, as he is lying there, that he came and says, 15:18 "Is this enough blood?" 15:20 Now this is just artificial blood, 15:21 you know, to make this, and each one of us were like, 15:24 "No, He went through much more blood than this." 15:28 But I mean you can overdo it because in my mind, 15:32 He was cursed from hand to toe. 15:34 Point. He's found his way to-- 15:36 Like in the Book of Romans 5:9 says, 15:39 "We are justified by his blood". 15:42 See that, to me that's powerful we're talking condemnations, 15:45 so really all of us are under that death penalty, aren't we? 15:49 Because we've all seen they come shower the glory of God 15:51 that I want to encourage the people are some 15:53 who...some times that they tune in may be accidentally they say 15:55 and there... 15:56 you know, there's you have no fear 15:58 that God's not going to accept you. 16:00 Amen. 16:01 God will accept you if you come to him. 16:04 If you behold him, say simple if we confess our sins, 16:07 He is faithful and just forgives us 16:09 and cleans us from righteousness. 16:12 So thank full, we look at it 16:14 and we think of the blood you were talking about 16:15 thinking about Calvary 16:17 and the whippings and the beatings, 16:20 we look at with the stain almost on one hand 16:23 and on the other hand, I am gonna say it like this, 16:25 hope no one takes it wrong, 16:26 it gives me some peace in my heart 16:30 to know that he took what I deserved, 16:34 he took it and without it, heaven can never be our home, 16:37 the world could never be in one bag. 16:39 You are starting to touch on my original question. 16:42 My original question was why did He do this? 16:45 Why would heaven empty itself of the Savior and give Him 16:50 and allow Him to live this life, 16:52 allow Him to go to such a brutal death? 16:56 It was to show us the sinfulness of sins. 17:00 Amen. Just how sinful. 17:03 The penalty of sin is death and that and you touched on it. 17:08 He died the death that each of us are guilty, 17:14 we're guilty. 17:15 We are the ones that are really are supposed to die that death, 17:19 but because He loved us so much, 17:23 He said Tammy, I can't let you do that. 17:28 I think of my husband. 17:30 He took what we deserves. Yes. 17:31 I think of my husband here, 17:33 because I know if he thinks anybody's in trouble, 17:36 he's gonna take it first. 17:37 Right. 17:39 And it doesn't matter how hard it hurts. 17:41 And our Savior was like that, it didn't mattered how hard, 17:45 how difficult His path was. 17:48 J.D, He loved you so much. 17:50 And we've all sinned 17:52 and come short of the glory of God, 17:54 and so therefore, we needed him. 17:56 If there was to be any hope, we are in need 17:59 'cause we are lost without a Savior. 18:02 And so that I think needs to be our premise 18:06 because why, why dwell upon somebody being beaten, 18:11 why dwell upon them hammering nails 18:14 through His flesh? 18:16 Without the knowledge of that's my penalty 18:19 He's taking, it really means nothing. 18:23 That's what sin caused, 18:25 that's why sin must be eradicated, 18:28 that's why sin will eventually burn up, 18:31 that's why Jesus is calling His people and saying, 18:34 "I want to reproduce my image in you so that you can come 18:38 and live in this glorious kingdom with me. 18:41 This is where you belong." 18:44 That's what it's all about that's why we think about it. 18:47 When you say that we dwell on it, 18:49 I don't think we dwell on it nearly enough. 18:51 That's right, that's right. 18:53 When you know, we sanitize the crucifixion, 18:56 I mean, you know, even putting a lowing cloth over Christ. 19:00 He hung there naked. That's right. 19:02 I mean what, how humiliating for the creator to, you know-- 19:08 And here's, here's the thought that I had 19:11 when you were speaking is that. 19:13 I think the reason, Sister White said 19:15 that we should especially look to these last moments, 19:20 you know, now, the Bible writers 19:22 just, kind of, tell us, just enough, 19:25 they didn't have to explain to their audience 19:29 how the scaring, 19:30 how it literally went to the bone. 19:32 People knew, they knew the Romans had no limitation 19:37 they would, they would beat him 19:38 until, I mean, Christ lost a lot of blood 19:41 during the beating. 19:44 But then when they put the nails in, 19:47 it was such that it hit the nerves 19:49 so those the nerve pain in the arms was horrid 19:53 and you're hanging there. 19:56 His shoulders would come out. They become disjointed. 19:59 It was a horrific death. 20:01 But I think the reason, 20:02 Sister White, tells us to contemplate this 20:05 is I had this thought in the Old Testament, 20:08 during the old covenant, they knew 20:11 that everything pointed forward to Christ, right? 20:15 They knew the lamb that they were sacrificing. 20:19 But just think about this. 20:20 You've got this precious little one year old lamb 20:24 that is absolutely spotless 20:26 and you know the lamb had to live 20:28 in their home with them. 20:30 Even the passed over lamb had to be in their home with them 20:33 for at least four days, but generally it was longer. 20:36 So you get attached to this innocent. 20:39 You know, and you love your dogs. 20:42 So you get attached to this precious little lamb. 20:47 And then you would have to go take it into the outer court, 20:52 the priest hands you a knife, put back it's chin 20:56 and then you had to be the one to slit the blood 21:00 and watch the blood drain tell it dropped. 21:03 That gave you, just as you said, 21:06 if during that time 21:09 they had an idea of the sinful of innocent sin, 21:12 they knew what it meant to have someone have to be 21:17 or a thing blood to be given as a substitute for theirs. 21:21 They understood it, we don't. 21:24 But as we take time, 21:27 hopefully, on a daily basis as we look at this, 21:31 then if you consider Christ sufferings, 21:35 I think it makes us more aware of how sinful we really are. 21:38 Well, it surely brings to our mind, 21:40 boy, what fantastic news. 21:43 Let me tell you the good news for I don't have to sit here. 21:47 We grew, grew up raising sheep 21:48 and so we had our little orphans 21:50 and we had our little Spot, little Spot, 21:52 bless his little heart, he was our best friend. 21:54 We had Lassie, the collie and then we had Spot 21:57 and they were best friends. 21:58 Where Lassie went, here came Spot. 22:01 And so I know what it is 22:03 to have a sweet little lamb grow up in the family 22:06 and then to think that you've got to take his life 22:09 and you know what's going to happen 22:11 and your heart's breaking. 22:13 The fantastic news is, is that we have somebody 22:17 that went to the cross, that took that place. 22:20 I don't have to worry about taking precious little Spot 22:23 and slicing his throat. 22:26 But I've got to keep my eyes focused on Jesus. 22:29 What you-- 22:30 I met a man one time I talked to him 22:32 and you know, we all meet people we talk to them 22:34 and they're very interesting 22:36 and of course, usually sometime, I get those who just, 22:38 they don't believe there's a Jesus. 22:40 They don't believe in God. 22:41 They're not a Christian and they'll tell you 22:42 right out front. 22:44 Well, I began to talk to him one day, 22:45 he's come, reminds me about this. 22:47 When he's talking he, kind of, opened the door for a question 22:51 and he wanted to know a little bit he said, 22:53 "I've heard somebody, people talk a little bit 22:55 about something, about a sanctuary. 22:58 I'm not sure well that means." 22:59 And he said. 23:00 But there's-- 23:02 It's sure sometime, the world thinks deeper 23:04 than us as Christians. 23:06 I will give illustration. 23:08 I was talking to him about it now same thing I said, 23:11 you know, the lamb was brought and slipped a little 23:16 and, he looked at me and he said, "Why?" 23:18 He said, "Why? 23:19 That lamb did not do anything to anybody. 23:23 It was harmless it wouldn't hurt anybody, 23:25 so why would it have to be a harmless lamb 23:27 that had to shed its blood." 23:29 And I said, "Man, what a point, it brought tears to my eyes." 23:32 He is basically an atheist a Non-Christian person, 23:34 he doesn't know anything and he can look at the lamb 23:36 which we know represents Jesus. 23:38 And he said, "It didn't do anything to anybody. 23:41 Why?" 23:42 I thought how good, it's opened the other door for more. 23:45 We need to think deeply, 23:46 of what you were talking about all of us talking about here, 23:49 about peace in the midst of a storm at the cross. 23:53 At the cross where I first saw the light 23:56 and the burden of what? 23:58 And my heart rolled away. 24:01 See this is what it's all about what we're talking about here 24:03 because I think it's in 2 Corinthians, it said, 24:06 "Christ became sin for us." 24:10 That just, yeah, 21. 24:12 That is just awesome he became sin. 24:15 He suffered it. 24:17 But I believe this with my whole heart 24:18 that he, he suffered 24:20 more than all the physical pain was horrible, 24:22 he probably can't say, he didn't notice it. 24:25 But it was the eternity, 24:27 the possibility of eternal separation from his father. 24:31 From the very beginning, He had never been separated 24:33 and that the pain of the thought 24:35 of the separation that sin cost us today 24:39 and sin, my brother and sister, will separate you from God, 24:41 it separates you from your family, 24:43 it will separate from things that you want to love. 24:45 Go ahead, brother, J.D. 24:46 And it was so serious, I mean, 24:48 I was just getting ready to touch on it, 24:49 it was so serious that the white of everyone sin, 24:53 everyone's inequity was coming down 24:56 and this was, this was pre-planned. 25:00 But yet, yet, it came time 25:04 and before he knew that it was a done deal, 25:07 he had to go back to his father. 25:08 That's right. 25:10 He said, "Listen, daddy, 'Did we do good? 25:13 Did we do good?'" Yeah, yeah. 25:15 Before that. That's heavy, that's heavy. 25:16 That's heavy. 25:18 Before that, He did, He would not even come out of the tomb, 25:21 He had the power-- 25:22 He resurrected himself. 25:24 But He would not, He was obedient until death 25:28 and until the angel came to this tomb and said, 25:31 "Thy father calls thee." 25:34 He did not resurrect himself. 25:37 He was obedient, that's hard 25:39 and the other thought here is just look at our world, 25:43 how the enemy is working in the world 25:46 to make sins like this of no effect, 25:49 to make sin seem less sinful, like it's no big deal. 25:55 You know, we've talked out on different programs all of us 25:57 of how people think that they can do 25:59 and act and live anyway they want. 26:01 And everything's fine, 26:03 you just go to church once a week, 26:04 sing happy songs and, and eat donuts 26:07 or whatever they might offer you 26:09 and go your merry way, and everything's good. 26:12 And yet, when you begin to open and dissect the scripture 26:15 you see, it's so totally different, 26:18 if that's the way it were, if that's the way God intended, 26:22 Christ would not have gone to that cross. 26:24 And I, I'd like to be rewind for just a second 26:27 because we commented 26:29 on the B part of 2 Corinthians 5:21 26:32 that, "He became sin," 26:34 but actually what the scripture says is, 26:37 "He God made him, Christ, who knew no sin, 26:43 to be sin for us 26:46 that we might become the righteousness of God." 26:49 Amen. 26:51 So the point is for everything we said about Christ suffering, 26:56 that was just the tip of the iceberg. 26:59 The true suffering was when this perfect sinless, 27:06 perfectly human, perfectly divine person 27:09 had to take the burden, the agony, the guilt, 27:13 the condemnation, the weight of all of our sin on him. 27:18 That's where the real pain was because as you said, 27:21 "That's what separated Him from His father." 27:26 And to your point, 27:29 the scripture we began with Romans 8:1, 27:32 "There is therefore now no condemnation 27:35 for those who are in Christ Jesus." 27:37 I had a friend who no matter what she did, 27:40 it was like "Hallelujah, I'm not condemned. 27:43 I mean in Christ." 27:44 And I said, "You know, you've got to look at what it says." 27:47 'Cause first of all, let me put it this way, 27:50 if the commandments were done away with 27:54 at the cross which some people teach 27:57 when Christ died in vain, why did he have to die? 27:59 That's right, because the law had been broken. 28:02 He died because the law 28:04 and if God want gonna to keep that law in place, 28:06 he wouldn't have had his son going through all of that. 28:08 Witness the greatest testimony 28:10 that the Law has not done away with it 28:12 because the Christ came to die 28:15 and paid the penalty, I thought how. 28:18 When you say penalty, I remember who said 28:20 penalty in all different things, 28:21 but I'm talking about in my mind, 28:23 every wrong action, every wrong word, 28:27 every wrong thought. 28:28 Yes. 28:29 Every sin, whether it's made no not. 28:32 He paid the price, you talking about how heavy. 28:35 Sometime, we know better and we might do something, 28:38 it becomes very heavy. 28:40 That's just our own life. 28:41 What if we had the weight of the world on our shoulders? 28:45 Our heart would break. 28:46 Our heart, our heart would, would break. 28:48 Can even in death, he kept it. Good. 28:51 So I mean, even in death he kept the Sabbath. 28:53 Yes, yes. I mean. 28:55 He was setting an example even in death. 28:57 Of keeping the law 28:58 'cause it was the law that have been broken. 29:01 Tammy, would you read that. 29:03 Second paragraph there it starts with, 29:05 "As your conscience." 29:06 Kind of comes up what we've been talking about. 29:08 As your conscience has been quickened by the Holy Spirit. 29:12 You have seen something of the evil of sin. 29:15 Of it's power, it's a guilt, it's wall. 29:19 And you look upon it with abhorrence. 29:22 You longed to be forgiven, to be cleansed, to be set free. 29:26 Harmony with God, likeness to him. 29:29 What can you do to obtain it? 29:32 That's powerful. Powerful words. 29:34 Yes. And a powerful question. 29:37 To quick and quick 29:39 and by the Holy Spirit your given life. 29:41 So you begin to understand. 29:43 Oh, wow! 29:45 What I've been doing is not right. 29:46 You know, people are always looking for something that, 29:49 makes them happy, happiness. 29:51 But many times, they're looking in the wrong place, 29:53 they're looking at the night club every weekend. 29:55 You know, can't wait till Friday comes, 29:57 because we're going dancing 29:58 or we're going to hear we're doing that. 30:00 We're going to the skating rink. 30:02 That's Southern Illinois. 30:05 Not much else to do, to go to the skating. 30:09 But once, once you have a touch of the Holy Spirit 30:14 in your Spirit becomes quick 30:17 and it becomes a live and you realize, 30:18 "Wow! There is something different. 30:20 I want that." 30:22 I can remember being, as a child even in meetings 30:25 and listening to different messages being presented 30:28 and all of a sudden you feel this. 30:29 These Goosebumps and feel the spirit come over you. 30:32 And you talk to somebody they didn't experience. 30:35 What's going on? 30:37 But it made me want more. 30:38 I want more of his presence. 30:41 And you begin to see this sinfulness of sin it's guilt. 30:46 You talked about, "What would we do 30:48 if we had the whole world sin on our shoulder?" 30:52 I said, "It would break our hearts." 30:54 It's guilt that destroys you, 30:56 even if you think you're hiding it. 30:58 It just growing rushed. 31:00 Crushed some time because, someone says, 31:02 something unpleasant. 31:05 Some people put them in bed for a week or two. 31:07 I mean that's. 31:09 We've got to grow in the grace and the knowledge and wisdom 31:11 and strength of Jesus Christ, 31:13 because everything that can be said, will be said. 31:16 If the devil cannot get you to do the wrong thing, 31:19 I'll put it that way we understand it. 31:21 If you can't do that then he will attack your character. 31:23 Yes, we die. 31:24 If he can't get you off, of the track, 31:26 to get you out doing something open or whatever it might be. 31:28 He will attack your name, your character, 31:31 and he will try to drag you through the dirt. 31:34 And the dust and the mire 31:35 hoping you'll never rise up again. 31:37 I say, "We serve a savior, 31:39 that can pull us out of that mud, that mire, 31:42 that mud, that quicksand." Amen. 31:44 "That devil's trying to throw on us." 31:46 If you ever been were cars been struck years ago, 31:48 you get off the road and it's down the axles. 31:50 And some are saying, "Hey, give me a push. 31:52 Give me a..." 31:56 we did one time on a Sabbath. 31:58 Had a suit, everything on 31:59 nothing would but we get behind the car, 32:01 three or four of us got behind the car and. 32:03 It was just completely mud. 32:06 Lot time there's mud swimmers out there. 32:09 You know, and we probably fall down in times past 32:12 what we serve a savior. 32:14 Who will forgive us, and clans us, 32:15 and set our feet on the right path. 32:17 There's a question quickly I thought it was interesting. 32:20 It says, I read one time, it says, 32:22 "We are not to be anxious about what Christ 32:27 and God think about us." 32:30 Now, that's going to blow us out. 32:31 We are not to be anxious about what Christ 32:34 and God think about us. 32:36 And you say, "Well, what is it?" 32:38 But what God thinks about Christ? 32:43 Because, he's my substitute. 32:45 I'm getting loose by those. Amen. 32:47 I'm getting Goosebumps right now. 32:49 Which goes back... To my surety. 32:50 Yes. Amen. 32:52 He's my substitute. 32:53 God doesn't look at this poor mess. 32:56 He looks at his Son 32:57 and I've excepted his Son as my Lord and savior, 32:59 I got his blood cleans me. 33:01 I'm going his blood work on me every day. 33:03 If we're not to be anxious about what God thinks of us. 33:07 Why should be anxious about people 33:09 that want to know the sling darts. 33:11 You know, a lot, of people I've heard they say, 33:14 "I don't go to church anymore because, 33:16 so and so offended me you know, and when they said." 33:18 And Kenny, our mother had no patience with that. 33:21 You know that? 33:23 She said, "I don't care what anybody says, about me 33:26 they're not going to drive me from my church." 33:29 He just told me that this week. 33:31 He told me the very same quote. 33:33 That's what she said, you know, you like he said sometimes 33:36 and put somebody in bad for you know, weeks and you know, 33:39 I just I want to say, "Kindly snap out of it." 33:42 Yes. 33:43 You know, if we're not anxious about what God thinks about us. 33:46 Yes. 33:48 Can I... Yes. 33:49 This is because, it says here, you asked that you question. 33:54 You long to be, forgiven to be clean to set free. 33:57 Lord to be set free, and so I was looking this up, 34:00 and in 1890 Ellen White, wrote this and signs of times. 34:03 And boy, it encouraged me because, 34:05 of one word that she was using in here, 34:08 that allows you to be set free. 34:10 "To those who, "so this is who are being set free all right. 34:13 "To those, who believe in except 34:15 "the generous portions and provisions of the gospel 34:18 "and who in faith commit themselves 34:21 "to the lives of living obedience, 34:23 Christ offers justification in freedom." 34:26 Yes. Now listen to this please. 34:29 There may yet be the fish, he and my believers character 34:35 or that's important to hear 34:37 how is boy we could get under so much guilt sometimes. 34:39 Because, we are not doing something right, 34:42 "There my get be deficiencies in the believers character, 34:46 but when it is in the heart of God to obey him." 34:49 Yes. Come on now. 34:51 "When efforts are being put forth to this 34:53 and then Jesus accept this deficit. 34:58 And efforts as man's best service 35:00 than hey my except for the deficient. 35:02 Yes, he does. There you go. 35:03 And then it goes on. 35:05 So we're talking about peace through the cross, 35:08 we're talking about condemnation, 35:09 then it ends with a last sentence. 35:12 For such, there is no condemnation 35:15 because if you have a deficiency he's saying there, 35:19 if you're doing the best that you can, 35:21 then I'm there to make up for their deficiency. 35:24 It's our tendency. It's our tendencies. 35:26 So now we are on our way to this cross. 35:28 Kind of like having done all of the stand. 35:29 Amen. That's true. 35:30 He made the trend, to where you're heading, 35:33 what you're trying, it's the motive, 35:35 motive of the heart. 35:36 Amen, amen. Amen. 35:38 I want to read the next part of what you both have just read. 35:42 Because right after, it says, "To be set free, 35:45 harmony with God, lightness to him, 35:48 "and here's the question I want us to answer. 35:51 What can you do to obtain it? 35:54 What can you do to obtain the harmony, 35:58 to have that forgiveness, to have that peace, 36:02 that sets us free, to have that assurity 36:06 that our names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life. 36:08 What can we do? 36:10 When we started in Romans in 8:1, 36:13 we didn't finish the whole verse, 36:16 the next part of it says "The law of the Spirit of life 36:20 in Christ Jesus has made me free 36:23 from the law of sin and death". 36:25 Christ Jesus make us free from sin and death, 36:29 that's what we can do, is give our hearts to Christ. 36:31 Does it stop there? 36:34 No, continues on for-- 36:35 No, I mean does it stop there? Giving your hearts? 36:37 Giving your heart to Jesus, does it stop there? 36:40 No, absolutely not. 36:41 Because we're supposed to improve our characters, 36:44 we have deficiencies, we all do. 36:46 I have many deficiencies. 36:49 But we're supposed to be continuing 36:51 to work on those deficiencies to come closer to him. 36:54 To be-- show a character like Christ had. 36:57 And really it has to be him. 36:59 You know the Bible says 37:01 that we can't change our hearts any more 37:02 than a leopard can change its spots, 37:04 Ethiopian change its skin. 37:06 It's all about you being 37:09 to the control of the Holy Spirit. 37:11 It's like, it's giving Him permission, 37:14 we used the surrender, it is saying, 37:17 "Okay have your way with me, Lord, because He promises, 37:20 He's the one would do this." 37:22 I just want to go... I keep rewinding here, 37:26 but it says there's no condemnation for those 37:29 who walk in Christ Jesus, who are in Christ Jesus. 37:33 Who do not walk according to the flesh, 37:37 but according to the spirit. 37:38 What does it mean to walk according to the flesh? 37:41 'cause you're asking, how do we obtain this, 37:43 once you've given your heart to the Lord, 37:46 there is still this day-by-day of giving up the old ways. 37:52 I'm gonna read this from the Amplified 37:54 'cause I love how it reads. 37:56 Galatians 5:19-26 37:58 here what it means to walk by the flesh. 38:02 "Now the doings, the practices of flesh are clear, 38:06 immorality, impurity, indecency, idolatry, sorcery, 38:10 enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, ill temper." 38:14 You know, some people will say, "I don't preach about temper 38:18 'cause, I've never had problem with the temper." 38:20 But I will say this to anybody 38:22 that's got a problem with controlling their temper, 38:25 they're not walking under-- 38:26 in surrender to the control of the Holy Spirit. 38:29 But, "Ill temper, selfishness, divisions, party spirits, 38:32 factions, heresies, envy, 38:35 drunkenness, carousing, and the like. 38:37 I warn you, just as I did previously, 38:39 those who do such things 38:41 shall not inherit the kingdom of God." 38:44 So just can't say, "Oh Lord I accept you, 38:47 now I'm gonna go out and get drunk," you know. 38:50 But the fruit of the spirit 38:52 when his presence is living in us 38:56 and that's what it is, it's day-by-day asking God 38:58 to lead us by His spirit, to fill us with His spirit. 39:01 When the fruit of the Spirit is, love, joy, peace, 39:07 that's something we experience here, 39:09 the love, the joy, the peace. 39:11 Patience, kindness, goodness, that's what we show to others 39:18 and then gentleness, which means humility, 39:22 meekness, self-control and faithfulness, 39:26 that's what we show to God. 39:29 It's actually-- 39:31 we say fruits of the spirit too incorrectly. 39:34 It is the fruit, it is a single fruit 39:38 that produces these nine characteristics, 39:41 so what do we do to obtain this? 39:44 Day-by-day we got to get up and we got to pray, 39:47 we got say fill me with your Holy Spirit 39:50 and then follow his leading to walk as Christ walks. 39:55 'Cause we don't see-- 39:57 When we say flesh many times, 39:59 we don't really understand the sinfulness, 40:02 the rottenness of the flesh. 40:05 It's a Roman 8: 8. 40:07 It talks about the flesh here, we talked about the flesh, 40:12 "If you're in the flesh you can't please God." 40:13 Yes. It's what it says. I paraphrased it. 40:15 "If you're in the flesh you cannot please God." 40:18 It's kind of like the faith factor 40:20 but you can't please him and so we realize 40:22 that there is that issue going on about flesh, 40:25 lust against the spirit. 40:27 You were talking about in Galatians 5 maybe 17 40:29 if you read the 17. 40:31 So there is a battle royal going on 40:33 and the ones gonna win that battle, I love that-- 40:36 I always say that fruit of the spirit. 40:38 You take nine of them there and I've often said this. 40:41 Yeah, when I really read Him, I want to say this way, 40:44 best for me in spirit and understanding, 40:47 I wept because I failed everyone. 40:52 I did my own heart searching and as I read those things, 40:57 I say can you fail every one of those. 41:00 But Sister White says, "Everyone-- 41:04 if we lack one of the fruits, fruit of the spirit, nine, 41:08 heaven will never be our home." 41:11 So with that balance in my mind 41:12 and what the scripture said, 41:14 I said, "Oh God I need some help." 41:15 And Some of you maybe saying that, 41:17 "Oh, I'm too far gone, 41:19 I've dug so deep in, I'll never get--" 41:21 No you're not, you're not that deep 41:22 that God can't get you to the Holy Spirit. 41:24 You're never can't have done anything so bad 41:26 that God can't forgive you. 41:28 Think about it, there's no sin that God cannot forgive. 41:31 And Calvary proves that. Amen. 41:33 So I'm very grateful and thankful. 41:35 I like Shelley mentioning love, 41:39 because love covers all and it's part of all. 41:43 Yes. Amen. 41:44 So I noticed you name that number one. 41:46 Yeah that's the essence of Him. That is the greatest. 41:49 That's the greatest gift. Amen. 41:52 In my old age, peace has become "The Word", 41:57 you know, and we say jokingly, 41:59 "I just want peace, I just want--" 42:00 But you know what, in this horrible, sinful world 42:04 that we live in, you realize how elusive peace is. 42:09 Yes Ma'am. It is so elusive. 42:11 If you don't have Jesus 42:13 and you don't have that hope in your heart, 42:16 how can find peace in this world? 42:18 You can't. You can't. 42:19 You can't. You can't. 42:20 Was did Bible say about the wicked? 42:22 Yes, exactly. Right? 42:23 There's now peace. There's no peace. 42:25 Anybody that has grey hairs had enough life experiences 42:28 that you get tired of hassles and we do want peace 42:32 and quietness and confidence. 42:34 And so if any of you question, "Well, where do I get this? 42:38 Well, it's right here in His Character and well, 42:41 this is the direction. 42:42 I want to share, because you guys are touching about it, 42:45 but as a sinner coming to Jesus, 42:48 as a sinner saying, "You know, I want that, 42:51 I'd like to taste that, 42:53 I want to understand this fruit, 42:54 I want to taste this fruit." 42:56 It doesn't happen overnight. 42:59 You're just not all of sudden patient and loving 43:02 and kind and have peace. 43:05 It just doesn't always happen overnight. 43:07 I want to share a little... 43:09 It could've happened overnight. 43:10 Let's just challenge you but that could've happened. 43:12 It could, I've seen people who've been pretty changed. 43:15 And you're right. 43:16 You're on target, 43:18 because it's the battle that I've put up. 43:21 He can give me victory in every area of my life, 43:24 except when I fight Him. 43:26 And so when we don't gain a victory, 43:27 brothers and sisters, it's because you're fighting. 43:29 That's exactly right. 43:30 I want to share this because it-- 43:33 and the reason I'm being laughed at 43:34 is because I've been trying for a long time. 43:37 Because there is a component missing, 43:39 you know, so often I just listen to sister Shelley 43:41 and some others, the other night 43:43 and they were talking about, 43:45 "Well, you can't give the Bible, 43:46 you can't give the Bible." 43:47 But what they were trying to do 43:49 is really what it was saying is, 43:50 you've got to live the Bible. 43:53 That's should've been what was said. 43:54 And you've got to live the Bible. 43:56 You can't live the Bible if it's not in you. 43:59 So I'm gonna read two little quotes here 44:01 that pertain to help give us the foundation 44:04 that we must build upon day-by-day. 44:07 It doesn't just stop, its not a once I accept and I'm gone. 44:11 Right. Okay. 44:12 So Prophets and Kings, 44:14 it says, "Christians should be preparing 44:16 what is to soon break upon the world 44:18 as an overwhelming surprise and this preparation 44:22 they should make by diligently." 44:25 Diligently, I'm gonna say it again, diligently. 44:28 It's not like, "Well, let me pick it up and put it down." 44:31 If that's all you can do to start then do it. 44:34 'Cause the Holy Spirit's gonna get your heart 44:36 and you will be getting to study longer 44:38 and more diligently. 44:40 "Studying the Word of God and striving to conform," 44:44 there's that other word again, 44:46 "conform their lives to its precepts." 44:50 So I don't know how to love, I don't know how to be patient 44:54 and kind until I begin to dig into the word 44:57 and I begin to diligently pray 45:00 and diligently even practice it. 45:02 And when that old man starts to well up inside of me, 45:06 sister Shelley, that old woman and said, 45:09 "You know, you really need to tell Him like it is." 45:11 No mercy. 45:12 I've have to dart up a prayer and say, 45:14 "God help me." 45:16 Control my tongue, control my thoughts. 45:18 This next one is from The Great Controversy, 45:20 just one little sentence, it says, 45:22 "None but these have fortified, 45:24 none but those who have fortified the mind 45:27 with the truths, 45:29 you fortified your mind with the truths of the Bible 45:32 will stand through the last great conflict." 45:34 Mercy. 45:36 And I'm gonna say even before that last great conflict, 45:39 unless you're fortifying your mind 45:40 each and every day 45:42 you can't stand through the conflicts of your home. 45:45 You can't stand through the conflicts of your marriage, 45:49 of the children that are being disobedient. 45:51 Oh, mercy. Of the loss of loved ones. 45:54 You know we've had trials here this past week. 45:57 It makes me want to cry just thinking about it, 45:58 our family here. 46:00 We'll all cry together. 46:01 And we cannot stand 46:03 without the fortification of God within us. 46:05 We realize we have hope. We realize we have hope. 46:08 Amen. 46:10 And God doesn't, God, I'm sorry. 46:11 God doesn't say that it's all gonna be smooth sailing. 46:14 No. 46:15 We are not gonna ha-- 46:16 It's not that we're not gonna have trails 46:18 and temptations and troubles, we know that, 46:22 but we know the one to take them to. 46:25 Because we can control no circumstances on our own, 46:28 only God can control the circumstances. 46:30 One thing that I like, 46:32 'cause my mind works in a very practical way, 46:34 at least I like to think that it does, 46:36 is that, thank you Jesus that it's Biblical 46:39 that we start of with milk. 46:41 Come on. Yeah that's good. 46:43 Progressive revelation. 46:45 And that's how we have the opportunity 46:47 you know, to grow, 'cause we're a work in progress 46:50 and you know, one thing that Shelley used to say 46:54 that really tattooed on my mind, 46:56 that helped me personally, 46:58 is that I'm willing to be made willing, 47:00 thank you Jesus, at least I'm a work in progress, 47:03 thank you that I do have the opportunity, 47:06 'cause this is as Biblical as be 47:07 that I can go from milk to pabulum to meat, 47:10 to you know and then grow accordingly. 47:14 But as we read, yes we do have those deficiencies. 47:17 But that's part of His Salvation plan. 47:22 It is, brother JD. 47:23 Is it important that we allow someone, 47:28 say in the church, to grow? 47:30 Well, certainly. 47:32 See lot of time we're not doing that 47:33 and we're running people out rather than welcoming them in 47:36 and nourishing them, and encouraging them 47:38 or presenting Jesus to them 47:40 and his forgiveness and work with them. 47:42 It's like every time we see a little something, 47:44 we feel our obligation go in 47:45 and almost, like, beat him to death with it. 47:47 Yeah, we're supposed to be the fishers of the men. 47:49 We're not the ones who clean up the fish, 47:51 we should be praying for them. 47:54 Some person called the other day 47:56 and she says could you explain something very simply to me 47:59 about the preciousness of communion, 48:02 what are the directives for communion? 48:05 And number one in the Adventist Church 48:07 is an open communion. 48:09 If you believe in Jesus pray. 48:11 So a person doesn't have to show up 48:13 in a three-piece suit. 48:15 You know and just go through everything exactly right. 48:19 If a person-- 48:20 I do believe that we should wear our Sabbath best. 48:23 If whether that's pair of blue jeans, 48:25 if that's the best that they have, 48:26 make sure that it's clean. 48:28 But the main thing is that you accept them, 48:31 not totally perfect and if they're not perfect, 48:37 then we've got to discuss this. 48:39 By beholding we become changed and that's what it is. 48:42 Yes. Yeah. 48:44 Go ahead. No, go ahead. 48:45 I was just gonna say-- 48:46 we were talking about, 48:48 how do we obtain this, this harmony with God? 48:50 We have to become like Jesus, 48:51 and as she said diligent study is extremely important. 48:58 But we can study about love forever and not have it 49:04 unless we're asking the Holy Spirit to fill us, 49:09 because it is-- 49:11 Romans 5:5 says, 49:12 "It's God who pours His love into our hearts 49:16 by the power of the Holy Spirit. 49:18 So, you know, I used to-- 49:20 I remember I was claiming Mark 12:13-31 one day 49:24 and I was praying and I was saying, 49:26 "Oh, father, thank you that I love you with all my heart, 49:29 soul, mind and strength 49:30 and I love my neighbor as myself." 49:32 And then I started crying, 49:34 and I said, "Lord I'm not there yet nor--" 49:37 That's right. Yeah. 49:39 But point is, we can't love God the way He wants us to 49:45 or love one another the way He wants us to, 49:47 unless He pours that into us and the Holy Spirit 49:51 it's the essence of God's being is love and then we see. 49:58 You know we read He empowers us by the Holy Spirit. 50:02 Then we read and we feel something 50:05 and we understand that, what you said is so wonderful, 50:09 it isn't loving to have somebody 50:13 who's walked into church 50:14 and suddenly you're correcting him on everything. 50:16 "Don't do this, don't eat that, don't do this, 50:18 you know, you shouldn't comb your hair that way or--" 50:21 There might be, you know, 50:22 you got to teach him with gentle and love, 50:25 but to say about inappropriate, 50:27 you know, if it's immodest clothing, 50:29 but there are people who just come down on people, 50:32 that's not the spirit of love. 50:34 When I was young, a cousin that had never been in church 50:39 and had not been raised in church, she came, 50:42 she decided on her own 50:43 and she was about 13 at the time, 50:45 she decided on her own 50:47 that she wanted to start coming to church. 50:49 First Sabbath that she came, this was back in the day 50:52 when the mini skirt and everything, 50:53 you know, was in, and the first time she came, 50:56 she had on a really short skirt 50:59 and someone in the church one went up and said, 51:01 "You don't wear that kind of stuff to church, 51:03 that's immodest, you know, 51:05 you should know better, basically, don't you do this." 51:09 She didn't step foot again, for years, 51:11 back into the church because that hurt her feelings so bad. 51:15 We can't land on people that are coming. 51:18 They don't know these things. Those words hurt. 51:20 They hurt. They hurt. 51:21 They're embarrassing. 51:23 This is part of our group, 51:24 this is what I'm talking about, beholding Christ, 51:26 peace to the cross we will have. 51:27 If you have that real peace, 51:29 when somebody walks through those doors 51:30 and makes an effort to come to church, 51:32 grab them by the hand, 51:34 help them in and encourage them. 51:36 Let them sit down, let them enjoy, 51:38 encourage them, don't look. 51:39 I had a friend, one time, 51:41 that no matter what you would do, 51:42 he was in a health ward and no matter-- 51:45 he came up to you 51:46 and you profess one thing or the other 51:47 and you may have something in your mouth 51:49 or you may be eating some you tend to do. 51:51 He would never ever look at anything you were doing. 51:55 He'd look in your eye 51:56 and shook the guys hands and say, 51:58 "Hello, brother, In our mission we love you, 51:59 we're so glad." 52:00 And that just changed the heart. 52:02 He never looked at anything 52:04 but I had another friend that walked in the door, 52:06 and this may not hit for some folk. 52:08 I'm not trying to make an issue of it, 52:09 but she had not been for many years to the church 52:13 and she grew accustomed to the world 52:17 and all of the things so she decided to look good, 52:19 that she needed things on ears and every finger 52:22 and everything else when she came in jewelry, 52:24 but they're heavy. 52:26 And she walked in the door, the deacon of the church, 52:28 I happened to be standing there, 52:30 I see him look and he said, 52:31 "Oh we haven't seen you in so many years, 52:32 it's good to see you. 52:34 I hope you don't fall in the pond, 52:35 you'll drown with that stuff on." 52:36 Now how sad she walked out of that door 52:38 and has never come back since. 52:42 We're saying, this is hopefully a warning to people, 52:44 please don't do that. 52:45 God accepts us as we are. He says come as you are. 52:49 He'll do the changing. 52:50 Right. Exactly. 52:51 He will work through the Holy Spirit 52:53 to bring that as we behold the cross 52:54 that we've been talking about here. 52:55 We'll break the heart 52:58 and we want to become more like Him. 53:01 Amen. 53:02 When we kneel in faith at the cross, 53:06 we as God's children have reached the highest place. 53:10 Amen. Amen. 53:11 Amen. To which man can attain. 53:13 And as we're drawing this worship time 53:16 on the Sabbath to a close, 53:19 I just want to give this invitation 53:21 that's found in "The Faith I Live By," 53:22 it says, "Thank God for the gift of His dear son 53:28 and pray that He may not have died for you in vain." 53:35 The spirit invites you at home, your family, your children, 53:39 your loved ones, all of us are here, 53:42 invite you today 53:44 come with your whole heart to Jesus 53:47 and you may claim His blessing." 53:51 As we come to Jesus and he fortifies, 53:54 he quickens our heart with his spirit. 53:56 Then we begin to learn, to love 54:00 and to deal with each other the way we are supposed to. 54:03 Yes. 54:04 Go ahead, sorry what are we reading? 54:06 No, somebody needs to read. 54:07 Do you want to instead? Okay, go ahead. 54:09 Again we're reading it, it says, "Go to Him, 54:12 go to Christ and ask that He will wash away your sins, 54:16 give you a new heart. 54:18 Then believe that He does this because He has promised. 54:23 It is our privilege to go to Jesus and be cleansed, 54:26 and to stand before the law without shame or remorse." 54:30 I love that. Ain't that beautiful? 54:31 I mean you think about it, it says, I read it said, 54:33 Christ will never abandon the soul 54:36 for whom He has died 54:38 and you think about it that it was Peter 54:40 that was boisterous, 54:42 you know, and he was, you know, 54:43 all kind of thinks he had to say, 54:45 Jesus loved Peter and He said to him 54:48 and it was in Luke 20:22, 54:50 he said, "Peter, I'm gonna pray for you." 54:55 He said, "I'm gonna pray for you." 54:56 I thought how wonderful that is, 54:58 that the enemy has desire to have you 55:00 but I gonna pray that he doesn't sift you like wheat. 55:03 The enemy is capable of sifting each one of us 55:05 like wheat, it's nothing in his hands 55:08 if it were not for Jesus Christ. 55:10 If it wasn't for that sacrifice. 55:11 I'm part of the family of God. 55:12 You're part of the family of God. 55:14 Church is a hospital. Woo! Bring it on! 55:15 Ezekiel 36:26 says, 55:18 and I'll kind of go through what she just read, 55:20 "A new heart also will I give you." 55:22 That's a promise. 55:24 You can claim that promise, affirmation of scripture, 55:27 "A new heart will I give you, 55:29 a new spirit will I put within you," 55:32 so our spirits begin to change, 55:34 we don't think the same anymore Tammy. 55:36 Tammy when you and I were kids, we would-- 55:38 I remember the first time I met you, 55:40 was that at little grassy lake? 55:42 We didn't think the same way then as we do now. 55:44 Oh my, I know. Not even close. 55:47 Praise God. Praise God that we don't. 55:50 It says "I will take that stony heart 55:52 out of your flesh, 55:54 he's gonna do a heart surgery on each and every one of us, 55:57 and I will give you a heart of flesh." 56:00 You know as you put that, before wrapping it up 56:02 somebody, may be saying I won't accept Christ 56:04 as my Lord and savior. 56:05 First thing, well, we have to say is say, 56:07 I know I'm a sinner. 56:08 I know I'm a sinner and I certainly what? 56:10 I have no manners, so I have no goodness of my own, 56:13 so I come to you Father 56:14 and I present the blood of Your son. 56:17 Amen. 56:19 My substitute and I'll tell you the Father will accept you in. 56:21 Ain't that wonderful to know today that he accepts-- 56:24 So how do you present the blood? 56:26 You said you'd present the blood. 56:27 If somebody is watching and they say, 56:29 "I don't know what he means, presenting the blood." 56:31 How do you do it? 56:33 You just pray and ask for Christ 56:34 to be your savior and-- 56:36 Amen, that's right. 56:37 And I like I said, you behold cross, 56:38 at Calvary and that blood that we shed, 56:40 without shedding the blood no remission of sins, 56:42 so it goes. 56:43 He is able, you can say it to the uttermost, 56:47 you know, we need to make sure even around this table 56:49 and all those at home, those of you, 56:50 those who watch it, is to make that choice, 56:52 that decision right now. 56:54 I'm going to take a thoughtful hour each day. 56:56 I'm gonna think about the cross of Calvary, 56:58 I'm gonna think about what Jesus did for me 57:00 and I guarantee, 57:01 your life will not ever be the same again. 57:04 Take that step of action. Step of action. 57:07 We just have few seconds left, 57:08 we need to have closing-- 57:09 Prayer. Prayer, that's right. 57:11 Sister Shelley how about you, 57:12 would you just dismiss this here with prayer? 57:13 Certainly, certainly. Yes. 57:15 Heavenly Father, we've come in the name of Jesus, 57:16 thanking you Father for the sacrifice that He made. 57:21 Thanking you that you loved Him enough 57:22 to send Him to die us for while we were yet sinners. 57:25 Thanking you that there is no condemnation 57:28 for those who are in Christ Jesus. 57:30 We thank you, Father 57:32 for the fact that you will complete the good work 57:35 that You've begun in us. 57:37 Thank you for this Sabbath day, in the name of Jesus. 57:40 Amen. Amen. |
Revised 2016-05-09