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 family worship.
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Welcome to our home as it were.
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And if you are
beginning the Sabbath,
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heading into the Sabbath
on Friday night watching this,
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or perhaps some of you
are at the end of the Sabbath,
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you're watching this
on a Saturday evening
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beginning the untried
hours of the brand new week.
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We wish for you a happy week.
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And if you are
watching it on Friday night,
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we wish for you a happy Sabbath.
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Whatever experiences
yours, thank you for joining us.
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I'm with my wife Irma,
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and our good friends
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the Jaque's, Lynette and Jorge
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who spend a lot
of time at our house.
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And we spend a lot
of time at their house.
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Their house.
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When we see them, we
actually expect a smoothie,
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but we're settling for water,
because that's what we've got.
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So we're praising
the Lord for the water.
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Because our
bread and water is sure
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unless we go to Jorge's
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then our bread
and smoothie is sure.
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But we enjoy them
so very, very much.
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This program is kind of
an eclectic blend of stuff,
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that I'm calling
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"Sermons From the Attic."
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It's...
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actually I found
this stuff in my basement,
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but Sermons on the Attic sounds
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better than
Sermons from the basement.
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You know, it just sounds
a better, a little better,
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a little bettering.
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Over the years, Irma knows,
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we are both in our own
ways kind of pack rattish.
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She I think worse than I.
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When I find sermon bits,
cute sayings, witty things,
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things that make you think,
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I tend to file them
in different folders.
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And over the
last couple of days,
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we've been going
through piles of stuff,
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throwing out some
things, keeping some things,
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and I found some old things
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that I used to
use in prayer meeting
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at my church as years ago,
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that I thought we bring
out including a child's book
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that we're gonna read some.
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Very heavy
thoughts from child's book,
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I think an adult wrote it
under the guiles of the child.
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But we found some
stuff, so he said,
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let's bring this
for prayer meeting,
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because it may be
a blessing to you,
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and it is going to
be a blessing for us
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we feel and are sure,
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so Lynette and Jorge,
good to have you here.
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Thank you for having us.
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And always good to
have Irma by my side.
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Somehow, you've grown my dear.
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Cheating a little
bit. Indeed yes, indeed.
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That's a lovely pillow
you're sitting on there.
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Praise the Lord.
Cheating in enhancing.
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Enhancing. It's enhancing.
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Thank you, Lynette.
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We do have a good
time with each other,
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and the Murray's love
the Jaque's very, very much.
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Yes, we do.
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And we feel
they're great people.
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Going to ask you to turn
with me in your hymn note
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should you have one
and hopefully you will
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have one or can grab one.
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The words will appear, so
you're not bereft of words,
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but we want to go to 470,
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there is indeed
sunshine in my soul today.
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And as we are here and
were we to look outside,
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we would indeed see sunshine.
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We're going to do
just three stanzas
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one, two, and four
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of the sunshine in
my soul today, 470.
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All right, here we go.
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There's
sunshine in my soul today
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More glorious and bright
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Than glows in any earthly sky
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For Jesus is my light
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O there's
sunshine, blessed sunshine
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When the
peaceful, happy moments roll
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When Jesus
shows His smiling face
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There is sunshine in my soul
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And stanza number two.
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There's music in my soul today
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A carol to my King
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And Jesus, listening, can hear
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The songs I cannot sing
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O there's
sunshine, blessed sunshine
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When the
peaceful, happy moments roll
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When Jesus
shows His smiling face
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There is sunshine in my soul
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And that last stanza.
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There is
gladness in my soul today
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And hope, and praise, and love
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For blessings
which He gives me now
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For joys "laid up" above
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O there's
sunshine, blessed sunshine
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When the
peaceful, happy moments roll
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When Jesus
shows His smiling face
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There is sunshine in my soul
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When I was in college, and
I was leading song service,
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everybody knew sooner or later,
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we're gonna sing there's
sunshine in my soul today.
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I think in the
old hymnal with 608
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or something like that,
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but they would just
put their finger there
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'cause sooner or later
they knew it was coming.
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And I never disappointed them.
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We always sang
sunshine at least once.
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And a couple of other
songs were kind of my favorite.
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Now we're gonna go
to 152, one five two,
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which is tell me
the story of Jesus.
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Years ago, actually,
when I was in London,
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we were home on
a Friday evening,
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and we decided to sing our
way through the entire hymnal.
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Just a bunch of
us sitting around,
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we sang from everything we knew,
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all the way through.
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It took us about three
and a half hours or so,
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but we got through
everyone, there that we knew.
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And which is most of them,
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because we
didn't sing all stanzas,
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just one and done,
you know, kind of thing.
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Yeah.
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So we're gonna do 152, which is
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"Tell me the story of Jesus."
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Here we go, and...
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Tell me the story of Jesus
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Write on my heart every word
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Tell me the story most precious
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Sweetest that ever was heard
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Tell now the angels, in chorus
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Sang as they welcomed His birth
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Glory to God in the highest
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Peace and good tidings to earth
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Tell me the story of Jesus
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Write on my heart every word
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Tell me the story most precious
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Sweetest that ever was heard
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And the last
stanza, number three.
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Tell the cross
where they nailed Him
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Writing in anguish and pain
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Tell of the grave
where they laid Him
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Tell how He liveth again
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Love is that story so tender
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Clearer than ever I see
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Stay, let me
weep while you whisper
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Love paid the ransom for me
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Tell me the story of Jesus
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Write on my heart every word
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Tell me the story most precious
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Sweetest that ever was heard
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Amen.
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We did not introduce our
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fifth guest or
fifth person in the room
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and that is Miss Summer Boyd,
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who is playing on the piano,
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and we thank you so very
much Summer for joining us.
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She said, you're very
welcome as you couldn't hear.
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All right.
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Sing them over again to me
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wonderful words of life,
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286,
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286.
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Okay. Are we there?
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We are. All ready, here we go.
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All right, Summer, here we go.
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Sing them over again to me
wonderful words of life, and...
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Sing them over again to me
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Wonderful words of life
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Let me more of their beauty see
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Wonderful words of life
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Words of life and beauty
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Teach me faith and duty
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Beautiful words, wonderful words
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Wonderful words of life,
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Beautiful words, wonderful words
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Wonderful words of life
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Second stanza.
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Christ, the
blessed One Gives to all
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Wonderful words of life
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Sinner, list to the loving call
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Wonderful words of life
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All so freely given
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Wooing us to heaven
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Beautiful words, wonderful words
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Wonderful words of life
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Beautiful
words, wonderful words,
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Wonderful words of
life And number three.
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Sweetly echo the gospel call
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Wonderful words of life
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Offer pardon and peace to all
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Wonderful words of life
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Jesus, only Savior
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Sanctify forever
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Beautiful
words, wonderful words,
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Wonderful words of life
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Beautiful
words, wonderful words,
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Wonderful words of life
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Amen. Amen.
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Amen, and amen. Amen.
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Let's have a
short word of prayer
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and then we'll
kind of press on to
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what we want to
do for the evening.
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Father God, again we do
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thank you for the words of life,
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for the loving call of life.
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We thank you for the sunshine
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that's in our
hearts and in our souls.
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We of course are
thankful for Jesus,
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the Author and
Finisher of our faith.
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The One who gave us the Sabbath,
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and then gave us new life
and then gives us all eternity.
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We praise You now
as we worship You.
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We ask that You
would be the honored guest.
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So that everything that
we do gives glory to You.
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And we thank You
Father in Jesus' name.
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Amen. Amen.
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Amen.
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Found a little
something some time ago.
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And this is very old.
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You can't really
see it to see the words,
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but holding it
up the best I can.
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It says
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"How far am I
willing to trust God
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before I become afraid."
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Now just take it, that
you haven't seen this before,
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I have.
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I'll start at the far, Jorge,
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what does that mean
to you that question?
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How far am I
willing to trust God
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before I become afraid?
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It's an very
interesting question, simple,
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but it's very deep.
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It is profound. It is profound.
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Well, it depends in
what situation I'm involved.
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And usually we think,
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"Okay, I'm gonna
trust God, no matter what,
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and I will trust the
Lord under any circumstances.
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Now the second
part of the statement
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is where I find more
difficult to see myself.
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How I can get, become
afraid if I'm trusting in God.
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So I guess, we
need to discuss this,
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because I'm
trying to understand it
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and make it myself one with it.
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Any light, Lynnette.
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Well, I was just
thinking that sometimes
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fear is his
bravery with common sense.
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God puts into us that ability
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to feel the angst in a situation
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and that's what keeps you
from getting hit by the bus
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or eaten by the lion.
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Sounds a little
simplistic, but it is deep,
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it's a lot
deeper than that for us.
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Okay, your turn.
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I am glad that you
cleared that a little,
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because I was like Jorge also,
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thinking about that
moment of becoming so afraid
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after trusting the Lord.
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I'm not sure that I...
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that I'm there, that I
can understand that very well.
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I can understand
definitely the trust thing.
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You know, or even
the willingness to...
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Yeah.
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But seems like strange
to me that you will become
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afraid after that.
Afraid after trusting.
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Yeah. After trusting.
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But the question is how far?
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Now I've had the
advantage of having this
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had this for over 20 years.
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So I've had a
little head start on this.
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Yes, I think so.
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Of course this has
been, this has been
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in the attic or
better yet in the basement
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for most of that time.
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Because I haven't
seen this in 15 years,
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but I have a bunch of
little Christian brain teaser
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that I used to use with
my youth group in New York.
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And when I walk them
through this, I was saying,
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"How far am I willing to trust
God before I become afraid?"
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If I trust him
totally, I'm not afraid,
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but the fact
that fear enters in,
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it means that my
trust has limits.
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And my trust
should be limitless.
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So how far are am I
willing to trust God
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before I become afraid?
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All right, at this
point in our house,
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the Murray household is...
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we're not destitute
of money, but we're low.
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So now am I willing,
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am I going to get
really worried about that
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or will I trust God that
He can take care of that.
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We have two
significant bills coming,
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that the Lord is going to have
to provide the money for you.
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So do I trust or do I fear.
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And my fear
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is directly inverse
proportion to my trust.
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I am saying that if I trust Him,
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then I trust Him.
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"Lord, You got it.
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I've prayed, I've
done the best I can,
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I'm not using my tithe.
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I'm not going to
divert your money.
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I'm trusting You to do
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what You say you
will do in Malachi.
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So I'm not going to fear.
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Or Lord...
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We've got bills coming in,
and you know Lord, you know.
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So it's saying how far
am I willing to trust Him
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before my trust
evaporates into fear.
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And, yeah, and then
it gives way to the fear.
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Gives way to fear.
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We are now going
into the topic of faith.
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What does having
being a person of faith?
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Yes.
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You have faith.
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Sometimes I
find myself thinking,
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Jesus was with disciples,
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they were seeing
Him every day, right?
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But He has to tell
them, even those people
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that are constantly
with Him for three years
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walking, going places,
and He has to tell them.
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He had to tell them,
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if you at least had
faith as a mustard seed.
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Yes.
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You could say these mountains
to move and they will move.
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And then, but why the...
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He say that, because
of the same situation,
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they were afraid.
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It is a way why you are...
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What are you afraid of?
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Faith is everything.
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Now...
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There we'll go to the next part,
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if faith my own doing,
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or faith come from
God to me, to enable me,
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do not be afraid
when I trust in Him.
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If I guess that makes sense.
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So it's a matter of faith,
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I think that's a
foundation of this trust in Him
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without being
afraid of anything.
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There's an example in
the Bible that I want to...
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after we talk a little bit more.
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I want to probably
bring everybody an example
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in the life of the
King David and Mephibosheth,
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Mephibosheth or...
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Mephibosheth. Mephibosheth.
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That word. Yeah, that word.
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It's a very interesting...
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We don't talk about it too much,
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because first of all,
the name is kind of tricky.
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Right.
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Yes, you know,
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but then there is another aspect
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of being trusting someone,
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but at the same
time being afraid
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so let's continue the discussion
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and we can come back to that.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I have thought
about that many times,
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because, you know,
00:19:16.99\00:19:19.29
it's so easy to
say that I trust.
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And we do trust to a point,
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but then when I
find myself worried,
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or a little afraid
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and then I realize, I said that,
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I say, maybe I am
not having the faith
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that I'm supposed to have.
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And I think it is
that you said Jorge,
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that we must get
it from the Lord.
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We can't master it ourselves.
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We work at it, we, you
know, we try to do our best,
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but because the Lord
Himself tells us to ask.
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Yeah, yeah. For
the faith that we lack.
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See faith is one of
those kind of interesting ideas
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that you only know
you have when it's tested.
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How do you know you have faith
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and how do you know
you have a lot of faith?
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Well, the only way you know is
that when your faith is tested,
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it shows up.
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If it's never tested,
you don't really know.
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There's
something in my garage now
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that I was trying
to move the other day,
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I was trying to impress Irma,
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and I can't move
it, it's too heavy.
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Well, I can't lift it, I
can push it along the floor
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and I really thought I had
enough strength to move it.
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We bought one of those
kind of things on sale,
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it's one of those little
shed, you put on the yard...
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You know, it comes in two boxes,
00:20:36.90\00:20:38.40
but they're about
450 pounds a piece.
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So that is not
coming off the ground,
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so I'm pushing it
a little by little.
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And I got it, kind of
to the sides of the garage,
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it looks kind of neat,
but I was trying to say,
00:20:47.81\00:20:49.68
"Hey, Boo, come and look,
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I got this
thing where I wanted."
00:20:51.08\00:20:52.78
But I realize
maybe 20 years ago,
00:20:52.81\00:20:55.65
not today and not tomorrow.
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So the only reason I
know that I can't move it,
00:20:57.85\00:21:00.59
is 'cause I tried to move it
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and I can't, I can't lift it.
00:21:02.36\00:21:04.39
So how do you
know you've got faith?
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When you're challenged
and your faith gives way,
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then you know you don't
have enough faith, you know.
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The only way you can
really gauge it is test it.
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And if it doesn't get
tested, you can't gauge it
00:21:17.37\00:21:20.64
and the truth is, most
of us don't want the test.
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I'd rather not have to
face this financial issue,
00:21:23.91\00:21:27.35
it's fine with me, but I got it.
00:21:27.38\00:21:29.88
So the only way is, is
you're worried or trust God.
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There's no in between.
00:21:32.79\00:21:35.76
You either lift or you can't,
00:21:35.79\00:21:37.13
I can't lift this
so God's got to do.
00:21:37.16\00:21:38.59
Yeah. Yeah.
00:21:38.63\00:21:40.36
So it's interesting.
00:21:40.40\00:21:42.46
It is interesting
because you have to...
00:21:42.50\00:21:46.43
but for me living a
life of faith is a lifestyle.
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It's a way...
00:21:50.94\00:21:52.27
It is something
that you do everyday.
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And when you talk
about measuring your faith.
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How do you miss your faith?
00:21:58.48\00:22:00.45
I don't think this way to say,
00:22:00.48\00:22:02.55
I mean theologians can come here
00:22:02.58\00:22:04.49
and say a lot of
things about faith,
00:22:04.52\00:22:07.12
but I think nobody,
nobody can measure it.
00:22:07.16\00:22:10.43
How you can say how much faith
00:22:10.46\00:22:12.49
I have in
comparison to your faith.
00:22:12.53\00:22:14.83
So we both face it to
the same circumstances.
00:22:14.86\00:22:17.63
How you face they said,
00:22:17.67\00:22:19.43
same thing, same day,
same hour, same minute
00:22:19.47\00:22:22.60
you and me
facing that same thing.
00:22:22.64\00:22:24.17
How you're going to react,
00:22:24.21\00:22:25.54
how am I gonna
react, it's different.
00:22:25.57\00:22:26.91
Yeah.
00:22:26.94\00:22:28.28
And maybe your
faith is bigger than me,
00:22:28.31\00:22:29.64
but at that
very moment it's not.
00:22:29.68\00:22:32.05
So if things changes, what I...
00:22:32.08\00:22:34.88
helps me regarding this trusting
00:22:34.92\00:22:36.89
without being
afraid of anything.
00:22:36.92\00:22:39.12
It caused me to think
that it's a lifestyle.
00:22:39.15\00:22:42.32
It has to be
something that you leave it to,
00:22:42.36\00:22:45.96
give it to God everyday.
00:22:45.99\00:22:48.03
And the only
thing that helps you
00:22:48.06\00:22:51.50
to go through
trials and tribulations
00:22:51.53\00:22:54.40
and being afraid as
they're thinking now,
00:22:54.44\00:22:56.30
you know what, I
know like Danny says,
00:22:56.34\00:22:59.77
I know the end of the book.
00:22:59.81\00:23:03.41
I know how the story ends.
00:23:03.45\00:23:05.28
So whatever happens to me now...
00:23:05.31\00:23:07.28
what we're saying...
00:23:07.32\00:23:08.65
for instance in my
another example, silly example,
00:23:08.68\00:23:13.32
but when you are
born, it's big stuff,
00:23:13.36\00:23:19.53
and dying is a big stuff,
00:23:19.56\00:23:24.50
anything in
between, small stuff.
00:23:24.53\00:23:28.27
So in order to be practical,
00:23:28.30\00:23:32.24
your faith has to
think in those terms.
00:23:32.27\00:23:35.91
Whatever happens, let
it God take care of it.
00:23:35.94\00:23:39.91
What do you think?
00:23:39.95\00:23:42.08
I do, I really do.
00:23:42.12\00:23:43.62
It's, it's...you know,
00:23:43.65\00:23:45.19
I can't measure your faith.
00:23:45.22\00:23:47.69
You talk about
something individual
00:23:47.72\00:23:49.86
between you and God,
00:23:49.89\00:23:51.23
it's got to be lifestyle,
00:23:51.26\00:23:52.59
because either your
life is a life of faith
00:23:52.63\00:23:54.73
or you're like on off
switch and you can't do that.
00:23:54.76\00:23:57.90
Because okay,
today, it's two bills,
00:23:57.93\00:24:00.34
tomorrow it's a car,
00:24:00.37\00:24:01.70
next week it's your
health, week after that,
00:24:01.74\00:24:04.21
it's the kids' school build...
00:24:04.24\00:24:05.57
you know
there's always something
00:24:05.61\00:24:07.18
and unless it is your habit
00:24:07.21\00:24:09.41
to exercise faith
in every situation,
00:24:09.44\00:24:11.98
you will be schizophonic.
00:24:12.01\00:24:13.85
You'll be just
off the charts crazy.
00:24:13.88\00:24:16.08
Exactly, right.
00:24:16.12\00:24:17.45
Because everyday there's
going to be something new.
00:24:17.49\00:24:18.82
Yes.
00:24:18.85\00:24:20.19
And you never get a chance
to say, well, okay, today,
00:24:20.22\00:24:21.56
there is no problem
with Cebas or Noelia.
00:24:21.59\00:24:23.32
There is no
problem with the house.
00:24:23.36\00:24:24.69
There is no
problem with the furnace.
00:24:24.73\00:24:26.26
The tires are not flat,
00:24:26.29\00:24:27.63
the car's going to
start when I turn the engine.
00:24:27.66\00:24:29.00
Everything is going to be
fine, not going to happen.
00:24:29.03\00:24:31.03
Every day is going
to be something new.
00:24:31.07\00:24:32.43
That's why it's a
lifestyle. Yes, yes.
00:24:32.47\00:24:33.80
Yeah, it's a
lifestyle. Very true, very true.
00:24:33.84\00:24:36.57
I think that sometimes also
00:24:36.60\00:24:38.07
we are trying ourselves
00:24:38.11\00:24:44.01
to have that faith and that,
00:24:44.05\00:24:45.75
and what I have
found sometimes is,
00:24:45.78\00:24:47.68
when you know,
00:24:47.72\00:24:49.05
I have surrender out
to the Lord, and I say,
00:24:49.08\00:24:51.62
"Lord just give
me peace of burden
00:24:51.65\00:24:53.86
and then I feel that
the Lord is giving me peace.
00:24:53.89\00:24:57.79
And then all of a
sudden I start wondering
00:24:57.83\00:25:00.53
if that's really faith,
00:25:00.56\00:25:02.73
or it's just that I
just put it off my mind.
00:25:02.76\00:25:05.60
You know that's...
00:25:05.63\00:25:06.97
You see and then I
have to go to Laura again.
00:25:07.00\00:25:10.91
And say Laura, "You
know, I gave to you...
00:25:10.94\00:25:12.77
but I'm not feeling that,
00:25:15.01\00:25:17.21
I don't know if I'm
really having faith,
00:25:17.25\00:25:19.18
so I'll give it to you again.
00:25:19.21\00:25:20.72
Yeah, over and over every day,
00:25:20.75\00:25:24.35
there are some things in my life
00:25:24.39\00:25:26.02
that I have to give over to God.
00:25:26.05\00:25:27.56
Sometimes several times
during the span of an hour,
00:25:27.59\00:25:29.89
I'm that bad.
00:25:29.92\00:25:31.29
You know, He's
peeling my hands off of it
00:25:31.33\00:25:33.60
time after time
00:25:33.63\00:25:35.40
and my mantra if you will,
00:25:35.43\00:25:38.07
pardon the use of that
word is no rent free living.
00:25:38.10\00:25:42.87
The worries, the individuals
that come into your life
00:25:42.90\00:25:45.87
that cause you
that angst, that fear,
00:25:45.91\00:25:49.41
anxiety whatever
you want to call it.
00:25:49.44\00:25:51.31
They cannot live
in your head rent-free
00:25:51.35\00:25:53.18
and if you have to
ask God to evict them.
00:25:53.21\00:25:54.55
Yes.
00:25:54.58\00:25:55.92
Every five
minutes you need to do it.
00:25:55.95\00:25:57.39
Yes. Yes.
00:25:57.42\00:25:58.75
And that's the only thing
that gets me through the day.
00:25:58.79\00:26:00.59
He knows when I am
totally is passed out,
00:26:00.62\00:26:03.79
he has experienced a
bit for the past 13 years.
00:26:03.83\00:26:06.80
Okay, okay, she's
really agitated right now,
00:26:06.83\00:26:08.76
and you know.
00:26:08.80\00:26:10.13
I've been evicted
a couple of times.
00:26:10.17\00:26:11.60
He puts up with me
constantly, you know.
00:26:14.70\00:26:18.01
Okay, I can't talk to her now,
looks like she's praying again.
00:26:18.04\00:26:22.58
Feel great, I wish just
when we get over it, but...
00:26:22.61\00:26:26.48
Yeah, definitely...
00:26:26.51\00:26:28.12
Every week
there's is going to be...
00:26:28.15\00:26:29.62
you know, there
ought to be a T-shirt,
00:26:29.65\00:26:31.29
no rent free living.
00:26:31.32\00:26:33.82
Be a T-shirt really,
00:26:33.86\00:26:35.52
and I think Christians
need to grasp and hold of that.
00:26:35.56\00:26:38.56
Sometimes you have to ask God,
00:26:38.59\00:26:40.30
"Would you please
evict the devil out.
00:26:40.33\00:26:42.30
I'm saying, I can't force,
so I can't get him out today
00:26:42.33\00:26:46.00
and Lord you're going to
have to really just evict him,
00:26:46.03\00:26:47.97
because I don't want him here
00:26:48.00\00:26:49.70
and he's going
to make a big mess
00:26:49.74\00:26:51.07
if he stays here any longer.
00:26:51.11\00:26:52.57
But he needs to get out."
00:26:52.61\00:26:54.34
Right, I've used,
I've exhausted my stuff,
00:26:54.38\00:26:57.68
I need some help, precisely.
00:26:57.71\00:26:59.05
Because he's exhausting
me, and I need to be using
00:26:59.08\00:27:00.82
this portion of my energy.
00:27:00.85\00:27:03.12
It needs to be cured toward,
you know, serving my family,
00:27:03.15\00:27:06.29
and by that serving the Lord.
00:27:06.32\00:27:07.72
It just, it takes too much
time to be worried and afraid.
00:27:07.76\00:27:11.16
Yeah, yeah.
00:27:11.19\00:27:12.53
Worry and anger
00:27:12.56\00:27:14.40
are the two most
draining emotions.
00:27:14.43\00:27:16.26
Oh, yeah.
00:27:16.30\00:27:18.07
You know, someone
does something to you,
00:27:18.10\00:27:19.83
and you're going to
stay angry at them for years.
00:27:19.87\00:27:22.64
You know, that is so draining.
00:27:22.67\00:27:24.47
It is, yeah.
00:27:24.51\00:27:25.84
And it takes a lot
of work, and you know,
00:27:25.87\00:27:29.01
to be angry every time.
00:27:29.04\00:27:30.75
I come down to hall,
you're going to find...
00:27:30.78\00:27:32.48
you're going to duck
into the bathroom, you know,
00:27:32.51\00:27:34.32
you're going to spend your
life doing that kind of stuff,
00:27:34.35\00:27:37.12
that is a lot of work, you know.
00:27:37.15\00:27:38.49
Oh, yeah.
00:27:38.52\00:27:39.85
Be at peace, the Bible says
00:27:39.89\00:27:41.22
as far as
possible with all mankind.
00:27:41.26\00:27:42.59
Plus, it makes
your faith better,
00:27:42.62\00:27:44.89
your
relationship with God better
00:27:44.93\00:27:46.26
where you're not
looking, you know,
00:27:46.29\00:27:47.76
is he coming down the
hall again, it's like,
00:27:47.80\00:27:49.66
"Hey..."
00:27:49.70\00:27:52.87
You know, that kind of
stuff. That's too much work.
00:27:52.90\00:27:54.30
They say about anger was
like, holding a grudge is like
00:27:54.34\00:27:57.37
drinking poison and expecting
the other person to die.
00:27:57.41\00:27:59.87
Yeah, yeah.
00:27:59.91\00:28:01.24
Yes.
00:28:01.28\00:28:02.98
And it messes with your faith,
00:28:03.01\00:28:04.35
you gonna need
to talk to the Lord,
00:28:04.38\00:28:05.88
and you got this knot
in your chest, you know,
00:28:05.91\00:28:08.85
it's not good for
your spiritual growth.
00:28:08.88\00:28:10.85
No. Yeah.
00:28:10.89\00:28:13.25
Again "Sermon From the Attic,"
00:28:13.29\00:28:14.79
I found something.
00:28:14.82\00:28:16.16
This is an old friend of
ours, and now this story,
00:28:16.19\00:28:19.36
this goes back to
the late seventies.
00:28:19.39\00:28:20.73
So I've had this,
00:28:20.76\00:28:22.10
this is not the
original piece of newspaper,
00:28:22.13\00:28:24.33
which I do have.
00:28:24.37\00:28:25.70
This is a copy
that I run on with.
00:28:25.73\00:28:27.07
This is a friend of ours.
00:28:27.10\00:28:28.60
Irma met him just
a couple of years ago
00:28:28.64\00:28:30.11
where we're in New York.
00:28:30.14\00:28:31.47
I've known him.
00:28:31.51\00:28:32.84
His name is Arturo
Belial, came from Belize,
00:28:32.87\00:28:36.18
and this is a clipping
from the New York Post Magazine.
00:28:36.21\00:28:40.75
It's called "Brooklyn
tackles Hunter at C.U.N.Y.,
00:28:40.78\00:28:43.55
that's City
University of New York.
00:28:43.59\00:28:45.25
It's a, you know, part
of a newspaper clipping.
00:28:45.29\00:28:48.82
But I'll read just
a little bit of it,
00:28:48.86\00:28:50.19
so you can get a
flavor of what's going on.
00:28:50.23\00:28:51.63
"When Brooklyn College
meets Hunter in the semifinals
00:28:51.66\00:28:54.23
of the
thirteenth Annual New York
00:28:54.26\00:28:57.63
City University tournament
00:28:57.67\00:28:59.57
tomorrow night
at 8:30 in C.C.N.Y.
00:28:59.60\00:29:03.14
that City College of
New York's home and gym.
00:29:03.17\00:29:05.34
Arturo Belial, that's his name.
00:29:05.37\00:29:08.31
Brooklyn six one junior
playmaker will not be there.
00:29:08.34\00:29:11.38
I do what I believe in Arturo,
a Seventh-day Adventist says,
00:29:11.41\00:29:15.52
that comes first
00:29:15.55\00:29:17.22
but Belial
describes his religion
00:29:17.25\00:29:20.42
in which the Sabbath begins
on sundown Friday as Christian.
00:29:20.46\00:29:24.63
We believe in Christ
and the Ten Commandments,
00:29:24.66\00:29:28.13
liquor and
tobacco are prohibited.
00:29:28.16\00:29:30.33
And so is Friday Night Fever.
00:29:30.37\00:29:33.67
It's about the late seventies
on Saturday Night Fever,
00:29:33.70\00:29:35.84
of course it was big.
00:29:35.87\00:29:37.71
I'll be hanging
out with my friends,
00:29:37.74\00:29:39.17
Belial says and I might
have, am I want to party,
00:29:39.21\00:29:42.24
but I know I can't.
00:29:42.28\00:29:44.01
His coach says "Arturo was very
sensitive and intelligent kid,
00:29:44.05\00:29:47.88
he's a ponderer,
his only problem,
00:29:47.92\00:29:49.62
sometimes he thinks too much.
00:29:49.65\00:29:51.89
Belial's parents
arrive in Brooklyn
00:29:51.92\00:29:55.16
from British
Honduras nearly 30 years ago.
00:29:55.19\00:29:58.06
His father died when he was 11,
00:29:58.09\00:29:59.86
his mother raised two daughters,
00:29:59.89\00:30:02.26
one a graduate of Penn,
00:30:02.30\00:30:03.87
and the other
student at Brooklyn.
00:30:03.90\00:30:06.37
Talks about him being a star.
00:30:06.40\00:30:07.74
Anyway the big game is
being played on Friday night
00:30:07.77\00:30:11.57
and his team up until
this time is undefeated.
00:30:11.61\00:30:15.11
And they are
supposed to win this game,
00:30:15.14\00:30:18.21
but now the
Seventh-day Adventist star,
00:30:18.25\00:30:20.78
basketball player cannot play.
00:30:20.82\00:30:22.82
And so later on the coach says,
00:30:22.85\00:30:24.62
"Well, can't you talk to
your priest and get a pass,
00:30:24.65\00:30:27.59
you know for Friday?"
00:30:27.62\00:30:30.73
And Arturo had
to explain to him,
00:30:30.76\00:30:33.19
"No, we don't get
passes from our priests."
00:30:33.23\00:30:35.40
The passes have to come from God
00:30:35.43\00:30:37.13
and He's not giving
any, so he let him know.
00:30:37.17\00:30:40.54
So, the team says
we're going to get together
00:30:40.57\00:30:44.11
and we're going to
win this one for Arty,
00:30:44.14\00:30:46.84
for Arturo,
since he cannot play,
00:30:46.88\00:30:48.61
we're going to get
together and win this for him.
00:30:48.64\00:30:51.45
And so they said,
00:30:51.48\00:30:55.38
"He'd probably be thinking
about us while he's home."
00:30:55.42\00:30:57.35
He said, "No, I'll be in
youth group at the church,
00:30:57.39\00:30:58.99
I'm not going to be
thinking about this at all."
00:30:59.02\00:31:01.19
So the team said,
"We will win it for him."
00:31:01.22\00:31:02.72
And it's a lovely story.
00:31:02.76\00:31:04.23
Well, this was
in the Friday paper.
00:31:04.26\00:31:08.06
When the
Saturday paper came out,
00:31:08.10\00:31:11.17
I don't have that
one, but they lost,
00:31:11.20\00:31:13.17
and they lost bad.
00:31:13.20\00:31:17.04
And they say,
when you make a pledge,
00:31:17.07\00:31:18.44
you're supposed
to win it, you know,
00:31:18.47\00:31:19.81
but they didn't, they lost.
00:31:19.84\00:31:21.18
Well, one of their best
players was not playing,
00:31:21.21\00:31:22.54
so they weren't
at full strength.
00:31:22.58\00:31:23.91
But he said,
00:31:23.95\00:31:25.28
we've carried
over this for years,
00:31:25.31\00:31:27.08
this is all 30, 40 years old.
00:31:27.12\00:31:29.62
He said, "No, I
never really felt bad."
00:31:29.65\00:31:31.39
Because once you
stand for the Lord,
00:31:31.42\00:31:33.89
in a sense feeling bad,
00:31:33.92\00:31:35.36
you know, if you're going to
00:31:35.39\00:31:37.49
shake your finger
at God and feel bad,
00:31:37.53\00:31:38.89
then go ahead
and do it, you know,
00:31:38.93\00:31:40.26
don't be proud that
you stood for the Lord
00:31:40.30\00:31:42.43
and He's never regretted this.
00:31:42.46\00:31:44.80
Plus it got him a
nice article in the paper
00:31:44.83\00:31:46.63
where he gets to
stand up for his faith.
00:31:46.67\00:31:48.77
And even the
coach says, he says,
00:31:48.80\00:31:50.61
"Maybe next year
we'll try to change things
00:31:50.64\00:31:54.08
so that the big
games are not on Friday."
00:31:54.11\00:31:56.11
We'll try to move
them to some other,
00:31:56.14\00:31:57.71
you know some other
day other than Friday.
00:31:57.75\00:32:01.38
And I remember,
when I was young.
00:32:01.42\00:32:03.52
See, I kept this because
if the truth been be told,
00:32:03.55\00:32:07.49
I broke my ankle playing
basketball on Friday night.
00:32:07.52\00:32:10.83
And I've told
Irma almost many times.
00:32:10.86\00:32:13.63
He was a little
stronger than me...
00:32:13.66\00:32:15.60
More than once.
00:32:15.63\00:32:16.97
More than twice, same
ankle two years in a row.
00:32:17.00\00:32:18.73
Then I got it in my head,
00:32:18.77\00:32:20.34
enough with the
basketball on Friday night...
00:32:20.37\00:32:22.10
and I quit.
00:32:22.14\00:32:23.47
And my pastor said, you know,
00:32:23.51\00:32:24.84
"The Lord will let
you break your ankle
00:32:24.87\00:32:26.21
to keep you from
breaking your neck
00:32:26.24\00:32:27.61
or losing your soul."
00:32:27.64\00:32:29.14
So you know, I got the message
00:32:29.18\00:32:31.28
and I left a scholarship
to go to Oakwood then College
00:32:31.31\00:32:36.38
and I've never
regretted it, you know, no,
00:32:36.42\00:32:38.45
you don't regret
standing up for your faith
00:32:38.49\00:32:40.46
and giving back to the Lord.
00:32:40.49\00:32:41.82
Amen. Yeah. That's it. Amen.
00:32:41.86\00:32:43.26
Yeah, it does what I
say is, it's a lifestyle.
00:32:43.29\00:32:47.16
You start learning the
lifestyle little by little.
00:32:47.20\00:32:50.50
God doesn't ask you to go
through big acts of faith,
00:32:50.53\00:32:56.44
that's for other people
who probably are ahead of me,
00:32:56.47\00:32:59.67
because God will not give
you more than you can endure.
00:32:59.71\00:33:03.08
Yes.
00:33:03.11\00:33:04.45
I think, I
truly believe in that.
00:33:04.48\00:33:06.45
Yeah, and Lynnette
sometimes comes with some things
00:33:06.48\00:33:09.02
that really have
taught me faith, really.
00:33:09.05\00:33:11.39
One day at the
beginning, we had an expense
00:33:11.42\00:33:16.83
and it was the first
time that I heard the phrase.
00:33:16.86\00:33:20.63
And we were not rich
by any mean or never been.
00:33:20.66\00:33:24.70
And it was
something that we need to pay.
00:33:24.73\00:33:27.74
She tell me, "It's only money."
00:33:27.77\00:33:31.07
And I said,
00:33:31.11\00:33:32.44
"It's not only
money, it is money."
00:33:32.47\00:33:35.58
How articulate of
me, I'm very sorry.
00:33:35.61\00:33:37.45
It's only money. Only money.
00:33:37.48\00:33:40.15
Yeah, but has not
been the first time
00:33:40.18\00:33:42.98
that I heard this nor the last.
00:33:43.02\00:33:45.39
I mean it's not
been the last time,
00:33:45.42\00:33:46.96
there are many times.
00:33:46.99\00:33:48.32
But then you know,
it dawned me, really.
00:33:48.36\00:33:52.93
Why am I
worrying so much about it?
00:33:52.96\00:33:55.66
God is in control
00:33:55.70\00:33:57.30
and what was only
money was really only money,
00:33:57.33\00:33:59.67
because then we moved on.
00:33:59.70\00:34:01.54
And we solved the problem,
and there came another one
00:34:01.57\00:34:05.71
and again it's only money.
00:34:05.74\00:34:09.84
It is, and where do I get it?
00:34:09.88\00:34:11.21
Well, somehow
somewhere the money came
00:34:11.25\00:34:15.28
and we were able to move on.
00:34:15.32\00:34:17.52
And our tables
turn periodically.
00:34:17.55\00:34:19.25
When I start biting
my nails, he reminds me,
00:34:19.29\00:34:22.09
"Sweetie, it's only money."
00:34:22.12\00:34:24.69
I still kind of
have a hard time to,
00:34:24.73\00:34:26.83
but I understand it now.
00:34:26.86\00:34:30.90
Because at the end of your life,
00:34:30.93\00:34:32.77
more than likely
00:34:32.80\00:34:34.50
that debt isn't
going to be there anyway
00:34:34.54\00:34:37.57
and it doesn't really
matter to your salvation,
00:34:37.61\00:34:42.14
it's only money.
00:34:42.18\00:34:44.38
Small stuff.
00:34:44.41\00:34:45.75
You know,
00:34:45.78\00:34:47.12
if God doesn't provide
for you the entire amount,
00:34:47.15\00:34:49.48
He will provide a way
for you to take care of it.
00:34:49.52\00:34:52.92
Right. Yeah.
00:34:52.95\00:34:54.29
Always does.
00:34:54.32\00:34:55.66
Never leave your
spinning in the wind.
00:34:55.69\00:34:57.23
Yeah, it's so hard
sometimes to see that
00:34:57.26\00:34:59.13
when you're in the vortex,
00:34:59.16\00:35:00.50
you know, you're there, to
try to get that to step back
00:35:00.53\00:35:02.50
and get a little
big picture, but yeah.
00:35:02.53\00:35:03.87
It is tough.
00:35:03.90\00:35:05.23
And I was gonna say, right,
because it's a human reaction,
00:35:05.27\00:35:09.30
natural, normal
reaction of being afraid.
00:35:09.34\00:35:13.48
It is.
00:35:13.51\00:35:14.84
So there is
nothing wrong with that.
00:35:14.88\00:35:16.21
I don't think it's
wrong to be afraid, you know.
00:35:16.24\00:35:20.72
Yeah, I'm going to
let God run this one.
00:35:20.75\00:35:24.35
But, you know,
I'm uneasy about it.
00:35:24.39\00:35:27.46
Yeah.
00:35:27.49\00:35:28.82
And God understand that. Yes.
00:35:28.86\00:35:30.49
Or if not ask Gideon,
00:35:30.53\00:35:34.76
when he was
asking God several times,
00:35:34.80\00:35:37.40
now show me a different
way, so I can trust you more.
00:35:37.43\00:35:40.50
And the next day he said,
00:35:40.54\00:35:41.87
"Yeah, but the thing of
the, the fleas being in the wet.
00:35:41.90\00:35:45.74
Let's do it the
other way around.
00:35:45.77\00:35:47.51
Right, flip it. Flip it.
00:35:47.54\00:35:48.88
Yeah, yeah.
00:35:48.91\00:35:50.25
And God patiently went out...
00:35:50.28\00:35:52.11
but God didn't tell him that
00:35:52.15\00:35:53.75
he has other
things down the road
00:35:53.78\00:35:55.85
like going from
20,000 to 300, down to 300.
00:35:55.88\00:35:59.75
Right.
00:35:59.79\00:36:01.12
That required a
faith on Gideon's part,
00:36:01.16\00:36:05.66
but he already has seen...
00:36:05.69\00:36:07.03
Yeah.
00:36:07.06\00:36:08.40
What God was able to do for him.
00:36:08.43\00:36:09.76
And that and we were talking
about this the other day,
00:36:09.80\00:36:11.13
just laying in bed.
00:36:11.17\00:36:12.50
You know, you
get over this hurdle.
00:36:12.53\00:36:13.87
That's not the end of
hurdles, that's that hurdle.
00:36:13.90\00:36:15.90
And there's something
else you've got to work on,
00:36:15.94\00:36:17.54
and each time the
Lord is showing you
00:36:17.57\00:36:20.01
different aspects
of your character.
00:36:20.04\00:36:21.84
For me if someone says,
00:36:21.88\00:36:23.21
"Hey man, let's
go play basketball
00:36:23.24\00:36:24.98
on Friday night now."
00:36:25.01\00:36:26.38
"You kidding,
why would I do that?"
00:36:26.41\00:36:28.48
You know, but I'm 40
plus years removed from that,
00:36:28.52\00:36:32.29
but there's other stuff,
00:36:32.32\00:36:33.66
you know that I
still need to work on.
00:36:33.69\00:36:35.66
So the sanding
process is always there
00:36:35.69\00:36:39.76
in some aspect of your life,
00:36:39.79\00:36:41.26
you're going to have
to tidy something up.
00:36:41.30\00:36:44.53
And what maybe really
a tough thing for you,
00:36:44.57\00:36:48.20
may not be a tough thing for me.
00:36:48.24\00:36:49.60
But what's so tough
thing for me is like,
00:36:49.64\00:36:51.17
"Why you sweating over
that, that's no big deal?"
00:36:51.21\00:36:52.71
Right, right.
00:36:52.74\00:36:54.08
You know because
there's always something.
00:36:54.11\00:36:55.61
Well, Jorge said about that
00:36:55.64\00:36:58.51
God doesn't give you
any more than you can bear
00:36:58.55\00:37:01.28
and it is true,
because when you go over that,
00:37:01.32\00:37:06.15
and you know, you have known,
not able to breath very well
00:37:06.19\00:37:11.36
and you give it to the Lord
and then the Lord answers you,
00:37:11.39\00:37:15.40
then you get a breather.
00:37:15.43\00:37:16.77
Right.
00:37:16.80\00:37:18.13
You know regain
that strength and then...
00:37:18.17\00:37:20.00
That's right.
00:37:20.04\00:37:21.37
It prepares you for the
next time that is coming,
00:37:21.40\00:37:23.14
because we have the enemy
00:37:23.17\00:37:24.81
that is always
bring you something.
00:37:24.84\00:37:27.51
If it was up to him,
00:37:27.54\00:37:29.04
we will never be able to
have those rest for times.
00:37:29.08\00:37:32.01
Yeah.
00:37:32.05\00:37:33.38
And that's why we are
celebrating the Sabbath.
00:37:33.42\00:37:38.02
Yes.
00:37:38.05\00:37:39.39
And when the God
calls us to... Right.
00:37:39.42\00:37:41.29
To come and
celebrate, because we need it.
00:37:41.32\00:37:45.16
Yeah.
00:37:45.19\00:37:46.53
And that is
we're going to connect
00:37:46.56\00:37:48.56
in what you just said Irma
00:37:48.60\00:37:49.93
with what you read
about this basketball player.
00:37:49.96\00:37:54.47
When Sabbath comes, you
said, I was before come to 3ABN,
00:37:54.50\00:37:59.44
I was working for a
bank, for a community bank.
00:37:59.47\00:38:02.84
And well, for me
Sabbath was Sabbath,
00:38:02.88\00:38:06.48
and because we were working
in the sales part of the bank,
00:38:06.51\00:38:13.12
other people were
working on Sabbath said,
00:38:13.15\00:38:14.72
"You know man,
there's money here,
00:38:14.76\00:38:16.83
that you can make more money...
00:38:16.86\00:38:18.19
I wasn't forced to do
it to work on Sabbath.
00:38:18.23\00:38:22.33
But I say well, you know what,
00:38:22.36\00:38:25.70
Sabbath for me is
the service that given,
00:38:25.73\00:38:28.10
I don't need to go to work.
00:38:28.14\00:38:30.51
It was more like me,
00:38:30.54\00:38:31.87
I don't need to make more money,
00:38:31.91\00:38:34.98
because for me my most
valuable is to be with my family
00:38:35.01\00:38:39.01
and rest the Sabbath.
00:38:39.05\00:38:40.72
I'm not trying to
put myself as an example,
00:38:40.75\00:38:42.68
but it was a feeling,
00:38:42.72\00:38:45.05
something that I
felt in my heart, said,
00:38:45.09\00:38:47.39
"No, I don't care, you can
do whatever you need to do."
00:38:47.42\00:38:50.89
I will rest that day. Yeah.
00:38:50.93\00:38:52.49
You know if you're burning
the candle seven days a week.
00:38:52.53\00:38:55.03
You know, you never get a break,
00:38:55.06\00:38:56.43
you never get anything done,
00:38:56.46\00:38:57.80
and you never get to
shut that brain down.
00:38:57.83\00:39:00.10
You know, you can
see Sabbath as event...
00:39:00.14\00:39:02.40
I've got a friend and
I think you've met him,
00:39:02.44\00:39:05.41
he is Korean friend in New York.
00:39:05.44\00:39:08.41
Hyun Shin, and I
use him all the time.
00:39:08.44\00:39:11.41
He owns three dry
cleaners that he owns.
00:39:11.45\00:39:16.45
He does his books for them all,
00:39:16.48\00:39:18.52
he does the
receipts for all of them.
00:39:18.55\00:39:20.56
He does them every
night, takes them in at night,
00:39:20.59\00:39:23.29
and then in the morning he
opens up all three at 6 A.M.
00:39:23.32\00:39:26.49
So he's doing his daily receipts
00:39:26.53\00:39:28.46
for three businesses,
00:39:28.50\00:39:30.67
takes them to the bank,
puts it in a night deposit,
00:39:30.70\00:39:33.20
close them all down,
opens all three of them up,
00:39:33.23\00:39:36.50
then he has a family.
00:39:36.54\00:39:38.21
He has a two
family house, that's his.
00:39:38.24\00:39:41.84
He and his wife
and child live upstairs
00:39:41.88\00:39:45.31
and his brother and
their family downstairs.
00:39:45.35\00:39:47.45
He is the cook for everybody.
00:39:47.48\00:39:49.88
So they come home from work
and sit with their hands folded
00:39:49.92\00:39:52.59
waiting for him to come
home and cook the meals.
00:39:52.62\00:39:55.59
So he cooks for
them, he also has a degree,
00:39:55.62\00:39:57.33
he has degree to accounting,
00:39:57.36\00:39:58.69
he has a degree from
the culinary institute.
00:39:58.73\00:40:00.60
So he cooks the meals
00:40:00.63\00:40:02.03
and they wait for
him to cook the meals.
00:40:02.06\00:40:04.33
Okay, he is Presbyterian.
00:40:04.37\00:40:06.40
He's the head of
the greeting crew
00:40:06.43\00:40:09.74
and the cooking crew at his
00:40:09.77\00:40:12.11
Korean Presbyterian Church.
00:40:12.14\00:40:14.01
So on Sundays, he
cooks for the church,
00:40:14.04\00:40:17.15
about 450 members.
00:40:17.18\00:40:18.51
Wow.
00:40:18.55\00:40:19.88
And he's also part
of the greeting crew.
00:40:19.91\00:40:21.85
And so he's up
early Sunday morning,
00:40:21.88\00:40:25.19
out to the market
to buy fresh stuff,
00:40:25.22\00:40:27.59
because he will not open
a can, he doesn't do cans.
00:40:27.62\00:40:30.79
He just buys fresh food.
00:40:30.83\00:40:32.89
So he buys all this
fresh, the Chinese food,
00:40:32.93\00:40:35.63
you know, and oriental food.
00:40:35.66\00:40:37.40
So he does all that cooking.
00:40:37.43\00:40:39.40
Then he stays with
the group to clean up.
00:40:39.43\00:40:41.94
He's also in the choir.
00:40:41.97\00:40:44.21
He's got a
beautiful singing voice.
00:40:44.24\00:40:45.97
So he stays for choir rehearsal,
00:40:46.01\00:40:48.18
then Sunday night he goes
home, does his weekend books,
00:40:48.21\00:40:51.71
goes to bed and up
Monday morning 6 A.M.
00:40:51.75\00:40:55.02
to open up all the stores again.
00:40:55.05\00:40:56.55
And I said, "Bill,
man, you are going to die.
00:40:56.58\00:41:00.69
You can't run seven
days a week like that."
00:41:00.72\00:41:02.92
And I start
telling him about Sabbath
00:41:02.96\00:41:04.33
and his remark to me is
that, "Lord knows that I'm happy
00:41:04.36\00:41:07.13
when I'm making money, and
I'm making a lot of money."
00:41:07.16\00:41:10.03
I said, "Yeah, and
your wife and your family
00:41:10.07\00:41:12.67
is going to spend it
because you're going die.
00:41:12.70\00:41:14.57
You're going to kill yourself."
00:41:14.60\00:41:15.94
You can't run seven
days a week like that,
00:41:15.97\00:41:17.64
your own books, you
do accounting, cooking,
00:41:17.67\00:41:20.68
cleaning, singing, you
can't, you can't do that.
00:41:20.71\00:41:24.08
And even in the cause of Christ
that stuff you do on Sunday,
00:41:24.11\00:41:26.45
you're killing yourself.
00:41:26.48\00:41:27.82
And when I left him, he
was on that merry-go-round,
00:41:27.85\00:41:30.29
kind of thing just going
and going and going and going,
00:41:30.32\00:41:33.15
and never have a break.
00:41:33.19\00:41:34.82
I said that's why
Sabbath was designed for...
00:41:34.86\00:41:36.69
Exactly.
00:41:36.73\00:41:38.06
To stop that kind
of stuff, you know.
00:41:38.09\00:41:39.43
Yeah.
00:41:39.46\00:41:40.80
Because we're, I
think about a year apart,
00:41:40.83\00:41:42.86
and if I get back to
hearing him at this time,
00:41:42.90\00:41:44.43
I'd like to look
him up and see him,
00:41:44.47\00:41:45.83
because we haven't
talked in a little while.
00:41:45.87\00:41:47.54
But I'd like to see
what kind of health he has
00:41:47.57\00:41:49.80
after 20 years of this stuff,
because it's just too much,
00:41:49.84\00:41:53.84
yeah, it's way too much.
00:41:53.88\00:41:55.21
The Lord didn't want us...
00:41:55.24\00:41:56.58
Well, and also we are talking
about our brothers and sisters,
00:41:56.61\00:42:00.72
Sabbath keepers.
00:42:00.75\00:42:02.08
Sometimes we are so busy
on Sabbath doing good things
00:42:02.12\00:42:06.42
that don't rest the Sabbath
00:42:06.45\00:42:08.06
the way that God had
intended in my opinion.
00:42:08.09\00:42:11.53
So it's a good way also
to trust the Lord with our,
00:42:11.56\00:42:15.43
even if we get too busy,
00:42:15.46\00:42:17.63
it's also not
really trusting the Lord.
00:42:17.67\00:42:20.14
Yeah, yeah. You
know that is true.
00:42:20.17\00:42:22.87
That's another
way to look at it.
00:42:22.90\00:42:24.24
Are you really
trusting the Lord,
00:42:24.27\00:42:25.61
if you're
trying to work your way
00:42:25.64\00:42:26.98
through everything.
00:42:27.01\00:42:28.34
Some things you've got to let go
00:42:28.38\00:42:29.71
and just let God handle it.
00:42:29.74\00:42:31.08
You know it will
wait till tomorrow,
00:42:31.11\00:42:32.45
it will wait till after Sabbath,
00:42:32.48\00:42:33.82
it will wait for another time,
00:42:33.85\00:42:35.18
and the Lord
will keep it that way.
00:42:35.22\00:42:36.55
Keep it still until I get back
to it and address myself to it.
00:42:36.58\00:42:40.89
I like to look at,
and when I was pastoring,
00:42:40.92\00:42:43.89
one of the things I
collected a lot of the stuff
00:42:43.93\00:42:46.59
is to have our members
kind of put legs on your faith,
00:42:46.63\00:42:50.70
you know, not just talk theory
and use high standing words.
00:42:50.73\00:42:55.00
What happens when
your wallet is empty,
00:42:55.04\00:42:57.44
and you got a bill
staring in your face?
00:42:57.47\00:42:59.04
What happens when,
you know, I can sneak in,
00:42:59.07\00:43:01.68
I can get this in on Sabbath,
00:43:01.71\00:43:04.21
or should I just
wait and trust the Lord
00:43:04.25\00:43:05.88
that it will be okay
until Sunday, you know.
00:43:05.91\00:43:07.72
How do you put
legs on your own faith?
00:43:07.75\00:43:09.45
And God is gonna let
your faith be tested.
00:43:09.48\00:43:11.39
There's no way
really reason to think
00:43:11.42\00:43:13.32
that you're going to skate in
00:43:13.36\00:43:14.76
and never have some
of the things tested
00:43:14.79\00:43:16.29
in your life.
00:43:16.32\00:43:17.66
So I used to like
to have my memory,
00:43:17.69\00:43:19.03
let's face it now,
because you're going to face it.
00:43:19.06\00:43:20.73
It's going to come,
00:43:20.76\00:43:22.10
and you're
going to have to deal,
00:43:22.13\00:43:23.47
to deal with it.
00:43:23.50\00:43:24.83
So lessons from the addict
00:43:24.87\00:43:26.74
or from the
basement if you prefer.
00:43:26.77\00:43:29.70
We were in sitting down
and Irma was at the table,
00:43:29.74\00:43:32.57
and I was going through boxes
00:43:32.61\00:43:33.98
and I found in box that thing
you have next to you Jorge,
00:43:34.01\00:43:36.48
it's some children stuff,
and Irma said "Did I buy this?"
00:43:36.51\00:43:40.95
And just forget to
get it to the grands.
00:43:40.98\00:43:42.88
And I said, "No,
you didn't buy that.
00:43:42.92\00:43:44.35
Yes, I don't
think that I did that.
00:43:44.39\00:43:45.72
Yeah, Jorge's holding.
00:43:45.75\00:43:47.09
I said, "No
these are some things
00:43:47.12\00:43:48.46
I've had for a while.
00:43:48.49\00:43:50.16
We have some children's
games and other things
00:43:50.19\00:43:51.79
that I used to use
with my youth groups
00:43:51.83\00:43:54.40
and with young
people that would come over.
00:43:54.43\00:43:55.96
And that's like
a little kid's book
00:43:56.00\00:43:57.57
called "Dear God"
00:43:57.60\00:43:59.20
and it's a series of
thought provoking statements
00:43:59.23\00:44:04.37
supposedly a
child writing to God.
00:44:04.41\00:44:06.81
But if you look at
the complexity of some--
00:44:06.84\00:44:08.51
It is.
00:44:08.54\00:44:09.88
That I don't know, I don't know
00:44:09.91\00:44:11.48
if that child is
about 35 years old,
00:44:11.51\00:44:14.85
because some of
its kind of complex.
00:44:14.88\00:44:16.72
But it's also the thoughts
of the young person to God.
00:44:16.75\00:44:18.75
So I asked each of
us to take one of these,
00:44:18.79\00:44:21.56
and then kind of read it,
00:44:21.59\00:44:24.53
and then kind of say
what it means to you,
00:44:24.56\00:44:26.90
so in the time that remains,
00:44:26.93\00:44:28.36
and our time is
slipping by real fast.
00:44:28.40\00:44:30.10
We're going to
try to run through it,
00:44:30.13\00:44:31.47
it doesn't have to be
too long and too profound.
00:44:31.50\00:44:33.90
Just read what
the little notice,
00:44:33.94\00:44:36.00
and then a little explanation
00:44:36.04\00:44:37.71
of what it says to
you, Jorge, if you will.
00:44:37.74\00:44:39.47
Okay, I'm gonna start
with a very first one,
00:44:39.51\00:44:42.21
it said, "Dear God,
00:44:42.24\00:44:43.58
if there is a
meaning for every word,
00:44:43.61\00:44:45.61
is there a
reason for everything."
00:44:45.65\00:44:47.68
This is not--
00:44:47.72\00:44:49.85
It's profound.
00:44:49.88\00:44:52.05
"Dear God if there's a
meaning for every word,"
00:44:52.09\00:44:54.66
I'm reading again.
00:44:54.69\00:44:56.02
"Is there a
reason for everything,
00:44:56.06\00:44:58.26
I have trouble
understanding words
00:44:58.29\00:45:00.16
like life, death, and sleep.
00:45:00.20\00:45:03.77
Is there a
reason for everything?
00:45:03.80\00:45:05.80
God's word says that,
"There's a time, a purpose,
00:45:05.83\00:45:09.24
and a reason for everything.
00:45:09.27\00:45:10.61
A time to be
born, a time to die,
00:45:10.64\00:45:12.34
a time to cry, time to laugh,
00:45:12.37\00:45:14.28
time to be
silent, time to speak."
00:45:14.31\00:45:16.71
So this is of course based
on what Solomon wrote there
00:45:16.75\00:45:22.22
in Ecclesiastes 3:1, it says,
00:45:22.25\00:45:26.12
"To everything
there is a season,
00:45:26.15\00:45:28.62
and a time to every
purpose under the heaven."
00:45:28.66\00:45:31.53
And I want to try this with
what I said at the beginning.
00:45:31.56\00:45:34.10
There is big stuff in
both ends of your life,
00:45:34.13\00:45:38.87
but then in between
it's just things that happen,
00:45:38.90\00:45:42.67
but God is in control.
00:45:42.70\00:45:44.37
Amen, amen.
00:45:44.41\00:45:45.74
Yes. Very good. Yeah.
00:45:45.77\00:45:47.11
I'm gonna pass this
around. Okay thank, Jacque.
00:45:47.14\00:45:50.28
Come to roost with me.
00:45:50.31\00:45:51.88
I'm trying to find, there we go.
00:45:51.91\00:45:54.55
This on is--
00:45:54.58\00:45:55.98
Oh, that's not it.
00:45:56.02\00:45:57.35
Oh, oh, I'm
sorry folks, I'm lost.
00:45:57.39\00:45:59.85
That's okay, take
your time. Take your time.
00:45:59.89\00:46:02.96
It will come.
00:46:02.99\00:46:04.76
I think you're
more towards the end.
00:46:04.79\00:46:07.26
I don't, actually recall.
00:46:07.30\00:46:09.86
I think this one was at--
00:46:09.90\00:46:11.23
I just remember the
wording differently,
00:46:11.27\00:46:12.60
this one says, "Dear God,
00:46:12.63\00:46:13.97
I'm all strung up
with no where to go.
00:46:14.00\00:46:17.01
Tik-Tok Tik-Tok
worry wastes time.
00:46:17.04\00:46:19.81
Worry is wrong
thinking, and fearful feelings
00:46:19.84\00:46:22.68
that ties into our fearfulness.
00:46:22.71\00:46:25.25
Most things I
fear, never happen,
00:46:25.28\00:46:27.72
I ask God to take
away my trouble thoughts,
00:46:27.75\00:46:30.52
I ask God to fill my
mind with pleasant dreams.
00:46:30.55\00:46:33.72
I stop worrying.
00:46:33.76\00:46:35.42
I started
thinking happy thoughts,
00:46:35.46\00:46:36.93
and I remember
God's promises to me,
00:46:36.96\00:46:39.53
God gives me perfect
peace when I trust Him.
00:46:39.56\00:46:43.16
The Lord is with me
always, the Lord is my helper.
00:46:43.20\00:46:46.13
Whom shall I fear?
00:46:46.17\00:46:48.10
God commands His
angels to guard me,
00:46:48.14\00:46:50.51
these peaceful
thoughts help me rest.
00:46:50.54\00:46:53.38
And this was
taking its inspiration
00:46:53.41\00:46:55.58
from Psalm 31:14, 15.
00:46:55.61\00:46:58.28
"I trusted in the O
Lord, I said, Thou art my God,
00:46:58.31\00:47:01.85
my times are in thy hand."
00:47:01.88\00:47:03.72
Nice.
00:47:03.75\00:47:05.09
Yeah, it's that like
what I was saying earlier,
00:47:05.12\00:47:07.72
you know, every five minutes,
if you have to ask the Lord,
00:47:07.76\00:47:10.46
help me clear this
mess out of my mind,
00:47:10.49\00:47:14.13
so that I can
focus on the things
00:47:14.16\00:47:15.60
you really want me to do.
00:47:15.63\00:47:17.87
That's up--
00:47:17.90\00:47:19.23
all stressed up,
and no place to go.
00:47:19.27\00:47:21.07
Okay.
00:47:24.14\00:47:25.77
I was reading the
one about sharing,
00:47:25.81\00:47:30.75
and these pages are kind of big.
00:47:30.78\00:47:33.01
They move around. Yeah.
00:47:33.05\00:47:34.42
Yes. Okay.
00:47:34.45\00:47:39.49
Dear God, thank you
for sharing with me,
00:47:39.52\00:47:42.32
when I share with you,
00:47:42.36\00:47:44.46
I share my loaves
and fishes with others.
00:47:44.49\00:47:47.96
God gives me a
thanksgiving feast.
00:47:48.00\00:47:50.67
If I give away, what I have,
God gives me more than enough.
00:47:50.70\00:47:56.04
The Lord is an awesome God,
00:47:56.07\00:47:58.04
and He is the best
friend to share with others.
00:47:58.07\00:48:01.74
I share my thoughts,
feelings and troubles with God.
00:48:01.78\00:48:05.78
He gives me wisdom, He
guides me with His spirit.
00:48:05.81\00:48:10.29
He teaches me through His word,
00:48:10.32\00:48:12.15
and He shows me how
to live a good life.
00:48:12.19\00:48:15.46
I thank God for sharing with me,
00:48:15.49\00:48:18.16
whenever I share with Him.
00:48:18.19\00:48:20.16
And this was verse 2 Jeremiah,
00:48:20.20\00:48:25.07
"Call unto me, and
I will answer thee,
00:48:25.10\00:48:28.20
and show the
great mighty things,
00:48:28.24\00:48:30.97
which thou knows not."
00:48:31.01\00:48:32.67
Jeremiah 33:3
00:48:32.71\00:48:36.08
and this took me to--
00:48:36.11\00:48:40.68
yesterday or the day before,
00:48:40.72\00:48:42.65
I got a phone
call from a viewer,
00:48:42.68\00:48:47.62
and was asking for prayer,
00:48:47.66\00:48:50.03
precisely about being able to--
00:48:50.06\00:48:53.80
how to share with God,
00:48:53.83\00:48:55.50
and she wanted
us to pray for her.
00:48:55.53\00:48:58.17
So that she will be
able to share with God,
00:48:58.20\00:49:01.74
the intimate things in
that she had in her heart,
00:49:01.77\00:49:05.24
and to be able to
listen to be assure
00:49:05.27\00:49:09.44
that God was hearing her prayer.
00:49:09.48\00:49:12.85
And He was answering her,
00:49:12.88\00:49:14.82
and reminded me
of that phone call,
00:49:14.85\00:49:19.99
because it is true that
sometimes it's hard to--
00:49:20.02\00:49:24.69
We don't how to share with God.
00:49:24.73\00:49:26.83
We have to take God's
word that He assures us,
00:49:26.86\00:49:31.70
that He's gonna
listen to us no matter what.
00:49:31.73\00:49:34.24
And then that's what He
was assuring Jeremiah also.
00:49:34.27\00:49:38.57
You just have to call
me, and then I listen,
00:49:38.61\00:49:41.54
and I answer.
00:49:41.58\00:49:42.91
Yes. Amen.
00:49:42.94\00:49:44.28
Well, said. That's right.
00:49:44.31\00:49:45.81
I was looking
at this last night,
00:49:45.85\00:49:47.48
if someone is going to take
it, I was gonna take another,
00:49:47.52\00:49:49.98
but it's "Dear God, it
sure is worth making effort
00:49:50.02\00:49:54.76
when we get results.
00:49:54.79\00:49:56.46
You know, that's
reasoning from end to back.
00:49:56.49\00:49:59.19
But dear God, assure
us, worth making effort,
00:49:59.23\00:50:01.43
when we get results.
00:50:01.46\00:50:02.80
Playing the
piano, or singing a song,
00:50:02.83\00:50:04.80
hitting a baseball,
or kicking the football.
00:50:04.83\00:50:07.44
It takes special
skill to do anything.
00:50:07.47\00:50:10.67
Everybody has
different abilities.
00:50:10.71\00:50:12.84
God gives everyone
a different talent.
00:50:12.87\00:50:15.48
Every good gift is from God.
00:50:15.51\00:50:17.98
What is my talent?
00:50:18.01\00:50:19.88
What is my gift?
00:50:19.91\00:50:22.15
It is wonderful to discover
a hidden talent or a gift.
00:50:22.18\00:50:25.99
I feel like God
cheers, when I use my talent.
00:50:26.02\00:50:30.56
It feels great to
receive encouragement
00:50:30.59\00:50:33.09
for using my gift.
00:50:33.13\00:50:35.20
Once in a while it
feels good to hit a home run.
00:50:35.23\00:50:39.67
Afterwards rest and relaxation
can be a gift from God.
00:50:39.70\00:50:45.31
And the companion
text, 1 Corinthians 7:7,
00:50:45.34\00:50:49.68
"Every man have
his proper gift of God,
00:50:49.71\00:50:53.38
one after this manner,
and another after that."
00:50:53.42\00:50:59.69
The idea that your
efforts can be worth something,
00:50:59.72\00:51:05.09
that you can
have your little being
00:51:05.13\00:51:06.96
to put in the pot, you know,
00:51:07.00\00:51:08.33
to make the soup more complete.
00:51:08.36\00:51:10.77
It is a good feeling.
00:51:10.80\00:51:13.20
When we're here working at 3ABN,
00:51:13.23\00:51:15.60
and you do something,
00:51:15.64\00:51:17.24
and something turns out right,
00:51:17.27\00:51:19.07
and you know, you
had a peace of that.
00:51:19.11\00:51:21.51
It does make you feel
good to be part of the team,
00:51:21.54\00:51:25.38
and to know that your effort
contributed to the success,
00:51:25.41\00:51:31.15
maybe even to the point
that if you didn't do it,
00:51:31.19\00:51:33.29
it wouldn't have been
as successful as it was.
00:51:33.32\00:51:36.06
And when people give you...
00:51:36.09\00:51:38.29
I'd never heard
this, this especially
00:51:38.33\00:51:40.30
J.D uses it a lot.
00:51:40.33\00:51:42.06
Attaboy, when
people give you "attaboy",
00:51:42.10\00:51:44.20
that's not a New York thing.
00:51:44.23\00:51:45.57
No.
00:51:45.60\00:51:46.94
No.
00:51:46.97\00:51:48.30
In New York,
it's "You're the man,"
00:51:48.34\00:51:49.67
you know, but "attaboy",
00:51:49.70\00:51:51.04
you know, but I
understand the attaboy.
00:51:51.07\00:51:52.57
Attaboy is like, "Ay attaboy,
you're doing a good job",
00:51:52.61\00:51:55.14
you know, kind of thing.
00:51:55.18\00:51:56.51
And attaboy can go a long way.
00:51:56.54\00:51:58.41
You can toil all night long,
00:51:58.45\00:52:01.25
and you know,
you spend yourself,
00:52:01.28\00:52:03.79
and you get it
done, and someone says,
00:52:03.82\00:52:05.55
"Jorge, Lynette, good job."
00:52:05.59\00:52:08.62
That's worth all of that,
00:52:08.66\00:52:10.53
or you could put in
one hour extra time,
00:52:10.56\00:52:12.99
and nobody says anything.
00:52:13.03\00:52:14.36
Yeah.
00:52:14.40\00:52:15.73
And if you're like,
00:52:15.76\00:52:17.10
"I gave whole
hour, man," nobody says.
00:52:17.13\00:52:18.47
You know, it's nice
to get that attaboy.
00:52:18.50\00:52:19.83
You demand, you did a good job.
00:52:19.87\00:52:21.70
You know, praise the
Lord for what you did,
00:52:21.74\00:52:25.24
and then, when you know that
00:52:25.27\00:52:31.31
We are working on a new project,
00:52:31.35\00:52:33.18
called "Calvary",
00:52:33.21\00:52:34.55
a new video project, CD project.
00:52:34.58\00:52:37.59
And I have it's
called Step Outline.
00:52:37.62\00:52:40.62
Basically you
start a song by yourself,
00:52:40.66\00:52:42.96
and the choir comes in later.
00:52:42.99\00:52:44.56
You know, were you there
when they crucified my Lord?
00:52:44.59\00:52:46.29
Were you there when
they crucified my Lord?
00:52:46.33\00:52:48.06
And that's it.
00:52:48.10\00:52:49.63
Well, Reggie took me over
to the studio one evening,
00:52:49.66\00:52:53.13
and I told Irma, "Go home,
00:52:53.17\00:52:56.10
I don't know how long it will me
00:52:56.14\00:52:57.61
to sing that couple of lines."
00:52:57.64\00:52:59.27
Well, we worked on
those lines from 5:30,
00:52:59.31\00:53:02.04
we trying to get
home by 9 o'clock, 9:30.
00:53:02.08\00:53:04.51
That's long. 9:30.
00:53:04.55\00:53:05.98
Right. And he...
00:53:06.01\00:53:08.22
Reggie is a kind of
guy, he's gonna beat you up,
00:53:08.25\00:53:12.25
but you don't know
that you're beat up
00:53:12.29\00:53:13.89
until you look in the mirror,
00:53:13.92\00:53:15.26
and you see the welts, you know,
00:53:15.29\00:53:16.62
'cause he's looking
to get some out of you,
00:53:16.66\00:53:19.73
and he's gonna stay
on you till he gets it.
00:53:19.76\00:53:21.76
But he's
encouraging you, He's like,
00:53:21.80\00:53:23.67
"We're almost
there, that is great,
00:53:23.70\00:53:26.13
great, you really did good job,
00:53:26.17\00:53:27.60
and we need just
a little bit more,
00:53:27.64\00:53:29.57
and you got it man,
00:53:29.60\00:53:30.94
you got it, we're almost there."
00:53:30.97\00:53:32.31
So you sing it
again, and he'll say,
00:53:32.34\00:53:35.48
"Yeah, great, and I need
just a little tiny bit more,
00:53:35.51\00:53:39.48
but you were right there.
00:53:39.51\00:53:40.85
We're so close, and you
can do this man, you can..."
00:53:40.88\00:53:43.52
So three hours later,
00:53:43.55\00:53:45.32
"You just about got
it, you're right there,
00:53:45.35\00:53:48.59
you know, you're almost there."
00:53:48.62\00:53:50.69
So I said, I came and said Irma,
00:53:50.73\00:53:53.53
"I said Boo,
00:53:53.56\00:53:54.90
I've never been through
00:53:54.93\00:53:56.26
a psychological
session like that in my life."
00:53:56.30\00:53:57.73
That guy beat me to
death, but I didn't know...
00:53:57.77\00:54:01.14
Yeah, I didn't
know he was beating me,
00:54:01.17\00:54:02.74
till I look myself
in the mirror, I said,
00:54:02.77\00:54:04.44
"You know, I've been in
the fight, I think I lost."
00:54:04.47\00:54:07.94
But when we finished, he said,
00:54:07.98\00:54:09.71
"We got what we need",
and it makes you feel so good.
00:54:09.74\00:54:15.58
He demanded a lot,
and I was able to give him
00:54:15.62\00:54:19.65
what he wanted, you know.
00:54:19.69\00:54:21.66
Praise God for that.
00:54:21.69\00:54:24.49
So it sure is
worth making effort,
00:54:24.53\00:54:26.56
when you get results,
00:54:26.59\00:54:27.93
when you can say, "We did it,"
00:54:27.96\00:54:30.27
worth the effort.
00:54:30.30\00:54:31.63
And the cause of the Christ
will be benefited thereby.
00:54:31.67\00:54:34.74
So I'm gonna hold
on to this little book,
00:54:34.77\00:54:36.50
"Dear God," this
is pretty old now,
00:54:36.54\00:54:39.87
but good stuff inside.
00:54:39.91\00:54:41.78
Sometimes even in the
seemingly simplest things,
00:54:41.81\00:54:46.31
there can be some
very profound thoughts.
00:54:46.35\00:54:51.02
And the good
thing to know is that
00:54:51.05\00:54:52.39
God is with us
through all of these things.
00:54:52.42\00:54:54.19
You're never alone. Amen. Yes.
00:54:54.22\00:54:55.56
You're never by yourself.
00:54:55.59\00:54:56.93
This is really,
really, really good stuff,
00:54:56.96\00:54:59.29
and we will hold on to this.
00:54:59.33\00:55:01.03
So, no, Boo, you
can't give it the grands,
00:55:01.06\00:55:04.63
'cause she was making a
little packet even yesterday.
00:55:04.67\00:55:06.63
So we're gonna mail
this out to the grand kids.
00:55:06.67\00:55:08.67
No, not this one, this
one stays with the Murray's.
00:55:08.70\00:55:11.41
And we're gonna do that.
00:55:11.44\00:55:13.94
Well, we've got one more thing,
00:55:13.98\00:55:16.11
but I'm not
going to go through it,
00:55:16.14\00:55:18.35
because it's gonna
take a little too much time.
00:55:18.38\00:55:20.22
There is a great article
that came out in the Review,
00:55:20.25\00:55:22.52
maybe in our
next family worship,
00:55:22.55\00:55:26.39
we can go through this.
00:55:26.42\00:55:28.12
This is from a
police officer in Brazil,
00:55:28.16\00:55:32.06
who got a DVD
about the things of God.
00:55:32.09\00:55:35.60
An Adventist sent him a
DVD, and he put it on the shelf
00:55:35.63\00:55:38.40
and he never bothered with it.
00:55:38.43\00:55:40.04
So one day, he said,
you know, to his wife,
00:55:40.07\00:55:41.90
let's read this thing.
00:55:41.94\00:55:43.51
And from the time
he began to read it,
00:55:43.54\00:55:45.47
strange things began
to happen in their house.
00:55:45.51\00:55:47.44
Some demonic stuff,
00:55:47.48\00:55:48.91
even when they went
to the Catholic Church,
00:55:48.94\00:55:50.28
the phone is ringing,
00:55:50.31\00:55:51.65
and there's no
SIM card in the phone,
00:55:51.68\00:55:53.01
you know, the SIM card
is what gives your number.
00:55:53.05\00:55:54.68
So the phone is ringing,
and its not the phone is off,
00:55:54.72\00:55:57.09
there is no SIM
card, and a battery,
00:55:57.12\00:55:58.45
why is the phone
ringing in military service
00:55:58.49\00:55:59.95
where they are.
00:55:59.99\00:56:01.32
All kinds of weird
things, punch line is that
00:56:01.36\00:56:03.32
they are members of
the Adventist church now,
00:56:03.36\00:56:04.69
in the church
and loving the Lord,
00:56:04.73\00:56:06.16
but some interesting
things that we could talk about,
00:56:06.19\00:56:08.63
but are just
some wonderful things.
00:56:08.66\00:56:10.37
And it shows how
much God will go through
00:56:10.40\00:56:13.64
and allow it to happen
just to get us, to get us saved.
00:56:13.67\00:56:15.80
Now I'm looking at the clock,
I got a minute and eighteen,
00:56:15.84\00:56:17.74
I want to say one thing to you,
00:56:17.77\00:56:19.24
and I put this in a
sermon just last week,
00:56:19.27\00:56:21.11
we were talking about faith.
00:56:21.14\00:56:24.28
And I want to say is,
00:56:24.31\00:56:25.65
when you got a decision to make,
00:56:25.68\00:56:27.88
do not ask Irma, Lynette, Jorge,
00:56:27.92\00:56:31.52
of what benefit it
will be to you or loss.
00:56:31.55\00:56:37.06
Should I marry this person?
00:56:37.09\00:56:38.43
Should I use my tithe?
00:56:38.46\00:56:40.36
Should I tell a lie to
get myself out of hot water?
00:56:40.40\00:56:44.17
That don't ask, is it
going to be good for me,
00:56:44.20\00:56:48.60
is it going to be bad for me?
00:56:48.64\00:56:50.44
He says, the only
question you to ask is,
00:56:50.47\00:56:52.34
is it in
accordance with God's will.
00:56:52.37\00:56:55.74
And then, she says,
00:56:55.78\00:56:57.98
it actually gets kind of simple.
00:56:58.01\00:57:00.58
You're not agonizing,
00:57:00.62\00:57:01.95
"Should I spend my tithe
money to get in or should I.
00:57:01.98\00:57:04.42
Oh, boy, should I tell
a lie, should I just..."
00:57:04.45\00:57:09.89
No, just ask, is God
going to be glorified?
00:57:09.92\00:57:12.73
And is it in
accordance with His will.
00:57:12.76\00:57:15.56
And then it's God's
job to see you through.
00:57:15.60\00:57:20.07
Because He says if
you stand up for Me,
00:57:20.10\00:57:22.60
I will stand there for you.
00:57:22.64\00:57:24.37
So rather than dance with it,
00:57:24.41\00:57:28.04
trust God and
see that God is true,
00:57:28.08\00:57:32.18
God is faithful,
00:57:32.21\00:57:33.55
and will add to
your faith victory.
00:57:33.58\00:57:35.38
And it's right, bye-bye.
00:57:35.42\00:57:36.75
God bless, we will
see you again soon.
00:57:36.79\00:57:38.25