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
3ABN Today Family Worship.
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My name is Jill Morikone,
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and I'm so glad
that you have joined us.
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We just want to
say happy Sabbath.
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I hope that you had a good week
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that you grew in your
walk with the Lord Jesus.
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I know this week 3ABN was busy
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and I'm so glad
its Friday night.
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We can sit down
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and spend this hour
with the word of God,
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with you as our
3ABN family at home,
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and with the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Now, I feel
little strange tonight
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because usually
with Family Worship,
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if Greg and I are hosting,
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it would be Greg and I together,
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but tonight, we
decided to bring the ladies.
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We're having a family
worship with women of God,
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who are dear to my heart.
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And we'll start on this
side, we have Mollie Steenson.
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Mollie, you are
our vice president,
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general manager at 3ABN.
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And the thing I
love the most about you
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is that you
have a walk with God.
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You know, a
genuine walk with God.
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And Mollie is the real deal.
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And I'm so thankful you're
here with us this evening.
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Thank you. It is
a joy to be here.
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And to open this
Sabbath in God's word
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and to share what the
Lord has placed in our hearts.
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Thank you for
inviting me to be a part
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and thanks all of
you for joining us.
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Amen, that's right.
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We're gonna share
sisters and Jesus,
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and I'm excited about this.
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Sitting next to me is
my sister Daria Hibbler.
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And Daria, you are
the youngest member
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around this table.
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And this is a joy
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because I think Family
Worship is all different ages.
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You know, my husband
Greg and I don't have kids,
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but we can have
family worship together.
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Mollie is a mother,
a wife, a grandmother,
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and that's a precious thing.
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But Daria, you
are single right now.
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Yes, I'm 20, and I'm single.
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And I'm so happy to be here too,
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and with all these people
who are like my family, so.
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Amen.
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So, tell me you're in
school right now, right?
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Yes, I' am going to
be a junior in college
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at Southern
Adventist University.
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Amen, that's--
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What are you
taking? Communications.
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Oh, that's wonderful.
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You will be good
at that absolutely.
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Daria has just a heart for God
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and she's a
precious sister in Jesus.
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And we are so glad
she's here this evening.
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She's working in
pastoral department
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here for this summer at 3ABN.
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And at the far
end, last but not least,
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is our precious
Sister Chris Shelton,
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and you are the wife
of Pastor Kenny Shelton.
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And are you vice
president at Behold the Lamb?
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I'm vice president
and office manager.
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We wear lots of hats.
I'm director sometimes.
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I do graphic work, I
do all kinds of thing.
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By profession, I
was a teacher. Okay.
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We did have a
school for several years,
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and I taught in
the public school
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just a little while,
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but then the Lord
moved me into ministry
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and that's where I've stayed.
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So, anyway.
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And Daria has been a
little holding back here,
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she's planning on doing some
mission work this next year.
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She told me she may leave
next month, and I thought,
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well, it might be like a month
or more we trip or something,
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but it's gonna be
a whole year long.
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Wow. And where are
you going? Colombia.
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I'll be working at
the Adventist University
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there, teaching kids
ESL, like English teaching.
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So it's exciting, I'm excited.
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It's always exciting to us
when our young people grow up
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and go out to serve God,
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but Daria, something
that we want you to know
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is that we want
you back here with us
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when the Lord leads and directs.
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Yes, ma'am, I'll be back.
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Amen. That's wonderful.
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Well, I'm excited about
the program this evening.
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We're taking about heaven.
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Boy, what a promise
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to look forward to the
second coming of Jesus,
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spending eternity with our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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We're talking about
The promise of Heaven
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as well as
preparation for heaven.
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But before we get into our music
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and our Bible study,
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let us open up
with the word of pray.
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Father, we just come
before you in the name of Jesus.
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We thank you for Sabbath.
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Thank you for the
privilege of coming apart
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as your sons and daughters
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and spending this time with you.
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We thank you that
you have sanctified
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and set the Sabbath
apart as a Holy Day.
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Lord, we ask that you
would take our hearts,
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that you would teach us,
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show us want you want
to teach us from your word,
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give us ears that want to hear
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and we want to
receive and we thank you.
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In the precious and
Holy name of Jesus, Amen.
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Amen.
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We're gonna start with
couple songs about heaven,
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and we want to
encourage you to sing at home
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because none of us feel like
good singers here on the table.
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So please sing at home.
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The first song is
When We All Get To Heaven.
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We have Summer Boyd on the piano
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and I love to
hear Summer playing.
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And thank you so much, Summer,
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for playing for us this evening.
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Sing the wondrous love of Jesus
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Sing His mercy and His grace
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In the mansions
bright and blessed
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He'll prepare for us a place
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When we all get to heaven
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What a day of
rejoicing that will be
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When we all see Jesus
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We'll sing and shout the victory
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Let us than be true and faithful
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Trusting, serving every day
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Just one glimpse of Him in glory
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Will the toils of life repay
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When we all get to heaven
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What a day of
rejoicing that will be
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When we all see Jesus
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We'll sing and shout the victory
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Onward to the prize before us
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Soon His beauty we'll behold
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Soon the pearly gates will open
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We shall tread
the streets of gold
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When we all get to heaven
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What a day of
rejoicing that will be
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When we all see Jesus
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We'll sing and
shout the victory.
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Amen.
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I love that song,
"When we all get to heaven
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What a day of
rejoicing that will be."
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You know that song,
it will be worth it all.
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"When we see
Jesus," all the trails,
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all the junk and the
stuff we go through here below
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will be over,
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forever will be in that
heaven and the earth made new.
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So, praise the Lord.
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We can't even imagine. I know.
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We can't even imagine
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the joy of walking
into those pearly gates
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or just even the trip there
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is just far
beyond on our imagine.
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Oh, it gives you
goosebumps to think about.
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What Glory. What
Glory. That's right.
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Eye has not seen,
nor ear has heard,
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nether has entered
into the heart of men
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the things God has
prepared for those who love him.
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So praise the Lord.
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One more song here this evening
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before we dive
into our Bible study,
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Mansion Over The Hilltop.
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I'm satisfied with
just the cottage below
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because I know I have a
mansion over the hilltop.
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Yes.
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I'm satisfied with
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Just a cottage below
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A little silver
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And little gold
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But in that city
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Where the ransomed will shine
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I want a gold one
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that's silver lined
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I've got a mansion
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Just over the hilltop
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In that bright land where
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we'll never grow old
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And somebody yonder
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We will never more wander
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But walk on streets
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That are purest gold
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Don't think me poor
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Or deserted or lonely
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I'm not discouraged
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I'm heaven bound
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I'm just a pilgrim
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In search of a city
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I want a mansion
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A harp and a crown
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I've got a mansion
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Just over the hilltop
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In that bright land where
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We'll never grow old
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And somebody yonder
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We will never more wander
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But walk on streets
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That are purest gold
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Amen. We'll
never grow old there.
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Thanks the Lord. Yes.
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I'm so excited. Praise the Lord.
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What a promise,
the promise of heaven.
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And as we start this evening,
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we wanted to go around the table
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and each share, as we begin,
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our favorite
promise from the Bible
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that deals with heaven.
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And Mollie,
let's start with you.
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What would be one of your?
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And it doesn't have
to be your top favorite,
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but one of your favorites.
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Well, I've always liked
Revelation 21:4 and God--
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You wanna turn to
that? Yeah. Let's turn there.
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Let's turn to that.
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And I think Chris' is
Revelation 21:1 through 3,
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so you need to just
stay there in Revelation.
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"And God will wipe away
every tear from their eyes,
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there shall be no more
death, nor sorrow, nor crying.
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There shall be no more pain,
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for the former
things have passed away."
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Look forward to
that, don't you, Chris?
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Absolutely, absolutely.
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And why does that
promise particularly impact you?
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It tells us what it's
going to be like in heaven,
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and here in this earth,
there is pain, there is sorrow,
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there are tears.
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But we need not
to dwell on this,
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this life is so temporal
and this isn't all there is.
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I think sometimes
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that we can
become so discouraged
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when we forget that
this isn't all there is.
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We have an eternity in
the very presence of God.
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when I think on that
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it takes my mind
out of this earth realm,
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out of where the
pain and the growing old
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and the eggs in the pans are,
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it puts me into
the very presence
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of almighty God.
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Amen.
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I remember hearing once a
woman, and she was speaking,
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I don't remember who it was,
but I just remember she shared,
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she was going
through some trails
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and difficulties in her life.
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And she said, "God,
I'm struggling here,"
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and it was like
she heard Him say,
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just in her mind,
she heard him say,
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"Can you not--"
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if a day with the
Lord is a thousand years,
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"Can you not, my daughter,
just hang on an half an hour."
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You know, in the
light of eternity
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what is this earth, or
the pains, or the struggles,
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or the things we go through?
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It's over, life is a vapor.
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It's over in a moment,
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but we have that
eternity with Jesus Christ.
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We just can't be shortsighted
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with God to see
the whole picture
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and know that this
isn't all there is.
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Yes. Amen.
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That gives us hope. It does.
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Gives us something
to look forward to,
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because if this
is all that there is,
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many of us give up.
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You know, what is
there to live for?
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And I can
remember time in my life
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where I felt like that way.
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I did, I really felt that way.
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But praise God for
focusing my eyes somewhere else.
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And we focus in, you
know, on this pilgrim's pathway
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where we're
focusing in on heaven.
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Yes.
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And have all
these things change.
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You know, it broke my heart
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and I don't want
to date anything,
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but just recently I had
heard about a 2-year-old boy
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walking along with his family,
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they were on vacation
in Disney's, you know.
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So they were
thinking this is a happy time.
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And suddenly an
alligator comes up
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and snatches that
child from the parents.
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It broke my
heart, I don't know them,
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but it made me sick.
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And I thought some day,
someday we're not gonna--
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We can swim with
those alligators.
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But you know, this
stuff is gonna be gone.
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Can you imagine the pain
that those parents are in,
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the agony that they are in.
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In just an instant
their whole life has changed.
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Absolutely. And
I prayed for them.
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I thought, Lord, I
hope they have Jesus.
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'Cause how do you ever
walk through anything like that
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without Christ in your heart.
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And the father had laceration.
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Can you imagine,
he tried so hard.
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And you tried so hard to
save your son and you can't.
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Yeah, absolutely.
00:14:42.28\00:14:44.05
That's just-- That is--
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And Greg and I were just
talking about it the other day
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and, to think Greg said,
"The family probably saved,"
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you know, I mean this is
an exciting vacation for them.
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They were from the
Midwest, and they had saved
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and they had done all, you know,
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so excited doing this vacation,
and then what happened?
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Praise the Lord.
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We pray that they have either,
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I don't know if
they are Christians,
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but that they have that hope
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or that someone
will show them that hope
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that this life
is not all there is,
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and that someday
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they can be reunited
with their precious son.
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Absolutely.
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Now, yours was in the same,
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wasn't it Sister
Chris, in the same chapter?
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Yes, it is, and you
know, I like what you said,
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it didn't have to necessarily
be your most favorite
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because I really
don't have a most favorite.
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But this is one
that I like to share.
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We do a lot of evangelism,
we go to different churches.
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And many times this is one
that the Lord lays on my heart
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at the right time.
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And I probably would have
gone ahead to read verse 4 too,
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but when I was preparing
it, it was just 1 through 3.
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You see the Holy Spirit is good,
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how he knows these things.
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"And I saw a new
heaven and a new earth,
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for the first
heaven and the first earth
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were passed away
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and there was no
more sea and I, John,
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saw the holy
city, New Jerusalem,
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coming down from
God, out of heaven,
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prepared as a bride
adorned for her husband."
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He is finally
going to have his church.
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He is gonna have the
church married with him.
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"And I heard a great
voice of heaven saying,
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'Behold, the tabernacle--'"
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Listen to this, "The
tabernacle of God is with men."
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Now, we see
through a glass darkly,
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but God is going
to dwell with us.
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And when you stop and
think about that the only,
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only world in the whole universe
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is that we know of,
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there seems to be more than one.
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And here we are
sitting, we are--
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I think of how feeble--
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We were talking about how tall
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and you're the
shortest person in your family,
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and I'm only about
5'2" which I'm really short.
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And we're going to grow
up like calves in a stall.
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We're so little, we're so feeble
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to what God
intended for us to be,
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and He's going to dwell
with us someday, someday.
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"And they shall be His people
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and God Himself
shall be with them."
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Oh, wow. "And be their God."
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Amen.
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That's my favorite part,
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about the whole promise
is God will be with them.
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You know, here
on this earth below,
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sometimes, we go
through junk and stuff,
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and you say, "God,
I know you're there,
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but I can't see you.
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God, I'm reaching out after you,
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but I just can't feel you."
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I hear on this earth, we
have to reach out by faith.
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But when we
cross the other side,
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when Jesus comes,
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and we will be there absolutely.
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We'll spend eternity
with our best friend.
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Absolutely. He
is all in all. Amen.
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No more sin, no
more affects of sin.
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You know, what the only
thing, in my understanding,
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that will be even
a reminder of the sin
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that happened on this earth
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is gonna be the
nail scar on hands,
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and He will be with
us forever in eternity.
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And that to me is
such an encouragement.
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So, it gives us so much hope.
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We've got a future and a
hope, way past this earth.
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Amen. Amen.
Daria, what about your's?
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So my verse was
Philippians 3:20.
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Let me just jump over
there, Galatians, Ephesians,
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Philippians, Philippians what?
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3:20. Okay.
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And it says, "For our
citizenship is in heaven,
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from whence also
look for the Savior,
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the Lord Jesus Christ."
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So what I really,
really like about this verse
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is the word citizenship.
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It reminds me of
you belong somewhere,
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you belong in a certain city.
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And so when I
think of citizenship,
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I think of going home,
going home to your country
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or something like that.
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And so, citizenship as
in citizenship in heaven
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is even like you're going
home, like, it reminds me,
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this is not where
I'm supposed to stay.
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This, awful around us,
00:19:03.81\00:19:06.84
and all the bad things that
are going around in the world,
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it is like, this is not my home
00:19:09.51\00:19:10.85
because my home is
in heaven with the Lord.
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So I really like that
verse because citizenship,
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citizenship in heaven.
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Oh, I just, I
really like it. Amen.
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That's powerful, citizenship.
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We've been
transformed or conveyed
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out of the kingdom of darkness.
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Where are we now?
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Kingdom of God's dear son
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where we will have an
eternity in His very presence.
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And how true that that is
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because the more
we grow up in Christ,
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the more we
learn, the more we study,
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you begin to see
how that the enemy
00:19:40.71\00:19:42.44
has his hand in everything,
whether it's our food,
00:19:42.48\00:19:46.15
our dress or we
listen to, you know,
00:19:46.18\00:19:48.45
his hand is in everything,
your friends to deceive us.
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And as we are separated
from those things as Christ,
00:19:52.79\00:19:57.43
by His Grace, doing
that wonderful heart surgery,
00:19:57.46\00:20:00.73
this world is
no longer our home,
00:20:00.76\00:20:03.26
we feel out of place.
00:20:03.30\00:20:05.37
I mean, even with
your family many times
00:20:05.40\00:20:08.07
because they know that
you used to may be participate
00:20:08.10\00:20:12.37
or may be listen to or watch,
and so to go back amongst them
00:20:12.41\00:20:16.38
when they haven't
changed, you feel out of place.
00:20:16.41\00:20:19.61
This world is not our home,
00:20:19.65\00:20:20.98
but He's
preparing a world that is,
00:20:21.02\00:20:23.59
and that is so exciting.
00:20:23.62\00:20:25.05
Amen. Can I ask you, Daria?
00:20:25.09\00:20:27.09
I was just thinking
when you said that, Chris.
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Not all your family
are serving the Adventists.
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Correct. So how
do you handle that?
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How do you deal with that?
00:20:36.20\00:20:37.53
When you are saying,
00:20:37.57\00:20:38.90
"I want my
citizenship here in heaven,"
00:20:38.93\00:20:40.40
but they might be
citizens here, down below.
00:20:40.44\00:20:43.77
So how do you handle that?
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Well, at first,
00:20:46.78\00:20:48.11
they weren't too accepting
of us becoming Adventist,
00:20:48.14\00:20:52.11
so it's kind of hard,
00:20:52.15\00:20:53.48
but then as we
started to show them
00:20:53.52\00:20:55.78
that we're pretty normal still,
00:20:55.82\00:20:57.39
but we just have
Jesus in our lives now,
00:20:57.42\00:20:59.42
they've become more accepting.
00:20:59.45\00:21:00.79
So it's not as
hard when they weren't,
00:21:00.82\00:21:03.86
but, just tried to live a life,
I just tried to live a life
00:21:03.89\00:21:07.66
so they can see Jesus in me
00:21:07.70\00:21:10.27
and so they can may
be, want to, you know,
00:21:10.30\00:21:13.80
get to know Jesus more
00:21:13.84\00:21:15.17
because they have seen how
much He's worked in my life
00:21:15.20\00:21:16.77
and changed my life.
00:21:16.81\00:21:18.21
Amen. I believe that.
00:21:18.24\00:21:19.91
That's beautiful because,
I mean, I think, and Mollie,
00:21:19.94\00:21:22.58
you have some of
the same experience too,
00:21:22.61\00:21:24.18
but I just think, at home?
00:21:24.21\00:21:26.25
You might be saying,
but I'm worshipping alone.
00:21:26.28\00:21:28.62
I'm joining this
family circle right now,
00:21:28.65\00:21:31.09
but my family doesn't
believe in the Sabbath
00:21:31.12\00:21:33.79
or my family is not doing that.
00:21:33.82\00:21:35.49
Don't be discouraged.
00:21:35.52\00:21:36.86
Continue to share
Jesus, like Daria mentioned.
00:21:36.89\00:21:40.10
Mollie is dying over here.
00:21:40.13\00:21:42.73
I can see you
are anxious to talk.
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When Hal and I first came
out of darkness and into life,
00:21:44.83\00:21:47.50
we, you know, we weren't
serving God by any means,
00:21:47.54\00:21:52.34
but the family just left us
and accepted us like we were
00:21:52.37\00:21:55.41
and some attended
church and some didn't,
00:21:55.44\00:21:57.68
but when it seems
like when Hal and I
00:21:57.71\00:22:00.75
made Jesus Christ
the Lord of our life,
00:22:00.78\00:22:02.68
we got born again, born again.
00:22:02.72\00:22:04.65
I mean, we were
headed in this direction
00:22:04.69\00:22:06.89
and now we're
headed in the complete--
00:22:06.92\00:22:08.66
and we took it serious
00:22:08.69\00:22:10.19
and we thought if
the Bible says it,
00:22:10.23\00:22:11.66
you will have to do it
00:22:11.69\00:22:13.03
and so I can remember
some of Hal's family saying,
00:22:13.06\00:22:18.23
"Leave them
alone. It'll pass over."
00:22:18.27\00:22:21.34
Just, it will pass over,
00:22:21.37\00:22:23.30
and we tell them not
only did it pass over,
00:22:23.34\00:22:27.48
it Pentecost it's
on the tabernacle.
00:22:27.51\00:22:30.85
We are still serving God
and still think we should do it
00:22:30.88\00:22:34.65
with all of our
heart, but I want you to know
00:22:34.68\00:22:36.48
that this family
of ours', both sides,
00:22:36.52\00:22:38.72
my side and his
side of the family,
00:22:38.75\00:22:40.86
they love us, they respect us,
00:22:40.89\00:22:42.89
and they
appreciate our work with God.
00:22:42.92\00:22:45.43
When they need
prayer, they call us
00:22:45.46\00:22:47.56
and when we go through
times of needing prayer,
00:22:47.60\00:22:50.50
and Hal and I both
have, they'll call us
00:22:50.53\00:22:53.03
and let us know
we're praying for you.
00:22:53.07\00:22:55.14
So, they--
00:22:55.17\00:22:56.60
you know, loving
and accepting people,
00:22:56.64\00:22:58.47
just like they are.
00:22:58.51\00:22:59.84
That's the important thing
00:22:59.87\00:23:01.21
because knowing
that God is the only one
00:23:01.24\00:23:02.98
that can change our life
00:23:03.01\00:23:04.71
and so that's
been part of the beauty
00:23:04.75\00:23:09.45
of being in a
family like my sister's.
00:23:09.48\00:23:11.95
There are some
things that that I believe
00:23:11.99\00:23:14.76
that they don't and so
here's what we've determined.
00:23:14.79\00:23:17.96
We just won't talk
about those things,
00:23:17.99\00:23:20.00
you know, let our light shine
00:23:20.03\00:23:21.83
and the Lord
chooses to open a door
00:23:21.86\00:23:25.50
to speak we will, but if not,
00:23:25.53\00:23:27.47
we love and accept
people like they are.
00:23:27.50\00:23:30.04
Amen. Amen. Well,
my promise is John 14.
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I have many that I like,
00:23:34.11\00:23:35.71
but I think this is
one of the first ones
00:23:35.74\00:23:37.61
I memorized as a
kid, I think, is John 14.
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Let me just jump over
there. Verses one through three.
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John 14, the Bible says,
00:23:47.16\00:23:48.52
"Let not your heart be troubled,
00:23:48.56\00:23:51.53
you believe in
God, believe also in Me.
00:23:51.56\00:23:53.76
In My Father's
house are many mansions,
00:23:53.80\00:23:57.60
if it were not so,
I would have told you.
00:23:57.63\00:24:00.37
I go to prepare a place for you.
00:24:00.40\00:24:02.50
And if I go and
prepare a place for you,
00:24:02.54\00:24:04.84
I will come again and
receive you to onto Myself,
00:24:04.87\00:24:10.01
that where I am,
there you may be also."
00:24:10.05\00:24:12.45
And I think, this took place
00:24:12.48\00:24:14.05
right before
Jesus' crucifixion, right?
00:24:14.08\00:24:17.19
This is right
after the last supper,
00:24:17.22\00:24:18.95
John 13, he washed
the disciple's feet.
00:24:18.99\00:24:22.06
And we're in these
couple chapters here,
00:24:22.09\00:24:23.99
I think, these are
my favorite chapters
00:24:24.03\00:24:25.39
in the book of John 14,
15, 16, 17, where Jesus says
00:24:25.43\00:24:29.36
like his final
words to his disciples
00:24:29.40\00:24:31.93
before he goes to the cross.
00:24:31.97\00:24:33.80
And one of those was
that, "Don't be afraid."
00:24:33.84\00:24:37.54
Don't be afraid
here in this world below
00:24:37.57\00:24:41.21
because I'm coming again,
00:24:41.24\00:24:43.14
and because I'm preparing
for you a better place.
00:24:43.18\00:24:47.42
Not this world,
not what's going on.
00:24:47.45\00:24:49.82
He knew they were
going to see the cross,
00:24:49.85\00:24:51.65
they would be
discouraged, and they would be,
00:24:51.69\00:24:54.09
it's the death
of all their hopes
00:24:54.12\00:24:56.52
and their dreams,
00:24:56.56\00:24:57.89
but don't be discouraged,
I'm going to come again.
00:24:57.93\00:25:00.90
Don't be discouraged.
00:25:00.93\00:25:02.26
This world, we see down
here, is not all there is.
00:25:02.30\00:25:05.43
There's a better place.
00:25:05.47\00:25:06.80
You know, there are a
lot of places in God's word
00:25:06.84\00:25:08.60
for it's written in red,
00:25:08.64\00:25:09.97
promises from the
Lord Jesus Christ himself,
00:25:10.01\00:25:13.07
and you know those promises
are going to be fulfilled.
00:25:13.11\00:25:16.51
I know another place
in John, where it says,
00:25:16.54\00:25:19.21
"Father, that they will all
be one as you and I are one."
00:25:19.25\00:25:23.42
By this, we may know
that you're my disciples
00:25:23.45\00:25:27.92
if you have love for another.
00:25:27.96\00:25:30.13
So, we look at these
promises that Jesus made,
00:25:30.16\00:25:33.29
number one, he's
preparing a place for us,
00:25:33.33\00:25:36.26
and if he's
preparing a place for us,
00:25:36.30\00:25:37.93
what's he gonna do?
00:25:37.97\00:25:39.33
Come and take us to him.
00:25:39.37\00:25:41.04
You know that if
Jesus made that promise,
00:25:41.07\00:25:43.61
it is gonna happen.
00:25:43.64\00:25:44.97
That's right. Sister Chris.
00:25:45.01\00:25:46.57
Well, I was just thinking
too, you know, just in that,
00:25:46.61\00:25:48.88
"Don't be afraid, let
not your heart be troubled."
00:25:48.91\00:25:52.25
It teaches, we have so
much that we have yet to learn.
00:25:52.28\00:25:56.48
Because you
think of the disciples
00:25:56.52\00:25:58.25
that He was speaking to,
00:25:58.29\00:25:59.62
not only do they
see His crucifixion
00:25:59.65\00:26:02.39
and wonder, I'm
sure they wondered,
00:26:02.42\00:26:04.29
was all this in vain?
00:26:04.33\00:26:05.93
Are we wrong?
00:26:05.96\00:26:07.70
You know, could He
not have been the Messiah
00:26:07.73\00:26:10.20
we thought He was?
00:26:10.23\00:26:11.93
But then think of what
happened in their lives,
00:26:11.97\00:26:15.07
and just even looking at
the sting of death differently.
00:26:15.10\00:26:19.31
Heaven looks at death
differently than what we do.
00:26:19.34\00:26:22.54
You know, we just
need to be prepared.
00:26:22.58\00:26:25.15
And so, there's
just so much there,
00:26:25.18\00:26:27.48
even in our homes,
we're all ladies here,
00:26:27.52\00:26:31.09
and so many of us ladies
may be not you yet Daria.
00:26:31.12\00:26:34.16
You probably
did from your daddy.
00:26:34.19\00:26:36.36
But, you know, a lot of times,
00:26:36.39\00:26:37.73
we draw our
strength from our husband,
00:26:37.76\00:26:39.13
we draw strength from our men,
00:26:39.16\00:26:40.66
and there's times
that we are alone,
00:26:40.70\00:26:43.26
and you feel vulnerable.
00:26:43.30\00:26:45.53
And there's been many times,
I've claimed Psalms 34:7 that,
00:26:45.57\00:26:49.47
"The angel of the Lord encamp
around about us and deliver us"
00:26:49.50\00:26:54.41
because we live in a world
00:26:54.44\00:26:55.84
that's unlike anything we've
ever imagined in our lifetime,
00:26:55.88\00:26:59.18
this is so different.
00:26:59.21\00:27:01.12
And so Jesus says, "Let
not your heart be troubled.
00:27:01.15\00:27:04.15
Don't fear, trust in
him. I've got angels.
00:27:04.19\00:27:08.06
One angel so
mighty, they can deliver you
00:27:08.09\00:27:11.76
and He has many a times"
and I praise God for that.
00:27:11.79\00:27:15.36
So even in his words
there are such promises
00:27:15.40\00:27:18.37
and things that I'm thinking
00:27:18.40\00:27:19.80
we still have yet
to learn as his people.
00:27:19.83\00:27:22.80
Amen.
00:27:22.84\00:27:24.17
You were mentioning preparation
00:27:24.21\00:27:25.54
and that kind of
segues us into the next,
00:27:25.57\00:27:27.64
we talked about
the promise to heaven.
00:27:27.68\00:27:29.81
But what about preparation?
00:27:29.84\00:27:32.01
What if someone
at home is saying,
00:27:32.05\00:27:33.88
"How do I know if
I'm going to be there?"
00:27:33.92\00:27:35.72
I don't, I want to go to heaven,
00:27:35.75\00:27:37.92
but I don't think
I'm good enough, right?
00:27:37.95\00:27:41.26
I don't know,
00:27:41.29\00:27:42.62
if these
promises, I can trust them.
00:27:42.66\00:27:44.36
How do I know if
I'm going to be there?
00:27:44.39\00:27:46.43
What is the preparation?
Anyone want to jump in?
00:27:46.46\00:27:50.37
Well, you always
have to go to the word.
00:27:50.40\00:27:53.60
But in looking at this,
00:27:53.64\00:27:58.24
I looked at the disciples
00:27:58.27\00:28:01.24
and they ask a question of Jesus
00:28:01.28\00:28:07.75
and the question
that they ask of Jesus is,
00:28:07.78\00:28:10.55
"What do we get?"
00:28:10.59\00:28:12.12
You know, what do we get?
00:28:12.15\00:28:13.49
I kind of want you to
take us there and look,
00:28:13.52\00:28:15.99
spring from that to preparation.
00:28:16.02\00:28:17.53
Do you have a scripture that?
00:28:17.56\00:28:19.76
Yes, go to Matthew 19,
what we're looking at is,
00:28:19.79\00:28:25.07
the rich young ruler.
00:28:25.10\00:28:26.53
Remember the rich young
ruler that came to Jesus,
00:28:26.57\00:28:29.90
and what was his question?
00:28:29.94\00:28:32.94
"What you must
I do to be saved?"
00:28:32.97\00:28:35.58
Inherit eternal life, be saved.
00:28:35.61\00:28:37.81
And, if, you know,
00:28:37.85\00:28:39.18
your salvation is the single
most valuable thing that--
00:28:39.21\00:28:44.42
that is something that
you are not casual with,
00:28:44.45\00:28:46.89
your salvation,
00:28:46.92\00:28:48.26
your relationship
with the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:28:48.29\00:28:50.43
You want nothing to separate you
00:28:50.46\00:28:53.53
from the love of God
00:28:53.56\00:28:54.90
because that
determines your eternity.
00:28:54.93\00:28:57.07
So he asks Jesus,
"What must I do to be saved?"
00:28:57.10\00:28:59.60
And Jesus told him--
00:28:59.63\00:29:01.07
He told him, you know,
"Keep these commandments."
00:29:01.10\00:29:04.74
And what was the rich young
ruler's response to that was?
00:29:04.77\00:29:08.31
"You know, I've
done this since my birth.
00:29:08.34\00:29:11.81
I've always--
00:29:11.85\00:29:13.48
All my life I've done this."
00:29:13.52\00:29:15.42
And Jesus said, "Oh,
you know what, that's good.
00:29:15.45\00:29:18.85
Now, sell all that you have
00:29:18.89\00:29:22.32
and give to the
poor and come follow me."
00:29:22.36\00:29:25.86
And what did the
rich young ruler do?
00:29:25.89\00:29:28.66
He went away in sorrowful.
He went away sorrowful. Why?
00:29:28.70\00:29:31.93
Because, he had great will
00:29:31.97\00:29:35.50
and Jesus
turned to His disciples
00:29:35.54\00:29:39.07
and He said, "You know,
it's harder for a rich man
00:29:39.11\00:29:42.54
to enter the Kingdom
of God than for a camel
00:29:42.58\00:29:48.52
to go into the
eye of the needle."
00:29:48.55\00:29:51.45
And so the
disciples were saying,
00:29:51.49\00:29:54.26
"Man, if he can't be
saved, this rich man,
00:29:54.29\00:29:57.23
who obviously is
serving God, who can be saved?"
00:29:57.26\00:30:00.83
And Jesus had told
the rich young ruler,
00:30:00.86\00:30:03.90
"Sell all that you had
and come and follow me.
00:30:03.93\00:30:07.94
Give it to the poor
and come and follow Me."
00:30:07.97\00:30:09.47
So here is Peter.
00:30:09.50\00:30:10.94
Peter speaks up
in that verse 27.
00:30:10.97\00:30:13.68
Now, always Peter
is gonna be the one
00:30:13.71\00:30:16.64
that is going to
step out, isn't he?
00:30:16.68\00:30:19.98
He reminds me of me
sometimes and Pater answered
00:30:20.02\00:30:25.15
and said on to him, "Behold,"
00:30:25.19\00:30:27.62
now, he's talking
about the disciples,
00:30:27.66\00:30:31.93
"We have forsaken all.
00:30:31.96\00:30:34.20
Now, you told
this rich young ruler,
00:30:34.23\00:30:35.86
he needed to forsake
all and we follow thee,
00:30:35.90\00:30:40.77
what shall we have therefore."
00:30:40.80\00:30:42.14
And you know what he would say,
00:30:42.17\00:30:43.51
"Hey, Jesus,
we've done everything
00:30:43.54\00:30:47.71
You've told that
rich young ruler to do,
00:30:47.74\00:30:50.51
to have eternal life,
00:30:50.55\00:30:52.68
and we've done it
so what do we get?"
00:30:52.71\00:30:55.32
You know, what do we get?
00:30:55.35\00:30:56.79
What, and I thought about that
00:30:56.82\00:30:59.02
because I'm
kind of presenting it
00:30:59.05\00:31:00.89
like may be Peter did something
that he shouldn't have done.
00:31:00.92\00:31:04.93
But don't we do that?
00:31:04.96\00:31:06.29
Because when I think
about this promise of eternity
00:31:06.33\00:31:09.66
in the presence of God
00:31:09.70\00:31:11.77
and knowing that
our eternal destination,
00:31:11.80\00:31:15.54
knowing the
results of our salvation,
00:31:15.57\00:31:17.84
the results of following Jesus
00:31:17.87\00:31:20.48
is an eternity in
the presence of God.
00:31:20.51\00:31:23.31
That is quite a
deterrent, Jill, to seeing.
00:31:23.35\00:31:27.32
There could be an
opportunity where you think,
00:31:27.35\00:31:29.45
oh, you are so--
00:31:29.48\00:31:31.05
somebody is enticing
you, you're being lured away,
00:31:31.09\00:31:34.69
you are being
tempted to do something.
00:31:34.72\00:31:37.26
And you know that if
you do, you are going to--
00:31:37.29\00:31:41.56
There's gonna be
separation from you and God.
00:31:41.60\00:31:44.37
And because we know
that our eternal destiny
00:31:44.40\00:31:48.20
is in the presence of God.
00:31:48.24\00:31:49.74
Heaven is our future home.
00:31:49.77\00:31:51.84
We know that Heaven is our home.
00:31:51.87\00:31:53.91
Then, that will give us
joy to share of the gospel.
00:31:53.94\00:31:59.18
We've got something to
share and it will also deter us,
00:31:59.21\00:32:03.79
stop us, from being
tempted or being drawn away
00:32:03.82\00:32:09.09
when we're tempted.
00:32:09.12\00:32:10.46
It gives us, just
knowing that Heaven is our home.
00:32:10.49\00:32:15.06
That to me is part
of that preparation
00:32:15.10\00:32:19.73
and preparing to be--
00:32:19.77\00:32:21.57
is to know what
our future holds.
00:32:21.60\00:32:23.81
See, the disciples
were saying, "What we get?"
00:32:23.84\00:32:26.68
We get an
eternity in God's presence.
00:32:26.71\00:32:31.48
That's what you get
00:32:31.51\00:32:32.88
for doing all that
God has called you to do,
00:32:32.91\00:32:35.62
and that is what you get
for this bridal preparation,
00:32:35.65\00:32:39.15
let us call it.
00:32:39.19\00:32:40.52
And you ask the question,
how do you prepare to be you--
00:32:40.56\00:32:45.09
I'm gonna start with just this,
00:32:45.13\00:32:48.40
spend time in God's
words, spend time with God.
00:32:48.43\00:32:53.10
You become what you
behold and the more you spend,
00:32:53.13\00:32:57.41
the more time you
spend in God's presence,
00:32:57.44\00:32:59.74
the more of His
likeness, and character,
00:32:59.77\00:33:01.98
and attribute you
will receive that fits you
00:33:02.01\00:33:05.41
or prepares you to
spend an eternity in heaven.
00:33:05.45\00:33:09.15
Amen. Amen.
00:33:09.18\00:33:10.59
I think that has to
be, well, of course,
00:33:10.62\00:33:12.79
may be the first
part, depending on your age.
00:33:12.82\00:33:15.42
If you're a child in the
home, you're just being taught.
00:33:15.46\00:33:18.39
Just spend that
quality time with Jesus
00:33:18.43\00:33:20.43
and we, as parents need
to be teaching our children
00:33:20.46\00:33:23.26
each and every day.
00:33:23.30\00:33:24.63
And I know I look back
00:33:24.67\00:33:26.00
and I think how
many times I failed.
00:33:26.03\00:33:27.90
How many times that the enemy
had the victory over there?
00:33:27.94\00:33:31.54
But I encourage you,
00:33:31.57\00:33:33.17
don't neglect the time to
have family worship at home.
00:33:33.21\00:33:37.31
And you know, recently,
00:33:37.35\00:33:38.71
we just had a
wonderful convocation
00:33:38.75\00:33:41.15
and I had so many
people come up and tell us,
00:33:41.18\00:33:43.89
how wonderful,
00:33:43.92\00:33:45.25
how important
this Family Worship is.
00:33:45.29\00:33:48.02
I remember one gentleman saying,
00:33:48.06\00:33:49.76
"You know, we often
neglect to do it ourselves,
00:33:49.79\00:33:53.16
so this is great
that you're coming in
00:33:53.19\00:33:55.43
and you're doing it with us."
00:33:55.46\00:33:57.27
But I encourage
everybody to make this a habit,
00:33:57.30\00:34:02.07
to make a commitment to
spend that time with Jesus.
00:34:02.10\00:34:05.57
We're also told that
unless we are doing this, Daria,
00:34:05.61\00:34:09.71
unless we are making
Him first and foremost,
00:34:09.74\00:34:12.91
we're not going to
make it to the kingdom.
00:34:12.95\00:34:14.45
We won't make heaven.
Heaven will not be our home.
00:34:14.48\00:34:18.05
You know, and
going back to what you--
00:34:18.09\00:34:20.46
I love the way you
portrayed the story
00:34:20.49\00:34:22.59
because you put
it in a perspective,
00:34:22.62\00:34:24.53
I had never
quite looked at before,
00:34:24.56\00:34:27.00
as with Peter and I
was thinking that my mind,
00:34:27.03\00:34:29.80
you know, even our motives
00:34:29.83\00:34:32.00
we are not to be trying to
get to heaven for the riches,
00:34:32.03\00:34:35.57
for the mansions fill with gold,
00:34:35.60\00:34:37.27
the streets of gold.
00:34:37.31\00:34:38.64
It's not for the
money, it's all about love.
00:34:38.67\00:34:42.21
It's all about Jesus.
00:34:42.24\00:34:43.58
And you're not gonna to love him
00:34:43.61\00:34:45.75
until you get to know him.
00:34:45.78\00:34:48.78
I'm trying to stop,
00:34:48.82\00:34:50.35
but one of the things she
said is loving each other.
00:34:50.39\00:34:53.29
You see, Jesus is what you
do unto the least of these,
00:34:53.32\00:34:55.72
my brethren than you do unto me.
00:34:55.76\00:34:58.03
And as Christ's disciples,
00:34:58.06\00:34:59.46
he's teaching us over
and over to love one another.
00:34:59.49\00:35:03.50
He loves the
sinner, He hates the sin.
00:35:03.53\00:35:07.14
And yet we're so
often in our piety
00:35:07.17\00:35:09.84
as Pharisees and
Scribes, they have sinned,
00:35:09.87\00:35:13.21
we must stay away from them.
00:35:13.24\00:35:15.24
And yet, Jesus, what did he do?
He walks right into their home.
00:35:15.28\00:35:19.21
He says, "I'm gonna
go eat with you today."
00:35:19.25\00:35:23.65
You know, and they were asking,
00:35:23.69\00:35:25.25
how can he go
into a sinner's home?
00:35:25.29\00:35:28.06
He came to seek and
save that which was lost,
00:35:28.09\00:35:31.09
and all we have
to do is sin one time
00:35:31.13\00:35:33.16
and we are what?
00:35:33.19\00:35:34.83
Lost, without repentance.
00:35:34.86\00:35:37.13
So we are all
under that penalty.
00:35:37.17\00:35:40.04
So I just think
it's so important
00:35:40.07\00:35:42.04
that we spend time with Him.
00:35:42.07\00:35:43.71
And what a test a faith
that the rich young ruler had?
00:35:43.74\00:35:48.31
He thought, he had everything,
all his ducks in a row,
00:35:48.34\00:35:50.71
as it were, and he
had such a test of faith.
00:35:50.75\00:35:53.92
And I know you
can't out give God.
00:35:53.95\00:35:56.05
See, he was
obviously rich, he was young,
00:35:56.08\00:36:00.26
and he was a ruler,
00:36:00.29\00:36:01.62
and he obviously had
spent time in God's word
00:36:01.66\00:36:06.33
because he says, "You know,
I have done all of these things
00:36:06.36\00:36:09.26
for my whole life."
00:36:09.30\00:36:10.87
But see, Jesus always goes
for the root of the problem,
00:36:10.90\00:36:17.64
and on the surface even
the disciples were shocked
00:36:17.67\00:36:20.58
when Jesus said that it
is hard for a rich person
00:36:20.61\00:36:24.45
to enter the Kingdom of God,
00:36:24.48\00:36:27.55
but Jesus didn't
look at all of the surface
00:36:27.58\00:36:31.35
of all with this young man,
00:36:31.39\00:36:33.05
this rich young
ruler did and had.
00:36:33.09\00:36:35.82
He looked into his heart,
00:36:35.86\00:36:37.43
there was a stumbling block
in his heart and Jesus went
00:36:37.46\00:36:41.80
and put His finger
on the stumbling block.
00:36:41.83\00:36:44.30
And you know, I don't know
if Sister White addresses this,
00:36:44.33\00:36:47.80
I've never known that she did,
00:36:47.84\00:36:49.50
but it appears as
though the rich young ruler
00:36:49.54\00:36:52.44
walked away in
the same condition
00:36:52.47\00:36:54.38
he came to Jesus.
00:36:54.41\00:36:55.74
What did she say?
00:36:55.78\00:36:57.11
Yeah, she says, He
turned away sorrowful,
00:36:57.15\00:36:58.51
because he had many possessions.
00:36:58.55\00:37:00.02
And I don't think,
I can't speak to that
00:37:00.05\00:37:03.42
whether he ever came back,
00:37:03.45\00:37:04.79
but I know at least at
that point he had walked away.
00:37:04.82\00:37:07.92
I like what you said,
and you brought out motives.
00:37:07.96\00:37:12.09
That really struck me
00:37:12.13\00:37:13.46
when you just
talked about that, Mollie.
00:37:13.50\00:37:14.83
Because the motive,
00:37:14.86\00:37:16.70
he was doing the outward
trappings, you could say.
00:37:16.73\00:37:19.27
He was doing what he
thought he was supposed to,
00:37:19.30\00:37:22.14
but Christ knew his heart
and got right to the point
00:37:22.17\00:37:26.91
that he loved
certain possessions,
00:37:26.94\00:37:30.28
certain things in his
life more than he loved God.
00:37:30.31\00:37:34.12
Like, that was his
idol, that was his--
00:37:34.15\00:37:36.32
what was in his heart,
00:37:36.35\00:37:37.69
and I think that's
what when Peter says,
00:37:37.72\00:37:39.85
"Hey, we've done this.
00:37:39.89\00:37:42.39
We've done all
of this stuff, God,
00:37:42.42\00:37:44.03
don't you think what
are we going to get?"
00:37:44.06\00:37:46.09
That shows motive is not
right either at that point.
00:37:46.13\00:37:48.80
And how many times
have I done the same thing?
00:37:48.83\00:37:52.30
Have I had a motive
00:37:52.33\00:37:53.90
for something that
was not pleasing to God?
00:37:53.94\00:37:56.20
I like what you said,
Chris, because all have sinned
00:37:56.24\00:37:59.77
and come short
of the glory of God.
00:37:59.81\00:38:01.31
We know the
wages of sin is death,
00:38:01.34\00:38:03.91
but the gift of Christ,
the gift of God is eternal life
00:38:03.95\00:38:08.58
through Jesus Christ our
Lord and that is the first key,
00:38:08.62\00:38:12.39
is actually just to recognize.
00:38:12.42\00:38:14.02
And we can't
even recognize our sin
00:38:14.06\00:38:15.76
without the Holy Spirit.
00:38:15.79\00:38:17.46
It is the Holy Spirit
who draws us to repentance,
00:38:17.49\00:38:19.93
but the Holy Spirit convicts us,
00:38:19.96\00:38:22.03
shows us our need of a
savior, shows us our sin,
00:38:22.06\00:38:25.83
and then we just reach
out and say, "I accept,
00:38:25.87\00:38:29.24
I accept the gift of salvation."
00:38:29.27\00:38:33.21
You know, I'm thinking
when people come to us,
00:38:33.24\00:38:36.95
and we share our
faith, they're gonna ask that,
00:38:36.98\00:38:41.18
"What do I get?
00:38:41.22\00:38:42.55
What is it going to profit me
00:38:42.58\00:38:44.85
to quit doing
all that I'm doing?
00:38:44.89\00:38:47.76
I'm going to stop doing all
these things that I love to do.
00:38:47.79\00:38:51.09
I love to smoke, and do
drugs, and drink alcohol,
00:38:51.13\00:38:55.10
and go dancing on Friday night.
00:38:55.13\00:38:58.10
You know, I love to do
that and you wanting me
00:38:58.13\00:39:01.10
to give all of this
is up, why do I get?"
00:39:01.14\00:39:03.84
Well, that is
where we need to know
00:39:03.87\00:39:07.58
the benefits of our salvation.
00:39:07.61\00:39:10.41
We need to know what
we're teaching on here,
00:39:10.45\00:39:14.22
what heaven really is?
00:39:14.25\00:39:16.22
And we need to know all the joy
00:39:16.25\00:39:18.85
when the burden of
our sin is rolled away.
00:39:18.89\00:39:21.39
We need to be
thoroughly educated
00:39:21.42\00:39:26.96
and aware of all
that is part and parcel,
00:39:27.00\00:39:30.47
all that comes
with, what do we get?
00:39:30.50\00:39:32.80
With the answer
to that question,
00:39:32.83\00:39:34.30
what do you get?
00:39:34.34\00:39:35.67
I remember, when I was probably
00:39:35.70\00:39:37.04
just a little
younger than you, Daria,
00:39:37.07\00:39:38.41
may be 18 years old, I guess
00:39:38.44\00:39:40.18
and I remember sitting in
adult Sabbath school class
00:39:40.21\00:39:42.74
and there was a precious
woman, I thought she was old,
00:39:42.78\00:39:46.58
but she was
probably not even 60.
00:39:46.61\00:39:49.15
Her hair had
turned prematurely--
00:39:49.18\00:39:50.59
Really young.
00:39:50.62\00:39:51.95
Really young, that's
right, prematurely white.
00:39:51.99\00:39:53.76
She had beautiful white hair.
00:39:53.79\00:39:55.46
But now that I think about it,
00:39:55.49\00:39:57.66
I'm sure she was
in her late 50's.
00:39:57.69\00:40:00.26
And I remember we were having
some discussion about heaven
00:40:00.30\00:40:03.10
and I remember she said,
"If there would be no heaven,
00:40:03.13\00:40:07.64
would you want to go?
00:40:07.67\00:40:09.17
And I thought absolutely not
00:40:09.20\00:40:12.27
because would I want to follow
Jesus if there is no heaven?
00:40:12.31\00:40:17.51
No. And the
grave is all there is.
00:40:17.55\00:40:19.41
That's right.
00:40:19.45\00:40:20.78
That was where I was in my walk
00:40:20.82\00:40:22.78
because I
thought the only reason
00:40:22.82\00:40:26.02
I'm even sort of giving
up these things of the world
00:40:26.05\00:40:30.16
is because there's
a hope a hereafter.
00:40:30.19\00:40:33.63
And she said, "Even if
the grave was all there was,
00:40:33.66\00:40:36.46
even if there was
no hope of heaven,
00:40:36.50\00:40:39.93
I would still follow
Jesus because the peace,
00:40:39.97\00:40:44.41
the freedom from
guilt, condemnation,
00:40:44.44\00:40:47.11
the burden of sin off my
back, the joy of His salvation,
00:40:47.14\00:40:51.81
the peace that
passes all understanding,
00:40:51.85\00:40:55.25
that is worth everything.
00:40:55.28\00:40:57.35
And even if there was no heaven,
00:40:57.39\00:40:59.25
I would still follow Jesus."
00:40:59.29\00:41:01.49
I've often asked myself
that question over the years
00:41:01.52\00:41:04.53
and I've come to
the same conclusion
00:41:04.56\00:41:07.56
because you have
no peace without him,
00:41:07.60\00:41:10.23
there is no tranquility.
00:41:10.27\00:41:12.10
Another thing that you said,
she is wanting to jump in here,
00:41:12.13\00:41:14.40
bless your heart,
I love that Spirit.
00:41:14.44\00:41:16.77
But I've got
about something else
00:41:16.81\00:41:18.44
as she said getting to the root.
00:41:18.47\00:41:21.01
And how often many
of us even you at home,
00:41:21.04\00:41:24.15
how often have you
felt Christ come in
00:41:24.18\00:41:27.65
and touch the root of
thing that we are holding on to,
00:41:27.68\00:41:31.25
we don't want to let go.
00:41:31.29\00:41:32.95
Is this really sin, Lord?
00:41:32.99\00:41:34.46
Are you sure, are you
sure I've got to let it go?
00:41:34.49\00:41:37.89
And you know, back in the day,
00:41:37.93\00:41:39.76
I didn't smoke or drink
but I did like to go dancing.
00:41:39.79\00:41:44.27
And I remember
somebody finally coming to me
00:41:44.30\00:41:46.80
from the church and saying,
"Don't you know that's wrong?"
00:41:46.84\00:41:48.77
I'm like, "How in the
world could that be wrong?"
00:41:48.80\00:41:51.57
And they had nothing within
our own denomination to give me,
00:41:51.61\00:41:54.31
they gave me something from
somebody else's denomination,
00:41:54.34\00:41:57.21
but I did read it,
00:41:57.25\00:41:59.05
and I did begin to
understand, but you know,
00:41:59.08\00:42:01.48
that was just a beginning.
00:42:01.52\00:42:02.98
And Daria, I'm gonna pick on you
00:42:03.02\00:42:04.95
because before we
started talking you said,
00:42:04.99\00:42:07.66
what age was old?
00:42:07.69\00:42:12.09
What was that again, Daria?
00:42:12.13\00:42:13.53
Thirty. Thirty.
00:42:13.56\00:42:15.20
You know, I will
never want to go back
00:42:15.23\00:42:18.53
because the Lord has had to
hit the route, different route,
00:42:18.57\00:42:21.64
every time you think
you've got the ladder,
00:42:21.67\00:42:23.84
you're up at the top and
he shows you another route,
00:42:23.87\00:42:27.91
another one, we've got
to pull up and pull out.
00:42:27.94\00:42:31.15
Now Bible is a two-edged sword.
00:42:31.18\00:42:33.38
And I don't want to go back.
00:42:33.42\00:42:34.75
I was thinking,
even this morning,
00:42:34.78\00:42:36.12
I'm always
learning, always learning,
00:42:36.15\00:42:38.72
even about the Sabbath.
00:42:38.75\00:42:40.22
We're sitting here for
a Sabbath worship, Daria.
00:42:40.26\00:42:42.69
I'm always still
learning new truths.
00:42:42.72\00:42:45.96
And I just can't even imagine
going back and going through,
00:42:45.99\00:42:49.70
and I can think back
00:42:49.73\00:42:51.07
to when I was probably
about your age in early 20's,
00:42:51.10\00:42:54.10
how the Lord
tried to show me things,
00:42:54.14\00:42:56.34
and I would say, they're
just fanatical, Sister Mollie,
00:42:56.37\00:43:00.44
they're just fanatical,
that can't be of the devil.
00:43:00.48\00:43:05.68
And now that I'm past 30,
00:43:05.71\00:43:08.88
I see that a lot
of things really are
00:43:08.92\00:43:10.62
and I wish I
had listened to Him.
00:43:10.65\00:43:14.09
God does require us
to walk in the light
00:43:14.12\00:43:16.89
that keep the shining on us.
00:43:16.93\00:43:19.43
And I take great
comfort in the fact
00:43:19.46\00:43:21.70
that he doesn't
require me to walk in the light
00:43:21.73\00:43:24.90
that He is
shining on somebody else.
00:43:24.93\00:43:27.24
God deals with us, at our pace.
00:43:27.27\00:43:31.47
And, Daria, you are young,
but I have seen such growth,
00:43:31.51\00:43:36.31
and such a touch God
brought in your life.
00:43:36.34\00:43:38.71
How long have
you been a Christian?
00:43:38.75\00:43:41.62
Christian?
00:43:41.65\00:43:44.09
I don't know, maybe 10
years, but Adventist, six years.
00:43:44.12\00:43:47.72
Wow. Yes.
00:43:47.76\00:43:49.29
I think I gave
officially in the--
00:43:49.32\00:43:53.13
but before I came
into the Adventist Church,
00:43:53.16\00:43:55.06
excuse me, I
gave my life to Lord
00:43:55.10\00:43:58.40
my sophomore
year in high school,
00:43:58.43\00:44:01.10
and then the next
year as when we became--
00:44:01.14\00:44:03.57
Excuse me, when
I became Adventist.
00:44:03.61\00:44:05.71
So, Christian?
00:44:05.74\00:44:07.18
I don't know, I've always
gone to church my whole life
00:44:07.21\00:44:09.18
as a child and everything.
00:44:09.21\00:44:10.71
And it was
never stood out to me,
00:44:10.75\00:44:13.65
I mean, I knew about
Jesus but I didn't know Jesus.
00:44:13.68\00:44:16.85
So coming into
the Adventist Church
00:44:16.89\00:44:19.42
and having such godly
women like you to look up to is
00:44:19.45\00:44:22.89
I think that has a
lot to do with my growth
00:44:22.92\00:44:26.70
from you ladies
guiding me and teaching me in
00:44:26.73\00:44:30.73
and it's a real blessing.
00:44:30.77\00:44:32.73
What a blessing of mentors.
00:44:32.77\00:44:34.57
You know, you
brought up a very good point
00:44:34.60\00:44:36.07
to have those mentors.
00:44:36.10\00:44:37.44
Let's turn to Colossians
3, I like Colossians 3.
00:44:37.47\00:44:40.88
And to me, as we live
daily, as we wait for heaven,
00:44:40.91\00:44:47.25
as we live out Christianity.
00:44:47.28\00:44:49.98
To me, this is
just a beautiful thing
00:44:50.02\00:44:51.59
to keep the mind on Christ.
00:44:51.62\00:44:54.12
Daria, you want to start
here picking up, Colossians 3:1.
00:44:54.16\00:44:59.19
Okay.
00:44:59.23\00:45:01.20
And if you want to
read two or three, whatever.
00:45:01.23\00:45:02.70
Okay.
00:45:02.73\00:45:04.07
"If you then be
risen with Christ,
00:45:04.10\00:45:05.90
seek those
things which are above,
00:45:05.93\00:45:07.77
where Christ sitteth
on the right hand of God.
00:45:07.80\00:45:10.21
Set your
affection on things above,
00:45:10.24\00:45:12.07
not on things on the earth.
00:45:12.11\00:45:14.18
For you died, and your life
is hidden with Christ in God."
00:45:14.21\00:45:17.51
That's powerful. Amen.
00:45:17.55\00:45:20.12
Because, I think and
I see, jumping in here,
00:45:20.15\00:45:22.48
I think that as
we're waiting for heaven,
00:45:22.52\00:45:26.45
as we're waiting
for the second coming,
00:45:26.49\00:45:29.09
as we're walking the
Christian walk here below
00:45:29.12\00:45:32.53
the things that jump
out to me in this verse
00:45:32.56\00:45:34.30
is to keep on my mind
focused on heavenly things,
00:45:34.33\00:45:39.10
not things of the earth.
00:45:39.13\00:45:41.10
Whether it's
discouraging things,
00:45:41.14\00:45:42.54
whether it's the things
of the devil, whatever it is,
00:45:42.57\00:45:46.21
keep in my mind
focused on Jesus,
00:45:46.24\00:45:49.01
on those things
above because I am dead,
00:45:49.04\00:45:52.25
dead to the things of the world,
00:45:52.28\00:45:53.62
dead to the old life.
00:45:53.65\00:45:55.58
And the thing is as
you were talking, Chris,
00:45:55.62\00:45:57.59
it's progressive because
what last week I was alive to,
00:45:57.62\00:46:02.79
now this week God says,
00:46:02.82\00:46:04.16
"You don't need
to be dead to that."
00:46:04.19\00:46:05.89
Now, that has to
die. Oh, wow, God, yes.
00:46:05.93\00:46:10.20
He showing me going
deeper into my life and say,
00:46:10.23\00:46:13.07
"Okay, right here,
here's something else,
00:46:13.10\00:46:15.27
I want you to set
your affections anew on me
00:46:15.30\00:46:17.67
and be dead to this."
00:46:17.71\00:46:20.48
Oh, there's just so many things.
00:46:20.51\00:46:22.34
I want to pick on
Daria I little bit more
00:46:22.38\00:46:24.91
because when you
were talking to her
00:46:24.95\00:46:27.32
and what she witnesses
to me and she was saying,
00:46:27.35\00:46:31.09
she was so thankful that
she had older ones like us
00:46:31.12\00:46:35.56
to look up and to mentor her.
00:46:35.59\00:46:37.69
But I look at you and I say,
00:46:37.73\00:46:40.90
I wish more young people
had a heart and wanted live,
00:46:40.93\00:46:45.43
you know, live for Jesus,
00:46:45.47\00:46:47.20
that they wanted to set
their affection on things above
00:46:47.24\00:46:50.07
because not many young people
00:46:50.11\00:46:51.57
that are 19 or 20
years of age say don't.
00:46:51.61\00:46:54.41
And that's about the
time that I can think back,
00:46:54.44\00:46:56.85
even with our own
children, you know,
00:46:56.88\00:46:59.35
that now even the ones
that are still going to church
00:46:59.38\00:47:04.62
a lot of times
00:47:04.65\00:47:06.05
because they have adopted
more things of the world,
00:47:06.09\00:47:09.36
if I even tried to--
00:47:09.39\00:47:11.83
And I have to be so
cautious, sister Mollie,
00:47:11.86\00:47:14.20
just like you said,
you have to be so cautious,
00:47:14.23\00:47:16.63
you know when to speak,
you ask God for an open door.
00:47:16.67\00:47:20.17
You ask him for an open door,
00:47:20.20\00:47:21.70
and when I have that
little-bitty crack sometimes,
00:47:21.74\00:47:23.81
I try and love to
take it because, you know,
00:47:23.84\00:47:26.68
they come to an age like you are
00:47:26.71\00:47:28.94
where they don't
which one to listen to mummy
00:47:28.98\00:47:31.05
or listen to daddy anymore.
00:47:31.08\00:47:33.15
And I've had them tell me,
"Mom, I don't want to hear it."
00:47:33.18\00:47:36.48
They don't want to be convicted.
00:47:36.52\00:47:38.69
You know, it
reminds me of my grandma,
00:47:38.72\00:47:40.96
on my dad's side,
she could not read.
00:47:40.99\00:47:43.49
And she went to
Forestville Baptist Church
00:47:43.53\00:47:46.53
in North Carolina and she would
ask questions as I was older,
00:47:46.56\00:47:51.20
you know, about the
Sabbath in our church,
00:47:51.23\00:47:53.37
and I was going to
Southern Missionary College,
00:47:53.40\00:47:55.30
it's now Southern University
and I came back and I said,
00:47:55.34\00:47:58.44
"Grandma, I could get
you these little cassettes
00:47:58.47\00:48:00.94
and you can listen
to the Bible on tape."
00:48:00.98\00:48:03.45
She didn't want it.
00:48:03.48\00:48:04.95
She didn't want--
00:48:04.98\00:48:06.31
She thought if
she listened to it
00:48:06.35\00:48:07.68
she'd be accountable for it.
00:48:07.72\00:48:10.32
There's truth in that. Yes.
00:48:10.35\00:48:12.05
We will be accountable--
00:48:12.09\00:48:13.42
There is truth, but
we're also accountable
00:48:13.46\00:48:15.32
for what we have opportunity
to learn and we choose not to.
00:48:15.36\00:48:19.59
You know, we
just need to wake up
00:48:19.63\00:48:23.67
and this last
verse that she read,
00:48:23.70\00:48:26.37
"You are dead in Christ,"
00:48:26.40\00:48:27.74
just give me three
days with no Bible study,
00:48:27.77\00:48:29.74
no prayer and all of a
sudden I start hearing songs
00:48:29.77\00:48:32.84
I hadn't thought of in years.
00:48:32.87\00:48:34.68
I start having thoughts,
00:48:34.71\00:48:36.95
thought were just
gone from my life.
00:48:36.98\00:48:39.08
You know, we have
to stay connected.
00:48:39.11\00:48:41.55
We have to be plugged in
00:48:41.58\00:48:43.28
and we've got to get
plugged into the right route
00:48:43.32\00:48:45.69
that vine of Jesus Christ.
00:48:45.72\00:48:48.46
So, Daria, if I can ask
you in your walk with God,
00:48:48.49\00:48:53.06
I mean, you're busy,
you're a college student,
00:48:53.09\00:48:55.33
now going on some
missionary for a year.
00:48:55.36\00:48:57.60
How do you find
time for God's word?
00:48:57.63\00:49:01.70
Get up really early. Amen.
00:49:01.74\00:49:03.97
So I find that
getting up early for me,
00:49:04.01\00:49:07.64
it's such a peace,
00:49:07.68\00:49:09.01
about getting up early
before everyone else gets up
00:49:09.04\00:49:11.31
and you have that time
00:49:11.35\00:49:12.68
and you just feel the
presence of God moving over you
00:49:12.71\00:49:15.88
and sometimes He wakes you
up before your alarm goes up.
00:49:15.92\00:49:19.22
So it's really good.
00:49:19.25\00:49:20.59
I think that's my biggest thing,
00:49:20.62\00:49:22.86
is waking up early and putting
on the full armour of God,
00:49:22.89\00:49:26.03
reading my
Bible, praying with Him,
00:49:26.06\00:49:28.90
because that's
really the only thing
00:49:28.93\00:49:30.37
that gets me through the day
00:49:30.40\00:49:31.73
and praying in
the middle of the day,
00:49:31.77\00:49:33.34
praying during the
set right now, you know.
00:49:33.37\00:49:35.74
So, I think constant
prayer, constant prayer
00:49:35.77\00:49:40.08
and most importantly
getting up in the morning
00:49:40.11\00:49:42.44
and putting on
the full armour of God
00:49:42.48\00:49:43.81
because I read that
it's very dangerous not to,
00:49:43.85\00:49:47.22
very dangerous because
if you forget your armour
00:49:47.25\00:49:50.35
or if you forget, even
one piece of your armour,
00:49:50.39\00:49:52.72
your sword or your shield,
the Satan can attack you.
00:49:52.75\00:49:58.06
You know, he can get
to you some way, you know,
00:49:58.09\00:50:00.50
but it's really important to.
00:50:00.53\00:50:03.23
Amen. Amen.
00:50:03.26\00:50:05.67
That's powerful.
00:50:05.70\00:50:07.04
I love it. I love that too.
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Getting up, waking up,
letting God wake you up.
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Have you ladies
experienced that?
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Oh, yes. Aah.
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And sometimes, I
remember asking God,
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will you wake me
up in the morning?
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And then he woke me
up, and I rolled over
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and I want to wake.
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When God wakes you
up, you are wide awake
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and if the alarm wakes
me up I'm usually very tired
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and so when God
wakes you up and wide awake
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and I remember rolling
over and looking at the time
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and it said 3:43, I think
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and I thought
God that's too early.
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Oh, that's too early.
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I'm going to be
very tired today.
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I'm going to
sleep and so I said no,
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to the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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I went back to
sleep, the alarm rang,
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I was exhausted.
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I felt it and that
day was extra like trials,
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you know, the
fiery darts of Satan.
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I did not have the
armour on, like I should have
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and I just felt God saying
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that's why I tried
to wake you up early.
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I knew what the day
was going to entail.
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I knew you needed
extra time in my word
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and extra time in prayer
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and I was like, I
want to sleep instead.
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So when God
wakes you up, get up.
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Let me just kind of give
you a scenario in my house,
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early in the morning.
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God will wake me up
and I say "Get up, Mollie"
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and something in me says,
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"No, I don't
want to, it's cold."
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Your liver have
tounges, what you're saying.
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Yes. Oh, yes.
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Okay, I know that's
a spirit in the flesh
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and here who wins?
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The one I tell to
win. That's right.
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And so, if I say, "Okay flesh,
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I am crucifying
the deeds of the flesh.
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My spirit is willing,
it's you that's weaken,
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I will get up.
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I will spend time
with God this morning
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and then I get up into it."
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But there's also the
flesh that says, "No.
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It's too cold and you're
tired and go back to sleep."
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And so you make the choice.
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Whatever you say,
if you tell yourself,
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get up and spend
time in God's Word,
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you will reap the
rewards from that,
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but if you submit to
the desires of the flesh,
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you suffer the consequences.
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There's the difference.
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You want to reap
the rewards, Chris?
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Or you want to
suffer the consequence?
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You get to make that
decision. A single day.
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What a powerful study.
Thank you, ladies, so much.
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We want to go to
prayer, but before we do that,
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let's go around the table
and I'll have you each share,
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like a thought, some
sort of closing thought
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and then we'll
go out with prayer.
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Chris, you want to start?
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1 Corinthians 2:9,
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"Eye has not
seen, nor ear heard,
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neither have entered
into the heart of man
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the things which God
has prepared for them
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that love Him."
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Amen. Love him.
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He wants us to love him.
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Yeah, powerful,
thank you. Daria.
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Love God and love people.
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It's important that
we take people with us,
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to have and, we have to
go out in sharing the word
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and we have to share
the gospel with other people
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so they can go too
and experience heaven
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like we will experience it.
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So I think
that's really important.
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Amen, that's powerful.
Mollie. Wise person win souls.
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You have to remember that--
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You know, I want to just, maybe,
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reiterate
something I said earlier.
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Don't be shortsighted.
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This isn't all there is.
This is our training ground.
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This is the time that
we perfect our character.
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This is the time that we allow
God to do a work within us.
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The only thing that you can take
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into the presence of
almighty God is what?
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Character. It's your character.
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So don't be shortsighted,
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don't think
this is all there is.
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Use this time
wisely. Redeem the time.
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Use your time
wisely so that in that day,
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you will stand in
the presence of God
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with clean hands
and a pure heart.
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Amen.
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On that note, let's
go to the Lord and pray.
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We know you have requests.
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We know those things
burdens on your heart.
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So know that at 3ABN,
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we are lifting
them up before the Lord.
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You lift them up
there in your living room
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or in your prison cell
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or wherever
you're watching just now.
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And Mollie, you want to start
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and we will just
go around the table.
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Holy Father, I come
before you in the name of Jesus,
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praising you and
thanking you, Almighty God,
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for this time that
we've had to share your work.
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Father, I pray now for
everyone that heard your word,
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if that word would be
planted deep within our hearts,
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father, and that by
the power of your spirit,
00:54:47.25\00:54:49.95
you will seal
this word in our heart
00:54:49.98\00:54:51.89
that this word
will take root in it,
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it will grow and it will produce
00:54:53.92\00:54:55.52
that we will be not
conformed to this world
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but transform by the
renewing of our mind.
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So, Father, we
give ourselves to you
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and thank you for the
power that is at work within us
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through your word.
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Thank you, Lord.
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Father, we just come
before you in the name of Jesus,
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and we thank you for the promise
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that this life
is not all there is,
00:55:14.18\00:55:16.91
and Lord Jesus,
we want to accept you
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as our Savior.
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Lord, we want daily to
spend that time in your word
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and when you show us stuff
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that we would
crucify the old man
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and that we
would say, "Yes, Jesus.
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I want to follow you."
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And Lord, I ask daily
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that we would
reach out to others
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and point them to
you and we thank you.
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Amen.
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Lord, I pray that
you give us the desire
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to want to read your word,
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the desire to praise you
each and every morning Lord.
00:55:44.07\00:55:47.18
I pray that you
help us to get up,
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give us the
strength each and every day
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to get on our knees
and pray to you, Lord.
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I pray that you give us
the hearts to want to go out
00:55:53.88\00:55:57.52
and share your
word, and to love people.
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Give us the
hearts to love people
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and to treat them
00:56:01.26\00:56:02.59
like you would want
us to treat them, Lord.
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Thank you so much for
these ladies around this table.
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Thank you for this
worship. Thank you for family.
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Thank you so much for everything
00:56:10.30\00:56:11.67
that you do in our
lives and we love you.
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Most gracious Heavenly Father,
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as we continue this prayer.
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It's just overwhelming to
think that you looked down
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and you first loved us.
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Amen. Thank you.
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You emptied all
heaven, all of heaven.
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We talked about
the rich young ruler,
00:56:29.58\00:56:31.62
and he didn't want to
give up his life savings,
00:56:31.65\00:56:36.52
and yet, you gave
up everything in Jesus.
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God you loved us enough
that you said, you know,
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I want them to be
in the kingdom with me.
00:56:42.33\00:56:45.23
I want them to enjoy
the riches of heaven.
00:56:45.27\00:56:48.80
I want them to understand
what it's like to be in a place
00:56:48.84\00:56:52.71
where there is no more
death, there is no more sin,
00:56:52.74\00:56:55.84
there is no more cancer,
there is no more illness,
00:56:55.88\00:56:59.55
or any sort any
way, any possible thing
00:56:59.58\00:57:04.52
that tears these temples down.
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Thank you Father.
00:57:06.19\00:57:07.52
Again, you want us to realize
00:57:07.56\00:57:09.69
what it is to be in a
presence of a Holy God,
00:57:09.72\00:57:12.79
to be able to
travel to other planets
00:57:12.83\00:57:15.93
and understand what
Heaven is all about.
00:57:15.96\00:57:18.73
God, we look
forward to those mansions.
00:57:18.77\00:57:20.97
We look forward to
seeing what pure gold is,
00:57:21.00\00:57:24.14
but most importantly,
00:57:24.17\00:57:25.51
we look forward to
seeing our Heavenly Father.
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Thank you. Thanks, Jesus.
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Amen. Happy Sabbath.
00:57:31.38\00:57:34.38
Thank you so much
for joining us, ladies.
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Thank you for
joining us at home.
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Bye-bye.
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