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 once
again to 3ABN Family Worship.
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We're so glad
that you're joining us
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from this blessed Sabbath,
whether it's the beginning
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or the end of
the Sabbath for you,
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we're just glad
that you're joining us
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for family worship because
you are part of our family.
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So I'm Shelley Quinn, this is...
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J.D. Quinn.
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And honey, why don't you
introduce everybody else.
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Well, of course,
we've got C.A. Murray,
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my precious friend over here.
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We're missing his
precious wife Irma.
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But C.A. can handle it.
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We've got Mollie Steenson,
we miss her husband Hal.
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And we've got Jill, and
we miss her husband Greg.
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Everybody is at a
different place, you know.
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But anyway, just...
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we're all glad to be here
to be able to take this time
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on a Sabbath day
to talk about Jesus.
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Yes.
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And we don't want to forget
one of our special brothers
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who is also
joining us on the piano,
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and that is Brother Tim Parton.
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Thank you, Tim.
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One of our
special, special friends.
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Yes, amen.
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Well, tonight what we're
going to be talking about
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is God's will for our life.
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And it's quite
clear that God's will
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in the Bible says it then.
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His will for our
life is sanctification.
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So we're not going to be
talking about necessarily
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the root of sanctification
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as much as the
fruit of sanctification.
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Amen.
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But before we begin,
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we always love to
have an opening prayer J.D.
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Would you open
with prayer please.
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Most certainly.
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Father, as we come
before you on the Sabbath day,
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we come in your name,
the name above all names,
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and we thank You.
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We thank You
especially for today Lord,
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today that You've given us
the day that You've created.
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And Father, as we
gather around this table,
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and we share the fruit
that hopefully each one of us
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are able to
produce through you Lord.
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We give you all
praise and glory.
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Thank You. Thank You.
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Thank You for being who You are,
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in the name of Jesus.
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Amen. Amen.
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Well, we always like
to start with a song.
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And aside from
maybe brother Murray,
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who's noted for his singing.
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I don't think any
one of the others of us
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are noted for our singing.
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But you know the Lord
tells us to make a joyful noise
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before Him.
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And you know something.
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I remember when I
was a little girl,
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sitting next to my
grandfather in church.
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And he was deaf, he wore...
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Hearing aids. Hearing aids.
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And my grandfather
sang with all of his heart.
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He could not carry a
tune, but he was probably
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one of the
loudest in the church.
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And everybody was
always blessed by his singing,
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because he made a
joyful noise before the Lord.
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So we are going to sing
one of my most favorite songs.
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And that is "My hope
is built on nothing less,"
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and this is hymn
number 522 in the hymnal,
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but the words will be
on the screen so join us.
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My hope is built on nothing less
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Than Jesus'
blood and righteousness
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I dare not trust
the sweetest frame
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But wholly lean on Jesus' Name
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On Christ the solid rock I stand
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All other ground is sinking sand
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All other ground
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Is sinking sand
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When Darkness
veils His lovely face
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I rest on His unchanging grace
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In every high and stormy gale
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My anchor holds within the veil
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On Christ the solid rock I stand
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All other ground is sinking sand
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All other
ground is sinking stand
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When He shall
come with trumpet sound
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O may I then in Him be found!
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Dressed in His
righteousness alone
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Faultless to
stand before the throne
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On Christ the solid rock I stand
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All other ground is sinking sand
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All other ground
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Is sinking sand
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Oh, how I love that song,
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because we're
counting and hoping,
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and nothing less than
Jesus' blood and righteousness.
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And it says, dressed
in His righteousness alone
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will stand faultless
before the throne of God.
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Amen. Hallelujah.
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Amen.
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Well, what we always like to
do is have a prayer of praise.
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And this is kind
of a chain prayer.
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It's not a lengthy prayer.
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We'll each maybe
speak a sentence or two,
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just as the spirit moves us.
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And I'll begin, and then
whoever feels like joining in,
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just join in.
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And at home, just lift up
your praises before the Lord.
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Our most
glorious Heavenly Father,
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we come before You this
day to praise Your name,
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because You are
worthy of praise.
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And Father, I thank you
that You have blessed us
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with every spiritual
blessing in the heavenly realms.
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And that Lord, You
are our sufficiency.
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I thank You that
You have blessed us
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with all the riches of
heaven in Christ Jesus.
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Amen.
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Gracious Father,
we do praise you.
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We thank You for
You're so worthy to be prayed.
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Amen.
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We thank You
Lord for the evidences
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of Your loving kindness
and affection towards us.
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Amen.
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Over and over again,
you show that You love us
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with an everlasting love.
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And out of that great love,
you are pleased to bless us,
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to carry us, to
forgive us of our sins.
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And we praise You Lord,
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and we thank You
for mercies without end.
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Truly, You are
worthy to be praised.
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Father, we thank You
that you Are our provider,
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protector, and defender,
and sustainer, and redeemer.
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And Lord, we thank You
as well that You are the one
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who sanctifies us.
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Yes.
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And I thank You Father
that You've given us this time
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to come away on to You
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to set aside time
just to be with You.
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And so Father, we
give this time to You,
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we ask You Lord
to open up our hearts
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and pour into our
hearts those things
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that You would
have us learn today.
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I pray in Jesus' name.
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And Father also, I
just want to thank You again
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for the Sabbath day.
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And Father, I
think of our loved ones,
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I think of our brothers,
or sisters, or fathers,
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or mothers, or aunts, or uncles,
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our good friends, Lord.
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And I just ask
Lord that you continue
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to direct Your arms around them.
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And that they will
allow the Holy Spirit to work
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in their hearts, Lord.
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Again, we thank
You, we love You,
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we give You all praise and
glory in the name of Jesus.
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Amen. Amen.
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Amen, hallelujah.
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Well, we're just all
excited to be here, are we not?
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Amen. Amen.
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We're most excited
that you could join us.
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Let me do this, I'm kind
of going to go out of order,
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and I'll just tell you
that 1 Thessalonians 4:3,
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is the basis of knowing
God's will for your life.
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And the scripture says,
this is the will of God,
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your sanctification.
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So let me just kind
of do a quick review.
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We've done family worships
on righteousness by faith.
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That's what
sanctification is, is it not.
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I mean, justification
and sanctification.
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And we're not going to so
much talk about God's work.
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How He achieves this.
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Well, we're going to just
focus on different scriptures.
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Let me put it that way.
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Justification is an act of God.
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Justification
takes just a moment
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when you accept
Christ as your savior.
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You're converted and the
blood of Jesus covers your sin
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and justification
changes your record.
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It removes us from the guilt,
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relieves us of the guilt of sin.
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Sanctification is a work of God.
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And
sanctification takes a lifetime.
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And what happens with
sanctification is that,
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it is Christ
imparted righteousness
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as He lives in
our hearts by faith,
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and the power
of the Holy Spirit.
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Sanctification
changes what? Our character.
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And it relieves us
from the power of sin.
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Amen.
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So we're going to be
talking today about God's will
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for our life,
our sanctification,
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because Jesus came to
destroy the works of the devil.
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And I'm going to go
ahead and pray this prayer.
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We're looking at...
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in life affirmations
from scripture, number...
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page 84.
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Let me pray the prayer,
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and then we're going to show you
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how this prayer
comes from scripture.
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There's such...
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Why is there such power in
praying the word Mollie Sue?
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Because God will watch
over His work to perform.
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Amen.
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He says that in Jeremiah 1:12.
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I'd watch over
my word to perform.
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And He calls those
things that are not
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as though they are ready.
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Romans 4:17...
So that's powerful.
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Absolutely. God is...
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Speaking of, I
don't feel sanctified
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or I know I'm in the
process, but I'm not there yet.
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But we can claim these
promises over our life.
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And the Word of God is
quick and powering force.
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Amen. It's a powerful.
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Amen. It's living.
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And you know,
when we think about it,
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the word sanctification,
I like what you said.
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And you were
talking at worship one day,
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and you said, "Sanctification
is a church word.
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You're not going to hear
it in the Daily American.
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You're not going to
hear it in the Daily News,
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nightly news, are you?
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But, you know
what, when the Lord said,
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"Be holy, for I am holy."
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What was he saying? He's
telling of sanctification.
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He was saying, be sanctified
'cause I am sanctified.
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To be sanctified means
to be set apart from sin.
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And the way I think
of this is, you know,
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when the Bible says
that God is a consuming fire.
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He is...
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it's because
His essence of love.
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Love consumes sin.
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I mean, it's like love
is, His love is so pure,
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it's so perfect
that sin cannot stand
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in the presence of a holy God.
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Because what happens is,
you think of sin, when the...
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in John Chapter...
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what, my mind went
blank, 15, first part right,
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where he said, "Apart
from me, you can do nothing."
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So John 15 is
talking about divine.
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And Jesus says,
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"Abide in me,
I'll abide in you."
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Well, when we quit abiding,
what happens when a branch
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gets pinched off from the vine?
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Dies. It withers up.
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So here, if you're a
sinner, if you're not walking
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in the will of God,
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if you're this
withered up branch,
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and then suddenly
the love of God just...
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it just consumes sin.
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He can't help it.
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So the more
we've got love in us,
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the more we become like Him.
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And it consumes
the sin in our lives.
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Good. Okay.
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Just put a little tag on that.
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You know, the Bible
says, God executes judgment.
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He gives mercy, but He is love,
you know, 1 John 4, He is love.
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So when you take God into you,
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the default setting is cleansing
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and burning away the
thing that's unlike God.
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Absolutely.
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Because it's like,
once the fire burns,
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anything that is
un-pure, it's going to go.
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And once you have
that love of God in you,
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those impure
aspects of your character
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are burned away.
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And all that is left is love,
because only love can exist
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in the presence of love.
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Amen. So all sin is gone.
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So sort of building
on what you started.
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Yeah, once God comes in there,
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He is in there
clearing and burning away.
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It's like a little fire
going in there that burns in you
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until the day you
see Christ face to face
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or till the day you die.
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Yeah.
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So that's the sanctification
process and it always works.
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And something that the
scripture says about love
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is that love does something,
love covers, covers what?
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Oh, yeah. A multitude of sin.
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So if love covers, what
does the opposite of love do?
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Exposes, exposes.
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Who is the
accuser of the brethren?
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That's good.
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See, diametrical opposition,
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God covers, because He loves us.
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The enemy exposes,
because he hates us.
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Yes. That's really good.
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I was reading something,
and it brought up, you know,
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another word for
sanctification is purification.
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And then we're turning
up... talking about this fire.
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I remember we
were harvesting grain.
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And we had a pickup that should
not have been out in the field.
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And the muffler was so hot
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that it caught
that stubble on fire.
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And we were harvesting
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within the suburbs
of Dallas, yes, it was.
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And I mean, all of a sudden,
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all that stubble
there just caught fire.
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And Bob, whenever I was reading
about the sanctification,
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he's reading about
purification, consecration.
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It made me think of that,
because I mean, that fast.
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We had a major fire.
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And all of a sudden 911
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is going up from all these homes
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and everything.
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And everybody's out there
with their little water hoses.
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I mean, it was dynamic.
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But boy, I'll never
forget the purification
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it came from that
'cause you look back there,
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and where that
fire had consumed,
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it was black.
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There was nothing else
left and it went that fast,
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because of the stubble.
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Yeah.
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You know, what was
once alive, now it's dead.
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You know, when you
think, I mean, actually,
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sanctification and
holiness are to be sanctified,
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means to be made holy.
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They're synonyms,
and we don't have to be,
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you know, so concerned about...
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some people, you say, "Oh,
be holy, because I am holy."
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As God tells us, it
makes us nervous to think,
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I could ever be holy like God."
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It just means,
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God is separated
from sin completely,
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and He wants us
separated from sin.
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So it's proper to
say, we have been saved.
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That's what?
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Justification, I'm sorry, yeah.
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We are being
saved... Sanctification.
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And we will be
saved, glorification.
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Yeah. Hallelujah.
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And it's all through
the countenance in holiness.
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Absolutely.
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That's a noun, and a verb,
and a gerund, it's all three.
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And it's beautiful,
because God's the one who does
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all of that work.
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Amen.
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You know, He is the
one who justifies us
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through the blood of Jesus.
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He is the one who does
the sanctification process.
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Now we have to let him
in like Pastor Murray said,
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when love is in
us, when God is in us,
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that's when the
purification process happens,
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so we have to make that choice.
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Yeah.
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And a daily, hourly,
moment by moment choice
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to make those choices for Jesus,
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but then in the
glorification it's all Him too.
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Amen.
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So we can never say, any
of this process of salvation
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I had a part in or I did.
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Yes, we have a part,
because we make a choice.
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We choose to allow
God to do that work in us,
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choose to align our
will in line with His.
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You know, Shelley,
we're going to get to your...
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you hit on such
a pregnant subject,
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for one with a better term.
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Martin Luther, bless his heart,
never got to sanctification.
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He stopped at justification.
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And you can get in with
justification, you know.
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But you want to go further
to live the sanctified life.
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Christ made the
statement in John14:30,
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the princes of world cometh,
and he has nothing in me.
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Yes.
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And that's the voice
of a sanctified person.
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So when you're saying
that, Satan does nothing in here
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that he can grab on to.
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And I would like to be
able to make that statement.
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Amen.
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Because the truth is, you
can slip so easily, you know.
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The lust of the
eye, the pride of life.
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You know, it is so easy to get
turned around or turned aside
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on your journey.
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I know J.D. studied
for his PhD in psychology.
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And they say that in psychology,
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men and women are...
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I'm taking a second here,
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but they're
motivated by different things,
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and different things
can be their tripwire.
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For women, they seem to be
much more sensitive to sounds.
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For men, it's sight.
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You can be have your
mind in heaven places,
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and see something,
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and right away
your mind is over here,
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you know.
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I have a good friend,
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or my associate
pastor years ago.
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He was saying, when
they had their first baby,
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it was ruining their
intimate time together.
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Because as his wife heard
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from the other
room, she was gone,
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you know, they'd be
having a less time together,
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holding hands, you know,
kind of cuddling in the bed.
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And she heard just a
peep, and she's gone you know.
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It's like here I am, you know.
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Yeah.
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This child is
ruining my life here.
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Because she's very
sensitive to sound, you know.
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And it doesn't
take much sometimes,
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the devil dangle something
in front of your eyes and.
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Or give you some
sort of provocation
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and boom you're gone.
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But Christ said, He's
coming, and He's got nothing.
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Yeah. Amen.
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Nothing, nothing to
attract me, there's no hook,
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there's nothing you can
dangle in front of my eyes.
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And I read that, I say,
"Lord, I'd love that to be me."
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Amen. Amen.
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I'd love to be able to
say, he's got nothing in me.
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But I know in my heart,
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unless I'm
surrendered all the time,
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one little thing, and
I'm gone, you're under it.
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And even, you
know, the Lord said,
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I mean, Job said,
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I've made a
covenant with my eyes.
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Yes, he had, yes. Not
to lust after another one.
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So, that's something
that I think you have to do.
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It's, you know,
men very much by sight,
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but a lot of women have
the lust of the eye as well.
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So we have to all make
that covenant and be prepared
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for what's going to happen.
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Yes. Okay.
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Well, we're going
to pray this prayer,
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you all have it in front of you.
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We'll pray this
prayer, I'll actually read it,
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and it comes from scripture.
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Then we're going to
look at the scriptures
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that this prayer comes from.
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Holy and righteous
Father, thank You for giving me
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the mind of
Christ through Your word,
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and by the power of Your spirit
00:20:01.36\00:20:04.00
who gives me spiritual
understanding and discernment.
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Just as Jesus did
nothing of His own initiative,
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but sought to do
Your will, so do I.
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Cause my mind to be
renewed by Your Word,
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and fill me
with knowledge of You
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that I might walk
worthy of Your calling.
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Teach me Lord to do what
is pleasing in Your sight
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and lead me by Your Spirit.
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Thank You for equipping me
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in every good
thing to do Your will.
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I know my sanctification
is Your will for my life.
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You desire for
me to be made holy.
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Set apart for
Your good purposes.
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Oh, Lord, bless me
in obeying Your Word.
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You have entrusted me
with the knowledge of Your will
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as found written in the Bible.
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I am required to prove myself
faithful in practicing it.
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I delight to do
Your will Father.
00:20:58.05\00:21:00.96
Amen.
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So that is such
a precious prayer.
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And I know that
God is so pleased
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when we pray like this.
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But let's look at
where this prayer came from.
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It talks about
having the mind of Christ.
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Brother Murray, would you
like to take our first scripture
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1 Corinthians 2:14 and 16.
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Okay, I'll read
that, the Bible says,
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"What the natural man
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does not receive the
things of the spirit of God,
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for they are foolishness
to Him nor can He know them,
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because they are
spiritually discerned."
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And we go to 16, "He, who
has known the mind of the Lord.
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I'm sorry, for who has
known the mind of the Lord
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that He may instruct him,
but we have the mind of Christ.
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Amen. Expound on
that a bit, brother.
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Want to read just
a little something
00:21:52.31\00:21:53.68
that Ellen White wrote
in unpublished manuscript
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in 1899.
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She says, "The
precious jewels of truth,
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they're the highest value
to the meek and lowly ones,
00:22:03.79\00:22:07.32
who believe in Christ
are as foolishness to Him
00:22:07.36\00:22:10.86
who is wise in
this world estimation.
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But truth,
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eternal truth is ever
present with the true believer.
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The Spirit is the
appointed instructor
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of such a soul his guide,
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His continual
strength and righteousness."
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Then she goes on to talk
about the law is an expression,
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being an expression of
God's idea for humanity.
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The truth is, in this world,
00:22:35.32\00:22:37.59
we can be divided into
several different camps.
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But for these purposes,
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you are either
spiritual or carnal,
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you're either moving under
the aegis of the Holy Spirit
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or you are moving
in your own strength,
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and in your own worldly wisdom.
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Where worldly wisdom
means nothing to the Lord.
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And worldly wisdom is not enough
00:22:54.90\00:22:56.50
to discern the things of God.
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Which is one reason why
whenever you open the Bible,
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you need to ask first
for the mind of Christ.
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So that the
words make sense to you
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and can be understood by you
00:23:06.58\00:23:08.08
and more than that
can be put into practice.
00:23:08.12\00:23:10.29
So the natural man,
00:23:10.32\00:23:11.65
the man without the
spirit does not accept,
00:23:11.69\00:23:13.86
cannot really understand,
00:23:13.89\00:23:15.22
which is why
sometimes you say things
00:23:15.26\00:23:16.76
which make perfectly good
sense to you as a Christian.
00:23:16.79\00:23:19.33
And someone's looking
at you, like you just came
00:23:19.36\00:23:21.00
from the planet
Mongo, you know what?
00:23:21.03\00:23:22.70
Right, right.
00:23:22.73\00:23:24.07
Yeah, because spiritual things
are spiritually discerned.
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When you say, I've
got joy in my heart,
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or this kind of
thing doesn't bother me,
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or I'm not tempted by that,
00:23:31.34\00:23:32.81
people are
saying, why would you not?
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I remember years ago,
someone said, "Do you drink?"
00:23:34.78\00:23:36.75
I said, "No." "Well, why not?"
00:23:36.78\00:23:38.91
"Well, why would I?"
00:23:38.95\00:23:40.38
"Well, 'cause
you're missing fun."
00:23:40.42\00:23:41.75
"Well, it's not fun for me."
"Yeah, but everybody drinks."
00:23:41.78\00:23:44.35
"Well, I don't." "That
didn't make any sense."
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"It does to me," you know.
00:23:46.89\00:23:48.22
And you get into a
circular kind of reasoning,
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because everybody
goes out on Friday night,
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everybody drinks, everybody is--
00:23:52.03\00:23:53.60
"Well, no they don't."
00:23:53.63\00:23:55.26
And for a person who
is used to that world,
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a person who doesn't do that is,
00:23:57.43\00:23:59.23
"You're kind of strange."
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Yeah.
00:24:00.64\00:24:01.97
Because spiritual things
are spiritually discerned,
00:24:02.00\00:24:04.54
which is why, now
when I do evangelism--
00:24:04.57\00:24:06.68
and we talked
about this the other day.
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Rather than going to prophecy,
00:24:08.44\00:24:10.08
and some of these other
kind of difficult things,
00:24:10.11\00:24:11.85
you start with Jesus.
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Because if they
don't have Jesus,
00:24:13.31\00:24:14.75
they can't really get
a hold on anything else,
00:24:14.78\00:24:16.69
because it starts
and ends with Christ.
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Amen.
00:24:18.22\00:24:19.55
And the Holy
Spirit is instructor.
00:24:19.59\00:24:20.92
And, you know, when it says
00:24:20.96\00:24:22.29
that the natural
man cannot understand.
00:24:22.32\00:24:24.26
I think the one
caveat out there is that,
00:24:24.29\00:24:28.53
when the Holy Spirit
is moving upon someone,
00:24:28.56\00:24:31.13
who is still in
the natural form.
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If he is trying to
convict them of the sin,
00:24:33.47\00:24:35.74
give them godly so they can
get the message of the cross.
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Anybody can get that.
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But beyond, I think
beyond the message of the cross,
00:24:41.01\00:24:43.91
if you aren't a
spiritual person,
00:24:43.95\00:24:45.91
you're not going to
understand this word.
00:24:45.95\00:24:47.45
I look at this a
little different.
00:24:47.48\00:24:48.88
You said when you open the word,
00:24:48.92\00:24:51.02
pray for the mind of Christ.
00:24:51.05\00:24:53.02
I prayed John 17:17,
that God will sanctify me--
00:24:53.05\00:24:57.69
Through the
truth. Through the truth.
00:24:57.73\00:24:59.06
Through His
truth, His word is truth.
00:24:59.09\00:25:00.43
I look at this as
the mind of Christ.
00:25:00.46\00:25:03.16
I think that, you know,
this was Holy Spirit inspired,
00:25:03.20\00:25:08.24
it is the mind of
Christ revealed to us,
00:25:08.27\00:25:10.91
and the more we've got in us,
00:25:10.94\00:25:13.44
the more we operate
by the mind of Christ.
00:25:13.48\00:25:15.94
I agree. But like calls to like.
00:25:15.98\00:25:18.28
And so you want to
be have that spirit,
00:25:18.31\00:25:20.45
I understand and I
think, we're basically--
00:25:20.48\00:25:21.82
I want to say, two
side of the same coin.
00:25:21.85\00:25:23.85
Because the truth is
this, it will not make sense
00:25:23.89\00:25:27.62
unless you are
functioning through at lens.
00:25:27.66\00:25:29.29
Absolutely not.
That is spiritual.
00:25:29.32\00:25:31.39
Amen. Yeah.
00:25:31.43\00:25:33.09
Well, I've got
the next scripture,
00:25:33.13\00:25:34.46
and that's John 5:30.
00:25:34.50\00:25:38.30
And Jesus is speaking here.
00:25:38.33\00:25:39.93
And He says, "I can do
nothing on my own initiative."
00:25:39.97\00:25:44.87
You know what, I love this
00:25:44.91\00:25:46.24
that, when He was here on earth,
00:25:46.27\00:25:48.11
He only called
upon His humanity.
00:25:48.14\00:25:52.88
He never called
upon His divinity.
00:25:52.91\00:25:55.55
He said, "As I hear, I
judge, and my judgment is just,
00:25:55.58\00:26:00.86
because I do not
seek my own will,
00:26:00.89\00:26:03.12
but the will of
Him who sent me."
00:26:03.16\00:26:05.76
The reason this is included here
00:26:05.79\00:26:07.96
is because just
as Jesus did nothing
00:26:08.00\00:26:11.30
as His own initiative,
that's should be ours,
00:26:11.33\00:26:15.77
when we are
sanctified is that we don't,
00:26:15.80\00:26:18.17
you know, He said in verse 19,
00:26:18.21\00:26:20.51
that He only did
what He saw the Father do.
00:26:20.54\00:26:24.15
And he says, and I think,
00:26:24.18\00:26:26.11
one good thing about
that when you think about.
00:26:26.15\00:26:28.38
If Jesus was only doing
what He saw the father do,
00:26:28.42\00:26:31.89
then everything
that Jesus did on earth,
00:26:31.92\00:26:35.36
lined up perfectly with His will
00:26:35.39\00:26:37.03
'cause he said in
Chapter 6 of John, he said,
00:26:37.06\00:26:40.66
"I've come not to do My
will, but to do His will.
00:26:40.70\00:26:43.47
That means everything Jesus did
00:26:43.50\00:26:46.03
was an expression of God's love.
00:26:46.07\00:26:49.40
Amen.
00:26:49.44\00:26:50.77
That was God's loving heart,
00:26:50.81\00:26:52.14
because it is from love
that grace flows down to us.
00:26:52.17\00:26:56.64
So contextually,
00:26:56.68\00:26:59.08
when He is
talking about judging,
00:26:59.11\00:27:02.55
He is talking here about
the condemnation of sinners
00:27:02.58\00:27:06.86
in their final judgment.
00:27:06.89\00:27:08.22
So, you know, one other thing,
00:27:08.26\00:27:10.69
I thought that comes
for me from the scripture,
00:27:10.73\00:27:13.43
is that He had just said here,
before He says this in John 5.
00:27:13.46\00:27:20.14
He said, "Do not marvel at
this for the hour is coming
00:27:20.17\00:27:22.87
in which those who
are in their graves
00:27:22.90\00:27:24.77
will hear His
voice and come forth.
00:27:24.81\00:27:26.57
Those who've done good
to the resurrection of life,
00:27:26.61\00:27:29.54
those who've done evil
00:27:29.58\00:27:30.91
to the
resurrection of condemnation.
00:27:30.95\00:27:33.15
So then He
says, I can do nothing
00:27:33.18\00:27:36.69
except, you know--
00:27:36.72\00:27:39.69
that the Father is
not doing and he says,
00:27:39.72\00:27:42.39
"As I hear, I judge,
my judgment is righteous."
00:27:42.42\00:27:45.73
So don't you think
that, given on, you know,
00:27:45.76\00:27:51.30
you know how much the messages
00:27:51.33\00:27:54.90
on the Garden of Gethsemane,
00:27:54.94\00:27:58.44
and the message
on the trial of God
00:27:58.47\00:28:00.64
when we did our
camp meeting moved me.
00:28:00.68\00:28:05.25
The reason God leaves
everything to Christ to judge,
00:28:05.28\00:28:10.82
'cause Jesus became
just exactly like us.
00:28:10.85\00:28:14.42
So who better
could judge, He knows.
00:28:14.46\00:28:17.99
I mean that's where why
He is so pitiable toward us
00:28:18.03\00:28:22.73
is 'cause He
knows our weaknesses.
00:28:22.76\00:28:25.23
Doesn't that bear
with you? It is, it is.
00:28:25.27\00:28:27.24
To me this verse gives
me hope, because he says,
00:28:27.27\00:28:29.87
I do nothing of my
own initiative, right.
00:28:29.90\00:28:32.01
Everything
comes from the Father.
00:28:32.04\00:28:34.51
So if Jesus, when
He walked this earth.
00:28:34.54\00:28:37.25
He walked not in
His own strength.
00:28:37.28\00:28:40.88
Submitted and walked on
the strength of His Father.
00:28:40.92\00:28:43.79
That means that you and I
can have the same experience.
00:28:43.82\00:28:47.02
Absolutely. To
me that's exciting.
00:28:47.06\00:28:49.66
Well, we don't
have to do though.
00:28:49.69\00:28:51.79
I'm going to walk
forward two steps,
00:28:51.83\00:28:53.29
and I'm going to fall back five.
00:28:53.33\00:28:55.33
I'm going to walk forward two,
00:28:55.36\00:28:56.70
and then I'm
going to fall back six.
00:28:56.73\00:28:58.33
You know, keep
slipping and falling into sin.
00:28:58.37\00:29:01.07
Of course, the Bible
says, "If any man sin,
00:29:01.10\00:29:03.41
we have an
advocate with the Father."
00:29:03.44\00:29:04.77
So Jesus does forgive them.
00:29:04.81\00:29:06.37
Amen. Amen.
Praise the Lord for that.
00:29:06.41\00:29:08.64
But at the same time,
00:29:08.68\00:29:10.01
we can be connected
to the same power source,
00:29:10.05\00:29:12.88
we can submit, and
surrender to our Father
00:29:12.91\00:29:15.72
just like He did
when He walked this earth.
00:29:15.75\00:29:18.09
And what I really--
00:29:18.12\00:29:19.75
to take that a little bit
farther for us that are weak,
00:29:19.79\00:29:24.13
and that is your best
friend, the Holy Spirit is there
00:29:24.16\00:29:28.70
to continue to nudge up
to send up those red flags
00:29:28.73\00:29:33.20
whenever you do
there to the left.
00:29:33.23\00:29:35.84
Man I just, as time goes by,
I just become more dependent.
00:29:35.87\00:29:40.51
I just crave the Holy Spirit,
00:29:40.54\00:29:43.91
because that is
a lamp to my feet.
00:29:43.95\00:29:47.48
Because man, it's hard to--
00:29:47.52\00:29:50.02
It's hard when you
come to that T in the road,
00:29:50.05\00:29:52.22
and there's a question mark.
00:29:52.25\00:29:54.26
Absolutely.
00:29:54.29\00:29:55.62
You know, I was
thinking about John 16:14.
00:29:55.66\00:29:58.29
What you said, Shelley,
sparked something in my mind.
00:29:58.33\00:30:00.40
I believe in my heart
that God could fully empathize
00:30:00.43\00:30:05.37
with the human
experience from heaven,
00:30:05.40\00:30:07.64
because He is God.
00:30:07.67\00:30:09.17
But there are sometimes
when God does something,
00:30:09.20\00:30:12.04
and you can see it's
kind of a man focused thing.
00:30:12.07\00:30:16.31
There is no argument now
that God cannot empathize
00:30:16.34\00:30:20.95
because God
came down and walked.
00:30:20.98\00:30:23.72
So far those who
are saying to God,
00:30:23.75\00:30:25.22
"You can't
empathizes me from heaven."
00:30:25.25\00:30:27.29
Well, He can.
00:30:27.32\00:30:28.66
But that argument
is now taken away,
00:30:28.69\00:30:30.96
because Christ came
00:30:30.99\00:30:32.33
and was tempted in all
points of life as we are.
00:30:32.36\00:30:33.70
He walked a mile in our market.
Precisely and without sin.
00:30:33.73\00:30:36.43
So now we have the Holy
Spirit and Christ did nothing,
00:30:36.46\00:30:41.50
but through the will of
00:30:41.54\00:30:43.00
and with the
impress of the Father.
00:30:43.04\00:30:47.11
And then He says,
the Holy Spirit come
00:30:47.14\00:30:48.54
in John 16:14,
00:30:48.58\00:30:51.15
and He's not going
to testify Himself,
00:30:51.18\00:30:52.68
what's he going to do?
00:30:52.71\00:30:54.05
He's going to testify.
He's going to testify of me.
00:30:54.08\00:30:55.45
You know, so that
the circle is closed.
00:30:55.48\00:30:57.92
And so when we put
ourselves in Christ hands,
00:30:57.95\00:31:01.39
Christ is
working with the Father,
00:31:01.42\00:31:03.06
the Holy Spirit is there
to uplift Christ in your life.
00:31:03.09\00:31:06.49
And Christ now is judge, jury,
and executioner dare I say.
00:31:06.53\00:31:13.44
And all of it's in your favor.
00:31:13.47\00:31:15.27
So you can kind
of relax in Jesus,
00:31:15.30\00:31:17.07
'cause you know,
He's on your side.
00:31:17.11\00:31:18.71
And everything is pointing
towards magnifying Christ
00:31:18.74\00:31:21.91
in your life and
lifting up Christ.
00:31:21.94\00:31:24.41
It just becomes the
way, a way of life to you,
00:31:24.45\00:31:27.45
we are in the way.
00:31:27.48\00:31:29.52
And you don't have to
stop and think about it.
00:31:29.55\00:31:31.82
You know, when I
got up this morning,
00:31:31.85\00:31:33.19
I didn't say, "Jill, am I
going to serve God today?"
00:31:33.22\00:31:37.16
No, it's my way of life. Amen.
00:31:37.19\00:31:38.83
It's the way I walk in.
00:31:38.86\00:31:40.20
In war. Yeah.
00:31:40.23\00:31:41.70
That's you're following
that path of sanctification.
00:31:41.73\00:31:43.90
Something you said
about when we fall.
00:31:43.93\00:31:48.07
This reminded me of this
precious scripture promise,
00:31:48.10\00:31:51.61
I love this promise
in Micah 7:8, it says,
00:31:51.64\00:31:57.21
"Do not rejoice
over me and my enemy.
00:31:57.25\00:32:00.18
When I fall, I will
arise, when I sit in darkness,
00:32:00.22\00:32:03.99
the Lord will be a light."
00:32:04.02\00:32:06.69
His word is a light to my path
and the lamp for my feet so.
00:32:06.72\00:32:13.50
And there's people out there
that are listening to this,
00:32:13.53\00:32:16.93
and they're wanting
to make some changes.
00:32:16.97\00:32:19.37
Yeah.
00:32:19.40\00:32:20.74
I mean if the
circle is unbroken,
00:32:20.77\00:32:23.10
if you can get, face--
00:32:23.14\00:32:25.34
If you can get the
reality of His love for you.
00:32:25.37\00:32:28.54
And that He has your
eternal interest in mind,
00:32:28.58\00:32:30.91
and everything that happens.
00:32:30.95\00:32:33.48
Well, then you
take that step of faith,
00:32:33.52\00:32:37.49
and then, you know, it's like,
00:32:37.52\00:32:38.85
we said while
ago, then, you know,
00:32:38.89\00:32:41.29
then the lamp that goes
before your feet is there.
00:32:41.32\00:32:45.36
Yeah. I mean
this is supernatural.
00:32:45.39\00:32:48.56
But He is supernatural. Amen.
00:32:48.60\00:32:51.77
Well, let's turn Mollie
Sue Lu some Romans 12:2.
00:32:51.80\00:32:56.50
Well, first and foremost,
00:32:56.54\00:32:58.17
God is more
interested in our sanctification
00:32:58.21\00:33:02.24
than we are interested
in our sanctification.
00:33:02.28\00:33:04.15
Oh, absolutely.
00:33:04.18\00:33:06.11
Progressively, this
would be my Molliegise
00:33:06.15\00:33:10.75
or Alabama is of what sanctify--
00:33:10.79\00:33:13.15
my Mollieism.
00:33:13.19\00:33:14.66
Sanctification is progressively
becoming like Jesus.
00:33:14.69\00:33:17.89
Amen.
00:33:17.93\00:33:19.39
Gradually, see, it's
not an overnight thing,
00:33:19.43\00:33:22.00
it's gradually
becoming like Jesus,
00:33:22.03\00:33:24.33
or becoming holy.
00:33:24.37\00:33:25.83
And we just--
00:33:25.87\00:33:27.20
we hear that there's
nothing holy about me,
00:33:27.24\00:33:31.01
it's a progressive
walk, becoming conformed.
00:33:31.04\00:33:34.04
I like this,
conformed to the image of Jesus.
00:33:34.08\00:33:37.05
And the scripture
tells us, Romans 8:29,
00:33:37.08\00:33:42.72
for whom He did foreknow.
00:33:42.75\00:33:45.02
How many of you did it foreknow?
00:33:45.05\00:33:46.69
He did predestine. Amen.
00:33:46.72\00:33:48.06
He also
predestined to be something,
00:33:48.09\00:33:50.89
to be conformed to
the image of His Son
00:33:50.93\00:33:53.66
that He might be the
first born among many born.
00:33:53.70\00:33:56.33
So that's our destination.
00:33:56.36\00:33:58.03
We've been predestined, C.A.,
00:33:58.07\00:34:00.04
to be conformed,
to be sanctified.
00:34:00.07\00:34:04.21
It's a little at a
time, a day at a time.
00:34:04.24\00:34:08.04
And sometimes we
think, "Oh, look where I am,
00:34:08.08\00:34:11.78
I am not making any progress."
00:34:11.81\00:34:14.25
But look at where
you were a year ago,
00:34:14.28\00:34:15.95
and you know what, sometimes
all we might be able to say,
00:34:15.98\00:34:18.55
well, at least I'm
headed in the right direction.
00:34:18.59\00:34:21.62
Maybe I haven't
made any great strides,
00:34:21.66\00:34:23.96
but I'm headed in
the right direction.
00:34:23.99\00:34:25.69
Now we're in Roman's 12:2,
00:34:25.73\00:34:28.56
but I want to
read verse one as well.
00:34:28.60\00:34:30.90
"I beseech you therefore,
brethren by the mercies of God
00:34:30.93\00:34:34.60
that you present your
bodies a living sacrifice,
00:34:34.64\00:34:37.71
wholly acceptable to God,
00:34:37.74\00:34:39.77
which is only your
reasonable service."
00:34:39.81\00:34:42.14
Yes. J.D.
00:34:42.18\00:34:43.65
And then the scripture,
00:34:43.68\00:34:45.01
and do not be
conformed to this world.
00:34:45.05\00:34:47.82
But be transformed by
the renewing of your mind
00:34:47.85\00:34:50.79
that you may prove.
00:34:50.82\00:34:52.15
I love that word.
00:34:52.19\00:34:53.52
What is that good and acceptable
00:34:53.56\00:34:55.56
and perfect will of God?
00:34:55.59\00:34:57.29
To be conformed to this
world is to act as other men do.
00:34:57.33\00:35:02.90
So we don't want to be
conformed to this world.
00:35:02.93\00:35:05.43
Heathen, who don't know God
are conformed to this world,
00:35:05.47\00:35:09.57
in opposition to this,
00:35:09.60\00:35:11.01
the Apostle Paul
exhorts us to be transformed.
00:35:11.04\00:35:15.74
That is to
undergo a total change,
00:35:15.78\00:35:18.65
which will bring us into
accordance with God's will.
00:35:18.68\00:35:22.38
Then he tells us
how we're to do it.
00:35:22.42\00:35:24.62
How are we transformed?
00:35:24.65\00:35:26.52
It's by the
renewing of your mind.
00:35:26.55\00:35:28.72
And I just want to
make this statement.
00:35:28.76\00:35:31.49
The foundation of
all transformation
00:35:31.53\00:35:35.80
of character or conduct
00:35:35.83\00:35:39.07
is the process of
renewing your mind.
00:35:39.10\00:35:41.97
And what do you
renew your mind with?
00:35:42.00\00:35:44.34
Word of God.
00:35:44.37\00:35:45.71
It's got to be the Word of God.
00:35:45.74\00:35:47.38
Our mind is our mental faculties
00:35:47.41\00:35:50.45
are reasoning,
our understanding.
00:35:50.48\00:35:54.25
And this mind
of ours is neutral.
00:35:54.28\00:35:56.99
Do you know your
brain is just this blob?
00:35:57.02\00:35:59.82
And what you put in it
is what it's conformed to.
00:35:59.85\00:36:03.79
And so this is
to renew your mind.
00:36:03.83\00:36:06.33
You know what that tells
us, that it was new at one time.
00:36:06.36\00:36:10.07
It's got messed up.
It's being contaminated.
00:36:10.10\00:36:13.70
Now we're to renew our mind.
00:36:13.74\00:36:15.87
We renew it
with the Word of God.
00:36:15.90\00:36:17.74
Watch you feet grows,
00:36:17.77\00:36:19.91
watch your starve dies
as you feed on God's word.
00:36:19.94\00:36:23.85
The good food of
God's word is coming.
00:36:23.88\00:36:27.05
You're going to
become what you behold.
00:36:27.08\00:36:30.19
You can behold God's word,
00:36:30.22\00:36:32.55
and the
scripture tells us in John.
00:36:32.59\00:36:35.42
In the beginning was the
word, and the word was with God,
00:36:35.46\00:36:39.79
and the word was God.
00:36:39.83\00:36:41.56
Verse 14 says,
00:36:41.60\00:36:42.96
and the word became
flesh and dwelt among us.
00:36:43.00\00:36:46.33
So the word became flesh.
00:36:46.37\00:36:48.77
Who became flesh
and dwelt among us?
00:36:48.80\00:36:50.34
Well, that's Jesus.
00:36:50.37\00:36:51.71
So who is the
word? Jesus is the word.
00:36:51.74\00:36:53.48
And so we've been predestined
to be conformed to His image.
00:36:53.51\00:36:56.98
We take on His word,
00:36:57.01\00:36:58.35
we allow that word to
change us into His very image
00:36:58.38\00:37:01.45
and likeness.
00:37:01.48\00:37:02.82
That's the
process of sanctification,
00:37:02.85\00:37:05.42
step by step, a
little at a time.
00:37:05.45\00:37:07.89
We are being conformed
to the image of Christ.
00:37:07.92\00:37:10.46
We are to become
like Christ. Amen.
00:37:10.49\00:37:12.59
And you know,
remember, I remember,
00:37:12.63\00:37:14.50
I went back to college,
00:37:14.53\00:37:15.86
and was wanting to get a
degree in computer science.
00:37:15.90\00:37:20.14
And I found out I'm
too much of a people person
00:37:20.17\00:37:23.77
to spend all of
my time in comp--
00:37:23.81\00:37:25.14
Can you say you did not
seem like a computer science?
00:37:25.17\00:37:26.61
Oh, I love math, I love math,
00:37:26.64\00:37:28.78
and to me it was just
a mathematical puzzle.
00:37:28.81\00:37:31.31
But anyway, the
point is, you learn,
00:37:31.35\00:37:34.22
my mistake was I
took four languages
00:37:34.25\00:37:36.02
in the same
semester in the syntax.
00:37:36.05\00:37:38.59
I'd sometimes be
in the computer lab
00:37:38.62\00:37:41.22
all night long,
'cause I'd put a colon,
00:37:41.26\00:37:43.09
in some
languages, it took a colon,
00:37:43.12\00:37:44.73
others it was a semi colon.
00:37:44.76\00:37:46.19
And you would
like, looking at this,
00:37:46.23\00:37:48.26
but our mind is the
greatest computer that there is.
00:37:48.30\00:37:52.30
So if you have--
00:37:52.33\00:37:54.50
we had a saying,
"Garbage in, garbage out."
00:37:54.54\00:37:57.71
If you didn't have
the perfect thing going in
00:37:57.74\00:38:01.34
to program that computer,
00:38:01.38\00:38:02.81
it wasn't going
to operate correctly.
00:38:02.84\00:38:05.41
But when we put
the good Word of God,
00:38:05.45\00:38:08.72
we've heard so much that's bad.
00:38:08.75\00:38:10.55
But you put the
good word of God in,
00:38:10.59\00:38:12.62
He reprograms us.
00:38:12.65\00:38:14.96
That's right.
He renews our mind.
00:38:14.99\00:38:17.33
You know,
Shelley, I think about,
00:38:17.36\00:38:18.99
I was raised
00:38:19.03\00:38:20.36
on the King James
Version of the Bible.
00:38:20.40\00:38:21.73
Where y'all raced
on the King James?
00:38:21.76\00:38:23.10
Oh, yeah.
00:38:23.13\00:38:24.47
To this day,
that's what I quote,
00:38:24.50\00:38:25.83
when the scripture comes to me.
00:38:25.87\00:38:27.24
Well, there was a
season for several years.
00:38:27.27\00:38:30.11
I got an amplified Bible,
and I loved my amplified Bible.
00:38:30.14\00:38:34.44
I started
studying the amplified,
00:38:34.48\00:38:36.54
reading all the scriptures
and spent hours and hours
00:38:36.58\00:38:39.88
in the amplified Bible.
00:38:39.91\00:38:41.25
You know, what I started doing?
00:38:41.28\00:38:42.62
Quoting the amplified,
00:38:42.65\00:38:44.12
because what went in
me is what came out of me.
00:38:44.15\00:38:48.39
Now that's in the positive.
00:38:48.42\00:38:49.86
The scripture went in,
only scripture comes out.
00:38:49.89\00:38:52.39
In the negative,
what you put in you,
00:38:52.43\00:38:55.13
what you feed on,
00:38:55.16\00:38:56.67
that's what's
going to come out of you.
00:38:56.70\00:38:58.40
Out of the
abundance of the mouth--
00:38:58.43\00:39:00.44
The heart speaks.
00:39:00.47\00:39:01.80
Or the abundance of
the heart the mouth speaks.
00:39:01.84\00:39:04.61
All one or the other. Yeah.
00:39:04.64\00:39:06.11
You know the Romans
12:1, "To present your bodies,"
00:39:06.14\00:39:10.55
and that word really
means to make available,
00:39:10.58\00:39:12.58
to make open, to
open up the body.
00:39:12.61\00:39:16.15
It is you are what you eat.
00:39:16.18\00:39:17.95
And when we talk about
surrendering to Christ,
00:39:17.99\00:39:20.79
it's not we can
cut it demythologize,
00:39:20.82\00:39:22.82
that is not a complex
intricate, it's just--
00:39:22.86\00:39:26.33
Just consenting.
00:39:26.36\00:39:28.20
Precisely, just consenting,
just opening up and allow him.
00:39:28.23\00:39:32.37
If you take the
lock off the door,
00:39:32.40\00:39:34.80
He'll come in, you know.
00:39:34.84\00:39:36.17
He's not, he know,
00:39:36.20\00:39:37.54
He's not going to
kick the door down,
00:39:37.57\00:39:39.01
but if you just
00:39:39.04\00:39:40.38
take the lock off
the door, He'll come in.
00:39:40.41\00:39:41.98
That's what it
means to present yourself,
00:39:42.01\00:39:43.45
just make
yourself available to Him.
00:39:43.48\00:39:45.38
How they do that?
00:39:45.41\00:39:46.75
Well, when the church
door is open, go to church.
00:39:46.78\00:39:48.12
Yeah. Amen.
00:39:48.15\00:39:49.48
When it's time to pray, pray.
Submit yourself to the Lord.
00:39:49.52\00:39:52.22
First thing in the
morning, read your Bible,
00:39:52.25\00:39:54.92
study the Bible, and you will
find your taste begin to change
00:39:54.96\00:39:58.19
almost imperceptibly.
00:39:58.23\00:39:59.69
Well, one time,
somebody say, "You fly off."
00:39:59.73\00:40:01.60
Now you calm down for a second.
00:40:01.63\00:40:03.70
And you get this as Mollie
said these gradual changes.
00:40:03.73\00:40:06.43
So you look back over
the last two, you know,
00:40:06.47\00:40:07.80
two years ago I'd have just
given you a piece of my mind.
00:40:07.84\00:40:11.54
But now I want
to give you Jesus.
00:40:11.57\00:40:13.58
Because I got
Jesus now, you know.
00:40:13.61\00:40:14.94
So you just
present yourself for Him,
00:40:14.98\00:40:17.31
and He will do the rest.
00:40:17.35\00:40:18.68
God is so anxious to save. Amen.
00:40:18.71\00:40:20.25
So anxious to save.
00:40:20.28\00:40:22.15
If you just kind
of get out of the way,
00:40:22.18\00:40:24.22
He'll do the work, you
know, just don't fight Him,
00:40:24.25\00:40:26.69
and He'll save you.
00:40:26.72\00:40:28.06
And so He's going to cause
us to be what He calls us to be,
00:40:28.09\00:40:30.23
so He will cause
us to be renewed by.
00:40:30.26\00:40:33.03
Jill, why don't you
take Colossians 1:9, and 10?
00:40:33.06\00:40:36.80
Can I make one
comment on Romans--
00:40:36.83\00:40:38.17
Oh, absolutely.
00:40:38.20\00:40:39.57
I think Roman 12 is
one of my favorite chapters
00:40:39.60\00:40:42.07
in all of the Bible.
00:40:42.10\00:40:43.44
I love that chapter.
00:40:43.47\00:40:44.91
In fact, when Mollie
picked it, 'cause Shelley said,
00:40:44.94\00:40:47.31
"Okay, we each have
our scripture picked."
00:40:47.34\00:40:48.88
I thought,
"Mollie got Romans 12."
00:40:48.91\00:40:51.11
So praise the Lord.
00:40:51.15\00:40:52.48
That's great.
00:40:56.35\00:40:57.69
But I love it, if
you look in the Greek,
00:40:57.72\00:40:59.59
Romans 12 to be not
conformed to this world,
00:40:59.62\00:41:02.02
but be transformed.
00:41:02.06\00:41:03.39
In the Greek,
transformed means metamorphosis.
00:41:03.43\00:41:05.79
Yes.
00:41:05.83\00:41:07.16
So you think about
the metamorphosis process
00:41:07.20\00:41:09.90
of a caterpillar
to the butterfly.
00:41:09.93\00:41:12.80
I remember, Greg and I,
just I'll make this short.
00:41:12.83\00:41:15.30
On our front porch,
there was a caterpillar,
00:41:15.34\00:41:18.77
and it was just
forming its cocoon.
00:41:18.81\00:41:21.08
And Greg said,
"Jilly, come look at this."
00:41:21.11\00:41:22.71
And we went out,
and it was just forming
00:41:22.74\00:41:24.61
underneath the porch railing.
00:41:24.65\00:41:25.98
Chrysalis. The chrysalis.
00:41:26.01\00:41:27.35
And you could see that,
and you can see it forming,
00:41:27.38\00:41:29.18
and then we waited sometime
and on a Sabbath, it opened.
00:41:29.22\00:41:33.02
He said, "It's opening."
00:41:33.05\00:41:34.39
So we went out and
we sat on the porch,
00:41:34.42\00:41:36.02
and we watched as it opened.
00:41:36.06\00:41:38.09
And the butterfly
came out, and I just think
00:41:38.13\00:41:40.06
that's what God wants to do,
00:41:40.10\00:41:42.90
take us from crawling
in the dirt in the junk,
00:41:42.93\00:41:45.57
all of that sin.
00:41:45.60\00:41:47.44
And he wants to transform us
00:41:47.47\00:41:50.27
through exactly what
you all talked about,
00:41:50.31\00:41:52.27
the Word of
God, putting back in.
00:41:52.31\00:41:54.04
And the power
of the Holy Spirit.
00:41:54.08\00:41:55.41
My scripture is Colossians 1,
00:41:55.44\00:41:58.98
and this is a
powerful scripture.
00:41:59.01\00:42:00.38
Colossians 1:9, and 10.
00:42:00.42\00:42:03.08
And it picked up here with ask,
00:42:03.12\00:42:05.45
but I want to go back to
the beginning of the verse.
00:42:05.49\00:42:07.82
"For this reason, we also
sense the day we heard it.
00:42:07.86\00:42:11.63
Do not cease to pray for you
00:42:11.66\00:42:14.10
and to ask that
you may be filled."
00:42:14.13\00:42:18.67
To me that says,
00:42:18.70\00:42:20.04
we're not only to
ask for ourselves.
00:42:20.07\00:42:22.77
Ask Lord Jesus, fill me,
00:42:22.80\00:42:25.14
with the knowledge of Your will.
00:42:25.17\00:42:26.81
And all wisdom and
spiritual understanding,
00:42:26.84\00:42:29.18
but not only are we to ask,
00:42:29.21\00:42:31.18
we're to ask for our
brothers and sisters,
00:42:31.21\00:42:33.52
we're to ask for the
sanctification process,
00:42:33.55\00:42:36.28
the justification
process to be worked out
00:42:36.32\00:42:39.05
in the lives of our
brothers and sisters.
00:42:39.09\00:42:42.02
Not just ask for
ourselves, but ask for others,
00:42:42.06\00:42:45.29
we're to be asked to be filled
with the knowledge of His will,
00:42:45.33\00:42:48.83
and all wisdom and
spiritual understanding
00:42:48.86\00:42:51.60
that you may walk
worthy of the Lord.
00:42:51.63\00:42:55.20
That reminds me
of Ephesians 4:1.
00:42:55.24\00:42:58.34
It says, Paul says as
a prisoner of the gospel,
00:42:58.37\00:43:01.04
"I beseech you that
you would walk worthy
00:43:01.08\00:43:03.08
of the calling with
which you are called."
00:43:03.11\00:43:06.82
And that word walk worthy,
and my maiden name was Penny.
00:43:06.85\00:43:11.45
And so, I can
remember, you know,
00:43:11.49\00:43:13.52
when you kind of grow up,
and you go out to college,
00:43:13.56\00:43:17.13
leaving home.
00:43:17.16\00:43:18.49
And I remember saying,
00:43:18.53\00:43:20.26
"Don't let the Penny
name down, you know."
00:43:20.30\00:43:23.16
"Make the Penny name proud."
00:43:23.20\00:43:25.33
Yep. Yes.
00:43:25.37\00:43:26.70
And now, of
course, I'm a Morikone.
00:43:26.74\00:43:28.80
But none of that
matters, because we're all
00:43:28.84\00:43:31.94
sons and
daughters of the Lord Jesus.
00:43:31.97\00:43:34.14
We are to walk
worthy of Jesus Christ.
00:43:34.18\00:43:36.91
Said someone looks
it, Pastor C.A. and says,
00:43:36.95\00:43:39.61
"He's a Christian,
00:43:39.65\00:43:40.98
I can see that
he is a Christian."
00:43:41.02\00:43:43.35
He's made the name of
God, you could say proud,
00:43:43.39\00:43:46.05
not that we can
do that of ourselves.
00:43:46.09\00:43:48.09
But we asked to be
filled with His wisdom
00:43:48.12\00:43:50.46
and spiritual understanding
that we would walk worthy.
00:43:50.49\00:43:54.06
And I was just
getting ready to ask you,
00:43:54.10\00:43:55.93
how do we walk worthy,
you just answered that.
00:43:55.96\00:43:58.83
That's right. You have to.
00:43:58.87\00:44:00.40
And it's a prayer
00:44:00.44\00:44:01.87
that God's going
to fill you with this.
00:44:01.90\00:44:03.67
Amen.
00:44:03.71\00:44:05.04
Pray, ask God to
fill us with that,
00:44:05.07\00:44:06.57
that we would walk
worthy, fully pleasing Him.
00:44:06.61\00:44:09.51
Being fruitful
in every good work.
00:44:09.54\00:44:12.31
You talk,
Shelley, about the vine
00:44:12.35\00:44:13.75
being disconnected,
and how it dies, John 15,
00:44:13.78\00:44:16.85
and how God wants us to
be connected to the vine,
00:44:16.89\00:44:19.82
so that He can
fill us with his sap,
00:44:19.85\00:44:22.12
the Holy Spirit,
00:44:22.16\00:44:23.59
that we would be
fruitful in every good work
00:44:23.63\00:44:25.53
and increasing in
the knowledge of God.
00:44:25.56\00:44:28.70
So all we do is
ask, ask to be filled.
00:44:28.73\00:44:31.13
And you know, this is a
great scripture promise,
00:44:31.17\00:44:33.23
not only to pray,
and say Lord, you know,
00:44:33.27\00:44:36.20
renew my mind, as if from yours,
00:44:36.24\00:44:38.47
and cause my mind to be renewed,
00:44:38.51\00:44:40.58
fill me with the
knowledge of Your will.
00:44:40.61\00:44:42.54
But as you said
Jill, this is a great--
00:44:42.58\00:44:44.28
I remember praying this so
much over my sister every day.
00:44:44.31\00:44:48.88
And God honored that
prayer that I would pray
00:44:48.92\00:44:51.92
that He would fill her
with the knowledge of His will.
00:44:51.95\00:44:54.89
So God honors that prayer.
00:44:54.92\00:44:57.26
Mr. Quinn. Yes, ma'am.
00:44:57.29\00:44:59.23
Would you like to
take Psalms 143:10.
00:44:59.26\00:45:02.76
Psalms 143:10, and I love this.
00:45:02.80\00:45:06.74
I love this scripture.
00:45:06.77\00:45:08.84
And we just got
through asking in Colossians 1.
00:45:08.87\00:45:13.51
Now we're moving down here.
00:45:13.54\00:45:15.11
Let me read it real quick,
00:45:15.14\00:45:16.68
"Teach me to do your
will for you are my God.
00:45:16.71\00:45:22.25
May your good
spirit the Holy Spirit,
00:45:22.28\00:45:25.05
lead me on level ground."
00:45:25.09\00:45:28.09
Man, number one is that,
00:45:28.12\00:45:34.06
if you have anybody
that you go up to and say,
00:45:34.10\00:45:36.80
"Hey, C.A. would
you teach me this,
00:45:36.83\00:45:39.27
Mollie, would
you teach me this."
00:45:39.30\00:45:41.90
You're subservient
and you're looking up,
00:45:41.94\00:45:44.34
because they've got
something that you want
00:45:44.37\00:45:46.47
or something that you respect.
00:45:46.51\00:45:48.24
And there's
nothing better than--
00:45:48.28\00:45:50.25
because this is a capital Y.
00:45:50.28\00:45:52.15
Teach me to do your will.
00:45:52.18\00:45:54.82
This is not C.A.'s will,
this is not Mollie's will,
00:45:54.85\00:45:57.55
this is God's will.
00:45:57.59\00:45:59.25
So David is going say, "Lord,
teach me to do your will."
00:45:59.29\00:46:02.79
J.D. is coming.
00:46:02.82\00:46:04.76
"Lord, teach me your
will for you're my God."
00:46:04.79\00:46:08.73
Got his priorities straight,
00:46:08.76\00:46:10.43
and then he is going on
and says, "Oh, man, Lord,
00:46:10.47\00:46:13.60
can you let me
have the Holy Spirit,
00:46:13.64\00:46:16.07
so that I'll be
on that level ground.
00:46:16.10\00:46:18.21
Lord, I'm tired of
going up the mountains,
00:46:18.24\00:46:21.04
carrying those backpacks,
00:46:21.08\00:46:22.41
I carry, then slide down
00:46:22.44\00:46:24.25
on the other side of the valley.
00:46:24.28\00:46:25.65
Took up, and
there's another mountain.
00:46:25.68\00:46:27.62
I want level
ground Lord, and I know,
00:46:27.65\00:46:30.35
if I keep my
eyes focused on You,
00:46:30.39\00:46:31.92
that's what I'll have.
00:46:31.95\00:46:33.39
That's what I
saw all right here.
00:46:33.42\00:46:34.92
Amen. I'm willing
to be made willing.
00:46:34.96\00:46:36.76
Amen. Amen.
00:46:36.79\00:46:38.13
You know, teach
me. That is so good.
00:46:38.16\00:46:40.40
Amen.
00:46:40.43\00:46:41.76
C.A. Thank you Jesus.
00:46:41.80\00:46:43.16
Well, and you know,
00:46:43.20\00:46:44.53
this is something
that we should pray.
00:46:44.57\00:46:45.97
I mean, I think we pray
this almost on a daily basis
00:46:46.00\00:46:48.90
is that the Lord would
teach us to do His Will.
00:46:48.94\00:46:51.97
Something that I
love that J.D. always add,
00:46:52.01\00:46:54.64
he'll say, Lord,
increase our, you know,
00:46:54.68\00:46:59.41
I'll pray and say,
increase our love, he'll say,
00:46:59.45\00:47:01.65
increase our
humility, increase our courage,
00:47:01.68\00:47:04.52
increase our strength.
00:47:04.55\00:47:05.89
Our wisdom.
00:47:05.92\00:47:07.26
Our wisdom, but--
00:47:07.29\00:47:08.62
Discernment. Amen.
00:47:08.66\00:47:09.99
So this is something though
00:47:10.03\00:47:11.63
that God does make a
level path for your feet,
00:47:11.66\00:47:15.10
when the Holy
Spirit's leading you.
00:47:15.13\00:47:16.73
And all your obstacles become
a stepping stones, don't they?
00:47:16.77\00:47:19.47
Amen. All right.
00:47:19.50\00:47:20.90
We are going to
add into this mix
00:47:20.94\00:47:23.77
Hebrews 1:20, and 21.
00:47:23.81\00:47:27.28
Would you like to
read that, Brother Murray?
00:47:27.31\00:47:29.24
Okay. Air our time slips away.
00:47:29.28\00:47:30.98
Hebrews 13:20, and 21.
00:47:31.01\00:47:32.75
"Now, may the God of peace
00:47:32.78\00:47:35.18
who brought up
our Lord Jesus Christ
00:47:35.22\00:47:36.79
from the dead.
00:47:36.82\00:47:38.15
That great shepherd of the sheep
00:47:38.19\00:47:39.79
through the blood of
the everlasting covenant,
00:47:39.82\00:47:41.62
make you complete in
every good work to do His will.
00:47:41.66\00:47:45.09
Working in you,
00:47:45.13\00:47:46.46
what is well
pleasing in this sight,
00:47:46.49\00:47:48.50
through Jesus Christ,
to whom be glory forever.
00:47:48.53\00:47:51.80
Amen and Amen.
00:47:51.83\00:47:54.10
Just very quickly, you notice,
00:47:54.14\00:47:56.10
when the Bible
talks about doing things
00:47:56.14\00:47:57.87
for with to the Lord.
00:47:57.91\00:47:59.47
It always talks about
doing them completely.
00:47:59.51\00:48:02.14
You know, be filled
with the spirit, not halfway,
00:48:02.18\00:48:05.08
be complete in his work.
00:48:05.11\00:48:06.72
One of the big
things I was listening to,
00:48:06.75\00:48:08.38
something the other
day on the television is,
00:48:08.42\00:48:10.05
why there's so much
excess medication around now?
00:48:10.09\00:48:12.52
Because,
00:48:12.55\00:48:13.89
sick people tend not to
finish their prescription
00:48:13.92\00:48:16.69
which I thought was interesting.
00:48:16.73\00:48:18.06
You know, you got a
cold, and you get 12 tablets,
00:48:18.09\00:48:21.70
you take three and feel good,
00:48:21.73\00:48:23.06
and you just leave
the other ones, you know.
00:48:23.10\00:48:24.43
And they say, you look at this,
we have all these medications
00:48:24.47\00:48:26.40
that are uncompleted
in our medicine chest,
00:48:26.43\00:48:30.84
but the sanctification process
is completing the medication.
00:48:30.87\00:48:34.78
It's taking everything until--
00:48:34.81\00:48:36.14
Amen. That's great.
00:48:36.18\00:48:37.85
You know, today,
I've got a temper,
00:48:37.88\00:48:39.75
so I pray and okay, I
got the temper thing done.
00:48:39.78\00:48:42.28
I'm done now, you know,
00:48:42.32\00:48:43.65
but there's a whole
bunch of other stuff,
00:48:43.69\00:48:45.02
you know, he does
more medication to take.
00:48:45.05\00:48:46.39
And the Lord wants us to
be complete in all of that.
00:48:46.42\00:48:49.99
One thing and then I'm done.
00:48:50.03\00:48:51.36
You know, the old teachers
back in the Bible times,
00:48:51.39\00:48:53.83
the old stoics,
the old teachers,
00:48:53.86\00:48:55.80
they always sat to teach.
00:48:55.83\00:48:57.43
You know, this standing up
00:48:57.47\00:48:58.80
before your class
is a modern day thing.
00:48:58.83\00:49:00.20
But the old
teachers always sat down,
00:49:00.24\00:49:02.60
they taught sitting down.
00:49:02.64\00:49:04.84
And that's because they
wanted to be eye to eye.
00:49:04.87\00:49:06.54
You know, I'm with
you, I'm part of you.
00:49:06.57\00:49:08.11
So they didn't
stand up like teachers do.
00:49:08.14\00:49:09.94
Sit down and teach.
00:49:09.98\00:49:11.61
And Christ
didn't try to teach us
00:49:11.65\00:49:14.05
standing from
heaven, He came down.
00:49:14.08\00:49:16.35
Eye to eye, you
know, in eye to eye.
00:49:16.38\00:49:18.49
So He taught eye to eye.
00:49:18.52\00:49:20.99
And that's what
the Bible is saying,
00:49:21.02\00:49:22.79
these things are very
possible, not very doable,
00:49:22.82\00:49:26.26
because Christ has done them.
00:49:26.29\00:49:28.13
Eye to eye, He came
down to live just like you.
00:49:28.16\00:49:30.10
So we can put
this into practice,
00:49:30.13\00:49:31.73
be filled with the spirit,
00:49:31.77\00:49:33.34
so you could do every
good work for the Lord.
00:49:33.37\00:49:35.20
Not half, not
partial, but with God,
00:49:35.24\00:49:37.61
it's all or nothing.
00:49:37.64\00:49:39.07
You've got to give it all.
00:49:39.11\00:49:40.44
But you know, what I
love about this scripture is,
00:49:40.48\00:49:42.34
it's God that's equipping
you, it says the God of peace
00:49:42.38\00:49:45.31
who equips you
with every good thing,
00:49:45.35\00:49:48.52
and He' the one
that's working in you
00:49:48.55\00:49:49.98
to willing to do and--
00:49:50.02\00:49:53.22
everything that's pleasing
in His sight, so hallelujah.
00:49:53.25\00:49:56.52
We're standing on the Lord.
00:49:56.56\00:49:58.93
Okay, Jill, you
want to take Luke 11:28.
00:49:58.96\00:50:02.26
Absolutely.
00:50:02.30\00:50:03.73
I want to take
the one verse before,
00:50:03.77\00:50:05.60
so we kind of
get the context here.
00:50:05.63\00:50:07.74
Luke 11:27 talks
about Jesus speaking,
00:50:07.77\00:50:11.21
and a woman raised
her voice and said,
00:50:11.24\00:50:12.74
"Blessed is the
womb that bore you."
00:50:12.77\00:50:14.68
So in other words, your
family is really blessed,
00:50:14.71\00:50:18.88
because she was
the one who bore you.
00:50:18.91\00:50:21.18
Then verse 28,
Jesus says, "But he said,
00:50:21.22\00:50:25.25
blessed rather are
those who hear the Word of God
00:50:25.29\00:50:30.56
and obey and practice it."
00:50:30.59\00:50:33.50
So he's saying, those
who hear and do God's word,
00:50:33.53\00:50:37.60
enter a relationship with Him
00:50:37.63\00:50:39.83
that's closer
than even birth family.
00:50:39.87\00:50:42.64
You know, when you have
family members who love God,
00:50:42.67\00:50:46.17
you can have a
close bond with them.
00:50:46.21\00:50:48.14
But maybe if
there's family members
00:50:48.18\00:50:49.58
who don't walk with
God or don't know God,
00:50:49.61\00:50:52.25
you don't have that closer bond.
00:50:52.28\00:50:54.65
You could say, my
brothers and sisters
00:50:54.68\00:50:56.25
around this table
right here are closer to me
00:50:56.28\00:50:59.62
because of that bonding.
00:50:59.65\00:51:01.02
Yes. That's true. Yes.
00:51:01.06\00:51:02.39
And He says, blessed are
those who hear the Word of God,
00:51:02.42\00:51:05.16
but we don't just
hear it, you know,
00:51:05.19\00:51:06.59
the Bible says not to be hearers
00:51:06.63\00:51:08.16
only deceiving your own self.
00:51:08.20\00:51:10.90
We need to be a doer
to walk in obedience,
00:51:10.93\00:51:14.14
to obey in practice.
00:51:14.17\00:51:15.50
And we know,
00:51:15.54\00:51:16.87
we don't walk in
obedience of our own strength,
00:51:16.91\00:51:18.24
we don't just say,
"I'm going to grit my teeth
00:51:18.27\00:51:20.01
and try harder."
00:51:20.04\00:51:21.38
It's that consenting,
that surrender, that choice,
00:51:21.41\00:51:25.05
letting God fill us
and work His obedience out.
00:51:25.08\00:51:28.48
And it shows us here.
00:51:28.52\00:51:29.85
I mean, He starts
off by saying, blessed.
00:51:29.88\00:51:32.15
So it shows us that
the pathway to obedience
00:51:32.19\00:51:35.79
is the pathway to
blessing, isn't it?
00:51:35.82\00:51:37.76
Putting His word into practice.
00:51:37.79\00:51:39.89
All right J.D,
1 Corinthians 4:2,
00:51:39.93\00:51:43.16
our time is going quickly. Yes.
00:51:43.20\00:51:44.63
1 Corinthians 4:2,
00:51:44.67\00:51:46.13
I want to read it
in the New King James,
00:51:46.17\00:51:48.60
and I'll read in the NIV.
00:51:48.64\00:51:50.74
"Moreover, it is
required in stewards
00:51:50.77\00:51:53.14
that one be found faithful."
00:51:53.17\00:51:54.58
Steward being a good
manager in life, okay.
00:51:54.61\00:51:57.65
A good manager,
00:51:57.68\00:51:59.01
because the
Lord has matured you.
00:51:59.05\00:52:00.92
And then the--
00:52:00.95\00:52:02.48
in NIV, "Now it is required
00:52:02.52\00:52:05.35
that those who
have been given a trust
00:52:05.39\00:52:08.06
must prove
faithful to be trustworthy."
00:52:08.09\00:52:12.33
So it's just kind of
in the middle making sense
00:52:12.36\00:52:15.36
to me that if you've
been given a responsibility,
00:52:15.40\00:52:18.87
and if you're mature.
00:52:18.90\00:52:21.10
Well then, you will be
faithful in the assignment
00:52:21.14\00:52:24.24
that's been given you.
00:52:24.27\00:52:25.61
Here and it's kind of
saying here, you know,
00:52:25.64\00:52:27.04
we're required to
prove ourselves faithful
00:52:27.08\00:52:28.91
in practicing the word.
00:52:28.94\00:52:30.28
That kind of--
That's exactly right--
00:52:30.31\00:52:31.65
You know, we've
been given this word,
00:52:31.68\00:52:33.01
so we're required
to prove ourselves.
00:52:33.05\00:52:35.05
And most often, you know,
00:52:35.08\00:52:36.42
you're very excited to
be able to share something,
00:52:36.45\00:52:38.75
now you've been
given that discernment,
00:52:38.79\00:52:40.39
and you're excited
00:52:40.42\00:52:41.76
and want to make a
difference in peoples lives.
00:52:41.79\00:52:44.13
And when you see
that word, prove it,
00:52:44.16\00:52:45.76
it presupposes that it's
done in response to a test.
00:52:45.79\00:52:49.46
So the word prove stuck
00:52:49.50\00:52:51.00
and I mean that whatever is
on the other side of that word
00:52:51.03\00:52:53.23
has been tested
00:52:53.27\00:52:54.60
and shown to be
worthy of that designation.
00:52:54.64\00:52:57.27
So your faith,
your love, your caring,
00:52:57.31\00:53:00.54
your walk with God
will all be tested,
00:53:00.58\00:53:02.21
and you'll improve
through trial and test,
00:53:02.24\00:53:04.51
just more faithful to God.
00:53:04.55\00:53:05.88
That's good. Amen.
00:53:05.91\00:53:07.25
Whenever I read
that, I think, Lord Jesus,
00:53:07.28\00:53:08.92
I want to prove faithful.
00:53:08.95\00:53:10.45
You know, I don't
want to be a Christian
00:53:10.49\00:53:12.05
that when the
test comes, I fall.
00:53:12.09\00:53:14.52
You know, I want
to prove faithful.
00:53:14.56\00:53:15.96
What do we want
to hear in that day?
00:53:15.99\00:53:18.09
Well done. Well done.
00:53:18.13\00:53:19.46
Well done. Amen, amen.
00:53:19.49\00:53:21.40
Mollie Sue, our last
scripture is Psalm 40:8.
00:53:21.43\00:53:24.67
And again, I want to read
the one just preceding that.
00:53:24.70\00:53:27.67
Okay.
00:53:27.70\00:53:29.04
Psalms 40:7 says,
"Then said I love.
00:53:29.07\00:53:32.71
I come in the
volume of the book."
00:53:32.74\00:53:34.74
It is written of me, so
who is that talking about?
00:53:34.78\00:53:37.28
Jesus.
00:53:37.31\00:53:38.65
It's talking about
the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:53:38.68\00:53:40.15
Then it goes on to say,
00:53:40.18\00:53:41.68
now this would be Jesus talking,
00:53:41.72\00:53:43.95
"I delight to do
your will of God,
00:53:43.99\00:53:47.06
your law is
written in my heart."
00:53:47.09\00:53:49.22
So He says, I
delight to do your will.
00:53:49.26\00:53:52.23
What was the will of God?
00:53:52.26\00:53:55.00
That He suffer,
that He die on a cross,
00:53:55.03\00:53:58.67
that He receive that stripes.
00:53:58.70\00:54:03.20
That was the will
of God, and He says,
00:54:03.24\00:54:05.97
"Not only will I do your
will," but he says, "I delight."
00:54:06.01\00:54:11.95
How heroic!
00:54:11.98\00:54:13.58
What a heroic statement,
knowing what was ahead of Him.
00:54:13.62\00:54:17.79
Jesus says, "I delight
to do your will O God."
00:54:17.82\00:54:21.79
And He says, "You're
always written in my heart."
00:54:21.82\00:54:24.89
What does that tell us?
00:54:24.93\00:54:26.83
That it wasn't
just an external act
00:54:26.86\00:54:30.00
that He performed.
00:54:30.03\00:54:31.37
It was in His heart,
00:54:31.40\00:54:33.13
his obedience
proceeded from His heart.
00:54:33.17\00:54:37.17
Is he delighted
to do God's will?
00:54:37.21\00:54:38.74
He delighted to do God's will.
00:54:38.77\00:54:41.01
Now I am going
to share something
00:54:41.04\00:54:43.21
that God miraculously
imparted to Shelley Quinn.
00:54:43.24\00:54:47.78
And here's what the
Lord imparted to you, Shelly.
00:54:47.82\00:54:52.02
He made the decision. He
delighted to do God's will.
00:54:52.05\00:54:55.46
Where did He make it first?
00:54:55.49\00:54:56.83
In His deity, He made
that decision in heaven.
00:54:56.86\00:55:00.60
In His humanity,
00:55:00.63\00:55:02.13
He made the same
decision in Gethsemane,
00:55:02.16\00:55:05.40
in the Garden of Gethsemane.
00:55:05.43\00:55:07.17
He delighted to
do the will of God,
00:55:07.20\00:55:10.01
which was to obtain our self--
00:55:10.04\00:55:11.57
So He walked the talk. Amen.
00:55:11.61\00:55:13.11
He truly walked and He did.
00:55:13.14\00:55:14.48
So let's close our
eyes and pray this prayer,
00:55:14.51\00:55:18.85
because we're going to put
00:55:18.88\00:55:20.22
all of these
scriptures together now,
00:55:20.25\00:55:22.02
and we're going to
return to the Lord,
00:55:22.05\00:55:24.15
they will not return void.
00:55:24.19\00:55:26.09
But God will watch
over His word performance
00:55:26.12\00:55:28.72
seeing the end
from the beginning.
00:55:28.76\00:55:31.29
Holy and righteous Father,
00:55:31.33\00:55:32.93
we thank You for
giving us the mind of Christ
00:55:32.96\00:55:35.16
through Your Word.
00:55:35.20\00:55:36.53
We thank You that we
have the mind of Christ
00:55:36.56\00:55:39.03
by the power of Your Spirit
00:55:39.07\00:55:40.64
who gives a
spiritual understanding
00:55:40.67\00:55:42.30
and discernment.
00:55:42.34\00:55:43.84
Lord, we thank You
00:55:43.87\00:55:45.21
that just as Jesus did
nothing of His own initiative,
00:55:45.24\00:55:48.38
you were teaching
us to seek Your will
00:55:48.41\00:55:51.58
and do nothing of
our own initiative.
00:55:51.61\00:55:54.28
Oh, Lord, our prayer is
that You will cause our minds
00:55:54.32\00:55:57.22
to be renewed by Your Word
00:55:57.25\00:55:58.69
and fill us with
a knowledge of you
00:55:58.72\00:56:00.86
that we might walk
worthy of Your calling.
00:56:00.89\00:56:05.06
Teach us so, Lord,
00:56:05.09\00:56:06.43
to do what is
pleasing in Your sight,
00:56:06.46\00:56:08.53
lead us by Your Spirit.
00:56:08.56\00:56:10.43
Thank You Father,
00:56:10.47\00:56:11.80
for equipping us in every
good thing to do your will.
00:56:11.83\00:56:15.70
We know that sanctification,
00:56:15.74\00:56:18.51
our sanctification is
Your will for our lives.
00:56:18.54\00:56:21.84
You desire us to be made
holy to set us apart from sin
00:56:21.88\00:56:25.78
for your good purposes.
00:56:25.81\00:56:27.48
Lord, bless us in
obeying Your Word.
00:56:27.52\00:56:30.02
You have entrusted us
with the knowledge of You will
00:56:30.05\00:56:32.45
as founded in the Bible.
00:56:32.49\00:56:34.26
Help us to prove ourselves
faithful in practicing it.
00:56:34.29\00:56:37.39
Oh, Lord, cause us to
delight to do Your will
00:56:37.43\00:56:40.06
in Jesus name.
00:56:40.10\00:56:41.43
Amen. Amen.
00:56:41.46\00:56:42.80
Amen.
00:56:42.83\00:56:44.17
Well, this has been--
00:56:44.20\00:56:45.53
it's always so
much fun to get together
00:56:45.57\00:56:47.77
and just talk
about the Scripture.
00:56:47.80\00:56:50.37
We have gone over a few things.
00:56:50.41\00:56:53.27
We could talk about
sanctification from--
00:56:53.31\00:56:57.91
I mean every program we
could talk about sanctification,
00:56:57.95\00:57:00.12
and never run out
of anything to say
00:57:00.15\00:57:02.25
because, this is God's
work of a lifetime in us.
00:57:02.28\00:57:06.49
C.A., thank you for
joining us. Pleasure.
00:57:06.52\00:57:08.82
Mollie Sue, Jill, thank
you all so much for being here.
00:57:08.86\00:57:13.80
Honey, it is always
good to sit next to you.
00:57:13.83\00:57:17.13
It's always good.
00:57:17.17\00:57:18.50
And so, now our prayer for you
00:57:18.53\00:57:20.60
is that the grace of our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,
00:57:20.64\00:57:24.34
the love of the Father
00:57:24.37\00:57:25.71
and the
fellowship of the Holy Spirit
00:57:25.74\00:57:27.34
will be with you on
this Sabbath and always.
00:57:27.38\00:57:31.05
May God bless
you. Amen and amen.
00:57:31.08\00:57:32.41
Amen.
00:57:32.45\00:57:33.78