Participants: J. D. & Shelley Quinn (Host), C. A. Murray, Mollie Steenson, Jill Morikone
Series Code: TDYFW
Program Code: TDYFW016023A
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00:01 I want to spend my life
00:07 Mending broken people 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:18 Removing pain 00:23 Lord, let my words 00:29 Heal a heart that hurts 00:34 I want to spend my life 00:40 Mending broken people 00:45 I want to spend my life 00:51 Mending broken people. 01:08 Hello, and welcome once again to 3ABN Family Worship. 01:12 We're so glad that you're joining us 01:14 from this blessed Sabbath, whether it's the beginning 01:16 or the end of the Sabbath for you, 01:17 we're just glad that you're joining us 01:19 for family worship because you are part of our family. 01:23 So I'm Shelley Quinn, this is... 01:25 J.D. Quinn. 01:27 And honey, why don't you introduce everybody else. 01:28 Well, of course, we've got C.A. Murray, 01:30 my precious friend over here. 01:32 We're missing his precious wife Irma. 01:34 But C.A. can handle it. 01:37 We've got Mollie Steenson, we miss her husband Hal. 01:40 And we've got Jill, and we miss her husband Greg. 01:44 Everybody is at a different place, you know. 01:46 But anyway, just... 01:48 we're all glad to be here to be able to take this time 01:50 on a Sabbath day to talk about Jesus. 01:53 Yes. 01:54 And we don't want to forget one of our special brothers 01:57 who is also joining us on the piano, 01:59 and that is Brother Tim Parton. 02:01 Thank you, Tim. 02:02 One of our special, special friends. 02:04 Yes, amen. 02:05 Well, tonight what we're going to be talking about 02:08 is God's will for our life. 02:11 And it's quite clear that God's will 02:14 in the Bible says it then. 02:16 His will for our life is sanctification. 02:19 So we're not going to be talking about necessarily 02:22 the root of sanctification 02:25 as much as the fruit of sanctification. 02:26 Amen. 02:27 But before we begin, 02:29 we always love to have an opening prayer J.D. 02:32 Would you open with prayer please. 02:34 Most certainly. 02:35 Father, as we come before you on the Sabbath day, 02:38 we come in your name, the name above all names, 02:40 and we thank You. 02:42 We thank You especially for today Lord, 02:43 today that You've given us the day that You've created. 02:46 And Father, as we gather around this table, 02:48 and we share the fruit that hopefully each one of us 02:54 are able to produce through you Lord. 02:56 We give you all praise and glory. 02:58 Thank You. Thank You. 03:00 Thank You for being who You are, 03:01 in the name of Jesus. 03:03 Amen. Amen. 03:05 Well, we always like to start with a song. 03:07 And aside from maybe brother Murray, 03:12 who's noted for his singing. 03:13 I don't think any one of the others of us 03:15 are noted for our singing. 03:20 But you know the Lord tells us to make a joyful noise 03:24 before Him. 03:26 And you know something. 03:27 I remember when I was a little girl, 03:28 sitting next to my grandfather in church. 03:30 And he was deaf, he wore... 03:33 Hearing aids. Hearing aids. 03:35 And my grandfather sang with all of his heart. 03:39 He could not carry a tune, but he was probably 03:43 one of the loudest in the church. 03:45 And everybody was always blessed by his singing, 03:48 because he made a joyful noise before the Lord. 03:51 So we are going to sing one of my most favorite songs. 03:56 And that is "My hope is built on nothing less," 03:59 and this is hymn number 522 in the hymnal, 04:03 but the words will be on the screen so join us. 04:11 My hope is built on nothing less 04:15 Than Jesus' blood and righteousness 04:20 I dare not trust the sweetest frame 04:24 But wholly lean on Jesus' Name 04:29 On Christ the solid rock I stand 04:34 All other ground is sinking sand 04:39 All other ground 04:41 Is sinking sand 04:45 When Darkness veils His lovely face 04:49 I rest on His unchanging grace 04:55 In every high and stormy gale 04:59 My anchor holds within the veil 05:05 On Christ the solid rock I stand 05:09 All other ground is sinking sand 05:15 All other ground is sinking stand 05:22 When He shall come with trumpet sound 05:26 O may I then in Him be found! 05:31 Dressed in His righteousness alone 05:36 Faultless to stand before the throne 05:42 On Christ the solid rock I stand 05:46 All other ground is sinking sand 05:52 All other ground 05:55 Is sinking sand 05:59 Oh, how I love that song, 06:02 because we're counting and hoping, 06:03 and nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness. 06:07 And it says, dressed in His righteousness alone 06:10 will stand faultless before the throne of God. 06:13 Amen. Hallelujah. 06:14 Amen. 06:16 Well, what we always like to do is have a prayer of praise. 06:20 And this is kind of a chain prayer. 06:22 It's not a lengthy prayer. 06:23 We'll each maybe speak a sentence or two, 06:26 just as the spirit moves us. 06:29 And I'll begin, and then whoever feels like joining in, 06:33 just join in. 06:34 And at home, just lift up your praises before the Lord. 06:38 Our most glorious Heavenly Father, 06:40 we come before You this day to praise Your name, 06:43 because You are worthy of praise. 06:45 And Father, I thank you that You have blessed us 06:49 with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms. 06:52 And that Lord, You are our sufficiency. 06:55 I thank You that You have blessed us 06:57 with all the riches of heaven in Christ Jesus. 07:02 Amen. 07:03 Gracious Father, we do praise you. 07:04 We thank You for You're so worthy to be prayed. 07:06 Amen. 07:07 We thank You Lord for the evidences 07:09 of Your loving kindness and affection towards us. 07:12 Amen. 07:13 Over and over again, you show that You love us 07:15 with an everlasting love. 07:17 And out of that great love, you are pleased to bless us, 07:19 to carry us, to forgive us of our sins. 07:22 And we praise You Lord, 07:23 and we thank You for mercies without end. 07:27 Truly, You are worthy to be praised. 07:31 Father, we thank You that you Are our provider, 07:34 protector, and defender, and sustainer, and redeemer. 07:39 And Lord, we thank You as well that You are the one 07:42 who sanctifies us. 07:44 Yes. 07:46 And I thank You Father that You've given us this time 07:48 to come away on to You 07:51 to set aside time just to be with You. 07:53 And so Father, we give this time to You, 07:55 we ask You Lord to open up our hearts 07:59 and pour into our hearts those things 08:02 that You would have us learn today. 08:04 I pray in Jesus' name. 08:06 And Father also, I just want to thank You again 08:08 for the Sabbath day. 08:09 And Father, I think of our loved ones, 08:11 I think of our brothers, or sisters, or fathers, 08:15 or mothers, or aunts, or uncles, 08:16 our good friends, Lord. 08:18 And I just ask Lord that you continue 08:20 to direct Your arms around them. 08:21 And that they will allow the Holy Spirit to work 08:24 in their hearts, Lord. 08:26 Again, we thank You, we love You, 08:28 we give You all praise and glory in the name of Jesus. 08:31 Amen. Amen. 08:32 Amen, hallelujah. 08:35 Well, we're just all excited to be here, are we not? 08:38 Amen. Amen. 08:39 We're most excited that you could join us. 08:41 Let me do this, I'm kind of going to go out of order, 08:44 and I'll just tell you that 1 Thessalonians 4:3, 08:49 is the basis of knowing God's will for your life. 08:53 And the scripture says, this is the will of God, 08:57 your sanctification. 08:59 So let me just kind of do a quick review. 09:02 We've done family worships on righteousness by faith. 09:06 That's what sanctification is, is it not. 09:08 I mean, justification and sanctification. 09:11 And we're not going to so much talk about God's work. 09:15 How He achieves this. 09:18 Well, we're going to just focus on different scriptures. 09:20 Let me put it that way. 09:23 Justification is an act of God. 09:26 Justification takes just a moment 09:29 when you accept Christ as your savior. 09:32 You're converted and the blood of Jesus covers your sin 09:38 and justification changes your record. 09:43 It removes us from the guilt, 09:45 relieves us of the guilt of sin. 09:48 Sanctification is a work of God. 09:53 And sanctification takes a lifetime. 09:56 And what happens with sanctification is that, 09:59 it is Christ imparted righteousness 10:02 as He lives in our hearts by faith, 10:05 and the power of the Holy Spirit. 10:08 Sanctification changes what? Our character. 10:13 And it relieves us from the power of sin. 10:17 Amen. 10:19 So we're going to be talking today about God's will 10:22 for our life, our sanctification, 10:24 because Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil. 10:30 And I'm going to go ahead and pray this prayer. 10:34 We're looking at... 10:37 in life affirmations from scripture, number... 10:41 page 84. 10:42 Let me pray the prayer, 10:44 and then we're going to show you 10:46 how this prayer comes from scripture. 10:49 There's such... 10:50 Why is there such power in praying the word Mollie Sue? 10:53 Because God will watch over His work to perform. 10:57 Amen. 10:59 He says that in Jeremiah 1:12. 11:00 I'd watch over my word to perform. 11:02 And He calls those things that are not 11:04 as though they are ready. 11:05 Romans 4:17... So that's powerful. 11:07 Absolutely. God is... 11:08 Speaking of, I don't feel sanctified 11:10 or I know I'm in the process, but I'm not there yet. 11:13 But we can claim these promises over our life. 11:16 And the Word of God is quick and powering force. 11:19 Amen. It's a powerful. 11:21 Amen. It's living. 11:22 And you know, when we think about it, 11:23 the word sanctification, I like what you said. 11:26 And you were talking at worship one day, 11:27 and you said, "Sanctification is a church word. 11:30 You're not going to hear it in the Daily American. 11:33 You're not going to hear it in the Daily News, 11:36 nightly news, are you? 11:38 But, you know what, when the Lord said, 11:41 "Be holy, for I am holy." 11:44 What was he saying? He's telling of sanctification. 11:45 He was saying, be sanctified 'cause I am sanctified. 11:49 To be sanctified means to be set apart from sin. 11:54 And the way I think of this is, you know, 11:56 when the Bible says that God is a consuming fire. 12:00 He is... 12:02 it's because His essence of love. 12:04 Love consumes sin. 12:08 I mean, it's like love is, His love is so pure, 12:12 it's so perfect that sin cannot stand 12:16 in the presence of a holy God. 12:17 Because what happens is, you think of sin, when the... 12:22 in John Chapter... 12:25 what, my mind went blank, 15, first part right, 12:29 where he said, "Apart from me, you can do nothing." 12:31 So John 15 is talking about divine. 12:34 And Jesus says, 12:36 "Abide in me, I'll abide in you." 12:38 Well, when we quit abiding, what happens when a branch 12:43 gets pinched off from the vine? 12:44 Dies. It withers up. 12:47 So here, if you're a sinner, if you're not walking 12:50 in the will of God, 12:51 if you're this withered up branch, 12:53 and then suddenly the love of God just... 12:59 it just consumes sin. 13:01 He can't help it. 13:02 So the more we've got love in us, 13:04 the more we become like Him. 13:06 And it consumes the sin in our lives. 13:08 Good. Okay. 13:10 Just put a little tag on that. 13:12 You know, the Bible says, God executes judgment. 13:15 He gives mercy, but He is love, you know, 1 John 4, He is love. 13:19 So when you take God into you, 13:22 the default setting is cleansing 13:24 and burning away the thing that's unlike God. 13:25 Absolutely. 13:27 Because it's like, once the fire burns, 13:30 anything that is un-pure, it's going to go. 13:33 And once you have that love of God in you, 13:36 those impure aspects of your character 13:39 are burned away. 13:41 And all that is left is love, because only love can exist 13:43 in the presence of love. 13:45 Amen. So all sin is gone. 13:46 So sort of building on what you started. 13:48 Yeah, once God comes in there, 13:49 He is in there clearing and burning away. 13:51 It's like a little fire going in there that burns in you 13:54 until the day you see Christ face to face 13:56 or till the day you die. 13:57 Yeah. 13:58 So that's the sanctification process and it always works. 14:00 And something that the scripture says about love 14:01 is that love does something, love covers, covers what? 14:05 Oh, yeah. A multitude of sin. 14:07 So if love covers, what does the opposite of love do? 14:13 Exposes, exposes. 14:15 Who is the accuser of the brethren? 14:17 That's good. 14:18 See, diametrical opposition, 14:20 God covers, because He loves us. 14:23 The enemy exposes, because he hates us. 14:26 Yes. That's really good. 14:29 I was reading something, and it brought up, you know, 14:31 another word for sanctification is purification. 14:34 And then we're turning up... talking about this fire. 14:37 I remember we were harvesting grain. 14:39 And we had a pickup that should not have been out in the field. 14:43 And the muffler was so hot 14:45 that it caught that stubble on fire. 14:48 And we were harvesting 14:51 within the suburbs of Dallas, yes, it was. 14:56 And I mean, all of a sudden, 14:58 all that stubble there just caught fire. 15:01 And Bob, whenever I was reading about the sanctification, 15:04 he's reading about purification, consecration. 15:07 It made me think of that, because I mean, that fast. 15:10 We had a major fire. 15:12 And all of a sudden 911 15:14 is going up from all these homes 15:15 and everything. 15:17 And everybody's out there with their little water hoses. 15:19 I mean, it was dynamic. 15:23 But boy, I'll never forget the purification 15:25 it came from that 'cause you look back there, 15:27 and where that fire had consumed, 15:29 it was black. 15:31 There was nothing else left and it went that fast, 15:35 because of the stubble. 15:36 Yeah. 15:38 You know, what was once alive, now it's dead. 15:41 You know, when you think, I mean, actually, 15:43 sanctification and holiness are to be sanctified, 15:46 means to be made holy. 15:48 They're synonyms, and we don't have to be, 15:50 you know, so concerned about... 15:52 some people, you say, "Oh, be holy, because I am holy." 15:55 As God tells us, it makes us nervous to think, 15:58 I could ever be holy like God." 16:00 It just means, 16:01 God is separated from sin completely, 16:04 and He wants us separated from sin. 16:06 So it's proper to say, we have been saved. 16:11 That's what? 16:12 Justification, I'm sorry, yeah. 16:14 We are being saved... Sanctification. 16:17 And we will be saved, glorification. 16:20 Yeah. Hallelujah. 16:22 And it's all through the countenance in holiness. 16:24 Absolutely. 16:26 That's a noun, and a verb, and a gerund, it's all three. 16:28 And it's beautiful, because God's the one who does 16:29 all of that work. 16:30 Amen. 16:32 You know, He is the one who justifies us 16:33 through the blood of Jesus. 16:34 He is the one who does the sanctification process. 16:36 Now we have to let him in like Pastor Murray said, 16:39 when love is in us, when God is in us, 16:41 that's when the purification process happens, 16:44 so we have to make that choice. 16:46 Yeah. 16:47 And a daily, hourly, moment by moment choice 16:49 to make those choices for Jesus, 16:51 but then in the glorification it's all Him too. 16:53 Amen. 16:54 So we can never say, any of this process of salvation 16:57 I had a part in or I did. 17:00 Yes, we have a part, because we make a choice. 17:04 We choose to allow God to do that work in us, 17:06 choose to align our will in line with His. 17:09 You know, Shelley, we're going to get to your... 17:12 you hit on such a pregnant subject, 17:14 for one with a better term. 17:15 Martin Luther, bless his heart, never got to sanctification. 17:18 He stopped at justification. 17:20 And you can get in with justification, you know. 17:24 But you want to go further to live the sanctified life. 17:27 Christ made the statement in John14:30, 17:30 the princes of world cometh, and he has nothing in me. 17:33 Yes. 17:35 And that's the voice of a sanctified person. 17:38 So when you're saying that, Satan does nothing in here 17:40 that he can grab on to. 17:42 And I would like to be able to make that statement. 17:46 Amen. 17:47 Because the truth is, you can slip so easily, you know. 17:52 The lust of the eye, the pride of life. 17:54 You know, it is so easy to get turned around or turned aside 17:57 on your journey. 17:59 I know J.D. studied for his PhD in psychology. 18:02 And they say that in psychology, 18:06 men and women are... 18:08 I'm taking a second here, 18:09 but they're motivated by different things, 18:11 and different things can be their tripwire. 18:13 For women, they seem to be much more sensitive to sounds. 18:16 For men, it's sight. 18:18 You can be have your mind in heaven places, 18:21 and see something, 18:22 and right away your mind is over here, 18:24 you know. 18:26 I have a good friend, 18:27 or my associate pastor years ago. 18:28 He was saying, when they had their first baby, 18:30 it was ruining their intimate time together. 18:32 Because as his wife heard 18:34 from the other room, she was gone, 18:36 you know, they'd be having a less time together, 18:38 holding hands, you know, kind of cuddling in the bed. 18:40 And she heard just a peep, and she's gone you know. 18:42 It's like here I am, you know. 18:43 Yeah. 18:44 This child is ruining my life here. 18:46 Because she's very sensitive to sound, you know. 18:49 And it doesn't take much sometimes, 18:52 the devil dangle something in front of your eyes and. 18:55 Or give you some sort of provocation 18:56 and boom you're gone. 18:58 But Christ said, He's coming, and He's got nothing. 19:00 Yeah. Amen. 19:02 Nothing, nothing to attract me, there's no hook, 19:03 there's nothing you can dangle in front of my eyes. 19:05 And I read that, I say, "Lord, I'd love that to be me." 19:07 Amen. Amen. 19:09 I'd love to be able to say, he's got nothing in me. 19:11 But I know in my heart, 19:12 unless I'm surrendered all the time, 19:14 one little thing, and I'm gone, you're under it. 19:17 And even, you know, the Lord said, 19:19 I mean, Job said, 19:21 I've made a covenant with my eyes. 19:23 Yes, he had, yes. Not to lust after another one. 19:25 So, that's something that I think you have to do. 19:29 It's, you know, men very much by sight, 19:32 but a lot of women have the lust of the eye as well. 19:35 So we have to all make that covenant and be prepared 19:39 for what's going to happen. 19:41 Yes. Okay. 19:42 Well, we're going to pray this prayer, 19:44 you all have it in front of you. 19:45 We'll pray this prayer, I'll actually read it, 19:47 and it comes from scripture. 19:49 Then we're going to look at the scriptures 19:52 that this prayer comes from. 19:55 Holy and righteous Father, thank You for giving me 19:58 the mind of Christ through Your word, 20:01 and by the power of Your spirit 20:04 who gives me spiritual understanding and discernment. 20:07 Just as Jesus did nothing of His own initiative, 20:10 but sought to do Your will, so do I. 20:13 Cause my mind to be renewed by Your Word, 20:17 and fill me with knowledge of You 20:19 that I might walk worthy of Your calling. 20:23 Teach me Lord to do what is pleasing in Your sight 20:26 and lead me by Your Spirit. 20:29 Thank You for equipping me 20:31 in every good thing to do Your will. 20:34 I know my sanctification is Your will for my life. 20:38 You desire for me to be made holy. 20:40 Set apart for Your good purposes. 20:43 Oh, Lord, bless me in obeying Your Word. 20:47 You have entrusted me with the knowledge of Your will 20:51 as found written in the Bible. 20:53 I am required to prove myself faithful in practicing it. 20:58 I delight to do Your will Father. 21:00 Amen. 21:02 So that is such a precious prayer. 21:03 And I know that God is so pleased 21:06 when we pray like this. 21:07 But let's look at where this prayer came from. 21:12 It talks about having the mind of Christ. 21:15 Brother Murray, would you like to take our first scripture 21:18 1 Corinthians 2:14 and 16. 21:23 Okay, I'll read that, the Bible says, 21:25 "What the natural man 21:27 does not receive the things of the spirit of God, 21:30 for they are foolishness to Him nor can He know them, 21:34 because they are spiritually discerned." 21:36 And we go to 16, "He, who has known the mind of the Lord. 21:42 I'm sorry, for who has known the mind of the Lord 21:45 that He may instruct him, but we have the mind of Christ. 21:49 Amen. Expound on that a bit, brother. 21:52 Want to read just a little something 21:53 that Ellen White wrote in unpublished manuscript 21:59 in 1899. 22:01 She says, "The precious jewels of truth, 22:03 they're the highest value to the meek and lowly ones, 22:07 who believe in Christ are as foolishness to Him 22:10 who is wise in this world estimation. 22:13 But truth, 22:15 eternal truth is ever present with the true believer. 22:19 The Spirit is the appointed instructor 22:22 of such a soul his guide, 22:25 His continual strength and righteousness." 22:29 Then she goes on to talk about the law is an expression, 22:32 being an expression of God's idea for humanity. 22:35 The truth is, in this world, 22:37 we can be divided into several different camps. 22:40 But for these purposes, 22:41 you are either spiritual or carnal, 22:43 you're either moving under the aegis of the Holy Spirit 22:47 or you are moving in your own strength, 22:49 and in your own worldly wisdom. 22:51 Where worldly wisdom means nothing to the Lord. 22:54 And worldly wisdom is not enough 22:56 to discern the things of God. 22:59 Which is one reason why whenever you open the Bible, 23:01 you need to ask first for the mind of Christ. 23:04 So that the words make sense to you 23:06 and can be understood by you 23:08 and more than that can be put into practice. 23:10 So the natural man, 23:11 the man without the spirit does not accept, 23:13 cannot really understand, 23:15 which is why sometimes you say things 23:16 which make perfectly good sense to you as a Christian. 23:19 And someone's looking at you, like you just came 23:21 from the planet Mongo, you know what? 23:22 Right, right. 23:24 Yeah, because spiritual things are spiritually discerned. 23:27 When you say, I've got joy in my heart, 23:29 or this kind of thing doesn't bother me, 23:31 or I'm not tempted by that, 23:32 people are saying, why would you not? 23:34 I remember years ago, someone said, "Do you drink?" 23:36 I said, "No." "Well, why not?" 23:38 "Well, why would I?" 23:40 "Well, 'cause you're missing fun." 23:41 "Well, it's not fun for me." "Yeah, but everybody drinks." 23:44 "Well, I don't." "That didn't make any sense." 23:46 "It does to me," you know. 23:48 And you get into a circular kind of reasoning, 23:49 because everybody goes out on Friday night, 23:52 everybody drinks, everybody is-- 23:53 "Well, no they don't." 23:55 And for a person who is used to that world, 23:57 a person who doesn't do that is, 23:59 "You're kind of strange." 24:00 Yeah. 24:02 Because spiritual things are spiritually discerned, 24:04 which is why, now when I do evangelism-- 24:06 and we talked about this the other day. 24:08 Rather than going to prophecy, 24:10 and some of these other kind of difficult things, 24:11 you start with Jesus. 24:13 Because if they don't have Jesus, 24:14 they can't really get a hold on anything else, 24:16 because it starts and ends with Christ. 24:18 Amen. 24:19 And the Holy Spirit is instructor. 24:20 And, you know, when it says 24:22 that the natural man cannot understand. 24:24 I think the one caveat out there is that, 24:28 when the Holy Spirit is moving upon someone, 24:31 who is still in the natural form. 24:33 If he is trying to convict them of the sin, 24:35 give them godly so they can get the message of the cross. 24:39 Anybody can get that. 24:41 But beyond, I think beyond the message of the cross, 24:43 if you aren't a spiritual person, 24:45 you're not going to understand this word. 24:47 I look at this a little different. 24:48 You said when you open the word, 24:51 pray for the mind of Christ. 24:53 I prayed John 17:17, that God will sanctify me-- 24:57 Through the truth. Through the truth. 24:59 Through His truth, His word is truth. 25:00 I look at this as the mind of Christ. 25:03 I think that, you know, this was Holy Spirit inspired, 25:08 it is the mind of Christ revealed to us, 25:10 and the more we've got in us, 25:13 the more we operate by the mind of Christ. 25:15 I agree. But like calls to like. 25:18 And so you want to be have that spirit, 25:20 I understand and I think, we're basically-- 25:21 I want to say, two side of the same coin. 25:23 Because the truth is this, it will not make sense 25:27 unless you are functioning through at lens. 25:29 Absolutely not. That is spiritual. 25:31 Amen. Yeah. 25:33 Well, I've got the next scripture, 25:34 and that's John 5:30. 25:38 And Jesus is speaking here. 25:39 And He says, "I can do nothing on my own initiative." 25:44 You know what, I love this 25:46 that, when He was here on earth, 25:48 He only called upon His humanity. 25:52 He never called upon His divinity. 25:55 He said, "As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, 26:00 because I do not seek my own will, 26:03 but the will of Him who sent me." 26:05 The reason this is included here 26:08 is because just as Jesus did nothing 26:11 as His own initiative, that's should be ours, 26:15 when we are sanctified is that we don't, 26:18 you know, He said in verse 19, 26:20 that He only did what He saw the Father do. 26:24 And he says, and I think, 26:26 one good thing about that when you think about. 26:28 If Jesus was only doing what He saw the father do, 26:31 then everything that Jesus did on earth, 26:35 lined up perfectly with His will 26:37 'cause he said in Chapter 6 of John, he said, 26:40 "I've come not to do My will, but to do His will. 26:43 That means everything Jesus did 26:46 was an expression of God's love. 26:49 Amen. 26:50 That was God's loving heart, 26:52 because it is from love that grace flows down to us. 26:56 So contextually, 26:59 when He is talking about judging, 27:02 He is talking here about the condemnation of sinners 27:06 in their final judgment. 27:08 So, you know, one other thing, 27:10 I thought that comes for me from the scripture, 27:13 is that He had just said here, before He says this in John 5. 27:20 He said, "Do not marvel at this for the hour is coming 27:22 in which those who are in their graves 27:24 will hear His voice and come forth. 27:26 Those who've done good to the resurrection of life, 27:29 those who've done evil 27:30 to the resurrection of condemnation. 27:33 So then He says, I can do nothing 27:36 except, you know-- 27:39 that the Father is not doing and he says, 27:42 "As I hear, I judge, my judgment is righteous." 27:45 So don't you think that, given on, you know, 27:51 you know how much the messages 27:54 on the Garden of Gethsemane, 27:58 and the message on the trial of God 28:00 when we did our camp meeting moved me. 28:05 The reason God leaves everything to Christ to judge, 28:10 'cause Jesus became just exactly like us. 28:14 So who better could judge, He knows. 28:18 I mean that's where why He is so pitiable toward us 28:22 is 'cause He knows our weaknesses. 28:25 Doesn't that bear with you? It is, it is. 28:27 To me this verse gives me hope, because he says, 28:29 I do nothing of my own initiative, right. 28:32 Everything comes from the Father. 28:34 So if Jesus, when He walked this earth. 28:37 He walked not in His own strength. 28:40 Submitted and walked on the strength of His Father. 28:43 That means that you and I can have the same experience. 28:47 Absolutely. To me that's exciting. 28:49 Well, we don't have to do though. 28:51 I'm going to walk forward two steps, 28:53 and I'm going to fall back five. 28:55 I'm going to walk forward two, 28:56 and then I'm going to fall back six. 28:58 You know, keep slipping and falling into sin. 29:01 Of course, the Bible says, "If any man sin, 29:03 we have an advocate with the Father." 29:04 So Jesus does forgive them. 29:06 Amen. Amen. Praise the Lord for that. 29:08 But at the same time, 29:10 we can be connected to the same power source, 29:12 we can submit, and surrender to our Father 29:15 just like He did when He walked this earth. 29:18 And what I really-- 29:19 to take that a little bit farther for us that are weak, 29:24 and that is your best friend, the Holy Spirit is there 29:28 to continue to nudge up to send up those red flags 29:33 whenever you do there to the left. 29:35 Man I just, as time goes by, I just become more dependent. 29:40 I just crave the Holy Spirit, 29:43 because that is a lamp to my feet. 29:47 Because man, it's hard to-- 29:50 It's hard when you come to that T in the road, 29:52 and there's a question mark. 29:54 Absolutely. 29:55 You know, I was thinking about John 16:14. 29:58 What you said, Shelley, sparked something in my mind. 30:00 I believe in my heart that God could fully empathize 30:05 with the human experience from heaven, 30:07 because He is God. 30:09 But there are sometimes when God does something, 30:12 and you can see it's kind of a man focused thing. 30:16 There is no argument now that God cannot empathize 30:20 because God came down and walked. 30:23 So far those who are saying to God, 30:25 "You can't empathizes me from heaven." 30:27 Well, He can. 30:28 But that argument is now taken away, 30:30 because Christ came 30:32 and was tempted in all points of life as we are. 30:33 He walked a mile in our market. Precisely and without sin. 30:36 So now we have the Holy Spirit and Christ did nothing, 30:41 but through the will of 30:43 and with the impress of the Father. 30:47 And then He says, the Holy Spirit come 30:48 in John 16:14, 30:51 and He's not going to testify Himself, 30:52 what's he going to do? 30:54 He's going to testify. He's going to testify of me. 30:55 You know, so that the circle is closed. 30:57 And so when we put ourselves in Christ hands, 31:01 Christ is working with the Father, 31:03 the Holy Spirit is there to uplift Christ in your life. 31:06 And Christ now is judge, jury, and executioner dare I say. 31:13 And all of it's in your favor. 31:15 So you can kind of relax in Jesus, 31:17 'cause you know, He's on your side. 31:18 And everything is pointing towards magnifying Christ 31:21 in your life and lifting up Christ. 31:24 It just becomes the way, a way of life to you, 31:27 we are in the way. 31:29 And you don't have to stop and think about it. 31:31 You know, when I got up this morning, 31:33 I didn't say, "Jill, am I going to serve God today?" 31:37 No, it's my way of life. Amen. 31:38 It's the way I walk in. 31:40 In war. Yeah. 31:41 That's you're following that path of sanctification. 31:43 Something you said about when we fall. 31:48 This reminded me of this precious scripture promise, 31:51 I love this promise in Micah 7:8, it says, 31:57 "Do not rejoice over me and my enemy. 32:00 When I fall, I will arise, when I sit in darkness, 32:04 the Lord will be a light." 32:06 His word is a light to my path and the lamp for my feet so. 32:13 And there's people out there that are listening to this, 32:16 and they're wanting to make some changes. 32:19 Yeah. 32:20 I mean if the circle is unbroken, 32:23 if you can get, face-- 32:25 If you can get the reality of His love for you. 32:28 And that He has your eternal interest in mind, 32:30 and everything that happens. 32:33 Well, then you take that step of faith, 32:37 and then, you know, it's like, 32:38 we said while ago, then, you know, 32:41 then the lamp that goes before your feet is there. 32:45 Yeah. I mean this is supernatural. 32:48 But He is supernatural. Amen. 32:51 Well, let's turn Mollie Sue Lu some Romans 12:2. 32:56 Well, first and foremost, 32:58 God is more interested in our sanctification 33:02 than we are interested in our sanctification. 33:04 Oh, absolutely. 33:06 Progressively, this would be my Molliegise 33:10 or Alabama is of what sanctify-- 33:13 my Mollieism. 33:14 Sanctification is progressively becoming like Jesus. 33:17 Amen. 33:19 Gradually, see, it's not an overnight thing, 33:22 it's gradually becoming like Jesus, 33:24 or becoming holy. 33:25 And we just-- 33:27 we hear that there's nothing holy about me, 33:31 it's a progressive walk, becoming conformed. 33:34 I like this, conformed to the image of Jesus. 33:37 And the scripture tells us, Romans 8:29, 33:42 for whom He did foreknow. 33:45 How many of you did it foreknow? 33:46 He did predestine. Amen. 33:48 He also predestined to be something, 33:50 to be conformed to the image of His Son 33:53 that He might be the first born among many born. 33:56 So that's our destination. 33:58 We've been predestined, C.A., 34:00 to be conformed, to be sanctified. 34:04 It's a little at a time, a day at a time. 34:08 And sometimes we think, "Oh, look where I am, 34:11 I am not making any progress." 34:14 But look at where you were a year ago, 34:15 and you know what, sometimes all we might be able to say, 34:18 well, at least I'm headed in the right direction. 34:21 Maybe I haven't made any great strides, 34:23 but I'm headed in the right direction. 34:25 Now we're in Roman's 12:2, 34:28 but I want to read verse one as well. 34:30 "I beseech you therefore, brethren by the mercies of God 34:34 that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, 34:37 wholly acceptable to God, 34:39 which is only your reasonable service." 34:42 Yes. J.D. 34:43 And then the scripture, 34:45 and do not be conformed to this world. 34:47 But be transformed by the renewing of your mind 34:50 that you may prove. 34:52 I love that word. 34:53 What is that good and acceptable 34:55 and perfect will of God? 34:57 To be conformed to this world is to act as other men do. 35:02 So we don't want to be conformed to this world. 35:05 Heathen, who don't know God are conformed to this world, 35:09 in opposition to this, 35:11 the Apostle Paul exhorts us to be transformed. 35:15 That is to undergo a total change, 35:18 which will bring us into accordance with God's will. 35:22 Then he tells us how we're to do it. 35:24 How are we transformed? 35:26 It's by the renewing of your mind. 35:28 And I just want to make this statement. 35:31 The foundation of all transformation 35:35 of character or conduct 35:39 is the process of renewing your mind. 35:42 And what do you renew your mind with? 35:44 Word of God. 35:45 It's got to be the Word of God. 35:47 Our mind is our mental faculties 35:50 are reasoning, our understanding. 35:54 And this mind of ours is neutral. 35:57 Do you know your brain is just this blob? 35:59 And what you put in it is what it's conformed to. 36:03 And so this is to renew your mind. 36:06 You know what that tells us, that it was new at one time. 36:10 It's got messed up. It's being contaminated. 36:13 Now we're to renew our mind. 36:15 We renew it with the Word of God. 36:17 Watch you feet grows, 36:19 watch your starve dies as you feed on God's word. 36:23 The good food of God's word is coming. 36:27 You're going to become what you behold. 36:30 You can behold God's word, 36:32 and the scripture tells us in John. 36:35 In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, 36:39 and the word was God. 36:41 Verse 14 says, 36:43 and the word became flesh and dwelt among us. 36:46 So the word became flesh. 36:48 Who became flesh and dwelt among us? 36:50 Well, that's Jesus. 36:51 So who is the word? Jesus is the word. 36:53 And so we've been predestined to be conformed to His image. 36:57 We take on His word, 36:58 we allow that word to change us into His very image 37:01 and likeness. 37:02 That's the process of sanctification, 37:05 step by step, a little at a time. 37:07 We are being conformed to the image of Christ. 37:10 We are to become like Christ. Amen. 37:12 And you know, remember, I remember, 37:14 I went back to college, 37:15 and was wanting to get a degree in computer science. 37:20 And I found out I'm too much of a people person 37:23 to spend all of my time in comp-- 37:25 Can you say you did not seem like a computer science? 37:26 Oh, I love math, I love math, 37:28 and to me it was just a mathematical puzzle. 37:31 But anyway, the point is, you learn, 37:34 my mistake was I took four languages 37:36 in the same semester in the syntax. 37:38 I'd sometimes be in the computer lab 37:41 all night long, 'cause I'd put a colon, 37:43 in some languages, it took a colon, 37:44 others it was a semi colon. 37:46 And you would like, looking at this, 37:48 but our mind is the greatest computer that there is. 37:52 So if you have-- 37:54 we had a saying, "Garbage in, garbage out." 37:57 If you didn't have the perfect thing going in 38:01 to program that computer, 38:02 it wasn't going to operate correctly. 38:05 But when we put the good Word of God, 38:08 we've heard so much that's bad. 38:10 But you put the good word of God in, 38:12 He reprograms us. 38:14 That's right. He renews our mind. 38:17 You know, Shelley, I think about, 38:19 I was raised 38:20 on the King James Version of the Bible. 38:21 Where y'all raced on the King James? 38:23 Oh, yeah. 38:24 To this day, that's what I quote, 38:25 when the scripture comes to me. 38:27 Well, there was a season for several years. 38:30 I got an amplified Bible, and I loved my amplified Bible. 38:34 I started studying the amplified, 38:36 reading all the scriptures and spent hours and hours 38:39 in the amplified Bible. 38:41 You know, what I started doing? 38:42 Quoting the amplified, 38:44 because what went in me is what came out of me. 38:48 Now that's in the positive. 38:49 The scripture went in, only scripture comes out. 38:52 In the negative, what you put in you, 38:55 what you feed on, 38:56 that's what's going to come out of you. 38:58 Out of the abundance of the mouth-- 39:00 The heart speaks. 39:01 Or the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. 39:04 All one or the other. Yeah. 39:06 You know the Romans 12:1, "To present your bodies," 39:10 and that word really means to make available, 39:12 to make open, to open up the body. 39:16 It is you are what you eat. 39:17 And when we talk about surrendering to Christ, 39:20 it's not we can cut it demythologize, 39:22 that is not a complex intricate, it's just-- 39:26 Just consenting. 39:28 Precisely, just consenting, just opening up and allow him. 39:32 If you take the lock off the door, 39:34 He'll come in, you know. 39:36 He's not, he know, 39:37 He's not going to kick the door down, 39:39 but if you just 39:40 take the lock off the door, He'll come in. 39:42 That's what it means to present yourself, 39:43 just make yourself available to Him. 39:45 How they do that? 39:46 Well, when the church door is open, go to church. 39:48 Yeah. Amen. 39:49 When it's time to pray, pray. Submit yourself to the Lord. 39:52 First thing in the morning, read your Bible, 39:54 study the Bible, and you will find your taste begin to change 39:58 almost imperceptibly. 39:59 Well, one time, somebody say, "You fly off." 40:01 Now you calm down for a second. 40:03 And you get this as Mollie said these gradual changes. 40:06 So you look back over the last two, you know, 40:07 two years ago I'd have just given you a piece of my mind. 40:11 But now I want to give you Jesus. 40:13 Because I got Jesus now, you know. 40:14 So you just present yourself for Him, 40:17 and He will do the rest. 40:18 God is so anxious to save. Amen. 40:20 So anxious to save. 40:22 If you just kind of get out of the way, 40:24 He'll do the work, you know, just don't fight Him, 40:26 and He'll save you. 40:28 And so He's going to cause us to be what He calls us to be, 40:30 so He will cause us to be renewed by. 40:33 Jill, why don't you take Colossians 1:9, and 10? 40:36 Can I make one comment on Romans-- 40:38 Oh, absolutely. 40:39 I think Roman 12 is one of my favorite chapters 40:42 in all of the Bible. 40:43 I love that chapter. 40:44 In fact, when Mollie picked it, 'cause Shelley said, 40:47 "Okay, we each have our scripture picked." 40:48 I thought, "Mollie got Romans 12." 40:51 So praise the Lord. 40:56 That's great. 40:57 But I love it, if you look in the Greek, 40:59 Romans 12 to be not conformed to this world, 41:02 but be transformed. 41:03 In the Greek, transformed means metamorphosis. 41:05 Yes. 41:07 So you think about the metamorphosis process 41:09 of a caterpillar to the butterfly. 41:12 I remember, Greg and I, just I'll make this short. 41:15 On our front porch, there was a caterpillar, 41:18 and it was just forming its cocoon. 41:21 And Greg said, "Jilly, come look at this." 41:22 And we went out, and it was just forming 41:24 underneath the porch railing. 41:26 Chrysalis. The chrysalis. 41:27 And you could see that, and you can see it forming, 41:29 and then we waited sometime and on a Sabbath, it opened. 41:33 He said, "It's opening." 41:34 So we went out and we sat on the porch, 41:36 and we watched as it opened. 41:38 And the butterfly came out, and I just think 41:40 that's what God wants to do, 41:42 take us from crawling in the dirt in the junk, 41:45 all of that sin. 41:47 And he wants to transform us 41:50 through exactly what you all talked about, 41:52 the Word of God, putting back in. 41:54 And the power of the Holy Spirit. 41:55 My scripture is Colossians 1, 41:59 and this is a powerful scripture. 42:00 Colossians 1:9, and 10. 42:03 And it picked up here with ask, 42:05 but I want to go back to the beginning of the verse. 42:07 "For this reason, we also sense the day we heard it. 42:11 Do not cease to pray for you 42:14 and to ask that you may be filled." 42:18 To me that says, 42:20 we're not only to ask for ourselves. 42:22 Ask Lord Jesus, fill me, 42:25 with the knowledge of Your will. 42:26 And all wisdom and spiritual understanding, 42:29 but not only are we to ask, 42:31 we're to ask for our brothers and sisters, 42:33 we're to ask for the sanctification process, 42:36 the justification process to be worked out 42:39 in the lives of our brothers and sisters. 42:42 Not just ask for ourselves, but ask for others, 42:45 we're to be asked to be filled with the knowledge of His will, 42:48 and all wisdom and spiritual understanding 42:51 that you may walk worthy of the Lord. 42:55 That reminds me of Ephesians 4:1. 42:58 It says, Paul says as a prisoner of the gospel, 43:01 "I beseech you that you would walk worthy 43:03 of the calling with which you are called." 43:06 And that word walk worthy, and my maiden name was Penny. 43:11 And so, I can remember, you know, 43:13 when you kind of grow up, and you go out to college, 43:17 leaving home. 43:18 And I remember saying, 43:20 "Don't let the Penny name down, you know." 43:23 "Make the Penny name proud." 43:25 Yep. Yes. 43:26 And now, of course, I'm a Morikone. 43:28 But none of that matters, because we're all 43:31 sons and daughters of the Lord Jesus. 43:34 We are to walk worthy of Jesus Christ. 43:36 Said someone looks it, Pastor C.A. and says, 43:39 "He's a Christian, 43:41 I can see that he is a Christian." 43:43 He's made the name of God, you could say proud, 43:46 not that we can do that of ourselves. 43:48 But we asked to be filled with His wisdom 43:50 and spiritual understanding that we would walk worthy. 43:54 And I was just getting ready to ask you, 43:55 how do we walk worthy, you just answered that. 43:58 That's right. You have to. 44:00 And it's a prayer 44:01 that God's going to fill you with this. 44:03 Amen. 44:05 Pray, ask God to fill us with that, 44:06 that we would walk worthy, fully pleasing Him. 44:09 Being fruitful in every good work. 44:12 You talk, Shelley, about the vine 44:13 being disconnected, and how it dies, John 15, 44:16 and how God wants us to be connected to the vine, 44:19 so that He can fill us with his sap, 44:22 the Holy Spirit, 44:23 that we would be fruitful in every good work 44:25 and increasing in the knowledge of God. 44:28 So all we do is ask, ask to be filled. 44:31 And you know, this is a great scripture promise, 44:33 not only to pray, and say Lord, you know, 44:36 renew my mind, as if from yours, 44:38 and cause my mind to be renewed, 44:40 fill me with the knowledge of Your will. 44:42 But as you said Jill, this is a great-- 44:44 I remember praying this so much over my sister every day. 44:48 And God honored that prayer that I would pray 44:51 that He would fill her with the knowledge of His will. 44:54 So God honors that prayer. 44:57 Mr. Quinn. Yes, ma'am. 44:59 Would you like to take Psalms 143:10. 45:02 Psalms 143:10, and I love this. 45:06 I love this scripture. 45:08 And we just got through asking in Colossians 1. 45:13 Now we're moving down here. 45:15 Let me read it real quick, 45:16 "Teach me to do your will for you are my God. 45:22 May your good spirit the Holy Spirit, 45:25 lead me on level ground." 45:28 Man, number one is that, 45:34 if you have anybody that you go up to and say, 45:36 "Hey, C.A. would you teach me this, 45:39 Mollie, would you teach me this." 45:41 You're subservient and you're looking up, 45:44 because they've got something that you want 45:46 or something that you respect. 45:48 And there's nothing better than-- 45:50 because this is a capital Y. 45:52 Teach me to do your will. 45:54 This is not C.A.'s will, this is not Mollie's will, 45:57 this is God's will. 45:59 So David is going say, "Lord, teach me to do your will." 46:02 J.D. is coming. 46:04 "Lord, teach me your will for you're my God." 46:08 Got his priorities straight, 46:10 and then he is going on and says, "Oh, man, Lord, 46:13 can you let me have the Holy Spirit, 46:16 so that I'll be on that level ground. 46:18 Lord, I'm tired of going up the mountains, 46:21 carrying those backpacks, 46:22 I carry, then slide down 46:24 on the other side of the valley. 46:25 Took up, and there's another mountain. 46:27 I want level ground Lord, and I know, 46:30 if I keep my eyes focused on You, 46:31 that's what I'll have. 46:33 That's what I saw all right here. 46:34 Amen. I'm willing to be made willing. 46:36 Amen. Amen. 46:38 You know, teach me. That is so good. 46:40 Amen. 46:41 C.A. Thank you Jesus. 46:43 Well, and you know, 46:44 this is something that we should pray. 46:46 I mean, I think we pray this almost on a daily basis 46:48 is that the Lord would teach us to do His Will. 46:52 Something that I love that J.D. always add, 46:54 he'll say, Lord, increase our, you know, 46:59 I'll pray and say, increase our love, he'll say, 47:01 increase our humility, increase our courage, 47:04 increase our strength. 47:05 Our wisdom. 47:07 Our wisdom, but-- 47:08 Discernment. Amen. 47:10 So this is something though 47:11 that God does make a level path for your feet, 47:15 when the Holy Spirit's leading you. 47:16 And all your obstacles become a stepping stones, don't they? 47:19 Amen. All right. 47:20 We are going to add into this mix 47:23 Hebrews 1:20, and 21. 47:27 Would you like to read that, Brother Murray? 47:29 Okay. Air our time slips away. 47:31 Hebrews 13:20, and 21. 47:32 "Now, may the God of peace 47:35 who brought up our Lord Jesus Christ 47:36 from the dead. 47:38 That great shepherd of the sheep 47:39 through the blood of the everlasting covenant, 47:41 make you complete in every good work to do His will. 47:45 Working in you, 47:46 what is well pleasing in this sight, 47:48 through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever. 47:51 Amen and Amen. 47:54 Just very quickly, you notice, 47:56 when the Bible talks about doing things 47:57 for with to the Lord. 47:59 It always talks about doing them completely. 48:02 You know, be filled with the spirit, not halfway, 48:05 be complete in his work. 48:06 One of the big things I was listening to, 48:08 something the other day on the television is, 48:10 why there's so much excess medication around now? 48:12 Because, 48:13 sick people tend not to finish their prescription 48:16 which I thought was interesting. 48:18 You know, you got a cold, and you get 12 tablets, 48:21 you take three and feel good, 48:23 and you just leave the other ones, you know. 48:24 And they say, you look at this, we have all these medications 48:26 that are uncompleted in our medicine chest, 48:30 but the sanctification process is completing the medication. 48:34 It's taking everything until-- 48:36 Amen. That's great. 48:37 You know, today, I've got a temper, 48:39 so I pray and okay, I got the temper thing done. 48:42 I'm done now, you know, 48:43 but there's a whole bunch of other stuff, 48:45 you know, he does more medication to take. 48:46 And the Lord wants us to be complete in all of that. 48:50 One thing and then I'm done. 48:51 You know, the old teachers back in the Bible times, 48:53 the old stoics, the old teachers, 48:55 they always sat to teach. 48:57 You know, this standing up 48:58 before your class is a modern day thing. 49:00 But the old teachers always sat down, 49:02 they taught sitting down. 49:04 And that's because they wanted to be eye to eye. 49:06 You know, I'm with you, I'm part of you. 49:08 So they didn't stand up like teachers do. 49:09 Sit down and teach. 49:11 And Christ didn't try to teach us 49:14 standing from heaven, He came down. 49:16 Eye to eye, you know, in eye to eye. 49:18 So He taught eye to eye. 49:21 And that's what the Bible is saying, 49:22 these things are very possible, not very doable, 49:26 because Christ has done them. 49:28 Eye to eye, He came down to live just like you. 49:30 So we can put this into practice, 49:31 be filled with the spirit, 49:33 so you could do every good work for the Lord. 49:35 Not half, not partial, but with God, 49:37 it's all or nothing. 49:39 You've got to give it all. 49:40 But you know, what I love about this scripture is, 49:42 it's God that's equipping you, it says the God of peace 49:45 who equips you with every good thing, 49:48 and He' the one that's working in you 49:50 to willing to do and-- 49:53 everything that's pleasing in His sight, so hallelujah. 49:56 We're standing on the Lord. 49:58 Okay, Jill, you want to take Luke 11:28. 50:02 Absolutely. 50:03 I want to take the one verse before, 50:05 so we kind of get the context here. 50:07 Luke 11:27 talks about Jesus speaking, 50:11 and a woman raised her voice and said, 50:12 "Blessed is the womb that bore you." 50:14 So in other words, your family is really blessed, 50:18 because she was the one who bore you. 50:21 Then verse 28, Jesus says, "But he said, 50:25 blessed rather are those who hear the Word of God 50:30 and obey and practice it." 50:33 So he's saying, those who hear and do God's word, 50:37 enter a relationship with Him 50:39 that's closer than even birth family. 50:42 You know, when you have family members who love God, 50:46 you can have a close bond with them. 50:48 But maybe if there's family members 50:49 who don't walk with God or don't know God, 50:52 you don't have that closer bond. 50:54 You could say, my brothers and sisters 50:56 around this table right here are closer to me 50:59 because of that bonding. 51:01 Yes. That's true. Yes. 51:02 And He says, blessed are those who hear the Word of God, 51:05 but we don't just hear it, you know, 51:06 the Bible says not to be hearers 51:08 only deceiving your own self. 51:10 We need to be a doer to walk in obedience, 51:14 to obey in practice. 51:15 And we know, 51:16 we don't walk in obedience of our own strength, 51:18 we don't just say, "I'm going to grit my teeth 51:20 and try harder." 51:21 It's that consenting, that surrender, that choice, 51:25 letting God fill us and work His obedience out. 51:28 And it shows us here. 51:29 I mean, He starts off by saying, blessed. 51:32 So it shows us that the pathway to obedience 51:35 is the pathway to blessing, isn't it? 51:37 Putting His word into practice. 51:39 All right J.D, 1 Corinthians 4:2, 51:43 our time is going quickly. Yes. 51:44 1 Corinthians 4:2, 51:46 I want to read it in the New King James, 51:48 and I'll read in the NIV. 51:50 "Moreover, it is required in stewards 51:53 that one be found faithful." 51:54 Steward being a good manager in life, okay. 51:57 A good manager, 51:59 because the Lord has matured you. 52:00 And then the-- 52:02 in NIV, "Now it is required 52:05 that those who have been given a trust 52:08 must prove faithful to be trustworthy." 52:12 So it's just kind of in the middle making sense 52:15 to me that if you've been given a responsibility, 52:18 and if you're mature. 52:21 Well then, you will be faithful in the assignment 52:24 that's been given you. 52:25 Here and it's kind of saying here, you know, 52:27 we're required to prove ourselves faithful 52:28 in practicing the word. 52:30 That kind of-- That's exactly right-- 52:31 You know, we've been given this word, 52:33 so we're required to prove ourselves. 52:35 And most often, you know, 52:36 you're very excited to be able to share something, 52:38 now you've been given that discernment, 52:40 and you're excited 52:41 and want to make a difference in peoples lives. 52:44 And when you see that word, prove it, 52:45 it presupposes that it's done in response to a test. 52:49 So the word prove stuck 52:51 and I mean that whatever is on the other side of that word 52:53 has been tested 52:54 and shown to be worthy of that designation. 52:57 So your faith, your love, your caring, 53:00 your walk with God will all be tested, 53:02 and you'll improve through trial and test, 53:04 just more faithful to God. 53:05 That's good. Amen. 53:07 Whenever I read that, I think, Lord Jesus, 53:08 I want to prove faithful. 53:10 You know, I don't want to be a Christian 53:12 that when the test comes, I fall. 53:14 You know, I want to prove faithful. 53:15 What do we want to hear in that day? 53:18 Well done. Well done. 53:19 Well done. Amen, amen. 53:21 Mollie Sue, our last scripture is Psalm 40:8. 53:24 And again, I want to read the one just preceding that. 53:27 Okay. 53:29 Psalms 40:7 says, "Then said I love. 53:32 I come in the volume of the book." 53:34 It is written of me, so who is that talking about? 53:37 Jesus. 53:38 It's talking about the Lord Jesus Christ. 53:40 Then it goes on to say, 53:41 now this would be Jesus talking, 53:43 "I delight to do your will of God, 53:47 your law is written in my heart." 53:49 So He says, I delight to do your will. 53:52 What was the will of God? 53:55 That He suffer, that He die on a cross, 53:58 that He receive that stripes. 54:03 That was the will of God, and He says, 54:06 "Not only will I do your will," but he says, "I delight." 54:11 How heroic! 54:13 What a heroic statement, knowing what was ahead of Him. 54:17 Jesus says, "I delight to do your will O God." 54:21 And He says, "You're always written in my heart." 54:24 What does that tell us? 54:26 That it wasn't just an external act 54:30 that He performed. 54:31 It was in His heart, 54:33 his obedience proceeded from His heart. 54:37 Is he delighted to do God's will? 54:38 He delighted to do God's will. 54:41 Now I am going to share something 54:43 that God miraculously imparted to Shelley Quinn. 54:47 And here's what the Lord imparted to you, Shelly. 54:52 He made the decision. He delighted to do God's will. 54:55 Where did He make it first? 54:56 In His deity, He made that decision in heaven. 55:00 In His humanity, 55:02 He made the same decision in Gethsemane, 55:05 in the Garden of Gethsemane. 55:07 He delighted to do the will of God, 55:10 which was to obtain our self-- 55:11 So He walked the talk. Amen. 55:13 He truly walked and He did. 55:14 So let's close our eyes and pray this prayer, 55:18 because we're going to put 55:20 all of these scriptures together now, 55:22 and we're going to return to the Lord, 55:24 they will not return void. 55:26 But God will watch over His word performance 55:28 seeing the end from the beginning. 55:31 Holy and righteous Father, 55:32 we thank You for giving us the mind of Christ 55:35 through Your Word. 55:36 We thank You that we have the mind of Christ 55:39 by the power of Your Spirit 55:40 who gives a spiritual understanding 55:42 and discernment. 55:43 Lord, we thank You 55:45 that just as Jesus did nothing of His own initiative, 55:48 you were teaching us to seek Your will 55:51 and do nothing of our own initiative. 55:54 Oh, Lord, our prayer is that You will cause our minds 55:57 to be renewed by Your Word 55:58 and fill us with a knowledge of you 56:00 that we might walk worthy of Your calling. 56:05 Teach us so, Lord, 56:06 to do what is pleasing in Your sight, 56:08 lead us by Your Spirit. 56:10 Thank You Father, 56:11 for equipping us in every good thing to do your will. 56:15 We know that sanctification, 56:18 our sanctification is Your will for our lives. 56:21 You desire us to be made holy to set us apart from sin 56:25 for your good purposes. 56:27 Lord, bless us in obeying Your Word. 56:30 You have entrusted us with the knowledge of You will 56:32 as founded in the Bible. 56:34 Help us to prove ourselves faithful in practicing it. 56:37 Oh, Lord, cause us to delight to do Your will 56:40 in Jesus name. 56:41 Amen. Amen. 56:42 Amen. 56:44 Well, this has been-- 56:45 it's always so much fun to get together 56:47 and just talk about the Scripture. 56:50 We have gone over a few things. 56:53 We could talk about sanctification from-- 56:57 I mean every program we could talk about sanctification, 57:00 and never run out of anything to say 57:02 because, this is God's work of a lifetime in us. 57:06 C.A., thank you for joining us. Pleasure. 57:08 Mollie Sue, Jill, thank you all so much for being here. 57:13 Honey, it is always good to sit next to you. 57:17 It's always good. 57:18 And so, now our prayer for you 57:20 is that the grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, 57:24 the love of the Father 57:25 and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit 57:27 will be with you on this Sabbath and always. 57:31 May God bless you. Amen and amen. 57:32 Amen. |
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