I want to spend
my life Spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I wanna spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words Let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I wanna spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I wanna spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello, and happy Sabbath
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and welcome to
3ABN's Family Worship.
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We are so thankful that
we have this opportunity
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to come into your
home on the Sabbath
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and have worship with you.
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Good.
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What an exciting
thing to do, isn't it?
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I think it's exciting, yes.
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And, you know, as we hear
back from you folks at home,
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it sounds like many of you
have been blessed by it too.
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I know we are always blessed
as we sit around this table.
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And we have some
3ABN family with us.
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To my left, is brother Greg
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and his lovely
wife, Jill Morikone.
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Good to be here.
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It's always a
blessing to spend time with you
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at family worship.
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Oh, merci.
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And then, of course,
to my right, Pastor Kenny
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and I'm Chris
Shelton by the way.
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That's the way.
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And then over to our
right is sister Mollie Steenson.
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And, Mollie Steenson,
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we are always on
our best behavior
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every time you're here.
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That's right. We promise.
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Just be yourself
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which is usually really
good behavior I must say.
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Well, the Lord is
good, the Lord is good.
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Amen.
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You know, today our theme
is entitled, 'God is love.'
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And as I was praying
for something yesterday,
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it just seemed like
the Lord led me to this.
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And there had been
so many things going on
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even in our own
family and around the world.
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Yes. That's true.
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You know, around the world,
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I had trouble even
going to sleep last night
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because there was an evangelist
that put on our Facebook
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about a war that
has started in Uganda
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and they took graphic pictures.
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Oh, my. And I was
just so heart broken.
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Yeah.
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And I laid there and
I prayed for a few hours
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and then you've
got all these fires
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and more
earthquakes around the world
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that is doing
such terrible damage.
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You have people that
are fighting diseases
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and loss of life
everywhere we turn
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and we realize
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that as the time grows closer
to Christ's second coming,
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that these things are
gonna continue to increase.
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Yeah. Right.
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So these promises...
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And going back and
reminding us that God is love...
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Yes. Is essential. Yes, it is.
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It's essential
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because we are not
gonna make it through
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these dark days
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and these dark hours
without those promises.
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I think we're together,
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I know God's
gonna do something good
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and we're gonna
bring some promises
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that we can hold on to today.
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Yeah, we can encourage the folks
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that when these things happen,
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we all know this,
we're seeing in the world.
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Oh, yeah.
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It tells us that Christ
is coming but Jesus said,
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"Lift up your heads for
your redemption draweth nigh,
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" That has always given
me encouragement and hope.
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That's right.
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And strength
because I'm thinking,
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"Oh, look at this.
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Oh, Lord, what's going on?"
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Jesus said, "Lift
up your head, Kenny..."
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Amen. "I'm coming soon.
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I'm gonna cut this
short in righteousness.
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I'm gonna take you
home to spend eternity."
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So it's an encouraging thing.
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It is and I'm
thinking about we, who know,
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like Danny is always saying,
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"We've read the
end of the book..."
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Yeah. That's right.
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"We know how things
are going to wind up"
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Yes.
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But there are
so many that don't.
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That's right.
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And so you have this
wonderful opportunity here
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as we do see things getting,
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waxing worse and
worse to share with those
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that don't know the truth.
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They don't have
the truth as you do.
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Share with them the good news
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and the love of
the Lord, Jesus Christ.
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Yes, amen. Amen.
That's it, Mollie.
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God gives us,
it's a responsibility.
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Right.
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You know, to
know the Word of God,
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to have that knowledge
comes with a responsibility.
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Absolutely.
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So as we see the
earthquakes and the fires
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and the escalation
of end time events.
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Yes, it is.
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That shows us that
Jesus is coming soon.
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Not only do I
personally need to be more
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in the Word of God and in prayer
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but God calls each one us
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to reach out to our
brothers and sisters...
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That's true. Yes, yes.
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To our neighbors, to our family
and to share the Word of God
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where there's still time.
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Oh, amen. Good point.
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And hopefully, this
will encourage people
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to open the Word of God.
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You know, my
heart aches many times
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because I meet
so many Christians
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that are not studiers.
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True.
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And I'm telling you,
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we will be deceived
as these things unfold,
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as the scroll rolls away.
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Yes.
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If we're not
studiers of the Word of God.
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It's true.
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Brother Greg, you had
something, just woman hour...
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You know...
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I wanna hear it. Okay. Yes.
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Well, I like this
topic, 'God is love'
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because, you know,
satan is there to show
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God as a tyrant in all
of these terrible things.
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So it's, you know, he
takes what God truly is
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and distorts it and makes
God as the terrible person.
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Oh, yes.
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So studying, 'God is
Love,' I like this topic.
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Amen. It says, God is love.
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He loves each one of us
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that He sent His
only begotten son.
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So we're gonna
dig into that a...
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Yes. Good. Amen.
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Little bit deeper and see
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if we can prove
that hypothesis for you.
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Yeah, all right.
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We wanna see if
we can prove that.
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Yes. Okay.
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Good scientist likes to
get in and prove a hypothesis.
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That's right. Let's do that.
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But before we do and
you might have noticed
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I didn't
introduce the piano player.
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We're running short
of one person here today,
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so we're gonna sing A cappella,
just one song with you.
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And, you know, this is a
good, I worked at youth camps
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and I've taught Sabbath
school from every age to adult.
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And this is a
good one we used to,
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even in our church
school we sang this a lot.
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As we were practicing
before we came on air,
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we were all doing
our little hand motions
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and we may do that,
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so if you wanna do that with us,
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the kids wanna do that, join in.
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I'll try, I might mess it up.
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That's okay.
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I'm usually one
behind, that's okay.
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We may mess up a
lot without that piano.
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'His banner over me is love.'
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Amen.
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He brought me to
His banqueting table,
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His banner over me is love.
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He brought me to
His banqueting table,
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His banner over me is love.
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He brought me to
His banqueting table,
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His banner over me is love.
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His banner over me is love.
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He lifted me up
into heavenly places,
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His banner over me is love.
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He lifted me up
into heavenly places,
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His banner over me is love.
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He lifted me up
into heavenly places,
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His banner over me is love.
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His banner over me is love.
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Jesus is the
rock of my salvation,
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His banner over me is love.
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Jesus is the
rock of my salvation,
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His banner over me is love.
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Jesus is the
rock of my salvation,
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His banner over me is love.
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His banner over me is love.
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Yes, it is.
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Praise the Lord. Amen.
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I like that one. Amen.
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Pastor Kenny, would
you lead us in prayer?
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Yes.
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All right, for those of you
who are viewing or listening,
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let's pray together, shall we?
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Merciful Father in
heaven, we thank you
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for thy beginning
hours of the Sabbath.
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We thank you for your love.
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We thank you for being with
us, providing all of our needs.
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And, Lord, as we come
together as one big family,
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we pray that your Holy
Spirit will lead, guide,
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reign in each of
our hearts and lives.
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Open our minds and
our ears and our hearts
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as we study your Word,
the subject, God Is Love.
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It's a subject that
many people do not understand
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as simple as it may sound.
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We pray your Holy Spirit
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now will illuminate
these beautiful truths
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that we may all fall
in love with Jesus again.
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We thank you for
hearing, for answering prayer
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and thank you for every viewer,
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thank you for every
person who's watching,
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every person who
wants to really know more
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about 'God Is Love,'
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may our hearts be in tune
now and may we hear Jesus speak.
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In His name we pray
and for His sake, Amen.
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Amen. Amen.
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His banner over me
is love. Beautiful.
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I'm gonna read
just a little paragraph
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that comes from a
compilation entitled,
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'Christ Triumphant.'
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And it actually
encapsulates Isaiah 57:15,
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Habakkuk 3:6 and James 1:17.
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See if you can pick out
those pieces of scripture.
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It reads, "His
nature, His law is love.
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It ever has
been and ever will be
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the high and lofty one
that inhabited eternity,
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whose ways are
everlasting, changeth not.
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With Him is no variableness,
neither shadow of turning."
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Amen.
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So we have one that
is the same yesterday,
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today and forever.
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And it says here
that even His law is love.
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Yeah.
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So, folks, what do you think?
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What do you think?
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Do you know what I looked
up those three scriptures,
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when I was going
through and reading it
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and in the scripture in Isaiah,
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if I can just read just
a little more than that.
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Yes. Sure. That
really spoke to me.
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The scripture from
Isaiah, you read here,
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"The high and lofty
one that inhabits eternity,
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" That's from
the Isaiah scripture.
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Yes. But if you
look at Isaiah 57.
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It says verse 15 and it
says what you had just read,
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that says, "The
high and lofty one
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who inhabits eternity,
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whose name is Holy,
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I dwell in the
high and holy place..."
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But I love the next part.
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Who does He dwell with?
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"With him who has a
contrite and a humble spirit..."
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Yes.
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"To revive the
spirit of the humble
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and revive the heart
of the contrite one."
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So to me this is, God
wants to dwell with us
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but if I'm full in
myself, in my pride,
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arrogance, selfishness,
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self sufficiency,
how can I receive God?
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Yes. How can I
receive who He is?
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So I loved that
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because it connected God
being high and lifted up and,
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like the vision Isaiah had...
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Yes, that's right.
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Of God high and on
the throne, lifted up.
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Him being high and holy
with us as humble children.
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Amen. Suppliance. Yes.
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Dependent on our
father. I liked that connection.
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Oh, yeah, awesome.
Beautiful thinking.
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I think as we rightly
divide the Word of God,
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God is calling us back...
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Yes. To being a humble people.
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Yes.
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A contrite
heart to be earnest...
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Amen. Forthright, sincere.
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Oh, yes.
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Pleading with God. Amen.
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That's what He's
looking for, a broken heart.
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Yeah, that's it.
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Broken with the sin
of this world and change.
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You know, and I think
also with what you just read,
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that's one reason
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we have so many
different interpretations
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because we're not
reading in the spirit.
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We're not reading with
a humble contrite heart,
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we're just kind of
reading to just be reading
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and maybe gleaning things
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and making it
sound like something
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in one place and
something else in another
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rather than letting the
Bible work together as a whole.
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Yes.
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I jotted down three things
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I thought at least
was interesting to me
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as I read through
and maybe simple to some
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but it hit a note for me.
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And I jotted them down
'cause we say, God is love.
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I'm glad He just
didn't leave it there...
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Yeah.
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Words 'cause a lot of
times when words are spoken,
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people don't pay attention
to them and so I jotted down.
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He wanted us to
know, "He loves us."
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Amen. You know, God is love.
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He wants us to
know that He loves us
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and then so He
wanted to, what did He do?
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He wanted to demonstrate. Yeah.
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That kind of His love,
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His character so
that would be holy,
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just and good and
mercy and so on and so forth
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and then that
wasn't quite enough.
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He was willing to come
down here to this earth,
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so that we would believe,
another opportunity because,
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you know, message can be
sent from heaven to earth
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as it's been through prophets
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and so on, so forth,
the Word, people read it.
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But He said, "I know
they're gonna read it,
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but many, there's
things they need to know,
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they need to know.
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I need to
demonstrate it for them
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so they can understand it
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and then over that,
I'm gonna send Jesus.
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Jesus is going to come
down and die on the cross,
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so they can
understand what love is about."
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Amen.
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Let me just add
this to what he just said
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and see what you guys think.
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And this is part of,
it's in that same book,
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Christ Triumphant,
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because as we look
back in the Old Testament,
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many times people
say, "Well, you know,
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Christ must not have been
a part of the Old Testament."
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It reads so
differently, you know,
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than what they feel
like the New Testament reads.
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But listen to this
paragraph, Spirit of Prophecy.
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I'll just, I'll back up,
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I'll read a
little bit more even,
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it says, "Every
manifestation of creative power,
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" we know that Christ was there,
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the Word was in
the beginning with God.
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"The Holy Spirit was there
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as an expression
of His infinite love."
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Yeah.
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It never changes, He will...
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As we begin to study that,
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He will never
ever stop loving you.
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Amen.
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Even if we don't
make it to the kingdom.
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That's right. He's
never gonna forget us.
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Ain't that deep? That is deep.
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Yeah, it is. Wow. That is deep.
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"The sovereignty of God
involves fullness of blessing
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to all created beings.
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The history, the history..."
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The Old and the
New Testament history.
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Yes.
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"Of the great
conflict between good and evil
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from the time it
first began in heaven."
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See we're...
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This even goes back. Oh, yeah.
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Because this war
started in heaven.
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"To the final
overthrow of rebellion
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and the total eradication of sin
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is also a demonstration
of God's unchanging love."
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Praise the Lord. Yes.
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We don't often think of
it that way, Sister Mollie.
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It's true.
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You know, I was thinking,
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the scripture is so
full of God is Love.
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Oh, yeah.
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And I'll read 1 John 4:9-11,
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let me just read those.
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And then I want to look at it
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from maybe from
another perspective.
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"This is how God
showed His love among us.
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He sent His one and
only Son into the world,
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that we might live through Him.
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This is love.
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Not that we loved God,
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but that He loved
us and sent His son
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as an atoning
sacrifice for our sins."
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Amen.
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"Dear friends,
since God so loved us,
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we also ought to
love one another."
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And do you all
recall some years ago,
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that Dwight Nelson
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did spring camp
meeting for 3ABN.
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I do. Okay.
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The title of his,
one of his sermons
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and I think he
carried this thing
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throughout the camp meeting,
was the 11th commandment.
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Yeah.
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Remember that,
the 11th commandment.
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Oh, yeah. I do, I do. Okay.
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That's John
13:34-35, a new commandment.
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And if He's given us a
new commandment however,
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if you read the Word of God,
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there's a whole lot
of commandments in there.
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Oh, mercy, yes.
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But he labelled
this one the 11th,
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"A new
commandment I give to you..."
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And this is Jesus speaking. Wow.
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Now He's given
them a new commandment
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and who's He speaking to?
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He's speaking to the
select of the elect, is He not?
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He's talking to,
to His disciples.
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That's who He's talking
to and it's right before,
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He's giving them
His parting words,
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right before He's
gonna go to the cross
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and He's even
trying to tell them
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that He's going to the cross
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but they just
can't quite get this.
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But He says, "I'm gonna
give you a new commandment."
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And it was simply this,
"That you love one another.
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As I have loved you, that
you also love one another.
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By this will..."
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All men...
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"All men know that
you're my disciples,
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if you love one another."
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So we're here these
guys that hung out with Him
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or would you love to
have their opportunity...
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Oh, merci.
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To be around Him,
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to experience this love
we're talking about today.
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Yeah.
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Firsthand right from
Him and He's saying to them,
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"Guys, I want you
all to love each other."
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Yes. Yeah.
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To be imitators, what
does the scripture say?
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"The imitators of
God as dear children."
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Amen. So as a dear child.
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Beautiful. Yes. That's right.
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Oh, wow.
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You know, it's incredible to
me because Jesus, like you said,
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calls us to love each
other and, you know what?
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If he said, "Okay, outwardly
keep the commandments."
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I could do that
maybe, outwardly,
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in my own strength, right?
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I'm not talking the
spirit or the commandments,
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I could never do that
but the outwardly, okay,
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I won't go out and
physically murder someone.
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I won't steal, I won't like...
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But can I love someone
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as Jesus calls us
to love each other?
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No. Absolutely not.
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So to me what God calls us to do
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only can be done
through the anointing
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and power of His Holy Spirit.
00:17:39.92\00:17:41.79
Through Him, pouring
His love and life into me
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and transforming
us so that we can...
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That's true. Yes.
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In turn love someone else,
00:17:47.30\00:17:48.66
'cause what He called them
to do is really supernatural.
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To love other
people is supernatural.
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Yes, it is.
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But God can
implant within us His love.
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Amen.
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Even as that,
"We'd love our enemies,
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to do good to those
who despitefully use us,
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who persecute us."
00:18:03.04\00:18:04.55
And I know we did a
study on who is my neighbor
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and after that...
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Oh, yeah. Yeah, looking out.
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After that, it was unbelievable
00:18:10.45\00:18:12.35
because it really
affects our salvation.
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How we treat the
least of these my brother
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and we do it unto Christ.
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And that doesn't
matter where we are,
00:18:19.63\00:18:22.73
what store or what
someone's done to us,
00:18:22.76\00:18:25.57
that person that
doesn't smell good,
00:18:25.60\00:18:27.87
doesn't look
good, that's, you know,
00:18:27.90\00:18:29.80
just maybe not
even quite out there
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and you're passing by.
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How do you treat that
person? We're called to love.
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Yes. Yeah. To love.
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And you can't love
it if you don't have it.
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No. That's it.
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You got to fill up the cup.
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You can't do it on your own.
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This writer says,
"The love abroad of God..."
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Is what? Shed abroad.
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"Shed abroad in our
heart by the Holy Spirit
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which is given unto us."
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So we're without excuse. Amen.
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The God has
placed His love in our,
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it's what we do
with it, how we use it
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and if we're
obedient to His commandments.
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Have you heard a lot of excuses
00:18:57.80\00:18:59.13
of why somebody
is not your neighbor?
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Well, I don't, you know...
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Yes, I have.
00:19:02.30\00:19:03.64
But, you know, what I
read in 'Spirit of Prophecy'
00:19:03.67\00:19:05.01
is very interesting.
00:19:05.04\00:19:06.37
It says, "Every
person who has a need
00:19:06.41\00:19:08.61
is your neighbor."
00:19:08.64\00:19:09.98
That's right.
00:19:10.01\00:19:11.35
And that's every
person in the world...
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Yeah. Is our neighbor.
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So it's not just next
door we're talking about,
00:19:14.12\00:19:15.45
it's around the
world, to have that.
00:19:15.48\00:19:16.82
And there's
something I wanna read
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I thought was interesting,
00:19:18.22\00:19:19.55
what was just
been talked about here.
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The very first thing it said,
00:19:22.22\00:19:23.73
"If you talk
about love and I thought
00:19:23.76\00:19:25.29
how interesting it
is, how deep it can go.
00:19:25.33\00:19:27.73
And I thought love is..."
00:19:27.76\00:19:29.10
I found in Desire of
Ages, page 117 said this,
00:19:29.13\00:19:31.83
"He," talking about Jesus,
00:19:31.87\00:19:33.57
"Jesus took the nature of man
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with the possibility of
yielding to temptation."
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Yeah.
00:19:38.91\00:19:40.24
Now again you can
talk about the love of God
00:19:40.28\00:19:41.94
and you did a lot
of passage and thing,
00:19:41.98\00:19:44.71
then you can get a
little deeper into it
00:19:44.75\00:19:46.41
when you talk about
what really is love.
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Correct.
00:19:48.32\00:19:49.65
To say how Jesus
loved us, think about this,
00:19:49.68\00:19:53.62
He took the nature
of fallen nature of man.
00:19:53.66\00:19:57.06
And what did He do?
00:19:57.09\00:19:58.43
He's like, with the
possibility of sinning,
00:19:58.46\00:20:00.76
with the possibility
of never going back again.
00:20:00.80\00:20:03.37
That's right.
00:20:03.40\00:20:04.73
He gave the
sceptres back to His Father
00:20:04.77\00:20:07.47
and He came down
here and I get goose bumps
00:20:07.50\00:20:10.57
when I think about that
to say, look what He did.
00:20:10.61\00:20:13.51
That is just such what
love that is for each of us...
00:20:13.54\00:20:17.81
Who were His enemies,
00:20:17.85\00:20:20.18
who, you know,
despitefully used Him
00:20:20.22\00:20:22.52
but to me that just shows
what love really, really is.
00:20:22.55\00:20:25.42
Yeah.
00:20:25.45\00:20:26.79
You know, it
says, "Heaven came down
00:20:26.82\00:20:28.36
and glory filled my soul."
00:20:28.39\00:20:29.99
You know. He laid aside.
00:20:30.03\00:20:31.63
Yes. All of that.
00:20:31.66\00:20:33.26
All of His regalness.
00:20:33.29\00:20:37.07
He laid it all
aside and it says,
00:20:37.10\00:20:39.77
"That man is created
00:20:39.80\00:20:41.14
a little lower than the angels."
00:20:41.17\00:20:43.47
And so He didn't
just come down one step...
00:20:43.51\00:20:45.57
Yeah.
00:20:45.61\00:20:46.94
He came down two steps,
00:20:46.98\00:20:49.08
He came down to our level
so He could lift us up to Him,
00:20:49.11\00:20:52.91
that is love.
00:20:52.95\00:20:54.28
Yes. Amen. That's love.
00:20:54.32\00:20:55.65
And I, you know,
we can't even imagine.
00:20:55.68\00:20:57.52
Yeah.
00:20:57.55\00:20:58.89
While He had the possibility
of living, to be omnipresent.
00:20:58.92\00:21:03.63
Oh, but to think about it,
we'll get to find out someday.
00:21:03.66\00:21:07.20
Yes. Oh, Hallelujah.
00:21:07.23\00:21:09.13
Yeah, look at now...
00:21:09.16\00:21:10.50
But right now we're
seeing through a glass darkly.
00:21:10.53\00:21:12.80
So we're trying to
piece this together and say,
00:21:12.83\00:21:14.94
"Well, God gave that up."
00:21:14.97\00:21:16.50
You know, I think the only
way we can fully relate to it is
00:21:16.54\00:21:19.17
how many of us are
willing to die for someone
00:21:19.21\00:21:22.64
that we don't really know.
00:21:22.68\00:21:24.01
Yeah, wow.
00:21:24.05\00:21:25.38
That, you know...
00:21:25.41\00:21:26.75
For someone
that's an enemy. Yes.
00:21:26.78\00:21:28.12
Right.
00:21:28.15\00:21:29.48
'Cause while we
didn't even love Him,
00:21:29.52\00:21:30.85
He cried and
died for us. Yes. Yes.
00:21:30.89\00:21:32.22
You know, even on
the cross He's saying,
00:21:32.25\00:21:33.59
"Father, forgive them."
00:21:33.62\00:21:35.26
That is love.
00:21:35.29\00:21:36.62
That is the same
God in the New Testament
00:21:36.66\00:21:39.69
that we can find if we
search in the Old Testament,
00:21:39.73\00:21:42.63
the same one.
00:21:42.66\00:21:44.03
And so this is all,
He's trying to eradicate
00:21:44.07\00:21:46.80
all of these
things to put us back...
00:21:46.84\00:21:48.50
Amen.
00:21:48.54\00:21:49.87
In proper perspective
00:21:49.90\00:21:51.24
and what you said that
what the eleventh commandment.
00:21:51.27\00:21:54.74
Remind me of what Christ
said, where He hung, you know,
00:21:54.78\00:21:57.81
the first four, to
love thy neighbor as thy...
00:21:57.85\00:22:00.58
Or to love the Lord
thy God with all your heart
00:22:00.62\00:22:03.22
and thy neighbor as thyself,
00:22:03.25\00:22:04.59
so the first
four and the last six.
00:22:04.62\00:22:06.05
Amen. That's right.
Hangs all ten on there.
00:22:06.09\00:22:08.79
And it brings us
back to I Corinthians,
00:22:08.82\00:22:11.13
I love this, 13.
00:22:11.16\00:22:12.59
Amen. Oh, my.
You've gotta go there.
00:22:12.63\00:22:14.40
That's where I've
got my Bible put to.
00:22:14.43\00:22:15.90
All right. So I Corinthians 13.
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Yeah.
00:22:17.50\00:22:18.83
And we can go
through every one of these
00:22:18.87\00:22:20.57
if we want to
because the first one says,
00:22:20.60\00:22:23.27
"Though I speak with the tongues
00:22:23.30\00:22:24.94
of men and of angels."
00:22:24.97\00:22:27.54
We have no idea.
00:22:27.58\00:22:29.04
I mean, have you
ever heard angels speak?
00:22:29.08\00:22:31.61
Not that I'm
aware of. That's true.
00:22:31.65\00:22:33.15
Not that I'm
aware and if they did,
00:22:33.18\00:22:34.52
they spoke English.
00:22:34.55\00:22:37.32
All right.
00:22:37.35\00:22:38.69
But we don't know the language,
"But if we have not charity..."
00:22:38.72\00:22:41.66
Which we
realize that means love,
00:22:41.69\00:22:43.53
if we have not love,
00:22:43.56\00:22:45.86
"I become as a sounding
brass or a tinkling cymbal."
00:22:45.89\00:22:49.30
We're just a noise maker.
00:22:49.33\00:22:50.70
My.
00:22:50.73\00:22:52.07
So with everything
we're talking about here
00:22:52.10\00:22:54.04
whether it be the
eleventh commandment
00:22:54.07\00:22:55.40
or all the
commandments hanging on love.
00:22:55.44\00:22:57.21
If we are just
keeping it out of,
00:22:57.24\00:23:00.28
thus sayeth the Lord and
we're just hammering on it
00:23:00.31\00:23:02.71
and it's just the
way, like you said,
00:23:02.74\00:23:04.21
I can maybe do this on my own
00:23:04.25\00:23:06.45
without the love of
God, we're just making noise.
00:23:06.48\00:23:08.68
That's right. Amen.
00:23:08.72\00:23:10.05
We're not filled
with the Spirit of God.
00:23:10.09\00:23:11.42
No.
00:23:11.45\00:23:12.79
What other one is in there,
this is full of a lot of...
00:23:12.82\00:23:14.16
Oh, is this...
00:23:14.19\00:23:15.52
Yeah, sure. Amen.
00:23:15.56\00:23:17.23
My favorite
part is, I don't know
00:23:17.26\00:23:19.13
if you wanna jump that far...
00:23:19.16\00:23:20.50
Let's... We will jump.
00:23:20.53\00:23:21.86
But verses 4-8
is my favorite part
00:23:21.90\00:23:23.50
of I Corinthians 13.
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Come on, walk us through it.
00:23:24.90\00:23:26.23
I have this seven character,
00:23:26.27\00:23:27.60
I have written in
the margin of my Bible,
00:23:27.64\00:23:28.97
the seven
characteristics of love.
00:23:29.00\00:23:30.34
Yes.
00:23:30.37\00:23:31.71
And the eight attitudes
that are foreign to love
00:23:31.74\00:23:34.41
'cause you notice
it says, love is this.
00:23:34.44\00:23:36.71
That's the
characteristics of love.
00:23:36.75\00:23:38.61
And then love is not or
love does not do these things.
00:23:38.65\00:23:41.82
Yes. That's right.
00:23:41.85\00:23:43.18
And those were
like the attitudes
00:23:43.22\00:23:44.55
that are foreign to love
00:23:44.59\00:23:45.92
and I remember taking this
and I need to do this again,
00:23:45.95\00:23:48.36
'cause it's been a
little while since I did this
00:23:48.39\00:23:50.26
but I took every day,
a different attribute.
00:23:50.29\00:23:53.36
Okay.
00:23:53.40\00:23:54.73
And so say the
first one of verse 4,
00:23:54.76\00:23:56.10
"Love suffers long."
00:23:56.13\00:23:57.47
Wow.
00:23:57.50\00:23:58.83
So I would say in the morning,
"God, give me your patience."
00:23:58.87\00:24:01.50
Yes.
00:24:01.54\00:24:02.87
"Enable me to suffer long
even if it's actually suffering,
00:24:02.90\00:24:06.84
even if there's pain."
00:24:06.88\00:24:08.21
Mercy.
00:24:08.24\00:24:09.58
"Help me today in the situations
00:24:09.61\00:24:11.35
that I'm facing,
to walk this out."
00:24:11.38\00:24:13.65
Amen.
00:24:13.68\00:24:15.02
You know, and I can't do
that of my own but, Lord Jesus,
00:24:15.05\00:24:18.12
give me that and then
the next day, it is kind.
00:24:18.15\00:24:21.12
It suffers long and is
kind. Yes, it is, yeah.
00:24:21.16\00:24:23.16
"Oh, Father, give
me your kindness."
00:24:23.19\00:24:24.83
Amen.
00:24:24.86\00:24:26.19
"For my neighbors, for
those you come in contact with,
00:24:26.23\00:24:28.83
for those you talk
with on the phone."
00:24:28.86\00:24:30.20
Amen. "Give me your kindness."
00:24:30.23\00:24:31.80
Love does not envy.
00:24:31.83\00:24:33.20
Now that's an
attitude foreign to love.
00:24:33.23\00:24:34.57
Yes, come on, come on. Yeah.
00:24:34.60\00:24:36.20
Love does not envy,
00:24:36.24\00:24:37.57
envy is an
attitude foreign to love.
00:24:37.61\00:24:39.91
Love does not pride in itself,
00:24:39.94\00:24:42.08
so pride is an
attitude foreign to love.
00:24:42.11\00:24:44.61
Yes. Yes.
00:24:44.65\00:24:45.98
Love is not puffed
up, that's pride again.
00:24:46.01\00:24:48.42
Does not behave rudely.
00:24:48.45\00:24:50.85
That's foreign
to love. Have mercy.
00:24:50.89\00:24:53.02
Thinks no evil. Right.
00:24:53.05\00:24:55.09
How many times as
you go throughout the day
00:24:55.12\00:24:56.79
and this situation arises...
00:24:56.83\00:24:58.16
Oh, we judge each other.
00:24:58.19\00:24:59.53
And instantly I think...
00:24:59.56\00:25:00.90
Oh, be careful, man. "Oh,
they must have done this."
00:25:00.93\00:25:02.83
You don't know
that. No. No, you don't.
00:25:02.86\00:25:04.67
No, that is evil
surmising. Evil surmising.
00:25:04.70\00:25:07.70
Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am.
00:25:07.74\00:25:09.44
Oh, my. Yes.
00:25:09.47\00:25:10.81
So I don't wanna mean to
hog the time and keep going.
00:25:10.84\00:25:12.37
No, keep going, go
on. Love thinks no evil.
00:25:12.41\00:25:15.41
Does not rejoice in iniquity
but rejoices in the truth
00:25:15.44\00:25:19.45
and I think it does
not rejoice in iniquity,
00:25:19.48\00:25:21.32
not only false
doctrines and false teachings
00:25:21.35\00:25:23.92
but it doesn't rejoice
00:25:23.95\00:25:25.29
when my brothers
and sisters stumble.
00:25:25.32\00:25:27.12
You know, you don't
rejoice and see an iniquity
00:25:27.16\00:25:29.46
in some one else.
00:25:29.49\00:25:30.83
No, no, that's right.
It rejoices in the truth.
00:25:30.86\00:25:33.09
Bears all things.
00:25:33.13\00:25:34.56
These are those
characteristics of love.
00:25:34.60\00:25:36.67
Believes all things.
00:25:36.70\00:25:38.57
Hopes all things and endures
all things, love never fails.
00:25:38.60\00:25:43.67
Wow. That's deep.
00:25:43.71\00:25:45.77
Yeah, that's real deep.
00:25:45.81\00:25:47.68
You know, Brother
Greg, one of the passages
00:25:47.71\00:25:50.81
was I John 4:16,
I think it was on...
00:25:50.85\00:25:53.72
Just saying, "God is love."
00:25:53.75\00:25:55.32
And you're
thinking, "God is love.
00:25:55.35\00:25:56.92
How does that reveal?
00:25:56.95\00:25:58.29
How do we..."
00:25:58.32\00:25:59.65
And I jotted some
of it down, it said,
00:25:59.69\00:26:01.02
"All that man needs to know
or can know of God is revealed
00:26:01.06\00:26:05.63
through Jesus Christ."
00:26:05.66\00:26:07.00
Yeah, amen.
00:26:07.03\00:26:08.36
Everything that we need to
know about God has been revealed
00:26:08.40\00:26:11.80
through Jesus Christ
00:26:11.83\00:26:13.17
because that's who He came
to represent on this earth.
00:26:13.20\00:26:15.10
And I think reflex.
00:26:15.14\00:26:16.47
Yes, and I think what
she just walked us through...
00:26:16.50\00:26:19.17
Yes. Is what Christ reflected.
00:26:19.21\00:26:20.54
Amen.
00:26:20.58\00:26:21.91
You know, as
you're sitting here,
00:26:21.94\00:26:23.28
I mean, there's no better lesson
00:26:23.31\00:26:24.71
that we could give
anybody than right here.
00:26:24.75\00:26:28.52
If every family would
adopt these principles.
00:26:28.55\00:26:31.29
Yes. Oh, wow.
00:26:31.32\00:26:32.65
What a different
world we would have.
00:26:32.69\00:26:34.72
What a different world,
it would not be the same.
00:26:34.76\00:26:37.19
But can't we really
just decide, maybe, Greg,
00:26:37.23\00:26:40.00
you can help me and, Mollie,
anybody wants to come in.
00:26:40.03\00:26:41.96
Can we just really
decide, okay, I've read them,
00:26:42.00\00:26:45.10
I've got them now.
00:26:45.13\00:26:46.47
No, no, it's a Word.
00:26:46.50\00:26:48.20
I've got it and it's gonna work,
00:26:48.24\00:26:49.57
I don't have to
worry about it anymore
00:26:49.60\00:26:50.94
because I'm just gonna
implement these in my life
00:26:50.97\00:26:52.97
and it's gonna work, will it?
00:26:53.01\00:26:54.58
You pray about it. I
am listening to Jill.
00:26:54.61\00:26:57.71
I can remember when
everyday, I would read this,
00:26:57.75\00:27:01.65
only it would be,
00:27:01.68\00:27:03.02
Mollie suffers long and is kind.
00:27:03.05\00:27:06.12
Mollie doesn't envy.
00:27:06.15\00:27:08.76
I would
personalize this to myself
00:27:08.79\00:27:11.03
to put it and during that time,
00:27:11.06\00:27:13.63
yeah, I walked
more closely to this.
00:27:13.66\00:27:15.73
Amen.
00:27:15.76\00:27:17.10
But when you get
away from the Word,
00:27:17.13\00:27:18.97
then it becomes dimmer.
00:27:19.00\00:27:21.10
That's why it's
vitally important for us
00:27:21.14\00:27:22.77
to stay in this Word, Greg.
00:27:22.80\00:27:24.14
That's right.
00:27:24.17\00:27:25.51
All the time and
whatever you are,
00:27:25.54\00:27:28.04
you're in in the Word.
00:27:28.08\00:27:29.64
That's the part that is
going to be emanating from you.
00:27:29.68\00:27:32.28
That's right.
00:27:32.31\00:27:33.65
And so I was just thinking
and I don't want to just say,
00:27:33.68\00:27:36.62
"Oh, God, I'm gonna
start doing that again.
00:27:36.65\00:27:38.49
It's got by the
power of your Spirit."
00:27:38.52\00:27:40.16
Yes, yes.
00:27:40.19\00:27:41.52
"Please quicken me and enable me
00:27:41.56\00:27:42.89
to spend the time in the Word
00:27:42.92\00:27:44.79
as you have shown
me in the past to do."
00:27:44.83\00:27:46.59
Yeah, I like
studying the life of Christ,
00:27:46.63\00:27:49.16
while He was
here on this earth too
00:27:49.20\00:27:50.53
because even if...
00:27:50.57\00:27:52.57
'Cause He wasn't
treated always the best.
00:27:52.60\00:27:55.44
Was He? Or was
He? No. He wasn't.
00:27:55.47\00:27:57.21
Seems like He got crucified.
00:27:57.24\00:27:58.57
Yeah, that's exactly.
00:27:58.61\00:28:00.14
You know, and yet He loved.
00:28:00.18\00:28:01.58
He did. Yeah.
00:28:01.61\00:28:02.94
To the very
end. To the very end.
00:28:02.98\00:28:05.28
And the same
people over and over again
00:28:05.31\00:28:08.18
because sometimes,
you know, we're hurt,
00:28:08.22\00:28:09.55
but, man, when
you're hurt by somebody
00:28:09.58\00:28:10.95
over and over and
over again, it's hard.
00:28:10.99\00:28:14.96
That's when to me is
00:28:14.99\00:28:16.32
when the rubber hits
the road for me like,
00:28:16.36\00:28:17.79
"Oh, God, I don't
really want to love them."
00:28:17.83\00:28:20.36
Yes. And that's hard.
00:28:20.40\00:28:22.13
Being honest.
00:28:22.16\00:28:23.50
When it gets to the
point but, you know,
00:28:23.53\00:28:24.93
when you study Christ,
again like Mollie said,
00:28:24.97\00:28:27.54
He was crucified.
00:28:27.57\00:28:29.24
That's, you know, He was killed.
00:28:29.27\00:28:31.17
Yeah, is it
important for like...
00:28:31.21\00:28:32.81
It's come to the point
like fruits of the Spirit,
00:28:32.84\00:28:35.04
we're talking about love,
we're talking about all these,
00:28:35.08\00:28:37.01
you know, as I went over there
and I've said it many times,
00:28:37.05\00:28:40.42
I keep saying, I went
over the fruits of the Spirit
00:28:40.45\00:28:42.98
and I failed
every one of the test.
00:28:43.02\00:28:44.35
Oh, yeah, me too. Me too.
00:28:44.39\00:28:45.72
I mean, when I looked at
it, I never gloried and said,
00:28:45.75\00:28:47.09
"Oh, I've got this one.
00:28:47.12\00:28:48.46
I've got..."
00:28:48.49\00:28:49.82
Everyone I looked at
was with a heart with tears.
00:28:49.86\00:28:52.16
I failed and I realized
00:28:52.19\00:28:54.46
as I read the
Spirit of Prophecy,
00:28:54.50\00:28:55.86
as I read the Word of God,
if I fail in one aspect of it,
00:28:55.90\00:29:00.14
heaven will never be my home.
00:29:00.17\00:29:02.34
You know, I'm saying, "Oh, Lord,
00:29:02.37\00:29:03.71
I failed in everyone miserable."
00:29:03.74\00:29:05.07
But the good news
is we come to Him,
00:29:05.11\00:29:07.48
we recognize first that what?
00:29:07.51\00:29:09.04
We failed
miserably. That's right.
00:29:09.08\00:29:10.41
That's right.
00:29:10.45\00:29:11.78
I'm just going to
accept and I'm going to do it.
00:29:11.81\00:29:13.15
No, I failed
miserably on all of these
00:29:13.18\00:29:14.62
but I want these in my life.
00:29:14.65\00:29:15.98
Amen.
00:29:16.02\00:29:17.35
I want them
growing inside of me,
00:29:17.39\00:29:18.72
I want to grow every day
and I want to be like you
00:29:18.75\00:29:22.06
and I guarantee He'll
work some tremendous miracles.
00:29:22.09\00:29:24.96
Go ahead.
00:29:24.99\00:29:26.33
Well, I wanna
just add on to that
00:29:26.36\00:29:27.70
because that goes back
then to me to the love of God
00:29:27.73\00:29:30.37
because, okay, so I'm failing,
00:29:30.40\00:29:32.00
I know I am, you know, as
we're studying this already,
00:29:32.03\00:29:34.04
I'm convicted, you know.
00:29:34.07\00:29:35.40
And so that's where then I
can reach out to God and say,
00:29:35.44\00:29:37.97
"You know, you love me
00:29:38.01\00:29:39.34
even though I'm
just a miserable sinner."
00:29:39.37\00:29:40.81
Yes.
00:29:40.84\00:29:42.18
I don't have to worry that,
"Okay, God's given up on me
00:29:42.21\00:29:44.31
because I failed
Him multiple times."
00:29:44.35\00:29:46.58
You know, I know that
people fail me multiple times
00:29:46.61\00:29:47.98
but when I'm failing God...
00:29:48.02\00:29:49.35
Yes.
00:29:49.38\00:29:50.72
I know that God still loves me
and you know that's great hope
00:29:50.75\00:29:52.15
because you said, good news.
00:29:52.19\00:29:53.52
You know, the good thing...
00:29:53.56\00:29:54.89
We need hope.
00:29:54.92\00:29:56.26
Yeah, maybe talked
about this one time
00:29:56.29\00:29:58.06
before about how
interesting it is.
00:29:58.09\00:30:00.16
And this is exactly,
00:30:00.20\00:30:01.53
at least to me
it's a good example,
00:30:01.56\00:30:03.16
is that Christ, He
understood His disciples.
00:30:03.20\00:30:06.30
Yeah.
00:30:06.33\00:30:07.67
Judas, we talked
about before, right?
00:30:07.70\00:30:09.30
He knew he was a traitor,
He knew what he was going do
00:30:09.34\00:30:11.94
but notice what
'Desire of Ages' says,
00:30:11.97\00:30:14.01
it says that,
"Jesus purposely kept Judas
00:30:14.04\00:30:17.41
close by His side,
00:30:17.45\00:30:19.41
so he could counteract
the damage that he was doing,
00:30:19.45\00:30:22.68
plus give him opportunity
00:30:22.72\00:30:24.85
to repent and turn back to Him."
00:30:24.89\00:30:28.16
Jesus would not let him
go, knowing what he was doing,
00:30:28.19\00:30:31.73
how the end
result, the whole business
00:30:31.76\00:30:33.60
but He wouldn't let him go.
00:30:33.63\00:30:34.96
Amen. That's beautiful.
00:30:35.00\00:30:36.33
Now that's real love,
'cause we have the tendency,
00:30:36.36\00:30:38.20
we know somebody is
gonna pull a shenanigan...
00:30:38.23\00:30:39.57
We wanna throw him out.
00:30:39.60\00:30:40.94
We throw him out
before they throw us out.
00:30:40.97\00:30:43.04
Or you wanna expose it.
00:30:43.07\00:30:44.54
Thank you. Right?
00:30:44.57\00:30:45.91
You wanna say, "Okay,
00:30:45.94\00:30:47.28
everybody see
what Judas is doing,
00:30:47.31\00:30:48.64
I want you all to
know what Judas is doing."
00:30:48.68\00:30:50.01
That's the human...
That's a human, right?
00:30:50.05\00:30:51.38
Yes, yes. That's
right. That's right.
00:30:51.41\00:30:52.75
Right. That's human.
00:30:52.78\00:30:54.12
Go ahead.
00:30:54.15\00:30:55.48
I'm just
thinking of the scripture
00:30:55.52\00:30:56.85
based on what you said is that,
00:30:56.89\00:30:58.22
love does
something, covers, love covers.
00:30:58.25\00:31:01.16
Love covers what?
00:31:01.19\00:31:02.82
The multitude of sin. Yes.
00:31:02.86\00:31:04.19
Okay, if love covers,
what is the opposite of love?
00:31:04.23\00:31:07.73
So it would be the
accuser of the brethren
00:31:07.76\00:31:09.10
is what I think.
00:31:09.13\00:31:10.47
Yes, it would.
00:31:10.50\00:31:11.83
If love covers... Wow.
00:31:11.87\00:31:13.20
And that means not that
you cover it up to hide it...
00:31:13.23\00:31:17.47
No, no, that's
different. But you pray.
00:31:17.51\00:31:19.24
Cover it with prayer and then
as the accuser of the brethren,
00:31:19.27\00:31:22.54
it goes around exposing.
00:31:22.58\00:31:23.91
Oh, yes.
00:31:23.95\00:31:25.28
So if you're in a situation
00:31:25.31\00:31:26.65
where somebody's
always wanting to tell you,
00:31:26.68\00:31:28.88
like this a
little titbit gossip.
00:31:28.92\00:31:30.25
Oh, no, no.
00:31:30.29\00:31:31.62
To uncover people's nakedness.
00:31:31.65\00:31:33.86
Yes. Yes. Their sinfulness.
00:31:33.89\00:31:35.32
Then you recognize what
camp you're falling into.
00:31:35.36\00:31:37.86
Are you falling
into the camp of,
00:31:37.89\00:31:39.83
God is love and love
covers the multitude of sin
00:31:39.86\00:31:43.57
or is the
accuser of the brethren
00:31:43.60\00:31:45.83
that goes about exposing
everything they can expose?
00:31:45.87\00:31:48.67
Isn't that clear?
00:31:48.70\00:31:50.04
One of two camps,
this is gonna fall into.
00:31:50.07\00:31:51.41
Isn't that clear?
00:31:51.44\00:31:52.77
I mean, you've
made this so clear
00:31:52.81\00:31:54.14
and the Bible is
so clear on that issue
00:31:54.18\00:31:55.51
and yet when someone
comes up with some juicy gossip,
00:31:55.54\00:31:58.08
that's like we can't just...
00:31:58.11\00:31:59.48
We can't say, no.
00:31:59.51\00:32:01.32
We can't say, we wanted
to, yeah, what was that?
00:32:01.35\00:32:04.35
I know... Oh, let's...
00:32:04.39\00:32:05.72
Yes, yes. We know
when we're doing it.
00:32:05.75\00:32:07.66
It's wrong to even listen.
00:32:07.69\00:32:09.02
I'm telling you this
and we'll pray about it.
00:32:09.06\00:32:10.39
We know that it's
wrong but yet we go ahead
00:32:10.43\00:32:12.13
because we love
the juicy gossip,
00:32:12.16\00:32:14.53
which is the devil.
00:32:14.56\00:32:15.90
That's absolutely
right. Which is the enemy side.
00:32:15.93\00:32:17.70
So, you know, God
help us, one thing we do,
00:32:17.73\00:32:20.24
wanna try to do is
when someone comes up
00:32:20.27\00:32:21.87
and says something,
00:32:21.90\00:32:23.24
now this may not work
for those of you at home.
00:32:23.27\00:32:24.77
It helps to, it
works in my life.
00:32:24.81\00:32:27.18
They'll come and they'll say,
00:32:27.21\00:32:28.54
"Well, did you
hear about so-and-so?"
00:32:28.58\00:32:29.91
I said, "You know what?
00:32:29.94\00:32:31.28
I really love
brother so-and-so or sister,
00:32:31.31\00:32:32.65
they are such a sweet person."
00:32:32.68\00:32:34.02
I've heard him do
this. And that'll stop them.
00:32:34.05\00:32:35.38
You know what?
00:32:35.42\00:32:36.75
I said, "They're such a person,
they... Well, they don't do."
00:32:36.79\00:32:38.35
I said, "Everything
I've seen them do is good.
00:32:38.39\00:32:40.06
My relationship
with them is good
00:32:40.09\00:32:41.46
and we love that person,
we want them in the kingdom."
00:32:41.49\00:32:43.89
Pretty soon,
they're about to face,
00:32:43.93\00:32:45.26
they're somewhere else.
00:32:45.29\00:32:46.63
They're looking for
somebody else to talk to.
00:32:46.66\00:32:48.00
That will lend an ear.
00:32:48.03\00:32:49.36
If you don't lend an ear,
there can't be any gossip,
00:32:49.40\00:32:50.73
so be careful.
00:32:50.77\00:32:52.10
The scripture says,
"We are to guard our heart
00:32:52.13\00:32:53.84
with all vigilance and
above all that we guard,
00:32:53.87\00:32:56.67
for out of it flow,
the issues of life."
00:32:56.71\00:33:00.18
What are the two ways that
things can get into your heart?
00:33:00.21\00:33:02.21
Yes.
00:33:02.24\00:33:03.58
Now think about
this, there's only two ways
00:33:03.61\00:33:05.58
things can get into your heart.
00:33:05.61\00:33:07.32
What you see and what you hear.
00:33:07.35\00:33:09.45
And there
scripture that tells you
00:33:09.48\00:33:11.25
to put a guard over your
ears and guard over your eyes.
00:33:11.29\00:33:12.85
Amen, yes. Lord, have mercy.
00:33:12.89\00:33:14.32
So when somebody comes
to, and what they're doing is
00:33:14.36\00:33:17.89
they're dumping garbage into you
00:33:17.93\00:33:20.00
and once you hear something,
00:33:20.03\00:33:22.23
even if you know
it's not the truth,
00:33:22.26\00:33:23.83
you still have to deal with it.
00:33:23.87\00:33:25.20
That's right. That's right.
00:33:25.23\00:33:26.57
And so guard
your heart. Seriously.
00:33:26.60\00:33:27.94
Don't let your heart
become a garbage dump for gossip
00:33:27.97\00:33:32.17
and for goodness sakes,
when it comes on television,
00:33:32.21\00:33:34.64
if you're not watching
3ABN, turn that channel.
00:33:34.68\00:33:37.18
Thank you. Thank
you, I did it, all right.
00:33:37.21\00:33:39.61
I got it now.
00:33:39.65\00:33:40.98
But you know, one thing I love
00:33:41.02\00:33:42.35
about all these
attributes of love
00:33:42.38\00:33:43.92
is that we don't have
to acquire these on our own
00:33:43.95\00:33:47.22
and the way I learned
this was, I was in my 20s
00:33:47.26\00:33:50.03
and I had a neighbor
00:33:50.06\00:33:51.53
and she was not
very kind, she...
00:33:51.56\00:33:54.53
You mentioned earlier,
00:33:54.56\00:33:55.90
somebody comes up
to you several times,
00:33:55.93\00:33:57.27
how hard it is...
00:33:57.30\00:33:58.63
It is.
00:33:58.67\00:34:00.00
And it was that way in
my heart and I thought,
00:34:00.04\00:34:01.40
"Lord, I don't like her."
00:34:01.44\00:34:03.97
Well, now.
00:34:04.01\00:34:05.34
I don't like her but I
knew that that was wrong.
00:34:05.37\00:34:07.54
Yeah. That's right.
00:34:07.58\00:34:08.91
And so I made it
a matter of prayer
00:34:08.94\00:34:11.48
with these beautiful
promises in the Word of God,
00:34:11.51\00:34:14.48
that God is a God of love
00:34:14.52\00:34:16.95
and we're to love our neighbors
00:34:16.99\00:34:18.35
and I said,
"Lord, I don't have it,
00:34:18.39\00:34:21.12
I don't have it
with her anymore."
00:34:21.16\00:34:23.12
I said, "Father,
will you give it to me?
00:34:23.16\00:34:26.70
Give me your love."
00:34:26.73\00:34:28.20
Yes.
00:34:28.23\00:34:29.56
That's where it
made a difference.
00:34:29.60\00:34:30.93
Amen.
00:34:30.97\00:34:32.30
Everything I tried was useless.
00:34:32.33\00:34:34.30
If I try all these
things that you're talking about
00:34:34.34\00:34:36.64
with the enemy
versus with Christ.
00:34:36.67\00:34:38.97
You know, my mind
is always gonna go,
00:34:39.01\00:34:41.01
"I heard, I thought..."
00:34:41.04\00:34:42.54
But when Christ comes in,
00:34:42.58\00:34:43.91
He's such a wonderful physician.
00:34:43.95\00:34:46.28
Amen.
00:34:46.31\00:34:47.65
He changes our thought patterns
00:34:47.68\00:34:49.82
and He can give you
His love for your enemies.
00:34:49.85\00:34:53.59
So how did it work out?
00:34:53.62\00:34:55.29
It ended up...
00:34:55.32\00:34:56.66
I wanna get to the
bottom of this thing.
00:34:56.69\00:34:58.03
Everything turned around.
00:34:58.06\00:34:59.93
I knew it would. Everything.
00:34:59.96\00:35:01.33
I knew it would. You know why?
00:35:01.36\00:35:02.70
And I was able to love her
00:35:02.73\00:35:04.07
and I was able to
help her and her son.
00:35:04.10\00:35:06.13
You said because the
Bible has told you that...
00:35:06.17\00:35:08.10
It was because of Christ.
00:35:08.14\00:35:09.47
Christ Object Lesson, 147 said,
00:35:09.50\00:35:12.24
"God stands behind every promise
00:35:12.27\00:35:13.98
that He ever made"
00:35:14.01\00:35:15.34
Amen. Man, I love that.
00:35:15.38\00:35:16.71
I mean, the Bible's clear
on, spirit prophecy is clear,
00:35:16.75\00:35:18.38
every promise He stands behind.
00:35:18.41\00:35:19.88
Yes, we just have
to learn to claim them.
00:35:19.91\00:35:21.82
Amen. Claim them
and go for it, yeah.
00:35:21.85\00:35:23.18
Amen. It's so exciting to me.
00:35:23.22\00:35:24.85
The Word of God is
so powerful. It is.
00:35:24.89\00:35:27.69
Because the
promises in the Word,
00:35:27.72\00:35:29.72
we can call those things
00:35:29.76\00:35:31.09
that are not as
though they already are.
00:35:31.13\00:35:33.06
Amen.
00:35:33.09\00:35:34.43
And so even if I
read this and I say,
00:35:34.46\00:35:36.30
"God, I don't possess this love"
00:35:36.33\00:35:37.67
Yeah.
00:35:37.70\00:35:39.03
"But I'm claiming this promise
right here over my life."
00:35:39.07\00:35:42.34
You think about,
in the Hebrews 4:12,
00:35:42.37\00:35:44.41
the "Word of God
is living, alive,
00:35:44.44\00:35:46.27
quick and powerful and
sharper than any two-edged sword
00:35:46.31\00:35:49.84
and it pierces even
to the dividing asunder
00:35:49.88\00:35:52.15
of the joints and
marrow and soul and spirit
00:35:52.18\00:35:54.32
and is a discern of the thoughts
00:35:54.35\00:35:55.68
and intents of the heart."
00:35:55.72\00:35:57.05
And I think the Word of
God has that life giving power.
00:35:57.09\00:36:02.69
So the same power when God,
Jesus at the beginning said,
00:36:02.72\00:36:06.80
"Let there be light.
00:36:06.83\00:36:09.26
Instantly the light appeared,
00:36:09.30\00:36:10.87
the same power that
spoke the world into existence
00:36:10.90\00:36:13.54
and there are the
plants and animals
00:36:13.57\00:36:15.74
and air and all of
that is right here...
00:36:15.77\00:36:18.31
Amen.
00:36:18.34\00:36:19.67
In front of us, the same power.
00:36:19.71\00:36:21.51
So when you and I
00:36:21.54\00:36:23.98
claim the promises
from the word of God,
00:36:24.01\00:36:27.12
that same power is at
work in our hearts and lives
00:36:27.15\00:36:30.09
to change us.
00:36:30.12\00:36:31.45
So like you said,
"God give me that love.
00:36:31.49\00:36:33.89
Claim those promises
00:36:33.92\00:36:35.26
and God can change us
by the power of spirit.
00:36:35.29\00:36:37.09
You got to plug in. Amen.
00:36:37.13\00:36:38.66
Take time to plug in.
00:36:38.69\00:36:40.43
Desire of Ages, I think
page 22 talks about to know God
00:36:40.46\00:36:46.03
is to love God, think about it.
00:36:46.07\00:36:49.47
What is only by
love is love awakened.
00:36:49.50\00:36:52.31
That's right. Right.
00:36:52.34\00:36:53.68
It is, somebody shows
you that kind of love,
00:36:53.71\00:36:55.51
it awakens something inside you,
00:36:55.54\00:36:57.05
you didn't may be
know even existed.
00:36:57.08\00:36:58.71
But to know him,
00:36:58.75\00:37:00.08
that's why plenty of
people don't know God.
00:37:00.12\00:37:01.78
They don't know
that kind of love.
00:37:01.82\00:37:03.62
But then you say what?
00:37:03.65\00:37:04.99
Look to Jesus. Amen.
00:37:05.02\00:37:06.35
Wow, there is that kind of love,
00:37:06.39\00:37:07.72
'cause that's God in the flesh.
00:37:07.76\00:37:09.19
Amen. It's wonderful. Go ahead.
00:37:09.22\00:37:11.03
I believe it's the
Desire of Ages too,
00:37:11.06\00:37:12.93
I know it's very near the front,
00:37:12.96\00:37:14.30
I wish I had my Desire of Ages
'cause I know where to find it,
00:37:14.33\00:37:17.77
where it says, if there
is a law of heaven and earth,
00:37:17.80\00:37:20.87
the law of the
universe, what is that?
00:37:20.90\00:37:22.74
Self sacrificing love.
00:37:22.77\00:37:24.11
Self sacrificing love,
which only Christ, you know,
00:37:24.14\00:37:27.94
he is the one that
has given us that example.
00:37:27.98\00:37:30.61
He is the epitome of
self sacrificing love.
00:37:30.65\00:37:32.71
Amen.
00:37:32.75\00:37:34.35
God's law is a law
of love in Romans 13:10.
00:37:34.38\00:37:39.85
It's a law of love.
00:37:39.89\00:37:41.36
Everything is
governed by what? Love.
00:37:41.39\00:37:44.49
As we look at in that,
that framework of love,
00:37:44.53\00:37:49.30
it's no longer dos and don'ts.
00:37:49.33\00:37:50.83
That's right.
00:37:50.87\00:37:52.20
You know, as we came up
especially like on Sabbath,
00:37:52.23\00:37:54.57
you know, lot
of times, you know,
00:37:54.60\00:37:56.04
I can't wait for sundown
'cause I'm going to go here,
00:37:56.07\00:37:58.67
I'm going to do that, you
know, we don't realize seriously
00:37:58.71\00:38:03.01
until we really are plugged in.
00:38:03.04\00:38:06.01
And the older I became,
the more I was just like.
00:38:06.05\00:38:08.35
Even in college
I was just so happy
00:38:08.38\00:38:11.55
for Sabbath to get here,
00:38:11.59\00:38:13.15
because I, no matter
how much pressure I have,
00:38:13.19\00:38:14.92
I put it away.
00:38:14.96\00:38:16.29
Thank you. Put it aside.
00:38:16.32\00:38:17.66
Amen.
00:38:17.69\00:38:19.03
You know, God
promises if we put him first,
00:38:19.06\00:38:20.70
he's going to add all
these other things unto us.
00:38:20.73\00:38:23.80
And so I claimed
that even back then,
00:38:23.83\00:38:26.30
and it's just
beautiful as we plug in
00:38:26.33\00:38:29.00
how these things begin to change
00:38:29.04\00:38:30.81
and suddenly it's
not thou shalt not it's,
00:38:30.84\00:38:33.54
I love you so much,
please don't do this,
00:38:33.58\00:38:35.51
it's going to hurt you.
00:38:35.54\00:38:37.58
We begin to see it
in the right light...
00:38:37.61\00:38:39.75
Right. You know.
00:38:39.78\00:38:41.12
Amen, wow.
00:38:41.15\00:38:42.48
To me that's just
very, very positive...
00:38:42.52\00:38:43.85
It is.
00:38:43.89\00:38:45.22
When we look from
scriptures Spirit of Prophecy
00:38:45.25\00:38:46.62
and we just study,
it helps me to realize.
00:38:46.65\00:38:49.82
Again you say, we talk
about before about Calvary.
00:38:49.86\00:38:52.96
How do we really know
00:38:52.99\00:38:54.33
because the
world that we live in
00:38:54.36\00:38:55.76
is everything is
love, love, love.
00:38:55.80\00:38:57.63
We went to all this
time, love, love, love.
00:38:57.67\00:39:00.24
The world doesn't
know what love is.
00:39:00.27\00:39:01.67
If you don't know God,
00:39:01.70\00:39:03.27
if you're not
born again Christian,
00:39:03.30\00:39:04.64
you don't know
what love really is,
00:39:04.67\00:39:06.01
is really all about.
00:39:06.04\00:39:07.58
And so as we study
it, we look at Calvary.
00:39:07.61\00:39:10.48
Calvary proves
00:39:10.51\00:39:11.85
what real true
love is all about,
00:39:11.88\00:39:13.88
so that's why we need to
study those closing moments,
00:39:13.92\00:39:16.38
that's why we
need to study Calvary,
00:39:16.42\00:39:18.12
because then we can
learn what real love is
00:39:18.15\00:39:20.32
and you
mentioned self sacrifice.
00:39:20.36\00:39:21.69
Self sacrifice.
00:39:21.72\00:39:23.06
Everything has to do,
00:39:23.09\00:39:24.43
this work will not be
finished Sister Mollie
00:39:24.46\00:39:26.19
until they're self
sacrificing going on.
00:39:26.23\00:39:29.00
That's in those who are at home,
00:39:29.03\00:39:30.37
those who are
giving to the calls
00:39:30.40\00:39:31.73
to get this
gospel around the world.
00:39:31.77\00:39:33.10
Yeah.
00:39:33.13\00:39:34.47
We give a little here,
we think we give our share,
00:39:34.50\00:39:36.10
but it will not close
until it's self sacrifice.
00:39:36.14\00:39:39.44
Selfless we just
give, you know, give,
00:39:39.47\00:39:42.34
they say give till it huts
00:39:42.38\00:39:44.08
that God will
bless and so we live,
00:39:44.11\00:39:45.91
but you can only do that if
you have the love of Christ.
00:39:45.95\00:39:48.68
In fact, when you
read scripture you realize,
00:39:48.72\00:39:50.45
you can't even
have a healthy life
00:39:50.49\00:39:53.22
especially spiritual
life unless you know God,
00:39:53.25\00:39:55.92
unless you know about love.
00:39:55.96\00:39:57.29
That's right. You
just can't have it.
00:39:57.33\00:39:59.03
You know, I looked up
some of the attributes
00:39:59.06\00:40:02.00
or names of God.
00:40:02.03\00:40:03.60
I thought that would tie
right in with the love of God
00:40:03.63\00:40:07.37
and I kind of wanted to maybe
put a little spin on this...
00:40:07.40\00:40:10.21
Okay.
00:40:10.24\00:40:11.57
I only looked up the
Omni words concerning God.
00:40:11.61\00:40:14.98
There is a list this
long that define who God is.
00:40:15.01\00:40:18.11
But I just did the Omni.
00:40:18.15\00:40:20.05
Omnipotent, somebody
tell me what Omnipotent means?
00:40:20.08\00:40:24.05
Infinite power, all power.
00:40:24.09\00:40:26.59
Omniscient, perfect knowledge.
00:40:26.62\00:40:29.32
Omnipresent,
everywhere all the time.
00:40:29.36\00:40:32.26
Now think of this.
00:40:32.29\00:40:33.80
Would you want
an omnipotent God,
00:40:33.83\00:40:36.30
one who possesses infinite power
00:40:36.33\00:40:38.87
or an omniscient God,
00:40:38.90\00:40:40.60
perfect complete
knowledge or an omnipresent God,
00:40:40.64\00:40:44.21
one that's everywhere
all the time who isn't love.
00:40:44.24\00:40:47.54
Think about it.
00:40:47.58\00:40:48.91
Would you want a God
that has all of these,
00:40:48.94\00:40:51.41
these are just
three of the attributes
00:40:51.45\00:40:53.62
but he's not full of love.
00:40:53.65\00:40:55.28
How would you respond to
an omnipotent, omniscient,
00:40:55.32\00:40:59.02
omnipresent God who
had evil at working in him.
00:40:59.05\00:41:02.66
What would this world be?
00:41:02.69\00:41:04.43
Terrifying. I think
it would be terrifying.
00:41:04.46\00:41:07.00
Yeah, sure would. I
think it would be terrifying.
00:41:07.03\00:41:08.63
So we can thank God for
him being a God of love.
00:41:08.66\00:41:13.23
Then I would be worshiping...
00:41:13.27\00:41:14.60
And he's not just
love God, God is love.
00:41:14.64\00:41:17.04
That's right, that goes deep.
00:41:17.07\00:41:18.41
Yeah, it does.
00:41:18.44\00:41:19.77
I think we taste.
00:41:19.81\00:41:21.14
Yeah. You know that terror.
00:41:21.18\00:41:22.84
We see that, you know,
00:41:22.88\00:41:24.41
as we talked in
the very beginning
00:41:24.45\00:41:26.15
some of these
things that are happening,
00:41:26.18\00:41:27.62
stabbings and
people running cars
00:41:27.65\00:41:30.65
into other people
00:41:30.69\00:41:32.02
because of ISIS and
this Muslim conflict
00:41:32.05\00:41:35.32
that we seem to
be going through here
00:41:35.36\00:41:37.23
in the whole world,
it's not just the US
00:41:37.26\00:41:39.66
but we're feeling it
here more than we used to.
00:41:39.69\00:41:42.20
And so we are getting a taste
00:41:42.23\00:41:44.77
of what a dictator
without love would be like.
00:41:44.80\00:41:48.20
Can you imagine?
00:41:48.24\00:41:49.57
Yeah, I mean what
people saw on the internet,
00:41:49.60\00:41:52.21
what little we saw on
the news of good people
00:41:52.24\00:41:57.81
being beheaded of men
00:41:57.85\00:42:00.32
and all those
children taken as slaves.
00:42:00.35\00:42:03.92
We don't realize
just like I mentioned
00:42:03.95\00:42:06.19
that war that
has brought you know,
00:42:06.22\00:42:08.39
broke out in Africa and
those pictures just broke,
00:42:08.42\00:42:12.69
I thought how horrific.
00:42:12.73\00:42:15.73
Yeah.
00:42:15.76\00:42:17.10
You know, and here we are,
we're separated for a time.
00:42:17.13\00:42:20.54
But we're also told that
00:42:20.57\00:42:21.90
there is coming
a time of trouble
00:42:21.94\00:42:23.27
that we can't even imagine,
00:42:23.30\00:42:24.64
so you look at these
things and we're going to taste
00:42:24.67\00:42:27.58
what it would be like
without God's presence.
00:42:27.61\00:42:30.65
We're going to taste that.
00:42:30.68\00:42:32.01
I would never ever,
I don't want that...
00:42:32.05\00:42:33.58
Just like in the
news where they...
00:42:33.62\00:42:35.05
And I'm not trying to criticize
or judge these young people,
00:42:35.08\00:42:38.25
they may be 18
and 16, but you know,
00:42:38.29\00:42:40.69
they just couldn't take
care of their newborn baby,
00:42:40.72\00:42:43.53
so they put it in the trash.
00:42:43.56\00:42:45.99
And you know, and
they might justify
00:42:46.03\00:42:48.53
and you might say...
00:42:48.56\00:42:49.90
My thought is if
Christ is a head of our home,
00:42:49.93\00:42:54.14
if he is a center of
our joy and happiness,
00:42:54.17\00:42:56.14
we can never do that,
00:42:56.17\00:42:58.27
you know, again not
trying to be judgmental
00:42:58.31\00:42:59.91
but it shows that one
spirit or the other is leading.
00:42:59.94\00:43:03.04
The enemy says, go
ahead and get rid of.
00:43:03.08\00:43:04.65
Jesus says keep it.
00:43:04.68\00:43:06.01
I found something over
here I thought was interesting.
00:43:06.05\00:43:08.18
This is the Counsels
on Steward, it says here,
00:43:08.22\00:43:11.95
"He has linked us to
Himself by all these tokens,
00:43:11.99\00:43:15.02
" talking about
heaven and earth."
00:43:15.06\00:43:16.39
Everything in heaven and earth,
00:43:16.42\00:43:17.76
he's linked us
together with each.
00:43:17.79\00:43:19.13
"He watches over us
with more tenderness
00:43:19.16\00:43:21.93
than does a mother
over an afflicted child."
00:43:21.96\00:43:25.10
Amen. Wow.
00:43:25.13\00:43:26.47
You can't hardly get a
mother away from the child
00:43:26.50\00:43:27.84
that's sick.
00:43:27.87\00:43:29.20
She's is right
there until they get well,
00:43:29.24\00:43:30.81
and that's how his eye is on us.
00:43:30.84\00:43:33.31
And I thought this
gives me encouragement
00:43:33.34\00:43:35.94
to know that his
eyes on the spirit,
00:43:35.98\00:43:38.21
and I know that
he's watching me.
00:43:38.25\00:43:40.18
And we just heard
on the news recently
00:43:40.22\00:43:42.12
to where this baby,
was it a car accident?
00:43:42.15\00:43:45.45
And the baby was
thrown like 30 feet in the air
00:43:45.49\00:43:48.32
and it was during this
00:43:48.36\00:43:49.69
and they didn't
know where the baby was,
00:43:49.72\00:43:51.53
so they went out
looking for the baby
00:43:51.56\00:43:53.53
and when they got to the baby
it was still in the car seat,
00:43:53.56\00:43:56.46
had just a little scratch here
00:43:56.50\00:43:57.83
and it was just so happy to see.
00:43:57.87\00:43:59.53
Just it wasn't
smiling and haven't they said,
00:43:59.57\00:44:01.60
we couldn't find it
because he wasn't screaming,
00:44:01.64\00:44:03.07
he wasn't crying, he's just...
00:44:03.10\00:44:04.44
That had to be an angel. Yeah.
00:44:04.47\00:44:05.81
Had to be an angel.
00:44:05.84\00:44:07.18
Itty-bitty old scratch and
he was just gooey and gung,
00:44:07.21\00:44:08.54
and I said, oh how...
00:44:08.58\00:44:09.91
What a miracle.
00:44:09.94\00:44:11.28
And even on the
news they say, oh,
00:44:11.31\00:44:12.65
there must have been some
kind of divine intervention
00:44:12.68\00:44:14.68
and something must have...
00:44:14.72\00:44:16.05
God is
intervening for his people.
00:44:16.08\00:44:17.42
God to give an
opportunity to show his love.
00:44:17.45\00:44:19.42
People could see that
God's taking care of us.
00:44:19.45\00:44:21.12
He does. That's exactly, yeah.
00:44:21.16\00:44:22.49
You know, you just
see that I was thinking
00:44:22.52\00:44:23.86
what you've mentioned
at the beginning sweetheart
00:44:23.89\00:44:25.43
about how Satan
wants to misrepresent
00:44:25.46\00:44:27.73
the character of God.
00:44:27.76\00:44:29.10
And you'll see these wars
and these pestilence and famine
00:44:29.13\00:44:33.60
and difficulty and
Satan wants us to think
00:44:33.64\00:44:37.94
God caused that.
00:44:37.97\00:44:39.31
You know how when you
have a tornado come through
00:44:39.34\00:44:40.91
and the insurance says
that was an act of God.
00:44:40.94\00:44:44.08
Oh, I can understand it.
That was not an act of God.
00:44:44.11\00:44:46.82
But Satan has so
twisted God's character
00:44:46.85\00:44:51.22
that when we see
something and not everybody
00:44:51.25\00:44:54.12
but many times you
say, "Oh, God allowed that?
00:44:54.16\00:44:59.29
Oh, God did that?"
00:44:59.33\00:45:01.16
Instead of putting the blame
00:45:01.20\00:45:03.16
where it
belongs verily on Satan.
00:45:03.20\00:45:06.53
He is the father of lies.
00:45:06.57\00:45:07.94
He originated all of
that sin and suffering
00:45:07.97\00:45:11.24
and sickness and death and
pain and all of that stuff,
00:45:11.27\00:45:14.71
and thinking
that God is the love.
00:45:14.74\00:45:17.68
Amen. Yeah, God is love.
00:45:17.71\00:45:19.55
Isn't that one of
the reasons Christ came.
00:45:19.58\00:45:21.52
Yes.
00:45:21.55\00:45:22.88
When the disciples said,
00:45:22.92\00:45:24.25
you know, would
you show us the Father?
00:45:24.29\00:45:27.26
And you know, you can
just almost feel the tears
00:45:27.29\00:45:29.89
well up in his eyes
00:45:29.92\00:45:31.26
when he says, "Have
I not been with you?"
00:45:31.29\00:45:33.40
Yeah.
00:45:33.43\00:45:34.76
Long enough
that you've not seen.
00:45:34.80\00:45:36.13
Seen me.
00:45:36.16\00:45:37.63
Well, I think it
shows that God of love
00:45:37.67\00:45:39.33
that he's let
this great controversy,
00:45:39.37\00:45:41.10
this good and
evil work itself out
00:45:41.14\00:45:42.47
because you get...
00:45:42.50\00:45:43.84
He's trying to eradicate it.
00:45:43.87\00:45:45.21
Do you know that, and
like Mollie mentioned,
00:45:45.24\00:45:46.57
like Danny has mentioned
we know the end of the book.
00:45:46.61\00:45:47.94
Yes. So you know Christ has won.
00:45:47.98\00:45:49.91
But yeah, lot of times
people ask that question,
00:45:49.94\00:45:51.95
well, a good love, he
would just stopped it all
00:45:51.98\00:45:54.25
and that would have been it
00:45:54.28\00:45:55.62
but that's not
because we have choice.
00:45:55.65\00:45:57.29
Amen.
00:45:57.32\00:45:58.65
It has to work itself
out so that is God is showing
00:45:58.69\00:46:00.66
that love by allowing that.
00:46:00.69\00:46:02.02
Yes. Very good, yes.
00:46:02.06\00:46:03.73
I just have to jump in on
that too because I remember...
00:46:03.76\00:46:08.93
You know, God
shows himself to be love
00:46:08.96\00:46:11.10
even in those trying times.
00:46:11.13\00:46:13.17
I'm thinking
about when my mom died.
00:46:13.20\00:46:15.57
Yep, well.
00:46:15.60\00:46:18.24
She had been on life support
00:46:18.27\00:46:20.44
and on a tube
and it's a long story
00:46:20.48\00:46:22.64
but anyway they
had pumped her body
00:46:22.68\00:46:25.05
so full of prednisone
that when they put her,
00:46:25.08\00:46:27.05
they took her off
00:46:27.08\00:46:28.42
and put her on a breathing tube,
00:46:28.45\00:46:29.88
in a eating tube that her tummy
just split open and they said,
00:46:29.92\00:46:34.32
there is nothing we can do.
00:46:34.36\00:46:36.16
And I remember going
in taking the kids with me
00:46:36.19\00:46:40.00
and we read the 23 Psalms to her
00:46:40.03\00:46:42.66
and we stayed in the room
00:46:42.70\00:46:44.63
and as she was
losing consciousness
00:46:44.67\00:46:48.50
we began to sing.
00:46:48.54\00:46:50.17
Amen. Amen.
00:46:50.21\00:46:52.21
And it was as if I kid you not,
00:46:52.24\00:46:54.58
the Spirit of God was there
00:46:54.61\00:46:56.64
and I felt like
if I just did this,
00:46:56.68\00:46:59.25
there would be an angel
that would just touch the hand.
00:46:59.28\00:47:03.15
He was so close,
people going by for hours,
00:47:03.18\00:47:06.65
they felt the difference
in that room in the hospital
00:47:06.69\00:47:10.03
and they told us about it.
00:47:10.06\00:47:11.79
And we sang for hours
00:47:11.83\00:47:13.40
because every
time we stop singing,
00:47:13.43\00:47:16.23
her breathing
became very labored
00:47:16.26\00:47:19.13
but once we sang
she would clam down
00:47:19.17\00:47:22.90
and it was just so peaceful,
00:47:22.94\00:47:25.34
and afterwards I know
that the dead know not anything
00:47:25.37\00:47:28.58
so I'm not advocating
that in any form or fashion
00:47:28.61\00:47:31.28
that I would be driving around
00:47:31.31\00:47:33.18
and I would just start
falling, I want my mom.
00:47:33.21\00:47:37.02
And for some reason
I'd go out to the graveyard
00:47:37.05\00:47:40.12
and every time I
went there, I had a peace,
00:47:40.16\00:47:43.49
and I thought I
don't understand this,
00:47:43.53\00:47:45.33
why am I getting peace
here, she doesn't know anything.
00:47:45.36\00:47:48.63
And after about three
or four times doing this
00:47:48.66\00:47:50.53
I was at my morning devotion,
00:47:50.57\00:47:53.47
and I was reading
where the angel of the Lord
00:47:53.50\00:47:56.00
stands guard of the grave
of those that are his children,
00:47:56.04\00:48:00.34
and all of a sudden
00:48:00.38\00:48:01.71
as if the Holy Spirit
spoke to my spirit and said,
00:48:01.74\00:48:04.71
this is why you have a peace
00:48:04.75\00:48:07.98
when you go out there was
the presence of the angel.
00:48:08.02\00:48:09.88
Praise God.
00:48:09.92\00:48:11.25
So I'm looking forward
to see my mom at some day.
00:48:11.29\00:48:12.92
Amen.
00:48:12.95\00:48:14.29
Because that was
it, it was a love
00:48:14.32\00:48:17.09
in a time of great sorrow.
00:48:17.13\00:48:19.29
And it was a peace
like the Bible says
00:48:19.33\00:48:21.80
that passes all understanding,
we don't understand God's love.
00:48:21.83\00:48:24.60
No.
00:48:24.63\00:48:25.97
We don't understand how when,
you know, they're crucifying,
00:48:26.00\00:48:28.64
he can say, Father, forgive,
we don't understand that.
00:48:28.67\00:48:32.24
So it's his love and his mercy,
it's beyond our understanding,
00:48:32.27\00:48:36.61
his peace that
passes all understanding.
00:48:36.64\00:48:39.31
So through those
times he promises,
00:48:39.35\00:48:41.62
it's like that poem
two footprints in them.
00:48:41.65\00:48:44.39
That's right.
00:48:44.42\00:48:45.75
And when you see the
one he's carrying us.
00:48:45.79\00:48:48.22
You know, I think about Christ
in the Garden of Gethsemane.
00:48:48.26\00:48:50.53
Even he was saying,
00:48:50.56\00:48:51.89
Father, I really
didn't want to go through
00:48:51.93\00:48:53.26
but your will be done.
00:48:53.29\00:48:54.63
Yes.
00:48:54.66\00:48:56.00
You know, that
was a hard trying time
00:48:56.03\00:48:57.37
for Jesus here going to
the Garden of Gethsemane.
00:48:57.40\00:48:59.77
And I like what Luke says,
00:48:59.80\00:49:01.74
that an angel of the Lord
came and strengthened him.
00:49:01.77\00:49:05.44
Amen. Yes.
00:49:05.47\00:49:06.81
Great.
00:49:06.84\00:49:08.18
So we will go through
times of trouble in this earth.
00:49:08.21\00:49:12.01
But God is there
like you're saying,
00:49:12.05\00:49:13.75
to strengthen us.
00:49:13.78\00:49:15.12
And that's love
there too, isn't it?
00:49:15.15\00:49:16.48
Yes. Yes, it is.
00:49:16.52\00:49:18.35
How hosted the martyrs sing
00:49:18.39\00:49:20.26
as they were
being burned to death...
00:49:20.29\00:49:21.62
Yeah. You're
right. On the stake.
00:49:21.66\00:49:22.99
God gave them the strength.
00:49:23.02\00:49:24.36
Whenever the pain was too great,
00:49:24.39\00:49:27.50
he stepped in and he took it.
00:49:27.53\00:49:29.46
Amen.
00:49:29.50\00:49:30.83
So whenever alone we may die.
00:49:30.87\00:49:33.27
That's correct.
00:49:33.30\00:49:34.64
But we're never, we're
never without this love
00:49:34.67\00:49:36.74
that we're talking.
00:49:36.77\00:49:38.11
And we have that
great hope of eternal life.
00:49:38.14\00:49:39.47
Yes, amen.
00:49:39.51\00:49:40.84
It's great. It's exciting.
00:49:40.88\00:49:42.21
It sure is.
00:49:42.24\00:49:43.58
I remember that story
of, and I can't remember
00:49:43.61\00:49:45.38
so may be I shouldn't repeat it,
00:49:45.41\00:49:46.85
whether it was Huss or Jerome,
00:49:46.88\00:49:48.22
it was one of the
ones who was martyred.
00:49:48.25\00:49:50.09
And one of the founders
00:49:50.12\00:49:52.09
you could say at the beginning
of the protestant reformation.
00:49:52.12\00:49:54.26
And I remember the story
of him holding his hand out,
00:49:54.29\00:49:56.56
do you remember
that to the candle?
00:49:56.59\00:49:58.86
He was in jail, and
he knew, and he knew
00:49:58.89\00:50:03.43
probably I'm going to
be burned at the stake
00:50:03.47\00:50:05.57
and I don't know
if I can handle it.
00:50:05.60\00:50:07.97
And so we put his hand
out and then he jumped back,
00:50:08.00\00:50:11.27
I can't take
it. It was too hard.
00:50:11.31\00:50:12.91
And then at that
point it seems like
00:50:12.94\00:50:14.64
he might have
said no he recanted
00:50:14.68\00:50:16.91
and then he said
no, no matter what,
00:50:16.95\00:50:19.75
I'm going with
Jesus and then when died
00:50:19.78\00:50:22.48
and he was burned
at the stake, he sang.
00:50:22.52\00:50:25.59
And you think somehow God
and his mercy gave him grace.
00:50:25.62\00:50:30.76
Yes. Gave him strength.
00:50:30.79\00:50:32.13
He does.
00:50:32.16\00:50:33.50
I mean, we can't ask him
00:50:33.53\00:50:34.86
but in heaven I want to ask him.
00:50:34.90\00:50:36.23
Yeah. Yes.
00:50:36.26\00:50:37.60
What that was like?
What do you experience?
00:50:37.63\00:50:39.03
But that's just the love of
God reaching at that moment.
00:50:39.07\00:50:42.97
Like you say the
stoning of Stephen,
00:50:43.00\00:50:45.04
but just different
ones that martyred.
00:50:45.07\00:50:46.51
You know, Father,
forgive them you know,
00:50:46.54\00:50:48.51
what many of them recount it,
they don't know what they're,
00:50:48.54\00:50:51.48
you know, they don't
know what they're doing.
00:50:51.51\00:50:52.85
It's love of God.
00:50:52.88\00:50:54.22
It has to be
00:50:54.25\00:50:55.58
because someone
hit you with a stone,
00:50:55.62\00:50:57.12
if there is a
stone around you go,
00:50:57.15\00:50:58.65
if you're not converted
you're going to pick it up
00:50:58.69\00:51:00.42
and going to go land
him, right one on pretty good.
00:51:00.46\00:51:03.76
I'd get one in both hands. Good.
00:51:03.79\00:51:06.03
And there might be a time
when you'd think you know,
00:51:06.06\00:51:10.20
if I confess this
sin he'll be faithful
00:51:10.23\00:51:12.37
and just to forgive me.
00:51:12.40\00:51:13.74
That's right.
00:51:13.77\00:51:15.10
No, I'm not
advocating that or anything.
00:51:15.14\00:51:16.47
No, that's right.
00:51:16.50\00:51:18.71
Christ within the
hope of glory isn't that,
00:51:18.74\00:51:20.08
what it's all about.
00:51:20.11\00:51:21.44
Amen.
00:51:21.48\00:51:22.81
And that's all I know of myself
00:51:22.84\00:51:24.18
and some of that may be at home,
00:51:24.21\00:51:25.55
we need Christ within
00:51:25.58\00:51:27.15
and then he helps us
to love the unlovely again
00:51:27.18\00:51:30.02
as been mentioned here,
00:51:30.05\00:51:31.69
that can grow in us and
I think that's something
00:51:31.72\00:51:33.72
you kind of
brought back to each one,
00:51:33.76\00:51:35.16
we need to be
praying for that...
00:51:35.19\00:51:36.52
Yes.
00:51:36.56\00:51:37.89
That we can love the
way that Christ love,
00:51:37.93\00:51:40.66
then once again you
know, our mission for us,
00:51:40.70\00:51:42.56
Spirit of Prophecy, once again
00:51:42.60\00:51:44.03
unless we love people
the way Christ loved people
00:51:44.07\00:51:47.87
heaven will never be our home.
00:51:47.90\00:51:49.57
I said, man, I failed again.
00:51:49.60\00:51:51.47
Yeah.
00:51:51.51\00:51:52.84
You know, but I say now,
I need to go back to him.
00:51:52.87\00:51:55.58
Amen.
00:51:55.61\00:51:56.95
Maybe counting too
much on myself looking to me
00:51:56.98\00:51:59.05
and my feelings and my emotions
00:51:59.08\00:52:00.42
rather than say let Christ in
00:52:00.45\00:52:02.48
because he loves
everybody just the same,
00:52:02.52\00:52:05.02
no respecter of persons.
00:52:05.05\00:52:06.76
I have to learn
all those lessons
00:52:06.79\00:52:08.79
and I'm still learning them.
00:52:08.82\00:52:10.16
Praise God for that, but
for that love that we need
00:52:10.19\00:52:12.79
which again you talk
about the basis of everything.
00:52:12.83\00:52:15.36
Amen.
00:52:15.40\00:52:16.73
One of the greatest
expressions of God's love
00:52:16.77\00:52:20.57
one of them is 1 John 1:9
00:52:20.60\00:52:23.77
where Kenny like you
were saying, we failed.
00:52:23.81\00:52:26.57
And we do fail and we realize
00:52:26.61\00:52:28.44
I'm not living
where I should be living,
00:52:28.48\00:52:30.75
but we can't come
before our heavenly Father
00:52:30.78\00:52:34.32
and confess our
sins, repent turn from it.
00:52:34.35\00:52:37.85
If we confess our
sins he's faithful
00:52:37.89\00:52:39.99
and just to forgive us.
00:52:40.02\00:52:41.36
Forgive us.
00:52:41.39\00:52:43.02
And then he goes
one step further,
00:52:43.06\00:52:44.43
Kenny, then he cleanses us.
00:52:44.46\00:52:45.79
Yes.
00:52:45.83\00:52:47.16
And if we're
cleansed from all sin,
00:52:47.20\00:52:48.53
what does that make us.
00:52:48.56\00:52:49.90
If you're cleansed
from all unrighteousness,
00:52:49.93\00:52:51.83
then you're the
righteousness of God in Christ.
00:52:51.87\00:52:53.77
That's right.
00:52:53.80\00:52:55.14
You're covered by that blood
and that's the pure love of God
00:52:55.17\00:52:59.04
that would take
us rank even sinners
00:52:59.07\00:53:01.91
that we can be even
in our best of times
00:53:01.94\00:53:05.78
and he'll forgive us
and he'll cleanse us,
00:53:05.81\00:53:07.85
and he'll stand us back up.
00:53:07.88\00:53:09.58
And the word we
don't like to use sometime
00:53:09.62\00:53:12.05
because it frightens
most people at that moment,
00:53:12.09\00:53:15.16
you're perfect...
00:53:15.19\00:53:16.52
At that moment. At that moment.
00:53:16.56\00:53:17.89
Now you may go, you
know, but that moment
00:53:17.93\00:53:19.33
because we have
to believe that we're
00:53:19.36\00:53:21.43
because he said,
all sin is forgiven,
00:53:21.46\00:53:23.03
if everything is
eradicated out of the life,
00:53:23.06\00:53:25.37
we're new creature in
Christ at that moment.
00:53:25.40\00:53:26.87
Amen.
00:53:26.90\00:53:28.24
We stand perfect
00:53:28.27\00:53:29.60
because we stand in
Christ Jesus, he's perfect.
00:53:29.64\00:53:30.97
That's right, he is.
00:53:31.01\00:53:32.34
But a few minutes
later we may mess up again
00:53:32.37\00:53:35.11
but hey, there is no
end to his grace and mercy.
00:53:35.14\00:53:37.21
Amen.
00:53:37.25\00:53:38.58
Thank Lord. Thank the Lord.
00:53:38.61\00:53:39.95
Amen.
00:53:39.98\00:53:41.32
1 John 2:5 says, "But
who so keepeth his word",
00:53:41.35\00:53:44.22
and when you were talking
00:53:44.25\00:53:45.59
you're giving different
portions of the scripture,
00:53:45.62\00:53:48.22
all of this
works together as one.
00:53:48.26\00:53:50.49
It's not just love,
love, love, without knowledge,
00:53:50.53\00:53:54.10
without repentance,
without humbleness, obedience.
00:53:54.13\00:53:57.93
"But whoso keepeth his word..."
00:53:57.97\00:54:00.07
Thank you.
00:54:00.10\00:54:01.44
"In him verily is the
love of God perfected:
00:54:01.47\00:54:04.91
hereby know..."
00:54:04.94\00:54:06.27
it is 1 John 2:5.
00:54:06.31\00:54:11.08
"Hereby know we
that we are in him."
00:54:11.11\00:54:15.08
And I like Romans 8:39 it
says, "Nor height nor depth,
00:54:15.12\00:54:19.69
or any other creature
00:54:19.72\00:54:21.76
shall be able to
separate us from the love of God
00:54:21.79\00:54:25.19
which is in
Christ Jesus our Lord."
00:54:25.23\00:54:28.50
We may burn at the stake.
00:54:28.53\00:54:29.86
We don't know
what we're going to,
00:54:29.90\00:54:31.23
what's going to happen.
00:54:31.27\00:54:32.63
But those ashes are those
00:54:32.67\00:54:34.47
whatever parts
are going to be left,
00:54:34.50\00:54:36.10
he's never gonna forsake us.
00:54:36.14\00:54:37.47
Amen.
00:54:37.51\00:54:38.84
When that trumpet sounds...
00:54:38.87\00:54:40.21
Oh, glory. That's right.
00:54:40.24\00:54:41.58
Look out.
00:54:41.61\00:54:42.94
There's going to be
graves that are opened up.
00:54:42.98\00:54:44.31
There would be
some shouting going on.
00:54:44.35\00:54:45.68
And there is
going to be shouting.
00:54:45.71\00:54:47.05
Amen. We're starting to feel it.
00:54:47.08\00:54:48.42
Wow, it will pierce the dead.
00:54:48.45\00:54:50.35
He will not forget his children,
00:54:50.39\00:54:52.95
though we have to
ask him into our hearts.
00:54:52.99\00:54:54.32
Amen.
00:54:54.36\00:54:55.69
We have to want him there,
00:54:55.72\00:54:57.06
we have to want the
love and then he says,
00:54:57.09\00:54:59.36
I want to give it to
you, it's a free gift.
00:54:59.39\00:55:00.83
Amen.
00:55:00.86\00:55:02.20
So the thing is to
just start right now.
00:55:02.23\00:55:03.57
Search me, O God, and
know my heart: try me,
00:55:03.60\00:55:05.93
and know my thoughts:
00:55:05.97\00:55:07.30
See if there be
any evil way in me,
00:55:07.34\00:55:09.04
and lead me in the
path that's everlasting.'
00:55:09.07\00:55:10.41
Amen.
00:55:10.44\00:55:11.77
We can have a cleansing
00:55:11.81\00:55:15.68
and heart purification
00:55:15.71\00:55:19.48
that will put us
in that relationship
00:55:19.51\00:55:21.42
with the Lord even now.
00:55:21.45\00:55:24.02
Oh, glory.
00:55:24.05\00:55:25.39
Because someone
you know may say,
00:55:25.42\00:55:26.76
well, I don't have
God's love in my heart.
00:55:26.79\00:55:28.12
I know that right now
00:55:28.16\00:55:29.49
but you can
start right now, right?
00:55:29.52\00:55:30.86
Amen.
00:55:30.89\00:55:32.23
God give me your love...
00:55:32.26\00:55:33.60
Amen. Because I need it.
00:55:33.63\00:55:34.96
Talk to the people there,
we got a couple minutes left
00:55:35.00\00:55:36.43
because somebody
is listening now.
00:55:36.46\00:55:37.80
I needed it in my life.
00:55:37.83\00:55:39.17
So you can become
discourage and say,
00:55:39.20\00:55:40.64
well, I don't have
God's love, forget it.
00:55:40.67\00:55:42.54
But no, God says you can
start right now, start fresh.
00:55:42.57\00:55:45.31
Say God, give me your
love, and that's the thing
00:55:45.34\00:55:46.81
because there are
people that like you said
00:55:46.84\00:55:49.24
are unlovable it seems
like, but God loves them.
00:55:49.28\00:55:51.58
Yes. So I have to love him too.
00:55:51.61\00:55:53.31
Isn't that part of what
the Sabbath is all about,
00:55:53.35\00:55:56.08
we come together and worship.
00:55:56.12\00:55:58.02
We're starting afresh,
we're eating a fresh food,
00:55:58.05\00:56:01.02
fresh bread, the bread of life.
00:56:01.06\00:56:02.39
Oh, yes.
00:56:02.42\00:56:03.76
So as brother Greg just
said, you can do it right now.
00:56:03.79\00:56:06.83
Amen.
00:56:06.86\00:56:08.20
You can ask
Jesus into your heart.
00:56:08.23\00:56:09.56
You can
reexamine many scriptures,
00:56:09.60\00:56:12.50
just type the word
love in a search engine
00:56:12.53\00:56:16.30
for the Bible and pull them up
00:56:16.34\00:56:18.34
because they'll
refresh the wonderful promises.
00:56:18.37\00:56:21.51
The whole Bible will come up.
00:56:21.54\00:56:23.08
There is no Bible
is going to come up
00:56:23.11\00:56:24.71
that is just love on
one page to the other
00:56:24.75\00:56:27.12
if you really just look forward.
00:56:27.15\00:56:28.48
And Sister Jill,
00:56:28.52\00:56:29.85
a closing
thought one minute left.
00:56:29.88\00:56:31.22
Love is not an attribute of God,
00:56:31.25\00:56:33.42
it is his essence,
00:56:33.46\00:56:34.79
it is his
character who he is his love.
00:56:34.82\00:56:37.33
Amen, praise the Lord.
00:56:37.36\00:56:39.19
So we know that there are
several out there right now.
00:56:39.23\00:56:41.66
I think they're making decision.
00:56:41.70\00:56:43.03
We have to
believe that by faith.
00:56:43.06\00:56:44.40
Yes.
00:56:44.43\00:56:45.77
They've fallen away or maybe
they've never come to Christ.
00:56:45.80\00:56:47.87
Here is the time to
do it. That's right.
00:56:47.90\00:56:49.24
We're going to
invite you to pray,
00:56:49.27\00:56:50.61
we're going to pray for
you right now in closing.
00:56:50.64\00:56:51.97
Honey, you want to
have a closing prayer?
00:56:52.01\00:56:53.34
Sure.
00:56:53.38\00:56:54.71
Let's pray because somebody
is going to accept Jesus.
00:56:54.74\00:56:56.08
Okay. Amen.
00:56:56.11\00:56:57.45
Heavenly Father, as we
close this time together,
00:56:57.48\00:57:00.15
we thank you for
reminding us of your love.
00:57:00.18\00:57:02.68
Yes.
00:57:02.72\00:57:04.05
And Father, I just pray that
00:57:04.09\00:57:05.42
those who are listening at home,
00:57:05.45\00:57:07.42
who are studying with us,
00:57:07.46\00:57:09.22
that they will reach
heaven with their prayers.
00:57:09.26\00:57:12.03
And so Father
fill us with that love.
00:57:12.06\00:57:14.46
Fill us with the
love for our neighbors,
00:57:14.50\00:57:17.00
please forgive us for we
have failed thee over and over
00:57:17.03\00:57:20.57
and help us to dig
into the attributes of love
00:57:20.60\00:57:24.34
in 1 Corinthians 13 to
find out what it's all about
00:57:24.37\00:57:28.08
and to know you
and to draw to taste
00:57:28.11\00:57:31.38
a little bit of the
heaven each and everyday.
00:57:31.41\00:57:33.92
We pray this in Jesus' name.
00:57:33.95\00:57:35.45
Thank you, Lord.
00:57:35.48\00:57:36.82
Amen. Amen.
00:57:36.85\00:57:38.19