I want to 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 welcome to another
3ABN Today Family Worship.
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Happy Sabbath to you,
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hope that you've
had a wonderful week.
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Here at 3ABN,
it's been a great week
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and it's always a blessing
to coming to the Sabbath hours.
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Now every week's a
great week, here at 3ABN,
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hopefully in your life as well,
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it doesn't mean that
we have no challenges
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or any types of struggles.
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We've had a good
week because God is good.
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I like Psalms
118:24 and it says,
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"This is the day which
the Lord has made, we will..."
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What? Rejoice.
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"Rejoice and be glad in it."
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For God is good, right? Amen.
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We have a lot to be thankful for
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and we just wanna
thank you for joining us
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as you do each and every
day for the family worships
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as we open the Sabbath hours
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and we just appreciate your
prayers and financial support
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to the ministry of 3ABN,
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because of you
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and the Lord
Jesus Christ, of course,
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and your financial
support and prayers
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that this ministry
continues to spread the gospel
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around the world
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and souls are being
won to Jesus Christ.
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Can't get any
better than that, can we?
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Amen.
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That's right, that's
why this ministry exists.
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The verse you read, I
think everyday is special
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'cause God created
each day... That's true.
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But especially the Sabbath.
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He set it apart as a holy day
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that we can come apart
and spend time with Him,
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time in His
word, time in worship
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and time with our
brothers and sisters,
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that's you're at home,
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and that's our brothers
and sisters around the table.
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And we wanna introduce them.
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On my left is
brother John Dinzey
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and his wife,
sister Adalia Dinzey.
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And you both are such a blessing
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to the ministry here,
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such an integral
part of the ministry.
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I will second and
third of that and fourth...
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Praise the
Lord. Praise the Lord.
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All glory to God. Amen.
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Praise the Lord. God
blesses inspite of us.
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That's right. Amen.
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We're grateful
to the Lord for His,
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the blessings
and the opportunities
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He gives us to be used by Him.
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Amen. Yeah.
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It is, isn't it? Amen.
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I mean, when you
think about the blessings
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that you've
been able to share...
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Yes. God's love to other people.
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Boy, it's a
blessing. Overwhelming.
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You and your family have
been here for a number of years,
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I don't wanna be
disrespectful saying you're old
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'cause you're not.
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You came as a child.
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You came as a child.
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I have come to accept that
I'm transitioning into that.
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The transformation.
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Yeah, I guess I went into...
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That's the topic
today, it's transformation.
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That's true.
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And life goes
through changes too, right?
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Yeah, that
actually is our topic today,
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it's transformation.
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So that was good, Pastor John.
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Actually, I remember
one lady in Guatemala,
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when we went last year
to an evangelistic campaign
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and she asked,
"How old are you?"
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And...
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I said, "Well, I'm 57".
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"You're 57?
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Wow, well, you
look really old on TV."
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That does not make you feel...
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I was fine with
it. You know, it's...
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I guess, I don't know.
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I guess different TVs,
they do different things.
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So you have two
wonderful sons that I know,
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those that followed on
3ABN have seen them grow up
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and I know they're...
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Well, tell us what they're
doing actually right now?
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Your eldest is Samuel.
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Well, we'll divide the task,
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our eldest son is Samuel,
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he is a student
missionary in Micronesia.
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Yeah, praise God.
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And we're
grateful to the Lord for...
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What God is doing
in his life. Amen.
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He's being used by the Lord
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and he has gone on several
mission trips, started with,
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when he was in the
academy in Sunnydale Academy,
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went on two trips
to India to preach
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and after that it was
like he was just interested
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in going on missionary trips.
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Went with
Maranatha several times
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and now he's a student
missionary for one year
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and he's half way through.
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Amen. In Pohnpei.
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In Pohnpei, Micronesia.
It's a small little place.
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There in the...
Up north of Australia
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and kind of west, no,
east of the Philippines
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and those islands.
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And he loves the Lord and...
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Amen. Praise God.
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The Lord has blessed
them with the musical talent.
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Yup. And that's great.
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And we are grateful to
the Lord for our children.
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Amen. Maybe you
can talk about Caleb.
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Yeah, it's...
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These boys, I'm very
proud to be their mom.
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Amen. I'm proud
to call them my sons.
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You know, life just
happens, takes its courses
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and we pray for our children,
before we had children,
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we prayed for
other people's children.
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Amen. That's good.
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And now that we have children,
we pray a lot for our children,
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a lot for other
people's children.
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Caleb is our baby.
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And Caleb used to introduce
himself to his new buddies,
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"Hi, I'm Caleb from Tiny Tots".
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Because he was at
Tiny Tots for years.
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That's right.
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And we still air some of those.
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He's a little guy
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but Caleb is a
lot taller than me
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and he's growing... Oh, me too.
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So he's so cute.
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But anyhow he has grown
up to be a fine young man.
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He is very
talented in the music area.
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Yes, he is. He is.
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And he is a student
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at the Great Lakes
Academy in Michigan
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and he works in
the music department.
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So he is really enjoying
his time there at the academy.
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So... Keeping
his talents for God.
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Amen.
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Praise the Lord. Yes, exactly.
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It's amazing.
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To me, it's a
beautiful testimony
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because both of your sons,
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I mean, they're
gifted and they...
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Whatever, but the
important thing is
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they use those gifts for Jesus.
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And they have a heart
and a desire to follow God
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and that's a
testimony to what God has done
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in and through each one of you.
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And, Brother
Johnny, you look very young,
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much younger than 57.
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Mrs. Dinzey too.
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And Mrs. Dinzey, I say
we need to put that all day.
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Thank you for your...
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And on this side of
the table is Jason Bradley
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and we are so blessed to
have you here as well, Jason.
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And you've been
here, is it two years now?
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How long? Going on three.
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It's great. Sure, he is.
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Wow. Wow.
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And I call you our
neighbor, my neighbor
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because your office
and your mom's office
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is right next door to mine.
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That's right.
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So as we go by
each other's offices,
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we'll say, "Hey, neighbor.
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How're you doing, neighbor?"
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That's a lot of fun
working here, that's for sure,
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but we appreciate you
and how God has grown you
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in just marvelous ways
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and we're talking
about the Dinzey sons.
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They kind of have
the "Mission bug",
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if you wanna call that... Yes.
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I'm kind of
getting in the prison bug.
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I don't know if you are too
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and explain that a little bit...
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It's for the ministry. Correct.
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So explain what
prison bug is? Oh, man.
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I like to see you
catching that bug.
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Oh, I've got it. I caught it.
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Amen.
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The Prison
Ministry is so amazing
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because there are so many people
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that are in there
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whose families
don't come visit them.
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Who feel like
they're lost and forgotten.
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Yeah.
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So it provides us
with an opportunity to,
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I guess, bring
practical Christianity to them,
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to share with them gifts
both physical and spiritual.
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So meeting their needs
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and also
ministering to their souls.
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Yeah.
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We went to a
prison, all of us...
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We had the
opportunity, it was...
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Not too long ago.
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And it was absolutely amazing.
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I mean, God really blessed
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and the Holy Spirit was in there
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working on those ladies' hearts,
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that they were crying
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and just seemed like they
want a genuine transformation.
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Amen. Amen.
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That's a... It's a segway.
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Good, segway,
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because we're talking
about transformation today.
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That's what the
Lord Jesus Christ
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wants to do in your
heart and our hearts
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and the women we
minister to at the prison,
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before we get
going on our topic,
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we want to go to some music
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and that means
we get to introduce
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our brother, Tim
Parton at the piano.
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Amen. He is such a blessing.
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Tim, you are a
blessing to the ministry here.
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Tim has a heart for
ministry, a heart for God
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and his passion about
sharing that with other people.
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So, Tim, thank
you for being here.
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My privilege. Thanks.
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Let's go to, 'Lord
Prepare me to be a sanctuary.'
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Okay, we want you
to sing along with us
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as we sing these praises to God.
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Lord Prepare me
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To be a sanctuary
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Pure and holy
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Tried and true
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With thanksgiving
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I'll be a living
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Sanctuary
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For You
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Lead me on Lord
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From temptation
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Purify me
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From within
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Fill my heart with
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Your Holy Spirit
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Take away
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All my sin
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Lord Prepare me
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To be a sanctuary
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Pure and holy
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Tried and true
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With thanksgiving
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I'll be a living
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Sanctuary
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For You
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Praise His name.
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He wants to make each one
of us a sanctuary, the temple
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where the Holy
spirit can dwell in us.
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And we just want
to invite Him in.
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So at home, we invite
you to bow your heads,
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this is really a prayer.
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As called the next song,
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'Lord Jesus, will
you come into my heart?
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Will you change me?
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Will you transform me?
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Will you make me
into the image of you?
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And once Jesus comes in,
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He wants to shine
out of our hearts.
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That's right.
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Into my heart
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Into my heart
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Come into my heart
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Lord Jesus
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Come in today
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Come in to stay
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Come into my heart
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Lord Jesus
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Out of my heart
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Out of my heart
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Shine out of my heart
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Lord Jesus
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Shine out today
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Shine out always
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Shine out of my heart
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Lord Jesus
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Pastor Johnny,
let's open in prayer.
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Yes.
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Our loving heavenly Father,
we want to thank you, Lord,
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for the
opportunity we have today
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to invite you into our hearts.
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We thank you, Lord, that
the door of mercy is still open
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and that you will knock
at the door of our heart,
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and we ask, Lord,
that you will come in.
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Thank you.
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We pray that you will be with us
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as we worship together
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and we pray that you
will be with everyone
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that is joining us.
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Wherever they may be, Lord,
may you be there with them.
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And we ask you
for a blessing for all
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and we ask it in the lovely
and blessed name of Jesus.
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Amen. Amen.
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Amen.
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We're having worship already.
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My heart is blessed.
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We worship through
music, worship through prayer,
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worship through
study of the Word
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so, get your
Bibles and open up with us
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as we talk about this
topic of transformation.
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As we launch into our
topic of transformation,
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what is transformation?
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If I were to ask you,
what is transformation?
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What would you say, Jason?
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I would say that it's a
complete and thorough change
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from the inside out
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in terms of
spiritual transformation.
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Now it's interesting,
you said from the inside out.
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Yeah, just like to
that... When we accept Christ.
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That's right.
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And then He
changes us from the inside
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and we manifest
that on the outside.
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Fantastic. Amen.
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Have you ever tried the
other method of transformation?
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From the outside in.
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Has anybody ever
tried that? Oh, of course.
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Like behavioral
modification. Right.
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Uh-huh, yes, I have.
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Tried and failed. I
would be lying if I...
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Yeah, didn't work
so well. Yes, it isn't.
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But I think even as Christians
a lot of times we think,
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the outside-in is the method
that we're supposed to do.
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We're something, you know,
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like, somehow,
you read the Bible,
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"Oh, I'm supposed
to look like Jesus."
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I don't know how
to accomplish that.
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Yes, yes.
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And then maybe
we get discouraged
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'cause we think, "I
don't know how to do that."
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Sometimes when we are
practicing our Christianity,
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we want to be just like Jesus
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but we seed like
we're so imperfect.
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But we have yet to understand
to see us as Jesus sees us.
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You know, sometimes we don't
recognize the transformation
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that's taking
place in our lives.
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I want to be a Christian,
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I want to be a good
faithful follower of Christ
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but the obstacles, you know,
one challenge after the other,
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you may think it's against you
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but eventually
you look back and,
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"Lord, thank you,
that was such a blessing
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because I was able
to grow from that."
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You know. Wow.
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So eventually, you
see this transformation
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happening in your life
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when you have the
spiritual eyes on.
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When we don't have
the spiritual eyes on,
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it seems like
everything that's going on
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is just against you.
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Yes.
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So it's a process. Go
ahead, brother Johnny.
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It is a process
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and it's a
marvelous, wonderful process
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that we participate in.
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We submit and allow
the Lord to change us.
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It's just a moulding process.
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And it's very interesting,
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I like one of the things
that I see in the life of Peter
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and I'll take you to the scene
when he was denying Christ.
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Yes.
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And Jesus was being
judged by the high priest
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and the scribes
and the Pharisees.
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And there, several
said, "You're one of them."
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And at one point, he was said,
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actually it's the
last time they asked him,
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"You are one of them
because you talk like them."
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Yeah.
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And Peter, through
the three and a half years
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that he was with Jesus
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may not have noticed
that he was being transformed,
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that his speech was changed.
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He was a fisherman
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and his words were prior
to Christ very crude and,
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but now he's
talking differently.
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And they say,
"You're talking like Him."
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And then he realized
he's talking like Jesus,
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so he changed.
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He decided to go back to
his former way of speaking.
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And so we have that option
to go back into the former way
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but it's better to
let Christ transform us.
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Amen. And, you know what?
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That's, adding on to
that, I think where we fail is
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when we try and do
things in our strength.
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Yes.
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God's strength is made
perfect in our weakness
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but we have to
recognize that we're weak
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and we need God to change us.
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Can I share
something with you guys?
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Please. Oh, yeah.
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This comes from
'Steps to Christ' page 43.
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'The whole heart
must be yielded to God
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or the change can
never be wrought in us
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by which we are to be
restored to His likeness.
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By nature, we are
alienated from God.
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God desires to
heal us, to set us free.
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But since this requires
an entire transformation,
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a renewing of our whole nature,
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we must yield
ourselves wholly to Him.'
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So it's not
like a partial thing.
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It's not a only
on Sabbath thing.
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It's... Yes.
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Gotta yield your
whole heart to the Lord
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and let Him work on
you, in you and through you
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to bring about that change
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and by beholding,
we become changed.
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So what we're
putting into our minds,
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what we're
focusing on and dwelling on,
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that brings about that change.
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If you're polluting your mind,
it's just like you're gas tank.
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If your gas tank takes
93 and you're putting 87
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or what's the other one?
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85. Oh, yeah. That's right.
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In your gas tank, it's
not gonna run very well.
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You know, your life is
not going to be running well.
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So to speak if you're putting,
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if you're polluting your
mind with a bunch of filth.
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Well, Ecclesiastes 3, you know,
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to everything there is a season.
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You know, we,
everything transforms around us.
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You know, sometimes,
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we look at the
word, transformation,
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transformed in Christ
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and for someone
that is not as familiar
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with the
Christian terminology or...
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Christianese. Yes.
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How do I understand...
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Yes. That I want
the transformation?
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How can I
identify the transformation
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that I need in my life?
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I think that
gradually we see how we are...
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I remember when I got here to,
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when I got married
with John Dinzey in '94,
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he was here in
86, 87, you started?
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89. 89.
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And I was fighting.
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I said, "Lord,
what am I doing here?
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I don't like this
place. These people are weird."
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You know. "It's just...
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I can't, I could
not acclimate to,
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from the country living
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and bunch of people
home schooling their kids.
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Oh, my, I am in the wrong area,
I married a wrong man, Lord.
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What is happening?" You know.
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Well, since I
wasn't here at that time,
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I wont take any
offence to what you've said.
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And since I was born in '86...
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Oh, excuse me.
Well, I didn't know.
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I'm just giving you
a hard time, go ahead.
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Well...
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It wasn't a fit for you...
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It was not a fit and everybody,
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it's just the
whole culture thing.
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It was shocking.
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I came in from,
well, I'm originally,
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I was born and
raised in Puerto Rico.
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I moved into Chicago.
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And then from there,
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my mom was looking
for a small community.
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So we went to Zion working
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and ended up in
Kenosha, Wisconsin.
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I was very active
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in seven Hispanic
Spanish-speaking churches,
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so I've never been in
a English congregation.
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Yes, that's a change.
So that was the change.
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And you're like,
"What am I doing here?"
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And I was staying at home,
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eventually I started
volunteering at 3ABN,
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but even volunteering here,
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I would just look
at the people here,
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I mean, everyone,
"Who are these people?
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What are we doing here?
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Is this God's plan
for me to be here?"
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So I don't know
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when the
transformation took place
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but it was gradual.
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And it was incredible
when I found myself saying,
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when I went back home,
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"I can't wait to go
back to Southern Illinois."
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I mean, to visit family
in Wisconsin in Chicago area.
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I'm like, my heart
is in Southern Illinois,
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my heart is at 3ABN, you know,
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and there's nothing I
wouldn't do for the ministry.
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And we have said, you know,
as long as our roof is sure
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and food on the
table, we don't care
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if we don't even get paid.
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We'll just go to
work for the Lord at 3ABN.
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Amen.
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So how does a person get
from fighting these "demons"
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because I wanna
just this culture,
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this environment...
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You wanted to leave. Oh, yes.
00:22:02.98\00:22:04.75
I wanted to leave
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and I was just
battling it and I was praying,
00:22:06.15\00:22:08.59
"Lord, give me a
heart for this ministry.
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Let me see what
this is all about
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'cause I didn't get it".
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But we're talking
about transformation
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on the outside
and in the inside.
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I think that we both, I
think we need to make an effort
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and our effort to show
this is what I wanna try to do.
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"Please, Lord, help
my effort, you know.
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And help me draw to you
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and give me the
transformation that I need."
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And it came. Amen.
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Now it's like,
"Oh, I love this place".
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Amen. And we
love having you here.
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That's a practical
example of what Romans 12 says,
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so let's turn there.
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It reminds me of that
when you were sharing that.
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That was a great
example because...
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Oh, fantastic.
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That's real life and we
all experience real life.
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Romans 12: 1 and 2.
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"I beseech you
therefore, brethren,
00:22:53.84\00:22:55.27
by the mercies of God,
00:22:55.30\00:22:56.64
that you present your
bodies a living sacrifice,
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holy, acceptable to God,
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which is your
reasonable service".
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And then verse 2 has
the word transformation.
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If you're saying, "I
don't know what this means."
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"And do not be
conformed to this world
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but be transformed".
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Now that we're transformed
in the Greek, is metamorphs.
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Metamorphist, it's
where we get our English word
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'metamorphist.'
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So it literally means,
00:23:20.83\00:23:22.36
you think about the caterpillar.
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That's right.
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You know, the
caterpillar crawling
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and they're on the ground
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and by no effort of their
own in their mind can they say,
00:23:28.60\00:23:31.71
"I'm going to begin to
fly", 'cause they can't.
00:23:31.74\00:23:34.91
All they do is
crawl on their belly.
00:23:34.94\00:23:36.75
But through the power of God,
you know, in the caterpillar,
00:23:36.78\00:23:40.28
they form that cocoon.
00:23:40.32\00:23:42.32
Chrysalis cocoon
and then they break out.
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And they are butterflies.
00:23:46.32\00:23:47.66
That is a complete
revolution, a complete change.
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So it's the same
word that Paul used here,
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"Do not be
conformed to the world,
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be transformed"
00:23:55.73\00:23:57.07
or a complete change
like the metamorphist,
00:23:57.10\00:23:59.43
like the caterpillar.
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"By the renewing of your mind,
that you may prove what is good
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and acceptable in
perfect will of God."
00:24:05.04\00:24:06.88
In the New Living translation,
renewing of your mind, it says,
00:24:06.91\00:24:10.31
"Be not confirmed to this world,
00:24:10.35\00:24:11.68
be transformed by
changing the way you think".
00:24:11.71\00:24:16.65
A mind is a strong...
00:24:16.69\00:24:18.02
The mind...
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Yes.
00:24:19.42\00:24:20.76
No, very true.
00:24:20.79\00:24:22.12
You know, in my Bible here,
okay, right after transformed,
00:24:22.16\00:24:24.83
it says, "By the
renewing of your mind".
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I have a little note
here, It's tough for me
00:24:27.23\00:24:29.03
to even read my own
handwriting but I have in here,
00:24:29.06\00:24:31.60
sad is it, to
read my own handwriting
00:24:31.63\00:24:34.07
but I have a word here...
00:24:34.10\00:24:35.67
We need reading glasses.
00:24:35.70\00:24:37.04
I will need glasses eventually
but I have the little word
00:24:37.07\00:24:40.24
scribbled here
that says, renovate,
00:24:40.28\00:24:42.88
which I have the opportunity
00:24:42.91\00:24:44.25
sometimes to doing some
renovation on some houses,
00:24:44.28\00:24:46.82
which is really
demolition as you call it.
00:24:46.85\00:24:49.55
On your off days...
00:24:49.58\00:24:50.92
That's true. That's true.
00:24:50.95\00:24:52.29
So, yeah, when I
think of renovate,
00:24:52.32\00:24:54.42
I think of change.
00:24:54.46\00:24:55.79
Again, transformation,
you take care of them,
00:24:55.82\00:24:58.06
something that
may be falling apart
00:24:58.09\00:24:59.63
and having a lot of
issues and you renovate it
00:24:59.66\00:25:02.06
and you make it
something beautiful.
00:25:02.10\00:25:04.13
Something that does practical,
00:25:04.17\00:25:05.73
something you can
use from something
00:25:05.77\00:25:07.10
that's basically nothing.
00:25:07.14\00:25:08.47
Something that's useful.
00:25:08.50\00:25:10.14
So to renovate or can I
use the word remodel, maybe.
00:25:10.17\00:25:12.97
Yes.
00:25:13.01\00:25:14.34
I don't know, when
I think of renovate,
00:25:14.38\00:25:15.71
I think almost of
remodeling, as well.
00:25:15.74\00:25:17.08
But the thing is
the remodeling process
00:25:17.11\00:25:20.12
isn't just on our own power.
00:25:20.15\00:25:21.82
Is it Pastor Johnny,
00:25:21.85\00:25:23.18
we have to rely upon...
00:25:23.22\00:25:24.55
The Lord.
00:25:24.59\00:25:25.92
And it was beautiful the
way each one of us is talking
00:25:25.95\00:25:29.76
but there is this
concept of helplessness.
00:25:29.79\00:25:34.96
The Lord's strength is
made perfect in weakness.
00:25:35.00\00:25:38.03
When we recognize, understand
that of our own, as Jesus says,
00:25:38.07\00:25:42.50
"Without me you can do nothing".
00:25:42.54\00:25:45.94
And so the opposite is true,
with Him we can do all things.
00:25:45.97\00:25:50.05
He gives us the power.
00:25:50.08\00:25:51.71
And we provide the
will for that to happen.
00:25:51.75\00:25:54.75
And this scripture that,
00:25:54.78\00:25:57.09
Romans 12:1 and 2 is marvelous
00:25:57.12\00:25:59.52
with the first
song that we sang.
00:25:59.55\00:26:01.22
Yes. And notice the wording.
00:26:01.26\00:26:03.29
We've sang, 'Lord
prepare me to be a Sanctuary,
00:26:03.32\00:26:05.99
pure and holy, tried and true.'
00:26:06.03\00:26:08.13
And this says, "I
beseech you therefore,
00:26:08.16\00:26:09.93
brethren, by the
mercies of God..."
00:26:09.96\00:26:11.63
Paul understood.
00:26:11.67\00:26:13.00
He understood that we
need to submit to God.
00:26:13.03\00:26:16.04
"I beseech you",
00:26:16.07\00:26:17.41
is like, it's like,
I'm begging you, please.
00:26:17.44\00:26:21.74
"Brethren, by
the mercies of God,
00:26:21.78\00:26:23.48
that you present your
bodies a living sacrifice,
00:26:23.51\00:26:26.15
holy, acceptable unto
God, which is", it says,
00:26:26.18\00:26:29.42
"A reasonable service."
00:26:29.45\00:26:30.79
That's like the very
least that you can do.
00:26:30.82\00:26:33.59
And this is a
passage worthy of study
00:26:33.62\00:26:38.26
and contemplation
asking the Lord to help us
00:26:38.29\00:26:40.50
but it is true.
00:26:40.53\00:26:42.16
We have a great need,
00:26:42.20\00:26:45.53
it's a vital
need to have our minds
00:26:45.57\00:26:48.84
transformed by the
renewing of your mind.
00:26:48.87\00:26:52.91
Because as time
goes on, the life choices
00:26:52.94\00:26:57.45
that we make mould our mind
into a certain way of thinking,
00:26:57.48\00:27:02.55
a certain way of speaking,
a certain way of walking,
00:27:02.58\00:27:04.72
a certain way of eating.
00:27:04.75\00:27:06.39
And, of course, we inherit also,
00:27:06.42\00:27:09.36
hereditary tendencies
whether for good or for evil.
00:27:09.39\00:27:12.79
Yeah.
00:27:12.83\00:27:14.16
And so by God's grace,
we collaborate with Him,
00:27:14.20\00:27:16.83
be transformed by the
renewing of your mind.
00:27:16.87\00:27:19.23
It's a process like
we've been talking about.
00:27:19.27\00:27:21.77
But, and, you know,
there are many a scriptures
00:27:21.80\00:27:24.01
that we can
think of, Jesus said,
00:27:24.04\00:27:26.91
"If you want to follow me,
00:27:26.94\00:27:29.28
take up your cross daily".
00:27:29.31\00:27:31.21
Yes. So it's a daily process.
00:27:31.25\00:27:32.61
It's not one time,
00:27:32.65\00:27:33.98
"I'll take up the cross"
and then never do it again.
00:27:34.02\00:27:35.92
Yeah.
00:27:35.95\00:27:37.29
It's a daily process
00:27:37.32\00:27:38.65
and we have to
cooperate with the Lord
00:27:38.69\00:27:40.02
for our own benefit.
00:27:40.06\00:27:42.62
Go ahead, Ja.
00:27:42.66\00:27:43.99
I think we should take a look
at where change comes from too
00:27:44.03\00:27:47.80
because, I mean, we're born
with the propensity to sense.
00:27:47.83\00:27:50.57
So it's only
through the Holy Spirit,
00:27:50.60\00:27:52.10
the convicting
of the Holy Spirit
00:27:52.13\00:27:55.37
that we realize
our need for change.
00:27:55.40\00:27:57.84
That's right.
00:27:57.87\00:27:59.21
Also I like what you're
saying about, basically,
00:27:59.24\00:28:03.58
how we need to
surrender and follow Christ.
00:28:03.61\00:28:09.42
Christ said that
He doesn't do anything
00:28:09.45\00:28:12.19
without the Father.
00:28:12.22\00:28:13.56
That's right.
00:28:13.59\00:28:14.92
I forgot where
that's found but He said,
00:28:14.96\00:28:16.29
He doesn't do
anything without the Father.
00:28:16.32\00:28:17.69
Now Jesus is saying that
00:28:17.73\00:28:20.16
He doesn't do
anything without the Father,
00:28:20.20\00:28:22.70
how are we, as mere
mortals, as mere human beings,
00:28:22.73\00:28:27.70
gonna do
anything without Christ?
00:28:27.74\00:28:29.44
Yeah. Yeah, that's right.
00:28:29.47\00:28:30.81
It's a good point.
00:28:30.84\00:28:32.17
You know, so I'm thinking
then about transformation,
00:28:32.21\00:28:34.21
"Is transformation..."
00:28:34.24\00:28:36.98
I mean,
obviously, it's a process,
00:28:37.01\00:28:38.85
but is it something that
just takes place at a point,
00:28:38.88\00:28:41.62
okay, now I'm transformed,
00:28:41.65\00:28:42.98
because I think
about the butterfly,
00:28:43.02\00:28:44.35
he's now transformed
and he's a butterfly.
00:28:44.39\00:28:46.12
So, then, he's
done, he's a butterfly,
00:28:46.15\00:28:48.82
there's no more
transforming into anything else.
00:28:48.86\00:28:51.43
So as a Christian,
00:28:51.46\00:28:52.79
is there such a thing as
a Christian butterfly that,
00:28:52.83\00:28:54.76
okay, now we've arrived
and we're now this butterfly
00:28:54.80\00:28:57.83
that needs no more transforming,
00:28:57.87\00:28:59.57
we're talking about that.
00:28:59.60\00:29:00.94
So what do you...
00:29:00.97\00:29:02.50
We've talked about on a daily...
00:29:02.54\00:29:03.87
Something of that where
you can start to fall apart
00:29:03.91\00:29:05.91
at a certain level.
00:29:05.94\00:29:07.28
No, no. But you're
talking about daily.
00:29:07.31\00:29:08.64
Yes.
00:29:08.68\00:29:10.01
You know, we're
talking about transforming.
00:29:10.05\00:29:11.38
So is transformation...
00:29:11.41\00:29:12.75
Okay, now I'm transformed
but now it's a daily process
00:29:12.78\00:29:14.62
or is transforming a
daily process in itself.
00:29:14.65\00:29:16.69
Sanctification is
the worth of a life time.
00:29:16.72\00:29:18.52
That's right. So
it's an ongoing process.
00:29:18.55\00:29:21.56
And as brother
Johnny was saying,
00:29:21.59\00:29:23.86
like, the hardest
thing is dying to self.
00:29:23.89\00:29:28.30
That's true.
00:29:28.33\00:29:29.66
And that is a daily
struggle, second by second,
00:29:29.70\00:29:33.40
minute by minute, hour by
hour, we have to die to self.
00:29:33.44\00:29:36.37
Self wants to rear up
and poke its ugly head out.
00:29:36.40\00:29:40.28
You know, but we
have to give it to God
00:29:40.31\00:29:42.94
and let Him work,
00:29:42.98\00:29:44.31
honest and innocent through us.
00:29:44.35\00:29:46.05
Yeah, excellent, well said.
00:29:46.08\00:29:47.42
Being submissive
is the hardest things,
00:29:47.45\00:29:50.15
it's because we're
just set in our own ways.
00:29:50.19\00:29:52.62
I have learned a
lot from my children.
00:29:52.65\00:29:55.66
Sometimes, being a
teacher and you too,
00:29:55.69\00:29:58.69
being a music teacher and all,
00:29:58.73\00:30:00.86
I'm sure you've
learned lessons from the kids.
00:30:00.90\00:30:04.27
And it's incredible how you see,
00:30:04.30\00:30:07.04
how the Lord is using
that child to see myself
00:30:07.07\00:30:12.31
or my faults and you have to be,
00:30:12.34\00:30:15.91
the word is 'humble' to
accept that you're wrong
00:30:15.94\00:30:20.18
and accept that a
child can correct you.
00:30:20.22\00:30:22.18
Yes.
00:30:22.22\00:30:23.55
Because the Lord will use
a child to bring salvation.
00:30:23.59\00:30:26.86
So that is one lesson
that I really thank the Lord
00:30:26.89\00:30:31.46
for the opportunity of
working with the children.
00:30:31.49\00:30:32.93
Amen.
00:30:32.96\00:30:34.30
They reflect and they show you
00:30:34.33\00:30:36.13
what the areas
that you'd need to...
00:30:36.16\00:30:37.67
And thanks for
me. Yeah, growing.
00:30:37.70\00:30:39.10
Kids are pretty honest. Oh.
00:30:39.13\00:30:41.54
You're really honest.
00:30:41.57\00:30:43.30
Yes. That's true. I love it.
00:30:43.34\00:30:45.94
I like to say, you know,
00:30:45.97\00:30:48.54
I have never heard
anybody express themselves,
00:30:48.58\00:30:51.21
"Look, there is a
flying caterpillar."
00:30:51.25\00:30:53.45
Okay.
00:30:53.48\00:30:54.82
No, they call it a butterfly.
00:30:54.85\00:30:56.18
They only see the...
00:30:56.22\00:30:57.55
Right.
00:30:57.59\00:30:58.92
I believe the Lord
has placed a nature,
00:30:58.95\00:31:00.62
things to help us
understand spiritual things.
00:31:00.66\00:31:02.66
I agree.
00:31:02.69\00:31:04.03
And the
transformation that takes place
00:31:04.06\00:31:05.79
in the caterpillar
00:31:05.83\00:31:07.30
that is a worm
just on the ground
00:31:07.33\00:31:10.40
and you look at it
and you're not attracted,
00:31:10.43\00:31:12.47
"Oh, this is such a
beautiful little creature."
00:31:12.50\00:31:16.00
Very few children like
to play with caterpillars.
00:31:16.04\00:31:18.01
They do.
00:31:18.04\00:31:19.37
But the caterpillar
turns into a butterfly
00:31:19.41\00:31:21.94
by a process that
the Lord makes happen.
00:31:21.98\00:31:25.65
Amen. Is it a painful process?
00:31:25.68\00:31:28.48
I have to talk to a
caterpillar to find out.
00:31:28.52\00:31:32.19
But we see that the coming
out of the cocoon is difficult
00:31:32.22\00:31:35.12
because, you know, if
you try to help them...
00:31:35.16\00:31:36.49
Yes.
00:31:36.52\00:31:37.86
It's in the struggle
that the wings become strong.
00:31:37.89\00:31:39.76
Oh, exactly. Yeah.
00:31:39.79\00:31:41.13
So that means in the process...
00:31:41.16\00:31:42.83
There is a
process. There is pain.
00:31:42.86\00:31:44.93
I mean, there is...
00:31:44.97\00:31:47.07
Your children or
co-workers or spouse
00:31:47.10\00:31:49.87
or God brings circumstances
into your life that show you,
00:31:49.90\00:31:53.07
"Wow, my heart
is not surrendered."
00:31:53.11\00:31:54.78
I see.
00:31:54.81\00:31:56.14
"My heart is
still not like Jesus."
00:31:56.18\00:31:58.15
And so it grows us.
Yes, yes. That's right.
00:31:58.18\00:32:00.18
I'm sorry, brother
John. No, no, it's wonderful.
00:32:00.22\00:32:03.42
Each one of us, God works
00:32:03.45\00:32:07.06
at where we are to
lead us to be like Jesus.
00:32:07.09\00:32:11.03
Yes.
00:32:11.06\00:32:12.39
One of the things I used
to do when I was younger,
00:32:12.43\00:32:13.83
I used to listen to
a lot of secular music.
00:32:13.86\00:32:16.06
Not the heavy rock things.
00:32:16.10\00:32:17.73
I know people
have different taste.
00:32:17.77\00:32:19.43
I used to like
the softer things.
00:32:19.47\00:32:23.54
However, I used to listen
to it so much that I could,
00:32:23.57\00:32:29.81
when the song first starts,
two or three notes, I can say,
00:32:29.84\00:32:32.21
"Oh, that's
such and such a song.
00:32:32.25\00:32:34.38
And then one day, I'm in my
car and the Lord said, the Lord,
00:32:34.42\00:32:39.09
it's like He spoke to me.
00:32:39.12\00:32:40.46
I'm not telling I
heard an audible word
00:32:40.49\00:32:42.86
but I know He spoke to me
and said something like this,
00:32:42.89\00:32:46.63
"Son, you
listen to a lot of this
00:32:46.66\00:32:49.90
and it's not good for you."
00:32:49.93\00:32:52.30
And it was an
immediate, "Yes, Lord.
00:32:52.33\00:32:55.40
I understand.
00:32:55.44\00:32:57.07
You're right."
00:32:57.11\00:32:58.44
And I turned off the radio
and from that day I decided to,
00:32:58.47\00:33:01.68
I'm just gonna
listen to Christian music.
00:33:01.71\00:33:03.18
Wow.
00:33:03.21\00:33:04.55
But it's a yielding process,
00:33:04.58\00:33:06.11
the Lord leads
us to make decisions
00:33:06.15\00:33:08.55
along the way
that we are transformed
00:33:08.58\00:33:11.19
by the renewing of your mind.
00:33:11.22\00:33:12.55
Of your mind. Yes.
00:33:12.59\00:33:13.92
I made a decision to allow
the Lord to change my tastes.
00:33:13.96\00:33:17.99
And so I like to
look at this verse
00:33:18.03\00:33:19.73
because we're
talking about the butterfly,
00:33:19.76\00:33:24.93
it's now a butterfly,
not a caterpillar anymore.
00:33:24.97\00:33:28.27
But for us,
it's a daily process.
00:33:28.30\00:33:30.57
And this verse helps us
to understand when it's done
00:33:30.61\00:33:33.78
because I don't think
anyone can say, "That's it.
00:33:33.81\00:33:36.98
I'm all right."
00:33:37.01\00:33:38.35
That's right. No
more, I'm perfect.
00:33:38.38\00:33:40.68
That's right. I agree a 100%.
00:33:40.72\00:33:42.22
That's right. And
here's Philippians.
00:33:42.25\00:33:43.69
Oh, good. Philippians 1:6.
00:33:43.72\00:33:45.65
Oh, I like this one.
00:33:45.69\00:33:47.02
And the, notice...
00:33:47.06\00:33:48.39
Galatians,
Ephesians, Philippians.
00:33:48.42\00:33:50.33
Yes. Chapter 1.
00:33:50.36\00:33:51.86
Chapter 1 and verse 6.
00:33:51.89\00:33:53.60
It says, "Being confident..."
00:33:53.63\00:33:56.06
I like the way it
starts from the beginning.
00:33:56.10\00:33:57.63
"Of this very thing that He..."
00:33:57.67\00:33:59.83
that is Jesus Christ,
00:33:59.87\00:34:01.20
"Which have begun
a good work in you
00:34:01.24\00:34:04.51
will perform it when
until the day of Jesus Christ."
00:34:04.54\00:34:08.64
So this is the
process that lasts until...
00:34:08.68\00:34:11.71
The day of Jesus Christ.
00:34:11.75\00:34:13.18
And it is at that moment
00:34:13.21\00:34:15.28
and that is
described in I Corinthians 15,
00:34:15.32\00:34:20.02
it says that "We will all be..."
00:34:20.06\00:34:21.52
Be changed
00:34:21.56\00:34:22.89
"Changed..." In a moment.
00:34:22.92\00:34:24.26
"In a moment, in the
blinking of an eye...
00:34:24.29\00:34:25.63
In the blinking of an eye.
00:34:25.66\00:34:27.00
At the last trump."
00:34:27.03\00:34:28.36
There's a time
when you are settled
00:34:28.40\00:34:29.73
into the truth.
00:34:29.76\00:34:31.10
And, you know, you
look at Revelation 22
00:34:31.13\00:34:32.47
where it says, "Let
him," God makes that,
00:34:32.50\00:34:34.67
God makes that determination,
00:34:34.70\00:34:36.50
the time of
grace closes, it says,
00:34:36.54\00:34:37.87
"Let him who is
filthy be filthy still.
00:34:37.91\00:34:39.77
Let him who is
holy be holy still."
00:34:39.81\00:34:42.38
So there's that
process that the Lord is...
00:34:42.41\00:34:45.01
That, I'm making
that person holy.
00:34:45.05\00:34:46.51
Yes.
00:34:46.55\00:34:47.88
And you are settled in that
00:34:47.92\00:34:49.38
but it's God that
makes that happen.
00:34:49.42\00:34:50.75
Amen.
00:34:50.79\00:34:52.12
You said, something
like, people don't say,
00:34:52.15\00:34:55.02
"Oh, there goes a
flying caterpillar."
00:34:55.06\00:34:56.73
I love that. I
love that. Me too.
00:34:56.76\00:34:58.49
Because looking at
II Corinthians 5:17.
00:34:58.53\00:35:02.33
That's right. Wonderful.
00:35:02.36\00:35:04.20
It's a good verse.
00:35:04.23\00:35:05.57
"Therefore, if
any man be in Christ,
00:35:05.60\00:35:08.70
he is a new creature."
00:35:08.74\00:35:10.41
That's right.
00:35:10.44\00:35:11.77
"Old things are
passed away, behold,
00:35:11.81\00:35:13.64
all things are become new."
00:35:13.68\00:35:15.14
Amen. A new creature.
00:35:15.18\00:35:16.75
So it's not the, to say,
00:35:16.78\00:35:18.88
"It's not a
flying caterpillar now.
00:35:18.91\00:35:20.78
It's a
butterfly, you know." Amen.
00:35:20.82\00:35:23.35
So I love that. That's great.
00:35:23.39\00:35:25.29
In correlation with
what you just said, Ja,
00:35:25.32\00:35:27.06
let's go to Ephesians,
that reminds me of that.
00:35:27.09\00:35:29.22
It talks the same process,
00:35:29.26\00:35:30.83
the old has gone
away and the new has come.
00:35:30.86\00:35:34.20
If you look at Ephesians
4, I think we're in 22 to 24.
00:35:34.23\00:35:39.77
And it's the same concept
where we're putting off the old
00:35:39.80\00:35:42.84
and then putting on the new.
00:35:42.87\00:35:44.21
Amen.
00:35:44.24\00:35:45.57
"That you put off
concerning your former conduct,
00:35:45.61\00:35:47.94
the old man which grows corrupt
00:35:47.98\00:35:50.35
according to the deceitful lusts
00:35:50.38\00:35:52.11
and be renewed..."
00:35:52.15\00:35:53.58
there is our word, "In
the spirit of your mind
00:35:53.62\00:35:56.48
that you put on the new man
00:35:56.52\00:35:58.12
which was
created according to God,
00:35:58.15\00:35:59.85
in true
righteousness and holiness."
00:35:59.89\00:36:02.22
And to me, it
takes II Corinthians 5
00:36:02.26\00:36:04.66
and it even
expounds on it further,
00:36:04.69\00:36:06.26
instead of just saying,
00:36:06.29\00:36:07.63
"The old is gone,
the new has come."
00:36:07.66\00:36:09.23
This explains a
little bit of the process,
00:36:09.26\00:36:11.20
that verse in the middle,
00:36:11.23\00:36:12.57
"Be renewed in the
spirit of your mind."
00:36:12.60\00:36:14.40
That process there. Amen.
00:36:14.44\00:36:16.91
Yeah, I think about
the story of Saul to Paul.
00:36:16.94\00:36:21.34
I mean, that was
dramatic, wasn't it?
00:36:21.38\00:36:22.94
Didn't you say the
definition in the beginning,
00:36:22.98\00:36:25.01
it was a dramatic
change, transformation.
00:36:25.05\00:36:26.51
Yes, sir,
thorough complete change.
00:36:27.58\00:36:29.28
But I think about
that, that was dramatic.
00:36:29.32\00:36:31.05
It was basically a direct turn
around from his direction...
00:36:31.09\00:36:33.36
Yes.
00:36:33.39\00:36:34.72
You know, he was
going to serving the Lord.
00:36:34.76\00:36:37.63
Yeah, I mean,
with all of his heart.
00:36:37.66\00:36:38.99
You know, so
that's dramatic for sure.
00:36:39.03\00:36:41.56
Nebuchadnezzar too.
00:36:41.60\00:36:43.37
King Nebuchadnezzar,
he went from like,
00:36:43.40\00:36:45.43
one extreme to
the other extreme.
00:36:45.47\00:36:47.70
It was, yeah.
00:36:47.74\00:36:49.07
But, you know, don't you think,
00:36:49.10\00:36:50.44
even though it is dramatic
00:36:50.47\00:36:51.84
that God by His spirit
is leading ahead of time.
00:36:51.87\00:36:54.01
Yes.
00:36:54.04\00:36:55.38
You think of Nebuchadnezzar,
he dramatically fell.
00:36:55.41\00:36:57.91
In that moment, God's
voice came from heaven
00:36:57.95\00:37:00.05
and he was made like
an ox and he ate the grass
00:37:00.08\00:37:03.12
but that was a process,
00:37:03.15\00:37:04.92
God had given him the warning
a whole year before, saying,
00:37:04.95\00:37:07.89
humble your heart.
00:37:07.92\00:37:09.26
But he wouldn't.
And he wouldn't listen.
00:37:09.29\00:37:10.63
So I think, day by day,
00:37:10.66\00:37:12.46
he hardened his
heart against God.
00:37:12.49\00:37:14.16
He allowed pride to build up
and then that was an instant,
00:37:14.20\00:37:18.77
in it the outward
people, it looked instant.
00:37:18.80\00:37:22.14
And same thing with Saul.
00:37:22.17\00:37:23.51
Don't you think the Holy
spirit was working on his heart
00:37:23.54\00:37:25.57
even when he's persecuting
and killing Christians.
00:37:25.61\00:37:28.11
Well, I think he saw
the stoning of Stephen.
00:37:28.14\00:37:29.48
The stoning of Steven.
00:37:29.51\00:37:30.85
The Bible gives us a
little glimpse into that.
00:37:30.88\00:37:32.21
So outwardly, it
might look instant
00:37:32.25\00:37:34.68
but the Holy spirit's
been at work a long time.
00:37:34.72\00:37:36.18
Yeah. Yes.
00:37:36.22\00:37:37.55
And you wanna make
sure you humble yourself.
00:37:37.59\00:37:39.65
You don't want to have to be...
00:37:39.69\00:37:41.52
You don't wanna have to
experience God humbling you.
00:37:41.56\00:37:43.53
Humbling you.
00:37:43.56\00:37:44.89
'Cause it can be...
00:37:44.93\00:37:47.00
Quite intent.
00:37:47.03\00:37:49.46
That's true.
00:37:49.50\00:37:50.83
Do you think you wanna meet Saul
00:37:50.87\00:37:52.20
when he was in
the persecuting stage?
00:37:52.23\00:37:53.57
No.
00:37:53.60\00:37:54.94
But it is a time
that God's Holy spirit
00:37:54.97\00:38:00.68
is working on each person.
00:38:00.71\00:38:02.94
Leading them little
by little to understand
00:38:02.98\00:38:06.61
and when we see the results,
00:38:06.65\00:38:08.82
it's for someone looking
like, "Wow, look at the change."
00:38:08.85\00:38:13.69
Yes.
00:38:13.72\00:38:15.06
And Saul's
conversion is dramatic
00:38:15.09\00:38:19.83
because of what he was.
00:38:19.86\00:38:21.36
Yes. That's right.
00:38:21.40\00:38:22.73
He says, he was exceedingly
mad and he forced them to...
00:38:22.76\00:38:28.24
What's the word I'm looking for?
00:38:28.27\00:38:29.60
He forced them to confess
that, you know, that God was,
00:38:29.64\00:38:32.97
that Jesus was not the
Christ and things like that.
00:38:33.01\00:38:36.08
So when he was converted,
they were like, "Wait a minute.
00:38:36.11\00:38:38.81
Isn't that..."
00:38:38.85\00:38:40.18
It was, it was
something unbelievable.
00:38:40.22\00:38:42.12
But that's the power of God.
00:38:42.15\00:38:43.69
Amen. That's the power of God.
00:38:43.72\00:38:45.05
I remember when we went to,
I went to visit in Wisconsin
00:38:45.09\00:38:48.99
and I went to a
particular store.
00:38:49.02\00:38:51.19
And I was just doing,
minding my own business
00:38:51.23\00:38:54.16
and just going on and
somebody said, "Excuse me?"
00:38:54.20\00:39:00.70
I said, "Yes.
00:39:00.74\00:39:02.07
Did you study
at such as school?"
00:39:02.10\00:39:03.61
"Yes."
00:39:03.64\00:39:04.97
"Are you so and so?"
00:39:05.01\00:39:06.98
Idalia Maria Rita, you know,
00:39:07.01\00:39:08.84
that is my maiden last name.
00:39:08.88\00:39:11.45
I said, "Yes, I am."
00:39:11.48\00:39:12.85
I did not recognize the person
and she says, "Are you Idalia?
00:39:12.88\00:39:19.39
De Jesus?" I'm like, "Yes. Why?
00:39:19.42\00:39:22.72
Am I in trouble?"
00:39:22.76\00:39:24.13
"No, you're demeanor.
00:39:24.16\00:39:26.03
Everything has
changed about you."
00:39:26.06\00:39:27.40
Praise the Lord.
00:39:27.43\00:39:28.76
"I don't know,
where have you been,
00:39:28.80\00:39:30.53
what have you done."
00:39:30.57\00:39:31.90
I'm like, "Well, I
gave my life to Christ."
00:39:31.93\00:39:34.30
"I got re-baptized in the church
00:39:34.34\00:39:36.47
and the Lord has
transformed my life."
00:39:36.50\00:39:39.04
Yes.
00:39:39.07\00:39:40.41
I was like, and
transforming here,
00:39:40.44\00:39:43.38
today, you know.
00:39:43.41\00:39:44.85
And I praise the Lord for that.
00:39:44.88\00:39:46.51
But I never saw myself
00:39:46.55\00:39:49.85
or imagined that
somebody would see myself.
00:39:49.88\00:39:52.79
Well, yes, I was bad.
00:39:52.82\00:39:54.32
I mean, I used to
get suspended from school
00:39:54.36\00:39:57.63
and fights and this and that.
00:39:57.66\00:39:59.39
Yes, anyway, and then,
00:39:59.43\00:40:02.06
somebody to just be
impacted by the Christ in me,
00:40:02.10\00:40:07.27
you know, without
me even realizing it.
00:40:07.30\00:40:09.74
So it's the
Lord transforming us.
00:40:09.77\00:40:13.61
If we want to have
it, we can have it.
00:40:13.64\00:40:16.24
Amen.
00:40:16.28\00:40:17.61
Right, so...
00:40:17.65\00:40:19.11
A lot of these verses
that we read talk of decision,
00:40:19.15\00:40:23.02
you know, you read here
00:40:23.05\00:40:26.12
Ephesians 4 and 22.
00:40:26.15\00:40:30.36
It says that, it
says, "That ye put off..."
00:40:30.39\00:40:34.26
it's a decision.
00:40:34.30\00:40:35.80
"And be renewed..."
00:40:35.83\00:40:37.17
that's a decision.
00:40:37.20\00:40:38.53
"And that ye put
on the new man..."
00:40:38.57\00:40:39.90
another decision.
00:40:39.93\00:40:41.27
It's good.
00:40:41.30\00:40:42.64
John 3:16, "For
God so loved the world
00:40:42.67\00:40:44.01
that He gave His
only begotten son,
00:40:44.04\00:40:45.87
that whosever believeth..."
00:40:45.91\00:40:47.34
a decision to
believe or not to believe.
00:40:47.38\00:40:48.71
Right.
00:40:48.74\00:40:50.08
"Let this light
therefore, let your light..."
00:40:50.11\00:40:51.51
another decision.
00:40:51.55\00:40:52.88
So shine.
00:40:52.91\00:40:54.25
"So shine before men,
00:40:54.28\00:40:55.62
that they may see
your good works..."
00:40:55.65\00:40:56.99
decision after
decision needs to be made
00:40:57.02\00:40:58.92
in favor of being transformed.
00:40:58.95\00:41:00.62
Yes.
00:41:00.66\00:41:01.99
And when we do,
we are happier by it.
00:41:02.02\00:41:05.49
You know, the
decisions that we make
00:41:05.53\00:41:07.53
just like what
you were mentioning,
00:41:07.56\00:41:10.60
in my home, when
I was growing up,
00:41:10.63\00:41:12.73
it's funny because I
used to love secular music.
00:41:12.77\00:41:16.07
And then all of a
sudden I'm just playing the,
00:41:16.10\00:41:18.97
in my teenage years,
out of all the years,
00:41:19.01\00:41:21.54
I started
listening to Christian music.
00:41:21.58\00:41:22.91
Amen. Wow.
00:41:22.94\00:41:24.28
And my folks and my family
continued listening to secular
00:41:24.31\00:41:27.95
and I was
listening to Christian.
00:41:27.98\00:41:29.82
And all of a
sudden, my parents noticed
00:41:29.85\00:41:33.76
the difference and then they
stopped listening to secular
00:41:33.79\00:41:37.23
and started listening
to the Christian music.
00:41:37.26\00:41:39.63
But all of a sudden,
00:41:39.66\00:41:41.30
I'm offered to be
an assistant DJ, right?
00:41:41.33\00:41:46.60
At a radio station.
00:41:46.63\00:41:47.97
Not at a Christian...
00:41:48.00\00:41:49.34
Not at a
Christian radio station.
00:41:49.37\00:41:50.71
In a secular radio station.
00:41:50.74\00:41:54.14
And, you know, I'd have
to say I did take the job
00:41:54.18\00:41:58.61
but I didn't last
long in it because it just,
00:41:58.65\00:42:01.48
my heart was no longer
into the secular music.
00:42:01.52\00:42:04.45
Praise the
Lord. It's not a mate.
00:42:04.49\00:42:07.06
And it's incredible how
life takes its turns and curves
00:42:07.09\00:42:11.93
and the transformation comes
without you even realizing it.
00:42:11.96\00:42:16.23
You know, like, I'm
not into this anymore.
00:42:16.26\00:42:18.17
Yeah.
00:42:18.20\00:42:19.53
Well, go ahead. You know, okay.
00:42:19.57\00:42:20.94
Going to Ephesians 4, sweetie,
00:42:20.97\00:42:22.60
you've just read
in Ephesians 4:22,
00:42:22.64\00:42:25.21
"That you put off concerning
the former conversation
00:42:25.24\00:42:27.78
and the old man", you
know, I was thinking, Pastor,
00:42:27.81\00:42:29.88
what you were saying, you've
made a conscious decision.
00:42:29.91\00:42:32.55
Yes. Turn that radio off.
00:42:32.58\00:42:35.02
You know, my dad described
when I was a child, he said,
00:42:35.05\00:42:37.42
"Think of having two
paths," like dirt paths.
00:42:37.45\00:42:40.52
And he said, "If you go down
the wrong path," as in the say,
00:42:40.56\00:42:43.83
choosing secular
music or other things
00:42:43.86\00:42:45.96
that God doesn't want us to do
00:42:45.99\00:42:48.26
and you keep
going down that path,
00:42:48.30\00:42:49.63
that path will
become then a rut, you know,
00:42:49.66\00:42:51.53
because you'll kick out the dirt
00:42:51.57\00:42:52.90
and it'll get deeper and deeper.
00:42:52.93\00:42:54.47
But when you
start choosing Jesus
00:42:54.50\00:42:56.74
and forget that path,
00:42:56.77\00:42:58.11
let's say this
pick music for that,
00:42:58.14\00:43:00.21
the example
you've brought up, yes.
00:43:00.24\00:43:02.94
And you decided
to go down the path
00:43:02.98\00:43:04.75
that God wanted you to go,
00:43:04.78\00:43:06.35
then that path will
become deeper and deeper
00:43:06.38\00:43:08.08
and the other one will
start to fill in, you know,
00:43:08.12\00:43:09.48
the rains, so to
speak and pretty soon
00:43:09.52\00:43:10.89
that path won't be there.
00:43:10.92\00:43:12.25
Grass will grow in
00:43:12.29\00:43:13.62
and it won't be a well used rut.
00:43:13.66\00:43:14.99
My dad said, "You
want to get a rut",
00:43:15.02\00:43:16.69
you know, when you're
in the right direction,
00:43:16.73\00:43:18.06
deep, you want to trench.
00:43:18.09\00:43:20.16
You want just a
path, you want to trench.
00:43:20.20\00:43:21.96
So as it takes time,
00:43:22.00\00:43:23.33
that's that process
that we're talking about
00:43:23.37\00:43:25.00
because sometimes
things are just dramatic
00:43:25.03\00:43:27.44
for some people and for others,
I know, even in my own life,
00:43:27.47\00:43:30.71
it's a decision like,
no, and yes, for this.
00:43:30.74\00:43:35.28
And it's like, boy, both paths
are fairly strong, you know.
00:43:35.31\00:43:37.88
But then after a while,
00:43:37.91\00:43:39.25
this one will
become deeper and deeper
00:43:39.28\00:43:40.72
or this will become
deeper and deeper for Christ.
00:43:40.75\00:43:43.02
You know, as I, you know,
don't listen to the radio.
00:43:43.05\00:43:45.15
And then after a while
passed, you've probably noticed
00:43:45.19\00:43:47.02
when you went into a
store and some song came on,
00:43:47.06\00:43:48.59
you're like, "Boy, I
don't even know who that is
00:43:48.62\00:43:50.29
or what that musical bizarre,
00:43:50.33\00:43:51.89
even the name of
that song anymore?"
00:43:51.93\00:43:53.70
Do you know the way
you've explained that
00:43:53.73\00:43:55.96
is marvelous
00:43:56.00\00:43:57.33
because what happens is
that as we make these decisions,
00:43:57.37\00:44:02.37
these conscious yes,
you're following the Lord,
00:44:02.40\00:44:05.51
you're choosing Jesus.
00:44:05.54\00:44:07.11
It will become as
a natural to do good.
00:44:07.14\00:44:10.75
Yes.
00:44:10.78\00:44:12.11
As it was as natural
to do evil in the past.
00:44:12.15\00:44:14.05
That's what God wants
to do in each one of us.
00:44:14.08\00:44:16.62
It reminds of
Galatians 6:9, you know,
00:44:16.65\00:44:19.42
"Whatsoever a man
sows that shall he reap."
00:44:19.45\00:44:21.79
So if we sow to the
flesh, we reap corruption.
00:44:21.82\00:44:25.23
If we sow to the
spirit, we reap everlasting life
00:44:25.26\00:44:28.40
and that could sound a kind of,
00:44:28.43\00:44:30.17
"Oh, that's philosophical
and I don't get that."
00:44:30.20\00:44:32.27
But in practical terms,
00:44:32.30\00:44:33.64
it's what we've been discussing.
00:44:33.67\00:44:35.00
If I choose, we're
using example on music,
00:44:35.04\00:44:37.01
that secular music, if
I choose that TV program
00:44:37.04\00:44:40.48
that has violence
and sexual content
00:44:40.51\00:44:42.71
and whatever,
00:44:42.74\00:44:44.08
I'm going to
develop the rut towards sin,
00:44:44.11\00:44:47.52
toward the pleasures of sin,
00:44:47.55\00:44:48.88
toward the
passions of the world.
00:44:48.92\00:44:50.62
If I choose to spend
time in the Word of God,
00:44:50.65\00:44:54.32
if I choose to share
with Godly friends and family,
00:44:54.36\00:44:58.26
if I choose to
pray and to surrender
00:44:58.29\00:45:01.86
and to choose Jesus
way, that rut becomes deeper.
00:45:01.90\00:45:05.57
That's beautiful,
what God wants to do.
00:45:05.60\00:45:07.70
It's right, absolutely.
00:45:07.74\00:45:09.14
We have the
choice to choose life
00:45:09.17\00:45:11.47
or we can choose death.
00:45:11.51\00:45:12.84
Yeah.
00:45:12.87\00:45:14.21
We've all been
sentenced to death
00:45:14.24\00:45:16.04
but Christ died in our
place to pay death for us,
00:45:16.08\00:45:19.95
so that we don't
have to experience that
00:45:19.98\00:45:21.88
but we have to make
the choice, to serve Him.
00:45:21.92\00:45:25.02
Amen.
00:45:25.05\00:45:26.39
I just wanna encourage those
00:45:26.42\00:45:27.82
that are in
prison that are watching,
00:45:27.86\00:45:31.09
that is your cocoon right now,
you know, all of a sudden...
00:45:31.13\00:45:34.40
That's good.
00:45:34.43\00:45:35.76
I just feel the impression
that, you are in a cocoon
00:45:35.80\00:45:38.53
because for
whatever consequences
00:45:38.57\00:45:41.30
you ended up in prison
00:45:41.34\00:45:43.54
but you have the
opportunity to focus,
00:45:43.57\00:45:47.58
you know, and
God that loves you,
00:45:47.61\00:45:51.18
that forgives you,
00:45:51.21\00:45:52.65
that is willing to
transform your life
00:45:52.68\00:45:55.18
into a peaceful
plentiest life, right?
00:45:55.22\00:45:58.19
In Christ.
00:45:58.22\00:45:59.55
So I remember I'm
going to Prison Ministries
00:45:59.59\00:46:02.36
every Sabbath, to
visit a friend of ours
00:46:02.39\00:46:07.73
and the kids were
babies and people will be like,
00:46:07.76\00:46:10.53
"Don't take the babies in there.
00:46:10.57\00:46:11.90
They're gonna think that
it's okay to live in prison,
00:46:11.93\00:46:14.80
they're gonna think it's okay."
00:46:14.84\00:46:16.34
But, you know, they
know that it's not okay
00:46:16.37\00:46:19.97
and it's your duty as an
adult to bring into them,
00:46:20.01\00:46:24.15
it's okay to do good,
00:46:24.18\00:46:25.51
it doesn't matter how
deep the people have gone,
00:46:25.55\00:46:28.48
there's always an
opportunity to help people...
00:46:28.52\00:46:31.49
In their transformation process
because Johnny has been part
00:46:31.52\00:46:36.59
of my transformation
process in my life.
00:46:36.62\00:46:38.76
Amen, great.
00:46:38.79\00:46:40.13
You have been a
transformation...
00:46:40.16\00:46:41.50
All of us do.
00:46:41.53\00:46:42.86
And, yes, exactly,
and our family in Christ
00:46:42.90\00:46:44.40
because if we don't have
the support of each other,
00:46:44.43\00:46:46.74
yes, the Lord will do
His work with or without us
00:46:46.77\00:46:50.24
but how beautiful it
is for God's children
00:46:50.27\00:46:53.07
just to pull together
and see God's plans unfold
00:46:53.11\00:46:56.68
before our very eyes
in your life, you know,
00:46:56.71\00:46:58.95
I think about your
testimony and I always choke up.
00:46:58.98\00:47:01.25
Yes.
00:47:01.28\00:47:02.62
Praise the Lord for
your transformation.
00:47:02.65\00:47:04.52
And you should have
heard him share at prison,
00:47:04.55\00:47:06.79
same thing what God did and...
00:47:06.82\00:47:09.19
And where you were
in, the transformation
00:47:09.22\00:47:11.29
that God sent in
your life is incredible.
00:47:11.33\00:47:12.93
Yes, it's a miracle.
00:47:12.96\00:47:14.96
My mom, you know, sometimes
we'll talk and she's like,
00:47:15.00\00:47:19.70
"Look at where you are today."
00:47:19.73\00:47:21.77
And she's like, you know,
00:47:21.80\00:47:24.01
"Not too long
ago you didn't even,
00:47:24.04\00:47:26.07
you didn't want
anything to do spiritual things.
00:47:26.11\00:47:28.44
When I talked to you about God,
00:47:28.48\00:47:29.81
you wouldn't be disrespectful
00:47:29.84\00:47:31.25
but you just didn't wanna hear
about Him, like, you didn't..."
00:47:31.28\00:47:33.92
I didn't wanted...
00:47:33.95\00:47:35.28
I wasn't spiritual at the time,
00:47:35.32\00:47:36.79
like, I didn't
wanna go to church,
00:47:36.82\00:47:38.15
I didn't wanna, I wanted
to do what I wanted to do.
00:47:38.19\00:47:40.46
Yes.
00:47:40.49\00:47:41.82
And I saw where that lead
00:47:41.86\00:47:43.69
and that didn't lead
in a positive direction
00:47:43.73\00:47:46.09
and I knew that, I was weak
00:47:46.13\00:47:49.93
and I couldn't
depend on my own strength,
00:47:49.96\00:47:52.33
you know, I had
to look to the Lord
00:47:52.37\00:47:54.74
and it was the Holy Spirit
that really had been tugging
00:47:54.77\00:47:57.27
and pulling in my heart
00:47:57.31\00:47:59.44
and working on me and finally...
00:47:59.47\00:48:00.81
Amen.
00:48:00.84\00:48:02.18
Coming out here for that
day of prayer was amazing.
00:48:02.21\00:48:04.11
Yeah, I remember that.
00:48:04.15\00:48:05.48
Because, Mr. Danny was saying,
00:48:05.51\00:48:06.85
Danny Shelton was saying
that if you leave this place
00:48:06.88\00:48:10.29
and you can't get
it out of your mind,
00:48:10.32\00:48:12.59
then this is where
God would have you to be.
00:48:12.62\00:48:14.49
And I was working
70 hour work weeks.
00:48:14.52\00:48:17.23
And I went back to Atlanta
00:48:17.26\00:48:18.59
and I was just
thinking 3ABN, 3ABN, 3ABN
00:48:18.63\00:48:22.40
and I'm like, but
those are cornfield,
00:48:22.43\00:48:25.03
there is nothing
there in a cornfield,
00:48:25.07\00:48:26.84
not a lot of good response.
00:48:26.87\00:48:28.30
We understand.
00:48:28.34\00:48:29.67
And but I was
like, you know what?
00:48:29.70\00:48:31.07
I'm gonna stop fighting God
as I had for all these years
00:48:31.11\00:48:34.91
and finally, surrendered.
00:48:34.94\00:48:36.51
Amen.
00:48:36.54\00:48:37.88
And that was the best
decision that I've ever made.
00:48:37.91\00:48:39.75
Yes. Praise the Lord.
00:48:39.78\00:48:41.18
Best, because, I also...
00:48:41.22\00:48:43.62
It's like, I was
talking to the ladies
00:48:43.65\00:48:46.62
about this at the prison,
00:48:46.65\00:48:48.16
is that God wants to restore us,
00:48:48.19\00:48:50.69
it's a law abiding citizens.
00:48:50.73\00:48:52.53
Yes.
00:48:52.56\00:48:53.90
And we just have
to let Him like the,
00:48:53.93\00:48:57.83
how we're talking
about perspective...
00:48:57.87\00:48:59.37
Yeah.
00:48:59.40\00:49:00.74
How we view God's laws
like, the ten commandments,
00:49:00.77\00:49:04.21
I've used to look
at it as a burden,
00:49:04.24\00:49:06.34
you mean, I can't
watch all the best cartoons,
00:49:06.37\00:49:08.94
everything comes on on Saturday.
00:49:08.98\00:49:11.95
I can't do X, Y and Z.
00:49:11.98\00:49:14.68
But it's out of love
that He gives us these laws
00:49:14.72\00:49:18.02
that's gonna help
extend and prolong our lives,
00:49:18.05\00:49:20.86
that's gonna lead
to a happier life,
00:49:20.89\00:49:23.26
that's gonna lead
to eternal life...
00:49:23.29\00:49:26.19
And it's, yes, it's
hedge of protection around us,
00:49:26.23\00:49:29.10
it's for our benefit.
00:49:29.13\00:49:30.90
You know, so, I
mean, looking at it,
00:49:30.93\00:49:33.40
seeing it on this side, I would
much rather be on this side...
00:49:33.44\00:49:37.67
Than the side I
was on a while ago.
00:49:37.71\00:49:40.24
Amen. Praise the Lord.
00:49:40.28\00:49:42.24
Let's see if we can get
one more Bible verse in,
00:49:42.28\00:49:44.35
let's go to Ezekiel 36.
00:49:44.38\00:49:46.65
Great.
00:49:46.68\00:49:48.02
And praise God for
the transformation,
00:49:48.05\00:49:49.82
you know...
00:49:49.85\00:49:51.19
He wants to work in each
one of our hearts and lives.
00:49:51.22\00:49:53.79
Ezekiel 36, and
whoever gets there,
00:49:53.82\00:49:56.49
if you wanna read them.
00:49:56.52\00:49:57.93
Sure.
00:49:57.96\00:49:59.29
24 through 28.
00:49:59.33\00:50:01.66
Yes.
00:50:01.70\00:50:03.03
"'For I will take you
from among the heathen
00:50:03.06\00:50:06.20
and gather you
out of all countries,
00:50:06.23\00:50:09.77
and will bring you
into your own land.
00:50:09.80\00:50:13.01
Then will I sprinkle
clean water up on you,
00:50:13.04\00:50:16.24
and you shall be clean,
from all your filthiness
00:50:16.28\00:50:20.28
and from all your
idols will I cleanse you.
00:50:20.32\00:50:24.42
A new heart
also will I give you,
00:50:24.45\00:50:26.92
a new spirit
will I put within you,
00:50:26.96\00:50:30.43
and I will take
away the stony heart
00:50:30.46\00:50:33.03
out of your flesh
00:50:33.06\00:50:36.16
and I will give
you a heart of flesh.
00:50:36.20\00:50:39.50
And I will put
my Spirit within you
00:50:39.53\00:50:42.80
and cause you to
walk in my statutes,
00:50:42.84\00:50:46.21
and you shall keep my
judgments and do them."
00:50:46.24\00:50:49.38
Amen.
00:50:49.41\00:50:50.75
I love that verse. Oh, yeah.
00:50:50.78\00:50:52.91
I don't know what
it says to all of you
00:50:52.95\00:50:54.28
but to me it says, first of all,
00:50:54.32\00:50:55.95
God wants to take me
out from where I was...
00:50:55.98\00:50:59.15
From the heathen,
from the life of sin
00:50:59.19\00:51:02.46
and He says, "I wanna
pull you out of that, Jill,
00:51:02.49\00:51:04.59
I wanna clean you."
00:51:04.63\00:51:06.16
Amen. "And sprinkle clean water.
00:51:06.19\00:51:08.10
I wanna purify you,
00:51:08.13\00:51:09.46
I wanna forgive you of your sins
00:51:09.50\00:51:12.27
and then I'm not gonna say,
00:51:12.30\00:51:13.97
'Okay, now you have to
stumble along as a child,'
00:51:14.00\00:51:16.64
I'm going to put
my Spirit in you,
00:51:16.67\00:51:19.57
take out that hard heart
that's resistant to my way
00:51:19.61\00:51:23.11
and I'm gonna put
in you a heart of flesh
00:51:23.14\00:51:25.41
and I will put my
Spirit within you."
00:51:25.45\00:51:27.55
Amen.
00:51:27.58\00:51:28.92
It's a beautiful testimony
00:51:28.95\00:51:30.29
of what God wants
to do in our lives.
00:51:30.32\00:51:31.65
He gave the ten commandments
but then He didn't say,
00:51:31.69\00:51:33.92
"Okay, now keep them."
00:51:33.96\00:51:35.46
He said, "I will
put them in your heart."
00:51:35.49\00:51:37.43
In your heart. Amen.
00:51:37.46\00:51:38.79
I think one of the key
things that you mentioned,
00:51:38.83\00:51:40.16
Ja, was, the
part of transformation
00:51:40.20\00:51:43.23
is really
surrender to Jesus Christ,
00:51:43.26\00:51:44.60
that's the beginning.
00:51:44.63\00:51:45.97
Saying, "Okay,
God, here I am." Yes.
00:51:46.00\00:51:48.37
"Make me into who
you want me to be."
00:51:48.40\00:51:50.67
For me, to be
willing, to be willing...
00:51:50.71\00:51:52.57
That's right. Yes.
00:51:52.61\00:51:54.71
Yeah, that's right.
00:51:54.74\00:51:56.08
It's just laying it
all and giving it all
00:51:56.11\00:51:57.45
to Jesus Christ
00:51:57.48\00:51:58.81
and that's the
beginning of transformation.
00:51:58.85\00:52:00.18
You know what are the steps,
giving it all to Jesus Christ.
00:52:00.22\00:52:02.28
Well, our time is
going quickly, isn't it?
00:52:02.32\00:52:04.55
This family
worship's been great,
00:52:04.59\00:52:05.95
we like to spend
some time in prayer.
00:52:05.99\00:52:07.32
Amen.
00:52:07.36\00:52:08.69
And, Pastor John,
do you wanna start,
00:52:08.72\00:52:10.06
we'll just go around the circle?
00:52:10.09\00:52:11.43
Sure.
00:52:11.46\00:52:13.70
Our loving heavenly Father,
00:52:13.73\00:52:15.20
we want to thank
you so much, Lord,
00:52:15.23\00:52:18.27
that as we enter
into the Sabbath hours.
00:52:18.30\00:52:20.37
Yes.
00:52:20.40\00:52:21.74
Or as we are finishing,
00:52:21.77\00:52:23.24
we pray that you will
help us to always remember
00:52:23.27\00:52:25.87
and that you have
promised to always be with us
00:52:25.91\00:52:29.84
and never forsake us.
00:52:29.88\00:52:31.71
We thank you, Lord,
00:52:31.75\00:52:33.08
for the things that
we have heard and shared,
00:52:33.11\00:52:36.75
we pray, Lord, that
you will help us all
00:52:36.79\00:52:38.85
to choose to follow Jesus.
00:52:38.89\00:52:41.22
Yes.
00:52:41.26\00:52:42.59
We ask you, Father,
to help us understand
00:52:42.62\00:52:43.96
even more of
the wonderful things
00:52:43.99\00:52:46.36
you have to teach us.
00:52:46.39\00:52:47.73
Amen.
00:52:47.76\00:52:49.10
We pray, Father, for you to be
00:52:49.13\00:52:50.47
with each one of our
listeners and viewers
00:52:50.50\00:52:52.50
and lead them in
their lives, Father,
00:52:52.53\00:52:53.97
that they may taste
and see that you're good.
00:52:54.00\00:52:56.47
Thank you.
00:52:56.50\00:52:57.84
We ask you for these
things, in Jesus name.
00:52:57.87\00:52:59.74
Amen.
00:52:59.77\00:53:01.11
And, Lord, we thank you
for your transforming power.
00:53:01.14\00:53:03.68
Amen.
00:53:03.71\00:53:05.05
Thank you, Father, for
the hope we have in Christ,
00:53:05.08\00:53:07.52
help us to be willing to
be willing to do your will
00:53:07.55\00:53:11.15
and have our
hearts, "Here I am, Lord.
00:53:11.19\00:53:13.96
Change my heart."
00:53:13.99\00:53:15.69
And I pray, Father, that
as you transform our lives,
00:53:15.72\00:53:19.53
others will be drawn to you.
00:53:19.56\00:53:21.36
Yes. Thank you. Amen.
00:53:21.40\00:53:24.07
Dear heavenly
Father, we thank you so much
00:53:24.10\00:53:26.17
for second chance opportunities.
00:53:26.20\00:53:28.00
We thank you that
you sent the Holy Spirit
00:53:28.04\00:53:30.91
to convict us of
our need for change.
00:53:30.94\00:53:33.51
We thank you for transforming us
00:53:33.54\00:53:36.24
from the inside out
00:53:36.28\00:53:37.61
and bringing
about genuine change
00:53:37.65\00:53:40.05
and that
behavior of modification.
00:53:40.08\00:53:42.52
Lord, we thank
you for your loving,
00:53:42.55\00:53:46.19
your love, your
compassion, your mercy
00:53:46.22\00:53:49.49
and your desire to restore us
00:53:49.52\00:53:50.99
to law abiding citizens, Father.
00:53:51.03\00:53:53.29
I ask that whoever is
watching this program,
00:53:53.33\00:53:56.03
our viewers, our listeners,
00:53:56.06\00:53:58.20
that they would want
and have a strong desire
00:53:58.23\00:54:02.24
for that change, Lord,
00:54:02.27\00:54:03.84
that you would
come into their lives
00:54:03.87\00:54:05.31
and that you
would transform them
00:54:05.34\00:54:06.84
from the inside out
as time is running out,
00:54:06.88\00:54:10.08
there is a sense of urgency,
00:54:10.11\00:54:12.61
our prophecy is being fulfilled.
00:54:12.65\00:54:13.98
That's right.
00:54:14.02\00:54:15.35
It's time to get right with you,
00:54:15.38\00:54:17.12
now there is no time to delay.
00:54:17.15\00:54:18.49
Yes.
00:54:18.52\00:54:19.85
So please be with
them and transform them
00:54:19.89\00:54:21.72
and continue working
00:54:21.76\00:54:23.09
and refining our
characters as well,
00:54:23.12\00:54:25.79
in Jesus name, amen.
00:54:25.83\00:54:27.16
Amen.
00:54:27.20\00:54:28.53
Father, I come in agreement
00:54:28.56\00:54:29.90
with my
brothers and sisters here
00:54:29.93\00:54:31.27
and those at
home and we thank you
00:54:31.30\00:54:33.10
for the work of the
Holy Spirit in our lives.
00:54:33.13\00:54:35.77
We thank you for
the blood of Jesus
00:54:35.80\00:54:38.34
to cleanse us from all of sin.
00:54:38.37\00:54:40.34
We thank you that
you want to change us,
00:54:40.38\00:54:43.28
make us into the image of Jesus
00:54:43.31\00:54:45.21
and transform our lives,
our hearts, our characters
00:54:45.25\00:54:49.62
so that Jesus could
shine out to others.
00:54:49.65\00:54:53.19
We just pray for
our brothers and sisters
00:54:53.22\00:54:55.42
at home right
now and in our lives
00:54:55.46\00:54:58.06
that you would do a new thing
and we thank you in Jesus name.
00:54:58.09\00:55:01.70
Amen.
00:55:01.73\00:55:03.06
Father in
heaven, we're so grateful
00:55:03.10\00:55:04.77
for your transforming power
00:55:04.80\00:55:07.84
that you're so willing
to give to each one of us.
00:55:07.87\00:55:11.24
I know today as we've
been studying your Word
00:55:11.27\00:55:13.34
and on the topic
of transformation,
00:55:13.38\00:55:15.81
that I have been
convicted that many times
00:55:15.84\00:55:18.48
you've spoken to me
and I have resisted so,
00:55:18.51\00:55:21.58
Lord, I just wanna again
surrender my life to you...
00:55:21.62\00:55:23.39
That's right.
00:55:23.42\00:55:24.75
And when you're speaking
that I would listen right away.
00:55:24.79\00:55:28.12
Amen.
00:55:28.16\00:55:29.49
We think of those
that are at home that today
00:55:29.52\00:55:31.46
are just like, "Oh, God, I
want my stony heart taken out."
00:55:31.49\00:55:34.80
That's right.
00:55:34.83\00:55:36.16
And I want
Christ in my own heart
00:55:36.20\00:55:39.47
and so, Father,
just we thank you
00:55:39.50\00:55:41.44
for the decisions
that I know are being made.
00:55:41.47\00:55:43.41
Now for you so,
Father, we're grateful
00:55:43.44\00:55:45.97
that you're so
willing to provide
00:55:46.01\00:55:49.08
such wonderful things
00:55:49.11\00:55:50.45
to each one us and as
you hear these cries of help,
00:55:50.48\00:55:51.81
Father, you listen...
00:55:51.85\00:55:53.18
Amen.
00:55:53.21\00:55:54.55
You will attend to each one
00:55:54.58\00:55:55.92
and in Jesus name we pray, amen.
00:55:55.95\00:55:57.29
Amen.
00:55:57.32\00:55:58.79
Thank you all so
much for sharing.
00:55:58.82\00:56:00.59
Our time has gone quickly.
00:56:00.62\00:56:02.06
We just have a
couple of moments.
00:56:02.09\00:56:03.69
We'll start with brother Johnny.
00:56:03.73\00:56:05.13
Would you like to each
give us a closing thought?
00:56:05.16\00:56:07.63
I think I like to
leave with the thought,
00:56:07.66\00:56:11.17
'Taste and see
that the Lord is good.'
00:56:11.20\00:56:12.67
That the Lord is good. Amen.
00:56:12.70\00:56:14.04
Amen. Amen.
00:56:14.07\00:56:15.54
Well, "God is never too
busy to turn to your needs
00:56:15.57\00:56:20.08
and God wants to
transform your life."
00:56:20.11\00:56:22.34
Amen.
00:56:22.38\00:56:23.71
Fantastic. Ja?
00:56:23.75\00:56:25.08
"I will say that you've
tried everything your way
00:56:25.11\00:56:27.92
and that didn't work, you
know, so why not try Christ,
00:56:27.95\00:56:32.09
you have nothing to
lose and everything to gain."
00:56:32.12\00:56:33.49
That's right.
Amen. Praise the Lord.
00:56:33.52\00:56:35.49
Well said.
00:56:35.52\00:56:36.86
I like to pray the
Bible also over on lives
00:56:36.89\00:56:40.36
and I think of Psalms 51:10,
00:56:40.40\00:56:43.26
I mean, there's
multiple text in the Bible.
00:56:43.30\00:56:45.53
"Now create in me."
00:56:45.57\00:56:46.90
Amen. Create in you.
00:56:46.94\00:56:48.27
Amen.
00:56:48.30\00:56:49.64
"A clean heart, oh, God
00:56:49.67\00:56:51.97
and renew a
right sprit within me."
00:56:52.01\00:56:55.14
Amen.
00:56:55.18\00:56:56.78
Praise God for
the transforming work.
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I like II Corinthians
3:18, we referenced it earlier.
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We did.
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"That by
beholding, we become changed."
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With open face,
beholding the glory of the Lord.
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So we wanna encourage
you this week, everyday,
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behold Jesus and by doing that
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we would be
transformed into His image.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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And we thank you for joining us
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as you do each and everyday
and for this family worship,
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we hope that you
have a wonderful Sabbath
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and that as Jesus is in you...
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Amen.
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That as referenced earlier,
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that you would
shine out to others
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and that you will
be a powerful witness,
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that we will be
a powerful witness
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for Jesus Christ.
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That's right.
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God bless and
again, happy Sabbath.
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Happy Sabbath. Sabbath.
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