I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello, and happy Sabbath,
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and welcome to
3ABN's Family Worship.
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I'm Chris Shelton and
this is my lovely husband,
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Pastor Kenny Shelton.
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Thank you honey, thank you.
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And we have family
here and we're so thankful
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that we have you
as our family as well.
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To my left we have 3ABN
family, this is Mollie Steenson,
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and I know you've
seen her many, many times.
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She does so much and
has for many, many years
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here at 3ABN as
the vice president,
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and secretary, and anything else
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that you needed to
do right, everything.
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Through the years I have done
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about everything
there is to do here.
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I loved every minute here.
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That's wonderful,
that's what I say about us,
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we just wear a lot of
hats, that's all I can say.
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And one of my sweet girlfriends,
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sweet sister in
the Lord is Sister Irma
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and her husband C.A.
Murray, Pastor C.A. Murray.
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Pastor what is
your title here at 3ABN?
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Anything they want me to
do. That's what I figured.
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And Sister Irma is
probably about the same,
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I know she works in
Latino a lot, so that's awesome,
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so I know the Latino audience
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will really
recognize you, won't they?
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A little bit. A little bit?
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And on the piano we
have a lovely young lady
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and her name is Sister Marilyn.
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How we love Marilyn. Oh, yes.
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She goes back many, many years
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and has taught about
everybody in Southern Illinois
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how to play the piano
expect for me, Sister Marilyn.
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Yes, amen. Hello.
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We really needed some help.
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But, you know, to open
our evening study together,
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we're gonna sing a
song and it is entitled,
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I know a lot of
people know this one,
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"Take the name
of Jesus with you",
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so sing with us, won't you?
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Okay, we're gonna
do four verses, right?
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So everybody can join and sing.
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Good.
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We're gonna try
four verses, amen.
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Take the name of Jesus with you
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Child of sorrow and of woe
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It will joy and comfort give you
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Take it then, where'er you go
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Precious name Precious name
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O how sweet! O how sweet!
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Hope of earth and joy of heaven
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Precious name
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O, how sweet!
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Hope of earth and joy of heaven
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Take the name of Jesus, ever
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As a shield from every snare
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If temptations round you gather
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Breathe that holy name in prayer
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Precious name Precious name
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O how sweet! O how sweet!
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Hope of earth and joy of heaven
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Precious name Precious name
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O how sweet!
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Hope of earth and joy of heaven
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O the precious name of Jesus!
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How it thrills
our souls with joy
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When His loving arms receive us
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And His songs
our tongues employ!
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Precious name Precious name
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O how sweet! O how sweet!
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Hope of earth and joy of heaven
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Precious name Precious name
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O how sweet! O how sweet!
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Hope of earth and joy of heaven
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At the name of Jesus bowing
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Falling prostrate at His feet
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King of kings in
heaven we'll crown Him
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When our journey is complete
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Precious name Precious name
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O how sweet! O how sweet!
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Hope of earth and joy of heaven
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Precious name Precious name
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O how sweet! O how sweet!
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Hope of earth and joy of heaven
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Amen. Amen, praise the Lord.
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You know that is our prayer
to lift up that precious name,
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that joy of heaven here tonight.
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Where our title of our study is
"Christians like the sunlight."
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Christians like the
sunlight and, Pastor Kenny,
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would you open with
prayer before we get started?
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Absolutely, you know,
we encourage also at home,
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whether you're watching,
whether you're listening
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just be involved with us here
as we go to the Lord in prayer,
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oh, how we need you
to pray along with us.
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Would you do that?
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Let's pray
together, shall we? Amen.
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Merciful God in
heaven, we thank You
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for the
beginning of the Sabbath,
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we thank You for a special,
wonderful, beautiful day
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that you set
aside for Your children.
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How desperately we
need this day of rest,
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and how we need this time
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to come together
to study Your word,
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so we pray now for the
power of thy Holy Spirit,
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how desperately we need
the spirit of the living God
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to touch our hearts and
our minds and our lives.
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Lord, we need You,
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so we pray as a
Holy Spirit descends upon
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each and everyone of us,
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those precious,
precious souls at home,
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those who have taken
time, and they may jot it down,
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that may be on their
ice box as a reminder,
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I wanna join 3ABN family
in family worship as our Lord,
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we pray that You will bless
every word that goes forth.
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We pray that You will
put power behind those words.
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We pray our ears will be open.
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We pray You will
give us thoughts,
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fresh thoughts from on high.
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There is somebody who
needs something special tonight
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and so we pray that
You will meet that need
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as you always do.
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Bless us now we pray,
as you take full possession
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of all of our
hearts, all of our lives,
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all of our mind.
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We stand covered by faith
by Your blood in Jesus' name.
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Amen. Amen.
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Amen, you know
there is something
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so special about this Sabbath,
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and on Facebook people
like to send you these little
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Happy Sabbath
and little pictures,
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sometimes they are moving,
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sometimes there
are little videos
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and last Sabbath I received
one and I had been really busy,
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you know, get
working up to the time
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of those precious
hours and as soon as I read,
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Happy Sabbath, I
said, "it just felt good."
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Oh.
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I can just let
everything else go,
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it just feels good.
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It's okay.
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When I was a student years ago
and, of course, now with work,
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you know, we put
all of that aside
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and we can focus in
on those precious hours
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and remembering our Creator.
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Amen. Our Lord and Savior.
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Amen, good.
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We have a opening scripture,
it's John 8:12, John 8:12,
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how about you, Sister Irma,
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would you like to
share that scripture with us,
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it's right at the
top of your page there.
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John 8:12.
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It says, "That arise..."
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Oh, oh, wait a minute.
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I'm looking at the
wrong way, it's Isaiah 60:1.
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Isaiah 60:1. It's Isaiah 60:1.
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Pastor was turning quickly,
and your mister was turning,
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and Sister Mollie was turning,
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and we were just gonna
join with you, it's all right.
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Well, I have got
another verse here written down
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that I want to share but
go ahead, it's Isaiah 60:1.
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Sorry about that
family. Amen, yes.
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"Arise, shine, for
thy light has come,
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and the glory of the
Lord has risen upon thee."
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Ain't that beautiful?
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The glory of the
Lord is risen up thee.
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And, you know there
is something special,
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light and scripture
always represents what family?
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They always represents...
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Spirit of God. Truth.
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Truth and Spirit of Jesus.
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Truth, Christ and the
verse that I wanted to share
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kind of brings this
out, it's John 8:12, it says,
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"Then spake Jesus
again into them saying "
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'I am the Light of the world.'"
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You see the
world was in darkness
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for many, many years,
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because Satan became the prince
of this world and Jesus says,
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"I am the light."
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"He that followeth me
shall not walk in darkness
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but shall have
the light of life."
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That is a promise to
each and every one of us,
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so as we accept
Him into our lives,
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He says you're
gonna be the light,
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I'm gonna give you this light.
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Through Him we have that
light shining through us.
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To open our
lesson tonight, you know,
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a lot of times we bring
things, we use it as a guide,
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but I'm gonna
read this paragraph
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or at least parts of it.
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Before you do
there's interesting word,
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because I think it will go along
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with what you're reading
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and we can get input
from everybody here because,
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the first thing when it
says "The light has come"
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I know that first word has
always even as young person
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when I read this passage,
the first thing it said to me,
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"Kenny get up, get
up and do something."
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Arise, and when you, by faith,
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rise up to the
calling of the master,
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the light is going to come.
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He's gonna use you, if
we will rise to the occasion
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when He calls us to do it.
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I don't know if you have found
that in you own lives that,
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that word is powerful
and it's something you can't
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just be passive about.
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You have to be,
when the call comes,
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because he said notice, arise
and then the shining comes.
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You can get no reflecting,
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you can't tell
you, Sister Mollie.
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Have you ever
been around somebody
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and there was just
something about them
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that was just effervescent?
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Oh, yeah. Oh, yes.
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And you knew that
it wasn't something
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they put on the outside,
it wasn't the Merle Norman.
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Okay, it did not
come from the outside,
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it came from the inside,
it was that effervescence
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of the spirit of the
living God from the inside out.
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Yeah, and you can tell a
difference too, can't you?
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That's that shine.
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You know, you can tell
the difference lot a times
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when someone is putting
on something or whatever,
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but when they're
really talking to you
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and you know
that the Holy Spirit
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is consuming them,
the words that come out
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are graced with that Holy Spirit
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and it just does
something to your heart
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and it does
something to your mind.
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I think as we go on
and we just talk more about
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what the light represents
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and in this world
that we are living in,
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right now, we
need to be arising,
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we need to be
sounding a loud cry,
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we need to be giving
that third angel's message.
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Amen.
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And that fourth angel's message
with power, power right now.
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So we need to arise
because we are living in a time
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where light is not
what God wants it to be.
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So let me read this. Okay.
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Well, before you read,
'cause Pastor Kenny got me
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kind of get
started because the...
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If you look at Isaiah 60:1.
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"Arise shine,
feel, light has come,
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and the glory of the
Lord is risen upon you,"
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then He gives you
why that is necessary.
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Come on.
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"For behold,
darkness shall cover the earth
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and deep or gross
darkness the people."
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Yes.
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So he's given you
the antidote first,
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then he tells you
what the problem is.
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Absolutely. That's
why you can take this.
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You need to arise and shine
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because the
earth is in darkness,
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the earth is in deep darkness
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and there are some
places where, I mean,
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your choices are what?
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Sit and curse the
darkness, or turn on the light.
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So the call is
turn on the light.
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Come on.
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Now when you turn on the
light, darkness ceases to exist,
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so God's people,
it's time for them
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to reflect the glory
of God, turn on that light
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and that's how you
come back to darkness,
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not by sort of
grinding your teeth
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because you're in
darkness, bring the light on.
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Yeah.
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When you turn the
light on darkness...
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Have you ever had, we
were in Sothern Illinois,
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is good for this power
outages, you know, years ago,
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you know it, I said
now, I'm going to fix this.
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You know, we should do
this more in spiritual tone
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but did it more in the physical
and the thing in the world.
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I said, you know, I'm
almost gonna fools them
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because this power
goes out all the time,
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I'm gonna get me a generator.
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I'll have a generator here
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and I'll be able to
keep few things plugged in
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and I'll have
light in the house.
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No one else has,
you know, and then
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because I had a little basement,
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had a little sump
pump and everything in it,
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you know, had
this big new generator,
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it will take care of everything,
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you know,
because you had the hand.
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And first thing is
pouring down rain, flood,
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you bet like
flooding, I went down there,
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I cranked on that baby
and I cranked on that baby
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and pretty soon
there is blisters coming.
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Pretty soon, I
cranked so many times,
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I pulled the rope
out of the new generator
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and I sat in darkness,
you know, but my point is,
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you make preparation
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because you are kind
of afraid of this darkness
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and we should
be spiritually too.
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And you make
preparations and you have it,
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but you have to be very careful
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because a lot of the
stuff I was trying to do it
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on my own strength, you
know, we need it with the Lord,
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because he has
promised a generator
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that rope won't come out.
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He has promised you a generator
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that will come on in the time
of emergency and shine a light.
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Not every light did
we need in the house,
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you need maybe
one for the icebox
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and you had made
them one upstairs
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and one downstairs
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and man that just was
golden to have it if you get on.
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But every once in a while
you will find it may backfire,
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so anyway if we make preparation
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for the world and
things in the world,
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why not more
preparation for heaven?
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The rise and shine
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and get our spiritual generator
tuned up and ready to go.
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Amen.
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I like that, you know,
we, coming from New York City,
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where they never had blackouts,
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only the three most
famous ones in history.
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We came out without a
generator and we had a friend,
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remember he loaned
us his little generator.
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Yes.
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And I thought
about that, you know,
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when you don't
have your own light,
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if someone can
help show you the light,
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that kind of
bring the light to you,
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so he gave us
his little generator,
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one of those little 1000 watts,
just couldn't take too much,
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but at least it kept us
out, I couldn't do the TV
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and couldn't do the refrigerator
00:15:25.75\00:15:27.09
but it could do
a series of lights
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and that's all we
needed so we won't be in dark.
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And we praise the
Lord for that light.
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Yes.
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And that's what Christ is doing
for each and every one of us.
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'cause we don't have any,
we have no light of our own,
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nothing we do,
nothing we can say
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of our own means anything.
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It needs to be
backed up with that light,
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and for those at
home, what is the light?
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Really, we said it's the truth,
but tell us what the light is.
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I may never rear to that
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but I do want to touch
on part of that paragraph,
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'cause I think it's very good.
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'Cause you guys are
already getting into
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why we need to arise and
shine, why we need this light.
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So what is the light?
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There may be someone
tuning in for the first time
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and like they are talking
about light and sunshine,
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what is that?
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You know, so what is
the light of the word?
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When you're
talking about the light
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and everybody can
put some things in here,
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but, Brother C.A., I still have,
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that's been 25 years ago,
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I still have that
same generator that failed,
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that failed me then
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and now I have got it
set by the garage door
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and I am begging a
man to come and get it.
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You know what?
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Because it failed, because
I had counted on it so much,
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it didn't work out.
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You think about
Christian experience,
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things have happened...
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I never, I don't know why.
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It is pretty brand new, I
never wanted to have it fixed
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and I have it until
this day and it still sits
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without a rope to this day.
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I wonder how that
might relate, you know,
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on our Christian
experience if we are, you know,
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moving forward and
we expect something
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and then no, it
suddenly falls apart
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and do we just give up,
and say no hope anymore.
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What do we do? No, we don't.
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As the light come, rise
and shine, ain't that right?
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Amen.
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I think that moves
into what Sister Chris
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is trying to say that,
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that the light is
the life of Christ.
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And when that life
of Christ is in you,
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you cannot help but shine.
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The moon is a dark
object, but we see it as light,
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because it reflects
the light of the sun.
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Amen.
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If there were no sun,
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we would not know
that there is a moon.
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It only exists
or it may not exist,
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well that's what it does,
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it reflects the
light of the sun.
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Well, as
Christians, we exist to reflect
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the light of Christ's
love, His light in us,
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let this mind be in you.
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Christ living in us,
created for good works.
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So as we reflect
the light of Christ,
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we shine in the
world that needs light
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at this time in its history.
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Amen.
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Yes, it does and
why does it need light?
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Because there
is so much darkness
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in the world and...
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What is darkness in the world?
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We're talking about light
and darkness but I, you know,
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there could be someone that's
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never used those terminology
for that, but what is darkness?
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Why do we need this truth
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to come in and
dispel this darkness,
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what darkness are we dispelling?
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Well, Colossians 1:13,
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"He has delivered us
from the power of darkness,
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and conveyed us
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into the
kingdom of his dear son,
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brought us out of
darkness and into light."
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Amen.
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And it is the great
controversy being played out.
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It is, it is.
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That's what it is,
light versus darkness
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and I think you read earlier,
Jesus says "I am the light."
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I am the light.
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So He is the
light and we are, again,
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as Christ in us
is the hope of glory.
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Amen. That Christ in us.
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We are that the
light reflectors,
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that light from
the inside Christ
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and so it's that light
that this world need so badly
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because it is
in such a darkness.
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And is it just me
or in your opinion
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are you seeing things
waxing darker and darker,
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meaning that there has to
be something to offset that,
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Pastor Kenny,
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our light has got to
get brighter and brighter.
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Amen. And how does that happen?
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It happens by,
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well, the day start
arising in our heart.
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Yes.
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And Jesus says that He
is that day starter in you.
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And isn't it, the darker it gets
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the light shines brighter?
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Interesting.
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It really, doesn't it
take tremendous amount
00:19:29.33\00:19:31.50
but the darker it gets
that little bitty light,
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that little bitty candle,
that little bitty that you have
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is actually
sufficient light, I mean,
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it really shows much
brighter than what it is.
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I don't want to be tried,
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I know everybody has heard this,
00:19:42.98\00:19:44.71
but all the
darkness in the whole world
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can't put out the
light of one small candle.
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Amen. Amen, now, that's good.
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So, we just need to
let our light shine.
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Amen. Go ahead, Sister Irma.
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Well, I was thinking that
in terms of what is darkness
00:19:56.66\00:20:02.03
and what is light
00:20:02.06\00:20:03.50
and I was
remembering that Christ said
00:20:03.53\00:20:06.77
that He wishes that
we will not be ignorant.
00:20:06.80\00:20:09.70
Right.
00:20:09.74\00:20:11.07
And to me ignorance
is to be in the dark,
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when we don't know
the path to go somewhere
00:20:15.08\00:20:18.68
and there is no light there.
00:20:18.71\00:20:20.82
Yes.
00:20:20.85\00:20:22.18
It's very difficult to,
it's difficult to find our way
00:20:22.22\00:20:26.19
where we want to go.
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And I'm thinking about,
00:20:27.59\00:20:31.03
when I was in
school also in learning,
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when you went to
do answer a test,
00:20:34.83\00:20:38.67
you felt really in the
dark if you didn't study,
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if you didn't know the subject,
00:20:41.67\00:20:43.81
and to me the knowledge
of something brings light.
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There you go. Yes.
00:20:50.81\00:20:52.15
And so the knowledge of Christ
and what Christ wants for us
00:20:52.18\00:20:57.39
is the light that we
can enjoy and live by.
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And all of us can be
channels of that light,
00:21:03.76\00:21:06.93
though we have to
connect to the source of light.
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Amen.
00:21:09.30\00:21:10.63
So if I connect to
the source of light,
00:21:10.67\00:21:12.97
and we're thinking
about the source of light,
00:21:13.00\00:21:14.54
may be being at church, do
I just connect once a week?
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How often do I need to
connect to have that light?
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All the time. Amen, amen.
00:21:21.18\00:21:23.28
We need to stay
connected all the time.
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It doesn't take any time
at all for you to be unplugged
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and the light begin
to gradually dissipate.
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Amen. And
darkness begins to come.
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I used to say
years ago because...
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Well, back when I was a teenager
00:21:38.96\00:21:40.50
and I was going to church,
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I still listened to the regular,
00:21:41.90\00:21:44.70
I think it was a rock
station, it wasn't as a rock,
00:21:44.73\00:21:46.94
but it was the rock station.
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Well, well, well.
00:21:48.34\00:21:49.67
You know, and I didn't
see anything wrong with it.
00:21:49.70\00:21:51.27
I didn't see anything
wrong with go and dancing,
00:21:51.31\00:21:53.31
I didn't see anything wrong.
00:21:53.34\00:21:54.68
People were trying to, in
fact they gave me literature
00:21:54.71\00:21:56.28
from other churches to
try to help straighten me out,
00:21:56.31\00:21:59.61
and the first
thing I started doing
00:21:59.65\00:22:01.08
was listening to
gospel rock, you know,
00:22:01.12\00:22:03.28
and that kind of was a...
00:22:03.32\00:22:04.65
And then pretty
soon I started hearing
00:22:04.69\00:22:06.45
some real, real testimonies
00:22:06.49\00:22:08.62
like from Black Sabbath down at,
00:22:08.66\00:22:10.66
at that time, so
the missionary college
00:22:10.69\00:22:12.76
down at Southern University,
00:22:12.79\00:22:14.50
and it started really
hitting home and the Lord,
00:22:14.53\00:22:17.00
you know,
eventually where I just
00:22:17.03\00:22:19.33
didn't listen to it anymore.
00:22:19.37\00:22:21.20
But you give me three
days without being connected
00:22:21.24\00:22:24.41
to that source of light,
three days with no prayer,
00:22:24.44\00:22:27.84
three days with no Bible study
00:22:27.88\00:22:29.44
and all of a
sudden I'm hearing gospel,
00:22:29.48\00:22:31.98
or I mean, not gospel,
00:22:32.01\00:22:33.35
but maybe
country or a rock song.
00:22:33.38\00:22:34.72
Be careful, honey.
You know what I am saying?
00:22:34.75\00:22:36.58
Your thoughts begin to change,
we have to stay connected.
00:22:36.62\00:22:41.02
Connected.
00:22:41.06\00:22:42.39
And we're living in a
world, we're living in a world
00:22:42.42\00:22:44.69
where light is becoming darkness
00:22:44.73\00:22:48.13
in the minds of many people.
00:22:48.16\00:22:49.50
Right is becoming wrong,
and wrong is becoming right.
00:22:49.53\00:22:52.73
And like Sister Mollie said,
00:22:52.77\00:22:54.10
it doesn't matter how
bright that candle is,
00:22:54.14\00:22:56.77
we need to be steadfast.
00:22:56.81\00:22:59.87
Spirit of Prophecy says,
"We need to be like steel,"
00:22:59.91\00:23:02.31
we're planted,
so we're not blown
00:23:02.34\00:23:04.65
by every wind of doctrine.
00:23:04.68\00:23:06.41
And that's one thing
I wanted to talk about,
00:23:06.45\00:23:08.32
first of all
even characteristics
00:23:08.35\00:23:09.92
of what light is,
00:23:09.95\00:23:11.65
and then the other thing is,
00:23:11.69\00:23:14.09
how can we know
who is really right?
00:23:14.12\00:23:18.09
There is a lot of
people going around saying,
00:23:18.13\00:23:19.86
"I have the
light, I have the light,
00:23:19.89\00:23:21.26
come to my church."
00:23:21.30\00:23:22.63
Mega churches, doing good work
around the world, missionaries,
00:23:22.66\00:23:27.24
how can we tell
what is the true light?
00:23:27.27\00:23:32.34
And if you have it, what
do you do with the light?
00:23:32.37\00:23:35.91
Everybody here are
probably in the church
00:23:35.94\00:23:37.81
where you went to,
00:23:37.85\00:23:39.18
you sing that little song
or we did this light of mind.
00:23:39.21\00:23:44.45
I'm gonna let it shine. Shine.
00:23:44.49\00:23:46.55
Yeah, with small we begin to
00:23:46.59\00:23:48.06
and you are not
gonna put it under a...
00:23:48.09\00:23:49.66
Bushel, no.
00:23:49.69\00:23:51.03
You know, and you're not
gonna let Satan blow it out.
00:23:51.06\00:23:53.53
Well, that song
came from the Bible,
00:23:53.56\00:23:56.77
certainly and I think
it's Luke 11:33, says,
00:23:56.80\00:24:00.84
"No man, when he
hath lighted a candle,
00:24:00.87\00:24:03.14
putteth it in a secret
place, neither under a bushel,
00:24:03.17\00:24:06.78
but on a candlestick,
00:24:06.81\00:24:08.38
that they which come
in may see the light."
00:24:08.41\00:24:11.95
Amen.
00:24:11.98\00:24:13.31
They come in and
see, that's what you do,
00:24:13.35\00:24:14.68
you raise it up, you
know, you're in the dark place
00:24:14.72\00:24:17.42
and you put a little
candle and you light,
00:24:17.45\00:24:18.82
you would always, at least I do,
00:24:18.85\00:24:20.19
I would raise it, I don't
put it way down here somewhere,
00:24:20.22\00:24:21.99
we're going up, put
it up here and down so,
00:24:22.02\00:24:24.33
this little light of
mine by the grace of God,
00:24:24.36\00:24:27.60
I'm gonna let it shine,
let it shine, let it shine.
00:24:27.63\00:24:31.30
I'm gonna go to
all the neighborhood,
00:24:31.33\00:24:32.83
our job is to do what?
00:24:32.87\00:24:34.40
Let it shine.
00:24:34.44\00:24:35.77
To the world, ain't that right?
00:24:35.80\00:24:37.14
Put it to the world, so
this little light of mine,
00:24:37.17\00:24:39.54
and it can be a great light
00:24:39.57\00:24:41.04
by the grace of
God, 'cause it's Jesus.
00:24:41.08\00:24:42.41
You know, that is true,
00:24:42.44\00:24:43.78
if you have one
candle in a room,
00:24:43.81\00:24:46.15
you wanna get that candle
up as high as you possibly can.
00:24:46.18\00:24:49.38
You don't want it on the floor,
00:24:49.42\00:24:50.75
'cause it can't
really help you on the floor,
00:24:50.79\00:24:52.12
but high on top of a
cupboard or the van or anything,
00:24:52.15\00:24:55.42
just get it up high
00:24:55.46\00:24:56.79
and it will do
its best work up high,
00:24:56.83\00:24:58.69
and I think it's the same way.
00:24:58.73\00:25:00.06
You know in the Book of Isaiah,
God's people were in darkness,
00:25:00.10\00:25:03.83
and Isaiah talks
a lot about light
00:25:03.87\00:25:06.23
and to sort of
readdress your question.
00:25:06.27\00:25:08.94
Sister Chris,
I'm in Isaiah 8:20.
00:25:08.97\00:25:11.07
Thank you.
00:25:11.11\00:25:12.44
"To the law and
to the testimony,
00:25:12.47\00:25:13.98
if they do not speak
according to this word,
00:25:14.01\00:25:16.38
there is no light in them."
00:25:16.41\00:25:18.91
There is just no light.
00:25:18.95\00:25:20.28
So if you want to try to
determine if it's real light
00:25:20.32\00:25:23.35
or black light,
fake news, you know,
00:25:23.39\00:25:26.96
you got to make sure
00:25:26.99\00:25:28.32
that they agree
with the word of God.
00:25:28.36\00:25:30.39
Amen.
00:25:30.43\00:25:31.76
And that's in
every aspect of our life,
00:25:31.79\00:25:33.29
and as Sister
Mollie said, you know,
00:25:33.33\00:25:35.30
this is the great controversy
00:25:35.33\00:25:36.67
and I thought of the same thing,
00:25:36.70\00:25:38.13
because in heaven, you
know, Satan was in heaven,
00:25:38.17\00:25:41.80
that's where this war began.
00:25:41.84\00:25:44.04
He was Lucifer, He
was a light-bearer,
00:25:44.07\00:25:47.44
you know, he covered
the holy love of God.
00:25:47.48\00:25:50.65
He lived the holy love of God.
00:25:50.68\00:25:53.21
Had he gone as
an angel of darkness
00:25:53.25\00:25:56.48
to the third of
the angels that fell,
00:25:56.52\00:25:59.09
they would have never fallen.
00:25:59.12\00:26:01.09
But he went to them in light
00:26:01.12\00:26:04.96
and assumed light casting
just a little bit of doubt.
00:26:04.99\00:26:10.97
You see the enemy still
uses that little bit of doubt
00:26:11.00\00:26:14.74
so we have to always go
back, whether it's in diet,
00:26:14.77\00:26:19.44
whether it's in
dress, no matter what it is,
00:26:19.47\00:26:22.18
whether it's in
lifestyle, you know,
00:26:22.21\00:26:24.38
you guys have been talking
a lot about the vigilantes,
00:26:24.41\00:26:27.42
"Spiritual
Vigilantes" book, Danny's book.
00:26:27.45\00:26:30.32
I think that's a timely book,
00:26:30.35\00:26:31.69
I think it's a
tool that people need,
00:26:31.72\00:26:34.19
because they need
to be shook and say,
00:26:34.22\00:26:36.56
hey, this is not
what you think it is.
00:26:36.59\00:26:39.26
This is abomination to the Lord,
00:26:39.29\00:26:41.53
and, of course,
there is many things
00:26:41.56\00:26:42.90
that it touches on.
00:26:42.93\00:26:44.27
But we have to go
back to the testing faith
00:26:44.30\00:26:46.84
and we have to
everything whether it's,
00:26:46.87\00:26:49.20
we are listening to this
person talking about health
00:26:49.24\00:26:51.44
and how much they
have gained in this
00:26:51.47\00:26:53.11
and I, you know,
00:26:53.14\00:26:54.48
health is close to a
lot of our hearts here
00:26:54.51\00:26:56.95
because we are all
fighting for good health,
00:26:56.98\00:26:59.05
and so we are listening,
we're looking, we're learning.
00:26:59.08\00:27:02.18
But we have to go
back, what did God say?
00:27:02.22\00:27:05.29
And if they speak not
according to that word,
00:27:05.32\00:27:07.46
well, then that
can't be the right way.
00:27:07.49\00:27:09.39
Yeah.
00:27:09.42\00:27:10.76
The devil will
bless it for a while,
00:27:10.79\00:27:12.76
but where are you
going to end up in the end?
00:27:12.79\00:27:15.36
He's gonna pull a
rug, I guarantee that.
00:27:15.40\00:27:17.90
He will pull the
rug out from under you.
00:27:17.93\00:27:19.27
He gets you on that rug
and then the enemy pulls,
00:27:19.30\00:27:21.97
you know, the rug eventually.
00:27:22.00\00:27:23.34
Yeah.
00:27:23.37\00:27:24.71
And darkness started
so close to the throne.
00:27:24.74\00:27:26.78
Oh, yes, right at the throne.
00:27:26.81\00:27:29.04
You know, the
end is relived well,
00:27:29.08\00:27:30.45
Lucifer, he's on
the inside, you know,
00:27:30.48\00:27:32.85
he's one of the big guys.
00:27:32.88\00:27:34.22
Exactly.
00:27:34.25\00:27:35.58
If he has sinned,
well, maybe he is not the way
00:27:35.62\00:27:37.95
it's supposed to be.
00:27:37.99\00:27:39.65
Well, he knows he is
on, he is inside God,
00:27:39.69\00:27:41.62
just outside angel.
00:27:41.66\00:27:43.39
You know, so which says
that you must try the spirits
00:27:43.43\00:27:47.50
the Bible says,
test every spirit.
00:27:47.53\00:27:49.86
When something comes,
my mother used to tell me
00:27:49.90\00:27:52.23
don't just open your head
and let him pour stuff in,
00:27:52.27\00:27:54.20
you know, don't do that.
00:27:54.24\00:27:56.30
Test and try for yourself
00:27:56.34\00:27:57.67
and make sure
that it is true light
00:27:57.71\00:27:59.31
so that you can
stand on it for yourself.
00:27:59.34\00:28:00.74
Amen.
00:28:00.78\00:28:02.11
You know, as we
are sharing scripture,
00:28:02.14\00:28:03.48
as we share light,
00:28:03.51\00:28:04.85
a lot of times we still
see the enemy's original,
00:28:04.88\00:28:07.98
I think possibly his
original argument arise,
00:28:08.02\00:28:11.92
because his was, we don't have,
00:28:11.95\00:28:13.69
we don't need the
law to be righteous,
00:28:13.72\00:28:15.19
we're basically
righteous on our own,
00:28:15.22\00:28:16.96
we can be righteous,
00:28:16.99\00:28:18.33
and you begin to
share and you hear,
00:28:18.36\00:28:20.26
"Well I think," well
that's what it says but,
00:28:20.30\00:28:23.97
one and seven will do.
00:28:24.00\00:28:25.80
You know all of these arguments
00:28:25.83\00:28:27.34
rather than there
is a moral absolute,
00:28:27.37\00:28:31.61
we have a moral
absolute standard.
00:28:31.64\00:28:34.28
Irreprehensible, God's word.
00:28:34.31\00:28:36.14
But Satan wants to
cast such doubt to think
00:28:36.18\00:28:38.78
well, may be they're
right, may be it can be,
00:28:38.81\00:28:41.72
may be I can be saved.
00:28:41.75\00:28:43.39
Why do I need to
give up drinking?
00:28:43.42\00:28:45.32
You know, so and so
drinks and they go to church,
00:28:45.35\00:28:48.12
they are good Christian.
00:28:48.16\00:28:50.53
You know what we read there,
where you were saying about it,
00:28:50.56\00:28:52.43
everybody can throw in
what, but in Isaiah 60,
00:28:52.46\00:28:55.40
it says kind of
hold, we have been saying
00:28:55.43\00:28:56.77
arise and shine,
00:28:56.80\00:28:58.13
that was directed at
God's people at Israel.
00:28:58.17\00:29:02.47
He wanted him to arise, shine
because they were in darkness,
00:29:02.50\00:29:05.21
as you talked about
00:29:05.24\00:29:06.57
they were in
backsliding condition
00:29:06.61\00:29:08.64
and as the nation, you know,
00:29:08.68\00:29:10.58
as a nation God was calling them
00:29:10.61\00:29:12.11
but there was no reformation.
00:29:12.15\00:29:14.78
He called the nation but
know what, no reformation.
00:29:14.82\00:29:18.85
And so no reformation, no
change, God could not bless.
00:29:18.89\00:29:24.09
He could not do what He
wanted to do for Israel at all.
00:29:24.13\00:29:27.76
He couldn't bless them
the way that He wanted to,
00:29:27.80\00:29:29.86
so it, some of you
are thinking tonight,
00:29:29.90\00:29:32.50
really that blessing
arise and shine, the glory,
00:29:32.53\00:29:36.27
His character is
gonna shine forth,
00:29:36.30\00:29:37.94
it's gonna
lighten the whole world,
00:29:37.97\00:29:39.37
you know, we
realize that promise
00:29:39.41\00:29:42.58
is for the church today.
00:29:42.61\00:29:44.45
Amen.
00:29:44.48\00:29:45.81
Because it was not
accepted by Israel,
00:29:45.85\00:29:48.28
that it was not
in position to accept
00:29:48.32\00:29:50.22
that they gonna live in opposite
00:29:50.25\00:29:51.85
what God want them to do.
00:29:51.89\00:29:53.36
So I look at
that and I said, wow,
00:29:53.39\00:29:54.96
that's for the
New Testament Church.
00:29:54.99\00:29:57.43
I can claim that,
you can claim that,
00:29:57.46\00:29:59.56
you can claim it at home
and say that's rise and shine,
00:29:59.59\00:30:02.46
God's gonna do
great things for us,
00:30:02.50\00:30:04.80
I think that's awful,
was that, I mean, beautiful.
00:30:04.83\00:30:07.47
He calls the light to shine
out of somebody with darkness.
00:30:07.50\00:30:10.91
Out of darkness.
Praise God for that, yes.
00:30:10.94\00:30:12.57
Amen.
00:30:12.61\00:30:13.94
You know I mentioned
health even testing our diets
00:30:13.98\00:30:18.61
with the word of God and on NBC
00:30:18.65\00:30:22.38
they have been
going to blue zones,
00:30:22.42\00:30:24.45
I never really, I don't
know if I paid attention
00:30:24.49\00:30:27.26
to what a blue zone was,
00:30:27.29\00:30:28.62
but that's where you have
00:30:28.66\00:30:29.99
the higher
amount of millenniums,
00:30:30.03\00:30:31.36
people that reach 100 or more,
00:30:31.39\00:30:34.33
you know, it's higher
than the general population,
00:30:34.36\00:30:37.97
and most places
they have been covering
00:30:38.00\00:30:39.67
have been outside
of the United States.
00:30:39.70\00:30:41.60
Well, today I didn't
watch it but I remembered seeing
00:30:41.64\00:30:44.61
that was gonna be
on site I googled it.
00:30:44.64\00:30:47.11
And Maria Shriver
and different ones
00:30:47.14\00:30:49.61
they were
actually in Loma Linda.
00:30:49.64\00:30:52.25
Loma Linda is a blue
zone and they were raising up,
00:30:52.28\00:30:55.68
they were showing,
this is God's diet.
00:30:55.72\00:30:58.72
They were showing how,
00:30:58.75\00:31:00.66
how precious
this Sabbath hours are
00:31:00.69\00:31:03.96
that it helps to relive stress,
that it helps to detoxify,
00:31:03.99\00:31:08.06
it was awesome if
you haven't checked it,
00:31:08.10\00:31:09.73
check it out.
00:31:09.76\00:31:11.10
Google it on today
show, the blue zones
00:31:11.13\00:31:13.03
out in Loma Linda
and it's really neat.
00:31:13.07\00:31:15.97
It's beautiful,
where they mentioned about,
00:31:16.00\00:31:17.37
seven to ten
years living longer life
00:31:17.41\00:31:20.01
and a healthier
lifespan and in the end it
00:31:20.04\00:31:22.64
talked about
earlier, one of the founders
00:31:22.68\00:31:24.35
of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
00:31:24.38\00:31:25.71
is Ellen White, you know,
00:31:25.75\00:31:27.08
a lot of stuff was put out there
00:31:27.12\00:31:29.05
for a lot of
people, in a millions
00:31:29.08\00:31:31.45
and listening and taking it
in because it deals with health.
00:31:31.49\00:31:36.16
To me it's raising
that standard, it's arising,
00:31:36.19\00:31:39.46
it's lifting that
light a little higher
00:31:39.49\00:31:41.43
because you have all these
other stones that are saying,
00:31:41.46\00:31:45.60
well, we need a Paleo diet.
00:31:45.63\00:31:47.84
We need not cook our meat,
you need to eat a lot of meat
00:31:47.87\00:31:51.37
but don't cook it, you
need to eat it really raw,
00:31:51.41\00:31:54.74
you know, and the Bible
says the life is in the blood.
00:31:54.78\00:31:57.15
You're supposed
to drain that blood,
00:31:57.18\00:31:58.51
you're not supposed
to be eating that blood,
00:31:58.55\00:32:00.55
you know, so they are
touting if you want to be a 100,
00:32:00.58\00:32:03.92
this is the way you got to go.
00:32:03.95\00:32:06.09
You know, and many
people the bone broth diet,
00:32:06.12\00:32:09.99
I think I heard about that.
00:32:10.03\00:32:11.66
Where they're making,
they are losing weight
00:32:11.69\00:32:14.00
and gaining health by
cooking different soups
00:32:14.03\00:32:17.43
or something with bones,
00:32:17.47\00:32:19.03
and so there is a
lot of things out there,
00:32:19.07\00:32:20.87
that we have got to go back.
00:32:20.90\00:32:22.80
And so I just
thought how neat to see
00:32:22.84\00:32:25.37
that light shining
today over a secular,
00:32:25.41\00:32:29.21
remember the rocks would cry out
00:32:29.24\00:32:30.58
if we don't do
our work. Yes, yes.
00:32:30.61\00:32:32.11
And the rocks were crying
out in such a positive way.
00:32:32.15\00:32:35.82
It's not always
gonna be that way,
00:32:35.85\00:32:37.35
it's not always that way now,
00:32:37.39\00:32:39.82
but you know while
we have opportunity
00:32:39.85\00:32:41.86
we need to be
arising, we need to be shining
00:32:41.89\00:32:44.23
and what are some
of the attributes,
00:32:44.26\00:32:46.46
what are some of
the characteristics
00:32:46.49\00:32:47.96
of a Christian that
has a shining light?
00:32:48.00\00:32:50.37
It's even in here.
00:32:50.40\00:32:51.73
What are some of the
things that they might pray?
00:32:51.77\00:32:53.13
You know, I just wanted
to say National Geographic...
00:32:53.17\00:32:55.70
That's part of
it, that's part of it,
00:32:55.74\00:32:58.61
it's the same guy, same guy,
he's doing it in a new book,
00:32:58.64\00:33:02.38
he's going to
have all the recipes,
00:33:02.41\00:33:04.28
it's the same man, he
has done it several times.
00:33:04.31\00:33:06.68
In fact he showed on there,
I don't remember his name,
00:33:06.72\00:33:09.65
sorry about that,
00:33:09.68\00:33:11.02
but he was saying how
one of the Adventists,
00:33:11.05\00:33:13.82
he was showing a video clip
00:33:13.86\00:33:15.46
from I guess
National Geographic,
00:33:15.49\00:33:17.09
where two years ago, he
was out driving around in...
00:33:17.13\00:33:19.96
I mean in California,
Loma Linda and this man,
00:33:20.00\00:33:24.60
I mean, his
cognitive ability was fantastic
00:33:24.63\00:33:27.44
and he is still
driving at the age of 100.
00:33:27.47\00:33:30.07
It was awesome, awesome.
00:33:30.11\00:33:32.27
He is the one that
said, he is actually the one
00:33:32.31\00:33:35.14
that said this is God's diet.
00:33:35.18\00:33:39.01
He is the one that said it.
00:33:39.05\00:33:40.68
So the rocks are crying out.
00:33:40.72\00:33:42.55
So our light shines
when we bring our life
00:33:42.58\00:33:45.55
in alignment with God's word.
00:33:45.59\00:33:47.22
Amen.
00:33:47.26\00:33:48.59
And has something to do
like the scripture I always use,
00:33:48.62\00:33:52.93
Psalms 119:130, I
love that scripture,
00:33:52.96\00:33:56.26
the entrance of your
word gives light, gives light,
00:33:56.30\00:34:01.40
the entrance of God's
word gives light to us.
00:34:01.44\00:34:05.51
It gives
understanding to the simpleness,
00:34:05.54\00:34:07.71
that's encouraging.
00:34:07.74\00:34:09.08
It didn't matter
how brilliant you are
00:34:09.11\00:34:11.45
or how simple you
are. That's right.
00:34:11.48\00:34:12.98
You read God's word,
you study God's word,
00:34:13.01\00:34:16.02
you get
yourself into God's word,
00:34:16.05\00:34:18.32
and it is going to
bring you understanding,
00:34:18.35\00:34:21.02
it brings light.
00:34:21.06\00:34:22.39
Now, that tells
us, that tells us that
00:34:22.42\00:34:25.69
if there are
areas of darkness in us,
00:34:25.73\00:34:27.86
C.A., do you think
there might be areas
00:34:27.90\00:34:29.63
of darkness in anyone of us?
00:34:29.66\00:34:33.30
There are areas of
darkness. I wish there were.
00:34:33.34\00:34:36.37
There are areas of
darkness in all of us.
00:34:36.40\00:34:39.17
In all of us.
Nobody has arrived.
00:34:39.21\00:34:41.54
I don't care how
high you have gone,
00:34:41.58\00:34:43.45
there is heights
you haven't attained to.
00:34:43.48\00:34:45.71
I don't care how deep
you have gone, Pastor Murray,
00:34:45.75\00:34:48.72
there are depths you
have attained to yet.
00:34:48.75\00:34:51.25
The entrance of
God's word gives light, it,
00:34:51.29\00:34:54.59
that means if there are
areas of darkness in us,
00:34:54.62\00:34:58.09
then as we read God's word,
00:34:58.13\00:35:00.20
as we allow that
light to penetrate,
00:35:00.23\00:35:03.60
then those areas of
darkness will be dispelled.
00:35:03.63\00:35:07.57
That light of God's word
00:35:07.60\00:35:09.40
would dispel
those areas of darkness,
00:35:09.44\00:35:11.51
and as darkness is dispelled,
then we become more light.
00:35:11.54\00:35:16.54
There will be more
light and more like Him.
00:35:16.58\00:35:18.65
Because it is
glory of the Lord then.
00:35:18.68\00:35:20.88
In the passage,
once again the glory,
00:35:20.92\00:35:22.62
what is the glory?
00:35:22.65\00:35:24.12
It has to be His character. Yes.
00:35:24.15\00:35:25.82
As we read, that's
what you are saying.
00:35:25.85\00:35:27.62
As you read the word
of God, and we take it in,
00:35:27.66\00:35:30.56
we're taking Him
in, His character,
00:35:30.59\00:35:33.19
His character
becomes our character,
00:35:33.23\00:35:35.96
we become like Him,
'cause He wants to reveal
00:35:36.00\00:35:38.23
that glory to us,
you know what I mean.
00:35:38.27\00:35:40.60
Show me your glory.
00:35:40.64\00:35:42.00
And you know, such a question,
00:35:42.04\00:35:43.57
you made such a
beautiful statement earlier,
00:35:43.61\00:35:46.68
such a truthful statement
00:35:46.71\00:35:48.44
as long as we are in God's word,
00:35:48.48\00:35:50.88
then that light will shine,
00:35:50.91\00:35:52.55
but if we start backing
away from our source of life,
00:35:52.58\00:35:56.82
then our light starts going at.
00:35:56.85\00:35:58.85
Just a couple of days
ago, I went into my office
00:35:58.89\00:36:02.69
and I noticed
that the light was out
00:36:02.72\00:36:06.80
and I wiggled the light
bulb, you know what to do to see
00:36:06.83\00:36:09.80
if you can get
it to come back on,
00:36:09.83\00:36:11.93
and so I went down
to the supply cabin
00:36:11.97\00:36:15.04
and I got another light
bulb, took the old one out,
00:36:15.07\00:36:17.84
put the new one
in, still nothing.
00:36:17.87\00:36:20.81
Guess what was wrong?
00:36:20.84\00:36:22.31
Switch is off. It
wasn't plugged in.
00:36:22.34\00:36:25.55
Wasn't connected to the
source? You got to be connected.
00:36:25.58\00:36:27.78
You got to be
connected. Got to plug it in.
00:36:27.82\00:36:29.52
I thought now, that is it,
00:36:29.55\00:36:31.99
I'm gonna use that
illustration sometimes
00:36:32.02\00:36:35.32
and so here is
my time to use it.
00:36:35.36\00:36:37.06
If you are not
plugged in, I don't care
00:36:37.09\00:36:39.19
if you change your
light bulb ten times,
00:36:39.23\00:36:41.13
it's not gonna
shine. That's right.
00:36:41.16\00:36:42.83
You are not gonna shine
if you are not plugged in.
00:36:42.86\00:36:45.00
Amen, that's good.
00:36:45.03\00:36:46.67
We have to be very
aware of being in plug in
00:36:46.70\00:36:52.94
with the Holy Spirit
00:36:52.97\00:36:54.31
because, otherwise we
don't see the darkness either,
00:36:54.34\00:36:57.75
and we don't see
those that are in darkness
00:36:57.78\00:37:00.45
and anything that has to
do with the enemy is darkness.
00:37:00.48\00:37:06.45
You know there it's referred
to the spirits of the darkness,
00:37:06.49\00:37:12.53
anything that is a
sin is from the darkness.
00:37:12.56\00:37:17.03
In the times of
disciples, when Christ came,
00:37:17.07\00:37:21.94
Jesus came to the disciples,
they were in the darkness,
00:37:21.97\00:37:26.71
they were, there
were superstitions,
00:37:26.74\00:37:30.75
there were all kinds of things.
00:37:30.78\00:37:33.38
Even nowadays superstition
and spiritualism is so powerful
00:37:33.42\00:37:39.12
among the people
that are in darkness,
00:37:39.15\00:37:42.02
and Satan is showing
a light to these people
00:37:42.06\00:37:46.63
that is they don't recognize it
because they don't know Christ.
00:37:46.66\00:37:50.73
Until Christ
come into their lives,
00:37:50.77\00:37:53.77
then they will
realize they are in the dark.
00:37:53.80\00:37:56.37
That's a very important
point because that spiritualism
00:37:56.40\00:37:59.57
is happening within the church.
00:37:59.61\00:38:03.21
Within the church
as well as without.
00:38:03.24\00:38:06.88
So we have to go back
to along the testament
00:38:06.92\00:38:08.98
because it's a
supernatural powers
00:38:09.02\00:38:11.65
that people are experiencing
00:38:11.69\00:38:13.82
and they think it's from heaven,
00:38:13.86\00:38:15.29
they think that,
that's the sunlight
00:38:15.32\00:38:16.93
coming down from the source.
00:38:16.96\00:38:19.63
You know, it's only
through the study in God's words
00:38:19.66\00:38:22.26
that we are not
deluded, that we are led astray.
00:38:22.30\00:38:26.33
And that connection
has to be really strong
00:38:26.37\00:38:28.30
because even as you
say, within the church
00:38:28.34\00:38:33.48
there are people arising
00:38:33.51\00:38:36.08
with tremendous
changes of ideas,
00:38:36.11\00:38:39.45
changing what God
said that is right,
00:38:39.48\00:38:42.52
looking for a spin
to suit what they want.
00:38:42.55\00:38:48.12
Yes. Sure, sure.
00:38:48.16\00:38:49.49
And what they want to
believe and we are, it says in,
00:38:49.52\00:38:54.20
what Sister White said
that, towards the end time
00:38:54.23\00:38:57.43
the line of demarcation is
gonna be so difficult to see
00:38:57.47\00:39:02.94
unless we are plugged in,
00:39:02.97\00:39:04.74
unless we have
the truth of Christ.
00:39:04.77\00:39:07.11
Just a few years ago,
and it was on YouTube,
00:39:07.14\00:39:09.98
I believe there was a pastor
00:39:10.01\00:39:11.38
who actually took
his Bible and threw it.
00:39:11.41\00:39:13.82
God have mercy.
00:39:13.85\00:39:15.18
Said, "We no longer
need it, it's outdated."
00:39:15.22\00:39:19.95
And that's where a
lot of Christians are.
00:39:19.99\00:39:21.82
They don't wanna
hear sound doctrine.
00:39:21.86\00:39:23.83
No, no, that's what
we are talking about.
00:39:23.86\00:39:25.19
It's outdated.
00:39:25.23\00:39:26.56
About black
light, under black light
00:39:26.59\00:39:27.96
the colors are reversed,
that which is light looks dark,
00:39:28.00\00:39:29.96
that which is dark looks light.
00:39:30.00\00:39:31.60
So everything is
actually reversed
00:39:31.63\00:39:32.97
because it's not true
light, it's black light.
00:39:33.00\00:39:34.90
Light has antiseptic qualities,
which is why they tell you,
00:39:34.94\00:39:38.94
in your house, don't always have
00:39:38.97\00:39:40.58
a house in darkness
with shades pulled down...
00:39:40.61\00:39:42.54
I like that.
00:39:42.58\00:39:43.91
Pull up the shades
and let that light come in
00:39:43.95\00:39:45.28
because it actually destroys
mold, bacteria, all kinds of...
00:39:45.31\00:39:47.92
Yes, it does,
it's a pathogen killer.
00:39:47.95\00:39:49.72
It's a pathogen
killer, it's good.
00:39:49.75\00:39:51.09
Don't have the
house in darkness,
00:39:51.12\00:39:52.45
you know, let that sun come in
00:39:52.49\00:39:53.92
and the entrance of
light brings a healing
00:39:53.96\00:39:58.43
that would not come,
if you are constantly...
00:39:58.46\00:40:00.50
The Bible says,
men love darkness,
00:40:00.53\00:40:02.63
because their deeds are evil.
00:40:02.66\00:40:04.33
Yes.
00:40:04.37\00:40:05.70
And because
light shows evil deeds,
00:40:05.73\00:40:08.07
so we need to
let the light shine.
00:40:08.10\00:40:09.80
Very quickly, I'm in Isaiah,
00:40:09.84\00:40:11.87
Isaiah has a lot
to say about light.
00:40:11.91\00:40:13.84
I am in Isaiah 58.
00:40:13.88\00:40:15.94
Christ talks about the
fast that He has chosen,
00:40:15.98\00:40:18.08
and what I found on
the very end of this,
00:40:18.11\00:40:19.55
this is kind of interesting,
it says, I'm in 58:6,
00:40:19.58\00:40:22.18
and I will just
read this very quickly.
00:40:22.22\00:40:23.69
"Is this not the
fast that I have chosen
00:40:23.72\00:40:25.09
to lose the bonds of wickedness
to undo the heavy burdens,
00:40:25.12\00:40:28.26
to let the oppressed go
free, that you break every yoke,
00:40:28.29\00:40:33.23
is it not to share
your bread with the hungry,
00:40:33.26\00:40:36.10
and that you bring to your house
00:40:36.13\00:40:38.13
the poor that are cast out."
00:40:38.17\00:40:39.67
This is what the
Christian life should be.
00:40:39.70\00:40:41.40
When you are
naked that you cover him
00:40:41.44\00:40:44.34
and not hide
yourself from your own flesh,
00:40:44.37\00:40:47.94
then, see if
you do these things,
00:40:47.98\00:40:49.48
what's the upshot?
00:40:49.51\00:40:50.85
Then your light shall
break forth in the morning
00:40:50.88\00:40:54.32
and your healing
shall spring forth speedily.
00:40:54.35\00:40:57.25
So you do these things
00:40:57.29\00:40:58.62
so that your
light shines brighter,
00:40:58.65\00:41:00.66
so that they see
Christ in that light,
00:41:00.69\00:41:02.46
so they are not looking at you,
00:41:02.49\00:41:03.96
they are looking at the
light that shines from you
00:41:03.99\00:41:07.26
that comes from Christ. Amen.
00:41:07.30\00:41:09.23
So this fasting is not
just so that you can fast
00:41:09.26\00:41:12.27
and try to make
yourself something,
00:41:12.30\00:41:14.30
so that you can
accomplish these things
00:41:14.34\00:41:15.70
in the power of God
00:41:15.74\00:41:17.07
and it makes your
light shine so much brighter.
00:41:17.11\00:41:18.81
Amen, amen.
00:41:18.84\00:41:20.18
So it means meeting
needs of other people,
00:41:20.21\00:41:24.05
that's when you meet
those needs of other people
00:41:24.08\00:41:26.38
it's denying of
self and when we do that,
00:41:26.41\00:41:29.05
then He says, I'm
going to bless you,
00:41:29.08\00:41:30.79
while you are trying to
bless somebody else as it were,
00:41:30.82\00:41:33.49
He is blessing
us, so it still has,
00:41:33.52\00:41:35.82
it always do with self-denial.
00:41:35.86\00:41:37.86
You know, God I
think about darkness,
00:41:37.89\00:41:39.83
you think about darkness.
00:41:39.86\00:41:41.20
The devil hates
Jesus for numerous reasons,
00:41:41.23\00:41:45.20
now I'm really on
the ball but he hates
00:41:45.23\00:41:48.60
because when He creates,
He brings light to things.
00:41:48.64\00:41:55.34
See in Creation,
because, for instance,
00:41:55.38\00:41:59.41
God said, when he
had this little old void,
00:41:59.45\00:42:03.25
you know, out there He
said, let there be light,
00:42:03.28\00:42:07.32
God want it to
exposed, He gave it light.
00:42:07.36\00:42:10.03
The devil is happy
to have it in darkness,
00:42:10.06\00:42:12.33
he is happy to have
the rest of the universe.
00:42:12.36\00:42:14.93
You know it goes on and
on and on, all in darkness.
00:42:14.96\00:42:17.97
But every time... And
He brought the light...
00:42:18.00\00:42:19.53
Before He did
anything else. Yes, yes.
00:42:19.57\00:42:22.44
And as He reaches out
00:42:22.47\00:42:24.34
and expands as it
were the universe,
00:42:24.37\00:42:27.08
the enemy can't stand it,
00:42:27.11\00:42:28.44
because he is bringing
light to the beautiful creation
00:42:28.48\00:42:31.58
and the things that
God Christ has created
00:42:31.61\00:42:34.18
and made for our joy
and for our happiness.
00:42:34.22\00:42:37.59
So you know, you
have to look at God says,
00:42:37.62\00:42:39.99
I'm gonna send light
00:42:40.02\00:42:41.59
and that light
will expel darkness,
00:42:41.62\00:42:43.76
and I am thankful for that.
00:42:43.79\00:42:45.13
I am thankful
for Isaiah over there
00:42:45.16\00:42:46.83
because he answered a question
00:42:46.86\00:42:48.96
I threw out
about ten minutes ago,
00:42:49.00\00:42:51.57
about the characteristics.
00:42:51.60\00:42:53.67
Let me read this
one sentence here,
00:42:53.70\00:42:55.27
it's found in Our
High Calling, it says,
00:42:55.30\00:42:57.97
"As the light of the
sun is the light and life
00:42:58.01\00:43:02.64
and blessing to all that
live, so should Christians
00:43:02.68\00:43:06.51
by their good works,
by their cheerfulness,
00:43:06.55\00:43:10.45
by their courage, be
the light of the world."
00:43:10.49\00:43:13.86
You see the light
shining in our heart,
00:43:13.89\00:43:18.39
it can't stay there,
it has to reflect out.
00:43:18.43\00:43:23.43
Pastor Kenny likes
that song, you know,
00:43:23.47\00:43:25.53
when the cup
overflows into the saucer.
00:43:25.57\00:43:28.90
Yes, it has to
come out to other people
00:43:28.94\00:43:32.67
and I was curious as
to the characteristics
00:43:32.71\00:43:36.51
because I wanted
to ask the question,
00:43:36.54\00:43:39.01
is this a totally natural thing
00:43:39.05\00:43:41.92
for a Christian to
have those characteristics
00:43:41.95\00:43:43.95
or they somewhat learned or
may be a little bit of both?
00:43:43.99\00:43:48.12
Well, Ephesians 5:8 says,
"For you were once darkness,"
00:43:48.16\00:43:53.70
didn't say you
were once in darkness,
00:43:53.73\00:43:55.66
or we were in darkness,
it says we were darkness.
00:43:55.70\00:43:58.23
In darkness. Absolutely.
00:43:58.27\00:43:59.63
But now you are
light in the Lord,
00:43:59.67\00:44:02.47
so therefore walk
His children of light,
00:44:02.50\00:44:04.47
so is it natural?
00:44:04.51\00:44:05.97
It's been given to us,
00:44:06.01\00:44:10.95
but it should be our nature now,
00:44:10.98\00:44:12.95
we have been transformed
out of the kingdom of darkness.
00:44:12.98\00:44:15.85
Now we are in the
kingdom of God's dear Son.
00:44:15.88\00:44:21.12
It didn't come naturally to us,
it came supernaturally to us,
00:44:21.16\00:44:26.39
it came through that light,
00:44:26.43\00:44:28.70
it came through
that Christ in us,
00:44:28.73\00:44:32.37
but we got changed
00:44:32.40\00:44:34.47
when we got born again. Amen.
00:44:34.50\00:44:36.27
When we make Jesus
Christ the Lord of our life,
00:44:36.30\00:44:38.81
we change. Yeah.
00:44:38.84\00:44:40.18
I remember the change, I
can remember that change,
00:44:40.21\00:44:43.41
I have never been the same since
00:44:43.45\00:44:46.21
and that's because
something happened to me.
00:44:46.25\00:44:50.35
The very lofty nature of
God was transplanted into me,
00:44:50.39\00:44:54.19
transformed out of
the kingdom of darkness.
00:44:54.22\00:44:57.76
That kingdom of God's dear Son,
00:44:57.79\00:45:00.26
I am now a
citizen of it entirely.
00:45:00.30\00:45:02.70
Oh, mercy. Amen.
00:45:02.73\00:45:04.73
Kingdom, I am a
citizen, I am a child, beloved,
00:45:04.77\00:45:08.54
now we are the sons of God.
00:45:08.57\00:45:10.31
Not tomorrow, but now
we're the sons of God,
00:45:10.34\00:45:13.41
so does it happen overnight?
00:45:13.44\00:45:16.58
No. Is it a growing process?
00:45:16.61\00:45:18.18
Yes. Absolutely.
00:45:18.21\00:45:19.55
Is that sanctification process,
00:45:19.58\00:45:20.92
don't you wish it
would just happen?
00:45:20.95\00:45:22.45
It would, but it does.
00:45:22.48\00:45:24.09
It's a process, but it should be
00:45:24.12\00:45:26.52
the natural
outcropping of Christ in us,
00:45:26.55\00:45:29.49
which is our hope of glory.
00:45:29.52\00:45:31.29
Amen. But what do we say?
00:45:31.33\00:45:32.66
What do we... Go ahead, yeah.
00:45:32.69\00:45:34.03
Oh, I'm sorry.
00:45:34.06\00:45:35.73
As we walk and as
we gotten changed,
00:45:35.76\00:45:39.47
you would find that
it becomes much natural,
00:45:39.50\00:45:43.54
you know, you are a more natural
00:45:43.57\00:45:45.31
in that state of
happiness and joy
00:45:45.34\00:45:49.61
and connection with the Lord.
00:45:49.64\00:45:52.21
The Apostle Paul, he
with all his writings,
00:45:52.25\00:45:57.39
he was constantly
reminding other members,
00:45:57.42\00:46:01.32
that you are now this,
00:46:01.36\00:46:02.96
you are no longer
what you used to be.
00:46:02.99\00:46:04.86
Right, right.
00:46:04.89\00:46:06.23
You are now
this and you are now,
00:46:06.26\00:46:07.66
and then now you
are happy people,
00:46:07.70\00:46:09.73
you are people of God,
00:46:09.76\00:46:11.47
you are people
that walk in the light,
00:46:11.50\00:46:13.47
he had said that all the time,
00:46:13.50\00:46:15.57
so we need
sometimes to be reminded.
00:46:15.60\00:46:20.61
And so we sin
and so we say look,
00:46:20.64\00:46:24.05
see I knew I went in with it.
00:46:24.08\00:46:25.51
I knew I went in, I
knew that something,
00:46:25.55\00:46:28.48
but, oh, thank God for
that advocate with the father.
00:46:28.52\00:46:31.05
Amen.
00:46:31.09\00:46:32.49
Yeah, so I am, that I
am what the word says I am
00:46:32.52\00:46:37.13
and then I do
something so un-Christ like,
00:46:37.16\00:46:41.50
but thank God for 1 John 1:9,
00:46:41.53\00:46:44.23
and we confess our
sins and what happens?
00:46:44.27\00:46:46.33
He is faithful and just.
00:46:46.37\00:46:47.70
He is faithful and just
to forgive us of our sin,
00:46:47.74\00:46:50.81
and then He cleanses
us from unrighteousness.
00:46:50.84\00:46:53.81
If we are cleansed
from unrighteousness,
00:46:53.84\00:46:56.04
you know what we are?
00:46:56.08\00:46:57.45
We are the righteousness
of God in Christ Jesus
00:46:57.48\00:46:59.55
and we're standing
there with clean hands
00:46:59.58\00:47:01.05
and a pure heart. Amen.
00:47:01.08\00:47:02.42
May be just for that
long, but, hey, we repent again
00:47:02.45\00:47:05.45
in a few minutes if we get to.
00:47:05.49\00:47:07.16
And it's a beautiful
combination of answers,
00:47:07.19\00:47:10.13
absolutely awesome
because it is a combination,
00:47:10.16\00:47:13.56
you have a new heart,
00:47:13.60\00:47:15.36
He is creating a
new heart within us.
00:47:15.40\00:47:17.90
You know, praise God
when you talked about
00:47:17.93\00:47:19.27
the darkness inside of us,
00:47:19.30\00:47:20.67
I thought earlier, I
thought, but you know what?
00:47:20.70\00:47:23.64
It's the
wonderful surgeon of heaven
00:47:23.67\00:47:28.51
that's doing the surgery inside,
00:47:28.54\00:47:30.08
it's not you guys looking
at me and criticizing me.
00:47:30.11\00:47:33.95
In fact, we are
taught over and over,
00:47:33.98\00:47:35.65
we are not to
criticize one another,
00:47:35.68\00:47:37.69
you know, but it's also learned
00:47:37.72\00:47:39.65
because just like I said,
we are taught not to criticize.
00:47:39.69\00:47:42.72
Paul, different
ones, Spirit of Prophecy,
00:47:42.76\00:47:45.53
they are always
helping to refine,
00:47:45.56\00:47:48.83
and the more we
spend time in there,
00:47:48.86\00:47:50.53
and the Holy Spirit is saying,
00:47:50.57\00:47:52.03
you know, you need
some work in that area.
00:47:52.07\00:47:55.67
And then what do we do?
00:47:55.70\00:47:58.31
We commit that to God, don't we?
00:47:58.34\00:48:00.68
God, I was really
short with Sister Irma.
00:48:00.71\00:48:04.58
Oh, my. Would you forgive me?
00:48:04.61\00:48:07.42
And if I was short
and I was open with her,
00:48:07.45\00:48:10.12
then I need to go
and say, Sister Irma,
00:48:10.15\00:48:12.12
would you please forgive me.
00:48:12.15\00:48:14.26
That's a new
heart, 'cause you know,
00:48:14.29\00:48:16.19
several years ago I
wouldn't have done that.
00:48:16.22\00:48:18.29
I'd have been happy to be short.
00:48:18.33\00:48:19.66
That is not the
easiest thing to do.
00:48:19.69\00:48:22.50
It's the hardest thing to do,
00:48:22.53\00:48:24.67
because the pride
comes straight in, yeah.
00:48:24.70\00:48:27.94
That's why it is a process.
00:48:27.97\00:48:29.80
Sanctification is
a work of a lifetime,
00:48:29.84\00:48:32.74
but the beautiful thing is,
00:48:32.77\00:48:35.51
you know, at the moment you say
00:48:35.54\00:48:37.35
"Lord, forgive
me," you're clean.
00:48:37.38\00:48:40.22
Amen. You are clean.
00:48:40.25\00:48:42.32
I got a ooh-ooh... Ooh-ooh.
00:48:42.35\00:48:43.85
Yes.
00:48:43.89\00:48:45.22
Because if
something occurred to me,
00:48:45.25\00:48:46.59
Irma has dual citizenship.
00:48:46.62\00:48:48.62
When she became
an American citizen,
00:48:48.66\00:48:50.66
she did not lose her
Panamanian citizenship,
00:48:50.69\00:48:52.33
so she has citizenship in Panama
00:48:52.36\00:48:54.80
and she has citizenship
in the United States,
00:48:54.83\00:48:57.23
but that's the only
place she has dual citizenship,
00:48:57.27\00:48:59.83
it's something that
Mollie was telling us before,
00:48:59.87\00:49:02.64
that when you pick
up your new citizenship,
00:49:02.67\00:49:05.54
you renounce
your old citizenship.
00:49:05.57\00:49:07.28
That's right.
00:49:07.31\00:49:08.64
The reason that so
many Christians struggle
00:49:08.68\00:49:10.48
is because they are
trying to hold valid passports
00:49:10.51\00:49:13.01
in two different
countries and you can't do it.
00:49:13.05\00:49:15.52
When you step
into the new kingdom,
00:49:15.55\00:49:18.15
you renounce your
citizenship in the old kingdom,
00:49:18.19\00:49:20.42
you don't have
right to be there anymore,
00:49:20.46\00:49:23.96
you don't want
to be there anymore,
00:49:23.99\00:49:25.39
and you should
never go there again.
00:49:25.43\00:49:27.06
You burn that passport
00:49:27.10\00:49:28.90
and now you are
a full citizenship,
00:49:28.93\00:49:30.87
a full citizen of
the brand new kingdom.
00:49:30.90\00:49:33.47
Last and I will
be done in a second,
00:49:33.50\00:49:35.27
Mollie did mention 1 John
1:9 if we confess our sins,
00:49:35.30\00:49:39.41
that threw me
back to 1 John 1:7,
00:49:39.44\00:49:42.64
which says and I'll read it,
00:49:42.68\00:49:44.01
"If we walk in the
light, as he is in the light,
00:49:44.05\00:49:46.88
we have
fellowship with one another"
00:49:46.92\00:49:48.48
and the reason
that it is so important
00:49:48.52\00:49:49.85
is what we are doing here,
00:49:49.88\00:49:51.22
since we are all in the
light, we have fellowship,
00:49:51.25\00:49:53.12
we can sit down and
talk about this for hours.
00:49:53.15\00:49:54.99
And it's exciting for all of us,
00:49:55.02\00:49:56.69
because we are all in the light.
00:49:56.73\00:49:58.23
Now if there is someone
here who is in the darkness,
00:49:58.26\00:50:00.40
this is a boring,
disgusting, nauseating exercise
00:50:00.43\00:50:04.70
and they can't wait
for this thing to end.
00:50:04.73\00:50:06.23
No, I have got this,
I'm hoping, I'm praying
00:50:06.27\00:50:09.67
that this is
going to be encouraging.
00:50:09.70\00:50:11.61
Because every
one of us was there
00:50:11.64\00:50:14.24
and there is no lasting peace,
there is no lasting happiness,
00:50:14.28\00:50:18.15
this is where it is,
00:50:18.18\00:50:19.81
it's happiness
amongst the storm.
00:50:19.85\00:50:22.08
Amen.
00:50:22.12\00:50:23.45
You know, you could,
"Yea, though I walk through
00:50:23.49\00:50:25.09
the valley of
the shadow of death,
00:50:25.12\00:50:26.96
I fear no evil,
for thou art with me."
00:50:26.99\00:50:30.46
You see this is what
the light does to us,
00:50:30.49\00:50:33.60
and that is the only time
00:50:33.63\00:50:35.40
when you are trying
to hold dual citizenship,
00:50:35.43\00:50:37.93
that that surgery hurts.
00:50:37.97\00:50:39.40
Yes, it does.
Otherwise you feel no pain.
00:50:39.43\00:50:41.27
But what do you
do? What do you do?
00:50:41.30\00:50:43.27
And this is for many
people and I have heard this
00:50:43.30\00:50:46.01
and heard and
heard and have been asked
00:50:46.04\00:50:47.74
and asked for
literally years and years,
00:50:47.78\00:50:51.55
many people do not know
00:50:51.58\00:50:54.85
if they have
been converted or not,
00:50:54.88\00:50:56.89
they do not know
and is very difficult.
00:50:56.92\00:50:59.75
You need to give them the truth,
00:50:59.79\00:51:02.19
because I believe, this is me,
00:51:02.22\00:51:03.56
I believe that you should
know when conversion come.
00:51:03.59\00:51:07.53
When you were talking about
it, you knew when it happened.
00:51:07.56\00:51:10.57
That's beautiful.
00:51:10.60\00:51:11.93
But there are
people who have said
00:51:11.97\00:51:13.30
one time, moment of time,
00:51:13.34\00:51:14.67
I have been in the
church for 40 some years,
00:51:14.70\00:51:16.04
I don't know whether I
have been born again or not.
00:51:16.07\00:51:18.11
We say, how sad that is?
00:51:18.14\00:51:20.68
Not everybody has a
same type of experience,
00:51:20.71\00:51:22.58
but you can have an experience
and you should know that
00:51:22.61\00:51:25.81
you are having the
experience because what?
00:51:25.85\00:51:28.22
We change. The
things we once loved...
00:51:28.25\00:51:30.89
We hate.
00:51:30.92\00:51:32.25
We now hate, things
we hate, we now love.
00:51:32.29\00:51:34.19
Those things we'd say,
we hear them all the time,
00:51:34.22\00:51:35.76
but they fit and
they will always fit,
00:51:35.79\00:51:38.59
it has to be a change
and so they are telling me,
00:51:38.63\00:51:41.26
I have been in the church,
00:51:41.30\00:51:42.63
I've been there for
40 years or 50 years
00:51:42.66\00:51:44.50
but really no changes,
00:51:44.53\00:51:46.13
I'm still the
same old, same old.
00:51:46.17\00:51:48.00
So there is something
wrong and it's difficult to do,
00:51:48.04\00:51:51.21
but if you put
your arm around him
00:51:51.24\00:51:52.57
and say to him, you know what?
00:51:52.61\00:51:53.94
You need to be converted.
00:51:53.98\00:51:55.31
You need to be
converted because all this time
00:51:55.34\00:51:57.71
you haven't been
because you don't know.
00:51:57.75\00:52:00.12
There is no change
that is coming about,
00:52:00.15\00:52:01.78
and if you are
converted there will be changes
00:52:01.82\00:52:04.79
and they will be continuing
along in growth in spiritually.
00:52:04.82\00:52:07.66
You know, I wanted to
say something, sorry, Mollie.
00:52:07.69\00:52:10.26
Yeah, go ahead.
00:52:10.29\00:52:11.63
To what my husband was talking
about the dual citizenship,
00:52:11.66\00:52:17.43
and when I came
here to the States
00:52:17.47\00:52:20.44
and then I learned,
00:52:20.47\00:52:21.80
you know, and I
have my green card
00:52:21.84\00:52:24.14
and in three, five years
00:52:24.17\00:52:26.11
you are able to
apply for your citizenship
00:52:26.14\00:52:31.11
and it took me about
ten years to do that.
00:52:31.15\00:52:34.15
And for that reason
that took for me to go
00:52:34.18\00:52:39.39
and be an American citizen,
it meant giving up my country
00:52:39.42\00:52:45.86
and putting aside my
country and I couldn't,
00:52:45.89\00:52:49.00
I said no, I am not
American, I am Panamanian.
00:52:49.03\00:52:53.57
He said, so how
could I just go and sign up
00:52:53.60\00:52:58.61
and have this
passport that it says
00:52:58.64\00:53:00.68
that I am an American
citizen, when I'm Panamanian,
00:53:00.71\00:53:04.91
and I struggled with
that and at that time
00:53:04.95\00:53:09.35
I have been
thinking in spiritual terms,
00:53:09.38\00:53:13.39
but it really does to
me, it becomes clear that,
00:53:13.42\00:53:20.30
that's how we should do.
00:53:20.33\00:53:22.50
You know, we should
feel once you are converted,
00:53:22.53\00:53:25.93
when you accept
Christ, one of that,
00:53:25.97\00:53:28.10
you know that you
leave everything else
00:53:28.14\00:53:30.91
and outside and
now you belong to this
00:53:30.94\00:53:33.98
and so, I from thereon,
00:53:34.01\00:53:36.64
you know, I kept
the laws of the land.
00:53:36.68\00:53:39.81
When I go to Panama,
00:53:39.85\00:53:41.18
I keep the laws of
the land over there
00:53:41.22\00:53:43.79
and I do have some roots
there, but America is now,
00:53:43.82\00:53:50.06
you know, my
citizenship and I love America.
00:53:50.09\00:53:54.30
And the beautiful thing
as we accept this light,
00:53:54.33\00:53:57.93
we can all be the
citizens of the same country,
00:53:57.97\00:54:01.70
citizens of the
new kingdom of heaven
00:54:01.74\00:54:05.01
and, you know, there
may be some one out there
00:54:05.04\00:54:06.94
that has been
struggling just like you said.
00:54:06.98\00:54:09.11
Struggling not
knowing whether or not
00:54:09.14\00:54:11.21
they have really been saved,
saying I have been in a church,
00:54:11.25\00:54:14.95
I don't understand
what is all this light
00:54:14.98\00:54:17.45
that you guys are talking about?
00:54:17.49\00:54:19.52
And I encourage you
pray with us as we close,
00:54:19.55\00:54:22.96
pray during, pray after this.
00:54:22.99\00:54:26.29
And ask Christ into your heart,
00:54:26.33\00:54:29.16
ask Him to come in and dedicate.
00:54:29.20\00:54:31.57
You know, one
thing that we did that
00:54:31.60\00:54:33.03
really, truly made a
difference in my life
00:54:33.07\00:54:35.94
and in my walk with Christ,
00:54:35.97\00:54:37.57
was I came to the
point that I said,
00:54:37.61\00:54:39.84
I'm not gonna
eat any physical food
00:54:39.87\00:54:42.88
until I ate of
the spiritual food.
00:54:42.91\00:54:45.35
I don't get, when
I was teaching school
00:54:45.38\00:54:47.98
I would tell the
kids, don't even get out,
00:54:48.02\00:54:49.88
'cause I was teaching
in the Christian school,
00:54:49.92\00:54:52.15
don't even get out of
bed until you have prayed.
00:54:52.19\00:54:55.66
And I mean, there is time
to, I may lay there an hour,
00:54:55.69\00:54:57.96
but I'm talking with
the Lord and then I get up
00:54:57.99\00:55:01.26
and then I have my
worship and you do that,
00:55:01.30\00:55:04.30
you're always gonna be hungry,
00:55:04.33\00:55:07.00
but if you make a commitment
that you're not gonna study,
00:55:07.04\00:55:10.17
I mean, that you're not
gonna eat until you study.
00:55:10.21\00:55:12.44
I guarantee you
gonna open something,
00:55:12.47\00:55:14.58
because that's what
it's gonna be called.
00:55:14.61\00:55:16.21
And then pretty
soon the ten minutes
00:55:16.24\00:55:19.11
or the five minutes
that you are rushing
00:55:19.15\00:55:21.12
through it
becomes 15, 30, an hour
00:55:21.15\00:55:23.99
then you can't get enough
00:55:24.02\00:55:25.35
and you wish you
didn't have to go to work
00:55:25.39\00:55:27.39
and you know, the time
becomes sweeter and sweeter
00:55:27.42\00:55:30.73
as we spend it, connect it,
00:55:30.76\00:55:33.60
plugged in to that light source,
00:55:33.63\00:55:36.30
so I encourage each
and everyone of you,
00:55:36.33\00:55:38.30
plug in, you
will never be sorry.
00:55:38.33\00:55:41.40
It's the only hope that we have
to come out of this darkness
00:55:41.44\00:55:44.97
and to be a
citizen of the Kingdom.
00:55:45.01\00:55:47.44
Brother C.A, tell
someone how they can plug in.
00:55:47.48\00:55:50.25
They'll put you
right on the spot
00:55:50.28\00:55:51.81
and we can all join
in on that just a word.
00:55:51.85\00:55:53.31
Oh, Christ says, "I am
the vine, the abiding,"
00:55:53.35\00:55:57.19
John 15 the first five verses
00:55:57.22\00:55:59.09
but I wanna commend this person
00:55:59.12\00:56:00.52
to 1 John 5, this first line,
00:56:00.56\00:56:03.22
I will just read the first line.
00:56:03.26\00:56:04.59
"Whoever believes
that Jesus Christ,
00:56:04.63\00:56:07.30
whoever believes that Jesus
is the Christ is born of God.
00:56:07.33\00:56:13.44
You should not be
hazy about your salvation."
00:56:13.47\00:56:15.57
You believe in
Christ and all of that means
00:56:15.60\00:56:17.97
you are born of God.
00:56:18.01\00:56:19.34
Some days you feel
like the strongest Christian
00:56:19.37\00:56:20.78
in the world,
some days you feel like
00:56:20.81\00:56:22.14
the weakest
Christian in the world,
00:56:22.18\00:56:23.55
you are a
Christian on both days,
00:56:23.58\00:56:25.25
don't go by your feeling,
go by the promises of God.
00:56:25.28\00:56:27.95
Beautiful, amen,
good. Yeah, that's right.
00:56:27.98\00:56:30.02
Yes, anyone else
have a word here quickly?
00:56:30.05\00:56:33.89
A word?
00:56:33.92\00:56:35.26
Well, not to
discourage, not to discourage
00:56:35.29\00:56:38.73
because if I can
tell you the things
00:56:38.76\00:56:41.46
that I have had to overcome,
00:56:41.50\00:56:45.73
it has only been
by the grace of God
00:56:45.77\00:56:47.57
and by the power of His word,
00:56:47.60\00:56:49.67
and I can't tell
you how many things
00:56:49.70\00:56:53.48
because it will not
make me look so good,
00:56:53.51\00:56:57.28
but I know them
and God knows them.
00:56:57.31\00:57:00.12
But has cleansed me
00:57:00.15\00:57:01.68
and He is still working with me,
00:57:01.72\00:57:04.05
so don't discourage. Amen.
00:57:04.09\00:57:05.82
And we can always go before
God and just be honest with Him,
00:57:05.85\00:57:08.36
He will meet you
at your point in need.
00:57:08.39\00:57:10.39
Amen. Amen.
00:57:10.43\00:57:11.76
Amen.
00:57:11.79\00:57:13.33
Pastor, why don't
you lead us in prayer?
00:57:13.36\00:57:15.40
Amen, you know,
I can, we can pray
00:57:15.43\00:57:16.77
in quickly 2 Samuel 22:29 says
00:57:16.80\00:57:19.07
the Lord will
enlighten my darkness.
00:57:19.10\00:57:22.24
So let's pray
quickly for that, shall we?
00:57:22.27\00:57:24.31
Father in heaven, thank
You for Your precious word,
00:57:24.34\00:57:26.17
we thank You for those
who are viewing and listening,
00:57:26.21\00:57:28.61
pray for conversion, we
pray for the Holy Spirit
00:57:28.64\00:57:30.75
to take possession of
our life that we may know
00:57:30.78\00:57:32.28
you are King of
kings and Lord of lords.
00:57:32.31\00:57:34.02
Thank You for this
opportunity and we thank You
00:57:34.05\00:57:35.85
in the precious name of Jesus.
00:57:35.88\00:57:37.29
We thank you, amen. Amen.
00:57:37.32\00:57:38.99
Amen.
00:57:39.02\00:57:40.96