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 word
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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, I'm Shelley
Quinn. And I'm JD Quinn.
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And we are so glad
that you are joining us
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for Family Worship.
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This is one of our
favorite times of the week
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when we all can
get around the table
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and welcome in the
Sabbath of the Lord,
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that sweet refreshing rest
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and the time that we
get to spend with God.
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You know, my
favorite Sabbath scripture
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is Exodus 31:13
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where God says
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that "He gave us
the Sabbath as a sign
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that He is the
Lord who sanctifies us."
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Amen.
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So the Sabbath is
about the grace of God
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and the sanctification of God.
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Oh, we're really excited tonight
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because we have
some special guests
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and we're going to be
talking about the topic
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of the "Gift of
Repentance" tonight.
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And I think you're
going to really enjoy this.
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I hope you have
your Bibles and your pens
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and that you will
be joining in with us,
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but before I go any further,
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let me introduce our
family around the table.
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I'm gonna start
actually to my right.
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We have Tim Parton,
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and, Tim, thank you so
much for being here with us.
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It's always an honor to be here.
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Thank you for asking me.
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And thank you for play.
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I know you're gonna
play the piano for us
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in just a minute.
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So you make us sound
good no matter how we sing.
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Well, that's important, I guess.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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Then I have my dear friend
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Mollie Steenson
sitting next to me,
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and, Mollie, you're
looking extra beautiful tonight
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in that blue jacket.
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Well, thank you.
You're very kind.
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It's a joy to be here.
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Thank you for inviting me.
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Oh, absolutely.
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And then we've got
some special guests
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that have come
from across the pond.
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Well, no, that's
not across the pond,
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from down under.
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Here is Ricky,
that's an insult, isn't it?
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It's actually
bigger than a pond.
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It's bigger than a pond.
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And we have with us
John and Rosemary Malkiewycz
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from 3ABN Australia
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and, John, you are
the general manager?
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That's right.
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And then I guess
this lovely bride of yours
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is the assistant to
the general manager.
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Is that right? Well,
he keeps reminding me.
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All I know is that
they are mighty good to me.
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Yes, they are.
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They are a godly couple.
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You know, they work
wonderfully together
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and they get so much done.
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We love the Lord
and we sure want to do
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what we can while we are able.
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Amen.
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You know, is it fair to say
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that almost everyone
sitting at this table tonight
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is a workaholic.
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I know that
there is a few of us.
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But, you know, what would we do
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if God hadn't
given us the Sabbath.
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I think, I probably
already be in my grave, so...
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I look forward to the Sabbath.
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Every night, I go to bed early.
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It's just some...
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Every Friday night. Yep.
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It's really good to put
your head down on the pillow
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and just go to
sleep and think tomorrow,
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I'm spending the
time with the Lord.
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Amen.
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And I don't have
to worry about work.
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I don't have to get out
and do all the activities.
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It's just good to
spend the time with the Lord.
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You know, why I
like Friday nights?
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Because usually
through the week,
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the alarm goes off
at 4:30 in the morning.
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Yes.
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And on Sabbath mornings,
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I don't have to be at
church until just after nine.
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Yes.
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And so I can stay in bed longer.
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I really look
forward to it. Amen. Amen.
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Well let's... We
know what that means.
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They do.
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That's the same time
our alarm is set everyday.
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Well, let us then go
ahead and start with prayer.
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We'll just have
a prayer of praise.
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This is just when
we think of something
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that you want to
praise the Lord for
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and, John, we'll
start at your end
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and we'll work down
and let Tim finish for us.
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Father in heaven, we
just want to praise You
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that You in Your
wisdom gave us a day of rest.
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We just thank You
for it in Jesus' name.
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Father, I want to thank
You for the Holy Spirit.
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I want to thank You that
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He's the one who
sanctifies us on Your behalf,
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and He's the one who
leads us to repentance.
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And, Father, I just
want to praise Your name.
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Your name above all names, Lord,
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because we know that
all good and perfect things
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come from you.
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Father, also I
just want to thank You
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for our immediate family,
our extended family, Lord,
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our church family and
of course our 3ABN family.
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Holy and righteous
Father, we just come with hearts
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that are
overflowing with gratitude.
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We thank You that
Jesus is our new covenant
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and that He's the
surety of that covenant
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that He makes,
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He guarantees
Your promises to us
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that He guarantees
our obligations to you.
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So thank you, Father,
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that we have such
a wonderful savior.
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Thank you, Father, that
You gave us this opportunity
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to share with our
brothers and sisters,
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both here at Shelley's
table and around the world.
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Thank you Lord for
Your grace and mercy
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and goodness to all of us.
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Yes, Lord, and we want to
thank You for Your kindness.
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Thank you for treating
me like I'm your only child.
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You love me and I can
come to you at any time
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and I can lay
my heart before you
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and that's what
we're going to do today.
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We're going to spend
this time just loving on you
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and declaring Your Word
and growing in Your Word.
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So I pray that You'll
bless our time together.
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We are grateful to You
for being our heavenly Father,
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in Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen and amen.
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Well, you know,
we are so blessed
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to have such a gracious God
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and we're going
to sing a song now
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that if you
want to join with us,
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the words will be on
the bottom of the screen.
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This is from the Seventh-day
Adventist hymnal number 318,
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"Whiter than Snow".
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Lord Jesus, I long
to be perfectly whole
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I want Thee
forever to live in my soul
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Break down every
idol, cast out every foe
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Now wash me, and I
shall be whiter than snow
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Whiter than snow,
yes whiter than snow
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Now wash me and I
shall be whiter than snow
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Lord Jesus, look down
from Thy throne in the skies
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And help me to make
a complete sacrifice
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I give up myself,
and whatever I know
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Now wash me, and I
shall be whiter than snow
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Whiter than snow,
yes whiter than snow
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Now wash me, and I
shall be whiter than snow
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Lord Jesus, for this
I most humbly entreat
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I wait, blessed
Lord, at Thy crucified feet
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By faith, for my
cleansing I see Thy blood flow
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Now wash me, and I
shall be whiter than snow
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Whiter than snow,
yes whiter than snow
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Now wash me, and I
shall be whiter than snow
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Lord Jesus, Thou
seest I patiently wait
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Come now, and within
me a new heart create
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To those who have sought
Thee, Thou never said'st No
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Now wash me, and I
shall be whiter than snow
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Whiter than snow,
yes whiter than snow
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Now wash me, and I shall be
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Whiter than snow
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Amen. Amen.
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Amen. That's a beautiful hymn.
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Amen. It is a beautiful hymn.
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Well, tonight we are
going to talk about repentance
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being a gift from God,
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and what I'd
like to do to begin.
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I'm going to read you a
little prayer that I wrote
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and it's a
prayer of affirmation.
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Just taking the scriptures
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and actually, the six scriptures
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that we'll discuss
tonight are in this prayer.
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So listen to this
prayer and you will see
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or hear these scriptures.
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And here is how the prayer goes.
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Oh, Lord my God,
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how often I have been
crushed and crippled in spirit.
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Yet you have not broken
me off and tossed me away.
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How often has my
spiritual zeal been reduced
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to a flickering flame.
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That sins and
offensive haze smoke upward.
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Yet you do not snuff me out.
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When I shut you out of my heart,
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you stand at the door and knock.
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I thank you for your goodness
that leads me to repentance.
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I want to repent.
Give me a change of heart.
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Cause me to change my conduct.
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Turn me back full faced to you.
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Turn me away from
self-seeking unrighteousness.
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I don't want to store up wrath
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for myself in
the Day of Judgment.
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Cause me to seek
glory, honor and immortality
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by obeying the truth.
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Lord, grant me repentance
and forgiveness of my sins.
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Turn me around please.
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Cause me to
cooperate with your spirit.
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To put to death the
misdeeds of my flesh.
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Thank you Lord for
the answer to the prayer.
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Thank you for leading
me by Your good spirit
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on a level path.
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What is repentance?
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How would you do
define repentance?
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For me
repentance is turning around
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and walk in the other direction,
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walking away from
something that you're sick
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and tired of
being sick and tired of.
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That's good. That's very good.
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You know, Shelley,
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it's the Holy
Spirit that convicts us
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when we've done something wrong.
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When we realize we
have something wrong,
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we have done something wrong,
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we turn from it.
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Amen. Yes.
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And that's repentance,
turning from our sins.
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And it is a whole U-turn.
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Is it not, you're walking
in one direction as JD said
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and to repent.
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You're walking away
from God and His will
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and when the Holy
Spirit convicts you,
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then you turn
around and walk toward God.
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My scripture for
tonight is Matthew 12:20.
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So let's turn in our
Bibles to Matthew 12:20.
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And this has
special meaning to me
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because I
remember there was a time
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that I felt that God must
just be sick and tired of me.
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Have you ever felt like that?
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This was many years ago.
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Many, many years ago.
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And I came upon
these words of Jesus and...
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actually he says
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or speaking of
Jesus, the Messiah.
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It says, A bruised
reed he will not break,
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and smoked flax, smoking
flax, he will not quench,
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till he sends forth
justice to victory."
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If we just focus on
the first part of that,
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a bruised reed,
he will not break.
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That's what I was.
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I was crushed.
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I was crushed
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and thought that
surely God must be
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just ready to give up on me
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and smoking flax, he
says, he will not quench.
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You know, this is
like the wick of a lamp
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and you know, you
want the light of the lamp
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but the wick of the lamp
is just getting down so low
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and it's just smoking.
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It does not have enough fuel
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and that was me,
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and I read this, and
I thought how precious
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that if God sees anything in us,
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any potential,
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He's never going to,
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and it's the
potential He's gonna give us
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in the first place.
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But He won't snuff you out.
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He is longing for
us to return to Him.
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So to me, that's a
very special scripture.
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It's a
paraphrasing in my own words,
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Ellen White wrote that
God doesn't waste his time
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on worthless material,
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and so when God is
working in your life
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and maybe you're going
through really difficult times,
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just know that God
is working with you
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because He sees such
great potential in you.
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You know, and I just
feel like there is somebody
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that's watching tonight
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that you may be feeling
like, I've just gone too far.
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I, you know, boy, you
talk about being crushed
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and a broken reed,
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you know, there is just nothing,
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you don't feel like there
is anything good left in you,
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and you feel like your actions
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have been offensive to the Lord,
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and you may be afraid
to come back to Him again.
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Maybe you've asked Him
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for forgiveness for
many years for something,
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but you can
turn back to the Lord
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and just say, help,
Lord, here I am, help me.
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Well, Mollie, I think
you've got the next scripture.
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Why don't you read to
us Revelation 3:19 and 20?
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Revelation 3:19 and 20.
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"As many as I love,
I rebuke and chasten."
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Now think about that.
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He's saying, I love
you, so I'm gonna rebuke you
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and I'm gonna chasten you.
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What does chastening mean?
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What is the
chastening of the Lord?
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Now rebuke, we
know what rebuke is.
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Rosemary, you shouldn't do that.
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Chastening, that's a
little more, isn't it?
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I don't know if we like that.
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No, that word chastening,
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it kind of has to
do with correction.
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But something I
learnt a long time ago.
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Every time God does something,
it may appear to be punitive,
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but it's always redemptive.
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Amen.
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God never deals in
bringing, in punishing us.
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What He does is
sometimes He chastens us,
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but the whole
purpose for that chastening
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is our redemption.
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It's like with your children.
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Jeremy used to love to
go play in the big ditch.
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We had a big ditch
out behind our house.
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There were
critters in that ditch.
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Who knows what else was in that.
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It was a drainage
ditch for pretty sake.
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And I was telling,
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"Son, please don't
go play in the ditch.
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You can't play in the ditch.
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You're forbidden
to play in the ditch."
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He'd come in mud
from head to toe.
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Where had he
been? In the big ditch.
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Was I trying to keep
him to play in the big ditch
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because I didn't
want him to have fun
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or I didn't want him
to get sick and suffer?
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See, so if mother had to
apply the Board of Education
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to the seed of learning,
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it wasn't because I
was trying to punish him.
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It wasn't
punitive, it was redemptive.
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And that's how God is.
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Whom the Lord loves, He
rebukes and He chastens,
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therefore, look at this,
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therefore, be zealous to repent.
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What's the word zealous?
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What's the
connotation of the word zealous?
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It's kind of the
opposite of uh...
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Apathy. Apathy.
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Zealous.
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Which would you rather be?
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Zealous or apathetic?
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And I usually say,
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you know when, remember
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when you first met
Jesus the Lord, you laugh.
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You all remember that?
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Oh, Tim, we were so on fire.
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We had come out of
darkness and into light.
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We had felt the burden
of our sins come off of us,
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and the light was
brighter, and we were so joyful.
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We had been born again.
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Came out of
darkness and into light.
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Amazing grace.
Oh, amazing grace.
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We were so
excited, so full of zeal
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and not two
words worth a wisdom.
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No wisdom, lots of zeal.
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And so we were
just telling everybody,
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everything we knew
about God which was not much.
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And then the
longer we served the Lord
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and the more we learned
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and the more
wisdom got imparts to us.
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Now, do we have that
same zeal we had back then?
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So here is what I think.
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Oh, God, give me
the zeal I had back then
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to match the wisdom
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that we're
supposed to have today.
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So be zealous, that
zeal, but to do what?
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To repent.
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Oh, you asked about repentance.
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What is repentance?
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Oh, it's when God by
the power of His spirit
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quickens you
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that what you're
doing is wrong and...
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See there is a difference
in confession and repentance.
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Intellectually I can know
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that I should not have
stole that money from Tim.
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Intellectually I
know, I shouldn't, whoops.
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So I confess my sin
and God says, now repent.
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Confess, so I
confessed but now repent.
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What does that mean?
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Okay, so I
acknowledge that I did it
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and it was wrong.
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What is repentance?
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We looked at that
a few minutes ago.
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Now Mollie, don't do it again.
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Repent and God will
help you to not do it again.
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That's what we need is
to be zealous to repent
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and then God who not
only forgives us of our sins.
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What does He do?
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Cleanses us from
all unrighteousness,
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will help us not
to do it no more,
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to stop sinning.
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That's what repentance is.
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Behold Jesus says, I
stand at the door and knock,
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if anyone hears My
voice and opens the door.
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What is He going to do?
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Then I come into Him,
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and dine with
Him, and He with me.
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That's what when
we're standing before God,
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clean hands and a pure heart,
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then He is coming into us,
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to dine with us,
and to meet with us.
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So that's kind of what I
got out of this, Shelley.
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Amen. In 25 words really.
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In 25 words. Right, I love this.
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I totally loved, that's awesome.
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You just preached a sermon.
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A lady at camp meeting
says, I love your enthusiasm
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and I thought, well, I'm kind of
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a quite passive person and...
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Till you start talking
about the Word of the Lord.
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Right. That's
awesome, I love it.
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Amen.
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Well, obviously you paint
a beautiful picture as it is.
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Yes, amen.
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I mean, that
was very, very good.
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One thing I get
out of the situation
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with the church in Laodicea
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'cause it says,
as many as I love,
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I rebuke and chasten,
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is that prior to this,
Jesus had to rebuke the church
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in Laodicea.
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He loves Laodicea.
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But they are not
walking as they should be.
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And so not only
is he telling them
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what their problem is
and what they're doing wrong,
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he's offering the solution.
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He tells them to buy the gold,
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to buy the white raiment,
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to apply the eye salve.
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So He doesn't just leave
us chastened and rebuked,
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but He gives us the answer.
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He tells us how to make amends.
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What we need to do
to fix the problem.
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You know, and the
interesting thing is,
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is that when He's
rebuking and chastening,
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where is He?
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Standing at the door knocking.
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So that means,
we've shut Him out,
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and that's why He has
to rebuke and chasten us.
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I actually pray.
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I haven't done this
recently and I probably need to.
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I used to do this all the time.
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That I would pray
for the Lord's correction
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for his chastening,
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and I remember saying this once
in front of a very large group
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to whom I was speaking
and they all just went,
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like you're praying
for God's chastening.
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And the reason that I did
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was because, I
know, He's going to
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because He loves me.
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He's going to
rebuke and chasten me
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when I do wrong.
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What I'd rather
He gives me in ear
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because how does a
parent start off with a child
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when you rebuke?
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Jeremy, don't do this, no, no.
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And then if the
child doesn't respond,
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Jeremy, no, no, don't do this.
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But then if the child
still doesn't respond,
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maybe then comes as you
said the Board of Education,
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that's a great one, Mollie.
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So I'd rather hear God
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when He is still in that stage
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or even where the scripture
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that says, He will
guide you with His eye.
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I'd rather be sensitive to that
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so, so that I'm responding
before it gets to the point
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that He has to really,
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you know, step in and
do something more dramatic.
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You know, Shelley, at
the beginning He says,
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as many as I love.
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You know, when
Jeremy was doing things
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that he wasn't supposed to do,
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God loves him so
much, He just doesn't,
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He gives us discipline,
He gives us, He chastises us.
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But you know what?
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For every bucket of discipline,
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we have to give two
buckets of love to our kids.
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You know, it's very important.
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You just can't
give the discipline
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without giving the love
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and the principle is two to one.
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Two of love to
one of discipline.
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I like that.
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And that's what God
does with us, isn't He?
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He certainly does. Certainly.
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Well, Tim, you get
to tackle a big one.
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Let's all turn tow Romans 2.
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Romans 2.
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Now read Romans 2:4-9.
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"Or do you despise the
riches of his goodness,
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forbearances and long suffering
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not knowing that the goodness
of God leads you to repentance.
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But in accordance
with your hardness
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and impenitent heart,
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you are
treasuring up for yourself
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wrath in the day of wrath
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and revelation of the
righteous judgment of God
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who will render to each
one according to his deeds.
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Eternal life to those
who by patient continuance
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in doing good
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seek for glory,
honor and immortality
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but to those
who are self seeking
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and do not obey the truth,
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but obey unrighteousness,
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indignation and wrath,
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tribulation and anguish
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on every soul of
man who does evil."
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So whenever I
saw this scripture,
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I don't think I
realize how long it was to know
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how much was in there
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and yet my takeaway as they say
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is simply found
in the second line,
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in the way that
it's typed out here.
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Know that the goodness of
God lead you to repentance.
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If I had to, if I
met someone on the street
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and if I could,
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you know, I think
a lot of people know,
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if the Holy Spirit is
working in their lives
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as His word says that He will,
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He will do the work
preparing their spirit
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and then you go
minister to them.
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That would be my
direction to them,
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to let them know
that it's the goodness
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and goodness
doesn't mean goodness
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as compared to badness.
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We're talking about God.
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The goodness means kindness.
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It's a quality,
a loving, caring,
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compassionate
quality and I think...
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everybody longs to know
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that this is not
a God on the throne
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that is waiting to
strike you for your misconduct.
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It's kind of like
they say, you can get more,
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you draw more flies
with honey than vinegar.
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It's the kindness of God.
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It's your kindness that leads us
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to repentance, oh Lord.
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I remember as a little
kid, there was a song that,
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it was a contemporary
song we listened to that said,
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it's your kindness that leads us
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to repentance, oh, Lord.
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Knowing You love
us, no matter what we do
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makes us want to love you.
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And it was, um...
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it's that, that has just
endeared me so many times.
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So as then I
became a parent myself
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and just like you and Mollie
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both were talking
about raising our children,
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giving them the instruction,
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starting out first
just out of kindness
00:26:05.23\00:26:07.73
and, you know,
out of wanting them
00:26:07.76\00:26:10.17
to get the idea of,
00:26:10.20\00:26:11.77
this is compassion,
this is for your own good
00:26:11.80\00:26:14.40
that I'm telling you this.
00:26:14.44\00:26:15.90
But them not really getting it
00:26:15.94\00:26:17.51
and you having to
after they disobey,
00:26:17.54\00:26:21.81
you know, you gradually
build up to an iron road.
00:26:21.84\00:26:25.61
That's the way I see God.
00:26:25.65\00:26:28.28
He wants us to see
00:26:28.32\00:26:30.29
that it's His, He, all
these qualities about Him,
00:26:30.32\00:26:33.76
the bruised reed,
He will not break.
00:26:33.79\00:26:35.76
What compassion,
00:26:35.79\00:26:37.13
and as many as I love, I rebuke.
00:26:37.16\00:26:40.56
Those, I love the fact
that we don't serve a God
00:26:40.60\00:26:43.70
who is just
knocking on us in the head
00:26:43.73\00:26:46.84
when we do wrong.
00:26:46.87\00:26:48.27
His is such a
parental loving approach
00:26:48.30\00:26:51.57
and, you know,
the rest of the verse
00:26:51.61\00:26:54.44
is pretty self-explanatory,
if you want, I'm trying,
00:26:54.48\00:26:58.81
not trying to
get out of anything,
00:26:58.85\00:27:00.82
but I can read it again.
00:27:00.85\00:27:02.22
It says, "In
accordance with your hardness
00:27:02.25\00:27:03.89
and impenitent heart,
00:27:03.92\00:27:05.95
you're treasuring
up for yourself wrath."
00:27:05.99\00:27:07.96
Well, that's pretty obvious
what He's saying and then...
00:27:07.99\00:27:12.93
Again for every
action, there is a consequence.
00:27:12.96\00:27:16.30
So He's saying...
00:27:16.33\00:27:19.43
If you can read on in,
00:27:19.47\00:27:21.30
who will render to each
one according to his deeds.
00:27:21.34\00:27:24.07
It doesn't mean we
work for our salvation,
00:27:24.11\00:27:26.17
it's not a work situation.
00:27:26.21\00:27:28.54
It's again the
consequence for your action.
00:27:28.58\00:27:31.65
Eternal life,
00:27:31.68\00:27:33.11
the reward for those
who by patient continuance
00:27:33.15\00:27:36.48
in doing good seek for glory,
00:27:36.52\00:27:38.45
God's glory, and honor,
00:27:38.49\00:27:40.16
and immortality, eternal life.
00:27:40.19\00:27:42.62
But to those
who are self-seeking
00:27:42.66\00:27:44.16
and do not obey the truth
00:27:44.19\00:27:45.99
but obey unrighteousness or sin,
00:27:46.03\00:27:48.96
indignation and wrath.
00:27:49.00\00:27:50.33
These are the rewards
for doing the wrong thing.
00:27:50.37\00:27:53.97
Indignation and wrath,
tribulation and anguish
00:27:54.00\00:27:56.57
on over the soul
of man who does evil.
00:27:56.60\00:27:58.31
So I'd just like to...
00:27:58.34\00:28:01.44
Not that I don't
like to focus on the bad,
00:28:01.48\00:28:03.71
but I do love to
dwell on the fact
00:28:03.75\00:28:06.78
that it's the goodness,
00:28:06.82\00:28:08.62
the kindness of God
that leads me to repentance.
00:28:08.65\00:28:10.99
So I know, and I
like you, Shelley,
00:28:11.02\00:28:13.92
I pray for that conviction
00:28:13.96\00:28:16.12
that I will kind of
be ahead of the rebuke
00:28:16.16\00:28:22.06
so that God will
keep my heart tinder,
00:28:22.10\00:28:25.63
so that I don't have
to be called on the carpet
00:28:25.67\00:28:28.07
in a drastic way.
00:28:28.10\00:28:30.91
So the fact
that I remind myself,
00:28:30.94\00:28:34.61
as I want my, want my
children to respond to me,
00:28:34.64\00:28:38.78
me whenever I tell
whenever I give them a command
00:28:38.81\00:28:41.98
and knowing that
it's out of kindness
00:28:42.02\00:28:43.59
that I'm doing that.
00:28:43.62\00:28:44.95
I believe that,
that's the same way
00:28:44.99\00:28:46.32
that God wants us to know,
00:28:46.35\00:28:47.69
it's His kindness that leads us
00:28:47.72\00:28:49.06
so, if we can just
keep Him in that place
00:28:49.09\00:28:52.39
where He doesn't have to go,
00:28:52.43\00:28:53.86
you know, to an extent of
rebuking us and, you know.
00:28:53.90\00:28:59.30
In other words, Lord,
make me quick to recognize
00:28:59.33\00:29:01.97
when I'm displeasing you
and even quicker to repent.
00:29:02.00\00:29:04.81
Right, right.
00:29:04.84\00:29:06.17
In this passage, God is
being, even in this five,
00:29:06.21\00:29:11.08
He's, it's almost an invitation.
00:29:11.11\00:29:14.42
Don't be impenitent.
00:29:14.45\00:29:16.32
Don't harden your heart
00:29:16.35\00:29:18.09
because I don't want
you to have to suffer this.
00:29:18.12\00:29:21.56
But if you choose to
because we have choice,
00:29:21.59\00:29:25.46
this will be what
happens as a natural outcome
00:29:25.49\00:29:29.50
of your choice
to not choose My way
00:29:29.53\00:29:32.10
because I'm trying to
lead you to repentance.
00:29:32.13\00:29:35.37
And so this will be the outcome.
00:29:35.40\00:29:38.04
But if you do
choose to surrender to Me,
00:29:38.07\00:29:41.64
to repent of your evil ways,
00:29:41.68\00:29:43.88
then you will have eternal life.
00:29:43.91\00:29:45.45
Right. Amen.
00:29:45.48\00:29:46.82
And so God is giving
both sides of the coin.
00:29:46.85\00:29:49.35
He's letting us
know this will happen
00:29:49.38\00:29:51.35
if you choose that way,
00:29:51.39\00:29:52.72
but then this will be the reward
00:29:52.75\00:29:54.52
if you choose this way.
00:29:54.56\00:29:56.12
And also I just love
this word patient continuance.
00:29:56.16\00:30:00.53
I mean, it's
not done in a second
00:30:00.56\00:30:02.26
but it's just that
walk of sanctification.
00:30:02.30\00:30:04.83
Baby step by baby step
00:30:04.87\00:30:06.43
but you're going
three steps forward anyway.
00:30:06.47\00:30:09.40
And maybe two
steps back at time.
00:30:09.44\00:30:11.04
And boy, lot of times.
00:30:11.07\00:30:12.84
But it is a patient
continuance in doing good.
00:30:12.87\00:30:17.35
Not giving up.
00:30:17.38\00:30:18.71
You know, there's
something that just struck me,
00:30:18.75\00:30:20.08
I don't know why.
00:30:20.12\00:30:21.45
I don't think I've ever used
those two words together about,
00:30:21.48\00:30:24.32
it says to those
who are self-seeking
00:30:24.35\00:30:26.59
and do not obey the truth.
00:30:26.62\00:30:28.92
So if we're not
obeying God's truth,
00:30:28.96\00:30:30.89
we're being self-seeking.
00:30:30.93\00:30:32.46
But He says, but
obey unrighteousness.
00:30:32.49\00:30:36.50
You know, I don't think
people think about the fact
00:30:36.53\00:30:38.73
that they are obeying sin.
00:30:38.77\00:30:40.70
We talk about
obedience to God's commandments
00:30:40.74\00:30:43.51
and people
sometimes just roll their eyes
00:30:43.54\00:30:46.34
like oh, you're
being legalistic.
00:30:46.37\00:30:48.64
We're doing it as an expression
of our love and loyalty to God.
00:30:48.68\00:30:52.51
But if we're not
obeying righteousness,
00:30:52.55\00:30:55.72
then we're
obeying unrighteousness
00:30:55.75\00:30:57.32
and it reminded
me of Romans 6:16
00:30:57.35\00:31:00.26
where a few chapters
over where Paul says,
00:31:00.29\00:31:03.16
do you not know that to
whom you present yourself
00:31:03.19\00:31:06.29
slaves to obey.
00:31:06.33\00:31:07.93
You are that one
slaves whom you'll obey
00:31:07.96\00:31:11.07
whether of sin leading to death
00:31:11.10\00:31:14.87
or of obedience
leading to righteousness.
00:31:14.90\00:31:18.41
So you're right, it is
an invitation from God.
00:31:18.44\00:31:22.74
He is saying, why would you want
00:31:22.78\00:31:25.05
to treasure up
wrath for the judgment.
00:31:25.08\00:31:28.98
I've been patient,
I've been long suffering
00:31:29.02\00:31:31.45
and out of My goodness,
00:31:31.49\00:31:33.42
I want to turn
you around for this
00:31:33.46\00:31:35.69
so that you in
patient continuance
00:31:35.72\00:31:38.23
can seek My glory and honor
00:31:38.26\00:31:40.33
and then have that
gift of eternal life.
00:31:40.36\00:31:42.66
Amen.
00:31:42.70\00:31:44.03
Just by doing that
00:31:44.07\00:31:45.73
that we get to
understand God's goodness
00:31:45.77\00:31:47.97
and to love His goodness.
00:31:48.00\00:31:50.14
That when we are
obeying unrighteousness,
00:31:50.17\00:31:54.84
we have a disdain for God.
00:31:54.88\00:31:57.15
We don't understand
Him, we don't love Him.
00:31:57.18\00:32:00.38
But what does
that say then about us
00:32:00.42\00:32:02.62
when we're going
out to talk with people
00:32:02.65\00:32:05.19
who, we're trying to
explain to them the love of God.
00:32:05.22\00:32:10.13
How do we reach people
00:32:10.16\00:32:11.53
who have a disdain
for the things of God,
00:32:11.56\00:32:15.20
I mean, I think you
probably said it earlier
00:32:15.23\00:32:19.10
when you were talking
about, it's that love quotient.
00:32:19.13\00:32:23.51
You know, you've
got to have the love
00:32:23.54\00:32:26.11
and the patience of
God, don't you think?
00:32:26.14\00:32:28.11
That's right.
00:32:28.14\00:32:29.48
You know, why so many
people don't want to know God
00:32:29.51\00:32:32.88
because they have
a misunderstanding
00:32:32.91\00:32:35.18
of who God is.
00:32:35.22\00:32:36.62
They think He is
waiting to strike them.
00:32:36.65\00:32:39.85
They think He is a vengeful,
distant, you know, hating God.
00:32:39.89\00:32:45.29
They don't know
00:32:45.33\00:32:46.66
that His goodness is
what leads us to repentance.
00:32:46.70\00:32:49.36
And so really what
we've got to do is engrave it,
00:32:49.40\00:32:51.70
yeah God is not, you know,
00:32:51.73\00:32:53.07
I wouldn't want to
serve a God like that.
00:32:53.10\00:32:55.37
But the God I know is
actually very different.
00:32:55.40\00:32:59.24
And this is the reason
00:32:59.27\00:33:00.61
our testimonies
are so important.
00:33:00.64\00:33:03.28
Because only you
can talk with a passion
00:33:03.31\00:33:06.18
that you have that will
get that point across so...
00:33:06.21\00:33:12.49
You know, I wasn't raised
in the Adventist Church and...
00:33:12.52\00:33:16.56
Tim, you weren't either,
and when some of the teaching
00:33:16.59\00:33:21.63
that I received before...
00:33:21.66\00:33:24.27
Well, some of the teaching
just was not accurate teaching,
00:33:24.30\00:33:28.37
and it taught us to feel
like that God was sitting there
00:33:28.40\00:33:32.41
just waiting for
you to make a mistake
00:33:32.44\00:33:34.78
and some of the
teachings even concerning,
00:33:34.81\00:33:39.21
you know, an
eternal burning hell
00:33:39.25\00:33:41.28
and that sort of thing
00:33:41.32\00:33:42.65
leaves you with
this concept of a God
00:33:42.68\00:33:45.85
that's not a
loving merciful God,
00:33:45.89\00:33:47.99
and it's the
truth that sets you free
00:33:48.02\00:33:49.92
from the error that
you have been taught,
00:33:49.96\00:33:52.73
and so coming into
the knowledge of the truth
00:33:52.76\00:33:55.83
of the goodness of God
that lead you to repentance
00:33:55.86\00:33:58.33
that you don't have to be taught
00:33:58.37\00:34:01.14
the harsh hardness of God
00:34:01.17\00:34:03.00
that will scare
you into repenting.
00:34:03.04\00:34:07.01
But it's that goodness.
00:34:07.04\00:34:08.68
You know, Mollie, we weren't,
I myself and Rosemary, we were,
00:34:08.71\00:34:11.78
well, I wasn't
brought up as a Christian,
00:34:11.81\00:34:13.88
but I had a little bit
of smackering of, you know,
00:34:13.92\00:34:16.08
about God in there.
00:34:16.12\00:34:17.55
And to me God was
always stopping me doing things
00:34:17.59\00:34:20.09
that, you know, my
Mom and Dad kept Sunday,
00:34:20.12\00:34:22.99
well, Mom did, and I thought,
I don't want to do this.
00:34:23.02\00:34:25.63
I want to go
and do my own thing.
00:34:25.66\00:34:28.10
But, you know, God
is very patient with us.
00:34:28.13\00:34:30.93
In time, we realize who God is
00:34:30.97\00:34:33.44
and that's what
makes it important.
00:34:33.47\00:34:35.10
Let say you and
I were brought up
00:34:35.14\00:34:36.60
in the same denomination
00:34:36.64\00:34:38.61
and I can remember,
00:34:38.64\00:34:40.78
it was considered a
New Testament church
00:34:40.81\00:34:43.65
but I can remember, I
had a love affair with Jesus.
00:34:43.68\00:34:46.82
But, boy, did I fear
the Father because I did.
00:34:46.85\00:34:49.45
I felt like He
was just watching me
00:34:49.48\00:34:51.92
and the minute I
did something wrong,
00:34:51.95\00:34:53.36
He's gonna zap me
and it was Hebrews 1:3
00:34:53.39\00:34:57.16
that set me free from that
one because in Hebrews 1:3,
00:34:57.19\00:35:00.36
it says that
Jesus is the out ring,
00:35:00.40\00:35:03.57
the affluence.
00:35:03.60\00:35:05.13
He is, you know, He
is the very image of God.
00:35:05.17\00:35:09.80
So as loving, and
patient and kind as Jesus was,
00:35:09.84\00:35:15.94
He came to show us the Father.
00:35:15.98\00:35:18.21
That is exactly
who the Father is.
00:35:18.25\00:35:20.92
And so...
00:35:20.95\00:35:22.28
Haven't you known
me long enough Philip
00:35:22.32\00:35:23.65
to know that love.
00:35:23.69\00:35:25.02
Yeah, so that to me was, uh...
00:35:25.05\00:35:27.62
That was a life
changing experience
00:35:27.66\00:35:29.79
and I don't know how many times
00:35:29.82\00:35:31.16
I've read that scripture
00:35:31.19\00:35:32.53
and I always focused on
the A part of the scripture
00:35:32.56\00:35:34.93
that said that
Christ upholds all things
00:35:34.96\00:35:37.57
with His mighty word of
power, and that was my takeaway.
00:35:37.60\00:35:41.34
Within one day,
00:35:41.37\00:35:42.70
it was just like the
B part of the scripture
00:35:42.74\00:35:44.77
became a neon sign.
00:35:44.81\00:35:46.88
And I finally
did get to understand
00:35:46.91\00:35:48.71
the goodness of God.
00:35:48.74\00:35:50.08
Amen. Amen.
00:35:50.11\00:35:52.48
John, I think you have
the verse that is basically
00:35:52.51\00:35:58.25
where the title of
tonight's study repentance,
00:35:58.29\00:36:01.69
a gift from God, this
is where it comes from.
00:36:01.72\00:36:05.03
And we are looking
at Acts 5:31 and 32.
00:36:05.06\00:36:09.26
Bible says, "Him hath God
exalted with His right hand
00:36:09.30\00:36:12.77
to be a Prince and a Savior,
00:36:12.80\00:36:14.77
for to give repentance to Israel
00:36:14.80\00:36:17.07
and forgiveness of sins.
00:36:17.11\00:36:19.04
And we are his
witnesses of these things,
00:36:19.07\00:36:21.58
and so is also the Holy Ghost,
00:36:21.61\00:36:23.61
whom God hath given
to them that obey him."
00:36:23.65\00:36:26.48
I find this an
incredible act by God
00:36:26.51\00:36:30.09
through Jesus to forgive those
00:36:30.12\00:36:32.42
who had actually
put Him on the cross.
00:36:32.45\00:36:34.59
Yes.
00:36:34.62\00:36:35.96
And put Him to
death, and yet our God,
00:36:35.99\00:36:39.23
Jesus was
willing to forgive them.
00:36:39.26\00:36:42.83
He said on the cross
just before, before He died,
00:36:42.86\00:36:45.13
He said, "Father forgive them
00:36:45.17\00:36:46.50
for they don't
know what they do."
00:36:46.53\00:36:48.90
And to me, that's
probably the ultimate act of,
00:36:48.94\00:36:52.31
you know, forgiveness
00:36:52.34\00:36:54.78
when someone has
done such a hideous crime
00:36:54.81\00:36:57.31
as to kill the
Lord Jesus Christ.
00:36:57.35\00:37:00.35
So here we see the
real character of God
00:37:00.38\00:37:04.92
because it's what
is really revealing.
00:37:04.95\00:37:06.82
And you know what, it says there
00:37:06.86\00:37:08.19
and we are His witnesses.
00:37:08.22\00:37:09.56
Who is that?
Paul and his apostles.
00:37:09.59\00:37:10.93
They were there to see it.
00:37:10.96\00:37:12.43
They knew that Jesus had come
00:37:12.46\00:37:15.43
to reach those
people in Israel, the Jews,
00:37:15.46\00:37:18.00
the Sadducees and the Pharisees
00:37:18.03\00:37:20.20
with the knowledge
that He is the Messiah,
00:37:20.24\00:37:22.40
He's the one that gives you life
00:37:22.44\00:37:24.64
and yet they did that to Jesus.
00:37:24.67\00:37:27.61
So to me, I think
00:37:27.64\00:37:28.98
this is a crowning
act of forgiveness.
00:37:29.01\00:37:30.55
Yes.
00:37:30.58\00:37:32.38
The part that to me
00:37:32.41\00:37:33.92
is the most
exciting part is not only...
00:37:33.95\00:37:38.49
Well, I can't say,
it's the most exciting part.
00:37:38.52\00:37:40.36
It's exciting to know
that Jesus grants forgiveness
00:37:40.39\00:37:44.86
but what's the rest of that,
00:37:44.89\00:37:46.70
that He grants
or gives repentance.
00:37:46.73\00:37:51.63
I mean, because you know,
I can confess the same sin
00:37:51.67\00:37:55.34
over and over
asking for forgiveness
00:37:55.37\00:37:58.01
and it just makes me feel guilty
00:37:58.04\00:37:59.51
if I have to come
and ask God again,
00:37:59.54\00:38:01.78
you know just, oh, it's like,
00:38:01.81\00:38:03.28
Lord, surely You're
tired of listening to this.
00:38:03.31\00:38:06.68
But to know that Jesus
who is the Prince and Savior
00:38:06.72\00:38:12.99
not only grants us forgiveness
00:38:13.02\00:38:17.09
but He gives us repentance.
00:38:17.13\00:38:20.23
I think that is
the most amazing thing
00:38:20.26\00:38:22.50
because that was
another life changing scripture.
00:38:22.53\00:38:24.77
Yeah, as we cooperate with
Him, as He gives us repentance,
00:38:24.80\00:38:28.34
we cooperate with Him and then,
00:38:28.37\00:38:32.57
I'm gonna use
the word delivered,
00:38:32.61\00:38:34.24
isn't that a good word?
00:38:34.28\00:38:35.61
Yes. It's a great word.
00:38:35.64\00:38:36.98
We are delivered from that thing
00:38:37.01\00:38:38.91
that had a hold on us.
00:38:38.95\00:38:40.28
Now, did He not
forgive us every time we went
00:38:40.32\00:38:42.82
and asked Him to forgive us.
00:38:42.85\00:38:44.45
But again I'm gonna say, oh,
yes, I forgive you, now repent.
00:38:44.49\00:38:49.42
You know, just when, when you,
when you ask for forgiveness,
00:38:49.46\00:38:55.03
then in your mind just remember
00:38:55.06\00:38:57.53
that He's also
saying now repent.
00:38:57.57\00:38:59.23
Don't do it anymore.
00:38:59.27\00:39:00.60
Go and sin no
more. Go and sin no more.
00:39:00.64\00:39:02.77
And so, but here, it says,
00:39:02.80\00:39:04.77
He will also
give you repentance.
00:39:04.81\00:39:06.34
He will give that deliverance
00:39:06.37\00:39:08.71
from that thing that
has such a hold on you
00:39:08.74\00:39:11.11
and it can be
something like the outward sins,
00:39:11.15\00:39:13.42
you know, those sins,
they smell, the drinking,
00:39:13.45\00:39:15.85
cursing, carousing
and running with whammy,
00:39:15.88\00:39:18.15
and whatever it is
that's got a hold on you.
00:39:18.19\00:39:21.09
Surely not those.
00:39:21.12\00:39:22.46
But also the...
00:39:22.49\00:39:24.53
The gossiping, the backbiting,
00:39:24.56\00:39:29.20
those sins that you can justify,
00:39:29.23\00:39:33.30
and dress up and
put a little shine on
00:39:33.34\00:39:36.07
and take to church with you.
00:39:36.10\00:39:37.44
No, you need to be delivered
00:39:37.47\00:39:38.87
from those
things just as surely,
00:39:38.91\00:39:41.48
and so He'll grant
you repentance from those.
00:39:41.51\00:39:44.51
Aren't they called secret sins?
00:39:44.55\00:39:46.31
Those sins that
are in your heart
00:39:46.35\00:39:48.22
that you don't
know that I've got,
00:39:48.25\00:39:50.22
because I've got
it so well hidden.
00:39:50.25\00:39:52.09
Oh, God, deliver
us from those things.
00:39:52.12\00:39:54.39
Yes.
00:39:54.42\00:39:55.76
You know, what I was
thinking about while ago
00:39:55.79\00:39:57.13
when we were talking about this.
00:39:57.16\00:39:58.49
I've never thought
of that just exactly
00:39:58.53\00:39:59.86
but, let's just say that we,
and I think that we all do this
00:39:59.89\00:40:04.93
trying our best to
progress people like Jesus.
00:40:04.97\00:40:08.74
But there is sins
00:40:08.77\00:40:10.31
that I probably have
asked for repentance for.
00:40:10.34\00:40:13.71
I may be exaggerating,
00:40:13.74\00:40:15.08
may be under
exaggerating perhaps sometimes.
00:40:15.11\00:40:16.44
As repentance for
or forgiveness for?
00:40:16.48\00:40:20.58
Forgiveness.
00:40:20.62\00:40:21.95
Okay. And forgiveness.
00:40:21.98\00:40:24.09
I'm still working on all of this
00:40:24.12\00:40:25.92
because, you know, only by,
00:40:25.95\00:40:28.32
the point that I'm
making is that as I mature,
00:40:28.36\00:40:34.23
I may be asking to be forgiven
for this particular sin here.
00:40:34.26\00:40:39.13
And I may have
started asking 20 years ago,
00:40:39.17\00:40:42.74
but I'm not the
same person I was
00:40:42.77\00:40:44.41
but I may still be asking.
00:40:44.44\00:40:46.68
So is that a more
mature asking for forgiveness.
00:40:46.71\00:40:50.55
I know that He knows my heart.
00:40:50.58\00:40:52.31
I know that good enough, JD.
00:40:52.35\00:40:56.22
But it may not have
been good enough for me.
00:40:56.25\00:40:59.65
I don't know but, you
know, the reason I ask you
00:40:59.69\00:41:01.76
what you were,
what you just said was,
00:41:01.79\00:41:05.23
you were
praying for forgiveness.
00:41:05.26\00:41:08.56
When this scripture
really hit home with me
00:41:08.60\00:41:12.63
that Acts 5:31 tells us,
"God gives us repentance."
00:41:12.67\00:41:18.87
Repentance is a gift.
00:41:18.91\00:41:20.78
Just like salvation is a gift.
00:41:20.81\00:41:23.38
That's when I quit
just praying and asking,
00:41:23.41\00:41:27.85
like you said confession
and asking for forgiveness,
00:41:27.88\00:41:31.02
I pray for repentance.
00:41:31.05\00:41:33.66
I mean, this is
something that...
00:41:33.69\00:41:35.02
They won't do it anymore.
00:41:35.06\00:41:36.39
Yes.
00:41:36.42\00:41:37.76
Lord, please forgive me
00:41:37.79\00:41:39.13
but now, Father,
grant me repentance.
00:41:39.16\00:41:41.40
Give me the power, work in me
00:41:41.43\00:41:43.26
to will and to do
Your good pleasure.
00:41:43.30\00:41:45.40
Turn me around, Lord, so
that I don't do this again.
00:41:45.43\00:41:49.47
And see, I think
this is something
00:41:49.50\00:41:50.87
that we're not
taught very often.
00:41:50.91\00:41:52.54
We're taught to confess our sin,
00:41:52.57\00:41:55.18
but I think we need to pray,
00:41:55.21\00:41:57.58
that's why I
included it in a little prayer
00:41:57.61\00:41:59.48
that we said earlier is,
00:41:59.51\00:42:02.15
Lord grant me repentance
and forgiveness of my sin.
00:42:02.18\00:42:06.19
You know, I hate to compare
the Word of God with my GPS,
00:42:06.22\00:42:09.76
but some of the...
00:42:09.79\00:42:11.13
One of the
sweetest features in my GPS
00:42:11.16\00:42:14.90
is the little
woman will tell me,
00:42:14.93\00:42:17.37
make a U-turn,
make the nearest U-turn.
00:42:17.40\00:42:19.77
Yes.
00:42:19.80\00:42:21.14
Because she could just keep me,
00:42:21.17\00:42:22.57
you know, once she
realizes that I'm lost
00:42:22.60\00:42:24.74
and I should be
going the other way,
00:42:24.77\00:42:26.51
she could like direct
me through some, you know,
00:42:26.54\00:42:29.41
long convoluted way, you know,
down this road and, you know,
00:42:29.44\00:42:33.28
finally make your back
around by making several blocks
00:42:33.31\00:42:36.18
turn right and turn
right, another right.
00:42:36.22\00:42:39.02
Make a U-turn.
00:42:39.05\00:42:40.39
The nearest U-turn and I
think that's that repentance
00:42:40.42\00:42:44.46
that God is
giving us that He says,
00:42:44.49\00:42:46.86
make the nearest
U-turn and then just do it
00:42:46.90\00:42:50.27
and, and if we
will just listen to that
00:42:50.30\00:42:53.34
and you know not saying
but God I enjoy this sin
00:42:53.37\00:42:56.37
or, you know, I'll
get it figured out.
00:42:56.40\00:42:59.44
I'm working,
it's a character flaw
00:42:59.47\00:43:00.94
that I need to.
00:43:00.98\00:43:02.31
He just says make the U-turn
00:43:02.34\00:43:03.68
and go the way I want you to go.
00:43:03.71\00:43:05.58
It's just as simple as that.
00:43:05.61\00:43:07.52
And if you miss it,
00:43:07.55\00:43:08.95
then come back to
the nearest block.
00:43:08.98\00:43:10.52
Exactly. She's
there to tell you.
00:43:10.55\00:43:12.65
I said, "Make a U-turn."
00:43:12.69\00:43:14.26
Now, Shelley,
it's the Holy Spirit
00:43:14.29\00:43:16.39
that convicts us
we've done wrong.
00:43:16.42\00:43:18.79
And when he does,
we've got someone to go to.
00:43:18.83\00:43:22.56
That's our savior,
now Lord Jesus Christ
00:43:22.60\00:43:24.80
because He then
frees us of the guilt
00:43:24.83\00:43:28.10
and we can move on and do more.
00:43:28.14\00:43:30.71
True, in this
verse that tells us,
00:43:30.74\00:43:33.41
also is the Holy
Spirit a witness,
00:43:33.44\00:43:36.81
whom God has given
to those who obey Him.
00:43:36.85\00:43:41.52
So the God,
we're told in the Bible
00:43:41.55\00:43:44.65
that we are to ask the
Father for the Holy Spirit
00:43:44.69\00:43:47.89
because He's more
willing to give him
00:43:47.92\00:43:49.26
than we give out good
things to our children.
00:43:49.29\00:43:52.06
So God is willing to give us
the power of the Holy Spirit,
00:43:52.09\00:43:55.33
the Holy Spirit to dwell
in us to help us to obey.
00:43:55.36\00:44:00.14
It's not us
doing it, us doing it.
00:44:00.17\00:44:02.27
It is God doing it in
us because we are willing.
00:44:02.30\00:44:04.74
Amen.
00:44:04.77\00:44:06.31
All it takes is a
willing heart, isn't it?
00:44:06.34\00:44:08.94
Amen.
00:44:08.98\00:44:10.31
Rosemary, you want
to take Romans 8:13.
00:44:10.35\00:44:16.32
Romans 8:13 says,
00:44:16.35\00:44:19.42
"For if you live according
to the flesh, you'll die.
00:44:19.45\00:44:24.23
But if by the spirit,
00:44:24.26\00:44:25.73
you put to death the deeds
of the body, you will live."
00:44:25.76\00:44:30.30
This setting in
a way is a summary
00:44:30.33\00:44:32.33
of the other
previous verses in Chapter 8
00:44:32.37\00:44:36.40
and so this is just
going through saying
00:44:36.44\00:44:39.04
what those verses are saying
00:44:39.07\00:44:40.41
about living in the
flesh or the carnal person
00:44:40.44\00:44:43.31
and the person who is
filled with the spirit,
00:44:43.35\00:44:46.48
a person living the way
00:44:46.51\00:44:49.18
the spirit is
leading and directing them.
00:44:49.22\00:44:52.12
And it's sort of
this verse takes me back
00:44:52.15\00:44:54.96
to what we were
saying before about Laodicea.
00:44:54.99\00:44:58.46
When Jesus said
that they were to repent
00:44:58.49\00:45:02.30
that He wanted to
fix up their problems,
00:45:02.33\00:45:05.53
He was rebuking
and chastening them
00:45:05.57\00:45:07.97
because there were problems,
they weren't walking the way
00:45:08.00\00:45:10.71
He wanted to have them walk,
but they thought they were.
00:45:10.74\00:45:14.38
And He was saying,
00:45:14.41\00:45:15.74
you are actually
missing the point.
00:45:15.78\00:45:18.01
If you do these things,
00:45:18.05\00:45:19.85
then I will be able to heal you.
00:45:19.88\00:45:21.68
I'll be able to help you.
00:45:21.72\00:45:23.25
And so the ones
who are lukewarm,
00:45:23.28\00:45:26.49
they are walking
according to the flesh.
00:45:26.52\00:45:29.62
They are not walking
according to the spirit.
00:45:29.66\00:45:32.99
And so Jesus here is,
it's basically the same ideas
00:45:33.03\00:45:37.43
what Jesus is
saying to the Laodiceans.
00:45:37.47\00:45:41.00
That we're to stop
walking according to the flesh
00:45:41.04\00:45:44.27
because it's not a good outcome.
00:45:44.31\00:45:47.14
But if we walk with the
spirit and we don't let self,
00:45:47.18\00:45:51.28
remember self-seeking,
you pointed that out
00:45:51.31\00:45:53.18
in one of the other verses.
00:45:53.21\00:45:54.85
When we put aside self and say,
00:45:54.88\00:45:57.25
Lord, please help me today
00:45:57.29\00:45:59.15
to do what You want me to do
00:45:59.19\00:46:00.89
to will and to do
of your good pleasure
00:46:00.92\00:46:03.29
instead of doing
what I want to do.
00:46:03.32\00:46:06.70
Please help me to make room
00:46:06.73\00:46:09.16
for the Holy Spirit in my heart,
00:46:09.20\00:46:11.63
because while
self is on the throne,
00:46:11.67\00:46:13.84
my heart is hard
because our hearts are hard
00:46:13.87\00:46:16.34
because self is in control.
00:46:16.37\00:46:18.97
And we only want what we want.
We are seeking for ourselves.
00:46:19.01\00:46:22.94
But when we say, Lord,
take self away from me.
00:46:22.98\00:46:26.58
Fill me with the Holy Spirit.
00:46:26.61\00:46:28.08
Put Jesus on the
throne of my heart.
00:46:28.12\00:46:30.55
Then God can work with us.
00:46:30.59\00:46:33.15
We modify the deeds of the death
00:46:33.19\00:46:35.72
or here the death of
the deeds of the body.
00:46:35.76\00:46:38.39
We will then live.
00:46:38.43\00:46:40.00
God has the gift of
eternal life for us and...
00:46:40.03\00:46:42.60
And He wants us to live. Amen.
00:46:42.63\00:46:44.60
And we become
doers not just hearers.
00:46:44.63\00:46:47.80
The Laodiceans who don't listen
to Jesus heard what He said.
00:46:47.84\00:46:52.34
But they didn't do what He said.
00:46:52.37\00:46:54.68
He says that little
parable He tells in Matthew 7
00:46:54.71\00:46:57.88
about the wise man
built his house upon the rock.
00:46:57.91\00:47:01.15
We all know that song.
00:47:01.18\00:47:02.92
You know, we learnt as children
00:47:02.95\00:47:05.12
and what does
Jesus say the wise man
00:47:05.15\00:47:07.72
did before he built
his house on the rock?
00:47:07.76\00:47:10.49
He was a hearer and a
doer of the Word of God.
00:47:10.53\00:47:15.13
The foolish man
heard but didn't do it.
00:47:15.16\00:47:19.37
That parable is
full of information
00:47:19.40\00:47:22.20
for our spiritual
growth and so we should go
00:47:22.24\00:47:25.24
and read it the
end of Matthew 7.
00:47:25.27\00:47:27.18
That's powerful.
00:47:27.21\00:47:29.04
You know, to me when we talk
00:47:29.08\00:47:30.95
about walking in the
power of surrender...
00:47:30.98\00:47:34.82
What this scripture says to me,
Jesus said in Luke 9:13 what?
00:47:37.92\00:47:42.62
"If any man would come after me,
00:47:42.66\00:47:44.79
let him deny himself and
pick up his cross daily."
00:47:44.83\00:47:48.70
Daily. Says in Luke.
00:47:48.73\00:47:50.17
Now, we know that means
00:47:50.20\00:47:53.13
anybody that
heard that expression
00:47:53.17\00:47:55.27
during Christ day
00:47:55.30\00:47:56.77
knew that meant you
were about to be crucified.
00:47:56.81\00:47:59.97
So He is saying, we need to,
00:48:00.01\00:48:02.04
that old man needs to
be crucified day by day
00:48:02.08\00:48:04.71
and, boy, I'll tell you,
00:48:04.75\00:48:06.08
that old sin nature can
rear its ugly head in a hurry.
00:48:06.11\00:48:09.15
So, but what he's saying here,
if, you see, I can't crucify,
00:48:09.18\00:48:14.49
I can't put to death
the misdeeds of my flesh
00:48:14.52\00:48:18.49
because he says, okay, Shelley,
00:48:18.53\00:48:20.76
if you're gonna live
according to the sinful nature,
00:48:20.80\00:48:22.73
you're going to die.
00:48:22.76\00:48:24.43
You'll suffer the
second eternal death.
00:48:24.47\00:48:27.14
But if by whom?
00:48:27.17\00:48:28.94
If by the
spirit, you put to death.
00:48:28.97\00:48:33.07
So you've got two people
here, I mean two persons.
00:48:33.11\00:48:36.14
The Holy Spirit
of God and me, you.
00:48:36.18\00:48:40.62
It's by the
spirit you put to death,
00:48:40.65\00:48:42.98
so you have to use that
word earlier, cooperate.
00:48:43.02\00:48:46.69
We have to work in cooperation
00:48:46.72\00:48:49.29
'cause the Holy Spirit
won't put to death the misdeeds
00:48:49.32\00:48:54.30
of our old sinful flesh.
00:48:54.33\00:48:55.73
With us fighting
it. We're fighting.
00:48:55.76\00:48:58.83
And we can't do
it without His power.
00:48:58.87\00:49:01.54
So we have to say,
00:49:01.57\00:49:02.90
okay, Lord, please
fill me with Your spirit,
00:49:02.94\00:49:06.11
please Holy
Spirit, lead me, guide me,
00:49:06.14\00:49:08.38
help me to put to
death, you know by your power,
00:49:08.41\00:49:12.75
let me put to death,
the misdeeds of my flesh.
00:49:12.78\00:49:15.35
And you have some secret sin,
00:49:15.38\00:49:19.35
let's say that you realize
00:49:19.39\00:49:21.16
that is separating you from God,
00:49:21.19\00:49:22.89
but you don't
want to turn it loose.
00:49:22.92\00:49:25.06
So you can pray.
00:49:25.09\00:49:27.33
Father, make me
willing to be willing.
00:49:27.36\00:49:29.76
Father here I am, you
know, I don't want to quit,
00:49:29.80\00:49:33.07
doing whatever
this is that I'm doing.
00:49:33.10\00:49:35.17
You know, I don't, but Father,
00:49:35.20\00:49:37.77
I do want to be in
right relationship with You.
00:49:37.81\00:49:40.54
I want that
more than I want this
00:49:40.58\00:49:42.51
but I don't, so
help God, help me.
00:49:42.54\00:49:45.15
Help me.
00:49:45.18\00:49:46.51
I'm willing for
You to make me willing.
00:49:46.55\00:49:48.65
And you know what?
He'll honor that prayers.
00:49:48.68\00:49:50.29
Absolutely.
00:49:50.32\00:49:51.65
He works in us
to will and to do.
00:49:51.69\00:49:54.09
Two separate stages.
00:49:54.12\00:49:56.02
That is a perfect
segue for where I'm going.
00:49:56.06\00:49:59.46
Thank you.
00:49:59.49\00:50:01.86
Psalm 143:10.
00:50:01.90\00:50:04.97
Teach me,
00:50:05.00\00:50:06.70
so that's what
you're willing to make.
00:50:06.74\00:50:09.67
"Teach me to do your
will Lord, for you're my God.
00:50:09.70\00:50:12.54
Let your holy,
let the good spirit,
00:50:12.57\00:50:14.44
the Holy Spirit lead
me, put me on level ground."
00:50:14.48\00:50:19.31
Well, I think if any,
as I've learned in life,
00:50:19.35\00:50:23.72
if I'm putting together a team,
00:50:23.75\00:50:26.35
I want people
that are teachable.
00:50:26.39\00:50:28.42
Because there are some
people that are teachable,
00:50:28.46\00:50:30.03
there are some that are not
00:50:30.06\00:50:31.39
and here, he's saying, hey, ask,
00:50:31.43\00:50:35.16
as you were just
saying, you know.
00:50:35.20\00:50:37.17
And so as I was
looking at this teaching,
00:50:37.20\00:50:40.00
all of a sudden, it came
up at a number of places.
00:50:40.04\00:50:43.27
Here, we're sitting here,
teach me do your will Lord.
00:50:43.30\00:50:47.41
Here it says up here David says,
00:50:47.44\00:50:50.01
teach me, or no Job,
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teach me what I do not
say and if I've done wrong,
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I don't want to do that.
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Here it comes along again
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and David, "Create in
me a clean heart, oh, God.
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Renew a steadfast
spirit within me."
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Here we go back down here.
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Show me Your ways, oh,
Lord, teach me Your paths.
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Teach me, so I
have no problem anymore
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because I think they would
go through the peaks and valley
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of asking the Lord
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yeah, there is something
that I need to be chased on.
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Let me know
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because I know what it
is to chase bunny rabbits.
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I know what it is to
come to the T in the road
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and you don't know what to do.
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So I'm giving you Lord
permission to teach me,
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and I know that, I know
that, I know as I'm sitting here
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that He's not going to say,
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well, ha-ha-ha, we got Quinn,
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what we want to
say, he's at a dead end.
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That's when the
Calvary comes right there.
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Boy, you say, Jesus help me.
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I give you permission to
work in my life and made it,
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that's vulnerable, and then,
boy I just choose to believe.
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Please, Lord, help that boy.
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You know, he needs some help.
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He's calling out.
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So the gift of
being able to ask,
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teach me, Lord, I
think is a precious,
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precious characteristic
that as you grow in Christ,
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and even if you're a baby,
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you know, give
permission, give Him permission,
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He's got ears to
hear and eyes to see.
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Amen.
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You know, JD,
it's a special thing
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to be able to
say, Lord, teach me
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because that's make,
you're a humble person.
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A humble person is teachable
and we all have to be humble
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when it comes to
the things of God,
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we really have to submit
to Him and sit at His feet.
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In James, it says,
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"Humble yourself in
the sight of the Lord."
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Don't ask God to humble
you because you won't like it.
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But humble yourself so
that God can then teach you.
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I always think of...
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One of my
favorite Psalms is 1:39.
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I love that psalm and
at the very end, verse 23,
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it says, search me,
oh, God and know my heart,
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try me and know my thoughts.
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Verse 24, "And see if
there would be wicked way in me
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and lead me in
the way everlasting."
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We have to be able to say,
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Lord, search me,
show me my faults.
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I don't want them anymore.
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I don't want them to
be between you and me.
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I want the closeness
with Jesus that Jesus had.
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I want to be closer to you
than I could ever expect to be.
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Amen. Sweet.
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Well, this, this is really,
and I'll just take a second,
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the last call I
received before I came down here
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was this guy
calling from Tennessee
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and he was just,
he says, "Help me."
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And I said,
"What's the problem?"
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He just said that I'm just,
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I'm just at a place in my
life where I just hate myself.
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I'm 60 years old.
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I used to love the Lord
and I have this background
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and this background.
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I just need help.
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And, man, I just got
through seeing my assignment...
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Praise the Lord.
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And the sign of Psalms
143 teach me to do Your will,
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for You're my God,
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let the Holy Spirit
lead me to level ground.
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I said, sir,
that's in the Bible.
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Do you know where Psalms are?
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I do know where Psalms is,
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and so it just
kind of worked in there.
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So it's just confirmation,
you know, like, wow, thank you.
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This is real stuff.
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These are real,
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this is a real
road map right here.
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Yes, and the
answers are there so...
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Allow the Lord to
work in your life.
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Amen. Amen.
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So we see then that
as we go through this
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that God doesn't give
up on anyone, does He?
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No.
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He's, not until the end of time,
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that was the rest of Matthew
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but He's not going to
put out a smoking flax,
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He's not going to toss out
or break off the bruised reed.
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But we do know,
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He's going to
rebuke and chasten us.
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We do know that
it is His riches,
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His goodness
that turns us around,
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that leads us to repentance.
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We do know that
repentance is a gift
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as Acts 5:31 tells us,
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and that we can
only put to death
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the misdeeds of our flesh
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by the power of the Holy Spirit,
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and when we're praying
to be taught by the Lord,
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teach me Your will.
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Who is the one
that's teaching us
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according to the scripture,
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but your good spirit lead me,
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so it is the Holy Spirit
who is doing this teaching
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and to me this is one of
the most beautiful truths
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of God to recognize
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is that just like
salvation is a gift,
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repentance is a
gift and if we learn...
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From now on I
just challenge you,
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I always say that
confession is the clearinghouse
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of the conscience.
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This, when we confess
our sins before the Lord,
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it gives us a clear conscience
and we know He is, 1 John 1:9.
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"Faithful and just to forgive us
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of our sins and
goes one step further,
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He cleanses us from
all unrighteousness."
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All unrighteousness.
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So, but when that has happened,
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pray also that God
will grant you repentance,
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say, Lord, help me
to turn away from this.
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Lord, I need Your
power, I need Your leading,
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I need the Holy
Spirit to work with me.
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Don't expect God to do it.
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I mean, you know Paul said,
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"Make no
provision for the flesh."
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Romans 14:13, right?
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So if you're
praying to give up smoking,
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don't go buy a carton
of cigarettes, put them,
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don't make any
provision for your flesh.
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You've got to cooperate.
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Sometimes you got to ask
God to take away the desire.
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There's something we know
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we're going to
give up but we not.
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But once again, I
think that if he's going to,
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oh, my goodness,
where did our time go.
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Sometimes that
desire is taken away
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because we do something else
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like we begin
exercising or something.
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I cannot believe
our time is all gone.
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Thank you, thank you so much.
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I wasn't watching the clock.
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We're so glad you
joined us tonight.
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Our prayer for you
00:57:25.57\00:57:26.91
is that the grace of our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,
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the love of the Father,
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and the
fellowship of the Holy Spirit
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will be with you always.
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Bye-bye. Thanks, Shelley.
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