I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello, and welcome to another
3ABN Today Family Worship.
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Thank you so much for joining us
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as you do each and every day,
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but especially for
these family worships
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on Friday evening and phew...
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What a busy week we've had.
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We had...
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Oh, I had earlier in the
week I had a couple of days
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that I spent just
some time around...
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Well, did a lot of
work around the house...
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He did do a lot of yard work.
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And I'm tired.
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So not only is the
Sabbath a day of rest
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from our physical
normal day to day labor
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but it's also about
joining our heavenly Father
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on His special blessed
day and it starts Friday night
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and it's always a
blessing to join you,
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so thank you for tuning in.
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We appreciate again your
prayer for the ministry of 3ABN,
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your financial support
of the ministry of 3ABN,
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because it's a
team effort not only
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who we have here at the table,
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which I'll let you
introduce, so we have here,
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we have some special
members with us today...
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We do.
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Which is exciting,
but it also includes you
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and we're one big
family, we're one family
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that is heading
toward the kingdom
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and the thing is that
we all have the opportunity
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of reaching and touching
someone each and every day
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for Jesus Christ,
don't we and that's neat.
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So we're not only a
team of spreading the gospel
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around the world but of
winning souls, don't we?
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Amen. That's right.
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Together actually for sure.
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And Family Worship is
always such a blessing
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'cause we always share with you
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this is our 3ABN
family around the table,
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you are part of the 3ABN
family and we're just so blessed
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that you have joined us
tonight as we open up God's Word
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and study together.
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But today is a
special day for me
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because not only
is it 3ABN family
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which I love with all my heart,
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I have my real
family here on the program,
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so I want to introduce
my mom and my dad to you...
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Wow.
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And so this is
Jim and Kathy Penney
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and it's such a
privilege to have,
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I call them mommy and daddy,
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but to have mom and dad
here on the program with us.
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You live in Massachusetts
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and it's a little
journey from Massachusetts
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to Southern
Illinois, 1200 miles?
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Twelve hundred miles.
We drove down this time.
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We planned to fly but...
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No.
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I'm not able to do nonstop.
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I have done it in the past but,
I'm getting too old for that.
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You look young, dad.
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But we were blessed
because we did it in two days.
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The first night we stayed
actually with Greg's parents.
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So we spend at 3ABN
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and had fun
with Valerie and Dan.
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Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
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So that's a
blessing, it's wonderful.
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So, Dad, you tell
our family at home
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just a little
bit about yourself.
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I know when I was a little girl,
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it was just my
sister and I growing up.
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And when my
sister and I were young,
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it was you were a teacher...
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Teacher, yeah.
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What did you teach?
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I taught in an academy
and also in a grade school
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in several different places.
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And then I went back to
school and became a doctor
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of chiropractic and
practiced that for 25 years.
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Now I'm retired from
my chiropractic practice.
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I am going to say
though that when they travel
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and they bring
their car especially,
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he brings his
chiropractic table and so...
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We're blessed.
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It's set up in our house
right now if you just missed,
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any time we want.
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Don't feel jealous, right?
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So that's really
nice. That's a nice benefit.
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And that's kind
of in the family.
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Your dad was a chiropractor
way back in the day.
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Yeah.
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And then your brother,
so it runs in the family.
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One of his
brothers. Yeah. Absolutely.
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And I want to say
too, I appreciate, Dad,
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we've been working
a lot, like we said,
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earlier this week
together around the house,
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and it's been a lot of fun.
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So it's always a
blessing working with you.
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You know what the blessing is,
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is to have
family that mentors you,
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you know, family that
lives what they teach.
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You know, growing up at home
and knowing I had a mom and dad
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that that practiced
what they taught, you know,
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what was behind
those closed doors,
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what was at home
was the same thing
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that was walked
out and lived out.
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And so...
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And I've shared some
of my testimony before,
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but one of the main reasons
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that I made a
choice to follow Jesus,
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I made a choice to walk with Him
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was because of the
example of my mom and my dad.
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Amen. So, praise the Lord.
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I am who I am today
because of the nurture,
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the training, and I think
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most importantly
the example so...
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Amen. Yeah.
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You make me cry out
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because you can see the tears...
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So Mom, what about you?
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I know that you
raised my sister and I but...
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Yeah, most of...
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A lot of my life
was raising my girls.
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Amen. I stayed
home with the girls.
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And then when they
got married, went off,
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then I actually joined
Jim in the chiropractic office
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and worked with him.
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And one of the best
things I loved was some talking
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and visiting with the patients.
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They come out of his
office and then they would stand
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and we just talk
about their families
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and some would
let me pray with them,
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and I just loved ministering
to the people in that way.
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Amen, amen.
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And you all have been
very active in church work
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for so many years.
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But recently, well, I don't know
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if I should say recently,
it's been several years
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but you decided
God put on your heart
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to do a church plant in
a Darke County you can say,
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so how long have
you been doing that?
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Ten? Probably 10 years.
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Ten years.
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We have a group of about 20
that we worship with every week
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and we have an
outreach Bible study
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and we do other
things for outreach also
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to become involved
with the community.
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Health seminars
and things like that.
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Yeah.
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On Sabbath morning, I
work with the children.
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We only have like
five but four of them
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do not come
from Adventist homes.
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Amen.
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So I really see it as
a witnessing opportunity.
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The little ones are
learning some Bible stories
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that they never knew before
and scripture songs and...
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Amen. Amen.
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I know you wear many hats,
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but you were also
church pianist too, Mom...
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Yes.
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Dad, you do some of the sermons,
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you teach Sabbath school,
you wear, of course, many hats.
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And so part of
being a church plant
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but it's neat like you said
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because you're
putting light in a dark area.
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And we have found that as
we have done that, you know,
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we have grown so spiritually
through trying to minister
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to these people in the community
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that it's seeped into our
walk with God by doing this.
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Amen.
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It's been a real blessing to us.
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Amen. That's wonderful.
Well, I've been remiss.
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I'm not introducing the people
on the other side of the table.
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So I want to make
sure that we do that.
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We have JD Quinn and you
and your wife Shelley are,
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I could say kind of like
parents to us here as well.
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Amen. I agree.
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And we just so
appreciate your mentorship...
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Well, I just want to say
what a testimony, you know,
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that because we
just love the two of you
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and you are
certainly godly examples
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in this part of the
building right here.
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And I would be a remiss,
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you have four
grandkids, is that right?
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Four boys.
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Four boys and one of
them, his name is Caleb,
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and he made
something special for you
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so that you would be reminded.
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Show what little
Caleb did for you.
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I think this is precious.
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Caleb made me a little
bookmark for my Bible and...
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Oh. Yeah, you can.
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And he knew his
name began with a C,
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he put a heart within the heart.
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He knew his name began
with a C but he said, Grandma...
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Am I supposed to
let you? You're good.
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He said,
"Grandma, what's your name?"
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And I said,
"Grandma," and he says, "No,
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what's your real name?"
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So I said, "My name
is Kathy," and he says,
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"What does that
begin with grandma?"
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And I said, "It
begins with a K."
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So he put a little C
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and a little K within the heart.
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Caleb and
Kathy. Caleb and Kathy.
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So I keep that
in my Bible. Amen.
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That's a great
bookmark to have in your Bible.
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Oh, it is, you know...
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It's wonderful, yeah.
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Someday it'll be
his, I mean, while way.
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See, that's precious.
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Yeah, we're glad to be
or I'm glad to be here,
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I'm always with Shelley, so...
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I know it's strange.
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But Shelley
couldn't be here today
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so we asked Dee
Hilderbrand and, Dee,
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you're just such a
joy here in the office,
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and thank you so much
for joining us as well.
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I was just privileged to
get invited to join the family.
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So I'm thrilled to be
here and just I've heard Jill
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talk about her testimony
and it makes such a difference
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in our children's lives
when they have this anchor
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that they can look at
and have it walked out.
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Not that anybody's
perfect, no parent is perfect,
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but when God is in
the center of their life,
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it does impact the children.
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Amen. And now the grandchildren.
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See, that's right.
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And thank you, Dee,
for all that you do.
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I appreciate working with you
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because you're in
the production department
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and so we work together a lot
and it's a real blessing, Dee.
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Thank you for
all the hats you wear
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and it's a blessing
to see you ministering
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for the Lord and
you've been at 3ABN...
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Twenty one years.
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It seems like
forever, but yeah, 21 years.
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I have been here
almost forever, 21 years...
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We appreciate the
dedication. But it's a joy.
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It is. It is a joy.
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Amen. Amen.
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That's for sure.
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Well, we're
gonna go to some music
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but our topic today
is "Growing in Jesus".
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Amen.
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And to me what better topic,
talking about the foundation,
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you know, you laid as
parents for me growing up
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and as you grow up,
your parents show you,
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"Okay, now this is...
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don't walk in the street,
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don't put your
hand on the stove,
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or this is how you interact"
or this is the building blocks,
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you could say as you grow up.
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But today we're
talking about spiritually.
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How are we to grow in Jesus?
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We know that we accept Jesus
as Lord and Savior of our life
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and we make that commitment,
"Father, I want to follow You.
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I want to be Your
daughter or Your son."
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And we do that,
that's justification.
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At that moment Jesus
forgives us, cleanses us,
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and we are brought
back into right standing
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with the Father.
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But today we're talking
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maybe the
process of sanctification
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or that growing up into Jesus.
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So we'll talk about that.
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Yeah, that sounds
like a lot of fun.
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I think as we start worship,
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we always like to
start with a song.
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But I think we should
start with prayer, right?
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We're gonna go
into our worship part
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and open the Word and see
what God has in store for us.
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So, JD, would you mind
to open in prayer for us
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as we open the
Sabbath here together.
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I'd love to.
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Father, as we come to
You in the name of Jesus,
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we want to thank You
for this special time, Lord,
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the day that You created
that You set apart, Lord,
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so that we could rest.
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And, Father, we just
ask Lord as we rest in You,
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Lord, that as we keep
godly things on our mind, Lord,
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that the Holy
Spirit continues to impress
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how we can make a
difference in people's lives.
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Father, I thank
you for this topic,
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"Growing in Jesus".
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Father, we want to grow in You.
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And, Father, we just give you
permission to work accordingly.
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Father, allow us to cooperate
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and do the
things that You ask us.
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We ask this in the
name of Jesus, amen.
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Amen. Amen.
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We have someone on the
piano who is gonna play.
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We do. Part of our 3ABN family.
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We have Summer Boyd
on the piano and, Summer,
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thank you for
joining us here today.
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The song we're doing is,
"Take my life and let it be..."
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While the words will
be on the screen for you
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and I think as we grow in Jesus,
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the important
thing is to surrender.
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Give our hearts
and lives over to Him
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and allow Him to do that work.
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So let's sing together.
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That's right,
sing along with us.
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Take my life and let it be
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Consecrated, Lord, to Thee
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Take my hands and let them move
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At the impulse of Thy love
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At the impulse of Thy love
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Take my will and make it Thine
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It shall be no longer mine
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Take my heart, it is Thine own!
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It shall be Thy royal throne
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It shall be Thy royal throne
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Take my love, my Lord, I pour
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At Thy feet its treasure store
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Take myself and I will be
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Ever only all for Thee
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Ever only all for Thee
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Amen.
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Thank you for
participating with us.
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It's always a
blessing when you do that
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because it's
definitely together, isn't it?
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So you're able to sing
with us, so I want to make sure
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that you grab your Bible,
maybe grab a little note book
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if you want to
because it's participation,
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it's not just
watching it on television
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but it's actually participating
and having a worship together.
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You know, I like
this in the song here,
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I think is that verse
one, two, three, verse four,
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"Take my will
and make it Thine."
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Amen.
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"It shall be no longer mine."
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Basically that comes down to...
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Amen. Surrender.
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That's right.
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Surrendering everything to Jesus
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because a lot of
times I have my plans,
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my ideas of how I
want even my day to go,
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but I want to surrender
to the Lord Jesus Christ
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because everything I
know work out for His honor
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and for His glory,
and I'll be happier too
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and have lots of peace.
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Amen.
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So our topic
today... Go ahead, JD.
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It's fantastic to be
able to live in a place
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where we can make choices.
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That's a love from Jesus
to able to live and choose.
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It is a love from
Jesus, I mean, it's freedom
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and you know,
good, bad or indifferent,
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you do have that choice.
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And here, you know,
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take my will and
make it Thine, wow.
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That's harder. It's
easier said than done.
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It's hard for me to do
that because, yeah, I mean,
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you know, I want to
do certain things my way
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in the way I think
that I should do things
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and boy, sometimes it's...
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And it's a moment
by moment thing too...
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Yeah, it is moment by moment.
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You don't do it just
first thing in the morning
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and think you've got
it fixed all day long.
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But haven't you noticed
as you grow in your walk
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with Jesus so that more
often the deeper you get
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in your relationship with Jesus,
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that your will and
His will are closer
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or similar as you grow more.
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Yes.
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Now, I don't think
we'll ever get to the point
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where that our little
will doesn't jump up there
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when it's not
supposed to but I love it.
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That joy of
realizing that our wills
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are getting
closer together, our...
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Our desires.
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Our desires are similar...
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Now, that's well said.
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Why do you think...
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Well, we'll start with the
why and then we'll get into
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the how do we grow,
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but why do you
think we need to grow?
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Why can I just say,
okay, I accepted Jesus.
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I know that He has forgiven
my sins and my salvation is,
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you could say secure, right,
or I am saved at this moment,
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but why do I need to grow?
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Why do I need to
worry about growing?
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It's a good question.
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Because we're
supposed to reflect Him.
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When you first
become a Christian,
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do you even have a...
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I remember when I
first became a Christian,
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it was very
exciting and I was...
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It was very
important in my life,
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it was traumatic in my
life and it changed my life,
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but when I look back, I
didn't have a clue about
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what being a
Christian really meant.
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I was a baby,
just like an infant.
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And so that's why
you have to grow in Him.
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What happens when
something doesn't grow?
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What does it do? It dies.
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And I think, and
I think too that...
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God wants us to be like Christ.
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God doesn't
want... God saves us,
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yes, His grace,
what do we do without it,
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but God wants us to grow.
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He doesn't want us to stay there
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and one of Jesus'
purpose on earth to me
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was that He came
to glorify the Father
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says in John 17, you know.
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That was...
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He wanted to show the
Father to the people and I think
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He wants us to do the same.
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They'll never see God if
we don't show it to them.
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You know, as I was thinking,
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right now is an exciting
time in Southern Illinois
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because the peaches
are ripening right now.
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Amen. Amen.
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Thank you, Jesus.
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And the Quinns
got some peach trees,
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so this is a
happy time in our life.
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And I'm thinking back,
we're talking about growing
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and I'm thinking back whenever
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there was no peach
there, there was nothing,
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then there was a little
bloom and a little blossom,
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then there was a
little bitty tiny little thing
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and you just watched it
grow and watched it grow
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and today boy,
they are so pretty
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and they're so orangey pink
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and so now it's
time to take one.
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Now this is a gift from God.
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Now if it
wasn't allowed to grow,
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it never would have
reached his maturity...
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Yes.
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And did what its purpose
was, and so it is our walk
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with the Lord, you
know, if we just come out,
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just a little blossom,
we are blossomed forever.
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Yes.
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Well, I mean, what...
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Well, it was a good
little blossom, you know.
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Pretty but... Yeah,
but there is more...
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Yeah, you're right.
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I think, you
know, as time goes by,
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as we mature in the Lord...
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Maturity is very
important. It is.
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You know, Dad, you know,
I like to garden, you know,
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like to not really farm
but to garden and, you know,
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when you think about
it so I don't plant corn
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because our neighbor Dave Turner
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plants wonderful sweet corn,
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so I don't even,
I don't even try...
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You can't beat his
corn, it's the best.
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He brings it
over so that's great.
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But anyway in case you plant
a kernel of corn in the ground
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and that one kernel,
basically from that plant
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that corn plant
stalk that grows in,
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you don't get one
kernel, do you Dad?
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Hundreds. Hundreds...
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Hundreds. Yeah.
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And those hundreds then
feed more than just one person,
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they will feed.
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I don't know how
many ears are on a stalk?
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I don't know, two,
three... Two or three.
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Normally, normally, one or two.
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Okay, yeah.
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So you're basically feeding now
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more than just
one little kernel.
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You've got a lot of kernels
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that you're feeding more than...
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just like the peach tree.
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One peach tree makes
more than one peach...
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Oh, yes. Doesn't it?
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I don't know how
many. Yes, a lot.
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So really when you
think about us growing,
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we're growing for a purpose...
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Yes.
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Because, okay, you can
look at something like you said
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in your case you're
just growing, it's nice.
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Wow, he's filling out.
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Greg's becoming
whatever and wow, that's great
00:20:05.73\00:20:07.64
but really there's a
purpose for us growing.
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And that in my mind would be
to obviously spread God's love,
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His word to other people
and be an example witness
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like you guys... Reflect Jesus.
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Yeah, reflecting Jesus
like you guys are doing
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at the church plant, you know,
00:20:20.48\00:20:22.78
and that multiplies
the ripple effect maybe.
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You want to bring more
than yourself to heaven.
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Yeah, that's right. That's true.
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I mean, Jesus' life
was totally unselfish,
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always thinking of others,
and we are to do the same.
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And what's interesting,
and this is my understanding,
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I couldn't take it to a verse,
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but He would have
died just for one.
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Yes. Yeah, that's true.
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So if you in
this, in the peach tree
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or planting the corn,
here there was just one kernel,
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you would have
probably been disappointed,
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what I thought of, may
be it was the environment,
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may be it was just a
bad year, we had no rain.
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But you know, as time goes by
00:21:03.19\00:21:06.39
the whole objective as
fruit to be multiplied...
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Amen.
00:21:09.90\00:21:11.23
And so we're put
down here to multiply.
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Amen. Yeah.
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And growing in Christ,
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think about over your
life as you look back.
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I look back and I see
that God brought me in contact
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with different
people at different times.
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Yes.
00:21:27.08\00:21:28.42
I recently just came in contact
with someone I hadn't seen
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for 20 years and it's someone
who is hurting and is in pain.
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But I don't think I
was ready for the contact.
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It wasn't necessarily the
other person wasn't ready,
00:21:41.63\00:21:45.37
but God had to make
sure that I was ready
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so I would be used in His hands
and not my own will be done,
00:21:48.84\00:21:54.14
but that I would
constantly submit to Him
00:21:54.18\00:21:57.71
so that He could use me
to help this other person.
00:21:57.75\00:22:02.25
And if he'd brought
us in contact too soon,
00:22:02.28\00:22:05.15
they would have got the
bloom when they needed the fruit
00:22:05.19\00:22:08.39
and so we have to grow
to be prepared to be used
00:22:08.42\00:22:13.40
and He uses us
throughout the walk.
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Oh, yes.
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Through out our walk
with different people
00:22:17.90\00:22:19.83
in different circumstances.
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That's a great point, Dee,
because we have to be prepared
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in order to share,
in order to share Jesus.
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We have to be grown
enough in our own walk with God.
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That's right.
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There's a verse
I want to look at
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and then we'll
jump into the how.
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This is in 2 Corinthians 4.
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2 Corinthians 4, this is
one of my favorite scriptures,
00:22:41.26\00:22:45.16
I think a lot of times.
00:22:45.19\00:22:46.53
2 Corinthians 4:6-7.
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"For it is God
who commanded light
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to shine out of darkness,
00:22:53.94\00:22:56.10
who has shown in our hearts
00:22:56.14\00:22:58.27
to give the
light of the knowledge
00:22:58.31\00:22:59.77
of the glory of God in
the face of Jesus Christ.
00:22:59.81\00:23:04.15
But we have this
treasure in earthen vessels
00:23:04.18\00:23:09.32
that the Excellency of the power
00:23:09.35\00:23:11.59
may be of God and not of us."
00:23:11.62\00:23:13.32
And every time I read
that, I think we are, you know,
00:23:13.36\00:23:16.73
some of the
translations in the Bible says
00:23:16.76\00:23:18.99
we have this treasure,
they translate earthen vessels
00:23:19.03\00:23:21.66
as jars of clay, and sometimes
00:23:21.70\00:23:25.60
you might feel
like a jar of clay,
00:23:25.63\00:23:27.24
you might feel like
there's some cracks in me.
00:23:27.27\00:23:29.84
I'm not perfect
yet, I'm not mature,
00:23:29.87\00:23:32.87
the word we're
using, complete, mature,
00:23:32.91\00:23:35.34
but yet in the midst of that,
00:23:35.38\00:23:37.98
God can shine the
light of His gospel,
00:23:38.01\00:23:41.22
who he is in Jesus
out to other people.
00:23:41.25\00:23:44.95
So in the midst of
the growing process,
00:23:44.99\00:23:48.52
Jesus can still shine forth
even in spite of the cracks,
00:23:48.56\00:23:52.89
in spite of what
we're dealing with,
00:23:52.93\00:23:54.93
He still can show forth light.
00:23:54.96\00:23:57.07
And I think as we do
use it along our journey,
00:23:57.10\00:24:01.40
God gives us more.
00:24:01.44\00:24:02.77
Amen.
00:24:02.80\00:24:04.14
Where if we don't
use it, I think sometimes
00:24:04.17\00:24:05.51
we can be stunted and not grow.
00:24:05.54\00:24:07.98
Amen. Amen. Go ahead, Dad.
00:24:08.01\00:24:10.38
There's a little thought
that I always have when I think
00:24:10.41\00:24:13.55
about growing as a Christian.
00:24:13.58\00:24:16.32
Too often, I think,
we think of ourselves.
00:24:16.35\00:24:20.86
That's important
to grow your self.
00:24:20.89\00:24:24.96
But God's kingdom
is bigger than me.
00:24:24.99\00:24:28.60
And He wants His
kingdom on this earth to grow
00:24:28.63\00:24:33.44
and so part of that
growth is for each of us
00:24:33.47\00:24:37.64
to help His kingdom
to grow in some way.
00:24:37.67\00:24:41.84
Yes, I grow but He also
wants His kingdom to grow
00:24:41.88\00:24:46.88
and for me to
participate in that growth.
00:24:46.92\00:24:49.88
Amen. Yeah, that's well said.
00:24:49.92\00:24:51.25
We are His witnesses. Amen.
00:24:51.29\00:24:53.76
Very good.
00:24:53.79\00:24:55.12
And it's a privilege. Yes.
00:24:55.16\00:24:57.49
When we think of
what God has done for us,
00:24:57.53\00:24:59.63
how could we do anything less?
00:24:59.66\00:25:01.43
Amen.
00:25:01.46\00:25:02.80
Like you already
shared, we actually probably
00:25:02.83\00:25:04.70
grow the most
when we're sharing...
00:25:04.73\00:25:07.54
That's right.
00:25:07.57\00:25:08.90
When we're
watering using God's light
00:25:08.94\00:25:13.01
to water another seed,
00:25:13.04\00:25:14.78
we actually do the
most growing at that time.
00:25:14.81\00:25:17.88
You know, when we started
our church plant, you know,
00:25:17.91\00:25:19.61
we were having to
give answers to the people.
00:25:19.65\00:25:22.52
Well, if you didn't know
the answer what were we doing,
00:25:22.55\00:25:25.29
we were in this Word
all the time trying to know
00:25:25.32\00:25:27.82
for myself so I could
share that with somebody else.
00:25:27.86\00:25:31.39
And it's a tremendous growth.
00:25:31.43\00:25:33.16
But your dependence on
God, on Jesus will grow too
00:25:33.19\00:25:36.30
because I was
constantly in prayer going,
00:25:36.33\00:25:39.43
"Okay, Lord, am
I saying too much,
00:25:39.47\00:25:41.24
am I not saying enough?
00:25:41.27\00:25:42.60
What does this
person need to hear?
00:25:42.64\00:25:44.31
Help me know what to say."
00:25:44.34\00:25:46.07
So I was...
00:25:46.11\00:25:47.44
Yes.
00:25:47.48\00:25:48.81
I was holding on
tighter than usual
00:25:48.84\00:25:52.35
to that spiritual
connection of the Holy Spirit,
00:25:52.38\00:25:55.62
please I need
guidance every second here
00:25:55.65\00:25:58.35
because I don't want...
00:25:58.39\00:25:59.72
Let me do no damage.
00:25:59.75\00:26:01.56
So you really have
that tight connection
00:26:01.59\00:26:03.83
when you're trying to
minister to someone else
00:26:03.86\00:26:07.30
when they're hurting.
00:26:07.33\00:26:08.66
That's precious, Dee.
00:26:08.70\00:26:10.03
Let's look at how we grow. Yes.
00:26:10.07\00:26:12.43
Let's turn to Romans 12.
00:26:12.47\00:26:14.37
There's so many
scriptures we could look at
00:26:14.40\00:26:16.20
and we'll just look at
a few here, Romans 12:1-2.
00:26:16.24\00:26:22.81
I like all of Romans 12
because it just seems like
00:26:22.84\00:26:25.71
the whole chapter is
about how I should live,
00:26:25.75\00:26:28.22
how to live daily
your life as a Christian,
00:26:28.25\00:26:31.59
but we'll just look at
the first couple verses.
00:26:31.62\00:26:33.29
I just have to
say that Jill always
00:26:33.32\00:26:34.92
liked the Book of Romans.
00:26:34.96\00:26:36.96
We just brought with
us her little children's
00:26:36.99\00:26:41.20
International
Bible that I forget
00:26:41.23\00:26:43.26
how old you and Lynn
were when we gave it to you?
00:26:43.30\00:26:46.07
I was six. Six.
00:26:46.10\00:26:47.90
And you go to the Book of Romans
00:26:47.94\00:26:49.57
and it is underlined,
it is circled, she's...
00:26:49.60\00:26:52.94
she just loved
the Book of Romans
00:26:52.97\00:26:54.71
way back when as a little one.
00:26:54.74\00:26:56.44
I did.
00:26:56.48\00:26:57.81
As a little kid I
remember reading it
00:26:57.85\00:26:59.18
and I haven't seen
that Bible in years, Mom,
00:26:59.21\00:27:01.68
and then you just
brought it and I thought,
00:27:01.72\00:27:03.49
"Wow, this is my
Bible when I was a kid."
00:27:03.52\00:27:07.46
And you look in
Romans and it's got,
00:27:07.49\00:27:09.02
I don't know what it means now,
00:27:09.06\00:27:10.39
but it's, it's
colored in different colors.
00:27:10.43\00:27:12.23
Some is orange... Yes.
00:27:12.26\00:27:13.73
Some was green or blue...
00:27:13.76\00:27:15.33
Blue, pink.
00:27:15.36\00:27:16.70
Yeah, different
colors and obviously
00:27:16.73\00:27:18.07
I had gone
through and underlined...
00:27:18.10\00:27:19.67
But for someone that
young to, for to pick
00:27:19.70\00:27:22.40
that particular book
is just really unique.
00:27:22.44\00:27:25.04
Yeah, 'cause you would
think maybe Matthew, Mark, Luke,
00:27:25.07\00:27:27.58
John, all the
gospels or something
00:27:27.61\00:27:29.14
but Book of Romans.
00:27:29.18\00:27:31.38
That was neat to see the Bible.
00:27:31.41\00:27:32.75
I always find my favorite
part of the Bible ends up being
00:27:32.78\00:27:36.02
what I'm reading right then.
00:27:36.05\00:27:37.62
It's like, "Oh, this
is really wonderful,"
00:27:37.65\00:27:39.89
and I just, yeah.
00:27:39.92\00:27:41.26
Yeah.
00:27:41.29\00:27:42.62
Romans Chapter 12...
00:27:42.66\00:27:43.99
One and two.
00:27:44.03\00:27:45.36
And this is how
we're growing in Jesus.
00:27:45.39\00:27:47.96
You wanna read it, JD,
for us, you got it there.
00:27:48.00\00:27:49.36
Yes.
00:27:49.40\00:27:50.73
I think this is NIV,
and I'm going to read it.
00:27:50.77\00:27:52.70
Sure.
00:27:52.73\00:27:54.07
"Therefore, I urge
you, brothers and sisters,
00:27:54.10\00:27:55.44
in view of God's mercy,
mercy to offer your bodies
00:27:55.47\00:27:58.77
as a living sacrifice,
holy and pleasing to God,
00:27:58.81\00:28:02.34
this is your true
and proper worship."
00:28:02.38\00:28:05.71
Verse 2, "So do not conform
to the pattern of this world,
00:28:05.75\00:28:09.98
but be transformed by
the renewing of your mind.
00:28:10.02\00:28:14.46
Then you will be able to test
and approve what God's will is,
00:28:14.49\00:28:18.09
His good,
pleasing and perfect will."
00:28:18.13\00:28:21.66
Amen. Powerful.
00:28:21.70\00:28:23.73
Needless to say transformation
is part of growing
00:28:23.77\00:28:26.47
and I mean, that's,
that's the wonderful part
00:28:26.50\00:28:28.64
because it's not stagnant,
it's moving, it's action...
00:28:28.67\00:28:32.57
It's changing. It's changing...
00:28:32.61\00:28:34.01
Renewing, renewing. Yes.
00:28:34.04\00:28:35.51
That we're renewing. Yeah.
00:28:35.54\00:28:37.41
I have a little, I'm not sure,
I have a little arrow here,
00:28:37.45\00:28:40.22
it's hard for me to read
this anymore but it says...
00:28:40.25\00:28:43.12
Does he need glasses?
You think he needs them.
00:28:43.15\00:28:46.99
Oh, I didn't say anything.
00:28:47.02\00:28:50.26
So here it says
by the word renew
00:28:50.29\00:28:53.03
and I have
written here renovate...
00:28:53.06\00:28:55.26
That's from the
Greek. That's good.
00:28:55.30\00:28:56.73
From the Greek,
so I think, you know,
00:28:56.77\00:28:58.10
I like carpentry
and stuff and you know,
00:28:58.13\00:28:59.57
when you do renovation
you're in there knocking out
00:28:59.60\00:29:01.87
usually some of the rotten wood
or you're changing something
00:29:01.90\00:29:04.77
and you're definitely
not doing it to get worse.
00:29:04.81\00:29:07.14
When people renovate
they do it to improve, right?
00:29:07.18\00:29:10.38
They want to grow
in the right direction.
00:29:10.41\00:29:12.38
So I have that here
and do you have there
00:29:12.41\00:29:13.82
on the
transformed metamorphosis?
00:29:13.85\00:29:15.88
That's right. Yeah.
00:29:15.92\00:29:17.25
In the Greek. In the Greek.
00:29:17.29\00:29:18.79
Yeah, when I think of that
00:29:18.82\00:29:20.16
I think of a little caterpillar,
00:29:20.19\00:29:21.52
right, going
through a little chrysalis.
00:29:21.56\00:29:22.89
What do you have? But
it all starts with the...
00:29:22.92\00:29:24.26
No, but it all
starts with the mind.
00:29:24.29\00:29:25.63
It does. Yes.
00:29:25.66\00:29:27.00
Our mind...
00:29:27.03\00:29:28.36
So how do you think
transformation takes place
00:29:28.40\00:29:30.30
in the mind?
00:29:30.33\00:29:31.93
Are you saying, Mom,
transformation is not external,
00:29:31.97\00:29:34.64
it's not something
that I just put on?
00:29:34.67\00:29:36.91
No. We've done
that two years ago.
00:29:36.94\00:29:39.84
We did that too
often all external
00:29:39.87\00:29:42.44
and not inside here.
00:29:42.48\00:29:45.85
No, it's from within,
it's from the Holy Spirit,
00:29:45.88\00:29:48.48
Christ abiding in you.
00:29:48.52\00:29:50.72
And when your thoughts go
in the negative, you know,
00:29:50.75\00:29:54.26
negative way whatever,
you've got to bring them
00:29:54.29\00:29:56.32
back to the
promises in the Bible.
00:29:56.36\00:29:58.46
I love to sing scripture songs
00:29:58.49\00:30:00.76
and so I'll be singing scripture
00:30:00.80\00:30:02.13
where they were
saying the promises.
00:30:02.16\00:30:04.77
It keeps your mind on God.
00:30:04.80\00:30:09.10
If we do it
externally, that's not alive
00:30:09.14\00:30:14.64
and it becomes
corrupt, like wood,
00:30:14.68\00:30:17.51
it rots because
it is not living.
00:30:17.55\00:30:20.62
When the
transformation is internal,
00:30:20.65\00:30:23.69
it is living and growing.
00:30:23.72\00:30:26.69
So it will soon fall
apart if it's external...
00:30:26.72\00:30:31.23
Yes.
00:30:31.26\00:30:32.59
It will
disintegrate and be exposed
00:30:32.63\00:30:37.93
as external and not living.
00:30:37.97\00:30:40.80
Yeah.
00:30:40.84\00:30:42.17
No, that's well said,
Dee. You know, that's great.
00:30:42.20\00:30:44.31
I'm just thinking about that...
00:30:44.34\00:30:45.67
It must be God then.
It's God doing in a minute.
00:30:45.71\00:30:48.14
Yeah, I know that,
yeah, that's really deep
00:30:48.18\00:30:50.51
because I remember
climbing as a child
00:30:50.55\00:30:52.11
we had big apple trees,
talking about fruit trees, JD,
00:30:52.15\00:30:55.05
and we had a large apple tree
that hung out over the creek
00:30:55.08\00:30:57.95
and I was out on a big
limb, it was pretty good size
00:30:57.99\00:31:01.09
and I was a small little fellow
and I was out on that limb,
00:31:01.12\00:31:03.43
looked great and
healthy and man, that limb broke
00:31:03.46\00:31:05.26
and I fell down into the creek,
00:31:05.29\00:31:07.16
and lo and behold
inside that it looked beautiful
00:31:07.20\00:31:10.27
on the outside,
it was all rotten
00:31:10.30\00:31:11.93
on the inside of
the apple branch.
00:31:11.97\00:31:14.60
It looked like
it would support me.
00:31:14.64\00:31:16.04
No way, it sure
didn't so it goes along
00:31:16.07\00:31:18.01
what you're saying,
Dee, it will be exposed.
00:31:18.04\00:31:20.38
There's definite
parables in the Bible
00:31:20.41\00:31:22.34
about the rotten on the inside.
00:31:22.38\00:31:24.31
So we don't want to be that way.
00:31:24.35\00:31:25.68
So how do we keep
from being that way,
00:31:25.71\00:31:27.48
that's one of the questions.
00:31:27.52\00:31:28.85
Any thoughts on that?
00:31:28.88\00:31:30.22
How do we...
00:31:30.25\00:31:31.59
Well, one way is
2 Corinthians 3:18.
00:31:31.62\00:31:35.26
Amen. Let's look at that.
00:31:35.29\00:31:36.93
That's great, JD.
00:31:36.96\00:31:39.86
And as we turn there, you know,
00:31:39.89\00:31:41.23
what I just
discovered here recently,
00:31:41.26\00:31:42.86
I love looking at
the origin of the words
00:31:42.90\00:31:45.03
and seeing where it
comes from, you know.
00:31:45.07\00:31:46.94
And so I just discovered
in here the word transformed
00:31:46.97\00:31:49.44
is the same word as Romans 12:2,
00:31:49.47\00:31:52.37
the word metamorphosed.
00:31:52.41\00:31:53.74
Yeah.
00:31:53.78\00:31:55.11
And so it's the
same original Greek word
00:31:55.14\00:31:57.21
so when we read the scripture,
00:31:57.25\00:31:58.98
it means that transformation
like the metamorphose process
00:31:59.01\00:32:02.62
but you know the butterfly,
00:32:02.65\00:32:04.19
the caterpillar into
the butterfly but it's...
00:32:04.22\00:32:06.15
I see that
connection between the Romans 12
00:32:06.19\00:32:08.22
and the 2 Corinthians 3.
00:32:08.26\00:32:09.89
Becoming what you behold.
00:32:09.92\00:32:11.26
Amen. What about Corinthians?
00:32:11.29\00:32:12.63
Let's read that.
00:32:12.66\00:32:14.00
2 Corinthians
3:18, you have it, Dee?
00:32:14.03\00:32:16.46
"But we all, with unveiled face,
00:32:16.50\00:32:19.27
beholding as in a
mirror the glory of the Lord,
00:32:19.30\00:32:22.97
are being
transformed into the same image
00:32:23.00\00:32:26.11
from glory to glory,
00:32:26.14\00:32:27.91
just as by the
Spirit of the Lord."
00:32:27.94\00:32:30.85
Amen. Wow.
00:32:30.88\00:32:32.21
It's beholding Jesus
that we are transformed.
00:32:32.25\00:32:34.98
What you're looking
at, what you're studying,
00:32:35.02\00:32:37.12
what you are...
00:32:37.15\00:32:38.72
What's important
to you, you reflect.
00:32:38.75\00:32:41.92
And it's here, again,
it's talking about maturing,
00:32:41.96\00:32:43.76
excuse me, Jim, going from
one level of glory to the next.
00:32:43.79\00:32:46.43
In other words
your character continues
00:32:46.46\00:32:48.06
to build in a positive
way, and the character...
00:32:48.10\00:32:55.84
As you age, you begin to see
the things that are worthwhile.
00:32:55.87\00:33:00.41
And it is the
character that's worthwhile,
00:33:00.44\00:33:02.38
that's what nobody's looking.
00:33:02.41\00:33:04.25
Yes. Because we're...
00:33:04.28\00:33:05.61
When we're growing up,
00:33:05.65\00:33:06.98
we're trying to
connect the dots,
00:33:07.02\00:33:08.35
trying to see where
your value systems are,
00:33:08.38\00:33:10.72
who are you really.
00:33:10.75\00:33:12.35
But as time goes
by, you says, "Oh man,
00:33:12.39\00:33:15.29
thank you Jesus
that I have the ability
00:33:15.32\00:33:17.39
to go through changes."
00:33:17.43\00:33:19.73
And, go ahead,
Jim. Go ahead, Dad.
00:33:19.76\00:33:21.60
The thought that I had on
this text is it's something
00:33:21.63\00:33:26.17
that Jesus does in us.
00:33:26.20\00:33:29.40
Amen. Good.
00:33:29.44\00:33:30.77
It's...
00:33:30.81\00:33:32.14
We have a part to play
but we are not the primary.
00:33:32.17\00:33:37.58
We are the secondary.
00:33:37.61\00:33:39.98
It's great, Dad. We
ask for the process.
00:33:40.02\00:33:42.92
We invite Jesus in
but we are not the ones
00:33:42.95\00:33:48.02
that change
ourselves, He does the changing.
00:33:48.06\00:33:52.29
Amen.
00:33:52.33\00:33:53.66
That's where the change happens.
00:33:53.70\00:33:55.03
And that's an
important part too, Dad,
00:33:55.06\00:33:56.40
because that takes a lot
of the stress off, doesn't it?
00:33:56.43\00:33:57.93
Yes.
00:33:57.97\00:33:59.30
It's like, "Oh," you
know, pull yourself up
00:33:59.33\00:34:00.67
by your bootstraps so to
speak, "I have to be better."
00:34:00.70\00:34:03.51
Well, I mean, we
do have a part to play
00:34:03.54\00:34:04.87
but we're the
secondary, Christ is first
00:34:04.91\00:34:07.01
and that's excellent
because that is less stressful.
00:34:07.04\00:34:09.04
That part of
beholding. Surrendering.
00:34:09.08\00:34:10.91
Wow.
00:34:10.95\00:34:12.28
You know, that's, that
can be a tough process,
00:34:12.31\00:34:14.65
don't you think?
00:34:14.68\00:34:16.02
Because I can, in the morning
I spend time in the Word of God
00:34:16.05\00:34:19.65
and read and, "Lord,
00:34:19.69\00:34:21.02
I want to be
changed into Your image,"
00:34:21.06\00:34:23.76
and then you get to work
00:34:23.79\00:34:25.13
and you get a phone call, right?
00:34:25.16\00:34:27.86
And all of a sudden your mind
is on the problem of the person
00:34:27.90\00:34:31.87
who just called you or the issue
00:34:31.90\00:34:34.44
that you're trying to deal with
and it's instantly diverted,
00:34:34.47\00:34:38.01
does that make sense?
00:34:38.04\00:34:39.37
Like you say, "I
want to look at Jesus,
00:34:39.41\00:34:41.44
I want to be transformed.
00:34:41.48\00:34:42.98
I want to focus on
Him," and then quickly,
00:34:43.01\00:34:45.58
how quickly our minds can...
00:34:45.61\00:34:47.95
Our focus can go
to something else.
00:34:47.98\00:34:49.72
So how do we get
it from doing that?
00:34:49.75\00:34:51.09
So how do we bring
our focus back to Jesus?
00:34:51.12\00:34:53.32
Any thoughts
practically in your own life
00:34:53.36\00:34:56.52
that you have experienced?
00:34:56.56\00:34:57.89
Well, to me the simplest
way is go to the problem solver.
00:34:57.93\00:35:03.20
And that's the
wonderful gift that we have
00:35:03.23\00:35:06.57
in cooperating with
each other and believe,
00:35:06.60\00:35:10.67
believe that the Holy
Spirit is wanting to assist you
00:35:10.71\00:35:16.11
in whatever your
particular part is
00:35:16.14\00:35:19.08
in that change, you know...
00:35:19.11\00:35:20.45
I do think like what
Dee said earlier though
00:35:20.48\00:35:22.65
that the closer
your walk is with God,
00:35:22.68\00:35:25.99
as your walk progresses,
00:35:26.02\00:35:28.32
you're more in
tune I think with God,
00:35:28.36\00:35:30.89
and yes, we have those
moments, I mean we all do,
00:35:30.93\00:35:34.00
but we're more in
tune that God is with us.
00:35:34.03\00:35:36.46
We carry Him
more I think with us.
00:35:36.50\00:35:39.97
It's something
the more we practice,
00:35:40.00\00:35:42.34
see even in our
office, Jill, we get...
00:35:42.37\00:35:45.94
It will get busier, this
will happen or that happen
00:35:45.97\00:35:48.08
where all of sudden just, huh...
00:35:48.11\00:35:49.94
But look how quickly
we turn to the peacemaker
00:35:49.98\00:35:55.45
or how quickly we're saying,
00:35:55.48\00:35:56.82
"Oh, I shouldn't have
done that, please forgive me."
00:35:56.85\00:36:01.52
As you walk and
you behold Him more
00:36:01.56\00:36:04.33
and you practice it more,
00:36:04.36\00:36:06.49
you turn back to
Him quicker and quicker
00:36:06.53\00:36:09.43
until we have our little moments
00:36:09.46\00:36:13.47
but when you're
first a Christian,
00:36:13.50\00:36:15.00
sometimes you will
kind of stay in that,
00:36:15.04\00:36:19.44
"I'm mad and I'm
going to stay mad."
00:36:19.47\00:36:23.75
Or that was I've been...
00:36:23.78\00:36:25.98
Somebody done wrong to
me and you hold on to that,
00:36:26.01\00:36:29.25
but now after years
of walking with the Lord
00:36:29.28\00:36:33.02
and being a Christian,
what happens is you realize
00:36:33.05\00:36:36.12
the peace and the joy
and everything that you get
00:36:36.16\00:36:38.99
by turning it over to
Him and coming back to Him.
00:36:39.03\00:36:41.83
So I don't want to
hold on to the anger,
00:36:41.86\00:36:43.90
I don't want to
hold on to the resentment
00:36:43.93\00:36:45.60
because I miss that
peace, I miss that love.
00:36:45.63\00:36:49.40
I want what I have
when I'm with the Lord.
00:36:49.44\00:36:52.47
So the more you practice that,
00:36:52.51\00:36:55.14
the quicker you
are to turn back to it
00:36:55.18\00:36:58.61
when we stumble.
00:36:58.65\00:37:00.42
Amen. That's beautiful, I agree.
00:37:00.45\00:37:02.35
'Cause you miss that with Him.
00:37:02.38\00:37:03.89
I think it's the
choice, you know...
00:37:03.92\00:37:05.29
Yes.
00:37:05.32\00:37:06.65
And beholding Jesus is a choice.
00:37:06.69\00:37:08.02
We behold Him in the morning
00:37:08.06\00:37:09.39
and then when I
get that phone call
00:37:09.42\00:37:10.76
and my mind goes here,
instantly I have a choice.
00:37:10.79\00:37:13.46
I can say, "Okay, Father,
I want to go back to you.
00:37:13.50\00:37:16.26
I want to focus on You again.
I want to look at You again."
00:37:16.30\00:37:18.73
And you're right,
Dee, the peace and the joy
00:37:18.77\00:37:22.34
we experience
when we walk with Jesus
00:37:22.37\00:37:24.31
is just so incredible.
00:37:24.34\00:37:25.77
I believe also, you know,
we can just pray to the Lord
00:37:25.81\00:37:27.88
because it's really...
00:37:27.91\00:37:29.24
I won't say forming a
habit, but really when something
00:37:29.28\00:37:30.95
comes up so and the first
thing when you get out of bed
00:37:30.98\00:37:32.95
in the morning, it would
be, "Jesus, help me today."
00:37:32.98\00:37:36.18
And when stuff comes up,
remember to turn to You first,
00:37:36.22\00:37:39.25
not last or part way through."
00:37:39.29\00:37:40.92
And, you know, I believe
Jesus is so willing, you know,
00:37:40.96\00:37:43.53
to answer those types of prayers
00:37:43.56\00:37:44.89
because then the
Holy Spirit would
00:37:44.93\00:37:46.26
just kind of
bring that in your mind,
00:37:46.29\00:37:47.63
"Oh, yes, dear
Jesus, please help me
00:37:47.66\00:37:49.93
to handle the situation
the way You want me to."
00:37:49.96\00:37:52.03
Amen.
00:37:52.07\00:37:53.40
So the Lord loves to answer
those types of prayers too.
00:37:53.44\00:37:55.07
Yes. JD?
00:37:55.10\00:37:56.44
You know, they're just...
00:37:56.47\00:37:57.81
There has to be
an innate, in the...
00:37:57.84\00:38:01.38
To me in the
ingenuousness of God,
00:38:01.41\00:38:05.01
there has to be a way
that the dots can be connected,
00:38:05.05\00:38:08.92
and if you give Him permission
that overrides everything else.
00:38:08.95\00:38:13.69
Right.
00:38:13.72\00:38:15.06
So and so as time goes
by, you go down the miles,
00:38:15.09\00:38:19.53
you know, well, at marker
520, I just want to exit, okay?
00:38:19.56\00:38:23.97
Because that's
where's it's always been.
00:38:24.00\00:38:26.10
So as He's connecting
these dots and everything
00:38:26.13\00:38:28.37
for you then you've
gone to the next layer.
00:38:28.40\00:38:31.84
Amen. Amen.
00:38:31.87\00:38:33.34
Let's look at John 15.
00:38:33.38\00:38:35.44
Yeah, I know you like John 15.
00:38:35.48\00:38:38.25
I do.
00:38:38.28\00:38:39.61
Yeah, that's divine.
00:38:39.65\00:38:41.45
It's a wonderful scripture.
It's one of my favorites.
00:38:41.48\00:38:42.95
Is that one of your
favorites? Yeah, it is.
00:38:42.98\00:38:44.45
I must get that from you.
00:38:44.49\00:38:46.96
You want to read,
Mom, John 15, maybe 1 to 5,
00:38:46.99\00:38:50.33
I don't know we could
read the whole chapter...
00:38:50.36\00:38:51.69
Mine's is King
James, is that okay?
00:38:51.73\00:38:53.06
Perfect.
00:38:53.09\00:38:54.56
"I am the true vine,
00:38:54.60\00:38:55.96
and my Father is the husbandman.
00:38:56.00\00:38:58.23
Every branch in me that
beareth not fruit he taketh away
00:38:58.27\00:39:01.90
and every branch
that beareth fruit,
00:39:01.94\00:39:03.81
he purgeth it, that it
may bring forth more fruit.
00:39:03.84\00:39:07.64
Now ye are
clean through the word
00:39:07.68\00:39:09.38
which I have spoken unto you.
00:39:09.41\00:39:11.85
Abide in me, and I in you.
00:39:11.88\00:39:14.88
As the branch cannot
bear fruit of itself,
00:39:14.92\00:39:17.19
except it abide in the vine,
00:39:17.22\00:39:19.05
no more can you,
except you abide in me.
00:39:19.09\00:39:21.89
I am the vine,
you are the branches.
00:39:21.92\00:39:24.23
He that abideth
in me, and I in him,
00:39:24.26\00:39:26.63
the same
bringeth forth much fruit:
00:39:26.66\00:39:29.06
for without me
you can do nothing."
00:39:29.10\00:39:31.60
Amen.
00:39:31.63\00:39:32.97
That's absolute
dependence on God.
00:39:33.00\00:39:34.80
Sure is.
00:39:34.84\00:39:36.17
Amen. Amen.
00:39:36.20\00:39:37.54
Do you think
there's a difference this,
00:39:37.57\00:39:38.91
this chapter talks
about abiding in Christ
00:39:38.94\00:39:41.58
or abiding in the
vine, do you think
00:39:41.61\00:39:44.51
there's a difference
between abiding in Jesus
00:39:44.55\00:39:46.88
and our previous
verse beholding Jesus.
00:39:46.92\00:39:49.92
We were talking
about throughout the day
00:39:49.95\00:39:51.75
trying to bring
our mind back to Jesus
00:39:51.79\00:39:53.59
or back to beholding Him.
00:39:53.62\00:39:55.26
Is there a
difference between that
00:39:55.29\00:39:56.83
and abiding in Him?
00:39:56.86\00:40:01.20
Well, abiding to me is living.
00:40:01.23\00:40:03.77
Good. Okay.
00:40:03.80\00:40:05.13
I mean, I knew
I'm living in Jesus
00:40:05.17\00:40:06.74
that's who I choose to be.
00:40:06.77\00:40:08.37
That's a choice
we're going back to.
00:40:08.40\00:40:10.77
Beholding is the
direction I'm looking at.
00:40:10.81\00:40:14.41
Some place, you
got to cross over
00:40:14.44\00:40:16.78
and then it becomes who you are
00:40:16.81\00:40:18.65
and that is how
you're living your life.
00:40:18.68\00:40:20.85
Instead of believing,
now you'll be living it.
00:40:20.88\00:40:22.88
So you think the
beholding comes first
00:40:22.92\00:40:25.45
and then the
abiding would follow after?
00:40:25.49\00:40:27.69
To me, that's the way it would.
00:40:27.72\00:40:31.03
I look at it a
little differently.
00:40:31.06\00:40:34.70
Each one of the
authors who is speaking,
00:40:34.73\00:40:36.83
this one's Jesus obviously,
is trying in some way to move
00:40:36.87\00:40:43.17
from something
that we know about,
00:40:43.20\00:40:47.14
the fruit on the
vine, the vine branches
00:40:47.18\00:40:51.31
and the stalk to something
that we don't know about,
00:40:51.35\00:40:56.35
living in Jesus.
00:40:56.38\00:40:59.49
That's good.
00:40:59.52\00:41:00.86
And each one of them
gives some aspect of it.
00:41:00.89\00:41:03.99
None of them are perfect,
00:41:04.03\00:41:05.89
none of them give
a complete picture
00:41:05.93\00:41:08.13
but by looking
at each one of them,
00:41:08.16\00:41:10.17
we can get closer and
closer to knowing exactly
00:41:10.20\00:41:13.57
what He wants us to do to
live with Him or live in Him.
00:41:13.60\00:41:18.81
Yeah.
00:41:18.84\00:41:20.18
You know, on our
back deck, we have that
00:41:20.21\00:41:22.44
little tomato plant that's in...
00:41:22.48\00:41:24.01
I'm trying
something new to share.
00:41:24.05\00:41:25.38
I mean, we're
just talking garden,
00:41:25.41\00:41:26.75
and I guess it's growing, right?
00:41:26.78\00:41:28.12
Okay. That's a good analogy.
00:41:28.15\00:41:29.48
So I haven't
had too much success
00:41:29.52\00:41:32.39
with tomatoes in the garden
00:41:32.42\00:41:33.76
so I bought one
that's supposed to go,
00:41:33.79\00:41:35.39
it's called the patio tomato.
00:41:35.42\00:41:37.33
And it's really
nice because I can see it
00:41:37.36\00:41:38.86
and we got double doors there
and I can look at it each day.
00:41:38.89\00:41:42.10
And there's a tomato about,
I don't know, about that big,
00:41:42.13\00:41:45.33
and there's tomatoes
that are about that big,
00:41:45.37\00:41:46.87
little green tomatoes.
00:41:46.90\00:41:48.47
And I was thinking, Dad,
00:41:48.50\00:41:49.84
the key with
what Christ is saying
00:41:49.87\00:41:52.07
here is being
connected, isn't it?
00:41:52.11\00:41:54.11
Because I can take that little
baby green tomato that's just,
00:41:54.14\00:41:58.28
I mean, the size of a marble
00:41:58.31\00:42:00.18
and if I brought
it into the house,
00:42:00.22\00:42:02.22
is that going
to grow any bigger?
00:42:02.25\00:42:03.59
No, no.
00:42:03.62\00:42:05.45
The reason it's not
going to grow any bigger
00:42:05.49\00:42:06.82
is because why?
00:42:06.86\00:42:08.22
No sap. Lost connection.
00:42:08.26\00:42:09.62
Lost connection, yeah,
00:42:09.66\00:42:11.69
with the tomato
vine or the branch.
00:42:11.73\00:42:13.96
I think that's... I mean,
it'll still look like a tomato,
00:42:14.00\00:42:16.30
I guess, until
it rots, I suppose,
00:42:16.33\00:42:18.17
but without it being connected,
it's not going to grow anymore.
00:42:18.20\00:42:20.74
So I think that's
really the key thing
00:42:20.77\00:42:22.17
is being connected.
00:42:22.20\00:42:23.54
So then how do
we stay connected?
00:42:23.57\00:42:24.97
Through the Holy Spirit?
00:42:25.01\00:42:26.37
What's that? Holy Spirit.
00:42:26.41\00:42:27.84
Holy Spirit, stay connected
to Christ or Holy Spirit.
00:42:27.88\00:42:30.41
But that's how we get fed too.
00:42:30.45\00:42:33.05
How can He feed if you're not...
00:42:33.08\00:42:35.02
if the tomato is
not with the vine,
00:42:35.05\00:42:37.82
it doesn't get the nutrients,
it doesn't get the water,
00:42:37.85\00:42:40.32
it doesn't get the support.
00:42:40.36\00:42:42.92
It's going to fall to the ground
00:42:42.96\00:42:44.29
if it's not connected too.
00:42:44.33\00:42:46.16
So every aspect of being
00:42:46.19\00:42:49.00
anchored in the Lord
feeds us in a different way.
00:42:49.03\00:42:52.53
And by beholding Him,
then we see what we want to be.
00:42:52.57\00:42:57.31
We want to be the
fruit, we want to be like Him.
00:42:57.34\00:43:00.31
So there's so many aspects of...
00:43:00.34\00:43:04.41
God is very
multi-faceted. Absolutely.
00:43:04.45\00:43:08.25
And different things
speak to different people too
00:43:08.28\00:43:11.25
in a different way.
00:43:11.29\00:43:12.62
And at a different time,
He's very patient with us.
00:43:12.65\00:43:15.86
I'm having a very
exciting tomato year.
00:43:15.89\00:43:20.73
Your house and I love tomatoes.
00:43:20.76\00:43:23.33
We'll be over for
dinner and to extend grace.
00:43:23.37\00:43:25.37
This is absolutely going crazy.
00:43:25.40\00:43:28.47
And because they're
just, they're everywhere.
00:43:28.50\00:43:31.17
Wow.
00:43:31.21\00:43:32.87
It's not the way in my house.
00:43:32.91\00:43:34.24
And I've got...
00:43:34.28\00:43:36.34
I went out and I
built these myself,
00:43:36.38\00:43:38.61
the strongest
cages you could get
00:43:38.65\00:43:40.65
because I was
optimistic this year.
00:43:40.68\00:43:43.49
And, man, these are
concrete reinforcement wire.
00:43:43.52\00:43:49.32
I was ready for
the big dogs this year.
00:43:49.36\00:43:52.16
And so, and here, boy,
00:43:52.19\00:43:53.96
these things are
just going nuts on me.
00:43:54.00\00:43:55.70
They're already six
foot tall. Six feet tall!
00:43:55.73\00:43:58.30
And there's tomatoes,
everything, everywhere.
00:43:58.33\00:44:00.84
And now they're just
pushing the walls out,
00:44:00.87\00:44:04.84
metaphorically speaking.
00:44:04.87\00:44:06.44
There is so much.
00:44:06.47\00:44:07.81
I'm learning about pruning.
00:44:07.84\00:44:10.68
Look at this closely.
00:44:10.71\00:44:14.32
"He cuts off every
branch in me that bears no fruit
00:44:14.35\00:44:18.15
while every branch that
does not bear fruit He prunes,"
00:44:18.19\00:44:22.66
because this branch
has three tomatoes on it.
00:44:22.69\00:44:28.56
This branch over
here, it's all leaf.
00:44:28.60\00:44:31.83
It'll never have
any tomatoes on them.
00:44:31.87\00:44:34.47
So he say in Kohen,
go and you cut this off,
00:44:34.50\00:44:37.67
now this one can get bigger.
00:44:37.71\00:44:40.68
I've never
experienced because I've never
00:44:40.71\00:44:42.54
had a tomato
year like this year.
00:44:42.58\00:44:45.08
And I'm sitting there.
00:44:45.11\00:44:46.45
And every day, it's
my duty to go out there
00:44:46.48\00:44:48.85
and cut, cut, cut, cut.
00:44:48.88\00:44:50.69
Breaks my heart
because you feel like
00:44:50.72\00:44:54.12
you're getting with your baby
but what you're really doing
00:44:54.16\00:44:57.46
is allowing the real baby
to grow by having more space
00:44:57.49\00:45:01.96
because I only
got this much space.
00:45:02.00\00:45:04.43
So I saw something here.
00:45:04.47\00:45:05.97
So this has to do with
our characters, you know,
00:45:06.00\00:45:08.77
you go in here
and you trim here,
00:45:08.80\00:45:10.14
and you trim
here, and you trim here.
00:45:10.17\00:45:11.91
And you're thinking
about you're taken away
00:45:11.94\00:45:13.94
a very important
part of who you are.
00:45:13.98\00:45:15.91
And so what might
that be in our own life?
00:45:15.94\00:45:17.88
Trials. Selfishness.
00:45:17.91\00:45:19.78
Selfishness. Absolute.
00:45:19.81\00:45:21.15
Self. Yeah, pride.
00:45:21.18\00:45:24.09
And once you can see, "Wow,
this really is working God,"
00:45:24.12\00:45:31.39
then all of a
sudden, it's kind of like,
00:45:31.43\00:45:33.16
"I don't want that mess.
00:45:33.19\00:45:34.66
I want to isolate.
00:45:34.70\00:45:36.03
I'm gonna put my way from that
and become more Christ like."
00:45:36.06\00:45:38.57
You know, I was thinking
too when you were talking
00:45:38.60\00:45:40.14
how proud you were
of your tomato plant.
00:45:40.17\00:45:42.60
Think of how God
must feel about us.
00:45:42.64\00:45:44.01
Amen. Amen.
00:45:44.04\00:45:45.67
And especially as if we
go from one level of glory
00:45:45.71\00:45:48.94
to the next and
prune this stuff...
00:45:48.98\00:45:51.08
But that we still
stay connected to Him
00:45:51.11\00:45:52.85
through the pruning and
not rejecting or leave Him.
00:45:52.88\00:45:55.18
You're still in
that branch. Connected.
00:45:55.22\00:45:57.82
When you're
trimming and pruning,
00:45:57.85\00:45:59.99
you're getting rid of
what's stealing from the fruit.
00:46:00.02\00:46:03.73
That's exactly right.
Yeah, that's excellent.
00:46:03.76\00:46:06.19
I mean, that's the thing to
know that's coming in there.
00:46:06.23\00:46:08.43
And you don't know
it because they look...
00:46:08.46\00:46:12.20
The tares look the same.
00:46:12.23\00:46:13.90
It's just that you look
and it is designed by nature
00:46:13.94\00:46:17.74
this is diagonal stem here.
00:46:17.77\00:46:20.34
It's always the junk...
00:46:20.38\00:46:24.61
Two choices. Yeah.
00:46:24.65\00:46:27.62
Dad, go ahead.
00:46:27.65\00:46:29.75
In verse 2, it's very clear
00:46:29.78\00:46:32.79
that God is
going to cut everyone.
00:46:32.82\00:46:37.76
I want to be pruned now.
00:46:37.79\00:46:41.03
I do not want to
be eliminated. Amen.
00:46:41.06\00:46:44.50
It's a big difference.
That is a big difference.
00:46:44.53\00:46:46.17
So everyone's going to get
cut, but whether it's a pruning
00:46:46.20\00:46:51.91
or completely eliminated.
00:46:51.94\00:46:53.78
I don't want to be
eliminated from God's kingdom.
00:46:53.81\00:46:56.51
I want to be part of
His kingdom and the pruning,
00:46:56.54\00:47:00.32
I will accept and say thank you.
00:47:00.35\00:47:02.55
Amen. Amen.
00:47:02.58\00:47:04.19
Amen.
00:47:04.22\00:47:05.55
Because this is
part of the growth...
00:47:05.59\00:47:07.16
Yes, it is part of
the growth. In Jesus.
00:47:07.19\00:47:09.16
And when you look back,
you're always like, oh, wow.
00:47:09.19\00:47:13.50
I needed that. I needed that.
00:47:13.53\00:47:15.10
Yes, it's a blessing and a joy.
00:47:15.13\00:47:17.57
And you're like it
hurt but now I'm better.
00:47:17.60\00:47:22.07
I'm happier.
00:47:22.10\00:47:24.17
I just want to
say to you at home,
00:47:24.21\00:47:25.67
I don't know
00:47:25.71\00:47:27.04
what you're going
through right now.
00:47:27.08\00:47:28.81
I don't know what experience
00:47:28.84\00:47:30.71
you have in your life right now.
00:47:30.75\00:47:32.25
And you might be saying,
"I feel like I'm being pruned.
00:47:32.28\00:47:36.05
I have some stuff in my life.
00:47:36.08\00:47:38.72
I'm going
through some experiences,
00:47:38.75\00:47:40.82
some trials, some difficulties."
00:47:40.86\00:47:44.06
And pruning is
not always painless.
00:47:44.09\00:47:46.46
You know, when
you're cut, it hurts.
00:47:46.49\00:47:49.96
And then yet God
says, "Okay, I love you.
00:47:50.00\00:47:54.10
I do it because I
want you in My kingdom."
00:47:54.14\00:47:58.64
So allow it to take place.
00:47:58.67\00:48:01.24
Know that God does
it in love. He does.
00:48:01.28\00:48:04.98
Know that He sees who you
are going to become in Jesus,
00:48:05.01\00:48:09.48
totally grown up in Him
and let Him do the work.
00:48:09.52\00:48:14.52
Know that He pours in His
oil when He does the cutting
00:48:14.56\00:48:18.63
to help soften
that and to keep it
00:48:18.66\00:48:20.86
from hurting so much.
00:48:20.90\00:48:22.93
And that God wants to do that,
that work, that process in us.
00:48:22.96\00:48:27.30
We have time for
another scripture?
00:48:27.34\00:48:28.67
Sure. Let's do another
one. What one you want to do?
00:48:28.70\00:48:31.91
Well, I'm
wondering about, you know,
00:48:31.94\00:48:33.27
what is the end result as
far as of growing in Jesus?
00:48:33.31\00:48:35.11
Nice.
00:48:35.14\00:48:36.48
We were talking
about that earlier
00:48:36.51\00:48:37.85
so what would be the
end result of growing?
00:48:37.88\00:48:39.68
We know like we're
talking about fruit,
00:48:39.71\00:48:41.95
the peach, Elder JD, right?
00:48:41.98\00:48:44.02
Yes.
00:48:44.05\00:48:45.39
That's enjoyable, it's
juicy, it's nourishment for us,
00:48:45.42\00:48:48.12
the tomato, we're
talking about corn.
00:48:48.16\00:48:50.36
But for us as Christians
that are abiding in the vine,
00:48:50.39\00:48:53.29
what is that end result here
in the last couple of minutes
00:48:53.33\00:48:56.23
that we have?
00:48:56.26\00:48:57.60
Okay, let's look
at... Oh, go ahead.
00:48:57.63\00:48:58.97
No, I just said, one thing
is that we want in John 17,
00:48:59.00\00:49:01.30
that we want to glorify God
00:49:01.34\00:49:02.77
just as Jesus
glorified His Father.
00:49:02.80\00:49:04.57
Yeah, amen. Amen.
00:49:04.61\00:49:05.94
That's good.
00:49:05.97\00:49:07.64
That was John 17,
Mom, what was the verse?
00:49:07.68\00:49:09.28
Is there a certain verse
00:49:09.31\00:49:10.65
or the whole thing
that talks about it?
00:49:10.68\00:49:12.01
John 17, 'cause someone
at home may want to take it.
00:49:12.05\00:49:14.22
Verses 4 and 6. Okay, yeah.
00:49:14.25\00:49:16.75
John 17. Yes.
00:49:16.79\00:49:18.69
4 and 6. You want to read it?
00:49:18.72\00:49:20.32
And then we'll read another.
00:49:20.36\00:49:22.29
"I have glorified,"
this is Jesus speaking,
00:49:22.32\00:49:24.73
"I have glorified
Thee on the earth.
00:49:24.76\00:49:26.36
I have finished the
work which You gave me to do.
00:49:26.39\00:49:29.66
I have manifested
Your name unto men."
00:49:29.70\00:49:32.17
Amen, absolutely. And
you have one in Isaiah?
00:49:32.20\00:49:35.00
I have one in Isaiah 43:10.
00:49:35.04\00:49:39.04
"You are my
witnesses, says the Lord,
00:49:39.07\00:49:42.41
and my servant
whom I have chosen
00:49:42.44\00:49:44.78
that you may know and believe me
00:49:44.81\00:49:46.15
and understand I am He.
00:49:46.18\00:49:47.52
Before me, there
was no God formed
00:49:47.55\00:49:49.58
nor should there be after me."
00:49:49.62\00:49:51.15
And if you jump
down to verse 12,
00:49:51.19\00:49:53.46
the second part of verse 12,
00:49:53.49\00:49:54.82
"Therefore, you
are My witnesses,"
00:49:54.86\00:49:56.19
says the Lord, "that I am God."
00:49:56.22\00:49:59.73
So He wants us to grow up
into Him so that we can be
00:49:59.76\00:50:03.50
His witnesses and to
share Him to someone else.
00:50:03.53\00:50:06.27
Back at 2 Corinthians 4:6 and 7,
00:50:06.30\00:50:09.44
"So that we can be a
light unto the world."
00:50:09.47\00:50:12.44
That's how He uses us to
be light to the dark world.
00:50:12.47\00:50:17.35
Well, I guess there's no
greater gift in the world
00:50:17.38\00:50:19.65
than to be a leader among men.
00:50:19.68\00:50:23.28
And if you're getting your...
00:50:23.32\00:50:24.72
If you're being fed
by this right here...
00:50:24.75\00:50:27.06
Which is the Word of God.
And it's becoming who you are.
00:50:27.09\00:50:30.23
And then, you're put in
a position of leadership
00:50:30.26\00:50:33.63
by witnessing, the
word has been given to you,
00:50:33.66\00:50:37.33
well, then you're helping
Him fill the kingdom of God.
00:50:37.37\00:50:41.47
Amen. Amen.
00:50:41.50\00:50:42.84
That's a good
point out of, JD, too
00:50:42.87\00:50:44.21
because we all have somebody
that we influence, don't we,
00:50:44.24\00:50:47.14
because someone could
say, "Well," you know,
00:50:47.18\00:50:49.31
wherever they're at,
00:50:49.34\00:50:50.85
it could be just
their own family,
00:50:50.88\00:50:52.51
maybe they're, I
guess, a small church.
00:50:52.55\00:50:55.35
But we all have somebody that
we can be a light to, right?
00:50:55.38\00:51:01.12
And share God's word. Amen.
00:51:01.16\00:51:02.72
You know what a
privilege, isn't it?
00:51:02.76\00:51:04.59
And what a responsibility.
And that's true too.
00:51:04.63\00:51:06.73
I mean, I'm sitting here
and looking at the product
00:51:06.76\00:51:09.00
of these two right here.
00:51:09.03\00:51:10.80
And, wow, good fruit.
00:51:10.83\00:51:13.94
That's Jesus. Oh, God.
00:51:13.97\00:51:15.30
Any good fruit is Jesus'.
00:51:15.34\00:51:16.71
And that makes it even
better because in the trimming
00:51:16.74\00:51:19.27
and everything,
you're still sitting here,
00:51:19.31\00:51:21.71
"It's God.
00:51:21.74\00:51:23.08
It's God." That is God.
00:51:23.11\00:51:24.45
You know, bow ark, and I know
that Danny's talked about this,
00:51:24.48\00:51:27.88
Gilley's has talked about this,
in my time, we got whoopings,
00:51:27.92\00:51:32.59
not whippings, not spanking,
not switches, we got whoopings
00:51:32.62\00:51:37.13
and I'll never
forget in my family,
00:51:37.16\00:51:41.33
our family, it was my mother
and she was in charge of that.
00:51:41.36\00:51:46.57
She was a little woman,
but boy, she could swat good.
00:51:46.60\00:51:50.04
And so if I heard it once,
I heard it a thousand times,
00:51:50.07\00:51:55.68
"Honey, this is going to hurt me
00:51:55.71\00:51:57.05
more than it's hurting you."
00:51:57.08\00:51:58.41
That's great.
00:52:02.58\00:52:03.92
And so anyway I think
there's a lot of things
00:52:03.95\00:52:06.35
that are being pruned, you know,
00:52:06.39\00:52:08.49
and God probably His
tears are coming down His face.
00:52:08.52\00:52:12.26
Absolutely.
00:52:12.29\00:52:13.63
And I know we want to go
to prayer here at the end
00:52:13.66\00:52:15.76
but, Dad, you were talking.
00:52:15.80\00:52:17.13
You were telling
me before the program
00:52:17.17\00:52:18.67
that God the
Father, God the Son,
00:52:18.70\00:52:20.64
and God the Holy
Spirit are all involved
00:52:20.67\00:52:22.70
in our
sanctification process, right?
00:52:22.74\00:52:25.14
Yeah.
00:52:25.17\00:52:26.51
I looked at the word
sanctification or sanctify.
00:52:26.54\00:52:30.38
And I found three passages.
00:52:30.41\00:52:33.18
Romans 15:16,
00:52:33.21\00:52:36.89
"We're being
sanctified by the Holy Spirit."
00:52:36.92\00:52:40.99
In many texts,
1 Corinthians 1:2,
00:52:41.02\00:52:45.93
"Sanctified in Jesus."
00:52:45.96\00:52:49.46
And Jude 1:1,
"Sanctified by God the Father."
00:52:49.50\00:52:56.81
Every member of the Godhead
00:52:56.84\00:52:59.97
is involved in
our sanctification.
00:53:00.01\00:53:03.85
That's what was
important to me by those.
00:53:03.88\00:53:05.81
And that's
encouraging, isn't it?
00:53:05.85\00:53:07.18
Yes, it is. Yes.
00:53:07.22\00:53:08.55
Yes. What power, what help.
00:53:08.58\00:53:10.25
God knows no failure
so we need to surrender.
00:53:10.29\00:53:13.25
Well, we have a few minutes left
00:53:13.29\00:53:14.99
and we want to end in prayer
as we usually do, but, Dad,
00:53:15.02\00:53:18.53
would you mind start
us out as we pray here
00:53:18.56\00:53:20.10
at the very end of worship.
00:53:20.13\00:53:21.46
Yeah.
00:53:21.50\00:53:24.17
Lord, as always
we thank You first
00:53:24.20\00:53:27.60
for being our God,
for reaching out to us
00:53:27.64\00:53:31.24
because we don't even have
00:53:31.27\00:53:32.61
the ability to reach out to
You but You reach out to us.
00:53:32.64\00:53:38.15
Help us to accept
that reaching out to us.
00:53:38.18\00:53:44.15
Help us, dear Lord, to
be willing, to be changed,
00:53:44.19\00:53:50.49
to be molded, to be
connected to the vine,
00:53:50.53\00:53:54.46
to see Your glory
and to respond to it.
00:53:54.50\00:53:59.37
We pray this in Jesus' name.
00:53:59.40\00:54:02.40
Amen.
00:54:02.44\00:54:04.87
And, Father, we thank
You so much for the love
00:54:04.91\00:54:06.94
that You have for
us in sending Your Son
00:54:06.98\00:54:11.35
so we may have
eternal life with You.
00:54:11.38\00:54:14.15
And, Father, we pray that
as we are connected with You,
00:54:14.18\00:54:17.52
as we go through
this pruning process
00:54:17.55\00:54:19.65
that we never
let go of Your hand.
00:54:19.69\00:54:23.66
We know that You are with us,
00:54:23.69\00:54:25.73
that You walk right
with us, right beside us.
00:54:25.76\00:54:28.36
And may our lives be a
sweet savor unto Christ
00:54:28.40\00:54:33.17
that we may
influence those around us
00:54:33.20\00:54:35.87
that they may long to know
you as their personal savior.
00:54:35.90\00:54:39.91
Amen. Amen.
00:54:39.94\00:54:41.41
Oh, Father, I
praise You and I thank You
00:54:41.44\00:54:44.38
that You love me enough
00:54:44.41\00:54:46.05
that You love
each one of us enough
00:54:46.08\00:54:48.72
that You will take the time
00:54:48.75\00:54:50.09
and the work and
the effort to prune us,
00:54:50.12\00:54:52.59
to rule us, to do
everything that is possible
00:54:52.62\00:54:57.33
that we will spend eternity
with You in the kingdom.
00:54:57.36\00:55:00.00
So thank You,
Father, for pruning me
00:55:00.03\00:55:02.96
and for working with me,
00:55:03.00\00:55:04.33
and finishing the
work that You have begun.
00:55:04.37\00:55:06.70
Thank You, Father. Amen.
00:55:06.74\00:55:09.20
And, Father, as we come
to You in the name of Jesus,
00:55:09.24\00:55:11.47
I want to thank You, Lord,
for the freedom and the option
00:55:11.51\00:55:16.41
to be able to make choices.
00:55:16.44\00:55:17.85
Yes.
00:55:17.88\00:55:19.21
And, Father, I do
ask in the name of Jesus
00:55:19.25\00:55:21.12
that You will be
with me in my decisions,
00:55:21.15\00:55:24.02
Lord, my family's decisions.
00:55:24.05\00:55:26.45
And, Father, as we just
grow, we just ask, Lord,
00:55:26.49\00:55:30.53
that we will
continually be drawn to You.
00:55:30.56\00:55:33.23
And, Father, that we
will just be emptied of self,
00:55:33.26\00:55:35.46
filled with You.
00:55:35.50\00:55:36.97
And, Father, we do give
You all the praise and glory.
00:55:37.00\00:55:39.90
Amen. Amen.
00:55:39.93\00:55:41.87
Thank you, Father,
that You want to grow us.
00:55:41.90\00:55:43.97
We give You
permission to come in
00:55:44.01\00:55:46.17
and to do the work necessary.
00:55:46.21\00:55:48.48
We love you.
00:55:48.51\00:55:50.95
Father in heaven,
Lord, we're so grateful
00:55:50.98\00:55:52.55
for the
opportunity to be able to
00:55:52.58\00:55:54.45
open the Sabbath with Your
Word and with our family here
00:55:54.48\00:55:58.09
and, Lord, I
just, in my own life,
00:55:58.12\00:55:59.82
like Elder JD was saying,
00:55:59.85\00:56:01.19
"Want to choose You
and allow You to prune me
00:56:01.22\00:56:04.59
and, Lord, to accept the pruning
00:56:04.63\00:56:06.96
and, Lord, we
want to grow in You.
00:56:07.00\00:56:09.16
So, Lord, help us
this week to grow in You
00:56:09.20\00:56:12.10
and to choose You every day.
00:56:12.13\00:56:13.64
In Jesus' name
we pray, amen. Amen.
00:56:13.67\00:56:16.54
Hard to believe our time
is going quickly, isn't it?
00:56:16.57\00:56:18.87
Yes, it's gone by
really fast. That's for sure.
00:56:18.91\00:56:21.84
I'm gonna let you take us out.
00:56:21.88\00:56:23.24
Say goodbye to our
family that we have here,
00:56:23.28\00:56:24.71
especially since you have
your Mom and Dad here with us.
00:56:24.75\00:56:27.65
It's just a real privilege
to share a family worship
00:56:27.68\00:56:30.99
with you at home because
you are part of our 3ABN family
00:56:31.02\00:56:34.66
and it's a privilege to
share around the table here.
00:56:34.69\00:56:37.36
It's just a joy to have
both of you here, Mom and Dad.
00:56:37.39\00:56:40.76
And thank you for
coming and for sharing.
00:56:40.80\00:56:43.26
It was a privilege.
And I want to say here too.
00:56:43.30\00:56:45.20
We have just a
couple seconds left.
00:56:45.23\00:56:46.57
Thank you for
including me in the family.
00:56:46.60\00:56:49.00
There's nothing as
bad in-law type of stuff,
00:56:49.04\00:56:50.94
I assure you that.
00:56:50.97\00:56:52.31
So thank you to both of
you. It was just a blessing.
00:56:52.34\00:56:54.31
It was an easy thing, Greg.
It's a blessing, thank you.
00:56:54.34\00:56:57.65
And, JD, and Dee,
you're part of the family too.
00:56:57.68\00:57:00.75
And just thank you
so much for being here.
00:57:00.78\00:57:02.78
Amen. It's a joy.
00:57:02.82\00:57:04.89
And it's wonderful to be
able to meet your parents,
00:57:04.92\00:57:07.49
you know, godly people.
00:57:07.52\00:57:09.36
It just goes so
fast with family.
00:57:09.39\00:57:12.59
I know, doesn't it? Absolutely.
00:57:12.63\00:57:15.23
And, Greg, he has
two lovely parents too,
00:57:15.26\00:57:18.00
so amen, it's...
00:57:18.03\00:57:19.37
Family is a blessing. It is.
00:57:19.40\00:57:20.74
Very blessed for
sure. It is a blessing.
00:57:20.77\00:57:22.60
Thank you so
much for joining us.
00:57:22.64\00:57:24.87
Know that we love
you, that we pray for you.
00:57:24.91\00:57:27.38
We hope you have
a wonderful Sabbath.
00:57:27.41\00:57:28.98
Spending time in His
word, beholding Jesus, abiding,
00:57:29.01\00:57:32.08
and growing in grace.
00:57:32.11\00:57:34.05
We'll see you
next time. Bye-bye.
00:57:34.08\00:57:35.98
Happy Sabbath.
00:57:36.02\00:57:37.35