I want to spend my life
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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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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 broke people
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Hello, and welcome
to 3ABN Family Worship.
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We thank you for
spending a little of the opening
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of the Sabbath hours
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and should you be watching
this on a Saturday evening
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then the beginning
of a brand new week
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but we thank you
as we welcome you
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into our "house".
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And you join us for a
very fine worship we spending.
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Irma, we've got the
guests with us today, do we not?
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Yes, we do.
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And we praise the Lord for that.
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We want to go
right into introducing
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the Family Worship
members who are here.
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And we've
actually been in the homes
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of all of these
people for Family Worship
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at one time or another.
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And we haven't been to
Jason's apartment yet though.
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No, we are waiting.
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But you guys are
welcome to come over
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and bring some food.
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Spoken like a true bachelor.
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We will start with
Lynette and Jorge Jaque.
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Good to have you guys
here. Good to be here as usual.
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Indeed, good to
see you as always.
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And we were at your
house just a few days ago.
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Yes.
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And he always has
good food in his house.
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Yes. Come on over.
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Jorge has skills in
the kitchen, he does.
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Yeah, he does.
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Some, some. Some.
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Some skills. Yes, yes.
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And what he lacks, Lynnette has.
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And we've gone
to some good rice,
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we have guacamole,
we have other things.
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All kind of goodies. Yes, yes.
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Smoothies.
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And then of course, my wife is
an internationally known cook,
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known on at
least two continents.
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At least two.
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And two countries,
here and Panama at least.
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Yeah, at least.
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And Jason is a good cook.
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Yeah, Jason likes to
cook. He's a very good cook.
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Yeah, I can to a very
little something in the kitchen.
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And we have Xenia
Capote on the piano
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and we've food at her house too.
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And she has one
of my favorite dishes
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which I'm not going to
mention and neither are you.
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And she's a very good cook also.
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So this is a good family worship
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and we're gonna
make ourselves hungry
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if we keep talking about food.
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So we should
probably get to our song.
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If you want to
join us for the music,
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it's 608 in the
Adventist hymnal,
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it's Faith is the Victory.
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We're going to
sing all three stanzas.
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And then we're
going to ask Xenia
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to come and join
us for our discussion.
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And today we're going to
look at developing good habits.
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We're gonna talk
about good habits.
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And if time allows,
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we're going to talk
about the records of God
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and the record
keeping of the Lord.
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So we'll see how our time goes.
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We may have to
save the record keeping
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for another program.
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But again, thank you for
joining us for Family Worship.
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It's always a good time
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when we come
together for worship.
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So, Xenia, if you will.
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Encamped along
the hills of light
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Ye Christian soldiers, rise
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And press the
battle ere the night
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Shall veil the glowing skies
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Against the foe in vales below
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Let all our strength be hurled
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Faith is the victory, we know
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That overcomes the world
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Faith is the
victory! Faith is the victory!
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O, glorious victory
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That overcomes the world
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Then stanza number two.
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On every hand the foe we find
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Drawn up in dread array
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Let tents of ease be left behind
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And onward to the fray
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Salvation's helmet on each head
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With truth all girt about
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The earth shall
tremble 'neath our tread
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And echo with our shout
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Faith is the
victory! Faith is the victory!
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O, glorious victory
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That overcomes the world
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To him that overcomes the foe
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White raiment shall be giv'n
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Before the angels he shall know
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His name confessed in heaven
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Then onward from
the hills of light
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Our hearts with love aflame
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We'll vanquish
all the hosts of night
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In Jesus' conquering name
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Faith is the
victory! Faith is the victory!
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O, glorious victory
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That overcomes the world
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Amen, faith is the victory
that overcomes the world.
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While Xenia is
making her way back over,
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Jason, would you
lead us in prayer
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and then we'll go right
into our reading and our study.
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Sure.
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Dear heavenly
Father, we thank You
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for the opportunity to
study Your Word to come together
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and have devotion together.
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We ask that You would
please fill this place
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with Your Holy
Spirit that You would lead
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and guide us into all truth.
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And be with all those
that are watching at home,
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Lord, fill their
homes with Your Spirit,
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and lead and guide
them into all truth as well.
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Thank You for
hearing this prayer.
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In Jesus' name, we pray.
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Amen. Amen.
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Our study today
comes from a reading
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that was part of this
year's morning watch booking.
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And this is
something that Irma and I read.
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We try to get to it
every day unless we get up
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really, really late in afternoon
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and then we have
to do in the evening.
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But we try to go into
the morning watch everyday.
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It is written and
addressed particularly to youth,
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but you'll find and we
found that it has information
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and encouragement
for young and old alike.
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The subject is
developing good habits.
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It's under the
heading of the section
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called consecration
and Christian experience.
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The Bible text is
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Psalms 119:101,
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"I've refrained my
feet from every evil way
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that I might keep Thy word."
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I'm gonna read it and then
we're gonna spend little time
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responding to this
because this has a lot of meat
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in this particular section.
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It says, "We are
nearing the end of time,"
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and to that, we
can all say amen,
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"and we want now not to meet
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the world's tastes and practices
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but to meet the mind of God,
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to see what
sayeth the scriptures
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and then to walk
according to the light
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which God has give us."
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So to see and then
walk in that light.
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"The youth are forming habits
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which will, in
nine cases out of ten,
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decide their future.
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The influence of
the company they keep,
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the associations they
form, the principles they adopt
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will be carried
with them through life.
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We shall be individually,
for a time and eternity,
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what our habits make us.
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The lives of those
who form right habits
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and are faithful in the
performance of every duty
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will be as shining
lights, shredding bright beams
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upon the pathway of others.
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There is no need of
being spiritual dwarfs
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if the mind is continual
exercised in spiritual things
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but merely, praying for this
and about this will not meet
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the necessities of the case."
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So a lot of people praying
for stuff and about stuff
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but not putting
their heart in it.
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"You must habituate the mind
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to concentration
upon spiritual things.
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Exercise will bring strength.
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Many professed
Christians are in a fairway
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to lose both worlds
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to be half a
Christian and half a worldly man
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makes you about
100th of part Christian
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and all the rest worldly."
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That's interesting.
That sort of caught my mind.
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You think you're half and
half but really you're way over
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in the world's side
and not near Christ at all.
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"The mind must be educated
and disciplined to love purity,
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a love for spiritual
things should be encouraged.
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Ye must be encouraged
if you would grow in grace
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and in the knowledge of truth.
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We, I'm sorry, the
will must be exercised
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in the right direction.
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I will be a whole
hearted Christian.
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I will know the
length and breadth,
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the height and
depth of perfect love.
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Listen to the words of Jesus,
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blessed are they
which do hunger and thirst
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after righteousness
for they shall be filled,
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Matthew 5:6.
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Ample provision, I like this,
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ample provisions
are made by Christ
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to satisfy the soul
that hungers and thirsts
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for righteousness."
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I want to start off by
just taking a couple of things
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that sort of jump out at me.
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Ellen White says,
and I've done this study
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many, many times about
the correct use of the will.
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There are those who
say, "You just give yourself
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over to Jesus."
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But there must be,
my understanding says,
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a deciding to be
like Christ, you know,
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a decision of
the will, I'm not...
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I'm going to
use what will I have
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to surrender to Jesus.
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Now here's the thing I
was talking about churches.
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To use the will
to not do something
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is a wrong use of the will.
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It's negative.
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Say, I'm saying, "I don't
want to think about Irma."
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So I'm gonna think
about not thinking about Irma.
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So I am in effect
thinking about Irma
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because that's the
wrong use of the will.
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If Irma tempts me,
well, praise the Lord, but...
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But my point is to use
the will to not do something
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is an incorrect use of the will.
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What I've got to
use my will power is
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to keep Jesus in my
heart, and Jesus in my mind.
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So I've got to replace
this with something else.
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You follow what I'm saying?
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So if I'm thinking
about not thinking about Irma,
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I'm thinking about Irma.
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What I need to do is
concentrate on Christ.
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And Christ gives me the
will not to think about Irma.
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I think it's like,
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when you
identify with something,
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with a belief,
with a person, right,
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or with an
organization, you are...
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That's I think
applies to what you're saying.
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So my
identification is with Christ.
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I would even then
identify with Him.
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I want people who sees me,
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they see my
identification right away.
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And so if I think more and
more about my wife in this case,
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or Christ or any belief,
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that's what I'm
going to be, I become.
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And that's super
important in our Christian life
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because otherwise
we'll become nothing.
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Identity is everything.
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Someone said to
me the other day,
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and I don't want to
dominate conversation
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but this
occurred to me, he said,
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"I know that you can
stop," I don't remember,
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he was drinking or
smoking because I did.
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I was a drinker, I was a smoker.
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And I need to stop.
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I just said, "I'm
not doing it anymore."
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And Ellen White tells us in
the history of Joseph Bates.
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Joseph Bates was like that.
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He was a drinker, a
smoker, a rough sea captain.
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He decided one
day, "You know what,
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I'm done with cigarettes."
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Then he said, "Okay,
I'm not going to smoke pipes
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anymore and so he stopped.
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I'm not going to do
alcohol anymore, so he stopped.
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He just on force
of will, he stopped.
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Most people aren't
that good. Don't have that.
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You know, who can just
say, "I'm done with that."
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And they're just done.
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So most people have to say,
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"I'm going to have
to concentrate on Jesus,
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and let Jesus
help me stop smoking.
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Let Jesus help me stop drinking
because if you're sitting there
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thinking about that
that glass of wine, look up
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"Today, I'm not going
to think about that wine."
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Right. You keep
looking at it. Right, yeah.
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What you have to say is,
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"Today, I'm going
to concentrate on Jesus
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and let Jesus help me stop."
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The will has to come in.
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But to use the will to
do negative stuff is not,
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is the wrong use
of the will, I feel.
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The more you try to avoid
it, the more you think about it.
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Yeah, that's right.
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When somebody tells
you not to do something,
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you're thinking about,
"Oh, I want to do it now."
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Right.
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Something very interesting.
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This morning, my
daughter sent me a devotional
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that she was reading,
and I forgot to bring it.
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But the gist was
of that, he says...
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And he has a lot to do
with this condition as to,
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"I want to do
something and I don't do it."
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Because it says,
"We grow in Christ
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when we take the
time to meditate on Him
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an hour at least, a
minimum an hour a day.
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Just the fact that
we are hanging around
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with other Christian people
doesn't give us the strength
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to do these things.
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So we could be in
church trying to quit smoking
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and just because we're
there, it's not going to happen.
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We need to have
that relationship
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that prayer season, you
know, the season of prayer,
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I'm sorry, that
that will lead you
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to have the strength to
do these things, you know,
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the will that give you the
will because without the will,
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you're not going to do it.
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Willpower comes from God.
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It's not just yours.
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So it's not just hanging
around with the right people
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or looking at the right movies
or listening to right music,
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that's not enough.
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You need that
connection with God,
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that devotion
time alone with God.
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I'm sorry.
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I think what your daughter
was referring probably is,
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there is a
quote from Ellen White
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from Desire of Ages, it says,
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"Will do us well to meditate
about Jesus one hour a day,
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and especially in the
final events of this life,
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if we do that, our
life will completely change.
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There's some people
says that if you dedicate
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one hour a day to
study any discipline,
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any career,
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let's say you wanna
become a lawyer, in five years,
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you can be the best
lawyer, the best in any field
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if you dedicate
just one hour a day.
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So that's going back
to what you're saying.
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So if you want to
be a strong Christian,
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give Him at least one
hour a day in order to build
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some spiritual muscles.
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I'm glad... I'm sorry, go ahead.
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And you're glad.
I'm glad you're glad.
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Totally dented.
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I wanted to say
that this past week,
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something about habits
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how you know it talks
about not just the youth
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but the adults also.
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You know,
sometimes we would want
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to change things in our
lives and any storm, you know,
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even experts have said that
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if you take
certain amount of days,
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you will
actually forget that habit
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and you'll get a new
habit then you're something
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more positive in your life.
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But last week, I was...
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That is some music that
I like to listen sometimes
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but that is I found that
I cannot do it all the time,
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I rather not listen
too much to the music
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because it stays in my mind.
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And last week, I had...
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I listened to this one
song and it's an old song,
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it was nothing that
has really bad things
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but it was such a thing
that it just kept on my mind
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and yes, whatever I
was, even when I was praying,
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this song was
coming into my mind.
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And so I said, "Oh,
Lord, take this away from me,
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you know, this is..."
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But I found that every
time it came into my mind,
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I start singing
a Christian song.
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And in about five, six days,
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then I realized
that it was gone.
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So instead of, like you say,
concentrating on not to not...
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I'm not gonna listen to
that, I'm not going to...
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Every time it came to
my mind, I will sing a song
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that, you know,
praises to God about it.
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And it finally went
away but habits are so...
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Are very easy to,
especially bad habits.
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Are very easy to
creep in our lives...
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That falls under
something that I've been hearing
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over and over lately which is,
you cannot serve two masters.
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You'll hate the
one and love the other.
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And it's just
popping up all over my life.
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And it's like, "See, see.
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You can't serve two masters,
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you really need to
change these things."
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And it's uncomfortable
but I'm praising the Lord
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that He is
loving me enough to say,
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"Hey, take care of this now."
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You know, the Bible says,
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"By beholding,
we become change."
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So it becomes a slippery slope
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if you're just
listening to bad music,
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if you're watching bad movies,
00:19:46.55\00:19:47.98
if you're hanging around
friends that have bad habits
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and do, you know, things
that they shouldn't be doing,
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then you're going to change
one way or the other, you know.
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Everybody has an influence,
everybody exerts an influence
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whether it be
positive or negative.
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So if you're
around negativity all day,
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you're gonna put out negativity.
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If you're taking in
negative things constantly,
00:20:10.97\00:20:13.78
that's what's gonna come out.
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It's just like your
body, like if you're consuming
00:20:15.18\00:20:17.61
junk food all the
time, junk is gonna come out.
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It's gonna wear you down.
00:20:21.08\00:20:22.78
So unless you're filling
your mind with the Word of God,
00:20:22.82\00:20:26.96
unless you're spending
time developing a relationship
00:20:26.99\00:20:30.33
with Christ, unless
you're spending time in church,
00:20:30.36\00:20:32.13
unless you're
spending time with people
00:20:32.16\00:20:34.80
who are heavenly
minded, then things are gonna
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most likely move in
that wrong direction.
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You know, they also say that
if you want to be successful,
00:20:43.61\00:20:46.61
if you wanna be a
successful individual,
00:20:46.64\00:20:50.71
you spend time with people
00:20:50.75\00:20:52.38
who are more
successful than you are.
00:20:52.41\00:20:55.12
You know, you don't
spend time with people
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who are five steps behind you
00:20:56.79\00:20:59.65
to get ten
steps ahead, you know.
00:20:59.69\00:21:02.89
I mean, you
spend time with people
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who are doing
something that in an area
00:21:05.16\00:21:07.60
where you want to go.
00:21:07.63\00:21:08.96
If you want to
make it to heaven,
00:21:09.00\00:21:10.90
you got to spend time
learning about Christ,
00:21:10.93\00:21:13.37
you have to spend time you
know with the Pastor Murray
00:21:13.40\00:21:16.54
or something too
that can you know
00:21:16.57\00:21:20.28
who's spiritual individual
00:21:20.31\00:21:25.11
and is gonna point
you in that direction too.
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You know, he's not
gonna lead you to the bar
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or anything like that.
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You know, at this idea
and Xenia mentioned it before,
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she said it's not
just the company you keep.
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And it's not just
the company you keep
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but that's part of
equation, you know.
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It says, amid influence
of the company they keep,
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the association they form,
I'm talking about young people,
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the principles they
adopt will be carried
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with them through life.
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The selection of friends
and people that you just...
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I mean, your
close buddies, you know,
00:21:57.38\00:22:00.52
we all have a
tight sphere of influence
00:22:00.55\00:22:02.95
then there is a
lot, a wider circle
00:22:02.98\00:22:04.92
but those who, you
spend a lot of time with
00:22:04.95\00:22:06.72
ought to be people
who can lift you up.
00:22:06.76\00:22:09.32
And no more important decision
00:22:09.36\00:22:13.53
than the person that you're
gonna spend your life with,
00:22:13.56\00:22:16.26
you know, that is...
00:22:16.30\00:22:17.63
All of us, well, we got
one married, two married,
00:22:17.67\00:22:19.90
three married and
then we got Jason,
00:22:19.93\00:22:21.70
looking to get married.
00:22:21.74\00:22:23.10
That's right. That's right.
00:22:23.14\00:22:25.84
I think we all agree.
00:22:25.87\00:22:28.34
There's no more
important decision
00:22:28.38\00:22:30.01
than who you marry.
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That can make you
or break you, you know.
00:22:31.55\00:22:35.38
And you want someone who...
00:22:35.42\00:22:36.75
And they don't have
to be a clone of you.
00:22:36.79\00:22:38.42
In fact, Ellen White
kind of works against that
00:22:38.45\00:22:40.79
that you don't want the person
00:22:40.82\00:22:42.16
to totally lose
their character in yours.
00:22:42.19\00:22:44.19
You want the
person to be an individual
00:22:44.23\00:22:45.96
but you ought to be
pulling the same way, you know,
00:22:45.99\00:22:47.93
pulling on the same team...
00:22:47.96\00:22:49.30
And equally yoked.
00:22:49.33\00:22:50.67
Working together, sure,
and moving towards the Lord.
00:22:50.70\00:22:53.80
And of course
there's no substitute
00:22:53.84\00:22:56.54
for individual
time with the Lord.
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I can't draft on
Irma's spirituality,
00:23:00.01\00:23:02.34
she cannot draft on mine.
00:23:02.38\00:23:03.91
Jorge, you can't draft...
00:23:03.95\00:23:05.35
You want to create
00:23:05.38\00:23:07.15
a spiritual
atmosphere around you
00:23:07.18\00:23:09.15
but there's no substitute
for one on one with God
00:23:09.18\00:23:12.52
'cause you can't
get away from that.
00:23:12.55\00:23:13.89
Character is not
transferable. No.
00:23:13.92\00:23:15.86
You can't transfer a character.
00:23:15.89\00:23:18.86
It says here that
we are our habits,
00:23:18.89\00:23:22.53
our habits make us who we are.
00:23:22.56\00:23:25.77
So we have to think
about all that because
00:23:25.80\00:23:28.90
if we want to be in heaven,
we need to be acting like
00:23:28.94\00:23:31.74
you were there.
00:23:31.77\00:23:33.21
Otherwise, we're
not going to fit in.
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Another...
00:23:35.41\00:23:36.75
Oh, go ahead. No, go.
00:23:36.78\00:23:38.25
Another interesting saying
that I've heard before is,
00:23:38.28\00:23:40.45
you show me five of
your closest friends
00:23:40.48\00:23:42.72
and I can show you who you are.
00:23:42.75\00:23:44.89
You know, if you're hanging
around drug dealers all day,
00:23:44.92\00:23:49.52
more than likely
you're probably using drugs
00:23:49.56\00:23:52.46
or you're selling
it, you know what I mean,
00:23:52.49\00:23:55.16
either one so.
00:23:55.20\00:23:56.97
Or if you hang around
spiritual people all day,
00:23:57.00\00:24:02.14
more than likely, you
probably love the Lord too,
00:24:02.17\00:24:05.11
you know, it's
one of those things.
00:24:05.14\00:24:07.41
And the Word of God
give us so many counselings
00:24:07.44\00:24:12.11
on how to live and...
00:24:12.15\00:24:16.38
Also that we have to
fight the good faith.
00:24:16.42\00:24:22.66
I like what's...
00:24:22.69\00:24:24.03
Reading recently in the
letters of Paul to Timothy,
00:24:24.06\00:24:29.96
and Timothy was this young man.
00:24:30.00\00:24:32.40
And obviously was a Christian.
00:24:32.43\00:24:36.91
But Paul was giving
him a lot of counsel
00:24:36.94\00:24:40.71
and a lot of encouragement.
00:24:40.74\00:24:44.65
And he was telling to him,
"You got the keep in this line.
00:24:44.68\00:24:48.48
You got to keep on how do you,
a young man keeps in following
00:24:48.52\00:24:55.46
What God wants,
where God wants him to go.
00:24:55.49\00:25:00.13
It has to exercise the will.
00:25:00.16\00:25:03.13
You want to will,
you cannot help anybody
00:25:03.16\00:25:07.27
that doesn't want to be helped
00:25:07.30\00:25:11.64
because you have to want
to, and that's their will,
00:25:11.67\00:25:15.34
the will that God wants to
put in us if we don't have it.
00:25:15.38\00:25:20.58
He wants to put us
the will to do His will.
00:25:20.62\00:25:24.49
And that's why, you know,
Sister White has encouraged us
00:25:24.52\00:25:29.62
to ask God to give us His will
to replace it with His will.
00:25:29.66\00:25:35.20
It's interesting
the Book of Psalms,
00:25:35.23\00:25:39.10
the first Psalm says something
that's very interesting.
00:25:39.13\00:25:42.67
This is exactly
what we're talking about.
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And Psalm 1:1 and 2 says,
00:25:44.87\00:25:50.95
"Blessed is the
one who does not walk,"
00:25:50.98\00:25:54.22
some version says
blessed is the man but,
00:25:54.25\00:25:57.02
"Blessed is the one
who does not walk in step
00:25:57.05\00:26:00.56
with the wicked
00:26:00.59\00:26:01.92
or stand in the
way that sinners take
00:26:01.96\00:26:05.56
or sit in the
company of mockers,
00:26:05.59\00:26:08.76
but who's delight is
in the law of the Lord
00:26:08.80\00:26:13.47
and who meditates on
his law day and night."
00:26:13.50\00:26:18.47
So it's a habit for
that person to walk the walk
00:26:18.51\00:26:25.28
and not just talk the talk
because that's very easy too.
00:26:25.31\00:26:30.72
We sometimes are,
we're very good Christians
00:26:30.75\00:26:33.72
that do the talk
00:26:33.76\00:26:38.06
and well become sometimes
professional stuff there,
00:26:38.09\00:26:40.96
the theory, but when it comes
into putting into practice,
00:26:41.00\00:26:44.93
it's a different story.
00:26:44.97\00:26:46.57
Very, very true.
00:26:46.60\00:26:47.94
It says here, "Merely
praying for this does not meet
00:26:47.97\00:26:52.31
the necessities of the case.
00:26:52.34\00:26:54.94
You must habituate
the mind to concentration
00:26:54.98\00:26:59.51
upon spiritual things."
00:26:59.55\00:27:01.05
Yeah, I just put
little dot there.
00:27:01.08\00:27:03.05
But merely praying,
well, I'm praying, I'm praying,
00:27:03.08\00:27:05.15
I'm praying about
it, I'm praying about it,
00:27:05.19\00:27:07.56
but I think that the question is
00:27:07.59\00:27:09.22
what happens after
you finish praying?
00:27:09.26\00:27:11.33
Once you say amen,
then what do you do
00:27:11.36\00:27:13.70
to sort of buttress you prayer?
00:27:13.73\00:27:15.50
Yeah. Yeah, you can't just...
00:27:15.53\00:27:18.30
That's like you saying, I want
some money in my bank account,
00:27:18.33\00:27:22.47
I really want some
money in my bank account,
00:27:22.50\00:27:25.07
but I'm not going to
work for that, you know,
00:27:25.11\00:27:26.98
I'm not gonna go get a job.
00:27:27.01\00:27:29.01
I want some
money, I want some money
00:27:29.04\00:27:31.15
but you got to get up and do.
00:27:31.18\00:27:32.51
We're to be
co-labors with God not just...
00:27:32.55\00:27:34.78
God's not a genie.
00:27:34.82\00:27:37.19
I think, we are too used to,
00:27:37.22\00:27:40.16
and Christians are
used to separate the action
00:27:40.19\00:27:47.13
from the desire to obtain
something through actions.
00:27:47.16\00:27:51.37
It's like the action, like
the act of getting things done
00:27:51.40\00:27:55.60
is not godly.
00:27:55.64\00:27:58.34
Many people will
say, it's like a faith.
00:27:58.37\00:28:00.38
You have to win.
00:28:00.41\00:28:02.21
If you want something,
let God do it for you.
00:28:02.24\00:28:04.78
That is not like that.
It's just what you're saying.
00:28:04.81\00:28:07.28
If you want something,
you got to work for it.
00:28:07.32\00:28:09.42
It's nothing wrong.
00:28:09.45\00:28:11.35
And Ellen White
says in the prayer book
00:28:11.39\00:28:14.02
and I'm
definitely paraphrasing this.
00:28:14.06\00:28:16.22
It's something along the
lines that like, when you pray,
00:28:16.26\00:28:20.90
pray as though it were,
00:28:20.93\00:28:22.73
like if you're
praying for deliverance,
00:28:22.76\00:28:26.40
believe that
you've been delivered.
00:28:26.43\00:28:28.37
When you say amen, believe
that you've been delivered.
00:28:28.40\00:28:31.24
You know without faith,
it's impossible to please God.
00:28:31.27\00:28:33.34
You have to have faith.
00:28:33.38\00:28:34.71
If you are asking for something
that is within God's will,
00:28:34.74\00:28:37.68
He's gonna grant that.
00:28:37.71\00:28:39.85
You know, if you're
asking for something
00:28:39.88\00:28:41.22
that is in
accordance to His will,
00:28:41.25\00:28:43.55
He's not gonna
withhold any good thing
00:28:43.59\00:28:47.92
from those that serve Him
00:28:47.96\00:28:49.79
as long as it's in
accordance to His will.
00:28:49.82\00:28:51.79
Yes. For His victory.
00:28:51.83\00:28:53.16
Amen.
00:28:53.19\00:28:54.53
There's story that this
man wanted to quit drinking
00:28:54.56\00:28:58.33
so he would go and
they will pray over him
00:28:58.37\00:29:00.80
at church to help
him quit drinking,
00:29:00.84\00:29:03.84
then he would go
home but he wouldn't throw
00:29:03.87\00:29:06.78
the liquor out, you know.
00:29:06.81\00:29:08.34
So why are you not...
00:29:08.38\00:29:10.28
Well, I might need it someday.
00:29:10.31\00:29:13.08
Where was his faith, you know,
he really hadn't given it up.
00:29:13.11\00:29:17.89
Somehow he expected God to...
00:29:17.92\00:29:21.39
We do it, we do
that all the time.
00:29:21.42\00:29:22.96
Exactly. Yes.
00:29:22.99\00:29:24.33
And that example is so...
00:29:24.36\00:29:30.47
repeated in our
lives constantly.
00:29:30.50\00:29:33.30
We want to do something
00:29:33.34\00:29:35.47
then we go back
to the same thing
00:29:35.50\00:29:37.07
because back in our minds...
00:29:37.11\00:29:40.58
I have it we had from before.
00:29:40.61\00:29:42.68
I wanna keep it there
because I may go back sometime.
00:29:42.71\00:29:48.28
Yeah, that's
what the Bible says,
00:29:48.32\00:29:49.65
make no provision for the flesh,
00:29:49.68\00:29:51.05
you know, I'm gonna
keep that cigarette there
00:29:51.09\00:29:52.95
just in case, you know,
00:29:52.99\00:29:54.76
and if it's there,
you're gonna smoke it
00:29:54.79\00:29:56.69
you know as long as it's
there, you're gonna smoke it.
00:29:56.73\00:30:00.53
I was looking in Romans 14:23,
00:30:00.56\00:30:03.63
"But he who doubts is condemned
00:30:03.67\00:30:05.07
if he eats because he
does not eat from faith."
00:30:05.10\00:30:07.90
This is eating and
this is all whole thing
00:30:07.94\00:30:10.61
within the Book of Romans.
00:30:10.64\00:30:11.97
But the part that I
really want is the last part.
00:30:12.01\00:30:14.94
For whatever is
not from faith is sin.
00:30:14.98\00:30:17.85
So you got to
start out with faith.
00:30:17.88\00:30:20.25
And even if you
by with force of will
00:30:20.28\00:30:24.52
stop doing
something, you get no credit for
00:30:24.55\00:30:28.39
because that
action is as filthy rags.
00:30:28.42\00:30:31.13
It has to be done through Christ
00:30:31.16\00:30:33.50
and surrendered to Christ.
00:30:33.53\00:30:36.06
You know, if
anybody who could do say,
00:30:36.10\00:30:38.40
if you could just
become sinless without Christ
00:30:38.43\00:30:41.40
and Christ death is unnecessary.
00:30:41.44\00:30:43.64
So your victories must
be gained through Christ.
00:30:43.67\00:30:47.24
And every victory that
is not gained through Christ
00:30:47.28\00:30:50.01
is not really a victory
00:30:50.05\00:30:52.11
because it's not
surrendered to Christ,
00:30:52.15\00:30:53.82
you know, it's not
under the blood of Christ.
00:30:53.85\00:30:55.58
It's just...
00:30:55.62\00:30:56.95
it's like, it's...
00:30:56.99\00:30:58.32
What's it?
00:30:58.35\00:30:59.69
It's not change of
heart, it's cosmetology,
00:30:59.72\00:31:03.32
you know, putting
powder on your face
00:31:03.36\00:31:04.86
and make himself look
nice but it's not inside.
00:31:04.89\00:31:06.86
The Bible says you're
full of dead with bones.
00:31:06.90\00:31:08.86
So it's cosmetology.
00:31:08.90\00:31:10.23
It's covering it
up that real face.
00:31:10.27\00:31:11.60
Yeah, it's
covering up the real face.
00:31:11.63\00:31:12.97
Precisely, yeah.
00:31:13.00\00:31:14.34
It's basically a
behavior or modification
00:31:14.37\00:31:15.70
instead of a
genuine transformation.
00:31:15.74\00:31:18.44
Yes, very good.
00:31:18.47\00:31:19.87
It's interesting
about the cosmetology
00:31:19.91\00:31:22.84
that you're talking about.
00:31:22.88\00:31:24.45
I was working in
real estate for...
00:31:24.48\00:31:28.25
many times,
00:31:28.28\00:31:30.42
when this person is
trying to sell a house
00:31:30.45\00:31:34.46
and they brush it
here, brush it up.
00:31:34.49\00:31:38.13
And when the
appraisal come and says,
00:31:38.16\00:31:39.89
"No, your house
is valued this much."
00:31:39.93\00:31:42.50
Well, but I did all this.
00:31:42.53\00:31:44.93
And they will tell you,
that's a cosmetic, addition.
00:31:44.97\00:31:50.57
It's cosmetic,
you need cosmetic.
00:31:50.61\00:31:52.17
Exact, it's just cosmetic.
00:31:52.21\00:31:54.68
It doesn't add to the value.
00:31:54.71\00:31:56.04
They had a new bathroom.
00:31:59.28\00:32:01.65
Indeed, all
houses has bathrooms,
00:32:01.68\00:32:04.22
he didn't do anything.
00:32:04.25\00:32:06.92
Now when somebody says,
00:32:06.96\00:32:08.59
"I build a new
driveway with a nice fencer on,
00:32:08.62\00:32:12.39
that's different
00:32:12.43\00:32:13.76
because now I made and doing...
00:32:13.80\00:32:16.20
Make it an
addition to safer the house,
00:32:16.23\00:32:19.67
convenience etcetera.
00:32:19.70\00:32:21.20
But it's an every day thing
00:32:21.24\00:32:24.97
like just
painting here and there,
00:32:25.01\00:32:27.31
it doesn't make any
difference like you just said.
00:32:27.34\00:32:31.31
I mean, the change
has to be substantial,
00:32:31.35\00:32:33.82
something that you really.
00:32:33.85\00:32:35.75
Like Rustolene,
you're painting over rust
00:32:35.78\00:32:37.85
but there's
still rust under there.
00:32:37.89\00:32:40.62
Have structural
damage foundation issues.
00:32:40.66\00:32:45.59
You said something,
Jason, that touched me.
00:32:45.63\00:32:47.60
You said God is not a genie.
00:32:47.63\00:32:50.63
And I used to say
that when I usually talk
00:32:50.67\00:32:52.50
that prayer's not a talisman.
00:32:52.53\00:32:56.64
When you say God is not a genie,
00:32:56.67\00:32:58.01
some people will just
expect, let me just pray
00:32:58.04\00:32:59.77
and God will just
pull it out of the hat.
00:32:59.81\00:33:02.84
I don't have to
do anything for Him,
00:33:02.88\00:33:04.51
but He's got to do stuff for me.
00:33:04.55\00:33:08.08
And talisman is something that
people wear some kind of amulet
00:33:08.12\00:33:11.42
that's supposed
to ward off evil.
00:33:11.45\00:33:13.15
So we think, if I just pray,
00:33:13.19\00:33:14.96
it's a talisman it'll be just...
00:33:14.99\00:33:16.49
Everything will be fine.
00:33:16.52\00:33:17.89
Well, it's not that simple
00:33:17.93\00:33:19.26
and it's not
that trite, you know.
00:33:19.29\00:33:22.56
The Lord demands
00:33:22.60\00:33:23.93
a certain amount
of dedication to Him.
00:33:23.97\00:33:25.37
It is interesting
that when we need God,
00:33:25.40\00:33:28.94
we want His full
undivided attention.
00:33:28.97\00:33:32.91
But she's saying here that
some of us had develop habits
00:33:32.94\00:33:35.94
where we give God so much
00:33:35.98\00:33:37.48
and we give the
world so much and we think,
00:33:37.51\00:33:41.08
well, God's getting half.
00:33:41.12\00:33:42.45
Well, really He's not.
00:33:42.48\00:33:43.82
He's getting one percent
00:33:43.85\00:33:45.19
and you're giving the
world 99.9 kind of thing.
00:33:45.22\00:33:48.29
So if we're
going to grow in Him,
00:33:48.32\00:33:52.06
then we got to
give Him the time.
00:33:52.09\00:33:53.43
There's no shortcut to faith
00:33:53.46\00:33:56.16
and nobody gets a
scholarship on faith.
00:33:56.20\00:33:57.97
Everybody will
have to exercise faith.
00:33:58.00\00:33:59.47
Nobody gets a pass.
00:33:59.50\00:34:00.87
Everybody's gonna have
to do that, exercise faith.
00:34:00.90\00:34:02.70
Well, that's a miserable life.
00:34:02.74\00:34:04.17
I mean, you live in one
foot in and one foot out,
00:34:04.21\00:34:06.98
you're not enjoying
the best of either one.
00:34:07.01\00:34:08.88
You're not sinning
00:34:08.91\00:34:10.35
to the negative potential of sin
00:34:10.38\00:34:14.75
and you're not living
up to all the blessings
00:34:14.78\00:34:17.39
that God wants
to bestow upon you
00:34:17.42\00:34:19.62
but you're blocking them
00:34:19.65\00:34:21.02
because you got one foot
in the world and foot in it.
00:34:21.06\00:34:24.09
That reminds where as
certain time in my life
00:34:24.13\00:34:27.50
that I was living
in a certain way in
00:34:27.53\00:34:32.23
but I couldn't enjoy it.
00:34:32.27\00:34:34.17
And it seems like every morning,
00:34:34.20\00:34:35.54
I was like, you
know, why did I do that?
00:34:35.57\00:34:39.51
And one time I
remembered, I just got so upset,
00:34:39.54\00:34:44.05
and I said, Lord,
00:34:44.08\00:34:45.41
why can't You just let
me have fun for one time?
00:34:45.45\00:34:50.02
Like I said, and
the Lord will never.
00:34:50.05\00:34:53.66
And thank God for that
00:34:53.69\00:34:56.22
because we don't know ourselves.
00:34:56.26\00:34:58.53
We don't know that
00:34:58.56\00:35:01.36
when we get in to
do certain things,
00:35:01.40\00:35:04.73
we might get just
really stuck in there
00:35:04.77\00:35:08.84
and then it's so
much difficult for God
00:35:08.87\00:35:11.07
to get to side of there
00:35:11.11\00:35:12.44
because then our will is
very weak to follow Christ.
00:35:12.47\00:35:18.01
And so, it's just what you said.
00:35:18.05\00:35:21.98
You cannot live one
foot there and one foot here.
00:35:22.02\00:35:26.22
And Bible says...
00:35:26.25\00:35:27.59
Oh, I'm sorry.
00:35:27.62\00:35:28.96
God has one way, one
all the way to Christ.
00:35:28.99\00:35:34.16
And a double-minded man
is unstable in all his ways.
00:35:34.20\00:35:38.93
Yes.
00:35:38.97\00:35:40.30
The line here,
00:35:40.34\00:35:41.77
this piece that
you're talking about, Irma,
00:35:41.80\00:35:43.57
many professed Christians
00:35:43.61\00:35:45.41
are on a fairway
to lose both worlds.
00:35:45.44\00:35:49.18
So you can be miserable
here and then miss heaven too.
00:35:49.21\00:35:52.88
That's kind of sad.
00:35:52.91\00:35:55.15
You know, didn't
have any fun here
00:35:55.18\00:35:56.82
because you're
trying to carry passports
00:35:56.85\00:35:58.39
in two worlds.
00:35:58.42\00:36:00.72
And then you don't
make it to heaven either
00:36:00.76\00:36:03.39
because you're half step in.
00:36:03.43\00:36:04.79
You got to give Him all
and develop those habits
00:36:04.83\00:36:07.46
that will
mitigate in favor of that.
00:36:07.50\00:36:09.50
On that same note, you know,
00:36:09.53\00:36:11.27
there are some people
00:36:11.30\00:36:12.63
that are your holier-than-thou
Christians or Pharisees
00:36:12.67\00:36:18.01
if you will that will say,
00:36:18.04\00:36:21.68
point out
everything that they think
00:36:21.71\00:36:24.18
that you're doing wrong
00:36:24.21\00:36:25.55
and that you
should be convicted on
00:36:25.58\00:36:27.42
because they're
convicted on you know this, that
00:36:27.45\00:36:30.39
and the third that may not
even be a salvational issue.
00:36:30.42\00:36:34.49
And then they do it in a
manner that's not even loving,
00:36:34.52\00:36:38.46
you know, and
wonder why people don't,
00:36:38.49\00:36:40.06
so you have somebody
who doesn't know the Lord
00:36:40.10\00:36:43.40
who's trying to
get to know the Lord
00:36:43.43\00:36:45.73
and they're trying to
take the place of a Holy Spirit
00:36:45.77\00:36:47.97
with that conviction thing like,
00:36:48.00\00:36:50.74
well, why is he
wearing this to church,
00:36:50.77\00:36:52.61
why is he dressed like that.
00:36:52.64\00:36:55.94
And you're not
even introducing them
00:36:55.98\00:36:57.31
to Christ at all.
00:36:57.35\00:36:58.68
You're just worried
about the outward appearance
00:36:58.71\00:37:00.82
at the moment.
00:37:00.85\00:37:03.12
You know, that same person,
00:37:03.15\00:37:04.85
how this is saying
one foot in one foot out,
00:37:04.89\00:37:07.66
you're running the
risk of missing out
00:37:07.69\00:37:10.59
or losing both worlds
00:37:10.63\00:37:13.09
by not having
the love of Christ,
00:37:13.13\00:37:15.10
if you just have the
law or you just have,
00:37:15.13\00:37:17.37
you know, all these
guidelines or whatever,
00:37:17.40\00:37:21.37
you run the risk of
missing out as well you know.
00:37:21.40\00:37:25.61
It's sad to see
people lack one of them,
00:37:25.64\00:37:30.55
one of the most important things
00:37:30.58\00:37:32.15
which is Christ's love too.
00:37:32.18\00:37:36.82
People don't respond very well
00:37:36.85\00:37:38.22
when you push the issues on them
00:37:38.25\00:37:41.62
because it has to come
00:37:41.66\00:37:42.99
from the Holy
Spirit has to convey
00:37:43.02\00:37:45.63
and convict the person
00:37:45.66\00:37:47.03
to make a change in their lives.
00:37:47.06\00:37:49.40
And so you can point it out
00:37:49.43\00:37:51.33
or you can
encourage it or whatever
00:37:51.37\00:37:54.40
but until the
person makes a decision
00:37:54.44\00:37:57.34
that and they're
convicted of that
00:37:57.37\00:37:59.11
that's something
they want to follow,
00:37:59.14\00:38:00.68
they're not going to do it,
00:38:00.71\00:38:02.11
just like
somebody that has a habit.
00:38:02.14\00:38:04.88
They're not going to
ask for help in any way
00:38:04.91\00:38:08.58
until they realize
they need to change.
00:38:08.62\00:38:10.79
Yeah.
00:38:10.82\00:38:12.15
I mean...
00:38:12.19\00:38:13.52
Like God has a standard.
00:38:13.56\00:38:14.99
We know that, you know,
God definitely has a standard.
00:38:15.02\00:38:17.89
And He will help
us meet His standard
00:38:17.93\00:38:22.26
like He doesn't
just leave and say, okay,
00:38:22.30\00:38:24.23
this is my
standard and that's that.
00:38:24.27\00:38:27.04
You know, if we
go back to creation
00:38:27.07\00:38:28.84
and we look at creation
00:38:28.87\00:38:30.67
how He created
man on the sixth day,
00:38:30.71\00:38:33.48
He had
everything that we needed.
00:38:33.51\00:38:36.28
We just had to manage
what He provided like where...
00:38:36.31\00:38:40.75
He creates and sustains.
00:38:40.78\00:38:43.72
You know, so He's not
going to leave us in a position
00:38:43.75\00:38:47.99
where we can't meet
what He has set forth.
00:38:48.02\00:38:51.39
Yeah, sometimes we
struggle with things
00:38:51.43\00:38:53.73
and we don't
think we would be used.
00:38:53.76\00:38:57.60
Can't imagine that the
Lord can help us to change
00:38:57.63\00:39:01.60
but He does.
00:39:01.64\00:39:03.81
And if we look in
our life in the past,
00:39:03.84\00:39:07.54
we can point to many things
00:39:07.58\00:39:10.58
that we thought
we could not give up,
00:39:10.61\00:39:13.72
or we could not achieve.
00:39:13.75\00:39:16.72
And yet we did,
but we didn't do it
00:39:16.75\00:39:21.42
until we surrender that
to the Lord and trusted Him.
00:39:21.46\00:39:26.59
So that He could change it.
00:39:26.63\00:39:28.26
Another thing, I'm sorry,
00:39:28.30\00:39:29.93
another thing that
I, in this discussion,
00:39:29.96\00:39:32.97
I think is important to address
00:39:33.00\00:39:35.77
is that we're not...
00:39:35.80\00:39:40.21
I hope this is not heresy,
00:39:40.24\00:39:42.14
but we're not
looking for perfection
00:39:42.18\00:39:48.25
in the human sense of the word.
00:39:48.28\00:39:51.25
Because
perfections and perfectionist
00:39:51.29\00:39:54.69
sometimes are more in the wrong
00:39:54.72\00:39:59.09
that a person who's
trying to do the right thing.
00:39:59.13\00:40:02.86
I think the perfection
00:40:02.90\00:40:05.93
before the eyes
of God is different.
00:40:05.97\00:40:08.70
God see us the way that we have,
00:40:08.74\00:40:11.81
the point that we have reached
in our Christian experience
00:40:11.84\00:40:15.41
is perfect for Him
00:40:15.44\00:40:17.45
if we're sincere and
sincerely looking for to meet
00:40:17.48\00:40:22.62
whatever He wants us to
meet, that's perfection.
00:40:22.65\00:40:26.99
For me, perfection for instance,
00:40:27.02\00:40:29.09
I always have this
little example in my mind
00:40:29.12\00:40:31.63
that help me sometimes.
00:40:31.66\00:40:34.53
When I was born, my
brother was 10 years old.
00:40:34.56\00:40:37.63
So my brother was 100
percent my age, right.
00:40:37.67\00:40:43.10
Yes, I was zero.
00:40:43.14\00:40:44.61
I was just out
of my mother's womb
00:40:44.64\00:40:46.94
and he was 100 percent my
age but then when he was 20,
00:40:46.98\00:40:51.18
I was 10, if you
think, 50 percent of what...
00:40:51.21\00:40:57.19
Okay. It's not
theology, I told you.
00:40:57.22\00:41:01.76
But it helps me do
understand how God look at me.
00:41:01.79\00:41:07.93
At zero, I was prefect
00:41:07.96\00:41:11.80
and my brother
at 10 was perfect.
00:41:11.83\00:41:14.84
Obviously going back
now to that discussion
00:41:14.87\00:41:18.01
to the spiritual battle on this,
00:41:18.04\00:41:20.61
it's a spiritual life,
00:41:20.64\00:41:24.18
we get to the
point that we reach
00:41:24.21\00:41:27.42
certain degree of perfection
00:41:27.45\00:41:30.12
but it's not the
perfection that the world sees,
00:41:30.15\00:41:33.36
you have to be
perfect in every way,
00:41:33.39\00:41:37.39
then you are good.
00:41:37.43\00:41:38.76
No, God look at perfection
from a different perspective
00:41:38.79\00:41:42.83
and that's what I
think we need the focus on.
00:41:42.86\00:41:45.60
Sometimes we're
too harsh on people
00:41:45.63\00:41:48.07
and says, oh,
like you were saying,
00:41:48.10\00:41:50.21
"If you don't dress
like this or do this
00:41:50.24\00:41:52.14
and that and
keep this and that,"
00:41:52.17\00:41:54.44
that people haven't
reached to that point yet
00:41:54.48\00:41:57.31
but they're still perfect.
00:41:57.35\00:42:00.25
I don't know what. That's great.
00:42:00.28\00:42:01.95
And I mean...
00:42:01.98\00:42:03.32
And imagine if God just
put everything on us at once,
00:42:03.35\00:42:07.02
okay, go be the
perfect Christian.
00:42:07.06\00:42:09.62
You know, just everything...
00:42:09.66\00:42:10.99
You know how
overwhelming that would be?
00:42:11.03\00:42:12.43
Pastor Murray, when
you met Miss Irma here,
00:42:12.46\00:42:16.10
did you just automatically
do everything that she liked?
00:42:16.13\00:42:20.47
Was that habit to do
everything that she liked?
00:42:20.50\00:42:23.14
Yes.
00:42:23.17\00:42:24.51
Don't worry, I got an
exhibitor in my house that's on.
00:42:27.31\00:42:32.51
Well, I gave it a try.
00:42:32.55\00:42:34.12
I surely did. I surely did.
00:42:34.15\00:42:37.39
He did. Still trying.
00:42:37.42\00:42:38.75
But you had to know
what she liked first.
00:42:38.79\00:42:40.59
Precisely, right.
00:42:40.62\00:42:41.96
So you have to be introduced.
00:42:41.99\00:42:43.66
The same way, people have
to be introduced to Christ
00:42:43.69\00:42:48.66
to know what things He likes,
00:42:48.70\00:42:50.77
to know, you know, what
things He's looking for.
00:42:50.80\00:42:54.24
You know, you have to develop
00:42:54.27\00:42:55.60
and cultivate that relationship.
00:42:55.64\00:42:58.51
But, you know, you
don't just automatically come.
00:42:58.54\00:43:03.08
And as humans, I think sometimes
00:43:03.11\00:43:06.11
we can be so harsh on people
00:43:06.15\00:43:07.95
coming into the church
00:43:07.98\00:43:10.39
expecting them to
do everything perfectly
00:43:10.42\00:43:13.15
as they're coming in.
00:43:13.19\00:43:14.72
And we're not showing
the love of Christ to them
00:43:14.76\00:43:19.39
and bringing them in and
introducing them to Jesus.
00:43:19.43\00:43:24.03
Well, David is
the perfect example
00:43:24.07\00:43:25.60
when he was going
to face the Goliath.
00:43:25.63\00:43:30.37
The King Saul
put it all his armor
00:43:30.41\00:43:33.71
because that would
make him a perfect soldier.
00:43:33.74\00:43:36.91
He had
everything he needed, right?
00:43:36.95\00:43:39.61
What David did?
00:43:39.65\00:43:43.39
He said, sir, I don't...
00:43:43.42\00:43:44.75
Please.
00:43:44.79\00:43:46.12
I rather just go the way I'm in.
00:43:46.15\00:43:48.76
Put my little sling and
round and round and round
00:43:48.79\00:43:55.10
and you know the
rest of the story.
00:43:55.13\00:43:57.53
But you know, I think
that it give us an example
00:43:57.57\00:44:01.90
how God look at us
an imperfect person
00:44:01.94\00:44:08.18
and make him perfect
because of His grace.
00:44:08.21\00:44:11.31
You know, I think and we sort
of slipped into this little bit
00:44:11.35\00:44:13.95
but that's the
whole justification,
00:44:13.98\00:44:15.48
sanctification process.
00:44:15.52\00:44:17.19
Christ calls us to be perfect.
00:44:17.22\00:44:20.69
He gives us through the
power of the Holy Spirit
00:44:20.72\00:44:22.99
and ministry of angels
00:44:23.02\00:44:24.39
the ability to
move into perfection,
00:44:24.43\00:44:27.00
to be perfecting.
00:44:27.03\00:44:29.20
Meanwhile, through
the justification process,
00:44:29.23\00:44:31.50
He sees us as perfect
00:44:31.53\00:44:33.44
which is a really great thing
00:44:33.47\00:44:34.80
so that if I
come to the Lord today
00:44:34.84\00:44:38.94
in sincerity and die tomorrow,
I've been justified and saved.
00:44:38.97\00:44:45.68
And there may be another person
00:44:45.71\00:44:47.05
who's been in
the church 40 years,
00:44:47.08\00:44:51.35
he's had longer time with Jesus
00:44:51.39\00:44:53.82
but Christ sees me
in my baby perfect state
00:44:53.86\00:44:57.96
as He does that longtime
person in their perfect state
00:44:57.99\00:45:02.03
because of the
justification process.
00:45:02.06\00:45:04.07
Now obviously that person
has been in the church longer,
00:45:04.10\00:45:08.10
has fought more battles
and is further along than I am
00:45:08.14\00:45:13.44
but through justification
00:45:13.48\00:45:15.24
I get the same
heaven as that person does,
00:45:15.28\00:45:17.38
I get the same
reward as that person does.
00:45:17.41\00:45:20.55
You know the story of Matthew.
00:45:20.58\00:45:21.92
If one comes in the
morning at 6 o'clock,
00:45:21.95\00:45:24.99
one comes at 11 o'clock,
00:45:25.02\00:45:26.35
one comes at 11
o'clock just before,
00:45:26.39\00:45:27.79
everybody get the same penny,
00:45:27.82\00:45:29.16
you know,
everybody gets the same,
00:45:29.19\00:45:30.53
and that's
through justification.
00:45:30.56\00:45:31.89
Yeah. That's right.
00:45:31.93\00:45:33.26
Because Christ says,
"When you come to Me,
00:45:33.29\00:45:34.86
I accept you and view
you as a completed work
00:45:34.90\00:45:37.97
while I'm making
you a completed work.
00:45:38.00\00:45:39.77
Whether it's
three hours on the cross
00:45:39.80\00:45:41.84
next to Jesus or a lifetime,
you still get the same penny.
00:45:41.87\00:45:45.97
And that's the
goodness of the God
00:45:46.01\00:45:49.41
that we serve that He allows
that to happen in our lives.
00:45:49.44\00:45:52.28
Right.
00:45:52.31\00:45:53.65
In the same parable,
00:45:53.68\00:45:55.15
you see the other
side, the man side.
00:45:55.18\00:45:59.85
When they complain, he says,
"Hey, but I worked for you."
00:45:59.89\00:46:03.73
Right, witnessing
all day, right, yeah.
00:46:03.76\00:46:05.09
So that's the human perspective.
00:46:05.13\00:46:07.76
"I did everything
right, hey, I deserve."
00:46:07.80\00:46:10.67
Deserve more.
00:46:10.70\00:46:12.03
Yeah, I deserve more.
00:46:12.07\00:46:13.40
That was like the
prodigal son's brother.
00:46:13.44\00:46:16.20
You know, I was
here, I didn't go anywhere.
00:46:16.24\00:46:20.81
Yeah, I never got a party.
00:46:20.84\00:46:23.98
You know, it occurs to me
that people who say themselves,
00:46:24.01\00:46:26.88
say they are perfectionist,
00:46:26.92\00:46:28.58
I don't know if I've ever
met a happy perfectionist.
00:46:28.62\00:46:31.79
They're always mad, you know,
00:46:31.82\00:46:33.56
like nobody can
meet my standards.
00:46:33.59\00:46:36.52
And I say this to Irma,
00:46:36.56\00:46:38.09
I think a person who
says I'm a perfectionist
00:46:38.13\00:46:40.46
is just
egotistical enough to think
00:46:40.50\00:46:42.36
that they know what
perfection is, you know.
00:46:42.40\00:46:45.37
To say that you know
00:46:45.40\00:46:46.74
what perfection is a
very egotistical statement.
00:46:46.77\00:46:50.11
Most people who
are perfectionists
00:46:50.14\00:46:51.51
are saying really, I
wanted the way I want it.
00:46:51.54\00:46:55.01
And when it meets my standards,
then it is perfection.
00:46:55.04\00:46:59.21
Well, how do you know,
that's just way you like,
00:46:59.25\00:47:00.58
that don't mean it's perfect.
00:47:00.62\00:47:02.08
That's what you like. You
know, I may like it over here.
00:47:02.12\00:47:04.89
Well, no, I like him,
this is perfect right there.
00:47:04.92\00:47:08.06
That's perfect. Well, for you!
00:47:08.09\00:47:11.19
For me, over here
is perfect, you know.
00:47:11.23\00:47:13.63
So we can get in and say,
no, my idea of perfection,
00:47:13.66\00:47:16.77
your idea of perfection,
00:47:16.80\00:47:18.17
yet Christ
defines what perfection is
00:47:18.20\00:47:20.17
and it's perfect love,
00:47:20.20\00:47:21.57
perfect love for Jesus
that result in a changed life.
00:47:21.60\00:47:24.84
Yeah, because it says that
you can do all of these things
00:47:24.87\00:47:27.94
very well done but
if you don't have love,
00:47:27.98\00:47:32.38
you have done nothing.
00:47:32.41\00:47:33.75
You're making
noise. Making noise.
00:47:33.78\00:47:37.72
You are making noise.
00:47:37.75\00:47:39.89
Yeah, God's Word
is truly the standard.
00:47:39.92\00:47:44.23
The mind must be
educated and disciplined
00:47:44.26\00:47:47.53
to love purity, you know.
00:47:47.56\00:47:50.97
And that includes a lot
of things we watch on TV
00:47:51.00\00:47:53.37
and a lot of things that we do.
00:47:53.40\00:47:55.40
A love for spiritual
things should be encouraged.
00:47:55.44\00:47:59.31
Ye must be encouraged
if we had grown in grace
00:47:59.34\00:48:04.31
and in the
knowledge of the truth,
00:48:04.35\00:48:07.08
you've got to, at
homes, Sebastian is...
00:48:07.12\00:48:12.32
He's nine.
00:48:12.35\00:48:13.69
He's nine and Novella is...
00:48:13.72\00:48:15.06
Is 12. Is 12.
00:48:15.09\00:48:18.13
Lovely children, not angels
because they are no angels.
00:48:18.16\00:48:22.46
But pretty good,
pretty close to angels.
00:48:22.50\00:48:24.50
Really, really good.
Pretty simple children.
00:48:24.53\00:48:28.20
You have to encourage
them in the right way,
00:48:28.24\00:48:30.81
you got to direct them,
you got to educate them.
00:48:30.84\00:48:33.54
Sure. Yeah.
Train them, absolutely.
00:48:33.58\00:48:37.75
Yours is grown now and teaching.
00:48:37.78\00:48:39.51
Yes.
00:48:39.55\00:48:42.55
But I'm sure there were
times when you had to try to...
00:48:42.58\00:48:44.72
They have wills and you got
to try to correct that little,
00:48:44.75\00:48:47.62
you know, you got
to kind of bend it
00:48:47.66\00:48:49.46
so that it's following Jesus.
00:48:49.49\00:48:51.03
That comes with parenting.
00:48:51.06\00:48:53.80
I tell you not to
contradict what you said,
00:48:53.83\00:48:56.73
we have four at home.
00:48:56.77\00:48:58.27
But to continue
with the comparison,
00:48:58.30\00:49:01.90
two needs probably a
lot more, you know...
00:49:01.94\00:49:06.07
They need fulltime hands on.
00:49:06.11\00:49:07.98
And the other two
are grown up so...
00:49:08.01\00:49:10.71
You have to pray for now.
00:49:10.75\00:49:12.35
We pray for them,
that's all what we can do.
00:49:12.38\00:49:14.65
They will sometimes stress
us more than the little ones.
00:49:14.68\00:49:19.12
Because now you
can't be that net,
00:49:19.15\00:49:21.42
you know,
trying to educate them.
00:49:21.46\00:49:23.83
They make their own decisions.
00:49:23.86\00:49:26.29
We just pray that the
Lord would guide them.
00:49:26.33\00:49:28.16
You know, when I was in
California this last time
00:49:28.20\00:49:30.50
that I was visiting
and Asher got baptized.
00:49:30.53\00:49:34.90
They got visiting grands.
00:49:34.94\00:49:37.11
The grands. Yeah,
the visiting grands.
00:49:37.14\00:49:39.61
And then the kids too.
And the kids too, yeah.
00:49:39.64\00:49:41.81
And their spouses.
00:49:41.84\00:49:43.81
But he got baptized
00:49:43.85\00:49:46.55
and so afterwards he says to me,
00:49:46.58\00:49:48.32
he says, "That made me cry."
00:49:48.35\00:49:52.69
He says that when he was doing.
00:49:52.72\00:49:54.66
But Jill had been
there to do a seminar...
00:49:54.69\00:49:59.36
Morikone.
00:49:59.39\00:50:00.73
Yes, Jill Morikone.
00:50:00.76\00:50:02.30
And so she ask everybody
if they would write something
00:50:02.33\00:50:06.57
that they want God to
change in their lives.
00:50:06.60\00:50:10.41
So Asher, he wrote. He
was sitting next to me.
00:50:10.44\00:50:14.54
And he wrote and he
just kind of giggled
00:50:14.58\00:50:16.34
and he looked at me.
00:50:16.38\00:50:18.01
He giggles and he wrote
00:50:18.05\00:50:19.41
and I said, "Why
are you giggling?"
00:50:19.45\00:50:22.02
He says, "I have to ask God,"
00:50:22.05\00:50:24.99
he says, "to help my,"
00:50:25.02\00:50:29.99
how did you say to...
00:50:30.03\00:50:33.26
kind of my reactions.
00:50:33.29\00:50:35.53
Impulses.
00:50:35.56\00:50:36.90
Impulses. Yes. Self control.
00:50:36.93\00:50:39.13
So I said, "Really?"
00:50:39.17\00:50:41.17
"Yeah," he says, "I know,"
00:50:41.20\00:50:42.54
he says, "that I
react very fast."
00:50:42.57\00:50:46.51
And he is the
calmest and the more
00:50:46.54\00:50:49.54
you know easy
going of all of them
00:50:49.58\00:50:53.45
but the other ones
especially the little one,
00:50:53.48\00:50:56.79
Niani is so strong and so will.
00:50:56.82\00:51:00.26
And so Asher sometimes
he just, it's overwhelm,
00:51:00.29\00:51:05.59
so he just you know, he's
trying to go against that.
00:51:05.63\00:51:11.83
But he recognized that...
00:51:11.87\00:51:14.37
Now, why would
children recognize?
00:51:14.40\00:51:17.21
Because the
parents are guiding them
00:51:17.24\00:51:18.94
and trying to educate
them how they need to be.
00:51:18.97\00:51:23.75
So if you don't do that,
children would not learn,
00:51:23.78\00:51:26.82
you know, they'll just
grow like little animals.
00:51:26.85\00:51:30.02
And he opened his
heart to the Lord.
00:51:30.05\00:51:32.19
And the Holy
Spirit corrected him
00:51:32.22\00:51:35.79
that he needed to change there.
00:51:35.82\00:51:38.09
And it's what we do
when he hear that voice
00:51:38.13\00:51:41.96
that makes the difference
because if we don't learn to,
00:51:42.00\00:51:45.23
if we always shut it
down and you know it's like,
00:51:45.27\00:51:47.90
"Oh, yeah.
00:51:47.94\00:51:49.27
But maybe it wasn't anything."
00:51:49.30\00:51:51.24
So you keep going.
00:51:51.27\00:51:52.61
Pretty soon you learn
to shut it out altogether.
00:51:52.64\00:51:55.81
You don't hear anymore.
00:51:55.84\00:51:57.85
So you need to
learn to hear that voice
00:51:57.88\00:52:00.25
when you're
convicted or something is
00:52:00.28\00:52:02.05
because God's
trying to point out
00:52:02.08\00:52:04.65
where you need to
change to create a new habit.
00:52:04.69\00:52:08.92
Isn't it
interesting that she says
00:52:08.96\00:52:10.29
the mind must be educated
and disciplined to love purity.
00:52:10.33\00:52:15.03
One would almost hope and pray
00:52:15.06\00:52:16.43
that that would be the
natural inclination of the man
00:52:16.46\00:52:18.70
but it is not.
00:52:18.73\00:52:20.07
You know, it is not.
00:52:20.10\00:52:21.44
You have to
discipline yourself...
00:52:21.47\00:52:22.80
You know, the Bible says
to continually towards evil.
00:52:22.84\00:52:26.71
Towards evil, yes.
00:52:26.74\00:52:28.74
Yeah. You got to be
work at loving purity.
00:52:28.78\00:52:32.11
And even the young people,
00:52:32.15\00:52:33.68
you got to
teach them to work at,
00:52:33.72\00:52:37.15
and encourage
them to love purity.
00:52:37.19\00:52:39.65
I don't know not having
00:52:39.69\00:52:44.89
had natural children
00:52:44.93\00:52:48.60
where the balance is.
00:52:48.63\00:52:50.20
I have such great respect,
one for teachers, educators
00:52:50.23\00:52:54.44
because I've taught and
I've taught high school,
00:52:54.47\00:52:58.04
I've taught college.
00:52:58.07\00:52:59.41
I can do that.
00:52:59.44\00:53:00.78
I can do first grade,
second grade, set them.
00:53:00.81\00:53:03.35
Okay. I can do that.
00:53:03.38\00:53:04.85
That's a special gift.
00:53:04.88\00:53:08.28
First you've got
to get their attention
00:53:08.32\00:53:09.65
before you can impart knowledge.
00:53:09.68\00:53:11.02
And that whole warden thing,
I can't, I don't do that work
00:53:11.05\00:53:15.12
so I have great
respect for parents
00:53:15.16\00:53:16.73
who have the
respect of their children
00:53:16.76\00:53:18.73
as well as their love
because it's a balance.
00:53:18.76\00:53:21.00
You can't be their buddy,
00:53:21.03\00:53:22.66
you know, you got
to be their parent.
00:53:22.70\00:53:24.90
But at the same time,
you can't be their jailer,
00:53:24.93\00:53:28.10
you know, you got
to be their parent.
00:53:28.14\00:53:30.31
So that balance
is a marvelous thing
00:53:30.34\00:53:33.07
and some people...
00:53:33.11\00:53:34.44
We were saying it before,
00:53:34.48\00:53:35.81
some people are
excellent parents.
00:53:35.84\00:53:37.31
Some parents don't
have that skill set,
00:53:37.35\00:53:40.28
you know, but
they have children.
00:53:40.32\00:53:41.88
So it's a great thing
they will educate your children
00:53:41.92\00:53:45.29
to love purity without holding
it over them like a whip,
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you know, it's a tough thing.
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And it's hard because you
want to protect your children
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but the Bible says we need
to learn to live in the world.
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So we need to teach
them to live in the world
00:53:59.43\00:54:02.24
that we live, you
know, like our neighbors,
00:54:02.27\00:54:04.57
our friends, the
people around us.
00:54:04.61\00:54:07.74
The things that are
happening in the world,
00:54:07.78\00:54:09.54
we need to learn to
teach them how to live there.
00:54:09.58\00:54:12.38
To be in it but not of it.
00:54:12.41\00:54:13.75
Exactly, exactly.
00:54:13.78\00:54:15.25
And if we
isolate them ourselves,
00:54:15.28\00:54:17.65
or we create this little cocoon,
00:54:17.69\00:54:20.06
sooner or later
they're gonna come out.
00:54:20.09\00:54:22.36
And they won't
know what to do with it.
00:54:22.39\00:54:23.73
They will be totally unprepared.
00:54:23.76\00:54:25.46
And the things that you
don't teach them at home,
00:54:25.49\00:54:28.06
they're gonna
learn in the streets.
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So do you want them to
learn the way from the Bible
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or do you want them to
learn what the world has?
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Yeah, 'cause
they're gonna learn.
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I'll tell you a quick story.
00:54:38.67\00:54:40.21
Years ago,
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Pastor Wintley Phipps
and I were doing a wedding.
00:54:41.61\00:54:43.58
And we were at
the wedding rehearsal
00:54:43.61\00:54:44.95
which is at a big
marina on Saturday night
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where it's gonna be Sunday.
00:54:47.72\00:54:49.05
And this is
gorgeous marina boats
00:54:49.08\00:54:50.79
bobbing in the water.
00:54:50.82\00:54:52.25
And I have another pastor friend
00:54:52.29\00:54:55.49
who had a son who
was, and Irma knows,
00:54:55.52\00:54:57.89
who was the most out of control,
00:54:57.93\00:54:59.63
unctuous in your
face, rude little boy.
00:54:59.66\00:55:02.76
And he's turned out
to be a pretty good adult
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but he was just beyond
belief, just beyond belief.
00:55:04.37\00:55:09.34
And so the wedding planner said
00:55:09.37\00:55:11.81
she had a little bell,
she'd go ding, ding, ding.
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Everybody, your
attention. Please stop talking.
00:55:13.21\00:55:15.94
We're ready to
start the rehearsal.
00:55:15.98\00:55:17.68
And this little
boy said to his mother,
00:55:17.71\00:55:22.05
"Mommy, shut up.
00:55:22.08\00:55:23.62
Didn't you hear the woman
say it's time to be quiet.
00:55:23.65\00:55:26.62
Shut up, mommy."
00:55:26.65\00:55:28.29
Now, Wintley
Phipps' wife was there
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and her little boy
was sitting at attention.
00:55:31.13\00:55:34.23
And she saw her
son watching this boy.
00:55:34.26\00:55:37.93
And immediately, she
grabbed her son by the head
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and she said,
00:55:40.84\00:55:42.17
"Now you would never say
that to your mommy, would you?"
00:55:42.20\00:55:44.94
He said, "No, mommy."
00:55:44.97\00:55:46.78
So she cut that off before
it ever enter into your brain,
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we will cut that off now.
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That was the
preemptive strike, you know.
00:55:53.98\00:55:57.35
So he says, no mommy.
00:55:57.39\00:55:59.15
She saw her boy
watching that child
00:55:59.19\00:56:02.66
and so she got him right away.
00:56:02.69\00:56:04.13
"You would never."
00:56:04.16\00:56:05.56
"No, mommy, I would
never kind of thing."
00:56:05.59\00:56:08.26
And I told Wintley about that
00:56:08.30\00:56:09.80
and his wife just
the other day asked.
00:56:09.83\00:56:11.53
And that was
almost 20, 25 years ago.
00:56:11.57\00:56:14.90
But I saw you cut something off
before it ever began to bloom,
00:56:14.94\00:56:18.71
you know, kind of thing.
00:56:18.74\00:56:20.08
And that's parenting, you know,
00:56:20.11\00:56:22.11
teaching your
children to love right
00:56:22.14\00:56:23.68
and to live purity
and to respect you.
00:56:23.71\00:56:26.78
I think that's a great thing.
00:56:26.82\00:56:29.12
Yes.
00:56:29.15\00:56:30.49
We're coming down to the end.
00:56:30.52\00:56:31.85
I want to look
at this last line.
00:56:31.89\00:56:35.12
Blessed are they
who hunger and thirst
00:56:35.16\00:56:37.03
after righteousness
for they shall be filled.
00:56:37.06\00:56:40.60
Ellen White says here,
00:56:40.63\00:56:42.26
"Ample provisions
are made by Christ
00:56:42.30\00:56:45.83
to satisfy the soul
00:56:45.87\00:56:47.97
that hungers and
thirsts for righteousness.
00:56:48.00\00:56:51.97
So if you want righteousness,
00:56:52.01\00:56:54.44
you can indeed have and
will have righteousness.
00:56:54.48\00:56:59.41
You can be like Christ
if you dedicate our mind,
00:56:59.45\00:57:03.39
your heart, your
talent, and your life to Jesus,
00:57:03.42\00:57:06.52
and if you want to
make heaven your goal,
00:57:06.55\00:57:09.46
then heaven you shall have.
00:57:09.49\00:57:11.63
If you hunger and thirst for it,
00:57:11.66\00:57:13.29
for Christ has
made ample provision
00:57:13.33\00:57:16.50
for you to have what you want,
00:57:16.53\00:57:18.07
for you to have all
eternity with Jesus Christ.
00:57:18.10\00:57:20.77
I want to thank my guests.
00:57:20.80\00:57:22.14
Our guest, Boo
for being with us,
00:57:22.17\00:57:24.57
Lynnette, and Jorge,
and Jason, and Xenia,
00:57:24.61\00:57:29.08
I always thought that
was a beautiful name, Xenia.
00:57:29.11\00:57:31.41
Yeah, when you say Xenia,
00:57:31.45\00:57:32.78
you only get one
person saying here.
00:57:32.81\00:57:35.05
God bless you. We'll be
back. We will see you again.
00:57:35.08\00:57:37.29
Have a wonderful Sabbath
and a wonderful week in Jesus.
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