I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my word
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello and welcome
to Friday night...
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Family worship.
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And I'm sitting with my copilot,
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well, actually it's not a plane,
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but we are flying
together and tonight,
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we're talking about blessings.
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And wherever you
are joining us from,
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thank you for inviting us
to come into your living room,
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into your home,
maybe into your church,
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wherever you may be,
thank you for tuning into 3ABN,
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the channel of blessings.
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Ain't that right? Sure is.
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And we've got a panel tonight
that knows about blessings.
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And if you are
tuning and you probably
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been praying for blessings,
we're going to talk about
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how you can trust God
for the blessings to come
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in God's time and in God's way.
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And, honey, I tell you,
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I've said this on
several occasions,
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if we just did nothing
else but stayed on the road
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and talked
about God's blessings,
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we can spend weeks together.
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What does the song
say, "Count your blessings."
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Name them one by one.
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And it will surprise you...
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What the Lord has
done. That's right.
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She doesn't sing but
she does remember lyrics.
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Our panel tonight, look
at that wide shot there.
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I'm excited about our panel.
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I'm so glad to
have Mr. Blessings
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on the go himself.
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Good to see you,
Danny. Great to be here.
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Love the
Sabbath. Wonderful time.
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I tell you, and
blessings 3ABN is a channel
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not only of divine
origins but blessings
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for how many years now?
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Thirty-three.
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Thirty-three? Yeah.
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And we're going to
talk about those blessing
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and some of the stories
in the ways that God blessed
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and we're going to
use the Bible for sure.
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And to your
left, to my right is?
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Yvonne. Welcome, Yvonne.
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Glad to have you.
How are you doing?
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Oh, they always do that.
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That's our
super handshake. Yeah.
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So good to have you
here tonight with us.
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It's so good to be here.
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And you have
come out of blessings
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into greater blessings.
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Oh, amen.
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There's nothing
that compares with...
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And she is a blessing.
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That's right. Aw, you are too.
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Yes, she is. Praise God.
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And to my left is my sweetheart.
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You are a blessing to me, honey.
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You had been all my life.
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We are a blessing
to each other, right?
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That's right.
That's right. God is good.
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And to our far
left is Gary Will,
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who is a blessing to 3ABN.
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Amen. Amen.
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It's a blessing to
be here and Sabbath is
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one of the most blessed
days of the week for sure.
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Absolutely.
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What better time to
talk about blessings
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and on God's blessed Sabbath.
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And so, honey, before
we dive into the program,
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would you bless us
with an opening prayer?
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Sure will. Let's bow our heads.
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Our kind loving heavenly Father,
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Lord, we bow
before Your presence
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this Sabbath evening.
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We thank You
Father for family worship.
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Many people around
the world are joining us
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in family worship.
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I pray Your blessing upon
this program about blessings.
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You are the gift of
every good and perfect blessing
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and we thank You for that.
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Now guide this study
that we're going to have,
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this worship service that
we're going to have tonight.
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And we thank You,
in Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen.
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Now there are so many
Bible verses about blessings
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that this is by no means
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an exhaustive
study on blessings,
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but just I think
it's always good to begin
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at the beginning
and I decided to kind of
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throw the question out there,
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what are some of the
things that God blessed?
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And if you think
about creation...
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Yeah, Sabbath.
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There are two scriptures that
I'd like us to catapult into
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and anyone could
read those scriptures
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if they desired to do so,
Genesis 2:3 and Genesis 5:2.
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And, Danny, you've been writing,
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we're going to talk about these,
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we're going to
expand our horizon,
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something right there,
Danny, why don't you go ahead?
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"Then God
blessed the seventh day
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and sanctified it because in it
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He rested from
some of His work."
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All.
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I need my glasses here.
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"He rested from all His work,
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which God had created and made."
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Talk about that, the blessing.
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Oh.
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God knew He didn't need to rest.
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True. That's right.
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He knew we did. That's right.
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And as a world, we
get so busy in this world
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that we forget about
God and so, you know,
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and when you're in
work sometimes, in business,
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they say, "Well,
it's a squeaky wheel
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that gets oiled," but if
you're not focused on it,
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you don't even know
there's a squeaky wheel.
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So the point is
what I'm trying to say is
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is when it comes to
God and his Sabbath,
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the Lord knows that our
attentions pan towards Him
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is only about six days in a row.
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So He says, "I'm
going to give him a Sabbath,
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I'm going to bless this day,
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I'm going to have
them to come aside,
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forget the work,
forget everything
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that they've got going on.
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Get rid of their
football and basketball
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and get rid of
everything on this day,
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spend it with Me as a reminder
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that I'm coming back
again to get My people.
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But to remind them that,
"Hey, I'm the creator God,
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I'm here for them,
I'm willing to bless them,
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no matter what
they're going through,"
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and so to me the
Sabbath, God did it for us.
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People said, "Well,
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I don't believe in the Sabbath,"
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I mean, why
would God need to rest?
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Well, He didn't need
to rest, He showed us,
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He made an
example, and said, "Look,
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this is what I want you
to do, because in resting
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you contemplate the
goodness," we will contemplate,
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I do the goodness of God
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and all the
blessings that he has.
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So it gets me back on track,
and it is like coming to eat,
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you know.
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That's right. Being refilled.
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Coming to eat at a
spiritual food table
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once a week, and
now I'm ready to go out
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and do my business
all week, then God knows,
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we don't go to church,
we don't think about him,
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as time goes on, we
totally forget about Him.
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The Sabbath was made for man.
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And, you know, to add to this
and, Gary, I see your hand...
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And this happened
before there was sin.
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Yes. That's right.
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So there was never
any sin in the world,
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there would be no
argument about the seventh day
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being the Sabbath.
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This was God had
set aside a day for rest
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before sin entered
the world knowing that
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even Adam in his
perfection needed to rest,
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knowing that Eve
in her perfection
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needed to rest, knowing
that creation in its perfection
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needed a cycle of rest.
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And so this, if
the world never entered
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into a cycle of sin,
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there would never
be a controversy today
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about the seventh
day being the Sabbath.
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And don't you
think it's a possibility
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that God looking down
the stream of time knew that
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sin would come into this world
and that we would need that?
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'Cause I'm sure He
could have created us
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where we didn't need any rest,
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but He created us
this way because He knew
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what was best for
mankind in His creation.
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There's a rhythm to our world,
you know, our heart's beat,
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there's a
natural rhythm in nature.
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And God created the Sabbath
like there's a circadian clock,
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you know, your body has
a certain natural rhythm,
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well, by the end of
the week, by Friday,
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you just find
yourself winding down
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because your
body needs that rest.
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The Sabbath is so
preserving, it preserves us,
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it keeps us from burning
out because that's the time
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when God says, you
know, when He said to the...
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Jesus said to the disciples,
"Come beside and rest a while,"
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is because He
knew they were working,
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working,
working, let's just relax,
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come aside on the
Sabbath, He blessed it,
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He sanctified it, and
set it aside for holy time.
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"Come aside,
rest a while in Me."
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He is our Sabbath
rest. That's right.
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I just heard
someone say the other day,
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a lot has been in the news
and I think Anderson Copper
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did a thing on
Seventh-day Adventist
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and the longevity and how
long, and this person said,
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"All of the emphasis
they're putting on their diet,"
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but he said, "I'm
here to tell you,"
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and he was a preacher,
we went to church there
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in Orlando, and
Pastor Mc Donald,
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I think it was.
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That's who it was, yes.
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He said, I was
trying to think who it was.
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We were in...
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We've been traveling
so much lately in Orlando,
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but he said the
other day, he says,
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"People are trying to
say, 'It's just our diet,'
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but it's not just our
diet 'cause I see how you eat."
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But he said, "What
we're failing to give is
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God the credit,
give the glory to God
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because it's the rest."
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That comes as
getting rid of the stress
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will help you live longer.
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So while diet is important,
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we don't want to forget
the part about that stress
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that when you come set
aside and let everything go,
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your whole system relaxes,
your blood pressure comes down,
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you get back to that
peace and contentment.
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Yes. It is the rest.
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Well, it is interesting in
the creation of the Sabbath
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or actually
creation of the world,
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Adam and Eve never
saw any of the creation
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except they saw God
create the Sabbath day
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'cause they observed Him
how He kept the Sabbath day.
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And at the end of
the day, God said, "Okay,
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I've made this day holy
because I rested on it."
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And so He gave us an example
of how to rest on the Sabbath,
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you know, and so anyway that's
God give a blessing to man
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to actually see
Him create the day
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that He gave for us to rest.
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It's not just a
two-hour rest, is it?
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Like a three, four hours
rest, it's a 24-hour period...
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That's right. That we have.
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And so that rhythm, I like that.
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I just wrote a word
down, it's going to,
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I'm not going to tell
you this future sermon title.
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But when we're out, when
the body is out of rhythm,
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when the heart is out of
rhythm, what's it called?
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Arrhythmia. Okay.
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So when you're out
of rhythm with God,
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you are living in arrhythmia.
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Come on now. Okay.
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Come on. I like it.
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I like it. Don't
write my sermon title.
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Arrhythmia, when
you're out of step with God,
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it's arrhythmia.
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When you're out of
step with the Sabbath,
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it's arrhythmia.
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When you're out of
step with the truth,
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it's arrhythmia.
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That's interesting.
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So you can't just say,
"See the Sabbath is a blessing
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that comes only when
you're in step of God,"
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which means you
can't pick a day,
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you can't be out of step
with what is only designed to be
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in step on a particular day.
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That's right. Okay.
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So if the heart is pumping up
and it should be pumping down,
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it's out of step.
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It's arrhythmia.
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So what would Satan,
and if you were Satan,
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what would you do
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because you would
be furious about this,
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you should be angry
about this blessing,
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so what would you do?
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I'd create a day that
take you out of step with God.
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There you go.
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And then I would say
it doesn't really matter.
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Well, if your heart is out
of step, it matters, right?
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Absolutely.
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If a marching band is
out of step, it matters.
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Oh, yeah. It does.
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If the pistons on your
car are firing out of line,
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it matters.
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Everything matters,
that's why the entire world,
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the word rhythm
fits into everything
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we do in our society.
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So the very first
blessing is God's rhythm.
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Love it. The
Sabbath is God's rhythm.
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This is what
you started, Yvonne.
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Praise the
Lord. Praise the Lord.
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We happen to have a musician.
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A doctor. Praise God.
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The Sabbath brings out
rhythm, a blessing of rhythm.
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Ain't that wonderful?
With God, that's the first one.
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But the next one 'cause
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there are so many
blessings we have to talk about,
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we can spend the whole
program on the Sabbath rhythm.
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That's true. But
what's the next one?
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Oh, honey, I was going
to have you read that one.
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The second one,
okay, the second thing
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that God blessed in Genesis 5:2.
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It says, "He
created the male and female
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and blessed them
and called them mankind
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in the day they were created."
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Okay, so who are
they? Male and female.
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Okay, let's talk about
arrhythmia again on that point.
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Okay.
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The world is out of rhythm with
God's blessing on the family.
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That's right.
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As the day was substituted
to take us out of rhythm
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with God and
missed that blessing,
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the last blessing that
Satan wants to rob us of
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which God ordained before
sin is the husband and the wife.
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Uh-oh, watch out.
That's arrhythmia.
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Don't get Danny started now.
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No, no, no. Come on.
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No, the reason why this topic
is about blessings is because
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you can't get
blessings other than the way
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God ordains him to be.
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Thank you. That's the point.
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That is a very, very good point.
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We want to seek our own way
to get blessing just like Cain.
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Oh, yeah.
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We want to be
blessed in our disobedience.
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And God says...
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And false gods,
we say I'm blessed,
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when you're out of line
with God, and we say, "Oh,
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I'm so blessed," no God
doesn't bless corruption.
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A true blessing is
when you're in God's will.
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And He says He
blessed the male and female
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and in the day
they were created,
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so that leads to a
lot of other things,
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but you are the
host, so I'll let you...
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No, go ahead. Keep going, Danny.
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Keep going. This is good.
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But the reason why
we brought this topic
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up tonight is because
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nobody listening to the
program or watching the program,
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I don't think there is
anybody watching this program
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that would say, "I
don't want to be blessed."
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Right. Exactly.
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Everybody wants to be blessed.
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But we often think
blessings are just financial.
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We brought those way down.
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But the first blessing comes
when you're in rhythm with God.
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Yes. Sabbath is a rhythm.
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One, not any day in
seven, but the seventh day.
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That's right.
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Not any gender in
society but male and female.
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So if Satan is out to
steal, kill, and to destroy,
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what would he do to this?
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He would try to
destroy the Sabbath
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because there're so many
blessings attached to it.
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And so for no other
reason, those of you at home,
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"Well, I don't know one
day or I don't know about this
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or that, " just think
about that for a moment.
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You're seeing what God is doing,
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the blessings that He
gives us, and Satan says,
00:15:09.87\00:15:13.14
"I'm going to destroy
that, I'm going to make void
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that Sabbath law, and
I'll use "Christian" people
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or the "church"
if you will to do it.
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It won't come from atheists,
I'll use church leaders
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way back in the 3rd century A.D.
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and back, so we'll
do this and we'll do all
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in the name of
religion and we'll say,
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"You're just as blessed,
in fact, you're more blessed
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'cause if you keep
first day of the week,
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but right here, Satan is
going to attack something
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that wonderful
that is going to help
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lead us to eternal life.
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That's right. And
then the second one?
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Family.
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Husband and wife. Absolutely.
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Husband and
wife. Male and female.
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Male and female.
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That's the key. Yeah.
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So what would Satan...
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Why is Satan upset?
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Why is Satan so upset?
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He's upset because
Satan cannot procreate.
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Man can, man and
woman can, but Satan cannot.
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He doesn't have the power to do.
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He can imitate.
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He may come and look
like an angel of light,
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may look like
impersonate people,
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but he can't.
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So he's made
sex that God created
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as a beautiful thing,
made it in ugly thing,
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dirty thing, and something
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that does not
represent God at all.
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He wants to destroy
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what God has
created for mankind.
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And then he goes
farther to where man with man
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and woman with woman
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and now all the
genders that we have,
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I lose track every time we talk,
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it seems to be
more like last I heard
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now there's 109
different genders.
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And I mean, that's what
they're teaching at schools
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and telling kids
all of these things,
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but I've said it for
the last couple months,
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you know, isn't that
amazing, you can be 25 years old
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not knowing if
you're a male or female
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or 50 years older or 70,
we don't know who we are.
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This is making a
mockery out of God's creation,
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a mockery out of God.
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And the thing about it is
they want God to bless it,
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but once I go back to
it, you cannot bless anything
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that's out of rhythm with
God, and God will not bless it.
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No. That's right.
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And so they use
word, we love each other,
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but "If you love Me,
keep My commandments."
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That's right. God sets a rhythm.
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Put Him first.
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But, you know,
there's a point you made,
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what will the devil do?
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He would seek to
mar the image of God.
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Genesis 1:27, "So God
created man in His own image.
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In the image of
God, He created them,
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male and female,
He created them."
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So when man and
woman come together,
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they complete the image of God.
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Man and man cannot
complete the image of God,
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neither woman and
woman can complete.
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But male and
female, He created them.
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So God split
Himself down the middle,
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the maleness and the femaleness,
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when they're united together
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create the image of
God in the human race.
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So Satan seeks to
deface the image of God.
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That's right. Wow, that's deep.
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And when you go to Genesis,
when you go to Romans 1,
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I'm going to go
there very quickly.
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Look at Romans 1.
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Romans is powerful.
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So what happens
is that's exactly
00:18:16.66\00:18:18.66
what the devil sought to do.
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Any points before I go further?
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Romans 1, look at
this, this is powerful.
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And I'm going to look at verse,
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okay, yes, here it is.
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Okay, here it is,
verse 23, How about 22?
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Well, okay, "Professing to
be wise, they became fools,"
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and look what they
did, "and changed the glory
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of the incorruptible
God into an image,"
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they changed his
image, into an image,
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"made like
corruptible man, and birds,
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and fourfooted
beasts, and creeping things."
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So you find they
change God's image.
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And when you go further...
He gives them up though.
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Right, when you go further,
look what it says in verse 25,
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"Who exchanged the
truth of God for the lie
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and worshipped the
Sabbath," here again,
00:19:13.25\00:19:15.15
"and served the
creature rather than the creator
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who is blessed forever, amen."
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And then he goes
on verse 27, and says,
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somebody else read that for us.
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Verse 27? Verse 27.
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"Likewise also the men
leaving the natural..."
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Well, let's go to 26. Yeah.
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"For this reason God
gave them up to vile passions.
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For even their women
exchanged the natural use
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for what is against nature.
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Likewise also the men,
00:19:39.01\00:19:40.78
leaving the
natural use of the woman,
00:19:40.81\00:19:43.04
burned in their
lust for one another,
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men with men
committing what is shameful,
00:19:45.18\00:19:47.68
and receiving in themselves
the penalty of their error
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which was due.
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And even as they did not like
00:19:52.45\00:19:54.22
to retain God
in their knowledge,
00:19:54.26\00:19:55.96
God gave them
over to a debased mind,
00:19:55.99\00:19:58.93
to do those things
which are not fitting,
00:19:58.96\00:20:01.30
being filled with
all unrighteousness,
00:20:01.33\00:20:03.63
sexual immorality, wickedness,
00:20:03.67\00:20:05.87
covetousness, maliciousness,
00:20:05.90\00:20:07.70
full of envy, murder,
strife, deceit, evil-mindedness,
00:20:07.74\00:20:11.37
they are whisperers,
backbiters, haters of God,
00:20:11.41\00:20:14.18
violent, proud, boasters,
inventors of evil things,
00:20:14.21\00:20:17.38
disobedient to parents,
undiscerning, untrustworthy,
00:20:17.41\00:20:20.85
unloving,
unforgiving, unmerciful, who,
00:20:20.88\00:20:23.95
knowing the
righteous judgment of God,
00:20:23.99\00:20:26.02
that those who
practice such things
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are deserving of
death, not only do the same
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but also approve of
those who practice them."
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End of that part.
And that last phrase...
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Powerful. You
may not even do it.
00:20:37.83\00:20:40.24
That's right. But
you approve of it.
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You condone it.
Who practice that.
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Let me ask you a
question now, pastor,
00:20:44.91\00:20:46.57
you're the pastor on call today,
00:20:46.61\00:20:49.14
so you're the one.
00:20:49.18\00:20:50.98
After reading
something like this so strong,
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what is it...
00:20:54.42\00:20:56.35
'cause I'm being
sincere here in my questioning,
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I haven't figured out yet,
00:20:59.69\00:21:01.59
what is it that
people in churches,
00:21:01.62\00:21:04.76
in Christian
church, including their own,
00:21:04.79\00:21:07.00
coming in and saying,
00:21:07.03\00:21:08.60
"There is
nothing wrong with this,
00:21:08.63\00:21:09.96
we need to accept
homosexual marriages,
00:21:10.00\00:21:13.23
homosexual relationships,
00:21:13.27\00:21:15.17
the Bible is not
really clear about it,"?
00:21:15.20\00:21:18.94
And so I don't know
where are they coming from
00:21:18.97\00:21:23.14
because you talk to
people, I've seen him,
00:21:23.18\00:21:24.91
I've watched the
videos on YouTube and stuff,
00:21:24.95\00:21:27.72
and they're
saying, "Oh, we're sincere,
00:21:27.75\00:21:29.48
we believe in the Sabbath,
00:21:29.52\00:21:31.35
we believe in all
these other things,"
00:21:31.39\00:21:33.02
but this is totally
taken out of context.
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Totally.
00:21:35.16\00:21:36.49
You know, and so they're saying,
00:21:36.52\00:21:38.09
"This is not
right, that was for,
00:21:38.13\00:21:40.36
that's not for today," I
mean, what are people thinking?
00:21:40.40\00:21:43.26
Can you help me with that?
00:21:43.30\00:21:44.63
I don't know,
this seems to me...
00:21:44.67\00:21:46.10
It's pretty clear,
they can't even say
00:21:46.13\00:21:47.47
it's Old Testament.
00:21:47.50\00:21:48.84
No, it's New Testament.
00:21:48.87\00:21:50.21
So it's pretty
clear, what is going on
00:21:50.24\00:21:51.57
that we as a people,
so many people are saying,
00:21:51.61\00:21:54.61
you know what, I
think we need to accept this
00:21:54.64\00:21:56.68
and, you know, if
a person is this way,
00:21:56.71\00:21:59.15
he should be a
pastor, he should be a leader,
00:21:59.18\00:22:02.72
I don't know, can you help me?
00:22:02.75\00:22:04.55
Well, I was just thinking to,
you know, your question there,
00:22:04.59\00:22:10.33
people wants to decide
00:22:10.36\00:22:11.69
what the standard
of right or wrong is.
00:22:11.73\00:22:14.10
But also it's coupled
with what you're mentioning
00:22:14.13\00:22:16.50
about God is the
standard of what blessings are.
00:22:16.53\00:22:20.94
And people, you
know, you were saying
00:22:20.97\00:22:22.97
how people want to get
married to the same sex,
00:22:23.00\00:22:26.27
same gender, but
they want to be blessed.
00:22:26.31\00:22:29.78
So they don't want
to accept God's standard
00:22:29.81\00:22:32.28
in any form whether
it be His day of worship,
00:22:32.31\00:22:35.48
whether it be
what's right or wrong,
00:22:35.52\00:22:37.99
or how they even
get blessed for God.
00:22:38.02\00:22:39.65
They want to tell God
how to bless them, exactly.
00:22:39.69\00:22:43.49
Right.
00:22:43.53\00:22:44.99
It's almost like Adam and
Eve sewing the fig leaves,
00:22:45.03\00:22:47.20
you know, they want
their own righteousness,
00:22:47.23\00:22:49.20
I mean, I think we're
gonna get into even that,
00:22:49.23\00:22:51.63
you know, it's
their own righteousness.
00:22:51.67\00:22:53.00
My point is the
deception on this is so strong
00:22:53.03\00:22:55.90
because when it comes
to a man having an affair,
00:22:55.94\00:23:00.88
nobody argues and say,
00:23:00.91\00:23:02.24
"Well, this Bible is
not very clear on that."
00:23:02.28\00:23:04.28
We'll say, "That's
terrible, you had an affair."
00:23:04.31\00:23:06.08
A woman has an affair,
and husband we all sinned,
00:23:06.11\00:23:08.52
"Oh, that's terrible."
00:23:08.55\00:23:09.92
You know, that is
wrong, that is sin,
00:23:09.95\00:23:12.45
but two men get together,
live together and marry,
00:23:12.49\00:23:14.92
and we say, "Well, you
know, you have to understand
00:23:14.96\00:23:16.79
they're born that way, you know,
00:23:16.83\00:23:18.49
they're really good people."
00:23:18.53\00:23:20.30
And somehow it's the only
sin that we seem to accept like,
00:23:20.33\00:23:25.30
"Well, okay," and not everybody
of course but I'm saying.
00:23:25.33\00:23:28.44
I see that in there.
00:23:28.47\00:23:29.80
But if it's any
other sin, you know,
00:23:29.84\00:23:32.57
we can call sin by what it
is, but on this one, it's not.
00:23:32.61\00:23:37.35
Like even on the news, on
whatever the network may be,
00:23:37.38\00:23:39.88
somebody might say,
"Well, shouldn't our leaders
00:23:39.91\00:23:46.29
be the moral
standard of our nation?"
00:23:46.32\00:23:49.72
You know, and then
you'll say, but then,
00:23:49.76\00:23:52.73
when the nation pushes
something that's immoral,
00:23:52.76\00:23:57.00
and political circles
puts something that's immoral,
00:23:57.03\00:23:59.60
and then the
church gets on board
00:23:59.63\00:24:02.14
and start
supporting what is immoral,
00:24:02.17\00:24:03.94
that's where the
problem comes in.
00:24:03.97\00:24:05.91
The world can do
whatever it wants.
00:24:05.94\00:24:07.54
God is not
organizing and manipulating
00:24:07.58\00:24:10.81
the mind of the carnal
person because they don't,
00:24:10.85\00:24:14.25
carnal man is at
enmity against God.
00:24:14.28\00:24:16.82
But when the
church gets on board,
00:24:16.85\00:24:18.59
that's where the departing
from the blessing comes in,
00:24:18.62\00:24:20.66
so I'm bringing you
back to the blessing.
00:24:20.69\00:24:22.29
If you want to be blessed,
you have to be blessed the way
00:24:22.32\00:24:24.36
that God
ordains blessings to be.
00:24:24.39\00:24:26.70
You can't say that no,
and that's why Isaiah 4:1,7
00:24:26.73\00:24:31.50
will take all of
one man, they'll say,
00:24:31.53\00:24:33.77
"We'll eat our own
bread, wear our own apparel,
00:24:33.80\00:24:36.54
only let us be
called by your name
00:24:36.57\00:24:39.47
to take away our reproach."
00:24:39.51\00:24:41.24
So the church doesn't even have
the latitude to get on board
00:24:41.28\00:24:43.75
with that because
the church cannot,
00:24:43.78\00:24:45.75
the church
cannot approve something
00:24:45.78\00:24:47.92
that's out of rhythm with God.
00:24:47.95\00:24:49.28
Right. That's right.
00:24:49.32\00:24:50.65
Well, and it goes to
everything around us.
00:24:50.69\00:24:54.29
Take the political
situation right now because
00:24:54.32\00:24:57.69
each side says, you know,
we are morally the republicans
00:24:57.73\00:25:01.46
and democrats, so the
republicans are saying,
00:25:01.50\00:25:05.10
"Oh, we don't agree
with same sex marriage,
00:25:05.13\00:25:06.90
we don't agree with abortion,"
they're just saying it's wrong.
00:25:06.94\00:25:10.51
Well, you know,
they're pointing fingers
00:25:10.54\00:25:13.44
at the others.
00:25:13.48\00:25:14.81
But then the democrats
say but you don't really care
00:25:14.84\00:25:17.05
about those that
are less fortunate
00:25:17.08\00:25:18.91
than yourself, you don't do...
00:25:18.95\00:25:20.62
So we each have moral standards.
00:25:20.65\00:25:22.48
So the right is saying,
"We have this moral standard,
00:25:22.52\00:25:26.76
that you say we
don't really agree
00:25:26.79\00:25:28.76
with same sex
marriage and abortion,"
00:25:28.79\00:25:30.63
but then the left says,
00:25:30.66\00:25:31.99
"We have these moral convictions
00:25:32.03\00:25:34.33
that we have to
take care of those
00:25:34.36\00:25:35.73
who don't take
care of themselves
00:25:35.76\00:25:37.37
and you don't care about these,"
00:25:37.40\00:25:39.07
and so both sides are guilty,
00:25:39.10\00:25:42.24
you know, both sides are guilty,
00:25:42.27\00:25:43.61
but we're trying to
point fingers at each other,
00:25:43.64\00:25:46.24
but what you just
said is the moral standard
00:25:46.27\00:25:48.78
because we're saying,
"Well, look at this president,
00:25:48.81\00:25:51.15
he is immoral, and
look at this, you know,
00:25:51.18\00:25:54.68
whoever they are,
politicians, they are immoral
00:25:54.72\00:25:56.89
but the one saying it, and
I'm seeing him on the news,
00:25:56.92\00:25:59.92
they are living in a
homosexual relationships
00:25:59.95\00:26:01.96
and they say,
"This man doesn't support
00:26:01.99\00:26:04.23
our moral values," and I'm like,
00:26:04.26\00:26:06.26
"Well, where is
your moral value?"
00:26:06.29\00:26:07.83
And that's why
what we're doing here
00:26:07.86\00:26:10.97
on this program, is we're
tying it back to the Bible
00:26:11.00\00:26:13.27
and God's church
setting the standard.
00:26:13.30\00:26:16.40
The world does
not set our standard.
00:26:16.44\00:26:18.24
Yes, we'll be confused won't we,
00:26:18.27\00:26:20.28
by every wind of
doctrines, you turn on this news
00:26:20.31\00:26:22.68
and you want to...
00:26:22.71\00:26:24.48
No matter what
channel you turn on,
00:26:24.51\00:26:26.01
you're going to be
led one way or the other.
00:26:26.05\00:26:28.52
Like our network is WGOD,
00:26:28.55\00:26:33.05
God's network, God's word.
00:26:33.09\00:26:34.62
Now we spend it on the
Sabbath and on marriage,
00:26:34.66\00:26:36.73
let's keep going
on the other blessings
00:26:36.76\00:26:38.29
'cause there's so many blessings
00:26:38.33\00:26:39.66
that we have to get
to, and very valid point.
00:26:39.69\00:26:42.60
So here's the
point we want to make
00:26:42.63\00:26:43.97
as we transition is
you cannot get any blessing
00:26:44.00\00:26:47.20
when you're out of rhythm
with the established parameter
00:26:47.24\00:26:51.57
of that blessing.
00:26:51.61\00:26:52.94
Man with woman is
God's established parameter.
00:26:52.97\00:26:55.84
No time, no legislature,
no party can alter that
00:26:55.88\00:27:02.15
and expect a blessing.
00:27:02.18\00:27:03.59
That's right. That's
the point we're making.
00:27:03.62\00:27:05.12
And same thing with the Sabbath.
00:27:05.15\00:27:07.76
No church, no organization,
no edict, no institution
00:27:07.79\00:27:11.83
can alter the Sabbath
and demand a blessing of it
00:27:11.86\00:27:14.86
because it's out
of rhythm with God.
00:27:14.90\00:27:16.40
That's right.
00:27:16.43\00:27:17.93
What we really need to
think about to is the fact
00:27:17.97\00:27:21.57
that God loves everybody,
so His love is not in question
00:27:21.60\00:27:27.08
when it comes
to these blessings.
00:27:27.11\00:27:29.21
But blessings
are conditional. Yes.
00:27:29.24\00:27:32.08
They are not unconditional,
you don't get a blessing
00:27:32.11\00:27:34.68
just for being on the planet.
00:27:34.72\00:27:36.85
You know, they
say, millennials...
00:27:36.89\00:27:39.69
I love millennials,
00:27:39.72\00:27:41.29
I have family
that's millennials.
00:27:41.32\00:27:42.76
But they'll say, you know,
millennials just expect reward
00:27:42.79\00:27:45.26
just for breathing.
00:27:45.29\00:27:47.56
But, you know, we know
that God loves everybody,
00:27:47.60\00:27:52.67
but He calls
sin out in the Word.
00:27:52.70\00:27:55.37
Sin is called out
and we as a church,
00:27:55.40\00:27:59.01
we should be
able to say, you know,
00:27:59.04\00:28:01.41
"Cry aloud and spare not."
00:28:01.44\00:28:02.88
We're supposed to be
able to call sin by its name
00:28:02.91\00:28:05.91
and say there
is a remedy for it.
00:28:05.95\00:28:09.85
You can be blessed by
God, but you have to come out
00:28:09.88\00:28:13.42
from the sinful ways.
00:28:13.46\00:28:14.79
And nobody
wants to call sin sin.
00:28:14.82\00:28:19.16
People don't want to call
it sin because then it's...
00:28:19.19\00:28:21.26
Let me give it a
nice name. Yeah, yeah.
00:28:21.30\00:28:23.57
Like my sexual preference.
00:28:23.60\00:28:25.73
Yeah, right? "An Affair.
00:28:25.77\00:28:30.21
We're having an
affair this weekend."
00:28:30.24\00:28:32.74
"We have an open
marriage." Oh, I've heard that.
00:28:32.77\00:28:35.11
Yeah, don't forget that.
00:28:35.14\00:28:36.68
Two categories of
blessings I think God has,
00:28:36.71\00:28:39.31
one is blessings of
forgiveness and mercy,
00:28:39.35\00:28:43.49
that's for the sinners,
but blessings of abundance
00:28:43.52\00:28:47.56
and prosperity
is for the obedient.
00:28:47.59\00:28:50.16
Okay. That's good.
You're right on line.
00:28:50.19\00:28:51.79
Read that Proverbs 10:6 for
us, Gary, on the second point.
00:28:51.83\00:28:55.06
Proverbs 10:6, "Blessings
are on the head of the righteous
00:28:55.10\00:28:58.87
but violence covers
the mouth of the wicked."
00:28:58.90\00:29:01.37
See when you're righteous,
that's when the blessings come.
00:29:01.40\00:29:04.07
You can't go on a different
direction altogether and say,
00:29:04.11\00:29:07.18
"Well, I'm going to
get the blessings anyway,"
00:29:07.21\00:29:09.61
'cause God is not
going to partner with that.
00:29:09.64\00:29:11.71
No, He's not.
00:29:11.75\00:29:13.18
Blessings are on the
head of the righteous.
00:29:13.21\00:29:16.52
So when the Lord put it there,
those blessings are not...
00:29:16.55\00:29:20.02
We're going to get to
the financial blessings
00:29:20.06\00:29:21.39
in a moment, but I can hear you.
00:29:21.42\00:29:22.76
Yeah.
00:29:22.79\00:29:24.13
I was just thinking, you
know, there are some people
00:29:24.16\00:29:26.56
that we look at and
especially people on TV,
00:29:26.59\00:29:30.07
that, you know, that
are on secular television,
00:29:30.10\00:29:32.83
I need to make that clear.
00:29:32.87\00:29:34.24
And they are just
living supposedly the life.
00:29:34.27\00:29:39.67
So they look like
they're being blessed
00:29:39.71\00:29:41.91
and just living
abundantly and all that...
00:29:41.94\00:29:44.51
On some
Christian television too.
00:29:44.55\00:29:46.28
That's true. That is true.
00:29:46.31\00:29:49.58
Not on this one.
Yeah, no, no, no.
00:29:49.62\00:29:51.75
But it's true.
00:29:51.79\00:29:53.12
And one of things though
that I see is that even though
00:29:53.15\00:29:57.69
they seem to
have all of the stuff,
00:29:57.73\00:30:01.06
they all look so miserable.
00:30:01.10\00:30:02.90
Yes.
00:30:02.93\00:30:04.27
When you see them,
they all look so miserable
00:30:04.30\00:30:06.77
because what they're
missing, they have...
00:30:06.80\00:30:09.37
Satan can bless you
too with material things.
00:30:09.40\00:30:13.64
But he doesn't give that
peace and joy that God gives.
00:30:13.68\00:30:17.65
So when we're talking
about blessings, you know,
00:30:17.68\00:30:20.68
we're talking
about here what I meant
00:30:20.72\00:30:22.28
the blessings of God
but Satan can bless you too,
00:30:22.32\00:30:26.65
but it's so
different from God's.
00:30:26.69\00:30:29.02
I wouldn't call it
blessing, I'd call it a curse.
00:30:29.06\00:30:31.59
What it looks like,
appears to be blessings,
00:30:31.63\00:30:34.03
but it's really a curse.
00:30:34.06\00:30:35.73
It's a counterfeit blessing.
00:30:35.76\00:30:37.10
Counterfeit
blessing, there you go.
00:30:37.13\00:30:38.93
You know, one of my Psalms,
00:30:38.97\00:30:40.30
I've been sharing so
much lately, you know
00:30:40.34\00:30:41.74
exactly where
I'm going Psalms 73,
00:30:41.77\00:30:44.24
is because the young
man by the name of Asaph.
00:30:44.27\00:30:46.78
He had a problem, he
lived in a world like ours,
00:30:46.81\00:30:50.95
and he saw the
prosperity of the wicked.
00:30:50.98\00:30:54.05
And they're saying,
"I'm blessed, I'm blessed.
00:30:54.08\00:30:56.65
I've got a car and
I've got my mansion.
00:30:56.69\00:30:58.02
I'm blessed."
00:30:58.05\00:30:59.62
He saw and he says,
00:30:59.65\00:31:04.03
"Truly God," Psalms 73:1,
00:31:04.06\00:31:06.86
"Truly God is good to Israel
to such are pure in heart.
00:31:06.90\00:31:10.07
But as for me, my
feet almost had stumbled.
00:31:10.10\00:31:12.67
My steps had nearly
slipped, for I was envious
00:31:12.70\00:31:16.27
of the boastful when I saw
the prosperity of the wicked."
00:31:16.30\00:31:19.54
And he goes on and
describes their whole life.
00:31:19.57\00:31:21.84
And then this is the transition,
00:31:21.88\00:31:23.24
I won't go through all the part,
00:31:23.28\00:31:24.61
he talks about their
abundance, their wealth,
00:31:24.65\00:31:26.58
they talk against
God, they have more...
00:31:26.61\00:31:29.12
Even when they die,
they die in with so much.
00:31:29.15\00:31:32.65
But then he goes to
verse 17, he says, verse 16,
00:31:32.69\00:31:36.06
"When I thought I
had to understand this,
00:31:36.09\00:31:37.89
it was too painful for me
00:31:37.93\00:31:40.13
until I went into
the sanctuary of God,
00:31:40.16\00:31:42.93
then I understood their end."
00:31:42.96\00:31:45.53
He went back and then he says,
00:31:45.57\00:31:47.14
"Surely, you set
them in slippery places,
00:31:47.17\00:31:51.34
or how they are brought
to desolation in a moment."
00:31:51.37\00:31:54.74
He says, so he starts
to see, wait a minute,
00:31:54.78\00:31:57.05
that's temporary,
because wealth, prosperity,
00:31:57.08\00:31:59.81
and blessing are
not the same thing.
00:31:59.85\00:32:01.55
And that is a
major point right there.
00:32:01.58\00:32:04.39
Money and blessing
are not the same thing.
00:32:04.42\00:32:05.75
That's right. And
people think that that is.
00:32:05.79\00:32:08.52
They do. They confuse them.
00:32:08.56\00:32:10.23
But money and
blessing are not necessarily...
00:32:10.26\00:32:11.89
And you said that
they're not happy.
00:32:11.93\00:32:13.46
There's no peace. Right.
00:32:13.50\00:32:14.83
It could be a great curse.
00:32:14.86\00:32:16.67
Most of us, if we don't
have any financial problems,
00:32:16.70\00:32:20.04
we tend to get independent
from God because now we start,
00:32:20.07\00:32:24.77
"Well, I've got
this, I don't..."
00:32:24.81\00:32:26.27
You watch somebody who's really
may have got great health,
00:32:26.31\00:32:30.18
got all the money they
need, they don't need God,
00:32:30.21\00:32:33.05
and soon as they, all
of a sudden, they go broke,
00:32:33.08\00:32:34.88
as soon as
their health goes bad,
00:32:34.92\00:32:36.92
"Oh, now I need God."
00:32:36.95\00:32:38.29
What it is?
00:32:38.32\00:32:39.65
It's a reminder
that, "Boy, you know,
00:32:39.69\00:32:42.06
I'm a failed human
agent, I could die any minute.
00:32:42.09\00:32:44.99
Now I need to look
at..." But long as we're...
00:32:45.03\00:32:47.56
My dad used to say,
"He is as independent
00:32:47.60\00:32:49.06
as a hog on ice 'cause
his feet are going everywhere,
00:32:49.10\00:32:54.90
it's not really independent
but he thinks he is out free.
00:32:54.94\00:32:59.21
And so that's
the thing about it.
00:32:59.24\00:33:01.48
They seem to be
blessings, the money, you know,
00:33:01.51\00:33:04.91
all of this stuff, when
really the devil will use that
00:33:04.95\00:33:08.48
and it can be a blessing of God,
00:33:08.52\00:33:10.79
but the devil will use
it to distract you from God.
00:33:10.82\00:33:14.02
That's why you need to come back
00:33:14.06\00:33:15.56
to that Sabbath
rest to refocus and say,
00:33:15.59\00:33:18.99
"Okay, Lord, where am I,
and what brings to happiness?"
00:33:19.03\00:33:22.63
It's not money, I don't know
if you remember Howard Hughes?
00:33:22.66\00:33:25.30
Oh, yes. Oh, yeah.
00:33:25.33\00:33:26.80
His nails grew...
00:33:26.84\00:33:28.30
He's a
multi-million, billionaire...
00:33:28.34\00:33:31.31
But he was so
unhappy, Miserable.
00:33:31.34\00:33:32.97
Remember we used to see that.
00:33:33.01\00:33:34.58
We used to see
videos of him years ago,
00:33:34.61\00:33:37.25
and he was so miserable,
he lived in his hotel room,
00:33:37.28\00:33:39.55
everything pile up, it's
like, he have all this money,
00:33:39.58\00:33:42.22
and he is still not happy.
00:33:42.25\00:33:43.99
Right. No.
00:33:44.02\00:33:45.95
'Cause money does
not bring happiness.
00:33:45.99\00:33:47.62
It doesn't. No.
00:33:47.66\00:33:48.99
It doesn't bring
happiness. Peace of mind.
00:33:49.02\00:33:50.79
Right, if you
don't know the Lord,
00:33:50.83\00:33:52.16
money is not going to be a
substitute for you happiness.
00:33:52.19\00:33:54.70
But I've also
heard somebody once say,
00:33:54.73\00:33:56.06
"Money doesn't bring happiness,
give me a chance to decide."
00:33:56.10\00:33:59.63
To decide for myself.
But money is not the...
00:33:59.67\00:34:03.20
Money is not happiness.
00:34:03.24\00:34:04.71
It's being
godliness with contentment.
00:34:04.74\00:34:07.78
That's right.
00:34:07.81\00:34:09.88
I like what Danny said,
00:34:09.91\00:34:11.25
bringing it back to the Sabbath.
00:34:11.28\00:34:13.75
The Sabbath also teaches
us that we're not our own,
00:34:13.78\00:34:16.65
that God owns everything
00:34:16.69\00:34:18.72
and we can't have
contentment till we realize that
00:34:18.75\00:34:23.12
what we possess
is really not ours,
00:34:23.16\00:34:25.13
we're just stewards of it.
00:34:25.16\00:34:26.80
So another
blessing God gives us that
00:34:26.83\00:34:29.80
being able to return to
him, our tithes and offerings.
00:34:29.83\00:34:32.07
That's good. That's right.
00:34:32.10\00:34:33.77
We're going there
too. Hope we get there.
00:34:33.80\00:34:36.60
But I want to go
ahead and put a context
00:34:36.64\00:34:38.54
to the blessings
of the Christians.
00:34:38.57\00:34:41.24
Look at the third
point, Ephesians 1:3.
00:34:41.28\00:34:43.68
Yvonne, would
you read that for us?
00:34:43.71\00:34:45.05
Sure. I have it
right here actually.
00:34:45.08\00:34:47.45
"Blessed be the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
00:34:47.48\00:34:50.85
who has blessed us with
every spiritual blessing
00:34:50.89\00:34:53.99
in the heavenly
places in Christ."
00:34:54.02\00:34:55.86
What kind of blessings?
00:34:55.89\00:34:57.23
Spiritual. Spiritual blessings.
00:34:57.26\00:34:59.43
Spiritual blessings are forever,
00:34:59.46\00:35:02.20
temporary
blessings are exactly that.
00:35:02.23\00:35:06.10
Material
blessings are temporary.
00:35:06.13\00:35:07.57
I've never heard anybody...
00:35:07.60\00:35:09.07
Well, there is one
guy that got buried
00:35:09.10\00:35:11.54
in this corvette,
the seat of his corvette
00:35:11.57\00:35:14.28
and he was
encased in a plexiglass
00:35:14.31\00:35:16.34
and they put the
whole thing in the ground.
00:35:16.38\00:35:17.78
Oh my god.
00:35:17.81\00:35:19.15
What a waste of a corvette
00:35:19.18\00:35:20.72
'cause he wasn't going anywhere.
00:35:20.75\00:35:22.08
All right, all right.
00:35:22.12\00:35:23.45
And one person had a
very good picture of that.
00:35:23.49\00:35:24.99
There was a guy that wanted
to be buried with his $66,000
00:35:25.02\00:35:27.96
he had left in the bank.
00:35:27.99\00:35:29.39
And so, somebody is
walking past the coffin,
00:35:29.42\00:35:31.93
you may have
heard the story before,
00:35:31.96\00:35:34.13
he had $66,000
and one of the people
00:35:34.16\00:35:36.46
came up to
coffin, took all the cash,
00:35:36.50\00:35:39.10
wrote him a check
and put it in there.
00:35:39.13\00:35:40.47
That's good.
00:35:45.17\00:35:46.88
You can't take it with you. No.
00:35:46.91\00:35:48.54
That thing on the
tip of your fingernail,
00:35:48.58\00:35:50.18
you can't take it with you.
00:35:50.21\00:35:51.55
The blessings are here.
00:35:51.58\00:35:52.91
But let's go forward, because
I want to go to question four.
00:35:52.95\00:35:56.38
What are some of the
conditions of blessings?
00:35:56.42\00:35:58.49
This is huge because, I
was looking at the Bible...
00:35:58.52\00:36:02.12
Honey, would you read
that for us, Genesis 32:26,
00:36:02.16\00:36:05.13
and this is, we
know the story of Jacob.
00:36:05.16\00:36:06.80
Oh, yeah.
00:36:06.83\00:36:08.16
And he said, "Let me
go for the day breaks,
00:36:08.20\00:36:12.37
but he said I
will not let you go
00:36:12.40\00:36:14.97
unless you bless me."
00:36:15.00\00:36:16.64
Now that was powerful
to me because the thing
00:36:16.67\00:36:19.61
that came out of that, panel
00:36:19.64\00:36:21.61
and those who are watching
the program is some people
00:36:21.64\00:36:24.75
let the Lord go
before the blessing comes.
00:36:24.78\00:36:27.82
Just a little before
the blessing can give up.
00:36:27.85\00:36:31.35
Yeah.
00:36:31.39\00:36:32.72
How many people have
been waiting for a job
00:36:32.75\00:36:34.19
and they say, "You know what,
I just got a job on Sabbath,
00:36:34.22\00:36:36.56
I'm taking it, I'm tired of God,
00:36:36.59\00:36:39.66
I've been waiting
for three months."
00:36:39.69\00:36:41.60
Well, if the
company needs to be build
00:36:41.63\00:36:44.53
and they are three months out,
trust God for the three months
00:36:44.57\00:36:49.10
and in the fourth
month, He will give you a job
00:36:49.14\00:36:50.67
where you don't have
to violate the Sabbath,
00:36:50.71\00:36:52.87
which makes you
lose that blessing.
00:36:52.91\00:36:54.58
But some people say,
00:36:54.61\00:36:55.94
"I can't wait
for God any longer,
00:36:55.98\00:36:57.31
I just got an offer for job,
I got to work on the Sabbath,
00:36:57.35\00:36:59.81
but I need the money,
I'm going to take it."
00:36:59.85\00:37:01.72
Jacob refused to
let God go until...
00:37:01.75\00:37:05.52
It's good. Yeah,
till You bless me.
00:37:05.55\00:37:08.22
Till You bless me.
00:37:08.26\00:37:09.59
So some people
let go before God,
00:37:09.62\00:37:11.19
before the blessing comes.
00:37:11.23\00:37:12.56
Now what are
spiritual blessings?
00:37:12.59\00:37:14.23
Oh, wow.
00:37:14.26\00:37:16.33
What's more of a
blessing than money?
00:37:16.36\00:37:20.90
Good health I think.
00:37:20.94\00:37:22.27
Health is wealth. Okay.
00:37:22.30\00:37:23.81
But even when
your health goes bad,
00:37:23.84\00:37:26.68
and it will,
should the Lord tarry.
00:37:26.71\00:37:29.64
I'm not the man I
used to be as I say,
00:37:29.68\00:37:31.55
you know, as we get
older, that happens.
00:37:31.58\00:37:34.98
But the blessing is
the peace and knowing
00:37:35.02\00:37:38.29
that if I die today, the
next thing that I will see
00:37:38.32\00:37:41.32
is the face of
Jesus, I hear the trumpets.
00:37:41.36\00:37:44.03
I think of Dr. Walt Thompson,
he may be watching as we speak.
00:37:44.06\00:37:48.06
Yvonne and I've talked to
him last week and he says,
00:37:48.10\00:37:52.33
I will use his
words and not ours.
00:37:52.37\00:37:54.94
He's been suffering for
quite a while and he says,
00:37:54.97\00:37:58.37
"I'm just ready for the
Lord and I'm waiting for death,
00:37:58.41\00:38:02.41
and I'm okay
with it, that's fine.
00:38:02.44\00:38:04.11
I have a peace with it,
I'm encouraged, you know,"
00:38:04.15\00:38:07.32
the very next
thing, he will hear
00:38:07.35\00:38:10.02
Yvonne said is to Trumpet,
00:38:10.05\00:38:11.45
so when you shut your
eyes and sleep, so to him.
00:38:11.49\00:38:15.16
Now money can't buy
that, you can take billionaires
00:38:15.19\00:38:18.23
who don't know the
Lord and they won't be like
00:38:18.26\00:38:20.30
that Dr. Walt
right now who just says,
00:38:20.33\00:38:22.30
"Hey, this is the end of
this journey, and I'm okay,
00:38:22.33\00:38:26.40
and I'm looking
forward to eternity."
00:38:26.43\00:38:28.74
That money can't buy.
That's a spiritual blessing.
00:38:28.77\00:38:32.64
But how did he get there?
00:38:32.67\00:38:34.14
He got it by reading
the back of the book.
00:38:34.18\00:38:37.25
By understanding the prophecies
of Daniel and Revelation,
00:38:37.28\00:38:39.78
the three angles'
messages which will say to you
00:38:39.81\00:38:42.95
in a time of trouble,
"I'm not worried about that.
00:38:42.98\00:38:45.15
I've read the back of the book."
00:38:45.19\00:38:46.72
Walt has read
the back of the book.
00:38:46.76\00:38:48.76
So that peace of
mind, there is no money,
00:38:48.79\00:38:51.33
nothing on earth, no
beautiful homes, cars,
00:38:51.36\00:38:54.10
nothing can give you that.
00:38:54.13\00:38:55.63
That's the spiritual
blessing. That's right.
00:38:55.66\00:38:57.73
Anything else, honey?
00:38:57.77\00:38:59.10
No, no, I was just
throwing out the question.
00:38:59.13\00:39:00.67
Go ahead, Gary.
00:39:00.70\00:39:02.04
Oh, another blessing
from God is forgiveness.
00:39:02.07\00:39:03.44
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
00:39:03.47\00:39:05.31
My kids tease me
sometimes, they say,
00:39:05.34\00:39:06.68
"Why are you so
disgustingly cheerful?"
00:39:06.71\00:39:10.78
And I tell them
sometimes it's because
00:39:10.81\00:39:13.55
I don't carry around grudges.
00:39:13.58\00:39:15.62
I forgive people
and that God gives me
00:39:15.65\00:39:17.42
the gift of forgiveness
and that's a blessing
00:39:17.45\00:39:19.35
'cause you don't have to
be weigh down with the burden
00:39:19.39\00:39:21.79
of, you know,
who said this to me
00:39:21.82\00:39:23.26
and who did that to me.
00:39:23.29\00:39:24.66
The concrete basket
that want forgiveness.
00:39:24.69\00:39:27.26
Yes. It's good.
00:39:27.30\00:39:28.63
So that's a blessing
of God's forgiveness.
00:39:28.66\00:39:30.00
That's a very good point.
00:39:30.03\00:39:31.37
Blessing of forgiveness,
the lightening of your heart,
00:39:31.40\00:39:34.17
the burden that
sometimes you carry.
00:39:34.20\00:39:36.60
And we don't have
to carry those burdens
00:39:36.64\00:39:38.67
but some people,
some people, you know,
00:39:38.71\00:39:41.38
when you don't forgive somebody,
00:39:41.41\00:39:42.74
what was the
analogy somebody used,
00:39:42.78\00:39:44.35
it was a book you were
reading, it's like drinking...
00:39:44.38\00:39:46.35
What is it?
00:39:46.38\00:39:47.72
Drinking poison and
hope they would die.
00:39:47.75\00:39:49.68
No, drinking poison and
hope the other person would die.
00:39:49.72\00:39:52.62
Yeah, you drink the poison.
00:39:52.65\00:39:55.62
And that's what... Go ahead.
00:39:55.66\00:39:57.59
I think God's blessings
and it's good for us to know
00:39:57.63\00:40:00.53
or talk about or for
everyone in this sense,
00:40:00.56\00:40:04.63
but are we going to
take advantage of them?
00:40:04.67\00:40:06.70
You can take someone
who says, "I'm an atheist,"
00:40:06.74\00:40:09.37
but if he eats
right, and he exercises,
00:40:09.40\00:40:12.94
he will get to enjoy
probably longer life.
00:40:12.97\00:40:15.64
But it's only on this earth,
00:40:15.68\00:40:17.55
so he cuts himself
short of the real blessing,
00:40:17.58\00:40:20.52
he wants to take care
of that physical blessing.
00:40:20.55\00:40:22.95
But man is born of
a woman is of few days
00:40:22.98\00:40:25.52
and come full of trouble,
00:40:25.55\00:40:27.22
he's coming forth like a flower
00:40:27.26\00:40:29.19
and flee it not
and continue it says.
00:40:29.22\00:40:30.73
Fades.
00:40:30.76\00:40:32.09
Yeah,
continuously, he fades away,
00:40:32.13\00:40:33.53
and continues not
till heavens be no more.
00:40:33.56\00:40:35.26
That's right.
00:40:35.30\00:40:36.63
So the physical blessing,
it's there, if we just...
00:40:36.67\00:40:41.80
So any time
you're within God's laws,
00:40:41.84\00:40:44.97
His physical laws,
00:40:45.01\00:40:46.34
so you don't
have to be a Christian
00:40:46.37\00:40:48.21
to get blessings physically
00:40:48.24\00:40:50.81
if you eat right and
take care of your health,
00:40:50.85\00:40:53.45
you know, and exercise
00:40:53.48\00:40:54.82
and do all
these things, you can.
00:40:54.85\00:40:56.35
But the physical blessing
is not what you're wanting,
00:40:56.38\00:41:00.39
you want that spiritual blessing
00:41:00.42\00:41:02.86
where this spiritual
blessing lasts for eternity.
00:41:02.89\00:41:06.26
The other may give you some
00:41:06.29\00:41:07.83
but it doesn't
give you peace of mind.
00:41:07.86\00:41:09.56
But the residual benefits
of good eating is good health,
00:41:09.60\00:41:13.40
but even, you know,
you might die at 105,
00:41:13.44\00:41:16.57
but you gonna die anyway.
00:41:16.60\00:41:18.31
It's good to know
that the next thing
00:41:18.34\00:41:20.18
you will hear
when the Lord comes
00:41:20.21\00:41:21.54
is that trumpet sound
like when you said that.
00:41:21.58\00:41:23.31
Right, with Dr.
Walt. To Dr. Walt.
00:41:23.35\00:41:25.25
It's good to have that
peace, the peace of forgiveness.
00:41:25.28\00:41:28.55
I like the way
what he said to Gary,
00:41:28.58\00:41:30.09
"Being
disgustingly happy," you know.
00:41:30.12\00:41:34.19
And some people don't
like it when you're happy.
00:41:34.22\00:41:36.12
"Why are you always smiling?"
00:41:36.16\00:41:38.06
You know, like a
pastor said to a lady,
00:41:38.09\00:41:39.76
"You're always positive.
00:41:39.79\00:41:41.13
What could you say
positive about the devil?"
00:41:41.16\00:41:43.43
She said, "He's always busy."
00:41:43.47\00:41:46.50
I have a family member
00:41:46.53\00:41:47.87
that we used to go
to Nashville quite a bit
00:41:47.90\00:41:50.27
when we're
recording and stuff and,
00:41:50.31\00:41:52.27
I'd call him, and
we'd have to leave
00:41:52.31\00:41:53.64
like at six in the morning,
get there for session, I'd say,
00:41:53.68\00:41:56.41
"Good morning, rise and shine,"
00:41:56.44\00:41:57.98
and he's like,
"Would you stop that,
00:41:58.01\00:41:59.55
why are you so
happy all the time."
00:41:59.58\00:42:02.32
And all the way down
here, he would hardly speak,
00:42:02.35\00:42:04.15
we'd go three hours
driving and he's just quiet.
00:42:04.19\00:42:06.52
And I'd be talking,
he's like, "Can't you...
00:42:06.55\00:42:10.36
Aren't you ever just like upset
or don't you ever just crabby?"
00:42:10.39\00:42:14.33
I say,
00:42:14.36\00:42:15.70
"There's no reason to
be, I woke up this morning,
00:42:15.73\00:42:17.33
I'm blessed, we're on the way,
00:42:17.37\00:42:19.00
so it makes no sense
to be just, you know,"
00:42:19.03\00:42:23.24
so he's like,
it's almost like that,
00:42:23.27\00:42:25.17
you know, "This
is too much for me,
00:42:25.21\00:42:27.64
I don't want to hear
00:42:27.68\00:42:29.01
all of this
happiness in the morning."
00:42:29.04\00:42:30.65
No, life is a
blessing. Oh, absolutely.
00:42:30.68\00:42:32.85
Life is a blessing.
00:42:32.88\00:42:34.22
Any day above the
ground is a good day.
00:42:34.25\00:42:36.35
Very good day.
00:42:36.38\00:42:37.72
With good health and
all the other benefits.
00:42:37.75\00:42:39.19
I read a quote which certainly
is kind of interesting,
00:42:39.22\00:42:40.79
it said,
00:42:40.82\00:42:42.16
"God created this to be
a blessing to ourselves,"
00:42:42.19\00:42:44.69
and it's interesting
the order of this place,
00:42:44.73\00:42:48.26
blessing to our
self, blessings to others,
00:42:48.30\00:42:51.53
and then to bring forth
00:42:51.57\00:42:53.40
the praise of God in that order,
00:42:53.44\00:42:55.70
you know, so God created us
to be blessing to ourselves.
00:42:55.74\00:42:57.67
That's right.
00:42:57.71\00:42:59.04
And sometimes we
don't allow ourselves
00:42:59.07\00:43:00.48
to have that blessing
00:43:00.51\00:43:01.84
because we're not a
blessing to our self.
00:43:01.88\00:43:03.21
We're not in
harmony, in rhythm with God.
00:43:03.24\00:43:06.61
Doing what it takes
to receive His blessings.
00:43:06.65\00:43:09.42
It's like trying to plant a rose
00:43:09.45\00:43:10.79
in the middle of winter.
00:43:10.82\00:43:12.42
You can say, "This
is not the time of year,
00:43:12.45\00:43:15.09
you're out of rhythm
with the planting season.
00:43:15.12\00:43:17.63
You can't get a rose to
grow on the winter time,
00:43:17.66\00:43:19.26
not here at least."
00:43:19.29\00:43:20.63
Right.
00:43:20.66\00:43:22.83
In this scripture,
00:43:22.86\00:43:24.20
I'm looking at
here, Genesis 32:26,
00:43:24.23\00:43:27.14
"I will not let you go,"
00:43:27.17\00:43:28.87
one of the blessings
and here's what I've found
00:43:28.90\00:43:31.71
and this has been
the key for 33 years
00:43:31.74\00:43:35.04
that the blessing
of God is on the go.
00:43:35.08\00:43:37.35
In fact, I had this little book,
00:43:37.38\00:43:39.41
"The Blessing Is on the Go,"
00:43:39.45\00:43:40.82
what we'll do is
anybody who wants it,
00:43:40.85\00:43:42.88
you write to 3ABN, and
we'll just give it to you.
00:43:42.92\00:43:44.59
So we're not
trying to sell you books,
00:43:44.62\00:43:46.45
we'll just mail it to
you, everything is free,
00:43:46.49\00:43:48.59
you don't pay shipping,
and we'll just give it to you.
00:43:48.62\00:43:51.36
But the blessing
of God is on the go.
00:43:51.39\00:43:53.60
God gives these blessings to us,
00:43:53.63\00:43:56.46
but when I go in faith,
00:43:56.50\00:43:58.83
He says, "Go ye
into all the world,"
00:43:58.87\00:44:01.40
as Dr. Thompson used to
say, when he said, "Go ye..."
00:44:01.44\00:44:04.24
He's countered his
resources in advance,
00:44:04.27\00:44:06.68
found that he's not wanting
and so when we go forward,
00:44:06.71\00:44:10.25
God honors that.
00:44:10.28\00:44:11.81
Blessings will
fall where Malachi,
00:44:11.85\00:44:14.75
you know, where there is
not room enough to receive,
00:44:14.78\00:44:16.48
the windows are
open up for heaven.
00:44:16.52\00:44:18.12
But that's not when
you're just sitting.
00:44:18.15\00:44:19.49
That's right.
00:44:19.52\00:44:20.86
It's not when you're sitting,
it's when you're in action.
00:44:20.89\00:44:23.43
So if you want blessings of God
and God to bless your ministry
00:44:23.46\00:44:27.40
or what you're doing all
your life, get up and go.
00:44:27.43\00:44:30.70
So if we want to sit
home, watch TV all day,
00:44:30.73\00:44:33.03
don't expect a lot of
blessings coming your way,
00:44:33.07\00:44:35.87
that is peace of
mind and all this things
00:44:35.90\00:44:38.01
and because you're
not really focused,
00:44:38.04\00:44:40.31
"Well, God, I'm waiting on you.
00:44:40.34\00:44:41.78
I gave some money
now, you know, bless me."
00:44:41.81\00:44:45.01
You watch, when you get
up and you do something,
00:44:45.05\00:44:46.88
and you, I don't care
00:44:46.92\00:44:48.25
if there's
witnessing to somebody
00:44:48.28\00:44:49.62
to a gas station
or the restaurant,
00:44:49.65\00:44:50.99
wherever you are, you
watch how God opens up doors.
00:44:51.02\00:44:53.96
You're so blessed
00:44:53.99\00:44:55.32
that it's
literally running over.
00:44:55.36\00:44:58.63
Oh, running over.
00:44:58.66\00:45:00.00
Go ahead, you were
talking about that,
00:45:00.03\00:45:01.50
Darrell Marshall song.
00:45:01.53\00:45:04.30
We are drinking from our saucer.
00:45:04.33\00:45:06.63
There you go.
00:45:06.67\00:45:08.00
Every time I hear
Darrell sing that song,
00:45:08.04\00:45:09.57
The cup is full,
have you heard that song?
00:45:09.60\00:45:11.51
The cup is full,
so it's running over,
00:45:11.54\00:45:13.74
someone said he's
drinking from the saucer.
00:45:13.78\00:45:15.54
Oh, wow. Beautiful.
00:45:15.58\00:45:17.85
Nobody sings it like Darrell.
00:45:17.88\00:45:19.21
I love it every time I hear
it, that's one of my favorites.
00:45:19.25\00:45:21.68
And the other one,
Just a Rose Will Do,
00:45:21.72\00:45:24.52
you know, it's a beautiful song.
00:45:24.55\00:45:25.89
He's got a tremendous voice.
00:45:25.92\00:45:27.26
But now I want to go
to the financial blessings
00:45:27.29\00:45:28.89
because you alluded to it.
00:45:28.92\00:45:30.26
Look at point
number six, Malachi 3:10,
00:45:30.29\00:45:33.09
there are some
blessings that will only come
00:45:33.13\00:45:34.46
since you mentioned it,
00:45:34.50\00:45:35.83
Danny, go ahead
and read it for us,
00:45:35.86\00:45:37.20
Malachi 3:10 on
point number six there.
00:45:37.23\00:45:39.50
"Bring you all the
tithes into the storehouse,
00:45:39.53\00:45:41.77
that there may
be food in my house
00:45:41.80\00:45:43.87
and try me now in
this, says the Lord of hosts,
00:45:43.91\00:45:47.08
if I will not open
the windows for you,
00:45:47.11\00:45:50.11
get this, the
windows of heaven for you,
00:45:50.15\00:45:52.51
and pour you
out such a blessing,
00:45:52.55\00:45:54.65
there will not be
room enough to receive it."
00:45:54.68\00:45:57.09
Wow, some people
don't get that blessing
00:45:57.12\00:45:59.75
because they don't
follow God's parameter.
00:45:59.79\00:46:02.62
But I bet that lot of people,
00:46:02.66\00:46:03.99
what do they
say, John, they say,
00:46:04.03\00:46:05.36
"Pastor, I can't afford to
give tithes and offerings.'
00:46:05.39\00:46:07.86
Well, if you give,
00:46:07.90\00:46:09.23
you'll be able
to afford to give.
00:46:09.26\00:46:10.73
That's right. So
there's really no excuse.
00:46:10.77\00:46:13.80
If I'd figured out my budget
and I can't afford my tithe
00:46:13.84\00:46:17.14
then maybe I should
cut my budget down, right?
00:46:17.17\00:46:19.64
Something in that
budget needs to be removed.
00:46:19.67\00:46:22.18
I'll dig a little
testimony in this area,
00:46:22.21\00:46:23.78
that the Lord
blessed on one day,
00:46:23.81\00:46:26.15
our church that I
was attending asked
00:46:26.18\00:46:27.65
for funds to fund
evangelistic meetings
00:46:27.68\00:46:30.75
and so I didn't have much money
00:46:30.79\00:46:32.22
but I committed to give 7%
of my income extra above tithe
00:46:32.25\00:46:36.83
and offering to the Lord.
00:46:36.86\00:46:38.53
And that week,
00:46:38.56\00:46:40.36
I was called
into my boss's office
00:46:40.40\00:46:42.36
and it was just a
review, just a review.
00:46:42.40\00:46:45.33
And in that review,
00:46:45.37\00:46:49.10
unbeknown to me,
I've got a promotion,
00:46:49.14\00:46:51.04
I've got two set promotions
and I've got a 14% raise.
00:46:51.07\00:46:55.64
God doubled my commitment,
I have a proof of that text.
00:46:55.68\00:46:58.95
Look at that. Wow!
00:46:58.98\00:47:00.32
Sometimes we
should do a whole worship
00:47:00.35\00:47:01.82
on the blessings of God
00:47:01.85\00:47:03.65
when you give, when you think
00:47:03.69\00:47:06.15
that you can't give and
you can't afford to give.
00:47:06.19\00:47:08.86
My little quick one
is, I'll never forget,
00:47:08.89\00:47:10.76
in the early 80s before 3ABN,
I had been playing basketball,
00:47:10.79\00:47:14.83
John broke the
navicular bone in my wrist,
00:47:14.86\00:47:16.77
so I had to cast
for several months,
00:47:16.80\00:47:18.40
couldn't work,
didn't have insurance,
00:47:18.43\00:47:19.90
didn't have any money coming in,
00:47:19.93\00:47:21.47
so I was struggling
literally for weeks and weeks,
00:47:21.50\00:47:24.91
Melody was young.
00:47:24.94\00:47:26.31
And so I went to church one day,
00:47:26.34\00:47:28.11
I had $2 in my pocket, $2
is all I had in my pocket.
00:47:28.14\00:47:32.65
And I knew 'cause
I'd run down to debt.
00:47:32.68\00:47:34.88
So I go to church and I'm like,
00:47:34.92\00:47:36.55
"Lord, I don't
want to do this week
00:47:36.58\00:47:37.95
and I never ask people for help,
00:47:37.99\00:47:39.49
never felt comfortable about it.
00:47:39.52\00:47:43.12
Please you need
to supply somehow,
00:47:43.16\00:47:45.26
we got to keep going."
00:47:45.29\00:47:46.63
So I go to church and I have $2
and they take up the offering.
00:47:46.66\00:47:50.60
And so I thought,
"I can't give the $2,
00:47:50.63\00:47:53.84
now really what's $2 can buy me.
00:47:53.87\00:47:57.57
And I said, "I can't give this
00:47:57.61\00:47:59.07
'cause we won't
have anything left,"
00:47:59.11\00:48:01.74
and so the offerings,
00:48:01.78\00:48:03.11
the deacons come
forward and they get it
00:48:03.14\00:48:04.65
and so as they were
leaving, the Holy Spirit said,
00:48:04.68\00:48:08.55
"Do you trust in that $2
or you want to trust me?"
00:48:08.58\00:48:11.99
So I reached in my pocket
00:48:12.02\00:48:13.36
and quickly put it in the plate.
00:48:13.39\00:48:15.89
Now after church, I
don't know how long I stayed,
00:48:15.92\00:48:18.13
but I talked to
people and visit,
00:48:18.16\00:48:20.26
I got into my vehicle, drove,
00:48:20.30\00:48:22.66
I lived on the west side
of West Frankfort at the time,
00:48:22.70\00:48:25.93
and so I was driving
through the main street,
00:48:25.97\00:48:27.80
got right past the post
office to the stop lights,
00:48:27.84\00:48:31.14
and I saw a lady walking
00:48:31.17\00:48:33.07
across the street,
I'm in a red light.
00:48:33.11\00:48:35.38
Now the timing of this,
00:48:35.41\00:48:36.75
I hadn't see this lady
in years but when I did,
00:48:36.78\00:48:39.71
she's an older
lady that would say,
00:48:39.75\00:48:41.72
"Well, I'm really struggling,
00:48:41.75\00:48:43.28
you know, could you help
me a little bit financially,"
00:48:43.32\00:48:45.65
and I knew her from
relatives, and what have you,
00:48:45.69\00:48:49.16
so if had some
I'd tried to help her
00:48:49.19\00:48:50.79
and I saw her
00:48:50.83\00:48:52.16
and she started waving me down,
00:48:52.19\00:48:53.53
I said, "This is
not the right time,
00:48:53.56\00:48:55.23
I'm coming home,
00:48:55.26\00:48:56.60
I don't have a
dime in my pocket,
00:48:56.63\00:48:58.73
I'm broke as it can be,"
00:48:58.77\00:49:00.40
she, John,
motions me to pullover
00:49:00.44\00:49:04.41
so I pull right over there
in front of furniture store
00:49:04.44\00:49:07.01
and she came up and
I rolled the windows,
00:49:07.04\00:49:08.94
she's on the passenger's side,
I was driving, rolled it down,
00:49:08.98\00:49:11.58
I said, "Hey,
how are you doing?"
00:49:11.61\00:49:13.11
And I was
probably a little stiff,
00:49:13.15\00:49:14.65
you know, hello, how
are you doing, thinking,
00:49:14.68\00:49:16.69
"I'm broke, please
don't ask me for anything,"
00:49:16.72\00:49:19.39
and she says,
00:49:19.42\00:49:20.76
"You remember about
four or five years ago,"
00:49:20.79\00:49:23.46
and she knew the exact time,
00:49:23.49\00:49:24.86
I didn't, so let's
say, five years ago,
00:49:24.89\00:49:27.70
"When I was really
struggling and it was November,
00:49:27.73\00:49:30.47
they were going to
cut my electricity off,
00:49:30.50\00:49:32.90
and I came to your house
and told you I needed help
00:49:32.93\00:49:35.94
and the bill was $109,"
00:49:35.97\00:49:38.87
and I just looked
at her and I said,
00:49:38.91\00:49:40.24
"No," and she said,
"Oh, you remember that
00:49:40.28\00:49:41.98
'cause I had nowhere else to go
00:49:42.01\00:49:43.45
and I asked you to
loan it and you said,
00:49:43.48\00:49:46.85
you would give me the money,
00:49:46.88\00:49:48.22
you wouldn't loan
it, and I said, "Why?"
00:49:48.25\00:49:49.58
And you said,
00:49:49.62\00:49:50.95
"Because when
you don't pay back,
00:49:50.99\00:49:52.32
I'll be mad at you."
00:49:52.35\00:49:53.69
So if I give it you,
then I won't be mad at you,
00:49:53.72\00:49:55.12
so this is a gift so
let's forget about it."
00:49:55.16\00:49:59.33
She said, "Well,
the Lord has blessed me
00:49:59.36\00:50:00.70
since then and I've started,
00:50:00.73\00:50:02.40
I'm taking care
of some older people
00:50:02.43\00:50:04.60
and I saw you and I've
been going look you up,
00:50:04.63\00:50:07.14
I have $109 in my pocket
and I want to give it to you."
00:50:07.17\00:50:12.61
Now this was after church
which the timing for me to go
00:50:12.64\00:50:16.34
through West
Frankfort, and if I'd said,
00:50:16.38\00:50:18.18
"Let's meet at this
time, you'd never meet,"
00:50:18.21\00:50:20.02
right, somebody would be late.
00:50:20.05\00:50:21.38
And she is in front of me
and just happens to look over,
00:50:21.42\00:50:24.05
and that $109 got me
through what I needed that week
00:50:24.09\00:50:27.69
till the Lord
blessed the next week.
00:50:27.72\00:50:29.06
What a blessing.
00:50:29.09\00:50:30.43
Now you think
that's coincidence?
00:50:30.46\00:50:31.79
No. Not probably.
00:50:31.83\00:50:33.16
Matter of fact, let me turn...
00:50:33.19\00:50:34.53
Read point number nine,
that's exactly what it is.
00:50:34.56\00:50:35.90
Look at that
scripture, that's what it is.
00:50:35.93\00:50:37.27
This is amazing,
Danny, what a story.
00:50:37.30\00:50:38.63
Luke 6:38. And that's true.
00:50:38.67\00:50:40.04
Yes.
00:50:40.07\00:50:41.47
Absolutely, it is. Yes.
00:50:41.50\00:50:42.84
"Give and it
will be given to you,
00:50:42.87\00:50:45.54
good measure, press down,
00:50:45.57\00:50:47.18
shaken together
and running over,
00:50:47.21\00:50:49.41
will be put into your bosom.
00:50:49.44\00:50:51.31
For with the same
measure that you use,
00:50:51.35\00:50:53.58
it will be
measured back to you."
00:50:53.62\00:50:54.95
Okay. $109.
00:50:54.98\00:50:57.59
The same measure.
00:50:57.62\00:51:00.56
As your neighbor says,
"I need a cup of sugar,"
00:51:00.59\00:51:02.42
and you give him a teaspoon,
00:51:02.46\00:51:03.79
you're going to
get the teaspoon back,
00:51:03.83\00:51:05.49
in same measure.
00:51:05.53\00:51:07.00
And now get
this, Danny, so the...
00:51:07.03\00:51:11.77
Come on, help me with the...
00:51:11.80\00:51:13.13
The stingy people
get the stingy blessing.
00:51:13.17\00:51:17.64
But the liberal people
get the liberal blessings.
00:51:17.67\00:51:20.88
Am I right?
Look at the next one.
00:51:20.91\00:51:22.48
And it's funny,
wait, wait, Danny,
00:51:22.51\00:51:23.85
you even forgot about that.
00:51:23.88\00:51:25.65
I totally forgot
about it. With the lady.
00:51:25.68\00:51:27.65
And I couldn't
remember until she,
00:51:27.68\00:51:29.72
"Well, you remember
that," vaguely I remember,
00:51:29.75\00:51:32.02
but I really want to say to her,
00:51:32.05\00:51:33.39
"Which time was that?"
00:51:33.42\00:51:35.79
Well, it's the only
time I'd seen her at my house
00:51:35.82\00:51:38.09
and she was all right
00:51:38.13\00:51:40.10
and, you know, and
so I tried to help her,
00:51:40.13\00:51:42.30
another people did
too, I'm not the only one,
00:51:42.33\00:51:44.13
but I didn't remember
that, and then when she told me,
00:51:44.17\00:51:47.10
all of a sudden I went back,
00:51:47.14\00:51:48.47
I said, "I do
remember, no, it was a $109,"
00:51:48.50\00:51:50.94
but what got me, she
had the cash in her purse.
00:51:50.97\00:51:53.27
She said, "I've
been going to call you,
00:51:53.31\00:51:55.01
I haven't done it, I'm
carrying this money around,
00:51:55.04\00:51:57.25
and I hadn't seen her
probably in two years."
00:51:57.28\00:52:00.25
And there we meet, right there,
as soon as I've given that $2.
00:52:00.28\00:52:03.92
Did you know that
was God? Oh, absolutely.
00:52:03.95\00:52:06.69
I knew that was God.
00:52:06.72\00:52:08.06
'Cause when He said,
the impression was to me,
00:52:08.09\00:52:10.13
"You gonna trust
in that $2 or me?"
00:52:10.16\00:52:12.43
That's right. I know it.
00:52:12.46\00:52:14.30
This is pre-3ABN. That's right.
00:52:14.33\00:52:17.47
And the Lord had this
field already figured out.
00:52:17.50\00:52:19.57
Yes.
00:52:19.60\00:52:21.30
Building your
faith. And you know what...
00:52:21.34\00:52:23.30
Building your faith.
00:52:23.34\00:52:24.67
Over and over, over
again, when Hal Steenson need,
00:52:24.71\00:52:27.14
I walked into a
church one day quickly
00:52:27.18\00:52:29.54
and they were
underneath a group of people
00:52:29.58\00:52:31.75
I was wanting to, I had a van,
00:52:31.78\00:52:33.11
I was going to
sell it and I thought,
00:52:33.15\00:52:34.68
"I need to get a
better van," right,
00:52:34.72\00:52:36.82
and I'm going to sell this van
00:52:36.85\00:52:38.19
so he might know
somebody that would...
00:52:38.22\00:52:40.16
Before he was Adventist,
00:52:40.19\00:52:41.52
they had a church out here
so I'd go in and I'm like...
00:52:41.56\00:52:45.36
And these people were
praying, about eight of them,
00:52:45.39\00:52:47.43
they knew how to
pray, they were praying
00:52:47.46\00:52:49.43
and so they got up and I
say, "Hey, anybody need a van?"
00:52:49.46\00:52:52.23
And they're like,
00:52:52.27\00:52:53.60
"Praise the
Lord, praise the Lord,
00:52:53.64\00:52:54.97
we were sitting here praying
that this woman has eight kids,
00:52:55.00\00:52:58.01
her husband left
her with six kids,
00:52:58.04\00:52:59.77
and she needs a van,
00:52:59.81\00:53:01.14
and we don't have the money
to get one and praise the Lord,
00:53:01.18\00:53:04.11
God sent you," and I'm like,
00:53:04.15\00:53:05.58
"Whoa," 'cause I
needed that money
00:53:05.61\00:53:08.28
from the van to put a
down payment on another van.
00:53:08.32\00:53:11.29
And I had no money and I'm like,
00:53:11.32\00:53:13.22
"Well," and
they're all like, "What?
00:53:13.25\00:53:15.29
This is the Lord."
00:53:15.32\00:53:16.96
And I'm like,
"There's no way I can get..."
00:53:16.99\00:53:18.83
I was traveling
with Melody at the time.
00:53:18.86\00:53:20.33
And trying to get some money.
00:53:20.36\00:53:21.70
And after mother died,
00:53:21.73\00:53:23.06
we're trying to take a PA system
00:53:23.10\00:53:25.03
and I'm like, "Oh, no,
what am I going to do?"
00:53:25.07\00:53:27.27
So I said, you
know, I hate to, I said,
00:53:27.30\00:53:29.30
"I'm sorry," I said, "Honestly,
00:53:29.34\00:53:31.34
I don't have the
money to get another van,
00:53:31.37\00:53:33.01
I needed this, but
I'd sell it cheaper,"
00:53:33.04\00:53:35.91
and they all looked disappointed
00:53:35.94\00:53:37.28
like you're not
listening to God,
00:53:37.31\00:53:39.25
you know, but I
felt guilty so I'm like,
00:53:39.28\00:53:41.55
"Well, look hey,
we'll talk later."
00:53:41.58\00:53:43.42
So I head out the
door, and I go out the door
00:53:43.45\00:53:45.72
and I sat in it, and
that exact same thing said,
00:53:45.75\00:53:49.02
"Are you going
to trust in this van
00:53:49.06\00:53:50.39
or you're going to trust in me?"
00:53:50.43\00:53:51.99
So I went back and I
said, "Pastor Hal," I said,
00:53:52.03\00:53:54.33
"If you follow me to the house,
00:53:54.36\00:53:55.70
I'll give you
the title to the car
00:53:55.73\00:53:57.07
and clean out my
stuff into the van,"
00:53:57.10\00:53:59.37
and I did, and gave it to them.
00:53:59.40\00:54:01.74
I didn't know
what I was going to go.
00:54:01.77\00:54:03.27
Within a short time
later, God blessed me,
00:54:03.30\00:54:07.38
somebody bought a brand new van
00:54:07.41\00:54:11.41
and I get this
message on my phone,
00:54:11.45\00:54:12.98
I got home not that
day but a few weeks later.
00:54:13.01\00:54:15.85
And the message said
00:54:15.88\00:54:17.42
'cause I have been
praying about getting a new van
00:54:17.45\00:54:19.42
even priced one
00:54:19.45\00:54:20.89
and the message
on the phone said,
00:54:20.92\00:54:22.79
"You don't know
me," it's when we had,
00:54:22.82\00:54:24.16
you know, you
can call information
00:54:24.19\00:54:25.53
and get your number.
00:54:25.56\00:54:26.90
Oh, yeah.
00:54:26.93\00:54:28.26
"You don't know me,
but the Lord impressed me,
00:54:28.30\00:54:29.63
the urgency of which
you need this $15,000,
00:54:29.66\00:54:31.57
it will be there tomorrow,
and you'll know what it is."
00:54:31.60\00:54:33.97
I had been pricing
00:54:34.00\00:54:35.34
the van exactly $15, 000
00:54:35.37\00:54:37.41
the day before with
no money and no trading.
00:54:37.44\00:54:40.34
So I went down
and booked that van.
00:54:40.38\00:54:42.61
You know what?
Look at God blessings.
00:54:42.64\00:54:46.25
I got to get
this text before we...
00:54:46.28\00:54:47.85
Go for it.
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Matthew 6:33, it's
ingredients for all blessings,
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and if you want
a blessing today,
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go to Matthew 6:33.
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The secret is that
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we have to seek
first God's Kingdom
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and then His righteousness.
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That's the ingredient,
if you want a blessing,
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That's the key. That's the key.
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Seek ye first the kingdom
of God, and his righteousness.
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That's great.
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And all these things
will be added unto you.
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Every time we see 6:33
on the clock, Angie said,
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"Seek ye first..."
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We could be in the car,
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we could be on the plane, 6:33,
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"Seek ye first
the kingdom of God."
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I mean, this
program needs another hour
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because we just
started to talk about...
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But what we're pointing out here
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and the rhythm
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is don't try to find blessings
outside of God's rhythm.
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That's right. That's right.
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You can't seek the world
and expect God to bless you.
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No.
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Seek first His
kingdom and His righteousness.
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Yeah.
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You can't expect to
thwart God's Sabbath
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and expect Him to
bless another day,
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He's not going to do it.
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If you don't know,
that's the difference,
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but if you know and
you insist otherwise,
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you can't find a
blessing on a day
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that He didn't bless.
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He only blessed one.
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You can't find
the blessing outside
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of a
relationship, husband and wife,
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not husband and
husband, not wife and wife.
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He's not going to bless it.
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It's not about love,
it's about God's, and love,
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that is outside of
God's plan is not really love
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because God is love.
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Exactly.
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So we can't use
the word love to neuter
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what God has
established as a blessing.
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That's right.
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Thirdly, when
you give in harmony
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with God's plan, your
tithing and your offering,
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He will open the windows,
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but don't give for
Him to open the windows,
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give not
grudgingly or out of necessity
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but out of love for God.
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And in the next,
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if somebody has a need and
God has touched your heart,
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don't hold on to the
little and miss the big.
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Wow. Yeah.
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Right? Fourteen percent raise.
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The percent. Yeah.
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To give God.
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I gave my $75 tithe
and offering one Sabbath.
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The Sabbath morning,
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I had no money for
insurance on the next day,
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and Monday was due, that night,
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God gave me $238
from somebody I never met.
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There you go. God
wants to bless you.
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Does He want to bless us, honey?
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Amen. And you know what?
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We are talking about
blessing from our network
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that is all about blessings.
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Oh, yeah.
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The Lord tested Danny
Shelton years ago with $2
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because he had
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this whole
property already picked out.
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Amen.
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So let him look back and
see how far God has let us.
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So our message to
you is follow God's plan
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and the blessing
really is on the go
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if you follow
the Lord as He leads.
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God bless you
until we see you again.
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Amen.
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