I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello, happy Sabbath,
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and welcome to
3ABN's Family Worship.
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I am Chris Shelton, and
I am here with my husband,
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Pastor Kenny Shelton,
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and a couple other
people around the table.
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In fact, I feel a little bit
like a minority here, you know.
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I didn't realize both the
wives were going to be gone.
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That's all
right. That's all right.
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Before we get too much further,
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I might as well
just introduce them
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since I'm talking
about them already.
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To our right is
Pastor CA Murray.
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I know you're no
stranger to these folks
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that are
watching us here tonight.
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You wear many hats.
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You've been at 3ABN
for a long, long time
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and done an awful lot,
still blesses my heart.
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Even your
commercials bless me. Yeah.
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Yeah. Praise the Lord.
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And we count you as
certainly as a friend.
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Absolutely. Amen and amen.
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The loved one,
the brother in Christ,
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and it's just always a blessing,
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and we feel like
someone we could count on.
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We need counsel,
we need encouragement,
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you know, we feel
like we can go to you,
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and so we're very
grateful and thankful
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for that relationship.
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Thank you. Very much so.
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Praise the Lord. That is true.
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I mean, all you have to do
is hear one of his greetings
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and you feel encouraged.
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And same with brother JD.
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JD Quinn, same thing,
he is my buddy, my pal.
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He has just been such
an encouragement to me.
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He and his wife, Shelley,
are so loving and so caring,
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and you do the same.
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I know you worked in
different facets here at 3ABN.
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You work primarily
in pastoral sector.
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That's true.
That's exactly right.
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You know, one thing
I'll just think it, boy,
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doesn't CA have the best smile.
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Yeah. Amen.
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That's it. And so do you.
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Come on, you do too.
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It's encouraging.
Well, I don't know.
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I don't watch
myself smiling very much,
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but I just
noticed CA just kind of...
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You know what?
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I think it's because of
who lives in your heart.
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Oh, yes.
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You know, you can see
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the difference in people's eyes,
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in their countenance
when Jesus is in the heart,
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and it has to affect us.
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If you ever happened
to be just a little bit,
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we don't like
to sit down, right?
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We should be always up
in Christ, but if you are...
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You meet these two
gentlemen and their wives,
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you see, they've got that smile,
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and it's infectious, and
it lifts up your spirits.
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And so we love to be
around individuals like that
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that have the spirit
of God living in them.
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So we give Him
the praise and honor.
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Okay. Certain to
glory, yes, okay.
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That's right.
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Well, tonight we're actually
going to continue a study
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that we thought was
just going to be one program,
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and it's entitled
"Angels, Armor, and Promises".
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And now we are on Part 4
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of "Angels,
Armor, and Promises."
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In fact, I've even thought,
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"Will that make a
good name for a program?
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It'd would be a good book?"
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"Cause it just keeps
going and going and going.
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It's been such a...
It's a 20-part study.
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Oh, it's been a blessing.
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It really has been a blessing.
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She started reading
these here about the promises.
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She looked at me
and said, "I tell you,
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we may have to do
two parts on this one."
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I think she's right.
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At least. At least.
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Anyway, we're glad
that they joined us.
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Praise God, we're glad,
you get a pencil and paper
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and just write some
of these things down,
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we'll move quickly I'm sure.
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And this evening,
we're going to talk about
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claim God's
promises while praising Him.
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Let me read just one...
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We just going to
have prayer, Honey.
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You want to do it
before prayer, okay.
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Let me read one passage, and
then you can have prayer, okay?
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Okay, sure, yes.
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This is found in 2 Peter 1:4.
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2 Peter 1:4,
"Whereby are given unto us
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exceeding great and precious..."
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What kind of promises? Precious.
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"Great and
precious." I love that.
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I had to stop
and read it to myself
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even at home two or three times.
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"That by these, ye
might be partakers..."
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I love this part.
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"Of divine nature,
having escaped the corruption
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that is in the
world through lust."
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That's what this
is all about. Amen.
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Is obtaining that divine
nature through Jesus Christ.
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So, Pastor, would you
lead us off in prayer please?
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Sure. Let's pray together.
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And you at home,
pray with us please.
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Merciful Father in
heaven, again, we come to Thee,
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we thank Thee for the beginning
and the edges of the Sabbath.
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Just thank You
for that special time
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that You've given to us.
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And we're thankful that You said
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the Sabbath was made for man
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and not man for the Sabbath.
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Lord, bless, we pray,
as we fellowship together,
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as we open the beautiful pages
of this book called the Bible,
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realized, inspired, holy
men of God were inspired.
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They wrote these things down,
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some message that You've left
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for Your people
here in these last days
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and so important that
we take time to study.
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So as we open the pages
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and we look at some
of the promises tonight,
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Lord, these things
have encouraged us in time
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when they seemed
like there was no way out.
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Open the Bible,
claim the promise of God,
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and You were always there.
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So we pray now
as the Holy Spirit
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descends upon each
and every one of us.
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Those who at home,
those who may be discouraged,
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those who are going
through may be grief,
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they find there's no way
out, they don't know what to do,
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maybe tonight, we pray by
the power of the Holy Spirit.
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A word will be
said in due season
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that the ears will be
opened that each one may hear
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and say this is
what I need to do.
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Bless us now, we pray,
give us heavenly wisdom,
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may we hear the
spirit speak to us too,
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in Jesus' name we pray
and for His sake, amen.
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Amen. That's a
promise in itself, is it not?
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That is true.
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It's a wonderful
promise. It certainly is.
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I'm sure we'll
talk about that. Yes.
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Let's jump back to 2 Peter 1:4.
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We read just a moment
ago that God has left us
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with exceeding great
and precious promises.
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The problem is most of us
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don't realize that
the promises are there.
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And we haven't learned
how to claim those promises,
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that by these you might be
partakers of the divine nature.
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I love that.
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And I know we probably all
have our own precious promises.
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We have a kind of a guide here.
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But I remember the first time,
just to kind of give an idea
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that I learned about
a promise in scripture.
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Oh. I had been...
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As a young child...
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In school, we were doing things
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that we didn't realize would
invite the wrong spirit in.
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You know, we did things
where you would get down
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and say a certain words
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and lift kids
up by your fingers.
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And I had a girl
that I went to school with
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and her mother
had a crystal ball
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and I'd stay all night with her.
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And, of course, my mother
didn't realized all this stuff.
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So I finally told her,
you know, and she let me know,
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"Don't have anything to
do with that whatsoever."
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So I didn't anymore.
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But even as a teenager, I
would get like premonitions.
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Let's say we were
going to have a science test,
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I just had a
feeling we wouldn't do it,
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I wouldn't study, you know.
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And it was that
strong, and it would happen.
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My father, my
real biological father,
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he was supposed to
pick my brother and I
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up to go North Carolina,
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I was 18 at that time,
and I just kept thinking,
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"I'm not going to see him."
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I took my time packing,
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and I just felt
the whole time...
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I was never really done
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by the time he was
supposed to be there,
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and he didn't show up.
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He was killed in a car accident.
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But there was a lady.
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Alias, she was a teacher
down at Oakwood University.
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Is it university? It was
college back then I think.
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And Francis Bliss,
I love Francis Bliss,
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she was my Sabbath
school teacher for a while,
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and I used to listen to her,
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and the way she
would present Jesus,
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it just drew me
in in so many ways.
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And I told her
what was happening
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and that sometimes
you'd hear water turn on
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or people going down steps
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and, you know,
different things like that.
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And she told me...
She gave me a promise.
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She says, "I want you
to memorize Psalms 34:7."
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And I still pray
that promise today.
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"That the angel of the
Lord encampeth round about them
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that fear Him
and delivereth them."
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And many times, God
has answered that prayer
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because I claim it, you know.
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I'm sure many of you have had
the same thing happened to you.
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In our last...
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I think it was our last program
on this, Sister Mollie said,
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"You know, it would be
better if we just learn to claim
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and live by one or two verses
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than to maybe know a whole bunch
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and not claim them."
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There's power in God's Word
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if we begin to use it
as He wants us to use it.
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So, guys, help me out here.
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You know, I remember
in looking at 2 Peter 1:4,
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it picks up
"Whereby we are given to us
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exceedingly greater
and precious promises."
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My New King
James says "by which."
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So the thing you want to ask
yourself is, "Well, by what?"
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You know, when
you got a whereby,
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you got to have a
thereby and from there,
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you know, that kind of thing.
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So if you go
back to the beginning,
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a little closer to
the beginning in Paul.
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Read into Peter, "Grace
and peace be multiplied to you
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in the knowledge of God
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and of our Lord
and of Jesus, our Lord,
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as His divine power
has given us all things
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that pertain to
life and godliness
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through the knowledge of Him
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who has called us
by glory and virtue
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whereby we are
given great promises."
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Well... Yes.
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What he's saying is that,
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everything you need to serve
the Lord is available to you.
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Yes. Amen.
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And, those are the
basis of those promises
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that grace and peace...
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He's saying, "May grace
and peace be multiplied to you
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in the knowledge of God
and our Lord, Jesus Christ,
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as His divine power
has given us all things
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that pertained to
life and godliness."
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So that Christ, he is saying,
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has provided for you everything
you need for salvation.
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Yes. Amen.
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Whereby those things
are great promises to you.
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They are there,
but the thing is,
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you got to be
in the Word to know
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even what those promises are.
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You know, you've got...
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It's like you got money in
the bank and you got no pin.
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You know, you can't access it
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because you don't know your pin.
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Well, those promises are there,
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but you've got a lot
of people walking around
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living like hobos who
are really very wealthy,
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but they don't know it.
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The promises are there,
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they are great
and precious promises.
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But if you are not in
the Word, you got cash,
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you don't even
know you have, you know.
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So you got to be in the Word
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so that you can
access those promises
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that will make your
life so much better.
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So what excuses then do
we have if every opportunity,
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every privilege is
ours, every promise is ours?
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Someone has said, 30,000...
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I mean, 3,000 or 3,500 promises
right in the Word of God,
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different ones have estimated.
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That's a lot of promises. Yeah.
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Every one of those is
ours that we can claim
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and God will fulfill that.
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So I kind of like
to stand without excuse
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when He's promised all of heaven
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and said all
these promises are mine.
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Precisely. Yeah,
to go off the road.
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And the person
that's suffering is you.
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You know, it's like you've
got that money in the bank,
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and you're running around
begging for nickels and dimes,
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and you got a whole bank account
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and just don't have
a pin number, you know.
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Find your pin. Amen.
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It's there. It's there.
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And as CD Brooks say...
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Oh, no, Charles
Bradford, he used to say,
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"Write some checks."
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He said, "They're
not going to bounce."
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He said, "Just
start beginning to write.
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Why are you living like a bum?
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Just write some
checks, you know."
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Amen. Not going to bounce.
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Write some checks and cash them.
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That is so exciting
the way you put that
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because I can remember being
in another church years ago,
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it's an Adventist Church,
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better than the
another one that...
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Rather than the one I go to now.
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And being on the church board,
being on the school board,
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many times there would be,
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you know, problems
that would come up.
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And time after time after
time, they'd be looking at,
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you know, what is
this school district doing?
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How are they
solving that problem?
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Or if you had
something in the church,
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well, what did they do?"
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Well, maybe we need
to talk to this person,
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he's got a doctorate
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or this person that's
got a master's degree or...
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You know what I'm saying?
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And when I came, I'll be honest,
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when I came to Behold
the Lamb, many years ago,
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on those board there,
if there was a problem,
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we didn't go
outside of the church,
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we went to the bank,
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we started drawing
money out of the bank.
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And that's when you begin to see
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the power of God at work.
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It was beautiful,
I love it, I love it.
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So we need to be studying
every single day, right?
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Every single day. Yeah.
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'Cause we're going to
talk about these promises
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are on condition
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I think before
this is over with.
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You know what, I
was reading in this,
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I was reading in the
Commentary and following...
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When we're talking
about having escaped,
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having the money in the bank,
CA, it brought this thing up.
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And this is what the
Commentary were saying,
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"That we are not saved in sin,
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but we are given the power
to turn from sin and flee."
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Amen.
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So we take that first step,
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we decide that I'm sick
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and tired of
being sick and tired
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in what I'm
doing, so, consequently,
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then I step away from it.
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Now it's kind of
like the Lord is behind me
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with His wind and
He's blowing me from it.
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And then if I...
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As long as I'm going from it
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or I've taken my
position from it,
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well, then, He continues to
enable me to stay from it...
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Amen.
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Rather than to go back
to it, and then turn around
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and, you know, get caught
back into that trap again.
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So, you know, having
escaped the corruption
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that is in the
world through lust,
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you know, please...
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And then He tells
us in Philippians 4:13
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that "I will empower you,
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I'll infuse my
inner strength into you
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to be able to be successful."
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Amen Isn't that beautiful?
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You know, one of our favorite
passage is just a small,
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let's say, one liner
that is in John 6:37,
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it just simply says,
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"Him that cometh to Me, I
will in no wise cast out."
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I mean, think about a promise.
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"Him that cometh to Me, I
will in no wise cast out."
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And in the
Ministry of Healing, 65,
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it makes a little comment
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I thought on
this passage was good.
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This should really encourage
all of us and strengthen us.
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If you've been in the
church for 50 years or maybe,
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you know, five
minutes, this is encouragement.
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It says, "As you come to Him..."
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This is part of the promises.
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We come to Him. We come to Him.
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"Believe that He
accepts you," number one.
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"Believe He has promised,
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You can never
perish while you do this."
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Never.
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That's quite a quote
from Spirit of Prophecy.
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As long as we do this,
you will never perish, never.
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Wow.
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And that's what
we're all looking
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for is eternal life, right?
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Not to go in the wrong
direction here, but simply...
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What does it say?
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"Come to Him," and He says,
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"I'm not going to cast you out."
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Well, we realized
there's conditions,
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and we'll discuss things as go.
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But the first thing I guess,
to me, is, "We come to Him."
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Well, and it says
here, and it says here.
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We'll go back to what
we're talking about 2 Peter 1:4,
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"That by these, you might
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be partakers of
the divine nature,"
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and that's exactly what
you're talking about right here.
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And the divine nature is
not going to have sin in it.
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And that's why so
many, so many of you at home
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may be struggling
and you feel hopeless.
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I don't know about you
guys who are on the table,
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but I've had my
moments of despair.
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I mean, literally, I
have wanted to indent.
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I wanted to drive off a bridge,
I wanted to do something,
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but it would be my children,
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my children that
would hold me back,
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and I would think who's
going to take care of them,
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who's going to help them?
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And I would spend...
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I've spent many of
days, many an hour in prayer.
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Amen.
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And by God's grace,
He didn't give up on me.
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Amen. Thank you for His grace.
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You know, you speak of promises,
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the number of
people who have been
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moved by Satan
in their own lives.
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I mean, that
number is high. Yes.
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It's very, very high. Yes.
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Because, you know,
the Lord never sleeps,
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never slumbers and
neither does the devil.
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And he studies you,
and Ellen White says that
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"Depression is discouragement
is the tool of the devil."
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The Lord never sends that.
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That's right.
You know, and see...
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If you're not, studying the Word
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and imbibing the
Word, you don't even know.
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You think that's
something coming from within,
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that's something from without
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that the devil
is dropping on you,
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putting in your spirit,
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and it doesn't
come from the Lord.
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The Lord will challenge you.
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Yes. Yes, He will.
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With every challenge,
He'll make a way of escape.
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But more than that, He's not...
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When you're, "Nobody
knows the trouble I've seen,
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I'm the last one, I'm
the only one that's left,
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I need to go over here
and drive off a cliff,"
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that's not from God.
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No, it isn't.
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You know, the Lord
will show you so...
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But you don't
know it at that time.
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But you don't know it's...
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You don't know, you don't
know because you think it is,
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but that's if
Satan can't rust you out,
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he'll wear you out.
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He will just put this
depressive thing on you,
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"I'm the only one
that's left, you know,"
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there's 7,000 out there keeping,
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but you don't know that,
you think you're the only one
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that's ever got this in
the history of the world.
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That is the tool of the devil.
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And that we've got to
fight in the power of God,
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and it's only
in the power of God
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that we get the
strength to do that.
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Exactly. Absolutely.
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And these promises... Yes.
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We make these resolutions,
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one of my resolution
and Shelley's resolutions,
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we want to get in better shape.
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So we've
decided, we've determined,
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we've decided,
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and we've dedicated
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to start walking on
our little treadmill.
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Oh, my goodness,
you know, God forbid,
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there's anything
more fun than that.
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But, boy,
that's three big words,
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decided,
dedicated, determined...
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You better pray, kids.
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Now Shelley, her DNA is,
00:18:43.75\00:18:46.59
"I'm going to do
five miles a day."
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I'm sitting there,
"Shelley, why don't we do
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a quarter of a mile today?"
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Yes.
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And then build up,
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and then in a month,
we'll be at five miles.
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It's hard for her
to understand that.
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She's a race horse,
you know, I'm a trotter.
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But anyway, she did...
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She tried to do the...
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She didn't make the five,
00:19:08.38\00:19:09.71
but just nearly got
sick because she's...
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So what this is saying here,
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and, CA, and what you're saying,
00:19:14.32\00:19:15.78
"Hey, maybe you just
start with the gospels,
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Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John."
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You know, but be dedicated
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so that we can start
building our stamina up
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so that we do
know these promises,
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so that we will be stronger.
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So, I mean, what do you do
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when you have
two different people?
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One wants to go this speed,
you know, husband and wife,
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and the other needs to go
this speed, what do we do?
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Do we try to go with the speed
that the other one is going
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or is it conducive to us
to be able to go the speed
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we believe the
Lord wants us to be,
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that's spiritually
and physically too?
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You know, if she can do five,
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and I can only
do one, I need to...
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That's the best I can do. Okay.
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Do the one and praise the Lord.
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Yeah, I need to do that
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and not try to gauge it on
what someone else is doing.
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It's my relationship,
it's my physical being,
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and you should kind of
know what you're doing.
00:20:01.36\00:20:02.70
But, I like that because...
00:20:02.73\00:20:04.07
And constantly
think about improving.
00:20:04.10\00:20:06.17
Improving.
00:20:06.20\00:20:07.54
You know, but the thing
00:20:07.57\00:20:08.90
that I've got on
my side is 70 years.
00:20:08.94\00:20:10.87
Yeah. I've learned.
00:20:10.91\00:20:12.77
I mean, at one time...
00:20:12.81\00:20:14.38
Oh, I can't remember back
00:20:14.41\00:20:15.84
when I was a
race horse, you know.
00:20:15.88\00:20:18.31
But I've learned over the years,
00:20:18.35\00:20:20.22
you know, that now you
just kind of go at your speed,
00:20:20.25\00:20:23.22
and I do know that I know
00:20:23.25\00:20:25.22
that I will catch
up because I do know,
00:20:25.25\00:20:27.82
because now the winds begin
to blow behind me instead of,
00:20:27.86\00:20:31.13
you know, trying
to fight that wind
00:20:31.16\00:20:32.93
that's just working
against you all the time.
00:20:32.96\00:20:34.50
Yes. Yeah.
00:20:34.53\00:20:35.86
And the person gets, you know,
and talking about exercise,
00:20:35.90\00:20:37.87
the physical, the
spiritual part of it
00:20:37.90\00:20:39.93
is even as you get older
00:20:39.97\00:20:41.30
because if you do too
much, all of a sudden,
00:20:41.34\00:20:44.67
your knees swell up,
00:20:44.71\00:20:46.07
and then you
can't exercise at all.
00:20:46.11\00:20:48.21
Not sustain it, right.
00:20:48.24\00:20:49.58
You can't sustain,
you can't do anything
00:20:49.61\00:20:51.25
because that will hurt
00:20:51.28\00:20:52.61
or you will pull the
muscle like I did in the side
00:20:52.65\00:20:54.85
because on the
side, I'm going to,
00:20:54.88\00:20:56.22
you know, do this
here and my leg...
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Just one little thing like that
00:20:57.75\00:20:59.85
causes sometime
to get off the path.
00:20:59.89\00:21:02.42
You know,
spiritually that can happen too.
00:21:02.46\00:21:04.66
Somebody can get in and
they just, the race horse,
00:21:04.69\00:21:07.90
and they just read and
read and read and read and read,
00:21:07.93\00:21:10.37
and it can become overwhelming.
00:21:10.40\00:21:12.77
I think Shelley may
have been the one...
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Shelley's here and
she didn't even know.
00:21:14.94\00:21:16.30
But I think she is
the one that said that,
00:21:16.34\00:21:20.51
"Knowledge without a
relationship equals..."
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Is it failure?
00:21:23.68\00:21:25.01
Rebellion. Rebellion.
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Rebellion. And it
can cause rebellion.
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It can cause failure as well.
00:21:27.85\00:21:29.35
Yeah. But it's true.
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It is so true because, I
mean, back, when I had a...
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I think a much better
mind than what I do now
00:21:34.69\00:21:36.83
as far as remembering things.
00:21:36.86\00:21:38.39
I could quote a lot of this,
00:21:38.43\00:21:40.13
but I didn't
have the relationship
00:21:40.16\00:21:43.00
until I made a decision,
00:21:43.03\00:21:45.17
just like you're
making a decision
00:21:45.20\00:21:46.80
to help you physically.
00:21:46.84\00:21:48.34
Helping you physically
is also going to go over
00:21:48.37\00:21:51.27
and help spiritually as well.
00:21:51.31\00:21:53.01
They all play a part.
00:21:53.04\00:21:54.51
But when I made the decision
to study and to pray everyday
00:21:54.54\00:21:59.55
before I partake
of any physical food,
00:21:59.58\00:22:02.18
I had to have
the spiritual food.
00:22:02.22\00:22:04.09
If I'm in a hurry, it
may be one or two verses,
00:22:04.12\00:22:06.89
but you got to do this first.
00:22:06.92\00:22:08.96
You've got to do this first.
00:22:08.99\00:22:11.13
The Christian
journey is not a sprint,
00:22:11.16\00:22:13.96
you know, it's not.
00:22:14.00\00:22:15.90
It's a long distance...
00:22:15.93\00:22:17.33
You know, but he who endureth...
00:22:17.37\00:22:19.33
Matthew 24:13.
00:22:19.37\00:22:20.70
"He that endureth to the end."
00:22:20.74\00:22:22.24
You know, see, you got a
long road in front of you,
00:22:22.27\00:22:24.51
if you start to run
all that in one day,
00:22:24.54\00:22:25.87
you're going to break down.
00:22:25.91\00:22:27.24
Finish it,
that's another promise.
00:22:27.28\00:22:28.61
You can't do it. No.
00:22:28.64\00:22:29.98
It is a promise.
It is a promise. Yeah.
00:22:30.01\00:22:31.35
Shall be saved
in other words. Yes.
00:22:31.38\00:22:32.71
So it's not just
starting out and petering out,
00:22:32.75\00:22:35.45
it's starting out
and staying with it.
00:22:35.48\00:22:37.09
And that's why in
John 15 you got that whole,
00:22:37.12\00:22:40.06
and it comes
back to it in 1 John,
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the idea of abiding in Christ.
00:22:42.42\00:22:44.16
Just getting in
there and staying in there,
00:22:44.19\00:22:46.63
not kind of a flash in a pan,
00:22:46.66\00:22:48.36
but there's
going to be resistance,
00:22:48.40\00:22:49.73
but you can boldly
say, "God is your helper,"
00:22:49.76\00:22:52.13
because He said in Joshua 1:9,
00:22:52.17\00:22:54.04
"I'll never leave
you nor forsake you."
00:22:54.07\00:22:55.50
And, of course, you
read that in Hebrews 13.
00:22:55.54\00:22:57.14
"I'll never leave
you nor forsake you."
00:22:57.17\00:22:58.51
So even when you
feel that you're alone,
00:22:58.54\00:23:01.74
the reality is you're not alone.
00:23:01.78\00:23:03.11
He's right there with you,
00:23:03.14\00:23:04.48
and you can praise God for that.
00:23:04.51\00:23:05.85
And you know what?
00:23:05.88\00:23:07.22
A lot of it depends
on what I said earlier.
00:23:07.25\00:23:08.98
It depends on
where we are spiritually.
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Well said.
00:23:11.09\00:23:12.42
Sometimes we're holding on
to something that separates us.
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You mentioned sin.
00:23:15.69\00:23:17.06
You know, sometimes
we're holding on to sin,
00:23:17.09\00:23:19.29
open sin or it
may be private sin.
00:23:19.33\00:23:22.83
And so, at that time,
00:23:22.86\00:23:24.20
you feel like your prayers
are going off the ceiling
00:23:24.23\00:23:25.90
and coming back
down, and they may be.
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You know, let's just
quickly look at Deuteronomy,
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Deuteronomy 28.
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Deuteronomy 28,
let's look at that.
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I love this
00:23:35.98\00:23:37.31
because this is
the first few verses
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here are full of blessings,
00:23:41.58\00:23:44.59
full of promises, full of them.
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In fact, it was in Deuteronomy,
when we decided to move up here
00:23:47.39\00:23:51.09
because I didn't want to
leave our 65 acres in Wyoming
00:23:51.13\00:23:55.46
and the waterfalls
and the Rolling Hills,
00:23:55.50\00:23:57.70
I didn't want to leave it.
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Deuteronomy 28, 28.
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We're going to
start with verse 1.
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And I remember after about two,
00:24:03.37\00:24:06.37
two and half hours of
crying and praying and, Lord...
00:24:06.41\00:24:10.68
Honestly, it's him and Danny.
00:24:10.71\00:24:12.78
I said, "Lord, is
this just the brothers,
00:24:12.81\00:24:14.88
is this just their idea,
00:24:14.92\00:24:16.69
you know, is this
really what You want?"
00:24:16.72\00:24:20.56
And I had been
praying for weeks,
00:24:20.59\00:24:22.46
but this time I was crying,
00:24:22.49\00:24:24.03
and I said, "You
need to show me."
00:24:24.06\00:24:26.70
And I prayed, I said,
"Lord, I know You speak
00:24:26.73\00:24:29.76
through Your Word."
00:24:29.80\00:24:31.43
"I know You speak.
00:24:31.47\00:24:32.80
And so I'm going
to open Your Word,
00:24:32.83\00:24:35.07
would You please speak to me?"
00:24:35.10\00:24:36.74
And the first one...
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There's a verse in
here like this one.
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I don't remember
if it's chapter 28
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or not at this point.
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But the last part of it says,
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"And in the land that
thou goest to possess,
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I will bless thee."
00:24:48.85\00:24:50.19
Oh, glory. That's heavy.
00:24:50.22\00:24:51.55
Yeah.
00:24:51.59\00:24:52.92
You know, I
probably read it before,
00:24:52.95\00:24:54.29
but it never hit
home like that one,
00:24:54.32\00:24:56.59
it never hit home.
00:24:56.62\00:24:59.53
So it didn't matter how I felt
00:24:59.56\00:25:02.73
because then I knew
it was God's direction,
00:25:02.76\00:25:05.60
and I needed to
pack, and I needed to go.
00:25:05.63\00:25:07.47
And you know what?
00:25:07.50\00:25:08.84
There's been
many, many blessings.
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Amen. He will never fail.
00:25:10.37\00:25:12.67
No. We'll read that too I hope.
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He will never fail.
00:25:14.48\00:25:15.81
His promises are sure,
00:25:15.84\00:25:17.18
and He makes sure
that they are sure.
00:25:17.21\00:25:18.78
He is our surety.
00:25:18.81\00:25:20.15
But in Deuteronomy 28,
00:25:20.18\00:25:21.92
I know you guys
are familiar with this.
00:25:21.95\00:25:24.09
It says, "And it
shall come to pass,
00:25:24.12\00:25:25.69
if thou shalt hearken diligently
00:25:25.72\00:25:28.52
unto the voice
of the Lord thy God,
00:25:28.56\00:25:30.69
to observe all of
His commandments."
00:25:30.73\00:25:33.19
So in other words,
when we find these promises,
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they are always on obedience.
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I mean, on...
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What's the word I'm looking?
00:25:39.20\00:25:40.54
Condition of obedience. Yes.
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Condition of
obedience, which I command you.
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And He says, "These
blessing shall come..."
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I'm just going to
skip through here.
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All right. Shall come on to...
00:25:47.58\00:25:49.54
"And all these blessings
00:25:49.58\00:25:50.91
shall come on thee
and overtake thee."
00:25:50.95\00:25:52.85
Can you imagine being
overtaken with blessings?
00:25:52.88\00:25:55.15
Yeah, please. What a
blessing that is, right?
00:25:55.18\00:25:57.15
Yes.
00:25:57.19\00:25:58.52
"If thou shalt hearken unto
the voice of the Lord thy God.
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Blessed shalt
thou be in the city,
00:26:02.02\00:26:04.79
blessed shalt
thou be in the field."
00:26:04.83\00:26:06.53
If you're a farmer,
your crop is blessed.
00:26:06.56\00:26:08.90
"Blessed shalt be
the fruit of your body."
00:26:08.93\00:26:11.17
You're going to
have children, right?
00:26:11.20\00:26:12.87
"The fruit of the
cattle, the fruit of the cows."
00:26:12.90\00:26:15.50
It says kine, in King
James Version, the flocks.
00:26:15.54\00:26:19.37
And it goes on and
on, blessed the steward.
00:26:19.41\00:26:21.54
He says, he's...
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In fact, He goes on to say
00:26:22.94\00:26:24.28
I'm going to make you
the head and not the tail.
00:26:24.31\00:26:26.41
Yeah.
00:26:26.45\00:26:27.78
That's what God's
people, His chosen people.
00:26:27.82\00:26:30.49
Those who have accepted Him,
00:26:30.52\00:26:32.55
those who are
following in obedience,
00:26:32.59\00:26:35.12
they should be the
head and not the tail.
00:26:35.16\00:26:37.36
So we're blessed when we go in,
00:26:37.39\00:26:38.89
and we're blessed
when we come out, isn't it?
00:26:38.93\00:26:41.30
We're blessed all
the way around, right?
00:26:41.33\00:26:43.40
Behind, before, on every side,
00:26:43.43\00:26:45.20
but sometimes we fail to realize
00:26:45.23\00:26:47.47
that we have all
of heaven with us
00:26:47.50\00:26:50.31
claiming the
promises that He has for us.
00:26:50.34\00:26:52.64
Just reach out
and grab those things
00:26:52.67\00:26:54.74
and not look at circumstances
and situations of life,
00:26:54.78\00:26:58.61
look at the God that can
take care of them and says,
00:26:58.65\00:27:00.72
"I will take care of
them because I'll bless you."
00:27:00.75\00:27:03.69
Wherever you
go, whatever you do,
00:27:03.72\00:27:05.05
whatever your hands find
to do, do with all your might,
00:27:05.09\00:27:07.39
and He's going to bless us
00:27:07.42\00:27:08.76
as we're obedient to
His work, conditions.
00:27:08.79\00:27:10.76
Okay, gentlemen, you guys are
always counseling with people,
00:27:10.79\00:27:13.36
you're up preaching...
00:27:13.40\00:27:14.73
All right.
00:27:14.76\00:27:16.77
If we're a blessed people,
00:27:16.80\00:27:18.13
does that mean
there's never going to be
00:27:18.17\00:27:19.50
any trials or tribulations?
00:27:19.53\00:27:21.60
John 16:33, "In the world
you shall have tribulation."
00:27:21.64\00:27:25.87
That too is a promise.
00:27:25.91\00:27:27.61
Yeah. Yes, it is.
00:27:27.64\00:27:30.25
You shall have
tribulation but be of good cheer
00:27:30.28\00:27:32.18
because He's overcome the world.
00:27:32.21\00:27:33.55
You know, I was thinking,
00:27:33.58\00:27:34.92
you know, a lot of us
are not claming the promises,
00:27:34.95\00:27:36.92
we are embezzling the promises.
00:27:36.95\00:27:39.29
You're taking
something to yourself
00:27:39.32\00:27:40.86
that doesn't belong to you.
00:27:40.89\00:27:42.72
And you touched on
this a few moments ago.
00:27:42.76\00:27:44.96
That is true. These
promises are conditional.
00:27:44.99\00:27:46.96
They are.
00:27:47.00\00:27:48.33
God is going to give,
00:27:48.36\00:27:49.70
but there are some
basis for that condition.
00:27:49.73\00:27:51.70
Amen. You got to
be in Christ Jesus.
00:27:51.73\00:27:53.34
That's right.
00:27:53.37\00:27:54.70
You have to let
this mind be in you.
00:27:54.74\00:27:56.17
And if this mind is in you,
00:27:56.20\00:27:57.97
then that opens the door
for all of these other things.
00:27:58.01\00:28:00.78
But if you try to get to goodies
00:28:00.81\00:28:03.88
without being in Christ
Jesus, that's embezzlement.
00:28:03.91\00:28:06.18
You're taking something
that doesn't belong to you.
00:28:06.21\00:28:07.55
That's right. Yeah.
00:28:07.58\00:28:08.92
I want to just insert
this one little thing,
00:28:08.95\00:28:10.82
because it's living up
to the light that we have.
00:28:10.85\00:28:13.46
Amen. Amen. Well, said.
00:28:13.49\00:28:14.82
It doesn't mean you
will know everything.
00:28:14.86\00:28:16.19
Because if we think,
"Oh, I can't claim a promise
00:28:16.22\00:28:18.79
till I know
everything or know all,
00:28:18.83\00:28:20.76
I've read all those
3,000 and something promises."
00:28:20.80\00:28:22.80
You know what I'm saying?
00:28:22.83\00:28:24.17
"And I've put those to
memory." That's not it.
00:28:24.20\00:28:26.13
It's living up to
the light that we have,
00:28:26.17\00:28:28.40
which I truly believe will give
people hope and encouragement.
00:28:28.44\00:28:32.51
Because we talked about being
depressed earlier, you know.
00:28:32.54\00:28:35.14
And a lot of times I feel like
00:28:35.18\00:28:36.51
I'm not good enough
to come to the Lord,
00:28:36.54\00:28:38.38
I'm not good enough,
00:28:38.41\00:28:39.75
and we're never
going to be good enough,
00:28:39.78\00:28:41.72
that's why I
love it when He says,
00:28:41.75\00:28:43.28
"Come as you are."
00:28:43.32\00:28:45.49
And then these
precious promises,
00:28:45.52\00:28:47.42
these precious truths
will begin to change us
00:28:47.46\00:28:50.33
and to mould us into
that divine character.
00:28:50.36\00:28:53.23
I wanted to go back to
because we mentioned...
00:28:53.26\00:28:55.26
I asked you guys
00:28:55.30\00:28:56.63
if there's ever going to be
any trials and tribulations,
00:28:56.67\00:28:58.63
and those of us in ministry,
00:28:58.67\00:29:00.04
we know that there are,
but it's how we handle it.
00:29:00.07\00:29:02.67
Let me read, this
is from three bio...
00:29:02.70\00:29:04.51
It's biography
from Early Writing,
00:29:04.54\00:29:07.48
I mean, Spirit of Prophecy.
00:29:07.51\00:29:09.74
It's on page 138,
00:29:09.78\00:29:11.11
and its
paragraph 2, I love this.
00:29:11.15\00:29:12.88
It says, "I have been
shown that in the future,
00:29:12.91\00:29:15.52
we will see how closely
all our trials were connected
00:29:15.55\00:29:20.22
with our salvation
00:29:20.26\00:29:22.32
and how these
light afflictions..."
00:29:22.36\00:29:24.86
They don't feel so
light many times, do they?
00:29:24.89\00:29:27.10
But we're going to
look back and think,
00:29:27.13\00:29:28.46
"These light afflictions
worked out for us a far
00:29:28.50\00:29:32.43
more exceeding and
eternal weight of glory."
00:29:32.47\00:29:36.00
You know, here we walk
00:29:36.04\00:29:37.47
through this path
blindfolded at times.
00:29:37.51\00:29:40.61
You know, I remember
00:29:40.64\00:29:41.98
when my mother
was in the hospital,
00:29:42.01\00:29:43.45
and we read the 23rd Psalms.
00:29:43.48\00:29:45.45
"Yea, though I walk
00:29:45.48\00:29:46.82
through the valley of
the shadow of death..."
00:29:46.85\00:29:48.28
That's what this life
feels like many times.
00:29:48.32\00:29:51.15
But, you know, we realize
that we have a master potter,
00:29:51.19\00:29:55.49
and we are His
clay, and He's molding,
00:29:55.52\00:29:57.89
and He's
fashioning us, and He's like,
00:29:57.93\00:30:00.26
Pastor CA said earlier,
00:30:00.30\00:30:01.73
He's giving us
every single thing
00:30:01.76\00:30:04.17
and every bit of it and
He's seeing us through it.
00:30:04.20\00:30:06.53
He's the one that
gave us the promises,
00:30:06.57\00:30:08.77
but He's also the
one that gives power
00:30:08.80\00:30:11.54
to those promises
00:30:11.57\00:30:12.94
and gives that precious
incense to His Heavenly Father
00:30:12.97\00:30:16.58
to make our prayers
what they should be.
00:30:16.61\00:30:18.31
It goes right along
with the Bible passage.
00:30:18.35\00:30:20.82
I think 1 John
5:14-15, and this says,
00:30:20.85\00:30:24.89
"We have this
confidence" you remember?
00:30:24.92\00:30:26.69
"We have the confidence in
Him that if we ask anything..."
00:30:26.72\00:30:30.16
What? Here it
goes the condition.
00:30:30.19\00:30:32.29
"According to His
will, He heareth us."
00:30:32.33\00:30:35.30
And then we say,
it goes on to say,
00:30:35.33\00:30:36.67
"We know that He heareth
us and so on and so forth."
00:30:36.70\00:30:39.33
Then we know we have it. Amen.
00:30:39.37\00:30:41.77
In illustrations, I
was looking at something
00:30:41.80\00:30:43.97
just kind of exercise.
00:30:44.01\00:30:45.34
That was a story of the...
00:30:45.37\00:30:46.71
Quickly just, of the
leper. You remember the leper?
00:30:46.74\00:30:48.81
Yes.
00:30:48.84\00:30:50.18
He has leprosy,
and you think about,
00:30:50.21\00:30:51.55
he was trying to come to Jesus.
00:30:51.58\00:30:52.91
He saw that Jesus was healing,
00:30:52.95\00:30:54.72
and you think
about this poor side
00:30:54.75\00:30:56.35
of this man with leprosy.
00:30:56.38\00:30:58.12
He couldn't hardly...
00:30:58.15\00:30:59.49
He couldn't
hardly look on his face,
00:30:59.52\00:31:00.99
it was eaten away,
00:31:01.02\00:31:02.36
part of the flesh
was gone from his arms
00:31:02.39\00:31:04.13
and so on and so forth,
00:31:04.16\00:31:05.63
horrible and
scary to look up on.
00:31:05.66\00:31:08.03
But he wanted to see Jesus,
he wanted to have the touch.
00:31:08.06\00:31:10.80
This is talking about the
faith if you ask anything,
00:31:10.83\00:31:13.00
God can do something great.
00:31:13.03\00:31:14.64
And so he tried to
press close to Jesus,
00:31:14.67\00:31:17.41
most of them
scattered, they did not
00:31:17.44\00:31:19.94
because it would be
unclean, isn't that right?
00:31:19.97\00:31:21.44
If you touched
him, you'd be unclean.
00:31:21.48\00:31:23.14
And Christ was, was criticized
00:31:23.18\00:31:26.08
because He
touched the unclean leper.
00:31:26.11\00:31:29.35
But remember, Jesus was clean.
00:31:29.38\00:31:31.02
Anything He
touched became clean.
00:31:31.05\00:31:32.39
Precisely.
00:31:32.42\00:31:33.76
So that argument
was not any good.
00:31:33.79\00:31:36.29
So, anyway, some
even tried to get in
00:31:36.32\00:31:38.76
between and says, "No,
you can't come to Jesus."
00:31:38.79\00:31:40.96
But the faith of this
man had when he saw Jesus,
00:31:41.00\00:31:43.57
he simply, he falls
at his feet, Jesus' feet,
00:31:43.60\00:31:46.60
and he cries
out in Matthew 8:23.
00:31:46.63\00:31:49.37
He says, "Lord, if Thou
wilt, Thou can make me clean."
00:31:49.40\00:31:55.14
Just that quick, and
Jesus just as simply answered,
00:31:55.18\00:31:57.75
put forth his hand,
00:31:57.78\00:31:59.11
He touched him,
and what did He say?
00:31:59.15\00:32:00.62
He said, "I will be thou clean."
00:32:00.65\00:32:03.45
And immediately, it says,
"He was cleansed from leprosy."
00:32:03.49\00:32:07.42
Notice, that was
interesting to me.
00:32:07.46\00:32:09.16
I was intrigued by that point
00:32:09.19\00:32:10.73
because it said
immediately he was cleansed.
00:32:10.76\00:32:13.46
And you think about immediately.
00:32:13.50\00:32:15.83
It showed right
then and there that
00:32:15.86\00:32:17.27
it couldn't be any human
power that did this thing.
00:32:17.30\00:32:19.77
It was something
beyond the humanity.
00:32:19.80\00:32:22.10
It was
something that was divine,
00:32:22.14\00:32:23.57
something that was supernatural,
00:32:23.61\00:32:25.07
something that was powerful.
00:32:25.11\00:32:26.84
And it's interesting
because sometimes when we pray,
00:32:26.88\00:32:29.34
and those of you at home,
00:32:29.38\00:32:30.71
you pray
sometimes, and it's like,
00:32:30.75\00:32:33.05
that they are not
answered that quickly
00:32:33.08\00:32:34.88
or God will give you something
00:32:34.92\00:32:36.45
that you really didn't ask for,
00:32:36.48\00:32:38.65
but it's for our
own good, we know that.
00:32:38.69\00:32:40.96
But, you know,
there's a difference there.
00:32:40.99\00:32:42.99
The difference, it
was simply is, God...
00:32:43.02\00:32:45.49
When this man came,
00:32:45.53\00:32:47.03
when God answered
his prayer immediately,
00:32:47.06\00:32:49.00
He will always answer the prayer
00:32:49.03\00:32:50.37
when you 're asking
from deliverance from sin.
00:32:50.40\00:32:51.90
Yes.
00:32:51.93\00:32:53.27
When you come to Him and
say, "Lord, forgive in my sin."
00:32:53.30\00:32:55.04
It's not, "Wait a while,
00:32:55.07\00:32:56.40
there's something
else I want to give you."
00:32:56.44\00:32:57.91
He wants that, He wants
you to come to that point
00:32:57.94\00:33:01.08
in your life, and so He
wanted to deliver him from sin.
00:33:01.11\00:33:04.35
And notice it says right
here, "So cleansing from sin,
00:33:04.38\00:33:07.22
so we were able to
live the holy life."
00:33:07.25\00:33:09.88
I kind of like that.
This is what it's all about.
00:33:09.92\00:33:12.55
God wants to cleanse us
from all unrighteousness,
00:33:12.59\00:33:15.46
all of the things that's unholy
00:33:15.49\00:33:16.83
that we may live
the life of Christ,
00:33:16.86\00:33:19.39
not I but Christ.
00:33:19.43\00:33:21.16
Not I, that's speaking,
but Christ is speaking.
00:33:21.20\00:33:23.90
And I sometimes
00:33:23.93\00:33:25.50
since I failed miserably
along that line to think
00:33:25.53\00:33:29.10
that we are representatives,
Brother JD, of Jesus Christ.
00:33:29.14\00:33:33.91
What a responsibility.
00:33:33.94\00:33:36.04
And how we look at our self,
00:33:36.08\00:33:37.41
how can anyone
go around and say,
00:33:37.45\00:33:38.78
"I rightly represent."
00:33:38.81\00:33:40.15
I'm saying, "Oh, God, help
me to rightly represent You."
00:33:40.18\00:33:42.02
Then you hear this sharp answer.
00:33:42.05\00:33:44.82
You know, not
wanting to get involved
00:33:44.85\00:33:46.76
or, you know, I
don't have time for,
00:33:46.79\00:33:48.62
that's not Jesus Christ at all.
00:33:48.66\00:33:50.16
When this man came to
Him with leprosy, man,
00:33:50.19\00:33:52.93
immediately Christ
said, "Yes, I will do that."
00:33:52.96\00:33:55.36
Amen. I just absolutely love it.
00:33:55.40\00:33:57.47
Christ if thy wilt...
More people will become...
00:33:57.50\00:33:59.57
Thou wilt. Yes.
00:33:59.60\00:34:00.97
More people will
become Lord if thy wilt,
00:34:01.00\00:34:04.27
you know, because exactly...
00:34:04.31\00:34:06.11
You know, He is eager,
00:34:06.14\00:34:07.48
He is always there
to forgive our self
00:34:07.51\00:34:09.14
for our wrong doings, you know.
00:34:09.18\00:34:10.65
Amen. Wow.
00:34:10.68\00:34:12.01
The only
question is it's on you.
00:34:12.05\00:34:13.38
If you really wanted, the
answer is always immediate,
00:34:13.42\00:34:17.45
and it's always yes.
00:34:17.49\00:34:18.82
If you're talking
about I want to follow You,
00:34:18.85\00:34:20.19
I want to serve You,
00:34:20.22\00:34:21.56
I need strength
to be your child,
00:34:21.59\00:34:23.79
always immediately.
00:34:23.83\00:34:25.16
Okay, we're going
to take this in stages.
00:34:25.19\00:34:27.03
Okay, I'm going
to forgive this now,
00:34:27.06\00:34:28.40
and then next week
00:34:28.43\00:34:29.76
we'll give you a
down payment on that one,
00:34:29.80\00:34:31.13
and, you know,
it's always immediate,
00:34:31.17\00:34:32.50
it's always total,
and it's always yes
00:34:32.53\00:34:33.94
if you will, if you want it.
00:34:33.97\00:34:35.44
It was a
spiritual issue. Yes, sir.
00:34:35.47\00:34:37.17
It's going to be yes. Yeah.
00:34:37.21\00:34:38.54
I love it.
00:34:38.57\00:34:39.91
And right here on our paper...
00:34:39.94\00:34:41.74
We get back to our paper.
00:34:41.78\00:34:43.98
We're talking about
forgiveness of sins,
00:34:44.01\00:34:45.81
1 John 1:9.
00:34:45.85\00:34:47.65
It's a promise.
This is a promise.
00:34:47.68\00:34:49.48
If you haven't wrote this down,
00:34:49.52\00:34:51.25
if you haven't
memorized it yet, please do.
00:34:51.29\00:34:53.42
1 John 1:9.
00:34:53.46\00:34:55.82
It reads, "If we
confess our sins..."
00:34:55.86\00:34:59.09
Yes.
00:34:59.13\00:35:00.46
"If we confess..."
00:35:00.50\00:35:02.26
You can't just deny
them. So many people just deny.
00:35:02.30\00:35:05.87
"He is faithful and
just to forgive us our sins
00:35:05.90\00:35:09.00
and to cleanse us
from all unrighteousness."
00:35:09.04\00:35:12.84
When you were reading
the story of the leper,
00:35:12.87\00:35:14.84
my mind went back
00:35:14.88\00:35:16.21
because all of us
have been involved
00:35:16.24\00:35:17.91
in evangelism.
00:35:17.95\00:35:20.45
And I said for many years
00:35:20.48\00:35:21.82
that some of the most
miraculous things happen
00:35:21.85\00:35:25.49
during those
evangelistic series.
00:35:25.52\00:35:27.32
Well, now...
00:35:27.36\00:35:28.69
Because people are coming,
00:35:28.72\00:35:30.06
they are coming
with their heavy baggage.
00:35:30.09\00:35:33.40
You know, they are
carrying it into the church.
00:35:33.43\00:35:35.60
And by the grace of God
and the Holy Spirit's power,
00:35:35.63\00:35:38.50
many times, they're
at the foot of the cross
00:35:38.53\00:35:40.64
as it were at the altar.
00:35:40.67\00:35:42.44
And they're asking
God for forgiveness.
00:35:42.47\00:35:44.94
That's a real miracle.
00:35:44.97\00:35:46.31
We think that
there aren't miracles.
00:35:46.34\00:35:48.18
When a life can be convicted
and converted and changed,
00:35:48.21\00:35:51.98
that is a
powerful miracle of God.
00:35:52.01\00:35:53.52
Yeah, that's
right. I'm sure it is.
00:35:53.55\00:35:54.88
That is probably
the hardest thing.
00:35:54.92\00:35:56.25
How many of us have
people in our families
00:35:56.28\00:35:58.55
we prayed for years
and years and years,
00:35:58.59\00:36:01.06
and we don't see a change.
00:36:01.09\00:36:02.86
When that person comes,
00:36:02.89\00:36:04.43
when that real
change takes place,
00:36:04.46\00:36:06.70
that is a real miracle.
00:36:06.73\00:36:08.86
And what I noticed right here
00:36:08.90\00:36:10.70
is that we are both involved
"we, we, if we, and JD."
00:36:10.73\00:36:14.94
If we, yes. Come on.
00:36:14.97\00:36:16.47
And then it turns right around
and says then He is faithful.
00:36:16.50\00:36:20.28
So in that one
sentence, we're both involved.
00:36:20.31\00:36:23.58
I love it, yes. Yeah.
00:36:23.61\00:36:24.95
You know, that's beautiful.
00:36:24.98\00:36:26.31
In the Book of Isaiah
54:10, I love this here
00:36:26.35\00:36:29.58
because this shows
the stability of God.
00:36:29.62\00:36:32.75
You know, I like
something that's stable.
00:36:32.79\00:36:34.22
You know, I'm one of
those people that I like...
00:36:34.26\00:36:36.83
Well, I like
things lined out. Yeah.
00:36:36.86\00:36:38.76
You know, like, we
come to this program, right,
00:36:38.79\00:36:41.23
and we're going to do a,
you know, Family Worship,
00:36:41.26\00:36:44.20
and it starts at 9 o'clock,
I like to start at 9 o'clock,
00:36:44.23\00:36:47.07
not 5 after, not
10 after, or not...
00:36:47.10\00:36:49.10
There's things sometimes
that there's we can't help.
00:36:49.14\00:36:50.67
We like to
help. We like to help.
00:36:50.71\00:36:54.94
We like to, you
know, come to here,
00:36:54.98\00:36:57.31
we like to have some
stability, we like to know.
00:36:57.35\00:36:59.68
And in the Word of God,
it says here in Isaiah 54:10,
00:36:59.71\00:37:02.12
I probably get in trouble
for that, don't worry about it.
00:37:02.15\00:37:04.35
It says, "For the
mountains shall depart
00:37:04.39\00:37:06.25
and the hills be removed,
00:37:06.29\00:37:07.62
but my kindness
shall not depart from thee,
00:37:07.66\00:37:10.83
neither shall the covenant
of my peace be removed,"
00:37:10.86\00:37:13.73
saith the Lord,
"that hath mercy on thee."
00:37:13.76\00:37:17.53
It's beautiful. The
mountains may go, right?
00:37:17.57\00:37:19.37
The hills,
everything may change.
00:37:19.40\00:37:22.04
Ministry of
Healing, 72, I jot this down.
00:37:22.07\00:37:23.91
I thought it was good. It
went along with this well.
00:37:23.94\00:37:25.94
It says, "Human
love may change..."
00:37:25.97\00:37:28.94
We see that all the time.
00:37:28.98\00:37:30.31
"Human love may change,
00:37:30.35\00:37:31.68
but Christ's
love knows no change.
00:37:31.71\00:37:34.15
When we cry to Him for help,
00:37:34.18\00:37:36.69
His hand is
stretched out to save."
00:37:36.72\00:37:40.82
Every time it's that
way. It's about salvation.
00:37:40.86\00:37:44.13
Everything God does for
you, He does for me even,
00:37:44.16\00:37:46.70
He's reaching out to help us,
He's reaching out to save us,
00:37:46.73\00:37:49.96
and I think
that's a good promise.
00:37:50.00\00:37:51.33
Yeah, with that
righteous right hand.
00:37:51.37\00:37:53.10
Amen. Praise God.
00:37:53.13\00:37:54.47
It's good to hold
on to those promises.
00:37:54.50\00:37:56.30
That's why when we see
Stephen being stoned...
00:37:56.34\00:37:59.94
Oh, yeah. Like Christ.
00:37:59.97\00:38:01.98
He said, "Father, forgive them."
00:38:02.01\00:38:04.11
He never left them.
00:38:04.15\00:38:05.48
Christ never left
him, He never for sake him.
00:38:05.51\00:38:08.08
Paul, all of His disciples,
they met terrible ends
00:38:08.12\00:38:12.52
in their lives, terrible trials,
00:38:12.55\00:38:15.26
but He never left them.
00:38:15.29\00:38:16.73
He went to visit John
on the Isle of Patmos.
00:38:16.76\00:38:19.79
You know, He spoke
to him as a friend.
00:38:19.83\00:38:22.73
And we know that
He still does that.
00:38:22.76\00:38:24.63
We know...
00:38:24.67\00:38:26.00
We can read in
Spirit of Prophecy
00:38:26.03\00:38:27.37
where He came to
visit people in person.
00:38:27.40\00:38:30.04
You know, it's beautiful.
00:38:30.07\00:38:31.47
If we're living
up, we have every,
00:38:31.51\00:38:34.78
every power that was
given to Christ on this earth,
00:38:34.81\00:38:37.71
when He came as a
man is available to us
00:38:37.75\00:38:40.95
if we just live
the life that He lived.
00:38:40.98\00:38:43.99
I mean, He does,
He still speak today,
00:38:44.02\00:38:45.35
He still speaks.
00:38:45.39\00:38:46.89
You know, you might come,
00:38:46.92\00:38:48.29
"I'm sick, I need prayer,"
00:38:48.32\00:38:50.53
Jesus working through you,
00:38:50.56\00:38:51.89
Jesus still comes to us
and we sense the prayers,
00:38:51.93\00:38:55.70
and we sense the
power of the spirit,
00:38:55.73\00:38:58.67
and He still makes these trips,
00:38:58.70\00:39:00.34
He still makes
them through people
00:39:00.37\00:39:01.70
and through
individual, so I think it,
00:39:01.74\00:39:03.71
be who's all of us
to receive counsel,
00:39:03.74\00:39:06.27
there will be who's
all of us to listen to our,
00:39:06.31\00:39:08.94
maybe our neighbor or
a friend and weigh out
00:39:08.98\00:39:10.95
what they are saying
because it could be a message
00:39:10.98\00:39:13.92
from the very throne room of God
00:39:13.95\00:39:15.32
that we need,
00:39:15.35\00:39:16.89
and so often we don't
receive because we may not,
00:39:16.92\00:39:21.02
you know, with
this person we don't...
00:39:21.06\00:39:22.39
We need to wait
at that right time.
00:39:22.42\00:39:23.76
Yes. Yes.
00:39:23.79\00:39:25.13
That's one thing I love
about these Family Worships
00:39:25.16\00:39:28.36
that we have together.
00:39:28.40\00:39:29.73
Because I know that
God's speaking to you,
00:39:29.76\00:39:31.70
I know He's speaking to you,
I know He's speaking to you,
00:39:31.73\00:39:34.44
and I pray, I believe, I
know He spoke through me...
00:39:34.47\00:39:37.07
That's our
prayer, that's a promise.
00:39:37.11\00:39:38.44
But as we come together...
00:39:38.47\00:39:40.58
Then the Holy Spirit can
put these things into place
00:39:40.61\00:39:43.75
because...
00:39:43.78\00:39:45.11
Sometimes we
come and we're like,
00:39:45.15\00:39:46.48
"Well, we have no idea
what's going to happen,"
00:39:46.51\00:39:47.85
we just give it to God.
00:39:47.88\00:39:49.55
And He pieces all the
pieces that He's been instilling
00:39:49.58\00:39:53.99
in your hearts and
in your minds together,
00:39:54.02\00:39:55.89
and it is such a blessing.
00:39:55.92\00:39:57.29
It is, it is.
It's such a blessing.
00:39:57.33\00:39:58.93
You quoted from 1 John
1:9, "If we confess our sins..."
00:39:58.96\00:40:01.36
Just two verses
earlier there is,
00:40:01.40\00:40:03.57
"If we walk in the
light as He is in the light,
00:40:03.60\00:40:06.47
we have, first
of all fellowship,"
00:40:06.50\00:40:07.84
that's what this is.
00:40:07.87\00:40:09.20
Yes. That's what this is.
00:40:09.24\00:40:10.57
There is nothing
more affirmative or faith
00:40:10.61\00:40:13.51
than to get together
people who feel like you do,
00:40:13.54\00:40:16.04
walk-in like you walk,
00:40:16.08\00:40:17.41
heading to the same
place you're heading.
00:40:17.45\00:40:19.31
And, you know, we
say this at sometimes,
00:40:19.35\00:40:22.05
our brothers and
sisters in Christ are closer
00:40:22.08\00:40:24.82
than our biological
brothers and sisters.
00:40:24.85\00:40:26.25
That's right.
00:40:26.29\00:40:27.62
If someone is walking
with you, going through this...
00:40:27.66\00:40:29.76
Slogging through
the same mud as you,
00:40:29.79\00:40:31.36
trying to make it like them,
you got fellowship with them
00:40:31.39\00:40:34.20
because you know, I
know you know what it is.
00:40:34.23\00:40:37.57
I remember when
you came to visit me
00:40:37.60\00:40:38.93
when I had my heart operation...
00:40:38.97\00:40:40.67
Oh, bless you.
00:40:40.70\00:40:42.04
And most of your
recovery was in Florida,
00:40:42.07\00:40:44.04
but my heart was with you
00:40:44.07\00:40:45.41
because I knew what
you were going through.
00:40:45.44\00:40:47.58
So we got fellowship. Yeah.
00:40:47.61\00:40:50.45
Amen, that won't
be kind of fellowship
00:40:50.48\00:40:51.81
you want to repeat,
but we got fellowship.
00:40:51.85\00:40:54.88
And on top of that,
the cherry on the sundae
00:40:54.92\00:40:58.49
is the blood of Christ
cleanses us from all sin.
00:40:58.52\00:41:00.59
So you got the whole,
can I say enchilada, JD?
00:41:00.62\00:41:03.39
You know, you got it all,
00:41:03.43\00:41:04.76
you got fellowship
with brothers and sisters
00:41:04.79\00:41:06.46
and you got Christ
00:41:06.49\00:41:07.83
who is cleansing
you from your sin
00:41:07.86\00:41:09.93
because you're
walking in the light.
00:41:09.96\00:41:11.63
You know, there's no substitute
for walking in the light.
00:41:11.67\00:41:15.34
There's a
connection of the spirit.
00:41:15.37\00:41:16.74
There is.
00:41:16.77\00:41:18.11
You can meet a
stranger on the street,
00:41:18.14\00:41:19.74
but when that
spirit, when you realize,
00:41:19.77\00:41:22.01
you begin to speak with them
00:41:22.04\00:41:23.38
and the spirit is
working in their heart.
00:41:23.41\00:41:24.75
There's a
connection of God's Spirit,
00:41:24.78\00:41:27.05
and it's as if
you've known them forever
00:41:27.08\00:41:29.78
and you connect, you bond.
00:41:29.82\00:41:31.99
But at the same time,
00:41:32.02\00:41:33.36
even with some I
love, and I hold dear,
00:41:33.39\00:41:35.59
I pray for every day.
00:41:35.62\00:41:37.16
There's a disconnect
00:41:37.19\00:41:38.73
because their's
a different spirit.
00:41:38.76\00:41:41.33
So, you know,
that's what so beautiful.
00:41:41.36\00:41:43.60
Why not be on the blessed side?
We talked about Deuteronomy 28.
00:41:43.63\00:41:47.14
We didn't talk about
the end of Deuteronomy.
00:41:47.17\00:41:49.30
I mean, there's many more verses
00:41:49.34\00:41:51.04
that have to do with the curses.
00:41:51.07\00:41:52.87
If we...
00:41:52.91\00:41:54.24
And what God's
doing is He's just saying,
00:41:54.28\00:41:56.58
"This is what's going
to happen if you do this,
00:41:56.61\00:41:58.68
this is what's going
to happen if you don't."
00:41:58.71\00:42:00.65
You mention the
mountains fleeing,
00:42:00.68\00:42:02.18
and we realized
there's prophecy saying
00:42:02.22\00:42:04.35
that every mountain will flee.
00:42:04.39\00:42:05.72
Have mercy.
00:42:05.75\00:42:07.09
Every mountain
is going to do down.
00:42:07.12\00:42:08.46
Every island is
going to go away.
00:42:08.49\00:42:09.82
There is a time coming. Yes.
00:42:09.86\00:42:11.79
Whose side that
we want to be on?
00:42:11.83\00:42:13.16
There's mountains,
00:42:13.19\00:42:14.53
there's mountains
that loom everyday for us
00:42:14.56\00:42:16.06
as you're advancing
in the cause of Christ.
00:42:16.10\00:42:18.77
There's no way you
seem to get out of this.
00:42:18.80\00:42:21.20
You know, I want to say
00:42:21.24\00:42:22.57
that mountains on the east side
00:42:22.60\00:42:23.94
and the sea before you
and the army behind you,
00:42:23.97\00:42:26.34
what are you going to do?
00:42:26.37\00:42:27.71
That's the time you
really get down and pray.
00:42:27.74\00:42:29.11
You mentioned earlier,
we pray for one another,
00:42:29.14\00:42:31.15
and we feel for one another.
00:42:31.18\00:42:32.55
I think that's
brotherly love that we need,
00:42:32.58\00:42:34.12
and this may just
00:42:34.15\00:42:35.48
kind of the awful
things a little bit here,
00:42:35.52\00:42:36.85
but when I heard,
00:42:36.89\00:42:38.22
not even a friend,
don't even know him,
00:42:38.25\00:42:39.92
but I heard that
Arnold Schwarzenegger
00:42:39.95\00:42:41.76
on the news had
open heart surgery.
00:42:41.79\00:42:44.73
He's going to have a
valve replaced or whatever,
00:42:44.76\00:42:47.96
and then it turned
into something pretty bad.
00:42:48.00\00:42:50.27
They had a team of
physicians waiting,
00:42:50.30\00:42:52.40
so they had to go in
and knocked all right then,
00:42:52.43\00:42:54.84
all the crushing and all the...
00:42:54.87\00:42:56.77
And it kind of almost
made me sick of my stomach
00:42:56.81\00:42:58.47
for a little bit and annoying,
00:42:58.51\00:42:59.84
but we don't need to
have to know someone.
00:42:59.87\00:43:02.84
We understand, we've
been through that experience,
00:43:02.88\00:43:04.78
and we can relate
to, and we feel bad for,
00:43:04.81\00:43:08.02
and we can pray for.
00:43:08.05\00:43:09.68
And I think we should
do that as a child of God.
00:43:09.72\00:43:12.39
You know, you mentioned
about the mountains of life.
00:43:12.42\00:43:14.86
You know, they
certainly don't have
00:43:14.89\00:43:16.49
to be a physical mountain
to be an issue in our lives,
00:43:16.52\00:43:20.33
we have our own mountains.
00:43:20.36\00:43:21.70
But I love 2 Corinthians 12:9,
00:43:21.73\00:43:25.07
"For My grace is
sufficient for you,
00:43:25.10\00:43:28.37
I will exchange My
power for your weakness."
00:43:28.40\00:43:30.27
Yes.
00:43:30.31\00:43:31.64
Many of us have
speed bumps in life, daily,
00:43:31.67\00:43:35.58
but He says, "That's okay, JD,
00:43:35.61\00:43:37.38
My grace is
sufficient to get you pass
00:43:37.41\00:43:38.91
that speed bump."
00:43:38.95\00:43:40.28
Thank you.
00:43:40.32\00:43:41.65
There's another
person, maybe tomorrow,
00:43:41.68\00:43:43.02
that's facing
Pikes Peak in their life.
00:43:43.05\00:43:44.85
Yes. He uses the same verbiage.
00:43:44.89\00:43:47.66
"That's okay, Kenny,
My grace is sufficient."
00:43:47.69\00:43:49.36
Yes. Halleluiah.
00:43:49.39\00:43:51.19
Fantastic verbiage there,
00:43:51.23\00:43:52.96
you know, because you can sit
00:43:52.99\00:43:54.53
and talk about
each individual's issue,
00:43:54.56\00:43:57.53
but yet chorale it.
00:43:57.57\00:43:59.80
My grace, My divine
assistance is going to be there
00:43:59.83\00:44:03.37
to assist you in your issue.
00:44:03.41\00:44:06.07
Amen. What a promise?
00:44:06.11\00:44:07.44
It's powerful. You
know, you hit on something.
00:44:07.48\00:44:09.81
Whether it's a speed bump
00:44:09.84\00:44:11.88
or Kilimanjaro or Mount Everest,
00:44:11.91\00:44:14.48
it's all Jesus, and the person
00:44:14.52\00:44:16.32
that's getting you
over that is all Jesus.
00:44:16.35\00:44:17.69
Yes.
00:44:17.72\00:44:19.05
Everybody is going
to get some speed bumps,
00:44:19.09\00:44:20.62
and some of us
going to get some Everest,
00:44:20.66\00:44:22.62
you know, but
it's the same Jesus
00:44:22.66\00:44:24.69
that's getting you
over little speed bump
00:44:24.73\00:44:26.86
or if you got to climb
Mount Everest, same Jesus,
00:44:26.90\00:44:29.76
you know, and He's special...
00:44:29.80\00:44:31.13
Let me quote a text. Yes.
00:44:31.17\00:44:32.60
2 Corinthians, a lot of
stuff coming out of Corinthians.
00:44:32.63\00:44:34.94
Oh, yes, that's
good, that's good.
00:44:34.97\00:44:36.30
2 Corinthians 2:14,
00:44:36.34\00:44:38.17
"Now thanks be to
God who always leads us
00:44:38.21\00:44:41.98
in triumph in Christ."
00:44:42.01\00:44:43.98
You know, it's always going
to be the same, the answer is,
00:44:44.01\00:44:46.72
whether it's a speed bump,
00:44:46.75\00:44:48.55
the little sleeping
policemen in the parking lot
00:44:48.58\00:44:51.12
or you're looking
at the highest mountain
00:44:51.15\00:44:52.99
in the world,
00:44:53.02\00:44:54.36
you're going to be led
in triumph in Christ Jesus.
00:44:54.39\00:44:57.63
He is sufficient. Amen.
00:44:57.66\00:44:59.43
Regardless of what you've
got, He's sufficient to get you
00:44:59.46\00:45:02.36
through that regardless
of what you're facing.
00:45:02.40\00:45:05.83
Sometimes a speed bump...
00:45:05.87\00:45:08.34
I like that when
you brought that,
00:45:08.37\00:45:09.70
the speed bump
because a lot of times
00:45:09.74\00:45:11.07
a speed bump
will catch me unaware.
00:45:11.11\00:45:13.84
You don't hardly see it,
00:45:13.88\00:45:15.21
it's just, it's just
coming in the road a little bit,
00:45:15.24\00:45:16.58
and if you're gawking around
and doing some other things
00:45:16.61\00:45:18.11
and you hit that,
00:45:18.15\00:45:19.48
even if you're
going on speed limit,
00:45:19.51\00:45:20.85
it will jar you into reality,
00:45:20.88\00:45:22.48
"Oh, wow, there's a bump there."
00:45:22.52\00:45:24.69
And so I think
those are still...
00:45:24.72\00:45:26.05
And some people,
00:45:26.09\00:45:27.42
in their
relationship with Christ
00:45:27.46\00:45:29.42
maybe just need the speed
bump, just a little waking up.
00:45:29.46\00:45:33.33
And there's others of
us that need that mountain
00:45:33.36\00:45:36.87
or in the case
00:45:36.90\00:45:38.93
of an A-frame
house for instance.
00:45:38.97\00:45:41.37
When you're
putting on new shingles
00:45:41.40\00:45:43.37
or you know, wood shakes,
whatever, that right there,
00:45:43.41\00:45:45.77
you can't stay on that
because it's just too steep,
00:45:45.81\00:45:48.58
there's no way.
00:45:48.61\00:45:49.94
And you have to have rope thrown
00:45:49.98\00:45:51.31
from one side to the other,
00:45:51.35\00:45:52.91
and you have to wear
a harness around you,
00:45:52.95\00:45:56.22
and then you're
attached to that,
00:45:56.25\00:45:57.59
and that's the way
00:45:57.62\00:45:58.95
that you're able to
continue to go up that.
00:45:58.99\00:46:00.82
So it can get very
difficult even in the physical
00:46:00.86\00:46:04.13
and the spiritual
sometimes, that ways...
00:46:04.16\00:46:06.46
It seem like the more
that I've tried to find
00:46:06.49\00:46:08.26
what God wants me to do,
you had to put the harness on.
00:46:08.30\00:46:12.77
There has to be a rope thrown on
00:46:12.80\00:46:14.14
and somebody on the other side
00:46:14.17\00:46:15.57
that's got to hold
that rope that I can trust,
00:46:15.60\00:46:18.17
and that is Jesus, isn't it?
00:46:18.21\00:46:19.54
Praise the Lord.
00:46:19.57\00:46:20.91
We can trust Him, but
He is going to help us
00:46:20.94\00:46:22.94
get up there
00:46:22.98\00:46:24.31
and get the job
complete to the end the ways
00:46:24.35\00:46:27.02
I'm coming after
church without a spot
00:46:27.05\00:46:28.68
or wrinkle or any such thing.
00:46:28.72\00:46:30.25
He gives us that
ability by the grace of God
00:46:30.29\00:46:32.59
to keep all His commandments,
00:46:32.62\00:46:35.06
and His
commandments are not grievous.
00:46:35.09\00:46:36.83
I know one thing,
CA, I can appreciate...
00:46:36.86\00:46:38.86
Well, I don't want to do. Okay.
00:46:38.89\00:46:40.73
I don't want to put
shakes on it, A-frame.
00:46:40.76\00:46:43.06
A-frame? No, no. I
don't want to harness myself.
00:46:43.10\00:46:47.84
If you're scared and think
that rope's going to break.
00:46:47.87\00:46:50.84
You know, help me Jesus. Amen.
00:46:50.87\00:46:52.84
It is beautiful to think
that there is no greater...
00:46:52.87\00:46:55.41
The Bible even says,
"There's no greater than He.
00:46:55.44\00:46:57.95
He is steadfast.
He's unchangeable.
00:46:57.98\00:47:00.85
He will not lie."
00:47:00.88\00:47:02.88
I think...
00:47:02.92\00:47:04.25
Let's see. Where is
it? Totally trustworthy.
00:47:04.29\00:47:08.62
Numbers 23:19,
00:47:08.66\00:47:10.26
"God is not a man
that He should lie,
00:47:10.29\00:47:13.73
neither the son of man
that He should repent."
00:47:13.76\00:47:16.06
Now some people, they
repent, that just means
00:47:16.10\00:47:18.57
that He doesn't
have to change His mind,
00:47:18.60\00:47:20.30
what came out the
first time is right.
00:47:20.34\00:47:22.84
Everything that
He speaks is right.
00:47:22.87\00:47:25.11
And that's why when we pray,
and we claim these promises,
00:47:25.14\00:47:27.71
we always claim them,
not my will but thine be done
00:47:27.74\00:47:31.55
because we're in a
trusting relationship.
00:47:31.58\00:47:34.88
You were talking about
faith, putting on the harness,
00:47:34.92\00:47:37.75
it made me think of going
back on the whole armor of God,
00:47:37.79\00:47:41.42
we got to have
that whole armor of God,
00:47:41.46\00:47:43.02
that's what that harness is.
00:47:43.06\00:47:44.79
But we have to have
faith and trust in Him.
00:47:44.83\00:47:50.20
In fact, I believe
that we're coming close,
00:47:50.23\00:47:53.13
ever so close to a time
00:47:53.17\00:47:55.04
that we're not going
to be able to believe
00:47:55.07\00:47:56.54
what we see, what we hear,
00:47:56.57\00:47:59.17
you know, what
people are saying.
00:47:59.21\00:48:01.38
Well, we're there.
00:48:01.41\00:48:02.74
We are there absolutely,
00:48:02.78\00:48:04.11
because error is becoming truth
and truth is becoming error.
00:48:04.15\00:48:07.48
I mentioned I think
in the last program,
00:48:07.52\00:48:09.45
even the loaves of
bread, maybe even our smell,
00:48:09.48\00:48:11.99
we can't trust because
when, when Christ was tempted
00:48:12.02\00:48:14.82
with those loaves by the enemy,
00:48:14.86\00:48:17.33
you know, He went 40
days without any food.
00:48:17.36\00:48:20.26
I mean, how many of us
have ever been 40 days?
00:48:20.30\00:48:22.83
You are famished.
00:48:22.86\00:48:24.20
And I don't
think He just saw them.
00:48:24.23\00:48:26.23
I think He's very...
00:48:26.27\00:48:27.60
Real
possibility, He could smell.
00:48:27.64\00:48:28.97
He smelled that
fresh bread, mercy.
00:48:29.00\00:48:30.34
And you know, it's
kind of like popcorn,
00:48:30.37\00:48:32.04
you know, in our house.
00:48:32.07\00:48:33.41
Oh, it goes
through all the house.
00:48:33.44\00:48:34.78
You could say,
no, I'm not hungry
00:48:34.81\00:48:36.14
and all of a sudden
somebody's popping popcorn.
00:48:36.18\00:48:37.75
You don't have to be
hungry, that smell draws you.
00:48:37.78\00:48:40.95
But see that's what's happening,
00:48:40.98\00:48:42.48
so we got to...
00:48:42.52\00:48:43.85
Our faith is being tested,
our faith is being trialed
00:48:43.89\00:48:46.35
because we've
got to be as straight
00:48:46.39\00:48:47.92
as steel we are told.
00:48:47.96\00:48:49.52
So with every wind of doctrine,
00:48:49.56\00:48:51.06
we're not going
this way or that way
00:48:51.09\00:48:52.59
but we are sure
upon it is written,
00:48:52.63\00:48:56.06
His word, His
promises, what He says is true.
00:48:56.10\00:48:59.57
So we've got to know
it. We've got to know it.
00:48:59.60\00:49:01.70
The Gospel Workers,
we're talking about that, 284,
00:49:01.74\00:49:04.11
and we talked about a while ago,
00:49:04.14\00:49:05.47
a little bit about the
conditions, conditional,
00:49:05.51\00:49:07.74
and I thought this had
a couple of paragraphs,
00:49:07.78\00:49:09.34
it was just beautiful
so that we can claim it.
00:49:09.38\00:49:11.88
So I'll just read
that Gospel Workers, 284.
00:49:11.91\00:49:14.18
It says, "Christ promised
the gift of the Holy Spirit."
00:49:14.22\00:49:16.65
I love that.
00:49:16.69\00:49:18.02
"To His church,
and He promised..."
00:49:18.05\00:49:20.16
No, "His promises
belong as much to us
00:49:20.19\00:49:23.19
as it did His first disciples."
00:49:23.22\00:49:25.06
How wonderful,
00:49:25.09\00:49:26.43
but, see there's a
situation that comes here.
00:49:26.46\00:49:28.43
"But like every other
promise is given on conditions,
00:49:28.46\00:49:31.97
that there are many
who professed to believe
00:49:32.00\00:49:34.94
and claimed the
Lord's promises."
00:49:34.97\00:49:36.84
Well, we're
claiming, we believe them.
00:49:36.87\00:49:38.31
But notice,
00:49:38.34\00:49:39.67
"They talk about
Christ and the Holy Spirit,
00:49:39.71\00:49:41.78
yet, they receive no benefit."
00:49:41.81\00:49:44.08
How could that be?
00:49:44.11\00:49:45.45
Notice, "Because they do
not surrender their souls
00:49:45.48\00:49:49.02
to the guidance and
control of divine agencies."
00:49:49.05\00:49:52.05
That's true. That is true.
00:49:52.09\00:49:53.42
So we can talk it, memorize it,
00:49:53.46\00:49:55.62
we can do all these things here,
00:49:55.66\00:49:57.33
but we're seeing no answers.
00:49:57.36\00:49:58.69
The answer is because
we're not giving our self fully
00:49:58.73\00:50:01.63
to the guidance
of the Holy Spirit,
00:50:01.66\00:50:03.37
which the Holy Sprit would what?
00:50:03.40\00:50:04.73
Lead us into all
truth and to obedience.
00:50:04.77\00:50:07.60
People say I have that...
00:50:07.64\00:50:08.97
You know, I
have the Holy Spirit,
00:50:09.00\00:50:10.34
that was Acts 5,
around 30, 32, it says,
00:50:10.37\00:50:12.81
"The Holy Spirit is
given to those who obey Him."
00:50:12.84\00:50:16.85
Those who obey Him,
the Holy Spirit is given.
00:50:16.88\00:50:19.25
If we're not obeying Him,
00:50:19.28\00:50:20.62
don't count on
the Holy Sprit there.
00:50:20.65\00:50:22.25
But I think you touched
on a big, big, big issue
00:50:22.28\00:50:25.02
because we have
so many denominations
00:50:25.05\00:50:26.65
in the world,
00:50:26.69\00:50:28.02
and a lot of
people that you meet,
00:50:28.06\00:50:29.39
you think, "Oh, wow!
00:50:29.42\00:50:30.76
They really love the Lord." Yes.
00:50:30.79\00:50:32.13
But the moment you
begin to open the scripture,
00:50:32.16\00:50:34.80
"Well, I don't
believe that pertains anymore.
00:50:34.83\00:50:36.70
Well, we don't
have to do that anymore.
00:50:36.73\00:50:38.57
Well, you know,
00:50:38.60\00:50:39.93
that may have been for
the children of Israel,
00:50:39.97\00:50:41.74
but, you know, it's
not for us anymore."
00:50:41.77\00:50:44.04
And so there's always an excuse.
00:50:44.07\00:50:46.01
And the sad thing is,
00:50:46.04\00:50:47.41
you know, when Jesus was looking
00:50:47.44\00:50:48.78
at the lamb and the goat,
00:50:48.81\00:50:52.35
you know, He was talking to
Christians professing people
00:50:52.38\00:50:55.55
that were professing
to be the lambs of God.
00:50:55.58\00:50:58.35
And He said, "Depart from
Me, you workers of inequity,
00:50:58.39\00:51:01.79
for I never knew
you to the goats."
00:51:01.82\00:51:04.19
So, you know, there is a
truth and we have to be willing
00:51:04.23\00:51:07.96
to allow God.
00:51:08.00\00:51:09.33
You talked about
surgery a while ago,
00:51:09.36\00:51:11.33
allow Him to do
heart surgery on us.
00:51:11.37\00:51:14.94
So that we can
have faith in His word,
00:51:14.97\00:51:16.97
we can claim these promises.
00:51:17.01\00:51:19.51
Let me share this one
00:51:19.54\00:51:21.01
'cause I know
we're getting close
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to running out of time.
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This is Historical
Sketches, and it reads,
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"To all who are engaged
in the missionary work..."
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I would say now, I don't
think there's anybody here
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that is not engaged,
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even those behind
the cameras, right?
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That's right.
00:51:35.02\00:51:36.36
"Hide in Jesus, let not self
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but Christ appear
in all your labors,
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not us, but Jesus."
00:51:42.26\00:51:44.83
"When the work goes hard,
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and you become discouraged
and attempt it to abandon it,
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take your Bible,
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bow up on your
knees before God and say,
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"Here, Lord, Thy
word is pledged,"
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throw your
weight upon His promises
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and every one of
them will be fulfilled."
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Amen. Amen.
00:52:08.32\00:52:09.66
Amen. Every one.
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Amen. Every one.
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That's heavy. That is heavy.
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And here I go back to
what you were saying earlier
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because it's
just touched my heart
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when everybody was
talking about the leper,
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and he walks up to
the Lord, "Wilt thou..."
00:52:19.47\00:52:22.90
Yeah, wilt thou.
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My goodness, that's a big...
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That's heavy
work there, you know.
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And just about anything
we were reading right here,
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we're given the Lord permission.
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Yes. Yes.
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And it was a spiritual issue,
the answer is always what?
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Yes. Amen.
00:52:36.95\00:52:38.29
It's not going to say,
"hey, I got a luncheon,
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but I'll catch you later, JD."
00:52:41.39\00:52:43.16
You know, I
mean, it's, you know...
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He didn't have
a big conversation
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about when Peter was
walking on the water, did he?
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No. When Peter
start to go under.
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Lord, why...
00:52:51.53\00:52:52.87
Now he should have been...
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Save me, he didn't...
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Yeah, well, you
should've listen,
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laying and go around like what,
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immediately He
answered that prayer,
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and I think the same was talking
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about our salvation here.
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You know, Lord wilt thou,
He emptied all of Himself.
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He came down to this
earth, He became a human,
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He gave up being omniscient,
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everywhere at
once because He wilt,
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He loved us so much when He...
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You know, we think
how our heart goes out
00:53:21.73\00:53:23.70
when we see
someone who is suffering,
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who is in pain,
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and He saw His
children suffering and in pain.
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I've always said that
one of the worst things
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that a person can go through
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is the death of their own child.
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Have mercy.
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And He looks at us,
and we're His children.
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And He knows without
Him that we're going to die.
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That's right.
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And so He gave
everything He has to give,
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and He's still
working for our salvation.
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That's why these
promises are so vital.
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Amen. Amen.
00:53:58.37\00:54:02.00
Just referring back
quickly to 2 Corinthians 10:4-5
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about the
weapons of our warfare.
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So somebody was
going to mention that,
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it was interesting.
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And that simply you look
at it in this passage here
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because Paul,
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in one of his last
journeys was sent to Rome
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and naturally we know
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what was going to
happen to him there.
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But he was thrown into
jail and he was in a situation
00:54:19.82\00:54:23.79
that seemed like it
was impossible to do
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any kind of missionary work,
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soul winning at all,
because Nero was in-charge.
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And Nero was asked...
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Actually had the
empress as it were,
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we talk Spirit of
Prophecy of the enemy,
00:54:32.37\00:54:34.24
all those who
associated with him,
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had the same empress.
00:54:35.70\00:54:37.07
But as the end
results, what happened?
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Because God can
use this situation,
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why he's thrown into prison?
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Why he's thrown into jail?
00:54:42.81\00:54:44.98
We find that many people
00:54:45.01\00:54:46.35
of Nero's
household was converted,
00:54:46.38\00:54:49.65
and they weren't
ashamed about it.
00:54:49.68\00:54:51.69
They stood out and said,
00:54:51.72\00:54:53.05
"Yes, I'm the
follower of Jesus Christ."
00:54:53.09\00:54:55.12
And Paul said,
00:54:55.16\00:54:56.49
"It was because I
was thrown into prison."
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You see, that God gave me
the opportunity to win souls
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for His kingdom.
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So bad things may happen to us,
might, but in those situations,
00:55:02.90\00:55:06.40
God's going to work it right,
00:55:06.43\00:55:07.77
where you'll
still be a soul winner,
00:55:07.80\00:55:09.14
wherever you might end
up, wherever you may do,
00:55:09.17\00:55:10.64
whatever you may do in life.
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Of course, the wisdom
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there is not get
ahead of your self,
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allow God to work
in you and through you.
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Yes.
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And, you know, be still and...
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I was reading something there...
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"The silt settles
when the waters are still."
00:55:28.66\00:55:33.93
Because, you know, just the day
before I was reading but, boy,
00:55:33.96\00:55:37.27
the good things
happen when the water is...
00:55:37.30\00:55:39.03
Yeah, stir them
up. It is going down.
00:55:39.07\00:55:40.84
You know, you know,
00:55:40.87\00:55:42.20
you want to be part of
the running water, you know.
00:55:42.24\00:55:43.97
And then I read this over here.
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So there's wisdom on
first base, third base,
00:55:45.71\00:55:48.58
it doesn't make any
difference, God is God.
00:55:48.61\00:55:51.01
And, you know,
just pay attention
00:55:51.05\00:55:53.18
to what's going
on in your own life,
00:55:53.21\00:55:55.75
and thank you Jesus for it.
00:55:55.78\00:55:59.09
You know, we're
just about out of time,
00:55:59.12\00:56:01.22
I hate to say it
00:56:01.26\00:56:02.59
'cause I am
loving the spirit here.
00:56:02.62\00:56:04.73
But I want to share
00:56:04.76\00:56:06.09
these promises
found in Isaiah 40.
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Our youngest daughter,
00:56:08.53\00:56:09.86
they thought she
had cystic fibrosis,
00:56:09.90\00:56:11.23
she was so very, very ill.
00:56:11.27\00:56:13.47
In fact, she had
complete respiratory failure
00:56:13.50\00:56:16.44
from Influenza A
and was on life support.
00:56:16.47\00:56:18.87
Long story, it
was only a miracle,
00:56:18.91\00:56:21.01
anointing miracle
that brought her back.
00:56:21.04\00:56:23.41
But this at a very
young age was a promise,
00:56:23.45\00:56:27.05
that was her
favorite, and I love it.
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Isaiah 40,
starting with verse 28,
00:56:29.35\00:56:32.49
"Hast thou not known?
00:56:32.52\00:56:33.86
Hast thou not heard,
that the everlasting God,
00:56:33.89\00:56:36.83
the Lord, the
Creator of the ends
00:56:36.86\00:56:38.63
of the earth fainteth
not neither is weary?"
00:56:38.66\00:56:41.26
We cannot worry
here with our trials
00:56:41.30\00:56:43.33
and our
tribulations, our prayers.
00:56:43.37\00:56:44.97
He wants us to come to Him.
00:56:45.00\00:56:46.90
In fact, I've
read sometimes that,
00:56:46.94\00:56:48.77
we pray one prayer too short
00:56:48.80\00:56:50.64
when we're praying for somebody.
00:56:50.67\00:56:52.01
He wants us to.
00:56:52.04\00:56:53.38
"There is no
searching of His understanding."
00:56:53.41\00:56:55.71
I love this.
00:56:55.74\00:56:57.08
"He giveth power to the faint,
and to them that have no might,
00:56:57.11\00:57:00.65
he increases strength."
00:57:00.68\00:57:02.42
I know I have no might.
00:57:02.45\00:57:04.22
You know, it was many times
00:57:04.25\00:57:05.59
I feel like I
don't even have a mind,
00:57:05.62\00:57:07.72
you know, to use.
00:57:07.76\00:57:09.09
But by God's grace,
00:57:09.12\00:57:10.46
you know, you just do
the very best that you can,
00:57:10.49\00:57:13.03
and He
prayerfully will do the rest.
00:57:13.06\00:57:15.40
"Even the youths
shall faint and be weary,
00:57:15.43\00:57:17.73
and the young men
shall utterly fall,
00:57:17.77\00:57:20.24
but they, that
weight upon the Lord
00:57:20.27\00:57:23.34
shall renew their strength."
00:57:23.37\00:57:25.44
You know, sometimes it
comes down to the point,
00:57:25.47\00:57:27.38
we mentioned not our
will, but thine be done.
00:57:27.41\00:57:29.78
"They shall mount up
with wings as eagles;
00:57:29.81\00:57:31.68
they shall run,
and not be weary,
00:57:31.71\00:57:33.55
they shall walk and not faint."
00:57:33.58\00:57:35.82
Amen. Amen.
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