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, friends.
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Welcome to Friday
night Family Worship.
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Happy Sabbath. Happy Sabbath.
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That's right.
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All of our people
said happy Sabbath.
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And I have with me my copilot
tonight, my wife, Angela.
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So glad to be here with you.
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I hope you go to church
tomorrow and be blessed.
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I know there's a blessing
in store for you tomorrow.
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Always a Sabbath
blessing, isn't it, honey?
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That's right.
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But we're going to
begin that blessing tonight
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as we talk about
the topic of peace.
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Everybody wants peace.
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We're going to have
a prayer in a moment.
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But let's go ahead and...
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We're going to get a
bigger, wide shot here
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so that my
brother, my bodyguard...
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No, I'm just kidding.
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My head elder here,
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Luis Capote and his wife, Xenia,
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good to have you both here.
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Thank you. Happy
Sabbath. Yes. Yes.
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Happy Sabbath. It's
good to see you guys.
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That's right.
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It's good to be seen,
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unless if I didn't know I
was being seen, I'd be viewing.
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That's not good at all. No.
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And Donald and Janelle Owen,
good to have you both here.
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Thank you for having
us. Thank you for having us.
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Yeah, we're kind
of becoming regulars.
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I know that.
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You know, we really
enjoy this combination.
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And what we enjoy even more
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than our
combination is when you join us.
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Amen. Amen.
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And this is going to
be a wonderful topic.
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And so without
further ado, honey,
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would you have prayer for us
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so we can invite the prince
of peace to be in our program.
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Okay, let's bow our heads.
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Our kind gracious
peaceful heavenly Father,
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we come to You
this Sabbath evening
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in the name of Jesus.
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We thank You for
the Sabbath blessings.
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We thank You for the ministry
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that You have given
us every day and night.
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And, Lord, we
commit this program to You,
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everything about it.
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The prince of peace
will truly be in our midst.
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And may those viewing
and listening to this program
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find peace in their
hearts through this program,
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but most of all, through
You, in Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen. Thank you,
honey. Beautiful.
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So nice when a subtle voice,
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you know, as pastors
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we're always
praying and preaching,
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so that's why I
pray off the air,
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and I always like my
wife to pray on the air.
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But the topic of peace,
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the reason why
we chose this topic
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is because peace
is something the world
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has been trying to
accomplish for a long time.
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Everybody wants peace.
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People want to be in
peaceful neighborhoods,
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people want
peace in their family,
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people want peace
in their relationships
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with one another,
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husband or wife,
want to be at peace.
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When there is no
peace in the community,
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nerves on edge.
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We want peace between
the police and the citizens.
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You know, there's so much...
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We want peace between countries,
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but right now
there's so much wars.
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The United Nations are trying
to find a way to get peace.
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Peace in Middle East
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seemed like it was
going on since forever,
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since I was a little boy.
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In the time of
Abraham. Isn't that amazing?
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Yeah. Yeah.
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And ever since
the entrance of sin,
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we know that there has
been no peace in the world.
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That's right.
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But what I'd like to do tonight
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is I'd like to begin
with this particular passage,
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then we're going to open it up
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because we always
have great examples.
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You know, in our
experiences about the peace
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that we've come to know
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and the peace that
others have come to know
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through getting to know Christ.
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But there is a
passage in John 16:33.
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And this passage kind of
zooms in on peace the way
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that we can expect it and peace
where you should not expect it.
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John 16:33.
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Honey, would you
read that for us?
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Yes, "These things I
have spoken to you that in Me,
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you may have peace,"
that's in Jesus, "in the world,
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you will have tribulation,
but be of good cheer.
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I," Jesus, "have
overcome the world."
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Okay, so right away,
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where are we going
to find tribulation?
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Everywhere. In this world.
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The whole world.
Now where is the world?
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Where we live, all around us,
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even peaceful
Thompsonville, right?
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Thompsonville
even made the news.
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We even had our own events here.
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So is there any place that
there won't be tribulation?
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Heaven.
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Okay, but in this earth, Xenia,
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is there any place on this earth
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where you'll find peace?
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No, not, only tribulation.
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Even though peaceful
places we see in Europe,
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they always say
it's so peaceful.
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Yeah, the Alps, Swiss Alps.
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They say, "If you want to
be in a peaceful community,
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come to our community,
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we'll maintain
peace with weapons."
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In Jerusalem... Like a oxymoron.
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Remember in
Jerusalem. Jerusalem.
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Was it a place of peace?
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The city of peace,
they had weapons everywhere.
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And I thought "Man, what kind
of peace do they have here?"
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It's in our schools too.
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Schools even now,
they've got, you know,
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they got metal
detectors in your school.
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So where is the peace?
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Oh, yeah, that's been going
on from we were young, right?
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New York, metal detectors.
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And when you get
into the airplanes now,
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what happens?
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They want to make sure
that there'd be no incidents.
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They won't have
what kind of flight?
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Peaceful flight.
We want to have that.
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And so peace is a
real, very viable topic
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because everybody wants peace.
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But I want to begin by...
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Let's spend a little time
on this idea of tribulation
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because what I've discovered
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is Christians
shouldn't be caught off guard
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when tribulation
exists because the Lord says,
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"In this world you
will have tribulation."
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So whenever you're confronted
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by something that
brings tribulation,
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another word for
tribulation is distress,
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lack of ease,
another one, Donald.
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Trials. Trials. What else?
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Challenges. Challenges.
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Stress. Stresses.
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Sickness. Sickness.
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Trouble. Trouble.
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Whenever that happens,
Christians should remember,
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in this world, you
will have tribulation.
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No one is
exempt. No one is exempt.
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And oftentimes, Christians say,
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"Oh, man, I don't know
what's going on in my life.
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I'm just having
it going and coming.
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I'm just having difficulty."
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And I like to
point out this passage,
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you will have tribulation.
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But based on
what you read, honey,
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where do we find that peace
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that we have in the
middle of tribulation?
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What did Jesus say it is?
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He says "In Him." In Him.
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That's right. That's key.
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But it's interesting, they said,
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He says, "He has overcome,"
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you know, and this is
the beauty about Christ,
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He has gone through
every trial and tribulations
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that we went
through and then some,
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so you can know that there is
an example that it's been done,
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it's been taken care of.
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You know, a lot of
times, as Christians,
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you are, you know,
when the pastor called,
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he said, "What the
message was going to be about?"
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I said, "Okay, well,
I'm going to be that one."
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He's going to say,
"Okay, pastor, teach me how."
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'Cause I've been a
mystery most of my life,
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and you see the
struggle with good and evil,
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you see the
trials and tribulations.
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But it's interesting,
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the only way
you're going to find peace
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is when you die to self.
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You see and
that's what it's so...
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That's what a lot of individuals
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don't understand, by yourself,
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you're never
going to find peace,
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but once you
surrender yourself to God,
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then you can just look back
and now you're an expectator.
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You're not going through it,
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you're just seeing how
God is going to take care
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of all the trials and
tribulations in your life.
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Make it crucify
yourself daily? Daily, I wish.
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Minute by
minute. Moment by moment.
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Now, what were you saying?
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I'm just saying, you
make it sound so simple.
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So Romans 5:3 says something.
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In Romans 5:3 and 4
says "And not only that,
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but we also glory
in tribulations..."
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How do you
glory in tribulations?
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"Knowing that tribulations
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produces perseverance
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and perseverance,
character and character, hope."
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Okay, so you got to go
through something to get to it.
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It's like... You
ever seen those...
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I call it whittling,
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but just I'm surely
that's not the word.
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Whenever they take a
square piece of wood,
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and they put it through this...
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Chisel.
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Machine and it comes out
like a perfect table leg.
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Anyway, you guys probably
are screaming the answer at me.
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But trowel or
whatever you want to call it,
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there's the
machine just starts...
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The wood starts
flying everywhere,
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and then it comes
out on the other side,
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what a beautiful
ornamental table leg.
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So we have to go through what?
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What are the
steps again in Romans?
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Tribulations then perseverance
and perseverance to character
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and character to hope,
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so I like sharing that
with our callers at 3ABN often.
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You know, they're all
calling with something
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that they're going
through, just difficulties,
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and that's when we
lose our grip on Jesus
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when we just want to
collapse and just end it all.
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But we realize that Christ,
as you were mentioning earlier,
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He's the one who's
done it, finished it for us,
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so we can get through it.
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It's interesting because
once you're going through
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the trials and the tribulation,
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then you get to see and
experience the victories.
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And that's what it's all about.
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You know, a lot of times, we...
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How many times has God had
to bring you down a peg or two?
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Oh, ever.
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You're running on
and you're humming along,
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you think everything is great,
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and there are
certain sins in your life
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that are just, you
know, part of your day-to-day.
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And God has to kind of
tap you on the shoulder
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and say, "Guess what?
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I'm about to thin
you out," you know.
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I'm about to show you
what kind of God you serve.
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And it's through
this that you understand,
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and that's the way that...
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Look, the Bible
clearly tells you
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you're going to
go through trials,
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you're going to go
through tribulations.
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But as a Christian,
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you know that you're not
the one that has to battle.
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I love the
sermon that the pastor
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preached this past
Sabbath talking about,
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"Let Christ go in front of you,
so He can tackle the enemy."
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So therefore, all you get to see
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is just the battle
between God and the enemy,
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and then you can just
walk without your issues.
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And that really impacted me,
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that hit me right
between the eyes, I said, "Wow!"
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It is so true that
many of us, we want to rush,
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and we want to do all the
work when God says, "Be still.
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Be still, and let
Me take care of it."
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A good example of that, to
me, was the disciples and Jesus.
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And the story that is in Mark 4
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that it says that
they were in a boat,
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and Jesus was
sleeping and the storm came
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and so everything is going on,
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and Jesus is just
sleeping there peacefully.
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Well, they had gone ahead,
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like the example
he's talking about,
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without Jesus in a
sense on their own.
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So their peace went away.
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And then they woke Him up.
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And what did He tell
the wind and the storm?
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"Peace be still."
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And to have that
peace, I can't...
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I'm not going to say
that I'm even near that peace
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because sometimes I forget,
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you know, if the
things come all the time
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and the worries and everything,
and you get working on things,
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and that peace goes away.
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To me, it's
always so interesting
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that some people could be going
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through a disaster or something,
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and they can
just sleep through it.
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And it's like it comes
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from knowing that God
left this peace with you,
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like the Bible says.
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And I think that's
what led Warren Cornell,
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Cornell I think it is, to write
the song "Wonderful Peace".
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Yes, share some
of the words with us.
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The refrain says,
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Peace, peace, wonderful peace
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Coming down
from the Father above
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Sweep over my
spirit forever, I pray
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In fathomless billows of peace
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But the one,
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every stanza is very, very deep.
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But here it says,
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"I am resting tonight
in this wonderful peace,
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resting sweetly
in Jesus' control,"
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which is what he was doing
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in the middle of
the storm in this boat
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while everybody was going crazy.
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And it's so nice
to be able to do that,
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you know, sometimes the wind
is blowing so hard and stuff
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and we're able to just
sleep without worry, you know.
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Another one says,
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"What a treasure I have
in this wonderful peace,
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buried deep in
the heart of my soul."
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Wow, to have that.
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And I think he had that to be
able to write a song like this.
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And I think when I
rise with the city of peace,
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that one strain of a song with
the ransoms that will sing."
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Wouldn't that be
wonderful when you're in heaven,
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when we all get to
heaven, to be able to share that
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and to know of a
real peace in our hearts?
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And you know it's
going to take a...
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I think one of the
reasons why the transformation
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is going to be necessary
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because if we're going to heaven
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with the same character,
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and we heard of
angel coming up behind us,
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and we say, "What is that?"
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Just take a bow at peace.
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Well, you know, you start
singing at angels in heaven.
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It wasn't
shadow? It wasn't shadow.
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Because we don't just accustomed
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to living in such a
peace-less environment
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that everything
gets our attention.
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Right.
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You know, when we
moved here to Illinois,
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we thought where
we live in Indiana
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was really quiet and peaceful.
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And we moved here in Cornville,
and it's so quiet and peaceful.
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We go back to Indiana,
our house there it was like,
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"That is noisy.
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It's really noisy.
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We thought, man,
it was quiet there."
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There's a lot of
peace here in this area.
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Well, welcome to the big cities.
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But I want to
transition to another one
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because there's
another kind of peace
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that the world
will not experience
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and this kind of
peace is Jeremiah 8:11.
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You want to read that for
us, it's right on our syllabus,
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to save some time you have
this second one, Jeremiah 8:11.
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This is the kind of
peace that the world
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is trying to manufacture,
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but what's the
reality of it, Janelle.
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You want me to.
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"For they have healed
the hurt of the daughter
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of My people slightly saying,
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'Peace, peace,'
when there is no peace."
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Okay, and the next one
also, 1 Thessalonians 5:3.
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We don't have that.
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Oh, I'm sorry. Let me read it.
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"For when they
say, 'Peace and safety.'
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Then sudden destruction
comes upon them as labor pains
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upon a pregnant woman,
they shall not escape."
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So what's
happening in our world?
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Where is this peace coming
from, this manufactured peace?
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Preachers preaching about peace,
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and there is no peace.
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There is no peace.
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But that's one of
the signs of the times
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of the end of the times.
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When people say peace,
peace, and there is no peace.
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You know, that's
one of the signs.
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Question is why
are they saying peace
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so they're keeping
you away from realizing
00:16:26.82\00:16:28.82
who the sin pardoning,
sin bearer is, it's Jesus.
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So you're really
what you're doing
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is allowing them to
continue in their sin.
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You're not allowing
them to find out they can,
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could be healed by Jesus.
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That's kind of what I see that
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as it's like you're masking
over what Jesus came to do
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when He came to
give us the opportunity
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to give our sins over to Him.
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But a lot of times they
say, peace, peace when...
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I'm at peace when they let me do
00:16:49.14\00:16:50.47
what I want
which is not the same.
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It's not the peace
that God's talking about.
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I was going to share Isaiah 57,
kind of hits on what you hit,
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Pastor, Isaiah 57:19-21 says,
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"'Peace, peace, to
him who is a far off,
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both Jew and gentile
and to Him who is near,'
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says the Lord, 'I
create the fruit of his lips,
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and I will heal him,
00:17:08.62\00:17:10.03
make his lips
blossom anew with speech
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and thankful praise,
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but the wicked are
like the troubled sea,'"
00:17:12.96\00:17:14.90
as you mentioned earlier,
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"for it cannot
rest in its waters
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cast up mire and dirt,
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there is no peace,'
says my God for the wicked."
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Wow! No peace for the wicked.
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That's a good point.
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So the kind of peace
that's talked about here...
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Honey, I think you were
telling me about this at home
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where preachers
today are preaching peace.
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Peace and safety.
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Yeah, they are
preaching peace and safety.
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They're not
preaching about end times,
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about things of the end.
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It's more about, "Oh,
get your portfolio together
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and your
finances and your family,"
00:17:47.53\00:17:50.17
which is good, you
know, those things are good.
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But there's a destruction
coming to this earth,
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where you're not
hearing that anymore,
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you're not hearing about
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"Get ready, Jesus is coming,
get your house in order."
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You know, you're not
hearing that anymore,
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it's what peace and safety.
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And then what's going to come?
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Sudden destruction.
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And the watchman
has to be alert to that,
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he has to see the
sword coming, so as preachers
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and those who are called of God,
00:18:14.62\00:18:15.96
we have to blow the trumpet,
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give the trumpet a certain sound
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because when this supposed
peace catches people off guard,
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then it's going to
be our responsibility,
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and a lot of
preachers don't know that.
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Why it's interesting
because the only way that God
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is truly going to manufacture
true peace in your life
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is once He starts chiseling
away all the impurities
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that you were working through.
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You know, it's like the
pastor was talking before,
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you look at a piece
of wood that it's all,
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you know,
scuffed and everything,
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but then you put it
through the blades...
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A lathe. A lathe.
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A lathe, and then
you start chiseling away.
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And as you chisel away,
then what you end up doing?
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Then you put it
in the sand paper,
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and you just...
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Then you have this
beautiful end product.
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What's happening today,
00:19:03.37\00:19:04.87
individuals that
are being brought
00:19:04.91\00:19:08.21
and said, "Oh,
look at the greatness
00:19:08.24\00:19:10.08
that God can give
you all this peace,"
00:19:10.11\00:19:11.68
but it's all manufactured peace.
00:19:11.71\00:19:13.95
Then nobody is ready
for when the blades come,
00:19:13.98\00:19:17.85
nobody's ready when the
chisel is coming in your life.
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So when it comes, people panic.
00:19:20.72\00:19:22.79
And that's what
happens all the time.
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You go through...
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How many individuals do you hear
00:19:26.36\00:19:28.13
that they go through
00:19:28.16\00:19:29.86
any kind of
strife in their life,
00:19:29.90\00:19:33.40
and then they take their life.
00:19:33.44\00:19:34.77
Why? Because they have no idea.
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And you get
individuals, you know,
00:19:36.94\00:19:38.94
you said you were from New York,
00:19:38.97\00:19:40.44
I'm from Cuba, we're from...
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You know, we know how
we need to handle the life
00:19:42.28\00:19:47.55
and the trials
and the situation.
00:19:47.58\00:19:48.92
So it's not a big deal for us.
00:19:48.95\00:19:52.45
We have all been,
00:19:52.49\00:19:53.96
I'm quite sure
without a penny in our pockets
00:19:53.99\00:19:56.76
and we've had
to make it through.
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But with God's help,
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with the true
peace that only comes
00:20:01.76\00:20:04.17
through what God
has planned for us,
00:20:04.20\00:20:07.40
that's when we are
going to experience
00:20:07.44\00:20:10.74
that love and that
peace and that wonderful joy.
00:20:10.77\00:20:13.01
That's right.
00:20:13.04\00:20:14.38
I want to go to the
first question here actually,
00:20:14.41\00:20:17.28
"How does the Bible
describe the origin of peace?"
00:20:17.31\00:20:20.28
Someone,
anybody read Isaiah 9:6.
00:20:20.32\00:20:22.12
It's on our syllabus here.
00:20:22.15\00:20:23.95
"For unto us a Child is
born, unto us a Son is given,
00:20:23.99\00:20:28.16
and the government
will be upon his shoulder.
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And His name will be
called Wonderful, Counselor,
00:20:30.59\00:20:34.33
Mighty God, Everlasting
Father, and a Prince of Peace."
00:20:34.36\00:20:38.43
And so can you have
peace without Jesus?
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No. No.
00:20:42.47\00:20:44.34
There might the wind
may be calmed briefly,
00:20:44.37\00:20:47.18
but it's really not peace,
00:20:47.21\00:20:48.74
sometimes it's
the eye of the storm,
00:20:48.78\00:20:50.65
you know, the bands left
00:20:50.68\00:20:52.01
and you're in
the eye of the storm
00:20:52.05\00:20:53.38
and you think,
"Oh, it's peaceful now."
00:20:53.42\00:20:55.08
Almost the wind is
coming after again.
00:20:55.12\00:20:57.89
So what we're
saying here is the only way
00:20:57.92\00:20:59.89
that we can have peace is
through the Prince of Peace.
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The world tries
to give you peace
00:21:02.49\00:21:04.23
but it's not the
same as from the Lord.
00:21:04.26\00:21:07.00
You know watch a
movie, and an another movie,
00:21:07.03\00:21:09.20
and take your
mind off your problems,
00:21:09.23\00:21:11.47
go to Las Vegas, the sin city,
00:21:11.50\00:21:14.07
you know, temporary
things, temporary peace,
00:21:14.10\00:21:17.31
it's not eternal peace.
00:21:17.34\00:21:18.67
The peace that we have
is eternal from the Lord.
00:21:18.71\00:21:21.94
And another note,
00:21:21.98\00:21:23.31
have you ever seen the
term rest in peace on a grave?
00:21:23.35\00:21:27.42
Yeah, that's
interesting, isn't it?
00:21:27.45\00:21:29.18
Yes. Oh, I looked that up.
00:21:29.22\00:21:32.82
And about rest in peace
and it's talking about the soul
00:21:32.85\00:21:40.40
should find
peace in the afterlife.
00:21:40.43\00:21:43.40
And a Christian should
never have rest in peace.
00:21:43.43\00:21:47.37
Because where it
came from, you know,
00:21:47.40\00:21:49.77
and it's associated
with the Christian doctrine
00:21:49.80\00:21:52.71
of the
particular judgment that is
00:21:52.74\00:21:55.48
that the soul is parted
from the body upon death
00:21:55.51\00:21:58.88
and that the soul and body
00:21:58.91\00:22:00.62
will be
reunited on Judgment Day.
00:22:00.65\00:22:03.52
That's where that came from.
I looked that up in Wikipedia.
00:22:03.55\00:22:06.42
And so be careful
when you say rest in peace
00:22:06.45\00:22:08.69
because we're resting,
00:22:08.72\00:22:10.06
aren't we when we die, you know.
00:22:10.09\00:22:12.03
But this has a
different meaning.
00:22:12.06\00:22:14.13
Right, rest period.
00:22:14.16\00:22:15.66
But you're not saying
rest in agony, rest in...
00:22:15.70\00:22:20.44
You're dead,
you don't even know.
00:22:20.47\00:22:22.17
So you don't tell a
person rest in peace.
00:22:22.20\00:22:25.67
I'll remember to do that,
00:22:25.71\00:22:27.34
you know, the
dead know not anything.
00:22:27.38\00:22:29.54
Right. Ecclesiastes 9:5 and 6.
00:22:29.58\00:22:31.15
Can I ask the question?
00:22:31.18\00:22:32.51
It's like where do
we know to find peace?
00:22:32.55\00:22:34.82
How do we know
what peace looks like
00:22:34.85\00:22:36.18
if we are talking
about this idea of peace?
00:22:36.22\00:22:37.55
'Cause some people want
to make their own peace,
00:22:37.59\00:22:39.22
but what is
real peace look like.
00:22:39.25\00:22:42.62
You were making a
point a moment ago
00:22:42.66\00:22:43.99
and I want to just amplify that,
00:22:44.03\00:22:45.36
some people say, "Well,
my stocks are doing well,
00:22:45.39\00:22:47.66
the stock market is
up, prices are down,
00:22:47.70\00:22:51.47
gas prices are down, my
kids are being behaved well,
00:22:51.50\00:22:53.94
my dog didn't,
00:22:53.97\00:22:55.30
you know, chew up
the furniture recently."
00:22:55.34\00:22:57.57
We look at all
the things around us
00:22:57.61\00:22:58.94
and we think,
"Oh, don't breathe."
00:22:58.97\00:23:02.94
Then sudden destruction...
00:23:02.98\00:23:07.08
And all of sudden car crashes
through your back window.
00:23:07.12\00:23:09.52
Sudden destruction is coming.
Sudden destruction comes.
00:23:09.55\00:23:12.65
Peace in this
world is all temporary.
00:23:12.69\00:23:14.02
It is.
00:23:14.06\00:23:15.39
I mean how many times
have you heard on the news
00:23:15.42\00:23:17.06
even when people are
celebrating Happy New Year
00:23:17.09\00:23:19.36
and this is not December 31st,
00:23:19.39\00:23:21.16
but when people have
Happy New Year like January 1,
00:23:21.20\00:23:25.13
there's been a great
big explosion, you know,
00:23:25.17\00:23:28.37
17 people were killed on,
00:23:28.40\00:23:30.51
the factory
exploding this morning.
00:23:30.54\00:23:31.97
You know it's like
00:23:32.01\00:23:33.34
and we say the
year just began...
00:23:33.38\00:23:35.24
There was fire... Right.
00:23:35.28\00:23:37.58
I was thinking
when Luis was talking,
00:23:37.61\00:23:40.88
you guys know the
book Steps to Christ.
00:23:40.92\00:23:43.39
For me that has
been a huge blessing.
00:23:43.42\00:23:46.05
I read it every
few months actually,
00:23:46.09\00:23:49.19
but to me there's
principles in there
00:23:49.22\00:23:51.26
that would be relevant for
me at any point in my walk.
00:23:51.29\00:23:55.36
I just wrote down a few
of chapters on repentance,
00:23:55.40\00:23:58.50
confession,
consecration, prayer,
00:23:58.53\00:24:01.60
several different things
that really kind of drives home
00:24:01.64\00:24:04.97
like how we can have peace.
00:24:05.01\00:24:07.14
And you know it's just,
00:24:07.18\00:24:09.44
you know, you're talking about
the peace and safety message
00:24:09.48\00:24:11.71
and that kind of thing
00:24:11.75\00:24:13.08
and it's like this is
where the real peace is,
00:24:13.11\00:24:15.78
you know, when we
don't like to see the mirror,
00:24:15.82\00:24:18.89
but it's there
and God is showing us
00:24:18.92\00:24:20.99
those bad places in our heart.
00:24:21.02\00:24:24.23
And that's what comes through
00:24:24.26\00:24:25.59
these Steps to
Christ in repentance.
00:24:25.63\00:24:28.36
And we know when we allow Him
00:24:28.40\00:24:30.13
to show us our
dark corners and so...
00:24:30.17\00:24:33.00
Amen.
00:24:33.03\00:24:34.37
I like that dark corners
because corners are dark.
00:24:34.40\00:24:37.94
You know, there's
places in your life
00:24:37.97\00:24:39.31
where the light doesn't shine.
00:24:39.34\00:24:40.68
A lot of times
it's in the corners,
00:24:40.71\00:24:42.54
corners are dirty too.
00:24:42.58\00:24:43.95
Yeah, they don't get swept.
00:24:43.98\00:24:45.91
You can't sweep the
corners. You put all your junk.
00:24:45.95\00:24:47.72
Wow, that's a good point.
00:24:47.75\00:24:49.88
I want to take the
cadence to the next level.
00:24:49.92\00:24:52.59
What about John 14:27,
who'd like to read that for us,
00:24:52.62\00:24:55.69
that's in our syllabus.
00:24:55.72\00:24:57.06
How does the
Bible describe peace?
00:24:57.09\00:24:59.03
Let's talk about this. Xenia?
00:24:59.06\00:25:00.73
"Peace I leave with you,
00:25:00.76\00:25:02.30
my peace I give to
you not as the world gives
00:25:02.33\00:25:05.97
do I give to you.
00:25:06.00\00:25:07.34
Let not your heart be troubled,
neither let it be afraid."
00:25:07.37\00:25:11.74
So the world is in
turbulence around us
00:25:11.77\00:25:15.48
and somebody once said,
00:25:15.51\00:25:17.58
and I heard this
on several occasions,
00:25:17.61\00:25:19.55
but somebody once said,
00:25:19.58\00:25:22.28
"How could you be so
calm at a time like this?"
00:25:22.32\00:25:25.22
You've heard that phrase before?
00:25:25.25\00:25:26.86
I mean, I've heard
this in various counties.
00:25:26.89\00:25:28.82
"How could you be so
calm at a time like this?"
00:25:28.86\00:25:31.26
And we said,
"It's going to be okay."
00:25:31.29\00:25:37.40
God's got this.
00:25:37.43\00:25:38.77
And it took a while
to get to that place.
00:25:38.80\00:25:41.57
Oh, yeah.
00:25:41.60\00:25:42.94
You don't just get there
00:25:42.97\00:25:44.31
and what a lot of new
Christians don't realize
00:25:44.34\00:25:46.88
and then what a
lot of Christians
00:25:46.91\00:25:48.24
that are kind of,
kind of been like that,
00:25:48.28\00:25:51.21
they've been
just floating along,
00:25:51.25\00:25:52.58
and all of a sudden
they lost their zeal
00:25:52.61\00:25:54.42
and the Lord says,
"They need a storm."
00:25:54.45\00:25:57.09
And He sends it into
your boat like the disciples.
00:25:57.12\00:26:00.76
Not that I'm not in your boat,
00:26:00.79\00:26:02.16
but you need to
remember I'm in your boat,
00:26:02.19\00:26:03.93
that's why the
storm came to remind them.
00:26:03.96\00:26:06.56
I got this, I'm resting,
00:26:06.59\00:26:08.96
you guys can relax,
it's going to be okay.
00:26:09.00\00:26:11.27
This storm is not going to...
00:26:11.30\00:26:12.70
So He leaves that peace
with us and then He says,
00:26:12.73\00:26:16.40
if you know how
it's going to work out,
00:26:16.44\00:26:18.17
don't let your
heart be troubled.
00:26:18.21\00:26:19.54
Now let me ask the question,
00:26:19.57\00:26:20.91
how many of you
get to that place
00:26:20.94\00:26:22.28
where you don't
get heart trouble?
00:26:22.31\00:26:24.75
I would be, yes. I
would be lying if I didn't.
00:26:24.78\00:26:28.45
But we're smiling right now.
00:26:28.48\00:26:29.82
Or as ladies I don't know
00:26:29.85\00:26:31.19
if you guys get
irritated by this,
00:26:31.22\00:26:32.55
but when my
husband says to calm down,
00:26:32.59\00:26:34.69
you know, like and he actually
does the opposite thing.
00:26:34.72\00:26:37.03
Oh, do I know?
00:26:37.06\00:26:38.79
Relax. Yeah.
00:26:38.83\00:26:40.36
I say count to three.
00:26:40.40\00:26:41.73
They want us to be calm
00:26:41.76\00:26:43.10
and what you know but that just,
00:26:43.13\00:26:44.47
it's like fuel on fire.
00:26:44.50\00:26:45.93
Yes! Like what you said before.
00:26:45.97\00:26:47.77
You don't have that, do you?
00:26:47.80\00:26:49.14
Oh, no. He'll say, "Relax."
00:26:49.17\00:26:51.57
I'm so selective. Okay.
00:26:51.61\00:26:54.61
I kept one, it's like,
of course, you do that.
00:26:54.64\00:26:57.01
It's like a paper bag. Yeah.
00:26:57.05\00:27:00.15
That's our favorite word.
00:27:00.18\00:27:01.88
He'll say to me, "Angie, relax."
00:27:01.92\00:27:04.25
And what do I
say? "I am relaxed."
00:27:04.29\00:27:08.96
Isn't it funny how
relationships work.
00:27:08.99\00:27:11.16
You know, those of
you that are married
00:27:11.19\00:27:12.53
and you're watching the program.
00:27:12.56\00:27:13.90
You know you turned
your husband or your wife,
00:27:13.93\00:27:15.66
and you know, that
we're talking about you
00:27:15.70\00:27:18.90
because the one thing a woman
00:27:18.93\00:27:20.27
doesn't like is her
husband telling her "relax."
00:27:20.30\00:27:22.47
Yes! Yeah.
00:27:22.50\00:27:23.84
Just have more faith. Calm down.
00:27:23.87\00:27:25.91
Did you check my
pulse reading now?
00:27:25.94\00:27:27.28
Yeah, yeah. Calm down.
00:27:27.31\00:27:28.74
I am calm, what
are you talking about.
00:27:28.78\00:27:30.21
I was going to
share Isaiah 26:3,
00:27:30.25\00:27:31.58
it kind of goes along.
00:27:31.61\00:27:32.95
Oh, yes.
00:27:32.98\00:27:34.32
It says, "You will guard
him and keep him in perfect
00:27:34.35\00:27:35.68
and constant peace whose mind
00:27:35.72\00:27:38.12
both its
inclination and his character
00:27:38.15\00:27:40.39
is stayed on You,
00:27:40.42\00:27:41.76
because he
commits himself to You,
00:27:41.79\00:27:43.36
leans on You, and
hopes confidently in You."
00:27:43.39\00:27:46.39
This where I further preface
with Desire of Ages, page 331,
00:27:46.43\00:27:49.86
it says, "Those who
take Christ at His word
00:27:49.90\00:27:52.67
and surrender their
souls to His keeping,
00:27:52.70\00:27:55.57
their lives to His
ordering will find peace
00:27:55.60\00:27:58.71
and quiet to nothing of
the world can make them sad,
00:27:58.74\00:28:01.78
when Jesus makes
them glad by His presence,
00:28:01.81\00:28:04.11
and perfect acquiescence
there is perfect rest.
00:28:04.15\00:28:07.88
Our lives may seem a tangle,
00:28:07.92\00:28:09.52
but as we commit ourselves
to the wise and master worker,
00:28:09.55\00:28:12.92
He will bring out the
pattern of life and character
00:28:12.95\00:28:14.89
that will be to His own glory."
00:28:14.92\00:28:16.32
Amen.
00:28:16.36\00:28:17.69
I like that, was
that the Amplified Bible?
00:28:17.73\00:28:19.36
Yeah, amplifying that.
00:28:19.39\00:28:21.16
Now that will
keep him perfectly,
00:28:21.20\00:28:22.53
leans on Him, Trust
in Him, rely on Him.
00:28:22.56\00:28:24.80
And so it's not
just looking towards Him
00:28:24.83\00:28:26.37
in a moment of trials,
00:28:26.40\00:28:28.70
but if your mind
is stayed on Him.
00:28:28.74\00:28:33.88
I think there's probably more
than one definition of peace
00:28:33.91\00:28:39.31
because the Bible don't
say no as the world gives it.
00:28:39.35\00:28:44.19
So there must be
a different peace
00:28:44.22\00:28:45.92
that people are talking about
00:28:45.95\00:28:47.39
because in this
world not everything
00:28:47.42\00:28:50.29
is going to be
perfect all the time.
00:28:50.33\00:28:53.26
So you have to have
that peace inside of you
00:28:53.29\00:28:57.83
that comes from God in the
middle of all this turmoil,
00:28:57.87\00:29:01.77
and trials, and
tribulations, and everything.
00:29:01.80\00:29:05.31
You know, it's like,
have you seen that picture
00:29:05.34\00:29:08.91
where there is a lighthouse
00:29:08.94\00:29:12.11
and there is this
person standing right there
00:29:12.15\00:29:14.58
is in the middle of the ocean
00:29:14.62\00:29:16.28
and there comes a big
huge wave and engulfs the...
00:29:16.32\00:29:22.06
I always wonder
how they get there.
00:29:22.09\00:29:23.93
And the boats.
00:29:23.96\00:29:26.53
And then get the whole
wave encircles the lighthouse,
00:29:26.56\00:29:31.13
and here's this person
00:29:31.17\00:29:33.03
standing right there is like him
00:29:33.07\00:29:34.90
the other side with his hands
in his pocket like nothing.
00:29:34.94\00:29:39.27
And the waves are just
battering that lighthouse.
00:29:39.31\00:29:41.04
Yes. I've seen that.
00:29:41.08\00:29:42.74
I know he didn't get to
work on that kind of day.
00:29:42.78\00:29:45.75
Because there's no
boat will get you there
00:29:45.78\00:29:47.12
on that kind of day.
00:29:47.15\00:29:48.48
Probably a low
tide, he got there.
00:29:48.52\00:29:49.98
But I mean,
00:29:50.02\00:29:51.35
to be able to develop
the peace to know that,
00:29:51.39\00:29:56.02
"Oh yeah, they're going to
cross there, but here I'm fine.
00:29:56.06\00:29:59.39
They're not going
to touch me here."
00:29:59.43\00:30:00.96
But he is on the
side of the lighthouse
00:30:01.00\00:30:02.56
where the wave doesn't engulf.
00:30:02.60\00:30:04.63
But let's go and throw a wrench
00:30:04.67\00:30:06.03
in the picture
here for a brief moment
00:30:06.07\00:30:07.60
because I want to go
to a couple of scriptures
00:30:07.64\00:30:10.57
that seem to be kind of,
00:30:10.61\00:30:13.14
you're wondering
where did this come from
00:30:13.17\00:30:15.24
if Jesus is the Prince of Peace.
00:30:15.28\00:30:18.31
Luis, read Luke
12:51-53 right here.
00:30:18.35\00:30:22.18
And it really
brings us into a question
00:30:22.22\00:30:24.89
since Jesus is
the Prince of Peace,
00:30:24.92\00:30:26.52
what do you think He
meant by the following verses?
00:30:26.55\00:30:30.13
It says, "Do you suppose that
I come to give peace on earth?
00:30:30.16\00:30:34.10
I tell you, not at
all, but rather division.
00:30:34.13\00:30:38.93
For from now on
five in one house
00:30:38.97\00:30:44.04
will be divided three against
two and two against three.
00:30:44.07\00:30:49.74
Father will be
divided against son,
00:30:49.78\00:30:51.68
and son against father,
00:30:51.71\00:30:53.35
mother against daughter,
and daughter against mother,
00:30:53.38\00:30:56.38
mother-in-law
against her daughter-in-law,
00:30:56.42\00:30:59.82
and daughter-in-law
against her mother-in-law."
00:30:59.85\00:31:02.12
Oh, wow.
00:31:02.16\00:31:03.49
I wouldn't want
to be in that house.
00:31:03.53\00:31:05.29
Divisions. Dysfunctional family.
00:31:05.33\00:31:07.50
Yeah.
00:31:07.53\00:31:08.86
And then he follows
it up in Matthew 10:38,
00:31:08.90\00:31:11.57
but this word, look
at that one right there.
00:31:11.60\00:31:14.04
Here it is right here.
00:31:14.07\00:31:15.40
Verse 3. Right there.
00:31:15.44\00:31:17.77
Thirty eight?
Sorry, 34, my mistake.
00:31:17.81\00:31:19.77
Thirty four. Okay.
00:31:19.81\00:31:21.14
"Do not think that I
came to bring peace on earth.
00:31:21.18\00:31:24.41
I did not come to
bring peace, but a sword."
00:31:24.45\00:31:28.38
So what do you
think Jesus means by that?
00:31:28.42\00:31:31.55
He talked about
division in the family and...
00:31:31.59\00:31:35.19
The bigger the
family... Well, I know that.
00:31:35.22\00:31:38.93
That's right. I'm
from a big family.
00:31:38.96\00:31:42.06
He has to do with
the prince of darkness,
00:31:42.10\00:31:46.43
the prince of this earth.
00:31:46.47\00:31:49.30
So when Christ
comes into your heart,
00:31:49.34\00:31:51.61
there will be
conflict right there.
00:31:51.64\00:31:53.84
Because exactly
that war will be right
00:31:53.88\00:31:57.05
raising against
everything around you and in you
00:31:57.08\00:32:02.02
because you're
not with the prince
00:32:02.05\00:32:04.49
of this earth anymore,
00:32:04.52\00:32:06.59
you're not with the
prince of darkness anymore.
00:32:06.62\00:32:09.02
So this war is going
to be raging around you.
00:32:09.06\00:32:12.79
I mean you.
00:32:12.83\00:32:14.16
Right, He allows these
things to happen in your life
00:32:14.20\00:32:16.63
because a lot of
times chaos is norm for you.
00:32:16.67\00:32:20.74
So now when Christ
comes into your life,
00:32:20.77\00:32:23.24
it's when your
eyes are fully open
00:32:23.27\00:32:25.11
and then you start noticing
like Donald was saying earlier,
00:32:25.14\00:32:29.14
wait a minute, we used to
live in a quiet neighborhood
00:32:29.18\00:32:31.18
until we moved to this one.
00:32:31.21\00:32:32.55
Well, every time that you
are in strife with the enemy,
00:32:32.58\00:32:36.69
do you think you're okay,
00:32:36.72\00:32:38.05
just like we're
talking about our wives,
00:32:38.09\00:32:39.85
we tell them, "Hey, calm down,"
or they tell us whichever.
00:32:39.89\00:32:43.02
And we say we are okay.
00:32:43.06\00:32:44.76
And I'm like, no,
God's looking at you
00:32:44.79\00:32:47.36
and God seeing
that there is not,
00:32:47.40\00:32:49.03
you're not okay.
00:32:49.06\00:32:50.40
So He's willing
to open your eyes.
00:32:50.43\00:32:52.77
It's not that He's
bringing it to you,
00:32:52.80\00:32:54.87
it's not that
He's making you strive
00:32:54.90\00:32:57.44
is because He is
just opening your eyes
00:32:57.47\00:32:59.67
to the strife
that's in your life,
00:32:59.71\00:33:01.71
that way you can notice
the need that you have of Him.
00:33:01.74\00:33:06.01
Anybody else?
00:33:06.05\00:33:07.42
What kind of peace
do you think Jesus,
00:33:07.45\00:33:09.08
what kind of lack of peace
00:33:09.12\00:33:10.45
do you think Jesus
is talking about here.
00:33:10.49\00:33:11.82
He said I didn't, you
thought I came to bring peace
00:33:11.85\00:33:14.36
and at His birth you know
the angel says peace on earth,
00:33:14.39\00:33:19.86
goodwill toward men.
00:33:19.89\00:33:22.50
What do we think that He
means by this division here
00:33:22.53\00:33:24.73
'cause you came
from a large family.
00:33:24.77\00:33:26.43
Well, yeah, large families,
00:33:26.47\00:33:27.84
there's always
going to be division,
00:33:27.87\00:33:29.37
well, not always,
but most large families
00:33:29.40\00:33:32.54
yeah, there's division,
00:33:32.57\00:33:33.91
but somebody has got to be
the peacemaker in the family.
00:33:33.94\00:33:37.18
Somebody has got
to be the peacemaker.
00:33:37.21\00:33:39.68
And to bring about peace
00:33:39.71\00:33:41.15
because if everybody's
arguing with each other what,
00:33:41.18\00:33:44.22
oh, this person says this
and this sister says that.
00:33:44.25\00:33:47.89
No, no, no, no,
you've got to say,
00:33:47.92\00:33:49.92
you know what, we
need to go to Jesus,
00:33:49.96\00:33:51.89
we've got to pray
about this, I've done that.
00:33:51.93\00:33:55.23
And so and, you
know, at funerals
00:33:55.26\00:33:57.53
sometimes that's the
place of lot of division.
00:33:57.57\00:34:00.04
At funerals, I've seen that.
00:34:00.07\00:34:02.64
Many funerals, lot of division.
00:34:02.67\00:34:04.51
But my husband has been a
peacemaker even in my family.
00:34:04.54\00:34:08.64
And I just
praise God for a husband
00:34:08.68\00:34:11.68
that believes in peace.
00:34:11.71\00:34:13.95
I do too, but it's
good to have somebody
00:34:13.98\00:34:18.05
who kind of on the
outside to help with that.
00:34:18.09\00:34:21.42
And so God is
good. Blessed are the...
00:34:21.46\00:34:24.43
Peacemakers. Amen.
00:34:24.46\00:34:26.03
Is it hard to tell relatives,
is it hard to work out peace
00:34:26.06\00:34:29.53
between in families where
they tend to know each other?
00:34:29.56\00:34:32.77
Yes. Yes.
00:34:32.80\00:34:34.14
Very much. Yeah. It is.
00:34:34.17\00:34:35.50
Do you have siblings? Yes.
00:34:35.54\00:34:37.67
One brother and one sister.
00:34:37.71\00:34:39.04
Okay, just like me,
one brother and one sister.
00:34:39.07\00:34:41.48
What about you,
Donald? I got three brothers.
00:34:41.51\00:34:43.88
Three brothers.
No sisters? Nope.
00:34:43.91\00:34:45.71
They're all younger,
my mom tried for a girl.
00:34:45.75\00:34:48.85
Last one she
thought it was, but no.
00:34:48.88\00:34:50.59
Another boy, so that we're done.
00:34:50.62\00:34:53.82
So this division that Jesus
00:34:53.86\00:34:55.62
is talking about
here is a division
00:34:55.66\00:34:57.79
that comes on a number of planes
00:34:57.83\00:34:59.43
and we could just
kind of insert these things
00:34:59.46\00:35:01.06
and the thoughts here.
00:35:01.10\00:35:02.53
When you get to the
point, Paul in Romans 7.
00:35:02.56\00:35:05.17
In Romans 7, Paul talks
about the peace he lost.
00:35:05.20\00:35:08.47
The first thing when
Jesus comes into your life
00:35:08.50\00:35:11.17
and I think you made this point.
00:35:11.21\00:35:12.94
He puts a mirror
right in front of us
00:35:12.97\00:35:14.48
and says, "Now do
you see who you are."
00:35:14.51\00:35:18.21
And Paul said in
Romans 7, "I was doing fine
00:35:18.25\00:35:22.58
until I saw the law,
sin revived, and I died."
00:35:22.62\00:35:27.86
And so what happens
is there are families
00:35:27.89\00:35:29.76
and I know we've
heard the stories,
00:35:29.79\00:35:31.69
maybe some of you could insert
this into the discussion here.
00:35:31.73\00:35:34.93
But there are
families that one member
00:35:34.96\00:35:37.07
decides to accept Christ.
00:35:37.10\00:35:39.00
And I remember very well,
a good acquaintance of ours
00:35:39.03\00:35:43.30
that the Lord allowed
us to meet, Little Richard.
00:35:43.34\00:35:47.08
He was telling his story
00:35:47.11\00:35:48.44
when his sister was
one of the first ones
00:35:48.48\00:35:50.91
to become an
Adventist in our family.
00:35:50.95\00:35:53.68
And she got baptized
without asking her parents.
00:35:53.72\00:35:57.29
And when she came home
00:35:57.32\00:35:58.65
and told them
that she got baptized,
00:35:58.69\00:36:00.89
they said, "How
could you get baptized
00:36:00.92\00:36:03.66
without asking our permission?"
00:36:03.69\00:36:05.49
And he said, she
crawled up and responded,
00:36:05.53\00:36:08.03
"Because it's my relationship
with Jesus, not yours."
00:36:08.06\00:36:12.53
And sometimes you
have to take that stand.
00:36:12.57\00:36:14.80
I mean, it could
be done differently,
00:36:14.84\00:36:16.17
I don't know or maybe I
added some attitude to it.
00:36:16.20\00:36:18.94
But the point of the
matter is, we have to decide.
00:36:18.97\00:36:22.34
When I'm at peace with the Lord
00:36:22.38\00:36:23.78
and you're not at
peace, what happens?
00:36:23.81\00:36:26.58
What is it?
00:36:26.61\00:36:27.95
Mother-in-law,
father against son,
00:36:27.98\00:36:29.85
mother against daughter,
00:36:29.88\00:36:31.22
mother-in-law
against daughter-in-law.
00:36:31.25\00:36:32.85
And that's what happens.
00:36:32.89\00:36:34.22
So this kind of lack of peace
00:36:34.26\00:36:35.59
he's talking about
here is in families
00:36:35.62\00:36:37.53
where one is accepting
Christ and the other one isn't.
00:36:37.56\00:36:40.90
Another question, I want
to throw this out to my wife.
00:36:40.93\00:36:43.47
And I've said
this a number of times,
00:36:43.50\00:36:44.83
because you have cousins,
and nieces, and nephews,
00:36:44.87\00:36:48.80
and there's one
particular nephew you have,
00:36:48.84\00:36:51.97
what I've always
say to you when you say,
00:36:52.01\00:36:53.34
"Why don't you act right?"
00:36:53.38\00:36:54.71
What I always say to you?
00:36:54.74\00:36:56.08
Oh, he can't act right, he says,
00:36:56.11\00:36:58.18
you know, because he's in such,
00:36:58.21\00:37:00.25
he doesn't know the
Lord, how do you expect...
00:37:00.28\00:37:02.78
I said, "John,
when did he act right?
00:37:02.82\00:37:04.52
He knows better. He was raised."
00:37:04.55\00:37:06.39
He said, "What
do you say to me?"
00:37:06.42\00:37:08.42
How could you expect a person
00:37:08.46\00:37:09.79
who doesn't know
Jesus to reflect Jesus?
00:37:09.82\00:37:12.96
How can you expect a bad
tree to bring forth good fruit?
00:37:12.99\00:37:18.33
Do you have any people
that you know like that you say,
00:37:18.37\00:37:20.37
"Why don't you act right?"
00:37:20.40\00:37:21.74
You have had
that situation, Luis?
00:37:21.77\00:37:23.10
Yeah, many times.
00:37:23.14\00:37:24.47
Yeah, myself. Myself some times.
00:37:24.51\00:37:30.41
That's the best way to do it.
00:37:30.45\00:37:32.91
It's me, O Lord,
standing in the need of prayer.
00:37:32.95\00:37:34.62
I had a brother years ago,
00:37:34.65\00:37:36.25
we went on to this
trip to the Grand Canyon
00:37:36.28\00:37:38.92
and I was just
coming to the Lord,
00:37:38.95\00:37:40.29
I was just fresh
and learning the Word,
00:37:40.32\00:37:41.66
and also hungry for the Word.
00:37:41.69\00:37:43.02
And then my brother
was saying something,
00:37:43.06\00:37:44.39
I don't remember what he said,
00:37:44.43\00:37:45.76
but all of a sudden this
scripture came out of my mouth.
00:37:45.79\00:37:47.40
I really don't know why I did.
00:37:47.43\00:37:48.76
But then he just, I
mean, he flipped out on me,
00:37:48.80\00:37:50.73
he just yelled at me and
stuff and was like cursing me.
00:37:50.77\00:37:54.00
So I'm like walking away
00:37:54.04\00:37:55.37
and at this point I was
just new to the Christian walk,
00:37:55.40\00:37:57.84
I start cursing myself, I said,
"This is what faith takes."
00:37:57.87\00:38:00.68
I'm throwing this out the
door 'cause I want my brother,
00:38:00.71\00:38:03.98
you know, I want
to be with my brother.
00:38:04.01\00:38:05.35
And I was actually
ready to throw down my beliefs
00:38:05.38\00:38:07.08
because of that.
00:38:07.12\00:38:08.45
It's difficult when you
make that step towards Christ
00:38:08.48\00:38:10.72
'cause Satan will use
those buttons to push you
00:38:10.75\00:38:13.52
and to find out what little,
00:38:13.56\00:38:14.89
you know, little holes in you
that are ticking take that mile
00:38:14.92\00:38:17.69
when you get an inch.
00:38:17.73\00:38:19.06
So, yeah.
00:38:19.09\00:38:20.43
You made a good point
00:38:20.46\00:38:21.80
because this is
what happens oftentimes
00:38:21.83\00:38:23.16
and I want to address this.
00:38:23.20\00:38:24.53
A lot of times we
see peace going away
00:38:24.57\00:38:27.04
because of our
decision to follow Christ.
00:38:27.07\00:38:29.67
And then we say you know what?
00:38:29.70\00:38:31.04
I need to give
this Jesus thing away
00:38:31.07\00:38:32.41
because I love
my brother too much,
00:38:32.44\00:38:33.78
I love my sister too much,
00:38:33.81\00:38:35.14
or my father too
much, I love my...
00:38:35.18\00:38:36.54
And Lord said, "Wait a minute.
00:38:36.58\00:38:38.11
Wait a minute. Wait a minute."
00:38:38.15\00:38:39.48
And there's the other scripture,
00:38:39.51\00:38:40.85
he who loves father or mother,
00:38:40.88\00:38:42.22
sister or
brother, husband or wife,
00:38:42.25\00:38:43.95
or whatever more than
Me is not worthy of Me.
00:38:43.99\00:38:47.99
So you can't be afraid
of the peace that is leaving
00:38:48.02\00:38:51.59
because you've accepted Christ.
00:38:51.63\00:38:53.09
And too often the nonbeliever...
00:38:53.13\00:38:56.40
I mean the believer
modifies his or her life
00:38:56.43\00:38:59.70
to make the
nonbeliever feel comfortable.
00:38:59.73\00:39:02.60
That's why, yeah, okay.
00:39:02.64\00:39:04.51
You're talking about,
00:39:04.54\00:39:05.87
you know, when you're a
Christian your family's not
00:39:05.91\00:39:07.88
and then also the
variable of the Sabbath,
00:39:07.91\00:39:10.78
you know,
there's things sometimes
00:39:10.81\00:39:12.18
that our family wants to do.
00:39:12.21\00:39:14.48
But, you know, we being
convicted of certain things
00:39:14.52\00:39:17.82
that we would rather
not do on the Sabbath
00:39:17.85\00:39:19.82
and that's
really a delicate thing
00:39:19.85\00:39:22.02
because they
don't really understand.
00:39:22.06\00:39:24.36
But, you know, we
have our convictions
00:39:24.39\00:39:26.29
and we try to, it's just,
00:39:26.33\00:39:27.90
you know, we always
have to pray about it
00:39:27.93\00:39:29.26
when there's
other things going on,
00:39:29.30\00:39:30.83
you know, different
activities, events, and things,
00:39:30.87\00:39:33.23
you know, that we
would rather not participate.
00:39:33.27\00:39:35.30
Where family comes around. Yeah.
00:39:35.34\00:39:37.31
Yeah, and you're talking about
the Sabbath about the food,
00:39:37.34\00:39:40.18
you know,
what's going to happen,
00:39:40.21\00:39:42.18
you know, when you first
give your heart to the Lord
00:39:42.21\00:39:44.95
and you are finding
out that the unclean meats
00:39:44.98\00:39:48.72
and then you get there
00:39:48.75\00:39:50.09
and you're just,
there is the strife,
00:39:50.12\00:39:51.79
immediate strife and he says,
00:39:51.82\00:39:53.42
"Did you know
all that your mother
00:39:53.46\00:39:55.52
went through to
make this food for you.
00:39:55.56\00:39:58.49
Do you know all the
troubles that we went through
00:39:58.53\00:40:01.63
to make this a
special day for you."
00:40:01.66\00:40:04.17
All of those are things
that are bombarded at you.
00:40:04.20\00:40:07.44
You know, you
kind of wondered Lord,
00:40:07.47\00:40:09.97
you know I'm trying
to make a difference,
00:40:10.01\00:40:11.94
I'm trying to have that peace,
00:40:11.97\00:40:14.68
but what do I do in
situations like this.
00:40:14.71\00:40:17.55
And many of us
unfortunately we buckle in.
00:40:17.58\00:40:21.68
And we do and we say,
"Oh well, let's forget it,
00:40:21.72\00:40:24.55
God will, you
know, the Bible does say
00:40:24.59\00:40:27.22
as long as we're
blessed it's going be okay.
00:40:27.26\00:40:29.72
You know, that's the
verse that they're trying.
00:40:29.76\00:40:31.96
Yeah, they try
to use that verse?
00:40:31.99\00:40:33.33
You know, and those
of the things that...
00:40:33.36\00:40:37.23
The only time you're
going to accomplish the peace
00:40:37.27\00:40:40.37
is when you're 100% devoted
and you're 100% sold on God.
00:40:40.40\00:40:44.97
And you know what?
00:40:45.01\00:40:46.74
And it is a peace not
in the absence of the storm
00:40:46.78\00:40:51.18
but in the midst of the storm.
00:40:51.21\00:40:53.68
Peace that passes
all understanding.
00:40:53.72\00:40:55.05
Say it again.
00:40:55.08\00:40:56.42
Peace that passes
all understanding.
00:40:56.45\00:40:58.72
Will guard your heart
00:40:58.75\00:41:00.42
and your mind
through Christ Jesus.
00:41:00.46\00:41:02.52
Thank you for
bringing that one up
00:41:02.56\00:41:03.89
because I didn't
have that on the syllabus
00:41:03.93\00:41:05.26
and it's so
significantly important.
00:41:05.29\00:41:06.90
A peace that
passes all understanding
00:41:06.93\00:41:08.96
where as Sandy Wieman years ago
00:41:09.00\00:41:10.77
when I was with It
Is Written singers.
00:41:10.80\00:41:12.77
She said a
different translation,
00:41:12.80\00:41:15.00
"A piece that does
not need to be explained."
00:41:15.04\00:41:18.44
It happens as you said
and family could be ruthless.
00:41:18.47\00:41:23.48
Am I right? Yes.
00:41:23.51\00:41:24.85
Family could be like,
00:41:24.88\00:41:26.78
so you think you
are better than us now?
00:41:26.82\00:41:30.05
Now that you've got
your Jesus thing going on.
00:41:30.09\00:41:32.59
Hey check this out, my
son is telling me how to live.
00:41:32.62\00:41:35.46
And mothers can turn
the heat on and dads,
00:41:35.49\00:41:38.19
they could say so, I
raise you to respect me,
00:41:38.23\00:41:40.83
now you all of the
sudden become a Christian,
00:41:40.86\00:41:42.20
you don't respect
me, get out of my house.
00:41:42.23\00:41:45.03
Don't bring that Jesus
stuff in here and that happens.
00:41:45.07\00:41:47.74
Yeah, we had that when we
were going through same thing
00:41:47.77\00:41:49.37
going to the Grand Canyon,
00:41:49.40\00:41:50.94
my dad, we went
there and we wanted,
00:41:50.97\00:41:53.94
we said we're going
to fast on the Sabbath,
00:41:53.98\00:41:55.31
we're not going to
eat, just going to fast
00:41:55.34\00:41:56.68
'cause we knew we're
going go to a restaurant,
00:41:56.71\00:41:58.05
we don't want to buy on
the Sabbath and so we'll fast.
00:41:58.08\00:41:59.51
And my dad said,
00:41:59.55\00:42:00.88
"What do you mean
you're not gonna take my money,
00:42:00.92\00:42:02.25
what do you mean
you're not going to take,
00:42:02.28\00:42:03.62
I want to buy this for you,
00:42:03.65\00:42:04.99
what do you mean,
he got very irate.
00:42:05.02\00:42:06.35
I'm like, I don't know how to,
00:42:06.39\00:42:07.72
you know, I'm like
how do I handle this,
00:42:07.76\00:42:09.09
I mean, I just don't want,
00:42:09.12\00:42:10.46
I don't want to
eat, I want to fast.
00:42:10.49\00:42:13.43
It's not the right
time to explain it to him,
00:42:13.46\00:42:15.26
give him the Bible study
in the middle of restaurant.
00:42:15.30\00:42:17.73
Because he's your dad. Yes.
00:42:17.77\00:42:20.34
And he wanted to do
a good thing for us.
00:42:20.37\00:42:22.17
He wanted to buy a meal
00:42:22.20\00:42:23.61
and you know, in his eyes
he was doing a good thing.
00:42:23.64\00:42:27.58
So what happened with that?
00:42:27.61\00:42:29.98
Just kind of laid
low after a while,
00:42:30.01\00:42:32.31
but yeah, first
he was really heated,
00:42:32.35\00:42:34.02
he's really upset you know.
00:42:34.05\00:42:35.65
I want to pay for this for you.
00:42:35.68\00:42:37.12
You're really upsetting me
because it's not validating me
00:42:37.15\00:42:39.85
and my gift to you
so I can't take it.
00:42:39.89\00:42:43.29
Right and you're not
putting him at labor,
00:42:43.32\00:42:46.13
that's the one thing
you have to keep in mind.
00:42:46.16\00:42:47.50
You're not saying him to labor
and to do work and to purchase
00:42:47.53\00:42:51.43
and buy on the Sabbath.
00:42:51.47\00:42:52.80
When it comes to, when
you look at that commandment.
00:42:52.83\00:42:56.84
The stranger that
is within your gates,
00:42:56.87\00:42:59.31
so we have to be
consciously aware
00:42:59.34\00:43:03.61
of showing Christ
to our family members
00:43:03.65\00:43:07.55
without imposing
on them regulations
00:43:07.58\00:43:10.19
that we are convicted
of at that very moment.
00:43:10.22\00:43:13.56
Because, you know, he may say,
00:43:13.59\00:43:15.06
okay, well, that's the kind
of life you want me to live,
00:43:15.09\00:43:18.29
I will have no
part with that. Exactly.
00:43:18.33\00:43:20.00
So you have to be
very mindful of that.
00:43:20.03\00:43:21.76
And I was...
00:43:21.80\00:43:23.50
I think I was 14,
15, or 16 years old
00:43:23.53\00:43:27.44
when I went down
to North Carolina once
00:43:27.47\00:43:30.24
with a family,
00:43:30.27\00:43:31.91
none of them are
Adventist, my sister used to be.
00:43:31.94\00:43:34.68
And on Saturday we're here
in Greenville, South Carolina,
00:43:34.71\00:43:37.75
we all went down together.
00:43:37.78\00:43:39.21
And they announced
early Saturday morning,
00:43:39.25\00:43:41.35
"Hey, we're going to the
lake, we're going boating,
00:43:41.38\00:43:43.15
we're going fishing."
00:43:43.18\00:43:44.52
I'm in their house. The
conviction of the law...
00:43:44.55\00:43:48.86
And you know when I think back,
00:43:48.89\00:43:50.36
there was nobody
there to tell me not to go.
00:43:50.39\00:43:53.60
The lady who
raised me had passed away,
00:43:53.63\00:43:55.96
but the conviction
came on me so strong.
00:43:56.00\00:43:59.43
I said to them, I'm not
going, this is the Sabbath.
00:43:59.47\00:44:03.61
I'll be here when you get back.
00:44:03.64\00:44:05.47
And they left me at their house.
00:44:05.51\00:44:09.34
They left me at their house.
00:44:09.38\00:44:11.75
And I thought, wow,
I think back on that
00:44:11.78\00:44:14.02
and I thought, wow,
00:44:14.05\00:44:16.32
"Lord, You are bringing
these things to my heart
00:44:16.35\00:44:18.89
when I was a
little, I was a young man."
00:44:18.92\00:44:21.29
I think you told me that. Yeah.
00:44:21.32\00:44:23.19
Right there, that's the picture
of my sisters on the motorcycle
00:44:23.22\00:44:26.09
with the guy down
in South Carolina.
00:44:26.13\00:44:27.96
And I thought, amazing,
00:44:28.00\00:44:29.66
God was working on my
heart as even a young man.
00:44:29.70\00:44:33.23
Saying will you be
Daniel in the middle of Babylon?
00:44:33.27\00:44:36.87
Let's go on to the next one
00:44:36.91\00:44:38.24
because we want to find
out Galatians 5:22 and 23.
00:44:38.27\00:44:42.54
Who hasn't read yet?
00:44:42.58\00:44:43.91
Well, we've all read,
00:44:43.95\00:44:45.28
but you gonna
read that one for me?
00:44:45.31\00:44:46.65
Because the question
00:44:46.68\00:44:48.02
is how can we know that
Jesus is in a person's life?
00:44:48.05\00:44:51.35
Galatians 5:22 and 23, Angie.
00:44:51.39\00:44:53.86
"But the fruit of the
Spirit is love, joy, peace,
00:44:53.89\00:44:57.83
longsuffering, kindness,
goodness, faithfulness,
00:44:57.86\00:45:02.60
gentleness, self control
against such there is no law."
00:45:02.63\00:45:09.30
No law. No law.
00:45:09.34\00:45:10.67
So when your dad
is battering you.
00:45:10.71\00:45:13.64
You say, "It's
okay, Dad, not a problem."
00:45:13.68\00:45:17.18
Okay. And he'll say...
00:45:17.21\00:45:20.85
It gets worst. In some cases.
00:45:20.88\00:45:23.85
Yeah, family didn't
because the devil says...
00:45:23.89\00:45:25.75
Stick some
stones. And you know what?
00:45:25.79\00:45:28.96
Can anyone irritate
you more than family?
00:45:28.99\00:45:31.16
No.
00:45:31.19\00:45:34.00
I might be
talking to you tonight,
00:45:34.03\00:45:35.36
you might have just
had an irritating day.
00:45:35.40\00:45:37.33
You may have had an
issue with your kids,
00:45:37.37\00:45:39.50
or with your
spouse, or with your job,
00:45:39.53\00:45:41.87
but the people
that are closest to you
00:45:41.90\00:45:44.51
can sometimes be
that irritating person.
00:45:44.54\00:45:48.21
But when the Spirit of
God comes into your life,
00:45:48.24\00:45:50.15
what should be
the evidence of that?
00:45:50.18\00:45:52.78
One of them is
peace. That's right.
00:45:52.81\00:45:54.25
One of them is
peace. That's right.
00:45:54.28\00:45:55.88
You know this
reminds me of an event
00:45:55.92\00:45:58.49
that happened a couple days ago,
00:45:58.52\00:45:59.89
we had baptism at
Big Muddy at the prison.
00:45:59.92\00:46:03.79
And that was on a Thursday
00:46:03.83\00:46:06.33
and then on Sunday I get to be
00:46:06.36\00:46:09.53
with some of those
guys in the Latino side.
00:46:09.56\00:46:13.03
There was a glow in their face.
00:46:13.07\00:46:15.70
There was just
something totally different.
00:46:15.74\00:46:18.41
Imagine we're in jail
here, we're in a high,
00:46:18.44\00:46:21.94
you know, max
security inmate jail.
00:46:21.98\00:46:25.71
And these
individuals are glowing
00:46:25.75\00:46:27.78
and like they're
walking on clouds,
00:46:27.82\00:46:30.55
you know, that's when you
get to see the Holy Spirit's
00:46:30.59\00:46:33.25
doing the work.
00:46:33.29\00:46:34.62
That's when you truly
understand the power of God.
00:46:34.66\00:46:37.69
And that's when you
truly can taste peace.
00:46:37.73\00:46:41.66
You know, there are some of them
00:46:41.70\00:46:43.03
that are on their
walk of conviction.
00:46:43.06\00:46:45.50
And you can see and
there's they tell me,
00:46:45.53\00:46:47.30
please, continue to pray
because I am being attacked,
00:46:47.34\00:46:50.97
so you can actually
recognize both the attack
00:46:51.01\00:46:54.64
and the peace in your life
00:46:54.68\00:46:56.41
while you're going through
00:46:56.44\00:46:57.78
and you're being
fine tuned to the person
00:46:57.81\00:47:01.18
that God sees you as.
00:47:01.22\00:47:03.79
You see, there is a difference
00:47:03.82\00:47:05.15
and I love when
the pastor says that.
00:47:05.19\00:47:06.52
And he says, "Once
you give your life to God,
00:47:06.55\00:47:09.89
God immediately starts seeing
you who you're going to be."
00:47:09.92\00:47:14.13
The only one that's going to
change is the only difference
00:47:14.16\00:47:16.70
is going to be what that
you have not seen that yet.
00:47:16.73\00:47:19.73
And He has to start slowly
00:47:19.77\00:47:21.74
but surely,
start letting you know,
00:47:21.77\00:47:24.14
and start fine tuning,
and getting to the place
00:47:24.17\00:47:27.68
where He can one day He's going
to introduce us to His Father
00:47:27.71\00:47:31.18
and says, "Here is
He, the one who give,
00:47:31.21\00:47:35.05
you know, who
the one that I died
00:47:35.08\00:47:36.89
that You sent in
the cross for Me to die,
00:47:36.92\00:47:39.02
this is Him."
00:47:39.05\00:47:40.39
You know, and that's
going to be such an amazing,
00:47:40.42\00:47:42.36
and that's the only
way that we can be assured
00:47:42.39\00:47:46.96
that the enemy
could not strife our peace
00:47:47.00\00:47:49.93
because we can remember that day
00:47:49.96\00:47:52.67
when Christ is in
front of the creator of God
00:47:52.70\00:47:55.90
and He's going to
say, "Here is My Son,
00:47:55.94\00:47:58.54
the One that died for,
00:47:58.57\00:48:01.14
and the One that chose me."
00:48:01.18\00:48:03.45
And that's when it's all
going to come to fruition.
00:48:03.48\00:48:06.25
Yeah, there's a
song I really like
00:48:06.28\00:48:07.65
that some, "O,
brother be faithful"
00:48:07.68\00:48:09.28
Ellen White in here says,
00:48:09.32\00:48:10.99
"Well done thou good
and faithful servant,
00:48:11.02\00:48:12.59
your title is clear,
that's just a evil thought."
00:48:12.62\00:48:14.92
I was going to share kind of
what you were mention pastor.
00:48:14.96\00:48:17.16
1 John 4:7-11.
00:48:17.19\00:48:19.56
It says, "Beloved let us
love one another for love is
00:48:19.59\00:48:22.56
or springs from God,
00:48:22.60\00:48:24.47
and He who loves his fellow
man has begotten or born of God,
00:48:24.50\00:48:28.14
and is coming
progressively to know,
00:48:28.17\00:48:29.74
and understand God to perceive,
00:48:29.77\00:48:31.37
and recognize, and get a better,
00:48:31.41\00:48:33.58
and clearer knowledge of Him.
00:48:33.61\00:48:34.94
He who does not love has
not become acquaint with God,
00:48:34.98\00:48:37.45
does not and never did
know Him, for God is love."
00:48:37.48\00:48:40.98
I think that's powerful.
00:48:41.02\00:48:42.35
Yeah, amplified. Yeah.
00:48:42.38\00:48:43.89
The passage that Luis was
referring to is in 1 John 3,
00:48:43.92\00:48:47.92
"Behold, what manner of love,
the Father has bestowed on us,
00:48:47.96\00:48:50.89
that we should be
called children of God."
00:48:50.93\00:48:53.19
And this is the whole thing
about the world and our peace.
00:48:53.23\00:48:55.86
It says, "Therefore,
the world does not know us
00:48:55.90\00:48:57.77
because he did not know Him,
00:48:57.80\00:48:59.13
the world does not
know our kind of peace."
00:48:59.17\00:49:02.20
But it says in verse 2,
00:49:02.24\00:49:03.57
"Beloved, now we
are children of God.
00:49:03.61\00:49:05.77
And it has not
yet been revealed,"
00:49:05.81\00:49:07.34
that's what you're saying.
00:49:07.38\00:49:08.71
The Lord sees us
00:49:08.74\00:49:10.08
as we're going to
be not just as we are.
00:49:10.11\00:49:11.45
It has not yet been revealed
what we shall be, but we know.
00:49:11.48\00:49:14.55
And I love that
confident statement
00:49:14.58\00:49:16.42
that when He is
revealed we shall be like Him,
00:49:16.45\00:49:19.05
for we shall see Him as He is.
00:49:19.09\00:49:20.59
Amen.
00:49:20.62\00:49:21.96
So we're going to
see the Prince of Peace
00:49:21.99\00:49:24.06
and we're going to
be at complete peace
00:49:24.09\00:49:25.79
because we're going
to be just like Him.
00:49:25.83\00:49:27.16
Amen.
00:49:27.20\00:49:28.53
I think this peace comes from
00:49:28.56\00:49:31.33
when you give
your life to Christ.
00:49:31.37\00:49:34.30
The reason we don't have peace
00:49:34.34\00:49:37.21
and it keeps reminding us that
we need to have perfect peace
00:49:37.24\00:49:40.28
with everyone around us is
because of the me, I, myself.
00:49:40.31\00:49:45.51
You know, that's
always out there first,
00:49:45.55\00:49:48.38
you know, it's
like, "What did they say?
00:49:48.42\00:49:50.15
Did that offend me?
00:49:50.19\00:49:52.05
You know, are
they looking at me?"
00:49:52.09\00:49:54.72
Everything is me when we
are able to give that to God,
00:49:54.76\00:49:59.49
and to Jesus is in
control of our lives.
00:49:59.53\00:50:02.53
But that doesn't
bother us any more,
00:50:02.56\00:50:05.13
and we can have peace.
00:50:05.17\00:50:06.84
Matter of fact, I want
to insert this verse here
00:50:06.87\00:50:08.70
because look at the fourth
verse we have Proverbs 16:7,
00:50:08.74\00:50:12.24
anybody get that.
00:50:12.27\00:50:13.61
This is a promise
the Lord has made.
00:50:13.64\00:50:17.38
The fourth verse
here, right here.
00:50:17.41\00:50:19.08
"When a man's
way please the Lord,
00:50:19.11\00:50:22.02
he makes even his
enemies be at peace with him."
00:50:22.05\00:50:25.45
Wow. Amen.
00:50:25.49\00:50:26.82
Have you ever
had that experience?
00:50:26.86\00:50:28.19
Oh, yeah. Yes.
00:50:28.22\00:50:29.56
Beautiful. What do you say?
00:50:29.59\00:50:31.29
Another one that goes along
with that is Psalm 119:165.
00:50:31.33\00:50:35.73
I love that, I've been
memorizing that one lately.
00:50:35.76\00:50:38.43
"Great peace have
they which love thy law,
00:50:38.47\00:50:40.87
and nothing shall offend me."
00:50:40.90\00:50:43.14
And if I could
just really quickly
00:50:43.17\00:50:46.31
kind of goes
along with this too.
00:50:46.34\00:50:48.08
You know, I was thinking
about the Ten Commandments.
00:50:48.11\00:50:52.48
And also in
conjunction with that,
00:50:52.51\00:50:55.42
we work in recovery
ministry, we use the 12 steps.
00:50:55.45\00:50:59.09
And so with the Ten Commandments
00:50:59.12\00:51:01.59
and the 12 steps,
00:51:01.62\00:51:02.96
it's all designed to
bring you closer to God
00:51:02.99\00:51:05.63
and to have peace with
God, peace with others,
00:51:05.66\00:51:08.86
and peace with yourself.
00:51:08.90\00:51:10.43
And the Ten Commandments,
it's beautiful how,
00:51:10.47\00:51:13.94
you know, I've got
all the 12 steps here.
00:51:13.97\00:51:15.80
And I can see some of the Ten
Commandments weaved into this,
00:51:15.84\00:51:19.37
it's not directly
written, but it actually,
00:51:19.41\00:51:21.84
you know, the
principles are there.
00:51:21.88\00:51:23.75
And so that's the
peace, great peace
00:51:23.78\00:51:26.21
have they which love thy law,
00:51:26.25\00:51:28.12
it's like in the
law we have peace
00:51:28.15\00:51:30.09
because it's peace with God,
00:51:30.12\00:51:31.55
peace with others,
peace with ourselves.
00:51:31.59\00:51:33.82
So it's a beautiful thing.
00:51:33.86\00:51:35.19
And it happens and so
this is why the aim...
00:51:35.22\00:51:37.63
I want to try to bring it
down to the hone point here.
00:51:37.66\00:51:41.73
The aim, we've
got to have an aim.
00:51:41.76\00:51:43.83
Christians without
an aim in your life
00:51:43.87\00:51:46.00
because Christians
'cause sometimes be aimless,
00:51:46.03\00:51:48.10
waiting for
peace to come to them.
00:51:48.14\00:51:50.31
But I want to make a point.
00:51:50.34\00:51:51.67
Let's look at some
of these passages here
00:51:51.71\00:51:53.58
before the time
gets away from us.
00:51:53.61\00:51:55.48
One of the ones I
want to have you read,
00:51:55.51\00:51:58.01
Brother Luis, is Hebrews 12:14.
00:51:58.05\00:52:00.48
What should the Christian
aim be as it relates to peace?
00:52:00.52\00:52:04.09
It says, "Pursue peace
with all people, and holiness,
00:52:04.12\00:52:08.62
without which no
one will see the Lord."
00:52:08.66\00:52:12.56
Okay. So what should we do?
00:52:12.59\00:52:14.56
Pursue what? Peace.
00:52:14.60\00:52:16.06
You know what pursue means?
00:52:16.10\00:52:18.13
Go after. Chasing, yeah.
00:52:18.17\00:52:20.40
Make it your focus
because there are some people
00:52:20.44\00:52:22.37
that want to argue,
00:52:22.40\00:52:24.24
I said, "Brother, I
don't want to argue."
00:52:24.27\00:52:27.84
"Brother, I
don't want to argue."
00:52:27.88\00:52:29.61
Be relentless.
00:52:29.64\00:52:31.21
You have to sit... Go after.
00:52:31.25\00:52:32.58
I don't want to
argue. That's right.
00:52:32.61\00:52:34.75
And they're like ready to go.
00:52:34.78\00:52:37.42
I'm not here to
argue with it. I apologize.
00:52:37.45\00:52:43.02
If not, if I
apologized for my part.
00:52:43.06\00:52:46.70
Let's put this at
rest, pursue peace.
00:52:46.73\00:52:49.13
Here's the next
one, honey. Romans 14:19.
00:52:49.16\00:52:53.80
"Therefore let us pursue
the things which make for peace
00:52:53.84\00:52:57.77
and the things by
which one may edify another."
00:52:57.81\00:53:02.11
So the things
that make for peace.
00:53:02.14\00:53:03.51
What are those things?
00:53:03.55\00:53:05.61
What are some of the things
00:53:05.65\00:53:06.98
that make for
peace you think of?
00:53:07.02\00:53:09.22
Kindness.
00:53:09.25\00:53:10.59
Okay, being kind to
people. Turn to where we're at.
00:53:10.62\00:53:12.75
Yeah, you have a
kind, soft answer turn away.
00:53:12.79\00:53:15.09
Okay.
00:53:15.12\00:53:16.46
What else can make peace? Smile.
00:53:16.49\00:53:20.80
That's amazing. Be cheerful.
00:53:20.83\00:53:22.60
Putting others before ourselves.
00:53:22.63\00:53:25.03
Having a listening ear.
00:53:25.07\00:53:27.50
It's huge
listening, communication,
00:53:27.54\00:53:29.30
you know, being talk
to and being approached
00:53:29.34\00:53:31.47
and feeling accepted and loved.
00:53:31.51\00:53:33.17
Okay.
00:53:33.21\00:53:34.54
What's another one? Anymore?
00:53:34.58\00:53:36.44
Any other things that...
00:53:36.48\00:53:37.81
Doing father's put self
aside as we all mentioned.
00:53:37.85\00:53:40.65
Doing father's
putting self aside.
00:53:40.68\00:53:42.45
Sometimes people that
are naturally combative,
00:53:42.48\00:53:46.29
they expect you to
keep that combat going.
00:53:46.32\00:53:49.82
You don't say
anything about they said.
00:53:49.86\00:53:51.99
They wonder, they said,
they might say as a friend,
00:53:52.03\00:53:54.66
you watch, here he comes,
00:53:54.70\00:53:56.03
I bet he's going to
say anything about it.
00:53:56.06\00:53:57.40
And he doesn't
say anything about it,
00:53:57.43\00:53:58.77
they say, well,
that was different.
00:53:58.80\00:54:00.74
He probably forgot.
00:54:00.77\00:54:02.10
But I bet you remember
00:54:02.14\00:54:03.47
before the day is
over they see Luis again,
00:54:03.51\00:54:05.51
he didn't say anything again.
00:54:05.54\00:54:07.08
And Luis is saying, I know
they're expecting me to argue
00:54:07.11\00:54:09.81
but I am not
going to do it, Lord.
00:54:09.84\00:54:11.95
And you know what?
00:54:11.98\00:54:13.31
We have to ask for the Lord,
00:54:13.35\00:54:14.68
for the peace
of God reign in us.
00:54:14.72\00:54:16.79
When God reigns His peace in us.
00:54:16.82\00:54:18.55
Let's get to another
one. Janelle, Psalms 34:14.
00:54:18.59\00:54:24.23
It says, "Depart
from evil and do good,
00:54:24.26\00:54:26.80
seek peace and pursue it."
00:54:26.83\00:54:29.26
Seek, pursue,
what does that mean?
00:54:29.30\00:54:31.67
Where is it? Yeah.
00:54:31.70\00:54:33.03
That's right. Why
can't I find this peace?
00:54:33.07\00:54:34.50
Where is it, Lord? I
need to pray more for peace.
00:54:34.54\00:54:37.14
I need to trust
God more for peace.
00:54:37.17\00:54:39.31
What else...
00:54:39.34\00:54:40.68
What is another word for pursue?
00:54:40.71\00:54:42.34
Well, I mean, but let's
take a look at that verse,
00:54:42.38\00:54:44.71
it says, "Depart."
00:54:44.75\00:54:46.35
You know, those are the
things that individuals,
00:54:46.38\00:54:48.75
they want the peace
00:54:48.78\00:54:50.12
but they want to
still mingle around
00:54:50.15\00:54:51.85
with all the
trials and all the...
00:54:51.89\00:54:54.16
They want to
mingle with the people
00:54:54.19\00:54:56.42
that are causing the chaos.
00:54:56.46\00:54:58.73
And then they want
to be in peace with God.
00:54:58.76\00:55:01.86
That's first thing,
you're not only pursuing it,
00:55:01.90\00:55:04.47
first of all turn around,
00:55:04.50\00:55:06.80
then go and look for it
because it's not that way.
00:55:06.84\00:55:09.64
Go and look for the other
way, that's what struck...
00:55:09.67\00:55:11.17
Depart from evil. That's right.
00:55:11.21\00:55:12.54
Depart from the evil.
Let's get in all the gossip.
00:55:12.57\00:55:14.84
Then, you know, they get,
00:55:14.88\00:55:16.51
they want to get
involved in gossip.
00:55:16.54\00:55:17.95
"What did they say?" "Oh, yeah."
00:55:17.98\00:55:21.25
The Lord doesn't want you
to get involved in gossip.
00:55:21.28\00:55:23.82
We know some, we met some
people that say and it's a...
00:55:23.85\00:55:28.22
It's sometimes in
the midst of something
00:55:28.26\00:55:29.59
that everybody knows about
00:55:29.62\00:55:31.13
and they say, "I
don't want to hear it.
00:55:31.16\00:55:32.56
I don't want to know about
it. I don't want to be biased.
00:55:32.59\00:55:35.93
I'll just pray about it."
00:55:35.96\00:55:37.60
They seek those things
00:55:37.63\00:55:39.37
that are peaceful
and they pursue it.
00:55:39.40\00:55:40.94
But there's
another one I want to get.
00:55:40.97\00:55:42.30
And you reminded me of this
one, hon, so I may have you...
00:55:42.34\00:55:44.87
Well, actually Donald,
00:55:44.91\00:55:46.24
I didn't get to you
yet but Romans 12:18.
00:55:46.27\00:55:49.84
Sure.
00:55:49.88\00:55:51.21
"If it is
possible," that's the word,
00:55:51.25\00:55:53.28
"as much as depends on you,
live peaceably with all men."
00:55:53.31\00:55:57.52
What's happening to you?
What's the responsibility?
00:55:57.55\00:56:00.76
Depends on me. It's up to me.
00:56:00.79\00:56:03.06
I got to be the one
to take responsibility
00:56:03.09\00:56:05.93
to make sure I
present that peace.
00:56:05.96\00:56:07.76
I guess it was Matthew 5:9 says,
00:56:07.80\00:56:10.87
"Blessed are those,
yeah, the peacemakers,
00:56:10.90\00:56:13.64
so they will be
called the Sons of God."
00:56:13.67\00:56:15.50
So what this means is
you've got to do your part.
00:56:15.54\00:56:20.68
Some people want peace,
00:56:20.71\00:56:22.04
but they don't
want to do their part,
00:56:22.08\00:56:23.41
as far as that is
possible with you.
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There we go. And
that's the important part.
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We remember that you are
going to go through issues
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so it does say clearly,
if it's possible that means
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that 90% of the time
there is a possibility of peace,
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but there is that 10%
of time that there isn't.
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And you have to know
that you going through it,
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you'll have the peace.
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But you'll have to go
through the issues of life
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and then God would
give you the blessing,
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and the peace, and it would be
a visible to those around you.
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Philippians 4:8, it
just came in my mind.
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Philippians 4:8, you
focus on those things
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we'd be thankful for which are
holy, honest, pure, and good.
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And like if you see
somebody who is your enemy,
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if you thank them, you're going
to heap coals on their heads.
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If you say something
you're so thankful for them
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that's going to
totally just turn them around.
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Wow, we got 20
something seconds here.
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You did that one to
one of our churches.
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Oh, man.
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I was so peaceful to this person
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and they're
wondering, "is he okay,"
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and it ended up
resulting in a lasting peace.
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We have to accept
that. We have to accept that.
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Friends, our
time is running away,
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but when you accept the
peacemaker who is Christ,
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your home, your
heart, your family,
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you will experience peace.
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God bless you.
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And thank you on
behalf of all of us.
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Until we see you again.
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