I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello, happy Sabbath
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and welcome to
3ABN's Family Worship.
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I am so excited,
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my name is Chris Shelton
and I am here with my husband,
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Pastor Kenny Shelton,
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and we have
wonderful 3ABN family here
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around our table to
worship with you tonight.
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Pastor, who would you
like to introduce first?
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You want to introduce
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those nice looking
gentleman to your right?
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Yeah.
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I think I'll
start right down the end
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because it's like bookends,
holding us together here.
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That's right, yes.
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Are we the
bookends? The bookends.
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Bookend, well,
you know, Brother JD,
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he really needs no introduction
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and he talks
probably more than any of us
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because he's in pastoral,
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so when you call in many
times you may get Brother JD.
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In fact both of
you on the bookends,
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you may get either
one of you that's awesome,
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but we'll start with Brother JD,
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you've been here at least what,
a couple months or so or three?
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Couple of months I think,
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couple of
months plus 13 times 12
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for you mathematic geniuses,
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it's a long time but then
again it's just like a start.
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Yes. Amen.
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I like that.
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We were talking about
living 100 years old while ago,
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so at this time I'm
still a baby in the Lord.
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I appreciate that high five,
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anytime he gets
discouraged about age
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or, you know, da-da-da, I say,
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"Hey, you're not a 100
yet. You're not a 100 yet."
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We'll think about it
when we are a 100 here.
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Nine hundred and
sixty nine I think...
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Very good, very good.
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I guess what we'll do is,
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we're gonna skip
him for a minute.
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We're gonna jump over here
because over here to my left
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the other bookend
in pastoral is Don.
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Brother Don,
you're not a 100 yet.
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I'm marching that way.
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You're marching that way.
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In the Lord's army, right?
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That's right. That's right.
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Yeah, to be a bookend,
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thank you for
that, I really don't...
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I just thank
you, appreciate that.
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Yeah, but the Lord is
good, He's got you in pastoral,
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and you get to talk and
pray with so many people,
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you and your wife
both do things on the side.
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I know she's in graphic
design here but, Janelle,
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I know you work with him
going to different churches.
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You both have sang in our church
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which is beautiful and...
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I did a prison
ministry last night,
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which was man, shh.
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You talked about...
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It's amazing, you get to go
in prison to see these guys,
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it's incredible.
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Yeah, these guys are hungry
and thirsting to know Jesus.
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They want to know
they're son of God.
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Amen. That's good.
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I love that, I love that.
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Now back over to my right,
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I'm saving you for the last
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because I'm gonna
kind of combine you and ET
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'cause we have
Sister ET on the piano today
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and you guys are in
the music department,
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so tell us about that?
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I know you are loving,
and we love having you here.
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Absolutely, so
I'm still relatively
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the new guy even though
that's kind of fading away.
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I've been here
about six months now.
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My name is Ryan Day.
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I work here with
the music department
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here in the sound center
at 3ABN, and I currently,
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I'm helping to assist Tim
Parton in getting prepared
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to launch our new
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Praise Him music
network in January, which is...
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It's going to be really exciting
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and, of course,
Miss ET across the way,
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she is also,
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she's kind of a
sound center manager
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and she does a
lot of the editing,
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and she's just a vital
important part of our team,
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and it's a blessing to know her.
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It's good to work
with her from day to day.
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Absolutely, absolutely.
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I might say,
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she's only being quite
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because she's had
a wonderful morning.
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She told me, if
she talks she might cry
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'cause you and the Lord
have really been working
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on something today, so
we love having ET around.
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Love having music,
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music is such a
part of ministry.
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Absolutely.
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My mother always said
that music can touch a heart
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when nothing else can.
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And today you have
brought some music.
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A lot of times we kind of
skip over it when we don't have
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you professional people with us,
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but today we
brought a beautiful song,
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'Tis So Sweet.
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It's our theme.
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'Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus.
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That's right.
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All right.
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Sing along with us.
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'Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus
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Just to take Him at His Word
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Just to rest upon His promise
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Just to know,
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"Thus saith the Lord!"
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Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him!
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How I've proved
Him o'er and o'er
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Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus!
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Oh, for grace to trust Him more!
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Oh, how sweet to trust in Jesus
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Just to trust
His cleansing blood
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Just in simple
faith to plunge me
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'Neath the
healing, cleansing flood!
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Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him!
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How I've proved
Him o'er and o'er
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Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus!
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Oh, for grace to trust Him more!
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Yes, 'tis sweet
to trust in Jesus
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Just from sin and self to cease
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Just from Jesus simply taking
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Life and rest, and joy and peace
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Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him!
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How I've proved
Him o'er and o'er
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Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus!
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Oh, for grace to trust Him more!
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Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him!
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How I've proved
Him o'er and o'er
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Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus!
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Oh, for grace
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To trust Him more!
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Amen.
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Beautiful song. Wow, wow.
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Yes, it's good.
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I think we can break this down
and make this our study guide.
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There you go. Amen.
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Amen. It's so beautiful.
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Today we are going to
talk about "When heaven calls,
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don't hesitate."
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And this is part three
because the Holy Spirit
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I believe has been
kind of stretching it out.
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By the grace of God,
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it's been such a
moving study, I love it.
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And you guys have been
here for all three parts.
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We have.
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This is JD's second part
and Brother Ryan's first part,
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and I believe he's already come,
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he's already said,
this is a good study,
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and he's gonna share
what the Holy Spirit's
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given him on this study.
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Just a quick synopsis
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of what we studied in
parts one and part two.
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We looked at what it meant
to deny Christ in our character
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and our daily lives,
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and how important it
is really not to deny Him.
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That's right.
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We also gave examples
of what it meant to trifle
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with the light
and the privileges
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that God has
given us over the years,
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and what it means to trifle,
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and how actually how dangerous
it is to trifle with God.
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Let's see, we also looked at...
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Oh, my, a lot of times
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when we choose to
not accept the truths,
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we are left in
darkness and we really found out
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that is because of
how kind Christ really is
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because He's gonna
give us what we ask for.
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Amen. Yes.
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And then finally,
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we talked about
whose choice it is that
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whether or not we
are lost or saved.
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You know, is it our
choice or is it really God?
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You know, some people
have different opinions
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on that, and we found
out that it is our choice.
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God is seeking to
save whomever He will,
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He is calling day by day.
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Amen.
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Pastor Kenny Shelton,
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would you please open
our study with prayer?
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Absolutely, let's pray.
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You pray at home
with us too please.
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Our kind loving heavenly Father,
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what a privilege it
is that we've come before
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Thee on this Sabbath day,
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beginning hours
we give You praise,
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and give You
honor, and give You glory.
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You're the King of the universe.
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We come to Thee,
we bare no gifts,
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we just come
baring our soul to Thee.
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Lord, we need Your Holy Spirit.
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We realize that
without you we can do nothing,
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there's nothing good within us,
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but today we
just invite Thy Spirit
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in a very special way.
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Just enlighten
these beautiful truths
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that we will be going over.
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Lord, also I pray for those
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who are studying
with us right now,
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those at home,
those who are viewing,
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or listening, or watching.
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Lord, I know they
need a special touch today.
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We need one every
moment of every day,
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so we pray Your Holy
Spirit will now take possession
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of each and every one of us.
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May we sit at Your
feet, may we hear Your voice,
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may You be lifted up
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and would draw all men unto You.
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We here at this
table not be seen,
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but we pray that You
will be seen and heard
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and the Spirit will work
and decisions will be made
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that we need not hesitate
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because heaven is
calling and time is running out.
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Amen.
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Thank you for this opportunity.
Thank you for Your promise.
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I know You're going to be
with us, in Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen.
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When heaven
calls, don't hesitate.
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And we're gonna start
by looking at some words
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that Christ
spoke to disciple John.
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John 17:18 and 19, it says,
"As you sent me into the world,
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I also have sent
them into the world.
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And for their
sakes I sanctify Myself,
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that they also may be sanctified
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by the truth."
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Those are such important words
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because it makes
a real difference.
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You know, Christ also says,
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"My people perish
for lack of knowledge."
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You know, truth is so vital,
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especially in the time
in which we're living in,
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so when heaven
calls us to the truth,
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we need not hesitate,
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we need to study to show
ourselves approved unto God.
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I'm gonna read
on and this is taken
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from the book, to be like Jesus,
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it's a Spirit of Prophecy book.
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Some of these words
were written a few years ago
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before even some of the
science that we have now,
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I hope we get to it a little bit
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later in this program,
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but they're so
applicable for us today.
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In The Parable
of the Lost Sheep,
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Christ teaches that salvation
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does not come
through our seeking,
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and I found this
so interesting, guys,
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through our seeking after God
'cause we're always thinking,
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we need to seek
after Him but listen,
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but through God
seeking after us.
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Isn't that
encouraging? That's right.
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Brother Ryan, he's looking down
and He's not waiting on you.
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Absolutely. He is seeking you.
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He sought us. Amen.
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That is so, so important...
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I love that.
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If you remember
nothing, you have to remember,
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Christ is seeking you.
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Amen.
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"There is none
that understandeth,
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there is none that
seeketh after God,"
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this is Romans 3:11 and 12.
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They are all gone out
of the way, and verse 10,
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they didn't put that in this
little synopsis but it says,
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"There is none
righteous, no, not one."
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That's right, yes.
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Interesting, we do not repent
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and this is
another powerful statement.
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Oh, yes, yeah.
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It helps us to get our
thought processes correct
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in the right order.
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Yes.
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We do not repent in
order that God may love us,
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that's a powerful statement,
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but He reveals to us His love
in order that we may repent.
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Now that sets up our question,
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our first question
for this program is,
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most of us realize
that in order to be saved,
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we must confess our sins,
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repent of our sins
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and thus turn
away from our sins.
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So how is it that God's love
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brings all of this
about in our lives.
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And now the floor is
open, Ryan is already...
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Oh, Don, I can see it.
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It's interesting because
I just got the opportunity
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to share a story
with these young children
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the truths told here.
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And it was a
story about two men,
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they were in Scotland
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and of all the things
this beautiful green lush land,
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and they're going along
and hear this really eerie
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sound coming from
somewhere, so they're searching,
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they're looking
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and they find this
big crack in the ground,
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and in this crack in the ground,
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there's something in there
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and as the guy is
pulling apart the grass,
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he looks and
there's a lamb inside,
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and he reaches down gently
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and pulled this little
lamb out of the ground.
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It's like what Jesus did for us.
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He came to this
world to pull us out.
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That's right.
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Out of the
darkness, out of our pain,
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all of our hurts, our addiction,
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whatever, He's
come to pull us out.
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2 Corinthians 5:21 says,
"He was made to be sin for us."
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And you know sin,
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that we might be the
righteous of God in Him.
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That's right. Absolutely.
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There's so many
applications we can go with that
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'cause we have all
fallen in so many cracks.
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And again that's
God seeking to save us.
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That's right. Yeah.
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Otherwise we couldn't pull
ourselves out, it's impossible.
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Absolutely, that
was a beautiful point
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and at any point of time
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you guys can
interrupt me to shut me up,
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but I can say so much
on this particular point.
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I love this
question because to me
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it's one of the
most important questions.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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And the way I kind
of see this question
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is I reworded my
mind and I ask myself,
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how can we live a life of sin
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with the
knowledge of God's love,
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and I wrote a
little phrase down here.
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I heard a
minister say it one time,
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"Sin is the result
of a misunderstanding
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or misrepresentation of
God's love and character."
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Wow.
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In our lives when we sin,
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when we are
living a life of sin,
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that is simply result
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of the
misunderstanding of God's love.
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That is powerful.
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That is the response we
get from not understanding
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God's loving
character for who He really is
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'cause if we truly
can just get a glimpse
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of God's love for who He is,
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then it would be
almost impossible,
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you know, as long
as there is an enemy,
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it's always possible,
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but it would be
almost impossible
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for us to sin
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because with the love of
God manifest in our life,
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I guess, the truth we put it up,
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it would be impossible.
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You know, I think
of the scripture found
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in 1 John 4:8
which says "God is love."
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Amen.
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Not that God is loving,
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you know, 'cause
we can be loving,
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we can have expressions
of love, feelings of love,
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but the Bible
doesn't describe God as that,
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not as merely
just a loving being,
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but the Bible
says that God is love
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and what does that mean?
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What does that
mean that God is love?
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And asking this question,
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how is it that God's
love brings all of this about.
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In 2 Thessalonians 2:7,
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it talks about the
mystery of iniquity.
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Just bring that really
quickly, just really quick,
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I'm gonna read that.
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It's an interesting verse,
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speaking actually of the work
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of the
antichrist in the last days.
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The 2 Thessalonians 2,
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and it simply references
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the mystery of
iniquity Chapter 2
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and specifically verse...
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Which one did I say?
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Okay, verse 7 here,
and it says here, it says,
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"For the mystery
of lawlessness..."
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This is New King James
Version but, of course,
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the King James
Version would say,
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"The mystery of
iniquity or again, of course,
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lawlessness is already at work,
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only he who now
restrains will do
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so until he is
taken out of the way."
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So this is
talking about the work
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of antichrist in the last days,
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but it refers to him,
or them, or the group,
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or just the reality as
the mystery of iniquity
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and that's always interesting,
the mystery of iniquity.
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To me when I think of that,
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I think of sin being a
mystery 'cause sin is a mystery.
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When you can fully contemplate
or understand God's love
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which sometime we
feel like we can't.
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Sin is a mystery.
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It's a mystery to
me. Why is it a mystery?
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Because once you
understand who God is
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and what He's done for
you, how can anyone sin?
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It's a mystery.
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It is a mystery,
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but it also brings
about the thought to me
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because we are so questioning.
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You know, we have a lot of walls
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that have been built up.
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There's been a lot of
confusion in religious matters
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and even in
interpreting the Bible.
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And I think once we
understand more of His love
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that also breaks that wall down.
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And we can trust Him
because there's many times,
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you know, the Bible says
that's a two-edged sword,
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it's gonna cut,
it's gonna separate,
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it's gonna divide.
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And we have to trust God
to allow Him to divide us
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from the things
that we once love.
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It's a healing.
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It's a dividing to heal,
but not dividing to destroy.
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It's a good thing.
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At the same time you said
how could we, we couldn't,
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but we have to remember a
third of the angels at one time.
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You know, now I think that even
brings it even more to light,
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when you think about
the rebellion of Lucifer
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and the angels in heaven,
they have never known sin.
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They have never even
been in contact with it,
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they didn't know what it was.
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So that even more shows like
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how could Lucifer
had come to the point
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to make the choice to
reject the love of God
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when he had never
known sin prior to that.
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The mystery of iniquity,
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it's a mystery
'cause sin is a mystery.
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I have a verse to
share that goes along
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with the
question that how is that,
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that God's love
brings all of this about.
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I like what it
says in Romans 2:4,
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and to me this just
answers the question perfectly.
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It says "Or despisest
thou the riches of his goodness
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and forbearance
and longsuffering,
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not knowing that
the goodness of God
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leadeth thee to repentance."
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And it also reminds me
of the chapter in Steps
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to Christ on repentance.
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And when I first read
that, it really just...
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God opened my eyes to
what repentance really is,
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and how it's not anything
that we have inside of us,
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it's the goodness of
God that leases there
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and, you know, that
totally reposition things
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in my mind and
like my approach to God
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and, you know,
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I don't have to
have any goodness
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in me to approach Him,
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I don't have to get it
together to have repentance.
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I need Him to work
in me to re-repair.
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You know, I
think that, you know,
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sometimes we get
backwards in our minds thinking,
00:20:01.23\00:20:03.47
I have to have it
together before I approach God,
00:20:03.50\00:20:06.37
you know, and so for
me that gives me hope
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that He's gonna lead me there
and He has led me there so...
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Amen.
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And that's something
that's important for people
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that who listen to it,
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because they get
caught up on that.
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True.
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You know, they think that
they have to do something.
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I know that I had my priorities
backward for a long time.
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It says in James
4:8, "Draw close to me,
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and then I will
draw close to you."
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And I had it kind of backward,
you know, it's kind of like,
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"Lord, You prove yourself to me,
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You bring the smorgasbord to me,
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and then I will partake
and then I'll jump on board."
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I mean, that's
stinking thinking.
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And I mean, I
was honest about it.
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Yeah.
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And you would so, I mean,
you can take a naive person,
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a vulnerable person that doesn't
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because they're
not really seekers
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that can be
misled really inside.
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Well, you know, there...
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In Luke, was it
Luke 19:10, he said,
00:21:04.89\00:21:06.36
simply he came to seek
and save that which was lost.
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And just simply adding
just a couple of points,
00:21:10.27\00:21:13.54
what we're reading, each
one was bringing in here.
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It was in the what?
00:21:16.27\00:21:17.61
1 John 4, you
were talking about,
00:21:17.64\00:21:18.97
starting with verse 10.
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Verse 10, it says,
"We're here in his love,
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not that we love
God, but that He what?
00:21:25.61\00:21:28.52
First loved us.
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He loved us and sent His
Son to be the propitiation
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for our sins."
00:21:32.69\00:21:34.02
Verse 13, "Hereby know
we that we dwell in him,
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and he in us
00:21:38.19\00:21:39.53
because he hath
given us of his spirit."
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Verse 16,
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"And we have known
and believed the love
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that God hath to us.
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God is love, he that dwelleth
in love dwelleth in God,
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and God in him."
00:21:52.11\00:21:53.44
Verse 19,
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this is what we've been
all saying, "We love Him,
00:21:54.84\00:21:57.41
because He
simply first loved us."
00:21:57.45\00:22:00.72
You know, it's like that sheep
00:22:00.75\00:22:02.28
that you were
talking about that fell in.
00:22:02.32\00:22:03.95
What happens when the
sheep, you talk about the sheep.
00:22:03.99\00:22:08.12
Jesus goes in, He
talks about the sheep,
00:22:08.16\00:22:10.09
you know, the 90 and the 9.
00:22:10.13\00:22:11.93
You know as pastors and
working in what we work in here,
00:22:11.96\00:22:15.66
it's easy to
stay with the 90 and 9
00:22:15.70\00:22:17.67
when things are going good.
00:22:17.70\00:22:19.23
But the one that falls
by the wayside is the one
00:22:19.27\00:22:23.94
that's the most helpless.
00:22:23.97\00:22:25.91
It's the one that
needs special attention.
00:22:25.94\00:22:29.28
It's the one that needs help.
00:22:29.31\00:22:31.88
It's the one that,
00:22:31.91\00:22:33.42
when you go out
as pastor might do
00:22:33.45\00:22:36.05
and visit or pray for whatever,
00:22:36.08\00:22:38.99
and then that person
begins as it were to come back.
00:22:39.02\00:22:41.46
The spirit's
already working on them
00:22:41.49\00:22:43.09
to bring them
back into the fold.
00:22:43.12\00:22:44.69
But you don't bring
them back in by saying,
00:22:44.73\00:22:47.20
and people have done this,
00:22:47.23\00:22:48.56
shame on all of us
00:22:48.60\00:22:49.93
that may be have done
this one time or the other.
00:22:49.96\00:22:51.30
We spank that individual.
00:22:51.33\00:22:53.84
We give them a good spanking
00:22:53.87\00:22:55.20
because they maybe
fell by the wayside.
00:22:55.24\00:22:57.67
Right.
00:22:57.71\00:22:59.04
You see, they don't need
a spanking at that point,
00:22:59.07\00:23:00.78
they don't need to say,
00:23:00.81\00:23:02.14
"Well, this wouldn't
happen if you didn't."
00:23:02.18\00:23:03.51
That's right.
They don't need that.
00:23:03.55\00:23:04.88
Yeah, I was gonna say that.
00:23:04.91\00:23:06.25
They need a special
touch, they need a special word,
00:23:06.28\00:23:07.92
don't they in due season?
00:23:07.95\00:23:09.72
And they also,
they don't need to be...
00:23:09.75\00:23:13.15
You take a rope
and put it around them
00:23:13.19\00:23:15.76
and lead them back in the fold.
00:23:15.79\00:23:17.99
They are so damaged and so hurt
that the good shepherd would do
00:23:18.03\00:23:23.16
this as he sees that
poor wounded sheep there.
00:23:23.20\00:23:26.40
He sees him right
there. Pick them up.
00:23:26.43\00:23:28.24
Yeah, he doesn't take a whip
00:23:28.27\00:23:29.84
and gave him a
good sound whipping,
00:23:29.87\00:23:31.37
but he picks them
up, and does what?
00:23:31.41\00:23:33.61
He puts...
00:23:33.64\00:23:34.98
carries and he puts
him on his shoulder,
00:23:35.01\00:23:36.78
and he carries him back in.
00:23:36.81\00:23:38.21
Now that shows
just real, real love
00:23:38.25\00:23:42.05
and it just simply boils down
what everybody's been saying,
00:23:42.08\00:23:44.55
because He first loved us.
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We can't even repent, right?
00:23:47.69\00:23:49.22
I had a gentleman the
other night in prison.
00:23:49.26\00:23:52.63
He came to us,
00:23:52.66\00:23:54.00
he confessed
what he went through
00:23:54.03\00:23:55.36
and he was pretty shaken.
00:23:55.40\00:23:56.73
He knew the Holy Spirit
was prompting him and saying,
00:23:56.77\00:23:58.10
"Don't do this, don't do this."
00:23:58.13\00:23:59.60
And he went and did anyways,
he got himself in trouble,
00:23:59.63\00:24:02.34
but we didn't,
we didn't scold him,
00:24:02.37\00:24:03.87
we didn't yell at him,
00:24:03.91\00:24:05.24
we just got around
him and prayed over him.
00:24:05.27\00:24:07.11
Galatians 6:2 says
something beautiful,
00:24:07.14\00:24:09.14
"Bear you one
another's burdens and so fulfill
00:24:09.18\00:24:11.15
the law of Christ."
00:24:11.18\00:24:12.51
Yeah.
00:24:12.55\00:24:13.88
We surround each other
and support each other,
00:24:13.92\00:24:15.25
you need that support.
00:24:15.28\00:24:16.62
Yes, you do.
It's really important.
00:24:16.65\00:24:17.99
Especially when somebody's
being vulnerable and honest,
00:24:18.02\00:24:19.35
you don't want to, you know,
you don't want to ruin that,
00:24:19.39\00:24:21.59
you know, because that's a very,
00:24:21.62\00:24:23.56
you know, touchy
delicate place for a person.
00:24:23.59\00:24:27.26
It means that the way
really that we always do it.
00:24:27.30\00:24:29.76
I find that it's not,
00:24:29.80\00:24:31.77
because if
someone makes a mistake,
00:24:31.80\00:24:33.60
someone's weak, someone failed,
00:24:33.64\00:24:35.30
someone disturbed,
00:24:35.34\00:24:36.67
most of us as Christians
try to separate ourselves
00:24:36.71\00:24:38.77
from that person,
that's dead wrong.
00:24:38.81\00:24:40.41
Yeah. That person needs help.
00:24:40.44\00:24:43.95
They don't need for
everybody to separate from them.
00:24:43.98\00:24:45.91
You don't want to talk to them,
00:24:45.95\00:24:47.28
you don't want to have
anything to do with him.
00:24:47.32\00:24:48.98
The Bible simply said,
00:24:49.02\00:24:50.35
"All have sinned and come
short in the glory of God."
00:24:50.39\00:24:51.85
We've all made a
mess of our life,
00:24:51.89\00:24:53.69
only because of
Christ we come back.
00:24:53.72\00:24:55.39
So the Lord's always impressed
my heart, you don't just,
00:24:55.42\00:24:58.73
you know, separate
yourself from that person,
00:24:58.76\00:25:01.06
we need to make an
effort to get to that person.
00:25:01.10\00:25:03.57
That's right.
00:25:03.60\00:25:04.93
It's like sometimes, you know,
00:25:04.97\00:25:06.30
but any type of a
difficult situation
00:25:06.33\00:25:07.67
we'd rather not get involved.
00:25:07.70\00:25:10.34
And that's the time
to really step forward.
00:25:10.37\00:25:14.11
That's true.
00:25:14.14\00:25:15.48
And that separates
character right there.
00:25:15.51\00:25:17.25
But could you get
in trouble for that?
00:25:17.28\00:25:18.75
You bet.
00:25:18.78\00:25:20.12
Can you be blamed for that?
00:25:20.15\00:25:21.48
In ministry they say, "Well, my,
00:25:21.52\00:25:22.85
if I'm
associated with the sinner,
00:25:22.88\00:25:24.22
I'm not going to
get any support."
00:25:24.25\00:25:25.65
There's people not going
to support this ministry,
00:25:25.69\00:25:27.36
because I'm associating
with this or that rather than
00:25:27.39\00:25:30.29
and I understand disassociation,
00:25:30.33\00:25:31.66
but be careful with it,
00:25:31.69\00:25:33.03
but we need to seek
like Jesus did to save
00:25:33.06\00:25:35.36
and bring them back
in, regardless of the cost.
00:25:35.40\00:25:38.43
Christ will take care of things.
00:25:38.47\00:25:39.80
Does it not say
that He ate with sinners
00:25:39.83\00:25:42.44
in public meetings?
00:25:42.47\00:25:43.81
Well, He sure did and He was...
00:25:43.84\00:25:45.17
He was who He says He
is, what's He doing there?
00:25:45.21\00:25:47.24
And what happened?
00:25:47.28\00:25:48.61
You know, I tell you, guys,
00:25:48.64\00:25:49.98
that brought tears to my eyes
00:25:50.01\00:25:51.35
because of the love of
Christ of just pulling us
00:25:51.38\00:25:53.62
out of all this mire.
00:25:53.65\00:25:56.12
You have it,
00:25:56.15\00:25:57.49
you've just
kind of skimmed over,
00:25:57.52\00:25:59.25
I know you've got a
real good example of that,
00:25:59.29\00:26:01.66
because years ago
there were ministries
00:26:01.69\00:26:04.19
that shunned a pastor that fell,
00:26:04.23\00:26:06.36
and without saying...
00:26:06.39\00:26:07.73
Oh, my land.
00:26:07.76\00:26:09.10
Tell us that story?
00:26:09.13\00:26:10.47
Yeah, there was one, in fact,
00:26:10.50\00:26:11.83
we did a lot of
work with this brother
00:26:11.87\00:26:13.97
and loved him dearly
00:26:14.00\00:26:16.40
and, you know, you can't help
00:26:16.44\00:26:18.24
but love when you
think alike and you,
00:26:18.27\00:26:20.88
you're doing the same things.
00:26:20.91\00:26:22.28
It's just an
automatic love relationship
00:26:22.31\00:26:24.78
that you have with one another
00:26:24.81\00:26:26.15
and especially
working with this brother,
00:26:26.18\00:26:27.75
and he had written
some books and just...
00:26:27.78\00:26:30.79
I mean, he was a tiger
when it comes to the lion,
00:26:30.82\00:26:34.12
when it came to the
truth, you know, who just...
00:26:34.16\00:26:35.96
Sure.
00:26:35.99\00:26:37.46
And he made a mistake.
00:26:37.49\00:26:38.96
He made a wrong choice.
00:26:38.99\00:26:41.16
And so everybody decided along
that point that knew him well,
00:26:41.20\00:26:45.60
the best thing to
do was to separate
00:26:45.63\00:26:48.40
and not have anything
to do with him, you see.
00:26:48.44\00:26:51.41
And that was the wrong
thing to do, because it was so,
00:26:51.44\00:26:54.91
it wasn't just
the sin that got him,
00:26:54.94\00:26:57.71
it was the idea that he
had been forsaken by family,
00:26:57.75\00:27:01.65
and by friends, and
coworkers, and other ministers.
00:27:01.68\00:27:05.79
Well, what did he do?
00:27:05.82\00:27:09.02
He took a gun
and he shot himself,
00:27:09.06\00:27:11.49
he killed and
blew his brains out.
00:27:11.53\00:27:12.86
I'll just say it,
he killed himself.
00:27:12.89\00:27:15.53
And the whole thing was
just because no one showed
00:27:15.56\00:27:18.90
that they really cared.
00:27:18.93\00:27:20.60
He needed help
and no one helped him.
00:27:20.64\00:27:23.07
And I'll never forget that,
00:27:23.10\00:27:24.44
because I was impressed to call
before that, and I put it off.
00:27:24.47\00:27:29.44
And I'll never
get over that. Sure.
00:27:29.48\00:27:31.21
I put it off, not that it
may have changed anything,
00:27:31.25\00:27:34.02
but I was impressed,
00:27:34.05\00:27:35.38
I need to call this man
and tell him we still love him.
00:27:35.42\00:27:39.45
He's made some choice and
deceived but still love you
00:27:39.49\00:27:41.86
and what will it
take to get you to,
00:27:41.89\00:27:43.79
you know, let's
get things squared away
00:27:43.83\00:27:45.16
and let's get back
into work together.
00:27:45.19\00:27:46.83
And I put it off
until it was too late
00:27:46.86\00:27:49.36
and I've asked God to
forgive me and the family
00:27:49.40\00:27:51.33
and best we can do
at that point in time.
00:27:51.37\00:27:53.23
You know...
00:27:53.27\00:27:54.60
What is the title of our...?
00:27:54.64\00:27:55.97
When heaven
calls, don't hesitate.
00:27:56.00\00:27:59.87
And that's just a
result of hesitation.
00:27:59.91\00:28:02.04
It was.
00:28:02.08\00:28:03.41
You know,
possibly a loss of life,
00:28:03.45\00:28:04.78
but you just think about,
00:28:04.81\00:28:06.15
and maybe while
you were talking,
00:28:06.18\00:28:08.15
you said
everybody wants to separate.
00:28:08.18\00:28:09.92
There are times
when there is open sin,
00:28:09.95\00:28:13.22
you know that
the Bible does teach
00:28:13.25\00:28:14.96
that we're to
separate from them,
00:28:14.99\00:28:16.79
but there are people,
00:28:16.83\00:28:18.16
you know, still in
that valley of decision.
00:28:18.19\00:28:20.76
You know, God is in the business
00:28:20.80\00:28:23.60
of restoration.
00:28:23.63\00:28:24.97
Yes, He is.
00:28:25.00\00:28:26.33
Every one of us
are like that pastor.
00:28:26.37\00:28:27.90
Every one of us. Absolutely.
00:28:27.94\00:28:30.14
What if
heavenly Father had said,
00:28:30.17\00:28:32.54
"Oh, they've done
wrong, let's just do...
00:28:32.57\00:28:36.08
Wait, let's
leave him in that crack
00:28:36.11\00:28:37.71
as it were in the ground."
00:28:37.75\00:28:40.02
They got issues
don't bother with him.
00:28:40.05\00:28:41.38
Don't bother with him. No.
00:28:41.42\00:28:42.82
None of us would
be here right now.
00:28:42.85\00:28:44.39
That's right.
00:28:44.42\00:28:45.75
God restores, He
wants to rebuild in us,
00:28:45.79\00:28:49.46
as we're going to
study a little bit later,
00:28:49.49\00:28:51.99
His character.
00:28:52.03\00:28:53.36
That's right Yeah,
00:28:53.40\00:28:54.73
I had a lady calling
to our pastoral department
00:28:54.76\00:28:56.46
and she had backslid and
she's trying to get out of.
00:28:56.50\00:29:00.10
And she was very shameful,
00:29:00.14\00:29:02.20
she felt very
pressure to go back in
00:29:02.24\00:29:04.77
by one of her
close family members.
00:29:04.81\00:29:08.01
And I just shared
with her the love of Jesus
00:29:08.04\00:29:09.74
through the scriptures.
00:29:09.78\00:29:11.11
Yeah.
00:29:11.15\00:29:12.48
And one of these ladies,
they began weeping profusely
00:29:12.51\00:29:13.85
when I shared Zachariah 3,
00:29:13.88\00:29:15.22
every time I stress Zachariah 3,
00:29:15.25\00:29:16.58
people break down.
00:29:16.62\00:29:18.02
But when I shared on
how Jesus covers over you
00:29:18.05\00:29:20.29
with His robe of righteousness
00:29:20.32\00:29:21.76
and puts that
golden crown on your head,
00:29:21.79\00:29:23.63
something just hits
00:29:23.66\00:29:24.99
these people and
she began crying.
00:29:25.03\00:29:26.36
I said, "Why are you crying,
00:29:26.39\00:29:27.73
and if you don't mind me asking.
00:29:27.76\00:29:29.10
She said, "It's because I
realized how unworthy I am,
00:29:29.13\00:29:30.80
but He calls me worthy.
00:29:30.83\00:29:32.23
That's right. I'm worthy.
00:29:32.27\00:29:33.94
Exactly.
00:29:33.97\00:29:35.30
She saw that in that picture
and it just spoke to her heart.
00:29:35.34\00:29:38.54
You see, all this ties
back to the love of God.
00:29:38.57\00:29:41.98
That's right.
00:29:42.01\00:29:43.35
It is understanding experience
just a little bit of His love
00:29:43.38\00:29:47.42
that we begin to
see who we really are.
00:29:47.45\00:29:49.62
That's right.
00:29:49.65\00:29:50.99
And we begin to see
what He wants us to be.
00:29:51.02\00:29:53.59
I had a man years ago.
00:29:53.62\00:29:56.09
He was a Sabbath School teacher
00:29:56.12\00:29:57.79
in the Marion Church, a
church not far from here.
00:29:57.83\00:30:00.86
And he also was the
principal of our church school
00:30:00.90\00:30:03.47
at that time.
00:30:03.50\00:30:04.90
And I always loved
it because he didn't see
00:30:04.93\00:30:08.10
who you were at that time.
00:30:08.14\00:30:10.87
He could always
see where you could be.
00:30:10.91\00:30:15.58
And as Christ's shepherds,
00:30:15.61\00:30:18.05
you know, as He's
calling us to be His disciples,
00:30:18.08\00:30:21.55
we need to be
looking at other people,
00:30:21.58\00:30:23.52
not where they are,
but where they could be.
00:30:23.55\00:30:26.52
That's right.
00:30:26.55\00:30:27.89
And sometimes, it even means...
00:30:27.92\00:30:29.26
'cause I just had this
experience even this week,
00:30:29.29\00:30:30.89
it's not always
even how they smell,
00:30:30.93\00:30:33.40
how they dress, you know?
00:30:33.43\00:30:36.36
Think about that little sheep.
00:30:36.40\00:30:38.37
We're not going to
get past that little sheep
00:30:38.40\00:30:39.93
in that crevice.
00:30:39.97\00:30:41.30
He probably didn't smell
very good anymore, you know?
00:30:41.34\00:30:44.04
But as we come
up, God cleans us,
00:30:44.07\00:30:45.91
not only on the
inside, but the outside,
00:30:45.94\00:30:48.28
everything with
His love and His power.
00:30:48.31\00:30:49.64
You know, as you're talking,
00:30:49.68\00:30:51.01
it's given me a
visual of something
00:30:51.05\00:30:52.85
I've seen before of a person,
00:30:52.88\00:30:54.98
you know, with
their driver's license,
00:30:55.02\00:30:56.38
and over here's Jesus with,
00:30:56.42\00:30:57.95
you know, what we would
think of His driver's license,
00:30:57.99\00:31:00.56
and then the transition of that,
00:31:00.59\00:31:02.96
you know, how
your identity is not,
00:31:02.99\00:31:05.23
you know, who you are now
00:31:05.26\00:31:06.59
but who you want to become like.
00:31:06.63\00:31:08.03
Yes. Yes.
00:31:08.06\00:31:09.40
And I think, that's a
powerful thought that,
00:31:09.43\00:31:12.73
you know, we're
not of this earth,
00:31:12.77\00:31:15.04
you know, we're His,
and that's our identity.
00:31:15.07\00:31:17.61
You know, that
makes a big difference
00:31:17.64\00:31:19.71
in how we react,
00:31:19.74\00:31:21.08
how we even get
dressed in the morning.
00:31:21.11\00:31:23.18
If we stop and think
before we put on our clothes
00:31:23.21\00:31:26.45
or fix our hair who
we want people to see,
00:31:26.48\00:31:30.49
are we trying to
attract them to us
00:31:30.52\00:31:32.85
to think that we're something
00:31:32.89\00:31:34.86
or do we want
people to see Jesus?
00:31:34.89\00:31:38.06
It will make a
difference in everything we do,
00:31:38.09\00:31:41.16
what we put on,
what we do, everything.
00:31:41.20\00:31:43.30
Oh, yeah. Go ahead.
00:31:43.33\00:31:45.80
We were talking before
we started this program,
00:31:45.83\00:31:48.07
it was like we
were joking around
00:31:48.10\00:31:49.74
about aging.
00:31:49.77\00:31:51.37
And 100-years-old came up,
00:31:51.41\00:31:53.78
and normally you
think of 100-years-old,
00:31:53.81\00:31:55.84
should you reach that marker,
that you would be mature.
00:31:55.88\00:32:00.12
When we were talking here,
00:32:00.15\00:32:01.98
I was thinking about the teacher
00:32:02.02\00:32:03.89
that you were
talking about, Chris.
00:32:03.92\00:32:06.39
He was mature in the Lord
and that he was accepting,
00:32:06.42\00:32:11.96
you know, in spite of
warts or whatever may be there,
00:32:11.99\00:32:15.13
he was accept...
00:32:15.16\00:32:16.50
And that I think something that
we all need to be working on.
00:32:16.53\00:32:18.87
Amen.
00:32:18.90\00:32:20.24
You know?
00:32:20.27\00:32:21.60
And pray for spiritual maturity.
00:32:21.64\00:32:23.44
One thing that I'm really...
00:32:23.47\00:32:25.21
The Lord's really
impressing upon my heart,
00:32:25.24\00:32:27.41
and this gets so
complex, and that is,
00:32:27.44\00:32:31.45
is that we all
have different issues,
00:32:31.48\00:32:34.38
we're all praying.
00:32:34.42\00:32:35.75
That's right.
00:32:35.78\00:32:37.12
And we're so
settled in the selfishness
00:32:37.15\00:32:38.59
and what my desires are,
00:32:38.62\00:32:41.29
"Oh, Lord, do You hear me,
00:32:41.32\00:32:42.66
do You hear me, do You hear me,"
00:32:42.69\00:32:44.03
whereas person B
over here is also praying.
00:32:44.06\00:32:48.30
And so we never quite know
00:32:48.33\00:32:53.57
whose desire is going
to be filled at that time
00:32:53.60\00:32:56.34
because God's the
one that's orchestrating.
00:32:56.37\00:32:58.61
Amen. And so it may...
00:32:58.64\00:33:00.98
This particular project
here may backfire on me,
00:33:01.01\00:33:04.55
or is this person over here,
00:33:04.58\00:33:06.48
they've been praying
about this particular project
00:33:06.51\00:33:08.52
for years and it opened up.
00:33:08.55\00:33:10.55
That's right.
00:33:10.59\00:33:11.92
And so as we're looking
at the depth of all of this
00:33:11.95\00:33:15.42
and the way that God is working
because He's wooing all of us,
00:33:15.46\00:33:19.96
He's not just singling,
00:33:20.00\00:33:21.33
"Oh, Don, he's My
project this week."
00:33:21.36\00:33:24.17
I mean, He's got
projects every other day.
00:33:24.20\00:33:26.33
Amen, amen, amen.
00:33:26.37\00:33:28.14
And sometimes,
00:33:28.17\00:33:29.50
because of the lack of
maturity that we may possess
00:33:29.54\00:33:32.61
is that we don't
allow God to really work.
00:33:32.64\00:33:34.98
And so I'm really learning,
00:33:35.01\00:33:37.05
God may Your will be done
and get me out of the picture.
00:33:37.08\00:33:41.62
That's right.
00:33:41.65\00:33:42.98
And win, lose, or draw,
00:33:43.02\00:33:45.09
if you are selling
into that arena of maturity,
00:33:45.12\00:33:49.22
then you could
accept whatever consequences
00:33:49.26\00:33:51.63
are because your...
00:33:51.66\00:33:54.70
He has your eternal
interest and mine at all times.
00:33:54.73\00:33:57.80
That's the bottom
line. That's good.
00:33:57.83\00:33:59.20
I think we could even substitute
00:33:59.23\00:34:00.87
that word maturity for love.
00:34:00.90\00:34:03.30
Amen.
00:34:03.34\00:34:04.67
Because as we are
filled with love...
00:34:04.71\00:34:08.18
Let me just read
Romans 5:5, it says,
00:34:08.21\00:34:11.41
"And hope maketh not ashamed
00:34:11.45\00:34:13.18
because the love
of God is shed abroad
00:34:13.21\00:34:16.52
in our hearts
by the Holy Ghost."
00:34:16.55\00:34:18.95
So as the love
of God fills us up,
00:34:18.99\00:34:21.46
these broken vessels,
these chipped vessels,
00:34:21.49\00:34:25.39
then we become mature in Christ.
00:34:25.43\00:34:27.13
Amen, Amen.
00:34:27.16\00:34:28.50
Amen. Beautiful.
00:34:28.53\00:34:29.86
And all fits, as you're talking,
00:34:29.90\00:34:31.23
I can see how it fits.
00:34:31.27\00:34:32.70
I mean things that
keep us going somewhere
00:34:32.73\00:34:34.07
and may have already...
00:34:34.10\00:34:35.44
I think he was
reading Romans 4 a while ago,
00:34:35.47\00:34:37.24
and Romans 5 and 8,
00:34:37.27\00:34:39.11
you know, it always comes
back to my mind every time
00:34:39.14\00:34:41.51
and someone may
have already said it,
00:34:41.54\00:34:42.88
but, "While we
were yet sinners...
00:34:42.91\00:34:46.31
While we were yet sinners,"
00:34:46.35\00:34:47.88
you know, again that's
showing is such an example
00:34:47.92\00:34:50.79
of what we should
be doing and laboring
00:34:50.82\00:34:52.55
for so you can save
that which was lost.
00:34:52.59\00:34:55.02
That's what Jesus did
while we were yet sinners,
00:34:55.06\00:34:56.79
while we were enemies,
00:34:56.83\00:34:58.29
while we did everything
00:34:58.33\00:34:59.66
we could
possibly do against God.
00:34:59.69\00:35:03.37
Actually, I thought
they just want to make sure
00:35:03.40\00:35:05.10
that you don't
understand they're against God,
00:35:05.13\00:35:07.07
and I have seen them actually
raise their fist toward heaven
00:35:07.10\00:35:09.34
and curse God and say,
00:35:09.37\00:35:10.87
"I'll tell you,
there is no God."
00:35:10.91\00:35:12.71
God is so merciful
and long suffering,
00:35:12.74\00:35:15.34
you know, that He would put up
00:35:15.38\00:35:16.81
with that with someone
like we are, and He's saying,
00:35:16.85\00:35:19.88
"I've been
seeking you all the time.
00:35:19.91\00:35:21.45
I want you there with me.
00:35:21.48\00:35:22.92
Where I am there,
you're going to be all."
00:35:22.95\00:35:24.29
So I think that's just
such a wonderful thought.
00:35:24.32\00:35:27.22
And one thing that's helped
me, quickly on the agnostic,
00:35:27.26\00:35:29.79
I've said it
before on the program,
00:35:29.82\00:35:31.56
that my mother gave
me a great illustration.
00:35:31.59\00:35:33.73
You know, our Mums and
Dads can do great things for us
00:35:33.76\00:35:35.60
if we would just listen.
00:35:35.63\00:35:36.97
I had a hard time
listening while I was at home.
00:35:37.00\00:35:40.54
As you're getting older,
you think about these things.
00:35:40.57\00:35:43.97
And it's about the character,
00:35:44.01\00:35:45.77
it's about part
of that lesson here,
00:35:45.81\00:35:47.14
about that when they,
00:35:47.18\00:35:48.51
you know, His character's
fully reproduced in us
00:35:48.54\00:35:51.05
to have the character of Jesus.
00:35:51.08\00:35:53.05
That's such an awesome
stretch for me as I look at it.
00:35:53.08\00:35:56.69
A lot of times,
00:35:56.72\00:35:58.05
I had tendency in
years past to judge
00:35:58.09\00:35:59.65
by the outward appearance.
00:35:59.69\00:36:01.02
Oh, yes. You know, because...
00:36:01.06\00:36:03.06
You know, just look
and say, "Well, my land,
00:36:03.09\00:36:04.69
this is a mess,
it's not going to work.
00:36:04.73\00:36:06.06
He said it wouldn't."
00:36:06.09\00:36:07.43
And she, you know,
gave the illustration
00:36:07.46\00:36:08.80
once again
because she always did
00:36:08.83\00:36:10.17
the pillowcases back
then and did all the...
00:36:10.20\00:36:12.73
I told you about the sewing.
00:36:12.77\00:36:14.30
What do you call
that? It's a needle...
00:36:14.34\00:36:15.74
Embroidery? Embroidery?
00:36:15.77\00:36:17.11
Yeah. Pillow slip.
00:36:17.14\00:36:18.47
And you got the beautiful
whatever it is on the surface.
00:36:18.51\00:36:21.21
And one day I said, "Well,
that's really pretty, mom."
00:36:21.24\00:36:23.01
And she said, "Do you realize
what this is underneath?"
00:36:23.04\00:36:26.58
I said, "No, what do
you mean underneath?"
00:36:26.61\00:36:29.02
So she turned it wrong side out,
00:36:29.05\00:36:31.05
it was the biggest mess.
00:36:31.09\00:36:32.62
It was like a walk of spaghetti.
00:36:32.65\00:36:34.82
Just going this way
and that way and threads
00:36:34.86\00:36:37.59
and colors and I
could make out a thing.
00:36:37.63\00:36:40.70
She reminded me, she said,
00:36:40.73\00:36:42.06
"You know, what,
that's how we look up.
00:36:42.10\00:36:45.43
And our life is like this.
00:36:45.47\00:36:47.50
It is a mess.
00:36:47.54\00:36:48.87
There is no way that
it can be squared away.
00:36:48.90\00:36:51.87
There is no way to
straighten out this mess."
00:36:51.91\00:36:54.98
She said, "But just turn
this thing over, now look.
00:36:55.01\00:36:56.95
This is God's looking down.
00:36:56.98\00:36:58.85
He sees the finished product."
00:36:58.88\00:37:00.28
He is saying, "Oh, yes."
00:37:00.32\00:37:02.05
How wonderful that is
because I looked at it
00:37:02.08\00:37:04.19
and said it is a complete mess.
00:37:04.22\00:37:05.89
I mean, I've
taken a ball of string
00:37:05.92\00:37:07.26
and got it messed up to
where I just threw it away.
00:37:07.29\00:37:10.69
It's just a
little ball of string,
00:37:10.73\00:37:12.06
you know, sometimes,
00:37:12.09\00:37:13.43
there are so many
knots and you're taking it
00:37:13.46\00:37:14.80
and you're cutting it...
00:37:14.83\00:37:16.16
God doesn't throw away anything.
00:37:16.20\00:37:17.57
He sees something
good in each one of us.
00:37:17.60\00:37:19.27
He sees something good in you.
He's not gonna throw it away.
00:37:19.30\00:37:22.00
He's going to
bring it to oblation.
00:37:22.04\00:37:23.41
I like it that
while we were yet sinners,
00:37:23.44\00:37:25.87
He came to seek and save us.
00:37:25.91\00:37:27.28
Oh, it's beautiful.
00:37:27.31\00:37:28.81
Matthew 19, Matthew 19...
00:37:28.84\00:37:32.35
Excuse me, Matthew 9:13.
00:37:32.38\00:37:35.72
It says... Matthew, what now?
00:37:35.75\00:37:37.59
Matthew 9:13,
00:37:37.62\00:37:40.12
"But go ye and
learn what that meaneth,
00:37:40.16\00:37:42.56
I will have mercy,
00:37:42.59\00:37:43.93
and not
sacrifice for I am not come
00:37:43.96\00:37:47.26
to call the righteous,
but sinners to repentance."
00:37:47.30\00:37:51.30
I think this is so important
because we may have people
00:37:51.33\00:37:54.50
studying with us at home.
00:37:54.54\00:37:56.91
They may be thinking right
now, "I've just gone too far.
00:37:56.94\00:38:01.68
There is no hope."
00:38:01.71\00:38:03.55
And I think if nothing
else that bits and pieces
00:38:03.58\00:38:06.31
that the Holy Spirit is
bringing out in this study
00:38:06.35\00:38:08.68
is there is hope.
00:38:08.72\00:38:10.49
Amen.
00:38:10.52\00:38:12.22
You can you can kneel,
you can ask God for His love
00:38:12.25\00:38:15.02
to fill your
heart and your mind.
00:38:15.06\00:38:17.73
There is hope.
00:38:17.76\00:38:19.09
That's why He's calling you.
00:38:19.13\00:38:20.96
That's why He called
each and every one of us.
00:38:21.00\00:38:23.70
I think we should
segue into our next question
00:38:23.73\00:38:26.60
because this all fits together.
00:38:26.63\00:38:28.94
I'm going to read a
little bit more from the book
00:38:28.97\00:38:31.61
to be like Jesus, it reads,
00:38:31.64\00:38:33.91
"The rabbi's had a
saying that there is rejoicing
00:38:33.94\00:38:36.71
in heaven when one
who has sinned against God
00:38:36.75\00:38:39.38
is destroyed."
00:38:39.41\00:38:40.75
When I read that
again, I thought of a story.
00:38:40.78\00:38:43.75
It's a true story of a
lady up in Northern England.
00:38:43.79\00:38:47.72
And it was a
time when, you know,
00:38:47.76\00:38:51.69
I mean everybody
was very critical
00:38:51.73\00:38:54.23
and they might have
thought you were a witch
00:38:54.26\00:38:55.96
when you really
weren't, they would,
00:38:56.00\00:38:57.73
you know, hang you or whatever.
00:38:57.77\00:38:59.10
It was just that
type of atmosphere.
00:38:59.13\00:39:01.74
And this young girl had to be...
00:39:01.77\00:39:03.37
They were a very poor family.
00:39:03.41\00:39:05.34
And she was sold by her parents
to go work somewhere else
00:39:05.37\00:39:09.81
to send money back.
00:39:09.84\00:39:11.35
While she was gone,
someone took advantage of her,
00:39:11.38\00:39:15.25
and at the age of
12, she had a baby.
00:39:15.28\00:39:18.15
And then she came back...
00:39:18.19\00:39:20.79
Before she came back,
00:39:20.82\00:39:22.16
they gave the
baby to someone else.
00:39:22.19\00:39:24.23
So she never told
her family what happened.
00:39:24.26\00:39:26.86
Later on in years,
the sad thing was that,
00:39:26.90\00:39:29.86
I don't know how much
of the story I should tell,
00:39:29.90\00:39:31.47
but she was like 62,
and this man came to town,
00:39:31.50\00:39:35.74
and she had no idea who he was.
00:39:35.77\00:39:37.64
They fell in love,
and they got married.
00:39:37.67\00:39:39.94
And then when his family came,
00:39:39.97\00:39:42.04
they found out that
she had married her son.
00:39:42.08\00:39:46.11
Everyone disannulled...
00:39:46.15\00:39:48.35
They disannulled the marriage.
00:39:48.38\00:39:51.72
They took her, I
mean, they just let her,
00:39:51.75\00:39:54.52
basically she
starved to death in her home.
00:39:54.56\00:39:59.13
It was so,
00:39:59.16\00:40:00.50
so sad because the people
who claim to be Christians...
00:40:00.53\00:40:04.97
And at her
funeral, her sister...
00:40:05.00\00:40:07.27
It remind me of
these rabbis here
00:40:07.30\00:40:08.84
because her sister put her
hand on the cactus and said,
00:40:08.87\00:40:11.97
"She's finally got
what she deserved."
00:40:12.01\00:40:14.14
Oh, mercy. Wow!
00:40:14.18\00:40:17.35
Who are we to be that judge?
00:40:17.38\00:40:19.98
Yeah. And the
little girls that...
00:40:20.02\00:40:22.25
One family that lived close,
00:40:22.28\00:40:23.72
they would send her
food every now and then.
00:40:23.75\00:40:25.09
Again, the women couldn't
go see her, but the kids could.
00:40:25.12\00:40:28.62
And one little girl, of
course, she's an older lady.
00:40:28.66\00:40:31.06
At this time, she
gave her testimony,
00:40:31.09\00:40:32.69
she said, "That
was the sweetest,
00:40:32.73\00:40:34.90
kindest, loving old
lady you could ever meet."
00:40:34.93\00:40:39.30
You know, but they shunned her.
00:40:39.33\00:40:41.84
And that's what
the rabbis were doing.
00:40:41.87\00:40:43.51
Jesus taught that, "To God,
00:40:43.54\00:40:46.57
the work of
destruction is a strange work,
00:40:46.61\00:40:49.81
strange work,
00:40:49.84\00:40:51.65
that in which all
of heaven delights is,"
00:40:51.68\00:40:54.08
and this is what
we just talked about,
00:40:54.12\00:40:55.58
"the restoration of
God's own image in the souls
00:40:55.62\00:40:59.92
whom He has made."
00:40:59.95\00:41:01.59
Question number six.
00:41:01.62\00:41:03.63
Restoration is the
process by which something
00:41:03.66\00:41:06.46
and or someone is
restored to their former
00:41:06.49\00:41:09.76
or original beauty and or self.
00:41:09.80\00:41:12.13
Well.
00:41:12.17\00:41:13.50
So restoration,
and in the beginning,
00:41:13.54\00:41:14.87
we were created
in the image of whom?
00:41:14.90\00:41:17.41
Christ.
00:41:17.44\00:41:19.07
So we denote here that
man needs to be restored
00:41:19.11\00:41:22.34
in the God's own image.
00:41:22.38\00:41:23.71
So let's all
explain what... Yeah.
00:41:23.75\00:41:26.68
I was going to
go into Ezekiel 16.
00:41:26.72\00:41:29.05
Ezekiel 16.
00:41:29.08\00:41:30.42
Very good scripture.
00:41:30.45\00:41:32.55
Ezekiel 16:4-12.
00:41:32.59\00:41:34.06
I'll read this,
00:41:34.09\00:41:35.42
this really came
strong to my mind.
00:41:35.46\00:41:36.86
It says like, maybe a
fewness prepared for this,
00:41:36.89\00:41:38.86
but God is good,
00:41:38.89\00:41:40.23
He brings things to remembrance.
00:41:40.26\00:41:41.60
Yes. Amen.
00:41:41.63\00:41:42.96
And Ezekiel 16 is
a beautiful picture
00:41:43.00\00:41:45.53
of what God is doing for
each and every one of us,
00:41:45.57\00:41:47.90
it says in Ezekiel 16:4.
00:41:47.94\00:41:49.47
"And as for thy nativity,
00:41:49.50\00:41:51.17
in the day thou wast
born thy navel was not cut,
00:41:51.21\00:41:54.14
neither wast thou
washed in water to supple thee,
00:41:54.18\00:41:56.75
thou wast not salted at
all, nor swaddled at all.
00:41:56.78\00:41:59.95
None eye pitied thee, to
do any of these unto thee,
00:41:59.98\00:42:03.12
to have compassion upon thee,
00:42:03.15\00:42:04.59
but thou wast cast
out in the open field
00:42:04.62\00:42:07.19
to the lothing of thy person,
00:42:07.22\00:42:08.56
in the day that thou wast born."
00:42:08.59\00:42:10.53
Ezekiel 16:6 says,
"And when I passed by thee,
00:42:10.56\00:42:12.36
and saw thee
polluted in thine own blood,
00:42:12.39\00:42:15.23
I said unto thee when thou
wast in thy blood, 'Live yea,'
00:42:15.26\00:42:18.57
I said unto thee when
thou wast in thy blood, 'Live.
00:42:18.60\00:42:22.14
I have caused thee to multiply
as the bud of the field,
00:42:22.17\00:42:24.54
and thou hast
increased and waxen great,
00:42:24.57\00:42:26.94
and thou art come
to excellent ornaments.
00:42:26.98\00:42:29.34
Thy breasts are fashioned,
and thine hair is grown,
00:42:29.38\00:42:32.28
whereas thou
wast naked and bare.
00:42:32.31\00:42:34.38
Now when I passed by thee,
and looked upon thee, behold,
00:42:34.42\00:42:36.85
thy time was the time of love,
00:42:36.89\00:42:39.15
and I spread my skirt over thee,
00:42:39.19\00:42:40.82
and covered thy nakedness.
00:42:40.86\00:42:42.62
Yea, I sware unto thee,
00:42:42.66\00:42:44.26
and entered into a
covenant with thee,
00:42:44.29\00:42:45.93
saith the Lord God,
'And thou becamest mine.
00:42:45.96\00:42:48.90
Then washed I thee with water.
00:42:48.93\00:42:50.47
Yea, I thoroughly washed
away thy blood from thee,
00:42:50.50\00:42:53.23
and I anointed thee with oil.
00:42:53.27\00:42:54.74
I clothed thee also
with broidered work,
00:42:54.77\00:42:56.64
and shod thee
with badgers' skin,
00:42:56.67\00:42:58.77
and I girded thee
about with fine linen,
00:42:58.81\00:43:00.58
and I covered thee with silk.
00:43:00.61\00:43:02.21
I decked thee
also with ornaments,
00:43:02.24\00:43:03.68
and I put
bracelets upon thy hands,
00:43:03.71\00:43:05.28
and a chain on thy neck.
00:43:05.31\00:43:06.72
And I put a
jewel on thy forehead,
00:43:06.75\00:43:08.28
and earrings in thine ears,
00:43:08.32\00:43:09.68
and a beautiful
crown upon thine head.'"
00:43:09.72\00:43:12.49
Praise God.
00:43:12.52\00:43:14.12
Good. Restoration.
00:43:14.16\00:43:15.49
Restoration. Restoration.
00:43:15.52\00:43:17.89
Of course, it
mentioned about creation.
00:43:17.93\00:43:20.86
Absolutely.
00:43:20.90\00:43:22.23
In beginning,
Genesis 1:26 and so on to 27,
00:43:22.26\00:43:25.33
it talks about that we
made in the image of God.
00:43:25.37\00:43:28.54
And to me, when
you think about that,
00:43:28.57\00:43:29.90
it means in the form of,
00:43:29.94\00:43:31.27
this is how personal
that it gets, the form of God,
00:43:31.31\00:43:33.98
the features of God physically,
00:43:34.01\00:43:36.64
spiritually, all
these things, character.
00:43:36.68\00:43:39.81
I mean that really
puts it down to the...
00:43:39.85\00:43:41.52
You can talk about
to the nitty-gritty
00:43:41.55\00:43:43.08
right there.
00:43:43.12\00:43:44.45
And I found something
in Sabbath-School Worker,
00:43:44.49\00:43:46.05
just real quick, you know,
00:43:46.09\00:43:47.42
everybody's got a
lot to share on that.
00:43:47.46\00:43:49.36
Page 112, it says,
00:43:49.39\00:43:50.93
notice this
because we're talking about
00:43:50.96\00:43:52.29
the image of Christ,
this is the importance
00:43:52.33\00:43:53.66
of gaining victory in our
life and the image of Christ.
00:43:53.70\00:43:55.66
It says, and
it's just real simple,
00:43:55.70\00:43:57.20
"All who enter heaven
must have a perfect character."
00:43:57.23\00:44:01.34
I know people
fight that all the time
00:44:01.37\00:44:02.70
and they try to
make excuses for it.
00:44:02.74\00:44:04.17
That's what it says.
00:44:04.21\00:44:05.54
Number two, page 762
says, "Christ enables man,"
00:44:05.57\00:44:10.35
notice that, "to be," what?
00:44:10.38\00:44:12.31
"To develop." Right.
00:44:12.35\00:44:14.12
We look to our
self, it's a total loss.
00:44:14.15\00:44:15.82
Number three, it
says in Steps to Christ,
00:44:15.85\00:44:17.75
126,
00:44:17.79\00:44:19.65
"Perfect character here
is developed," notice this,
00:44:19.69\00:44:22.56
"is by divine grace."
00:44:22.59\00:44:24.26
Praise God for that.
00:44:24.29\00:44:25.63
Sons and Daughters, 138,
00:44:25.66\00:44:27.03
"God can accept nothing
short of perfect character."
00:44:27.06\00:44:31.87
He doesn't accept it.
00:44:31.90\00:44:33.23
And if you say, "How to obtain?"
00:44:33.27\00:44:34.60
It's pretty simple.
00:44:34.64\00:44:35.97
We're going that may people have
00:44:36.00\00:44:37.34
because I want to know,
00:44:37.37\00:44:38.71
you said, "Well,
how do we obtain this?"
00:44:38.74\00:44:40.08
Others, you know,
00:44:40.11\00:44:41.44
get
high-standard true education,
00:44:41.48\00:44:43.18
and it's certainly by beholding,
00:44:43.21\00:44:44.55
we become changed, but
there's a lot more to it.
00:44:44.58\00:44:46.05
If we have time, I'll
read that at the moment.
00:44:46.08\00:44:47.95
I think it's possible.
00:44:47.98\00:44:50.62
But a lot of
people in the movement say
00:44:50.65\00:44:52.52
that's not possible.
00:44:52.55\00:44:53.89
We must have His character
00:44:53.92\00:44:55.82
if heaven is
going to be our home.
00:44:55.86\00:44:57.33
Amen.
00:44:57.36\00:44:58.69
Image of Christ
must be in the soul,
00:44:58.73\00:45:00.90
and it's attainable by who?
00:45:00.93\00:45:02.76
By God, by divinity
living inside of us.
00:45:02.80\00:45:06.30
Christ does the work,
we just need to submit.
00:45:06.33\00:45:09.10
You just got
right in on my body.
00:45:09.14\00:45:12.14
No, no, it's fine.
00:45:12.17\00:45:13.51
Got to watch so
I couldn't get off.
00:45:13.54\00:45:16.41
You were just
setting up the stage
00:45:16.44\00:45:17.81
for what I was
going to say here.
00:45:17.85\00:45:19.18
You know, there's two scriptures
00:45:19.21\00:45:20.55
that come into my mind
when we're thinking of a man
00:45:20.58\00:45:22.38
being made in the image of God.
00:45:22.42\00:45:24.42
Now, obviously,
most people think
00:45:24.45\00:45:25.79
in a physical likeness,
00:45:25.82\00:45:27.16
and we know that we
were made in the physical,
00:45:27.19\00:45:28.72
literal likeness of God.
00:45:28.76\00:45:30.13
When I go to heaven,
00:45:30.16\00:45:31.49
I expect to see Christ
and the Father with a face
00:45:31.53\00:45:33.93
and hands and arms, you
know, I expect to see that.
00:45:33.96\00:45:36.87
But as you pointed out,
you know, God is not only,
00:45:36.90\00:45:39.87
as we know,
interested in the outward man,
00:45:39.90\00:45:42.00
but more than
anything, the inward man,
00:45:42.04\00:45:45.44
and that is the character.
00:45:45.47\00:45:47.28
And so there's two scriptures
that come into my mind here.
00:45:47.31\00:45:49.54
And I think they kind
of feed one into another.
00:45:49.58\00:45:52.15
Romans 12:1-2.
00:45:52.18\00:45:54.52
"I beseech you
therefore, brethren,
00:45:54.55\00:45:55.98
by the mercies of God,
00:45:56.02\00:45:57.35
that you present your
bodies a living sacrifice,
00:45:57.39\00:45:59.99
holy, acceptable to God,
00:46:00.02\00:46:01.62
which is your
reasonable service."
00:46:01.66\00:46:03.32
And Romans 12:2, I
love this, it says,
00:46:03.36\00:46:05.23
"And do not be
conformed to this world,
00:46:05.26\00:46:06.93
but be transformed by
the renewing of your mind
00:46:06.96\00:46:10.77
that you may prove
that which is good,
00:46:10.80\00:46:12.30
and acceptable, and
perfect, will of God."
00:46:12.33\00:46:14.24
So we are to be transformed
by the renewing of our mind.
00:46:14.27\00:46:18.01
Really, that is the avenue
00:46:18.04\00:46:21.04
in which the Holy
Spirit communicates with us.
00:46:21.08\00:46:23.14
Yeah.
00:46:23.18\00:46:24.51
Once the mind is transformed,
the rest of the body follows.
00:46:24.55\00:46:27.22
The question is, what mind?
00:46:27.25\00:46:29.08
What mind should I have?
00:46:29.12\00:46:30.92
Philippians 2:5. Amen.
00:46:30.95\00:46:32.52
Amen. Now you
can't leave it out.
00:46:32.55\00:46:34.46
Notice what it says here.
00:46:34.49\00:46:35.82
"Let this mind be in
you, which is also in...
00:46:35.86\00:46:38.36
"In Christ Jesus."
There is that image.
00:46:38.39\00:46:39.86
We're in the image
of God physically, yes,
00:46:39.89\00:46:42.33
but spiritually,
00:46:42.36\00:46:44.10
God desires us
to adopt His mind,
00:46:44.13\00:46:47.34
His character,
mind His character.
00:46:47.37\00:46:50.01
I love what the
rest of the verses says,
00:46:50.04\00:46:51.51
"who being in the form of God,
00:46:51.54\00:46:52.87
did not consider it
robbery to be equal with God,
00:46:52.91\00:46:55.24
but made himself
of no reputation,
00:46:55.28\00:46:57.25
taking the form
of a bondservant..."
00:46:57.28\00:46:59.15
Yeah. We are bondservants.
00:46:59.18\00:47:00.88
We should want and desire
to be bondservants of Christ.
00:47:00.92\00:47:03.39
Amen.
00:47:03.42\00:47:04.75
"And coming in
the likeness of men."
00:47:04.79\00:47:06.12
And I love Philippians 2:8,
00:47:06.15\00:47:07.49
"And being found in
appearance as a man,
00:47:07.52\00:47:08.86
he humbled himself,
00:47:08.89\00:47:10.26
and became obedient
to the point of death,
00:47:10.29\00:47:12.23
even the death of the cross."
00:47:12.26\00:47:14.20
What did Jesus say in Luke 9:23?
00:47:14.23\00:47:16.30
"If you desire to
follow Me, deny yourself..."
00:47:16.33\00:47:19.90
Pick up the cross.
"Take up your cross daily.
00:47:19.93\00:47:21.87
Deny yourself, take
up your cross daily."
00:47:21.90\00:47:24.41
You know, that is a process.
00:47:24.44\00:47:25.81
It is a lifelong process.
00:47:25.84\00:47:27.48
Lots of sanctification involved,
00:47:27.51\00:47:29.68
constantly in
surrender to Holy Spirit.
00:47:29.71\00:47:33.15
And I know I'm going
to ramble on about this.
00:47:33.18\00:47:34.58
But I'm getting
kind of to the point
00:47:34.62\00:47:35.95
that you are making.
00:47:35.98\00:47:38.25
I think when we're
considering this subject,
00:47:38.29\00:47:40.66
people are going
to respond differently
00:47:40.69\00:47:42.49
to this subject based on
00:47:42.52\00:47:43.89
their understanding of a gospel.
00:47:43.93\00:47:45.33
That's true. Yeah.
00:47:45.36\00:47:47.06
And you, all of us here,
even our viewers at home,
00:47:47.10\00:47:48.93
there are...
00:47:48.96\00:47:50.87
It's a reality.
00:47:50.90\00:47:52.73
It's an inevitable situation
00:47:52.77\00:47:54.27
that there are
two different gospels
00:47:54.30\00:47:58.07
floating around in
the Christian world today.
00:47:58.11\00:48:02.61
It seems like within
00:48:02.64\00:48:03.98
these two
different forms of gospel,
00:48:04.01\00:48:05.58
there's three different
camps of people that respond
00:48:05.61\00:48:09.05
to these particular
gospels in a particular way.
00:48:09.08\00:48:11.52
You usually have
your ultra conservatives,
00:48:11.55\00:48:13.79
which seem to be a little
bit more legalistic in mindset,
00:48:13.82\00:48:16.66
which is kind of
00:48:16.69\00:48:18.03
what we were
talking about earlier,
00:48:18.06\00:48:19.39
which is the people who,
you know, the rules, the rules,
00:48:19.43\00:48:20.90
the rules, the rules,
but where's the ruler?
00:48:20.93\00:48:22.93
The ruler is
not in the equation.
00:48:22.96\00:48:24.93
And you have the
opposite end of the spectrum,
00:48:24.97\00:48:26.53
which are those
people who kind of
00:48:26.57\00:48:28.97
the
once-saved-always-saved mindset.
00:48:29.00\00:48:30.51
"There's nothing that I could do
00:48:30.54\00:48:31.87
that can pluck me
from the hands of God."
00:48:31.91\00:48:33.74
And we know that that is
true in the sense that no one,
00:48:33.78\00:48:37.98
nothing can pluck us
from the hands of God
00:48:38.01\00:48:39.61
when we are in His will,
we are following in His plans.
00:48:39.65\00:48:41.18
Right. Right.
00:48:41.22\00:48:43.05
What I want,
what I desire to be,
00:48:43.08\00:48:44.79
and I'm not
saying that I'm there,
00:48:44.82\00:48:46.82
I'm striving in that perfection,
00:48:46.86\00:48:48.62
I'm striving to
be more like Christ,
00:48:48.66\00:48:50.26
which is to take
a balanced approach
00:48:50.29\00:48:51.89
which is to fully
surrender myself to Christ
00:48:51.93\00:48:55.16
and understand that Christ
did come as we read earlier,
00:48:55.20\00:48:59.07
the while we
were sinners, He did,
00:48:59.10\00:49:01.90
He was there for us.
00:49:01.94\00:49:03.27
He paid the price. Amen.
00:49:03.30\00:49:04.64
But many people would
read that text and say,
00:49:04.67\00:49:06.17
"Praise the Lord.
00:49:06.21\00:49:07.54
In my sin...
00:49:07.58\00:49:09.94
In my sin,
00:49:09.98\00:49:11.31
Christ loves me and accepts me
00:49:11.35\00:49:12.68
and writes my name
in the Book of Life."
00:49:12.71\00:49:14.45
We have to understand,
there's a balanced, biblical,
00:49:14.48\00:49:17.19
kind of like, to consider it
the full pictorial perspective,
00:49:17.22\00:49:21.86
full scriptural
perspective, that's a mouthful.
00:49:21.89\00:49:24.66
And that is that
Christ did come and save us
00:49:24.69\00:49:27.86
while we were yet sinners.
00:49:27.90\00:49:29.23
Yes.
00:49:29.26\00:49:30.60
But He doesn't want to
leave us the way that we are.
00:49:30.63\00:49:32.17
Exactly. And, you
know, a perfect...
00:49:32.20\00:49:33.54
Yes, good.
00:49:33.57\00:49:34.90
A perfect thing
that really helped me,
00:49:34.94\00:49:36.54
I mentioned earlier,
00:49:36.57\00:49:37.91
and it's always going
to be important for me
00:49:37.94\00:49:39.27
is that book Steps to Christ.
00:49:39.31\00:49:40.64
I think you
quoted it too, Kenney.
00:49:40.68\00:49:42.18
I think that takes us back
00:49:42.21\00:49:43.55
to the
foundation and the basics,
00:49:43.58\00:49:45.28
and what God wants to
do to restore us, you know,
00:49:45.31\00:49:49.05
the confession,
repentance, consecration,
00:49:49.08\00:49:51.65
all of those steps,
00:49:51.69\00:49:53.02
it's always
going to be relevant.
00:49:53.05\00:49:54.39
And, you know,
in my walk, and I...
00:49:54.42\00:49:56.26
You know, I read that book
probably once or twice a month,
00:49:56.29\00:49:59.69
just, you know, either quotes
or just anything out of there,
00:49:59.73\00:50:02.70
it's just like those.
00:50:02.73\00:50:04.07
If we ever forget
those basic steps,
00:50:04.10\00:50:06.33
we're in trouble.
00:50:06.37\00:50:07.70
Absolutely. You know...
00:50:07.74\00:50:09.10
And I'm probably not going
to say anything after this.
00:50:09.14\00:50:10.81
Give my spot in there
00:50:10.84\00:50:12.17
'cause I'm trying
not to hog other's time.
00:50:12.21\00:50:13.54
But just kind of in response
to what we've said so far,
00:50:13.58\00:50:17.65
the whole gospel perspective,
the true biblical gospel,
00:50:17.68\00:50:20.78
Christ did come to save us.
00:50:20.82\00:50:22.88
He came to save us from our sin.
00:50:22.92\00:50:24.29
Yeah.
00:50:24.32\00:50:25.65
Not in our sin
but from our sins.
00:50:25.69\00:50:27.02
Does He have mercy? Yes.
00:50:27.06\00:50:28.39
Yes. Is He forgiving?
00:50:28.42\00:50:29.76
Yes. Yes.
00:50:29.79\00:50:31.13
While we were
sinners, has He come?
00:50:31.16\00:50:32.49
Yes.
00:50:32.53\00:50:33.86
But many people,
00:50:33.90\00:50:35.23
I think and
I've even experienced
00:50:35.26\00:50:36.60
this in my life,
00:50:36.63\00:50:37.97
we tend to respond to
the gospel in the sense
00:50:38.00\00:50:39.33
that we're in a prison cell.
00:50:39.37\00:50:40.70
When you're in sin,
you're in a prison cell.
00:50:40.74\00:50:42.07
Oh, yeah.
00:50:42.10\00:50:43.44
Not only are you
in a prison cell,
00:50:43.47\00:50:44.81
you're inside that prison cell,
you're chained to the wall.
00:50:44.84\00:50:46.17
That's right.
00:50:46.21\00:50:47.54
And you're sitting there
just wallowing in your sin,
00:50:47.58\00:50:49.44
you know, completely helpless.
00:50:49.48\00:50:51.38
Christ comes
into that prison cell,
00:50:51.41\00:50:54.22
and He takes those chains off.
00:50:54.25\00:50:55.58
Praise God. Amen.
00:50:55.62\00:50:56.95
But here's where the
difference in gospel mentality
00:50:56.99\00:50:59.89
has changed for some people.
00:50:59.92\00:51:01.79
Once Christ comes in and
He takes those chains off,
00:51:01.82\00:51:05.16
He walks out of that prison cell
00:51:05.19\00:51:06.59
and hopes that
we're going to follow Him.
00:51:06.63\00:51:07.96
But many people,
00:51:08.00\00:51:09.33
they're inside the
prison cell rejoicing,
00:51:09.36\00:51:10.70
saying, "Praise the Lord,
00:51:10.73\00:51:12.07
I'm not chained
anymore to that wall,"
00:51:12.10\00:51:14.10
but they're still
inside the prison.
00:51:14.14\00:51:16.17
And Jesus say,
"Hey, check the door."
00:51:16.20\00:51:19.24
Yes, yes. "Check the door.
00:51:19.27\00:51:20.61
Walk out.
00:51:20.64\00:51:21.98
Take in my goodness.
00:51:22.01\00:51:23.35
Partake in the divine character
00:51:23.38\00:51:24.71
that I want to bestow upon you."
00:51:24.75\00:51:26.55
And that's the
true biblical gospel.
00:51:26.58\00:51:28.28
You know, I am seeing something
00:51:28.32\00:51:30.29
woven here
through scripture today
00:51:30.32\00:51:32.42
because everything,
00:51:32.45\00:51:33.79
even the understanding
of biblical perfection,
00:51:33.82\00:51:37.13
goes back to
understanding the love of God
00:51:37.16\00:51:40.06
that He is love.
00:51:40.10\00:51:41.43
All these things begin to
change in us to remake us,
00:51:41.46\00:51:45.47
to regenerate our
minds, our bodies, our heart,
00:51:45.50\00:51:48.80
everything, by the love of God.
00:51:48.84\00:51:51.71
And I think, so much
of that is summed up,
00:51:51.74\00:51:53.98
everything is summed up,
00:51:54.01\00:51:55.84
even biblical perfection
is summed up in Psalms 51.
00:51:55.88\00:52:01.18
And there are
so many, Psalms 51.
00:52:01.22\00:52:03.42
I don't even
know if we have time,
00:52:03.45\00:52:04.85
I doubt we have
time to read all of them.
00:52:04.89\00:52:06.59
We may have to...
00:52:06.62\00:52:07.96
We definitely have to
come back for a part four.
00:52:07.99\00:52:10.29
Yeah.
00:52:10.33\00:52:12.73
This is too
good, God is too good.
00:52:12.76\00:52:16.20
But Psalms 51, look at this,
"Have mercy upon me, O God,
00:52:16.23\00:52:21.90
according to
thy loving kindness,
00:52:21.94\00:52:24.67
according unto the
multitude of thy tender mercies,
00:52:24.71\00:52:28.64
blot out my transgressions."
00:52:28.68\00:52:30.85
Isn't that
saving us in our sins?
00:52:30.88\00:52:32.65
You just so applicably,
you know, gave us an example,
00:52:32.68\00:52:36.75
it's blotting them out.
00:52:36.79\00:52:39.05
This is why we...
00:52:39.09\00:52:40.66
God says we perish
for a lack of knowledge,
00:52:40.69\00:52:42.92
we're not
picking up these Bibles,
00:52:42.96\00:52:44.96
we're not reading them.
00:52:44.99\00:52:46.70
Number two,
Psalms 51:2, "Wash me."
00:52:46.73\00:52:49.50
What did it say?
00:52:49.53\00:52:51.10
Wash me. Wash.
00:52:51.13\00:52:52.47
"It's inside and outside,
00:52:52.50\00:52:54.04
thoroughly from my iniquity
00:52:54.07\00:52:55.94
and cleanse me
from my..." what, group?
00:52:55.97\00:52:58.01
Sin. That's right.
00:52:58.04\00:52:59.37
Sin.
00:52:59.41\00:53:00.74
Three, "For I acknowledge
my transgressions," God says,
00:53:00.78\00:53:04.05
come to me, but He doesn't
leave us in our transgressions.
00:53:04.08\00:53:07.68
"And my sin is ever
before me," oh, listen to this,
00:53:07.72\00:53:10.89
"purge me," with what?
00:53:10.92\00:53:12.45
Hyssop. Hyssop.
00:53:12.49\00:53:13.82
That's something
that Jewish people used
00:53:13.86\00:53:15.19
to use to help
purge the iniquities out
00:53:15.22\00:53:17.96
and the contamination.
00:53:17.99\00:53:20.26
"And I shall be clean, wash me.
00:53:20.30\00:53:24.57
And I shall be
whiter than snow."
00:53:24.60\00:53:26.13
It's all God doing this.
00:53:26.17\00:53:28.00
We can't do it.
00:53:28.04\00:53:29.37
We can't make
ourselves like Him.
00:53:29.40\00:53:31.97
We just invite
Him in and ask Him
00:53:32.01\00:53:34.18
to make us like him.
00:53:34.21\00:53:36.28
In John 14:8,
quickly, just says in there.
00:53:36.31\00:53:38.91
Was it Phillip that
said, "Show us the Father?"
00:53:38.95\00:53:42.45
This is what we
need to write, show us...
00:53:42.48\00:53:44.29
Show me the Father.
00:53:44.32\00:53:45.65
And what is it?
00:53:45.69\00:53:47.02
Jesus came to show
00:53:47.06\00:53:48.39
what it was all
about right there,
00:53:48.42\00:53:49.96
God was... Christ was in...
00:53:49.99\00:53:52.03
What was it? Yeah.
00:53:52.06\00:53:53.40
"God was in Christ reconciling
the world unto Himself."
00:53:53.43\00:53:56.46
That's right.
00:53:56.50\00:53:57.83
Because of the
lack of time... Yes.
00:53:57.87\00:53:59.90
Well, maybe we could get
some more here, let me...
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Psalms 51:8, let's
look at Psalms 51:8.
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"Make me to
hear joy and gladness
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that the bones which
thou hast broken may rejoice."
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See, He comes and He breaks,
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He changes our heart and
He begins to break us down.
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"Hide thy face from My sins."
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Remember David
crying out? That's right.
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"And blot out
all mine iniquities."
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Oh, Psalms 51:10.
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Oh, here it is.
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Everybody can
read it if you want.
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"Create in me a
clean heart, O God,
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and renew a right
spirit within me."
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Amen.
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"Cast me not away
from thy presence,
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and take not Thy
Holy Spirit from me."
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Amen.
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"Restore unto me the
joy of Thy salvation,
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and uphold me
with Thy free spirit."
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That is biblical...
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It's pretty
heavy. Then Psalms 51:13.
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Perfection. I don't know.
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Psalms 51:13.
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What would He do
after we're cleansed?
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Oh yes.
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Oh, read it for me.
I don't have that one.
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"Then will I teach
transgressors, Thy ways,
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and sinners shall
be converted unto you."
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Not unto us, unto
Christ. Yes, yes, yes.
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Keep it going.
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Because we want to give it
away when you're so filled up
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with the love of God,
you want to give it away.
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That's right. You know?
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And there's many times...
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Brother JD, I know
you've got something
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in your heart but
there's many times
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that we meet somebody
and we want to give them
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what God has given
us but there's a wall
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because they're not ready yet.
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Jesus says, "I
have so many things
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to tell you but
you're not ready."
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Tell us what's on your heart.
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Well, to me, this is
one of those little nuggets.
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There used to be an
inward transformation,
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the results of
which are revealed
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in the outward life.
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Amen.
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So you know, it's just...
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It's all hand-in-glove.
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So if He is
living within, right,
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He's gonna show with that
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in whatever you
do, yes, bearing fruit.
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Well, yeah, and you want to
be a demonstration of His love.
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Amen.
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Praise God. Praise God.
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We just have to have
the right perspective.
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And that is that
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we are striving for perfection,
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not a perfected work
that we will complete
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but that He will complete.
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My favorite
verse, Philippians 1:6,
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"We are confident of this thing
that He who began a good work
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in you will complete it."
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Okay.
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I've just got to
throw one more scripture in.
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Galatians 2:20, Galatians 2:20,
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he just set me up again.
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And it goes along
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with what we're
talking about here.
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Help me with it. It
says, "I am..." what?
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"Crucified.
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I am crucified."
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We are crucified with Christ.
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We need to do
away with the old man.
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"Nevertheless I live,
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yet not I, but
Christ liveth in me,
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and the life which I
now live in the flesh,
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I live by faith
of the Son of God,
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who loved me, and
gave Himself for me."
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So as we're
filled up with that love,
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we're gonna do the good work.
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Amen. That's right.
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We got to reflect Jesus Christ.
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We're going to come
into that that perfection
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that Christ pray, "Father,
I pray that they'd be perfect,
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they'd be one, as
You and I are one."
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It's all His love that draws us.
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It is beautiful.
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Now, Don, we just
have a couple of seconds,
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and closing quick
prayer would be good
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'cause somebody has
made decisions today.
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No doubt. Sure.
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Let's pray.
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Heavenly Father,
you know that lost lamb
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that's in the crack, Lord,
that needs to be cleaned up.
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And reaching out for You, Lord,
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I just ask that
You will guide them
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and strengthen them
and help them, Lord,
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to respond to the
voice of Your Holy Spirit.
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We ask that You will
guide and strengthen us
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all while we're
on this journey home.
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We pray this in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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