I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello, friends.
Welcome to Family Worship.
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It's time to open our Bibles
and go before the Lord again,
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and I have my
copilot with me right here.
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Happy Sabbath.
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And this is my
favorite time of the week.
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That's right. Love Sabbaths.
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So I welcome you
to Family Worship.
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That's right.
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Not just the
Lomacangs, but we have company.
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That's right. If
they took a wide shot,
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you'll see a lot of
people gather around the table,
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having fun with us.
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To my right is
Pastor John Dinzey.
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Good to have you here, Johnny.
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A blessing to be
here. We're like family.
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That's right. That's right.
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And my brother
from another mother.
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Yes. Tim Parton.
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Good to see you, Tim. Thank you.
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Great to see you. And
who's on your left, honey?
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Oh, Donald and Janelle
Owens, wonderful married couple.
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So glad to be here. So
happy to have you here.
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Yeah, likewise, it's a blessing
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And this table
represents so much of the gifts
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and ministry of 3ABN,
Tim is more than a musician,
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he is a man of
ministry in so many areas,
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and we praise the Lord for that.
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Pastor Dinzey,
head of 3ABN Latino,
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and he is doing
pastoral department.
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He has many hats
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but the work in
Latino is going worldwide
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and beautifully
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because of the work
your wife and you do,
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and we
appreciate Idalia very much.
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And Donald Owen, he's
in pastoral department,
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also personal ministries,
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both he and his
wife at our church.
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And, Janelle, if you
get a 3ABN world magazine,
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she has a lot to do with it.
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So thank you very
much. Wonderful couple.
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Praise the Lord. Thank you.
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We have an exciting
program today, honey.
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What's the name of our program?
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Well, it's "All Things New."
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Everyone likes
something new, don't we?
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That's right.
We like new things.
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Yeah. And today,
we're going to have prayer,
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we're going to talk about
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what it means to have
a new life, a new walk,
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the benefits of that new walk,
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how can you tell
whether a person is new,
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how to get old things out,
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so there's room for the new.
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And before we do that, we
are going have you do prayer
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and after that we are
going to sing some songs.
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We've got... Yes.
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This doesn't make sense to have
Tim and not having the music.
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I know, it doesn't make sense.
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He's synonymous to
music. Oh, I'm dreadful.
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No, no.
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That's one of the
additional benefits
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of having you on the program.
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Honey, would you
have prayer for us?
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Sure. Let's go to the Lord.
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"Our gracious Father in heaven,
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we come to You in
the name of Jesus.
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And, Lord, we just
are so grateful for Jesus,
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where would we be without Him.
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So, Lord, we thank You
for the blessed Sabbath hours
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that are before,
that are here right now.
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And we just ask that
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Your Holy Spirit
will come and anoint us,
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each one of us need
an anointing from you.
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So bless our worship today.
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May it be
acceptable in your sight,
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in Jesus' name.
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Amen. Amen. That's right.
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Sing them over again to me
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Wonderful words of life
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Let me more of their beauty see
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Wonderful words of life
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Words of life and beauty
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Teach me faith and duty
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Beautiful words, wonderful words
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Wonderful words of life
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Beautiful words, wonderful words
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Wonderful words
of life Last stanza.
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Sweetly echo the gospel call
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Wonderful words of life
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Offer pardon and peace to all
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Wonderful words of life
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Jesus, only Savior
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Sanctify forever
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With those beautiful
words, wonderful words
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Wonderful words of life
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Beautiful words, wonderful words
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Wonderful words of life
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Also Redeemed, 337,
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how I love to proclaim it.
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Redeemed, how I
love to proclaim it!
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Redeemed by the
blood of the Lamb
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Redeemed through
His infinite mercy
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His child, and forever, I am
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I'm redeemed, redeemed
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Redeemed by the
blood of the Lamb
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I'm redeemed
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Redeemed
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His child, and forever, I
am I know there's a crown.
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I know there's a
crown that is waiting
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In yonder bright mansion for me
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And soon, with the
spirits made perfect
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At home with the Lord I shall be
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Redeemed, redeemed
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Redeemed by the
blood of the Lamb
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We are redeemed
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Redeemed
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His child, and forever, I am
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Can we get an amen?
Amen. Praise the Lord.
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Thank you so much, Tim.
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One again, our
program is called,
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All Things New.
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And I think you
led out by saying,
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everyone likes new things.
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Oh, yeah.
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You go shopping
whether you like to do,
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buying something new
makes you feel so good.
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What is it about new things?
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Tell me, what is
it about new things
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that gets us excited?
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It's clean and
fresh smell, you know.
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Yeah, the smell.
All of those things.
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Smell, excitement. Excitement.
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There's excitement,
get something new job,
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you get excited
about it, don't you?
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We go to the
store, we get a magazine,
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Angie always gets the one
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that's like the third
and the fourth in the back.
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I said why not first?
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She said,
everybody touches the first.
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Yeah, I'll never
go for the first one.
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I go for the one further back.
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Remember when we
were in school though
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and you had the
first day of school
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back after vacation
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and you were in
your new clothes.
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Oh, yeah.
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I felt like a totally
different person actually.
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Yeah, the lunch bag.
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It's crispy, the first
page stuck together and...
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Shoes are really
hard on your feet,
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you got to stretch
him out. Right, right.
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Isn't that weird? Yeah.
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And we like things
new in the physical sense.
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But the Bible talks
about the benefits of things
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new in the spiritual sense.
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So we're going to begin
with a catapulting scripture.
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Go to 2 Corinthians 5:17,
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and this is the platform
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on which we're going
to build this program.
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And we're going to talk about
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the futility of trying to
put new things in an old life.
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Also the benefits
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and what the
Lord promises to do,
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then the evidence,
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how do you know a person is new,
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and then the eternal benefits of
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what it means to
be new in Christ.
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2 Corinthians 5:17,
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the Apostle Paul said to
the Corinthians these words,
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"Therefore, if anyone is" where?
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"In Christ, he is a" what?
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"New creation."
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How many things?
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Old things had passed away,
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behold all
things have become what?
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All things have
become new. Amen.
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Now let me just
ask that question.
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When you read that scripture,
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because we've read this
a number of times before.
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Don, how do you feel
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when you read
that scripture about,
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if anyone is in Christ,
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he is a new creation
or she is a new creation.
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What is it? What
does it say to you?
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Okay. Brings me
just peace and joy.
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To be in Christ Jesus,
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it really brings a
sense of peace and assurance.
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Okay. It's assurance too.
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Yeah, old things
have passed away,
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you are new,
forget about your past.
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We're just brand new.
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Lord has given us a new slate.
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We can start all
over again. Yeah.
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You don't have to go back.
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You go forward. What else?
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And that say,
marvelous, marvelous thing
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because some of us,
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I've seen most
of us, including me.
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We don't want the past
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to be seen or heard anymore.
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We want to start new, you know.
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And that's a
wonderful, wonderful opportunity
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that God gives to us and it's...
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I like the way it is said,
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behold, old
things have passed away.
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I mean, God is trying to
communicate something to us
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'cause we like,
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oh, remember when such
and such thing happened.
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No, God is trying to
communicate something to us.
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Old things are passed away,
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behold all
things have become new.
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And I like the way
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it is in the
book Desire of Ages,
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because it says,
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the Christian's life
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is not a
modification of the old.
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It is, say,
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the transformation takes place.
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It's everything new
through Jesus Christ,
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through the
blood of Jesus Christ,
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and that is more than
you can find anywhere else.
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That's right.
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You know, I was
also thinking about
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how it starts with our thoughts.
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You know, everything
starts with our thoughts
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and how He retrains our
mind to think His thoughts and,
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you know, and to
not have a, you know,
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a bad response if
somebody does something bad.
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Of course, you know,
sometimes there's times that we,
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you know, slip or whatever.
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But for me
personally, it's, you know,
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maybe not thinking
the same acts of revenge
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or whatever if
someone does something to me,
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but thinking, you know,
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what would Jesus
do in the situation,
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and how He can
change my thinking patterns
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and, you know and totally,
totally different pathways.
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Yes. Yeah. It's beautiful.
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I think one of the reasons
why people like New Year's Eve,
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they rejoice for two reasons.
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They rejoice that
there's a new beginning
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and then the past is gone.
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They say Happy New Year,
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they don't say, glad
the old year is gone.
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They say Happy New Year. Right.
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And so this topic
is talking about...
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When Jesus says
something can be new,
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it can be new.
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I'm going to have Tim...
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We're going to kind
of go through questions,
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we put a syllabus together.
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It's another way of saying,
an outline to keep us flowing
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but we are going to
start with going to Luke 5:37.
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And the question is,
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what does the Bible
discourage us from attempting?
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What does the Bible
discourage us from attempting?
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Luke 5:37.
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Tim?
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"And no one puts new
wine into old wineskins,
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or else the new wine will burst
the wineskins and be spilled,
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and the
wineskins will be ruined."
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Okay.
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And also add Mark 2:21,
because that's kind of a...
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Mark 2:21,
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"No one sews a
piece of unshrunk cloth
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on an old garment,
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or else the new piece
pulls away from the old,
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and the tear is made worse."
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Okay, so what do
we get out of that?
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What do we
discourage from doing?
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Old ways don't
mix with new ways.
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That's right. Yeah. A person.
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It's like oil and vinegar.
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I like that,
like oil and vinegar.
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It also reminds us that
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Jesus doesn't come to repair us,
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He restores us.
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It doesn't say
we're a modified creation,
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we're a new creation.
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That's right.
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So old things
have passed away, so...
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He said the key
word, restores us.
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He restores. That's right.
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David the
Psalmist, what he said?
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Yeah, He restores.
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It's about a week ago,
I woke up in the night,
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and I woke up, it came
to me, He restoreth my soul.
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And it came to me
over and over the whole...
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Lord woke me up and
He restoreth my soul.
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He restoreth my soul.
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And I woke up the morning
and the thought was gone.
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I'm like what was
it, Lord, what was it?
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I should have wrote it down.
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And while I was at
work, it came back to me.
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It came, the
Lord is my Shepherd,
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I shall not want.
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And then it came to,
He restoreth my soul.
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I said, thank You
Lord, You restored my soul.
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So it was so enlightening to me.
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And then we went
to the Hobby Lobby.
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And we went to Hobby Lobby
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where you get little
knickknacks and things.
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And guess what we saw?
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On a placard.
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Nice. He restoreth.
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And this in our
wall, He restoreth my soul.
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That's right. From Psalm 23,
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and when you
said that it just...
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Another confirmation.
Yeah, confirmation.
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So that's new. And that's true.
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He wants to restore us,
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but He starts by kind of
getting with all that stuff
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that was in a way before.
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I think of the
examples that are used here.
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I know when in the
past, when I was growing up...
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I think about that too long.
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Some of you may
have the same experience.
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You may remember the days
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when you tear your
jeans or your pants
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and your mom goes, get a
patch, and she sews it on.
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And you just buy
them ripped already.
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Yeah. Nowadays it is like.
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Or you have a hole in your shoe.
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Lot of change has taken place.
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But do you notice,
they're making things
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that are falling
that apart acceptable,
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whereas in the past,
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things that need to be
renewed was really the focus.
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The style.
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The style nowadays,
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if it's broken up or
torn up, it's acceptable.
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And I think there's a mindset
that goes along with that.
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Wrinkled up, torn up,
you know, hair in like
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19 different
directions and your hair like...
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You couldn't get a job years ago
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looking that way, but nowadays
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that's what you
have to do to get a job.
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Discombobulated to get a job.
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Interesting thing is
that people seem to pay
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a lot of money for
broken and torn up jeans.
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Yeah. It's expensive.
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And some people actually
do it intentionally now,
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to tear it all up and sell
it, and the more holes you have,
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the more
expensive it seems to be.
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But the Lord wants to do what?
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He wants to put,
and here's the key.
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What do you
think the new wine is?
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Think, let's talk
about what the wine is.
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Don't put new
wine in old wineskins.
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Thank you for touching on that
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'cause we were talking
earlier about, you know,
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defining what it
means there by new wine.
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I think Tim
mentioned it too about,
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it's new ways and it's new,
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you know, following His
ways and, you know, His path.
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And the fact that it mentions
wine is interesting to me
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because you get
wine from pressing grapes
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and when He presses us,
you know, in a good way,
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you know, then outflows the new,
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the new us that
He wants to make.
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And I think that's
a beautiful picture of
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what He wants
to do in our lives.
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That's right.
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And what's the wineskins?
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The old wineskins?
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Wineskins is the
old self. Whole body.
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The old self that
doesn't want to let go,
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so like, it's like
Paul putting, you know,
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he says, the things I
don't want to do that I do.
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It's the old
patterns, the old thinking,
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the old habits,
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those kind of things
are the old wineskins.
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What happens to old wineskins
over the course of use?
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There is
something very deep in this.
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What happens to old wineskins
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when you keep
pouring grape juice
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in there or whatever and then
you pour it out, it's empty,
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you pour it in, you
pour it out, it's empty.
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What happens on the inside?
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They harden. Say it again.
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They harden. They harden.
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And the wineskins,
the leather wineskins,
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the way that it's
best written here is,
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it starts up the moment
you pour that juice into it,
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the wall starts absorbing it.
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And when you
pour out that juice,
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the walls don't
come clear any longer.
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Whatever used to be in there
got absorbed into the walls.
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This is really powerful.
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Whatever has been in your life
got absorbed into your life.
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It got absorbed into your life,
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so before the Lord puts
anything new in your life,
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He is not saying,
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it's going to be
kind of bad for me
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to put new stuff in life
that's absorbed with old stuff.
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So that's why 2
Corinthians, "He makes you new."
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So when He puts
new things in you,
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your life starts
absorbing new things.
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That's wonderful.
Isn't that wonderful?
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You can't absorb new
things with old wineskins,
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because the
walls are not pliable.
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They don't, you know, he says,
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he is not going to
stretch and why he says new wine
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because new wine,
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that's why the
Lord gave the new wine
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at the end of
the marriage feast.
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Because new grape juice,
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if it's not
dealt with immediately,
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it starts fermenting, and
starts stretching the skin.
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So He left the new to the end
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so that it wouldn't
sit there and go rancid,
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because when it
starts stretching the skin
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in the old life,
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this is why people
walk away from Jesus.
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They try to put new
things in their lives
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without becoming new.
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And when everything
starts breaking apart,
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I can't take it anymore.
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I can't, I'm tired
of these new songs,
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these new doctrines,
it's a new way of life,
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I can't handle it
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because they try to put
new things in old wineskins.
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They also, they
ultimately blame God too.
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Yeah.
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They go and blame
Him, they think, well,
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this isn't working for me
00:17:50.73\00:17:52.07
so God must not be in a picture,
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so where was He in
this? That's right.
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And it becomes more
of like a behavior-based
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instead of how He
is transforming us.
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It's more
behavior-based and then
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it doesn't last for very
long 'cause it's not genuine.
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That's right.
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You know, when you
look at 2 Corinthians 5:17,
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and we see this picture of that,
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the Lord is trying
to help us understand
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that He is saying,
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"You have become a new creation.
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Old things have passed away,
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behold, old things
have become new because,
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unfortunately,
we remember things.
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And the devil makes sure
that we remember some things
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that we have done in
the past to bring us down.
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And that's why I like to
read Philippians Chapter 3,
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because Paul
struggled with this himself.
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In Philippians Chapter 3,
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he's talking about the
resurrection of the dead.
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But when he gets
down to verse 13...
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Actually let me
go to verse 12. Okay.
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"Not that I have
already attained,
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or am already
perfected, but I press on,
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that I may lay hold of that
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for which Christ has
also laid hold of me.
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Brethren, I do not count
myself to have apprehended,
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but one thing I do,
00:19:02.07\00:19:04.24
forgetting those things
which are behind or are past,
00:19:04.27\00:19:07.94
and reaching
forward to those things
00:19:07.98\00:19:09.81
which are ahead,
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I press toward the goal
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for the prize of the upward
call of God in Christ Jesus."
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And so, when the devil
brings those things back,
00:19:17.25\00:19:20.66
we can say, I'm a
new creation in Christ.
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All those things they're gone,
all things have become new.
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And so, we have
to allow the Lord
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to transform us
and where I guess,
00:19:31.27\00:19:33.10
we're going to
talk about that later.
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By the renewing of our mind,
we have to let those things go.
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They are not supposed to
shape and mould us anymore,
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they are gone.
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They are supposed
to be gone from us.
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Yeah.
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And that's why these
scriptures that we're reading
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are so powerful,
so full of meaning
00:19:47.35\00:19:49.78
that we have to
stop and consider them
00:19:49.82\00:19:51.35
because God is trying
to help us understand,
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"You get a new
start." That's right.
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And, you know, I'm sorry.
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I had a testimony
that I was going to share.
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We did a thing called
moon star a few years ago,
00:20:00.36\00:20:02.83
and I had a couple of gentlemen,
00:20:02.86\00:20:04.20
their car had been
broke down in this field
00:20:04.23\00:20:06.53
and they had a flat tire.
00:20:06.57\00:20:08.00
So they needed a 4-way,
00:20:08.04\00:20:09.37
didn't have a
4-way for the lug nuts.
00:20:09.40\00:20:10.74
So I ran
everywhere looking, searching
00:20:10.77\00:20:12.17
and I ramped this family,
00:20:12.21\00:20:13.84
I have to have one, I
ran back and gave it to him.
00:20:13.88\00:20:15.88
And he said, "Hey man,
you know, thanks a lot,
00:20:15.91\00:20:17.28
it's really hot,
would you like a cold beer?"
00:20:17.31\00:20:19.28
And the old self
would have probably said,
00:20:19.31\00:20:21.62
"Oh, yeah. Sure, that's
great. I said, "No, that's okay.
00:20:21.65\00:20:23.62
I don't need it, I
don't need a beer."
00:20:23.65\00:20:24.99
He said, "How
about a nice cold water."
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Should I take that,
so the old, that change,
00:20:26.39\00:20:28.86
you know, the old is
gone and I'll become,
00:20:28.89\00:20:30.63
the new has come so...
And the desire changes.
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Yeah, it's gone.
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It's totally gone, you know,
I don't need that, that's fine.
00:20:33.60\00:20:34.93
So that's the thing is,
you let go of those old past,
00:20:34.96\00:20:38.17
don't pick it back
up again, you know,
00:20:38.20\00:20:39.90
talk about a man
going to the bar,
00:20:39.93\00:20:41.34
he's just got sobriety.
00:20:41.37\00:20:43.00
He goes in, and guess what?
00:20:43.04\00:20:44.37
He's probably
going to find himself
00:20:44.41\00:20:45.74
back in the same
lifestyle, the pattern so...
00:20:45.77\00:20:47.68
And, you know,
something that kind of
00:20:47.71\00:20:49.04
goes along with that is,
00:20:49.08\00:20:50.41
you know, as Satan
wants to put a label on us
00:20:50.45\00:20:53.35
and sometimes we
do it to each other.
00:20:53.38\00:20:55.02
We put labels,
00:20:55.05\00:20:56.38
you know, or there's the
ex, this or that or the other.
00:20:56.42\00:20:59.42
And instead of you know,
00:20:59.45\00:21:01.19
they want to be known
as a new creature now,
00:21:01.22\00:21:03.06
not as an ex,
whatever, you know.
00:21:03.09\00:21:05.96
And so, I think
that's important too
00:21:05.99\00:21:07.66
that we don't keep
those labels going,
00:21:07.70\00:21:09.86
you know, it's like,
it's not who I am now,
00:21:09.90\00:21:12.47
it's not who that
person wants to be.
00:21:12.50\00:21:14.80
So those labels can be,
you know, really damaging.
00:21:14.84\00:21:19.17
That's right. Yeah.
00:21:19.21\00:21:20.54
Tim, I thought you had a
though you was going through.
00:21:20.58\00:21:21.91
Well, actually we've gone
on to a different kind of,
00:21:21.94\00:21:24.11
different direction so
I'll surrender my thought.
00:21:24.15\00:21:26.08
Okay. That's be some other day.
00:21:26.11\00:21:28.85
And so when you
look at these passages,
00:21:28.88\00:21:31.05
even the prerequisite
is we have to be new
00:21:31.09\00:21:33.42
for new things that
come into our lives.
00:21:33.46\00:21:36.89
And this is really
00:21:36.93\00:21:38.26
I got to
emphasize this for sure,
00:21:38.29\00:21:39.63
but very quickly here.
00:21:39.66\00:21:41.13
That's why when we have people
00:21:41.16\00:21:42.50
even become part
of our fellowship.
00:21:42.53\00:21:45.20
Lot of times,
people join a church
00:21:45.23\00:21:46.57
because they
believe its teachings.
00:21:46.60\00:21:48.90
And you can't
argue with the teachings.
00:21:48.94\00:21:50.27
The teachings are a fact
whether you accept them or not,
00:21:50.31\00:21:52.74
but that's not the
prerequisite to join a church.
00:21:52.77\00:21:55.81
Those things make sense
00:21:55.84\00:21:57.25
and they are easy to
assimilate into a life
00:21:57.28\00:22:00.02
that's been made new.
00:22:00.05\00:22:01.38
Yeah.
00:22:01.42\00:22:02.75
See what happens is,
when a life is not new,
00:22:02.78\00:22:04.12
those things seem to be adverse
00:22:04.15\00:22:05.49
or almost in an
adversarial position.
00:22:05.52\00:22:07.99
Why do I have to do that?
00:22:08.02\00:22:09.36
Well, you know, when
a vessel is brand new,
00:22:09.39\00:22:12.16
when our wineskin is brand new.
00:22:12.19\00:22:14.43
It's not arguing by saying,
00:22:14.46\00:22:15.80
"Could you pour
some of the same wine
00:22:15.83\00:22:17.17
I used to get back in here?"
00:22:17.20\00:22:19.00
It says,
00:22:19.03\00:22:20.37
I don't want to be
stained by that old stuff,
00:22:20.40\00:22:21.90
pour something new in me.
00:22:21.94\00:22:23.94
And so, it doesn't
have any prerequisites.
00:22:23.97\00:22:26.07
It doesn't say
this is what I want.
00:22:26.11\00:22:28.54
But it's new and fresh
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and you kind of
like anything new,
00:22:30.08\00:22:31.81
you always like the parent
that gets that first child
00:22:31.85\00:22:35.15
everybody has to
be without a cold,
00:22:35.18\00:22:36.85
you have to wash your hands,
00:22:36.89\00:22:38.79
you know, stay away, sanitized,
00:22:38.82\00:22:41.12
but after the third child,
00:22:41.16\00:22:42.72
you know, you can
bring a dump truck
00:22:42.76\00:22:44.09
into your living room.
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See, realize, this
is the world of gems.
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But look what the
Lord promised to do.
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Question number three,
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what does the Lord promise to do
00:22:51.70\00:22:53.03
to those that come to Him?
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Let me see, let's
look at our syllabus.
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Let's start with Ezekiel 36:26.
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Want to read that
one for us, honey?
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Ezekiel 36:26.
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"I will give you a new heart
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and put a new spirit within you,
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I will take away
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the heart of
stone out of your flesh
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and give you a heart of flesh."
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Now, you know,
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this is one of the
few times in the Bible
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where the word
flesh is a positive thing.
00:23:21.26\00:23:22.93
Yeah.
00:23:22.96\00:23:24.30
Because it's
comparing it with stone.
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You know, what stone mean.
00:23:26.37\00:23:27.70
Let's talk about
stones for a minute.
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Why is the Lord
wanting to get rid of the stone
00:23:29.10\00:23:31.57
and give us a heart of flesh?
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What is stone known for?
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It's hard. Okay.
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Yeah, it's hard.
00:23:36.28\00:23:38.78
Hard to tell the truth,
00:23:38.81\00:23:40.82
hard to convince
them of the God's work,
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hard to move
them, hard to see it.
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Unteachable. Unteachable. Yeah.
00:23:45.92\00:23:47.36
Can't change the shape,
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you start, you
know, tearing at it.
00:23:49.02\00:23:50.89
Yeah.
00:23:50.93\00:23:52.26
It's hard, it's uncomfortable
when it's in your shoe.
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It makes you walk differently.
00:23:54.60\00:23:58.57
Yeah, absolutely.
00:23:58.60\00:23:59.93
Oh, that's... I
didn't think about that one.
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You weren't
thinking about that. Yeah.
00:24:01.60\00:24:04.14
That's right, to make
sure walk quite different.
00:24:04.17\00:24:06.61
And so what he says,
he's going to put a...
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And when that
new spirit comes in,
00:24:09.38\00:24:11.91
that new heart
comes with a new spirit.
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And then what he does?
00:24:14.45\00:24:15.78
He doesn't put it side
by side with the old one,
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what does he do with it?
00:24:18.22\00:24:19.55
What does he do
with the old one?
00:24:19.59\00:24:20.92
Removes it. Takes it out.
00:24:20.96\00:24:22.66
Take the hard stone out.
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It's like you go on
the operating table.
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And he says,
"Now, are you ready?"
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I'm ready. Okay.
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Put him under.
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And that's all
baptism is all about.
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There you go.
Put him under. Right.
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And he comes out to walk
in the newness of life, right?
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Newness of life,
never the oldness of life.
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Another one, Isaiah 43:19,
00:24:43.18\00:24:44.88
who would like to
read that one for us?
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That under number 3.
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Isaiah 43:19. Anyone?
00:24:47.82\00:24:50.15
"Behold, I will do a new thing,
00:24:50.19\00:24:53.19
now it shall spring
forth, shall you not know it?
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I will even make a
road in the wilderness
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and rivers in the desert."
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Now, what does that
mean? Think about that.
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Wow. Do new thing.
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So what is it? What
in essence is he saying?
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He says, "I'm going
to do things in life
00:25:06.57\00:25:07.97
that you never
thought possible."
00:25:08.00\00:25:09.40
Yes. Yes.
00:25:09.44\00:25:10.77
You're going to see
things happening in your life
00:25:10.81\00:25:12.14
that you never
thought a possibility,
00:25:12.17\00:25:14.38
a road in the wilderness,
rivers in the desert.
00:25:14.41\00:25:18.65
How does that happen?
00:25:18.68\00:25:21.08
Have you ever thought about
00:25:21.12\00:25:22.45
God is not able
to do certain things.
00:25:22.48\00:25:24.32
Let's talk about
that for a moment.
00:25:24.35\00:25:25.69
What is God not
able to do? Can't lie.
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Okay. He cannot lie.
00:25:27.69\00:25:29.02
Can't die, of course.
00:25:29.06\00:25:30.56
He can't fail, He can't change.
00:25:30.59\00:25:32.89
Okay, now that we
got that out of the way.
00:25:32.93\00:25:35.00
Is there anything
that's difficult for God?
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No. It's impossible.
00:25:37.10\00:25:38.83
Now that's important
00:25:38.87\00:25:40.20
because let's
just bring that out
00:25:40.24\00:25:42.47
and dive in at any moment.
00:25:42.50\00:25:44.67
So if we feel that
00:25:44.71\00:25:46.04
there's nothing
difficult for God,
00:25:46.07\00:25:48.68
why do we sometimes hesitate
00:25:48.71\00:25:51.78
when the Lord
says, "Come unto me."
00:25:51.81\00:25:54.42
You say, I don't know,
I don't know if He could.
00:25:54.45\00:25:56.28
I don't know if
you could change me.
00:25:56.32\00:25:59.95
I don't know if
you could do that.
00:25:59.99\00:26:01.62
Can you work miracles?
00:26:01.66\00:26:03.43
Yes, is there
anything hard for God?
00:26:03.46\00:26:05.26
No.
00:26:05.29\00:26:07.56
So what does that
mean when you say,
00:26:07.60\00:26:08.93
"I'm going to do new thing."
00:26:08.96\00:26:10.30
How many people
don't want a new thing?
00:26:10.33\00:26:11.83
Everyone wants something new.
00:26:11.87\00:26:14.50
Okay.
00:26:14.54\00:26:15.87
A new thing
you're searching for.
00:26:15.90\00:26:17.24
Sometimes I want something
new, but we don't want...
00:26:17.27\00:26:18.67
To surrender. Right.
00:26:18.71\00:26:20.48
That's the hardest surrender.
00:26:20.51\00:26:23.11
I'm looking for.
00:26:23.14\00:26:25.11
You know, I was going to
say because in Ezekiel 36:26,
00:26:25.15\00:26:29.92
it talks about the Lord
creating a new heart in us
00:26:29.95\00:26:33.92
and He really is the
only one that can do that.
00:26:33.96\00:26:36.49
That's right.
00:26:36.52\00:26:37.86
He is the only one
00:26:37.89\00:26:39.23
that can create
a new heart in us
00:26:39.26\00:26:40.60
and gave us a heart of flesh
00:26:40.63\00:26:42.86
and you can
search another places,
00:26:42.90\00:26:46.40
you can make all
the effort you want,
00:26:46.43\00:26:48.57
but the only one
00:26:48.60\00:26:49.94
that can change
our heart is God.
00:26:49.97\00:26:52.14
So when he
says, "I will do this,
00:26:52.17\00:26:55.14
our part is to
cooperate and let Him do it
00:26:55.18\00:26:58.71
because the
impossibility lies with us.
00:26:58.75\00:27:03.39
That's where the
impossibility lies with God
00:27:03.42\00:27:06.45
all things are possible.
00:27:06.49\00:27:08.32
And when we
think about ourselves
00:27:08.36\00:27:13.16
and we let self be the guide
00:27:13.19\00:27:18.33
then we have trouble.
00:27:18.37\00:27:19.70
And, you know, you were saying,
"Oh, God can't change me."
00:27:19.73\00:27:24.17
There are thousands
and millions of people
00:27:24.21\00:27:27.38
that God has changed already,
00:27:27.41\00:27:29.54
and you can be the next
one, if you just allow that.
00:27:29.58\00:27:34.35
What else is on your
mind about this topic?
00:27:34.38\00:27:36.32
Psalm 51. Okay.
00:27:36.35\00:27:37.85
Psalm 51. Oh, yeah.
00:27:37.89\00:27:39.25
Well, there's a
few, in verse 10.
00:27:39.29\00:27:42.02
"Create in me a
clean heart, O God
00:27:42.06\00:27:45.16
and renew a
steadfast spirit within me."
00:27:45.19\00:27:49.16
And all of
Psalm, I always people,
00:27:49.20\00:27:52.37
my nephew always tell him,
he is going through something
00:27:52.40\00:27:54.94
and I said, read
Psalm 51 and verse 7 says,
00:27:54.97\00:28:00.51
"Purge me with hyssop, and
I shall be clean, wash me,"
00:28:00.54\00:28:04.61
and what did he say? "I
shall be whiter than snow."
00:28:04.65\00:28:08.92
That's a promise.
00:28:08.95\00:28:10.29
And then verse 12, honey.
00:28:10.32\00:28:11.65
There's so much.
Look at verse 12.
00:28:11.69\00:28:13.02
Restore to me the
joy of your salvation,
00:28:13.05\00:28:16.29
and uphold me by
Your generous Spirit.
00:28:16.32\00:28:21.10
Then I will teach
transgressors your ways,
00:28:21.13\00:28:23.93
and sinners will be
converted to you then," right?
00:28:23.97\00:28:26.47
You're right.
00:28:26.50\00:28:27.84
Only if the Lord
does something for you,
00:28:27.87\00:28:29.47
can you do something,
something for anybody else.
00:28:29.50\00:28:31.91
My question is,
we're just sitting there,
00:28:31.94\00:28:33.68
who are we converting people to?
00:28:33.71\00:28:35.14
To Christ? Yeah,
we can't go to us.
00:28:36.95\00:28:39.38
Not to us, it's
to the Lord, restore.
00:28:39.41\00:28:42.78
I think that's a
really powerful scripture,
00:28:42.82\00:28:44.65
you know, he finally, gave you,
00:28:44.69\00:28:46.45
you know, like, Jacob, did
he wrestled with the angel.
00:28:46.49\00:28:48.99
He was wrestling
because he had something
00:28:49.02\00:28:50.46
that he wasn't
willing to let go of,
00:28:50.49\00:28:52.03
but when he finally did,
now that he can go and teach
00:28:52.06\00:28:55.10
because he knows
he has been through,
00:28:55.13\00:28:56.53
he has experienced that.
00:28:56.56\00:28:57.90
Exactly.
00:28:57.93\00:28:59.27
I think we all have
experienced something,
00:28:59.30\00:29:00.64
we have to so
many share testimony
00:29:00.67\00:29:02.00
in some way or other
00:29:02.04\00:29:03.37
what we have been
through to help somebody else.
00:29:03.41\00:29:05.34
So they can let go
and become a new thing so.
00:29:05.37\00:29:07.84
I see a get away with that.
00:29:07.88\00:29:09.21
Well, I just
think it's important
00:29:09.24\00:29:10.58
to remember what that verse
00:29:10.61\00:29:11.95
or what that whole
chapter, the whole song
00:29:11.98\00:29:14.32
where it's based on,
00:29:14.35\00:29:15.92
and David coming out of
the Bathsheba relationship
00:29:15.95\00:29:18.85
or situation.
00:29:18.89\00:29:20.26
And so, you know, to know that,
00:29:20.29\00:29:23.76
that's part of just
humbling ourselves to God
00:29:23.79\00:29:25.86
and knowing that
00:29:25.89\00:29:27.26
if there is
anything possible with God,
00:29:27.30\00:29:28.90
it's a fact that He will give us
00:29:28.93\00:29:30.27
another
opportunity, another chance.
00:29:30.30\00:29:32.07
We just have to
surrender to that
00:29:32.10\00:29:33.87
and admit that
we made a mistake,
00:29:33.90\00:29:35.24
so that's the huge
part of being a new,
00:29:35.27\00:29:39.51
of becoming a new creature
is submitting yourself to Him
00:29:39.54\00:29:42.81
and saying, "I messed up."
00:29:42.84\00:29:44.58
Exactly. And not just...
00:29:44.61\00:29:45.95
We're often saying,
00:29:45.98\00:29:47.32
well, there is never
any hope like you said this,
00:29:47.35\00:29:49.78
God could never
heal me or could never.
00:29:49.82\00:29:52.92
Right.
00:29:52.95\00:29:55.19
But that's okay, so,
and one of the prerequisites
00:29:55.22\00:29:57.73
and I'm glad you
brought the story up,
00:29:57.76\00:29:59.09
one of the prerequisites
00:29:59.13\00:30:00.46
there is David
was willing to say.
00:30:00.50\00:30:01.83
"Hey, this is who I am,
this is what I have done."
00:30:01.86\00:30:03.57
Yeah.
00:30:03.60\00:30:04.93
So when you put
it all out there,
00:30:04.97\00:30:06.97
the Lord is saying,
"I already knew that,
00:30:07.00\00:30:09.97
I just wanted you
to acknowledge it."
00:30:10.01\00:30:11.84
You know, that's
why he also says,
00:30:11.87\00:30:13.21
"My sin is ever before me."
00:30:13.24\00:30:15.81
He knew that,
"Hey, I can't hide this."
00:30:15.84\00:30:18.05
He said, "If I try to hide
it, I'm just fooling myself.
00:30:18.08\00:30:20.85
1 John 1, I think
it's verse 7, now he says,
00:30:20.88\00:30:23.65
if you say you have no
sin, you deceive yourself.
00:30:23.69\00:30:26.76
Yeah.
00:30:26.79\00:30:28.99
Who you are lying to.
00:30:29.02\00:30:30.73
A beautiful
Psalm 103:13-14 says,
00:30:30.76\00:30:33.80
"Like as a father
pitieth his children,
00:30:33.83\00:30:36.77
so the Lord
pitieth them that fear him.
00:30:36.80\00:30:38.70
For he knoweth our frame,
he rememberth that we are dust.
00:30:38.73\00:30:42.94
So, you know,
that just speaks to me,
00:30:42.97\00:30:44.67
you know, if
your father pities you
00:30:44.71\00:30:46.68
and has mercy on you,
00:30:46.71\00:30:48.04
God gives you much
more greater mercy,
00:30:48.08\00:30:50.81
and He remembers how weak we are
00:30:50.85\00:30:52.65
and how easily fallen
into the temptations of sin.
00:30:52.68\00:30:55.62
Did you... What
verse did you read?
00:30:55.65\00:30:57.25
Verse 13-14.
00:30:57.29\00:30:58.92
Okay, but look at verse 3.
00:30:58.95\00:31:01.42
Read that one.
00:31:01.46\00:31:03.09
Actual it's 1-22.
00:31:03.12\00:31:04.83
"Bless the Lord, O my soul,
and forget not all his benefits
00:31:04.86\00:31:08.73
who forgiveth
all thine inquities,
00:31:08.76\00:31:10.70
who healeth all thy diseases."
00:31:10.73\00:31:12.90
This is, I share
this with a lot of people
00:31:12.93\00:31:14.27
in prayer line a lot.
00:31:14.30\00:31:15.64
That's right.
00:31:15.67\00:31:17.01
Who redeems your
life from destruction,
00:31:17.04\00:31:18.37
who crowns you...
00:31:18.41\00:31:19.94
When we read a Bible sometimes,
00:31:19.97\00:31:21.44
it's kind of just hits you
at a place where you think,
00:31:21.48\00:31:23.95
okay, today the Bible became
more than just a good book.
00:31:23.98\00:31:27.12
Exactly. Real.
00:31:27.15\00:31:30.65
Just got real. Just got real.
00:31:30.69\00:31:32.35
You ever had those
days where it just got real.
00:31:32.39\00:31:35.59
It was like, wow
great instruction,
00:31:35.62\00:31:37.53
great for the
Sabbath school material,
00:31:37.56\00:31:39.16
good stuff for sermon.
00:31:39.19\00:31:40.60
But there are those days
00:31:40.63\00:31:41.96
when all of a sudden
become your life hedge,
00:31:42.00\00:31:43.33
your parachute,
00:31:43.37\00:31:44.70
you're floating in the
middle of this horrible ocean.
00:31:44.73\00:31:46.77
Your cork that has
been hit by a whale,
00:31:46.80\00:31:49.07
it refuses to go down.
00:31:49.10\00:31:50.44
Praise God for that. Amen.
00:31:50.47\00:31:52.21
And He promises to do that.
00:31:52.24\00:31:53.58
Anything else before we go on?
00:31:53.61\00:31:54.94
I was just thinking, just
an insert this thought of,
00:31:58.08\00:32:01.08
you know, when you're
talking about baptism is,
00:32:01.12\00:32:03.92
you know, when I
was first baptized,
00:32:03.95\00:32:05.79
I think I was
under the impression that
00:32:05.82\00:32:07.46
I would immediately,
00:32:07.49\00:32:08.82
you know, have this
new outlook or new whatever
00:32:08.86\00:32:12.39
and it's a process you know,
00:32:12.43\00:32:15.46
and I like what it says here
00:32:15.50\00:32:17.07
and this is a
Life Recovery Bible
00:32:17.10\00:32:19.67
that we use for
recovery ministry
00:32:19.70\00:32:21.67
and it has some
commentary on Isaiah 63:17-19,
00:32:21.70\00:32:26.78
it says, "Turning back to God
00:32:26.81\00:32:28.14
and renewing that relationship
is not a push-button experience
00:32:28.18\00:32:31.51
that happens instantly.
00:32:31.55\00:32:33.48
We have allowed our
heart to become hardened,
00:32:33.52\00:32:35.32
"like you were
talking about earlier,"
00:32:35.35\00:32:37.95
and it takes time
to soften it again.
00:32:37.99\00:32:40.22
We can begin this process
00:32:40.26\00:32:41.59
that God may not
seem near immediately.
00:32:41.62\00:32:44.16
We need to move closer to Him
00:32:44.19\00:32:45.66
and our relationship
with Him will blossom in time.
00:32:45.69\00:32:48.53
God is there,
00:32:48.56\00:32:49.90
we just have trouble
seeing Him sometimes."
00:32:49.93\00:32:52.77
And for me that's been,
00:32:52.80\00:32:54.30
you know, kind of
difficult thing is,
00:32:54.34\00:32:57.01
you know, if I don't feel like,
00:32:57.04\00:33:00.21
you know, that's obviously
a key word is feelings.
00:33:00.24\00:33:03.35
Yeah.
00:33:03.38\00:33:04.71
We're not good to go off of but
00:33:04.75\00:33:06.21
and, you know,
when I was baptized
00:33:06.25\00:33:08.72
and just journey till now
it's just been an interesting,
00:33:08.75\00:33:11.82
how God has opened my eyes
to how He wants to change me
00:33:11.85\00:33:15.92
and it's not an instantaneous
thing that happens that,
00:33:15.96\00:33:19.93
you know, we have this
instant gratification world
00:33:19.96\00:33:22.33
that we want to be
just like Him right now,
00:33:22.36\00:33:25.63
you know.
00:33:25.67\00:33:27.00
So it's encouraging that
He takes us where we're at.
00:33:27.04\00:33:30.67
Amen. Right.
Share with us, John.
00:33:30.71\00:33:33.27
I was going to share something
00:33:33.48\00:33:34.81
from the Book of John Chapter 8,
00:33:34.84\00:33:36.54
you know,
because the picture there
00:33:36.58\00:33:39.01
as he begin the Chapter,
00:33:39.05\00:33:40.38
Jesus had gone to
the Mount of Olives,
00:33:40.42\00:33:41.85
and it says early in the morning
00:33:41.88\00:33:43.22
He came to the temple
00:33:43.25\00:33:45.22
and He began to
teach the people,
00:33:45.25\00:33:46.89
but the scribes and Pharisees
had laid a plan to trap Him,
00:33:46.92\00:33:50.23
you know, it's
like they interrupted
00:33:50.26\00:33:51.59
what He was doing,
teaching the people
00:33:51.63\00:33:53.93
and they brought a
woman and they say,
00:33:53.96\00:33:55.70
we caught this woman in
the very act of adultery
00:33:55.73\00:33:58.13
and they set a trap for Him.
00:33:58.17\00:34:00.54
You know, the law of Moses
says that such should be stoned
00:34:00.57\00:34:03.14
Yeah. What do you say?
00:34:03.17\00:34:05.14
And this woman
00:34:05.17\00:34:10.28
was trembling in fear
00:34:10.31\00:34:12.85
because Jesus started writing,
00:34:12.88\00:34:17.22
He started writing
00:34:17.25\00:34:18.59
and He seemed to
make, pay no attention
00:34:18.62\00:34:20.79
to what they were saying
00:34:20.82\00:34:22.16
and they
repeated what they said.
00:34:22.19\00:34:24.19
And then Jesus says,
"He who is without sin,
00:34:24.23\00:34:27.56
let him cast the first stone."
00:34:27.60\00:34:30.97
So this woman know, oh, no,
00:34:31.00\00:34:32.67
they're going to kill me
because who are these people?
00:34:32.70\00:34:35.70
Scribes and Pharisees
00:34:35.74\00:34:37.24
that are
supposed to be the elite,
00:34:37.27\00:34:39.81
and the squeaky clean,
00:34:39.84\00:34:43.04
righteous people in the society.
00:34:43.08\00:34:45.45
So she thought, okay,
they're going to kill me.
00:34:45.48\00:34:48.08
But the sin in them
00:34:48.12\00:34:52.89
prevented them from
throwing the first stone.
00:34:52.92\00:34:55.96
So when we talk
about the mercy of God,
00:34:55.99\00:34:58.06
we all need the mercy of God.
00:34:58.09\00:35:01.20
And David when we were
talking about Psalm 51,
00:35:01.23\00:35:03.87
I was looking
ahead and, you know,
00:35:03.90\00:35:05.50
a top of it says,
00:35:05.53\00:35:06.87
David says, "Lord have
mercy upon me, according to,"
00:35:06.90\00:35:11.34
abundant, you know, abundant.
00:35:11.37\00:35:13.31
Tender mercies.
00:35:13.34\00:35:14.68
Yeah, tender mercies,
00:35:14.71\00:35:16.04
"According to
Your lovingkindness."
00:35:16.08\00:35:18.35
David knew
00:35:18.38\00:35:20.15
that God is
merciful and loves us.
00:35:20.18\00:35:24.45
He did.
00:35:24.49\00:35:25.82
But he knew he had to
humble himself before Him.
00:35:25.85\00:35:28.82
And that's what
we all have to do.
00:35:28.86\00:35:30.19
We have to humble
ourselves before the Lord.
00:35:30.23\00:35:31.56
I understand that
He wants to forgive us,
00:35:31.59\00:35:34.53
He wants to restore us.
00:35:34.56\00:35:35.90
He wants to make us new,
00:35:35.93\00:35:38.47
and we need to stop
resisting, you know,
00:35:38.50\00:35:40.97
stop resisting the work that
00:35:41.00\00:35:42.77
God wants to do is
because He wants to change us.
00:35:42.80\00:35:44.54
And you know,
when He changes us,
00:35:44.57\00:35:46.84
we will be
happy, happier people.
00:35:46.88\00:35:49.91
Resist the devil.
That's what we need to resist.
00:35:49.94\00:35:52.41
Resist the devil.
Stop resisting arrest.
00:35:52.45\00:35:54.78
Yeah.
00:35:54.82\00:35:56.15
Spiritual sense. Yeah.
00:35:56.18\00:35:57.52
He can take hold of
us and change our lives.
00:35:57.55\00:35:59.12
It was amazing
you brought that up
00:35:59.15\00:36:00.49
because there're two
parallels in the Bible
00:36:00.52\00:36:01.86
that we sometimes forget.
00:36:01.89\00:36:03.43
In reference to that
woman,. he said in John 8:11,
00:36:03.46\00:36:06.39
"Neither do I condemn
you, go and sin no more."
00:36:06.43\00:36:08.70
And I thought
that just buzz with me
00:36:08.73\00:36:11.50
because John 3:17,
00:36:11.53\00:36:14.67
"For God send not
His Son into the world
00:36:14.70\00:36:16.40
to condemn the world."
00:36:16.44\00:36:18.21
And so a lot of times
00:36:18.24\00:36:19.57
we condemn
people rather than sin,
00:36:19.61\00:36:22.81
says, neither do I condemn thee.
00:36:22.84\00:36:24.75
What did he come to do?
00:36:24.78\00:36:26.11
Romans 8:37,
00:36:26.15\00:36:27.48
He says, "For what
the law could not do,
00:36:27.52\00:36:30.32
in that it was
weak through the flesh,
00:36:30.35\00:36:33.22
God did by sending His own Son
00:36:33.25\00:36:35.12
in the likeness of sinful flesh.
00:36:35.16\00:36:38.19
On account of sin, He
condemned sin in the flesh."
00:36:38.23\00:36:42.53
He condemned sin, He
never condemned the sinners.
00:36:42.56\00:36:45.70
Amen. Yeah. It's true.
00:36:45.73\00:36:47.07
That's something we often miss.
00:36:47.10\00:36:48.44
So people that feel condemned,
00:36:48.47\00:36:49.84
they are less likely to
want to come to somebody
00:36:49.87\00:36:51.91
who they are taught.
00:36:51.94\00:36:55.04
Got you.
00:36:55.08\00:36:56.41
That's why the Lord
had to make it clear
00:36:56.44\00:36:57.78
before the
Pharisees and Scribes.
00:36:57.81\00:36:59.41
This is not my job. I'm
not here to throw stones.
00:36:59.45\00:37:01.68
I'm here to block
her from getting hit
00:37:01.72\00:37:04.12
because we are
all born stone worthy.
00:37:04.15\00:37:07.92
Right. Born in a sin.
00:37:07.96\00:37:10.66
We're all born
stone ready. Yeah.
00:37:10.69\00:37:12.49
You know.
00:37:12.53\00:37:13.86
And so, but that's amazing.
00:37:13.90\00:37:15.23
Thank you for bringing that out.
00:37:15.26\00:37:16.60
You know, I have to say this
because it's the reality that,
00:37:16.63\00:37:18.43
there some people think that
00:37:18.47\00:37:21.34
they have committed so
many sins or such bad sins
00:37:21.37\00:37:25.54
that God cannot forgive them.
00:37:25.57\00:37:26.91
But the reality is that
God is greater than any sins
00:37:26.94\00:37:30.65
that we can commit.
00:37:30.68\00:37:32.05
And so just, you
know, come to Him
00:37:32.08\00:37:35.08
and allow Him to do
that which He longs to do
00:37:35.12\00:37:37.92
and that is
forgive us, and cleanse us,
00:37:37.95\00:37:41.22
and make us His children.
00:37:41.26\00:37:42.92
That's right.
00:37:42.96\00:37:44.29
That just doesn't
say, just recently
00:37:44.33\00:37:45.66
I had something happened to me.
00:37:45.69\00:37:47.03
That's why so many songs
have been really grabbing me
00:37:47.06\00:37:49.46
and I was running away
from the Lord on certain issue
00:37:49.50\00:37:51.50
and He got a hold of me,
00:37:51.53\00:37:53.37
while back, was
like 1:30 in the morning,
00:37:53.40\00:37:55.10
I was fighting him kind
of the angel wrestling in...
00:37:55.14\00:37:57.87
Oh, man, it's,
00:37:57.91\00:37:59.24
I call it a
spiritual root canal.
00:37:59.27\00:38:02.88
It was a spiritual root canal.
00:38:02.91\00:38:04.25
I mean I was really depressed
00:38:04.28\00:38:05.61
and crying at
1:30 in the morning
00:38:05.65\00:38:07.05
and the Lord had
to get a hold of me,
00:38:07.08\00:38:08.65
I was running away from Him.
00:38:08.68\00:38:10.02
I mean, you don't
realize and then you, why I says
00:38:10.05\00:38:12.42
because I actually had
something deeper going on than
00:38:12.45\00:38:14.49
what was just
there at the surface,
00:38:14.52\00:38:15.92
it was way deeper than that.
00:38:15.96\00:38:17.33
And he told me just
kindly and mercifully He said,
00:38:17.36\00:38:20.00
the reason why
you're having the struggles
00:38:20.03\00:38:21.43
because you
didn't have affirmation
00:38:21.46\00:38:22.96
from your parents as a kid,
00:38:23.00\00:38:24.63
and I never knew that, it
never dawned me till then.
00:38:24.67\00:38:26.90
It was just so
amazing and I felt this,
00:38:26.94\00:38:28.77
I'm like, Lord,
take this route away,
00:38:28.80\00:38:30.24
I don't want it, and He took it.
00:38:30.27\00:38:31.67
And it was like
the most amazing thing
00:38:31.71\00:38:34.01
I could share with other people.
00:38:34.04\00:38:35.38
I could ask for forgiveness
00:38:35.41\00:38:36.75
and I could go out
and was just so healing
00:38:36.78\00:38:38.48
it was that's what God
wants to do as a healer.
00:38:38.51\00:38:40.12
Burden lifter.
Yeah. It was amazing.
00:38:40.15\00:38:41.88
Semi-tile root canal.
00:38:41.92\00:38:45.59
I used to buy that,
just kind of goes crazy.
00:38:45.62\00:38:47.39
Root canal. Root canal.
00:38:47.42\00:38:48.99
Pull that out from the root.
00:38:49.02\00:38:52.19
You'll leave me the root note.
00:38:52.23\00:38:55.00
Don't write that down.
00:38:55.03\00:38:57.63
But I want you to
say something else.
00:38:57.67\00:38:59.83
Look at the question number five
00:38:59.87\00:39:01.94
and we're gonna
look at Galatians 6:15.
00:39:01.97\00:39:03.54
This is a really
amazing transition
00:39:03.57\00:39:05.01
because the reason
for Galatians 6:15 is,
00:39:05.04\00:39:08.14
it's gonna sound unusual
00:39:08.18\00:39:09.68
but there's a purpose behind it.
00:39:09.71\00:39:11.05
Who'd like to read that for us,
and I'll just break that down.
00:39:11.08\00:39:13.55
Galatians 6:15.
00:39:13.58\00:39:15.98
I guess it's my turn.
00:39:16.02\00:39:17.75
Well, Galatians 6:15,
00:39:17.79\00:39:19.12
"For in Christ Jesus
00:39:19.15\00:39:20.86
neither
circumcision nor uncircumcision
00:39:20.89\00:39:24.13
avails anything,
but a new creation."
00:39:24.16\00:39:27.16
Neither one avails
anything but a new creation
00:39:27.20\00:39:29.60
by the
circumcised or uncircumcised,
00:39:29.63\00:39:31.90
the Lord didn't
come to enforce that on,
00:39:31.93\00:39:33.60
he was saying, I'm
trying to make you knew.
00:39:33.64\00:39:35.50
What that is an
essence says to me,
00:39:35.54\00:39:37.14
is a lot of times
00:39:37.17\00:39:38.51
people get stuck
in religious form.
00:39:38.54\00:39:41.14
That's true. The
things of religion.
00:39:41.18\00:39:43.68
And they, like the
Jews were so desirous,
00:39:43.71\00:39:46.61
Tim, of saying to the Gentiles
00:39:46.65\00:39:48.75
but you're not circumcised,
00:39:48.78\00:39:50.75
was you and then the reverse,
00:39:50.79\00:39:53.39
watch out for those who
are of the circumcision,
00:39:53.42\00:39:55.46
look out for those guys.
00:39:55.49\00:39:57.03
So there was this battle,
00:39:57.06\00:39:58.39
lookout for those
who are uncircumcised.
00:39:58.43\00:40:00.06
Peter had to get that
broken down in his own life.
00:40:00.10\00:40:02.13
In Acts Chapter 10,
00:40:02.16\00:40:03.53
the Lord sent him to
Cornelius's house and said
00:40:03.57\00:40:06.17
what God has
cleanse, never call unclean.
00:40:06.20\00:40:09.37
God has shown me that no
man is common or unclean.
00:40:09.40\00:40:13.34
Acts Chapter 10 was the story,
00:40:13.38\00:40:15.54
not cleaning a food,
00:40:15.58\00:40:17.11
not getting rid of pork
and shrimps and all that
00:40:17.15\00:40:18.91
and making that clean,
00:40:18.95\00:40:20.95
but he used this
vision of unclean foods
00:40:20.98\00:40:23.62
to say God is showing me that
no man is common or unclean.
00:40:23.65\00:40:27.79
Cornelius was a good man
00:40:27.82\00:40:29.16
but he just had, did
not know the Messiah.
00:40:29.19\00:40:32.09
Interesting thing about
that is actually Peter ponder,
00:40:32.13\00:40:35.50
questioned, what
is that all about.
00:40:35.53\00:40:36.87
It didn't make
sense to him, you know.
00:40:36.90\00:40:38.23
Yeah, he did.
00:40:38.27\00:40:39.60
Verse first 28
tells you the answer,
00:40:39.63\00:40:41.64
like you mentioned here,
common or unclean to man.
00:40:41.67\00:40:43.84
Don't call man
common and unclean so.
00:40:43.87\00:40:45.44
That's right.
00:40:45.47\00:40:46.81
So don't get
locked in religious things
00:40:46.84\00:40:48.18
and those
religious things is like...
00:40:48.21\00:40:52.41
I think Walmart
is a good example.
00:40:52.45\00:40:54.52
They don't give
you grocery bags.
00:40:54.55\00:40:56.95
They give you stuff
00:40:56.99\00:40:58.32
and you got to find a
way to get it out the store.
00:40:58.35\00:41:00.46
You get the cart, you know that.
00:41:00.49\00:41:02.62
No, Walmart.
They're doing until now.
00:41:02.66\00:41:04.99
Oh, Walmart. Sorry,
sorry, that was, sorry.
00:41:05.03\00:41:06.96
Sam Crayon. Sam.
00:41:07.00\00:41:08.76
I'm talking about the Walmart.
00:41:08.80\00:41:10.13
Which is like a
Costco. Right, right.
00:41:10.17\00:41:12.30
When you buy stuff,
you know, it's in the cart,
00:41:12.33\00:41:14.37
you get to the car
but when you get home,
00:41:14.40\00:41:16.20
you think, I'd
love to take this all
00:41:16.24\00:41:17.64
at one time but like...
00:41:17.67\00:41:19.01
It's not in the bag.
Like the car up to the door.
00:41:19.04\00:41:21.08
Yeah.
00:41:21.11\00:41:22.44
And we are sometimes like that,
00:41:22.48\00:41:23.81
we try to put
religious things in our lives
00:41:23.85\00:41:25.75
but no place to put it
00:41:25.78\00:41:27.55
because this is an old vessel.
00:41:27.58\00:41:29.52
We're getting all
the stuff we like it
00:41:29.55\00:41:31.15
but there's no place to put
it because the vessel is old.
00:41:31.19\00:41:33.89
So I just want to mention,
00:41:33.92\00:41:35.52
you know, the
circumcision or uncircumcision
00:41:35.56\00:41:37.89
were things of the law.
00:41:37.93\00:41:39.26
Right.
00:41:39.29\00:41:40.63
But it was but he says,
00:41:40.66\00:41:42.66
a new creation is
what Christ makes us.
00:41:42.70\00:41:45.97
But we also,
00:41:46.00\00:41:47.34
I think have created
00:41:47.37\00:41:50.01
little things like
00:41:50.04\00:41:54.18
how to get through your sin,
00:41:54.21\00:41:55.98
or to get over,
00:41:56.01\00:41:57.58
like when you're tempted,
00:41:57.61\00:41:59.18
like hold your
breath for 10 seconds
00:41:59.21\00:42:01.12
before you speak,
00:42:01.15\00:42:02.48
you know,
before you say anything
00:42:02.52\00:42:03.85
or count to 10,
or punch your pillow,
00:42:03.89\00:42:06.02
or take a cold shower,
00:42:06.05\00:42:07.76
or, you know,
there's multiple things.
00:42:07.79\00:42:09.82
But, and so the reason
00:42:09.86\00:42:12.46
that following religious
practices aren't enough,
00:42:12.49\00:42:16.13
that's just
00:42:16.16\00:42:20.60
modifying your behavior
00:42:20.64\00:42:22.34
but the Bible says
we're dead to our trespasses.
00:42:22.37\00:42:25.04
Right.
00:42:25.07\00:42:26.41
So it's not about
punching our pillow
00:42:26.44\00:42:29.68
or, you know, trying
to change our behavior
00:42:29.71\00:42:32.21
in a, you know, in our morality,
00:42:32.25\00:42:35.08
it's becoming dead to sin.
00:42:35.12\00:42:39.22
So that's why religious
practices aren't enough.
00:42:39.25\00:42:41.42
Right.
00:42:41.46\00:42:42.82
When you follow
these, and by the way,
00:42:42.86\00:42:44.19
the Jews were so locked
into this ceremonial rituals,
00:42:44.23\00:42:47.00
the ceremonial laws,
00:42:47.03\00:42:48.56
even when Jesus
nailed to the cross,
00:42:48.60\00:42:50.70
they were still saying
but, you've got to do this.
00:42:50.73\00:42:53.34
I mean, we've been doing
this for thousands of years.
00:42:53.37\00:42:55.20
You've got to do this.
00:42:55.24\00:42:57.07
And Paul says,
circumcision is nothing,
00:42:57.11\00:42:59.64
neither is
uncircumcision anything.
00:42:59.67\00:43:03.14
Go to 1 Corinthians 7:19,
00:43:03.18\00:43:07.28
somebody read that for me.
00:43:07.32\00:43:08.95
He wasn't,
00:43:08.98\00:43:10.32
He was putting the
proper perspective on
00:43:10.35\00:43:12.35
what God's laws all about.
00:43:12.39\00:43:13.82
They were locked
into the ceremonial.
00:43:13.86\00:43:15.29
But 1 Corinthians 7:19,
00:43:15.32\00:43:17.66
whoever has
that, read that for us.
00:43:17.69\00:43:20.00
We guess here.
00:43:20.03\00:43:21.36
"Circumcision is nothing
and uncircumcision is nothing,
00:43:21.40\00:43:26.13
but keeping the
commandments of God..."
00:43:26.17\00:43:30.21
Is that the
right one? That's it.
00:43:30.24\00:43:32.44
"Is what matters."
00:43:32.47\00:43:34.74
That's the rest of the
verse. Is what matters.
00:43:34.78\00:43:36.78
So the Jews were
locked to the ceremonial,
00:43:36.81\00:43:38.65
the Lord is saying,
the ceremonial is gone,
00:43:38.68\00:43:40.55
the moral is here,
00:43:40.58\00:43:41.92
and I'm the only one
00:43:41.95\00:43:43.28
that can make you
capable of living in harmony
00:43:43.32\00:43:45.35
with the commandments of God.
00:43:45.39\00:43:46.92
They were locked in there,
00:43:46.96\00:43:48.29
but there's something
else that has to happen.
00:43:48.32\00:43:49.66
Now we talked
about becoming new.
00:43:49.69\00:43:51.49
But how do you
keep the new, new.
00:43:51.53\00:43:54.46
Let's go to Romans 12:1-2.
00:43:54.50\00:43:56.87
How do you keep the new, new?
00:43:56.90\00:43:58.63
Well, you know, one
thing we have to do is,
00:43:58.67\00:44:00.00
we have to die daily.
00:44:00.04\00:44:01.37
Exactly. Right.
00:44:01.40\00:44:02.74
But there's something else,
00:44:02.77\00:44:04.11
you can't just
sit around and say,
00:44:04.14\00:44:05.47
okay, it's
morning time, I die daily.
00:44:05.51\00:44:06.88
It's morning time, I die daily.
00:44:06.91\00:44:08.48
Yeah. How do you do it?
00:44:08.51\00:44:10.35
How do you do? Wanna read that?
00:44:10.38\00:44:12.18
Which one? Romans 12:1-2.
00:44:12.21\00:44:15.42
"I beseech you
therefore, brethren,
00:44:15.45\00:44:18.15
by the mercies of God,
00:44:18.19\00:44:20.16
that you present your
bodies a living sacrifice,
00:44:20.19\00:44:23.69
holy, acceptable to God,
00:44:23.73\00:44:27.00
which is your
reasonable service."
00:44:27.03\00:44:29.26
Verse 2,
00:44:29.30\00:44:30.63
"And do not be
conformed to this world,
00:44:30.67\00:44:33.84
but be transformed by
the renewing of your mind
00:44:33.87\00:44:39.04
that you may prove
00:44:39.07\00:44:41.44
that what is good
00:44:41.48\00:44:44.75
and acceptable and
perfect will of God."
00:44:44.78\00:44:47.55
Right.
00:44:47.58\00:44:48.92
Let me read that again,
00:44:48.95\00:44:50.29
"That you may prove
00:44:50.32\00:44:51.65
what is that good and acceptable
00:44:51.69\00:44:54.42
and perfect will of God."
00:44:54.46\00:44:56.06
So can you can you prove
it until your mind is renewed?
00:44:56.09\00:44:59.16
Can you prove before
your mind is renewed?
00:44:59.19\00:45:01.06
No.
00:45:01.10\00:45:02.76
Something I found interesting,
00:45:02.80\00:45:04.17
we were studying
about these new wineskins,
00:45:04.20\00:45:05.90
and Jesus made the comment,
00:45:05.93\00:45:07.90
it was about
the idea of fasting.
00:45:07.94\00:45:09.87
I thought that was
rather interesting,
00:45:09.90\00:45:11.24
the Lord brought
this to my attention
00:45:11.27\00:45:12.61
and He brought
me into Isaiah 58.
00:45:12.64\00:45:14.71
And Isaiah 58, you
see, what the people of God
00:45:14.74\00:45:17.78
were actually doing
then on the renewing.
00:45:17.81\00:45:21.18
Isaiah 58 says,
00:45:21.22\00:45:22.82
the type of fast
that they were keeping.
00:45:22.85\00:45:24.72
Oh. That's right.
00:45:24.75\00:45:26.09
So kind of ties in. What verse?
00:45:26.12\00:45:27.69
We're looking
at verses 3 through
00:45:27.72\00:45:31.06
kind of 6, I think 5.
00:45:31.09\00:45:33.03
It says,
"Wherefore have we fasted,
00:45:33.06\00:45:34.63
say they, and thou seest not?
00:45:34.66\00:45:37.00
Wherefore we have
we afflicted our soul,
00:45:37.03\00:45:38.93
and thou takest no knowledge?
00:45:38.97\00:45:40.30
Behold, in the day of your fast
00:45:40.34\00:45:42.10
you find pleasure,
and exact all your labors.
00:45:42.14\00:45:44.24
Behold, you fast
for strife and debate,
00:45:44.27\00:45:46.01
and to smite with
the fist of wickedness,
00:45:46.04\00:45:48.41
you shall not
fast as ye do this day,
00:45:48.44\00:45:50.28
to make your voice
to be heard on high."
00:45:50.31\00:45:51.68
And I think this is
kind of Romans 12:2 is going,
00:45:51.71\00:45:54.18
"Is it such a fast
that I have chosen?
00:45:54.22\00:45:55.58
A day for a man
to afflict his soul?
00:45:55.62\00:45:57.49
Is it to bow down
his head as a bulrush,
00:45:57.52\00:45:59.29
and to spread
sackcloth and ashes under him?
00:45:59.32\00:46:01.56
Wilt thou call this a fast,
00:46:01.59\00:46:02.92
and an
acceptable day to the Lord?"
00:46:02.96\00:46:04.29
This is the fast
he's looking for.
00:46:04.33\00:46:05.89
"Is not this the
fast that I have chosen?
00:46:05.93\00:46:07.33
To loose the
bands of wickedness,
00:46:07.36\00:46:09.43
to undo the heavy burdens,
00:46:09.46\00:46:10.80
and to let the oppressed go free
00:46:10.83\00:46:12.17
and that ye break every yoke?
00:46:12.20\00:46:14.24
Is it not to deal
thy bread to the hungry,
00:46:14.27\00:46:16.00
and that thou bring the poor
that are cast out to thy house?
00:46:16.04\00:46:19.04
When thou seest the
naked, that thou cover him;
00:46:19.07\00:46:20.91
and that thou hide not
thyself from thine own flesh?"
00:46:20.94\00:46:23.68
I think what Jesus
speaking to on those new wines,
00:46:23.71\00:46:25.88
He's wanting to see
00:46:25.91\00:46:27.48
a new church in a sense.
00:46:27.52\00:46:28.92
He's seen, the old
church was just sitting,
00:46:28.95\00:46:30.39
they're lording over one another
00:46:30.42\00:46:31.75
and they're
beating one another up.
00:46:31.79\00:46:33.19
Where He's looking
for these types of things,
00:46:33.22\00:46:35.16
He wants us to
take care of the widows,
00:46:35.19\00:46:36.52
the poor, the orphans.
00:46:36.56\00:46:38.13
I break the yoke and
that's what He's saying,
00:46:38.16\00:46:39.69
I think the idea
of this being renewed
00:46:39.73\00:46:41.90
that's when we have
a renewal in our heart,
00:46:41.93\00:46:43.40
we should be doing these things,
00:46:43.43\00:46:45.53
going out and take,
00:46:45.57\00:46:46.90
you know,
helping these folks out,
00:46:46.94\00:46:48.50
living them the life
of Christ like He did.
00:46:48.54\00:46:51.04
I think that idea of
that renewing skewed me so.
00:46:51.07\00:46:54.74
Say that, honey,
that's a very good point.
00:46:54.78\00:46:56.81
We were reading last
night about being gentle.
00:46:56.85\00:47:01.28
That's something
that's overlooked.
00:47:01.32\00:47:03.49
Matter of fact, go
to Galatians 5:22-23.
00:47:03.52\00:47:06.69
We're getting there eventually,
00:47:06.72\00:47:08.06
but it's, it's a good
time that you've inserted that.
00:47:08.09\00:47:11.19
Because, you know,
00:47:11.23\00:47:12.56
you have to look
for some evidences.
00:47:12.59\00:47:14.13
Somebody says, well,
00:47:14.16\00:47:16.83
why Donald is different?
00:47:16.87\00:47:18.67
Now the last Donald
00:47:18.70\00:47:20.04
would have
pushed me off a ledge.
00:47:20.07\00:47:22.07
Why didn't he do
this time? What a man?
00:47:22.10\00:47:24.61
You know, the
last Tim would have
00:47:24.64\00:47:26.68
slammed the piano
shut and walk away,
00:47:26.71\00:47:28.31
but why does he
not do it this time?
00:47:28.34\00:47:30.35
Look at Galatians 5:22-23.
00:47:30.38\00:47:33.78
Since you mentioned it, honey,
why don't you just read it?
00:47:33.82\00:47:35.55
Wives submit, is
that the right one?
00:47:35.58\00:47:37.12
Oh, no, Galatians 5.
00:47:37.15\00:47:39.02
Oh, oh, I'm in Ephesians.
00:47:39.05\00:47:40.89
It's good too.
That's a good one.
00:47:40.92\00:47:42.79
Submit to your own
husbands, as to the Lord.
00:47:42.82\00:47:47.03
Okay, I got it
now. I got it now.
00:47:47.06\00:47:50.17
Okay. This is in 22.
00:47:50.20\00:47:52.53
It says, "But the
fruit of the Spirit
00:47:52.57\00:47:54.14
is love, joy, peace,
00:47:54.17\00:47:57.67
long-suffering, kindness,
00:47:57.71\00:48:01.21
goodness, faithfulness,"
00:48:01.24\00:48:02.58
and this is what we
were reading last night,
00:48:02.61\00:48:04.28
"gentleness, self-control
against such there is no law."
00:48:04.31\00:48:08.55
That's right.
00:48:08.58\00:48:09.92
We were reading that,
00:48:09.95\00:48:11.29
how to be gentle,
00:48:11.32\00:48:12.65
that's something
that's overlooked.
00:48:12.69\00:48:14.02
Yeah.
00:48:14.06\00:48:15.39
Paul talked about that, he said.
00:48:15.42\00:48:16.76
James actually says,
well, actually Paul says,
00:48:16.79\00:48:18.56
"Let your
gentleness be known to all.
00:48:18.59\00:48:20.86
The Lord is at hand."
00:48:20.90\00:48:22.50
So God is right, He's watching,
00:48:22.53\00:48:23.87
He said, be gentle stepping so
00:48:23.90\00:48:25.87
and harshness is something that
people have to get rid of this.
00:48:25.90\00:48:28.00
That's why they say
gentleman, be a gentleman.
00:48:28.04\00:48:31.17
Okay.
00:48:31.21\00:48:32.64
I want to be a gentleman.
00:48:32.67\00:48:34.91
Gentleman. Gentlewoman too.
00:48:34.94\00:48:37.11
What a gentleman look like now.
00:48:37.15\00:48:39.21
It's okay, it's like,
00:48:39.25\00:48:40.58
gentleman talk
to angel that often.
00:48:40.62\00:48:44.59
Gentleman, Gentleman. Right.
00:48:44.62\00:48:47.59
What is beautiful to see that,
00:48:47.62\00:48:49.82
you want to add
anything to that any one of you?
00:48:49.86\00:48:51.79
Being gentle or
even just the evidence
00:48:51.83\00:48:53.73
of the Spirit of
God in our lives.
00:48:53.76\00:48:55.10
Yeah.
00:48:55.13\00:48:56.46
There should be
evidence that we all knew.
00:48:56.50\00:48:57.90
When somebody
says, I'm a Christian.
00:48:57.93\00:49:00.30
Are you happy now?
00:49:00.34\00:49:01.67
Oh, my
goodness. He's like, okay.
00:49:01.70\00:49:05.07
Remind me not to
join your church.
00:49:05.11\00:49:07.41
You know, I was thinking of
00:49:07.44\00:49:08.78
just like when
someone does something to me,
00:49:08.81\00:49:11.35
like there was
something that the Lord,
00:49:11.38\00:49:13.85
you know, brought to me
was responding in the spirit
00:49:13.88\00:49:18.42
and not reacting in the flesh.
00:49:18.45\00:49:20.62
And that is
00:49:20.66\00:49:21.99
that's something I've struggled
with before is like, you know,
00:49:22.02\00:49:24.26
when something
immediately happens,
00:49:24.29\00:49:25.63
it's kind of like, you
know, like wait a minute,
00:49:25.66\00:49:28.63
let me think about this
00:49:28.66\00:49:30.00
and, you know, give
us, give us to him before.
00:49:30.03\00:49:33.10
Say something I'll
regret or do something.
00:49:33.13\00:49:35.64
Yeah.
00:49:35.67\00:49:37.01
So to me that
has been a huge thing
00:49:37.04\00:49:39.14
and I think that
definitely an area
00:49:39.17\00:49:41.11
where he's working on me
and giving me some fruit.
00:49:41.14\00:49:44.85
That's right. Anyone else?
00:49:44.88\00:49:46.92
I like the concept of the word,
00:49:46.95\00:49:48.92
it says, let this mind be in you
00:49:48.95\00:49:50.29
which was in Christ Jesus.
00:49:50.32\00:49:51.65
Yes. Not really
think about that.
00:49:51.69\00:49:53.39
You know, if you really have
00:49:53.42\00:49:54.76
a transformation in your heart,
00:49:54.79\00:49:56.76
if you really have these fruit,
00:49:56.79\00:49:58.93
why won't you go out there
00:49:58.96\00:50:00.30
and try to bring people
to have that same peace,
00:50:00.33\00:50:03.10
that gentleness,
that joy of self-control.
00:50:03.13\00:50:04.67
I had a lady, I
spoke to on the phone
00:50:04.70\00:50:06.53
and she said, she's a
Christian but she said,
00:50:06.57\00:50:08.87
I just get so
upset, I get so frustrated,
00:50:08.90\00:50:10.51
so I just start yelling,
00:50:10.54\00:50:12.47
and I have to apologize.
00:50:12.51\00:50:14.68
She is like,
00:50:14.71\00:50:16.34
how they look at me,
like am I Christian or not?
00:50:16.38\00:50:18.08
What kind of Christian example
00:50:18.11\00:50:19.45
I'm giving if
I'm yelling at them
00:50:19.48\00:50:20.82
and they're not
doing, it's not their fault,
00:50:20.85\00:50:22.75
and here I'm yelling at them,
00:50:22.78\00:50:24.12
you know, I'm like
00:50:24.15\00:50:25.49
yeah, what kind of
food are you giving,
00:50:25.52\00:50:26.86
you know, and I was
actually had this in my mind,
00:50:26.89\00:50:28.36
it's so crazy.
00:50:28.39\00:50:29.72
I thought about this concept,
don't actually like to do it.
00:50:29.76\00:50:31.89
But the young
man who walks around
00:50:31.93\00:50:33.56
all proud and
haughty and stuff in school
00:50:33.60\00:50:35.06
and he puts on the
stick of deodorant,
00:50:35.10\00:50:37.27
he opens his, you
know, medicine chest,
00:50:37.30\00:50:38.67
he puts in the
stick and says pride.
00:50:38.70\00:50:40.54
So you see his big words,
he proudly walks in like this
00:50:40.57\00:50:42.44
and all the kids
are going like this
00:50:42.47\00:50:44.31
and they're
falling and passing out.
00:50:44.34\00:50:46.01
You see this kind of
reaction versus a kid
00:50:46.04\00:50:47.58
that brings in humility
puts on a stick of humility
00:50:47.61\00:50:50.48
'cause they're
just drawn to him,
00:50:50.51\00:50:51.85
you know, kind of given that,
00:50:51.88\00:50:53.21
you know, representation.
00:50:53.25\00:50:54.58
It kind of gives you an idea,
00:50:54.62\00:50:55.95
it's that pride
and all that arrogance.
00:50:55.98\00:50:58.25
Oh, man, he is, so you can just,
00:50:58.29\00:50:59.62
you usually is
seeing something else like
00:50:59.65\00:51:02.36
get away from
me, I don't want it,
00:51:02.39\00:51:03.89
I don't want that
kind of Christianity.
00:51:03.93\00:51:05.46
Anything else?
00:51:05.49\00:51:06.83
It's amazing that
the transformation
00:51:06.86\00:51:09.46
that can take place in us
as we allow Christ moments,
00:51:09.50\00:51:13.64
you were talking about daily,
00:51:13.67\00:51:15.20
you know, you
wake up in the morning,
00:51:15.24\00:51:17.31
but every morning
00:51:17.34\00:51:18.67
we can place ourselves
in the hands of the Lord,
00:51:18.71\00:51:20.78
let Him take
control of our lives.
00:51:20.81\00:51:23.18
Otherwise we're
gonna do these things
00:51:23.21\00:51:25.65
that we're gonna regret.
00:51:25.68\00:51:27.25
And He's the one
that can make us gentle,
00:51:27.28\00:51:29.38
He's the one that
can make us patient,
00:51:29.42\00:51:31.19
He's the one
00:51:31.22\00:51:32.55
that can help us
control the temper
00:51:32.59\00:51:35.89
or to be quick to
judge and quick to avenge,
00:51:35.92\00:51:40.23
you know.
00:51:40.26\00:51:41.60
And I remember
when we were little,
00:51:41.63\00:51:45.73
it's like the kids had
this little context as to
00:51:45.77\00:51:49.47
who can give the worse,
00:51:49.50\00:51:55.01
I don't know
what, criticize or that,
00:51:55.04\00:51:57.85
you know, like you
say, oh, you're so ugly.
00:51:57.88\00:51:59.41
But you're so ugly.
00:51:59.45\00:52:03.55
Dogging each other. Yeah.
00:52:03.59\00:52:05.55
That's and is seemed
to be like a funny things
00:52:05.59\00:52:10.53
but that's the
way human beings are.
00:52:10.56\00:52:11.96
Somebody offends you,
00:52:11.99\00:52:13.33
it's like you
want to hurt them more.
00:52:13.36\00:52:15.16
And you keep
escalating this thing
00:52:15.20\00:52:17.27
until you know
there's great regret.
00:52:17.30\00:52:20.34
God wants to prevent suffering.
00:52:20.37\00:52:22.57
Yeah, that's right.
00:52:22.60\00:52:23.94
The suffering of regret,
00:52:23.97\00:52:25.31
and the suffering
that we cause others
00:52:25.34\00:52:26.68
and ourselves.
00:52:26.71\00:52:28.04
You know, sometimes
you have an argument,
00:52:28.08\00:52:29.41
you go home and you
think of what you didn't say,
00:52:29.44\00:52:32.48
I should have said.
00:52:32.51\00:52:34.48
You call me at that argument
they're not even around,
00:52:34.52\00:52:36.05
you're like fuming,
why did I think of that?
00:52:36.08\00:52:39.59
You know, and then you wait,
wait till I see you next time.
00:52:39.62\00:52:42.62
And you forget your Christianity
00:52:42.66\00:52:44.03
and we have to be mindful that
00:52:44.06\00:52:45.83
when you are new,
00:52:45.86\00:52:47.20
sometimes it's not always
important to win an argument.
00:52:47.23\00:52:50.60
Sometimes it's
not always important
00:52:50.63\00:52:51.97
for your humanity
arise at the surface.
00:52:52.00\00:52:55.40
Let Christ be seen.
00:52:55.44\00:52:57.71
Let your light so
shine, not your attitude burn.
00:52:57.74\00:53:01.11
Let your light so shine.
00:53:01.14\00:53:02.48
But sometimes you can slip up.
00:53:02.51\00:53:04.58
I know the
song, we used to sing,
00:53:04.61\00:53:06.01
we fall down, we get up,
00:53:06.05\00:53:09.42
you get up, you don't stay down,
00:53:09.45\00:53:11.29
you get back up.
00:53:11.32\00:53:12.85
That's what
Christianity is all about.
00:53:12.89\00:53:15.02
You know, it's interesting,
00:53:15.06\00:53:16.39
you were talking
about these deodorants.
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Yeah.
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It says, we're
connected to Christ.
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Then people say
you smell like Jesus.
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Yeah. Wouldn't that be better?
00:53:23.40\00:53:26.03
Yes. Amen.
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I wanna look at some
of the quick benefits
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before we end the program.
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Oh, yeah.
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Number 10, I want
to have, Tim, read.
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What are some of the
benefits of the new life?
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2 Corinthians, 2 Peter 3:13.
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2 Peter 3:13,
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"Nevertheless we,
according to His promise,
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look for new
heavens and a new earth
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in which righteousness dwells."
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That's right.
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You know, there
would be no need of
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I say this respectfully.
00:53:51.53\00:53:53.63
You don't have
to lock your doors,
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you have to make
sure your garage is shut
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because everybody in
the neighborhood is new.
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Yeah. Right.
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Everybody, Hi.
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I'm so glad I didn't
know he's gonna make it
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and he probably
saying the same thing
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when we walk but John made it?
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No, he was gonna make it.
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And then all of a sudden,
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this new heaven and new earth,
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you see the whole trajectory
washes new life in Christ,
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new power to live that life
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because I can do all
things through Christ
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who strengthens me.
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A new way of
thinking, let this mind renew,
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renewing of your mind.
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Let this mind be in you
which was also in Christ Jesus.
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And a new spirit,
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people start noticing
the difference and then
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when you are
completely new in Christ,
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then you could look
forward to the new heaven
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and the new words.
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But I want to give a
passage of encouragement.
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This has become one
of my favorite ones,
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1 John Chapter 3.
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Oh, yeah, it's your favorite.
And just look at that one.
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1 John Chapter 3,
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because I want
you to see right now
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where you are in the present
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and I wanna give
you encouragement
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because somebody's
watching the program might say,
00:54:54.26\00:54:56.46
well, how is it
gonna happen for me?
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How come I don't yet
see any evidences of Christ
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in my life yet?
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Pastor Dinzey,
okay, 1 John Chapter 3,
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you have the New
King James Version?
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Yes. Okay. 1 John 3:1-2.
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"Behold what manner of love
the Father has best owed on us,
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that we should be
called children of God!
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Therefore the
world does not know us,
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because it did not know Him.
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Beloved, now we
are children of God."
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When? Now.
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"And it has not
yet been revealed
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what we shall be,
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but we know that
when He is revealed,
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we shall be like Him, for
we shall see Him as He is."
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Amen. Isn't it wonderful?
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So He's working on us
yet, Tim? Oh. Absolutely.
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Is He still working on?
He is still working on me.
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That's right.
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We should have
sung that one day.
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And so
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don't be discouraged.
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Do we ever get discouraged?
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But, you know,
that's not unusual,
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we're human.
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We are so not there yet,
00:55:54.32\00:55:56.79
but the beauty of it is,
00:55:56.82\00:55:58.75
he who has began a
good work in you will what?
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Complete it, isn't right?
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That's the one right
through my mind and soul.
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He has begun a good
work in you to what?
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Complete it.
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So one day
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until these verses come to pass,
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there's something we must do
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and I
intentionally left that verse 3,
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Angie, read verse 3,
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because, yes, we
are being made new
00:56:19.51\00:56:21.04
but we have a part to play.
00:56:21.08\00:56:22.48
What does it say in verse 3?
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"And everyone who
has this hope in Him
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purifies himself,
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just as He is pure."
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And how you
gonna purify yourself
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that you're pure.
00:56:33.76\00:56:35.86
Here's how you do it.
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Who can tell me?
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Make pure choices.
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Make pure decisions.
00:56:41.20\00:56:42.83
Watch pure programming. Amen.
00:56:42.86\00:56:45.17
Don't put impure
things in your mind.
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That's right. Don't
focus on impure thoughts.
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Right. Amen.
00:56:49.07\00:56:50.41
Because it's like
pouring rancid grape juice
00:56:50.44\00:56:52.14
in a brand new wineskin.
00:56:52.17\00:56:53.88
The wineskin said,
I thought I was new.
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So my, friends.
Even pure commercials.
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Pure commercials, that's right.
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Oh, is it?
00:57:01.52\00:57:02.85
Is it 30 seconds already?
00:57:02.88\00:57:04.22
Yeah. This is terrible.
00:57:04.25\00:57:09.06
We want a new clock.
00:57:09.09\00:57:10.43
Well, since we
can't get a new clock,
00:57:10.46\00:57:12.06
this is our prayer for you
00:57:12.09\00:57:13.43
from all of us
around this table.
00:57:13.46\00:57:15.13
May the new Lord be in your life
00:57:15.16\00:57:17.80
to transform you
from the old to the new
00:57:17.83\00:57:20.84
that one day in
that new creation,
00:57:20.87\00:57:23.54
you will be able to
inhabit the new heavens
00:57:23.57\00:57:26.24
and the new earth.
00:57:26.27\00:57:27.61
So on behalf of all of us,
00:57:27.64\00:57:29.14
may the Lord richly bless
you until we see you again.
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Happy Sabbath.
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Happy Sabbath. Happy Sabbath.
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