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 Lord,
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let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello, happy Sabbath
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and welcome to
3ABN's Family Worship.
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I'm Chris Shelton
along with my husband,
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Pastor Kenny Shelton.
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We're gonna to be the
host for this evening,
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and we're so
excited to be here with you.
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We've already been having a
happy time around the table,
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and we've got some
wonderful 3ABN family.
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And I'm just going to let
them introduce themselves.
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No one here is
new to many of you
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who have been watching.
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In fact, to our right,
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you're seeing this
couple more and more.
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Don and Sister Janelle,
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you guys have been so good to do
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so many things here at 3ABN,
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and I look forward to what
the Lord has in store for you.
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So, Don, tell us a little
bit about what you do here?
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Very, very privileged.
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I like to say, "Who am I, Lord?"
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Really, who am I and
why would you choose me.
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But I get to work
in pastoral full time.
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That's been a huge blessing
that has grown me so much.
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And we're also dealing with now
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addiction
recovery in a community.
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And we're also
doing with a new program,
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a conqueror series dealing
with sexual sin and impurity.
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What it's like to be pure.
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So we're really working on that
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and just seeing lives being
touched, it's been incredible.
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Amen. Absolutely.
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That's been the joy. Amen.
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I like what you're
doing, what you're talking about
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because those are so needed.
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Sometimes we have a tendency
to hit only the deep things,
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you know, to
think that's our portion
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as a movement, as
the last day church,
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but there's so
many other avenues,
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other areas
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that people are falling
into the pit as it were,
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they're falling into
sin, and they need a way out.
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So I love that.
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Here's a little
phrase that came to my mind,
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we kind of worked on
just about a week ago,
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you won't receive His ceiling
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if you don't desire His healing.
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That's good. Yes.
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That's very good.
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It's true. Sister Janelle?
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Yes, I work in the
publishing department,
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and just a lot
of different things
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that we do in that department.
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The main thing that I
work on is the 3ABN World,
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you guys are familiar with that.
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And the websites
for different networks,
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and the social media,
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anything print or published
comes from our department.
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And you've been in front
of the camera more and more
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often on different
programs like this one,
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on Family Worship,
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and it's always a
blessing to have you.
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Oh, God is good. Amen.
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And I know recently
you had done a commercial
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and I was out of the
country, and I was watching 3ABN
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and saw her on there
and I took a picture,
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I was so excited
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at what the Lord
is doing in your life,
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so that was exciting.
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It's all Him, yes.
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And over here to my
left, this first lady here,
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she's officially
retired from 3ABN
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till we call her back again.
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Tell us about yourself, Tammy?
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Well, let's see.
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Yeah, I
officially retired last week.
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Was it last week? Yeah.
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And so that I can work
harder at home with dogs.
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So there you go.
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It's a lot easier to be at 3ABN.
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You know, if they tune into
our second part of this series
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that we're doing,
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I think that's when we
really talked more about dogs,
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wasn't it at the last program?
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Probably.
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And it's interesting 'cause
we had been at a gathering,
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it was kind of a sad gathering.
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It was Aunt Ruby's funeral.
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And a lady from town
came up and she said,
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"Oh, you're the one."
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And she works in a pharmacy.
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And she said you
were talking about labs.
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And so I'm thinking
labs that, you know,
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like blood work or something.
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And Danny's looking
at me, like, "Come on."
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And I'm like,
"Give me a minute."
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Just try to think who is
talking about blood work.
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And then she mentioned
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something about that the
dogs have been loose for,
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and ran for over 24
miles, and so and so.
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I said, "Oh, dogs. Yes, yes."
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So they loved it.
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Well, they loved the
story about the dogs.
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That was kind of neat.
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Bruce, tell us
about what you do here?
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Well, I'm not old
enough to retire yet.
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Oh, there you go,
so I'm still working.
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And I run the
Donation Center here at 3ABN.
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We get items that are donated,
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and we turn them into
money for the Lord's work.
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Amen. That's good.
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We're not supposed to
start off with telling, you see,
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that he wasn't
old enough to retire.
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Well, you know, I can kind
of, I'm feeling him right now
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because I don't think
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we're ever gonna be
old enough to retire.
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We just, we're not ready for it.
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So, we're with you, Bruce.
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And she really hasn't retired
from the Lord's work either
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because you mentioned dogs,
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but she uses her
dogs to reach people.
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Some of her puppies
have actually been donated
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to help children that were sick.
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And it's been a real blessing
when you hear these stories.
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It really truly
is so I love that.
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I'll popping in and
out here in camp meeting
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and different places.
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Yeah, we won't let you go.
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Old enough to retire is
a perception of the mind.
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Oh, that's very deep, yeah.
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That is deep. Yeah.
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I don't know if we can
go... I feel bad, then I'll go.
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We can't go that deep.
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Well, Pastor,
why don't we go ahead
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and have opening prayer
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and then your sister
Tammy is going to lead off
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in what she calls a
chorus that's entitled,
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"There's a Fresh
Touch of Desires."
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I'm looking forward to
singing that with her if we can?
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It' new to us, so
I like it, I like it.
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Yeah, words that
I love it, so. Amen.
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She's gonna treat us, bless us
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with the first chorus on her own
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and then we'll see if we
can jump in on the second one.
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We'll try. Yes.
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Okay.
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Let's pray, shall we?
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Father in heaven, we
thank You for the privilege
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that we had to come before Thee.
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We give You
praise, give You honor,
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and give You glory.
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What a wonderful
God that You are.
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Thank You for
meeting all of our needs.
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Lord, we're thankful that
Your Holy Spirit is working
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in each of our
hearts and our lives.
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And for those who are viewing,
those who are listening,
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whatever it maybe,
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we just ask Your Holy Spirit
will just draw near to them,
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there may be questions,
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they may be in a
valley of decision,
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they may be
searching for something
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for answers to questions.
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And, Lord, I pray that You will
fill our hearts and our minds
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not only with the answers
in the truth of God's Word,
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but pray that I'll
be able to receive that
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and answer those
questions they may have.
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That will lead
them closer to You.
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Thank You for hearing,
thank You for answering prayer,
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thank You for the precious
individuals that are here today
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as we open Your Word,
Lord, we just feel so,
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like we're just certainly
not worthy to do it but,
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Lord, we ask
for Your Holy Spirit
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to come near and
enlighten us bring to our...
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Remember the
things that we've read,
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the things we
studied over the years,
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in the right time
in the right place that
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Word can be set in due season
that will bring someone to You.
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This is the
whole purpose of this,
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not for us just to be here,
but to lead someone to Jesus.
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Thank You for
hearing and answering prayer
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in Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen.
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There's a fresh touch of desire.
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I believe it's a Lanny Wolfe.
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It seems like he
wrote most of the songs
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that was ever written.
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In fact, they go on and on.
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Every time we do
a taping with Lanny,
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there's more and more.
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He's a musical genius,
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I think God's really gifted him.
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There's a fresh touch of desire
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in my soul today
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There's a fresh touch of desire
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to go all the way
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For I've made up made up my mind
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I'm gonna make it come what may
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There's a fresh touch of desire
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in my soul today.
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Amen.
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Now those at home
sing, sing with us, okay?
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There's a fresh touch
of desire in my soul today.
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There's a fresh touch of desire
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in my soul today
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There's a fresh touch of desire
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to go all the way
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For I've made up my mind
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I'm gonna make it come what may
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There's a fresh touch of desire
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in my soul today.
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Well, you're doing
good. You did very good.
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Man, it's new to us, but
we loved it, that's good.
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I hope we have the opportunity
to sing it again sometime.
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I love that.
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Yes, 'cause once we did it,
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maybe we want to
just tear loose on it.
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That's right. That's right.
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You know why?
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Because we need a fresh touch.
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We do. We do.
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It's about simple as
you could put right now,
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I was thinking of songs
and, Lord, I need a fresh touch.
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Yes, amen.
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I don't know that'd be wrong
to say I need that fresh touch
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every day, every
moment, every minute
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of every day in
our walk with Christ,
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nothing should be day old.
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I think shouldn't
be week's stale bread.
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Right, no stale bread.
We don't want stale bread.
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Stale bread,
day old stale stuff,
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we don't want that.
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Or stagnant water. There you go.
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That's right.
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The fresh, we go to the Lord.
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And I know that's what
we've all been praying for.
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When we, you
know, when we come here,
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we have family worship
or any program that we do,
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we're blessed to
worship along with you at home.
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There's a lot of preparation
beforehand and a lot of prayer.
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And we don't
want people to see us,
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but we want them to see Jesus.
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We want them to hear Jesus.
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And this study
today is no different.
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This is Truth Transforms.
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And it's part three,
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if you missed
part one and part two,
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I just encourage
you to go to Google,
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and Google the title,
Truth Transforms part one,
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and then Truth
Transforms part two,
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you'll find them
there on the web.
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And just always put
3ABN in front of that,
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and you'll get to our programs.
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It's been a real blessing.
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In parts one and two,
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we have looked at the
platform of eternal truth.
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We've also
discussed spiritual confusion
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that's in the world today.
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We have looked at the
difference of knowing the truth
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and loving the truth.
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We've also discussed
how we may be certain
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and I think this
one is so important
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how we may be certain
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that what we are learning
is indeed the truth, right?
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And today we just almost
need a drum roll seriously
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because
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during part one and part two,
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we kept having to
pull Pastor Kenny back
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because he kept wanting
to go to this next question
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before we actually got there.
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So, today he is finally there,
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the transforming influence
of truth, listen to this,
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sanctifies the soul.
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Amen.
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Sanctification
sanctifies the soul.
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The question that we're
gonna start tonight with,
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what is meant by sanctifies
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and why is this process
important for the Christian?
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Amen. Pastor Kenny, this is it.
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Yeah, well, I'm gonna turn
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right over to my
brother-in-law Bruce
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because he has some definition.
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Oh, yes.
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He's gonna
share it for a moment.
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Yeah, we heard part of
it and it was beautiful.
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So would you do that for us?
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Definition of what?
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Sanctifies is to
make holy, to set apart,
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consecrate, purify,
but make free of sin.
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Amen. Free of sin.
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That pretty well
sums to that, doesn't it?
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Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
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It really does. I
mean, I love bottom lines.
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I like to hear and they say go
around the barn with the truth.
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Don't do it, just go
right straight through the barn.
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You know, just
give what the truth is.
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And the truth is the subject
that we're talking about here
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deals with whether we're
going to be saved or lost.
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True. It's life
and death, isn't it?
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Life and death issue.
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I like what you said in
there, it says that it purifies,
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you know, I went to prison.
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Oh, I do prison ministry,
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I asked the man when
I first come in, I said,
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"Now do you want to
be a pure man of God?
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You know what it means
to be a pure man of God?"
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And I asked them if they
want to be a pure man of God?
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And all pretty
much raised their hands,
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and what's that
purity look like, you know.
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What is God's purity
look like and we don't.
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Oh, man, to see
what that's looks like.
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I like the fact
that it sanctifies,
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which means it's to present,
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and it's continuous,
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and it's not past tense
but it's a continual thing.
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It's present.
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Yeah, we're talking
about, you know, in every day,
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a new
experience, a new refreshing,
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and it's a new renewal.
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It's our growth in Christ.
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Day by day we have to
experience sanctification so.
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So the change comes about by,
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actually by indwelling
of the Holy Spirit then,
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doesn't it?
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So, if the Holy
Spirit is indwelling
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or living inside of us,
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there's gonna be some changes.
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We've invited the
Holy Spirit to come in,
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we've invited, we want change.
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I mean, a lot of people I
know, in their experience,
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they feel kind of
like they're all right.
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If you ever met someone
like that, they're all right.
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They're good
person and do good thing.
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Yeah, you know,
good, bad or ugly,
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I've never really
felt that way about myself.
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I never feel like I'm all right
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because I keep trying
to behold the example,
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right, which is Jesus Christ.
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And every time I do, I
fall short on every point.
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Every time I look to Christ,
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every time I look at
the fruits of the Spirit,
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I've mentioned many times,
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I look at the fruits of
the spirit, I fall short.
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You know those should be simple,
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you know, love and peace,
you know, goodness and grace,
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but I fall
short on those things.
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But what that does to me
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and I pray that it will do it
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for each one of us here it does,
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it draws me to
the foot of the cross,
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it draws me to Jesus
because that's my only help.
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That's my only source,
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and therefore through
Him and through faith in Him,
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then the sanctification
process can certainly begin.
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And truly it is a
process, there's steps, right?
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It doesn't just happen.
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It's moment by
moment, day by day.
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Go ahead.
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There's a young man
visited us years ago,
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we lived in Indiana, he came
to our house and he sat down,
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was our family friend.
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He sat at our
kitchen table, and he says,
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"Donald, you know,
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I just want to get rid
of all my sin right now."
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I said, "That's wonderful,
that's great, you wanna do.
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But it's a
process, it takes time."
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And I think later that week,
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he got in a car
accident and was killed.
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Oh, have mercy.
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But we saw his
journey was amazing.
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From two years prior,
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he looked 10 years
older, two years later,
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he's 10 years
younger, and it was incredible.
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You can see how God
was just pulling back
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all the scars and
the wounds and just,
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you could just see
it, it's just incredible.
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The Lord prepared him.
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And so when he
got in this wreck,
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he was in the Lord so I
was really thankful for that.
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But that's a
powerful thing. I like this...
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I'll just read real
quick, Deuteronomy 14:2.
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Yes, you wanna open there.
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And I'll just, I get it.
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A really good scripture
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he talked about
something he said,
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Bruce,
something about set apart.
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I thought that I
really touched here.
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This is of the Amplified
version, I'll just read it.
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It says, "For
you are a holy people
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set apart to the Lord your God,
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and the Lord has chosen you
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to be a peculiar
people to Himself,"
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I like that, "Above all
the nations on the earth."
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So he's chosen you. Yes.
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That's a great word, chosen.
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It is a great word. He
set you apart, chosen you.
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Amen. He chose this young man.
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Isn't God so good, though,
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when you
mentioned this young man,
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I assume, you know,
and before the accident,
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that it was the
motives wasn't it?
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The motives of his heart.
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This is what, he
didn't have a chance to really
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do much growing then, did he?
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I mean, when he
actually made that commitment.
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But God takes that
all into consideration,
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you know, where we're at?
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Growth is
different for everybody.
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But also growth in
sanctification can be perfect.
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I'm careful with the
word try to be perfect
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in every stage that it's in.
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Perfectly all was that because
it says what first the what?
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The blade, and then the
ear, and then the full corn.
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So I always
asked that it's okay,
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so it's not the full corn.
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We all say, "Man,
when we get the full corn
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that means we were there."
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You know, it's
just, first the blade.
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So when the blade comes out,
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could we say it's
perfect in that stage?
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Yes, it is. I'm in that stage.
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In that state, we
haven't reached that yet.
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And then it goes
on to the next stage.
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And then is it
perfect in that stage?
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Yes, because
that's all the growth
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that we're
looking for the full corn.
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It's like the developmental.
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You're that developmental,
I mean, it's continuous.
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So that helps you to understand
what Bible perfection is.
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Because what he's talking about,
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it's perfect in that stage.
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That young man came and said,
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"I just want all my
sins to be forgiven.
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I don't want to sin anymore."
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That was the
desire of his heart.
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The thief on the cross.
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Oh, Lord, will You remember me?
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And don't you
know, he was thinking,
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I don't want to live the
way I've been living anymore.
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I want to change. Amen.
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And God gave him a promise.
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Christ gave him the
promise right then and there.
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"I'm telling you today,
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you will be
with Me in paradise."
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Wow.
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Yeah, I had a
young man that called in
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or shouldn't say
young man, older gentleman
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who called in
to our prayer line,
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he said to me, he said, "Donald,
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I'm lost, I want to be found."
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Guess what?
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You are found, I can hear
the Holy Spirit's working.
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Are you serious I'm found?
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Yes, you are. Yeah.
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The Holy Spirit's working
in your life, you are found.
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So he got so
excited, he was so...
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You know, I think sometimes
it's easy to get discouraged
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and think I want to
be a full ear of corn..
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You know, why am I
not full ear of corn yet?
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You know, and
you get discouraged
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looking at that full,
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what you want to be,
you know, what the goal is,
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but you know,
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I like what someone said
earlier about the process,
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that it's a
process and, you know,
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if we are following Him
to the best of our knowledge
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and the light He's given us,
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and we're living what
we understand and know,
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then God considers
that and I'm thankful
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that He doesn't
expect more of us
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than where we're at
that point, you know.
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Exactly. Amen.
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Great point.
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The importance in
living up to the light.
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See, that brings the other part,
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we living up to
the light, you know,
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but what if we're not living
up to the light that we know,
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that is always
a challenge for me
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because the more
that you read and study,
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you think, "Oh, I'm
learning this and that."
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That usually demands a change.
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Oh, I've learned something.
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Or I've known
this for a long time
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but now I see it
from a different angle.
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Is there a way to
see at different angle?
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And now this hits me when six
months ago, it didn't hit me.
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You know, you've read it.
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But then so what
does that demand to me?
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If I'm in the
life of sanctification,
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what does that do?
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A change.
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And I think even the
blade demands a change.
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When those men come to you,
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the people that come
to you even, and they say,
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you know, they want
to have a different life.
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It demands a change.
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If we really
want to be sanctified,
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we really want to
be like Jesus Christ,
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we want His mind to be our mind.
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It takes a change
in our daily activity.
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I probably have
shared this with you before
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but back when I was teaching,
I always tell the students,
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don't even get out of
bed until you pray first.
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Now why did I say that?
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Why didn't I say
get on your knees,
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which they could have.
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But it's like the
moment you get out of bed,
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the devil has
something that's gonna...
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Dirty. Yeah.
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Get your mind, he's
gonna get it on another track,
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another trail and, and you know,
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just pray first and then get up
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and have Bible study first.
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In fact, years ago,
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we had determined in our home
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that we were
going to eat of the Word
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before we ate physical food.
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Amen.
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I've never forgotten that.
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I mean, if I'm really hungry,
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and I feel like I'm
really, really pressed,
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I may just sit down and
read a paragraph or two.
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Most of the time, it's longer.
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But you don't feel right.
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Once you make that
commitment with God,
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you don't feel right
to eat that physical food
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until you have
that spiritual food
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because we're
starving as Christians.
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Yes.
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For me, my inclination,
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when I first get up
is to check my phone.
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And so God's
really been taken me,
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you know, away from that,
like that desire to do that.
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And I just put the phone
away where I don't even see it
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when I get up.
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And that's helped a lot.
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You know,
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because that can
be a total distraction
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to just take you
down many roads, you know.
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I like what Donald
said, a spiritual slap.
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Spiritual slap.
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Oh, oh, don't touch that.
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Well, and
people at home can see,
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you know, my Bible's on here,
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I have so many
Spirit of Prophecy books.
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And with my eyes
growing dim, unfortunately,
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it's easy for
me to read on here.
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It's easy for me
to outline on here.
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And so I pick up my phone a lot
of times no, not all the time,
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you know, but I use it a lot.
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It's easy for me to
gain a lot of information
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in one little spot
that on my computer.
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And, of course, I
still do have the books,
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still have my own
precious Bibles that I use.
00:21:54.68\00:21:57.45
But I did like you,
00:21:57.48\00:22:00.68
for a while I was
getting sidetracked.
00:22:00.72\00:22:02.55
If somebody, you know,
a message or something,
00:22:02.58\00:22:06.09
you start to
look and the Lord say,
00:22:06.12\00:22:08.82
"Don't look at those
until you look at this first."
00:22:08.86\00:22:11.26
Because all of a
sudden, 20 minutes,
00:22:11.29\00:22:13.43
30 minutes and hour's gone
by and you didn't realize it.
00:22:13.46\00:22:15.96
So, you know, even
with this, the technology,
00:22:16.00\00:22:18.77
we have to submit and
commit everything to God
00:22:18.80\00:22:22.80
and allow Him to
work in us first.
00:22:22.84\00:22:24.57
It's so easy to get sidetracked.
00:22:24.61\00:22:25.94
Right, so what I think
00:22:25.97\00:22:27.31
we're saying is that we
have to live in the world.
00:22:27.34\00:22:30.05
But, you know,
00:22:30.08\00:22:31.55
sanctification sets
us apart from the world.
00:22:31.58\00:22:34.58
Amen. Amen.
00:22:34.62\00:22:35.95
That's right.
00:22:35.98\00:22:37.32
I think that's
what we're saying.
00:22:37.35\00:22:38.69
Where you're
saying it really deep
00:22:38.72\00:22:40.06
because if we get
into any of these quotes
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that we have, I mean,
00:22:42.26\00:22:43.59
that's a big part
of sanctification,
00:22:43.63\00:22:45.96
is that separation.
00:22:45.99\00:22:47.86
And many times it's separation
from friends, you know,
00:22:47.90\00:22:51.07
it doesn't mean you
can't be their friend,
00:22:51.10\00:22:53.44
you go in, the
disciples, the apostles,
00:22:53.47\00:22:57.11
all the people of God,
00:22:57.14\00:22:58.47
they would go in
and work with the people
00:22:58.51\00:23:00.78
but then come
apart and be separate.
00:23:00.81\00:23:03.58
That you touch
not the unclean thing
00:23:03.61\00:23:05.81
because that's what
happens if we get too close,
00:23:05.85\00:23:09.18
too lovey dovey
with those around us,
00:23:09.22\00:23:11.22
then all of a sudden,
00:23:11.25\00:23:12.59
when they're doing
something we begin to analyze,
00:23:12.62\00:23:14.72
well, maybe it's
not so bad after all,
00:23:14.76\00:23:17.19
and we get off the path.
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Straight and
narrow is that path.
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That's right.
00:23:20.96\00:23:22.30
So it isn't by
beholding, you know,
00:23:22.33\00:23:25.07
that's what is 2
Corinthians 3:18,
00:23:25.10\00:23:27.34
you know, we were
looking through the glass,
00:23:27.37\00:23:29.40
and things that we
beholds what we become like.
00:23:29.44\00:23:32.24
And then like you
say, I think every day,
00:23:32.27\00:23:33.71
what you brought up,
00:23:33.74\00:23:35.08
everybody's brought up here
is that we can get sidetracked
00:23:35.11\00:23:38.28
from the most important things
00:23:38.31\00:23:40.12
and that's our
communion with God.
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Every morning, the first
thing because like you say,
00:23:43.22\00:23:45.35
once your feet, you
talk about hit the floor,
00:23:45.39\00:23:47.79
all kinds of
things begin to develop,
00:23:47.82\00:23:49.26
or you look at your phone,
00:23:49.29\00:23:50.73
somebody's got a problem
here, they need you for this,
00:23:50.76\00:23:52.79
they need you for that.
00:23:52.83\00:23:54.16
Well, you know,
unless it's an emergency,
00:23:54.20\00:23:55.76
they just have to need
you for a little while.
00:23:55.80\00:23:57.33
Right?
00:23:57.37\00:23:58.70
You need to spend your
time well and then you may,
00:23:58.73\00:24:00.27
you'll be better adapted
to help them in their need,
00:24:00.30\00:24:03.74
or whatever you're
going to do for the day
00:24:03.77\00:24:05.21
because we've
chosen to put Him first.
00:24:05.24\00:24:08.54
I had something,
Manuscript 148, 1897 said this.
00:24:08.58\00:24:12.98
Same thing we've
been talking about,
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"By receiving His
imputed righteousness,"
00:24:14.38\00:24:16.89
because we're
talking about again,
00:24:16.92\00:24:18.25
we're talking about
being changed, right?
00:24:18.29\00:24:20.19
"Through the
transforming power,"
00:24:20.22\00:24:21.92
we said before
of the Holy Spirit,
00:24:21.96\00:24:23.69
that's where it comes
in, "We become like Him."
00:24:23.73\00:24:27.36
And a lot of people dismiss
that like Him, get close to it,
00:24:27.40\00:24:30.70
do the best you can.
00:24:30.73\00:24:32.53
But scripture indicates,
00:24:32.57\00:24:34.04
Spirit of Prophecy
indicates to be like Him.
00:24:34.07\00:24:36.91
You know, we
have to be like Him.
00:24:36.94\00:24:38.57
2 Corinthians 3:18
it talks about there,
00:24:38.61\00:24:41.64
but by behold Christ.
00:24:41.68\00:24:43.21
"But we all with open face,"
that we just talked about,
00:24:43.24\00:24:45.98
"beholding as in a
glass, the glory of the Lord
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notices we're
changed in the same image
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from glory, to glory,"
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Notice, even as,
here's the answer,
00:24:53.89\00:24:56.06
"even as by the
Spirit of the Lord."
00:24:56.09\00:25:00.00
So the change comes about
everything we talked about,
00:25:00.03\00:25:02.26
no matter how far you're
going over, how much you dig,
00:25:02.30\00:25:04.17
and scratch, and carry on here.
00:25:04.20\00:25:06.00
We're gonna come
to the same point,
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every time it's the indwelling
of the Holy Spirit of the what?
00:25:07.40\00:25:10.31
Of the Holy Spirit
inside that by beholding,
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day by day, we
become by beholding whom?
00:25:14.28\00:25:17.05
Christ.
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The Christ, you
know, His righteousness,
00:25:18.45\00:25:20.38
His life, His example,
00:25:20.42\00:25:22.28
if I'm looking
at that, I'm saying,
00:25:22.32\00:25:23.65
"Wow, praise God."
00:25:23.69\00:25:25.15
Well, that's what
I need to be like,
00:25:25.19\00:25:26.86
rather than say,
"Well, you can't attain that."
00:25:26.89\00:25:29.09
Shame on those of us
that say we can't attain that.
00:25:29.12\00:25:31.46
Jesus attained
it in human flesh.
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Did He not? Oh, yeah. Amen
00:25:33.29\00:25:34.63
I like that word
that in that quote
00:25:34.66\00:25:36.00
that you read about receiving.
00:25:36.03\00:25:39.23
And can we receive
something if we, you know,
00:25:39.27\00:25:42.40
if we don't understand
it or if we don't desire it?
00:25:42.44\00:25:46.47
Yeah, like that song,
you know, that we sing,
00:25:46.51\00:25:48.98
fresh touch of
desire, is receiving it.
00:25:49.01\00:25:52.65
Receiving it is like just
the beginning of that process,
00:25:52.68\00:25:58.32
you know, and to always be open
00:25:58.35\00:25:59.89
to receiving it
too whether it's...
00:25:59.92\00:26:02.59
I'm sorry. Yeah, go ahead.
00:26:02.62\00:26:03.96
Sometimes,
00:26:03.99\00:26:05.33
I think for many of us
it's a lifelong process that,
00:26:05.36\00:26:08.33
you know, we continue to strive,
00:26:08.36\00:26:09.80
continue to work,
00:26:09.83\00:26:11.17
it's not at all an overnight
type of thing we can do.
00:26:11.20\00:26:15.60
Like he said, as
we grow and we learn,
00:26:15.64\00:26:17.51
we look at things from a
different angle sometimes,
00:26:17.54\00:26:19.97
we've never seen a
certain way before.
00:26:20.01\00:26:22.18
So it's a lifetime,
00:26:22.21\00:26:23.68
and it's a struggle
in this whole world,
00:26:23.71\00:26:26.25
it's a struggle.
00:26:26.28\00:26:27.98
But, you know,
00:26:28.02\00:26:29.35
that's why I'm so glad
00:26:29.38\00:26:31.79
that God judges the
motive of the heart.
00:26:31.82\00:26:33.72
Amen.
00:26:33.76\00:26:36.16
I was thinking of
something that came to my mind
00:26:36.19\00:26:37.59
and I don't want to
mention particular candy bar
00:26:37.63\00:26:39.63
but it satisfies.
00:26:39.66\00:26:41.73
He's sitting in
Tim's seat, isn't he?
00:26:41.76\00:26:44.70
He's talking about ice
cream on the other program.
00:26:44.73\00:26:47.90
Now we've got candy bars.
00:26:47.94\00:26:49.50
But, talks about satisfies,
00:26:49.54\00:26:51.37
but what really
does satisfy your soul,
00:26:51.41\00:26:53.41
you know, being on prayer line.
00:26:53.44\00:26:55.04
When I start reading scripture
back to people, they say,
00:26:55.08\00:26:57.81
"That's the most beautiful
prayer I've ever heard."
00:26:57.85\00:26:59.65
All I'm doing is
really reading scripture,
00:26:59.68\00:27:01.08
I mean, it strikes
high in some testimonies,
00:27:01.12\00:27:02.88
but really, it's the
Word of God that satisfies,
00:27:02.92\00:27:06.19
and that's what
you're saying the morning,
00:27:06.22\00:27:07.79
get up and satisfy your
soul with some good food.
00:27:07.82\00:27:10.23
It's the Word of
God that comes in.
00:27:10.26\00:27:13.29
And one thing
that you mentioned,
00:27:13.33\00:27:14.93
what if we don't
desire? You know what?
00:27:14.96\00:27:17.47
I haven't always desired.
00:27:17.50\00:27:19.47
But, you know, the
beautiful thing is because
00:27:19.50\00:27:21.34
all of this is a gift.
00:27:21.37\00:27:23.51
And you can get, you can pray,
00:27:23.54\00:27:25.67
when you're praying, say,
"God, give me the desire."
00:27:25.71\00:27:29.54
Tammy, what does it say,
how does the Lord speak to us,
00:27:29.58\00:27:32.11
how does sanctification
come to us in John 17:17?
00:27:32.15\00:27:36.42
"Sanctify them
through Thy truth,
00:27:36.45\00:27:38.95
Thy Word is true."
00:27:38.99\00:27:40.46
There's power, absolute
power in the Word of God.
00:27:40.49\00:27:45.19
And we've
talked about it before,
00:27:45.23\00:27:46.96
but there's so
many wonderful promises
00:27:47.00\00:27:49.70
and we can pray those
right back to God and say,
00:27:49.73\00:27:52.13
"Lord, You promise"
or "Lord, speak to me."
00:27:52.17\00:27:54.87
I can't tell you how many times,
00:27:54.90\00:27:56.24
and it just touches
my heart every time.
00:27:56.27\00:27:58.54
If I'm really, really searching
and I have no answer and I say,
00:27:58.57\00:28:02.44
"Lord, You speak to
us through Your Word,
00:28:02.48\00:28:04.08
would You please
show me," you know?
00:28:04.11\00:28:07.52
John 17:17
really in an Amplified.
00:28:07.55\00:28:09.58
Okay.
00:28:09.62\00:28:10.95
Listen to this,
it gets really good.
00:28:10.99\00:28:12.32
"Sanctify them,
purify them, consecrate them,
00:28:12.35\00:28:16.12
separate them for yourself.
00:28:16.16\00:28:18.69
Make them holy by the
truth, Your word is truth."
00:28:18.73\00:28:21.53
That was
Amplified, that's beautiful,
00:28:21.56\00:28:23.00
it covers everything.
00:28:23.03\00:28:24.37
Separate them for yourself. Yes.
00:28:24.40\00:28:25.73
My question in last
program what is truth?
00:28:25.77\00:28:28.90
Pretty simple,
Thy word is truth.
00:28:28.94\00:28:31.91
Amen. Yeah.
00:28:31.94\00:28:33.51
So there's two parts
00:28:33.54\00:28:34.88
we're talking about
here with sanctification
00:28:34.91\00:28:36.81
comes by the
indwelling of the Holy Spirit,
00:28:36.85\00:28:39.71
and the Holy Spirit as in
John 16, Holy Spirit says,
00:28:39.75\00:28:42.82
"I will lead
you into all truth."
00:28:42.85\00:28:46.19
And so truth then plays a part
00:28:46.22\00:28:48.92
on our
sanctified walk with Christ,
00:28:48.96\00:28:52.69
eventually
heaven, that's what's it.
00:28:52.73\00:28:55.53
Only truth will change us.
00:28:55.56\00:28:58.73
Nothing else in the
world will, it's the truth
00:28:58.77\00:29:00.34
that does it
right inside the heart,
00:29:00.37\00:29:03.00
meditated on,
thought on, studied on,
00:29:03.04\00:29:06.31
begins to change
us because He said,
00:29:06.34\00:29:08.84
"Thy word is truth."
00:29:08.88\00:29:10.75
You know what?
00:29:10.78\00:29:12.11
Actually, it just came to
my mind and it breaks the bonds
00:29:12.15\00:29:13.62
that you have
tied to this earth,
00:29:13.65\00:29:15.18
tying to this earth.
00:29:15.22\00:29:16.75
Because they
break those bonds. Yes.
00:29:16.79\00:29:18.79
So those bonds are being broken.
00:29:18.82\00:29:20.16
I just, that maybe just
came in my mind this idea.
00:29:20.19\00:29:22.79
I love it 'cause it's
00:29:22.82\00:29:24.16
what came to my
mind is the things
00:29:24.19\00:29:25.63
that we once love,
00:29:25.66\00:29:27.00
we actually experience that now.
00:29:27.03\00:29:28.36
We've read it
before in Scripture,
00:29:28.40\00:29:29.73
but the things
that we once loved,
00:29:29.76\00:29:31.83
we now hate.
00:29:31.87\00:29:33.20
I've got a verse
there... Okay, go head.
00:29:33.23\00:29:34.74
'Cause it goes
along with what you guys
00:29:34.77\00:29:36.10
were just made comments.
00:29:36.14\00:29:37.47
Romans 12:2, you guys
know this probably by heart.
00:29:37.51\00:29:39.57
I know.
00:29:39.61\00:29:40.94
"And do not
conformed to this world,
00:29:40.98\00:29:42.91
but be transformed by
the renewing of your mind,
00:29:42.94\00:29:46.11
that you may prove
00:29:46.15\00:29:47.55
what is that good and acceptable
00:29:47.58\00:29:49.18
and perfect will of God."
00:29:49.22\00:29:50.75
Amen. Amen.
00:29:50.79\00:29:52.12
Do not conform to this
world and renewing of our mind
00:29:52.15\00:29:55.96
that brings transformation.
00:29:55.99\00:29:58.33
Who can break
those bonds, though?
00:29:58.36\00:30:00.53
Christ. Oh, yeah.
00:30:00.56\00:30:02.33
Our Saviour, our Redeemer.
00:30:02.36\00:30:04.07
That's what this is all
about. We were bound in sin.
00:30:04.10\00:30:07.67
We were bound to the grave.
00:30:07.70\00:30:10.11
He came and He
broke those bonds.
00:30:10.14\00:30:12.87
He opened the present
doors so they can be set free.
00:30:12.91\00:30:16.98
You know, and they
were some were set free
00:30:17.01\00:30:18.68
at His resurrection
and when He comes again,
00:30:18.71\00:30:20.75
the rest are
going to be set free.
00:30:20.78\00:30:22.12
Amen. Amen.
00:30:22.15\00:30:23.49
And then those
of us who are alive
00:30:23.52\00:30:24.85
and remaining will be caught
up together up in the air.
00:30:24.89\00:30:27.39
The bonds of sin, and,
you know, what's bonds?
00:30:27.42\00:30:30.33
It's a bonds of sin.
00:30:30.36\00:30:31.79
It's sin that
separates us from God,
00:30:31.83\00:30:34.10
sin that
separates us from heaven
00:30:34.13\00:30:36.50
and we have to come to
the point as Christians
00:30:36.53\00:30:38.93
and you'll slowly
that you abhor sin.
00:30:38.97\00:30:42.40
And one thing that I probably
learnt from you many years ago,
00:30:42.44\00:30:45.37
probably was from you
first that I had heard this,
00:30:45.41\00:30:48.38
but the Bible
teaches it because, you know,
00:30:48.41\00:30:50.91
Christ would not sin.
00:30:50.95\00:30:53.82
He would rather die than sin.
00:30:53.85\00:30:55.95
And that's where we,
as we grow in Christ,
00:30:55.98\00:30:58.49
His mind becomes our mind,
00:30:58.52\00:31:00.52
as His Spirit
begins to dwell in us,
00:31:00.56\00:31:03.36
we come to the point we
would rather die than sin.
00:31:03.39\00:31:07.63
And one thing I noticed that
00:31:07.66\00:31:09.00
Lord's really, really,
really been working on me.
00:31:09.03\00:31:13.30
It's even in
the little things...
00:31:13.34\00:31:15.44
Oh, absolutely.
00:31:15.47\00:31:16.81
A little thing,
00:31:16.84\00:31:18.27
you know, 'cause
it's a thing that,
00:31:18.31\00:31:20.61
well, it doesn't
seem wrong, you know,
00:31:20.64\00:31:22.91
it doesn't seem
like it's necessary
00:31:22.94\00:31:24.71
but is at the best, you know.
00:31:24.75\00:31:27.52
And God always
wants the best for us,
00:31:27.55\00:31:29.55
whether it's for our
body tempo or what we dress,
00:31:29.58\00:31:33.22
anything, you
know, where we worship,
00:31:33.25\00:31:34.89
when we worship, how we worship,
00:31:34.92\00:31:36.86
He wants the
best for His children.
00:31:36.89\00:31:38.53
He wants us to be a
particular, peculiar people.
00:31:38.56\00:31:42.36
So if we love the world
and the things of the world
00:31:42.40\00:31:45.37
and to involve in the world,
00:31:45.40\00:31:47.44
it's an impossibility
to obtain saint of my life.
00:31:47.47\00:31:50.27
That's a tough one. Isn't it?
00:31:50.31\00:31:51.97
In other words,
it's impossibility.
00:31:52.01\00:31:53.84
Let's have you for some I
know, to make it to heaven
00:31:53.88\00:31:56.91
because our first love is things
00:31:56.95\00:31:58.85
that are going on in the world,
00:31:58.88\00:32:00.22
what everybody else is
doing, what we put first.
00:32:00.25\00:32:03.65
You ever know, it was years ago,
00:32:03.69\00:32:05.02
maybe before you
decided by the grace of God
00:32:05.05\00:32:07.46
to make more right choices.
00:32:07.49\00:32:09.92
When something came up,
the neighbors needed us,
00:32:09.96\00:32:14.00
there's a party,
there's just that...
00:32:14.03\00:32:15.36
That was all put
before God, and before church.
00:32:15.40\00:32:18.07
Oh, yeah.
00:32:18.10\00:32:19.43
And then,
00:32:19.47\00:32:20.80
as we begin to
live the sanctified life
00:32:20.84\00:32:22.60
by the grace of God,
grace being poured on.
00:32:22.64\00:32:26.14
All of sudden we sin, you know,
00:32:26.17\00:32:27.58
that's just not
the way we should.
00:32:27.61\00:32:30.45
I give you a quick example,
I may have told story before,
00:32:30.48\00:32:32.61
but remember,
Marrie Albert, and it goes.
00:32:32.65\00:32:36.72
Yeah, she was young,
00:32:36.75\00:32:38.39
and I was young maybe not just,
00:32:38.42\00:32:39.75
maybe a teenager, late
teens or maybe early 20s.
00:32:39.79\00:32:43.36
And we started prayer meeting.
00:32:43.39\00:32:46.19
And I remember, so she
was kind of getting back
00:32:46.23\00:32:48.20
in memorizing
the books of Bible,
00:32:48.23\00:32:49.56
anyhow just for some reason,
00:32:49.60\00:32:50.93
it's Wednesday evening,
I've been outside in the sun,
00:32:50.97\00:32:52.77
working all day
long on the roof.
00:32:52.80\00:32:54.20
I just, you know, walked
in house air-condition on,
00:32:54.24\00:32:56.57
I just fell on the couch.
00:32:56.60\00:32:57.94
I thought, "Oh! This is so good.
00:32:57.97\00:32:59.54
Oh, it's Wednesday
night, means prayer meeting."
00:32:59.57\00:33:03.21
I thought, "Oh, man,
you know, oh, you know."
00:33:03.24\00:33:05.31
There was battle,
battle royal was going on.
00:33:05.35\00:33:08.15
I know I need to go.
00:33:08.18\00:33:09.52
And all of
sudden the phone rang.
00:33:09.55\00:33:11.39
And my pet name
for Marrie was Rirry.
00:33:11.42\00:33:15.32
It was Rirry. Rirry Johns.
00:33:15.36\00:33:17.69
So anyways she said, "Kenny?"
00:33:17.73\00:33:20.13
I said, "Oh,
Rirry, how you doing?"
00:33:20.16\00:33:21.50
She said "Good.
00:33:21.53\00:33:22.86
I just wonder if you're
going to prayer meeting?"
00:33:22.90\00:33:25.13
Well, that really...
We need spiritual slide.
00:33:25.17\00:33:27.67
Man, I wish she
hadn't have called.
00:33:27.70\00:33:29.97
Oh, I wish she
hadn't have called,
00:33:30.01\00:33:31.34
I felt better, justified.
00:33:31.37\00:33:34.28
And I said, "Well, I
don't know right now Marrie,
00:33:34.31\00:33:36.95
I'm trying to decide."
00:33:36.98\00:33:38.58
She said, "Well,
you better decide boy!"
00:33:38.61\00:33:40.45
She said, "I'm gonna be
there, so you better", you know,
00:33:40.48\00:33:42.82
that's kind of way we
talk, I said, "Oh, girl, okay."
00:33:42.85\00:33:46.42
And so here's what I did.
00:33:46.45\00:33:47.79
I said, "Okay,
thank you for calling.
00:33:47.82\00:33:49.16
I'm glad you
did," and I hung up.
00:33:49.19\00:33:51.43
And then, I was on the couch,
well, I didn't go to sleep.
00:33:51.46\00:33:55.86
And so, here's what I
did, I picked up the TV guide.
00:33:55.90\00:34:00.57
Somebody's not home.
00:34:00.60\00:34:01.94
And you probably don't even know
00:34:01.97\00:34:03.30
that a TV guide doesn't work.
00:34:03.34\00:34:04.67
TV guide. I know
what TV guide is.
00:34:04.71\00:34:06.04
All right, I know,
it's about time you learned.
00:34:06.07\00:34:07.41
So I picked up the TV guide...
00:34:07.44\00:34:08.78
Was it digital, was actually...
00:34:08.81\00:34:10.15
No, it's paper.
Printing out the several.
00:34:10.18\00:34:11.71
And I said to myself,
00:34:11.75\00:34:14.18
"I'm gonna see if
there's anything good on TV,
00:34:14.22\00:34:16.99
if there is I'm gonna stay home,
00:34:17.02\00:34:18.35
if there's not, I'll
go to prayer meeting."
00:34:18.39\00:34:19.72
Oh, boy! Oh, that was horrible.
00:34:19.75\00:34:21.09
Horrible decision.
00:34:21.12\00:34:22.59
Now as soon as it
came out of my mouth,
00:34:22.62\00:34:24.83
I realized what I had said.
00:34:24.86\00:34:27.43
And I mean, I, the Holy
Spirit just really worked on me.
00:34:27.46\00:34:32.43
Spiritual slap. Spiritual slap.
00:34:32.47\00:34:34.80
It was.
00:34:34.84\00:34:36.17
And I put the TV guide
down quickly, and I said,
00:34:36.20\00:34:39.44
"Thank you, Lord, for
reminding me what is important,
00:34:39.47\00:34:42.51
you better believe I'm going."
00:34:42.54\00:34:43.88
Amen. I mean I went.
00:34:43.91\00:34:45.25
You know what? Sidetracked.
00:34:45.28\00:34:46.68
Don't get sidetracked.
00:34:46.72\00:34:48.05
I'm glad you're
talking about that
00:34:48.08\00:34:49.42
because I just had a
conversation recently about,
00:34:49.45\00:34:51.95
someone asking me the question,
00:34:51.99\00:34:53.32
"How do I tell the
difference between conviction
00:34:53.36\00:34:55.52
and condemnation?"
00:34:55.56\00:34:57.53
You know, like if someone
says something like that,
00:34:57.56\00:35:00.26
you could have, in your mind,
00:35:00.30\00:35:02.43
you could have think
that, oh, she's calling,
00:35:02.46\00:35:04.63
'cause, you know,
now I feel condemn
00:35:04.67\00:35:06.13
'cause I'm not going.
00:35:06.17\00:35:07.50
But you recognize
00:35:07.54\00:35:08.87
that God was convicting
you in different ways,
00:35:08.90\00:35:11.24
and you know,
sometimes I think, you know,
00:35:11.27\00:35:13.84
it's early on in
our Christian walk
00:35:13.88\00:35:15.94
is hard to tell
the difference between,
00:35:15.98\00:35:17.58
you know, when
someone says something
00:35:17.61\00:35:19.55
that's meant for our good,
00:35:19.58\00:35:20.92
it can sometimes
be seen as condemning.
00:35:20.95\00:35:23.32
And where God, you know,
maybe is working there to,
00:35:23.35\00:35:25.79
you know, for conviction,
00:35:25.82\00:35:27.49
but that fine line of, you know,
00:35:27.52\00:35:29.52
turn to decide
where it's coming from.
00:35:29.56\00:35:31.89
Yeah, yeah.
00:35:31.93\00:35:33.26
That's how we need
to be so, so careful,
00:35:33.29\00:35:35.06
whenever we do, say
things or talk to people.
00:35:35.10\00:35:38.07
That's why we need
to trust in the fact
00:35:38.10\00:35:41.34
that God judges the motives,
00:35:41.37\00:35:43.51
and not always the
outside actions and appearances,
00:35:43.54\00:35:47.58
because then we, in our minds,
00:35:47.61\00:35:50.01
we don't see what
God sees and we think,
00:35:50.05\00:35:53.31
"Oh, that person's doing wrong,
or they're not a Christian,
00:35:53.35\00:35:56.58
or they're not
upholding standards."
00:35:56.62\00:35:58.85
And we don't know
what's going on in their heart,
00:35:58.89\00:36:01.32
and we don't know where
they are at in that walk.
00:36:01.36\00:36:03.79
And that's why we have to be so,
00:36:03.83\00:36:05.29
and if we do talk to
somebody, we have to,
00:36:05.33\00:36:08.13
well, as Mrs. White says,"
00:36:08.16\00:36:09.70
We have to do it
with so much love
00:36:09.73\00:36:12.23
that we would
die for that person."
00:36:12.27\00:36:13.64
Yes! Amen. Amen.
00:36:13.67\00:36:15.00
So that is what
makes all, I mean,
00:36:15.04\00:36:17.11
we all know the
husbands and wives,
00:36:17.14\00:36:19.47
if you talk to each other harsh,
00:36:19.51\00:36:22.01
you don't get very far.
00:36:22.04\00:36:23.68
But, you know...
00:36:23.71\00:36:25.28
But if you do it with the
different attitudes, yeah.
00:36:25.31\00:36:27.58
My toes, toes. Yeah.
00:36:27.62\00:36:30.45
If you do it with
the different attitude,
00:36:30.49\00:36:32.12
then it's certainly that
way when we talk to people,
00:36:32.15\00:36:34.32
if we don't say the
right words in the right way,
00:36:34.36\00:36:37.56
and with love,
00:36:37.59\00:36:38.93
it can be
looked as condemnation.
00:36:38.96\00:36:40.80
Something you touched
and really spoke to me,
00:36:40.83\00:36:42.50
and I do a
addiction recovering in prison
00:36:42.53\00:36:44.20
where we just
did a couple of weeks
00:36:44.23\00:36:45.57
of God's Love for
Man and Steps to Christ.
00:36:45.60\00:36:47.70
And in there, I
said, "You wanna see
00:36:47.74\00:36:49.07
what a pure man
of God looks like,
00:36:49.10\00:36:50.44
you read that little
chapter in Steps to Christ."
00:36:50.47\00:36:52.41
Oh, my God!
00:36:52.44\00:36:53.78
He said, "Jesus didn't
censure human weakness.
00:36:53.81\00:36:56.51
Do not censure human weakness."
00:36:56.54\00:36:58.08
I'm like, "How
do you even do that?
00:36:58.11\00:36:59.65
And he saw in everybody
who He had come to save.
00:36:59.68\00:37:02.28
That is so
powerful, I mean, how do we...
00:37:02.32\00:37:04.75
I mean, I always look
at the outward of my cloth,
00:37:04.79\00:37:06.65
I don't get it right,
you know, I'm thinking,
00:37:06.69\00:37:08.02
well, Don have it
right either, so...
00:37:08.06\00:37:10.06
So you are to sense,
00:37:10.09\00:37:11.43
so Christ sees
the finished product.
00:37:11.46\00:37:14.06
That's right.
00:37:14.10\00:37:15.43
When He's looking at
you, He's looking at me,
00:37:15.46\00:37:16.80
He sees a finished product.
00:37:16.83\00:37:18.17
We will become...
00:37:18.20\00:37:19.53
We will become, or can become
00:37:19.57\00:37:20.90
through Him rather than
miserable mess that I am.
00:37:20.94\00:37:23.71
See, that's beautiful.
00:37:23.74\00:37:25.07
When we think about,
00:37:25.11\00:37:26.44
we're looking in
the mirror and say,
00:37:26.47\00:37:27.81
"Oh I had a horrible nightmare,"
00:37:27.84\00:37:29.18
in a lot of different ways,
00:37:29.21\00:37:30.55
but to know that
He's looking and saying,
00:37:30.58\00:37:33.21
"This is what they
can be through me."
00:37:33.25\00:37:34.78
Yes, amen.
00:37:34.82\00:37:36.15
It's so exciting. It's possible.
00:37:36.18\00:37:38.59
You just remind me
of Psalm 103:13-14.
00:37:38.62\00:37:42.62
Oh, man, and it just
speaks to me because,
00:37:42.66\00:37:44.53
you know, we kind of touched on
all about the idea of healing,
00:37:44.56\00:37:46.86
and struggles, and things.
00:37:46.90\00:37:48.36
It says in verse 13,
00:37:48.40\00:37:49.73
"Like as a father
pitieth his children,
00:37:49.76\00:37:51.10
so the Lord pitieth
them that fear him."
00:37:51.13\00:37:52.57
And this is verse 14,
"For he knoweth our frame,
00:37:52.60\00:37:55.14
he remembereth
that we are dust."
00:37:55.17\00:37:56.60
So He knows what we're
struggling with right now.
00:37:56.64\00:37:58.57
He knows what
we're going through.
00:37:58.61\00:38:00.11
He knows the season we're in.
00:38:00.14\00:38:01.91
He knows how He wants to help us
00:38:01.94\00:38:03.51
to overcome that season.
00:38:03.55\00:38:04.88
Amen.
00:38:04.91\00:38:06.25
He wants to give
us that strength.
00:38:06.28\00:38:07.62
You know, it's
been quite a while back,
00:38:07.65\00:38:09.78
but you and I had
mentioned Rodger Manno.
00:38:09.82\00:38:12.09
Oh, yes.
00:38:12.12\00:38:13.46
And, you know,
after he was convicted
00:38:13.49\00:38:15.56
and he was changed,
00:38:15.59\00:38:16.93
and he was on that
road of sanctification,
00:38:16.96\00:38:19.63
he read Matthew 27
every day, every day!
00:38:19.66\00:38:23.77
And it never became
old, in fact, it gave,
00:38:23.80\00:38:26.23
it's like the Holy
Spirit continued to give him
00:38:26.27\00:38:28.57
more and more power by
reading that chapter every day,
00:38:28.60\00:38:32.17
and he had it memorized.
00:38:32.21\00:38:33.98
But never ever did he read it,
I think, or repeat it without
00:38:34.01\00:38:37.95
tears in his eyes.
00:38:37.98\00:38:39.31
But one thing that
has always stuck to me
00:38:39.35\00:38:41.25
and I had written this,
00:38:41.28\00:38:42.62
I brought a letter I
had written to someone
00:38:42.65\00:38:44.59
this weekend it's, I wrote,
00:38:44.62\00:38:46.45
"The power that
gave Christ life anew
00:38:46.49\00:38:49.96
is the same power
that can renew your life."
00:38:49.99\00:38:55.16
Amen. Wow!
00:38:55.20\00:38:56.53
This, the power that
brought Him out of the grave,
00:38:56.56\00:38:59.67
the Holy Spirit resurrection
power is the same power
00:38:59.70\00:39:04.57
that God says I
want to give to you,
00:39:04.61\00:39:07.41
to give you,
renew your life in Him.
00:39:07.44\00:39:10.95
It's beautiful.
00:39:10.98\00:39:12.31
And what she talked about,
00:39:12.35\00:39:14.22
we could have
another hour just on that
00:39:14.25\00:39:17.02
to talk about loving
someone so much that we,
00:39:17.05\00:39:21.02
before we go to them
with any type of correction
00:39:21.06\00:39:23.63
that we're
willing to die for them.
00:39:23.66\00:39:25.29
That's pretty good.
And it reminded me...
00:39:25.33\00:39:26.83
Souls wouldn't go. That's right.
00:39:26.86\00:39:28.46
Oh, yes, let's be
honest, most souls wouldn't go.
00:39:28.50\00:39:30.40
I know, in my own life,
00:39:30.43\00:39:32.00
I have to put love
first in front of everything.
00:39:32.03\00:39:34.54
I didn't say
because of my carnal nature.
00:39:34.57\00:39:38.21
Yeah. Yeah.
00:39:38.24\00:39:39.57
It's good to be
aware of that, isn't it?
00:39:39.61\00:39:40.94
Yes, you make those decisions.
00:39:40.98\00:39:42.41
And I pray that. Yes.
00:39:42.44\00:39:44.45
Absolute, because God
will answer your prayer.
00:39:44.48\00:39:46.05
Love will conquer all, actually.
00:39:46.08\00:39:47.82
It will.
00:39:47.85\00:39:49.18
You just said,
00:39:49.22\00:39:50.55
God looks at the finished
product to that we don't see,
00:39:50.59\00:39:52.82
it's kind of, I
compare that to kind
00:39:52.85\00:39:54.79
when we have
children, and the baby's born,
00:39:54.82\00:39:57.89
and the possibilities,
you look at that child,
00:39:57.93\00:40:00.50
and you love that child so much,
00:40:00.53\00:40:02.23
you give your
life for that child.
00:40:02.26\00:40:03.73
And the possibilities, you know,
00:40:03.77\00:40:05.43
this could be the
president of the United States,
00:40:05.47\00:40:07.97
or this could be, you know,
00:40:08.00\00:40:09.34
this could be a
wonderful pastor...
00:40:09.37\00:40:11.64
Evangelist.
Evangelist, you know.
00:40:11.67\00:40:13.44
And all those
possibilities lay before you
00:40:13.48\00:40:16.81
and you see in your mind,
00:40:16.85\00:40:18.98
you see what that
child could become.
00:40:19.01\00:40:21.48
And I think that God
does that with us just like,
00:40:21.52\00:40:24.45
we do as
parents to our children.
00:40:24.49\00:40:26.49
And you never stop
loving your children.
00:40:26.52\00:40:28.32
No.
00:40:28.36\00:40:29.69
You know, this past weekend,
00:40:29.72\00:40:31.06
I was with one of my daughters,
00:40:31.09\00:40:33.16
and the week before,
something had happened,
00:40:33.19\00:40:35.76
and it just broke my heart.
00:40:35.80\00:40:37.50
I mean,
absolutely broke my heart,
00:40:37.53\00:40:39.13
but I didn't know
how to bring it up
00:40:39.17\00:40:40.87
or talk about it.
00:40:40.90\00:40:42.34
And we were in the office,
00:40:42.37\00:40:44.17
and I was just talking
and kind of ministering to her
00:40:44.21\00:40:46.91
'cause her back was hurting.
00:40:46.94\00:40:48.28
So I was rubbing her
back and so and so forth,
00:40:48.31\00:40:51.71
and I was praying about it.
00:40:51.75\00:40:54.25
You know, so I asked the
Lord and I just finally said,
00:40:54.28\00:40:57.15
"You know, there's something
00:40:57.19\00:40:58.85
that's really,
really broke my heart."
00:40:58.89\00:41:02.42
And her first thoughts were,
00:41:02.46\00:41:03.79
"I don't want to hear about it."
00:41:03.83\00:41:05.36
I don't want to, you
know, every time I come around,
00:41:05.39\00:41:06.96
I don't want a lesson.
00:41:07.00\00:41:09.93
And I said,
"Don't you understand?"
00:41:09.96\00:41:12.63
Come on.
00:41:12.67\00:41:14.00
"Don't you understand
that I love you so much."
00:41:14.04\00:41:18.77
And it hasn't been
that many years ago
00:41:18.81\00:41:21.44
that I just before God,
00:41:21.48\00:41:23.45
because of the
choices that were being made.
00:41:23.48\00:41:25.48
I said, "Lord, take me.
00:41:25.51\00:41:27.78
Let me die literally."
00:41:27.82\00:41:29.58
I felt it right then,
I was earnest in heart.
00:41:29.62\00:41:32.55
He didn't do it.
00:41:32.59\00:41:34.42
But I asked Him
take me, let them live.
00:41:34.46\00:41:37.86
And I shared that
with her for the first time
00:41:37.89\00:41:40.70
and I think she finally got it.
00:41:40.73\00:41:42.53
All right. Amen.
00:41:42.56\00:41:43.90
I could tell a
difference in the conversation.
00:41:43.93\00:41:47.10
Not just that
day, but the next day,
00:41:47.14\00:41:49.70
and we weren't able to just talk
00:41:49.74\00:41:53.34
about that incident too much.
00:41:53.38\00:41:56.31
You know, but she
already knew my thoughts.
00:41:56.34\00:41:59.31
And, but it makes a
difference 'cause I think,
00:41:59.35\00:42:02.85
she finally felt mommy's love.
00:42:02.88\00:42:05.82
And that's what people know,
00:42:05.85\00:42:07.26
people you talk to we
never meet on the phone.
00:42:07.29\00:42:09.92
The Holy Spirit can connect
you with them and it's like,
00:42:09.96\00:42:13.86
you just love them
in Christ, you know.
00:42:13.90\00:42:17.13
And we have to
love, you know, it's just,
00:42:17.17\00:42:19.27
I think was a story
that were on the messages
00:42:19.30\00:42:21.90
a week or two ago
that there was a young boy,
00:42:21.94\00:42:25.71
seven or eight years
old and he was out swimming,
00:42:25.74\00:42:29.94
100 feet, 150 feet from
shore, and he got a cramp.
00:42:29.98\00:42:33.68
So he couldn't move his legs
and so he began to go under,
00:42:33.72\00:42:38.42
and he went under,
and he came back up.
00:42:38.45\00:42:41.02
He went back
under, came back up.
00:42:41.06\00:42:43.19
Each time he came
up, the second time,
00:42:43.22\00:42:44.56
he's hollering help, help.
00:42:44.59\00:42:46.43
And then he is getting
ready to go the third time,
00:42:46.46\00:42:48.60
as he's going down again,
00:42:48.63\00:42:49.96
'cause he couldn't move
also, and he felt a strong hand
00:42:50.00\00:42:52.63
just reach out
and pulled him up.
00:42:52.67\00:42:56.24
And then, caressed as it were,
00:42:56.27\00:42:58.47
got him in the hold and needed
and just swam back to shore,
00:42:58.51\00:43:01.68
and got him out on the shoulder.
00:43:01.71\00:43:04.15
And the little guy
looked up at the stranger
00:43:04.18\00:43:08.22
because the stranger had
been watching from the site.
00:43:08.25\00:43:11.22
And he's seen
the boy struggling,
00:43:11.25\00:43:13.09
and the moment he
saw him struggling,
00:43:13.12\00:43:14.46
he was already in action.
00:43:14.49\00:43:16.06
Isn't that good to
have people in their action.
00:43:16.09\00:43:17.99
They didn't have
to think about say,
00:43:18.03\00:43:19.36
"Well, hit now
that how many times
00:43:19.39\00:43:20.73
they went down before I..."
00:43:20.76\00:43:22.10
Just go immediately,
his boy was in trouble.
00:43:22.13\00:43:24.30
Immediately we're in
trouble, there's God.
00:43:24.33\00:43:26.27
Now as you can look
spiritual things to this.
00:43:26.30\00:43:28.50
Like Peter. Yeah,
Peter. Like Peter.
00:43:28.54\00:43:29.87
And then so anyway,
00:43:29.90\00:43:31.24
but that little boy
looked up at him and said,
00:43:31.27\00:43:32.97
"Thank you, sir,
for saving my life."
00:43:33.01\00:43:35.24
And the man said, "Well,
you're quite welcome, son.
00:43:35.28\00:43:38.51
Make sure you're worth saving."
00:43:38.55\00:43:41.38
Wow! Woo!
00:43:41.42\00:43:42.75
I got goosebumps.
00:43:42.78\00:43:44.12
You know, make sure
you're worth saving.
00:43:44.15\00:43:48.06
So he was looking
beyond the physical,
00:43:48.09\00:43:51.03
this man whoever it was
00:43:51.06\00:43:52.39
that jumped in and
saved him was looking at him.
00:43:52.43\00:43:54.50
Make sure your
life is worth saving.
00:43:54.53\00:43:56.70
That put me in mind of something
00:43:56.73\00:43:59.27
that just happened a
week ago, close to us,
00:43:59.30\00:44:02.14
six miles from
here in Johnson City.
00:44:02.17\00:44:04.97
The kind of world we live in
00:44:05.01\00:44:06.57
where we're supposed
to be apart from the world
00:44:06.61\00:44:08.61
and the older I get,
00:44:08.64\00:44:10.41
the easier it is to
be apart from the world,
00:44:10.45\00:44:12.61
I don't see anything enticing
about the world anymore.
00:44:12.65\00:44:16.25
Praise God! Yes.
00:44:16.28\00:44:17.62
In a world where a little boy,
00:44:17.65\00:44:20.36
I don't know if
he was eight or nine,
00:44:20.39\00:44:21.89
I wanna say eight, he
hung himself last week.
00:44:21.92\00:44:25.06
Oh, yeah. Oh, I
had not heard that.
00:44:25.09\00:44:27.06
Eight years old? Oh,
I had not heard that.
00:44:27.10\00:44:29.80
And I could not, I
mean I couldn't even fathom.
00:44:29.83\00:44:31.93
Oh, no.
00:44:31.97\00:44:33.30
Something that the
little boy could be that,
00:44:33.34\00:44:37.01
he seemed happy at
school, teacher said,
00:44:37.04\00:44:39.27
you know, he was
happy and everything
00:44:39.31\00:44:40.71
but there was a
lot of family problems.
00:44:40.74\00:44:42.98
And there was
some children issue
00:44:43.01\00:44:46.61
where the state was coming in.
00:44:46.65\00:44:48.85
But to think that a little boy,
00:44:48.88\00:44:51.12
that little would
think there was no hope
00:44:51.15\00:44:53.82
that he should end his
life that is so horrible
00:44:53.86\00:44:57.99
the world that we live in.
00:44:58.03\00:45:00.20
There's just nothing
about it that entices me,
00:45:00.23\00:45:03.77
in fact, it wears me out.
00:45:03.80\00:45:06.03
All right. The
world wears me out.
00:45:06.07\00:45:07.74
Absolutely. Because it's...
00:45:07.77\00:45:09.70
I was talking to my cousin...
It means you're tired of.
00:45:09.74\00:45:11.81
And we were talking about back
00:45:11.84\00:45:13.17
when our kids were
little and you think,
00:45:13.21\00:45:15.58
you enjoy things, she
went places, you took the kids,
00:45:15.61\00:45:18.68
you know,
00:45:18.71\00:45:20.18
you have a lot of happy
moments when we were growing up,
00:45:20.22\00:45:23.08
we had a lot of
fun, lot of happy.
00:45:23.12\00:45:25.12
I don't see that anymore.
00:45:25.15\00:45:26.72
It just seems like it's
one thing after another,
00:45:26.76\00:45:29.02
after another, this distresses
00:45:29.06\00:45:30.89
mount and mount and
mount until you are wore out.
00:45:30.93\00:45:34.23
The Spirit of the
Lord's been with us.
00:45:34.26\00:45:35.90
It's been removed, the Spirit
of the Lord is being removed.
00:45:35.93\00:45:39.07
That's our blessing
though is that we can step in
00:45:39.10\00:45:41.07
and be that particular
somebody for that young man.
00:45:41.10\00:45:44.01
We can step in there, yeah.
00:45:44.04\00:45:45.57
They need those people where
they're hungering for truth.
00:45:45.61\00:45:47.28
Somebody didn't see something.
00:45:47.31\00:45:48.64
Yeah. Right.
00:45:48.68\00:45:50.01
And there was people
who should've seen things
00:45:50.05\00:45:51.38
and so on, and I'm not trying
to blame anything or anybody.
00:45:51.41\00:45:53.52
But we should be
able to see those things.
00:45:53.55\00:45:55.52
And you know, our church family,
00:45:55.55\00:45:57.89
look at the children,
see how are they doing.
00:45:57.92\00:45:59.25
Whatever, you never know
00:45:59.29\00:46:00.66
that someone just
needs a pat on their head or,
00:46:00.69\00:46:02.76
"Hey, I love you
today or you know,
00:46:02.79\00:46:04.46
it's good to see.
00:46:04.49\00:46:05.83
I'm so glad,
you're here, you know."
00:46:05.86\00:46:07.20
So let's...
00:46:07.23\00:46:08.56
Put it in
perspective, that's Gavin's age,
00:46:08.60\00:46:09.93
that's Carson's age.
00:46:09.96\00:46:11.30
Yeah, do, yeah.
It's just the thing.
00:46:11.33\00:46:13.03
Her mind boggled.
00:46:13.07\00:46:14.40
And how they understand
that they can do that, you know,
00:46:14.44\00:46:17.07
there had to be some kind of
understanding of, you know...
00:46:17.11\00:46:19.91
What he was going to do,
how he was going to do...
00:46:19.94\00:46:21.61
Exactly.
00:46:21.64\00:46:22.98
We researched it,
00:46:23.01\00:46:24.35
or somehow to know that
or maybe saw it on something.
00:46:24.38\00:46:27.12
Yeah, that's expansive thoughts.
00:46:27.15\00:46:29.05
Well... Oh!
00:46:29.08\00:46:30.42
You have expansive thoughts.
00:46:30.45\00:46:32.02
Speaking of which one
of my daughters showed me
00:46:32.05\00:46:33.89
that somebody has infiltrated
00:46:33.92\00:46:35.39
some of these
little children's programs
00:46:35.42\00:46:37.33
and they're telling them to
kill themselves on their own.
00:46:37.36\00:46:40.03
Oh, my goodness!
00:46:40.06\00:46:41.40
And they're trying to pull it,
00:46:41.43\00:46:42.76
but somehow they're
using the real, real program
00:46:42.80\00:46:45.43
and they've somehow
been able to hijack it.
00:46:45.47\00:46:47.90
Yeah, we know it's been
used the music for youth.
00:46:47.94\00:46:50.84
Yes. Oh, yes.
00:46:50.87\00:46:52.57
That's the thing is that
00:46:52.61\00:46:53.94
we have the
privilege in these last days
00:46:53.98\00:46:55.58
to be the light
for those people.
00:46:55.61\00:46:56.95
Praise God!
00:46:56.98\00:46:58.31
We get to be their gospel,
we get to share that gospels,
00:46:58.35\00:46:59.85
so that can bring
them out of darkness
00:46:59.88\00:47:01.52
into His marvelous light.
00:47:01.55\00:47:03.15
That's what we've got to be,
00:47:03.18\00:47:04.62
you got children all
around, you've even adults,
00:47:04.65\00:47:06.59
I've got them on
the prayer lines,
00:47:06.62\00:47:07.96
you know, some
people wanna end their life
00:47:07.99\00:47:09.46
and how do you
encourage that person
00:47:09.49\00:47:11.19
when the enemy is
so pressing on them,
00:47:11.23\00:47:13.70
but God says, you know,
00:47:13.73\00:47:15.30
you can be
strong in My strength,
00:47:15.33\00:47:17.20
you can be, My
strength becomes your strength,
00:47:17.23\00:47:18.90
you can break that.
00:47:18.93\00:47:20.27
Yes. Amen.
00:47:20.30\00:47:21.64
I don't think we even realize
like the magnitude of things
00:47:21.67\00:47:23.67
that are coming at kids,
00:47:23.71\00:47:25.14
even at like four
and five years old
00:47:25.17\00:47:27.34
things that they experienced
00:47:27.38\00:47:28.74
that we would
have never thought of.
00:47:28.78\00:47:31.45
And to,
00:47:31.48\00:47:33.62
just to try to
understand their world more
00:47:33.65\00:47:37.75
and not think that their world
is like ours was at that age.
00:47:37.79\00:47:41.52
And to, you know,
00:47:41.56\00:47:43.29
try to understand and not be,
00:47:43.32\00:47:46.19
not close our eyes to things
00:47:46.23\00:47:47.56
that we don't
want to know is there,
00:47:47.60\00:47:50.10
you know, because
00:47:50.13\00:47:51.50
there's a lot more
coming at kids at that age
00:47:51.53\00:47:53.64
than we ever
would've dreamed of,
00:47:53.67\00:47:56.54
you know.
00:47:56.57\00:47:57.91
Our good time, a lot of
time was be on Sunday afternoon,
00:47:57.94\00:47:59.97
we got chance to go out
00:48:00.01\00:48:01.34
to grandpa's Shelton's old farm.
00:48:01.38\00:48:03.55
And there's a
big old muddy pond...
00:48:03.58\00:48:05.41
You think of all muddy.
00:48:05.45\00:48:06.78
Where the cows are
standing in it too.
00:48:06.82\00:48:09.55
I mean, it was just as
muddy the water was as the side,
00:48:09.58\00:48:13.39
the banks of it,
whatever, just jumping in.
00:48:13.42\00:48:15.86
Simple. Simple thing.
00:48:15.89\00:48:17.86
But it was fun. Fun!
00:48:17.89\00:48:20.00
It was not really
clean, but it was fun.
00:48:20.03\00:48:21.36
Oh, yeah.
00:48:21.40\00:48:22.73
Tammy still does
that with her kids,
00:48:22.76\00:48:24.27
her little puppy kids.
00:48:24.30\00:48:25.73
Oh, boy.
00:48:25.77\00:48:27.10
So different
today, what you say...
00:48:27.14\00:48:28.57
Oh, my! Kids are so...
00:48:28.60\00:48:30.07
So many things of the world
00:48:30.11\00:48:31.71
is getting
around their little ears
00:48:31.74\00:48:33.78
that have no
business seeing or hearing
00:48:33.81\00:48:36.01
and it really influenced.
00:48:36.04\00:48:37.38
Our influence is so
important. That's right.
00:48:37.41\00:48:39.31
No matter how much
you try to protect them,
00:48:39.35\00:48:41.15
they are exposed
to so many things.
00:48:41.18\00:48:43.18
And after you're
exposed so many times,
00:48:43.22\00:48:45.12
it becomes normal.
00:48:45.15\00:48:46.82
So in their minds, a
lot of these things are just
00:48:46.86\00:48:49.22
that's just
normal, it's the way it is.
00:48:49.26\00:48:51.59
I guess, we need to be as people
00:48:51.63\00:48:52.96
needing to be proactive.
00:48:52.99\00:48:54.46
And battling back
the enemy's territory
00:48:54.50\00:48:56.53
and pushing it back so...
00:48:56.56\00:48:58.20
Pray that the Lord will
bring some someone to you
00:48:58.23\00:49:01.64
that He'll open the doors
00:49:01.67\00:49:03.04
because we can't
force those doors open,
00:49:03.07\00:49:05.07
then it becomes
00:49:05.11\00:49:06.44
what was the word you are using,
00:49:06.47\00:49:07.81
not conviction, but...
00:49:07.84\00:49:09.18
Condemnation.
00:49:09.21\00:49:10.55
Condemnation, that
when He opens the door,
00:49:10.58\00:49:12.51
then it can be conviction.
00:49:12.55\00:49:14.28
But if only somebody
knew about that children,
00:49:14.32\00:49:17.15
that child that did that,
00:49:17.19\00:49:18.52
that is just
heartbreaking actually.
00:49:18.55\00:49:20.12
Actually speaking of
that, I had a young man,
00:49:20.16\00:49:21.92
I may have shared this
before, but I was in up...
00:49:21.96\00:49:24.29
I used to work in a
place called say or not,
00:49:24.33\00:49:25.89
here in this
town, but another town.
00:49:25.93\00:49:27.56
Anyways, this
young man came up to me
00:49:27.60\00:49:29.06
and he was doing
things towards me
00:49:29.10\00:49:31.37
that were very inappropriate,
I won't go into detail.
00:49:31.40\00:49:33.10
But I said, "Lord, I
can't deal with it anymore.
00:49:33.13\00:49:36.24
I got to do something
here, and in a loving way."
00:49:36.27\00:49:38.17
I said, "Lord, you
got to open the door,
00:49:38.21\00:49:39.54
let me give him this book."
00:49:39.57\00:49:40.91
And I gave him, Steps to Christ.
00:49:40.94\00:49:42.28
And three months later,
00:49:42.31\00:49:43.65
this young man
came back to the store
00:49:43.68\00:49:45.01
and he said, "I
want to let you know,
00:49:45.05\00:49:46.38
I've read this book
three or four times.
00:49:46.41\00:49:47.75
And I'm now going to church."
00:49:47.78\00:49:49.12
Changed his whole life really.
00:49:49.15\00:49:51.32
That's what this is
all about, it's changing.
00:49:51.35\00:49:53.99
Transforming. Yes.
00:49:54.02\00:49:55.46
Transforming life.
The truth that transforms.
00:49:55.49\00:49:57.16
You know, we talked about
00:49:57.19\00:49:58.53
God's love and loving the right,
00:49:58.56\00:50:01.76
loving the truth unto death.
00:50:01.80\00:50:03.16
And when you gave
the story a while ago
00:50:03.20\00:50:04.97
about the little boy swimming,
I thought of a story too
00:50:05.00\00:50:07.57
that was just
brought to my attention again
00:50:07.60\00:50:10.37
this past weekend.
00:50:10.41\00:50:11.74
And it was about
a switch operator.
00:50:11.77\00:50:14.24
He was controlling a drawbridge.
00:50:14.28\00:50:16.38
I know there's a lot of...
00:50:16.41\00:50:18.28
There's a lot of
different stories,
00:50:18.31\00:50:20.22
different takes on
this, but apparently
00:50:20.25\00:50:21.95
this one is
supposed to be the right one.
00:50:21.98\00:50:24.45
And, you know
what a drawbridge is?
00:50:24.49\00:50:27.16
This was a drawbridge for
a train track over a river.
00:50:27.19\00:50:31.86
And so when the
trains were not coming,
00:50:31.89\00:50:34.53
the bridge would be up
00:50:34.56\00:50:35.90
so that the boats
could get through.
00:50:35.93\00:50:37.63
And so what they would do
00:50:37.67\00:50:39.00
when they would
approach the drawbridge,
00:50:39.03\00:50:40.80
they would give a
couple toots on their horn.
00:50:40.84\00:50:43.27
And if everything was okay,
00:50:43.30\00:50:44.64
he would wave the flag
and say everything was okay.
00:50:44.67\00:50:47.51
And so that
happened this very day.
00:50:47.54\00:50:49.71
He said the bridge was
up and they gave a toot,
00:50:49.74\00:50:52.58
and he thought everything's
fine, there's no boats.
00:50:52.61\00:50:54.52
So he told them,
come on, come on.
00:50:54.55\00:50:57.02
And he started to
lower the drawbridge.
00:50:57.05\00:51:00.06
And when he did,
00:51:00.09\00:51:01.69
his thoughts, he remembered
00:51:01.72\00:51:03.32
he had brought
his four-year-old son
00:51:03.36\00:51:06.19
with him that day.
00:51:06.23\00:51:08.06
His four-year-old boy,
00:51:08.10\00:51:09.90
and he began to panic
and thought, "Where is he?"
00:51:09.93\00:51:13.10
And he looked and he was out
so far on that railway track.
00:51:13.13\00:51:17.41
And there was
no way, he thought,
00:51:17.44\00:51:18.97
"If I save my boy,
00:51:19.01\00:51:21.34
all those people are
going to die on that train."
00:51:21.38\00:51:23.48
He had to make a
decision. Oh, my lad.
00:51:23.51\00:51:26.28
"And if I lower this bridge,
my baby's probably gonna die."
00:51:26.31\00:51:30.45
That's what was in his mind.
00:51:30.49\00:51:32.22
But this man,
00:51:32.25\00:51:34.12
this man absolutely
00:51:34.16\00:51:36.56
went ahead and he
lowered the bridge.
00:51:36.59\00:51:38.46
And when he did, he said, "Son!
00:51:38.49\00:51:41.50
lay down and don't move."
00:51:41.53\00:51:44.57
Now four year old
could have put his arm,
00:51:44.60\00:51:47.20
could have put his
head up and thought,
00:51:47.24\00:51:48.57
"Why is he
telling me not to move?"
00:51:48.60\00:51:50.01
Oh, yeah.
00:51:50.04\00:51:51.37
But he obeyed. He obeyed.
00:51:51.41\00:51:52.87
Because he
trusted in his father.
00:51:52.91\00:51:54.91
See that's all of us,
00:51:54.94\00:51:56.28
there are so many
things in the Word of God
00:51:56.31\00:51:58.05
that we don't understand.
00:51:58.08\00:51:59.41
But because we're
changing our lives,
00:51:59.45\00:52:01.55
we're studying day by day,
we're learning to trust Him.
00:52:01.58\00:52:04.39
So even though we
don't like those cuts,
00:52:04.42\00:52:07.06
sometimes that the Bible give,
00:52:07.09\00:52:09.12
we trust Him and we listen
00:52:09.16\00:52:10.66
and we obey,
that's sanctification.
00:52:10.69\00:52:13.33
And that boy lay
down, he did not move.
00:52:13.36\00:52:17.93
And when the train came by,
00:52:17.97\00:52:19.63
people were
waving at the switcher
00:52:19.67\00:52:21.87
and you know, and his
heart was just sinking.
00:52:21.90\00:52:24.61
Sinking, he ran out just
00:52:24.64\00:52:26.01
knowing he was
going to see his baby dead
00:52:26.04\00:52:29.28
torn to shreds.
00:52:29.31\00:52:31.11
And he went out there
and the boy was alive.
00:52:31.15\00:52:33.62
Amen. Amen.
00:52:33.65\00:52:34.98
The town...
00:52:35.02\00:52:36.35
I don't remember what the
name of the person in charge,
00:52:36.38\00:52:39.02
but they gave him an honor
00:52:39.05\00:52:41.29
because he sacrificed his
son for the welfare of others.
00:52:41.32\00:52:44.99
But you know, our Heavenly
Father is in very same way.
00:52:45.03\00:52:48.46
You just made me
think of a scripture
00:52:48.50\00:52:49.90
you're talking about obedience.
00:52:49.93\00:52:52.67
That says in Hebrews 12:5,
00:52:52.70\00:52:54.40
"And ye have
forgotten the exhortation
00:52:54.44\00:52:56.74
which speaketh unto
you as unto children,
00:52:56.77\00:52:58.37
My son, despise not thou
the chastening of the Lord,
00:52:58.41\00:53:01.38
nor faint when
thou art rebuked of him.
00:53:01.41\00:53:03.45
For whom the Lord
loveth he chasteneth,
00:53:03.48\00:53:05.31
and scourgeth every
son whom he receiveth.
00:53:05.35\00:53:07.75
If ye endure
chastening," verse 7,
00:53:07.78\00:53:09.48
"God dealeth
with you as with sons,
00:53:09.52\00:53:11.39
for what son is he whom
the father chasteneth not?
00:53:11.42\00:53:14.02
And verse 8,
00:53:14.06\00:53:15.39
"But if ye be
without chastisement,
00:53:15.42\00:53:17.86
whereof all are partakers,
00:53:17.89\00:53:19.23
then are ye in the
sense illegitimate children,
00:53:19.26\00:53:21.23
and not sons."
00:53:21.26\00:53:23.30
We want to be
legitimate, don't we?
00:53:23.33\00:53:24.77
The legitimate children of God.
00:53:24.80\00:53:26.50
Let me read this to you here.
00:53:26.53\00:53:30.01
Part of which is coming
00:53:30.04\00:53:32.47
and it follows right along.
00:53:32.51\00:53:34.94
It says, "He shall
cover thee with his feathers."
00:53:34.98\00:53:38.55
Who's He? Who's He?
00:53:38.58\00:53:39.91
Yeah, Jesus. Jesus Christ.
00:53:39.95\00:53:41.28
Amen.
00:53:41.32\00:53:42.65
"And His wings
shalt thou trust,"
00:53:42.68\00:53:44.22
that's what we're talking about,
00:53:44.25\00:53:45.59
trusting in God
with all of our heart,
00:53:45.62\00:53:48.19
"His truth," what changes us?
00:53:48.22\00:53:52.06
What transforms us?
00:53:52.09\00:53:53.43
Truth.
00:53:53.46\00:53:54.80
He would not have
gone to the cross,
00:53:54.83\00:53:56.36
if it hadn't been for truth.
00:53:56.40\00:53:58.27
"His truth shall be
thy shield and buckler."
00:53:58.30\00:54:01.90
Tomorrow is your new
day, live it in a new way.
00:54:01.94\00:54:05.77
Don't look back, we
can't change the past,
00:54:05.81\00:54:08.78
but we can redeem the present.
00:54:08.81\00:54:11.11
That is our charge for
each and every one of you,
00:54:11.15\00:54:13.65
don't feel bad, no
matter what you've done,
00:54:13.68\00:54:16.35
no matter how you've lived,
00:54:16.38\00:54:17.82
you can't change that,
but we can change the present.
00:54:17.85\00:54:21.39
Tomorrow can be different.
00:54:21.42\00:54:23.09
It's not where you've been,
what sins you've committed,
00:54:23.12\00:54:27.43
but it's where you
are in the present,
00:54:27.46\00:54:30.80
and how we end our lives
00:54:30.83\00:54:32.37
that will determine
our eternal destiny.
00:54:32.40\00:54:35.10
Amen. Amen.
00:54:35.14\00:54:36.47
He's calling for you,
00:54:36.50\00:54:37.84
He's calling for all of us here,
00:54:37.87\00:54:39.37
to come home to Him.
00:54:39.41\00:54:41.38
Come home and be born again.
00:54:41.41\00:54:43.91
Start a new, give us a new life.
00:54:43.95\00:54:46.38
Romans 8:39, "Nor
height, nor depth,
00:54:46.41\00:54:50.05
nor any other creature
shall be able to separate us."
00:54:50.09\00:54:55.72
From the love of God.
00:54:55.76\00:54:57.56
Which is in
Christ Jesus, our Lord.
00:54:57.59\00:55:00.26
Amen. Amen.
00:55:00.30\00:55:01.63
A little quote said,
00:55:01.66\00:55:03.00
"I'm gonna make
it come what may."
00:55:03.03\00:55:04.73
Yeah.
00:55:04.77\00:55:06.10
That's the one
line that stuck out,
00:55:06.13\00:55:07.47
"I'm gonna make
it come what may."
00:55:07.50\00:55:09.64
And then like that
four-year-old boy, Jesus knew,
00:55:09.67\00:55:13.74
He knew that He
was going to die,
00:55:13.78\00:55:16.11
if we were to be saved,
00:55:16.14\00:55:18.05
you know,
00:55:18.08\00:55:19.41
and He didn't always know that
He was going to make it there.
00:55:19.45\00:55:21.92
He didn't know if He
would be resurrected.
00:55:21.95\00:55:24.62
And He had the power
to lay down His life.
00:55:24.65\00:55:26.76
He had the
power to resurrect it.
00:55:26.79\00:55:28.82
But He didn't rely on His power.
00:55:28.86\00:55:31.23
The good news, you
know, what's the good news?
00:55:31.26\00:55:33.33
No matter where you've been,
00:55:33.36\00:55:35.20
it's no matter
what you've been up to,
00:55:35.23\00:55:36.97
no matter what
you're doing right now,
00:55:37.00\00:55:39.00
now that song says,
00:55:39.03\00:55:40.37
there's room at
the cross for you.
00:55:40.40\00:55:42.24
Though millions have come,
there's still room for one.
00:55:42.27\00:55:45.41
Yes, there is a room
at the cross for you.
00:55:45.44\00:55:47.08
He's calling.
00:55:47.11\00:55:48.44
I mean, that's what the
study is about, isn't it?
00:55:48.48\00:55:49.94
Jesus said,
there's room at the cross.
00:55:49.98\00:55:51.91
He wants to bring us
to the further cross.
00:55:51.95\00:55:53.98
Therefore we
give our life to Him,
00:55:54.02\00:55:55.58
confess our sins
filled with the Holy Spirit.
00:55:55.62\00:55:57.55
Amen.
00:55:57.59\00:55:58.92
Holy Spirit begins to work
in our hearts and in our lives
00:55:58.95\00:56:01.26
to make us like Jesus...
00:56:01.29\00:56:02.99
Amen. And give us a victory.
00:56:03.02\00:56:04.99
And why do we
need to be like Jesus?
00:56:05.03\00:56:07.33
Why? What's sanctification for?
00:56:07.36\00:56:09.63
It's to become like Christ
00:56:09.66\00:56:11.07
because if we want
to repopulate heaven.
00:56:11.10\00:56:12.77
There, repopulate heaven.
00:56:12.80\00:56:14.14
Right, repopulate
heaven, we've got to,
00:56:14.17\00:56:15.60
that's the will of
God, it's possible.
00:56:15.64\00:56:18.14
"Follow peace,"
in that Hebrews 12,
00:56:18.17\00:56:20.28
"Follow peace with all men,
00:56:20.31\00:56:22.08
without holiness,
no man will see God."
00:56:22.11\00:56:24.91
Amen. Amen.
00:56:24.95\00:56:26.28
That's why it
says this is possible,
00:56:26.31\00:56:27.65
by following Jesus Christ.
00:56:27.68\00:56:29.02
Praise the Lord! I
think that's a good lesson.
00:56:29.05\00:56:30.55
It is. Real good lesson.
00:56:30.59\00:56:32.92
Well, let me just
close here with...
00:56:32.95\00:56:34.79
Well, we're not quite,
00:56:34.82\00:56:36.16
we're almost to
the point of closing
00:56:36.19\00:56:37.59
but 2 Thessalonians 2:13 says,
00:56:37.63\00:56:40.40
"We are bound to
give thanks always,"
00:56:40.43\00:56:42.83
and sometimes we forget.
00:56:42.86\00:56:44.30
When we're
praying, it's we're asking,
00:56:44.33\00:56:46.07
we're asking, we're asking,
00:56:46.10\00:56:47.60
and I'm learning, I'm learning
00:56:47.64\00:56:49.30
'cause we have
nothing without God.
00:56:49.34\00:56:51.27
That's right. Yeah. And
00:56:51.31\00:56:52.64
so we praise Him, I
praise Him even for my bed,
00:56:52.67\00:56:55.48
for the water, for the house,
00:56:55.51\00:56:57.35
"Brethren and
beloved of the Lord
00:56:57.38\00:56:58.91
because God hath
from the beginning
00:56:58.95\00:57:01.78
chosen you to salvation
through sanctification,
00:57:01.82\00:57:07.16
of the Spirit, and
belief of the truth."
00:57:07.19\00:57:11.43
I think that is a
good closing thought.
00:57:11.46\00:57:13.83
Wraps up all that
we've been covering.
00:57:13.86\00:57:15.63
Amen. Amen.
00:57:15.66\00:57:17.00
Amen. Yeah.
00:57:17.03\00:57:18.37
And so we encourage
those of you who are at home,
00:57:18.40\00:57:20.30
be sure, you know,
00:57:20.34\00:57:21.67
put your hand in
the hand of Jesus.
00:57:21.70\00:57:23.04
Amen.
00:57:23.07\00:57:24.41
Don't turn to the
right, don't turn to the left.
00:57:24.44\00:57:25.77
Don't get excited about
things going on in the world.
00:57:25.81\00:57:28.41
Keep your eyes on Jesus,
00:57:28.44\00:57:29.84
because we believe
He's coming very, very soon.
00:57:29.88\00:57:32.01
We want to be ready for that.
00:57:32.05\00:57:33.42
Commit your life
to Him right now.
00:57:33.45\00:57:35.42
We've enjoyed our time.
We'll see you next time.
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