I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello and welcome,
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and we want to
welcome you to Family Worship.
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Thank you for joining
with us, being with us.
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And today is a moment
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that we can say
happy and blessed Sabbath.
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Amen.
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My name is John Dinzey,
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and I am
accompanied by my wife Idalia.
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It's a pleasure to once again
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share with you during this hour,
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one hour of praise and worship.
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And, you know, I tell you,
God has been good, hasn't He?
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Amen.
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This week has been
full of a lot of work,
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challenges, deadlines,
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probably short
nights, long days,
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but God has been faithful,
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and He's been with
us throughout this week,
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and we give Him all the praise.
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And He gave us a gift,
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the gift of rest
on the Sabbath day.
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That's right.
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So we're longing to
spend those Sabbath days
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from Sabbath to
Sabbath in heaven with Jesus.
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That's right.
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And since this
is Family Worship,
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we would like
to introduce to you
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the family that
is with us today.
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Idalia, would you
like to do the honors?
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Yes, I call it my
family, my friends.
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I have the privilege
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of having Melody
Caviness with us,
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Chef Melody.
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Welcome, Melody.
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Nice to be here.
Thank you for inviting me.
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I'm so glad you
accepted the invitation.
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And please
introduce who's next to you?
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This is my
husband, Rendall Caviness.
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We call him harmonic command.
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Harmonic command!
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All right, so
we're in for a treat.
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Welcome, Rendall.
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Thank you. Thank you so much.
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Thank you for being here.
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And also we have Miss Julia.
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Welcome. Well,
I'm glad to be here.
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She is very
talented musician as well.
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And she, you know,
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the Lord has blessed
her with many talents.
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And she is friends with Melody.
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You know, they are
there an awesome team
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in the kitchen, right?
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Yes, exactly.
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So thank you for
accepting the invitation.
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And who's that
next to you, Julia.
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This is my husband of 35 years.
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Amen. Thirty-five years?
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Yes. Praise the Lord.
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This is Alvin Mowry.
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Welcome, Alvin.
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Thank you.
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So glad that you
can make here with us.
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It's great to be here.
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I've enjoyed the week.
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Oh, we've enjoyed a
week, your visit here
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while you're visiting
from the state of Texas.
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And he's got some culinary gifts
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that the Lord has given him.
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And, you know,
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a good friendship
starts in the kitchen, right?
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Yes, it does.
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We share so many things
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in the kitchen
stories, experiences,
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good recipes.
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And, oh, how about
this idea or that idea?
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And what else happens in
your kitchen, Mr. Rendall?
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All the good thing.
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All the good things.
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Yes, the Lord
has been good to us.
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Well, we also have...
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Well, you know, if
you come to camp meeting,
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whenever we have camp meeting,
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we have wonderful
people that come from all over.
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But we have had
the wonderful blessing
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of having Chef Melody
with us during camp meetings.
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And this is part of the team
during the camp meeting time.
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And so they are
behind the scenes,
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you may not see them as much
except as you're passing by,
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and you see
them putting food out
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so that you can eat it,
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and enjoy it
because it's a blessing.
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It's really is a blessing.
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But also our viewers
have enjoyed the recipes
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as Melody has
shared them on 3ABN,
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and then her
recipes are on 3ABN website.
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Or just look for her
recipe, I mean, her website,
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where she has her cookbooks
and all that information there
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that you will be
very happy to obtain.
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Amen. Yes, definitely.
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Well, I would like to...
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Before we pray, I'd
like to introduce the topic
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that we are going to
be talking about today.
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We're going to be
talking about pictures of God.
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And we have each
brought a picture.
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So we would
like to encourage you
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to be with us,
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so that you can hear and
see about these pictures.
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Yes? Amazing.
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So I think it's
going to be a blessing.
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Yes.
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And before we continue,
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we'd like to go to
the Lord in prayer.
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And we encourage you
to join us in prayer.
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And I'd like to
ask Brother Alvin
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to lead us in prayer.
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Our, Father, we thank
You for Your blessings.
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We thank You for all
that You've done for us
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and the gifts You've given us.
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And in giving us Your Sabbath
so we can come apart to rest.
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And we thank You, Lord,
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that You've given us
pictures all through the Bible
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of what You're really like.
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And help us to discern those
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and to each one share
their own picture tonight.
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In Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen. Amen.
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Thank you so much.
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Now you may have noticed
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in the beginning
of our time together,
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we said happy and
blessed Sabbath to you.
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And some people may be wondering
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what in the world is a Sabbath?
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And because you
may be new to 3ABN.
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So we like to talk
briefly about Sabbath.
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What is that?
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So it really
means in Hebrew rest.
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And it's interesting
that in over 100 languages,
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the seventh day of the week
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is called Sabbath
in one form or another.
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And so you may
want to research this,
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I said over 100 languages.
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There's literally
a some kind of poster
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that describes the
different languages
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that have used the word Sabbath
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for the seventh day of the week.
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It's really the
seventh day of the week.
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And when we say the
seventh day of the week,
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please understand that
Sunday is the first day
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because
apparently some years ago,
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they started changing calendars.
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That's right.
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To have Monday as the first day
of the week because people say,
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"Oh, you start
working on Monday,
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that should be the first day."
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But really Sunday is
the first day the week.
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And when this
occurred in Germany,
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they changed the calendar
and started putting Monday
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as the first day of the week,
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something happened to the
week that very noticeable.
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And that is that
when you have Sunday
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as the first day of the week,
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the name they have
for Wednesday is correct.
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But once you moved Sunday
to the seventh-day position,
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and then the name of
Wednesday doesn't make sense
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because Wednesday in
German means middle of the week.
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Oh, interesting.
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I never knew that.
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That's right, Mittwoch.
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Oh, you, you lived
in Germany three years,
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so you know the
language really well.
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So where do we get
the word Sabbath from?
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It's from the Bible.
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If you read the
King James Version
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or other versions,
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they may have the
word Sabbath in there,
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but you can find this.
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One of the places
we'd like to point out is
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in Exodus Chapter 20,
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and it's the fourth
commandment of the scriptures
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that we may just
make reference to.
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And it says they
remember the Sabbath day
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to keep it holy.
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And so that's why we
pause during the week
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to rest on the seventh day.
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And to, by God's
grace, keep it holy.
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And one of the Sabbath, I
mean, the Sabbath is a delight.
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And we delight
praising the Lord in music.
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I, you know, once I start
praising the Lord with music,
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I want more, and
more, and, you know,
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an hour, two hours,
three hours can go by.
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Well, I'm accompanied by
musicians here at the table.
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So they understand what
I'm saying, right, Julia?
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Yes, ma'am. Exactly.
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What do you do
for fun on Sabbath?
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Well, I usually try to do music
or I mean, at home mostly now.
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But I enjoy doing music.
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It just fills me.
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I can't explain
it, but it's my life.
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It's like my life
that I breathe this music.
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Amen.
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And Alvin has said that he's...
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Sometimes I sing in my sleep,
of course, I don't know that.
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Alvin, wow.
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I woke up at 2 o'clock
in the morning one night,
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she was singing.
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Really? Sound asleep.
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Praise the Lord. Sound asleep?
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Sound asleep.
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Singing a gospel song.
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You can definitely say
she has a song in her heart.
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Absolutely.
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It was a gospel song.
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Gospel song,
praise the Lord. Amen.
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Well, another person
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that has their
music in their heart
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and praise is Tim Parton.
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And we thank Tim
for being with us.
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Thank you, Tim.
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And the first song
we're gonna sing with you,
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sing along with us.
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Please, we'd ask you is
the song, Farther Along.
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Tempted and tried
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We're oft made to wonder
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Why it should be
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Thus all the day long
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While there are others
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Living about us
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Never molested though
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In the wrong
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Farther along
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We'll know all about it
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Farther along
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We'll understand why
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Cheer up my brother
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Live in the sunshine
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We'll understand it
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All by and by
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Sing all together.
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Farther along
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We'll know all about it
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Farther along
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We'll understand why
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Cheer up my brother
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Live in the sunshine
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We'll understand it
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All by and by
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Amen.
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Praise God.
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Thank You for the gift of music.
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Dear, Lord, thank You.
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And, you know,
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we pray that the Lord
will accept our worship
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during the Sabbath hours.
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We pray that our worship
will draw us closer to Him.
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And now, you
know, there's the time
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when the Lord has
come into our lives,
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and we just feel
His touch, right?
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And we feel His
presence. That's right.
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So right now if the
Lord has touched You,
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please sing with
us, He Touched Me.
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Shackled by a heavy burden
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'Neath a load of guilt
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And shame
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Then the hand of Jesus
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Touched me
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And now I am
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No longer the same
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He touched me
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Oh, He touched me
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And oh the joy
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That floods my soul
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Something happened
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And now I know
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He touched me
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And made me whole
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All right, all together now.
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He touched me,
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Oh, He touched me
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And oh the joy
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That floods my soul
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Something happened
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And now I know
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He touched me
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And made me whole
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Amen. Hallelujah.
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Praise the Lord.
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Are you happy in the Lord?
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Amen.
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We could go for
hours, right? Yes.
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Well, I pray
that you were blessed
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in worship in song.
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And, you know,
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the pictures of God
is our topic for tonight.
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And we just want you to,
just take a moment, and see,
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and think about the
glimpse of God, right?
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God in our lives.
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You know, something interesting
about pictures is that
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when you know
you've been in a picture,
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you look at the picture,
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and one of the people
that you look for is yourself
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to see how you came
out in that picture.
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That's something interesting
because people wanted...
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Was I smiling?
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Was my hair out of place?
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Was my tie crooked?
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But one of the
interesting things
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is that to the people
that are not Christians,
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they want to see
a picture of God.
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And one of the places
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they can find the picture of God
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is in God's children.
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And, you know, you
may have heard the phrase
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that we are
God's hands on earth.
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And I believe that
the people of the world
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need to see a picture of God.
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So we have each
brought a picture.
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And by that, we mean
that we're going to be sharing
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from our personal experience
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also about things we
have learned about God,
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and how we have been
encouraged as we discover,
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if I can say that way
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for ourselves
something about God,
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about His character, His ways.
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And we'd like to share
some of this with you, so...
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Well, if I may. If you may.
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I will share along, you know,
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throughout the
program, some more about...
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The Lord just
put this in my heart,
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and I will share with you guys.
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And you might think,
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"Oh, we'll see Idalia
and Julia, or Melody."
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You may think, "Oh, no."
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But, you know, the
brightest picture of God
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that I've had in my life,
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it was one of the
darkest moments in my life.
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It is so amazing and so awesome.
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I felt that my son,
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I don't want to get
emotional about this.
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I think the Lord that
in our darkest moments,
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the Lord makes Himself presence,
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He never leaves us.
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So one day, I didn't know
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what was wrong
with my son, Samuel,
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and all of a sudden
he had trouble breathing.
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And he became weaker,
and weaker, and weaker.
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And I didn't have a
vehicle at that time.
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And I called a friend.
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And she said, "I'll
be there in 15 minutes."
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Fifteen minutes
turned to an hour.
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And, you know, my son
could not breathe, right?
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So I started walking down,
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up and down the
driveway and down the road
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with my son in my
arms, praying, and praying,
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and I said, "Lord,
please give me the strength.
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If this is the end
of my son in my arms,
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give me the
strength to trust in You,
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and just to have
peace over this," you know.
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And the Lord gave me peace
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is at the end of my
fight with the Lord, if I may,
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or the struggle
at that situation.
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I like, "Oh, Lord,
I am in complete peace
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if my son has to
sleep in Jesus right now.
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You can take him.
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I'm okay."
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My friend showed
up, and the doctor said,
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"If I would have
gotten there 10 minutes later,
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he would have been a vegetable."
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So it was a
beautiful peace that I sensed.
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I mean it's a sad
situation, sad, a sad example.
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But I'm sure that out
of every sad situation,
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God has a blessing for us,
every challenge, every problem,
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there's still a blessing
in the Lord if we seeked Him.
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So anyway, that is, yeah...
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A picture of God
in... A picture of God.
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He was so present, and so warm,
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and so just peaceful.
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So, yes.
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And that's an experience you had
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that shows you a picture of God.
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And really, you
saw God in a sense,
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unlike any other time before.
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That's right. That's right.
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And so, perhaps as
you are listening to us,
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you may have a picture of God,
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and we encourage you
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to share that
picture with someone
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because someone may
need that encouragement,
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that knowledge of God.
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And we are going to go
through some scriptures.
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I don't know if
anyone would like to share
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a picture right now.
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You may share
several pictures if you want,
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but if you have one right
now, they would like to share
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before we go into
some of the scriptures
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that we have here.
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We're all talking at
the same time, aren't we?
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Don't everybody
jump up at the same time?
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You know, through
our lives, as children,
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when our parents
take pictures of us,
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our pictures change?
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Yes, that's right. That's right.
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We're constantly...
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From infancy to
adulthood, elderly.
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I can't believe
I'm saying elderly.
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And we see these
different pictures.
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And I know for myself,
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I've looked back on
some of my baby pictures.
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And when I was youth,
and thinking, "Is that me?
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I don't remember
looking like that."
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I'm bringing that up,
because throughout my life,
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the picture of God has changed.
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Amen.
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You know, from what
I've first seen of God
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as a young
child, you know, afraid.
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I remember my sister
telling me that lightning
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was God's stomping in heaven.
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He was mad, the thunder,
you know, the thunder and all.
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So there was fear there.
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And then, you know,
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I grew up in a primarily
Seventh-day Adventist home.
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I was about eight years old.
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And I remember so many...
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You might feel this
way too, I know I have,
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that my parents
were very legalistic.
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So I've seen God at
that time as somebody
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who was trying to catch
me to do something wrong,
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so, you know, I'd be done with.
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And then I realized later,
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much later in
my life, in my 50s,
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when I became to form
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or become to form a
relationship with God.
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And I began to look at
God in a different way.
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How beautiful,
how beautiful He was.
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So through my
life, I've changed,
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but my
relationship to God has changed.
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So my picture
of Him has changed.
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Amen. Beautiful.
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Thank you very much.
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Anyone else?
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I think we all have
a little bit of that.
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As children, we
wonder what God's like.
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And then as teenagers,
sometimes we don't care.
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Yes.
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And I took a wrong road.
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I was raised in
an Adventist home.
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My mother was Adventist,
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my father made sure we
went to Adventist schools,
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but he was not going to church.
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He had habits
that didn't fit in,
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and he didn't feel placed there.
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Later we decided to turn away.
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But along with
that, and in straying,
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and my picture of
God changed so much
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from a great
protector when I was...
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I drove truck, and I
was in a lot of situations
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that were very
scary from time to time.
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And then after I'd
done things were wrong.
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I was telling Pastor Dinzey
just before we found that.
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My picture of God changed.
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I see this outstretched
arms with a nail printed hands.
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No matter what you've done,
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as long as you're
willing to come back
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and ask forgiveness,
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He paid the price
that I don't have to.
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Yes, amen.
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Amen. Thank you.
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God in His mercy definitely...
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God in His mercy.
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When I hear you
sharing, you know,
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the teenage stage of our lives.
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I remember when I
was old enough to drive,
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I would say, "Mom, I'll
meet you at the church."
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And sometimes I
would not go to church,
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I would go somewhere else,
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and then go for
the last atonement
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of a church
service at another church,
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and I would say, "I
was at the other church.
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I went to the other church,
I didn't go to that church."
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You know, until...
I didn't know that.
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Oh!
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This is why we like
these programs, you know.
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We talk about so many things.
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Sometimes he tells me stories,
I'm like, "Really, honey?
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I didn't know that."
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So anyhow, but God in His mercy,
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He even in our
moments of doubt, and fear,
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and just rebellion, you know,
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that I was going
through, He was so merciful.
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And so He watched over me
and kept me to this day, so...
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And I can share
that with my boys.
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I do remember,
one time my brother,
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my oldest brother, he
forgot it was Sabbath,
00:24:13.72\00:24:16.48
and he went to
the grocery store,
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and he got himself
a big bag of chips.
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And that boy
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was just walking
down the sidewalk
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enjoying those chips,
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one bite after the
other, and he comes home,
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and we're sitting
on the front porch,
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my younger brothers and I,
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and my oldest
brother comes, Willie.
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And he's like...
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I'm like, "Ah!
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Why did you get that?"
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"I went to get them over there."
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Today is Sabbath.
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"Ah, oh, no."
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He went into the
restroom and he flushed them.
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He felt so bad. Oh, wow.
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He felt so bad that
he violated the Sabbath.
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He totally forgot
it was the Sabbath
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in a moment like that.
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It's just like his mind
went blank or something.
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But that was his reaction.
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Have you ever had
a reaction like that
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when you forget your Sabbath?
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It's like, "Let me
get my life back on track
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to keep the Sabbath correctly."
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Keep the Sabbath holy. Yes.
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Well, you know, it's a...
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It's interesting when we
think about pictures of God.
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And our picture, like you
said, that was very interesting.
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I never thought about it.
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Our concept of what God is like
may change throughout the years
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because of things we have heard.
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People have said things,
00:25:32.76\00:25:34.73
and perhaps somebody is
listening to us right now
00:25:34.76\00:25:39.47
that was told, you
know, God is harsh.
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He says, "Don't do this.
Don't do that. Don't do that."
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"Oh, I don't
know if I want to...
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I don't think I
want to be a Christian."
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So their concept
of God is distorted.
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And they don't know
00:25:53.98\00:25:55.32
that God is love,
that God is merciful,
00:25:55.35\00:25:58.62
that God is concerned about us.
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So we hope that as we
talked during this hour
00:26:01.86\00:26:07.00
or the left...
00:26:07.03\00:26:08.66
Left of the program.
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That the picture of
God for you will improve,
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that picture of
God for you will see...
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You'll see God clearer
to the way He really is
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instead of the distorted picture
00:26:19.74\00:26:21.68
that someone gave you of God.
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And so...
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Don't you feel like that was
one of the biggest deceptions
00:26:26.31\00:26:31.02
that Satan has
done is to make us feel
00:26:31.05\00:26:33.39
like there's
nothing at all we can do.
00:26:33.42\00:26:36.39
We are so bad that...
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That's it for us, that we...
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There's no way we
can make it to heaven.
00:26:42.13\00:26:44.83
So we look at God as that person
00:26:44.87\00:26:47.90
who's just waiting
for us to do wrong.
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And that's not true.
00:26:51.61\00:26:52.94
That is not true.
00:26:52.97\00:26:54.31
I say the Lord is waiting for us
00:26:54.34\00:26:56.64
to just accept His invitation.
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Come unto Me.
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And, you know, there is...
00:27:01.98\00:27:03.49
I love for, it
says, "I am at the door."
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Behold.
00:27:07.56\00:27:08.89
"Behold, I stand
at the door and knock.
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If anyone hear My voice."
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The Lord is
constantly knocking, right?
00:27:12.86\00:27:15.90
Constantly calling, constantly.
00:27:15.93\00:27:18.80
There is not a time in our lives
00:27:18.83\00:27:20.87
where we can say, "Okay, God,
00:27:20.90\00:27:22.64
I passed or I missed
my opportunity with God."
00:27:22.67\00:27:26.44
Praise the Lord that God
00:27:26.47\00:27:27.84
has that open
invitation continually.
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You know, you said something
00:27:31.35\00:27:32.68
that brought a story to my mind.
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And I'm not going to
tell the complete story,
00:27:34.85\00:27:36.22
but the concept
that you presented.
00:27:36.25\00:27:39.05
The devil has
tried very, very hard
00:27:39.09\00:27:41.82
to distort the truth about God,
00:27:41.86\00:27:45.99
and to bring people
lies concerning God.
00:27:46.03\00:27:49.06
And that's why many people
00:27:49.10\00:27:51.80
may not even have
desire to approach God.
00:27:51.83\00:27:54.90
I remember something
00:27:54.94\00:27:57.44
that happened
many, many years ago.
00:27:57.47\00:27:59.81
And a person
came to me and said,
00:27:59.84\00:28:03.18
"You know, I am ashamed
00:28:03.21\00:28:06.61
that I've done such
and such and such a thing."
00:28:06.65\00:28:09.25
And there was one
thing about this person,
00:28:09.28\00:28:12.15
that this person
always said the truth.
00:28:12.19\00:28:16.06
In a sense, I knew this person
00:28:16.09\00:28:17.53
to be truthful
for the most part.
00:28:17.56\00:28:19.49
You know, I've never
have caught this person,
00:28:19.53\00:28:22.60
let's say, "In a lie."
00:28:22.63\00:28:24.30
And so later, that same day,
00:28:24.33\00:28:29.00
somebody was talking
to me about that person,
00:28:29.04\00:28:32.74
but because of the situation
00:28:32.77\00:28:36.48
that that person
would get in trouble
00:28:36.51\00:28:37.91
if the truth was known about
that other person, about him.
00:28:37.95\00:28:43.25
I wanted to keep
it kind of neutral,
00:28:43.28\00:28:45.25
but anyway, about him.
00:28:45.29\00:28:47.16
He said, "You know, that person,
00:28:47.19\00:28:49.22
the other
person, is such a liar."
00:28:49.26\00:28:53.13
He started that way.
00:28:53.16\00:28:54.50
And I said, I was surprised
00:28:54.53\00:28:57.30
that that person looked at that,
00:28:57.33\00:29:00.47
my friend, that way.
00:29:00.50\00:29:02.17
And I almost say,
00:29:02.20\00:29:03.54
"Well, no, I've never
known that person to be a liar."
00:29:03.57\00:29:07.48
And I remained silent.
00:29:07.51\00:29:09.84
And that person
went on to tell a story
00:29:09.88\00:29:11.75
and blame the other person
for something he actually did.
00:29:11.78\00:29:15.92
So that he doesn't get
in trouble with his family.
00:29:15.95\00:29:19.19
And so that's the
thing the devil has done.
00:29:19.22\00:29:22.16
He has done things
00:29:22.19\00:29:23.99
and has blamed God for it.
00:29:24.03\00:29:28.16
One of the
things that I noticed is
00:29:28.20\00:29:30.33
have you ever heard this before?
00:29:30.37\00:29:33.77
Tornado comes through,
an earthquake comes through,
00:29:33.80\00:29:38.01
and the
insurance company calls it,
00:29:38.04\00:29:40.21
this is an act of God.
00:29:40.24\00:29:43.58
Yes.
00:29:43.61\00:29:45.95
Job and his...
00:29:45.98\00:29:47.32
When fire came down and
destroyed family members.
00:29:47.35\00:29:51.72
The report was,
"Fire came down from God."
00:29:51.75\00:29:54.72
You see, and the
devil was the one
00:29:54.76\00:29:56.09
that had done this.
00:29:56.12\00:29:57.46
Yes.
00:29:57.49\00:29:58.83
So there is a
distorted picture of God
00:29:58.86\00:30:00.20
and I think
that our experiences,
00:30:00.23\00:30:04.23
the scriptures we can
share will help people see
00:30:04.27\00:30:07.10
that there's, that
God is a loving God,
00:30:07.14\00:30:09.10
that God is a merciful God,
00:30:09.14\00:30:10.47
that God is interested in us,
00:30:10.51\00:30:12.14
and that God has
a plan of salvation.
00:30:12.17\00:30:14.41
And that the lies
that devil has told,
00:30:14.44\00:30:16.44
they are not true.
00:30:16.48\00:30:17.81
I see you have your Bible open.
00:30:17.85\00:30:19.31
Well, we have some Bible
verses that we'd like to share.
00:30:19.35\00:30:23.12
We're gonna look
at pictures of God
00:30:23.15\00:30:24.62
in the lives of Adam and Eve.
00:30:24.65\00:30:26.76
We can go to Genesis 2:7-9.
00:30:26.79\00:30:30.86
Genesis, if
somebody else can get
00:30:30.89\00:30:32.69
Genesis 3:9-15.
00:30:32.73\00:30:35.26
Genesis 2:7-9, yeah,
00:30:35.30\00:30:38.33
Okay. All right.
00:30:38.37\00:30:39.70
Yeah. So Genesis 7-9. It's two.
00:30:39.73\00:30:43.51
Genesis 2:7-9, do you have that?
00:30:43.54\00:30:46.44
Sure. I do. Okay.
00:30:46.47\00:30:47.88
"And the Lord God formed
man of the dust of the ground,
00:30:47.91\00:30:51.31
and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life,
00:30:51.35\00:30:54.35
and man became a living being."
00:30:54.38\00:30:57.39
And then in verse... Eight.
00:30:57.42\00:30:59.55
Eight, said,
00:30:59.59\00:31:00.92
"The Lord God planted a
garden eastward in Eden,
00:31:00.96\00:31:03.73
and there He put the
man whom He had formed."
00:31:03.76\00:31:08.03
And number nine, verse nine,
00:31:08.06\00:31:09.40
Number nine, "And
out of the ground,
00:31:09.43\00:31:10.87
the Lord God
made every tree grow."
00:31:10.90\00:31:13.44
And in its presence
made every tree grow.
00:31:13.47\00:31:18.31
I'm sorry, "that is
pleasant to the sight
00:31:18.34\00:31:21.08
and good for food."
00:31:21.11\00:31:23.08
Yes, I love that. Amen.
00:31:23.11\00:31:26.01
"The tree of life was also
in the midst of the garden,
00:31:26.05\00:31:29.08
and the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil."
00:31:29.12\00:31:32.79
Nature took care of
everything right there.
00:31:32.82\00:31:34.79
That's right. That's right.
00:31:34.82\00:31:36.59
What do you? Do you
have chapter 3:9-15.
00:31:36.62\00:31:40.93
Before we read the next one,
00:31:40.96\00:31:42.70
I'd like to say
here we have a picture.
00:31:42.73\00:31:45.47
I would like to say of
God that created Adam and Eve.
00:31:45.50\00:31:49.47
What did He provide
for them? Everything.
00:31:49.50\00:31:51.44
A beautiful home. Yes.
00:31:51.47\00:31:53.81
Provided everything
they needed for nourishment.
00:31:53.84\00:31:56.34
Food. Understanding.
00:31:56.38\00:31:58.28
Understanding. A special place.
00:31:58.31\00:32:00.38
A special place for them.
00:32:00.42\00:32:01.78
He took care of
them. That's right.
00:32:01.82\00:32:04.12
And not only that,
we read, He said...
00:32:04.15\00:32:06.32
Yes, He later on tells them
00:32:09.82\00:32:12.49
you can eat of
every tree in the garden,
00:32:12.53\00:32:16.40
except for one.
00:32:16.43\00:32:17.77
That's right.
00:32:17.80\00:32:19.13
And from what I
know, there are hundred.
00:32:19.17\00:32:21.64
If we're just
talking about fruits,
00:32:21.67\00:32:23.00
there are hundreds of fruits,
literally hundreds of fruits.
00:32:23.04\00:32:27.64
And would deny them one.
00:32:27.68\00:32:29.01
Only denied one,
00:32:29.04\00:32:30.38
so that they can prove
their loyalty and their love.
00:32:30.41\00:32:34.28
You know, it's
interesting how...
00:32:34.32\00:32:36.35
And I just looked at
this and came across like,
00:32:36.38\00:32:39.95
the Lord gave them
structure, you know,
00:32:39.99\00:32:42.52
there was structure and
children love structure.
00:32:42.56\00:32:47.20
And unfortunately,
00:32:47.23\00:32:49.23
at times we find
our parents or families
00:32:49.26\00:32:53.00
not having structure.
00:32:53.03\00:32:54.74
I mean structure for their food,
00:32:54.77\00:32:56.87
structure for their rest.
00:32:56.91\00:32:58.77
When what is that structure for?
00:32:58.81\00:33:00.48
It was for their own
good. For their own good.
00:33:00.51\00:33:02.34
God there from
the very beginning
00:33:02.38\00:33:04.28
showed that I am protecting you.
00:33:04.31\00:33:06.21
I am gonna provide for
you, I'm gonna take care of you.
00:33:06.25\00:33:09.22
So what do you
think about that, Rendall?
00:33:09.25\00:33:12.12
I think He's awesome.
00:33:12.15\00:33:14.92
I think He's
taking care of me at times
00:33:14.96\00:33:16.83
when I didn't
deserve to be taken care of.
00:33:16.86\00:33:20.26
My dad was a pastor, I
grew up as a preacher's son.
00:33:20.30\00:33:23.80
Oh, PK. And he had... Yes.
00:33:23.83\00:33:25.77
And at times he
had nine churches
00:33:25.80\00:33:28.10
and he was a little old school
and the family went with him.
00:33:28.14\00:33:32.01
So I would attend on Sabbath
three different services,
00:33:32.04\00:33:35.34
which at that point almost knew
the sermon as well as he did,
00:33:35.38\00:33:39.75
but I was raised at, well,
he wanted me to be a pastor,
00:33:39.78\00:33:44.72
but I wasn't interested.
00:33:44.75\00:33:46.76
And I behaved, I was
a lukewarm Christian.
00:33:46.79\00:33:50.59
I didn't, I was the one
00:33:50.63\00:33:52.83
that he wanted to
spit out of his mouth.
00:33:52.86\00:33:55.40
And later on in life,
I got interested in music
00:33:55.43\00:33:58.73
and started playing
places I shouldn't be playing,
00:33:58.77\00:34:01.47
started playing Friday Nights.
00:34:01.50\00:34:03.64
And I thought,
well, I'm having fun,
00:34:03.67\00:34:05.21
and I'm not a bad person.
00:34:05.24\00:34:06.74
That was my thought.
00:34:06.78\00:34:08.41
And when I retired,
00:34:08.44\00:34:11.18
I'm 73 now and that was at 65.
00:34:11.21\00:34:17.35
I thought this will be great.
00:34:17.39\00:34:19.35
I can play till one
or two in the morning,
00:34:19.39\00:34:23.36
sleep till one or
two in the afternoon
00:34:23.39\00:34:24.96
and go do it again.
00:34:24.99\00:34:26.70
And I played with
several different bands,
00:34:26.73\00:34:28.36
nothing really great.
00:34:28.40\00:34:29.73
There's a few people
that were well known but,
00:34:29.76\00:34:34.44
yet when I retired, it dried up,
00:34:34.47\00:34:37.37
and several of
the bands disbanded.
00:34:37.41\00:34:38.97
And I'm friends
with several of them,
00:34:39.01\00:34:41.74
but they quit calling.
00:34:41.78\00:34:43.41
And I got into
some relationships
00:34:43.45\00:34:45.81
I shouldn't have been in.
00:34:45.85\00:34:47.18
I was looking for
someone in my life
00:34:47.22\00:34:49.62
at that time and
it wasn't working.
00:34:49.65\00:34:52.19
And I started
praying very heavily
00:34:52.22\00:34:55.29
and the Lord blessed
me with this lady around.
00:34:55.32\00:34:57.06
Amen. Praise the Lord.
00:34:57.09\00:34:59.03
So the Lord watches out
for us in our indiscretions
00:34:59.06\00:35:03.40
and He leads us around.
00:35:03.43\00:35:04.77
We may have to do a 180 or a 360
00:35:04.80\00:35:07.07
and it might take a while,
00:35:07.10\00:35:08.87
but He always has a
different course of events
00:35:08.90\00:35:11.94
if we just allow Him in.
00:35:11.97\00:35:13.78
And I did pray for a year.
00:35:13.81\00:35:15.41
I did pray for a solid year,
00:35:15.44\00:35:16.95
Lord, I'm not
doing well, I'm not...
00:35:16.98\00:35:20.22
I'm just not
making good choices.
00:35:20.25\00:35:23.28
And that's what I prayed for,
00:35:23.32\00:35:24.65
Lord, help me to
make the right choices.
00:35:24.69\00:35:26.96
You bring those choices to me.
00:35:26.99\00:35:28.62
Amen. And He did.
00:35:28.66\00:35:30.13
And He did
because, as Rendall saying
00:35:30.16\00:35:32.59
that you complement
each other's ministries.
00:35:32.63\00:35:37.03
It's incredible.
00:35:37.07\00:35:38.40
How are you complimenting and...
00:35:38.43\00:35:40.67
Oh, Rendall loves
to play the harmonica
00:35:40.70\00:35:43.07
but he also loves to drive.
00:35:43.10\00:35:44.87
So anywhere...
00:35:44.91\00:35:46.41
He loves to eat, too.
00:35:46.44\00:35:49.44
I just need to taste it.
00:35:49.48\00:35:53.42
So in your picture
of God that you shared,
00:35:53.45\00:35:58.05
I heard you use
the word awesome,
00:35:58.09\00:35:59.95
that God is awesome.
00:35:59.99\00:36:01.39
And that He apparently
is listening to your prayer.
00:36:01.42\00:36:05.56
He answered,
00:36:05.59\00:36:06.93
not only that
answered your prayer.
00:36:06.96\00:36:08.30
God is personal. Right.
00:36:08.33\00:36:09.66
So He's not only
an active listener,
00:36:09.70\00:36:11.50
but He also answered your...
00:36:11.53\00:36:14.67
Anything else
you'd like to share,
00:36:14.70\00:36:16.04
your picture of God
00:36:16.07\00:36:17.41
that you would like
to share with someone?
00:36:17.44\00:36:19.11
Well, I think,
I've been reading a book
00:36:19.14\00:36:21.34
by Martin Luther, the
Works of Martin Luther
00:36:21.38\00:36:24.28
and it struck me in there
that he was a humble person.
00:36:24.31\00:36:29.98
And he did not consider
himself extraordinarily special.
00:36:30.02\00:36:33.92
In fact, he said the
Lord chooses the common folk
00:36:33.96\00:36:37.56
to do His will.
00:36:37.59\00:36:39.76
Moses, the ones
that He had to humble him
00:36:39.79\00:36:45.50
in the in the desert 40 years
before He really could use him.
00:36:45.53\00:36:48.44
Wow.
00:36:48.47\00:36:49.80
And I just...
00:36:49.84\00:36:52.74
It was just such a blessing
to be able to study His Word,
00:36:52.77\00:36:58.31
realize who God really was.
00:36:58.35\00:37:00.28
But while I was
talking about Martin Luther,
00:37:00.32\00:37:01.82
I got off subject
here a little bit.
00:37:01.85\00:37:03.92
In his writings,
00:37:03.95\00:37:05.45
he was talking about
God using the common man,
00:37:05.49\00:37:08.02
it wasn't
princes, it wasn't bishops,
00:37:08.06\00:37:10.69
it wasn't the hierarchy,
it wasn't kings or princess.
00:37:10.73\00:37:14.43
It was a common
man that got called
00:37:14.46\00:37:16.87
to do service for Him.
00:37:16.90\00:37:18.23
Amen.
00:37:18.27\00:37:19.60
And he also said the fact that
00:37:19.63\00:37:21.90
the righteous are
concerned about where they are.
00:37:21.94\00:37:25.84
And I know in the last
days one of my favorite writers,
00:37:25.87\00:37:30.75
Ellen White said that
saints will be concerned about,
00:37:30.78\00:37:36.38
"Am I good enough?
00:37:36.42\00:37:38.15
Did I do what I
was supposed to do?"
00:37:38.19\00:37:40.59
And that's a good thing,
00:37:40.62\00:37:41.96
because those that are concerned
00:37:41.99\00:37:44.03
about their
condition will be the saints.
00:37:44.06\00:37:47.70
And that's what
Martin Luther said too.
00:37:47.73\00:37:50.53
If you're concerned about that,
00:37:50.57\00:37:52.30
those that are
not following God,
00:37:52.33\00:37:54.67
they could care less,
00:37:54.70\00:37:56.30
they're out
partying, they're doing all...
00:37:56.34\00:37:57.71
They do not care about God.
00:37:57.74\00:38:01.21
So that's kind of a little
bit of a summation, I guess.
00:38:01.24\00:38:04.65
Thank you. Thank you
very much. Beautifully put.
00:38:04.68\00:38:06.68
So who has the next
scripture? Who was it?
00:38:06.72\00:38:08.78
Yeah, the next
scripture is Genesis 3:9-15.
00:38:08.82\00:38:11.55
It seems that Julia has it.
00:38:11.59\00:38:13.72
Is it? Will you going to read?
00:38:13.76\00:38:15.09
I don't know. It's...
00:38:15.12\00:38:16.86
Nine through fifteen, okay.
00:38:16.89\00:38:19.13
"And then the Lord God
called to Adam and said to him,
00:38:19.16\00:38:22.36
'Where are you?'
00:38:22.40\00:38:23.80
So he said, 'I heard
Your voice in the garden,
00:38:23.83\00:38:26.40
and I was afraid
00:38:26.43\00:38:27.87
because I was
naked, and I hid myself.'
00:38:27.90\00:38:30.71
And He said, 'Who told
you that you were naked?
00:38:30.74\00:38:34.24
And have you eaten
from the tree of life
00:38:34.28\00:38:36.81
of which I commanded you
that you should not eat?'
00:38:36.85\00:38:40.12
Then the man said,
00:38:40.15\00:38:42.58
'The woman whom
You gave to be with me,
00:38:42.62\00:38:48.02
she gave me of
the tree, and I ate.'
00:38:48.06\00:38:51.33
And the Lord God
said to the woman,
00:38:51.36\00:38:53.29
'What is this you have done?'
00:38:53.33\00:38:54.83
The woman said,
00:38:54.86\00:38:56.20
'The serpent
deceived me, and I ate.'
00:38:56.23\00:38:59.37
So the Lord God
said to the serpent,
00:38:59.40\00:39:01.94
'Because you have done this,
00:39:01.97\00:39:03.30
you are cursed
more than all cattle,
00:39:03.34\00:39:08.28
and more than
every beast of the field,
00:39:08.31\00:39:11.31
on your belly you shall go,
00:39:11.35\00:39:12.68
and you shall eat dust
all the days of your life.
00:39:12.71\00:39:16.22
And I will put enmity
between you and the woman,
00:39:16.25\00:39:20.02
and between your
seed and her Seed,
00:39:20.06\00:39:22.36
He shall bruise your head,
00:39:22.39\00:39:24.56
and you shall bruise His heel.'"
00:39:24.59\00:39:26.86
Thank you very much.
00:39:26.90\00:39:28.90
So in this picture
of God, what would you,
00:39:28.93\00:39:33.40
what do you see
here as a picture of God
00:39:33.44\00:39:35.97
that helps us see a
positive picture of God.
00:39:36.00\00:39:41.81
Well, if I did something wrong,
I'd be afraid of coming out.
00:39:41.84\00:39:45.35
When I was a little kid,
and my mommy enraged, is like,
00:39:45.38\00:39:49.58
we would hide when
we did something bad,
00:39:49.62\00:39:51.79
right?
00:39:51.82\00:39:53.15
So you see Adam and Eve hiding.
00:39:53.19\00:39:54.92
Yes, they're
hiding, and they, you know,
00:39:54.96\00:39:58.23
when God is speaking to them,
He's very honest with them.
00:39:58.26\00:40:03.40
I was afraid
because I was naked.
00:40:03.43\00:40:06.40
And, you know,
00:40:06.43\00:40:07.77
the Lord did
not strike him dead.
00:40:07.80\00:40:09.47
That's right. Did He?
00:40:09.50\00:40:11.14
Did not strike him dead?
00:40:11.17\00:40:12.51
Or, you know,
like I was comparing,
00:40:12.54\00:40:17.65
when I did
something wrong at home, Tita!
00:40:17.68\00:40:20.75
You know, I hear that voice.
00:40:20.78\00:40:23.12
And I knew what was coming next.
00:40:23.15\00:40:25.82
But God's voice, I
wonder how that voice was.
00:40:25.85\00:40:27.79
It was different.
00:40:27.82\00:40:29.16
You know, since
you said it that way,
00:40:29.19\00:40:30.86
I like to share this.
00:40:30.89\00:40:33.40
One, He said, He
heard the voice of God
00:40:33.43\00:40:39.53
walking in the wilderness.
00:40:39.57\00:40:44.34
Actually, that was verse 8.
00:40:44.37\00:40:45.71
And it says,
00:40:45.74\00:40:47.08
"And they heard
the son of the Lord God
00:40:47.11\00:40:48.44
walking in the garden
in the cool of the day,
00:40:48.48\00:40:49.94
and Adam and his
wife hid themselves
00:40:49.98\00:40:51.45
from the
presence of the Lord God
00:40:51.48\00:40:53.11
among the trees of the garden."
00:40:53.15\00:40:54.98
Right.
00:40:55.02\00:40:56.35
So one from this we gather,
00:40:56.38\00:40:59.12
they knew the voice of God.
00:40:59.15\00:41:01.72
That's right.
00:41:01.76\00:41:03.09
In other words,
they had at other times
00:41:03.12\00:41:06.06
talk to the Lord
and I am happy to...
00:41:06.09\00:41:11.97
I say, I have no
problem understanding
00:41:12.00\00:41:13.87
that they would
walk with the Lord.
00:41:13.90\00:41:16.27
This was
something they used to do...
00:41:16.30\00:41:18.31
Every day. So
they knew His voice.
00:41:18.34\00:41:20.88
And now He is
calling him, like was,
00:41:20.91\00:41:25.91
there's something different
and God knew what had happened,
00:41:25.95\00:41:28.15
but there's something different.
00:41:28.18\00:41:30.35
Where are you?
00:41:30.39\00:41:31.72
Like, I want to spend
time with you, where are you?
00:41:31.75\00:41:35.02
And apparently,
00:41:35.06\00:41:37.36
the way that
God was calling them
00:41:37.39\00:41:39.43
as Idalia say was
not one, like sometimes.
00:41:39.46\00:41:43.30
All right, where are you?
00:41:43.33\00:41:45.03
You know, all
right, where are you?
00:41:45.07\00:41:47.54
You sounded like
a drill sergeant.
00:41:47.57\00:41:50.81
So it was a
pleasant way of calling them
00:41:50.84\00:41:54.44
that they were
willing to come out.
00:41:54.48\00:41:56.38
And speak.
00:41:56.41\00:41:57.75
I was afraid because I
was naked, but he came out.
00:41:57.78\00:42:01.15
They came out.
00:42:01.18\00:42:02.52
And that's a good
thing, they came out.
00:42:02.55\00:42:04.12
Yes, it is.
00:42:04.15\00:42:05.49
And so, I see a picture of God,
00:42:05.52\00:42:07.62
a loving God that
wants to spend time with us,
00:42:07.66\00:42:09.96
just like He
wanted to spend time
00:42:09.99\00:42:11.33
with Adam and Eve,
00:42:11.36\00:42:12.69
a picture of God
concerned about us.
00:42:12.73\00:42:14.80
What else do you see here?
00:42:14.83\00:42:16.80
The first thing you see
is each one is cascading
00:42:16.83\00:42:19.13
into blaming somebody else.
00:42:19.17\00:42:21.00
I didn't do it,
they brought it up.
00:42:21.04\00:42:22.37
They gave it to me. The woman!
00:42:22.40\00:42:24.34
He gave me. The
woman gave to me.
00:42:24.37\00:42:26.74
And then the
serpent that you blamed.
00:42:26.78\00:42:28.18
She turned around and
blamed on the serpent.
00:42:28.21\00:42:30.05
Exactly.
00:42:30.08\00:42:32.28
And yet God
didn't scold him for.
00:42:32.31\00:42:35.65
But he did end up telling them
00:42:35.68\00:42:38.09
and the judgment
on both of them then,
00:42:38.12\00:42:40.62
both the serpent and the man,
00:42:40.66\00:42:44.36
what was gonna be their outcome?
00:42:44.39\00:42:46.96
Mercy, mercy. Mercy.
00:42:47.00\00:42:49.13
And that's...
That's what I see there.
00:42:49.16\00:42:50.83
That's the picture.
I'm glad you said that.
00:42:50.87\00:42:52.87
Because here I also
see God's mercy displayed.
00:42:52.90\00:42:57.67
Because He said, He
could have said, you know,
00:42:57.71\00:42:59.27
I told you, you're gonna
die, you're gonna go right now.
00:42:59.31\00:43:01.94
Instead, he gave them
a prophecy of a savior.
00:43:01.98\00:43:04.35
And a plan, there was a plan.
00:43:04.38\00:43:05.81
There's a plan for the future.
00:43:05.85\00:43:07.88
That's right. And
this is marvelous.
00:43:07.92\00:43:09.78
So God is merciful.
00:43:09.82\00:43:11.49
We can see in reading this
00:43:11.52\00:43:13.12
'cause here the seed
that was of the woman
00:43:13.15\00:43:17.03
that was going to
bruise the head of the serpent,
00:43:17.06\00:43:20.43
which here becomes a
symbol of the devil, is Jesus.
00:43:20.46\00:43:23.47
So God gave them hope and mercy.
00:43:23.50\00:43:26.63
Amen.
00:43:26.67\00:43:28.00
And God is a
merciful and a loving God.
00:43:28.04\00:43:30.41
So there is a
picture that we can see,
00:43:30.44\00:43:31.87
I see that our time
is getting away from us.
00:43:31.91\00:43:35.78
Perhaps we should move
to another picture quickly.
00:43:35.81\00:43:38.08
Well, let's talk about
00:43:38.11\00:43:39.45
the pictures of that
in the life of David.
00:43:39.48\00:43:41.72
In the life of David?
00:43:41.75\00:43:43.08
Yeah, because I love, you know,
00:43:43.12\00:43:44.45
sometimes when I
read the songs, it's like,
00:43:44.49\00:43:49.69
these are the very words
00:43:49.72\00:43:51.06
I'm feeling
inside of my feelings.
00:43:51.09\00:43:53.86
And it's already in writing.
00:43:53.90\00:43:55.63
And I praise the Lord
that God hears our prayers.
00:43:55.66\00:44:00.00
God knows how we're feeling.
00:44:00.04\00:44:02.17
God knows what we need
00:44:02.20\00:44:04.14
and He is our help
in the time of trouble.
00:44:04.17\00:44:07.04
Long before we asked.
00:44:07.08\00:44:08.91
Long before we
asked. Yeah, that's right.
00:44:08.94\00:44:10.28
You know it took me
years to figure that out.
00:44:10.31\00:44:13.01
Yes. It took me years.
00:44:13.05\00:44:14.38
I thought I had to
tell him, so he would know.
00:44:14.42\00:44:17.95
He's just waiting for me to ask.
00:44:17.99\00:44:21.46
Sorry. Oh, my...
00:44:21.49\00:44:23.19
And the reason for that is
00:44:23.22\00:44:24.56
because he wants
that communication.
00:44:24.59\00:44:26.66
Yes. Yes.
00:44:26.70\00:44:28.30
How many of us have asked God,
00:44:28.33\00:44:31.47
Oh, Lord, please
give me this day,
00:44:31.50\00:44:33.70
my daily dose of oxygen?
00:44:33.74\00:44:36.44
Never. Never.
00:44:36.47\00:44:38.31
But it's always
there. But it's always there.
00:44:38.34\00:44:40.24
So my point here is
that God is a provider.
00:44:40.28\00:44:43.31
That's one picture of God
because I've never asked Him,
00:44:43.35\00:44:45.25
Lord, please give me
my daily dose of oxygen
00:44:45.28\00:44:47.35
what I need for today.
00:44:47.38\00:44:48.72
No, God is constantly,
continually doing things for us
00:44:48.75\00:44:54.66
that we don't even notice.
00:44:54.69\00:44:57.06
We don't even notice
and many other things
00:44:57.09\00:44:59.53
along that train of thought.
00:44:59.56\00:45:03.03
Now, I just open the Psalm.
00:45:03.06\00:45:06.67
And I know this
is not in our notes,
00:45:06.70\00:45:09.20
but I just want to share one...
00:45:09.24\00:45:11.34
Many things...
00:45:11.37\00:45:12.71
That I'm really, I
mean for the psalm.
00:45:12.74\00:45:16.44
But Psalm 88, I just wanna know
00:45:16.48\00:45:19.48
if you can identify
with this prayer, if this is,
00:45:19.51\00:45:23.15
has been your prayer
ever, or have you felt this way.
00:45:23.18\00:45:26.22
It says, "O Lord,
God of my salvation,
00:45:26.25\00:45:29.69
I have cried out day
and night before You.
00:45:29.72\00:45:33.09
Let my prayer come before
You, incline Your ear to my cry.
00:45:33.13\00:45:39.10
For my soul is full of troubles,
00:45:39.13\00:45:41.57
and my life draws
near to the grave.
00:45:41.60\00:45:44.34
I am counted with
those who go down to the pit,
00:45:44.37\00:45:47.78
I am like a man
who has no strength."
00:45:47.81\00:45:51.48
I have felt that way so much.
00:45:51.51\00:45:53.01
And, you know, it's
so beautifully written,
00:45:53.05\00:45:57.19
how you feel these
feelings in, at times,
00:45:57.22\00:46:00.26
you say I can't
put it into words
00:46:00.29\00:46:02.46
when I'm just not
feeling right, you know.
00:46:02.49\00:46:05.09
And it's beautiful that here
David writes this other prayer.
00:46:05.13\00:46:11.17
And it's just, I
can identify with him.
00:46:11.20\00:46:14.20
And I know that the
Lord inclines His ear
00:46:14.24\00:46:16.77
and I know that
the Lord holds me.
00:46:16.81\00:46:19.07
And I know that
when we are weak,
00:46:19.11\00:46:22.18
He makes us, what?
00:46:22.21\00:46:23.55
Strong. Strong. Exactly.
00:46:23.58\00:46:24.91
It is still times
just you can't see that.
00:46:24.95\00:46:26.55
Yes.
00:46:26.58\00:46:27.92
I remember we had
a business years ago,
00:46:27.95\00:46:30.89
and things
weren't going really great
00:46:30.92\00:46:33.09
at that time and Julia said,
"We need to pray about this."
00:46:33.12\00:46:35.92
And I said, "I'm not going to."
00:46:35.96\00:46:37.39
Yeah.
00:46:37.43\00:46:38.76
She said, "You need to pray."
00:46:38.79\00:46:41.26
I said, "My prayers are
not going out of this room,
00:46:41.30\00:46:43.03
God doesn't
listen to me." Yes, yes.
00:46:43.06\00:46:44.93
She said, "Get on your knees."
00:46:44.97\00:46:46.84
Tell us about that? Amen. Amen.
00:46:46.87\00:46:48.80
Well, you know,
00:46:48.84\00:46:50.17
I have a very
simplistic view of God.
00:46:50.21\00:46:53.01
I grew up in a Christian home.
00:46:53.04\00:46:54.54
It wasn't Adventist,
but it was a Christian home.
00:46:54.58\00:46:56.78
And from very little
00:46:56.81\00:46:58.15
we were learning the
Bible's the scriptures.
00:46:58.18\00:47:00.75
And to me, God was not harsh.
00:47:00.78\00:47:05.05
He was a loving
God, a tender God.
00:47:05.09\00:47:08.26
And that's how I
grew up, you know.
00:47:08.29\00:47:10.79
So I kind of look at God
is like a very good father
00:47:10.83\00:47:16.16
that takes care of
me like 24 hours a day,
00:47:16.20\00:47:18.73
seven days a week.
00:47:18.77\00:47:20.10
Praise the Lord.
00:47:20.14\00:47:21.47
And I've had my
moments of weakness,
00:47:21.50\00:47:23.64
but in the struggles
00:47:23.67\00:47:25.04
that we were
having in the business.
00:47:25.07\00:47:27.74
First of all, I
wasn't Adventist.
00:47:27.78\00:47:29.28
I was not an
Adventist when I met him,
00:47:29.31\00:47:30.81
and when he told me,
00:47:30.85\00:47:32.31
let's go to church, and I
said, "Okay," and he said,
00:47:32.35\00:47:34.18
"I'll pick you up tomorrow."
00:47:34.22\00:47:35.55
And it was
Saturday. And I thought, okay.
00:47:35.58\00:47:37.59
She had more faith
than I do... Yeah, I said...
00:47:37.62\00:47:39.55
Even though I was
raised an Adventist.
00:47:39.59\00:47:41.79
I said, "Okay," and so he said,
00:47:41.82\00:47:43.83
I said, "Well,
maybe he's Jewish,
00:47:43.86\00:47:45.63
I don't know, I
didn't want to ask."
00:47:45.66\00:47:47.86
So we went to the church.
00:47:47.90\00:47:49.56
And it was not
a great experience
00:47:49.60\00:47:51.63
in that particular church
'cause they were having issues.
00:47:51.67\00:47:54.60
And I said to him, I said,
00:47:54.64\00:47:56.50
"You know, Alvin, I said,
this doesn't sound scriptural,
00:47:56.54\00:47:59.87
what they had in
their Sabbath school,
00:47:59.91\00:48:01.24
but I said, you know,
00:48:01.28\00:48:02.61
I'm not gonna
criticize him or anything."
00:48:02.64\00:48:04.15
So he kept on and on.
00:48:04.18\00:48:05.91
And we found the
church in Cleveland
00:48:05.95\00:48:07.68
that we attend now.
00:48:07.72\00:48:09.28
That was a scary experience.
00:48:09.32\00:48:10.72
That was a scary
experience for me
00:48:10.75\00:48:12.45
because I didn't know
about the Sabbath that much.
00:48:12.49\00:48:15.56
And the first
day I attended there,
00:48:15.59\00:48:18.13
they had a screen
up there that said,
00:48:18.16\00:48:19.73
100 things you could do
00:48:19.76\00:48:21.10
on the Sabbath and
three that you couldn't.
00:48:21.13\00:48:22.46
The other way around.
00:48:22.50\00:48:23.83
Or the other way,
00:48:23.87\00:48:25.20
100 things you
couldn't do on the Sabbath
00:48:25.23\00:48:26.57
and three things you
could do on the Sabbath.
00:48:26.60\00:48:27.94
I mean, talk about
legalistic experience.
00:48:27.97\00:48:29.30
Yeah. He had a flip chart.
00:48:29.34\00:48:30.67
He had an overhead screen,
00:48:30.71\00:48:32.04
this was before the days
of digital stuff, you know.
00:48:32.07\00:48:34.34
He had an overhead projector.
00:48:34.38\00:48:36.18
He had a flip chart,
00:48:36.21\00:48:37.55
and all this stuff that
you couldn't do on Sabbath.
00:48:37.58\00:48:39.41
Wow!
00:48:39.45\00:48:40.78
And we walked out Julia
said, they believe in Jesus.
00:48:40.82\00:48:42.72
I never heard him
mention once. Wow!
00:48:42.75\00:48:45.09
And it was...
00:48:45.12\00:48:46.65
I almost gone
and got away from it.
00:48:46.69\00:48:48.06
So you have found that
even among God's children,
00:48:48.09\00:48:50.33
you can find distorted pictures.
00:48:50.36\00:48:52.43
Absolutely.
00:48:52.46\00:48:53.80
But I told him when
we were walking out,
00:48:53.83\00:48:56.63
if I read in the
Bible for myself,
00:48:56.67\00:48:59.83
what I have heard and
after we started attending,
00:48:59.87\00:49:02.60
there was an elderly man
that was his interim pastor.
00:49:02.64\00:49:06.37
And he would preach
sermons that would make you
00:49:06.41\00:49:09.04
just inside just feel
so good and everything.
00:49:09.08\00:49:12.31
And he talked to me a lot.
00:49:12.35\00:49:13.68
And I said, I told
Alvin, if I'm going home,
00:49:13.72\00:49:16.38
and if I read what he said,
00:49:16.42\00:49:18.52
if it's in my
Bible, I believe it.
00:49:18.55\00:49:21.02
I knew I had her.
00:49:21.06\00:49:23.76
I read it, and I believed it in.
00:49:23.79\00:49:26.29
But to me, I look
at God as simplistic.
00:49:26.33\00:49:28.96
So I always talk to Him
00:49:29.00\00:49:30.40
as though He's
sitting right there, you know.
00:49:30.43\00:49:33.77
Very nice.
00:49:33.80\00:49:35.14
And I don't always
trust because we are human.
00:49:35.17\00:49:37.87
But I know, eventually,
he's gonna make a way.
00:49:37.91\00:49:41.78
That's right.
00:49:41.81\00:49:43.14
And that's just
the way I look at.
00:49:43.18\00:49:44.51
You just reminded me
of the scripture that...
00:49:44.55\00:49:46.61
You know, there are
many promises in the Bible.
00:49:46.65\00:49:49.02
And the Lord says, Jesus says,
"I will be with you always,
00:49:49.05\00:49:52.62
even until the
end of the world."
00:49:52.65\00:49:54.12
Yes, you were
going through hard time.
00:49:54.16\00:49:55.56
But let me ask you,
00:49:55.59\00:49:56.93
did the Lord help you
through that situation?
00:49:56.96\00:49:59.09
He did. I just couldn't see it.
00:49:59.13\00:50:01.40
He did.
00:50:01.43\00:50:02.76
But you just
couldn't see at that time.
00:50:02.80\00:50:04.13
And there was a
reason for what He was doing.
00:50:04.17\00:50:05.50
Okay. The reason He let us say.
00:50:05.53\00:50:07.97
And even my brother-in-law,
00:50:08.00\00:50:10.21
who was well, he was,
00:50:10.24\00:50:14.94
he had a license to preach.
00:50:14.98\00:50:17.11
But he drank and
smoked but he and,
00:50:17.15\00:50:21.65
but I went out to a job
site on Sabbath and he said,
00:50:21.68\00:50:25.42
"What are you doing here?"
00:50:25.45\00:50:26.99
Oh, wow!
00:50:27.02\00:50:29.52
Yes.
00:50:29.56\00:50:30.89
And I told him then I said,
00:50:30.93\00:50:32.39
"If you are a true
believer in the Sabbath,
00:50:32.43\00:50:35.86
why did you do it?"
00:50:35.90\00:50:37.87
Because obviously,
00:50:37.90\00:50:39.57
you don't believe it, or
you wouldn't have done it.
00:50:39.60\00:50:41.27
I was gonna work.
00:50:41.30\00:50:42.64
And at that time,
I wasn't really aware
00:50:42.67\00:50:44.04
of what the Sabbath meant.
00:50:44.07\00:50:45.41
And there again,
there's that word mercy.
00:50:45.44\00:50:47.21
Yes, mercy.
00:50:47.24\00:50:48.58
There's comes to
me so many times,
00:50:48.61\00:50:50.38
we just get so rundown,
00:50:50.41\00:50:53.01
I've been going back
through Genesis and Exodus,
00:50:53.05\00:50:56.05
you know, and he reads to me,
00:50:56.08\00:50:58.99
and I love it because he'll read
00:50:59.02\00:51:01.36
and I'll think about something
00:51:01.39\00:51:02.82
and I'll wait,
wait, wait, wait, wait.
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I don't get that.
00:51:06.16\00:51:07.60
And I was at a point
where I was getting angry
00:51:07.63\00:51:10.77
because here was Abraham lying.
00:51:10.80\00:51:13.64
Turn around lied again.
00:51:13.67\00:51:15.47
And they were talking
about these Bible characters
00:51:15.50\00:51:18.44
to me these real
people is insist in the Bible.
00:51:18.47\00:51:22.31
And I'm thinking,
00:51:22.34\00:51:24.15
God, just let him do
all that stuff, Rendall,
00:51:24.18\00:51:26.15
I just don't get it.
00:51:26.18\00:51:27.65
And I said, "Why didn't
he do something about it?"
00:51:27.68\00:51:30.79
Two weeks went by
00:51:30.82\00:51:32.15
until one day, it was like this.
00:51:32.19\00:51:34.06
This voice to me in my
mind, it wasn't audible,
00:51:34.09\00:51:37.56
but it's like I have years
00:51:37.59\00:51:43.47
been doing far more for you.
00:51:43.50\00:51:44.97
Wow! Oh, mercy.
00:51:45.00\00:51:47.94
Beautiful.
00:51:47.97\00:51:49.30
So through their
failures, God showed me
00:51:49.34\00:51:53.54
how much mercy
He had in my life.
00:51:53.58\00:51:56.24
Amen. Praise the Lord.
00:51:56.28\00:51:57.85
Wonderful. Wonderful. Wow.
00:51:57.88\00:51:59.58
Well, we barely have time.
00:51:59.61\00:52:00.95
Maybe we can read just
a few verses of Psalms 4.
00:52:00.98\00:52:02.92
Okay.
00:52:02.95\00:52:04.29
I don't know if we
have time. Let's see.
00:52:04.32\00:52:05.75
Rendall, can you read? Psalms 4.
00:52:05.79\00:52:07.26
How about Rendall
read Psalms 4:1-3.
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Psalms 4:1-3.
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Okay.
00:52:15.93\00:52:17.33
"Hear me when I call, O
God of my righteousness!
00:52:17.37\00:52:20.44
You have relieved
me in my distress,
00:52:20.47\00:52:23.87
have mercy on me,
and hear my prayer.
00:52:23.91\00:52:27.91
How long, O you sons of men,
00:52:27.94\00:52:29.64
will you turn my glory to shame?
00:52:29.68\00:52:31.91
How long will you
love worthlessness
00:52:31.95\00:52:35.25
and seek falsehood?
00:52:35.28\00:52:37.12
But you know that the
Lord has set apart for Himself
00:52:37.15\00:52:40.76
him who is godly,
00:52:40.79\00:52:42.46
the Lord will
hear when I call Him."
00:52:42.49\00:52:45.89
Amen. That is wonderful.
00:52:45.93\00:52:47.43
The Lord will hear
us and it says there.
00:52:47.46\00:52:51.73
He relieves him in his distress.
00:52:51.77\00:52:54.64
Yes. Yes.
00:52:54.67\00:52:56.00
There is that song about Jesus.
00:52:56.04\00:52:59.44
"Oh, what a
Friend we have in Jesus."
00:52:59.47\00:53:02.04
What are some of
the words, honey?
00:53:02.08\00:53:03.41
You remember very
good some of the songs.
00:53:03.45\00:53:05.65
What a Friend we have in Jesus
00:53:05.68\00:53:08.22
All our sins and griefs to bear!
00:53:08.25\00:53:11.39
What a privilege to carry
00:53:11.42\00:53:13.62
Everything to God in prayer!
00:53:13.66\00:53:16.19
O what peace
00:53:16.22\00:53:17.56
We often forfeit.
00:53:17.59\00:53:19.19
Why?
00:53:19.23\00:53:20.56
O what needless pain we bear
00:53:20.60\00:53:22.96
All because we do not carry
00:53:23.00\00:53:25.43
Everything to God in prayer!
00:53:25.47\00:53:27.24
Amen. Amen.
00:53:27.27\00:53:28.84
Amen.
00:53:28.87\00:53:30.21
So a lot of our
distress and suffering
00:53:30.24\00:53:32.31
is because we
don't go to the Lord.
00:53:32.34\00:53:34.48
You know, I can do
this, like the little boy,
00:53:34.51\00:53:38.08
I think I was talking about this
00:53:38.11\00:53:39.45
the other day to somebody
00:53:39.48\00:53:40.82
that the Lord
wants to help you here.
00:53:40.85\00:53:42.28
Let me help you with that.
00:53:42.32\00:53:43.69
I can do it. I can do it.
00:53:43.72\00:53:46.05
And you fall and you falter
00:53:46.09\00:53:48.42
and you have
problems and difficulties
00:53:48.46\00:53:50.43
that you didn't have to
have because the Lord said,
00:53:50.46\00:53:52.79
I'm gonna, I like
to help you with that.
00:53:52.83\00:53:55.06
You know, I'm
sorry to interrupt you.
00:53:55.10\00:53:57.23
But when you are sharing that,
honey, I just went right away
00:53:57.27\00:54:02.50
that it's easy for us to
react and talk to a friend,
00:54:02.54\00:54:07.08
call somebody on
the phone and say,
00:54:07.11\00:54:08.78
"You know what
I'm going through..."
00:54:08.81\00:54:11.08
So we just, you know,
00:54:11.11\00:54:14.38
we download the,
all our frustrations
00:54:14.42\00:54:16.89
or the situation
that we're facing.
00:54:16.92\00:54:19.09
And it's okay to go
to your friend and say,
00:54:19.12\00:54:22.69
"I just need a hug."
00:54:22.72\00:54:24.19
You know, the
Lord will give us hugs.
00:54:24.23\00:54:26.09
Yes, He does.
00:54:26.13\00:54:27.46
But instead of
calling our friends and say,
00:54:27.50\00:54:30.63
ah, whatever, you know,
00:54:30.67\00:54:34.27
talk to God and ask for a hug,
00:54:34.30\00:54:37.97
you know, from
your sister friend.
00:54:38.01\00:54:40.14
And that's all.
00:54:40.18\00:54:41.51
How about, we
have a very short time,
00:54:41.54\00:54:44.65
how about two or three words?
00:54:44.68\00:54:47.12
We'll start
with Brother Rendall,
00:54:47.15\00:54:48.48
we'll go around
two or three words
00:54:48.52\00:54:49.85
you'll say about God
or maybe just one word.
00:54:49.88\00:54:52.32
Oh, just what I
heard just now reminds me
00:54:52.35\00:54:54.56
of a song that I really like.
00:54:54.59\00:54:56.46
I just came to
talk with you, Lord.
00:54:56.49\00:54:58.89
And I acquaint it to a
father or a mother with children
00:54:58.93\00:55:03.10
when they're growing
up, and they're constantly,
00:55:03.13\00:55:05.97
"May I have
this, may I have that."
00:55:06.00\00:55:08.24
And the Lord wants
to commune with us.
00:55:08.27\00:55:10.21
He just wants us as a song says,
00:55:10.24\00:55:12.57
"I just came to
talk to you, Lord."
00:55:12.61\00:55:14.28
Amen. Thank you.
00:55:14.31\00:55:16.08
Melody. Patience.
00:55:16.11\00:55:18.81
God has been so patient with me,
00:55:18.85\00:55:20.58
and I'm so
thankful for His patience.
00:55:20.62\00:55:22.68
Yes.
00:55:22.72\00:55:24.05
And I just see God is
very patient loving God
00:55:24.09\00:55:26.59
in this part of my life.
00:55:26.62\00:55:27.96
Amen. Amen.
00:55:27.99\00:55:29.32
How about, Julia?
00:55:29.36\00:55:30.69
I said to Him, just
about two years ago,
00:55:30.73\00:55:33.13
after my injury, I said,
00:55:33.16\00:55:35.36
God, I'm gonna
get in the backseat,
00:55:35.40\00:55:38.47
and I'm gonna let you drive,
00:55:38.50\00:55:40.10
because, you know,
where I need to go.
00:55:40.14\00:55:42.80
Amen. Amen.
00:55:42.84\00:55:47.08
There's been so many things
and God has given us so much.
00:55:47.11\00:55:53.11
And we stopped short sometimes
00:55:53.15\00:55:57.45
of thanking Him for the
stuff He does every day.
00:55:57.49\00:56:00.56
And He's
usually way ahead of us.
00:56:00.59\00:56:02.56
When things go wrong
which usually our fault
00:56:02.59\00:56:05.29
and He has an answer waiting,
00:56:05.33\00:56:06.66
but sometimes
like Pastor Lomacang
00:56:06.70\00:56:09.13
said the other
day in the sermon,
00:56:09.16\00:56:10.63
He has to redirect things,
it's kind of like your GPS.
00:56:10.67\00:56:12.07
Yes.
00:56:12.10\00:56:13.67
Now if you've taken a wrong turn
00:56:13.70\00:56:15.04
and I'm gonna bring
you back around this way,
00:56:15.07\00:56:16.64
you can still get there.
00:56:16.67\00:56:18.11
Amen. Amen.
00:56:18.14\00:56:19.51
And He's the GPS
00:56:19.54\00:56:20.88
that does not to
be updated, you know.
00:56:20.91\00:56:23.35
So I praise the Lord
for being our faithful GPS.
00:56:23.38\00:56:27.48
That's right.
00:56:27.52\00:56:28.85
And we just need to
set our life on that map
00:56:28.88\00:56:31.72
and let the
Lord lead and direct.
00:56:31.75\00:56:33.82
Amen, Sister. Thank you, Idalia.
00:56:33.86\00:56:35.19
Also very good
thing to look to end on
00:56:35.22\00:56:37.63
because I remember
we were looking for
00:56:37.66\00:56:39.76
the Sunnydale Academy,
00:56:39.79\00:56:41.46
we put that address in the GPS
00:56:41.50\00:56:44.40
and went here, turned there,
00:56:44.43\00:56:47.04
turned there and it
said, "You have arrived."
00:56:47.07\00:56:50.51
Your
destination is on the right.
00:56:50.54\00:56:52.47
And it was an empty field.
00:56:52.51\00:56:54.98
Very far away. Very far away.
00:56:55.01\00:56:56.81
In the land far, a far away.
00:56:56.85\00:56:59.18
So what do we mean by that?
00:56:59.21\00:57:01.28
God has the correct
directions in the scriptures.
00:57:01.32\00:57:06.49
Follow that and
you will not fail.
00:57:06.52\00:57:08.96
So I would like
to encourage you to
00:57:08.99\00:57:11.76
as it says in Matthew 5:16,
00:57:11.79\00:57:14.20
"Let your light
therefore so shine before men,
00:57:14.23\00:57:17.57
that they may
see your good works
00:57:17.60\00:57:19.17
and glorify your
Father which is in heaven."
00:57:19.20\00:57:21.10
You may be the only
picture someone sees of God.
00:57:21.14\00:57:24.44
Let the light of
Jesus shine through you.
00:57:24.47\00:57:26.74
Amen. Have a blessed Sabbath.
00:57:26.78\00:57:28.14
Happy Sabbath. Amen.
00:57:28.18\00:57:29.51
Happy Sabbath, my
friends. Happy Sabbath.
00:57:29.54\00:57:32.18
I'm so glad you made here.
00:57:32.21\00:57:33.82