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Series Code: TDYFW
Program Code: TDYFW190025A
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00:01 I want to spend my life
00:07 Mending broken people 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:19 Removing pain 00:24 Lord, let my words 00:30 Heal a heart that hurts 00:34 I want to spend my life 00:40 Mending broken people 00:46 I want to spend my life 00:51 Mending broken people 01:10 Hello and welcome, 01:12 and we want to welcome you to Family Worship. 01:15 Thank you for joining with us, being with us. 01:17 And today is a moment 01:19 that we can say happy and blessed Sabbath. 01:23 Amen. 01:24 My name is John Dinzey, 01:25 and I am accompanied by my wife Idalia. 01:28 It's a pleasure to once again 01:29 share with you during this hour, 01:33 one hour of praise and worship. 01:35 And, you know, I tell you, God has been good, hasn't He? 01:38 Amen. 01:39 This week has been full of a lot of work, 01:41 challenges, deadlines, 01:44 probably short nights, long days, 01:47 but God has been faithful, 01:49 and He's been with us throughout this week, 01:51 and we give Him all the praise. 01:52 And He gave us a gift, 01:54 the gift of rest on the Sabbath day. 01:57 That's right. 01:58 So we're longing to spend those Sabbath days 02:01 from Sabbath to Sabbath in heaven with Jesus. 02:04 That's right. 02:05 And since this is Family Worship, 02:07 we would like to introduce to you 02:09 the family that is with us today. 02:11 Idalia, would you like to do the honors? 02:12 Yes, I call it my family, my friends. 02:16 I have the privilege 02:17 of having Melody Caviness with us, 02:19 Chef Melody. 02:20 Welcome, Melody. 02:22 Nice to be here. Thank you for inviting me. 02:24 I'm so glad you accepted the invitation. 02:27 And please introduce who's next to you? 02:30 This is my husband, Rendall Caviness. 02:33 We call him harmonic command. 02:35 Harmonic command! 02:36 All right, so we're in for a treat. 02:38 Welcome, Rendall. 02:39 Thank you. Thank you so much. 02:40 Thank you for being here. 02:42 And also we have Miss Julia. 02:44 Welcome. Well, I'm glad to be here. 02:47 She is very talented musician as well. 02:51 And she, you know, 02:52 the Lord has blessed her with many talents. 02:55 And she is friends with Melody. 02:57 You know, they are there an awesome team 02:59 in the kitchen, right? 03:01 Yes, exactly. 03:02 So thank you for accepting the invitation. 03:05 And who's that next to you, Julia. 03:07 This is my husband of 35 years. 03:10 Amen. Thirty-five years? 03:11 Yes. Praise the Lord. 03:13 This is Alvin Mowry. 03:15 Welcome, Alvin. 03:17 Thank you. 03:18 So glad that you can make here with us. 03:19 It's great to be here. 03:21 I've enjoyed the week. 03:22 Oh, we've enjoyed a week, your visit here 03:25 while you're visiting from the state of Texas. 03:28 And he's got some culinary gifts 03:31 that the Lord has given him. 03:33 And, you know, 03:34 a good friendship starts in the kitchen, right? 03:37 Yes, it does. 03:41 We share so many things 03:42 in the kitchen stories, experiences, 03:44 good recipes. 03:45 And, oh, how about this idea or that idea? 03:48 And what else happens in your kitchen, Mr. Rendall? 03:52 All the good thing. 03:55 All the good things. 03:56 Yes, the Lord has been good to us. 03:58 Well, we also have... 04:00 Well, you know, if you come to camp meeting, 04:02 whenever we have camp meeting, 04:04 we have wonderful people that come from all over. 04:08 But we have had the wonderful blessing 04:11 of having Chef Melody with us during camp meetings. 04:15 And this is part of the team during the camp meeting time. 04:20 And so they are behind the scenes, 04:22 you may not see them as much except as you're passing by, 04:25 and you see them putting food out 04:27 so that you can eat it, 04:29 and enjoy it because it's a blessing. 04:31 It's really is a blessing. 04:32 But also our viewers have enjoyed the recipes 04:36 as Melody has shared them on 3ABN, 04:39 and then her recipes are on 3ABN website. 04:42 Or just look for her recipe, I mean, her website, 04:46 where she has her cookbooks and all that information there 04:49 that you will be very happy to obtain. 04:52 Amen. Yes, definitely. 04:54 Well, I would like to... 04:55 Before we pray, I'd like to introduce the topic 04:57 that we are going to be talking about today. 05:01 We're going to be talking about pictures of God. 05:04 And we have each brought a picture. 05:06 So we would like to encourage you 05:08 to be with us, 05:09 so that you can hear and see about these pictures. 05:13 Yes? Amazing. 05:14 So I think it's going to be a blessing. 05:16 Yes. 05:18 And before we continue, 05:19 we'd like to go to the Lord in prayer. 05:20 And we encourage you to join us in prayer. 05:23 And I'd like to ask Brother Alvin 05:24 to lead us in prayer. 05:28 Our, Father, we thank You for Your blessings. 05:32 We thank You for all that You've done for us 05:33 and the gifts You've given us. 05:35 And in giving us Your Sabbath so we can come apart to rest. 05:40 And we thank You, Lord, 05:41 that You've given us pictures all through the Bible 05:44 of what You're really like. 05:46 And help us to discern those 05:47 and to each one share their own picture tonight. 05:50 In Jesus' name, amen. 05:52 Amen. Amen. 05:53 Thank you so much. 05:55 Now you may have noticed 05:56 in the beginning of our time together, 05:58 we said happy and blessed Sabbath to you. 06:01 And some people may be wondering 06:03 what in the world is a Sabbath? 06:05 And because you may be new to 3ABN. 06:09 So we like to talk briefly about Sabbath. 06:11 What is that? 06:13 So it really means in Hebrew rest. 06:15 And it's interesting that in over 100 languages, 06:20 the seventh day of the week 06:22 is called Sabbath in one form or another. 06:25 And so you may want to research this, 06:28 I said over 100 languages. 06:30 There's literally a some kind of poster 06:33 that describes the different languages 06:35 that have used the word Sabbath 06:37 for the seventh day of the week. 06:39 It's really the seventh day of the week. 06:41 And when we say the seventh day of the week, 06:44 please understand that Sunday is the first day 06:47 because apparently some years ago, 06:49 they started changing calendars. 06:51 That's right. 06:52 To have Monday as the first day of the week because people say, 06:56 "Oh, you start working on Monday, 06:57 that should be the first day." 06:59 But really Sunday is the first day the week. 07:01 And when this occurred in Germany, 07:06 they changed the calendar and started putting Monday 07:10 as the first day of the week, 07:11 something happened to the week that very noticeable. 07:16 And that is that when you have Sunday 07:18 as the first day of the week, 07:19 the name they have for Wednesday is correct. 07:23 But once you moved Sunday to the seventh-day position, 07:27 and then the name of Wednesday doesn't make sense 07:31 because Wednesday in German means middle of the week. 07:34 Oh, interesting. 07:36 I never knew that. 07:37 That's right, Mittwoch. 07:39 Oh, you, you lived in Germany three years, 07:41 so you know the language really well. 07:45 So where do we get the word Sabbath from? 07:48 It's from the Bible. 07:49 If you read the King James Version 07:51 or other versions, 07:52 they may have the word Sabbath in there, 07:53 but you can find this. 07:56 One of the places we'd like to point out is 07:57 in Exodus Chapter 20, 07:59 and it's the fourth commandment of the scriptures 08:02 that we may just make reference to. 08:04 And it says they remember the Sabbath day 08:06 to keep it holy. 08:08 And so that's why we pause during the week 08:11 to rest on the seventh day. 08:14 And to, by God's grace, keep it holy. 08:17 And one of the Sabbath, I mean, the Sabbath is a delight. 08:21 And we delight praising the Lord in music. 08:24 I, you know, once I start praising the Lord with music, 08:28 I want more, and more, and, you know, 08:30 an hour, two hours, three hours can go by. 08:33 Well, I'm accompanied by musicians here at the table. 08:36 So they understand what I'm saying, right, Julia? 08:38 Yes, ma'am. Exactly. 08:41 What do you do for fun on Sabbath? 08:44 Well, I usually try to do music or I mean, at home mostly now. 08:49 But I enjoy doing music. 08:51 It just fills me. 08:53 I can't explain it, but it's my life. 08:56 It's like my life that I breathe this music. 08:59 Amen. 09:00 And Alvin has said that he's... 09:03 Sometimes I sing in my sleep, of course, I don't know that. 09:06 Alvin, wow. 09:08 I woke up at 2 o'clock in the morning one night, 09:10 she was singing. 09:11 Really? Sound asleep. 09:13 Praise the Lord. Sound asleep? 09:14 Sound asleep. 09:15 Singing a gospel song. 09:17 You can definitely say she has a song in her heart. 09:18 Absolutely. 09:20 It was a gospel song. 09:21 Gospel song, praise the Lord. Amen. 09:22 Well, another person 09:24 that has their music in their heart 09:25 and praise is Tim Parton. 09:28 And we thank Tim for being with us. 09:30 Thank you, Tim. 09:32 And the first song we're gonna sing with you, 09:34 sing along with us. 09:36 Please, we'd ask you is the song, Farther Along. 09:50 Tempted and tried 09:53 We're oft made to wonder 09:59 Why it should be 10:02 Thus all the day long 10:09 While there are others 10:13 Living about us 10:18 Never molested though 10:22 In the wrong 10:27 Farther along 10:31 We'll know all about it 10:37 Farther along 10:40 We'll understand why 10:46 Cheer up my brother 10:51 Live in the sunshine 10:56 We'll understand it 11:00 All by and by 11:40 Sing all together. 11:43 Farther along 11:46 We'll know all about it 11:53 Farther along 11:56 We'll understand why 12:02 Cheer up my brother 12:07 Live in the sunshine 12:12 We'll understand it 12:17 All by and by 12:23 Amen. 12:26 Praise God. 12:27 Thank You for the gift of music. 12:29 Dear, Lord, thank You. 12:30 And, you know, 12:32 we pray that the Lord will accept our worship 12:34 during the Sabbath hours. 12:35 We pray that our worship will draw us closer to Him. 12:39 And now, you know, there's the time 12:42 when the Lord has come into our lives, 12:43 and we just feel His touch, right? 12:47 And we feel His presence. That's right. 12:50 So right now if the Lord has touched You, 12:53 please sing with us, He Touched Me. 13:04 Shackled by a heavy burden 13:12 'Neath a load of guilt 13:15 And shame 13:20 Then the hand of Jesus 13:24 Touched me 13:27 And now I am 13:30 No longer the same 13:35 He touched me 13:38 Oh, He touched me 13:43 And oh the joy 13:47 That floods my soul 13:52 Something happened 13:56 And now I know 14:00 He touched me 14:02 And made me whole 14:37 All right, all together now. 14:41 He touched me, 14:43 Oh, He touched me 14:48 And oh the joy 14:52 That floods my soul 14:57 Something happened 15:01 And now I know 15:05 He touched me 15:08 And made me whole 15:19 Amen. Hallelujah. 15:21 Praise the Lord. 15:22 Are you happy in the Lord? 15:24 Amen. 15:25 We could go for hours, right? Yes. 15:28 Well, I pray that you were blessed 15:30 in worship in song. 15:32 And, you know, 15:33 the pictures of God is our topic for tonight. 15:36 And we just want you to, just take a moment, and see, 15:41 and think about the glimpse of God, right? 15:45 God in our lives. 15:46 You know, something interesting about pictures is that 15:49 when you know you've been in a picture, 15:51 you look at the picture, 15:53 and one of the people that you look for is yourself 15:56 to see how you came out in that picture. 15:59 That's something interesting because people wanted... 16:01 Was I smiling? 16:02 Was my hair out of place? 16:04 Was my tie crooked? 16:06 But one of the interesting things 16:11 is that to the people that are not Christians, 16:17 they want to see a picture of God. 16:20 And one of the places 16:21 they can find the picture of God 16:22 is in God's children. 16:25 And, you know, you may have heard the phrase 16:27 that we are God's hands on earth. 16:30 And I believe that the people of the world 16:35 need to see a picture of God. 16:36 So we have each brought a picture. 16:38 And by that, we mean that we're going to be sharing 16:42 from our personal experience 16:45 also about things we have learned about God, 16:48 and how we have been encouraged as we discover, 16:52 if I can say that way 16:54 for ourselves something about God, 16:56 about His character, His ways. 16:59 And we'd like to share some of this with you, so... 17:02 Well, if I may. If you may. 17:05 I will share along, you know, 17:07 throughout the program, some more about... 17:09 The Lord just put this in my heart, 17:11 and I will share with you guys. 17:13 And you might think, 17:14 "Oh, we'll see Idalia and Julia, or Melody." 17:16 You may think, "Oh, no." 17:18 But, you know, the brightest picture of God 17:22 that I've had in my life, 17:24 it was one of the darkest moments in my life. 17:28 It is so amazing and so awesome. 17:35 I felt that my son, 17:37 I don't want to get emotional about this. 17:39 I think the Lord that in our darkest moments, 17:42 the Lord makes Himself presence, 17:44 He never leaves us. 17:46 So one day, I didn't know 17:49 what was wrong with my son, Samuel, 17:51 and all of a sudden he had trouble breathing. 17:54 And he became weaker, and weaker, and weaker. 17:56 And I didn't have a vehicle at that time. 17:59 And I called a friend. 18:03 And she said, "I'll be there in 15 minutes." 18:05 Fifteen minutes turned to an hour. 18:07 And, you know, my son could not breathe, right? 18:10 So I started walking down, 18:12 up and down the driveway and down the road 18:14 with my son in my arms, praying, and praying, 18:17 and I said, "Lord, please give me the strength. 18:20 If this is the end of my son in my arms, 18:24 give me the strength to trust in You, 18:27 and just to have peace over this," you know. 18:30 And the Lord gave me peace 18:33 is at the end of my fight with the Lord, if I may, 18:37 or the struggle at that situation. 18:39 I like, "Oh, Lord, I am in complete peace 18:43 if my son has to sleep in Jesus right now. 18:46 You can take him. 18:47 I'm okay." 18:49 My friend showed up, and the doctor said, 18:50 "If I would have gotten there 10 minutes later, 18:53 he would have been a vegetable." 18:54 So it was a beautiful peace that I sensed. 18:59 I mean it's a sad situation, sad, a sad example. 19:03 But I'm sure that out of every sad situation, 19:08 God has a blessing for us, every challenge, every problem, 19:12 there's still a blessing in the Lord if we seeked Him. 19:15 So anyway, that is, yeah... 19:17 A picture of God in... A picture of God. 19:19 He was so present, and so warm, 19:22 and so just peaceful. 19:25 So, yes. 19:26 And that's an experience you had 19:28 that shows you a picture of God. 19:29 And really, you saw God in a sense, 19:33 unlike any other time before. 19:35 That's right. That's right. 19:37 And so, perhaps as you are listening to us, 19:40 you may have a picture of God, 19:42 and we encourage you 19:43 to share that picture with someone 19:44 because someone may need that encouragement, 19:47 that knowledge of God. 19:49 And we are going to go through some scriptures. 19:51 I don't know if anyone would like to share 19:53 a picture right now. 19:54 You may share several pictures if you want, 19:56 but if you have one right now, they would like to share 19:57 before we go into some of the scriptures 19:59 that we have here. 20:01 We're all talking at the same time, aren't we? 20:04 Don't everybody jump up at the same time? 20:06 You know, through our lives, as children, 20:11 when our parents take pictures of us, 20:14 our pictures change? 20:15 Yes, that's right. That's right. 20:17 We're constantly... 20:18 From infancy to adulthood, elderly. 20:21 I can't believe I'm saying elderly. 20:24 And we see these different pictures. 20:26 And I know for myself, 20:28 I've looked back on some of my baby pictures. 20:30 And when I was youth, and thinking, "Is that me? 20:32 I don't remember looking like that." 20:35 I'm bringing that up, because throughout my life, 20:37 the picture of God has changed. 20:39 Amen. 20:40 You know, from what I've first seen of God 20:42 as a young child, you know, afraid. 20:46 I remember my sister telling me that lightning 20:49 was God's stomping in heaven. 20:50 He was mad, the thunder, you know, the thunder and all. 20:54 So there was fear there. 20:56 And then, you know, 20:57 I grew up in a primarily Seventh-day Adventist home. 21:00 I was about eight years old. 21:01 And I remember so many... 21:04 You might feel this way too, I know I have, 21:06 that my parents were very legalistic. 21:10 So I've seen God at that time as somebody 21:13 who was trying to catch me to do something wrong, 21:17 so, you know, I'd be done with. 21:21 And then I realized later, 21:24 much later in my life, in my 50s, 21:27 when I became to form 21:29 or become to form a relationship with God. 21:33 And I began to look at God in a different way. 21:37 How beautiful, how beautiful He was. 21:40 So through my life, I've changed, 21:43 but my relationship to God has changed. 21:45 So my picture of Him has changed. 21:47 Amen. Beautiful. 21:48 Thank you very much. 21:50 Anyone else? 21:51 I think we all have a little bit of that. 21:53 As children, we wonder what God's like. 21:58 And then as teenagers, sometimes we don't care. 22:01 Yes. 22:03 And I took a wrong road. 22:04 I was raised in an Adventist home. 22:06 My mother was Adventist, 22:07 my father made sure we went to Adventist schools, 22:10 but he was not going to church. 22:12 He had habits that didn't fit in, 22:15 and he didn't feel placed there. 22:17 Later we decided to turn away. 22:19 But along with that, and in straying, 22:23 and my picture of God changed so much 22:25 from a great protector when I was... 22:27 I drove truck, and I was in a lot of situations 22:30 that were very scary from time to time. 22:35 And then after I'd done things were wrong. 22:38 I was telling Pastor Dinzey just before we found that. 22:43 My picture of God changed. 22:44 I see this outstretched arms with a nail printed hands. 22:49 No matter what you've done, 22:51 as long as you're willing to come back 22:53 and ask forgiveness, 22:55 He paid the price that I don't have to. 22:57 Yes, amen. 22:58 Amen. Thank you. 23:00 God in His mercy definitely... 23:02 God in His mercy. 23:06 When I hear you sharing, you know, 23:08 the teenage stage of our lives. 23:13 I remember when I was old enough to drive, 23:15 I would say, "Mom, I'll meet you at the church." 23:18 And sometimes I would not go to church, 23:20 I would go somewhere else, 23:22 and then go for the last atonement 23:25 of a church service at another church, 23:28 and I would say, "I was at the other church. 23:31 I went to the other church, I didn't go to that church." 23:33 You know, until... I didn't know that. 23:35 Oh! 23:40 This is why we like these programs, you know. 23:43 We talk about so many things. 23:44 Sometimes he tells me stories, I'm like, "Really, honey? 23:47 I didn't know that." 23:49 So anyhow, but God in His mercy, 23:52 He even in our moments of doubt, and fear, 23:57 and just rebellion, you know, 23:59 that I was going through, He was so merciful. 24:03 And so He watched over me and kept me to this day, so... 24:09 And I can share that with my boys. 24:10 I do remember, one time my brother, 24:13 my oldest brother, he forgot it was Sabbath, 24:16 and he went to the grocery store, 24:18 and he got himself a big bag of chips. 24:22 And that boy 24:25 was just walking down the sidewalk 24:26 enjoying those chips, 24:28 one bite after the other, and he comes home, 24:31 and we're sitting on the front porch, 24:33 my younger brothers and I, 24:35 and my oldest brother comes, Willie. 24:38 And he's like... 24:40 I'm like, "Ah! 24:41 Why did you get that?" 24:43 "I went to get them over there." 24:45 Today is Sabbath. 24:46 "Ah, oh, no." 24:47 He went into the restroom and he flushed them. 24:50 He felt so bad. Oh, wow. 24:52 He felt so bad that he violated the Sabbath. 24:56 He totally forgot it was the Sabbath 24:58 in a moment like that. 25:00 It's just like his mind went blank or something. 25:03 But that was his reaction. 25:06 Have you ever had a reaction like that 25:07 when you forget your Sabbath? 25:09 It's like, "Let me get my life back on track 25:12 to keep the Sabbath correctly." 25:14 Keep the Sabbath holy. Yes. 25:16 Well, you know, it's a... 25:18 It's interesting when we think about pictures of God. 25:21 And our picture, like you said, that was very interesting. 25:23 I never thought about it. 25:25 Our concept of what God is like may change throughout the years 25:29 because of things we have heard. 25:32 People have said things, 25:34 and perhaps somebody is listening to us right now 25:39 that was told, you know, God is harsh. 25:44 He says, "Don't do this. Don't do that. Don't do that." 25:47 "Oh, I don't know if I want to... 25:48 I don't think I want to be a Christian." 25:49 So their concept of God is distorted. 25:53 And they don't know 25:55 that God is love, that God is merciful, 25:58 that God is concerned about us. 26:01 So we hope that as we talked during this hour 26:07 or the left... 26:08 Left of the program. 26:10 That the picture of God for you will improve, 26:13 that picture of God for you will see... 26:15 You'll see God clearer to the way He really is 26:19 instead of the distorted picture 26:21 that someone gave you of God. 26:24 And so... 26:26 Don't you feel like that was one of the biggest deceptions 26:31 that Satan has done is to make us feel 26:33 like there's nothing at all we can do. 26:36 We are so bad that... 26:40 That's it for us, that we... 26:42 There's no way we can make it to heaven. 26:44 So we look at God as that person 26:47 who's just waiting for us to do wrong. 26:51 And that's not true. 26:52 That is not true. 26:54 I say the Lord is waiting for us 26:56 to just accept His invitation. 27:00 Come unto Me. 27:01 And, you know, there is... 27:03 I love for, it says, "I am at the door." 27:07 Behold. 27:08 "Behold, I stand at the door and knock. 27:10 If anyone hear My voice." 27:12 The Lord is constantly knocking, right? 27:15 Constantly calling, constantly. 27:18 There is not a time in our lives 27:20 where we can say, "Okay, God, 27:22 I passed or I missed my opportunity with God." 27:26 Praise the Lord that God 27:27 has that open invitation continually. 27:31 You know, you said something 27:32 that brought a story to my mind. 27:34 And I'm not going to tell the complete story, 27:36 but the concept that you presented. 27:39 The devil has tried very, very hard 27:41 to distort the truth about God, 27:46 and to bring people lies concerning God. 27:49 And that's why many people 27:51 may not even have desire to approach God. 27:54 I remember something 27:57 that happened many, many years ago. 27:59 And a person came to me and said, 28:03 "You know, I am ashamed 28:06 that I've done such and such and such a thing." 28:09 And there was one thing about this person, 28:12 that this person always said the truth. 28:16 In a sense, I knew this person 28:17 to be truthful for the most part. 28:19 You know, I've never have caught this person, 28:22 let's say, "In a lie." 28:24 And so later, that same day, 28:29 somebody was talking to me about that person, 28:32 but because of the situation 28:36 that that person would get in trouble 28:37 if the truth was known about that other person, about him. 28:43 I wanted to keep it kind of neutral, 28:45 but anyway, about him. 28:47 He said, "You know, that person, 28:49 the other person, is such a liar." 28:53 He started that way. 28:54 And I said, I was surprised 28:57 that that person looked at that, 29:00 my friend, that way. 29:02 And I almost say, 29:03 "Well, no, I've never known that person to be a liar." 29:07 And I remained silent. 29:09 And that person went on to tell a story 29:11 and blame the other person for something he actually did. 29:15 So that he doesn't get in trouble with his family. 29:19 And so that's the thing the devil has done. 29:22 He has done things 29:24 and has blamed God for it. 29:28 One of the things that I noticed is 29:30 have you ever heard this before? 29:33 Tornado comes through, an earthquake comes through, 29:38 and the insurance company calls it, 29:40 this is an act of God. 29:43 Yes. 29:45 Job and his... 29:47 When fire came down and destroyed family members. 29:51 The report was, "Fire came down from God." 29:54 You see, and the devil was the one 29:56 that had done this. 29:57 Yes. 29:58 So there is a distorted picture of God 30:00 and I think that our experiences, 30:04 the scriptures we can share will help people see 30:07 that there's, that God is a loving God, 30:09 that God is a merciful God, 30:10 that God is interested in us, 30:12 and that God has a plan of salvation. 30:14 And that the lies that devil has told, 30:16 they are not true. 30:17 I see you have your Bible open. 30:19 Well, we have some Bible verses that we'd like to share. 30:23 We're gonna look at pictures of God 30:24 in the lives of Adam and Eve. 30:26 We can go to Genesis 2:7-9. 30:30 Genesis, if somebody else can get 30:32 Genesis 3:9-15. 30:35 Genesis 2:7-9, yeah, 30:38 Okay. All right. 30:39 Yeah. So Genesis 7-9. It's two. 30:43 Genesis 2:7-9, do you have that? 30:46 Sure. I do. Okay. 30:47 "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, 30:51 and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, 30:54 and man became a living being." 30:57 And then in verse... Eight. 30:59 Eight, said, 31:00 "The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, 31:03 and there He put the man whom He had formed." 31:08 And number nine, verse nine, 31:09 Number nine, "And out of the ground, 31:10 the Lord God made every tree grow." 31:13 And in its presence made every tree grow. 31:18 I'm sorry, "that is pleasant to the sight 31:21 and good for food." 31:23 Yes, I love that. Amen. 31:26 "The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, 31:29 and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil." 31:32 Nature took care of everything right there. 31:34 That's right. That's right. 31:36 What do you? Do you have chapter 3:9-15. 31:40 Before we read the next one, 31:42 I'd like to say here we have a picture. 31:45 I would like to say of God that created Adam and Eve. 31:49 What did He provide for them? Everything. 31:51 A beautiful home. Yes. 31:53 Provided everything they needed for nourishment. 31:56 Food. Understanding. 31:58 Understanding. A special place. 32:00 A special place for them. 32:01 He took care of them. That's right. 32:04 And not only that, we read, He said... 32:09 Yes, He later on tells them 32:12 you can eat of every tree in the garden, 32:16 except for one. 32:17 That's right. 32:19 And from what I know, there are hundred. 32:21 If we're just talking about fruits, 32:23 there are hundreds of fruits, literally hundreds of fruits. 32:27 And would deny them one. 32:29 Only denied one, 32:30 so that they can prove their loyalty and their love. 32:34 You know, it's interesting how... 32:36 And I just looked at this and came across like, 32:39 the Lord gave them structure, you know, 32:42 there was structure and children love structure. 32:47 And unfortunately, 32:49 at times we find our parents or families 32:53 not having structure. 32:54 I mean structure for their food, 32:56 structure for their rest. 32:58 When what is that structure for? 33:00 It was for their own good. For their own good. 33:02 God there from the very beginning 33:04 showed that I am protecting you. 33:06 I am gonna provide for you, I'm gonna take care of you. 33:09 So what do you think about that, Rendall? 33:12 I think He's awesome. 33:14 I think He's taking care of me at times 33:16 when I didn't deserve to be taken care of. 33:20 My dad was a pastor, I grew up as a preacher's son. 33:23 Oh, PK. And he had... Yes. 33:25 And at times he had nine churches 33:28 and he was a little old school and the family went with him. 33:32 So I would attend on Sabbath three different services, 33:35 which at that point almost knew the sermon as well as he did, 33:39 but I was raised at, well, he wanted me to be a pastor, 33:44 but I wasn't interested. 33:46 And I behaved, I was a lukewarm Christian. 33:50 I didn't, I was the one 33:52 that he wanted to spit out of his mouth. 33:55 And later on in life, I got interested in music 33:58 and started playing places I shouldn't be playing, 34:01 started playing Friday Nights. 34:03 And I thought, well, I'm having fun, 34:05 and I'm not a bad person. 34:06 That was my thought. 34:08 And when I retired, 34:11 I'm 73 now and that was at 65. 34:17 I thought this will be great. 34:19 I can play till one or two in the morning, 34:23 sleep till one or two in the afternoon 34:24 and go do it again. 34:26 And I played with several different bands, 34:28 nothing really great. 34:29 There's a few people that were well known but, 34:34 yet when I retired, it dried up, 34:37 and several of the bands disbanded. 34:39 And I'm friends with several of them, 34:41 but they quit calling. 34:43 And I got into some relationships 34:45 I shouldn't have been in. 34:47 I was looking for someone in my life 34:49 at that time and it wasn't working. 34:52 And I started praying very heavily 34:55 and the Lord blessed me with this lady around. 34:57 Amen. Praise the Lord. 34:59 So the Lord watches out for us in our indiscretions 35:03 and He leads us around. 35:04 We may have to do a 180 or a 360 35:07 and it might take a while, 35:08 but He always has a different course of events 35:11 if we just allow Him in. 35:13 And I did pray for a year. 35:15 I did pray for a solid year, 35:16 Lord, I'm not doing well, I'm not... 35:20 I'm just not making good choices. 35:23 And that's what I prayed for, 35:24 Lord, help me to make the right choices. 35:26 You bring those choices to me. 35:28 Amen. And He did. 35:30 And He did because, as Rendall saying 35:32 that you complement each other's ministries. 35:37 It's incredible. 35:38 How are you complimenting and... 35:40 Oh, Rendall loves to play the harmonica 35:43 but he also loves to drive. 35:44 So anywhere... 35:46 He loves to eat, too. 35:49 I just need to taste it. 35:53 So in your picture of God that you shared, 35:58 I heard you use the word awesome, 35:59 that God is awesome. 36:01 And that He apparently is listening to your prayer. 36:05 He answered, 36:06 not only that answered your prayer. 36:08 God is personal. Right. 36:09 So He's not only an active listener, 36:11 but He also answered your... 36:14 Anything else you'd like to share, 36:16 your picture of God 36:17 that you would like to share with someone? 36:19 Well, I think, I've been reading a book 36:21 by Martin Luther, the Works of Martin Luther 36:24 and it struck me in there that he was a humble person. 36:30 And he did not consider himself extraordinarily special. 36:33 In fact, he said the Lord chooses the common folk 36:37 to do His will. 36:39 Moses, the ones that He had to humble him 36:45 in the in the desert 40 years before He really could use him. 36:48 Wow. 36:49 And I just... 36:52 It was just such a blessing to be able to study His Word, 36:58 realize who God really was. 37:00 But while I was talking about Martin Luther, 37:01 I got off subject here a little bit. 37:03 In his writings, 37:05 he was talking about God using the common man, 37:08 it wasn't princes, it wasn't bishops, 37:10 it wasn't the hierarchy, it wasn't kings or princess. 37:14 It was a common man that got called 37:16 to do service for Him. 37:18 Amen. 37:19 And he also said the fact that 37:21 the righteous are concerned about where they are. 37:25 And I know in the last days one of my favorite writers, 37:30 Ellen White said that saints will be concerned about, 37:36 "Am I good enough? 37:38 Did I do what I was supposed to do?" 37:40 And that's a good thing, 37:41 because those that are concerned 37:44 about their condition will be the saints. 37:47 And that's what Martin Luther said too. 37:50 If you're concerned about that, 37:52 those that are not following God, 37:54 they could care less, 37:56 they're out partying, they're doing all... 37:57 They do not care about God. 38:01 So that's kind of a little bit of a summation, I guess. 38:04 Thank you. Thank you very much. Beautifully put. 38:06 So who has the next scripture? Who was it? 38:08 Yeah, the next scripture is Genesis 3:9-15. 38:11 It seems that Julia has it. 38:13 Is it? Will you going to read? 38:15 I don't know. It's... 38:16 Nine through fifteen, okay. 38:19 "And then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, 38:22 'Where are you?' 38:23 So he said, 'I heard Your voice in the garden, 38:26 and I was afraid 38:27 because I was naked, and I hid myself.' 38:30 And He said, 'Who told you that you were naked? 38:34 And have you eaten from the tree of life 38:36 of which I commanded you that you should not eat?' 38:40 Then the man said, 38:42 'The woman whom You gave to be with me, 38:48 she gave me of the tree, and I ate.' 38:51 And the Lord God said to the woman, 38:53 'What is this you have done?' 38:54 The woman said, 38:56 'The serpent deceived me, and I ate.' 38:59 So the Lord God said to the serpent, 39:01 'Because you have done this, 39:03 you are cursed more than all cattle, 39:08 and more than every beast of the field, 39:11 on your belly you shall go, 39:12 and you shall eat dust all the days of your life. 39:16 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, 39:20 and between your seed and her Seed, 39:22 He shall bruise your head, 39:24 and you shall bruise His heel.'" 39:26 Thank you very much. 39:28 So in this picture of God, what would you, 39:33 what do you see here as a picture of God 39:36 that helps us see a positive picture of God. 39:41 Well, if I did something wrong, I'd be afraid of coming out. 39:45 When I was a little kid, and my mommy enraged, is like, 39:49 we would hide when we did something bad, 39:51 right? 39:53 So you see Adam and Eve hiding. 39:54 Yes, they're hiding, and they, you know, 39:58 when God is speaking to them, He's very honest with them. 40:03 I was afraid because I was naked. 40:06 And, you know, 40:07 the Lord did not strike him dead. 40:09 That's right. Did He? 40:11 Did not strike him dead? 40:12 Or, you know, like I was comparing, 40:17 when I did something wrong at home, Tita! 40:20 You know, I hear that voice. 40:23 And I knew what was coming next. 40:25 But God's voice, I wonder how that voice was. 40:27 It was different. 40:29 You know, since you said it that way, 40:30 I like to share this. 40:33 One, He said, He heard the voice of God 40:39 walking in the wilderness. 40:44 Actually, that was verse 8. 40:45 And it says, 40:47 "And they heard the son of the Lord God 40:48 walking in the garden in the cool of the day, 40:49 and Adam and his wife hid themselves 40:51 from the presence of the Lord God 40:53 among the trees of the garden." 40:55 Right. 40:56 So one from this we gather, 40:59 they knew the voice of God. 41:01 That's right. 41:03 In other words, they had at other times 41:06 talk to the Lord and I am happy to... 41:12 I say, I have no problem understanding 41:13 that they would walk with the Lord. 41:16 This was something they used to do... 41:18 Every day. So they knew His voice. 41:20 And now He is calling him, like was, 41:25 there's something different and God knew what had happened, 41:28 but there's something different. 41:30 Where are you? 41:31 Like, I want to spend time with you, where are you? 41:35 And apparently, 41:37 the way that God was calling them 41:39 as Idalia say was not one, like sometimes. 41:43 All right, where are you? 41:45 You know, all right, where are you? 41:47 You sounded like a drill sergeant. 41:50 So it was a pleasant way of calling them 41:54 that they were willing to come out. 41:56 And speak. 41:57 I was afraid because I was naked, but he came out. 42:01 They came out. 42:02 And that's a good thing, they came out. 42:04 Yes, it is. 42:05 And so, I see a picture of God, 42:07 a loving God that wants to spend time with us, 42:09 just like He wanted to spend time 42:11 with Adam and Eve, 42:12 a picture of God concerned about us. 42:14 What else do you see here? 42:16 The first thing you see is each one is cascading 42:19 into blaming somebody else. 42:21 I didn't do it, they brought it up. 42:22 They gave it to me. The woman! 42:24 He gave me. The woman gave to me. 42:26 And then the serpent that you blamed. 42:28 She turned around and blamed on the serpent. 42:30 Exactly. 42:32 And yet God didn't scold him for. 42:35 But he did end up telling them 42:38 and the judgment on both of them then, 42:40 both the serpent and the man, 42:44 what was gonna be their outcome? 42:47 Mercy, mercy. Mercy. 42:49 And that's... That's what I see there. 42:50 That's the picture. I'm glad you said that. 42:52 Because here I also see God's mercy displayed. 42:57 Because He said, He could have said, you know, 42:59 I told you, you're gonna die, you're gonna go right now. 43:01 Instead, he gave them a prophecy of a savior. 43:04 And a plan, there was a plan. 43:05 There's a plan for the future. 43:07 That's right. And this is marvelous. 43:09 So God is merciful. 43:11 We can see in reading this 43:13 'cause here the seed that was of the woman 43:17 that was going to bruise the head of the serpent, 43:20 which here becomes a symbol of the devil, is Jesus. 43:23 So God gave them hope and mercy. 43:26 Amen. 43:28 And God is a merciful and a loving God. 43:30 So there is a picture that we can see, 43:31 I see that our time is getting away from us. 43:35 Perhaps we should move to another picture quickly. 43:38 Well, let's talk about 43:39 the pictures of that in the life of David. 43:41 In the life of David? 43:43 Yeah, because I love, you know, 43:44 sometimes when I read the songs, it's like, 43:49 these are the very words 43:51 I'm feeling inside of my feelings. 43:53 And it's already in writing. 43:55 And I praise the Lord that God hears our prayers. 44:00 God knows how we're feeling. 44:02 God knows what we need 44:04 and He is our help in the time of trouble. 44:07 Long before we asked. 44:08 Long before we asked. Yeah, that's right. 44:10 You know it took me years to figure that out. 44:13 Yes. It took me years. 44:14 I thought I had to tell him, so he would know. 44:17 He's just waiting for me to ask. 44:21 Sorry. Oh, my... 44:23 And the reason for that is 44:24 because he wants that communication. 44:26 Yes. Yes. 44:28 How many of us have asked God, 44:31 Oh, Lord, please give me this day, 44:33 my daily dose of oxygen? 44:36 Never. Never. 44:38 But it's always there. But it's always there. 44:40 So my point here is that God is a provider. 44:43 That's one picture of God because I've never asked Him, 44:45 Lord, please give me my daily dose of oxygen 44:47 what I need for today. 44:48 No, God is constantly, continually doing things for us 44:54 that we don't even notice. 44:57 We don't even notice and many other things 44:59 along that train of thought. 45:03 Now, I just open the Psalm. 45:06 And I know this is not in our notes, 45:09 but I just want to share one... 45:11 Many things... 45:12 That I'm really, I mean for the psalm. 45:16 But Psalm 88, I just wanna know 45:19 if you can identify with this prayer, if this is, 45:23 has been your prayer ever, or have you felt this way. 45:26 It says, "O Lord, God of my salvation, 45:29 I have cried out day and night before You. 45:33 Let my prayer come before You, incline Your ear to my cry. 45:39 For my soul is full of troubles, 45:41 and my life draws near to the grave. 45:44 I am counted with those who go down to the pit, 45:47 I am like a man who has no strength." 45:51 I have felt that way so much. 45:53 And, you know, it's so beautifully written, 45:57 how you feel these feelings in, at times, 46:00 you say I can't put it into words 46:02 when I'm just not feeling right, you know. 46:05 And it's beautiful that here David writes this other prayer. 46:11 And it's just, I can identify with him. 46:14 And I know that the Lord inclines His ear 46:16 and I know that the Lord holds me. 46:19 And I know that when we are weak, 46:22 He makes us, what? 46:23 Strong. Strong. Exactly. 46:24 It is still times just you can't see that. 46:26 Yes. 46:27 I remember we had a business years ago, 46:30 and things weren't going really great 46:33 at that time and Julia said, "We need to pray about this." 46:35 And I said, "I'm not going to." 46:37 Yeah. 46:38 She said, "You need to pray." 46:41 I said, "My prayers are not going out of this room, 46:43 God doesn't listen to me." Yes, yes. 46:44 She said, "Get on your knees." 46:46 Tell us about that? Amen. Amen. 46:48 Well, you know, 46:50 I have a very simplistic view of God. 46:53 I grew up in a Christian home. 46:54 It wasn't Adventist, but it was a Christian home. 46:56 And from very little 46:58 we were learning the Bible's the scriptures. 47:00 And to me, God was not harsh. 47:05 He was a loving God, a tender God. 47:08 And that's how I grew up, you know. 47:10 So I kind of look at God is like a very good father 47:16 that takes care of me like 24 hours a day, 47:18 seven days a week. 47:20 Praise the Lord. 47:21 And I've had my moments of weakness, 47:23 but in the struggles 47:25 that we were having in the business. 47:27 First of all, I wasn't Adventist. 47:29 I was not an Adventist when I met him, 47:30 and when he told me, 47:32 let's go to church, and I said, "Okay," and he said, 47:34 "I'll pick you up tomorrow." 47:35 And it was Saturday. And I thought, okay. 47:37 She had more faith than I do... Yeah, I said... 47:39 Even though I was raised an Adventist. 47:41 I said, "Okay," and so he said, 47:43 I said, "Well, maybe he's Jewish, 47:45 I don't know, I didn't want to ask." 47:47 So we went to the church. 47:49 And it was not a great experience 47:51 in that particular church 'cause they were having issues. 47:54 And I said to him, I said, 47:56 "You know, Alvin, I said, this doesn't sound scriptural, 47:59 what they had in their Sabbath school, 48:01 but I said, you know, 48:02 I'm not gonna criticize him or anything." 48:04 So he kept on and on. 48:05 And we found the church in Cleveland 48:07 that we attend now. 48:09 That was a scary experience. 48:10 That was a scary experience for me 48:12 because I didn't know about the Sabbath that much. 48:15 And the first day I attended there, 48:18 they had a screen up there that said, 48:19 100 things you could do 48:21 on the Sabbath and three that you couldn't. 48:22 The other way around. 48:23 Or the other way, 48:25 100 things you couldn't do on the Sabbath 48:26 and three things you could do on the Sabbath. 48:27 I mean, talk about legalistic experience. 48:29 Yeah. He had a flip chart. 48:30 He had an overhead screen, 48:32 this was before the days of digital stuff, you know. 48:34 He had an overhead projector. 48:36 He had a flip chart, 48:37 and all this stuff that you couldn't do on Sabbath. 48:39 Wow! 48:40 And we walked out Julia said, they believe in Jesus. 48:42 I never heard him mention once. Wow! 48:45 And it was... 48:46 I almost gone and got away from it. 48:48 So you have found that even among God's children, 48:50 you can find distorted pictures. 48:52 Absolutely. 48:53 But I told him when we were walking out, 48:56 if I read in the Bible for myself, 48:59 what I have heard and after we started attending, 49:02 there was an elderly man that was his interim pastor. 49:06 And he would preach sermons that would make you 49:09 just inside just feel so good and everything. 49:12 And he talked to me a lot. 49:13 And I said, I told Alvin, if I'm going home, 49:16 and if I read what he said, 49:18 if it's in my Bible, I believe it. 49:21 I knew I had her. 49:23 I read it, and I believed it in. 49:26 But to me, I look at God as simplistic. 49:29 So I always talk to Him 49:30 as though He's sitting right there, you know. 49:33 Very nice. 49:35 And I don't always trust because we are human. 49:37 But I know, eventually, he's gonna make a way. 49:41 That's right. 49:43 And that's just the way I look at. 49:44 You just reminded me of the scripture that... 49:46 You know, there are many promises in the Bible. 49:49 And the Lord says, Jesus says, "I will be with you always, 49:52 even until the end of the world." 49:54 Yes, you were going through hard time. 49:55 But let me ask you, 49:56 did the Lord help you through that situation? 49:59 He did. I just couldn't see it. 50:01 He did. 50:02 But you just couldn't see at that time. 50:04 And there was a reason for what He was doing. 50:05 Okay. The reason He let us say. 50:08 And even my brother-in-law, 50:10 who was well, he was, 50:14 he had a license to preach. 50:17 But he drank and smoked but he and, 50:21 but I went out to a job site on Sabbath and he said, 50:25 "What are you doing here?" 50:27 Oh, wow! 50:29 Yes. 50:30 And I told him then I said, 50:32 "If you are a true believer in the Sabbath, 50:35 why did you do it?" 50:37 Because obviously, 50:39 you don't believe it, or you wouldn't have done it. 50:41 I was gonna work. 50:42 And at that time, I wasn't really aware 50:44 of what the Sabbath meant. 50:45 And there again, there's that word mercy. 50:47 Yes, mercy. 50:48 There's comes to me so many times, 50:50 we just get so rundown, 50:53 I've been going back through Genesis and Exodus, 50:56 you know, and he reads to me, 50:59 and I love it because he'll read 51:01 and I'll think about something 51:02 and I'll wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. 51:06 I don't get that. 51:07 And I was at a point where I was getting angry 51:10 because here was Abraham lying. 51:13 Turn around lied again. 51:15 And they were talking about these Bible characters 51:18 to me these real people is insist in the Bible. 51:22 And I'm thinking, 51:24 God, just let him do all that stuff, Rendall, 51:26 I just don't get it. 51:27 And I said, "Why didn't he do something about it?" 51:30 Two weeks went by 51:32 until one day, it was like this. 51:34 This voice to me in my mind, it wasn't audible, 51:37 but it's like I have years 51:43 been doing far more for you. 51:45 Wow! Oh, mercy. 51:47 Beautiful. 51:49 So through their failures, God showed me 51:53 how much mercy He had in my life. 51:56 Amen. Praise the Lord. 51:57 Wonderful. Wonderful. Wow. 51:59 Well, we barely have time. 52:00 Maybe we can read just a few verses of Psalms 4. 52:02 Okay. 52:04 I don't know if we have time. Let's see. 52:05 Rendall, can you read? Psalms 4. 52:07 How about Rendall read Psalms 4:1-3. 52:12 Psalms 4:1-3. 52:15 Okay. 52:17 "Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness! 52:20 You have relieved me in my distress, 52:23 have mercy on me, and hear my prayer. 52:27 How long, O you sons of men, 52:29 will you turn my glory to shame? 52:31 How long will you love worthlessness 52:35 and seek falsehood? 52:37 But you know that the Lord has set apart for Himself 52:40 him who is godly, 52:42 the Lord will hear when I call Him." 52:45 Amen. That is wonderful. 52:47 The Lord will hear us and it says there. 52:51 He relieves him in his distress. 52:54 Yes. Yes. 52:56 There is that song about Jesus. 52:59 "Oh, what a Friend we have in Jesus." 53:02 What are some of the words, honey? 53:03 You remember very good some of the songs. 53:05 What a Friend we have in Jesus 53:08 All our sins and griefs to bear! 53:11 What a privilege to carry 53:13 Everything to God in prayer! 53:16 O what peace 53:17 We often forfeit. 53:19 Why? 53:20 O what needless pain we bear 53:23 All because we do not carry 53:25 Everything to God in prayer! 53:27 Amen. Amen. 53:28 Amen. 53:30 So a lot of our distress and suffering 53:32 is because we don't go to the Lord. 53:34 You know, I can do this, like the little boy, 53:38 I think I was talking about this 53:39 the other day to somebody 53:40 that the Lord wants to help you here. 53:42 Let me help you with that. 53:43 I can do it. I can do it. 53:46 And you fall and you falter 53:48 and you have problems and difficulties 53:50 that you didn't have to have because the Lord said, 53:52 I'm gonna, I like to help you with that. 53:55 You know, I'm sorry to interrupt you. 53:57 But when you are sharing that, honey, I just went right away 54:02 that it's easy for us to react and talk to a friend, 54:07 call somebody on the phone and say, 54:08 "You know what I'm going through..." 54:11 So we just, you know, 54:14 we download the, all our frustrations 54:16 or the situation that we're facing. 54:19 And it's okay to go to your friend and say, 54:22 "I just need a hug." 54:24 You know, the Lord will give us hugs. 54:26 Yes, He does. 54:27 But instead of calling our friends and say, 54:30 ah, whatever, you know, 54:34 talk to God and ask for a hug, 54:38 you know, from your sister friend. 54:40 And that's all. 54:41 How about, we have a very short time, 54:44 how about two or three words? 54:47 We'll start with Brother Rendall, 54:48 we'll go around two or three words 54:49 you'll say about God or maybe just one word. 54:52 Oh, just what I heard just now reminds me 54:54 of a song that I really like. 54:56 I just came to talk with you, Lord. 54:58 And I acquaint it to a father or a mother with children 55:03 when they're growing up, and they're constantly, 55:06 "May I have this, may I have that." 55:08 And the Lord wants to commune with us. 55:10 He just wants us as a song says, 55:12 "I just came to talk to you, Lord." 55:14 Amen. Thank you. 55:16 Melody. Patience. 55:18 God has been so patient with me, 55:20 and I'm so thankful for His patience. 55:22 Yes. 55:24 And I just see God is very patient loving God 55:26 in this part of my life. 55:27 Amen. Amen. 55:29 How about, Julia? 55:30 I said to Him, just about two years ago, 55:33 after my injury, I said, 55:35 God, I'm gonna get in the backseat, 55:38 and I'm gonna let you drive, 55:40 because, you know, where I need to go. 55:42 Amen. Amen. 55:47 There's been so many things and God has given us so much. 55:53 And we stopped short sometimes 55:57 of thanking Him for the stuff He does every day. 56:00 And He's usually way ahead of us. 56:02 When things go wrong which usually our fault 56:05 and He has an answer waiting, 56:06 but sometimes like Pastor Lomacang 56:09 said the other day in the sermon, 56:10 He has to redirect things, it's kind of like your GPS. 56:12 Yes. 56:13 Now if you've taken a wrong turn 56:15 and I'm gonna bring you back around this way, 56:16 you can still get there. 56:18 Amen. Amen. 56:19 And He's the GPS 56:20 that does not to be updated, you know. 56:23 So I praise the Lord for being our faithful GPS. 56:27 That's right. 56:28 And we just need to set our life on that map 56:31 and let the Lord lead and direct. 56:33 Amen, Sister. Thank you, Idalia. 56:35 Also very good thing to look to end on 56:37 because I remember we were looking for 56:39 the Sunnydale Academy, 56:41 we put that address in the GPS 56:44 and went here, turned there, 56:47 turned there and it said, "You have arrived." 56:50 Your destination is on the right. 56:52 And it was an empty field. 56:55 Very far away. Very far away. 56:56 In the land far, a far away. 56:59 So what do we mean by that? 57:01 God has the correct directions in the scriptures. 57:06 Follow that and you will not fail. 57:08 So I would like to encourage you to 57:11 as it says in Matthew 5:16, 57:14 "Let your light therefore so shine before men, 57:17 that they may see your good works 57:19 and glorify your Father which is in heaven." 57:21 You may be the only picture someone sees of God. 57:24 Let the light of Jesus shine through you. 57:26 Amen. Have a blessed Sabbath. 57:28 Happy Sabbath. Amen. 57:29 Happy Sabbath, my friends. 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