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, I'm Shelley
Quinn. I'm JD Quinn.
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And we are so glad
that you are joining us
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for Family Worship.
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Honey, why don't you
tell our other family
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who is at the table with us?
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I'll start with this
young lady right here.
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This is Debbie.
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Debbie, it's just
wonderful to have you.
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Thank you. Glad to be here.
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I know that Debbie
works in accounting,
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and what all do you do there?
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My main job is payroll.
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That's why you're our
favorite person in accounts.
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Very popular in
certain days. Amen.
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And then we got my
buddy Ryan over here.
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That's me.
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It's always a
pleasure to have Ryan.
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Ryan is a gifted preacher.
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Amen. Thank you, Brother.
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And you know
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I have to say this about Debbie.
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Debbie and I share
a love of the Word,
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and this woman gets up
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how many hours in the morning
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before you come to work,
do you spend in the Word?
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Usually three.
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Three hours
before she comes to work
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at 7 o'clock in the morning,
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so she's a very
dedicated student of the Bible,
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a woman of the Word
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and a precious sister in Christ.
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You know, we are all thrilled
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that the Sabbath is rolling in.
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That's right.
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And every time, you know,
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I remember when
I first discovered
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the Sabbath truth.
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I always thought that
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anyone who kept the
Sabbath was legalistic.
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But when I
discovered this truth,
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I found out that the
Sabbath is a memorial
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not only to God as creator,
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but as the one who recreates us.
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I discovered the grace of God.
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The Sabbath is a sign that
He's the one who delivers us.
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And He says, it's a sign
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that He is the
one who sanctified us,
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who sets us apart from sin.
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And I don't know about you,
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but I tried so hard
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in my own power to
be a good Christian,
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and it never worked out
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and when I started
celebrating the Sabbath,
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it was like God changed my heart
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and it quit being
a performance thing
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but truly a relation with Him.
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Amen. Amen.
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Well, are you guys
ready to get into the Word?
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Oh, always.
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You know, normally this would be
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where we're gonna have a song.
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Debbie, now this
is your first time,
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honor to have you.
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Yes. Yes. We hope
you're not nervous.
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But normally we
would be having a song
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but we couldn't
find a piano player,
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everybody's gone busy.
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And since Ryan is the only
one who can sing at the table,
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unless you want to
sing a capella for us.
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I'll pass this time. He's ready.
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You see, he's out of his seat.
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So what we'll do is
we're going to have a prayer,
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and then we'll
jump into the Word.
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Honey? Amen.
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Father, as we come to
You on the Sabbath day,
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just wanna thank You,
Lord, for life itself.
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Thank You, Lord,
that You created this day,
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Father, and that You're
the one that's in control.
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Father, let each
one of us know that
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we're nothing without You.
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Father, be with us as we
study this precious Word,
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and, Father,
that we will allow You
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to be in charge.
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We ask that the
Holy Spirit will be here
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to certainly guide us.
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Continue to be a
lamp unto our feet.
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We love You and we thank You
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in the name of Jesus, amen.
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Amen and amen. Amen.
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Our topic tonight
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is the
"Potential of the Harvest."
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In Luke Chapter 8,
Jesus tells a parable about
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four different types of soil
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and the seed being planted.
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And I'm not gonna
go into all of that.
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I just wanted to point out
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that as He's
explaining this parable,
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He says in Luke 8:11,
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"The seed is the Word of God."
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That's right.
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Now, let me ask you a question.
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If I have a handful of
corn and I plant corn here
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and have a handful of wheat
and I plant wheat over here,
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what am I gonna get here?
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Corn. Corn.
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What am I gonna get here? Wheat.
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Why?
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Because that's what you planted.
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That's what I planted.
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Here is the
thing, this, the miracle,
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the potential of the harvest
is wrapped inside the seed.
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So what we've got to realize
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is if God's Word is seed,
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all of your potential
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is wrapped
inside the Word of God.
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Tonight, we will talk
about the power of the Word.
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They're saving power.
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They're sanctifying power.
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There's power to equip us
and train us, to guide us,
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the Word of God.
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You know, we talk
all the time about
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how wonderful it is, Debbie,
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people like you
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who spend three
hours every morning.
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There's not a
whole lot like you,
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I have to say.
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But people who spend a
lot of time in the Word
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were always talking about,
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you need to do your devotionals,
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you need to be in the Word.
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But tonight,
we're going to find out
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why this Word is
alive and active.
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That's right. That's right.
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It is sharper than
any two edged sword.
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And what does it
mean to you, Ryan?
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If we say the Word is alive?
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Well, in as much as you
know, as you mentioned the seed,
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the seed if properly
planted and nourished
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and taken care of
it, it produces fruit.
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That's correct.
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And I just wanna go back to that
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because that's powerful
that one little seed you know,
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Christ, often
referred to the kingdom of God
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as a mustard seed,
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just a tiny
little thing like that.
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But you wanna talk about alive,
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I think can grow
into a huge plant
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and just using
that as an example of
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the power of the
Word of God as a seed.
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We have to have that seed
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in order to be
made alive in Christ,
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that we might be
able to produce good fruit
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for the kingdom of God,
I think of John Chapter 15,
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where Jesus talks
about abiding in Him.
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He is the...He is the
vine, we are the branches.
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And those branches
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that do not bear
fruit are cut off
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and cast away.
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And so as long as
we're connected to that vine,
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and again Christ says,
"I am the bread of life,
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I am the Word."
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We're connected to that seed
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and that seed is
growing within us.
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And we're allowing
that seed to bear good fruit
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worthy of a servant of God.
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Then how else can
you describe that,
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but that I'm alive,
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vibrant plant that is
worthy of the kingdom of God.
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And that's my goal.
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That's what I
wanna be a Christian.
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I wanna be a solid
servant of the Lord
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that bears good
fruit worthy of someone
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who can enter the kingdom of God
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and be in the
very presence of God
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and hear those words,
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"Well done, my good
and faithful servant."
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And it all
starts with that seed.
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It starts with that
seed and then as you
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pass that seed on to others.
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That's right.
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As you're out teaching,
preaching, whatever, sharing.
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And we had just,
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we had this precious
little lady here the other day,
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and bless her little heart,
we just love her to death,
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and she is now begin to be
known as a little farm girl.
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A little farm girl and why?
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She said, "Because I
just sow seeds all day long."
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Amen. Praise God.
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You know, I was just thinking,
boy, as we were talking here,
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I grew up on a farm,
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annually the seed
was ready to plant.
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But if we... If
it was a situation
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that the soil wasn't right
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or the conditions weren't right,
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would have to carry
that seed over another year.
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What happened if you
had to carry another year,
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it starts decaying.
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The seed that we're
talking about right here
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never decays.
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That's right.
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When you think
about this, God...
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God created the world,
something out of nothing,
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by His word, I mean,
now you talk about alive.
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Yes.
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And that same life
is here in this Word.
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Let's talk about
the saving power.
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Debbie, would you
read 1 Peter 1:22 and 23,
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there is saving power
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in the Word of God.
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Okay, "Since you
have purified your souls
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in obeying the
truth through the Spirit
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unto unfeigned
love of the brethren,
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see that you love one another
with a pure heart fervently,
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being born again,
not of corruptible seed,
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but of incorruptible,
by the Word of God,
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which liveth and
abideth forever."
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Wow. Amen.
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When you think about that,
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if the word is
how we are born again,
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it is the...the word
and the spirit obviously,
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here it say, the
spirit and the word.
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But when God's Word
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begins to enter into our heart,
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He can, His will
is to regenerate us.
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Right.
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His will is to bring us
forth by the word of truth.
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Because Romans 10:17 says what?
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Faith comes by hearing...
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And hearing by the
Word. By the Word of God.
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Hearing by the Word.
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And that's powerful
when you think of that,
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in connection
with that famous text,
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you know, that we are
saved by grace through faith,
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not of works, lest
any man should boast.
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We know that.
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So if we're saved by
grace, through that faith,
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how are we to build that faith,
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and that's why I
love Romans 10:17,
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because Romans 10:17,
as you just mentioned,
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says that,
"Faith comes by hearing,
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and hearing
through or by the Word."
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So that goes to show us
the power of the Word of God
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that just by simply
surrendering ourselves
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to be receptive
of the Word of God.
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Just simply
hearing the Word of God
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can transform a
person's heart and mind,
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that's why, you know,
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I've heard some
people say recently,
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just different
people that "Well, you know,
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I just don't think
preaching is necessary anymore."
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I was listening.
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I was reading
through some Facebook pages
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just not too long ago.
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Somebody had posted
on Facebook, they said,
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"Well, I don't think that
preaching is necessary anymore.
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The Word of God is so
vast and so broad that
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we just don't need
preaching anymore."
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But that stands
directly against Romans 10:17.
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Because when we
preach that Word,
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you don't know
who's hearing that Word,
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whose faith is
going to be built,
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because they heard that Word
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that you were able
to stand and preach,
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and that's just powerful.
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Well, even yourself,
when you speak the Word,
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you're hearing it.
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And it grows my faith,
just by hearing it myself,
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it coming out of my mouth.
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I might not even
have an audience.
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But if I hear it
myself, my faith grows.
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When you read your book,
when you read your Bible,
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do you ever read it out loud?
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Absolutely.
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I do this all the time
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when I really want to comprehend
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and really take in
exactly the essence of
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what that scripture is saying.
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I find myself
picking up the Bible.
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Whether I'm in my
home, I'm in a private place
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or sometimes
I'll be around my wife
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and I'll just start
reading the Word out loud
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and it sticks with me
more and it gets in there
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and it means more to me
to hear it audibly uttered.
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Yeah.
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And, you know,
we've all heard this,
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that we become what we behold.
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And as we start this habit,
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as we just go
through the repetition,
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hear sermons, okay.
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Talk with brothers and
sisters about spiritual things
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we are hearing.
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And it's just kind of like,
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we're just
building on top of that,
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because we're involved.
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It's one thing I really
like working for a ministry.
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Every day, we're
fed, and hopefully that
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we're feeding back, you know.
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And to Debbie's point
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what you said about speaking it.
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There's nothing more
powerful than hearing it
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with your own living voice,
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because you're
returning the word to God
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and it does not return void.
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But you know, the
Bible says as a man
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thinks in his heart,
so he see, and you know,
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we can get, we're
always getting bombarded.
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I mean, 1 Corinthians 10:4-5
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tells us that the
battle is for our mind.
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You know, and Satan tries to,
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he tries to set up a
stronghold in your mind.
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And the only way to get
rid of a negative thought,
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truly, is to replace it.
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You get rid of a lie by
replacing it with the truth.
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And so it is very powerful.
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So there is this saving power
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that the Word has that
power of regeneration of us
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being born again,
it's incorruptible,
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but it's also sanctifying.
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You said, you read out loud
and you know what I try to do
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every time I pray, I
mean, read the Bible.
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I try to remember this
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and almost every
time I will pray,
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John 17:17
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which was Jesus'
prayer in the garden,
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when He said,
"Sanctify by the truth,
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your Word is true."
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So as I read out, say, "Lord,
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sanctify me by what I'm reading.
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Don't let me just read
this to answer Sabbath School
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quarterly questions.
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Don't let me just read
this for something to present,
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but sanctify me and
that word sanctification,
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it's a synonym to holiness.
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But all it means is to
be set apart for sermon,
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set apart for God's service.
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Absolutely.
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You know, when
I'm thinking of this
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sanctifying aspect
of the Word of God,
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my mind goes to
the power behind that.
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We know the Word of God
in and of itself is power.
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As you mentioned earlier,
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the world has
come into existence
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because of a spoken word by
God that is powerful indeed.
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But I also as I
was studying recently
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in a Bible study
group, we were talking about
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the power behind that Word,
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and sanctify them
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through thy
truth or by thy truth.
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Thy Word is truth.
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Now tie that with 2 Peter 1:21.
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For prophecy,
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and you can just
also fill in there,
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the scripture in general,
but this is 2 Peter 1:21,
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it is that famous
verse talking about
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how the Word of God came about.
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And notice what it says here,
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"For prophecy
came not in old time
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by the will of men."
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And I just wanna pause
there, I've had many people say,
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"You know, I can't
trust the Word of God
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because it's written
by man or it's by men."
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Well, while it may have been
recorded and written by men,
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those thoughts, those ideas,
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the power behind that was
instituted as it says here,
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notice, "Not the
will of men but holy men,
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but holy men of God
spake as they were moved by
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the Holy Ghost
or the Holy Spirit."
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So we know that the
power behind the Word of God
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is God Himself.
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Amen. It is the
very Spirit of God.
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And that's why I
like to caution people
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because as we're talking about
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the very power
of the Word of God.
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The Word of God is so powerful
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that it can
transform if you allow it.
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But there's a lot of people
that put that wall up and say,
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I, you know, I just...
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There's no place in my life
for that Word to transform me.
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And when you reject
that Word, in essence,
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what you're doing
is you're rejecting
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the author of that Word.
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Amen. And that's very powerful.
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So the Word of God in
and of itself is powerful.
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But what is,
what brings that power
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is the person behind that Word,
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which is the
creator of the universe.
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So be sure to
accept the Word of God
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for the truth that it is,
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because in accepting
the power of the Word,
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you are accepting the
power of the living God.
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And to back up your point,
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Paul wrote to
Timothy in 2 Timothy 3:16.
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Yes. 2 Timothy 3:16.
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He says, "All scripture is
given by inspiration of God
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is profitable for
doctrine, reproof, correction,
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for instruction
in righteousness."
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That the man of
God might be complete
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and thoroughly
equipped for every good work,
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so it's so important for us.
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Go ahead, Honey.
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Well, I was just thinking,
you know, because we're...
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If we are set apart,
if we are going through
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this trip of
sanctification which we all do,
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well, then we're being
set in, we're being set free.
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Amen.
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And you know, I
think that is John 8.
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Yes. In John 8:31, 32.
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"Then Jesus said to
those Jews who believed Him,
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'If you abide in the Word,
you are My disciples, indeed."'
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" Yes."
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So does that mean
that we all possibly
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could be a disciple?
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Oh, absolutely.
Most certainly it does.
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And you shall know the truth
and then the truth show what?
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Set you free.
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Amen. Make us free.
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And I would assume,
I've never spent time,
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I'll use the word incarcerated,
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because that's
what it means, you know.
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But I would imagine
that that would get old.
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We probably can't
appreciate our freedom
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until our hands are
tied somewhere or the other.
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And so here, that's what
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we're wanting to
know is to set free,
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and then we go
back to the Creator.
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Sure. He spoke and it was done.
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And so we have the potential,
you know, of being free,
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if we will just take this.
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That's right.
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This is a roadmap. Yeah.
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And you know, in
a practical sense,
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you know, some, there may
be someone watching at home,
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and I've had people
ask me this question,
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you know, how does
the Word set you free?
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How is this gonna
set me free, you know.
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And so it's interesting,
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because in the beginning we
are all in this prison cell.
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And we're chained
and bound by our sin.
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And so the one
thing that separating us
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from God is our sin.
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And so, when
we're bound by that sin,
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the Bible says that all we
like sheep have gone astray,
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we have went
everyone his own way.
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And God says, or
Jesus shows up and says,
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"I'm the way."
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Or by the way, "I'm
also the bread of life."
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Oh yeah, by the way,
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"Man shall not
live by bread alone,
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but by every word that
proceeds from the mouth of God."
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Jesus says I am the Word,
in the beginning was the Word,
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and the Word was God,
and the Word was with God.
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And so Jesus says,
"You've been going your own way
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up to this point,
but my way leads to life,
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my way leads to eternal life.
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You're in this prison
so I can set you free."
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But the Bible says also
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in the Book of
Proverbs Chapter 16,
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that there is a way
which seemeth right into a man,
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but the end thereof
are the ways of death.
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And so how does
this Word set us free?
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When we come to a
point in our life,
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when we surrender self
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enough to allow the leading,
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guiding power of this
seed to grow in replacement
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of the bad seed
that was there before.
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Amen.
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And when we
surrender our will to say,
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"Okay, no, not my
way, Lord, but Your way."
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What did Christ
pray in the garden?
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"Not My will Father,
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nevertheless, not My
will, but Yours be done."
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And so by doing that,
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when we surrender
ourselves to the power,
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the sanctifying
power of this Word,
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that seed begins to
grow, and it begins to grow,
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and it begins to grow
and over a period of time,
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a period of a
lifetime, of course,
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that sanctifying
process begins to take place.
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The old man begins to
die off and is replaced
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by that new creature in Christ,
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all because of the
power of this Word,
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the surrendering
aspect of you giving yourself
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over to the will of God
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and surrendering your
will to Him, that's powerful.
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I agree 100% with what you say,
and I want to add an addition.
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Not only does it
set us free from sin,
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but we can be
Christians and still have...
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You can have a situation hit you
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that's devastating
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and you can have
negative thoughts.
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2 Corinthians 1:22 says that,
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"All of God's promises
are yes in Him and in Christ."
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So if you think about this,
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that one of the
greatest problems
00:21:07.63\00:21:10.97
in the church today
is the identity crisis.
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We don't know who
we are in Christ Jesus.
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But, Debbie, I'm
gonna let you speak to this
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because we're talking
about speaking the Word.
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When troubles surround
us, when Satan is planting
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or his evil minions are
planting negative thoughts
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in our head,
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or when haven't you
ever just woke up and think,
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"I'm a new creation,
the old keep showing up."
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What happens to
replace that thought
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when you're
speaking the Word of God?
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What's your
experience as you're speaking?
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My experience is if
I get into the Word,
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and I find the promises
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that God has put in His Word,
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that it comes alive.
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And it replaces what
the negative thoughts are.
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And it more than
just speaking positively,
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you know,
because it is God's Word,
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He promises and you
know His Word is alive.
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You know, it's effective.
00:22:17.60\00:22:19.97
And you know, the
strength and power in it.
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And before long
your heart feels it
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and the negative thoughts
are not prominent anymore.
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So you're set
free? I am set free.
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Exactly.
00:22:35.62\00:22:36.95
And what's even more powerful
00:22:36.99\00:22:38.32
with that same note is the
fact that unlike any of us,
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or anyone we
know God cannot lie.
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The Bible says, He cannot lie.
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And you focus on those promises,
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and I love that
sermon that you taught,
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the attitude of affirming God.
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You know, when we
allow this Word of God
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to become alive in us
that we believe when say,
00:22:53.34\00:22:55.70
"Lord, You
promised it, you can't lie.
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I'm gonna cleave in
that promise in Jesus name."
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That's powerful because now
00:23:01.44\00:23:02.91
there's an attitude
adjustment in your own life
00:23:02.94\00:23:05.25
and in your own mind.
00:23:05.28\00:23:06.61
I think too many
Christians let that Word be
00:23:06.65\00:23:09.58
dormant in their life.
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Yes. They know the Word.
00:23:10.99\00:23:12.32
I mean, we were
raised in the Word.
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But I remember the
turning point in my life
00:23:14.66\00:23:17.23
where it became alive
to me and that's when,
00:23:17.26\00:23:20.83
wow, life changed, life change.
00:23:20.86\00:23:24.37
He became so real to me,
Jesus came so real to me,
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the Holy Spirit
became real to me.
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God became real to me.
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And it's up to us by
the power of the Holy Spirit
00:23:31.97\00:23:36.11
to get that from
being dormant in life
00:23:36.14\00:23:38.21
and taking him at His word.
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That's right.
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Okay, well, you
know, I would just take it
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because we were
talking about over here
00:23:43.95\00:23:45.52
was talking about I think,
00:23:45.55\00:23:46.89
I'm thinking about a tree.
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Right. Okay.
00:23:49.66\00:23:50.99
I've got a pear tree.
00:23:51.03\00:23:53.19
It's the
healthiest tree I've got
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until the frost comes in early.
00:23:55.13\00:23:57.40
Frost comes in early in
our part of the country.
00:23:57.43\00:23:59.50
So consequently, we
never have any fruit.
00:23:59.53\00:24:01.94
But, boy, we sure got
a good looking pear tree.
00:24:01.97\00:24:05.21
I'm thinking about
taking maybe a peach or a palm
00:24:05.24\00:24:10.55
or something and grafted in
00:24:10.58\00:24:13.92
to those big
roots of the pear tree.
00:24:13.95\00:24:15.75
Right.
00:24:15.78\00:24:17.12
And that's really
the opportunity we have
00:24:17.15\00:24:18.85
if we are combating this issue.
00:24:18.89\00:24:21.36
We're talking of
being transformed.
00:24:21.39\00:24:24.03
We have the opportunity
because of this Word right here
00:24:24.06\00:24:28.13
that we can be in grafted in.
00:24:28.16\00:24:30.57
And I'm anxious to
see what's gonna happen
00:24:30.60\00:24:34.04
with the big root
system that I've got
00:24:34.07\00:24:36.71
and with a new graph coming up
00:24:36.74\00:24:38.44
that's adaptable to
this particular weather.
00:24:38.47\00:24:41.78
We may have some fruit.
00:24:41.81\00:24:43.18
And you know that,
00:24:43.21\00:24:44.55
that goes with
what Debbie was saying,
00:24:44.58\00:24:46.05
it's that what you're
doing, and it is, to me,
00:24:46.08\00:24:50.19
it's all about
speaking God's Word.
00:24:50.22\00:24:52.59
Isaiah, he changed my
life to when he taught me
00:24:52.62\00:24:55.59
in Isaiah 55:11.
00:24:55.62\00:24:57.53
He says, "My word
does not return to me void.
00:24:57.56\00:25:00.20
It accomplishes every
purpose for which I sent it."
00:25:00.23\00:25:03.16
And then He says
in Jeremiah 1:12.
00:25:03.20\00:25:05.87
He tells
Jeremiah, "You're right,
00:25:05.90\00:25:07.84
I am watching over
My Word to perform it."
00:25:07.87\00:25:11.64
And you know, in
Habakkuk He says,
00:25:11.67\00:25:13.64
"Even if it tarries, wait for it
00:25:13.68\00:25:16.14
because it's
gonna be fulfilled."
00:25:16.18\00:25:17.91
So what happens
when you start speaking
00:25:17.95\00:25:22.08
this Word over your
life, and thanking God say,
00:25:22.12\00:25:25.92
"Oh, thank you that
00:25:25.95\00:25:27.29
I'm a new
creation in Christ Jesus,
00:25:27.32\00:25:28.66
the old is gone, new is come."
00:25:28.69\00:25:31.46
You know what?
00:25:31.49\00:25:33.09
Your feelings don't
always line up with that.
00:25:33.13\00:25:35.66
That's what you
have to watch out for,
00:25:35.70\00:25:37.53
your feelings
there, and your emotions.
00:25:37.57\00:25:39.87
And what God led me to is
Romans 4:17, and that's where,
00:25:39.90\00:25:44.27
that's my go to scripture.
00:25:44.31\00:25:46.71
Romans 4:17 says,
00:25:46.74\00:25:48.14
"He is the God who
gives life to the dead
00:25:48.18\00:25:50.85
and calls things that are not
00:25:50.88\00:25:53.08
as though they already were."
00:25:53.11\00:25:54.78
He sees the end
from the beginning.
00:25:54.82\00:25:57.09
When He looks at Shelley
Quinn, He sees a new creation.
00:25:57.12\00:26:01.26
So I can do what He did.
00:26:01.29\00:26:03.93
I can thank Him and
say, "Lord, thank You
00:26:03.96\00:26:06.36
that I am a new
creation in Christ Jesus."
00:26:06.39\00:26:09.23
And that, then that
Word gets grafted into me
00:26:09.26\00:26:12.63
and it is life changing.
00:26:12.67\00:26:14.00
It is. Amen.
00:26:14.04\00:26:15.37
And then you start
evolving, you become a doer.
00:26:15.40\00:26:17.87
Yes. Yeah, absolutely.
00:26:17.91\00:26:20.38
Yes, yes, yes. And
then begin to get active.
00:26:20.41\00:26:22.34
Yeah.
00:26:22.38\00:26:23.71
So let's read James 1,
00:26:23.75\00:26:26.25
Debbie why
don't you do this one,
00:26:26.28\00:26:27.62
James 1:21-24? Okay.
00:26:27.65\00:26:31.39
"Therefore, lay
aside all filthiness
00:26:31.42\00:26:33.96
and overflow of wickedness
00:26:33.99\00:26:35.86
and receive with
meekness the implanted word
00:26:35.89\00:26:39.03
which is able
to save your souls,
00:26:39.06\00:26:42.13
but be doers of the word
00:26:42.16\00:26:44.17
and not hearers only
deceiving yourselves.
00:26:44.20\00:26:47.74
For if anyone is
a hearer of a word
00:26:47.77\00:26:50.67
and not a doer.
00:26:50.71\00:26:52.14
He is like a man observing
his natural face in a mirror
00:26:52.17\00:26:55.68
for he observes
himself goes away
00:26:55.71\00:26:58.31
and immediately forgets
what kind of man he was."
00:26:58.35\00:27:02.88
Good.
00:27:02.92\00:27:04.25
Well, you know what
caught me on this one
00:27:04.29\00:27:06.05
is the word which is able.
00:27:06.09\00:27:09.39
It's not automatic,
it must be acted upon,
00:27:09.42\00:27:13.76
it is able to save your
souls with so many people
00:27:13.80\00:27:18.47
that are not
Christians have heard the Word,
00:27:18.50\00:27:21.04
they have not acted upon it.
00:27:21.07\00:27:23.44
That's what is
able to change you,
00:27:23.47\00:27:26.51
it's the action upon it.
00:27:26.54\00:27:28.04
And that's why,
that's, followed by be doers,
00:27:28.08\00:27:31.35
if they were not hearers only...
00:27:31.38\00:27:32.71
Yes. Yes. All right.
00:27:32.75\00:27:34.08
Let me say this.
00:27:34.12\00:27:35.62
He says, how I see this.
00:27:35.65\00:27:39.05
"He says, we go to this Word."
00:27:39.09\00:27:42.62
And we're like a natural man
00:27:42.66\00:27:44.09
observing
ourselves at the mirror.
00:27:44.13\00:27:45.93
This Word tells us who
we are in Christ Jesus.
00:27:45.96\00:27:48.26
That's right.
00:27:48.30\00:27:49.63
This tells us, I
mean, all of these promises,
00:27:49.66\00:27:53.20
Ephesians 1:11 that all
of his spiritual blessings
00:27:53.23\00:27:57.17
are ours in Christ Jesus.
00:27:57.21\00:27:58.84
You can go through the
Word and find everything here.
00:27:58.87\00:28:02.54
But what happens if I just,
00:28:02.58\00:28:05.31
if doing my perfunctory reading
00:28:05.35\00:28:08.55
one Chapter a
night or something.
00:28:08.58\00:28:10.39
You read this,
you close the book.
00:28:10.42\00:28:13.36
Right. Right.
00:28:13.39\00:28:14.72
And if you don't
put it into practice,
00:28:14.76\00:28:16.96
if you go away not
being a doer of the word,
00:28:16.99\00:28:20.00
you have forgotten who you are.
00:28:20.03\00:28:23.33
That's right.
00:28:23.37\00:28:24.70
And so that's why
it's the implanted Word
00:28:24.73\00:28:28.94
in John 15:7
00:28:28.97\00:28:30.34
when you were
talking about the vine.
00:28:30.37\00:28:32.57
Jesus said, "If
you abide in My Word,
00:28:32.61\00:28:36.78
you're My disciples indeed."
00:28:36.81\00:28:38.35
Right? Right.
00:28:38.38\00:28:39.71
So it is abiding in
the Word that bonds us,
00:28:39.75\00:28:45.45
the written Word bonds
us with the living Word,
00:28:45.49\00:28:47.79
Jesus Christ.
00:28:47.82\00:28:50.33
And it is so amazing.
00:28:50.36\00:28:53.13
Exciting. It is exciting.
00:28:53.16\00:28:55.73
It's powerful. Yeah.
00:28:55.76\00:28:57.17
It effectively works
in us is what Paul says.
00:28:57.20\00:29:00.10
It quickly can
launch this particular topic
00:29:00.14\00:29:03.04
and quickly launch us
into a conversation of faith
00:29:03.07\00:29:05.54
versus works,
00:29:05.57\00:29:06.91
which a lot of
people struggle with,
00:29:06.94\00:29:08.51
and I'm not gonna
go too deep into that,
00:29:08.54\00:29:09.88
it's a whole another subject.
00:29:09.91\00:29:11.25
But you know,
but thinking about,
00:29:11.28\00:29:13.72
you know what Christ says
to each one of the churches,
00:29:13.75\00:29:16.08
the seven
churches of Asia Minor.
00:29:16.12\00:29:18.05
We know that those are
00:29:18.09\00:29:19.55
real dispensations of time from,
00:29:19.59\00:29:21.59
you know, the early,
early first century AD
00:29:21.62\00:29:24.66
all the way to the end of time,
00:29:24.69\00:29:26.36
but he repeats the same message
to each and every church.
00:29:26.39\00:29:29.83
We are the church, okay?
00:29:29.86\00:29:31.57
So this, a lot of times
00:29:31.60\00:29:32.93
we can read
these texts and think,
00:29:32.97\00:29:35.14
"Oh, you know, these
message is from James
00:29:35.17\00:29:37.57
and John and all these other,
00:29:37.61\00:29:38.94
it's for those
who are not really,
00:29:38.97\00:29:41.18
don't really know Christ yet
00:29:41.21\00:29:43.04
and they're
coming into the faith,
00:29:43.08\00:29:44.51
but a lot of this,
00:29:44.55\00:29:45.88
but the bulk of
this is them writing
00:29:45.91\00:29:48.28
their audience is to the church.
00:29:48.32\00:29:50.85
And so they're trying
to instruct to reprove
00:29:50.89\00:29:53.29
to help bring some understanding
00:29:53.32\00:29:56.69
to the will of God
00:29:56.73\00:29:58.13
or to the people
of the will of God.
00:29:58.16\00:29:59.96
And so right
there in Revelation,
00:30:00.00\00:30:01.36
what does he repeat constantly,
00:30:01.40\00:30:02.90
to them instead
of I know your faith.
00:30:02.93\00:30:04.47
He says, "I know your works."
00:30:04.50\00:30:06.07
I know your
works. I know your works.
00:30:06.10\00:30:07.64
And I love, we
just read this earlier,
00:30:07.67\00:30:09.27
John 8:31-32, where Christ says,
00:30:09.30\00:30:11.77
"If you will abide in My Word,
you are My disciples indeed."
00:30:11.81\00:30:15.44
In other words, you
know what I can tell you
00:30:15.48\00:30:17.35
and Christ can
speak to you all day long,
00:30:17.38\00:30:19.28
but until you respond,
00:30:19.31\00:30:20.98
and you actively
respond to that Word,
00:30:21.02\00:30:23.52
then He knows at that moment,
00:30:23.55\00:30:25.15
"Okay, this is a disciple.
00:30:25.19\00:30:26.59
This is someone I can trust.
00:30:26.62\00:30:27.96
This is my servant,
00:30:27.99\00:30:29.32
because they didn't
just hear me say it.
00:30:29.36\00:30:31.26
They actually acted on
00:30:31.29\00:30:32.89
what it is that I
was telling them,"
00:30:32.93\00:30:34.40
and that's powerful.
00:30:34.43\00:30:35.76
It brings me
back... It brings me back
00:30:35.80\00:30:37.97
I saw a video not too long ago,
00:30:38.00\00:30:40.00
that there's a video online,
00:30:40.04\00:30:41.37
I usually played it one
of my evangelistic series,
00:30:41.40\00:30:43.71
and it's
basically in this video,
00:30:43.74\00:30:46.04
it's this father.
00:30:46.07\00:30:47.41
He goes, walks into
his daughter's room,
00:30:47.44\00:30:50.45
and I mean, it's a mess.
00:30:50.48\00:30:52.51
This room is a mess.
00:30:52.55\00:30:54.08
So he walks into the living room
00:30:54.12\00:30:55.88
and he's standing there
over and he's looking at her
00:30:55.92\00:30:58.42
and she's on her phone.
00:30:58.45\00:30:59.79
You know, just
kind of relaxing there
00:30:59.82\00:31:01.16
and she looks up at
him and she goes, "What?"
00:31:01.19\00:31:03.32
He says, "I told
you three days ago
00:31:03.36\00:31:04.76
to clean your room.
00:31:04.79\00:31:07.10
Why didn't you clean your room?"
00:31:07.13\00:31:08.46
I could see this video.
00:31:08.50\00:31:09.83
And then so the girl says,
"Well, I heard what you said."
00:31:09.86\00:31:13.87
He's like, "What do you
mean, you heard what I said.
00:31:13.90\00:31:16.30
Your room's a
mess." She says, "Yeah.
00:31:16.34\00:31:17.94
I heard what you said.
00:31:17.97\00:31:19.81
And I memorized it in
Greek and Hebrew, and Latin,
00:31:19.84\00:31:23.71
and Spanish," And
she goes, "Yeah, and then
00:31:23.75\00:31:25.58
when I invited
some of my friends over,
00:31:25.61\00:31:27.48
we had a small group about it.
00:31:27.52\00:31:28.88
Oh, it was so
great. It was so wonderful.
00:31:28.92\00:31:31.02
We had a small group about.
00:31:31.05\00:31:32.89
And then we pulled
out the pen and paper,
00:31:32.92\00:31:34.72
we diagrammed
on a piece of paper
00:31:34.76\00:31:36.62
on what my room would look like
00:31:36.66\00:31:38.36
if it was nicely
put together and clean.
00:31:38.39\00:31:41.20
Oh, it was so good, thank you."
00:31:41.23\00:31:43.23
And then the father
is just standing there
00:31:43.26\00:31:45.03
just be puzzled
just like he doesn't know
00:31:45.07\00:31:47.04
what to say because
00:31:47.07\00:31:48.40
there was this
passionate response from her.
00:31:48.44\00:31:50.71
But then at the end
of the video pops up,
00:31:50.74\00:31:52.44
you know, if you know this,
00:31:52.47\00:31:53.88
basically the
concept of this text
00:31:53.91\00:31:55.44
that if you are My disciples,
you will abide by My Word,
00:31:55.48\00:31:58.08
you know, and
that's the case, you know.
00:31:58.11\00:32:00.58
There are a lot of Christians
00:32:00.62\00:32:01.95
who rejoice in hearing the Word,
00:32:01.98\00:32:04.82
but the power of the
Word, that lamp, the light,
00:32:04.85\00:32:08.19
it's kind of like the oil lamp.
00:32:08.22\00:32:09.92
You know the
power behind that Word
00:32:09.96\00:32:12.79
is the oil for that lamp.
00:32:12.83\00:32:14.36
Once you put the two together,
you have an activated power
00:32:14.40\00:32:16.93
in one's life that can,
00:32:16.97\00:32:18.63
a person can be transformed
if they just act upon
00:32:18.67\00:32:21.74
what it is that
Christ is telling me.
00:32:21.77\00:32:23.51
That's powerful. That's so good.
00:32:23.54\00:32:24.87
Let me add to that
because it is a wonderful story
00:32:24.91\00:32:28.84
and you hit on
grace versus works.
00:32:28.88\00:32:31.71
I want to read this.
00:32:31.75\00:32:33.25
In Ephesians Chapter 2,
you know there's nothing
00:32:33.28\00:32:38.15
you and I can do
to save ourselves,
00:32:38.19\00:32:40.39
it's only the blood of Jesus
00:32:40.42\00:32:42.62
accepting what he
did for us can save us.
00:32:42.66\00:32:45.53
You cannot work
your way to heaven.
00:32:45.56\00:32:48.43
But Jesus did say in John
14, 15 that if you love Me,
00:32:48.46\00:32:52.83
keep My commandments.
00:32:52.87\00:32:54.20
So once you are a Christian,
00:32:54.24\00:32:57.71
there are good
works for us to do
00:32:57.74\00:33:00.54
that doesn't say this.
00:33:00.58\00:33:02.01
But let me prove that to
you that this is God's will.
00:33:02.04\00:33:05.01
In Ephesians 2:8, he
says, and I love Paul,
00:33:05.05\00:33:08.85
he was an ambassador for grace.
00:33:08.88\00:33:12.05
"For by grace you have
been saved through faith
00:33:12.09\00:33:14.82
that not of yourselves,
it is the gift of God."
00:33:14.86\00:33:19.33
God's just waiting
for us to receive it.
00:33:19.36\00:33:21.53
"Not of works, lest
anyone should boast."
00:33:21.56\00:33:24.13
Yes.
00:33:24.17\00:33:25.50
So it's not going to
be, "Oh, I'm not faking,
00:33:25.53\00:33:27.37
oh, I go to
every church service.
00:33:27.40\00:33:29.50
Oh, I do this or that."
00:33:29.54\00:33:31.14
None of that, you can't
boast about your own salvation.
00:33:31.17\00:33:36.21
But look what he
says in verse 10.
00:33:36.24\00:33:38.21
And I just want to say
here before you read that.
00:33:38.25\00:33:39.91
A lot of people read verses
8 and 9 and they stop there.
00:33:39.95\00:33:43.08
Don't read verse 10?
They don't read verse 10.
00:33:43.12\00:33:45.62
And that's what
I love about Paul
00:33:45.65\00:33:46.99
because he never
leaves anything unturned...
00:33:47.02\00:33:48.79
He's always balanced.
00:33:48.82\00:33:50.26
So he says, "For we
are His workmanship.
00:33:50.29\00:33:54.80
We are God's work of
art," is what that says.
00:33:54.83\00:33:58.17
And he says,
00:33:58.20\00:33:59.53
"We're creating in
Christ Jesus for good works,
00:33:59.57\00:34:04.57
which God prepared before
00:34:04.61\00:34:06.98
and that we should walk in it."
00:34:07.01\00:34:10.95
So that's why the
Word is He teaches us.
00:34:10.98\00:34:15.55
It is the,
00:34:15.58\00:34:19.15
this is how we learn
what God wants us to do.
00:34:19.19\00:34:21.92
Right. Absolutely.
00:34:21.96\00:34:23.29
And it is a
training and equipping tool.
00:34:23.32\00:34:28.73
Now let me segue
into what you just said.
00:34:28.76\00:34:32.00
Sure. Okay?
00:34:32.03\00:34:33.37
1 Thessalonians 2:13.
00:34:33.40\00:34:35.40
Remember Paul's speaking?
00:34:35.44\00:34:37.31
Yeah. All right?
00:34:37.34\00:34:39.27
So then he comes
in as he's talking
00:34:39.31\00:34:41.11
to the members of
the Thessalonians.
00:34:41.14\00:34:44.65
For this reason,
00:34:44.68\00:34:46.01
we also thank
God without ceasing.
00:34:46.05\00:34:49.45
Because when you
receive the Word of God,
00:34:49.48\00:34:53.05
which you heard
from us, you welcome it
00:34:53.09\00:34:56.42
not as the word of
man, but as His truth.
00:34:56.46\00:34:58.93
The Word of God,
00:34:58.96\00:35:00.30
which also
effectively works in you
00:35:00.33\00:35:03.10
who believe.
00:35:03.13\00:35:04.53
Amen. Wow.
00:35:04.57\00:35:06.57
Praise the Lord, you know,
and with those thoughts there,
00:35:06.60\00:35:09.24
it's interesting
because you brought Ephesians 2
00:35:09.27\00:35:12.54
there that we are
saved by grace through faith.
00:35:12.57\00:35:15.68
But a lot of
people miss Romans 1:5,
00:35:15.71\00:35:18.05
and I think this goes right
00:35:18.08\00:35:19.41
along with what
we're talking about.
00:35:19.45\00:35:20.95
The power of the Word here.
00:35:20.98\00:35:22.72
Notice this, Romans
1:5, Paul, I consider Romans
00:35:22.75\00:35:27.89
probably my favorite
book of all the New Testament.
00:35:27.92\00:35:30.96
It's like Paul's
manifesto, if you could,
00:35:30.99\00:35:32.93
you could sum up everything
00:35:32.96\00:35:34.66
of Paul's
theological gospel mind.
00:35:34.70\00:35:38.03
He put it all
right here in Romans.
00:35:38.07\00:35:40.57
And here we are five verses,
00:35:40.60\00:35:42.50
and this is
still the introduction
00:35:42.54\00:35:44.01
and he's laying the groundwork.
00:35:44.04\00:35:45.61
He's laying his
thesis out for everything
00:35:45.64\00:35:47.94
that he's about to say.
00:35:47.98\00:35:49.44
But a lot of people read
through these first few verses,
00:35:49.48\00:35:51.88
and they don't catch
00:35:51.91\00:35:53.25
that Paul lays a very
powerful thesis statement
00:35:53.28\00:35:56.08
in verse 5 here.
00:35:56.12\00:35:57.45
Notice what he says here,
00:35:57.49\00:35:58.82
"Through him,
speaking of Christ,
00:35:58.85\00:36:01.52
we have received
grace and apostleship,"
00:36:01.56\00:36:05.66
notice this, what for?
00:36:05.69\00:36:08.16
"For obedience to the
faith among all nations
00:36:08.20\00:36:12.70
for his namesake."
00:36:12.73\00:36:14.07
Okay.
00:36:14.10\00:36:15.44
So we have received grace.
00:36:15.47\00:36:17.31
And again a lot of
people are saved by grace,
00:36:17.34\00:36:19.01
I'm saved by grace.
00:36:19.04\00:36:20.38
But notice, you
have received grace, why?
00:36:20.41\00:36:23.04
Why did God save
you by His grace?
00:36:23.08\00:36:25.71
Because you what?
00:36:25.75\00:36:27.72
For obedience, he
wants you to obey Him
00:36:27.75\00:36:30.55
obeying what?
00:36:30.59\00:36:32.09
Obeying the work.
00:36:32.12\00:36:33.46
Notice, you have been
saved for apostleship,
00:36:33.49\00:36:36.32
excuse me,
apostleship for obedience to
00:36:36.36\00:36:37.96
the faith.
00:36:37.99\00:36:39.33
And we just read earlier
that if we're saved by grace,
00:36:39.36\00:36:42.23
through faith,
faith comes by hearing
00:36:42.26\00:36:44.80
and hearing by the Word.
00:36:44.83\00:36:46.17
It's a complete circle.
00:36:46.20\00:36:47.54
It's all, it comes
full circle around,
00:36:47.57\00:36:49.14
that it always leads
back to the Word of God
00:36:49.17\00:36:51.64
being the
foundational aspect to us
00:36:51.67\00:36:54.44
growing in faith and therefore
00:36:54.48\00:36:56.85
being saved by
God's divine grace.
00:36:56.88\00:36:59.08
Okay, so what is grace?
00:36:59.11\00:37:02.48
Unmerited favor.
00:37:02.52\00:37:03.85
Unmerited favor.
00:37:03.89\00:37:05.29
That is unmerited favor.
00:37:05.32\00:37:08.12
Now let's unpack that
00:37:08.16\00:37:09.82
because that's
the correct answer.
00:37:09.86\00:37:12.53
That's the standard.
00:37:12.56\00:37:13.90
Sure. But what does it mean?
00:37:13.93\00:37:15.26
Right.
00:37:15.30\00:37:16.63
Unmerited means it is
unearned, it's undeserved,
00:37:16.67\00:37:21.17
it's favor, it's gift,
you know, like party favors.
00:37:21.20\00:37:24.47
So it's the unearned,
undeserved gifts of God.
00:37:24.51\00:37:28.18
So what are
00:37:28.21\00:37:30.65
the three greatest
gifts of God to the world?
00:37:30.68\00:37:34.18
If we're looking at grace,
for God so loved the world
00:37:34.22\00:37:38.65
that He gave His
only begotten son.
00:37:38.69\00:37:41.49
So Jesus is God's
greatest gift of grace to us.
00:37:41.52\00:37:47.13
But then, what is
the other greatest gift
00:37:47.16\00:37:51.07
that we could not live
a Christian life without,
00:37:51.10\00:37:53.67
and if we are not led by Him
we're not even children of God.
00:37:53.70\00:37:57.57
The Holy Spirit
00:37:57.61\00:37:59.44
is the second
greatest gift of grace,
00:37:59.47\00:38:03.55
and then the Word of God.
00:38:03.58\00:38:07.08
So when he is saying,
00:38:07.12\00:38:08.58
we've received
grace for obedience,
00:38:08.62\00:38:12.05
we've received Jesus Christ,
00:38:12.09\00:38:14.79
we've received the Holy Spirit,
00:38:14.82\00:38:17.76
we've received the Word of God
00:38:17.79\00:38:20.23
so that he can
work in us to will
00:38:20.26\00:38:24.07
and to do his good pleasure,
and complete the good work
00:38:24.10\00:38:26.94
that he's begun in us,
00:38:26.97\00:38:28.30
as Paul writes
to the Philippians.
00:38:28.34\00:38:29.67
And all that is
to glorify God. Amen.
00:38:29.70\00:38:31.67
And it all goes
back to glorify Him.
00:38:31.71\00:38:33.78
But see, you know what?
00:38:33.81\00:38:35.14
I think the problem
is when you were talking,
00:38:35.18\00:38:37.58
I mean, it's just amazing
to me that somebody would say,
00:38:37.61\00:38:40.52
we don't need to preach...
00:38:40.55\00:38:41.88
Oh, yeah, it's amazing.
00:38:41.92\00:38:43.25
I mean, that just
amazes me, it's shocking.
00:38:43.28\00:38:45.15
But I think the problem is
that there are people who think
00:38:45.19\00:38:49.19
once they have come
to the foot of the cross,
00:38:49.22\00:38:52.06
and receive Christ as Savior.
00:38:52.09\00:38:55.20
That's it.
00:38:55.23\00:38:56.56
They think that's...
That was the end of it.
00:38:56.60\00:38:58.43
That's the end of it.
00:38:58.47\00:38:59.97
But that's just
the beginning of it.
00:39:00.00\00:39:03.30
That's justification
00:39:03.34\00:39:06.78
by grace through faith.
00:39:06.81\00:39:08.68
It's an act of God.
00:39:08.71\00:39:10.78
It's something that He does,
you know, just instantaneously
00:39:10.81\00:39:15.82
He covers up our sins
and, I mean, we're justified.
00:39:15.85\00:39:19.65
Now, the next step
00:39:19.69\00:39:23.12
to salvation is sanctification.
00:39:23.16\00:39:25.79
And that is a work of God.
00:39:25.83\00:39:28.70
That's where
Philippians 2:12, 13 comes in.
00:39:28.73\00:39:31.80
He's working in us to will
and to do his good pleasure.
00:39:31.83\00:39:33.90
That's right.
00:39:33.94\00:39:35.34
And that He will
complete the good work.
00:39:35.37\00:39:37.71
But we've got to
cooperate because turned to,
00:39:37.74\00:39:41.34
since we're in Romans,
let's look at Romans Chapter 8.
00:39:41.38\00:39:44.55
I love this scripture,
00:39:44.58\00:39:48.12
we're talking about
the power of the Word.
00:39:48.15\00:39:51.25
But these are
words of spiritual,
00:39:51.29\00:39:53.25
they're spiritually discerned.
00:39:53.29\00:39:55.39
And they're spiritually applied.
00:39:55.42\00:39:56.93
I mean, you've got
to have the Holy Spirit
00:39:56.96\00:39:58.49
to understand the Word
00:39:58.53\00:40:00.20
and to put it to
work in your life.
00:40:00.23\00:40:02.16
Right? So look
what he says here.
00:40:02.20\00:40:04.97
"If you live
according to the flesh,"
00:40:05.00\00:40:08.74
that's the way of the world.
00:40:08.77\00:40:10.11
Which scripture you're
at? I'm sorry, Romans 8:13.
00:40:10.14\00:40:12.77
I apologize, Romans 8:13.
00:40:12.81\00:40:16.04
"If you live
according to the flesh,"
00:40:16.08\00:40:18.98
what's gonna happen?
00:40:19.01\00:40:20.35
You'll die. You'll die.
00:40:20.38\00:40:21.72
But we're all gonna die. Right?
00:40:21.75\00:40:23.08
What kind of death is
He talking about here?
00:40:23.12\00:40:24.45
All right.
00:40:24.49\00:40:25.82
He's talking
about the second death.
00:40:25.85\00:40:27.32
That's mentioned four
times in Revelation, right?
00:40:27.36\00:40:30.29
But he says, "But
if, by the Spirit,
00:40:30.33\00:40:35.73
you put to death
the deeds of the body,
00:40:35.76\00:40:38.13
you will live."
00:40:38.17\00:40:39.50
Now let me give that
a different emphasis.
00:40:39.53\00:40:42.20
If by the spirit
00:40:42.24\00:40:45.04
you put to death.
00:40:45.07\00:40:48.21
You see the cooperation there?
00:40:48.24\00:40:51.18
You can't put to
death in your own sense
00:40:51.21\00:40:55.18
without the Holy
Spirit, but he's not gonna do it
00:40:55.22\00:40:58.39
without your cooperation.
00:40:58.42\00:40:59.92
That's right. Absolutely.
00:40:59.95\00:41:01.52
And you're talking about
the spirit keeps coming back
00:41:01.56\00:41:05.03
up into this conversation.
00:41:05.06\00:41:06.70
As I mentioned before,
00:41:06.73\00:41:08.30
when you go to
John that was, just,
00:41:08.33\00:41:09.66
there's tons of
scriptures across the Bible
00:41:09.70\00:41:12.17
that tell us the attributes,
the goal, the purpose,
00:41:12.20\00:41:15.04
the agenda of the Holy Spirit.
00:41:15.07\00:41:17.41
But probably in no other book,
00:41:17.44\00:41:19.21
in no other better
chapters than John Chapter 14
00:41:19.24\00:41:21.71
and John Chapter 16,
00:41:21.74\00:41:23.08
both of those
really amplified for us
00:41:23.11\00:41:25.31
the purpose of the Holy Spirit.
00:41:25.35\00:41:27.45
And so if you look at
this, if you look this through,
00:41:27.48\00:41:30.29
you will see John Chapter 14:26,
00:41:30.32\00:41:33.29
tells us that the "Comforter,
00:41:33.32\00:41:34.66
which is the Holy Ghost,
whom the Father will send,
00:41:34.69\00:41:36.69
in my name, he shall
teach you all things."
00:41:36.73\00:41:40.43
But what are the
things he's gonna teach you?
00:41:40.46\00:41:44.77
And bring another,
he continues to say
00:41:44.80\00:41:46.20
and bring all
things to your remembrance
00:41:46.23\00:41:47.84
whatsoever I have said to you,
00:41:47.87\00:41:49.64
so he wants to
remind us of something.
00:41:49.67\00:41:52.24
Notice John 16:8, okay?
00:41:52.27\00:41:55.71
"And when he is come,
00:41:55.74\00:41:57.08
he will reprove the world of sin
00:41:57.11\00:41:58.45
and of
righteous and of judgment.
00:41:58.48\00:42:00.22
How be it when he
the Spirit of Truth,
00:42:00.25\00:42:03.55
again, sanctify
them by thy truth,
00:42:03.59\00:42:04.92
thy Word is truth.
00:42:04.95\00:42:06.72
When the Spirit
of Truth is come,
00:42:06.76\00:42:08.09
He will guide
you into all truth."
00:42:08.12\00:42:10.43
What is that truth?
00:42:10.46\00:42:11.79
He shall glorify me, for
He shall receive of mine,
00:42:11.83\00:42:14.20
and shall show it unto you.
00:42:14.23\00:42:15.56
So there's five things
here we see very clearly
00:42:15.60\00:42:17.43
from these two passages.
00:42:17.47\00:42:18.80
The Holy Spirit wants
to teach us all things,
00:42:18.83\00:42:20.37
remind us always of God's ways.
00:42:20.40\00:42:22.50
Reprove the world of
sin, guide you into all truth.
00:42:22.54\00:42:24.87
Always glorify Christ
00:42:24.91\00:42:26.37
by the revealing of
His character to you,
00:42:26.41\00:42:28.84
it all comes full
circle back to the Word of God.
00:42:28.88\00:42:31.38
He's teaching us all
things through the Word.
00:42:31.41\00:42:34.22
He's showing us
Christ in Christ.
00:42:34.25\00:42:36.58
He knows we're His disciples
if we abide by His Word,
00:42:36.62\00:42:39.85
so it always
comes back full circle.
00:42:39.89\00:42:41.92
When we accept the Word of God,
00:42:41.96\00:42:43.59
we're allowing the Holy
Spirit to lead and guide us,
00:42:43.63\00:42:46.36
to reflect Jesus' character,
00:42:46.39\00:42:48.36
that's what
it's all about. Amen.
00:42:48.40\00:42:50.73
Let me bring this up.
00:42:50.77\00:42:52.10
I mean, I'm caught
up here on something.
00:42:52.13\00:42:56.40
The word
effectually, effectively.
00:42:56.44\00:42:59.51
Okay.
00:42:59.54\00:43:00.88
The definition
for effectively...
00:43:00.91\00:43:02.51
So you're back in
1 Thessalonians 2:30.
00:43:02.54\00:43:05.15
Yes, but it ties into everything
00:43:05.18\00:43:06.65
we're talking about
00:43:06.68\00:43:08.02
'cause we're talking
about the Word of God
00:43:08.05\00:43:09.42
and what Jesus does in for us
00:43:09.45\00:43:12.79
if we are in His Word, okay.
00:43:12.82\00:43:16.16
Effectively the
definition of effectively...
00:43:16.19\00:43:19.09
But let me back
up just one second.
00:43:19.13\00:43:20.73
So the word in
context, it's the Word of God,
00:43:20.76\00:43:23.53
which effectively works in you.
00:43:23.57\00:43:25.43
Works in you to
believe who believe.
00:43:25.47\00:43:28.04
Okay. That's our part...
00:43:28.07\00:43:30.14
Right. In believing.
00:43:30.17\00:43:31.87
Effectively
means able to produce
00:43:31.91\00:43:33.98
a desired result.
00:43:34.01\00:43:36.28
My goodness, because that is...
00:43:36.31\00:43:40.82
Our desire is to
positively make a difference
00:43:40.85\00:43:44.35
in people's
lives in Jesus Christ.
00:43:44.39\00:43:47.36
And it says
here, we can learn it
00:43:47.39\00:43:49.99
because the truth is in
the Word of God right here,
00:43:50.03\00:43:52.39
the truth is here,
and he's sitting here
00:43:52.43\00:43:54.36
and he's promising us.
00:43:54.40\00:43:56.13
It also works effectively.
00:43:56.16\00:43:57.63
That's right.
00:43:57.67\00:43:59.00
So we'll be his little soldiers,
00:43:59.03\00:44:02.07
and we're out here
00:44:02.10\00:44:03.84
doing the very
best that we can do.
00:44:03.87\00:44:05.67
It's gonna be effective.
00:44:05.71\00:44:07.68
He just got
through saying that...
00:44:07.71\00:44:09.04
His Word will not return void.
00:44:09.08\00:44:10.71
But what we've got to do
is, we've got to believe.
00:44:10.75\00:44:14.52
Lord, increase my faith.
00:44:14.55\00:44:15.88
That's right.
Thank you for your grace.
00:44:15.92\00:44:17.75
Thank you for that gift
that's gonna sit here...
00:44:17.79\00:44:19.62
And we've got to know the Word,
00:44:19.65\00:44:21.32
we've got to know the
Word. It goes back to the Word.
00:44:21.36\00:44:23.19
If you wanted to sum
up this entire 66 books.
00:44:23.22\00:44:26.76
It's all about God, wanting
us to trust in Him and His work.
00:44:26.80\00:44:29.30
Amen. Amen.
00:44:29.33\00:44:30.67
1 That's what this all
about. But I've never...
00:44:30.70\00:44:32.93
Well, anyway, thank you, Jesus.
00:44:32.97\00:44:34.64
Amen.
00:44:34.67\00:44:36.00
All right, so here's, here,
00:44:36.04\00:44:38.44
we're down to
about 10 minutes here.
00:44:38.47\00:44:40.14
So I want to just
kind of jump ahead.
00:44:40.18\00:44:42.61
Paul tells us to
let the Word of God
00:44:42.64\00:44:44.71
dwell on us richly.
00:44:44.75\00:44:46.08
Right.
00:44:46.11\00:44:47.45
And this is
something that, you know,
00:44:47.48\00:44:49.92
if you don't get into the Word,
00:44:49.95\00:44:51.29
it can't dwell in you
richly, it can't effectively,
00:44:51.32\00:44:54.12
you got to plant
it in your heart.
00:44:54.16\00:44:56.49
And you know, the
Bible says that, it will,
00:44:56.52\00:44:58.69
once it takes root
that all of a sudden,
00:44:58.73\00:45:01.93
and this is what happens to me,
I'll plan a scripture promise,
00:45:01.96\00:45:06.10
and you just keep
speaking it back to the Lord,
00:45:06.13\00:45:08.40
praying it over your life.
00:45:08.44\00:45:09.77
And then one day, it's like...
00:45:09.80\00:45:11.47
something pops up
above the surface,
00:45:11.51\00:45:14.31
you know, and
then it begins to grow.
00:45:14.34\00:45:16.48
And then there's
the, the ear in the corn
00:45:16.51\00:45:19.71
and then the full
kernel in the year.
00:45:19.75\00:45:22.48
So what happens,
00:45:22.52\00:45:24.95
and we're all
gonna confess this.
00:45:24.99\00:45:26.69
There are times that
we go through dry spells.
00:45:26.72\00:45:29.66
It's natural, it
happens to everybody
00:45:29.69\00:45:31.73
in the whole wide world.
00:45:31.76\00:45:33.26
I really believe that even
in ministry, because it's just,
00:45:33.29\00:45:37.03
you can be physically exhausted,
00:45:37.07\00:45:38.93
emotionally
exhausted, something is going on
00:45:38.97\00:45:42.74
and then you become
spiritually exhausted.
00:45:42.77\00:45:45.74
So if you find
yourself in that place
00:45:45.77\00:45:48.44
where it's kind of
like, oh, Word, Word, Word,
00:45:48.48\00:45:51.21
I'm tired of hearing
about, I need to be in the Word.
00:45:51.25\00:45:53.88
I wanna challenge you.
00:45:53.92\00:45:55.85
Because when I
really get towards
00:45:55.88\00:45:58.02
kind of if
usually when I open this,
00:45:58.05\00:46:01.32
it's just like,
I mean, fresh air
00:46:01.36\00:46:04.59
and
everything's rolling over me.
00:46:04.63\00:46:06.76
But if I get to
where I'm opening it
00:46:06.80\00:46:08.73
and it's kind of like,
Oh, I've got to do this study.
00:46:08.76\00:46:12.30
Read Psalm 1:119
00:46:12.33\00:46:15.00
because then you
begin to understand
00:46:15.04\00:46:17.51
the benefits of the Word.
00:46:17.54\00:46:21.04
JD, you start with 119:105,
00:46:21.08\00:46:25.31
and we're just
going to jump around
00:46:25.35\00:46:26.68
in Psalm 119 we should,
00:46:26.72\00:46:28.22
if we had time we'd
read the whole thing.
00:46:28.25\00:46:30.05
Oh, this is one of my favorite.
00:46:30.09\00:46:32.35
Your word is a lamp to my
feet and a light to my path.
00:46:32.39\00:46:36.02
One of the reasons that
is so, so endearing to me
00:46:36.06\00:46:38.86
because I can see this.
00:46:38.89\00:46:40.50
Yeah.
00:46:40.53\00:46:41.86
Boy, I've got a flashlight here,
00:46:41.90\00:46:43.23
you know, that I
can see in front of me.
00:46:43.26\00:46:44.80
And as you, as we were talking
about being spiritually I mean,
00:46:44.83\00:46:48.67
you're spiritually
nourished while ago.
00:46:48.70\00:46:51.37
Part of this is in my
backpack, I need a sandwich,
00:46:51.41\00:46:55.51
I need a little Bible
00:46:55.54\00:46:57.15
and I need to
have Psalms 119:105.
00:46:57.18\00:47:00.42
Yes.
00:47:00.45\00:47:01.78
And a bottle of
water, the Holy Spirit.
00:47:01.82\00:47:03.22
Bottle of water.
That's exactly right.
00:47:03.25\00:47:05.79
You know but anyway,
that's so easy to say,
00:47:05.82\00:47:08.16
"Thank You, Jesus
that you are a lamp,
00:47:08.19\00:47:09.92
that you are that bright light."
00:47:09.96\00:47:11.56
You know that mean,
00:47:11.59\00:47:12.93
that's symbolic
in the sanctuary.
00:47:12.96\00:47:14.30
So and it's a light to my
path because boy, you can sure,
00:47:14.33\00:47:17.77
surely stumble and
fall even before you know.
00:47:17.80\00:47:20.77
Yeah. That's true.
00:47:20.80\00:47:22.34
Okay, Ryan why
don't you to take verse 24
00:47:22.37\00:47:25.54
and verse 9, 3, 11
since you are a young man.
00:47:25.57\00:47:28.11
Sure.
00:47:28.14\00:47:29.48
So Psalm 119:24,
says, "Your testimonies
00:47:29.51\00:47:33.88
also are my
delight and my counselors.
00:47:33.92\00:47:38.32
What a great
counselor the Word of God is.
00:47:38.35\00:47:40.49
And that we should treat it
just like that because again,
00:47:40.52\00:47:44.46
our way is always the wrong way.
00:47:44.49\00:47:47.03
His way is always the right way.
00:47:47.06\00:47:49.00
And so in every aspect
of life, I always try to,
00:47:49.03\00:47:51.83
have tried to train myself
over the years that whatever,
00:47:51.87\00:47:55.00
whatever problem,
whatever challenge,
00:47:55.04\00:47:56.84
whatever trial that I may
be going through in my life,
00:47:56.87\00:47:59.24
I always try to ask
myself the question,
00:47:59.27\00:48:02.14
"What does God's
Word say about this?"
00:48:02.18\00:48:04.55
What does the
Lord say about this?
00:48:04.58\00:48:05.91
Because I want...
00:48:05.95\00:48:07.28
And who doesn't
need a counselor.
00:48:07.32\00:48:08.65
Absolutely. Every age counselor.
00:48:08.68\00:48:10.55
Absolutely.
00:48:10.59\00:48:12.52
119 verses, it's Psalm 119:9-11.
00:48:12.55\00:48:16.46
The Bible says,
"How can a young man
00:48:16.49\00:48:18.39
cleanse his way by taking heed
00:48:18.43\00:48:21.36
according to your
word, with my whole heart,
00:48:21.40\00:48:25.73
I have sought you,
oh, let me not wander
00:48:25.77\00:48:28.90
from your commandments,
00:48:28.94\00:48:30.71
your word I have
hidden in my heart,
00:48:30.74\00:48:33.61
that I might not
sin against you."
00:48:33.64\00:48:36.24
Powerful. Amen and amen.
00:48:36.28\00:48:37.78
And you know what?
00:48:37.81\00:48:39.15
I have found that
there are times that,
00:48:39.18\00:48:42.95
has this ever happened to you
where you're reading the Word,
00:48:42.98\00:48:45.65
and all of a sudden
you come across something
00:48:45.69\00:48:47.46
and you're going,
"Oh, I'm guilty of that."
00:48:47.49\00:48:51.93
And you know,
00:48:51.96\00:48:53.29
if you don't
know the Word of God,
00:48:53.33\00:48:55.70
you may be sinning
against God without knowing it.
00:48:55.73\00:48:58.47
It's true.
00:48:58.50\00:48:59.83
And so it's like
the more of this word
00:48:59.87\00:49:02.20
that gets hidden in our heart,
00:49:02.24\00:49:04.07
the more that we're
putting into practice,
00:49:04.11\00:49:06.44
you know, then it's kind of that
00:49:06.47\00:49:09.04
God helps us
recognize our sin more quickly.
00:49:09.08\00:49:13.58
And we can ask for
the gift of repentance
00:49:13.62\00:49:16.52
and the forgiveness.
00:49:16.55\00:49:17.89
So it's a beautiful thing
to hide this in your heart.
00:49:17.92\00:49:20.36
JD, Psalm 119:97- 100.
00:49:20.39\00:49:25.63
"Oh, how I love your law.
00:49:25.66\00:49:28.26
It is my meditation all the day,
00:49:28.30\00:49:30.63
you through your commandment
make be wiser than my enemies,
00:49:30.67\00:49:34.64
for they are ever with me.
00:49:34.67\00:49:36.60
I have more understanding
than all my teachers,
00:49:36.64\00:49:39.51
for your
testimonies are my meditation.
00:49:39.54\00:49:42.31
I understand
more than the ancients
00:49:42.34\00:49:45.11
because I keep your precepts."
00:49:45.15\00:49:48.02
And I think, you know,
that if we're in His Word,
00:49:48.05\00:49:50.92
then automatically
He's just gonna fill us.
00:49:50.95\00:49:53.69
I mean, if he wouldn't sit here
and say what you read earlier,
00:49:53.72\00:49:56.39
I'm gonna bring it
to your remembrance.
00:49:56.42\00:49:58.96
So I mean, our responsibility
is just get it in there,
00:49:58.99\00:50:02.10
then it becomes
his responsibility
00:50:02.13\00:50:03.83
to bring to my remembrance.
00:50:03.87\00:50:05.43
Because that's what,
that's one of my fears,
00:50:05.47\00:50:07.90
someday I'm
gonna be surrounded by
00:50:07.94\00:50:10.44
a bunch of bad guys,
00:50:10.47\00:50:12.24
and hoop, why
do you believe that
00:50:12.27\00:50:14.01
what you believe.
00:50:14.04\00:50:15.38
All right.
00:50:15.41\00:50:16.75
Boy, I'll tell you Lord,
00:50:16.78\00:50:18.11
you better bring
it to my remembrance
00:50:18.15\00:50:19.48
because I just don't
know how capable I am anymore.
00:50:19.51\00:50:21.68
That's right.
00:50:21.72\00:50:23.05
You know, sometimes
it just gets in there
00:50:23.08\00:50:24.42
and it just, but thank you.
00:50:24.45\00:50:26.22
Thank you for that we
know we have the ability
00:50:26.25\00:50:28.62
to be wise through Him.
00:50:28.66\00:50:30.46
Amen. That heavenly wisdom.
00:50:30.49\00:50:32.76
All right, let's
Debbie, why don't you read
00:50:32.79\00:50:35.30
from the Psalm
119 about the reviving
00:50:35.33\00:50:37.67
and strengthening?
00:50:37.70\00:50:39.33
Okay, Psalm 119:25,
00:50:39.37\00:50:41.67
"My soul clings to the desk
00:50:41.70\00:50:43.61
revived me
according to your word."
00:50:43.64\00:50:46.78
Then verse 154, "Plead
my cause and redeem me,
00:50:46.81\00:50:51.31
revive me
according to your word."
00:50:51.35\00:50:54.18
Have you had that
experience where you feel like
00:50:54.22\00:50:58.19
your soul's clinging to the dust
00:50:58.22\00:51:00.39
and you need revival?
00:51:00.42\00:51:01.76
Oh yes.
00:51:01.79\00:51:03.12
And then that is
your strength right there.
00:51:03.16\00:51:05.63
That is what brings you
back to the land of the living.
00:51:05.66\00:51:09.06
I mean, when
you're just so, I mean,
00:51:09.10\00:51:11.10
I've gone through a
hard time lately in my life
00:51:11.13\00:51:13.60
and if it wasn't
for the Word of God,
00:51:13.64\00:51:17.67
how lost I would be.
00:51:17.71\00:51:19.04
It's true. It's true.
00:51:19.07\00:51:20.41
And I love revive
00:51:20.44\00:51:21.78
because I've looked
ahead up to you know,
00:51:21.81\00:51:23.14
that means to be recharged.
00:51:23.18\00:51:24.51
Recharged, yes.
00:51:24.55\00:51:25.88
Re awake, me, Lord,
regenerate me, Lord,
00:51:25.91\00:51:27.78
resuscitate me, Lord.
00:51:27.82\00:51:30.29
I mean, God is
all there no matter
00:51:30.32\00:51:32.15
what the issue is.
00:51:32.19\00:51:33.86
If you need
resuscitation, thank You, Jesus,
00:51:33.89\00:51:36.16
that's you were to
breathe into me some fresh air.
00:51:36.19\00:51:39.66
That's right. That's right.
00:51:39.69\00:51:41.16
And then verse 28, says,
"My soul melts from heaviness,
00:51:41.20\00:51:44.37
strengthen me,
according to your word."
00:51:44.40\00:51:48.47
This has been my
life this past few months.
00:51:48.50\00:51:52.04
I mean, this is what's
kept me going and like I...
00:51:52.07\00:51:55.74
like I was told,
I do get up early
00:51:55.78\00:51:58.11
and I do seek the Word of God.
00:51:58.15\00:52:00.65
And during this
time, there's been times
00:52:00.68\00:52:02.48
it's been not even
morning I'm getting up
00:52:02.52\00:52:04.82
and because I just can't sleep
00:52:04.85\00:52:07.56
because of the stuff that, that,
00:52:07.59\00:52:09.36
you seem like you get
refreshed in the morning,
00:52:09.39\00:52:11.16
but by the time the
end of the day comes,
00:52:11.19\00:52:13.80
and you lay down,
00:52:13.83\00:52:15.80
you're soul is melting
from heaviness, absolutely.
00:52:15.83\00:52:19.10
And I would get up and say,
I've got to go to my father,
00:52:19.13\00:52:22.24
I've got to go to the
Word and it revives you,
00:52:22.27\00:52:26.27
it is your strength.
00:52:26.31\00:52:27.64
Praise the Lord. Yeah.
00:52:27.68\00:52:29.01
God's Word is true.
00:52:29.04\00:52:30.45
It is real, it is alive.
00:52:30.48\00:52:32.51
And it is the comfort.
00:52:32.55\00:52:34.58
Some of the greatest,
00:52:34.62\00:52:35.95
you know, talking about revival,
00:52:35.98\00:52:37.32
the power of the Word,
reviving power of the Word.
00:52:37.35\00:52:39.52
I think of some of
the stories in Scripture
00:52:39.55\00:52:41.36
where some of the
greatest revivals occurred,
00:52:41.39\00:52:43.43
because they found the Word.
00:52:43.46\00:52:45.56
I think it's King Josiah,
00:52:45.59\00:52:46.93
in 2 Kings
Chapter 22 there where,
00:52:46.96\00:52:50.63
you know, the nation
previous to his reign
00:52:50.67\00:52:53.47
had just steeped in
apostasy, drowning in apostasy
00:52:53.50\00:52:57.77
and cleaning out
the temple and they go
00:52:57.81\00:53:01.28
and they find these old scrolls
and they bring it to the king.
00:53:01.31\00:53:03.55
And they say,
this is the law of God,
00:53:03.58\00:53:06.38
this is the Torah.
00:53:06.41\00:53:07.85
And there was this
great powerful revival
00:53:07.88\00:53:10.45
because they
returned to the Word of God
00:53:10.49\00:53:12.79
as a nation and praise God
00:53:12.82\00:53:14.26
for the
leadership of King Josiah.
00:53:14.29\00:53:16.39
But I also wanna say
00:53:16.42\00:53:17.76
because we only have
about four minutes left,
00:53:17.79\00:53:19.13
I just want to add
this because this is...
00:53:19.16\00:53:21.60
We're talking about the
power of the Word of God.
00:53:21.63\00:53:23.50
Amen.
00:53:23.53\00:53:24.87
And that's what this
entire study has been about.
00:53:24.90\00:53:26.84
There's no denying
that the Word of God in
00:53:26.87\00:53:29.57
and of itself is power.
00:53:29.60\00:53:31.27
It has power.
00:53:31.31\00:53:33.11
But the Bible also
says that God is love.
00:53:33.14\00:53:36.48
Amen. Amen.
00:53:36.51\00:53:37.85
Not that He's
just merely loving,
00:53:37.88\00:53:39.38
but He is loving
in the sense that
00:53:39.41\00:53:40.98
true love requires freedom.
00:53:41.02\00:53:44.52
That we live in
a generation today
00:53:44.55\00:53:46.49
where the
average home in America
00:53:46.52\00:53:49.39
at least has around
eight to nine Bibles.
00:53:49.42\00:53:54.33
We have the life source.
00:53:54.36\00:53:56.73
But here's the power
fullness of God's love
00:53:56.77\00:53:59.33
is that even
though He has provided us
00:53:59.37\00:54:01.34
with this powerful
life changing Word,
00:54:01.37\00:54:04.37
there still has to
be a humble approach
00:54:04.41\00:54:06.98
on our part to allow
this to transform us.
00:54:07.01\00:54:11.21
I think of the 10
virgins in Matthew 25.
00:54:11.25\00:54:14.42
They all have their lamps.
00:54:14.45\00:54:16.85
They all have their lamps,
00:54:16.89\00:54:18.45
they all went out
to meet the bridegroom.
00:54:18.49\00:54:20.86
Even the five
foolish had their lamps
00:54:20.89\00:54:23.12
and they trusted...
00:54:23.16\00:54:24.49
The lamp being the Bible.
00:54:24.53\00:54:26.03
The Bible, yes,
the lamp symbolically,
00:54:26.06\00:54:27.40
the lamp, of course,
00:54:27.43\00:54:28.76
you know, the light
unto our path, lamp is God,
00:54:28.80\00:54:30.63
the Bible, so they
all got their Bibles
00:54:30.67\00:54:32.97
and in symbolically
that very prophetic parable,
00:54:33.00\00:54:36.57
they're going out with
their trust in God's Word
00:54:36.60\00:54:39.94
that He's going to return.
00:54:39.97\00:54:41.31
It says they
all went out to wait
00:54:41.34\00:54:43.38
for the bridegroom to return.
00:54:43.41\00:54:45.08
If you would have
asked those five virgins.
00:54:45.11\00:54:47.52
If they believed
in the Word of God,
00:54:47.55\00:54:49.05
they would have said, yes.
00:54:49.08\00:54:50.42
If you would have
asked those five virgins
00:54:50.45\00:54:51.79
if you believe that
Jesus is coming, yes.
00:54:51.82\00:54:53.29
Are you a
Christian? Are you saved?
00:54:53.32\00:54:54.66
Yes, yes, yes.
00:54:54.69\00:54:56.42
But they lack the Holy
Spirit. They lack the oil.
00:54:56.46\00:54:59.49
Oil, you take
Zachariah 4, Revelation 5,
00:54:59.53\00:55:02.03
put those together, it
clearly teaches us that
00:55:02.06\00:55:04.37
the oil can
represent the Spirit of God.
00:55:04.40\00:55:06.67
Amen.
00:55:06.70\00:55:08.04
And so, you know, we
can read this powerful book
00:55:08.07\00:55:10.71
and is it possible for
us to know this, read this,
00:55:10.74\00:55:14.11
but be rejecting the power
00:55:14.14\00:55:16.54
behind this to
activate it in our life.
00:55:16.58\00:55:19.51
And I just, I feel led to say
something about that because,
00:55:19.55\00:55:23.39
you know for years of
my life, I would read this
00:55:23.42\00:55:26.35
and I would know
it, I memorized it.
00:55:26.39\00:55:29.82
But it's one
thing you can read it,
00:55:29.86\00:55:32.79
but again, be a
hearer of the Word
00:55:32.83\00:55:34.96
and not a doer in rejecting
00:55:35.00\00:55:37.00
the convicting
power of this Word,
00:55:37.03\00:55:39.50
and that it becomes
void in the sense that you,
00:55:39.53\00:55:43.81
you are rejecting the
power behind this Word.
00:55:43.84\00:55:46.07
And that is the Holy Spirit.
00:55:46.11\00:55:47.44
I wanna
encourage everyone at home,
00:55:47.48\00:55:48.81
I wanna encourage myself,
00:55:48.84\00:55:50.18
I wanna pray the
Lord transform me
00:55:50.21\00:55:51.95
that when I open Your Word,
00:55:51.98\00:55:53.72
that this powerful
word as your Word says,
00:55:53.75\00:55:56.02
will not return void,
00:55:56.05\00:55:57.59
that I will
listen to the Holy Spirit
00:55:57.62\00:55:59.49
and that I'll hide
this is in my heart
00:55:59.52\00:56:01.76
that I may not sin against You.
00:56:01.79\00:56:03.12
And that's the way I
think it's the returning,
00:56:03.16\00:56:05.29
it's the speaking
God's Word over your life
00:56:05.33\00:56:07.40
praying those
promises in prayer.
00:56:07.43\00:56:09.16
That's how you plug
into your power source
00:56:09.20\00:56:12.30
that's returning it to Him.
00:56:12.33\00:56:14.07
But I wanted to
read this to you.
00:56:14.10\00:56:15.67
He says, Jesus says in John 12,
00:56:15.70\00:56:19.61
John Chapter 12:48, he
said, "He who rejects me,
00:56:19.64\00:56:23.98
does not receive my word
has that which judges him.
00:56:24.01\00:56:29.25
The word that I have spoken,
00:56:29.28\00:56:30.89
will judge him in the last day."
00:56:30.92\00:56:34.29
What God wants
from you and from me,
00:56:34.32\00:56:38.99
He has given us everything
00:56:39.03\00:56:41.56
that we need for
good abundant life
00:56:41.60\00:56:45.17
and godliness.
00:56:45.20\00:56:46.53
He has given us
His exceedingly great
00:56:46.57\00:56:49.94
and precious promises.
00:56:49.97\00:56:51.97
And the Bible
says 1 Peter, 2, 3,
00:56:52.01\00:56:54.94
and 4 says that
through these promises,
00:56:54.98\00:56:57.38
we become partakers
of the divine nature.
00:56:57.41\00:57:00.28
God wants you to understand
00:57:00.32\00:57:03.65
that the
potential of any harvest
00:57:03.69\00:57:06.45
whether it's a
physical or spiritual harvest,
00:57:06.49\00:57:08.82
that potential is
wrapped inside the seed.
00:57:08.86\00:57:12.93
And Jesus said the
seed is the Word of God,
00:57:12.96\00:57:16.36
so all of your potential is
trapped inside of this seed,
00:57:16.40\00:57:21.00
and we are already
out of time, out of time.
00:57:21.04\00:57:25.64
Thank you so
much for joining us.
00:57:25.67\00:57:27.44
We're so glad that you joined us
00:57:27.48\00:57:29.41
and our prayer for you is
that the grace of our Lord
00:57:29.44\00:57:32.75
and Savior Jesus
Christ, the love of the Father,
00:57:32.78\00:57:35.12
and the
fellowship of the Holy Spirit
00:57:35.15\00:57:36.89
will be with you always.
00:57:36.92\00:57:38.85
Amen.
00:57:38.89\00:57:40.22