I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello, and welcome
to 3ABN Family Worship.
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We're so glad you joined
us. We have an exciting study.
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We say that every time
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because it's
exciting every time.
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We're going to be
talking about "Are you ready?"
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This is part two.
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There's like five
questions and we thought
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we'd get through it last time.
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And I think we did one.
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We don't feel
like we should rush.
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You know, we're
studying the Word of God,
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and we pray that
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the Holy
Spirit's leading, guiding,
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and the answers
that come forward
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and the thoughts
that the Holy Spirit gives
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will be just exactly
what you've been praying for.
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And so we pray today,
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it's going to be an
answer to your prayer.
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Are you ready?
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And we're going to look at,
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we looked at the
Day of Salvation,
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the first part,
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and we come to conclusion,
the Day of Salvation.
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Today we're going to
be looking at preparation,
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in case you're deciding
whether to turn the channel.
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I know you're
not going to do that.
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We're going to be
talking about preparation.
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How can we be prepared
for the coming of Jesus?
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Third question would be talking
about the beacon of light.
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How can we be the beacon
of truth and light in a world
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that really
sometimes doesn't seem to care
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whether they have light or not?
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And then how do you
deal with your family,
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your friends, those
who keep the commandments,
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those who decide
not to keep them,
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it's very, very
important we look at that.
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And then we're going to talk
about basically righteousness
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by faith, question four.
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God's coming back
after the people without spot
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or wrinkle or any such thing.
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And then question five,
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I like it, Christ formed within,
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and how is Christ formed within.
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These are things
may you've been over
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many, many, many times
and so on and so forth.
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But you know, these
things I think we can go over,
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the Holy Spirit
will help us and lead us
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and guide us and direct us.
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But you know, we've
got some exciting things.
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And I do believe
this with the panel
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that we have here and
those who are helping us
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and we're very
grateful and thankful
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that we have helpers.
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We need
helpers, thankful, right?
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On the end right
here, Brother Don Owen,
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so glad you are with us today.
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Thank you. Thank
you for inviting me on.
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It's been a blessing and
yeah, it's very challenging,
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you know, to study all of this
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and find out so
much meat is in this.
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There is, isn't it?
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It expounds, you
know, the Bible just begins
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to open up and
explode in your mind.
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So very thankful for this. Amen.
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And you have beside you your...
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Yes. My wife Janelle.
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Yes, she is with us
this time. Yes, yes.
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We asked for quite frequently,
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but she's busy doing a
lot of different things.
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We are very thankful
that you've taken time out,
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to come and to grace
us with your presence
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and the knowledge
the Lord has given you
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to share with us.
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And my name is Kenny Shelton.
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I'm so glad to have my
wife Chris with me, right?
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She's a spiritual backbone.
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Praise the Lord,
right? The balancer.
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She helps balance me,
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keep me
balanced in relationship.
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I don't mind I'm
saying it publicly.
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Yes, I don't mind
that. Everybody knows that.
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Because sometimes
we get rambunctious,
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we want to get things done.
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So she says, "Honey,
remember who you are."
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So we have on your left
always Brother Ryan Day.
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Hey, I'm excited to be a
part of this program again
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and to study
this exciting topic.
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Well, we're always
excited to have you
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because you are
excited about the Word of God.
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I'm excited
about the Word of God.
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The coming to
Jesus and you know,
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singing and
ministering and everything.
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It's just such a blessing. Amen.
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And on your
left, who do you have?
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We have Brother John
Dinzey. John Dinzey, yes.
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3ABN Latino General Manager.
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Yes. Yes.
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Always good to
have you, Brother.
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God is good.
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And He's gonna
show it again today.
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Amen.
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Yeah, but have you
played some time, don't you?
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Yes. Yes. Heavy
play, spiritual play.
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I mean there's so much to do,
but yet I've noticed every time
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someone makes a call to,
can you help us, can you do?
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You always respond.
And that's the blessing.
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That's what's in the
heart and it comes out.
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Praise God. Okay,
we are going to...
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And on the piano...
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On the piano, our good
friend, Brother Tim Parton.
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Thank you. Amen.
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He opened with a nice prayer.
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We're very grateful
and thankful for that
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before we came on
the air and so when...
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And he's the same way.
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When you just ask, I
think kind of last minute man,
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he just shows up and really
puts everything he has into it.
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And we thank God for
that. That's awesome.
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And we're gonna sing a
song and, Brother Ryan,
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I'm gonna turn it over to you
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and you just tell
us what we need to do.
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What we have, we established
this as our theme song.
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Yes, we did.
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I think for this
particular study.
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And it's a hymn that
when I was with Amazing Facts,
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at AFCO in my
beginnings of ministry,
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this was kind of one
of our theme songs at AFCO
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that we often sing,
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and it's a "When
shall I see Jesus."
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And so let's sing it together.
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O when shall I see Jesus
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And reign with Him above
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And shall hear the
trumpet Sound in that morning?
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And from the flowing
fountain Drink everlasting love
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And shall hear the
trumpet Sound in that morning
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O, shout, glory!
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For I shall
mount above the skies
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When I hear the
trumpet Sound in that morning
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Gird on the gospel armor
Of faith and hope and love
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And you'll hear the
trumpet Sound in that morning
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And when the combat's
ended He'll carry you above
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And you'll hear the
trumpet Sound in that morning
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O, shout, glory!
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For I shall
mount above the skies
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When I hear the
trumpet Sound in that morning
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Our ears shall
hear with gladness
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The host of heaven sing
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And shall hear the
trumpet Sound in that morning.
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Our tongues
shall speak the glories
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Of our immortal King
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And shall hear the
trumpet Sound in that morning
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O, shout, glory!
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For I shall
mount above the skies
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When I hear the trumpet Sound
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in that morning
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Amen. Praise the Lord.
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Looking forward to that shout
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in the morning,
isn't that right?
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Amen. That's right.
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We'll probably
begin with Brother Ryan,
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since you're good warmed up,
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would you have
prayer for us, please.
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Absolutely. Let's do it.
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Father in heaven, Lord,
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we approach You with the
humble meek spirit, Lord,
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because we know that
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we don't have to ask
for You to be here with us
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because You have
promised us in Your Word
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that where two or three
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or more are
gathered in Your name,
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there You are in the midst.
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And so, Lord, we ask that
You don't just be around us,
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but that You would
be in us right now.
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Give us the Holy Spirit
to be able to rightly divide
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your word of truth.
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And may there be
someone right now, Lord,
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across this world
watching right now.
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And each and every one of
us sitting here at this table,
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may we be blessed.
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May we be drawn to Jesus Christ,
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may our eyes be
open in these last days
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that we have the
spiritual eyesight of Jesus,
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the spiritual mind of Christ.
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We ask these things
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and we pray in
Jesus' holy name, amen.
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Amen. Praise the Lord.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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You know, again, we're
going to be studying about
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"Are you ready?"
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Probably the most important
question that we could,
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you know, we can
ask or ask others.
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Are we ready, really
ready for the coming of Jesus?
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I don't know about you,
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but you talked
to a lot of people
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and they say
every time, "I'm ready."
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I just want Jesus
to come but you know,
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really a lot of
self examination.
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I keep thinking, you
know, "Am I like Jesus?
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Am I material to
repopulate heaven?"
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And sad to say,
most time, all the time
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I come back with an
answer, I need improvements.
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And so, but, listen,
don't get discouraged
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if maybe you come
to that conclusion too,
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because come to that conclusion
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simply draws me to
the cross of Christ,
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it draws me to Jesus
and so to be prepared.
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And He's so
graciously and so kind,
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shows us where we can improve.
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You know, He doesn't
do like some time friends
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and relatives and
different ones might do.
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You know, but He does in
such a sweet, wonderful way.
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We're on question number two.
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And again, we mentioned
here sitting around this table.
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If you don't speak up, you may
not get a turn, so, you know.
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That's a good question.
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But it's okay to do
that, because this is a study
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but it's also a, you know,
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collectively
we've come together.
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And we need the thoughts
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that the Holy
Spirit is given each one.
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It may just be one word,
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it may be only two or
three minutes, whatever.
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But still, it's
going to be good.
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So let's read.
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Honey, how about
you read the second one?
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Or maybe you have a thought
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and then let's just get started.
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Let me say a thought
on what you were saying,
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It just reminded
me when you said,
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you still feel like
you need to be prepared
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that we're not quite there yet.
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You know, Peter says that
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even though the righteous
shall scarcely be saved,
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and so you know that's
a very humbling thought.
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And we've got a lot of
preppers in this world.
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We've got millionaires
that have bought these
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underground bunkers,
and they've turned it into,
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I mean, just like a hotel,
living community underground,
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because they feel like
something's about to happen.
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Something dramatic,
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something
traumatic is about to happen.
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And, in fact, with the people
talking about global warming,
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they say that we have
about nine viable years left.
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And last evening,
someone sent me a link
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and I was looking and
out in the Pacific Ocean,
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the acidity is getting so
high that the crustaceans,
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their shells are not forming
and many of our fish species
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are dying away
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which reminds me of the verse,
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you know, that the Lord says,
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"I will destroy those
who destroy the earth."
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Things are
happening in our world.
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And I just think
that bears repeating,
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"Are you, are we ready?
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Are we ready?"
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If we could go to heaven
today, would we be ready?
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Let's read number two.
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So we're not trying to set
times or anything like that.
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But I think it's good
that someone's throwing it out,
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just people of
the world is saying,
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you know, scientifically,
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they don't think
it's going to last.
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It's good food
for thought for us
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to go to the Word of God.
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Absolutely.
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Well, and you stop
and think about it,
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you know, we hear about plastics
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all the time in our oceans,
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and just recently we were
at a church in the Bahamas,
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and the water's
so crystal clear.
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I know you go
like to South America
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and different
places and you get to see
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that ocean maybe
probably a lot more than we do,
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Pastor John.
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But I mean, just billowing up
over, you could see the rocks.
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You could see everything.
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It looks so
clear, you can drink it.
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But you turn and
look at the beach, shoes,
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plastics, combs,
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toothbrushes,
hampers, everything.
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It's incredible.
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In fact, the
scientists are saying now
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that even sea salt is not safe
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because it has bits of
plastic that we're ingesting.
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There are things
happening in our world.
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So let's look at
question number two.
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Okay, this is it.
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How are we to make preparations
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to become a child
of our heavenly King,
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for the judgment,
to be at peace with God
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and to be ready
to meet our King?
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It's a loaded
question, my goodness.
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Yes. It is a loaded question.
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Yes. Go ahead.
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I think that, you know,
like what you're saying,
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Chris, about, you know,
what the people were doing
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to build these bomb
ready or whatever the cases,
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you know, the
world's way of being prepared
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for something is
totally different
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than what we do as Christians.
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And it's the physical.
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And, of course, ours
involves the physical,
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but it also encompasses,
you know, the spiritual.
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And I think the first thing,
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first most important
thing is to choose God,
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and to realize that we need Him.
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And then we make
those preparations
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if He's important in our lives,
because if we don't choose Him,
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then our lives are not
going to go in that direction.
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It's interesting you mentioned
that because we do a recovery,
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the first step is, you
know, you had to realize
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that your life would become
uncontrollable or unmanageable,
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and you need somebody to come
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and kind of strain out the mess.
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So God is the only one.
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I was in prison recently,
and I had the opportunity
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to talk to a bunch of men
and I was sharing with them
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that same fact, you know, God...
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I think you were
visiting in the prison?
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Visiting. I was visiting.
Yes, I always say visiting.
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I always have that
issue with my tongue
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but ministering to the
men in there and visiting,
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and I was telling,
you know, without God,
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there's only repeated failures
and there's no substitution,
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so God has to be the
center point of all of
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because He created us.
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I mean, He made us. I
think that's really powerful.
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Hebrews 12:1 and 2 is
kind of what speaks to me,
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I'll just in verse...
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Hebrews 12:1 and 2
is really powerful.
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It says something, now,
we remember in Chapter 11
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talks about those
who died in the faith,
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they didn't
receive the promises,
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but they saw him afar often.
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So verse 1 says,
"Wherefore seeing
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we also are compassed about
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with so great a
cloud of witnesses,"
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here it is,
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"let us lay aside every weight
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and the sin which
doth so easily beset us,
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and let us run with patience
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the race that is set before us."
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And here's the key,
"Looking unto Jesus the author
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and finisher of our faith,
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who for the joy
that was set before him
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endured the cross,
despising the shame,
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and is set down at the right
hand of the throne of God."
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So that kind of
gives me a stage,
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I need to be
looking at Jesus, you know,
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and running towards Him,
not running towards the things,
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bunkers in the ground,
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you can't run anywhere
in bunker, you're stuck.
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You're in the
ground, you're stuck,
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you're not going anywhere.
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So you know, running to
Jesus, and that's the only way
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you're gonna get through this
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the times ahead by trusting Him.
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This can go at a lot
of different direction,
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hopefully we'll
bring some of these up.
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Heaven, now, we're talking
about preparation for heaven,
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we're talking about judgment.
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Is there such a
thing as the judgment?
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We all have to face it
or some will, some won't.
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And then peace.
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So somebody mentioned
a loaded question here.
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So let's just maybe
see how far we go with it.
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Yes. No, absolutely.
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You know, when I
read these questions,
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you know,
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there's like a three or
four part sermon series, right?
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Amen, that's right.
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That's why, you know,
it wouldn't surprise me
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if we don't get to
number three today,
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we have the possibility
but interestingly enough,
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you know, when you ask
just that first question,
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how would you make preparations
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to become a child
of the heavenly King?
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You know, when I
read that question,
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my mind went
immediately to the sanctuary.
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The sanctuary message
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and I know we
talk about that a lot,
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and rightfully so, because
God's gospel plan of salvation.
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It's his GPS. Yes.
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If you are lost, you need a map.
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And these days, we
don't use maps anymore
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because we're
blessed with technology,
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we have GPS, Global
Positioning Systems.
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Well, God also has a GPS
in His blueprint of salvation.
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His gospel plan of salvation
is found in the sanctuary.
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And when I think of
how to make preparation,
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I look at that sanctuary
model because it's a map.
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It's a blueprint that
tells me how I can make sure
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that I go from the
outer door of that courtyard
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and I eventually end
up in the presence of God,
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which is the Most Holy Place.
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So I think of, you know,
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Jesus mentions, I
think, in Matthew Chapter 10,
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no, John Chapter 10.
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John, Chapter 10.
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He says, He talks about how,
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you know, thieves and
robbers try to enter other ways
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other than
through the door, okay.
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That's a part of scripture
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that you can fit
into many aspects
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of the Christian experience.
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But I think of, you know,
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many people try to
take a leap or a giant jump,
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I guess you could say,
into the Most Holy Place
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when they haven't had
a courtyard experience
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with the Lord.
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When they haven't had a holy
place experience with the Lord.
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And so I think it's safe
to say that salvation is a,
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it's a progressive experience.
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Sanctification is a
progressive experience.
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In fact, we were
doing our devotional
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this morning for pastoral,
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and it just happened
to be on sanctification,
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and I loved that in
that particular devotion.
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We were reading
from Ellen White's,
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what was it...
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What was the title of
that? Reflecting Christ.
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Reflecting Christ,
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the devotional
reflecting Christ.
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And in February, right here,
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during this particular
time we were studying it,
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it brought out the fact
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that sanctification
is a progressive concept.
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So when you start in
that courtyard, and you know,
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you're there at the
altar of sacrificing,
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you're fully
taking in, you know,
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the events that
transpired at Calvary
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and you're taking in because
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we know that that
Altar of Sacrifice
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represents the work.
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It kind of foreshadows the work,
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the ultimate accomplishment,
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the atonement that Christ would,
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would accomplish right
there on the cross at Calvary.
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We need to find ourselves
at the foot of the cross.
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We need to find
ourselves accepting
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and fully contemplating
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and taking in what
Christ has done for us
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and taking the beating,
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taking the
punishment that we deserve.
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Then you move on to the
laver and it's like, okay,
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we're being cleansed
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because that's a
symbol of baptism, right?
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Christ is the living water.
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And while He was buried
in the tomb and resurrected,
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we also are buried, our
sins, our old man is buried,
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we were
resurrected a new person.
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So that's just an example.
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But a lot of people's
experience stops right there.
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They have a
courtyard experience,
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but then they don't go
into the Most Holy Place.
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And so how can we prepare
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to be a child of
the heavenly King?
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How can I make
sure that I'm ready
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once you've had
that courtyard experience
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into the Most Holy Place?
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Because He want you to
eat of the bread daily,
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the Word of God.
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The word that you didn't use,
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but what was coming to my mind
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and what the Lord I felt like
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brought to my mind this morning,
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right before I came over here.
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And it goes back to
Hebrews that you were reading in
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what you just said about
that outer court experience
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is we need to
see the love of God.
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Absolutely.
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The love of God that
gave that was so willing
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to give each and
every one of us His Son.
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And then the love of the Son
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that was
willing to give His body
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as a sacrifice,
and the humility.
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And when we begin to
experience that love,
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then that brings a
word called repentance.
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And it's not repentance because
I got caught, there you see.
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Yes. Korah, Balaam.
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Or Balaam, that's right.
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Pharoah. Yeah, pharaoh...
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Esau. There's a difference.
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A true repentance is,
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well, I've even got
the definition in here.
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I looked it up this morning,
but it is a turning away.
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It's contrition of your
past content, of your past sin.
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And you don't want to go there.
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And as you were talking,
you know, Christ didn't come.
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He didn't make that sacrifice
so that we could sin less.
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He made that sacrifice
to cover all of our sins.
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And so often we
want to hold on to things
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of this world and say,
"Well, I've given 90% of that."
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You know, but
what I found out...
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Let me give you
this example. Okay.
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I made some chili last week.
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It was Thursday
evening, it was for Sabbath.
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And I made a huge pot.
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So I mean, everything
I had was in that pot.
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But to begin with, I
was putting a little garlic,
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well, it took me a while
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to get all the
ingredients in there
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and my garlic burned.
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Oh, no.
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And I knew right
then that I should throw
00:19:54.26\00:19:56.39
that garlic out that
I should deal with it.
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And I thought,
well, I've made it
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before and it's been brown
like that, it'd be all right.
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I got that big pan
full of chili and...
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It had a peculiar taste.
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It permeated the rest...
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Pastor Kenny says
that's not the best chili
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you've ever made.
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What are you gonna say
00:20:16.41\00:20:17.75
when somebody asks
you that, you know?
00:20:17.78\00:20:19.11
It sounds good,
honey. It's so good.
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It's not the best.
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Spitting out when I knew...
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The reason I'm
telling you this story
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is because a lot of times,
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we don't deal
with the little sin.
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And it doesn't matter
00:20:31.53\00:20:33.53
how small you think your sin is,
00:20:33.56\00:20:36.40
that sin would still
require Christ's sacrifice
00:20:36.43\00:20:40.87
in order for us
to go to the kingdom.
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And because I left that
sin, that burnt garlic in there,
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it permeated
through the whole pot.
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Now I worked and I
worked and I work so much harder
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to get it to taste
different and taste good.
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You tried to cover it
up and mask it, sin, but...
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But...
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But listen, you know,
that's what happens with us.
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If we would just not
sin in the beginning,
00:21:05.23\00:21:07.96
it's so much easier.
00:21:08.00\00:21:09.43
But once we invite sin
and we fall prey to sin,
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it's so much more work to
get it out of our heart...
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What did you do with it?
00:21:17.31\00:21:18.64
And get it out of our lives.
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Well, we try to do
sometime 'cause it's good point,
00:21:20.04\00:21:21.91
is we try to mask it.
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We try to cover up those things
and not really make the change.
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No, there's nothing
wrong with the chili,
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we're talking about sin.
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I was looking at it a little
different than masking over it.
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Yeah, no, no, you
were trying to make it
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where it be presentable.
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But if we're talking
spiritual, Brother John, right?
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We're talking spiritual.
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What should we have
done with the chili?
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It's contaminated, right?
00:21:40.70\00:21:42.46
It's all messed
up... Throw it out.
00:21:42.50\00:21:44.07
Well, it's like the churches
00:21:44.10\00:21:45.43
when we don't
deal with open sin,
00:21:45.47\00:21:47.54
it permeates
through the whole body.
00:21:47.57\00:21:49.64
It's our families
00:21:49.67\00:21:51.01
when we don't
deal with open sin,
00:21:51.04\00:21:52.51
it permeates
through our children,
00:21:52.54\00:21:54.58
you know, and...
00:21:54.61\00:21:55.98
Brother John, as chili's
different than sin, right?
00:21:56.01\00:21:58.45
So how do we talking
about sin issue, right?
00:21:58.48\00:22:01.25
You really can't mask it.
00:22:01.28\00:22:02.62
You really shouldn't
cover it up, isn't that right?
00:22:02.65\00:22:03.99
That needs to be taken
to the Lord in prayer...
00:22:04.02\00:22:05.45
Should have got rid
of it in the beginning.
00:22:05.49\00:22:06.92
Well, you have the scripture
that says a little leaven,
00:22:06.96\00:22:09.66
leaven up the whole
lump, so one little sin...
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In the book, Steps
to Christ, it says,
00:22:13.50\00:22:15.80
let's see, if I
remember the wording,
00:22:15.83\00:22:18.53
that one little sin can...
00:22:18.57\00:22:23.27
It's like it...
00:22:23.30\00:22:25.61
What's the word
I'm looking for it?
00:22:25.64\00:22:26.98
Permeates.
00:22:27.01\00:22:28.34
Well, the essence is this.
00:22:28.38\00:22:29.71
Permeates and
completely destroys the person
00:22:29.74\00:22:34.32
because if you cherish that,
00:22:34.35\00:22:37.19
you will love that
more than you love God.
00:22:37.22\00:22:40.16
And this is a great hinder.
00:22:40.19\00:22:41.82
Yes, you refuse to let it go.
00:22:41.86\00:22:44.89
I don't know if it was in this.
00:22:44.93\00:22:46.26
Last time we talked about,
00:22:46.29\00:22:48.36
that there was a
song that somebody,
00:22:48.40\00:22:50.53
you know, they
were, I was watching TV
00:22:50.57\00:22:53.07
and they had some new music.
00:22:53.10\00:22:55.34
No, they had
compiled a bunch of old songs
00:22:55.37\00:22:58.21
and one of the songs said,
00:22:58.24\00:22:59.57
if there's no beer in
heaven, I don't want to go.
00:22:59.61\00:23:02.48
Now somebody's holding
on to something like that,
00:23:02.51\00:23:07.08
we say, how in the world
00:23:07.12\00:23:08.62
do you think this
temporary pleasure can...
00:23:08.65\00:23:13.56
It's worth so much to you
00:23:13.59\00:23:14.99
that you're
willing to give up so much.
00:23:15.02\00:23:18.43
Because what God has for us,
00:23:18.46\00:23:21.06
it cannot be
compared to anything
00:23:21.10\00:23:23.00
you have upon
this earth, you cannot.
00:23:23.03\00:23:25.30
That's right. You just cannot.
00:23:25.33\00:23:27.40
And when you, you know,
00:23:27.44\00:23:28.77
you talked about
the Altar of Sacrifice,
00:23:28.80\00:23:30.91
and you mentioned
the love of Christ.
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Now, there's a
scripture in 2 Corinthians 5:14
00:23:33.81\00:23:35.81
that I looked up over
here, and I'd like to read it.
00:23:35.84\00:23:39.25
"For the love of
Christ compels us."
00:23:39.28\00:23:41.68
This is the New
King James Version.
00:23:41.72\00:23:44.25
"Because we judged us that
00:23:44.29\00:23:45.95
if one died for
all then all died."
00:23:45.99\00:23:48.86
In the King
James Version, it says,
00:23:48.89\00:23:51.09
"The love of
Christ constraineth us."
00:23:51.13\00:23:54.36
And looking at the Greek
word, it's a word that says,
00:23:54.40\00:23:57.37
it's like two
things, interesting.
00:23:57.40\00:23:59.30
Hold together, but also,
00:23:59.33\00:24:02.60
it says here compels,
00:24:02.64\00:24:04.37
but as it sets
out, moves us forward.
00:24:04.41\00:24:08.14
So, the love of Christ,
00:24:08.18\00:24:10.38
if you keep before you
that Christ died for you,
00:24:10.41\00:24:14.15
not only for you but for others,
00:24:14.18\00:24:16.05
this will motivate you,
00:24:16.08\00:24:17.85
this will lead you to
share the good news with others.
00:24:17.89\00:24:22.02
And this love of God,
00:24:22.06\00:24:24.83
he says it's without measure.
00:24:24.86\00:24:28.93
And it's fresh, you
consider it's fresh,
00:24:28.96\00:24:32.90
because of the
fact that you realize
00:24:32.93\00:24:36.71
that God has
done so much for you.
00:24:36.74\00:24:39.47
Not only at the
cross but continues.
00:24:39.51\00:24:42.88
You think about the
Christ in the Most Holy Place.
00:24:42.91\00:24:47.85
And He's there...
00:24:47.88\00:24:49.85
Upon His blood. Yes, yes.
00:24:49.88\00:24:52.02
It's amazing.
00:24:52.05\00:24:55.12
You go first and
I'm going after you.
00:24:55.16\00:24:57.06
It just makes me
think what you're saying is,
00:24:57.09\00:24:59.09
you know, how we,
we have to allow Him
00:24:59.13\00:25:01.96
to transform our hearts.
00:25:02.00\00:25:03.50
Because if we don't,
and we don't recognize
00:25:03.53\00:25:06.30
what He's trying to show us,
and we just want to ignore it,
00:25:06.33\00:25:09.34
to hold on to that little thing,
00:25:09.37\00:25:10.97
whatever it is, we can't
grow and we can't be prepared.
00:25:11.01\00:25:15.31
And it just, it
stifles our growth
00:25:15.34\00:25:17.68
and we become like handicapped,
you know, like Christians.
00:25:17.71\00:25:21.52
And you know, you see,
a lot of the times you see
00:25:21.55\00:25:24.42
where a person will have
like a really high experience
00:25:24.45\00:25:27.62
and they'll like,
be really close to God
00:25:27.66\00:25:30.16
and they expect that journey
to be like that all the time.
00:25:30.19\00:25:32.99
And then really disappointed
00:25:33.03\00:25:34.43
when they have to start
on that harder journey of,
00:25:34.46\00:25:39.50
you know, facing
ourselves and seeing
00:25:39.53\00:25:42.94
what's in really in
our hearts and you know,
00:25:42.97\00:25:45.34
the things that God sees in us
00:25:45.37\00:25:48.14
that are not
pleasing to Him or not,
00:25:48.18\00:25:51.58
like the world would
say, Oh, that's not that bad.
00:25:51.61\00:25:54.68
Sugar is not that bad.
00:25:54.72\00:25:56.85
Whatever you want to say,
you know, people you know,
00:25:56.89\00:25:59.02
the world says,
"This is not that bad.
00:25:59.05\00:26:00.92
It's acceptable."
00:26:00.96\00:26:02.29
But if it's something that comes
00:26:02.32\00:26:03.73
between me and
God, then it is bad.
00:26:03.76\00:26:05.09
There you go. Good.
00:26:05.13\00:26:06.73
You know, that's
interesting. I'm sorry.
00:26:06.76\00:26:08.70
Go ahead.
00:26:08.73\00:26:10.07
It's interesting you say
that because you've made me
00:26:10.10\00:26:12.27
think of the fact
that as society continues,
00:26:12.30\00:26:18.21
as time continues,
00:26:18.24\00:26:19.91
things that once
before people will go...
00:26:19.94\00:26:21.88
Oh, that's right. That's right.
00:26:21.91\00:26:24.18
Now becomes acceptable.
00:26:24.21\00:26:27.48
And you think of TV,
there are certain words
00:26:27.52\00:26:31.59
that were not
allowed to be said on TV.
00:26:31.62\00:26:34.52
You think of, I
was reading something.
00:26:34.56\00:26:36.83
There was some TV
show many, many years ago,
00:26:36.86\00:26:39.69
I think it was in the 60s.
00:26:39.73\00:26:41.20
And they said, "Well,
we cannot have the lady
00:26:41.23\00:26:45.67
show her belly button
00:26:45.70\00:26:47.04
so they would
cover her belly button.
00:26:47.07\00:26:48.40
In the show it was
a... I Dream of Jeannie.
00:26:48.44\00:26:51.07
I Dream of Jeannie. I think it.
00:26:51.11\00:26:52.71
Today, they're not only
showing you belly button,
00:26:52.74\00:26:55.78
I'm sure it's worse, it's just.
00:26:55.81\00:26:58.38
But it's become
acceptable and the, you know,
00:26:58.41\00:27:03.49
we that work on television,
00:27:03.52\00:27:04.85
they keep
adjusting what's acceptable.
00:27:04.89\00:27:07.56
They condition our perception.
They condition our perception.
00:27:07.59\00:27:10.36
Where you
condition your perception,
00:27:10.39\00:27:12.29
you can change the world.
00:27:12.33\00:27:13.80
So a little leaven
leaveneth the whole lump.
00:27:13.83\00:27:17.00
Yeah, little burned
garlic ruined my chili.
00:27:17.03\00:27:19.20
But you know what?
00:27:19.23\00:27:21.64
this is all part of
what we're talking about here
00:27:21.67\00:27:24.41
because this is so prevalent
what not only in society,
00:27:24.44\00:27:28.74
in the world
but in the churches.
00:27:28.78\00:27:30.71
They'd say, you
know, come as you are
00:27:30.75\00:27:32.61
and they focus on grace,
00:27:32.65\00:27:33.98
they focus on
being happy and worship.
00:27:34.02\00:27:36.45
You know, God wants our praises,
00:27:36.48\00:27:38.82
He wants us to worship Him,
00:27:38.85\00:27:40.46
but we're to worship
Him not only in spirit,
00:27:40.49\00:27:43.29
but in truth.
00:27:43.32\00:27:44.66
And we can only do that as
we go through the sanctuary
00:27:44.69\00:27:47.36
and we began to
protect the bread of life,
00:27:47.40\00:27:50.23
you know, and we begin to
pray that candle of incense,
00:27:50.27\00:27:54.44
you know, we go, we continue,
00:27:54.47\00:27:56.14
we need to make
a daily commitment.
00:27:56.17\00:27:58.74
Otherwise,
we're not going to be,
00:27:58.77\00:28:01.24
we're not gonna be resentful,
we're not going to turn away.
00:28:01.28\00:28:04.61
I think a lot of
people, and to me,
00:28:04.65\00:28:06.78
this is probably
the most foundational
00:28:06.82\00:28:09.38
aspect to this
conversation that we're having.
00:28:09.42\00:28:12.22
Because when
you're talking about
00:28:12.25\00:28:13.69
making preparations to
become a child of the King,
00:28:13.72\00:28:16.19
of the heavenly
King, and approaching
00:28:16.22\00:28:18.13
and preparing
for judgment, right?
00:28:18.16\00:28:19.49
We're living in a judgment hour.
00:28:19.53\00:28:20.86
Come on. Yes. Right, right.
00:28:20.90\00:28:22.33
When you have a flawed or blurry
00:28:22.36\00:28:27.67
understanding of the
gospel, a view of the gospel.
00:28:27.70\00:28:32.77
You're going to approach
00:28:32.81\00:28:34.14
the rest of that
sanctuary experience.
00:28:34.18\00:28:36.08
And I know I keep going
back to that as an example.
00:28:36.11\00:28:37.45
That is so true.
00:28:37.48\00:28:38.81
But you're going to approach it.
00:28:38.85\00:28:40.18
Here's my point.
00:28:40.22\00:28:41.55
If you do not have
a genuine, heartfelt,
00:28:41.58\00:28:45.52
transformative experience
at the Altar of Sacrifice,
00:28:45.55\00:28:49.16
the rest of that
experience that you think
00:28:49.19\00:28:51.83
you're going to have
that's genuine in the sanctuary
00:28:51.86\00:28:53.83
is not going to be genuine.
00:28:53.86\00:28:55.43
What do I mean by that?
Let's consider the Passover.
00:28:55.46\00:28:58.63
The Passover was
kind of a glimpse
00:28:58.67\00:29:00.80
unto the sacrifice of Christ.
00:29:00.84\00:29:03.71
If you go read
Exodus Chapter 12,
00:29:03.74\00:29:05.67
this is powerful.
00:29:05.71\00:29:07.48
Go read Exodus Chapter 12.
00:29:07.51\00:29:09.28
And I think it's
verses 3 through 6 there.
00:29:09.31\00:29:11.88
Moses is given
specific instructions by God
00:29:11.91\00:29:14.95
on what to do with that lamb.
00:29:14.98\00:29:16.75
And so it's
interesting, but get this,
00:29:16.79\00:29:18.65
this goes right along
with what we're talking about.
00:29:18.69\00:29:20.86
So Exodus 12:3:6, I'm
not going to take you there
00:29:20.89\00:29:23.83
because I'm gonna
take you to another text
00:29:23.86\00:29:25.33
that's connected to
it in just a moment.
00:29:25.36\00:29:27.53
It's interesting that
He tells them, he says,
00:29:27.56\00:29:29.83
"Go out and get a
lamb of the first year
00:29:29.86\00:29:33.03
on the 10th day of the month."
00:29:33.07\00:29:37.37
And that lamb of the first year
00:29:37.41\00:29:39.01
could not have any
spot or any blemishes,
00:29:39.04\00:29:42.11
just like our characters.
00:29:42.14\00:29:44.11
We have to be perfect, you know,
00:29:44.15\00:29:45.91
perfect in Christ
style, in character.
00:29:45.95\00:29:48.75
So they were to go out
on the 10th day of the month
00:29:48.78\00:29:51.55
and take a little baby lamb
or a lamb on the first year,
00:29:51.59\00:29:54.56
a lamb kid.
00:29:54.59\00:29:55.92
Okay.
00:29:55.96\00:29:57.29
Now notice, the Lord
will then instruct them
00:29:57.33\00:29:59.46
and then on the
14th day at twilight,
00:29:59.49\00:30:03.57
the man of the house
would take it out and kill it
00:30:03.60\00:30:05.73
on behalf of the family sins.
00:30:05.77\00:30:07.57
And now count that
math there, technically,
00:30:07.60\00:30:10.07
if you were to count on
the moment they went out
00:30:10.11\00:30:11.87
and got the
lamb on the 10th day,
00:30:11.91\00:30:14.01
to the moment at
twilight on the 14th day,
00:30:14.04\00:30:16.54
guess how many days that is?
00:30:16.58\00:30:17.91
Three and a half
days. Oh, my God.
00:30:17.95\00:30:20.12
Just as Jesus' ministry
was three and a half years,
00:30:20.15\00:30:22.48
the Lamb of God that
takes away the sin of the world.
00:30:22.52\00:30:24.35
And here's what's
powerful about this.
00:30:24.39\00:30:26.05
When you
consider that timeframe,
00:30:26.09\00:30:29.09
three and a half days,
00:30:29.12\00:30:31.16
three and a half
years Christ ministry,
00:30:31.19\00:30:32.59
three and a half
days that they would have
00:30:32.63\00:30:35.10
this lamb in their home, why?
00:30:35.13\00:30:39.20
Why would the Lord tell
them, go out on this day,
00:30:39.23\00:30:43.00
the 10th day and go pick a lamb
00:30:43.04\00:30:45.54
and bring it in
and then go kill it
00:30:45.57\00:30:47.81
three and a half days later.
00:30:47.84\00:30:49.41
Make a little
tougher, wouldn't it?
00:30:49.44\00:30:50.78
Well, you know,
because there has to be,
00:30:50.81\00:30:53.08
see the gospel
experience makes more sense,
00:30:53.11\00:30:56.89
it becomes more personal
00:30:56.92\00:30:59.15
when you have had a
personal relationship,
00:30:59.19\00:31:02.49
when there's been
00:31:02.52\00:31:03.86
some feeling
established with that.
00:31:03.89\00:31:06.03
You could imagine
in that little home,
00:31:06.06\00:31:07.50
the kids would play
with that little lamb
00:31:07.53\00:31:08.86
for those three and a half days,
00:31:08.90\00:31:10.23
they would feed it,
they would water it,
00:31:10.27\00:31:11.60
they would take care of it,
00:31:11.63\00:31:12.97
there was a
bond that was created
00:31:13.00\00:31:14.34
as they would hold
it, and I don't know
00:31:14.37\00:31:15.70
if you've ever
seen a little baby lamb,
00:31:15.74\00:31:17.67
a lamb of the first year.
00:31:17.71\00:31:19.04
They're so precious.
They're so meek and humble.
00:31:19.07\00:31:21.28
I mean, you can
literally just pick them up
00:31:21.31\00:31:22.64
and they'll melt in your arms.
00:31:22.68\00:31:24.08
And that's exactly how Christ
00:31:24.11\00:31:25.91
is pictured in the
Book of Revelation,
00:31:25.95\00:31:27.68
in the original Greek.
00:31:27.72\00:31:29.05
I think it's 27-28 times.
00:31:29.08\00:31:30.89
Every time you see lamb
in the Book of Revelation,
00:31:30.92\00:31:33.42
it's not the original word
00:31:33.46\00:31:35.06
that is often used
in the Greek for lamb,
00:31:35.09\00:31:36.99
which is ajmnov or
amnos which is just lamb.
00:31:37.03\00:31:41.73
It's the word
iarnion and iarnion
00:31:41.76\00:31:43.80
in the Greek
means baby pet lamb.
00:31:43.83\00:31:46.33
So every time Jesus is depicted
in the Book of Revelation,
00:31:46.37\00:31:49.97
He's seen as a baby pet lamb.
00:31:50.01\00:31:51.61
Now why would I make that point?
00:31:51.64\00:31:53.68
Go over to
Zechariah Chapter 12 with me.
00:31:53.71\00:31:56.04
Zechariah Chapter 12.
00:31:56.08\00:31:57.41
This is powerful
because we're talking about,
00:31:57.45\00:32:01.28
you know, people
who are having kind of
00:32:01.32\00:32:04.25
a watered down experience
00:32:04.29\00:32:05.62
and doesn't seem
like it's genuine,
00:32:05.65\00:32:07.46
it's that they're struggling
with really connecting
00:32:07.49\00:32:10.39
with Christ on a daily basis.
00:32:10.43\00:32:12.03
They're
struggling with preparing
00:32:12.06\00:32:13.90
for Christ's soon return.
00:32:13.93\00:32:15.50
Notice Chapter 12 of Zechariah.
00:32:15.53\00:32:18.20
And I'm going to start
reading in verse 10 here.
00:32:18.23\00:32:20.24
This is in connection
with what we just read,
00:32:20.27\00:32:21.70
we're talking about
that, that Altar of Sacrifice.
00:32:21.74\00:32:24.01
That's the first step
of the plan of salvation.
00:32:24.04\00:32:26.98
There's a reason why
that's the first step
00:32:27.01\00:32:28.78
of the plan of salvation.
00:32:28.81\00:32:30.15
Notice this.
00:32:30.18\00:32:31.51
This is a messianic prophecy
00:32:31.55\00:32:32.88
pertaining to
Christ in Jerusalem.
00:32:32.91\00:32:34.25
Bible believe
that this principle
00:32:34.28\00:32:36.08
also applies to us as well.
00:32:36.12\00:32:37.95
It says, "And I will
pour out on the house of David
00:32:37.99\00:32:40.22
and on the
inhabitants of Jerusalem,
00:32:40.26\00:32:42.12
the spirit of grace and
supplication," notice this,
00:32:42.16\00:32:44.73
"then they will look
on Me whom they pierced.
00:32:44.76\00:32:48.96
Yes, they will mourn for Him
as one mourns for his only son,
00:32:49.00\00:32:53.10
and grief for Him
00:32:53.13\00:32:54.47
as one grieves
for a first born."
00:32:54.50\00:32:59.11
So what's
communicated there is that
00:32:59.14\00:33:01.34
when we behold the cross,
00:33:01.38\00:33:03.88
when we're standing
before that Altar of Sacrifice,
00:33:03.91\00:33:06.51
and we don't
realize that in connection
00:33:06.55\00:33:08.08
with the sanctuary message,
00:33:08.12\00:33:09.65
the person would have
to bring their own lamb,
00:33:09.68\00:33:11.55
that little baby lamb,
00:33:11.59\00:33:13.09
and then they
would take the knife
00:33:13.12\00:33:15.02
and they would take the
life of that little lamb.
00:33:15.06\00:33:17.43
They will look upon
Me whom they have pierced
00:33:17.46\00:33:19.53
and they will mourn.
00:33:19.56\00:33:20.90
There's a reason why Jesus said
00:33:20.93\00:33:22.26
and begins the
beatitude with blessed are they,
00:33:22.30\00:33:25.53
blessed are the
poor in the spirit.
00:33:25.57\00:33:27.64
Blessed are those who,
00:33:27.67\00:33:29.00
you know, the
poor in the spirit.
00:33:29.04\00:33:30.64
Why? Because
they've reached rock bottom.
00:33:30.67\00:33:33.58
They're brought to the cross,
00:33:33.61\00:33:35.51
and they look
and behold the cross,
00:33:35.54\00:33:37.15
they look and
behold Jesus there slain,
00:33:37.18\00:33:40.72
perfect baby Lamb
who has committed no sin,
00:33:40.75\00:33:43.85
and their heart melts
00:33:43.89\00:33:45.29
because they
realize my sins killed Him.
00:33:45.32\00:33:48.69
My sins killed the
Savior. That's powerful.
00:33:48.72\00:33:52.29
And so in considering
this gospel experience,
00:33:52.33\00:33:56.00
that sanctification
process will not be genuine
00:33:56.03\00:34:00.00
until we have beheld the
Lamb of God on the cross.
00:34:00.04\00:34:02.70
You know what you're talking
about the lamb was interesting.
00:34:02.74\00:34:04.51
I had a...
00:34:04.54\00:34:05.87
I want to call a
Bible study with an atheist.
00:34:05.91\00:34:08.28
He never went to church,
didn't know anything about God.
00:34:08.31\00:34:10.45
And we were out
building the house out on that
00:34:10.48\00:34:11.95
we called the North 40.
00:34:11.98\00:34:13.38
You know, you
can be out North 40
00:34:13.42\00:34:14.82
and God can bring people to you.
00:34:14.85\00:34:16.48
He can bring people who want,
00:34:16.52\00:34:17.85
but he just didn't want
anything to do with religion.
00:34:17.89\00:34:19.75
But he kept coming
around day after day,
00:34:19.79\00:34:22.62
because he had a
little house next door
00:34:22.66\00:34:23.99
and he stores stuff and
he just kept coming around.
00:34:24.03\00:34:25.89
He kept watching
this work on the house,
00:34:25.93\00:34:28.16
and he had talked
to us a little bit.
00:34:28.20\00:34:29.93
And so one day
he asked a question
00:34:29.96\00:34:32.10
and it was something about,
you believe there's a Christ,
00:34:32.13\00:34:35.90
you know, and so anyhow,
00:34:35.94\00:34:37.31
the conversation
come around to the lamb,
00:34:37.34\00:34:39.57
he's talking about a lamb.
00:34:39.61\00:34:41.18
So begins playing a
little bit about the sanctuary,
00:34:41.21\00:34:43.08
so maybe he could
understand a little bit better
00:34:43.11\00:34:44.81
and about the
sacrifices made in lamb,
00:34:44.85\00:34:47.05
and how the sinner had
to take and slit throat.
00:34:47.08\00:34:51.02
He sat there looking
at me the whole time.
00:34:51.05\00:34:53.76
Looks now, he finally says,
"That doesn't seem fair to me."
00:34:53.79\00:34:57.66
He's an atheist.
00:34:57.69\00:34:59.03
He said, that
doesn't seem right to me
00:34:59.06\00:35:00.40
that didn't seem fair to me
00:35:00.43\00:35:01.76
because that lamb
hadn't done a thing.
00:35:01.80\00:35:05.33
That lamb did do anything.
00:35:05.37\00:35:07.67
And I said,
00:35:07.70\00:35:09.04
"Now you're
starting to get the picture."
00:35:09.07\00:35:10.41
He said, "So the
lamb then represents,
00:35:10.44\00:35:12.04
I said it represents Jesus."
00:35:12.07\00:35:13.41
Why?
00:35:13.44\00:35:14.78
He didn't do anything
because it were, you know,
00:35:14.81\00:35:16.28
but He willing to
give His life for you,
00:35:16.31\00:35:19.01
you and me.
00:35:19.05\00:35:22.38
He just sat there
and really looked,
00:35:22.42\00:35:23.79
so he was figuring it out.
00:35:23.82\00:35:25.25
Spirit helped me figure out,
the lamb didn't do anything.
00:35:25.29\00:35:28.22
Why? Why kill the lamb?
00:35:28.26\00:35:30.99
And there's a lot of people
00:35:31.03\00:35:32.79
who are not having that
genuine Christian experience,
00:35:32.83\00:35:36.53
because they have not had
a genuine cross experience.
00:35:36.56\00:35:40.44
You know that
really brought that home
00:35:40.47\00:35:42.70
because I've
often thought about,
00:35:42.74\00:35:45.71
you know, loving
that little lamb.
00:35:45.74\00:35:48.14
I think about a
time where Danny,
00:35:48.18\00:35:50.28
his brother had left out of town
00:35:50.31\00:35:52.75
and left me four
little feral baby kittens
00:35:52.78\00:35:55.78
and they came
back like two weeks
00:35:55.82\00:35:57.52
and wanted two of them.
00:35:57.55\00:36:01.36
But by that time, I
didn't want to let them go,
00:36:01.39\00:36:05.03
because I had
already become attached
00:36:05.06\00:36:06.96
and fallen in love.
00:36:07.00\00:36:08.33
So that really brought that home
00:36:08.36\00:36:09.93
and I think that will help
us to understand James 4:7,
00:36:09.96\00:36:14.87
that's what we're talking about.
00:36:14.90\00:36:16.71
It just keep in
mind what these two men
00:36:16.74\00:36:19.17
just brought to our attention.
00:36:19.21\00:36:21.24
James 4:7-10.
00:36:21.28\00:36:24.08
James 4:7-10, 7 says,
00:36:24.11\00:36:27.28
"Submit
yourselves, therefore to God,
00:36:27.32\00:36:30.29
resist the devil and
he will flee from you."
00:36:30.32\00:36:32.05
Amen.
00:36:32.09\00:36:33.46
"Draw nigh to God and
He will draw nigh to you,
00:36:33.49\00:36:36.52
cleanse your hands,"
we have a part to play.
00:36:36.56\00:36:38.79
You have to submit
00:36:38.83\00:36:40.60
"you sinners and
purify your heart,
00:36:40.63\00:36:43.90
you double-minded."
00:36:43.93\00:36:45.63
Here it is verse
9, "Be afflicted,
00:36:45.67\00:36:50.41
and mourn and weep.
00:36:50.44\00:36:52.37
Let your laughter
be turned to mourning
00:36:52.41\00:36:54.41
and your joy to heaviness."
00:36:54.44\00:36:56.54
You see, most churches,
00:36:56.58\00:36:58.31
I bet they hardly ever read that
00:36:58.35\00:37:00.88
because they want to dwell
on the joy, the happiness...
00:37:00.92\00:37:03.95
The emotion.
00:37:03.99\00:37:05.32
But what does that
mean to mourn, to weep
00:37:05.35\00:37:08.32
because of what our sins
have done to the Lamb of God.
00:37:08.36\00:37:13.16
It's our sins that are
crucifying that baby lamb.
00:37:13.19\00:37:18.73
It's ours sins the one that
we have fallen in love with.
00:37:18.77\00:37:23.04
And then but God
doesn't leave us there.
00:37:23.07\00:37:26.37
If we have that sanctification,
repentive experience with Him,
00:37:26.41\00:37:32.95
then He says, "Humble yourselves
00:37:32.98\00:37:34.45
in the sight of the Lord.
00:37:34.48\00:37:36.28
And He shall lift us up."
00:37:36.32\00:37:40.32
Isaiah, what is it, 10?
00:37:40.36\00:37:43.02
Well, 40:10,
"He will lift us up,
00:37:43.06\00:37:45.99
He will help us,
He will strengthen us
00:37:46.03\00:37:48.66
with the right hand
of His righteousness."
00:37:48.70\00:37:51.13
It is He. We're no longer...
00:37:51.17\00:37:54.67
Repentance is
doing away with self.
00:37:54.70\00:37:57.17
That's right.
00:37:57.21\00:37:58.54
It's dying to self and
allowing Him to live in
00:37:58.57\00:38:02.01
and through us and
that's what we need.
00:38:02.04\00:38:04.08
Here we talked
about the preppers.
00:38:04.11\00:38:06.31
No matter how much food
we have, if we die ready,
00:38:06.35\00:38:10.52
we're gonna live in
the kingdom forever.
00:38:10.55\00:38:13.49
But if we die full
00:38:13.52\00:38:15.76
because we prepared
but not spiritually,
00:38:15.79\00:38:19.29
we lose our salvation.
00:38:19.33\00:38:20.73
Does that go along
you're talking about
00:38:20.76\00:38:22.10
2 Corinthians 5:17,
00:38:22.13\00:38:23.90
anybody has it,
if any man be what?
00:38:23.93\00:38:26.40
Pretty man be in Christ,
00:38:26.43\00:38:28.44
he is a new
creature creation, right?
00:38:28.47\00:38:31.34
The old things are what?
00:38:31.37\00:38:32.87
All passed away,
00:38:32.91\00:38:34.24
behold all
things right become new.
00:38:34.28\00:38:36.91
Just what you're talking about
00:38:36.95\00:38:38.28
because of the
blood of the Lamb,
00:38:38.31\00:38:39.81
isn't that right?
00:38:39.85\00:38:41.18
Because of Jesus Christ.
00:38:41.22\00:38:42.88
See, we can't hold on to
things and say years ago,
00:38:42.92\00:38:45.79
I mentioned many times
this what happened to me,
00:38:45.82\00:38:48.59
I did this, this was, you know,
00:38:48.62\00:38:50.73
born on the wrong
side of the tracks that is,
00:38:50.76\00:38:52.36
that you know, it was kind.
00:38:52.39\00:38:53.73
When we accept
Jesus, right? That's right.
00:38:53.76\00:38:55.23
everything is
supposed to change.
00:38:55.26\00:38:56.83
Our mindset, everything else
00:38:56.87\00:38:58.33
and we're to
leave it back there.
00:38:58.37\00:38:59.70
We might never use
it help someone else,
00:38:59.73\00:39:01.47
but we leave it back there.
00:39:01.50\00:39:03.14
Everything's
becomes new in Christ Jesus.
00:39:03.17\00:39:04.91
That's right.
00:39:04.94\00:39:06.27
That's what I
meant by the chili.
00:39:06.31\00:39:10.25
He's still working on
me. It wasn't a covering up.
00:39:10.28\00:39:14.88
It was coming in
and working to make it
00:39:14.92\00:39:17.72
what it was supposed to be.
00:39:17.75\00:39:19.69
That's what God does with us.
00:39:19.72\00:39:21.36
If we repent, He
promises He's gonna come in
00:39:21.39\00:39:24.96
and he's gonna make us
what we were supposed to do.
00:39:24.99\00:39:27.20
Explain the difference.
00:39:27.23\00:39:28.56
Somebody explain the difference.
00:39:28.60\00:39:29.93
So come on, help us out.
00:39:29.96\00:39:31.30
Explain the difference about
she said I tried to go ahead
00:39:31.33\00:39:33.60
and put stuff and she did
00:39:33.64\00:39:35.20
and it turned out
really nice to be honest.
00:39:35.24\00:39:36.91
But we sometimes
try to do things,
00:39:36.94\00:39:39.74
we try to make the change,
00:39:39.77\00:39:41.44
it's total cover
up and it's all said.
00:39:41.48\00:39:43.65
So where does it go?
00:39:43.68\00:39:45.01
Well, I was thinking,
00:39:45.05\00:39:46.38
this is in a
different direction than
00:39:46.41\00:39:47.75
what you're saying there, Kenny.
00:39:47.78\00:39:49.12
But I was thinking
00:39:49.15\00:39:50.49
when you're talking
about the little lamb
00:39:50.52\00:39:51.85
and having to
live with the family
00:39:51.89\00:39:53.22
and things like that.
00:39:53.25\00:39:54.59
I was thinking
of the word abiding,
00:39:54.62\00:39:55.96
having an abiding,
instead of an experience.
00:39:55.99\00:40:01.00
More than what we
think of as an experience now
00:40:01.03\00:40:03.93
because the abiding to
me is more of like a trust
00:40:03.97\00:40:08.17
and a confidence and
a constant, consistent.
00:40:08.20\00:40:13.68
I guess you could
say experience with that,
00:40:13.71\00:40:16.44
but abiding in Him in
that way we were prepared,
00:40:16.48\00:40:21.22
and not just, you
know, having an experience
00:40:21.25\00:40:23.99
and relying on that
experience as our faith,
00:40:24.02\00:40:27.56
but having that abiding,
00:40:27.59\00:40:29.16
and when He lives
with us, and He's in us,
00:40:29.19\00:40:32.06
then we have that
abiding, and we can be prepared,
00:40:32.09\00:40:35.26
and it's part of
that preparation.
00:40:35.30\00:40:37.53
And it's, you
know, carries us through
00:40:37.57\00:40:39.13
and having that
trust and the faith.
00:40:39.17\00:40:41.00
I think too,
piggyback on what you said,
00:40:41.04\00:40:42.74
you've kind of
touched on earlier about that.
00:40:42.77\00:40:44.11
Therefore, if any man
be in Christ, verse 21,
00:40:44.14\00:40:46.11
we have to read it.
00:40:46.14\00:40:47.91
It says, "For He hath
made him to be sin for us
00:40:47.94\00:40:50.48
who knew no sin that we might be
00:40:50.51\00:40:52.11
made the
righteousness of God in Him."
00:40:52.15\00:40:53.48
So that lamb was
made to be sin for us.
00:40:53.52\00:40:55.98
That's hard to wrap
your mind around that Christ
00:40:56.02\00:40:57.85
was actually made to
be sin, who knew no sin.
00:40:57.89\00:41:00.12
That's right.
00:41:00.16\00:41:01.49
It's like a puzzling, you know,
00:41:01.52\00:41:02.86
always talking about
doing prison ministry
00:41:02.89\00:41:04.56
and how we're in
there talking these men
00:41:04.59\00:41:06.66
and as I kind of
wrapped up a little bit,
00:41:06.70\00:41:08.03
and I shared
about the second coming
00:41:08.06\00:41:09.40
of Jesus and things,
00:41:09.43\00:41:10.77
and the lady had
kind of invited us,
00:41:10.80\00:41:12.13
she just kind of jumped up.
00:41:12.17\00:41:13.50
And she said, you know,
00:41:13.54\00:41:14.87
what he's
actually saying is that
00:41:14.90\00:41:16.24
there's different
ways to get to God,
00:41:16.27\00:41:17.61
you know, you can
go through Buddha,
00:41:17.64\00:41:18.97
you can go through Allah
and all these different things,
00:41:19.01\00:41:21.31
you know, and we're
not here telling you,
00:41:21.34\00:41:22.91
you have to really,
you know, focus on Jesus,
00:41:22.94\00:41:24.81
it's other things.
00:41:24.85\00:41:26.51
And you know that's...
00:41:26.55\00:41:27.88
We're talking about
this watered down gospel.
00:41:27.92\00:41:29.42
And if you don't understand,
I mean, as you mentioned,
00:41:29.45\00:41:31.62
going into the Holy
Place, you're gonna have that,
00:41:31.65\00:41:33.92
while it's just always
grace and I can do what I want,
00:41:33.96\00:41:37.19
and I'm safe because you know,
00:41:37.23\00:41:38.56
I'm saved by grace,
while there's way more to that.
00:41:38.59\00:41:40.20
That's right.
00:41:40.23\00:41:41.56
It's not
understanding the blueprint.
00:41:41.60\00:41:43.16
It's not understanding
who the door is that
00:41:43.20\00:41:45.53
no man can open the door.
00:41:45.57\00:41:47.34
It's interesting that
you know, you've read that,
00:41:47.37\00:41:50.31
those verses 7-10
in James Chapter 4.
00:41:50.34\00:41:54.08
I love that
last verse, verse 10,
00:41:54.11\00:41:55.54
"Humble yourselves
in the sight of the Lord
00:41:55.58\00:41:57.11
and He will lift you up."
00:41:57.15\00:41:58.48
You know, that takes us
right into the second part of
00:41:58.51\00:42:00.35
our question
here for the judgment.
00:42:00.38\00:42:03.65
That's right.
00:42:03.69\00:42:05.32
What is the
judgment based on it?
00:42:05.35\00:42:07.49
The type of that judgment
was the Day of Atonement.
00:42:07.52\00:42:13.43
What did the people do
on the Day of Atonement?
00:42:13.46\00:42:17.50
Leviticus Chapter,
00:42:17.53\00:42:19.27
I'm just going to
reference it here.
00:42:19.30\00:42:20.64
Leviticus 16:29 and 30 tells us
00:42:20.67\00:42:23.44
what they did on
the Day of Atonement.
00:42:23.47\00:42:25.94
They were to humble themselves
in the sight of the Lord.
00:42:25.97\00:42:31.58
They would bring,
then they would set,
00:42:31.61\00:42:33.58
they would cover
themselves in sackcloth,
00:42:33.62\00:42:35.88
and they would
sit and lay in ashes,
00:42:35.92\00:42:37.85
and many of them
00:42:37.89\00:42:39.22
would take their
nose and they would,
00:42:39.25\00:42:40.59
they would bring it as
low as to put their nose
00:42:40.62\00:42:42.72
and their face in those ashes,
00:42:42.76\00:42:44.23
because it symbolized that
they're humbling themselves
00:42:44.26\00:42:47.60
in the presence of a God
who is dealing with their sin
00:42:47.63\00:42:51.33
that they didn't
have to deal with.
00:42:51.37\00:42:53.84
That's powerful,
00:42:53.87\00:42:55.20
because on the Day of Atonement,
00:42:55.24\00:42:56.57
there's that goat
that was sacrificed
00:42:56.60\00:42:58.41
on behalf of the
people at the beginning.
00:42:58.44\00:43:00.84
And that blood
is now being taken
00:43:00.88\00:43:02.28
into the very presence of God.
00:43:02.31\00:43:05.08
Look at that, the blood
00:43:05.11\00:43:06.45
that goat
symbolizing again Christ,
00:43:06.48\00:43:09.15
taking in the
very presence of God
00:43:09.18\00:43:11.09
and so the people
00:43:11.12\00:43:12.45
are literally
prostrate on their faces
00:43:12.49\00:43:15.42
in sackcloth and ashes.
00:43:15.46\00:43:16.93
Again, that's as
low as, you know,
00:43:16.96\00:43:18.69
that's lowering
yourself to the dirt.
00:43:18.73\00:43:20.06
And that's essentially
00:43:20.10\00:43:21.43
what it means to
afflict your soul there
00:43:21.46\00:43:22.80
what Leviticus 16:49
says, "Afflict your soul."
00:43:22.83\00:43:26.40
It's lowering yourself.
It's weakening yourself.
00:43:26.43\00:43:29.47
It's examining yourself.
00:43:29.50\00:43:30.97
You're bringing
yourself so low as to say,
00:43:31.01\00:43:32.67
"God, I deserve to be
in that goat's position.
00:43:32.71\00:43:37.25
I'm the one that deserved
that death, not Him, not Jesus.
00:43:37.28\00:43:40.75
The goat and the lamb. Right.
00:43:40.78\00:43:42.32
And so it's interesting
that on the Day of Atonement,
00:43:42.35\00:43:46.35
they were to allow, get
this, and this is in verse 30,
00:43:46.39\00:43:49.29
the high priest to cleanse
them from all their sins.
00:43:49.32\00:43:52.19
Yes, yes.
00:43:52.23\00:43:54.83
What did they
know, John, think what?
00:43:54.86\00:43:57.60
These Israelites,
they knew better than maybe
00:43:57.63\00:44:00.04
we knew that in
Ecclesiastes what 12:14 that
00:44:00.07\00:44:03.17
God's going to bring
every work into judgment.
00:44:03.20\00:44:06.68
They realized that.
00:44:06.71\00:44:08.04
There were some
things in their life
00:44:08.08\00:44:09.41
they didn't want
brought into the judgment,
00:44:09.44\00:44:10.78
just like in our own life.
00:44:10.81\00:44:12.15
When you get down on our face
00:44:12.18\00:44:13.52
as it were low as we get
humble ourselves before God,
00:44:13.55\00:44:15.85
confess those things.
00:44:15.88\00:44:17.35
And the Bible says what?
00:44:17.39\00:44:19.05
He's faithful and
just to forgive us, right?
00:44:19.09\00:44:21.12
Of our sins and cleanse
us from all unrighteousness.
00:44:21.16\00:44:23.66
You know, this...
00:44:23.69\00:44:25.83
We have to move
in the experience.
00:44:25.86\00:44:28.36
Like you're talking
about the Altar of Sacrifice,
00:44:28.40\00:44:30.63
and going into the Holy
Place, and Most Holy Place.
00:44:30.67\00:44:33.47
Unfortunately,
there are people in,
00:44:33.50\00:44:37.31
I'm gonna say in all
denominations that are...
00:44:37.34\00:44:42.44
The habit is confess your sins,
00:44:42.48\00:44:44.91
which is good, but there's no
00:44:44.95\00:44:47.42
repentance,
00:44:51.52\00:44:52.85
the issue of repentance
because people do it as a...
00:44:52.89\00:44:55.09
There's a whole
denomination that says,
00:44:55.12\00:44:57.09
it's almost mechanical.
00:44:57.13\00:44:58.93
Oh, I gotta go confess my sins.
00:44:58.96\00:45:02.36
But the
repentance aspect for you,
00:45:02.40\00:45:04.30
you know that you brought
00:45:04.33\00:45:05.67
about also on
the Day of Atonement,
00:45:05.70\00:45:07.64
and we are living in the...
00:45:07.67\00:45:09.80
In a typical day.
00:45:09.84\00:45:11.17
Yes, the actual
time of atonement
00:45:11.21\00:45:13.68
when Christ is in
the Most Holy Place
00:45:13.71\00:45:15.51
and ministering for us,
00:45:15.54\00:45:16.98
and we have to go
through the experience
00:45:17.01\00:45:20.32
that they did on
the Day of Atonement
00:45:20.35\00:45:22.62
throughout our lives
00:45:22.65\00:45:23.99
in the sense of understanding
that, yes, I did sin,
00:45:24.02\00:45:28.16
but the Holy
Spirit, God and His goodness
00:45:28.19\00:45:30.76
leads me to repentance.
00:45:30.79\00:45:33.09
And we have to understand
00:45:33.13\00:45:34.46
just like you're
talking about the little lamb,
00:45:34.50\00:45:36.67
that you love the little lamb
00:45:36.70\00:45:38.37
because you had a
personal relationship,
00:45:38.40\00:45:39.93
we have to understand.
00:45:39.97\00:45:41.30
I did something
horrible. I hurt God.
00:45:41.34\00:45:45.84
It's like Joseph
said, "How can I do this?
00:45:45.87\00:45:47.58
How can I sin against
God? How can I do this?"
00:45:47.61\00:45:50.58
He could not do it.
00:45:50.61\00:45:51.95
And so we have to,
00:45:51.98\00:45:53.31
by the grace of God, learn that,
00:45:53.35\00:45:56.79
"No, I don't want to do that."
00:45:56.82\00:45:58.42
We have to by God's
grace learn to hate sin.
00:45:58.45\00:46:02.26
And that's the part
00:46:02.29\00:46:03.63
because and Jesus
Christ is the only one that
00:46:03.66\00:46:06.16
can give us
perfect hatred for sin.
00:46:06.19\00:46:08.40
So we need to be
daily approaching the Lord.
00:46:08.43\00:46:11.00
And as we daily
approach the Lord,
00:46:11.03\00:46:12.77
we will be prepared.
00:46:12.80\00:46:14.14
Amen.
00:46:14.17\00:46:15.50
When you comprehend
that Christ died on the cross
00:46:15.54\00:46:17.71
for much more
than just forgiveness.
00:46:17.74\00:46:19.51
That's right.
00:46:19.54\00:46:20.88
Because the
majority of Christianity,
00:46:20.91\00:46:22.24
they approach the
cross and they come away
00:46:22.28\00:46:24.38
from that cross message.
00:46:24.41\00:46:26.35
Okay, they haven't
really had that experience.
00:46:26.38\00:46:27.88
But they come away
00:46:27.92\00:46:29.25
from that cross
messages thinking,
00:46:29.28\00:46:30.62
"Oh, praise the Lord,
that Christ died on the cross,
00:46:30.65\00:46:32.22
then I might have forgiveness."
00:46:32.25\00:46:34.12
But you got to realize,
Christ died on the cross
00:46:34.16\00:46:36.06
for much more
than just forgiveness.
00:46:36.09\00:46:37.89
Forgiveness was the
avenue in which Christ,
00:46:37.93\00:46:42.06
He would lead you
to the actual purpose
00:46:42.10\00:46:44.20
of the sacrifice of Jesus,
00:46:44.23\00:46:46.07
which is that you might
have complete victory over sin.
00:46:46.10\00:46:49.17
Right. Amen.
00:46:49.20\00:46:50.54
I think that a lot of
times what people miss too,
00:46:50.57\00:46:52.94
is the sufferings that He faced
00:46:52.97\00:46:56.04
and endured up to that point
to before He did, you know,
00:46:56.08\00:46:59.08
complete down the
cross is the suffering that
00:46:59.11\00:47:02.12
He went through is
00:47:02.15\00:47:03.49
so He can identify with
us in our own, you know,
00:47:03.52\00:47:06.79
struggles and things
that we're trying to overcome.
00:47:06.82\00:47:10.53
And when we look at
the suffering Savior,
00:47:10.56\00:47:13.53
we see a personal Savior that
00:47:13.56\00:47:15.10
did all that for
us that you know,
00:47:15.13\00:47:17.47
if He hadn't done
that, then how would we know?
00:47:17.50\00:47:20.37
How would we have
someone to relate to?
00:47:20.40\00:47:22.64
I had a lady that
called in a few days ago
00:47:22.67\00:47:24.77
about prayer line
and she was literally in,
00:47:24.81\00:47:28.11
I mean, how do
you put it, it's like,
00:47:28.14\00:47:30.45
crying so immensely
because she realized
00:47:30.48\00:47:32.51
she was being
dishonest with people.
00:47:32.55\00:47:33.88
She was, "Oh my,
this is so painful.
00:47:33.92\00:47:35.85
I can't believe I did
this to people, I hurt people."
00:47:35.88\00:47:38.32
I mean, she's literally sobbing
00:47:38.35\00:47:39.79
and that's to me true repentance
00:47:39.82\00:47:42.02
when you realize
that little thing,
00:47:42.06\00:47:44.73
a little dishonesty
just hurts so many people,
00:47:44.76\00:47:47.00
of course, hurt God
but just too powerful.
00:47:47.03\00:47:49.30
That is the sign
of true repentance
00:47:49.33\00:47:51.10
and you're like, oh,
my goodness, it hurts.
00:47:51.13\00:47:52.80
What would be that?
That's a good point.
00:47:52.83\00:47:54.27
So what would be
the telltale sign that
00:47:54.30\00:47:56.44
it really was to repentance?
00:47:56.47\00:47:58.14
Because tears
sometime doesn't mean it.
00:47:58.17\00:47:59.51
No.
00:47:59.54\00:48:00.88
Get down and cry and
carry on, doesn't do.
00:48:00.91\00:48:02.48
I mean, that's a good sign.
00:48:02.51\00:48:03.85
But what really is the sign
00:48:03.88\00:48:05.68
that a person
really is repenting?
00:48:05.71\00:48:08.65
They don't want to do
it again. Transformation.
00:48:08.68\00:48:10.15
Change of direction. That's it.
00:48:10.19\00:48:12.09
And going to that
person that they hurt.
00:48:12.12\00:48:14.92
Restoration... Yes.
00:48:14.96\00:48:16.56
Restoration you can restore.
They don't want to do it again.
00:48:16.59\00:48:20.16
John 5:14, as you
guys were talking, it came.
00:48:20.20\00:48:24.00
I felt like this was
a time to present this.
00:48:24.03\00:48:25.97
It says, "Afterward
Jesus find him in the temple,
00:48:26.00\00:48:28.90
and said unto him,
"Behold, thou art made whole,
00:48:28.94\00:48:32.64
sin no more, lest a
worst thing come upon thee."
00:48:32.67\00:48:37.38
And some people think
well, why would Jesus say that?
00:48:37.41\00:48:40.68
But as, I see what I feel
00:48:40.72\00:48:42.68
the Holy Spirit
doing is showing us
00:48:42.72\00:48:45.02
what a loving God He is.
00:48:45.05\00:48:47.56
He's our loving
parent, our loving Savior.
00:48:47.59\00:48:50.93
He doesn't want
us to be physically
00:48:50.96\00:48:52.83
or spiritually sick.
00:48:52.86\00:48:55.03
And you know,
when we ask ourselves,
00:48:55.06\00:48:57.03
well, just how
important is repentance,
00:48:57.07\00:49:00.37
how important is it
for us to turn away for us
00:49:00.40\00:49:03.34
to fall down on our
face between the altar,
00:49:03.37\00:49:08.21
the porch and the
altar and ask God,
00:49:08.24\00:49:09.98
"Is there anything in me
that separates me from You?
00:49:10.01\00:49:14.18
Luke 13:5, it
says, "I tell you,"
00:49:14.22\00:49:17.69
this is Christ talking
"Nay, but accept ye repent,
00:49:17.72\00:49:22.72
ye shall all likewise perish."
00:49:22.76\00:49:26.09
Mercy So God is calling
for that true repentance,
00:49:26.13\00:49:29.36
not because we've gotten caught,
00:49:29.40\00:49:31.87
and we're embarrassed
00:49:31.90\00:49:33.64
because we stole
something from a store
00:49:33.67\00:49:36.07
and we were arrested
00:49:36.10\00:49:37.54
and now the
church family knows it.
00:49:37.57\00:49:39.54
Like Judas, he was caught,
00:49:39.57\00:49:43.14
and now his
sins were in the open
00:49:43.18\00:49:45.28
so he repented of that,
but it wasn't he didn't repent
00:49:45.31\00:49:49.48
because he hurt the Lamb of God.
00:49:49.52\00:49:53.96
He didn't repent
because he turned
00:49:53.99\00:49:56.32
the Lamb of God
and to be crucified.
00:49:56.36\00:50:00.50
And that's the difference.
00:50:00.53\00:50:01.86
We need to realize just
how sinful our sins are.
00:50:01.90\00:50:05.83
GYC and this young man, we
were doing popcorn prayers.
00:50:05.87\00:50:08.74
And he said, Yeah,
I want to pray that
00:50:08.77\00:50:12.51
we can get away from sin
but not crawl back to it.
00:50:12.54\00:50:15.51
He said "I'm
trying to get away from,
00:50:15.54\00:50:16.88
I want to crawl
right back to sin.
00:50:16.91\00:50:18.25
That's kind of
what you're touching on.
00:50:18.28\00:50:19.61
He wanted, Judas
wanted to crawl back to this,
00:50:19.65\00:50:20.98
and he didn't want to let it go.
00:50:21.02\00:50:22.35
He's like, oh, give me sin,
you know, and that's the thing.
00:50:22.38\00:50:24.45
He wouldn't let it go.
00:50:24.49\00:50:25.82
And really, it just
envelops all of our life.
00:50:25.85\00:50:28.69
We invited in many times.
00:50:28.72\00:50:30.53
Now I love 3ABN so I
want you to have the TV,
00:50:30.56\00:50:33.86
I want you to have this station.
00:50:33.90\00:50:35.36
But there's so many other things
00:50:35.40\00:50:36.77
that as I've grown spiritually
that the Lord has shown me,
00:50:36.80\00:50:40.37
you know,
because I used to think,
00:50:40.40\00:50:41.74
well, there may be one or two
00:50:41.77\00:50:43.41
there it was,
rated this, you know,
00:50:43.44\00:50:45.67
but it's all
fiction, number one.
00:50:45.71\00:50:48.24
It's all a lie,
number two. God hates lies.
00:50:48.28\00:50:51.68
We need to learn
to bring those things
00:50:51.71\00:50:54.38
which are good
and holy and uplifting
00:50:54.42\00:50:57.12
and will edify the
Christ into our lives.
00:50:57.15\00:51:00.52
What are people
trying to do sometime?
00:51:00.56\00:51:01.92
It's just question for
us here. Where are the...
00:51:01.96\00:51:04.56
Like Mark Chapter 2,
it talks about taking,
00:51:04.59\00:51:08.10
was it new wine
and putting into...
00:51:08.13\00:51:11.83
Did you hear that one? Come on.
00:51:11.87\00:51:13.20
Okay, so we're
talking about here.
00:51:13.23\00:51:14.60
Yeah. Why doesn't that work?
00:51:14.64\00:51:17.41
You've got the old
cloth with the holes
00:51:17.44\00:51:19.17
that are whatever it is, right?
00:51:19.21\00:51:20.54
And then you put the new wine in
00:51:20.58\00:51:21.91
and sometimes
something what happens?
00:51:21.94\00:51:23.85
Well, yeah, I mean, Matthew,
00:51:23.88\00:51:25.21
what you're
referencing Matthew 9:14-17,
00:51:25.25\00:51:28.22
Jesus says, you know,
00:51:28.25\00:51:29.58
you can't take old wine
and put it into new wine skins.
00:51:29.62\00:51:32.89
You know, what would
happen is interesting
00:51:32.92\00:51:34.92
when you really
see the visual of this.
00:51:34.96\00:51:36.62
Jesus was using a
parable or an object lesson
00:51:36.66\00:51:40.43
to teach a moral lesson.
00:51:40.46\00:51:41.80
Because what these people
would do is they would have
00:51:41.83\00:51:43.83
these old wine skins, okay,
00:51:43.87\00:51:45.37
and these would have been
some type of animal skin that,
00:51:45.40\00:51:48.24
you know, what some type
some type of enclosed pouch,
00:51:48.27\00:51:50.97
then and you would want
00:51:51.01\00:51:52.34
to put the old
fermented wine against,
00:51:52.37\00:51:54.44
we don't drink this stuff.
00:51:54.48\00:51:55.81
You know, God forbids it.
00:51:55.84\00:51:57.18
But nonetheless, some
people would take that
00:51:57.21\00:51:58.81
old fermented wine and
put it into old wine skins,
00:51:58.85\00:52:01.82
because it's
already been through
00:52:01.85\00:52:03.18
the fermenting process, right?
00:52:03.22\00:52:04.55
But what happens
00:52:04.59\00:52:05.92
when you take the new wine okay,
00:52:05.95\00:52:07.52
that a old wine
skin, keep in mind.
00:52:07.56\00:52:08.99
Old wine skins come,
it's wore out, you know,
00:52:09.02\00:52:11.29
it's kind of fragile.
00:52:11.33\00:52:12.66
It's, you know, at any
moment it can tear and burst.
00:52:12.69\00:52:15.33
And so you take new wine,
and you put into that old,
00:52:15.36\00:52:19.47
that old, you
know, fragile wine skin.
00:52:19.50\00:52:22.00
And these guys are
out there on their camels
00:52:22.04\00:52:23.57
and their horses bouncing
around in the hot desert sun.
00:52:23.61\00:52:27.58
And what's
happening to that new wine
00:52:27.61\00:52:29.24
in that hot desert heat.
00:52:29.28\00:52:31.11
It's fermenting and it
starts producing gases,
00:52:31.15\00:52:33.98
and it swells,
swells, and it bursts, right?
00:52:34.02\00:52:36.92
And so Jesus says,
that's why you want to take
00:52:36.95\00:52:38.52
new wine and put it
into new wine skins.
00:52:38.55\00:52:40.52
Old wine belongs
in the old wine skins.
00:52:40.56\00:52:42.79
So the thing I
take away from this,
00:52:42.82\00:52:45.19
it's a beautiful
object lesson that you know,
00:52:45.23\00:52:47.03
you're not going to
take someone on the street
00:52:47.06\00:52:48.93
who's just draped
in, seem like drunken.
00:52:48.96\00:52:50.97
Think of this, someone's draped
and still want to drape in sin,
00:52:51.00\00:52:53.94
a drunkard, think of this guy
00:52:53.97\00:52:55.30
standing on the
street and he's drinking.
00:52:55.34\00:52:57.27
He's I don't know he's drinking
00:52:57.31\00:52:58.64
some horrible
alcoholic beverage.
00:52:58.67\00:53:00.14
Just slayed on drunk,
00:53:00.18\00:53:03.04
and then you walk
up to him and say,
00:53:03.08\00:53:04.41
"Hey, I have some
good great juice here,
00:53:04.45\00:53:06.48
Welch's grape juice that
I want you to try right?"
00:53:06.51\00:53:09.18
And you give it to them,
they're going to taste it,
00:53:09.22\00:53:11.25
and they're not going
to immediately like it.
00:53:11.29\00:53:15.26
That's why you read
that particular text there.
00:53:15.29\00:53:18.69
In fact, let's just go there.
00:53:18.73\00:53:20.06
I feel led to just show
you this in the actual text.
00:53:20.10\00:53:22.70
Luke Chapter 5,
00:53:22.73\00:53:24.07
we're going to go
to Luke Chapter 5.
00:53:24.10\00:53:25.67
There's a particular word here
00:53:25.70\00:53:27.44
that I want to
bring out in this study
00:53:27.47\00:53:29.70
that really
amplifies and opens up
00:53:29.74\00:53:31.44
what it is that
we're talking about,
00:53:31.47\00:53:32.81
this sanctification experience,
00:53:32.84\00:53:34.48
preparing for
the coming of Jesus.
00:53:34.51\00:53:37.45
And so notice Luke Chapter 5,
00:53:37.48\00:53:38.81
Jesus is teaching an
object lesson here, obviously.
00:53:38.85\00:53:41.35
And so notice
we're going to tell,
00:53:41.38\00:53:42.72
we're going to
start with verse 37.
00:53:42.75\00:53:44.09
Luke 5:37, and he says,
00:53:44.12\00:53:46.15
"And no one puts new
wine into old wine skins,
00:53:46.19\00:53:49.22
or else the new one wine
will burst the wine skins
00:53:49.26\00:53:51.19
and be spilled
00:53:51.23\00:53:52.56
and the wine
skins will be ruined."
00:53:52.59\00:53:54.16
The point we were
making earlier, and it says
00:53:54.20\00:53:56.06
"But new wine must be
put into new wine skins
00:53:56.10\00:53:58.67
and both are preserved."
00:53:58.70\00:54:00.04
But notice verse 39 and no
one, what's that word there?
00:54:00.07\00:54:03.57
And no one having
drunk old wine immediately,
00:54:03.61\00:54:09.54
what's that word?
00:54:09.58\00:54:10.91
Immediately desires new
for he says the old is better.
00:54:10.95\00:54:14.68
And so what we're bringing
out here is the fact that again,
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just like I
made mentioned there,
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someone's on the
street, they're drunk,
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and they're
drunk on the old wine.
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They've gotten used to it,
00:54:22.72\00:54:24.06
they've acquired a taste for it,
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and you come
along and you're like,
00:54:25.46\00:54:26.80
"Hey, try this fresh, beautiful,
00:54:26.83\00:54:28.16
sweet, grape juice, right?"
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They're gonna taste it.
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It's gonna be like,
"You know, it's okay.
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But I prefer this over here."
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It doesn't, they don't
immediately receive it.
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But is it impossible
for a person to change?
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It's not impossible
for a person to change?
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It means the gospel
experience is a process.
00:54:41.61\00:54:44.85
It doesn't happen
in one big giant leap
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or it doesn't happen overnight.
00:54:47.72\00:54:49.05
I think it's Ellen
White in her writing,
00:54:49.08\00:54:50.62
she says, the sanctification
is the work of a lifetime
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that it's not
one big giant leap.
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And so that being
said, we can have assurance
00:54:55.86\00:54:58.56
and know that as we're preparing
00:54:58.59\00:55:00.60
for the second coming of Jesus,
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you know I just again praise God
00:55:02.23\00:55:04.27
that you know I'm
not where I once was,
00:55:04.30\00:55:06.47
I praise God
where He's brought into.
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I'm also not where
I need to be, right?
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You know, I'm still working,
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I'm still pressing
forward in that direction
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by the grace of God
and looking to the cross.
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Always focusing on
the uplifting Savior.
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When you talked
about, you just made me think
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of Hebrews 11 you know,
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they didn't held
His promises right then
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but they saw Him afar off
00:55:25.52\00:55:26.86
and they kept between
their soldiers and pilgrims.
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So they're on that journey,
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that kind of what
you hit on, you know.
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They're looking for a city
whose builder and maker is God.
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That's what we're all
on that journey for, so.
00:55:33.06\00:55:34.76
Amen, absolutely. Yeah.
00:55:34.80\00:55:36.13
As we're talking
in this whole program
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about being ready,
I think of Daniel 1:8,
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where it says Daniel
purposed in his heart that
00:55:42.74\00:55:44.47
he would not defile himself
00:55:44.51\00:55:46.21
with the
proportion of the king's meat
00:55:46.24\00:55:47.71
and how we need to
purpose in our heart
00:55:47.74\00:55:50.75
so that we can make those steps
00:55:50.78\00:55:53.18
that we need to make
to grow closer to Him.
00:55:53.21\00:55:55.85
And you know,
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as we're all on this
journey of sanctification,
00:55:57.25\00:55:59.39
being patient with each
other, and forgiving each other,
00:55:59.42\00:56:02.56
and merciful, and because
we're all in a different place
00:56:02.59\00:56:05.96
in our journeys,
00:56:05.99\00:56:07.33
and so we need
that mercy and grace.
00:56:07.36\00:56:10.17
I told those guys in
prison I said, you know,
00:56:10.20\00:56:11.87
obviously you're confined,
00:56:11.90\00:56:13.23
there's gonna be a lot of gossip
00:56:13.27\00:56:14.60
and stuff flying around.
00:56:14.64\00:56:15.97
Guys are gonna
judge you all they want.
00:56:16.00\00:56:17.34
I said, ultimately
you're held accountable to God
00:56:17.37\00:56:18.71
and God only.
00:56:18.74\00:56:20.08
I said don't worry
about how people see,
00:56:20.11\00:56:21.44
worry about how God see.
00:56:21.48\00:56:22.81
That's right.
00:56:22.84\00:56:24.18
Aren't you glad that we don't,
00:56:24.21\00:56:25.55
we're not the
judge of each other.
00:56:25.58\00:56:26.92
But we have one that can see
00:56:26.95\00:56:28.28
our heart that
knows our motives,
00:56:28.32\00:56:30.15
that is working to change.
00:56:30.19\00:56:31.92
Praise God for sanctification.
Praise God for sanctification.
00:56:31.95\00:56:36.69
Brother John,
you have something?
00:56:36.73\00:56:38.06
Yes, very briefly. God
doesn't leave us alone.
00:56:38.09\00:56:41.46
Go ahead. You handle this.
00:56:41.50\00:56:43.13
No, he works with us.
00:56:43.16\00:56:44.50
Every step, He's working with us
00:56:44.53\00:56:45.90
through the Holy Spirit.
00:56:45.93\00:56:47.27
Amen.
00:56:47.30\00:56:48.64
What Jesus said was
He started His ministry
00:56:48.67\00:56:52.17
in Matthew 4:17 and it says,
00:56:52.21\00:56:54.91
"From that time,
00:56:54.94\00:56:56.28
Jesus began to
preach and to say,
00:56:56.31\00:56:58.55
'Repent for the
kingdom of heaven is at hand.'"
00:56:58.58\00:57:02.08
Brothers and sisters,
00:57:02.12\00:57:03.45
the kingdom of
heaven is at hand.
00:57:03.49\00:57:04.92
We see prophecy being
fulfilled each and every day.
00:57:04.95\00:57:07.92
But for each
and every one of us,
00:57:07.96\00:57:09.86
today is the day of salvation.
00:57:09.89\00:57:11.59
We're not promised tomorrow.
We may not be here tomorrow.
00:57:11.63\00:57:15.06
So we need to make those changes
00:57:15.10\00:57:17.63
in our lives today.
00:57:17.67\00:57:19.03
Amen. Today is
the day of salvation.
00:57:19.07\00:57:20.84
Thank you for that.
00:57:20.87\00:57:22.20
Thank you each one,
for the Holy Spirit,
00:57:22.24\00:57:24.01
you sure bring
some good thoughts
00:57:24.04\00:57:25.37
that we will put
in our heart and mind.
00:57:25.41\00:57:27.28
We might be ready to meet Jesus.
00:57:27.31\00:57:28.64
Thank you for
joining us today. Praise God.
00:57:28.68\00:57:31.35
Again, you know,
we want to come back,
00:57:31.38\00:57:33.15
we're gonna be
doing part three of this.
00:57:33.18\00:57:34.98
Stay with us.
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