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,
a great big welcome,
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3ABN Today Family Worship.
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We're so glad you joined us.
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And I mean, it's a thrill to
be able to get into your home
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and then, you know, this
is how we become acquainted
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with one another.
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And we see people all
the time and say, you know,
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"We watch the program,
we're studying with you,"
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we count that a real privilege.
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Thank you for
letting us into your home.
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Today we have a
wonderful subject.
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I think, we have
third part on it,
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we're gonna be
talking about "Are you ready?"
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I think that's very,
very important in the history,
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in the world that
we're living in right now.
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Are you ready?
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That's probably more important,
the most important thing
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that I can think about right now
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is are we ready to meet Jesus.
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There's a lot of talk going on,
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a lot of things going
on in the world today,
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but you know what, are
you ready to meet Jesus?
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And we pray by the grace of God
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that as we study and
continue on in this lesson
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as you stay along with
us that these questions...
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Your question will be answered
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and you'll be led
closer to Jesus Christ
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and you will be
ready to meet Him.
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So today, we're,
again, glad you joined us
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and I'm glad my wife joined.
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Chris, glad you're here
today. I'm glad I'm here today.
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Yeah, what a nice
group we have here.
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Oh, we do. Family, right?
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We are family. Yes, yes.
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You have somebody next
to you and then next to him.
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I call it a one-two punch maybe.
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Okay. Oh, yeah.
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The day brothers,
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one to the right
and one to the left.
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Yeah, yeah. Ryan,
I'm glad you're here.
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It's a blessing to
be here. That's right.
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Brother Dakota,
we're glad you're here.
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It's a blessing to be
here. Yeah, praise the Lord.
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Thank you, guys,
for the invitation.
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I just sense that
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when he's asked to
do something for Jesus,
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he jumps right in on both feet.
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Amen. We're grateful for that.
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It's nice to have the brothers
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sitting together with the power.
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Yes, that's right.
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And then we have
a mother and son.
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A family. Combo
family down there.
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Sister Yvonne,
always a pleasure.
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Thank you. Thank
you for coming today.
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I know it takes
a lot of, you know,
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a lot of work to prepare
and get ready, but thank you.
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I don't know how to take that,
but I'll think about that...
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No I'm just
kidding. It's so good.
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Now you're preparing every day
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when you open the Word
of God, isn't that right?
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Thank you, brother. Yeah.
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Absolutely.
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And Brother Jason
Bradley, praise the Lord.
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Yeah. Always good.
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It's great to be here with you,
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looking forward to
diving into the subject.
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Amen. Yeah. Well, we do.
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I mean, we're
studying the Word of God
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there's nothing like it.
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And we're just praising God
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for this
opportunity and privilege
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'cause, again, I always
think about, are you ready?
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Are you ready to meet Jesus?
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What if something should happen,
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you know, in your life?
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What if you are
going down the street,
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things are
happening in the world today
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with all disease,
all the pestilence,
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everything is going on,
are you ready to meet Jesus?
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But, you know,
before we're gonna...
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I think we are
gonna have prayer first
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and then we want to have a song.
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And I look forward to...
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I'm still learning, O,
When Shall I See Jesus.
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So that's why I say
we need to pray first
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and then we can we can sing.
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Brother Jason, how about you?
Would you pray for us, please?
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Sure thing, sure thing.
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Dear Heavenly Father,
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we thank You for
this wonderful opportunity
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and privilege that
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we have to study
Your Word together.
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Amen.
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Lord, as we believe that
we are living in the last days
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and as we know that we
are living in the last days,
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we ask that You
would help us to be ready,
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help us to
rightfully cover this topic.
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We ask that You would
guide our conversation,
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send Your Holy
Spirit to be with us
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and be with the viewers
and the listeners as well.
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In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
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Amen. Amen, praise the Lord.
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Brother Ryan, I
would turn it over to you.
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You can lead us in this.
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Absolutely one of
my favorite songs,
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O, When Shall I See Jesus.
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This is a song that me
and Dakota know pretty well
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because we sing this
song often when we were
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at the Amazing Facts
Center of Evangelism,
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receiving our
evangelism training
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and so we're
going to do it acapella,
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let me see if I
can get a key here.
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All right.
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O, when shall I see
Jesus and reign with Him above
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And shall hear the trumpet sound
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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
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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
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and hope and love
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And you'll hear
the trumpet sound
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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
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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 transport
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the host of heaven sing
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And shall hear the trumpet sound
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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
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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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It's gonna be a good one. Amen.
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Amen.
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We could do the
whole lesson on this song.
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Really. Isn't that nice?
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It's a good
song. And we didn't...
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Oh, boy. I mean, it's exciting.
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It's exciting to think about
when we hear that trumpet sound
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and what it's gonna be
like because, you know,
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as Jesus says as we
see these things occurring
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that we're to lift up our heads
for redemption draweth nigh.
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And so I mean,
that gives us hope,
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in time of discouragement,
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in a time where so
many people are just...
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I mean, it's amazing
when you stop in here
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that there's been
people even a doctor
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that has lost their lives.
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You know, purposely
they've taken their own lives
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because of the
depression and the stress
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of what's
happening in our nation.
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And so we as Christians,
we want to give that peace,
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which is why
you wrote that book.
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I wish I would
have grabbed a book.
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COVID-19 what's the...
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After COVID-19: What's Next?
After COVID-19: What's Next?
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We at Behold the Lamb
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which we're also
part of 3ABN family,
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but we've been given that book
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out by the
hundreds and thousands
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as well and we look
forward to even doing more
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'cause it gives
such hope to people
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and it'll give you hope too.
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I encourage you to call
3ABN and get your own copy
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or they can even go on
your website, right, sis?
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Yes, they can go on
the 3ABN website, 3abn.tv,
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and just download
the booklet from there.
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'Cause this all fits together,
the song, our study, that book.
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What a blessing.
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What a
blessing. Praise the Lord.
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Yeah. Okay.
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I keep thinking about,
you know, that trumpet sound.
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Somebody needs
to have a trumpet,
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right, and blast that trumpet.
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And when I think about that,
no, the coming of Jesus but,
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you know, the dead
in Christ rise first.
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Yes. Yes.
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When I was just thinking,
I seen something from my...
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Okay, personal.
We mentioned that...
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My sister yesterday,
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she had made the 15th.
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She said our mother will
be passed away 21 years ago.
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You know, it's
kind of long time but,
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you know, no matter how long
that is you never forget it.
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That's right.
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Maybe however new it,
it's fresh in our minds and,
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you know, my dad's
been 40 some odd years
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and I just haven't forgot
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the sound of
his voice, you know?
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Yes.
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His mannerisms and the
things he used to say that
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we thought was
a little bit crazy
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that we repeat right now.
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The trumpet
sound in the morning.
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Yes. Okay, are you ready?
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This is what we're going
to be talking about today.
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We're gonna begin
our lesson number...
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Question three.
Question number...
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You know, just quickly go over.
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There was five questions
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and five points that we want to,
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you know, just
condense them down quickly
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was the first
question was about today
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is a day of salvation.
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That's very, very important.
Number two, preparation.
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Number three,
talking about being a beacon.
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Beacon for truth.
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How do we operate in this world
that we live in with believers,
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non-believers, and
how do we handle it,
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how do we talk to them.
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And, you know, do
we do it different...
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Say your whole
evangelistic series
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or your pastor and
you're talking to a crowd,
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do you do a
little bit differently
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when you do one-on-one?
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I think I do.
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It's okay to confess to
say when you're one on one
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because you're talking about
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one individual
instead of a group,
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so how do we
handle that situation?
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Number four, we're
going to be talking about
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I love that
righteousness by faith.
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Victory over sin, I
started getting excited.
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I started rocking
back and forth in my chair
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because, you
know, that's a subject
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that even those who say
they understand what truth is,
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they're just missing it.
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And I pray that the group here
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will just bring
that forward today.
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And the last one,
Christ formed within.
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That's our hope of glory. Amen.
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So question number
three. Mama, do you have that?
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I do.
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Would you read that for
us and let's get started.
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He has high aspirations
that we're going to get
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past one question today.
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Oh! I always do.
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This is a good one.
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How may we labor in
our daily lives with God
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and seek to be a beacon
of truth for those around us
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who are not
keeping God's commandment?
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Mercy. Okay.
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Go ahead, Ryan. I see you...
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Okay. All right.
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Jump at it. Come on.
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Well, you know, when I
read number three here,
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I can't help but
think of what we need to be
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an example for others.
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We need to make sure that
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we're not being the
wrong example for others.
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It says how can we labor
in our daily lives with God
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and seek to be a beacon
of truth to those around us.
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Yes.
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I find out that
sometimes Christians
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are more of a
hindrance to others around them
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than they are, you know,
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a positive influence in
bringing people to Christ.
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Speak it.
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And when I read
this particular question,
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my mind went to two passages,
and I couldn't help it.
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And it's interesting
because these two passages
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mark the very first ever
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recorded sermon of
Jesus in Scripture,
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Sermon on the Mount.
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And, of course,
what you might consider
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His very last sermon
recorded in Scripture
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which is recorded in Scripture
as the Olivet Discourse,
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where Christ is
having a private meeting
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with His disciples on
the top of Mount of Olives
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about one week
before He's crucified.
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I want to start at the end
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and then go
back to the beginning
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and show you
something marvelous here.
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So first of all, I
want to make this point.
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First of all, we've
got to recognize that
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in order for us to be a
beacon of truth for others,
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we've got to show
forth Christ to others.
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And a lot of
times, what we do is
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we send a message to
people around us that
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the church is
nothing more than a club.
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We treat God's
work, we treat the church,
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we treat the work of the church,
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sometimes often as a club,
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and when we
portray it as a club,
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and the work of Christ,
and the experience of Christ
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as a club rather than
a true genuine experience
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sometimes that cannot be
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a bright beacon
of light to someone
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but a negative light to someone.
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Would you unpack
that a little bit?
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Yeah, actually, I do.
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You know, think it for a second.
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When people see
us, what do they see?
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They should see Jesus.
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Do they see a genuine Christian,
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someone who is just
emitting the light of Christ?
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Do they see a genuine Christian
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or do they see someone
just going through the motions?
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Do they see a club member?
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That person is a
Seventh-day Adventist.
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"Yeah, well, they
go to that church,
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you know, they're
just another Christian"
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or do they see this person go,
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there's something
special about that person?
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Think it for a second. I
have been a part of clubs.
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I've been a part
of clubs in the past.
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Club members are part of
clubs, they memorize creeds.
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Yes.
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They assemble
for large gatherings.
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They attend special meetings.
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They sing special
songs within the clubs.
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They conduct
community outreach events.
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They help the needy in
many of these types of clubs.
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Yes, they do. You're
right. Sound familiar.
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When people, you
know, while we know that
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that's much of our experience
as a Christian, you know,
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being a true,
genuine Christian in Christ
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goes far and beyond just that.
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We should do those things. Yes
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But it goes far and beyond that.
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The two passages
that come to my mind
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and I'm gonna let you
guys kind of unpack it
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after I reference these.
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I want to start at the end,
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Matthew 25, so this
is Olivet Discourse.
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Matthew 25, I'm going
to reference this one.
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This is simply
talking about the 10 virgins.
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Think of those
five foolish virgins.
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So there's five wise
and there's five foolish.
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You could
probably not have convinced
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those five foolish virgins
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that they were not
genuine Christians.
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Right. True.
They were convinced.
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Notice, they had their lamps,
they went out to meet Jesus,
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the bridegroom, they had faith
in the promise of this word.
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They said Jesus is
gonna come back, you know,
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they just lacked the
oil, but they didn't know that
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until the loud cry
had already went out.
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"Hey, Jesus is
coming, get ready."
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And then when they
arose to trim their lamps
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because notice they were
all slumbering and sleeping.
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That's right.
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Then they realize, "Oh
wait, we don't have enough oil."
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The non-genuine now wants
to look at the genuine and say,
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"Wait a second, can you give us
a little bit of what you have?"
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Right. And what
did the genuine say?
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They say, "You know
what... Get your own.
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You got to go and buy
from them that sell, right?
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And we know that in Revelation 3
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Jesus is saying, "I
counsel you to buy from me."
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We're gonna get into that
white garment in just a moment,
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the wedding
garment in number four.
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The five foolish virgins,
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if you read this
particular passage,
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these
individuals were convinced.
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They were going out
in faith to meet Jesus.
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That's right.
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These were not
some outside separated,
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these are convinced
individuals that they were saved
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and that they
were gonna be saved.
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But of course they heard
those most haunting words,
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"Depart from Me, I
don't know you, right?"
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Now, I want to do on a reference
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is go back to Matthew 7.
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This will be my last
point and I'm going to pass it
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to someone else.
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Matthew Chapter 7. We see...
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This is going out to Jesus
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very first recorded
sermon in Scripture.
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This is toward the end
of the Sermon on the Mount.
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And then notice
what Christ says here.
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Same scenario that
you're gonna see here that
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we just read or
referenced from the 10 virgins.
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So Matthew 7
beginning of verse 21,
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He says, "Not
everyone who says to Me,
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'Lord, Lord,' shall
enter the kingdom of heaven,
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but he who does the
will of My Father in heaven.
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Many will say
to Me in that day,"
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Now notice what
these Christians,
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professed
believers are gonna say,
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"'Lord, Lord, have we
not prophesied in Your name,
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have we not cast
out demons in Your name,
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and done many
wonders in Your name?'"
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So they're listing
their Christian attributes.
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Wait a second, I returned tithe.
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I was a deacon in the church.
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You know, I
attend church every week.
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Hey, I was there
when we did that community
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outreach event.
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They are listing
their Christian attributes,
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but notice what Christ
says to them in verse 23.
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"And then I
would declare to them,"
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same as the 5 foolish
virgins, "I never knew you,
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depart from Me,
you who practice..."
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Inequity.
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Lawlessness or
inequity in this case.
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So when I read
this question here,
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how can we labor in
our daily lives with God
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and seek to be a beacon of truth
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to those around us
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who are not
keeping God's commandments?
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Remember, lawlessness, inequity.
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The best thing we can
do is seek God genuinely
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to allow God to
transform us genuinely.
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To not just be club members,
to not just treat God's Church,
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God's Church movement,
God's mission, His purpose,
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His goal, His agenda, His work,
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not just treat it as
something that we just do,
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but let it genuinely change us
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so that people can
see us and go, "Wow!
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That person is different." Yes.
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"There's something different
about that person," right?
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Oh, wow. Powerful.
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Yeah, it is powerful. And
how many times you have...
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I tried to
Google this last night
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when I was
studying how many time,
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but it never gave me an answer
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and I didn't want to look
it up and try to figure it out.
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That Christ
said, "Be not deceived.
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Be not deceived."
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You see the real key is
I was looking through here,
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you can't give anything
away that you don't have.
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Yeah, that's
right. That's right.
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So we have to learn to be
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eating and
drinking of the Word of God
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each and every day
and praying for truth.
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Praying for truth, we
just went through Psalms 91,
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a beautiful, beautiful passage,
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those who are under the shadow
of the Most High God, you know,
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how do we get under that shadow?
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How do we get under His wings?
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We have to be
living what we read,
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we have to put it into our heart
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rather than just into our head.
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Amen That's right.
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That's a real key
'cause there's a lot of people
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that know, but,
that word comes in a lot.
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Well, yeah, but.
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"Well, my mama did it this way
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or my ancestors
just did it this way.
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Yeah, but well, you know,
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we may go on a different
day or this or that," you know,
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rather than lining
up with the Word of God.
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One thing I've noticed,
we've noticed, over the years,
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when we're out witnessing,
when we're doing evangelism,
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the power of the
spirit moves rapidly
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when people say, "I
want to know what truth is."
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Yes.
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And lives begin to change
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and the light
bulbs begin to come on.
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And all of a sudden,
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they're reading
these things and like,
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"That does makes sense."
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The Lord will put it together.
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And so for me,
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I think that's a key
to having your oil filled.
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You've got to spend that
time each and every morning.
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Some of us, I know you have
your special, my dear sister.
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She's my sister-in-law
and my sister-in-Christ.
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And so anyway, I know
she has a special time.
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We decided many years ago
that we were not gonna eat
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of the physical food
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until we ate of the
spiritual food first.
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Amen. Amen.
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And I may be in a
big hurry and, you know,
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the Lord Holy
Spirit's conveyed to me
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I thought, okay, one person.
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I got to do at least one...
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But I will say when my
life really began to change is
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when I would sit every morning
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and then all of
a sudden, you know,
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I'd say, "Okay, 10 minutes,"
10 minutes would turn to 20,
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and then 20 would turn to 40.
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And pretty soon it's an
hour, an hour and a half.
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And that's when your
life begins to change.
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That's right.
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Under the shadow of the most...
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Yes, beautiful.
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See, Brother
Ryan, what you done,
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you've opened something here.
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Hallelujah.
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So that's big
punch, another punch.
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And I know Brother Dakota
has another punch coming on.
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Maybe we'll just go
right on down and...
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Punch it.
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On the same question
because there's so much meat.
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Yes, there is. Yes, there is.
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And we need to
chew it up a little bit.
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It needs to come on out.
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So, you know, everybody,
just your own thoughts
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that come on this question
and we'll go right ahead.
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Brother Dakota? Sure. Yeah.
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So the question
of how may we labor
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in our daily lives for God
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and seek to be a beacon of truth
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for others around us
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who do not keep
God's commandments?
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Well, I thought of the fact that
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how can we be a beacon of truth
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when we are not truth
in of ourselves, right?
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So the only way we can be a
beacon of truth is to uplift
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the truth to God's people.
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Amen.
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And we know in
John 14:6, Jesus says,
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"I am the way and
the truth and the life."
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So He said in John
12:32, Jesus made it very clear.
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"And if I be
lifted up from the earth
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will draw all men to me."
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So it's our job to uplift Jesus,
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but we don't do the
drawing, He does the drawing.
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That's right.
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So how are we gonna be a
beacon of truth to other people?
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Well, we have to realize
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we have to be dependent upon God
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to do the work
that we cannot do.
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Amen. That's right. Right?
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So if we uplift
Jesus, high lift it up.
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He said, "I will
draw all men unto Me."
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Yes, yes. That's right.
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So our job is to
focus on Him and uplift Him.
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And I thought of two examples
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of this in Scripture
that is just so beautiful.
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I just want to
cover them real quick.
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All right. And
that's in Mark Chapter 5.
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You have the
demon-possessed man, right?
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Jesus has this, you
know, even though the story,
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He walks off the
ship with his disciples,
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and you know, in my mind's
eye, I imagine the disciples see
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this demon-possessed man
running frantically at Jesus,
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you know, screaming
and tearing his clothes
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and everything else.
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And clearly, this man
was a public nuisance.
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You know, he was the
guy who they chained him up.
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You can't chain him up.
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He breaks the
chain, he gets away.
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I mean, imagine if he was
going to Kroger or Walmart
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you can't even go
there and enjoy yourself
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because every time you
see a demon-possessed man
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running out there, right?
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Yeah.
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And this guy, he runs out
there and he confronts Jesus
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and the disciples,
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but we know that this
man is demon-possessed.
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Yes. Right.
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And after Jesus
has this conversation
00:21:24.01\00:21:25.41
with these demons
that are in this man,
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he cast out the
demons in the swine,
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they go into the ocean, right?
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And then he has a conversation
with this man that the man
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that he just set free
from all of these demons.
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And he tells them, he says...
00:21:36.96\00:21:38.49
The man basically
begs Jesus to go with Him.
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We read in verse 18.
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It says, "And when he
was coming to the ship,
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he that had
been demon-possessed,
00:21:44.37\00:21:47.10
prayed him that
he might be with him.
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Howbeit Jesus suffered
him not, but saith unto him,
00:21:49.54\00:21:53.17
'Go home to thy friends,
and tell them how great things
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the Lord hath done for thee,
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and hath had
compassion on thee.'"
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Amen. So notice
what Jesus tells us.
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He says very clearly to him,
listen, you can't go with me
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because I have a
work for you to do.
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Yeah. That's right.
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And these people here, you know,
00:22:07.56\00:22:08.89
in the region of
Decapolis don't know me.
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So I need you to go tell them
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what good things
I've done for you.
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Amen. Amen. And
so the purpose of...
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Again, how we're
going to be a beacon of life
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it is to again uplift Jesus
and His character to the world.
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That's right.
00:22:22.74\00:22:24.07
And one other example
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and then I'll
let you guys move on
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because I have to
talk about this one.
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Well, go ahead.
Philip and Nathanael.
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Yeah. You guys know the story.
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John Chapter 1,
we're in verse 45.
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So Philip finds Nathanael
after discovering who Jesus is.
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"And he says, unto
him, 'We have found him,
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of whom Moses in the
law, and the prophets,
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did write, Jesus of
Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
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And Nathanael says unto him..."
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Now we all probably can relate
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to this what
Nathanael is about to say.
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He responds, here comes
Nathanael, Phillip rather.
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And Philips got a beautiful,
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marvelous precious
truth to share with Nathanael.
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And we've all probably
have been in that place
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where we try to
witness to our family,
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try to witness
to our loved ones.
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Right. And what do they do?
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They kind of
immediately just shoot us down.
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Yes.
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This is what
Nathanael did to Philip.
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Phillips trying to
tell him about the Messiah.
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And he says, he
responds to Philip and says,
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"Can there any good
thing come out of Nazareth?"
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That's that doubt.
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Whatever truth you share
with your family, your friends,
00:23:18.19\00:23:20.13
your loved ones,
that's that doubt.
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Yes.
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"Can that really
be true," you know?
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And notice the response.
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Jesus saw
Nathaniel... I'm sorry.
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"And Nathanael said unto him,
00:23:27.67\00:23:29.00
'Can there any good
thing come out of Nazareth?'"
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Verse 46.
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"Philip says unto
him," What did he say?
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Come and see. Come and see.
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Yeah. It's so simple, really.
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Yes.
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He doesn't argue with him,
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he doesn't enter into
some kind of debate with him.
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You know, as
sometimes we are tempted to do.
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When someone shoots us down
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and we sharing a truth with them
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or sharing Jesus with them,
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we tend to want
to argue with them.
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"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
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We want to, you know,
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get involved in a
dialogue with them that
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would lead to nowhere good.
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But he says, "Look,
come and see for yourself."
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And then in other words,
00:24:01.77\00:24:03.44
what Philip was
inviting Nathaniel to do
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was to calm and
behold Jesus for himself.
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That's right.
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And then notice the
response, notice the change.
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"Jesus saw
Nathanael coming to him,
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and says unto him,
'Behold an Israelite indeed,
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in whom is no guile.'
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Nathanael said unto
him, 'When knowest thou me?'
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Jesus answered
and said unto him,
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'Before that Philip called thee,
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when thou was
under the fig tree,
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I saw thee.'"
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And then notice
Nathanael's change of heart.
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He had one
experience with Jesus.
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And then Nathanael says,
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"Rabbi, thou art the Son of God,
00:24:35.44\00:24:38.57
thou art the King of Israel."
00:24:38.61\00:24:40.54
When we encourage people
to behold Jesus for themselves
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and uplift Jesus,
I think that's how
00:24:44.68\00:24:46.88
we're going to be a
beacon of truth to people.
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Psalm 34, "O taste and
come see that the Lord is good."
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That's right.
00:24:53.02\00:24:54.36
I want to just
make one quick comment
00:24:54.39\00:24:55.79
because what he
touched on was the doubt.
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Right. The doubt.
00:24:58.79\00:25:00.13
And a lot of times
when we're in doubt,
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we go to other people.
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I can think back,
when I was probably,
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I don't know, maybe my late 20s,
00:25:06.07\00:25:07.70
early 30s and I was...
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Well, it was
kind of a neat story.
00:25:09.97\00:25:11.67
Well.
00:25:11.71\00:25:13.54
Some of you
around here, you know,
00:25:13.58\00:25:14.91
I like to do a
lot of natural things,
00:25:14.94\00:25:16.44
so I normally don't get sick.
00:25:16.48\00:25:18.11
And this time I got sick
and I had been babysitting
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for one of the friends
00:25:21.28\00:25:22.62
that I went to high school with.
00:25:22.65\00:25:24.25
And her husband was a pharmacist
00:25:24.29\00:25:27.32
and so I could not get well.
00:25:27.36\00:25:30.23
And pretty soon, I
had to go in, I thought,
00:25:30.26\00:25:32.89
"Okay, I've got to
go to the pharmacy."
00:25:32.93\00:25:34.86
And when I got in there,
00:25:34.90\00:25:36.50
he said, "Just a
minute, just a minute."
00:25:36.53\00:25:38.27
And so he ran back, he
got this book and it was on,
00:25:38.30\00:25:43.74
I guess I can say it,
National Sunday Law book.
00:25:43.77\00:25:45.34
Well, sure you can.
00:25:45.37\00:25:46.71
And he says, "Do you know
anything about this book?"
00:25:46.74\00:25:48.48
Yes, I did.
00:25:48.51\00:25:52.11
And immediately I
knew why I was there.
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He said he had thrown it away,
00:25:57.99\00:25:59.32
he picked it up
and started reading it
00:25:59.35\00:26:00.76
and he wanted to know more.
00:26:00.79\00:26:02.46
So we started, actually,
00:26:02.49\00:26:04.03
you and I, both started trying
to give him Bible studies.
00:26:04.06\00:26:07.10
And it seemed like
there would always be
00:26:07.13\00:26:09.30
something that would come up.
00:26:09.33\00:26:10.67
And finally, he decided that
he was gonna go to his priest
00:26:10.70\00:26:15.10
and his priests
wouldn't give him any answers,
00:26:15.14\00:26:16.87
so he went to
Bellville, you know,
00:26:16.91\00:26:18.74
an hour and a half away,
to talk to a priest up there.
00:26:18.77\00:26:21.74
And the priest said...
00:26:21.78\00:26:23.11
Well, you know,
I'll never forget this.
00:26:23.14\00:26:25.95
Go on. "The
Bible is a good book.
00:26:25.98\00:26:29.42
Read it if you want to.
00:26:29.45\00:26:32.09
But do you really believe that
00:26:32.12\00:26:35.02
God would ask
Abraham to kill his own son?
00:26:35.06\00:26:38.69
You really believe
that he parted the Red Sea?
00:26:38.73\00:26:43.16
It's a good book.
There is lot of good stories.
00:26:43.20\00:26:45.57
Read it if you want to."
00:26:45.60\00:26:47.10
So what that story of Nathanael
and Philip just pointed out
00:26:47.14\00:26:51.31
is Nathanael went
to Christ himself.
00:26:51.34\00:26:54.21
There you go. He
went to that good book.
00:26:54.24\00:26:56.98
He tasted and he saw, of
course, the book was living,
00:26:57.01\00:26:59.91
the word was alive
on earth at that time.
00:26:59.95\00:27:02.58
But he can still
live in our hearts.
00:27:02.62\00:27:04.35
That's right. If
we just come to Him.
00:27:04.39\00:27:06.39
But don't allow the doubt
to keep you from the truth.
00:27:06.42\00:27:10.43
Amen. That's right.
00:27:10.46\00:27:11.79
Very good. Yeah...
00:27:11.83\00:27:13.83
Keep ahead into this.
This is good as going.
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This is some good work.
Come here, some good work.
00:27:15.30\00:27:19.20
Well, you know, it's so funny
00:27:19.23\00:27:20.60
because there's a
book that I've never read
00:27:20.64\00:27:23.61
and it was in
Danny's office the other day,
00:27:23.64\00:27:25.97
and I picked it up.
00:27:26.01\00:27:27.38
It's Last Day Events.
And I hadn't read it before.
00:27:27.41\00:27:31.38
And the Lord gave
me this information
00:27:31.41\00:27:35.75
through this book
for this question.
00:27:35.78\00:27:38.02
Amen. And it was so interesting.
00:27:38.05\00:27:39.95
So if we look in Genesis
5, we see the story of Enoch.
00:27:39.99\00:27:45.76
It's really quick.
00:27:45.79\00:27:48.36
But Enoch is a great example
of how to be a beacon of truth
00:27:48.40\00:27:52.93
for those around him who...
00:27:52.97\00:27:56.30
They weren't
keeping the commandments.
00:27:56.34\00:27:57.71
It was a situation that
was similar to our society,
00:27:57.74\00:28:01.04
it was similar to ours,
00:28:01.08\00:28:02.41
lots of lawlessness,
inequity or whatever.
00:28:02.44\00:28:05.65
And Enoch walked with God
00:28:05.68\00:28:08.12
for 300 years
before he was translated.
00:28:08.15\00:28:13.05
The Bible says and he was not...
00:28:13.09\00:28:15.96
He just, the Lord
just took him with him.
00:28:15.99\00:28:18.59
Why? What did Enoch do?
00:28:18.63\00:28:20.90
And it was in Last Day Events.
00:28:20.93\00:28:23.57
It says, "He
educated his mind and heart
00:28:23.60\00:28:27.70
to ever feel that he
was in the presence of God,
00:28:27.74\00:28:30.84
and when in perplexity,
00:28:30.87\00:28:32.61
his prayers would
ascend to God to keep him.
00:28:32.64\00:28:35.28
Enoch refused to take any course
00:28:35.31\00:28:38.18
that would offend his God."
00:28:38.21\00:28:40.88
Yes. Nice.
00:28:40.92\00:28:42.25
Now that is...
00:28:42.28\00:28:43.62
To me, that's a
powerful statement.
00:28:43.65\00:28:44.99
That's sumptuous.
00:28:45.02\00:28:46.35
Because there's so many things
that we can do that offend God,
00:28:46.39\00:28:49.56
that hurt God, that
push Him away from us.
00:28:49.59\00:28:51.43
Yes.
00:28:51.46\00:28:52.79
But Enoch refused to do anything
00:28:52.83\00:28:56.46
that would offend his God.
00:28:56.50\00:28:58.63
It says, "He would pray,
00:28:58.67\00:29:00.00
'Teach me Thy way,
that I may not err.
00:29:00.04\00:29:02.54
What is Thy
pleasure concerning me?
00:29:02.57\00:29:04.74
What shall I do to
honor Thee, my God?'"
00:29:04.77\00:29:07.48
That's right.
00:29:07.51\00:29:08.84
"Thus he was
constantly shaping his way
00:29:08.88\00:29:11.65
and course in accordance
with God's commandments,
00:29:11.68\00:29:14.28
and he had perfect confidence
00:29:14.32\00:29:16.05
and trust in his
Heavenly Father..."
00:29:16.08\00:29:18.55
Amen. "That He would help him.
00:29:18.59\00:29:20.56
He had no thought
or will of his own.
00:29:20.59\00:29:23.32
It was all submerged in
the will of his Father."
00:29:23.36\00:29:26.86
And that's what the
Savior did. That's right. Yeah.
00:29:26.90\00:29:29.10
That's right. Everything he...
00:29:29.13\00:29:31.13
He wanted to please the Father
00:29:31.17\00:29:34.27
and that's
where we have to live.
00:29:34.30\00:29:36.64
That's right.
00:29:36.67\00:29:38.01
Where we want to
please the Father,
00:29:38.04\00:29:40.18
where we want to
do what pleases Him.
00:29:40.21\00:29:42.88
Right.
00:29:42.91\00:29:44.25
And in so doing, we
will be a beacon of truth
00:29:44.28\00:29:47.05
and light for those around us.
00:29:47.08\00:29:49.42
Amen. Oh, that's
some good thought.
00:29:49.45\00:29:51.35
Yes. Praise him.
00:29:51.39\00:29:52.72
All right.
00:29:52.75\00:29:55.32
You know what, not
only she is preaching
00:29:55.36\00:29:57.46
but I want a copy of that
because I want to remind myself
00:29:57.49\00:30:01.13
that something
each and every one of us
00:30:01.16\00:30:03.06
should be praying
each and every day.
00:30:03.10\00:30:04.97
Amen. Amen.
00:30:05.00\00:30:06.33
Especially as we see
these progression of disasters
00:30:06.37\00:30:11.27
and pestilence and
things that are taking place.
00:30:11.31\00:30:14.38
We need to be
ready, and we're not.
00:30:14.41\00:30:16.78
How do we...
00:30:16.81\00:30:18.15
And we can take their examples
in Scripture for us, you know,
00:30:18.18\00:30:22.02
especially, of course the Savior
00:30:22.05\00:30:24.32
and how He lived His life
in connection with the Father
00:30:24.35\00:30:27.46
and how we can
follow that example.
00:30:27.49\00:30:30.26
So it's powerful.
Powerful information.
00:30:30.29\00:30:33.46
What you just gave us was
a reflection of the Savior.
00:30:33.50\00:30:37.37
Amen.
00:30:37.40\00:30:38.73
You know, and that's what God
is waiting for all of us to be
00:30:38.77\00:30:41.57
a reflection of His image.
00:30:41.60\00:30:43.00
Yes, yes. Absolutely.
00:30:43.04\00:30:45.84
You know, when I think
about today's day and age,
00:30:45.87\00:30:48.08
I go back in time to Daniel.
00:30:48.11\00:30:51.81
Now we look at
Daniel 1:8, you know,
00:30:51.85\00:30:55.52
you wonder how
could somebody survive
00:30:55.55\00:30:58.42
the political climate
that Daniel had to face
00:30:58.45\00:31:02.79
where you have
King Nebuchadnezzar
00:31:02.82\00:31:04.99
where he is like, you know,
00:31:05.03\00:31:06.70
"If you don't serve the
false god, I'll kill you,
00:31:06.73\00:31:10.03
if you don't serve the
one true God, I'll kill..."
00:31:10.07\00:31:11.93
I mean, he's all over the place.
00:31:11.97\00:31:13.40
This guy's a mess, right?
00:31:13.44\00:31:14.84
So, you know, in
Daniel 1:8, it says,
00:31:14.87\00:31:20.04
"But Daniel
purposed in his heart
00:31:20.08\00:31:23.35
that he would not defile himself
00:31:23.38\00:31:25.65
with a portion of
the king's delicacies
00:31:25.68\00:31:27.75
nor with the
wine which he drank,
00:31:27.78\00:31:29.52
therefore, he requested
of the chief of the eunuchs
00:31:29.55\00:31:31.85
that he might
not defile himself."
00:31:31.89\00:31:34.46
We have to make a
choice... Yes, right.
00:31:34.49\00:31:36.32
Who we're going to serve
or whom we're going to serve.
00:31:36.36\00:31:41.26
And so we have a
decision to make.
00:31:41.30\00:31:44.30
You know, it starts
God is a God of love.
00:31:44.33\00:31:47.34
So He doesn't
force himself upon us.
00:31:47.37\00:31:49.24
Yes. So we open the door.
00:31:49.27\00:31:51.51
He wants to come in, but
we have to open that door.
00:31:51.54\00:31:55.31
So we have a part to play there.
00:31:55.34\00:31:58.11
Another thing is that,
00:31:58.15\00:32:00.42
you know, prayer
is a powerful tool.
00:32:00.45\00:32:05.35
Absolutely. Powerful tool.
00:32:05.39\00:32:06.72
Of course.
00:32:06.76\00:32:08.09
So what I'm about to say
now, I want you to know that
00:32:08.12\00:32:10.46
I believe that
prayer is a powerful tool.
00:32:10.49\00:32:14.63
But prayer without
action, it is dead.
00:32:14.66\00:32:18.40
That's right.
00:32:18.43\00:32:19.77
So, you know, you can
say, "Oh, I'm a Christian.
00:32:19.80\00:32:23.07
Oh, my brother, you suffering
over there, you're out there.
00:32:23.10\00:32:26.17
It's 3 degrees outside.
00:32:26.21\00:32:28.54
I've got 15 coats over here.
00:32:28.58\00:32:30.78
But you know what,
00:32:30.81\00:32:32.15
I'm gonna pray for you
that God will warm you up.
00:32:32.18\00:32:35.05
I'm gonna pray that
you will be warmed."
00:32:35.08\00:32:37.85
And meanwhile, I'm
driving back to my warm house
00:32:37.89\00:32:40.82
with my warm coat on.
00:32:40.86\00:32:44.43
And I'm praying for
change. You have to take action.
00:32:44.46\00:32:49.16
I mean, if you
look at Matthew 25:34,
00:32:49.20\00:32:53.13
let's just run
through this ever so quickly.
00:32:53.17\00:32:56.64
Matthew 25:34-40.
00:32:56.67\00:33:02.24
"Then the King will say
to those on His right hand,
00:33:02.28\00:33:04.75
'Come, you blessed of My Father,
00:33:04.78\00:33:06.65
inherit the
kingdom prepared for you
00:33:06.68\00:33:08.48
from the
foundation of the world,
00:33:08.52\00:33:10.52
for I was hungry
and you gave Me food,
00:33:10.55\00:33:12.99
I was thirsty and
you gave Me drink.'"
00:33:13.02\00:33:14.92
Now notice it
doesn't say I was hungry
00:33:14.96\00:33:17.03
and you prayed for me,
00:33:17.06\00:33:18.39
I was thirsty and
you prayed for me.
00:33:18.43\00:33:20.73
It says, "I was a
stranger and you took me in.
00:33:20.76\00:33:24.20
I was naked and you clothed me.
00:33:24.23\00:33:26.60
I was sick and you visited me.
00:33:26.63\00:33:28.64
I was in prison
and you came to me,'
00:33:28.67\00:33:31.77
then the righteous
will answer him saying,
00:33:31.81\00:33:34.28
'Lord, when did
we see You hungry
00:33:34.31\00:33:36.41
and feed you or
thirsty and give You drink?
00:33:36.44\00:33:38.91
When did we see You a stranger
00:33:38.95\00:33:40.75
and take You in or
naked and clothe you?
00:33:40.78\00:33:43.08
Or when did we see You sick
or in prison and come to You?'
00:33:43.12\00:33:46.22
And the King will answer
and say to them, 'Assuredly,
00:33:46.25\00:33:48.62
I say to you,
inasmuch as you did it
00:33:48.66\00:33:50.99
to one of the least
of these my brethren,
00:33:51.03\00:33:52.89
you did it to Me."
00:33:52.93\00:33:54.26
So notice, it's not
saying, you know, I was sick
00:33:54.30\00:33:57.93
and you prayed for me,
which prayer is important.
00:33:57.97\00:34:01.74
But if you know
how to help somebody,
00:34:01.77\00:34:03.87
if you can
assist them, you know,
00:34:03.91\00:34:06.47
you need to be doing so.
00:34:06.51\00:34:08.24
So that's one way that
00:34:08.28\00:34:11.05
we can exude or exemplify
00:34:11.08\00:34:15.38
a Christ-like position.
00:34:15.42\00:34:21.09
Then also, if you look
00:34:21.12\00:34:22.46
in Galatians 2:20-21, it says,
00:34:22.49\00:34:28.23
"I have been
crucified with Christ.
00:34:28.26\00:34:30.47
It is no longer I who
live but Christ lives in me.
00:34:30.50\00:34:34.17
And the life I
now live in the flesh,
00:34:34.20\00:34:36.40
I live by faith
in the Son of God,
00:34:36.44\00:34:38.27
who loved me and
gave Himself for me.
00:34:38.31\00:34:40.91
I do not set
aside the grace of God,
00:34:40.94\00:34:44.05
for if righteousness comes
00:34:44.08\00:34:45.51
through the law,
then Christ died in vain."
00:34:45.55\00:34:48.98
So by Christ, you
know, it's through Christ.
00:34:49.02\00:34:53.36
We don't even have
to do the heavy lifting.
00:34:53.39\00:34:55.82
We have to live
our life for him.
00:34:55.86\00:34:58.13
And I like what you
were saying earlier, Ryan,
00:34:58.16\00:35:00.23
because, you
know, really our example
00:35:00.26\00:35:02.46
should say more
than our mouth does.
00:35:02.50\00:35:04.90
And, you know, and I
think that when we're carrying,
00:35:04.93\00:35:08.40
when we're being
a beacon of truth,
00:35:08.44\00:35:10.54
we have to have the Holy Spirit,
00:35:10.57\00:35:13.78
not be the Holy Spirit.
00:35:13.81\00:35:15.14
Yes.
00:35:15.18\00:35:16.51
And so when you
go into churches,
00:35:16.54\00:35:17.88
you see some people coveting
the role of the Holy Spirit.
00:35:17.91\00:35:22.28
That's right.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
00:35:22.32\00:35:24.49
That's not gospel right there.
00:35:24.52\00:35:26.19
You know, like, you shouldn't...
00:35:26.22\00:35:28.02
Wait, what are you wearing?
Oh, this person made it...
00:35:28.06\00:35:31.99
You don't know
this person's walk,
00:35:32.03\00:35:33.83
this person's journey,
where they are with God,
00:35:33.86\00:35:36.87
how he's
working on their hearts.
00:35:36.90\00:35:38.70
That's right.
00:35:38.73\00:35:40.07
And then you're
trying to tell them that,
00:35:40.10\00:35:42.00
"Oh, you can't be in here.
00:35:42.04\00:35:43.71
You smell like
cigarettes." Yeah, that's right.
00:35:43.74\00:35:45.71
You smell like
this, that and that.
00:35:45.74\00:35:48.18
They have to be
introduced to Christ.
00:35:48.21\00:35:50.85
And they have to see Christ
00:35:50.88\00:35:52.21
within the people
that are in the church.
00:35:52.25\00:35:55.55
So I mean, I think all
of these things are crucial.
00:35:55.58\00:35:58.65
Absolutely.
00:35:58.69\00:36:00.02
You just said
something that's so key there.
00:36:00.06\00:36:02.06
So key there.
00:36:02.09\00:36:03.43
You just hit the
nail on the head.
00:36:03.46\00:36:05.49
Yes. Yes.
00:36:05.53\00:36:06.86
The Holy Spirit. That's right.
00:36:06.90\00:36:09.13
We can't do all these
things without the leading,
00:36:09.16\00:36:11.03
guiding power
of the Holy Spirit.
00:36:11.07\00:36:12.40
That's right.
00:36:12.43\00:36:13.77
And that's the thing
I think that a lot of...
00:36:13.80\00:36:15.14
It goes back to what
I was saying earlier.
00:36:15.17\00:36:16.74
A lot of Christians
are trying to be Christians
00:36:16.77\00:36:19.01
without the power
of the Holy Spirit.
00:36:19.04\00:36:21.41
Put it this way.
00:36:21.44\00:36:22.78
Christ says on the
Sermon on the Mount,
00:36:22.81\00:36:25.65
go back to the
Sermon on the Mount.
00:36:25.68\00:36:27.02
He said, "I am the
light of the world."
00:36:27.05\00:36:29.28
But then He
points to the church.
00:36:29.32\00:36:30.65
He says, "You are
the light of the world."
00:36:30.69\00:36:32.29
Now here's
what's amazing is that,
00:36:32.32\00:36:33.76
as the church, we cannot
create light, remit light,
00:36:33.79\00:36:37.43
and of ourselves.
00:36:37.46\00:36:38.79
It's kind of
like the relationship
00:36:38.83\00:36:40.43
between the sun and the moon.
00:36:40.46\00:36:41.96
Christ is the true
light. He's the sun, right?
00:36:42.00\00:36:44.63
And we are the moon.
00:36:44.67\00:36:46.70
Okay, the moon gives off light,
but it only gives off light
00:36:46.74\00:36:49.30
and as much as it
reflects the light of the sun.
00:36:49.34\00:36:51.04
That is right.
00:36:51.07\00:36:52.41
This is powerful
'cause when you said
00:36:52.44\00:36:53.78
Holy Spirit that
just came to my mind,
00:36:53.81\00:36:55.58
a passage that
came to my mind here is
00:36:55.61\00:36:58.01
2 Timothy Chapter 3.
00:36:58.05\00:37:00.22
Paul says in the opening
verses of 2 Timothy Chapter 3,
00:37:00.25\00:37:02.85
he says, "But know
this that in the last days,
00:37:02.88\00:37:05.09
perilous times will come."
00:37:05.12\00:37:06.96
And then he gives
this incredible list.
00:37:06.99\00:37:09.89
And the list he gives here
00:37:09.92\00:37:11.83
is describing the
spiritual condition
00:37:11.86\00:37:13.80
of the church.
00:37:13.83\00:37:15.16
I'll just name a
few of them here.
00:37:15.20\00:37:16.53
"For men will be lovers of
themselves, lovers of money,
00:37:16.56\00:37:18.93
boasters, proud, blasphemers,
disobedient to parents."
00:37:18.97\00:37:22.30
Mercy.
00:37:22.34\00:37:23.74
Okay, "Despisers of good,
without self-control, traitors,
00:37:23.77\00:37:27.48
headstrong, haughty."
00:37:27.51\00:37:28.84
He gives us big, long
list of things that...
00:37:28.88\00:37:31.71
These are individuals,
people that have these things,
00:37:31.75\00:37:34.92
these character deficiencies
00:37:34.95\00:37:37.45
because they don't
have the Holy Spirit.
00:37:37.49\00:37:38.95
And then he
leaves this one for last.
00:37:38.99\00:37:40.62
Notice verse 5, 2
Timothy 3:5, he says,
00:37:40.66\00:37:44.43
"Having a form of godliness,
00:37:44.46\00:37:48.16
but denying its power
00:37:48.20\00:37:51.17
and from such people turn away."
00:37:51.20\00:37:53.50
What's our question again?
Let's go back to our question.
00:37:53.54\00:37:56.14
How may we labor in
our daily life with God
00:37:56.17\00:37:58.54
and seek to be
a beacon of truth,
00:37:58.57\00:38:00.41
here's the light,
a beacon of light,
00:38:00.44\00:38:02.14
a beacon of truth
for those around us
00:38:02.18\00:38:04.65
who are not
keeping God's commandments?
00:38:04.68\00:38:06.01
Notice verse 5, again,
"Having a form of godliness,
00:38:06.05\00:38:09.08
but denying its power
00:38:09.12\00:38:10.45
and from such people turn away."
00:38:10.49\00:38:12.32
So to get this right here,
I go back to the sanctuary.
00:38:12.35\00:38:15.92
Oh, man! I love that.
00:38:15.96\00:38:18.89
We need to be having
a courtyard experience.
00:38:18.93\00:38:20.73
Okay.
00:38:20.76\00:38:22.10
You have to have a
courtyard experience
00:38:22.13\00:38:23.53
before you have a
Holy place experience
00:38:23.57\00:38:25.33
and you have to have
a holy place experience
00:38:25.37\00:38:27.20
before you can go
into the Most Holy Place.
00:38:27.24\00:38:29.14
Yeah.
00:38:29.17\00:38:30.51
Now there's only one
light source in the holy place.
00:38:30.54\00:38:33.14
Come on. This is
good stuff. Amen.
00:38:33.17\00:38:35.34
There's only one light
source in the holy place.
00:38:35.38\00:38:39.35
It's the
seven-branch candlestick.
00:38:39.38\00:38:41.62
Now how did that...
00:38:41.65\00:38:42.98
Know that light
always burnt, right?
00:38:43.02\00:38:44.95
There was never a time
00:38:44.99\00:38:46.42
when one of those
lights went out burning.
00:38:46.45\00:38:47.79
That's right.
00:38:47.82\00:38:49.52
How did that
light constantly burn?
00:38:49.56\00:38:51.16
Oil.
00:38:51.19\00:38:53.13
Because the priest
had to make sure that
00:38:53.16\00:38:55.70
those little vials,
those little bowls of oil
00:38:55.73\00:38:58.57
were always,
00:38:58.60\00:39:00.04
every single day
24/7 filled with oil.
00:39:00.07\00:39:04.24
That is good. Yeah.
00:39:04.27\00:39:05.67
We cannot enter
the Most Holy Place,
00:39:05.71\00:39:08.28
get this, where
God's presence is.
00:39:08.31\00:39:11.65
And the whole
Bible is all about God
00:39:11.68\00:39:14.58
wanting to be with
his people, and hopefully,
00:39:14.62\00:39:16.58
God's people
wanting to be with Him.
00:39:16.62\00:39:17.99
Yes, we cannot
enter the Promised Land
00:39:18.02\00:39:20.26
until we have had a
genuine holy place experience.
00:39:20.29\00:39:22.36
Hallelujah.
00:39:22.39\00:39:23.73
But the problem is,
00:39:23.76\00:39:25.09
is we're like these
five foolish virgins,
00:39:25.13\00:39:27.10
we got the lamp,
we ain't got any oil.
00:39:27.13\00:39:31.07
And we think
the light is burning
00:39:31.10\00:39:34.17
until the midnight cry goes out.
00:39:34.20\00:39:36.40
And then it's
like, "Wait a second.
00:39:36.44\00:39:38.34
I don't have enough
oil." And so that's...
00:39:38.37\00:39:40.91
When you said Holy
Spirit, that just sparked in me,
00:39:40.94\00:39:43.08
having a form of
godliness but denying its power.
00:39:43.11\00:39:46.28
How many Christians and this...
00:39:46.31\00:39:48.25
Man, this is powerful thought.
00:39:48.28\00:39:49.78
How many of us are
having a form of godliness,
00:39:49.82\00:39:55.09
but we're denying its power.
00:39:55.12\00:39:57.13
What power?
00:39:57.16\00:39:58.49
Acts 1:8.
00:39:58.53\00:40:00.83
Come on. Come on.
00:40:00.86\00:40:03.03
"But you will
receive the Holy Spirit
00:40:03.06\00:40:04.67
and you shall receive
the power to be a witness."
00:40:04.70\00:40:08.07
We cannot, my friends,
this is vitally important.
00:40:08.10\00:40:10.91
We cannot.
00:40:10.94\00:40:12.34
And this even sets us
up for number four here,
00:40:12.37\00:40:14.41
and we're going to
get to that eventually.
00:40:14.44\00:40:16.44
But we cannot put
on the wedding garment.
00:40:16.48\00:40:18.78
We cannot be a
beacon of light to others,
00:40:18.81\00:40:21.18
we cannot be that sufficient,
00:40:21.22\00:40:23.28
foundational
example for someone else
00:40:23.32\00:40:25.65
to show them the real Christ
00:40:25.69\00:40:27.56
if we're having
a form of godliness
00:40:27.59\00:40:29.36
but we're denying the
power of the Holy Spirit
00:40:29.39\00:40:31.59
to do a genuine
transformation in our life.
00:40:31.63\00:40:34.96
And that's what's
says in Galatians.
00:40:35.00\00:40:36.90
This is powerful. Yes, it is.
00:40:36.93\00:40:38.27
You know, a lot of
people make the mistake
00:40:38.30\00:40:39.63
of putting more
faith in the power of Satan
00:40:39.67\00:40:41.67
to keep them in sin.
00:40:41.70\00:40:43.44
And they do in the power of God.
00:40:43.47\00:40:44.94
Oh, come on now.
00:40:44.97\00:40:47.18
And I think we
need to understand
00:40:47.21\00:40:48.91
like the question here
that we're looking at is,
00:40:48.94\00:40:51.41
you know, how can we
labor in our daily lives
00:40:51.45\00:40:55.12
just to be a beacon of truth
and a light for other people.
00:40:55.15\00:40:58.79
Well, what is light?
00:40:58.82\00:41:01.29
Light is the
absence of darkness.
00:41:01.32\00:41:05.13
So that means we are not
to have any darkness in us.
00:41:05.16\00:41:08.56
And the only way that can happen
00:41:08.60\00:41:09.93
if Jesus is sitting on
the throne of our hearts.
00:41:09.96\00:41:11.57
It's the only way it can happen.
00:41:11.60\00:41:12.93
Amen.
00:41:12.97\00:41:14.30
And so yeah, absolutely,
we have to remember...
00:41:14.34\00:41:15.67
As Jason was
saying earlier, you know,
00:41:15.70\00:41:17.81
our actions have to meet that.
00:41:17.84\00:41:19.71
And we need to
remember that people don't care
00:41:19.74\00:41:21.34
how much we know until
they know how much we care.
00:41:21.38\00:41:23.35
Oh, there you go. True.
00:41:23.38\00:41:24.71
And so ministering
to people's needs and,
00:41:24.75\00:41:27.22
you know, living
the gospel message
00:41:27.25\00:41:28.65
that Jesus has commanded us
00:41:28.68\00:41:30.02
to live by His
power, not our own.
00:41:30.05\00:41:32.02
No. Can we ever accomplish this?
00:41:32.05\00:41:33.89
That's right. And then...
00:41:33.92\00:41:35.26
Go ahead. No, no, no.
00:41:35.29\00:41:36.62
Go ahead. Go ahead.
00:41:36.66\00:41:38.29
We shouldn't think that
the world can't see that
00:41:38.33\00:41:41.86
we have a form of godliness
'cause they can see it.
00:41:41.90\00:41:46.13
That's right.
00:41:46.17\00:41:47.50
And they will say, you
know, something's not right.
00:41:47.54\00:41:51.01
No, we should be the
ones that reflect the God,
00:41:51.04\00:41:56.14
that reflect the Savior
because the world will see that
00:41:56.18\00:42:00.88
we have a form of godly man.
00:42:00.92\00:42:02.52
That's right.
00:42:02.55\00:42:03.89
You know, sometimes in that,
00:42:03.92\00:42:05.25
you know, a form of
godliness and the power,
00:42:05.29\00:42:07.46
I think, as Christians,
00:42:07.49\00:42:08.89
sometimes we
have come to the point
00:42:08.92\00:42:10.36
in our Christian experience
that we stop taking credit
00:42:10.39\00:42:14.76
for which the
Holy Spirit is doing.
00:42:14.80\00:42:17.33
You know, a lot of
times, you know, a man said,
00:42:17.37\00:42:19.93
"This one did
this, this one did this,
00:42:19.97\00:42:21.30
this was doing that,"
00:42:21.34\00:42:22.67
it's all through,
right, man can't do it.
00:42:22.70\00:42:24.04
We can't do any
good thing on our own.
00:42:24.07\00:42:25.41
That's right. Only
the Holy Spirit within.
00:42:25.44\00:42:29.38
And we want Jesus to be seen.
00:42:29.41\00:42:31.21
There are couple
things I thought about here
00:42:31.25\00:42:32.61
what everyone's been
talking about so good,
00:42:32.65\00:42:34.28
how do we labor in our day life?
00:42:34.32\00:42:36.02
First thing I went
through in my mind was,
00:42:36.05\00:42:38.02
how did Christ labor?
00:42:38.05\00:42:39.39
How did He
labor? What did he do?
00:42:39.42\00:42:40.96
What was His ministry?
00:42:40.99\00:42:42.82
What was His life's
work while He was here.
00:42:42.86\00:42:45.59
And Luke 19:10,
00:42:45.63\00:42:47.46
quickly we'll go
into question number four,
00:42:47.50\00:42:49.50
said, for the Son of Man came...
00:42:49.53\00:42:50.87
You know that passage well.
00:42:50.90\00:42:52.23
For the Son of Man
came to seek and do what?
00:42:52.27\00:42:53.77
Save.
00:42:53.80\00:42:55.14
And you say that
which was law, His ministry,
00:42:55.17\00:42:57.21
His work and our ministry.
00:42:57.24\00:42:59.17
Our work must be to seek
and to save those who are lost.
00:42:59.21\00:43:03.51
And we have a message to give.
00:43:03.55\00:43:05.01
Now the importance of
laboring too we talk about here.
00:43:05.05\00:43:07.78
We want to look
at this importance
00:43:07.82\00:43:09.15
of laboring for Christ.
00:43:09.18\00:43:10.85
Mark 4:33 says,
00:43:10.89\00:43:12.55
"And with many
such parables spake
00:43:12.59\00:43:14.49
He the word to them as
they were able to hear it."
00:43:14.52\00:43:18.66
So again, following
the example of Jesus Christ
00:43:18.69\00:43:20.86
and that we have to be
aware of who we are talking to.
00:43:20.90\00:43:24.10
That's right. That's good.
00:43:24.13\00:43:25.47
Where they are at in
their Christian experience.
00:43:25.50\00:43:29.20
They don't try to land on...
00:43:29.24\00:43:30.67
So we'll say give them the meat.
00:43:30.71\00:43:32.77
When they are still
babies, they need the milk.
00:43:32.81\00:43:34.84
They don't have the
teeth to chew on it, right?
00:43:34.88\00:43:36.81
So, you know, I mean,
to me it's common sense.
00:43:36.85\00:43:39.65
And that's
exactly what Jesus did.
00:43:39.68\00:43:41.28
He said, I have a lot of things
I'd like to say, many things.
00:43:41.32\00:43:44.15
I have a lot of
things I'd like to say,
00:43:44.19\00:43:45.75
but you can't bear them.
00:43:45.79\00:43:47.79
There's no use to
say. You can't chew it.
00:43:47.82\00:43:49.76
You can't swallow.
You can't understand it.
00:43:49.79\00:43:51.39
That's right.
00:43:51.43\00:43:52.76
And so, you know, he
left it for another time.
00:43:52.79\00:43:55.16
And then we
realized that the message...
00:43:55.20\00:43:57.07
And I like what you
all were saying here,
00:43:57.10\00:43:58.97
the message that we give must be
00:43:59.00\00:44:00.74
with Holy Spirit power.
00:44:00.77\00:44:02.10
Amen. There's no doubt about it.
00:44:02.14\00:44:03.57
Luke 4:32 says, and... Ooh.
00:44:03.61\00:44:08.44
I like it because when
Jesus spoke even those doubters
00:44:08.48\00:44:11.51
sometimes, those unbelievers
00:44:11.55\00:44:12.88
and even some of
the church leaders,
00:44:12.91\00:44:14.68
you know what they did?
00:44:14.72\00:44:16.05
They were astonished
00:44:16.08\00:44:17.42
at His doctrines
or His teachings.
00:44:17.45\00:44:19.35
Yes.
00:44:19.39\00:44:20.72
When people talk with you and me
00:44:20.76\00:44:23.22
and the Holy Spirit is present,
00:44:23.26\00:44:25.26
I really believe they will be...
00:44:25.29\00:44:27.20
Maybe they don't
even want to hear,
00:44:27.23\00:44:28.56
but they're
going to be astonished
00:44:28.60\00:44:29.93
by what comes out of the mouth.
00:44:29.96\00:44:31.30
It's not you. It's not me.
00:44:31.33\00:44:32.67
That's the Spirit
of the Living God.
00:44:32.70\00:44:34.04
Amen.
00:44:34.07\00:44:35.40
I know, in times you've
talked to people and you know...
00:44:35.44\00:44:37.74
It seemed like they
didn't quite have an interest,
00:44:37.77\00:44:39.81
but when you begin to
lift up the name of Jesus,
00:44:39.84\00:44:42.11
you were talking about here,
00:44:42.14\00:44:43.48
all of a sudden,
they were captivated.
00:44:43.51\00:44:45.28
They were a captive audience.
00:44:45.31\00:44:46.65
They weren't locked
up, but they were like...
00:44:46.68\00:44:48.38
They're wanting to leave
until they kind of wanted to,
00:44:48.42\00:44:50.09
but yet all of a sudden,
they wanted to hear it too.
00:44:50.12\00:44:51.79
That's right.
00:44:51.82\00:44:53.15
And they would stay as
long as you would lift up Jesus
00:44:53.19\00:44:55.09
and tell them about Jesus
00:44:55.12\00:44:56.46
and that the
hope that's in Christ,
00:44:56.49\00:44:57.83
they would just stay there
00:44:57.86\00:44:59.19
and they would
just bask in there
00:44:59.23\00:45:00.60
and there's results like
this here we talk about here,
00:45:00.63\00:45:04.07
it's important
when we're laboring,
00:45:04.10\00:45:05.93
it's the message we
give must be with power,
00:45:05.97\00:45:07.80
and then we must...
00:45:07.84\00:45:09.17
There's results
at the end of this,
00:45:09.20\00:45:10.54
just like it was in Luke 24:32,
00:45:10.57\00:45:14.18
the walk to Emmaus, you
know, we know what happened,
00:45:14.21\00:45:16.64
the bottom line on that...
00:45:16.68\00:45:19.81
I just I want to see about us.
00:45:19.85\00:45:21.58
I swear I want to
feel it in my own life.
00:45:21.62\00:45:23.08
Amen.
00:45:23.12\00:45:24.45
When I read the Word of God,
it's not just reading words.
00:45:24.49\00:45:27.06
Yes. It's power.
00:45:27.09\00:45:28.96
It's living... That's
what, it's living power.
00:45:28.99\00:45:31.03
It's igniting
something inside of me
00:45:31.06\00:45:33.09
that needs to be ignited.
00:45:33.13\00:45:34.90
It's been... Our hearts burn...
00:45:34.93\00:45:36.60
That's exactly what they said.
00:45:36.63\00:45:39.47
That's what it said, and
our hearts burn within us
00:45:39.50\00:45:41.64
as He opened up
the scriptures to us.
00:45:41.67\00:45:44.31
And certainly that
was Old Testament too,
00:45:44.34\00:45:45.67
was it not?
00:45:45.71\00:45:47.04
That's right. That was just...
00:45:47.08\00:45:48.41
Our hearts burned. And
that's what I want to do.
00:45:48.44\00:45:51.38
I read the Word of
God sometime I feel like
00:45:51.41\00:45:53.31
it is not
different to anyone else
00:45:53.35\00:45:55.22
and I feel like my
heart's just on fire.
00:45:55.25\00:45:57.05
It's just burning within
and something got to be escape.
00:45:57.09\00:46:00.56
There's got to be
something that just comes out.
00:46:00.59\00:46:02.56
Yeah, you've
got to tell somebody
00:46:02.59\00:46:03.96
and you even also
start talking to the dog.
00:46:03.99\00:46:07.40
Talk to the dog about
it. You know what I'm saying?
00:46:07.43\00:46:10.00
My brother, Ivor
Myers, would say,
00:46:10.03\00:46:11.53
"We need more heartburn."
00:46:11.57\00:46:13.00
We need more heartburn.
00:46:13.03\00:46:15.47
Don't try to take
something to cover it up either,
00:46:15.50\00:46:17.64
go on and just let it all out.
00:46:17.67\00:46:19.44
That heartburn will be healed
00:46:19.47\00:46:20.84
and everything will be good.
00:46:20.88\00:46:22.58
Anything else to add on
the question number three?
00:46:22.61\00:46:24.41
I'm starting to get excited.
00:46:24.45\00:46:25.78
There's a lot of
things to add on the question.
00:46:25.81\00:46:27.45
First of all, I want to
go back to the brothers here.
00:46:27.48\00:46:29.25
All right.
00:46:29.28\00:46:30.62
Brothers, the
sons of thunder here.
00:46:30.65\00:46:33.66
Because, you know,
00:46:33.69\00:46:35.02
you talked
about the Holy Spirit,
00:46:35.06\00:46:36.99
and I think it's very important
00:46:37.03\00:46:38.93
because we're coming in at tight
00:46:38.96\00:46:40.43
and as we're teaching
the Three Angels' message,
00:46:40.46\00:46:42.50
we realize that
there are more than one...
00:46:42.53\00:46:45.57
There's more than one
spirit at work in this world.
00:46:45.60\00:46:48.30
There's more than one spirit.
00:46:48.34\00:46:49.87
You see, the
enemy tried to kill.
00:46:49.90\00:46:51.94
He tried to
stamp out the church.
00:46:51.97\00:46:53.41
When he
couldn't, what did he do?
00:46:53.44\00:46:56.68
He joined the church.
00:46:56.71\00:46:58.55
And so we have
to weigh everything
00:46:58.58\00:47:00.42
by thus sayeth the Word of God.
00:47:00.45\00:47:02.75
Amen.
00:47:02.78\00:47:04.12
You know, it is written,
Christ said, it is written,
00:47:04.15\00:47:06.29
it is written to go back.
00:47:06.32\00:47:08.36
But we're going to see miracles,
00:47:08.39\00:47:10.49
we're told even so much that
fire may come down from heaven
00:47:10.53\00:47:13.29
or will come down from
heaven in the sight of men.
00:47:13.33\00:47:15.83
We know that the Antichrist,
the spirit is already here,
00:47:15.86\00:47:18.63
we know that the
Antichrist will appear someday
00:47:18.67\00:47:21.37
and will present
himself as Christ on this earth.
00:47:21.40\00:47:25.81
And so it is so important that
00:47:25.84\00:47:27.98
we know the Word or
we will be to see...
00:47:28.01\00:47:31.48
That goes back because
00:47:31.51\00:47:33.28
he is imitating
the spirit of God
00:47:33.31\00:47:36.32
so closely that we in
our little finite mind,
00:47:36.35\00:47:40.46
we cannot fully comprehend that
00:47:40.49\00:47:42.42
unless we're filled
with the true spirit of God
00:47:42.46\00:47:45.46
and we're basing
everything on the Word of God.
00:47:45.49\00:47:48.96
So I think that's
very important to me.
00:47:49.00\00:47:50.97
And another thing you said,
00:47:51.00\00:47:52.47
Jay, oh, Jay, I could
have another sermon on
00:47:52.50\00:47:55.20
what you said.
00:47:55.24\00:47:56.71
I just have to go back.
00:47:56.74\00:47:58.07
We were doing,
several years ago,
00:47:58.11\00:48:00.11
we were doing an
00:48:00.14\00:48:01.48
evangelistic
series in our church.
00:48:01.51\00:48:03.35
You know, most of the time,
00:48:03.38\00:48:04.71
we all get together,
we go to a civic center,
00:48:04.75\00:48:06.28
we go to a big place
and we hold a meeting.
00:48:06.31\00:48:09.02
Well, this time,
we had enough people
00:48:09.05\00:48:11.02
that were interested
that we held it in our church.
00:48:11.05\00:48:14.86
People came in,
whether they were smoking,
00:48:14.89\00:48:17.13
whether they were drinking,
00:48:17.16\00:48:18.49
they wore whatever
they wanted to wear.
00:48:18.53\00:48:21.03
And, you know, we let
them in and we love them.
00:48:21.06\00:48:24.57
And we ended up
losing two whole families.
00:48:24.60\00:48:30.84
Eight souls were baptized
after that little few weeks,
00:48:30.87\00:48:35.18
but we lost two whole families
because they said, you know,
00:48:35.21\00:48:38.08
why are they allowed to
wear that in our sanctuary?
00:48:38.11\00:48:40.88
Why is this...
00:48:40.92\00:48:42.25
Why is she allowed
to go up front with you?
00:48:42.28\00:48:44.85
Yeah, that's right.
00:48:44.89\00:48:47.82
We are telling love...
00:48:47.86\00:48:49.19
Christ, you know, one
thing that we talked about
00:48:49.22\00:48:51.69
and I know you
know Thomas Jackson.
00:48:51.73\00:48:53.09
Yeah.
00:48:53.13\00:48:54.46
Thomas Jackson is
such a man of God.
00:48:54.50\00:48:56.03
Yes.
00:48:56.06\00:48:57.40
And I love him
and his wife Laverne.
00:48:57.43\00:48:58.77
Yeah.
00:48:58.80\00:49:00.14
That, you know,
you could meet Thomas
00:49:00.17\00:49:01.50
and Thomas knows the
Word of God inside and out.
00:49:01.54\00:49:03.91
And he could look at...
00:49:03.94\00:49:05.47
You could have a
cigarette in your hand,
00:49:05.51\00:49:06.88
you could you could
have been the pastor,
00:49:06.91\00:49:08.54
I know this pastor doesn't do...
00:49:08.58\00:49:09.91
Let's say you're
the pastor in church
00:49:09.94\00:49:11.28
and all of a
sudden he catches you.
00:49:11.31\00:49:12.65
Thomas is not going to go up.
00:49:12.68\00:49:14.02
He's not going to tell
you throw the cigarette down.
00:49:14.05\00:49:15.82
He's going to love you.
00:49:15.85\00:49:17.19
And all of a sudden, you know,
00:49:17.22\00:49:18.55
the conviction comes
from the power of God.
00:49:18.59\00:49:19.92
That's right.
00:49:19.95\00:49:21.29
You know, and
that's we're to do.
00:49:21.32\00:49:22.66
We talk to people
that has happened too.
00:49:22.69\00:49:24.03
He never one time
looked at what they were doing
00:49:24.06\00:49:27.40
or what they had in their hand.
00:49:27.43\00:49:29.20
He looked right into their eyes.
00:49:29.23\00:49:30.57
That's right.
And just love them.
00:49:30.60\00:49:32.70
To me, that's... Years ago...
00:49:32.73\00:49:35.90
Christ method
alone. Yes, that's right.
00:49:35.94\00:49:37.61
That's right.
00:49:37.64\00:49:38.97
And there's just one more thing
00:49:39.01\00:49:40.54
before if we even go
to question number four.
00:49:40.58\00:49:42.81
All right.
00:49:42.84\00:49:44.18
One more thing because
we've been talking about
00:49:44.21\00:49:45.75
how to get ready to give,
00:49:45.78\00:49:48.18
how we prepare
ourselves to give,
00:49:48.22\00:49:50.62
how we fill up our
lamps with oil to give,
00:49:50.65\00:49:53.15
it's got to be running over
so that we can give it away.
00:49:53.19\00:49:56.46
But I think it's important that
we kind of give a few steps.
00:49:56.49\00:50:00.53
Well, what do I do?
00:50:00.56\00:50:01.90
I've got all this inside of
me and my heart's been burning
00:50:01.93\00:50:04.67
as I've been
having my family worship
00:50:04.70\00:50:06.97
or myself worship in
the morning, you know,
00:50:07.00\00:50:09.70
so how do I go about that?
00:50:09.74\00:50:11.77
And one thing that
I learned years ago
00:50:11.81\00:50:14.34
is when we are in prayer that
00:50:14.38\00:50:16.24
we pray that God
will open the door.
00:50:16.28\00:50:18.91
Amen. Don't get out.
00:50:18.95\00:50:20.88
There's so many,
bless your hearts,
00:50:20.92\00:50:23.39
so many people
I've met over the years,
00:50:23.42\00:50:26.09
all of a sudden,
they learn these truths,
00:50:26.12\00:50:27.46
and they want to go
00:50:27.49\00:50:28.82
and they want to
hammer it over somebody,
00:50:28.86\00:50:30.66
and they're not ready for it.
00:50:30.69\00:50:32.16
But if you ask God,
"God, open the door,"
00:50:32.19\00:50:35.20
all of a sudden,
someone will come to you,
00:50:35.23\00:50:37.63
someone will come to us,
and they'll say, you know,
00:50:37.67\00:50:40.40
"Why is it that you do that?
00:50:40.44\00:50:41.84
Why do you
believe the way you do?"
00:50:41.87\00:50:44.34
I've had the best
Bible studies that way.
00:50:44.37\00:50:47.61
And as I was thinking about
that, in preparation for this,
00:50:47.64\00:50:50.58
how many of you've ever lost
something that was so valuable?
00:50:50.61\00:50:54.48
I mean, if I lose something,
00:50:54.52\00:50:55.85
it's like I'm not
content till I find it.
00:50:55.88\00:50:57.89
I pray about it,
Lord... It had to be valuable.
00:50:57.92\00:51:00.06
You don't have to be
naive. But I'm like Lord,
00:51:00.09\00:51:02.32
I know I'm supposed
to have this verse...
00:51:02.36\00:51:04.26
You know what I'm saying?
You know what I'm saying?
00:51:08.83\00:51:11.13
You know, and it made me
00:51:11.17\00:51:12.63
think of the woman with
her 10 pieces of silver.
00:51:12.67\00:51:16.00
This is Luke 15:8-10,
00:51:16.04\00:51:18.91
"Either what woman
having 10 pieces of silver,"
00:51:23.75\00:51:27.02
I'd love to have
just one, to be honest,
00:51:27.05\00:51:30.22
"If she lose one piece
doth not light a candle,
00:51:30.25\00:51:34.39
so she can sweep."
00:51:34.42\00:51:35.76
Got to have that truth out there
00:51:35.79\00:51:37.13
that light of the word.
00:51:37.16\00:51:38.49
That's right.
00:51:38.53\00:51:39.86
"And sweep the
house," and listen to this,
00:51:39.89\00:51:41.73
"and seek
diligently till she find it."
00:51:41.76\00:51:46.50
I think, as Christians,
brothers and sisters,
00:51:46.53\00:51:48.87
you at home,
00:51:48.90\00:51:50.24
we need to be seeking diligently
00:51:50.27\00:51:53.58
for those lost souls.
00:51:53.61\00:51:56.61
I just thought that
really... Absolutely.
00:51:56.64\00:51:58.21
Yes.
00:51:58.25\00:51:59.58
Something to build upon
00:51:59.61\00:52:00.95
'cause many times we feel full
00:52:00.98\00:52:02.42
but we don't
know how to give it.
00:52:02.45\00:52:03.82
So we asked God open the
doors and then begin to seek.
00:52:03.85\00:52:08.16
And He's going to answer
those prayers, is He not?
00:52:08.19\00:52:09.52
Yes.
00:52:09.56\00:52:10.89
But rest of it goes
on to say, "We rejoice."
00:52:10.93\00:52:12.29
That's right. We
rejoice when they come in.
00:52:12.33\00:52:14.76
That's verse 9.
00:52:14.80\00:52:16.56
Yeah, when she found
it, she called her friends,
00:52:16.60\00:52:18.40
she called her neighbors.
00:52:18.43\00:52:19.77
She said, you
now, "Rejoice with me
00:52:19.80\00:52:21.60
for I have found the
piece that I had lost."
00:52:21.64\00:52:24.21
I mean, think about it,
00:52:24.24\00:52:25.57
how many of us have
ever lost our car keys?
00:52:25.61\00:52:27.58
I mean, I've been late for work
00:52:27.61\00:52:28.94
and I'm praying for my car keys.
00:52:28.98\00:52:30.31
Right.
00:52:30.35\00:52:31.68
You know, and all of a sudden,
00:52:31.71\00:52:33.05
I find it,
Hallelujah, thank you, God.
00:52:33.08\00:52:34.42
How much more it
says there in the...
00:52:34.45\00:52:37.82
The last part of
that, it says there is,
00:52:37.85\00:52:39.52
"Joy in the
presence of angels of God
00:52:39.55\00:52:42.02
over one sinner repenting."
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To me that's a real miracle.
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Amen. Good.
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That's a real miracle.
That's a powerful point.
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You just said that.
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Actually, before we
even went into that,
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I was thinking the same thing,
the same way that she was.
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To me, that's the key there.
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Notice how she first lit a lamp.
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Yes, yes.
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Got to see, you got to see.
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Lit a lamp. She
first lit a lamp.
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Oh!
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The word of God is
light unto my path.
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We cannot be a light
until the lamp is lit.
00:53:08.92\00:53:11.95
That's right. And you
got to have the power.
00:53:11.99\00:53:13.92
But here's
what's amazing though.
00:53:13.96\00:53:15.56
And I'm going to say this
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'cause I know we're coming down
to our closing moments here.
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You know, so
many people want to be
00:53:19.36\00:53:20.90
a beacon of light to others.
00:53:20.93\00:53:23.73
But first, if we're excited
about the transformation that
00:53:23.77\00:53:28.60
God has done in us and
we want to be excited about
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telling someone else
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about the
transformation they can have,
00:53:33.78\00:53:36.81
tell your faith about it Yes.
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Come on. Happy
about the truth, right?
00:53:39.68\00:53:42.68
That's right.
What does verse 9 say?
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And when she found it
she was with heavy drudgery.
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No. No.
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I found my lost coin.
00:53:49.96\00:53:51.63
Have you had
someone tell you the truth
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or try to
explain to you the truth
00:53:53.33\00:53:54.70
or try to share Christ with
you with this as Ellen white,
00:53:54.73\00:53:57.20
I'm just quoting Ellen
White, with heavy drudgery,
00:53:57.23\00:53:59.43
almost like it's
painful to share, right?
00:53:59.47\00:54:01.87
Absolutely. Sing a song of...
00:54:01.90\00:54:03.64
We sometimes do this
in our worship services
00:54:03.67\00:54:05.44
when we sing
these powerful hymns
00:54:05.47\00:54:07.11
with just like...
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He just opened
another sermon here.
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Yes!
00:54:09.88\00:54:11.21
When you are not having
just a form of godliness,
00:54:11.25\00:54:13.85
but you have the power
00:54:13.88\00:54:15.28
of the indwelling
Spirit within you,
00:54:15.32\00:54:17.45
you can help it bubble over.
00:54:17.49\00:54:19.42
I recognize that people
have different personalities.
00:54:19.45\00:54:21.52
We'll recognize that, you
know, I may share the gospel
00:54:21.56\00:54:24.36
in a very over
exciting type way.
00:54:24.39\00:54:26.39
Someone else's excitement
00:54:26.43\00:54:28.06
may be a little
different than mine.
00:54:28.10\00:54:29.60
But it's very, very
clear if you're going to be
00:54:29.63\00:54:31.77
a beacon of
light for someone else
00:54:31.80\00:54:33.23
and you're sharing
Christ with someone else
00:54:33.27\00:54:34.74
and you want them to
know the Christ did you know,
00:54:34.77\00:54:37.37
you can't go and share that
00:54:37.41\00:54:38.84
truth with them as if
you're not excited about it.
00:54:38.87\00:54:41.21
If you're not excited about it,
00:54:41.24\00:54:42.88
how can they get
excited about it?
00:54:42.91\00:54:44.25
Why should they?
00:54:44.28\00:54:45.61
Exactly. It's truth.
00:54:45.65\00:54:47.25
Why do I want what you
have if you look miserable?
00:54:47.28\00:54:51.75
You know, it's interesting
00:54:51.79\00:54:53.12
because we all
exert an influence
00:54:53.15\00:54:54.49
over somebody else.
00:54:54.52\00:54:55.86
That's right.
00:54:55.89\00:54:57.23
And you know when we travel
and we go to other places,
00:54:57.26\00:55:00.00
we go out of the country,
00:55:00.03\00:55:01.93
it's interesting when we
come in contact with people
00:55:01.96\00:55:04.70
who have watched the network,
00:55:04.73\00:55:06.30
you know, because
they'll talk to us first
00:55:06.33\00:55:09.27
as if they've never seen
00:55:09.30\00:55:10.64
the net, they just
talk to us and kind of try
00:55:10.67\00:55:13.38
and you know see how
we truly are as people
00:55:13.41\00:55:16.54
and then they come out
with, "Oh, we love 3ABN.
00:55:16.58\00:55:20.42
We love, you know,
Salvation and Symbols and Signs.
00:55:20.45\00:55:23.85
3ABN Today Family
Worship," or, you know,
00:55:23.89\00:55:26.65
then they let you know that
00:55:26.69\00:55:28.02
they know who you are after
they've had that interaction,
00:55:28.06\00:55:32.26
see what your character is like.
00:55:32.29\00:55:33.63
Yeah.
00:55:33.66\00:55:35.00
I've never heard of
someone winning the lottery
00:55:35.03\00:55:36.60
and not being excited about it.
00:55:36.63\00:55:38.83
I know it's a
horrible example to give,
00:55:38.87\00:55:40.40
but I've never
heard someone say,
00:55:40.44\00:55:41.77
"Oh, you know, I'm so
excited I just won $20 million."
00:55:41.80\00:55:47.01
That's right. You
know, going like so...
00:55:47.04\00:55:49.41
Yeah.
00:55:49.44\00:55:50.78
And the kingdom of heaven
00:55:50.81\00:55:52.15
is so much more than
whatever this world can offer.
00:55:52.18\00:55:53.52
Yeah.
00:55:53.55\00:55:54.88
Go ahead and let
Brother Dakota say.
00:55:54.92\00:55:56.25
Yeah, give us some...
00:55:56.28\00:55:57.62
We've less than a
minute and a half or so.
00:55:57.65\00:55:59.15
So go on, then we'll...
00:55:59.19\00:56:00.52
Well, I think Ryan
made a good point, you know,
00:56:00.56\00:56:02.92
about us
needing to act like a...
00:56:02.96\00:56:04.76
I'm reminded of a story.
00:56:04.79\00:56:07.20
This recorded
00:56:07.23\00:56:08.56
of the Arch
Bishop of Canterbury,
00:56:08.60\00:56:11.27
which is the leader
of the Church of England,
00:56:11.30\00:56:13.87
going into a restaurant,
00:56:13.90\00:56:15.30
and he walks in and he
sees this famous actor,
00:56:15.34\00:56:18.27
and he starts
dining with him, you know,
00:56:18.31\00:56:19.94
and they're eating and he says,
00:56:19.97\00:56:22.54
"Please explain to
me how it is," you know,
00:56:22.58\00:56:24.48
the leader of the
Church of England, he says,
00:56:24.51\00:56:26.01
"How it is that you captivate
your audience the way you do?"
00:56:26.05\00:56:29.65
He said, "And that
you just went over there
00:56:29.68\00:56:31.72
and you can make them
cry, you can make them happy,
00:56:31.75\00:56:33.39
you can affect their emotions."
00:56:33.42\00:56:34.76
And he goes,
"Well, with due grace,
00:56:34.79\00:56:37.09
I do ask that you would
let me to be frank with you."
00:56:37.13\00:56:39.19
And he goes, "Sure."
00:56:39.23\00:56:40.56
He said, "We
actors, we talk about things
00:56:40.60\00:56:45.47
that are very untrue, but
we act like they're true."
00:56:45.50\00:56:49.90
He said, "You
ministers talk about things
00:56:49.94\00:56:52.61
that are very true and
act as if they're not."
00:56:52.64\00:56:55.41
Oh. There you go.
00:56:55.44\00:56:57.55
And that went home with me.
So I'll just leave it there.
00:56:57.58\00:57:01.32
Yeah. Oh, that's
good. We'll wind it down.
00:57:01.35\00:57:03.18
Do you have
something you want to...
00:57:03.22\00:57:04.55
Well, I think we're out of time.
00:57:04.59\00:57:05.99
We had talked about...
00:57:06.02\00:57:07.36
I said, we should go
out singing the song again.
00:57:07.39\00:57:09.49
But we're kind of
out of time to do that.
00:57:09.52\00:57:11.73
But oh, When Shall I See
Jesus? You know what, that is...
00:57:11.76\00:57:16.10
Beautiful. That's
what this is all about.
00:57:16.13\00:57:18.00
And we want to
get everybody ready.
00:57:18.03\00:57:19.77
Spirit of Prophecy
tells us as we do this work,
00:57:19.80\00:57:22.54
as we're going out
00:57:22.57\00:57:23.91
and we're
sharing the love of God
00:57:23.94\00:57:25.41
that we're
actually plucking souls.
00:57:25.44\00:57:27.38
Close it out, sweetheart.
00:57:27.41\00:57:29.18
Until next time,
precious friends,
00:57:29.21\00:57:31.01
may our Lord and Savior continue
00:57:31.05\00:57:33.21
to richly bless you and yours.
00:57:33.25\00:57:35.38
Amen.
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