I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello and welcome
to 3ABN Family Worship.
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We are glad that you
have decided to join us
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for this family worship.
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And we encourage you to join us
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and dive into the
experience together with us
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as we share this topic.
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Today, we are sharing a topic
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that is called
Pictures of God, part two.
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And so, we encourage
you to continue with us
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and see how this develops.
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We have some of
the family members
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with us today.
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And I'm going to start
on my left with the lady
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that is joining us,
Sister Nancy O'Brien, welcome.
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Thank you. It's a
pleasure to be here.
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And today we have
Pastor Joe O'Brien joining us,
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your husband.
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Pastoral ministry
department how many years?
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Twenty.
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Twenty years in the
pastoral ministry department.
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What happens in the
pastoral ministry department
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that you would
like to share with us?
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What happens? Yes.
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What does the department do?
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Oh, well, there's many things
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dealing with emails and letters,
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and previewing books
and previewing programs
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to see about the
doctrinal accuracy
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and there's
just a lot of things,
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but one of the richest for
me is the folks that call in
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and ask for prayer
or have a question.
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I just love conversing
with my family out there.
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That's the body of
Christ and to get to know them,
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and to share
with them the answers
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they're looking for,
because God has the answers.
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Amen. Amen.
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Let me go back to Sister Nancy.
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For many years,
you were a teacher
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in the school and principal,
but now you are helping
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in the department that
is, involves wills and trusts.
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Yes. Tell us about that?
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Okay.
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I'm a trust officer
in the Planned Giving
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and Trust Services
Department and I, you know,
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I think one of the
things I enjoy most about it too
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is talking to the
people that call in that
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want information that love 3ABN
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and want to do something
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with 3ABN like in a
trust or an annuity.
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Amen. Amen.
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Well, thank you so much.
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And to my right, we have...
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I call him Uncle Larry. Welcome.
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And you are a 3ABN
volunteer for how many years?
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I'm working on the
20th year. Twentieth year?
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I understand that
your original plan
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was to volunteer for...
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Two weeks. Two weeks.
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And what happened?
Lord got a hold of me.
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I came in, I saw a
need, I was able to fill it.
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My physical
condition at the time,
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I wasn't sure if I
was going to be able,
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but things happen
like I was able to sleep
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for more than
15-20 minutes at a time,
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which to me was a
miracle to sleep three hours.
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So things started to improve.
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My health improved two
points after the doctors said it
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wasn't going to happen.
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And then they said,
"Okay, well, you can do this,
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can you help us out with that."
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And started out
in the print shop,
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stuffing envelopes,
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worked into
running the print shop,
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and then the mass
control and production,
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and driving and
whatever they need.
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Praise the Lord.
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Now, Larry is one of the persons
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that when for some reason
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he's not in the family devotion.
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They say, "Well,
Larry is not here."
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So I'm going to say
what he normally says,
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what is it that you
say about every day?
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Praise God for
another beautiful day.
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Praise God for
another beautiful day.
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For another beautiful day life.
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But you add
something else to that.
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What is it that you add?
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You say something about
every day is a good day.
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Oh, every day is a good day,
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just some are
better than others.
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Every day is
good day except that
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some are better than others.
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Praise the Lord.
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Well, we're going to
begin also with prayer.
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And so, we want to ask
you at home to join us.
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And we want the Lord to bless
not only our time together,
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but also to bless you.
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And so, join us in prayer.
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Our loving Heavenly Father,
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we are grateful to You
because of Your blessings.
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Grateful to You
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because of the
wonderful plan of salvation,
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and that you have
given us the blessed hope
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that this world is
not our final home.
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You have a better home
for us, a better world.
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And we thank You, Lord,
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that we can
rejoice in Your salvation.
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We pray that as we are together,
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Lord, You will bless
us with Your Holy Spirit,
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that we may share things
that will be of encouragement
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and blessing to Your children.
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We ask You to consider
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every request that
has arrived at 3ABN,
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many concerns, concerns
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that are a
burden to Your children.
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We pray that You
will help us to learn
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to cast all of
our cares upon You
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because You care for us.
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And Heavenly Father,
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there are some
financial concerns,
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there are concerns about health,
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concerns about loved ones
that are not walking with You
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and are in the
world in great danger.
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Perhaps forgetting that
Satan is as a roaring lion
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seeking whom he may devour.
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So we pray that You
will be with each request
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that has come into 3ABN
and that You will answer
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according to what You
know is best for each person.
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We ask You for these blessings
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in the holy and
blessed name of Jesus.
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Amen. Amen.
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Amen.
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Well, this is family
worship and normally,
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people wonder why
and why are you saying,
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"Have a happy
and blessed Sabbath
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on a Friday evening."
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So there are reasons for this
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because the Bible
clearly points out,
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we say clearly
and some people say,
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well, I didn't know that.
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This is in Genesis Chapter 1.
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The Bible outlines that each day
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begins with
what part of the day?
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Evening.
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The evening or the
dark part of the day,
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because remember,
the earth was dark.
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So the first part of the
day is the dark part of the day.
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And then the day part
of the day comes second.
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So the evening and the morning,
first day, evening and morning,
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second day, this
is what you'll see
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in the Book of
Genesis Chapter 1.
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But something special
happened on the sixth day
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after God had done all His work,
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the next day was
not a day of work.
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It was a day of rest.
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And so I'd like to go
to Genesis Chapter 2 first.
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And my Uncle Larry,
if you will read that,
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Genesis 2:1, 2 and 3 for us,
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so that we can get a picture
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of what God did on the
seventh day of creation.
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Now, we only have
seven days in the week,
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so this was the
final day of the week.
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So Genesis 2:1, 2 and 3.
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"Thus the heavens and the earth,
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and all the host of
them, were finished.
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And on the seventh
day God ended His work
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which He had done,
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and He rested on the seventh day
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from all His work
which He had done.
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Then God blessed
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the seventh day
and sanctified it,
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because in it He
rested from all His work
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which God had created."
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Wonderful.
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So it tells us there
that God blessed this day.
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Now, were the
other days not blessed?
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Well, He put a special
blessing if you want to say that
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on this particular
day, every day of creation,
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God ended and He
said, "It's good."
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And God saw that it was
good. God saw it was good.
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But after the
whole creation process
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was done, He says,
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He looked at
everything, Genesis 1:31.
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And it says very good.
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And part of the blessing
that the Sabbath brings,
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which we're talking about here
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because He
blessed the seventh day
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is that it is a time for
us to remember our Creator.
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So that's why we want
to go to Exodus Chapter 20
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and read verses 8 through 11.
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And Joe O'Brien will read
that for us, Exodus 20:8-11.
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Please.
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Before I start, I'd like to
add to what you said Johnny,
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that it's fairly
clear, it's fairly clear.
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Six days God created
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and that includes
Sunday is a work day,
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Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday,
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and Friday at
sundown, the day ends,
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which is the
beginning of the seventh day.
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And God blessed
it, He sanctified it.
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And that day is
the only one that
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He blessed and
sanctified and hallowed.
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And if you want to
keep another day holy,
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you can, just don't sin.
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But the fact is
that day is not holy.
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It's a workday
because the boss said so.
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Okay, and so we'll
start here with, let's see.
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Exodus 20:8-11. Okay.
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This is the fourth commandment.
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And God says, "Remember
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the Sabbath
day, to keep it holy.
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Remember, I think He
thought we would forget.
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Okay.
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"Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy.
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Six days thou shalt labor
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and do all thy work,
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but the seventh day
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is the Sabbath of the Lord,
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the Lord thy God.
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In it thou
shalt not do any work,
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thou, nor thy
son, nor thy daughter,
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nor thy manservant,
nor thy maidservant,
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not even your cattle,
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not the stranger
within thy gates."
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That's a holy day.
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"For in six days the
Lord made heaven and earth,
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and the sea, and
all that in them is,
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and rested the seventh day."
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He keeps telling us that.
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"Wherefore the Lord blessed
the Sabbath and hallowed it."
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Amen.
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Amen.
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It's marvelous that the details
given in that commandment
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is the fourth
commandment in the Bible.
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And, you know, if
God had only said,
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"Remember the
seventh day to keep it holy,
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six days you shall
labor and do all your work."
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But He added, you nor
your son, nor your daughter,
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nor your manservant,
not even your cattle.
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So even the
animals are supposed to get
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a break on that day.
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And so, this is a
wonderful blessing
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even for the animals.
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Amen. And He made it very clear.
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He left no thing
undone, so there would be
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no mistake about
the entirety of it.
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Now it's interesting
the wording also because
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as we get to verse 11,
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it tells us why
we should do this.
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Can you read that
again for us? Yes.
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The reason is because it says,
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"For in six days,"
which means because
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"in six days the Lord
made the heaven and the earth,
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and the sea, and
all that in them is
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and rested the seventh day.
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Wherefore He blessed it,
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and the Sabbath
day was hallowed."
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Amen. Thank you very much.
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So what the Lord
blesses and makes holy,
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remains holy forever.
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I changed not.
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I am the same
yesterday, today and forever.
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He doesn't make mistakes.
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So the Sabbath remains a
holy separated day for us
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to keep holy even today.
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And we are to remember
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the Sabbath day to keep it holy.
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You can work six days you know,
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some people take
off the first day.
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But society unfortunately
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because many people do
not work on the first day
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of the week being Sunday.
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They are off.
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When they go back to school,
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when they go back to work,
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they think this is
the first day of the week.
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Our minds are
somehow looking at this
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as the first day of the week
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because that's the
first day you go to school
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or the first day you go to work.
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But Monday is actually
the second day of the week.
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Yes.
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And so, this is so important
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to God for us that
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there is a
scripture that I would,
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that we would like to read it
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at this time
also, Ezekiel 20:20.
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And Sister Nancy
O'Brien, I see that you have it.
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Could you read
it for us, please?
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"Hallow My Sabbaths,
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and they will be a
sign between Me and you,
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that you may know that
I am the Lord your God."
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It's a what? A sign.
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So unfortunately, some
people have endeavored,
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have attempted to
take this sign away
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and put in its place
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something He did
not put in its place.
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And that is, they say,
well, Sunday is the day
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because Christ resurrected
from the dead on that day.
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But there is no
scripture that says that
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Sunday has been
made holy in anywhere
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in the Scripture.
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And we have
writings and articles.
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Actually declarations
made by different denominations
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that they say the
seventh day is the Sabbath day.
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And we honor the resurrection.
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And we, we look at that,
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but really the
people that go to,
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let's say church,
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you can go to
church any day of the week.
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You can go on
Monday. You can go on Sunday.
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Sunday, Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
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you can go to church,
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but only one day God has said,
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"You shall not work on that day,
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this day is holy."
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And so I, you know,
from Spanish countries,
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you'll notice if you go,
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they have church
services on Monday,
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they've church
service on Wednesday, Friday.
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It's not about going to
church on a particular day,
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it's about keeping the day holy,
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to remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy.
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I see that you
have something to say.
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I was just thinking
when you're saying that,
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the story come to mind
about a man who went away
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and he had his son build
a barn house and everything.
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And when he came back,
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the son had done everything
exactly like he wanted
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except for the barn.
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He put it where he wanted it
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and not where
the father wanted it.
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He put the barn in the wrong...
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He put it in the wrong place.
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So for me if I'm not
worshiping on the Sabbath,
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I'm in the wrong place.
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And we got to do
what He asked us to do,
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not what we wanted to do.
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The boy did the good work,
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but he didn't do
what he was asked to do.
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So it was with
nothing, you know,
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to have that his
way, not the Father's way.
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See now this may be new to
some people to realize this.
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So we encourage you
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that if you like
more information,
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you can contact 3ABN.
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And we'll be glad
to share scriptures,
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Bible study
concerning the Sabbath day,
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so that you can enter
into this wonderful blessing
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that the Lord has
for each and every one.
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And remember,
Ezekiel 20:20 says that
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this is a sign
between God and His people.
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And so a marvelous
understanding to have.
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Well, we are
talking today about...
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Anything else
you'd like to share
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about the Sabbath
before we continue?
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'Cause there's so much.
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The statement in
the commandment tells us
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that God created
all these things for us.
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And then He says,
"Now on the seventh day,
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let's get together being friends
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and talk about it."
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Let's remember,
that's where it starts
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with the word remember.
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And so, God wants to
spend that time with us
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on a holy day
that is sanctified,
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which means set
aside for a holy purpose.
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And this is what it's about,
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it's to fellowship
with God and people say,
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"Well, Sunday
is the Lord's Day."
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Excuse me? Haven't
you read the Bible?
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God Himself says
right in the commandment,
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that the Sabbath
is the Lord's day.
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And so, let's keep it straight.
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And there's a
thing in that commandment
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also that struck me one
time that I think is insightful.
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God is very insightful.
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It says, not to work yourself,
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your son, your daughter,
your menservants, the cattle,
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all of this stuff, but
then He ends it with this.
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Nor the stranger
that is within thy gates.
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In other words,
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don't stand on
the street corner,
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and holler at the businessman
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that you should be
closed today because it's holy.
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That's not within your gates.
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Now if you own the
business, you talk to yourself
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and say I should be close.
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You should be close.
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You know it's interesting that
as we consider the Sabbath day,
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and we look at it,
it says, it's a day,
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six days you shall
labor and do all your work,
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and so, this includes the work
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of going to go buy groceries
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because that's a work
if you want to consider it.
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You go buy groceries,
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you go to the
supermarket to buy your shoes.
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It's not a day to
go buy your clothing,
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buy all of the
things that have to do
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with the worldly activities.
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We have to put
those things away.
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I am, sometimes I get call.
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I am glad to tell the people
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and you know you
do it in a kind way.
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You know thank you
for your call but today
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because they're offering you,
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they're trying to sell
you something on the phone.
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Today for us is the Sabbath
day according to the Bible.
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And if you would like
to talk to me about this,
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call me on Monday.
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So this is an all
encompassing blessing.
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Yes.
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Another thought that I
think is important is that
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what you had
Nancy read, it said...
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Ezekiel 20:20.
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Yes, "This will be a
sign between Me and you,
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that you may know that
I am the Lord your God."
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And so, on that day, if
we're shopping for shoes,
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how am I
remembering that He is the Lord,
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my God who created and
gave me the breath of life,
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how can I remember that
when I'm trying on shoes?
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That's right.
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So what you're
saying is exactly true.
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And if we took
it a step further,
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it says in Scripture, not
to seek your own pleasure.
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So if there's a
roaring football game
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or something, and
I want to go to it...
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It's not the right day.
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It's not the right day
to be cheering on your hero,
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some guy that
could easily break a leg.
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It's our day to
cheer on our hero
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who made everything for us
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because He loves us
and to say thank you,
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and that is one
of Satan's deviations
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to take us away from God.
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And we're not
seeing it that way.
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But to seek our own pleasure
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should be the
pleasure of God's love
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and give and giving of all that
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He's given us
including His life.
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Can't we give Him back
that holy time and show that
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we're His
children and He's our God.
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It's important, very important.
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This is something that
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sometimes people look
at the commandments as,
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don't do this, don't
do that, don't do this,
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but the commandments,
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each and every one of
them is for our blessing.
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And if the whole
world kept the commandments,
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we would have less worry,
00:21:07.53\00:21:08.86
less stress in life,
that you can, you know,
00:21:08.90\00:21:14.50
leave the door of
your house unlocked,
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leave your car unlocked.
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But today, people
have to lock their cars,
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not only lock them,
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but they have to
have alarms on them.
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And I've seen people
in cities like Chicago
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where they put
something on the steering wheel.
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So that in case
somebody manages to get in,
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they can't move
the steering wheel.
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And this is the
kind of world we live in.
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But if the world
kept all the commandments,
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each commandment is supposed
to be a blessing for us.
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And it's including this one.
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And so, unfortunately,
people are missing out
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on the blessing
of the Sabbath day.
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Now, when you
talk to some people
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about the commandments,
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somebody that you're
trying to help to understand,
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they said, "Well,
they're just guidelines.
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They're just suggestions."
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But that's not what it says.
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It doesn't say I
suggest, it says,
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this is the
commandment to do it.
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And I said, "Well,
what business you have
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to commanding me
to do these things?"
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He's our God, He's our Creator.
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He set these things for us,
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so that our
lives would be better.
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Amen.
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So we got to put
self out and let Him in.
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As I say, Sabbath is
the best day of the week.
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I mean, we love Sabbath.
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It's, talk about the world,
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it's a day to get
away from the world.
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You know, you just,
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I look so forward to
the beginning of Sabbath
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Friday evening.
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It's just like, you just think,
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"Oh, okay, I'm going
to shut out the world now.
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And I'm just going to rest
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and rest in the
Lord really rest in,
00:22:36.99\00:22:40.52
in studying the Word and in,
00:22:40.56\00:22:42.62
you know, all the good things,
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rather than getting
tied up with the world."
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I mean... And there's...
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We love Sabbath.
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There's one thing that
I think is very critical.
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I discovered this as I
was reading the scriptures
00:22:53.47\00:22:56.14
in the Book of Daniel.
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Thousands of years
ago, God showed Daniel,
00:22:58.37\00:23:01.94
that man would think to change
the times and laws of God.
00:23:01.98\00:23:05.11
And the fourth
commandment is a time,
00:23:05.15\00:23:06.98
it's a law that deals with time
00:23:07.02\00:23:08.92
and man thinks he changed it
00:23:08.95\00:23:10.79
and thinking it
does not make it so.
00:23:10.82\00:23:13.46
I can think I'm a
burden, jump off a cliff.
00:23:13.49\00:23:16.42
Good luck. God doesn't change.
00:23:16.46\00:23:19.73
So it was
prophesied by Daniel long ago,
00:23:19.76\00:23:23.60
man will think to change
the times and laws of God.
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And there's one man
that says that he did it.
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And it's in
record, it's recorded.
00:23:28.47\00:23:30.61
But God says,
"Remember," He didn't say,
00:23:30.64\00:23:36.24
"Remember the
change that's coming."
00:23:36.28\00:23:38.38
He says, "Remember
the law that I made."
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Amen. Amen.
00:23:41.08\00:23:42.42
I like to read from
Deuteronomy Chapter 11.
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Deuteronomy Chapter 11.
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And I'm going to read,
00:23:46.32\00:23:47.66
there are many
places you can go to,
00:23:47.69\00:23:49.26
but you'll see that
00:23:49.29\00:23:50.63
the commandments
are a blessing for us
00:23:50.66\00:23:53.43
because they
promote your happiness,
00:23:53.46\00:23:55.90
and they have, God has
your happiness in mind.
00:23:55.93\00:23:58.63
And in Deuteronomy Chapter 11,
00:23:58.67\00:24:00.84
I'm going to read
verses 26, 27, and 28.
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And this is what the Bible says,
00:24:06.51\00:24:08.04
"Behold, I set before you
00:24:08.08\00:24:11.01
this day a blessing and a curse,
00:24:11.05\00:24:14.42
a blessing, if you obey
the commandments of the Lord
00:24:14.45\00:24:17.89
your God, which I
command you this day:
00:24:17.92\00:24:20.16
And a curse, if
you will not obey
00:24:20.19\00:24:22.96
the commandments
of the Lord your God,
00:24:22.99\00:24:24.63
but turn aside out of the way
which I command you this day,
00:24:24.66\00:24:28.43
to go after other gods,
which ye have not known."
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And so, really,
the commandments of God
00:24:31.77\00:24:34.40
are a blessing if you do them,
00:24:34.44\00:24:37.11
and so we
encourage you to do that.
00:24:37.14\00:24:38.87
Now, let's move on to our topic
00:24:38.91\00:24:40.44
because I'm interested
in hearing the pictures
00:24:40.48\00:24:44.88
that you have brought.
00:24:44.91\00:24:47.02
You know, this is called
Pictures of God, part two.
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I see you have another
thought you'd like to share
00:24:51.62\00:24:53.49
before I move on.
00:24:53.52\00:24:54.86
On what you just read, please,
00:24:54.89\00:24:56.22
I appreciate you
letting me do this.
00:24:56.26\00:24:58.56
In Deuteronomy 11 says,
"A blessing if you obey,
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and a curse if you do not
obey the commandments of God."
00:25:03.00\00:25:06.70
Well, that shows
a picture of God,
00:25:06.74\00:25:09.60
not only as a
judge, where He says,
00:25:09.64\00:25:12.74
"Vengeance belongeth
to Me, and I will repay,
00:25:12.77\00:25:15.44
and the Lord
shall judge His people."
00:25:15.48\00:25:17.45
And then we're all scared
00:25:17.48\00:25:18.81
because He sees the bad things
00:25:18.85\00:25:20.18
we've done and we're in trouble.
00:25:20.22\00:25:22.48
But when you
read that, it's like,
00:25:22.52\00:25:24.72
there's a blessing if you obey.
00:25:24.75\00:25:27.29
I don't want to be mean to you.
00:25:27.32\00:25:29.52
It's your choice, we determine
which reward God gives us.
00:25:29.56\00:25:35.16
So if we don't want Him to
be judgmental with the curse,
00:25:35.20\00:25:41.17
then don't break the rules.
00:25:41.20\00:25:43.97
It's our choice
and I just wanted
00:25:44.01\00:25:46.04
to end with it's our choice,
00:25:46.07\00:25:48.34
so we can
increase our blessings.
00:25:48.38\00:25:52.75
Our future can be filled
00:25:52.78\00:25:54.38
with more
blessing and less curse
00:25:54.42\00:25:56.89
based on our choice,
00:25:56.92\00:25:59.15
not on what the
judge is going to judge.
00:25:59.19\00:26:02.12
We're making the decision.
00:26:02.16\00:26:04.79
Just want to say that.
00:26:04.83\00:26:06.16
Well, thank you very much.
Let's move on to our top topic.
00:26:06.19\00:26:10.53
I said, I'm interested
in seeing the pictures
00:26:10.57\00:26:12.67
that you have brought, you know,
00:26:12.70\00:26:14.14
when I say pictures,
people think of a photograph.
00:26:14.17\00:26:18.34
But a picture is also a memory
00:26:18.37\00:26:23.04
that people have of
something that occurred,
00:26:23.08\00:26:26.51
either in their life or
something they have seen
00:26:26.55\00:26:29.92
and heard someone else.
00:26:29.95\00:26:31.72
So there are
pictures of God in the Bible,
00:26:31.75\00:26:34.22
and we're going to talk about
pictures of God in the Bible,
00:26:34.26\00:26:37.43
that show us how He is.
00:26:37.46\00:26:41.03
But also later,
we're going to talk about
00:26:41.06\00:26:44.70
pictures of God,
what you would say
00:26:44.73\00:26:47.10
modern pictures of God,
but perhaps in your experience,
00:26:47.14\00:26:50.21
something you have seen
in somebody that tells you,
00:26:50.24\00:26:52.61
I saw God in that person,
00:26:52.64\00:26:55.01
when I saw them doing
such and such a thing.
00:26:55.04\00:26:58.15
And so, this is going
to be very interesting.
00:26:58.18\00:27:00.78
Who would like to
start? How about Uncle Larry?
00:27:00.82\00:27:04.89
Well, okay in Acts 6
and 7, verses 11 and 15,
00:27:04.92\00:27:10.46
they talk about
the Good Samaritan.
00:27:10.49\00:27:14.06
You had the priest
who went through first...
00:27:14.10\00:27:16.40
I'm sorry, what
scripture did you mention?
00:27:16.43\00:27:19.13
Acts.
00:27:19.17\00:27:20.94
Oh, okay, Acts 10. I'm sorry.
00:27:20.97\00:27:23.84
Six and seven,
Chapter 6 and Chapter 7
00:27:23.87\00:27:27.94
or verse 6 and
verse 7 there, okay.
00:27:27.98\00:27:30.91
And it talks about anyway a man,
00:27:30.95\00:27:33.58
there's a, if
you know the history
00:27:33.62\00:27:35.08
about that road
going to Jericho,
00:27:35.12\00:27:36.62
it's full of thieves
and bandits and your life
00:27:36.65\00:27:38.69
is in your own
hands when you come there.
00:27:38.72\00:27:40.72
Where the one
man he got attacked
00:27:40.76\00:27:42.42
and he got beaten
and left for dead.
00:27:42.46\00:27:44.93
The priests went through
00:27:44.96\00:27:46.29
and walked on the
other side and passed him.
00:27:46.33\00:27:48.60
The Levite did the same
but the Samaritan not only
00:27:48.63\00:27:51.83
did he stop to
help him and bandage him
00:27:51.87\00:27:53.97
and put oil on his
wounds, he bought him, he went,
00:27:54.00\00:27:57.07
you know further
than the required,
00:27:57.11\00:27:59.77
he brought him to
the end to care from
00:27:59.81\00:28:02.74
and then left money be
cared for him afterwards.
00:28:02.78\00:28:05.25
To me that's a prime
example of a picture of God.
00:28:05.28\00:28:08.65
God goes, what we might think
of is out of the way to help us
00:28:08.68\00:28:12.89
and to do things for us
00:28:12.92\00:28:14.26
that are for our own good
to help mend in our wounds,
00:28:14.29\00:28:17.43
and that those wounds
don't have to be physical,
00:28:17.46\00:28:19.23
they can be emotional.
00:28:19.26\00:28:21.06
So to me, that's,
that was the first one
00:28:21.10\00:28:23.10
that came into my mind.
00:28:23.13\00:28:24.77
Luke, at this, I found the story
00:28:24.80\00:28:26.84
of the Good Samaritan,
Luke Chapter 10 as well.
00:28:26.87\00:28:29.94
Oh, I'm sorry, I did
give you the wrong one.
00:28:29.97\00:28:33.58
I'm looking at my notes here
and I looked at the wrong one,
00:28:33.61\00:28:36.78
but it was Luke 10:33-35.
00:28:36.81\00:28:41.25
So you see in
the Good Samaritan,
00:28:41.28\00:28:42.88
a picture of God
in that illustrates
00:28:42.92\00:28:47.06
some characteristic
about him as also portrayed
00:28:47.09\00:28:51.29
in the lives of other people.
00:28:51.33\00:28:52.66
Yes.
00:28:52.69\00:28:54.86
And that same principle,
if you look at God and see
00:28:54.90\00:28:58.30
the picture of
God doing that same,
00:28:58.33\00:29:01.27
working out that same
principle for any one of us.
00:29:01.30\00:29:05.57
It's a matter of
purchasing a room
00:29:05.61\00:29:09.74
at a hotel and paying
for the food in advance
00:29:09.78\00:29:13.52
until you're
healed is giving a lot.
00:29:13.55\00:29:16.15
I mean, very few
people would do that.
00:29:16.18\00:29:19.82
Well, maybe not
very few, but I mean,
00:29:19.85\00:29:21.92
but then when you look
at God in that picture,
00:29:21.96\00:29:23.89
doing that same,
00:29:23.93\00:29:25.26
working out that same principle,
00:29:25.29\00:29:28.23
the wages of sin is death,
00:29:28.26\00:29:30.17
because God's going to
have a clean universe one day.
00:29:30.20\00:29:33.60
He's going to get rid of sin
00:29:33.64\00:29:34.97
and sinners who
won't quit sinning.
00:29:35.00\00:29:36.77
And so, He loves us
00:29:36.81\00:29:40.91
and wants to take care of us,
00:29:40.94\00:29:43.11
provide for us as
that principle showed
00:29:43.14\00:29:46.61
to the point
where He was willing.
00:29:46.65\00:29:49.42
The wages of sin is death.
00:29:49.45\00:29:50.95
He would actually
give His whole total life
00:29:50.99\00:29:54.79
not just his pocketbook,
but His life to help us.
00:29:54.82\00:29:59.03
That is the
ultimate that God be love.
00:29:59.06\00:30:02.66
He gave it all.
That's a picture I see.
00:30:02.70\00:30:06.43
And then this, the man
00:30:06.47\00:30:07.80
just didn't give
his of his own goods
00:30:07.84\00:30:09.60
and everything,
he risked his life
00:30:09.64\00:30:11.67
because at that point
he could have been attacked
00:30:11.71\00:30:13.64
at any time too,
00:30:13.68\00:30:15.01
so He risked it all for somebody
00:30:15.04\00:30:17.15
He didn't even know,
00:30:17.18\00:30:19.21
knew nothing about him
except that he needed help.
00:30:19.25\00:30:21.25
Amen.
00:30:21.28\00:30:22.62
Sister Nancy, you have one? Yes.
00:30:22.65\00:30:27.12
Jesus was always...
00:30:27.16\00:30:28.56
I was raised,
being told about God,
00:30:28.59\00:30:32.19
being told about Jesus,
00:30:32.23\00:30:33.86
but I really
didn't understand Him.
00:30:33.90\00:30:36.73
He was called Lamb of God.
00:30:36.77\00:30:38.33
And I didn't really know why.
00:30:38.37\00:30:40.17
But He was and I was told that
00:30:40.20\00:30:44.67
He dead for my sins,
00:30:44.71\00:30:46.04
but didn't
really understand that.
00:30:46.07\00:30:47.51
So it was when I
started reading the Bible
00:30:47.54\00:30:49.84
and got into Exodus.
00:30:49.88\00:30:52.35
I'm not...Yeah, Exodus 25, 26
00:30:52.38\00:30:56.99
when it starts
talking about the sanctuary.
00:30:57.02\00:30:59.45
Okay, I was new in the
Bible and I was reading it.
00:30:59.49\00:31:01.59
And I had already
fallen in love with God,
00:31:01.62\00:31:05.06
I was deeply in love with Jesus
and so I said to Him, you know,
00:31:05.09\00:31:08.16
"I don't understand
why You put this in here.
00:31:08.20\00:31:10.33
Because why do I need to know
what color the curtains are?
00:31:10.37\00:31:13.00
Why do I need to know that
00:31:13.03\00:31:14.37
there's a loop
on every one of them
00:31:14.40\00:31:15.74
and tassels here
and tassels there?
00:31:15.77\00:31:17.77
And I don't get it, Jesus.
00:31:17.81\00:31:19.41
Why did You put this in here?
00:31:19.44\00:31:21.64
But I also knew, okay,
00:31:21.68\00:31:23.14
everything in here is
meant for instruction,
00:31:23.18\00:31:26.01
and, you know, guidance.
00:31:26.05\00:31:28.88
And so I said, "Well, Lord,
00:31:28.92\00:31:30.25
you're going to have to show me
00:31:30.29\00:31:31.62
how this can
possibly affect my life
00:31:31.65\00:31:33.09
because I just don't see it."
00:31:33.12\00:31:35.62
And it was five years later,
as I was studying the Bible,
00:31:35.66\00:31:40.26
studying with
Revelation seminar,
00:31:40.30\00:31:44.07
that it hit me when
they started talking
00:31:44.10\00:31:45.70
about the
sanctuary and I thought,
00:31:45.73\00:31:48.34
"Oh, that was my question.
00:31:48.37\00:31:50.57
Why did He go into such detail?"
00:31:50.61\00:31:54.08
All of a sudden, the
whole plan of salvation
00:31:54.11\00:31:56.54
made sense.
00:31:56.58\00:31:58.25
He's the Lamb of God
that died for my sins.
00:31:58.28\00:32:02.78
He is the Lamb of God
that was nailed to the cross.
00:32:02.82\00:32:05.35
It wasn't the commandments
nailed to the cross.
00:32:05.39\00:32:07.19
It was a Lamb of God
that was nailed to the cross.
00:32:07.22\00:32:10.06
He is the high priest
that I confess my sins to,
00:32:10.09\00:32:13.66
and He offers His blood.
00:32:13.70\00:32:15.63
I never understood that until
I studied the sanctuary system.
00:32:15.66\00:32:18.90
So to me, He is the Lamb of God.
00:32:18.93\00:32:21.27
He's the high priest.
00:32:21.30\00:32:23.37
He's the whole
plan of salvation.
00:32:23.41\00:32:25.17
Amen. Amen.
00:32:25.21\00:32:27.71
Well, I'm going
to share one here
00:32:27.74\00:32:29.24
from the Book of
Matthew and Matthew Chapter...
00:32:29.28\00:32:33.45
Actually, I'm going to
read first the scripture
00:32:36.48\00:32:40.56
that talks about God.
00:32:40.59\00:32:42.82
And this is Matthew 6:26.
00:32:42.86\00:32:48.30
It says, "Look at
the birds of the air,
00:32:48.33\00:32:52.63
for they neither sow nor
reap nor gather into barns,
00:32:52.67\00:32:56.57
yet your heavenly
Father feeds them.
00:32:56.60\00:33:00.38
Are you not of
more value than they?"
00:33:00.41\00:33:05.18
And so, here's a picture of
God that Jesus is describing,
00:33:05.21\00:33:10.09
that He takes care of the birds.
00:33:10.12\00:33:13.15
He takes care of the
animals in the fields.
00:33:13.19\00:33:15.92
Somehow, someway God feeds
all these animals out there
00:33:15.96\00:33:20.20
and takes care of them.
00:33:20.23\00:33:23.13
And then he said,
then the verse says,
00:33:23.16\00:33:24.87
"Are you not of
more value than they?"
00:33:24.90\00:33:28.07
You know, some people
have lived many, many years
00:33:28.10\00:33:30.54
and they have never
missed a meal, except by choice,
00:33:30.57\00:33:33.91
except by choice,
00:33:33.94\00:33:35.81
but God has taken
care of each and every one,
00:33:35.84\00:33:41.55
each and every one of us.
00:33:41.58\00:33:42.92
The Bible says that
God's rain falls on the just,
00:33:42.95\00:33:48.42
that means the
good, and on the unjust,
00:33:48.46\00:33:50.59
that means the bad people.
00:33:50.63\00:33:52.13
God is so good.
00:33:52.16\00:33:53.50
I mean, He allows
the rain to come so that
00:33:53.53\00:33:57.47
He can water the plants,
He allows the sun to shine,
00:33:57.50\00:34:00.27
His son to shine so that
the plants can benefit from it
00:34:00.30\00:34:04.91
and then the plants will grow.
00:34:04.94\00:34:07.61
I tell you if it wasn't for God,
00:34:07.64\00:34:09.34
we will be in
serious, serious trouble.
00:34:09.38\00:34:11.58
Now the picture that I
wanted to share with you is the,
00:34:11.61\00:34:15.95
about the 5,000.
00:34:15.98\00:34:17.32
In Matthew Chapter 14,
00:34:17.35\00:34:19.62
Jesus is pictured here
00:34:19.65\00:34:23.46
as preaching to a
great multitude of people.
00:34:23.49\00:34:26.76
I'm going to begin
reading in verse 13.
00:34:26.80\00:34:28.76
"When Jesus heard it,
He departed from there
00:34:28.80\00:34:31.83
by a road to a
deserted place by Himself.
00:34:31.87\00:34:35.54
But when the
multitudes heard of it,
00:34:35.57\00:34:37.77
they followed Him on
foot from the cities.
00:34:37.81\00:34:41.68
And when Jesus went out,
He saw a great multitude,
00:34:41.71\00:34:45.18
and He was moved
with compassion for them,
00:34:45.21\00:34:48.02
and healed their sick.
00:34:48.05\00:34:49.88
And when it was evening,
00:34:49.92\00:34:51.25
his disciples
came to Him, saying,
00:34:51.29\00:34:53.36
'This is a deserted place,
and the hour is already late,
00:34:53.39\00:34:57.39
send the multitude
away,' they said to Jesus,
00:34:57.43\00:35:00.03
'that they may go
into the villages,
00:35:00.06\00:35:02.03
and buy themselves food.'"
00:35:02.06\00:35:04.10
Now, this is something
that surprised the disciples.
00:35:04.13\00:35:07.90
Jesus said, but
Jesus said to them,
00:35:07.94\00:35:10.51
"They do not need to go away.
00:35:10.54\00:35:12.44
You give them something to eat."
00:35:12.47\00:35:17.11
And they're like, shocked.
00:35:17.15\00:35:18.48
I mean, well,
notice what happens.
00:35:18.51\00:35:19.85
Verse 17.
00:35:19.88\00:35:21.22
"And they said to Him,
00:35:21.25\00:35:22.58
'We have here only
five loaves and two fish.'"
00:35:22.62\00:35:26.99
So basically, they're saying,
"We're helpless out here.
00:35:30.03\00:35:32.66
We're in serious trouble.
00:35:32.69\00:35:34.06
We have a great
multitude of people.
00:35:34.10\00:35:36.77
And there are only five
loaves of bread and two fish."
00:35:36.80\00:35:42.74
And Jesus said,
He looked at them,
00:35:42.77\00:35:44.61
He didn't question them.
00:35:44.64\00:35:45.97
He said, He didn't
say, oh you of little faith.
00:35:46.01\00:35:48.51
He basically said,
"Just bring them to Me."
00:35:48.54\00:35:51.41
So He said, verse 19,
00:35:51.45\00:35:56.08
"Then He
commanded the multitudes
00:35:56.12\00:35:57.62
to sit down on the grass.
00:35:57.65\00:35:58.99
And He took the five
loaves and the two fish,
00:35:59.02\00:36:02.36
and looking up to heaven,
00:36:02.39\00:36:04.29
He blessed and broke
00:36:04.33\00:36:06.86
and gave the
loaves to the disciples;
00:36:06.90\00:36:09.06
and the disciples
gave to the multitudes.
00:36:09.10\00:36:11.13
So they all ate and were filled,
00:36:11.17\00:36:13.30
and they took up twelve baskets
00:36:13.34\00:36:15.27
full of the
fragments that remained."
00:36:15.30\00:36:17.51
Now it says here in verse
21, "Now those who had eaten
00:36:17.54\00:36:20.68
were about five thousand men,"
00:36:20.71\00:36:23.71
without counting where it says,
"besides women and children."
00:36:23.75\00:36:26.18
So I don't know if
you will take, let's say,
00:36:26.21\00:36:29.72
two children per family, boy,
00:36:29.75\00:36:32.19
that's another
10,000 right there.
00:36:32.22\00:36:34.99
And then the wives not,
perhaps not all were married,
00:36:35.02\00:36:37.83
so let's say maybe 2,000 women.
00:36:37.86\00:36:40.63
So that's a lot of people.
00:36:40.66\00:36:42.90
With five loaves, and we
think, we think of loaves as,
00:36:42.93\00:36:45.67
you know, the big loaves,
00:36:45.70\00:36:47.04
but these were loaves
for one person a piece.
00:36:47.07\00:36:49.94
In other words, one
person could have eaten
00:36:49.97\00:36:51.97
probably the two, three
or five loaves one person.
00:36:52.01\00:36:56.08
But Jesus divided
and the miracle occurred,
00:36:56.11\00:36:59.21
that as He continued to divide,
00:36:59.25\00:37:01.45
there continue to remain
some until He was able to feed
00:37:01.48\00:37:05.85
all of these people.
00:37:05.89\00:37:07.59
And it's some miracle.
00:37:07.62\00:37:09.22
And so, I see
here a picture of God,
00:37:09.26\00:37:12.43
taking care of the
needs of the people.
00:37:12.46\00:37:15.43
And this is a picture of
God, He takes care of our needs.
00:37:15.46\00:37:19.33
And He invites us to
present our needs to Him.
00:37:19.37\00:37:23.10
So this is a picture of
God that provides for us.
00:37:23.14\00:37:26.64
And so, this to me
is a marvelous picture
00:37:26.68\00:37:29.78
that we have here of God.
00:37:29.81\00:37:31.38
Yeah.
00:37:31.41\00:37:32.75
So Uncle Larry,
how about another one?
00:37:32.78\00:37:34.65
Well, I got
another one from Bible
00:37:34.68\00:37:36.25
and this is the one
that was Acts 6 and 7,
00:37:36.28\00:37:39.52
and it's talking about Steven.
00:37:39.55\00:37:42.39
Now, Steven firstly with in...
00:37:42.42\00:37:47.46
Yeah, in Chapter 6, it says,
00:37:47.50\00:37:50.93
"That Steven, full of faith
and power did great wonders
00:37:50.97\00:37:53.50
and signs among the people.
00:37:53.54\00:37:55.34
Then there arose some
00:37:55.37\00:37:56.71
that call the synagogue
of the freedom Cyrenians
00:37:56.74\00:38:02.04
and Alexandrians
and those from Cecile,
00:38:02.08\00:38:04.61
how you say that Cilicia
00:38:04.65\00:38:06.05
and Asia disputing with Steven."
00:38:06.08\00:38:08.58
And what they did is
they accused him falsely
00:38:08.62\00:38:12.65
of doing and
preaching the wrong things.
00:38:12.69\00:38:17.69
So they wanted to stone
him, well, right up into
00:38:17.73\00:38:20.30
and including the
time of stoning him.
00:38:20.33\00:38:22.43
In 7:15,
00:38:22.46\00:38:26.63
it says...
00:38:26.67\00:38:29.34
So, oh, wait a minute.
00:38:29.37\00:38:32.47
You're in verse 7?
00:38:32.51\00:38:34.61
Yes, go on with 7:
15. I got this right.
00:38:34.64\00:38:37.71
So Jacob, nope, I
didn't get it right.
00:38:37.75\00:38:40.32
Well, anyway...
Oh, you mean 6:15.
00:38:40.35\00:38:43.55
That's what you want. Okay.
00:38:43.59\00:38:46.65
Where was I here?
All right. Oh, yeah.
00:38:46.69\00:38:49.99
And it says that,
"All who sat in the council
00:38:50.03\00:38:52.33
when they were accusing him,
00:38:52.36\00:38:54.03
looking
steadfastly at Him saw His face
00:38:54.06\00:38:57.57
was as the face of an angel."
00:38:57.60\00:39:00.50
That's what I think
when people looked at,
00:39:00.54\00:39:02.47
like, looked at Christ,
they saw love, they saw,
00:39:02.50\00:39:05.14
you know,
something that was pure.
00:39:05.17\00:39:07.41
And that's what I think that
00:39:07.44\00:39:09.04
at that point that Steven showed
00:39:09.08\00:39:11.11
and depicted the face of God.
00:39:11.15\00:39:12.91
Amen. Amen.
00:39:12.95\00:39:15.55
So this was another
wonderful picture of God.
00:39:15.58\00:39:18.99
Marvelous. How about...Yes, Joe?
00:39:19.02\00:39:22.59
The principle that you
were working with Johnny,
00:39:22.62\00:39:24.86
I want to expand on
that a little bit with.
00:39:24.89\00:39:27.46
If you'll turn
to John 2:1 with me.
00:39:27.50\00:39:32.23
This was after Jesus
was baptized, and John said
00:39:32.27\00:39:35.90
He was the Lamb of
God and the mother,
00:39:35.94\00:39:38.54
his mother knew what
was going on for sure.
00:39:38.57\00:39:41.81
She taught him in all
and it was at a point in time
00:39:41.84\00:39:46.11
that was a little bit critical.
00:39:46.15\00:39:48.48
It says there,
"And the third day was
00:39:48.52\00:39:52.59
a marriage in Cana of Galilee,
00:39:52.62\00:39:58.26
and the mother
of Jesus was there:
00:39:58.29\00:40:01.20
"And the third day was called,
00:40:01.23\00:40:02.76
and His
disciples to the marriage."
00:40:02.80\00:40:05.03
Now He just gathered a
few new disciples here.
00:40:05.07\00:40:07.90
And it says in verse 3,
"And when they wanted wine,
00:40:07.94\00:40:13.54
the mother of Christ
or Jesus said unto Him,
00:40:13.58\00:40:17.81
they have no wine.
00:40:17.85\00:40:22.42
And Jesus answered and said,
00:40:22.45\00:40:25.42
'Woman, what have I to
do with this, with thee?
00:40:25.45\00:40:30.13
Mine hour is not yet come.'"
00:40:30.16\00:40:32.39
So He is letting her know,
I'm not involved in the wine.
00:40:32.43\00:40:35.63
And then His mother
said to the servants,
00:40:39.10\00:40:42.40
whatsoever He has...
00:40:42.44\00:40:45.44
"Whatsoever He
saith unto you do it."
00:40:45.47\00:40:49.94
And that's all, she just said.
00:40:49.98\00:40:52.48
They have no wine.
00:40:52.51\00:40:54.65
He says, "What
have I to do with this?"
00:40:54.68\00:40:56.99
And she says to the servants,
00:40:57.02\00:40:58.52
"Whatever He
tells you to do, do it."
00:40:58.55\00:41:00.79
And that was it.
00:41:00.82\00:41:02.76
It's kind of like mom was
given a little order there,
00:41:02.79\00:41:05.29
you know, kind
of, okay now Jesus,
00:41:05.33\00:41:07.46
what did He do?
00:41:07.50\00:41:09.80
Yeah, this is not my
time. What did He do?
00:41:09.83\00:41:13.70
He was the commandment
keeper who never sinned.
00:41:13.74\00:41:17.07
And the fifth
commandment was at stake,
00:41:17.11\00:41:20.08
on your father and your mother.
00:41:20.11\00:41:22.98
And so, Jesus was faithful
to the fifth commandment
00:41:23.01\00:41:26.51
and He honored His mother.
00:41:26.55\00:41:28.85
There's things like that,
00:41:28.88\00:41:30.22
that we don't always see
that are beneath the surface.
00:41:30.25\00:41:34.46
And I thought that
followed along with
00:41:34.49\00:41:36.93
what you were sharing, Johnny.
00:41:36.96\00:41:38.39
Amen. Thank you very much.
00:41:38.43\00:41:40.63
Sister Nancy, you
have another picture
00:41:40.66\00:41:42.00
you'd like to share?
00:41:42.03\00:41:43.93
Well, Jesus is our
also the good shepherd.
00:41:43.97\00:41:48.20
And in my life, I was
single for quite a while
00:41:48.24\00:41:52.41
and there was, you
know, when you're single,
00:41:52.44\00:41:55.24
you're facing all the so
called problems by yourself
00:41:55.28\00:41:58.35
like a bat gets
into your apartment
00:41:58.38\00:42:00.72
and usually I
would have called my dad,
00:42:00.75\00:42:03.52
I was living at home
but had to do it myself.
00:42:03.55\00:42:06.29
So I called on
God, can you get this
00:42:06.32\00:42:10.29
bat out of my apartment.
00:42:10.33\00:42:11.99
And, you know,
00:42:12.03\00:42:13.36
He always filled
whatever need I had,
00:42:13.40\00:42:16.87
He was the good shepherd.
00:42:16.90\00:42:18.33
I've really felt
like He was watching
00:42:18.37\00:42:21.17
and taking care of me
00:42:21.20\00:42:22.84
as He would take
care of His own child.
00:42:22.87\00:42:25.94
And there were many times
00:42:25.97\00:42:27.68
when I would be
found myself in a situation
00:42:27.71\00:42:32.38
where I didn't know what to say.
00:42:32.41\00:42:35.65
And I felt like He gave me
the words to say, so He's a...
00:42:35.68\00:42:38.75
He leads us when we get
into turmoil or anxiety,
00:42:38.79\00:42:43.63
and you go to Him,
00:42:43.66\00:42:44.99
He leads you
into peace and calm.
00:42:45.03\00:42:48.33
You know, it's,
He's a good shepherd
00:42:48.36\00:42:50.13
over our lives
if we listen to Him.
00:42:50.17\00:42:52.80
And, of course,
quite reading the Word
00:42:52.83\00:42:54.24
is where you often get.
00:42:54.27\00:42:55.60
He talks to you there
and very often lets you know
00:42:55.64\00:42:59.64
how He will help us.
00:42:59.67\00:43:02.34
There was a time
when, as a young woman,
00:43:02.38\00:43:05.48
I was, of course,
praying for a spouse asking God,
00:43:05.51\00:43:08.65
you know, "When am I ever
going to find someone to marry,
00:43:08.68\00:43:11.52
you know, can I, you know,
will You bring someone in?"
00:43:11.55\00:43:14.19
Well, when I had my
priorities all wrong then,
00:43:14.22\00:43:18.29
and I had a
friend who was very good,
00:43:18.33\00:43:19.96
and she told me that she says,
00:43:20.00\00:43:21.93
your priorities are
wrong, you should put God first.
00:43:21.96\00:43:24.73
And so she gave
me a little book,
00:43:24.77\00:43:26.13
Jesus person, promise book.
00:43:26.17\00:43:29.20
And I read it.
00:43:29.24\00:43:30.57
And as I read it,
00:43:30.61\00:43:31.94
I fell so deeply
in love with Jesus.
00:43:31.97\00:43:34.88
Amen. I started
to pray the opposite.
00:43:34.91\00:43:37.05
I started to pray,
00:43:37.08\00:43:38.41
don't bring
anyone into my life Lord,
00:43:38.45\00:43:40.32
I just want to know You.
00:43:40.35\00:43:42.02
I'm in love with
You. I want to know You.
00:43:42.05\00:43:44.02
Don't bring
anybody else in my life.
00:43:44.05\00:43:46.86
You know, that's
the good shepherd.
00:43:46.89\00:43:48.22
He really protects us
and guides us and leads.
00:43:48.26\00:43:52.76
He has the best
intentions for us.
00:43:52.79\00:43:54.53
Amen. Praise the Lord.
00:43:54.56\00:43:56.77
He is
consistent. He's consistent.
00:43:56.80\00:43:58.70
Yes. That's the thing.
00:43:58.73\00:44:00.34
I'd like to read one
more here if you don't mind.
00:44:00.37\00:44:01.90
Please, go ahead. Joshua 24:15.
00:44:01.94\00:44:06.07
And then I'd like to
read a little thing here
00:44:06.11\00:44:07.84
that Ellen White note in there.
00:44:07.88\00:44:10.11
It says, "And if it seems
evil to you to serve the Lord,
00:44:10.15\00:44:14.68
choose for yourselves
this day whom you will serve,
00:44:14.72\00:44:16.92
whether the gods
which your fathers served
00:44:16.95\00:44:20.19
that were on the
other side of the River,
00:44:20.22\00:44:22.19
or the gods of the Amorites,
in whose land you dwell.
00:44:22.22\00:44:25.63
But as for me and my
house, we will serve the Lord."
00:44:25.66\00:44:28.93
To me Joshua was
a perfect example.
00:44:28.96\00:44:31.17
No matter what happened,
00:44:31.20\00:44:32.77
he followed and he
to me pictured Christ.
00:44:32.80\00:44:37.47
And in his note
here, it says that,
00:44:37.51\00:44:41.71
"This is the governing
power in the nature of man
00:44:41.74\00:44:44.68
the power of decision or choice,
00:44:44.71\00:44:46.31
every human being possessed
of reason has power to choose
00:44:46.35\00:44:49.38
that to choose the right
and every experience of life,
00:44:49.42\00:44:52.45
God's Word to us is
choose you this day,
00:44:52.49\00:44:55.52
whom you will serve.
00:44:55.56\00:44:56.93
Everyone may
place it on His will
00:44:56.96\00:44:59.09
on the side of the will
of God may choose to obey Him
00:44:59.13\00:45:03.23
and by thus linking himself
with the divine agencies,
00:45:03.26\00:45:07.54
He may stand where nothing
can force Him to do evil."
00:45:07.57\00:45:12.17
That, you know, I see Joshua,
he was strong, he was a leader.
00:45:12.21\00:45:16.51
He didn't waver.
00:45:16.54\00:45:17.88
He didn't do
anything for his own good.
00:45:17.91\00:45:20.02
He just did it
exactly the way God did it,
00:45:20.05\00:45:22.88
the way Moses
did it and so to me,
00:45:22.92\00:45:25.22
that's looking at
the face of Christ.
00:45:25.25\00:45:27.22
Amen. Thank you very much.
00:45:27.26\00:45:28.59
I have one that
follows up on that, Johnny.
00:45:28.62\00:45:32.06
I consider that
partly that God is a...
00:45:32.09\00:45:35.00
A picture of God as a person,
00:45:35.03\00:45:37.27
a person who wants relationship.
00:45:37.30\00:45:39.93
He created us to have friends.
00:45:39.97\00:45:42.47
And in this relationship,
if you turn to Malachi 3:8,
00:45:42.50\00:45:48.44
God reveals how much He
wants relationship with us.
00:45:48.48\00:45:54.08
It says, "Will a man rob God?
00:45:54.12\00:45:57.85
Yet you have robbed Me,"
this is about relationship,
00:45:57.89\00:46:03.22
"but you say, 'Where
in have you robbed me?'
00:46:03.26\00:46:06.80
In tithes and offerings.
00:46:06.83\00:46:09.00
Ye are cursed with a
curse: for ye have robbed me.'"
00:46:09.03\00:46:12.67
Now we read earlier,
00:46:12.70\00:46:14.20
if you keep my
commandments, I'll bless you.
00:46:14.24\00:46:16.94
And God is concerned here
with His relationship with us
00:46:16.97\00:46:19.67
because He wants to bless us.
00:46:19.71\00:46:23.04
But if we sin,
there's no blessing for sin.
00:46:23.08\00:46:27.28
And so now there's a
curse coming upon you
00:46:27.32\00:46:30.89
and the whole nation,
00:46:30.92\00:46:32.25
the whole nation is
not paying their tithe,
00:46:32.29\00:46:34.56
and God can't bless them.
00:46:34.59\00:46:36.73
And this relationship
is breaking His heart.
00:46:36.76\00:46:39.46
And he says, bring you
00:46:39.49\00:46:41.46
all the tithe
into the storehouse.
00:46:41.50\00:46:44.27
So there'll be meat in my house
00:46:44.30\00:46:45.70
because I have a church I
want to spread over the world
00:46:45.73\00:46:49.00
and prove me now
saith the Lord of host.
00:46:49.04\00:46:53.38
Prove me now."
00:46:53.41\00:46:55.04
What He's saying is please
00:46:55.08\00:46:58.11
test Me, try Me, know Me.
00:46:58.15\00:47:02.92
Let me bless you. I'm waiting.
00:47:02.95\00:47:04.99
I want to, I've got it
all, I want to give you some.
00:47:05.02\00:47:08.29
Would you please test this
00:47:08.32\00:47:10.26
and try me and pay your
tithe so I can bless you?
00:47:10.29\00:47:14.10
You see that relationship
He's hungering for it.
00:47:14.13\00:47:16.30
He's begging for it.
00:47:16.33\00:47:17.83
And He goes on and says,
00:47:17.87\00:47:19.67
"See, if I will not open
you the windows of heaven,
00:47:19.70\00:47:23.61
He's got those blessings waiting
00:47:23.64\00:47:25.47
and pour you out a blessing,
00:47:25.51\00:47:27.74
that there shall not be
room enough to receive that
00:47:27.78\00:47:30.35
I've got so much."
00:47:30.38\00:47:31.91
Let me bless you.
00:47:31.95\00:47:34.48
So a dad is talking to
his children in saying,
00:47:34.52\00:47:38.09
I can do so much for you.
00:47:38.12\00:47:40.62
Quit breaking the
rules so I can bless you.
00:47:40.66\00:47:45.56
And then I just started
Hebrews 11:6 and it says,
00:47:45.59\00:47:50.20
"But without faith it's
impossible to please him:
00:47:50.23\00:47:53.90
for he that cometh to
God must believe that he is,
00:47:53.94\00:47:57.54
and that he is
a rewarder of them
00:47:57.57\00:48:00.78
who diligently seek him."
00:48:00.81\00:48:02.34
And I looked up diligent
00:48:02.38\00:48:03.71
and it means
meticulously seek Him.
00:48:03.75\00:48:06.48
In other words,
00:48:06.51\00:48:08.22
meticulously watch your commands
00:48:08.25\00:48:10.39
and do righteous,
pick righteous so that
00:48:10.42\00:48:13.96
I can open the
windows of heaven.
00:48:13.99\00:48:16.22
The meticulous, this is serious.
00:48:16.26\00:48:17.99
I want you to be
blessed. I just love it.
00:48:18.03\00:48:21.33
I mean, He's a
God of relationship.
00:48:21.36\00:48:23.26
He wants... Amen.
00:48:23.30\00:48:25.27
Well, I'm going to read to you
from 2 Corinthians Chapter 3.
00:48:25.30\00:48:29.97
And I'm going to
read verse 2 and 3.
00:48:30.01\00:48:32.64
We have a very little time left,
00:48:32.67\00:48:34.54
but maybe we can share
one or two pictures of God
00:48:34.58\00:48:38.21
that are outside of the Bible.
00:48:38.25\00:48:40.98
And so here is what we have
00:48:41.02\00:48:44.89
in 2 Corinthians 3:2,
00:48:44.92\00:48:47.49
"You are our epistle
written in our hearts,
00:48:47.52\00:48:51.59
known and read by all men,
00:48:51.63\00:48:54.26
clearly you are
an epistle of Christ,
00:48:54.30\00:48:57.67
ministered by us,
00:48:57.70\00:48:59.03
written not with ink
00:48:59.07\00:49:01.20
but by the Spirit
of the living God,
00:49:01.24\00:49:03.10
not on tablets of stone
but on tablets of flesh,
00:49:03.14\00:49:07.21
that is, of the heart."
00:49:07.24\00:49:09.44
And so the reason I
bring this scripture out is
00:49:09.48\00:49:12.11
because we are to be
00:49:12.15\00:49:16.28
as a message of
God to the world.
00:49:16.32\00:49:21.52
And I have seen throughout
my life, different people,
00:49:21.56\00:49:26.46
reflecting God's
character by doing good deeds,
00:49:26.49\00:49:31.47
doing good things.
00:49:31.50\00:49:33.40
And one of the
ones, one of the pictures
00:49:33.44\00:49:36.71
that come to God
was my wife, Idalia
00:49:36.74\00:49:38.94
and I were driving to Wisconsin,
00:49:38.97\00:49:41.34
we were invited
to go preach there.
00:49:41.38\00:49:43.51
And at that time,
00:49:43.55\00:49:45.31
we were expecting our
firstborn son, Samuel.
00:49:45.35\00:49:50.09
And as we are
driving, we had driven perhaps
00:49:50.12\00:49:53.79
three and half hours of
six and all of a sudden,
00:49:53.82\00:50:00.16
the vehicle starts to
slow down on the highway.
00:50:00.20\00:50:04.67
And so, I pressed
the gas and the vehicle,
00:50:04.70\00:50:08.27
the vehicle
continued to slow down.
00:50:08.30\00:50:10.24
And I said, "Okay,
00:50:10.27\00:50:11.61
we have a
serious problem there."
00:50:11.64\00:50:12.97
And so, I was
already in the right lane.
00:50:13.01\00:50:15.14
So I basically just
drifted until, you know,
00:50:15.18\00:50:19.41
looking at the rearview mirror,
00:50:19.45\00:50:20.78
making sure that
nobody's coming upon us.
00:50:20.82\00:50:22.58
So I parked on the
side, and I open the trunk.
00:50:22.62\00:50:26.79
I mean, the hood, and
I start looking at it.
00:50:26.82\00:50:30.09
And so Idalia comes out too
00:50:30.13\00:50:32.09
and we're both looking in there.
00:50:32.13\00:50:33.93
She goes, "What
do you think it is?"
00:50:33.96\00:50:35.30
I really don't know.
00:50:35.33\00:50:36.77
And so she tried to turn it on,
because I tried to turn it on
00:50:36.80\00:50:39.80
and it will just go
wa-wa, wa-wa, wa-wa,
00:50:39.83\00:50:42.44
nothing was happening.
00:50:42.47\00:50:43.97
And so there's
something going on,
00:50:44.01\00:50:45.34
the spark is not you know,
00:50:45.37\00:50:46.71
sparking this
thing to make it go
00:50:46.74\00:50:48.34
or maybe the gas is not reaching
00:50:48.38\00:50:50.25
what is supposed to reach
00:50:50.28\00:50:51.78
and so we're going to
have to get some help.
00:50:51.81\00:50:56.02
I was amazed that somebody
00:50:56.05\00:50:59.72
from the other
side of the highway,
00:50:59.75\00:51:02.52
now cars were
passing on our side.
00:51:02.56\00:51:07.06
But somebody from the other side
00:51:07.10\00:51:08.70
of the highway stopped.
00:51:08.73\00:51:11.70
And I saw him trying to
make his way across the highway,
00:51:11.73\00:51:14.37
you know, cars are
passing and he's, you know,
00:51:14.40\00:51:17.24
made his way, jumped
over and made it to us.
00:51:17.27\00:51:21.34
I was like, "Hi."
00:51:21.38\00:51:24.75
He says, "I'm a mechanic,
00:51:24.78\00:51:26.11
I'm here to see
what I can do for you."
00:51:26.15\00:51:27.98
And he mentioned his name.
00:51:28.02\00:51:29.55
And I said to myself,
00:51:29.58\00:51:30.92
"Isn't that
marvelous that this person,
00:51:30.95\00:51:33.09
he wasn't even on
our side of the highway."
00:51:33.12\00:51:35.42
And I said, this
is a picture of God.
00:51:35.46\00:51:37.49
God goes out of His way to say
to help us and to help people.
00:51:37.53\00:51:42.83
And this man
was a picture of God
00:51:42.86\00:51:45.37
to me the way He did
what He did, you know.
00:51:45.40\00:51:49.30
Anyone would like to share
00:51:49.34\00:51:50.67
something, maybe
that last minute,
00:51:50.71\00:51:52.04
minute and a half
00:51:52.07\00:51:53.41
because we have to get
out your final comments.
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Yes.
00:51:56.01\00:51:57.35
Well, when I was a boy,
00:51:57.38\00:51:58.71
there was a
young man in our town.
00:51:58.75\00:52:00.62
He was a simple
man and he couldn't do
00:52:00.65\00:52:04.42
a lot of things
that most people could.
00:52:04.45\00:52:06.59
He couldn't get a license,
00:52:06.62\00:52:07.96
but he used to drive around
in his little farm old tractor.
00:52:07.99\00:52:10.49
And he was very quiet spoken,
00:52:10.53\00:52:12.29
people picked
on him all the time
00:52:12.33\00:52:13.73
because they said there
was something wrong with him.
00:52:13.76\00:52:15.90
He never lost his temper
that I can ever remember.
00:52:15.93\00:52:18.13
He was always right
there to help people,
00:52:18.17\00:52:19.83
even people who picked on him.
00:52:19.87\00:52:21.44
He was always
there to help them,
00:52:21.47\00:52:23.04
never asked for anything.
00:52:23.07\00:52:24.87
And he, to me, you
know, very, very calm,
00:52:24.91\00:52:29.01
very peaceful and
more people remembered him.
00:52:29.04\00:52:32.45
He later died in a fire
00:52:32.48\00:52:34.35
but when I went
back to that town,
00:52:34.38\00:52:35.82
more people remembered him
in a good way for good things
00:52:35.85\00:52:38.85
than anybody else in the town.
00:52:38.89\00:52:40.96
Because of the way he
was, he was a godly man.
00:52:40.99\00:52:44.49
Amen. Amen.
00:52:44.53\00:52:46.59
Well, we are at the moment of...
00:52:46.63\00:52:49.03
Anything else you'd
like to share really quick?
00:52:49.06\00:52:50.97
Sister Nancy O' Brien,
do you have a final message
00:52:51.00\00:52:53.67
for our viewers, our listeners?
00:52:53.70\00:52:57.11
Well, Jesus wants to have
00:52:57.14\00:53:00.98
a personal relationship with us.
00:53:01.01\00:53:03.31
And as I said before,
he's the good shepherd.
00:53:03.35\00:53:06.31
He's the Lamb of God.
00:53:06.35\00:53:08.55
He's our high
priest, He's everything.
00:53:08.58\00:53:11.12
And you know, it's just like,
00:53:11.15\00:53:15.49
I wish everybody could know
Him personally because it's,
00:53:15.52\00:53:19.49
that's where we get
our joy from our peace.
00:53:19.53\00:53:22.86
It's like, no
matter what happens,
00:53:22.90\00:53:24.87
we can trust Him.
00:53:24.90\00:53:26.97
And we know the future right now
00:53:27.00\00:53:28.80
looks a little bit uncertain
what's going to happen?
00:53:28.84\00:53:31.51
Well, we can just
trust God and say,
00:53:31.54\00:53:33.01
"Okay, whatever happens,
00:53:33.04\00:53:34.38
Lord, I know
You're still in control.
00:53:34.41\00:53:36.14
I know You're
still watching over me.
00:53:36.18\00:53:37.85
I know You're still my God."
00:53:37.88\00:53:40.28
Yeah. Amen.
00:53:40.32\00:53:41.65
Amen.
00:53:41.68\00:53:43.02
Joe, any final message? So many.
00:53:43.05\00:53:46.62
There's a lot of
verses in Scripture
00:53:46.65\00:53:48.06
that talk about
Jesus inviting us
00:53:48.09\00:53:50.93
to be one with Him as
He is one with the Father.
00:53:50.96\00:53:54.86
This relationship
again needs to be restored.
00:53:54.90\00:53:58.47
In 1 John 4:16, it says,
00:53:58.50\00:54:01.60
"And we have known
and believed the love
00:54:01.64\00:54:04.54
that God hath to us.
00:54:04.57\00:54:06.88
God is love, and he
that dwelleth in love
00:54:06.91\00:54:10.55
dwelleth in
God, and God in him."
00:54:10.58\00:54:15.18
And so, it's a call to
be restored to a family
00:54:15.22\00:54:18.09
relationship with our Creator,
00:54:18.12\00:54:20.89
and to spend that time
on that holy day with Him
00:54:20.92\00:54:24.86
instead of seeking our
own pleasures and things.
00:54:24.89\00:54:27.93
And I remember real
quick, when I was a Catholic,
00:54:27.96\00:54:33.94
and I discovered there
is a fourth commandment
00:54:33.97\00:54:38.01
that doesn't change
and God said, remember it.
00:54:38.04\00:54:41.04
And that meant go to church
on Saturday, the seventh day.
00:54:41.08\00:54:45.41
So I did that.
00:54:45.45\00:54:48.02
I went to an
Adventist Church on Saturday.
00:54:48.05\00:54:51.39
And it was fun, I was
happy, and I felt spiritually
00:54:51.42\00:54:56.06
I had done something better than
00:54:56.09\00:54:57.49
I had ever done before.
00:54:57.53\00:54:58.86
I'm keeping, instead of trying
to keep nine commandments,
00:54:58.89\00:55:02.66
I'm moving on ten which
would be an achievement.
00:55:02.70\00:55:06.47
And so I'm feeling very good.
00:55:06.50\00:55:07.94
And I'm sitting at home
and I read and have prayer
00:55:07.97\00:55:12.44
at this one
little spot in the table.
00:55:12.47\00:55:14.51
And I was so happy that
I was keeping the Sabbath
00:55:14.54\00:55:19.41
for the first time in my life.
00:55:19.45\00:55:21.08
And I heard a
still small voice say,
00:55:21.12\00:55:26.05
"How long will you
profane my Sabbath?"
00:55:26.09\00:55:29.86
And I thought, what?
00:55:29.89\00:55:31.66
For the first time in my
life, I'm keeping a Sabbath day
00:55:31.69\00:55:35.36
and He's mad at me,
He's upset, He is concerned.
00:55:35.40\00:55:39.83
And then I realized instantly,
00:55:39.87\00:55:42.87
for the first time
I'm keeping a Sabbath day
00:55:42.90\00:55:45.21
but I'm working a
swing shift rotation,
00:55:45.24\00:55:48.34
and the other three,
00:55:48.38\00:55:49.84
I don't keep is
what He's concerned with,
00:55:49.88\00:55:52.28
because that's sin.
00:55:52.31\00:55:56.02
And so, I'll tell you what?
00:55:56.05\00:55:58.52
There's a relationship
there if you want it.
00:55:58.55\00:56:01.79
Thank you.
00:56:01.82\00:56:03.66
Larry. You've about 45 seconds.
00:56:03.69\00:56:06.09
Final message.
00:56:06.13\00:56:07.46
Well, the only thing
that I think about is
00:56:07.50\00:56:08.96
we look at commandments
00:56:09.00\00:56:10.33
as I was one that
was very stubborn,
00:56:10.37\00:56:12.83
didn't want anybody to
be telling me what to do.
00:56:12.87\00:56:15.50
But now I look at
00:56:15.54\00:56:16.87
the Ten
Commandments as a blessing.
00:56:16.91\00:56:19.07
It's a guideline,
it's something to show me
00:56:19.11\00:56:20.98
when you start a
job or something,
00:56:21.01\00:56:22.84
you have to have somebody
show you how to do it, well,
00:56:22.88\00:56:25.08
God is the one to go
to, to show us how to live
00:56:25.11\00:56:27.32
and to help others live.
00:56:27.35\00:56:28.75
Amen. Thank you so much.
00:56:28.78\00:56:30.95
I want to thank
Larry for being with us,
00:56:30.99\00:56:33.36
Sister Nancy O'
Brien, Joe O' Brien.
00:56:33.39\00:56:35.32
I would like to read
from Philippians 2:3 and 4.
00:56:35.36\00:56:41.30
And this is what
the Bible tells us,
00:56:41.33\00:56:42.90
"Let nothing be done through
selfish ambition or conceit,
00:56:42.93\00:56:48.10
but in lowliness of
mind let each esteem others
00:56:48.14\00:56:52.17
better than himself.
00:56:52.21\00:56:53.64
Let each of you look out
not only for his own interests,
00:56:53.68\00:56:58.08
but also for the
interests of others."
00:56:58.11\00:57:01.52
And so, at this
moment, I like to encourage you
00:57:01.55\00:57:05.32
to consider that you
can be a picture of God
00:57:05.35\00:57:09.06
to someone else.
00:57:09.09\00:57:10.63
Look after the
interest and needs of others.
00:57:10.66\00:57:14.43
Somehow, some way,
perhaps this coming week,
00:57:14.46\00:57:18.00
you will see some need
or hearer of some need.
00:57:18.03\00:57:21.94
And I would
like to encourage you
00:57:21.97\00:57:24.37
to show a picture
of God to someone else,
00:57:24.41\00:57:28.24
so that others can be
attracted to know the Lord.
00:57:28.28\00:57:31.68
God bless you.
00:57:31.71\00:57:33.05