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, friends,
welcome to 3ABN Today.
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It's Friday
night's family worship.
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And guess what?
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I have my better half
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which makes me
the fortunate half.
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Good to have you with me, honey.
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I'm so excited to be here.
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Happy Sabbath,
everyone. That's right.
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It's going to be
a wonderful program,
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isn't it, honey?
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That's right.
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You know actually this
program came into fruition
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based on my
wife's recommendation.
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We'd like to read a lot together
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in our own personal devotion
together in the morning,
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in the evening,
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about three
different things we do,
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reading the Bible
reading this book,
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another book, and actually four,
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and depending on the day,
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we sometimes go
through all of them
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like on Sundays,
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other days different
ones, but this topic,
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the topic is restorative grace.
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Now I know you've
heard about grace before,
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but restorative grace,
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and we're going
to talk about that,
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we're going to first
introduce our guest today.
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And then my wife is
going to kind of give
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a little excerpt from
the book she's reading
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that kind of
explains in a chorus way
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what restorative grace is.
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Now everybody knows
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that grace is the
means by which we are saved,
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by grace through
faith in Christ alone.
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We know that, but today,
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we're going to take grace
from the justification level
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to the sanctification
level, a step further.
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Yeah.
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And it really
transformed my vision
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of what grace really is.
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Yeah, mine too.
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And it's
expanded it, as you said.
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I'm just excited to see
how God offers grace to you,
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to us, everyone here
have experienced God's grace,
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and we want to share
what we have learned with you.
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Okay.
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Well, honey, I'll let
you start to your left
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and I'll go to my right.
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Who do we have
on our panel today?
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We have here James Rafferty.
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Good to be here.
Excited to have you here.
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This is first time
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being part of our familyworship.
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Amen.
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Yes. So where are you lately?
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I'm at home in
Oregon with my wife,
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who's doing her master's
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in registered
dietitian nutrition
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finishing up
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and we are
pastoring there part-time
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and just doing ministry
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and just really feel blessed
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to spend a little bit
more time with the family
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and be settled down
a little bit, yeah...
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And you've grown children?
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Grown children, my sons...
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One of our son is in,
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one of them's in
California, Loma Linda area.
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And he's in a medical field,
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and then our
daughter's still at home.
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She's 22, and she is
officially a photographer.
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Nice. She has a website.
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She loves photography,
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and she's been
doing that quite a bit
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and been a blessing.
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She must be good.
Yeah, she's pretty good.
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Yeah. Okay.
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You know, in photography,
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I would say she's
in sharper focus...
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Oh! Ooh!
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Like the ministry of 3ABN.
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And to my right is, no stranger,
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Pastor John Dinzey.
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Good to have you
here, my brother.
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It's a blessing to be
here Pastor John, Angela.
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It's a blessing to be here.
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And family worship is
such a wonderful program
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that unites us
with the extended family
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beyond the cameras.
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That's right. That's right.
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And tonight's topic
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is going to be
one that I believe,
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I would encourage right
now if you could do that,
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hit record
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because I know
we're going to talk
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about things
under God's guidance
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that may be a
part of our script,
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that may be just
simply guiding us
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by the Holy Spirit.
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But before we go
any further, honey,
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would you have a prayer for us?
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Sure. Let's bow our heads.
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Our gracious Heavenly Father,
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we are so privileged and honored
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to come to You tonight.
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To give You
praise, honor, and glory,
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for You alone are worthy.
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Thank You for this opportunity
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as we as Your people
that can get together
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and gather around this table
and many people are at home,
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around their couches
in their living rooms,
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gathering around
worshiping with us.
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We pray and ask
for Your Holy Spirit
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to come and fill us,
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empty us of self and fill
us with Your sweet spirit.
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And, Lord, we will be
careful to give You the praise,
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the honor, and the
glory for You are worthy,
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in Jesus name, amen.
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Amen. Thank you, honey.
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Thank you.
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Now if you have been
married for any length of time
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as we have, how
many years now, honey?
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Thirty-seven. You're whispering.
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Oh, okay. How many?
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'Cause I can't believe
it's been that long, 37,
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I told you, I
said, don't tell people
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how long we've
been married anymore,
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it makes us seem old.
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We got married at 10 years old,
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only marriage in the
world at 10 years old.
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Forgive me
Father, for I have sinned.
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But we've enjoyed
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and if you have been around
one person any length of time
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with family members
or friends or people
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you're very
well acquainted with,
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you know that
you have needed grace
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and they have needed grace.
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Yes, yes.
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And, you know, in
1 Corinthians 15:22,
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the Bible says, verse 22,
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"As in Adam all die,
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even so in Christ
all shall be made alive."
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And everyone
born into the world,
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all have sinned and fallen short
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of the glory of God.
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We are all sinners
by nature, our birth.
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How do you get from being broken
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to being whole,
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and in some cases,
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people have been broken
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after they were in the
process of being whole,
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and they have to be restored.
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So we're going to
talk about that tonight.
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And I'm so glad that
we have a panel here.
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But, honey, just read an excerpt
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from this book
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that the Lord
has blessed you with.
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Sure.
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And I think
it's really important
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to just lay the foundation
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on what
restorative grace is all about.
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Okay, just a short paragraph,
just about restorative grace,
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as you mentioned.
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"And this kind of grace
comes to a broken world person
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who comes to insight
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and acknowledges
misbehavior in attitude or deed.
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Restorative
Grace is God's action
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to forgive the misbehavior
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and to draw the
broken world person
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back toward wholeness
and usefulness again."
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Wow.
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So brokenness,
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and I think that we talked
about this prior to the set.
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And one of our
panelists will use that example
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that we used about a house,
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how many people have
seen broken down houses.
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And Pastor Rafferty,
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you know, when
we talked about that
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before the program you thought,
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"Wow, what an example
that really brings into view."
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One of our favorite
programs is the house hunt.
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Yeah, HGTV House Hunters
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and how they fix and
restore these houses.
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And it looks so
awful when you look at it.
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It's like, "How could
they get something out of this?
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And what, voila when
they're done, we're like,
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"Ah, we want to
clean up our house.
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when we done."
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We want to tear down this
living room and, you know,
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just restore everything.
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And what amazes us
as people look at that,
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and they say, you
know, they look at this house
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they buy for like $5,000
it's just a, it's a mess.
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But they say it has
bones, we could work with it.
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It has good bones
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and they walk into and
on the inside is a mess,
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just, you know,
rotten things on the outside
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and then 55 minutes later,
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when they unveil the
house, we say, "Wow."
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Almost like that
show, Move That Bus!
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and try to look at
it was like,"What?"
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And so with that
with that example,
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that's how the Lord sees us.
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We come, the Lord
sees us like a house
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that the devil just
says, "Tear it down."
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And the Lord says, "No,
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I could fix it up on the
inside and on the outside."
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And that's what our
program is about today.
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And I know if you're watching
and you're maybe in the process
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of feeling broken,
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and you might be saying, "Well,
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how can that make
a difference for me?"
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Stay with us,
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we're going to
walk through first
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the definitions of grace
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and then we're going
to go ahead and build
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on restorative grace.
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And so I'm going to
just start with a...
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Pastor Rafferty,
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let's start with one of those
very, very famous passages,
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Ephesians 2:8, 9
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and then we'll spend
a little time on that
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because, Pastor
Dinzey, you know, that's the...
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When people say what is grace?
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It's like what is sin?
The transgression of the law.
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You know, what is faith?
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The substance of
things hoped for.
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We have those...
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Those are scriptures,
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but the cliche response
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must begin with this one
and then we're going to begin
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to build on that.
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God is great.
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All right, Ephesians 2:8, 9.
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It says, "For by grace
you are saved through faith,
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and that not of yourselves,
it is the gift of God,
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not of works, lest
any man should boast."
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Okay, so give us some example,
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amplify that for
us this kind of grace.
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I really loved
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what you were
saying about the house
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because I was actually helping
my friend work on this house.
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He purchased this house.
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He and I have
been working together
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for a while in ministry.
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He was in a Rice grad.
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That's a school we were doing,
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and he ended up
becoming an intern.
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So we...
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I mentored him
for a couple of years,
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but he's a contractor by trade,
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and he helped actually redo
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my father-in-law's
house in California.
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We went down
there for a few trips
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and redid that
house and opened it up.
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It was one of
those here's one room,
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here's another
room here's the kitchen
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and we just he just opened it up
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and put these beams
across and just, oh,
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it was so beautiful.
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And that house had bones.
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The house he's working on now
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almost...
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Sometimes I get the idea
that he regrets it a little bit
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because we went,
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and I helped him again demo it
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and get all of the...
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You know, it
didn't have Sheetrock,
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it was old enough.
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It was, I think, in 1924.
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So really old house
with the rope windows,
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you know, the
weight rope windows
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and the old plaster
instead of the Sheetrock,
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which is really hard to
get off with the netting
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and all the boards.
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And as we demoed
that thing, you know,
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he found a lot of things inside,
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and I think
that's how it is with us
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and God, you know,
God has purchased...
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You know, He
purchased the house.
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That's right.
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And you start demoing the house,
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you start finding things,
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and I think we
start seeing things
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sometimes in our characters
and our natures, you know,
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they're really difficult,
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but he thought
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he was going to be done by now,
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like the end of June,
he was going to be done.
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And, you know,
he's hoping to be done
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by the end of the year
because it just takes time.
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Sometimes it takes time
to work through the floor
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and the walls and
get them straightened out
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and try to get a
straight corner somewhere
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where
everything's kind of square,
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and he said, "You know,
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it would have been faster
for me to start from scratch."
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And God could have done that,
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you know, He
could have wiped us out
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and He could have just
started all over again.
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No one would have known but Him.
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Wow, wow.
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And He couldn't do that,
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you know, because
that would have been
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a denial of who he is.
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So he purchased us, I
love that, He purchased us.
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I love the first verse.
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I mean, not the first verse,
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but the first mention
of grace in Ephesians 2:5,
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"When we were dead in sins,
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he quickened us
together with Christ,
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by grace, you're saved."
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So this house is dead.
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I mean, it is dead like
it is a 1924 dead house.
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And John is just, you know, God,
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His name is John
DioAnn, and he's got the tools,
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God has given him the wisdom
and the ability to do this.
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And I think when we
look at that illustration,
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we see God and
He's got the tools
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and He's got the
wisdom and He's got the grace
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to do for us
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what John is
doing with that house
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and deal with all the surprises.
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Wow.
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You know, honey,
sometimes people look dead,
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like, there's no hope.
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And I like that illustration.
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It just looks like
just get rid of it.
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But the Lord looks at
it and says, "Wow, no,
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I don't see him
the way you see him."
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Okay.
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It's like my
plant, remember years ago,
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I had a little old...
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Stem.
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A stem, you know,
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you're into
replanting pineapples
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and things like that.
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He says, Caribbean
people, we love our little...
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Anyway, I had a
little stem of a plant.
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Irritating stem.
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And it just had a little root.
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And you were in the kitchen
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and you went in there and said,
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"Oh, man, throw this out."
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I said, "Don't throw it out!"
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She said, "Don't
throw out my plant."
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My plant.
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And I looked at this thing,
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it looked like a
green stem that lost its way
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trying to find
the rest of the plant.
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And I thought, "Honey..."
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It was a white plastic
cup with a little bit of water
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and it was just
hanging over the edge like,
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"I'm tired. I just want to die.
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Please let me die,
don't keep me awake."
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And I said "Honey,
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what are you
going to do with this?"
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I took care of that plant.
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I watered it.
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Next thing you know,
roots started coming in.
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It looked real lame,
but it was so pretty.
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Little leafy looking thing
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and it was just limp
and the next thing you know,
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it started perking up,
and I put it in the sunshine,
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and it started looking nice.
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And another little
leaf started growing
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and another one, another one.
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And next thing you know,
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I put it in a pot, potted plant.
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I put it in dirt
and in the pot and mix.
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What happened?
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About six months later...
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It was
beautiful. She gave it away.
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I gave it away as a gift
to someone that got married,
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and it was absolutely gorgeous.
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The one you wanted to throw out.
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And she said, "See,
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what you see and what
I saw are not the same."
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Exactly, it's not the same.
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That's right.
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I would like to add something
to restoring the house idea
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because, you know,
as you were talking,
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it made me think of
what God does inside,
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you know, the people
watching, passing by,
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they don't know what's
going on inside the house.
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All the work that's been
done to restore the walls,
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tear down things.
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And when the house is
done, it's just beautiful.
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You know, in Israel,
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they told us
about the buildings,
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they want to
maintain this old look.
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And there's this one architect
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that went to
the government says,
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"I need to build
something, and I can't get in
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and do the things I need to do."
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And he says, "No, you
need to maintain that."
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So he somehow convinced them
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that he could put
everything back the way it was.
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And he put numbers and things
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on each and every
piece of stone or brick.
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And so then he took
everything down and rebuilt,
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built something
beautiful inside,
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and then put
everything back outside.
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So God does the
work inside of us
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that people don't know,
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but it's
reflected on the outside,
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you know, your demeanor changes,
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you know, the same
angry, you know, jealous
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or whatever it was that you had,
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and this work
inside that God does,
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us in cooperation with him,
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and we praise the Lord
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because it says that,
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"He who has
begun a good work in us
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will complete it."
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And so we need to
cooperate with Him
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so that that can happen.
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I'm glad you mentioned that
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because that's what
we're talking about here.
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There's a work it
starts on the inside first
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because what
starts on the inside
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is eventually going to
manifest itself on the outside.
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Woman at first is
pregnant internally
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before it starts
showing up externally.
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And if Christ is
being born in you,
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the process
that's happening inside
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will eventually
manifest itself outside.
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But I want to
also point out now,
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and sometimes
people might be listening
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to the program and say,
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"Well, I don't think
that they are worthy of grace.
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I mean, what they have done
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is just not
really worthy of grace."
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I think what we need to do now
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is remind if that is a mindset
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that's existing maybe
in the mind of a person
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who's watching the program,
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we have to square it away
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and help you understand
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that what we're talking about
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is what you have
already received.
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Let's look at the second text.
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Titus 2, honey, verse 11, 12.
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Read that for us.
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This lets you know that...
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Well, I'll let the
text speak for itself.
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Titus 2:8, 9, right?
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No versus 11 and
12, no. Titus 2: 11, 12.
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"For the grace of
God that brings salvation
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has appeared to all men,
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teaching us that
denying ungodliness
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and worldly lusts,
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we should live
soberly, righteously,
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and godly in the present age."
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Okay, now what did
that text say about grace?
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Let me throw it
to my panelists here.
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What did you hear in that verse
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about the grace of
God that brings salvation?
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What else does it bring?
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What else does it bring with it?
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Oh, tremendous blessings.
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Okay.
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But what else did he
say it brought with it?
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Live soberly...
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Teaching. Okay.
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Teaching us how to live
in this world in a godly way,
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in a way that is
opposite of worldly lusts.
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It's a way that's
sober, that's righteous,
00:17:20.77\00:17:25.21
and it's now.
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So and this comes to every man.
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I really believe this verse
is applicable to every person.
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I believe that
there are even people
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who don't realize
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that they're being
influenced by grace.
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Sometimes we think of
people that aren't religious.
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"Oh, that's a good person.
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They're not religious,
but they're a good person."
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Well, they're a good
person because grace,
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the grace of God
envelops the air we breathe,
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and the influence
of the Spirit of God
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works upon every human being.
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And I think
whenever someone does
00:17:50.87\00:17:52.20
something good,
00:17:52.23\00:17:53.57
it's because the grace
of God is influencing them.
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I believe that's
what this verse is saying.
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But sometimes I think
what we do is we stop,
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you know, with our
goodness, if you will.
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And we think, "Well,
yeah, I'm a good person.
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So I don't really need God,
I don't really need religion."
00:18:06.08\00:18:08.68
But I think what
this verse is saying
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is the grace of
God that comes to you,
00:18:10.09\00:18:12.02
that leads you to
do that good thing
00:18:12.05\00:18:14.19
is wanting to continue
00:18:14.22\00:18:16.69
and to actually
influence and impact you,
00:18:16.73\00:18:19.23
and lead you to
live a more godly life
00:18:19.26\00:18:21.80
and a more sober life
00:18:21.83\00:18:23.16
and to live more righteously
in this present world.
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Don't just stop
with that good deed
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of helping that person
00:18:28.67\00:18:30.01
or doing this or
doing that and think,
00:18:30.04\00:18:31.37
"Oh, I'm a good person,"
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you know, allow the grace of God
00:18:32.77\00:18:34.34
to continue to mold
you and to influence you
00:18:34.38\00:18:36.95
and impact your life.
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Right.
00:18:38.35\00:18:39.68
And then now the
passage pointed out
00:18:39.71\00:18:42.65
that every one of
us has received grace.
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Yes.
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Have you received grace, honey?
00:18:45.89\00:18:47.22
Oh, absolutely. Yes.
00:18:47.26\00:18:49.02
Okay, we all agree
00:18:49.06\00:18:50.39
we have all
received grace, but...
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And we need to
extend grace. Right.
00:18:52.43\00:18:54.66
And we're going to go there
in just a minute, extending,
00:18:54.70\00:18:56.80
and this is powerful,
00:18:56.83\00:18:58.17
but it says the
grace that God gives you,
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it's not just says,
"Okay, I forgive you."
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But it says, "I
want to teach you now
00:19:02.00\00:19:04.11
how to take that grace,"
00:19:04.14\00:19:06.31
as Paul says, I think
it's in Romans 60 says,
00:19:06.34\00:19:09.61
"Do we continue in sin
that grace may abound?"
00:19:09.64\00:19:12.71
And the answer of that is...
00:19:12.75\00:19:14.25
God forbid. God
forbid, certainly not.
00:19:14.28\00:19:17.09
So don't just
say, "God saved me."
00:19:17.12\00:19:19.35
He doesn't just want to
save us or buy the house,
00:19:19.39\00:19:22.76
as a great example
we're going to continue with,
00:19:22.79\00:19:24.39
He doesn't just
want to buy the house,
00:19:24.43\00:19:26.29
but He wants to restore it.
00:19:26.33\00:19:27.83
And in our lives,
restoration means teaching us.
00:19:27.86\00:19:31.20
That's the teaching
process that's continual.
00:19:31.23\00:19:33.90
And we've been
talking about that.
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You know, that book you have
00:19:37.17\00:19:39.21
talks about some great examples.
00:19:39.24\00:19:40.64
The one that I really appreciate
00:19:40.68\00:19:42.01
was the young lady
who bought her mom,
00:19:42.04\00:19:45.35
you know...
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Look for that.
00:19:46.75\00:19:48.08
I want you to
share that in a minute.
00:19:48.12\00:19:49.45
But while you're
looking for that,
00:19:49.48\00:19:50.82
Pastor Dinzey.
00:19:50.85\00:19:52.19
Yes.
00:19:52.22\00:19:53.56
You know, this 2 Timothy...
00:19:53.59\00:19:54.92
I mean, Titus 2:11, 12,
00:19:54.96\00:19:57.26
it talks about the way
things are in the world as well
00:19:57.29\00:20:01.06
because it's saying
denying ungodliness.
00:20:01.10\00:20:03.16
Is that in the world? Yes.
00:20:03.20\00:20:04.80
Worldly lust, is
that in the world?
00:20:04.83\00:20:06.17
Yes.
00:20:06.20\00:20:07.54
And it says that we
should live soberly,
00:20:07.57\00:20:08.90
righteously and
godly in the present age.
00:20:08.94\00:20:11.97
In other words,
00:20:12.01\00:20:13.34
God is calling us
to live differently
00:20:13.38\00:20:14.74
than what the world is living.
00:20:14.78\00:20:17.08
You know, one of the
things that happens to people,
00:20:17.11\00:20:19.75
I remember one time when...
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Actually first
time I went to Cuba,
00:20:21.65\00:20:24.05
there was a...
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We were all there in a
group and somebody said,
00:20:26.05\00:20:29.22
"Well,
everybody steals in Cuba."
00:20:29.26\00:20:32.16
And I said, "Oh, really?"
00:20:32.19\00:20:34.50
And he was shocked.
00:20:34.53\00:20:36.10
"Well, it's tough
living here, you know?"
00:20:36.13\00:20:39.77
And so I ran into
other people that said,
00:20:39.80\00:20:43.81
"God takes care of us."
00:20:43.84\00:20:45.91
Now are these
people stealing? No.
00:20:45.94\00:20:47.28
They saw that God
supplies our needs.
00:20:47.31\00:20:50.75
But this person
00:20:50.78\00:20:52.11
apparently had come
to the realization that,
00:20:52.15\00:20:54.12
"Okay, in order
for me to survive,
00:20:54.15\00:20:56.02
I have to steal."
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But that was not the
case with the other people
00:20:57.42\00:20:58.79
that they saw God
supplying their needs.
00:20:58.82\00:21:01.62
And so when we are in the world,
00:21:01.66\00:21:05.89
there's a danger
00:21:05.93\00:21:07.26
that we can
become like the world.
00:21:07.30\00:21:10.23
And so wherever we are,
00:21:10.27\00:21:12.17
we are to let
our light, so shine
00:21:12.20\00:21:14.14
that they may see our good works
00:21:14.17\00:21:15.80
and glorify God,
00:21:15.84\00:21:18.11
our Heavenly Father,
00:21:18.14\00:21:19.71
from whom comes
all these good works
00:21:19.74\00:21:21.84
and things that we do.
00:21:21.88\00:21:23.45
So yes, the grace of
God makes this happen.
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It's a power that God gives us
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and it's a marvelous
thing that can take place,
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God
transforming a person that...
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"Wait a minute,
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weren't you
that person that was,
00:21:40.10\00:21:41.90
you know, wicked,
and evil or drunk?"
00:21:41.93\00:21:44.50
But God transforms people,
and He's still doing that.
00:21:44.53\00:21:47.60
And this teaching
part is transformed
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by the renewing of your mind.
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He's teaching you mentally
00:21:51.77\00:21:53.27
that you don't have to
be that same person anymore.
00:21:53.31\00:21:55.88
That's why what I like
about the Bible, you've seen...
00:21:55.91\00:21:59.11
Okay, go ahead, honey.
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You can finish your
thought. That's why...
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I see you percolating it.
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That's what I like in the Bible,
00:22:04.15\00:22:05.49
when the Lord changes people,
00:22:05.52\00:22:07.02
you find He also
gives them a status
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where the anonymity now exists.
00:22:09.69\00:22:12.56
Saul, Paul now, okay?
00:22:12.59\00:22:15.23
And we're going to all
have a new name in the kingdom.
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What's on your mind?
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So much. Okay.
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I was talking about...
00:22:22.20\00:22:23.54
I was thinking
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if someone in the church
falls and make a terrible fall,
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a moral fall
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that the Lord could
restore that person.
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We may not see them as...
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We do not see
them as God sees them,
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but God restores that
person, gives them a new life,
00:22:37.05\00:22:40.86
a new heart,
00:22:40.89\00:22:42.22
and we can't
look at them the same.
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We have to go by scripture.
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You know, the Lord
changes the person.
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They are not the old
person, they've become new,
00:22:49.33\00:22:52.17
all things are new,
00:22:52.20\00:22:53.54
so you don't have to be someone
00:22:53.57\00:22:54.90
that's out there and
come back in the church.
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Sometimes it's in the
church that, you know,
00:22:56.81\00:22:59.57
you fall from grace,
and the Lord restores you.
00:22:59.61\00:23:02.94
You look at that life
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and you see how
that person is today.
00:23:04.35\00:23:06.82
That's right. It's beautiful.
00:23:06.85\00:23:08.18
I love that illustration
that you brought up earlier
00:23:08.22\00:23:10.69
in relation to what
you just said, Angela,
00:23:10.72\00:23:12.72
about Barnabas and
Paul or Saul because Saul,
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you know,
00:23:18.56\00:23:19.89
as bad as he was
persecuting the church,
00:23:19.93\00:23:21.80
for some reason God saw him as,
00:23:21.83\00:23:26.80
you know, honest to some degree,
00:23:26.84\00:23:28.44
you know?
00:23:28.47\00:23:29.80
When He came to Saul, God said,
00:23:29.84\00:23:32.41
"Why are you
persecuting Me, Saul?"
00:23:32.44\00:23:35.08
And Saul said,
"Well, who are you, Lord?"
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That's right.
00:23:37.61\00:23:38.95
It was kind of
like, he really...
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And I remember reading
about this experience of Paul,
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some commentary on it was like
00:23:45.05\00:23:46.45
he really was convinced
that he was doing right.
00:23:46.49\00:23:49.69
But his
conscience struggled with,
00:23:49.72\00:23:52.69
you know, what
happened with Stephen,
00:23:52.73\00:23:54.06
but his religious leaders
and people that influenced him
00:23:54.10\00:23:57.73
will tell him, "No, no, no, no,
00:23:57.77\00:23:59.10
that was right,
and you're doing right,
00:23:59.13\00:24:00.50
and this is good,"
and he was struggling.
00:24:00.54\00:24:02.67
And so Paul under
the grace of God changes.
00:24:02.70\00:24:07.31
And then he...
00:24:07.34\00:24:08.68
You explained that scenario.
00:24:08.71\00:24:10.18
I'd never heard it before. Yeah.
00:24:10.21\00:24:11.55
You explained it, you
know, his relationship with...
00:24:11.58\00:24:14.22
Barnabas. With Barnabas.
00:24:14.25\00:24:15.68
And the church
was really hesitant
00:24:15.72\00:24:17.72
to accept Paul.
00:24:17.75\00:24:19.09
That's the point you just made.
00:24:19.12\00:24:20.46
You know, when you have a...
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When you're a mean person
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or when you take a
fall or something happens
00:24:23.22\00:24:24.56
as bad in your life,
00:24:24.59\00:24:25.93
church people can be
reluctant to accept you.
00:24:25.96\00:24:28.23
And so that's
what this experience
00:24:28.26\00:24:29.70
was with Paul or with Saul.
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Right.
00:24:31.10\00:24:32.43
The church
wasn't wanting to have
00:24:32.47\00:24:33.80
anything to do with him.
00:24:33.84\00:24:35.17
They're like, "No, no,
we heard about this guy."
00:24:35.20\00:24:37.01
Yeah. But Paul was...
00:24:37.04\00:24:38.67
I mean, Barnabas,
the son of consolation,
00:24:38.71\00:24:41.64
extended him the
right hand of fellowship.
00:24:41.68\00:24:43.01
Amen.
00:24:43.04\00:24:44.38
And so Paul comes in,
and then what happens?
00:24:44.41\00:24:46.58
I want you to read
it because right here,
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I think you have it
right in front of you, hon,
00:24:47.98\00:24:49.32
that all the...
00:24:49.35\00:24:50.69
Oh, okay.
00:24:50.72\00:24:52.05
Go ahead. You know it.
00:24:52.09\00:24:53.42
Well, the story of Barnabas,
00:24:53.46\00:24:54.79
the church at Jerusalem
had a very difficult time
00:24:54.82\00:24:56.19
even thinking
about Saul and thought,
00:24:56.22\00:24:59.26
"My parents, my
cousin, my aunt, my neighbors,
00:24:59.29\00:25:03.20
this is the guy
that killed them."
00:25:03.23\00:25:04.57
Yeah. Yeah,
yeah. I mean, really.
00:25:04.60\00:25:06.10
So if I get this correctly,
00:25:06.13\00:25:08.34
let's put this in a
contemporary setting.
00:25:08.37\00:25:10.01
And the guy just
walks in, they just,
00:25:10.04\00:25:11.54
he's guilty of so
many Christians dying.
00:25:11.57\00:25:13.88
And he said, "He is going to
be a part of our new ministry.
00:25:13.91\00:25:17.25
We're going to train him to
be an outreach coordinator."
00:25:17.28\00:25:19.81
They said, "Whoa,
whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
00:25:19.85\00:25:23.62
Are you talking about him?
00:25:23.65\00:25:25.65
I know exactly who he is.
00:25:25.69\00:25:27.46
We've been on the run for
four years because of him."
00:25:27.49\00:25:31.69
And read that part about that.
00:25:31.73\00:25:33.06
That's important there.
00:25:33.09\00:25:34.90
So they could
really take off on him now
00:25:34.93\00:25:37.47
and really pay him back.
00:25:37.50\00:25:39.23
That's why we need
to read that part there
00:25:39.27\00:25:40.60
because what grace is.
00:25:40.64\00:25:42.70
That red part there.
00:25:42.74\00:25:44.41
"The opposite of
grace might be retribution,
00:25:44.44\00:25:47.28
repayment in kind or punishment,
00:25:47.31\00:25:51.01
or the demand for reparations.
00:25:51.05\00:25:54.68
It wouldn't have been surprising
00:25:54.72\00:25:57.25
if to some if Ananias
had refused to go to Saul
00:25:57.29\00:26:02.72
and had instead
sent a note saying..."
00:26:02.76\00:26:04.96
Look at the note.
You got to read this.
00:26:04.99\00:26:06.33
This note is the...
00:26:06.36\00:26:07.70
This is the note that
he could have sent us up.
00:26:07.73\00:26:09.06
I love it.
00:26:09.10\00:26:10.43
"We hear you may have a change
of heart about Christians.
00:26:10.47\00:26:11.97
If that's true,
00:26:12.00\00:26:13.34
get back to me in
a couple of years.
00:26:13.37\00:26:14.84
If there has been no
further hostile action
00:26:14.87\00:26:16.87
on your part
between now and then,
00:26:16.91\00:26:18.84
we might meet in
a neutral location.
00:26:18.87\00:26:20.91
In the meantime,
00:26:20.94\00:26:22.28
you might wish to
think about repayment
00:26:22.31\00:26:23.65
for all the
damages you've caused
00:26:23.68\00:26:25.41
because if
there is nothing done,
00:26:25.45\00:26:27.68
we're going to
sue your socks off.
00:26:27.72\00:26:30.09
Our church attorneys name is..."
00:26:30.12\00:26:32.79
They think about how
they can deal with Saul.
00:26:32.82\00:26:34.16
Yeah, yeah.
00:26:34.19\00:26:35.52
But Barnabas comes in
and goes on the line for Saul
00:26:35.56\00:26:39.43
and then we know
the rest of the story.
00:26:39.46\00:26:41.50
Saul recognizes
as you realize...
00:26:41.53\00:26:44.13
God, the Lord said,
00:26:44.17\00:26:46.94
"He is going to be
useful in the ministry."
00:26:46.97\00:26:49.04
And Barnabas says,
00:26:49.07\00:26:50.41
"He is going to be
useful in the Lord's work."
00:26:50.44\00:26:51.81
And we know we
adore him today by saying
00:26:51.84\00:26:57.71
what a writer,
00:26:57.75\00:26:59.25
but look at who he was
before, and he was restored.
00:26:59.28\00:27:04.19
When a person is restored,
00:27:04.22\00:27:06.52
that individual is
useful in the hand of God.
00:27:06.55\00:27:09.02
By the grace of
God restored him...
00:27:09.06\00:27:10.39
By the grace of God, exactly.
00:27:10.43\00:27:11.76
You know, I've been wondering
if I should share this story
00:27:11.79\00:27:14.76
that I recently
read in the ASI magazine
00:27:14.80\00:27:18.17
because it's a
story, like Paul's story.
00:27:18.20\00:27:21.14
And I keep hearing
you talking about Paul,
00:27:21.17\00:27:23.30
I say we got to share this thing
00:27:23.34\00:27:24.67
because this is a remarkable...
00:27:24.71\00:27:26.27
Something that happened today,
let's say in today's time.
00:27:29.51\00:27:34.02
This story is being
told by this Muslim man,
00:27:34.05\00:27:37.12
and I'm telling you
the way it was written.
00:27:37.15\00:27:39.22
This Muslim man
was, you know, this...
00:27:39.25\00:27:41.59
He was part of the Jihad
00:27:41.62\00:27:42.96
and he literally
killed some Christians.
00:27:42.99\00:27:47.20
And he shot one Christian
man that in his dying words,
00:27:47.23\00:27:51.43
he said, "Lord, forgive them
00:27:51.47\00:27:53.64
for they know not what they do."
00:27:53.67\00:27:56.57
And he died, this man shot him.
00:27:56.60\00:27:59.04
And so he grabbed the Bible,
00:27:59.07\00:28:02.44
the man that shot
him grabbed the Bible
00:28:02.48\00:28:03.81
and he says, "Who
does he think he is,
00:28:03.85\00:28:05.65
you know, saying that?"
00:28:05.68\00:28:07.85
And later he's at
home with the Bible.
00:28:07.88\00:28:10.45
And at night,
00:28:10.49\00:28:12.25
God talks to him and says
00:28:12.29\00:28:16.69
that He is calling him
00:28:16.73\00:28:19.49
because He wants to
use him for a special work.
00:28:19.53\00:28:22.36
And he goes,
"Well, who are you?"
00:28:22.40\00:28:23.87
And He says, "I
am Jesus Christ."
00:28:23.90\00:28:27.64
And he recognized the mess.
00:28:27.67\00:28:29.47
"Oh, you are Jesus Christ."
00:28:29.50\00:28:31.57
And the story is beautiful.
00:28:31.61\00:28:33.17
I hesitated to tell it
because that the whole story
00:28:33.21\00:28:35.31
is not in there yet.
00:28:35.34\00:28:36.68
But this man, he
says, "Who could believe,
00:28:36.71\00:28:40.05
"he says in the end,
"that 18 months later,
00:28:40.08\00:28:42.95
I would be giving my
life to Christ in baptism."
00:28:42.98\00:28:46.32
Wow!
00:28:46.35\00:28:47.69
So it's a remarkable story...
00:28:47.72\00:28:49.49
Yes.
00:28:49.52\00:28:50.86
That this man now
00:28:50.89\00:28:52.43
is a Seventh-day
Adventist Christian.
00:28:52.46\00:28:55.16
And from what the story
tells in the ASI magazine
00:28:55.20\00:28:59.13
that the Lord
is going to use him
00:28:59.17\00:29:01.67
to do great things.
00:29:01.70\00:29:03.51
It's the same
thing for him, you know?
00:29:03.54\00:29:06.64
He may not be recognized
as Paul was or Saul was,
00:29:06.68\00:29:10.78
but this man
now can reach people
00:29:10.81\00:29:14.18
from his old way of
life, unlike anyone else.
00:29:14.22\00:29:18.45
Right. That's right.
00:29:18.49\00:29:19.82
Because you and I can
come knocking at the door
00:29:19.85\00:29:21.79
of the people
who used to be like,
00:29:21.82\00:29:23.79
and we will not be accepted,
00:29:23.83\00:29:26.06
but he knows their language,
he knows their way of life,
00:29:26.09\00:29:28.43
he knows how to talk to
them, to reach them for Christ.
00:29:28.46\00:29:31.63
Amen. Beautiful.
00:29:31.67\00:29:33.00
So today, God is doing
miracles in the same way.
00:29:33.03\00:29:35.10
That's right.
00:29:35.14\00:29:36.47
And that's a powerful story.
00:29:36.50\00:29:38.57
And that's why when Jesus came,
00:29:38.61\00:29:40.48
you know, John introduced Jesus
00:29:40.51\00:29:42.64
as if we ask
ourselves the question,
00:29:42.68\00:29:44.98
"Is there enough grace for us?"
00:29:45.01\00:29:46.65
The Bible
introduced Jesus in John 1:14
00:29:46.68\00:29:49.88
as full of grace and truth.
00:29:49.92\00:29:53.29
So if somebody is
full of grace and truth,
00:29:53.32\00:29:56.32
is there enough
grace to turn your life
00:29:56.36\00:29:59.46
into a life of truth?
00:29:59.49\00:30:01.23
Yes, there is. Absolutely.
00:30:01.26\00:30:02.70
So, pastor, I want
to go to Genesis 6:8
00:30:02.73\00:30:05.80
because I want to start talking
00:30:05.83\00:30:07.17
about how grace
starts manifesting itself.
00:30:07.20\00:30:09.90
When grace is being extended
from your life, my life,
00:30:09.94\00:30:13.27
or anybody's life to a person
00:30:13.31\00:30:15.18
who's coming from a
broken world experience,
00:30:15.21\00:30:17.55
where do they
start seeing this grace?
00:30:17.58\00:30:20.05
Look at Genesis 6:8.
00:30:20.08\00:30:23.32
I love the context of this
00:30:23.35\00:30:24.69
because God is just regretting,
00:30:24.72\00:30:26.59
like my friend has a
couple times regretted
00:30:26.62\00:30:28.96
building that house,
00:30:28.99\00:30:32.09
but He says, "Noah found
grace in the eyes of the Lord."
00:30:32.13\00:30:34.66
Wow.
00:30:34.70\00:30:36.03
And there's something
about this whole project
00:30:36.06\00:30:38.63
that my friend's been involved
and this is so biblical,
00:30:38.67\00:30:41.24
right now it's
just clicking with me.
00:30:41.27\00:30:43.64
And that is that, you know,
there are people coming by,
00:30:43.67\00:30:46.54
walking by in the
neighborhood or whatever,
00:30:46.57\00:30:48.01
I was there for
quite a few weeks
00:30:48.04\00:30:49.41
just helping him,
00:30:49.44\00:30:50.78
you know, in certain
parts of the project,
00:30:50.81\00:30:52.18
and here we did the
stairs in the front entry
00:30:52.21\00:30:54.38
and it was so cool.
00:30:54.42\00:30:55.75
Put a wall, and
it was really nice.
00:30:55.78\00:30:57.62
And people will
come by, one guy said,
00:30:57.65\00:30:59.39
"Man, I remember
this house before.
00:30:59.42\00:31:01.02
It looks so nice right now."
00:31:01.06\00:31:02.39
And, of course,
00:31:02.42\00:31:03.76
they're not
seeing the inside yet
00:31:03.79\00:31:05.13
and the outside
doesn't look much changed
00:31:05.16\00:31:06.49
except for this, you
know, front entryway.
00:31:06.53\00:31:09.16
But they're just
kind of encouraging,
00:31:09.20\00:31:10.70
encouraging, encouraging.
00:31:10.73\00:31:12.20
And when we're very discouraged,
00:31:12.23\00:31:13.70
God is very discouraged here.
00:31:13.74\00:31:15.67
He's looking on the
world and He's like,
00:31:15.70\00:31:17.21
"Man, look at that wall,
00:31:17.24\00:31:18.81
look at that
floor, look at that roof.
00:31:18.84\00:31:21.58
It's one problem after...
00:31:21.61\00:31:22.94
"But Noah found grace
in the eyes of the Lord.
00:31:22.98\00:31:25.61
There was something
there that gave him hope,
00:31:25.65\00:31:28.75
there was something there
he could hold onto, you know,
00:31:28.78\00:31:30.59
there's something there
that John is holding onto
00:31:30.62\00:31:32.15
in this house.
00:31:32.19\00:31:33.52
He's going, "Yes,
there is potential here.
00:31:33.56\00:31:35.92
I see potential here."
00:31:35.96\00:31:37.33
Exactly. Yeah.
00:31:37.36\00:31:38.69
So we talked about this, honey.
00:31:38.73\00:31:40.56
So we're in this
story, in this verse,
00:31:40.60\00:31:43.77
is the Bible telling you
00:31:43.80\00:31:47.20
that people can
see grace in you.
00:31:47.24\00:31:48.90
Where can they
see it? Say it, honey.
00:31:48.94\00:31:50.27
In your eyes. In your eyes.
00:31:50.31\00:31:52.07
He can.
00:31:52.11\00:31:53.44
How do you look at people
00:31:53.48\00:31:54.81
that you know are transgressors?
00:31:54.84\00:31:56.48
How do you look at
people that you know
00:31:56.51\00:31:57.85
have done something
00:31:57.88\00:31:59.21
that the church
members are talking about?
00:31:59.25\00:32:00.65
How do you look at them?
00:32:00.68\00:32:02.02
If they look at your eyes,
00:32:02.05\00:32:03.39
can they see
grace or do they see...
00:32:03.42\00:32:05.85
"Uh-huh. I know what you did."
00:32:05.89\00:32:07.22
The human face has
thousands of expressions.
00:32:07.26\00:32:10.33
And we just...
Without saying a word.
00:32:10.36\00:32:11.69
Oh, we were talking
about this week in my verse.
00:32:11.73\00:32:13.06
Yes.
00:32:13.09\00:32:14.43
Non-verbal communication is...
00:32:14.46\00:32:15.80
Is powerful.
00:32:15.83\00:32:17.17
More powerful than
verbal communication.
00:32:17.20\00:32:18.63
Yes, just a look.
00:32:18.67\00:32:20.44
I'll use an example.
00:32:20.47\00:32:22.00
I really hate you.
00:32:22.04\00:32:23.37
I really hate you.
00:32:23.41\00:32:24.74
Would you believe that?
00:32:24.77\00:32:26.11
No. No. If I
just say, "I love you.
00:32:26.14\00:32:28.18
I just want you to
know, I really love you."
00:32:28.21\00:32:32.28
My face is not lining
up with what I'm saying.
00:32:32.31\00:32:34.95
And our face...
00:32:34.98\00:32:36.45
What is beautiful about this
00:32:36.48\00:32:37.82
in the midst of a
hopeless situation,
00:32:37.85\00:32:40.19
James,
00:32:40.22\00:32:42.56
Noah found
something in God's eyes.
00:32:42.59\00:32:45.66
He looked in his eyes and told,
00:32:45.69\00:32:47.03
"Wow, I'm looking at his eyes.
00:32:47.06\00:32:48.76
There's grace there."
00:32:48.80\00:32:50.13
In this broken world
that's about to be decimated,
00:32:50.17\00:32:52.87
Noah looked and he
found grace in God's eye.
00:32:52.90\00:32:55.64
The first act of restoration
to a person is broken
00:32:55.67\00:32:58.47
is how do they
see grace in your eyes
00:32:58.51\00:33:00.84
or do they even see it?
00:33:00.88\00:33:02.34
When they look across the
room in the church at you,
00:33:02.38\00:33:05.31
when you're
walking down the hall
00:33:05.35\00:33:06.68
in the place you work,
00:33:06.72\00:33:08.05
and you know their
stuff, and they see your eyes.
00:33:08.08\00:33:11.65
What do they see?
00:33:11.69\00:33:13.02
That's the first
thing about grace.
00:33:13.05\00:33:14.46
Marriages, when
you look at each other,
00:33:14.49\00:33:17.13
what do you see?
00:33:17.16\00:33:18.49
You know, and
being married 37 years,
00:33:18.53\00:33:20.40
believe me,
we've had many moments
00:33:20.43\00:33:21.76
where we needed
each other's grace.
00:33:21.80\00:33:23.13
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, I believe you.
00:33:23.16\00:33:25.67
Okay, okay.
00:33:25.70\00:33:28.00
Thirty-one years, I get
it. All of us are married.
00:33:28.04\00:33:29.37
Thirty-one, thirty-seven...
00:33:29.40\00:33:31.34
Twenty-six. Twenty-six.
00:33:31.37\00:33:32.94
If you've been married 10
years or 7 years or 2 weeks,
00:33:32.97\00:33:36.58
you know...
00:33:36.61\00:33:37.95
One year. One year.
00:33:37.98\00:33:39.31
Grace is necessary.
00:33:39.35\00:33:40.68
Yeah. Yes.
00:33:40.72\00:33:42.05
Okay, let me throw
it to one of you guys.
00:33:42.08\00:33:43.79
When you look at the
situation with Noah, I mean,
00:33:43.82\00:33:47.69
it almost makes you,
00:33:47.72\00:33:50.66
"Ah, man, I want to meet Noah"
00:33:50.69\00:33:52.53
because Noah found
grace in His sight.
00:33:52.56\00:33:55.83
And just like Noah
then, there are Noahs today.
00:33:55.86\00:34:00.50
They may not have that name,
00:34:00.54\00:34:02.40
but they find
grace in God's sight.
00:34:02.44\00:34:05.34
And I believe,
00:34:05.37\00:34:06.78
I really believe that
the greater population
00:34:06.81\00:34:10.95
is blessed by
these faithful people.
00:34:10.98\00:34:13.72
They find grace in God's sight.
00:34:13.75\00:34:15.95
You know, you
could be on a plane
00:34:15.98\00:34:17.42
and because
you're on that plane,
00:34:17.45\00:34:18.79
everybody else is safe.
00:34:18.82\00:34:20.16
Wow!
00:34:20.19\00:34:21.52
It could be, you know,
walking down the street,
00:34:21.56\00:34:23.46
but God's grace is upon you,
00:34:23.49\00:34:26.29
the holy angels
are protecting you.
00:34:26.33\00:34:27.66
Amen. That's right.
00:34:27.70\00:34:29.03
And God is still
transforming lives.
00:34:29.06\00:34:33.23
And He doesn't give up easily,
and I praise God for that.
00:34:33.27\00:34:36.77
Amen. Right.
00:34:36.81\00:34:38.14
So you can look at
God on any given day
00:34:38.17\00:34:39.51
and still see grace in His eyes.
00:34:39.54\00:34:40.88
Isn't that wonderful, hon?
Yeah, and that's Old Testament.
00:34:40.91\00:34:42.34
That's right.
00:34:42.38\00:34:43.71
Many people say
00:34:43.75\00:34:45.08
that grace is not
in the Old Testament.
00:34:45.11\00:34:47.02
No. Yes, it is.
00:34:47.05\00:34:48.38
He's gracious, and
merciful, and long suffering.
00:34:48.42\00:34:49.75
All the time.
00:34:49.78\00:34:51.12
Yes.
00:34:51.15\00:34:52.49
And one of the
place... Yes, go ahead.
00:34:52.52\00:34:53.86
I was going to say
one of the things too
00:34:53.89\00:34:55.22
is that, you know,
00:34:55.26\00:34:56.59
when we look at Noah,
00:34:56.62\00:34:57.96
we're not
looking at a perfect man.
00:34:57.99\00:34:59.33
When you look at his history
after the flood, you know,
00:34:59.36\00:35:00.70
and his sons in their family,
you see humanity, you see us.
00:35:00.73\00:35:03.97
That's right.
00:35:04.00\00:35:05.33
So just for our
viewers to know, you know,
00:35:05.37\00:35:07.50
not for them to
give up and think,
00:35:07.54\00:35:08.87
"Well, Noah was you know,
exceptional and, you know,
00:35:08.90\00:35:11.41
grace is unmerited favor."
00:35:11.44\00:35:12.77
That's how it is.
00:35:12.81\00:35:14.14
When it comes to us,
because it's unmerited favor,
00:35:14.18\00:35:16.85
it influences us as
a power in our lives.
00:35:16.88\00:35:20.55
As soon as we give
some kind of merit to grace,
00:35:20.58\00:35:23.28
we diminish its power and
its influence in our lives.
00:35:23.32\00:35:25.92
And so as soon as
we say, "Oh, Noah,
00:35:25.95\00:35:27.59
the reason is he was special,
he had this or he had that, "
00:35:27.62\00:35:31.29
then all of a
sudden Noah's in a category
00:35:31.33\00:35:32.76
that's different
from the rest of us.
00:35:32.79\00:35:34.70
But what Noah was trying to
do was communicate the grace
00:35:34.73\00:35:37.07
that he saw in God's eyes
00:35:37.10\00:35:38.43
to the rest of
the Antediluvian World
00:35:38.47\00:35:40.24
for 120 years.
00:35:40.27\00:35:41.60
That's grace.
00:35:41.64\00:35:42.97
Not just for Noah,
that's grace for everybody.
00:35:43.00\00:35:44.91
That's right.
00:35:44.94\00:35:46.27
Hundred and twenty
years is a lot of grace
00:35:46.31\00:35:47.64
that God has given
through the ridicule
00:35:47.68\00:35:49.18
and through the
criticism and all the things
00:35:49.21\00:35:50.98
they were saying against Noah.
00:35:51.01\00:35:52.35
He was just
spreading that grace out,
00:35:52.38\00:35:53.72
spreading that...
00:35:53.75\00:35:55.08
The grace he saw like
you, I think, we're implying.
00:35:55.12\00:35:56.75
The grace that God has
towards us in His eyes,
00:35:56.79\00:35:58.99
He wants us to now to
have it toward other people.
00:35:59.02\00:36:01.42
And Noah had that grace.
00:36:01.46\00:36:02.92
He was allowing that grace
00:36:02.96\00:36:06.46
to flow out through him from God
00:36:06.49\00:36:08.96
to the Antediluvian
World for 120 years.
00:36:09.00\00:36:10.77
That's right.
00:36:10.80\00:36:12.13
So they saw it in His eyes,
00:36:12.17\00:36:13.50
but that's in
another place, so...
00:36:13.54\00:36:14.87
I never thought about
that until you were saying that
00:36:14.90\00:36:16.40
because Noah found
grace in God's sight,
00:36:16.44\00:36:20.94
how many years passed?
00:36:20.98\00:36:23.41
Hundred and
twenty years. Long time.
00:36:23.45\00:36:25.85
I mean, he could
have next week said,
00:36:25.88\00:36:27.78
"Okay, I'm done with being..."
00:36:27.82\00:36:29.45
I'm done with this.
00:36:29.48\00:36:30.82
No, he continued
following the Lord.
00:36:30.85\00:36:32.69
Yeah.
00:36:32.72\00:36:34.12
And that is a marvelous thing
00:36:34.16\00:36:37.23
because it was in his heart
to do the well of the Lord,
00:36:37.26\00:36:40.76
to serve the Lord.
00:36:40.80\00:36:42.13
I mean, I'm sure Satan knew
00:36:42.16\00:36:45.90
that Noah found
grace in God's sight
00:36:45.93\00:36:47.80
and sent him on
this special mission.
00:36:47.84\00:36:49.17
He knows. He
said, "What's he doing?
00:36:49.20\00:36:50.54
What?
00:36:50.57\00:36:51.91
He's building this
large, massive thing
00:36:51.94\00:36:53.41
that's not just for
his family, you know?"
00:36:53.44\00:36:55.68
But this is a marvelous thing
00:36:55.71\00:36:57.65
that Satan
apparently tried to derail Noah,
00:36:57.68\00:37:01.62
but Noah had his
sight set on the Lord,
00:37:01.65\00:37:04.89
120 years Noah
remained faithful.
00:37:04.92\00:37:08.19
Like you said,
00:37:08.22\00:37:10.39
he may have had
those things inside,
00:37:10.43\00:37:11.99
but God continued to work in him
00:37:12.03\00:37:13.90
and that's what we
need to, allow the Lord
00:37:13.93\00:37:15.66
to continue to work in us.
00:37:15.70\00:37:17.03
That's right.
00:37:17.07\00:37:18.40
I want to also...
00:37:18.43\00:37:19.77
Now we talked about the
non-verbal communication.
00:37:19.80\00:37:21.20
Grace he found in God's eyes.
00:37:21.24\00:37:23.47
But now grace is
also another place
00:37:23.51\00:37:25.17
that people are
looking for grace.
00:37:25.21\00:37:26.91
Look at point number six.
00:37:26.94\00:37:28.44
We have a little outline.
00:37:28.48\00:37:29.81
This just kind of gets
to the point very quickly.
00:37:29.84\00:37:31.51
Proverbs 22:11.
00:37:31.55\00:37:33.95
Read that.
00:37:33.98\00:37:35.32
Just on the outline there.
00:37:35.35\00:37:36.99
Pastor Rafferty,
read that for us.
00:37:37.02\00:37:38.55
"He who loves purity of heart
00:37:38.59\00:37:41.96
and has grace on his lips,
the king will be his friend."
00:37:41.99\00:37:45.53
Wow.
00:37:45.56\00:37:46.90
So the nonverbal is in the eyes,
00:37:46.93\00:37:50.17
but the verbal is where?
00:37:50.20\00:37:52.53
On the lips.
00:37:52.57\00:37:54.14
How do you sound
when you meet people
00:37:54.17\00:37:57.31
that you know they're junk?
00:37:57.34\00:37:59.11
How do you sound?
00:37:59.14\00:38:01.61
"You doing okay?
00:38:01.64\00:38:04.01
You and I know
you shouldn't be...
00:38:04.05\00:38:06.08
I understand how
you feel, I mean,
00:38:06.11\00:38:08.08
look what you did."
00:38:08.12\00:38:09.92
When grace is on our lips.
00:38:09.95\00:38:12.02
That's why the Lord says,
00:38:12.05\00:38:13.56
"Your sins and your inequities,
I will remember no more."
00:38:13.59\00:38:17.73
And He throws it
into the depths of the sea
00:38:17.76\00:38:20.43
and puts out a No Fishing sign
as so many people have said.
00:38:20.46\00:38:24.00
So grace is not only verbal...
00:38:24.03\00:38:27.30
I mean, not only non-verbal
in the eyes but also verbal.
00:38:27.34\00:38:30.74
Daniel Chapter 9. Okay.
00:38:30.77\00:38:32.97
We have sent,
00:38:33.01\00:38:34.44
we have not
listened to the prophets,
00:38:34.48\00:38:36.98
we have forsaken the covenant.
00:38:37.01\00:38:38.35
Yes.
00:38:38.38\00:38:39.71
Daniel had a we attitude.
00:38:39.75\00:38:41.08
You know, we're all sinners.
00:38:41.12\00:38:42.58
We all have this problem.
00:38:42.62\00:38:43.95
And sometimes, I
think, when we forget that,
00:38:43.99\00:38:46.45
God allows us to stumble
a little bit to remind us
00:38:46.49\00:38:49.06
that we're not
better than anyone else.
00:38:49.09\00:38:51.06
And so I think
the grace on the lips,
00:38:51.09\00:38:53.09
when we come to
another human being
00:38:53.13\00:38:54.60
who's fallen and
perhaps we're not in that,
00:38:54.63\00:38:56.67
you know, on that
same level with them,
00:38:56.70\00:38:59.23
we need to remember
that actually we are.
00:38:59.27\00:39:01.67
The ground is level
at the foot of the cross.
00:39:01.70\00:39:03.27
Yes.
00:39:03.30\00:39:04.64
And so grace can
come forth, you know,
00:39:04.67\00:39:06.07
there by the grace of God, go I.
00:39:06.11\00:39:08.48
And so we are gracious to others
00:39:08.51\00:39:10.08
because we know that
00:39:10.11\00:39:11.45
that person is
another human being
00:39:11.48\00:39:13.45
that we would be that person,
00:39:13.48\00:39:16.08
given the
circumstances, situation,
00:39:16.12\00:39:17.82
given some of the decisions
we've made or could make,
00:39:17.85\00:39:20.36
and so then we become
more gracious in the way
00:39:20.39\00:39:22.82
that we communicate.
00:39:22.86\00:39:24.19
I don't think it excludes
being straight with people
00:39:24.23\00:39:25.89
and being honest with people.
00:39:25.93\00:39:27.26
Right.
00:39:27.30\00:39:28.63
I think it actually allows
us to be honest with people.
00:39:28.66\00:39:30.27
Because the
right motive is there.
00:39:30.30\00:39:32.13
Yes, the right motive is there.
00:39:32.17\00:39:33.50
The right attitude and
the right spirit is there.
00:39:33.54\00:39:34.87
Yes.
00:39:34.90\00:39:36.24
When the right
motive is behind it,
00:39:36.27\00:39:39.14
the words will be
seasoned with grace
00:39:39.17\00:39:41.04
and it will come out
of the lips that way.
00:39:41.08\00:39:42.41
Yes.
00:39:42.44\00:39:43.78
Instead of condemnatory,
and the people will understand,
00:39:43.81\00:39:47.28
"Hey, you're trying
to actually help me."
00:39:47.32\00:39:49.48
And you know...
00:39:49.52\00:39:50.85
I know there are
some people that say,
00:39:50.89\00:39:52.42
"I had some
constructive criticism
00:39:52.45\00:39:53.79
for you."
00:39:53.82\00:39:55.16
Oh, yes. Like a
wrecking ball, maybe.
00:39:55.19\00:39:58.29
And when you hear the
constructive criticism,
00:39:58.33\00:40:00.96
it sounds like destroying
instead of constructive.
00:40:01.00\00:40:03.97
And so we really need
to let God be in our hearts
00:40:04.00\00:40:07.80
so that the words
that come out of our mouth
00:40:07.84\00:40:09.70
will be seasoned with grace.
00:40:09.74\00:40:12.51
Words of my mouth.
00:40:12.54\00:40:13.98
It's a process, you know,
00:40:14.01\00:40:18.31
some people are
very quick to speak.
00:40:18.35\00:40:21.52
And before the brain is engaged,
00:40:21.55\00:40:25.52
the lips are in motion.
00:40:25.55\00:40:26.89
Okay.
00:40:26.92\00:40:28.26
And unfortunately,
00:40:28.29\00:40:29.62
we say things that we
wish we could have never said,
00:40:29.66\00:40:33.06
and so that's why
the Bible gives us
00:40:33.09\00:40:37.10
the very wise words,
00:40:37.13\00:40:39.23
be slow to
speak, we have to hear.
00:40:39.27\00:40:41.74
Yeah, yeah.
00:40:41.77\00:40:43.10
Twice as many
ears as we have lips.
00:40:43.14\00:40:45.81
James. Twice as many, what?
00:40:45.84\00:40:48.18
We have two ears
and one set of lips.
00:40:48.21\00:40:50.71
I was just going to comment John
00:40:50.75\00:40:52.18
and just clarify
the verse you mentioned.
00:40:52.21\00:40:54.28
You didn't quote it?
No, I didn't quote it.
00:40:54.32\00:40:55.95
But you just said
seasoned with grace.
00:40:55.98\00:40:57.95
And I was going to read
this verse in Colossians 4:6.
00:40:57.99\00:41:00.26
It's one of my favorites.
00:41:00.29\00:41:01.72
"Let your speech
be always with grace
00:41:01.76\00:41:03.53
seasoned with salt."
00:41:03.56\00:41:04.89
Amen.
00:41:04.93\00:41:06.26
Seasoning is the lighter
end of what we put on our words,
00:41:06.29\00:41:08.76
the seasoning.
00:41:08.80\00:41:10.13
You know that the main entree
is what we're going to eat.
00:41:10.17\00:41:11.93
I like that.
00:41:11.97\00:41:13.30
And season is
what we sprinkle on.
00:41:13.34\00:41:14.67
And I think
sometimes as Christians,
00:41:14.70\00:41:16.77
and I'll say
this as an Adventist,
00:41:16.81\00:41:19.07
even as Adventist,
00:41:19.11\00:41:21.18
our main entree a
lot of times is salt
00:41:21.21\00:41:23.61
and our seasoning is grace.
00:41:23.65\00:41:25.68
Whoa! That's right.
00:41:25.71\00:41:27.55
We've got it
backwards, you know what I mean?
00:41:27.58\00:41:28.92
That's right.
00:41:28.95\00:41:30.29
And so the Bible says,
let your speech be with grace.
00:41:30.32\00:41:33.15
Let the main
entree be with grace.
00:41:33.19\00:41:34.82
Now I love potatoes. I'm
Irish on my mother's side.
00:41:34.86\00:41:36.99
I love potatoes.
00:41:37.03\00:41:38.36
My wife loves
beans, I love potatoes.
00:41:38.39\00:41:41.66
We have this thing in our house.
00:41:41.70\00:41:43.03
I think John can relate to that.
00:41:43.06\00:41:44.40
Oh, yes.
00:41:44.43\00:41:45.77
And yet, I can't eat
potatoes without salt.
00:41:45.80\00:41:49.10
I got to have a
little bit of salt on there.
00:41:49.14\00:41:50.64
You know, that's the seasoning.
00:41:50.67\00:41:52.14
And I think, in a world
that is bland with inequity,
00:41:52.17\00:41:54.71
I mean, it's just
like, inequity is everywhere.
00:41:54.74\00:41:57.11
Sometimes we forget the salt.
00:41:57.15\00:41:58.98
We can't forget the salt.
00:41:59.01\00:42:00.35
You know, we can't
just have grace and no salt.
00:42:00.38\00:42:02.75
But then I think we kind of tend
00:42:02.78\00:42:04.75
to maybe go to
the other extreme.
00:42:04.79\00:42:07.29
And, you know,
everyone's talking about grace,
00:42:07.32\00:42:09.12
you know, and so we want to dump
00:42:09.16\00:42:10.49
a bunch of salt on it.
00:42:10.53\00:42:11.89
Oh, have you ever
like, every once in a while,
00:42:11.93\00:42:14.06
my wife or I will over-season.
00:42:14.10\00:42:16.67
Like, "Honey, I'm
sorry, it's too saltier."
00:42:16.70\00:42:18.57
My wife, "I'm sorry, honey,
I put too much salt in there."
00:42:18.60\00:42:20.67
Oh, just...
00:42:20.70\00:42:22.04
I know that happens.
00:42:22.07\00:42:23.41
That happens. Yeah.
00:42:23.44\00:42:24.84
And that's
where we are, I think,
00:42:24.87\00:42:26.21
sometimes in our Christian walk,
00:42:26.24\00:42:27.64
you know, where we...
00:42:27.68\00:42:29.01
That balance.
00:42:29.04\00:42:30.38
And, of course, I
think God is saying
00:42:30.41\00:42:31.75
"Hey, main entree
grace, but don't forget this,
00:42:31.78\00:42:33.78
don't forget the salt.
00:42:33.82\00:42:35.15
Season it
correctly. I like that.
00:42:35.18\00:42:36.52
What are you
thinking, honey? Beautiful.
00:42:36.55\00:42:38.22
I was thinking of David.
00:42:38.25\00:42:39.85
Many people are quick
to point out David sinned,
00:42:39.89\00:42:42.62
but he was
gracious to Saul, wasn't he?
00:42:42.66\00:42:45.46
Remember Saul, hon?
00:42:45.49\00:42:47.23
What happened with Saul?
00:42:47.26\00:42:48.60
He could've killed Saul,
00:42:48.63\00:42:50.10
but he was very
gracious to Saul.
00:42:50.13\00:42:53.40
And that's the
point I'm bringing
00:42:53.44\00:42:55.30
how gracious he was to Saul,
00:42:55.34\00:42:58.47
in spite of everybody says,
00:42:58.51\00:43:01.18
"Oh, look at
David, look what he did."
00:43:01.21\00:43:03.35
Forget about what he did.
00:43:03.38\00:43:05.05
Lord restored him.
You're going to say something.
00:43:05.08\00:43:07.68
You know, it's
interesting you say that.
00:43:07.72\00:43:10.19
Because it was not just one time
00:43:10.22\00:43:12.52
that he had the
opportunity to kill Saul.
00:43:12.55\00:43:14.42
That's right.
00:43:14.46\00:43:15.79
And sometimes the
temptations that come our way,
00:43:15.82\00:43:21.06
Satan has already
tempted us with those things,
00:43:21.10\00:43:24.27
and then somehow
repeats it through somebody else
00:43:24.30\00:43:27.34
because, you know,
the followers with David.
00:43:27.37\00:43:31.81
They would go, "David,
David, David, there he is.
00:43:31.84\00:43:34.14
This is your chance."
00:43:34.18\00:43:35.51
This is an answer to prayer.
00:43:35.54\00:43:37.25
This is an answer to prayer.
00:43:37.28\00:43:38.71
And they could even
use these Christian...
00:43:38.75\00:43:41.38
Providential.
00:43:41.42\00:43:42.75
Yeah, providential
opportunity. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:43:42.78\00:43:44.45
And so we really
have to be careful
00:43:44.49\00:43:46.15
because when it's in
our heart to serve the Lord,
00:43:46.19\00:43:51.23
the devil is going to try to use
00:43:51.26\00:43:52.69
different
things, different people,
00:43:52.73\00:43:54.46
and people that we even
love to lead us into thinking,
00:43:54.50\00:44:01.20
"Maybe I should do
this, you know, kill Saul."
00:44:01.24\00:44:03.00
Yeah, yeah.
00:44:03.04\00:44:04.37
But that's not
what God wants us to do.
00:44:04.41\00:44:06.21
God has ways
00:44:06.24\00:44:08.71
to get what He
wants accomplished
00:44:08.74\00:44:11.05
that if we do it
according to His will,
00:44:11.08\00:44:13.65
better results, better results.
00:44:13.68\00:44:15.85
Imagine if he had killed Saul.
00:44:15.88\00:44:17.29
Wow, wow!
00:44:17.32\00:44:18.65
Saul threw the
javelin at him, didn't he?
00:44:18.69\00:44:21.09
You know, we laugh
about that every now and then
00:44:21.12\00:44:23.36
because when he summoned Saul,
00:44:23.39\00:44:25.59
when he was feeling all
grievous and all downcast,
00:44:25.63\00:44:28.16
Saul summoned David...
00:44:28.20\00:44:29.53
Yes. Saul summoned David.
00:44:29.56\00:44:30.90
To play the harp.
00:44:30.93\00:44:32.27
And while he's playing the harp,
00:44:32.30\00:44:33.64
he throws a javelin at him,
he try to pin him to the wall.
00:44:33.67\00:44:35.10
Yeah.
00:44:35.14\00:44:36.47
And said, "Boy, look,
see, if I show up again..."
00:44:36.50\00:44:38.24
And he showed up again.
00:44:38.27\00:44:39.81
He continued to respond.
00:44:39.84\00:44:41.38
And now I said, what happened?
00:44:41.41\00:44:42.74
The javelin, the angel
moved that javelin other way.
00:44:42.78\00:44:45.11
Redirected it so
it wouldn't stab.
00:44:45.15\00:44:46.48
Redirected it.
00:44:46.51\00:44:47.85
Yeah, so it
wouldn't have killed him.
00:44:47.88\00:44:49.22
What I want to do now is
00:44:49.25\00:44:50.59
I want to dive
into some of the areas
00:44:50.62\00:44:51.95
where grace is now
00:44:51.99\00:44:53.32
how restorative
grace really affects us.
00:44:53.36\00:44:56.06
Let's go to
section number seven.
00:44:56.09\00:44:57.43
Did you want to share
something before, honey?
00:44:57.46\00:44:58.79
No, nothing. Nothing. Okay.
00:44:58.83\00:45:00.16
Look at section number seven.
00:45:00.20\00:45:01.53
And they're very quick points
I want to just rifle through.
00:45:01.56\00:45:04.73
The first one is
in section seven.
00:45:04.77\00:45:07.77
Job...
00:45:07.80\00:45:09.14
Let's look at there. Here it is.
00:45:09.17\00:45:10.61
Section seven, Job 33:26,
00:45:10.64\00:45:14.48
Pastor Dinzey, you
read that one for us.
00:45:14.51\00:45:16.31
This is showing all
the areas of restoration.
00:45:16.34\00:45:18.78
"He shall pray to God,
and He will delight in him,
00:45:18.81\00:45:22.45
He shall see His face with joy,
00:45:22.48\00:45:24.25
For He restores to
man His righteousness."
00:45:24.29\00:45:27.56
Okay, so one of the first
steps of restorative grace
00:45:27.59\00:45:30.93
is what is he restoring.
00:45:30.96\00:45:32.76
Righteousness. Righteousness.
00:45:32.79\00:45:34.13
His righteousness.
00:45:34.16\00:45:35.50
Thank you.
00:45:35.53\00:45:36.87
Say it again. His righteousness.
00:45:36.90\00:45:38.23
Yes, that makes
all the difference.
00:45:38.27\00:45:39.60
Yeah, why is our
righteous is not sufficient?
00:45:39.63\00:45:40.97
Come on, we know. Filthy rags.
00:45:41.00\00:45:42.34
Filthy.
00:45:42.37\00:45:43.71
Mostly, I think...
00:45:43.74\00:45:45.07
I mean, not
mostly, but a main reason
00:45:45.11\00:45:46.44
is the motives behind are
which we can't read many times.
00:45:46.47\00:45:48.38
What's motivating us?
00:45:48.41\00:45:50.31
And God's righteousness
00:45:50.35\00:45:51.68
was always
motivated by selfless,
00:45:51.71\00:45:53.18
other-centered love.
00:45:53.21\00:45:54.55
Always. Completely pure.
00:45:54.58\00:45:56.52
Amen.
00:45:56.55\00:45:57.89
So the first
thing He's restoring
00:45:57.92\00:45:59.25
His righteousness.
00:45:59.29\00:46:00.79
Ours would never do.
00:46:00.82\00:46:02.62
Even I like...
00:46:02.66\00:46:04.46
You know, we need
another hour on this topic,
00:46:04.49\00:46:06.43
we can't get it tonight.
00:46:06.46\00:46:07.80
But when you
talk about the salt,
00:46:07.83\00:46:10.63
we just came into the
sermon, you know, seasoned.
00:46:10.67\00:46:14.54
It's a beautiful aspect of it.
00:46:14.57\00:46:16.44
So the first thing
that God restores to us
00:46:16.47\00:46:18.81
is His
righteousness, not our own.
00:46:18.84\00:46:22.74
But then there's something else
00:46:22.78\00:46:24.11
because when a person is broken,
00:46:24.15\00:46:25.48
something else they lose.
00:46:25.51\00:46:26.92
Let's look at Psalms
51:12 which is on point 7A,
00:46:26.95\00:46:31.02
"Restore to me the
joy of Your salvation
00:46:31.05\00:46:34.12
and uphold me with
Your generous Spirit."
00:46:34.16\00:46:36.52
Have you ever seen people
00:46:36.56\00:46:37.89
that have lost
the joy of salvation?
00:46:37.93\00:46:39.46
I have.
00:46:39.49\00:46:40.83
I've lost the joy of salvation,
so I know how that feels.
00:46:40.86\00:46:43.53
You know,
00:46:43.57\00:46:44.90
it's a completely
different experience
00:46:44.93\00:46:46.27
when you are just
in love with Jesus
00:46:46.30\00:46:47.90
and you've got that
first love experience.
00:46:47.94\00:46:49.90
But when you're
just doing it out of duty
00:46:49.94\00:46:51.37
and you feel like
it's a formal ceremony
00:46:51.41\00:46:54.18
and you've just
lost that inner joy...
00:46:54.21\00:46:55.94
I know what you mean. Yeah.
00:46:55.98\00:46:57.61
I think all of
us go through that,
00:46:57.65\00:46:58.98
you know, from time to
time, and it's overwhelming.
00:46:59.01\00:47:03.82
And David went
through that in a huge way
00:47:03.85\00:47:05.82
because this comes right
after his sin with Bathsheba
00:47:05.85\00:47:08.86
that you had mentioned earlier.
00:47:08.89\00:47:10.33
And so he's recognizing,
00:47:10.36\00:47:12.59
I think, that
how far he had fallen
00:47:12.63\00:47:15.20
because, you know,
it wasn't just the sin.
00:47:15.23\00:47:16.67
It was what led to it
and then the aftereffects,
00:47:16.70\00:47:18.83
and self-righteousness,
and cover up, and all that,
00:47:18.87\00:47:21.74
and he knew the only thing
that could actually restore him
00:47:21.77\00:47:24.21
was the joy of salvation.
00:47:24.24\00:47:25.57
Right. And so he
pleaded for that.
00:47:25.61\00:47:27.84
And like you
said, a lot of people,
00:47:27.88\00:47:29.81
they want to sin like David,
00:47:29.84\00:47:31.65
but they don't want
to repent like David.
00:47:31.68\00:47:33.01
Oh! Wow, wow!
00:47:33.05\00:47:35.15
That is... Woo-hoo, woo-hoo!
00:47:35.18\00:47:36.62
That is impacting.
00:47:36.65\00:47:37.99
Yes...
00:47:38.02\00:47:39.35
The only the way that
repentance can come...
00:47:39.39\00:47:40.72
I was driving down
the freeway again here
00:47:40.76\00:47:42.39
and it said,
"Trust, Jesus repent."
00:47:42.42\00:47:45.23
Oh, yeah.
00:47:45.26\00:47:46.59
And the sign that I would love
00:47:46.63\00:47:47.96
to put up on a billboard one day
00:47:48.00\00:47:49.56
is based on Romans 2:4
00:47:49.60\00:47:52.53
because the word
repent means to turn around
00:47:52.57\00:47:54.34
180 degrees.
00:47:54.37\00:47:55.70
And Romans 2:4 says, you know,
00:47:55.74\00:47:57.57
the goodness of God
leads us to repentance.
00:47:57.61\00:47:59.47
So I'd like to put a
billboard up that says,
00:47:59.51\00:48:01.48
"Let God's love
turn you around."
00:48:01.51\00:48:03.48
Let God's love turn you around.
00:48:03.51\00:48:04.85
Let God's love
turn you around. Wow.
00:48:04.88\00:48:06.38
Goodness of God,
00:48:06.41\00:48:07.75
the love of God turns you around
00:48:07.78\00:48:09.42
because when you're
called to do something
00:48:09.45\00:48:11.75
in order to
repent, trust Jesus repent.
00:48:11.79\00:48:14.12
It's not going to
happen. Right, exactly.
00:48:14.16\00:48:15.82
God's the one that
works it in our lives,
00:48:15.86\00:48:17.96
and David knows this.
00:48:17.99\00:48:19.86
He's the king and
he's in this position,
00:48:19.89\00:48:21.46
but he's just been
completely unmasked, unveiled,
00:48:21.50\00:48:25.23
and he's just barren.
00:48:25.27\00:48:26.70
He has nothing, nothing. Wow!
00:48:26.74\00:48:28.44
And he says,
"Lord restore to me.
00:48:28.47\00:48:29.80
The joy of your
salvation, I have nothing."
00:48:29.84\00:48:32.31
That's right.
00:48:32.34\00:48:33.68
And we're going
through the book of Psalms now.
00:48:33.71\00:48:35.04
We have seen
instance after instance
00:48:35.08\00:48:37.05
where David is
downcast, he is disheartened,
00:48:37.08\00:48:39.98
he's lamenting, he feels,
00:48:40.02\00:48:41.98
"Lord, my enemies have
surrounded me unjustly,
00:48:42.02\00:48:44.29
they are accusing me wrongly.
00:48:44.32\00:48:46.09
Father, don't just
stand there, do nothing,
00:48:46.12\00:48:49.29
do something."
00:48:49.32\00:48:50.66
And when you read
the book of Psalms,
00:48:50.69\00:48:52.03
it's 150 chapters,
00:48:52.06\00:48:53.56
but I tell you
by chapter 86 or 87
00:48:53.60\00:48:56.43
where we are, we're
saying, "Wow, I've really...
00:48:56.46\00:48:58.83
Now I'm getting to know David."
00:48:58.87\00:49:00.40
Yeah.
00:49:00.44\00:49:01.77
And in the interest of time,
I want to hit the next one.
00:49:01.80\00:49:03.17
So first He
restores his righteousness,
00:49:03.20\00:49:05.01
then He restores the joy.
00:49:05.04\00:49:06.98
But look at Psalm 23:3.
00:49:07.01\00:49:09.38
Honey, read that one.
00:49:09.41\00:49:10.75
This is special to me. Okay.
00:49:10.78\00:49:12.61
Before I read it,
several years back, I was...
00:49:12.65\00:49:15.12
We were having...
00:49:15.15\00:49:16.48
I was having just a terrible...
00:49:16.52\00:49:19.05
Funky time. Terrible...
00:49:19.09\00:49:20.42
Yeah, in my life.
And I had a dream.
00:49:20.46\00:49:24.96
And I woke up in the
morning, and I started singing,
00:49:24.99\00:49:28.80
He Restoreth My Soul.
00:49:28.83\00:49:31.03
And there was like
angels were singing that song.
00:49:31.07\00:49:34.24
And it was like a
choir in my dream,
00:49:34.27\00:49:36.97
"He restoreth My Soul, "
00:49:37.01\00:49:38.81
just over and over,
00:49:38.84\00:49:40.48
and I woke up, He
restoreth my soul.
00:49:40.51\00:49:43.21
And it was just...
00:49:43.24\00:49:44.58
Ooh!
00:49:44.61\00:49:45.95
When I think of it, it
brings tears to my eyes.
00:49:45.98\00:49:47.68
But how the Lord
restoreth my soul,
00:49:47.72\00:49:49.55
then we went to
the store Hobby Lobby,
00:49:49.58\00:49:51.75
we found that beautiful placard.
00:49:51.79\00:49:55.02
It was a painting.
00:49:55.06\00:49:56.59
And it says, "He
restores my soul."
00:49:56.62\00:49:59.09
So I want to share
that with you right now
00:49:59.13\00:50:01.66
if I could get through my tears.
00:50:01.70\00:50:03.10
Where is it? Psalms 23:3.
00:50:03.13\00:50:04.90
Okay.
00:50:04.93\00:50:06.27
"He restores my soul,
00:50:06.30\00:50:08.17
He leads me in the
path of righteousness
00:50:08.20\00:50:10.21
for His name's sake."
00:50:10.24\00:50:11.57
Amen. Wow!
00:50:11.61\00:50:12.94
And I feel like my
soul has been restored.
00:50:12.97\00:50:15.31
Praise God. Amen.
00:50:15.34\00:50:17.05
And, you know, we
talked about that.
00:50:17.08\00:50:18.41
So we have in our kitchen
00:50:18.45\00:50:19.78
a reflection of
our journey, you know?
00:50:19.81\00:50:21.38
Oh, yeah.
00:50:21.42\00:50:22.75
And right there on
this large piece of wood,
00:50:22.78\00:50:25.05
small piece of
wood, etched in metal,
00:50:25.09\00:50:27.59
"He restores my soul."
00:50:27.62\00:50:29.29
And you know what,
I want to say to you
00:50:29.32\00:50:30.66
if you're watching the
program, as we're winding down,
00:50:30.69\00:50:32.03
we have a few more points.
00:50:32.06\00:50:33.40
The Lord wants
to restore your soul
00:50:33.43\00:50:35.40
including His righteousness
and the joy of His salvation.
00:50:35.43\00:50:39.63
Because we know we're
saved, but sometimes as pastors,
00:50:39.67\00:50:42.64
we can get ready.
00:50:42.67\00:50:44.01
You know, we're locked
into that whole thing of,
00:50:44.04\00:50:45.74
"We just can't
handle, we just can't make it,
00:50:45.77\00:50:48.44
we just can't deal with
life and what's coming to us."
00:50:48.48\00:50:51.68
So we're at that
place where, you know,
00:50:51.71\00:50:53.72
it's difficult
to deal with life.
00:50:53.75\00:50:55.48
And we say, "Lord,
restore us completely."
00:50:55.52\00:50:58.02
and He does it.
00:50:58.05\00:50:59.39
One more, another one.
00:50:59.42\00:51:01.52
Now, Pastor
Dinzey, Jeremiah 27:22.
00:51:01.56\00:51:04.99
Jeremiah 27:22.
00:51:05.03\00:51:07.16
"'They shall be
carried to Babylon,
00:51:07.20\00:51:09.33
and there they shall be
00:51:09.36\00:51:10.93
until the day
that I visit them, '
00:51:10.97\00:51:12.53
says the Lord.
00:51:12.57\00:51:13.90
'Then I will bring them up
00:51:13.94\00:51:15.27
and restore
them to this place.'"
00:51:15.30\00:51:17.57
Oh.
00:51:17.61\00:51:18.94
That's another powerful one.
00:51:18.97\00:51:20.81
You may have lost your
place, but when Lord visits you,
00:51:20.84\00:51:24.81
He'll restore you to that place.
00:51:24.85\00:51:26.31
Beautiful. James.
00:51:26.35\00:51:27.68
John, I just...
00:51:27.72\00:51:29.05
You know, you said
we know we're saved.
00:51:29.08\00:51:30.42
You mentioned that
we know we're saved.
00:51:30.45\00:51:31.79
And you've said that
a couple of times in it,
00:51:31.82\00:51:33.15
just led me to the verse
here in 2 Corinthians 1:10
00:51:33.19\00:51:37.53
because I think a lot of times,
00:51:37.56\00:51:38.89
we misunderstand
what salvation is.
00:51:38.93\00:51:40.26
That's right.
00:51:40.30\00:51:41.63
I'm sure you're
familiar with this verse,
00:51:41.66\00:51:43.00
you know, as pastors,
00:51:43.03\00:51:44.37
it's something
that's really hit home
00:51:44.40\00:51:45.93
with me many times.
00:51:45.97\00:51:47.30
2 Corinthians 1:10
00:51:47.34\00:51:50.31
is describing what
salvation looks like.
00:51:50.34\00:51:52.31
Yes.
00:51:52.34\00:51:53.68
And Paul's speaking here
and he's talking about the Lord
00:51:53.71\00:51:56.61
that raised up, you
know, Jesus from the dead
00:51:56.64\00:51:58.85
and he says, "who delivered
us from so great a death, "
00:51:58.88\00:52:02.42
that's past,
00:52:02.45\00:52:03.79
"Does deliver," that's present,
00:52:03.82\00:52:06.49
"in whom we trust that
He will yet deliver us, "
00:52:06.52\00:52:09.09
that's future.
00:52:09.12\00:52:10.46
That's right.
00:52:10.49\00:52:11.83
Salvation is past,
present, and future.
00:52:11.86\00:52:14.06
That's right.
00:52:14.10\00:52:15.43
Sometimes we think of
salvation is a one-time act.
00:52:15.46\00:52:17.63
No, it's not a one-time
act. That's just part of it.
00:52:17.67\00:52:19.70
It's a three-part thing.
00:52:19.73\00:52:21.07
And that's why when
we talk about salvation,
00:52:21.10\00:52:22.57
we talk about justification,
we talk about sanctification,
00:52:22.60\00:52:25.47
but we also have to
remember glorification.
00:52:25.51\00:52:27.84
That's just as
vital a part of salvation.
00:52:27.88\00:52:30.11
And those three parts
are promised to us here.
00:52:30.15\00:52:32.65
So salvation, we
know we're saved,
00:52:32.68\00:52:34.62
and we know we're being saved,
and we know we will be saved.
00:52:34.65\00:52:37.39
Oh, you remember that, honey?
00:52:37.42\00:52:38.75
He just always say
exact words. All right.
00:52:38.79\00:52:40.56
Yes, say from
the penalty of sin,
00:52:40.59\00:52:43.19
from the power of sin,
from the presence of sin.
00:52:43.22\00:52:45.76
And we are saved,
we are being saved,
00:52:45.79\00:52:47.50
and we will be saved.
00:52:47.53\00:52:48.86
Right. That's a powerful thing.
00:52:48.90\00:52:50.23
And the whole thing
that includes that package
00:52:50.27\00:52:52.60
is restoration.
00:52:52.63\00:52:55.04
It has not the house.
00:52:55.07\00:52:56.40
And it's not once
saved, always saved either.
00:52:56.44\00:52:58.01
No.
00:52:58.04\00:52:59.37
The house that has
not yet been revealed,
00:52:59.41\00:53:01.41
but you shall be.
00:53:01.44\00:53:02.78
Yes.
00:53:02.81\00:53:04.15
Okay, but when He's done,
we're going to be like Him.
00:53:04.18\00:53:06.15
Wow, wow.
00:53:06.18\00:53:07.52
He restores us to the
place that we once occupied,
00:53:07.55\00:53:10.92
not because we deserve
it but because of His grace.
00:53:10.95\00:53:13.12
Amen. Wow.
00:53:13.15\00:53:14.49
And one more. Okay.
00:53:14.52\00:53:15.86
Lamentations...
00:53:15.89\00:53:17.23
Pastor Dinzey,
Lamentations 5:21.
00:53:17.26\00:53:19.63
"Turn us back to You, O
Lord, and we will be restored.
00:53:19.66\00:53:24.10
Renew our days as of old."
00:53:24.13\00:53:26.60
Wow!
00:53:26.63\00:53:27.97
How many people
watching this program
00:53:28.00\00:53:30.24
want to say,
"Lord, take me back.
00:53:30.27\00:53:34.38
Take me back to the
place I once received You.
00:53:34.41\00:53:37.85
Take me back."?
00:53:37.88\00:53:39.45
You know, you talked
about that first love.
00:53:39.48\00:53:42.25
Hit that for a
minute or so here.
00:53:42.28\00:53:43.75
That first love, what's it like?
00:53:43.79\00:53:45.52
It's amazing
00:53:45.55\00:53:46.96
because when
you come to Jesus...
00:53:46.99\00:53:48.42
When I first came to Jesus,
I had nothing to offer Him.
00:53:48.46\00:53:50.76
You know, I
wasn't a Sunday keeper,
00:53:50.79\00:53:52.89
or Sabbath keeper,
00:53:52.93\00:53:54.26
or tithe payer, or
Sabbath School lesson guy,
00:53:54.30\00:53:56.60
or a Bible scholar, or anything.
00:53:56.63\00:53:58.53
I have nothing to offer Him.
00:53:58.57\00:54:00.07
And so when I came to Jesus,
00:54:00.10\00:54:01.44
the only thing I could give him
was my load of sin and guilt.
00:54:01.47\00:54:03.81
And I gave that to Him,
00:54:03.84\00:54:05.17
and He made it
clear that He forgave me
00:54:05.21\00:54:07.84
and accepted me.
00:54:07.88\00:54:09.21
Whoo!
00:54:09.24\00:54:10.58
The greatest enemy
of our love for Christ
00:54:10.61\00:54:13.42
are our works for Christ.
00:54:13.45\00:54:15.75
And when you start
piling up those works
00:54:15.78\00:54:18.02
like the Pharisees did,
00:54:18.05\00:54:19.55
our relationship
to Christ can change.
00:54:19.59\00:54:21.86
"Oh, I'm so glad
00:54:21.89\00:54:23.22
I'm not like that
person over there.
00:54:23.26\00:54:24.59
You know, I pay tithe a lot.
00:54:24.63\00:54:25.96
I pay tax and I
fast twice a week,"
00:54:25.99\00:54:28.70
and then the
publican goes up, he says...
00:54:28.73\00:54:30.07
I'm vegan. Yeah, yeah.
00:54:30.10\00:54:32.43
My soymilk drink...
00:54:32.47\00:54:33.80
My rice milk, I
actually don't like soymilk.
00:54:33.84\00:54:35.70
And the publican says,
00:54:35.74\00:54:37.11
"Lord, be
merciful to me, a sinner."
00:54:37.14\00:54:39.27
And He goes down to His house
00:54:39.31\00:54:40.98
justify more than the other
and that is our first love.
00:54:41.01\00:54:44.85
Our first love is
based upon unmerited favor.
00:54:44.88\00:54:48.82
And that
unmerited favor continues
00:54:48.85\00:54:50.62
through the whole
course like with David.
00:54:50.65\00:54:51.99
It continues
through the whole course
00:54:52.02\00:54:53.59
to restore, to glorify.
00:54:53.62\00:54:55.32
It does everything.
00:54:55.36\00:54:56.69
And then later the
Lord restored David
00:54:56.73\00:54:58.29
so completely that later on
00:54:58.33\00:54:59.79
when He is born, the angel said,
00:54:59.83\00:55:02.33
"You will find Him
in the city of David."
00:55:02.36\00:55:05.57
God identified,
Jesus identifies with a man
00:55:05.60\00:55:08.44
that just didn't have the right
00:55:08.47\00:55:09.80
to be identified
in the city of David.
00:55:09.84\00:55:11.17
That's beautiful. Powerful.
00:55:11.21\00:55:13.74
Two more things,
00:55:13.78\00:55:15.11
we're going to
just fly into this.
00:55:15.14\00:55:16.48
Pastor Dinzey, Galatians
6:1 and point number eight.
00:55:16.51\00:55:18.51
The question is what do
we have to be able to do...
00:55:18.55\00:55:20.88
What do we do to help aid
in the process of restoration,
00:55:20.92\00:55:24.52
restorative grace?
00:55:24.55\00:55:26.02
"Brethren, if a man is overtaken
00:55:26.05\00:55:28.86
in any trespass,
00:55:28.89\00:55:30.26
you who are spiritual
00:55:30.29\00:55:31.66
restore such a one in
a spirit of gentleness,
00:55:31.69\00:55:35.23
considering yourself
lest you also be tempted."
00:55:35.26\00:55:38.70
Wow. So a spirit of arrogance?
00:55:38.73\00:55:40.64
No.
00:55:40.67\00:55:42.00
Didn't even mention in the book,
00:55:42.04\00:55:43.37
don't even condescend.
00:55:43.41\00:55:44.74
No.
00:55:44.77\00:55:46.11
Don't even make that
person feel like a second class
00:55:46.14\00:55:47.48
and you are the one
that really is not as bad
00:55:47.51\00:55:48.91
as he or she is.
00:55:48.94\00:55:50.78
It's... I forgot the term.
00:55:50.81\00:55:52.85
Yeah, that's the same thing.
00:55:52.88\00:55:54.22
Yeah, don't condescend to them.
00:55:54.25\00:55:56.82
So we have to be
spiritual, we have to be gentle.
00:55:56.85\00:56:01.62
And we have to say
but for the grace of God.
00:56:01.66\00:56:03.63
Yeah, so go I. Unmerited favor.
00:56:03.66\00:56:06.90
You know, when I first
became a Christian Adventist,
00:56:06.93\00:56:09.46
I thought that's not grace.
00:56:09.50\00:56:11.47
You know, that's cheap grace.
00:56:11.50\00:56:12.83
And I remember
00:56:12.87\00:56:14.20
and I'm just
going to bring this up
00:56:14.24\00:56:15.57
reading that in
Ellen White's writings,
00:56:15.60\00:56:16.97
and then I went
through the Great Controversy
00:56:17.01\00:56:19.24
and I got to the end,
00:56:19.27\00:56:20.68
you know, the very
end when Jesus comes,
00:56:20.71\00:56:23.04
there's in
Great Controversy 541,
00:56:23.08\00:56:25.21
I want to bring this up
00:56:25.25\00:56:26.58
because sometimes
people criticize Ellen White,
00:56:26.61\00:56:28.18
you know, very recklessly.
00:56:28.22\00:56:30.39
Jesus comes, and
all of our faces,
00:56:30.42\00:56:32.79
the faces of the
righteous gathered paleness
00:56:32.82\00:56:34.89
and everyone asked the question,
00:56:34.92\00:56:36.26
who's going to be able to stand?
00:56:36.29\00:56:37.73
And there's a moment of
awful silence, all right?
00:56:37.76\00:56:40.23
And then on that page,
page 541 I think it is.
00:56:40.26\00:56:43.37
She says...
00:56:43.40\00:56:44.73
641 she says,
00:56:44.77\00:56:46.43
"Then the word of the
voice of Jesus is heard,"
00:56:46.47\00:56:48.50
And you know what it says,
00:56:48.54\00:56:49.94
"My grace is
sufficient for you."
00:56:49.97\00:56:52.31
Wow. Amen.
00:56:52.34\00:56:53.68
That's how it
ends. That's how it ends.
00:56:53.71\00:56:55.28
We don't want
this program to end.
00:56:55.31\00:56:57.18
The God's grace is sufficient.
00:56:57.21\00:56:58.55
And lastly, Mark 8:25. Okay.
00:56:58.58\00:57:00.68
When the Lord put His hands
out and restored the man's eyes,
00:57:00.72\00:57:04.52
the Bible says,
00:57:04.55\00:57:05.89
"And he was restored
and saw everyone clearly.
00:57:05.92\00:57:08.86
" The last thing the
Lord wants to do for us
00:57:08.89\00:57:10.73
in the process
of restorative grace
00:57:10.76\00:57:13.03
is help us to see everyone
the way that Jesus sees.
00:57:13.06\00:57:16.06
Amen.
00:57:16.10\00:57:17.43
Honey, thank you
for recommending this.
00:57:17.47\00:57:18.83
We're just
getting started on this.
00:57:18.87\00:57:20.47
Wish we had more
time. That's right.
00:57:20.50\00:57:22.60
And, friends, we pray
that God will restore you
00:57:22.64\00:57:25.77
that as He restores you,
00:57:25.81\00:57:27.74
you will be in aid with
Him to help restore others.
00:57:27.78\00:57:31.01
May God bless you
and have a Sabbath...
00:57:31.05\00:57:32.88
Happy Sabbath.
00:57:32.91\00:57:34.25
Happy Sabbath
until we see you again.
00:57:34.28\00:57:35.62