I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello, and a great big welcome
to each and every one of you,
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as we're going
to be studying today
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on 3ABN Family Worship,
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we're going to be talking about,
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are you ready?
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We've had
several lessons on this.
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And I've been excited
about every one of them.
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Honey, I know that you have too.
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Oh, yeah.
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So we're looking
forward to this part.
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We're going to be on
question number five.
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It's taken us a
little while to get there.
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But you know, I've
enjoyed the journey myself.
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Oh, yes.
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It's been a real
learning experience
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as we get different
ones with us on the panel
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and they talk about things
and been drawn closer to Jesus.
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So again, we're glad
that you're here with us
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and we pray that
you get your Bible
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and whatever it
takes, jot some things down.
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Sometimes it seemed
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like we move rather
quickly another time,
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maybe some people
might say it slow.
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But as you cover a
lot of material here,
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we want you to go
back and to check it out
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and to make sure
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you study to show
yourself approved unto God.
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God bless you again.
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We're glad you have a
lot of different choices.
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You made the right choice
here tuning in with us today.
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I guess, first of all,
let's introduce our panel.
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Honey, would you help me today?
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Oh, absolutely.
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Thank you. Go right ahead.
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Over to your right
is our nephew Jason,
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Jason Bradley.
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Jason, what do
you do here at 3ABN?
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Well, so I'm the general manager
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of 3ABN's Dare to Dream Network.
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We all wear multiple
hats, whatever is required.
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I understand
that very, very well.
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We wear lots and lots of hats.
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You know I wanted to comment
on what you were saying too
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about enjoying these messages
over the last few months.
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I have really
enjoyed you guys writing in
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on Facebook or Messenger
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and they have really been,
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you know, expressing
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how much that these messages
have touched their heart,
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and that means a lot to me
when I go back and I read that
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because that's
what this is all about,
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is reaching people.
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Amen.
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And, Brother Ryan, do
you enjoy reaching people?
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I know you do. I know you do.
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That's the goal,
mending broken people.
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Yes. That's right.
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Spend our lives
mending broken people.
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That's what we're called to do.
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So, Ryan Day,
what do you do at 3ABN?
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Well, I have to
echo what he said
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because we wear
multiple hats here.
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So a little bit of everything
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but I kind of
split at the moment,
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I do some duties
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with the 3ABN
Praise Him Network,
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which I assist
Tim from time to time
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when he needs my
assistance and then,
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I'm also
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in the pastoral department here.
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I'm a part of the
pastoral team here.
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We answer calls and
we answer Bible questions
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and do whatever is necessary
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for the
continuation of God's kingdom
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and God's message.
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So that's what it's all about.
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And I know not
only are you a blessing
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to everyone at home,
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you both are a blessing to us.
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We're so thankful
that you were here.
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We're looking forward
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to what the Lord
has on your heart
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for question number five,
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you know, a lot of
people say question number five.
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In fact, when you came
in, he says, these people,
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they can turn one
question into an hour.
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When I looked at question five,
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you know, I thought
that that could be a book,
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I mean there's so
much involved in it.
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So we're hopeful
we'll get into it
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and dig a little deeper
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you know, with our
roots need to be dug deep.
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You know what,
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really what I find
about sitting around
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just this table and
everybody I'm sure is this way,
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but everyone here
answers the call, I like that,
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that'd be a good
sermon, answer the call,
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that every time
they're called upon
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to do something in
the cause of Christ.
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I don't think I've ever
heard one of them here say,
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No, I can't or I'm too
busy, always willing to go,
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always willing to do
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to try something good for Jesus.
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And I think that's wonderful.
And I really appreciate that.
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Praise God for that.
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I think we have, we need prayer.
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You know, I'm a
believer in prayer.
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Nothing can
operate without prayer.
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This program's no good
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without the power
of the Holy Spirit.
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We're going to
invite the Holy Spirit
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to come near to us
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and then we're
going to be singing a song
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and I like that, "O,
when shall I see Jesus."
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That's right.
That's our theme song.
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Oh, I like that thing.
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So, Mama, how about you?
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Would you pray
for us? Oh, certainly.
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Most Gracious Heavenly Father,
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we want to ask you
to come into our hearts
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and our minds and
take complete control.
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We pray that we
will be vessels of honor
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for which the
Holy Spirit may come in
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and work in and through us,
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may the people at home no
longer see us but see Jesus,
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hear Jesus
speaking to their hearts,
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bless us,
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bring these things
back that we've studied
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over the last
few months and days,
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and bring them
back to our memory.
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You've said if we
would just show up,
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Father, You will show up.
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So we're just
asking for Your presence
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and for Your
blessing upon this study.
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And for those of people
who are watching at home,
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may they also
receive a blessing,
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we pray in Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen.
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All right, Brother
Ryan, shall we sing?
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That's right. Absolutely.
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And we're going to make
sure we get the right key.
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Okay, good. All right.
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Well, because
we've been here we,
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you know, the
previous months and you know,
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you're trying to find
the right key for everyone,
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but I think we're going to do it
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in the key of E.
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I've got my
little piano up here.
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O, when shall I see Jesus
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And reign with him above
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And shall hear the trumpet sound
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In that morning
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And From the
flowing fountain drink
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Everlasting love
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And shall hear The trumpet sound
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In that morning?
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O, shout glory!
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For I shall
mount Above the skies,
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When I hear the
trumpet sound In that morning
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Gird on the gospel armor
Of faith and hope and love
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And you'll hear
The trumpet sound
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In that morning
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And when the combat's ended
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He'll carry you above
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And you'll hear
The trumpet sound
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In that morning
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O, shout glory!
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For I shall
mount Above the skies
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When I hear the
trumpet sound In that morning
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Our ears shall
hear With gladness
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The host of heaven sing
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And shall hear The trumpet sound
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In that morning
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Our tongues
Shall speak the glories
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Of our immortal King
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And shall hear The trumpet sound
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In that morning
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O, shout glory!
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For I shall
mount Above the skies
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When I hear the
trumpet sound In that morning.
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Nice. Hallelujah.
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Oh, beautiful. Hallelujah.
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Praise the Lord. Amen.
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You know what, we will shout.
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I don't know anybody
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that will be quiet
when the Lord comes.
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You'll be shouting
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when you hear
that trumpet sound.
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That trumpet is
going to be loud enough.
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It's going to pierce
the ears of the dead.
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Somebody better be shouting,
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"Hallelujah,
our Savior is here."
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That's right.
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And our title
is, "Are you ready?"
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So are we ready
for that trumpet?
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That has been a blessing.
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You should hear us
try it without you,
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you know, it's a mess.
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But when you are
here, we can do it,
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and it's a blessing to have you.
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To the Lord's
ears, that's a blessing.
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Yes. Anyone who sings that.
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Amen. Oh, wow.
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Oh, praise the Lord.
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Let's get into our study,
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we got just a
little small opening
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and maybe it will help
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those who maybe haven't tuned in
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and seen either program before.
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Are you ready?
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Question that needs to be
asked every day of our life.
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Are we ready to meet Jesus?
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Because it could
be our final day,
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our final moment on this
planet and then what's next?
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So question
number five simply said
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explain what it
means to have Christ
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formed within and
how this makes us worthy.
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May give just a
few thoughts on it
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and then we'll just open it
up for everybody to talk about
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because it is to
me is a big subject,
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exciting subject
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when I think about
Christ being formed within
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and also how much I needed.
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I need Him formed within,
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He's my hope of
glory, I know that.
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I thought about this word formed
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and I looked it up
just in dictionary say form
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because it seemed
like it's in construction
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we always, you know,
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we're going to put a
side walk or whatever,
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we put forms.
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And put a form up
there, it kind of says,
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what's going to be,
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what's going to
be in that parameter,
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how you're going to pour
it wherever it's going to be.
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And so as our
spiritual condition,
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as the pouring of
the Holy Spirit in us,
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we need to see
how this thing works.
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And so the word simply means
the combination of qualities,
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making something what it is.
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Did you get that?
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Notice, it's a
combination of qualities
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that make that
something what it is.
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So Christ within, right?
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It makes you what we need to be.
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And they kind of
explain this way.
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It's the way that we act.
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It's the way that we behave.
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It's conditions of the mind.
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It's how we're shaped,
it's how we're fashioned,
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it's how we develop.
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I thought that's
kind of interesting,
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but before that, as
we talk about it here,
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before this takes place.
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I think this is
noteworthy for us here
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that Christ formed within.
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First of all, I think
before He is formed within
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and correct me if I'm wrong,
before He's formed within,
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we must answer the call, right?
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Called, everyone's
called maybe few are chosen
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but God gives a call to everyone
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for Lord to begin this work.
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Matthew 11:28 and 29,
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pray this is a foundation now
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we're talking about
forming things here.
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He says, "Come unto me,
all ye that are heavy laden, "
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and what?
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He said, "I will give you rest."
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And just part of verse 29.
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He says, "Take my yoke upon me."
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And, of course, we
want to learn of Him.
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So we take number one, his yoke,
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or that which
makes the burden lighter.
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Right?
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We need a lighter burden,
we can't handle it on our own.
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He puts us in the
complete union with Him.
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When we yoke up,
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we're in complete
union with Christ.
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Now notice this
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that this making the possibility
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of being like him a reality.
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I like that when we yoke up
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and so it simply
says Christ formed within
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because Jesus
made this statement
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then we'll open it up.
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Christ made a statement,
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He said for without
me and in what is it?
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John 15:5,
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"For without me
ye can do nothing."
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That's right.
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So we just laid out
on the table like that
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without Christ,
we can do nothing,
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but we're looking for
Him to come in, right?
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And form us into His image.
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And how does that,
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really how does that take place?
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And how does He come in
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and form to make us
worthy of heaven, right?
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Or will we ever
be, Brother Ryan,
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are we ever be worthy of heaven?
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Or is it something else?
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Well, we will never feel
or think within our own minds
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that we're ever worthy.
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You know, often people
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when I'm talking
about the gospel and
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overcoming sin,
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you know, I believe
in victory over sin,
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I believe in the gospel.
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I believe Jesus
didn't just die on the cross,
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that we, you know,
just have forgiveness.
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Jesus did die on the cross
that we can have forgiveness.
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That was the forgiveness,
that was the pathway.
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I want to make this clear,
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was the pathway that
leads us to something
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even greater that Jesus died for
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and that is that we might
have complete victory over sin.
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And so you hear
people all the time,
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you know, as I'm
expressing that to them,
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and they'll say, "Oh, you
know, we'll never be perfect,
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we'll never be sinless, right?"
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Well, you know, I don't
think we'll ever feel perfect.
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I don't ever
think we should ever be,
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we should never
be as arrogant to say
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that we are perfect
and we were without sin.
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You know, 1
John Chapter 1 verse,
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I think it's 10 that says,
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"You know, if you
say you have no sin,
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you lie and deceive yourself."
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You know, we are
sinners because we have sinned.
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But to answer
your question, Brother,
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I don't think we will
ever feel clean enough.
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I'm thinking of Paul.
Paul's a great example.
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Paul was a man, I believe,
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probably a New Testament version
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of David,
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a man after the
Lord's heart in the sense
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that he was
vigilant, he was passionate,
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he was a pious spiritual man.
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And, you know, you look at Paul
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who wrote the
majority of the New Testament,
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and you read all of
those beautiful letters,
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those epistles that
he wrote to the churches
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expressing his faith in Jesus.
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And when you read through those,
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especially my favorite
epistle of Paul, to the Romans,
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it kind of his
manifesto of the gospel
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which we'll reference
in just a few moments,
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but you read Romans and
you could just hear Paul
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pouring out his theological mind
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and a theological heart
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in such an
elegant, passionate way.
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And you read those
and you think yourself,
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man, that brother,
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that brother was
full of the Spirit
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of the Lord, before he left.
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In fact, Paul had an assurance,
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we're not talking about
not having an assurance,
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my friends.
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We can have an assurance,
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we can have faith to
know as Paul would say,
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I know that I have
a crown laid up for me
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of righteousness.
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The Lord has built my mansion,
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you know, but
we don't want to be
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as arrogant to think
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that we're just
perfect and without sin
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I don't think
we'll ever feel that
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because I think
we'll always feel unworthy
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as Paul near his,
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end of his life
he considered himself
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the chief of sinners, right?
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The chief of sinners. Yes.
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So we'll always
feel dirty and unworthy,
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but praise the Lord
for the grace of God
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that we're not our own judge.
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The Lord can see
us in our condition
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and He declares whether or not
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we are perfect
in His eyes or not.
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Amen. It's beautiful.
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Absolutely.
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Honey, you have something?
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Well, when I answer...
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My short answer for
that question was this
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and then I'm
going to bounce back
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to what you're talking about.
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It says to have
Christ form within
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is to become a
living reflection of truth,
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life and the light of Christ.
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We are living vessels.
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We are the temple of God in
which He wishes to dwell in.
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And this is what
Christ is waiting for.
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He's waiting for a
people to fully reflect Him
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and His character
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so that He may place
His robe of righteousness.
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We talked about that
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in one of our messages around us
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and a heavenly
crown upon our heads.
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But that just
doesn't happen overnight.
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There are steps to
having our sins forgiven.
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You know, first of all,
our heart needs to be pricked
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as it were,
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it needs to come
under conviction.
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And then, of
course, comes conversion.
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There's three steps to
having our sins forgiven,
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repentance,
confession, and restitution.
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Repentance.
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And what does that involve?
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And it has to be a
true sorrow, a true sorrow.
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You know, what is the
word that the Bible uses?
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If you guys can
think of it right now,
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it's escaped me.
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But when you begin to
read about a true sorrow,
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it's not just,
"Oh, Lord, you know,
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I ate that cookie and
I shouldn't have done it.
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Would you forgive me?"
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And the next
night is the same thing,
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will you forgive me
over and over and over.
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We're never really
convicted that it was wrong.
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It's spiritual affliction,
afflicting of the soul.
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Exactly, it's
afflicting of a soul,
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it's coming to the
knowledge of what sin really is,
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and how it hurts us,
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and how it hurts
our relationship,
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it separates us from Christ.
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And so then we truly repent.
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And a lot of times,
you know, I'll be honest,
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because all of
these three things
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are a gift of the Holy Spirit.
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There's been times
that I've repented,
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but I haven't really felt it.
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But I wanted to
feel, that was the key.
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So when you want to feel it,
and you really don't feel it,
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you can say,
"Lord, would You please,
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would You please
give me that conviction?
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Will You please
open my spiritual eyes?"
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And He will. It's a free gift.
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So every step of the
way, we are never alone.
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He's there, He's provided a way.
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He is the truth,
the life, the way.
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He is the one that gives us
the power through His Spirit,
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the Comforter, he
said, I have to go,
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it's important that I go
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so that I can
send you the Comforter,
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and praise God that
we have that Comforter.
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So, you know, a lot of times
we're living in a world of sin,
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and we become
conditioned to accept it.
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I've said this
over and over truth
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has become err and
err has become truth.
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And so we got,
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we have to ask God
to quicken our eyesight,
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to quicken our heart,
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to change it and to
bring that repentance,
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and then of course confession,
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that doesn't mean
confession to every person.
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A lot of people
think when get up
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that we've got to
confess every little,
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well, that
cookie had sugar in it,
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and it had milk in it.
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And we, you know, we have to go
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through this long
list of confession.
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It's just, I was intemperate,
you know, pray for me.
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And we confess to
our Heavenly Father,
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we confess to Jesus,
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who's our mediator.
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And, of course, if
we've wronged somebody else,
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and then, of
course, restitution,
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making things right,
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living that life
of righteousness,
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walking that
straight, narrow path.
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Yeah, that's good point.
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Go ahead. Absolutely.
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You know, I think
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that when we
ask for forgiveness,
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we have to have faith
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that it's already
been granted to us.
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So, you know,
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sometimes we want to
feel that forgiveness,
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we want to feel
like we've been forgiven,
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but we have to
take God at His word
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that He is faithful
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and just to
forgive us of all our sins
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and cleanse us of
all unrighteousness.
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And, you know, I
think that that principle
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is very, very important.
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But before we do that we
have to recognize our needs.
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So let's go to
Isaiah Chapter 64.
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And let's look
at verses 6 and 8.
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And, you know,
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even let's say there's a person
who's addicted to substances,
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that they may not realize
that they have a problem.
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You can't fix a problem
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that you don't
realize even exists.
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There you go.
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So Isaiah 64:6, it says,
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"But we are all
like an unclean thing,
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and all our righteousnesses
are like filthy rags,
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we all fade as a
leaf, and our iniquities,
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like the wind,
have taken us away."
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Now in verse 8, it says,
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"But now, O Lord,
You are our Father,
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we are the clay,
and You our potter,
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and all we are the
work of Your hand."
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And then there's this beautiful,
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this beautiful illustration
here in Ministry of Healing,
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the Ministry of
Healing, page 472.
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It says,
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"The great master worker
desires to mold and fashion us.
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And as the clay is in
the hands of the potter,
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so are we to be in his hands.
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We're not to try to do
the work of the potter.
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Our part is to yield ourselves
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to be molded by
the master worker."
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You know, I think about
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when you start a new job,
00:19:19.82\00:19:21.66
right, you start a
position, and I'll use,
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let's use the
hospitality industry,
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I used to manage a restaurant
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and then I had worked
in a restaurant for years.
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And so anytime you
enter into new industry,
00:19:30.93\00:19:35.77
you have to learn new things.
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So you go through
a training process.
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And so, as Christians
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when we are
learning about Christ
00:19:41.68\00:19:43.91
and inviting Him to live in us,
00:19:43.95\00:19:47.72
we have to go
through a training process,
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we learn how to see
things as Christ sees them.
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And so in the
restaurant industry,
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they have silent service
and so you're going around,
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you see a need and you fill it,
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and you don't say
anything about it,
00:20:03.43\00:20:05.50
you're not
looking for any praise,
00:20:05.53\00:20:06.94
you're not
looking for any accolades,
00:20:06.97\00:20:08.30
none of that.
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You just go and you take care
of what you're supposed to do,
00:20:09.70\00:20:12.77
because it's what
you're supposed to do,
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it's the right thing to do.
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And so, it's important
00:20:15.54\00:20:17.25
to be able to
recognize these things.
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So you go through training.
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Now, in this training,
once you get out of training,
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you have to, you
sharpen your skills,
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you keep developing those skills
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and honing in on those skills.
00:20:31.23\00:20:33.76
But you don't
have to, it's not like,
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hmm, let me go
through my checklist.
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It becomes innate. Good.
00:20:39.27\00:20:41.27
And it, yes, and it
permeates the heart.
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That is, I
mean, it's incredible.
00:20:44.37\00:20:46.98
And I think that's how
it is with the Word of God.
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We have to stay
in the Word of God,
00:20:49.31\00:20:51.48
we have to continue to
feed ourselves and grow,
00:20:51.51\00:20:56.22
you know, as a Christian
00:20:56.25\00:20:57.69
because sanctification
is the work of a lifetime.
00:20:57.72\00:21:00.82
But we have to
first recognize our need.
00:21:00.86\00:21:04.56
Invite the Lord
to take over and say,
00:21:04.59\00:21:07.30
"Lord, I need Your help.
00:21:07.33\00:21:10.00
My righteousness
is like filthy rags,
00:21:10.03\00:21:13.00
I need You to come into my life
00:21:13.03\00:21:16.04
and reign supreme over it.
00:21:16.07\00:21:18.74
Help me to be like You
00:21:18.77\00:21:20.81
and die to self
and live to You."
00:21:20.84\00:21:24.08
That is awesome.
00:21:24.11\00:21:25.45
So really part of
that is He lives His life
00:21:25.48\00:21:28.45
right through us.
00:21:28.48\00:21:29.82
We have to be a vessel.
00:21:29.85\00:21:31.22
I think Romans 8:3 and
4 talks about that Christ
00:21:31.25\00:21:33.82
actually living in us,
I'm talking about spirit.
00:21:33.86\00:21:35.89
Let me just read
that, Romans 8:3 and 4.
00:21:35.92\00:21:38.33
And then we can talk about
00:21:38.36\00:21:39.69
or go to some of the thought
that we hear we might have.
00:21:39.73\00:21:42.06
It says, "For what
the law could not do
00:21:42.10\00:21:44.50
in that it was
weak through the flesh,
00:21:44.53\00:21:46.80
God sending His own Son
00:21:46.84\00:21:48.44
in the likeness of sinful flesh,
00:21:48.47\00:21:50.64
and for sin
condemned sin in the flesh."
00:21:50.67\00:21:53.44
But notice verse 4,
00:21:53.48\00:21:54.81
"That the
righteousness of the law
00:21:54.84\00:21:56.81
might be fulfilled in us
00:21:56.85\00:21:58.75
who walk not after
the flesh but what?
00:21:58.78\00:22:03.42
According or after the Spirit."
00:22:03.45\00:22:04.82
So the spirit
within the Holy Spirit.
00:22:04.85\00:22:07.19
Praise God for the Holy Spirit.
00:22:07.22\00:22:08.56
Amen. Amen.
00:22:08.59\00:22:09.92
We might be talking
about there, you don't have,
00:22:09.96\00:22:11.29
you know, when the
situation comes upon you
00:22:11.33\00:22:12.99
when you're
working somewhere doing,
00:22:13.03\00:22:14.36
you don't have,
00:22:14.40\00:22:15.73
somebody says or
doesn't, you gonna say,
00:22:15.76\00:22:17.10
let's see what
are the rules here?
00:22:17.13\00:22:18.47
What am I supposed to do
00:22:18.50\00:22:19.83
but it's an
automatic outflowing,
00:22:19.87\00:22:21.74
is it not?
00:22:21.77\00:22:23.24
Christ within hope of glory.
00:22:23.27\00:22:24.64
So that's where the
mind of Christ comes in,
00:22:24.67\00:22:26.68
right?
00:22:26.71\00:22:28.04
That we want to respond
00:22:28.08\00:22:29.41
the way Christ
responds to the issue.
00:22:29.44\00:22:31.51
Now, the issue is, do
we do that all the time?
00:22:31.55\00:22:34.88
And if not, why
not or should we?
00:22:34.92\00:22:37.32
See, this is debate
that goes on a lot of time.
00:22:37.35\00:22:38.95
Well, we can't
always do the right thing.
00:22:38.99\00:22:41.02
You know, have
you ever heard that,
00:22:41.06\00:22:42.39
we can't always
do, well, it's not...
00:22:42.42\00:22:43.76
Well, I didn't
mean to say all that,
00:22:43.79\00:22:45.13
I just did anyway,
well, they needed any,
00:22:45.16\00:22:46.76
you know, how is this
00:22:46.80\00:22:48.26
when we're talking about
Christ really formed within.
00:22:48.30\00:22:50.30
How should our conduct,
00:22:50.33\00:22:51.70
our talk, our actions, our deed,
00:22:51.73\00:22:53.54
what we, how we dress?
00:22:53.57\00:22:55.87
Yes, honey?
00:22:55.90\00:22:57.57
I just have to jump in
here. Well, just go right ahead.
00:22:57.61\00:22:59.11
It has to be what Jason said,
00:22:59.14\00:23:01.24
it has to
become heart knowledge.
00:23:01.28\00:23:03.41
I love the whole hospitality,
you know, lesson there.
00:23:03.45\00:23:08.18
And one thing
that very key points
00:23:08.22\00:23:11.59
to all of this
is study in prayer.
00:23:11.62\00:23:14.72
We said years ago,
00:23:14.76\00:23:17.16
Pastor Kenny and
I, that we would,
00:23:17.19\00:23:19.73
every morning
00:23:19.76\00:23:21.10
before we would eat
of any physical food,
00:23:21.13\00:23:22.93
we will partake of
that spiritual food first.
00:23:22.96\00:23:25.87
And it changed our
lives, it changed my life.
00:23:25.90\00:23:29.64
And I know that it
can change your life.
00:23:29.67\00:23:31.84
You know, you can start
maybe with five minutes,
00:23:31.87\00:23:34.04
10 minutes and
then all of a sudden,
00:23:34.08\00:23:36.01
as you begin to study the Word
00:23:36.04\00:23:37.65
or you're studying
Spirit of Prophecy,
00:23:37.68\00:23:39.45
that 10 minutes goes to
20 and then 30 and then 40,
00:23:39.48\00:23:42.75
then an hour, hour and a half,
00:23:42.78\00:23:44.12
pretty soon
00:23:44.15\00:23:45.49
you don't want to
go to work at all.
00:23:45.52\00:23:46.86
That's when your life changes.
00:23:46.89\00:23:48.69
We must be connected to heaven.
00:23:48.72\00:23:51.26
It doesn't just
happen on its own.
00:23:51.29\00:23:53.66
We have a part to play
and that is submission,
00:23:53.70\00:23:55.93
that is saying,
Lord, I want to know more.
00:23:55.96\00:23:58.63
Father, please
give me Your mind,
00:23:58.67\00:24:00.57
help me to understand Your Word.
00:24:00.60\00:24:02.64
We never pick up the Word,
00:24:02.67\00:24:04.11
never pick up the
Word without praying
00:24:04.14\00:24:05.87
for the Holy Spirit's
guidance and direction.
00:24:05.91\00:24:08.28
So I love that
hospitality that was wonderful
00:24:08.31\00:24:10.81
because it has to
become heart knowledge.
00:24:10.85\00:24:13.15
That is the key to
having Christ formed within.
00:24:13.18\00:24:16.05
We can't have Him
formed within, Brother,
00:24:16.08\00:24:18.29
if we don't know
what He's all about.
00:24:18.32\00:24:19.65
You don't know
what He's all about.
00:24:19.69\00:24:21.02
Absolutely.
00:24:21.06\00:24:22.39
what you were saying is
key and very much on point.
00:24:22.42\00:24:25.49
Because, as I think one
of you had said earlier,
00:24:25.53\00:24:28.76
that it's a process.
00:24:28.80\00:24:30.13
We're talking
about a process here,
00:24:30.17\00:24:31.50
this doesn't happen overnight.
00:24:31.53\00:24:32.87
In fact, I would like to take us
00:24:32.90\00:24:34.24
on a little bit of
a spiritual journey
00:24:34.27\00:24:36.17
to prove that at this point,
00:24:36.20\00:24:38.34
you know what we're
essentially discussing,
00:24:38.37\00:24:40.38
here's two major
elements of the gospel,
00:24:40.41\00:24:42.44
but this particular question
00:24:42.48\00:24:44.25
is dealing with
the second aspect
00:24:44.28\00:24:45.61
of the gospel.
00:24:45.65\00:24:46.98
So the first one is
considered justification.
00:24:47.02\00:24:49.02
So when we come to Christ,
you know, Christ declares us,
00:24:49.05\00:24:53.46
we are justified in His sight.
00:24:53.49\00:24:55.46
When we accept Him
00:24:55.49\00:24:56.83
again that
process of repentance,
00:24:56.86\00:24:58.69
confession and we come to Him
00:24:58.73\00:25:01.00
and we pour out
ourselves to Him,
00:25:01.03\00:25:02.36
we accept Him
as Lord and Savior.
00:25:02.40\00:25:04.33
His righteousness is
applied to us immediately.
00:25:04.37\00:25:06.53
We are justified at that moment,
00:25:06.57\00:25:08.50
but many people's
gospel stops right there.
00:25:08.54\00:25:11.37
Many people's gospel
stops at the altar of sacrifice
00:25:11.41\00:25:14.68
in the courtyard,
00:25:14.71\00:25:16.04
or they'll go as
far as being baptized,
00:25:16.08\00:25:18.05
they may take a
trip to the laver,
00:25:18.08\00:25:19.88
but they never enter
00:25:19.91\00:25:21.48
the holy place of the sanctuary.
00:25:21.52\00:25:22.95
Okay?
00:25:22.98\00:25:24.32
And so we want you
to, we want you to go in,
00:25:24.35\00:25:26.25
the Lord wants you
to go into that corner.
00:25:26.29\00:25:27.86
He wants you to have
a courtyard experience.
00:25:27.89\00:25:29.89
But does the gospel
experience stop there?
00:25:29.92\00:25:32.43
According to this question,
00:25:32.46\00:25:33.80
and according to
what we're talking about,
00:25:33.83\00:25:35.16
no, it doesn't.
00:25:35.20\00:25:36.53
It continues on
and it's a process,
00:25:36.56\00:25:37.90
and I want to
prove that right now.
00:25:37.93\00:25:39.27
So what we're
essentially talking about
00:25:39.30\00:25:40.64
is the sanctification
aspect of the gospel.
00:25:40.67\00:25:43.00
Go with me to Luke
Chapter 5, Luke Chapter 5.
00:25:43.04\00:25:46.68
This is powerful,
00:25:46.71\00:25:48.04
I'm just going to take us
on a couple of scriptures here
00:25:48.08\00:25:50.15
and to prove this that,
00:25:50.18\00:25:52.38
that the process
00:25:52.41\00:25:53.75
of forming
Christ within us is a...
00:25:53.78\00:25:55.82
It is a process.
00:25:55.85\00:25:57.19
It takes time.
00:25:57.22\00:25:58.55
It doesn't happen
immediately, right?
00:25:58.59\00:26:00.96
It is a process.
00:26:00.99\00:26:02.32
However, that
justification aspect
00:26:02.36\00:26:04.33
obviously can
happen immediately.
00:26:04.36\00:26:05.89
But does this,
00:26:05.93\00:26:07.26
does the experience stop there?
00:26:07.30\00:26:08.63
No. Christ
accepts you as you are.
00:26:08.66\00:26:10.53
Amen, right?
00:26:10.57\00:26:11.90
He accepts us as we are.
00:26:11.93\00:26:13.34
We come to Him
filthy, dirty, horrible,
00:26:13.37\00:26:16.34
just draped in the world.
00:26:16.37\00:26:17.81
He accepts us as we are,
00:26:17.84\00:26:19.17
but does He want
to leave us that way?
00:26:19.21\00:26:21.04
He doesn't want
to leave us that way.
00:26:21.08\00:26:22.41
Luke Chapter 5.
00:26:22.44\00:26:23.78
I think this is an
interesting parable
00:26:23.81\00:26:25.25
that Jesus
illustrates to bring this about,
00:26:25.28\00:26:28.08
okay to explain
what we're talking about.
00:26:28.12\00:26:29.78
So notice what He
says in Luke Chapter 5.
00:26:29.82\00:26:31.29
And I'm going to
start with verse 37 here.
00:26:31.32\00:26:34.96
He's just previously
in the previous verse 36,
00:26:34.99\00:26:37.79
spoke of how you don't put
a new garment on an old one
00:26:37.83\00:26:40.80
or new piece of
garment on an old garment.
00:26:40.83\00:26:42.60
But then notice what he says
here in verse 37 and onward.
00:26:42.63\00:26:44.77
He says, "And no one puts
new wine into old wineskins,
00:26:44.80\00:26:48.04
or else the new wine will burst
00:26:48.07\00:26:49.57
and the
wineskins will be spilled,
00:26:49.60\00:26:52.67
and the
wineskins will be ruined."
00:26:52.71\00:26:55.98
And then notice
what verse 8 says,
00:26:56.01\00:26:57.88
"But new wine must be
put into new wineskins,
00:26:57.91\00:27:01.22
and both are preserved."
00:27:01.25\00:27:02.58
And in verse 39 is key here,
00:27:02.62\00:27:03.95
notice this, "And no
one, having drunk old wine, "
00:27:03.99\00:27:07.56
what's the next word there,
00:27:07.59\00:27:09.69
immediately or straightforward,
it says straightway,
00:27:09.72\00:27:12.69
immediately same thing,
00:27:12.73\00:27:14.46
"desires the new, for he says,
00:27:14.50\00:27:16.00
'The old is better.'"
00:27:16.03\00:27:17.37
So notice the illustration.
00:27:17.40\00:27:18.73
Sometimes we got
to take ourselves
00:27:18.77\00:27:20.40
out of our
Western cultural mindset,
00:27:20.44\00:27:23.30
and we got to place ourselves
in that Middle Eastern culture.
00:27:23.34\00:27:25.87
As Jesus is
telling this to Jews,
00:27:25.91\00:27:28.11
they're going to understand
what he's talking about.
00:27:28.14\00:27:30.01
Picture this for me.
00:27:30.05\00:27:31.48
These people would have traveled
00:27:31.51\00:27:32.91
some very deciduous
plains in the hot, hot sun
00:27:32.95\00:27:35.52
out there with their
camels clucking along,
00:27:35.55\00:27:37.59
they've got their wineskin
00:27:37.62\00:27:39.32
on the outside part
of the belly of that,
00:27:39.35\00:27:41.46
you know, of that camel
00:27:41.49\00:27:44.26
and it's bouncing around
00:27:44.29\00:27:45.63
in that hot
heated desert sun, right?
00:27:45.66\00:27:47.70
And we're talking
about an old wineskin, right?
00:27:47.73\00:27:49.66
These are old and
they're not new wineskins,
00:27:49.70\00:27:51.03
they're a little brittle.
00:27:51.07\00:27:52.40
They've been there while.
00:27:52.43\00:27:53.77
They've been through,
00:27:53.80\00:27:55.14
they're kind of
weathered at this point.
00:27:55.17\00:27:56.50
Now you take new wine
and we know the Bible,
00:27:56.54\00:27:57.87
you know says that new wine,
00:27:57.91\00:27:59.24
of course, is
straight from the vine,
00:27:59.27\00:28:01.24
it's fresh grape juice.
00:28:01.28\00:28:02.98
It's not that fermented stuff.
00:28:03.01\00:28:04.41
So you take new wine
freshly squeezed grape juice,
00:28:04.45\00:28:07.22
and you go put that new
wine into that old wineskin,
00:28:07.25\00:28:09.68
and they're out there
00:28:09.72\00:28:11.05
clucking around in
that heat and traveling
00:28:11.09\00:28:12.75
and it's out there
swishing and swashing around
00:28:12.79\00:28:15.02
in that old wineskin,
what's going to happen?
00:28:15.06\00:28:18.49
Well in that hot, that
hot, desert heated sun,
00:28:18.53\00:28:22.06
it's going to start fermenting,
00:28:22.10\00:28:23.43
it's going to start
swelling and before you know it,
00:28:23.47\00:28:25.90
okay, the
wineskins are going to burst.
00:28:25.93\00:28:27.64
That's essentially
what Jesus is saying.
00:28:27.67\00:28:29.00
So don't take that fresh stuff
00:28:29.04\00:28:30.47
and put it immediately
00:28:30.51\00:28:31.84
into that new
wineskin and expect it,
00:28:31.87\00:28:33.38
everything's going to be okay.
00:28:33.41\00:28:34.74
You put the old wine
which is already fermented
00:28:34.78\00:28:36.71
into the old wineskin,
00:28:36.75\00:28:38.08
you put the new wine
into the new wineskin,
00:28:38.11\00:28:40.08
because that's
how the process works.
00:28:40.12\00:28:41.45
But the key verse here
00:28:41.48\00:28:42.82
in reference to
what we're talking about
00:28:42.85\00:28:44.19
is verse 39.
00:28:44.22\00:28:45.55
He says
00:28:45.59\00:28:46.92
that no one
having drunk old wine,
00:28:46.96\00:28:48.29
here's the key word,
immediately desires new,
00:28:48.32\00:28:50.03
for he says the old is better.
00:28:50.06\00:28:51.39
You go found
00:28:51.43\00:28:52.76
and this is
again an illustration
00:28:52.79\00:28:54.13
but if you go find
your local town drunk,
00:28:54.16\00:28:56.36
okay, I'm just using
the illustration you know.
00:28:56.40\00:28:58.97
He's out there on
the street corner,
00:28:59.00\00:29:00.34
he's drunk
00:29:00.37\00:29:01.70
with the
fermented stuff of the world
00:29:01.74\00:29:04.84
and you come up and present
him freshly squeezed grape juice
00:29:04.87\00:29:08.34
and you say, "Hey, Brother,
00:29:08.38\00:29:09.71
I got something better for you."
00:29:09.74\00:29:11.45
You think he's going to drink
00:29:11.48\00:29:12.81
that freshly
squeezed grape juice
00:29:12.85\00:29:14.18
and go, Ooh, wow,
what have I been missing?
00:29:14.22\00:29:17.12
Right, makes sense.
00:29:17.15\00:29:19.82
He's already acquired a
taste for the bad stuff.
00:29:19.85\00:29:23.02
In other words,
00:29:23.06\00:29:24.39
he's already been
fermented by the world.
00:29:24.43\00:29:27.46
Now, is it impossible for him
00:29:27.50\00:29:29.60
to take a take a
liking to the fresh wine
00:29:29.63\00:29:33.50
or the new wine
or the grape juice?
00:29:33.54\00:29:35.57
It's not impossible.
00:29:35.60\00:29:36.94
In fact, that verse
doesn't imply that there.
00:29:36.97\00:29:38.81
It just says
00:29:38.84\00:29:40.18
he doesn't
immediately desire the new.
00:29:40.21\00:29:42.81
In other words,
what does this imply?
00:29:42.84\00:29:44.35
It's a process. It's a process.
00:29:44.38\00:29:46.58
There's hope for this drunk guy.
00:29:46.61\00:29:48.62
There's hope
that he can get away
00:29:48.65\00:29:49.98
from the old stuff
00:29:50.02\00:29:51.35
and desire the fresh
new squeezed grape juice,
00:29:51.39\00:29:54.36
but it's going to take time.
00:29:54.39\00:29:55.72
Now let's go to a
couple more verses here
00:29:55.76\00:29:57.56
to just kind of nail this in.
00:29:57.59\00:29:58.93
Let's go to Romans
Chapter 1, Romans Chapter 1.
00:29:58.96\00:30:01.10
This is again,
the book of Romans
00:30:01.13\00:30:02.73
probably my favorite by Paul,
00:30:02.76\00:30:04.53
because this is just kind
of all of his theological mind
00:30:04.57\00:30:07.74
juiced into one book.
00:30:07.77\00:30:09.64
But if you could even juice
00:30:09.67\00:30:11.47
even more of a concentrated form
00:30:11.51\00:30:14.24
of what all Paul is saying
00:30:14.28\00:30:15.64
in this
beautiful Book of Romans,
00:30:15.68\00:30:17.58
verses 16 and 17
of Romans Chapter 1
00:30:17.61\00:30:20.98
is probably the
synopsis of Paul's writings,
00:30:21.02\00:30:24.52
probably the most
powerful statements
00:30:24.55\00:30:26.59
that he makes in
here, very truthful.
00:30:26.62\00:30:28.39
Notice what he says here,
verse 16 and 17 of Romans 1.
00:30:28.42\00:30:31.29
He says, "For I am not
ashamed of the gospel of Christ,
00:30:31.33\00:30:33.76
for it is the power of God
00:30:33.80\00:30:35.13
to salvation for
everyone who believes,
00:30:35.16\00:30:37.00
to the Jew first
and for the Greek."
00:30:37.03\00:30:38.43
Amen. Yes.
00:30:38.47\00:30:39.80
Now notice verse 17.
00:30:39.83\00:30:41.17
"For in it the
righteousness of God
00:30:41.20\00:30:45.47
is revealed from faith to faith,
00:30:45.51\00:30:50.21
as it is written,
00:30:50.25\00:30:51.58
'The just shall live by faith.'"
00:30:51.61\00:30:52.95
So notice here,
00:30:52.98\00:30:54.32
he's communicating the
process from faith to faith.
00:30:54.35\00:30:57.35
Okay, 2 Corinthians Chapter 3.
00:30:57.39\00:30:59.12
2 Corinthians
Chapter 3, this is powerful.
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Going to take you
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on a little bit
of a journey here.
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To prove this, this
process is powerful.
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3 Corinthians Chapter 3,
I'm going to read verse 18.
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We've read this
many times, powerful.
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So notice here, "But we
all, with unveiled face,
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beholding as in a
mirror the glory of the Lord,
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and being
transformed into the same image
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from glory to glory."
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Okay, notice what Jesus says,
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we're going to put
this together real quick.
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Jesus says over here,
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no one having drunk old wine
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is going to
immediately desire the new one.
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In other words,
what he's saying is,
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you know what?
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It's going to take
time, it involves a process.
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It doesn't happen immediately.
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Paul says over here
in Romans Chapter 1,
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he says, you know what?
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It's a process,
it's going to take you
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from faith to faith,
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in other words, step by step
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and over here in 2
Corinthians Chapter 3,
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right there in verse 18.
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Again, we are to bring
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about the divine
glory of the Lord
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and as His character
becomes our character.
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It doesn't happen overnight.
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It doesn't happen immediately.
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It involves a
process. It takes time.
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It happens from glory to glory.
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One more text,
you're in 2 Corinthians 3,
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go to 2 Corinthians 4.
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All right, now look at verse 16.
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Paul nails this
down, it's beautiful.
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He says, "Therefore
we do not lose heart
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even though our
outward man is perishing,
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yet the inward man is
being renewed day by day."
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Jesus says, "No one
having drunk old wine
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immediately desires the new,
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it involves a
process, it takes time.
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It doesn't merely happen.
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Paul says it's like
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from one level of
Christian character development
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to the next.
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From faith to
faith, from glory to glory,
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step by step, day
by day, it's a process.
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Yes.
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So we have to understand
this is a sanctification.
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How is Christ going
to be formed within me?
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We're going to talk
about what that looks like.
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I'm going to come back
to that in just a moment
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because I'm going to kick it
to these beautiful people here.
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But I just want
to nail that down.
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A lot of people
think that again,
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as you brought it earlier,
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that it's once
saved, always saved.
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I come and say
one prayer back in 19,
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whatever.
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I'm saved,
nothing else will happen.
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Well, that's wonderful.
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You might have been
justified in that moment
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because you came to the Lord.
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But now God wants to take
you on a spiritual journey
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to take that
fallen nature of yours
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and he wants to
reshape it, remodel it,
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kind of like the
potter with the clay.
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And that takes
time. It's a process.
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It is a day by day process.
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Amen. I love that.
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I love that.
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Wonderful Bible study.
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But don't you know
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that just as much
as Christ wants us
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to grow in Him day by day.
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By the way, I call
that progressive revelation.
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I mean, if you live
this life as a Christian,
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can you imagine?
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Can you imagine
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if God gave us
everything at once,
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because I already have
felt many times in my life
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that's too heavy.
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That's too heavy,
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because it's not what I
thought it was going to be.
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I didn't realize
we were in a warfare.
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I didn't really
realize what Lord meant
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and what I needed to
say from in the beginning,
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but we are in a warfare
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and just as much as
Jesus wants to help us,
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the enemy doesn't want you
to get past sanctification.
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He doesn't want you to
go on to sanctification.
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Because if he
knows, he knows if we do,
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he's going to lose us.
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He's going to lose us.
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So he's happy for those.
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And I can remember
having a girlfriend
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I went to high school with,
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I think even grade
school and her husband.
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I mean, he just,
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he did
everything like the world,
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you know, smoke,
drink, talk everything.
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And he's
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and we were
trying to witness to him,
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she and I both.
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And he says, I don't need
that, I've already been saved.
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I don't need that, I'm saved.
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You know, that is what
the enemy wants us to think.
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He wants us to think
that everything's okay.
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It doesn't matter what we
do, what we say, where we go,
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what we listen to,
we don't need to change.
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You know, in fact, now
what is the world doing?
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They're throwing the Bible out,
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they're creating new
Bibles that fit their lifestyle.
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Hello.
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Jesus is calling us
to be to inherit heaven,
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to be Christians
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that are fit for
the kingdom of God.
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And so we're to
line up with Him.
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And I am so thankful
that He is such a patient,
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loving, gentle God
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because we
certainly aren't that way
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with each other.
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We expect everybody should
know everything of the world.
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Think about it.
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That's another
lesson I learnt from that.
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We have to do a
whole topic on that one.
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Yeah.
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What do you think
about when you say,
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what do they say the old
habits are not easily broken.
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Right.
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You know, I think
that it takes time.
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And again, it goes
back to recognizing
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that you have a problem.
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You have to recognize
that you have a problem.
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But then you also have to have
the resources for the solution.
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And the
resources exist right here
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in the Word of God.
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And so you know, when
I think about, you know,
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the whole "once
saved, always saved" thing,
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I think about Adam and
Eve, they were created by God.
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They were in a
perfect environment
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made by God,
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but yet they chose to
do something different
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and we see what happened to them
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as a result of that.
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But yet, you know,
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God provided a way
for mankind to be saved.
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But it's not "once
saved, always saved."
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I want to stay in 2 Corinthians
because we're already there.
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So let's look at 2
Corinthians 5:17-21.
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Okay, yes.
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17-21. Yes.
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"Therefore, if
anyone is in Christ,
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he is a new creation,
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old things have
passed away, behold,
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all things have become new.
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Now all things are of God,
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who has reconciled us to Himself
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through Jesus Christ,
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and has given us the
ministry of reconciliation,
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that is, that God was in Christ
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reconciling the
world to Himself,
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not imputing their
trespasses to them,
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and has committed to us
the word of reconciliation.
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Now then, we are
ambassadors for Christ,
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as though God were
pleading through us:
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we implore you
on Christ's behalf,
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be reconciled to God.
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For He made Him
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who knew no sin
to be sin for us,
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that we might become
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the
righteousness of God in Him."
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So it's not our righteousness,
it's Christ's righteousness.
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You know, we, the old,
old things have passed away,
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behold, all
things have become new.
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You know, we were talking
about the training experience
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and stuff in the
hospitality industry.
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Well, now,
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I've gone from the
hospitality industry
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and restaurants and
stuff into ministry,
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in full-time ministry,
but media ministry and so now,
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as I've learned about television
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and the different things
that go on behind the scenes,
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my eyesight is different.
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And so as we
study the Word of God,
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we learn about what's
going on behind the scenes.
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So I don't watch TV
exactly the same as I used to
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because I can see, you know,
is that an, is that an edit?
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What, you know what?
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Look at that,
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okay, that's, they
used three camera angles
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from different angle.
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You see from the
different angles.
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Now when you have
spiritual eyesight,
00:38:10.45\00:38:12.89
you look at
different instances and issues
00:38:12.92\00:38:14.96
that are taking place.
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And you know that
it's not just man's doing.
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They're being used by
the enemy or they may be,
00:38:20.20\00:38:23.60
it might be a positive situation
00:38:23.63\00:38:25.43
where they're
being inspired by God
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and so you see from
a different eyesight
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and when you have
Christ within you,
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you know, you see as He sees.
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You see and in the
world today, sin is becoming,
00:38:35.98\00:38:40.75
you know, very obvious
what sin is and righteousness,
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you know, way things
are going in the world.
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And that's why God is
making, I won't easier on us.
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We have entered
the School of Christ
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in which we will never graduate.
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You know, getting
education with Christ.
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So it's constantly ongoing,
always learning and getting.
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I'm going to
read something here,
00:38:56.23\00:38:57.57
it's found in Review and Herald,
00:38:57.60\00:38:58.97
1892, April 12, this was written
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and just talking about
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what everybody's
been talking about.
00:39:02.57\00:39:03.91
They're talking
about the old nature,
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the old nature is that
which born of blood right
00:39:05.31\00:39:07.54
with drunk flesh and blood,
00:39:07.58\00:39:09.01
and will, notice this,
00:39:09.04\00:39:10.38
and the will of the flesh
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cannot inherit
the kingdom of God.
00:39:11.78\00:39:13.58
So there has to be a
change in some house take place,
00:39:13.62\00:39:17.09
right take place in our life,
00:39:17.12\00:39:18.55
in our heart when
we're born in this world,
00:39:18.59\00:39:20.26
sometime, you know,
00:39:20.29\00:39:22.36
in our life that we
need to give it to Him,
00:39:22.39\00:39:25.29
because what happens it
says here, the old ways,
00:39:25.33\00:39:28.90
the hereditary tendencies,
00:39:28.93\00:39:30.87
the former
habits must be given up.
00:39:30.90\00:39:34.04
I've noticed
many people who have
00:39:34.07\00:39:35.80
and I'll use the smoking for one
00:39:35.84\00:39:38.27
if it's okay to do that.
00:39:38.31\00:39:39.64
I'm not trying to
offend anyone here,
00:39:39.67\00:39:41.08
but you can talk someone
00:39:41.11\00:39:42.44
who's given it
up 15 or 20 years,
00:39:42.48\00:39:44.28
and I've had this happen,
00:39:44.31\00:39:45.65
I get tickled to
and I always say,
00:39:45.68\00:39:47.02
what do you do?
00:39:47.05\00:39:48.38
They'll be talking to
me and they'll be going,
00:39:48.42\00:39:52.35
they're digging for one,
00:39:52.39\00:39:53.72
so they're reaching
for one and I'll say,
00:39:53.76\00:39:55.09
what are you, what
are you reaching for?
00:39:55.12\00:39:56.46
What do you do?
00:39:56.49\00:39:57.83
Oh, I know, well,
that's just a habit.
00:39:57.86\00:39:59.33
I did that for so many years.
00:39:59.36\00:40:02.50
The habit. But
notice what it says here.
00:40:02.53\00:40:04.27
It says, the always
hereditary tendencies
00:40:04.30\00:40:07.60
and those, you know,
of course cultivated,
00:40:07.64\00:40:09.44
former habits must be given up,
00:40:09.47\00:40:11.87
for grace is not inherited.
00:40:11.91\00:40:14.28
That's an interesting thought.
00:40:14.31\00:40:15.64
Notice this,
00:40:15.68\00:40:17.01
the new birth consist
in having new motives.
00:40:17.05\00:40:19.11
And we know that new
taste and new tendencies,
00:40:19.15\00:40:22.38
those who are
begotten with a new life
00:40:22.42\00:40:24.75
by the Holy Spirit
00:40:24.79\00:40:26.15
have become
partakers of divine nature.
00:40:26.19\00:40:29.72
So what's all about?
00:40:29.76\00:40:31.09
They said it's going to
be accomplished by humanity
00:40:31.13\00:40:33.13
and divinity
cooperating working together,
00:40:33.16\00:40:36.10
yoking up,
00:40:36.13\00:40:38.40
that this is accomplished,
00:40:38.43\00:40:39.77
because I really,
I really have nothing
00:40:39.80\00:40:41.37
in which to give or to
help the cause of Christ.
00:40:41.40\00:40:44.14
But I can commit my will to Him,
00:40:44.17\00:40:46.37
I can yoke up with Him.
00:40:46.41\00:40:49.08
And then He said,
"Kenny, if you yoke up with Me,
00:40:49.11\00:40:50.65
your burden is
going to be light. "
00:40:50.68\00:40:52.01
We talked about that.
00:40:52.05\00:40:53.38
He's going to take control
and He's going to lead us
00:40:53.42\00:40:55.25
into that path of
righteousness to be like Him.
00:40:55.28\00:40:58.35
I love it because He
said, I began a good work
00:40:58.39\00:41:00.46
and I claim that all the time.
00:41:00.49\00:41:02.52
I've begun a good
work in you Kenny,
00:41:02.56\00:41:03.89
believe it or not,
00:41:03.93\00:41:05.26
and I will
finish it if you let me.
00:41:05.29\00:41:07.03
Our part is promised.
00:41:07.06\00:41:08.40
We're supposed to let Him do it.
00:41:08.43\00:41:09.76
It's a promise.
00:41:09.80\00:41:11.13
Because sometimes
you get discouraged
00:41:11.17\00:41:12.50
because you don't
maybe always think
00:41:12.53\00:41:14.30
or react or say
00:41:14.34\00:41:16.00
what you should as
a Christian, as a...
00:41:16.04\00:41:18.34
My wife every once in
a while, son goes little,
00:41:18.37\00:41:20.08
you know, going a
little bit haywire.
00:41:20.11\00:41:22.98
Oh, I know it never
happens in your life.
00:41:23.01\00:41:24.65
But I'm coming, pastor,
I'll just back away a minute,
00:41:24.68\00:41:27.42
give me a minute,
00:41:27.45\00:41:28.78
with them is
going maybe haywire.
00:41:28.82\00:41:30.15
You know what
she'll say to me sometime?
00:41:30.19\00:41:31.52
She say honey,
remember who you represent.
00:41:31.55\00:41:34.09
That's right.
Remember who you are.
00:41:34.12\00:41:36.42
So what does that do?
00:41:36.46\00:41:37.79
That calls you right
back that I'm a child of God.
00:41:37.83\00:41:41.03
And that's what I
want to be a child of God.
00:41:41.06\00:41:43.40
But my actions or
my thoughts or words
00:41:43.43\00:41:45.20
maybe wasn't that way.
00:41:45.23\00:41:46.63
So they need to be controlled
to where consistently, right?
00:41:46.67\00:41:51.17
Because to me, it's
not Christ formed within
00:41:51.21\00:41:53.61
if I'm wishy-washy.
00:41:53.64\00:41:55.54
If I'm going this way
one day and going that way,
00:41:55.58\00:41:58.41
you know, when I see
myself go the other way,
00:41:58.45\00:42:00.12
I say for your work's
not complete in me Christ,
00:42:00.15\00:42:03.05
I need You more.
00:42:03.08\00:42:04.42
It doesn't discourage
me, a certain aspect of it,
00:42:04.45\00:42:07.29
it just, it drives me
to the foot of the cross
00:42:07.32\00:42:09.39
and therefore I lay
out before him and say,
00:42:09.42\00:42:10.89
Oh, Lord, I'm so
weak, I'm so vacillating.
00:42:10.93\00:42:13.06
You know what a
pathetic example,
00:42:13.09\00:42:14.86
I think sometime is,
00:42:14.90\00:42:16.23
you're not worthy to
preach the Word of God,
00:42:16.26\00:42:17.60
you're not worthy
to be a witness for Me.
00:42:17.63\00:42:19.77
But God said I've
called you, right?
00:42:19.80\00:42:21.94
I've chosen you.
And that's awesome.
00:42:21.97\00:42:23.84
And I will equip you
00:42:23.87\00:42:25.77
with what you need
when the time arises.
00:42:25.81\00:42:28.68
I am your all in all,
00:42:28.71\00:42:30.31
it's not a, it's
not about you Kenny.
00:42:30.35\00:42:33.28
It's not about any individual.
00:42:33.31\00:42:35.42
It's about Jesus
Christ and to lift Him up,
00:42:35.45\00:42:37.69
let Him be formed within.
00:42:37.72\00:42:39.35
I want to be like Jeremiah,
00:42:39.39\00:42:40.72
leave it here and go to whoever
00:42:40.76\00:42:42.09
maybe you talk
about some things, Ryan,
00:42:42.12\00:42:44.76
you had on your mind there.
00:42:44.79\00:42:46.86
Jeremiah, you get
a lot on your mind.
00:42:46.90\00:42:48.73
Praise God for that.
It's got to keep coming out.
00:42:48.76\00:42:51.00
No, it's got to keep coming
out as we share Jeremiah 15:6,
00:42:51.03\00:42:54.30
he said, "Thy words were found,
00:42:54.34\00:42:57.27
and I did," what?
00:42:57.31\00:42:58.64
"And I did eat them up."
00:42:58.67\00:43:00.98
Thy words were found,
00:43:01.01\00:43:02.34
you can't find something
unless you're looking for it.
00:43:02.38\00:43:04.38
That's right.
00:43:04.41\00:43:05.75
Man, keep looking for it,
00:43:05.78\00:43:07.12
keep digging and searching
and scratching and looking,
00:43:07.15\00:43:09.32
the words were found and
as soon as they were found,
00:43:09.35\00:43:11.22
I was starved to death.
00:43:11.25\00:43:12.62
That's right. I did eat them up.
00:43:12.65\00:43:14.26
I didn't just take a
little spoonful and said,
00:43:14.29\00:43:15.86
"Oh, how wonderful this is.
00:43:15.89\00:43:17.63
Oh, how wonderful it is."
00:43:17.66\00:43:18.99
I mean, I'm
digging in. That's right.
00:43:19.03\00:43:20.40
I come home and
I'm hungry sometime
00:43:20.43\00:43:21.76
take the big spoon.
00:43:21.80\00:43:23.13
And I'll go, yeah,
just say honey, don't slurp.
00:43:23.16\00:43:28.00
We see a lot of
times we don't realize,
00:43:28.04\00:43:30.17
we don't realize what we need
00:43:30.21\00:43:31.71
which is what
you just pointed out.
00:43:31.74\00:43:33.14
We don't realize
00:43:33.17\00:43:34.51
that our very best
works are as filthy rags.
00:43:34.54\00:43:37.31
We don't realize that we're lost
00:43:37.35\00:43:38.95
and we're in need
00:43:38.98\00:43:40.32
and we think we have everything
00:43:40.35\00:43:41.68
but we're as
wretched and hopeless.
00:43:41.72\00:43:44.35
You know, Jeremiah
going on with Jeremiah 29:13,
00:43:44.39\00:43:47.42
the beautiful promise is this,
00:43:47.46\00:43:49.59
"You shall seek Me and find Me
00:43:49.62\00:43:53.33
when you shall search
for Me with all your heart."
00:43:53.36\00:43:58.10
You see, Jesus is
calling for all of us,
00:43:58.13\00:44:02.34
He is that master
potter, we're His clay.
00:44:02.37\00:44:04.91
It's not just a portion,
00:44:04.94\00:44:06.27
I'm just going to
take this piece of clay,
00:44:06.31\00:44:07.71
I'll take that right
arm and you keep the left.
00:44:07.74\00:44:10.08
He wants all of us.
00:44:10.11\00:44:12.21
You know, Spirit of Prophecy,
00:44:12.25\00:44:13.65
I think this was
found in Steps to Christ,
00:44:13.68\00:44:15.98
reads like this,
00:44:16.02\00:44:17.35
because it's so important,
00:44:17.39\00:44:18.72
but it's a
progressive revelation.
00:44:18.75\00:44:20.42
It's a sanctification
process. But you know what?
00:44:20.46\00:44:23.69
If, let's say,
00:44:23.73\00:44:25.06
once we were justified
00:44:25.09\00:44:26.43
if we were like
that thief on the cross
00:44:26.46\00:44:28.60
wants to be in the kingdom,
so don't ever get discouraged.
00:44:28.63\00:44:31.83
But when God gives us
breath, He gives us life.
00:44:31.87\00:44:34.97
He gives us
opportunity to learn what,
00:44:35.00\00:44:37.67
you know, and we'll be
judged for those things
00:44:37.71\00:44:39.44
that we had
opportunity to learn.
00:44:39.47\00:44:42.18
And yet we chose not to.
00:44:42.21\00:44:44.41
So it's important.
00:44:44.45\00:44:45.91
It reads as
this, Steps to Christ,
00:44:45.95\00:44:47.48
I think is probably page 43,
00:44:47.52\00:44:50.05
"The whole heart
must be yielded to God,
00:44:50.09\00:44:53.52
or a change can
never be wrought in us
00:44:53.56\00:44:56.19
by which we are to be
restored into His likeness."
00:44:56.22\00:45:00.60
We are to be restored.
00:45:00.63\00:45:01.96
You see, that's what
happened, the enemy stole us.
00:45:02.00\00:45:04.63
And now Christ is
trying to win us back
00:45:04.67\00:45:06.67
and we were
made in His likeness.
00:45:06.70\00:45:08.84
He made man after
the image of God, right?
00:45:08.87\00:45:11.84
"Okay, by nature, we
are alienated from God,
00:45:11.87\00:45:15.11
the Holy Spirit
describes our condition
00:45:15.14\00:45:17.21
in such words as these,
00:45:17.25\00:45:18.81
dead in trespasses and
says, dead, we're dead."
00:45:18.85\00:45:22.28
We don't understand what life is
00:45:22.32\00:45:23.79
until we begin
to live it for Him.
00:45:23.82\00:45:25.72
"The whole head is sick.
00:45:25.75\00:45:27.69
The whole heart
faint, no soundness in it.
00:45:27.72\00:45:31.29
We are held fast in the snare."
00:45:31.33\00:45:33.83
Oh, have mercy of Satan.
00:45:33.86\00:45:36.23
You know, I didn't
realize how many snares he had.
00:45:36.26\00:45:39.53
But the more you begin to study,
00:45:39.57\00:45:41.40
the more your eyes are
opening and you go, wow,
00:45:41.44\00:45:44.57
I had no idea,
00:45:44.61\00:45:46.41
taken captive by
him and his will.
00:45:46.44\00:45:49.81
God desires. This is good news.
00:45:49.84\00:45:52.21
That poor drunk you
describe God desires to heal us.
00:45:52.25\00:45:57.29
We're all poor drunks.
00:45:57.32\00:45:59.59
We are drunk with
the wine of the wrath
00:45:59.62\00:46:01.56
of her fornication.
00:46:01.59\00:46:03.12
We're all on that
side of the street.
00:46:03.16\00:46:05.16
We're all hopeless without Him.
00:46:05.19\00:46:07.70
God desires to
heal us to set us free
00:46:07.73\00:46:11.10
and people used to
say, set us free from what?
00:46:11.13\00:46:14.47
From sin.
00:46:14.50\00:46:15.87
Set us free from sin and self.
00:46:15.90\00:46:18.87
But since this requires
an entire transformation,
00:46:18.91\00:46:22.78
or renewing of the whole nature,
00:46:22.81\00:46:25.15
we must yield
ourselves wholly to Him.
00:46:25.18\00:46:30.25
The warfare against
self is the greatest battle
00:46:30.29\00:46:33.49
that we will ever fight.
00:46:33.52\00:46:35.09
I read this one
time before it said
00:46:35.12\00:46:36.62
sometimes Christ's
plan is the only safe plan.
00:46:36.66\00:46:41.23
You know, take
that, I don't know
00:46:41.26\00:46:43.23
whatever you've
got there with it,
00:46:43.26\00:46:44.60
because she's
brought some good things.
00:46:44.63\00:46:45.97
This makes your mind like
this. Oh, Lord, have mercy.
00:46:46.00\00:46:48.27
No, it's powerful.
This is what I'm saying.
00:46:48.30\00:46:50.11
This is lot to chew on.
00:46:50.14\00:46:51.87
When you consider
as what we've talked
00:46:51.91\00:46:53.38
about this process.
00:46:53.41\00:46:55.34
It's a powerful process.
00:46:55.38\00:46:57.25
And we don't have to worry.
00:46:57.28\00:46:58.65
There may be someone at
home right now that says,
00:46:58.68\00:47:00.18
"You know what?
00:47:00.22\00:47:01.55
I want Christ formed within me,
00:47:01.58\00:47:02.92
I believe
00:47:02.95\00:47:04.29
maybe I'm
forming Christ within me.
00:47:04.32\00:47:05.65
But there may be
someone watching this that says,
00:47:05.69\00:47:07.02
I don't really
know, how can I know?
00:47:07.06\00:47:09.02
Are there any indications
that I'm on the right path
00:47:09.06\00:47:12.29
that I'm on this journey?"
00:47:12.33\00:47:13.90
Let me take you
on another journey.
00:47:13.93\00:47:15.63
All right. Matthew Chapter 5.
00:47:15.66\00:47:18.73
This is powerful to consider
00:47:18.77\00:47:20.10
because Jesus began His ministry
00:47:20.14\00:47:24.41
by preaching this
process of sanctification.
00:47:24.44\00:47:28.68
Yes.
00:47:28.71\00:47:30.05
And he ended His ministry
00:47:30.08\00:47:31.85
by preaching this
process of sanctification.
00:47:31.88\00:47:34.12
Matthew Chapter 5,
00:47:34.15\00:47:35.48
we know this to be the
great Sermon on the Mount.
00:47:35.52\00:47:38.59
And it's
interesting that you know,
00:47:38.62\00:47:39.95
when a minister is
preparing his sermon,
00:47:39.99\00:47:42.42
you know, you want that fine,
powerful introduction, right?
00:47:42.46\00:47:46.13
You want that attention getter,
00:47:46.16\00:47:47.63
you know, I was taught,
00:47:47.66\00:47:49.20
you know, in a
homiletics class on how to,
00:47:49.23\00:47:51.13
you know, how to
prepare and properly you know,
00:47:51.17\00:47:55.70
basically set up a
sermon and create a sermon,
00:47:55.74\00:47:58.97
and we're always taught
to do a great introduction,
00:47:59.01\00:48:01.44
a powerful attention getter
is going to grab the attention.
00:48:01.48\00:48:03.98
And so you want to say
00:48:04.01\00:48:05.35
some of your most
important words first
00:48:05.38\00:48:07.38
to really grab the
attention of the people
00:48:07.42\00:48:09.08
because you want to pull them.
00:48:09.12\00:48:10.45
You want to take
them on a journey.
00:48:10.49\00:48:11.82
Well, it's interesting
00:48:11.85\00:48:13.19
that Jesus was probably
the greatest preacher of all,
00:48:13.22\00:48:15.62
He's the
greatest teacher of all.
00:48:15.66\00:48:17.33
And in his very
first ever recorded sermon,
00:48:17.36\00:48:20.50
He opens His mouth and
what is His introduction?
00:48:20.53\00:48:24.63
Blessed are the poor in spirit,
00:48:24.67\00:48:28.84
for theirs is the
kingdom of heaven.
00:48:28.87\00:48:31.67
What?
00:48:31.71\00:48:33.54
You know, I'm sure
the people in his day
00:48:33.58\00:48:34.91
because of
their kind of twisted,
00:48:34.94\00:48:36.58
perverted, traditional mentality
00:48:36.61\00:48:38.55
of the gospel, which was,
you know what, he just said,
00:48:38.58\00:48:40.98
blessed are the poor.
00:48:41.02\00:48:42.35
They didn't hear poor in spirit.
00:48:42.38\00:48:43.85
Blessed are the poor
men, because in those days,
00:48:43.89\00:48:45.55
it was you know, what?
00:48:45.59\00:48:46.92
If you're poor, you know,
00:48:46.96\00:48:49.39
you have demons
in your life, right?
00:48:49.42\00:48:50.99
You're not being led by
God, you're not saved, right?
00:48:51.03\00:48:53.23
But if you're rich and
you know you're wealthy,
00:48:53.26\00:48:55.66
God's ultimately blessed you.
00:48:55.70\00:48:57.27
But Jesus didn't say
blessed are the poor.
00:48:57.30\00:48:59.40
He said, blessed
are the poor in spirit.
00:48:59.43\00:49:02.17
In other words,
what is he saying?
00:49:02.20\00:49:03.54
And again, watch this.
00:49:03.57\00:49:04.91
This is powerful, what
He opens us up with this,
00:49:04.94\00:49:06.54
blessed are you when you realize
00:49:06.57\00:49:09.41
that you are
spiritually bankrupt,
00:49:09.44\00:49:12.25
you have nothing to
learn, have nothing to add.
00:49:12.28\00:49:15.38
Blessed are you when you realize
00:49:15.42\00:49:16.95
that you have
reached a spiritual depravity
00:49:16.99\00:49:19.39
that you have to
turn to God and say,
00:49:19.42\00:49:20.76
"Lord, I've hit rock bottom.
00:49:20.79\00:49:22.26
There's nothing else
that I can, Lord, I give up.
00:49:22.29\00:49:24.09
I surrender to you."
00:49:24.13\00:49:25.46
Now, once you reach
that state, the Lord says,
00:49:25.49\00:49:27.50
"Now I can do
something with this."
00:49:27.53\00:49:28.86
Now watch this.
00:49:28.90\00:49:30.23
Now a lot of people
read these beatitudes
00:49:30.27\00:49:31.63
and they see them
almost like in a poetic sense,
00:49:31.67\00:49:33.54
kind of like these different
individual little bullet points
00:49:33.57\00:49:36.04
where Jesus is just like,
00:49:36.07\00:49:37.41
you know, blessed that
are these kind of people,
00:49:37.44\00:49:38.81
blessed are these kind of people
00:49:38.84\00:49:40.18
and oh, this kind
of people over here,
00:49:40.21\00:49:41.54
they're blessed too.
00:49:41.58\00:49:42.91
But it's interesting,
00:49:42.94\00:49:44.28
Jesus is taking you
on a journey, get this.
00:49:44.31\00:49:45.65
He's showing you the
process of sanctification
00:49:45.68\00:49:49.15
from one level of
Christian character development
00:49:49.18\00:49:51.02
to the next, get this.
00:49:51.05\00:49:52.72
Blessed are the poor in spirit.
00:49:52.75\00:49:54.99
Blessed are...
00:49:55.02\00:49:56.36
Notice them in verse 4,
"Blessed are those who mourn."
00:49:56.39\00:50:00.56
You see, when you reach
your rock bottom moment,
00:50:00.60\00:50:02.90
you realize you're
spiritually bankrupt.
00:50:02.93\00:50:06.10
You turn to the
Lord and you realize,
00:50:06.13\00:50:07.80
wow, Jesus is the Savior.
00:50:07.84\00:50:10.64
He took my sin.
00:50:10.67\00:50:12.74
He bled on a
cross and died for me.
00:50:12.77\00:50:14.84
I deserved that death
00:50:14.88\00:50:16.21
and when you
realize that your sins
00:50:16.24\00:50:18.28
nailed Jesus to a cross,
what are you going to do?
00:50:18.31\00:50:20.55
You're going to
mourn. That's right.
00:50:20.58\00:50:21.92
In fact, Zacharias says in
Chapter 12, I believe it is,
00:50:21.95\00:50:24.19
Zachariah 12:10, he
says, they will mourn,
00:50:24.22\00:50:26.76
"They will look upon
me whom they have pierced,
00:50:26.79\00:50:28.62
and they will
mourn as one who has lost
00:50:28.66\00:50:31.16
their firstborn
or their only son."
00:50:31.19\00:50:33.56
Powerful, you will
mourn but notice this,
00:50:33.60\00:50:36.00
I love the next part.
00:50:36.03\00:50:37.37
Blessed are those who
mourn for they shall be,
00:50:37.40\00:50:40.54
notice, comforted.
00:50:40.57\00:50:41.90
Jesus is not going
to be mourning for long,
00:50:41.94\00:50:43.27
I'm going to comfort you.
00:50:43.30\00:50:44.64
I'm going to prepare your heart.
00:50:44.67\00:50:46.01
But notice verse 5,
"Blessed are the meek."
00:50:46.04\00:50:48.74
In other words, once
you've hit rock bottom,
00:50:48.78\00:50:50.35
you've mourned,
00:50:50.38\00:50:51.71
but God has now brought
you to a comforting place
00:50:51.75\00:50:53.45
to recognize Him as the
Lord and Savior of your life.
00:50:53.48\00:50:56.48
Now, He's going
to make you meek.
00:50:56.52\00:50:58.09
Yeah, praise God.
00:50:58.12\00:50:59.45
You're going to adopt
an attitude of meekness,
00:50:59.49\00:51:01.52
this is powerful.
00:51:01.56\00:51:03.29
"The blessed are the meek,
00:51:03.32\00:51:04.66
for they shall
inherit the earth."
00:51:04.69\00:51:06.03
The next one,
00:51:06.06\00:51:07.40
"Blessed are those who hunger
and thirst for righteousness."
00:51:07.43\00:51:09.50
You see, once you're
brought to a level of meekness,
00:51:09.53\00:51:12.13
you've been humbled.
00:51:12.17\00:51:13.50
You've been
humbled by the cross.
00:51:13.54\00:51:15.14
You've been humbled by Jesus.
00:51:15.17\00:51:16.81
Now you create that,
that hunger and thirst,
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you can't get enough.
00:51:20.51\00:51:21.84
You get a hunger and
thirst for righteousness.
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You want more and more
of this wonderful Savior
00:51:23.48\00:51:25.95
who has saved you from your sin.
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Notice, going on verse 7,
"Blessed are the merciful."
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Now this ain't just
any old kind of mercy.
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You see, sometimes we
have a twisted idea of mercy.
00:51:33.42\00:51:36.16
Blessed are
those who are merciful.
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Why?
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In other words, blessed are you
00:51:38.93\00:51:40.26
when you begin to treat others
the way Christ has treated you.
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Notice how He's bringing you
00:51:45.67\00:51:47.00
from one level of
Christian character development
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to the next.
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Let's continue on here.
We're running out of time.
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Blessed are the pure in heart.
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You see, once you
begin to treat others,
00:51:53.48\00:51:55.94
the way Christ has treated you,
00:51:55.98\00:51:58.35
then you become pure in heart.
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That's good news. I love it.
00:52:00.85\00:52:02.18
I love it.
00:52:02.22\00:52:03.55
"Blessed are the pure in
heart, for they shall see God."
00:52:03.59\00:52:05.19
Verse 9, "Blessed
are the peacemakers."
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You see, once you have been made
00:52:08.09\00:52:09.42
pure at heart,
00:52:09.46\00:52:10.79
because you've treated others,
00:52:10.83\00:52:12.16
you begin to treat others
the way God has treated you
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and you've become pure in heart.
00:52:14.26\00:52:15.60
The Lord has
begin to purify you,
00:52:15.63\00:52:17.70
then you not only want
00:52:17.73\00:52:19.37
the Prince of
Peace in your life,
00:52:19.40\00:52:21.74
but you want to imitate,
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you want to exemplify
00:52:24.17\00:52:26.41
the character of
the Prince of Peace.
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You become a peacemaker.
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This is powerful.
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And then notice this next one,
in fact, this is the last one.
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"Blessed are
those who are persecuted
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for righteousness sake,
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for theirs is the
kingdom of heaven."
00:52:36.92\00:52:38.25
This is what caps it off
here. Don't miss this point.
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Once you partake
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in the divine
character of the Prince of Peace
00:52:43.79\00:52:45.63
and the Lord has
shaped and molded.
00:52:45.66\00:52:47.00
He's brought you
00:52:47.03\00:52:48.36
from one level of
Christian character development
00:52:48.40\00:52:49.73
to the next,
00:52:49.76\00:52:51.10
He's already commissioned you
00:52:51.13\00:52:52.63
but now you take the
commission extremely serious.
00:52:52.67\00:52:56.64
It's life and death.
00:52:56.67\00:52:58.87
It's your life.
00:52:58.91\00:53:00.78
And when you're out
there going into a dark world,
00:53:00.81\00:53:04.05
and you are shining the
bright beacon of the light
00:53:04.08\00:53:07.25
of Jesus Christ
00:53:07.28\00:53:08.62
in the hearts
and minds of others
00:53:08.65\00:53:09.98
who are lost in
this dying world.
00:53:10.02\00:53:12.62
The devil can't have that.
00:53:12.65\00:53:14.76
He can't have you out there
00:53:14.79\00:53:16.22
taking the light
of the Word of God,
00:53:16.26\00:53:18.29
and shining into the dark,
00:53:18.33\00:53:19.83
stony cold
hearts of other people,
00:53:19.86\00:53:21.56
he can't have that.
00:53:21.60\00:53:22.93
So what is he going to do?
00:53:22.96\00:53:24.30
The dragon was
wroth with the woman.
00:53:24.33\00:53:27.70
And he went to make war
with the remnant of her seed
00:53:27.74\00:53:29.84
which keep the
commandments of God
00:53:29.87\00:53:31.47
and have the testimony of Jesus.
00:53:31.51\00:53:32.84
The ultimate,
00:53:32.87\00:53:34.21
all of these different levels of
00:53:34.24\00:53:35.58
Christian character development
00:53:35.61\00:53:36.95
can show you where you are
00:53:36.98\00:53:38.31
in that process
of sanctification.
00:53:38.35\00:53:40.62
The ultimate
thing is that the devil
00:53:40.65\00:53:42.25
when you've reached that point,
00:53:42.28\00:53:43.72
where you start
irritating the devil,
00:53:43.75\00:53:45.15
where you have become a problem,
00:53:45.19\00:53:47.92
you become a problem
to the devil's agenda,
00:53:47.96\00:53:51.09
he can't have that.
00:53:51.13\00:53:52.56
He's going to lie,
00:53:52.59\00:53:53.93
he's going to put
you in his crosshairs.
00:53:53.96\00:53:55.53
And you know, you may,
00:53:55.56\00:53:56.90
you're not, you may not, no, no,
00:53:56.93\00:53:59.53
you might, no, no, you
will receive persecution,
00:53:59.57\00:54:03.67
and I always go back to James.
00:54:03.71\00:54:05.37
James reminds us that
when persecution comes,
00:54:05.41\00:54:07.84
when that trial
comes count it as joy.
00:54:07.88\00:54:11.05
Count it as joy
because it builds patience.
00:54:11.08\00:54:13.62
Know that the
devil's attacking you,
00:54:13.65\00:54:15.92
it's probably
00:54:15.95\00:54:17.29
because the Lord is
doing something marvelous
00:54:17.32\00:54:19.52
in your life.
00:54:19.55\00:54:20.89
Amen. Well said.
00:54:20.92\00:54:22.26
Amen.
00:54:22.29\00:54:23.63
That is really, that's
really exciting in there
00:54:23.66\00:54:25.59
because it reminds you
in Colossians 2:10, it says,
00:54:25.63\00:54:28.36
"At that point in
time to go through there
00:54:28.40\00:54:30.37
ye are complete in him."
00:54:30.40\00:54:33.44
That's it.
00:54:33.47\00:54:34.80
A couple of words,
we got few minutes left.
00:54:34.84\00:54:36.24
Yes, you know, like
when you accept Christ.
00:54:36.27\00:54:39.01
So let's say prior
to accepting Christ,
00:54:39.04\00:54:41.24
what you're doing
00:54:41.28\00:54:42.61
is you're making
behavioral modifications.
00:54:42.64\00:54:45.08
But when you
accept Christ then comes
00:54:45.11\00:54:47.32
about that
genuine transformation,
00:54:47.35\00:54:49.45
that long-lasting change,
00:54:49.48\00:54:51.95
because you want to,
like you said, emulate Christ.
00:54:51.99\00:54:55.32
You want to be like Christ
00:54:55.36\00:54:56.83
and you want to
take on His ways,
00:54:56.86\00:54:58.93
you don't like the
things that He doesn't like
00:54:58.96\00:55:01.23
and you loved the
things that He loves.
00:55:01.26\00:55:03.47
And so, I love what,
how you broke that down,
00:55:03.50\00:55:06.94
the beatitudes,
Sermon on the Mount.
00:55:06.97\00:55:10.31
Powerful, powerful.
00:55:10.34\00:55:11.67
And so,
00:55:11.71\00:55:13.04
there's plenty of
examples in the Bible,
00:55:13.07\00:55:15.24
where you can
look at it and say,
00:55:15.28\00:55:17.75
"Well, how do I measure
up to that, you know, Lord.
00:55:17.78\00:55:20.62
Is Christ within me
truly being manifested
00:55:20.65\00:55:26.09
in my actions?
00:55:26.12\00:55:27.46
You know, do I have
the fruits of the Spirit?"
00:55:27.49\00:55:28.89
Amen.
00:55:28.92\00:55:30.26
"Am I behaving like a
Christian in Romans 12?"
00:55:30.29\00:55:33.50
Which, if you read that...
00:55:33.53\00:55:34.96
Oh, oh.
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If you read that.
00:55:36.83\00:55:38.17
Check out Romans 12, but yes,
00:55:38.20\00:55:40.70
genuine transformation
00:55:40.74\00:55:42.07
that's what
we're all in need of.
00:55:42.10\00:55:43.44
Well, Brother Ryan was talking
about where steps of anguish
00:55:43.47\00:55:46.44
that we as
Christians need to be taken.
00:55:46.47\00:55:48.61
We talk about being
God's remnant people.
00:55:48.64\00:55:50.85
I want to just read this quickly
00:55:50.88\00:55:52.48
from Early Writings.
00:55:52.51\00:55:53.85
It says, "The angel
of the Lord said to them,
00:55:53.88\00:55:55.78
'Will you shun the
seven-last plagues.'"
00:55:55.82\00:55:57.95
We're in that time
where we could experience that
00:55:57.99\00:55:59.85
will we shun it.
00:55:59.89\00:56:01.22
If so, and this is
what we're talking about
00:56:01.26\00:56:03.12
what you just read, ye must die.
00:56:03.16\00:56:07.30
We need to die to self.
00:56:07.33\00:56:10.53
And that's where this anguish,
that's where this battle,
00:56:10.57\00:56:13.34
the spiritual battle comes in.
00:56:13.37\00:56:15.57
We must die that we may
live and the angel says,
00:56:15.60\00:56:19.04
"Get ready, get
ready, get ready,
00:56:19.07\00:56:23.04
ye must have a
greater preparation
00:56:23.08\00:56:25.35
than ye now have,
00:56:25.38\00:56:26.72
sacrifice all to God,
lay all upon his offer,
00:56:26.75\00:56:30.45
sell property and all.
00:56:30.49\00:56:32.45
A living sacrifice,
00:56:32.49\00:56:34.96
it will take all to enter glory.
00:56:34.99\00:56:38.59
Absolutely, absolutely.
00:56:38.63\00:56:40.86
Praise the Lord.
00:56:40.90\00:56:42.23
I'm going to talk about,
you know, powerful study.
00:56:42.26\00:56:45.03
You know, this,
again, it can go on and on
00:56:45.07\00:56:47.34
and there's so much more to it.
00:56:47.37\00:56:49.07
I like when you study the Bible,
00:56:49.10\00:56:50.44
there's a weight of evidence,
00:56:50.47\00:56:52.17
as you're talking
about step by step
00:56:52.21\00:56:53.98
and in our own personal life,
00:56:54.01\00:56:55.38
how God is appointed by
the power of the Holy Spirit
00:56:55.41\00:56:58.45
to appoint us to
take a step at a time,
00:56:58.48\00:57:00.22
step at a time.
00:57:00.25\00:57:01.58
Not worry about tomorrow,
00:57:01.62\00:57:02.95
not worry about
next week but today.
00:57:02.98\00:57:05.15
And today we ask the questions.
00:57:05.19\00:57:06.69
Are you ready? Isn't this title?
00:57:06.72\00:57:08.39
Are you ready? That's right.
00:57:08.42\00:57:09.76
If I look back and I
read the Word of God,
00:57:09.79\00:57:11.36
I say, I need some help.
00:57:11.39\00:57:12.73
I don't think
00:57:12.76\00:57:14.10
I'll ever come to a point
that I'll say, Oh, I'm ready.
00:57:14.13\00:57:15.46
I'm ready.
00:57:15.50\00:57:16.83
I hear people say I'm
ready, I'm ready, I'm ready.
00:57:16.87\00:57:18.77
When I say that, it
means I need Christ within me,
00:57:18.80\00:57:21.10
formed within me
the hope of glory.
00:57:21.14\00:57:22.90
1 Thessalonians 5:23 says,
00:57:22.94\00:57:25.47
"He wants to present us
blameless before His father."
00:57:25.51\00:57:30.41
That's what Jesus
wants in your life,
00:57:30.45\00:57:31.78
what He wants in my life.
00:57:31.81\00:57:33.15
Thank you for joining
us in 3ABN Family Worship
00:57:33.18\00:57:34.75
and we'll see you next time.
00:57:34.78\00:57:36.62
Amen.
00:57:36.65\00:57:37.99