I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello, friends. Welcome to
Friday Night Family Worship.
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Good to have you with me, Honey.
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I am so happy to be here
and happy Sabbath everyone.
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That's right.
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Glad you could join us tonight.
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Thank you for joining us
for a very exciting program,
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actually, we were
thinking about Family Worship,
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and my wife comes up
with some great ideas.
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And she suggested
the topic on self,
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not talking about self
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but the greatest
battle any one of us will face
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is the battle with self.
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And so, looking
at the scriptures.
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Well, I'll tell you,
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do you really need to have
a lot of information on that,
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that's true about all of us.
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So we're going to talk about
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what the Bible says about self.
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How to approach
this battle with self
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because you know, Honey,
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the greatest
battle we do have is
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when we wake up in the morning,
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we are there
waiting for each other.
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And it's that
generation is the iGeneration,
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the iPhone, iPad,
FaceTime, it's all about me.
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What about me?
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So this program is going
to be very good to talk about,
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like you have said, self,
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what can we do about
me when we are in the way?
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And self is a
small package, isn't it?
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That's true,
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the smallest package is a person
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wrapped up in him or herself.
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But we have our
family with us today.
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Pastor John Dinzey,
head of 3ABN Latino.
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Good to have you
here, my Brother.
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It's a wonderful
blessing to be here.
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And we're
looking forward to seeing
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how God is going to bring
this together to be a blessing.
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That's right.
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And Donald Owen,
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Donald is often
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on the other side of the camera,
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giving us direction.
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But good to have
you here, Donald.
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Thank you. I appreciate.
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Yes, this is a
tough subject self,
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very difficult to talk about,
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and how to, you know,
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get rid of self and
get it out of the way,
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so looking forward to it.
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Yeah, just tongue in cheek,
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I was asking someone
else to be on the program.
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And they say,
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I don't want to spend
time talking about myself.
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I thought that was kind of cute.
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But it's going to be a
very interesting program.
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So get your Bibles,
that's really all you need.
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And if your family is together,
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or even if you're by
yourself, unfortunately,
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in this COVID-19 environment,
many of us are by ourselves.
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But I know the Lord has a
blessing in store for you.
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And on that note,
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we always like to take the time
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rather than singing,
most of our programs,
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we don't sing.
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But we'd like to
take the time in the Word.
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So we'd like to apologize
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if you're looking
forward to us singing,
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we're not going to sing tonight.
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But we're going to
spend the time in God's Word.
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But, Honey, would you
begin with prayer for us?
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Yes. Let's bow our heads.
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Our gracious Heavenly Father,
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it's always a
privilege and honor
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to come before Your presence.
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And, Lord, we thank You
for the blessed Sabbath evening
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that is upon us.
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We thank You for those
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that are watching and
listening to this program.
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I pray that
they'll receive a blessing,
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even be a
blessing to someone else
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that they'll learn something
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that will help
not just themselves,
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but will help others.
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And we give You
our hearts tonight,
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everything about this
program we give to You.
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And we are always
careful to give You the praise,
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the honor and the
glory, for You are worthy,
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in Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen. Amen.
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Recently, my wife
used an illustration,
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we saw this
illustration actually together,
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and you use it about
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all the people
gathered around with it.
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Why don't you talk
about that kind of,
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yeah, it's very interesting.
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Okay.
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There's an old Chinese proverb.
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And they had this
old man says what?
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I want to go to,
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he said, "He was
getting ready to die."
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That's right.
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And he says,
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"I want to see
what hell is like."
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And so he went to somebody said,
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"Come, I'll show you, "
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and he went to this big home.
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And everybody had,
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there's a big layout
of food just everywhere,
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table was long, but
the people were so thin.
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They were skinny.
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And the food was there,
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they were just
looking at the food saying,
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"We just can't eat."
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And they had like a long,
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like a six-foot
chopstick, long chopstick,
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long little fork
things chopsticks
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and they couldn't eat.
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Everybody is like,
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the tried to bring get the food,
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pick up the food
and it was too far
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and they couldn't
get it to their mouth
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and so they looking at
the food and couldn't eat.
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So he says, "Okay, come."
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He said, "This is discouraging."
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He says, "Come, let me show you.
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Let me take you what
heaven would be like."
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He went to this other
place and saw this huge room.
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Remember, this is
just a Chinese thing.
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And the room was
filled with food,
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delicious, smell so good.
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The people there
one nice and plump.
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And they were just
healthy looking, feeling good.
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And everybody's smiling
and laughing and talking.
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Not like the old other place
where everybody so emaciated.
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So the food was good.
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And you know what?
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They all had that
long, what is it, chopsticks?
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Chopstick.
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Long six-foot chopsticks.
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And he looked,
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everybody would take their food,
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and they fed the next person.
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They took the food
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and they fed, they
all fed each other.
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And what do we get
out of that, Honey?
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They didn't focus on themselves.
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They focused on
the other person.
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And we're going to
talk about that tonight.
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But I'm going to give our guests
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a chance to just talk
about some of the things
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when you think
of that word self.
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It's a little word, it's
one of the smallest words,
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but with the greatest impact.
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I'm going to
start with Pastor Dinzey
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because, you
know, all of our lives,
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if there's anything
we're conscious of is self.
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It is true, you know,
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you consider that you
were in a group of people,
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and they took a
picture of everybody.
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And when the
picture is brought out,
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most people, the
first thing they do
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is look for
themselves, you know,
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they want to see
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how did I turn
out on that picture.
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And, so then you
start looking around,
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"Oh, look at so and so."
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But first you said
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you look to see
if you were okay.
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So there's a degree
of this self-centeredness
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in just about everyone.
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And so, so you say,
before you are born again,
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there, you're really
not concerned about others.
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For the most part,
you are self-centered.
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Is when you become a Christian
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is that you begin
to consider others,
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you know, because
the Bible brings out
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that you are to love
your neighbor as yourself.
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And so that begins a
journey for the individual
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to put self aside
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and consider others
instead of yourself.
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Good point. Interesting.
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That's very good.
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I can't, we cannot get
away from that picture,
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so to speak because that's true.
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When you look, when
you take a group picture,
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who do you look for first?
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Want to make sure you look good,
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your hair's fine,
your smile's all right.
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I have a family
member they have...
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Long as they look
good in the picture.
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And the other person in
my family looked terrible,
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but they didn't care
as long as they look good.
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So they have,
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like they post a family
picture on their dressing table
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is they look good,
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but everybody else
is like, just ancillary.
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They're just there. Donald?
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I was thinking when
you said that about self
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and what came my mind
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is a lot of people
often say this phrase,
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you know, I'm a good
person, I do good things.
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But when you get
down to the core of it,
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like you're mentioning
about before your, you know,
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putting that
watery grave in a baptism,
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you know, emerging,
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you give your heart to the Lord.
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Everything you do is
really it's self-centered.
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It's all about you,
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you don't, you think
you're doing good things
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but really, it's always there's
a selfish motive behind it.
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So I think that
when we come to Christ,
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and we see what
Christ did in His methods,
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and how He reached people,
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we see His selflessness
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and how He was able to get
down even to the lowest of low
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and to reach those
people where we're kind of,
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I don't know, like Jonah,
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I don't think I
want to go to Nineveh,
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I'm not going there.
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So it's like,
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do we really get out
and help those around us.
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Do we get in?
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Just there's some scriptures
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that kind of my mind is
Isaiah 58:6-8 talks about
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how we're "To lose
the bands of wickedness,
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undo the heavy burdens,
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let the oppressed go
free, break every enslaving,"
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well, amplify, "puts
every enslaving yoke."
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And verse 7 says,
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"To deal your
food to the hungry,"
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you know, help those
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who are naked give them clothes,
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people in your family
if they're, you know, out,
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to help them, bring
them into the house.
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And that to me speaks a
lot about being selfless.
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Yes. That's right.
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Yeah.
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Jesus was selfless,
wasn't He? That's right.
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It's all about others,
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what I can do
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to relieve their
pain or their suffering.
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It's always about
others. It's never about Him.
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Where did He come from? Heaven.
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He had everything.
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He gave Himself...
That's another statement, yes.
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Everything.
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He walking on
streets of gold and look,
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angels are worshipping
You and you gave Yourself
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as a sacrifice?
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That is just beautiful.
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I just praise my Lord every day.
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I mean, think
about the roadblock,
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the thing that's in,
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the thing that
really makes it hard
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to put a self aside is
the condition of the heart.
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Let's look at Jeremiah 17:9.
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It's not in our outline,
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but this is what
makes it difficult
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to put self aside.
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Why do we often focus
on what's important to us?
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Jeremiah17:9.
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Honey, read that
for us. Interesting.
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That famous passage is
highlighted in my Bible.
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"The heart is
deceitful above all things
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and desperately
wicked: who can know it?"
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I got to read,
these have the blue box.
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I think all of us have today.
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We all got blue boxes. Go ahead.
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No, you read it. Yeah, Donald.
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It says, "The heart
is desperately wicked:
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who can know it?
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No man can of Himself
understand his errors."
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Whoa, man.
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"The heart is deceitful
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above all things
and desperately wicked:
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who can know it?
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The lips may
express a poverty of soul
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that the heart
does not acknowledge.
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While speaking to
God of poverty of spirit,
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the heart may be swelling
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with the conceit of
its own superior humility
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and exalted righteousness."
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That's a strong sentence there.
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Now is that under your verse 9?
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17:9?
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Mm-hmm, yes.
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Will we continue reading here?
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Okay. Yes.
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Says, "In one way,
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only can a true
knowledge of self be obtained,
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we must behold Christ.
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It is ignorance of Him
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that makes men so uplifted
in their own righteousness.
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When we contemplate
His purity and excellence,
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we shall see our
own weakness and poverty
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and defects as they really are.
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We shall see ourselves
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lost and
hopeless cladding garments
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of self-righteousness,
like every other sinner.
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We shall see that
if we were ever saved,
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it will not be enough, yeah,
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it will not be
through our own goodness,
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but through
God's infinite grace."
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There's more.
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But I think you're
talking about the paragraph
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above in Chris Object Lessons.
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I just expounded on it
little more little bit.
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Yeah, I think that
what it said there,
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we shall see
ourselves lost and hopeless
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cladding garments
of self-righteousness
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like every other sinner.
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Sure, it actually was two quotes
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from Jeremiah 17:9.
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Pastor Dinzey, you
read the next one there,
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the blue box,
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right under the
verse itself there.
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It says,
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"No man can of
himself understand his errors.
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In one way
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only can a true
knowledge of self be obtained.
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We must behold Christ.
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When we contemplate
his purity and excellence,
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we shall see
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our own weaknesses and poverty
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and defects as they really are.
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We shall see
ourselves lost and hopeless.
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We shall see that
if we are ever saved,
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it will not be
through our own goodness,
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but through
God's infinite grace."
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So in essence,
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the Bible is analyzing us
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saying that none of us is good.
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And as you pointed that out,
a lot of times you meet people,
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they even say, "Well, I
have some great neighbors, "
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and we know what they mean.
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But in the analogy of heaven,
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we're all bankrupt in
some respects or another.
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So what I'd like to do,
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we're going to
walk through tonight,
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some passages in Scripture.
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Let's start with Galatians 5:20,
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Galatians 5:20.
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And we're going to look
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at what the
Apostle Paul described
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as one of the
challenges we face.
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Now he outlined,
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this is where you find
the works of the flesh.
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Then on the other side,
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you find the
fruit of the Spirit.
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Galatians 5:20.
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Okay, let me have
Pastor Dinzey do that one.
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Galatians 5:20,
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"Idolatry, sorcery,
hatred, contentions,
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jealousies, outbursts of
wrath, selfish ambitions,
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dissensions, heresies."
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Okay, in that,
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the reason I chose verse 20,
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because it really goes
from 19 all the way to 21.
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Right.
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But because it talks
about the works of the flesh,
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and that one there,
notice selfish ambition.
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What does that mean?
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What does selfish ambition mean?
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Let's talk about
that for a moment.
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Selfish ambition.
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There's ambition
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and then there's
selfish ambition.
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Yes. Okay.
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Because, you know,
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you may have a family
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that they,
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well, we really need a car
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and we really need a home
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and they work towards that goal.
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But then,
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you know, you have
some somebody in the home
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says, well, I want
to get myself this,
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you know,
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and when there are
other needs in the home,
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and unfortunately,
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I'm going to give you an example
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that becomes a
problem for families.
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Because sometimes the
habit comes into a person's life
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and they forget others,
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because they want
to nurse that habit.
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They want to
partake of that habit,
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for example person
that becomes an alcoholic
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or a drug addict,
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they will take of money
that is needed for food,
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clothing, to pay for
school, to pay for rent,
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and they need to,
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they feel like they need
to get that liquor, that drug,
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and you know,
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we've have received calls
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that they said, I feel ashamed,
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"I even took
money from my mother.
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And she desperately
needed this for medicine
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or for something else."
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So these habits
that are detrimental
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and hurtful
really makes a person,
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they're self-centered even.
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I mean, self becomes
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the dominating
part of their lives.
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One of the stories
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you just shared
kind of reminded me.
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I just met a
gentleman few weeks ago,
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we were camping out
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and now this gentleman
told us a story about his life
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and how he worked
really hard and diligent.
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That's another thing we
can do, become workaholics.
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And what happens is we,
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our family misses us
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because we're
so busy working in.
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That's another thing
with self-centeredness.
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I've got to
make, I've got to do,
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I've got to provide.
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And you're so
wrapped up and taking,
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he said, I work
seven days a week,
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20 hours a day.
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I built this company up
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and now he's got
quite a bit of money.
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He wants his kid to take over.
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But the fact that the
kids now don't have a dad
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because he's
always busy working.
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So, I think that's,
you know, that says a lot.
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It's kind of a
self-centeredness,
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even though it
looks good on the surface.
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Where's dad?
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He's not here, you
know, can't play ball,
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whatever you do, I don't know,
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go out and ride bikes together,
go hiking, but he's not here.
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And he'll say, "I'm
providing for the family."
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Right, yes. Yeah.
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You know, Angie and
I talked about this.
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She said, that's
some of the dangers
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that could even
happen in the ministry.
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Remember that illustration
you're talking about?
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Which one?
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How pastors sometimes
could be off saving the world
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and their families
don't even know who they are.
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Yes. We're talking about that.
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They just and Sister
White talks about that too,
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how they could do for others,
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yet their own
house is falling apart.
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Children don't
know their parents,
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or the fathers who are ministers
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because they're
so busy saving souls
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and forget about the
most important is Noah
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and his family, right?
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The Ark, you want
your family in the kingdom.
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Charles Fitch to that back.
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And I think he did in 1800s.
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He had a wife and two kids.
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He kept baptizing
these people over and over
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and over and over.
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So he thought Christ is coming.
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And he ended up
getting pneumonia and he died.
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So now they have no father.
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And I thought, well, you know,
it seems good on the surface.
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But now where's
dad? He's no longer here.
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He went into rest.
So that's dangerous.
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So even in the ministry,
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for those of you
that are may be involved
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in pastoral ministry
or any kind of ministry,
00:17:42.42\00:17:44.83
it's also important
imperative to remember family,
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the Lord first, family next.
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Okay, Honey.
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Talk about that, you said
00:17:52.27\00:17:53.60
the conference asked you
that question once, so share.
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When I was in California,
beginning ministry, wow.
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And in the 1980s,
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the ministerial
director called me in his office
00:18:01.18\00:18:03.04
and he said,
00:18:03.08\00:18:04.41
he said, I've asked a
lot of pastors this question,
00:18:04.45\00:18:06.31
I'm going to ask
you the same question.
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One to five,
outline your ministry,
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priority all the way
to the least important.
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And I said,
00:18:12.72\00:18:14.06
"Well, the Lord's
first, my wife is next,
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the church is after that,"
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then I listed two other things.
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He said, "Wait, pause, pause.
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The church comes
after your wife?"
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I said, "Yes." He
said, he tested me.
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He says, "I'm glad to hear that.
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Because in the
interviews I've done,
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the wife is third,
fourth, some fifth,
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and the only one
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that should be before
your wife is the Lord."
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He said,
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and we've had families
that are in crucial situations,
00:18:40.38\00:18:42.85
because, you know, they say,
00:18:42.88\00:18:44.29
"Well, my church needs me.
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" Well, I've told the
church wherever I pastored,
00:18:45.72\00:18:47.86
I said, "When my wife is ill,
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I'm going to be by her side."
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And Pastor Dinzey, this
is a perfect illustration,
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because I've had you
preach for me that Sabbath,
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when I called on
you, my wife was ill.
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And I said, you know,
00:18:58.10\00:18:59.43
I made this
declaration to my wife
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in the presence of the Lord.
00:19:02.10\00:19:03.84
And I said, "The
two shall be one,
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I needed to be there for her."
00:19:05.57\00:19:07.31
And I called on you and
not that you took my place,
00:19:07.34\00:19:09.94
but you did an excellent job,
00:19:09.98\00:19:11.41
because God hasn't
called you to take my place.
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But, boy, that was a
powerful message that day.
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And we sat home,
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in the bed together
while I was nursing her
00:19:16.95\00:19:19.35
and we had the iPad
there watching you preach,
00:19:19.39\00:19:21.79
and praise the Lord for that.
00:19:21.82\00:19:23.16
So we have to
keep those priorities
00:19:23.19\00:19:24.59
because you could be out
ministering to the world.
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And I know,
00:19:27.33\00:19:28.66
we talked about this
00:19:28.70\00:19:30.03
because we were going
through familiar people
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that we knew and thought,
00:19:31.90\00:19:33.23
well, are they,
where's the family,
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where's the wife,
00:19:34.64\00:19:35.97
where's the
mother and the child is,
00:19:36.00\00:19:37.91
but the family is
all over the place
00:19:37.94\00:19:39.97
and it's all ministry.
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But we've heard pastors,
00:19:41.74\00:19:43.28
the children grew up
and some of them say,
00:19:43.31\00:19:44.75
"I hate the church.
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I don't like the church,
00:19:46.15\00:19:48.35
because my dad gave all
of his time to the church."
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So this is not the focal point
of the program, but it came up.
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And I think while
ministry is important,
00:19:54.66\00:19:56.89
don't allow ministry to
eclipse the relationship
00:19:56.93\00:20:00.03
that the Lord is
calling you as a leader,
00:20:00.06\00:20:02.23
to exemplify the family
first, Christ to always top,
00:20:02.26\00:20:06.03
but your family next.
00:20:06.07\00:20:08.10
That's very important, you know,
00:20:08.14\00:20:09.47
you're highlighting
something very, very important
00:20:09.50\00:20:12.17
because that has happened.
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Often we, again,
00:20:15.08\00:20:16.85
pastoral
ministries, we get calls,
00:20:16.88\00:20:18.51
so we have
received calls from wives.
00:20:18.55\00:20:21.12
And we, you know,
even children that...
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Pastors' wives would call.
00:20:24.32\00:20:25.65
Oh, yes.
00:20:25.69\00:20:27.02
And so, there, there
needs to be a balance.
00:20:27.06\00:20:29.96
The only way we
can have this balance
00:20:29.99\00:20:32.66
is by every day,
00:20:32.69\00:20:34.40
Jesus said, you know,
Jesus has the answers.
00:20:34.43\00:20:38.43
So when He says, "If
any man will come after Me,
00:20:38.47\00:20:41.00
let him take up his
cross daily and follow Me."
00:20:41.04\00:20:43.57
It's in following
Jesus, keeping our eyes on Him,
00:20:43.61\00:20:46.34
that things balance out.
00:20:46.37\00:20:48.94
And there's a balance,
00:20:48.98\00:20:51.28
and because He is
going to remind you
00:20:51.31\00:20:55.75
to take care of your family.
00:20:55.78\00:20:58.22
And so this, this is
what's going to help us
00:20:58.25\00:21:00.96
to maintain that
close walk with the Lord
00:21:00.99\00:21:03.39
and the Lord will remind you.
00:21:03.43\00:21:05.33
And if you're not
listening to that little voice,
00:21:05.36\00:21:08.53
the Lord will send you
messages in some other way,
00:21:08.56\00:21:10.70
and they start
getting louder and louder.
00:21:10.73\00:21:13.20
And when you start hearing
00:21:13.23\00:21:14.57
the wife and the
children complain,
00:21:14.60\00:21:15.94
that's when they're
getting louder and louder.
00:21:15.97\00:21:17.51
But the Lord sends you
messages in different ways.
00:21:17.54\00:21:19.91
You know, because I mean,
00:21:19.94\00:21:21.28
you even have the
scriptures tell us
00:21:21.31\00:21:22.84
that Jesus said to the Jews,
00:21:22.88\00:21:25.61
you know, I sent you
prophets, they rose up early.
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And I mean, it's
there, it's in the Bible,
00:21:28.95\00:21:32.55
the examples of how
God works is in the Bible.
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I've seen that with
you work, work, work, work,
00:21:35.66\00:21:38.13
work with people.
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And I say, Honey,
you got to slow down.
00:21:39.53\00:21:41.00
Haven't I said that? We do.
00:21:41.03\00:21:42.53
So we would say,
00:21:42.56\00:21:43.90
that's why we take
time for our anniversary,
00:21:43.93\00:21:47.04
we got our birthdays,
00:21:47.07\00:21:48.84
we, you know,
would skirt in a time say
00:21:48.87\00:21:51.34
we've been working really hard.
00:21:51.37\00:21:52.71
Let's take a vacation together.
00:21:52.74\00:21:54.08
And these are the things
00:21:54.11\00:21:55.44
that nurture what
God has given to us.
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And then when we are recharged,
00:21:57.31\00:21:59.25
we come back and we
work hard on the other side,
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work hard, play hard,
00:22:02.12\00:22:03.45
but don't forget,
00:22:03.49\00:22:05.22
keep the main
thing, the main thing.
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I was gonna mention a story
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that happened me
just a couple weeks ago,
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my parents were here and
they dig out little puppy.
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And it gets up at all
hours and I have to go out,
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would be wafting on all stuff.
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And I hear this thing
whimpering and I'm like,
00:22:16.77\00:22:18.37
"Please don't tell me you
have to go to the bathroom.
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It's two in the morning.
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I don't feel like getting up."
00:22:21.14\00:22:22.47
I hear this voice say,
00:22:22.50\00:22:23.84
"Just take the dog out
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because my mom and
dad were just driving
00:22:25.24\00:22:26.57
all these different places.
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And they're tired out,
my mom, you know, up in age,
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and we won't go real in her age,
00:22:29.81\00:22:31.15
but just the fact
that they're tired
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and he's like, why
don't you take care
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of the pet for them.
00:22:33.92\00:22:35.25
So I went out
there two in the morning
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and she finds a little pig here.
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And I'm like, please don't play,
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let's just get this done.
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Finish your business.
So I can go back to bed.
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But just that,
that's whole self is,
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it's like, I
don't want to get up
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and do this two
in the morning...
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Deny yourself.
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Yeah, that's tough.
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You know, it's a cup.
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Let's go to Luke 22:42.
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And look at the
example that Jesus left us,
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because self is a cup.
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And the reason I
refer to it that way
00:22:56.74\00:22:58.24
is because when
self is in your cup,
00:22:58.27\00:23:00.78
and you keep
drinking it, what happens?
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You have more self, right?
00:23:02.54\00:23:05.61
If you pour your cup
full of self every day,
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and you keep on
drinking it, right?
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But the Lord is saying,
00:23:12.42\00:23:13.76
"No, I'm going to
give you a different cup."
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But if you say no,
I want my cup instead.
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Then you'll never get
the victory over self.
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Look at how Jesus
illustrated this point.
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Who just read last?
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Okay, Pastor Dinzey,
so Honey, read that one.
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Luke 22:42.
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It says here,
00:23:29.70\00:23:31.04
"Saying, 'Father,
if it is Your will,
00:23:31.07\00:23:34.94
take this cup away from
Me, nevertheless not My will,
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but Yours be done.
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" So what does
that say about self?
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You put self away.
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I think it's submission.
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Being submissive,
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being willing to be
obedient and submissive as well,
00:23:50.03\00:23:51.43
I'm kind of hearing you,
00:23:51.46\00:23:52.79
even though Christ didn't know
00:23:52.83\00:23:54.63
what was going to
happen at that point.
00:23:54.66\00:23:56.33
I don't know how
much He could see
00:23:56.36\00:23:57.83
or what He's given.
00:23:57.87\00:23:59.20
But just the fact He knew
00:23:59.23\00:24:00.57
the stake of what
was going to happen ahead
00:24:00.60\00:24:01.94
that He knew how difficult
the journey would be and like,
00:24:01.97\00:24:04.54
do I really want
to lay this down,
00:24:04.57\00:24:06.07
but I have to
have My Father strength
00:24:06.11\00:24:08.24
to get me
through this right now.
00:24:08.28\00:24:09.61
So I've got to lay this
down, because all of me says no,
00:24:09.64\00:24:11.48
I don't want to do this.
00:24:11.51\00:24:13.15
But I know I have to.
00:24:13.18\00:24:14.52
So I think that's
a powerful thought.
00:24:14.55\00:24:15.98
That's right.
00:24:16.02\00:24:17.35
Laying self
aside, Pastor Dinzey?
00:24:17.39\00:24:18.92
I would like to read
from Philippians Chapter 2,
00:24:18.95\00:24:20.82
because I see here
00:24:20.86\00:24:22.19
a great example of selflessness.
00:24:22.22\00:24:26.13
And in Philippians Chapter
2, I begin reading in verse 5.
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And it says, Jesus, it says,
00:24:30.17\00:24:32.50
"Let this mind be in you
which was also in Christ Jesus,
00:24:32.53\00:24:37.01
who being in the form of God,
00:24:37.04\00:24:39.94
did not consider it
robbery to be equal with God,
00:24:39.97\00:24:43.45
but made himself
of no reputation,
00:24:43.48\00:24:46.85
taking the form of a bondservant
00:24:46.88\00:24:50.05
and coming in
the likeness of men.
00:24:50.09\00:24:52.15
And being found in fashion
or in appearance as a man,
00:24:52.19\00:24:56.22
He humbled Himself
and became obedient
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to the point of death,
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even the death of the cross."
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So this is a great example
for us as far as being humble.
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I mean, you think of Jesus,
00:25:07.94\00:25:10.21
the object of
worship and praise in heaven
00:25:10.24\00:25:13.41
to come here as a helpless babe
00:25:13.44\00:25:16.14
and, you know, I
remember reading it,
00:25:16.18\00:25:18.25
I think it was the
book Desire of Ages
00:25:18.28\00:25:20.68
that where should we look
00:25:20.72\00:25:23.69
for the king of the
universe to be born?
00:25:23.72\00:25:25.95
Is he in a castle?
00:25:25.99\00:25:27.52
Is he had, is He
by a royal, you know,
00:25:27.56\00:25:31.03
with gold and surrounded?
00:25:31.06\00:25:33.53
No, in a humble, little manger.
00:25:33.56\00:25:36.36
He's like wow, you know.
00:25:36.40\00:25:38.93
I know the King
of kings in a manger.
00:25:38.97\00:25:42.20
His accommodations.
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Think about that.
00:25:43.61\00:25:44.94
How many times and we've
had, this fits right now,
00:25:44.97\00:25:48.34
we've had those situations
00:25:48.38\00:25:49.74
where we have not had
the best of accommodations.
00:25:49.78\00:25:53.01
And people have
been upset for us.
00:25:53.05\00:25:54.52
But we said,
"It's okay. It's okay.
00:25:54.55\00:25:56.69
We're fine. We're comfortable."
00:25:56.72\00:25:58.49
Right, remember that? Yeah.
00:25:58.52\00:26:00.82
Many times, right?
00:26:00.86\00:26:02.19
And then, when you
don't and you know,
00:26:02.22\00:26:03.56
when you don't argue about that,
00:26:03.59\00:26:04.93
and I've learned this
lesson, we've learned together,
00:26:04.96\00:26:07.46
when you don't argue
about the circumstances
00:26:07.50\00:26:09.33
that the Lord
allows to come to you,
00:26:09.36\00:26:11.77
He'll reward you later on.
00:26:11.80\00:26:14.14
Because on the
flip side of that,
00:26:14.17\00:26:15.50
sometimes he said,
00:26:15.54\00:26:16.87
you know, we've gone places,
00:26:16.91\00:26:18.24
we've turned
the key to our room,
00:26:18.27\00:26:19.87
and we open the room
and we've looked to see
00:26:19.91\00:26:21.31
where the room
began and where it ended.
00:26:21.34\00:26:24.31
And this massive room
and we say, what did...
00:26:24.35\00:26:27.62
How do we get this room? Yeah.
00:26:27.65\00:26:30.42
Because prior to
that, we had like this,
00:26:30.45\00:26:33.22
okay, you come in first.
00:26:33.25\00:26:35.46
I'll bring a suitcase
next and you come in next.
00:26:35.49\00:26:38.03
And people say,
00:26:38.06\00:26:39.39
I am so upset
00:26:39.43\00:26:40.76
with the kind of
room they gave you.
00:26:40.80\00:26:42.13
But it's okay, we
could sleep, it's fine.
00:26:42.16\00:26:43.77
Because we're saying,
00:26:43.80\00:26:45.13
what did Jesus
have to deal with?
00:26:45.17\00:26:46.84
So sometimes you have
to put self aside and say,
00:26:46.87\00:26:49.27
if this is the Lord's
will, but, Angie, read verse 3,
00:26:49.30\00:26:51.97
because when you
said Philippians 2,
00:26:52.01\00:26:53.84
look at verse 3
00:26:53.88\00:26:55.21
that led right
up to it, verse 3.
00:26:55.24\00:26:56.58
"Let nothing be done
00:26:56.61\00:26:58.01
through selfish
ambition or conceit,
00:26:58.05\00:27:02.02
but in lowliness of mind,
00:27:02.05\00:27:04.52
let each esteem
others better than himself."
00:27:04.55\00:27:07.72
Amen.
00:27:07.76\00:27:09.09
Okay, and when
you say Philippians 2,
00:27:09.12\00:27:10.83
I thought I know
exactly where he's going.
00:27:10.86\00:27:13.26
But that's the
roll up to verse 5.
00:27:13.29\00:27:16.13
How difficult is that?
00:27:16.16\00:27:17.50
Let's get realistic
in this iGeneration.
00:27:17.53\00:27:20.77
How difficult is that?
00:27:20.80\00:27:22.60
Those of you
watching the program
00:27:22.64\00:27:23.97
have you, have you
been challenged with?
00:27:24.01\00:27:26.68
Okay, right now,
00:27:26.71\00:27:28.04
I just want everyone to go home,
00:27:28.08\00:27:29.54
I want to go to bed,
just I'm just gonna leave.
00:27:29.58\00:27:33.42
And they're in a very
critical conversation.
00:27:33.45\00:27:36.52
You go like, would
you guys just go home?
00:27:36.55\00:27:40.12
But we're dealing with
a very serious life issue.
00:27:40.16\00:27:43.06
But it says here,
what should we do?
00:27:43.09\00:27:45.29
Let's break this down.
00:27:45.33\00:27:46.66
First of all, put
selfish ambition aside.
00:27:46.70\00:27:48.90
What kind of
attitude should we have?
00:27:48.93\00:27:51.53
What kind of mind?
00:27:51.57\00:27:52.90
What do you think it
means lowliness of mind?
00:27:52.93\00:27:54.27
Humble. Humble. Yeah, humble.
00:27:54.30\00:27:56.60
Humble is a great word.
00:27:56.64\00:27:57.97
Yeah, I think putting
others before yourself.
00:27:58.01\00:27:59.57
I mean, within
reason, obviously,
00:27:59.61\00:28:01.44
you don't want to
put yourself in jeopardy.
00:28:01.48\00:28:02.88
But I think putting others,
00:28:02.91\00:28:04.25
their needs
before, we like that.
00:28:04.28\00:28:05.61
We talked about the
Good Samaritan in here.
00:28:05.65\00:28:07.38
I think that's
kind of where it goes.
00:28:07.42\00:28:09.12
You know, like the
Levite and the high priest,
00:28:09.15\00:28:10.75
they walk alongside
and leave the man alone.
00:28:10.79\00:28:12.49
But this, you
know, this man sees,
00:28:12.52\00:28:14.89
this Samaritan sees this
man lying there and he goes,
00:28:14.92\00:28:16.93
goes to and actually goes to him
00:28:16.96\00:28:18.69
and takes care of him.
00:28:18.73\00:28:20.06
I think that, that to
me kind of says lowliness.
00:28:20.10\00:28:21.70
When we put other
people above ourselves it's...
00:28:21.73\00:28:24.57
Yeah. Yes.
00:28:24.60\00:28:25.93
Okay, and what else
can we get out of that?
00:28:25.97\00:28:27.70
Lowliness of mind.
That means humility.
00:28:31.44\00:28:36.44
I have experienced
00:28:36.48\00:28:37.81
this as a person in public life.
00:28:37.85\00:28:41.15
In pastoral ministry,
00:28:41.18\00:28:43.72
singing, teaching, preaching.
00:28:43.75\00:28:48.36
I remember growing up
in the ministry, thinking,
00:28:48.39\00:28:54.03
how did that person
get to be the speaker?
00:28:54.06\00:28:58.03
I learned as a young
man, this is not now.
00:28:58.07\00:29:00.07
No.
00:29:00.10\00:29:01.44
But now,
00:29:01.47\00:29:03.00
when the devil tries
00:29:03.04\00:29:04.37
to put that
thought back in my mind,
00:29:04.41\00:29:06.37
I'd verbalize and say,
who are you talking to?
00:29:06.41\00:29:10.91
I was talking to myself.
00:29:10.95\00:29:12.65
And we have now
come to the realization
00:29:12.68\00:29:14.98
in our own walk of life
00:29:15.02\00:29:16.92
is we are campaign
managers for Jesus.
00:29:16.95\00:29:22.59
He's not our campaign manager.
00:29:22.62\00:29:24.13
He's not campaigning
for us. We don't ask.
00:29:24.16\00:29:26.66
But say it again?
00:29:26.70\00:29:28.03
Well, we say we don't ask,
00:29:28.06\00:29:29.40
I want to be this
position, that position.
00:29:29.43\00:29:30.93
I want to go here or
there. We never do that.
00:29:30.97\00:29:33.57
We get the phone
call, we're like, "Ah, what?
00:29:33.60\00:29:36.07
Well, he want us
to go where, Africa?
00:29:36.10\00:29:37.87
What?"
00:29:37.91\00:29:39.24
And, but we
don't call up and say,
00:29:39.27\00:29:40.61
"Oh, I want to go to Africa.
00:29:40.64\00:29:41.98
I want to go to Kenya."
We don't say that, do we?
00:29:42.01\00:29:44.85
And we don't ask it,
00:29:44.88\00:29:46.21
could I be the speaker for that?
00:29:46.25\00:29:47.58
Could I be the person for that?
00:29:47.62\00:29:48.95
Never. Oh, boy.
00:29:48.98\00:29:50.32
And I've seen
that in young novices,
00:29:50.35\00:29:52.85
sometimes people that
are not yet emptied of self.
00:29:52.89\00:29:55.66
And then I can see that
sometimes they get jealous
00:29:55.69\00:29:57.29
because somebody
else is doing it.
00:29:57.33\00:29:58.66
And I said, "Brother,
00:29:58.69\00:30:00.10
if the Lord want you to do that,
00:30:00.13\00:30:01.56
He'll have you do that."
00:30:01.60\00:30:03.60
Because if you're where
the God doesn't want you
00:30:03.63\00:30:05.20
to be is a dangerous place.
00:30:05.23\00:30:07.67
And I know as pastor,
00:30:07.70\00:30:09.07
you know, you've
been in this ministry,
00:30:09.10\00:30:10.44
what, 30 years?
00:30:10.47\00:30:11.81
Thirty years. Wow.
00:30:11.84\00:30:13.98
Do you have any examples,
00:30:14.01\00:30:15.34
and I don't want to put
people's names out there,
00:30:15.38\00:30:16.71
but you,
00:30:16.75\00:30:18.08
we talked about this whole thing
00:30:18.11\00:30:19.45
of putting self aside.
00:30:19.48\00:30:20.82
You know, I remember Dan Gerard,
00:30:20.85\00:30:23.69
in one of the
programs we had here,
00:30:23.72\00:30:25.99
I'm sure some of our
viewers remember him.
00:30:26.02\00:30:28.89
And he told this story one day
00:30:28.92\00:30:31.13
that he was asked to preach.
00:30:31.16\00:30:34.53
And so he was up there,
00:30:34.56\00:30:38.10
and he was
like, he got prepared.
00:30:38.13\00:30:39.63
And he, he said, he walked
up there with great confidence
00:30:39.67\00:30:43.20
and when, you
know, he tried to preach,
00:30:43.24\00:30:45.87
things were not coming out
as he, you know, envisioned.
00:30:45.91\00:30:50.15
And when it was all over,
00:30:50.18\00:30:52.28
you know, he was
asked them by the door
00:30:52.31\00:30:53.98
and greet the people out.
00:30:54.02\00:30:55.35
And he was like,
00:30:55.38\00:30:56.72
I don't really want
to stand by the door.
00:30:56.75\00:30:58.62
And so people were
passing by shaking his hand.
00:30:58.65\00:31:01.79
And this elderly lady came
by, and she said, "Young man,
00:31:01.82\00:31:06.96
if you would have
walked up to the pulpit
00:31:07.00\00:31:09.96
the way you came down,
00:31:10.00\00:31:12.00
you would have
been able to walk down
00:31:12.03\00:31:13.57
the way you went
up to the pulpit."
00:31:13.60\00:31:17.04
That's powerful. Yeah.
00:31:17.07\00:31:18.41
Okay.
00:31:18.44\00:31:19.77
So, there's a
lesson for us, you know,
00:31:19.81\00:31:21.14
we should not think
ourselves more highly than,
00:31:21.18\00:31:24.95
you know, you're
talking about lowliness of mind.
00:31:24.98\00:31:27.58
I mean, the
speaker has to realize
00:31:27.62\00:31:29.25
that God is the one
that deserves all glory.
00:31:29.28\00:31:34.52
And when we come
to the realization
00:31:34.56\00:31:37.56
that we are vessels and
instruments in His hands,
00:31:37.59\00:31:40.86
and or, you know,
00:31:40.90\00:31:43.37
there may be some
sentinels, I'm sorry,
00:31:43.40\00:31:48.84
but you know, the
devil uses people, it's true,
00:31:48.87\00:31:50.81
some sentinels
of the devil come by
00:31:50.84\00:31:52.51
that they don't know that God,
00:31:52.54\00:31:54.28
the devil is using them.
00:31:54.31\00:31:56.21
And God did all this
wonderful work through you.
00:31:56.24\00:32:00.32
And somebody will come
and say something to you,
00:32:00.35\00:32:03.05
and you begin to feel
like, oh, wait a minute.
00:32:03.08\00:32:06.25
I guess I did.
00:32:06.29\00:32:09.39
You know, it's God,
God working through us,
00:32:09.42\00:32:12.93
is what really is
able to change lives.
00:32:12.96\00:32:15.36
If I be lifted up,
00:32:15.40\00:32:16.73
the Bible says,
00:32:16.77\00:32:18.10
I'll draw all men to Me.
00:32:18.13\00:32:19.47
When you're speaking
00:32:19.50\00:32:20.84
you made me think
of John the Baptist.
00:32:20.87\00:32:22.20
You know, what a
powerful thing to think that.
00:32:22.24\00:32:24.07
First of all, you know, God,
00:32:24.11\00:32:25.44
Jesus asked him to
baptize Him and he was like...
00:32:25.47\00:32:27.04
Oh, yeah.
00:32:27.08\00:32:28.48
Why are you
asking me to baptize you?
00:32:28.51\00:32:30.01
You're supposed to be,
should be baptizing me?
00:32:30.05\00:32:31.61
That's a good example.
00:32:31.65\00:32:32.98
And then he's honored,
00:32:33.01\00:32:34.42
you know, basically he's,
00:32:34.45\00:32:35.78
you know, His disciples like,
00:32:35.82\00:32:37.15
"Well, look,
00:32:37.19\00:32:38.52
this Jesus is
baptizing more guys than you,
00:32:38.55\00:32:40.02
what's going on here?"
00:32:40.06\00:32:41.39
And he's like, "Well,
I'm supposed to decrease,
00:32:41.42\00:32:43.19
he's supposed to
increase something again.
00:32:43.22\00:32:45.09
Wow, it's like,
00:32:45.13\00:32:46.46
that's kind of
humility that takes, you know.
00:32:46.49\00:32:49.10
John the Baptist
is a great example
00:32:49.13\00:32:51.00
of God working through a person
00:32:51.03\00:32:52.87
and realizing to
God be the glory,
00:32:52.90\00:32:55.34
Not worthy to
unloose his sandals.
00:32:55.37\00:32:56.84
Right, he said,
00:32:56.87\00:32:58.21
not even worthy to
unloose your sandals.
00:32:58.24\00:33:01.48
So I'm glad you brought that up,
00:33:01.51\00:33:02.84
because it was John
the Baptist who said,
00:33:02.88\00:33:04.45
I must decrease,
He must increase.
00:33:04.48\00:33:07.58
And when we read that story,
a lot of times people think
00:33:07.62\00:33:10.22
how insensitive on
the part of Christ,
00:33:10.25\00:33:13.29
not to go visit him
while he was in prison.
00:33:13.32\00:33:17.03
But John the
Baptist understood the role
00:33:17.06\00:33:18.79
that he was supposed to play.
00:33:18.83\00:33:20.60
So the Lord
wasn't being insensitive.
00:33:20.63\00:33:22.50
John the Baptist knew,
00:33:22.53\00:33:23.87
hey, we met
00:33:23.90\00:33:25.23
when I was three
months older than him.
00:33:25.27\00:33:28.20
Remember that?
00:33:28.24\00:33:30.51
He was in Elizabeth stomach
00:33:30.54\00:33:31.87
and Jesus is in
the stomach of Mary.
00:33:31.91\00:33:34.38
And we said hello then,
00:33:34.41\00:33:36.31
and I kind of knew
from that moment on,
00:33:36.34\00:33:39.25
second place, first place.
00:33:39.28\00:33:41.55
And he was willing to decrease
00:33:41.58\00:33:43.25
and pretty much
died a life in exile.
00:33:43.28\00:33:46.99
But he will one
day sit on the throne
00:33:47.02\00:33:48.86
with his cousin.
00:33:48.89\00:33:50.49
Right. Yeah.
00:33:50.53\00:33:53.29
Look at Mary Magdalene.
00:33:53.33\00:33:54.80
Was it Mary that took
her hair to wash Jesus' feet?
00:33:54.83\00:33:58.63
Another example of humility.
00:33:58.67\00:34:00.34
Yeah, with the
most expensive perfume.
00:34:00.37\00:34:03.20
Jonathan with David.
00:34:03.24\00:34:04.57
I mean, he's
supposed to be the king.
00:34:04.61\00:34:06.71
No, David, you're the king.
00:34:06.74\00:34:08.34
So that will be
tough if you're, you know,
00:34:08.38\00:34:09.94
the son who is supposed
to be the king to step back.
00:34:09.98\00:34:11.71
All right.
00:34:11.75\00:34:13.08
But there's a
principle that comes with it.
00:34:13.11\00:34:14.75
There's a principle
that I want to point out.
00:34:14.78\00:34:16.65
Let's go to the Book of Luke.
00:34:16.69\00:34:20.59
You alluded to this, Donald,
00:34:20.62\00:34:23.09
we're going to
look at a brief story,
00:34:23.12\00:34:24.56
Luke 10:30-36,
00:34:24.59\00:34:28.36
because it leads into
and as you're going there,
00:34:28.40\00:34:32.77
I want to have
Angie read John 13:34,
00:34:32.80\00:34:36.67
but we're going to,
00:34:36.71\00:34:38.04
don't lose that part of Luke's
00:34:38.07\00:34:39.41
because we're
going to come back there.
00:34:39.44\00:34:40.78
But I'll have
her read John 13:34
00:34:40.81\00:34:42.74
because there's a principle
00:34:42.78\00:34:44.15
that goes along with
self being put aside,
00:34:44.18\00:34:48.78
and the principle is
going to be highlighted
00:34:48.82\00:34:51.55
in what Angie is going to read.
00:34:51.59\00:34:53.12
And then since Donald
suggested it or alluded to it,
00:34:53.15\00:34:57.03
I'm going to have
him read that story
00:34:57.06\00:34:58.56
in a
summarization of illustrating
00:34:58.59\00:35:01.03
what Angie is going to read.
00:35:01.06\00:35:02.46
John 13:34.
00:35:02.50\00:35:03.83
This is how self gets put aside.
00:35:03.87\00:35:06.23
"A new commandment I give
you, that you love one another,
00:35:06.27\00:35:11.81
as I have loved you,
00:35:11.84\00:35:14.11
that you also love one another."
00:35:14.14\00:35:17.51
Love, that's the key.
00:35:17.55\00:35:19.51
When I hear people say,
00:35:19.55\00:35:20.88
are you going to
preach another sermon on love?
00:35:20.92\00:35:22.32
You know what I say to them?
00:35:22.35\00:35:24.09
That blows me away.
00:35:24.12\00:35:25.69
Could you preach
on anything else?
00:35:25.72\00:35:27.29
Now I do
prophecy and other things.
00:35:27.32\00:35:29.52
But when we minimize the
love that is required of us to,
00:35:29.56\00:35:34.26
is there anything
else to talk about?
00:35:34.30\00:35:36.40
This is not the love
that we've all attain to yet
00:35:36.43\00:35:39.70
because this kind of love
requires the death of self.
00:35:39.73\00:35:43.07
And so in the story that
you're going to share with us,
00:35:43.10\00:35:45.31
read those six verses,
00:35:45.34\00:35:46.68
because this is loving
your neighbor as yourself.
00:35:46.71\00:35:50.31
This comes out looks like
the New King James Version.
00:35:50.35\00:35:52.15
Let's see, then Jesus, verse 30,
00:35:52.18\00:35:53.65
"Then Jesus answered and said:
00:35:53.68\00:35:55.75
'A certain man went down
from Jerusalem to Jericho,
00:35:55.78\00:35:58.12
and fell among thieves,
00:35:58.15\00:36:00.22
who stripped
him of his clothing,
00:36:00.26\00:36:01.66
wounded him,
00:36:01.69\00:36:03.02
" he must have
wounded, "and departed,
00:36:03.06\00:36:05.09
leaving him half dead."
00:36:05.13\00:36:06.70
Wow, half dead.
00:36:06.73\00:36:08.66
31, "Now by chance
00:36:08.70\00:36:10.03
a certain priest
came down that road.
00:36:10.07\00:36:11.73
And when he saw him, he
passed by on the other side, "
00:36:11.77\00:36:14.94
disgusted, I'm not sure.
00:36:14.97\00:36:16.71
32, "Likewise a Levite,
when he arrived at the place,
00:36:16.74\00:36:19.27
came and looked, and
passed by on the other side."
00:36:19.31\00:36:22.14
33, "But a certain Samaritan,
as he journeyed, I like this,
00:36:22.18\00:36:25.31
came where he was.
00:36:25.35\00:36:26.68
And when he saw
him, he had compassion."
00:36:26.72\00:36:29.55
Next verse,
00:36:29.58\00:36:30.92
"So he went to him
and bandaged his wounds,
00:36:30.95\00:36:33.79
pouring on oil and wine,
00:36:33.82\00:36:35.16
and he set him
on his own animal,
00:36:35.19\00:36:36.89
brought him to an
inn, and took care of him.
00:36:36.93\00:36:40.00
On the next day,
when he departed,
00:36:40.03\00:36:42.10
he took out two denarii,
gave them to the innkeeper,
00:36:42.13\00:36:45.73
and said to him,
'Take care of him,
00:36:45.77\00:36:47.30
and whatever more you
spend, when I come again,
00:36:47.34\00:36:49.94
I will repay you.
00:36:49.97\00:36:51.34
' So which of these three
00:36:51.37\00:36:53.61
do you think was neighbor to him
00:36:53.64\00:36:55.21
who fell among the thieves?'
00:36:55.24\00:36:58.15
" And we call
that story, the what?
00:36:58.18\00:37:00.08
Good Samaritan.
00:37:00.12\00:37:01.45
The Good Samaritan. Wow.
00:37:01.48\00:37:02.82
So which one of these,
00:37:02.85\00:37:04.19
Pastor Dinzey, was the,
00:37:04.22\00:37:05.55
is this a redundancy
but what do you see here?
00:37:05.59\00:37:10.89
I see here a person that,
00:37:10.93\00:37:13.93
you know, put self aside
00:37:13.96\00:37:15.30
for whatever his
agenda was, for that day,
00:37:15.33\00:37:17.17
you know, Jesus
doesn't say, well,
00:37:17.20\00:37:18.53
he was on his way
to do such and such,
00:37:18.57\00:37:20.20
he stopped what he was doing,
00:37:20.24\00:37:22.20
took care of this wounded person
00:37:22.24\00:37:24.21
and bandaged him,
00:37:24.24\00:37:26.27
took him to a place
00:37:26.31\00:37:28.04
and not only just
dropped him off there,
00:37:28.08\00:37:30.35
but he said,
whatever you spend on him,
00:37:30.38\00:37:33.68
let me know,
and I'll pay for it.
00:37:33.72\00:37:35.62
So there, he went beyond,
00:37:35.65\00:37:37.25
you know, it says,
beyond the call of duty.
00:37:37.29\00:37:40.32
It's a wonderful illustration
00:37:40.36\00:37:44.36
of what we are to
be through God's grace.
00:37:44.39\00:37:47.46
And he put self
aside, he really did.
00:37:47.50\00:37:50.17
Now, it's interesting,
because it mentions Samaritan.
00:37:50.20\00:37:55.67
And so the others
that have passed by
00:37:55.70\00:37:59.17
did not help this man
that we're supposed to,
00:37:59.21\00:38:03.78
but this person
00:38:03.81\00:38:05.15
that was
considered even despised
00:38:05.18\00:38:08.55
by the person that helped him,
00:38:08.58\00:38:09.98
he was the one
that stopped to help.
00:38:10.02\00:38:11.72
That's right.
00:38:11.75\00:38:13.09
There's a very amazing
quote that goes along with this,
00:38:13.12\00:38:14.79
I'm gonna have Angie read that.
00:38:14.82\00:38:16.16
And this parable
of Good Samaritan
00:38:16.19\00:38:17.63
starts off with
the lawyer that says,
00:38:17.66\00:38:19.53
Teacher,
00:38:19.56\00:38:20.90
what should I do to
inherit eternal life?
00:38:20.93\00:38:24.77
That's how this whole
Good Samaritan starts with,
00:38:24.80\00:38:27.24
you know.
00:38:27.27\00:38:28.60
Yeah, try the stump him with.
00:38:28.64\00:38:30.17
And what did he, the God said?
00:38:30.21\00:38:31.64
He loved the Lord your
God with all your heart,
00:38:31.67\00:38:35.64
all your soul,
all your strength,
00:38:35.68\00:38:37.25
all your mind and
then what else you love?
00:38:37.28\00:38:39.58
Love your neighbor as
yourself, as yourself.
00:38:39.61\00:38:43.99
I did a sermon recently,
I may have you do this.
00:38:44.02\00:38:45.79
No, no, go ahead.
00:38:45.82\00:38:47.16
I did a sermon recently
that it was the shortest title
00:38:47.19\00:38:49.79
on our bulletin board at church
00:38:49.82\00:38:51.16
because people were embarrassed
with my sermon title.
00:38:51.19\00:38:54.83
My sermon title was
"Strangle Yourself."
00:38:54.86\00:38:58.73
And they said,
00:38:58.77\00:39:00.10
"Pastor, are you sure
00:39:00.14\00:39:01.47
you want to put that
on the bulletin board
00:39:01.50\00:39:02.84
because it looks
like strangle yourself,
00:39:02.87\00:39:04.97
because it knows
strangle yourself.
00:39:05.01\00:39:07.98
And I found a picture.
00:39:08.01\00:39:09.88
I should have had
it on this program.
00:39:09.91\00:39:11.81
I found a picture of a lady
00:39:11.85\00:39:15.18
who was battling self
and she was strangling
00:39:15.22\00:39:18.25
the reflection of
herself in the lake.
00:39:18.29\00:39:21.36
She was strangling
herself, strangle yourself.
00:39:21.39\00:39:25.09
That's the battle we
wake up with every day,
00:39:25.13\00:39:27.00
we have to strangle self
00:39:27.03\00:39:28.60
because if we don't begin
00:39:28.63\00:39:30.17
to dedicate ourselves
to Christ in the morning,
00:39:30.20\00:39:32.90
self gets in the way.
00:39:32.93\00:39:34.27
You ever done something
stupid, something dumb,
00:39:34.30\00:39:36.57
and you say, I just
want to strangle myself.
00:39:36.60\00:39:39.17
What was I thinking?
00:39:39.21\00:39:41.71
You know, what was I thinking?
00:39:41.74\00:39:43.08
That was stupid, that was dumb.
00:39:43.11\00:39:45.31
And that reminded me of
the lady strangling herself
00:39:45.35\00:39:48.18
in the reflection.
00:39:48.22\00:39:49.55
I showed that in beginning
of the sermon in the church
00:39:49.58\00:39:51.82
and that was a shortest title
00:39:51.85\00:39:53.46
because as soon as
the sermon was over,
00:39:53.49\00:39:55.52
Kevin took the title
off the bulletin board
00:39:55.56\00:39:58.49
because he said,
00:39:58.53\00:39:59.86
"Pastor, do you think people
can understand what you meant?"
00:39:59.89\00:40:01.96
That's before it was digital.
00:40:02.00\00:40:03.53
Before it was
digital, that's right,
00:40:03.57\00:40:05.20
but this was really interesting
00:40:05.23\00:40:06.57
but this
quotation fits beautifully
00:40:06.60\00:40:08.04
because this illustration
is what God is calling,
00:40:08.07\00:40:10.97
what Jesus is calling us to do.
00:40:11.01\00:40:12.57
In Christ's Object
Lessons, page 384 says,
00:40:12.61\00:40:15.81
"Gospel religion
is Christ in the life,
00:40:15.84\00:40:19.11
a living, active principle.
00:40:19.15\00:40:22.52
It is the grace of
Christ revealed in character,
00:40:22.55\00:40:26.35
and wrought out in good works.
00:40:26.39\00:40:28.82
The principles of the
gospel cannot be disconnected
00:40:28.86\00:40:32.83
from any department
of practical life. "
00:40:32.86\00:40:36.67
Maybe reading the right one?
00:40:36.70\00:40:38.03
The right one. Okay.
00:40:38.07\00:40:40.54
"Every line of
Christian experience
00:40:40.57\00:40:43.24
and labor
00:40:43.27\00:40:44.61
is to be a representation
of the life of Christ
00:40:44.64\00:40:47.68
and this is where it ends,
love is the basis of godliness.
00:40:47.71\00:40:52.75
Whatever the profession,
00:40:52.78\00:40:54.98
no man has pure love to God
00:40:55.02\00:40:58.02
unless He has
unselfish love to his brother,
00:40:58.05\00:41:02.82
for his brother.
00:41:02.86\00:41:04.19
For his brother.
00:41:04.23\00:41:05.56
Makes me think of 1 John 4:7,
00:41:05.59\00:41:08.86
I'll try to make
it to almost 7-12,
00:41:08.90\00:41:10.63
I just love this.
00:41:10.67\00:41:12.43
1 John 4:7-12? Yep.
00:41:12.47\00:41:13.94
All right.
00:41:13.97\00:41:15.30
It says in there,
00:41:15.34\00:41:16.67
"Beloved, let us
love one another,
00:41:16.71\00:41:19.84
for love is of God,
00:41:19.87\00:41:21.34
and everyone that
loveth is born of God
00:41:21.38\00:41:23.45
and knoweth God.
00:41:23.48\00:41:24.81
He that loveth not knoweth
not God, for God is love.
00:41:24.85\00:41:30.52
In this was manifested
the love of God toward us
00:41:30.55\00:41:32.89
because the God sent
His only begotten Son
00:41:32.92\00:41:35.86
into the world,
00:41:35.89\00:41:37.23
that we might live through Him.
00:41:37.26\00:41:38.79
Herein his love,
not that we loved God,
00:41:38.83\00:41:40.63
but that He loved
us and sent His Son
00:41:40.66\00:41:43.50
to be the
propitiation for our sins.
00:41:43.53\00:41:45.93
Beloved, if God so loved us,
00:41:45.97\00:41:47.74
we ought also to
love one another.
00:41:47.77\00:41:50.11
No man has seen God at any time.
00:41:50.14\00:41:51.94
If we love one
another, God dwells in us,
00:41:51.97\00:41:54.08
and His love is
perfected in us."
00:41:54.11\00:41:56.85
That's right.
00:41:56.88\00:41:58.21
So if we love,
00:41:58.25\00:41:59.71
if we say we love
God, who we can't see,
00:41:59.75\00:42:04.32
we should be able to
love those that we see.
00:42:04.35\00:42:07.26
So that's the measurement of it.
00:42:07.29\00:42:09.22
If we don't love
those that we can see,
00:42:09.26\00:42:11.53
how can we love the
one that we don't see?
00:42:11.56\00:42:13.90
Pastor John?
00:42:13.93\00:42:15.26
You know,
00:42:15.30\00:42:16.63
God is trying to help
us understand that how,
00:42:16.67\00:42:19.90
what heaven is
like, what heaven is like,
00:42:19.93\00:42:22.20
and I'm going to share
00:42:22.24\00:42:23.57
something that I
believe is good news.
00:42:23.61\00:42:25.04
Do you mind if I do that?
00:42:25.07\00:42:26.41
Of course, sure, we
need some good news.
00:42:26.44\00:42:28.64
And so, I want
to start by saying,
00:42:28.68\00:42:30.31
you know, you out
there that are listening.
00:42:30.35\00:42:35.75
You're going to
want to be in heaven
00:42:35.78\00:42:37.45
after you read this verse.
00:42:37.49\00:42:38.82
After we read it,
00:42:38.85\00:42:40.19
you're going to
want to be in heaven
00:42:40.22\00:42:41.59
because I know that
people are listening.
00:42:41.62\00:42:44.03
You know,
you've been mistreated.
00:42:44.06\00:42:46.19
People have
talked bad about you,
00:42:46.23\00:42:47.56
looked at you bad the wrong way.
00:42:47.60\00:42:49.80
Taking your things
00:42:49.83\00:42:51.20
and this verse
is going to help you
00:42:51.23\00:42:53.87
understand that you will
want to be in heaven, so.
00:42:53.90\00:42:57.11
Okay.
00:42:57.14\00:42:58.47
This is in Matthew.
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Looking forward to it.
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In Matthew Chapter 22
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and we'll begin
reading at verse 36.
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"Teacher,
00:43:07.52\00:43:08.85
which is the great
commandment in the law?"
00:43:08.88\00:43:13.52
Jesus said to him,
00:43:13.56\00:43:14.99
'You shall love the Lord
your God with all your heart,
00:43:15.02\00:43:18.23
and with all your soul,
00:43:18.26\00:43:19.73
and with all your mind.'"
00:43:19.76\00:43:21.10
This is the first
and great commandment.
00:43:21.13\00:43:24.60
This is the basis for
the happiness in heaven,
00:43:24.63\00:43:27.57
you're going to be happy.
Now listen to the second one.
00:43:27.60\00:43:29.60
And the second is
like it, Jesus said,
00:43:29.64\00:43:32.07
"You shall love your
neighbor as yourself.
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And these two commandments
00:43:35.48\00:43:36.91
hang all the law
and the prophets."
00:43:36.95\00:43:39.38
So this is what heaven is like.
00:43:39.41\00:43:41.85
So if you want
to be treated well,
00:43:41.88\00:43:44.32
get ready and go to heaven,
00:43:44.35\00:43:46.32
follow Jesus with all your heart
00:43:46.35\00:43:47.69
because people there
are going to love you,
00:43:47.72\00:43:52.36
like they love themselves.
00:43:52.39\00:43:53.73
I mean, you're
going to be so happy.
00:43:53.76\00:43:57.57
Excuse me, you
need help with that?
00:43:57.60\00:43:59.43
Can you imagine?
00:43:59.47\00:44:00.80
I'll help you with that.
00:44:00.84\00:44:02.17
I mean, people are going to
be, you know, trying to say,
00:44:02.20\00:44:05.34
"No, no, let me do it for you."
00:44:05.37\00:44:07.58
Or you need your grass
cut, no, let me do it for you.
00:44:07.61\00:44:11.11
And so, it's a
beautiful picture.
00:44:11.15\00:44:13.65
Oh, but really
00:44:13.68\00:44:15.78
a place where
everyone loves one another,
00:44:15.82\00:44:18.99
this verse needs consideration
and thought and study
00:44:19.02\00:44:22.42
because it's going to tell
you because here on this earth,
00:44:22.46\00:44:26.06
we haven't fully found this,
00:44:26.09\00:44:28.43
you know, loving
your neighbor as yourself.
00:44:28.46\00:44:30.73
Now, when you go to
church, you'll see some, some,
00:44:30.77\00:44:36.30
some of this, you know,
00:44:36.34\00:44:37.67
I mean, people come to
the Thompsonville Church,
00:44:37.71\00:44:39.44
they say, "This
is a loving church.
00:44:39.47\00:44:41.74
You got wonderful
people here." And yes, we do.
00:44:41.78\00:44:45.51
And like I said,
00:44:45.55\00:44:47.28
God is trying to prepare us
00:44:47.32\00:44:49.62
for what heaven
is going to be like
00:44:49.65\00:44:51.42
and church should be like this,
00:44:51.45\00:44:54.89
a foretaste of heaven.
00:44:54.92\00:44:57.43
Thank you. That's right.
00:44:57.46\00:44:58.79
That's very true.
00:44:58.83\00:45:00.16
We shouldn't
wait to get to heaven
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to illustrate these things.
00:45:01.56\00:45:03.03
It's almost like
waiting till the baseball season
00:45:03.06\00:45:05.90
to pick up the bat
for the first time,
00:45:05.93\00:45:08.24
you'll be cold,
you'll be out of practice,
00:45:08.27\00:45:10.27
you won't even
be ready for that.
00:45:10.31\00:45:11.64
So that's why...
00:45:11.67\00:45:13.01
I like what you
said. That was beautiful.
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Yeah, because so many people,
00:45:14.58\00:45:15.91
they've gone
through abuse in this world,
00:45:15.94\00:45:18.55
spiritual, physical, mental,
00:45:18.58\00:45:20.72
all this abuse
they've gone through.
00:45:20.75\00:45:23.18
And it's so good to know that
00:45:23.22\00:45:24.95
there's
someplace prepared for us
00:45:24.99\00:45:26.86
forever for eternity,
love, joy, peace, all of that,
00:45:26.89\00:45:30.99
like you said,
hey, you need help,?
00:45:31.03\00:45:32.56
What?
00:45:32.59\00:45:33.93
You know,
00:45:33.96\00:45:35.30
help building my
mansion in the new earth,
00:45:35.33\00:45:36.67
whatever.
00:45:36.70\00:45:38.03
And this is a place
that we have to consider.
00:45:38.07\00:45:40.57
I mean, we didn't
mean to go into this topic,
00:45:40.60\00:45:42.30
but it's all, it's beautiful,
you know, to, go ahead.
00:45:42.34\00:45:46.31
Has that happened
to you? I'm sorry.
00:45:46.34\00:45:47.68
You go ahead first.
Yes. No, I'm done. Go ahead.
00:45:47.71\00:45:49.04
Has it ever happened to you,
00:45:49.08\00:45:51.41
you go somewhere and
you find out somebody
00:45:51.45\00:45:53.21
did something for
you and you're like,
00:45:53.25\00:45:56.48
you did this for me and
you're like overwhelmed.
00:45:56.52\00:45:59.09
And this is what
heaven is going to be like
00:45:59.12\00:46:01.36
over and over and over...
00:46:01.39\00:46:02.72
Continuously. Continuously.
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So it's just going to be,
00:46:04.13\00:46:06.33
you know, the Bible says that
in the presence of the Lord,
00:46:06.36\00:46:09.50
there's fullness of joy.
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And at His right hand...
00:46:13.10\00:46:14.44
What do you
mean fullness of joy?
00:46:14.47\00:46:16.10
Yeah, fullness of joy,
00:46:16.14\00:46:18.61
fullness of joy means
there's no time to be sad,
00:46:18.64\00:46:22.08
because you have all the joy
00:46:22.11\00:46:23.78
that you could possibly contain.
00:46:23.81\00:46:26.65
So, this is what
heaven is going to be like.
00:46:26.68\00:46:29.52
And so I want to
encourage people, you know,
00:46:29.55\00:46:32.85
you know, over and
over the Bible tells us,
00:46:32.89\00:46:37.43
Jesus is trying to tell us,
00:46:37.46\00:46:38.83
let this, well, how does it go?
00:46:38.86\00:46:43.43
Let your light...
00:46:43.47\00:46:44.87
Shine.
00:46:44.90\00:46:46.47
So shine before men
00:46:46.50\00:46:47.84
that they may
see your good works
00:46:47.87\00:46:49.20
and glorify your
Father which is in heaven.
00:46:49.24\00:46:51.47
So we need to stop resisting
this light from shining.
00:46:51.51\00:46:54.74
Amen.
00:46:54.78\00:46:56.11
We need to be like our dad.
00:46:56.14\00:46:57.88
Somebody needs to say
you're just like your dad.
00:46:57.91\00:47:00.98
See the light of
mine Spitting image.
00:47:01.02\00:47:03.45
Spitting image.
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And by the way,
how does this happen?
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Look at Romans 5:8.
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There's a couple of
elements I want to bring in,
00:47:08.46\00:47:10.79
how this is possible,
00:47:10.83\00:47:12.16
how this could
happen in your life.
00:47:12.19\00:47:14.23
And this is an
illustration of that.
00:47:14.26\00:47:17.03
Who didn't read yet?
00:47:17.07\00:47:18.47
Okay, Donald, Romans 5:8. Sure.
00:47:18.50\00:47:21.37
"But God commendeth
His own love toward us,
00:47:21.40\00:47:24.97
in that while we
were still sinners,
00:47:25.01\00:47:27.48
Christ died for us.
00:47:27.51\00:47:29.28
" What's another
word for commendeth?
00:47:29.31\00:47:32.18
Demonstrating. Demonstrating.
00:47:32.21\00:47:33.55
Yeah, yeah, it's
good word, demonstrating.
00:47:33.58\00:47:34.95
Now when did he do that?
00:47:34.98\00:47:36.62
When did he
demonstrate that love?
00:47:36.65\00:47:39.52
While we were yet sinners.
00:47:39.55\00:47:40.89
Okay, say it again.
00:47:40.92\00:47:42.26
While we were yet sinners.
00:47:42.29\00:47:43.63
So did he wait till
you got your act together?
00:47:43.66\00:47:46.06
Nope.
00:47:46.09\00:47:47.43
No, a lot of times
00:47:47.46\00:47:48.80
we look at people and we say,
00:47:48.83\00:47:50.17
why would I do anything for him?
00:47:50.20\00:47:51.53
Look at this,
look at that person.
00:47:51.57\00:47:53.13
Why would I even
want to help him.
00:47:53.17\00:47:55.20
And we have found
that the greatest joys,
00:47:55.24\00:47:57.17
we've been experiencing
this in our own life.
00:47:57.21\00:48:00.18
We have this family practice.
00:48:00.21\00:48:02.41
And this is by no
means glorifying us.
00:48:02.44\00:48:04.85
But it's something that
our parents instilled in us
00:48:04.88\00:48:06.98
growing up in a
West Indian home.
00:48:07.02\00:48:09.68
When we go to
visit people, our mom,
00:48:09.72\00:48:14.02
I learned this
growing up in that culture.
00:48:14.06\00:48:17.06
They said, "When
you go to visit family,
00:48:17.09\00:48:18.43
never go empty handed."
00:48:18.46\00:48:19.79
Bring something.
00:48:19.83\00:48:21.16
You know this to be true, right?
00:48:21.20\00:48:22.53
Even a card, you mail a card
00:48:22.56\00:48:24.80
or mail a card to
my mom or something.
00:48:24.83\00:48:27.10
You never mail an empty card.
00:48:27.14\00:48:29.60
You always put something in it.
00:48:29.64\00:48:30.97
That's how we were raised.
That's how we were raised.
00:48:31.01\00:48:32.67
And the older
people always give.
00:48:32.71\00:48:35.58
And it tickles us
00:48:35.61\00:48:36.95
when we recently
took some time off
00:48:36.98\00:48:38.91
and went together on vacation
00:48:38.95\00:48:40.28
to go visit family
in the Virgin Islands.
00:48:40.32\00:48:42.28
We had a whole suitcase
00:48:42.32\00:48:44.45
of thank the Lord
that the Lord worked out
00:48:44.49\00:48:47.39
that we could go first class.
00:48:47.42\00:48:48.76
And we had...
00:48:48.79\00:48:50.13
Without paying
Without paying anything extra.
00:48:50.16\00:48:52.53
And we right away we said,
00:48:52.56\00:48:55.13
the Lord knew we needed this
00:48:55.16\00:48:56.50
because we would have to
pay extra for that suitcase.
00:48:56.53\00:48:58.37
And so then we, when we,
00:48:58.40\00:48:59.73
when they showed us
the day before that,
00:48:59.77\00:49:01.90
you were clear for first
class, you know, we upgraded,
00:49:01.94\00:49:04.27
we fill that thing
00:49:04.31\00:49:05.64
we said we're
going to need most of it.
00:49:05.67\00:49:07.01
Seventy pounds.
00:49:07.04\00:49:08.38
We'll need most of
these over there anyway.
00:49:08.41\00:49:09.74
So took things
for my family and food
00:49:09.78\00:49:12.55
and so many other
things and it just tickles.
00:49:12.58\00:49:15.65
You know, if you try this,
00:49:15.68\00:49:17.02
if you try to
be nice to someone,
00:49:17.05\00:49:19.42
you'll
understand what joy means.
00:49:19.45\00:49:21.72
It tickles you. Say it again.
00:49:21.76\00:49:23.09
It's more blessed to
give than to receive.
00:49:23.12\00:49:25.73
It tickles.
00:49:25.76\00:49:27.10
Yeah, I feel so good to give.
00:49:27.13\00:49:29.23
That's right, happy peaceful.
00:49:29.26\00:49:30.63
Yeah, even though
we're in a different topic,
00:49:30.67\00:49:32.33
but all it is,
it's about selfless.
00:49:32.37\00:49:34.00
And even though we
celebrated my birthday there,
00:49:34.04\00:49:36.27
it was so good to
hear my older brother say,
00:49:36.30\00:49:38.07
"I've the best
youngest, younger brother."
00:49:38.11\00:49:39.77
He did.
00:49:39.81\00:49:41.14
Because it just tickles me
00:49:41.18\00:49:42.51
knowing that he lives
in the Virgin Islands.
00:49:42.54\00:49:43.95
And right now
COVID-19 environment
00:49:43.98\00:49:46.21
and this is the environment
00:49:46.25\00:49:47.58
that this really is practical
to start getting out of self.
00:49:47.62\00:49:50.69
You might be next to a
neighbor that's older or lonely.
00:49:50.72\00:49:54.32
They don't have to
even be advanced in age.
00:49:54.36\00:49:55.92
You might say, I'm
going to the store.
00:49:55.96\00:49:57.43
Is there something you
want, because my aunt and uncle,
00:49:57.46\00:50:00.20
they don't go to the store.
00:50:00.23\00:50:01.56
They haven't been out in
the community since March.
00:50:01.60\00:50:04.40
But they're saying,
00:50:04.43\00:50:05.77
we, you know, we
are advanced in years.
00:50:05.80\00:50:07.44
We don't want to get sick.
00:50:07.47\00:50:09.30
So you might say, you know what?
00:50:09.34\00:50:11.81
I don't really want to spend
00:50:11.84\00:50:13.31
20 more minutes
in the grocery store
00:50:13.34\00:50:15.24
but let me see
what my neighbor wants.
00:50:15.28\00:50:18.55
This is the opportunity
00:50:18.58\00:50:19.91
for this to be
allowed in your life.
00:50:19.95\00:50:21.28
That's grace.
00:50:21.32\00:50:22.65
So many disasters going on, too.
00:50:22.68\00:50:24.02
I know Joe, he
was just telling us
00:50:24.05\00:50:25.39
recently his
daughter and husband,
00:50:25.42\00:50:28.56
they went to Iowa
00:50:28.59\00:50:29.92
where they had
that massive Derecho,
00:50:29.96\00:50:31.89
I guess it's called...
00:50:31.93\00:50:33.26
The heavy winds.
00:50:33.29\00:50:34.63
One hundred twenty
mile an hour winds.
00:50:34.66\00:50:36.00
So now they're going
out there with chainsaws
00:50:36.03\00:50:37.37
and cutting trees down
00:50:37.40\00:50:38.73
and this guy was busy
preparing the chainsaw.
00:50:38.77\00:50:40.10
So the next morning early,
00:50:40.14\00:50:41.47
like midnight, or
one in the morning,
00:50:41.50\00:50:43.00
getting the
chain sharpen and oil.
00:50:43.04\00:50:44.37
They ran out of oil
00:50:44.41\00:50:45.74
and this guy
provided light for them.
00:50:45.77\00:50:47.11
We found he's doing this.
00:50:47.14\00:50:48.48
He said, "What are
you guys doing this for?
00:50:48.51\00:50:49.84
What is this?"
00:50:49.88\00:50:51.21
So we're trying to
help the neighborhood down.
00:50:51.25\00:50:52.58
He said, well, let me help you.
00:50:52.61\00:50:53.95
So he brought his chainsaws on,
00:50:53.98\00:50:55.32
he got all his
bar oil and start,
00:50:55.35\00:50:56.69
you know, helping the guy out.
00:50:56.72\00:50:58.05
So it's like
contagious, I think we begin to,
00:50:58.09\00:51:00.09
you know, put self aside,
00:51:00.12\00:51:01.66
I think there's
something that happens
00:51:01.69\00:51:03.02
that creates a spark
in people, they want that,
00:51:03.06\00:51:05.43
it's like something
just gives them that joy
00:51:05.46\00:51:07.20
and they want to
be a part of that.
00:51:07.23\00:51:08.96
It's kind of interesting,
00:51:09.00\00:51:10.33
You know, you
remind me of a story
00:51:10.37\00:51:11.70
that is very, very powerful.
00:51:11.73\00:51:13.94
And there was this,
00:51:13.97\00:51:16.57
this house that was
being built from the ground up.
00:51:16.60\00:51:20.51
And one of the neighbors
noticed, boy, there's a lot,
00:51:20.54\00:51:23.35
there are a lot of
people working there.
00:51:23.38\00:51:25.11
And it was hot, you know,
00:51:25.15\00:51:26.51
and it was people were sweating.
00:51:26.55\00:51:27.98
But they were out there working.
00:51:28.02\00:51:29.62
And they were
singing and they were happy.
00:51:29.65\00:51:31.69
And so the neighbor
comes over and he says,
00:51:31.72\00:51:34.92
"Who's in charge here?"
00:51:34.96\00:51:36.39
"That guy over there."
00:51:36.42\00:51:37.76
"Okay, hey, how much
you paying these people?"
00:51:37.79\00:51:41.73
"We're not paying
them anything.""What?"
00:51:41.76\00:51:43.30
He says,
00:51:43.33\00:51:44.67
"But they're all
working so happy.
00:51:44.70\00:51:47.00
How can it?
00:51:47.04\00:51:48.74
How can it be that
you're not paying them?"
00:51:48.77\00:51:50.34
"Oh, no, we're not
paying them anything.
00:51:50.37\00:51:51.71
As a matter of fact,
they paid to be here."
00:51:51.74\00:51:53.84
Because these were
people that you know,
00:51:53.88\00:51:55.28
they live somewhere else
00:51:55.31\00:51:56.64
and they come to
help build a home.
00:51:56.68\00:51:58.65
He says they pay to be here
00:51:58.68\00:52:02.48
and you're not
paying them anything.
00:52:02.52\00:52:03.85
That's right.
00:52:03.89\00:52:05.22
And he goes,
wow, that's amazing.
00:52:05.25\00:52:07.42
And you know,
00:52:07.46\00:52:08.79
when you come to find
out people are doing this
00:52:08.82\00:52:10.16
because they want
to show the love of God
00:52:10.19\00:52:12.59
to someone else.
00:52:12.63\00:52:14.90
You know,
00:52:14.93\00:52:16.26
you have the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
00:52:16.30\00:52:17.63
has many ministries
00:52:17.67\00:52:19.00
and some of the
ministries do this.
00:52:19.03\00:52:20.37
I mean, you...
00:52:20.40\00:52:21.74
Maranatha. Maranatha does this.
00:52:21.77\00:52:23.10
People pay to go...
00:52:23.14\00:52:24.47
People pay to
go to these places.
00:52:24.51\00:52:25.84
And help people for free.
00:52:25.87\00:52:27.21
Yes, I remember one time
being with a ministry, boy,
00:52:27.24\00:52:31.35
I'm trying to
remember the ministry,
00:52:31.38\00:52:32.98
may come to mind in a moment.
00:52:33.01\00:52:34.85
But we were in Guatemala,
helping people for some reason,
00:52:34.88\00:52:40.82
I'm confusing the
name of the ministry.
00:52:40.86\00:52:42.19
But anyway, we
were in Guatemala,
00:52:42.22\00:52:43.56
it was Thanksgiving Day.
00:52:43.59\00:52:45.29
There were nurses,
doctors, dentists, and all this.
00:52:45.33\00:52:47.80
And Idalia and I were
there with Simon Keller,
00:52:47.83\00:52:50.27
we were all had the
opportunity to do this.
00:52:50.30\00:52:51.80
And I started
looking at this and I go,
00:52:51.83\00:52:55.20
you know, these
people could be home,
00:52:55.24\00:52:57.87
doctors and nurses and dentists.
00:52:57.91\00:53:00.31
They could be home
with a big spread of food,
00:53:00.34\00:53:04.05
you know, because this
is what they do in America.
00:53:04.08\00:53:06.78
And they have paid to be that
00:53:06.82\00:53:09.05
they had taken
vacation to be there.
00:53:09.08\00:53:11.15
And they were
serving other people.
00:53:11.19\00:53:13.82
And they were happy to do it.
00:53:13.86\00:53:15.36
How do I know?
00:53:15.39\00:53:16.73
Because they had
done it the year before,
00:53:16.76\00:53:18.09
the year before
and the year before.
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You see so, this is
what God does in us.
00:53:19.93\00:53:23.00
He changes us
00:53:23.03\00:53:24.37
from being self-centered
to being considered of others.
00:53:24.40\00:53:27.30
Okay.
00:53:27.34\00:53:28.67
Now, I want you to
read Galatians 2:20, Honey,
00:53:28.70\00:53:30.47
it's right here
to save the time.
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Amen, that was beautiful.
00:53:31.87\00:53:33.21
That is the illustration
00:53:33.24\00:53:34.58
of what we're
going to read right now.
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Oh, marvelous.
How does this happen?
00:53:35.98\00:53:37.45
Read Galatians 2:20.
This is how it happens.
00:53:37.48\00:53:39.61
It doesn't happen based on
00:53:39.65\00:53:41.18
just your
gumption to do something.
00:53:41.22\00:53:43.72
This is how it
happens naturally.
00:53:43.75\00:53:46.09
Okay, Galatians 2:20.
00:53:46.12\00:53:47.46
"I have been
crucified with Christ."
00:53:47.49\00:53:49.89
Who has been
crucified? Me, self.
00:53:49.92\00:53:52.43
Another way to spell
self is I, one letter, okay.
00:53:52.46\00:53:57.70
"It is no longer I who live,
00:53:57.73\00:54:01.64
but Christ lives in me.
00:54:01.67\00:54:04.97
And the life which I
now live in the flesh,
00:54:05.01\00:54:09.58
I live by faith
in the Son of God,
00:54:09.61\00:54:12.05
who loved me
00:54:12.08\00:54:13.62
and gave himself for me."
00:54:13.65\00:54:15.85
That's selfless, isn't it?
00:54:15.88\00:54:17.49
Who's working
out His will in us?
00:54:17.52\00:54:20.89
Christ. Jesus.
00:54:20.92\00:54:22.26
That's right.
00:54:22.29\00:54:23.63
For it is God
who works in you both
00:54:23.66\00:54:25.06
to will and to do
of His good pleasure.
00:54:25.09\00:54:27.13
The remedy for
selfish for selflessness,
00:54:27.16\00:54:31.30
if you want to replace
selfishness to selflessness,
00:54:31.33\00:54:35.27
you got to let Christ come in.
00:54:35.30\00:54:36.91
Because we could attend
00:54:36.94\00:54:38.27
somebody talked about
his behavioral modification.
00:54:38.31\00:54:41.24
For some time,
people can be nice.
00:54:41.28\00:54:43.38
Everybody has the capacity
00:54:43.41\00:54:45.28
to be nice under
special circumstances,
00:54:45.31\00:54:48.92
you know, tree fell down.
00:54:48.95\00:54:50.29
Everybody's going to
come out with their chainsaws,
00:54:50.32\00:54:52.39
but when there
are not emergencies,
00:54:52.42\00:54:56.22
when the crowd is not around,
00:54:56.26\00:54:57.73
to give you accolades
that you just did this,
00:54:57.76\00:55:00.13
when you're not going
to get a community ribbon,
00:55:00.16\00:55:03.20
that's when the Lord is
saying, hey, that's gonna count.
00:55:03.23\00:55:05.63
Pastor Dinzey, let me
have a quote before we end.
00:55:05.67\00:55:07.10
Yeah, my wife, I asked my wife,
00:55:07.14\00:55:08.47
"What's the name
of the ministry?"
00:55:08.50\00:55:09.84
Broken Chains for Humanity,
we went with them to Guatemala.
00:55:09.87\00:55:12.14
They did a wonderful work.
00:55:12.17\00:55:13.78
And there are many
ministries like this.
00:55:13.81\00:55:16.11
And so get involved, do
something for other people,
00:55:16.14\00:55:19.08
you want to be happy, do
something for other people
00:55:19.11\00:55:21.48
and you'll see that
your joy will increase.
00:55:21.52\00:55:24.19
Yes.
00:55:24.22\00:55:25.55
There's a quotation
from the Southern Watchman,
00:55:25.59\00:55:27.42
and then I'm going to
have you read Matthew 7:12.
00:55:27.46\00:55:30.09
Because that's the ultimate,
00:55:30.13\00:55:32.26
ultimate measure
00:55:32.29\00:55:33.80
of how the power of
selflessness is born.
00:55:33.83\00:55:38.00
The Southern
Watchman, August 1, 1905,
00:55:38.03\00:55:42.27
"There is no
limit to the usefulness
00:55:42.30\00:55:47.71
of one who putting self aside
00:55:47.74\00:55:52.48
makes room for the
working of the Holy Spirit
00:55:52.51\00:55:55.28
upon his heart,
00:55:55.32\00:55:56.65
and lives a life,
00:55:56.69\00:55:58.59
holy consecrated to God.
00:55:58.62\00:56:01.29
" You want to
live a limitless life,
00:56:01.32\00:56:03.32
that's the way to do it.
00:56:03.36\00:56:04.76
Put self aside,
00:56:04.79\00:56:06.13
and the Spirit of
God will work in you
00:56:06.16\00:56:07.90
in a powerful, powerful way.
00:56:07.93\00:56:09.83
And then this
principle will begin
00:56:09.86\00:56:12.43
to be activated in your life.
00:56:12.47\00:56:14.30
Matthew 7:12, Honey?
00:56:14.34\00:56:16.67
Okay, 7:12, says,
00:56:16.71\00:56:21.31
"Therefore, whatever
you want men to do to you,
00:56:21.34\00:56:24.25
do also to them, for this
is the law and the prophets."
00:56:24.28\00:56:28.58
That's right.
00:56:28.62\00:56:29.95
The only way you could do that,
00:56:29.98\00:56:31.32
if Christ is
activated in your life.
00:56:31.35\00:56:33.56
Twenty seconds each
as we're winding up.
00:56:33.59\00:56:35.46
Pastor Dinzey,
I'll start with you.
00:56:35.49\00:56:37.86
You mentioned that the
greatest battle was self.
00:56:37.89\00:56:41.46
That's the greatest battle.
00:56:41.50\00:56:42.83
So surrender
your will to the Lord,
00:56:42.86\00:56:46.00
give yourself,
Lord, take me and mold me,
00:56:46.03\00:56:48.44
according to Your likeness
and good things will happen.
00:56:48.47\00:56:50.77
That's right. I like that.
00:56:50.81\00:56:52.14
Donald? I think
Jesus said it best.
00:56:52.17\00:56:53.71
He said, "I'm always
about My Father's business."
00:56:53.74\00:56:55.78
He didn't come to be
served, but He came to serve.
00:56:55.81\00:56:59.21
So I think that's
the beauty of this,
00:56:59.25\00:57:00.85
He comes as a servant.
00:57:00.88\00:57:02.48
That's right.
00:57:02.52\00:57:03.85
And Desire of Ages,
pages 440, I end with this,
00:57:03.89\00:57:05.95
"Angels are ever present,
where they are most needed.
00:57:05.99\00:57:09.92
But those who
have the hardest battle
00:57:09.96\00:57:12.36
with self to fight,
00:57:12.39\00:57:14.23
and whose surroundings
are the most discouraging,
00:57:14.26\00:57:17.07
and in this ministry,
00:57:17.10\00:57:18.90
Christ's true
followers will cooperate."
00:57:18.93\00:57:22.27
Our prayer for you
00:57:22.30\00:57:23.64
is that the Lord
will live in your life
00:57:23.67\00:57:25.01
as you open the door.
00:57:25.04\00:57:26.78
We say Happy
Sabbath. Can we all say that?
00:57:26.81\00:57:28.48
Happy Sabbath. Happy Sabbath.
00:57:28.51\00:57:30.45
May the Lord bless you
00:57:30.48\00:57:31.81
until we see you again
00:57:31.85\00:57:33.62
and you can in
Christ live a selfless life.
00:57:33.65\00:57:36.28
Amen. Amen.
00:57:36.32\00:57:37.82