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 word
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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. Happy Sabbath.
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And welcome to Family Worship.
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I'm so happy to be
here with you tonight,
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especially Sabbath,
don't you love Sabbath, honey?
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That's right, honey.
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It says to the
body slow down, relax.
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Yes.
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And while you're doing
the slowing down and relaxing,
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get your Bibles to join us.
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We're talking about
building up your defenses.
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Now we talk about
immunity right now.
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That's a big word.
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Herd immunity is
an amazing phrase,
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right now we're dealing
with diseases of every kind,
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not just the
pandemic but so many others,
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but immunity.
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And it takes a
while for the body
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to build up immunity.
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It sure does.
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And well, we're gonna be talking
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about a line of...
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Line of defense. Defense.
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Yeah, your immunity to
sin, your immunity to trials,
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your immunity to
difficult things.
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But let's go ahead
and introduce our family.
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Why don't you do
that for us, honey,
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'cause we are not by ourselves.
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Oh, I'd be happy to.
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Right here, we have
Jan and Donald from,
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well, they go to our church also
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and we're all in the way.
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So happy to have you here.
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You work in the
Publishing Department
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and you're in pastoral.
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Yeah it's been a blessing. Yeah.
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We've just been
thankful 3ABN accepted us
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and brought us in and loved us.
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And it's just been
an amazing journey.
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We've been so thankful.
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And you also
personal ministries leader
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at our church.
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Aren't they a
wonderful couple, honey?
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Oh. Very inspiring.
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Thank you. God
has been good to us.
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He's very patient. Yes, yes.
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And I don't know if to
call him our nephew now
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because he always
calls me Uncle Lomey.
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Oh, we just love
our sweetie over here.
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Jason Bradley,
welcome to Family Worship.
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You're not a
stranger to Family Worship.
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No, it's great to be here.
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Looking forward to
diving into the topic.
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And yes, you are Uncle
Lomey and Auntie Angela.
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Amen. Always will be.
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That's right. That's right.
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Just love our J.
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That's right. That's right.
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And for those of
you that are joining us
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from your living room
or wherever you may be,
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whether with your
family or by yourself,
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we always like to
begin with prayer.
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So, honey, would you
lead us into prayer tonight?
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Let's bow our heads.
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Our precious Heavenly Father,
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we come to You in
the name of Jesus,
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giving You all
praise, honor, and glory
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for You are worthy.
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We thank You
for this opportunity
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to uplift Your name
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through this
wonderful family worship.
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It's a privilege and honor
to represent You here on earth.
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And we ask for
Your presence to be here
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through your Holy
spirit, to lead and guide us
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as we study this vital topic,
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as we are truly
in the last days.
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We thank You.
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We praise You, and we
honor You always in Jesus' name.
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Amen. Amen.
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Thank you, honey.
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I've heard that voice
many nights praying for me
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and many
mornings praying for me,
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and every Sabbath
morning, my wife prays for me.
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It's become not
a tradition alone
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but something
that I look forward to.
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So thank you, honey.
Well, we pray for each other.
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For being able
to hear that voice.
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And if you're a husband,
you have a praying wife,
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you're a blessed man.
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Oh, yes.
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And we praise the Lord for that.
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And by the way,
Donald is also part
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of our prayer ministries.
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You're part of the
prayer ministries team
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for our church.
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Prayer makes a difference.
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Once again,
revisiting this topic,
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we're talking about how
to build up your defenses.
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I kind of...
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I don't even plan on
using that as an analogy,
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but we could all
contribute to that.
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I've heard before that,
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and this is
something that may be sensitive
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to some people,
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if you're in this
category right now,
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this is not intended to
make you feel uncomfortable,
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but I've heard that sometimes
when people take chemotherapy,
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it wipes away all
their defense mechanisms
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that the body has
built up through the years,
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like whatever the
cold may have been
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or the virus may have been,
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the body builds up
this map of immunities
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throughout the years
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so that if that
cold virus comes again,
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"Oh, I had that 15 years ago.
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It doesn't bother me anymore."
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And so I'm looking
at that and thinking,
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that's what happens
in the Christian life.
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Building up our defenses
doesn't happen overnight.
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Right.
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It happens through
years of preparation,
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being exposed to things
that are not good for us,
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being exposed to
things that could tell us...
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Well, remember that
don't do that the same time,
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the same way again.
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Curtis Akins and Paula Akins,
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I just
interviewed them on radio.
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And he said something
about building up your immunity,
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your immune system.
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It's like putting a key
with gum at the end of the key.
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And that protects you.
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In other words, that gum,
it protects your immune system
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and that's sort
of a line of defense
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in your immune system.
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I thought that
was an interesting way
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of looking at it.
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And my wife has
also been saying to me,
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if you get more rest,
you have better immunity.
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Oh, yeah.
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Always telling you
how important rest is
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'cause you need at
least seven hours of sleep
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at night.
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Yes. Thank you. Yeah.
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Thank you.
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Easier said than done.
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Let you wife now to go to sleep.
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And let your mind rest.
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Don't let your mind go
over and over and over.
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Turn off the
phone. Turn it off. Yes.
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An hour before bed.
Yes, turn off your...
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Device. Devices, and all that.
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It's a good
advice, but sometimes
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how do you take your own advice.
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And, Jason,
you're the single guy
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amongst us.
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Who's given you advice? God.
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Good answer.
God's given me advice.
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The Word of God, you know,
the interesting thing about,
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you know, the immune system
and building up your immunity
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is you can also
weaken your immune system too
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by what you're
putting into your body.
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So you're eating a lot of sugar,
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if you're eating a lot of junk,
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if you're taking things in
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that aren't going to
strengthen that immune system,
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it's naturally,
it's gonna weaken
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that immune system.
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And the same is true
with our spiritual lives.
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If we're taking in,
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you know, a bunch of
movies and television shows
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that we're not
supposed to be watching
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and things of that nature
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and listening to
the wrong types of music
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and all of that,
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we're weakening
our spiritual immunity,
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whereas if we
focus on the Word of God
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and we take in and apply
those principles to our lives,
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then our immune systems,
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our spiritual immune systems
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will be
strengthened beyond belief.
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Wow, well said.
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Something that you
touched on made me think
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about another
part of we can lose
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our immunity is fear.
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Fear, really,
especially in the world
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we're in right now, fear...
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I just had a
conversation with a lady earlier
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and I'm on the phone with her,
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and she was telling me
that she's been in fear
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because she
doesn't know how to pray.
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She didn't have time to pray.
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Her family is just
so busy and she said,
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"I just, I feel like I'm
getting away from the Lord.
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I want a prayer
of rededication."
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So she really wanted
to rededicate her life
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and spending that
quality time, had to assure,
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find those promises
that God has for you,
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as you can use as a
weapon against the enemy
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when he comes in
like a flood against you.
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So immunity is God's
Word is immunity for us.
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The Word of God.
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I was gonna mention
too to what Jason said
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that when I've noticed
that when I get too much fluff,
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as far as like the videos
that are really no substance,
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you know, and just, you know,
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like maybe Home
Improvement shows,
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it's not that it's
like bad, bad, but stuff
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that it's not
enhancing my walk with the Lord.
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I just, I feel
kind of just like, blah,
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just like you're
talking about with food,
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just like my brain is
just like, it's just...
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Jelly. It's not enhanced.
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Yeah.
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So, you know, that also happens,
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you know, in the brain
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when you don't take
in enough spiritual meat
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and your brain just
kind of, it's just there,
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there's no growth.
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You need spiritual vitamin.
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I just wanna say for a moment,
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you've been
preaching up a stone.
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Your sermons have really been...
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They're very timely.
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Very timely. That
is so true, Jason.
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Because I wanna
be to some degree,
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as we look at the story
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that we're gonna
begin with today,
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we are in a time of in a law.
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Although there've been a
lot of conflicts in America,
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a lot of
conflicts around the world,
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for whatever
reason, the reasons vary.
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But for the people of God,
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those things to
me are distractions
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from really what's coming.
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Just kind of like
having a backyard brawl
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or beach fight when
there's a tsunami coming.
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Stop fighting,
there's a tsunami coming.
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And the devil has been so artful
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and distracting
the people of God
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and I've been really concerned
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about what I've been
seeing in Christianity.
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Primarily this is what motivated
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this family worship.
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Christianity has been
presented to the world
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an awful picture of Jesus,
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an awful
picture of what it means
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to be a Christian.
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You know, the anger, the
hostility, the profanity,
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that's just been rolling
out of the mouths of people,
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it's been
happening here in America.
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I'm not so much
mindful of what's happening
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all over the world,
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but we've been a melting pot
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of just so many different kinds
of emotions here in America.
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And because a lot of the church
of what happens in America
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influences the
church around the world
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and people around the world,
we sneeze, they catch a cold.
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It's important
for us now to say,
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what kind of
Christian do I wanna be?
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How do I wanna to
build up my defenses
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so that when
the real test comes,
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we could be ready for it. Amen.
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So let's dive into,
if you have your Bibles,
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go to 2 Chronicles Chapter 14,
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we're gonna take not
that the entire life,
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but we're gonna walk
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through some
questions and answers.
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We're gonna
consider this young man
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by the name of Asa.
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And I like to, years ago
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in the book Evangelism
Ellen White talks about
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learning the method
of teaching questions
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and Jesus
always asked questions.
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So if you ask a question,
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it kind of opens the door
for the answer that is to come.
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So let's kind of
in a methodical way
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and we're gonna interweave
a lot of our own experiences
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in this program.
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Well, let's start with
2 Chronicles Chapter 14.
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And, honey, would
you begin with verse 1?
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And then we're gonna...
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I'll lead the question to you.
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What experience
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does God allow
his children to enjoy?
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And then go ahead.
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"So Abijah
rested with his fathers
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and they buried him
in the City of David.
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Then Asa his son
reigned in his place.
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In his days, the land
was quiet for 10 years."
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What would you answer to that?
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What does God allow
his children to enjoy?
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Peace. Rest.
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Peace and rest.
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That's a long
time, 10 years of peace.
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Yes.
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And when you think about that,
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I mean, he didn't
get a text saying,
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"It's gonna be
peaceful for 10 years."
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So what do you
learn out of that?
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Wow.
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You know, what I was thinking
about was really interesting.
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Well, we're going to
get into a little bit later,
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but this idea of, you know,
we come to a moment of peace.
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What do we usually do?
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We become complacent.
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Relax, let our guards down.
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Let her guard
down, become complacent.
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But as we see the story unfold,
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we're going to see
something a little different.
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But yeah, that idea,
those years of peace,
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as you're saying,
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we should be
fortifying ourselves
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and getting ourselves ready
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because
something's on the horizon.
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Well, I think too Asa,
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he didn't know how
long that piece would last.
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So he needed to
have trust in God
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because no matter what,
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that's gonna get you through,
whether it's peaceful or not,
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but he didn't know how
long it would last, so...
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That's true.
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Even though it
was a good 10 years,
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that's a good...
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It's a long time.
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Imagine peace in America
or in this world for 10 years.
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It's like, what we
call, the blank before the...
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Storm. Calm before the storm.
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J, go to the second one
and kind of lead into that
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with the question
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'cause I want to kind of
set the foundation with that.
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Well, I have a couple of points.
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I'd like to comment on
the first one if it's okay.
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Okay. Great.
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So when I think
about what experience
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does God allow
his children to enjoy,
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I think of Philippians 4:7,
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"And the peace of God,
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which surpasses
all understanding
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will guard your hearts and minds
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through Christ Jesus."
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In John chapter 10:10,
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"The thief does not
come except to steal
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and to kill and to destroy.
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I have come that
they may have life
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and that they may
have it more abundantly."
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And Psalm Chapter 16:11,
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"You will show
me the path of life,
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in Your presence
is fullness of joy,
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at Your right hand are
pleasures forevermore."
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So it really just
kind of shows the contrast.
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You know, when
you accept Christ,
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you know these
things, you have peace,
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you have joy, you
have the fullness of joy,
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and at Your right hand
are pleasures forevermore.
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So like that's
what comes from God,
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which is incredible.
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I'm glad you brought that up
because a lot of times we say
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Christians go
through a lot of persecution,
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but the Bible does say the
way of the transgressor is hard.
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You wanna have peace.
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That's relevant
to your experience,
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give your life to Christ.
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And you could have peace
in turmoil too in this world
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where so much stress
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and all this
heartache is going on.
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You still could have peace.
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That passes all understanding,
like you just said.
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Yes. Yes.
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And that's true peace
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'cause the world offers
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that fleeting feeling, you know?
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Manufactured peace.
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Manufactured peace. Propped up.
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Yeah.
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When you have to
aim your guns at me
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and I aim my guns
at you to have peace,
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that's not real peace.
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That's a fierce thing,
right? That's not peace.
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Like there, Dora Magrath.
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That's right. So number two.
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All right.
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In Asa's time of peace,
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what did he do to
prepare for future defenses?
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We're gonna look at 2
Chronicles Chapter 14:2, 3.
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"Asa did what was good and right
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in the eyes of the Lord his God.
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For he removed the
altars of the foreign gods
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in the high places
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and broke down
the sacred pillars
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and cut down the wooden images."
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So what would you say he did?
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Actually, I had
a question to that
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and I asked
Janelle this morning.
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Actually last
night, we're studying this.
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So as Asa did that,
which was good and right,
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so how did Asa know
what was good and right?
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That's a question.
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How did he know?
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Asa, if you follow his life,
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you go through a
chronicle literally of kings.
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And Asa having...
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His dad was Abijah,
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Abijah didn't do
what was all right.
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But so he saw his
father's errors, I believe,
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he saw the things
that his father did.
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That was right,
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because there was some victories
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in the days of Abijah,
but it didn't go all the way.
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And Asa probably said,
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"I'm not gonna
do like my dad did."
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How many of you ever
saw something and said,
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"I'm not gonna
follow his example"?
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Yeah.
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You used to say I learn
from other people's mistake.
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And sometimes from
my own, sadly enough.
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Yeah.
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But I think Asa
looked at his father
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because his father
had some victories,
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but then he had some
vices in his own life.
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And Asa said,
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"Whoa, I know
what the people think
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of my dad,
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but they don't know
this part of my dad.
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I better do."
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And this is the point
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when you do what is
right in the sight of the Lord,
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that's most important
because not everybody sees you,
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but he did what was
right in God's sight.
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That means for his
private life was also...
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And he was paying attention
to his dad's character.
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Right.
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And I think
that's a good trait too
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to pay attention to those things
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that you don't want
to have in your own life.
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I think of sports,
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you know, like,
you know, basketball.
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So after a game,
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you know, where you have that,
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you know, you're
in between games.
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There's no... You
don't get complacent.
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Now it's training time.
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You're watching game tapes.
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You're studying your
adversaries' weaknesses.
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You're talking and strategizing
and all of that stuff.
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And you're practicing harder
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than the game might actually be.
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But you're taking everything in
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and you're trying to build
those tools during that time.
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So I think about sports,
you know, you just can't relax.
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You're right.
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You got to keep
fortifying the mind.
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I have to piggyback
off what you just said.
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I've been doing
some different workouts.
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And one of these series
of workouts I was watching,
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they talk about
time under tension
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and how there's
certain exercises
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you can do, you don't let
your muscle completely relax.
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You just, you keep it engaged,
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but not totally
relaxed but still engaged.
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And they call it
time under tension.
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And it kind of goes
along with what you're saying.
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It's engaging that
muscle so that it's,
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you know, ready
for the next move.
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I think something I see here too
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that we're
talking about how Asa knew
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not to do what his dad
did, but how did he know?
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And I can always
think that it had to come
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from the Holy Spirit.
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I mean the Holy
Spirit convicts us of sin.
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So it had to been
the Holy Spirit to say,
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"Hey, Asa, this is not the
way you want to be walking.
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You need to walk contrary
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to what your
dad is doing," so...
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Amen. That's right.
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Don't redundantly
make the same mistake.
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But if you look at that verse,
kind of get some feedback.
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What he doing in these verses
when you look at that, honey,
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what was he doing?
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Well, he tore down
the altars, the foreign...
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These altars of high
worship broke down these images.
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He was getting rid of these.
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So if you put that
in your life today,
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what's he doing?
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Clearing out the junk.
Kick out the junk in my life.
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Clean it, Lord. Amen.
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He said, "Okay,
that's gotta go."
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That's gotta
go. That's gotta go.
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That's gotta go.
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That, I'm not
watching that anymore.
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He starts
reforming his own life.
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We've done that
too. We've done that.
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We've done the
cleansing, haven't we?
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And I think that's
why you preach in the way
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you have been.
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We've had a cleaning
in our personal life.
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We've been looking
at things in our life
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that should not be there.
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We're not looking at
this when that works,
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we're not reading.
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Nope. We're done with that.
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Even the commercials on
TV, it's kind of scares me.
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It's like, Nope, nope, nope.
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Turn the channel. Right.
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Because we'd been doing
an internal cleansing too.
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And it gives you the
gumption to be more intentional
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in saying, "This is
what God wants us to do."
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Yes. And I think the...
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Sorry. Okay.
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I think that in the
Bible, at least in my mind,
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when I see the word idol,
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I always
replace it with the word
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that I'm
familiar with addiction.
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And I think that
they're interchangeable
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because, you know, idols,
sometimes it's in the Bible,
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we see where it
talks about physical idols,
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but it might not be
just a physical idol,
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like a figure of,
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you know, things that
you might first think of.
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But more, it's
so much more broader
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than just praying to a statue
or what's in front of you.
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It's so much more
broader than that,
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but you know what you're saying?
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It makes me think of
addictions and strongholds.
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That's right.
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The thing that
gets all your attention,
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that so easily besets you.
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Yeah.
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I was thinking
something interesting too.
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I find in here, and this is what
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I was challenging
all yesterday night.
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It's like essentially,
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when Solomon rose
to power as a king,
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his first thing
was pray for wisdom
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because he didn't know
how to lead the people.
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But you see where he went,
totally down the wrong path.
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And you see this gentleman Asa,
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you don't see him
actually pray for wisdom.
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But he got wisdom
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and obviously the Holy
Spirit's working on him
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and you see what he did,
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obviously his
decisions protected the nation.
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Whereas Solomon
started destroying a nation,
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started tearing the nation down.
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And we're gonna go
to the next one now,
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which I like Donald to go to
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because not only did
he do this in his own life
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but look at the reach...
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Right, right.
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Of what he did
with his own life.
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And this is why, Jason,
I've been just kind of saying,
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Lord, lead me to lead my people.
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Yes.
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And I've been influenced
by what I've been reading
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in the Bible.
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Look at the third one
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and lead into it
with the question
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just so we can impact that.
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What did Asa lead his people
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to do while they
experienced peace?
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And 2
Chronicles, 14:4-5, tells us,
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"He commanded Judah
to seek the Lord God
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of their fathers
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and to observe the
law and the commandment.
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He also removed the high places
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that incense altars
from all the cities of Judah
00:20:46.74\00:20:49.18
and the kingdom
was quiet under him."
00:20:49.21\00:20:51.61
Wow, notice once
again, peace, 10 years.
00:20:51.65\00:20:54.68
And then when
they started doing it,
00:20:54.72\00:20:57.42
it was not only personal
peace but what else was it?
00:20:57.45\00:21:00.62
It was like national...
It was national peace.
00:21:00.66\00:21:03.22
It's interesting
because it's like,
00:21:03.26\00:21:04.59
you start a title life.
00:21:04.63\00:21:05.96
Right.
00:21:05.99\00:21:07.33
It's a chain
reaction starts a spark.
00:21:07.36\00:21:08.70
Once you start
making change your life,
00:21:08.73\00:21:10.07
like you're saying,
Jason, you've been...
00:21:10.10\00:21:11.43
Pastor's been on fire,
but now it's infecting you.
00:21:11.47\00:21:14.57
It's affecting your
viewers. It's infectious.
00:21:14.60\00:21:20.44
So he caught on to
the rest of the nation.
00:21:20.48\00:21:23.95
One of my favorite preachers
Pastor Henry Wright years ago,
00:21:23.98\00:21:26.85
he says, you can't get
anybody ready for the fire
00:21:26.88\00:21:29.68
that's coming
00:21:29.72\00:21:31.05
unless there's
fire down in your soul.
00:21:31.09\00:21:32.42
Right.
00:21:32.45\00:21:33.79
You know, it's like
trying to start a fire
00:21:33.82\00:21:35.66
in the fireplace
with a wet match.
00:21:35.69\00:21:37.99
Not gonna work. Not gonna work.
00:21:38.03\00:21:39.36
Not gonna work.
00:21:39.39\00:21:41.56
So if you were
to summarize this,
00:21:41.60\00:21:42.96
what else did you see Asa doing?
00:21:43.00\00:21:44.90
In the verse 4 and 5.
00:21:44.93\00:21:47.64
"I was seeking the Lord." Yes.
00:21:47.67\00:21:49.67
And, and you know,
that's like Matthew 6:33,
00:21:49.70\00:21:53.61
"Seek first the kingdom
of God and his righteousness
00:21:53.64\00:21:56.04
and all these things
shall be added unto you."
00:21:56.08\00:21:58.25
And who is he
telling to do that?
00:21:58.28\00:22:00.35
His people. Yeah.
00:22:00.38\00:22:01.72
Everybody.
00:22:01.75\00:22:03.08
Guys, the Lord
has changed my life.
00:22:03.12\00:22:05.95
He wants to change yours too,
00:22:05.99\00:22:07.32
but here's what you have to do.
00:22:07.36\00:22:08.76
I have one to add to that too.
00:22:08.79\00:22:10.39
A scripture that came to my mind
00:22:10.43\00:22:11.83
was Isaiah 55:6,
00:22:11.86\00:22:14.30
"Seek the Lord
while He may be found,
00:22:14.33\00:22:16.53
call upon Him while He is near."
00:22:16.56\00:22:18.87
Yes, Amen.
00:22:18.90\00:22:20.70
"And let the wicked
man forsake his ways,
00:22:20.74\00:22:23.77
and the
unrighteous man his thoughts."
00:22:23.81\00:22:26.31
So the next verse after that,
so you gotta get something out.
00:22:26.34\00:22:30.35
And so we're looking
at this in America now.
00:22:30.38\00:22:33.35
And let's not even just
keep referring to America,
00:22:33.38\00:22:35.12
in your own home
and your own family.
00:22:35.15\00:22:36.52
Right. Right.
00:22:36.55\00:22:37.89
Because the whole world
could fall apart around you.
00:22:37.92\00:22:40.36
There's a big word in there.
00:22:40.39\00:22:41.86
I just saw the word observe.
00:22:41.89\00:22:43.83
It was sticking out
to my mind to observe,
00:22:43.86\00:22:45.73
you know,
00:22:45.76\00:22:47.10
how are we gonna
observe something
00:22:47.13\00:22:48.46
if it's not being
shown us an example?
00:22:48.50\00:22:50.40
You can't observe something
that's not been shown to you.
00:22:50.43\00:22:52.20
So observe the
law and the command.
00:22:52.23\00:22:54.17
I think that's really powerful.
00:22:54.20\00:22:55.94
Kind of where we see
this world heading right now,
00:22:55.97\00:22:57.37
what are they really observing?
00:22:57.41\00:22:58.74
I mean, like you were talking
about the movies, the music,
00:22:58.77\00:23:01.34
you're watching all these things
00:23:01.38\00:23:02.71
and what you put in is
what you're gonna get out.
00:23:02.74\00:23:04.51
So if you observe
something that's godly,
00:23:04.55\00:23:06.75
then like you were saying,
you cut all that stuff out.
00:23:06.78\00:23:09.05
Like you guys are
cutting all that stuff out.
00:23:09.08\00:23:10.42
Then all of a sudden,
00:23:10.45\00:23:11.79
you have a love for
as long as commandment,
00:23:11.82\00:23:13.52
you're gonna do that
and people are going to fall
00:23:13.56\00:23:15.09
who are listening to Jesus.
00:23:15.12\00:23:17.23
GIGO.
00:23:17.26\00:23:18.59
That's it, what does that mean?
00:23:18.63\00:23:19.96
GIGIO.
00:23:20.00\00:23:21.33
Garbage in, garbage out, right?
00:23:21.36\00:23:22.70
That's right.
00:23:22.73\00:23:24.07
And one of the
things that came to my mind
00:23:24.10\00:23:25.43
when Janelle talked about idols,
00:23:25.47\00:23:26.80
sometimes we don't
always idolize things.
00:23:26.84\00:23:29.24
Sometimes we
could idolize people.
00:23:29.27\00:23:30.97
Oh, yeah.
00:23:31.01\00:23:32.34
When a person,
00:23:32.37\00:23:33.71
when anything becomes your idol,
00:23:33.74\00:23:35.08
God ceases to be your God.
00:23:35.11\00:23:37.25
That's very important.
00:23:37.28\00:23:38.61
Don't idolize anybody,
00:23:38.65\00:23:41.32
no matter how
influential they may be,
00:23:41.35\00:23:44.05
only focus on the Lord.
00:23:44.09\00:23:45.49
"Look to Me and be saved."
00:23:45.52\00:23:46.86
Isaiah 45:22.
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Let's go to the next one.
Now, Janelle, number four.
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When Asa was affecting
change among his people,
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what did they enjoy?
00:23:55.56\00:23:57.80
And that answer comes
from 2 Chronicles, 14:6
00:23:57.83\00:24:02.00
"And he
fortified cities in Judah,
00:24:02.04\00:24:04.34
for the land had rest.
00:24:04.37\00:24:06.47
He had no war in those years
00:24:06.51\00:24:08.08
because the Lord
had given him rest."
00:24:08.11\00:24:11.51
That's right. He
built those cities.
00:24:11.55\00:24:13.68
Notice what we've seen so far.
00:24:13.72\00:24:15.65
Quiet, quiet, rest.
00:24:15.68\00:24:17.79
Peace. Peace.
00:24:17.82\00:24:20.02
What do we need?
00:24:20.06\00:24:21.72
Peace and quiet.
00:24:21.76\00:24:23.49
But you notice you also
see action, action, action.
00:24:23.53\00:24:28.73
He's always doing something,
00:24:28.76\00:24:30.23
working towards
the cause of Christ.
00:24:30.27\00:24:32.73
I like that word
fortified, that word fortified,
00:24:32.77\00:24:35.87
you think about this,
it's a hedge, it's protection.
00:24:35.90\00:24:39.61
And it made me
think of Nehemiah 1:3,
00:24:39.64\00:24:41.54
you know,
Nehemiah is a cup bearer
00:24:41.58\00:24:43.35
and he's crying and
he's just trying to figure
00:24:43.38\00:24:44.71
what's going on.
00:24:44.75\00:24:46.08
And this servant came in. I
think it was a Nehemiah 1:3.
00:24:46.11\00:24:49.02
I won't go into all of it.
00:24:49.05\00:24:50.39
The servant
relays in the message
00:24:50.42\00:24:51.75
that the gates are burned down
and the walls are torn down.
00:24:51.79\00:24:54.52
In disrepair.
00:24:54.56\00:24:55.89
In disrepair, so you know,
00:24:55.92\00:24:57.43
anybody, it was a free for all.
00:24:57.46\00:24:58.79
Anybody could
come into Jerusalem
00:24:58.83\00:25:00.16
and into the city.
00:25:00.20\00:25:01.53
So we see this word fortify.
00:25:01.56\00:25:02.90
It's like, you're fencing in.
00:25:02.93\00:25:04.27
You're guarding
yourself from something
00:25:04.30\00:25:05.87
that's trying to
influence or come in
00:25:05.90\00:25:07.84
and try to take over.
00:25:07.87\00:25:09.20
So this word fortify
really stuck out to me.
00:25:09.24\00:25:11.47
It's important that
we fortify ourselves.
00:25:11.51\00:25:13.54
And the only way we
do it through God's Word.
00:25:13.58\00:25:15.94
If you were building
something and you said,
00:25:15.98\00:25:18.28
I just fortified my garage
or just fortified my house...
00:25:18.31\00:25:22.48
Or your body with vitamins.
00:25:22.52\00:25:24.89
Yeah. That's true.
00:25:24.92\00:25:26.69
My wife's have been doing that.
00:25:26.72\00:25:28.06
She said, "Come on,
take your vitamins."
00:25:28.09\00:25:29.42
Take your vitamins, take it.
00:25:29.46\00:25:30.79
Here's your vitamin
D, here's your vitamin.
00:25:30.83\00:25:33.80
You're 50 plus.
00:25:33.83\00:25:35.16
Can you relate?
00:25:35.20\00:25:37.33
Okay.
00:25:37.37\00:25:38.93
And it works.
00:25:38.97\00:25:40.30
It does really
make a difference.
00:25:40.34\00:25:41.67
Fortify that body. Fortify.
00:25:41.70\00:25:43.57
And what are you building up?
00:25:43.61\00:25:44.94
My defenses.
00:25:44.97\00:25:49.51
Because we're living
in a society nowadays
00:25:49.54\00:25:51.15
where if somebody
around you sneezes,
00:25:51.18\00:25:53.85
what do you think?
00:25:53.88\00:25:56.32
Right away, we think
like, "Are you okay?"
00:25:56.35\00:25:58.19
Yeah. Stay away from me.
00:25:58.22\00:26:01.12
Okay. Let's see what
else. Honey, you're next.
00:26:01.16\00:26:02.56
Number five,
let's see what happens.
00:26:02.59\00:26:04.89
As Asa and Judah
did what God commanded,
00:26:04.93\00:26:08.46
what was on the horizon?
00:26:08.50\00:26:09.93
2 Chronicles 14:9 says,
00:26:09.96\00:26:12.80
"Then Zerah the
Ethiopian came out against them
00:26:12.83\00:26:16.87
with an army of a million men
00:26:16.91\00:26:21.24
and 300 chariots.
00:26:21.28\00:26:24.45
And he came to Mareshah."
00:26:24.48\00:26:27.52
Yeah, Mareshah.
00:26:27.55\00:26:29.28
That's a lot of people.
00:26:29.32\00:26:31.32
So watch this. A million.
00:26:31.35\00:26:32.69
A million.
00:26:32.72\00:26:34.06
I'm enjoying
peace, I'm enjoying rest.
00:26:34.09\00:26:36.86
And on the horizon, a million.
00:26:36.89\00:26:40.30
Help me, Lord.
00:26:40.33\00:26:41.66
All the forces of
darkness are saying,
00:26:41.70\00:26:44.53
"Hmm, I'm gonna
upset that applecart.
00:26:44.57\00:26:47.67
You think that family
is gonna be a good family.
00:26:47.70\00:26:50.34
I'm gonna find a
way to break their peace
00:26:50.37\00:26:52.67
and tear down their marriage,
to tear down their children,
00:26:52.71\00:26:55.34
to tear down their relationship,
00:26:55.38\00:26:56.85
and the Lord...
00:26:56.88\00:26:58.21
and the devil
doesn't send three.
00:26:58.25\00:27:01.22
What does he send? A million.
00:27:01.25\00:27:04.82
That's a lot.
00:27:04.85\00:27:06.19
That's some serious...
00:27:06.22\00:27:08.52
And not only 300 chariots.
00:27:08.56\00:27:10.99
Interesting.
00:27:11.03\00:27:12.36
We're talking about
this idea of fortified.
00:27:12.39\00:27:13.80
So now they're
fortified and how the test
00:27:13.83\00:27:15.90
has to come how
fortified are they?
00:27:15.93\00:27:18.63
Are they ready for the test?
00:27:18.67\00:27:20.40
We'll see.
00:27:20.44\00:27:22.07
We'll see. Interesting.
00:27:22.10\00:27:23.67
What kind of
doing Round Robin here?
00:27:23.71\00:27:25.07
So we'll go back to J. Okay.
00:27:25.11\00:27:27.84
Let's find out what happened.
00:27:27.88\00:27:30.48
Number six, what did Asa do
00:27:30.51\00:27:32.81
when Judah was
confronted by their enemies?
00:27:32.85\00:27:36.42
2 Chronicles Chapter 14:11.
00:27:36.45\00:27:39.69
"And Asa cried out
to the Lord his God
00:27:39.72\00:27:42.22
and said, 'Lord, it is
nothing for You to help
00:27:42.26\00:27:45.83
whether with many
00:27:45.86\00:27:47.50
or with those who have no power.
00:27:47.53\00:27:50.10
Help us, O Lord our
God, for we rest on You.
00:27:50.13\00:27:54.14
And in Your name, we
go against this multitude.
00:27:54.17\00:27:57.57
O Lord, You are our God.
00:27:57.61\00:27:59.61
Do not let man
prevail against You."
00:27:59.64\00:28:03.68
That was...
00:28:03.71\00:28:05.25
At the end, don't let
them prevail against You.
00:28:05.28\00:28:08.25
Like Your name's
on the line, so yeah.
00:28:08.28\00:28:11.15
Don't you like
that? I love that.
00:28:11.19\00:28:12.75
I love that.
00:28:12.79\00:28:14.12
Because what do
you see Asa not doing?
00:28:14.16\00:28:17.69
He's not backing down either.
00:28:17.73\00:28:19.46
He's not backing down. Okay.
00:28:19.49\00:28:20.83
What else is he not doing?
He's not having a pity party.
00:28:20.86\00:28:23.16
Not having a pity party.
00:28:23.20\00:28:24.53
No fear. No fear.
00:28:24.57\00:28:26.13
What else? His trust in God.
00:28:26.17\00:28:28.04
Yeah. And he's calling on God.
00:28:28.07\00:28:30.21
Yeah. So is it about him?
00:28:30.24\00:28:32.24
No. No.
00:28:32.27\00:28:33.88
He's saying, "Lord,
we can't deal with this.
00:28:33.91\00:28:36.41
This is Your deal."
00:28:36.44\00:28:38.18
I have a couple of
scriptures. Okay, observations.
00:28:38.21\00:28:40.12
I had to add to this
one. It's just so good.
00:28:40.15\00:28:42.85
Deuteronomy 20:1. Okay.
00:28:42.88\00:28:45.35
And then 1 Samuel, 17:47.
00:28:45.39\00:28:48.06
Deuteronomy 20:1, and let's see.
00:28:48.09\00:28:53.13
This is from New
King James. I got it.
00:28:53.16\00:28:54.86
"When you go out to
battle against your enemies
00:28:54.90\00:28:57.07
and see horses and chariots
00:28:57.10\00:28:58.73
and people more
numerous than you,
00:28:58.77\00:29:00.60
do not be afraid of them,
00:29:00.64\00:29:02.37
for the Lord
your God is with you,
00:29:02.40\00:29:04.84
who brought you up
from the land of Egypt."
00:29:04.87\00:29:07.18
Excellent. Excellent.
00:29:07.21\00:29:08.91
I'm putting that right now.
00:29:08.94\00:29:10.48
I'm adding that scripture.
00:29:10.51\00:29:12.35
I'm gonna work
on this sermon next.
00:29:12.38\00:29:14.42
In 1 Samuel 17: 47.
00:29:14.45\00:29:18.45
What was that?
00:29:18.49\00:29:19.82
1 Samuel 17:47. 1 Samuel 17.
00:29:19.85\00:29:24.59
47. Yes.
00:29:24.63\00:29:26.80
"Then all this
assembly shall know
00:29:26.83\00:29:28.80
that the Lord does not
say with sword and spear
00:29:28.83\00:29:31.43
for the battle is the Lord's
00:29:31.47\00:29:32.80
and he will give
you into our hands."
00:29:32.83\00:29:35.50
I believe that was
David talking there.
00:29:35.54\00:29:36.87
Yes.
00:29:36.91\00:29:38.24
And the
confidence that God gave him
00:29:38.27\00:29:40.11
that he just like
00:29:40.14\00:29:41.78
what we were just talking about,
00:29:41.81\00:29:43.14
he was confident in the
Lord and he had no fear.
00:29:43.18\00:29:46.61
I mean, think
about little David,
00:29:46.65\00:29:50.22
I think he was like big giant.
00:29:50.25\00:29:52.52
Yeah.
00:29:52.55\00:29:53.89
Going up against
Goliath, that's huge.
00:29:53.92\00:29:56.79
What's even more bigger to me
00:29:56.83\00:29:58.16
is that Goliath
was wearing armor.
00:29:58.19\00:29:59.73
Yeah. That's a 9 foot giant.
00:29:59.76\00:30:01.53
I mean, does he
really need armor?
00:30:01.56\00:30:04.17
Yeah.
00:30:04.20\00:30:05.83
I think about
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
00:30:05.87\00:30:08.14
When they had to
answer to King Nebuchadnezzar,
00:30:08.17\00:30:10.51
they were faced with
the fiery furnace there.
00:30:10.54\00:30:13.74
And they were basically saying,
00:30:13.78\00:30:15.11
you know, whether or
not our God delivers us,
00:30:15.14\00:30:18.38
we're not gonna bow down to you.
00:30:18.41\00:30:19.81
We serve the one true God.
00:30:19.85\00:30:21.62
So I see that here it's
like no matter what's going on,
00:30:21.65\00:30:26.76
Asa is following the Lord,
00:30:26.79\00:30:28.92
you know, against 1
million people or not.
00:30:28.96\00:30:33.06
He's following God. Yeah.
00:30:33.09\00:30:35.40
This is in my little
blue box at the very end.
00:30:35.43\00:30:38.37
It says the prayer of Asa
00:30:38.40\00:30:40.24
is one that every
Christian believer
00:30:40.27\00:30:43.61
may fittingly offer
00:30:43.64\00:30:45.04
'cause we fight in a warfare.
00:30:45.07\00:30:46.41
It's not against
flesh and blood, right?
00:30:46.44\00:30:48.64
Politics, powers.
00:30:48.68\00:30:50.18
And it says, "In
this life's conflict,
00:30:50.21\00:30:51.88
we must meet evil agencies
00:30:51.91\00:30:54.68
that have a raid
themselves against the right.
00:30:54.72\00:30:57.89
Our hope is not man
but in the living God.
00:30:57.92\00:31:01.69
With full assurance of faith,
we may expect that He, Jesus,
00:31:01.72\00:31:05.86
will unite his omnipotent
00:31:05.89\00:31:08.60
with the efforts of
human instrumentalities
00:31:08.63\00:31:11.60
for the glory of His name
00:31:11.63\00:31:13.30
clad with the armor
of His righteousness,
00:31:13.34\00:31:16.10
we may gain the
victory over every foul."
00:31:16.14\00:31:17.97
Amen.
00:31:18.01\00:31:19.34
That speaks to me
00:31:19.37\00:31:20.71
because I was talking
to this lady on the phone.
00:31:20.74\00:31:22.34
She was just really struggling
00:31:22.38\00:31:24.18
and God puts like
scriptures in your mind.
00:31:24.21\00:31:26.45
You'll remember things.
00:31:26.48\00:31:27.82
And so I gave her Psalm 34:6-10.
00:31:27.85\00:31:30.95
Okay.
00:31:30.99\00:31:32.32
It says, yeah,
it says in verse 6,
00:31:32.35\00:31:33.82
"This poor man cries."
00:31:33.86\00:31:35.19
So obviously he's in
prayer and the Lord heard him
00:31:35.22\00:31:36.76
and saved him out
of all his troubles.
00:31:36.79\00:31:39.36
And verse 7 says,
"The angel of the Lord
00:31:39.39\00:31:40.96
encampeth around about them
00:31:41.00\00:31:42.33
that fear him
and delivered them."
00:31:42.36\00:31:44.30
And verse 8 tells us,
00:31:44.33\00:31:45.67
"Oh, taste and
see the Lord is good,
00:31:45.70\00:31:47.04
blessed is a man
that trust in Him."
00:31:47.07\00:31:49.24
And verse 9 says,
"Oh, fear the Lord,
00:31:49.27\00:31:50.81
ye His saints, for
there is no want to them
00:31:50.84\00:31:52.81
that fear Him."
00:31:52.84\00:31:54.54
You know, that's
just really powerful
00:31:54.58\00:31:55.91
that God would send
angels to encamp around us.
00:31:55.94\00:31:58.18
And I kind of think
of Elisha with a servant
00:31:58.21\00:32:01.12
and there's
thousands of this big army
00:32:01.15\00:32:03.15
and like, "Oh my,
how are we gonna tackle?
00:32:03.18\00:32:05.52
We're just two people."
00:32:05.55\00:32:07.06
And then it just says,
00:32:07.09\00:32:08.49
You know, open
the eyes of my servant
00:32:08.52\00:32:09.86
that he may see
chariots of fire."
00:32:09.89\00:32:12.23
Like, okay, we're good.
00:32:12.26\00:32:17.33
Psalm 34 because you just...
00:32:17.37\00:32:19.50
That's
beautiful the way he said,
00:32:19.53\00:32:21.37
because Elijah said,
"Lord, open his eyes."
00:32:21.40\00:32:23.77
Say that again.
Okay, we're good.
00:32:23.81\00:32:26.27
I love that. No
worries. We're good.
00:32:26.31\00:32:28.61
In my scientific mind,
00:32:28.64\00:32:29.98
I'm just kind of
sometimes animated.
00:32:30.01\00:32:31.61
I'm thinking he
saw chariots of fire
00:32:31.65\00:32:33.82
and I'm thinking
00:32:33.85\00:32:35.18
these are God's
angels just to hear...
00:32:35.22\00:32:38.35
The fire just
crackling around these guys.
00:32:38.39\00:32:41.09
And then he looks
down to these humans
00:32:41.12\00:32:43.09
that could just be, what
do you call, the kindling.
00:32:43.12\00:32:48.50
We got this, we got this.
00:32:48.53\00:32:50.77
They surrounded
them chariots of fire.
00:32:50.80\00:32:53.27
And he probably went...
00:32:53.30\00:32:54.77
Once again.
00:32:54.80\00:32:56.14
Oh, no problem.
00:32:56.17\00:32:57.51
We got his.
00:32:57.54\00:32:59.17
What a boost of encouragement.
What a boost of encouragement.
00:32:59.21\00:33:02.31
So what are we saying then?
00:33:02.34\00:33:03.68
Sometimes the
unseen forces of God
00:33:03.71\00:33:07.68
in battle array on
behalf of the Lord's people.
00:33:07.72\00:33:12.32
Psalm 34:19, look at that one.
00:33:12.35\00:33:15.52
Donald, you went to
Psalm 34 and that, okay.
00:33:15.56\00:33:17.46
He's going to 19.
00:33:17.49\00:33:19.66
Look at verse 17 to 18, sorry.
00:33:19.69\00:33:21.66
Psalm 34:17-18
00:33:21.70\00:33:23.23
because Asa
cried out to the Lord.
00:33:23.26\00:33:24.60
Right.
00:33:24.63\00:33:25.97
Psalm 34: 17-18.
00:33:26.00\00:33:27.34
"The righteous cry
and the Lord heareth
00:33:27.37\00:33:29.80
and deliver them out
of all their troubles."
00:33:29.84\00:33:31.77
Just like we saw in
verse 6, same thing.
00:33:31.81\00:33:33.31
Verse 18.
00:33:33.34\00:33:34.68
"The Lord is nigh unto
them that are a broken heart
00:33:34.71\00:33:36.85
and save us such as
be of a contrite spirit."
00:33:36.88\00:33:39.15
And there's a
little blue box here.
00:33:39.18\00:33:40.82
I guess you might
want me to read that.
00:33:40.85\00:33:42.18
Okay, go for it.
00:33:42.22\00:33:43.55
"Real sorrow for
sin is the result
00:33:43.59\00:33:45.05
of the working
of the Holy Spirit.
00:33:45.09\00:33:46.76
The spirit reveals the
ingratitude of the heart
00:33:46.79\00:33:49.39
that has slighted
and grieved the savior.
00:33:49.42\00:33:51.99
And it brings us in contrition
to the foot of the cross,
00:33:52.03\00:33:54.96
by every sin,
Jesus is wounded afresh
00:33:55.00\00:33:57.17
and as we look upon
him whom we have purist,
00:33:57.20\00:33:59.93
we mourn for the sins
00:33:59.97\00:34:01.57
that have
brought anguish upon Him,
00:34:01.60\00:34:03.67
such morning will lead
to the renunciation of sin."
00:34:03.71\00:34:06.54
This out a Desire
of Ages, Page 300.
00:34:06.57\00:34:09.18
So when we see, Asa cried out
00:34:09.21\00:34:11.01
and when the righteous cry out,
00:34:11.05\00:34:12.58
the Lord hears
and delivers them out.
00:34:12.61\00:34:15.38
And how much of their troubles?
00:34:15.42\00:34:16.75
All. Praise the Lord.
00:34:16.79\00:34:18.12
All of their troubles.
00:34:18.15\00:34:19.49
So let's see how
this story wound up.
00:34:19.52\00:34:21.76
Whose number seven now?
00:34:21.79\00:34:23.12
J just read?
00:34:23.16\00:34:24.49
I did. Okay.
00:34:24.53\00:34:25.86
Donald, go to number seven.
00:34:25.89\00:34:27.23
Okay.
00:34:27.26\00:34:28.60
Number seven says here,
00:34:28.63\00:34:29.96
how did God respond
00:34:30.00\00:34:31.33
in behalf of Judah and Asa?
00:34:31.37\00:34:33.37
We find in 2 Chronicles 14:12.
00:34:33.40\00:34:35.20
"So the Lord..."
00:34:35.24\00:34:37.07
He just kind of meandered,
00:34:37.11\00:34:38.44
held his breath and do anything.
00:34:38.47\00:34:39.81
It says, "The Lord
struck the Ethiopians
00:34:39.84\00:34:41.51
before Asa and Judah
and the Ethiopians fled."
00:34:41.54\00:34:46.08
Wow, the Ethiopians, what?
00:34:46.11\00:34:48.88
They're gone. How
many of them were there?
00:34:48.92\00:34:50.82
One million. One million.
00:34:50.85\00:34:53.25
It's amazing
when you look at that.
00:34:53.29\00:34:55.12
So what are we saying here?
00:34:55.16\00:34:56.49
What are we telling
those who are listening
00:34:56.52\00:34:57.86
and watching this program?
00:34:57.89\00:34:59.53
Who does the battle belong to?
00:34:59.56\00:35:00.90
The Lord. God's got it.
00:35:00.93\00:35:04.23
Kind of retract on a story
about Elisha and his servant.
00:35:04.27\00:35:06.50
It's interesting
00:35:06.53\00:35:07.87
because Elisha's
servant was blind
00:35:07.90\00:35:11.41
and couldn't see, but
he opened his eyes to see.
00:35:11.44\00:35:12.87
But then what
happened with the army?
00:35:12.91\00:35:14.64
He blinded the
army and he led the army
00:35:14.68\00:35:17.18
into their enemy camp.
00:35:17.21\00:35:18.95
That's why he showed this.
00:35:18.98\00:35:20.75
And, you know, the
thing that I liked about that,
00:35:20.78\00:35:23.02
instead of just
punishing them at that point...
00:35:23.05\00:35:25.69
Bread and water. You
bring about that, Good.
00:35:25.72\00:35:28.22
Continue in that application.
00:35:28.26\00:35:29.69
What else did he do
for the Syrian army?
00:35:29.72\00:35:31.39
So yeah, he said, I
guess, was the king then said,
00:35:31.43\00:35:33.73
"Give them their nourishment,
00:35:33.76\00:35:35.10
give them food
and bread and water
00:35:35.13\00:35:36.46
and send them on their way."
00:35:36.50\00:35:37.83
So he fed them.
00:35:37.87\00:35:39.20
He took care of
him, just let them go.
00:35:39.23\00:35:40.57
And that shows the mercy of God.
00:35:40.60\00:35:41.94
I mean, it's just amazing to me.
00:35:41.97\00:35:43.30
Yeah.
00:35:43.34\00:35:44.67
This also makes
me think of stories
00:35:44.71\00:35:46.04
about the
Waldensians that we read about
00:35:46.07\00:35:47.88
how God would use the elements
00:35:47.91\00:35:51.15
for the Waldensians
00:35:51.18\00:35:52.51
because they were
defenseless people
00:35:52.55\00:35:55.55
as far as physical weapons
00:35:55.58\00:35:57.69
and, you know, one
of the stories we read,
00:35:57.72\00:36:00.19
there's actually a fog
that came over the army
00:36:00.22\00:36:03.49
that was coming after them.
00:36:03.53\00:36:04.86
And a lot of the
soldiers fell off the cliffs.
00:36:04.89\00:36:07.46
And so, you know,
just some of those,
00:36:07.50\00:36:09.86
but how God can use the elements
00:36:09.90\00:36:13.17
to defend his people.
00:36:13.20\00:36:14.74
Nature.
00:36:14.77\00:36:16.27
So if somebody is
going through difficulty
00:36:16.30\00:36:18.71
in their lives and
they don't know what to do,
00:36:18.74\00:36:20.48
what do we tell?
00:36:20.51\00:36:21.84
What are we saying to them?
00:36:21.88\00:36:23.41
Go to the Lord,
00:36:23.45\00:36:24.78
trust in the Lord
with all your heart.
00:36:24.81\00:36:26.48
Lean not on your
own understanding.
00:36:26.51\00:36:28.32
Okay.
00:36:28.35\00:36:29.68
But what else are
we saying to them?
00:36:29.72\00:36:31.05
Because we laid some groundwork,
00:36:31.09\00:36:32.99
what else are we saying?
00:36:33.02\00:36:34.36
If we looked at
these questions we covered.
00:36:34.39\00:36:36.62
We're saying to them,
00:36:36.66\00:36:38.33
is there anything in your life
that needs to be cleared out?
00:36:38.36\00:36:45.03
Is there some
changes that you have to make
00:36:45.07\00:36:47.04
in your family
00:36:47.07\00:36:49.00
to be able to know
that God can send you peace?
00:36:49.04\00:36:51.11
Because the peace that...
00:36:51.14\00:36:52.47
The Lord gave them rest.
00:36:52.51\00:36:55.04
The kingdom was
quiet under them.
00:36:55.08\00:36:57.31
The Lord had given them rest,
notice where it's coming from.
00:36:57.35\00:37:00.68
And what's that
passage when a man's ways...
00:37:00.72\00:37:03.15
Pleases the Lord,
00:37:03.18\00:37:04.95
even your enemies
will be at peace with you.
00:37:04.99\00:37:07.09
That's right and
that's a promise.
00:37:07.12\00:37:08.92
Wiseman Solomon said,
00:37:08.96\00:37:10.29
"When a man's
ways pleases the Lord,
00:37:10.33\00:37:12.79
He makes even his enemies
to be at peace with him."
00:37:12.83\00:37:16.73
His enemies ran, didn't they?
00:37:16.77\00:37:18.70
Yeah. They took off.
00:37:18.73\00:37:20.97
We're not waiting around.
00:37:21.00\00:37:22.34
They already know
there's some trouble coming.
00:37:22.37\00:37:24.67
It's interesting.
00:37:24.71\00:37:26.04
I talked to a young lady a
few days ago on prayer line,
00:37:26.07\00:37:29.11
she was telling me how
she was kind of dabbled
00:37:29.14\00:37:31.18
with Christianity,
00:37:31.21\00:37:32.55
she doesn't
really know it very well.
00:37:32.58\00:37:33.92
But anyway, she got
involved in the occult
00:37:33.95\00:37:35.98
and she didn't realize
that what she was doing.
00:37:36.02\00:37:37.35
She was getting
involved. She was Christian.
00:37:37.39\00:37:38.72
She was always Christian.
00:37:38.75\00:37:40.09
She thought, you know,
the burn sage, it's Christian.
00:37:40.12\00:37:42.22
And then something
00:37:42.26\00:37:43.59
she got into the spiritual realm
00:37:43.63\00:37:44.96
and she saw
demons and demonic stuff.
00:37:44.99\00:37:46.56
And so she wasn't sure
00:37:46.59\00:37:47.93
whether she was
free from that or not.
00:37:47.96\00:37:50.20
But it was just the
fact that she didn't realize,
00:37:50.23\00:37:52.30
like, I know God
winks at our ignorance.
00:37:52.33\00:37:53.97
He knows, you know,
that, you know, we don't,
00:37:54.00\00:37:55.97
maybe we fall into something
we don't totally understand.
00:37:56.00\00:37:58.01
And so God pulls us out.
00:37:58.04\00:37:59.44
Like we see, you know,
the time and time again,
00:37:59.47\00:38:01.38
these armies and things
that come against God's people,
00:38:01.41\00:38:04.11
but God delivers them.
00:38:04.15\00:38:05.48
So this young lady
was getting into stuff
00:38:05.51\00:38:06.88
that she had no clue,
00:38:06.92\00:38:08.25
but God took his
arm and pulled her out.
00:38:08.28\00:38:10.49
And realizing that
she had stuff in her life,
00:38:10.52\00:38:12.45
she had to declutter
in a sense to get rid of.
00:38:12.49\00:38:14.56
And she was asking a question,
00:38:14.59\00:38:16.02
"Is God going to
save me and my children?
00:38:16.06\00:38:17.56
Can He really protect us?
00:38:17.59\00:38:19.13
I mean, I feel
like I made a covenant
00:38:19.16\00:38:21.00
with these demons
00:38:21.03\00:38:22.36
and I need to know that God,
00:38:22.40\00:38:24.97
I can have a covenant with Him."
00:38:25.00\00:38:26.33
Yeah.
00:38:26.37\00:38:27.70
You could
relinquish those things,
00:38:27.74\00:38:29.70
ask for the Lord
to come into your life
00:38:29.74\00:38:31.17
because two spirits
can occupy the same body.
00:38:31.21\00:38:34.64
That's right.
00:38:34.68\00:38:36.01
One would leave and
the other one would stay.
00:38:36.04\00:38:38.08
But we look at these
situations that they were in.
00:38:38.11\00:38:40.55
And let's go, I think
Janelle maybe is the next one.
00:38:40.58\00:38:42.98
Number eight. Yeah.
00:38:43.02\00:38:44.75
With trials and
difficulties around us,
00:38:44.79\00:38:47.62
what comfort do we have?
00:38:47.66\00:38:50.56
And for that one,
we have Psalm 34:19,
00:38:50.59\00:38:55.20
"Many are the
afflictions of the righteous,
00:38:55.23\00:38:57.70
but the Lord
delivers him out of them all."
00:38:57.73\00:39:02.60
Wow. Wow.
00:39:02.64\00:39:03.97
How many does he deliver? All.
00:39:04.01\00:39:06.98
But notice it also says
00:39:07.01\00:39:08.34
many are the
afflictions of the righteous.
00:39:08.38\00:39:09.81
So that doesn't mean
00:39:09.84\00:39:11.18
that just because
you become a Christian
00:39:11.21\00:39:12.68
that you're not going
to be faced with trials,
00:39:12.71\00:39:14.72
you're not gonna be...
00:39:14.75\00:39:16.08
You know, the enemy is
gonna come against you,
00:39:16.12\00:39:17.92
just like he did with Jesus.
00:39:17.95\00:39:19.39
Like he tried to tempt
Jesus, but what did Jesus say?
00:39:19.42\00:39:23.12
It is written. That's right.
00:39:23.16\00:39:24.59
Even beauty in
that though is like
00:39:24.63\00:39:26.26
when you're a Christian
00:39:26.29\00:39:27.63
and you know about
the battle that's going on
00:39:27.66\00:39:29.70
behind the scenes,
00:39:29.73\00:39:31.10
then you understand
I think a little better
00:39:31.13\00:39:34.10
why those things are happening
because like sometimes,
00:39:34.14\00:39:36.67
you know, if you're
not walking with God
00:39:36.71\00:39:38.27
and you have
trials, you're just,
00:39:38.31\00:39:39.94
"Oh, life is over.
00:39:39.97\00:39:41.31
And you know, like,
why is this happening?"
00:39:41.34\00:39:43.18
But not that we might
not still wonder that,
00:39:43.21\00:39:45.31
but at least we understand
00:39:45.35\00:39:46.68
that there's a
battle for our soul.
00:39:46.72\00:39:48.05
That's right.
00:39:48.08\00:39:49.42
And, you know,
when we understand
00:39:49.45\00:39:50.79
the great controversy
between good and evil
00:39:50.82\00:39:52.65
and we know that the
enemy is trying to take us down,
00:39:52.69\00:39:56.12
but God has given us
promises that we can memorize
00:39:56.16\00:40:00.30
in those times of
trial that will comfort us.
00:40:00.33\00:40:04.30
And He stands
with us on the trial.
00:40:04.33\00:40:06.10
You look at that
fiery furnace example.
00:40:06.13\00:40:09.27
They threw three in,
there was four in there,
00:40:09.30\00:40:12.11
looking like the Son of Man.
00:40:12.14\00:40:14.58
That's awesome.
00:40:14.61\00:40:15.94
One of the things I
know and have discovered is
00:40:15.98\00:40:18.25
people that are not
informed about what God does,
00:40:18.28\00:40:21.88
don't know who to turn
to, say look for this out.
00:40:21.92\00:40:25.45
And if you're not
reading God's Word
00:40:25.49\00:40:27.26
and studying God's Word,
00:40:27.29\00:40:29.09
you're not
familiar with these examples
00:40:29.12\00:40:31.53
of how God fights
our battles for us.
00:40:31.56\00:40:33.63
He's our line of
defense. Say it again.
00:40:33.66\00:40:35.90
He's our line of
defense, isn't He?
00:40:35.93\00:40:37.27
That's right.
00:40:37.30\00:40:38.63
If you notice all this,
the Lord struck the Egyptians,
00:40:38.67\00:40:41.50
the Judah didn't
strike the Egyptians.
00:40:41.54\00:40:43.71
The Lord did it.
00:40:43.74\00:40:45.17
Asa said, "Lord, don't
let them do this to You.
00:40:45.21\00:40:49.48
Your name is on the line."
00:40:49.51\00:40:50.85
As you pointed
out, Jason. Oh, yeah.
00:40:50.88\00:40:52.21
And when we recognize
when these difficulties
00:40:52.25\00:40:54.12
come your way,
00:40:54.15\00:40:55.48
put it in the Lord's hands.
00:40:55.52\00:40:56.85
Say, Lord, I'm your servant,
but I can't fight this battle.
00:40:56.89\00:41:00.09
I can't go against
what's taking place.
00:41:00.12\00:41:02.49
Say it again.
It's bigger than me.
00:41:02.52\00:41:04.26
It's bigger than me. The
battle is bigger than me.
00:41:04.29\00:41:06.90
You fight it, Lord.
00:41:06.93\00:41:08.26
You promised in
Your Word, right?
00:41:08.30\00:41:09.63
That's right.
00:41:09.66\00:41:11.00
Even though, what do you say?
00:41:11.03\00:41:12.37
How tall was Goliath? 9 feet.
00:41:12.40\00:41:14.80
And he had on a helmet.
00:41:14.84\00:41:16.54
Really? I think... Yeah.
00:41:16.57\00:41:17.91
Why would you
come out with a helmet?
00:41:17.94\00:41:19.97
Against little David.
00:41:20.01\00:41:21.78
You have a spear
and the tip of the spear
00:41:21.81\00:41:23.14
is 20 pounds.
00:41:23.18\00:41:24.88
You're 9 feet. Do
you need all that armor?
00:41:24.91\00:41:27.12
Yeah.
00:41:27.15\00:41:29.88
But what does that saying to us?
00:41:29.92\00:41:31.65
What does that saying to us?
00:41:31.69\00:41:33.02
When the devil comes at us,
00:41:33.05\00:41:34.39
he wants us to
look all imposing.
00:41:34.42\00:41:35.76
Yeah. I'm gonna crush you.
00:41:35.79\00:41:38.66
Say it again, honey?
00:41:38.69\00:41:40.03
Lift up a standard
against him, right?
00:41:40.06\00:41:41.96
That's right.
00:41:42.00\00:41:43.33
The Lord... Like a flood.
00:41:43.37\00:41:44.70
The Lord is bigger. Right.
00:41:44.73\00:41:46.33
Like we talked
about the Syrian army,
00:41:46.37\00:41:48.70
they were imposing.
00:41:48.74\00:41:50.07
They came to arrest Elijah
00:41:50.11\00:41:52.04
and to take them out
00:41:52.07\00:41:53.71
because they were tired of
him revealing all the secrets
00:41:53.74\00:41:56.14
of their military movements.
00:41:56.18\00:41:57.91
And Elijah said,
00:41:57.95\00:41:59.28
"I'm having
breakfast, just open his eyes."
00:41:59.31\00:42:02.08
And he saw the chariots.
00:42:02.12\00:42:03.45
Lord parted the sea
00:42:03.49\00:42:04.82
for the children
of Israel, didn't he?
00:42:04.85\00:42:06.19
Yeah, look at that.
00:42:06.22\00:42:07.56
Water against them, the
people coming after them.
00:42:07.59\00:42:09.52
"Where are we gonna
go? Look at the water.
00:42:09.56\00:42:11.76
What are we gonna do?
00:42:11.79\00:42:13.19
Oh, the Egyptians
are coming after us."
00:42:13.23\00:42:16.77
Stand still and see
the salvation of the Lord.
00:42:16.80\00:42:19.10
That's right.
00:42:19.13\00:42:20.47
But how would we
know these stories?
00:42:20.50\00:42:22.27
We got to read them. Yeah.
00:42:22.30\00:42:23.64
How would we know?
You got to read it.
00:42:23.67\00:42:25.61
You gotta read it.
00:42:25.64\00:42:27.38
And I'm discovering that people
00:42:27.41\00:42:28.88
that are uninformed
00:42:28.91\00:42:30.58
are people that are fearful
because if you're thinking,
00:42:30.61\00:42:33.52
"Oh, who's
gonna do this for me?"
00:42:33.55\00:42:35.78
I'm so scared.
00:42:35.82\00:42:37.15
Somebody asked
on September 11th,
00:42:37.19\00:42:39.95
"Where was God?"
00:42:39.99\00:42:41.32
I said it was the same
place He was on September 10th.
00:42:41.36\00:42:44.86
But if you don't seek
Him while He may be found,
00:42:44.89\00:42:47.60
seek Him in times of peace.
00:42:47.63\00:42:49.06
You don't know where
He is in times of war.
00:42:49.10\00:42:50.83
Let's look at the next example.
00:42:50.87\00:42:52.20
Honey, number 10. Okay.
00:42:52.23\00:42:54.04
In tracing the
victories of Israel and Judah,
00:42:54.07\00:42:56.81
what did they use in battle?
00:42:56.84\00:42:59.11
This is interesting.
00:42:59.14\00:43:00.48
Joshua 11:12.
00:43:00.51\00:43:02.68
"So all the
cities of those kings
00:43:02.71\00:43:04.88
and all their kings,
00:43:04.91\00:43:06.45
Joshua took and struck
with the edge of the sword.
00:43:06.48\00:43:10.95
He utterly destroyed them
00:43:10.99\00:43:12.85
as Moses the servant of
the Lord had commanded."
00:43:12.89\00:43:15.96
Okay. What did he use?
00:43:15.99\00:43:18.89
The Word of God.
Sounded like sword.
00:43:18.93\00:43:21.26
What did he
use? The Word of God.
00:43:21.30\00:43:24.87
Okay,
everybody, what did he use?
00:43:24.90\00:43:28.20
The Word of God.
00:43:28.24\00:43:29.57
He used the Word of God. Amen.
00:43:29.60\00:43:33.61
So what challenge would you give
00:43:33.64\00:43:35.94
to those listening
to this Family Worship?
00:43:35.98\00:43:38.65
What's the most
important thing that we,
00:43:38.68\00:43:40.22
as Christians should be doing?
00:43:40.25\00:43:42.05
Study the Word of God.
00:43:42.08\00:43:43.69
You can't use it
if you don't have it.
00:43:43.72\00:43:46.15
Right. Okay.
00:43:46.19\00:43:47.52
Psalm 46:10 says, "Be
still and know that I'm God."
00:43:47.56\00:43:49.76
And we now spend
intentional time,
00:43:49.79\00:43:51.53
like this lady is talking to,
00:43:51.56\00:43:53.19
"I didn't have time to pray.
00:43:53.23\00:43:54.63
I don't have time to pray."
00:43:54.66\00:43:56.43
She just feels so
surrounded and overwhelmed.
00:43:56.46\00:43:57.93
I said, you're
gonna have to find,
00:43:57.97\00:43:59.53
something like five minutes,
ten minutes, whatever it takes.
00:43:59.57\00:44:02.14
You need to
spend that quality time
00:44:02.17\00:44:03.51
with the Lord.
00:44:03.54\00:44:04.87
You need that." So important.
00:44:04.91\00:44:06.94
I often say to people, if
you don't have time to pray,
00:44:06.98\00:44:09.41
you need to cut
something out of your life.
00:44:09.44\00:44:11.71
If you don't have time
to spend with the Lord,
00:44:11.75\00:44:13.85
find out where
your time is going.
00:44:13.88\00:44:15.58
What I like about
these new devices,
00:44:15.62\00:44:17.25
I think Apple has been
one of the ones leading
00:44:17.29\00:44:19.05
in doing this,
00:44:19.09\00:44:20.42
that production gauge.
00:44:20.46\00:44:22.99
They could tell what
you're spending time on.
00:44:23.02\00:44:24.36
Oh yeah.
00:44:24.39\00:44:25.93
I looked at that the other
day and I was so excited to see
00:44:25.96\00:44:29.66
that my production,
00:44:29.70\00:44:31.57
my production graph was
higher than anything else.
00:44:31.60\00:44:33.44
Wow!
00:44:33.47\00:44:34.80
It was saying, you
spend a lot of time
00:44:34.84\00:44:36.47
using production tools,
00:44:36.50\00:44:38.31
like your Bible app
and your word processor
00:44:38.34\00:44:41.64
and my concordance.
00:44:41.68\00:44:43.91
And otherwise I'm
looking at that and say,
00:44:43.95\00:44:45.41
"Wow, he's using that way more
00:44:45.45\00:44:48.12
than anything else on his iPad."
00:44:48.15\00:44:50.39
That's good to know.
00:44:50.42\00:44:51.75
So if you spend a lot
of time playing games,
00:44:51.79\00:44:53.99
it will show it, right?
00:44:54.02\00:44:55.49
Right. Accountability.
00:44:55.52\00:44:57.66
Now let's think about
the sneaky part of that.
00:44:57.69\00:44:59.36
Yeah.
00:44:59.39\00:45:00.73
Lord is saying,
"Okay, write that down."
00:45:00.76\00:45:03.26
True.
00:45:03.30\00:45:04.63
It's been 15 hours on Instagram.
00:45:04.67\00:45:07.00
The ultimate... Facebook.
00:45:07.04\00:45:09.40
Screen time. Yeah.
00:45:09.44\00:45:10.77
Say it again.
00:45:10.81\00:45:12.14
The ultimate screen time,
00:45:12.17\00:45:13.51
what you're talking
about the book of...
00:45:13.54\00:45:14.88
In the
recording. In the recording.
00:45:14.91\00:45:16.28
Everything we do.
00:45:16.31\00:45:17.65
And even
thoughts, even beyond that.
00:45:17.68\00:45:21.18
So how long were you on
Internet today, on Facebook?
00:45:21.22\00:45:24.45
Well, I know...
00:45:24.49\00:45:25.82
It should have
been in the word of God.
00:45:25.85\00:45:27.19
And where, how
far was your Bible?
00:45:27.22\00:45:29.92
It's like right by my bed.
00:45:29.96\00:45:31.43
And did you open it?
00:45:31.46\00:45:34.16
No.
00:45:34.20\00:45:35.53
That's why when the
Lord came to the man
00:45:35.56\00:45:36.90
who was in there
without a wedding garment?
00:45:36.93\00:45:39.53
How did you come in here
without a wedding garment?
00:45:39.57\00:45:41.20
What did he say? Nothing.
00:45:41.24\00:45:44.04
The Bible says he
answered him not a word
00:45:44.07\00:45:46.37
because the day
is coming, friends,
00:45:46.41\00:45:47.74
and we will have no excuses.
00:45:47.78\00:45:50.25
So let's look at
what we need to do
00:45:50.28\00:45:51.85
because they use the sword.
00:45:51.88\00:45:53.21
What did they use, honey?
00:45:53.25\00:45:54.58
The sword, the
Word of God right here.
00:45:54.62\00:45:56.08
Now, you know, we've
committed ourselves to do that,
00:45:56.12\00:45:57.75
but do we ever get distracted?
00:45:57.79\00:45:59.65
Absolutely. Yeah,
we do get distracted.
00:45:59.69\00:46:01.69
Yeah, things
distract us, but we get back.
00:46:01.72\00:46:03.49
We have to refocus
when we're distracted.
00:46:03.53\00:46:06.29
At times when we're so busy,
00:46:06.33\00:46:08.86
we're so busy doing for others.
00:46:08.90\00:46:10.57
Sometimes we
forget about ourselves
00:46:10.60\00:46:12.87
and either one of us
will pull our coattails
00:46:12.90\00:46:15.37
and say, "Honey,
00:46:15.40\00:46:16.74
you know, we need to get
back into the Word of God."
00:46:16.77\00:46:20.18
This has happened.
00:46:20.21\00:46:21.54
It does happen. Yes.
00:46:21.58\00:46:23.18
Be more intentional.
00:46:23.21\00:46:24.71
Well, the enemy
knows our weaknesses too.
00:46:24.75\00:46:26.31
He'll find those
little weaknesses, you know?
00:46:26.35\00:46:27.68
"Oh, that sounds good.
00:46:27.72\00:46:29.05
I'm helping people,
00:46:29.08\00:46:30.42
but I'm doing a good thing here.
00:46:30.45\00:46:31.79
I'm helping more people."
00:46:31.82\00:46:33.15
No, you need to spend
intentional time with Lord.
00:46:33.19\00:46:36.19
You need
intentional time. You need to.
00:46:36.22\00:46:38.36
I like that because my wife
00:46:38.39\00:46:39.73
had just whispered
something years ago
00:46:39.76\00:46:41.10
at the general conference,
they had me sing that song.
00:46:41.13\00:46:43.13
"I Miss My Time with
You, Those Moments Together.
00:46:43.16\00:46:46.00
I Need to be with You Each Day."
00:46:46.03\00:46:47.77
And it hurts Me when
you say you're too busy,
00:46:47.80\00:46:50.34
busy trying to serve me,
00:46:50.37\00:46:52.27
but how can you serve
me if your spirit's empty?
00:46:52.31\00:46:55.54
And the Lord is saying,
there's a longing in my heart
00:46:55.58\00:46:58.28
wanting more than
just a part of you.
00:46:58.31\00:47:00.68
It's true. It's true.
00:47:00.72\00:47:02.05
I miss my time with you.
00:47:02.08\00:47:03.85
And that is so true
because here at 3ABN,
00:47:03.89\00:47:07.16
I mean, if you
are at 3ABN watch,
00:47:07.19\00:47:08.72
you know you seen
us in various programs
00:47:08.76\00:47:11.36
either Dare To Dream
or the Parent Network
00:47:11.39\00:47:14.73
or doing cooking
programs or some kind of thing,
00:47:14.76\00:47:17.63
a radio, that's right.
00:47:17.67\00:47:19.23
You know that we are
people that wake up every day
00:47:19.27\00:47:21.87
and we've got a schedule.
00:47:21.90\00:47:24.64
And the thing we have to
do more than anything else
00:47:24.67\00:47:26.98
is make sure that we
are not substituting...
00:47:27.01\00:47:30.11
Feeding all this
and we're starving.
00:47:30.15\00:47:31.95
Say it again, honey.
00:47:31.98\00:47:33.42
You could be so
busy feeding others,
00:47:33.45\00:47:36.15
but we are starving.
00:47:36.18\00:47:38.42
It's kind of like the
cook that died of starvation.
00:47:38.45\00:47:41.82
Oh, man. Remember that one?
00:47:41.86\00:47:44.53
Who's feeding
everyone, I told that story.
00:47:44.56\00:47:48.10
They were frustrated
00:47:48.13\00:47:49.46
because they
couldn't feed themselves,
00:47:49.50\00:47:50.83
the spoons are too
long, but they decided,
00:47:50.87\00:47:53.17
wait a minute, if I
feed you, you could feed me.
00:47:53.20\00:47:55.14
If I feed you,
you could feed me.
00:47:55.17\00:47:56.50
With the long spoons, right.
00:47:56.54\00:47:57.87
The long spoons.
That's a great illustration.
00:47:57.91\00:48:00.11
But you notice Joshua
00:48:00.14\00:48:01.51
as well as one of
the battle armaments,
00:48:01.54\00:48:04.25
which we just
talked about, is a sword.
00:48:04.28\00:48:06.31
And I'll go to number 11
00:48:06.35\00:48:08.38
because I've kind of
been on the train here.
00:48:08.42\00:48:10.89
According to the
Bible, what is the sword?
00:48:10.92\00:48:14.16
Is that a redundant statement?
00:48:14.19\00:48:17.63
According to the
Bible, what is the sword?
00:48:17.66\00:48:19.39
Ephesians 6:17.
00:48:19.43\00:48:21.46
"Now we know the
whole armor is important,
00:48:21.50\00:48:24.17
but take the helmet of salvation
00:48:24.20\00:48:26.67
and the sword of the spirit,
00:48:26.70\00:48:29.30
which is the Word of God."
00:48:29.34\00:48:31.04
I have looked that word up
sword in the Old Testament.
00:48:31.07\00:48:35.18
Now I want you guys
to look at that word
00:48:35.21\00:48:37.01
and tell me what
two words you see
00:48:37.05\00:48:39.91
in the word sword.
00:48:39.95\00:48:42.38
Word.
00:48:42.42\00:48:44.05
Okay. And the other one.
00:48:44.09\00:48:46.82
And sword, right?
Isn't that amazing?
00:48:46.86\00:48:49.92
The Lord just
adds an S to his word
00:48:49.96\00:48:52.73
and it becomes a sword.
00:48:52.76\00:48:54.10
What about helmet?
00:48:54.13\00:48:55.53
Okay. Helmet...
00:48:55.56\00:48:57.33
It's the brain, your mind.
00:48:57.37\00:48:59.03
Say it again. It
because it's your mind.
00:48:59.07\00:49:00.74
That's right, guard your mind.
00:49:00.77\00:49:03.84
The avenues of your soul.
00:49:03.87\00:49:05.21
Yes, yes. Right.
00:49:05.24\00:49:06.57
You have to,
and your conscience.
00:49:06.61\00:49:08.24
Let's talk to our
young people for a minute.
00:49:08.28\00:49:09.61
All right.
00:49:09.64\00:49:10.98
Janelle, what are some...
00:49:11.01\00:49:12.35
You and my wife made
some changes in your life
00:49:12.38\00:49:13.72
not too long ago.
00:49:13.75\00:49:15.08
What were those things?
00:49:15.12\00:49:16.45
Facebook, unanimously.
00:49:16.48\00:49:18.69
I just found myself
on there way too much.
00:49:18.72\00:49:22.26
And it's
something that could be used
00:49:22.29\00:49:24.89
for a great use for ministry
and to reach out to people.
00:49:24.93\00:49:29.63
But the enemy is so clever
00:49:29.66\00:49:31.23
because you could start
out with good intentions for,
00:49:31.27\00:49:35.10
you know, before you know it,
you're way down a rabbit hole.
00:49:35.14\00:49:38.71
And like, how did I get here
and how much time did I spend?
00:49:38.74\00:49:41.81
And so the Lord
really woke me up
00:49:41.84\00:49:44.01
and we would go places,
00:49:44.05\00:49:45.75
like at that time
we were driving to our
00:49:45.78\00:49:48.08
or house that we
were trying to sell.
00:49:48.12\00:49:49.88
And it was like
three hours away.
00:49:49.92\00:49:51.25
So on that drive, I
was constantly on my phone,
00:49:51.29\00:49:54.22
Facebook, and he's over there
falling asleep with the wheel.
00:49:54.26\00:49:56.69
I need someone to
talk. I need interaction.
00:49:56.73\00:49:59.89
And so, you
know, like he wasn't...
00:49:59.93\00:50:02.13
And he was gently,
00:50:02.16\00:50:03.50
you know, letting me know
00:50:03.53\00:50:04.87
that I was spending
too much time on there,
00:50:04.90\00:50:06.43
but it's just, it's something
00:50:06.47\00:50:07.80
that can really
overtake our minds.
00:50:07.84\00:50:10.11
And so then what happened
00:50:10.14\00:50:12.47
was the Lord
really convicted me.
00:50:12.51\00:50:13.84
And so then I created
this really crazy password.
00:50:13.88\00:50:17.51
And then I put it in a place,
00:50:17.55\00:50:18.88
it's really hard
to get to that is,
00:50:18.91\00:50:20.42
it takes too much
effort to even be worth it.
00:50:20.45\00:50:23.22
And so I did a
fast off of Facebook
00:50:23.25\00:50:25.59
for like a year and
a half to two years.
00:50:25.62\00:50:27.86
And so now I'm
gradually going back on,
00:50:27.89\00:50:30.83
but I limit myself.
00:50:30.86\00:50:32.23
And limit myself.
00:50:32.26\00:50:34.36
And if I find myself like,
00:50:34.40\00:50:36.10
you know, starting
to scroll away too much
00:50:36.13\00:50:38.37
and look at things
that don't mean anything,
00:50:38.40\00:50:41.10
then that's when I
know that I need to get off
00:50:41.14\00:50:44.81
because if I go on
there to check messages,
00:50:44.84\00:50:47.48
respond or whatever,
and then get back off,
00:50:47.51\00:50:49.88
I don't need to be on
there doing crazy, you know...
00:50:49.91\00:50:53.62
Reading all the
posts. Oh, pictures.
00:50:53.65\00:50:55.88
Yes. Where this person went to?
00:50:55.92\00:50:57.25
This person went there. Oh.
00:50:57.29\00:50:58.62
Yeah.
00:50:58.65\00:50:59.99
So, you know, praise the Lord
00:51:00.02\00:51:01.36
for His convicting
power of the Holy Spirit.
00:51:01.39\00:51:03.43
And, you know, He
works through other people
00:51:03.46\00:51:06.26
to get our attention too.
00:51:06.29\00:51:07.90
That's right. And
so thankful for that.
00:51:07.93\00:51:09.76
What about you, honey?
00:51:09.80\00:51:11.20
Oh, I was addicted to Facebook.
00:51:11.23\00:51:14.90
It was taking my time
like you said, day and night.
00:51:14.94\00:51:18.31
Oh, who's doing
what, what they're doing,
00:51:18.34\00:51:20.08
what they're saying now.
00:51:20.11\00:51:21.44
People putting
their garbage on Facebook.
00:51:21.48\00:51:22.81
And I'd get mad and like
and it would just anger me.
00:51:22.84\00:51:25.81
What are they saying?
And how could they say this?
00:51:25.85\00:51:27.65
And I'm like...
00:51:27.68\00:51:29.02
And you'd say,
"Honey, don't answer them."
00:51:29.05\00:51:31.15
And I'm like, "Oh," Oh,
00:51:31.19\00:51:32.82
her family
member is saying this.
00:51:32.85\00:51:34.56
"How could she say
that?" Like emotional.
00:51:34.59\00:51:35.92
Yeah. And it was so much.
00:51:35.96\00:51:37.63
And so I said I
am done with Facebook
00:51:37.66\00:51:40.96
and I told you, Janelle, too.
00:51:41.00\00:51:42.93
Yeah.
00:51:42.96\00:51:44.30
We could relate
on a lot of stuff.
00:51:44.33\00:51:45.67
It helped. Me too. Yeah.
00:51:45.70\00:51:47.34
And then yesterday I
got something on my phone,
00:51:47.37\00:51:50.64
it says, "You need to
come back to Facebook."
00:51:50.67\00:51:53.07
Facebook sent me this thing.
It said you need to come back.
00:51:53.11\00:51:56.64
It says, "Just click
this and you can come back."
00:51:56.68\00:51:59.88
And then Angie
said, "I'm not ready."
00:51:59.91\00:52:01.25
I'm not ready. Yeah.
00:52:01.28\00:52:04.72
It's like that old man
that comes out of the grave.
00:52:04.75\00:52:07.39
You're not going anywhere.
00:52:07.42\00:52:10.13
And, you know, I know
people that are very serious
00:52:10.16\00:52:12.99
about their social media
00:52:13.03\00:52:14.36
that they use it
as their ministry.
00:52:14.40\00:52:15.73
Right.
00:52:15.76\00:52:17.10
And I know there's one couple
that we are familiar with,
00:52:17.13\00:52:19.63
that they are as a
family, they have six kids.
00:52:19.67\00:52:22.67
And because they
use YouTube so much,
00:52:22.70\00:52:25.41
they take a YouTube
break every two weeks
00:52:25.44\00:52:28.41
and then they spend
time with their family
00:52:28.44\00:52:29.88
and then they get back.
00:52:29.91\00:52:31.25
You know, they have this
built into their schedule
00:52:31.28\00:52:33.35
because they're
on there's so much
00:52:33.38\00:52:34.72
that they know
that they need that.
00:52:34.75\00:52:37.09
And I think that that's smart
and wise to use it and have,
00:52:37.12\00:52:41.12
you know, you control it.
00:52:41.16\00:52:42.49
It doesn't control
you, the social media.
00:52:42.52\00:52:44.79
And I think that's important.
00:52:44.83\00:52:46.80
I think that's crucial
00:52:46.83\00:52:48.93
because if you don't use it for,
00:52:48.96\00:52:51.43
you know, to spread the gospel,
00:52:51.47\00:52:52.80
then all that's
out there is garbage.
00:52:52.83\00:52:55.24
So, you know,
somebody has to take that light
00:52:55.27\00:52:57.41
to the world.
00:52:57.44\00:52:58.77
So people need to be on
there spreading the gospel.
00:52:58.81\00:53:00.54
Exactly. I was doing that.
00:53:00.58\00:53:03.28
I was putting a lot
of quotes and things,
00:53:03.31\00:53:05.68
messages and your
sermons and things like that.
00:53:05.71\00:53:07.65
I was doing that,
00:53:07.68\00:53:09.02
but I was also getting involved.
00:53:09.05\00:53:10.39
Yes, that's the hard part.
00:53:10.42\00:53:13.12
A friend of mine
called me yesterday.
00:53:13.15\00:53:14.92
And she said,
"Ang, I don't see you
00:53:14.96\00:53:16.89
on Facebook anymore.
00:53:16.93\00:53:18.29
I followed you all
the time on Facebook.
00:53:18.33\00:53:20.23
I lived through Facebook.
00:53:20.26\00:53:21.60
I live my life through
your life on Facebook."
00:53:21.63\00:53:24.07
Oh, wow.
00:53:24.10\00:53:27.90
Guard alert.
00:53:27.94\00:53:29.27
I live vicariously through you.
00:53:29.30\00:53:31.14
When you guys were so
much in the public light,
00:53:31.17\00:53:33.38
sometimes maybe people
are being a little nosier
00:53:33.41\00:53:35.71
than they should be.
00:53:35.74\00:53:37.65
Exactly. Just saying.
00:53:37.68\00:53:40.75
I can do all
things through Christ
00:53:40.78\00:53:42.78
who strengthens me.
00:53:42.82\00:53:44.15
Don't worry about people
vicariously living through you.
00:53:44.19\00:53:46.72
We're saying
live through Christ.
00:53:46.76\00:53:48.32
That's why,
talking about the sword,
00:53:48.36\00:53:50.19
Hebrews 4:12,
00:53:50.23\00:53:51.73
"For the Word of God
is living and powerful
00:53:51.76\00:53:55.26
and sharper than
any two-edged sword
00:53:55.30\00:53:57.50
piercing even to the
division of soul and spirit
00:53:57.53\00:54:00.70
and of joints and marrow, "
00:54:00.74\00:54:02.37
and as a discerner of
the thoughts and intents
00:54:02.40\00:54:04.21
of the heart.
00:54:04.24\00:54:05.57
If you read the Bible,
00:54:05.61\00:54:07.08
it'll tell you
what you're thinking
00:54:07.11\00:54:09.14
and whether or not you
need to abandon that thought.
00:54:09.18\00:54:12.25
The Bible smacks us...
00:54:12.28\00:54:14.25
That's why I know the
Bible wasn't written by men.
00:54:14.28\00:54:17.02
Right.
00:54:17.05\00:54:18.39
It was not their
thought, it was God's thought.
00:54:18.42\00:54:21.42
The Holy Spirit moved
on them to be the pen men,
00:54:21.46\00:54:24.33
but it was not
their birth child.
00:54:24.36\00:54:25.99
Because it kind of cuts
you, like it literally cut you.
00:54:26.03\00:54:28.30
Like you're
saying with Facebook,
00:54:28.33\00:54:30.07
"Wait, I'm going
on the wrong path
00:54:30.10\00:54:31.43
or something."
00:54:31.47\00:54:32.80
Now we can move back in the past
00:54:32.83\00:54:34.17
when we used to go out and drink
00:54:34.20\00:54:35.54
and party and all stuff.
00:54:35.57\00:54:36.91
I used to go to parties
that where we were invited
00:54:36.94\00:54:38.27
at people's
homes and stuff like,
00:54:38.31\00:54:39.64
"Man, I just felt so agitated.
00:54:39.67\00:54:41.01
Like I don't wanna be here."
00:54:41.04\00:54:42.38
I just, I was really angry.
00:54:42.41\00:54:43.75
I didn't really
understand why at the time
00:54:43.78\00:54:45.11
the Holy Spirit's like,
00:54:45.15\00:54:46.48
"You're not supposed to be here.
00:54:46.51\00:54:47.85
You need to go."
00:54:47.88\00:54:49.22
And I'm like, boom, I'm
just frustrated and angry,
00:54:49.25\00:54:50.59
like get me out of here.
00:54:50.62\00:54:51.95
But I just realized
now that the Holy Spirit
00:54:51.99\00:54:53.32
is working on you
and respond to that call.
00:54:53.36\00:54:55.06
You need to. Amen.
00:54:55.09\00:54:56.52
I want to throw this to J.
00:54:56.56\00:54:57.89
Under number 12,
read 1 Peter 4:12, 13.
00:54:57.93\00:55:00.80
And this is why
we have to be ready
00:55:00.83\00:55:04.63
for what's coming.
00:55:04.67\00:55:07.30
"Beloved, do not
think it's strange
00:55:07.34\00:55:09.44
concerning the fiery trial,
00:55:09.47\00:55:11.27
which is to try you
00:55:11.31\00:55:13.24
as though some
strange thing happened to you,
00:55:13.27\00:55:16.08
but rejoice, to the extent
00:55:16.11\00:55:17.65
that you partake
of Christ's sufferings
00:55:17.68\00:55:20.18
that when his glory is revealed,
00:55:20.22\00:55:21.88
you may also be
glad with exceeding joy."
00:55:21.92\00:55:25.59
So, are we
gonna have difficulty?
00:55:25.62\00:55:27.49
Yes.
00:55:27.52\00:55:28.86
There's an interesting scripture
00:55:28.89\00:55:30.56
links to this Romans 5:3-5
00:55:30.59\00:55:33.09
is really, oh,
man, that's really rich.
00:55:33.13\00:55:35.36
It says... Yeah, Romans 5:3-5.
00:55:35.40\00:55:40.00
There's like a
ladder here and it's for us.
00:55:40.04\00:55:42.70
And I often share this on
a prayer line with people.
00:55:42.74\00:55:45.24
It says, "Not only so,
00:55:45.27\00:55:46.61
but we glory and tribulations
00:55:46.64\00:55:47.98
who wants to go
through a trial."
00:55:48.01\00:55:49.34
I mean, we glory in them.
00:55:49.38\00:55:50.71
Okay. Bring them on. No.
And people don't usually say.
00:55:50.75\00:55:53.08
"Knowing that
tribulation work patience."
00:55:53.11\00:55:54.88
And that word
patience in the Greek
00:55:54.92\00:55:56.25
actually means character.
00:55:56.28\00:55:58.79
So it's working our character,
00:55:58.82\00:56:00.39
character of patience experience
00:56:00.42\00:56:01.82
and experience hope,
00:56:01.86\00:56:03.19
so, you know, to me,
00:56:03.22\00:56:04.66
when I tell people
it's like that experience
00:56:04.69\00:56:06.03
as you have a stronger bond
00:56:06.06\00:56:07.40
and a more deeper
trust in what Christ will do
00:56:07.43\00:56:10.20
and then that
hope that you'll have
00:56:10.23\00:56:11.57
that hope of eternal life.
00:56:11.60\00:56:12.93
That's right.
00:56:12.97\00:56:14.30
And when we think about it,
00:56:14.34\00:56:15.67
here's the number one
reason why we need to be awake.
00:56:15.70\00:56:17.04
Honey, read 1 Peter 5:8, 9.
00:56:17.07\00:56:19.77
Okay. This is a good one.
00:56:19.81\00:56:22.11
We should all be this. Be what?
00:56:22.14\00:56:24.01
Sober. And what else?
00:56:24.05\00:56:25.41
Be vigilant.
00:56:25.45\00:56:26.78
Because who?
00:56:26.82\00:56:28.15
Your adversary.
00:56:28.18\00:56:29.52
Who is he? The devil?
00:56:29.55\00:56:30.89
What is he doing?
00:56:30.92\00:56:32.25
Walks about like a roaring lion.
00:56:32.29\00:56:33.62
What else is he doing?
00:56:33.66\00:56:34.99
Seeking on who to devour.
00:56:35.02\00:56:36.36
And what should
we do? Resist him.
00:56:36.39\00:56:37.86
How? Step fast in the faith.
00:56:37.89\00:56:39.73
What do we know?
00:56:39.76\00:56:41.10
Knowing that the same sufferings
00:56:41.13\00:56:42.86
are experienced by
your brothers in world.
00:56:42.90\00:56:46.17
Wow. They're
experiencing it too.
00:56:46.20\00:56:47.54
That's right.
00:56:47.57\00:56:48.90
You're in pastoral
department and you hear it.
00:56:48.94\00:56:50.27
You're in the Dream Media,
you hear it, you work in radio,
00:56:50.31\00:56:52.77
you hear it.
00:56:52.81\00:56:54.14
Janelle, you work on
that magazine all the time.
00:56:54.18\00:56:56.58
You were putting
articles to help these people
00:56:56.61\00:56:58.28
struggling, they hear it.
00:56:58.31\00:56:59.65
Yes.
00:56:59.68\00:57:01.02
And we're saying to you,
00:57:01.05\00:57:02.38
those of you that have joined us
00:57:02.42\00:57:03.75
for Family Worship,
00:57:03.79\00:57:05.12
thank you for walking us
00:57:05.15\00:57:06.49
through this experience of life,
00:57:06.52\00:57:07.86
but you're
gonna have difficulty.
00:57:07.89\00:57:09.22
You're gonna have trials,
00:57:09.26\00:57:10.59
but if you don't
take the peaceful time
00:57:10.63\00:57:12.19
that you have now to
build up your line of defense,
00:57:12.23\00:57:16.03
when the difficulty come,
00:57:16.06\00:57:17.40
you won't be able
to do like Asa and say,
00:57:17.43\00:57:18.83
"Father, this is yours."
00:57:18.87\00:57:20.44
So here at 3ABn worship,
00:57:20.47\00:57:21.80
Jason, Donald,
Janelle, my wife and I,
00:57:21.84\00:57:24.87
we wanna to bid
you a happy what?
00:57:24.91\00:57:26.68
Sabbath. Sabbath.
00:57:26.71\00:57:28.58
Thank you for joining us.
00:57:28.61\00:57:29.94
We look forward to
seeing you the next time.
00:57:29.98\00:57:33.21
Amen.
00:57:33.25\00:57:34.58