I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello, friends, and welcome
to Friday Night Family Worship.
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I'm Pastor John Lomacang.
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And to my right is
the blessing of my life,
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my wife, Angela.
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Good to have you here, Honey.
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Honey, I am so happy to be here.
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It's the Sabbath.
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We can put everything aside,
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the world aside and
just focus on the Lord.
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Not that we
don't focus every day.
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Okay.
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But this is a
special day, God's Sabbath.
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And I'm happy to
be here, aren't you?
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That's right.
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And we're talking about a topic
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that I think will be
of great interest to you.
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We're talking about restoration
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and you'll find
out in just a moment
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what that means.
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Salvation is so beautiful to us,
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but sometimes
we don't understand
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the steps of salvation.
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Right.
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Not that you're not saved
the moment you come to Christ
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and He forgives you
and begins to redeem you.
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But there's something
about it that we often miss.
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And we're gonna talk
about that on this program,
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but go ahead and introduce
our guests today, Honey,
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that's really
part of our family.
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This is family.
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We had so much fun talking
before the program, didn't we?
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We were just reminiscing
because we do go way back.
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We're the older family
and we have newer family.
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Speak for yourself.
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These are the young 'uns here.
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I know, but I'm saying
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even the young
'uns could go back
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with us through history.
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We have history and
we were reminiscing.
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It was so much fun,
but we have Dee Hildebrand.
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Hi, nice to be here.
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Thank you for
inviting me. I appreciate it.
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I always loved
doing worship with you.
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I know.
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So glad to have you here, Dee,
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and we're just saying
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how we can't do without our Dee.
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Right, honey? That's right.
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We call Dee for everything.
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We've grown up together.
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Practically and in front of me.
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Beautiful couple Greg
and Jill Morikone, welcome.
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Thank you.
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Glad to have you
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and excited that you're
part of our program today.
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Yay!
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This is your
second time on 3ABN.
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You're right.
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Thank you very much.
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It's a blessing to be a part
of the 3ABN family of course,
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and what a blessing.
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I know the week's been busy,
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so Jill and I always
look forward to Friday night.
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This is kinda like
a really special time.
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So it's a blessing to spend
it with you all and of course,
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to you at home.
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But I think about God
blessing the Sabbath day,
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the seventh day, right?
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That's right.
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I like the
preparation day, Friday,
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and then going into
sundown and this special time
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opening the word.
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Great topic too, Pastor.
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Yes. Yes.
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I've seen the
Lord in so many ways.
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This topic is real
in all of our lives.
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I mean,
president, vice president,
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you know, I've known you
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through the different positions
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and, Jill, you know,
when you were piano teacher,
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head deaconess
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and working in
different departments,
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and now vice president
and see head of programming
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and a lot of other things.
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I mean, I'm just,
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I'm really
messing it up right now,
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but it's great.
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Greg was your
head elder one time.
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Greg was my head elder.
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Wonderful head elder.
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We've worked
together for many, many years
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and it's been a privilege,
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you know, really I realize,
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you know, titles have different
roles of responsibility,
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but still we're all
working for one common goal.
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That's right.
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It's a blessing to be
of service for the Lord.
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And you were
talking about reminiscing.
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It is fun.
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You were talking about
when some of the people
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such as Caleb and others
that are on camera right now
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when they were not even born.
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They were tiny
toddlers. Yeah. Just yeah.
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Oh, yeah not even born, yeah.
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It's amazing
though, what a privilege.
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What a privilege to be family?
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You know, I love that.
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I love the gift of the Sabbath.
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I love the gift of
spending it with family.
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And we just love you,
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Angie and Pastor John and Dee
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and the rest of our 3ABN family.
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So just a privilege
to open up God's Word
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and study together.
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Well, Honey, would you
have prayer for us tonight?
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We're gonna talk about
something that's amazing.
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And I know the Lord will bless
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if we invite Him to be with us.
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Okay, let's go to the Lord.
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Our precious Lord in heaven,
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we come to you in
the name of Jesus,
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giving You all the
praise, the honor, and the glory
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for You are worthy.
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Thank You for
this opportunity for us
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coming before Your presence.
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Thank You, Lord,
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that we could
reminisce and look back,
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but, Lord, we have a future.
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We have a wonderful
future eternity in view,
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help us to focus
on what we can do
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to help all others
to make the kingdom.
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Lord, there's others
that need to be restored.
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We ask that You...
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This program will
be a blessing to them.
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We pray that Your Holy
Spirit will come down upon us
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and upon the
viewers and listeners today,
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and may each one
receives a blessing.
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And may we also be a
blessing in Jesus' name.
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Amen. Amen.
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Thank you. Thank
you for that, Honey.
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The topics that the Lord puts
on my heart are evolutionary
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and what I mean by
that is as I get older...
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Is it
evolutionary? Evolutionary.
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Evolutionary, Ooh, I like that.
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What I mean by that
is our understanding
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I believe in
God's Word increases.
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It shouldn't decrease.
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The more we study God's Word,
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I was telling my wife
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and those who are on
our zoom link sometimes that
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I'm a lot...
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I'm seeing a lot of Bible verses
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with new eyes.
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True.
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And I think that
that is true in Revelation
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when it talks
about anoint your eyes
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with eye salve that you may see.
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The Lord does in
fact restore our vision
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to give us a cleaner,
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more beautiful picture
of who we can be in Christ.
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And up highway 55,
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we live in Southern Illinois.
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Most of you know that
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that are watching a bit
and part of the 3ABN family.
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But sometimes when I'm
going to the conference office,
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'cause I worked
with the conference,
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I worked for the conference
and 3ABN at the same time.
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Yes.
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And I'm going up to meetings.
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There's on the
right side of the road
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before we get to Springfield,
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there's massive
yard of old cars.
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Yes.
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And I look to the
right is old cars,
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but I'm thinking,
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why would anybody wanna
hold on to all these old cars.
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Right.
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And some of them
were many years old,
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40, 50, 60 years old.
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You could see they're long
and with a big rounded fenders,
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big headlights
look like socialites.
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Yes.
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Why would he have over there?
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And I...
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And then I saw this
channel on television
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where they buy these old cars
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and they
completely restore them.
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Yes.
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And they are worth so much more
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than they were worth originally.
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And then the antique
channels, sometimes traveling...
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Oh, yeah.
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Traveling antique show. Oh, yes.
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And somebody
brings something and says,
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I've had this in my
family for 50 years.
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And it was in my garage.
Well, how much is it worth?
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And they say, well
conservatively about 412,500.
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Yes. Wow.
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We watched a person
going to a conniption.
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That much?
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That much it was
in my garage. Wow.
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It was one man's junk.
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So in the eyes of the world,
sometimes we are man's junk,
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but God sees us as His treasure.
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Beautiful. Yes.
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So we're gonna
talk about that today
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because there are many of you
that are watching this program
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and maybe listening
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that might say,
I've gone too far.
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I have too many miles
of bad things in my life
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to even be restored.
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As I'm watching the program,
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I think of all the things I did,
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maybe even just this week
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that are just really
weighing on my heart.
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And I can't even see the forest
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because the
trees are blocking it.
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Tonight, we want to
leave you encouraged
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that God has a
plan for creation,
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but that plan is
not just for the world.
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It's for every one of us.
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So let's dive
into the Bible tonight.
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Let's start in Revelation 21:5.
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And let's look at that together.
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Revelation 21:5
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and God reveals
His plan for salvation.
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So let's kind of
go around the table.
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I'll start far away. Greg.
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Let's look at God's plan
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for that He did
this for creation.
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Revelation 21? Revelation 21:5.
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Says,
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"Then He who sat
on the throne said,
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'Behold, I make all things new.
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'And He said to me,
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'Write, for these words
are true and faithful.'"
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So when you read that
verse, what does it say to you?
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Wow, all things new,
not some things are like,
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I'm just gonna pick every other
and that'll be new, all things.
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That's right.
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That's powerful
because it goes back
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to what you were talking about.
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You know, some
people can be in despair.
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Yeah, I'm too bad.
I've done too much.
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There's no hope for me.
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I'm just a rusted out old car.
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As you were saying,
sitting in somebody's yard,
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collecting dust and rust.
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I think
sometimes... That's beautiful.
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It is.
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When we read this scripture,
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when I was a new Christian
or a young baby Christian,
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I read the scripture.
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And when it says all things,
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I'm thinking the
world and the animals.
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And I didn't think about me
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being new, recreating.
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I make all things new.
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That includes us.
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Absolutely right.
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I love that, Dee.
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You know what I love about
this scripture is the word new.
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I make all things new.
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If you look at it
in the Greek Kainos,
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it means new in
quality, not in origin.
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So in other words,
this is us being renewed
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or remade into the image of God.
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So us as people were...
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God's not saying,
I'm done with you,
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I'm putting you aside
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and I'm going to
make somebody new.
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No, He's taking
us with our issues
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and our baggage and restoring
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and renewing and
making us like new.
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That's right. I love that.
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So helpful. Yeah.
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And there are people that
sometimes think to themselves.
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Well, I could see my
brother being a pastor,
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but me, I mean I
drank, I have no cash,
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I got too much baggage.
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There's no way that anybody
could use me for anything good.
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And, but we're saying tonight,
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whoa, there's nothing
that the Lord can't do
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because He's the potter.
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And even though the
clay leaks in His hands,
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He doesn't put down that jug.
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He doesn't put down that jar.
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He wants to make everything new.
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But what else
does He wanna make new?
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Let's look at 2
Corinthians 5:17.
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Sure.
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What else does
He want to make new?
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Honey? Okay.
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Therefore, that's that
famous text which I love.
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And this is, it gives hope.
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Therefore, if anyone,
that's all of us, is in Christ,
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he or she is a new creation.
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Old things where have they gone?
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Passed away.
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Behold, how many
things? All things.
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All things have become new.
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Amen.
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It gives me such
hope. Doesn't it, Honey?
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That's right and look at us.
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I mean, we come from Brooklyn.
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Not that things
are bad in Brooklyn.
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No.
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But the thing about God is
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He sees the end
of the assembly line
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before you are even a
thought in the drafting room.
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A designer says,
here's what I have in mind.
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Yeah.
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Could you make it?
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And then he gets together
with the concept, draw artists.
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They begin to form it
and shape it and mold it.
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And then the
guys, I saw a video once
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of how they shape cars.
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And I never knew that
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some guys literally have
this look like a mound of clay
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that they just
take this exact on
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and they're very
sharp and they start
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shaping and molding
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and they use those to
make molds, metal molds.
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And they create all
these pieces of the car
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and they melt them all down.
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They put them
together and you think,
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and the guy says,
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that's what I
saw four years ago.
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And so...
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That's the secret you
just said four years ago.
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When I first became a Christian
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and I read scriptures like this.
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Yeah.
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I would become discouraged
because I wasn't new.
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I was supposed to be new.
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I wanted...
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I was in Christ
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and I was supposed to be
this new instant creation.
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I was supposed to
be perfect all the time
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and I would let Christ down.
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I would fail. I would fall.
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And then you kind of, you try,
you give up because you think,
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well, this is, I'm
supposed to be new.
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What's wrong with me?
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And you could see
all the wrong things
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wrong with you.
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It's amazing,
because as you grow,
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you have a better
conception of this.
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That what's the word...
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We're transforming all the time.
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It's a work in
progress all the time.
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And the most amazing thing is
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as you grow and you become a
new creation in certain areas
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and you're thinking,
wow, I'm doing better here.
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Then God reveals the next area.
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So by the time
you get up to my age,
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you realize
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there's always
gonna be more to grow in,
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which is wonderful
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because you can look back
and see how God has grown you.
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And that gives you
hope knowing He is...
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You're going to keep growing.
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So are you saying that
the Lord put you through
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in extreme makeover?
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He'd still put me
through an extreme makeover
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because I needed
an extreme makeover.
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You know, I needed
an extreme makeover
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because I was so far.
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I remember back
before I was a Christian,
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when I didn't try
to be a Christian,
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because I didn't see
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how I could ever be good enough.
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I just was too, too bad,
00:14:20.79\00:14:23.79
because I didn't
understand restoration,
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God's power.
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What, Jill, that
really rang with me
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when you said,
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He's gonna take me and renew me.
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Not make a new better me.
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He's working in me.
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That's right.
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That's right.
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My wife has given me all
these little hints over here,
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but she's not
saying them out loud.
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You're talking about
how does He restore us?
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It's like an old
house, one room at a time,
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clean up that room.
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Sometimes you have a
junk room in your house,
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which we have,
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and you will whizz down
to clean out that junk room.
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And now it's
starting to look nice.
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I'm like, wow,
there's hope for that room.
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And that's how
it is with us. Yes.
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I love the hope
that God gives us.
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If I can throw
in Isaiah 43? Sure.
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Isaiah 43, let's go there. Yes.
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Isaiah 43, this
is verses 18 and 19.
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This always gives me hope.
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When I read it,
it encourages me.
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It says,
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"Do not remember
the former things,
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nor consider the things of old."
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We're thinking of
the old being of sin
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or the old woman of
sin and that old creation.
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And sometimes we dwell
on it, we remember the past.
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We remember those
things who we used to be,
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but the Word of God
says, don't remember that,
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don't remember your past.
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Don't remember those mistakes.
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And then it says, in verse 19,
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"Behold, I will do a new thing.
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Now it shall spring
forth, shall you not know it?
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I will even make a
road in the wilderness
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and rivers in the desert."
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And so many times we feel
like we are in a desert place,
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or you might feel
like I'm in the wilderness
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and God there's no live...
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There's nothing green.
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There's nothing
living. There's nothing fresh.
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And yet God says,
00:16:07.50\00:16:08.83
I can renew the
bareness in your life.
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I love that.
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No matter where we've
been or how far you have gone,
00:16:12.93\00:16:17.01
Jesus says, I
want to restore you.
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And I want to
pour My Spirit in you
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and change you.
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And that's the beautiful thing.
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We can be new creation in Him,
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no matter what our
life looks like now.
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That's right.
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I like that, road
in the wilderness.
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Greg?
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You know, Pastor, going back
to what you were talking about,
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like the designer,
the master designer,
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you know, thinking about God
and thinking about restoration,
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that's incredible love.
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We were talking
about this, Pastor,
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before we went on the air here.
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You know, that's a lot of
love to restore something,
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because God could say,
okay, let's say this is that car
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that's sitting out there.
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This water bottle of water,
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like you were talking
about in the junkyard.
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God could look at and say,
okay, it's missing the label,
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half full next, but He's not.
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He says, okay, how
can I put a label on that?
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Or how can I take that old car?
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I need to sand it
down a little bit.
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You know, that's
the master designer.
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But okay, we're
talking about cars.
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You think about us.
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We're made in the image of who?
00:17:08.19\00:17:10.16
Of God. That's powerful.
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So you've got a designer
that's actually working right
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on an image that's like that
we're supposed to be like Him.
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He created us in His image.
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That's a lot of love
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because it's easy just to see
something that's kind of junky,
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like you're
talking about junk rooms
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or whatever like, okay, yeah.
00:17:23.61\00:17:24.94
Don't want that,
toss that and toss that.
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But God says, you know what?
00:17:26.34\00:17:27.68
I see hope in
every single person
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on the entire planet...
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That's right.
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And you have the
possibility of restoration.
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That's phenomenal love.
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It really is. Amen.
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Nobody is too much work. No.
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We look at ourselves,
00:17:38.85\00:17:40.19
we look at ourselves
and say too much work.
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And we look...
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Well, Dee, that's our judgment.
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See that's the thing, we get
caught up in our own judgment.
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We look at God and
God says, you know what?
00:17:46.96\00:17:48.30
I wanna restore you.
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I wanna put a label
on that water bottle.
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And I wanna fill you up.
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We look at it and
say, okay, I'm half empty.
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I have no label. My
lid here is on crooked.
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I've got a
little dent in the side.
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That's what we judge ourselves,
00:17:59.44\00:18:00.78
but God doesn't
judge about that.
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We're not worth restoring.
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Well, saints wants
us to believe that.
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Of course.
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Or we judge
other people that way.
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But God's vision...
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You guys are setting me up.
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Sorry, Pastor. No, we love this.
00:18:12.05\00:18:13.92
I'm loving it because you're
setting it up so beautifully.
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We have a quote... God's vision.
00:18:16.19\00:18:17.53
In a little bit
here. God's vision.
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He has his vision
for each individual.
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Yeah.
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And this is what
we have to hold out
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when we meet people.
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We meet people sometimes
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and it takes a lot for a person
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to even want to have a
meeting with the pastor.
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Yeah. True.
00:18:30.64\00:18:33.04
Like today.
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I had a meeting today
with someone who said to me,
00:18:34.44\00:18:40.22
you know, I saw
you at the gas station
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and it's been
many, many, many years
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since I've seen you.
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And the Lord said
to him and me, right?
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He said, the Lord said to me,
00:18:48.06\00:18:49.89
you got to talk to Pastor John.
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Oh, wow. Had a
beautiful meeting today.
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Amen.
00:18:52.93\00:18:54.26
And I thought to myself...
Wants to give his life.
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Yeah, wants to give
his life back to the Lord.
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Amen.
00:18:57.93\00:18:59.27
And it's just so
amazing and said,
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"Oh, I've got so much history."
00:19:01.44\00:19:04.27
I said, "Paul did too."
00:19:04.31\00:19:06.04
That's why he said,
forgetting those things behind.
00:19:06.07\00:19:07.94
That's right.
00:19:07.98\00:19:09.31
He said when we meet, he said,
00:19:09.34\00:19:10.68
we butt heads so
much, didn't we? I said,
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Paul said,
00:19:12.25\00:19:13.58
"Forget those things behind us."
00:19:13.62\00:19:14.95
Wow. Amen.
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And he says, so
what's the next step?
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I said, this is
in the Lord's hands.
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God is powerful.
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And you know, this
is what reminds me.
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And, Jill, haven't you
read or Dee, was it Dee yet?
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No. Jill hasn't read yet either.
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Dee, Mark 9:12.
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It's an author part there.
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Yeah.
00:19:33.40\00:19:34.74
Jesus set the field ready
because He was coming back.
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But He sent John the
Baptist ahead of Him,
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and John the Baptist
00:19:41.44\00:19:42.78
was a representation of the work
00:19:42.81\00:19:45.01
of a famous prophet.
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Read that for us.
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Mark 9:12,
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"And then He
answered and told them,
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'Indeed, Elijah is coming
first and restores all things.
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And how is it written
concerning the Son of Man,
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that He must suffer many things
and be treated with contempt?'"
00:20:00.43\00:20:04.70
Okay.
00:20:04.73\00:20:06.07
Now remembering that,
go to Malachi 4 now, Jill,
00:20:06.10\00:20:08.67
and read verse 5 and 6,
00:20:08.70\00:20:10.74
because he talked
about John the Baptist,
00:20:10.77\00:20:13.38
then he talked about Elijah.
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What kind of restoration
00:20:14.81\00:20:16.41
was John the
Baptist representing
00:20:16.44\00:20:19.11
as it relates to
the work of Elijah?
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Verse 5 and 6, in Malachi 4.
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Malachi 4:5-6,
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"Behold, I will send
you Elijah the prophet
00:20:24.52\00:20:26.72
before the coming of the great
and dreadful day of the Lord.
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And he will turn the hearts
of the fathers to the children,
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and the hearts of the
children to their fathers,
00:20:33.43\00:20:37.00
lest I come and strike the earth
00:20:37.03\00:20:38.37
with a curse."
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What was the active?
00:20:40.27\00:20:41.94
I'm gonna ask you
question and I'm gonna take...
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I'm not gonna take too
long to get the answer.
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What is the transitional
word in that paragraph,
00:20:45.67\00:20:49.01
in that verse?
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Before?
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There's a
transitional word. Okay.
00:20:52.61\00:20:56.12
Since we're on air
and the clock is ticking,
00:20:56.15\00:20:57.85
what's the transition? Turn.
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Turn, of course.
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Turn the hearts.
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Turn. Turn...
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He will turn. He will turn.
00:21:04.86\00:21:07.56
He will turn.
00:21:07.60\00:21:08.93
He will turn your
weeping into mourning.
00:21:08.96\00:21:12.33
He will turn
your sadness into joy.
00:21:12.37\00:21:14.90
He will give you
beauty for ashes.
00:21:14.94\00:21:17.71
He will give you
strength in place of fear.
00:21:17.74\00:21:20.41
This whole turn is what
people in the world want.
00:21:20.44\00:21:24.25
And the unfortunate thing,
00:21:24.28\00:21:25.61
and the reason
why this passage is,
00:21:25.65\00:21:26.98
the reason why this
topic is so important to me is
00:21:27.02\00:21:28.42
because I've seen
00:21:28.45\00:21:29.78
what the world has gone through.
00:21:29.82\00:21:31.15
I mean, politically,
emotionally, health wise,
00:21:31.19\00:21:35.62
so many lives
00:21:35.66\00:21:36.99
have been wrecked on the
rocks of disappointed promises.
00:21:37.03\00:21:39.93
And even Christianity
00:21:39.96\00:21:41.30
has put out a
horrible picture of Jesus
00:21:41.33\00:21:43.67
to the world.
00:21:43.70\00:21:45.70
And the world is saying,
00:21:45.73\00:21:47.07
if that's what
Christianity means,
00:21:47.10\00:21:50.67
I'll keep drinking
because I don't need to...
00:21:50.71\00:21:53.54
That's worse
than what I've done.
00:21:53.58\00:21:55.34
We've got to give the
right picture of Jesus.
00:21:55.38\00:21:57.71
And Jesus is the one
00:21:57.75\00:21:59.08
who can turn the
worst into the best.
00:21:59.11\00:22:01.48
Amen.
00:22:01.52\00:22:02.85
He can turn the
saddest into the most joyful.
00:22:02.88\00:22:05.12
He can make the night
day, but it is a process.
00:22:05.15\00:22:08.76
And I look at
what my wife does now.
00:22:08.79\00:22:12.19
I couldn't get her to think
00:22:12.23\00:22:15.10
when we were
living in California.
00:22:15.13\00:22:16.77
If I said, wave file, wave file.
00:22:16.80\00:22:21.90
That was her
definition of wave file.
00:22:21.94\00:22:23.41
See ya.
00:22:23.44\00:22:24.77
Now she's an audio editor.
00:22:24.81\00:22:26.14
Yeah.
00:22:26.17\00:22:28.14
Better one than I
am. The Lord of the lord.
00:22:28.18\00:22:29.98
Right.
00:22:30.01\00:22:31.35
Say it again? The Lord.
00:22:31.38\00:22:32.81
I can do all
things through Christ
00:22:32.85\00:22:34.52
who strengthens me
00:22:34.55\00:22:35.88
'cause I wasn't
even thinking that way.
00:22:35.92\00:22:37.65
That's right.
00:22:37.69\00:22:39.02
He turns, He turns,
but how does He do it?
00:22:39.05\00:22:41.62
Yes.
00:22:41.66\00:22:42.99
And this is where it all starts.
00:22:43.02\00:22:44.49
And after this, I'm
gonna read that quote.
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So I don't wait till
the end of the program.
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Oh, okay.
00:22:47.30\00:22:48.63
Because there's something
that He wants to do for us.
00:22:48.66\00:22:51.47
Let's go to Psalm 51:10-12.
00:22:51.50\00:22:55.27
Greg, let's go
back to you. Sure.
00:22:55.30\00:22:56.97
Can I jump in one sec? Yes. Yes.
00:22:57.01\00:22:58.37
Sure, I'd like you
to do that. Absolutely.
00:22:58.41\00:22:59.87
What I like about
this scripture is it
00:22:59.91\00:23:02.84
it's turning the hearts of
the fathers to the children.
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So to me, this shows a
restoration in the family.
00:23:05.68\00:23:08.38
That's right. Oh, yes.
00:23:08.42\00:23:09.75
You know we've been
talking about restoration
00:23:09.78\00:23:11.42
as individuals
00:23:11.45\00:23:12.79
and that is important,
00:23:12.82\00:23:14.16
but I believe in a special way,
00:23:14.19\00:23:15.52
especially at the end of time,
God wants to restore families.
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Amen.
00:23:19.19\00:23:20.53
He wants to turn the
hearts of the parents
00:23:20.56\00:23:22.10
to the children or the
spouses back toward each other.
00:23:22.13\00:23:24.77
That's right.
00:23:24.80\00:23:26.13
Part of
restoring all things. Yes.
00:23:26.17\00:23:28.10
It's restoration
in the family unit.
00:23:28.14\00:23:30.01
Here on earth. Yeah.
00:23:30.04\00:23:31.37
The family.
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'Cause He started the family
back in the Garden of Eden...
00:23:32.77\00:23:34.81
That's right.
00:23:34.84\00:23:36.18
He wants to restore
marriage and restore families.
00:23:36.21\00:23:38.01
You mentioned it a
moment ago, the prodigal son,
00:23:38.05\00:23:42.32
that's an example of that.
00:23:42.35\00:23:44.15
Restoring the
family, so that's...
00:23:44.19\00:23:47.26
Thank you for bringing that out
00:23:47.29\00:23:48.62
because it's the
hearts and it starts there.
00:23:48.66\00:23:51.23
So, Greg?
00:23:51.26\00:23:52.59
Steps, right? All right.
00:23:52.63\00:23:53.96
Psalm 51. Yeah.
00:23:54.00\00:23:55.33
This is how it's start.
00:23:55.36\00:23:56.70
Oh, I love that psalm.
00:23:56.73\00:23:58.07
Steps to restoration. All right.
00:23:58.10\00:23:59.43
So write this
down Psalm 51:10-12.
00:23:59.47\00:24:03.37
Yes.
00:24:03.41\00:24:04.74
"Create in me a
clean heart, O God,
00:24:04.77\00:24:07.38
and renew a
steadfast spirit within me.
00:24:07.41\00:24:11.05
Do not cast me
away from Your presence,
00:24:11.08\00:24:13.25
and do not take
Your Holy Spirit from me.
00:24:13.28\00:24:16.32
Restore to me the
joy of Your salvation,
00:24:16.35\00:24:19.25
and uphold me with
Your generous Spirit."
00:24:19.29\00:24:23.02
Wow. Amen.
00:24:23.06\00:24:24.39
Isn't that the
little box here, hun?
00:24:24.43\00:24:25.76
Oh, that's beautiful.
00:24:25.79\00:24:27.90
I have a... I have
to read something here.
00:24:27.93\00:24:29.90
Yeah, that's the one out there.
00:24:29.93\00:24:31.27
No, I wanna read this one. Okay.
00:24:31.30\00:24:32.70
This one's good. Read them both.
00:24:32.73\00:24:34.07
It's your
choice, babe. Yeah, both.
00:24:34.10\00:24:36.00
In Christ's
Object Lessons, 205, 206.
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It says,
00:24:38.91\00:24:40.24
"Come to Christ for cleansing.
00:24:40.28\00:24:41.61
Do not listen to
the enemy suggestion
00:24:41.64\00:24:44.51
to stay away from Christ
00:24:44.55\00:24:46.05
until you have
made yourself better,
00:24:46.08\00:24:48.88
until you are good
enough to come to God.
00:24:48.92\00:24:52.65
If you wait until
then, you will never come."
00:24:52.69\00:24:55.89
That's right.
00:24:55.92\00:24:57.26
"When Satan points
to your filthy garments,
00:24:57.29\00:25:01.00
repeat the promise of Jesus.
00:25:01.03\00:25:03.40
Him that commeth
to me, I will," what?
00:25:03.43\00:25:06.53
In no wise...
00:25:06.57\00:25:07.90
"In no wise cast out."
00:25:07.94\00:25:09.27
John 6:37,
00:25:09.30\00:25:10.64
"Tell the enemy
00:25:10.67\00:25:12.01
that the blood of Jesus
Christ cleanses from all sin,
00:25:12.04\00:25:15.71
make the prayer
of David your own."
00:25:15.74\00:25:18.15
Right, make the
prayer of David your own.
00:25:18.18\00:25:19.51
Yes.
00:25:19.55\00:25:20.88
And so, look
where it starts, this...
00:25:20.92\00:25:24.35
Because we call,
we say new creation.
00:25:24.39\00:25:26.96
Yeah.
00:25:26.99\00:25:28.32
But where does
that new creation start?
00:25:28.36\00:25:29.69
In the heart. In the heart.
00:25:29.72\00:25:31.79
Clean, that's the first.
00:25:31.83\00:25:33.33
'Cause when the Bible says
00:25:33.36\00:25:34.70
He will cleanse us
from all unrighteousness,
00:25:34.73\00:25:36.06
we often think of,
00:25:36.10\00:25:37.43
well, you know,
the car has been dirty,
00:25:37.47\00:25:39.00
we just wash the soap off.
00:25:39.03\00:25:40.37
Yeah.
00:25:40.40\00:25:41.74
But many people get their
cars washed on the outside,
00:25:41.77\00:25:44.57
but it's a mess on the inside.
00:25:44.61\00:25:46.41
Yeah.
00:25:46.44\00:25:47.78
The Lord is talking
about a deeper restoration.
00:25:47.81\00:25:50.85
I can see your
wheels turning around.
00:25:50.88\00:25:53.11
When you're talking about that,
I just jumped to Ezekiel 36.
00:25:53.15\00:25:56.55
It just made me think of that...
00:25:56.58\00:25:57.92
This is the Sabbath
school connection right here.
00:25:57.95\00:26:00.22
I love it.
00:26:00.26\00:26:01.59
Ezekiel 36:25 talks about
00:26:01.62\00:26:03.83
the cleansing before
the heart is restored.
00:26:03.86\00:26:06.03
It says... Ezekiel...
00:26:06.06\00:26:07.56
I'm sorry, Ezekiel 36?
00:26:07.60\00:26:08.93
Ezekiel 36:24?
00:26:08.96\00:26:11.00
25. Okay.
00:26:11.03\00:26:12.37
"I will sprinkle
clean water on you
00:26:12.40\00:26:14.57
and you shall be clean.
00:26:14.60\00:26:16.20
I will cleanse you
from all your filthiness
00:26:16.24\00:26:18.21
and from all your idols."
00:26:18.24\00:26:19.57
That cleansing happens first.
00:26:19.61\00:26:20.94
Then we see verse 26,
00:26:20.98\00:26:22.81
"I will give you a new heart
and a new spirit within you.
00:26:22.84\00:26:26.72
I will take the heart
of stone out of your flesh
00:26:26.75\00:26:28.42
and give you a heart of flesh."
00:26:28.45\00:26:29.78
To me, this is the same
thing that happens in Psalm 51
00:26:29.82\00:26:33.29
that cleansing and
that new heart experience.
00:26:33.32\00:26:37.83
Yeah. That's right.
00:26:37.86\00:26:39.19
I'm glad you
brought that up because...
00:26:39.23\00:26:40.73
Go ahead, Greg.
00:26:40.76\00:26:42.10
So someone's gonna ask, okay.
00:26:42.13\00:26:43.47
So how do I get
a new heart then?
00:26:43.50\00:26:45.50
So I know God
wants to do that, how?
00:26:45.53\00:26:47.77
Well I... How will He do that?
00:26:47.80\00:26:49.44
Well, look at the text again.
00:26:49.47\00:26:50.81
I go clear back to Psalms 51.
00:26:50.84\00:26:53.54
The whole... I start...
00:26:53.58\00:26:54.91
I have this
highlighted in my Bible.
00:26:54.94\00:26:56.34
I go to the whole thing
00:26:56.38\00:26:57.71
because it starts with
00:26:57.75\00:26:59.08
God having mercy
and loving kindness
00:26:59.11\00:27:00.78
and blotting out
through transition
00:27:00.82\00:27:02.15
and washing him.
00:27:02.18\00:27:03.52
It's that whole prayer
00:27:03.55\00:27:05.02
of walking through a new day...
00:27:05.05\00:27:07.86
Well, I like what Angie read.
00:27:07.89\00:27:09.52
I'm sorry. I
just interrupted you.
00:27:09.56\00:27:10.89
I liked that
what you read, Angie,
00:27:10.93\00:27:12.26
because we think we are the one
00:27:12.29\00:27:14.20
to somehow get
the cleaning started.
00:27:14.23\00:27:15.63
We're in there trying to
scrub, that's not gonna work.
00:27:15.66\00:27:17.53
It's surrender.
00:27:17.57\00:27:18.90
In order for God to
give us a clean heart,
00:27:18.93\00:27:20.34
we got to surrender.
00:27:20.37\00:27:21.70
That is the key. Put
your hand up and down.
00:27:21.74\00:27:23.07
Yeah.
00:27:23.10\00:27:24.44
Which is so
against the normal, right?
00:27:24.47\00:27:25.81
How we think... It is.
00:27:25.84\00:27:27.18
Okay. I gotta do this.
00:27:27.21\00:27:28.54
I gotta do
this. I gotta do this.
00:27:28.58\00:27:29.91
You know, just got to surrender.
00:27:29.94\00:27:31.28
Wow.
00:27:31.31\00:27:32.65
But that's hard for
some people to surrender.
00:27:32.68\00:27:34.02
Well, that, to
me, that's the step.
00:27:34.05\00:27:35.38
Right, that's the first
step. But that first step.
00:27:35.42\00:27:36.75
The thing is, if we
could ever get the vision
00:27:36.79\00:27:38.19
that God has for us,
00:27:38.22\00:27:39.55
when we surrender
our wills mashed together
00:27:39.59\00:27:42.92
and His, our
wills become the same.
00:27:42.96\00:27:45.06
So then surrendering is
easy because all of a sudden,
00:27:45.09\00:27:48.23
God starts doing things
that you love, that you want,
00:27:48.26\00:27:51.53
that makes you
whole, that gives you joy.
00:27:51.57\00:27:54.50
And so then you find out,
00:27:54.54\00:27:55.87
well, surrender is more of
a blending with the Lord...
00:27:55.90\00:27:58.97
Yes. Yes, it is.
00:27:59.01\00:28:00.34
And it, it raises you up.
00:28:00.38\00:28:02.38
I'm jumping back to
Ezekiel 36 real quick.
00:28:02.41\00:28:04.91
What I love
about this in verse 25,
00:28:04.95\00:28:07.15
we already read it.
00:28:07.18\00:28:08.52
I will sprinkle
clean water on you.
00:28:08.55\00:28:09.88
So who cleans you?
00:28:09.92\00:28:11.25
I, God is the one
who sprinkles the water.
00:28:11.29\00:28:13.72
Yes.
00:28:13.76\00:28:15.09
I will cleanse you
from your filthiness.
00:28:15.12\00:28:16.46
Who cleanses you?
00:28:16.49\00:28:17.83
God cleanses you.
00:28:17.86\00:28:19.19
Verse 26, I will
give you a new heart.
00:28:19.23\00:28:21.10
How do you get a new heart?
00:28:21.13\00:28:22.46
God gives it to you. Amen.
00:28:22.50\00:28:23.83
That's right.
00:28:23.87\00:28:25.20
Then it says, I will
take out the heart of stone.
00:28:25.23\00:28:26.57
You don't have to
get your hand in there
00:28:26.60\00:28:28.20
and try to yank it.
00:28:28.24\00:28:29.57
He pulls out the heart of stone.
00:28:29.60\00:28:30.94
That's right.
00:28:30.97\00:28:32.31
I will give you
a heart of flesh.
00:28:32.34\00:28:33.68
He's the one who
gives you a heart of flesh.
00:28:33.71\00:28:35.38
Verse 27. That's right.
00:28:35.41\00:28:36.75
"I will put My
Spirit within you."
00:28:36.78\00:28:39.25
You don't have to
somehow grab the Holy Spirit
00:28:39.28\00:28:41.68
and say, please, I want you.
00:28:41.72\00:28:43.72
He wants to give
you His Holy Spirit.
00:28:43.75\00:28:46.65
I will cause you
to walk in my statutes
00:28:46.69\00:28:48.79
and you will keep my
judgments and do them."
00:28:48.82\00:28:50.39
I love that. God is the one.
00:28:50.43\00:28:52.29
He is extending and
He reaches out and says,
00:28:52.33\00:28:55.00
"I will do this. I
want to do it in your life."
00:28:55.03\00:28:56.83
That's right.
00:28:56.87\00:28:58.20
If that old 1936
whatever car says,
00:28:58.23\00:29:00.97
how's this gonna happen?
00:29:01.00\00:29:02.34
I'll do it. Yeah.
00:29:02.37\00:29:03.71
We don't have to do it.
00:29:03.74\00:29:05.07
And, Jill, you
stopped short of verse 25.
00:29:05.11\00:29:07.41
I will deliver you
from all your uncleanness.
00:29:07.44\00:29:12.45
I will call for the
grain and multiply it
00:29:12.48\00:29:16.08
and bring no famine upon you.
00:29:16.12\00:29:17.65
Beautiful.
00:29:17.69\00:29:19.02
That's showing you
00:29:19.05\00:29:20.39
how God is going to
completely restore it
00:29:20.42\00:29:21.76
in such a way that...
00:29:21.79\00:29:23.12
And the reason why this
passage is so vitally important,
00:29:23.16\00:29:25.09
or this topic is
important is because
00:29:25.13\00:29:26.73
we think it's
something that we have to do.
00:29:26.76\00:29:28.63
Read that quote for us, Honey.
00:29:28.66\00:29:30.00
We have to let Him.
00:29:30.03\00:29:31.37
We have to let
Him do it. Let God.
00:29:31.40\00:29:33.34
So many people have a hard time,
00:29:33.37\00:29:34.77
especially in this
self-sufficient world,
00:29:34.80\00:29:36.97
you know, we have the phrase
like self-made millionaire.
00:29:37.01\00:29:39.87
Oh, yeah. Self-Made whatever.
00:29:39.91\00:29:41.44
That's right.
00:29:41.48\00:29:42.81
We can't make ourselves.
00:29:42.84\00:29:44.71
You know, if you
try to pull yourself up
00:29:44.75\00:29:46.75
by your bootstraps,
00:29:46.78\00:29:48.15
you'll be on your backside.
00:29:48.18\00:29:50.89
You'll flip yourself.
00:29:50.92\00:29:52.39
Don't do that.
00:29:52.42\00:29:53.76
Let the Lord pull you
up, like he pulled up Peter.
00:29:53.79\00:29:55.76
Yeah. That's good.
00:29:55.79\00:29:57.13
Read that for us, Honey,
00:29:57.16\00:29:58.49
'cause you were
showing that to me.
00:29:58.53\00:29:59.86
Oh, just the end of
this, from Steps of Christ,
00:29:59.89\00:30:01.46
is that gift that
the Lord gives us.
00:30:01.50\00:30:03.63
If somebody is
gonna give me a gift,
00:30:03.67\00:30:05.87
we have to do.
00:30:05.90\00:30:07.24
Just accept it.
00:30:07.27\00:30:08.60
Put our hands out. Thank you.
00:30:08.64\00:30:10.44
It says our greatest need.
00:30:10.47\00:30:12.61
I'll just read the end of it.
00:30:12.64\00:30:14.41
You can never hope
00:30:14.44\00:30:15.78
by your own
efforts to secure it.
00:30:15.81\00:30:18.75
Heaven's forgiveness and
peace and love in the soul.
00:30:18.78\00:30:21.85
But God offers
it to you as a gift.
00:30:21.88\00:30:25.09
It's yours.
00:30:25.12\00:30:26.76
If you will, but reach
out your hand and grasp it.
00:30:26.79\00:30:32.23
You just take it.
00:30:32.26\00:30:33.76
It's so hard.
00:30:33.80\00:30:35.13
Why is it so hard
for people to do that?
00:30:35.16\00:30:37.47
You remember when we did,
00:30:37.50\00:30:39.23
we had worshiped with
a group on Zoom a few,
00:30:39.27\00:30:41.60
a few nights ago,
00:30:41.64\00:30:42.97
and somebody said to us,
00:30:43.00\00:30:46.51
"Pastor John, where
has this message been?
00:30:46.54\00:30:50.55
I've been
looking for all my life."
00:30:50.58\00:30:52.81
Wow.
00:30:52.85\00:30:54.18
"And I've just
been hearing it from you
00:30:54.22\00:30:55.55
in the last four to five
years, what's taken so long?"
00:30:55.58\00:30:58.79
And I said to them,
00:30:58.82\00:31:00.16
"When you are at an
intersection with God,
00:31:00.19\00:31:03.96
then it becomes real to you.
00:31:03.99\00:31:06.13
When you're at a place
00:31:06.16\00:31:08.90
that you have a
confrontation with God,
00:31:08.93\00:31:11.90
then it's no longer
theological or intellectual
00:31:11.93\00:31:14.34
it's experiential.
00:31:14.37\00:31:15.70
Amen.
00:31:15.74\00:31:17.07
And people, you
have to taste the meal
00:31:17.11\00:31:19.77
to tell somebody how good it is.
00:31:19.81\00:31:22.24
You can't look at it.
00:31:22.28\00:31:23.61
You can't talk
about its ingredients.
00:31:23.65\00:31:24.98
And oftentimes
we tend to people...
00:31:25.01\00:31:26.41
We tend to tell people
00:31:26.45\00:31:27.78
about all the
ingredients in Christianity,
00:31:27.82\00:31:31.19
but the cook says just taste it.
00:31:31.22\00:31:34.92
Taste and see. Just
tastes, just taste it.
00:31:34.96\00:31:38.06
We are a stubborn
00:31:38.09\00:31:39.43
and God's people are
stubborn and stiff-necked.
00:31:39.46\00:31:43.53
It becomes a difficult task.
00:31:43.57\00:31:44.97
Let's catapult.
00:31:45.00\00:31:46.33
Let's go to, now,
00:31:46.37\00:31:48.17
the Bible talks about
how this is gonna happen.
00:31:48.20\00:31:50.91
Angie, 1 Corinthians
15:49, how this is gonna happen?
00:31:50.94\00:31:55.24
Because there's a guarantee
00:31:55.28\00:31:56.61
that is there
that we need to find.
00:31:56.64\00:31:57.98
Amen.
00:31:58.01\00:31:59.35
There's a guarantee, you
know, when you buy a product,
00:31:59.38\00:32:00.72
it's a guarantee.
00:32:00.75\00:32:02.08
It will work,
follow the instructions.
00:32:02.12\00:32:03.65
1 Corinthians 15:49.
00:32:03.69\00:32:05.29
Notice what the Bible tells us.
00:32:05.32\00:32:06.72
"And as we have borne
the image of the man of dust,
00:32:06.76\00:32:12.76
we shall also bear the
image of the heavenly man."
00:32:12.79\00:32:17.00
Okay. That's Jesus.
00:32:17.03\00:32:18.37
So it says, you were like this,
00:32:18.40\00:32:20.54
but when I'm done,
you're gonna be like this.
00:32:20.57\00:32:21.90
That's right.
00:32:21.94\00:32:23.27
As you have, you've
been the man of dust,
00:32:23.30\00:32:24.94
you had the image of the
man of dust for a long time,
00:32:24.97\00:32:28.01
but I'm gonna...
00:32:28.04\00:32:29.38
When I'm done,
00:32:29.41\00:32:30.75
you're gonna have the
image of the heavenly man.
00:32:30.78\00:32:32.11
Isn't that
encouraging? Yeah, it is. Amen.
00:32:32.15\00:32:34.38
Say it again.
We're created from dust.
00:32:34.42\00:32:36.32
Right, and the dust let us down,
00:32:36.35\00:32:38.62
but the Creator never did.
00:32:38.65\00:32:39.99
Never.
00:32:40.02\00:32:41.36
So He says you've been
like Adam for a long time,
00:32:41.39\00:32:42.72
but when I'm
done, you're gonna be
00:32:42.76\00:32:44.09
just like your heavenly Father.
00:32:44.13\00:32:45.46
Wow.
00:32:45.49\00:32:46.83
We're gonna be back to
the point of restoration.
00:32:46.86\00:32:48.20
But we have to
believe that and accept it.
00:32:48.23\00:32:50.17
So many people don't.
00:32:50.20\00:32:51.53
It's hard to accept
when you look at yourself
00:32:51.57\00:32:53.54
and see you as you think you are
00:32:53.57\00:32:55.20
and not through God's eyes.
00:32:55.24\00:32:57.77
It's good.
00:32:57.81\00:32:59.14
But now we're gonna make a turn.
00:32:59.17\00:33:00.51
Are you ready
for the text, Jill?
00:33:00.54\00:33:01.88
Ready. Galatians 6:1.
00:33:01.91\00:33:03.24
Now, for those who are being...
00:33:03.28\00:33:04.78
Those who are experiencing
00:33:04.81\00:33:06.38
God's restoring
grace in their lives,
00:33:06.41\00:33:09.55
we have a responsibility.
00:33:09.58\00:33:11.75
When we see people
that are struggling,
00:33:11.79\00:33:14.12
when we see
people that are broken,
00:33:14.16\00:33:17.03
we have a responsibility.
00:33:17.06\00:33:18.46
Yes. Here it is.
00:33:18.49\00:33:19.83
Galatians 6:1.
00:33:19.86\00:33:21.20
And you can add on to
that, whatever you'd like.
00:33:21.23\00:33:24.40
"Brethren, if a man is overtaken
00:33:24.43\00:33:25.77
in any trespass,
00:33:25.80\00:33:27.34
you who are
spiritual restore such a one
00:33:27.37\00:33:30.34
in a spirit of gentleness
or a spirit of meekness,
00:33:30.37\00:33:34.24
considering yourself
lest you also be tempted."
00:33:34.28\00:33:37.45
Can I read verse 2? Yeah.
00:33:37.48\00:33:38.81
It says,
00:33:38.85\00:33:40.18
"Bear one another's burdens,
00:33:40.22\00:33:42.88
and so fulfill
the law of Christ."
00:33:42.92\00:33:46.52
So many times,
00:33:46.55\00:33:47.89
instead of bearing
burdens, we add burdens.
00:33:47.92\00:33:52.26
You know, we
look at other people
00:33:52.29\00:33:54.70
and we add burdens
00:33:54.73\00:33:56.16
that Jesus never
even laid upon them.
00:33:56.20\00:33:58.37
Or we, we see them
overtaken in a fault
00:33:58.40\00:34:01.24
and see them struggling.
00:34:01.27\00:34:02.60
And we say, okay,
while you're down,
00:34:02.64\00:34:04.54
I'm gonna to whip you a bit
or I'm going to criticize you,
00:34:04.57\00:34:07.38
or I'm going to judge you
00:34:07.41\00:34:09.54
instead of restoring such a
one in a spirit of meekness.
00:34:09.58\00:34:15.48
Beautiful. It takes a risk.
00:34:15.52\00:34:16.85
It takes a person
who's experienced God's grace
00:34:16.89\00:34:20.49
to be in that place.
00:34:20.52\00:34:22.39
Wow.
00:34:22.42\00:34:23.76
What were you thinking now say?
00:34:23.79\00:34:25.13
Oh, nothing, Honey. Keep going.
00:34:25.16\00:34:26.49
Now read the
quote right after that,
00:34:26.53\00:34:27.86
Honey, this is a
quote that is from the book
00:34:27.90\00:34:29.66
A Call to Stand Apart, page 59.
00:34:29.70\00:34:32.70
This is
beautiful. Read that for us.
00:34:32.73\00:34:34.14
"Our Lord Jesus
Christ came to this world
00:34:34.17\00:34:36.81
as the unwary
servant of man's necessity.
00:34:36.84\00:34:42.64
He took our infirmities
and bear our sicknesses
00:34:42.68\00:34:47.78
that He might minister
to every need of humanity."
00:34:47.82\00:34:53.05
Matthew 8:17.
00:34:53.09\00:34:55.62
"The burden of disease
and wretchedness and sin,
00:34:55.66\00:34:58.56
He came to remove it.
00:34:58.59\00:35:01.36
It was His mission
00:35:01.40\00:35:03.37
to bring to men the
complete restoration.
00:35:03.40\00:35:07.97
He came to give
them health and peace
00:35:08.00\00:35:11.77
and perfection of character."
00:35:11.81\00:35:13.84
That's right.
00:35:13.88\00:35:15.21
What kind of restoration?
00:35:15.24\00:35:17.61
Complete.
00:35:17.65\00:35:19.01
Leaving out
nothing, leaving out nothing.
00:35:19.05\00:35:23.28
In your character.
00:35:23.32\00:35:24.65
Even character.
00:35:24.69\00:35:26.02
It starts with the heart
00:35:26.05\00:35:27.46
that create in me a clean heart,
00:35:27.49\00:35:29.92
a right spirit.
00:35:29.96\00:35:31.29
I like the word
right attitude. Yeah.
00:35:31.33\00:35:33.50
Because sometimes people are...
00:35:33.53\00:35:36.63
We were talking
about this with somebody
00:35:36.67\00:35:38.00
who's from the West Indies
who said sometimes culturally,
00:35:38.03\00:35:42.14
some people are
very, very strong
00:35:42.17\00:35:43.64
and some people have
this cultural rebuke.
00:35:43.67\00:35:46.07
You know, if they see
something wrong in the church,
00:35:46.11\00:35:48.04
they'll really
rebuke the young people,
00:35:48.08\00:35:49.48
they'll remind them,
you're a rebellious kid.
00:35:49.51\00:35:55.12
Pull them by
their ear like mother.
00:35:55.15\00:35:57.52
Get over there.
00:35:57.55\00:35:58.99
Whack him between
church and Sabbath school.
00:35:59.02\00:36:02.09
Slap him from
church to Sabbath school.
00:36:02.12\00:36:05.09
And they're not...
00:36:05.13\00:36:06.90
They don't remember, God
has been gracious to them.
00:36:06.93\00:36:08.40
No.
00:36:08.43\00:36:09.76
I think that what
this is talking about,
00:36:09.80\00:36:11.50
verse 7 that you just read.
00:36:11.53\00:36:12.87
I mean, Galatians 6:1-2
that you just read, Jill,
00:36:12.90\00:36:16.24
it talks about the spirit
00:36:16.27\00:36:17.61
that's needed to help
somebody become stronger.
00:36:17.64\00:36:20.54
It talks about what
each one of us is in need of.
00:36:20.58\00:36:23.28
And that quote you
read about perfection,
00:36:23.31\00:36:26.78
but...
00:36:26.82\00:36:28.15
Perfection of character.
00:36:28.18\00:36:29.52
Perfection of
character, health, and peace.
00:36:29.55\00:36:31.95
And a lot of
people don't have it.
00:36:31.99\00:36:33.69
Yes, Dee.
00:36:33.72\00:36:35.06
I know that I've grown
in Christ into a degree
00:36:35.09\00:36:37.99
because not too long ago,
00:36:38.03\00:36:40.80
it was like there
was I and another person
00:36:40.83\00:36:42.83
that was just kind
of doing well together
00:36:42.86\00:36:46.43
because he
didn't treat me right.
00:36:46.47\00:36:48.34
But then I had
to stop and think,
00:36:48.37\00:36:49.70
well, am I treating him right?
00:36:49.74\00:36:51.77
Who needs to change here?
00:36:51.81\00:36:53.64
So I decided to
start treating him better.
00:36:53.68\00:36:58.85
And lo and behold,
I got treated better.
00:36:58.88\00:37:02.15
And that comes
from growth of saying,
00:37:02.18\00:37:04.92
wait a minute,
00:37:04.95\00:37:06.29
instead of pointing the other...
00:37:06.32\00:37:07.66
Instead of criticizing someone,
00:37:07.69\00:37:09.92
how about if we
change and encourage them?
00:37:09.96\00:37:13.63
And I don't
think I succeeded 100%,
00:37:13.66\00:37:16.20
but in church,
00:37:16.23\00:37:18.50
I really try to have
a very good awareness
00:37:18.53\00:37:21.24
of how am I
treating our children,
00:37:21.27\00:37:23.51
our young children.
00:37:23.54\00:37:24.87
if I see them run, or
if I see them do this.
00:37:24.91\00:37:27.31
True.
00:37:27.34\00:37:28.68
Do not respond with
that, grab and fight thing.
00:37:28.71\00:37:33.68
If I don't... If I do not.
00:37:33.72\00:37:36.62
That's right.
00:37:36.65\00:37:37.99
If I do not treat them
00:37:38.02\00:37:39.35
with Christ's
Spirit right now...
00:37:39.39\00:37:40.72
Yes.
00:37:40.76\00:37:42.09
How are they gonna know
Christ's Spirit later on
00:37:42.12\00:37:44.49
when they get older.
00:37:44.53\00:37:47.96
You can use love
00:37:48.00\00:37:51.43
and kind of joking of lightness,
00:37:51.47\00:37:53.74
like, are we running
in the church children,
00:37:53.77\00:37:56.94
you know.
00:37:56.97\00:37:58.77
What is that
you're doing right now?
00:37:58.81\00:38:00.74
With love...
00:38:00.78\00:38:02.11
And if you have
the love in your voice,
00:38:02.14\00:38:03.71
it's how you do it.
00:38:03.75\00:38:05.91
It's like stop.
00:38:05.95\00:38:08.28
That's not the love of Christ.
00:38:08.32\00:38:09.98
And now you can say,
I'd love to choke you
00:38:10.02\00:38:11.92
but I'm gonna just
carry you to your parents.
00:38:11.95\00:38:16.52
Just growing to the point
where we have an awareness...
00:38:16.56\00:38:19.53
Awareness.
00:38:19.56\00:38:20.90
How am I?
00:38:20.93\00:38:22.26
And I catch
myself, you know, not...
00:38:22.30\00:38:24.83
You treat yourself
every now and then, Dee?
00:38:24.87\00:38:26.33
Every now and then.
00:38:26.37\00:38:28.94
You know, we're all
in a restoration process.
00:38:28.97\00:38:30.67
All of us.
00:38:30.71\00:38:32.04
Saints under
construction. Yeah, exactly.
00:38:32.07\00:38:33.81
I love that,
Pastor. That's fantastic.
00:38:33.84\00:38:36.54
I wanna say it's
one of your new sayings,
00:38:36.58\00:38:37.91
but it is, okay.
00:38:37.95\00:38:39.88
You know, so I
think in the process,
00:38:39.91\00:38:41.72
okay, we're being restored,
00:38:41.75\00:38:43.08
but we also have to realize
00:38:43.12\00:38:44.45
other people are being restored,
00:38:44.49\00:38:45.82
and to be restored
is a painful process.
00:38:45.85\00:38:47.19
I am not one of those cars,
00:38:47.22\00:38:48.56
'cause I'm not
made out of steel,
00:38:48.59\00:38:49.92
but you know,
00:38:49.96\00:38:51.29
when autobody
guy's working on it,
00:38:51.33\00:38:52.66
he's sandblasting
it, right, Pastor?
00:38:52.69\00:38:54.03
He's sanding the rust.
00:38:54.06\00:38:55.66
That's a little bit
painful if the car had feelings,
00:38:55.70\00:38:57.57
I would think, it would
be hit with all that breeze.
00:38:57.60\00:38:59.10
It's all the process of
being coming to perfection,
00:38:59.13\00:39:01.74
so to speak.
00:39:01.77\00:39:03.10
So we're all in this process.
It's kind of hard at times.
00:39:03.14\00:39:04.77
Dee, you know, you've been
talking about the struggle.
00:39:04.81\00:39:06.57
All of us are going through
those types of struggles.
00:39:06.61\00:39:08.44
I think it'd be
interesting in the church
00:39:08.48\00:39:09.98
to actually have people testify
so to speak of the process
00:39:10.01\00:39:13.35
and how things are going,
because man, that's being real.
00:39:13.38\00:39:15.58
That's being vulnerable.
00:39:15.62\00:39:16.95
We're talking about
those types of things like,
00:39:16.99\00:39:18.32
"Hey, you know what Dee?
00:39:18.35\00:39:19.69
This week I was
really struggling with this."
00:39:19.72\00:39:21.06
You're like, "Hey Greg,
you know, I was with this."
00:39:21.09\00:39:22.96
And I think that's
actually building and edifying
00:39:22.99\00:39:25.29
the body of Christ
00:39:25.33\00:39:26.66
to be doing that versus
like, always coming down.
00:39:26.70\00:39:28.76
Doesn't it say something
about steel against steel...
00:39:28.80\00:39:30.40
Yes, iron sharpens iron.
00:39:30.43\00:39:32.53
So when the end sharpens
the captain in seventh fret.
00:39:32.57\00:39:36.84
And there've been times
00:39:36.87\00:39:38.21
when I've looked
at somebody and go,
00:39:38.24\00:39:39.57
oh, when I'm acting like
that, that's what I look like,
00:39:39.61\00:39:41.58
boy, that's not
what I wanna look.
00:39:41.61\00:39:44.18
So sometimes...
00:39:44.21\00:39:47.28
Saints under
construction. I love that.
00:39:47.32\00:39:48.65
Saints under construction.
00:39:48.68\00:39:50.39
You could hear the Lord
sandblasting us some days...
00:39:50.42\00:39:53.56
I like how you say that
saints under construction.
00:39:53.59\00:39:55.72
Right, 'cause it's so long.
00:39:55.76\00:39:57.53
I love it. I've
said this for so long.
00:39:57.56\00:39:59.43
You know, I love it.
00:39:59.46\00:40:00.80
When Paul made the statement
and jumped out at me again,
00:40:00.83\00:40:03.60
he says, but God demonstrated
His own love towards us
00:40:03.63\00:40:07.57
in that while we
were yet sinners first.
00:40:07.60\00:40:11.04
Were... That's right.
00:40:11.07\00:40:12.54
So if you were sinner,
00:40:12.57\00:40:15.08
what happens
after you accept Christ?
00:40:15.11\00:40:17.75
You become a
saint, not perfection,
00:40:17.78\00:40:21.18
but you are a
saint under construction,
00:40:21.22\00:40:24.05
because look at the
next verse, Philippians 1:6.
00:40:24.09\00:40:27.22
Honey, read that for us. I can.
00:40:27.26\00:40:29.26
Yeah, there is Philippians 1:6.
00:40:29.29\00:40:30.69
I love,
00:40:30.73\00:40:32.06
"Being confident
of this very thing,
00:40:32.09\00:40:34.63
that he who has
begun a good work in me
00:40:34.66\00:40:38.93
will complete it
00:40:38.97\00:40:40.30
until the day of Jesus Christ."
00:40:40.34\00:40:41.94
Doesn't it talk
about construction?
00:40:41.97\00:40:43.30
Yes, it is. Make him personal.
00:40:43.34\00:40:44.81
I claim that.
00:40:44.84\00:40:47.18
Somebody said that, the
other day somebody said,
00:40:47.21\00:40:49.48
I'm living that right now.
00:40:49.51\00:40:50.85
Oh, yeah.
00:40:50.88\00:40:52.71
I'm living that right now.
00:40:52.75\00:40:54.08
And we need to assume
that everyone else is too.
00:40:54.12\00:40:57.92
I've tried to
bring that to my mind
00:40:57.95\00:40:59.89
that other people are trying
00:40:59.92\00:41:01.76
to be a
Christian just like I am.
00:41:01.79\00:41:04.73
Give them a break.
00:41:04.76\00:41:07.30
I want mercy.
00:41:07.33\00:41:08.66
I need to give it to others.
00:41:08.70\00:41:10.53
That saint under construction.
00:41:10.57\00:41:12.40
I did have someone
that was taking a...
00:41:12.43\00:41:14.50
It was a person that didn't
quite have that understanding.
00:41:14.54\00:41:16.67
And I wasn't
quite paying attention
00:41:16.71\00:41:18.07
and took a cane and just rap
me in church across the my shin,
00:41:18.11\00:41:22.18
trying to get my attention,
he did get my attention,
00:41:22.21\00:41:24.41
but not in the best way, right?
00:41:24.45\00:41:26.51
Sunny, Sunny, I'm
trying to talk to you.
00:41:26.55\00:41:31.09
I got it.
00:41:31.12\00:41:33.42
So, you know,
there is the rebuke.
00:41:33.46\00:41:34.79
We need to do it in
Christlike manner, right?
00:41:34.82\00:41:36.62
Not whacking people
across shins with the cane.
00:41:36.66\00:41:39.16
But we were raised in the age
00:41:39.19\00:41:40.56
where people really apply
00:41:40.60\00:41:41.96
the rod of rest
you're writing from.
00:41:42.00\00:41:44.43
Mercy.
00:41:44.47\00:41:45.80
But he was grown.
00:41:45.83\00:41:47.17
I mean, this was not a child,
00:41:47.20\00:41:48.67
this was just a
couple of years ago.
00:41:48.70\00:41:51.94
Oh, my word.
00:41:51.97\00:41:53.74
I was actually talking
to someone else that...
00:41:53.78\00:41:55.18
I thought you were a little boy.
00:41:55.21\00:41:56.54
Well, I was actually talking
to someone else in the group
00:41:56.58\00:41:58.88
and they wanted
me to talk to them
00:41:58.91\00:42:00.25
or they want to talk to me.
00:42:00.28\00:42:01.62
And I wasn't. yeah.
00:42:01.65\00:42:02.98
That is hysterical. It's okay.
00:42:03.02\00:42:04.35
It's all right.
00:42:04.39\00:42:05.72
They waited their turn in line.
00:42:05.75\00:42:07.09
They weren't
getting fast enough.
00:42:07.12\00:42:08.46
So they hit him across the knee,
00:42:08.49\00:42:09.82
pay attention to me.
00:42:09.86\00:42:11.69
But this is a childhood.
00:42:11.73\00:42:13.29
But I also had the
ruler in as a child, yes.
00:42:13.33\00:42:17.80
We all have been there.
00:42:17.83\00:42:19.27
My parents
believed in spare the rod
00:42:19.30\00:42:21.60
and spoil the child.
00:42:21.64\00:42:22.97
They didn't wanna spoil me.
00:42:23.00\00:42:25.21
Go ahead, Jill.
00:42:25.24\00:42:26.61
I was just gonna
say Philippians 1:6
00:42:26.64\00:42:28.58
is one of my favorite scriptures
00:42:28.61\00:42:29.94
and the Lord used it in
my life in a powerful way,
00:42:29.98\00:42:32.71
because I was very stressed
when I first came to Jesus.
00:42:32.75\00:42:37.49
What I mean by that is somehow
when I read the Word of God,
00:42:37.52\00:42:40.92
I'm supposed to
be a new creature.
00:42:40.96\00:42:42.52
I'm supposed to look like Jesus.
00:42:42.56\00:42:44.06
I'm supposed to
follow after Him.
00:42:44.09\00:42:45.76
Well, how was that accomplished?
00:42:45.79\00:42:47.76
How am I going to
become more like Him?
00:42:47.80\00:42:49.70
And I used to think, okay,
00:42:49.73\00:42:51.13
well today I'm going
to pray about patients.
00:42:51.17\00:42:52.77
So I would...
00:42:52.80\00:42:54.14
This is what I need to
work on a day and I pray.
00:42:54.17\00:42:55.57
And the next day,
00:42:55.60\00:42:56.94
well, maybe today I need
to pray about self-control.
00:42:56.97\00:42:58.84
And it became me
trying to change myself.
00:42:58.87\00:43:02.28
And this scripture,
God used in my life.
00:43:02.31\00:43:06.82
He, God's the one
who began the work.
00:43:06.85\00:43:09.12
That's right.
00:43:09.15\00:43:10.49
He will carry it
forward to completion.
00:43:10.52\00:43:11.99
So then I began to
come to Him every morning
00:43:12.02\00:43:13.99
and say, God, you
know the mess I'm in,
00:43:14.02\00:43:16.93
you know, the things in my
life that need to be changed.
00:43:16.96\00:43:19.76
I'm done with telling You
what you need to work on today.
00:43:19.79\00:43:22.76
You complete it.
00:43:22.80\00:43:24.13
You finished the work in me.
00:43:24.17\00:43:25.50
This scripture gave me
a lot of freedom in Christ
00:43:25.53\00:43:28.77
because He's the
one completing the work.
00:43:28.80\00:43:31.51
It's not on my shoulders to
try to perfect that character.
00:43:31.54\00:43:35.94
My job is to surrender
and let Him do the work in me.
00:43:35.98\00:43:41.22
There's a quote
in Steps to Christ.
00:43:41.25\00:43:43.92
No, I have this
one I wanna read.
00:43:43.95\00:43:45.42
I want you to read that one.
00:43:45.45\00:43:46.79
God will finish what he
began from Philippians 1:6.
00:43:46.82\00:43:50.33
"He desires to
restore you to Himself
00:43:50.36\00:43:55.93
to see His own purity and
holiness reflected in you.
00:43:55.96\00:44:01.17
And if you will, but
yield yourself to Him,
00:44:01.20\00:44:04.67
He that hath
begun a good work in you
00:44:04.71\00:44:08.48
will carry it forward
to the day of Jesus Christ.
00:44:08.51\00:44:11.88
Pray more
fervently, believe more fully."
00:44:11.91\00:44:14.85
Right.
00:44:14.88\00:44:16.22
Pray more
fervently, believe more fully.
00:44:16.25\00:44:18.55
I've been hearing
00:44:18.59\00:44:19.92
a lot of statements going around
00:44:19.95\00:44:21.29
how sometimes the
frustration is there.
00:44:21.32\00:44:23.89
When I was few years
ago in the Philippines
00:44:23.93\00:44:27.13
speaking to a large contingency
00:44:27.16\00:44:29.06
at the Adventist
University of the Philippines.
00:44:29.10\00:44:31.93
We had two times a
day we got together
00:44:31.97\00:44:33.87
and there were 2, 500 students
in the morning in faculty
00:44:33.90\00:44:37.01
and 2, 500 students in
the evening in faculty.
00:44:37.04\00:44:39.47
And the Lord brought
this experience in my mind
00:44:39.51\00:44:41.14
in this quote I found
in the book Evangelism.
00:44:41.18\00:44:45.11
And I made a
suggestion about that on air.
00:44:45.15\00:44:47.92
I talked about it.
00:44:47.95\00:44:49.28
I said, and
somebody wrote us an email.
00:44:49.32\00:44:51.95
Somebody... They wrote a letter.
00:44:51.99\00:44:53.32
Wrote a letter and said
I've never heard that before.
00:44:53.36\00:44:56.49
And I don't...
00:44:56.52\00:44:58.33
I've never heard that before.
00:44:58.36\00:44:59.69
And that's
not... It's too simple.
00:44:59.73\00:45:01.06
It's just too...
00:45:01.10\00:45:02.43
How could God
just accept somebody
00:45:02.46\00:45:03.93
when they get tired of sin?
00:45:03.97\00:45:05.90
And I said, well,
that's what you've been told
00:45:05.93\00:45:08.37
when you get weary of it.
00:45:08.40\00:45:09.74
So I wanna share
this because it is,
00:45:09.77\00:45:12.84
this quote really revolutionized
00:45:12.87\00:45:14.48
the way I look at the
way we deal with people.
00:45:14.51\00:45:17.75
Evangelism, page
286, paragraph 2,
00:45:17.78\00:45:21.62
it is entitled the experience
of genuine conversion.
00:45:21.65\00:45:24.92
It's powerful.
00:45:24.95\00:45:27.42
I have been shown that
many have confused ideas
00:45:27.46\00:45:30.59
in regard to conversion.
00:45:30.63\00:45:33.03
They have often heard the words
00:45:33.06\00:45:34.76
repeated from the pulpit.
00:45:34.80\00:45:36.36
You must be born again.
00:45:36.40\00:45:37.90
You must have a new heart.
00:45:37.93\00:45:39.80
These expressions
have perplexed them.
00:45:39.83\00:45:43.44
They could not comprehend
the plan of salvation.
00:45:43.47\00:45:45.91
These are new people that
don't understand the lingo
00:45:45.94\00:45:47.88
that we often use.
00:45:47.91\00:45:50.18
Many have stumbled to ruin
00:45:50.21\00:45:52.68
because of the
erroneous doctrine
00:45:52.71\00:45:54.92
taught by some
ministers concerning,
00:45:54.95\00:45:57.72
and this is amazing,
00:45:57.75\00:45:59.09
the change that
takes place at conversion.
00:45:59.12\00:46:02.09
Wow. Listen to this.
00:46:02.12\00:46:03.69
Some have lived
in sadness for years,
00:46:03.73\00:46:06.70
waiting for some marked evidence
00:46:06.73\00:46:08.86
that they were accepted by God.
00:46:08.90\00:46:11.63
They have separated themselves
00:46:11.67\00:46:13.10
in the large
measure from the world
00:46:13.13\00:46:14.70
and find pleasure
00:46:14.74\00:46:16.07
in associating
with the people of God.
00:46:16.10\00:46:17.44
Yet they dare not profess Christ
00:46:17.47\00:46:20.48
because they fear
it would be presumption
00:46:20.51\00:46:23.21
to say that they
are children of God,
00:46:23.24\00:46:25.48
because they don't
see the evidence yet.
00:46:25.51\00:46:27.78
They are waiting
for that peculiar change
00:46:27.82\00:46:31.02
that they have
been led to believe
00:46:31.05\00:46:33.19
is connected with conversion.
00:46:33.22\00:46:35.06
Now, this is really amazing
00:46:35.09\00:46:36.42
because I had
somewhat the same concept.
00:46:36.46\00:46:38.83
If you're
converted it should show.
00:46:38.86\00:46:40.30
Right. Listen to this though.
00:46:40.33\00:46:42.26
After a time,
00:46:42.30\00:46:43.80
some of these do receive
00:46:43.83\00:46:45.60
evidence of their
acceptance with God
00:46:45.63\00:46:48.00
and are led to
identify themselves
00:46:48.04\00:46:50.47
with this people.
00:46:50.51\00:46:52.01
And they date their
conversion from that time.
00:46:52.04\00:46:54.94
In other words, when
they say, I just gave up this,
00:46:54.98\00:46:57.71
they think that's
conversion, watch this.
00:46:57.75\00:47:01.68
But I have been shown
00:47:01.72\00:47:03.59
that they were
adopted into the family of God
00:47:03.62\00:47:06.45
before that time...
00:47:06.49\00:47:07.82
Amen. This is powerful.
00:47:07.86\00:47:09.62
God accept...
00:47:09.66\00:47:10.99
This is the crux
of the whole quote.
00:47:11.03\00:47:12.36
Yes, this is it.
00:47:12.39\00:47:13.73
God accepted them when
they became weary of sin.
00:47:13.76\00:47:18.03
Wow.
00:47:18.07\00:47:19.40
And having lost their
desire for worldly pleasures
00:47:19.43\00:47:23.61
resolved to seek God earnestly.
00:47:23.64\00:47:26.78
Isn't that powerful?
Yeah. That's a lot of hope.
00:47:26.81\00:47:28.44
What hope does that give
us? Yeah, tremendous hope.
00:47:28.48\00:47:30.18
I'm tired of, and
I've sung that song,
00:47:30.21\00:47:31.71
are you tired of
sin and straying.
00:47:31.75\00:47:34.48
When they became
tired and weary of sin,
00:47:34.52\00:47:37.32
boom, God accepted them,
00:47:37.35\00:47:39.75
but it doesn't
end, it's powerful,
00:47:39.79\00:47:42.82
but failing to understand
00:47:42.86\00:47:44.19
the simplicity of
the plan of salvation.
00:47:44.23\00:47:46.36
They lost many
privileges and blessings,
00:47:46.39\00:47:48.66
which they might have
claimed had they only believed.
00:47:48.70\00:47:52.47
And here's how it ends,
00:47:52.50\00:47:53.90
when they first turned to
God that He accepted them.
00:47:53.94\00:47:58.11
That's right.
00:47:58.14\00:47:59.77
Isn't that powerful?
No, that is powerful.
00:47:59.81\00:48:01.81
And then all of a sudden,
00:48:01.84\00:48:03.18
the Bible just
started jumping out at me
00:48:03.21\00:48:05.38
like a whole zoo
filled with frogs.
00:48:05.41\00:48:09.75
All these verses
started jumping out
00:48:09.78\00:48:11.85
but here's one
2 Chronicles 7:14.
00:48:11.89\00:48:14.52
We could quote it by heart. Wow.
00:48:14.56\00:48:16.32
If my people who
are called by My name
00:48:16.36\00:48:19.59
will humble themselves
00:48:19.63\00:48:20.96
and pray and seek my
face and turn, turn..."
00:48:21.00\00:48:23.80
There we go.
00:48:23.83\00:48:25.17
"From their wicked ways."
00:48:25.20\00:48:26.53
What's the promise?
00:48:26.57\00:48:27.90
"Then I will hear from heaven,
00:48:27.94\00:48:29.27
forgive their sin
and heal their land."
00:48:29.30\00:48:31.81
What do they do? Turn.
00:48:31.84\00:48:33.17
Turn. Here's one more.
00:48:33.21\00:48:35.18
Ezekiel 18:32,
00:48:35.21\00:48:37.15
"For I have no pleasure in
the death of anyone who dies
00:48:37.18\00:48:39.41
says the Lord God,
00:48:39.45\00:48:41.38
therefore turn and live."
00:48:41.42\00:48:44.49
And we've heard
that I told the people
00:48:44.52\00:48:46.02
and I'm kind of telling you guys
00:48:46.05\00:48:48.42
about a sermon
that's on the way.
00:48:48.46\00:48:50.09
But I said, I
assume it will be titled.
00:48:50.13\00:48:54.00
God allows U-turns.
00:48:54.03\00:48:56.36
And we've said this for years.
00:48:56.40\00:48:57.73
If your life has gone
in the wrong direction...
00:48:57.77\00:48:59.10
Make a U-turn. Make a U-turn.
00:48:59.13\00:49:01.00
This has made
it more real to me.
00:49:01.04\00:49:02.74
That's powerful, 'cause
that's tremendous hope, Pastor,
00:49:02.77\00:49:04.44
because when you make a U-turn
00:49:04.47\00:49:05.81
you have not
arrived at your destination.
00:49:05.84\00:49:07.18
You just started going.
00:49:07.21\00:49:08.81
But at that moment...
00:49:08.84\00:49:10.18
At that moment, when
you got off the exit...
00:49:10.21\00:49:12.21
That's right.
00:49:12.25\00:49:13.58
God said, they're on their way.
00:49:13.62\00:49:15.68
Oh, my Lord.
00:49:15.72\00:49:17.05
Yes, and you're
accepted then. Yes.
00:49:17.09\00:49:18.82
When you get off the exit,
00:49:18.85\00:49:20.72
God said they listened
to the voice of the spirit.
00:49:20.76\00:49:23.39
They got off the exit.
00:49:23.43\00:49:24.76
I'm not even taking the exit.
00:49:24.79\00:49:26.13
I'm going through the median.
00:49:26.16\00:49:28.06
I'm not going for the exit.
00:49:28.10\00:49:29.43
All right, Greg.
00:49:29.46\00:49:30.80
Forget the exit.
00:49:30.83\00:49:32.17
Okay.
00:49:32.20\00:49:33.54
And there are those
moments when you're driving,
00:49:33.57\00:49:35.34
you said enough of this.
00:49:35.37\00:49:36.94
Yeah.
00:49:36.97\00:49:38.31
What happens?
00:49:38.34\00:49:39.67
I'm getting off the
exit. I'm tired of it.
00:49:39.71\00:49:41.04
Well, that's powerful, Pastor.
00:49:41.08\00:49:42.41
I've pulled
over. I know that's me.
00:49:42.44\00:49:43.78
I pulled over on the road once,
00:49:43.81\00:49:45.48
when I was going through a
challenge in my life one day,
00:49:45.51\00:49:47.35
'cause I was doing
camp meeting many years ago.
00:49:47.38\00:49:51.19
And I remember saying to
the people that got here,
00:49:51.22\00:49:53.25
came to 3ABN for camp meeting
00:49:53.29\00:49:55.62
and they were all these people
00:49:55.66\00:49:56.99
that are coming to camp meeting,
00:49:57.03\00:49:58.66
you know, was big prayer meeting
00:49:58.69\00:50:00.03
because
everybody's at camp meeting,
00:50:00.06\00:50:01.63
'cause it started Thursday.
00:50:01.66\00:50:03.00
And I said, you have a feel like
00:50:03.03\00:50:04.37
on your way to church.
00:50:04.40\00:50:05.73
You want to just
drive right by and not stop.
00:50:05.77\00:50:07.80
And I said to these people,
00:50:07.84\00:50:09.17
many of them
probably watch us on 3ABN.
00:50:09.20\00:50:10.54
I said,
00:50:10.57\00:50:11.91
"That's how I feel right now.
00:50:11.94\00:50:13.27
I don't wanna be here today.
00:50:13.31\00:50:14.98
I need you to help me. I
need you to pray for me."
00:50:15.01\00:50:16.54
And they got around me
and gathered around me.
00:50:16.58\00:50:18.71
And I think one of the reasons
00:50:18.75\00:50:20.08
why that's a hard
thing for people to do...
00:50:20.12\00:50:21.45
That is hard.
00:50:21.48\00:50:22.82
Is because people have this idea
00:50:22.85\00:50:25.82
that people are more
ready to condemn them
00:50:25.85\00:50:28.66
than to help restore them.
00:50:28.69\00:50:30.76
And I'm seeing this,
00:50:30.79\00:50:32.13
this topic has
become real to me.
00:50:32.16\00:50:33.50
And I'm talking a lot here,
00:50:33.53\00:50:34.86
but throw it back
to us in a minute.
00:50:34.90\00:50:36.23
It's because we as
Christians need to understand
00:50:36.26\00:50:39.53
the value that
God places on us...
00:50:39.57\00:50:41.90
Yes.
00:50:41.94\00:50:43.27
That we should never
place a lesser value on others.
00:50:43.30\00:50:45.11
Thank you. Never.
00:50:45.14\00:50:46.74
If God can do that for us,
00:50:46.78\00:50:49.24
who are we to say that God,
00:50:49.28\00:50:51.05
You are not deserving
of God doing that for you.
00:50:51.08\00:50:54.32
It's just a terrible tragedy.
00:50:54.35\00:50:57.85
So in the meantime,
00:50:57.89\00:50:59.22
I wanna show you how
deep this restoration goes.
00:50:59.25\00:51:02.46
Greg, look at
number nine, Psalm 3:23.
00:51:02.49\00:51:05.93
How deep does
this restoration go?
00:51:05.96\00:51:08.06
Yes, Psalm 23:3 says,
00:51:08.10\00:51:10.20
"He restores my soul.
00:51:10.23\00:51:11.83
He leads me in the
paths of righteousness
00:51:11.87\00:51:14.04
for His namesake."
00:51:14.07\00:51:15.80
Okay. The beginning part again?
00:51:15.84\00:51:17.17
He restores my soul.
00:51:17.21\00:51:18.77
We have that in
our house, on the wall.
00:51:18.81\00:51:21.28
You really?
00:51:21.31\00:51:22.64
Big plaque, He restores my soul.
00:51:22.68\00:51:24.68
We look at that periodically.
00:51:24.71\00:51:26.45
And Angie said, that's it.
00:51:26.48\00:51:28.45
That's it. When I saw it.
00:51:28.48\00:51:29.82
I said, I gotta buy it.
00:51:29.85\00:51:31.35
It goes deep. Yes.
00:51:31.39\00:51:32.89
Jill? I was
thinking of Jeremiah 30.
00:51:32.92\00:51:35.19
Okay, yes.
00:51:35.22\00:51:36.56
Jeremiah 30:17,
00:51:36.59\00:51:38.23
God speaking to
you and to me, He says,
00:51:38.26\00:51:41.00
"I will restore health to you.
00:51:41.03\00:51:44.37
And I will heal you of
your wounds, says the Lord
00:51:44.40\00:51:47.77
because they called
you an outcast saying,
00:51:47.80\00:51:51.37
this is Zion, no one seeks her.
00:51:51.41\00:51:53.54
So we might
feel like an outcast,
00:51:53.58\00:51:56.48
might feel that
nobody seeks you.
00:51:56.51\00:51:58.21
And that you're cast aside
and you're being condemned.
00:51:58.25\00:52:00.62
But God says I will
restore health in you.
00:52:00.65\00:52:03.39
Amen.
00:52:03.42\00:52:04.75
And I will heal
you of your wounds.
00:52:04.79\00:52:06.49
And to me that's
spiritual, emotional, physical,
00:52:06.52\00:52:10.36
it's the whole thing, He
restores us That's right.
00:52:10.39\00:52:13.53
I think there's a text
that Greg asked about earlier,
00:52:13.56\00:52:16.33
before we started the program.
00:52:16.36\00:52:18.27
And I might
force you to read it.
00:52:18.30\00:52:20.07
Okay.
00:52:20.10\00:52:21.44
Now I know I
just had you read it,
00:52:21.47\00:52:22.80
but since you brought it up,
00:52:22.84\00:52:24.17
we talked about
it before the program
00:52:24.21\00:52:25.67
and I think it'd be
great that you read it,
00:52:25.71\00:52:27.68
Joel 2:25.
00:52:27.71\00:52:29.04
Oh, yeah.
00:52:29.08\00:52:30.41
Because Greg
said, this is really,
00:52:30.45\00:52:31.78
I didn't know that before.
00:52:31.81\00:52:33.15
And then I'm gonna
have you read 1 John 3.
00:52:33.18\00:52:35.85
Yeah.
00:52:35.88\00:52:37.22
Oh, yeah, Dee, that's right?
00:52:37.25\00:52:38.59
Joel 2:25, Greg.
00:52:38.62\00:52:40.69
Okay.
00:52:40.72\00:52:42.06
This is an
interesting text here.
00:52:42.09\00:52:43.43
"So I will
restore to you the years
00:52:43.46\00:52:46.19
that the
swarming locust has eaten
00:52:46.23\00:52:48.70
the crawling locust,
00:52:48.73\00:52:50.17
the consuming locust
and the chewing locust,
00:52:50.20\00:52:53.74
my great army,
which I sent among you."
00:52:53.77\00:52:55.70
Okay.
00:52:55.74\00:52:57.07
So I restore you the
years that the swarming locusts,
00:52:57.11\00:53:00.24
it's interesting, the
swarming, the crawling,
00:53:00.28\00:53:01.61
the consuming, chewing.
00:53:01.64\00:53:02.98
That's what I asked,
Pastor, I said, well,
00:53:03.01\00:53:04.35
I've never noticed that
before the swarming locust,
00:53:04.38\00:53:05.71
the crawling locust,
the consuming locust,
00:53:05.75\00:53:07.25
and the chewing locust.
00:53:07.28\00:53:08.72
Now, if all those locusts
were coming towards your farm,
00:53:08.75\00:53:13.12
what are you gonna conclude?
00:53:13.15\00:53:14.49
They're gonna
consume. Everything is gone.
00:53:14.52\00:53:15.92
You're going to be killed.
You're gonna be consumed.
00:53:15.96\00:53:17.86
Everything is gone.
They gonna consume me.
00:53:17.89\00:53:19.73
Okay.
00:53:19.76\00:53:21.10
Now let's make
application in the time we have,
00:53:21.13\00:53:23.03
let's make application.
00:53:23.06\00:53:24.83
You may be the
kind of individual
00:53:24.87\00:53:26.47
where everything you have,
00:53:26.50\00:53:29.30
not physically
alone, but emotionally.
00:53:29.34\00:53:32.91
That's good.
00:53:32.94\00:53:34.28
Maritally, your children.
00:53:34.31\00:53:38.71
You don't know what happened,
00:53:38.75\00:53:40.25
somewhere in your
life something broke.
00:53:40.28\00:53:43.69
And you look back on
this quiet apartment.
00:53:43.72\00:53:48.32
You look back on
this quiet setting
00:53:48.36\00:53:50.89
that you're in
now and you think,
00:53:50.93\00:53:53.29
I know what it's
like to be swarmed
00:53:53.33\00:53:54.96
and consumed and chewed
up and crawled all over.
00:53:55.00\00:53:59.53
But don't forget,
00:53:59.57\00:54:00.90
that's the latter
part of the verse.
00:54:00.94\00:54:02.47
Yeah.
00:54:02.50\00:54:03.84
The Lord says I will
restore to the years.
00:54:03.87\00:54:07.68
And do you know,
00:54:07.71\00:54:09.04
I've met people that have
sat in my office and said,
00:54:09.08\00:54:13.65
you know, how long has it been
since I've been in a church?
00:54:13.68\00:54:16.52
You know how much it
took for me to get her today?
00:54:16.55\00:54:18.75
I can't even believe
00:54:18.79\00:54:20.12
I'm sitting here talking to you.
00:54:20.16\00:54:21.49
Wow. God told me this morning.
00:54:21.52\00:54:22.86
I needed to come
here and talk to you.
00:54:22.89\00:54:24.43
And I'm saying to those of
you watching this family worship
00:54:24.46\00:54:27.60
that the Lord wants to do
the very same thing for you.
00:54:27.63\00:54:31.77
All those years behind you
00:54:31.80\00:54:33.13
is nothing compared to
how the Lord can restore it.
00:54:33.17\00:54:35.54
That's right.
00:54:35.57\00:54:36.91
He doubled Job's blessings.
00:54:36.94\00:54:38.27
Oh, yeah.
00:54:38.31\00:54:39.71
He'll do the same for you.
00:54:39.74\00:54:41.64
So don't sink in despair
00:54:41.68\00:54:44.01
and thinking
that God can't fix it.
00:54:44.05\00:54:48.08
Look at the
evidence that we have.
00:54:48.12\00:54:50.05
Dee, I want you to
read our last text.
00:54:50.09\00:54:52.15
1 John 3?
00:54:52.19\00:54:53.52
1 John 3:1-2,
00:54:53.56\00:54:54.89
look at this is the reason
00:54:54.92\00:54:56.26
why I know he
wants to do that for us.
00:54:56.29\00:54:58.43
"Behold, what manner of love
the Father has bestowed on us
00:54:58.46\00:55:03.90
that we should be
called children of God.
00:55:03.93\00:55:06.67
Therefore, the
world does not know us
00:55:06.70\00:55:09.14
because it did not know Him."
00:55:09.17\00:55:10.91
And look at this.
00:55:10.94\00:55:12.27
Beloved. When?
00:55:12.31\00:55:14.34
Mine says beloved.
00:55:14.38\00:55:15.74
At the beloved. Now.
00:55:15.78\00:55:17.78
When? Now.
00:55:17.81\00:55:19.15
When? Now.
00:55:19.18\00:55:20.58
We are children
of God, not later
00:55:20.62\00:55:22.65
but right now
we're children of God,
00:55:22.68\00:55:25.65
and it has not been
revealed what we shall be.
00:55:25.69\00:55:29.36
But we know that
when He is revealed,
00:55:29.39\00:55:32.13
we shall be like Him.
00:55:32.16\00:55:34.20
Thank you. For we
shall see Him as He is.
00:55:34.23\00:55:38.47
Amen.
00:55:38.50\00:55:39.83
Because we will be
completely say together.
00:55:39.87\00:55:42.54
Restored.
00:55:42.57\00:55:44.14
Amen.
00:55:44.17\00:55:45.67
Right now you may smell.
00:55:45.71\00:55:47.44
You may think that God
is fumigating your house.
00:55:47.48\00:55:51.25
You're choking
with all the purity
00:55:51.28\00:55:53.11
that's taken place.
00:55:53.15\00:55:54.48
You might hear the
rafters being ripped out
00:55:54.52\00:55:56.15
from beneath your life,
00:55:56.18\00:55:58.02
but like extreme,
we love the HT channel.
00:55:58.05\00:56:01.92
One of the reasons we
love is it's the home channel.
00:56:01.96\00:56:03.96
Restore those houses, right?
00:56:03.99\00:56:05.49
I loved, yeah.
00:56:05.53\00:56:06.86
And they put their
fingers out there and they say,
00:56:06.90\00:56:08.33
we bought this.
00:56:08.36\00:56:09.96
You know what it's like,
how much did you pay for it?
00:56:10.00\00:56:11.73
$13,000.
00:56:11.77\00:56:13.10
And we look at each other,
00:56:13.13\00:56:14.47
I'll never pay
$13, 000 for that,
00:56:14.50\00:56:15.84
but Angie says, and
then at the very end we...
00:56:15.87\00:56:17.97
Just wait. Wow.
00:56:18.01\00:56:19.67
I know I don't
look like him right now.
00:56:19.71\00:56:21.91
Yes.
00:56:21.94\00:56:23.35
But I grab on to this,
Lord, I am your problem.
00:56:23.38\00:56:28.28
I'm not my own problem.
00:56:28.32\00:56:29.78
I'm your problem.
00:56:29.82\00:56:31.15
And You've promised
me full restoration.
00:56:31.19\00:56:34.16
Jill, what's on your
heart? Gonna look like Him.
00:56:34.19\00:56:36.02
I'm just so grateful tonight
that God wants to restore.
00:56:36.06\00:56:39.29
He wants to restore your home
00:56:39.33\00:56:41.16
and He wants to
restore your marriage
00:56:41.20\00:56:42.86
and He wants to
restore your ministry
00:56:42.90\00:56:45.07
and He wants to
restore your life.
00:56:45.10\00:56:47.34
So just give yourself
into the hands of Jesus
00:56:47.37\00:56:50.21
and He will restore you.
00:56:50.24\00:56:52.47
Have we experienced that, Honey?
00:56:52.51\00:56:53.84
Absolutely. Is it that simple?
00:56:53.88\00:56:56.61
Yes, it is.
00:56:56.64\00:56:57.98
Because He who has
begun a good work in you
00:56:58.01\00:57:02.35
will complete it.
00:57:02.38\00:57:04.72
I wanna just encourage you,
00:57:04.75\00:57:06.09
'cause I don't
know where you are
00:57:06.12\00:57:07.46
in your walk with Christ.
00:57:07.49\00:57:08.82
You may be a long
time third generation,
00:57:08.86\00:57:10.43
Seventh-day Adventist,
00:57:10.46\00:57:12.13
Baptist, Pentecostal,
Methodist, Presbyterian,
00:57:12.16\00:57:14.30
or just a person who just
for the first time tonight
00:57:14.33\00:57:16.53
heard about Jesus.
00:57:16.56\00:57:17.90
I want you to know it's
not what you heard about Jesus,
00:57:17.93\00:57:22.47
but what He can do for you.
00:57:22.50\00:57:24.14
He wants to
completely take your life,
00:57:24.17\00:57:26.27
transform,
rescue and restore you.
00:57:26.31\00:57:28.68
So give Him that opportunity.
00:57:28.71\00:57:30.85
You'll be amazed
to see the end product
00:57:30.88\00:57:33.72
when Christ
completely restores you.
00:57:33.75\00:57:35.62
God bless you. And...
00:57:35.65\00:57:36.99
Happy Sabbath.
00:57:37.02\00:57:38.45