I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello and welcome
to 3ABN Family Worship.
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We are so excited
that it's the Sabbath hours
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and we are excited
that you are 3ABN family
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are joining us as
we're going to dive
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into some scriptures.
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And just talk
about the Lord tonight.
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I'm Shelley Quinn. I'm JD Quinn.
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It's great to be
here, Shelley. Amen.
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It's great to
spend Sabbath with you,
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every Sabbath, you know.
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Amen. And our special friends.
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We love both of these people
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because they're
servants of the Lord.
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Amen. And two energized people.
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Yes.
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I mean, it's hard to keep
up with either one of you.
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Dee Hilderbrand?
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Oh, it's a joy to be here
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and I am extra grateful
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for those Sabbath
hours when I can relax.
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Amen.
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And Don Owen? Yes.
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What a blessing, you know,
we were just talking about,
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we prayed earlier
about mending broken people
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and how God uses
us as broken people
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to reach out to
other broken people
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and inspire ourselves.
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So it's really
important. Indeed He does.
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And, you know, we did pray.
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We always pray before we begin,
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but we want to
include you in that prayer.
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So, honey, you
want to pray. Amen.
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Father, as we
come together today
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in the name of Jesus.
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We want to thank You,
Lord, for this Sabbath time.
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Thank You, Lord,
that we can bathe,
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bathe our hearts
with You and, Father,
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just open up to tonight's topic,
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Father You're there
to defend our cause.
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And, Father, thank you so much
that we can depend upon you.
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Empty us of us,
Lord, and fill us with You.
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Thank You again
for being with us.
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We ask this in
the name of Jesus.
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Amen. Amen and amen.
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You know, tonight,
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we are going to talk
about God defends my cause.
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And let me read to
you an affirmation.
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This comes from
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life affirmations for scripture.
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And an affirmation is simply
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when you take God's Word
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and you speak it over your life,
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you pray it back to God.
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You affirm His Word.
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So here is the affirmation.
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And then we're going
to touch on the scriptures
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that went into the affirmation.
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God vigorously defends my cause.
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I am still before Him.
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And He makes the
justice of my cause
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shine like the noonday sun.
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He contends with
those who contend with me.
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No weapon formed against
me will prosper or prevail.
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He opens doors
that no one can shut.
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He closes doors
that no one can open.
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My Lord performs on my behalf.
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If God is for me,
who can be against me?
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All of these
thoughts come from scriptures.
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And we're just going to dive
into this because it is true.
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God defends your cause.
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And so, honey, you
want to read Jeremiah 50:34
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from the New King James Version.
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I will, "Their
Redeemer is strong,
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the Lord of hosts is His name.
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He will
thoroughly plead their case
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that he may give
rest to the land."
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All right.
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Now I'm going to
read it from the Amplified
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because they've
really taken the Hebrew
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and they've stretched it out.
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Listen to this.
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"Their Redeemer is strong.
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The Lord of hosts is his name.
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He will surely and thoroughly
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plead their case
and defend their cause."
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So let's look at the
who, what, why of that?
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Their Redeemer is strong.
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Did you know?
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This is interesting, in
the Hebrew Redeemer is Goel
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and it's translated redeemer,
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kinsman, revenger, avenger.
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So who is it that is
going to plead our case
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and defend our cause?
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Our Redeemer.
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Can you think of
someone in the Old Testament?
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There is a concept
of kinsman-redeemer.
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This is what this is all about.
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Remember Ruth...
Both Ruth and Boaz.
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Ruth and Boaz.
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So what did a
kinsman-redeemer do?
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A kinsman-redeemer
would buy back his kin
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who'd been sold into slavery
or sold himself into slavery.
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He'd buy back their property.
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He would pay off their debts.
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He restored their
rightful inheritance.
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He would even, the
kinsman-redeemer was either
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like a brother or a father
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or maybe an uncle
or a brother-in-law,
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but he would even
become the husband,
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marry the widow.
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So, Dee?
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It's like God,
your Redeemer brings you
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back up to the position that
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God created you to be in.
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Your Redeemer
makes you whole again
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with everything that,
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that goes along
with the concept.
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And I've been thinking, I
thought of you, Isaiah 54:5,
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says, "The Lord of
hosts is your husband."
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Yes.
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And as a widow, you've found
that God has been your husband.
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God has stepped in
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and taken the
place of my husband
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in a supernatural
way in the fact that
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he could actually heal
me more than my own husband.
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My husband loved me.
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I loved David. We
were of one together.
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And yet my
husband was human flesh
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with shortcomings, just
like I had shortcomings,
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but God as my
husband actually filled
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in broken places of me
that my husband couldn't not
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because he didn't want
to, but humans just cannot.
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A human cannot heal
you like your Redeemer can.
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Amen, very well put.
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And something that touches
me is Psalm 68:5 that says,
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"God is a father
to the fatherless."
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My father died when
I was six years old.
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He was killed in a plane crash.
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And it took me to about
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the age of 26 to
really understand,
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I knew Jesus as savior,
but I didn't know the Father.
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And finally God
really reached down to me
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and I understood
God as my Father.
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He is a Father
to the fatherless,
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but how do we know,
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I mean, does it hit you,
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as I was thinking
about this, Jesus,
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the person of Jesus
Christ became our Redeemer.
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God came down to
earth and became a man.
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That's incredible.
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So that he could be
our kinsman-redeemer.
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And what does 1
Peter 1:18-19 say?
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"We are redeemed," what?
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"By the blood of the Lamb."
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That's how much
we're worth to God.
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Okay.
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Now let's look at
the second part of that.
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The Redeemer is strong.
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The Lord of hosts is His name.
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Do you know what
Lord of hosts is?
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The highest of high.
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It is.
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It's the most majestic
title that there could be.
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Yes, omnipotent. Omnipotent.
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Amen.
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He has all of these
forces at His command.
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He is over all the angels.
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He's got the armies of heaven.
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So, boy, when we're
talking about who's doing this,
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He says, I'm the first,
I'm the last, I'm the only God,
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there is no God besides me,
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and God is our Redeemer.
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The Lord of hosts is His name.
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And what does He do?
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He will surely and
thoroughly plead their cause.
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Who has a thought on
that that He pleads our cause?
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You know, I'm
reminded of Zachariah 3
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really comes to my mind on that,
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you know, in
that judgment scene.
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Amen.
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But, how, I don't
know how I put this.
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It's like we're so, we sense
and know that we're unworthy,
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but we realize in His eyes,
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if this is the master that
created the entire universe,
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He wanted so
much, He's so compelled
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because He loves us so much that
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He wants us not to be
missing in that kingdom.
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If you don't make
it in that kingdom,
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it's like a
piece of Him is gone.
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It's not so, He's
going to plead for us
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because He wants us
there in that kingdom.
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He wants what He's created home.
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He wants that piece back.
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Amen. Amen.
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JD?
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It also tells us
in Hebrews, right?
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Hebrew 7:25.
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Amen. Favorite scripture.
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That the King of
kings, the Lord of hosts,
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He is our advocate. He is.
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And being our advocate
what it tells us in Hebrews
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is therefore he is also
able to save us to the uttermost
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who come to God through him.
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He is our advocate.
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Because why I
is, as our advocate,
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Hebrew 7:25 says he lives
to make intercession for you.
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Do you realize the
person of Jesus Christ
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is at the right
hand of the Father?
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He is pleading your cause.
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He is making
intercession for you constantly.
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He lives to make
intercession in 1 John 2:1,
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says that we have an
advocate with the Father.
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And what does advocate mean?
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It's your defender.
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Well, it's a defender,
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but also He knew He
walked on this earth,
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He did walk in our shoes. Amen.
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He does, He
understands in a way that
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no one else can of
what it is to be a human.
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And yet if I allow Him to,
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He will stand
between me and Satan
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or between me and
anything or anyone else
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that tries to
prevent Him from having,
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or prevent me from
being part of His kingdom
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in the end if I allow it.
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So you just kind of segued into,
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He pleads our case,
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but He defends or
maintains our cause.
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And that cause is
to get us into heaven.
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JD, read 1 Kings 8:49.
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1 Kings 8:49.
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Yeah.
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1 Kings 8:49,
"Then hear in heaven
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your dwelling place their prayer
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and their supplication,
and maintain their cause."
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So as the prayer
is being lifted up.
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Amen.
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He's saying, oh, hear, O Lord,
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in Your
dwelling place in heaven.
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Hear us and
maintainer our cause.
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Hebrews 1:3 says
that Jesus upholds,
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He maintains, He does everything
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by His mighty word of power.
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Maintain means to
take action advance,
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bring forth or accomplish.
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And this is what's
exciting is that it it's used,
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it's a verb maintained
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that's used in many ways,
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but when it's used of God,
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it is always talking about
how God maintains the cause
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for His entire created
world but also for individuals.
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Now I'm going to ask you please,
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Don, would you read Joshua?
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Let's go to Joshua 23 and 24.
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So Joshua comes
right after Deuteronomy.
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He's the one, but if you
will just read 23, please?
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Joshua 23, I mean 14.
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Joshua chapter? Fourteen.
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Chapter 23 and verse 14,
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because this just hit me
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and it's so amazing.
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23:24?
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23:14. Joshua 23:14.
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And the reason I want to do
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this is God's acts in His words,
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always perfectly correspond.
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God, what He says He does.
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Anything He does is
what He's already said.
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So look at Joshua 23:14
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And says here, and this
is of the King James Version.
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And behold, this
day I am going the way
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of all the earth."
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So Joshua was
praying. He's about to die.
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And you know,
"In all your hearts
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and in all your
souls that not one thing,
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hath failed of
all the good things
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which the Lord, your
God speak concerning you.
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All are come to pass unto you
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and not one thing
hath failed thereof."
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So the way the
New King James says,
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"All have come to pass for you.
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Not one word of
them has failed."
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So everything that God
promised them all the good,
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He brought it to pass.
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And you know, if
you've watched 3ABN long,
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you know, that
part of my ministry
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is teaching people the power
00:14:56.56\00:14:58.33
of returning the
Word of God to Him
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because it doesn't
return to Him void.
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He watches over
His Word to perform it.
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And here's Joshua
saying, you know in your heart,
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you know in your
soul, nothing that God said,
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all this good He said
He was going to do for you,
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He's done it.
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Not one word of
the Lord has failed,
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but now I'm going
to read the next verse,
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because this is an eye-opener.
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Therefore it shall come to pass,
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in another words,
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the therefore is
saying God's word is sure.
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Not one word has failed.
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"Therefore it
shall come to pass that
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all the good things
that have come upon you,
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which the Lord
your God promised you.
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So the Lord will bring
upon you all the harmful things
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if you transgress his covenant."
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And the reason I
want to point that out.
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Isn't that, I mean,
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there is a
powerful juxification there.
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Sometimes we think
the Word of the Lord,
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we want to cling to the promises
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but we cannot,
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all of His
warnings are promises too.
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If you do this,
there's consequences for it.
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This is going to happen.
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That's pretty powerful.
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It's a little slogan
that Lord put in my head,
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God can't bless
what you make a mess.
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Yeah, that's good.
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God can't bless
what you make a mess.
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That's kind of
what you're touching on
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more or less.
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Yeah. We're making a mess of it.
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We need to take, you know,
He's going to plead our cause.
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He's going to defend our cause,
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but, boy, I guarantee you,
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we need to walk in
obedience in the Lord.
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All right, Dee? We
have to say yes to Him.
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Yeah.
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That, that's our God,
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even though God is so powerful,
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He could force our will,
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but He never does
because of His love for us.
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We have choices to make.
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And this, Psalms 37:6-7.
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I love this.
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I already had it
marked in my Bible,
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but I want to make sure
that I do it in context.
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I'm going to read the verses
first of what His promise is.
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Okay. Starting in 6.
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All right. Okay.
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So Psalms 37:6, it says,
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"He shall bring
forth your righteousness
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as the light and
your justice as noon day,
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rest in the Lord and
wait patiently for Him."
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God is saying,
He's giving us a promise
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of what He's going to do for us.
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And when we have,
when we choose Him,
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when we're walking in His will,
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when we are under His
guidance and His love,
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He takes what we do,
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because the very
best that I do is rags.
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But He takes the very best
that I can do under His power.
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And He makes my
righteousness his,
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either should say
His righteousness.
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Right.
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It makes His
righteousness as light.
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And it makes His
justice as noon day.
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Because if you
read this whole chapter,
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He is, He starts out telling
us we should trust in Him.
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It's telling us
what if we do this,
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if we will do good, if
we'll dwell in the land,
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if we'll feed on
His faithfulness,
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if we'll delight
ourselves in the Lord.
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It's letting Him know,
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He shall give you the
desires of your heart.
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So He's letting
us know if we choose.
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If we choose this, if
we choose certain things,
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if we choose to love Him,
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if we choose Him, this
is what He'll do for us,
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because my righteousness is
pretty bad at its very best,
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but He will actually use it
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and let it shine to
win someone else to Him.
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Amen.
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When my
righteousness doesn't shine,
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when I step away from Him.
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When I think of what
the Lord does for me,
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when we've talked
about before that His love
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for me, He fights for me.
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He's up there
pleading for my cause.
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And then when I
let go of His hand
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and I act in my own
power and disappoint him,
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when I do something
inappropriate or I fall,
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I stumble and fall,
my first thought is that
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I've disappointed
my Lord and Savior,
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my Redeemer.
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He paid such a price for me.
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His love is so overwhelming.
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So when I disappoint
Him, I just feel crushed.
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And then I worry about
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the other people that I've hurt,
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but God always will forgive me.
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Even if others don't,
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He will forgive me if
I will turn back to Him,
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if I will trust in
the Lord and do good.
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Once again, if I
will walk with Him
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and with Him,
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no matter how
many times I stumble,
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He shall use His righteousness
to shine for others.
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Amen.
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He will put
justice as the noon day.
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He will continue to keep
these promises as long as
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I keep what He has asked of me.
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Amen.
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And what He asked of me
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is to give me the very best life
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I could have, my happiness.
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You turn to a scripture
when she said about falling.
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Where'd you turn? Yes.
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When she said
falling, it's Hebrews 6:6
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just came to my mind, it says,
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"If they shall fall
away, to renew them again
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unto repentance,
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seeing they
crucify to themselves
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the Son of God afresh,
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and put him to an open shame."
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You know, I read that
and I just think about
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we can easily
do that because we,
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I think sometimes
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we take
relationships for granted.
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It's so easy to do that.
00:21:00.36\00:21:01.82
And think while
God's not going to care,
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doesn't see
anyway, so I'll do this
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and He's watching at all times,
He's recording everything.
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And what you're saying is,
00:21:07.23\00:21:08.56
but speaking to me is that
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Christ is like our umbrella
if you can put it that way.
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And He stands before the Father.
00:21:12.77\00:21:14.10
So the Father
sees through Christ.
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He sees us through Christ,
00:21:16.81\00:21:18.67
not us standing there,
but He sees us through Christ.
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That's amazing how
He sees us through Him.
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And that's His character
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is now
transferred to our character.
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Yeah.
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So that's the
most beautiful thing
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that He covers us, even
though we walk away and,
00:21:28.82\00:21:30.85
but He still accepts us back.
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And, Dee, the
thought that I had,
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when you
mentioned about falling,
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I immediately
thought of Micah 7:8,
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which is in 9,
which some of my favorite.
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It says, Micah says,
00:21:42.60\00:21:44.90
"Do not rejoice
over me my enemy,
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when I fall, I will arise.
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When I sit in darkness,
the Lord will be a light to me.
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I will bear the
indignation of the Lord
00:21:54.24\00:21:56.61
because I've sinned against Him.
00:21:56.64\00:21:58.31
Until He pleads my case
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and executes justice for me,
00:22:03.99\00:22:07.66
He will bring me
forth to the light.
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I will see His righteousness."
And you know what?
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I didn't even
have that scripture
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on our syllabus.
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But you know,
00:22:17.40\00:22:18.73
when you think
both in Psalm 37:6-7,
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and here, when
it's talking about
00:22:21.64\00:22:24.91
God bringing forth justice,
00:22:24.94\00:22:27.68
it could mean
it's going to happen
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during the psalmist's life.
00:22:29.58\00:22:30.91
Or it could be
the future justice
00:22:30.95\00:22:34.78
of the Lord will
be like a rising sun,
00:22:34.82\00:22:36.95
because God says,
vengeance is mine, you know?
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But justice is going to happen.
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What do you think He means
00:22:42.26\00:22:44.23
when in Psalm 36:7, he says,
00:22:44.26\00:22:47.46
"Be still before with the Lord
and wait patiently for Him."
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In that kind of, I
mean, I know to be still,
00:22:53.74\00:22:56.81
it can mean that
you're quieting yourself
00:22:56.84\00:22:59.77
in the presence of the Lord.
00:22:59.81\00:23:01.28
To me here, I
think you're waiting
00:23:01.31\00:23:03.48
on God's justice
instead of taking it on.
00:23:03.51\00:23:06.38
Yeah, you have to, I cannot,
00:23:06.41\00:23:11.15
real justice is that
00:23:11.19\00:23:12.89
you're totally healed
and it didn't really happen.
00:23:12.92\00:23:15.92
We want justice,
00:23:15.96\00:23:17.29
but God is the only
one that can bring justice.
00:23:17.33\00:23:20.56
God is the only one
that can bring righteousness,
00:23:20.60\00:23:23.70
bring the light.
00:23:23.73\00:23:25.23
And when we, when my,
00:23:25.27\00:23:29.94
when I stumble,
when my ugly comes out,
00:23:29.97\00:23:32.21
I know almost immediately.
00:23:32.24\00:23:34.18
And my heart is
broken for hurting my Lord.
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But you know what, Dee,
00:23:39.48\00:23:40.85
I've known you for 20
years and I guarantee you what?
00:23:40.88\00:23:44.72
You...
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We all have
certain personality types,
00:23:46.12\00:23:47.92
you are a jump in
00:23:47.96\00:23:49.49
and let's make it
happen kind of person.
00:23:49.52\00:23:51.03
But you know what?
00:23:51.06\00:23:52.76
You very rarely
stumble and fall anymore.
00:23:52.79\00:23:56.50
That's, it's a rare...
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When I do it's a honey
dough, but I know that the Lord,
00:23:58.17\00:24:01.97
what I do
accept His forgiveness.
00:24:02.00\00:24:05.81
I've learned to...
00:24:05.84\00:24:08.61
I've learned that
when I stumble and fall
00:24:08.64\00:24:11.58
and when I disappoint Him,
00:24:11.61\00:24:13.31
I've learned to say,
the Lord knows my heart,
00:24:13.35\00:24:17.09
He can, that's
why Jesus can stand
00:24:17.12\00:24:19.89
between me and the Lord.
00:24:19.92\00:24:21.89
And He can redeem me
and He can plead my cause
00:24:21.92\00:24:24.36
because He sees my heart.
00:24:24.39\00:24:25.89
He knows that it
crushed me that I hurt Him.
00:24:25.93\00:24:30.13
So He will redeem me
00:24:30.17\00:24:32.13
and He will
allow His righteousness
00:24:32.17\00:24:35.64
to shine through me again.
00:24:35.67\00:24:37.31
Amen. He will bring that forth.
00:24:37.34\00:24:39.37
He will lift me up to be
the person He wanted me to be.
00:24:39.41\00:24:44.58
But the hardest
thing I had to learn
00:24:44.61\00:24:46.01
was to let Him do
that and to accept it
00:24:46.05\00:24:48.88
because we all want
to beat ourselves up
00:24:48.92\00:24:51.49
because look how old I am.
00:24:51.52\00:24:53.46
I should have learned by now.
00:24:53.49\00:24:55.09
Why should I still be stumbling?
00:24:55.12\00:24:57.23
When I think I've overcome,
you're right, I'm quick to,
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I'm real quick.
00:25:00.53\00:25:02.00
And I need to wait
patiently for the Lord.
00:25:02.03\00:25:06.60
I need to filter those
words before they come out.
00:25:06.63\00:25:11.31
But He did create
me to be very focused
00:25:11.34\00:25:14.68
and to get the job done.
00:25:14.71\00:25:16.04
Yeah.
00:25:16.08\00:25:17.41
Let me, just, what I like about
00:25:17.45\00:25:19.01
these two verses is that
is involving Him, God and us.
00:25:19.05\00:25:24.59
We're cooperating here. Yes.
00:25:24.62\00:25:26.79
He shall bring,
00:25:26.82\00:25:28.62
Jesus shall bring
forth your right doing
00:25:28.66\00:25:31.49
as the light, Him.
00:25:31.53\00:25:33.96
Then now what is our part?
00:25:34.00\00:25:36.36
Rest in the Lord and
wait patiently for Him.
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So if we understand,
look at the dial of a watch,
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you know, 12, 3,
6, 9, 12, 3, 6, 9.
00:25:43.91\00:25:48.28
So here he's
sitting here saying,
00:25:48.31\00:25:50.51
Hey, I will assist
you in right doing,
00:25:50.55\00:25:53.82
but be patient and let Me,
you do your part just rest,
00:25:53.85\00:25:59.49
you know, you know what's right.
00:25:59.52\00:26:02.59
Rest in Me. Yeah.
00:26:02.62\00:26:04.33
So anyway...
00:26:04.36\00:26:05.69
I was just
thinking when you said that,
00:26:05.73\00:26:07.06
JD, you know, it
comes to my mind,
00:26:07.10\00:26:08.43
I watched a Christian movie
00:26:08.46\00:26:09.80
just recently and this
woman it's just a movie,
00:26:09.83\00:26:11.57
it's not true.
00:26:11.60\00:26:12.93
But anyway, she
had lost her husband
00:26:12.97\00:26:14.30
in Afghanistan.
00:26:14.34\00:26:15.67
He died.
00:26:15.70\00:26:17.04
So for two years she
was trying to fix things.
00:26:17.07\00:26:19.21
She was trying to
fix everything by herself
00:26:19.24\00:26:21.18
and it was getting her annoyed.
00:26:21.21\00:26:22.54
Everybody talked to her,
said, she said, I got this.
00:26:22.58\00:26:24.88
No, I've got this.
00:26:24.91\00:26:26.25
And she kept doing
over and over and over,
00:26:26.28\00:26:27.62
she was losing her
house, her mortgage was back.
00:26:27.65\00:26:30.15
She couldn't pay for it.
She said, no, I got this.
00:26:30.19\00:26:31.92
I'm going to take
care of, I'm fine working.
00:26:31.95\00:26:33.49
You know, three
shifts of this diner
00:26:33.52\00:26:35.39
couldn't take
care of her daughter,
00:26:35.42\00:26:36.76
couldn't put food on the table.
00:26:36.79\00:26:38.13
She says, I've got
this, I've got this.
00:26:38.16\00:26:39.49
And I think we
often find ourselves.
00:26:39.53\00:26:40.86
Then I think that, that
says be still before the Lord.
00:26:40.90\00:26:43.70
You know, we try to fix things
00:26:43.73\00:26:45.40
and He wants to
sit there and fix it.
00:26:45.43\00:26:47.04
And we're always trying
to run ahead and fix things.
00:26:47.07\00:26:48.77
And we're making a mess.
00:26:48.80\00:26:50.14
I had a gym I
worked for years ago
00:26:50.17\00:26:51.84
and he said,
smarter, not harder.
00:26:51.87\00:26:53.81
I'm like, what is
that supposed to mean,
00:26:53.84\00:26:55.18
you know?
00:26:55.21\00:26:56.54
And it took me a long
time to figure out, it's like,
00:26:56.58\00:26:58.18
we're, if we just be
still and be on the Lord,
00:26:58.21\00:27:00.38
He's going to do it the
smart way where we make it.
00:27:00.42\00:27:02.35
We're just,
00:27:02.38\00:27:03.72
I know stupid is
not a great word,
00:27:03.75\00:27:05.09
but just we make a mistake
00:27:05.12\00:27:06.45
and just mess it all up
and just let Him make it.
00:27:06.49\00:27:09.29
Oh, I can't remember
which proverb it was.
00:27:09.32\00:27:11.49
But I found a
proverb that said that
00:27:11.53\00:27:13.66
if you love
knowledge or instruction,
00:27:13.70\00:27:17.33
you love knowledge.
00:27:17.37\00:27:18.70
But if you hate
correction, you're stupid.
00:27:18.73\00:27:20.40
That's what
exactly what it said.
00:27:20.44\00:27:21.77
Right.
00:27:21.80\00:27:23.14
If you hate
correction, you're stupid.
00:27:23.17\00:27:24.67
No, that's great.
00:27:24.71\00:27:26.04
If people who love
you will correct you,
00:27:26.07\00:27:28.68
they will help you.
00:27:28.71\00:27:30.31
And if you will accept that
00:27:30.35\00:27:31.95
and so then you
grow and you get better.
00:27:31.98\00:27:34.52
So the Lord wants us to grow.
00:27:34.55\00:27:36.45
How do your children get better
if you don't correct them?
00:27:36.48\00:27:39.95
When you look
at little children,
00:27:39.99\00:27:42.26
I mean, if you're
doing a arithmetic,
00:27:42.29\00:27:44.09
when you're in the first grade,
00:27:44.13\00:27:45.83
your teacher has to correct you
00:27:45.86\00:27:47.46
to show you how to get it right.
00:27:47.50\00:27:49.70
The Lord has to correct us.
00:27:49.73\00:27:52.53
That's how we grow.
00:27:52.57\00:27:53.90
That's how we get
better is through correction.
00:27:53.94\00:27:55.74
Amen.
00:27:55.77\00:27:57.31
So what happens, Don,
if we keep messing up,
00:27:57.34\00:28:00.51
what does he
tell us in Isaiah 49?
00:28:00.54\00:28:03.45
Wow. Good one.
Isaiah 49 was it 25 here?
00:28:03.48\00:28:07.32
It says, "But
thus saith the Lord,
00:28:07.35\00:28:09.38
even the captives of the
mighty shall be taken away,
00:28:09.42\00:28:12.45
and the prey of the
terrible shall be delivered:
00:28:12.49\00:28:14.32
for I will contend with him
00:28:14.36\00:28:16.76
that contendeth
with you or thee,
00:28:16.79\00:28:18.83
and I will save your children."
00:28:18.86\00:28:21.46
I really thought about
00:28:21.50\00:28:22.83
one of the stories
that touched my heart
00:28:22.86\00:28:24.20
and I share this
a lot on prayer line
00:28:24.23\00:28:25.57
is a lot of people
00:28:25.60\00:28:26.94
feel like their
backs against the wall.
00:28:26.97\00:28:28.34
They feel so
oppressed. They can't get out.
00:28:28.37\00:28:29.97
They just feel
like they can't break.
00:28:30.01\00:28:31.34
And I tell them the story about
00:28:31.37\00:28:32.71
when, you know,
00:28:32.74\00:28:34.14
Pharaoh was
holding over Israelites
00:28:34.18\00:28:36.78
just in bondage
and holding them down,
00:28:36.81\00:28:39.08
wouldn't let them free.
00:28:39.11\00:28:40.55
Well, finally, God, of course,
00:28:40.58\00:28:42.38
He does all these things
to get Pharaoh's attention.
00:28:42.42\00:28:44.49
And Pharaoh's finally is like,
00:28:44.52\00:28:45.85
get out here, just get out here,
00:28:45.89\00:28:47.22
just leave, take your stuff.
00:28:47.26\00:28:48.59
So then they end up
leaving and going to the desert
00:28:48.62\00:28:49.96
and they find
they're stuck at the Red Sea
00:28:49.99\00:28:51.39
and this
mountain, like we're done.
00:28:51.43\00:28:54.43
We got nowhere to go.
00:28:54.46\00:28:55.80
And here's the
Egyptians coming behind us.
00:28:55.83\00:28:57.17
We're done.
00:28:57.20\00:28:58.53
Why'd you lead us out here,
Moses, what was this all about?
00:28:58.57\00:29:00.60
And then it says that, he says,
00:29:00.64\00:29:01.97
stand and you'll see
the salvation of your Lord.
00:29:02.00\00:29:03.94
And in verse 14, Exodus 14,
00:29:03.97\00:29:06.17
it says "The Lord
shall fight for you
00:29:06.21\00:29:07.78
and you'll hold your peace."
00:29:07.81\00:29:09.24
Amen. That just
really speaks to me.
00:29:09.28\00:29:11.25
You know, it's
like, we try to, like,
00:29:11.28\00:29:13.01
I'm saying, we try
to fight ourselves,
00:29:13.05\00:29:14.52
do our own thing,
00:29:14.55\00:29:15.88
and God has
already got the plan,
00:29:15.92\00:29:17.25
answer and the plan.
00:29:17.29\00:29:18.62
And we just got
to be in His plan
00:29:18.65\00:29:19.99
and follow His answer.
00:29:20.02\00:29:21.36
So I think...
00:29:21.39\00:29:22.72
You know, I use that
verse a lot to encourage parents
00:29:22.76\00:29:25.39
because he says,
00:29:25.43\00:29:27.06
I will contend with
him who contends with you.
00:29:27.10\00:29:29.83
And I think of
Satan more than anything.
00:29:29.86\00:29:33.27
When, who is the one
that's contending with us,
00:29:33.30\00:29:35.94
but he says, and
your children I will save.
00:29:35.97\00:29:39.94
So that's a great
promise for the...
00:29:39.97\00:29:45.95
It's just a great promise.
00:29:45.98\00:29:47.52
It's one that a lot of
parents need to hear a lot.
00:29:47.55\00:29:50.92
All of us need to hear is
that He is fighting for us.
00:29:50.95\00:29:54.56
He's pleading our case
and defending our cause.
00:29:54.59\00:29:56.66
Amen.
00:29:56.69\00:29:58.03
Well, I think about
that with how Egypt and how,
00:29:58.06\00:30:00.46
if God didn't
remove the Egyptians
00:30:00.50\00:30:02.46
from that situation
00:30:02.50\00:30:03.90
where would
Israel ended up with,
00:30:03.93\00:30:05.27
well, generations later,
they finally got to Canaan.
00:30:05.30\00:30:08.34
So He was defending even
00:30:08.37\00:30:09.70
the youth all the way back then.
00:30:09.74\00:30:11.07
Yeah.
00:30:11.11\00:30:12.44
It's like He did
that to protect the youth,
00:30:12.47\00:30:13.81
so they could go
into the Promised Land.
00:30:13.84\00:30:15.18
Amen.
00:30:15.21\00:30:16.54
When I find myself,
when I'm confident that I'm,
00:30:16.58\00:30:21.68
have made the
decisions that is in God's will,
00:30:21.72\00:30:25.19
to go a certain direction
or to take care of something,
00:30:25.22\00:30:28.86
no matter how it looks,
00:30:28.89\00:30:31.79
whatever
boundaries might be in the way
00:30:31.83\00:30:35.23
I have discovered that
00:30:35.26\00:30:36.70
if I will not
try to fix it myself,
00:30:36.73\00:30:39.23
there's certain
situations I don't try to fix.
00:30:39.27\00:30:41.84
I'm like, I've
learned the wisdom,
00:30:41.87\00:30:46.41
of situations that I cannot fix.
00:30:46.44\00:30:49.71
You know, a lot of times
it's good to ask ourselves,
00:30:49.74\00:30:53.31
can I fix this or can I not?
00:30:53.35\00:30:56.82
If it's something
I can fix, then yes,
00:30:56.85\00:31:00.76
I'm going to go forward
and do what I need to do.
00:31:00.79\00:31:03.99
But if this is
something that I can't fix,
00:31:04.03\00:31:06.90
I have learned to stand back
00:31:06.93\00:31:09.80
and let God take
care of it in His time.
00:31:09.83\00:31:13.54
And that is the
most freeing decision
00:31:13.57\00:31:18.57
that you can make
is when you're like,
00:31:18.61\00:31:21.14
I can't fix this.
00:31:21.18\00:31:22.68
I've got to let it go.
00:31:22.71\00:31:24.71
When I was moving here,
00:31:24.75\00:31:26.51
I saw many things that I'm like,
00:31:26.55\00:31:28.72
I don't see how
this is going to work,
00:31:28.75\00:31:30.75
but I know that
00:31:30.79\00:31:32.12
God is leading me in
this particular decision.
00:31:32.15\00:31:35.12
So I let go and
I just went forward
00:31:35.16\00:31:37.79
and God took care of all of it.
00:31:37.83\00:31:40.00
And I still do that
in certain situations.
00:31:40.03\00:31:43.47
It's like God's going to have
00:31:43.50\00:31:46.17
to take care of
this, because I can't.
00:31:46.20\00:31:47.54
Amen.
00:31:47.57\00:31:48.90
And if I'll get out of
His way, He will, He will.
00:31:48.94\00:31:51.24
And, boy, that part of
segue into Isaiah 54:17.
00:31:51.27\00:31:56.85
You want to read that, Don?
00:31:56.88\00:31:58.21
Sure. Yes.
00:31:58.25\00:31:59.75
So this is of the
Amplified. I like the Amplified.
00:31:59.78\00:32:02.28
Let's read it first
out of the New King James,
00:32:02.32\00:32:04.95
and then let's
read the Amplified.
00:32:04.99\00:32:06.65
Sure.
00:32:06.69\00:32:08.02
Because I think
sometimes it helps to hear
00:32:08.06\00:32:11.99
the condensed version
and then we understand
00:32:12.03\00:32:15.00
all the Amplified versions doing
00:32:15.03\00:32:17.17
is taking you to the Hebrew
00:32:17.20\00:32:19.30
or the Greek and
stretching it out
00:32:19.33\00:32:21.44
with all of its meaning.
00:32:21.47\00:32:22.80
Let me read it,
00:32:22.84\00:32:24.17
then you read it
in the Amplified.
00:32:24.21\00:32:25.67
Okay?
00:32:25.71\00:32:27.04
This is Isaiah
54:17 and the King James,
00:32:27.08\00:32:31.88
or New King James Version.
00:32:31.91\00:32:33.62
"No weapon formed
against you shall prosper,
00:32:33.65\00:32:37.19
and every tongue
00:32:37.22\00:32:38.55
which rises against you in
judgment you shall condemn.
00:32:38.59\00:32:42.52
This is the heritage of
the servants of the Lord,
00:32:42.56\00:32:45.59
and their righteousness
is from Me, saith the Lord."
00:32:45.63\00:32:50.47
Amen. From me, that's great.
00:32:50.50\00:32:52.93
Amplified puts it this way,
"But no weapon that is formed
00:32:52.97\00:32:56.47
against you shall prosper,
00:32:56.50\00:32:58.21
and every tongue that shall rise
00:32:58.24\00:32:59.77
against you in judgment
00:32:59.81\00:33:01.41
you shall show
to be in the wrong."
00:33:01.44\00:33:04.25
This, and this is, I
guess in brackets here.
00:33:04.28\00:33:06.92
"Peace, righteousness, security,
00:33:06.95\00:33:10.02
triumph over opposition."
00:33:10.05\00:33:11.62
Boy, I love that.
00:33:11.65\00:33:12.99
"Is the heritage of
the servants of the Lord,
00:33:13.02\00:33:15.02
those in whom the
ideal Servant of the Lord
00:33:15.06\00:33:19.46
is reproduced,"
00:33:19.49\00:33:20.83
wow, "this is the righteousness
00:33:20.86\00:33:23.16
or the vindication
which they obtain from Me,
00:33:23.20\00:33:26.10
this is that
which I impart to them
00:33:26.13\00:33:28.24
as their
justification, says the Lord."
00:33:28.27\00:33:31.67
Wow. I like that word reproduce.
00:33:31.71\00:33:33.04
That's great.
00:33:33.07\00:33:34.41
Those to whom the ideal servant
of the Lord is reproduce.
00:33:34.44\00:33:37.18
He's wanting to reproduce
in us His righteousness.
00:33:37.21\00:33:39.65
Amen.
00:33:39.68\00:33:41.02
But you know I love
it because no weapon that
00:33:41.05\00:33:43.49
is formed against
you shall prosper.
00:33:43.52\00:33:46.72
Now, you know, some people,
00:33:46.76\00:33:48.92
when it says every
tongue that rises against you,
00:33:48.96\00:33:51.56
I've got to say
some people forget
00:33:51.59\00:33:54.16
that it says in judgment,
00:33:54.20\00:33:56.63
so it's formal accusations
that it's talking about.
00:33:56.67\00:34:01.84
That's not just little gossip
and everything that's going on,
00:34:01.87\00:34:05.67
but God will defend your cause
against any formal accusation.
00:34:05.71\00:34:10.55
And you know
00:34:10.58\00:34:11.91
who is the
accuser of the brethren?
00:34:11.95\00:34:13.52
Yeah. Satan.
00:34:13.55\00:34:14.88
Satan.
00:34:14.92\00:34:16.25
And so, you know,
but what he's saying here
00:34:16.28\00:34:20.66
is that evil men and even demons
00:34:20.69\00:34:25.73
cannot prevail against us
00:34:25.76\00:34:28.26
because God sets boundaries
00:34:28.30\00:34:30.63
and God is going to
vindicate the people
00:34:30.67\00:34:35.97
and He is going to
pronounce them innocent
00:34:36.00\00:34:39.41
and deliver them.
00:34:39.44\00:34:40.91
Yeah. It
reminds of Psalms 118:6.
00:34:40.94\00:34:43.95
Amen. Yes.
00:34:43.98\00:34:45.31
"The Lord is on my
side, I will not fear."
00:34:45.35\00:34:49.22
What can man do to me?
"What can men do to me?"
00:34:49.25\00:34:52.55
That's great, I love it.
00:34:52.59\00:34:53.92
That God's
righteousness is for you.
00:34:53.96\00:34:55.29
Amen
00:34:55.32\00:34:56.66
I had a
gentleman, just the other day
00:34:56.69\00:34:58.03
we were just
coming out of our church.
00:34:58.06\00:34:59.39
I don't know why this happened,
but as gentleman drove past,
00:34:59.43\00:35:01.83
as we're coming out
00:35:01.86\00:35:03.40
I thought he was waving to
me, but he stuck his hand out
00:35:03.43\00:35:05.90
and gave me something else.
00:35:05.93\00:35:07.27
Wasn't very kind.
00:35:07.30\00:35:08.64
I was like, what on earth?
00:35:08.67\00:35:10.01
And you know I'm
waving him all nice and happy.
00:35:10.04\00:35:12.44
He's giving me this
other nice little gesture.
00:35:12.47\00:35:14.64
But just the fact
that, you know, God will,
00:35:14.68\00:35:17.21
He vindicates those
that are being persecuted
00:35:17.25\00:35:21.28
by those who are, I don't know
00:35:21.32\00:35:22.65
if there's so much
animosity or anger towards
00:35:22.68\00:35:24.35
those who maybe
they attend a church
00:35:24.39\00:35:26.45
or whatever, but
just this interest
00:35:26.49\00:35:27.82
how God will vindicate
those who are like you said,
00:35:27.86\00:35:30.16
obedient and faithful to Him.
00:35:30.19\00:35:31.99
So if we stay
obedient and faithful,
00:35:32.03\00:35:33.36
no matter what
somebody throws at
00:35:33.40\00:35:34.73
or does to us,
00:35:34.76\00:35:36.10
whatever they
do, God will deliver.
00:35:36.13\00:35:37.50
And you never know
00:35:37.53\00:35:38.87
what difference that could make.
00:35:38.90\00:35:40.24
It may be, you know,
00:35:40.27\00:35:41.60
that the next to
me passes by someone.
00:35:41.64\00:35:43.24
Let's just say, somebody
says, oh, yes, you know,
00:35:43.27\00:35:45.14
when you pass by
that church, da, da, da.
00:35:45.17\00:35:47.58
And then he may turn
around and says, you know,
00:35:47.61\00:35:50.45
I passed by there the other day.
00:35:50.48\00:35:51.81
And the guy was so friendly.
00:35:51.85\00:35:53.18
He waved at me, you know,
and so they're good people.
00:35:53.21\00:35:55.45
I like them.
00:35:55.48\00:35:56.89
Because God can use things that
00:35:56.92\00:36:03.09
we do and let people see them,
00:36:03.12\00:36:05.63
your righteousness shown through
00:36:05.66\00:36:07.60
by just waving and smiling.
00:36:07.63\00:36:09.73
And you don't know what
that person actually saw.
00:36:09.76\00:36:12.93
He saw what God
wanted him to see
00:36:12.97\00:36:15.47
because it was
God's righteousness
00:36:15.50\00:36:17.14
that was coming through you
00:36:17.17\00:36:18.51
because that's
not a normal reaction
00:36:18.54\00:36:21.08
to someone being mean to us.
00:36:21.11\00:36:24.51
If someone is cruel to me,
00:36:24.55\00:36:27.88
our natural reaction
is to defend ourselves
00:36:27.92\00:36:31.49
or to retaliate, but
it is God's righteousness
00:36:31.52\00:36:36.56
if I don't.
00:36:36.59\00:36:37.93
Right. It is His...
00:36:37.96\00:36:41.26
It is Him shining
through me, His righteousness.
00:36:41.30\00:36:44.93
And you're right, God
can take that righteousness
00:36:44.97\00:36:48.10
if we allow Him to use it
00:36:48.14\00:36:49.47
and He can
influence that person later,
00:36:49.50\00:36:52.27
it's a seed that can be planted.
00:36:52.31\00:36:54.41
That's where it says
He makes His light shine.
00:36:54.44\00:36:57.75
So if we will control
our desire for justice
00:36:57.78\00:37:03.35
and let God's
justice shines through us
00:37:03.39\00:37:05.92
and react in kindness and love.
00:37:05.95\00:37:08.76
And then He can use that
later on to let our light shine
00:37:08.79\00:37:14.60
and His light
shine and change a life.
00:37:14.63\00:37:17.80
Have you, has anyone
here ever been in a situation
00:37:17.83\00:37:22.80
where a tongue rose
against you in judgment,
00:37:22.84\00:37:25.41
where it was like,
00:37:25.44\00:37:28.01
and I'm not
talking about gossip,
00:37:28.04\00:37:29.98
but where someone made
an attack and it was like,
00:37:30.01\00:37:35.92
you had to stand back
00:37:35.95\00:37:37.29
and let God fight
that battle for you?
00:37:37.32\00:37:40.46
Dee?
00:37:40.49\00:37:42.56
I was involved in a
court case and someone
00:37:42.59\00:37:46.09
and the person on the
other side said, why...
00:37:46.13\00:37:52.23
I did not press
charges against them.
00:37:52.27\00:37:54.80
The state pressed
charges against them.
00:37:54.84\00:37:57.11
And what this person
said is I didn't hurt her
00:37:57.14\00:38:01.84
and I'm thinking,
00:38:01.88\00:38:03.21
but I had to
allow the court system
00:38:03.24\00:38:06.51
to make that decision.
00:38:06.55\00:38:07.88
I couldn't stand up and say,
00:38:07.92\00:38:10.22
oh, you did this,
this, this and this.
00:38:10.25\00:38:12.15
I was, he was not
being prosecuted by me.
00:38:12.19\00:38:17.03
It was the state
that was prosecuting him,
00:38:17.06\00:38:19.59
but I could not defend myself.
00:38:19.63\00:38:21.46
I had to allow the... The judge.
00:38:21.50\00:38:24.87
The public defender
and the judge defend me
00:38:24.90\00:38:30.14
and say whether he
was right or wrong.
00:38:30.17\00:38:35.08
You know, when
you just said that
00:38:35.11\00:38:36.44
it occurred to me,
Jesus is our advocate.
00:38:36.48\00:38:40.18
He is the one
00:38:40.22\00:38:41.55
who is vigorously
pleading our case.
00:38:41.58\00:38:45.15
But you know what?
00:38:45.19\00:38:46.52
Advocate is more
than being our defender,
00:38:46.55\00:38:49.86
our public defender, our lawyer.
00:38:49.89\00:38:52.33
In the Hebrew system,
00:38:52.36\00:38:56.33
the advocate was also the judge.
00:38:56.36\00:38:59.50
So the one that's standing
up to defend you is the judge.
00:38:59.53\00:39:03.61
Can you imagine that?
00:39:03.64\00:39:05.24
It's just, it's
mind boggling to me.
00:39:05.27\00:39:09.51
See, what I love about
that is that God is not only,
00:39:09.54\00:39:13.08
Jesus is my
defender and my judge,
00:39:13.11\00:39:16.15
and everything like that.
00:39:16.18\00:39:17.52
But the thing is
that He really knows me.
00:39:17.55\00:39:22.32
He knows what's in my heart.
00:39:22.36\00:39:23.69
He knows the truth.
00:39:23.73\00:39:25.96
See, human beings we
don't always know the truth.
00:39:25.99\00:39:29.56
We can't read the
heart, but I can trust Jesus,
00:39:29.60\00:39:34.14
because He really
does know my heart.
00:39:34.17\00:39:36.74
He knows the truth
00:39:36.77\00:39:40.31
Few years ago...
00:39:40.34\00:39:41.68
I'm trying to think
00:39:41.71\00:39:43.04
if I can even share
this without sounding,
00:39:43.08\00:39:44.75
but I was in a situation
00:39:44.78\00:39:47.78
where I wasn't going
to allow somebody to,
00:39:47.82\00:39:53.56
they wanted me to
sign all copyright
00:39:53.59\00:39:56.12
to a teaching to them.
00:39:56.16\00:39:57.49
And I said, no,
I'll give you this was
00:39:57.53\00:39:59.23
with a different network.
00:39:59.26\00:40:01.06
And in the early
part of my ministry,
00:40:01.10\00:40:03.47
and I told them,
00:40:03.50\00:40:04.83
I'll let you
have broadcast rights
00:40:04.87\00:40:06.20
and everything,
00:40:06.23\00:40:07.57
but I can't sign
copyright over to you
00:40:07.60\00:40:10.17
because then I could never teach
00:40:10.21\00:40:12.41
from this again.
00:40:12.44\00:40:13.81
It totally belong to you.
00:40:13.84\00:40:16.04
And so the gentleman
00:40:16.08\00:40:18.48
who was like a
general manager accused,
00:40:18.51\00:40:21.95
I mean, he went
ballistic and accused me
00:40:21.98\00:40:24.95
of trying to ruin their
ministry and everything.
00:40:24.99\00:40:28.39
And it was amazing.
00:40:28.42\00:40:30.63
And the
interesting thing is this.
00:40:30.66\00:40:33.19
I went back and as I'm thinking
00:40:33.23\00:40:36.06
about all of this,
00:40:36.10\00:40:37.43
I was ready to say, you know,
00:40:37.47\00:40:39.83
I told him that's not my intent,
00:40:39.87\00:40:41.20
da, da, da.
00:40:41.24\00:40:42.57
And I wanted to just go back
and say, okay, I'll sign it.
00:40:42.60\00:40:45.64
And God stopped me.
00:40:45.67\00:40:47.14
Amen.
00:40:47.18\00:40:48.51
And they canceled it live
that I was on for that night.
00:40:48.54\00:40:51.15
But guess what happened?
00:40:51.18\00:40:53.11
In the place of that
live they aired in program.
00:40:53.15\00:40:56.48
And I saw the error
00:40:56.52\00:40:59.79
that was being perpetuated
00:40:59.82\00:41:04.03
by that particular place.
00:41:04.06\00:41:06.76
And God let me know.
00:41:06.80\00:41:08.13
And He had told me
00:41:08.16\00:41:09.50
before we even left that
00:41:09.53\00:41:10.87
He was calling me
out of where I was.
00:41:10.90\00:41:13.30
I thought I was
going to move there.
00:41:13.34\00:41:14.67
We were going to move there.
00:41:14.70\00:41:16.27
He was calling me out.
00:41:16.30\00:41:17.64
So what I'm trying to
say to you is sometimes,
00:41:17.67\00:41:21.21
like you said,
00:41:21.24\00:41:22.58
if we don't wait patiently
for the Lord and be still,
00:41:22.61\00:41:26.31
sometimes we are
ready to even compromise
00:41:26.35\00:41:30.02
or be coerced.
00:41:30.05\00:41:31.62
We've got to let
God defend our cause.
00:41:31.65\00:41:34.92
Look what God did.
00:41:34.96\00:41:36.39
I mean, He brought me to
3ABN just about a year later.
00:41:36.42\00:41:40.60
So it's amazing
00:41:40.63\00:41:44.00
how no weapon
00:41:44.03\00:41:47.54
that's formed
against us shall prosper.
00:41:47.57\00:41:49.67
God is going to contend
with those who contend with us.
00:41:49.70\00:41:52.97
Yeah.
00:41:53.01\00:41:54.34
I had a, years ago
when I worked at a place,
00:41:54.38\00:41:56.38
it was like a farm
and a supply store.
00:41:56.41\00:41:59.31
A gentleman mock made fun of me
because I was cleaning a shelf.
00:41:59.35\00:42:01.88
He said, either you're praying
00:42:01.92\00:42:03.28
to your God or blah,
blah, blah kind of thing.
00:42:03.32\00:42:05.22
So he kind of made fun of me
00:42:05.25\00:42:06.65
and it wasn't too long
maybe a few months later
00:42:06.69\00:42:08.66
I pulled up to the store
and they had the gates shut.
00:42:08.69\00:42:10.63
I'm like, what's going on here?
00:42:10.66\00:42:11.99
There was no cars in
the parking lot or anything.
00:42:12.03\00:42:14.06
And a gentleman approached
me, one of the coworkers.
00:42:14.10\00:42:15.63
He said,
something happened here.
00:42:15.66\00:42:17.23
It's major.
00:42:17.27\00:42:18.60
Go in the manager's room,
you'll find out what happened.
00:42:18.63\00:42:20.97
Some literally
broke inside the building
00:42:21.00\00:42:23.10
on the side and stole the safe.
00:42:23.14\00:42:24.51
I don't know how
they got it out there.
00:42:24.54\00:42:25.94
But somehow they found
the manager was the one
00:42:25.97\00:42:27.61
that was guilty
and he got fired.
00:42:27.64\00:42:28.98
He was out the door.
00:42:29.01\00:42:30.48
So it was like,
God does defend us.
00:42:30.51\00:42:32.45
It's crazy. It's just amazing.
00:42:32.48\00:42:34.35
Absolutely. Okay.
00:42:34.38\00:42:35.78
Even when it's just minor, I
learned many, many years ago.
00:42:35.82\00:42:40.49
If someone lies about you,
you cannot defend yourself.
00:42:40.52\00:42:45.19
Even before I was a
Christian, I understood that
00:42:45.23\00:42:49.06
if someone
gossips or lies about you,
00:42:49.10\00:42:51.10
you cannot defend yourself.
00:42:51.13\00:42:53.30
It's a matter
of people believing
00:42:53.34\00:42:55.74
what they want to believe.
00:42:55.77\00:42:57.11
You have to just simply
live and trust in the Lord.
00:42:57.14\00:43:02.01
So I don't care
whether you're in church
00:43:02.04\00:43:04.41
or if a lie is told
about you, it will not prosper,
00:43:04.45\00:43:09.75
but you may have
to wait upon the Lord
00:43:09.78\00:43:12.62
to make things right
00:43:12.65\00:43:13.99
And be still and let Him fight
the battle, and that's hard.
00:43:14.02\00:43:16.49
Do not defend yourself.
00:43:16.52\00:43:17.99
Just, if you're
asked questions, honest,
00:43:18.03\00:43:22.16
answer truthfully,
00:43:22.20\00:43:23.80
but you have to just live
00:43:23.83\00:43:27.40
who you are and let God fix it.
00:43:27.44\00:43:29.37
Amen. You cannot fix it.
00:43:29.40\00:43:31.07
All right. Let's move on.
00:43:31.11\00:43:32.84
I've got a scripture that I want
00:43:32.87\00:43:34.64
because to share, as far as God,
00:43:34.68\00:43:39.65
our Redeemer pleading our
case and defending our cause.
00:43:39.68\00:43:45.09
And this is Revelation 3:7-8.
00:43:45.12\00:43:51.63
And here's what, these
are the words of Jesus.
00:43:51.66\00:43:56.46
"These things
says He who is holy,
00:43:56.50\00:43:59.17
He who is true, 'He
who has the key of David,
00:43:59.20\00:44:04.34
He who opens and no one shuts,
00:44:04.37\00:44:08.18
and shuts and no one
opens: I know your works.
00:44:08.21\00:44:13.88
See, I have set
before you an open door,
00:44:13.92\00:44:19.45
and no one can shut it."
00:44:19.49\00:44:21.32
Because I'm pleading your
case, I'm defending your cause.
00:44:21.36\00:44:24.69
"For you have a little strength,
00:44:24.73\00:44:28.30
have kept my word and
have not denied My name."
00:44:28.33\00:44:33.30
Now, when we talk
about the key of David,
00:44:33.34\00:44:36.60
there is an interpretive rule.
00:44:36.64\00:44:39.61
And the...
00:44:39.64\00:44:40.98
When you look at the Bible,
00:44:41.01\00:44:42.61
there is this interpretive rule,
00:44:42.64\00:44:45.71
a way you can interpret stuff.
00:44:45.75\00:44:47.48
And it's the law
of first mention.
00:44:47.52\00:44:51.02
So let's look at Isaiah 22:22,
00:44:51.05\00:44:54.49
because people talk
about the key of David
00:44:54.52\00:44:57.03
being all kinds of things
00:44:57.06\00:44:59.29
and they twist
this scripture around.
00:44:59.33\00:45:01.96
But I want to show
you what it really means.
00:45:02.00\00:45:03.90
If we go to Isaiah 22:22,
00:45:03.93\00:45:07.04
the prophecy of
Eliakim, it says,
00:45:07.07\00:45:12.54
"The key of the house of David
00:45:12.57\00:45:15.64
I will lay on his shoulder.
00:45:15.68\00:45:18.48
So he shall open
and no one shall shut."
00:45:18.51\00:45:21.18
And it's speaking of Eliakim.
00:45:21.22\00:45:24.32
"And he shall shut
and no one shall open."
00:45:24.35\00:45:28.72
So who this guy was?
00:45:28.76\00:45:31.69
He was appointed
to have supervision
00:45:31.73\00:45:34.90
over all of the house of David.
00:45:34.93\00:45:36.46
He controlled
access to the king.
00:45:36.50\00:45:40.14
He had the authority
to let people in the door.
00:45:40.17\00:45:43.17
He could open it.
00:45:43.20\00:45:44.54
No one could shut it or
he had authority to shut it
00:45:44.57\00:45:47.74
and they couldn't get in.
00:45:47.78\00:45:49.11
And not only in
the house of David,
00:45:49.14\00:45:53.08
but also in the house of God.
00:45:53.11\00:45:55.55
So that when Revelation 3
00:45:55.58\00:46:00.16
is speaking about Christ
00:46:00.19\00:46:02.92
possessing a key figuratively
00:46:02.96\00:46:07.23
what it is talking
about is Christ's jurisdiction
00:46:07.26\00:46:11.53
over the church.
00:46:11.57\00:46:13.30
Christ is the one
who opens the door
00:46:13.34\00:46:17.91
and we can come in and
He's the one who closes it.
00:46:17.94\00:46:22.11
But here's the good thing.
00:46:22.14\00:46:24.08
He is going to carry out
00:46:24.11\00:46:28.95
His plan of redemption.
00:46:28.98\00:46:32.05
Hebrew 7:22, a lovely scripture.
00:46:32.09\00:46:35.66
It says, "By so much more,
00:46:35.69\00:46:38.33
Jesus has become the
surety of a better covenant."
00:46:38.36\00:46:43.73
The word surety
Jesus is our guarantor.
00:46:43.77\00:46:47.74
He's more than just
the person, our advocate.
00:46:47.77\00:46:50.87
He's more than the one
who's pleading our case.
00:46:50.91\00:46:53.64
He's the guarantee
00:46:53.68\00:46:55.31
because He's the
guarantor from God to us.
00:46:55.34\00:46:59.01
2 Corinthians 1:20 says,
00:46:59.05\00:47:00.78
"All of God's promises are
yes and amen in Christ Jesus."
00:47:00.82\00:47:05.42
So He's the
guarantee from God to us.
00:47:05.45\00:47:09.02
But He's the
guarantee from us to God
00:47:09.06\00:47:12.19
because
Philippians 2:12 says that
00:47:12.23\00:47:15.00
He's going to work in us to will
00:47:15.03\00:47:17.60
and to do His good pleasure.
00:47:17.63\00:47:20.00
And so, He's going to complete
the good work He's begun in us.
00:47:20.04\00:47:23.91
So we will walk in
obedience to the Lord
00:47:23.94\00:47:27.81
as we allow Him to work in us.
00:47:27.84\00:47:31.18
So Jesus is
constantly defending our cause
00:47:31.21\00:47:35.08
Amen.
00:47:35.12\00:47:36.48
And that reminds me,
Shelley, of Psalms 57:2.
00:47:36.52\00:47:40.56
Okay. Psalms 57:2.
00:47:40.59\00:47:45.26
And I, here
again, we're involved.
00:47:45.29\00:47:48.40
This is David talking.
00:47:48.43\00:47:49.90
"I will cry to God Most High."
00:47:49.93\00:47:53.34
God, who's the supernatural God,
00:47:53.37\00:47:56.04
who is King of
kings, Lord of hosts,
00:47:56.07\00:47:58.67
who performs on my
behalf and rewards me.
00:47:58.71\00:48:02.78
When He's talking
about performs on my behalf
00:48:02.81\00:48:05.85
and rewards me.
00:48:05.88\00:48:07.22
He's talking about that
00:48:07.25\00:48:08.58
what He's starting
that He will complete.
00:48:08.62\00:48:10.59
Amen. Okay?
00:48:10.62\00:48:12.05
So this is one
that we need to remember
00:48:12.09\00:48:15.69
because we're talking
about God is there to defend us.
00:48:15.72\00:48:19.13
When we need His defending,
He knows it ahead of time.
00:48:19.16\00:48:22.26
I think He loves
hearing from His children.
00:48:22.30\00:48:24.07
Oh, yes.
00:48:24.10\00:48:25.43
So I think that ball is
00:48:25.47\00:48:26.80
put in our
court, Daddy, help me.
00:48:26.84\00:48:28.34
And so it says here
00:48:28.37\00:48:29.70
I will cry to the God Most High,
00:48:29.74\00:48:31.91
the one that is supernatural,
00:48:31.94\00:48:33.54
the one that
created the universe
00:48:33.58\00:48:35.98
and who in spite of knowing
00:48:36.01\00:48:39.41
everything that's going on,
00:48:39.45\00:48:42.55
at the same time He knows me.
00:48:42.58\00:48:46.49
And to me that's amazing.
00:48:46.52\00:48:47.89
You know, Shelley is
always, and I told her,
00:48:47.92\00:48:50.96
here we have God,
00:48:50.99\00:48:53.73
Jesus in heaven
gave up that opportunity.
00:48:53.76\00:48:59.30
He was, and He was still God.
00:48:59.33\00:49:00.74
And He came down and took
on the person of Jesus Christ.
00:49:00.77\00:49:03.27
I mean it, boy,
you study that out
00:49:03.30\00:49:05.34
and it's just
absolutely amazing,
00:49:05.37\00:49:07.74
because that is so
counterintuitive to us
00:49:07.78\00:49:11.61
on this earth,
00:49:11.65\00:49:12.98
because you can figure that out.
00:49:13.01\00:49:16.89
But here I will
cry to God Most High,
00:49:16.92\00:49:19.95
who performs on my
behalf and rewards me.
00:49:19.99\00:49:22.89
And in the Amplified,
00:49:22.92\00:49:24.26
who brings to pass
his purposes for me
00:49:24.29\00:49:26.80
and surely completes them.
00:49:26.83\00:49:29.20
So what He starts, He
will complete, anyway.
00:49:29.23\00:49:34.84
I love it because it's...
00:49:34.87\00:49:36.44
He's God Most
High, He's transcendent.
00:49:36.47\00:49:39.17
He's elevated above everything
yet He's intimately involved.
00:49:39.21\00:49:43.08
As a matter of fact,
would you read Psalm 138:8?
00:49:43.11\00:49:48.28
And, Donald,
00:49:48.32\00:49:50.59
would you look
up Philippians 1:6
00:49:50.62\00:49:54.36
because He's talking
about, He performs on my behalf.
00:49:54.39\00:50:00.63
He brings it to completion.
00:50:00.66\00:50:03.37
That's why I cling to that verse
00:50:03.40\00:50:06.40
that I can't quote it right.
00:50:06.43\00:50:09.00
What I have
started, I will finish.
00:50:09.04\00:50:11.17
Philippians 1:6. Yes.
00:50:11.21\00:50:13.78
I cling to that constantly
because it's like, Lord,
00:50:13.81\00:50:17.11
I chose You and You promised
00:50:17.15\00:50:18.81
You would finish
what You started in me.
00:50:18.85\00:50:20.55
He who has begun
a good work in you,
00:50:20.58\00:50:23.82
He will be
faithful to complete it.
00:50:23.85\00:50:26.29
So in Psalms 138:8,
00:50:26.32\00:50:29.66
"The Lord will perfect
that which concerns me,
00:50:29.69\00:50:33.90
Your mercy, O
Lord, endures forever.
00:50:33.93\00:50:37.53
Do not forsake the
works of your hands."
00:50:37.57\00:50:41.87
I cling to that
in my deepest pain
00:50:41.90\00:50:47.21
is when I count, call
out Abba, Abba, my Father,
00:50:47.24\00:50:52.55
and it's like mercy, please.
00:50:52.58\00:50:54.72
His mercy endures forever.
00:50:54.75\00:50:56.52
And He will not forsake
the work He started in me.
00:50:56.55\00:50:59.72
And...
00:50:59.75\00:51:01.09
And let me spell that out
00:51:01.12\00:51:02.46
because I got in
trouble once for using Abba.
00:51:02.49\00:51:04.63
Somebody told me I
was calling on Allah,
00:51:04.66\00:51:07.80
we're not saying Allah,
we're saying Abba, A-B-B-A.
00:51:07.83\00:51:12.47
Which is what Jesus cried
out, and this is Abba Father.
00:51:12.50\00:51:19.11
It's like, it's
an intimate name.
00:51:19.14\00:51:22.44
It's like Papa.
00:51:22.48\00:51:24.51
And I mean,
isn't that amazing that
00:51:24.55\00:51:27.82
God gives us permission
to call on Him as Abba.
00:51:27.85\00:51:32.95
Because when you're
in tears or in pain,
00:51:32.99\00:51:35.89
in a ball of a mess
on the floor, you need,
00:51:35.92\00:51:38.93
you don't start out,
dear heavenly Father.
00:51:38.96\00:51:40.96
No.
00:51:41.00\00:51:42.33
You're like Abba,
just pull me onto Your lap
00:51:42.36\00:51:46.30
and wrap Your arms
around me and help.
00:51:46.33\00:51:50.51
Amen and amen.
00:51:50.54\00:51:51.91
But I love Psalm 138
00:51:51.94\00:51:53.98
because He's going to
perfect what concerns me.
00:51:54.01\00:51:59.45
What a promise?
00:51:59.48\00:52:02.12
That's amazing.
00:52:02.15\00:52:03.49
I've just, we're
talking about this.
00:52:03.52\00:52:05.25
Philippians 1:6, which you guys
00:52:05.29\00:52:06.96
already quoted being
confident of this very thing
00:52:06.99\00:52:09.56
that he which has
begun a good work in you
00:52:09.59\00:52:11.73
will perform it until
the day of Jesus Christ.
00:52:11.76\00:52:14.86
And when you guys
were discussing that,
00:52:14.90\00:52:16.23
you know, this idea of
calling on Abba Father.
00:52:16.26\00:52:19.47
He's the one
00:52:19.50\00:52:20.84
who hung the
stars in their spaces.
00:52:20.87\00:52:22.20
And He's the one
00:52:22.24\00:52:23.57
who put the
plants in their places.
00:52:23.61\00:52:24.94
And this is the God
00:52:24.97\00:52:26.31
who is so
intimately connected with you.
00:52:26.34\00:52:27.68
It's just, it's incredible.
00:52:27.71\00:52:29.04
When you think about
00:52:29.08\00:52:30.41
He's put all
this galaxy together
00:52:30.45\00:52:31.78
and this same God
wants to spend time with you.
00:52:31.81\00:52:33.45
It's just, it just
really blows your mind that,
00:52:33.48\00:52:36.38
this, it's an amazing thing.
00:52:36.42\00:52:37.82
And then I
thought about Hebrews 12,
00:52:37.85\00:52:39.95
kind of follows
through with his Hebrews 12:2,
00:52:39.99\00:52:43.06
it says, "Looking unto Jesus,
00:52:43.09\00:52:44.66
the author and
finisher of our faith,
00:52:44.69\00:52:46.59
who for the joy was set
before him endured the cross,
00:52:46.63\00:52:49.50
despising the shame is set down
00:52:49.53\00:52:51.17
at the right hand
of throne of God."
00:52:51.20\00:52:52.53
So there's that kind of again,
00:52:52.57\00:52:54.07
that judge
sitting down judging us.
00:52:54.10\00:52:56.54
So I just really,
I'm just impressed
00:52:56.57\00:52:58.14
by the concept that God
would consider us so valuable.
00:52:58.17\00:53:03.18
I love that word valuable
that He would stoop down
00:53:03.21\00:53:05.41
to become like one of us
00:53:05.45\00:53:06.92
and that He would literally
lay Himself down to says that
00:53:06.95\00:53:10.39
shepherd lays down
his life for the sheep
00:53:10.42\00:53:12.42
and He raised Himself back up
00:53:12.45\00:53:13.79
so He could take on humanity
00:53:13.82\00:53:15.69
and in a divinity
and become one of us.
00:53:15.72\00:53:19.13
It's just... It's amazing.
00:53:19.16\00:53:20.76
It blows your... I mean.
00:53:20.80\00:53:22.13
Yeah, I know.
00:53:22.16\00:53:23.50
And you know, we,
JD can attest to this.
00:53:23.53\00:53:26.53
Every night I thank
God as we're praying.
00:53:26.57\00:53:29.80
And I'll say, Lord, I'll say,
00:53:29.84\00:53:32.41
"Father, thank You that
00:53:32.44\00:53:33.78
You humiliated
Yourself to become a man.
00:53:33.81\00:53:38.31
That You took on our flesh."
00:53:38.35\00:53:40.02
To me, that's a
greater sacrifice
00:53:40.05\00:53:42.22
and I'll say that
it's a greater sacrifice
00:53:42.25\00:53:44.52
because it was a
permanent sacrifice.
00:53:44.55\00:53:46.42
He's in flesh.
00:53:46.45\00:53:47.82
It's glorified flesh now.
00:53:47.86\00:53:49.96
But to think that he stoop
00:53:49.99\00:53:52.89
so low and
that's what, you know,
00:53:52.93\00:53:54.36
what, that's what
the scholars call it,
00:53:54.40\00:53:56.10
is the humiliation of God.
00:53:56.13\00:54:00.60
He came down and became
00:54:00.64\00:54:01.97
the person of Jesus Christ.
00:54:02.00\00:54:04.11
And then He died for us.
00:54:04.14\00:54:05.67
And to think that this Redeemer,
00:54:05.71\00:54:09.88
this God Most High,
00:54:09.91\00:54:12.68
the captain of
the host is the one
00:54:12.71\00:54:15.78
who pleads our case continuously
00:54:15.82\00:54:20.79
is the one who
defends our cause.
00:54:20.82\00:54:24.43
Mercy. JD, what
does Romans 8:31 say?
00:54:24.46\00:54:30.03
Because when you
pull all of this together,
00:54:30.07\00:54:33.74
what an amazing Savior we have.
00:54:33.77\00:54:38.67
What it says in the NIV is
00:54:38.71\00:54:41.01
"What then shall we
say in response to this."
00:54:41.04\00:54:45.41
Here we've talked about
how God is there to defend us.
00:54:45.45\00:54:49.58
The bottom line is as we
keep dissecting, dissecting,
00:54:49.62\00:54:53.36
dissecting, if God is for us,
00:54:53.39\00:54:56.79
then who can be against us?
00:54:56.83\00:54:59.73
I want to just
read this real quick.
00:54:59.76\00:55:02.83
This is out of the Clear Word.
00:55:02.86\00:55:04.20
Sure. Okay.
00:55:04.23\00:55:05.93
I was looking
at this and I just,
00:55:05.97\00:55:08.74
I enjoy reading the
Clear Word, it simplifies.
00:55:08.77\00:55:12.74
And what scripture is this?
00:55:12.77\00:55:14.11
This is Romans 8:31. Okay.
00:55:14.14\00:55:16.04
And I'm going
to read, I read 31.
00:55:16.08\00:55:18.05
I'm going to go
to 30 to 32. Okay.
00:55:18.08\00:55:22.22
"So He gives all
the help that we need.
00:55:22.25\00:55:24.69
He being God, He gives us
all the help that we need.
00:55:24.72\00:55:27.86
Therefore
however, how therefore,
00:55:27.89\00:55:31.89
whoever responds to God's call
00:55:31.93\00:55:34.06
and believes in
His Son he justifies."
00:55:34.10\00:55:37.60
Justifies, what
does justify mean?
00:55:37.63\00:55:39.27
It means that He
counts our sins no more.
00:55:39.30\00:55:42.04
Amen.
00:55:42.07\00:55:43.41
And those whom He justifies,
He intends to glorify him.
00:55:43.44\00:55:47.68
Amen. What does that mean?
00:55:47.71\00:55:49.41
He's going to raise
us up and be like Him.
00:55:49.44\00:55:51.21
Amen.
00:55:51.25\00:55:52.58
So what shall we say in
response to all of this?
00:55:52.61\00:55:55.75
If God is for us,
who can be against us?
00:55:55.78\00:55:58.79
And then in verse 32,
00:55:58.82\00:56:00.86
"If God loved us so much that
00:56:00.89\00:56:06.80
He did not spare His own Son,
00:56:06.83\00:56:10.20
but let Him suffer for us all.
00:56:10.23\00:56:12.90
Wouldn't He be willing to
do anything else to help us?"
00:56:12.93\00:56:16.67
You know, I can't believe
our time has gone so rapidly.
00:56:16.71\00:56:20.84
And that's what I look
at is when you focus on
00:56:20.88\00:56:24.51
God's love how great it is
00:56:24.55\00:56:27.88
and how powerful He is.
00:56:27.92\00:56:29.25
And you put those two together,
00:56:29.28\00:56:30.62
how can it not break you
and want you to turn to Him.
00:56:30.65\00:56:33.32
And each one of us here,
00:56:33.36\00:56:35.49
I just want to repeat,
00:56:35.52\00:56:38.69
just read Isaiah 54:17 that,
00:56:38.73\00:56:44.37
excuse me, Isaiah,
00:56:44.40\00:56:46.33
We started off what
was our, Jeremiah 50:34.
00:56:46.37\00:56:50.41
That God, your Redeemer,
00:56:50.44\00:56:52.77
the Lord of hosts
is pleading your cause.
00:56:52.81\00:56:55.81
He is the one who's
going to defend your cause.
00:56:55.84\00:57:00.52
And this is something that
00:57:00.55\00:57:03.82
we're going to be talking
about throughout eternity.
00:57:03.85\00:57:06.29
Thank you so
much for joining us.
00:57:06.32\00:57:07.66
It's been a blessing.
00:57:07.69\00:57:09.02
I've got so
much I'd like to say,
00:57:09.06\00:57:10.39
but we're out of time.
00:57:10.43\00:57:12.66
We want to wish
all of you at home
00:57:12.69\00:57:15.93
a very, very blessed
00:57:15.96\00:57:18.83
and refreshing
Sabbath rest in our Lord.
00:57:18.87\00:57:22.50
You know, Sabbath isn't
about resting perfectly,
00:57:22.54\00:57:25.54
but it's about resting
in the one who is perfect.
00:57:25.57\00:57:28.31
Amen.
00:57:28.34\00:57:29.74
And our prayer for you is that
00:57:29.78\00:57:31.65
the grace of our Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ,
00:57:31.68\00:57:34.02
the love of the Father
00:57:34.05\00:57:35.38
and the
fellowship of the Holy Spirit
00:57:35.42\00:57:37.15
will be with you always.
00:57:37.19\00:57:39.39
God bless you.
00:57:39.42\00:57:40.76