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 Lord,
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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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Mending broken people
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Hello and a great big welcome.
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We're glad you join
us for 3ABN Worship Hour.
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I mean this is... You
talk about an exciting lesson.
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I'm very thrilled about it
because it's signs of the time,
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things are
happening in the world.
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I think this is a good subject
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and I believe that
you're going to love it too
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as we get into the Word of God
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because we're going to
be reading Bible scriptures,
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we're going to be
reading the Spirit of Prophecy.
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We're going to be
just going over some things
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that we believe will
be a blessing to you.
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So again thank you
for joining us today.
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We're going to be talking
about peace amidst the storm.
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Some of you may in your life
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going through a storm right now.
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There's things that
maybe you like see take place,
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maybe it's a job,
maybe you've been threatened
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and things that
are happening and so,
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I believe today as we
go into the Word of God,
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there's going to be some
things that will help you,
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we know that will be.
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We will, we
prayed about it already,
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we're gonna have
prayer in just a moment.
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But first of all I like to...
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I'm glad that, Chris,
that you're here with me,
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my wife Chris.
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And I like to view
before we have our prayer
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and before we introduce
those who are going to help us
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and we need help as you can see.
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Okay. We always need help.
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We need help. Yes.
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The first paragraph of
our lesson peace amidst
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the storm is
something that will maybe set
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your mind to make
sure you stay with us
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this hour because I know
it's gonna be a blessing.
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Promise of the Spirit.
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Okay, it reads,
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"The Apostle John in vision
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heard a loud voice
in heaven exclaiming:
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'Woe to the
inhibiters of the earth
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and of the sea!
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For the devil is
come down unto you,
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having great
wrath, because he knoweth
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that he hath but a short time.'"
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That's found in
Revelation 12:12.
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"Fearful are the
scenes which call
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forth this exclamation
from the heavenly voice.
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The wrath of Satan increases
as his time grows short."
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That I think I had
to read that again.
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Well.
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"The wrath of Satan increases
as his time grows short,
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and his work of
deceit and destruction
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will reach its culmination
in the time of trouble."
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And that quote is taken
from Darkness before Dawn,
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page four.
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Praise the Lord.
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So that sets up what we
want to start to discuss
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and then we'll come
back and if we have prayer
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and introduce.
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So why don't you
just introduce the ones
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we have helping us today?
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Oh, absolutely sure.
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I would love to
introduce these people.
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I think might be new
to some do you suppose?
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But just in case,
across the table keeping quite
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a distance is my lovely
sister-in-law, Yvonne Shelton.
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I am so happy to have
her as a part of my family
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and next to her is
my brother-in-law Danny.
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And I, you know, even though...
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Well, Yvonne, we're both
married into this family,
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but it feels like blood,
you know, it really does.
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If we need something,
they are the ones to call.
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And Dee said
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as long as they're
on the set that she knew
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we would say the right thing.
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Okay. All right.
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But we say the right
thing, that's the one thing.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Well, we need a prayer,
don't we, Brother Danny?
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So we starts with prayer and
then we'll commence our study.
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Would you pray for us? Sure.
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Dear Lord, we thank You for
Your many wonderful blessings.
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And it is such an opportunity
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today to be able to have
peace in the midst of the storm,
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it doesn't matter
what goes on around us
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that You're always there.
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You're the solid foundation,
You're the Rock of Ages.
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And, Father, I pray
for each person watching,
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listening today
from around the world.
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Before this program is over,
if they don't have this peace,
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they'll have it already.
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It's something
that's world didn't give us
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and world can't take away.
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That's right. Amen.
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Lord, for giving us
peace in the midst of storm.
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Amen. That's right.
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Good. Thank you.
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I read a little something
this little paragraph before
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we read on this, I
thought was interesting,
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it says, the
Bible knows a whole lot.
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Now notice this and...
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But it keeps it to
itself until is consulted.
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It's very
interesting. Right? That's good.
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The Bible has a lot
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of information in
there but it keeps quiet
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until it's consulted,
and then it tells something
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and we praise God for that.
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Amen. That is cute.
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Yes. All right.
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Well, again, we're
talking about a peace amidst
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the storm and usually after
the wrath of Satan increases
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as time grows short.
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Can we maybe
establish here today?
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We feel do we not
that time is short.
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Yes.
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Now, you know,
we're not trying to put
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a timeframe on anything
or try to set anything but,
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you know, it's
more than just a date,
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it's more than...
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We may not be
here tomorrow ourself.
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And so every day I look at time
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can be really short
for some of us and really
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what millions
around the world today,
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time is very short
because it may be their last
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day on earth.
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And so we need to
approach it so as we agree
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upon this and the
Bible teaching on it.
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We know Satan is
active. Absolutely.
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Now, what are some of the ways
maybe we can see that he's...
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That he's active?
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Remember that in our
lesson it talks about in Matthew
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Chapter 24.
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Disciples were interested
in Jesus' return, weren't they?
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Yes.
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And they asked for signs and,
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you know, details
about His soon coming.
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And I pray that we all
are asking those same kind
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of questions today, even
though you've been on anytime,
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Matthew 24 so familiar,
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you know to Bible
students, but it...
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Are we really asking
that great question about
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what are the
signs of Your coming?
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You know, when is
this going to take place?
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And we see the devil is
angry, is increased in time,
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he knows his time
is short right here.
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We might want to read that
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and I don't know how
much of it there but,
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Sister Yvonne, you
have that where it says
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the disciples are recorded
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as having set with
Christ on the Mount of Olives?
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They asked, remember, of a sign,
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and the two
different things, one the sign
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and the end of the world.
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Yes. Okay.
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In Matthew
24:6-8, Jesus told them,
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"And you shall hear of
wars and rumors of wars.
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See that you be not
troubled, for all these things
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must come to pass,
but the end is not yet.
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For nation shall
rise against nation,
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and kingdom against kingdom.
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And there shall be
famines, and pestilences,
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and earthquakes
in diverse places.
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All these are the
beginning of sorrows."
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In this year alone,
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we've experienced Hurricane Ida,
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massive flooding, and
typhoons, in China COVID-19,
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COVID mandates with the
potential loss of our jobs,
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and our
constitutional rights along with
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our freedom to choose
our own medical treatments.
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The southern border
humanitarian crisis,
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the Yemen humanitarian crisis,
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horrific North American
wildfires, Haitian earthquake,
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tropical storm Grace,
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and the lives
that were lost during
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the withdrawal from Afghanistan
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and grief for those
who were left behind under
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the Taliban regime.
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The rising cost of
living and gas prices,
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loss of thousands of
businesses here and abroad,
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and this list
will only continue.
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And so from this, we
see that one of the ways
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the devil works
is through division.
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He's dividing us,
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he's dividing us
along racial lines,
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along, you know, ethnic lines.
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He's dividing us, the vaccinated
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and the unvaccinated.
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He's dividing. That is his emo.
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And one of the things
that we have to know at the end
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is how does your enemy work,
because you can't overcome,
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we overcome by the blood of Lamb
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and the word of our testimony.
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That's right.
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So, but we need
to know how he works.
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And his way of
working is divide and conquer.
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And that's what he's doing. Yes.
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That's what he's doing.
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And in the
original Greek word says,
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nation shall
rise against nation.
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It's ethnos against ethnos.
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It's ethnic group
against ethnic group.
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And that's what we're seeing.
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Matthew 24 is, I
mean, it lays it out for us.
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So that's what we're seeing.
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And we're seeing all
these famines and pestilences,
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and earthquakes and fires,
and just as was written here,
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so it's just a matter of knowing
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how your enemy works,
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and then knowing that
our enemy has been defeated,
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so we can have peace.
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Yeah.
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Because we know
who, who the conqueror,
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the ultimate conqueror is.
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Yes, good.
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Come on, I'm
getting ready to preach.
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Yeah. I'm preaching.
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There's a little help. Go ahead.
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I mean, I just
feel. That's right.
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We know, once we know,
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we know the enemy's
tactics, but we also know
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who God is and who He's
been throughout our whole lives.
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And how He's taken care of
us throughout our whole lives.
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We don't have to be afraid.
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I was talking to a dear
friend of mine the other day,
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and she's not a Christian.
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And she was saying, I
just have so much anxiety
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and she's taking
anti-anxiety stuff in.
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I said,
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I used it as an
opportunity to say to her,
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I just wish you
would get to know Jesus,
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'cause you won't
feel that anxiety.
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Now you might feel concern about
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what you see happening,
but the anxiety that others
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have who don't know, Jesus,
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we don't have because we've read
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the back of the book, right?
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So anyway, I just feel
like we need to know Him
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and know the
enemy and how he works,
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and know who our defender is.
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That is such an important
part because, you know,
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Jesus Himself.
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That's why He reveals
a lot of Satan's tactics
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and warns us about it.
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But just with that
anxiety alone, that is so true.
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It may not happen the first,
second, third, fourth day,
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but as we continue to
walk through that sanctuary
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with our Bible
study, our prayer,
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and our witnessing,
allowing our light to shine.
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His mind becomes our mind.
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And that peace that
surpasses all understanding
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is given to us. And
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it's just something
that I think for me,
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it took a lot of years to learn,
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it really did.
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But the more that I
spend time with Him,
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the less that I feel the stress.
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And, Dr. Yvonne,
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why should we be
concerned about stress and fear?
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What would those
things do to our body?
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Because they actually have
physiological repercussions.
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So there's a Dr.
Carolyn Leaf who is a...
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She's a neuroscientist,
and she talked about
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how our thoughts actually have
representations in our brain.
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And when we have toxic thoughts,
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these neurons give off
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little toxic chemicals that get
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absorbed into the bloodstream.
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But what erases
that is something
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like forgiveness.
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Forgiveness actually takes away.
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It's healing,
it's literally healing.
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So that's why, you know,
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the Lord wants
us to forgive too,
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not just because we should,
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but also because
harboring bad feelings
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works against us as well.
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Amen. Yes.
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So these that the stress
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and the fear also
burns out our adrenal glands.
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So then we have, you
know, adrenal insufficiency
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and it keeps you in
that fight or flight mode,
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which can burn out
your adrenal glands.
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So we know that the Bible says,
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"Thou wilt keep
him in perfect peace,
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whose mind is stayed on thee,
because he trusts in thee."
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That's good. Good.
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Peace brings healing. Exactly.
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And I like what you said,
because you scientifically
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showed what I learned.
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And it stuck with me,
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I was listening to Cheri Peters
on this station by the way.
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And she was saying that
forgiveness is not fair.
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Well...
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And how she had to forgive
her father before he died.
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He never said he's sorry.
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He didn't come
and apologized to her
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for things that had occurred.
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But by forgiving him,
it brought healing to her.
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And I think many of
us have experienced that,
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and you explained it very well.
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Yes. Bible
says, a merry heart...
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Doeth good like a medicine...
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Like a medicine,
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we just said before we went
on the air that we have to get
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together I think so we
can chuckle a little bit.
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That's right.
There's a lot of stress.
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And it's not badness or stress,
but there's lot of obligation,
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responsibilities
that each person has.
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And sometime you need
to just lay those aside.
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And, you know,
chuckle about the good thing,
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maybe just merry heart.
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Doesn't that endorphins,
am I saying it right?
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Exactly, releasing endorphins.
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You know, when you laugh,
and it's a healing process.
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So we need that because it says,
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Brother Danny, it says,
see that you be not troubled.
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How can I read like Matthew
24 and if I stop at that,
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I'm gonna be a
little bit troubled.
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Absolutely. If I
can't go beyond that.
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And now I'm a
believer in talking about
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issues but also, you know,
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how are we going to
attack these issues?
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What do we need to
do to try to change?
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These things are going
to happen because Jesus said
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so, but it says, see,
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you be not trouble
because they're the beginning
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of the sorrow,
so I need some help
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if I'm just to read
and I read that Matthew 24,
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I'm gonna say, oh,
Lord, have mercy on me.
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Okay.
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Do it like you do
anything else in life that you
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want to be successful at,
prepare, prepare, prepare.
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I like it. All right.
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For instance, I don't want to...
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I shouldn't try to
become professional
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wrestler because I
pinned my 10 year old nephew.
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Right? Make sense.
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Because somebody,
somebody tried to mug me
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and I got an adrenaline
punch and knocked him out.
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So I say, I'm gonna be
a professional boxer now.
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I'm gonna go, you know?
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No, you prepare.
How do you prepare?
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That's you already
said it God's Word.
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So it's there. It's
quiet until we need it.
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So between God's
Word and constant.
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With me, it's constant
that's helped me the most.
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And I'm just,
everybody's different.
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But is that
constant communication today
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with the Lord,
like, all during the day,
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if people really my thoughts,
I mean, they're bad enough
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as they are when they
come out, people's like,
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don't you have a
filter, but my thoughts.
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If you heard me talk,
it's like I'm talking to myself
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all day things I'm
going, if I'm going into town,
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I'm talking to the
Lord, Lord, you know,
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what should I do
and these things.
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He's talking to me, hopefully.
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And so it's
building a relationship.
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So it's preparing
for a time of trouble.
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That's right.
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How do we know
there's time of trouble?
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Because when I've talked
to people about Matthew 24,
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they said, well,
there's always been earthquakes,
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there's always been
storms, there's always been,
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but there's an
unprecedented, to me,
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it's an unprecedented rebellion
taking place on this planet
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of the humans
against the Creator God.
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And so, that's what I see.
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And it's been in tremendous.
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Other words,
it's, how do you say
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how fast that
it's been happening?
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Yes. Yes. It's unbelievable.
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That if you look
at five years ago,
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10 years ago, but
people on this planet,
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I mean, and the
worst part to me is,
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is Christian seeming to be
okay with things that the world
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is putting in
whether, and I don't want to,
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you know, harp on
anything but things that we know
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what sin is, we know
about the Ten Commandments.
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And we always, for
instance, stand up against,
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whether it's adultery,
or stealing, or whatever.
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But today because of
political correctness, you know,
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whether it's
transgender, whether it's,
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you know, gay marriages,
whatever, we say, well,
00:17:03.65\00:17:07.09
you know, it's,
everybody has a choice,
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you know, that they
should do, well, they do,
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and we're not
perfect, and we all sinners,
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we're saved by grace, right?
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But we have to
constantly go back
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and look to the Word of God.
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We can't allow
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what is happening in the
world to come into the church.
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The biggest enemy of the
church today is ourselves.
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Right?
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The biggest enemy is ourselves.
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It's not, the
world's always been upset.
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Yes.
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So and though there
are physical storms,
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and tornadoes, and
hurricanes, and all that,
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there's always been
physical or spiritual storms,
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and all of that
within the church.
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But usually, we
get this word and say,
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"No, we don't accept that."
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Today, we're, well,
you know, maybe we should,
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and as you said,
because of racial tensions
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and all kinds
of cultural things.
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So we bring it in
that if you don't accept me
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as I am, or what I
say, then you're a hater.
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You don't like me and
it's so within the church
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we see the same
problem that we see
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whether it's racists, you know?
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Well, he's a
racist. No, he's a racist.
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Well, you know, this person
that he it goes on and on,
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and we're allowing
it because we're not
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really prepared and
that's we have to build
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no matter what we build or
what we stand on has to be,
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our dad told us,
a firm foundation.
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Exactly.
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So and builders,
Kenny and me years ago,
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we found that we never built
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a house on the
sand because we knew
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what would happen to it, right?
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Your first house we
ever built together.
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And I've talked about
getting out of the coal mines.
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He was making really
good money as a coal miner
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and I wasn't, so I was younger,
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and I was struggling
to get by and you know,
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somebody wanted he'd built a
house and I'd helped him little
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and so somebody's
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Uncle Vyrus actually
had a friend from Chicago
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who retired moving
back to his old home place
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wanted a house
built, showed him to Kenny
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and so he said, "Won't
you guys build me a house?"
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I said, "Oh yeah, we'll do it?
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Well, I'm in the
coalmine so I talked him out
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of the coalmines, right?
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To become a carpenter.
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So we went out to the
lake of West Frankfort
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which now we just all live
a stone's throw from there.
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Right.
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Never dreaming we
would this many years later.
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But we built the houses,
the term would say on the lake.
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Well, now, of course,
it was bought by the lake,
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not on the lake, by the lake.
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But guess what?
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Though there's
all kinds of sand,
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we didn't build it on the sand.
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No.
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We knew even then in our
ignorance because we were
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pretty young
and hadn't had a lot
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of experience that we
dug through the ground
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and we poured concrete.
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We poured a solid foundation
to build the house on.
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So today, what's
happening with division,
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as you mentioned earlier,
00:19:41.58\00:19:43.21
all of you that
Satan is dividing.
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And so what's
happening is we don't...
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Young kids growing up,
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don't know what a
solid foundation is.
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That's right. That's true.
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And I've never seen such a time.
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Here's the good news
in the midst of the storm,
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then I'll quit.
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I'm starting to
preaching. Oh, you're good.
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That's all good.
00:20:00.70\00:20:02.30
But here's the good news.
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The good news is,
00:20:03.70\00:20:05.03
when we see all
this rebellion happening,
00:20:05.07\00:20:06.50
we see terrible things happening
00:20:06.53\00:20:08.37
and we're all part of it,
so we can't say, oh, well,
00:20:08.40\00:20:10.34
we're watching it and
we've got all our act together.
00:20:10.37\00:20:12.74
No, the devil works on
us like he does everybody.
00:20:12.77\00:20:15.58
But we have to remember,
00:20:15.61\00:20:16.95
we can always come back to him
00:20:16.98\00:20:18.68
because that's
where the forgiveness is,
00:20:18.71\00:20:20.72
that's where in our
humanness come to Jesus.
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Yes.
00:20:24.02\00:20:25.35
So, but the good news is,
00:20:25.39\00:20:26.72
I've never seen so many people
00:20:26.76\00:20:28.29
wanting to find
out about the Lord.
00:20:28.32\00:20:30.86
Other words, she
gets, she has young people,
00:20:30.89\00:20:33.43
I'm talking about the
teenagers calling her,
00:20:33.46\00:20:36.50
other ones are calling,
now she has Bible studies,
00:20:36.53\00:20:38.97
it'd be Friday
night Sabbath afternoon.
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I think we had one
last night for two hours
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and these are young people.
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They are growing up in
the cities that are with
00:20:45.27\00:20:47.41
some without parent's guidance,
and these people were calling,
00:20:47.44\00:20:51.65
there're groups of them and,
00:20:51.68\00:20:53.68
you know, how did it happen?
00:20:53.72\00:20:55.05
She was willing. Amen.
00:20:55.08\00:20:56.42
And, you know, was
helping some family
00:20:56.45\00:20:58.39
and then others got involved,
and then we invited others,
00:20:58.42\00:21:00.99
she invited others,
so there are people,
00:21:01.02\00:21:03.12
we have people I was
telling you before calling us.
00:21:03.16\00:21:06.13
If I mentioned the name,
00:21:06.16\00:21:08.10
most of the people would
know they're calling, saying,
00:21:08.13\00:21:11.70
we want to know, we
want to know the truth.
00:21:11.73\00:21:13.64
We grew up in the church,
but we want to know the truth.
00:21:13.67\00:21:16.20
We've been learning from 3ABN,
00:21:16.24\00:21:17.84
so while it
looks bad all around us
00:21:17.87\00:21:21.01
and we see all
these signs of the times,
00:21:21.04\00:21:22.98
don't get caught up in it.
00:21:23.01\00:21:24.58
Don't get so
caught up here, oh my,
00:21:24.61\00:21:26.21
you know, this is
terrible and people say, why me?
00:21:26.25\00:21:30.59
You know, the question,
00:21:30.62\00:21:31.95
the real question is why not me?
00:21:31.99\00:21:33.99
That's right. Yeah. Why not me?
00:21:34.02\00:21:35.36
We're all
sinners saved by grace.
00:21:35.39\00:21:37.46
So anything that we get,
May Chung used to tell me,
00:21:37.49\00:21:40.33
anything we get on this
earth is more than we deserve.
00:21:40.36\00:21:42.83
True.
00:21:42.86\00:21:44.20
Once I was going
through a really troubled time
00:21:44.23\00:21:45.73
and I called her,
called her mom, I said, mom,
00:21:45.77\00:21:47.97
I was telling her
about and she said, "Oh son,
00:21:48.00\00:21:50.41
I wish I was
going through that."
00:21:50.44\00:21:52.07
And I'm like, you
know, because she goes,
00:21:52.11\00:21:54.81
she goes, because
that's the Jesus treatment.
00:21:54.84\00:21:57.01
I must not be living
right because I'm not being
00:21:57.05\00:21:59.35
persecuted that bad.
00:21:59.38\00:22:00.72
Isn't that something?
00:22:00.75\00:22:02.08
Well, I didn't think of
the persecution just this,
00:22:02.12\00:22:04.09
but she's like anytime
we stand up for the Lord,
00:22:04.12\00:22:06.79
people are gonna hate
it, you know, so be happy.
00:22:06.82\00:22:10.09
When you know
you're doing right,
00:22:10.13\00:22:12.26
don't look to the left,
don't look to the right,
00:22:12.29\00:22:14.26
just keep going forward.
00:22:14.30\00:22:15.63
But the good news is that
if we keep our eyes on Jesus,
00:22:15.66\00:22:20.47
we're not going to be
sucked into all these things
00:22:20.50\00:22:23.24
the devil traps the
devil has out there.
00:22:23.27\00:22:25.17
That's right.
00:22:25.21\00:22:26.54
And so we can find peace
in the midst of the storm.
00:22:26.57\00:22:28.68
And you were talking
about the endorphins while ago.
00:22:28.71\00:22:31.08
I thought, I
mean you should have
00:22:31.11\00:22:32.45
plenty because
we laugh every day.
00:22:32.48\00:22:34.15
Every time, I know. Yeah, we do.
00:22:34.18\00:22:35.95
That's good. Yeah.
00:22:35.98\00:22:37.32
What you're talking about there,
00:22:37.35\00:22:38.69
read something
said, you have to thrash
00:22:38.72\00:22:41.82
the straw in
order to get the grain.
00:22:41.86\00:22:44.69
Okay.
00:22:44.73\00:22:46.06
It's just small and
simple, but there's a lot
00:22:46.09\00:22:48.00
of truth in that.
00:22:48.03\00:22:49.36
Sometime we take
a thrashing. Yeah.
00:22:49.40\00:22:52.17
We like to think of this,
00:22:52.20\00:22:53.54
our dad I think said every time.
00:22:53.57\00:22:54.90
Boy, you're
gonna get a thrashing.
00:22:54.94\00:22:56.27
So you kind of knew
what was going to happen,
00:22:56.30\00:22:57.64
yeah, with that.
00:22:57.67\00:22:59.01
But all of these
thrashings or these trials
00:22:59.04\00:23:01.78
and these things that
Jesus says gonna happen.
00:23:01.81\00:23:04.11
I'm looking at them, if
we can endure by the grace
00:23:04.15\00:23:06.88
of God, guess what we need?
00:23:06.92\00:23:08.25
It's character
development, is it not?
00:23:08.28\00:23:10.49
Which is the only thing
that we can take to heaven,
00:23:10.52\00:23:12.49
without these thrashings.
00:23:12.52\00:23:15.36
Right, without these, you know,
00:23:15.39\00:23:16.79
little corrections from the Lord
00:23:16.83\00:23:18.39
and these tests, we'll
never make it to heaven.
00:23:18.43\00:23:20.83
That's right.
00:23:20.86\00:23:22.20
So I'm trying to associate
00:23:22.23\00:23:23.57
and learning to
associate that when I'm going
00:23:23.60\00:23:26.17
through this stuff
here is because the Lord
00:23:26.20\00:23:28.10
wants me to spend
eternity with Him.
00:23:28.14\00:23:30.44
He sees a lot of
things in me that I don't see
00:23:30.47\00:23:32.84
that needs to be corrected.
00:23:32.87\00:23:34.34
And I'm glad that He does. Yes.
00:23:34.38\00:23:36.28
So He sends a
little thrashers in there,
00:23:36.31\00:23:38.41
you know, that little
challenges at times that we all
00:23:38.45\00:23:41.48
have that we
face, we say, oh, Lord,
00:23:41.52\00:23:43.82
only have mercy of all days.
00:23:43.85\00:23:46.12
You have all days, I
don't have time or all days,
00:23:46.15\00:23:48.82
why now?
00:23:48.86\00:23:50.19
There's a reason for that.
00:23:50.23\00:23:51.56
So, you know,
I'm praising, I pray,
00:23:51.59\00:23:52.96
I'm learning to praise God.
00:23:52.99\00:23:54.50
I'm not saying I've
arrived, you mentioned,
00:23:54.53\00:23:56.13
I'm glad you
mentioned it's always good.
00:23:56.16\00:23:58.20
No one here ever say that
we've arrived that we've got
00:23:58.23\00:24:01.44
everything under control at all.
00:24:01.47\00:24:03.47
But you know what, that should
never prevent us from telling
00:24:03.51\00:24:06.11
what is truth, you know?
00:24:06.14\00:24:08.81
That's right.
00:24:08.84\00:24:10.18
You know, some people won't
talk about certain subjects,
00:24:10.21\00:24:11.88
because they may
have it in their mind,
00:24:11.91\00:24:13.95
or they may be guilty.
00:24:13.98\00:24:15.32
Can I say that guilty?
00:24:15.35\00:24:16.69
And so they won't talk about it.
00:24:16.72\00:24:18.05
But we can talk about
00:24:18.09\00:24:19.42
what God says in His Word there
00:24:19.45\00:24:20.79
and bring it out it may
help someone along the way.
00:24:20.82\00:24:22.39
Do you find that too?
00:24:22.42\00:24:23.76
Oh, I find that,
yes, I find that as well.
00:24:23.79\00:24:26.19
And I relate to
everything that everybody's
00:24:26.23\00:24:28.66
saying because, you
know, Jesus Himself, of course,
00:24:28.70\00:24:31.60
He told us what was
going to happen at sort of like
00:24:31.63\00:24:34.24
current events, as it were.
00:24:34.27\00:24:35.60
He wants us to be
aware, but like you said,
00:24:35.64\00:24:37.64
we have to be grounded.
00:24:37.67\00:24:39.01
We have to know where
our source of strength,
00:24:39.04\00:24:42.41
our source of health,
00:24:42.44\00:24:43.81
our source of
support comes from,
00:24:43.85\00:24:45.61
and that comes
from, from the Word of God
00:24:45.65\00:24:47.68
and from Christ Himself.
00:24:47.72\00:24:49.42
And so, I'm experiencing
some of the same things,
00:24:49.45\00:24:51.92
you know, people that
I've prayed for years.
00:24:51.95\00:24:54.96
We mentioned Webby,
00:24:54.99\00:24:56.49
I don't know if she'll
be listening but if she is,
00:24:56.52\00:24:58.39
hello, Webby.
00:24:58.43\00:24:59.76
We mentioned Webby before this.
00:24:59.79\00:25:01.26
And Webby been
asking more questions.
00:25:01.30\00:25:03.23
It's opening doors. Right.
00:25:03.26\00:25:04.93
And I was listening
to a doctor last night,
00:25:04.97\00:25:07.04
and she was talking about,
00:25:07.07\00:25:08.57
and she showed different
charts that they have developed
00:25:08.60\00:25:12.27
over this last year and
a half, almost two years,
00:25:12.31\00:25:14.84
you know that, how
the incidence of stress
00:25:14.88\00:25:18.28
and depression has
just risen astronomically.
00:25:18.31\00:25:23.12
And you have young children.
00:25:23.15\00:25:24.52
When you were talking about
the young people calling her,
00:25:24.55\00:25:26.62
I said, praise God.
00:25:26.65\00:25:28.92
They're looking
for help, because a lot
00:25:28.96\00:25:30.73
of these young
people, it's unbelievable
00:25:30.76\00:25:33.26
have taken their lives
as a child, because of all
00:25:33.29\00:25:37.50
of this depression,
they don't see a way out.
00:25:37.53\00:25:40.20
And so that's what I'm hoping
that, that this peace amidst
00:25:40.24\00:25:43.77
the storm that this family
worship will give us all hope,
00:25:43.81\00:25:47.81
give us a connection,
help us to know where to go.
00:25:47.84\00:25:51.38
I was speaking with somebody
close to me, I won't say who,
00:25:51.41\00:25:54.22
because they
really might be watching.
00:25:54.25\00:25:56.95
But I had a call and
this is from a 10 year old,
00:25:56.99\00:26:01.39
oh, I just don't know what,
00:26:01.42\00:26:03.02
you know, I can't
handle this person at school,
00:26:03.06\00:26:05.09
and they're just such a bully,
and now this person has died.
00:26:05.13\00:26:08.50
And there's
just, there's nothing
00:26:08.53\00:26:09.86
that can be done,
nothing can be done.
00:26:09.90\00:26:11.33
And I had to stop and say,
00:26:11.37\00:26:12.70
"Now, now, what was that
verse that I've taught you?
00:26:12.73\00:26:15.40
What was I? What
was Isaiah 41:10?
00:26:15.44\00:26:18.21
Remember, we memorize that one?
00:26:18.24\00:26:19.97
Come on.
00:26:20.01\00:26:21.34
You know, what I was
trying to do is go back
00:26:21.38\00:26:23.68
and then later on, someone said,
00:26:23.71\00:26:25.21
well, you've got
to let them vent.
00:26:25.25\00:26:26.61
And I think so to a point.
00:26:26.65\00:26:28.05
Absolutely, we have to get
things out once in a while.
00:26:28.08\00:26:31.09
But we need to know where
our source of strength lies.
00:26:31.12\00:26:35.52
We have to learn
to those promises,
00:26:35.56\00:26:38.16
we have to learn to
claim those promises.
00:26:38.19\00:26:40.93
We have to accept them
because those are things
00:26:40.96\00:26:42.93
that God gave to us
00:26:42.96\00:26:45.00
and He gave us these promises
to give us that strength
00:26:45.03\00:26:47.84
and give us that hope.
00:26:47.87\00:26:49.20
Of course we know supernaturally
00:26:49.24\00:26:50.57
He will do that as well.
00:26:50.61\00:26:51.94
But we got it, we've got
to know where to plug into.
00:26:51.97\00:26:54.98
And I think that's so important
because people don't know
00:26:55.01\00:26:57.35
where to turn.
00:26:57.38\00:26:58.71
They want to turn to
us, but what do we do?
00:26:58.75\00:27:00.72
We send them
right back to Jesus,
00:27:00.75\00:27:03.12
right back to the
Word, that's where it's at.
00:27:03.15\00:27:05.35
And sometime we all need
that help like even here.
00:27:05.39\00:27:08.26
You know, the Lord
says not to forsake
00:27:08.29\00:27:09.76
yourselves assembling together.
00:27:09.79\00:27:11.13
I know that He means
that on like on Sabbath.
00:27:11.16\00:27:13.83
But even here we draw
strength from one another.
00:27:13.86\00:27:16.87
I draw encouragement, you know,
00:27:16.90\00:27:18.57
you both said I
feel like preaching.
00:27:18.60\00:27:20.14
I'm like, yes, go
on at time may use.
00:27:20.17\00:27:23.07
You know, we draw
strength from one another.
00:27:23.10\00:27:24.94
We draw ideas from one another.
00:27:24.97\00:27:26.94
And that's what
God wants for each
00:27:26.98\00:27:28.48
and every one of
us, and it helps.
00:27:28.51\00:27:30.45
It helps us to stay strong in
the midst of all these storms.
00:27:30.48\00:27:33.62
Everybody's really
focusing on the questions
00:27:33.65\00:27:35.45
we haven't even read it,
but we're focusing on that like
00:27:35.48\00:27:37.35
number one and again,
let's just run with it.
00:27:37.39\00:27:39.65
How shall Christ people?
00:27:39.69\00:27:41.02
How will Christ
people stand in the days
00:27:41.06\00:27:42.96
of almost overwhelming fear and,
00:27:42.99\00:27:46.03
you know,
anxiety and opposition?
00:27:46.06\00:27:48.06
So we've really been
without reading the questions,
00:27:48.10\00:27:50.40
we really got into it.
00:27:50.43\00:27:51.77
I have one passage and
I'll pass it on author,
00:27:51.80\00:27:53.37
I think Jesus speaking here
00:27:53.40\00:27:56.10
and when I see it as
least letters in red.
00:27:56.14\00:28:00.41
I think I mentioned
on the program the other
00:28:00.44\00:28:01.88
day that you wrote
a song written in red.
00:28:01.91\00:28:04.75
True?
00:28:04.78\00:28:06.11
Yeah, mine is similar to that.
00:28:06.15\00:28:07.48
Yeah. I forgot what it was.
00:28:07.52\00:28:11.12
I was thinking anyway written
in red or something that's part
00:28:11.15\00:28:13.32
of the line or
something in that,
00:28:13.36\00:28:15.59
lest Calvary
says to me, something.
00:28:15.62\00:28:17.29
Calvary says love to
me. Calvary says love to me.
00:28:17.33\00:28:19.59
You threw me there for a minute.
00:28:19.63\00:28:20.96
There is a song
also Rusty Goodman's
00:28:21.00\00:28:22.96
beautiful written in red.
00:28:23.00\00:28:24.40
Okay.
00:28:24.43\00:28:25.77
And I wrote a song,
Calvary says love to me.
00:28:25.80\00:28:27.90
Okay.
00:28:27.94\00:28:29.27
So both of those and
through that is through
00:28:29.30\00:28:30.64
His shed blood on
the cross of Calvary.
00:28:30.67\00:28:32.47
Thank you.
00:28:32.51\00:28:33.84
Sorry, it took me
a minute to get that.
00:28:33.88\00:28:35.21
Well, 'cause it wasn't the song
you wrote, actually you did.
00:28:35.24\00:28:38.68
That won't be nice.
00:28:38.71\00:28:40.05
But it was beautiful
and it's combination.
00:28:40.08\00:28:42.55
I think one of the things
we were trying to identify was,
00:28:42.58\00:28:45.22
was love because the world
doesn't understand maybe love.
00:28:45.25\00:28:48.49
We don't understand it.
00:28:48.52\00:28:49.86
And then it said,
Calvary, means love to me.
00:28:49.89\00:28:52.39
If you wanna know what
real love, it's Calvary.
00:28:52.43\00:28:54.83
And you want to, you know,
00:28:54.86\00:28:56.23
know what's
happening in the world.
00:28:56.26\00:28:58.07
What Jesus said to
us there in John 14-27,
00:28:58.10\00:29:01.60
He said, "Peace
I leave with you,
00:29:01.64\00:29:04.01
my peace I give unto you.
00:29:04.04\00:29:05.74
Not as the world
giveth give I unto you.
00:29:05.77\00:29:08.18
Let not your heart be troubled,
neither let it be afraid."
00:29:08.21\00:29:12.35
And if I would
just take those words
00:29:12.38\00:29:13.98
and have faith enough to just,
00:29:14.02\00:29:16.28
you know, just take
them in and chew them up.
00:29:16.32\00:29:18.59
I wouldn't fear what's
going on in the world today.
00:29:18.62\00:29:21.39
How can I, when Jesus
said Himself right here,
00:29:21.42\00:29:25.89
it's not like the
world, the peace what the world
00:29:25.93\00:29:27.76
is talking about.
00:29:27.80\00:29:29.13
He said, I'm going to
leave my peace with you.
00:29:29.16\00:29:32.00
Man, did He? Did
He not have peace?
00:29:32.03\00:29:34.54
How could He had peace unless
He relied upon His Father?
00:29:34.57\00:29:37.24
I mean, He was asleep
one time, where was it?
00:29:37.27\00:29:39.37
In the boat.
00:29:39.41\00:29:41.44
And disciples were
screaming and yelling,
00:29:41.48\00:29:43.04
we're all gonna drown,
it's going to turn over,
00:29:43.08\00:29:44.65
He was snoozing.
00:29:44.68\00:29:46.08
I mean that's peace.
00:29:46.11\00:29:47.52
He had that, so I mean,
do we look that direction?
00:29:47.55\00:29:50.95
Do we look at these
words? Do we understand them?
00:29:50.99\00:29:53.36
Do we know them well enough
to claim them when we're going
00:29:53.39\00:29:56.06
through a real
mess in the world said,
00:29:56.09\00:29:57.66
oh there, there's
just no peace out there.
00:29:57.69\00:29:59.49
I'm telling you, Jesus said,
00:29:59.53\00:30:01.33
I am going to
leave you my peace.
00:30:01.36\00:30:02.70
Yeah. What do you do with that?
00:30:02.73\00:30:04.27
Well, to me, it's, I think,
because we were raised or,
00:30:04.30\00:30:08.20
you know, our father
gave us things just simple.
00:30:08.24\00:30:10.44
Yes.
00:30:10.47\00:30:11.81
And so it wasn't like he
didn't leave me any questions,
00:30:11.84\00:30:13.68
any wiggle room, if he
told you to go do something,
00:30:13.71\00:30:17.18
you couldn't make excuses,
because he made it so straight,
00:30:17.21\00:30:20.12
we'll say black and white.
00:30:20.15\00:30:21.75
But to me, the very
simple part of it is,
00:30:21.78\00:30:25.22
is we first have to establish
who God is and who we are.
00:30:25.25\00:30:29.06
So when we look
around this world,
00:30:29.09\00:30:31.49
you're either going
to believe there is a God
00:30:31.53\00:30:33.40
or you're going to
believe there isn't one.
00:30:33.43\00:30:35.70
So now it's for me,
it's much harder to be,
00:30:35.73\00:30:38.87
it would be much
harder to be an atheist
00:30:38.90\00:30:40.74
than it is to
believe that the Creator God,
00:30:40.77\00:30:42.90
when you look at all the
detail of the human body,
00:30:42.94\00:30:46.01
you look at the animals,
the plants around the world,
00:30:46.04\00:30:49.08
there's no way
that all of a sudden,
00:30:49.11\00:30:51.31
this just came into
already evolved from what.
00:30:51.35\00:30:54.65
It's still had to, even
people say, well it evolved.
00:30:54.68\00:30:57.19
Well, from what? Right, exactly.
00:30:57.22\00:30:58.75
That had to start somewhere.
00:30:58.79\00:31:00.12
So simply put, you
have to really find
00:31:00.16\00:31:02.99
out in your own mind,
and decide and all of us do,
00:31:03.02\00:31:05.89
whether we become
Christians or not,
00:31:05.93\00:31:07.96
you know, where do we come from?
00:31:08.00\00:31:11.57
Where am I going? Right.
00:31:11.60\00:31:13.00
What happens to me after I die?
00:31:13.03\00:31:15.07
We have to ask
these simple questions.
00:31:15.10\00:31:17.87
So who am I? You
know, who God is?
00:31:17.91\00:31:21.21
So I realized my
dad used to say, son,
00:31:21.24\00:31:23.75
you're just one
little speck of sand.
00:31:23.78\00:31:25.88
So the world
doesn't revolve around you.
00:31:25.91\00:31:27.82
He kept it real.
Yeah, if you wanted to do.
00:31:27.85\00:31:29.48
He said, but
Dad, whatever is, son,
00:31:29.52\00:31:31.42
the world revolve around you.
00:31:31.45\00:31:33.39
Remember, you've
heard that Kenny, right?
00:31:33.42\00:31:34.79
Yes, they know you're there.
00:31:34.82\00:31:36.73
So while he'll tell
us how minuscule we were.
00:31:36.76\00:31:39.43
Yes.
00:31:39.46\00:31:40.80
On the other hand,
then he would tell us
00:31:40.83\00:31:42.16
that we can do
anything through Christ.
00:31:42.20\00:31:44.17
There's nothing that anybody
else can do, you can't do.
00:31:44.20\00:31:47.80
So he balanced it out.
00:31:47.84\00:31:50.01
But let's find
out number one for me,
00:31:50.04\00:31:52.77
who I am and who God
is, okay? It's very easy.
00:31:52.81\00:31:55.58
I see that of
myself, I can do nothing.
00:31:55.61\00:31:57.85
I have no control of my
future as far as eternity goes.
00:31:57.88\00:32:01.95
It's all in God's hands.
00:32:01.98\00:32:03.32
So, well, what that is?
Well, it's in God's hands.
00:32:03.35\00:32:05.82
So I understand
that, you know what?
00:32:05.85\00:32:08.12
If I want to look
beyond this world,
00:32:08.16\00:32:10.19
I have to look to
Jesus. He's the foundation.
00:32:10.23\00:32:12.86
He's the rock, as
we said. That's right.
00:32:12.89\00:32:14.66
And when I submit and
commit my life to Him,
00:32:14.70\00:32:17.30
He's faithful and just to
forgive me from those sins,
00:32:17.33\00:32:19.83
and cleanse me from
all unrighteousness.
00:32:19.87\00:32:22.37
And now, I can have peace
in the midst of the storm,
00:32:22.40\00:32:25.64
so when things go bad.
Here's the beauty about it.
00:32:25.67\00:32:28.21
You don't have
to be a theologian,
00:32:28.24\00:32:30.55
Yvonne, to be a Christian
00:32:30.58\00:32:32.05
and to have
peace amidst the storm.
00:32:32.08\00:32:33.52
That's right.
00:32:33.55\00:32:34.88
But there are certain
scriptures I've been using
00:32:34.92\00:32:36.25
most of my life.
00:32:36.28\00:32:37.62
I can do all things through
Christ who strengthens me.
00:32:37.65\00:32:39.99
Well said.
00:32:40.02\00:32:41.36
Well, my God shall supply all
00:32:41.39\00:32:44.26
we need according
to His riches in glory.
00:32:44.29\00:32:45.99
What's hard to
understand about that?
00:32:46.03\00:32:47.53
So when we,
00:32:47.56\00:32:48.90
if we believe that God
has the power to create
00:32:48.93\00:32:53.40
the entire
universe and to create us.
00:32:53.44\00:32:56.10
Don't we think that He has
the power to take care of us?
00:32:56.14\00:32:59.11
Don't we, do we have to
worry in the midst of the storm?
00:32:59.14\00:33:02.08
Here's the worst thing
that ever happened to us
00:33:02.11\00:33:04.48
is that we die.
00:33:04.51\00:33:05.85
Well, if so we're in trouble
because Bible says in Psalms,
00:33:05.88\00:33:08.48
it's appointed once a
time for every man to die.
00:33:08.52\00:33:11.35
And then He says,
"Precious in the sight
00:33:11.39\00:33:13.72
of the Lord are the
death of His saints."
00:33:13.76\00:33:15.56
There you go.
00:33:15.59\00:33:16.93
So we don't measure
00:33:16.96\00:33:18.29
what's happening to us
on this earth by how long
00:33:18.33\00:33:20.60
we live.
00:33:20.63\00:33:21.96
You know, people
watching, our age
00:33:22.00\00:33:23.93
and then we have
teenagers think, man,
00:33:23.97\00:33:25.80
it's never gonna happen to me.
00:33:25.83\00:33:27.17
Many teenagers are dying today.
00:33:27.20\00:33:28.74
They'll die today as we
speak through accidents,
00:33:28.77\00:33:31.37
as you said, sometimes suicide,
00:33:31.41\00:33:33.54
all of these things
because they don't have
00:33:33.58\00:33:35.54
any answers and
don't know where to go.
00:33:35.58\00:33:37.88
Right.
00:33:37.91\00:33:39.25
So it's our
responsibility and our privilege
00:33:39.28\00:33:41.02
as Christians to show
people where they can find
00:33:41.05\00:33:44.45
peace in the midst of the storm.
00:33:44.49\00:33:46.45
In fact, and this
is not time to promo,
00:33:46.49\00:33:48.99
but you can have this as free.
00:33:49.02\00:33:50.36
Other words, this little book
00:33:50.39\00:33:52.16
we wrote several
years ago after Katrina,
00:33:52.19\00:33:54.26
Pacific Press
asked me to write it.
00:33:54.30\00:33:56.20
It's just a little
pamphlet called After the Storm,
00:33:56.23\00:33:58.27
what comes next?
00:33:58.30\00:33:59.63
Amen.
00:33:59.67\00:34:01.00
And then just,
what, two years ago,
00:34:01.04\00:34:03.30
Greg and Jill asked us
to write, Yvonne and me.
00:34:03.34\00:34:05.67
So we wrote this
one, After COVID-19,
00:34:05.71\00:34:08.24
what's next?
00:34:08.28\00:34:09.61
These give you Bible scriptures,
00:34:09.64\00:34:10.98
it's very simple and
then COVID is not going away,
00:34:11.01\00:34:13.92
neither is sin going away.
00:34:13.95\00:34:15.62
Neither is doubt going
away, and confusion going away.
00:34:15.65\00:34:18.35
So if you want some
peace amidst the storm,
00:34:18.39\00:34:21.42
you want to give your friends,
your neighbors, whomever.
00:34:21.46\00:34:24.56
Just write and say,
Danny said you could say
00:34:24.59\00:34:26.83
Yvonne said you could have this.
00:34:26.86\00:34:28.60
That way I don't get in trouble.
00:34:28.63\00:34:30.27
You can just
have these for free.
00:34:30.30\00:34:31.63
We'll send them to you After
the Storm or after COVID-19,
00:34:31.67\00:34:34.74
all it is, is what's next.
00:34:34.77\00:34:37.11
So all we have to really
do is establish who God is.
00:34:37.14\00:34:41.28
And that He's the
creator of the universe,
00:34:41.31\00:34:43.68
that the God had
formed a plan of salvation.
00:34:43.71\00:34:46.85
And that's where it's
written in love that Jesus
00:34:46.88\00:34:49.68
agreed to come to this
earth, be born in a manger
00:34:49.72\00:34:52.15
and lowly lived in
a lowly humble life,
00:34:52.19\00:34:55.62
and lived a sinless life.
00:34:55.66\00:34:57.33
Amen.
00:34:57.36\00:34:58.69
So that then He could go back
and now is ever interceding.
00:34:58.73\00:35:00.93
They crucified Him. Praise God.
00:35:00.96\00:35:03.03
Yeah, He wasn't
nailed to the cross, love.
00:35:03.06\00:35:05.67
Billy Blackwood
wrote a song, he says,
00:35:05.70\00:35:07.30
love held Jesus to the cross.
00:35:07.34\00:35:09.44
Wasn't the nails that
held Jesus to the cross.
00:35:09.47\00:35:12.07
So because of His
love, He died for us.
00:35:12.11\00:35:14.64
Now He went back to the Father,
00:35:14.68\00:35:16.01
He's ever
interceding at the right hand
00:35:16.04\00:35:18.28
of the Father
for you and for me.
00:35:18.31\00:35:20.15
So every time we
fail and we will.
00:35:20.18\00:35:23.12
You will fail I don't
care if you're the preacher
00:35:23.15\00:35:24.85
or you're the town
drunk, we're all going to fail,
00:35:24.89\00:35:27.49
but there's only one solution.
00:35:27.52\00:35:28.92
We come back to our
Creator God and say,
00:35:28.96\00:35:31.59
Lord, please forgive me.
00:35:31.63\00:35:32.96
Praise God. Yes.
00:35:32.99\00:35:34.33
So to me, this is most exciting
00:35:34.36\00:35:37.63
time to be alive
in earth's history.
00:35:37.67\00:35:39.10
Yes.
00:35:39.13\00:35:40.47
Because we are seeing
prophecy being fulfilled,
00:35:40.50\00:35:43.27
and Jesus can come and I believe
00:35:43.30\00:35:45.71
He's gonna come very quickly.
00:35:45.74\00:35:47.64
We said it for
years, but everything now
00:35:47.68\00:35:49.84
is fast pace.
00:35:49.88\00:35:51.51
Knowledge will be increased,
men running to and fro,
00:35:51.55\00:35:53.72
look at our phones,
look at our technology,
00:35:53.75\00:35:56.28
but look at the rebellion.
00:35:56.32\00:35:57.95
So the rebellion
against God and His Word
00:35:57.99\00:36:01.22
is at an all-time high.
00:36:01.26\00:36:03.32
And every day we think we can't.
00:36:03.36\00:36:06.16
When she and I talk
about it all the time
00:36:06.19\00:36:07.66
every day we think
it can't get worse.
00:36:07.70\00:36:10.33
We hear something on
the news or so upside down.
00:36:10.37\00:36:12.70
We look to each
other, did you hear that?
00:36:12.73\00:36:14.87
Can you believe this,
you know what's going on?
00:36:14.90\00:36:17.64
I mean, it's
amazing. But what do we do?
00:36:17.67\00:36:20.11
We have to act.
00:36:20.14\00:36:21.48
As Christians, we say
onward Christian soldiers.
00:36:21.51\00:36:24.41
We're on the front
line. We need to be marching.
00:36:24.45\00:36:26.75
We need to be
going in the name of God,
00:36:26.78\00:36:28.88
lifting up Jesus to the world
because people are interested.
00:36:28.92\00:36:32.49
They're looking for answers.
00:36:32.52\00:36:33.86
And they won't know
unless we tell them.
00:36:33.89\00:36:35.79
And I'm so
thankful that this what you
00:36:35.82\00:36:37.76
have this ministry
with all these teenagers
00:36:37.79\00:36:39.76
and young people
in their 20s and 30s,
00:36:39.79\00:36:42.10
and it's growing all the time.
00:36:42.13\00:36:44.63
People are looking for
answers. They are, yes.
00:36:44.67\00:36:47.07
They're hungry.
00:36:47.10\00:36:48.44
I mean across the board, young,
00:36:48.47\00:36:49.80
old, because they're
seeing unprecedented,
00:36:49.84\00:36:52.47
you said, unprecedented things
00:36:52.51\00:36:54.74
happening in the world today.
00:36:54.78\00:36:56.14
And they know there's
something different going on.
00:36:56.18\00:36:59.48
This is not business as usual.
00:36:59.51\00:37:01.48
This is not what
we have been seeing.
00:37:01.52\00:37:03.99
This is something
new. What's happening?
00:37:04.02\00:37:06.99
Yes. You know what's happening.
00:37:07.02\00:37:09.32
I want to share something.
00:37:09.36\00:37:11.46
One of my storms recently
was when Jason had COVID.
00:37:11.49\00:37:15.70
And I was so worried
about him, be concerned,
00:37:15.73\00:37:19.33
and I was
bringing it to the Lord,
00:37:19.37\00:37:20.84
please, Lord,
please be with my child
00:37:20.87\00:37:23.04
and help him
through this and all.
00:37:23.07\00:37:26.01
And the Lord
gives you this peace,
00:37:26.04\00:37:30.78
He gives you.
00:37:30.81\00:37:32.48
When you reach out to Him,
00:37:32.51\00:37:35.25
He gives you a peace
about things that you might not,
00:37:35.28\00:37:39.15
what you would not have
had had you not sought Him.
00:37:39.19\00:37:43.19
Prepare, prepare,
prepare, that's...
00:37:43.22\00:37:45.49
That's right.
00:37:45.53\00:37:46.86
Put the word in your spirit.
00:37:46.90\00:37:49.73
I have an app on
my phone. Come on now.
00:37:49.76\00:37:52.67
It's a Bible memory app.
00:37:52.70\00:37:55.07
And during that time with Jason,
00:37:55.10\00:37:57.94
I went to my app and I was,
00:37:57.97\00:38:00.14
you know,
memorizing scripture and stuff.
00:38:00.18\00:38:03.04
And all of these scriptures
that I had started to memorize
00:38:03.08\00:38:08.38
were on my phone,
00:38:08.42\00:38:09.82
and they were just
ministering to me back to back.
00:38:09.85\00:38:14.32
And that's what,
that's what we have to do.
00:38:14.36\00:38:16.22
I'd like to
share a couple of them.
00:38:16.26\00:38:18.63
One is Psalm 27:13-14. And I...
00:38:18.66\00:38:23.60
These are two of my
new favorite verses.
00:38:23.63\00:38:25.63
Okay. All right.
00:38:25.67\00:38:27.00
And this is taken from
the New King James Version.
00:38:27.04\00:38:29.30
"I would have lost heart,
00:38:29.34\00:38:31.54
unless I had believed
that I would see the goodness
00:38:31.57\00:38:34.68
of the Lord in the
land of the living."
00:38:34.71\00:38:37.08
That's true, yes.
00:38:37.11\00:38:38.45
"Wait on the Lord,
be of good courage,
00:38:38.48\00:38:41.55
and He will
strengthen your heart, wait,
00:38:41.58\00:38:45.09
I say, on the Lord!"
00:38:45.12\00:38:47.42
Isn't that beautiful?
00:38:47.46\00:38:48.79
You know, I
would have lost heart.
00:38:48.82\00:38:50.16
I mean, how
modern is that? Yeah.
00:38:50.19\00:38:53.03
How modern is that?
How contemporary is that?
00:38:53.06\00:38:56.90
That we...
00:38:56.93\00:38:58.27
There's so many things going on,
00:38:58.30\00:38:59.63
we could lose heart.
00:38:59.67\00:39:01.00
That's right.
00:39:01.04\00:39:02.37
Unless that that word there,
00:39:02.40\00:39:04.44
unless, we have
believed that we would see
00:39:04.47\00:39:08.21
the goodness of the Lord
in the land of the living.
00:39:08.24\00:39:11.31
Amen. So He's here right now.
00:39:11.35\00:39:13.45
Some guy says one
time, it's not so much
00:39:13.48\00:39:16.32
what you eat
that makes you strong,
00:39:16.35\00:39:18.85
it's what you
digest makes you strong.
00:39:18.89\00:39:22.09
And I'm thinking, you know we
take that with a grain of salt.
00:39:22.12\00:39:24.79
But think about
that is what we digest.
00:39:24.83\00:39:27.30
That means what we put inside,
00:39:27.33\00:39:30.07
what we absorb
and we become like.
00:39:30.10\00:39:32.07
Yes.
00:39:32.10\00:39:33.44
I'm thinking, man,
I need to digest more
00:39:33.47\00:39:34.94
of the Word of God.
00:39:34.97\00:39:36.37
David said, thy word
have I hid in my heart,
00:39:36.40\00:39:38.74
that I might
not sin against Him.
00:39:38.77\00:39:40.28
So I mean, that's, that's...
00:39:40.31\00:39:42.28
I mean, that's
beautiful testimony
00:39:42.31\00:39:43.65
what scripture can do,
but it, doesn't it take,
00:39:43.68\00:39:46.58
doesn't it take faith.
00:39:46.61\00:39:48.15
Something about
faith or somebody,
00:39:48.18\00:39:49.52
some people can, you
can read, they can read it.
00:39:49.55\00:39:51.59
They sense
nothing. They feel nothing.
00:39:51.62\00:39:55.52
It doesn't lift them, but a
man or woman or child of faith,
00:39:55.56\00:39:59.29
you read that,
you just know it so.
00:39:59.33\00:40:02.93
I mean you talk about did
Christ come and live and died.
00:40:02.96\00:40:04.87
Said, I didn't see,
but I just know He did.
00:40:04.90\00:40:07.77
You just know
based on the Word of God.
00:40:07.80\00:40:09.80
So we need that kind
of connection with God
00:40:09.84\00:40:12.97
right now and digest
that stuff that's good for us.
00:40:13.01\00:40:15.74
So it becomes a
part of our character.
00:40:15.78\00:40:17.28
Amen. Faith is an action word.
00:40:17.31\00:40:19.05
Yes, it is.
00:40:19.08\00:40:20.42
Other words, rather
than we just believe,
00:40:20.45\00:40:22.98
if we just believe Him,
we'll do something about.
00:40:23.02\00:40:24.79
If we believe that Jesus
saved us that He died for us.
00:40:24.82\00:40:28.56
If we believe that
He formed the world and,
00:40:28.59\00:40:31.06
you know, and so in
myself I had the scripture
00:40:31.09\00:40:33.43
and I should have read
it while ago but I can't
00:40:33.46\00:40:35.03
get it off here.
00:40:35.06\00:40:36.40
I love what when
we're talking about who God
00:40:36.43\00:40:38.23
is and who we are.
00:40:38.27\00:40:39.73
But it says, Job
38:4, when God says,
00:40:39.77\00:40:43.27
"Where were you when I laid
the foundation of the earth?
00:40:43.30\00:40:45.64
He said, tell me
if you know so much.
00:40:45.67\00:40:47.71
Right. Right.
00:40:47.74\00:40:49.08
Tell me about so
we have to say, well,
00:40:49.11\00:40:50.71
I don't know anything.
00:40:50.75\00:40:52.08
But, you know, I couldn't
even made that one grain
00:40:52.11\00:40:54.12
of sand, we're talking
about and that's almost.
00:40:54.15\00:40:56.18
I've heard that a
few times already.
00:40:56.22\00:40:57.79
Yeah.
00:40:57.82\00:40:59.15
Then we can find out science
00:40:59.19\00:41:00.52
is allowing us to know about DNA
00:41:00.56\00:41:01.92
and all these things,
there's billions of particles
00:41:01.96\00:41:04.19
and I didn't have, I
have no idea any of that,
00:41:04.23\00:41:07.33
but as we learn how
great God is, how big is God,
00:41:07.36\00:41:11.20
how big and
wide His vast domain.
00:41:11.23\00:41:14.30
You know what I'm
saying? You know that song?
00:41:14.34\00:41:16.54
To try to tell
these lips can only start.
00:41:16.57\00:41:18.77
It's big enough to
rule the mighty universe,
00:41:18.81\00:41:20.91
it's big enough to
rule the mighty universe
00:41:20.94\00:41:23.21
yet small enough to
live within our heart.
00:41:23.24\00:41:25.81
So to understand God that to me
00:41:25.85\00:41:29.35
what helps me is to
understand that with God,
00:41:29.38\00:41:31.89
He is the
creator of the universe,
00:41:31.92\00:41:33.66
He is, Jesus died did
not one should perish but all
00:41:33.69\00:41:37.46
should have everlasting life.
00:41:37.49\00:41:39.16
So based on that, I'm that one.
00:41:39.19\00:41:41.10
He died only for me,
He died only for you.
00:41:41.13\00:41:43.53
Amen.
00:41:43.57\00:41:44.90
If that's what it would take
00:41:44.93\00:41:46.27
and He would have
died for each of us.
00:41:46.30\00:41:48.30
And so there,
00:41:48.34\00:41:49.67
it's easier to be
saved than it is to be lost.
00:41:49.70\00:41:53.98
Right? Yeah.
00:41:54.01\00:41:55.58
Because you hear
preachers telling about,
00:41:55.61\00:41:57.51
are you going to
burn and go to hell,
00:41:57.55\00:41:59.11
and you're going to
burn forever and ever
00:41:59.15\00:42:00.48
and this is
going to happen to you
00:42:00.52\00:42:01.85
and that if you don't
do this, you don't do that.
00:42:01.88\00:42:03.99
All we have to
do is trust in God
00:42:04.02\00:42:06.29
and when we learn
something that's truth,
00:42:06.32\00:42:09.26
hold on to that
and then share it.
00:42:09.29\00:42:11.76
That's what He asked us to do.
00:42:11.79\00:42:13.60
Come to the cross and then go
and tell what I've done to you.
00:42:13.63\00:42:17.13
I sing because I'm happy.
00:42:17.17\00:42:18.73
That's right.
00:42:18.77\00:42:20.10
In the midst of the
storm, we can have peace.
00:42:20.14\00:42:23.34
That's right.
00:42:23.37\00:42:24.71
I didn't know how I would act
when you come, you face death.
00:42:24.74\00:42:28.34
When, Kenny, you had
an open heart surgery,
00:42:28.38\00:42:31.18
I had it and I
didn't know cause I knew
00:42:31.21\00:42:33.42
when I'm lying there
and all of our family
00:42:33.45\00:42:34.98
and people, they were allowing
to come it's three years ago
00:42:35.02\00:42:38.42
and you realize
there's a good percentage
00:42:38.45\00:42:41.29
chance you're not
going to come out of that,
00:42:41.32\00:42:43.69
you know, but I
had to think about it.
00:42:43.73\00:42:45.43
I thought I went
either way, I went either way.
00:42:45.46\00:42:48.93
Let's say, if I make it
through this I get to see Yvonne
00:42:48.96\00:42:52.77
and all of my
family, my loved ones.
00:42:52.80\00:42:54.14
What a great blessing?
00:42:54.17\00:42:55.60
If I don't, the next face
I'll see is Jesus, you know?
00:42:55.64\00:42:59.14
Yes.
00:42:59.17\00:43:00.51
So I found peace in
the midst of the storm
00:43:00.54\00:43:02.74
because I understand who I am
00:43:02.78\00:43:04.55
and I understand who God is.
00:43:04.58\00:43:06.61
So even though I fail
Him from time to time,
00:43:06.65\00:43:09.08
He understands that
and long as I'm sorry
00:43:09.12\00:43:11.55
and I'm willing to come back,
00:43:11.59\00:43:12.92
and long as you're
willing to come back to the foot
00:43:12.95\00:43:15.06
of the cross,
He's gonna forgive you
00:43:15.09\00:43:16.73
and you can start all over.
00:43:16.76\00:43:18.29
Don't let anybody put you down.
00:43:18.33\00:43:19.66
Don't let anybody tell you,
00:43:19.69\00:43:21.03
you're not worthy of anything,
you're worth everything.
00:43:21.06\00:43:23.40
If you were worth it
for the Creator to come down
00:43:23.43\00:43:26.23
and Jesus to shed His
blood on the cross of Calvary,
00:43:26.27\00:43:28.94
you're very valuable.
00:43:28.97\00:43:30.31
Don't let the world lead you
astray, get you here and there.
00:43:30.34\00:43:33.44
Within the
church, let's quit arguing
00:43:33.48\00:43:35.81
about things
that that we stand up
00:43:35.84\00:43:38.05
about today that I've
preached about you have.
00:43:38.08\00:43:40.75
We talk about 30 years ago
no one would have said a word.
00:43:40.78\00:43:44.59
Today we can use that
same sermon, in fact I took one
00:43:44.62\00:43:47.49
of CD Brooks' sermon from 30,
40 years ago and preached it,
00:43:47.52\00:43:51.29
everybody would have...
00:43:51.33\00:43:52.66
You know, they thought it
was great but if I do it today.
00:43:52.69\00:43:54.66
Oh, that's wrong You
can't say those things.
00:43:54.70\00:43:57.30
But what changed? Right.
00:43:57.33\00:44:00.40
What we did. What we did.
00:44:00.44\00:44:01.90
That's right.
00:44:01.94\00:44:03.41
Confidence, I'm hearing
confidence in the Word of God.
00:44:03.44\00:44:07.18
When you think about confidence
was He said, you know,
00:44:07.21\00:44:09.84
next thing I'll see if I should
pass through is face of Jesus.
00:44:09.88\00:44:13.31
That's right.
00:44:13.35\00:44:14.68
Well, a lot of people say that,
00:44:14.72\00:44:16.12
you know, in the
world, they'll say, oh, yeah,
00:44:16.15\00:44:17.69
a guy just told me
this week right now.
00:44:17.72\00:44:19.79
I know exactly
where I'm gonna go,
00:44:19.82\00:44:21.82
I'm gonna...
00:44:21.86\00:44:23.19
Is it confidence in self
00:44:23.22\00:44:24.59
or is it
confidence in the Word of God
00:44:24.63\00:44:26.53
or the God that we serve?
00:44:26.56\00:44:28.53
That says where I am,
that's where I want you.
00:44:28.56\00:44:31.27
How important is
having confidence in the Word
00:44:31.30\00:44:33.70
when you read it to believe?
00:44:33.74\00:44:35.50
Well, confidence is faith.
00:44:35.54\00:44:36.87
It's faith, it's
believing in those things,
00:44:36.91\00:44:39.07
which we haven't yet seen.
00:44:39.11\00:44:40.58
But it's believing
in the Word of God,
00:44:40.61\00:44:42.48
and the Holy Spirit
builds that confidence.
00:44:42.51\00:44:45.51
There is, you know, there is
no other book that has ever been
00:44:45.55\00:44:48.02
written, that has changed
lives like the Bible has.
00:44:48.05\00:44:51.59
You know, and as I was
listening to you guys talk,
00:44:51.62\00:44:53.56
I've done a lot of listening.
00:44:53.59\00:44:54.92
But it's been really good.
00:44:54.96\00:44:56.29
You know, I stopped,
and I began to think,
00:44:56.32\00:44:58.23
you know, when you
talk about the little time
00:44:58.26\00:45:01.13
of trouble, you talk
about the great time of trouble.
00:45:01.16\00:45:03.03
We see all these storms.
00:45:03.06\00:45:04.60
And you
mentioned like Matthew 24,
00:45:04.63\00:45:06.53
we've always had storms,
00:45:06.57\00:45:07.90
and yet we've had century storms
00:45:07.94\00:45:10.14
happen back to back to back.
00:45:10.17\00:45:12.17
You know, it's
increasing in its ferocity,
00:45:12.21\00:45:14.68
it's increasing
in its frequency.
00:45:14.71\00:45:17.51
I feel like with all the
things we've been talking about,
00:45:17.55\00:45:19.95
that the voice of the dragon
00:45:19.98\00:45:22.18
is getting louder
and louder and stronger.
00:45:22.22\00:45:24.02
It's like a great crescendo
00:45:24.05\00:45:25.59
as I see all these
things coming together,
00:45:25.62\00:45:27.82
because he's
working to deceive in any
00:45:27.86\00:45:29.72
way that he possibly can.
00:45:29.76\00:45:31.73
But when we go out in the storm,
00:45:31.76\00:45:33.46
if we were to
leave here right now,
00:45:33.50\00:45:34.83
and it's stormy outside,
00:45:34.86\00:45:36.20
what are we going to look for?
00:45:36.23\00:45:39.63
Umbrella?
00:45:39.67\00:45:41.07
An umbrella, a
shelter, a shelter,
00:45:41.10\00:45:43.54
a shelter in the storm.
00:45:43.57\00:45:45.34
That's right.
00:45:45.37\00:45:46.71
You see, as I was
listening to all this,
00:45:46.74\00:45:48.78
and thinking about how I
always wish that it wouldn't
00:45:48.81\00:45:51.41
happen this way.
00:45:51.45\00:45:53.01
God is so much more intelligent.
00:45:53.05\00:45:55.65
Because as these
storms are increasing,
00:45:55.68\00:45:57.92
what are people doing?
00:45:57.95\00:45:59.32
They're looking for a shelter?
Is there any place I can go?
00:45:59.35\00:46:02.76
Is there anything I
can do? Is there any hope?
00:46:02.79\00:46:04.69
Is there any
help? What can I do?
00:46:04.73\00:46:06.90
What does the Bible
really say about death?
00:46:06.93\00:46:08.73
Because you know, we could die.
00:46:08.76\00:46:10.77
We don't know, tomorrow,
I had a cousin 49, just 49,
00:46:10.80\00:46:15.20
he died of COVID.
00:46:15.24\00:46:17.01
You know, a girl that I grew up,
00:46:17.04\00:46:18.37
I don't remember how
old she is, but I know,
00:46:18.41\00:46:20.04
she's younger than I am.
00:46:20.08\00:46:21.41
Her and her husband
just a couple weeks ago died
00:46:21.44\00:46:23.88
two days apart from each other
in the hospital on the vent
00:46:23.91\00:46:28.32
from COVID.
00:46:28.35\00:46:30.45
You know, so people are
looking at these things.
00:46:30.49\00:46:32.45
And it just
dawned on me, you know,
00:46:32.49\00:46:34.39
we're told that
in the last days,
00:46:34.42\00:46:36.19
people are going to come into
this truth by the thousands,
00:46:36.22\00:46:39.03
as the latter
rain is poured out.
00:46:39.06\00:46:41.10
Why?
00:46:41.13\00:46:42.56
Because they're looking
for a shelter in the storm.
00:46:42.60\00:46:45.60
They're looking for truth.
00:46:45.63\00:46:47.44
And I just, as far as
that, that one question that
00:46:47.47\00:46:50.61
we were talking about, you know,
00:46:50.64\00:46:52.44
how shall Christ
people stand in the days
00:46:52.47\00:46:55.08
of almost
overwhelming fear, anxiety?
00:46:55.11\00:46:58.15
I just want to just kind
of glimpse at a few passages
00:46:58.18\00:47:01.28
and let the Word of God speak.
00:47:01.32\00:47:03.45
Psalms 121:5-7,"
00:47:03.49\00:47:05.89
The Lord is thy keeper.
00:47:05.92\00:47:08.32
He's the one that's going
to keep us safe in that storm.
00:47:08.36\00:47:11.23
The Lord shall
preserve thee from all evil.
00:47:11.26\00:47:13.86
He shall preserve thy soul."
00:47:13.90\00:47:16.20
That's the faith that you had.
00:47:16.23\00:47:18.13
That's the confidence
you were asking me about.
00:47:18.17\00:47:20.94
John 16:33, "In me,
you might have peace."
00:47:20.97\00:47:25.87
You know, we got to
go to Him for that peace.
00:47:25.91\00:47:28.54
Be of good cheer, I
have overcome the world.
00:47:28.58\00:47:32.48
We're on the way.
00:47:32.51\00:47:33.85
I've often heard Danny say,
I've read the end of the book,
00:47:33.88\00:47:35.55
we're on the winning
side, hold on, hold on, hold on.
00:47:35.58\00:47:39.75
You know, Isaiah 41:10, I
referred to this one earlier.
00:47:39.79\00:47:43.12
"I will strengthen
thee, yea, I will help thee."
00:47:43.16\00:47:45.56
I cannot tell
you how many times.
00:47:45.59\00:47:47.43
That right there
is such a summation
00:47:47.46\00:47:51.17
of all of that
there is in Christ
00:47:51.20\00:47:53.67
and what He is to us.
00:47:53.70\00:47:55.27
Yea, I will uphold
thee with the right hand
00:47:55.30\00:47:58.74
of my righteousness,
not our righteousness,
00:47:58.77\00:48:01.74
His righteousness.
00:48:01.78\00:48:03.55
Of course, we
want to reflect that.
00:48:03.58\00:48:05.11
Psalm 34:7, how many
times have I claimed this?
00:48:05.15\00:48:08.88
"The angel of the
Lord shall encamp round
00:48:08.92\00:48:10.82
about those who fear
Him and deliver them."
00:48:10.85\00:48:14.39
You know, that is such a strong
promise in the Word of God
00:48:14.42\00:48:17.79
and I've claimed
that many a times.
00:48:17.83\00:48:19.49
Psalms 91:3-10. He,
Christ, shall deliver thee.
00:48:19.53\00:48:23.90
His truth shall be thy
shield and buckler, its truth,
00:48:23.93\00:48:27.44
the truth shall set us free.
00:48:27.47\00:48:29.20
Thou shalt not be
afraid, nor for the pestilence,
00:48:29.24\00:48:32.71
nor for the destruction,
because thou has made
00:48:32.74\00:48:35.78
the Lord which is my refuge,
00:48:35.81\00:48:37.88
even the most
high my habitation."
00:48:37.91\00:48:40.98
And if those of you who are
looking and saying, that's not.
00:48:41.02\00:48:43.18
What I'm saying, I'm just
skipping through those verses.
00:48:43.22\00:48:46.05
Habakkuk 3:17-18,
00:48:46.09\00:48:48.96
you can read those
when you have time.
00:48:48.99\00:48:50.76
Yet I will
rejoice, we can rejoice.
00:48:50.79\00:48:55.20
You know, martyrs, they say,
00:48:55.23\00:48:58.20
as they were
burning at the stake.
00:48:58.23\00:49:00.44
Stephen said, "Lord
forgive them, for they know
00:49:00.47\00:49:02.74
what not what
they did to Christ."
00:49:02.77\00:49:04.87
Said, "Father, forgive
them, for they know not
00:49:04.91\00:49:06.98
what they do."
00:49:07.01\00:49:08.38
I've often felt, we can rejoice,
00:49:08.41\00:49:11.28
I will have joy in
the God of my salvation.
00:49:11.31\00:49:13.95
Because when it comes
to the point that we can't
00:49:13.98\00:49:17.09
take it anymore,
He takes our pain.
00:49:17.12\00:49:21.59
He carries us through,
00:49:21.62\00:49:24.56
He is our refuge.
00:49:24.59\00:49:26.80
He is our salvation.
00:49:26.83\00:49:28.26
That's right. That's right.
00:49:28.30\00:49:29.63
That's good. Yes.
00:49:29.66\00:49:31.00
Very good. Yes.
00:49:31.03\00:49:32.37
So if we want peace in
the midst of the storm,
00:49:32.40\00:49:35.34
I think I'm finding out here.
00:49:35.37\00:49:37.54
We have to prepare,
look to the Word of God.
00:49:37.57\00:49:40.74
And then don't
be, let the wind blow
00:49:40.78\00:49:42.84
you from the left to the
right or from one side to other.
00:49:42.88\00:49:46.31
So when you're
in God's protection,
00:49:46.35\00:49:48.25
when you're
sheltered in the arms of God,
00:49:48.28\00:49:50.05
as we say, then you're
not going to be blown by every
00:49:50.09\00:49:53.25
wind of doctrine,
you're not going to be,
00:49:53.29\00:49:55.09
your confidence won't be shaken,
00:49:55.12\00:49:57.16
because once
you're in the arms of God,
00:49:57.19\00:49:59.19
you know, hey, my
lives in God's hands,
00:49:59.23\00:50:01.86
whether I live or whether I die,
00:50:01.90\00:50:04.00
doesn't make any difference.
00:50:04.03\00:50:05.57
We're all going
to die on this earth,
00:50:05.60\00:50:07.00
either from old age or accidents
00:50:07.04\00:50:08.80
or whatever
health, we're going to die.
00:50:08.84\00:50:11.04
But the main thing is eternity
that we spend with Jesus.
00:50:11.07\00:50:15.61
Oh, yeah.
00:50:15.64\00:50:16.98
So to have the
confidence, to have the faith,
00:50:17.01\00:50:19.85
and then to act on that.
00:50:19.88\00:50:21.22
But our responsibility
is we can't just be selfish
00:50:21.25\00:50:24.15
and say, okay, I'm
thankful I learned this.
00:50:24.19\00:50:27.46
Now we got to go tell.
00:50:27.49\00:50:28.96
Jesus says, "Go and tell
00:50:28.99\00:50:30.33
what I have done
for you in this."
00:50:30.36\00:50:32.13
Ellen White says that,
that our personal testimony
00:50:32.16\00:50:36.06
is our greatest
asset that we have.
00:50:36.10\00:50:39.17
So for me,
00:50:39.20\00:50:40.54
and I know Yvonne will
tell you this from her giving
00:50:40.57\00:50:42.80
those Bible studies, are
you learning from this, too?
00:50:42.84\00:50:45.77
Oh, I am and it's wonderful.
The kids are appreciative.
00:50:45.81\00:50:50.21
But they don't realize
that it's a privilege for me,
00:50:50.25\00:50:53.62
because I'm learning.
00:50:53.65\00:50:55.12
Every time we have
a study on a topic,
00:50:55.15\00:50:57.89
I'm learning more myself.
00:50:57.92\00:50:59.49
So it's, I
mean, it's a blessing.
00:50:59.52\00:51:01.29
It's a blessing
for me, we all need it.
00:51:01.32\00:51:03.43
We all need it.
00:51:03.46\00:51:04.79
We all need to be rooted
and grounded in the world.
00:51:04.83\00:51:08.16
What you're talking
about there when you read,
00:51:08.20\00:51:10.40
the Bible says work out
your own salvation with fear
00:51:10.43\00:51:13.64
and trembling.
00:51:13.67\00:51:15.00
Ellen White
comes along and says,
00:51:15.04\00:51:16.37
working out our own salvation
00:51:16.40\00:51:18.04
is when we help
others find Christ.
00:51:18.07\00:51:20.34
We're working out
our own salvation,
00:51:20.38\00:51:22.64
then we point others to Him.
00:51:22.68\00:51:24.41
So I need to be
pointing others to Him, you see.
00:51:24.45\00:51:27.22
Yes. Right.
00:51:27.25\00:51:28.58
And then, it's working
out your own salvation.
00:51:28.62\00:51:29.95
It draws you closer to Him.
00:51:29.98\00:51:31.32
Yeah. See the importance
of life there changed.
00:51:31.35\00:51:33.15
We're going the wrong direction.
00:51:33.19\00:51:34.52
Now they're coming back,
even in the midst of a storm.
00:51:34.56\00:51:38.26
I heard a person said one
time, you can read a verse,
00:51:38.29\00:51:40.86
you know, one time in the Bible
00:51:40.90\00:51:42.46
and you're familiar with it,
00:51:42.50\00:51:43.93
but if you read it several
times, it becomes a friend.
00:51:43.97\00:51:46.30
Okay. It's different.
00:51:46.33\00:51:47.77
So it's more than just,
00:51:47.80\00:51:49.30
well, I read the
Bible through once.
00:51:49.34\00:51:51.67
Right.
00:51:51.71\00:51:54.14
And it's okay, people say that,
00:51:54.18\00:51:55.51
it's not trying to
criticize that, you know,
00:51:55.54\00:51:56.88
I've read through once,
and it was so you read through
00:51:56.91\00:51:59.55
three or four different times,
00:51:59.58\00:52:00.92
but have you
studied the Word of God?
00:52:00.95\00:52:02.55
Have you read it over
and over looking for truth,
00:52:02.58\00:52:05.25
looking for
something that will help you
00:52:05.29\00:52:06.76
and me find our way to heaven?
00:52:06.79\00:52:08.69
And so I'm trying
to understudy the Word,
00:52:08.72\00:52:11.76
rather than to read the Word.
00:52:11.79\00:52:13.13
Hope that's fair. Yes.
00:52:13.16\00:52:14.53
I want to really study the Word.
00:52:14.56\00:52:16.63
Amen.
00:52:16.67\00:52:18.00
I think it's
important, you know,
00:52:18.03\00:52:19.37
when you're going
through something to look
00:52:19.40\00:52:21.64
back on the other
trials that you've had
00:52:21.67\00:52:24.71
and see how God resolve that.
00:52:24.74\00:52:27.91
Because you come
to realize that, okay,
00:52:27.94\00:52:33.45
this is happening
now, but I remember
00:52:33.48\00:52:36.25
when I was losing
my home or I remember
00:52:36.28\00:52:38.62
when I lost my
job, or I remember
00:52:38.65\00:52:40.76
when my marriage
that went to the birds,
00:52:40.79\00:52:44.09
or I remember whatever it
was that you went through,
00:52:44.13\00:52:48.26
think about how God
watched you through that time.
00:52:48.30\00:52:51.47
You think He's
gonna just drop you now?
00:52:51.50\00:52:53.77
No, He's gonna bring you
through because He promises
00:52:53.80\00:52:57.77
when you...
00:52:57.81\00:52:59.14
I love Isaiah 43:1-3,
00:52:59.17\00:53:02.31
"Fear not for I've redeemed you,
00:53:02.34\00:53:04.08
I have called you
by name, you're mine.
00:53:04.11\00:53:06.85
And you pass the
waters, I'll be with you
00:53:06.88\00:53:09.38
through the rivers
they will not overflow you.
00:53:09.42\00:53:12.02
When you walk through the
fire, you will not be burned,
00:53:12.05\00:53:14.52
neither will the
flame kindle upon you,
00:53:14.56\00:53:16.73
for I am the Lord your
God, the Holy One of Israel,
00:53:16.76\00:53:20.23
your Savior.
00:53:20.26\00:53:21.60
So in those verses you
have degrees of suffering.
00:53:21.63\00:53:26.33
You've got the waters,
00:53:26.37\00:53:28.44
which are you
know your basic trials.
00:53:28.47\00:53:30.74
You've got the
rivers which are deeper
00:53:30.77\00:53:33.91
and then you've got the fire.
00:53:33.94\00:53:35.54
Mercy.
00:53:35.58\00:53:36.91
When you go through
that fire, He's saying,
00:53:36.95\00:53:39.15
you will not be
burned, neither will the flame
00:53:39.18\00:53:41.68
kindle upon you.
00:53:41.72\00:53:43.05
I am the Lord
your God. Yes. Yeah.
00:53:43.08\00:53:46.35
He's our God.
He says, we're His.
00:53:46.39\00:53:49.66
He is our. Yes.
00:53:49.69\00:53:51.69
We don't have to fear.
00:53:51.73\00:53:53.90
I just, you know.
00:53:53.93\00:53:55.70
It's exciting
because fire is purification.
00:53:55.73\00:53:59.13
Yes.
00:53:59.17\00:54:00.50
When you go through
all the other things you
00:54:00.54\00:54:01.87
may be knee deep,
you may be up to here but
00:54:01.90\00:54:03.24
when you go through that fire
00:54:03.27\00:54:04.61
all that stuff
that doesn't need to be
00:54:04.64\00:54:06.71
is burnt out as it were.
00:54:06.74\00:54:08.24
That's right.
00:54:08.28\00:54:09.61
If we don't take it
out, it'll burn with us.
00:54:09.64\00:54:10.98
Can I say that?
00:54:11.01\00:54:12.35
You know, we don't want that.
00:54:12.38\00:54:13.72
We want Him to purify.
00:54:13.75\00:54:15.08
Turn up, that's kind
of a difficult thing.
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Maybe today you say, God
turn up the heat in my life.
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Get rid of those
impurities 'cause He know.
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He know things are
gonna start happening
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and going on unless
you're really connected to Him,
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you may fall apart.
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But trust in Him, He
said, I'll be with you
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through all those things.
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Yes.
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So prepare, prepare,
prepare, because so many people
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as soon as they
find out they got COVID,
00:54:36.97\00:54:39.34
they're giving
their life to the Lord.
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They're gonna do.
00:54:41.08\00:54:42.61
Somebody recently he
had a big health problem
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and all he went,
pastor went to see him.
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He said as soon
as I get out here
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I'm starting home
ministry, I'm gonna go right,
00:54:49.92\00:54:52.29
I'm gonna do all these
things then right afterwards
00:54:52.32\00:54:54.52
you never see him,
00:54:54.56\00:54:55.89
he never does it
because it's like God
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is a Santa Claus
so for time of need,
00:54:57.96\00:55:00.43
give me this, give
me that, but it's not,
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it's a two way street.
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What he did for us
than we show God we love Him
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as we said by
literally submitting,
00:55:06.77\00:55:09.37
committing our life to
Him and then given our own
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personal testimony
being there for others,
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so lest prepare, prepare,
prepare and how do we do that?
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Through prayer,
through Bible study
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and through
constant communication.
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We commit, if we
commit to Him like you
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just said this individual.
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Let's make sure, you know,
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the Bible is very clear on that.
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It'd be better that we never
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made that commitment
to Christ than to make it
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and then break it.
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Make sure you're
serious when you do it.
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You have nothing to lose, right?
00:55:37.07\00:55:39.73
With Christ on your
side, you have all to win.
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You got a thought or
two, just a minute or so left?
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Well, I was thinking
as we're talking you know,
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as we're preparing,
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we also need to be
falling in love with Christ,
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falling in love
with the Word of God.
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1 John 4:18 says,
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"Perfect love
casteth out all fear."
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That's what we want. We
want Him so close to us.
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And be so in love with Him.
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And no matter
what's happening around us,
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we have His peace.
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Oh, wow. Praise the Lord.
00:56:08.93\00:56:11.03
Yeah, one thing that I read.
00:56:11.07\00:56:12.90
I've got it
jotted down, it said,
00:56:12.93\00:56:14.27
it's not so much what
happens to us that counts.
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But what we do
with what happens.
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That's good. That's good.
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You know, really
again it's these things
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are going to happen.
00:56:23.88\00:56:25.21
The enemy is going to
throw things at each one of you.
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Sometime you're
in a glass house.
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Yeah.
00:56:31.12\00:56:32.45
You know, people it's
easy for them to write letters
00:56:32.49\00:56:33.86
and criticize
everything and you have to ask
00:56:33.89\00:56:36.32
you know what, ask yourself,
00:56:36.36\00:56:37.96
what are you doing for
God that maybe sinning.
00:56:37.99\00:56:40.63
You know we have better
things to do than to worry about
00:56:40.66\00:56:43.67
the color of the man's tie
00:56:43.70\00:56:45.03
or if he has a tie
on or if he doesn't.
00:56:45.07\00:56:46.63
What he looks like, his hair
is combed just right or not.
00:56:46.67\00:56:50.14
We're at the end of the world
00:56:50.17\00:56:52.67
and you and you're
saying prepare, prepare,
00:56:52.71\00:56:54.21
prepare, that just strikes
00:56:54.24\00:56:55.58
a chord in me that we need
to be preparing for the coming
00:56:55.61\00:56:58.38
of the Lord.
00:56:58.41\00:56:59.75
I know that
each one of you agree
00:56:59.78\00:57:01.12
with that He is coming.
00:57:01.15\00:57:02.48
We need to be
ready, make preparations,
00:57:02.52\00:57:04.02
peace amidst the storm.
00:57:04.05\00:57:06.45
And we're
certainly glad that the folks
00:57:06.49\00:57:08.12
who joined us today.
00:57:08.16\00:57:09.49
We pray this been a
blessing by the grace of God,
00:57:09.52\00:57:11.13
something's been
said, something's been done.
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Right?
00:57:13.19\00:57:14.53
That would just
bring some encouragement.
00:57:14.56\00:57:15.90
I've been blessed, so
nobody else, I was blessed.
00:57:15.93\00:57:18.47
Amen. Yeah, we've
been blessed because what?
00:57:18.50\00:57:20.30
We're going over
the promises of God,
00:57:20.34\00:57:22.60
the sure Word that we can
00:57:22.64\00:57:24.37
count on that we are
going to be counted on the same
00:57:24.41\00:57:26.21
promises that you do.
00:57:26.24\00:57:27.58
And again, we're so
glad that you join us.
00:57:27.61\00:57:29.51
And let's don't
forget, get in the Word of God,
00:57:29.54\00:57:31.48
stay in the Word of God,
00:57:31.51\00:57:32.85
and He's going to
come in soon, be ready.
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