I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello and welcome to
3ABN Today Family Worship
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and Happy Sabbath to you.
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I'm Jason
Bradley, and I'm so glad
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that you've decided to
worship with us this evening.
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We will be covering
the topic loves direction.
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Now you may be asking yourself,
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I didn't know that
love had a direction.
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What direction does love go in?
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And we're going to
jump into all of that
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in just a little bit.
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Here with me this
evening I have pop,
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aka Danny Shelton.
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It's great to have you here.
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Thank you. It's good to be here.
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And I have mom,
aka Yvonne Shelton.
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Hey. Hey.
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And then we have
Pastor Rafferty Aka...
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Aka Pastor Rafferty.
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Wow.
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It's great to have you.
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Rise's husband aka.
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Oh, that's right.
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That's right.
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Oh, you missed that one.
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There we go.
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Good to be here, Jason.
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I'm looking forward to
jumping into this topic.
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But before we dive
into the Word of God,
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we need to have prayer and
so, Pop, will you pray for us?
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Well, Lord, we thank
You for Your blessings
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and Your love and for
this beginning of the Sabbath,
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and that You've
given us a day of rest,
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a time to come
together with You,
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and You chosen this for us.
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And so we pray right now
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for the anointing
of the Holy Spirit
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upon everything that said
and done, upon every viewer,
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those of us in
front of the cameras,
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behind the
cameras that literally
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people watching this
program today will be watching
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because Your Holy
Spirit has drawn them here
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and that You have
something for each of us.
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I look forward to
getting that myself today.
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So thank You for Your love,
and Your plan of salvation.
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In Jesus' name, we pray.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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For our opening scripture,
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we'll start with
Ephesians 3:17-19.
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And it says,
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"That Christ may dwell
in your hearts through faith
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that you being
rooted and grounded in love,
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may be able to
comprehend with all the saints
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what is the width and
length and depth and height
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to know the love of Christ,
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which passes
knowledge that you may be filled
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with all the fullness of God."
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What stands out
in that verse to you?
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There's so much stuff in there.
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There is.
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It's beautiful,
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It is.
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Several years
ago, I read this book
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that it was talking
about how if a man loves you,
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he will do the three P's.
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He will provide for
you, he will protect you,
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and he will profess you.
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And... I like that, it's cool.
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It's really true.
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And God has done
all of them for us,
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and continues to
do all of that for us.
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And so, this scripture tells
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how the width and the length
and the depth and the height,
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that's so poetic to me.
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The way Paul
writes that is so poetic,
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because it shows how
we can't even imagine
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how much God loves us.
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But the fact that
He provides for us,
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the fact that He protects us,
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and the fact
that He professes us,
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shows how much He loves us.
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Someone else wrote this down
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about God's
love is talking about
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the height and breadth
and the length and width.
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The love of God is greater far.
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And tongue or pen can ever tell,
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it goes beyond the highest star
and reaches to the lowest hell.
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I mean think about that.
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The guilty pair
bowed down with care.
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God gave His Son to
win the erring child
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who reconciled and
pardon from their sin.
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I love this, the second
verse supposedly there's...
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We don't know who the
literally the author of this is,
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but the story goes
that someone found this
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during the Dark
Ages in insane asylum.
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Wow.
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Yeah, he was
insanely in love with Jesus.
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Written on the
walls, listen to this,
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and you can imagine the timing.
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Could we with
ink the ocean fill,
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and all the skies
of parchment made,
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were every stalk
on earth a quill,
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and every man a scribe by trade,
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to write the love of God
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above would drain the ocean dry,
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nor could the
scroll contain the whole,
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though
stretched from sky to sky.
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I mean is that
absolutely amazing?
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The chorus.
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All right.
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The love of God,
how rich and pure,
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how measureless and strong,
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it shall forever more endure
the saints' and angels' song.
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I mean to me, one of the most
incredible songs ever written
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and it goes along with
this the scripture here
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it kind of
everyone to each their own.
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But as you said insanely,
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you know how do you word that...
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Insanely in love with Jesus.
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In love with Jesus.
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So have you heard that story,
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the background of
where that was written?
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Is obviously written
in times when you're using
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you know, quills and all of this
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but so absolutely amazing.
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I heard Allison Spear talk
about it one time on a program
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and she said
that this supposedly,
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obviously
Christian put in prison,
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put in a mental home actually.
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And this was found written,
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you know, years and
years many, many years later,
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with ink the ocean fill.
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They thought John the
Revelator was mental too.
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That's why they
left him off Patmos.
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They let them go because
they thought he was crazy.
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Yeah.
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After he wrote the
Book of Revelation.
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You know, there's something
that the Book of Revelation
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has in common with
the Book of Ephesians.
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You know, I was going to
go to the Book of Revelation.
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I bet you were.
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So when you look at
Ephesians, it has six chapters.
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And the first three
chapters are saturated
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with the love of God
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is predestination for all of us.
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And His grace that saves
us, that's Chapter 1, Chapter 2,
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and then Chapter 3 right here.
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It's all love.
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There are no
commandments in there.
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There are no
duties outlined for us.
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There's nothing
that is instructing us
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to do anything in
the first three chapters,
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all of it, the
first three chapters
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are all focused
on God's love for us.
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That's how it starts.
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And then in Chapter 3,
the very last word is amen.
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Paul doesn't do that in
any of his other epistles.
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He's in the
middle of his epistle,
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he's closing it with amen, amen.
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And then in Chapters 4, 5 and 6,
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it's all
practical and instructive.
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How to relate to people
in the church, in the world,
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in your family,
in relationships,
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in the workplace.
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It's all practical,
it's all instructive.
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So the first half is
all about God's love.
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The second half is all about
what God's love looks like,
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when it takes hold
of the human heart.
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The Book of Revelation
is exactly the same way.
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You know, the
first 11 chapters is 22.
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In the first 11 chapters,
you don't find any verse
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that describes the people
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who keep the
commandments of God, none.
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It's all about all the way
through the theme of the first
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11 chapters is about how
Jesus Christ the Lamb slain
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from the
foundation of the world,
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the Lamb in the
midst of the throne,
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has been able to
take that scroll,
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that no man in heaven,
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no man in earth, and no man
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under the earth
could take and redeem us
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by his blood of every
nation, kindred, tongue, people.
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So there's a great
multitude around the throne,
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shouting salvation to
our God, it's all about that.
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But then you get to Chapter 12.
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And after you get
halfway across the book,
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after you got all this emphasis
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on God's love delivering us
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from the dragon and the plagues
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and all the different
judgments that you see there,
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as you get into the
second half of the book,
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all of a sudden you see people
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who keep the
commandments of God.
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And have the testimony of
Jesus and the faith of Jesus.
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It's the same
layout as Ephesians,
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it starts and the
whole thing is evangelistic
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because the whole purpose
of that is to instruct us
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in the basic
principles of saturate people
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with God's love, saturate
people with God's goodness
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and lead them to repent,
it'll turn their lives around.
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And it also goes
along with Ephesians.
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We didn't quite
get to verse 19 but 20.
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Now unto Him that is able
to do exceedingly abundantly
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above all that we could ask
or think according to the power
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that worketh in us,
and what power is that?
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We know what that is.
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But unto Him be glory in
the church by Christ Jesus
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says throughout all the ages,
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world without end.
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I mean, so unto Him
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that is able to do
exceedingly abundantly more
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than we could ever ask or think.
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So here we're getting
along and all a sudden
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somebody insults me,
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James, I get all upset,
oh boy, this is terrible.
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And why do people
treat me like this?
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You know, and
I'm just so depressed
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about every little
thing that happens.
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Just what in the
world is going on,
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you know, and then
we have all of this,
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we win,
Revelation ends up saying,
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we win Ephesians saying we win,
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all we have to do
is give it to Christ,
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and accept Him, commit
our lives literally to Him,
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ask Him to
forgive us from our sins,
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He will cleanse us
from all unrighteousness.
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And so now, I
mean, think about it,
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we are serving a God
who can do above anything.
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So we're, boy, I wish I
had, oh, boy, I wish it.
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No, He can do above
what we could ever imagine.
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Yeah.
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In fact, eye have
not seen nor ear heard,
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neither has it
entered into the heart of man,
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the things that God
has prepared for them
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that love Him.
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So we need to be encouraged,
we should be excited.
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I mean, we should
be the happiest people
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on the face of
the earth honestly.
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Absolutely.
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You know, one of the things
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that stands out
in this verse to me,
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is rooted and grounded in love.
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Okay.
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When you think about
the roots of a plant,
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it's anchored into the soil.
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And so from the
soil come the nutrients,
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and that's what
gives, sustains the plants,
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it gives them
life, helps them grow.
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But that grounded in love.
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And so when you
think about rooted,
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where should we be rooted?
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We should be
looking to the Word of God
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to get our spiritual
nutrients to help us grow.
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And, you know,
out of doing that,
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we learn about Christ's love,
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we learn about
God's love for us.
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And we should be sharing
that with other human beings.
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Well, I like that
kind of metaphor of,
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you know, love in the
plant and getting its nutrition
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from love and then sharing it.
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Yeah.
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I think that is
really beautiful.
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And this verse
really is powerful
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because it shows
again, it's poetic,
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the width and length
and depth and height.
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You know, Paul was, he was,
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you know, we'd say, he's
putting it together here.
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And I just think
that it's a beautiful,
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beautiful verse.
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When we think of, a lot of times
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we say to ourselves,
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how could God love
me when I've done this?
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Or how could God love me
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when I've let Him
down so many times.
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But what the Word teaches us
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is that God cannot deny Himself,
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He is who He is.
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God is love.
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He's not just
loving, God is love.
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And so when we mess
up, when we make mistakes,
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when we let Him
down, He still love,
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He's never going to be
anything other than that.
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And that's why
He did everything,
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and does everything to save us.
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Everything, gave His
Son, the Father gave His Son.
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Many times we
compartmentalize the Father,
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as being stern
and rigid and mean.
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And Jesus is kind
of the go-between,
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the one who's going to...
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What's the word I'm looking for?
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Mediate.
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Mediate.
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But there's a word that
has to do with kind of like,
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quenching the father's.
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Yes, like, pacify
the father's anger.
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No, the father...
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Jesus said, when you've seen Me,
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you've seen the Father.
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He's come to reveal He
came to reveal the Father
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and the Father's love to us.
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So we don't need to.
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And that's why the book
on Focus on Truth on Hellfire
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is so important.
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Because again, God's
character is exemplified
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through the word, He is love.
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He's not burning people forever,
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people are
nowhere burning right now.
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You know, it's
like, it is amazing to me
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that He loves us so very much
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that no matter what
we do, He still loves us.
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Now, there's going to be a
consequence for what we do.
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But the love that He shows to us
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every single
minute of every single day
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is so profound.
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And if we allow ourselves
to really think about that,
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that's why when I was looking
up some texts for this lesson,
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I was like, wow, this
is such a great study,
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thinking about
how much God loves us.
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So I'm really...
He's our best friend.
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Amazing.
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Satan's last
greatest attack against God
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is on His character,
that He's not a God of love.
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That's why we've been surprised.
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I don't know why I
should say that word surprise,
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but of the several
books we've written,
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the one getting
the most response
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from non-Adventist
preachers so far have been,
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wasn't just a book
on the commandments,
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or the book on salvation,
was a book about hell.
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Yes.
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One of them said,
"I've always wondered,
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been a pastor 55
years, I always wondered,
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and I've taught that, you know,
people are in hell burning,
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and that they'll burn
forever and ever till eternity."
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But I've
always, in my mind said,
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"How could God create us,
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allow us to only live now
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we live maybe 100 years at most,
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some little longer,
but then going to burn us
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for the eons of time
for billions of years."
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This makes so much sense.
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So Satan saw it in heaven,
he tried to make Oregon's God,
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he got thrown out and a third
of the stars went with him.
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And so he came to this earth.
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So what's he tried to do now?
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He tries to, he saw
during the Dark Ages
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tried to kill
all the Christians.
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What did that do?
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That stamp to
stamp out religion,
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pastor instead, light started,
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people started
fleeing all around the world.
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And so here come these
lights and all of a sudden,
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people hearing so everything
he did to destroy the gospel,
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about the love of
God for fallen man,
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blew up in his face.
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So now he says, "Okay,
last days, I got a better plan.
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I'm going to go set in the pews,
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in the church pews.
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In fact, I'm going to
really work on these preachers.
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And I'm going to
have these preachers
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misrepresent
the character of God
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because He wants to serve
a God who doesn't love you."
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So, Jay, it's a great topic.
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I don't think
we'll ever will exhaust,
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that's why we need
heaven for eternity.
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Yeah.
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So we can finally
start understanding
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and maybe comprehending
over a period of time,
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the love of God.
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Amen. Amen.
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Amen. Amen.
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Absolutely.
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You know, I want us to look at
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some ways that
God provides for us,
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some ways that God protects us,
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and some ways that He
professes His love for us.
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Because I think,
all throughout Scripture
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are these themes.
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We see that all
throughout Scripture.
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So, Mom, if you want to take
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Genesis 1:27-29.
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"So God created
man in His own image,
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in the image of
God He created him,
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male and female He created them.
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Then God blessed
them, and said to them,
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'Be fruitful and multiply,
fill the earth and subdue it,
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have dominion over
the fish of the sea,
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over the birds of the air,
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and over every living
thing that moves on the earth.'
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And God said, 'See,
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I have given you
every herb that yields seed
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which is on the
face of all the earth,
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and every tree
whose fruit yields seed,
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to you it shall be for food.'"
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So He gave man
man's original diet.
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He gave man, He
provided, He's provided so much,
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it's like, but okay,
we just focus on this one,
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this one person.
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He provided when He created
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the world Elohim
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when the Godhead
created the world,
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everything we needed was here.
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Everything we needed to
eat the beauty of it all.
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It was paradise, like
we see earthly areas now
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places in the
Bahamas and other places,
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and they're beautiful.
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But...
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But nothing compares to
the original Garden of Eden.
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Yes.
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Which, you know, we'll
see when we go to heaven,
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because we can't even imagine
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what is going to be
there, the Word says.
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So he provided everything
that we need for sustenance
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and just everything
that we need to show us
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again to
demonstrate His love for us.
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And He gave man purpose.
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Yes.
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Purpose. Yes.
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You know, it's also pretty cool
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that you know, He
put Adam to sleep,
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he took a little nap
and he woke up with a wife.
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I go to sleep every night.
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And I haven't,
you know, gotten up
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and seen any wife yet.
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Yeah, it's coming, it's coming.
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Yeah, so, I mean,
even that part's cool.
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Then He gave us that
purpose and that responsibility
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to take care of
everything that He provided.
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And that could be
pretty tiring too.
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So then He gave us rest.
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He gave us rest after that.
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And He had to take the rib
out, see the ribs got to go
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before you get a wife, right?
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Yeah. That's true.
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He took a rib out, right?
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He took a rib out.
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Some was taken in
order to get, you know, so...
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That was a
different type of anesthesia.
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Pastor Rafferty, will
you read Genesis 2:1-3?
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All right, Genesis 2:1-3,
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"Thus the heavens and the earth,
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and all the host of
them, were finished.
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And on the
seventh day God blessed,
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God ended His
work which He had done,
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and He rested on the seventh day
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from all His work
which He had done.
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Then God blessed the seventh day
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and sanctified it,
because in it He rested
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from all His work which
God had created and made."
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So how important is rest?
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It's huge.
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I was just listening
to a doctor this morning,
00:20:24.35\00:20:25.69
because my wife is a
registered dietician,
00:20:25.72\00:20:27.26
nutritionist in
functional medicine.
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She's not here to say,
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I hate it when you say that.
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And she listens
to a lot of stuff,
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you know, doctor
stuff, or whatever.
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And there was a
doctor on the day
00:20:37.00\00:20:39.10
just talking a
little bit about COVID,
00:20:39.13\00:20:40.60
which I don't want to
get distracted on that.
00:20:40.64\00:20:41.97
But he was just
basically saying,
00:20:42.00\00:20:43.57
rest is huge when it
comes to your immune system,
00:20:43.61\00:20:47.48
and, you know, resisting virus,
00:20:47.51\00:20:49.28
resisting disease
resisting infection.
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And, of course, we know that,
00:20:51.65\00:20:52.98
I mean, as
Adventists, we know that, right?
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We've got these eight
laws, and one of them is rest.
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But it's hard to be
restful when you're anxious.
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It's hard to be restful
when you're worried about,
00:21:00.16\00:21:02.06
you know, what's going on,
00:21:02.09\00:21:03.43
and what's going to
happen next, or whatever.
00:21:03.46\00:21:04.79
So again, going back
to Book of Revelation,
00:21:04.83\00:21:06.93
Matthew 24, God has revealed
to us the future in prophecy,
00:21:06.96\00:21:11.20
to help us to be more restful
00:21:11.23\00:21:12.80
about what's
coming around the corner,
00:21:12.83\00:21:14.24
to help us be more able to
just because and so that we say,
00:21:14.27\00:21:18.71
we see the same
thing in Genesis.
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So what does God do in Genesis?
00:21:20.71\00:21:22.94
Man wakes up basically,
as created in this world.
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They don't know anything
about how they got there,
00:21:27.28\00:21:29.82
who God is or what's going on.
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So the first thing God does
00:21:31.65\00:21:33.19
is He sits with
them for a whole day.
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He gets together with them,
00:21:36.66\00:21:37.99
and He just didn't
say that, "Okay, I'm God.
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And these are animals.
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And this is the world."
00:21:41.33\00:21:42.66
Yeah, you can just picture it.
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What does that call
when you're a new employee,
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and you go through that...
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Orientation. Orientation.
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He's given them an orientation,
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you know, an
orientation and rest
00:21:50.11\00:21:52.31
is what we need to
be healthy and strong
00:21:52.34\00:21:54.94
in order to
prepare for whatever it is
00:21:54.98\00:21:56.91
that God has for us,
00:21:56.95\00:21:58.28
which Adam and Eve
was to tend the garden,
00:21:58.31\00:21:59.75
you know, before the fall.
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So I love that.
00:22:01.15\00:22:02.48
You know, Jay, when I was a kid,
00:22:02.52\00:22:04.99
I would exhaust my mom,
00:22:05.02\00:22:06.76
because I always
asked a lot of questions.
00:22:06.79\00:22:08.86
And sometimes
she didn't like it,
00:22:08.89\00:22:10.46
because I would ask too many,
00:22:10.49\00:22:12.26
she'd give me an answer,
and I'd come back and I said,
00:22:12.29\00:22:14.20
but mom, I would ask her,
00:22:14.23\00:22:17.03
but so my little
mind sometimes works.
00:22:17.07\00:22:20.14
I don't know if it's
good or bad or indifferent,
00:22:20.17\00:22:21.94
but it works differently.
00:22:21.97\00:22:24.37
Well, it occurred to me
when I was pretty young,
00:22:24.41\00:22:27.81
well rest is so good.
00:22:27.84\00:22:30.41
But God could have created us
where we didn't need any rest.
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Why didn't He just make
us like, we'll be in heaven?
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Just we don't
need a seventh day,
00:22:35.62\00:22:37.45
we don't need any
one day of the week.
00:22:37.49\00:22:39.95
And why do we need anything now?
00:22:39.99\00:22:42.72
And it's like the Lord went,
00:22:42.76\00:22:44.29
you know, really
hit me over the head.
00:22:44.33\00:22:46.80
He did it for a reason.
00:22:46.83\00:22:48.40
That's to spend time with Him.
00:22:48.43\00:22:49.76
Just think about it.
00:22:49.80\00:22:51.13
If we never needed
rest, we were busy working,
00:22:51.17\00:22:54.24
busy making money,
we'd never think about God,
00:22:54.27\00:22:56.60
we'd never ever be
spend time with Him
00:22:56.64\00:22:59.81
because we just
have too much to do.
00:22:59.84\00:23:02.01
So he made our systems
where we need that day of rest.
00:23:02.04\00:23:05.98
That's why He blessed
it and he sanctified it
00:23:06.01\00:23:08.35
and made it a holy
day, a holy convocation.
00:23:08.38\00:23:10.22
I like that.
00:23:10.25\00:23:11.59
So that we can
set literally one day.
00:23:11.62\00:23:14.26
He says, "I'm willing
to spend this day with you.
00:23:14.29\00:23:16.26
I'm willing all the time.
00:23:16.29\00:23:17.63
But at least this one day,
00:23:17.66\00:23:19.29
let's have this
special relationship."
00:23:19.33\00:23:21.43
So it's the same
thing with us with Rise.
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If you go eight days,
00:23:24.83\00:23:26.74
and never
spending time with her,
00:23:26.77\00:23:28.17
that's not going to be a very
good relationship very long.
00:23:28.20\00:23:31.14
One day isn't going to work.
00:23:31.17\00:23:33.81
That's right.
00:23:33.84\00:23:35.18
But I believe that
God created us exactly
00:23:35.21\00:23:38.41
what would be
best for our salvation.
00:23:38.45\00:23:41.38
And so that once a week,
00:23:41.42\00:23:43.15
and that's why
it's so important today
00:23:43.18\00:23:45.49
that people don't understand
that we need a day of rest.
00:23:45.52\00:23:49.56
Not any day will do.
00:23:49.59\00:23:52.36
He says the seventh day. Yeah.
00:23:52.39\00:23:54.26
The seventh day not
of the Jews, not of the,
00:23:54.30\00:23:57.13
you know, the seventh
day of the Lord thy God.
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Yes. Right.
00:24:00.17\00:24:01.57
It's God's day, the Lord's day,
00:24:01.60\00:24:03.64
and I'm writing new
book The Lord's Day.
00:24:03.67\00:24:05.57
We're going to
find out the Lord's Day.
00:24:05.61\00:24:07.21
God does have a
day, but it's not Sunday.
00:24:07.24\00:24:09.61
I got some things
to share with you now.
00:24:09.64\00:24:11.01
Oh, good. Good.
00:24:11.05\00:24:12.38
We've been writing like
crazy, and I say, didn't it?
00:24:12.41\00:24:14.08
I got some stuff
to share with you now.
00:24:14.12\00:24:15.45
Yeah.
00:24:15.48\00:24:16.82
And it's really is so
I... To me, God knows exact.
00:24:16.85\00:24:19.82
He's God. He's God.
00:24:19.85\00:24:21.19
He knows exactly
what He was doing,
00:24:21.22\00:24:22.96
what's best for us.
00:24:22.99\00:24:24.99
Yeah, we need that day of rest
to come apart and physically,
00:24:25.03\00:24:29.60
but He created us that way
00:24:29.63\00:24:31.13
so we can see
we're dependent on Him.
00:24:31.17\00:24:33.40
My dad used to say,
"Son when I go on my own,
00:24:33.44\00:24:36.57
son yours
independent is a Hogan eyes."
00:24:36.60\00:24:39.17
Never didn't know what it meant.
00:24:39.21\00:24:40.54
What does that mean to you?
00:24:40.58\00:24:41.91
Yeah, what it meant.
00:24:41.94\00:24:43.28
Well, Hogan eyes
are not very independent
00:24:43.31\00:24:45.35
because He's slipping
and sliding on everywhere.
00:24:45.38\00:24:47.95
But I would think that I was.
00:24:47.98\00:24:49.32
So we as humans we think
00:24:49.35\00:24:50.69
we're as
independent as Hogan eyes,
00:24:50.72\00:24:52.55
we don't need God.
00:24:52.59\00:24:54.09
But we're out there all
legs going every which way.
00:24:54.12\00:24:56.76
We need to come back every week,
00:24:56.79\00:24:58.89
least that one day set it aside,
00:24:58.93\00:25:00.70
forget the television,
forget all the other stuff,
00:25:00.73\00:25:03.90
and concentrate
on that relationship.
00:25:03.93\00:25:07.04
And literally
bring in the love of God
00:25:07.07\00:25:09.34
and understanding
and say wow this is.
00:25:09.37\00:25:11.27
And when what comes
in, it's going to come out.
00:25:11.31\00:25:13.58
I, if I be
lifted up from the earth
00:25:13.61\00:25:15.31
will draw some men.
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All.
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I'm sorry, all men.
00:25:18.08\00:25:19.41
Yeah. Okay.
00:25:19.45\00:25:20.78
Yeah.
00:25:20.82\00:25:22.15
Jay got me.
00:25:22.18\00:25:23.82
He got your back on that,
00:25:23.85\00:25:25.19
you know, we need
to keep him straight.
00:25:25.22\00:25:26.55
Oh, thank you.
00:25:26.59\00:25:29.19
I was going to say
too that, physically,
00:25:29.22\00:25:31.36
you know, we tend to wind
down by the end of the week,
00:25:31.39\00:25:35.66
if you notice, like God
put certain rhythms in place,
00:25:35.70\00:25:40.17
in our bodies and nature.
00:25:40.20\00:25:42.14
And so, toward
the end of the week,
00:25:42.17\00:25:44.34
you tend to kind of wind down
00:25:44.37\00:25:47.21
and the Lord knew
we would need rest,
00:25:47.24\00:25:50.05
we would work
ourselves into the next life
00:25:50.08\00:25:54.02
and be drawn away from Him.
00:25:54.05\00:25:56.35
If we did not have this,
00:25:56.38\00:25:58.29
so He provided that
rest for us physically,
00:25:58.32\00:26:03.63
spiritually, emotionally
that we could rest in Him
00:26:03.66\00:26:07.80
during that time.
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Yes, which... Recharge.
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Beautiful, beautiful.
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You know, there's so
much going on in the world
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and people get busy and
there's so much external
00:26:15.87\00:26:19.24
stimuli vying for our
attention and temptations
00:26:19.27\00:26:22.31
and all of that.
00:26:22.34\00:26:23.68
What's something else
that God provides for us
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when we're
faced with temptation?
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Well, I got it.
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God provides a way.
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This sums us all.
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That's right.
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We look at 1 Corinthians 10:13,
00:26:37.06\00:26:39.76
"No temptation has overtaken you
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except such as is common to men.
00:26:42.26\00:26:45.60
But God is faithful,
who will not allow you
00:26:45.63\00:26:48.24
to be tempted
beyond what you are able,
00:26:48.27\00:26:50.87
but with the temptation
00:26:50.91\00:26:52.47
will also make the way of escape
00:26:52.51\00:26:55.81
that you may be
able to bear it."
00:26:55.84\00:26:58.68
Yeah.
00:26:58.71\00:27:00.05
So there's always an exit plan.
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Yes.
00:27:01.48\00:27:02.82
There's an exit strategy,
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but you have to
walk through the door.
00:27:04.22\00:27:06.96
You have to remove
yourself from the situation.
00:27:06.99\00:27:09.29
So I think that's powerful.
00:27:09.32\00:27:10.66
This is a good verse.
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You know, sometimes
when we think about love,
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we get a wrong
idea of what it is,
00:27:13.76\00:27:15.70
I think, loves
being kidnapped, you know.
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For example, in the Bible,
I was thinking about this word
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when it says God is faithful.
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In the Bible, it says
in Proverbs somewhere,
00:27:23.44\00:27:25.74
faithful are the
wounds of a friend.
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But the kisses of
an enemy are deceitful.
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Right.
00:27:30.55\00:27:31.88
Well, you know, when
you think about love,
00:27:31.91\00:27:33.25
you think about kisses,
you don't think about wounds.
00:27:33.28\00:27:34.72
Yeah.
00:27:34.75\00:27:36.08
But when the Bible
is identifying love
00:27:36.12\00:27:37.45
and faithfulness, the
Bible is identifying God's love
00:27:37.49\00:27:41.06
as being faithful to wound
us and not just to kiss us.
00:27:41.09\00:27:44.86
And that's, a lot of
times we struggle with that
00:27:44.89\00:27:47.56
because we identify
love as, whoa, God loves me,
00:27:47.60\00:27:50.63
that means He just kissing
me with all these blessings,
00:27:50.67\00:27:52.70
He's kissing me
with all this goodness.
00:27:52.73\00:27:54.40
He's never going to do anything
00:27:54.44\00:27:56.24
that would wound me
or hurt me in any way.
00:27:56.27\00:27:58.94
But you look at
all the Bible stories
00:27:58.97\00:28:00.88
and how God had to lift people
out of different situations
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and allow them to go through
these trials and challenges,
00:28:03.98\00:28:07.02
you know, Joseph, and Abraham,
00:28:07.05\00:28:08.88
and, you know, all the
way through Moses, etc.
00:28:08.92\00:28:12.15
And you realize there
are times in our lives,
00:28:12.19\00:28:14.72
when God's love comes in
the form of a chastening,
00:28:14.76\00:28:17.53
you know, as many as I
love, I rebuke and chasten,
00:28:17.56\00:28:20.16
correction,
discipline, or whatever it is.
00:28:20.20\00:28:22.46
So sometimes we get in
the situation of temptation.
00:28:22.50\00:28:25.53
And, you know,
God doesn't tempt us,
00:28:25.57\00:28:27.50
James says, He doesn't tempt us.
00:28:27.54\00:28:29.37
But we are tempted
when we're drawn away
00:28:29.40\00:28:31.77
of our own lusts and enticed,
00:28:31.81\00:28:33.94
and God will sometimes allow
that situation to take place.
00:28:33.98\00:28:37.11
You know, the Spirit
led Jesus in the wilderness,
00:28:37.15\00:28:39.11
and there came the devil.
00:28:39.15\00:28:40.48
And there was this,
you know, these temptations
00:28:40.52\00:28:41.85
that came to Him,
00:28:41.88\00:28:43.22
but I love this them
because no matter what,
00:28:43.25\00:28:45.52
God is faithful, He gives
us this way of deliverance,
00:28:45.55\00:28:49.02
He gives us this way of escape,
00:28:49.06\00:28:50.46
no matter what the situation is.
00:28:50.49\00:28:52.59
See, and that
what's also important about
00:28:52.63\00:28:56.33
God is His people.
00:28:56.36\00:28:58.53
In fact, we're actually
writing a book on this one, too,
00:28:58.57\00:29:01.84
on the rapture, because people,
the devil is coming in saying,
00:29:01.87\00:29:06.17
"Oh, you don't have
to worry about anything
00:29:06.21\00:29:07.71
'cause when times get tough,
you'll be raptured out of here,
00:29:07.74\00:29:11.58
before everybody else."
00:29:11.61\00:29:13.28
Well, you just
said, God gives us
00:29:13.31\00:29:16.05
that for our
chastisement for us to really
00:29:16.08\00:29:19.35
become, you'd say
dependent on Him to realize
00:29:19.39\00:29:22.72
who we are and who God is.
00:29:22.76\00:29:24.09
Right.
00:29:24.13\00:29:25.46
So people sitting around saying,
00:29:25.49\00:29:26.83
no, I'm not
worried about anything,
00:29:26.86\00:29:28.20
the rapture comes.
00:29:28.23\00:29:29.56
So I've had several
people now and recently,
00:29:29.60\00:29:32.23
so one's been
calling us very well,
00:29:32.27\00:29:34.94
world famous name
been calling us and said,
00:29:34.97\00:29:37.57
"Are we really going?
00:29:37.61\00:29:38.94
Are you kidding?
00:29:38.97\00:29:40.31
Are we really going to
have to go through the rapture,
00:29:40.34\00:29:41.68
the tribulation?"
00:29:41.71\00:29:43.04
You know, we're
like, "Well, yes."
00:29:43.08\00:29:45.41
You know, and he goes,
00:29:45.45\00:29:46.78
but I never
dreamed that all my life,
00:29:46.82\00:29:48.65
you know, I never thought
we'd go through, I thought.
00:29:48.68\00:29:51.09
I said, "What do
you go through it now?"
00:29:51.12\00:29:52.79
I mean, the rain falls
00:29:52.82\00:29:54.16
on the just as
well as the unjust.
00:29:54.19\00:29:56.26
Now, what happens when
things really get tough?
00:29:56.29\00:30:00.16
Do we give up?
00:30:00.20\00:30:01.53
Or do we say, "Boy, am I glad
00:30:01.56\00:30:03.00
I can stay in
the arms of Jesus?"
00:30:03.03\00:30:04.70
Yeah.
00:30:04.73\00:30:06.07
You know, right under His wings,
00:30:06.10\00:30:07.44
I'm safely abiding to
know that there is a way
00:30:07.47\00:30:10.27
as you said of escape.
00:30:10.31\00:30:11.64
Yes.
00:30:11.67\00:30:13.01
And so, yes, we...
00:30:13.04\00:30:14.38
God chastises
those whom He loves.
00:30:14.41\00:30:16.48
So expect to go through
trials and tribulations.
00:30:16.51\00:30:19.78
When again when I was young,
00:30:19.81\00:30:21.15
I'd say to my
dad, "Dad, why me?'
00:30:21.18\00:30:22.78
He said, "Why not?
00:30:22.82\00:30:24.45
Why not?"
00:30:24.49\00:30:26.45
And then, you
know, all of a sudden,
00:30:26.49\00:30:27.89
it puts you in perspective.
00:30:27.92\00:30:30.09
He would go into a
little more detail,
00:30:30.13\00:30:31.49
"Son, do you have any idea
00:30:31.53\00:30:33.43
how many grains of
sands are on this earth?"
00:30:33.46\00:30:35.66
I was like, "No."
00:30:35.70\00:30:37.03
He said, "Well,
you're just one little speck,
00:30:37.07\00:30:38.63
the world doesn't
revolve around you.
00:30:38.67\00:30:41.20
You're in the world,
but not of the world.
00:30:41.24\00:30:43.37
So you get in,
and you understand
00:30:43.41\00:30:45.54
you're special in God's
eyes, but nobody else's.
00:30:45.57\00:30:48.38
So you need to...
00:30:48.41\00:30:52.11
You need to remember
00:30:52.15\00:30:53.48
that lest you end up in
a whole lot of trouble."
00:30:53.52\00:30:54.92
Yeah.
00:30:54.95\00:30:56.28
And so it's true, really,
00:30:56.32\00:30:57.65
you know, that we
really should become dependent
00:30:57.69\00:31:00.59
on the Lord to know who He is,
00:31:00.62\00:31:02.72
and who we are, then everything.
00:31:02.76\00:31:04.83
Okay, God, He's
going to give me peace
00:31:04.86\00:31:07.33
amidst the storm, when
that person offends me.
00:31:07.36\00:31:09.63
Oh, isn't that great peace
have they which love thy law
00:31:09.66\00:31:12.20
and nothing shall offend them.
00:31:12.23\00:31:14.50
That's where we want to get to.
00:31:14.54\00:31:16.10
We're not all there,
but we want to get there.
00:31:16.14\00:31:18.24
Yes, especially in our homes.
00:31:18.27\00:31:22.14
Yeah, I was
talking to a young person
00:31:22.18\00:31:23.91
the other day,
00:31:23.95\00:31:25.28
and he was saying that
00:31:25.31\00:31:26.65
this is one of
his favorite verses,
00:31:26.68\00:31:28.28
because he's trying to,
00:31:28.32\00:31:30.89
he wants to live
a life for Jesus.
00:31:30.92\00:31:34.36
But sometimes he gets,
you know, really tempted.
00:31:34.39\00:31:37.59
And so he's taken
this as one of the verses
00:31:37.63\00:31:40.40
that he's memorizing,
00:31:40.43\00:31:42.90
so that he can remind himself
00:31:42.93\00:31:45.60
that when he's
in temptations way,
00:31:45.63\00:31:48.34
that the Lord will
make a way of escape,
00:31:48.37\00:31:51.87
that he might
be able to bear it.
00:31:51.91\00:31:53.64
So it's, this is a
beautiful, beautiful verse,
00:31:53.68\00:31:56.78
because it's saying
that anything we go through,
00:31:56.81\00:32:01.12
there's nothing
new under the sun,
00:32:01.15\00:32:02.68
that the same issues,
you know, it's common to man,
00:32:02.72\00:32:05.99
all these different
temptations are common to man.
00:32:06.02\00:32:09.82
But that little conjunction,
00:32:09.86\00:32:12.56
but God is
faithful, He is El HaNe'eman.
00:32:12.59\00:32:16.63
He is the faithful God,
00:32:16.67\00:32:18.37
and He will not allow
you to be tempted above
00:32:18.40\00:32:20.74
that which you are able.
00:32:20.77\00:32:22.67
That He knows how
much we can handle.
00:32:22.70\00:32:25.34
Yeah.
00:32:25.37\00:32:26.71
He's not going to
let it be so heavy
00:32:26.74\00:32:28.71
that we can't bear it.
00:32:28.74\00:32:30.81
He'll make a way of
escape, He'll open that door.
00:32:30.85\00:32:33.88
Now, it's our decision
00:32:33.92\00:32:36.12
as to whether or not we
want to be tempted and sin,
00:32:36.15\00:32:40.16
because we can't
control the temptation,
00:32:40.19\00:32:42.06
but we can control
what we do with it.
00:32:42.09\00:32:43.43
Yeah.
00:32:43.46\00:32:44.79
The decisions that we make.
00:32:44.83\00:32:46.16
And sin is a series of choices.
00:32:46.19\00:32:48.73
It's not just one thing.
00:32:48.76\00:32:50.10
Usually it's a
series of choices.
00:32:50.13\00:32:52.13
So we can make the decision
00:32:52.17\00:32:55.30
to go out that escape route
00:32:55.34\00:32:58.47
or we can go
through the door of sin,
00:32:58.51\00:33:01.44
and the Lord has made a way
00:33:01.48\00:33:03.01
so that we don't have
to go the route of sin.
00:33:03.04\00:33:07.15
So he's provided that for us.
00:33:07.18\00:33:09.48
Amen.
00:33:09.52\00:33:10.85
Absolutely.
00:33:10.89\00:33:12.55
God also provides instructions.
00:33:12.59\00:33:15.96
Pop, you want to
take this verse here.
00:33:15.99\00:33:17.73
We've got 2 Timothy 3:15-16.
00:33:17.76\00:33:23.13
Okay, I'm going
to look it up here.
00:33:23.16\00:33:26.10
You probably have it there.
00:33:26.13\00:33:27.64
Yes, sir.
00:33:27.67\00:33:29.00
Okay, 2 Timothy?
00:33:29.04\00:33:31.41
Yes, 3:15-16.
00:33:31.44\00:33:34.28
3:15-16.
00:33:34.31\00:33:35.88
Okay, I'm getting here.
00:33:35.91\00:33:37.45
All right.
00:33:37.48\00:33:38.81
There's a bigger print on here.
00:33:38.85\00:33:40.22
Okay.
00:33:40.25\00:33:41.58
And that from a
child right there,
00:33:41.62\00:33:43.28
is that where
you want me to start?
00:33:43.32\00:33:44.65
Yes, sir.
00:33:44.69\00:33:46.02
"That from a child thou
hast known the Holy Scriptures,
00:33:46.05\00:33:48.02
which are able to make
thee wise unto salvation
00:33:48.06\00:33:50.93
through faith which
is in Christ Jesus."
00:33:50.96\00:33:55.16
Can I read the next?
00:33:55.20\00:33:56.53
Oh, yes, please.
00:33:56.56\00:33:57.90
Oh, this one's great.
00:33:57.93\00:33:59.27
I love this one.
00:33:59.30\00:34:00.64
All scripture,
well, some scripture.
00:34:00.67\00:34:02.00
All. I messed up.
00:34:02.04\00:34:03.71
I should have
said some scripture,
00:34:03.74\00:34:05.41
they would have caught me again.
00:34:05.44\00:34:07.21
"All scripture is
given by inspiration of God,
00:34:07.24\00:34:10.15
and is profitable for
doctrine, for reproof."
00:34:10.18\00:34:13.31
What is reproof? Correct.
00:34:13.35\00:34:15.42
And what would that be?
00:34:15.45\00:34:17.85
Okay, for reproof,
and for correction,
00:34:17.89\00:34:21.42
for instruction
in righteousness,
00:34:21.46\00:34:24.13
that the man of
God may be perfect,
00:34:24.16\00:34:26.49
thoroughly
furnished, unto all good works.
00:34:26.53\00:34:30.07
So once again, we're
going through that same thing,
00:34:30.10\00:34:32.37
but all scripture is given.
00:34:32.40\00:34:34.27
So people say,
"Well, that Old Testament,
00:34:34.30\00:34:37.37
you know, that was done
away with it at the cross."
00:34:37.41\00:34:40.14
So I've asked people how
can we have a whole Bible,
00:34:40.18\00:34:42.71
I've been just take a half,
00:34:42.74\00:34:44.45
just take the New Testament."
00:34:44.48\00:34:46.11
You know, if, why, you know,
00:34:46.15\00:34:49.42
oh, well, well, no,
00:34:49.45\00:34:50.79
all scripture is
given for inspiration.
00:34:50.82\00:34:53.52
So it's for our good.
00:34:53.56\00:34:55.06
Here's the beauty about God.
00:34:55.09\00:34:57.49
When people say,
oh, how God blessed me
00:34:57.53\00:34:59.89
or you know, why does
He allow this to happen?
00:34:59.93\00:35:02.63
The thing that God
does, that none of us
00:35:02.66\00:35:05.87
can do on our own
is that He can save us.
00:35:05.90\00:35:08.90
And that what He does,
yes, we may go through,
00:35:08.94\00:35:12.04
people say, "Well, I
prayed for my husband,
00:35:12.07\00:35:14.64
but he died, you
know, so I'm mad at God."
00:35:14.68\00:35:17.15
So why are you mad
at God when it's Satan,
00:35:17.18\00:35:19.61
who's out to steal,
kill and to destroy?
00:35:19.65\00:35:22.02
Jesus says, "I've
come to give you life
00:35:22.05\00:35:24.29
and give it more abundantly."
00:35:24.32\00:35:25.72
But what the Lord does, He...
00:35:25.75\00:35:28.42
When we submit and
commit our lives to Him,
00:35:28.46\00:35:30.29
He does not allow,
00:35:30.33\00:35:31.69
Satan can maybe
rob us of our home,
00:35:31.73\00:35:33.76
of our car, he can
rob us of our health,
00:35:33.80\00:35:36.33
because it's appointed
once a time for every man
00:35:36.36\00:35:38.93
to die on this earth.
00:35:38.97\00:35:40.30
He can rob us, but he
cannot rob us of our salvation.
00:35:40.34\00:35:43.30
So that's the beauty.
00:35:43.34\00:35:44.67
The security
that we have in Jesus,
00:35:44.71\00:35:46.88
is that no matter
what the devil wants to do,
00:35:46.91\00:35:49.51
people, well,
I'm offended at God.
00:35:49.54\00:35:51.31
No, being offended is a choice.
00:35:51.35\00:35:53.68
Nobody's just offended
00:35:53.72\00:35:55.08
because you
can't help it, right?
00:35:55.12\00:35:56.62
It's a choice.
00:35:56.65\00:35:57.99
So what we have
to understand again,
00:35:58.02\00:36:00.42
who God is, and who we are.
00:36:00.46\00:36:02.26
And so when we study the Bible,
00:36:02.29\00:36:04.56
it screams out, God is love.
00:36:04.59\00:36:07.06
Yes. God is love.
00:36:07.10\00:36:08.63
How much love is it?
00:36:08.66\00:36:10.00
It's love to get us from
here to an eternity with Him.
00:36:10.03\00:36:14.74
That's a lot of love.
00:36:14.77\00:36:16.10
It is.
00:36:16.14\00:36:19.41
Several years ago, before,
00:36:19.44\00:36:21.08
when I just come
back to the Lord,
00:36:21.11\00:36:24.01
I think it was 1985.
00:36:24.05\00:36:26.78
And I was studying Word
with different Christians,
00:36:26.82\00:36:30.69
we were all studying and some,
00:36:30.72\00:36:35.02
I want to, I asked the Lord
to just give me a blank slate,
00:36:35.06\00:36:38.23
just wipe the slate clean
00:36:38.26\00:36:39.89
and let me just
start from beginning
00:36:39.93\00:36:41.70
because I was
raised as an Adventist.
00:36:41.73\00:36:43.97
But I wanted to know,
00:36:44.00\00:36:45.37
is this where the
Lord wanted me to be?
00:36:45.40\00:36:47.84
Or should I
look at other things?
00:36:47.87\00:36:49.84
Should I...
00:36:49.87\00:36:51.21
There were people
speaking in tongues.
00:36:51.24\00:36:52.57
Should I consider tongues?
00:36:52.61\00:36:54.64
What do you want me to do, Lord?
00:36:54.68\00:36:56.85
And I opened the Bible to,
00:36:56.88\00:37:00.32
and I was raised as
an Adventist, right?
00:37:00.35\00:37:02.55
Wow.
00:37:02.58\00:37:03.92
I was an Adventist Christian,
went to Adventist schools
00:37:03.95\00:37:05.75
and all that.
00:37:05.79\00:37:07.42
I opened the Word
to 2 Timothy, verses,
00:37:07.46\00:37:12.23
let's start with 14,
it was 14, 15, 14 and 15.
00:37:12.26\00:37:18.07
"But you must
continue in the things
00:37:18.10\00:37:20.60
which you have
learned and been assured of,
00:37:20.64\00:37:24.04
knowing from whom
you have learned them,
00:37:24.07\00:37:26.94
and that from childhood
00:37:26.98\00:37:28.98
you have known
the Holy Scriptures,
00:37:29.01\00:37:30.78
which are able to make you wise
00:37:30.81\00:37:33.01
for salvation through
faith which is in Christ Jesus."
00:37:33.05\00:37:36.55
So the Lord was telling
me, "Stay where you are."
00:37:36.58\00:37:39.35
Wow.
00:37:39.39\00:37:40.72
You don't need to go
00:37:40.76\00:37:43.02
into any of these other places.
00:37:43.06\00:37:46.90
The doctrines that
you learned as a child,
00:37:46.93\00:37:50.17
this is where
you're supposed to be.
00:37:50.20\00:37:52.17
And I think we're,
you know, we're not saved
00:37:52.20\00:37:54.14
because we're Adventists
or saved because we...
00:37:54.17\00:37:57.54
We're saved
because of Jesus Christ
00:37:57.57\00:37:59.71
and what He's done.
00:37:59.74\00:38:02.04
But there, but doctrine matters.
00:38:02.08\00:38:04.78
You know, there are a
lot of people who think,
00:38:04.81\00:38:06.28
well, as long as you love Jesus,
00:38:06.31\00:38:08.32
doctrine matters.
00:38:08.35\00:38:09.68
So this, He's
provided instruction for us.
00:38:09.72\00:38:14.29
And this is, for me
that was just so rich,
00:38:14.32\00:38:17.29
like the Lord was
speaking directly to me.
00:38:17.33\00:38:19.96
Don't go anywhere,
stay where you are.
00:38:20.00\00:38:22.33
This is where
you're supposed to be.
00:38:22.36\00:38:23.70
That's powerful.
00:38:23.73\00:38:25.07
God's principles,
they are the principles
00:38:25.10\00:38:26.70
we live by are
biblical, they matter.
00:38:26.74\00:38:29.34
If you don't think they do,
00:38:29.37\00:38:30.71
just look at the
world around you right now.
00:38:30.74\00:38:32.51
Look at us here
00:38:32.54\00:38:33.88
in the United States of America.
00:38:33.91\00:38:35.34
How crazy and upside
down everything here is.
00:38:35.38\00:38:39.05
Things that a few years
ago we call mental illness,
00:38:39.08\00:38:42.72
now we celebrate
it like transgenders
00:38:42.75\00:38:44.75
and stuff like that.
00:38:44.79\00:38:46.12
I don't want to
get into all of that.
00:38:46.15\00:38:47.49
But I'm just
saying, that's upside down.
00:38:47.52\00:38:50.13
That's messed up, you
know, and so I don't understand,
00:38:50.16\00:38:53.66
but it's because people get away
00:38:53.70\00:38:56.10
from the
principles of the Bible.
00:38:56.13\00:38:57.83
Yes.
00:38:57.87\00:38:59.20
And so then when we
don't when we're away,
00:38:59.23\00:39:00.97
we don't know the difference.
00:39:01.00\00:39:02.34
Somebody says,
"Oh, this is good."
00:39:02.37\00:39:03.71
And we're all
great. I didn't know that.
00:39:03.74\00:39:05.07
Well, this is
wonderful. Exactly.
00:39:05.11\00:39:06.68
Are you being blown
by every wind of doctrine
00:39:06.71\00:39:08.54
because you didn't
really dig into the Word of God,
00:39:08.58\00:39:11.71
didn't study, for reproof,
00:39:11.75\00:39:13.82
for diocese is
profitable for doctrine,
00:39:13.85\00:39:16.12
for reproof and correction
00:39:16.15\00:39:17.49
and instruction
in righteousness.
00:39:17.52\00:39:19.75
You get away from this,
00:39:19.79\00:39:21.12
you're going to see
what we're seeing now
00:39:21.16\00:39:22.79
when we turn on the television
the news every evening,
00:39:22.82\00:39:25.39
no matter what
channel you turn on.
00:39:25.43\00:39:29.10
I really like what
you're saying, Yvonne,
00:39:29.13\00:39:30.63
because you know
in Hebrews 5 and 6,
00:39:30.67\00:39:34.64
a lot of times are
connect with Adventists
00:39:34.67\00:39:37.34
who are just
coming back to the Lord
00:39:37.37\00:39:39.21
and they've been
out of the church,
00:39:39.24\00:39:40.58
they just been out and...
00:39:40.61\00:39:41.94
Chapters 5 and 6?
00:39:41.98\00:39:43.31
Yeah, they don't
know where to go.
00:39:43.35\00:39:44.68
So I always take them to
Hebrews Chapters 5 and 6,
00:39:44.71\00:39:46.92
you know, it says here.
00:39:46.95\00:39:50.92
I'm just going to start
in verse 11 of Chapter 5,
00:39:50.95\00:39:53.05
"Of whom we have
many things to say,
00:39:53.09\00:39:54.89
and hard to be uttered,
seeing ye are dull of hearing."
00:39:54.92\00:39:57.73
So Adventist coming back there,
00:39:57.76\00:39:59.89
they know something,
00:39:59.93\00:40:01.26
but they don't
really know it anymore.
00:40:01.30\00:40:03.90
But like you said they've been
raised for when, verse 12 says,
00:40:03.93\00:40:08.77
"For when for the time
ye ought to be teachers,
00:40:08.80\00:40:11.27
ye have need that
one teach you again
00:40:11.31\00:40:13.61
which be the first principles
of the oracles of God,
00:40:13.64\00:40:16.61
and are become such
as have need of milk,
00:40:16.64\00:40:19.88
and not strong meat.
00:40:19.91\00:40:21.82
For everyone that
uses milk is unskillful,
00:40:21.85\00:40:23.92
in the word of
righteousness, for he is a babe.
00:40:23.95\00:40:26.22
But strong meat belongs
to them that are full of age,
00:40:26.25\00:40:29.89
even those who by reason of use
00:40:29.92\00:40:32.46
have their senses exercised
to discern both good and evil."
00:40:32.49\00:40:36.30
Now, this is kind of building
into what Danny was saying
00:40:36.33\00:40:39.07
there that, you know,
when we exercise ourselves
00:40:39.10\00:40:43.07
in the Word of God, we
begin to be able to discern
00:40:43.10\00:40:45.24
between good and evil.
00:40:45.27\00:40:46.74
Yes. We can figure it out.
00:40:46.78\00:40:48.61
But if we've been
gone from the Lord
00:40:48.64\00:40:50.41
for a while or whatever,
00:40:50.45\00:40:51.78
we have to go back
to the first principles,
00:40:51.81\00:40:53.85
verse 1 of Chapter 6 says
of the doctrines of Christ.
00:40:53.88\00:40:57.59
So again, we're not
leaving the doctrines,
00:40:57.62\00:40:59.79
the doctrines are important,
00:40:59.82\00:41:01.56
but you don't go
off somewhere else,
00:41:01.59\00:41:03.56
you go back to
the first principles,
00:41:03.59\00:41:05.16
you gonna have to go
back and start again.
00:41:05.19\00:41:06.53
So I tell these young people,
00:41:06.56\00:41:07.96
or some of them,
they're older, I say,
00:41:08.00\00:41:10.07
you need to start all
over again with the milk.
00:41:10.10\00:41:12.50
Okay.
00:41:12.53\00:41:13.87
And you need to
reintroduce yourself
00:41:13.90\00:41:15.24
to the first principles.
00:41:15.27\00:41:16.60
And as you exercise yourself
in those first principles,
00:41:16.64\00:41:19.34
you know, it's like, you know,
as kids, we do milk, right?
00:41:19.37\00:41:22.18
And then we
grow, we do hard food.
00:41:22.21\00:41:23.68
But if you break your jaw,
00:41:23.71\00:41:25.25
if you go through some
serious situation in your life,
00:41:25.28\00:41:27.75
you might have to go
back to the liquid, right?
00:41:27.78\00:41:29.88
And do liquid diet
again, before you can get back,
00:41:29.92\00:41:32.12
you know, where you
need to be chewing again,
00:41:32.15\00:41:33.99
and that's the way it
is in the Word of God, too.
00:41:34.02\00:41:35.96
You know, so, the reason I say
that is because a lot of people
00:41:35.99\00:41:39.13
that have been raised
in the Adventist Church,
00:41:39.16\00:41:40.70
or let's just
say, in Christianity,
00:41:40.73\00:41:42.70
and all of a sudden,
they have this awakening,
00:41:42.73\00:41:44.67
you know, they realize, whoa,
00:41:44.70\00:41:46.37
look what is
happening in this world.
00:41:46.40\00:41:48.54
They're mandating
stuff, they're forcing us,
00:41:48.57\00:41:50.84
we're not going to
be able to buy or sell,
00:41:50.87\00:41:52.21
and then all of a
sudden, they wake up,
00:41:52.24\00:41:53.58
you know, those 10
sleeping virgins, they wake up,
00:41:53.61\00:41:56.08
and they start
getting their Bibles in order,
00:41:56.11\00:41:57.48
because it says
they're trimming their lamps,
00:41:57.51\00:41:59.38
but they get overwhelmed.
00:41:59.41\00:42:00.75
Because you're like,
00:42:00.78\00:42:02.12
"Man, I'm never going
to be able to catch up,
00:42:02.15\00:42:03.49
but I'm never going to...
00:42:03.52\00:42:04.85
Man I should, you know."
00:42:04.89\00:42:06.22
And so I said, "No,
don't think that in one day,
00:42:06.25\00:42:08.32
you've got to live up to
all the light you've ever known.
00:42:08.36\00:42:10.73
Just go back now and start
with those first principles
00:42:10.76\00:42:13.50
and lay that foundation
that God would have you'.'
00:42:13.53\00:42:15.60
Yeah.
00:42:15.63\00:42:16.97
All very excellent points.
00:42:17.00\00:42:18.33
Excellent points.
00:42:18.37\00:42:19.70
You know, this, I'm
liking that you didn't say
00:42:19.73\00:42:22.57
let's go back to our
feelings that we had before.
00:42:22.60\00:42:25.51
Right.
00:42:25.54\00:42:26.88
You said our principles.
00:42:26.91\00:42:28.24
So, you know, when we
take a look at society,
00:42:28.28\00:42:30.35
I think part of the problem
00:42:30.38\00:42:31.71
is that we're in a
feelings based society.
00:42:31.75\00:42:35.62
You know, and that
leads us in a direction
00:42:35.65\00:42:38.55
that we don't want to go in.
00:42:38.59\00:42:40.66
We need to be a
principle oriented society,
00:42:40.69\00:42:42.92
with principles that
are found in the Word of God
00:42:42.96\00:42:44.93
because they don't change.
00:42:44.96\00:42:46.29
Right.
00:42:46.33\00:42:47.66
And, so, yeah, we see
ourselves in a world of trouble.
00:42:47.70\00:42:51.07
And in a world of enablers
00:42:51.10\00:42:52.80
because it's, you know, if...
00:42:52.83\00:42:54.34
Oh, yeah.
00:42:54.37\00:42:55.70
They condone the
behavior rather than rebuking it
00:42:55.74\00:42:59.17
and you know, in a loving way,
rebuking it and telling them
00:42:59.21\00:43:03.88
that God can help
them through whatever it is
00:43:03.91\00:43:06.61
that they're dealing
with whatever stronghold.
00:43:06.65\00:43:08.45
They were too busy,
too busy playing politics,
00:43:08.48\00:43:11.29
and what's politically
correct even within the church.
00:43:11.32\00:43:14.49
That's another way the
devil is making great inroads,
00:43:14.52\00:43:17.69
because we don't
want to offend anybody.
00:43:17.73\00:43:19.93
That's true.
00:43:19.96\00:43:21.60
We better be quiet.
00:43:21.63\00:43:22.96
Don't say anything.
00:43:23.00\00:43:24.60
Right now, I'll guarantee
you there'll be some emails
00:43:24.63\00:43:26.90
people say, you
shouldn't have said that.
00:43:26.94\00:43:28.87
But honestly, I hate
to say that, someone said,
00:43:28.90\00:43:32.04
there's way to say respectfully.
00:43:32.07\00:43:33.41
I really don't
care what they think,
00:43:33.44\00:43:35.28
I know what is truth.
00:43:35.31\00:43:36.95
And so we have to
speak truth and love.
00:43:36.98\00:43:39.88
And so, God loves everybody.
00:43:39.91\00:43:41.85
So when I talk
about what it just did,
00:43:41.88\00:43:44.22
that God loves people
and we should love everybody.
00:43:44.25\00:43:46.62
Absolutely.
00:43:46.65\00:43:47.99
But it doesn't mean
we have to join those
00:43:48.02\00:43:49.92
that are
mentally ill and tell them
00:43:49.96\00:43:51.29
how great this is
for them to not even know
00:43:51.33\00:43:53.60
what sex they are,
00:43:53.63\00:43:54.96
in fact, be one biologically
00:43:55.00\00:43:56.46
and claim
they're something else.
00:43:56.50\00:43:58.80
I'm not going to
go along with that.
00:43:58.83\00:44:00.94
It'd be wrong for me to do so.
00:44:00.97\00:44:03.51
I need to tell the truth.
00:44:03.54\00:44:05.04
Now, it's not for me to judge,
it's not for me to condemn,
00:44:05.07\00:44:08.01
that's between them and God.
00:44:08.04\00:44:10.01
And I have my own sins,
my own problems in my life.
00:44:10.05\00:44:12.61
So I'm no better
than anybody else.
00:44:12.65\00:44:13.98
Right.
00:44:14.02\00:44:15.35
But I'm still
not going to go along
00:44:15.38\00:44:16.72
what everybody's saying, it's,
00:44:16.75\00:44:18.09
we have to stand
up for what's right.
00:44:18.12\00:44:20.19
And we're all
sinners saved by grace.
00:44:20.22\00:44:21.96
Yeah. And we're
in this together.
00:44:21.99\00:44:24.06
Absolutely.
00:44:24.09\00:44:25.43
Yeah, you might need some
protection from the email.
00:44:25.46\00:44:27.83
So let's look at how
God protects us, shall we?
00:44:27.86\00:44:33.07
A good segue too.
00:44:33.10\00:44:34.44
Mom, if you want
to take Psalm 34:7?
00:44:34.47\00:44:38.47
Yes.
00:44:38.51\00:44:39.84
Oh, this is my
mom's favorite verse.
00:44:39.87\00:44:43.11
The angel of she used to say,
00:44:43.14\00:44:44.85
she did from the
King James Version.
00:44:44.88\00:44:47.35
"The angel of the Lord
encampeth round about them
00:44:47.38\00:44:49.78
that fear Him
and delivereth them."
00:44:49.82\00:44:52.65
You didn't even
look at the page.
00:44:52.69\00:44:54.02
No.
00:44:54.06\00:44:55.39
That's the James Version, right?
00:44:55.42\00:44:56.76
King James.
00:44:56.79\00:44:58.99
Well, my mom used to
say that verse all the time,
00:44:59.03\00:45:02.26
that was her favorite
verse and it's really true.
00:45:02.30\00:45:06.63
So many times, I mean, I know
all of us can look back and see
00:45:06.67\00:45:10.61
how God has protected us
through so many different,
00:45:10.64\00:45:15.24
through physical
dangers through emotional,
00:45:15.28\00:45:18.31
financial issues.
00:45:18.35\00:45:19.68
I mean, He encircles
us, you know, the angels.
00:45:19.71\00:45:25.45
Yes, he encamps.
00:45:25.49\00:45:27.36
That's so deep, isn't it?
00:45:27.39\00:45:28.99
I love encampeth, that's great.
00:45:29.02\00:45:31.19
He encamps, I'm not encamper.
00:45:31.23\00:45:33.83
But... Yeah.
00:45:33.86\00:45:35.20
We've got a motor home.
00:45:35.23\00:45:36.56
We got a motor home now.
00:45:36.60\00:45:38.67
We graduated from
tents to motor home so.
00:45:38.70\00:45:41.07
Okay, okay. Yeah.
00:45:41.10\00:45:42.44
I'm with that.
00:45:42.47\00:45:43.81
But, yeah, the
angels of the Lord,
00:45:43.84\00:45:45.64
so the Lord sends
His angels to protect us.
00:45:45.67\00:45:50.01
Even when we're
not believers, right?
00:45:50.05\00:45:51.68
Yes.
00:45:51.71\00:45:53.05
Even when we're out in
the world like we look back,
00:45:53.08\00:45:54.42
we think, wow, God was
actually watching over me
00:45:54.45\00:45:56.75
with all the things I did.
00:45:56.79\00:45:58.12
Yes. It could
have been really bad.
00:45:58.15\00:45:59.52
Yes.
00:45:59.55\00:46:00.89
I don't know how I
got through that that.
00:46:00.92\00:46:02.26
Praise His love and mercy,
He didn't want you to die,
00:46:02.29\00:46:04.16
He could see the future,
knew that you at some point,
00:46:04.19\00:46:07.26
all of us would accept Him
and be workers in the vineyard
00:46:07.30\00:46:11.13
so you know God in His
mercy and all-knowing wisdom.
00:46:11.17\00:46:14.54
But, Jay, the very next says,
00:46:14.57\00:46:15.94
oh, taste and see
the Lord is good."
00:46:15.97\00:46:17.44
Oh, yes.
00:46:17.47\00:46:18.81
Blessed is the man
00:46:18.84\00:46:20.18
that trusteth in Him.
00:46:20.21\00:46:25.08
Blessed is the man
that trusteth in Him,
00:46:25.11\00:46:27.15
so we should all be blessed.
00:46:27.18\00:46:28.65
There's no
reason you can say oh,
00:46:28.68\00:46:30.62
one of the friends
that we used to know
00:46:30.65\00:46:32.15
in ministry as a
supporting ministry.
00:46:32.19\00:46:34.72
At church I
would call him I'd say,
00:46:34.76\00:46:36.56
"Brother, how you doing?"
00:46:36.59\00:46:37.93
He'd say, I tell
you the devil's beat me.
00:46:37.96\00:46:39.89
You know, the
devil's beat me up.
00:46:39.93\00:46:42.00
No matter when I call
and how often talked to him
00:46:42.03\00:46:44.40
about once a month,
how you doing, Brother?
00:46:44.43\00:46:46.30
The devil's beat me.
00:46:46.33\00:46:48.20
So finally he
said, "How you doing?"
00:46:48.24\00:46:49.87
I know who that is.
00:46:49.90\00:46:51.61
I think you do too.
00:46:51.64\00:46:52.97
Oh, yes. Yeah.
00:46:53.01\00:46:54.34
Well, I'm not
going to say but...
00:46:54.38\00:46:57.25
But then I would say
he'd say, "How are you doing?"
00:46:57.28\00:47:00.18
I'd say, "If I was any
better, I couldn't stand."
00:47:00.22\00:47:01.95
"You get a big donation?"
00:47:01.98\00:47:04.89
I said, "No, I'm blessed.
00:47:04.92\00:47:06.59
I'm blessed, you know.
00:47:06.62\00:47:07.96
I read the back of
the book Revelation,
00:47:07.99\00:47:10.16
it says, we win,
they overcame him
00:47:10.19\00:47:12.09
by the blood of the Lamb
00:47:12.13\00:47:13.46
and the word of their testimony.
00:47:13.50\00:47:14.83
I'm not worried about
all these little things
00:47:14.86\00:47:16.46
that happened around, you know."
00:47:16.50\00:47:17.87
And he's say, "Oh, okay, well,
I thought maybe, you know."
00:47:17.90\00:47:20.44
So I said, "No, no,
no, we should always say
00:47:20.47\00:47:23.41
praise the Lord from
whom all blessings flow."
00:47:23.44\00:47:25.74
Yes.
00:47:25.77\00:47:27.11
Count our blessing instead
of sheep as that old song says.
00:47:27.14\00:47:29.34
Yes, yes, absolutely.
00:47:29.38\00:47:32.25
So much thinking therefore.
00:47:32.28\00:47:36.45
That's experience.
00:47:36.48\00:47:37.82
Pastor Rafferty, Isaiah 41:10?
00:47:37.85\00:47:41.06
Isaiah 41:10, "Fear
not, for I am with you,
00:47:41.09\00:47:45.63
do not be
dismayed, for I am your God.
00:47:45.66\00:47:48.16
I will strengthen you.
00:47:48.20\00:47:49.53
Yes, I will help
you, I will uphold you
00:47:49.56\00:47:52.37
with My righteous right hand."
00:47:52.40\00:47:55.07
I was going to read it from...
00:47:55.10\00:47:56.44
I've got it here
in my phone Bible
00:47:56.47\00:47:59.27
which is New King James
00:47:59.31\00:48:00.81
and I was thinking
about it in the King James.
00:48:00.84\00:48:02.34
Yeah.
00:48:02.38\00:48:03.71
I'll uphold you, ye.
00:48:03.75\00:48:05.11
Yeah.
00:48:05.15\00:48:08.52
I was almost
switching that automatically
00:48:08.55\00:48:10.32
as I was reading the verse.
00:48:10.35\00:48:11.69
I love it.
00:48:11.72\00:48:13.05
Yeah, and then Isaiah
43:1-3, which just that's one,
00:48:13.09\00:48:18.13
three of my favorites.
00:48:18.16\00:48:19.56
"Fear not, for
I've redeemed you,
00:48:19.59\00:48:21.66
I've called you by
name, you are mine.
00:48:21.70\00:48:25.17
When you pass
through the waters,
00:48:25.20\00:48:27.54
I will be with
you into the rivers.
00:48:27.57\00:48:29.40
They will not overflow you,
when you walk through the fire,
00:48:29.44\00:48:32.71
you will not be burned,
00:48:32.74\00:48:34.08
neither will the
flame kindle upon you,
00:48:34.11\00:48:35.74
for I am the Lord your God,
00:48:35.78\00:48:37.88
the Holy One of
Israel, your Savior."
00:48:37.91\00:48:40.32
Who's that? Who wrote that?
00:48:40.35\00:48:42.08
Isaiah. Isaiah.
00:48:42.12\00:48:43.79
So that was something
that three worthies there
00:48:43.82\00:48:46.02
and Daniel, they
were familiar with.
00:48:46.05\00:48:47.82
Oh.
00:48:47.86\00:48:49.22
Because Isaiah was
before the Babylonian captivity,
00:48:49.26\00:48:52.33
before they went into Babylon.
00:48:52.36\00:48:54.00
So if you know that when
you pass through the fire.
00:48:54.03\00:48:57.37
Yeah, that's it.
00:48:57.40\00:48:58.73
You should be singing
that to some through the water,
00:48:58.77\00:49:00.94
some through the fire.
00:49:00.97\00:49:02.30
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:49:02.34\00:49:03.67
Some through great riches,
but all are great trials,
00:49:03.71\00:49:06.68
but all through the blood.
00:49:06.71\00:49:08.24
Yeah.
00:49:08.28\00:49:09.61
So we're going
through the fire that song.
00:49:09.64\00:49:11.21
Yeah.
00:49:11.25\00:49:12.58
You can sing that, you
got to sing that for us
00:49:12.61\00:49:14.12
one of these days.
00:49:14.15\00:49:15.48
Ryan Day takes off
00:49:15.52\00:49:16.85
when songwriting
our Sabbath school.
00:49:16.89\00:49:18.59
Yeah, that's good.
He takes all the time.
00:49:18.62\00:49:20.49
Lot of them like the present.
00:49:20.52\00:49:23.69
Yeah.
00:49:23.73\00:49:25.29
But, yeah, those
verses to me say that
00:49:25.33\00:49:29.93
with each level of
trial that you have.
00:49:29.96\00:49:32.93
That's good.
00:49:32.97\00:49:34.30
You know, if it's the waters,
00:49:34.34\00:49:35.67
that's one level,
basic, the rivers...
00:49:35.70\00:49:38.81
That's another level.
00:49:38.84\00:49:40.18
That's another
level, and then the fire.
00:49:40.21\00:49:42.71
That's the deepest,
00:49:42.74\00:49:44.08
that's the worst
you could go through.
00:49:44.11\00:49:46.18
But at each level, fear
not, I have redeemed you.
00:49:46.21\00:49:50.55
I've called you by
name, that is so intimate.
00:49:50.59\00:49:53.42
Yes.
00:49:53.46\00:49:54.79
You are mine.
00:49:54.82\00:49:56.16
Again showing His love,
00:49:56.19\00:49:57.53
showing the
direction of His love.
00:49:57.56\00:49:59.39
Which way is that direction?
00:49:59.43\00:50:01.10
It's toward us.
00:50:01.13\00:50:03.06
And so, that for
me, I love those verses.
00:50:03.10\00:50:06.90
Isaiah has some
beautiful... He does.
00:50:06.94\00:50:09.34
Beautiful verses.
00:50:09.37\00:50:10.84
We just as we get
older we understand
00:50:10.87\00:50:12.61
from the spiritual perspective,
because as Christians,
00:50:12.64\00:50:16.14
we learn to live
00:50:16.18\00:50:17.51
in the spiritual
and not physical.
00:50:17.55\00:50:19.18
So, again, I meet so many people
00:50:19.21\00:50:22.82
that are discouraged with God
00:50:22.85\00:50:24.39
because son or
daughter, someone died.
00:50:24.42\00:50:27.96
And I always tell them,
"Well, who hasn't died?"
00:50:27.99\00:50:29.92
I mean, think of all
the billions of people
00:50:29.96\00:50:31.89
on planet earth
and show me one that's,
00:50:31.93\00:50:34.10
that lived more
than 130 years ago.
00:50:34.13\00:50:36.56
Everybody hear is new or
new people on this earth.
00:50:36.60\00:50:40.07
And as already
mentioned, precious in the sight
00:50:40.10\00:50:42.37
of the Lord are the
death of His saints.
00:50:42.40\00:50:43.91
So what I try to understand
is, it's not about this life.
00:50:43.94\00:50:48.91
So even when we
die, he's like oh,
00:50:48.94\00:50:51.38
boy, my prayers weren't heard.
00:50:51.41\00:50:52.75
No, if we died in the Lord,
00:50:52.78\00:50:54.28
that's what we
should be praying for.
00:50:54.32\00:50:55.68
Amen.
00:50:55.72\00:50:57.05
Because all of us are going
to die should the Lord tarry.
00:50:57.09\00:50:58.99
That's no big deal.
00:50:59.02\00:51:00.46
It's that are we
ready to meet Jesus?
00:51:00.49\00:51:04.23
So we shouldn't
base God's love to us
00:51:04.26\00:51:06.83
based on what did He
give me this, did I get that
00:51:06.86\00:51:09.20
because I was really
wanting that new car,
00:51:09.23\00:51:11.20
or I wanted this
or, you know, that?
00:51:11.23\00:51:13.97
No, no, we don't do that,
that He's giving us His Word,
00:51:14.00\00:51:17.67
so that we can
stick to this Word,
00:51:17.71\00:51:20.31
and by the Holy Spirit,
00:51:20.34\00:51:23.41
by the
knowledge that He gives us
00:51:23.45\00:51:25.41
the understanding and that
He's able to change hearts,
00:51:25.45\00:51:28.42
that we now are
looking as Hebrews Chapter 11,
00:51:28.45\00:51:31.45
we're looking for
all, we're sojourners,
00:51:31.49\00:51:34.52
you know, we're
here, but there's our home,
00:51:34.56\00:51:37.26
we're like the homing pigeon,
00:51:37.29\00:51:38.63
you know, you, that's
always, you know, comes back.
00:51:38.66\00:51:41.70
Well, we're going, we
were originated in heaven
00:51:41.73\00:51:44.50
through God.
00:51:44.53\00:51:45.87
So we're going to go
back, we go through this life,
00:51:45.90\00:51:48.50
but we always realize
we're just strangers here
00:51:48.54\00:51:51.34
that we'll make into
heaven, so praise God.
00:51:51.37\00:51:53.71
So if we can
concentrate more on the spirit
00:51:53.74\00:51:57.21
when we're
reading all these texts,
00:51:57.25\00:51:58.88
on the spiritual part,
that God's going to save us,
00:51:58.91\00:52:02.15
because He loves us so much.
00:52:02.18\00:52:03.69
It's up to you and
me, as I said earlier,
00:52:03.72\00:52:05.85
no one can cost
us our salvation.
00:52:05.89\00:52:08.66
Devil is not
strong enough to do that.
00:52:08.69\00:52:10.66
God is all powerful.
00:52:10.69\00:52:12.19
So it's just between us and Him.
00:52:12.23\00:52:14.56
And all we have to do, I
think it's actually harder,
00:52:14.60\00:52:18.43
or I think it's easier to
be saved than it is to be lost.
00:52:18.47\00:52:22.64
You know, really,
I didn't think that
00:52:22.67\00:52:24.27
growing up sometimes as kid,
00:52:24.31\00:52:25.91
we heard all
the do's and don'ts.
00:52:25.94\00:52:27.28
Yes.
00:52:27.31\00:52:28.64
But the very fact is,
it's a very simple plan,
00:52:28.68\00:52:30.68
for God so loved the world
00:52:30.71\00:52:32.05
that He gave His
only begotten Son,
00:52:32.08\00:52:33.78
that whosoever believeth
in Him should not perish,
00:52:33.82\00:52:37.12
but have everlasting life.
00:52:37.15\00:52:39.59
I mean, there it is, in a
nutshell, the love of God.
00:52:39.62\00:52:42.59
Yeah.
00:52:42.62\00:52:43.96
And we got to look at
who's doing the saving
00:52:43.99\00:52:45.33
and who's doing the losing.
00:52:45.36\00:52:46.70
Yeah.
00:52:46.73\00:52:48.06
So God's doing the saving
00:52:48.10\00:52:49.43
and the Satan is
doing the losing.
00:52:49.46\00:52:50.80
So who's more powerful? God.
00:52:50.83\00:52:52.17
I think the guy that's doing
the saving is more powerful
00:52:52.20\00:52:53.84
than the guy who is
doing the losing, right?
00:52:53.87\00:52:55.70
But Satan wants us to
think that he's more powerful.
00:52:55.74\00:52:57.54
Yes.
00:52:57.57\00:52:58.91
And he gets our mind on
his powering focused on him.
00:52:58.94\00:53:01.74
That's why when you
read the Book of Revelation.
00:53:01.78\00:53:04.21
Back to Revelation.
00:53:04.25\00:53:06.21
Everyone
focuses on the negative.
00:53:06.25\00:53:07.88
That's true.
00:53:07.92\00:53:09.25
Jesus is all through the book,
00:53:09.28\00:53:10.62
and you get
focusing on the negative
00:53:10.65\00:53:11.99
and you lose sight of the power
00:53:12.02\00:53:13.36
and then you get overwhelmed
00:53:13.39\00:53:14.72
and then you start thinking,
00:53:14.76\00:53:16.09
how am I going
to make it through
00:53:16.12\00:53:17.46
the, you know, the last plagues?
00:53:17.49\00:53:18.83
I thought it was going
to be raptured out of here.
00:53:18.86\00:53:20.20
Yeah.
00:53:20.23\00:53:21.56
No problem if you
got your mind on Jesus,
00:53:21.60\00:53:22.93
because anywhere
where Jesus I can safely go.
00:53:22.96\00:53:24.30
Yes, come on.
00:53:24.33\00:53:25.67
Anywhere. Anywhere.
00:53:25.70\00:53:27.04
Here I cannot know.
00:53:27.07\00:53:28.40
Yes, that's beautiful.
00:53:28.44\00:53:30.21
And that's encouraging too,
you know, that is encouraging.
00:53:30.24\00:53:33.31
And, you know, let's look at
00:53:33.34\00:53:34.88
how He
professes His love for us.
00:53:34.91\00:53:36.95
You called in on John 3:16.
00:53:36.98\00:53:39.71
But there's also
Romans 5:6-8, which says,
00:53:39.75\00:53:43.15
"For when we were
still without strength,
00:53:43.18\00:53:45.39
in due time Christ
died for the ungodly.
00:53:45.42\00:53:48.56
For scarcely for a
righteous man will one die,
00:53:48.59\00:53:51.29
yet perhaps for a good man,
someone would even dare to die.
00:53:51.33\00:53:55.10
But God demonstrates
His own love toward us,
00:53:55.13\00:53:58.93
in that while we
were still sinners,
00:53:58.97\00:54:01.74
Christ died for us."
00:54:01.77\00:54:03.10
There comes that King James.
00:54:03.14\00:54:04.47
He didn't wait for us to
be perfect to die for us.
00:54:04.51\00:54:07.14
He died for us while
we were still sinners.
00:54:07.18\00:54:09.38
That's right. That's powerful.
00:54:09.41\00:54:10.91
That's love.
00:54:10.95\00:54:12.28
That is.
00:54:12.31\00:54:13.65
And so, I'm so
happy that that sacrifice
00:54:13.68\00:54:16.08
has been made during that time,
00:54:16.12\00:54:18.42
there's no
greater love than that.
00:54:18.45\00:54:20.66
That's right.
There's no greater love.
00:54:20.69\00:54:22.02
That's right.
00:54:22.06\00:54:23.39
That's why when I
think about God's,
00:54:23.43\00:54:24.76
you know, what we started with,
00:54:24.79\00:54:26.13
with the length
and breadth and width,
00:54:26.16\00:54:27.50
you know, the width of God's
love is it's all inclusive.
00:54:27.53\00:54:30.10
You know, God
so loved the world.
00:54:30.13\00:54:31.53
Yeah.
00:54:31.57\00:54:32.90
If I be lifted
up, I will draw all,
00:54:32.93\00:54:34.27
you know, in
Isaiah 53:6, it says,
00:54:34.30\00:54:37.27
you know, "All we like
sheep have gone astray,
00:54:37.31\00:54:39.44
and the Lord laid on
him the iniquity of us all."
00:54:39.47\00:54:42.44
Even like you
said earlier, Danny,
00:54:42.48\00:54:44.05
you know, God
knew certain people
00:54:44.08\00:54:45.65
were going to do certain
things and He could use them,
00:54:45.68\00:54:47.35
but even people
who, you know, He knew
00:54:47.38\00:54:50.32
weren't maybe going
to change like Judas,
00:54:50.35\00:54:52.19
Jesus still washed his feet.
00:54:52.22\00:54:53.56
Jesus still invited
him in The Last Supper.
00:54:53.59\00:54:55.06
You know, what I'm saying. Yes.
00:54:55.09\00:54:56.42
Jesus still said to the leaders,
00:54:56.46\00:54:59.69
Father forgive them for
they know not what they do.
00:54:59.73\00:55:01.90
So you got that, you've
got that, I love that width,
00:55:01.93\00:55:04.60
because it's all inclusive
00:55:04.63\00:55:05.97
and then you've got that length.
00:55:06.00\00:55:07.77
You know, I think of
God's longsuffering love,
00:55:07.80\00:55:09.87
God is longsuffering to us,
00:55:09.90\00:55:11.67
just goes longer
and longer and longer.
00:55:11.71\00:55:13.58
I think about the
depth of God's love
00:55:13.61\00:55:15.24
how he came all the way,
00:55:15.28\00:55:16.61
Jesus came all
the way down, right?
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And the height of God's love is,
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we're going to sit
with Him on His throne.
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That's what it
says in Revelation 3.
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I've got a place
for you on my throne.
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Yes.
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Amen.
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That brings us right
back to the love of God
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is greater far than
tongue or pen can ever tell.
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It goes beyond,
as you just said,
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the highest star and
reaches to the lowest hell.
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There's, you can't
confine God's love.
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And so that's
incredible, then the very last,
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oh, love of God,
how rich and pure,
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how measureless and strong,
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it shall forever
forevermore endure,
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the saints' and angels' song.
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We serve a God of love.
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Amen. And that's so powerful.
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You know, He loves us so much
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that whether or not we
choose to believe in Him,
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He still loves us.
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I remember I was having a
conversation with an atheist.
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He was my Uber driver.
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And we're just
talking and he was like,
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"Well, what are
you out here for?"
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And I said, "You know, I'm here.
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I'm a general manager
00:56:11.90\00:56:13.23
of a Christian
television network.
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And we've got a camp meeting
going on and everything."
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And he was like,
"Well, no offense,
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I don't believe in God."
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I said, "None taken."
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I said the same God
I serve is the same one
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that allows you
to have the choice
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whether or not
you want to serve Him.
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Amen. He loves you that much.
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So that's your
choice, no offense.
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And so we just talked and
then just planted the seed
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and who knows where God...
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Absolutely. Yeah.
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Did or where He will take it.
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My job is not to convict,
I'm not the Holy Spirit.
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That's right.
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So, you know, he's
going to work on the heart
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and so just pray
for that individual.
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But that's how much God loves us
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to give us that choice.
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He doesn't force
us... That's right.
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He died for that choice.
00:56:50.94\00:56:52.27
Jesus died to
preserve that choice.
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That's why I think one of
the greatest condemnations
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that you find in the Bible
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is against a
system called Babylon
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because it compels and forces
people against their choice,
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against their freedom.
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And God says that
system is coming down
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and I'm going to bring
it down with the gospel.
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I'm going to bring
it down with the cross,
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because on the cross, I died.
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And I said, they can choose
whichever way they want to go,
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I'm not going to force them.
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That's beautiful. It's great.
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And praise God for that.
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We don't like to be
forced with anything.
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That's right.
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And that's human tendency.
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We want to give up the red,
we don't want to taken out of.
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That's right. That's right.
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And so, to sum it all up,
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love's direction
points heavenward.
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So God pours out His
love, and we look up to Him.
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Amen.
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Until next time, God bless you.
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