HOPEFULLY YOU'VE BEEN PLED BY OUR DISCUSSION. 00:00:15.34\00:00:19.45 I'M SEEING -- I'M CA MURRAY. AND SHELLEY, THESE ARE 00:00:19.45\00:00:30.03 DOCTRINES, EACH COULD BE IN DISCUSSION, CONVICTION, 00:00:30.03\00:00:35.26 REPENTANCE, AS PART OF OUR EXPERIENCE OF SALVATION AND THE 00:00:35.26\00:00:39.53 ULTIMATE REDEMPTION THAT COMES TO US WHEN CHRIST RETURNS. 00:00:39.53\00:00:42.77 SO WE HAVE A LOT TO TRY TO COVER IN THE SECOND HOUR. 00:00:42.77\00:00:48.14 AGAIN WE WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU, IF YOU WANT SOMETHING YOU WANT 00:00:48.14\00:00:52.55 TO WEIGH ON, AND THERE'S A LOT TO TALK ABOUT. 00:00:52.55\00:00:55.18 THESE ARE SUCH EXCITING SUBJECTS. 00:00:55.18\00:00:57.65 THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT THRILLS OUR SOULS. 00:00:57.65\00:01:00.26 IT LET'S US KNOW WE SERVE A LOVING GOD WHO HAS CALLED US, 00:01:00.26\00:01:04.16 HAS TAKEN CARE OF OUR PEOPLE, AND WILL TAKE CARE OF OUR PEOPLE 00:01:04.16\00:01:08.96 IF WE COOPERATE. >> AND WE ALSO WANT TO LET YOU 00:01:08.96\00:01:12.47 KNOW, WE HAVE A FREE OFFER TONIGHT. 00:01:12.47\00:01:15.50 IT IS THE PLAN OF REDEMPTION. IT'S ACTUALLY 6 PAGES IN ONE 00:01:15.50\00:01:19.84 PAGE. IT'S A BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN STORY 00:01:19.84\00:01:22.88 THAT WAS, THAT WAS WRITTEN AND PRODUCED AND DISTRIBUTED BY 00:01:22.88\00:01:27.52 LIGHT BEARS. IF YOU CALL IN AND YOU WILL 00:01:27.52\00:01:30.29 ENJOY THIS AND YOU WILL ALSO MAKE A WONDERFUL HAND OUT. 00:01:30.29\00:01:34.22 YOU COULD CALL US 6 # 8-627-4651. 00:01:34.22\00:01:39.16 OR E-MAIL US AT FREE OFFER AT 3ABN.TV. 00:01:39.16\00:01:44.03 >> AMEN. WE PRAISE THE LORD. 00:01:44.03\00:01:45.73 WE'LL GO RIGHT TO OUR MUSIC AND WE'LL COME BACK AND LAUNCH OUT. 00:01:45.73\00:01:51.67 WE WANT TO MOVE TO JUSTIFICATION. 00:01:51.67\00:01:55.41 JUSTIFICATION IS SO BEAUTIFUL, WHEN MARTIN LUTHER WAS STUDYING, 00:01:55.41\00:01:59.85 HE STOPPED THERE. HE DIDN'T REALLY GET TO 00:01:59.85\00:02:08.02 SANCTICATION. WE WILL UNPACK IS IN A LITTLE 00:02:08.02\00:02:09.72 BIT. WHAT A WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL, 00:02:09.72\00:02:13.63 GOD-BREATHED DOCTRINE. AND FOR NOW, OUR MUSIC IS COMING 00:02:13.63\00:02:19.43 FROM PASTOR JOHN LOMACANG. AND HE WILL BE SINGING "A 00:02:19.43\00:02:26.44 CHASING OF THE WIND." EVERY HEART IS FILLED WITH 00:02:26.44\00:02:50.30 LONGING ¤ TO BE FREE FROM ALL LIFE'S 00:02:50.30\00:02:59.24 STRAINS ¤ YET THE SEARCH TO EARTHLY 00:02:59.24\00:03:05.15 PLEA PLEASURES ARE INGRAIN ¤ 00:03:05.15\00:03:17.49 ONLY GOD WHO MADE THE HEAVENS ¤ CAN STAND BY YOUR FALL ¤ 00:03:17.49\00:03:32.84 APART FROM HIM AND ALL THE MEANING ¤ 00:03:32.84\00:03:39.68 ALL THINGS FILLED AS THEY BEGIN ¤ 00:03:39.68\00:03:46.22 AND HARD TO KEEP ¤ COULD ONLY HOPE ¤ 00:03:46.22\00:03:55.40 A CHASING OF THE WIND ¤ ALL ACHIEVEMENTS OR 00:03:55.40\00:04:15.22 POSSESSIONS ¤ ALL THE TIME RETURN TO DUST ¤ 00:04:15.22\00:04:22.86 ONLY GOD CAN BE A REASON FOR DEEP AND TRUST ¤ 00:04:22.86\00:04:41.14 BE ON GUARD FROM THE DANGER ¤ THAT GLADLY MAKE'S MAN ¤ 00:04:41.14\00:04:58.13 APART FROM HIM AND STREAMING AND ALL THINGS FAIL AND THEY BEGIN 00:04:58.13\00:05:11.14 AND HEART TO SEE, COULD ONLY KNOW, A CHASING OF THE WIND ¤ 00:05:11.14\00:05:28.66 A CHASING OF THE WIND ¤ 00:05:28.66\00:05:34.83 ¤ WHY DO WE WASTE ANOTHER DAY ¤ 00:05:45.24\00:05:59.82 HE'S THE LIGHT ¤ THE ONLY HOPE FOR US TODAY ¤ 00:05:59.82\00:06:13.13 SO TELL ME WHY DO WE LIVE ¤ WHY DO WE LIVE WITHOUT HIM ¤ 00:06:13.13\00:06:32.22 LOMACANG, "CHASING OF THE WIND." WE MOVE TO THE DOCTRINE OF 00:06:51.91\00:07:00.95 PROCLAMATION, DOCTRINE THAT FREED MARTIN LUTHER FROM THE 00:07:00.95\00:07:05.75 FELLOWS FROM THE PLEASURE OF GOD, FROM THE PILGRIMAGES AND 00:07:05.75\00:07:13.53 SUFFERING AND SELF-FLAGRATION, THE WONDERFUL DOCTRINE CALLED 00:07:13.53\00:07:18.23 JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH. I WANT TO READ A TEXT AND HAVE 00:07:18.23\00:07:24.61 SHELLEY HAVE IT. 2 CORINTHIANS 5:21. 00:07:24.61\00:07:30.05 GOD IN HIS LOVE AND MERCY MADE CHRIST, TO BE SIN FOR US THAT WE 00:07:30.05\00:07:35.32 MAY BECOME THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD IN HIM. 00:07:35.32\00:07:39.59 >> ISN'T THAT AN AMAZING THOUGHT? 00:07:39.59\00:07:43.19 >> YEAH. >> AND LET'S DEFINE 00:07:43.19\00:07:46.59 JUSTIFICATION. BOTH CONDEMNATION AND 00:07:46.59\00:07:49.83 JUSTIFICATION ARE FORENSIC TERMS. 00:07:49.83\00:07:51.27 >> THEY ARE. >> THEY HAVE TO DO WITH 00:07:51.27\00:07:57.07 EVIDENCE, EXAMINING THE EVIDENCE. 00:07:57.07\00:08:00.61 CONDEMNATION MEANS YOU FOUND ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO FIND AN 00:08:00.61\00:08:04.38 ACCUSED PARTY GUILTY AND DECLARE THAT THEY ARE GUILTY AND THAT, 00:08:04.38\00:08:09.32 YOU KNOW, THEY ARE GOING TO GET A SENTENCE, A PUNISHMENT. 00:08:09.32\00:08:13.62 JUSTIFICATION IS JUST THE OPPOSITE. 00:08:13.62\00:08:17.49 JUSTIFICATION IS TO PRONOUNCE AND ACQUITTAL BECAUSE -- THERE'S 00:08:17.49\00:08:24.70 NO EVIDENCE AGAINST HIM. YOU ARE MAKING AN OFFICIAL 00:08:24.70\00:08:29.94 DECLARATION THAT THEY ARE INNOCENT. 00:08:29.94\00:08:31.84 SO HOW DID -- HOW DID WE GET JUSTIFIED? 00:08:31.84\00:08:36.95 IT IS PURELY. THIS IS A DEFINE SOVEREIGN ACT 00:08:36.95\00:08:40.75 OF THE LORD. OUR JUSTIFICATION IS BECAUSE HE 00:08:40.75\00:08:43.39 SENT JESUS CHRIST TO BE A PROPISATION, THE BLOOD OF 00:08:43.39\00:08:49.06 CHRIST, THE DEATH OF CHRIST, THE ATONEMENT OF JESUS CHRIST IS WHY 00:08:49.06\00:08:53.56 GOD COULD SAY AS JESUS STOOD IN FOR OUR SUBSTITUTE, HE DIED THE 00:08:53.56\00:09:00.14 DEATH THAT WE DESERVE. AND THEN THE BLOOD OF CHRIST IS 00:09:00.14\00:09:05.51 COVERING THAT RECORD OF SIN AND SAYS, HEY, YOU ARE JUSTIFIED BY 00:09:05.51\00:09:10.68 FAITH. SO IT CHANGES YOUR RECORD. 00:09:10.68\00:09:13.65 IT IS THE IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS OF JESUS. 00:09:13.65\00:09:17.79 >> TWO TERMS I WANT TO TRY TO TALK A LITTLE BIT AND USE THEM 00:09:17.79\00:09:22.22 AND USE THEM WELL. ONE HAS TO DO WITH FORENSIC. 00:09:22.22\00:09:25.79 FORENSIC HAS TO DO WITH QUANTIFYING EVIDENCE. 00:09:25.79\00:09:28.70 AND BASICALLY YOU HAVE A PILE OF STUFF, SAYS YOU'RE GUILTY. 00:09:28.70\00:09:31.87 I COULD SEE IT, COULD EXAMINE IT AND IT SAYS YOU'RE GUILTY. 00:09:31.87\00:09:36.60 SO FORENSIC SAYS THAT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE CAN HOLD 00:09:36.60\00:09:39.81 AGAINST YOU. BUT WHAT IS BEAUTIFUL ABOUT 00:09:39.81\00:09:43.45 JUSTIFICATION IS THAT THAT EVIDENCE NO LONGER EXISTS 00:09:43.45\00:09:47.55 BECAUSE IT'S HIDDEN UNDER SOMETHING. 00:09:47.55\00:09:50.15 WHAT IS IT HIDDEN UNDER? IT'S HIDDEN UNDER THE BLOOD OF 00:09:50.15\00:09:53.89 CHRIST. SO WHEN GOD LOOKS AT YOUR 00:09:53.89\00:09:56.26 EVIDENCE, THE GUILT RECORD THAT YOU HAVE, YOU CAN'T SEE IT. 00:09:56.26\00:09:59.96 YOU COULD ONLY SEE THE SACRIFICES THAT CHRIST MED. 00:09:59.96\00:10:02.93 SO GIVEN THE FACT THAT HE DOESN'T SEE THAT, HE CAN DECLARE 00:10:02.93\00:10:09.07 YOU AS JUST AND RIGHTEOUS. HE COULD MAKE THAT, SO HE GIVES 00:10:09.07\00:10:13.51 YOU NOW CREDIT FOR SOMETHING YOU DON'T ALREADY HAVE. 00:10:13.51\00:10:16.88 THAT'S WHAT THE IMPUTED STATEMENT MEANS. 00:10:16.88\00:10:20.58 YOU'RE GETTING CREDIT FOR SOMETHING THAT ONLY EXISTS 00:10:20.58\00:10:23.42 BECAUSE GOD SAYS IT EXISTS. IT ONLY EXISTS BECAUSE HE 00:10:23.42\00:10:27.69 CHOOSES NOT TO SEE YOUR SINS. WHY? 00:10:27.69\00:10:30.83 JESUS HAS COVERED YOUR SINS WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS. 00:10:30.83\00:10:34.13 IT'S A FABULOUS DOCTRINE. >> THE WAY I WILL TALK ABOUT 00:10:34.13\00:10:39.00 RECONCILIATION IS IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT LIKE THIS. 00:10:39.00\00:10:42.80 WE OWED A DEBT THAT WAS SO GREAT, WE COULD NEVER PAY IT. 00:10:42.80\00:10:47.08 >> TRUE. >> IF YOU THINK OF GOD AS THE 00:10:47.08\00:10:49.94 INTERNATIONAL BANKER, WE HAVE A BANK ACCOUNT THAT IS SO FAR 00:10:49.94\00:10:54.18 OVERDRAWN THAT IT COULD NEVER EVER BE PAID. 00:10:54.18\00:10:57.05 >> OH. >> THERE'S NO WAY, A GUILTY 00:10:57.05\00:11:00.52 MAN -- IT HAD TO BE OUR CREATOR WHO DIED FOR US. 00:11:00.52\00:11:05.09 AND BECAUSE ALL MEN HAD SINNED. WE HAVE ALL BROKEN THE LAW. 00:11:05.09\00:11:09.50 HERE YOU HAVE THE BANK ACCOUNT THAT'S JUST SO FAR IN THE RED. 00:11:09.50\00:11:15.24 WHAT IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS IS THAT CHRIST RECORD, HIS PERFECT 00:11:15.24\00:11:22.31 LIFE. HE WAS TOTALLY SINLESS. 00:11:22.31\00:11:24.58 EVEN THOUGH THE BIBLE SAYS, HE WAS TEMPTED IN ANYWAY AS WE ARE 00:11:24.58\00:11:30.19 SO HE MIGHT BE SYMPATHETIC AND EMPATHETIC WITH US. 00:11:30.19\00:11:35.89 HE WAS WITHOUT SIN. HE MADE HIM, TO BE NO SIN FOR 00:11:35.89\00:11:40.26 US, THAT WE MAY BECOME RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD IN CHRIST 00:11:40.26\00:11:44.97 JESUS. CHRIST RIGHTEOUSNESS. 00:11:44.97\00:11:48.87 AND RIGHTEOUSNESS, MEANS, YOU'RE IN RIGHT STANDING WITH GOD. 00:11:48.87\00:11:54.24 HERE'S THE BANK ACCOUNT THAT'S JUST TANKED AND IT'S SO FAR IN 00:11:54.24\00:11:57.35 THE RED. SO CHRIST POURS HIS RECORD OF 00:11:57.35\00:12:00.48 HIS PERFECT LIFE AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN, HERE WE ARE, WE'VE 00:12:00.48\00:12:07.52 BEEN IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS. ALL OF HIS CREDIT, ALL HIS 00:12:07.52\00:12:12.39 RIGHTEOUSNESS HAS BEEN CREDITED TO US. 00:12:12.39\00:12:15.13 >> IT DOES KIND OF MAKE YOU LOOPY. 00:12:15.13\00:12:17.20 IT'S A WONDERFUL THING. WE'RE OVER IN LONDON, PASTOR 00:12:17.20\00:12:23.84 LOMACANG AND I. WE WERE LOOKING AT THE CROWN. 00:12:23.84\00:12:27.98 JOHN SAID TO THE CROWD, HOW MUCH DOES THE CROWN WORTH 00:12:27.98\00:12:34.12 >> WHAT'S THE NATIONAL DEBT. $18 MILLION-PLUS. 00:12:34.12\00:12:38.39 THAT MAY JUST PAY FOR IT. THAT MAY PAY THE DEBT OF YOUR 00:12:38.39\00:12:42.42 COUNTRY WELL, I THINK YOUR ILLUSTRATION 00:12:42.42\00:12:44.29 IS SO APP. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE DEBT OF SIN 00:12:44.29\00:12:47.03 THAT WE OWE, JUST ABOUT THE NATIONAL DEBT. 00:12:47.03\00:12:50.00 THERE'S NO WAY IT COULD BE YET CHRIST THROUGH HIS SINLESS LIFE, 00:12:50.00\00:12:59.71 IT WOULD MAKE YOU GO WOOHOO. DID YOU HAVE A STATEMENT? 00:12:59.71\00:13:09.95 >> NO, I WILL COME BACK TO SCRIPTURE IN A MINUTE. 00:13:09.95\00:13:14.36 >> I'M IN EFESSIANS. I WANTED TO START EPHESIANS 2:4. 00:13:14.36\00:13:21.56 GOD WHO IS RICH IN MERCY, BECAUSE OF HIS GREAT LOVE WHICH 00:13:21.56\00:13:25.73 YOU LOVES US, EVEN WHEN WE WERE DEAD IN TRESPASS MADE US ALIVE 00:13:25.73\00:13:30.84 TOGETHER IN CHRIST. BY GRACE, YOU HAVE BEEN SAVED 00:13:30.84\00:13:34.01 AND RAISED US UP TOGETHER AND MADE US SIT TOGETHER IN HEAVENLY 00:13:34.01\00:13:38.15 PLACES IN CHRIST JESUS. SO YOU SEE, IT'S ALL WOVEN INTO 00:13:38.15\00:13:43.32 THE SACRIFICE MADE BY CHRIST. THAT IN AGES TO COME, HE MAY 00:13:43.32\00:13:49.12 SHOW THE EXCEEDING RICHES OF HIS GRACE AND KINDNESS TOWARDS US 00:13:49.12\00:13:54.73 AGAIN IN CHRIST JESUS. SO THE LEVEL, THE KEY IS ALL 00:13:54.73\00:14:00.17 ABOUT CHRIST. YOU HIT THE FAMOUS, BY GRACE, 00:14:00.17\00:14:04.61 YOU HAVE BEEN SAVED, THROUGH FAITH. 00:14:04.61\00:14:07.01 AND NOT OF YOURSELF, IT IS THE GIFT OF GOD. 00:14:07.01\00:14:10.78 THE ONE TEXT WE TEND TO PULL OUT, WONDERFUL TEXT, STANDS ON 00:14:10.78\00:14:14.12 THE PROCEEDING TEXTS, THAT IS BASED ON THE SACRIFICE OF JESUS 00:14:14.12\00:14:19.59 CHRIST. >> AND THE IMPORTANT THING IS BY 00:14:19.59\00:14:21.96 GRACE, THROUGH FAITH, IT IS A GIFT. 00:14:21.96\00:14:25.03 THAT FAITH, IT IS LIKE, IN GENESIS 15:6, IT TALKED ABOUT 00:14:25.03\00:14:35.87 ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD. IT WAS CREDITED THROUGH HIM 00:14:35.87\00:14:38.61 THROUGH RIGHTEOUSNESS. PAUL REPEATS THAT SAME, IN 00:14:38.61\00:14:42.21 ROMANS 4:3, HE REPEATS THE SAME THING. 00:14:42.21\00:14:46.21 TO BELIEVE GOD MEANS YOU WERE RELYING ON HIM TOTALLY. 00:14:46.21\00:14:50.12 IT IS, AS YOU COME TO GOD AND SAY, LORD, I BELIEVE THAT YOU 00:14:50.12\00:14:55.46 DIED FOR ME. I'M A SINNER. 00:14:55.46\00:14:58.26 I NEED A SAVIOR. YOU NEED TO RECOGNIZE YOUR NEED 00:14:58.26\00:15:01.90 AS A SAVIOR. AS YOU DO THAT, YOU'RE 00:15:01.90\00:15:05.07 JUSTIFIED. I WANT TO ADD A SCRIPTURE. 00:15:05.07\00:15:08.34 >> PLEASE DO. >> EPHESIANS. 00:15:08.34\00:15:12.34 THIS IS ROMANS 5:17. I THINK IT IS MY FAVORITE 00:15:12.34\00:15:17.45 SCRIPTURE. IT SAYS, FOR IF ONE MANNY 00:15:17.45\00:15:20.32 OFFENSE, SPEAKING OF ADAM, IF BY SPEAKING ONE MAN'S OFFENSE, 00:15:20.32\00:15:27.89 WOULD ADAM AS A FATHER OF A HUMAN RACE, WHEN HE SINNED, WE 00:15:27.89\00:15:33.16 WERE ALL BORN WITH THE PROPENSITY OF SIN AS FALLEN 00:15:33.16\00:15:38.13 NATURE. IF BY THE ONE MAN'S DEATH REIGNS 00:15:38.13\00:15:44.14 THROUGH MUCH MORE, THOSE WHO RECEIVE AN ABUNDANCE OF GRACE 00:15:44.14\00:15:47.51 AND THE GIFT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS WILL REIGN IN LIFE THROUGH THE 00:15:47.51\00:15:52.38 ONE CHRIST JESUS. IT'S THE GIFT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. 00:15:52.38\00:15:58.02 RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH IS THE ONLY KIND OF RIGHTEOUSNESS THERE 00:15:58.02\00:16:01.92 IS. IT'S A BEAUTIFUL THOUGHT TO 00:16:01.92\00:16:04.33 THINK THAT HE WHO KNEW NO SIN BECAME SINFUL. 00:16:04.33\00:16:07.60 >> YEAH. IT'S A HUMBLING DOCTRINE. 00:16:07.60\00:16:11.87 YET AT THE SAME TIME AN EXHILARATING AND FREEING 00:16:11.87\00:16:15.07 DOCTRINE. BECAUSE IT FREES YOU FROM THE 00:16:15.07\00:16:17.51 SLAVERY OF TRYING TO WORK YOU INTO HEAVEN AS YOU ONCE LABORED 00:16:17.51\00:16:21.51 UNDERSTAND FROM THE IDEA, INDULGENCES AND PENANCE OR A 00:16:21.51\00:16:28.25 FORCED PENITTANCE, WILL GET YOU INTO THE -- THE WORD, PROPENS 00:16:28.25\00:16:37.89 SAYINGS, WHICH MEANS TOWARDS LEANING TOWARDS. 00:16:37.89\00:16:40.70 IF YOU'RE SAYING, HE'S WAITING FOR ME TO MAKE MISTAKES. 00:16:40.70\00:16:44.27 HE'S SITTING WITH SPRINGS BUT HE'S WAITING FOR TO YOU OPEN 00:16:44.27\00:16:47.74 YOUR HEART. HE'S KIND OF WAITING. 00:16:47.74\00:16:50.34 HE'S NOT WAITING TO CONDEMN YOU. HE'S WAITING TO PUT HIS ARMS 00:16:50.34\00:16:55.28 AROUND YOU AND LOVE YOU. >> IT TALKS ABOUT THE LORD 00:16:55.28\00:17:00.45 REJOICING OVER US. GOD HAS -- I THINK THE DOCTRINE 00:17:00.45\00:17:05.92 ON HELL HAS DONE MORE DAMAGE TO THE REPUTATION OF GOD THAN 00:17:05.92\00:17:09.56 ANYTHING ELSE. >> AGREED. 00:17:09.56\00:17:11.69 >> IT'S INCORRECT, THAT GOD BURNS FOREVER AND EVER. 00:17:11.69\00:17:16.90 AND I WANTED TO SAY THIS. ONCE I UNDERSTOOD JUSTIFICATION, 00:17:16.90\00:17:26.68 IT FREED ME. THAT'S REALLY OUR FIRST STAGE OF 00:17:26.68\00:17:31.55 SALVATION. >> YEAH. 00:17:31.55\00:17:32.05 >> IT IS CORRECT TO SAY I AM SAVED, I AM BEING SAVED AND I 00:17:32.05\00:17:39.02 WILL BE SAVED. BECAUSE JUSTIFICATION, THIS IS 00:17:39.02\00:17:44.86 ALL MY PAST SINS. GOD HAS CLEARED THE RECORD MUCH 00:17:44.86\00:17:49.20 HE'S NOT GOING TO STOP THERE. JESUS SAID HE CAME TO DESTROY 00:17:49.20\00:17:53.87 THE WORKS OF THE DEVIL. HE CAME, HE RECEIVED US AS WE 00:17:53.87\00:17:58.74 ARE BUT HE LOVES US TOO MUCH TO LEAVE US IN THAT CONDITION. 00:17:58.74\00:18:06.38 THE BEAUTY IS AN UNDERSTANDING, JUSTIFICATION IS A SOVEREIGN ACT 00:18:06.38\00:18:11.92 OF GOD, CHANGES OUR RECORD, FREE GIFT. 00:18:11.92\00:18:14.79 NOW IT'S GOT THE FREE GIFT OF SANCTIFICICATION. 00:18:14.79\00:18:28.97 SANCTIFICATION IS THE IMPARTED RIGHTEOUSNESS OF JESUS CHRIST. 00:18:28.97\00:18:33.48 IT'S WHEN CHRIST LIVES IN OUR HEART BY FAITH THROUGH THE POWER 00:18:33.48\00:18:36.85 OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. AND SUDDENLY YOU WERE TALKING 00:18:36.85\00:18:39.61 ABOUT HOW HE CHANGES YOU. AS WE WERE GOING THROUGH 00:18:39.61\00:18:43.18 REPENTANCE AND WE WERE REALIZING THINGS. 00:18:43.18\00:18:46.65 SUDDENLY WE REALIZE GOD IS WORKING THROUGH US TO DO INTO 00:18:46.65\00:18:53.63 SELF PLEASURE. AND HAD A FRIEND, HE HATED 00:18:53.63\00:18:58.67 CHRISTIAN MUSIC. HE WOULD LISTEN TO THE WESTERN 00:18:58.67\00:19:02.34 STATION. FEW MONTHS AFTER HIS CONVERSION. 00:19:02.34\00:19:05.67 HE WAS CATHOLIC. IT WAS SO FUNNY BECAUSE HE WENT 00:19:05.67\00:19:09.51 AFTER DOING HIS PARTY COCAINE AND HIS DRINKING AND STUFF, HE 00:19:09.51\00:19:14.65 WAS DATING DALLAS CHEERLEADERS, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH. 00:19:14.65\00:19:18.32 HE WOULD GO IN AFTER A NIGHT OF PARTYING. 00:19:18.32\00:19:21.59 THE PRIEST DID SOMETHING DIFFERENT AND HE TOLD HIM TO GO 00:19:21.59\00:19:27.30 READ HIS PSALM. HE'S IN MINISTRY TODAY. 00:19:27.30\00:19:33.10 HE SAID I'M DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD. 00:19:33.10\00:19:36.30 I'M JUST SINGING ALONG TO THE SONG ON THE RADIO. 00:19:36.30\00:19:39.91 ALL OF A SUDDEN, I REALIZED, IT WAS A CHRISTIAN SONG. 00:19:39.91\00:19:43.51 HE SAID, I KNEW IT. AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHEN I 00:19:43.51\00:19:49.68 STARTED LISTENING TO CHRISTIAN MUSIC BUT HE OBVIOUSLY WAS 00:19:49.68\00:19:54.56 LISTENING TO IT LONG ENOUGH -- >> THAT'S HOW GENTLE GOD IT. 00:19:54.56\00:19:59.13 >> YEAH, YEAH WHEN WE LOOK AT JUSTIFICATION 00:19:59.13\00:20:02.50 AND SANCTIFICATION, IT SHOWS HOW THOROUGH GOD IS IN DOLING WITH 00:20:02.50\00:20:10.41 US. JUSTIFICATION IS AN ACT WHEN GOD 00:20:10.41\00:20:13.38 SAYS, I DECLARE YOU RIGHTEOUS. THAT TAKES CARE OF YOU AT THE 00:20:13.38\00:20:17.91 BEGINNING OF YOUR WALK. IF SHELLEY QUINN COMES TO THE 00:20:17.91\00:20:21.78 LORD, JESUS, I ACCEPT YOU AND HAS A HEART ATTACK. 00:20:21.78\00:20:28.42 IT'S LIKE A THIEF IN THE CHRIST, YOU'RE IN. 00:20:28.42\00:20:32.06 YOU'VE BEEN DECLARED JUST. YOU HAVE BEEN DECLARED 00:20:32.06\00:20:36.97 RIGHTEOUS. YOU'VE BEEN DECLARED WORTHY. 00:20:36.97\00:20:40.60 IF SHELLEY QUINN, LORD I GIVE MYSELF TO YOU, AND LIVES 30 00:20:40.60\00:20:45.67 YEARS. GOD BEGINS THE SAME NIGHT DOING 00:20:45.67\00:20:47.78 A WORK THAT MAKES YOU MORE LIKE CHRIST SO THAT 30 YEARS LATER, 00:20:47.78\00:20:52.88 YOU ARE BETTER THAN YOU WERE AT THE BEGINNING BECAUSE THERE'S 00:20:52.88\00:20:55.75 MORE CHRIST NEW. YOUR WITNESS HAS CHANGED. 00:20:55.75\00:20:58.79 YOUR ABILITY TO STAND UP TOWARDS JESUS HAS CHANGED. 00:20:58.79\00:21:01.99 THE THINGS YOU LIKE ARE CHANGED. IF AT ANY POINT YOU ARE ALONG 00:21:01.99\00:21:06.29 THAT LINE, YOU CLOSE YOUR EYES IN DEATH, YOU'RE IN. 00:21:06.29\00:21:09.76 SO HE'S TAKEN CARE OF YOU FROM THE BEGINNING OF YOUR WORK TO 00:21:09.76\00:21:15.57 THE VERY END. AND AS LONG AS YOU HOLD ON TO 00:21:15.57\00:21:19.14 CHRIST, WHENEVER YOU CLOSE YOUR EYES, YOU ARE IN BECAUSE YOU ARE 00:21:19.14\00:21:24.45 JUSTIFIED. HE CALLED YOU RIGHTEOUS. 00:21:24.45\00:21:26.41 HE'S TREATING YOU AS RIGHTEOUS. HE'S DECLARED YOU THE SON OF 00:21:26.41\00:21:30.79 GOD. THE WORK OF GRACE IS MOVING 00:21:30.79\00:21:33.89 ITSELF. EACH DAY EUROMANS 12:1 HOLY 00:21:33.89\00:21:39.09 SACRIFICE TO HIM, TOTALLY ACCEPTABLE, SO WHEN YOU CLOSE 00:21:39.09\00:21:42.23 YOUR EYES, PRAISE GOD, YOU'RE IN. 00:21:42.23\00:21:44.90 >> I WANT TO SAY SOMETHING. I HAVE A GENTLEMAN WHO IS A 00:21:44.90\00:21:50.84 PRECIOUS BROTHER OF THE LORD. I WON'T CALL HIS NAME. 00:21:50.84\00:21:53.91 I WANT TO SAY THIS TO YOU. HE E-MAILS ME FREQUENTLY. 00:21:53.91\00:21:58.05 AND HE WILL SAY, YOU'RE PREACHING ON A DIFFERENT GOSPEL. 00:21:58.05\00:22:02.25 THAT IS WHAT HE WILL SAY. 3ABN IS PREACHING A DIFFERENT 00:22:02.25\00:22:06.79 GOSPEL. IT'S FINISHED. 00:22:06.79\00:22:08.22 THE WORK OF JESUS IS DONE. THERE'S NO MORE TO IT. 00:22:08.22\00:22:13.13 LET ME READ SOMETHING TO YOU. IN HEBREWS 13. 00:22:13.13\00:22:16.83 I LOVE THIS SCRIPTURE. NOW MAY THE GOD OF PEACE WHO 00:22:16.83\00:22:21.07 BROUGHT OUR LORD JESUS FROM THE DEAD, GREAT SHEPHERD OF THE 00:22:21.07\00:22:24.87 SHEEP THROUGH BLOOD OF THE EVER LASTING COVENNANT MAKE YOU 00:22:24.87\00:22:28.68 COMPLETE IN EVERY GOOD WORK TO DO HIS WILL, WORKING IN YOU WHAT 00:22:28.68\00:22:32.28 IS WELL PLEASING IN HIS SIGHT THROUGH JESUS CHRIST TO WHOM THE 00:22:32.28\00:22:38.32 GLORY FOREVER AND EVER. THERE'S AN EVER LASTING 00:22:38.32\00:22:44.06 COVENNANT. BIBLE SAYS, GOD KEEPS COVENNANT 00:22:44.06\00:22:48.20 BY THOSE WHO KEEPS COVENNANT THROUGH HIM. 00:22:48.20\00:22:52.83 AND REVELATION 1:6. THE GENTLEMAN'S IDEA, THAT'S A 00:22:52.83\00:22:59.07 DIFFERENT GOSPEL. WHEN IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE EVER 00:22:59.07\00:23:02.11 LASTING GOSPEL, IT'S THE SAME AS THE EVER LASTING COVENNANT, EVER 00:23:02.11\00:23:09.22 LASTING GOSPEL IN THE 3RD ANGEL SMITH. 00:23:09.22\00:23:12.95 AND IT'S SOMETHING WE HAVE TO RECOGNIZE, WHEN JESUS SAID ON 00:23:12.95\00:23:17.33 THE CROSS, IT IS FINISHED. WHAT WAS FINISHED ON THE CROSS, 00:23:17.33\00:23:23.77 IT WAS TOTALLY COMPLETE. THAT WAS THE PRICE THAT WAS PAID 00:23:23.77\00:23:27.04 FOR OUR JUSTIFICATION. THAT WAS THE PRICE THAT CHRIST 00:23:27.04\00:23:32.91 PAID TO BUY US BACK, IF YOU WILL, YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE SAYS 00:23:32.91\00:23:37.01 IN ROMANS 6:16. YOU ARE SLAVES TO THE ONE WE 00:23:37.01\00:23:45.25 OBEY. WE WERE IN THE CAMP OF SATAN. 00:23:45.25\00:23:48.59 HE BOUGHT US BACK. HE JUSTIFIED US. 00:23:48.59\00:23:52.16 YES SUS THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE, HE IS TALKING ABOUT HIS MINISTRY. 00:23:52.16\00:23:59.93 WHERE AM I WANTING TO GO? HEBREWS. 00:23:59.93\00:24:04.41 HEBREWS CHAPTER 4. OKAY. HEBREWS CHAPTER 4 SAYS 00:24:04.41\00:24:10.18 THIS. WE DO NOT HAVE A HIGH PRIEST 00:24:10.18\00:24:13.52 THAT CANNOT SYMPATHIZE WITH OUR WEAKNESS BUT WITH ALL POINTS 00:24:13.52\00:24:18.95 TEMPTED AS WE ARE YET WITHOUT SIN. 00:24:18.95\00:24:21.82 THERE'S A REASON WHY HE WENT THROUGH ALL OF THIS. 00:24:21.82\00:24:27.03 THEREFORE, LET HIM COME BOLDLY, THAT WE MAY OBTAIN MERCY AND 00:24:27.03\00:24:30.93 GRACE IN THE TIME OF NEED. BECAUSE WE HAVE A HIGH PRIEST, 00:24:30.93\00:24:35.47 AN ADVOCATE OF THE FATHER. JESUS SAID HIS FATHER WORKS TO 00:24:35.47\00:24:43.88 THIS DAY HE IS SITTING AT THE RIGHT 00:24:43.88\00:24:48.35 THROWN OF THE FATHER. HE'S THERE TO BE AN ADVOCATE, 00:24:48.35\00:24:52.09 SOMEBODY WHO COULD EMPATHIZE, TEMPTED IN ALL WAYS, HEBREWS 2, 00:24:52.09\00:24:58.23 IN ALL THINGS, HE HAD TO BE MADE. 00:24:58.23\00:25:00.96 THIS IS HEBREWS 2:17, LIKE HIS BRETHREN, HAS TO BE FAITHFUL. 00:25:00.96\00:25:10.34 AND HIS WORKS IS NOT FINISHED. HE'S UP THERE DOING THESE 00:25:10.34\00:25:14.91 THINGS. AND IT SAYS, FOR HIMSELF, HE'S 00:25:14.91\00:25:18.98 TEMPTED HE'S ABLE TO AID THOSE WHO ARE TEMPTED. 00:25:18.98\00:25:21.88 CHRIST IS VERY ACTIVE IN THE MINISTRY. 00:25:21.88\00:25:24.29 >> VERY MUCH SO. WHEN I HEARD, I WENT TO THE SAME 00:25:24.29\00:25:28.02 POINT FROM THE OTHER CHAPTER, HEBREWS 8:1. 00:25:28.02\00:25:32.93 THIS IS THE MAIN POINT FROM THE THINGS WE'RE SAYING. 00:25:32.93\00:25:35.16 WE HAVE SUCH A HIGH PRIEST, SEATED IN THE HIGH POINT OF THE 00:25:35.16\00:25:40.20 MAGISTRATE, IN THE HEAVEN, MINISTRY OF THE SANCTUARY AND A 00:25:40.20\00:25:44.57 TRUE TABERNACLE WHICH THE LORD ERECTED AND NOT MAN. 00:25:44.57\00:25:50.41 AND IT GOES TO JUSTIFY THE WORKS, THAT CHRIST HAS AT THE 00:25:50.41\00:25:55.18 PRESENT TIME. THERE'S BENEFITS FROM THE CREW. 00:25:55.18\00:25:57.52 IT'S LIKE YOU GET A CREDIT CARD. EVERY TIME YOU BUY SOMETHING, 00:25:57.52\00:26:01.09 YOU GET A LITTLE CASH BACK. YOU GET SOMETHING A LITTLE 00:26:01.09\00:26:06.33 EXTRA. CHRIST MADE A TOTAL AND COMPLETE 00:26:06.33\00:26:10.90 SACRIFICE, A EFICACIOUS SACRIFICE IN HEAVEN. 00:26:10.90\00:26:19.34 NOW HE'S MINISTERING THE BENEFITS OF THE SACRIFICE TO HIS 00:26:19.34\00:26:22.78 PEOPLE. IN THAT SENSE, THE PHASE OF THE 00:26:22.78\00:26:26.08 WORKS IS COMPLETE. THERE'S ANOTHER PHASE THAT'S 00:26:26.08\00:26:29.25 GOING ON NOW, THAT'S JUST AS IMPORTANT BASED ON THE WORKS OF 00:26:29.25\00:26:35.22 CALVARY. THAT'S WHAT HEBREWS IS TRYING TO 00:26:35.22\00:26:37.93 SAY. THERE'S STUFF YOU NEED THAT IS 00:26:37.93\00:26:39.39 AVAILABLE TO YOU. THE BOOK OF HEBREWS WAS WRITTEN 00:26:39.39\00:26:43.16 BY HEBREW CHRISTIANS, WHO WERE THINKING OF GOING BACK TO THE 00:26:43.16\00:26:47.67 HEBREW RELIGION. PAUL'S MESSAGE TO THE HEBREWS, 00:26:47.67\00:26:50.91 WHICH IS WHY YOU COULD FIND IT IN THE HEBREWS 2, HEBREWS 4 AND 00:26:50.91\00:26:58.18 A LITTLE HEBREWS 13. HE COME BACK, CHRIST IS THE REAL 00:26:58.18\00:27:04.19 DEAL, HE'S SUFFICIENT FOR YOU, HE'S MINISTERING TO YOU. 00:27:04.19\00:27:08.46 DON'T GIVE UP ON HIM BECAUSE HE'S NOT GIVING UP ON YOU. 00:27:08.46\00:27:13.86 WORK WITH HIM, SERVE HIM, AND HE WILL SAVE YOU. 00:27:13.86\00:27:17.30 >> AND THE WAY I LEARNED ABOUT SANCTIFICICATION. 00:27:17.30\00:27:25.71 I WAS PRAYING ONE DAY AND LORD, WHAT IS YOUR WILL FOR MY LIFE? 00:27:25.71\00:27:29.28 HE SAID LOOK IT UP. LET ME READ FIRST THESSOLIANES. 00:27:29.28\00:27:39.12 THERE'S PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW THE BIBLE DOCTRINE OF 00:27:39.12\00:27:45.79 SANCTICICATION. THESSALIANES, CHAPTER 4:3. 00:27:45.79\00:27:50.90 THIS IS THE WILL OF GOD. YOUR SANCTIFICATION. 00:27:50.90\00:27:56.04 GOD DID NOT CALL US TO UNCLEAN US BUT IN HOLINESS. 00:27:56.04\00:28:02.51 THEREFORE, HE WHO REJECTS THIS DOESN'T REJECT MAN. 00:28:02.51\00:28:06.72 GOD WHO ALSO HAS GIVEN US HIS HOLY SPIRIT. 00:28:06.72\00:28:12.65 GOD'S WILL FOR YOUR LIFE IS YOU'RE SANGTIVE FIED. 00:28:12.65\00:28:26.90 AND IN GREEK, IT IS HAGASMOS. WHICH MEANS, SANCTFICICATION. 00:28:26.90\00:28:39.88 THOSE ARE SYNONYMS. STRIFE TO LIVE IN PEACE WITH 00:28:39.88\00:28:46.72 EVERYBODY. AND PURSUE THE CONSECRATION AND 00:28:46.72\00:28:50.59 HOLINESS AND WITHOUT WHICH NO ONE WILL SEE THE LORD. 00:28:50.59\00:28:54.36 AND IF WE DON'T PURSUE HOLINESS. IF WE'RE NOT HOLY, WE ARE NOT 00:28:54.36\00:29:00.94 GOING TO SEE GOD. SANCTIFICATION IS CRITICAL. 00:29:00.94\00:29:07.38 WE HAVE TO BE SEPARATED FROM SIN. 00:29:07.38\00:29:09.11 YOU TALK ABOUT PURSUE HOLINESS AND PEOPLE JUST GET, THEY GET TO 00:29:09.11\00:29:17.52 TWITCHING. >> YEAH 00:29:17.52\00:29:18.72 I WAS GOING TO SAY, THEY GO CRAZY. 00:29:18.72\00:29:21.22 >> THEY GET TO TWITCHING. >> WHEN YOU REALIZE, TO PURSUE, 00:29:21.22\00:29:25.79 MEANS TO SEEK. SANCTIFICATION AND HOLINESS ARE 00:29:25.79\00:29:32.43 SYN SYNONYMS. 00:29:32.43\00:29:35.60 TO SEEK HOLINESS IS TO SEEK SANCTFICICATION. 00:29:35.60\00:29:41.78 AND THE BIBLE SAYS WE'RE SANCTIFIED BY THE GIFT OF HOLY 00:29:41.78\00:29:46.72 SPIRIT, THE GIFT OF GOD'S LOVE, THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE 00:29:46.72\00:29:50.92 GIFT OF FAITH. AND WE'RE SANGTIVE FID BY THE 00:29:50.92\00:29:59.23 HOLY SPIRIT. THIS IS GOD'S WORK. 00:29:59.23\00:30:01.63 THIS IS HOW GOD WORKS IN US TO WILL AND TO DO HIS GOOD 00:30:01.63\00:30:08.34 PLEASURE. IT HAS TO DO WITH US BEING WITH 00:30:08.34\00:30:13.81 THE LORD. HELP ME PICK UP MY CHRIST. 00:30:13.81\00:30:16.88 BY THE POWER OF HOLY SPIRIT, ROMANS 8:13-14. 00:30:16.88\00:30:22.95 AND PUT TO DEATH THE DEEDS OF MY FLESH. 00:30:22.95\00:30:28.62 FILL ME WITH YOUR FRESH SPIRIT. IT IS ONLY WITH THE SPIRIT'S 00:30:28.62\00:30:32.63 POWER THAT WE CAN BE SEPARATED FROM SIN. 00:30:32.63\00:30:37.93 AND THIS IS GOD'S WORK. ALL WE'RE DOING, HERE I AM, FILL 00:30:37.93\00:30:44.41 ME. >> WE GO BACK TO EPHESIANS 2:10. 00:30:44.41\00:30:49.71 WE ARE CREATED IN CHRIST. AND THAT'S CA MURRAY, IN 2016, 00:30:49.71\00:30:59.82 OUGHT TO BE MORE LIKE JESUS THAN CA MURRAY IN 2000. 00:30:59.82\00:31:08.73 THERE OUGHT TO BE FRUIT OF MY WALK WITH JESUS. 00:31:08.73\00:31:12.03 THERE OUGHT TO BE EVIDENCE OF MY WALK IN JESUS. 00:31:12.03\00:31:14.97 YEARS AGO, I DID LISTEN TO THAT. I DON'T LISTEN TO THAT ANYMORE. 00:31:14.97\00:31:19.81 YEARS AGO, I DID DRINK THAT. I DON'T DRINK THAT ANYMORE. 00:31:19.81\00:31:26.45 THERE SHOULD BE GROWTH, YOUR LIFE OUGHT TO BE QUALITATIVE 00:31:26.45\00:31:31.02 BETTER IN CHRIST AS WE SPEND MORE TIME IN JESUS. 00:31:31.02\00:31:34.92 AND THE BIBLE SAYS, THE DEAR -- THERE OUGHT TO BE THIS 00:31:34.92\00:31:43.06 HUNGRYIANING AND THIRSTING TO BE LIKE JESUS. 00:31:43.06\00:31:46.84 IF YOU HAVE THAT MIND-SET, CHRIST WILL COME IN YOU AND 00:31:46.84\00:31:50.74 LIVING HIS WAYS THROUGH YOU. THAT'S WHAT THE SANCTIFICATION 00:31:50.74\00:31:56.68 EXPERIENCE, IS BECOMING MORE LIKE JESUS. 00:31:56.68\00:31:59.85 COUPLE YEARS I GO, I GOT HOT AND MAYBE GIVE THEM A SMACK. 00:31:59.85\00:32:04.79 I DON'T DO THAT ANYMORE. WHEN I'M IN ATTACK, I DON'T 00:32:04.79\00:32:11.83 RETURN EVIL FOR EVIL. CHRIST IS LIVING HIS WAY THROUGH 00:32:11.83\00:32:16.40 ME NOW SO I AM ACTUALLY CHANGING. 00:32:16.40\00:32:18.67 OLD THINGS ARE PASSED. EVERYTHING IS BECOMING NEW. 00:32:18.67\00:32:22.04 I'M BECOMING MORE LIKE JESUS EACH AND EVERY DAY. 00:32:22.04\00:32:27.34 THAT'S THE SANCT FYING. >> IF YOU'RE NOT GROWING IN 00:32:27.34\00:32:34.22 CHRIST, YOU'RE GOING BACKWARDS. >> YOU CAN'T TREAD WATER. 00:32:34.22\00:32:37.19 >> I COMPARE IT TO WALKING THE DOWN ESCALATOR. 00:32:37.19\00:32:41.39 THE WORLD, YOU SEE CHILDREN DO THIS. 00:32:41.39\00:32:44.76 WHEN THEY ARE, THEY ARE IN THE MALLS. 00:32:44.76\00:32:46.33 AND THEY USUALLY, WHAT THEY DO, RUN HALFWAY THROUGH THE 00:32:46.33\00:32:52.10 ESCALATOR. THEY WILL DO IT AGAIN. 00:32:52.10\00:32:53.84 THEY HARDLY GO TO THE TOP. AS CHRISTIANS, THE TREND OF THE 00:32:53.84\00:32:58.97 WO WORLD. 00:32:58.97\00:33:02.71 WE'RE WALKING AGAINST THE DOWNWARD TREND. 00:33:02.71\00:33:11.75 IF WE STOP, WE'RE GOING RIGHT BACK DOWN 00:33:11.75\00:33:17.36 I FORGOT MY OTHER THOUGHT. I WAS GOING TO SAY THAT. 00:33:17.36\00:33:20.86 IF YOU KNOW IT'S GOD'S WILL FOR YOU TO BE SANCTIFIED, IF YOU 00:33:20.86\00:33:27.84 KNOW HIS WORK, WE CAN ONLY BE SANCTIFIED BY THE POWER OF THE 00:33:27.84\00:33:32.64 HOLY SPIRIT. 1 CORINTHIANS 1:30, IT IS 00:33:32.64\00:33:37.61 BECAUSE OF GOD, WE WERE GIVEN IN JESUS, OUR WISDOM, 00:33:37.61\00:33:46.82 SANCTIFICICATION. EPHESSIANS 3. 00:33:46.82\00:33:51.53 WE'RE RIGHT BACK TO THE LOVE. IF WE UNDERSTAND GOD'S LOVE. 00:33:51.53\00:34:00.77 EPHESIANS -- I KNOW WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY. 00:34:00.77\00:34:04.44 YOU WERE SAYING, IF WE WOULD HUNGER AND THIRST FOR 00:34:04.44\00:34:08.21 RIGHTEOUSNESS -- I DON'T ALWAYS HUNGER AND THIRST FOR 00:34:08.21\00:34:12.98 RIGHTEOUSNESS. THERE'S SOME DAYS I GET SO BUSY 00:34:12.98\00:34:16.32 I FORGET TO HUNGER AND THIRST FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS. 00:34:16.32\00:34:21.22 IF YOU ARE SITTING, YOU CAN'T EVEN DO THAT IN YOUR OWN 00:34:21.22\00:34:27.10 STRENGTH. FATHER, CAUSE ME TO HUNGER AND 00:34:27.10\00:34:33.30 THIRST FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS. THE BEATTUDES, THOSE WHO HUNGER 00:34:33.30\00:34:40.38 AND FILLED FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS WILL BE FILLED IN THE PROMISE. 00:34:40.38\00:34:51.02 YOU HAVE TO GO BEFORE THE LORD AND JUST SAY, FATHER, PLEASE. 00:34:51.02\00:34:55.46 CAUSE ME TO HUNGER AND THIST FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS AND LISTEN TO THIS 00:34:55.46\00:35:01.33 PROMISE. I GET SO EXCITED. 00:35:01.33\00:35:16.04 HE LOVE GETTING INTO THE WORD AND TALKING ABOUT. 00:35:16.04\00:35:19.85 IN EPHESSIANS IS SAYING, I PRAY ON IT. 00:35:19.85\00:35:25.72 I PRAY, SPEAKING OF GOD, WILL GRANT YOU ACCORDING TO THE 00:35:25.72\00:35:31.59 RITTIOUS OF HIS STORY. TO BE STRENGTHENED WITH MIGHT. 00:35:31.59\00:35:44.04 FIRST OF ALL, MIGHT, I'M PRAYING THAT GOD WILL STRENGTHEN WITH 00:35:44.04\00:35:48.91 THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. WHY, VERSE 17 WILL ANSWER. 00:35:48.91\00:36:00.49 THAT CHRIST WILL DWELL IN YOUR HEART THROUGH FAITH 00:36:00.49\00:36:04.06 >> ONLY WAY TO DWELL IN YOUR HEART. 00:36:04.06\00:36:06.19 >> VERY TRUE. >> THAT YOU, WHEN HE'S IN OUR 00:36:06.19\00:36:10.33 HEARTS THROUGH FAITH, THAT YOU BE ROOTED AND GROUNDED IN LOVE. 00:36:10.33\00:36:15.37 HE'S TALKING IN AGRICULTURAL TERMS HERE. 00:36:15.37\00:36:20.04 YOU GET THE PICTURE. WHEN YOU'RE ROOTED AND GROUNDED 00:36:20.04\00:36:25.21 IN LOVE WHAT'S THE LENGTH, DEPTH, 00:36:25.21\00:36:33.99 HEIGHT, TO KNOW THE LOVE OF CHRIST, SURPASS HIS KNOWLEDGE, 00:36:33.99\00:36:37.36 THAT YOU MAY BE FILLED WITH ALL THE FULLNESS OF GOD. 00:36:37.36\00:36:40.90 >> AMEN. >> GOD IS LOVE. 00:36:40.90\00:36:42.90 IT'S ONLY AS WE COME TO UNDERSTAND THE WIDTH, DEPTH, 00:36:42.90\00:36:46.97 HEIGHT. THE MORE WE UNDERSTAND GOD'S 00:36:46.97\00:36:49.07 LOVE, WE LOVE HIM BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED US. 00:36:49.07\00:36:52.54 ROMANS 5:5, HE POURS HIS LOVE THROUGH OUR HEARTS BY THE POWER 00:36:52.54\00:36:58.21 OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. HE GOES ON. 00:36:58.21\00:37:01.08 THIS IS HOW WE'RE COMING INTO THE FULLNESS OF GOD: AFTER HIM, 00:37:01.08\00:37:07.32 EXCEE EXCEEDINGLY, THAT WE ASKED. 00:37:07.32\00:37:10.86 ACCORDING TO THE POWER, THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 00:37:10.86\00:37:15.90 TO HIM BE GLORY OF THE CHURCH, THROUGH CHRIST JESUS, FOREVER 00:37:15.90\00:37:20.74 AND EVER >> PRAISE GOD. 00:37:20.74\00:37:23.00 >> DOESN'T THAT EXCITE YOU? >> IT REALLY IS. 00:37:23.00\00:37:25.67 >> IT HUMBLES YOU AND EXHILL RATES YOU AT THE SAME TIME. 00:37:25.67\00:37:30.18 >> IT DID. >> AND MAKES YOU HUMBLY PROUD AS 00:37:30.18\00:37:33.82 A PASTOR. THAT CHRIST WOULD CONDESENT. 00:37:33.82\00:37:44.36 I'M ENTITLES. FOR THE GRACE OF GOD HAS 00:37:44.36\00:37:48.13 APPEARED TO ALL MEN, TEACHING US, THAT DENYING, AND WE SHOULD 00:37:48.13\00:37:52.77 LIVE SOBERLY, RIGHTEOUSLY AND GODLY IN THIS PRESENT AGE. 00:37:52.77\00:37:58.64 WE CAN DO THAT. LOOKING FOR THE BLESSED HOPE AND 00:37:58.64\00:38:03.81 APPEARING OF THE GREAT GOD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST. 00:38:03.81\00:38:07.95 WHEN YOU DON'T FEEL IT THAT PARTICULAR DAY, YOU KEEP YOUR 00:38:07.95\00:38:12.05 EYES ON THE GOLD. I WAS LISTENING TO THE NEW YORK 00:38:12.05\00:38:17.36 CITY MARATHON, BIG, BIG EVENT. THEY TALK ABOUT HITTING THE 00:38:17.36\00:38:23.20 WALL. AFTER YOUR INITIAL BIRTH, YOU 00:38:23.20\00:38:26.47 GET INTO THE SPACE MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY, YOUR BODY IS SAYING, 00:38:26.47\00:38:32.41 WE'RE NOT GETTING INTO THIS. YOU RUN THROUGH THAT BECAUSE 00:38:32.41\00:38:35.44 YOU'VE DONE IT BEFORE. YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR GOAL IS. 00:38:35.44\00:38:38.78 AND SO YOU'RE NOT THINKING ABOUT YOUR PRESENT PAIN. 00:38:38.78\00:38:42.22 YOU'RE PRESSING TOWARDS YOUR GOAL. 00:38:42.22\00:38:44.65 >> AMEN. >> THAT'S WHAT ALLOWS YOU TO GET 00:38:44.65\00:38:47.46 THROUGH YOUR GOAL. SOON, YOUR SECOND WIND COMES. 00:38:47.46\00:38:52.29 YOU MAKE IT HOME. THE SPIRITUAL RACE IS LIKE THAT. 00:38:52.29\00:38:55.60 SOME DAYS, YOU'RE GETTING UP AND YOU DON'T GET IN THE WALL. 00:38:55.60\00:38:59.27 YOU DON'T FEEL IT. IT'S NOT IN YOUR HEART. 00:38:59.27\00:39:02.04 IT'S NOT IN YOUR SOUL. I SAY IT TO COUPLES SOMETIMES. 00:39:02.04\00:39:05.94 YOU'VE BEEN MARRIED X NUMBER OF YEARS. 00:39:05.94\00:39:08.78 SOME DAYS YOU FEEL REALLY MARRIED. 00:39:08.78\00:39:11.48 YOU FEEL MARRIED. YOU LOOK OVER YOUR WIFE AND 00:39:11.48\00:39:14.48 SHE'S SO CUTE AND WONDERFUL. YOU FEEL SO MARRIED. 00:39:14.48\00:39:20.96 SOME DAYS, YOU DON'T FEEL SO MARRIED. 00:39:20.96\00:39:24.33 IT COULD BE SOMETHING YOU ATE. YOU JUST DON'T FEEL REAL 00:39:24.33\00:39:31.10 MARRIED. WHEN YOU FEEL YOU DON'T FEEL 00:39:31.10\00:39:33.47 MARRIED, YOU'RE STILL MARRIED. YOU HAVE TO FIGHT THROUGH THAT. 00:39:33.47\00:39:37.17 BECAUSE IT WILL GO AWAY. YOU WILL BE MARRIED AGAIN. 00:39:37.17\00:39:41.04 SOME DAYS, YOU FEEL LIKE THE STRONGEST CHRISTIAN IN THE 00:39:41.04\00:39:43.71 WORLD. YOU FEEL LIKE YOU COULD CARRY 00:39:43.71\00:39:46.35 THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD. THEN THERE'S DAYS YOU ARE 00:39:46.35\00:39:52.39 CARRYING THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD. 00:39:52.39\00:39:54.22 ON THOSE DAYS WHEN YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING CRUSHED, YOU'RE 00:39:54.22\00:39:57.69 STILL A CHILD OF GOD. THE SAME GOD WHO GETS YOU 00:39:57.69\00:40:01.10 THROUGH THE GOOD DAYS. ON THE BAD DAYS, KEEP YOUR EYES 00:40:01.10\00:40:10.84 FOCUSED ON THAT END. IT'S COMING AS SURE AS IT BEGAN. 00:40:10.84\00:40:15.14 HE'S COMMITTED TO THE END, OF THAT DAY, AND THAT DAY IS THE 00:40:15.14\00:40:23.18 COMING OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST. 00:40:23.18\00:40:28.69 >> AS I WAS PRAYING OVER MY LIFE, LET ME READ IT. 00:40:28.69\00:40:33.19 WE WITH UNVEIL FAITH, BEHOLDING ARE TRANSFORMED TO THE SAME A 00:40:33.19\00:40:41.37 AIMAGE TO THE FLORY, OH, FATHER, THANK YOU THAT IT IS BECAUSE OF 00:40:41.37\00:40:46.04 YOU THAT YOU ARE WORKING IN ME BUT BY YOUR HOLY SPIRIT AND 00:40:46.04\00:40:50.61 YOU'RE TRANSFORMING ME INTO YOUR IMAGE FROM ONE LEVEL OF YOUR 00:40:50.61\00:40:55.52 GLORY, WHICH MEANS HIS CHARACTER TO THE NEXT. 00:40:55.52\00:40:59.45 AS I AM PRAYING AND SAYING THAT, I DO KNOW, ISAIAH 55:11, GOD 00:40:59.45\00:41:07.46 SAYS, MY WORD WILL NOT RETURN TO ME BUT IT WILL ACCOMPLISH EVERY 00:41:07.46\00:41:12.70 PURPOSE FOR WHICH I SEND IT. THERE'S POWER IN RETURNING THE 00:41:12.70\00:41:19.64 WORD TO THE LORD. IN ROMANS 4:17, PAUL SAYS IN 00:41:19.64\00:41:24.41 ROMANS 4:17. GOD IS THE GOD THAT GIVES LIGHT 00:41:24.41\00:41:29.05 TO THE DEAD AND CALLS THOSE WHO ARE NOT AS IF THEY ALREADY WERE. 00:41:29.05\00:41:34.79 I REALIZE WHEN I'M CLAIMING HIS PROMISE AS LIFE RECLAMATION, I 00:41:34.79\00:41:40.23 AM SAYING THINGS AS THOUGH THEY ALREADY WERE. 00:41:40.23\00:41:43.10 THIS IS HIS PLAN FOR MY LIFE. I'M PRAYING IT. 00:41:43.10\00:41:46.40 I'M ALL OF A SUDDEN, WEEPING. I DON'T FEEL LIKE I'M ADVANCING 00:41:46.40\00:41:51.21 AT ALL. AND AS I'M CRYING OVER THIS, YOU 00:41:51.21\00:41:53.71 KNOW WHAT, HE PRESSED UPON MY MIND WHAT YOU JUST SAID. 00:41:53.71\00:41:59.15 HE SAID, WILL SOON EXPLAIN THE WALL THAT YOU ARE HITTING. 00:41:59.15\00:42:02.95 >> WOW. >> SEE, I GOT SO EXCITED. 00:42:02.95\00:42:05.79 I GOT SO EXCITED, IT WAS LIKE, YEAH 00:42:05.79\00:42:10.03 THAT'S EXACTLY. I FELT LIKE I WAS HITTING THE 00:42:10.03\00:42:14.56 WALL. SOMETIMES GOD TEACHES YOU 00:42:14.56\00:42:15.83 SOMETHING AND YOU RUN IN THE TEACHING FOR A WHILE. 00:42:15.83\00:42:18.43 ONE DAY YOU WAKE UP AND YOU'RE NOT DOING IT ANYMORE. 00:42:18.43\00:42:21.97 I FELT LIKE I HIT THE WALL. WHEN HE SAID THAT, IT WAS LIKE, 00:42:21.97\00:42:26.74 OH, THANK YOU LORD. THAT'S IT. 00:42:26.74\00:42:28.38 I HIT THE WALL. SO THEN IT'S INTERESTING HOW GOD 00:42:28.38\00:42:36.62 WORKS. AND I BELIEVE GOD WANTS TO SPEAK 00:42:36.62\00:42:38.75 TO ALL OF HIS CHILDREN. I'VE GOT A GREAT STUDY ON THAT. 00:42:38.75\00:42:43.49 IT'S SCRIPTURAL. BUT THERE'S SO FEW OF US WHO 00:42:43.49\00:42:47.10 LISTEN. WHEN I'M NOT LISTENING, HE'S NOT 00:42:47.10\00:42:49.13 SPEAKING TO ME EITHER. WHEN I SAY SPEAKING, IMPRESSING 00:42:49.13\00:42:53.94 THE HOLY SPIRIT, IMPRESSING HIS THOUGHT UPON MINE. 00:42:53.94\00:42:59.84 HE ALWAYS WOULD GIVE ME ITSY BITSY BIT. 00:42:59.84\00:43:05.78 HERE HE'S SAYING, I WILL SOON EXPLAIN THE WALL YOU'RE HITTING. 00:43:05.78\00:43:11.42 SO IT WAS TWO WEEKS LATER, I'M BEGGING HIM EVERY DAY. 00:43:11.42\00:43:16.19 EXPLAIN THIS, LORD. EXPLAIN THIS. 00:43:16.19\00:43:19.96 AND IT CAME TO JOHN 2:6, THOSE THAT ARE IN CHRIST JESUS, MUST 00:43:19.96\00:43:24.80 WALK AS HE WALKS. I'M SAYING BEING FATHER THANK 00:43:24.80\00:43:27.47 YOU THAT, YOU KNOW, I'M IN CHRIST BECAUSE OF YOU. 00:43:27.47\00:43:30.44 THANK YOU THAT, I'M WALKING AS CHRIST WALKED. 00:43:30.44\00:43:34.14 ILL REALIZED I'M CALLING THINGS THAT ARE NOT, AS THOUGH THEY 00:43:34.14\00:43:38.95 ALREADY ARE. I MEAN, I'M WEEPING BEFORE THE 00:43:38.95\00:43:44.69 LORD. WHAT IS THIS WALL? 00:43:44.69\00:43:48.09 HE SPEAKS TO ME. I KEEP SAYING THIS BECAUSE 00:43:48.09\00:43:50.73 PEOPLE GET UPSET WHEN I SAY HE SPEAKS TO ME. 00:43:50.73\00:43:54.63 THE SMALL VOICE OF THE LORD, HOLY SPIRIT AND PRESS THIS UPON 00:43:54.63\00:43:58.37 MY MIND. THIS IS WHAT HE SAID: THE WALL 00:43:58.37\00:44:04.97 THAT YOU ARE HITTING, IS THE WALL OF SELF-PRESERVATION. 00:44:04.97\00:44:09.94 HE SHOWS ME THIS PICTURE IN MY M 00:44:09.94\00:44:17.32 MIND. THERE'S THIS STAIRCASE RUNNING 00:44:17.32\00:44:19.69 TO HEAVEN. I COULD SEE THIS RUNNING. 00:44:19.69\00:44:22.92 I HIT THE WALL THAT IS JUST LIKE 60 FEET HIGH. 00:44:22.92\00:44:26.70 HE SAID, IT'S THE WALL OF SELF-PRESERVATION. 00:44:26.70\00:44:31.83 PUT THIS TOGETHER. IF GOD IS LEADING US FROM ONE 00:44:31.83\00:44:37.44 LEVEL, HE WORKS SOMETHING IN US. WE'RE RUNNING ALONG AND ALL OF A 00:44:37.44\00:44:43.98 SUDDEN, WE GET TO THE WALL. WE HAVE TO GET TO THE POINT, 00:44:43.98\00:44:47.02 DAVID SAYS, BY GOD, I WOULD LEAP BEFORE THE WALL. 00:44:47.02\00:44:52.49 WE ARE THEN REACHING UP AND SAYING, OKAY, GOD, I'M READY TO 00:44:52.49\00:44:58.43 GIVE UP EVEN MORE. I'M READY TO TAKE YOU TO THE 00:44:58.43\00:45:01.33 NEXT LEVEL. IT'S ALL ABOUT SURRENDER OF 00:45:01.33\00:45:04.03 SELF. >> IT'S SURRENDER. 00:45:04.03\00:45:06.30 THE SEEKER IS ALWAYS SURROUNDER. >> THERE'S NOTHING MORE 00:45:06.30\00:45:09.40 CALCULATED BY THE ENEMY TO STOP YOU IN ADVANCING IN GOD, IN 00:45:09.40\00:45:13.11 HOLDING ON AND NOT LETTING GO. TRYING TO PRESERVE YOURSELF. 00:45:13.11\00:45:16.64 YOU REALLY NEED TO, TO TALLY SELL OUT FOR WANT A BETTER TERM. 00:45:16.64\00:45:21.78 >> LET'S JUST EXPLAIN SURRENDER. SOME PEOPLE HAVE TROUBLE. 00:45:21.78\00:45:25.82 IT JUST MEANS GIVE GOD CONSENT TO WORK IN YOUR LIFE. 00:45:25.82\00:45:29.89 IT MEANS TO YIELD TO YOUR GOD. IT'S THAT SIMPLE. 00:45:29.89\00:45:33.19 IT REALLY IS. >> THERE'S A COUPLE OF THINGS, 00:45:33.19\00:45:35.90 AND I HAVE MY FINGER AND PILING UP TEXT AND PILING UP TEXTS. 00:45:35.90\00:45:40.60 I WANT TO FINISH THIS DEAL, IN TIGHTIS. 00:45:40.60\00:45:47.74 WHEN THE KINDNESS AND LOVE OF GOD OUR SAVIOR TOWARDS MAN 00:45:47.74\00:45:51.61 APPEARED, NOT BY WORKS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH WE HAVE 00:45:51.61\00:45:54.85 DONE, ACCORDING TO HIS MERCY, HE SAVED US THROUGH THE WASHING OF 00:45:54.85\00:46:02.59 REGENERATION AND RENEWING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 00:46:02.59\00:46:05.39 YOUR DESIRE TO SERVE THE LORD IS NOT BECAUSE YOU'RE WORKING 00:46:05.39\00:46:10.20 YOURSELF UP AND THERE'S A TEXT. THOUGH HE WATCHED WITH -- AND 00:46:10.20\00:46:16.00 IT'S IN JEREMIAH, STILL BEFORE ME. 00:46:16.00\00:46:19.54 IT'S NOT YOU SELF-CLEANING. GOD DOING THE CLEANING. 00:46:19.54\00:46:23.75 YOU WILL BE CLEANED BUT HE'S GOING TO DO THE CLEANING. 00:46:23.75\00:46:27.45 THE ROAD TO GLORY IS AS WELL, AS YOU SHOULD KNOW, A STRAIGHT 00:46:27.45\00:46:33.52 LINE. THINKING ABOUT 1 PETER 4:12, THE 00:46:33.52\00:46:37.46 TRY, THE STRANGE THING HAS HAPPENED UNTO YOU. 00:46:37.46\00:46:40.86 IT'S NOT STRANGE. THE ONLY WAY YOU KNOW YOU HAVE 00:46:40.86\00:46:44.47 BRAKES IN YOUR CAR, IS TO TAP YOUR BRAKES. 00:46:44.47\00:46:48.87 ONLY WAY YOU KNOW YOU HAVE FAITH, IS TO TEST IT. 00:46:48.87\00:46:53.74 GOD WILL ALLOW TRIALS TO COME, ONE, SO YOU ARE PARTAKERS OF 00:46:53.74\00:46:58.88 CHRIST'S SUFFERING. ALSO SO YOUR FAITH CONTESTED AND 00:46:58.88\00:47:02.05 GROW. YOU HIT THE WALL. 00:47:02.05\00:47:03.59 AS YOU SURRENDER, AND AS YOU GIVE GOD PERMISSION TO TAKE YOU 00:47:03.59\00:47:08.59 THROUGH THE STEPS AND EXPERIENCES, YOU LEAN ON HIM 00:47:08.59\00:47:12.19 MORE THAN YOU LEAN ON YOURSELF. AND YOUR SUCCESS IS NOT IN YOUR 00:47:12.19\00:47:17.57 OWN STRIVING. NOT IN YOUR OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS, 00:47:17.57\00:47:21.54 AND LEANING TOTALLY, DEPENDING TOTALLY ON JESUS CHRIST, EVEN 00:47:21.54\00:47:26.44 WHEN IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. >> LET ME GIVE YOU A LITTLE 00:47:26.44\00:47:30.48 ILLUSTRATION. SOMETHING THAT I WAS PRAYING. 00:47:30.48\00:47:33.45 HERE, HE'S TALKING ABOUT HITTING THE WALL OF SELF-PRESERVATION, 00:47:33.45\00:47:38.79 TO MATCH WHAT YOU'RE SAYING. THE LORD ONE DAY SHOWED ME, AS I 00:47:38.79\00:47:45.09 WAS PRAYING, OKAY, LORD, HOW DO I DO THIS. 00:47:45.09\00:47:48.63 HE SHOWS ME A LITTLE SUGAR NEXT TO THIS HUGE ELEPHANT. 00:47:48.63\00:47:54.40 HE SAYS YOUR -- THIS IS SO PRECIOUS. 00:47:54.40\00:47:58.27 YOUR GREATEST HUMAN STRENGTH IS LIKE THIS OF THE SUGAR ANT, 00:47:58.27\00:48:03.71 COMPARED TO MY STRENGTH WOULD BE LIKE THE ELEPHANT, MILLIONS OF 00:48:03.71\00:48:07.35 TIMES GREATER. HE SAID MY GRACE IS SUFFICIENT 00:48:07.35\00:48:10.32 FOR YOU. MY STRENGTH WILL BE MADE PERFECT 00:48:10.32\00:48:14.59 IN YOUR WEAKNESS. WE CAN'T WALK OUT A CHRISTIAN 00:48:14.59\00:48:19.53 WALK IN OUR OWN LIFE, IN OUR OWN POWER. 00:48:19.53\00:48:24.40 IT'S LIKE -- WHEN PAUL WROTE TO THE GALATTIANS, YOU FOOLISH 00:48:24.40\00:48:35.31 GALATTIANS. WE'RE PERFECTED IN THE FLESH. 00:48:35.31\00:48:38.08 WE CAN'T. ALL GOD IS SAYING, IF YOU WILL 00:48:38.08\00:48:41.02 BE YOKED TO ME, GET THIS PICTURE, HUGE ELEPHANT AND TINSY 00:48:41.02\00:48:48.29 ANT, IF IT IS YOKED TO THE ELEPHANT, WHO IS CARRYING THE 00:48:48.29\00:48:52.86 WEIGHT. IT IS ALL ABOUT DOING THE WORK 00:48:52.86\00:48:56.36 IN US. >> IT IS SO FAR FULL BEAUTIFUL. 00:48:56.36\00:49:01.60 >> IN STUDYING THE BOOK OF JOHN, NOT TOO LONG AGO. 00:49:01.60\00:49:06.47 THE MIRACLES OF JOHN, CHRIST PERFORMED, ARE TOUCHLESS 00:49:06.47\00:49:11.28 MIRACLES. THERE'S NO LAYING HANDS ON JOHN. 00:49:11.28\00:49:15.22 THEY ARE TOUCHLESS. THERE ARE NO TOUCHING MIRACLES. 00:49:15.22\00:49:19.42 THEY TOUCHED US. AND HE DECREED IT WITHOUT THE 00:49:19.42\00:49:23.93 LAYING OF THE HANDS. JOHN, OF COURSE, HAS WRITTEN 00:49:23.93\00:49:28.16 RIGHT AT THE CLOSE OF THE FIRST CENTURY. 00:49:28.16\00:49:30.77 MOST OF THE PEOPLE WHO SAW JESUS AND HANDLED JESUS WERE DEAD. 00:49:30.77\00:49:34.97 JOHN IS WRITING TO THE SECOND GENERATION OF PEOPLE, WHOSE ONLY 00:49:34.97\00:49:39.67 CONNECTION OF JESUS THE WORD. THEY NEVER HAD THE PHYSICAL 00:49:39.67\00:49:43.65 EVIDENCE. SO HE'S SAYING THAT THE WORD IS 00:49:43.65\00:49:45.95 AS POWERFUL AS THE PRESENT. SO ALL OF HIS MIRACLES PROVE 00:49:45.95\00:49:53.46 THAT. THERE'S NO PRESENT. 00:49:53.46\00:49:55.12 JESUS IS OVER HERE AND A MIRACLE HAPPENS OVER HERE. 00:49:55.12\00:49:58.76 AND HE'S SAYING TO THOSE WHO ARE FOLLOWING, HE'S TRYING TO DO THE 00:49:58.76\00:50:02.86 SAME THING PAUL IS WRITING IN THE BOOK OF HEBREWS. 00:50:02.86\00:50:06.70 HE IS TRYING TO SAY, JESUS IS THE REAL DEAL. 00:50:06.70\00:50:11.84 EVEN THOUGH HE'S NOT PRESENT, YOU HAVE THE WORD. 00:50:11.84\00:50:18.65 YOU HAVE THE WORD. AND SO THERE'S POWER IN THE 00:50:18.65\00:50:21.15 WORD. WHEN YOU HIT THAT WALL THAT THEY 00:50:21.15\00:50:24.79 WERE TALKING ABOUT, YOU HAVE THE WORD. 00:50:24.79\00:50:27.79 WE BEGAN THE HOUR, TWO HOURS AGO, WITH THE WORD. 00:50:27.79\00:50:32.19 WITHOUT THE WORD, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT PROMISES YOU COULD CLAIM 00:50:32.19\00:50:36.30 BECAUSE THEY ARE IN THE WORD. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE 00:50:36.30\00:50:41.24 SANCTIFICICATION EXPERIENCE. YOUR PROMISE IS YOUR POWER, ALL 00:50:41.24\00:50:44.37 COME FROM EATING AND STUDYING AND DIGESTING AND MAKING PART OF 00:50:44.37\00:50:50.05 YOUR LIFE THE WORD. >> AND I WANT TO SAY ONE THING. 00:50:50.05\00:50:53.68 SO MANY PEOPLE, IT STRIKES THEM STRANGE WHEN YOU FIRST SAY, DID 00:50:53.68\00:50:57.29 YOU KNOW THAT ALL OF GOD'S COMMANDMENTS ARE PROMISES OF 00:50:57.29\00:51:01.42 WHAT HE WILL DO IN YOU? GOD WILL CAUSE YOU TO BE ALL 00:51:01.42\00:51:05.29 THAT HE HAS CALLED YOU TO BE. AND EVEN THE 10 COMMANDMENTS 00:51:05.29\00:51:11.20 WERE WRITTEN IN THE HEBREW IN FUTURE TENSE. 00:51:11.20\00:51:15.27 SO WHAT GOD IS SAYING IN THE 10 COMMANDMENTS, HE STARTS OFF 00:51:15.27\00:51:20.91 SAYING, YOU KNOW, I HAVE LOVED YOU WITH THIS LOVE AND I'VE BEEN 00:51:20.91\00:51:25.31 LIKE THIS EAGLE, DRAWING YOU TO MYSELF. 00:51:25.31\00:51:29.58 AND THEN HE SAYS, IF YOU'RE IN COVENNANT RELATIONSHIP WITH ME, 00:51:29.58\00:51:35.32 YOU WILL NOT HAVE OTHER GODS BEFORE ME. 00:51:35.32\00:51:38.76 I PROMISE. YOU WILL NOT SERVE IDOLS. 00:51:38.76\00:51:44.33 WILL YOU NOT TAKE MY NAME IN VAIN. 00:51:44.33\00:51:48.84 YOU WILL BE EXCITED TO SPEND THE SABBATH WITH ME. 00:51:48.84\00:51:53.01 YOU WILL HONOR YOUR MOTHER AND FATHER. 00:51:53.01\00:51:54.98 YOU WILL NOT MURDER. YOU WILL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY. 00:51:54.98\00:51:58.38 YOU WILL NOT LIE. YOU WILL NOT COVET. 00:51:58.38\00:52:02.38 WHY? BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT RELATIONSHIP 00:52:02.38\00:52:05.32 IS WITH ME. SEE IT'S IN THE FUTURE TENSE. 00:52:05.32\00:52:08.16 IT'S IN THE FORM OF A PROMISE. WE'RE SO USED TO CHARLESTON 00:52:08.16\00:52:16.70 HESTON STANDING, THOU SHALL NOT. THAT'S THE WAY WE FEEL BUT ALL 00:52:16.70\00:52:22.77 OF GOD'S COMMANDS ARE PROMISES BECAUSE GOD DOESN'T ASK US TO DO 00:52:22.77\00:52:28.48 ANYTHING THAT HE'S NOT GOING TO DO FOR US. 00:52:28.48\00:52:30.35 >> PRECISELY. >> YOU SEE THEN HOW 00:52:30.35\00:52:35.15 COMPREHENSIVE IS THE SANCTIFYING THING OF THE CONTINUEAM. 00:52:35.15\00:52:44.63 AS I SAID, WE CAN SPEND HOURS. SANCTIFICATION IS A WAY. 00:52:44.63\00:52:57.07 AND WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME. JOHN, DID FOR THE GENERATION, 00:52:57.07\00:53:00.88 SAME THING THAT PAUL DID FOR THE HEBREW CHRISTIANS. 00:53:00.88\00:53:04.28 IN HEBREWS CHAPTER # 11. AT THE END OF THE CHAPTER, HAD 00:53:04.28\00:53:11.69 TO STAND UP AND JUST REALLY YELL AT THE LORD AND JUST PRAISE HIM. 00:53:11.69\00:53:16.93 AND I STARTED VERSE 26. HE TALKS ABOUT THE FAITH-BASED 00:53:16.93\00:53:27.14 MOVES AND TALKS ABOUT GOD. WE PICKED IT UP AT MID. 00:53:27.14\00:53:32.17 STILL OTHERS HAVE TRIALS OF MOCK AND -- THEY WERE STONED, AND 00:53:32.17\00:53:37.28 THEY WERE SLAINED BY THE SWORD, WANDERED IN SHEEP SKIN, 00:53:37.28\00:53:43.22 TORMENTED IN WHOM THE WORLD WAS NOT, AND PEOPLE WHO SUFFERED FOR 00:53:43.22\00:53:50.39 THE LORD. AND ALL OF THESE HAVING OBTAINED 00:53:50.39\00:53:53.76 GOOD REPORT THROUGH FAITH DID NOT RECEIVE THE PROMISE. 00:53:53.76\00:53:56.87 THAT MEANS THEY DIDN'T GET AN ULTIMATE SALVATION. 00:53:56.87\00:53:59.73 HERE'S A TEXT THAT KNOCKS YOU OUT. 00:53:59.73\00:54:02.54 GOD HAVING PROVIDED SOMETHING BETTER FOR US THAT THEY SHOULD 00:54:02.54\00:54:06.17 NOT BE MADE PERFECT APART FROM US. 00:54:06.17\00:54:09.48 WHAT IS IT SAYING? IT'S SAYING, ALL OF THOSE WOULD 00:54:09.48\00:54:13.58 SUFFERED SO VALIANTLY AND WONDERFULLY FOR THE LORD, DIDN'T 00:54:13.58\00:54:18.22 GET THE ULTIMATE REDEMPTION THROUGH JESUS CHRIST. 00:54:18.22\00:54:22.42 GOD PROVIDED SOMETHING BETTER, THAT THEY APART FROM US, WILL 00:54:22.42\00:54:26.70 NOT GET THEIRS. IN OTHER WORDS, THEY ARE NOT 00:54:26.70\00:54:29.60 GOING TO GO INTO HEAVEN ONE SECOND BEFORE YOU DO. 00:54:29.60\00:54:32.50 GOD HAS MADE THIS PROMISE THAT WE'RE ALL GOING TO GO IN 00:54:32.50\00:54:36.17 TOGETHER. FOR THE LORD HIMSELF, WITH THE 00:54:36.17\00:54:38.64 SHOUT, WITH THE VOICE OF THE ARC ANGELS, CALLED TOGETHER TO MEET 00:54:38.64\00:54:46.18 THEM IN THE CLOUD AND SHALL WE BE EVER BE WITH THE LORD. 00:54:46.18\00:54:50.69 EVEN THOUGH THEY SUFFERED, GOD SAID, WE ARE GOING TO GO IN 00:54:50.69\00:54:54.09 TOGETHER. WHEN YOU LOOK AT MOSES AND AARON 00:54:54.09\00:54:58.96 AND GREAT ONES IN THE BIBLE AND MILLIONS WHO SUFFERED OVER THE 00:54:58.96\00:55:02.93 YEARS, GOD SAID THEY ARE NOT GOING TO GET IN AND YOU'RE GOING 00:55:02.93\00:55:06.80 TO COME IN A YEAR LATER. WE ARE GOING TO COME TOGETHER BY 00:55:06.80\00:55:12.61 THE GRACE OF GOD. THAT'S THE ULTIMATE REDEMPTION, 00:55:12.61\00:55:17.21 GLOR FICICATION WHEN WE COME TO BE WITH JESUS. 00:55:17.21\00:55:21.02 AND WE LIVE WITH HIM FOREVER. SHALL I GIVE YOU A MINUTE TO PUT 00:55:21.02\00:55:24.82 A BOW ON YOUR THOUGHT? BECAUSE WE'RE JUST ABOUT DONE 00:55:24.82\00:55:28.86 >> ONLY THING THAT'S COMING TO MY MIND AND I DON'T KNOW WHY. 00:55:28.86\00:55:33.09 WHEN MY MOTHER WAS IN INTENSIVE CARE FOR SEVERAL WEEKS, AND HER 00:55:33.09\00:55:39.43 HEART WOULD QUIT BEATING IN A COUPLE OF OCCASIONS. 00:55:39.43\00:55:41.97 THEY WOULD GO AND TAKE THE PADLES. 00:55:41.97\00:55:45.44 >> YEAH . 00:55:45.44\00:55:46.27 >> THE DOCTOR WOULD COME AND SAY, WE HAVE CONVERTED HER. 00:55:46.27\00:55:51.78 I THINK OF CONVERSION. IT'S NOT ALWAYS JUST A ONE TIME 00:55:51.78\00:55:55.52 THING. I THINK OF GOD REACHING DOWN 00:55:55.52\00:55:57.25 WITH HANDS OF LOVE AND TOUCHING OUR HEART. 00:55:57.25\00:56:00.32 HE SAID, I WILL REMOVE YOUR HEART OF STONE. 00:56:00.32\00:56:02.86 I WILL GIVE YOUR HEART OF FLESH. HE TOUCHES OUR HEART AND HE 00:56:02.86\00:56:08.86 CONVERTS US AND CHANGES US. AND LORD DO IT AGAIN. 00:56:08.86\00:56:13.40 >> PRAISE THE LORD, GIVE IT TO GOD. 00:56:13.40\00:56:15.60 >> WE TALK ABOUT JEREMIAH, LUKE CHAPTER 8. 00:56:15.60\00:56:20.68 COVER HASN'T CHANGE. THE ONLY THING THAT'S CHANGED IS 00:56:20.68\00:56:23.61 THE TABLET. IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, WRINT IN 00:56:23.61\00:56:31.42 STONE. NOTHING HAS CHANGED ABOUT THE 00:56:31.42\00:56:33.99 LANGUAGE. IT'S THE PLACE WHERE IT IS 00:56:33.99\00:56:37.46 WRITTEN. GOD HAS TO -- GOD WANTS TO LIVE 00:56:37.46\00:56:42.43 HIS LIFE, HE WANTS TO DO SOMETHING FOR YOU, THROUGH, AND 00:56:42.43\00:56:49.04 THAT COULDN'T BE DONE WITHOUT THE HEART OF JESUS, AND 00:56:49.04\00:56:52.34 AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE IF YOU ASK, YOU SHOULD BE SAVE. 00:56:52.34\00:56:55.18 WE PRAY THAT YOU SHOULD ALLOW ME IN CLOSING TO WISH YOU BOTH 00:56:55.18\00:56:58.75 GRACE AND PEACE THROUGH THE LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST. 00:56:58.75\00:57:04.05 WE'LL SEE YOU THEN. BYE-BYE, AND GOOD NIGHT 00:57:04.05\00:57:06.79 >> AMEN. 00:57:06.79\00:57:07.42