Have you ever
been lured into a trap
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that just about
claimed your life?
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Well, stay tuned to learn
how to overcome the struggle
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and regain your life.
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They try to change
us from the outside in,
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and that's never going to work.
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Because I know that no matter
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how hard and cold
the exterior may seem,
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I know that inside we hurt.
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So we just want to come
and share some hope with you
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and let you know
that we love you,
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and that Jesus loves you
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beyond anybody in this world.
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I'm not here today to
judge you or condemn you,
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we're today to tell
you that we love you
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and we understand the
situation that you're in.
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Hello, I'm Jason
Bradley, and I'm so glad
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that you decided
to join us once again.
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I'm here with my brother Lemuel,
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my brother in
Christ, Lemuel Vega.
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Lemuel, it's
great to have you here.
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Why don't you just
touch on Christmas Behind Bars
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and what it's all
about for a moment?
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You know, Christmas Behind Bars
is not just providing a Bible
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for the inmates.
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Because if you
go into these places
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of incarceration and say,
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"Boy, if you
don't change your ways,
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you're going to go to hell."
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They already know
they're doing wrong.
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They already feel
that self-condemnation.
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So the Word of God is great,
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but it's nice to meet
their practical needs.
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You know, the
granola bars and the chips,
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and the snacks
and the hygiene item,
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it's just because we care.
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Because I think
somebody else set that example.
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Absolutely.
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Jesus set that example.
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He fed the
thousands. That's right.
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And He spoke to them,
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and helped them
and mentored them.
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You know, the two blind men
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sitting by the wayside.
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You know, they were
sitting by the wayside,
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and they were blind,
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and as Jesus passed by,
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they heard that Jesus passed by.
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As they heard Jesus
passed by, they cried out,
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and said, "Lord, have mercy on."
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And the crowd said, "Be quiet.
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Be quiet, you all blind,
and you're sitting by the way.
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Be quiet, because
we're with Jesus."
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And they cried out the louder.
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And Jesus stopped.
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And Jesus asked those
two blind folks, He said,
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"What would you
have that I do for you?"
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And they said, "Lord,
that our eyes would be open."
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And you know,
Jesus, our Heavenly Father
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has compassion not only
on these people incarcerated,
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He had compassion on
them, and He touched their eyes,
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and they received sight.
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And you know, the
beauty of that is,
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as they found
healing, they follow Jesus.
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And that's our
desire for these people
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with Christmas Behind Bars,
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I know 3ABN as well is
to connect them with Jesus.
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Because then we know
they're going to follow Him
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in whatever
paradigm that that goes to,
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and others will be
encouraged as well for Jesus.
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And so that's what
Christmas Behind Bars
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is about.
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As you open this
program, Jason, today,
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you said, "Have you ever
been enticed into a trap?"
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Yeah.
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Have you ever
been lured into a trap
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that almost claimed your life?
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You know, Brother,
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that's what
happened with the human race.
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We were created in
perfection, in God's image.
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You know, the Word of
God, it says, "And God said,
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'Let us make man in our image.'"
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So humanity was
created in perfection.
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And somehow, maybe
you want to unwrap that
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how they were lured into a trap?
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And then we'll go
into our analogy for today.
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Well, we were also blessed
with the freedom of choice.
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Oh, yes, absolutely.
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And so, yes.
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And so, and that's where
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that genuine love
come, comes into play.
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Because God didn't
force us to love Him
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or to serve Him or
anything like that,
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He allows us to choose.
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And, you know, when you,
I think about Adam and Eve,
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and the
temptation that they faced.
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They had been
told not to eat of,
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basically not to eat
of the tree, you know?
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And here in Genesis Chapter
3, and we'll begin in verse 1,
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we'll kind of
walk down a little bit.
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But here they come into contact
with this serpent and it says,
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"Now the
serpent was more cunning
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than any beast of the field
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which the Lord God had made.
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And he said to the
woman, 'Has God indeed said,
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you shall not eat of
every tree of the garden?'"
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Now notice the
serpent was more cunning.
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Now, have you
ever been on the street
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and you meet some
cunning individuals?
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Have you ever been
in jail or in prison
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and you meet some
cunning individuals?
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The serpent was more cunning
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than any beast
of the field, right?
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And so in verse 2, it says,
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"And the woman
said to the serpent,
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'We may eat the fruit
of the trees of the garden,
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but of the fruit of the tree,
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which is in the
midst of the garden,
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God has said,
'You shall not eat it,
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nor shall you
touch it, lest you die.'
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Then the serpent
said to the woman,
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'You will not surely die.
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For God knows that in
the day you eat of it,
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your eyes will be opened,
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and you will be like
God knowing good and evil.'"
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So here they are being enticed
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or coerced into,
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you know, trying something that
God has told them not to try.
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He didn't want
them to experience,
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their eyes were opened to sin.
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Yes. They never
experienced before.
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Yes.
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And then that's why we're born
with this handicap called sin.
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Absolutely.
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And it's interesting that,
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you know, when this
happens in everyday life,
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when these things happen,
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people paint this
picture of some sinful activity,
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but it's never
how they explain it.
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And here their eyes were open,
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but not how they
probably imagined.
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And it cost humanity.
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The death
sentence was put into place
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at that moment.
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That's right.
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So now we're all born
with a death sentence.
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But there's a way out.
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And that remedy
is through the cross,
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through the cross of Calvary,
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through a personal
relationship with Jesus.
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You know, we have
this analogy, Jason,
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that I've used in
the different jails
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and prisons, and just, again,
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something simple to
connect with these folk
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that are behind bars,
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because I feel
I'm a simple person,
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not that they're simple,
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but I feel I want to
try to paint the picture.
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And sometimes I
just take an empty jar,
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and this jar is not
empty, but it was empty,
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and we'll just put
some keys in there,
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a few tokens, things like that.
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Just a few little nothing.
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I heard a story of
how they catch monkeys.
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Okay.
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You know, so they're
actually monkey hunters.
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So they're trying to,
monkey right here, hey, buddy.
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So how they catch monkeys is,
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I don't know what
they do with monkeys
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once they catch them.
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I don't know if they
eat them or use their skins?
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I don't know.
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Yeah, that's my next question.
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But in order to catch
monkeys, they take this jar,
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and they chain it to the ground,
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and they put little
or nothing in there.
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And the monkey,
out of curiosity,
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comes down out of the jungle,
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whatever, out of the tree,
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and he comes down
and he goes in there.
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And he gets a look at that.
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And the monkey,
the jar is designed
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to where the
monkey can reach in.
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But when the monkey
hold on to something,
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then is he can't
get his hand out.
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He's stuck.
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So he is chained
by his own devising.
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You know, here come the hunters
very early in the morning
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to get Mr. Monkey.
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And if monkey would only let go,
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he could run free.
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Yeah.
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But, brothers, when
we got the sin problem,
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we can't let go.
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Even though we want to
let go, we can't let go.
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That's where we
got to let God come in,
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and then He
helps us to let it go.
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So that's the analogy though,
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that as we're
willing, God is able.
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We can't change
the drug addiction,
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we can't change the alcoholism,
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we can't change the
sin problem of our lives.
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But it is through
the cross of Calvary,
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embedded with love,
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that the Son of God
hung there, died there,
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told us to His
Father, "It is finished."
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The plan of
salvation was put into place,
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signed and sealed
upon the cross of Calvary,
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so that we can be free,
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free in this life
and free in eternal life.
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Absolutely.
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You know, Lemuel,
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I want to share
another scripture with you.
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Because the bottom line
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is we're all going
to face temptation.
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Even Jesus was tempted.
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So I want to share this
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because it's amazing
what God does for us.
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This is 1
Corinthians 10:13, it says,
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"No temptation
has overtaken you,
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except such as is common to men,
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but God is faithful,
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who will not
allow you to be tempted
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beyond what you are able,
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but with the temptation
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will also make
the way of escape,
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that you may be
able to bear it."
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That's if we're
connected with Him.
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That's right.
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So if we walk in with Him,
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and we started
down that journey,
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then He ain't gonna let nothing
overwhelm us, overtake us.
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Yes, no
temptation will overwhelm us.
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And He always
provides a way of escape,
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but we have to
take that way of escape.
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Amen.
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You know, and I think
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one of the
greatest things we can do,
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you know, in
addition to, of course,
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accepting Christ as our
personal Lord and Savior,
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is not put ourselves
in tempting situations
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where we have to exercise
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that resistance
to the temptation.
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So don't put
ourselves or place ourselves
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on the devil's ground.
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Situation. Yeah.
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Yeah. Absolutely.
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What would you say, in closing,
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as we had this
analogy of the entrapment?
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You know,
nowadays, there's video
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and all kinds of things,
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there's the games
and all kinds of things
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on the little phones
that children have now,
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and what would you say
for people to trust God
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maybe for the
first time in their life,
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to be willing to try again,
or maybe for the first time
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that Jesus is going to
be that forever friend?
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I think I would
say to that person
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that it's important to realize
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that you've
tried everything else,
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you've tried to
fill that emptiness
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that's in your life,
you've tried to fill that void
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that you've experienced
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and nothing that you're
picking up seems to fill that,
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not the alcohol,
not the marijuana,
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not the any of that stuff.
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Fancy house, fancy car.
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Not the women or the
guys, if you're a woman
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or none of that
seems to fill that void.
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And that's because
you're not going to the only one
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who can fill that
void which is Jesus.
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There's someone
who died on the cross,
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and that's Jesus,
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so that we could
avoid that death sentence
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that has been placed on us,
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when Adam and Eve made
the decision to partake
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in what God told them not to.
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And so, God is longing
for a relationship with us.
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So go in that direction,
you have nothing to lose
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and everything to gain.
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So I would say
start with Christ.
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Amen, Brother.
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You know, the
people that find themselves
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in places like this,
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and we got our
brothers across the way there,
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they're reading their Bible,
and looks like that guy up
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there he doesn't really
care about what's going on.
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But you know what?
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Brother, neither did I.
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The Gideons would come in,
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and they'd come in, the
preachers would come in,
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and I'd never go
and sit down and listen
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to what they have to say.
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But I was standing by the
bars, and I was listening,
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because I wanted
something different.
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So I know whether
they're behind bars today,
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or whether they're in that
fancy home or that high rise,
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or whether they live
in the lower part of town,
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it doesn't matter.
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Jesus will come and meet us
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and He will supersede
any of our expectations.
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Amen.
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But we have to start somewhere.
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And with that, let's
just have a word of prayer.
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Our Dear Heavenly Father,
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we don't know the hurting souls,
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individuals in our world today.
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But, Lord, we're just
surrendering them to you,
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here's our lives, take
them, make them, Father,
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mold them and shape them,
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that we will be
reunited on that great day
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when Jesus coming back.
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We love You, and thank
You for this opportunity,
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and thank You for 3ABN
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that goes
literally around the world,
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and thank You for the sponsors
of Christmas Behind Bars.
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We love You and we look
forward to that great day
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when Jesus comes back.
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In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
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Amen and amen.
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On this road to recovery,
on this road to freedom,
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on a brand new
chapter for your life,
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we have to be
willing to do something.
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We have to be
willing to give it up.
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We're tired of it.
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We don't want it no more.
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They don't make us
feel good inside anymore,
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drugs, the alcohol.
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It ain't never
done nothing for us.
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You know, I got out of prison,
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and I thought I
had it all figured out.
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A few years
later, I was suicidal.
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I was going to die or I
was going back to prison.
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I went to treatment for
the first time in my life,
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and the doctors tell me
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I need another drug
for my drug problem.
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I said, I've been on
this train for 35 years.
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I kneel down and I prayed
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and I asked God for
help with one problem.
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The biggest
problem I thought I had
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was drug addiction.
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And I said, "Dear
Jesus, please help me,
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I want to but I can't."
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Sisters, He'll
help you with the one.
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And that begins the
trust that you can trust Him.
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And He gets the prompts.
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And then you know why?
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You say, "Lord, by the
way, I got this one too."
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But as you grow in a newness
of life, you'll say, "Lord."
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And then finally you just
say, "Will you take it all?"
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Sisters, we've
been holding them,
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we've been caring,
and we've been cussed out,
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we've been told
we ain't nothing,
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we've been told we ain't nobody,
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we never gonna be nobody.
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That's what my daddy told me.
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But my mama believed in me.
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My mama never lived long enough
to see a change in my life.
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But one day we have a hope
of seeing mama your children.
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John 3:16, "For
God so loved the world
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that He gave His
only begotten Son,
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that whosoever,"
that's every nation,
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kindred tongue and
people in prison, out of prison,
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"whosoever believeth
in Him should not perish,
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but have everlasting life,"
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not just in the
kingdom of the gates of heaven,
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but today in this life
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of
unsurmountable unmanageability.
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God is still in control
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and He wants to
take your life but He...
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You need to ask Him for
help with this unmanageability.
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