Let's bow our heads together
for prayer this morning.
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Dear Heavenly
Father, we thank You so much
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that Your presence is
with us right now in this room
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and we are in our that
You would give Your mind to us
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that we really can
think Your thoughts everyday
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and You live in us
and show us Your truth.
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Please guide us into all truths
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and be with us this day
and always in Jesus name, amen.
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Amen, amen. Thank you very much.
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Well, we were talking
about habit formation.
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In Romans 6:13,
16, key verses here
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were Paul using the continuous
tense in Greek reminds us
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that we ought
not to continuously
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present our bodies to sin
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as instruments
of unrighteousness
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but that we should continuously
present our bodies to God
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as instruments of righteousness.
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And I was explaining
to you in the last session
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how important it is to
address old habits in our lives
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because if you
don't replace them
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with better
habits they will continue
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to pull you back in
to the same old pathways.
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You may even become
seriously discouraged.
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I remember, I reached the
point in my own Christian life
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that I said this doesn't work.
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Why am I still doing things
that I don't want to be doing?
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And it would have
been such a relief
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if anybody had been
sufficiently educated
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to have explained to me
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that I'm doing things
that I don't want to do.
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I'm not even planning to do
but there a trigger's out there
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and they set me off
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and the thought comes in my mind
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and I find myself doing things.
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So I cannot urge
upon you the importance
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of replacing existing habits
with new patterns in our minds
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that bring glory to God.
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Now Jack, I wish
you take a minute
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and would you be
willing to share with the room
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what's you just
raised with me a minute ago
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when I was visiting if
we can possibly extract
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the microphone here
will get to do this so.
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I believe that I
read this at some place
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that Christ lost His
omnipresence at the cross.
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And I was saying
He eluded to the fact
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that we should be asking
Him to help us with her mind
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in all these other
things and I was saying,
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well, does it the Holy
Spirit have to do that.
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Christ partner in
heaven has to do this for us
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because I don't
believe the father does this.
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And that's my belief
I kind of knew it this.
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Man, this is a
great question, man.
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It's an excellent question.
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And Jesus did
accept certain limitations
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when He took on
humanity but the good news is
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that the members of
the trinity unlike us
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they have a oneness about them.
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Now if you look in
John 17 for example,
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John 17:21, John 17:21
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this is the prayer of Jesus.
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He prays for His disciples,
His followers, He says that
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"They all may be
one, even as thou,
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Father, art in
me, and I in thee."
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I hope you're hearing this.
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The members of the Godhead
appeared to be in each other
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and even though the Holy
Spirit is not mentioned here
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we know that He is an equal
member of the triune godhead.
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So the members of the godhead
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are actually in,
they're spoken of, Jesus said
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my Father is in
Me, this of course
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is the beautiful
ministry of the Holy Spirit
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that makes that possible.
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And Jesus was in the Father.
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So any time we hear
about Jesus being in us
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and I appreciate
Jack opening this tour.
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It's pointing
to the Holy Spirit.
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Amen.
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Who makes it's
like having Jesus in you
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if the Holy Spirit is in you.
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Compare John 16,
flip back one chapter
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we read this first yesterday
but we'll read it again.
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John 16:13, 14,
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"But when he, the
Spirit of truth, comes,
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he will guide you
into all the truth.
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He will not speak of Himself
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but whatever He
hears He will speak
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and disclose to
you what is to come."
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And look at verse
14, "He shall glorify me,
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He shall take of mine
and disclose it to you."
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The Holy
Spirit's entire ministry
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is to take the things of Jesus
and make them available to us.
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Amen. Amen.
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This is how Jesus can be
alive and well in each one of us
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if you have the
Holy Spirit in you
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because they are one
you have Christ in you.
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Amen. Amen.
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I do hope that's crystal clear.
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By the way, its 17 years of age
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I encountered Christianity
in Melbourne, Australia.
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And a 75-year-old
literature evangelist
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came knocking on
the door of our house.
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And my mother was
seriously ill at the time
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and this woman is
such a good talker,
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she actually convinced me
to later come in to the house.
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And I tried that
tell my mother was so sick
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but this woman was in
ministry not just selling books
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and so she came in
and minister to my mother.
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And one of those things
you can't argue with this
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when God rises a
person up and heals them
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and restores them.
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And my mother
once she was restored
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immediately they then praying
for her older son that was me.
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She would kneel down and
pray for her wicked son William,
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and I didn't feel
like her wicked son.
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I was caring for my
brothers and sisters,
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I was trying to
look after my mother,
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I was doing all the
right things as a young man
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and I didn't
understand the term wicked.
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But I knew that I have
lots of habits in my life
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that were not to
the glory of God.
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So my mother kept praying.
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Anyway one morning,
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I was taking the train
to work down in to the city,
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the heart of the city
and in the providence of God
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He sat me next to a
young Methodist preacher,
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a young man of God
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and I started
chatting with this guy
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and I was explaining to
him that I had some convictions
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and that I was having difficulty
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honoring these convictions.
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And the biggest conviction
that I was having a struggle was
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I had listened to my mother
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having a serious
of Bible studies.
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And one of those studies was
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about the keeping of the Sabbath
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and this was news to me.
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I automatically assumed
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that everyone went to
church on the same day.
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And I discovered
that there are people
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going to church
on different days
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and all of a sudden Friday night
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became an important
night and I remember saying
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to this young pastor
that's my dance night.
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I go to the dance
hall every Friday night.
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It's party night.
It's drinking night.
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It's-- whatever going on night.
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It's the big night
all my friends are there.
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I've been going there for years.
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It's the biggest
night of the week.
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And I didn't have
a lot of high points
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in my life at this point.
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So I said to this
young Methodist minister
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I don't know what to
do because unfortunately
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I overheard this Bible
study and I became convicted
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that I should be
thinking about Sabbath.
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This young man bless his
heart he never questioned me
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he made no effort to convince me
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that I was wrong
in my choice of day
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which I thought was
incredibly generous of him
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because he can see
that I was sincerely asking
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and so instead of correcting
me and pointing out that may be
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I should have been
thinking about some day.
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And you know I love the
fact that people can be come
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respectful of one
another's belief, don't you?
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Amen. Amen.
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And this because somebody is
worshipping on a different day
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that me or they
thinking differently
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that me doesn't mean
I should sit in judgment
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or even make myself appear to be
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better or superior to them.
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Every thing
hinges on the conviction
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you have from the Word of God.
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And I was convicted about
Friday night and Saturday.
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So this young Methodist minister
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never corrected me on
the day bless his heart.
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I didn't realize
this till years later.
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He read Romans 6:16 to me,
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the verse we just read,
quite so precious to me.
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Look at it again and
reminds us self of the words.
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Romans 6:16.
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Oh, Greg, would
you read that for me
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because that's
missing here and--
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"Do you not know that
when you present yourselves
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to someone as
slaves for obedience,
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you're slaves over
the one whom you obey,
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either of sin resulting in death
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or of obedience
resulting in righteousness."
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Who has that in
the King James Version?
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Now the regular King James--
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Eddie, have you got
the regular King James?
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Hang on, just
pray for the microphone
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that will appear.
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Great, thank you.
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"Know ye not, that to whom
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ye yield
yourselves servants to obey,
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his servants ye
are to whom ye obey,
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whether of sin unto death,
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or of obedience
unto righteousness?"
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Notice the word coming
through in the King James.
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I prefer this
word to whom you? Obey.
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Now read it one
more time, Eddie.
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Listen carefully to
it so we can pick it up.
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"Know ye not, that to whom
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ye yield
yourselves servants to obey,
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his servants ye
are to whom ye obey."
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Very good.
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"Whether of sin unto death,
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or of obedience
unto righteousness?"
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He placed the
emphasis on the right syllable
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that time.
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The word is "Yield"
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and this young
minister said to me
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the secret is don't
struggle against this.
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Don't ask God to
make you strong enough
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not to go in to the
dance hall on Friday night.
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Yield, does it I
don't understand, yield.
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He said well, the
modern word is surrender.
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I said, I still don't get it.
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He said, go out and find a tree
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or some quite
place and just look up
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and this is where
I got the phrase from
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and say to God I
give you permission
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right now to bring the
mind of Jesus in to me.
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Amen.
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I give Jesus permission
to make that the decision
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whether I go in to
the dance hall or not.
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I said, what's that I gonna do?
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He said, just try it
and see what happens.
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So, Friday I took the
train back to where I lived.
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I got off the train and
I walk through the gate.
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You know I could have turned
in any of several directions
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but I always turn
left on Friday night
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because it took me
down pass the dance hall.
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So I turned left
and I'm walking down on
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I can hear the
music half a mile away
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and I'm walking down--
I'm getting in the groove
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as I'm walking along
I can just feel myself
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I'm ready for this, you know.
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And I got to the
gate of the dance hall
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and I hesitated for
a minute but I went in.
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And there's a huge
tree in the front yard
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that still live, by the way.
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Anyway I hesitated
and the young woman
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came out of the dance hall,
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a good friend of
mine and she saw me.
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Bill, Bill, we've
been waiting for you.
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And she came down and she
took hold of me by my hand
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and started leading me
up in to the dance hall.
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You probably been in
a situation like this
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but every thing in
me said, no, no, no
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I don't want to go
into the little dance hall
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but my legs were
saying yes, yes, yes.
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And I walked right up to
the door of the dance hall
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and the Holy Spirit went zap.
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Amen.
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And Romans 6:16
jumped into my mind,
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it was the King James Version
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"To whom ye yield
yourselves servants to obey,
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his servants ye are
whether of sin unto death
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or God unto righteousness?"
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And I hesitated and I realized
that God was prompting me
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to yield for the
first time in my life
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that I had ever
experienced yielding.
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So I said to this girl, hey,
I can't come in at the moment
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go in without me
I'll join you shortly.
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I knew, I shouldn't say
that but it got me off the hook
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and I turned
around and I went back
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and I stood on to this big tree
for the first time in my life
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because I'd never prayed.
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I looked up and I said to God
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you know, I don't
know much about You.
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We've this very
casual conversation
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but the young
preacher told me to yield.
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And even though I
don't comprehended fully
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I'm giving You
permission right now
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to bring the
mind of Jesus in to me
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and I give Him
permission to make the decision
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whether I go in to
the dance hall or not
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because there's drinking
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and all kinds of activities
going on in the dance hall.
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And something happened.
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Miraculously, I
knew within myself
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that I was not going
in to the dance hall.
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My mind just went click. Amen.
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Did I have to go in
turn around and walk away
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but of course
the enemy didn't want
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to let me off the
hook that quickly.
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A dozen of my friends come and,
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what are you doing
talking to a tree, you know?
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This is secular
Australia remember,
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you didn't pray not openly.
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I was so embarrassed.
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They said, what are you doing?
They came and stood around me.
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I said, look it's I wasn't ready
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to witness to anybody.
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I said, I can't stay
tonight and I fled, I fled.
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Three weeks later I went
back into the dance hall,
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I was so depressed.
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And I thought because didn't
understand habit formation
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and I was in the
state of mild depression
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and the Holy Spirit said to me
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this is God at His
best speaking to my mind
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God said to me,
its the first time
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I heard God in my own mind
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God said to me, did
you have to turn left?
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I said what? Well,
could you turn right?
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I said, well, I could
and both rows would have
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let the home.
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He said, well, I
suggest you start turning right.
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And so I quit
walking pass the dance hall
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and I started turning right.
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So three years ago my
older son Simon who is a pastor,
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he and I were in
Melbourne together he said dad,
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let's take a train out
the way you used to live.
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I said okay.
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I thought he was interested
in saying where I used to live.
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So we took the train out
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we got off the
train and he said to me
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and I know he got great
joy out of this he said dad,
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empty your mind of
all preconceived ideas.
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I said oh, yeah,
yeah. He's testing thee.
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He said now walk
through that gate
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and turn automatically
the way that you turned.
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Don't think about it.
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Don't make a conscious decision.
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Walk through the gate and
just turn in the direction
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you feel inclined to turn.
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He's watching me and I
walked through the gate
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which way did I turn?
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Right. Right.
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Oh, come on. Come on.
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No, right. Well, the--
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Oh, hallelujahs
she's growing rapidly, yes.
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I automatically
turned right. Amen.
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And I said to my son at the time
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you know I've
actually forgotten the streets.
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I must have turned
right so many times
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that it became the
habit and in the process
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the old habit lost its
power and authority over me.
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Amen. Amen.
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The new habit
had replaced the old.
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I said, I have to go back
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and work out the
streets all over again
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and now to go left
because I was in the habit
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for several
years of turning right.
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Praise the Lord. Amen.
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What a-- I didn't understand
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the principle
fully like I do know
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but I want to
encourage you here today
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that even though you're
coming to the cross everyday
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and you're putting
on the mind of Jesus
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you must intelligently act
upon sound biblical principles.
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Amen. Amen.
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And as you act upon them
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on a regular
and consistent basis
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they will replace the
old habits in your lives
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and you'll find
yourself automatically
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doing by nature the very things
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that are in the mind of
God which is now in you.
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Thank you for that.
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I'll bishop that out, would you?
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The new nature.
It's the new nature.
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It's the new
nature in you. Amen.
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And I can't resist to
showing this little statement
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from my favorite author with you
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because I happened to have
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it's stuck in
my Bible along side
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Romans Chapter 12.
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This lady who is a very
prolific Christian writer
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of the 19th century by
the name of Ellen White.
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Right one of the most
beautiful commentaries
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on the life of Jesus
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and regardless of your
denominational preferences
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I strongly urge you
to check out the book
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called "The Desire of Ages."
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It's the most
beautiful commentary
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on the life of Jesus
00:19:51.73\00:19:53.61
you will ever read
outside of the Scriptures,
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I'm very serious.
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And it will not upset
your denominational connections
00:19:58.12\00:20:02.05
because it's simply a beautiful
commentary on the life of Jesus
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it will strengthen
you in your own church
00:20:06.44\00:20:09.14
affiliations at this moment.
00:20:09.17\00:20:11.78
And on page 668,
listen carefully to the words
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its just a little
statement, "If we consent,
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He will so identify Himself
with our thoughts and aims,
00:20:23.11\00:20:29.41
so blend our hearts and minds
into conformity to His will,"
00:20:29.44\00:20:35.03
I hope you hearing it
and here's the important
00:20:35.06\00:20:37.35
part of Ellen White
triggered this in me
00:20:37.38\00:20:39.15
when she said
what she just said,
00:20:39.18\00:20:42.31
"that when
obeying Him we shall be
00:20:42.34\00:20:47.27
but carrying out
our own impulses."
00:20:47.30\00:20:50.63
Amen. Amen.
00:20:50.66\00:20:55.75
You'll grow to the
point that when you obey Jesus
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she will just be doing
naturally now the things
00:21:00.32\00:21:04.30
that are in your own mind.
00:21:04.33\00:21:06.53
Amen.
00:21:06.56\00:21:07.59
That's powerful
00:21:07.62\00:21:09.52
because you've
gotten into the habit.
00:21:09.55\00:21:12.21
The mind of Jesus has now
become one with your mind.
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You're doing now by nature
00:21:16.67\00:21:19.87
the very will of
God Himself in you.
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Isn't not remarkable? Amen.
00:21:23.19\00:21:25.31
It's absolutely remarkable.
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The seriously advanced concept
coming through here today.
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So as we wrap things up
here three powerful steps,
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three powerful steps
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that lead to victory in
the life of the believer.
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We got to take a
couple of minutes
00:21:46.74\00:21:48.05
as we conclude now just in
case the word has touched you
00:21:48.08\00:21:53.47
at some special
level this weekend.
00:21:53.50\00:21:57.93
I am gonna give you a couple
of minutes to feedback to me.
00:21:57.96\00:22:00.59
What is touched you
from the Word of God
00:22:00.62\00:22:02.87
specifically this weekend?
00:22:02.90\00:22:05.13
I'm gonna take a
couple of extra minutes here
00:22:05.16\00:22:07.41
this morning on
top of our regular time
00:22:07.44\00:22:10.72
so that we'll have
time to answer this.
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Who's responding to that?
00:22:12.39\00:22:13.81
What has touched you especially
00:22:13.84\00:22:16.63
during our seminar
on Victory in Jesus
00:22:16.66\00:22:19.83
that you'd like to share
and give praise to God for?
00:22:19.86\00:22:22.80
Ruddy, yes?
00:22:22.83\00:22:24.52
To me what's
critical or so powerful
00:22:24.55\00:22:29.21
is the fact that God
is willing to transform me
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and He gives me the methodology
00:22:34.74\00:22:36.84
the means to achieve
that by surrendering,
00:22:36.87\00:22:40.39
by coming to the cross this
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that the three
steps that you aligned
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and He actually dwells in me
00:22:46.17\00:22:50.67
and takes over my nature,
00:22:50.70\00:22:56.24
so where He dominates
and I can fulfill His paln.
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Beautiful.
00:23:00.79\00:23:01.82
Because He gives me His motives,
00:23:01.85\00:23:03.89
His desires and His plan.
00:23:03.92\00:23:06.51
We could say you worked
the whole in shall either.
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Yes. It's powerful.
00:23:09.11\00:23:10.45
Praise the Lord,
man. Praise the Lord.
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That's powerful. Amen.
00:23:11.54\00:23:12.57
It's powerful,
it's powerful, powerful.
00:23:12.60\00:23:13.63
Yeah, yes. Kane, yes?
00:23:13.66\00:23:16.47
I've been struck this weekend
00:23:19.29\00:23:20.99
that in spite of
my natural tendency
00:23:21.02\00:23:24.73
is to be an enemy of God,
00:23:24.76\00:23:26.91
He's gracious and
forgiving and kind and loving
00:23:26.94\00:23:31.20
and He will come into my mind
00:23:31.23\00:23:35.08
when I ask Him to
and I invite Him to
00:23:35.11\00:23:37.47
and as I become more
impressed with His word
00:23:37.50\00:23:40.06
and understand it
better my thoughts
00:23:40.09\00:23:43.11
would become His thoughts
00:23:43.14\00:23:44.38
or His thoughts
will become my thoughts.
00:23:44.41\00:23:46.12
Okay, powerful
statement there, thank you.
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Who else is responding?
00:23:49.27\00:23:50.64
Okay, down the
front here, thank you.
00:23:50.67\00:23:53.82
Let me know when the
three minutes is up please.
00:23:53.85\00:23:56.48
Well, I got to admit
I cheated a little bit
00:23:56.51\00:23:58.47
because I get your
book and I read it twice.
00:23:58.50\00:24:01.69
That's music to my ears.
00:24:01.72\00:24:03.13
And I followed this
pattern and I have had my mind
00:24:03.16\00:24:08.84
actually change by
God and issues resolved
00:24:08.87\00:24:13.25
that were just
impossible resolved.
00:24:13.28\00:24:15.51
I mean, this works
God is so faithful.
00:24:15.54\00:24:19.44
I mean, I just love Him.
00:24:19.47\00:24:20.98
I'll just fall more
and more in love with Him
00:24:21.01\00:24:22.98
because you see
how much He loves you.
00:24:23.01\00:24:25.85
As He changes you. Beautiful.
00:24:25.88\00:24:27.76
And it's all about Him.
00:24:27.79\00:24:28.95
Powerful testimony. Praise God.
00:24:28.98\00:24:31.53
Come on who
else is sitting there
00:24:31.56\00:24:33.30
praising God something's
gripped you this weekend.
00:24:33.33\00:24:36.93
I am actually thrilled
00:24:36.96\00:24:38.35
that I can trust
God enough to change me
00:24:38.38\00:24:42.94
but I am even
more thrilled realizing
00:24:42.97\00:24:48.19
that people
around me are changed.
00:24:48.22\00:24:52.01
That gives me such a goose bumps
00:24:52.04\00:24:54.58
that God has His
people on this place.
00:24:54.61\00:24:57.60
Amen. Amen.
00:24:57.63\00:24:58.66
Beautiful
testimony and thank you.
00:24:58.69\00:25:01.03
All good things
must come to an end
00:25:01.06\00:25:02.70
and thank you for
being such great participants
00:25:02.73\00:25:05.13
in the word for entire weekend
00:25:05.16\00:25:07.97
which will show on television
for many weeks to come.
00:25:08.00\00:25:11.36
Let's stand
together as we conclude.
00:25:11.39\00:25:13.24
We gonna call Almighty
00:25:13.27\00:25:14.40
the close in
prayer for us please.
00:25:14.43\00:25:16.69
So the God in
gratitude and humility,
00:25:22.26\00:25:30.24
we thank You for the
great gift of Jesus for the fact
00:25:30.27\00:25:35.00
that you pursue us so much
00:25:35.03\00:25:38.68
that You want
to dwell within us,
00:25:38.71\00:25:41.46
transforming us
into Your likeness.
00:25:41.49\00:25:45.57
Lord, thank you so much.
00:25:45.60\00:25:48.38
To You be the honor
and the glory always, amen.
00:25:48.41\00:25:52.14
Amen. Amen.
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