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If you have a Bible, we're gonna be in Genesis chapter 35.

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Israel's gonna come home,

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and,

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AKA Ya'aqab or Jacob.

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And we saw the last time that when God tells you

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to do something and you don't do it,

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trouble isn't very far away, to say the least.

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And the disaster with Dinah being raped

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and then the response of Simeon and Levi going in

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after the guys were circumcised and killing all of them,

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pretty hideous.

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The human heart is desperately wicked, okay?

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We hear so many of our politicians and people in power

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talk about the innate good of man.

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It's not, it's a farce.

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Man is not basically good.

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Man is terribly, desperately wicked, right?

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That's the issue.

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That's why we need a law, right?

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That's why we need truth.

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That's why we need something much larger than ourselves

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because of our depravity.

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And I think that, well, we went into it in detail

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on a Wednesday night, but mankind is depraved.

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And last week we saw these two sons of Jacob

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and what they did.

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That was desperately wicked.

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That was not an eye for an eye or a tooth for a tooth

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or a bone for a bone, however it goes on, life for life.

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So the law God gave us so that we would not act

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on our wickedness, but according to His truth

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and His word and His law.

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So we're gonna be in Genesis 35.

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Like I said, I'm gonna read these first seven verses.

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Let's pray.

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Father, thank you for your word.

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That is, it's a light and a lamp.

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It's mighty.

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And Lord, we learn so much from it.

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And it's something that we can put in our hearts.

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And because it's alive, it brings life to us.

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And so, and it's your life, Lord, it's not ours.

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So we thank you for that.

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We thank you that you're able to redeem.

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We thank you that you're able to revive

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and bring back to life those things in us

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that we allow to die or we forsake.

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And you're able to bring us back to that place of newness

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and a new beginning.

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And I think there are some here today,

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maybe myself included, Lord, that just need a new beginning.

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We thank you that your mercies are new every morning.

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So would you speak to us this morning

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as we look at your word in Jesus' name, amen.

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Chapter 35, then God said to Jacob, okay,

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this was after the, actually the last words of chapter 34 is,

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but they said, should he treat our sister like a harlot

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trying to justify their deed?

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And then God said to Jacob, after all this disaster,

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dysfunction junction to the max, right?

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Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there

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and make an altar there to God,

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who appeared to you when you fled

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from the face of Esau your brother.

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And Jacob said to his household

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and to all who were with him,

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put away the foreign gods that are among you,

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purify yourselves and change your garments.

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Then let us arise and go up to Bethel

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and I will make an altar there to God,

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who answered me in the day of my distress

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and has been with me in the way which I have gone.

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And so they gave Jacob all the foreign gods

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which were in their hands

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and the earrings which were in their ears.

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And Jacob hid them under the terebin tree,

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which was by Shechem.

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And they journeyed and the terror of God

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was upon the cities that were all around them.

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And they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

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And so Jacob came to Luz, that is Bethel,

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which is in the land of Canaan.

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He and all the people who were with him

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and he built an altar there

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and called the place El Bethel,

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because there God appeared to him

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when he fled from the face of his brother.

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And so Jacob's going back.

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He's finally getting it.

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Hello, McFly, right?

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He's been getting pounded on,

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he's been in one pickle after another.

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And the Lord just told him,

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just go back to the house of God.

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Some of you have maybe been away for a while.

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It's good to see you, right?

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If there's ever a time to be walking tight with Jesus,

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folks, it's now, right?

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The days are evil.

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You and I need to be redeeming the time

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and having the Lord direct our paths.

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And the Lord tells him, he says,

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so finally after this disaster,

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and remember what he told his boys,

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he says, you guys are gonna get me in trouble.

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They're gonna wanna kill me, right?

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There's just nothing good gonna happen to me.

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He had meitis.

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And God says, okay, Jake,

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go back to where I told you to go in the first place, right?

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Go back to where we met.

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You remember that place there in Genesis chapter 28,

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when we read about him running scared from Esau

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and God had revealed himself to him there.

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And verses 16 and 17 of the 28th chapter of Genesis,

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then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said,

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surely the Lord is in this place.

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And I did not know it.

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And he was afraid and said, how awesome is this place?

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There is none other than the house of God.

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And this is the gate of heaven.

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Have you gone back in your mind and heart?

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Do you go back to those times

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when you know that the Lord has met with you

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and he's touched your heart?

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And I started contemplating and thinking about this,

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about going back and I'm going, man, I started thinking.

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I'm going, wow, God, you've been so good

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to this crusty old wicked sinner.

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He's been so good to me.

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And I went back to Buell, Idaho back in the early 1970s.

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I was nine years old.

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Pastor Jack Johnson preached a message on hell.

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I'll never forget it.

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At nine years old, I didn't want to go to hell.

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Now I don't know how much evil I had done at nine,

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but I had done enough, okay?

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I had done enough.

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And I didn't want to go to hell.

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And the Lord touched my heart.

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And I went and had him pray with me.

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When I was in Twin Falls, I was 14.

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My dad took me to a church service

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and there was an altar call afterwards

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and he kind of nudged me.

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He said, you think you want to go up?

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I didn't think I wanted to go up,

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but before I got there, I was a mess.

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The Lord touched my heart.

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Just that little step of faith towards the altar,

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God goes, hey, I can work with that, right?

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Some people said, well, I'm not willing.

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Well, the question I have for you who aren't willing

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to come to the Lord, are you willing to be willing?

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'Cause if you're willing to be willing,

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God can work with that, right?

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Then again in Abbeville, Kansas, 1983,

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I'll never forget it, right?

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I remember a scripture that just,

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it was like an arrow that shot right into my heart.

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Who, what manner of man is this?

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That the wind and the sea obey him.

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And I remember being 20, well, as I,

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22 years old going, wow, that's true.

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Jesus is big and he's done nothing but get bigger

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ever since.

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I seen this California when I was 23,

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sitting in a trailer house all by myself

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and the spirit of God showed up, overwhelmed me.

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That's when I surrendered.

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I literally threw my hands in the air and I said, okay,

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I said, Lord, my life's yours.

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My life's yours.

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You know, I've never regretted that.

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You will never regret that.

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You will never regret coming to Jesus.

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Actually, I've never regretted going to church.

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Now I've regretted not going, right?

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But I've never regretted just going as an act of faith

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and bringing a sacrifice of praise.

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Cottonwood, Idaho, back in 1986,

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year before me and my wife got married,

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I had a Holy Spirit experience.

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The Lord met me.

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I remember this man praying for me.

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He was a friend of mine.

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We went to jail together.

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We were in jail in Cottonwood.

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But I wasn't incarcerated, right?

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I wasn't incarcerated.

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We did the Chuck Colson prison invasion back in 1986

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and we went in and me and this other dude that,

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he was a rounder and got saved

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and me and him went together

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and we were in this motel room and he looks at me,

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says, Scotty, we gotta pray.

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And I said, okay.

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We were both kind of thumbing through our Bibles

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and he put his hand on me and prayed.

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The only thing I remember in his prayer

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was receive your gift.

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It's the only thing I remember.

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And the presence of the Lord was so thick,

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all we could do is sit and worship the Lord.

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The Lord met me there.

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Maybe you've had some of those experiences.

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Maybe you forgot.

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I'm convinced the Lord gives us those things

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to have something to remind us.

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Do you remember when?

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You were at the end of your rope

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and you cried out to the Lord

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and somehow he provided for you?

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I think we can all go there.

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We can go there and, you know, I was an old bull rider.

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How many times I should have died?

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I'm a terrible driver.

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How many times I should have died?

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You gotta remember.

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Israel, every time they got in trouble,

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it's because they forgot the Lord.

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They forgot, right?

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You just get doing your own thing.

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You get to collecting these little trinkets

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and pretty soon you're worshiping idols

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and you don't even realize it.

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You've drifted so far from the Lord.

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Revelation chapter two, verse five.

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You remember when the Lord speaks to the church at Ephesus

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and he says, "Remember therefore,

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from where you have fallen,

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repent and do the first works

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or else I will come to you quickly

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and remove your lampstand from its place unless you repent."

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They had left their first love.

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They got sidetracked.

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They allowed these idols

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to kind of worm their way into their lives.

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Are you aware of what an idol could be to you?

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Anything that consumes more of your time

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than what the Lord does?

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Be careful.

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Or should I say your attention?

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Paul tells us to pray without ceasing.

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How do you do that?

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It's a lifestyle, folks.

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It's a lifestyle.

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You walk with, you talk with your God.

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That's the lifestyle.

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It's not that we sit in our living room on our knees

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all day long and pray.

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You pray while you work.

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Nehemiah, we see Nehemiah praying

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while he's conversing with the king and doing his service.

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He's chucking up them prayers.

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The Lord knows your heart

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and he knows what you have need of before you even ask him.

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So remember, it's interesting,

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the three R's there, right?

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Remember, repent and repeat.

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Remember that fire that you had

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when you first had that experience with the Lord, right?

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And repent of drifting away,

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turn back to the Lord,

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and thirdly, repeat, do the first works.

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Do what you used to do.

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Are you in the Word?

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Are you sharing it?

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He says the same thing to the church at Sardis

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there in Revelation chapter three.

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Remember therefore, how you have received and heard

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what the Lord has spoken to you.

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Hold fast and repent.

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Therefore, if you will not watch,

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I will come upon you as a thief

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and you will not know what hour I will come upon you.

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Jesus said, when you and I see these things

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that we see happening in the earth right now,

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lift up your head for your redemption draws nigh, right?

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Lift up your head.

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Pay attention to what is going on, right?

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And then he calls us to occupy.

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Occupy till I come.

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And so that's why I'm comforted, right?

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By people like Scott that's wanting to step up

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and be salt and light in the political arena,

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which is not fun 'cause you know, right?

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You know as soon as you throw your little toe

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across that line, here comes the darts

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and the fiery arrows, right?

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It's coming at you.

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(congregation laughing)

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Salt does a couple of things.

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It preserves, but it also irritates, right?

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And salt irritates those who are rotten, right?

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So he encourages them.

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You know, the Lord has a desire you guys

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for us to be close to him, right?

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How do you do that?

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Well, it is really simple.

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Draw near to the Lord.

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You just, it's an act of your will.

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It's something you choose to do.

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It does not happen, right?

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It does not happen unless you do it intentionally.

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Well, I go to church.

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Coming to church ain't enough.

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You know, that's kind of like having

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a spoonful of sweet cream once a week.

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It doesn't do you that much good.

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Unless you're pressing in and then you can sharpen

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each other when you get here.

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And hopefully I can share some of God's word with you

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that you can take away.

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And Saturday is it, this is when I sometimes,

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a lot of times after a message,

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they remembered none of the scripture that I share,

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but some funny joke I told.

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Well, I'm not even that funny, so.

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Stick to the scripture, would you?

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But the Lord has this desire for us to draw close to him.

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John 4, 8, or excuse me, James 4, 8 says,

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"Draw near to God and he will draw near to you.

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"Cleanse your hands, you sinners,

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"and purify your hearts, you double-minded."

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Been double-minded?

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I love Jesus, but.

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Get your butt out of there.

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Get your butt out of there.

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(congregation laughing)

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Hebrews 4, 16, "Let us then with confidence

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"draw near to the throne of grace

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"that we may receive mercy and find grace

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"to help in time of need."

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Drawing close to the Lord.

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Psalm 145, 18 says, "The Lord is near all those

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"who call upon him and all who call upon him

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"in truth."

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So you have to be truthful with God, right?

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That's part of the whole being honest

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and coming to a time of repentance.

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It's time to repent is what he's telling Jacob here.

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It's time to come back, change your direction,

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go back to Bethel and to clean it up.

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Notice he says there, put away, right?

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Put away the foreign gods that are among you.

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Purify yourselves and change your garments.

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That's kind of what James was just saying.

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He just has a little less tact, right?

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I love what he says there, right?

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"Cleanse your hands, you sinners."

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Can't you just, I can just see James

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pounding the pulpit, right?

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"Or you're gonna burn in hell."

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But put away, turn aside.

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He's calling his family to repent.

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Men, lead your families.

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God has called us as men to lead our families, right?

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And it says that he hid them out of their sight.

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They hid them, he buried them, he discarded them,

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he got rid of them.

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We couldn't see him no more.

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We're not gonna go there anymore.

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We're not gonna play that game anymore.

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We're not gonna do the porn anymore.

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Not gonna do the endless shopping

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and maxing out credit cards and being stupid, stupid, right?

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They did a study with cell phones

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'cause I'm convinced you guys, they're an idol.

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It consumes people.

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I mean, it consumes.

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I've talked to people,

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can you live without your cell phone?

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No.

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I still have one of these babies.

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There's a reason for that, right?

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Now I can get on the internet,

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but it is exhausting to even try.

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(congregation laughing)

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So this thing stays in the house a lot.

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Listen, I lived for over 30 years

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talking on the telephone in the house.

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That's the only place I talked on the telephone

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was in the house, right?

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The world will keep turning

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if you do not have your cell phone.

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Shut that baby off, man.

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Put it on a counter somewhere.

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Go be still before your God.

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So they did this study.

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I just had to share it with you.

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It's just like, wow.

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So they did this study

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when people were trying to complete a task,

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what was the most distracting?

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Just with your phone, specifically with the phone,

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what was most distracting?

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When it was out of sight, in your pocket, or on your desk.

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And this is what they found.

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The results were striking.

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Individuals who completed these tasks

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while their phones were in another room performed the best.

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Followed by those who left their phones in their pocket.

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In last place were those whose phones were on their desks.

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We saw similar results

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when participants' phones were turned off.

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People performed worse when their phones were nearby

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and best when they were away in a separate room.

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Thus merely having their smartphones out on the desk

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led to a small but statistically significant impairment

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of individuals' cognitive capacity

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on par with effects of lacking sleep.

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And I don't know about you, when I lack sleep, I get weird.

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And I've lacked a little sleep today.

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So if I get a little off, please be merciful to me.

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But Jacob said, "No, get them out of my sight, out of sight.

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We're not gonna go there.

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We're gonna worship God.

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We're gonna go to the house of God."

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And so he tells his family the things

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that are distracting you, we're gonna put them away.

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We're not gonna go there.

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2 Corinthians 6, verse 17 says,

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"Therefore, come out from among them.

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Be separate, says the Lord.

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Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you."

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Right?

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'Cause you can't serve both.

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You can't serve idols and the Lord.

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You gotta only serve one.

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I mean, Bob Dylan's was spot on.

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You gotta serve somebody.

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He might be the devil or he might be the Lord.

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You gotta serve somebody.

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And you can't serve both.

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Jesus, no servant can serve two masters, Luke chapter 16.

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For he will either hate the one and love the other

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or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other.

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You cannot serve God and mammon.

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1 John 5 21, "Little children,

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keep yourselves from idols, amen."

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(congregation laughing)

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Enough said, huh?

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It's interesting.

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First, God speaks to Jacob to saying,

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"Go back to the house of God."

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Right?

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You gotta lead.

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Dads, grandpas, men, you have to lead.

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You have to.

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It's not optional.

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If your wife is leading you spiritually,

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that's totally out of order.

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God bless her.

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But that's not what God has called her to do.

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He's called you to do that.

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So man up, get your big boy britches on, right?

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Quit being a spiritual wimp, not praying with your wife,

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not praying with your kids, and pray with them,

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and lead them, and put God's word in your heart

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so you'll know what to tell them when they need you.

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If you're not putting God's word in your heart,

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you're not gonna know what to tell them.

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And so God says, "You're gonna lead, man.

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You're gonna lead."

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Jacob, secondly, Jacob is getting his house in order.

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This is what we call patriarchal leadership, man.

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That's what I'm talking about.

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It's patriarchal leadership.

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You lead by praying with your wife, praying with your kids,

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praying with your grandkids.

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You lead by reading your Bible.

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You lead by worshiping the Lord.

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How are your sons and daughters

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gonna know how to worship God, man, if you don't?

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How are they gonna know?

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What, you sitting here like this?

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Yeah, this sucks.

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(congregation laughing)

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Worshiping the Lord is sweet, soothes your soul, right?

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Why are there 150 songs, songs?

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And then that big one, the Song of Solomon.

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Yeehaw, I've been reading that this week.

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Love my wife.

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(congregation laughing)

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You lead by saying you're sorry.

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You lead by righting wrongs.

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You lead by working hard.

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You lead by going the extra mile.

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You lead by being a servant.

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You esteem others more highly than yourself.

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And the generation coming after us has got to see that.

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They have to, or they're not gonna know how to do it.

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I mean, the old saying is true, you guys.

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It is 90% of ministry is just showing up,

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but you gotta show up in your own homes first.

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People will forsake that and show up at the church

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and serve like crazy.

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If your home isn't in order, what are you doing?

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Trying to serve the Lord

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and make a good impression on others?

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Just be real.

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God, I've screwed up.

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God, I've been selfish.

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Forgive me.

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Help me to serve.

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Help me to serve my wife and my kids and my family.

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And eventually my church.

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You remember how upset Jacob was, right?

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And so God takes care of this

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'cause he's worried about his own hide.

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He's fearful because of what the boys did.

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He is going to die, right?

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And the Lord takes care of this in verse five.

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Notice what it says.

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It's quite interesting where it says,

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and let's see, was I in the right place there?

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Yeah.

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I just lost it.

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But it says that,

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"And so Jacob gave all his foreign gods into their hands,"

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or they gave all their gods into their hands

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in their earrings.

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"And they journeyed, and the terror," verse five,

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"of God was upon the cities that were all around them,

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and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob."

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God brings this spirit of fear

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upon the enemies of Israel, of Jacob.

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Interesting, right?

531
00:26:28,460 --> 00:26:29,780
I think we see that today.

532
00:26:29,780 --> 00:26:35,220
I think that's why after October 7th,

533
00:26:35,220 --> 00:26:38,120
we don't see any armies invading Israel.

534
00:26:38,120 --> 00:26:39,980
They're all shooting from the outside.

535
00:26:39,980 --> 00:26:45,500
'Cause God has his hand on these people.

536
00:26:45,500 --> 00:26:49,340
He makes these people afraid of Israel.

537
00:26:49,340 --> 00:26:54,620
And I think it's so today as well.

538
00:26:56,940 --> 00:26:59,020
And he goes and he built an altar there,

539
00:26:59,020 --> 00:27:05,220
and he worships, and they call the place El Bethel,

540
00:27:05,220 --> 00:27:09,600
house, or excuse me, God, God's house of God.

541
00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:11,700
God's house of God.

542
00:27:11,700 --> 00:27:17,020
Good place to be is in the house of God.

543
00:27:17,020 --> 00:27:19,180
Because there God appeared to him

544
00:27:19,180 --> 00:27:22,060
when he fled from the face of his brother.

545
00:27:22,060 --> 00:27:25,180
And so the Lord took him back and reminded him,

546
00:27:25,180 --> 00:27:26,900
"Listen, I'm with you.

547
00:27:26,900 --> 00:27:29,240
I told you back then I was gonna be with you.

548
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:31,540
No matter what, I'm gonna be with you.

549
00:27:31,540 --> 00:27:34,600
No matter who comes against you, I'm gonna be with you,"

550
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:35,920
is what he tells him.

551
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:39,300
Then verse eight kinda shifts gears,

552
00:27:39,300 --> 00:27:41,720
and it says, "Now Deborah," Rebecca's nerves,

553
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:44,380
"died and she was buried below Bethel

554
00:27:44,380 --> 00:27:45,980
under the terebinth tree.

555
00:27:45,980 --> 00:27:49,980
So the name of it was called Elan-Bekuth."

556
00:27:49,980 --> 00:27:54,700
And so we don't even know who Deborah is.

557
00:27:54,700 --> 00:27:56,240
We know that a nurse came with her

558
00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:59,220
when the servant went and got Rebecca

559
00:27:59,220 --> 00:28:01,720
and brought her to Isaac, and the nurse was with her.

560
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:03,260
So it must have been Deborah.

561
00:28:03,260 --> 00:28:06,080
Deborah is, and it's interesting

562
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:09,680
'cause that means the tree or the oak of weeping,

563
00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:12,440
that they took this very hard when this Rebecca died.

564
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:17,440
Maybe she's the one that gave Jacob the news

565
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:21,780
that his mother had died.

566
00:28:21,780 --> 00:28:22,620
But,

567
00:28:22,620 --> 00:28:27,620
they all seem to be affected,

568
00:28:27,620 --> 00:28:29,660
and they all seem to be weeping.

569
00:28:29,660 --> 00:28:32,840
I think that Deborah was kinda like Alice

570
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:33,720
off the Brady Bunch.

571
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:34,880
You remember Alice?

572
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:38,460
Everybody loved Alice, right?

573
00:28:38,460 --> 00:28:41,500
And that's probably what Deborah is.

574
00:28:41,500 --> 00:28:44,840
So we don't know a lot about her other than

575
00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:47,140
she obviously had an impact.

576
00:28:47,140 --> 00:28:50,060
You know, when you go and do funerals

577
00:28:50,060 --> 00:28:53,460
and you see people that were faithful to the Lord

578
00:28:53,460 --> 00:28:58,460
and how sweet, how sweet their memory is to those people.

579
00:28:58,460 --> 00:29:02,200
I just did a funeral here a few days back,

580
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:06,420
and it was that way, just a sweet woman who loved the Lord,

581
00:29:06,420 --> 00:29:09,480
and it just devastates you when you're gone.

582
00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:12,640
All the tears are for ourselves, right?

583
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:15,260
Because we don't have them anymore.

584
00:29:15,260 --> 00:29:19,220
And that's what was going on with Jacob and his family here

585
00:29:19,220 --> 00:29:22,200
as they mourn the loss of Deborah.

586
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:25,060
Verse nine says, "Then God appeared to Jacob again

587
00:29:25,060 --> 00:29:28,340
when he came from Paddan-arim, blessed him.

588
00:29:28,340 --> 00:29:31,220
And God said to him, 'Your name is Jacob.

589
00:29:31,220 --> 00:29:33,700
Your name shall not be called Jacob anymore,

590
00:29:33,700 --> 00:29:36,660
but Israel shall be your name.'

591
00:29:36,660 --> 00:29:38,780
And so he called his name Israel.

592
00:29:38,780 --> 00:29:41,380
Also God said to him, 'I am God Almighty,

593
00:29:41,380 --> 00:29:43,220
be fruitful and multiply.

594
00:29:43,220 --> 00:29:47,260
A nation and a company of nations shall proceed from you,

595
00:29:47,260 --> 00:29:49,680
and kings shall come from your body.

596
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:53,820
The land which I gave Abraham and Isaac I give to you,

597
00:29:53,820 --> 00:29:57,420
and to your descendants after you I give this land.'

598
00:29:57,420 --> 00:30:00,020
Then God went up from him in the place

599
00:30:00,020 --> 00:30:01,420
where he talked with him.

600
00:30:01,420 --> 00:30:04,580
And so Jacob set up a pillar in the place

601
00:30:04,580 --> 00:30:07,060
where he talked with him, a pillar of stone,

602
00:30:07,060 --> 00:30:09,220
and he poured a drink offering on it,

603
00:30:09,220 --> 00:30:10,860
and he poured oil on it.

604
00:30:10,860 --> 00:30:13,760
And Jacob called the name of the place

605
00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:16,360
where God spoke with him, Bethel."

606
00:30:17,220 --> 00:30:19,660
I don't know how many times we've seen this.

607
00:30:19,660 --> 00:30:24,500
Last chapter, there was no mention of God at all

608
00:30:24,500 --> 00:30:25,780
in the last chapter.

609
00:30:25,780 --> 00:30:28,220
This chapter, God's mentioned 10 times,

610
00:30:28,220 --> 00:30:31,420
and then Bethel and Israel's mentioned

611
00:30:31,420 --> 00:30:33,040
another 10 or 11 times.

612
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:34,720
Amazing.

613
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:40,520
Can I just say, it goes a whole lot better

614
00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:41,840
when the Lord's involved.

615
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:45,960
When the Lord is present,

616
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:47,160
life goes so much better.

617
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:48,700
Does it mean it's easier?

618
00:30:48,700 --> 00:30:49,540
Not really.

619
00:30:49,540 --> 00:30:52,960
It's just better.

620
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:57,960
Jesus said, "My yoke is easy and my burden is light."

621
00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:01,300
And that is everything you go through in life.

622
00:31:01,300 --> 00:31:04,780
His yoke is easy and his burden is light.

623
00:31:04,780 --> 00:31:08,620
And it's interesting, you know,

624
00:31:08,620 --> 00:31:10,820
from now on, he's gonna refer to him,

625
00:31:10,820 --> 00:31:13,820
not as Jacob, the heel catcher, the supplanter,

626
00:31:13,820 --> 00:31:17,780
the sneaky one, but Israel, the prince with God.

627
00:31:17,780 --> 00:31:22,140
God confirms Israel the person,

628
00:31:22,140 --> 00:31:26,340
and then he confirms Israel the nation, the land,

629
00:31:26,340 --> 00:31:30,060
the same as Abraham and Isaac, from the river to the sea.

630
00:31:30,060 --> 00:31:32,460
We've been hearing that a lot lately, haven't we?

631
00:31:32,460 --> 00:31:37,660
From the river to the sea was promised to Abraham,

632
00:31:37,660 --> 00:31:40,360
Isaac, and Israel.

633
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:43,840
Israel is not occupying all of the land that God gave them.

634
00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:45,880
Right?

635
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:46,720
Right now, they're not.

636
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:51,000
And people have left this church

637
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:52,940
because of this flag right here.

638
00:31:52,940 --> 00:31:55,840
They're, "Oh, these people,

639
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:58,680
they're supporting the occupiers."

640
00:31:58,680 --> 00:31:59,600
No, we're not.

641
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:03,280
They own the land, second to God,

642
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:04,680
'cause God gave it to them.

643
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:07,240
God gave the land to them.

644
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:12,120
And it is a miracle.

645
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:13,680
Israel is a miracle.

646
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:15,480
I read this quote this morning.

647
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:17,040
Somebody's been seeing it, Amir Tsarfati,

648
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:18,040
I'm gonna share it with you.

649
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:20,320
Amir Tsarfati posted this this morning.

650
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:23,120
Listen to what he says here.

651
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:25,580
And this is about the Jewish people.

652
00:32:25,580 --> 00:32:29,280
If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute

653
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:33,480
but one quarter of 1% of the human race,

654
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:34,760
one quarter of 1%.

655
00:32:36,580 --> 00:32:40,780
It suggests the nebulous puff of stardust

656
00:32:40,780 --> 00:32:43,700
lost in the blaze of the Milky Way.

657
00:32:43,700 --> 00:32:47,480
Properly, the Jew ought hardly to be heard of,

658
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:51,640
but he is heard of, has always been heard of.

659
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:54,720
He is as prominent on the planet as any other people,

660
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:59,720
and his importance is extravagantly out of proportion

661
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:02,360
to the smallness of his bulk.

662
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:07,480
His contribution to the world's list of great names

663
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:11,100
in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine,

664
00:33:11,100 --> 00:33:17,520
and abstruse learning are also very out of proportion

665
00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:20,660
to the weakness of his numbers.

666
00:33:20,660 --> 00:33:27,200
He has made a marvelous fight in this world in all ages

667
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:31,200
and has done it with his hands tied behind him.

668
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:34,940
He could be vain of himself and be excused for it.

669
00:33:34,940 --> 00:33:38,160
The Egyptians, the Babylonians, and the Persians rose,

670
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:40,720
filled the planet with sound and splendor,

671
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:44,360
then faded to dream stuff and passed away.

672
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:47,680
The Greeks and Romans followed and made a vast noise,

673
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:49,000
and they were gone.

674
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:52,080
Other people have sprung up and held their torch high

675
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:54,120
for a time, but it burned out,

676
00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:57,440
and they sit in twilight now and have vanished,

677
00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:00,140
and I fear for the United States of America.

678
00:34:00,140 --> 00:34:05,140
I love this country, folks, but we have lost our way.

679
00:34:05,140 --> 00:34:10,740
We have allowed insanity to govern us.

680
00:34:10,740 --> 00:34:16,300
The Jews saw them all, survived them all,

681
00:34:16,300 --> 00:34:21,300
and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence,

682
00:34:21,300 --> 00:34:26,740
no infirmities of age, no weakening of his parts,

683
00:34:26,740 --> 00:34:31,180
no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert

684
00:34:31,180 --> 00:34:33,780
but aggressive mind.

685
00:34:33,780 --> 00:34:37,100
All things are mortal but the Jews.

686
00:34:37,100 --> 00:34:40,100
All other forces pass, but he remains.

687
00:34:40,100 --> 00:34:43,160
What is the secret to his immortality?

688
00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:46,140
This is Mark Twain said this in 1897.

689
00:34:46,140 --> 00:34:53,540
And all you have to do is look at history, and it's true.

690
00:34:53,540 --> 00:34:56,020
It is the truth.

691
00:34:56,020 --> 00:35:01,020
And people don't want to hear the truth.

692
00:35:01,020 --> 00:35:06,220
They want to jump on a bandwagon and ignorantly fly

693
00:35:06,220 --> 00:35:11,060
a green, black, white, and red flag, right?

694
00:35:11,060 --> 00:35:11,880
Ignorantly.

695
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:13,900
They have no idea why they're doing it.

696
00:35:13,900 --> 00:35:15,260
Oh, it sounds cool, man.

697
00:35:15,260 --> 00:35:17,800
You know, I remember my brother going

698
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:20,100
to a scorpion concert one time,

699
00:35:20,100 --> 00:35:23,660
and his buddy said, "Hey, do this, man, do this."

700
00:35:23,660 --> 00:35:24,500
He goes, "What's it mean?"

701
00:35:24,500 --> 00:35:26,380
He goes, "I don't know, but it's cool."

702
00:35:26,380 --> 00:35:29,900
Well, that's not the satanic brotherhood sign, right?

703
00:35:29,900 --> 00:35:32,260
That was just like, "I don't know, it's cool."

704
00:35:32,260 --> 00:35:37,180
We probably ought to check things out, right,

705
00:35:37,180 --> 00:35:41,820
before we say anything or do anything.

706
00:35:41,820 --> 00:35:44,960
The Lord told Moses in Exodus chapter 25, verse two,

707
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:48,660
"When you come into the land that I give you,"

708
00:35:48,660 --> 00:35:50,800
God gave it to him.

709
00:35:52,620 --> 00:35:56,740
Now listen, the Palestinians, right?

710
00:35:56,740 --> 00:35:59,860
God bless them, I pray that they come to know Jesus, right?

711
00:35:59,860 --> 00:36:01,240
They just need Jesus.

712
00:36:01,240 --> 00:36:03,080
They're just like any other person.

713
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:07,520
They just, but to claim a residence

714
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:11,540
in the land of Israel is a farce, right?

715
00:36:11,540 --> 00:36:12,920
They call it Palestinians.

716
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:16,340
Well, the word comes from Philistia,

717
00:36:16,340 --> 00:36:18,020
and that's where the Philistines dwell.

718
00:36:18,020 --> 00:36:21,780
You remember Goliath, he was a Philistine, right?

719
00:36:21,780 --> 00:36:24,900
And they lived in that Gaza Strip there.

720
00:36:24,900 --> 00:36:27,700
Ashdod was one of their cities.

721
00:36:27,700 --> 00:36:29,800
Ziklag was one of their cities.

722
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:35,660
But the Philistines were wiped out in 605 BC.

723
00:36:35,660 --> 00:36:37,900
Nebuchadnezzar wiped them out,

724
00:36:37,900 --> 00:36:40,360
and they were not Arab people.

725
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:41,500
They were Japhethites.

726
00:36:41,500 --> 00:36:43,740
They were from the Northern Greece,

727
00:36:43,740 --> 00:36:45,740
up above the Aegean Sea right there.

728
00:36:45,740 --> 00:36:48,820
And they're all gone.

729
00:36:48,820 --> 00:36:51,600
So when these people have come and settled

730
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:55,560
in this land and say it's theirs, no, it's not.

731
00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:56,920
It's not theirs.

732
00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,600
And they're all Arab.

733
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:04,520
In fact, the Palestinian flag was a flag

734
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:09,020
symbolizing the Arab revolt back in the '20s.

735
00:37:09,020 --> 00:37:11,460
That's what the Palestinian flag was for.

736
00:37:11,460 --> 00:37:14,500
And now they established it,

737
00:37:14,500 --> 00:37:19,500
the PLO established it as the Palestinian flag in 1964.

738
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:24,380
So that's how long of history they've got there.

739
00:37:24,380 --> 00:37:28,240
The Jews have been there for 4,000 years.

740
00:37:28,240 --> 00:37:32,120
It is their land.

741
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:40,620
And so they really don't have an argument,

742
00:37:40,620 --> 00:37:43,260
but they sugar out everybody convinced that it's true.

743
00:37:43,260 --> 00:37:45,700
It's not true.

744
00:37:49,140 --> 00:37:50,960
So we love the Palestinians.

745
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:52,480
We love the Jews.

746
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:55,440
We want them all to come to know Christ, right?

747
00:37:55,440 --> 00:38:01,740
But the truth of the matter is that part of the country

748
00:38:01,740 --> 00:38:03,660
belongs to none other

749
00:38:03,660 --> 00:38:06,780
than the people that God promised it to.

750
00:38:06,780 --> 00:38:12,000
Verse 13 through 15, and I'll close this up.

751
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,840
And then God went up from this land,

752
00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:18,680
then God from him, from the place where he talked with him.

753
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:21,940
And so Jacob set a pillar in the place

754
00:38:21,940 --> 00:38:25,080
where he talked with him, a pillar of stone,

755
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:30,060
and he poured a drink offering on it and poured oil on it.

756
00:38:30,060 --> 00:38:32,820
And Jacob called the name of the place

757
00:38:32,820 --> 00:38:35,500
where God spoke with him, Bethel.

758
00:38:35,500 --> 00:38:37,660
Oil and wine.

759
00:38:37,660 --> 00:38:40,580
In the scripture, oil is usually typified.

760
00:38:40,580 --> 00:38:42,320
It's a sign of joy,

761
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:45,140
but it's also a picture of the Holy Spirit.

762
00:38:45,140 --> 00:38:48,480
God has called you and me to a life, right,

763
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:51,360
that is directed and guided and empowered

764
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:53,000
by the Holy Spirit.

765
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:57,560
You cannot live this Christian life apart from it, right?

766
00:38:57,560 --> 00:38:59,880
Wine is a type of joy.

767
00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:03,960
You know, Jesus, when he had communion with the apostles

768
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:05,240
there before he passed away,

769
00:39:05,240 --> 00:39:09,320
he said, "This is the blood of the new covenant, right?

770
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:12,360
My blood, symbolic of my blood that was shed for you."

771
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:14,320
Wine was always a type of joy.

772
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:18,460
Isn't it a joy that you could be saved, right?

773
00:39:19,340 --> 00:39:23,280
It is truly a joy that we could be saved.

774
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:26,340
And he dedicated this place

775
00:39:26,340 --> 00:39:29,160
and he poured the drink offering out.

776
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:32,580
Like Paul talks about being poured out

777
00:39:32,580 --> 00:39:35,260
in Philippians 2.17, he says, "Yes,

778
00:39:35,260 --> 00:39:38,180
and if I am being poured out as a drink offering

779
00:39:38,180 --> 00:39:41,020
on the sacrifice and service of your faith,

780
00:39:41,020 --> 00:39:43,600
I am glad and rejoice with you all."

781
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:46,740
Paul had resigned to the fact,

782
00:39:46,740 --> 00:39:51,140
every one of us, as we surrender our life to Christ,

783
00:39:51,140 --> 00:39:52,640
we are to be poured out.

784
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:55,940
We're to be that drink offering.

785
00:39:55,940 --> 00:39:58,040
Being willing to be poured out.

786
00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:01,780
I was just talking to a dad about teaching his boy.

787
00:40:01,780 --> 00:40:03,260
You gotta learn to be poured out.

788
00:40:03,260 --> 00:40:06,260
Life's not about you, right?

789
00:40:06,260 --> 00:40:07,220
It's not about you.

790
00:40:07,220 --> 00:40:10,620
It's about you giving your life for what's right.

791
00:40:10,620 --> 00:40:15,340
Whether that's walking with Jesus for 90 years,

792
00:40:16,660 --> 00:40:18,580
whether that's going and laying down your life,

793
00:40:18,580 --> 00:40:20,780
maybe for your countrymen or your friends,

794
00:40:20,780 --> 00:40:22,580
greater love has no one than this.

795
00:40:22,580 --> 00:40:27,780
Jacob is revived.

796
00:40:27,780 --> 00:40:31,860
He is experiencing a personal revival.

797
00:40:31,860 --> 00:40:34,620
This is the first revival that we see in the scripture.

798
00:40:34,620 --> 00:40:37,220
Do you need to be revived today?

799
00:40:37,220 --> 00:40:38,940
Maybe you do.

800
00:40:38,940 --> 00:40:45,620
I know he'll meet you right where you're at.

801
00:40:45,620 --> 00:40:47,600
No matter what your trouble is,

802
00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:49,340
no matter what your addiction is,

803
00:40:49,340 --> 00:40:53,740
no matter where you're at in this journey of yours,

804
00:40:53,740 --> 00:40:56,020
the Lord will meet you right where you're at.

805
00:40:56,020 --> 00:41:00,140
He will give you all that you need to live this life.

806
00:41:00,140 --> 00:41:04,140
This life that is filled with love, joy, and peace.

807
00:41:04,140 --> 00:41:07,820
That's what Jesus came to do,

808
00:41:07,820 --> 00:41:10,100
was to give us that new birth.

809
00:41:10,100 --> 00:41:12,420
Remember what he told Nicodemus?

810
00:41:12,420 --> 00:41:14,140
All right, and that's what I wanna close with today,

811
00:41:14,140 --> 00:41:16,720
is that conversation with Nicodemus.

812
00:41:16,720 --> 00:41:19,420
You must be born again.

813
00:41:19,420 --> 00:41:23,380
If I ask you that question, how would you answer it today?

814
00:41:23,380 --> 00:41:24,580
If I ask you the question,

815
00:41:24,580 --> 00:41:26,640
so when did you become born again?

816
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:30,560
And you get all kinds of answers.

817
00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:32,540
Well, let's see.

818
00:41:32,540 --> 00:41:36,500
When I drank my first beer?

819
00:41:36,500 --> 00:41:40,660
Right, when I had my first baby?

820
00:41:40,660 --> 00:41:41,540
I don't know.

821
00:41:41,540 --> 00:41:43,100
No, when did you become born again?

822
00:41:43,100 --> 00:41:44,420
Born spiritually.

823
00:41:44,420 --> 00:41:47,360
And that's what Jesus is talking about.

824
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:49,100
And it confused Nicodemus,

825
00:41:49,100 --> 00:41:52,340
who was a very religious individual, right?

826
00:41:52,340 --> 00:41:55,260
He knew all the psalms and the proverbs

827
00:41:55,260 --> 00:41:57,320
and the yeses and the amens,

828
00:41:57,320 --> 00:41:58,580
but he was out to lunch

829
00:41:58,580 --> 00:42:00,680
when it came to answering the question,

830
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:03,760
when did you become born again?

831
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:06,180
Well, I've always believed.

832
00:42:06,180 --> 00:42:08,660
No, I think there is a moment.

833
00:42:08,660 --> 00:42:12,940
There is a moment when you say, okay, it's yours.

834
00:42:12,940 --> 00:42:14,560
I'm done with this thing.

835
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:20,200
John chapter three says,

836
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:21,520
"Jesus answered and said to him,

837
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:23,640
"Most assuredly I say to you, Nicodemus,

838
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:25,080
"unless one is born again,

839
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:27,300
"he cannot see the kingdom of God."

840
00:42:27,300 --> 00:42:28,920
And Nicodemus said to him,

841
00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:31,420
"How can a man be born when he is old?

842
00:42:31,420 --> 00:42:33,140
"Can he enter a second time

843
00:42:33,140 --> 00:42:35,540
"into his mother's womb and be born?"

844
00:42:35,540 --> 00:42:38,160
Jesus answered, "Most assuredly I say to you,

845
00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:41,340
"unless one is born of water and the Spirit,

846
00:42:41,340 --> 00:42:43,800
"he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

847
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:46,280
"That which is born of flesh is flesh.

848
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:48,640
"That which is born of Spirit is Spirit.

849
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:50,880
"Do not marvel that I said to you,

850
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:52,380
"you must be born again.

851
00:42:52,380 --> 00:42:54,100
"The wind blows where it wishes

852
00:42:54,100 --> 00:42:55,580
"and you hear the sound of it,

853
00:42:55,580 --> 00:42:59,880
"but cannot tell from where it comes from and where it goes.

854
00:42:59,880 --> 00:43:03,120
"And so is everyone who is born of the Spirit."

855
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:06,320
Is the Lord knocking on the door of your heart right now,

856
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:08,260
thinking I need that.

857
00:43:08,260 --> 00:43:10,940
I need that life in me

858
00:43:10,940 --> 00:43:12,140
because I don't have it.

859
00:43:12,140 --> 00:43:15,340
How do I receive it?

860
00:43:15,340 --> 00:43:16,760
You ask for it.

861
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:20,240
Right, you ask.

862
00:43:20,240 --> 00:43:21,540
It's so simple.

863
00:43:21,540 --> 00:43:25,140
And yet for so many, it's not easy

864
00:43:25,140 --> 00:43:29,200
because sometimes we've got all these hang-ups in our brain

865
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:31,160
thinking, well, I gotta do this and this and this

866
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:34,160
before I get right with God, surely, right?

867
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:35,300
That's kind of like taking a shower

868
00:43:35,300 --> 00:43:39,000
before you get in the bathtub, right?

869
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:40,560
It's just ridiculous.

870
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:42,680
No, you come to Him just like you are

871
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:44,560
and He starts cleaning your life up.

872
00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:49,600
I was shocked at how fast I quit saying the F word

873
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:53,180
when I got saved.

874
00:43:53,180 --> 00:43:55,600
My mom was shocked too.

875
00:43:55,600 --> 00:44:00,380
She said, "Man, son, you speak differently."

876
00:44:00,380 --> 00:44:04,700
I just said, "Jesus is cleaning my life up."

877
00:44:04,700 --> 00:44:05,680
I was born again.

878
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:09,040
I was sitting in that trailer house

879
00:44:09,040 --> 00:44:10,440
and threw my hands in the air

880
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:11,280
and I surrendered.

881
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:13,480
I said, "Lord Jesus, my life is yours.

882
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:15,120
Forgive me all the wicked stuff

883
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:17,640
and do something with this thing

884
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:20,240
'cause I've just made a mess of it for 23 years."

885
00:44:20,240 --> 00:44:23,360
And He did.

886
00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:25,220
And so it is with you.

887
00:44:25,220 --> 00:44:28,800
Call on the name of the Lord.

888
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:30,440
You'll be saved.

889
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:32,000
He'll fill you with His Spirit

890
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:34,360
'cause He's faithful.

891
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:39,680
And He loves it when a sinner humbles themselves

892
00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:43,320
and say, "Oh God, I need you."

893
00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:44,520
Maybe you need to do that today.

894
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:45,360
Let's pray.

895
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:51,000
Lord, thank you for this man, this country,

896
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:54,600
this light shining on a hill like you said.

897
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:58,540
Lord, may we never forsake this nation of Israel.

898
00:44:58,540 --> 00:45:04,300
Thank you for reviving Jacob and changing him

899
00:45:04,300 --> 00:45:07,740
just like you desire to change each one of us.

900
00:45:07,740 --> 00:45:11,240
And yet you let us come to you just like we are.

901
00:45:11,240 --> 00:45:13,860
Lord, all of our baggage, all of our sin,

902
00:45:13,860 --> 00:45:17,460
all of our failure, all of our hurt and our pain,

903
00:45:17,460 --> 00:45:19,320
and you tell us to come to you.

904
00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:23,100
And your yoke is easy and your burden is light.

905
00:45:23,100 --> 00:45:24,660
And if you've never cried out

906
00:45:24,660 --> 00:45:27,360
or confessed with your mouth the Lord Jesus,

907
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:29,700
I'm gonna give you an opportunity to do that now

908
00:45:29,700 --> 00:45:32,560
as we're in an attitude of prayer right now and that's you.

909
00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:33,940
And you wanna be born again.

910
00:45:33,940 --> 00:45:36,040
You wanna be filled with the Spirit of God

911
00:45:37,180 --> 00:45:39,080
and be cleansed from your sin.

912
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:40,480
Say these words with me.

913
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:44,380
Lord Jesus, forgive me.

914
00:45:44,380 --> 00:45:46,480
I've sinned against you.

915
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:49,020
I've sinned against others.

916
00:45:49,020 --> 00:45:53,820
Wash me with your precious blood.

917
00:45:53,820 --> 00:45:55,500
I believe that you died for me,

918
00:45:55,500 --> 00:46:00,000
that you went into the grave and that you rose again.

919
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:02,300
And I put my faith and trust in you.

920
00:46:02,300 --> 00:46:04,600
Give me the new life that comes from knowing you

921
00:46:05,540 --> 00:46:07,640
and lead me in all my ways.

922
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:10,080
In Jesus' name, amen.

923
00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:11,440
Father, I just thank you for those

924
00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:12,740
who have prayed this prayer.

925
00:46:12,740 --> 00:46:15,040
Lord, may you fill them with your Holy Spirit

926
00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:17,780
and direct them, direct them to the right people

927
00:46:17,780 --> 00:46:19,980
that can encourage them in the faith.

928
00:46:19,980 --> 00:46:22,660
And Lord, that you would be glorified in us.

929
00:46:22,660 --> 00:46:25,960
Lord, this week, we don't know if we got tomorrow,

930
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:27,260
but we know that we got today.

931
00:46:27,260 --> 00:46:29,800
So may your name be on our lips

932
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:31,600
and may we never be ashamed of it.

933
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:33,800
In your name we pray, amen.

934
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:36,140
Amen, hey, this guy's gonna do another song,

935
00:46:36,140 --> 00:46:37,440
but you can go over here and pray.

936
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:38,500
If you receive the Lord,

937
00:46:38,500 --> 00:46:40,740
please come up and let somebody know.

938
00:46:40,740 --> 00:46:44,000
And let's close with some worship.

939
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:55,980
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