1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,240 Morning church family, how is everyone doing today? 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:06,320 Doing well? That didn't sound very enthusiastic. 3 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:07,760 Happy Sabbath. 4 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:10,200 Amen. I'm glad to hear that. 5 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:15,520 It's such a wonderful blessing to be able to be here with y'all and preach. 6 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:20,400 One of my favorite things to do is preach and come and preach the word at a different church, 7 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:24,520 where I can meet and fellowship with many other believers. 8 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:28,120 Today's message is Isaiah 54, 9 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:30,160 the husband and his bride. 10 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:33,960 We didn't really get to get things set up here, but that's okay. 11 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:35,960 It's fine. Should be okay. 12 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:41,560 The whole entire purpose of this sermon today is to illustrate 13 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:48,440 God's redemptive love and who He is in terms of our relationship with Him. 14 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:54,280 So I just want to go ahead and bow our heads one more time for prayer and invite Him yet again. 15 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:57,760 Dear Heavenly Father, thank you so much for all that you do. 16 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:02,960 I thank you so much for using me as a co-laborer, as a humble vessel for you, Lord. 17 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:07,720 And I pray and ask that you would put your words inside of my mouth like Jeremiah, Lord, 18 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:09,880 as you did with the prophet Isaiah, Lord, 19 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:16,200 and that you would continue to be with the entirety of the congregation as we go through this message. 20 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:18,600 In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. 21 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:26,160 So I want to start today with giving every married man here a scenario. 22 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:31,200 I want you to picture your wife being attacked by a mountain lion. 23 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:35,560 Who here would go out of their way to save their wife? 24 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:39,080 I would say you would go out of your way or you'd be in big trouble, right? 25 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:41,400 So any man would go out of his way. 26 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:47,880 Naturally, any husband in his right mind would not hesitate to do something to save his wife. 27 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:50,320 He might exchange his life for his wife. 28 00:01:50,320 --> 00:02:00,320 He might pick up a donkey's jawbone and kill the lion if he can, filled with the Spirit of the Lord. 29 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:07,680 You see, God in like manner, He has seen His people in distress in the past, 30 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:13,120 and He sees His people in distress in today's age. 31 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:18,720 I want to point you to a specific passage in Scripture, specifically in Hosea 2, 18 and 20. 32 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:21,640 If you got your Bibles, you can go there. 33 00:02:21,640 --> 00:02:25,840 Hosea 2, 18 through 20. 34 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:26,960 And it reads, 35 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:31,880 I will make for them a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, 36 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:35,640 the birds of the heavens and the creeping things of the ground. 37 00:02:35,640 --> 00:02:40,720 And I will abolish the bow, the sword and war from the land. 38 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:44,960 I will make you to lie down in safety. 39 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:48,840 I will betroth you to me forever. 40 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:54,240 I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and mercy. 41 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:56,960 I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. 42 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:59,400 You shall know the Lord. 43 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:08,600 See, the context here in this passage, it is in light of a spiritually adulterous Israel. 44 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:10,320 They were giving leeways to idols. 45 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:14,800 Today in the Sabbath school, we were talking about praise and worship. 46 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:23,000 And it can be so easy to forget the Lord when we give ourselves onto the flesh. 47 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,360 That position that they were in was in giving leeway to idols. 48 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:32,000 You know, Hosea takes on a wife that's a harlot in order to represent the position of God 49 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:37,320 and who he was, one as willing to accept us even when we have deeply betrayed him and 50 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:40,320 when we have forgotten him. 51 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:43,880 Also the Babylonian mentality and spirituality. 52 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:47,760 I mean look around us right now, all across the world. 53 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:50,360 We are living in Mystery Babylon the Great. 54 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:55,160 And you see the Babylonian mentality and it only continues to get worse and worse, progressively 55 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:56,640 worse. 56 00:03:56,640 --> 00:04:01,760 But here we see the repeat, or better said the past of that. 57 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:03,520 And it continues to come around. 58 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:06,480 There's nothing new under the sun. 59 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:09,920 So that mentality was really the problem. 60 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:15,680 And I wanted to help to illuminate the importance of the bride submitting to God's will. 61 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:21,880 The specific passages from Isaiah 54 and 1 through 17, if everyone can go there, give 62 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:24,600 you some time to get there to Isaiah 54 1 through 17. 63 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:31,200 I just want to just read through this chapter so we can see the difference between a good 64 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:36,600 bride and a harlot. 65 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:39,640 And if you get there, can you give me a hearty amen? 66 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:40,640 Amen. 67 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:41,640 Okay, okay. 68 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:42,640 So let's read. 69 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:48,640 And it says, sing barren woman, you who never bore a child, burst into song, shout for joy 70 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:55,480 you who were never in labor, because more are the children of the desolate women than 71 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:58,240 of her who has a husband, says the Lord. 72 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:04,360 Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back, lengthen 73 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:08,040 your cords, strengthen your stakes. 74 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:12,360 For you will spread out to the right and to the left, your descendants will dispossess 75 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:15,360 nations and settle in their desolate cities. 76 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:16,800 Do not be afraid. 77 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:18,720 You will not be put to shame. 78 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:20,040 Do not fear disgrace. 79 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:23,120 You will not be humiliated. 80 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:24,520 You will not be forgotten. 81 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:29,520 The shame that you will forget the shame of your youth and remember no more the reproach 82 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:32,400 of your widowhood. 83 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:33,880 For your maker is your husband. 84 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:36,040 The Lord Almighty is his name. 85 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:39,160 The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. 86 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:42,280 He is called the God of all the earth. 87 00:05:42,280 --> 00:05:47,280 The Lord will call you back as if you were a wife deserted and distressed in spirit, 88 00:05:47,280 --> 00:05:52,400 a wife who was married young, only to be rejected, says your God. 89 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:57,620 For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with deep compassion I will bring you back. 90 00:05:57,620 --> 00:06:03,080 In a surge of anger I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness 91 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:10,240 I will have compassion on you, says the Lord your Redeemer. 92 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:14,320 To me this is like the days of Noah when I swore that the waters of Noah would never 93 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:16,000 again cover the earth. 94 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:21,880 So now I have sworn not to be angry with you, never to rebuke you again. 95 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:27,100 Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you 96 00:06:27,100 --> 00:06:28,360 will not be shaken. 97 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:33,640 For my covenant of peace be removed, says the Lord, who has compassion on you. 98 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:39,000 Afflicted city, lashed by storms and not comforted, I will rebuild you with stones of turquoise, 99 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,200 your foundations with lapis lazuli. 100 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:46,080 I will make your battlements of rubies, your gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls 101 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:47,680 of precious stones. 102 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:52,160 All your children will be taught by the Lord and great will be their peace. 103 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:55,440 What a wonderful thought, isn't it? 104 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:57,000 And righteousness you will be established. 105 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:58,880 Tyranny will be far from you. 106 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:00,800 You will have nothing to fear. 107 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:02,680 Terror will be far removed. 108 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:04,520 It will not come near you. 109 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:07,400 If anyone does attack you, it will not be my doing. 110 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:09,320 Whoever attacks you will surrender to you. 111 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:14,360 See, it is I who created the blacksmith, who fans the coals into flame and forgets the 112 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:16,500 weapon fit for its work. 113 00:07:16,500 --> 00:07:20,000 God has created evil by giving us the choice. 114 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:23,600 He evidently has created evil. 115 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:28,400 Although he did not have the thought of a devil in mind, right, but he knew that Lucifer 116 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:29,400 from that choice. 117 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:32,920 So he created the possibility for evil. 118 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:37,640 No weapon forged against you will prevail and you will refute every tongue that accuses 119 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:38,640 you. 120 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:43,840 This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and this is their vindication for me, 121 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:45,120 declares the Lord. 122 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:47,240 See, we have a huge difference. 123 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:54,760 On one side in Hosea we have a harlot, so quick to be unfaithful to the Lord. 124 00:07:54,760 --> 00:08:00,600 And then on the other side we have a faithful bride, adorned for her husband. 125 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:04,240 You see the difference is the faithfulness in the bride herself. 126 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:09,040 You know, God will give his people a grand reward. 127 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:13,900 In the first four verses there is a triumphant song of birth in relation to the wonderful 128 00:08:13,900 --> 00:08:24,640 gospel being spread to all the earth and how the bride, she's prepared to do that work. 129 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:27,600 You know, the wonderful blessed hope. 130 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:31,760 And Isaiah 54, four through five, I want to emphasize these verses here. 131 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:33,360 Fear not, for you will not be ashamed. 132 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:36,520 Be not confounded, for you will not be disgraced. 133 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:40,560 For you will not forget the shame of your youth and the reproach of your widowhood. 134 00:08:40,560 --> 00:08:42,820 You will remember no more. 135 00:08:42,820 --> 00:08:47,880 For your maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name, and the Holy One of Israel 136 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:55,080 is your Redeemer. 137 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:58,480 I want to note some key words here. 138 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:03,560 He is your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is called. 139 00:09:03,560 --> 00:09:15,880 These key words should be not afraid, ashamed, confounded, disgraced, Redeemer, and husband. 140 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:20,000 Two Hebrew words that I wish we had it up here, but we couldn't get it. 141 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:21,440 But it doesn't matter. 142 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:24,820 I won't bore you all the Greek and all the Hebrew, I promise. 143 00:09:24,820 --> 00:09:31,840 But these are some very specific words are the words Tevoshy, which means to be ashamed, 144 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:35,600 v'yolik, which is husband. 145 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:40,840 And to be ashamed is in direct relation to the Babylonians. 146 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:47,960 During the time of Isaiah, there was a lot of prophecies that were geared towards the 147 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:49,520 things to come. 148 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:53,760 Later on, Cyrus he would come and liberate them from the Babylonian mentality. 149 00:09:53,760 --> 00:10:01,240 But it was during that time that they also had this thought of captivity in mind. 150 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:07,680 And in specific references also related to the Egyptian exodus of God's people. 151 00:10:07,680 --> 00:10:12,280 And v'yolik is in relation to God's covenant faithfulness. 152 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:16,920 You see a good husband, he cares for his wife. 153 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:19,720 He covers his wife. 154 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:25,040 He cares for her needs, he comforts her in her distress, he alleviates her, he leads 155 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:30,480 her, he spiritually nourishes her, and he endures with her. 156 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:39,120 That's the type of God that we serve, a God that is steadfast, a God that has long suffering. 157 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:42,340 You know that charity comes about from the Lord. 158 00:10:42,340 --> 00:10:45,720 That is the essence of the bridegroom. 159 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:50,880 And verses seven through 10 expresses the compassion of the bridegroom and how by it 160 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:51,880 we are redeemed. 161 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:59,480 You know the Lord evidently he has had to take his loving hand away from his people 162 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:01,320 various times. 163 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:07,560 We see this cycle of falling away and backsliding and God having to send his prophets or his 164 00:11:07,560 --> 00:11:12,920 judges to come and bring his people back into the fold. 165 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:15,980 However the Lord he doesn't hide his face forever. 166 00:11:15,980 --> 00:11:18,520 He does come back. 167 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:23,000 For a short while he does step away but it's not forever. 168 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:27,200 The Lord he calls his people with compassion. 169 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:31,880 He's not the type of father that won't accept the prodigal son. 170 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:34,400 He'll slay the fatted calf. 171 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:39,080 You know and I'm sure that every parent in this room, every good parent in this room 172 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:44,640 can understand to call their children back in. 173 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:50,080 You know the father is such a tender parent and he has infinite pain. 174 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:53,480 Think about all the pain you've ever felt in this world. 175 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:57,080 Now think about that infinitely. 176 00:11:57,080 --> 00:12:04,000 That is the scope for God's pain but it's also the scope for his love. 177 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,400 The Lord's mercy it endures. 178 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:07,640 His truth is everlasting. 179 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:14,240 His mercy endures to all generations as Psalm 105 says. 180 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:18,800 And his love it cannot be shaken. 181 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:25,880 You know verses 11 through 15 they also show the unfolding of his love. 182 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:30,960 And the prize that waits for the faithfulness of his servants. 183 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:34,000 It's an expressive prophecy of the new Jerusalem. 184 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:42,680 It is the dissipation of sin and tyranny all in one fell swoop. 185 00:12:42,680 --> 00:12:47,360 You know you can see the beautiful parallels too in regards to Revelation 21 and 19 through 186 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:52,840 20 if you have your Bibles you can turn to Revelation 21 19 through 20. 187 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:59,440 And it reads and when you get there give me a hearty amen. 188 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:03,160 Everybody there amen amen okay awesome. 189 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:07,680 And it reads the foundation of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious 190 00:13:07,680 --> 00:13:12,760 stone the first foundation was Jasper the second sapphire the third against the fourth 191 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:19,040 emerald the fifth onyx the sixth ruby the seventh teresalate the eighth barrel the ninth 192 00:13:19,040 --> 00:13:26,000 topaz the tenth turquoise the eleventh jacinth and the twelfth emus the twelve gates were 193 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:32,160 twelve pearls and each made of a single pearl the great street of the city was gold as pure 194 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:34,680 as transparent glass. 195 00:13:34,680 --> 00:13:42,920 You know isn't it amazing how books so far apart can have such striking detail at least 196 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:49,760 798 years had passed by between that. 197 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:56,760 It shows God's amazing miraculous intervention. 198 00:13:56,760 --> 00:14:04,600 And not only is there such striking detail in this passage in Isaiah 54 but it's in the 199 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:10,420 entirety of the book of Isaiah it's steeped with the things to come. 200 00:14:10,420 --> 00:14:16,080 You know the Lord is most certainly he's illustrating his grand authorship in the narrative of Scripture. 201 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:21,600 Now what an amazing thing that we get to be a part of that amen. 202 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:27,880 It's a wonderful thing to be co-laborers with him that we get to go out and meet people 203 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:33,480 and show them the love of Christ the love that has been bestowed upon us. 204 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:37,920 I know that when I first came into the church one of the things that grasped me the most 205 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:43,640 was when somebody came in with a smile and they invited me to their home. 206 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:50,000 That's the love of Christ and when we go and we give people Bible studies and we spend 207 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:53,780 time with them and we meet them where they're at. 208 00:14:53,780 --> 00:14:56,320 That's the love of Christ. 209 00:14:56,320 --> 00:15:02,760 Anybody can love their family member but it takes true love to be able to love a stranger 210 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:05,080 or even love your enemy. 211 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:11,840 On the other hand you know it's not coming without a cost. 212 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:13,920 It has cost the Lord so much. 213 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:18,920 It cost the Lord the life of his son that we may have such a wonderful blessing. 214 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:24,800 It's also vital to know that the prize is not for those who do not produce good fruit. 215 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:29,680 Although there might be some cases in which by faith some is saved just as the thief in 216 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:34,540 the cross evidently he produced fruit after his death. 217 00:15:34,540 --> 00:15:37,280 As many people talk about his faith. 218 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:41,880 So one way or another he produced a fruit and one way or another if you have true faith 219 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:45,280 you shall produce fruit. 220 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:54,340 And also in Romans chapter 2 it talks about the written law in our hearts and how the 221 00:15:54,340 --> 00:15:59,480 Gentiles, some Gentiles are saved because they're judged according to the written law 222 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:02,480 that's in their hearts. 223 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:09,240 So Revelation 22 and 12 can go there and read and when you get there give me a hearty amen. 224 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:16,920 Revelation 22 and 12 and behold I come quickly and my reward is with me to give every man 225 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:19,120 according as his work shall be. 226 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:23,400 James 2 also in James 2 14 through 18. 227 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:29,640 What good is it my brothers if someone says he has faith but does not have works? 228 00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:31,820 Can that faith save him? 229 00:16:31,820 --> 00:16:36,540 If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food and if one of you says 230 00:16:36,540 --> 00:16:41,160 to them go in peace be warmed and be filled without giving them the things needed for 231 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:44,000 the body what good is that? 232 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:49,600 So also faith by itself if it does not have works it is dead. 233 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:52,360 But someone will say you have faith and I have works. 234 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:56,440 Show me your faith apart from your works and I will show you my faith by my works. 235 00:16:56,440 --> 00:17:00,520 You see friends the direct result of faith is the production of fruit as it pertains 236 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:05,880 to Christ living his redemptive life through us. 237 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:10,720 Ephesians 2 8 through 10 it says for by grace you have been saved through faith and that 238 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:15,760 is not your own doing it is the gift of God not a result of works lest any man should 239 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:22,120 boast for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared 240 00:17:22,120 --> 00:17:24,120 beforehand that we should walk in them. 241 00:17:24,120 --> 00:17:27,960 You know it's so interesting how there's so many churches out there that they just 242 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:31,560 pass over that part made onto good works. 243 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:35,840 They go straight into we're saved by grace and faith and that's the only thing that 244 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:39,680 they see that's so important to read in context. 245 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:46,080 God is a God of entirety he's not just a part. 246 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:52,360 In Romans 8 3 through 4 says for God has done what the law weakened by the flesh could not 247 00:17:52,360 --> 00:17:57,540 do by sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin he condemned sin 248 00:17:57,540 --> 00:18:03,560 in the flesh in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk 249 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:11,840 not according to the flesh but according to the spirit to worship and spirit in truth. 250 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:17,600 What is it that that that Jesus said to the Samaritan woman when they were at the well? 251 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:22,760 Does anybody everybody should know that who knows it can somebody tell me? 252 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:26,520 What did Jesus say to the Samaritan woman at the well? 253 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:28,200 Give me to drink right? 254 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:31,840 Said to give me to drink and and she said are you sure you want to take a drink from 255 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:33,440 me? 256 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:35,920 I'm basically a Gentile I'm a Samaritan. 257 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:45,240 Say if you know who it is that asked you for a drink he would give you living water. 258 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:51,160 Let me have some of that to drink so that I may have this living water. 259 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:58,400 It pertains back to the spirit a fountain made inside us a spring of everlasting life 260 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:08,360 made inside us to worship in spirit and truth is is is beyond anything that humans can comprehend. 261 00:19:08,360 --> 00:19:14,680 That's why a majority of the world fails at realizing Jesus's message because they did 262 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:21,140 not understand the fact that they had to subject themselves onto truth and Jesus often spoke 263 00:19:21,140 --> 00:19:26,360 in parables too and they could not see because it was revealed the mystery of the gospel 264 00:19:26,360 --> 00:19:32,840 was revealed and ordained onto those who subject themselves onto Jesus. 265 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:40,040 Now it's so apparent that that we can never attain neither fruitful works of Christ without 266 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:46,640 faith nor can we receive the heavenly kingdom without having done what the father asked 267 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:47,720 us to do. 268 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:54,040 There will be many who on that day say Lord Lord Matthew 7 21 through 23 not everyone 269 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:59,240 who says to me Lord Lord will enter the kingdom of heaven but only those who do the will of 270 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:00,920 my father who is in heaven. 271 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:07,600 Many will say to me Lord Lord did we not prophesy in your name drive out demons in your name 272 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:12,120 your name perform many miracles then I will say to them plainly I never knew you away 273 00:20:12,120 --> 00:20:14,560 from me you evildoers. 274 00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:19,760 Who here has ever watched a sermon from a mega church before one of those mega churches 275 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:27,840 that tell you to sow a three thousand dollar seed right now I am totally with tithing okay 276 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:35,720 but if you're making the principle of your ministry on money then are you serving the 277 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:37,760 God that we serve. 278 00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:44,920 The tithe is to go and to bring the world the gospel for reproduction not so that you 279 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:51,000 can go and buy a three million dollar jet right and so that's the whole entire essence 280 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,840 of the work. 281 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:59,340 The essence of the work is surrender there's a wonderful song take my life and let it be 282 00:20:59,340 --> 00:21:05,960 not a might what I withhold it's one of my favorite songs and it's a beautiful song and 283 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:09,640 so not everyone who says Lord Lord is going to be there. 284 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:15,320 You know we do not we do not do this for the works we do not we are not saved by our works 285 00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:19,240 but it's because we have been saved that we will do his good pleasure. 286 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:21,400 We shall produce because of this. 287 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:26,640 This is the type of people that God finds acceptable are those who are willing to submit 288 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:29,000 themselves to his will and do his good will. 289 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:34,360 He does not find acceptable those who offer up works in vain those who who fast vainly 290 00:21:34,360 --> 00:21:39,080 and those who who offer up idle words so that they can record be recognized. 291 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:42,680 Neither does the Lord regard vain prayers. 292 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:45,040 He knows our sincerity. 293 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:48,920 The wicked will say oh how shall how shall I be found. 294 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:51,360 No one has seen the things that I have done. 295 00:21:51,360 --> 00:21:54,520 Everything is done in the dark but everything that is done in the dark will eventually come 296 00:21:54,520 --> 00:22:00,240 to light at one point in another. 297 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:06,240 Who who who who throw up vain prayers the parable in which the Lord shows the dichotomy 298 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:11,560 between this is is the repentance sinner and and the self righteous Pharisee. 299 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:17,000 Everyone has heard of this one for sure and it's it's it's one that that is so prevalent 300 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:20,600 in today's age. 301 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:22,080 True repentance. 302 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:26,640 What is true repentance. 303 00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:33,080 I know I'd rather be the repentance sinner than the self righteous Pharisee. 304 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:37,920 Rather than being a self righteous man that is covered with his own robes and and finds 305 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:45,200 all his tithes and and and increased to be sufficient and his salvation and his fasting 306 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:48,640 makes him greater somehow than than the repentance sinner. 307 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:55,080 Luke 18 9 through 14 we can read through it for a moment to see to to some who were confident 308 00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:58,360 of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else. 309 00:22:58,360 --> 00:23:03,920 Jesus told this parable two men went up to the temple to pray one a Pharisee and the 310 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:05,080 other a tax collector. 311 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:08,440 Who was a tax collector the lowest of the low. 312 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:10,920 You are the enemy. 313 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:16,640 The Jews did not like you because you were serving Caesar right. 314 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:21,920 And the Pharisee stood by himself and prayed God I thank you that I am not like other people 315 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:26,320 robbers evildoers adulterers or even this tax collector. 316 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:30,640 Imagine that you just go to a prison haha I'm not like you. 317 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:35,200 Can you imagine that. 318 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:41,280 When just the other day you were doing something that probably that person was in there doing 319 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:47,400 the only way we could ever reach the sanctification process if if Jesus is living his life through 320 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:53,080 us if he takes his spirit away from us we might as well just be a robber because sin 321 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:57,680 is sin at the end of the day although maybe you shouldn't. 322 00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:01,200 But you know what I mean right. 323 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:11,520 There's still ways to live this this life but it'll be a vain existence you know. 324 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:15,720 And the other man he what did he do. 325 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:19,960 The Pharisee told him at least I'm not like this tax collector. 326 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:23,360 I fast twice a week and I give a tenth of all that I get. 327 00:24:23,360 --> 00:24:28,680 But the tax collector stood at a dense distance and he would not even look up to heaven. 328 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:31,160 You wouldn't even look up but be at his breast. 329 00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:35,480 I said God have mercy on me a sinner. 330 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:40,220 I tell you that this man rather than the other went home justified before God for all those 331 00:24:40,220 --> 00:24:46,160 who exalt themselves will be humbled and those who humble themselves will be exalted is wanting 332 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:51,720 a people who will offer themselves up who will realize they have no strength that they 333 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:58,600 are frail because we are frail in the grand scheme of things we are frail human beings 334 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:02,160 but we have a strong God amen. 335 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:07,920 We have a strong God and he is wanting a people that will serve with gladness. 336 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:10,400 He wants true and genuine humility. 337 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:14,240 This requires the flushing of self. 338 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:16,120 I want to give you a little bit about my past. 339 00:25:16,120 --> 00:25:18,400 I used to be pretty full of myself. 340 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:19,640 I was in the music industry. 341 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:26,760 I used to be a rapper and I would sing R&B and for a very long time I was I was immersed 342 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:28,580 in this culture. 343 00:25:28,580 --> 00:25:36,120 I was I was immersed in in in this industry and and and rap in many cases is like boasting 344 00:25:36,120 --> 00:25:37,360 of self. 345 00:25:37,360 --> 00:25:40,240 It's like being a professional liar. 346 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:47,840 It really is and this type of culture pervaded my life and and my arrogance got me to a point 347 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:51,280 where where I would even get into physical trouble. 348 00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:56,360 I physically got into trouble and because of that I experienced humbling in my life. 349 00:25:56,360 --> 00:26:03,120 It wasn't until I decided to humble myself that I started to experience true change in 350 00:26:03,120 --> 00:26:04,120 my life. 351 00:26:04,120 --> 00:26:10,320 I had so many stumbling blocks and I needed to change my life for the better and I started 352 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:11,920 to experience God's love. 353 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:15,400 It gave me a desire to do his work as well. 354 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:24,360 You know there's a beautiful verse that coincides with this and you know that that moment for 355 00:26:24,360 --> 00:26:27,160 me it changed the course and history of my life. 356 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:28,800 That was a pivotal point. 357 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:35,360 Jeremiah 29 11 through 13 says I for I know the thoughts I have for you say if the Lord 358 00:26:35,360 --> 00:26:38,960 thoughts of peace and not of evil to give you an expected end. 359 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:40,880 My life was volatile. 360 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:42,640 I didn't know where I was going to end up. 361 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:48,080 I just knew I was going forward right and even when I was going forward sometimes I 362 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:54,760 was veering to the left to the right to every which way for you shall call on to me and 363 00:26:54,760 --> 00:27:00,800 you shall pray on to me and I shall hearken on to you and you shall seek me and you shall 364 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:07,040 find me when you search for me with all your heart. 365 00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:10,640 I needed to stop and search and that's when I found God. 366 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:13,680 You know surrender is the key to being able to know God. 367 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:18,760 Isaiah 58 9 through 11 says and then you will call and the Lord will answer you will cry 368 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:22,640 for help and he will say here am I. 369 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:28,400 If you do away with the yoke of oppression with the pointing finger and malicious talk 370 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:34,520 and if you spend yourselves on behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed 371 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:40,200 then your light will rise in the darkness and your night will become like the noonday. 372 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:42,160 The Lord will guide you always. 373 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:45,120 He will satisfy your needs. 374 00:27:45,120 --> 00:27:52,340 He will satisfy your needs and in sun scorched land he will strengthen your frame. 375 00:27:52,340 --> 00:27:57,480 You will be like a well watered garden like a spring whose waters never fail. 376 00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:02,400 Who wants to be a spring that waters never fail. 377 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:04,560 I want to be a spring. 378 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:08,280 I want to be a well watered garden. 379 00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:14,240 The workmanship that we are called to is to be tenders of the vineyard. 380 00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:21,040 Called to water people who are spiritually famished. 381 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:26,000 The chain reaction you know the follows here is the Lord he waters us and then we are allowed 382 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:27,920 to water other people. 383 00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:30,120 We have to be fed. 384 00:28:30,120 --> 00:28:31,120 We have to be fed. 385 00:28:31,120 --> 00:28:34,920 We have to be nourished in order to water others. 386 00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:39,320 You know the problem with Israel was that they were unfaithful. 387 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:45,680 You know the Lord he takes care of his servants but in unfaithfulness he has no other choice 388 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:49,040 but to take away his hand. 389 00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:51,160 They were backsliding and it was causing separation. 390 00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:57,080 Isaiah 59 verse 2 says but your iniquities have separated between you and your God and 391 00:28:57,080 --> 00:29:04,120 your sins have hid his face from you and that he will not hear you. 392 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:10,480 If we cannot speak to him he cannot instruct us. 393 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:18,440 If we will not subject ourselves onto his ways God cannot be in the presence of sin. 394 00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:21,520 Because why there are so many false theologies out there. 395 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:26,160 You know there has to be a sanctification process in order for us to have a perfect 396 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:28,920 heaven. 397 00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:34,360 And Matthew 28 16 through 20 says then the eleven disciples went to Galilee to the mountain 398 00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:36,400 where Jesus had told them to go. 399 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:39,920 We saw him they worshiped him there but some doubted. 400 00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:44,540 Then Jesus came to them and said all authority in heaven on earth has been given to me the 401 00:29:44,540 --> 00:29:45,540 great commission. 402 00:29:45,540 --> 00:29:50,360 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations baptizing them in the name of the father and 403 00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:55,080 of the son and of the Holy Spirit and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you 404 00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:59,560 and surely I am with you always to the very end of the age. 405 00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:06,560 We are called to be co-laborers with him and he will strengthen us every step of the way 406 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:08,840 every step of the way. 407 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:15,160 You know and it's a divine ordinance by heaven. 408 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:20,080 There's still so much work to be done that the only way it's going to get done if we 409 00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:22,360 end up going out there and doing it. 410 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:30,040 If every person here evangelizes one person each year we'll be on a steady track to getting 411 00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:32,120 more people into the church. 412 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:39,240 We need to be spiritually fed and continue to move forward in that way. 413 00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:43,360 You know there's a wonderful quote by Mrs. White that really paints the picture of the 414 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:50,720 kind of dedication that is needed and this is in Gospel Workers and it reads, they were 415 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:58,760 weak they were by nature as weak and helpless as any of those now engaged in the work but 416 00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:02,320 they put their whole trust in the Lord. 417 00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:09,200 Wealth they had but it consisted of mind and soul culture and this everyone may have who 418 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:13,480 will make God first and last and best in everything. 419 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:17,400 They told long to learn the lessons given them in the school of Christ and they did 420 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:19,120 not toil in vain. 421 00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:24,680 They bound themselves up with the mightiest of all powers and were ever longing for a 422 00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:31,360 deeper, higher, broader comprehension of eternal realities that they might successfully present 423 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:35,360 the treasures of truth to a needy world. 424 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:40,080 Tensions of this character are needed now men who will consecrate themselves without 425 00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:45,480 reserve to the work of representing the kingdom of God to a world lying in wickedness. 426 00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:51,640 The world needs men of thought, men of principle, men who are constantly growing in an understanding 427 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:52,720 and discernment. 428 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:58,080 There is a great need of men who can use the press to the best advantage so that the truth 429 00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:04,160 may be given wings to speed it to every nation and tongue and people. 430 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:07,160 Who here is grateful for Ellen White's ministry? 431 00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:08,600 Amen right? 432 00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:16,140 I am extremely grateful for what God gifted us with through Ellen White's ministry. 433 00:32:16,140 --> 00:32:20,400 And we see a lot of these things starting to be fulfilled now right? 434 00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:25,680 But her herself said we wouldn't even need her writings if we would all subject ourselves 435 00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:32,720 to the spirit of the truth in worship in the word and fulfill the great commission. 436 00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:39,080 But it's a great thing that we have had the luxury of having the prophetess. 437 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:43,120 There are so many tools that are accessible to us today. 438 00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:48,840 And our churches and whether you be small or a grand church, if you use well the things 439 00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:53,400 that God has given you, more things shall be added onto you. 440 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:56,200 So there's no force that can go against God's people. 441 00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:59,180 There's no imperial power that can overcome his might. 442 00:32:59,180 --> 00:33:04,000 There are no powers in high places that can stop the will of the father from being done. 443 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,120 He is ultimately in control. 444 00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:14,840 The imperial fact throughout history is that God's people have been delivered by faithfulness. 445 00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:20,540 Though to the world it may seem that the promise of the kingdom is ethereal or to God to be 446 00:33:20,540 --> 00:33:24,240 too true, too good to be true. 447 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:31,480 It is more than real to those who have faith. 448 00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:39,160 And I want to read to you from Corinthians 18 through 25. 449 00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:46,120 You know, to the world what we do is foolishness, but unto God it is wisdom. 450 00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:49,980 And if you get there, let me know and say an amen. 451 00:33:49,980 --> 00:33:56,160 So it's 1 Corinthians 18 through 25. 452 00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:57,160 When you get there, say amen. 453 00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:58,160 Amen? 454 00:33:58,160 --> 00:33:59,160 Amen. 455 00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:00,160 Amen. 456 00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:01,160 Amen. 457 00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:02,160 Okay. 458 00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:05,520 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who 459 00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:08,940 are being saved, it is the power of God. 460 00:34:08,940 --> 00:34:14,200 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, the intelligence of the intelligent, 461 00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:16,600 I will frustrate. 462 00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:17,920 Where is the wise person? 463 00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:19,480 Where is the teacher of the law? 464 00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:22,660 Where is the philosopher of this age? 465 00:34:22,660 --> 00:34:27,300 He has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 466 00:34:27,300 --> 00:34:34,360 For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased 467 00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:39,560 through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. 468 00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:43,060 Jews demand signs and Greeks, they look for wisdom. 469 00:34:43,060 --> 00:34:48,760 But we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Gentiles. 470 00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:54,740 But to those whom God has called both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the 471 00:34:54,740 --> 00:34:57,600 wisdom of God. 472 00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:03,860 For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom and the weakness of God is stronger 473 00:35:03,860 --> 00:35:08,260 than human strength. 474 00:35:08,260 --> 00:35:11,360 It is so much better to serve the Lord. 475 00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:12,360 Amen? 476 00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:13,360 Amen. 477 00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:19,220 It is so much better to serve the Lord than to serve the vain philosophies of the world. 478 00:35:19,220 --> 00:35:20,800 There are so many. 479 00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:26,400 I've been through a variety of them and I can tell you that it all at the end of the 480 00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:31,240 day is related to self rather than selflessness. 481 00:35:31,240 --> 00:35:32,280 I want to leave you on that. 482 00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:36,400 The problem with this world is in regard to self. 483 00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:40,360 While the people of this world are constantly looking for gratification, the people of God 484 00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:45,720 should find their gratification in Him, the Lord He knows our intimate wants and desires 485 00:35:45,720 --> 00:35:48,840 and He is just to fulfill them. 486 00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:52,880 One must understand the good pleasures and desires when one reaches spiritual maturity 487 00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:58,920 and in relation, you know, one is not spiritually fed then he will not be able to feed another. 488 00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:06,280 The whole essence of Isaiah 54, that reward to come is for those who are doing the gospel 489 00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:07,280 work. 490 00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:13,120 You know, there comes a time when one must partake in the meat, fortify themselves in 491 00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:16,160 order to bring about the fruits of the gospel. 492 00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:18,480 God's people are disciple makers. 493 00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:22,920 They have been called to do this grand work. 494 00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:30,400 And we come to realize that that work for Him is just as much for us as it is for the 495 00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:32,960 people that we are serving. 496 00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:39,520 A life of service has merit in Jesus Christ and that merit is the wonderful fulfilling 497 00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:47,600 of the cross and the promise to come in Isaiah 54 spanning between 794 years to 796 years 498 00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:50,120 until Revelation. 499 00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:52,840 Let's bow our heads for prayer. 500 00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:56,880 Dear Heavenly Father, I want to thank you so much for this opportunity to be able to 501 00:36:56,880 --> 00:37:01,080 preach here and be with my brothers and sisters in Christ. 502 00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:08,020 I pray and ask that you would be with all of them, Lord, and that you will bring that 503 00:37:08,020 --> 00:37:13,120 fire inside of them to evangelize, Lord, to bring people into the fold, Lord. 504 00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:18,880 If everyone is just working on one person, one person each year, but we shall not limit 505 00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:19,880 you, Lord. 506 00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:21,560 You can use us in a variety of ways. 507 00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:26,560 There are so many ways to bring about a testimony, so many ways to evangelize. 508 00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:33,520 One testimony, friendship, evangelism, actual literal Bible studies, proclamation, however 509 00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:38,320 it may be, Lord, that you may lead us and guide us, that you may flush us of self, that 510 00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:43,600 you may fill us with your truth, Lord, for the great commission is what leads us to the 511 00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:47,320 great hope, the blessed hope. 512 00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:53,160 Revelation 14, to be part of the 144,000, Lord, that should be the striving in every 513 00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:56,040 man and woman's hearts. 514 00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:57,040 This is my prayer. 515 00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:59,040 This is our prayer, Lord, in the name of Jesus Christ. 516 00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:27,040 Amen.