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This thing of being a Christian, of living a daily victorious Christian life is the greatest

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adventure that a human being can experience.

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I mean that.

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Life with God is a great adventure.

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You've never really lived.

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I mean that.

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You've really never have experienced real happiness, real joy.

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You think you've had a thrill.

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You have never had an honest to goodness thrill.

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You have never known honest to goodness adventure until you live a Christian life.

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And I tell you a truth, God is my adventure.

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I mean that.

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Living a Christian life is the greatest adventure in the whole world.

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You know in our little heart to heart talks, I've been trying to show you what it really

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means to live the life that God purposed that his children should live here on earth.

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I am his.

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I hope you never worry me, remind you to remind yourself to whom you belong.

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When you get depressed, when you get discouraged, and of course we're still in the flesh.

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These old bodies are still of corruption.

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The old enemy is still very much alive.

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He's never been converted yet.

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I mean never will be.

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We're still in the old material world.

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There'll be temptations.

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There'll be sorrow.

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There'll be heartache.

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But the thing that takes this thing out of it all, that takes the depression, that takes

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the defeat out of everyday living is the fact that as a child of God, you are his possession.

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You are his property.

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You are his.

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And how in the world can you be an heir of God and live a life of defeat?

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How can you conscientiously look up and say, I am his and live with a mental attitude of

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a defeatist?

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How can you do it?

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You can't.

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I am his.

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All that is his is mine.

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All that's through.

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If you don't think that's a life of adventure, try it.

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Just try it.

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It's glorious.

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It's marvelous.

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But pause a minute.

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I want you to see something else.

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Another reason why it's such a great adventure, living a Christian life.

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It's not only an adventure.

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It's a responsibility.

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See something a minute.

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Thought could not show us himself except through another self, a self that would be in human

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surroundings and would speak the language we speak, a human language.

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The Bible says that no man can see God and live.

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These old physical bodies of ours in the flesh are not geared to stand in the presence of

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a holy God.

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Now remember, God is so powerful our poor little puny minds can't even fathom what absolute

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perfection really is.

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Our poor little minds cannot fathom the greatness, the bigness, the brightness, the glory of

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Almighty God.

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That's right.

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These bodies of ours are not geared to stand in the presence of God.

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We're not even geared for heaven.

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That's the reason we have to have new bodies.

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We have to have resurrected bodies.

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We have to have bodies that are not of corruption, that are not mortal, to even walk the streets

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of heaven.

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Thought could not show us himself except through another self, a self that would be in human

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surroundings, a self that would speak a language that we could understand.

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Just like a little baby, a little child going to kindergarten.

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You don't speak to that child the same that you would speak to an adult.

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You don't use the same words because their little minds can't comprehend it.

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You speak to a child in a language that a child can understand.

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Now see something.

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Jesus, when Jesus came to earth in the form of man, Jesus was God speaking the language

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of the man on the street, interpreting God in understandable terms.

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When Jesus spoke, he spoke in a language that those to whom he was speaking could understand.

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The pearl of great price, the diver understood what he was talking about.

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When he would talk about the nets and I will make you fishers of men, sure, he was talking

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to Peter the fisherman.

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He talked about the soil, telling the soil.

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He would talk to the farmer.

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He always spoke to men in the language that they could understand.

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No one ever left the presence of Jesus not having understood exactly what he was saying.

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He spoke their language.

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Jesus, therefore, was God speaking the language of the man on the street, speaking the language

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of the fisherman, of the merchant, interpreting God in terms that they could understand.

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That was God in the flesh walking this earth.

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Now pause a minute.

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When Jesus, hanging on the cross, cried, it is finished.

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He had accomplished everything that he could probably accomplish except one thing, one

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thing he could not do.

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He could talk about it, but it was impossible for him to do.

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He had not been able to do it.

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He could not turn to a lost world and say to lost men and women, look upon me and see

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in me the transforming power of the Son of God.

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Look at me and see in me an example of a sinner saved by the grace of God because he had never

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sinned.

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Sin had never touched that life.

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When he cried, it is finished, he went home to glory as perfect as when he came.

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He was never a sinner.

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He was tempted in all points, even as you, even as I am tempted.

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Yet he did not yield on a single point.

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He was absolute perfection.

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That's why you want to know something.

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Just before he went away, knowing that he could not be an example to the world of one

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who had been a sinner and saved by the grace of God, just before he went away, he said

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that he was most important.

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He said, you know, after I'm gone, I'm going to give you the power to perform miracles.

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And he gave them their instructions regarding the healing of the sick, all of these things.

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That's the reason I know there's something greater, something more important than just

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the healing of sick bodies, because after he had spoken of all the miracles, he ended

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the conversation by saying, and greater things shall ye do.

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Why?

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Because I go to the Father.

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What happened after Jesus went back to the Father?

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He sent the Holy Ghost, he sent the Holy Spirit.

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The Holy Spirit, who enables a man, enables a Christian, gives that one power for service.

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Greater things, the greatest miracle in the whole world, is the transformation of the

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life.

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There is nothing greater than a man who can stand up and say, all the things that passed

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away and behold all things had become new.

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I am a new creature in Christ Jesus.

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There is no greater miracle in the world than the transformation of a life through the shed

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blood of Jesus Christ God's Son.

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That's right.

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Greater things than even the healing of sick bodies, greater things than physical and material

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miracles.

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My friend, Jesus is no longer walking the streets, interpreting God in understandable

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terms in person.

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He is at the right hand of God the Father in position of great high priest, ever living

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to make intercession for you and for me, my great high priest, your great high priest.

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He's not walking the streets now.

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The person who is walking the streets, the person who is representing him, the person

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who is representing the things of God and the person of Jesus is the man or the woman

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who's been born again, who can say to a lost and skeptical world, if you want to know what

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Jesus is really like, if you want to know what it means to be born again, I am an example.

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That's what Paul meant when he said, for me to live is Christ.

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The only Bible many a man ever reads is the life of someone who professed to be a Christian.

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Many a man never opened the word of God.

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All that he knows about spiritual things is through the example of the man who works beside

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him.

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Perhaps over there, Mr. Vio Mio.

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Perhaps by the Kirk in the store, in the meat market.

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You represent him.

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You and I can do what Jesus could not do himself.

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Stand and say, if you want to know what the transforming power of the Son of God really

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is, if you want to know what Jesus really meant when he said, the things you once hated,

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you will now love, the things you once loved, you will now hate.

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If you really want to know the words of Jesus in action when he said, all things will pass

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away and behold, all things will become new.

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When Jesus said that you will be a new creature in Christ Jesus, if you want to see an example

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of it, turn and look upon that one who's had that experience and you'll see in that one

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who's had speaking in a language that man can understand.

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He's depending on you.

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He's depending on me.

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For you as a professing Christian to live, you walking down the street, you the precious

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mother in that home, you the teenager in that school room, you the man in that place of

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business, for you to live, for Jesus is no longer walking in the face representing God,

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you are in his place.

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For you to live is Christ and Christ is love.

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Not only remember to whom you belong, but remember the one that you represent.

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Father, take the word and make it real to hearts.

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Great is our responsibility and greater are opportunities.

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Amen.