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We have been having some good heart -to -heart

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talks about something that isn't very sacred.

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Can I tell you how I feel deep within me as we

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discuss this prayer, this wonderful communion

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that Jesus had with the Father? Do you realize

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that here in this 17th chapter of the book of

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John, We literally are listening in to Jesus

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talking to the Father. That's sacred. That is

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very sacred. I always remember something that

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happened years ago. I was calling Mama in Concordia.

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And I said to the operator, I would like 124

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Concordia, Missouri. That was always our telephone

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number in Concordia ever since I was a little

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girl. We never had another number. 124. That

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was the telephone number of Joe Kuman's house.

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And... I always knew that on the other end, Mama

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would be answering and I would say, Mama. And

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she would come back as though she was the most

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surprised person in the world. Catherine, she'd

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say. And nobody could say Catherine like my Mama.

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That's the reason why I get home to glory. Thousands

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and thousands will be there. Some will say Miss

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Coomans. Others will say Catherine when they'll

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see me. But out of the thousands, I'll recognize

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Mama's voice. Even though I may hear her voice

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before I see her when she says, Catherine. And

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one day... the operator forgot to close something,

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you know, at the switchboard. And I heard her

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say, quick, quick, quick, quick, quick, quick.

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Listen, listen, listen in. Miss Coleman's talking

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to her mother. She never dreamed I heard it,

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you know. And so I knew someone. Somewhere was

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listening in to the conversation that I was having

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with Mama. You see, whenever I read the 17th

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chapter of John, I always feel as though I'm

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listening in to something that's very personal.

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We had the privilege of listening in to Jesus

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talking to the Father. And these words spake

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Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and

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said, Father, the hour is come. Glorify thy Son,

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that thy Son may also glorify thee. As thou hast

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given him power over all flesh, that he should

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give eternal life to as many as thou hast given

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him. And this is eternal life. that they might

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know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ,

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whom thou hast sent. I have glorified thee on

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the earth. I have finished the work which thou

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gavest me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou

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me with thine own self, with the glory which

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I had with thee before the world was. And see

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something. always do this entire portion of this

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communion. He was talking about the Son. It was

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something that was very impersonal, really. His

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first desire, and this to me is vitally important,

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his very... first desire was that god the father

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would receive all glory that he would be glorified

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glorify thy son why that the sun may glorify

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thee always his first thought His first purpose,

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you and I should learn much from this. Oh, you

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and I should be very careful to get the real

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truth of this. As Christians, we have but one

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purpose for living. We should have but one goal

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in life, and that is to glorify God in everything

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that we do in our daily lives. We should so live,

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we should so act, that our actions will glorify

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God. That was the real purpose that Jesus had

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in life. Pause a moment. As he walked this earth,

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and you saw the miracles that were performed

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through his life. As he spoke. Now, in the light

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of this, you go back again and read the Bible.

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Read his words that he spoke to the multitude.

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Read again regarding the manifestation of the

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power of God. And keep in mind that everything

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that he said, everything that he did, every action,

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he had but one motive. God the Father would be

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glorified. He was not trying to bring any glory

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to himself. Not in one instance. It was always

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that God the Father would be glorified. And he's

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reminding the Father now, glorify thy son. Why?

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That the son may glorify thee. thee. He did not

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take glory by me that I may grow up by thee.

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No. No. One purpose. If I receive any glory from

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men, if men see the miracles that are performed

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and through the manifestation of the power of

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the Holy Spirit, They see the supernatural. Father

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God, it has all been for one purpose. The ultimate

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purpose is that you get the glory. This means

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much to me. Oh, this means so much to me. I cannot

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begin to tell you how much this means to me.

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Now we go a little deeper. Then we reach his

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second desire. And this is found in the fifth

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verse of the 17th chapter of John. And now, O

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Father, glorify thou me with thine own self,

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with... the glory which I had with thee before

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the world. Pause a moment. He does not say the

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sun. Heretofore, he's talking about the sun.

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Now he places himself in a different category,

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in a different position entirely. Before, it

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was... the Son. He called himself Jesus Christ.

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Now it's becoming very personal. Glorify me with

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the glory that I had with thee before the world

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was. Now he was expressing his desire for return

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to that of which he emptied himself when he became

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a servant. and was made in the likeness of men,

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and being found in fashion as a man, and became

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obedient unto death, even the death of the cross,

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all the glory of the cross. And I want you to

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see something, because sometimes I think whenever

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I make the statement that Jesus, when he came

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in the form of flesh, was as much man as though

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he were not God, that there are those who almost

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shrink from that statement. Whenever I say that

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being in the flesh and as much man as though

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he were not deity and divinity and that he could

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have yielded to temptation, there are those who

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shrink from it because they feel that he was

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absolute deity at all times, even when he walked

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this earth in the flesh, that he could not. possibly

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have yielded to temptation, but he could. There's

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a reason even in his conversation with the Father.

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He is referring to Jesus Christ, the Son of God,

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the deity. And then he turns right around and

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talks about me. I. One moment he's talking about

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himself. as the very son of the living God. Absolute

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deity, absolute divinity. Then he comes back

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again, referring to himself as he was when he

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walked this earth, clothed in flesh. As much

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man as though he were not God. Let's go to the

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glory of the cross. The shadows were gathering.

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Presently he crossed the winter torrent of the

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cedars into Gethsemane. Then all the darkness

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of the cross enveloped him. But even then, he

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said, Nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou

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wilt. He's referring to the will of the Father

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and his own will. Being in the flesh, he had

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a will that he could exercise separate and apart

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from the will of God the Father. Just as much

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man as any human being living and breathing this

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hour. sitting here right now talking to you,

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I have a will that I can exercise separate and

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apart from the will of God. You as an individual,

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as long as you can feel the old beat of the heart,

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as long as you are in this body of flesh, you

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have a will that you can exercise. A wheel separate

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and apart from any man, any woman. Separate and

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apart from the wheel of God. Even though I have

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been called in the ministry. I steal. as long

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as there's life in my body, have a will that

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I can exercise. I can say this very moment, I'm

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tired of carrying this responsibility. I can't

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carry it any longer. The load is too heavy. All

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I've known all of my life has been hard work.

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Give it to somebody else. Let somebody else do

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it. Let me exercise my own desires, my own will,

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my own pleasures for the rest of my life, whether

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it be a matter of months or a year. I have the

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ability. I have the will to say I'm tired. Let

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somebody else do it. The only thing that keeps

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me surrendering my will to the will of God is

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my love for Him. And for souls, that's the only

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thing. I'm not forced to do what I'm doing. I'm

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not compelled to do it. It's love. I do it because

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I love him enough. Because I love souls enough.

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I love you enough. It's a thing of... wanting

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to do. It's a matter of choice. Therefore, beloved,

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Jesus is talking about the same thing that I

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am talking to you about right now. Proving that

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he was as much man as though he were not God

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when he was in the flesh. Proving that he could

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have yielded to selfish desires. when he said,

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Nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.

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He was still reminding the father that not only

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was his body surrendered to him, not only did

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he have but one purpose for having come, and

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that was to glorify the father but also reminding

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the father of the one all -important thing the

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surrendering of his own will to the will of the

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father and now he is but a matter of hours before

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the cross there was never a moment of defection

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from the doing of the father's will Even though

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in the presence of the gathering storm there

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was a shrinking, he was human. Here as he talked

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to his father, he desires for himself first the

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cross because he knew the will of the father.

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And let me say it softly. There are some things

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it is so hard to say because they refer to matters

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which speech defy. My father, I emptied myself

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to come to this level. I never want to come back

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except by the way that accomplishes the purpose

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for which I came. I do not want to come back

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having you disappointed in me, ashamed of me.

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Remember the scripture talking about the Father

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who first trusted in Jesus. Oh, there's trust.

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There's confidence to this entire plan of salvation.

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It's mold and what meets the eye. We talk about

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it so glibly. We take it so lightly. We talk

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so lightly about being born again. We talk so

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glibly about this experience of regeneration.

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Before we talk about Christians and non -Christians,

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we take it so lightly. When this plan of salvation

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is so involved, my friend, do you realize that

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everything hinges on trust and confidence? Everything.

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And to this very day, in living, in life itself,

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trust and confidence is one of the greatest things.

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And that's the reason the world is in the condition

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it is today is because we have lost trust and

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confidence. We've lost it in God. We've lost

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it in the Word of God. We've lost it in each

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other. There never was a time when there was

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less trust and confidence in each other than

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we have this hour. Recently, I'm hearing on every

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side of me people saying, I don't trust anyone.

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I don't trust people. We've gotten to the place

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where a wife doesn't trust her husband. A husband

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doesn't trust his wife. Children no longer trust

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their parents. Neighbors don't trust each other.

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Employees do not trust the employer. And then

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we come to the place where we don't even trust

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God. We don't even trust this... promises. The

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whole plan of salvation was really based on trust

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and confidence. Jesus had to trust the Holy Spirit

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to be his strengthener. God had to trust his

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son knowing that he would become the form of

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flesh. And Jesus had to Trust you and trust me.