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♪ For our kids and me ♪ ♪ For our children and me ♪ ♪ Sometimes I think ♪ ♪ And I look back ♪

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♪ What a wonder ♪ ♪ The world we have come to ♪ ♪ And to be a family of our own ♪ ♪ And I wonder, wonder ♪

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Oh, yes, I wonder when will I hear that glorious, glorious, glorious hymn of peace. Oh, what children need, oh, what children need I'm not a citizen and I'm not a man.

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Oh, I wonder, oh, what a way out from which and the meaning of the journey I'm traveling through. And I wonder, wonder, oh, yes, I wonder, [Music]

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[Music] [Music] ♪ Oh, to the news ♪ ♪ Oh, to the news ♪

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♪ The troubled minds are singing ♪ ♪ And the hearts are crying ♪ ♪ Oh, the thunder ♪ ♪ Oh, the rain has come ♪

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♪ And the tears turn to blood ♪ ♪ And the wonders, wonders ♪ [Music] [inaudible]

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articulate about the [inaudible] perspective [inaudible]

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[inaudible] [The man is shown holding a large, wooden stick and a large, wooden stick.] [The man is shown holding a large, wooden stick and a large, wooden stick.] [inaudible]

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[inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] Looking down from the hill line, looking where the... where the great river runs, where the mountains rise and fall.

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[INAUDIBLE] I look at the world just before I look at myself. And I think, "I should have a better view of the world." Because when I look at myself, I start thinking, looking at the world.

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[inaudible] hours, you can see how it's there and the harm. Look at the face of the world. The beauty of this objective reality

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is by doing or failing to do just the work of prayer. The human being tells us what we need to know about our service. He is an answer to the gender problem and he is vicious. The first question to hear "why was I born?"

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"What in the world am I to do?" "Where in the world am I to go?" We need to construct a mirror to be as simple as this. To be simple. No wise men have ever thought of the meaning of this.

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[inaudible] have an answer to the question given by the mirror. The mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the father of this house? The queen was buried yesterday, and the wife is buried now as well. [inaudible] God's Word is a mirror in which we may see our faith. I would say, and we can study the Bible at any time, we have a lot of faith.

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Read the Bible, study the Bible, read the Bible so when the solid soup is cold, you will feel it. Well, that's a true prayer. You may have prayed just like it is. It does not embellish, it does not camouflage.

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It's important to understand. The Bible is a mirror. It is the mirror of God's will. In this biblical mirror, we see ourselves as we really are. We compare ourselves with God's expectations.

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We measure ourselves according to these facts. This is his word, the Son of the Word. "Blessed are the undefiled in the way who walk in the law of the Lord. Let it be that they keep his testimony and that they keep him with the whole heart.

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They do so to witness him, they walk with his ways. Thou hast commanded us to keep thy statutes. Then shall I not be ashamed when I have respected you all by commandment. I will praise thee with the brightness of heart.

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Then I shall have learned thy righteous gesture. I will keep thy statute. O forsake me not utterly. The mirror enables us to see ourselves as we are. We don't know how we look until we look in the mirror.

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Old Father gives us, Son gives to give us to see ourselves as we ever see Him. The rearview mirror tells us about our past. It helps us view the past in proper perspective. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the betterest of them all? So white is better, and green is better, just the way it is.

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So white is better. When we see ourselves as we really are, we see how we may improve ourselves. By looking in the mirror, we know what to do about our situation. The mirror helps us to know what to do and what not to do.

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The mirror talks to us. God's Word, I say, is the mirror that we have, and that mirror is a talking mirror. We look at it and say, "We should do this, we should do that, in order to improve our safety."

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And so not only should we look at the mirror, we should listen to the mirror, because the mirror is talking, isn't it? [inaudible] [inaudible]

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And look, but listen. Look and listen. It means that, instead of just tiger woods, instead of just out camping in the desert,

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camping on the rocks, listen to the advice that a father gives you growing up. And listen, and listen. The Williams sisters, who have such outstanding success

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in tennis, listen to the counsel that we give them, the entire day of the week. And we ought to listen to the words of the Heavenly Father.

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If you want to be successful, listen to God, because he's talking to us, talking to us in his words, he's showing us how we look in his words. The mirror is the look, the mirror is the thought. But he who looks at himself in the mirror and forgets what he looks at is a hearer of the word who fails to be a doer of the word, so says God.

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But the one who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues therein is not a projectual healer, but a doer of the will. Such a person is blessed indeed if we would look our best, if we would be our best, if If we would be true to ourselves, we must look in the mirror often and listen attentively to what the mirror says.

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If we fail to use the mirror, we may forget who we are. We may forget what we look like. We never look the same. we may lose our identity.

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Now, let me know who you are. I remember when I was a young adult, I was a teenager, sometimes my mother would give me this, and she'd call me to the bedside,

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she'd say, "My Marvin, don't forget who you are." That's all she said. And I knew what that meant,

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"Don't forget who you are." The mirror of God's Word is constantly speaking to us, saying to us, "Don't forget who you are." And not only don't forget who you are,

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but don't forget who you are. Don't forget who you are. Don't forget who you are. Some of us look to the music to tell us who we are.

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Some of us look to the radio to tell us who we are. Some of us look to television to tell us who we are. But look to the mirror of God's Word, the mirror that God himself has provided,

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Listen to this music as it talks to them, telling you who we are and whom we are. with the credit of outstanding popular ministries of our time, including large numbers of the artists such as the world's [?]

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But he and his wife were in the mountains on rent and devastation, And as they sat in the little restaurant, they saw a man going from table to table, greeting the diners that were there. And finally, in the course of time, he came to Fred Fattock's case. And learning that Fred Fattock was a minister, he told him this story.

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A man said that he had been born just a few miles from that spot across the mountain, and his mother had not been married when he was born. And the outspoken criticism directed at her over the years also hit him and her girls, who may learn from their parents how to ridicule them,

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so that the boy learned to stay to himself at lunch and recess, lest there himself strike too hard. Even more difficult was trips to town with his mother when he was healed of lupus and the shaking of head. And he heard the question, "I wonder who this father is?" He was about 12.

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A new pastor came to the Little Community Church. People talked about this new pastor's deal as a preacher. And the boy began to go to himself. And he was fascinated with this new preacher.

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But he was always careful to slip in late and leave early. As soon as the service was over, he would slip out before people could move him together around. So, he would sit in the back and kneel early. Then somebody would come in and ask the question, "What's a boy like you doing here?"

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But what was that mean? He was so calm in the surgery that he forgot to kneel early. And before he knew it, he felt a hand on his shoulder, a man looking him in the face. It was the new preacher.

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And the preacher said to him, "Whose are you, son? Whose boy are you?" And Junghardt thanked at the question. And then the preacher went on and said, "Oh, I know who you are. The family resemblance is clear.

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You are a child of God." And with that, he patted the boy on the back and added, "Boy, that's quite an inheritance. Go and play." As the boy changed to manhood, that biblical reflection affirming whose he really was, And that gave him confidence, courage, and he went on from that.

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He said that he was that boy, and that he had been successful and respectable, and that he had been elected governor of Tennessee over two different times. And it was all because a minister in a little country church cared enough to encourage a little boy and reflect to him who he really was.

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Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the father of the man? That there's a mirror on the wall of our lives, in which we may look. There is a mirror that speaks to us, if we will just take time to listen. Mirror, mirror on the wall.

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We belong to God. We don't just belong to ourselves. God has made us. We are sheep of his pasture. We are his children. And we can praise him for that. Give thanks to God no matter how others may not understand

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and how they may criticize us and misname us, call us out of our names, but we are God's children. We belong to him. My father is rich in houses and land. He holds the wealth of the world in his hands.

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Of rubies and diamonds and silver and gold. His coffers are full. He has riches untaken. My father's own son, the savior of men, once wondered on earth as the poorest of men,

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and now he is pleading our pardon on high, that he may be his when he comes. I once, I once was an outcast, a stranger on earth, A sinner by choice and an alien by birth. But I'm Ben Adopti.

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My name's written down in heir to a mansion, a log, and a crown. I'm a child of the King. I'm a child of the King with Jesus my Savior. I'm a child of the King.

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Aren't you glad you're a child of the King? No, no, no matter how you may be buffeted about by the storms of life, you should be confident in knowing that you're a child of the King.

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That all God rules this world, this is my Father's world. Oh, let me never forget, although the wrong seems all too strong, God is the ruler there. I'm the child of the King.

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You're the child of the King. We're God's children. And we can praise Him and give thanks to Him for that. As you come now to the invitation here,

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you've been privileged to unite with the people of God, the family of God here at Ebenezer. It's an open door that God gives you. the wonderful thing to be able to look in his mirror,

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the mirror of his world, and to listen to that mirror talk to us all along the stages of his life. It's right to be proud of him as he comes through these times of imitation.

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You live in the law school without a church home. [MUSIC PLAYING] [inaudible] [inaudible]

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[inaudible] Only a look at Jesus, oh, so bowed down with care. He has promised to relieve you. He will all your burden share.

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Only a look, only a look. Turn from your worries on can. A look that will bring salvation. He will hold your birth just a chance.

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[Music] ♪ There are the sweet Jesus in you ♪ ♪ There are the sweet Jesus in you ♪ ♪ Jesus, our salvation, we pray you and do ♪

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♪ Let all the sweet things of heaven be good ♪ ♪ Let all the sweet things of heaven be good ♪ ♪ Let all the sweet things of heaven be good ♪ ♪ He is worthy of glory ♪

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♪ We pray for that truth ♪ ♪ That love is in you, in you ♪ ♪ Only a look at Jesus ♪ ♪ Oh, so bow down with a care ♪

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[Music] Let us be Jesus in you. We've heard the good stories, we've made good and true. Let us be Jesus in you.

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Let us be cheesers with you. Let us be cheesers with you. Be telling the story, be grateful I'm true. Let us be cheesers with you.

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[inaudible] Amen, amen, amen. [Music] [BLANK_AUDIO]