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And it leaves us insecure. We're afraid to buy anything we might not get to pay for. Isn't it so? Things all around us seem to be out of hand, seems to be threatening, and seems to present problems insurmountable. But I stop by here today to tell, or at least remind, Pastor Clark and his lovely wife, along with the deacons and members and friends of this great church, that there are real, if you can believe, a real sense of security in what I'd like to refer to as this angelical or as this spiritual and dynamic boast

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that was registered by Jesus above 2,000 years ago. Them that my Father has given to me, no man can pluck them out of my hand. And in even that you take no sense of security in the fullest sense of it, I issue a backup guarantee that no man is able to pluck them out of my father's hand.

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In a few days I'm gonna have to lay down. And somebody's gonna think it's all over with me. But I want you to know I'm backed up by the Father. And while some temporarily gone from you,

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my Father is issuing the same guarantee. Amen. Now if you can believe that, there's a real sense of security there for you.

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I don't care nothing about how the times are. I don't care nothing about threatening conditions. The one thing I'd like to think is that Christ's Word is unconditionally a guarantee for survival and for security.

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Amen. Doesn't matter what people do. And it doesn't matter what the situations are. Nothing can change the promise of our Lord.

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Amen. Well, you say that is a big boast. Amen. that nothing or no man can pluck them out of my hand.

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Kinda need some A-man security to back up such a boast like that. You know, when you look at the television, there is a commercial. You see it, it has a set of couple cooked hands and in those hands there's a home and a car, there's a family and a bicycle and this, that and the other. And then there's a little slogan underneath that says you're in good hands with all states.

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Now that's a mighty attractive commercial, but now what it does for me, it arouses my curiosity that if you guarantee so much, what is it that's behind the kind of boast that you make? Well, when you look behind it, you'll discover that that same company has multi-millions of dollars that back up that guarantee and that verbose. Well, now, what is it? You say, as you read these words that tend to offer the kind of security we want in life. What is it about Jesus that backs up such a guarantee that them that my father has given me, no man can pluck out of my hand, and no man can pluck them out of my father's hand.

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I feel pretty good with that condition provided you can back it up. Well, in the first place, I can back it up because you see I'll be around here to see that nobody misuses this promise. If I was gonna die and go away pretty soon, perhaps it would get out of my hand. Isn't it so? You've known people in life who were a promise in goodness. They did nice things for you.

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You could kinda go to bed knowing that as long as Mr. Jones is there, I'll be alright. But when Mr. Jones pass on, and it passes into somebody else's hand, they know not Joseph, like Pharaoh when he went in, the one who succeeded him knew not Joseph. But you see, Jesus is saying this guarantee is good because I'll be around here to ensure that it remains intact.

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You see, I'm yesterday, I am today, and then I'm forevermore. So I'll be here to personally supervise and guarantee that it will be kept intact in itself. Now the next thing that backs up this boast, that you can count on it remaining intact, I heard him say through the psalms that the world is mine, the fullness that I wrought belongs to me.

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He said gold and silver are mine, and a cattle on a thousand hills belong to me. Yes Lord, the world and thee that dwell therein And then he said the heavens also belong to me That's pretty good wealth, that's pretty good riches

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And with gold like it is now, if God owns the hills of gold, I think we are pretty well secure. My Lord and your God, I feel that long as we live, they'll still be digging for oil and gold. They'll never really read the world of all that's planted there. Well, what else is behind the post that my security fills with garb?

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I'd like to check it out there once in a while. Well, yeah, every morning and every night before I lay down, I like to check on my count. I call him in the morning, and I call him late at night. I'd like to know if he still valet keepin'.

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I'd like to be sure that the heels still belong to him. I left the door, if I get ready to go home, I'll use his hand, steal all around. I won't let it go on now.

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Then he said, "You're still secure. In a few days, I'll have to go yonder to Calvary, [music] me and my people will be disillusioned and disappointed in me.

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But I want you to know this, when I lay down, it will be in my father's hands. My father will raise me up on the third day. Sunday morning, Sunday morning, Sunday morning, he's got a battle that great. [Music]

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You don't have to worry about anything. (audience chattering) (dramatic music) (dramatic music)

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(dramatic music) (dramatic music) (dramatic music) (dramatic music)

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[MUSIC] [Music] Yes, I remember when things were dark and dreary And I didn't know which way to turn

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My eyes filled with tears, disappointments through the year I call on the Lord, got an answer I call on the Lord, I call on the Lord I call on the Lord, got an answer

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♪ When I call, I call, call, call, call, call ♪ ♪ I call, I call on the Lord ♪ ♪ He'll get an answer ♪ ♪ I call on the Lord ♪

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♪ I call on the Lord ♪ ♪ I call on the Lord ♪ ♪ When I call ♪ ♪ Call, call, call ♪

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♪ I call on the Lord ♪ ♪ When I call on the Lord ♪ ♪ I call, I'm the law ♪ ♪ I'm the law ♪

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♪ I call, I'm the law ♪ ♪ Got an answer ♪ ♪ When I call, I call, I call ♪ ♪ Call, call, call ♪

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♪ I call, I'm the law ♪ ♪ Got an answer ♪ Did you ever leave a hand on the call of a broken home? You didn't know what to do

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All night you lit a way in the call of some mistake But you call on the Lord, got an answer I call on the Lord, I call on the Lord I call on the Lord, got an answer

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♪ I call, I call, I call, I call, I call, I call, I call ♪ ♪ I kept a call and I'm calling on the line ♪ ♪ Here I am ♪ ♪ I call on the line ♪

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♪ I call on the line ♪ ♪ I call on the line ♪ ♪ I've got an answer when I call, I call, call, call ♪ ♪ I call, I call, I call, I call, I call on the line ♪

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♪ I've got an answer ♪ [MUSIC] [MUSIC] (choral singing)

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[MUSIC] ♪ America, God keep the land glorious ♪ ♪ God keep the land glorious ♪ ♪ And the home of the brave ♪

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♪ We love you dear ♪ (choral music) (choral singing) [Music]

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God sent his son. They called him Jesus. He came to love him. He'll never forgive.

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♪ Though he lived and he died ♪ ♪ To burn my heart on fire ♪ ♪ And it'd be great ♪ ♪ If I could be true ♪

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♪ Savior of this ♪ ♪ And it's because of him ♪ ♪ Yes, because he lived ♪ [Chorus singing]

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I can face tomorrow Well, I'll talk to Lord Lear All my fears are gone I really, really know

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They're calling home my future [Music] ♪ 'Cause my Savior lives ♪ ♪ How sweet to hold ♪

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♪ A newborn baby ♪ ♪ And feel the past ♪ ♪ And joy that He gives ♪ [Music]

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♪ From the sugar rumps ♪ ♪ This child can face ♪ ♪ The uncertain day ♪ ♪ 'Cause he lives ♪

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♪ Because he lives ♪ ♪ Yes, because he lives ♪ ♪ He plays tomorrow ♪ ♪ I can face tomorrow ♪

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♪ He comes ♪ [MUSIC] Forgive me for I am a believer, and a part of His Word, and cast into the hearts the 33rd and the 34th verses

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of the 23rd chapter of the Gospel of God, our Savior. Who are you? Forgive me for I am a believer, for they know not what they do.

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This is the first declaration, the first cry, that Jesus heard from the prophets. We have a horse today, a heel that is called a skull. It's, it's closed because on one side, what is the known, that's 60 feet high.

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And on one side, it look like a man's face. And I have a thought and a tune that the club is healed by the 48 bodies. And this is Calvary, this is Scotia. And the cross, this is on the place of Kennedy Eagle.

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Kennedy Eagle, meaning the men of insurrection, the high priesthood. [INAUDIBLE] So they want to make Jesus look bad, so they hang him with two nails like this, two evil needles.

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And they're going to nail him on the cross, on the tree that he planted. And they cut it down and they're going to nail him on this cross. or a curse of the man who's made them to approve. So they're going to manage the cross.

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And this solace, this faithful execution, this instrumental posture, the cross of keeping, it might take five days before it's killed. It will kill you.

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It could take three days or five days to do the case of Jesus, it's the time. [inaudible] If you're a kid, you can call. You see the evil doing it. You see them killed. For redeeming somebody. [INAUDIBLE]

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[INAUDIBLE] Now a cross, a cross is for judgment. A cross reveals the love of God. A cross says that God can't go any higher than this.

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God can't do any more. The same name, this is as much as God can do. And Jesus hanging on that cross is not a sign of weakness. This is a sign of strength.

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- That's right. - And God could have, God could do anything else from heaven except save me.

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The salvation of lost men depends on it. A sinner's being out of the cross. And he had to come here to keep the law and to lay him sin in the flesh.

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before he could satisfy justice. So Jesus had to come to sin in order to die on the cross. So he came to die on the cross. Why sin?

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I said the cross stands for judgment. You all gonna pray with me today. - Yeah, go right ahead. - The cross stands for judgment.

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It reveals the ugliness of sin. The children are the same. It shows what humanity is like. The rules on religion without a crucified Christ.

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And the soldiers show us that we're covenants. They gamble all of his rope that his mother made. - The English road. The post holders, gathered.

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The 96 stood by and watched and gathered over his road. And the world stood by and didn't hear him. And that showed us what the world was. Now the darkness, I said, just something about the darkness.

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The darkness was not there. sun was shining. Two suns couldn't shine at the same time. The darkness was a symbol of judgment.

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- Uh-huh. - And God was judging the world with his sun shining on the cross. And when they,

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they nailed Jesus to this cross, and then they stood this cross and let it down in the ground. And when the weight of his body and those nails that was driven in his hands and those nails that was driven in his feet,

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and when that cross slipped into the ground, that was the first I point of his redeeming blood. Yeah. I'm gonna let that cost in the brain. You know, these words, Father, I'm gonna give it. Yeah. All right. Oh, they know not what they do. Now, forgive this. I think three forgive this is Israel is remission.

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People say, Well, Send thy sin away. That's what he was saying.

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He was saying-- for a moment, he was saying, cast my sin in the sea of-- Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

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--whenever I have a bad seed. In this world, we-- Yes, sir. [INTERPOSING VOICES]

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That's what remission of sin is. remission of sin to send the sin away. Remission of sin to separate the sin from the sin. And that's what Jesus was asking his father to do.

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He was asking him to remit that sin. Now you know this, he was praying for the soldiers, there were four soldiers that had been selected to execute the centennial and 96 million on standby.

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And I was playing out a little soldiers in June. He prayed for the soldiers, he prayed for the priests, he prayed for the people and he prayed for you and I. - Yeah.

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- He said, "Bob, forgive them for they know not what they do." - Yeah. - And I wanna thank Pastor Wicks

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for asking me to serve you today. Because it caused me to look at this thing again. - I don't know. - Right, it caused me to ask some questions,

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let me write. And I said, now, what did the Lord really mean when he said, "Forgive them for they know not what they do." - Right.

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- And I came up with this, I said, The man is under a spell of darkness. And the physical man cannot understand. Now please, you remember what the Lord told Nicodemus.

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I'm saying the sinner is in a state of confusion. The sinner is in a state of loss. Really, he don't know what he's talking about. Right.

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As it relates to God. Right. You know what Pharaoh said, don't you? [Chuckles]

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Pharaoh said, "Who is Jehovah? I don't know him." You remember that? [Chuckles] You remember that? "Who is Jehovah? I don't know him. I don't even know his name."

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Yes. Yeah. And you remember what Neville said to the, about Daniel's dog? He said, "Who is Daniel's dog that I should obey to?"

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Uh-huh. He said, "I don't even know him. I don't know anything about him." [Laughter] And you can even be a righteous Pharisee.

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Yeah. But if you haven't been born again, you don't know the Lord. Right, brother. You don't know what you're doing either.

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And you don't even have a sense of direction. In fact, you don't even have anywhere to go here. Unless you know the man. So he said, "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do."

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If they knew what they were doing, Father, they wouldn't do it. And since they don't know who I am, [inaudible] Father, this was planned in the back eternity.

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When you didn't have anybody to talk to. When you didn't have Jerusalem to swear by. You didn't have to go to that hot stool. And you just put your hand on yourself and swore by yourself.

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