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I did give them their due, and repent, and watch. [MUSIC] [INAUDIBLE] [inaudible]

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[inaudible] [INAUDIBLE] [inaudible] all these days, trying to think of what's next, what's the next step. [inaudible]

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[inaudible] Realized that there were fools on our way. [inaudible] Our race was all over the place.

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[inaudible] The new level of spirit is never going to make us. [inaudible] As I have said, there's not a race that's not built on the spirit.

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[ Singing ] [ Singing ] [ Singing ] [ Singing ]

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And the burden of my heart rolled away, rolled away. For it was there by faith, oh, I received my sight. And now I am happy all the day. ♪ Was lifted the crime that I have done ♪

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♪ He crowned upon the tree of day ♪ ♪ And gave grace unknown and love ♪ [Singing] ♪ Had to grow where I first saw the light ♪

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♪ And the burden of my heart ♪ ♪ Shrunk away, it was held by faith ♪ ♪ I received my sight ♪ And now I am at peace all the day.

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And the voice, and the call, were my words all the night. And the burden of my heart drove away, drove away. It was there one day I received my heart and now I am happy all the day.

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That's it. [INAUDIBLE] [INAUDIBLE] [INAUDIBLE]

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[INAUDIBLE] [INAUDIBLE] [INAUDIBLE] [INAUDIBLE]

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(speaking off mic) And oh, Heavenly Father, we pray for those strength-bound tonight, that we may know His people, you and your people, who speak through us, and believe on the Lord Jesus.

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Dear Lord God, you spoke, sweet Lord, that you gave your calling on Jesus. And Lord Jesus, we need thee tonight. Please come rise upon us tonight, and help us, Lord, thou, [INAUDIBLE]

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[INAUDIBLE] Please, Lord, have mercy upon us tonight. And bless the young people, Jesus, that have been brought into abolished--

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Yes. Please welcome the Christ of Jesus. Lord Jesus, we need thee. We can't do anything without you.

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Please be in this group, I and all that's struggling by tonight. We thank you, Lord. We need thee, God.

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We need Father. [INAUDIBLE] [INAUDIBLE] [INAUDIBLE]

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[INAUDIBLE] [ Inaudible ] [Singing] [Singing]

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Come and go with me to that land where I'm found. Come and go with me to that land. Come and go with me to that land. Come and go with me to that land where I'm found.

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[Singing] "Oh, I am a seeker in that land. Oh, I am a seeker in that land. I am a seeker in that land where I'm found. I am a seeker in that land. Oh, I am a seeker in that land." [chanting] Peace and happiness in that land. Peace and happiness in that land.

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Peace and happiness in that land. Where I'm bound, where I'm bound. Peace and happiness in that land. Peace and happiness in that land.

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[singing] This is our time of testimony and Brother George Sears has said he wanted to make a testimony so come on Brother Sears. Give an honor to God, to our past ministers, to this assembly. I remember one time I stood up to make a testimony and a pastor, he told me, he said, "Well,

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you didn't tell what Christ did for you." So I have a testimony this morning of what Christ did for me. And I remember, I can remember back about six years ago when I rededicated my life to the Lord.

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This was in Killeen, Texas. I was sort of a, I had already received Christ as my personal savior and I had back slid. And I think the reason why I did that was because I was not versed in knowing that I was supposed to be a new creature, reading my Bible, praying and studying and trying

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to seek the Lord and his will for my life. But I gradually came into that knowledge when I rededicated my life to Christ and Colleen. And at that time, I was, I was sort of dedicated to just going to church all the time, just going to church and just being on the Lord's program.

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You know, it just got to a point where I came to a realization, here I am just going to church all the time, just going to church. And, you know, just keeping my mind always on the Lord and everything. You know, I was always seeing people around me, how young people my age

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and so forth were just going about their way, seeming to party and having a whole lot of fun. And I used to sort of, one, I said, Lord, I said, can I have fun? Am I supposed to be out there doing the same things?

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but he said to me that there are certain things that they're doing that I don't want you to do. I want you to be identified for me. And I remember also that a few other churches I've been to that I had gone to, there were people there, they had told me, they had said, "Brother Sears, you know, I see something in you.

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The Lord, He use you." I mean, they gave me this, this motivation and they told me, they say, "Don't worry about what you see other people doing because you are an example for Christ. people are going to see Christ in you. The Lord is using you in just a very little way.

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And so I remember one time that when I first, also when I first came to the Lord, I couldn't even construct a whole sentence and proclaim it properly. And a friend of mine told me, he says, "Well, why can't you talk right?"

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And I said, "Well, you know, I had some problems in the past. I've used drugs and that may have affected me in a way, but the Lord has a way of taking everything and just making it right. And I haven't used drugs since I dedicated my life to Christ.

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And as you can see, it is better, it has become better for me. I also know that the Lord is good for me and has dealt with me in a way whereas, you know, obedience. Obedience is something that I think brings about faith and I think without obedience you don't have

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faith and I want to be able to be an example to young folk. You know, I'm not saying I'm standing up here perfect, that I'm a perfect image, because I know that I'm a sinner saved by grace, but I want to be able to stand up and sort of give some young person some kind of idea as to what they should try to, you know,

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shape in their Christ-like or their walk for, because a lot of young people now they feel that it's a struggle. You know, you either be identified with the crowd out there in the world or you be identified with the church and it's a lot of it's a lot of friction so I want them to see me the way as you know the

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way I walk because I consider myself a young man I'm not a child I don't believe I don't I know I'm not a child anymore I consider myself a young man and I believe that there's a lot of young people who think that being a Christian is weak and it's not and I just wanted to be able to express that and also I

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I asked that you would pray for me. I'm a minister. I have been called by the Lord to preach the gospel But I've been learning a whole lot lately and I just pray and ask that you would pray with me that the Lord will continue To increase my faith that one day I may be used by him to glorify his name [audience] Amen.

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[Dr. Clark] Let's all say amen. We're glad to see you back tonight and we're going to go now to our special music. We want to thank you for the leadership in this period of prayer and praise. And we have our children's choir here tonight and some of them have got to be in bed by 8.30.

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So we're going to let them take their part of the program right now and give our special music at this time. Amen. [inaudible]

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[MUSIC PLAYING] [CHOIR SINGING] Everybody up tonight. Everybody up tonight.

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Ooh, Jesus, sing. Everybody up tonight. Everybody up tonight. Everybody up tonight.

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Ooh, Jesus, sing. [MUSIC] ♪ In case the bright morning star ♪ ♪ Is a lily of the valley ♪

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♪ Sun's everybody ought to know ♪ ♪ Everybody ought to know ♪ ♪ Everybody ought to know ♪ ♪ Everybody ought to know ♪

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♪ Who Jesus is ♪ ♪ Everybody ought to know ♪ ♪ Everybody ought to know ♪ ♪ Everybody ought to know ♪

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♪ Who Jesus is ♪ He's the lily of the valley. He's the bright morning star. He's the forest, the gentle mountains.

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Everybody ought to know. Everybody ought to know. Everybody ought to know. Everybody ought to know who Jesus is.

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Amen. Amen. Amen. [MUSIC PLAYING]

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(piano music) ♪ I do believe, believe in Jesus Christ ♪ ♪ I do believe, believe in Jesus Christ ♪ ♪ I do believe, believe in Jesus Christ ♪

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♪ Praise his holy name ♪ ♪ He put joy, joy in my heart ♪ ♪ He put joy, joy in my heart ♪ ♪ He put joy, joy in my heart ♪

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♪ Praise His holy name ♪ ♪ He is the strength, the strength of my life ♪ ♪ He is the strength, the strength of my life ♪ ♪ He is the strength, the strength of my life ♪

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♪ Praise His holy name ♪ ♪ Jesus, Jesus, Jesus is my friend ♪ ♪ Jesus, Jesus, Jesus is my friend ♪ ♪ Jesus, Jesus, Jesus is my friend ♪

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♪ Praise His holy name ♪ ♪ Go tell the world ♪ ♪ The world about Jesus Christ ♪ ♪ Go tell the world ♪

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♪ The world about Jesus Christ ♪ ♪ Go tell the world ♪ ♪ The world about Jesus Christ ♪ ♪ Jesus, oh, we believe ♪

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♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪ ♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪ ♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪ ♪ Praise His holy name ♪

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♪ We do believe, believe in Jesus Christ ♪ ♪ We do believe, believe in Jesus Christ ♪ ♪ We do believe, believe in Jesus Christ ♪ ♪ Praise His holy name ♪

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[music] Amen. Let's all say amen. Amen. That's wonderful. Thank you so much. We appreciate that very much. [music] In your presence from the gospel according to Saint John the third

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chapter beginning with the 14th verse and as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness even so must the Son of Man be lifted up that whosoever ever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have

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everlasting life. For God sent not his son into the world to be condemned, to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned, but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world,

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and men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truly cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are a route in God.

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[MUSIC PLAYING] [Music] [MUSIC PLAYING] [ Music ]

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[ Music ] ♪ Give me a hero ♪ ♪ So I may stand ♪ ♪ Be more fierce, my lord ♪

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♪ So that I ♪ ♪ May be used ♪ ♪ By thee ♪ ♪ For I'm not worthy ♪

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♪ Of all these blessings ♪ ♪ Give me a freehold ♪ ♪ And I'll follow Thee ♪ ♪ I'm not asking for the riches of the land ♪

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♪ I'm not asking for high men to know my name ♪ ♪ Please give me, Lord, a clean heart ♪ ♪ So I may follow Thee ♪ ♪ Give me a clean heart, a clean heart ♪

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♪ And I will follow Thee ♪ ♪ Give me a clean heart ♪ ♪ So I may serve thee ♪ ♪ Lord fix my heart ♪

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♪ So that I may be used by thee ♪ ♪ Lord, I'm not worthy ♪ ♪ Of all these blessings ♪ ♪ Give me a clean heart ♪

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♪ And a holy mind ♪ ♪ Sometimes I am up ♪ ♪ And sometimes I am down ♪ ♪ Sometimes I am almost level to the ground ♪

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♪ Please give me, Lord, a clean heart ♪ ♪ Give me a clean heart ♪ ♪ So I may follow thee ♪ ♪ Give me a clean heart ♪

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♪ A clean heart ♪ ♪ And I will follow thee ♪ ♪ So I may serve Thee ♪ ♪ Lord, fix my heart ♪

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♪ So that I may be used by Thee ♪ ♪ For I'm not worthy ♪ ♪ O God, this blessing ♪ ♪ Give me a clean heart ♪

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♪ And a holy ear ♪ ♪ Give me a clean heart ♪ ♪ So I may serve thee ♪ ♪ Nor fail thee ♪

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♪ Nor fix my heart ♪ ♪ So that I may be used by Thee ♪ ♪ For I'm not worthy ♪ ♪ Of all these blessings ♪

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♪ Give me a plea ♪ [music] We're privileged to have sharing with us tonight in the pulpit one who is working with the Church Extension Department of the Baptist General

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Convention of Texas and he was in our city and he was considering a place to worship tonight and he said it was pretty hard to find a place to it was having church on Wednesday night and he looked in the directory and he saw Ebenezer and the Spirit of the Lord directed him here and we are happy to

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have him he's working with the Indian ministry in the church extension department and the Reverend Clark will lead us in our prayer at this time. Bower heads please. Father thank you for this privilege to be here tonight. I I thank you for this church, Father, and for the testimony that it has in this community.

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Lord, as we come before you tonight, we just thank you so much for the blood of Jesus Christ that was shed abroad in our hearts that we can know tonight that we belong to thee. I just pray, Heavenly Father, for the leadership of your Holy Spirit throughout this service. Pray for this one who's going to stand here to bring the message to your God that you'll

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just use him in accordance with your will, that he'll speak to our hearts, Heavenly Father and that those of us that need to make decisions tonight, whatever the decision might be, Heavenly Father, I pray that we'll be made to bring honor and glory to your service and your kingdom. For it's in Jesus' name and for

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his sake I pray, amen. Lord. Yes. We are our Heavenly Father's children.

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Yes. And we all know that He loves us one and all. Yes. Yet there are times that we find we answer

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another voice and call. If we are willing, I know He will teach us His voice, only to obey no matter where. And he knows, yes he knows just how much we can bear.

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Think, think of the times you've asked the question. Down in your heart now Lord just what shall I do? Then you confide in your friends and loved ones. They have troubles too.

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Oh there is a God who rules earth and heaven. In Him there's relief from every pain or care. For He knows, yes He knows ♪ Just how much we can bear ♪

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♪ Though the Lord gives heavy children ♪ ♪ You're never left alone to bear it all ♪ ♪ Ask for the strength and keep on turning ♪ ♪ Though the teardrops fall ♪

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♪ Oh you, you have the joy of this assurance ♪ ♪ The heavenly Father will always answer prayer ♪ ♪ And He knows, yes ♪ ♪ He knows just how much you can bear ♪

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♪ Though the Lord gives Him no answer ♪ ♪ You're never left alone to bear it all ♪ ♪ Just ask for the strength and keep on turning ♪ ♪ Though the teardrops fall ♪

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♪ You have a home in the land of the free ♪ ♪ When you have the joy of this assurance ♪ ♪ The heavenly Father will always answer prayer ♪ ♪ And he knows ♪

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♪ Yes, he knows ♪ how much you can bear. Amen. How many of you invited someone to the service tonight and they came?

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Let me see. That's good. Good. Bless you. How many invited someone who's unchurched and they're here? They're not in the church of you? you that's good say one wonderful all right let us pray as we continue to worship in this service

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our evangelist has been letting himself be used in a wonderful way of the Lord as he has spoken to us each night he needs no introduction he comes as one who is dedicated to the task of proclaiming God's will and his way to his people and Following the singing of amazing grace how sweet the sound the Reverend FW McElveen will bring to us

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The Word of God let us stand now as we sing amazing grace. I think it's 132 or 135 [MUSIC] [ Music ] Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me.

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I was a boy But now I'm twelve Lord, what a man I've been [Music]

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♪ And call my heart to fear ♪ ♪ When they come near to thee ♪ ♪ The prayer shall be heard ♪ [Music]

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(cows mooing) (cow moos) (cows mooing) [MOOING]

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(mooing) (cow moos) (cows mooing) [Mooing]

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[Mooing] [Mooing] Amen. To the pastor and to my comrades in the ministry and to my brothers and sisters and to friends and visitors and to the center friends as well, if there be any, we are thankful again

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to God for this privilege of being present. And we just know that God has been good. We have no right to boast of any merits of our own because we are here because God of God's will. It's nothing that we could do of ourselves as as far as life is concerned, because our lives are in the hand of God.

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And we're just thankful that he has left us in the land of the living. It's a fine thing, which let us know that God still has something for us to do, tangibly for him.

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And I don't know whether you have, but I have Made it up in my mind years ago That I was gonna serve My present generation

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and so to the best of my ability I'm going to as I used to hear dr. Lucas say I'm going to give the Lord a full day you know, it's a fine thing to give the Lord a full day and

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When you do that, you can feel justified within yourself We're going to talk from the area of the Focus tonight I believe in as far as participation is concerned or as far as initiative is concerned young people we have

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Tried to as the Holy Spirit has dealt with us, we have tried to speak to that issue. We're going to talk from, I want you to note, St. Luke

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the 18th chapter, the 22nd through the 23rd and 23rd verses with the background scriptures being st. Matthew 19 20

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through 22nd st. Mark 10th and 21 through 22nd and we're dealing with this synoptic Gospels as We read here

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Now when Jesus heard these things He said unto him Yet like is there one thing Sell all that thou hast

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And distribute unto the poor And thou shall have treasure in heaven and

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Come follow me and when he heard This he was very

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Sorrowful For he was very rich I Have selected this we have selected this because

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we are dealing with what is known as the rich young ruler

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And we're going to talk about worthless assets in the eternal market

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Worthless assets in the eternal market Wasteless assets on the eternal Stock exchange worthless

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You know, it's just like a person having a whole lot of I used to hear him talk about Confederate money You had a book and everything but it wasn't worth anything Now same thing it was with this man

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Here he had in this world What he had as possessions was valuable in a secular kind of way. But on the eternal market they had no value.

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There was a man who came to Jesus and called him master or good master as we deal with the synoptics.

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Because Jesus said, "Why callest thou me good? There is none good but the Father." And yet we recognize the fact that he was the Father also. He had a dual personality. He was human and divine. And he was the Father too, but he said, "The human part of me is not good."

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The father part of me is good now and then he called him good master. He wanted to know What shall I do to? inherit eternal I You know, no doubt he had gotten what he had by inheritance

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Somebody hadn't worked for it. So he it just had been passed on down to him And he felt like eternal life could be gained by inheritance. He felt like this would be something also that would just be passed on down to him. Much as if the father or the parents pass on,

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And the children come in possession of what they have without working for. And I want to pass this on so all the time you don't appreciate that, that you don't work for. So it is that this man wanted to know what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

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Eternal life is lasting. It has no beginning nor ending You say God is not in time time is in God Worthless assets in the eternal market Jesus said told him I know you've been studying the law

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you know the law. Thou shall not commit adultery, thou shall not murder or kill, thou shall not steal, thou shall not bear false witness. Honor your father and your mother the law the old Mosaic law you know that he said yes he said I've been doing that from my youth I've done all of that course you have to wonder

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about that, especially about the false witness. A false witness has to do with a liar. You have to wonder about that, whether or not he had gone through that. But that's what he said.

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You know, I wonder about the man cutting down the cherry tree, as we know it, know the story and say that he told his father the truth and he never had done that before. But anyway, that is what he told Jesus, "I have done all of this, I have kept all of that all of my life."

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In other words, I have been a good boy. I have been a perfect boy. And so Jesus said, that's all right. He accepted what he said, but he said,

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one thing you lack yet. And he said, "Sell out." He didn't give him time to interrupt. He said, "Sell out what you have and give to the poor."

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Now that he was unwilling to do. He was unwilling to sell out what he had and give to the poor and come and follow me. that part, no doubt he could do.

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Come and follow me, but they're selling out. Making this sacrifice, he was unwilling to do. Or the scripture say he was exceedingly sorrowful. He was sad because Jesus had set up this challenge to him.

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set up this criteria to him for eternal life. He was saddened by the fact. Jesus spoke a little further. He said, "How hard it is for a rich man

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"to enter into the kingdom of heaven." Many disciples was puzzled about that. They were disturbed about it, eh? They asked a question, who then can be saved

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if a person is rich? How can he be saved? Well, he can't be saved at all when you say it's as hard for a rich man to be saved

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as it is for a camel to go through a needle. Some will have that needle be a gate or whatnot. But if the disciples saw, or the apostle saw it then as an impossibility, then it must have meant what it said it meant.

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To go through eye of a needle. Must not mean a gate, because they saw a matter of impossibility. And Jesus said what is impossible for men is possible with God. We have a statement of the impossible possibility.

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What is impossible with man is possible with God. God can do anything that he want to. Some people will argue the point about the thief being saved, but the president of this business can do what he want to do.

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He can forgo all of the policies, just like the president of the bank, because he is the manager. Jesus could say to the thief on the cross, "Today, without being baptized, thou shalt be with me in paradise. When he said Lord when you come into your kingdom

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remember me because he was over everything. He could cancel out all policies because this was Jesus himself but what has been given in the word has been given for you and I to follow. Now then what I'm saying tonight what I'm dealing with tonight, I'm emphasizing the dilemma of a young man because this man

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was young. He was young and I suspect tonight that there's a whole lot of young people as well as adults who are in a state of dilemma. They are confused, they are disturbed, they are frustrated, they are disorganized. Even today and And there we have evidence of that by the use of drugs,

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where people are trying to get pacification and satisfaction through the use of drugs. They're trying to drown out the complexities of our society.

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And I will admit that our society is more complex today than it was years ago. I will admit that we have problems that have come about in our society today

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that we didn't have, if no more than the mechanized age that we live in today. We have moved from the horse and wagon, or buggy and wagon day, to a mechanized civilization or society.

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And it takes more thinking now. Life is more complex today. But at the same time, with all of the complexity of our society.

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We have one to help us. We have the Spirit of God who will help us to live in any type of situation. Doesn't make a difference what it is. That is the reason Paul said, "In Philippians, I have learned whatever state I am in, thou

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wilt to be content." I had to learn it. It didn't come by itself. I had to learn through repeated experiences that whatever state I would get in, I wouldn't

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borrow it from tomorrow because Jesus said, "Take no thought of tomorrow, what you shall wear. sufficient unto the day of the evils thereof. You have enough problems to think about today without barring from tomorrow.

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Weightless assets in the eternal market constitute, number one, it constitutes power. You know, power can be a dangerous thing. This man was a ruler. He was a ruler. And being a ruler is no easy thing. Being in authority is not an easy thing. You must recognize the fact that in

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authority you are responsible for justice. God is holding you responsible. Whenever you are leading a people, this man was a ruler. And I want to let you know some people become power man, just like Hitler did, who had mobilized his war machines, marched in on defenseless people.

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He just had that blood run like water. He didn't care, just like he did when he tried to create the state. [BLANK_AUDIO]