Relationship
November 26, 2020
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Pastor Robert delivers a message about the importance of getting God’s Word into our hearts to deepen our relationship with Him.
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- Our relationship withthe Father is not something
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- that we earn, it is a gift givento us freely by grace.
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- Making the choice to receivethis gift is the best decision
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- we will ever make.
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- However, have you consideredthe importance of making
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- God's Word the final authorityin your life?
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- Join us today as my pastor,Robert Morris,
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- teaches us how to move from therelationship we have now
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- into true discipleship with God.
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- ♪ ♪
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- ROBERT MORRIS:We're in a series called,
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- "You Are Here", and I want toremind you that --
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- we began the series lastweekend, that the "You Are Here"
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- sign is mainly to tell us how toget to where we want to go
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- from where we are.
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- And I believe that there'sa parable in Mark 4,
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- and it's really --we're not going to be able
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- to read the whole parable again,
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- we read it last weekend,but it's verses 1 through 20.
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- Jesus tells the parable,then they asked Him about it,
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- then He made this statement -remember this statement:
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- He said, "Do you notunderstand this parable?"
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- Verse 13 He said, "how are yougoing to understand
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- all the parables, if you can'tunderstand this one?"
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- Then He explains it, so it'svery important and this parable
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- reminded me of a survey thatwe took here at Gateway Church
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- along with about 525 the otherchurches, 180.000 people,
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- and it showed that everyonewho was attending church,
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- was in four groups of people,and there are
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- four groups of peoplein Mark 4.
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- So, just to remind you of that,we drew four circles
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- last weekend to representthese four groups of people,
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- and we put the cross here,because there are people
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- that are attending churchthat haven't come to
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- the cross yet, haven't beensaved yet, and that's great.
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- I'm glad, I'm very,very glad they're here.
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- We called this first group"Exploring God".
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- Then when you come tothe cross, this group
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- is "Beginning in God".
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- They're beginningtheir relationship in God.
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- As we continue to grow,these people are "Close to God",
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- and then these people are"God Centered".
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- And we put some wordsover these.
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- Last week, we calledthe message "Fellowship".
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- These people are beginningto fellowship
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- with other believersand learning about God.
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- These people have come nowinto a relationship with God,
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- and that's the title,by the way,
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- of this week's message,if you want to put that.
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- We're going to talk aboutrelationship this week.
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- These people are learningmore about discipleship.
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- And then, these peopleare really walking
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- in the reality of lordship.
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- Michael Jr. sent me a textand said great message,
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- and he said, I was thinkingabout all of the ships
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- that you had, and I thought thatthe enemy's plan is to get us
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- to abandon ship.
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- And I thought thatwas pretty good.
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- By the way,even if you abandon ship,
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- God will never abandon you.
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- You need to know that.
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- God will never leave youor forsake you.
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- He'll never abandon you.
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- But, if you abandon ship,you can get swallowed
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- by a whale, and that stinks.
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- So, and you can put the wordgrowing above all of these,
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- because every personis growing,
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- and if you ever stop growing,you'll go backward.
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- Just one other thingI want to remind you of.
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- When we did this survey,we found the way these people
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- moved from group one togroup two was they chose
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- to believe a truth that causedthem to make that move,
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- and that was the truth of grace.
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- These people moved fromgroup two to group three
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- because they chose to believethat God's Word is true
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- and is the final authority inhow they make
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- all of their decisionsin their lives.
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- These people moved fromgroup three to group four
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- when they understoodthe truth of giving,
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- not just giving their finances,but giving their life away
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- to the kingdom of God.
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- Now also, this week I wasthinking about these
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- three truths and I remembereda Scripture, and remember,
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- all of this is overcomingthe enemy.
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- Mark 4, He's telling usthe enemy is going to try
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- to steal the Word from you,he's going to persecute you
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- for the Word, he's going totry to choke the Word,
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- but you need to accept the Word.
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- So, it's all aboutbattling the enemy here.
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- I want to show you a versethat shows these three truths.
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- Revelation 12:11 says,"And they overcame him",
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- that's the enemy, watch,"by the blood of the Lamb",
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- that's grace, "by the wordof their testimony",
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- that's God's Word,"and they did not love
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- their lives to the death",that's they gave their lives
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- away for the kingdom of God.
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- All right, so in Mark 4,we want to talk about this
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- second group now, those whoare beginning in God.
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- Again, I wish I had time toread the whole thing,
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- but look at Verses 16 and 17.
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- This is Jesus explaining it.
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- "These likewise are the onessown on stony ground,
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- who when they hear the Word,immediately receive it"...
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- these are people whohave received the Word
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- with gladness, "and they haveno root in themselves".
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- They have no root.
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- They're new in their faith.
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- "And so endureonly for a time.
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- Afterward, when tribulationor persecution arises
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- for the Word's sake",the enemy comes at them
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- for the Word's sake,"immediately they stumble".
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- So, I have two pointsfor you this week.
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- The first point is,what's Satan's plan?
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- It'd be good for us to knowwhat Satan's plan is.
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- All of these, remember,talk about the Word.
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- Satan, in group one, istrying to steal the word;
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- "Lest they believe and besaved"; we saw last week;
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- he's trying to persecutethem for the words sake,
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- bring tribulation.
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- He is trying to choke the word,that's next weekend's message.
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- The cares of this world,the deceitfulness of riches,
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- the cares for other things,choke this world -
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- choke the word.
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- And then the forth groupaccept the word.
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- So the battle is alwaysagainst the Word.
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- Look at Verse 4.
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- Mark 4:4, "It happened as hesowed that some seed fell
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- by the wayside, and the birdsof the air came
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- and devoured it".
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- Now, watch this.
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- "The birds of the air came."
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- And then they asked Him toexplain it, and in Verse 15
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- He explains that one verse.
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- He explains the whole parable,but this verse.
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- "These are the ones by thewayside where the Word is sown.
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- When they hear, Satan comesimmediately and takes away
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- the Word that was sownin their heart."
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- Now, let me just remind you thatthat shocked us last weekend,
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- that Satan could take theword out of your heart.
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- I'm going to show you latertoday how you can keep
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- Satan from taking the wordout of your heart;
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- there's a scripturethat tells us how, okay?
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- But, here's the point.
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- Satan is trying to takethe Word out of our hearts,
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- that's sown in our hearts,but when Jesus tells this,
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- he says "the birds of the air".
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- Now, when I was beginningin God, I was learning the Word.
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- I'm going to tell you somethings that helped me
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- to learn the Word of God.
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- What helped me to getexcited about the Word,
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- and to read the Word, was I sawthis parabolic language,
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- this symbolic language,all through the Bible.
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- All through the Bible.Remember, we talked last weekend
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- that Jesus spokein parables, right?
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- Okay, when you understandthat the book is all true,
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- but it has a lot of parabolic,a lot of symbolic language
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- in it, it's exciting touncover these meanings.
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- Let me say it another way:did Jesus speak in parables?
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- CONGREGATION: Yes.
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- ROBERT: Okay, John 5,Jesus said,
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- "I don't do anythingunless I first see
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- my Father do it".
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- Okay, Jesus spoke in parables,but He doesn't do anything
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- unless He first seesthe Father do it,
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- so here's a question for you.
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- When did He first seeHis Father do it?
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- In the Old Testament.
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- Now listen to me carefully.
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- The Old Testament's true.
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- It's completely true.
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- It's not a parable, it's true,but it has parabolic language
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- in it.
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- Let me show you a coupleof Scriptures.
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- Psalm 78:2 says, "I willopen my mouth in a parable".
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- This is the Old Testament.
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- "I will open my mouthin a parable."
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- Let me just show you one versethat is in the Old Testament
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- that is parabolic, alright?Watch: Ezekiel 30:21.
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- "Son of man, I have brokenthe arm of pharaoh
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- king of Egypt".
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- Okay, that's God talking.
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- Says, "thus says the Lord" -the Lord's talking to Ezekiel.
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- He said, I've brokenthe arm of pharaoh.
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- Okay, listen to me: God neverbroke his arm, physically.
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- He never broke his literal arm;we have no record of that.
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- It's not what He'stalking about.
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- He's speakingsymbolically, right?
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- He saying, "I've broken hispower , I broke his strength.
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- That's what I did."
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- God does this a lotthrough scripture.
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- Now, the reason I'm tellingyou this is because when
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- you begin to see it, it causesthis book to come alive
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- to you and just jumpoff the page.
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- This is a great thing whenyou're beginning in God.
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- Or even when you are growingin God, or close to God,
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- or God-centered; it's wonderfulto see these things
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- in Scripture.
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- So remember, here's onethat I'm going to show you.
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- Jesus said,"the birds of the air".
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- The birds come.
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- They said, well,who are the birds?
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- He said, well, that's Satan.
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- Now, when the Bible speaksof Satan, it's not always
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- talking about the person ofSatan only, it's talking about
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- the work of Satan,because a third of the angels
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- fell with him.
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- He has demonic spirits thatdo his work - spiritual hosts
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- of wickedness,principalities and powers,
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- all right?
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- So, demons.
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- Let me show you another versewhere it talks about birds,
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- and you'll see very clearlyit's talking about
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- demonic spirits.
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- Revelation 18:2 says,"And he cried mightily
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- with a loud voice, saying,"Babylon the great is fallen,
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- is fallen, and has becomea dwelling place of demons,
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- a prison for every foul spirit,and a cage for every unclean
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- and hated bird. "
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- Babylon is fallen,it's become a place of demons,
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- foul spirits, and birds.
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- Okay, that's not talkingabout literal birds.
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- It's talking about demons,demonic spirits.
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- And if you go back to Mark 4,Jesus said, now listen,
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- birds representthe demonic spirits.
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- Let me show youanother verse.
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- In Deuteronomy, it's talkingabout the blessings
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- and the curses.
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- He says if you follow me andobey me, these blessings are
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- going to come on you, but ifyou disobey me, these curses
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- are going to come on you,and listen to one of the curses.
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- Deuteronomy 28:26, "Yourcarcasses shall be food
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- for all the birds of the airand the beasts of the earth,
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- and no one shallfrighten them away".
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- Now again, think about it.
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- Mark 4, Jesus said the birdsof the air come.
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- They said, well,who are the birds there?
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- Well, that's Satan.That's who that is.
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- Jesus Himself said that.
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- So, when I was youngin the Lord,
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- and I'm reading in Deuteronomy,and He said, listen,
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- you walk away from me,and the birds of the air
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- are going to come after you,I thought,
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- I know whatthe birds of the air are.
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- I saw that in Mark 4.
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- And then it says beasts.
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- Birds and beasts are mentionedin the Old Testament
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- together 44 times,44 times.
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- And let me show you a versewhere it's obvious, again,
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- that beasts are talkingabout the demons,
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- the demonic spirits.
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- I'll show you.
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- This is a verse, it talksabout God's sheep
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- and God's shepherds.
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- Okay, He's not talking about- this is parabolic language.
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- I don't know of any Theologianthat would disagree with this.
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- He's not talking about literalsheep and literal Shepherds.
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- And if you want to know,"Well, how do you know
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- for sure that 'sheep' isreferring to God's people?"
- 00:12:14.015 --> 00:12:16.885
- Psalm 100 verse 3.
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- The Lord - you gothrough some 100,
- 00:12:21.723 --> 00:12:23.424
- but what does Psalm100 verse 3 say?
- 00:12:23.525 --> 00:12:25.360
- "We are the Sheepof His pasture."
- 00:12:25.460 --> 00:12:28.263
- John 10 tells usHe's the shepherd.
- 00:12:28.363 --> 00:12:31.900
- Corinthians tells us that wepastors are under Shepherds;
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- we shepherd with Him.
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- So He's not talking about
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- literal sheepand literal Shepherds,
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- He's talking aboutHis people and pastors.
- 00:12:38.640 --> 00:12:43.311
- Watch what happens when pastorsdon't feed His sheep, okay?
- 00:12:43.411 --> 00:12:46.681
- Ezekiel 34:5 said... it says,"They", that's talking about
- 00:12:46.781 --> 00:12:50.385
- the sheep, "were scatteredbecause there was no shepherd",
- 00:12:50.485 --> 00:12:53.454
- watch, "and they became foodfor all the beasts
- 00:12:53.555 --> 00:12:56.257
- of the field whenthey were scattered."
- 00:12:56.357 --> 00:12:59.260
- Now see, this is whatbothers me, is people will say,
- 00:12:59.360 --> 00:13:01.362
- now that says sheep.
- 00:13:01.462 --> 00:13:02.864
- That's not talking aboutreal sheep, that's talking
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- about people, God's people.
- 00:13:04.232 --> 00:13:05.867
- And it says shepherds.
- 00:13:05.967 --> 00:13:06.968
- That's not talking aboutreal shepherds,
- 00:13:07.068 --> 00:13:08.203
- it's talking about pastors.
- 00:13:08.303 --> 00:13:09.404
- But now, beasts of the field,that's lions and tigers.
- 00:13:09.504 --> 00:13:12.674
- No, that's not literal beasts,that's spiritual beasts.
- 00:13:12.774 --> 00:13:18.646
- There are spiritual beaststhat want to come after you,
- 00:13:18.746 --> 00:13:22.083
- and spiritual birds thatwant to come after you.
- 00:13:22.183 --> 00:13:25.220
- Genesis 3:1 says,"Now the serpent..."
- 00:13:25.320 --> 00:13:29.090
- -- okay, let meask you something.
- 00:13:29.190 --> 00:13:30.158
- Who's the serpent?
- 00:13:30.258 --> 00:13:32.060
- How do you know?
- 00:13:32.160 --> 00:13:35.763
- Well, we just know.
- 00:13:35.864 --> 00:13:39.601
- Okay, when I say somethingrepresents something,
- 00:13:39.701 --> 00:13:42.203
- I can give you a book,chapter, and verse.
- 00:13:42.303 --> 00:13:44.639
- I'll never tell you thisrepresents this without
- 00:13:44.739 --> 00:13:47.175
- giving you a book,chapter, and verse.
- 00:13:47.275 --> 00:13:48.576
- Revelation 12:9 says,"So the great dragon
- 00:13:48.676 --> 00:13:51.546
- was cast out, that serpent ofold called the Devil and Satan".
- 00:13:51.646 --> 00:13:56.351
- Okay, so we know.
- 00:13:56.451 --> 00:13:58.753
- Obviously, we know thatit was Satan,
- 00:13:58.853 --> 00:14:00.588
- So here's what I'm asking you.
- 00:14:00.688 --> 00:14:01.923
- We assign a spiritualmeaning to serpent.
- 00:14:02.023 --> 00:14:04.993
- We say that'stalking about Satan.
- 00:14:05.093 --> 00:14:07.462
- Is it possible there's anotherspiritual meaning in the verse?
- 00:14:07.562 --> 00:14:10.899
- Remember there are alsoother fallen angels,
- 00:14:10.999 --> 00:14:12.667
- demonic spirits.
- 00:14:12.767 --> 00:14:13.768
- Watch the rest of the verse,Genesis 3:1.
- 00:14:13.868 --> 00:14:16.738
- "Now the serpent was morecunning than any beast
- 00:14:16.838 --> 00:14:20.341
- of the field whichthe Lord God had made."
- 00:14:20.441 --> 00:14:24.212
- Is it possible thatthat is saying,
- 00:14:24.312 --> 00:14:26.347
- in the spiritual language,Satan is the most cunning
- 00:14:26.447 --> 00:14:29.817
- of all of the fallen angels?
- 00:14:29.918 --> 00:14:33.588
- I'm telling you, there's a lotin this book we haven't seen.
- 00:14:33.688 --> 00:14:36.925
- It's amazing.
- 00:14:37.025 --> 00:14:39.560
- When Jesus was in the wildernessbeing tempted 40 days,
- 00:14:39.661 --> 00:14:43.331
- Satan was there tempting Him.
- 00:14:43.431 --> 00:14:45.333
- The angels the good angels werethere, ministering to Him.
- 00:14:45.433 --> 00:14:47.835
- Do you think it's possible thatthe demons, the Fallen Angels,
- 00:14:47.936 --> 00:14:51.239
- were also there,attacking Him?
- 00:14:51.339 --> 00:14:53.174
- Watch this verse becauseit doesn't make any sense to me,
- 00:14:53.274 --> 00:14:56.844
- unless you see spirituallanguage in the Bible.
- 00:14:56.945 --> 00:14:59.580
- Mark 1:12 and 13.
- 00:14:59.681 --> 00:15:01.582
- "Immediatelythe Spirit drove Him..."
- 00:15:01.683 --> 00:15:03.518
- -- Jesus --"...into the wilderness.
- 00:15:03.618 --> 00:15:04.752
- And He was there inthe wilderness 40 days,
- 00:15:04.852 --> 00:15:07.388
- tempted by Satan,and was with the wild beasts;
- 00:15:07.488 --> 00:15:14.629
- and the angelsministered to Him."
- 00:15:14.729 --> 00:15:19.000
- Okay, I don't think that'stalking about lions and bears.
- 00:15:19.100 --> 00:15:22.503
- The one who could stopthe mouths of lions,
- 00:15:22.603 --> 00:15:25.540
- he wouldn't tell us, "Now therewere also lions and bears there,
- 00:15:25.640 --> 00:15:27.642
- and Jesus had to hide sometimesand climb trees, and all."
- 00:15:27.742 --> 00:15:32.981
- No; it means the hordesof hell were there,
- 00:15:33.081 --> 00:15:36.718
- the principalities and Powersand the spiritual hosts
- 00:15:36.818 --> 00:15:39.253
- of wickedness,they were all there
- 00:15:39.354 --> 00:15:42.090
- trying to comeagainst the son of God.
- 00:15:42.190 --> 00:15:45.259
- But it tells usthey were wild beasts.
- 00:15:45.360 --> 00:15:47.996
- Okay, let me just showyou a couple more.
- 00:15:48.096 --> 00:15:50.098
- These are things thatjumped out at me
- 00:15:50.198 --> 00:15:51.499
- when I was beginning in God,all right?
- 00:15:51.599 --> 00:15:53.868
- Shows me -it caused the Bible -
- 00:15:53.968 --> 00:15:56.204
- everyday I couldn't wait to readthe Bible to see what else
- 00:15:56.304 --> 00:15:58.239
- was in there that I didn't know,that I had never heard of.
- 00:15:58.339 --> 00:16:01.843
- Isaiah 4:1 says, "And inthat day seven women shall
- 00:16:01.943 --> 00:16:06.414
- take hold of one man, saying,"We will eat our own food
- 00:16:06.514 --> 00:16:10.084
- and wear our own apparel,only let us be called
- 00:16:10.184 --> 00:16:13.354
- by your name to take awayour reproach".
- 00:16:13.454 --> 00:16:16.724
- Now, didn't that bless you?[laughter]
- 00:16:16.824 --> 00:16:19.861
- But when you understandthere are types and shadows
- 00:16:19.961 --> 00:16:21.629
- in the Bible,women represent churches.
- 00:16:21.729 --> 00:16:26.100
- The church is the bride,not the groom,
- 00:16:26.200 --> 00:16:29.070
- the bride of Christ.
- 00:16:29.170 --> 00:16:31.706
- And all through Scripture,women will represent churches,
- 00:16:31.806 --> 00:16:34.742
- and I could show youlots of verses on that.
- 00:16:34.842 --> 00:16:37.178
- And in Revelation, Chapters2 and 3, it talks about
- 00:16:37.278 --> 00:16:41.215
- seven women -seven churches.
- 00:16:41.315 --> 00:16:45.686
- And those seven churchesrepresent the end time church.
- 00:16:45.787 --> 00:16:50.792
- The Bible also talks aboutthe one man, the new man,
- 00:16:50.892 --> 00:16:53.861
- the new Adam - Jesus.
- 00:16:53.961 --> 00:16:55.129
- Now, watch this.
- 00:16:55.229 --> 00:16:56.364
- Is it possible that this iswhat this verse is saying,
- 00:16:56.464 --> 00:16:58.399
- symbolically?
- 00:16:58.499 --> 00:16:59.967
- "And in that day"...all right,this is Isaiah.
- 00:17:00.068 --> 00:17:01.769
- Now, Isaiah, when he says that,"in that day",
- 00:17:01.869 --> 00:17:03.504
- he's talking aboutthe last days.
- 00:17:03.604 --> 00:17:05.073
- And in the end times,the churches, lots of churches,
- 00:17:05.173 --> 00:17:08.643
- they're going to take holdof one man, Jesus,
- 00:17:08.743 --> 00:17:11.979
- but they're going to say to Him,let us eat our own food.
- 00:17:12.080 --> 00:17:18.086
- Let us teach ourown doctrines.
- 00:17:18.186 --> 00:17:20.221
- And let us wearour own apparel.
- 00:17:20.321 --> 00:17:22.590
- Apparel, clothes, always haveto do with righteousness.
- 00:17:22.690 --> 00:17:24.659
- He's clothed us withHis righteousness.
- 00:17:24.759 --> 00:17:27.328
- Let us have our ownform of righteousness.
- 00:17:27.428 --> 00:17:29.530
- Let us teach our own doctrines,and let us have our own form
- 00:17:29.630 --> 00:17:32.066
- of righteousness, but let usstill be called by your name
- 00:17:32.166 --> 00:17:35.103
- to take away our reproach.
- 00:17:35.203 --> 00:17:38.706
- We still want to be Christians,but the culture's changing, God.
- 00:17:38.806 --> 00:17:42.410
- You've got to understandthat what was wrong
- 00:17:42.510 --> 00:17:44.912
- 40 years ago, it's right today.
- 00:17:45.012 --> 00:17:47.014
- It's not right.
- 00:17:47.115 --> 00:17:47.915
- It's still wrong.
- 00:17:48.015 --> 00:17:49.851
- It's still wrong.[applause]
- 00:17:49.951 --> 00:17:57.058
- Leviticus 26:26, "When I havecut off your supply of bread"...
- 00:17:57.158 --> 00:18:01.562
- now, you ought to alreadybe thinking,
- 00:18:01.662 --> 00:18:02.997
- what's bread represent?
- 00:18:03.097 --> 00:18:04.599
- Bread representsthe Word of God.
- 00:18:04.699 --> 00:18:06.167
- "Man shall not live by breadalone, but by every Word
- 00:18:06.267 --> 00:18:07.969
- that proceeds out ofthe mouth of God."
- 00:18:08.069 --> 00:18:09.570
- Bread, all through Scripture,represents the Word of God.
- 00:18:09.670 --> 00:18:11.472
- "Give us this dayour daily bread."
- 00:18:11.572 --> 00:18:13.641
- Give me a Wordfrom you today, God.
- 00:18:13.741 --> 00:18:15.576
- "When I cut off", this is whenthey've walked away from God.
- 00:18:15.676 --> 00:18:19.080
- I'm going to cut offyour revelation.
- 00:18:19.180 --> 00:18:20.681
- "When I cut off your supplyof bread, ten women shall
- 00:18:20.781 --> 00:18:24.085
- bake your bread in one oven,and they shall bring back
- 00:18:24.185 --> 00:18:27.188
- your bread by weight,and you shall eat it
- 00:18:27.288 --> 00:18:29.590
- and not be satisfied."
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- Okay, is it possiblehere's what He's saying?
- 00:18:30.892 --> 00:18:32.293
- When you walk away from me,when the church starts
- 00:18:32.393 --> 00:18:34.295
- walking away from me andhaving their own form
- 00:18:34.395 --> 00:18:36.130
- of righteousness, their ownform of holiness,
- 00:18:36.230 --> 00:18:38.466
- I'm cutting off your revelation.
- 00:18:38.566 --> 00:18:40.735
- I'm going to makeit dry for you.
- 00:18:40.835 --> 00:18:41.969
- When I do this, lots ofdifferent churches are going to
- 00:18:42.069 --> 00:18:45.273
- prepare your Sunday schoollessons in one place.
- 00:18:45.373 --> 00:18:49.377
- They're going to bake your breadin one oven,
- 00:18:49.477 --> 00:18:51.145
- and they're going to bring itback to you and measure it
- 00:18:51.245 --> 00:18:52.947
- out by weight.
- 00:18:53.047 --> 00:18:54.282
- They're going to give you abouttwo to three verses a week,
- 00:18:54.382 --> 00:18:55.917
- and you'll eat it,and you'll not be satisfied.
- 00:18:56.017 --> 00:19:00.254
- You won't be satisfied.
- 00:19:00.354 --> 00:19:01.289
- Have you ever been ina church like that?
- 00:19:01.389 --> 00:19:02.823
- You open up your Sunday schoolbook and you think,
- 00:19:02.924 --> 00:19:04.325
- we only get three Scripturesthis week.
- 00:19:04.425 --> 00:19:06.794
- That's all we getfor the whole week.
- 00:19:06.894 --> 00:19:10.364
- Are you all following me?
- 00:19:10.464 --> 00:19:12.567
- There might be some thingsin this book you haven't seen,
- 00:19:12.667 --> 00:19:15.603
- and I haven't seen,and this is a good book,
- 00:19:15.703 --> 00:19:18.406
- by the way.
- 00:19:18.506 --> 00:19:19.740
- It was written by a genius.
- 00:19:19.840 --> 00:19:21.776
- Did you all know that?
- 00:19:21.876 --> 00:19:24.145
- Smarter than me,smarter than you.
- 00:19:24.245 --> 00:19:26.314
- All right, here's number two.
- 00:19:26.414 --> 00:19:27.815
- Well, what's God's plan?
- 00:19:27.915 --> 00:19:30.184
- If Satan's plan is to keepus away from this book,
- 00:19:30.284 --> 00:19:32.119
- what's God's plan?
- 00:19:32.220 --> 00:19:33.087
- Well, Mark 4:20,if you're still in Mark 4.
- 00:19:33.187 --> 00:19:36.290
- It says, "These are the onessown on good ground,
- 00:19:36.390 --> 00:19:38.759
- those who hear the Word,accept it, and bear fruit".
- 00:19:38.859 --> 00:19:41.696
- I'm going to tellyou real simple.
- 00:19:41.796 --> 00:19:43.030
- God would like foryou to bear fruit.
- 00:19:43.130 --> 00:19:45.533
- He'd like for you to besuccessful in your marriage,
- 00:19:45.633 --> 00:19:47.501
- in your family, in your health,in your finances,
- 00:19:47.602 --> 00:19:49.403
- in your business.
- 00:19:49.503 --> 00:19:50.504
- He wants you - you wantyour children to succeed?
- 00:19:50.605 --> 00:19:53.741
- He wants you to have a goodlife and enjoy your life;
- 00:19:53.841 --> 00:19:56.410
- He created all ofthis for you to enjoy.
- 00:19:56.510 --> 00:19:58.346
- He really did.
- 00:19:58.446 --> 00:19:59.780
- But the only way you'regoing to bear fruit,
- 00:19:59.880 --> 00:20:01.849
- have a good life,a prosperous successful life,
- 00:20:01.949 --> 00:20:04.952
- is if you accept the Word.
- 00:20:05.052 --> 00:20:07.822
- That's it.
- 00:20:07.922 --> 00:20:08.756
- You've got to knowthe Word of God.
- 00:20:08.856 --> 00:20:10.157
- That's what He's saying here.
- 00:20:10.258 --> 00:20:11.392
- Now, we talked lastweek about friendship,
- 00:20:11.492 --> 00:20:13.961
- and we compared thisto God becoming your friend,
- 00:20:14.061 --> 00:20:17.298
- God becoming your best friend,and then God becoming
- 00:20:17.398 --> 00:20:19.467
- that lifelong spouse thatyou'll die for, okay?
- 00:20:19.567 --> 00:20:22.670
- Listen to me, if you don't spendthree, four, five, six, seven
- 00:20:22.770 --> 00:20:26.274
- hours studying this bookoutside of the one hour
- 00:20:26.374 --> 00:20:29.710
- you spend in church every week,you're not going to make it.
- 00:20:29.810 --> 00:20:33.814
- Because you got birds and beesthat are coming after you,
- 00:20:33.914 --> 00:20:37.351
- they are coming after you.
- 00:20:37.451 --> 00:20:38.386
- You got to know this book.
- 00:20:38.486 --> 00:20:40.254
- So I want you to understand -God's plan is for you
- 00:20:40.354 --> 00:20:44.125
- to bear fruit, but the only wayfor you to bear fruit
- 00:20:44.225 --> 00:20:47.128
- is to accept the word,to understand the word,
- 00:20:47.228 --> 00:20:48.996
- to believe the word.
- 00:20:49.096 --> 00:20:50.131
- We read last weekendand we read in this Parable:
- 00:20:50.231 --> 00:20:52.266
- Satan's trying to steal the wordout of your heart.
- 00:20:52.366 --> 00:20:56.871
- Is there a way that we couldkeep him from stealing the word
- 00:20:56.971 --> 00:21:00.741
- out of our heart?
- 00:21:00.841 --> 00:21:01.942
- Real famous scripture.
- 00:21:02.043 --> 00:21:03.577
- Psalm 119:11, "Your WordI have hidden in my heart,
- 00:21:03.678 --> 00:21:13.988
- that I might not sin",that I might not stumble.
- 00:21:14.088 --> 00:21:17.692
- Remember?
- 00:21:17.792 --> 00:21:19.193
- "When persecution arises,they stumble."
- 00:21:19.293 --> 00:21:21.195
- They fall.
- 00:21:21.295 --> 00:21:22.196
- They sin.
- 00:21:22.296 --> 00:21:23.331
- "Your Word I have hiddenin my heart",
- 00:21:23.431 --> 00:21:25.166
- so the enemy can't take itout of my heart.
- 00:21:25.266 --> 00:21:27.501
- Okay, very simple,how do you hide God's Word?
- 00:21:27.601 --> 00:21:30.071
- Two words.
- 00:21:30.171 --> 00:21:31.906
- The scriptural word, meditate.
- 00:21:32.006 --> 00:21:34.141
- A word to help us understandmeditate - memorize.
- 00:21:34.241 --> 00:21:37.678
- I don't have time to read them,but Joshua 1 and Psalm 1.
- 00:21:37.778 --> 00:21:42.883
- In Psalm 1, "The man whomeditates on the Word of God
- 00:21:42.983 --> 00:21:44.919
- is like a green tree plantedby the water,
- 00:21:45.019 --> 00:21:46.887
- bears fruit in season".
- 00:21:46.987 --> 00:21:48.789
- Joshua 1, "You meditate onthis Word day and night that
- 00:21:48.889 --> 00:21:51.192
- you may prosper and havegood success in everything
- 00:21:51.292 --> 00:21:53.060
- you do".
- 00:21:53.160 --> 00:21:53.894
- You meditate, memorize it.
- 00:21:53.994 --> 00:21:55.529
- Memorize it.
- 00:21:55.629 --> 00:21:57.331
- When I was beginning in God,I started memorizing Scripture.
- 00:21:57.431 --> 00:22:02.169
- Last April, most of you werehere then and you know,
- 00:22:02.269 --> 00:22:07.274
- I went to Australia.
- 00:22:07.375 --> 00:22:09.510
- They gave me some migraineheadache medicine
- 00:22:09.610 --> 00:22:13.748
- that caused internal bleeding.
- 00:22:13.848 --> 00:22:15.549
- It caused internal bleedingin a major artery.
- 00:22:15.649 --> 00:22:18.819
- I lost a third of my blood,over a third of my blood,
- 00:22:18.919 --> 00:22:23.157
- in less than 24 hours.
- 00:22:23.257 --> 00:22:24.525
- I was bleeding to death.
- 00:22:24.625 --> 00:22:25.426
- They took me to the hospital.
- 00:22:25.526 --> 00:22:27.661
- I was in the waiting room,and I passed out.
- 00:22:27.762 --> 00:22:30.264
- When the doctor's telling youhow much blood you've lost,
- 00:22:30.364 --> 00:22:32.600
- and you know it,and you feel it...I mean,
- 00:22:32.700 --> 00:22:34.168
- I felt like I was dyingwhen I passed out.
- 00:22:34.268 --> 00:22:35.803
- I had no control.I was gone.
- 00:22:35.903 --> 00:22:37.705
- And to wake up and knowI'm still alive,
- 00:22:37.805 --> 00:22:39.607
- and then the doctor tells you,you know, you were about to die,
- 00:22:39.707 --> 00:22:41.976
- and we've got thebleeding stopped.
- 00:22:42.076 --> 00:22:43.844
- But then, you know,the doctor is gone,
- 00:22:43.944 --> 00:22:45.980
- Debbie had to go.
- 00:22:46.080 --> 00:22:47.348
- They wouldn't let her stayat the hospital.
- 00:22:47.448 --> 00:22:49.183
- And in the middle of the night,the enemy's attacking.
- 00:22:49.283 --> 00:22:52.052
- Death?I mean, I don't know.
- 00:22:52.153 --> 00:22:53.821
- I don't know if they've gotthis bleeding stopped
- 00:22:53.921 --> 00:22:55.089
- or it's going to start again.
- 00:22:55.189 --> 00:22:56.357
- And I started having fear,and I remembered the Word.
- 00:22:56.457 --> 00:22:59.693
- I thought, I need the Word.
- 00:22:59.794 --> 00:23:01.195
- And so, I started quotingScripture, and I remember
- 00:23:01.295 --> 00:23:04.532
- starting at Genesis andthinking of every Scripture
- 00:23:04.632 --> 00:23:06.867
- in Genesis I could remember,and then Exodus,
- 00:23:06.967 --> 00:23:09.437
- and then Leviticus,and then Numbers.
- 00:23:09.537 --> 00:23:10.838
- When I got to Ezekiel,I remembered a Scripture,
- 00:23:10.938 --> 00:23:13.274
- and I remember whenI got to Ezekiel,
- 00:23:13.374 --> 00:23:14.809
- I remembered the Scripture,and then I thought...
- 00:23:14.909 --> 00:23:17.278
- I have my phone with me, and Ihave my Bible in my phone.
- 00:23:17.378 --> 00:23:23.951
- I don't know why I didn'tthink of that before, but...
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- and I think it wasbecause God actually wanted me
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- to go back to my heart,you know?
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- But, I got my Bible and Ilooked it up, and I want to
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- show you this verse that theLord brought back to my mind
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- that I had hiddenin my heart.
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- And you think about whatthis verse should mean to you
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- if you were told thatyou might die,
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- and you were strugglingwith a blood issue.
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- Ezekiel 16:6 says, "And whenI passed by you and saw you
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- struggling in your own blood,I said to you in your blood,
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- "Live. "
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- Yes, I said to you inyour blood, "Live. "
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- [applause]
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- This is the only thingthat will help you.
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- I can preachmy heart out to you,
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- but if you don't get in thisbook, I can't help you.
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- ROBERT: God wants tospeak to you today.
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- I want you to hear that.
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- And one of the primary waysthat God speaks to us
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- is He causes the Scriptureto come alive to us.
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- I want you to make a commitmenttoday to read God's Word
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- every day.
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- And if you miss a day,don't feel bad about it,
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- don't condemn yourself,just pick it up again
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- the next day or the next chanceyou have.
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- But get in a habit of readingGod's Word every day,
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- because I promise you,the Holy Spirit will speak
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- to you, and those Scriptureswill go deeply into your heart,
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- and will take root and will bearfruit in your life.
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- Satan's plan is to keepyou out of God's Word.
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- God's plan is for youto have a life
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- and to have it more abundantly,but He does that through us
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- knowing His Word.
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- "You shall know the truth,and the truth
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- shall make you free."
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- Hey, we're going to continuethis series next week.
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- I'll see you then.
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- ANNOUNCER: The Christian lifeisn't a destination,
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- it's a journey.
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- A journey to purpose, power,and productivity
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- in God's Kingdom.
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- In this, "You Are Here" series,Pastor Robert
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- takes a practical lookat four specific milestones
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- that we encounterin our journey:
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- Fellowship, relationship,discipleship, and lordship.
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- As you discover the natureof these milestones,
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- you'll come to identifyprecisely where you are
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- on this growth path,and more importantly,
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- how to get to your destination;God's highest and best
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- for your life.
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- Pastor Robert explainsthe pitfalls that we face
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- in each seasonof our journey,
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- and he offers practicaland biblical steps
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- to help us continueto move forward.
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- The spiritual truths whichhe shares will encourage
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- and strengthen you, as younavigate life's ups and downs.
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- We want you to have a copyof this life-changing series
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- to watch again, orto share with friends.
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- We're only given onelifetime to steward,
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- so don't spend yoursstuck at one level
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- or wandering aimlessly.
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- It's time to move forwardin your walk with the Lord.
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- Be sure to call or visit usonline at PastorRobert.com
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- to request your copyof the series, today.
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- And while you're there,please take a moment to share
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- our many other resourcesthat will help you grow
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- in your walk with the Lord.
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- We look forward to hearingfrom you, and as always,
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- thank you foryour generous support of
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- ♪ ♪
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- Living your best life isn'tabout having a dream home,
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- wonderful kids,or the ideal job.
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- It's about changesin your family, heath,
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- and relationships.
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- When God changes your heart,you'll discover that
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- there is so muchmore to life.
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- With humor, passion,and clarity,
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- Pastor Robert presents
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- the secrets of livingyour best life.
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- ♪ ♪
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