Spring Camp Meeting 2017

Has God Predestined Whom He will Save?

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Participants: James Rafferty

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00:14 Welcome to 3ABN Spring Camp Meeting, 2017,
00:18 Exposing the Counterfeit.
00:24 Hello, and welcome to 3ABN 2017 Spring Camp Meeting
00:29 where we are exposing the counterfeit.
00:32 You know, I had somebody once tell me
00:34 that the way that they train bank tellers
00:36 to recognize counterfeit money
00:39 is they show them the genuine.
00:40 They get them so familiar with the genuine
00:43 that anything outside of that genuine dollar bill
00:48 is the counterfeit
00:50 and the same is true for the truth.
00:51 Anything that is not 100% truth is counterfeit.
00:56 And one of the great things
00:57 that's going on here at camp meeting is,
01:00 we are taking a look at the truth,
01:03 we are studying the truth, we are focusing on the truth,
01:06 and so you will be able to recognize the counterfeit
01:09 from a mile away.
01:11 Amen. Amen.
01:13 We are so glad that you are here with us,
01:15 and if this is your first time,
01:18 make sure you go on our website, www.3abn.tv
01:24 to find out how you can get any of the DVDs of the sermons
01:27 that you have missed.
01:29 We have a wonderful speaker today
01:33 who is Pastor James Rafferty.
01:36 Pastor Rafferty became a follower of Jesus Christ
01:38 at 21
01:40 and sensed early on
01:41 God's call to preach the good news
01:43 of a crucified and risen savior.
01:45 Since that initial urging,
01:48 the Holy Spirit has opened doors for him
01:50 to share God's incomparable love
01:53 in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East,
01:57 Australia, and all over America.
02:02 In addition to his preaching ministry,
02:04 he also conducts seminars on the Books of Daniel
02:08 and Revelation for pastors and laity alike.
02:12 And he is the host of Salvation in Symbols and Signs.
02:15 How many of you have seen Salvation in Symbols and Signs?
02:18 Oh, amen.
02:20 Praise the Lord.
02:21 He's also featured as one of the pastors on table talk
02:25 along with the other pastors
02:27 from his Light Bearers ministry.
02:29 Pastor Rafferty is married to his wife of 27 years, Rise,
02:34 and has two children, Jeiel and Kierra.
02:39 They enjoy gardening
02:40 and love to spend hot days on the lake.
02:44 After special music by Celestine Barry,
02:46 the next voice you will hear
02:48 will be that of Pastor Rafferty.
02:50 Amen. Amen.
03:24 It's not Your fault
03:28 I won't blame You
03:33 Even though
03:35 You didn't make the mountain move
03:41 You must've known
03:45 That in time
03:50 I'd get so much closer to You
03:54 As I climb
03:59 Because You gave me strength
04:02 When I was weak
04:07 Because You never lost
04:10 Your faith in me
04:13 I love You more
04:17 Than I did before
04:21 'Cause when I needed You
04:25 You were there to pull me through
04:29 I love You still
04:32 Though I don't understand Your will
04:38 Because You've been so faithful to me, Lord
04:44 I love You more
04:53 Without some rain nothing would grow
05:00 Without some pain how would we ever know
05:07 That our tears break Your heart
05:11 And that's when You hurt the most
05:17 I'm finding every time You hold me close
05:24 I love You more than I did before
05:31 'Cause when I needed You
05:35 You were there to pull me through
05:40 I love You still
05:42 Though I don't understand Your will
05:48 Because You've been so faithful to me, Lord
05:54 I love You more
06:08 I love You more
06:12 Than I did before
06:16 'Cause when I needed You
06:20 You were there to pull me through
06:24 I love You still
06:27 Though I don't understand Your will
06:33 Because You've been so faithful to me, Lord
06:40 Because You've been so faithful to me
06:45 Lord
06:50 I love You more
07:19 Amen. Amen.
07:22 Good day, mates.
07:26 That's Australian.
07:29 It means hi.
07:36 Let's open our Bibles this morning.
07:38 I have two Bibles with me this morning.
07:41 I have my phone Bible,
07:44 you know, the newest technology, right?
07:47 And then I have this Bible,
07:49 I don't know if you guys remember these Bibles.
07:52 Yeah.
07:53 Now the phone Bibles are really, really cool
07:57 because I have a strong concordance built in,
08:00 and I can just press on the words
08:02 and I get all of the, you know, the Greek or the Hebrew
08:04 and I can do a lot of research.
08:06 But there are some benefits to my older Bible too.
08:11 It has removable pages.
08:15 Now in order to have removal pages
08:17 in an older Bible,
08:18 you have to really use it a lot,
08:20 you have to use it well.
08:21 And the page that's removable in my old Bible
08:25 just happens to be the verse
08:27 that we're going to be looking at,
08:28 it's in Revelation 13.
08:31 Revelation 13 is where we're going to go.
08:34 Now the reason why I'm speaking Australian
08:36 because I just returned from the Gold Coast
08:39 where we have our three month Arise Discipleship program.
08:43 And it was really a blessing.
08:46 I was there for two weeks.
08:48 And in one of those two weeks,
08:50 I covered the Book of Revelation.
08:52 And that's where we're going to start our study right now
08:54 on this subject of predestination
08:56 or predestined in Christ
08:58 in the Book of Revelation.
09:00 I was there for two weeks.
09:01 And by the way, it was really amazing.
09:03 There were two people in the class
09:05 for the last two weeks.
09:07 They weren't there for the whole school,
09:08 for the last two weeks.
09:09 One was a heroin addict,
09:11 and one was a physics professor,
09:12 an atheist physics professor
09:14 and both of them accepted Jesus Christ
09:17 and their lives were transformed.
09:18 It was amazing. It was amazing grace.
09:21 It was amazing grace.
09:22 So by the way,
09:24 our next Arise School is beginning in August,
09:27 August 22 right here in the United States.
09:29 It's not the Australia Arise,
09:31 it's the US Arise in Eugene, Oregon.
09:34 So August 22, it's a 13 week program
09:37 and your lives will never be the same again
09:40 if you attend that program
09:42 or you know someone who needs to attend that program,
09:44 it's a great discipleship program.
09:46 So here it is, Revelation 13:8.
09:48 It's just a short line of scripture.
09:51 Let's read it here, Revelation 13:8.
09:54 It says, "And all that dwell upon the earth
09:59 shall worship him
10:01 whose names are not written in the book of life
10:06 of the Lamb slain
10:08 from the foundation of the world."
10:11 Did you catch the thought?
10:13 It's not the one about the earth worshiping the beast.
10:18 It's not the one about the Lamb's book of life.
10:21 The thought that I'm referring to here is the phrase,
10:26 "The Lamb that was slain
10:28 from the foundation of the world."
10:31 That's the phrase.
10:33 Have you ever stopped to ponder just what that means?
10:36 I mean, have you ever considered
10:38 all that it implies.
10:39 Now we know that it doesn't mean
10:41 that Jesus was literally slain
10:45 at the foundation of the world.
10:48 The Bible is very clear
10:49 that Jesus came into this world 2000 years ago.
10:52 And it was at that time that He was slain
10:55 or He died for our sins.
10:58 We find that in 1 Peter 1:18-20,
11:03 let's just look at those verses also,
11:04 1 Peter 1:18-20 because this is going to really help us
11:08 to lay the foundation for our topic this morning.
11:11 And by the way, if you haven't figured it out yet,
11:13 I am not Steve Wohlberg,
11:15 and we are not talking about Peter and the Rock.
11:17 Now Steve and I have been friends for 25 years.
11:19 We were both trained together
11:21 in the WestPoint School Evangelism.
11:24 And Mark Finley, and Don Gray, and George Vandeman,
11:26 and Ken Cox, and many others in 1992,
11:31 and we've been friends ever since.
11:32 And Steve like myself, we have a lot of things in common.
11:35 He has one wife, I have one wife.
11:37 He has two kids, I have two kids.
11:39 He has a boy, I have a boy.
11:40 He has a girl, I have a girl.
11:43 And we both love the Lord very, very, much.
11:46 And he will be here,
11:47 he arrived last night at three in the morning,
11:49 asked if I could fill in for him
11:51 because he needed a little sleep
11:52 and I said, "Absolutely, 100% you bet."
11:56 So he will be here, praise God.
11:58 1 Timothy 1:18-20, "For as much..."
12:03 Excuse me, 1 Peter 1:18-20, just making sure you're awake,
12:07 I heard a few mumblings there, right.
12:10 I'm going to run you around on the Bible too much,
12:11 "For as much as you know that you were not redeemed
12:14 with corruptible things,
12:16 as silver and gold,
12:17 from your vain conversation
12:19 received by tradition from your fathers.
12:20 But with the precious blood of Christ,
12:23 as of a lamb without blemish and without spot
12:27 who verily was foreordained
12:30 before the foundation of the world,
12:32 but was manifest in these last times for you."
12:37 So here we see that Christ was foreordained
12:41 or ordained ahead of time to be our sacrifice,
12:45 the sacrifice for sins.
12:47 This means that as soon as there was sin,
12:49 there was a savior.
12:52 Amen.
12:54 Jesus was set apart to be our substitute,
12:57 and surety from the very beginning
13:00 of earth's creation.
13:02 In that sense, He was the Lamb slain
13:05 from the foundation of the world.
13:08 Titus 1:2 and 3 also says that, write that down in your notes.
13:11 We're going to be looking at a lot of Bible verses,
13:13 a lot of scripture
13:14 because we want our foundation to be in the Word of God, amen.
13:17 Amen.
13:18 So Christ was promised to us by God
13:22 before the world began
13:24 and manifest it in due time,
13:28 that is at the set time or the ordained time.
13:31 God foresaw the fall
13:33 and He saw sin entering our planet.
13:36 He did not want us to sin.
13:39 He didn't want mankind to fall under the power of evil
13:42 but He knew that we could.
13:44 And in love, He made provision for the possibility.
13:49 So Jesus, God's only begotten Son,
13:52 volunteered to step down from the throne of heaven
13:54 and to come to our rescue.
13:56 Praise God.
13:59 So in this way,
14:00 Christ was predestined to be our savior,
14:05 predestined.
14:06 Predestination is a pretty big word, isn't it?
14:09 Predestination, what does it mean?
14:11 Well, it simply means to decide ahead of time.
14:14 Predestination, to predetermine,
14:16 to decide ahead of time.
14:18 The Bible is quite clear
14:19 on the subject of predestination.
14:21 First, it teaches,
14:25 as it applies to our savior Jesus Christ,
14:27 that He was predestined to come to our rescue,
14:32 foreordained as the Lamb of God
14:34 slain from the foundation of the world.
14:38 This we have clearly seen in the verses we've looked at.
14:41 Second, God's word teaches predestination
14:45 as it applies to the subjects of this great love.
14:50 In other words, God has predestined us
14:54 to eternal salvation.
14:57 But who you may wonder, is the us.
15:01 And this will be the consideration
15:04 of the rest of our study.
15:06 So I heard my first sermon on predestination
15:09 while I was scanning my car radio
15:11 in a place known as the Bible Belt.
15:16 I was actually on my way to 3ABN camp meeting,
15:20 not this one.
15:22 I was in Southern Illinois.
15:24 And, you know, it's not hard to find a Christian station
15:26 in Southern Illinois,
15:28 not when you're in the Bible Belt.
15:29 So the issue that I had
15:31 was not finding a Christian station issue,
15:33 I had was, "Well, which one do I want to listen to?"
15:35 And as I was cruising through the different stations,
15:39 I came upon one that caught my interest.
15:42 Two men were speaking about the subject of predestination.
15:48 Now I had heard the ideas that they were proclaiming
15:53 with lots of enthusiasm.
15:55 I had heard about these ideas before,
15:57 but I had never actually heard someone preaching them.
16:02 The ideas that they were preaching was
16:03 that God has predetermined certain people to be saved
16:08 and God has predetermined certain people to be lost,
16:11 and there is nothing that can be done about that.
16:14 People are going to be saved, they gonna be saved,
16:16 people are going to be lost, they gonna be lost.
16:17 If you're predetermined to be saved,
16:19 you're not going to be lost.
16:20 And if you're predetermined to be lost,
16:21 you're not going to be saved.
16:23 And there's nothing that God, or Christ, or angels,
16:26 or preachers can do to change that,
16:28 it's predetermined.
16:31 I couldn't believe what I was hearing.
16:34 And I started thinking about the idea
16:36 that these men along with many other people
16:41 also believe the idea
16:44 that when you die, lost,
16:50 you go to a place
16:51 where you are going to burn for all eternity.
16:55 You're going to suffer in the flames of torment
16:59 for eternity.
17:01 And I thought in my mind, "Now wait a minute,
17:02 this is overwhelming!"
17:04 In fact, tears began, my eyes began to leak
17:09 as I thought about these two doctrines
17:12 and the ideas that they were presenting
17:13 because think about it if you will.
17:16 The idea is that God has predetermined
17:21 certain individuals to burn in eternity,
17:27 to burn in hell for all eternity
17:28 and there's nothing anyone can do about that,
17:31 that's just the way it is.
17:34 In my mind, I don't think it is possible to misrepresent
17:39 the character of God any more than that.
17:43 It is no wonder
17:46 that with ideas like this
17:47 floating around the Christian church,
17:49 atheists, and Buddhists, and Muslims, and Hindus,
17:52 and deists, and agnostics,
17:55 and any person with any sense
17:57 would not want anything to do with God in the Bible.
18:04 It's no surprise to me
18:06 that people don't want Christianity
18:09 when Christianity is formulating and proclaiming
18:12 those kinds of ideas.
18:14 And so I think it is important.
18:15 I think it's vital, you might think this morning,
18:17 "Well, you know, counterfeiting the counterfeit.
18:21 Is that what it is, counterfeiting the counterfeit,
18:23 what is it?"
18:24 Exposing the counterfeit, exposing the counterfeit.
18:27 You might think, "Well, yeah.
18:29 The Sabbath, that's really important.
18:30 We really need...
18:32 Oh, the sanctuary,
18:33 we really need to talk about that, you know."
18:35 And by the way, I got a list of all the topics early
18:37 and they said, "Choose whatever ones you want."
18:38 And I said, "I'll take predestination."
18:41 Well, why didn't you take the Sabbath.
18:42 I mean, you've got a whole study
18:44 you've done on Revelation 1:10.
18:48 Revelation is my favorite book in the Bible,
18:50 you know that, right?
18:51 Revelation 1:10, I've got six Bible versions,
18:54 new Bible versions, post 2000 Bible versions
18:57 that do not say,
18:58 "I was in the spirit on the Lord's day."
19:00 They say, "I was in the spirit on Sunday.
19:02 I was in the spirit on the first day of the week."
19:05 And if you don't think
19:07 Bible translations are important,
19:08 it's time to wake up.
19:10 There is a counterfeit that is developing right now
19:13 and it's coming in big time into our church.
19:17 We need to be aware of it.
19:18 So why didn't you choose that?
19:20 Why didn't you choose the sanctuary?
19:21 You love the sanctuary,
19:22 you love the symbolism of the sanctuary.
19:24 If you've been watching Salvation in Symbols and Signs
19:26 with Jason, and Yvonne, and Ivor, and myself,
19:29 you know that we were using the sanctuary
19:32 to move through the Book of Revelation,
19:33 showing how those symbols
19:34 bring us through the time frames,
19:37 a prophetic history,
19:39 why didn't' you choose that?
19:40 Because this subject, predestination,
19:43 is one that is dear to my heart in the sense
19:47 that it is so important for us to understand
19:52 how it misrepresents the character of God
19:54 if we don't get it right.
19:55 If we don't understand
19:57 what the Bible is actually teaching about the subject,
19:58 we are going to completely miss the truth of the gospel,
20:03 and completely misrepresent the character of God.
20:06 So let's look
20:07 at what the Bible has to say about predestination.
20:09 There are a couple of key verses, key areas,
20:12 Bible verses that people use to teach this doctrine
20:16 and these verses need to be understood.
20:18 The first one that we're going to look at,
20:19 the first series of verses we're going to look at
20:21 is in Ephesians 1:3-5.
20:25 So if you want to open your Bibles there,
20:27 whatever version,
20:29 whatever kind of Bible you have,
20:30 I shouldn't say whatever version you have,
20:32 whatever kind of Bible you have,
20:33 and by the way, I'm just going to put a plug in right here
20:34 for the good old King James Version
20:36 or the good old New King James Version.
20:38 Please, no matter what version you have,
20:40 I have tons of versions of the Bible,
20:42 I have every version I get my hands on
20:44 for study purposes.
20:46 But no matter what version you have,
20:47 please make sure you have a King James
20:48 or a New King James.
20:50 Please make sure you have a King James,
20:51 New King James is okay too.
20:54 We need to have this translation of the Bible
21:00 in our library for study purposes,
21:04 it's vital, it's going to be more vital
21:05 as we get closer to the end of time.
21:08 "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
21:10 who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings
21:13 in heavenly places in Christ.
21:15 According as He hath chosen us in Him
21:17 before the foundation of the world,
21:19 that we should be holy
21:21 and without blame before Him in love
21:22 having predestinated us
21:27 unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself,
21:31 according to the good pleasure of His will."
21:36 Now here again, here again,
21:38 we have the main point of Revelation 13:8.
21:43 But this time, the focus is not on Christ,
21:46 it's on us.
21:50 Notice the phrase,
21:52 "Before the foundation of the world."
21:55 It's again repeated here,
21:57 "Before the foundation of the world."
21:59 But this time,
22:00 the subject of what happened is somewhat different.
22:03 "It is not that Christ was slain
22:06 before the foundation of the world
22:08 but rather that we were chosen to be holy.
22:11 And without blame before him in love,
22:13 we were predestined to be adopted
22:15 from the family of sin, Satan,
22:17 into the family of God by the sacrifice of Christ."
22:19 This is according to the pleasure of His will,
22:25 the good pleasure of His will.
22:26 Praise God. Praise God.
22:30 Now let me ask you the billion dollar question,
22:34 we used to say, "Let me ask you the million dollar question,"
22:36 but that's insignificant anymore, isn't it?
22:38 Let me ask you the billion dollar question,
22:41 that's almost insignificant too.
22:43 Who was chosen according to these verses?
22:47 Who was chosen to be holy and without blame?
22:50 Who is chosen before the foundation of the world
22:52 to be redeemed from sin?
22:53 Who is predestined to be adopted
22:55 from the family of Satan
22:56 once we have fallen into the family of God?
22:58 Who did Jesus Christ die for?
23:01 Who should be eternally saved
23:02 according to His good will?
23:08 Who is the 'us'?
23:12 Now you're on track
23:15 but I want you to consider the Bible,
23:18 what the Bible says, Bible verses
23:21 because your opinion is good.
23:23 Your opinion is valid, it's significant
23:25 if it's based on the Word of God.
23:29 So consider these verses with me
23:31 that really nail down the answer
23:32 to this important question.
23:33 The first one is found in 2 Peter 3:9,
23:36 you know this verse.
23:37 This is the verse, this was my verse
23:38 when I became a Christian in 1984
23:40 when I gave my heart to the Lord.
23:42 And Jesus Christ transformed my life
23:45 and took me out of drugs and alcohol
23:47 and all of the things that I was in
23:48 including misunderstanding Him
23:51 in my form of Christianity till I came out of.
23:54 At that point, it was Catholicism.
23:57 This was my verse.
24:01 "The Lord is not slack concerning His promises."
24:05 Some men count slackness
24:07 but He is longsuffering toward us.
24:09 That's why I felt like He had been with me
24:11 long suffering towards us,
24:13 not willing that any should perish.
24:15 What is God's will?
24:17 Not that any should perish.
24:19 Remember, He's predestined us according to His Will.
24:22 What is His will?
24:23 He's not willing that any should perish
24:26 but that all would come to repentance.
24:30 The second verse I want you to look at is 1 Timothy 2:4.
24:33 It says that God and Jesus Christ
24:39 will have all men to be saved
24:42 and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
24:44 That's their will.
24:45 That's the word
24:47 that is used in these two verses.
24:48 God's will is that none to perish,
24:49 God will have all men to be saved.
24:51 Will all men be saved?
24:53 No, they will not
24:55 because even though that's God's will,
24:58 God has formed us to have our own will.
25:00 And God is not going to violate our will
25:03 with His will,
25:05 but He's gonna do everything He can to try to convince us,
25:08 to surrender our will to His will
25:09 and to be in harmony with His will.
25:10 He's going to ask us to give our wills into His hands
25:14 so He can purify them and cleanse them
25:15 and then He's going to give them back to us
25:17 so that when we are carrying out our will,
25:19 we're going to be in perfect harmony with His will.
25:21 That's the way we were created in His image, originally.
25:24 He wants to restore us
25:25 to that beautiful relationship with Him.
25:29 You see, friends, Jesus Christ died for all mankind,
25:34 not just a few pre-selected ones.
25:36 The Bible is so clear on this point
25:40 that none need to be confused or remain in darkness
25:44 concerning God's love for them.
25:48 Let's look at another Bible verse.
25:50 This one is very familiar to you,
25:51 I'm sure it is.
25:53 It's found in the Book of John 3
25:57 and verse..
25:58 It is the most precious verse of the Bible.
26:01 You don't even have to go there,
26:04 you know it by heart.
26:06 Let me read you this version that I have.
26:08 I'll give you the reference here to it in a second.
26:11 I'll just say for now that it is the AV version.
26:17 You know what the AV version is?
26:19 Yeah, you think it is but let me just read it to you
26:21 and then you tell me what it is.
26:23 For God so loved Adventists
26:25 that He gave His only begotten Son.
26:28 Now you know what version that is?
26:30 That's the Adventist's version.
26:34 Let me read you another version.
26:37 This is the BV.
26:40 For God so loved Baptists
26:42 that He gave His only begotten Son.
26:45 Let me read you another version,
26:47 this is the GCV.
26:52 For God so loved Christians
26:54 that He gave His only begotten Son,
26:56 that's the general Christian version of the Bible.
26:58 And though these versions do not exist in print,
27:03 they definitely exist in the thinking,
27:05 in the minds and in the words
27:07 of many Christians and many Adventists.
27:10 We think that God loves us
27:14 who have responded to Him.
27:16 But the rest of the world, well, they're under His shadow.
27:20 They're under His frown.
27:24 But that's not what then Bible actually says.
27:27 None of these are true versions but you get the point, right?
27:31 You get the point.
27:32 While these paraphrased versions
27:35 will call them, speak loads about how much God loves
27:39 those who profess to love Him.
27:43 They do not give full credit to the text
27:47 as it is recorded in the Bible.
27:48 Now I want to read it,
27:50 King James, beginning at verse 14.
27:54 "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,
27:58 even so must the Son of man be lifted up,
28:00 that whosoever..."
28:02 Did you catch that word?
28:04 "That whosoever believes in Him should not perish,
28:07 but have eternal life.
28:10 For God so loved the world
28:13 that He gave His only begotten Son
28:14 that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish,
28:17 but have everlasting life," sorry.
28:18 "Whosoever believeth in Him should not perish,
28:19 but have eternal life."
28:21 Okay, John 3:14-16, now isn't that better?
28:26 Doesn't that sound better?
28:28 For God so loved the world, and you say,
28:29 "Well, wait a minute, that sounds better."
28:32 See God's love is not restricted to believers,
28:36 it can't be
28:38 because a love that's restricted to believers
28:40 does not produce believers.
28:42 And see, His love has to produce believers.
28:45 "God so loved the world that whosoever believes..."
28:47 God's love has to be of such a nature
28:50 that it produces believers
28:52 and a love that's just for believers
28:53 doesn't produce believers
28:55 because they're already believers.
28:57 So His love has to go out beyond the borders of the 99
29:03 that are in the fold, right?
29:05 Yes.
29:06 It has to look for the lost coin.
29:08 It has to yearn for the prodigal
29:12 and the stay at home son.
29:17 For whom that parable was really spoken.
29:21 That's us. That's us.
29:25 God gave His Son for sinners, not saints.
29:29 Yes, Christ blood is only eternally advantageous.
29:35 For those who believe but it's for whosoever,
29:38 that's what the text says for whosoever who believe.
29:41 God does not buy into the translations of John 3:16
29:44 that restrict or limit
29:46 His saving grace to a chosen few.
29:49 The most precious verse does not read,
29:53 "For God so loved Adventists, or Baptists, or Christians."
29:57 It says, "God so loved the world."
29:59 Now you may hear the argument.
30:01 Well, God in His foreknowledge,
30:04 God in His foreknowledge, He knew.
30:07 He knew who would be saved and He knew who would be lost,
30:10 and that's why His blood only applies to those
30:12 He has decided to save.
30:15 Well, Christ knew that Judas would betray Him
30:19 but He still washed his feet.
30:22 Christ knew that only one leper would come back
30:27 and give Him glory
30:28 but He still cleansed ten.
30:32 Christ knew that most of the Jews in the Romans
30:35 who were crucifying Him would never accept Him
30:38 but He still said, "Father, forgive them
30:42 for they know not what they do."
30:43 Amen.
30:44 And that revelation of love is what wins us to Him.
30:50 If His love is restricted to a select few,
30:55 the creme de la creme, then who of us could be saved.
31:01 Only those who measure up.
31:04 But God's love beckons us in the dark corners,
31:10 in the recesses of our fallenness
31:12 and our brokenness to have hope,
31:16 to believe all things and hope all things,
31:18 and endure all things.
31:19 He calls us.
31:21 Even now, He's calling us
31:23 out of our mindlessness,
31:27 out of our abandonment,
31:30 out of the darkness and the gloom.
31:32 Even now, right now, He's calling us,
31:35 calling us home to His heart,
31:38 His heart of unrelenting love.
31:42 The Bible says that Jesus Christ died
31:43 for all mankind.
31:45 Hebrews 2:9 says, "But we see Jesus
31:49 who was made a little lower than the angels
31:51 for the suffering of death,
31:52 crowned with glory and honor that He by the grace of God,
31:55 might taste death for everyone, for all."
32:01 So Jesus was predestined to die for the sins
32:04 of every man, every woman, every child
32:07 that has ever lived or ever shall live.
32:10 The Bible says in Isaiah 53,
32:12 "The Lord laid on Him the iniquity of us all."
32:17 God gave His son for us all,
32:19 for the world,
32:21 for whosoever would believe.
32:24 It's a powerful thought really.
32:27 And what an appropriate place to put this thought,
32:30 right in the middle of Revelation 13.
32:35 Come on, right in the middle
32:37 of the mark of the beast chapter,
32:39 right in the middle of the final showdown,
32:41 you know, between the two powers.
32:44 And the reason why it's there
32:45 is because the principles of righteousness by faith,
32:52 of grace,
32:53 of the everlasting gospel are the only thing
32:56 that can bring down the stronghold of this beast,
32:59 of this power,
33:01 of this end time power that forces the world to worship
33:04 in a way that is out of harmony
33:05 with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
33:10 You're going to be put on a guilt trip
33:11 in the end of time,
33:13 pressure is going to come on you.
33:17 The world is going to say, "You need to conform.
33:19 Look at what's happening.
33:20 Look at the judgments that are coming.
33:21 You're responsible, you're guilty,
33:23 you're out of harmony, you're not complying."
33:26 And we're going to have to say, "No, no, no, no."
33:28 It has nothing to do with us or our works.
33:31 God does not relate to the human race
33:34 according to works,
33:35 He relates to the human race according to grace.
33:37 And His grace is sufficient for us
33:40 and because of His grace,
33:41 I can follow the Lamb wherever He goes
33:43 and He has led me
33:44 into the obedience of commandment keeping.
33:48 My faith, the faith of Jesus tells me
33:53 that I follow the Lamb, not the beast.
33:57 All right, let's summarize this biblical outline in Romans 8.
34:01 This is where we find a brief
34:07 but comprehensive understanding of predestination
34:10 and I think these verses are the most difficult.
34:14 Romans 8:29-32, they're the most difficult.
34:17 And the reason why they're so difficult
34:18 is because we do not read them
34:21 with gospel glasses.
34:27 We need to read them with our gospel glasses,
34:29 we really do.
34:30 I have these with me
34:32 just in case my eyes fail sooner than later.
34:35 What I mean by that is,
34:37 as the day wears on, my eyes get weaker.
34:41 It must be my age.
34:44 I'm all of 54.11.
34:53 So, as the day wears on, my eyes get weaker,
34:57 it's harder for me to read, they start getting more tired,
34:59 and so I have to have my glasses with me just in case.
35:02 So far so good, I could read without them.
35:05 But we need to put on the gospel glasses
35:07 when we read these verses,
35:08 lest we misunderstand what they're actually teaching.
35:11 Let's look at them together
35:13 and then let's just do a quick overview
35:15 of what they're teaching for whom, Romans 8:29,
35:21 "For whom he did foreknow,
35:23 he also did predestinate
35:24 to be conformed to the image of His son,
35:26 that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.
35:28 Moreover, whom He did predestinate,
35:30 them, He also called.
35:32 And whom He called, them, He also justified.
35:35 And whom He justified, them, He also glorified."
35:40 What shall we say to these things?
35:42 If God be for us, who can be against us?
35:46 Amen.
35:48 "He that spared not His own son,
35:50 but delivered Him up for us all..."
35:52 Key point there.
35:54 "How shall He not with Him
35:56 also freely give us all things?"
35:58 These verses should be preached
36:00 to every human being on planet earth,
36:03 every human being on planet earth
36:04 needs to hear this.
36:08 "He spared not His own Son,
36:09 but delivered Him up for us all."
36:11 Who is God talking to here?
36:13 Just a certain select people?
36:15 Who did He give His son for?
36:17 Everyone.
36:18 Everyone needs to hear this, why?
36:19 Because everyone has been predestined,
36:21 everyone has been called, everyone has been justified,
36:23 everyone has been glorified in Christ, in Christ.
36:27 Christ has accomplished for every single...
36:29 Let's look at it. Let's look at it.
36:31 'Cause these got to be some of the most beautiful verses
36:33 in the Bible.
36:36 And we can see in these verses,
36:37 the progression of the plan of redemption,
36:40 so let's start first of all with whom He did foreknow.
36:44 Who has God foreknown?
36:46 Everyone.
36:48 There's nobody that's ever been born,
36:50 ever could have been born that God hasn't foreknown.
36:53 And so the people He foreknew, He predestined.
36:55 Well, if God has foreknown everyone,
36:57 then He's predestined everyone.
36:59 That's the logical conclusion of the sequence here.
37:03 Whom he did foreknow, them, He also predestined.
37:06 Now some would say, "Well, it's talking about
37:07 whom He foreknew would be saved."
37:09 It doesn't say that.
37:11 Doesn't say that in the verse,
37:12 that's Isa Jesus, not Exa Jesus.
37:17 Exa Jesus, whom He foreknown, then He predestinated.
37:20 God had foreknowledge of all
37:24 and likewise, He predestined to all
37:31 the fantastic wonderful privilege
37:33 to be returned to His image,
37:35 to the image of God, the image of the Father.
37:37 So God and Christ had made a commitment to us
37:40 before the foundation the world
37:42 that if mankind sinned, Christ would die,
37:45 not just for a few, but for all.
37:48 All right, second, them, those He foreknew
37:52 and predestined them, He also called.
37:55 Called, all right.
37:56 Now due to the fact
37:58 that Christ is the savior of all men,
37:59 we read that verse in 1 Timothy 4:10.
38:02 God calls all men everywhere to repent.
38:06 Now that's another verse, write it down.
38:08 That one is Acts 17:30.
38:09 God calls all men everywhere to repent.
38:12 That's what Paul is saying.
38:13 And when he says that, he's preaching
38:14 not to Christians, not to Jews,
38:17 he's preaching to the Greeks,
38:20 to the philosophers,
38:21 to the wise men, to the epicureans.
38:23 He's preaching to the world.
38:26 He says, "God calls all men everywhere to repent."
38:29 Now God simply could not call all men everywhere to repent
38:34 if all men everywhere were not predestined
38:38 to be saved through Christ.
38:41 He would simply call some men somewhere to repent, right.
38:45 Make sense, I hope it makes sense.
38:49 You know, the Bible we're told
38:51 was not written for the scholar alone,
38:52 you're not to be a scholar to figure this out.
38:55 In fact, contrariwise it was written
38:57 for the common person.
39:00 And the interpretation of the scriptures
39:02 when aided by the Holy Spirit,
39:04 the interpretation of the scripture
39:05 by the common person
39:07 accords best with the truth as it is in Jesus.
39:09 We're told that, look it up.
39:14 Because that statement has really encouraged me
39:18 to be a student of the Bible, first and foremost.
39:22 Not a student of a person, not following an opinion,
39:25 not following a book,
39:27 or learning, or teaching a doctrine,
39:28 but following what the Word of God actually teaches.
39:31 And the Word of God teaches
39:33 that God has called all men everywhere to repent.
39:34 That is why Christ could say,
39:36 "If I be lifted up, will draw all."
39:40 I mean just think about that.
39:43 John 12:32, doesn't that bring hope and joy,
39:48 and does not soothe your heart?
39:50 Just the Word of God is so powerful, isn't it?
39:53 Doesn't it just bring power?
39:55 I, if I be lifted up, will draw all.
39:57 Nobody's left out.
40:00 And therefore, you don't have to leave anyone out.
40:02 Amen.
40:03 And you're not left out.
40:06 And see, the problem is
40:07 when we start leaving other people out, guess what?
40:09 We're subconsciously leaving ourself out
40:11 because we're going to do,
40:12 we're going to be just as bad, just as fallen,
40:14 just as sinful as those people that we're judging.
40:17 We're going to end up there.
40:18 When we judge others,
40:20 we're going to end up doing the same thing.
40:21 That's what Romans 2 tells us, right?
40:23 Who are you are to judge another
40:24 and does the same thing.
40:26 So the drawing spoken off in John 12:32
40:30 and the call in spoken of here in Romans 8:30
40:34 are the same thing.
40:35 They're the same thing.
40:37 Okay, you with me so far?
40:38 Whom He foreknew, He predestined.
40:40 Whom He predestined, He called, applies to everyone, right?
40:44 You with me?
40:45 All right, let's go to the third point,
40:47 then he also justified.
40:50 Okay, while we're all predestined to be saved
40:54 and we're all called to be saved,
40:56 not everyone will actually be saved.
40:58 I have to say that first before I...
41:05 Unpack. Thank you.
41:07 Should know that word,
41:09 I'm always packing and unpacking, right.
41:11 Before we unpack this,
41:13 I had to say not everyone will be saved.
41:16 It is true though
41:17 that Christ has paid the penalty for our sins,
41:22 the sins of the entire world.
41:23 He has purchased our forgiveness.
41:25 He has signed the emancipation proclamation,
41:29 the emancipation papers of the entire race.
41:33 The fact that we're alive today, right,
41:36 shows how we have already been impacted
41:43 by Christ's forgiveness.
41:45 Take a breath.
41:51 Where did that breath come from?
41:55 From God and it comes to every single human being
41:57 and it is stamped with the cross of Calvary.
42:00 Not one human being takes a breath of air
42:03 but that that comes through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
42:05 Jesus Christ has already done something for the entire race.
42:10 He's already saved them
42:11 from the immediate consequence of sin.
42:13 In that sense, people have already been justified to life.
42:17 Not eternal life, temporal life.
42:21 If everyone on this planet who has temporal life
42:24 could understand this truth
42:26 that it was Calvary that gave you this life,
42:28 you didn't just get it.
42:30 God didn't just say, "Oh, you can have it."
42:32 No, a price was paid for you to have this life.
42:35 And guess what?
42:36 And here's our message, here's the gospel, guess what?
42:39 God purposes that this life
42:42 that you now have would never end.
42:46 It would just get better, and better, and better.
42:50 That's what He purposes.
42:52 That's why Jesus said to Martha,
42:54 "Whoever believes on Me will never die."
42:58 And they asked her the question,
43:00 "Do you believe that?"
43:03 And that's the question I would ask you today,
43:05 do you believe that?
43:07 Whoever believes on Jesus will never die.
43:10 They may sleep for a season but they will never die.
43:15 They will never die.
43:16 This temporal life purchased by Calvary
43:19 is a gift to every human being on planet earth.
43:21 And God purposes that this temporal life
43:24 that has been gifted through Calvary would never end.
43:27 Unfortunately, some people are not going to choose
43:31 to allow God to extend this temporal life
43:34 throughout all eternity,
43:36 and that's the problem.
43:40 If God had extended to us no forgiveness,
43:45 we would not even exist right now.
43:49 However, not all choose to keep that which God has given to us.
43:55 He has, in fact, given us
43:57 the gift of salvation in Jesus Christ.
44:02 The amazing problem that all heaven weeps to behold
44:05 is the fact that many people don't want it,
44:07 they turn away from Him.
44:10 Fourth, so in that sense, God has justified all.
44:14 Fourth, then He also glorified.
44:20 Now let's follow this carefully.
44:22 Even those who are lost
44:25 will finally see that Christ purchased
44:29 not only forgiveness but also glorification,
44:32 that is the redemption of their bodies,
44:37 and even the works of sanctification.
44:42 Do you know bad people do good things?
44:43 Amen.
44:45 It happens all the time.
44:49 A guy riding a Harley
44:51 with Hell's Angels jacket on his back
44:55 and mother tattooed on his arm
44:58 will stop at a cross walk
45:00 because a little girl and her grandma
45:02 is waiting to cross.
45:06 People we consider bad do good things.
45:09 But let me just clarify.
45:12 Nothing good that anyone ever does
45:16 comes from themselves,
45:18 all of it finds its source in God, all of it does.
45:22 So these good things that you see every single person do
45:25 every once in a while, even if they only do
45:26 one thing good in their entire life,
45:28 is an evidence that God has glorified,
45:30 that God has sanctified,
45:32 that God has worked through that person
45:35 and gifted them with an opportunity
45:39 to see how good it is to be like God once again.
45:44 It's so good to be like God, isn't it,
45:46 to be kind, to be honest,
45:50 to love unconditionally.
45:56 Not only has God given us forgiveness in Christ
45:58 but glorification.
45:59 That is the redemption of our bodies
46:01 from the curse of sin.
46:04 Romans 5:8-10 and Romans 8:23 tell us this,
46:08 Paul actually addresses this in his epistle
46:11 specifically to the Corinthians when he states.
46:13 Now notice this, 1 Corinthians 15:20-22,
46:17 1 Corinthians 15:20-22,
46:20 "But now is Christ risen from the dead,
46:22 and become the first fruits of them that slept.
46:24 For since by man came death,
46:28 by man also came the resurrection of the dead.
46:31 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall..."
46:36 What's the next word?
46:37 "All be made alive."
46:41 Now you know that's true, right?
46:43 We know that the righteous,
46:47 the saved will be made alive in Christ,
46:49 and will be resurrected
46:50 but there's also a second resurrection, right?
46:53 There's a second resurrection.
46:55 And in that second resurrection,
46:57 we're going to see the lost raised to life.
47:02 By the way, Satan is going to tell
47:04 the lost to raise to life
47:05 that he resurrected them, did you know that?
47:07 That's what it says in Revelation 20.
47:09 He's going to go out to deceive the world,
47:10 and that's what he is going to tell them,
47:11 "I resurrected you."
47:13 But the only way that the bodies of the lost
47:15 can be raised to life, according to 1 Corinthians 15,
47:18 the only way they can be raised to life
47:20 from sin sting of death
47:22 is through the redemption of Jesus Christ,
47:25 that's the only way.
47:27 They're raised because of plan of redemption.
47:29 Yep, because the lost have fully rejected
47:32 the gift of salvation,
47:34 both their justification of life
47:37 and the redemption of their bodies are cut short.
47:42 Cut short, it's not eternal, it doesn't continue on.
47:45 They're resurrected and you think,
47:47 "Oh, we're going to be resurrected
47:48 to eternal glory, immortality.
47:50 They're going to be resurrected,"
47:51 and what's going to happen?
47:53 They're going to face the second death.
47:55 They're going to die.
47:59 They're going to taste the death
48:00 that Christ tasted for them
48:02 because they refused to accept
48:04 His substitution in their behalf,
48:06 His gift of salvation.
48:08 So the justifying power of Christ
48:12 only allow them a short time, a probationary life.
48:15 The benefits of the plan of salvation put them,
48:19 here it is, in Him.
48:22 That's Act 17, in Him,
48:24 in Him, you live and move and have your being, in Him.
48:27 A lot of us think that 'in Him' only applies to believers,
48:30 it does in an eternal sense
48:32 but it also applies to unbelievers.
48:34 Otherwise, we'd be dead.
48:36 So God put us in Him
48:38 so that we can have life, and breath,
48:39 and all things, Act 17.
48:41 So that we can have probationary life.
48:43 And that 'in him', that temporal life
48:46 is what gives us an opportunity to respond to the gift
48:49 and say yes.
48:52 But it only put them in him for that short temporal time.
48:58 Likewise...
49:00 And by the way, the reference for that is Act 17:24-28.
49:04 Likewise, glorification which brings immortality,
49:08 redemption of the body to the righteous
49:10 brings the lost a resurrection from the first death
49:14 only to meet the second death.
49:17 According to Revelation 20:5, 6, and 14
49:21 and I think that is utterly tragic.
49:25 All the gifts of salvation,
49:26 all the gifts of redemption
49:28 have been freely extended to them
49:29 and they're lost.
49:33 We need to do something about that.
49:35 We need to do something about that.
49:38 We need to stop sitting around.
49:40 We need to do something because when that time comes,
49:44 we're going to wish we had done more.
49:47 "Oh, I can't go out and talk to people about Jesus,
49:51 I can't knock on doors, I can't..."
49:53 "Yes, you can."
49:55 All of our students that come to Arise,
49:57 they all say that.
49:58 The toughest thing when they fill out the form,
50:00 the toughest thing they say is,
50:01 because it's a door-to-door program,
50:02 our school is a training and a door-to-door program.
50:05 They say, "I'm not sure I can do the door-to-door."
50:06 "You're going to do the door-to-door."
50:08 And when they do the door-to-door,
50:09 oh, let me tell you.
50:11 They outshine those Jehovah Witnesses.
50:14 Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
50:15 And you know why?
50:17 You know why?
50:18 Because they have something to witness about.
50:21 They're not going door-to-door
50:22 to put people in some kind of trap
50:24 to tell people about God
50:26 that's mean and honoree and mess.
50:28 They're going to share with people the gospel, good news.
50:32 "I've got some good news for you, folks, open the door."
50:35 I told you about that atheist ethics speaker.
50:42 He was from the Netherlands.
50:44 He came to Australia
50:46 to get away from a broken relationship.
50:49 He was going to tour Australia for a year.
50:51 So there he is in Australia, just going from place to place.
50:54 Wherever the door opens, that's where he goes.
50:56 So the Arise students, for the first year,
50:58 we've had five years of Arise school in Australia.
51:01 This year, we have 46 students, that's a huge class for us.
51:05 So the Arise students, they go to Big Camp,
51:07 that's the camp meeting in Australia.
51:09 For the first year,
51:10 this is the first time we're going to Big Camp.
51:11 So we go to Big Camp.
51:13 And at Big Camp, they're just,
51:15 you know, out there just talking and sharing.
51:17 And they're doing their classes too.
51:18 Well, there's an Adventist guy
51:21 that's hanging out and doing stuff in Australia
51:24 and this atheist physics lecturer, okay.
51:30 He somehow comes in contact with this ex-Adventist.
51:34 And the ex-Adventist guy invites him,
51:37 "Hey, yeah, I'm going over, come...
51:38 I'm going over to propose to my girlfriend.
51:40 You can come with me if you want."
51:41 "Yeah, okay, you know, I'm just doing whatever,
51:43 however the Lord, that's what I'm doing."
51:45 So he goes with him.
51:46 And as they're driving, the ex-Adventist says,
51:48 "Oh, there's the Big Camp, they're in Big Camp.
51:50 I got some friends in there.
51:52 Let's pop in and say, "Hi." He says, "What's a Big camp?"
51:53 "Oh, I'll tell you all about it."
51:55 So they go in to Big Camp.
51:57 So while the atheist is there at Big Camp,
52:03 some Arise students start talking to him.
52:06 What do you know?
52:08 They start talking.
52:10 They're not too embarrassed or too shy.
52:12 They start talking to this guy.
52:14 And before you know it,
52:15 this guy accepts Christ as his Savior.
52:19 And then, they invite him
52:22 without the permission of the administrator
52:24 to attend the last two weeks of the Arise school
52:27 which I'm going to be preaching at.
52:29 The first week of which
52:30 we're going to be doing the Book of Revelation.
52:32 I get there and I find out the whole story.
52:34 The Arise ministry said it was okay after all.
52:37 Here is this atheist sitting in my class
52:39 who just accepted Christ the week before.
52:41 He's sitting in my class.
52:43 He's come to Australia
52:44 to get away from a broken relationship.
52:46 He doesn't believe in God.
52:47 He's still struggling with creation, evolution,
52:49 he tells me that along with a lot of other things.
52:53 He's sitting in my Revelation class
52:55 and he's just...
52:57 So he's going out door-to-door with these students.
53:00 This is my point, this is why I'm telling you the story.
53:01 He's going out door-to-door with the students.
53:03 He's doing the preaching practice.
53:04 He preached one of the best sermons I've ever heard.
53:07 It was powerful.
53:08 I wish I give you the sermon right now
53:09 but it is 10 minutes
53:11 and I've only got 4:19 seconds left.
53:13 But here's the deal,
53:15 maybe I will give you that sermon,
53:16 I'm going to give you a synopsis of that sermon.
53:20 He goes out door-to-door
53:22 and one of the students that goes out with him tells me.
53:23 He said, "I was embarrassed
53:27 about my own Christian witness."
53:30 We went to a door, the guy was in the house.
53:32 We knocked on the door,
53:34 the guy wouldn't answer the door.
53:36 We saw the guy in there, but he wouldn't answer door.
53:38 So we left and then this atheist
53:42 who just accepted Christ went back
53:43 and he said, "I can't leave without trying again."
53:49 He needs to know.
53:51 He knocks on that door
53:53 as if he's going to break it down, you know.
53:56 And the guy still didn't answer.
53:59 He still didn't answer
54:01 but you get the point, don't you?
54:03 He wasn't going to give up.
54:05 He was going to let that guy know
54:07 that we came for you and we knocked on this door,
54:10 that was the atheist who just accepted Christ.
54:14 And the sermon that he gave was this.
54:16 And it's my appeal in a sense.
54:19 He said...
54:20 He was talking about the story of Abraham and Isaac,
54:24 the story of Abraham and Isaac.
54:26 And he went through the story where God came to Abraham
54:30 and God said, "Abraham, Abraham."
54:32 And Abraham said, "Here I am."
54:36 And he said, "Isn't that a strange response, here I am?"
54:41 When someone says, "Hey, How you doing?"
54:42 You say, "Here I am."
54:44 Some one say, "Hey, Joe." "Here I am."
54:46 Well, yeah, of course, you're there.
54:48 I know you're there."
54:49 "Here I am."
54:50 And then he goes on through the story and he says,
54:53 "Now Abraham is traveling with his son, Isaac.
54:55 And Isaac starts to ask some questions.
54:58 So Isaac says, "Father."
55:00 And Abraham says to his son, "Here I am."
55:04 What do you mean here I am?
55:06 Of course, you're there. I know you're there.
55:07 That's why I said father.
55:09 And then he gets to the end of the story
55:11 when Abraham has the knife raised in the air
55:13 and he's about to follow through with God's command
55:17 to sacrifice his son,
55:18 one of the most beautiful pictures
55:20 and probably the only picture of the father's heart
55:22 in all of scripture
55:23 and the sacrifice that He made to give His son for us.
55:28 And the voice arrests him.
55:29 You know what, the voice says, "Abraham, Abraham."
55:32 And Abraham says "What?"
55:34 "Here I am."
55:35 And he ties it back to Genesis.
55:38 He says, in Genesis after Adam and Eve fell
55:42 and God came looking for them, they were hiding from God.
55:47 They were afraid of God.
55:48 And when God said, "Adam, Adam."
55:50 Adam didn't say, "Here I am."
55:53 Because he was afraid.
55:55 And he said, "So God started something new with Abraham.
55:57 It was a new covenant, it was a new experience,
55:59 it was a new people.
56:01 It was a people that when God would call
56:04 he would say, "Here I am."
56:07 When people would call, he would say, "Here I am."
56:13 No matter what duty we're called to,
56:16 we would respond, "Here I am."
56:20 And then he closed with this appeal.
56:22 He said, "I don't want to ask you to stand up right now,"
56:23 because all the students when they do preaching practice
56:25 have to close with an appeal."
56:27 He said, "I don't want to have you stand up right now.
56:29 I'm not going to give you an appeal right now.
56:30 Here is my appeal."
56:32 And here's my appeal to you this morning.
56:37 The next time that God calls you,
56:43 the next time that you hear His voice,
56:46 the next time the Holy Spirit speaks to you,
56:51 say, "Lord, here I am."
56:55 Let's pray together.
56:57 Father in heaven, thank You again so much
57:00 for guiding our minds and our hearts,
57:02 for doing for us what we cannot do for ourselves
57:04 for answering before we call.
57:09 That's what You said will come to pass
57:10 that before we call, you will answer.
57:12 And while we are yet speaking, You will hear.
57:14 And that You, as we call on to You,
57:16 You will show us great and mighty things
57:18 which we know not.
57:20 And, Father, Your word is alive
57:21 with those great and mighty things.
57:23 And part of those great and mighty things
57:25 today are the miracles that You work in hearts,
57:29 in the hearts of heroin addicts,
57:31 in the hearts of atheists.


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