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Don't Do Me No Favors

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01:00 Our subject is "Don't Do Me No Favors."
01:05 That's our subject for this evening and for anyone
01:07 who may be listening outside of the United States,
01:10 that is good grammar in the United States.
01:13 "Don't Do Me No Favors." It is one of the few times
01:17 when a double negative, works quite well.
01:20 Don't Do Me Any Favors just does not sound right.
01:24 God said, "Don't Do Me No Favors" whatsoever.
01:29 I want you to pray in your hearts, as I speak,
01:35 that the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart
01:39 may be acceptable in the sight of God.
01:43 Some of you asked me during the day,
01:45 will I rough you up tonight and the answer is no.
01:48 You never push your luck.
01:50 It just doesn't pay to put even with God's people
01:53 ask Moses, don't push your luck.
01:56 So, no, I won't rough you up tonight.
02:00 But the word will, but I won't.
02:04 The Holy Spirit will and I know
02:06 you will not fight the Holy Spirit.
02:08 You've no fuss, no quarrel with the Holy Spirit.
02:11 You may have it with me, and that's appropriate.
02:14 But I do not believe
02:16 you'll have it with God's Holy Spirit.
02:19 "Don't Do Me No Favors," is our subject for this evening.
02:26 Let us pray.
02:28 Our loving Father in Heaven,
02:29 we come into your presence tonight.
02:32 We thank you Father, we've the freedom,
02:35 the liberty, to come anytime we choose, 24 hours a day,
02:41 because He whom we serve, never slumbers and never sleeps.
02:46 And Father as we gather at Your feet tonight,
02:49 we ask You Lord to shower Your fatherly love upon us
02:53 for the sake of Jesus Christ.
02:56 Receive us through Him we pray,
02:59 and Father grant us the comfort of your undying love.
03:03 Your patience, your mercy,
03:05 your tenderness, your long suffering.
03:08 Open our eyes that we may behold
03:10 wondrous things out of thy law.
03:13 Give us an obedient heart. Give us a loving heart.
03:17 And give to Your manservant the words to say.
03:21 You've said in John 16, verse 13,
03:23 how be it when he, the Spirit of truth is come
03:26 he will guide you into all truth.
03:28 Father guide me and my brothers and sisters
03:31 into truth tonight.
03:34 In Jesus name we pray, let everyone say with me.
03:36 Amen and amen.
03:39 "Don't Do Me No Favors."
03:44 I was listening to Sister Griffin this morning,
03:48 as she spoke on a very, very serious topic,
03:52 and that is all the time
03:54 we dedicate to the God of entertainment.
03:58 Whether by television or videogames,
04:00 or whatever else we do, but all the time we dedicate
04:04 and by allowing our children to watch
04:05 so many hours of television,
04:07 we actually pass them through the fires.
04:12 We sacrifice them to the God's of this world by allowing them
04:16 to sit in front of a television set
04:18 and allowing that set like a garden hose to just spray
04:21 its ungodly contents into their minds.
04:26 I've no children of my own, so you're probably
04:28 saying that he shouldn't talk.
04:29 No, no I should talk, as I'm only telling you
04:32 what you'll read in the writings of Ellen White
04:34 and what you can dig out of the Bible
04:35 if you study it carefully.
04:37 I want other people a million times
04:39 wiser than I am, have said.
04:41 So I hope those of you who attended will take
04:43 what you heard this morning to heart,
04:45 and share it with your friends.
04:47 We must protect our minds.
04:51 If we would shield our mind from worldly influences,
04:54 there may be few occurrences of Adventists saying
04:57 I just can't see it, I just don't see it,
04:59 I just don't understand.
05:00 Why because the mind has been polluted
05:02 and we can't see this or we can't see that.
05:06 She also mentioned
05:07 the importance of the Sabbath this morning.
05:10 And this evening you heard your president, Elder Gallimore,
05:13 he also talked about the beauty,
05:15 the sweetness of the Sabbath fellowship
05:17 that we shall have with God.
05:20 And this evening, I also want to mention
05:22 a little about the Sabbath commandment,
05:25 but from a different approach.
05:28 In the Book, Early Writings,
05:29 Ellen White recounts a vision she had,
05:33 where she was taken up to heaven
05:36 and her tour guide was Jesus Christ himself.
05:40 And Jesus lead her, He pulled back the curtain or the veil,
05:43 lead her into the most Holy place.
05:46 Jesus opened the arc,
05:52 and showed her the Ten Commandments.
05:58 She writes that there was a light
06:01 shining around all Ten Commandments.
06:06 Each commandment was shining and probably so,
06:09 they reflect the very character of God.
06:11 The law is as sacred as God himself.
06:14 So I'm not at all surprised that there is a Shekinah,
06:17 a light, a luminescence,
06:19 a brilliance around the Ten Commandments.
06:23 She went on to say that the first four commandments
06:27 had a brighter light than the last six.
06:33 Now you can determine the significance of that to God.
06:36 The first four had a brighter light
06:41 than the other six.
06:43 Then she said the fourth commandment
06:49 had the brightest light of all.
06:52 There was a halo around the Sabbath commandment.
06:59 Now you don't have to be a Hebrew scholar
07:01 or Greek scholar or Bible scholar
07:03 or graduate of the seminary to conclude immediately
07:06 that in the eyes of God,
07:10 the Sabbath commandment is of great and vast importance.
07:18 If that were not the case,
07:20 it would not have the brightest light.
07:28 Is that sinking in?
07:31 Let me give you something else to consider.
07:35 This is not the law I'm giving you.
07:37 I want you to consider what I'm about to say.
07:39 See if it means anything to you.
07:42 If the Sabbath commandment as Ellen White saw it,
07:46 showed to her by Jesus Christ, shown to her by Christ,
07:49 if it had the brightest light of all the ten,
07:55 could it possibly be, and I'm simply asking,
07:58 could it be the deepest wound
08:01 we can cause to God is to violate the Sabbath commandment.
08:09 The commandment that has His title, His name,
08:12 the commandment from which we get his seal
08:15 as we love to say could it be
08:18 the brightest light suggests to us.
08:21 Could it be.
08:24 That no infraction of God's law hurts him
08:27 more deeply than breaking the fourth commandment?
08:33 Could it be that we ought to be very, very serious
08:38 about expressing our love to God
08:40 through our Sabbath observance?
08:45 Let me pause here abruptly,
08:47 and direct your attention to the Book of Mark Chapter 15.
08:52 What book did I say? Book of Mark.
08:57 Well, the book is not Mark 15, the book is just Mark.
09:01 I asked you what book did I say? Mark.
09:04 Now what chapter did I say? 15.
09:06 Now we're on the same page.
09:08 We shall begin reading from verse 42.
09:11 Four and two.
09:13 Mark 15, reading from verse 42
09:16 as we continue with the subject "Don't Do Me No Favors."
09:23 And now when the event has come,
09:25 because it was the preparation,
09:27 that is, the day before the Sabbath.
09:29 Joseph of Arimathea, an honorable counselor,
09:33 which also waited for the kingdom of God
09:34 came and went in boldly unto Pilate,
09:37 and craved the body of Jesus.
09:42 Craved the body of Jesus.
09:44 Now people who were condemned to be crucified,
09:47 no one wanted their bodies.
09:48 Their bodies were left to rot.
09:50 They were left for the crows and for the vultures.
09:52 It was unusual for someone to come publicly claiming
09:56 the body of the crucified person criminals.
10:00 Crucifixion was the most shameful and painful
10:03 and humiliating and embarrassing way to die.
10:06 Why would someone want to claim a body
10:08 that in the eyes of the Romans was so despised?
10:11 The Romans may associate you with that corpse.
10:16 When a man or a woman is in love with Jesus,
10:19 what the world thinks makes very little difference.
10:24 And so Joseph of Arimathea came and went in boldly unto Pilate
10:28 and craved the body of Jesus and Pilate marveled
10:31 if you were already dead
10:33 and calling unto him the centurion,
10:35 he asked him whether he had been any while dead.
10:37 And when he knew it of the centurion,
10:39 verse 45, he gave the body to Joseph.
10:43 And be bought fine linen, and took him down,
10:46 and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulcher,
10:49 which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone
10:52 unto the door of the sepulcher.
10:55 And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Josses
10:58 beheld where he was laid.
11:02 "Don't Do Me No Favors."
11:05 We've two women named Mary Magdalene and Mary,
11:10 the mother of Josses, they beheld.
11:14 They made it their business to find out
11:17 where the corpse of their Savior was laid.
11:23 To add delightful details
11:25 and exciting information to this story,
11:27 let's read the same account, but from the pen of Luke.
11:31 The doctor Luke Chapter 23,
11:33 we shall begin reading at verse 50
11:35 as we continue with "Don't Do Me No Favors."
11:38 Luke Chapter 23, reading from verse 50.
11:44 I must apologize to you.
11:47 I normally don't give you a chance to find these verses.
11:51 Am I forgiven? Say yes quickly.
11:53 Yes. All right
11:55 Do you have Luke 23? Do you have verse 50?
11:59 If you feel like it and you have the King James Version,
12:02 feel free to read out loud with me.
12:07 I don't mind. Worship is participatory.
12:10 Luke 23, verse 50, And, behold,
12:12 there was a man named Joseph, a counselor,
12:15 and he was a good man, and a just.
12:18 The same had not consented onto the counsel indeed of them.
12:21 He was of Arimathea, a city of the Jews,
12:24 who also himself waited for the kingdom of God.
12:26 This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.
12:29 Now this is the same account
12:31 which we read in the Book of Mark.
12:34 This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus
12:38 and he took it down, and wrapped it in linen,
12:40 and laid it in a sepulcher, which was hewn in stone,
12:44 wherein never man before was laid.
12:47 And that day was what? The preparation.
12:50 And what happened?
12:51 The Sabbath drew on now, it is highly significant
12:55 that Mark tells us it was preparation time
12:57 and the Sabbath was coming on
12:59 because Mark 15:42 says, now when the even was come,
13:03 Luke says and that there was the preparation,
13:05 and the Sabbath drawn,
13:07 why is it so important to inform us
13:09 that the Sabbath was coming on?
13:14 The Bible says, and the women also,
13:17 which went with him from Galilee, followed after,
13:20 and beheld the sepulcher, and how his body was laid.
13:25 Now we read in Mark Chapter 15, that the women beheld
13:29 where he was laid in Luke Chapter 23,
13:33 they beheld how he was laid
13:35 and so we put the two accounts together,
13:37 these two items of information
13:39 Mary and Mary the mother of Josses,
13:42 Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Josses
13:44 they wanted to know where he was laid
13:46 and how the body was configured in the sepulcher.
13:50 They needed that physical information for a reason.
13:55 "Don't Do Me No Favors."
13:59 The Bible says in the last verse of Luke Chapter 23,
14:03 and they returned and prepared spices and ointments.
14:10 Now why were they preparing spices and ointments?
14:16 They earnestly desired to embalm the body of Jesus Christ.
14:23 They wanted to anoint His body.
14:26 They wanted to do what has been done
14:28 for 100s of years or had been done before they lived
14:31 and that was the art of embalming,
14:33 preserving corpses and they're in museums around the world.
14:37 Corpses that have been unbelievably preserved
14:41 through the art of embalming.
14:44 Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of Josses
14:46 and other women wanted to embalm the body of Jesus
14:50 and they were unafraid to come out publicly
14:53 and they went to where the grave was.
14:55 They saw where the grave was.
14:56 They saw how He was laid.
14:58 So they had this picture in mind now.
15:04 They went back, prepared spices and ointments
15:10 and came back to the tomb to anoint Him.
15:14 Thank you my sister or brother.
15:16 No let me say it again.
15:19 The last verse of Luke 23, I think that's verse 56,
15:23 and they prepared spices and ointments first,
15:28 then rested the Sabbath day, how?
15:31 According to the commandment.
15:33 Now, I want you to focus on this verse.
15:39 Whom did they want to anoint? Jesus Christ.
15:45 Who is the Lord of the Sabbath? Jesus Christ.
15:48 Now is there anything wrong with anointing
15:55 the body of Jesus Christ on the Sabbath?
16:00 How, well, yes?
16:05 But before I incorporate that yes,
16:08 which is correct into the message,
16:09 let me go back prior to the yes,
16:12 and ask you if you had been there observing
16:16 Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Josses
16:18 and the other unnamed women
16:20 and you had seen them anointing Jesus
16:22 after the son had said,
16:23 would you have condemned them? No.
16:28 How do you bring someone under condemnation
16:31 for anointing the body of Jesus on the Sabbath?
16:37 If ever there was an excuse to do
16:41 something unsabbatical that must have been it.
16:46 Surely, you cannot fault a person
16:51 who does such a favor for Jesus.
16:57 He was the one who said in Mark 2:28,
16:59 the son of man is Lord also of the Sabbath.
17:02 You're anointing the Lord of the Sabbath
17:04 on the Sabbath what's the problem?
17:09 See Jesus doesn't want us to do Him favors.
17:15 The only favor Jesus requires of you and me
17:18 is loving obedience to His word,
17:22 no matter what.
17:24 I need a bigger amen.
17:26 Loving obedience to the word of God, no matter what.
17:30 Now let us take a look at this woman called Mary Magdalene.
17:33 Who was she?
17:34 How could she be so cold to turn away
17:38 from the body of Her Lord,
17:40 refuse to anoint Him until several hours later?
17:44 Go with me to the Book of Luke, Chapter 7,
17:47 as we continue with "Don't Do Me No Favors."
17:49 Luke Chapter 7,
17:54 and let us begin reading at verse 36.
18:02 Do you have Luke? Yes.
18:04 Do you have Chapter 7,
18:06 and are you poised at verse 36?
18:09 All right, the Bible says
18:10 and one of the Pharisees desired him
18:12 that he would eat with him,
18:14 and he went into the Pharisee's house
18:15 and sat down to meet.
18:17 And behold, a woman in the city,
18:19 which was a sinner,
18:20 when she knew that Jesus sat at meet
18:23 in the Pharisee's house brought an alabaster box of ointment,
18:27 and stood at His feet behind Him weeping,
18:29 and began to wash his feet with her tears
18:32 and wiped them with the hairs of her head
18:34 and kissed His feet and anointed His feet with the ointment.
18:37 Ellen White writes beautifully about this experience
18:40 in the Desire of Ages Chapter 62,
18:43 page 557 is where that begins.
18:46 Read it.
18:48 She combines the version in Mark, the version in John.
18:51 She combines the versions together to give us
18:52 a beautiful story of the relationship between Jesus
18:55 and this woman who came to anoint His feet,
18:58 Mary the sister of Lazarus and Martha
19:02 one whom He had cleansed from severe sin,
19:04 cast out demons, a woman who was the kind of person
19:08 with whom you would not associate,
19:10 but through the blood of Jesus Christ
19:11 or through His forgiveness
19:13 and His love she was transformed.
19:17 As so she kissed His feet verse 39,
19:20 now when the Pharisee, which had bidden him saw it,
19:24 he spake within himself, saying, this man,
19:27 if he were a prophet, would have known who
19:30 and what manner of woman
19:31 it is that toucheth Him for she is a sinner.
19:38 I thank God that He had a reputation--
19:42 that Jesus had a reputation for receiving sinners.
19:44 Don't you?
19:46 Because if He didn't have that reputation,
19:48 I would have been in trouble.
19:51 I thank God that Jesus receives sinners even today.
19:55 This man Pharisee said, this is Simon.
19:59 If he were a prophet would have known who
20:01 and what manner of woman this is that toucheth Him
20:04 for she is a sinner.
20:07 Next verse, And Jesus answering said unto him,
20:09 Simon, I have somewhat to say unto thee.
20:13 And Simon said, Master, say on.
20:17 Whenever I read that verse, I smile,
20:18 Simon said Jesus you want to talk, talk.
20:22 I've somewhat to say on to thee.
20:24 There was a certain creditor, which had two debtors.
20:27 The one owed him 500 pence and the other 50.
20:30 And when they had nothing to pay,
20:31 he frankly forgave them both.
20:33 Tell me therefore,
20:34 which of them will love him most?
20:37 Simon answered and said, I suppose that he,
20:39 to whom he forgave most.
20:40 And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged.
20:43 You see, what Jesus is saying, the more you are forgiven,
20:48 finish it for me, the more you love.
20:52 So one has owed 500 pence,
20:54 one has owed 50 pence both are forgiven.
20:56 Jesus is teaching that it is natural to expect
20:59 that the man forgiven for the debt of 500 pence
21:02 would love Jesus more
21:04 than he who was forgiven for just 50 pence.
21:10 And he turned to the woman, verse 44, of Luke 7,
21:14 and said unto Simon.
21:17 Now this is the same woman who was at the tomb,
21:19 who prepared spices and ointments
21:20 and went back home.
21:22 Seest thou this woman?
21:25 I entered into thy house,
21:28 thou gavest me no water for my feet.
21:31 But she hath washed my feet with tears,
21:32 and dried them--wiped them with the hairs of her head.
21:35 Thou gavest me no kiss, but this woman
21:37 since the time I came in, hath not ceased to kiss my feet.
21:41 My head with oil thou didst not anoint,
21:43 but she hath anointed my feet with ointment.
21:45 Wherefore I say unto thee, verse 47, her sins,
21:48 which are many, are forgiven for she loved how much? Much.
21:55 But to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.
21:58 This woman loved Jesus not this much.
22:04 Not this much, she loved Jesus this much.
22:14 How much do you love Jesus?
22:15 Show me, come on show me, show me, show me.
22:19 Don't hit anyone.
22:20 Don't knock anyone's glasses off.
22:21 How much do you love Gees? This much?
22:23 Do you wish your hands were longer? Yes.
22:26 Love Jesus this much or someone did.
22:31 Got to be careful with your fingers there.
22:32 This is love
22:36 and Jesus said, but to whom little is forgiven,
22:39 the same person loveth little.
22:40 She was forgiven much because He said in verse 47,
22:44 her sins, which are many,
22:49 and so she had an imperishable love for her Savior.
22:53 He who delivered her from sin,
22:58 go right to the Chapter 8 of the Book of Luke, verse 1.
23:04 And it came to pass afterwards,
23:05 that he went throughout every city and village preaching
23:08 and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom
23:10 and the twelve were with him, verse 2 Luke 8.
23:13 And certain women,
23:14 which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities,
23:17 Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils.
23:21 She began following Jesus around.
23:25 And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod's steward,
23:28 and Susanna, and many others,
23:30 which ministered unto him of their substance,
23:32 she began to follow Jesus around,
23:35 because of what Jesus had done for her she loved Him.
23:41 Isn't any wonder in John Chapter 20 reading for verse 17,
23:44 we find Jesus saying unto her, touch me not,
23:46 for I have not yet ascended to my Father.
23:48 She was first at that tomb.
23:54 Now let's go back to Friday afternoon.
23:59 Mary Magdalene did not walk away from the body of Christ
24:01 because she didn't love Him.
24:08 She returned, prepared spices and ointments
24:13 Luke 23, verse 56 and rested the Sabbath day
24:19 according to the commandment.
24:23 "Don't Do Me No Favors."
24:27 We at Seventh-day Adventist,
24:29 we're skilled in the art of creative thinking.
24:36 How to get around God's law?
24:41 And we say I see no problem with skiing on the Sabbath
24:47 because I'm out in nature or going down
24:52 to the lake for a swim
24:53 because we after all we promote the health message.
24:59 What's wrong with a little golf on the Sabbath?
25:04 And we always as I said two nights ago,
25:06 Nickel and dimming God,
25:08 what's wrong with this onto Sabbath,
25:09 this onto Sabbath.
25:10 We should view it the other way around.
25:12 What can I do to be sure? I don't offend a God I love.
25:19 He died for me. He bled for me.
25:22 He suffered for me.
25:23 Gave His life, took the risk of never seeing His father again.
25:27 Through His sacrifice, Ellen White informs us,
25:30 there was a rupture, a tearing,
25:32 a rending in the God head that will never happen again
25:36 and Jesus calls there and He did it to save me
25:40 and to save you.
25:42 Jesus didn't look for ways to get out.
25:45 Yes, He said, if it be possible,
25:47 but He was very quick to add nevertheless.
25:53 We must look for ways to honor God,
25:55 not look for ways to get around God.
25:58 The converted heart looks for ways to honor God
26:01 and to obey Him and to serve Him as an expression of love.
26:07 And so they returned and prepared spices and ointments
26:10 and left the carcass and the corpse
26:12 and I speak respectfully of Jesus Christ in that grave.
26:16 Somehow in her heart, Mary Magdalene knew
26:19 that if Jesus got up at that very moment for five seconds,
26:22 He would have said, Mary Magdalene,
26:23 what are you doing on My holy day?
26:28 Have you forgotten
26:29 I'm the one who spoken from Sinai,
26:32 go back and keep My Sabbath
26:35 and let the dead bury their dead.
26:42 Mary, don't do me no favor.
26:48 Just obey me.
26:52 Let me tell you I'm so glad, the Bible gives us information
26:56 of how much this woman loved Jesus.
27:00 Because it must be clear to you and to me by now
27:03 that walking away from the body of Christ was an act of love.
27:11 The highest expression of love to God is to do what He says.
27:19 Now I realize we've difficulty blending love with obedience.
27:26 There's something about obedience
27:27 to our carnal nature that is anti love,
27:30 but until someone can give me some other explanation
27:33 for John 12:15, if you love me John 14:15,
27:37 if you love Me, finish it--
27:39 Keep My commandments. Who said that?
27:42 Jesus. To whom?
27:44 Us. Us.
27:46 If you love Me, keep My commandments.
27:55 Holiness is a life of obedience.
28:01 It is no wonder that God the Father honored Mary Magdalene
28:04 by allowing her to be the first human being to see Jesus
28:07 when He came out of that grave
28:09 because she had been made a holy woman
28:13 with an obedient heart.
28:17 And I'm saying to you and to me a truly converted person
28:21 finds his or her greatest delight
28:23 in obeying the will of the Father.
28:31 What excuse do you have for not obeying God?
28:39 Do you or do I find ourselves trying to create excuses
28:44 to get around God's requirements.
28:49 Do we find ourselves arguing obedience against love,
28:55 forgetting that the commandments are these love to God
28:59 and love to your fellowmen?
29:04 We're living in the end of time.
29:07 How many of you believe that? Quickly.
29:09 We really are.
29:11 Now I realize we say that all the time
29:15 and we ought to keep saying it.
29:18 Because it was said in the days of Paul that's 2,000 years ago.
29:22 You don't have to be a Christian to realize
29:24 and conclude if it was close in his day
29:26 it is frighteningly close today.
29:30 It is unsettlingly close today.
29:33 Now what I propose to you is if you believe
29:38 that the coming of Christ is near
29:40 and Christ isn't coming to save,
29:41 He's coming to execute judgment.
29:43 He's coming to take the sin out of this world.
29:46 One thousand years in heaven with Him,
29:47 He comes back and He gives to the lost
29:48 what they fully deserve.
29:50 If we believe He's coming soon, our lives must change.
29:57 Our priorities must change.
30:00 We must develop and cultivate the mindset of Mary Magdalene.
30:06 There's no circumstance. There's no pretext.
30:09 There's no excuse under which I will disobey God.
30:14 Not even to embalm the body of God.
30:16 That's not a good enough excuse to violate His Sabbath.
30:20 I'll leave His dead body in the ground.
30:23 Go away, obey Him, and come back.
30:32 Have you ever heard of the three Hebrew boys?
30:36 Now it would've been easy for them to kneel,
30:42 the music plays, the drums, the whatever.
30:46 Everyone is mentally dulled by the music
30:51 and they kneel, and people get up,
30:52 and go on home, they go home
30:53 they say Lord, I'm sorry.
30:57 Case closed.
31:01 But with God, have they gotten any glory by their kneeling?
31:04 No.
31:07 Daniel, as I told you last night or the night before,
31:09 could've prayed with his window closed.
31:11 He could've avoided the controversy.
31:15 But he didn't do that.
31:17 He prayed as he had always prayed
31:20 and risked the jaws of half-starved lions.
31:27 All I'm promoting this evening is that we,
31:31 in this conference, must make up our minds.
31:37 And the most important thing in life to me is to please God.
31:43 Not your spouse, not your children, God.
31:50 And we will discover that when we please God first,
31:54 we may end up pleasing other people more
31:57 than we would had we tried to put the people first.
32:01 God requires first place in our life,
32:05 thou shall have no other gods before me.
32:13 And there is no set of circumstances
32:15 that can be accepted as justification
32:18 for violating the smallest requirement of God.
32:21 Now am I a legalist? No.
32:25 I'm talking, I believe, to people who are already saved.
32:30 Am I right? Am I right? Yes.
32:34 Now, how does a saved person live?
32:37 What have you been saved from? What is sin?
32:43 Then when you're saved from sin,
32:44 what are you saved from?
32:46 Transgression of the law
32:48 and you're saved to observance of the law.
32:53 Let me say it again some of you missed it.
32:57 Christ through His death resurrection saves us
33:00 from disobedience and saves us into obedience.
33:06 Does not the Bible say, by the disobedience of one,
33:10 many were made sinners,
33:12 even so by the obedience of one.
33:19 But that obedience has to come from the heart.
33:24 No Pharisees will be in heaven.
33:28 No hypocrites in heaven. No legalists in heaven.
33:33 Only those who appreciate the sacrifice of Christ so much
33:38 that their obedience to Him is considered by them
33:41 a small expression of thanks.
33:45 And we wish we could do more to express our thanks.
33:49 You see when you're saved by Jesus
33:51 and you recognize it,
33:52 the principle of reciprocity begins
33:55 to move in your breast.
33:57 What is the principle of reciprocity?
34:01 Let me tell you what it is.
34:03 I've told the story number of times.
34:05 You may have heard it before. Well, hear it again.
34:09 Several years ago, I was driving from
34:11 the University of Michigan Medical School
34:12 where I was working at the time.
34:13 It was winter. It was a Wednesday.
34:15 I was on my way to prayer meeting.
34:17 Now like all good levites,
34:18 you don't distract a Seventh-day Adventist
34:21 on his way to prayer meeting.
34:23 You just don't do that.
34:25 If you're wounded on the side of the road,
34:26 pick another day to be wounded not on a Wednesday.
34:30 So I was driving and this traffic was slow,
34:32 and snow all over the place, it's cold,
34:34 and I'm thanking God for a car with heat.
34:38 And I look to my left, there's a man in the snow bank
34:41 and he's on the road.
34:43 His car is in the ditch.
34:45 He doesn't really have a thick coat.
34:48 And I said, well, he would die and I kept driving.
34:53 Let me tell you something,
34:56 the Spirit of God spoke to me immediately,
34:59 almost like a slap.
35:03 Turn around, you hypocrite, in a suit,
35:06 turn around!
35:09 I made a U turn on an icy road.
35:15 There's no need for a spirit to slap you twice.
35:17 You may not recover from the second slap.
35:19 So when He slaps you once, just obey.
35:22 Come on say, amen. Amen.
35:23 I made an illegal U turn.
35:27 I'm glad the Ten Commandments don't say,
35:28 "Thou shall not make a U turn."
35:29 I made that U turn and I went back.
35:33 I'm talking about the law of reciprocity
35:35 and I got out I was cold too.
35:39 And I said to the man, what's wrong?
35:40 And I got up to him and I smelled
35:42 the reality of his drunken condition.
35:45 I said, oh, Lord,
35:46 that's all I need a drunk man in winter
35:48 on the side of the road.
35:50 He said a truck hit me, knocked me in the ditch,
35:52 and the guy just kept going.
35:55 I said, all right, here's what we'll do.
35:57 Get into my car.
35:58 And I'll drive you to a gas station
36:00 to get a wrecker and come back.
36:03 And for those of you who don't know what a wrecker is,
36:05 it's a vehicle that pulls cars out of ditches
36:09 if you're listening in Norway.
36:12 And so he got into my car and he's cursing,
36:16 using foul language, not being mean,
36:18 but that's the way he talks.
36:20 He's cursing, wants to smoke, I said, please no,
36:23 help you and me, don't smoke.
36:25 And he's drunk, but I'm taking this man to a gas station.
36:28 We got to the gas station. I explained the situation.
36:30 The wrecker guy said follow me--
36:32 or I'll follow you so I started back to this place
36:36 of catastrophe and the wrecker was following me.
36:38 We got there.
36:39 The wrecker jumped out, did his thing,
36:41 pulled he car out of the ditch.
36:44 The wrecker did up his bill and gave it to,
36:47 he said who gets this?
36:48 I said he gets it.
36:49 So the man said, I don't have any money.
36:55 I wish you told me that before.
36:58 That would really have tested my Christianity.
37:00 He said, I don't have any money.
37:05 So I said okay.
37:07 I reached into my pocket took care of that,
37:11 gave the money to the wrecker man
37:13 or the man in the in.
37:15 And the wrecker went on his way.
37:18 And the man was so grateful.
37:20 He hugged me at the side of the road
37:23 and won't let me go.
37:27 I don't know what to do.
37:28 Here's this man in public hugging me
37:29 and won't let me go.
37:31 So I answered its okay, its okay,
37:33 you don't need to hug me this long.
37:34 It's okay.
37:37 So he said to me, here's my telephone number call me.
37:40 We're talking about the law of reciprocity.
37:42 So I said okay. I called him a few weeks later.
37:44 He said come visit me. I went.
37:48 I walked into the man's house smelling of smoke.
37:51 And as I sat down, we exchanged a few pleasantries.
37:53 He took a Bible from off some shelf somewhere.
37:56 This actually happened. He handed me the Bible.
37:59 We're talking about the law of reciprocity.
38:01 He handed me the Bible and he said
38:03 what do you want me to do?
38:10 Well, I took a deep breath that allows you
38:14 to take time to recover you see,
38:15 you take a deep breath.
38:17 Look like you're under control and I said,
38:19 I want you to do precisely nothing.
38:22 He said no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
38:25 What do you want me to do?
38:28 And I said after a second deep breath,
38:30 I want you to do nothing, he said mm-hmm.
38:35 You tell me what to do and I'll do it.
38:40 So I said we'll read chapter this chapter
38:41 that and pray and.
38:43 He said okay. Never saw him again.
38:47 Why did he insist tell me what to do?
38:52 What was he experiencing?
38:55 Gratitude and the force of gratitude drove him
39:00 to offer himself to me.
39:03 What I'm saying is when we realize
39:05 that Jesus Christ has pulled us by His shed blood
39:08 from the ditch of sin and death,
39:11 we from our honest hearts will say Lord,
39:14 what will thou have me to do?
39:20 That's reciprocity.
39:22 You saved me, I want to show You
39:25 how grateful I'm, here is my life.
39:29 Anything You say, I'll do.
39:33 Anything You ask, I'll respond.
39:35 Anywhere You send, I will go as an expression
39:40 of an eternal gratitude for a sacrifice whose benefits
39:44 I shall enjoy eternally.
39:48 Mary Magdalene grateful for deliverance from sin,
39:53 she looked at the body of her Savior.
39:57 She looked at God's commandments,
39:59 and she knew in her heart that her dead Savior
40:04 would want her to leave His body and obey His commandment.
40:13 And so Jesus says to you and to me tonight,
40:15 "Don't Do Me No Favors, just do what I say.
40:19 Just obey me."
40:21 Holiness is a life of loving obedience to God.
40:27 And I stress loving obedience
40:30 because we are so thankful that we've been saved.
40:35 It could be that many of us really
40:38 we have not yet been converted.
40:41 We have been improved.
40:45 And an improved person does not understand
40:49 what Jesus did.
40:50 As a matter of fact,
40:51 you don't need Jesus to experience improvement.
40:55 I have a friend who used to drink.
40:59 Now he's a Christian.
41:00 And I'm giving example of some things
41:02 people can do for themselves.
41:03 He used to drink until one day he got sick
41:05 and tired of drinking and he said,
41:06 "I'm tired of this."
41:07 And he just stopped. He just stopped.
41:12 There're many people who stopped lifelong habits
41:15 because they were finally sick and tired,
41:17 didn't really cry or pray.
41:19 They aren't Christians. They just stopped.
41:22 That is not conversion.
41:25 There're many people who're tired of
41:26 a life of being crass and uncouth.
41:30 And they've decided to become more smooth,
41:32 and urbane, and polite, and courteous, and sociable.
41:38 That's not conversion.
41:41 There are some people who hear the gospel
41:43 and they listen very carefully and it makes sense to them.
41:47 It is logical, okay.
41:48 I connect this point to that point,
41:50 to that point I cannot produce a competing argument.
41:54 So because I'm a decent person and I see your logic,
41:57 I will go with your logic. That's not conversion.
42:01 You're convinced. You're not converted.
42:04 Let me tell you about conversion.
42:06 And then I'm done.
42:08 I was conducting a crusade in Uganda
42:10 in the summer of 2000 in a town called Masaka.
42:15 And the second night, I believe,
42:18 of that first week, a young man came to the crusade
42:22 and after I was finished preaching,
42:23 someone came to me and said Elder Skeete,
42:25 there's a young man who wants to talk to you.
42:26 So I stepped off the stage and went to the back.
42:29 It was a structure that had been built of little tree limbs
42:33 and I went back and here was this nice looking young fellow.
42:36 He said, "I need to talk to you."
42:37 " I said, "Fine."
42:39 "I just got out of prison and I've lived the life.
42:44 I'm sick of a life of crime."
42:46 And I'm trying to paraphrase what he said.
42:48 Apparently, he was walking somewhere
42:49 and saw a hand bell on the ground
42:52 or someone gave him one and he decided to change his course
42:55 and come to the crusade.
42:57 And whatever he heard convicted him immediately so he came.
42:59 He said, "I'm tired of a life of sin,
43:02 a life of being in prison.
43:03 And I want my life to change."
43:04 I said, "Okay, let's pray."
43:06 And I want you to come every night to the crusade.
43:07 He said, "Okay."
43:09 We prayed, led him in a prayer of confession, repentance.
43:12 He left, he kept coming almost every night.
43:14 He'd come back to the tent, I'd pray for Him.
43:16 Then he said to me, he said, he said,
43:18 "Pastor, I want to confess something to you.
43:21 I stole a man's bicycle. " I said, "All right."
43:25 He said, "And I want to give it back.
43:27 But I don't know where he is."
43:30 I said, "Well, you keep praying
43:31 and the Lord understands
43:33 it's in your heart to give it back.
43:34 The Lord won't hold you guilty,
43:35 if you've confessed because you can't find the man.
43:37 So you keep praying for the man
43:38 that he's not too inconvenienced by the loss of his vehicle
43:41 and you continue serving God."
43:43 The crusade was over, I left Uganda.
43:45 I went back the next year for another crusade,
43:48 two crusades in 2001.
43:50 And between the two crusades,
43:51 I took sometime to go visit the folk
43:53 who were baptized at that crusade the year before.
43:55 He was there.
43:58 I'm talking about conversion and conviction.
44:02 He said, "Pastor, I want to tell you something."
44:05 I knew exactly what he was about to say.
44:09 But never steal a person's thunder.
44:10 So I acted as if I didn't know.
44:12 I said, "What is it?"
44:14 He said, "I found that man. I apologized to him.
44:20 Gave him back what was his."
44:22 He said, "Pastor, I feel free."
44:26 And really that's a converted man.
44:30 That's convicted.
44:31 Now he can't explain 2300 day prophecy.
44:36 He can't explain the similarity
44:38 between the Angel of Revelation 10
44:40 and the Angel of Revelation 14:6.
44:41 He can't do it yet.
44:43 But he knew, he needs to make wrong things right.
44:46 That's conversion. That's conviction.
44:49 I'm saying it could be some of us have been improved
44:53 but not convicted or converted.
44:57 A converted person is uncomfortable with that,
45:01 which makes Christ unhappy.
45:05 And so forget all the favors you
45:06 and I want to do for Jesus.
45:09 Let's stop breaking His heart.
45:12 Let us seek holiness without which,
45:17 no man can see God, no man.
45:21 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved,
45:23 let us cleanse ourselves of all filthiness
45:25 of the flesh and spirit,
45:26 perfecting Holiness in the fear of God.
45:33 Can you do it of your own power? Absolutely not.
45:36 Holiness is a quality of God
45:39 and it comes from God to us who trust Him
45:41 and serve Him by faith.
45:44 the Bible says,
45:46 For they verily for a few days chastened us
45:49 after their pleasure, but he for our profit,
45:51 that we might be partakers of his what? Holiness.
45:57 Holiness is a life of conformity to God's expressed will.
46:07 How many of you want to please Jesus?
46:09 Can I see your hands?
46:10 You want to plea-- and be serious please.
46:12 You want to please Jesus, can I see your hands?
46:15 Would you stand, follow your hands to your feet, please.
46:19 You want to please Jesus Christ, your Savior,
46:27 sharing in His holiness.
46:32 You don't have that road of Holiness.
46:33 There's no admission to the pearly gates.
46:39 And you're standing to say,
46:41 "Father in heaven I want my life to please Jesus Christ."
46:46 Now let me say something that may sound cold,
46:48 if you stood because you don't want to stand out
46:51 but you didn't mean it, you ought to sit down.
46:59 You really ought to sit down if you didn't mean it.
47:02 But if you meant it, you stay on your feet.
47:06 This is our last meeting together.
47:09 But it's not the last time you'll be blessed.
47:10 This is the last our meeting together.
47:12 And the Lord will bring someone else
47:14 to add to what've you heard.
47:18 But you don't know if you'll be here tomorrow.
47:22 None of us has a receipt for a long life.
47:26 None of us has it.
47:28 The health message doesn't guarantee a long life.
47:31 It guarantees a healthy life for as long as you live.
47:33 All the soy milk in the world can't keep you
47:35 from getting hit by a bus.
47:40 But it allows us to live healthy life
47:42 so for the duration of our lives we are useful to God 100%.
47:46 What I'm saying is you don't know
47:48 if you'll be here tomorrow night.
47:49 And I'm not trying to scare anyone
47:51 because I don't know if I'll be here tomorrow night either.
47:55 Jesus said, "Today."
47:59 If you will hear his voice, "Harden not your heart."
48:06 I'll ask you an unusual question I usually ask.
48:10 Is there someone here who has been fighting
48:12 the conviction of the Holy Spirit this week
48:14 and you're hardening your heart?
48:16 If there's someone like that,
48:17 you've been hardening your heart,
48:19 raise your hand.
48:20 You've been hardening your heart.
48:21 Come, come.
48:23 You've been hardening your heart, raise your hand.
48:26 Come, my good brother.
48:27 Someone greet him as he comes, please. Come.
48:30 If you've raised your hand, come.
48:31 There's a vast audience, I can't see everyone.
48:33 You know you've been hardening your heart.
48:35 Come right upstairs, come right, come right,
48:37 This way with us, please. God bless you.
48:38 You know you've been hardening your heart,
48:40 raise your hand and come.
48:43 In every congregation, there're people who fight
48:45 and they say, "I will not go long.
48:47 I will not obey. I will not do it.
48:48 I will not let the Spirit soften my heart."
48:50 If you know you've been doing that
48:52 come with your hard heart, bring it. Come.
48:57 Raise that hand and bring that hard heart?
48:59 Jesus will soften it tonight.
49:02 God bless you, my good brother.
49:03 God bless you. Come, come.
49:05 Bring your hard heart, come, come.
49:09 I'm just calling the hard hearted.
49:11 Fighting Jesus, fighting the conviction. You come.
49:16 If you're trialed and your heart has moved,
49:18 tell your parents, mother I need to go
49:21 and respond to this call.
49:22 I'm calling the hard of heart.
49:25 But who are clearly honest in heart.
49:28 Come, let Jesus soften the heart right now.
49:31 He is the only one who can.
49:33 Anyone else, you've been hardening your hearts
49:36 because you're not yet ready to give it all to Christ.
49:39 Bring that hard heart.
49:40 Let Jesus do what He does best. Anyone else? Come.
49:47 I won't hold you long.
49:50 Come, bring your hard heart and come.
49:53 Jesus knows how to soften hard hearts.
49:55 He really does.
49:56 Anyone else I believe there're others.
49:58 I believe that.
50:00 Few people want to show publicly their hearts were hard
50:02 but that's the first step to a soft heart.
50:04 God bless, this man. Who else?
50:11 Maybe right now you're hardening your heart
50:12 against this call, come.
50:16 Be impetuous, be a reckless, and you step out and come.
50:19 Bring that heart to Christ.
50:23 I'm just calling for heard hearts.
50:27 Am I to believe all the hard hearts are here?
50:32 Anyone else?
50:35 The rest of you should be praying
50:36 that God will soften hearts, please.
50:40 Come, my good brother, come.
50:43 Bring the hard hearts to Christ.
50:44 Come my sister, come.
50:46 Bring that hard heart and give it to Jesus Christ.
50:51 He's happy to take it.
50:53 Come right up, my good brother, come right up, right up.
50:55 God bless you. Someone help him out, please.
50:57 Don't let him walk alone. Bring the hard heart.
51:02 And I pray Father in Heaven,
51:03 give strength to my brothers and sisters on their feet.
51:05 Give them strength.
51:06 Please on their feet, please. Come, sister.
51:10 God bless you.
51:12 Will the other hard hearts, please come?
51:16 Just leave the seat and come.
51:21 Who else has a hard heart?
51:23 Come, don't let anyone stop you.
51:24 Take your hand out of your spouse's hand and come.
51:27 Selfishness one on one with Jesus Christ.
51:29 You come.
51:30 Bring that hard resisting heart and come.
51:39 Come, sister. If you're coming, come.
51:42 Come, come, come right around.
51:44 Someone go greet her, please.
51:47 Jesus shed His blood for her, she's precious.
51:49 Bring the hard hearts.
51:52 And I pray God give you strength as you stand,
51:54 give you strength as you stand.
51:55 Sister, God bless you. You're fighting God.
51:59 And you're fighting Him with gloves on.
52:02 And yet He loves you. Bring that hard heart.
52:05 Not to me, to Jesus. Bring it.
52:10 The rest of the hard hearts, please come quickly so we--
52:12 I can move to the next appeal.
52:13 Please come.
52:15 And I don't mind begging you this is life and death. Come.
52:18 The sooner you give the hard heart to Jesus,
52:20 the less likely you are to remain hard
52:21 for the rest of your life.
52:22 Who else will come, bring that hard heart.
52:24 I'm only calling the hard of heart.
52:28 But I'll tell you what the fact that they came tells me,
52:31 there're a soft area in that hard heart.
52:34 Come on and say amen.
52:35 And Jesus just wants that. He can work on it.
52:38 That's all He needs, one little soft area in the hard heart.
52:43 A hard heart can be an honest heart too.
52:44 Come, anyone else? Anyone else?
52:50 Last night, I made an appeal to baptism,
52:52 some people came forward.
52:54 If you're here, just raise your hands.
52:56 Those who came forward for baptism last night,
52:57 raise your hands.
52:59 I want you to slip out and come right this side.
53:01 Come quickly, come this side.
53:04 You came last night, come this side.
53:07 Jesus has a way of calling people twice
53:08 Moses, Moses, Abraham, Abraham, Simon, Simon, Martha, Martha.
53:12 He's calling you twice, come right here.
53:16 Come right here.
53:19 Joseph told Pharaoh that a vision was doubled to him
53:22 that a thing may be established of the Lord twice.
53:24 Come right here or anyone who wants to make the decision
53:27 for baptism for the first time tonight, you come.
53:31 You weren't here last night or you didn't make the decision,
53:32 you want to make it tonight, slip out and come.
53:35 We're having a baptism on Sabbath.
53:38 The happiest times in the life of a Christian, you come.
53:42 Spoke to a little girl last night in the office.
53:44 She wants to be baptized and she told her mother.
53:46 The mother brought her to me.
53:47 I said, "Why do you want to be baptized?"
53:49 She said, "I want to be like Jesus."
53:51 Can you say amen? Amen.
53:53 Come, I want to be baptized.
53:56 Who else would make that decision, you come.
54:00 If you're not baptized at Sabbath,
54:02 we can set you up for additional studies.
54:03 You can be baptized sometime in the future.
54:05 But come, make the decision and come.
54:08 Now let me close this appeal and let you go.
54:12 Anyone else?
54:13 I want to be baptized because Jesus asks me,
54:18 the one who died for me.
54:19 God bless my sister who's coming.
54:21 Someone go and shake her hand please, please.
54:24 Okay, someone did it at the bottom of that ramp.
54:27 Okay, anyone else? Anyone else?
54:29 I want to be baptized because Jesus wants me.
54:35 The man who pulled me from that snow bank of sin.
54:39 I will do whatever he says.
54:42 Is there anyone else?
54:46 Let me ask an unusual question
54:48 for a camp meeting of Seventh-day Adventist.
54:50 Is there someone listening to me tonight
54:53 who has never surrendered their life to Jesus?
54:58 Let me see your hand. You really never have.
55:01 You've never really surrendered your life to Jesus.
55:03 Can I see your hand, anyone?
55:09 If you see a hand and I don't see it point it out to me.
55:12 Sister, come, come, come. Don't be impatient.
55:16 The Lord will strengthen you.
55:17 If you need to sit for physical reasons,
55:19 do that without disturbing anyone.
55:21 But come.
55:23 Never really surrendered their life to Christ, you come.
55:25 I want her right next to me.
55:27 Bring her right next to me.
55:29 Anyone else, you've never really surrendered your life, come.
55:36 This is very serious. Please pray in your hearts.
55:38 Please pray in your hearts. Bring that sister.
55:45 Is there anyone here who is not a Seventh-day Adventist?
55:48 You're visiting, let me see your hand.
55:51 You're just visiting. God bless you.
55:53 You're visiting.
55:58 Are there spouses here
56:00 who are married to Seventh-day Adventists
56:02 but you're not a Seventh-day Adventist
56:03 and you want to say, Lord, I want to study some more.
56:06 I have a good heart.
56:07 Open the way for me to accept
56:09 what my spouse has been following all these years.
56:11 Let me see your hand.
56:13 Your spouse is an Adventist, you're not.
56:15 But you're open to additional study.
56:17 Can I see your hand if you are here? Okay.
56:23 I thank God for those who've come.
56:26 Can you say amen? Amen.
56:29 Now I want to pray for my sister first.
56:34 I'll lead you in a prayer of confession
56:37 and total acceptance of Christ.
56:40 I want you to pray in your hearts.
56:42 Do you give me permission to pray to God for you?
56:44 Yes. Good.
56:46 Do you all agree I must pray for her?
56:48 Yes. All right, every head bowed.
56:50 Every eye closed.
56:51 My sister, come close to the mike.
56:52 I want you to say after me. Dear Father in Heaven,
56:55 Dear Father in Heaven,
56:56 I come to you tonight, I come to you tonight,
56:59 To give my heart to you. To give my heart to you.
57:01 I am a sinner. I am a sinner.
57:03 I give my heart to you now, I give my heart to you now,
57:07 Because I cannot save myself. Because I cannot save myself.
57:10 I believe with all my heart and soul,
57:12 I believe with all my heart and soul,
57:13 That Jesus is my Savior. That Jesus is my Savior.
57:16 I accept His shed blood, I accept His shed blood,
57:19 As payment for my sins. As payment for my sins.
57:22 I accept His resurrected life, I accept His resurrected life,
57:25 As the power to live victoriously.
57:27 As the power to live victoriously.
57:29 Father, I'm all yours tonight. Father, I'm all yours tonight.
57:32 Fill me with your spirit, Fill me with your spirit,
57:34 That I may live for you day by day.
57:36 That I may live for you day by day.
57:37 Bless my family. Bless my family.
57:39 Keep me faithful. Keep me faithful.
57:41 I thank you for saving me, I thank you for saving me,
57:44 In Jesus' name. In Jesus' name.
57:45 Amen. Amen.
57:46 What do you say? Amen.
57:48 Sister, what's your name? Angie.
57:50 Sister Angie, let the church say amen.
57:51 Amen. Yes.
57:52 Okay, sister Angie, you step right here.
57:54 Those with the hard hearts come please,
57:56 come, come, please.
57:58 Be patient with Jesus, please.
57:59 Come. God bless you.
58:02 You don't know how happy I am to see you.
58:04 You really don't.
58:06 Now I don't want to be skinning and grinning
58:07 to the pulpit, but you need to understand
58:08 how happy I am
58:10 because few people could respond to a call like that.
58:14 How many of you will like Jesus to soften your heart tonight?
58:16 Raise your hands. God bless you.
58:19 How many of you believe
58:20 He can soften it in the moment in the twinkling of an eye?
58:23 That's what He's about to do.
58:24 Bow your heads.
58:25 I want each of you to touch someone.
58:27 Link her hand.
58:28 Everyone touch someone, link hands, link hands.
58:31 Each one of you who came forward link hands.
58:34 I like all the ministers to come and surround us please.
58:36 Come and surround us all those who're here.
58:38 Any minister in the congregation.
58:39 Any audient elder come please. Please come.
58:42 Any other minister here, come, please.
58:46 Please come. I want everyone praying.
58:50 This is not a spectator sport. All ministers come.
58:53 Surround God's people.
58:55 The softening process has already begun.
58:56 They don't know of that. Come.


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