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Program Code: PJU190001A
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00:03 Were the people in the Bible any different to us today?
00:10 Or ordinary people like you and me? 00:22 What can we find out 00:23 from their lives that will help us? 00:29 Find out with Pastor Geoff Youlden 00:31 and Rosemary Malkiewycz 00:33 here on, People Just Like Us. 00:37 Welcome to today's program. 00:39 You've joined us for a very interesting series 00:42 on Bible characters. 00:43 And, Geoff, 00:45 who are we going to talk about today? 00:46 The man who forgot. 00:48 Man who forgot. 00:49 Whether he forgot on purpose is for us 00:52 to discuss in our program, but actually, 00:54 our stories today 00:56 centers around three individuals 00:57 who were all in prison. 00:59 They had offended their masters one way or another. 01:02 The third person we know very well 01:04 by the name of Joseph. 01:06 And he offended his master by being loyal 01:09 and being very moral. 01:11 And when part of his wife made sexual advances 01:16 toward him, he refused. 01:18 And as a result, he finished up in prison. 01:22 But to illustrate, Rosemary, the character of Joseph, 01:26 it wasn't very long after he got into prison 01:29 that he was actually in charge of all the other prisoners. 01:31 Yes, that's right. 01:33 And the two latest prisoners 01:35 called the butler and the baker, 01:37 we don't know their names, but just called in the Bible, 01:40 the butler and the baker. 01:43 Were very sad one morning and Joseph saw 01:47 their countenance or their faces were very upset. 01:50 And so he said to them, "What's upsetting you?" 01:54 You know, one of the interesting things 01:55 is that when someone else is in sorrow, 01:59 and you can appreciate 02:00 that Joseph himself was in sorrow 02:01 when he was in prison unjustly. 02:03 Maybe the others were justly in prison. 02:05 But he was certainly unjustly. 02:07 And if there was ever a cause for feeling unjust 02:11 about the whole situation, 02:12 it would have been Joseph. 02:14 But he didn't. 02:15 In fact, he encouraged those other two men, 02:19 and they had a dream. 02:21 And Joseph, who trusted in the Lord said, 02:25 "Look, I know someone who can interpret your dreams." 02:30 And they actually found over here 02:32 in the Book of Genesis Chapter 40. 02:35 And I thought that we might, Rosemary, 02:36 we might read the section 02:40 down in 40:9, 02:43 where it says, 02:45 "Then the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, 02:47 and said to him, 02:48 'Behold, in my dream a vine was before me, 02:51 and in the vine were three branches, 02:54 it was as though it budded, its blossoms shot forth, 02:57 and its clusters brought forth ripe grapes. 03:00 Then Pharaoh's cup was in my hand, 03:02 and I took the grapes 03:04 and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, 03:05 and placed the cup in Pharaoh's hand.' 03:09 And Joseph said to him, 03:10 'This is the interpretation of it, 03:12 The three branches are three days. 03:14 Now within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head 03:17 and restore you to your place, 03:18 and you will put Pharaoh's cup in his hand 03:20 according to the former manner, 03:22 when you were his butler." 03:25 And then, of course, the baker had a dream, as well. 03:30 That's right. 03:31 And Joseph tells about his dream. 03:35 In fact, in Genesis 48:16, it says, 03:38 "When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good," 03:41 he was obviously very encouraged. 03:43 And he thought his was gonna be good too. 03:45 Yes, "he said to Joseph, 'I also was in my dream, 03:48 and there were three white baskets on my head. 03:51 In the uppermost basket 03:52 were all kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh, 03:55 and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head.' 03:58 So Joseph answered and said, 03:59 'This is the interpretation of it, 04:01 The three baskets are three days. 04:04 Within three days 04:05 Pharaoh will lift off your head from you 04:07 and hang you on a tree, 04:09 and the birds will eat your flesh from you.'" 04:11 Oh, that's terrible. 04:13 Well, you can imagine how depressed 04:15 the poor baker would have felt 04:17 with an interpretation like that. 04:19 And on the third day, 04:21 it came to pass exactly as Joseph had said it would. 04:24 And I can just sort of picture in my mind 04:28 these two men going out of the prison 04:29 this particular day, 04:31 and he speaks to the butler, and he's very encouraged, 04:37 of course, he's got his job back. 04:39 And then the baker I can imagine 04:41 that Joseph would be very sad 04:43 because he would know 04:45 that he was walking out to his death. 04:48 And it's interesting in verse 14, 04:52 Joseph makes a very natural human plea 04:56 to the butler when he says, 04:59 "But remember me when it is well with you." 05:02 You know, you can appreciate the fact that 05:04 here is this man who is unjustly in prison, 05:06 but remember me, 05:08 "and please show kindness to me, 05:11 make mention of me to Pharaoh, and get me out of this house." 05:15 Yes. No. 05:17 I mean, he'd been in it for years. 05:18 Yes. 05:19 I mean, and by the way, the prisons back in those days 05:22 weren't like they are today. 05:23 Well, he says there in verse 15, 05:25 he was actually in the dungeon. 05:26 Yes, well, there were no windows, 05:28 no toilet facilities, 05:30 no septic tanks running. 05:32 So you can just imagine the stench of the place 05:35 after they'd been there for, you know, for a while. 05:38 But unfortunately, 05:40 if you come down to verse 23 of the 40th chapter, it says, 05:43 "Yet the chief butler did not remember Joseph, 05:49 but forgot him." 05:51 How sad that really is. 05:53 Now, this just gets back to the fact 05:55 did he have a memory lapse 05:56 while he was in prison and when he was released, 05:58 or did he do it on purpose. 06:02 I'm gonna suggest that actually he purposely forgot. 06:05 Oh, that's interesting. 06:06 I hadn't thought of that before. 06:08 Well, I'll give you a couple of reasons 06:09 why I think that's the case. 06:12 First of all, 06:14 Pharaoh will have had good days and bad days 06:17 and from what we read about the Pharaohs, 06:19 the way they ate and the way they live, 06:21 probably more bad days than good. 06:23 And I think that probably the butler realized 06:25 that if he went to Joseph to Pharaoh and said, 06:28 "Now listen, what about my friend back in prison?" 06:32 If Pharaoh wasn't having a good day, 06:34 he felt that maybe he could have finished up 06:36 back in prison again, 06:37 and he wasn't willing to do that. 06:38 Not even for Joseph sake. 06:41 And the second reason is that the Jews 06:45 were not favorites with the Egyptians. 06:47 And so the butler's friends would have said, 06:50 "What are you doing 06:51 helping those despised Hebrews today?" 06:56 And as time went by, I think that probably Joseph, 07:01 the butler gradually, gradually forgot. 07:05 You know, went out of his mind, out of mind, out of sight, 07:07 out of mind, you know. 07:09 He didn't have a favorable time to say something. 07:12 So he ended up 07:13 forgetting to say anything good. 07:14 Yes, but God hadn't forgotten. 07:16 Two years later, that's a long time. 07:18 I mean, imagine if you were Joseph sitting in there 07:20 and you've done the right thing. 07:22 And everything's happening, 07:23 you're doing the right thing serving God. 07:25 Another two years ago past, and he's still in prison. 07:27 And one day, Pharaoh has a dream. 07:31 And suddenly the butler remembers, 07:35 so he hadn't forgotten, you see, 07:36 he hadn't forgotten at all. 07:38 It was still there but just not ready to remember. 07:40 But he's not remembering 07:42 because he's helping Joseph really. 07:46 We would like to think that 07:47 he starts now to repent of his forgetfulness, 07:51 but I don't think that's the case. 07:53 Actually, he was trying to curry favor 07:55 with Pharaoh because, you know, 07:58 if he was to get Joseph in to tell him the dream 08:01 who would get the credit for bringing Joseph in 08:03 to interpret Pharaoh's dream. 08:05 So really, once again, it was a selfish motive 08:08 that the butler had in remembering Joseph. 08:13 And so here we find this whole story. 08:17 And I guess too, Rosemary, by this stage, 08:21 even though Joseph was not that old, 08:23 he would have been in his 20s, 08:25 perhaps mid 20s by this stage. 08:29 He was beginning to learn a little bit 08:31 about human nature. 08:32 First of all, he remembered 08:34 about the jealousy of his brothers. 08:37 So he'd learned about jealousy in a pretty serious way. 08:40 That's why he finished up in Egypt. 08:41 That's why he end up being a slave. 08:42 Yes. 08:44 Then secondly, 08:45 he learned about lust and lying with Pharaoh's... 08:49 With Potiphar's wife. Potiphar's wife. 08:52 And... 08:53 End up in jail because she lied. 08:55 Yes. And then... 08:57 And then, of course, the ingratitude, 08:59 he learned about ingratitude of the butler. 09:02 So three important traits of human nature. 09:05 And that for Joseph learned when he was very young. 09:11 And once again it brings 09:13 the whole point of the story and the reason why 09:15 I want to talk about this story today 09:16 is because of ingratitude. 09:19 You know, this is a perfect illustration 09:21 of human beings 09:24 and the ingratitude that many people manifest 09:28 in their life. 09:29 You know, God gives us wonderful blessings. 09:32 Story that's in the Bible, in the New Testament 09:36 that's full of ingratitude. 09:37 There's a story of... 09:39 Remember the 10 lepers? 09:40 Yes. 09:41 Only one came back. Yes. 09:43 You know, you would think I mean, 09:45 that was a death sentence 09:46 when you had leprosy back in those days. 09:49 And you would think that when you are healed, 09:52 you'd come back and say 09:54 thank you to the one who healed you, 09:56 you would think that, 09:58 but only one of those lepers came back. 10:01 And that one was a foreigner. 10:03 He was a hated Samaritan. 10:05 Isn't it interesting? 10:07 The ingratitude that we have. 10:10 I mean, King David also, I picked up in the Bible there. 10:15 Recently I was reading the Book of Psalms 10:17 and King David had done one of his friends 10:21 a great service and helped him 10:25 and he showed absolute ingratitude to David 10:30 who had risked his life for him. 10:32 And I was reading in Psalm 55, 10:37 with David himself, 10:39 obviously it worried him and it upset him 10:42 because this is what he said in the Psalms 55... 10:52 We're down here in verse 12. 10:55 He says, "For it is not an enemy 10:58 who reproaches me. 10:59 Then I could bear it." 11:01 Yes, that's true. 11:02 If someone, you know he doesn't like you. 11:04 Yes, really upset. 11:05 You can expect that 11:07 they will do something against you to hurt you. 11:09 They're not very favorable toward me. 11:12 So I expect them to treat me badly. 11:16 But he says, "Then I could bear it 11:19 if I knew it was my enemy. 11:21 Nor is it one who hates me 11:23 who has exalted himself against me." 11:27 This is what the stress poking David. 11:30 "Then I could hide from him. 11:32 But it was you, a man my equal, 11:36 my companion and my acquaintance. 11:39 We took sweet counsel together, 11:41 and walked to the house of God in the throng." 11:44 So you can see poor David as he's contemplating 11:48 and then thinking about this person 11:50 who would let him down so seriously, 11:54 and, you know, we walked, we had sweet counsel together, 11:58 which means they were deeply in a friendship. 12:02 But they went to church together as companions, 12:05 as friends to worship God. 12:09 You would expect that you had a good communication 12:12 and good relationship. 12:13 And then he says in verse 16, 12:15 "As for me, I will call upon God, 12:19 and the Lord shall save me. 12:22 Evening and morning, at noon I will pray, 12:24 and cry aloud, and He shall hear my voice. 12:28 He has redeemed my soul in peace 12:30 from the battle that was against me." 12:32 In other words, David felt reconciliation 12:36 and he felt 12:40 an emotion of appeasement 12:42 when he thought about God 12:43 that God was his helper and... 12:48 God would stand up for him in the situation. 12:50 Yes. 12:52 It's really terrible when you feel like 12:54 a friend has let you down. 12:56 A friend has spoken against you, 12:58 a friend has done something to hurt you 13:01 when you've trusted that person. 13:03 Correct. 13:04 And then finally find out 13:05 that person wasn't a friend at all. 13:07 No, that's what poor David here is expressing and... 13:11 But he knows that God is his friend. 13:13 That's right. 13:14 That God will never let him down. 13:16 One of the charming things, Rosemary, 13:18 that I find about the Apostle Paul and, 13:21 you know, we often think about Paul 13:23 as the big preacher, and the establishing churches 13:27 and doing all the wonderful things 13:29 that the Apostle Paul did. 13:31 But one of the things that impresses me 13:33 about the humanity of all 13:34 is the fact that he was always very grateful 13:39 to those who had helped him. 13:41 Come over to Romans 16 with me, if you wouldn't mind, 13:44 Romans Chapter 16. 13:47 And it's interesting here in this chapter, 13:50 he records by name 13:55 and he reminds the Romans of the gratitude 13:59 that he has for certain individuals, 14:01 like for example, verse 3, where he says, 14:06 "Greet Priscilla and Aquila, 14:08 my fellow workers in Christ Jesus." 14:12 You know, he could have written the Book of Romans 14:14 without mentioning Aquila and Priscilla. 14:16 Yeah. But he remembers them. 14:18 And then it says in verse 4, 14:20 "Who risked their own necks for my life, 14:23 to whom not only I give thanks, 14:25 but also all the churches of the Gentiles." 14:28 So then he says, 14:29 "Why he wants them to greet him?" 14:31 Because he's grateful for what they did for him. 14:33 Yes, yes, indeed. 14:36 And verse 8 says, "Greet Amplias, 14:39 my beloved in the Lord." 14:41 So here's another person 14:42 that Paul felt great gratitude 14:46 for helping him. 14:48 And then down in verse 12. 14:50 "Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, who have labored in the Lord. 14:55 Greet the beloved Persis, who labored much in the Lord." 14:59 And then verse 13, 15:01 "Greek Rufus, chosen in the Lord, 15:03 and his mother and mine." 15:05 So obviously Rufus's mother 15:07 had a very close connection to Paul, 15:10 whenever he visited in the area where she lived. 15:14 And so it impresses me that even though 15:17 Paul was the great evangelist, he was a great preacher, 15:20 he was the great traveler, he was the great character, 15:25 and all the things that we appreciate about Paul. 15:29 Nevertheless, he was not to be to remember 15:33 and to thank the little people that affected his life 15:38 in a very positive way. 15:39 In fact, in that section there, he greets many, 15:42 many different people for different reasons. 15:46 Some of them we've never heard 15:47 of anywhere else in the Bible... 15:48 But where he mentions them here. 15:50 That's right. But they were important to him. 15:51 Correct. 15:53 Because he could see in them the working of God's character 15:57 and they were working for God. 15:59 They were helping other people and him so. 16:02 Well, I think, Rosemary, that's a great example for us 16:05 that none of us should be too busy, 16:08 no matter what, who we are, 16:09 and no matter what we do to remember those 16:11 and sometimes they are the little people 16:14 who assist us along the way. 16:16 And I've often thought how much sweeter 16:19 our homes would be 16:20 if we express to our families. 16:25 How much we appreciate what they do 16:28 and what they have done. 16:29 You know, our parents who, you know, 16:34 have labored when we were naughty children 16:38 did many things that were not good, but they... 16:41 Okay, adolescence. 16:42 Yes, and through adolescence. That's right. 16:44 But they stuck by us and we ought to be 16:47 eternally grateful for them. 16:49 What about even in our churches? 16:51 What about writing an email to someone perhaps 16:55 and expressing to them our gratitude 16:59 and our thanks because... 17:05 there's something that does to a person. 17:09 And I'm sure 17:10 when these people in Paul's experience here 17:13 got this letter and they saw their names, 17:16 and Paul was expressing his gratitude to them. 17:19 There was a warm feeling in their heart. 17:21 Yes. 17:22 They would have felt drawn closer to Paul. 17:25 Yes. 17:26 Because he actually mentioned them 17:28 and he remembered me. 17:30 And so, if we do that for other people, 17:32 it makes other people feel good. 17:33 Why don't we do that? 17:35 I don't know why we don't do it. 17:36 It's something that we need to do more 17:40 than we're doing in the mind. 17:41 Of course, there are some people 17:43 who are very good at it, 17:44 but I'm talking generally in the main, 17:45 you know, get your phone and SMS. 17:48 Or as I say, have an attitude of gratitude. 17:50 Yes. 17:53 That's what we need. 17:55 I'm just so very encouraged as I read here 17:57 in the 16th Chapter of Romans 18:01 to see how the big Paul, 18:04 the great evangelist, didn't forget those people 18:07 that matter to him in his life. 18:10 And as you said before too 18:11 our parents for ourselves today, 18:14 in every generation, we all have parents 18:17 and we should always be ready to thank them. 18:19 Yes. 18:20 And to let them know while they're alive, 18:22 that we're grateful. 18:24 Yeah, well often, you know, 18:25 we say lovely things at their funerals. 18:27 It's amazing, isn't it? 18:29 But that's not very important really, 18:32 that's certainly satisfying ourselves 18:35 or appeasing our own feelings. 18:38 They can't, the person who's died can't hear, 18:40 and it's so important that we express that 18:43 while people are alive. 18:45 And, you know, I think, Rosemary, 18:48 that ingratitude to God is a heinous sin. 18:52 In fact, we've got Romans there, 18:55 just come back to Romans Chapter 1. 18:58 And Romans 1:21 Paul writes this, 19:04 this is pretty heavy stuff when he says, 19:07 "Because, although they knew God, 19:10 and did not glorify Him as God, 19:13 nor were thankful, 19:15 but became futile in their thoughts, 19:17 and their foolish hearts were darkened." 19:20 So here he's talking at the beginning of this book 19:23 about those who 19:25 don't have any gratitude to God. 19:30 You know, I think of the blessings, 19:32 you know, there's a song 19:34 that probably most people have heard. 19:38 Count your many blessings. 19:40 Yes. 19:42 Name them one by one. That's it. 19:43 Yeah, name them one by one. 19:45 And what does it say next? 19:47 See, and you'll be surprised at what the Lord has done. 19:51 In other words, one of the good things to do 19:54 is to put down on a piece of paper 19:56 all the things that we should be grateful for. 20:01 That's right. 20:02 All of us have heard of Robinson Crusoe. 20:05 He is the only man who ever got all his work done by Friday. 20:08 Yes, that's right. 20:10 Very good, Rosemary. 20:11 But, you know, 20:13 when he got landed on that island 20:16 or and found himself all by himself, 20:18 he drew up a little piece of bark. 20:21 I don't know whether he wrote it in the sand 20:23 or how he wrote it. 20:25 But he wrote down the fors and against of the things that 20:31 he felt that were positives 20:32 and the things that were negatives 20:34 and he wrote those down. 20:35 For example, he wrote 20:37 that he didn't have any clothes. 20:40 That was the negative. 20:41 But the positive was that 20:43 it was a warm temperature anyway, 20:44 and he hardly needed them anyway, you see. 20:48 He wrote down that he'd been shipwrecked. 20:53 But the positive was that all the other men 20:55 had been killed drown but he was alive. 20:57 His life, hmm, his life. 20:59 And I think that in life, we've got to remember 21:03 even though many of us 21:06 have bad things happen to us in life. 21:11 There's hardly a human being on the earth. 21:13 In fact, I could probably say there isn't a human being 21:16 that's ever lived on the earth 21:17 that hasn't had bad things happen to them. 21:20 But I guess it relates to the fact of us 21:23 being grateful for what we have. 21:26 And that gives us a positive attitude in life 21:28 and helps us to be positive. 21:31 That, "Yes, I've got this difficulty, 21:33 but I've also got this positive." 21:36 And... 21:39 If someone is having trouble with a negative attitude... 21:41 Yes. 21:43 The good thing for them to start doing 21:45 is to start training themselves to be thankful. 21:50 To thank other people to be grateful 21:52 for what they do have, 21:54 be grateful for the things that do happen. 21:57 And that will help shift a negative attitude 21:59 to a more positive one. 22:01 Yes. 22:02 Well, I think that's a very important point for us 22:04 all that we ought to show gratitude to God 22:07 in the deeds and kindnesses. 22:09 Now one of the questions is how do I show gratitude to God? 22:12 You know, the Bible says 22:14 we ought to show gratitude to God. 22:15 Well, I mean, what can I do that would be 22:18 and I can express my gratitude and praise to Him, 22:22 as the Bible suggests. 22:24 But I think that we show our gratitude to God 22:27 in a practical way by helping others 22:30 and being kind to others. 22:32 Because remember, Jesus made the statement 22:35 there in Matthew 25, wasn't it where He said, 22:38 "Inasmuch as you've done it 22:40 unto one of the least of these My brethren, 22:43 you've actually done it unto Me." 22:45 That's right. 22:46 So we are really showing gratitude 22:48 to God by helping others 22:53 and like Joseph, you know, 22:54 going back to our story in the dungeon that... 23:02 He must have been said... 23:04 But he made the most of wherever he was. 23:06 He did. 23:07 And that's what made him the man that he was, 23:10 that he could be sold into slavery. 23:14 And when you think about all the bad things 23:16 that happened to him, 23:18 I mean, back to his father, 23:20 spoiling him amongst these other brothers. 23:22 Well, I mean, that's the most basic law 23:24 of parenthood 23:26 is you don't make favorites of one child 23:28 over another unless you wanna create 23:29 major problems in the family. 23:32 And his father wasn't wise enough to understand that 23:35 or to realize that and, of course, 23:37 the other brothers got jealous, 23:39 we're going to kill him. 23:41 So none of that was good. 23:43 Then he was sold into Egypt. 23:45 None of that was good. 23:46 Finished up in Potiphar's house. 23:49 And I know, I imagine that house 23:51 was a very nice house. 23:53 Everything that he touched 23:55 probably was of very high quality. 23:58 And Potiphar seemed like a good boss. 23:59 Yes. 24:00 I think he was a good man, 24:02 there's nothing recorded in the Bible 24:03 that would suggest otherwise. 24:07 And probably Mrs. Potiphar was all right too, 24:09 but Joseph might have been a good looking young fellow. 24:14 And while Potiphar was away traveling, 24:17 then her thoughts went in the wrong direction, 24:20 but and then he finishes up in prison 24:24 and he's not just in prison for a little while, 24:26 he stays there for a long, long time. 24:29 And... 24:31 Then he's forgotten by them. Forgot him. 24:34 Well, it seems that the Lord's forgotten him. 24:36 I mean, how would you feel? 24:38 I think I'd feel that the Lord's forgotten me too. 24:41 No, that he must have known 24:43 that God was with him just the same. 24:45 Well, he was faithful to God. 24:46 That's the important thing. 24:47 And it reminds me of that text, 24:49 you know, in the Book of Romans, 24:51 where it says, "All things work together 24:53 for good to those who love God." 24:57 Romans 8:28. 24:59 8:28, yes, which is a wonderful verse. 25:01 That verse doesn't say that 25:02 everything that happens to us is good. 25:04 Doesn't... But it works out for good. 25:05 If we love the Lord, 25:07 He will work it together for our good. 25:09 And I think that's a very important differentiation 25:12 because the Bible never says 25:14 that everything that happens to us as good. 25:16 As it we've all got very negative things 25:18 that have happened to us in our life. 25:21 But if we trust the Lord, and we believe the Lord, 25:23 He will work things together for good. 25:26 So there's a verse in Ephesians 5:20 25:29 that talking about what you were saying before, 25:33 where you said that 25:35 we need to always be thanking God. 25:36 Yes. 25:38 And it says in Ephesians 5:20, 25:40 "Giving thanks always for all things to God 25:44 the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ." 25:47 So it says thank God for everything. 25:50 Even if things are going bad. 25:51 Even the bed reverses in life. 25:54 Thank God because he has some reason 25:56 like Romans 8:28 says. 25:58 That's right. 25:59 There's one other verse I just want to finish 26:00 with in our story. 26:02 You know, Paul had a vast vocabulary, 26:04 but he was lost for words when he wrote this verse. 26:06 Have a look at this. 26:08 This is 2 Corinthians Chapter 9 26:11 and verse, 2 Corinthians 26:14 where's that, just find it here. 26:16 Second Book of Corinthians 26:18 9:15. 26:23 At the end of the chapter where Paul says, 26:26 "Thanks be to God 26:28 for His indescribable gift!" 26:33 I think the old version says unspeakable gift 26:36 if I remember correctly. 26:39 In other words, he was lost for words, 26:40 as he thought about the wonderful gifts 26:42 that God has given to us in Jesus. 26:45 And that's something that all of us ought to be 26:49 very grateful for the salvation that He has provided. 26:52 Even though things may be very bad in our life 26:56 that they may be very negative, but nevertheless, 26:59 let us never forget that God has given to us 27:04 an unspeakable gift. 27:06 And that gift is worth 27:07 more than anything in the world. 27:09 Correct. 27:10 No matter what happens to us, 27:12 if we have Christ, 27:13 we have the power to overcome sin. 27:16 We have the power to overcome death 27:18 and to have eternity. 27:20 That's worth everything, isn't it? 27:21 That's right. 27:22 So our story today, the man who forgot, 27:26 let's not forget, 27:27 let's not forget all the Lord's benefits. 27:30 And He has promised as we praise Him, 27:34 and as we forget not those things 27:37 that He's done for us, that will change our own hearts 27:40 and give us an attitude of gratefulness. 27:42 That's right. 27:44 And today as we finish the program, 27:46 we pray that God will bless you and help you 27:48 to have an attitude of gratitude. 27:51 We'll see you next time. 27:52 God bless you. |
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