3ABN On the Road

Lentils

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Participants: John Lomacang

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Program Code: OTR000981


01:00 Hello and welcome, once again to Spring Camp
01:04 Meeting 2010. We are blessed to receive the joy
01:09 of having such wonderful people here from
01:11 different parts of the United States and also
01:14 different countries. I was talking to a lady
01:17 from Panama and I understand there's people
01:19 from Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Mexico here;
01:22 different places. Is there anybody from another
01:24 country that I did not mention, raise your hand?
01:26 Okay. There are some more countries over here,
01:28 praise the Lord. We encourage you to do your
01:32 part to receive a blessing and that is
01:35 focus, pay attention to the message that God has
01:39 for you, because God has a message in song.
01:42 We have music in a moment and God has a
01:45 message for you through God's word.
01:49 It's my pleasure to introduce to you our
01:52 music for this hour, sister Tammy Chance and I
01:55 must say I truly enjoy hearing her sing. There's a
01:59 sincerity and a love for God that you will hear in
02:02 her voice and also the songs, the hymns she
02:06 fixed have a message from the Lord for us.
02:09 She will be singing, 'I've Never Loved Him Better
02:12 Than Before.' Afterwards, Pastor John Lomacang
02:17 a man that has been rescued from the streets
02:20 of New York and brought to the feet of Jesus,
02:22 a man transformed, a man that, although
02:26 he was abandoned he eventually found out he
02:28 was not alone for Jesus was with him.
02:31 The message is entitled Lentils, the power of a
02:36 single choice. But first, let us be brought to
02:38 God's throne of grace through music through
02:40 sister Tammy Chance, "I've Never Loved Him
02:42 Better Than Before." Thank you. Amen.
02:56 Since Jesus came and found me
02:58 And He put His arms around me
03:07 And all my binding feathers took away
03:08 Although I loved Him dearly
03:10 And trusted Him sincerely
03:13 I've never loved Him better than today
03:20 I've never loved Him better than today
03:26 I've never felt any closer along the way
03:32 And thou how sweet the feeling
03:35 When in His presence meet Him
03:38 I've never loved Him better than today
03:43 Is that true, you've never loved Him better?
03:47 Oh, blessed Prince Eternal
03:50 My hope and joy eternal
03:53 Give now my soul to shadows, Flee away
03:59 Anoints me, I would pray Lord
04:02 Till ends these pilgrims way Lord,
04:05 I've never loved Him better than today
04:11 I've never loved Him better than today
04:17 I've never felt Him closer along the way
04:23 And oh, how sweet the feeling
04:25 When in His presence meet Him
04:29 I've never loved Him better than today
04:35 I've never loved Him better,
04:38 No, I've never loved Him better,
04:40 No, I've never loved Him better than today
04:53 Amen. Amen. Thank you Tammy,
04:56 can you say Amen again. Amen.
04:59 If you love the Lord you should love him
05:01 better today than you did yesterday. Amen.
05:03 And each day our love for the Lord should be
05:05 increasing. Amen. I appreciate so much
05:08 what I have been fed with so far today and
05:11 tomorrow, I get the third slot that is after
05:15 two people have already preached and worn you
05:18 out. It's my responsibility to get
05:21 you back awake. But I am going to give the
05:24 Lord that responsibility because no one does
05:26 it better than he. Amen. The message is
05:29 entitled Lentils and I would like you to open
05:32 your Bibles to the book of Genesis chapter
05:34 25, where our sermon is born, as you are
05:38 turning there I'm going to the ask the Lord to
05:40 lead in the developmet of this message
05:42 today. Father in heaven this is your
05:46 opportunity, do what you do best that your
05:49 name may be glorified. In Jesus name I pray.
05:53 Amen. Amen.
05:55 Now, that I am getting older there are things
06:00 I understand better now than I did when I
06:04 was a young man. That's right. I was
06:06 walking through the hall two days ago and a
06:08 family that's attending camp meeting they
06:11 may be sitting here, one of the, the father
06:13 said to me he said I didn't know that you are
06:15 so gray. I said it's not that I am so gray,
06:20 I'm getting wiser. One of the young ladies at
06:23 our church, teenager, said to me Pastor,
06:26 I like the gray in your hair, leave it there.
06:31 And I decided well you know if the young
06:33 people could handle it and the older people
06:36 are recognizing the onset of wisdom I will
06:39 just go ahead and stop fighting the battle that
06:41 we will never win. The battle of getting
06:44 older, can you say Amen. Amen.
06:46 But the sermon is about the lessons we learn
06:50 best when we are oldest. And I decided to
06:54 use a story that I believe encompasses
06:58 lessons that are unmistakably relevant,
07:03 especially as you get older.
07:08 The story begins Abraham and Sarah,
07:10 they have been childless for many years.
07:15 Abraham not too far away from a hundred
07:17 and Sarah in her 80s and they had been
07:21 childless. So, they took the road believing
07:23 that they would help God fulfill his promise.
07:29 Isaac was married at 41 years old and 19
07:33 years later at 60 he had his first two children
07:40 Esau and Jacob. But he had prayed and
07:44 asked for God to lead him down a different
07:47 road than his father Abraham. The Bible
07:51 tells us in Genesis chapter 25 and verse 21,
07:55 and now Isaac pleaded with the Lord for his
07:57 wife, because she was barren and the Lord
08:02 granted his plea and Rebekah his wife
08:06 conceived. Let me begin the message by
08:09 saying only God can turn an empty life into
08:13 a productive life, can you say Amen. Amen.
08:15 Only God can take our greatest hopes and
08:18 dreams and bring them to conception, but it
08:21 doesn't happen, and I believe this until we
08:23 get to the place where we begin to plead
08:25 with God. And I believe one of the reasons
08:28 why our lives are empty and meaningless is
08:31 because our prayer life is not a life of
08:33 pleading with God. It's a passive prayer life,
08:39 when we get to the place where we are
08:41 pleading with God, our fondest hopes and
08:44 dreams will be conceived only at the feet of
08:49 pleading with God. Matthew 7:7 says Ask
08:53 and it shall be given; seek and you shall
08:55 find, knock and the door will be opened to
08:59 you. In verse 8, for everyone who asks,
09:02 what's the next word? Receives. And he who
09:05 seeks find and to him who knocks it will be
09:09 opened. When God opens a door and I've
09:13 learned this, God always points us to the
09:17 abundance that we have yet to discover in
09:20 our lives. That's right. I used to think that my
09:22 life was abundant when I live in New York
09:24 City. You heard Pastor Dinzey say that God
09:27 rescued me from the streets of New York
09:29 City. Amen. Pool arcelor, gambler,
09:34 incessant party animal, frequent in clubs but
09:39 still going to church. And I thought that I
09:42 was living the abundant life until I turned
09:45 my life over to Jesus. Amen. Then God led
09:49 me in the direction of abundance and to this
09:51 very day, God has taken my wife and I to
09:53 more than 41 countries and God has paid for
09:56 us to go. Can you say Amen? Amen.
09:59 God has done for us what we could never do
10:00 for ourselves. God has taken us as one
10:03 person once says from the gutter most to the
10:05 uttermost, and my mother-in-law many
10:08 years ago when we were sitting down she
10:10 looked at me and she says God is gonna
10:11 cause you to ride upon the high places of the
10:15 Earth and feeds you with the heritage of
10:17 Jacob your father. I believe brethren when
10:19 your life becomes a life of pleading and
10:22 praying and asking God to lead you,
10:24 God always leads you in the direction of an
10:27 abundant life. That's right. Amen.
10:31 James says every good and every perfect gift
10:33 comes from God. Comes down from the
10:36 Father of lights in whom there is no
10:39 variation or shadow of turning. When God
10:43 answers our prayers, he'll never give us that
10:47 which draws us away from him. God is not a
10:49 vacillating God. He always gives us the best
10:52 can you say Amen. Amen. But when God
10:54 answers our prayers sometimes the struggle
10:56 begins. Notice the next verse, verse 22.
11:03 But the children struggled together within
11:06 her, and she said: If all is well why am I like
11:11 this. So, she went to inquire of the Lord.
11:16 Now, I looked this up I begin to read this,
11:18 she did not go to question God, she went to
11:21 pray for understanding. And I believe that
11:24 one of the reasons why she struggled is
11:26 because she didn't understand the intent for
11:30 the gift that God had given to her. She didn't
11:33 understand the reason yet, the gift was given
11:36 and the struggle began because she didn't yet
11:38 understand God's plan for her life. Let me,
11:41 let me amplify that, when God gives a gift of
11:45 music and let me, I've told you this before in
11:48 the past I don't have this struggle anymore,
11:50 can somebody say Amen. Amen. But you
11:52 don't know what struggle I am talking
11:53 about. I used to struggle when I watched
11:57 television and saw people that thought they
11:59 could sing making millions of dollars.
12:03 And one day I sat down at the bed, I mean
12:06 I've done this more than once and I said
12:08 Lord if they can't even sing and they are
12:10 making millions. I think I could sing a little
12:13 better and it wouldn't hurt to have a little bit
12:15 more money than I have right now.
12:17 That's right. But I remember,
12:21 seeing one person after the other in the
12:24 pursuit of happiness, only to end up at the
12:27 pursuit of unhappiness. That's right.
12:29 When they realized that as time goes on in
12:31 the world you are just a has been, but when
12:33 you sing for God you never has been,
12:35 can you say Amen? Amen. It gets better as
12:38 the days go by. Amen. Because it is not just
12:41 a gift, it's not just a talent, it is a spiritual
12:44 gift that the Holy Spirit makes better as the
12:48 days go by. Amen. I didn't tell you this,
12:51 I didn't make this known to the world but
12:53 those who you are on Facebook know and
12:54 those who are part of the singing family of
12:56 3ABN know. Last year when I was
12:58 preaching for Camp meeting. I preached a
13:01 sermon about Job and I've began by saying,
13:03 you may remember that on any given day
13:06 without any prior notice and for no apparent
13:08 reason you may be faced with the challenge
13:10 of your life, three days later I was hit in the
13:12 throat and I lost my voice for three weeks
13:15 straight. And the Doctor said to me had I
13:18 been hit about a half inch higher I would
13:20 have been permanently paralyzed and never
13:23 been able to sing again. I want to say I haven't
13:27 played basketball since.
13:31 I decided if I had a choice between going to
13:34 the gym and injured permanently or sitting
13:36 down and playing basketball in a video
13:38 game with my wife, I'd prefer playing with
13:40 my wife. Where I won't get injured,
13:45 every now and then I go to gym,
13:47 Elder Brooks and I stand around and shoot
13:49 the basketball and they say don't be afraid.
13:52 It won't happen again and I thought to
13:53 myself what are the chances of that
13:55 happening again 50-50.
14:00 When you get older things take on a perspective
14:03 that they often fail to be grasped by us when
14:06 we are younger. The struggle that began
14:09 inside of Rebekah began because she did not
14:13 understand the intent of the gift. And I
14:15 would often say when God blesses us and
14:20 we fail to comprehend the intention of God's
14:21 blessing the struggle begins, you think about
14:22 that, when God blesses us financially,
14:24 when we fail to be faithful to God the
14:26 struggle begins. When God blesses us with
14:30 materialist wealth and we hold it for
14:32 ourselves like Ananias and Sapphira and the
14:34 rich young ruler the struggle begins.
14:37 But when God blesses us and we give it for
14:39 the glory of God there is no struggle.
14:41 That's right. Amen. God always multiplies,
14:44 you know if the rich young ruler could look
14:46 back and realize that that Lord said had you
14:48 given up that one thing you lacked.
14:52 You would have a hundred times more in
14:54 this life and then the life to come,
14:57 eternal life. I would trade any day my one
15:00 thing for God one hundred things,
15:01 what do you say? Amen.
15:03 But often times we don't trust God and when
15:05 God blesses us, it is not for the propose of
15:08 holding it to ourselves. Sometimes people
15:10 are blessed intellectually.
15:12 God grants us knowledge, but knowledge
15:15 disconnected from wisdom always bring a
15:17 struggle. Amen. You hear that in the
15:19 Bible professing themselves to be wise,
15:21 Roman says they became fools.
15:24 The struggle began in Rebekah's life
15:26 because she didn't understand the reason
15:30 why God had given her the gift and the
15:32 impact sometimes takes years before the
15:35 intent is understood. Notice verse 23,
15:39 the Bible made it very clear, there was a
15:40 prophecy connected to the birth of these two
15:42 sons, and the Lord said to her. Verse 23,
15:46 and I am reading from the New King James
15:47 Version. Two nations are in your womb,
15:52 two people shall be separated from your
15:55 body. One people shall be stronger then the
16:00 other and the younger shall serve the,
16:04 and the older shall serve the younger.
16:09 Parents who have two children at least two
16:12 children often wonder why children are
16:14 usually opposite. Have you noticed that,
16:17 anybody has more than one child; you can
16:19 have the same child. You could be the same,
16:22 same mother, same father. One is a rebel
16:26 and one is a saint, am I telling the truth.
16:28 Amen. Yes. That's right.
16:29 In my family, my brother and sister knows
16:31 I love them. In my family there are three,
16:35 I am the youngest of three, I got a brother
16:37 I am still praying for. A sister I am still
16:39 praying for, but God looks at our life.
16:42 And in every family there are two sides,
16:46 those who serve God and those you have yet
16:49 to discover the blessing in serving God.
16:52 Amen. In this situation God saw before these
16:56 boys were born, God saw everyday of their
17:01 lives, he saw down the road. He saw father
17:05 then they could have seen, notice verse 25
17:08 and the first came out red, the Edomites
17:12 came from Esau, he was like a hairy
17:15 garment all over. So, they called his name
17:19 Esau, Afterward his brother came out,
17:22 and his hand took hold of Esau's heel;
17:24 so his name was called Jacob, that is the
17:27 Supplanter. Issac was 60 years old when she
17:31 was born, when she bore them. So, the boys
17:36 grew and Isaac was a skillful hunter, a man
17:40 of the field, but Jacob was a mild man
17:43 dwelling intense. When you begin to follow
17:45 the story you find that Jacob bonded with his
17:47 mother Rebekah. He was a mild minded
17:50 men. Women like mild minded children,
17:53 ladies say Amen. Amen. You know children that
17:56 obey. That's right. Amen. Children that don't mind
17:58 house work, children that clean up their
18:02 room, yes, children that are neat.
18:05 Yes. Children that are a pleasure. Amen.
18:10 The Bible says when a young man despises
18:12 his mother he will die in his despising
18:14 attitude. It's a blessing to bless your mother
18:19 and be obedient to your parents,
18:20 can you say, amen. Amen.
18:22 Jacob had a bond with his mother but Esau
18:27 had a bond with his father, they were both
18:29 outdoors men and the Bible tells us why that
18:32 bond was wrong. Notice verse 28, It says,
18:36 Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his game,
18:41 but Rebekah loved Jacob. While I have
18:43 looked at that text and I found something
18:45 that you may have missed, but I have come
18:46 to this conclusion people like you when you
18:49 play their game. Amen. Come on now, get going.
18:56 If you can go for their game they like you,
18:58 but if you don't like their game they don't
18:59 like you. Esau and Isaac they were game
19:06 hunters. If they were down here in South
19:08 Illinois you will hear them out in the back
19:10 with shotguns. And Isaac would be in the
19:13 house, hiding behind the couch every time
19:15 that gun unloaded with his mother.
19:20 He liked his game, he ate his game,
19:24 when people are running a game on you and
19:26 you go for it, they like you because you're
19:28 manipulated by them and they are
19:31 comfortable with you. He ate his game,
19:35 but there is something that God had about
19:37 these two boys, see before Jacob and Esau
19:39 were born God saw what their tendencies
19:41 would be and God looked far. God has
19:44 accurate insight and precise foresight.
19:48 And I looked those words up because that
19:49 was you know enamored by things that God
19:51 have that we don't have. God has the ability
19:54 to apprehend the true nature of a situation or
19:58 a person, the true nature. You see it's easy to
20:01 look at people on the outside but God sees
20:02 them on the inside. What you say.
20:04 That's right. Amen. And that's what we
20:05 have to be careful sometimes looking at a
20:07 person from the exterior and concluding that
20:08 they don't know God. The exterior doesn't
20:11 tell the entire story, man looks at the
20:13 outward appearance, God looks at the heart.
20:16 But God also has foresight, the ability to
20:19 look forward and make provision for what is
20:21 coming. Isaiah says it this way, remember
20:24 the former things of old, for I'm God and
20:26 there is no other. I am God and there is none
20:28 like me. Declaring the end from the
20:31 beginning and from ancient times things that
20:34 are not yet done, seeing my council shall
20:37 stand and I will do all my pleasure.
20:40 God's insight and foresight is so perfect
20:44 that God saw through 42 generations and
20:48 decided whom to choose as the husband of
20:51 Mary, to whom Jesus was born. I looked at
20:53 that story and I was enamored by that.
20:55 This morning as a matter of fact,
20:56 I preached to my mother-in-law and my
20:57 wife. So, this sermon has been preached
21:00 already, I went to bed about 3:15 this
21:03 morning, I am not tried. The joy of the Lord
21:07 is my strength, what you say? Amen.
21:09 I will sleep later but it's nothing like sitting
21:11 down and becoming a conduit, letting God
21:14 pour into you, my fingers are moving so fast
21:17 I said to my wife I couldn't slow down,
21:19 the problem was I had to decide what to
21:20 leave out and what to include. I said God
21:22 filter this message but I began to look at that
21:25 and I began to see that for 42 generations
21:28 God decided who the man was going to be,
21:31 that was going to be the one to impact the
21:33 baby Jesus when he was born. He chose a
21:35 man by the name of Joseph and the Bible
21:37 says in Matthews 1, verse 17, follow me
21:38 carefully. This is the David Asscherick
21:41 speed, here you go, are you ready? So, all
21:43 the generations from Abraham to David are
21:45 14 generations from David until the
21:47 captivity and Babylon are 14 generations
21:50 and from the captivity in Babylon until the
21:52 Christ are 14 generations. The family line of
21:56 Jesus may look like God made a mistake,
22:00 but God never makes a mistake.
22:02 Amen. God can make a good thing out of
22:05 an ugly thing, what do you say? Amen.
22:07 Now think about the family line of Jesus for
22:08 a brief moment, David the adultery and the
22:10 murderer, Rehab the harlot, Solomon the
22:13 polygamist and Uzziah the leper, just to
22:14 name a few God went through that kind of
22:17 family line and 42 generations later found a
22:20 man that he was able to label as a just man.
22:23 Is that God? Amen. Only God can bring a
22:26 just man through an adulterer, a murderer,
22:29 a harlot, a polygamist and the leper.
22:32 So, brethren if somebody in your family is
22:33 not behaving right, God could make a good
22:35 thing out of a thing. Amen. Your life if God
22:38 can do that it may take 42 generations but
22:41 something good is going to come out of that.
22:45 God, time is no issue with God, I looked at
22:48 my family line and I thought to myself Lord
22:49 you can do that and found the family line
22:52 text. I finally understand the impact
22:54 of the text because in the family line of
22:57 Jesus for everyone of them to be saved,
22:59 God had to find a way to cover their sin,
23:03 to block their sin out. Can you say Amen.
23:05 Isaiah, here it is, the family line text and
23:08 when you hear the phrase 'our or we' fit your
23:11 family in there but he was wounded for our
23:14 transgressions. He was bruised for our
23:16 inequity, the chastisement of our peace was
23:19 upon him and by his stripes we are healed,
23:22 somebody say Amen. Amen.
23:23 The family all we like sheep have gone
23:26 astray, we have turned everyone to his own
23:29 way and the Lord has laid on him, the sins
23:32 of the family, what do you say. Amen.
23:34 When the Lord went to the cross he took his
23:36 family sins with him. And now a harlot can
23:38 be in the Kingdom what do you say? Amen.
23:40 Solomon can be there, David can be there,
23:42 a man that is now known as a man after
23:45 God's own heart, only God can make a good
23:47 thing out of a bad thing. Amen. Amen.
23:52 God can turn miracles, I look at my family
23:57 and I don't think about how my family line
23:59 came together. You know somebody once
24:00 said to me, I am the product of a one night
24:02 stand. My Mom and Dad got together long
24:05 enough to conceive me, they didn't have a
24:07 wedding certificate, matter of fact maybe
24:09 they just probably had one good evening
24:11 together. And I want you to pause for a brief
24:14 moment because you know what I don't
24:15 believe that I am the product of a one night
24:18 stand I believe I am the product of a divine
24:21 stand. Amen. Follow me carefully.
24:25 A Filipino grandfather, a European French
24:30 grandmother, a Native American
24:32 grandfather on my father's side, a native
24:35 American, an African-American
24:37 grandmother on my father's side,
24:40 four nations all together.
24:45 A baby born out of wedlock, but in God's
24:48 plan. You didn't hear what I said. Amen.
24:52 How I was born is not as important as that I
24:56 was born. Amen. Somebody once said,
25:00 children are not illegitimate, the parents
25:02 are. That's right. Amen. Am I telling the
25:06 truth? Yeah! They're the one that the decision to
25:09 do it wrong but birth is a blessing from God.
25:13 Yes. Mother takes me to a baby-sit and
25:17 drops me there, but she drops me at the
25:20 home of a Seventh-Day Adventist lady who
25:22 has a connection with God. What do you
25:23 say? Amen. Is that an accident or a divine
25:25 plan? Divine plan. But her husband is not
25:28 married, so there is a struggle in that
25:30 household, and God leads me through a
25:32 woman like Rebeka what it means to serve
25:34 and know and trust the Lord. So, when she
25:36 dies and I go away God sends another
25:40 Christian in my life, a 16-year-old Seventh
25:42 Day Adventist young lady to pull me out of
25:44 the world and back into the church. And I'm
25:46 married to her still today 27 years,
25:47 say Amen? Amen. I am not here by an
25:50 accident; I am here by a divine plan. Amen.
25:54 So when your life looks like it's a mess God
25:57 could do a whole lot with a mess. That's
25:59 right. By the way if you don't know it or not,
26:01 I will remind you Sabbath afternoon but
26:03 everyone of us started out that way, anyway
26:04 we are just a pile of dust with power from
26:06 God inside of us. Amen. Yes. That's right.
26:11 God can do a whole lot through messed up
26:14 families; God can bring a beautiful thing out
26:17 of an ugly situation. And God sees us as we
26:20 are, but he also sees us as we can be and
26:23 sometimes and go back to the story.
26:25 Sometimes though, here's the caution
26:26 sometimes our inherent weaknesses could be
26:29 the stepping stone to robbing us of a
26:32 divinely ordained blessing. Get that word
26:35 very careful, I will say that again.
26:37 Sometimes our inherent weaknesses can be
26:41 the stumbling block to robbing us of our
26:45 divinely ordained blessing. Look at
26:47 verse 29, our purpose is by saying when you
26:56 are not alert somebody may be cooking up a
26:59 scheme. Now Jacob cooked a stew and Esau
27:08 came in from the field and he was weary.
27:12 I read this in Patriarchs and Prophets,
27:13 I read this in the Bible commentary and I sat
27:17 down and put all of these notes together
27:19 weeks ago and I let that thing simmer in my
27:23 mind and I said last night okay Lord you
27:25 know what's there, if it ain't there yet put
27:28 it there and I discovered this. The request
27:33 that Esau made was lazy and complaisant.
27:39 Notice what he said in verse 30, and Esau
27:44 said to Jacob, please feed me with that same
27:49 red stew for I am weary. Therefore his name
27:53 was called Edom. Ellen White says in a
27:57 matter of minutes Esau could have cooked
27:59 something for himself and saved himself a
28:02 lifetime of heartache. Esau could have
28:04 cooked his own meal, so he wasn't tried,
28:10 he was lazy, he was complaisant,
28:14 he benefited from somebody else's labor,
28:17 he saw what Jacob had done and said go
28:20 ahead you cook for me. But what he did not
28:22 know was Jacob was cooking something
28:24 other than what he saw. Thus I say again
28:29 when you are lazy somebody is cooking up
28:34 something that you won't realize until years
28:35 down the road. It maybe a simple meal to
28:36 you, but to them it's something far greater
28:38 than that simple meal. He didn't see what the
28:41 movement brought. Notice verse 31 and 32
28:46 and by the way as I read this, remember this
28:47 point, lazy people are an easy prey to
28:50 opportunistic people. There is no such thing
28:53 as getting something for nothing, everything
28:56 has a price. That's right.
28:58 Look at verse 31 and 32, but Jacob said here is
29:03 the price. Sell me your birthright as of this
29:07 day and Esau said look I am about die and
29:13 so what is this birthright to me anyway.
29:21 He understood in the Levitical Law,
29:23 in the Mosaic Law that the birthright was a
29:25 birthright of magnificent blessings, a double
29:30 portion of his father's inheritance, respect
29:32 and prosperity. He wanted the position,
29:35 but he did not want the spiritual
29:38 responsibility that went with the position.
29:41 There are some people that want to be
29:42 leaders in the church, but it takes a spiritual
29:44 person to be a leader, can you say Amen?
29:45 Amen. There are some people that want to be the
29:47 head of this and head of that, but if God is not
29:49 the head of their lives, the head of that is not
29:51 going to do anything for them at all. Amen.
29:53 A matter of fact to be leader without a God,
29:55 you are not really a leader you're a
29:57 hindrance to God leading. That's right.
30:00 He wanted the position but he did not want
30:02 the spiritual responsibility that went
30:05 with the position of the birthright.
30:09 That's why the Bible says he despised his
30:11 birthright. He despised the very thing that
30:14 God intended to give to him that's why
30:15 brethren when people give you things, let
30:17 me pause and digress for a brief moment
30:19 here, this is a different term but I am coming
30:20 back, when people get generous you have to
30:23 weigh their generosity. Amen.
30:26 Because if they are not converted you could
30:28 be selling your soul, just like Esau sold his
30:31 soul to Jacob. You got to make sure Jacob
30:35 was not converted and although he was not
30:36 entirely like his grandfather Abraham.
30:39 He displayed the same impatient spirit that
30:42 Abraham did, remember the story. God said
30:45 he was gonna bless Abraham and Sarah,
30:47 and Abraham to this very day I wonder why
30:49 he was; how he was, but by his time
30:52 polygamy had been introduced. So, he
30:53 thought a no great thing to have a baby with
30:56 one woman after the other, in the attempt to
30:59 help God fulfill his promise. And Rebekah
31:04 understanding God's plan, the angel before
31:06 they were born said to Rebekah that Jacob
31:10 the younger one, he will be the one that will
31:12 be served by Esau the older one, and so
31:14 Jacob decided that this was his moment,
31:17 this was his opportunity. Let me make it
31:21 very clear God does not need our help.
31:24 Amen. To help us. Amen,
31:28 We don't need to help God to bless us.
31:32 By the way you will discover in the story a
31:33 premature blessing can turn out to be a
31:35 curse. If it comes before you are ready for it.
31:41 It can be the very reason why you fall and
31:42 notice. I will read verse 31 in just a moment,
31:45 verse 32, but I want to just a stop and pause
31:46 and talk to the parents for a brief moment
31:48 because you know what. I was raised in a
31:50 home where my mother knew that I was too
31:53 immature and too experienced to make
31:55 certain decisions. They are parents today
31:59 that give their children the power to make
32:02 decisions that they are too immature and too
32:05 inexperience to decide. That's right. Amen,
32:07 That's right. Now, this would never
32:09 happen in my household, you want to go to
32:10 church on Sabbath. You didn't get me.
32:15 Yeah, I got me. My mother on Sabbath
32:17 morning would never say to me do you want
32:19 to go church or you want to stay home.
32:23 Anybody know what I'm talking about, raise
32:24 your hand? When Sabbath came whether my
32:27 clothes where ironed or not I was in church
32:30 as a matter of fact when the sun was setting
32:32 on Friday, she said now get your clothes on
32:33 and hang them up right there.
32:37 Because Sabbath morning if you're not dead,
32:41 you will be in church. You be coughing and
32:45 sniffling in the corner but you be in church.
32:47 Amen. There were no excuses on Sabbath
32:50 morning and I think that one of the problems today
32:52 in our world is that somehow parents have
32:55 failed in their responsibility to raise
32:57 their children. That's right.
32:59 The Bible says train up a child in a way that
33:01 they should go. Amen. Nowadays kids have
33:04 a, you know, they, they go to, in their house
33:06 like a menu, I like to go to church today but
33:08 not next Sabbath. I like to watch this, I want
33:11 that game, this movie and I want this out
33:14 outfit. And I have parents buy some of the
33:16 skimpiest outfits for their daughters and
33:18 complain about the daughters wearing it.
33:20 Look at her Pastor, she don't like.
33:23 And I said now wait a minute, who is the
33:24 mother who bought that outfit for her.
33:25 I did now you complain about what she is
33:27 wearing but you're buying it for her.
33:30 While, I was in Australia I did a seminar on
33:32 jewelry, I don't want to get up on that right
33:33 now. But a mother asked me, Elder Brook,
33:41 a mother asked me, questions and answers
33:44 after I laid the whole thing out, she said now
33:46 what you do when your three-year-old
33:49 daughter wants her ears pierced.
33:52 I almost jumped out of my shoes and so,
33:56 I just made it straight, I said now wait a
33:57 minute, wait a minute, wait, you're the
33:58 mother not her. Let her cry she will stop and
34:02 fall asleep and go to bed. But you say no and
34:05 stand there, somebody say Amen? Amen.
34:08 Nowadays we got kids making all the
34:09 choices for parents and they wonder now
34:11 what's going on, what's wrong with the
34:12 family. Amen. Then they look
34:14 backwards, regret at decisions that they
34:16 made that were uninformed and without
34:19 thought of the long term impact. That's right.
34:22 Amen. So, nowadays the children left the
34:23 church, you can trace it back, a lot of times
34:25 you can trace it back to a decision that the
34:27 father or mother made. And if you don't
34:29 know it, children will play you. Oh! Yes.
34:32 If you want to be foolish, children will
34:34 play you. That's right. That's why the best
34:38 answer Moms and Dads if you haven't
34:39 figured it out yet. If your child comes to you
34:41 and say, Mom I want to do this, what does
34:43 your Daddy say? Or what your Momma
34:47 say? But make sure that you are on the same
34:49 page. Yes. Make sure that what you say is
34:52 scriptural. Amen. Because a lot of times
34:55 people undo each others decision by not
34:58 deciding what that decisions needs to be.
35:01 I was raised in a home where the decision
35:03 was clear and I didn't even have to ask from
35:05 Sabbath to Sabbath it was said once,
35:07 mother said it once and it stood for the rest
35:09 of my life. Amen. Amen.
35:12 When I got 15 years old, if I was 13 years
35:14 old, 12 years old I was still in church
35:17 because she told me when I was a young
35:18 man in the single digits and that's where I
35:20 need to be, even when she died I want to tell
35:22 you how God works, you see when you put
35:24 a foundation that's build on God, it stays
35:28 there and inbred in the deep recesses that,
35:31 sometimes we fail to realize of where.
35:33 Amen. We try to live in a rebellions life but
35:38 there are certain things that we can't do.
35:39 Because you can hear mom's voice. Amen.
35:42 I remember one Sabbath, right there in
35:45 Brooklyn, New York, I want to Bethel
35:47 Seventh-day Adventist church and some of
35:48 you may know where that is right in the
35:49 Brooklyn, one of the largest churches and I
35:51 remember one Sabbath, momma died, papa
35:53 don't go to church, nobody had tell me not to
35:56 go. I got on the bus one Sabbath and I went
35:58 all the way out to bay to Sheepshead Bay,
36:01 where they were having baseball practice
36:03 and practice is for a baseball team and I
36:06 loved baseball, I didn't stop with basketball.
36:08 I loved baseball and so l got on the bus that I
36:11 knew everybody will be on going to church.
36:14 So, I went to the back of the bus and sat
36:15 down and put my baseball glove over my
36:17 face. So, that I could try to hide myself,
36:22 but I couldn't hide from what was way
36:24 inside. I played baseball very well, when I
36:27 got to the baseball field I couldn't even run.
36:29 I was tipping over myself, I couldn't catch a
36:31 ball, I was so dis, I was so uncoordinated
36:34 that I knew that the problem was not my
36:36 skill. But I was trying to go against the very
36:40 thing that God had planted in my heart.
36:42 Amen. Friday night came for the football,
36:45 I played football also and I don't look like it,
36:47 but you know that's alright. I want to say I
36:51 didn't play for the whole season, I got hit
36:53 once and that's was enough for me. I got hit
36:56 so hard that I said to coach after the game,
36:59 I quit. When I get to be 30 I want to be able
37:01 to talk still. You see I got hit in the helmet
37:07 and I thought this is not what I am built for.
37:11 But the point of the matter is they had a
37:12 dinner on Friday night at our school for the
37:17 football team and they said if you come you
37:18 get your jacket and you get your big old
37:19 letter M. I went to Madison High School in
37:22 Brooklyn. I still have the jacket and a big
37:25 old M out there somewhere waiting
37:26 because Elder Brooks I couldn't, there is
37:29 nobody in front of me saying don't go,
37:34 but I can hear momma in my mind, its the
37:36 Sabbath. Amen. Don't go. And I couldn't get
37:40 on the bus to go. There was nobody to stop
37:44 me, brethren there is no conviction like the
37:45 Holy Spirit's conviction. Amen. But they
37:48 were some strange things about that too
37:49 because I could party but I wouldn't go to
37:51 this banquet. So, God had to work on that
37:54 room in my life, so, that's why he send my
37:56 wife, can you say Amen. Amen. Brethren
37:58 you have to realize that sometimes we look
38:00 at situations like an opportunity but the
38:02 Bible says to everything there is season and
38:05 a time for every purpose under heaven.
38:07 That's right. And Jacob decided that that was
38:10 his season, that was his time, that was his
38:14 opportunity and that was his prerogative and
38:16 so verse 33 has been written for that reason.
38:19 Then Jacob said to Esau swear to me this
38:22 day, so he swore to him and sold his
38:26 birthright to Jacob. I want to pause and say
38:30 I told you in the beginning of the sermon
38:32 sometimes it take us a long time to realize
38:35 the impact of our decision, but this one is
38:38 still going on to this everyday. If Esau had
38:42 realized that for more than 4,000 years his
38:46 family line would be fighting to recover his
38:48 birthright he would never have sold it, 4,000
38:52 years, had he realized that that single
38:56 decision, brethren they are transactions in
38:59 life that are humanly irreversible. That why
39:03 you gotta make decisions wisely, am I
39:05 telling you the truth. Yeah. Now, those of
39:07 you who are in debt with credit cards, you
39:09 know what I am talking about. You signed
39:11 that bottom-line, now you don't read that
39:13 fine print. And every time you miss a
39:14 payment the phone rings. Amen. Amen.
39:19 And you go down and peak at it, who is
39:21 that? Irreversible, humanly irreversible,
39:27 decisions that you made without the
39:28 forethought of the long-term impact.
39:31 And then say you know it's only, its a three
39:34 easy payments of $19.95, ain't nothing easy
39:38 when you have to pay for it. All of a sudden
39:41 $19.95 seems like $1995 when the times
39:44 comes to pay it you know why because the
39:46 cumulative affective of all your other bills
39:48 together makes it huge. Yeah. There are
39:52 decisions in life that cannot be overturned,
39:55 I have seen families, sometimes people want
39:58 to regain their position in the family but they
40:00 can't because they forfeited the position at
40:02 the very beginning and it takes a lifetime for
40:05 them to realize that had they been where God
40:07 intended for them to be years ago. The respect
40:11 they want now would have been
40:12 there all the time. Amen.
40:15 I am the youngest in my family; my wife is the
40:18 youngest in her family. I love everyone of them,
40:21 but I have got to say and this is not a by
40:22 statement, I believe and this is my own conviction.
40:27 I'll let her family correct me if I'm incorrect
40:29 but I believe she is the most spiritual one in her
40:31 family? Amen. That is among the siblings
40:35 and she is the youngest. According to the
40:37 birthright, it should be the oldest, am I correct?
40:39 That's right. But if evil, if you forfeit what God
40:42 has given to you by proxy, you cannot recover it.
40:49 When God gives it to the one who favors
40:52 the principles that God stands for. Amen.
40:56 Look at verse 34, Jacob gave Esau bread
41:02 and stew of lentils that's my sermon title lentils
41:07 and he ate and drink and rose and went his way,
41:10 thus Esau despised his birthright at the time it
41:15 seems to satisfy his deeper desire, but to this
41:18 day. To this day and I am going to say this.
41:21 To this day I believe that, that's that meal of
41:24 lentils have left a bad taste in Esau's family
41:28 mouth. That's right. Till that time it tasted good
41:31 but 4,000 years later there is a bad taste in his
41:35 family line's mouth. Ellen White says in
41:38 Patriarchs and Prophets listen very carefully;
41:42 he represents those who lightly value their
41:45 redemption purchased for them by Christ
41:47 and are ready to sacrifice their heir ship
41:51 to heaven for the perishable things of Earth.
41:55 Hallelujah. Multitudes live for the present with
41:58 no thought or care of the future. And like Esau
42:01 they cry let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die.
42:04 They are controlled by inclination rather than
42:08 practice self denial. Amen. They will forgo the
42:11 most valuable considerations if one must be
42:15 relinquished, the gratification of a depraved
42:19 appetite or the heavenly blessing promised only
42:23 to the self denying and God fearing, the claims
42:26 of appetite prevail and God and heaven are
42:29 virtually despised, because they failed to look at
42:33 the long-term impact of a single decision
42:36 and so the entire sermon winds up to these three
42:38 points, I have about 15 of them but I have to
42:41 narrow them down to three, are you ready,
42:42 here we go.
42:45 The testimony from Esau, here it is.
42:49 Esau's appetite was more important
42:51 than his birthright. Brethren watch out when
42:54 your appetite is more important than your divine
42:58 appointment that God has instored for you,
43:00 let me make it very clear, can I meddle a little bit.
43:02 Come on. Thank you for permission.
43:04 Some Adventists are no longer satisfied with the
43:07 truth and they go to other churches to get their
43:10 prayers on and end up leaving the truth for a
43:12 momentary emotional high. They despise the
43:16 importance of their birthright and now
43:18 they are more satisfied with hands held high
43:21 than standards held high. They worship the
43:24 music, the artist and the musician more than
43:26 they uplifted the savior. That's not right.
43:28 And it's nothing but lentils. Amen.
43:31 A pot of beans, let me keep going since I got
43:35 started. Esau sacrificed a heaven sent blessing
43:41 for an earthly indulgence. Lesson number 2,
43:44 some Adventists no longer value the truth
43:47 as the truth, they have traded divine inspiration
43:49 for intellectual stimulation. Evolution has
43:52 become more desirable and God and creation
43:54 has been cast aside. Amen. But it's nothing
43:57 but lentils, a bowl of beans. And my final one,
44:03 Esau didn't value the position that he was,
44:06 that he had by his birthright. Many no longer
44:10 value the position that is there by the rebirth.
44:15 Some treat their Bible Christianity like a cheap
44:17 inheritance. Some are willing to trade their new
44:20 life for an old fling. They go back to the way
44:23 they lived, dressed, ate, the things they drank,
44:26 the places they used to go, the entertainment
44:29 that satisfied their inner desires. Some refuse to
44:32 come to Christ, because his terms prohibit the
44:35 things that they admire more than him,
44:39 but its nothing but a bowl of beans, lentils.
44:45 And brethren never forget this. We will never find
44:49 outside of our birthright what's only available
44:52 in it. Amen. Amen. Amen.
44:57 I've been married 27 years and I say to people
44:59 you will never find outside of your marriage
45:00 what God ordains to be only in your marriage.
45:02 Amen. Amen. Amen.
45:04 You'll never find outside of God's plan what's
45:07 available only in God's plan. Amen. And God's
45:11 got a great plan doesn't it? Amen. I mean God
45:13 has got a mansion built for me, I don't even own
45:16 a home. But I got a mansion somewhere with
45:18 my name on it, can you say Amen? Amen.
45:20 God's got a house made with pearly gates. Yeah.
45:24 And not carpet but golden floors, I rather walk
45:28 on gold than wear gold. Somebody say Amen. Amen.
45:32 But some folk rather wear it; if you rather wear
45:34 it God's not going to have anybody in heaven
45:36 chiseling up the streets to put it in their ears.
45:39 Can I be frank about it. Yeah. A lot of people
45:42 ain't frank anymore, they're somebody else.
45:47 Walk into heaven, wanna rip the gates off to put
45:49 it around their neck. You got to get, you got to
45:52 get that solved down here, what you say. Amen.
45:55 I am gonna walk through a gate made of a single
45:58 pearl. And I am going to be in the presence
46:02 of adoring angels. So, I got to get used to the
46:05 music of adoring angels now. Amen.
46:09 If the music is leading me back to where I used
46:11 to party, I got to leave it alone and come back to
46:14 where I don't need the party but I need to stand
46:16 firm in Jesus. I never forget, Elder Brooks,
46:18 I got to say this, you may remember this.
46:19 Elder Brooks one day said it's not how high you
46:21 jump, it's how straight you walk when you hit
46:23 the ground, Amen. Amen.
46:28 Some folk want to jump. God might ask me to
46:30 jump God's asking you to walk a straight line.
46:33 Amen. God is asking you to reflect his glory not
46:36 your own, God doesn't need another singer.
46:40 The angels adore him day and night.
46:42 So, it is not musicians that God's looking for.
46:44 God is looking for folks that wanna make a
46:47 covenant with him by sacrifice. Amen.
46:50 I won't let a rebel in my house.
46:51 God's not gonna let rebels back in his house,
46:53 Satan got to kick out,
46:54 we not going in sinning, we got to trust the all
46:57 divine ability of God to change our lives
46:59 and by the way if you don't like God's plan you
47:01 just won't be there that's that's simple.
47:05 He'll cry but like they said not for ever. Amen.
47:08 That's right. Somebody once said that their son,
47:11 a lady to her son, I'm going to miss you but not
47:13 forever. Amen. Amen. I might cry for you but
47:18 not forever, God's gonna wipe their tears away.
47:20 And you won't even be a memory. Not forever.
47:24 So, you got to make up your mind now, is it
47:26 lentils or is it eternal life? Somebody say it?
47:29 Eternal life. Eternal life. Amen. Make up your
47:33 mind, there's a mansion, Jesus came down to
47:35 this crummy old earth and took your bowl of
47:39 lentils and give you his robe of righteousness.
47:41 Amen. Nowadays, 2010 we think that somehow
47:45 God has become a different God and so now
47:47 he understands and I know it's going to be
47:49 against a lot of talk this way but while it's not
47:52 against the law let me say it frank. And by the
47:55 way when it is against the law, I'm gonna still
47:56 preach it. Amen. Amen. 'Cause I don't preach
47:59 what's entertaining, I preach what's right. Amen.
48:03 Somebody say it an alternate lifestyle,
48:04 I say its sin.
48:05 God never intended for a man to be with a man
48:07 and a woman to be a woman. Amen. Amen.
48:10 And if it's bothering you, turned it off and pray
48:12 that it won't bother you. That's right. Amen.
48:14 'Cause if there is something in God's word
48:15 that bothers you that means you are not finished
48:17 filing yet. Alright.
48:19 God's got to melt you down to reshape you to
48:22 fit you into heaven. Amen.
48:24 That's why some of us go through fiery trials
48:26 that we do, because God's got to melt our
48:28 program to fit us into his program. Amen.
48:31 We got to pray that God will through
48:33 your plans out if it doesn't match his plans.
48:35 Don't pray for God to bless your plans,
48:37 pray for God to give you his plans. Amen.
48:41 All kinds of nonsense in the church nowadays
48:43 and people say well I don't like the way you
48:44 preach that sermon, that's okay.
48:45 You know the sun melts but a bit harden clay,
48:47 what kind of heart do you have? Amen.
48:53 So, I don't fall into those categories, somebody
48:55 got upset with me that I preached about jewelry
48:57 in Australia and it was a man, isn't that amazing.
48:59 It was a man. I remember, you know so I looked
49:03 at this guy straight in the eye and he said now
49:04 I hear you preach all the time but I got to rebuke
49:07 you on that sermon. I said I am not going to
49:09 accept your rebuke, I don't accept rebuke for
49:11 something that's Biblical. Amen.
49:13 And I said I apologize for the fact you were
49:16 raised legalistically but that, I am not here to
49:18 atone for your life. That's right. I got to tell it
49:20 like it is God says you're a watchman on the
49:22 wall, if you don't give the trumpet a certain
49:23 sound and the sword comes you are going to be
49:25 responsible for their blood and I know that
49:27 when I stand for Jesus, I am going to answer for my
49:29 own sin. Amen. By the way on that note Jesus
49:33 paid it all, what do you say? Amen. I don't have
49:35 to worry about paying my own sin, he looked at
49:37 me and down that 42 line of traditional family
49:41 members, he found somebody in there that
49:43 one day is going to called just, not because
49:45 of what I've done,
49:46 but because of what he's done. Amen.
49:48 So, don't get this thing mixed up. Some folk
49:51 nowadays you know they want to come to
49:53 Church, look like they want to see.
49:54 You don't like it, this is too bad but that's okay,
49:55 I am telling you what God wants me to tell you.
49:57 If I don't like it, well You have to talk to God
49:59 about it, because he told me to tell me that. Yes.
50:02 Amen. And don't ask me to say that again.
50:08 Once God ordained my wife and I. Amen.
50:14 I made up my mind to tell it like it is. Amen.
50:18 But always cut out the sin, believe this in a whole.
50:22 Can you say Amen.
50:23 A surgeon's knife is sharp and you better be
50:25 glad because it was dealt to be painful.
50:29 God loves the sinner, but he does not leave us
50:31 the way he finds us,
50:32 too much of that preacher nowadays.
50:33 He loves you as you are, that's fine,
50:35 but he is not going to leave you how he found you.
50:37 You let a broke man I love you like you are
50:40 and leave him broke. A naked man, I love you
50:44 like you are and leave him naked. Just not how
50:47 God is. He clothe, he clothes us in garments
50:51 that we can't even afford. Amen.
50:54 When Adam and Eve substituted what God
50:56 have given for leaves God said no, no, no.
50:59 You can come into my house with leaves on.
51:02 So, God gave him different garments, we need
51:05 his garments, lest we walk naked and the only
51:07 garment that's going to get us in is the garments
51:09 of his righteousness. Amen. So, if you don't like
51:12 what the Bible teaches, you need to pray hard,
51:14 because this is God's love letter to us and he
51:17 wouldn't put it in here and if he didn't intend
51:20 for that to be in here. Amen.
51:22 David, that man that repented said
51:24 you know what? Lord, I want you to do
51:28 something for me and he prayed that prayer,
51:32 that prayer of repentance and that prayer
51:35 that brought a repentance spirit, he says cleanse
51:38 me Father. See if there is any wicked way
51:40 within me and cleanse me, lead me into the way
51:42 everlasting. He looked at his life and saw the
51:45 mistakes he made it. By the way brethren there
51:47 is no sin that God can't clean you up from. Amen.
51:50 Accept the sin of Recalcitrant, refusal to
51:53 listen to the voice of God's Holy Spirit. Amen.
51:56 So I believe today, I also made a pact with God,
51:58 I said you know Lord I am never gonna end a
52:00 sermon without making an appeal for somebody
52:01 to his give his or her heart to God. And we may
52:04 go off here, but I'm gonna still make that
52:05 appeal in just a few minutes.
52:07 Because I believe there is somebody in here
52:08 today that's sick and tired of just eating lentils
52:11 and they want some eternal food, what do you
52:13 say. Amen. If that's your desire I sing this song
52:16 today, because I believe that God can take us
52:18 and turn us in to that which is whiter than snow,
52:21 here is the point I want to end with. Esau awoke
52:24 to see the folly of his rash exchange when it was
52:27 too late to recover his loss and so it will be in
52:31 the day of God when those who have burdened,
52:33 who have bartered their heir ship away.
52:37 And have traded it for selfish gratifications.
52:40 If it's your desire to be whiter than snow
52:43 as I sing this song. Think about it, just simply
52:45 stand where you are and after the sermon is
52:47 done I will get together and pray with you.
52:49 Listen to the message.
53:01 Whiter than snow, yes, whiter than snow,
53:08 Now wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
53:21 Jesus, I long to be perfectly whole;
53:27 I want Thee forever to live in my soul;
53:36 Break down every idol, cast out every foe
53:44 Now wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
53:53 Whiter than snow, yes, whiter than snow,
54:00 Now wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
54:12 My Jesus, look down from Thy throne in the skies,
54:20 And help me to make a complete sacrifice;
54:28 I will give up myself, and whatever I know
54:36 Just wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
54:47 Lord Jesus, for this I most humbly entreat,
54:55 I wait, precious Lord, at Thy crucified feet,
55:02 By faith for my cleansing, I see thy blood flow
55:12 Now wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
55:23 Whiter than snow, yes whiter than snow.
55:29 Now wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
55:37 Yes. Whiter than snow. Now wash me, and I shall be,
55:45 I shall be whiter than snow.
56:10 Is there somebody in here today that want to be
56:12 whiter than snow. Amen. That want to give,
56:18 give away that bowl lentils for the unfathomable
56:24 gift of eternal life. Amen. Is there somebody
56:28 here today that want to say Lord I want to
56:30 rededicate my life to the Lord, I want to be in
56:33 that Kingdom, that Kingdom that was so
56:35 ightly esteemed. Yet, so heavily purchased,
56:40 if there is somebody here today that wants that
56:42 desire. I know we have cameras and all,
56:44 but I want to invite you stand today with me
56:47 if that's your desire to continue walking with
56:50 God and dedicating your life to the Lord
56:53 and fellow shipping with Jesus and being in that
56:55 Eternal Kingdom if that's your desire today,
56:58 you don't want to give it away for lentils,
57:02 then you pray with me.
57:03 Father in Heaven, thank you so much for the
57:05 price you paid for our redemption.
57:08 Change our hearts and prepare everyone of us
57:11 for your Eternal Kingdom, in Jesus name we pray. Amen.


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