Participants: John Lomacang
Series Code: OTR
Program Code: OTR000981
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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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