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Series Code: TDYFW
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00:02 I want to spend my life
00:08 Mending broken people 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:19 Removing pain 00:24 Lord, let my words 00:30 Heal a heart that hurts 00:35 I want to spend my life 00:40 Mending broken people 00:46 I want to spend my life 00:51 Mending broken people 01:09 Hello and welcome to 3ABN Family Worship. 01:11 We are glad that you have decided to join us 01:14 for this family worship. 01:15 And we encourage you to join us 01:18 and dive into the experience together with us 01:22 as we share this topic. 01:24 Today, we are sharing a topic 01:27 that is called Pictures of God, part two. 01:30 And so, we encourage you to continue with us 01:34 and see how this develops. 01:36 We have some of the family members 01:38 with us today. 01:39 And I'm going to start on my left with the lady 01:42 that is joining us, Sister Nancy O'Brien, welcome. 01:45 Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here. 01:48 And today we have Pastor Joe O'Brien joining us, 01:51 your husband. 01:53 Pastoral ministry department how many years? 01:56 Twenty. 01:57 Twenty years in the pastoral ministry department. 01:59 What happens in the pastoral ministry department 02:01 that you would like to share with us? 02:04 What happens? Yes. 02:05 What does the department do? 02:06 Oh, well, there's many things 02:08 dealing with emails and letters, 02:11 and previewing books and previewing programs 02:15 to see about the doctrinal accuracy 02:18 and there's just a lot of things, 02:19 but one of the richest for me is the folks that call in 02:24 and ask for prayer or have a question. 02:27 I just love conversing with my family out there. 02:31 That's the body of Christ and to get to know them, 02:35 and to share with them the answers 02:36 they're looking for, because God has the answers. 02:39 Amen. Amen. 02:40 Let me go back to Sister Nancy. 02:42 For many years, you were a teacher 02:44 in the school and principal, but now you are helping 02:49 in the department that is, involves wills and trusts. 02:53 Yes. Tell us about that? 02:54 Okay. 02:56 I'm a trust officer in the Planned Giving 02:59 and Trust Services Department and I, you know, 03:02 I think one of the things I enjoy most about it too 03:04 is talking to the people that call in that 03:06 want information that love 3ABN 03:10 and want to do something 03:11 with 3ABN like in a trust or an annuity. 03:15 Amen. Amen. 03:17 Well, thank you so much. 03:18 And to my right, we have... 03:20 I call him Uncle Larry. Welcome. 03:23 And you are a 3ABN volunteer for how many years? 03:27 I'm working on the 20th year. Twentieth year? 03:30 I understand that your original plan 03:33 was to volunteer for... 03:34 Two weeks. Two weeks. 03:36 And what happened? Lord got a hold of me. 03:40 I came in, I saw a need, I was able to fill it. 03:43 My physical condition at the time, 03:45 I wasn't sure if I was going to be able, 03:47 but things happen like I was able to sleep 03:49 for more than 15-20 minutes at a time, 03:51 which to me was a miracle to sleep three hours. 03:54 So things started to improve. 03:57 My health improved two points after the doctors said it 04:00 wasn't going to happen. 04:01 And then they said, "Okay, well, you can do this, 04:03 can you help us out with that." 04:06 And started out in the print shop, 04:07 stuffing envelopes, 04:09 worked into running the print shop, 04:10 and then the mass control and production, 04:13 and driving and whatever they need. 04:16 Praise the Lord. 04:18 Now, Larry is one of the persons 04:21 that when for some reason 04:23 he's not in the family devotion. 04:24 They say, "Well, Larry is not here." 04:26 So I'm going to say what he normally says, 04:28 what is it that you say about every day? 04:31 Praise God for another beautiful day. 04:33 Praise God for another beautiful day. 04:34 For another beautiful day life. 04:36 But you add something else to that. 04:37 What is it that you add? 04:40 You say something about every day is a good day. 04:41 Oh, every day is a good day, 04:43 just some are better than others. 04:44 Every day is good day except that 04:45 some are better than others. 04:47 Praise the Lord. 04:48 Well, we're going to begin also with prayer. 04:50 And so, we want to ask you at home to join us. 04:53 And we want the Lord to bless not only our time together, 04:55 but also to bless you. 04:57 And so, join us in prayer. 05:01 Our loving Heavenly Father, 05:03 we are grateful to You because of Your blessings. 05:06 Grateful to You 05:08 because of the wonderful plan of salvation, 05:10 and that you have given us the blessed hope 05:15 that this world is not our final home. 05:19 You have a better home for us, a better world. 05:21 And we thank You, Lord, 05:23 that we can rejoice in Your salvation. 05:26 We pray that as we are together, 05:27 Lord, You will bless us with Your Holy Spirit, 05:31 that we may share things that will be of encouragement 05:34 and blessing to Your children. 05:36 We ask You to consider 05:38 every request that has arrived at 3ABN, 05:42 many concerns, concerns 05:44 that are a burden to Your children. 05:47 We pray that You will help us to learn 05:50 to cast all of our cares upon You 05:51 because You care for us. 05:54 And Heavenly Father, 05:56 there are some financial concerns, 05:58 there are concerns about health, 06:01 concerns about loved ones that are not walking with You 06:06 and are in the world in great danger. 06:10 Perhaps forgetting that Satan is as a roaring lion 06:13 seeking whom he may devour. 06:15 So we pray that You will be with each request 06:19 that has come into 3ABN and that You will answer 06:23 according to what You know is best for each person. 06:26 We ask You for these blessings 06:29 in the holy and blessed name of Jesus. 06:32 Amen. Amen. 06:33 Amen. 06:35 Well, this is family worship and normally, 06:39 people wonder why and why are you saying, 06:43 "Have a happy and blessed Sabbath 06:44 on a Friday evening." 06:46 So there are reasons for this 06:48 because the Bible clearly points out, 06:51 we say clearly and some people say, 06:52 well, I didn't know that. 06:55 This is in Genesis Chapter 1. 06:56 The Bible outlines that each day 06:58 begins with what part of the day? 07:00 Evening. 07:01 The evening or the dark part of the day, 07:03 because remember, the earth was dark. 07:05 So the first part of the day is the dark part of the day. 07:09 And then the day part of the day comes second. 07:12 So the evening and the morning, first day, evening and morning, 07:15 second day, this is what you'll see 07:17 in the Book of Genesis Chapter 1. 07:19 But something special happened on the sixth day 07:23 after God had done all His work, 07:25 the next day was not a day of work. 07:28 It was a day of rest. 07:30 And so I'd like to go to Genesis Chapter 2 first. 07:36 And my Uncle Larry, if you will read that, 07:38 Genesis 2:1, 2 and 3 for us, 07:42 so that we can get a picture 07:43 of what God did on the seventh day of creation. 07:47 Now, we only have seven days in the week, 07:50 so this was the final day of the week. 07:53 So Genesis 2:1, 2 and 3. 07:57 "Thus the heavens and the earth, 07:58 and all the host of them, were finished. 08:00 And on the seventh day God ended His work 08:02 which He had done, 08:04 and He rested on the seventh day 08:05 from all His work which He had done. 08:07 Then God blessed 08:09 the seventh day and sanctified it, 08:10 because in it He rested from all His work 08:13 which God had created." 08:14 Wonderful. 08:16 So it tells us there that God blessed this day. 08:22 Now, were the other days not blessed? 08:24 Well, He put a special blessing if you want to say that 08:28 on this particular day, every day of creation, 08:33 God ended and He said, "It's good." 08:36 And God saw that it was good. God saw it was good. 08:38 But after the whole creation process 08:39 was done, He says, 08:41 He looked at everything, Genesis 1:31. 08:43 And it says very good. 08:46 And part of the blessing that the Sabbath brings, 08:51 which we're talking about here 08:52 because He blessed the seventh day 08:54 is that it is a time for us to remember our Creator. 08:59 So that's why we want to go to Exodus Chapter 20 09:02 and read verses 8 through 11. 09:04 And Joe O'Brien will read that for us, Exodus 20:8-11. 09:09 Please. 09:11 Before I start, I'd like to add to what you said Johnny, 09:13 that it's fairly clear, it's fairly clear. 09:17 Six days God created 09:21 and that includes Sunday is a work day, 09:25 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 09:27 and Friday at sundown, the day ends, 09:32 which is the beginning of the seventh day. 09:35 And God blessed it, He sanctified it. 09:40 And that day is the only one that 09:44 He blessed and sanctified and hallowed. 09:47 And if you want to keep another day holy, 09:49 you can, just don't sin. 09:52 But the fact is that day is not holy. 09:56 It's a workday because the boss said so. 10:00 Okay, and so we'll start here with, let's see. 10:05 Exodus 20:8-11. Okay. 10:09 This is the fourth commandment. 10:11 And God says, "Remember 10:13 the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 10:16 Remember, I think He thought we would forget. 10:19 Okay. 10:21 "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. 10:23 Six days thou shalt labor 10:28 and do all thy work, 10:31 but the seventh day 10:33 is the Sabbath of the Lord, 10:38 the Lord thy God. 10:40 In it thou shalt not do any work, 10:42 thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, 10:45 nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, 10:48 not even your cattle, 10:50 not the stranger within thy gates." 10:53 That's a holy day. 10:55 "For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, 10:57 and the sea, and all that in them is, 11:01 and rested the seventh day." 11:03 He keeps telling us that. 11:05 "Wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath and hallowed it." 11:09 Amen. 11:10 Amen. 11:12 It's marvelous that the details given in that commandment 11:17 is the fourth commandment in the Bible. 11:19 And, you know, if God had only said, 11:23 "Remember the seventh day to keep it holy, 11:25 six days you shall labor and do all your work." 11:29 But He added, you nor your son, nor your daughter, 11:34 nor your manservant, not even your cattle. 11:37 So even the animals are supposed to get 11:39 a break on that day. 11:41 And so, this is a wonderful blessing 11:44 even for the animals. 11:45 Amen. And He made it very clear. 11:49 He left no thing undone, so there would be 11:52 no mistake about the entirety of it. 11:54 Now it's interesting the wording also because 11:57 as we get to verse 11, 12:00 it tells us why we should do this. 12:03 Can you read that again for us? Yes. 12:05 The reason is because it says, 12:07 "For in six days," which means because 12:10 "in six days the Lord made the heaven and the earth, 12:14 and the sea, and all that in them is 12:17 and rested the seventh day. 12:20 Wherefore He blessed it, 12:23 and the Sabbath day was hallowed." 12:25 Amen. Thank you very much. 12:27 So what the Lord blesses and makes holy, 12:31 remains holy forever. 12:34 I changed not. 12:36 I am the same yesterday, today and forever. 12:38 He doesn't make mistakes. 12:40 So the Sabbath remains a holy separated day for us 12:45 to keep holy even today. 12:48 And we are to remember 12:49 the Sabbath day to keep it holy. 12:50 You can work six days you know, 12:52 some people take off the first day. 12:55 But society unfortunately 12:59 because many people do not work on the first day 13:04 of the week being Sunday. 13:06 They are off. 13:07 When they go back to school, 13:09 when they go back to work, 13:10 they think this is the first day of the week. 13:12 Our minds are somehow looking at this 13:16 as the first day of the week 13:17 because that's the first day you go to school 13:20 or the first day you go to work. 13:22 But Monday is actually the second day of the week. 13:25 Yes. 13:27 And so, this is so important 13:32 to God for us that 13:34 there is a scripture that I would, 13:36 that we would like to read it 13:37 at this time also, Ezekiel 20:20. 13:41 And Sister Nancy O'Brien, I see that you have it. 13:43 Could you read it for us, please? 13:45 "Hallow My Sabbaths, 13:46 and they will be a sign between Me and you, 13:49 that you may know that I am the Lord your God." 13:53 It's a what? A sign. 13:55 So unfortunately, some people have endeavored, 14:00 have attempted to take this sign away 14:04 and put in its place 14:06 something He did not put in its place. 14:08 And that is, they say, well, Sunday is the day 14:12 because Christ resurrected from the dead on that day. 14:16 But there is no scripture that says that 14:19 Sunday has been made holy in anywhere 14:22 in the Scripture. 14:24 And we have writings and articles. 14:29 Actually declarations made by different denominations 14:33 that they say the seventh day is the Sabbath day. 14:37 And we honor the resurrection. 14:40 And we, we look at that, 14:42 but really the people that go to, 14:45 let's say church, 14:46 you can go to church any day of the week. 14:48 You can go on Monday. You can go on Sunday. 14:50 Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 14:52 you can go to church, 14:54 but only one day God has said, 14:56 "You shall not work on that day, 14:57 this day is holy." 14:59 And so I, you know, from Spanish countries, 15:03 you'll notice if you go, 15:04 they have church services on Monday, 15:06 they've church service on Wednesday, Friday. 15:09 It's not about going to church on a particular day, 15:11 it's about keeping the day holy, 15:13 to remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. 15:16 I see that you have something to say. 15:18 I was just thinking when you're saying that, 15:20 the story come to mind about a man who went away 15:23 and he had his son build a barn house and everything. 15:27 And when he came back, 15:29 the son had done everything exactly like he wanted 15:31 except for the barn. 15:33 He put it where he wanted it 15:34 and not where the father wanted it. 15:36 He put the barn in the wrong... 15:38 He put it in the wrong place. 15:40 So for me if I'm not worshiping on the Sabbath, 15:43 I'm in the wrong place. 15:45 And we got to do what He asked us to do, 15:47 not what we wanted to do. 15:49 The boy did the good work, 15:50 but he didn't do what he was asked to do. 15:52 So it was with nothing, you know, 15:55 to have that his way, not the Father's way. 15:58 See now this may be new to some people to realize this. 16:01 So we encourage you 16:03 that if you like more information, 16:05 you can contact 3ABN. 16:07 And we'll be glad to share scriptures, 16:10 Bible study concerning the Sabbath day, 16:12 so that you can enter into this wonderful blessing 16:16 that the Lord has for each and every one. 16:19 And remember, Ezekiel 20:20 says that 16:23 this is a sign between God and His people. 16:26 And so a marvelous understanding to have. 16:32 Well, we are talking today about... 16:36 Anything else you'd like to share 16:37 about the Sabbath before we continue? 16:39 'Cause there's so much. 16:41 The statement in the commandment tells us 16:47 that God created all these things for us. 16:49 And then He says, "Now on the seventh day, 16:51 let's get together being friends 16:54 and talk about it." 16:55 Let's remember, that's where it starts 16:56 with the word remember. 16:58 And so, God wants to spend that time with us 17:02 on a holy day that is sanctified, 17:04 which means set aside for a holy purpose. 17:08 And this is what it's about, 17:09 it's to fellowship with God and people say, 17:11 "Well, Sunday is the Lord's Day." 17:14 Excuse me? Haven't you read the Bible? 17:18 God Himself says right in the commandment, 17:21 that the Sabbath is the Lord's day. 17:25 And so, let's keep it straight. 17:28 And there's a thing in that commandment 17:30 also that struck me one time that I think is insightful. 17:35 God is very insightful. 17:37 It says, not to work yourself, 17:42 your son, your daughter, your menservants, the cattle, 17:45 all of this stuff, but then He ends it with this. 17:48 Nor the stranger that is within thy gates. 17:52 In other words, 17:53 don't stand on the street corner, 17:55 and holler at the businessman 17:56 that you should be closed today because it's holy. 18:00 That's not within your gates. 18:03 Now if you own the business, you talk to yourself 18:06 and say I should be close. 18:07 You should be close. 18:08 You know it's interesting that as we consider the Sabbath day, 18:13 and we look at it, it says, it's a day, 18:16 six days you shall labor and do all your work, 18:20 and so, this includes the work 18:24 of going to go buy groceries 18:28 because that's a work if you want to consider it. 18:30 You go buy groceries, 18:32 you go to the supermarket to buy your shoes. 18:34 It's not a day to go buy your clothing, 18:36 buy all of the things that have to do 18:41 with the worldly activities. 18:46 We have to put those things away. 18:48 I am, sometimes I get call. 18:52 I am glad to tell the people 18:54 and you know you do it in a kind way. 18:56 You know thank you for your call but today 18:58 because they're offering you, 19:00 they're trying to sell you something on the phone. 19:02 Today for us is the Sabbath day according to the Bible. 19:06 And if you would like to talk to me about this, 19:08 call me on Monday. 19:10 So this is an all encompassing blessing. 19:17 Yes. 19:19 Another thought that I think is important is that 19:22 what you had Nancy read, it said... 19:24 Ezekiel 20:20. 19:26 Yes, "This will be a sign between Me and you, 19:31 that you may know that I am the Lord your God." 19:35 And so, on that day, if we're shopping for shoes, 19:37 how am I remembering that He is the Lord, 19:39 my God who created and gave me the breath of life, 19:42 how can I remember that when I'm trying on shoes? 19:44 That's right. 19:46 So what you're saying is exactly true. 19:49 And if we took it a step further, 19:51 it says in Scripture, not to seek your own pleasure. 19:55 So if there's a roaring football game 19:57 or something, and I want to go to it... 20:00 It's not the right day. 20:03 It's not the right day to be cheering on your hero, 20:06 some guy that could easily break a leg. 20:10 It's our day to cheer on our hero 20:12 who made everything for us 20:14 because He loves us and to say thank you, 20:17 and that is one of Satan's deviations 20:23 to take us away from God. 20:25 And we're not seeing it that way. 20:28 But to seek our own pleasure 20:29 should be the pleasure of God's love 20:32 and give and giving of all that 20:34 He's given us including His life. 20:38 Can't we give Him back that holy time and show that 20:42 we're His children and He's our God. 20:45 It's important, very important. 20:47 This is something that 20:51 sometimes people look at the commandments as, 20:54 don't do this, don't do that, don't do this, 20:57 but the commandments, 20:59 each and every one of them is for our blessing. 21:03 And if the whole world kept the commandments, 21:07 we would have less worry, 21:08 less stress in life, that you can, you know, 21:14 leave the door of your house unlocked, 21:17 leave your car unlocked. 21:18 But today, people have to lock their cars, 21:21 not only lock them, 21:22 but they have to have alarms on them. 21:24 And I've seen people in cities like Chicago 21:26 where they put something on the steering wheel. 21:28 So that in case somebody manages to get in, 21:31 they can't move the steering wheel. 21:33 And this is the kind of world we live in. 21:35 But if the world kept all the commandments, 21:37 each commandment is supposed to be a blessing for us. 21:41 And it's including this one. 21:44 And so, unfortunately, people are missing out 21:47 on the blessing of the Sabbath day. 21:49 Now, when you talk to some people 21:50 about the commandments, 21:52 somebody that you're trying to help to understand, 21:55 they said, "Well, they're just guidelines. 21:56 They're just suggestions." 21:58 But that's not what it says. 22:00 It doesn't say I suggest, it says, 22:01 this is the commandment to do it. 22:03 And I said, "Well, what business you have 22:05 to commanding me to do these things?" 22:07 He's our God, He's our Creator. 22:09 He set these things for us, 22:11 so that our lives would be better. 22:13 Amen. 22:14 So we got to put self out and let Him in. 22:16 As I say, Sabbath is the best day of the week. 22:19 I mean, we love Sabbath. 22:22 It's, talk about the world, 22:23 it's a day to get away from the world. 22:26 You know, you just, 22:28 I look so forward to the beginning of Sabbath 22:30 Friday evening. 22:31 It's just like, you just think, 22:33 "Oh, okay, I'm going to shut out the world now. 22:35 And I'm just going to rest 22:36 and rest in the Lord really rest in, 22:40 in studying the Word and in, 22:42 you know, all the good things, 22:45 rather than getting tied up with the world." 22:47 I mean... And there's... 22:49 We love Sabbath. 22:51 There's one thing that I think is very critical. 22:53 I discovered this as I was reading the scriptures 22:56 in the Book of Daniel. 22:58 Thousands of years ago, God showed Daniel, 23:01 that man would think to change the times and laws of God. 23:05 And the fourth commandment is a time, 23:07 it's a law that deals with time 23:08 and man thinks he changed it 23:10 and thinking it does not make it so. 23:13 I can think I'm a burden, jump off a cliff. 23:16 Good luck. God doesn't change. 23:19 So it was prophesied by Daniel long ago, 23:23 man will think to change the times and laws of God. 23:25 And there's one man that says that he did it. 23:28 And it's in record, it's recorded. 23:30 But God says, "Remember," He didn't say, 23:36 "Remember the change that's coming." 23:38 He says, "Remember the law that I made." 23:41 Amen. Amen. 23:42 I like to read from Deuteronomy Chapter 11. 23:44 Deuteronomy Chapter 11. 23:46 And I'm going to read, 23:47 there are many places you can go to, 23:49 but you'll see that 23:50 the commandments are a blessing for us 23:53 because they promote your happiness, 23:55 and they have, God has your happiness in mind. 23:58 And in Deuteronomy Chapter 11, 24:00 I'm going to read verses 26, 27, and 28. 24:06 And this is what the Bible says, 24:08 "Behold, I set before you 24:11 this day a blessing and a curse, 24:14 a blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord 24:17 your God, which I command you this day: 24:20 And a curse, if you will not obey 24:22 the commandments of the Lord your God, 24:24 but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, 24:28 to go after other gods, which ye have not known." 24:31 And so, really, the commandments of God 24:34 are a blessing if you do them, 24:37 and so we encourage you to do that. 24:38 Now, let's move on to our topic 24:40 because I'm interested in hearing the pictures 24:44 that you have brought. 24:47 You know, this is called Pictures of God, part two. 24:51 I see you have another thought you'd like to share 24:53 before I move on. 24:54 On what you just read, please, 24:56 I appreciate you letting me do this. 24:58 In Deuteronomy 11 says, "A blessing if you obey, 25:03 and a curse if you do not obey the commandments of God." 25:06 Well, that shows a picture of God, 25:09 not only as a judge, where He says, 25:12 "Vengeance belongeth to Me, and I will repay, 25:15 and the Lord shall judge His people." 25:17 And then we're all scared 25:18 because He sees the bad things 25:20 we've done and we're in trouble. 25:22 But when you read that, it's like, 25:24 there's a blessing if you obey. 25:27 I don't want to be mean to you. 25:29 It's your choice, we determine which reward God gives us. 25:35 So if we don't want Him to be judgmental with the curse, 25:41 then don't break the rules. 25:44 It's our choice and I just wanted 25:46 to end with it's our choice, 25:48 so we can increase our blessings. 25:52 Our future can be filled 25:54 with more blessing and less curse 25:56 based on our choice, 25:59 not on what the judge is going to judge. 26:02 We're making the decision. 26:04 Just want to say that. 26:06 Well, thank you very much. Let's move on to our top topic. 26:10 I said, I'm interested in seeing the pictures 26:12 that you have brought, you know, 26:14 when I say pictures, people think of a photograph. 26:18 But a picture is also a memory 26:23 that people have of something that occurred, 26:26 either in their life or something they have seen 26:29 and heard someone else. 26:31 So there are pictures of God in the Bible, 26:34 and we're going to talk about pictures of God in the Bible, 26:37 that show us how He is. 26:41 But also later, we're going to talk about 26:44 pictures of God, what you would say 26:47 modern pictures of God, but perhaps in your experience, 26:50 something you have seen in somebody that tells you, 26:52 I saw God in that person, 26:55 when I saw them doing such and such a thing. 26:58 And so, this is going to be very interesting. 27:00 Who would like to start? How about Uncle Larry? 27:04 Well, okay in Acts 6 and 7, verses 11 and 15, 27:10 they talk about the Good Samaritan. 27:14 You had the priest who went through first... 27:16 I'm sorry, what scripture did you mention? 27:19 Acts. 27:20 Oh, okay, Acts 10. I'm sorry. 27:23 Six and seven, Chapter 6 and Chapter 7 27:27 or verse 6 and verse 7 there, okay. 27:30 And it talks about anyway a man, 27:33 there's a, if you know the history 27:35 about that road going to Jericho, 27:36 it's full of thieves and bandits and your life 27:38 is in your own hands when you come there. 27:40 Where the one man he got attacked 27:42 and he got beaten and left for dead. 27:44 The priests went through 27:46 and walked on the other side and passed him. 27:48 The Levite did the same but the Samaritan not only 27:51 did he stop to help him and bandage him 27:54 and put oil on his wounds, he bought him, he went, 27:57 you know further than the required, 27:59 he brought him to the end to care from 28:02 and then left money be cared for him afterwards. 28:05 To me that's a prime example of a picture of God. 28:08 God goes, what we might think of is out of the way to help us 28:12 and to do things for us 28:14 that are for our own good to help mend in our wounds, 28:17 and that those wounds don't have to be physical, 28:19 they can be emotional. 28:21 So to me, that's, that was the first one 28:23 that came into my mind. 28:24 Luke, at this, I found the story 28:26 of the Good Samaritan, Luke Chapter 10 as well. 28:29 Oh, I'm sorry, I did give you the wrong one. 28:33 I'm looking at my notes here and I looked at the wrong one, 28:36 but it was Luke 10:33-35. 28:41 So you see in the Good Samaritan, 28:42 a picture of God in that illustrates 28:47 some characteristic about him as also portrayed 28:51 in the lives of other people. 28:52 Yes. 28:54 And that same principle, if you look at God and see 28:58 the picture of God doing that same, 29:01 working out that same principle for any one of us. 29:05 It's a matter of purchasing a room 29:09 at a hotel and paying for the food in advance 29:13 until you're healed is giving a lot. 29:16 I mean, very few people would do that. 29:19 Well, maybe not very few, but I mean, 29:21 but then when you look at God in that picture, 29:23 doing that same, 29:25 working out that same principle, 29:28 the wages of sin is death, 29:30 because God's going to have a clean universe one day. 29:33 He's going to get rid of sin 29:35 and sinners who won't quit sinning. 29:36 And so, He loves us 29:40 and wants to take care of us, 29:43 provide for us as that principle showed 29:46 to the point where He was willing. 29:49 The wages of sin is death. 29:50 He would actually give His whole total life 29:54 not just his pocketbook, but His life to help us. 29:59 That is the ultimate that God be love. 30:02 He gave it all. That's a picture I see. 30:06 And then this, the man 30:07 just didn't give his of his own goods 30:09 and everything, he risked his life 30:11 because at that point he could have been attacked 30:13 at any time too, 30:15 so He risked it all for somebody 30:17 He didn't even know, 30:19 knew nothing about him except that he needed help. 30:21 Amen. 30:22 Sister Nancy, you have one? Yes. 30:27 Jesus was always... 30:28 I was raised, being told about God, 30:32 being told about Jesus, 30:33 but I really didn't understand Him. 30:36 He was called Lamb of God. 30:38 And I didn't really know why. 30:40 But He was and I was told that 30:44 He dead for my sins, 30:46 but didn't really understand that. 30:47 So it was when I started reading the Bible 30:49 and got into Exodus. 30:52 I'm not...Yeah, Exodus 25, 26 30:57 when it starts talking about the sanctuary. 30:59 Okay, I was new in the Bible and I was reading it. 31:01 And I had already fallen in love with God, 31:05 I was deeply in love with Jesus and so I said to Him, you know, 31:08 "I don't understand why You put this in here. 31:10 Because why do I need to know what color the curtains are? 31:13 Why do I need to know that 31:14 there's a loop on every one of them 31:15 and tassels here and tassels there? 31:17 And I don't get it, Jesus. 31:19 Why did You put this in here? 31:21 But I also knew, okay, 31:23 everything in here is meant for instruction, 31:26 and, you know, guidance. 31:28 And so I said, "Well, Lord, 31:30 you're going to have to show me 31:31 how this can possibly affect my life 31:33 because I just don't see it." 31:35 And it was five years later, as I was studying the Bible, 31:40 studying with Revelation seminar, 31:44 that it hit me when they started talking 31:45 about the sanctuary and I thought, 31:48 "Oh, that was my question. 31:50 Why did He go into such detail?" 31:54 All of a sudden, the whole plan of salvation 31:56 made sense. 31:58 He's the Lamb of God that died for my sins. 32:02 He is the Lamb of God that was nailed to the cross. 32:05 It wasn't the commandments nailed to the cross. 32:07 It was a Lamb of God that was nailed to the cross. 32:10 He is the high priest that I confess my sins to, 32:13 and He offers His blood. 32:15 I never understood that until I studied the sanctuary system. 32:18 So to me, He is the Lamb of God. 32:21 He's the high priest. 32:23 He's the whole plan of salvation. 32:25 Amen. Amen. 32:27 Well, I'm going to share one here 32:29 from the Book of Matthew and Matthew Chapter... 32:36 Actually, I'm going to read first the scripture 32:40 that talks about God. 32:42 And this is Matthew 6:26. 32:48 It says, "Look at the birds of the air, 32:52 for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, 32:56 yet your heavenly Father feeds them. 33:00 Are you not of more value than they?" 33:05 And so, here's a picture of God that Jesus is describing, 33:10 that He takes care of the birds. 33:13 He takes care of the animals in the fields. 33:15 Somehow, someway God feeds all these animals out there 33:20 and takes care of them. 33:23 And then he said, then the verse says, 33:24 "Are you not of more value than they?" 33:28 You know, some people have lived many, many years 33:30 and they have never missed a meal, except by choice, 33:33 except by choice, 33:35 but God has taken care of each and every one, 33:41 each and every one of us. 33:42 The Bible says that God's rain falls on the just, 33:48 that means the good, and on the unjust, 33:50 that means the bad people. 33:52 God is so good. 33:53 I mean, He allows the rain to come so that 33:57 He can water the plants, He allows the sun to shine, 34:00 His son to shine so that the plants can benefit from it 34:04 and then the plants will grow. 34:07 I tell you if it wasn't for God, 34:09 we will be in serious, serious trouble. 34:11 Now the picture that I wanted to share with you is the, 34:15 about the 5,000. 34:17 In Matthew Chapter 14, 34:19 Jesus is pictured here 34:23 as preaching to a great multitude of people. 34:26 I'm going to begin reading in verse 13. 34:28 "When Jesus heard it, He departed from there 34:31 by a road to a deserted place by Himself. 34:35 But when the multitudes heard of it, 34:37 they followed Him on foot from the cities. 34:41 And when Jesus went out, He saw a great multitude, 34:45 and He was moved with compassion for them, 34:48 and healed their sick. 34:49 And when it was evening, 34:51 his disciples came to Him, saying, 34:53 'This is a deserted place, and the hour is already late, 34:57 send the multitude away,' they said to Jesus, 35:00 'that they may go into the villages, 35:02 and buy themselves food.'" 35:04 Now, this is something that surprised the disciples. 35:07 Jesus said, but Jesus said to them, 35:10 "They do not need to go away. 35:12 You give them something to eat." 35:17 And they're like, shocked. 35:18 I mean, well, notice what happens. 35:19 Verse 17. 35:21 "And they said to Him, 35:22 'We have here only five loaves and two fish.'" 35:30 So basically, they're saying, "We're helpless out here. 35:32 We're in serious trouble. 35:34 We have a great multitude of people. 35:36 And there are only five loaves of bread and two fish." 35:42 And Jesus said, He looked at them, 35:44 He didn't question them. 35:46 He said, He didn't say, oh you of little faith. 35:48 He basically said, "Just bring them to Me." 35:51 So He said, verse 19, 35:56 "Then He commanded the multitudes 35:57 to sit down on the grass. 35:59 And He took the five loaves and the two fish, 36:02 and looking up to heaven, 36:04 He blessed and broke 36:06 and gave the loaves to the disciples; 36:09 and the disciples gave to the multitudes. 36:11 So they all ate and were filled, 36:13 and they took up twelve baskets 36:15 full of the fragments that remained." 36:17 Now it says here in verse 21, "Now those who had eaten 36:20 were about five thousand men," 36:23 without counting where it says, "besides women and children." 36:26 So I don't know if you will take, let's say, 36:29 two children per family, boy, 36:32 that's another 10,000 right there. 36:35 And then the wives not, perhaps not all were married, 36:37 so let's say maybe 2,000 women. 36:40 So that's a lot of people. 36:42 With five loaves, and we think, we think of loaves as, 36:45 you know, the big loaves, 36:47 but these were loaves for one person a piece. 36:49 In other words, one person could have eaten 36:52 probably the two, three or five loaves one person. 36:56 But Jesus divided and the miracle occurred, 36:59 that as He continued to divide, 37:01 there continue to remain some until He was able to feed 37:05 all of these people. 37:07 And it's some miracle. 37:09 And so, I see here a picture of God, 37:12 taking care of the needs of the people. 37:15 And this is a picture of God, He takes care of our needs. 37:19 And He invites us to present our needs to Him. 37:23 So this is a picture of God that provides for us. 37:26 And so, this to me is a marvelous picture 37:29 that we have here of God. 37:31 Yeah. 37:32 So Uncle Larry, how about another one? 37:34 Well, I got another one from Bible 37:36 and this is the one that was Acts 6 and 7, 37:39 and it's talking about Steven. 37:42 Now, Steven firstly with in... 37:47 Yeah, in Chapter 6, it says, 37:50 "That Steven, full of faith and power did great wonders 37:53 and signs among the people. 37:55 Then there arose some 37:56 that call the synagogue of the freedom Cyrenians 38:02 and Alexandrians and those from Cecile, 38:04 how you say that Cilicia 38:06 and Asia disputing with Steven." 38:08 And what they did is they accused him falsely 38:12 of doing and preaching the wrong things. 38:17 So they wanted to stone him, well, right up into 38:20 and including the time of stoning him. 38:22 In 7:15, 38:26 it says... 38:29 So, oh, wait a minute. 38:32 You're in verse 7? 38:34 Yes, go on with 7: 15. I got this right. 38:37 So Jacob, nope, I didn't get it right. 38:40 Well, anyway... Oh, you mean 6:15. 38:43 That's what you want. Okay. 38:46 Where was I here? All right. Oh, yeah. 38:50 And it says that, "All who sat in the council 38:52 when they were accusing him, 38:54 looking steadfastly at Him saw His face 38:57 was as the face of an angel." 39:00 That's what I think when people looked at, 39:02 like, looked at Christ, they saw love, they saw, 39:05 you know, something that was pure. 39:07 And that's what I think that 39:09 at that point that Steven showed 39:11 and depicted the face of God. 39:12 Amen. Amen. 39:15 So this was another wonderful picture of God. 39:19 Marvelous. How about...Yes, Joe? 39:22 The principle that you were working with Johnny, 39:24 I want to expand on that a little bit with. 39:27 If you'll turn to John 2:1 with me. 39:32 This was after Jesus was baptized, and John said 39:35 He was the Lamb of God and the mother, 39:38 his mother knew what was going on for sure. 39:41 She taught him in all and it was at a point in time 39:46 that was a little bit critical. 39:48 It says there, "And the third day was 39:52 a marriage in Cana of Galilee, 39:58 and the mother of Jesus was there: 40:01 "And the third day was called, 40:02 and His disciples to the marriage." 40:05 Now He just gathered a few new disciples here. 40:07 And it says in verse 3, "And when they wanted wine, 40:13 the mother of Christ or Jesus said unto Him, 40:17 they have no wine. 40:22 And Jesus answered and said, 40:25 'Woman, what have I to do with this, with thee? 40:30 Mine hour is not yet come.'" 40:32 So He is letting her know, I'm not involved in the wine. 40:39 And then His mother said to the servants, 40:42 whatsoever He has... 40:45 "Whatsoever He saith unto you do it." 40:49 And that's all, she just said. 40:52 They have no wine. 40:54 He says, "What have I to do with this?" 40:57 And she says to the servants, 40:58 "Whatever He tells you to do, do it." 41:00 And that was it. 41:02 It's kind of like mom was given a little order there, 41:05 you know, kind of, okay now Jesus, 41:07 what did He do? 41:09 Yeah, this is not my time. What did He do? 41:13 He was the commandment keeper who never sinned. 41:17 And the fifth commandment was at stake, 41:20 on your father and your mother. 41:23 And so, Jesus was faithful to the fifth commandment 41:26 and He honored His mother. 41:28 There's things like that, 41:30 that we don't always see that are beneath the surface. 41:34 And I thought that followed along with 41:36 what you were sharing, Johnny. 41:38 Amen. Thank you very much. 41:40 Sister Nancy, you have another picture 41:42 you'd like to share? 41:43 Well, Jesus is our also the good shepherd. 41:48 And in my life, I was single for quite a while 41:52 and there was, you know, when you're single, 41:55 you're facing all the so called problems by yourself 41:58 like a bat gets into your apartment 42:00 and usually I would have called my dad, 42:03 I was living at home but had to do it myself. 42:06 So I called on God, can you get this 42:10 bat out of my apartment. 42:12 And, you know, 42:13 He always filled whatever need I had, 42:16 He was the good shepherd. 42:18 I've really felt like He was watching 42:21 and taking care of me 42:22 as He would take care of His own child. 42:25 And there were many times 42:27 when I would be found myself in a situation 42:32 where I didn't know what to say. 42:35 And I felt like He gave me the words to say, so He's a... 42:38 He leads us when we get into turmoil or anxiety, 42:43 and you go to Him, 42:45 He leads you into peace and calm. 42:48 You know, it's, He's a good shepherd 42:50 over our lives if we listen to Him. 42:52 And, of course, quite reading the Word 42:54 is where you often get. 42:55 He talks to you there and very often lets you know 42:59 how He will help us. 43:02 There was a time when, as a young woman, 43:05 I was, of course, praying for a spouse asking God, 43:08 you know, "When am I ever going to find someone to marry, 43:11 you know, can I, you know, will You bring someone in?" 43:14 Well, when I had my priorities all wrong then, 43:18 and I had a friend who was very good, 43:20 and she told me that she says, 43:21 your priorities are wrong, you should put God first. 43:24 And so she gave me a little book, 43:26 Jesus person, promise book. 43:29 And I read it. 43:30 And as I read it, 43:31 I fell so deeply in love with Jesus. 43:34 Amen. I started to pray the opposite. 43:37 I started to pray, 43:38 don't bring anyone into my life Lord, 43:40 I just want to know You. 43:42 I'm in love with You. I want to know You. 43:44 Don't bring anybody else in my life. 43:46 You know, that's the good shepherd. 43:48 He really protects us and guides us and leads. 43:52 He has the best intentions for us. 43:54 Amen. Praise the Lord. 43:56 He is consistent. He's consistent. 43:58 Yes. That's the thing. 44:00 I'd like to read one more here if you don't mind. 44:01 Please, go ahead. Joshua 24:15. 44:06 And then I'd like to read a little thing here 44:07 that Ellen White note in there. 44:10 It says, "And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, 44:14 choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, 44:16 whether the gods which your fathers served 44:20 that were on the other side of the River, 44:22 or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. 44:25 But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." 44:28 To me Joshua was a perfect example. 44:31 No matter what happened, 44:32 he followed and he to me pictured Christ. 44:37 And in his note here, it says that, 44:41 "This is the governing power in the nature of man 44:44 the power of decision or choice, 44:46 every human being possessed of reason has power to choose 44:49 that to choose the right and every experience of life, 44:52 God's Word to us is choose you this day, 44:55 whom you will serve. 44:56 Everyone may place it on His will 44:59 on the side of the will of God may choose to obey Him 45:03 and by thus linking himself with the divine agencies, 45:07 He may stand where nothing can force Him to do evil." 45:12 That, you know, I see Joshua, he was strong, he was a leader. 45:16 He didn't waver. 45:17 He didn't do anything for his own good. 45:20 He just did it exactly the way God did it, 45:22 the way Moses did it and so to me, 45:25 that's looking at the face of Christ. 45:27 Amen. Thank you very much. 45:28 I have one that follows up on that, Johnny. 45:32 I consider that partly that God is a... 45:35 A picture of God as a person, 45:37 a person who wants relationship. 45:39 He created us to have friends. 45:42 And in this relationship, if you turn to Malachi 3:8, 45:48 God reveals how much He wants relationship with us. 45:54 It says, "Will a man rob God? 45:57 Yet you have robbed Me," this is about relationship, 46:03 "but you say, 'Where in have you robbed me?' 46:06 In tithes and offerings. 46:09 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me.'" 46:12 Now we read earlier, 46:14 if you keep my commandments, I'll bless you. 46:16 And God is concerned here with His relationship with us 46:19 because He wants to bless us. 46:23 But if we sin, there's no blessing for sin. 46:27 And so now there's a curse coming upon you 46:30 and the whole nation, 46:32 the whole nation is not paying their tithe, 46:34 and God can't bless them. 46:36 And this relationship is breaking His heart. 46:39 And he says, bring you 46:41 all the tithe into the storehouse. 46:44 So there'll be meat in my house 46:45 because I have a church I want to spread over the world 46:49 and prove me now saith the Lord of host. 46:53 Prove me now." 46:55 What He's saying is please 46:58 test Me, try Me, know Me. 47:02 Let me bless you. I'm waiting. 47:05 I want to, I've got it all, I want to give you some. 47:08 Would you please test this 47:10 and try me and pay your tithe so I can bless you? 47:14 You see that relationship He's hungering for it. 47:16 He's begging for it. 47:17 And He goes on and says, 47:19 "See, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, 47:23 He's got those blessings waiting 47:25 and pour you out a blessing, 47:27 that there shall not be room enough to receive that 47:30 I've got so much." 47:31 Let me bless you. 47:34 So a dad is talking to his children in saying, 47:38 I can do so much for you. 47:40 Quit breaking the rules so I can bless you. 47:45 And then I just started Hebrews 11:6 and it says, 47:50 "But without faith it's impossible to please him: 47:53 for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, 47:57 and that he is a rewarder of them 48:00 who diligently seek him." 48:02 And I looked up diligent 48:03 and it means meticulously seek Him. 48:06 In other words, 48:08 meticulously watch your commands 48:10 and do righteous, pick righteous so that 48:13 I can open the windows of heaven. 48:16 The meticulous, this is serious. 48:18 I want you to be blessed. I just love it. 48:21 I mean, He's a God of relationship. 48:23 He wants... Amen. 48:25 Well, I'm going to read to you from 2 Corinthians Chapter 3. 48:30 And I'm going to read verse 2 and 3. 48:32 We have a very little time left, 48:34 but maybe we can share one or two pictures of God 48:38 that are outside of the Bible. 48:41 And so here is what we have 48:44 in 2 Corinthians 3:2, 48:47 "You are our epistle written in our hearts, 48:51 known and read by all men, 48:54 clearly you are an epistle of Christ, 48:57 ministered by us, 48:59 written not with ink 49:01 but by the Spirit of the living God, 49:03 not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, 49:07 that is, of the heart." 49:09 And so the reason I bring this scripture out is 49:12 because we are to be 49:16 as a message of God to the world. 49:21 And I have seen throughout my life, different people, 49:26 reflecting God's character by doing good deeds, 49:31 doing good things. 49:33 And one of the ones, one of the pictures 49:36 that come to God was my wife, Idalia 49:38 and I were driving to Wisconsin, 49:41 we were invited to go preach there. 49:43 And at that time, 49:45 we were expecting our firstborn son, Samuel. 49:50 And as we are driving, we had driven perhaps 49:53 three and half hours of six and all of a sudden, 50:00 the vehicle starts to slow down on the highway. 50:04 And so, I pressed the gas and the vehicle, 50:08 the vehicle continued to slow down. 50:10 And I said, "Okay, 50:11 we have a serious problem there." 50:13 And so, I was already in the right lane. 50:15 So I basically just drifted until, you know, 50:19 looking at the rearview mirror, 50:20 making sure that nobody's coming upon us. 50:22 So I parked on the side, and I open the trunk. 50:26 I mean, the hood, and I start looking at it. 50:30 And so Idalia comes out too 50:32 and we're both looking in there. 50:33 She goes, "What do you think it is?" 50:35 I really don't know. 50:36 And so she tried to turn it on, because I tried to turn it on 50:39 and it will just go wa-wa, wa-wa, wa-wa, 50:42 nothing was happening. 50:44 And so there's something going on, 50:45 the spark is not you know, 50:46 sparking this thing to make it go 50:48 or maybe the gas is not reaching 50:50 what is supposed to reach 50:51 and so we're going to have to get some help. 50:56 I was amazed that somebody 50:59 from the other side of the highway, 51:02 now cars were passing on our side. 51:07 But somebody from the other side 51:08 of the highway stopped. 51:11 And I saw him trying to make his way across the highway, 51:14 you know, cars are passing and he's, you know, 51:17 made his way, jumped over and made it to us. 51:21 I was like, "Hi." 51:24 He says, "I'm a mechanic, 51:26 I'm here to see what I can do for you." 51:28 And he mentioned his name. 51:29 And I said to myself, 51:30 "Isn't that marvelous that this person, 51:33 he wasn't even on our side of the highway." 51:35 And I said, this is a picture of God. 51:37 God goes out of His way to say to help us and to help people. 51:42 And this man was a picture of God 51:45 to me the way He did what He did, you know. 51:49 Anyone would like to share 51:50 something, maybe that last minute, 51:52 minute and a half 51:53 because we have to get out your final comments. 51:56 Yes. 51:57 Well, when I was a boy, 51:58 there was a young man in our town. 52:00 He was a simple man and he couldn't do 52:04 a lot of things that most people could. 52:06 He couldn't get a license, 52:07 but he used to drive around in his little farm old tractor. 52:10 And he was very quiet spoken, 52:12 people picked on him all the time 52:13 because they said there was something wrong with him. 52:15 He never lost his temper that I can ever remember. 52:18 He was always right there to help people, 52:19 even people who picked on him. 52:21 He was always there to help them, 52:23 never asked for anything. 52:24 And he, to me, you know, very, very calm, 52:29 very peaceful and more people remembered him. 52:32 He later died in a fire 52:34 but when I went back to that town, 52:35 more people remembered him in a good way for good things 52:38 than anybody else in the town. 52:40 Because of the way he was, he was a godly man. 52:44 Amen. Amen. 52:46 Well, we are at the moment of... 52:49 Anything else you'd like to share really quick? 52:51 Sister Nancy O' Brien, do you have a final message 52:53 for our viewers, our listeners? 52:57 Well, Jesus wants to have 53:01 a personal relationship with us. 53:03 And as I said before, he's the good shepherd. 53:06 He's the Lamb of God. 53:08 He's our high priest, He's everything. 53:11 And you know, it's just like, 53:15 I wish everybody could know Him personally because it's, 53:19 that's where we get our joy from our peace. 53:22 It's like, no matter what happens, 53:24 we can trust Him. 53:27 And we know the future right now 53:28 looks a little bit uncertain what's going to happen? 53:31 Well, we can just trust God and say, 53:33 "Okay, whatever happens, 53:34 Lord, I know You're still in control. 53:36 I know You're still watching over me. 53:37 I know You're still my God." 53:40 Yeah. Amen. 53:41 Amen. 53:43 Joe, any final message? So many. 53:46 There's a lot of verses in Scripture 53:48 that talk about Jesus inviting us 53:50 to be one with Him as He is one with the Father. 53:54 This relationship again needs to be restored. 53:58 In 1 John 4:16, it says, 54:01 "And we have known and believed the love 54:04 that God hath to us. 54:06 God is love, and he that dwelleth in love 54:10 dwelleth in God, and God in him." 54:15 And so, it's a call to be restored to a family 54:18 relationship with our Creator, 54:20 and to spend that time on that holy day with Him 54:24 instead of seeking our own pleasures and things. 54:27 And I remember real quick, when I was a Catholic, 54:33 and I discovered there is a fourth commandment 54:38 that doesn't change and God said, remember it. 54:41 And that meant go to church on Saturday, the seventh day. 54:45 So I did that. 54:48 I went to an Adventist Church on Saturday. 54:51 And it was fun, I was happy, and I felt spiritually 54:56 I had done something better than 54:57 I had ever done before. 54:58 I'm keeping, instead of trying to keep nine commandments, 55:02 I'm moving on ten which would be an achievement. 55:06 And so I'm feeling very good. 55:07 And I'm sitting at home and I read and have prayer 55:12 at this one little spot in the table. 55:14 And I was so happy that I was keeping the Sabbath 55:19 for the first time in my life. 55:21 And I heard a still small voice say, 55:26 "How long will you profane my Sabbath?" 55:29 And I thought, what? 55:31 For the first time in my life, I'm keeping a Sabbath day 55:35 and He's mad at me, He's upset, He is concerned. 55:39 And then I realized instantly, 55:42 for the first time I'm keeping a Sabbath day 55:45 but I'm working a swing shift rotation, 55:48 and the other three, 55:49 I don't keep is what He's concerned with, 55:52 because that's sin. 55:56 And so, I'll tell you what? 55:58 There's a relationship there if you want it. 56:01 Thank you. 56:03 Larry. You've about 45 seconds. 56:06 Final message. 56:07 Well, the only thing that I think about is 56:09 we look at commandments 56:10 as I was one that was very stubborn, 56:12 didn't want anybody to be telling me what to do. 56:15 But now I look at 56:16 the Ten Commandments as a blessing. 56:19 It's a guideline, it's something to show me 56:21 when you start a job or something, 56:22 you have to have somebody show you how to do it, well, 56:25 God is the one to go to, to show us how to live 56:27 and to help others live. 56:28 Amen. Thank you so much. 56:30 I want to thank Larry for being with us, 56:33 Sister Nancy O' Brien, Joe O' Brien. 56:35 I would like to read from Philippians 2:3 and 4. 56:41 And this is what the Bible tells us, 56:42 "Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, 56:48 but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others 56:52 better than himself. 56:53 Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, 56:58 but also for the interests of others." 57:01 And so, at this moment, I like to encourage you 57:05 to consider that you can be a picture of God 57:09 to someone else. 57:10 Look after the interest and needs of others. 57:14 Somehow, some way, perhaps this coming week, 57:18 you will see some need or hearer of some need. 57:21 And I would like to encourage you 57:24 to show a picture of God to someone else, 57:28 so that others can be attracted to know the Lord. 57:31 God bless you. |
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