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the Church of the Lord is called
a number of things, but one time

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in the Bible, the church is 
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no more, a beautiful 
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because God structured, the 
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physical family because he made 
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scriptures where the record says
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onto To the father of our Lord. 
Jesus Christ of whom the whole 

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family in Heaven and Earth is 
named Ephesians, 3:14 15. 

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This is a wonderful analogy. 
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the spiritual family ever 
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Family must have a head. 
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the physical family. 
The husband, the father is the 

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head of the physical family. 
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because that's the way God 
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And that's the way it must be. 
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our heavenly father, any time, 
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There will be problems and 
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But that's the way the lord has 
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The Bible says, for the husband 
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Christ is the head of the church
and he is the savior of the body

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and we also read where that 
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church, the spiritual family as 
a father is the head of the 

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physical family. 
When he says and hath put all 

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things under his feet and gave 
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Head over all things to the 
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The fullness of him, that 
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Well, he is the head of the 
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and 18 of course, as I've said 
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that the family here is the 
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Now, in the Earthly family, all 
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Is resided in the head, which is
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He is the head, he has the 
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should be. 
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throughout the entire teachings 
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And as I said any time that this
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and let somebody else step in 
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influence in the family. 
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you're going to have problems. 
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I'm saying is God doesn't 
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Because that is unscriptural and
God doesn't approve of a man who

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will allow a woman to him. 
Pick him, that's out of God's 

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order. 
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trouble, all powered authority 
of then are vested in the head 

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of the family. 
Jesus said, all power or 

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authority in heaven is given 
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The practice and conduct of the 
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the authority of the head of the
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And we must look to him for all 
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teaching, for all of our 
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When we don't do that, we're 
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church. 
And when people decide that this

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looks good to me, this looks 
good to be and decides to attach

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some things to the church or to 
the family that God didn't put, 

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their the head didn't put their,
there's going to be trouble in 

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the church. 
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brought into existence by a 
miracle, Adam was first formed 

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miraculously. 
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were created full grown. 
Full-grown adults. 

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Everything else that God created
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The day was full-grown. 
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The trees were full grown. 
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Now then after that, he said 
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of reproduction and he said, let
everything bring forth after his

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kind. 
So after that everything brought

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forth, then after his kind and 
There was no way of getting into

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this world except by physical 
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that's the way God said it up. 
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of getting into the world. 
There's just one way, that's my 

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birth. 
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was created by a miracle on the 
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set up, which is God's family, 
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And after that, then God said, 
into motion to law spiritual 

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reproduction, and every person 
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into the church, Has been 
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way, that's by spiritual birth. 
Just exactly like it is with the

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physical family. 
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here. 
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John 3 and 3. 
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We're begotten by the word of 
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He us with the word of Truth, 
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born again, not of corruptible 
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the word of God which liveth and
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First Peter 1 After being 
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They in begotten, by the word of
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God. 
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watery grave of baptism and this
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is suggested in Romans 6 and 3 
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So many of us as were baptized 
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into his death. 
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we read far Year all the 
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Christ. 
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you as have been baptized into 
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those. 
I thin how we become children in

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God's spiritual family. 
We don't come into the spiritual

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family by somebody praying in 
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By somebody lifting up their 
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ladies Ann's upon them we come 
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John 3 and 3. 
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sermon tonight on the family. 
I want to talk to you. 

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Now, if my voice will hold up, 
how about some of the blessings,

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which are vouchsafe to those of 
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And this is only for the family.
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the family of God. 
I'm All that. 

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The great God of evident. 
Would look down upon a perv poor

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person such as I and adopt me as
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That's what remarkable. 
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family is that we were written 
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We're written in the in the Book
of Life. somehow God has elected

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to picture our system as being 
written in a book. 

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Now that's God's choosing. 
It's not mine. 

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I book of life. 
It's called I Lamb's Book of 

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Life. 
It's called I like to think that

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God has a special detail over 
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A special Angel for this 
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Who keeps up with all of this? 
Hebrews 12 and 21. 

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We read to the general assembly 
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which are written in heaven. 
Now a lot of folks, Tales be, 

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you think you've got to be a 
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Well, I'll say this. 
It's only those who are members 

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of the church who are written in
heaven. 

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Now, if you want to be written 
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of the church, which is of 
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In Luke 10 and 20. 
We read are rather interesting 

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account. 
The 71 out commissioned by the 

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Lord, And they came back all a 
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The fact that they could perform
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of folks like that today. 
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thing in the world. 
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it's not They even had power 
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And they came back and said, 
Lord, even to evil spirits are 

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subject unto us in thy name And 
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this. 
I'm going to show you Greater 

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Works than that, your trade 
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rather Rejoice that your names 
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Now, ladies and gentlemen, when 
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us, the fact of the greatest 
principle in the world that I 

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can have my name written in 
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My name is not worth much down 
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Your name is not worth very much
and a lot of people doesn't even

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know my name. 
But you know I can so live that 

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I can have my name on that 
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and that's greater than 
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the world. 
That's greater than being John D

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Rockefeller, or anybody else 
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Philippians 4 and 3. 
Paul said, help those women, who

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labored with me in the gospel 
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Also, and other my fellow 
laborers, whose names are in the

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Book of Life. 
There are names are written and 

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over in Revelations 3 and 5. 
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He that overcometh, the same 
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whosoever. 
Rather was not found written in 

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the Book of Life was cast into 
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Now, that's an awesome 
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The word find the word found is 
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Just passage to me that 
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found. 
Sounds like he's looking for 

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something. 
Now, won't it be a quite an 

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awesome thing to get there to 
judgment. and, The angel who 

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opens up the books. 
Looks and looks. 

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Thank you and looks. 
But he finally has to look up 

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and say, sir, your name is not 
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One of that's going to be the 
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life. 
To have our name in the Lamb's 

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Book of Life is greatest thing 
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And I would say to all the young
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greatness in life, don't worry 
so much about getting your name 

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in the headlines on the records.
Don't worry so much about 

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achieving down here you make 
certain that your name is in the

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Book of Life, That's the 
greatest thing that you will 

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ever do. 
It really is. 

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We think the old song liar cared
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In either silver or gold. 
I would make sure of seven 

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heaven. 
I would enter the pole in the 

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book of that Kingdom with his 
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So fair, tell me, tell me, Lord,
Jesus is my name written there. 

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Also, we have this thought 
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all through our hymn book, the 
fact that our names are in 

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heaven. 
I remember an account 18 and 93.

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When a man by the name of mr. 
William James Black was teaching

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a Sunday School in the Methodist
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He had a little girl in his 
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Bessie. 
He had found Bessie over beyond 

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the tracks either poor City, 
part of the city said, known 

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some broken steps on Old House. 
He was a social worker, so he 

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stopped to see about her 
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She will malnourished poorly 
dressed and in a very poor 

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state, He asked her about coming
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And she said, she didn't have 
fitting clothes or the next 

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morning, a box of clothes were 
sitting there. 

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Are so ever since that time, 
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And when he called the role, she
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smile. 
At the road called. 

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But on this particular Sunday, 
he was on his way home walking 

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along the footpath and he was 
thinking. 

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Why wasn't little Bessie at 
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Well, he learned later that she 
was very sick and would probably

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never recover. 
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himself. 
What James Black are you 

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prepared for that? 
Great roll Called Up Yonder. 

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So, he went home and sat down 
and he wrote the song, one that 

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Trumpet of the Lord shall sound 
and time shall be no more and 

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the morning breaks Eternal 
bright and fair. 

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When the safety of our Shall 
Gather over on the others, your,

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When the Roll is Called Up 
Yonder, I'll be there. 

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That's why he wrote that song. 
But, you know, there's a note 

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that I want to leave with you 
and that's this, your name can 

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be taken out of that book. 
Well, now that's not the 

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teaching of some people. 
Because some people say that, 

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what's your name is there'll 
always be there because you 

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can't fall from grace. 
There's no such thing. 

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And they argue, if you want, 
God's son, won't you always be 

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his son? 
Sure. 

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But listen God will take your 
name out of that book. 

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The record says, so why reading 
Revelation 22:18-19 whosoever 

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shall take away from the words 
of the prophecy of this book? 

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His part shall be taken out of 
the Lamb's Book of Life and the 

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things written in the book. 
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Also, I read o one of the most 
unusual passages of scripture 

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that I know anything about. 
And that's in Exodus 32 33 and 

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32 This is when Moses was up on 
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And the people down in the 
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golden calf. 
God became so incensed over this

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until he told Moses he was going
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Block those people out. 
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God and plead for those people. 
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his mind. 
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says. 
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Yet. 
Now, if thou will forgive their 

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sin and their just a blank Just 
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That didn't finish out the 
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So I said it was a sob in Moses 
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He couldn't finish it, but it 
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blocked me, I pray thee out of 
thy book. but the Lord said unto

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Moses whosoever has sinned, him,
will I blot out of my book, what

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he brought your name out, Yes, 
he about your name out. so, this

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family record Will disinherit. 
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condition are his child and take
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record. 
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being a child of the family is 
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Into the family, he becomes an 
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I'm here to everything there is 
in heaven. 

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Tonight, I don't own much. 
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But I want to tell you 
something, I'm an heir to 

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everything there is in glory 
tonight. 

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And you are too. 
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And if children then heirs Heirs
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Christ, And I want you to note 
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child. 
I'm a millionaire tonight in 

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spiritual things. 
I have more wealth in this world

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could ever dream of It Thrills 
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To know that some of us who 
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have something wonderful over 
there. 

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I've gone to nursing homes and 
see little sister's lying here 

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in the corner. 
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She took them communion to the 
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She baked the loaf. 
She kept the preacher. 

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But now she's reduced to the 
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She just has stipulated income 
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to keep her there. 
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Linwood. 
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and I think, as destitute this 
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wonderful it is to know that 
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Owns everything there is in 
heaven tonight. 

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And that Thrills me very much. 
I'm a millionaire, you know, 

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there's some things better than 
gold anyway. 

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Romans 8 and 18 says for I 
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this present time are not worthy
to be compared with the glory 

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that shall be revealed in us, 
and I'm thankful for that. 

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As a child of God, I have a 
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Over Yonder. 
Paul said in the third chapter 

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of, forget now, Colossians He 
said if ye then be risen with 

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Christ seek those things which 
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People were having a hard time. 
Some of them were being killed 

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for the cause of Christ. and he 
said, he said you seek those 

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things which are above well, one
of those things is an earth is a

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Heavenly home. 
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about later on. 
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of God, he takes a name of the 
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Sure that says it should be. 
That's normal. 

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We do that in the physical home.
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home. 
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people could religiously 
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That we can have all these 
different names and be a member 

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of the same family. 
No, that doesn't sound right? 

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That doesn't sound right at all 
but we all have one name. 

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In Acts 11:26. 
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were called Christians first in 
Antioch. 

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Well, that's our name, the name 
Christian. 

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Because that name encompasses 
the name of Christ. 

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And he makes the difference. 
He's the one that validates Our 

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Lives. 
He's the one that validates. 

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The Good Deeds. 
I do. 

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The prayer that I pray, I 
concluded by saying in Jesus 

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name. 
You know, we're living in a day 

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when Jesus is being downgraded. 
When I started preaching a long 

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time ago, I don't guess that was
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Mississippi, who didn't believe 
in Jesus? 

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Now, you could recommend with 
the hay rake. 

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It's stylish now to question, 
Jesus. 

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Well, people were back in that 
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Jesus said, one time he believe 
in God believe. 

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Also in me, but they wouldn't. 
They don't today Muslims and 

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other Oriental doctrines are 
taking the place of Jesus. 

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I like what Billy Graham. 
Son, said. 

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One time I kind of like that 
fellow anyway. 

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He shoots his mouth off and 
says, what do you think's? 

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That's more. 
His daddy would do a lot of 

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times. 
But he told some people who were

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saying all, we all believe in 
the same. 

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God Allah and Jehovah where R 
is. 

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Yes God he said, no, it isn't. 
My God, sent his son down here 

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to save the world. 
And that's right and that son's 

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name was Jesus and he makes all 
the difference in the world and 

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when I become a child of God, I 
take that name and I wear that 

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name and like I said, he's not 
stylish to do that today. 

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In lots of places. 
I remember when those Towers 

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were destroyed in New York and 
they had a big meeting over at 

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Presbyterian Church which they 
called the Cathedral of America,

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which is not, it just a 
Presbyterian Church. 

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Well, they had all these various
religious divine's there. 

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Talking and telling the people 
of America, this that and the 

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other there were saying their 
prayers, not one of them close 

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their prayers in the name of 
Jesus. 

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Only did Billy Graham, do that. 
And I'll have to say that to his

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credit. 
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the south. 
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We've got a fight on our hands. 
And when we make the confession,

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I believe that Jesus Christ is 
the Son of God. 

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That's a very important thing. 
We run up our flag for Christ. 

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And we let everybody know that 
we believe in him. 

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When I become a member of the 
family, I have brothers and 

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sisters, spiritual brothers, and
sisters. 1st Timothy 5 1 & 2. 

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The record says rebuke, not an 
elder but intreat him as a 

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father. and the younger men as 
Brethren, the Elder women as 

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mothers, the younger as sisters 
with all purity, This is the 

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closest relationship there is in
this world. 

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We people gathered in this house
tonight. 

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Farm the closest relationship 
there is in this world. 

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You didn't choose who your 
mother was going to be. 

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You didn't choose who your 
brother or your sister was going

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to be physically but you chose 
new your spiritual family was 

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going to be and tonight you're 
closer to me than my own brother

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would be. 
Because we're all one and we've 

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been made one by the blood of 
Christ. 

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And when that blood streamed 
down his side that was the 

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Fulfillment of everything in the
past from the night that Abraham

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told that God told Abraham and 
his seed would bless the world 

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till then. 
And that has Charles told her 

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said in his great song, his 
blood hath made us one We're all

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alike. 
We're all one. 

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In my preaching, the gospel 
through the years. 

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I've seen some people be 
baptized who were not too strong

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start with in But later on, they
began to go stronger. 

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As a stronger and learn more. 
Understand more. 

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And become involved in more 
things. 

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And after a while sometimes 
they'd say to me you know 

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Linwood Since I've learned what 
I learned. 

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Those people down there to 
church. 

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Are closer to me than my own 
family. 

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My family is not a member of the
church. 

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They don't understand me. 
I can't talk to them. 

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But those people down there are 
the closest to me, of any people

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in the world, and that's right. 
That's the way it should be. 

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And if it's not that way, 
there's something wrong in that 

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Congregation. 
Of course, I've seen some 

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congregations that was cold as 
an iceberg, and they didn't seem

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to cherish their relationship. 
Europe. 

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But that's the way it's supposed
to be and that's the way it 

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should be. 
You know, Earthly homes. 

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Sometimes, we have our little 
family, get-togethers, we come 

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by for Mama's birthday, or 
Thanksgiving. 

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And we all gather around Mama's 
table and we all are together at

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the house. 
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That's the big day when we all 
gather together around the 

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Lord's table. 
And our brothers with us the 

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elder brother and we're all one.
We all partake of the same blow.

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We drink of the same cup. 
And somebody's not there. 

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We want to know where is that 
child, you know, back home. 

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I was raised in a large family. 
We had to beat you something 

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down the family a table. 
And if that seat was empty, 

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somebody wanted to know. 
Where is that child? 

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Go see about that child. 
Well, that's the way it is in 

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the physical family are in 
spiritual family. 

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If that child is not present, we
need to know about him. 

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And see where he is. 
One by one though, down here, in

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this world, our brothers and 
sisters leave us and they passed

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on over. 
One by one. 

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And they are gathering on the 
other Shore. 

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But one day somehow someway, I 
don't know, I think more about 

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it than I used to. 
But someday we're going together

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there. 
And we're going to all be 

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together and that's going to be 
our big family reunions down 

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South. 
We have lots of re family 

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reunions We have lots of church,
homecomings. 

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Still do. 
I preached over in Alabama at 14

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for 25 years. 
Well, when we get to Glory, 

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we're going to all have a big 
homecoming. 

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And won't that be something? 
I think that's what Paul was 

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talking about. 
Hebrews 10:25 not forsaking the 

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assembling of ourselves together
as the manner of some is. 

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That's what we do down here in 
the physical family, when we're 

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going to gather together over 
there too. and, Our homecoming 

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is going to be, you know, just 
for the family. 

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Just for the family. 
First, Peter 3 and 4 says this 

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blessed. 
Be the God, and father of our 

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Lord, Jesus Christ. 
Which according to His abundant 

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Mercy, has begotten us. 
Again, unto a lively Hope by the

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resurrection of Jesus Christ 
from the dead to an inheritance.

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Listen Incorruptible, undefiled.
And that fadeth not away. 

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Listen, reserved. 
In heaven for you. 

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We got some Heavenly 
reservations. 

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Do you have yours? 
Do you have your reservation for

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glory land? 
I hope you do. 

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Since I've been preaching the 
gospel, I preached many, many 

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funerals. 
I appreciate all kinds of 

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funerals, I preach them, some 
kind of a highfalutin funerals 

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where they put on the dog, you 
know, it's a then I preach some 

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poor funerals. 
Some of the poorest things you 

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ever saw. but when we get to 
Glory, we're going to all be 

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one. 
And it'll be a big homecoming. 

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There are family reunions A lot 
of things down here, the family 

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is not allowed to partake off. 
But over there. 

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As we sing the song Heaven will 
surely be worth it all. 

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And as we look with gladsome 
eyes at that, Holy City, I think

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across the door could be written
the words. 

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Reserved for the family. 
He needs families. 

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I preached, I used to walk off 
head of the casket and up here 

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somewhere would be a sign on a 
beach. 

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It would say, reserved for the 
family. 

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Well, over there, all these 
spiritual blessings are going to

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be too reserved for the family. 
Tonight, are you in the family? 

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Are you a member of the family? 
I want a quietly insist that you

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really, it evaluate this matter 
and think about it if you wants 

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been in the family, come back 
home tonight, get things 

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together. 
Make up your mind and serve the 

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Lord. 
We're going to give the 

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invitation now and if you 
haven't obeyed the gospel, you 

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know, the play. 
And I'm sure I think we're all 

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Christians share tonight. but if
you fail, somewhere in the 

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trying, Come back home. 
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