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Whenever we talk about Legacy, 
why do people remember about 

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you? 
Well, these women God takes time

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and the book of Hebrews is full 
of people. 

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God says, I want you to remember
their faith. 

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Yes. 
But we also have scriptures that

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talk about remembering 
somebody's Disobedience to 

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remember the children of Israel.
God, takes time to point out in 

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the scriptures. 
He says, now listen, I want you 

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to remember the children of 
Israel, how they were 

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disobedient? 
It's in the Old Testament as 

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well and says don't fall like 
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the wilderness. 
So now what will be our Legacy? 

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What will be ours and my legacy 
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When people remember us, are 
they going to be re encouraged? 

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Are they going to be may be 
stimulated to Greater devotion? 

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Or are they going to say, you 
know, they had so much potential

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but they never Taste it. 
What is going to be said about 

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us? 
It's maybe we'll be remembered 

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for our humor. 
Maybe we will be remembered for 

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our cooking. 
Maybe we want to be remembered 

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for helping others. 
Maybe we'll be remembered for 

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helping our self. 
You see everything. 

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We do in this life is creating a
memory in someone about us. 

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And often at funeral services, 
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What is that person? 
What was really important to 

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that person. 
Now, why do I bring this all up 

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in the Book of Proverbs? 
And like I said, I am trying to 

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Skip Along tonight pretty 
quickly. 

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So I'm going to ignore some of 
my notes, but I will tell you to

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look at a phrase that's found in
the Book of Proverbs often. 

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The Bible says, in the Book of 
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does not consider the path. 
Of their feet. 

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They don't consider their 
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the impact. 
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have, they don't consider the 
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And the Bible says that's a sign
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person, a harlot. 
Even it says in that does not 

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Ponder the path of their feet 
but it says it goes on and other

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passages to say the righteous do
Ponder the path of their feet. 

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Now that's what they're talking 
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In other words, Those who are 
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tonight, that's everybody young 
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That we need to ponder what kind
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are going to have, you know, 
whatever I was in school being 

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young. 
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naive, we talked about careers. 
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Christians and have certain 
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I was really into music in 
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of whether I could be a musician
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in fact, I knew I could be that 
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I was going to be a successful 
musician and a Christian at that

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time, I had organized several 
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I had organized music. 
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studio and I really enjoyed 
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Now, listen, Glenn, you need to 
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Not many people in this field 
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And many of the parameters they 
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Lifestyles, a lot of things they
promote are not going to be 

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supportive of the Christian 
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You need to consider that. 
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my father had that conversation 
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helped me and making a decision.
I realized it wasn't about 

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everything. 
I wanted that I had to consider 

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whether I was going to have a 
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going to support me having a 
strong family, whether it was 

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going to support. 
Me and my attended Services 

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which are so important. 
Whether it was going to in 

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somehow inhibit or be a weight, 
which does pull me back. 

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Always pulling me back in the 
world and never letting me be 

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all that. 
I could be for God's glory. 

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So young people, whenever your 
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and they want you to consider 
your careers that you're 

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thinking about and you're 
talking about college and you're

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talking about what you want to 
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When you grow up, I want you to 
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A wise if you Ponder the path of
your feet that you need to have 

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those conversations, you need to
ask yourself if this is a wise 

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choice and a good decision and 
what it's going to cost me later

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down the line. 
It may cost you your family. 

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It may cost you like lat, it may
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you make wrong choices or unwise
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So this issue is often brought 
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says, for us to consider this 
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impact are you going to have on 
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the church on yourself? 
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need to think about those kinds 
of things, whenever we make 

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career choices. 
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We need to consider those 
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Whether this person is going to 
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Christian or do they just look 
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Whether this person is going to 
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whether they're going to be a 
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You know, I've done a lot of 
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and the last few years and, you 
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sessions. 
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you know, I just don't want any 
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I just want to have just me and 
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I don't want to have any 
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And I'll ask the men, have you 
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to be a father or just a 
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considered it. 
And I want to be a father, you 

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know what that's called that. 
That help that young man had to 

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choose someone else to marry. 
Because his wife obviously did 

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not want children, but he wanted
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You know, those things are 
important whenever you choose 

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someone to marry. 
And about the impact, it's going

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to have. 
What it before I married Reba. 

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I said, Reba, I want to be an 
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I want to travel all over the 
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Have you ever considered going 
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I've never considered leaving 
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You know. 
That's it. 

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And I said, well, I want you to 
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You know what, she's talked 
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She said, you know, I had to 
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I had to think about being 
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people don't like to travel. 
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You see who you married to can 
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in your life. 
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choices, the Bible says, Ponder 
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consequences of your choices and
decisions notice. 

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Also the Bible tells us that 
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shame brought up later on in 
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verse 21. 
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The Crucible is for silver and 
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But each is tested by the praise
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He just tested by the prays. 
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accomplish our goal at Legacy or
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Hebrews 11. 
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Abel had a testimony that he was
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he was dead, he still spoke. 
He still stood for something, 

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you know, all of us here. 
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Can think of someone who may 
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But had an impact on our 
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Think about that for a moment. 
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Otis Osborne And he had an 
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follow the lord. 
He made choices that had impact 

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on my father. 
My father had impacts on us 

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children and we'd have impact on
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Generations. 
There's impact perhaps, you have

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those in your life as well. 
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significant people that were 
really there at particular times

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that encouraged you to make 
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decisions. 
Now the question is, is not only

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is this parade of accorded to 
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Let's talk about what message 
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What's going to be the message 
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And yet you still speak? 
What is your guy Fizz going to 

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say, what in your life is going 
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This is important, or that is 
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This is something significant. 
I want this message to go on. 

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You know, I thought about that. 
I've really thought about that 

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and I've told my wife, I've told
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I said, listen, I do not want an
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the most foolish waste of money 
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I said, if you guys get money 
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want Reba to be helped out. 
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killing me to cash out on the 
insurance policy, but the whole 

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point is, is it's foolish to 
spend something, I can't smell 

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any of those flowers. 
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really in one sense. 
Honorable, I told her I said, 

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kids, mom's going to bury me in 
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giving her one Flack about it at
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I don't want any flaking off. 
I want the cheapest funeral that

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money can buy and if you could 
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You know, I just want it cheap 
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important point about If that's 
not it you know it's not 

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honoring to me to be buried in 
something that's going to 

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continue to send her bills. 
That is the dumbest thing in the

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world. 
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I didn't get no honor from that.
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think Somebody might make money 
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irritates me. 
But I'll tell you what, it would

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be a real blow, if my death 
didn't send a message about what

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was important in my life. 
I want to make sure everyone 

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understands that message before 
I'm silent and can no longer 

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repeat it. 
Don't you don't, you want a 

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legacy, don't you want some kind
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Don't you want people to say 
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her? 
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till you're dead for people to 
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It's got to be something that's 
plain and understood before you 

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ever bite the dust as they say. 
It's got to be plain and that's 

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what the Bible says to us. 
Each is tested by the praise 

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accorded to him. 
It is important that we consider

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our Legacy Lewis. 
Carroll whenever he wrote Alice 

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in Wonderland, He made a point 
about Legacy and people not 

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going anywhere. 
He said this, he says, when you 

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don't know where you're going, 
any road will take you there and

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I think that's a real important 
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I hope you caught his real 
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In other words if you're not 
going anywhere, it doesn't 

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matter what road you choose, but
if you're going to heaven, 

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you're going to have to choose a
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You're going to have to take the
path and it leads you in a 

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certain direction. 
And that's what we need to tell 

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our kids. 
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have a Aimless slides as 
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We have aspirations and the 
Bible tell us if we have this 

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hope fixed on him, it has an 
impact in our life. 

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It purifies our life, we have as
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dead to be pleasing to him and 
to have Heaven as our home 

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forever. 
That is our hope that is our 

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expectation and our joy. 
We have something that we want 

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to say by our life, I'm going to
heaven and I want you to To come

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to, I'd like you to travel this 
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I want you to go in this 
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The Bible says, we're not as 
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In fact, the King James is, its 
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puts it. 
But he says they're in First 

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Corinthians 13. 
Excuse me. 

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We're not those who box as 
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And what does that mean? 
He's saying a boxer, whenever he

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gets into the ring, His point is
not just to beat are it's not to

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aim at nothing and hit nothing 
whenever a boxer Ames. 

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He wants to hit something, 
doesn't he? 

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You want to hit the other guy's 
jaw? 

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I want to hit the other guy 
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He wants to make contact with 
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That's what a boxer does. 
If a boxer just got out there 

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and danced, you think what in 
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You would think he's not a good 
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he's a poor boxer. 
This is where not boxers who be 

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there. 
What is the point of that little

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verse aim? 
Not without aim, we are not 

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supposed to be aimless people. 
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We're supposed to be going 
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needs to be spelled out. 
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purpose statements and sometimes
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our life as well. 
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Here's what I want to do with my
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I want to accomplish something 
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Well, when you don't know where 
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you there, and there's a lot of 
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their life, because they've 
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a road. 
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go in any direction. 
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options and we need to narrow 
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If you will, and recognize that 
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narrow, our choices are going to
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We're a people who love all the 
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sometimes we have so many 
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That's a vast mistake. 
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now. 
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but that's not necessarily bad. 
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Christian, you are making a 
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And I'm going to have a job that
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morality that falls within the 
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That means, I can't do a lot of 
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will of God. 
You can't pick jobs that violate

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the world world word and the 
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be Hit Men, you can't do a lot 
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constant liar, you can't be 
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home, or neglects the worship of
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You're eliminating. 
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change your jobs, we've talked 
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much of my time, one of the 
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fail to do the important and the
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this generation is limiting the 
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our days and evenings. 
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important things done, it's not 
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things to do in our life. 
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when our life is filled with. 
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So many, okay things that we 
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done. 
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doing wrong, things, wicked, 
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They're doing good things. 
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okay to do. 
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good things. 
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important things, they get 
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concerns of this world and we 
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Do you want people to say at 
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They were into everything. 
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you know, for the life of me, 
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They were good at sports. 
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They were good. 
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they're dead. 
They can't do everything. 

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They enjoyed any longer. 
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outlasted death. 
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There wasn't anything important 
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said, who was a good poet and 
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He said the great use of life is
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outlasts it. 
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something that last past my 
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And that's what we're talking 
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That helps us make decisions 
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Sometimes we need to set maybe 
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busy in our life. 
So many options, so many things 

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that are good and have a Bible 
study with our family. 

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Sometimes we just need to stop 
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because even though, they may be
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skills, maybe they're learning a
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Maybe they're learning a lot of 
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don't know, God whenever they 
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because that's what's really 
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All you can teach your children 
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pray to God, to read their Bible
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That's what I'm talking about. 
It's not that we're doing evil 

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Church. 
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care of the urgent that we leave
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Let's Ponder the path of my 
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So what if my child knows how to
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So what if my child knows every 
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Sometimes I need to turn it off 
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knows the characters in the 
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happened and why Moses happened.
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Happened with the children of 
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What Noah was all about why 
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that person was made note of in 
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Do your children? 
Know, Bible characters. 

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Let's just ask yourself. 
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that but I don't spend enough 
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That's whenever you Ponder, the 
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to change your schedule, you may
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And bring it back to that, which
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We talked about how the need for
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Our time is so very, very 
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If we're going to serve God, 
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his father and my friends, he 
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went to a mountain to spend time
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You know, there's some people 
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their life so much and they 
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time at speaking. 
To God one-on-one, spend time 

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reading their Bible. 
My friends, you need time alone 

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with God. 
You need time with the 

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scriptures. 
You need to carve out time for 

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Spiritual Pursuits or they will 
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They're not going to demand 
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You have to demand it. 
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number my days teach myself. 
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their rules coming today 
whenever you have lost the 

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opportunity to teach your 
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a day will come, when you would 
have lost those opportunities. 

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He's to pray with your husband 
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with your neighbors and to talk 
with your mother. 

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And father, there's kind of come
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opportunity is just flat lost. 
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about an example in scriptures. 
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talk about, please turn to Acts.
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What is the name martyr mean to 
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This evening in axis, 6 chapter,
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Christian martyr, the word 
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died for a purpose. 
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don't really call them a murder 
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me. 
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water unless they died for a 
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the word martyr to talk about. 
Somebody who died with a purpose

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in mind, either they martyred 
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martyred themselves for Christ 
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or that or the other. 
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are people who Die with a cause 
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talking about tonight. 
We want to be a martyr. 

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In fact, we are Ramada where 
we're dying for a cause and that

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cause is going to become evident
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According to us, we're going to 
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What is that? 
Martyrdom going to be 4? 

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Is it going to be pleasure? 
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Is it going to be Christ? 
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What's it going to be? 
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We're going to send a message, 
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Well, in the book of Acts, we 
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mind. 
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6, there's some reasons and 
there's some things that 

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happened that I want us to look 
at and maybe just take a step 

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back. 
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story. 
That happened to real people and

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sometimes we read too fast. 
You know, people ask me 

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sometimes if I've seen the 
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and you know, I got to where I 
got into this Reddit 

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letter-writing thing before the 
passion came out. 

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People said you know this one 
guy wrote an article, it was 

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horrible. 
This one got wrote an article 

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that got published in the paper.
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Gibson had to spend 15 minutes 
talking about the scourging of 

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Jesus Christ in his film. 
He said in the Bible, it's only 

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in one of the gospels and it's 
only in two verses he says, but 

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Mel Gibson spend 15 minutes on 
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And I went, that is such a 
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what the Bible is trying to say.
But you know what, after I 

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watched the movie, yes, I 
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movie. 
There was something to hit me. 

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Sometimes I read the Bible too 
fast because I'll read that 

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where it says and they scourged 
him and go on. 

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And literally all it took was a 
few seconds to read that verse 

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when in reality what that verse 
meant was 15 minutes of pain and

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suffering. 
And so what the movie did, if 

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out, if it was going to have any
impact on me, that was the 

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impact it had, was it made me 
realize I read too fast 

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sometimes. 
And so I want to read this about

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what happened to Steven little 
bit, and I want us to slow it 

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down enough to realize that 
we're not talking about 

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something that just went, just 
real fast that this happened 

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over a span of time. 
And what happened? 

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And let's look at what happened 
to Steve and for just a moment 

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starting reverse one. 
In fact, six, there's a problem 

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in the early church here. 
Now, at this time, while the 

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disciples were increasing and 
number a complaint arose on the 

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part of the Hellenistic Jews 
against the native Hebrews, 

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because Their widows were being 
overlooked in the daily serving 

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of food. 
The church, you know, it's just 

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getting going. 
It's just going. 

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Oh, and by the way, you'll 
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What what does that mean? 
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11 that the Gentiles come into 
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So, who are these hellenists? 
What is this talking about here?

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That somebody group was being? 
What he's saying? 

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Is they were all of Jewish, 
lineage in the church. 

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CH. 
But there were two cultures. 

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There were two cultures in the 
church. 

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All these people were of the 
same race, but they were two 

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different cultures. 
Notice on the, the Hellenistic 

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Jews against the native. 
Hebrews, there was a popular 

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movement among the Jews at this 
time. 

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The hell, excuse me the native 
Hebrews, who venerated, the 

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Hebrew language, and they spoke 
Hebrew. 

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And they wore Hebrew traditional
clothing and they were if you 

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will the conservatives in their 
culture. 

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And then you add the hellenists,
we would call them the Liberals 

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because the hellenists adopted 
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Hellenistic Greeks they adopted 
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their culture. 
Even some of their architecture 

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in the land though, it was 
adopted from the cult. 

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Will these other people fought 
against that culture and they 

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were they had a culture clash. 
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early church, this was a culture
class and one of them was being 

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overlooked by The other over by 
the others on the part of the 

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Hellenistic Jews against the 
native Hebrews, because their 

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widows were being overlooked in 
the daily serving of food back 

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then, they didn't have a lot of 
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And widows were not part of the 
mainstream business at that 

452
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:38,300
time. 
There were women like Lydia who 

453
00:27:38,300 --> 00:27:40,800
so purple and others, but we're 
not talking about them. 

454
00:27:40,900 --> 00:27:44,000
Most of the time with the widows
were dependent upon the man for 

455
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:47,100
their income and whenever they 
were destitute, they had to be 

456
00:27:47,100 --> 00:27:49,400
fed. 
So they the church, they've 

457
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,200
contributed to the needs and 
these widows were being fed to 

458
00:27:52,208 --> 00:27:54,700
Acts 2, you'll find that 
contribution happening. 

459
00:27:54,900 --> 00:27:56,900
So now what happened? 
What's going on here? 

460
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:58,300
There's a complaint, there's a 
problem. 

461
00:27:58,300 --> 00:28:00,100
Somebody's being neglected verse
2. 

462
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,000
So the 12, some of the 
congregation of the disciples 

463
00:28:03,100 --> 00:28:06,600
and said it's not desirable for 
us to neglect the word of God in

464
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:10,000
order to serve tables and other 
words, he's saying there, we've 

465
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:15,100
got some what priorities here. 
He said, it's not that we're too

466
00:28:15,100 --> 00:28:17,700
good to serve tables, that's not
the point. 

467
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:20,200
It's that we've got a more 
important task. 

468
00:28:20,300 --> 00:28:23,700
It is important for us who are 
inspired by the Holy Spirit to 

469
00:28:23,700 --> 00:28:25,800
write and teach what God is 
giving us. 

470
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:30,400
We are messengers and these and 
this other task needs to be 

471
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:33,000
performed by someone who will 
serve. 

472
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:36,400
And so whenever he says it is 
not desirable for us to neglect 

473
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:38,100
the word of God in order to 
serve tables. 

474
00:28:38,300 --> 00:28:41,600
Therefore, verse 3, therefore 
Brethren, select from among you 

475
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:43,800
seven. 
Men full of good reputation Full

476
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:46,800
of the spirit and a wisdom whom 
we may put in charge of this 

477
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:49,000
task. 
But we will devote ourselves to 

478
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,900
prayer and to the ministry of 
the word. 

479
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:57,600
Now what kind of response did 
this solution have proposed 

480
00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:00,800
solution have will notice what 
it says verse 5 and the 

481
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:04,500
statement found approval with 
the whole congregation and they 

482
00:29:04,500 --> 00:29:08,000
chose Stephen. 
One of the first names mentioned

483
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,700
Stephen, A Man full of faith and
of the Holy Spirit and Phillip 

484
00:29:11,700 --> 00:29:15,300
and pro, curious and neck. 
Now, And Tim Ian and parmenas, 

485
00:29:15,300 --> 00:29:17,600
and Nicolas, a proselyte from 
Antioch. 

486
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:20,300
And these they brought before 
the apostles, and after praying,

487
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:24,900
they laid their hands on them. 
There was a problem, there was a

488
00:29:24,908 --> 00:29:27,300
neglect and so, what did they 
have to do? 

489
00:29:27,300 --> 00:29:29,900
We want you. 
Here's the qualifications we 

490
00:29:29,900 --> 00:29:32,000
want. 
Men full of with a good 

491
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:36,300
reputation verse 3. 
Good reputation verse 3 full of 

492
00:29:36,300 --> 00:29:39,700
the spirit and the wisdom whom 
we may put in charge of this 

493
00:29:39,700 --> 00:29:41,100
task. 
What was the task? 

494
00:29:41,700 --> 00:29:46,800
Feeding widows. as one woman 
said in Oklahoma City Meals on 

495
00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:52,700
Wheels, you know, most people 
would say the amendment. 

496
00:29:54,500 --> 00:29:56,800
Men serving tables. 
Isn't that a woman's? 

497
00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:00,000
Let's let the women do it. 
No, he said we want men men. 

498
00:30:00,100 --> 00:30:04,100
Men of good reputation full of 
the Holy Spirit and of wisdom. 

499
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:05,500
Why? 
Why? 

500
00:30:05,700 --> 00:30:08,400
Because there was a problem 
there and they wanted the 

501
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:10,800
problem stop. 
They wanted this culture Clash 

502
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:13,300
to be ceased. 
They wanted this seemingly 

503
00:30:13,300 --> 00:30:15,900
problem of which food was merely
a symptom. 

504
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,800
They wanted the division in the 
church healed. 

505
00:30:20,300 --> 00:30:23,400
And so we're going to have to 
pick guys that know that that's 

506
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:26,500
more than just about given 
somebody food. 

507
00:30:27,300 --> 00:30:30,400
It's making sure that this Rift 
is healed in the church so we 

508
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:32,900
want somebody with wisdom. 
We want somebody with some good 

509
00:30:32,900 --> 00:30:34,600
judgment. 
We want somebody with a good 

510
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:37,600
reputation. 
Somebody who's trusted somebody 

511
00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:41,300
who's trusted And they pick 
Stephen. 

512
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:44,000
Stephen A Man full of grace. 
Don't despair. 

513
00:30:44,100 --> 00:30:48,700
This guy was fit for great works
and God needs him at this 

514
00:30:48,700 --> 00:30:51,500
moment. 
To give a widow. 

515
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:58,500
A plate of food. 
He might have got upset about 

516
00:30:58,500 --> 00:31:02,900
it. 
You know, I have studied long 

517
00:31:02,900 --> 00:31:06,200
and hard. 
I have given myself to know 

518
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:10,700
wisdom, I've read all the good 
books and you want me to what? 

519
00:31:12,100 --> 00:31:15,700
Spend my time carton lunch to a 
bunch of old ladies. 

520
00:31:18,700 --> 00:31:22,400
Yeah. 
That's what we want you to do. 

521
00:31:24,700 --> 00:31:29,800
Stephen must have been wiser and
understand the task at hand 

522
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:35,100
because he took it, he took this
job because it was serving God, 

523
00:31:35,100 --> 00:31:38,200
that's what it was and he 
recognized that this was an 

524
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,000
important task for him to take 
that. 

525
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,600
There was more to it than just 
making sure somebody got the 

526
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:44,500
meal. 
That there was some healing that

527
00:31:44,500 --> 00:31:46,200
needed to be. 
Brought that there was some 

528
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:49,000
wisdom here there were and they 
people were trusting him to make

529
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:52,100
good decisions. 
And so they picked Steven, they 

530
00:31:52,100 --> 00:31:56,100
picked Steven Steven had a good 
Mutation, this is the first we 

531
00:31:56,100 --> 00:31:58,700
hear about him and yet he had a 
good reputation. 

532
00:31:58,900 --> 00:32:01,900
What, you know, this man was 
prepared for that work, wasn't 

533
00:32:01,900 --> 00:32:04,200
he? 
It's amazing, what you'll do. 

534
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:07,000
If you can prepare yourself for 
a work, you may not know what 

535
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,200
God has in store for you. 
But if you will develop a good 

536
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:14,200
reputation, if you could be 
considered trustworthy then 

537
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:16,700
sooner or later, the Lord is 
going to be able to use you to 

538
00:32:16,700 --> 00:32:18,800
accomplish something great in 
the church. 

539
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:21,400
And that's what happened. 
This man had fulfilled had 

540
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:24,400
fulfilled this qualification, he
was a good man, notice they? 

541
00:32:24,500 --> 00:32:26,700
I brought them before the 
apostles, they let it Hands-On. 

542
00:32:26,700 --> 00:32:28,800
What was the impact? 
What was the, what happened? 

543
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:32,600
Because of this decision verse 
7, and the word of God kept on 

544
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:36,500
spreading, and the number of the
disciples continued to increase 

545
00:32:36,500 --> 00:32:40,400
greatly in Jerusalem. 
And a great, many of the priests

546
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,100
were becoming obedient to the 
faith. 

547
00:32:42,700 --> 00:32:46,100
Wow. 
What a great impact, this, this 

548
00:32:46,100 --> 00:32:51,300
seemingly beginning of a 
division in the church, not only

549
00:32:51,300 --> 00:32:54,800
seem to be stopped in its 
tracks, but it led led to the 

550
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:58,100
growth of the church. 
There was praise given to God 

551
00:32:58,100 --> 00:33:00,500
and Priests were being 
converted. 

552
00:33:00,500 --> 00:33:02,900
Oh the Bible. 
They were the toughest crowd to 

553
00:33:02,900 --> 00:33:04,900
convert in. 
The Bible says, they were being 

554
00:33:04,900 --> 00:33:07,800
converted. 
They saw what Christianity could

555
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:10,500
do. 
Christianity could heal a 

556
00:33:10,500 --> 00:33:14,300
culture crack clash in the other
culture, but in Christ, there 

557
00:33:14,300 --> 00:33:18,100
was peace. 
Many other passages were to 

558
00:33:18,100 --> 00:33:21,200
extol this virtue of 
Christianity throughout the 

559
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:25,300
world. 
Jew and Gentile, was later going

560
00:33:25,300 --> 00:33:29,200
to become one in Christ Jesus. 
All they could see the Christ 

561
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:30,800
was indeed, the Great 
Peacemaker. 

562
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:32,900
And they were being converted 
verse eight. 

563
00:33:32,900 --> 00:33:36,400
It picks up on Stephen, excuse 
me. 

564
00:33:36,500 --> 00:33:42,800
Mmm, and Stephen Full of Grace 
and power the word Grace here. 

565
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:48,100
Sometimes the the translators 
have a difficulty knowing which 

566
00:33:48,100 --> 00:33:52,100
way to translate the word. 
This word here probably beans 

567
00:33:52,100 --> 00:33:55,500
ability or empowerment. 
And so probably what it's saying

568
00:33:55,500 --> 00:34:01,400
here is, Stephen A Man full of 
ability or Grace and power was 

569
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:05,400
performing, great wonders, and 
signs among the people. 

570
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:09,300
Well, now Steven evidently had 
some spiritual gifts, he had the

571
00:34:09,300 --> 00:34:12,699
ability to perform powerful 
signs and wonders full of the 

572
00:34:12,699 --> 00:34:15,600
Holy Spirit. 
He evidently had more than just 

573
00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:19,500
the ability to deliver food. 
He was able to perform signs and

574
00:34:19,500 --> 00:34:23,000
wonders. and he was doing it but
verse 9, here's the impact of 

575
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,900
some of the things that were 
happening but some of them in 

576
00:34:25,900 --> 00:34:28,199
from which is called the 
synagogue of the freedmen, 

577
00:34:28,300 --> 00:34:34,699
including both Creech, Oh, I had
this down before Karin 

578
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,800
Corinthians, sorry, and 
alexandrians. 

579
00:34:37,900 --> 00:34:41,800
And some from cilicia, and Asia,
rose up and argued with Stephen.

580
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:46,400
In other words, evidently, 
Stephen was preaching to, and 

581
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:49,000
the word argued here means 
debated. 

582
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,600
In other words, they were 
exchanging ideas and and 

583
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:54,100
information. 
So, here's what's happening, 

584
00:34:54,199 --> 00:34:57,500
Steven is not only doing his 
daily task of delivering food. 

585
00:34:57,500 --> 00:35:00,000
He's evidently getting into 
religious discussions, along the

586
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,700
way and India's religious 
Discussions. 

587
00:35:02,700 --> 00:35:06,500
He's attracting the attention of
those who Advocate other ideas 

588
00:35:06,500 --> 00:35:09,900
and they're debating with him. 
They're debating with him and 

589
00:35:09,900 --> 00:35:13,100
getting this debate, really 
going and notice verse 10 but 

590
00:35:13,100 --> 00:35:15,100
what happened? 
But when they were unable to 

591
00:35:15,100 --> 00:35:18,200
cope with the wisdom and spirit 
with which he was speaking, but 

592
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:21,600
with which he was speaking, then
we're unable evidently, this man

593
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:25,400
has a great mind, he had a great
ability of being a public 

594
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:28,600
speaker. 
They were unable to refute what 

595
00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:32,000
he was saying that to cope with 
the wisdom and the spirit. 

596
00:35:32,100 --> 00:35:35,300
With which he was speaking. 
So what did these men do? 

597
00:35:35,700 --> 00:35:38,000
This was going to be the 
beginning of his downfall 

598
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:41,800
because he was being successful,
and now what's happened? 

599
00:35:41,900 --> 00:35:43,800
You know, there's nothing good 
attracts attention. 

600
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:47,100
More than being successful in 
Australia, they call it the 

601
00:35:47,100 --> 00:35:50,800
tall, poppy syndrome. 
And other words, they say they 

602
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:53,800
have a tendency to cut down. 
People who Excel. 

603
00:35:54,300 --> 00:35:56,600
They call it the tall poppy 
syndrome because if you stick 

604
00:35:56,600 --> 00:36:01,600
out you often get clipped off. 
And that's what was happening 

605
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:03,700
here. 
Stephen was making a name for 

606
00:36:03,700 --> 00:36:05,500
himself that he was having an 
impact. 

607
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,000
He had developed a good 
reputation. 

608
00:36:08,100 --> 00:36:11,200
He had developed a good 
reputation as a good debater and

609
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:15,100
now what was happening, they 
decided they could not deal with

610
00:36:15,100 --> 00:36:18,100
him and a straightforward manner
verse 11. 

611
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:21,000
And then they, secretly 
introduced meant to say induced 

612
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:22,600
meant to say. 
We have heard him speak 

613
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:26,500
Blasphemous words against Moses 
and against God, and they 

614
00:36:26,500 --> 00:36:29,100
stirred up, the people they 
will. 

615
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:31,900
Ripped up the people, if you 
will, and the elders and the 

616
00:36:31,900 --> 00:36:36,100
scribes and they came up to him 
and dragged him away and brought

617
00:36:36,100 --> 00:36:39,700
him before the council. 
Now, here's what they were going

618
00:36:39,700 --> 00:36:42,300
to do now. 
This was a half-truth, but it 

619
00:36:42,300 --> 00:36:46,100
was a whole lie. 
Steven wasn't speaking against 

620
00:36:46,100 --> 00:36:49,700
Moses, and against the law, he 
was probably telling them that 

621
00:36:49,700 --> 00:36:52,000
the rock. 
The law ended was nailed to the 

622
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,000
cross. 
He was probably tell them that 

623
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,100
Jesus was the Fulfillment of the
law. 

624
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:59,300
He's probably telling them that 
Moses law, stood until Christ, 

625
00:36:59,300 --> 00:37:02,800
but when Christ came, the law 
was done away, but the point is 

626
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:05,900
that, that wasn't the message. 
They weren't wanting to explain 

627
00:37:05,900 --> 00:37:07,800
the doctrine that Stephen was 
teaching. 

628
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:10,600
They were want to putting it in 
the worst possible light. 

629
00:37:11,100 --> 00:37:14,600
They were intentionally saying 
he speaking against Sniffs 

630
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:18,800
speaking against the law and 
there's of course made Stephen 

631
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:21,000
defensive. 
He had to defend himself but he 

632
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:24,300
was already crucified. 
He was already spoken bad, he'd 

633
00:37:24,300 --> 00:37:26,900
already, they say speaking 
against these things they didn't

634
00:37:26,900 --> 00:37:29,600
care about the truth. 
They told a half-truth and it 

635
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:33,300
made it a whole life. 
Yeah, that's what happened. 

636
00:37:33,500 --> 00:37:36,400
Hey, stirred up the people 
because of this, and the elders 

637
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:39,000
and the scribes and they came up
to him and dragged him away and 

638
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,600
brought him before, the council 
notice verse 13. 

639
00:37:41,700 --> 00:37:44,500
And they put forward false 
Witnesses who said this This man

640
00:37:44,500 --> 00:37:48,500
incessantly speaks against the 
holy place and the law for we 

641
00:37:48,500 --> 00:37:52,100
have heard him say that this 
Nazarene Jesus will destroy this

642
00:37:52,100 --> 00:37:57,400
place and alter the Customs 
which Moses had died down to us.

643
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:04,300
Oh, what a horrible thing to 
change the Customs that Moses 

644
00:38:04,300 --> 00:38:07,500
had to down to us. 
All they weren't talking about. 

645
00:38:07,500 --> 00:38:11,700
What was pleasing to God. 
That wasn't the point. 

646
00:38:13,100 --> 00:38:16,400
They were talking about the 
changes that Jesus was bringing 

647
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:20,000
to their culture and they said, 
Jesus is a rabble-rouser. 

648
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:25,200
He's a subculture, he's going to
change the way we live and the 

649
00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:32,400
and the traditions of our race. 
And so they will lying Jesus. 

650
00:38:33,300 --> 00:38:36,700
You know, you can't really find 
a lie there but they were using 

651
00:38:36,700 --> 00:38:40,800
it to incite. 
The crowds into National fervor 

652
00:38:40,900 --> 00:38:43,200
against, you know what that 
still going on today in the 

653
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:48,000
Middle East to this very night. 
The same things are going on, 

654
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:52,000
isn't it ironic? 
The same problem still exists 

655
00:38:52,300 --> 00:38:54,100
but notice what was going on 
here. 

656
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:57,900
They had said this, Jesus Will 
Destroy This Place verse 15 and 

657
00:38:57,900 --> 00:39:00,700
fixing their Gaze on him, those 
who are Being in the council, 

658
00:39:00,700 --> 00:39:03,400
saw his face like the face of an
angel. 

659
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,300
Now we don't necessarily know 
what the angel of a faith face 

660
00:39:06,300 --> 00:39:09,700
of an angel looks like, but 
probably what was happening is 

661
00:39:09,700 --> 00:39:12,100
Steven's face was merely 
content. 

662
00:39:12,100 --> 00:39:16,800
As a messenger of God, he was 
just saying You know, they were 

663
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:19,600
accusing him all this and was it
upsetting to him? 

664
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:22,200
Stephen was it really bugging 
him? 

665
00:39:22,300 --> 00:39:26,400
Does does the chapter 7 and 
Stevens defense show that he was

666
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:29,100
all upset and everything that no
he just starts out. 

667
00:39:29,100 --> 00:39:31,000
The beginning says here's the 
explanation. 

668
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:34,000
Starts out starts, explain 
evidently he was pretty Serene 

669
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:35,700
about the whole thing. 
You know, whenever you're 

670
00:39:35,700 --> 00:39:40,300
pleasing to God, you can be 
Serene, like, Stephen, he knew 

671
00:39:40,300 --> 00:39:43,400
what he was doing was right, 
even though bat malicious things

672
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:46,600
were being said, even though 
false reports were Given the 

673
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:49,900
people were whipped up into a 
frenzy evidently Stephen was 

674
00:39:49,900 --> 00:39:51,400
not. 
That's why the Holy Spirit takes

675
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:54,300
time to point out to him. 
That he wasn't that upset about 

676
00:39:54,300 --> 00:39:57,700
it. 
But now to swat going on here, 

677
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:00,200
what is going on? 
Well, we're not going to take 

678
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:03,500
time to go through all of what 
happened here, but I will tell 

679
00:40:03,500 --> 00:40:08,100
you, Steven starts making a very
logical defense of his hold the 

680
00:40:08,100 --> 00:40:10,600
whole point, tied to bring him 
down to Jesus. 

681
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:13,300
And then he gets to verse 50 and
51. 

682
00:40:13,500 --> 00:40:16,100
There's a break here. 
Most of you who have studied the

683
00:40:16,100 --> 00:40:19,000
book of Acts know that, 
something most commentators say 

684
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,800
something happened, but they 
don't know what it is. 

685
00:40:22,500 --> 00:40:26,400
They don't know what happened, 
but evidently the train of 

686
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:30,400
thought was interrupted here. 
We don't know if the if the 

687
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:32,700
audience finally saw where he 
was going. 

688
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:37,100
And they finally decided to put 
an end to this this sermon or 

689
00:40:37,100 --> 00:40:40,000
what went happened, but 
something changed because the 

690
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:44,400
tone changed drastically between
verses 50 and 51 and notice what

691
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:48,200
happens in verse 51. 
You men who are stiff-necked and

692
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:51,100
uncircumcised in heart and ears 
are always resisting. 

693
00:40:51,100 --> 00:40:54,400
The holy spirit's you're doing 
just as your father's did. 

694
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,600
He's been telling them about 
their fathers before and all of 

695
00:40:57,607 --> 00:41:01,000
their fathers had done. 
And they said, oh yeah, but if 

696
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:04,300
we were there, we wouldn't have 
done that, we don't have time to

697
00:41:04,300 --> 00:41:06,800
go into that, but they would 
have said, yeah, that's Grandpa 

698
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:08,400
did that. 
But, you know, if we'd have been

699
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:10,000
there, we would have done that 
we'd to learn better. 

700
00:41:10,100 --> 00:41:15,400
And what what Stephen is saying 
is you're doing it now, you're 

701
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:18,500
doing it today, you're always 
resisting the Holy Spirit, 

702
00:41:18,500 --> 00:41:21,300
you're doing just as your 
father's did verse 52 which one 

703
00:41:21,300 --> 00:41:22,500
of the prophets did your 
father's? 

704
00:41:22,500 --> 00:41:24,200
Not persecute. 
They killed those who had 

705
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:26,600
previously announced the coming 
of the righteous one, whose 

706
00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:28,700
betrayers and murderers you have
now. 

707
00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:32,500
Now, become you who received the
law as ordained by angels, and 

708
00:41:32,500 --> 00:41:36,100
yet did not keep it in verse 54.
Here's the response. 

709
00:41:36,300 --> 00:41:38,800
Now, when they heard this, they 
were cut to the quick and they 

710
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:40,600
began gnashing their teeth at 
him. 

711
00:41:41,100 --> 00:41:44,200
Oh, they were mad. 
You might say Stephen, you're 

712
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:46,800
cutting your own throat here. 
Why don't you be as to be nice 

713
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:49,000
with the audience? 
Just be nice. 

714
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:54,600
You know, don't say the truth 
here, not Steven, Steven says, 

715
00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:58,000
here's your problem, you missed 
the Messiah, you killed the 

716
00:41:58,008 --> 00:42:02,600
Messiah, You need to repent, 
need to repent notice. 

717
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:05,500
They began gnashing their teeth 
at him. 

718
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:08,900
Oh, they were angry verse 55, 
but being full of the Holy 

719
00:42:08,900 --> 00:42:12,800
Spirit, he gazed intently to the
heaven and saw the glory of God 

720
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:17,200
and Jesus standing at the right 
hand of God and he said, behold,

721
00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:20,800
I see, he told him what he saw, 
behold, I see the heavens opened

722
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:24,100
up and the son of man standing 
at the right hand of God. 

723
00:42:24,500 --> 00:42:26,800
In other words, this Jesus whom 
you've just killed. 

724
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:33,000
I see God, the Father honoring 
him He has been honored by the 

725
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:35,800
father. 
He is at the father's right 

726
00:42:35,900 --> 00:42:39,900
hand. 
Notice, but they cried out verse

727
00:42:39,900 --> 00:42:43,900
57 with a loud voice and cover 
there is and rushed at him with 

728
00:42:43,900 --> 00:42:47,000
one impulse. 
In other words, this was mob 

729
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:51,600
mentality at its finest. 
They were so angry that this 

730
00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:55,000
statement just motivated them, 
they all just rushed upon Him 

731
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:57,000
notice. 
And when they had driven him out

732
00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:02,000
of the city, they began stoning.
Him stoning was a form of death 

733
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:07,100
of execution that took a while. 
It's not like the guillotine, 

734
00:43:07,100 --> 00:43:11,200
it's not like shooting. 
Somebody stoning takes a while 

735
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:14,400
to kill somebody first. 
You injure them in some way they

736
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:17,300
had a method about it. 
They would throw somebody into a

737
00:43:17,300 --> 00:43:21,700
pit where the Stoners would 
stand around the top of this 

738
00:43:21,700 --> 00:43:23,600
pit. 
And they would all throw from 

739
00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:26,100
all sides. 
So there would be no escape and 

740
00:43:26,100 --> 00:43:29,200
they would break the person's 
bones in their feet, where they 

741
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:31,900
couldn't crawl up, the sides of 
this, they would break their 

742
00:43:31,900 --> 00:43:35,300
arms, they would sometimes break
them and flicked head injuries. 

743
00:43:35,500 --> 00:43:39,700
All kinds of wounds, but this 
would take a while. 

744
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:44,400
And they, the Bible uses this 
term and they began stoning him.

745
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:48,300
In other words, you had to take 
a while this takes a while when 

746
00:43:48,300 --> 00:43:51,200
you think to pick up a rock and 
throw it at someone and then I 

747
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:54,800
go back for another one, you've 
got to at some point. 

748
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:56,600
Consider what you're doing and 
why. 

749
00:43:57,300 --> 00:44:01,800
But these guys were just mad and
they began stoning, him and the 

750
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:04,900
witnesses laid their robes. 
At the feet of a young man, same

751
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:11,000
thing. same name, Saul verse 59 
and they went on stoning, 

752
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:17,300
Stephen as he called on the Lord
and said, Lord Jesus receive my 

753
00:44:17,300 --> 00:44:23,200
spirit And they went on stoning 
him they just kept on evidently 

754
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:26,100
they kept on and now Stephens 
having to take the opportunity 

755
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:28,500
to pray to his father. 
He realized that he's going to 

756
00:44:28,508 --> 00:44:31,900
die. 
And they while he's praying to 

757
00:44:31,900 --> 00:44:36,500
God, that continue to Stone 
continue to Stone him. 

758
00:44:37,500 --> 00:44:40,900
You know, I am so glad that 
detects doesn't end right there.

759
00:44:41,900 --> 00:44:45,300
Because in the next verse, we 
get an insight into what was in 

760
00:44:45,300 --> 00:44:48,100
the heart of Stephen upon this 
occasion. 

761
00:44:48,300 --> 00:44:50,900
Not only is he praying that 
something all you and I would 

762
00:44:50,900 --> 00:44:52,700
do. 
But we might not think of the 

763
00:44:52,700 --> 00:44:58,400
next thing that the Bible 
records You know, I'm sure he 

764
00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:02,000
was thinking about what had been
said about Jesus who had just 

765
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:06,300
been crucified not that long ago
and the statements of Jesus on 

766
00:45:06,300 --> 00:45:10,000
the cross were still on his mind
and what happened, listen to 

767
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:13,700
what he says and then falling on
his knees verse 60. 

768
00:45:13,700 --> 00:45:16,700
He cried out with a loud voice 
saying, Lord, do not hold this 

769
00:45:16,700 --> 00:45:20,800
sin against them. 
And having said this, he fell 

770
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:28,300
asleep. 
The words of Jesus were, what 

771
00:45:28,300 --> 00:45:31,300
was on his mind. 
And in his heart, he was a 

772
00:45:31,300 --> 00:45:34,200
follower of disciple of Jesus 
Christ. 

773
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:38,200
And he asked himself, what did 
Jesus do in this situation? 

774
00:45:38,300 --> 00:45:43,000
When he was about to be killed, 
he said, father, hold this shit,

775
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:44,500
do not lay this sin against 
them? 

776
00:45:44,500 --> 00:45:46,300
Forgive them for they know, not 
what they do. 

777
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:50,200
And you know what he said? 
That's something that I ought to

778
00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:53,500
think about. 
And so he prayed for the 

779
00:45:53,500 --> 00:45:57,900
Forgiveness of those who were 
stoning him in Imitation of 

780
00:45:57,900 --> 00:46:02,000
Jesus Christ, there's nothing. 
I think that speaks more to the 

781
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:06,200
character of Stephen than that 
one, little insight into what 

782
00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:08,600
was going on in Stephens, mind, 
while he was being stoned. 

783
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:12,200
He was not hurling curses, may 
you, and your children be cursed

784
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:14,500
forever. 
He wasn't hurling abuses at 

785
00:46:14,500 --> 00:46:16,700
them. 
He wasn't wishing their demise. 

786
00:46:16,700 --> 00:46:20,200
He knew they were ignorant of 
what was really going on and he 

787
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:23,000
said they were mad because they 
didn't Understand the truth. 

788
00:46:23,100 --> 00:46:25,200
And so he prayed, father, 
forgive them? 

789
00:46:26,500 --> 00:46:30,400
What an amazing character, 
Steven had he was worthy of 

790
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:34,400
being, the first Christian 
martyr, he died for the cause of

791
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:43,800
Jesus Christ. but when Stephen 
started out that day, do you 

792
00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:51,300
think he had on his to-do list? 
Go feed sister so and so go make

793
00:46:51,300 --> 00:46:54,300
sure that the older men are 
fired and that that older couple

794
00:46:54,300 --> 00:46:57,300
over there, taking care of make 
sure this person. 

795
00:46:57,500 --> 00:47:02,700
And then oh and take lunch over 
there and oh about that time. 

796
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:07,400
Go start a debate, get hauled 
into court and become a martyred

797
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:11,100
about 2:15. 
Do you think that was on his 

798
00:47:11,100 --> 00:47:15,400
list that day? 
No. 

799
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:21,800
When he started out his day, he 
did not realize that he wasn't 

800
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:26,000
coming home that evening but he 
knew what he was going to do. 

801
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:29,600
Whenever he went out, he was 
going to serve God that day. 

802
00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:33,500
He was going to serve God, he 
had made up his mind, he was 

803
00:47:33,500 --> 00:47:36,500
going to serve God that day and 
he was serving God, whenever he 

804
00:47:36,508 --> 00:47:38,600
was delivering it, he was 
serving God when he was 

805
00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:41,400
teaching, he was serving God 
when he was defending himself. 

806
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:45,100
He was serving God preaching 
this sermon and it cost him his 

807
00:47:45,100 --> 00:47:48,400
life. 
He was a martyr that day, you 

808
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:51,600
know, not very many people in 
the world get to choose to be a 

809
00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:54,500
martyr. 
It often happens to them. 

810
00:47:55,700 --> 00:48:04,100
It often just happens. 
When we became a Christian. 

811
00:48:06,500 --> 00:48:11,100
Did we consider the fact? 
That we were choosing to be a 

812
00:48:11,100 --> 00:48:16,600
martyr that very day. 
Isn't the fact, whatever we 

813
00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:20,600
become a Christian that we die 
to self and we live for him. 

814
00:48:21,700 --> 00:48:26,200
Isn't the essence of becoming a 
Christian, the decision that the

815
00:48:26,200 --> 00:48:29,100
rest of our life is the Lord's, 
whether we live or die. 

816
00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:34,800
It is the Lord's. 
The decision about Stevens. 

817
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:38,600
Martyrdom, have been made long 
before the day that day that it 

818
00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:42,200
happened. 
He had already given his life 

819
00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:45,700
for the Lord, and that was the 
moment that he was going to give

820
00:48:45,700 --> 00:48:49,100
it to the very end. 
He was going to give it all that

821
00:48:49,100 --> 00:48:53,900
day. 
He chose to be a martyr long 

822
00:48:53,900 --> 00:49:02,500
before the event happened. 
And that was pondering the path 

823
00:49:02,500 --> 00:49:06,300
of his feet. 
He knew that whenever he stepped

824
00:49:06,300 --> 00:49:11,500
up and said I Will Follow You 
Jesus, I Will Follow You into 

825
00:49:11,500 --> 00:49:14,800
death. 
I will be buried with you in the

826
00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:17,600
lightness of your death and 
raised in the lightness of your 

827
00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:21,400
Resurrection. 
Just a following your steps. 

828
00:49:21,500 --> 00:49:23,700
And wherever those steps go 
there, I will go. 

829
00:49:24,100 --> 00:49:28,000
But my life is no longer mine. 
My life is hidden with Christ in

830
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:33,300
God, Paul later and Jen in the 
book of Galatians and Galatians 

831
00:49:33,300 --> 00:49:36,000
2:20. 
He was to make this very plain 

832
00:49:36,300 --> 00:49:38,400
that this was considered part of
his thinking. 

833
00:49:38,500 --> 00:49:41,900
He says, I am crucified with 
Christ. 

834
00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:47,000
Nevertheless, I live yet not I 
but Christ lives in me. 

835
00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:50,700
You see Paul had it right? 
Paul got it. 

836
00:49:50,700 --> 00:49:53,900
Whenever you become a Christian,
you say it is no longer I who 

837
00:49:53,900 --> 00:49:59,900
live but Christ who lives in me,
I am crucified with Christ Paul 

838
00:49:59,900 --> 00:50:03,200
died a long time before he 
stopped living. 

839
00:50:05,700 --> 00:50:08,800
He died long before he stopped 
living. 

840
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:13,000
I hope you haven't, there's a 
lot of people who stopped living

841
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:18,700
before they die. 
Have you stopped living before 

842
00:50:18,700 --> 00:50:20,700
you die? 
As long as you have life, my 

843
00:50:20,700 --> 00:50:24,100
friends, you can serve the Lord.
You can serve him every day. 

844
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:26,400
Every day you wake up, you can 
say, Lord, what do you want me 

845
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:29,300
to do today? 
I'm breathe, and I Live For Your

846
00:50:29,300 --> 00:50:31,700
Glory. 
How can I serve you today? 

847
00:50:31,900 --> 00:50:36,200
And God may want you to serve 
meals to widows. 

848
00:50:37,500 --> 00:50:41,000
He may want you to go help out 
someone who is in need of help. 

849
00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:43,700
The Bible says be zealous for 
good works. 

850
00:50:44,100 --> 00:50:46,400
I don't know what you can do, 
but as long as you have life, 

851
00:50:46,500 --> 00:50:50,000
you can serve the Lord or you 
might be called upon to die for 

852
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:52,600
the Lord that day. 
Oh Glenn, those are nice 

853
00:50:52,600 --> 00:50:54,600
stories. 
But Christians today don't die 

854
00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:58,100
for the Lord. 
Really Really. 

855
00:51:01,300 --> 00:51:14,100
Interesting. 
Cassie Bernal. 17 years old. 

856
00:51:15,900 --> 00:51:24,000
Columbine High School. 
God, our homework went to 

857
00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:29,200
Columbine senior, high school, 
Tuesday morning, April 20th. 

858
00:51:29,300 --> 00:51:35,100
1999 was doing the homework in 
the library. 

859
00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:43,500
When a young man came up to her 
and said, do you believe in God?

860
00:51:46,300 --> 00:51:50,300
Do you believe in God? 
Like the book that was written 

861
00:51:50,300 --> 00:51:54,400
about the event says, She said, 
yes. 

862
00:51:58,700 --> 00:52:00,700
The young man pulled the trigger
and killed her. 

863
00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:07,000
All Christians, don't die today 
or those who are martyred for 

864
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:08,800
Christ. 
She may not have been a 

865
00:52:08,808 --> 00:52:12,200
Christian. 
My friend. 

866
00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:15,700
She became a martyr for her 
faith anyway. 

867
00:52:17,100 --> 00:52:23,200
A 17 year old girl. 
Doing her homework in a library.

868
00:52:24,300 --> 00:52:31,200
At a high school. 
April 20th, 1999. 

869
00:52:34,700 --> 00:52:39,700
She said, yes. 
She died. 

870
00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:51,000
What would you say? 
You would say, Lord. 

871
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:54,600
I know, I would say yes. 
You know, you don't know if you 

872
00:52:54,607 --> 00:53:00,200
were put in that situation, but 
you can hope you could pray that

873
00:53:00,200 --> 00:53:04,600
you could say, yes. 
As one writer who wrote a song 

874
00:53:04,600 --> 00:53:09,700
about that event said, she 
passed a test that no one wants 

875
00:53:09,700 --> 00:53:15,400
to take. 
I don't want to take that test 

876
00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:21,100
today. 
But maybe I am required today to

877
00:53:21,100 --> 00:53:23,900
make an answer to give an 
answer. 

878
00:53:24,500 --> 00:53:31,000
Do I believe in God today? 
Now at this moment Somebody may 

879
00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:34,900
walk up and it may require my 
very life. 

880
00:53:36,300 --> 00:53:39,100
Doug Edwards told me about a 
preacher in India that got beat 

881
00:53:39,100 --> 00:53:43,100
up for preaching to Hindus. 
I've heard stories about 

882
00:53:43,100 --> 00:53:45,800
brother, and who may have been 
shot in the Philippines for 

883
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:48,300
believing in the name of Jesus 
Christ. 

884
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:51,900
There's all kinds of things that
go on in the world, you know? 

885
00:53:51,900 --> 00:53:55,200
We don't know whether there's a 
brunches congregations of people

886
00:53:55,500 --> 00:53:58,500
in them. 
The hidden Realms of China. 

887
00:53:58,700 --> 00:54:00,400
They've got the word of God 
there. 

888
00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:03,600
And the Bible says, the pure. 
See the kingdom will bring forth

889
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:06,000
fruit just because they don't 
know, me doesn't mean they don't

890
00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:10,500
exist, there may be all kinds 
and we may not know the stories 

891
00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:13,900
of brothers and sisters 
throughout history that we may 

892
00:54:13,900 --> 00:54:15,600
never know. 
It may never be recording a 

893
00:54:15,600 --> 00:54:18,200
book, what they did for the 
cause of Jesus Christ, but don't

894
00:54:18,200 --> 00:54:21,900
tell me that people don't die 
for the cause of Christ today. 

895
00:54:25,300 --> 00:54:29,100
They Bang. 
They have a legacy. 

896
00:54:30,700 --> 00:54:34,800
They have a legacy. 
What's your legacy tonight? 

897
00:54:36,500 --> 00:54:40,600
What is your legacy? 
Have you already died in your 

898
00:54:40,600 --> 00:54:44,900
life is hid with Christ in God. 
Make up your mind that if that 

899
00:54:44,900 --> 00:54:48,800
situation before it ever comes, 
what your answer will be. 

900
00:54:50,600 --> 00:54:54,400
When for the time is robbed from
you before the abilities have 

901
00:54:54,400 --> 00:54:58,500
been sucked from you before 
time, takes away your memory. 

902
00:54:59,500 --> 00:55:04,100
Before God, before the world 
erases some of your energy. 

903
00:55:04,700 --> 00:55:06,900
Your life needs to stand for 
something. 

904
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:09,600
While it is day work, while it 
is day for the Night. 

905
00:55:09,600 --> 00:55:13,300
Comes when no man can work, you 
need to take time and 

906
00:55:13,300 --> 00:55:16,800
opportunity. 
While you have and stand up and 

907
00:55:16,800 --> 00:55:22,100
stand for something, and say it 
loud and say, it often about why

908
00:55:22,100 --> 00:55:24,100
you live in what you're living 
for. 

909
00:55:24,600 --> 00:55:28,600
You need to make a difference. 
All your name. 

910
00:55:28,600 --> 00:55:32,100
May never be on the side of a 
hospital room or wing. 

911
00:55:32,300 --> 00:55:35,500
It may never be recorded in 
history but I'll guarantee you 

912
00:55:35,500 --> 00:55:42,400
somebody whose soul is saved. 
May point to what you said or 

913
00:55:42,400 --> 00:55:45,700
did as making an eternal 
difference in their life. 

914
00:55:47,300 --> 00:55:50,600
There's one song that has 
encouraged me greatly. 

915
00:55:52,200 --> 00:55:54,700
A song called, Thank you for 
giving to the Lord. 

916
00:55:54,700 --> 00:55:56,700
Have you all in any of heard 
that song. 

917
00:55:56,700 --> 00:55:58,300
Thank you for giving to the 
Lord. 

918
00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:03,500
It talks about a man who went to
heaven. 

919
00:56:04,700 --> 00:56:08,800
And someone came up to him and 
said, you know, that quarter you

920
00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:12,900
put in the collection, will it 
paid for a preacher to come to 

921
00:56:12,900 --> 00:56:15,400
my Village? 
And I heard the gospel and I 

922
00:56:15,400 --> 00:56:20,900
want to thank you for giving to 
the Lord. because that's why I'm

923
00:56:20,900 --> 00:56:26,600
here today and it says, one by 
one, they came And they said, 

924
00:56:26,600 --> 00:56:28,700
thank you for giving to the 
Lord. 

925
00:56:29,700 --> 00:56:32,000
And then Jesus turned them 
around. 

926
00:56:32,700 --> 00:56:37,400
And saw all the people that this
person had affected and said, 

927
00:56:37,500 --> 00:56:44,600
great is your reward. 
My grandfather's not around to 

928
00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:51,400
see the baptism my children. 
But I'll guarantee you that's 

929
00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:56,400
part of his legacy. 
Now, what's yours? 

930
00:56:59,200 --> 00:57:04,600
What's yours? 
I challenge you tonight to make 

931
00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:10,600
a difference. 
For the cause of Jesus Christ. 

932
00:57:12,100 --> 00:57:16,900
Don't waste the days, don't 
waste all of the time. 

933
00:57:17,500 --> 00:57:22,000
If you have Ambitions, grab them
do something work. 

934
00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:25,100
While it is day, make a 
difference. 

935
00:57:25,800 --> 00:57:30,100
Don't continue to just have 
regrets every New Year saying, 

936
00:57:30,200 --> 00:57:35,100
you know, I'm going to use the 
same resolution again. 

937
00:57:35,500 --> 00:57:38,200
No, say, I'm going to talk to 
that person. 

938
00:57:38,200 --> 00:57:40,100
I'm going to make a list of my 
friends. 

939
00:57:40,200 --> 00:57:42,700
I'm going to make a currents 
today. 

940
00:57:44,600 --> 00:57:48,800
Steven. 
And his legacy is recorded for 

941
00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:54,000
us. 
What about your legacy? 

942
00:57:55,500 --> 00:57:59,100
What about your legacy? 
I know of significant people 

943
00:57:59,100 --> 00:58:03,200
who've helped me. 
I'm so thankful my father made 

944
00:58:03,200 --> 00:58:05,800
every vacation. 
He only had a few weeks vacation

945
00:58:06,100 --> 00:58:11,300
every year and he hauled us back
to Sulfur, Oklahoma and camped. 

946
00:58:11,400 --> 00:58:14,400
So that we could go to a meeting
and meet other Christian kids 

947
00:58:14,500 --> 00:58:17,300
and my dad was poor and he 
didn't have a lot of vacation 

948
00:58:17,300 --> 00:58:20,900
time and he could have easily 
spent it on himself but he was 

949
00:58:20,900 --> 00:58:24,200
investing the future in us and 
us boys. 

950
00:58:25,200 --> 00:58:28,100
And we all thank my dad for 
that, we never realize how 

951
00:58:28,100 --> 00:58:31,300
expensive it was for him, 
knowing that he only had those 

952
00:58:31,300 --> 00:58:35,300
two weeks and he spin him and it
is with his kids in a car in 

953
00:58:35,300 --> 00:58:36,500
Sulphur. 
Oklahoma! 

954
00:58:36,500 --> 00:58:38,600
Give me a break. 
Somebody needs an award for 

955
00:58:38,600 --> 00:58:44,300
that. 
Whenever you want to go on 

956
00:58:44,300 --> 00:58:47,400
vacation, you want to go to 
Sulfur, Oklahoma with a bunch of

957
00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:53,300
kids and a car. 
He wasn't thinking about having 

958
00:58:53,300 --> 00:58:56,300
a great physical time. 
He was thinking of the spiritual

959
00:58:56,300 --> 00:59:03,300
welfare of us kids, That's what 
I miss saying. 

960
00:59:04,100 --> 00:59:05,900
I want your kids to remember 
that. 

961
00:59:05,900 --> 00:59:09,300
You took time not doing 
necessarily what you want to do 

962
00:59:10,800 --> 00:59:14,600
because you thought something 
else was more important. 

963
00:59:16,200 --> 00:59:20,400
And that is where you get. 
Your legacy. 

964
00:59:21,600 --> 00:59:25,600
Because regardless of what you 
want your legacy to be, it may 

965
00:59:25,600 --> 00:59:30,200
not be what you want it to be. 
But it will be truthful. 

966
00:59:31,300 --> 00:59:35,900
And it will be, what is really? 
Really was important to you. 

967
00:59:36,300 --> 00:59:40,500
So mom's be the best mom, you 
can be husband's be the best 

968
00:59:40,500 --> 00:59:42,400
husband. 
You can be wives, be the best 

969
00:59:42,400 --> 00:59:44,500
life. 
You can be brothers and sisters 

970
00:59:44,500 --> 00:59:46,700
in the church. 
Let it be known that you were 

971
00:59:46,700 --> 00:59:49,700
someone who put the cause of 
Christ first and that you love 

972
00:59:49,700 --> 00:59:53,100
the Brethren and that you love 
the lost and that you spent time

973
00:59:53,100 --> 00:59:56,500
doing the important things, and 
you spent time, healing riffs, 

974
00:59:56,500 --> 01:00:00,000
and you spent time investing in 
Eternal things and what was 

975
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:03,900
known about you was that you 
wanted to go to heaven, you want

976
01:00:04,000 --> 01:00:05,800
To please God, you are laying 
up. 

977
01:00:05,800 --> 01:00:08,600
Treasures in Heaven. 
You wanted to make sure you're a

978
01:00:08,700 --> 01:00:12,900
legacy was eternal and not 
temporal my friends in two 

979
01:00:12,900 --> 01:00:15,800
generations. 
They're not gonna care how much 

980
01:00:15,800 --> 01:00:18,800
money you had. 
How, what kind of car you drove 

981
01:00:18,800 --> 01:00:22,200
or anything else? 
But if people are obeying the 

982
01:00:22,200 --> 01:00:24,700
lord, it's going to be make a 
difference. 

983
01:00:25,200 --> 01:00:31,100
So tonight, won't you start your
spiritual Legacy this evening? 

984
01:00:32,800 --> 01:00:36,900
Have you thought about it that 
today could be the day young 

985
01:00:36,900 --> 01:00:38,400
people. 
Have you thought about the 

986
01:00:38,400 --> 01:00:40,600
today? 
Could be the day that sometime 

987
01:00:40,600 --> 01:00:43,300
in the future of God. 
Allows generations to happen 

988
01:00:43,500 --> 01:00:46,800
that there was one night 
somewhere when somebody decided 

989
01:00:46,800 --> 01:00:49,000
to give their life to Jesus 
Christ. 

990
01:00:49,000 --> 01:00:51,300
And because of that, it affected
my mother. 

991
01:00:51,300 --> 01:00:54,000
It affected my father, it 
affected my brother, and 

992
01:00:54,000 --> 01:00:58,000
affected my sister, it affected 
my family in affected me. 

993
01:01:02,100 --> 01:01:05,600
Affected me. 
So tonight, you can make it 

994
01:01:06,000 --> 01:01:08,200
tight and eternal difference 
tonight. 

995
01:01:08,600 --> 01:01:12,400
If you will give your life to 
Jesus Christ in your faith, 

996
01:01:12,400 --> 01:01:15,500
repent of your sins, Luke 13:3, 
the best, the name of Jesus 

997
01:01:15,500 --> 01:01:19,800
Christ before men Matthew 10:32 
and be baptized for the 

998
01:01:19,800 --> 01:01:24,100
remission of your past sins, 
Acts 2 and verse 38. 

999
01:01:24,200 --> 01:01:27,100
And then upon that moment that 
you're raised from, the watery 

1000
01:01:27,100 --> 01:01:31,200
grave of baptism you can go on 
and that life no matter how. 

1001
01:01:31,300 --> 01:01:35,000
Long or short, it might be, you 
can go on with that life walking

1002
01:01:35,000 --> 01:01:37,900
in newness of life and awaiting 
the resurrection. 

1003
01:01:38,100 --> 01:01:40,400
And there you will receive your 
reward. 

1004
01:01:40,500 --> 01:01:42,900
But tonight it's got to start 
somewhere. 

1005
01:01:43,100 --> 01:01:49,500
Let today be the day of 
salvation for you and for all 

1006
01:01:49,500 --> 01:01:53,100
those upon whom your legacy will
affect. 

1007
01:01:54,500 --> 01:01:57,200
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1008
01:01:57,200 --> 01:02:02,900
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1009
01:02:02,900 --> 01:02:06,000
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1010
01:02:06,000 --> 01:02:09,200
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1011
01:02:09,800 --> 01:02:13,600
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1012
01:02:13,600 --> 01:02:17,800
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1013
01:02:17,800 --> 01:02:23,200
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1014
01:02:23,800 --> 01:02:27,400
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1015
01:02:27,400 --> 01:02:28,300
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