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It's a great honor for me to be here.

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I've heard about this conference from Mark

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for so long and never thought I'd be able

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and privileged to speak to you.

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I'm so pleased to be here.

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I want to speak to you

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from the first letter of Peter chapter 1

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and verses 8 and 9.

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1 Peter 1:8-9

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"Jesus Christ, whom having not seen,

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you love.

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Though now, though you see Him not,

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yet believing, you rejoice with joy

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inexpressible and full of glory,

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receiving the end of your faith,

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the salvation of your souls."

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I want to speak to you tonight

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on the privileges of being a Christian.

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I could speak to you 
about the responsibilities

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of being a Christian,

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and referring to this same passage.

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All privileges lead to responsibilities.

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Mom and dad, they know Jesus Christ

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as their Lord and Savior,

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and they speak warmly to you about Him,

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and they tell you you need Him

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and it would wonderful if you had Him

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as your own personal Lord and Savior.

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And that's a wonderful privilege.

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There are millions of boys 
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they've never heard of Jesus Christ.

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That privilege though 
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What will you do with this Jesus

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who is called the Christ?

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Or, you may on Sunday's come to a church,

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and it's not just a very formal occasion,

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and people dress up,

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chant and behave in predictable ways,

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but the climax of the service,

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after we've sung and prayed to God

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is that God speaks to us through His Word.

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We feel something of conviction and joy

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in hearing about Jesus Christ.

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Now, that privilege - it's not 
given to lots of people.

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It's given to you, and privileges 
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So, you must not just be 
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but you must do what 
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And so here tonight, we're going to look

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at the privileges rather 
than the responsibilities,

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because I want to speak to you about grace

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and not about law.

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You know there are people who think

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it's really a very hard life - 
the Christian life.

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You got in your car.

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Your neighbor said, "where are you going?"

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"We're going to Denton in Texas."

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"Oh yes, are you having a vacation?

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Going to the rodeo?"

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"It's a conference.

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We're going to hear the Bible preached."

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he turned to his wife and said,

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"Oh, what a life... what a life."

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"They're going to hear the Bible."

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They think it's a joyless life.

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And sometimes we do emphasize

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the places we don't go to,

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and the practices we don't approve of,

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and the language we don't use.

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People think they have to give up so much

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if they are to become Christians.

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We Christians never think like that.

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We've given up what we could never keep.

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And we've gained what we will never lose.

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And Peter here in these verses 
that I've read in your hearing,

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Peter tells us about some 
of the great privileges

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that a Christian has.

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And the first great privilege 
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is he has someone to believe in.

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Verse 8, Though you don't 
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now - not today, but one day -

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but now you don't see Him,

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but you believe in Him.

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How is that possible when 
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I was converted in 1954

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in a little Baptist church up the valley.

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Just an ordinary conversion.

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And I witnessed to my friends,

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and some of them would say,

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"Well, seeing's believing."

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As though that just 
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for Christianity.

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Some of you - you never 
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She died when you were a baby,

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or perhaps before you were born.

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But your mother tells 
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and the love she showed,

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and how she protected your mother

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when your mother was very vulnerable

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at one time in her life.

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And she talks about the 
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and what a lovely person she was.

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Do you believe in your grandmother?

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You never saw her.

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But, of course, you do believe in her.

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You believe in her through the testimony

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of someone who did see her

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and whose life was changed by her.

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And that's how it was 
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in what we call today Turkey,

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but then in Cappadocia, Asia, Bythenia.

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These places in the 
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he's addressing the Christians.

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Jesus Christ never went to Turkey.

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He went to Africa.

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He never came to Europe.

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He went to North Africa, didn't He?

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To Egypt.

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He was there and protected from Herod.

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But that wonderful evangelism of His

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over three years and then He gathered

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500 people - His flock.

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And they all went different places

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speaking of the transforming power

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of His life and His resurrection.

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They shared it with people everywhere.

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Some came to Turkey,

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and they said, ah, we've 
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And we can't say that, can't we?

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Everybody in America,

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we have good news for you.

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We have a Savior for you.

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We have a Teacher for you.

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We have a Great Shepherd

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who'll look after you and protect you.

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I have good news for 
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Good news about Jesus Christ.

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And so, they wanted to 
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They came to believe in Him,

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and believe big truths,

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so that these two 
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they were full of meaty doctrine

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and a great concept of God

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and of Jesus Christ.

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Because Peter, you see, was an eyewitness.

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He was there.

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He was there when Jesus called him

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when he was tending his nets

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with his brother.

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He was there on the 
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He was there in Gethsemane.

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He was there in the Upper Room.

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He went into the tomb and he saw it.

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It was empty, but the 
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He was an eyewitness.

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And that is how we are Christians

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in Denton tonight.

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We are here not that Jesus ever came

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to America,

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but because people who 
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Matthew, Mark, Luke, John,

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Peter, Paul, James, Jude, and others -

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they saw Him.

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And they recorded this extraordinary life.

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The most wonderful years

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in the history of this planet

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when Jesus lived -

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the most wonderful week,

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the most wonderful days

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at the end of His life.

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No days can compare to them.

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And there's a record of them.

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And we believe because of this.

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I was saved, I said, in '54,

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and a few other boys in '55,

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and we started a Christian gathering

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in school.

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he was called Neil Kinnock.

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And Neil Kinnock then became

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a prominent politician.

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He led the Labor Party

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in a couple of general elections

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against Mrs. Thatcher.

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And he was interviewed.

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People were interested; 
asked him questions

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about his religion, and he said,

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"Well, I just admire Christians,

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but I could never take

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a leap into the dark."

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That's what he said.

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And so I wrote to him.

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"Dear Neil, remember those days

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when we had Bible studies,

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and you came along

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and you were interested?"

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You know, becoming a Christian

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isn't a leap into the dark.

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It's coming to the Light of the world.

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It's coming to Jesus Christ.

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And we learn about Him

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and we want to know more about Him.

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We ask questions.

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We feed our minds and our understanding,

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and our affections are stirred,

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and our conscience is troubled too,

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but all about Him.

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And then we believe in Him.

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It's a special word here.

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Not believe about Him,

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but believing right into Him.

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You know, there's a great database -

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you teenagers, you know 
what a database is?

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You all know about IT much 
more than we oldsters.

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There's a database in which every piece

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of the Greek language has been recorded.

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People like Plato and Aristotle

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and the philosophers,

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and then Thucydides the historian,

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and then the great dramatists and poets.

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All of that - every bit of Greek

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that men have ever found.

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Classical Greek.

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It's all on this database.

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And then, common Greek as Greek changed

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over the years and it came 
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and the New Testament's on it too.

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And then it's added to all the time.

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They find pieces of parchment

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preserved under the Egyptian sun.

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Letters to a wife from a soldier.

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Bills and contracts.

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And then they are published,

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and immediately then the people who run

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this website, they add it to it.

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So, it's an enormous help 
if you are a scholar.

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And so, say you take this phrase now

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which Peter uses here,

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which is used in the New Testament

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about believing into someone.

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So you type it in,

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and then you push a button

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and then it searches very quickly

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through all this Greek.

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And then it prints out.

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And you have a piece of paper

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and you look at it,

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and to your surprise,

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the only place in all the world

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where this phrase to believe into someone

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is found is the New Testament.

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In other words, it was invented

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by the Holy Spirit.

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It was invented by the apostles -

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it's the same thing -

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to explain to us what is the nature

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of saving faith.

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It's not believing about Him,

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but it's believing right into Him.

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Being joined to Him.

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Jonathan Edwards called saving faith

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"a connecting grace."

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It plugs us in.

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It grafts us into Christ and His life,

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and we become joined

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unbreakably,

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eternally to God the Son.

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So that His life is yours,

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and your life is His.

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That's what a Christian is.

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You can only explain the heroism

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and courage and the wonderful patience

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of a wife looking after her husband

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when he gets forgetful 
at the end of his days,

276
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and she's so wonderfully 
patient and loving,

277
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because the strength 
and the patience

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and the joy and the peace 
of Jesus Christ is in her.

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What a privilege to be a Christian!

280
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Let's compare it to a 
proposal to marriage.

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You know, a young man and woman,

282
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or older man and woman,

283
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they get married too, you know?

284
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They meet in a conference like this.

285
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They talk to one another,

286
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and then, oh, they talk, and they talk.

287
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So the father comes home

288
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and he says, "Where's Cindy?"

289
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"She's on the phone again."

290
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Upstairs. There she is talking to

291
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this man in her life.

292
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And they sit together

293
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and they eat together and they walk.

294
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And she's watching him.

295
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She's looking at him.

296
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She's evaluating him.

297
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How is he with his parents?

298
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How is he with her parents?

299
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How is he with other women?

300
00:14:22,279 --> 00:14:23,821
What are his values?

301
00:14:23,821 --> 00:14:25,209
What are his ambitions?

302
00:14:25,209 --> 00:14:28,153
What does he want to do in life?

303
00:14:28,153 --> 00:14:30,126
What's his goal?

304
00:14:30,126 --> 00:14:37,178
Is he patient and humble and sweet?

305
00:14:37,178 --> 00:14:40,180
Because when you go into marriage,

306
00:14:40,180 --> 00:14:44,197
there's no backdoor you can get out of

307
00:14:44,197 --> 00:14:45,227
if it doesn't work.

308
00:14:45,227 --> 00:14:47,306
You don't think like that -

309
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a Christian - if he's getting married.

310
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And finally, on a moonlit night,

311
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he gets down on a knee

312
00:14:56,736 --> 00:14:58,226
and he brings her a little box

313
00:14:58,226 --> 00:14:59,386
and he proposes.

314
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"Will you marry me?" he says.

315
00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:03,589
And when she says, "I do,"

316
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it's not because of the moonlight

317
00:15:05,907 --> 00:15:08,862
or the ring.

318
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It's because she's grown in appreciation

319
00:15:11,821 --> 00:15:14,259
and knowledge and understanding

320
00:15:14,259 --> 00:15:16,165
and wisdom and love.

321
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And she wants to go where he wants to go.

322
00:15:20,525 --> 00:15:22,431
And then we say this phrase:

323
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"They were joined together in marriage."

324
00:15:26,089 --> 00:15:27,377
Now that's a picture

325
00:15:27,377 --> 00:15:34,411
of what it is to become a Christian.

326
00:15:34,411 --> 00:15:35,819
You come to church

327
00:15:35,819 --> 00:15:37,685
and you listen to the preacher.

328
00:15:37,685 --> 00:15:39,348
You have young people's meetings

329
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and conferences and there are camps.

330
00:15:42,059 --> 00:15:45,028
And there are books you read.

331
00:15:45,028 --> 00:15:46,426
And you hear about Him.

332
00:15:46,426 --> 00:15:48,122
And you grow in your understanding

333
00:15:48,122 --> 00:15:49,795
of who this extraordinary

334
00:15:49,795 --> 00:15:53,572
uninventable Person is.

335
00:15:53,572 --> 00:15:57,335
And your heart is drawn out to Him.

336
00:15:57,335 --> 00:16:03,258
When He says, "Come to Me,"

337
00:16:03,258 --> 00:16:07,240
then you know the One who you're going to.

338
00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:08,401
You've learned about Him

339
00:16:08,401 --> 00:16:13,153
and you know why you need Him.

340
00:16:13,153 --> 00:16:16,017
When you think that the future

341
00:16:16,017 --> 00:16:20,447
is just impossible without Him,

342
00:16:20,447 --> 00:16:24,372
and you are joined together with Him.

343
00:16:24,372 --> 00:16:26,114
You trust in Jesus Christ.

344
00:16:26,114 --> 00:16:27,798
Let's talk about trust.

345
00:16:27,798 --> 00:16:31,730
I think faith is a rather 
strong Latin-based word.

346
00:16:31,730 --> 00:16:35,292
Rather hard and tough word: faith.

347
00:16:35,292 --> 00:16:37,982
But trust is a nice Anglo-Saxon word

348
00:16:37,982 --> 00:16:42,187
and it's a gentler word, isn't it?

349
00:16:42,187 --> 00:16:44,758
Trust is something you know -

350
00:16:44,758 --> 00:16:46,701
you've got it or you haven't got it.

351
00:16:46,701 --> 00:16:48,929
You can measure that, can't you,

352
00:16:48,929 --> 00:16:51,186
when you wake up in the night

353
00:16:51,186 --> 00:16:52,210
and you turn over

354
00:16:52,210 --> 00:16:54,267
and you look at the digital alarm clock

355
00:16:54,267 --> 00:16:55,882
and it says 3:30,

356
00:16:55,882 --> 00:16:57,956
you know how accurate those clocks are.

357
00:16:57,956 --> 00:16:59,905
You can trust it.

358
00:16:59,905 --> 00:17:04,230
They're reliable.

359
00:17:04,230 --> 00:17:05,577
A wife trusts her husband.

360
00:17:05,577 --> 00:17:06,692
He's not home tonight.

361
00:17:06,692 --> 00:17:07,844
It's late for him.

362
00:17:07,844 --> 00:17:09,761
He's usually home at this time.

363
00:17:09,761 --> 00:17:10,758
But you trust him.

364
00:17:10,758 --> 00:17:12,390
You know he's not fooling around.

365
00:17:12,390 --> 00:17:14,873
The children said they'd be 
home by half past nine,

366
00:17:14,873 --> 00:17:16,019
and now it's ten.

367
00:17:16,019 --> 00:17:18,390
Something's happened.

368
00:17:18,390 --> 00:17:21,117
You trust them,

369
00:17:21,117 --> 00:17:24,293
because that's the sort 
of children they are.

370
00:17:24,293 --> 00:17:29,768
That's the sort of husband you have.

371
00:17:29,768 --> 00:17:34,083
And so too, this is the 
distinctive characteristic

372
00:17:34,083 --> 00:17:35,270
of the Christian;

373
00:17:35,270 --> 00:17:38,281
the distinctive privilege 
that every Christian has.

374
00:17:38,281 --> 00:17:42,397
We trust in the Lord Jesus Christ.

375
00:17:42,397 --> 00:17:47,222
We do.

376
00:17:47,222 --> 00:17:49,271
Our lives are not falling apart

377
00:17:49,271 --> 00:17:51,102
because we know the One

378
00:17:51,102 --> 00:17:53,220
who's in charge of our lives.

379
00:17:53,220 --> 00:17:55,791
He's got all authority in 
heaven and earth, He says.

380
00:17:55,791 --> 00:18:01,563
He's in control of our lives.

381
00:18:01,563 --> 00:18:02,933
I believe in Him.

382
00:18:02,933 --> 00:18:05,802
I've never seen Him,

383
00:18:05,802 --> 00:18:08,416
but I know who my heart believed.

384
00:18:08,416 --> 00:18:10,562
I know this Savior -

385
00:18:10,562 --> 00:18:12,382
the Jesus of the Bible.

386
00:18:12,382 --> 00:18:14,339
The Jesus my mother and father knew,

387
00:18:14,339 --> 00:18:15,458
and the preacher knows,

388
00:18:15,458 --> 00:18:17,618
and my friends know.

389
00:18:17,618 --> 00:18:19,257
I'm safe in His presence.

390
00:18:19,257 --> 00:18:23,177
I trust Him.

391
00:18:23,177 --> 00:18:26,249
Take my life and let it be
consecrated, Lord, to Thee.

392
00:18:26,249 --> 00:18:28,867
That's the voice of trust.

393
00:18:28,867 --> 00:18:30,840
That's a Christian.

394
00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:33,791
That's salvation.

395
00:18:33,791 --> 00:18:36,112
That is eternal life.

396
00:18:36,112 --> 00:18:38,360
We trust everything about Jesus.

397
00:18:38,360 --> 00:18:39,837
Everything that He's done -

398
00:18:39,837 --> 00:18:41,861
especially when He died on the cross

399
00:18:41,861 --> 00:18:47,023
and He cried, "It is finished!"

400
00:18:47,023 --> 00:18:49,261
We trust those words.

401
00:18:49,261 --> 00:18:52,985
We don't have to make a contribution

402
00:18:52,985 --> 00:18:56,326
because it will be us,

403
00:18:56,326 --> 00:18:59,475
and it will be spoiled by us.

404
00:18:59,475 --> 00:19:04,160
We can't make a sinless contribution

405
00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:07,388
because we drink iniquity like water.

406
00:19:07,388 --> 00:19:13,618
So we trust in Him; in what He has done.

407
00:19:13,618 --> 00:19:16,674
In His achievements, in His righteousness.

408
00:19:16,674 --> 00:19:18,230
His perfection.

409
00:19:18,230 --> 00:19:20,355
His loveliness. His beauty.

410
00:19:20,355 --> 00:19:22,180
And in His atoning death.

411
00:19:22,180 --> 00:19:24,007
We trust in these things.

412
00:19:24,007 --> 00:19:27,615
My friend, Reg Burrows, he's a pastor.

413
00:19:27,615 --> 00:19:28,666
He's retired now.

414
00:19:28,666 --> 00:19:30,557
He was shaking hands at the door

415
00:19:30,557 --> 00:19:32,718
with people as they 
left one Sunday morning.

416
00:19:32,718 --> 00:19:35,134
An old lady came up to him 
and she shook his hand.

417
00:19:35,134 --> 00:19:36,649
She said, "Oh, Mr. Burrows,

418
00:19:36,649 --> 00:19:40,481
I hope I manage to do enough

419
00:19:40,481 --> 00:19:43,279
for God to accept me."

420
00:19:43,279 --> 00:19:46,350
Now, it's very helpful to a minister

421
00:19:46,350 --> 00:19:48,780
when somebody says something like that,

422
00:19:48,780 --> 00:19:50,832
because then we can understand

423
00:19:50,832 --> 00:19:54,729
just where they are in this journey

424
00:19:54,729 --> 00:19:58,734
into a living, saving relationship

425
00:19:58,734 --> 00:20:00,572
with Jesus Christ.

426
00:20:00,572 --> 00:20:02,909
A remark like that tells us

427
00:20:02,909 --> 00:20:06,312
that they haven't understood Christianity.

428
00:20:06,312 --> 00:20:08,035
They haven't understood the gospel.

429
00:20:08,035 --> 00:20:11,571
They haven't understood grace.

430
00:20:11,571 --> 00:20:13,626
They are showing their lostness.

431
00:20:13,626 --> 00:20:16,045
They think God's made a contribution,

432
00:20:16,045 --> 00:20:19,540
and then we need to make a contribution.

433
00:20:19,540 --> 00:20:24,045
Then God will accept us.

434
00:20:24,045 --> 00:20:28,620
But, we are saved

435
00:20:28,620 --> 00:20:32,404
by the achievement of Someone else;

436
00:20:32,404 --> 00:20:34,928
by what that Person did.

437
00:20:34,928 --> 00:20:37,769
That's what saves us.

438
00:20:37,769 --> 00:20:40,840
We never manage to do enough.

439
00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:42,407
We never do.

440
00:20:42,407 --> 00:20:45,194
Because of ego and pride

441
00:20:45,194 --> 00:20:47,047
and self-pity,

442
00:20:47,047 --> 00:20:50,064
and all the things that spoil our lives

443
00:20:50,064 --> 00:20:51,184
in this world.

444
00:20:51,184 --> 00:20:53,935
I've never prayed a sinner's prayer.

445
00:20:53,935 --> 00:20:57,208
I've never done a zealous action.

446
00:20:57,208 --> 00:21:00,710
I need at the end of every day to say,

447
00:21:00,710 --> 00:21:03,337
"Sorry, Lord, about today."

448
00:21:03,337 --> 00:21:06,433
"Forgive another day, Lord."

449
00:21:06,433 --> 00:21:09,853
My best things - I have to say that.

450
00:21:09,853 --> 00:21:12,515
We are saved by the achievement

451
00:21:12,515 --> 00:21:14,037
of Somebody else

452
00:21:14,037 --> 00:21:18,182
who never had to say "sorry"
at the end of every day.

453
00:21:18,182 --> 00:21:19,905
The lovely beauty...

454
00:21:19,905 --> 00:21:22,685
holy, harmless, undefiled,

455
00:21:22,685 --> 00:21:24,067
separate from sinners,

456
00:21:24,067 --> 00:21:25,892
higher than the heavens -

457
00:21:25,892 --> 00:21:28,845
this is the extraordinary life

458
00:21:28,845 --> 00:21:31,204
of the Man Christ Jesus.

459
00:21:31,204 --> 00:21:34,311
The Son of God.

460
00:21:34,311 --> 00:21:38,886
Saved by what He did.

461
00:21:38,886 --> 00:21:41,115
Christmas comes and then we have

462
00:21:41,115 --> 00:21:43,972
"The Sound of Music."

463
00:21:43,972 --> 00:21:47,871
All those lovely songs.

464
00:21:47,871 --> 00:21:54,696
Maria, in the end, 
the stern grieving widower -

465
00:21:54,696 --> 00:21:58,324
the Captain - he collapses before her

466
00:21:58,324 --> 00:22:01,547
and wants to marry her.

467
00:22:01,547 --> 00:22:02,993
And she can't get over it.

468
00:22:02,993 --> 00:22:04,627
She is just amazed.

469
00:22:04,627 --> 00:22:07,014
She's just a simple peasant girl.

470
00:22:07,014 --> 00:22:11,697
Got a good voice.

471
00:22:11,697 --> 00:22:14,028
There she is.

472
00:22:14,028 --> 00:22:15,721
And so she sings then.

473
00:22:15,721 --> 00:22:17,559
She's puzzling over why is it

474
00:22:17,559 --> 00:22:20,496
that God has allowed this fellow

475
00:22:20,496 --> 00:22:22,773
to fall in love with her.

476
00:22:22,773 --> 00:22:25,485
And she sings, and you 
remember what she sings?

477
00:22:25,485 --> 00:22:28,877
She sings, "somewhere 
in my youth or childhood,

478
00:22:28,877 --> 00:22:32,952
I must have done something good."

479
00:22:32,952 --> 00:22:36,326
That's what she says, doesn't she?

480
00:22:36,326 --> 00:22:38,245
I helped an old lady over the road.

481
00:22:38,245 --> 00:22:39,858
I was kind to my parents.

482
00:22:39,858 --> 00:22:41,995
I wasn't nasty to animals.

483
00:22:41,995 --> 00:22:44,149
I was patient with people.

484
00:22:44,149 --> 00:22:57,726
God saw all that and so He 
gave me this rich dude.

485
00:22:57,726 --> 00:22:59,292
I have three daughters,

486
00:22:59,292 --> 00:23:02,149
and my youngest - she was born

487
00:23:02,149 --> 00:23:05,331
with a silver spoon in her mouth.

488
00:23:05,331 --> 00:23:07,604
So it all works out for her.

489
00:23:07,604 --> 00:23:12,504
She passes, goes to university,

490
00:23:12,504 --> 00:23:14,900
meets Glenn - a lovely fellow -

491
00:23:14,900 --> 00:23:16,034
marries him,

492
00:23:16,034 --> 00:23:17,711
gets a job as a teacher,

493
00:23:17,711 --> 00:23:20,475
has three children.

494
00:23:20,475 --> 00:23:22,531
She tells me the next thing.

495
00:23:22,531 --> 00:23:26,241
I say, "How is it that everything seems

496
00:23:26,241 --> 00:23:29,676
to happen to you like this?"

497
00:23:29,676 --> 00:23:34,038
She says, "Somewhere in 
my youth or childhood,

498
00:23:34,038 --> 00:23:36,530
I must have done something good."

499
00:23:36,530 --> 00:23:40,928
She knows it's a heresy.

500
00:23:40,928 --> 00:23:47,053
And she likes to tease her 
old man about it, doesn't she?

501
00:23:47,053 --> 00:23:49,754
Now the Christian doesn't think like that.

502
00:23:49,754 --> 00:23:51,786
We don't think like that at all.

503
00:23:51,786 --> 00:23:52,867
The Christian says

504
00:23:52,867 --> 00:23:56,486
because of everything 
that Jesus Christ did,

505
00:23:56,486 --> 00:23:58,649
God has blessed me.

506
00:23:58,649 --> 00:24:01,548
Oh, what wonderful blessings!

507
00:24:01,548 --> 00:24:05,079
I've got Him. His mercies 
are new every morning!

508
00:24:05,079 --> 00:24:07,735
His faithfulness - it's immeasurable.

509
00:24:07,735 --> 00:24:11,279
You can't see the east or west of it.

510
00:24:11,279 --> 00:24:15,896
How kind, how good, 
how patient He is with me.

511
00:24:15,896 --> 00:24:18,415
He's forgiven all my sins.

512
00:24:18,415 --> 00:24:23,449
And so a Christian has 
someone to believe in.

513
00:24:23,449 --> 00:24:29,502
We want to believe in 
such a Savior, don't we?

514
00:24:29,502 --> 00:24:31,898
I am trusting Thee, Lord Jesus,

515
00:24:31,898 --> 00:24:33,211
trusting only Thee.

516
00:24:33,211 --> 00:24:36,131
Trusting Thee for full salvation,

517
00:24:36,131 --> 00:24:38,299
great and free.

518
00:24:38,299 --> 00:24:41,417
That's the response to this amazing love,

519
00:24:41,417 --> 00:24:47,101
that Jesus had seen the file on us.

520
00:24:47,101 --> 00:24:48,563
He'd seen it. He knew.

521
00:24:48,563 --> 00:24:50,145
He knew about everything.

522
00:24:50,145 --> 00:24:51,598
The things done in darkness.

523
00:24:51,598 --> 00:24:54,421
The things that God has veiled 
from those who know us best,

524
00:24:54,421 --> 00:24:56,075
that we're so ashamed of.

525
00:24:56,075 --> 00:24:58,166
He still loved us.

526
00:24:58,166 --> 00:24:59,358
He still loved us.

527
00:24:59,358 --> 00:25:05,803
We're joined to Him by saving faith.

528
00:25:05,803 --> 00:25:09,319
Well now, who are you going to believe in

529
00:25:09,319 --> 00:25:14,607
if you say no to my Savior again tonight?

530
00:25:14,607 --> 00:25:18,398
Who are you going to trust in?

531
00:25:18,398 --> 00:25:21,312
It can't be Hollywood,

532
00:25:21,312 --> 00:25:25,083
after all the ugly disclosures.

533
00:25:25,083 --> 00:25:27,394
The foundations have gone there.

534
00:25:27,394 --> 00:25:30,250
That's hollow and ugly.

535
00:25:30,250 --> 00:25:32,057
Sportsmen?

536
00:25:32,057 --> 00:25:35,956
What figures are there?

537
00:25:35,956 --> 00:25:37,350
Philosophers?

538
00:25:37,350 --> 00:25:40,239
Writers?

539
00:25:40,239 --> 00:25:45,747
If you reject my Savior Jesus Christ,

540
00:25:45,747 --> 00:25:48,363
who have you got to look into

541
00:25:48,363 --> 00:25:51,668
when you get married?

542
00:25:51,668 --> 00:25:54,312
When you get children and they're sick?

543
00:25:54,312 --> 00:25:56,744
When you've got bills to pay?

544
00:25:56,744 --> 00:25:58,353
And you're getting older?

545
00:25:58,353 --> 00:26:02,769
And the grandchildren are 
quite demanding too?

546
00:26:02,769 --> 00:26:04,347
You're getting nearer death.

547
00:26:04,347 --> 00:26:06,740
Who have you got?

548
00:26:06,740 --> 00:26:11,700
Who do you have if you 
say no to Jesus Christ?

549
00:26:11,700 --> 00:26:14,435
Who have you got?

550
00:26:14,435 --> 00:26:17,159
Look, there's this wonderful privilege.

551
00:26:17,159 --> 00:26:19,959
A Christian has Someone

552
00:26:19,959 --> 00:26:23,593
to believe right into; to trust.

553
00:26:23,593 --> 00:26:28,627
He can rely on Him completely.

554
00:26:28,627 --> 00:26:31,948
And the second great privilege 
that a Christian has here:

555
00:26:31,948 --> 00:26:33,888
A Christian has Someone to love.

556
00:26:33,888 --> 00:26:37,501
Verse 8: "Whom having not seen, you love."

557
00:26:37,501 --> 00:26:39,641
And it's the same illustration I use again

558
00:26:39,641 --> 00:26:46,527
about your grandmother.

559
00:26:46,527 --> 00:26:48,501
Mom takes you upstairs

560
00:26:48,501 --> 00:26:50,285
and she puts you in bed.

561
00:26:50,285 --> 00:26:52,124
And you say, "Tell me a story, Mom."

562
00:26:52,124 --> 00:26:53,827
She says, "Oh, it's late tonight."

563
00:26:53,827 --> 00:26:57,521
"Tell me about Nana.
Tell me about Nana."

564
00:26:57,521 --> 00:27:01,411
"Oh please... please, Mommy.

565
00:27:01,411 --> 00:27:07,030
Please tell me about Nana and the cows."

566
00:27:07,030 --> 00:27:08,931
"Oh, you've heard that story..."

567
00:27:08,931 --> 00:27:10,283
"Tell me, Mommy."

568
00:27:10,283 --> 00:27:12,197
So, she starts to tell you how

569
00:27:12,197 --> 00:27:14,397
she went blackberry picking with jars

570
00:27:14,397 --> 00:27:16,719
in a field and you were picking,

571
00:27:16,719 --> 00:27:18,354
and the cows got very curious

572
00:27:18,354 --> 00:27:20,872
and they all started to 
come nearer and nearer,

573
00:27:20,872 --> 00:27:23,288
and then they started 
getting a bit faster.

574
00:27:23,288 --> 00:27:28,025
And how your mother got
a bit frightened as they came.

575
00:27:28,025 --> 00:27:30,351
And she picked her up then -

576
00:27:30,351 --> 00:27:32,245
her daughter, your mother -

577
00:27:32,245 --> 00:27:33,970
carried her over the stream

578
00:27:33,970 --> 00:27:35,410
and dropped her over the wall

579
00:27:35,410 --> 00:27:37,475
and clambered over the wall.

580
00:27:37,475 --> 00:27:42,648
The cows all came.

581
00:27:42,648 --> 00:27:48,274
And looked at her. Looked at your mother.

582
00:27:48,274 --> 00:27:50,785
You love the story.

583
00:27:50,785 --> 00:27:52,331
And when your mother tells it,

584
00:27:52,331 --> 00:27:57,308
you know, her eyes are filled with tears

585
00:27:57,308 --> 00:28:00,222
as she remembers that wonderful person

586
00:28:00,222 --> 00:28:01,871
who loved her.

587
00:28:01,871 --> 00:28:05,186
And you love her.

588
00:28:05,186 --> 00:28:07,414
You love her, though you never saw her,

589
00:28:07,414 --> 00:28:09,930
you love her because your mother

590
00:28:09,930 --> 00:28:13,396
whom you just adore -

591
00:28:13,396 --> 00:28:15,943
your mother loved her

592
00:28:15,943 --> 00:28:19,706
and owed her so much.

593
00:28:19,706 --> 00:28:22,914
When you read a great biography

594
00:28:22,914 --> 00:28:30,314
of Lloyd-Jones or Spurgeon,

595
00:28:30,314 --> 00:28:34,866
in the end, you love these people.

596
00:28:34,866 --> 00:28:37,038
You love them.

597
00:28:37,038 --> 00:28:38,531
You don't want it to end.

598
00:28:38,531 --> 00:28:41,083
You start to read a few pages less

599
00:28:41,083 --> 00:28:43,047
because you don't want it to end.

600
00:28:43,047 --> 00:28:46,033
You're so filled with admiration

601
00:28:46,033 --> 00:28:47,407
that the world has seen

602
00:28:47,407 --> 00:29:00,402
so terrific a person as some 
of these people are.

603
00:29:00,402 --> 00:29:04,021
Peter tells us what he'd seen.

604
00:29:04,021 --> 00:29:05,641
He told them.

605
00:29:05,641 --> 00:29:07,182
We went into the room together.

606
00:29:07,182 --> 00:29:11,429
It was just James and John and I.

607
00:29:11,429 --> 00:29:13,617
There were some others there -

608
00:29:13,617 --> 00:29:16,542
Jairus and his wife,

609
00:29:16,542 --> 00:29:19,746
and there was just 
the little girl and Jesus.

610
00:29:19,746 --> 00:29:21,832
There were seven of us in the room.

611
00:29:21,832 --> 00:29:23,981
They're all spellbound and they listen.

612
00:29:23,981 --> 00:29:25,328
They know the story,

613
00:29:25,328 --> 00:29:28,013
but oh, they love to hear it again.

614
00:29:28,013 --> 00:29:29,490
And He went over to the bed

615
00:29:29,490 --> 00:29:31,032
and He held her by the hand -

616
00:29:31,032 --> 00:29:32,719
her cold, dead hand.

617
00:29:32,719 --> 00:29:35,334
And He said to her,

618
00:29:35,334 --> 00:29:38,747
"Talitha cumi."

619
00:29:38,747 --> 00:29:41,684
I am sorry, that's our language -

620
00:29:41,684 --> 00:29:45,521
it's Aramaic.

621
00:29:45,521 --> 00:29:49,238
I just see it so vividly in my mind.

622
00:29:49,238 --> 00:29:51,254
My mother said it to me

623
00:29:51,254 --> 00:29:55,157
when I was a boy by Galilee.

624
00:29:55,157 --> 00:29:57,500
My mother would wake 
me up in the afternoon.

625
00:29:57,500 --> 00:30:00,299
She normally would just sleep
throughout all the afternoon.

626
00:30:00,299 --> 00:30:02,782
I wouldn't sleep at night.
Talitha cumi, she'd say.

627
00:30:02,782 --> 00:30:08,109
Get up, now, get up.

628
00:30:08,109 --> 00:30:10,597
And you build up this picture.

629
00:30:10,597 --> 00:30:12,762
And it's a wonderful picture.

630
00:30:12,762 --> 00:30:14,242
And you start to love -

631
00:30:14,242 --> 00:30:16,004
not only believe in Him -

632
00:30:16,004 --> 00:30:19,677
but to love this Man.

633
00:30:19,677 --> 00:30:24,047
He's pure gold.

634
00:30:24,047 --> 00:30:26,229
He's so approachable.

635
00:30:26,229 --> 00:30:27,657
Women absolutely trust Him.

636
00:30:27,657 --> 00:30:29,201
They bring their little children

637
00:30:29,201 --> 00:30:30,930
and they give them to Him

638
00:30:30,930 --> 00:30:32,549
for Him to hold,

639
00:30:32,549 --> 00:30:39,200
and He prays God's blessing on them.

640
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:42,106
And that comes, not because

641
00:30:42,106 --> 00:30:44,981
they'd actually seen Jesus -

642
00:30:44,981 --> 00:30:46,638
because the Pharisees saw Him,

643
00:30:46,638 --> 00:30:49,495
and they saw Him raise Lazarus

644
00:30:49,495 --> 00:30:50,552
from the dead.

645
00:30:50,552 --> 00:30:53,626
That didn't make them 
Christians - seeing Jesus.

646
00:30:53,626 --> 00:30:56,311
If Jesus came back today,

647
00:30:56,311 --> 00:30:57,572
you might think,

648
00:30:57,572 --> 00:30:59,043
oh, I'd believe in Him then.

649
00:30:59,043 --> 00:31:01,218
No, you wouldn't.

650
00:31:01,218 --> 00:31:06,783
There's a real coldness in 
your heart towards Him

651
00:31:06,783 --> 00:31:09,557
about having Him as your Lord,

652
00:31:09,557 --> 00:31:14,418
to serve Him for the rest of your days.

653
00:31:14,418 --> 00:31:15,792
You always have an excuse.

654
00:31:15,792 --> 00:31:20,803
It's always so inconvenient 
just now, isn't it?

655
00:31:20,803 --> 00:31:24,441
Just never quite the convenient time

656
00:31:24,441 --> 00:31:26,642
to be trusting in Jesus Christ

657
00:31:26,642 --> 00:31:28,089
and repenting of your sin

658
00:31:28,089 --> 00:31:31,313
and starting to follow Him.

659
00:31:31,313 --> 00:31:35,162
You need a work in your heart.

660
00:31:35,162 --> 00:31:37,092
Jesus calls it the drawing.

661
00:31:37,092 --> 00:31:40,280
The drawing out

662
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:42,522
of the poison of unbelief;

663
00:31:42,522 --> 00:31:44,884
the drawing of new affections

664
00:31:44,884 --> 00:31:49,021
for Jesus Christ.

665
00:31:49,021 --> 00:31:50,404
"No one can come to Me,

666
00:31:50,404 --> 00:31:55,164
except the Father who sent Me draw him."

667
00:31:55,164 --> 00:31:57,648
You need to be drawn.

668
00:31:57,648 --> 00:32:01,543
It's not just the physical sight,

669
00:32:01,543 --> 00:32:04,586
but the drawing of love.

670
00:32:04,586 --> 00:32:07,146
He wraps cords of love around you,

671
00:32:07,146 --> 00:32:08,584
in a meeting like this,

672
00:32:08,584 --> 00:32:11,941
and He starts to pull you to Himself

673
00:32:11,941 --> 00:32:13,981
out of your unbelief.

674
00:32:13,981 --> 00:32:16,038
He's just tugging you saying,

675
00:32:16,038 --> 00:32:18,266
"I'm saying this to you.

676
00:32:18,266 --> 00:32:21,864
That's why I sent the 
man from Wales there.

677
00:32:21,864 --> 00:32:23,596
That's why I brought you here

678
00:32:23,596 --> 00:32:28,464
that you might know 
this Jesus for yourself,

679
00:32:28,464 --> 00:32:30,791
and that you might love Him."

680
00:32:30,791 --> 00:32:32,253
And we do love Him.

681
00:32:32,253 --> 00:32:33,361
Now when I say that,

682
00:32:33,361 --> 00:32:35,463
everybody here's who's a Christian feels:

683
00:32:35,463 --> 00:32:39,323
Oh, I wish I did love Him more.

684
00:32:39,323 --> 00:32:40,890
Oh, it's my chief complaint

685
00:32:40,890 --> 00:32:46,377
that my love is cold and weak and faint.

686
00:32:46,377 --> 00:32:49,589
I'm sorry that I don't love Jesus more.

687
00:32:49,589 --> 00:32:52,415
Every Christian - the most 
mature Christian here

688
00:32:52,415 --> 00:32:55,498
and the youngest Christian 
is saying that just now.

689
00:32:55,498 --> 00:32:58,240
When I say, we do love Him.

690
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:02,211
We say, but I do love Him.

691
00:33:02,211 --> 00:33:04,101
I do love Him.

692
00:33:04,101 --> 00:33:07,541
I love the Lord.

693
00:33:07,541 --> 00:33:12,017
Oh, for grace to love Him more.

694
00:33:12,017 --> 00:33:13,108
That's what we feel.

695
00:33:13,108 --> 00:33:20,367
And every one of us is feeling that.

696
00:33:20,367 --> 00:33:24,041
Sometimes we feel if we 
had a better preacher

697
00:33:24,041 --> 00:33:25,708
we'd love Him more.

698
00:33:25,708 --> 00:33:30,616
Well, we always want to 
blame something out there,

699
00:33:30,616 --> 00:33:33,091
and the trouble is in here, isn't it?

700
00:33:33,091 --> 00:33:36,159
There was the great preacher Isaiah,

701
00:33:36,159 --> 00:33:37,691
and he was preaching -

702
00:33:37,691 --> 00:33:41,506
what poetry, what passion, what pathos!

703
00:33:41,506 --> 00:33:44,379
The greatest of all the writing prophets.

704
00:33:44,379 --> 00:33:46,596
And there he is and he 
was preaching to them

705
00:33:46,596 --> 00:33:49,262
and telling them of the 
Messiah who would come.

706
00:33:49,262 --> 00:33:51,323
"All we like sheep have gone astray.

707
00:33:51,323 --> 00:33:53,235
We've turned everyone to his own way,

708
00:33:53,235 --> 00:33:55,405
and the Lord has laid on Him

709
00:33:55,405 --> 00:33:58,125
the iniquity of us all," he told them.

710
00:33:58,125 --> 00:33:59,619
They didn't understand.

711
00:33:59,619 --> 00:34:02,341
It was to them as if 
he was getting excited

712
00:34:02,341 --> 00:34:07,006
about a branch of bleached wood

713
00:34:07,006 --> 00:34:09,579
blown by the wind in the desert.

714
00:34:09,579 --> 00:34:11,637
A root out of dry ground.

715
00:34:11,637 --> 00:34:15,061
There was no beauty that they desired him.

716
00:34:15,061 --> 00:34:20,853
And he says, who has believed our report?

717
00:34:20,853 --> 00:34:23,477
To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?

718
00:34:23,477 --> 00:34:28,598
And he's talking about 
a touch from heaven.

719
00:34:28,598 --> 00:34:32,302
You've got to have a touch from heaven.

720
00:34:32,302 --> 00:34:34,395
It's no good my laying hands on you.

721
00:34:34,395 --> 00:34:37,871
You don't want a touch from a Welshman.

722
00:34:37,871 --> 00:34:41,147
But oh, you do need the touch of God.

723
00:34:41,147 --> 00:34:43,532
Oh, you must have that.

724
00:34:43,532 --> 00:34:46,386
And you must be in your praying say,

725
00:34:46,386 --> 00:34:48,089
"Lord, touch me."

726
00:34:48,089 --> 00:34:53,334
"Lord, don't let me go away untouched."

727
00:34:53,334 --> 00:34:56,165
A Christian, then, is someone

728
00:34:56,165 --> 00:34:59,033
who has Someone to believe in,

729
00:34:59,033 --> 00:35:08,128
and Someone he loves.

730
00:35:08,128 --> 00:35:09,998
My mother was converted

731
00:35:09,998 --> 00:35:12,550
through the influence of an uncle -

732
00:35:12,550 --> 00:35:14,718
my grandmother's brother - Uncle Oliver,

733
00:35:14,718 --> 00:35:17,644
who was converted 
in the 1904 revival.

734
00:35:17,644 --> 00:35:20,624
Well, he couldn't go anywhere -

735
00:35:20,624 --> 00:35:22,208
he'd see a crowd of people,

736
00:35:22,208 --> 00:35:25,174
he'd speak to them.

737
00:35:25,174 --> 00:35:28,749
And he'd carry a text around town.

738
00:35:28,749 --> 00:35:30,186
He had children's meetings.

739
00:35:30,186 --> 00:35:31,531
And he's see my mother then

740
00:35:31,531 --> 00:35:35,340
for years afterwards 
and he'd just say to her,

741
00:35:35,340 --> 00:35:37,881
"Do you love Him, Bess?"

742
00:35:37,881 --> 00:35:39,707
"Do you love Him?"

743
00:35:39,707 --> 00:35:42,044
Because in the simple way

744
00:35:42,044 --> 00:35:44,216
sometime during the first World War

745
00:35:44,216 --> 00:35:45,923
in 1917 or 1918,

746
00:35:45,923 --> 00:35:50,360
she'd given her heart to Jesus Christ.

747
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:53,020
That had immense influence over me

748
00:35:53,020 --> 00:35:57,103
twenty years later.

749
00:35:57,103 --> 00:36:01,479
She sung hymns to do every chore.

750
00:36:01,479 --> 00:36:03,606
When she vacuumed and when she washed

751
00:36:03,606 --> 00:36:05,518
and she cooked and she dusted,

752
00:36:05,518 --> 00:36:06,772
she would be singing,

753
00:36:06,772 --> 00:36:09,912
"How sweet the name of Jesus sounds..."

754
00:36:09,912 --> 00:36:11,882
"O, for a thousand tongues..."

755
00:36:11,882 --> 00:36:13,917
My friend Brian - my best friend -

756
00:36:13,917 --> 00:36:15,949
he said to me when we were about 15,

757
00:36:15,949 --> 00:36:20,749
he said to me, "Your mother's 
remarkable, isn't she?"

758
00:36:20,749 --> 00:36:25,337
I said, "Yes?"

759
00:36:25,337 --> 00:36:29,575
He said, "The way she sings hymns..."

760
00:36:29,575 --> 00:36:34,337
I thought, oh, his mother 
doesn't sing hymns.

761
00:36:34,337 --> 00:36:41,058
I thought every mother sung hymns.

762
00:36:41,058 --> 00:36:43,095
Do you love Him?

763
00:36:43,095 --> 00:36:44,367
Do you love Him?

764
00:36:44,367 --> 00:36:49,552
That's the great challenge, isn't it?

765
00:36:49,552 --> 00:36:52,051
Why do we love Him?

766
00:36:52,051 --> 00:36:55,822
Why is it impossible for 
us to stop loving Him?

767
00:36:55,822 --> 00:36:59,165
Well, because of His teachings.

768
00:36:59,165 --> 00:37:02,250
When it was said His 
disciples came unto Him,

769
00:37:02,250 --> 00:37:04,317
and He opened His mouth and He taught them

770
00:37:04,317 --> 00:37:07,102
saying, "Blessed are the poor in spirit,

771
00:37:07,102 --> 00:37:08,760
theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

772
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:10,164
Blessed are they that mourn,

773
00:37:10,164 --> 00:37:11,900
for they shall be comforted.

774
00:37:11,900 --> 00:37:14,531
Blessed are are the pure
in heart, they shall see God.

775
00:37:14,531 --> 00:37:17,543
Blessed are the meek,
they shall inherit the earth.

776
00:37:17,543 --> 00:37:21,320
Blessed are they that hunger 
and thirst after righteousness,

777
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:24,559
for they shall be filled."

778
00:37:24,559 --> 00:37:28,343
William Shakespeare never said 
anything as wonderful as that.

779
00:37:28,343 --> 00:37:30,866
Charles Dickens? Never.

780
00:37:30,866 --> 00:37:32,390
All the great American writers,

781
00:37:32,390 --> 00:37:35,427
European writers, Tolstoy -

782
00:37:35,427 --> 00:37:36,851
they didn't say anything

783
00:37:36,851 --> 00:37:40,471
as wonderful as Jesus.

784
00:37:40,471 --> 00:37:50,612
Sometimes, you know, we read the Bible

785
00:37:50,612 --> 00:37:52,571
and it's wonderful.

786
00:37:52,571 --> 00:37:55,825
The Word of God.

787
00:37:55,825 --> 00:38:01,489
The words of Jesus - 
wonderful words of life.

788
00:38:01,489 --> 00:38:03,995
We have them.

789
00:38:03,995 --> 00:38:06,911
We love His teaching.

790
00:38:06,911 --> 00:38:10,582
We love His tenderness.

791
00:38:10,582 --> 00:38:13,503
We love the way He saw the dirty feet,

792
00:38:13,503 --> 00:38:15,413
and He did something about it.

793
00:38:15,413 --> 00:38:17,459
He took the basin of water

794
00:38:17,459 --> 00:38:19,969
and the towel,

795
00:38:19,969 --> 00:38:23,606
and He washed 24 feet.

796
00:38:23,606 --> 00:38:25,577
He got the donkey dung off them,

797
00:38:25,577 --> 00:38:27,336
dried them.

798
00:38:27,336 --> 00:38:31,030
They sat around in embarrassment

799
00:38:31,030 --> 00:38:32,805
as He humbled Himself.

800
00:38:32,805 --> 00:38:34,893
What a Man!

801
00:38:34,893 --> 00:38:36,775
He had so much on His mind then,

802
00:38:36,775 --> 00:38:38,122
and He did that.

803
00:38:38,122 --> 00:38:40,112
He loved His neighbor as Himself.

804
00:38:40,112 --> 00:38:44,703
How wonderful...

805
00:38:44,703 --> 00:38:46,516
We love Him when they drove nails

806
00:38:46,516 --> 00:38:49,122
through His hands and feet.

807
00:38:49,122 --> 00:38:53,501
He didn't say, "You wait 
till My Father gets you!"

808
00:38:53,501 --> 00:38:57,241
He said, "Father, forgive them.

809
00:38:57,241 --> 00:39:01,250
They don't know what they're doing."

810
00:39:01,250 --> 00:39:03,254
We love Him, don't we?

811
00:39:03,254 --> 00:39:05,573
We love the Lord Jesus Christ.

812
00:39:05,573 --> 00:39:10,544
We love the way He died for us.

813
00:39:10,544 --> 00:39:12,855
You know what happened a week ago today

814
00:39:12,855 --> 00:39:15,472
in Carcassonne, in France?

815
00:39:15,472 --> 00:39:17,469
And we know about it because

816
00:39:17,469 --> 00:39:22,414
one of my former students, Elizabeth -

817
00:39:22,414 --> 00:39:25,494
she's living there now.

818
00:39:25,494 --> 00:39:27,944
She came to faith in the church

819
00:39:27,944 --> 00:39:33,753
my son-in-law pastors in London.

820
00:39:33,753 --> 00:39:35,263
She was baptized by him,

821
00:39:35,263 --> 00:39:38,095
and she came and studied 
art in Aberystwyth

822
00:39:38,095 --> 00:39:39,736
and got first.

823
00:39:39,736 --> 00:39:41,804
And she met Hisham,

824
00:39:41,804 --> 00:39:44,722
and Hisham is an Arab.

825
00:39:44,722 --> 00:39:47,780
His father in Tunisia is an Imam.

826
00:39:47,780 --> 00:39:49,888
And through the testimony of his brother,

827
00:39:49,888 --> 00:39:51,220
he came to faith.

828
00:39:51,220 --> 00:39:53,191
And oh, he made such progress

829
00:39:53,191 --> 00:39:55,331
and such growth.

830
00:39:55,331 --> 00:39:58,181
And they live in Carcassonne.

831
00:39:58,181 --> 00:39:59,884
He's the pastor of a church there,

832
00:39:59,884 --> 00:40:05,641
and she's expecting their sixth child.

833
00:40:05,641 --> 00:40:08,060
And last Friday, a week ago today,

834
00:40:08,060 --> 00:40:11,604
an Islamic terrorist went 
into the supermarket

835
00:40:11,604 --> 00:40:15,180
and started killing people.

836
00:40:15,180 --> 00:40:19,847
And then he took the 
check-out girl Julie hostage.

837
00:40:19,847 --> 00:40:23,028
The police arrived.

838
00:40:23,028 --> 00:40:25,848
There was a very brave, 
wonderful policeman,

839
00:40:25,848 --> 00:40:29,369
Arnaud Beltrame.

840
00:40:29,369 --> 00:40:37,246
And he went up unarmed and he said,

841
00:40:37,246 --> 00:40:41,454
"Let her go and I'll come instead of her."

842
00:40:41,454 --> 00:40:45,619
Oh, the terrorist was very 
pleased to get a policeman.

843
00:40:45,619 --> 00:40:51,137
And she came out and he went in.

844
00:40:51,137 --> 00:40:55,644
And he cut his throat and shot him dead.

845
00:40:55,644 --> 00:40:58,077
And the marines went in
and there was a gunfight.

846
00:40:58,077 --> 00:41:00,772
And the terrorist was killed.

847
00:41:00,772 --> 00:41:03,882
A week today.

848
00:41:03,889 --> 00:41:07,849
And Julie, this check-out girl,

849
00:41:07,849 --> 00:41:11,984
they talked to her 
afterwards and she said,

850
00:41:11,984 --> 00:41:16,688
"He gave his life for me.

851
00:41:16,688 --> 00:41:26,512
He had himself killed 
so that I could live."

852
00:41:26,512 --> 00:41:29,282
Now, what does a 
Christian congregation do?

853
00:41:29,282 --> 00:41:31,752
Well, they are active.

854
00:41:31,752 --> 00:41:34,901
They go around the 
supermarket the next day

855
00:41:34,901 --> 00:41:37,196
in the area where this terrorist grew up,

856
00:41:37,196 --> 00:41:40,371
and they gave out a special 
leaflet that he's written -

857
00:41:40,371 --> 00:41:44,423
a little booklet called "Are We in War?"

858
00:41:44,423 --> 00:41:48,026
And last night then, 
they hired the local cinema,

859
00:41:48,026 --> 00:41:52,521
and the cinema people dropped the movie

860
00:41:52,521 --> 00:41:54,567
and they showed then the film,

861
00:41:54,567 --> 00:41:55,720
"The Case for Christ,"

862
00:41:55,720 --> 00:41:57,928
the story of Lee Strobel's journey

863
00:41:57,928 --> 00:41:59,691
from atheism to living faith.

864
00:41:59,691 --> 00:42:01,534
And they had a book table out,

865
00:42:01,534 --> 00:42:03,324
and it was full of French Bibles

866
00:42:03,324 --> 00:42:04,820
and tracts and leaflets.

867
00:42:04,820 --> 00:42:06,148
Everyone went.

868
00:42:06,148 --> 00:42:09,582
170 people tried to get into a room

869
00:42:09,582 --> 00:42:19,455
with 150 chairs last night.

870
00:42:19,455 --> 00:42:26,283
They wrote to me this morning about it.

871
00:42:26,283 --> 00:42:32,383
We love Him because He gave His life.

872
00:42:32,383 --> 00:42:35,649
He gave His life - a hard life.

873
00:42:35,649 --> 00:42:37,821
Not a trashy life.

874
00:42:37,821 --> 00:42:40,214
This beautiful, perfect life.

875
00:42:40,214 --> 00:42:42,894
And He gave it as the Lamb of God

876
00:42:42,894 --> 00:42:45,041
without spot and without blemish.

877
00:42:45,041 --> 00:42:48,242
He gave it in sacrifice,

878
00:42:48,242 --> 00:42:54,360
because that is how God is.

879
00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:56,570
That is the nature of God

880
00:42:56,570 --> 00:42:58,996
that without the shedding of blood,

881
00:42:58,996 --> 00:43:00,116
there's no remission;

882
00:43:00,116 --> 00:43:01,638
there's no forgiveness.

883
00:43:01,638 --> 00:43:04,187
God demands a lamb.

884
00:43:04,187 --> 00:43:05,992
God provides a Lamb.

885
00:43:05,992 --> 00:43:08,414
God becomes the Lamb.

886
00:43:08,414 --> 00:43:10,435
He finds the Lamb in His own heart;

887
00:43:10,435 --> 00:43:11,792
in His own bosom,

888
00:43:11,792 --> 00:43:16,193
and He gives Him - His own dear Son.

889
00:43:16,193 --> 00:43:20,826
He died for me.

890
00:43:20,826 --> 00:43:24,015
He gave His life that I might live.

891
00:43:24,015 --> 00:43:27,677
We love Him.

892
00:43:27,677 --> 00:43:32,363
Well, now, if you say 
no to my Savior again,

893
00:43:32,363 --> 00:43:34,674
who have you got to love?

894
00:43:34,674 --> 00:43:37,499
Who do you have?

895
00:43:37,499 --> 00:43:40,852
Who is there?

896
00:43:40,852 --> 00:43:43,268
A couple of years ago,

897
00:43:43,268 --> 00:43:46,684
we finished our lunch.

898
00:43:46,684 --> 00:43:49,145
The children went next door

899
00:43:49,145 --> 00:43:50,985
where the TV set is

900
00:43:50,985 --> 00:43:55,485
and where they do this sort of thing.

901
00:43:55,485 --> 00:43:59,185
We had coffee and shortbread cookies.

902
00:43:59,185 --> 00:44:01,041
There was a bit of a silence.

903
00:44:01,041 --> 00:44:03,138
Glenn then said,

904
00:44:03,138 --> 00:44:07,340
"If there was some great figure,

905
00:44:07,340 --> 00:44:09,882
some great leader in the world today

906
00:44:09,882 --> 00:44:12,458
you'd like to meet,

907
00:44:12,458 --> 00:44:14,834
who would it be?"

908
00:44:14,834 --> 00:44:18,964
Well, now, that is a conversation stopper.

909
00:44:18,964 --> 00:44:21,771
And we waited and we thought.

910
00:44:21,771 --> 00:44:26,284
Britain and our politicians and Europe

911
00:44:26,284 --> 00:44:29,441
and Asia, India, China,

912
00:44:29,441 --> 00:44:35,173
Africa, the America's.

913
00:44:35,173 --> 00:44:37,880
Now we can thank God that there are

914
00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:41,017
some governors and congressman,

915
00:44:41,017 --> 00:44:44,976
vice-presidents -

916
00:44:44,976 --> 00:44:49,593
we'd like to meet them.

917
00:44:49,593 --> 00:44:51,519
We were silent and then my wife said,

918
00:44:51,519 --> 00:44:53,349
"Nelson Mandela.

919
00:44:53,349 --> 00:44:56,006
I'd like to meet Nelson Mandela."

920
00:44:56,006 --> 00:45:01,807
Yeah, that would be typical of some men.

921
00:45:01,807 --> 00:45:07,227
But, my friends, if you're 
going to reject Jesus Christ,

922
00:45:07,227 --> 00:45:09,063
whose picture are you going to put up?

923
00:45:09,063 --> 00:45:11,309
Whose books, whose speeches,

924
00:45:11,309 --> 00:45:13,660
who will travel to listen to?

925
00:45:13,660 --> 00:45:15,003
I've got someone now.

926
00:45:15,003 --> 00:45:17,627
I'm going to follow him.

927
00:45:17,627 --> 00:45:20,218
Here is Someone.

928
00:45:20,218 --> 00:45:21,549
And you can believe in Him.

929
00:45:21,549 --> 00:45:22,905
You can trust in Him.

930
00:45:22,905 --> 00:45:26,552
Here is Someone you can love.

931
00:45:26,552 --> 00:45:29,181
And thirdly, here is Someone

932
00:45:29,181 --> 00:45:35,738
who makes us full of joy

933
00:45:35,738 --> 00:45:41,614
inexpressible and glorious joy, he says.

934
00:45:41,614 --> 00:45:45,951
Verse 6.

935
00:45:45,951 --> 00:45:47,720
Now there are times when we weep

936
00:45:47,720 --> 00:45:50,734
because we are Christians.

937
00:45:50,734 --> 00:45:53,255
We can break our hearts.

938
00:45:53,255 --> 00:45:56,914
We can have a grief we don't shrug.

939
00:45:56,914 --> 00:45:59,452
Things really hurt us.

940
00:45:59,452 --> 00:46:01,358
And we experience pain.

941
00:46:01,358 --> 00:46:05,190
I couldn't be a faithful 
servant of Jesus Christ

942
00:46:05,190 --> 00:46:10,468
and tell you it's going 
to be joy all the while.

943
00:46:10,468 --> 00:46:16,980
There's a joy that seeks us in our pain.

944
00:46:16,980 --> 00:46:19,647
There's a strength from heaven

945
00:46:19,647 --> 00:46:24,570
that helps us in our losses and crosses.

946
00:46:24,570 --> 00:46:36,245
But there's a joy 
about the Christian life.

947
00:46:36,245 --> 00:46:43,949
The apostle was caught up 
to the third heaven.

948
00:46:43,949 --> 00:46:49,780
We're told that the converted eunuch

949
00:46:49,780 --> 00:46:51,529
went on his way rejoicing.

950
00:46:51,529 --> 00:46:53,624
We're told when Philip preached in Samaria

951
00:46:53,624 --> 00:46:55,101
the place was full of joy.

952
00:46:55,101 --> 00:46:59,019
He could have said, "full of repentance."

953
00:46:59,019 --> 00:47:02,073
He could have said the Ethiopian

954
00:47:02,073 --> 00:47:03,916
went on his way repenting.

955
00:47:03,916 --> 00:47:08,538
And that's true - or believing.
That's of course, true.

956
00:47:08,538 --> 00:47:12,383
But he says, oh, he was a joyful man

957
00:47:12,383 --> 00:47:14,368
after he met Christ;

958
00:47:14,368 --> 00:47:16,035
after he confessed Him.

959
00:47:16,035 --> 00:47:18,609
There was something in his heart

960
00:47:18,609 --> 00:47:20,186
that had never been there before.

961
00:47:20,186 --> 00:47:22,230
There were joy bells ringing

962
00:47:22,230 --> 00:47:24,483
in his heart.

963
00:47:24,483 --> 00:47:25,906
His chains had fallen off.

964
00:47:25,906 --> 00:47:28,236
His heart was free.

965
00:47:28,236 --> 00:47:31,396
The prison doors were opened.

966
00:47:31,396 --> 00:47:34,355
He had a liberty that 
he'd never known before

967
00:47:34,355 --> 00:47:38,534
in his life that God gives us.

968
00:47:38,534 --> 00:47:40,167
Such joy.

969
00:47:40,167 --> 00:47:46,662
It's "joy unspeakable" is 
the old King James phrase.

970
00:47:46,662 --> 00:47:48,529
Indescribable.

971
00:47:48,529 --> 00:47:51,000
How do you describe emotions?

972
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:55,073
How do you describe flavors or scents?

973
00:47:55,073 --> 00:47:56,885
How difficult it is to use words

974
00:47:56,885 --> 00:47:58,758
to go into another medium?

975
00:47:58,758 --> 00:48:01,382
And so, he says, oh, I wish

976
00:48:01,382 --> 00:48:05,250
I could describe this joy to you.

977
00:48:05,250 --> 00:48:09,158
It's so real!

978
00:48:09,158 --> 00:48:13,319
It means that my back is bleeding

979
00:48:13,319 --> 00:48:15,936
and my feet are in stocks.

980
00:48:15,936 --> 00:48:17,937
No bed - midnight.

981
00:48:17,937 --> 00:48:20,312
And yet, my friend and I

982
00:48:20,312 --> 00:48:23,065
can sing together to the Lord.

983
00:48:23,065 --> 00:48:25,296
And the whole prison can know

984
00:48:25,296 --> 00:48:28,385
what joy has come into the prison

985
00:48:28,385 --> 00:48:32,925
because two servants of 
Jesus Christ are there.

986
00:48:32,925 --> 00:48:35,472
And it's in pictures like that

987
00:48:35,472 --> 00:48:39,241
that we begin to see that joy.

988
00:48:39,241 --> 00:48:42,976
The disciples were full of 
joy in the Holy Spirit it says.

989
00:48:42,976 --> 00:48:45,468
That's not saying they were regenerate.

990
00:48:45,468 --> 00:48:48,743
It's saying much more than 
that they were regenerate.

991
00:48:48,743 --> 00:48:54,722
It's saying, ah, Jesus Christ was so real

992
00:48:54,722 --> 00:48:58,938
and joy-giving to them.

993
00:48:58,938 --> 00:49:01,251
What a privilege it was

994
00:49:01,251 --> 00:49:04,019
to be a servant of Jesus Christ.

995
00:49:04,019 --> 00:49:06,066
What joy!

996
00:49:06,066 --> 00:49:07,622
It's indescribable.

997
00:49:07,622 --> 00:49:09,614
And it's full of glory.

998
00:49:09,614 --> 00:49:11,522
In other words, it's not manufactured.

999
00:49:11,522 --> 00:49:14,433
It's not change the lights;

1000
00:49:14,433 --> 00:49:17,386
turn the lights down,

1001
00:49:17,386 --> 00:49:19,036
and let's sing and repeat,

1002
00:49:19,036 --> 00:49:20,433
and repeat again, and say,

1003
00:49:20,433 --> 00:49:21,940
"now, won't you come?"

1004
00:49:21,940 --> 00:49:23,577
And a long, long appeal

1005
00:49:23,577 --> 00:49:25,692
just to get people out of their seats.

1006
00:49:25,692 --> 00:49:27,050
I mean, if Jesus was here,

1007
00:49:27,050 --> 00:49:29,176
I'd be telling you all 
to come to the front,

1008
00:49:29,176 --> 00:49:32,256
but the Word is nigh you.

1009
00:49:32,256 --> 00:49:34,270
You've heard the Word. It's nigh you.

1010
00:49:34,270 --> 00:49:36,289
It's in your heart. It's in your mind.

1011
00:49:36,289 --> 00:49:38,419
The word of faith that 
I've preached to you,

1012
00:49:38,419 --> 00:49:39,801
it's as close as that.

1013
00:49:39,801 --> 00:49:41,657
That's how close Jesus is.

1014
00:49:41,657 --> 00:49:44,070
You don't need to come to the front.

1015
00:49:44,070 --> 00:49:45,488
He's there.

1016
00:49:45,488 --> 00:49:48,747
He's been speaking to you tonight.

1017
00:49:48,747 --> 00:49:50,933
My Savior.

1018
00:49:50,933 --> 00:49:54,591
Where two or three gather, He's there.

1019
00:49:54,591 --> 00:49:57,302
He's here.

1020
00:49:57,302 --> 00:49:59,735
What a blessed Guest has joined us

1021
00:49:59,735 --> 00:50:05,038
in this conference tonight!

1022
00:50:05,038 --> 00:50:07,155
Joy inexpressible.

1023
00:50:07,155 --> 00:50:08,876
And it's full of glory.

1024
00:50:08,876 --> 00:50:12,199
In other words, it's not human tricksters

1025
00:50:12,199 --> 00:50:14,500
and human psychologists

1026
00:50:14,500 --> 00:50:19,467
and man-manipulators.

1027
00:50:19,467 --> 00:50:23,240
It's God present.

1028
00:50:23,240 --> 00:50:25,029
The glory of God.

1029
00:50:25,029 --> 00:50:28,476
The joy of heaven to earth come down.

1030
00:50:28,476 --> 00:50:30,062
It's that.

1031
00:50:30,062 --> 00:50:37,423
It's God's reality.

1032
00:50:37,423 --> 00:50:40,707
My friends, we live in an age

1033
00:50:40,707 --> 00:50:44,279
where people are crying out

1034
00:50:44,279 --> 00:50:47,254
for happiness, aren't they?

1035
00:50:47,254 --> 00:50:50,244
On Monday morning, there will be

1036
00:50:50,244 --> 00:50:52,256
thousands of people all over America

1037
00:50:52,256 --> 00:50:53,761
going to a doctor and saying,

1038
00:50:53,761 --> 00:50:56,874
"Can you give me a little pill?

1039
00:50:56,874 --> 00:51:00,109
I'm feeling depressed."

1040
00:51:00,109 --> 00:51:01,471
And there will be young people

1041
00:51:01,471 --> 00:51:04,102
with all their life before them.

1042
00:51:04,102 --> 00:51:07,273
It's alcohol and it's drugs.

1043
00:51:07,273 --> 00:51:08,395
Isn't it?

1044
00:51:08,395 --> 00:51:10,869
That's the reality.

1045
00:51:10,869 --> 00:51:14,008
And relationships -

1046
00:51:14,008 --> 00:51:16,213
if you say no to my Savior,

1047
00:51:16,213 --> 00:51:18,064
I'm saying, do you know

1048
00:51:18,064 --> 00:51:20,922
what your future's going to be?

1049
00:51:20,922 --> 00:51:23,210
The ruin of your friends

1050
00:51:23,210 --> 00:51:25,144
and brothers and sisters;

1051
00:51:25,144 --> 00:51:26,528
members of your family.

1052
00:51:26,528 --> 00:51:30,096
The mess they've made of their lives

1053
00:51:30,096 --> 00:51:33,033
because they've kept Jesus at bay;

1054
00:51:33,033 --> 00:51:37,291
arm's length away, not in them.

1055
00:51:37,291 --> 00:51:43,596
Not believing in Him.

1056
00:51:43,596 --> 00:51:45,871
This joy is full of glory.

1057
00:51:45,871 --> 00:51:49,441
It's so pure. It's so heavenly.

1058
00:51:49,441 --> 00:51:53,404
And it doesn't cloy.

1059
00:51:53,404 --> 00:52:00,288
We don't get fed up with it.

1060
00:52:00,288 --> 00:52:03,655
Who are you going to turn to for this joy

1061
00:52:03,655 --> 00:52:06,370
if you reject, again, Jesus Christ?

1062
00:52:06,370 --> 00:52:10,722
Here is Someone - you can trust Him.

1063
00:52:10,722 --> 00:52:12,297
You can love Him.

1064
00:52:12,297 --> 00:52:13,421
He gives you joy.

1065
00:52:13,421 --> 00:52:15,589
And last of all here,

1066
00:52:15,589 --> 00:52:18,368
He helps you achieve your goal in life.

1067
00:52:18,368 --> 00:52:21,778
There's a goal, there's a purpose in life.

1068
00:52:21,778 --> 00:52:22,539
There is.

1069
00:52:22,539 --> 00:52:23,801
You're on this planet.

1070
00:52:23,801 --> 00:52:28,569
You've been given life for a purpose.

1071
00:52:28,569 --> 00:52:30,464
You're receiving the goal;

1072
00:52:30,464 --> 00:52:31,942
the end of your faith -

1073
00:52:31,942 --> 00:52:34,495
the salvation of your souls.

1074
00:52:34,495 --> 00:52:36,668
You've got something

1075
00:52:36,668 --> 00:52:38,389
that will never be taken from you.

1076
00:52:38,389 --> 00:52:40,536
You've got a purpose in life.

1077
00:52:40,536 --> 00:52:42,641
This is a frustrated generation.

1078
00:52:42,641 --> 00:52:44,916
Your friends in school, you know,

1079
00:52:44,916 --> 00:52:47,379
they don't know what life is all about.

1080
00:52:47,379 --> 00:52:50,924
That's why they're trying drugs, isn't it?

1081
00:52:50,924 --> 00:52:52,338
They have a goal, they say,

1082
00:52:52,338 --> 00:52:55,605
I'd like to earn $100,000 a year.

1083
00:52:55,605 --> 00:52:58,227
And then, they get $100,000

1084
00:52:58,227 --> 00:53:00,321
and they grumble about taxes,

1085
00:53:00,321 --> 00:53:06,773
and you can't do much 
with $100,000 these days.

1086
00:53:06,773 --> 00:53:09,985
It wasn't as sufficient;

1087
00:53:09,985 --> 00:53:14,037
it wasn't a strong enough goal to live for

1088
00:53:14,037 --> 00:53:19,519
for a greenback dollar.

1089
00:53:19,519 --> 00:53:23,229
And then, they never attain the goals

1090
00:53:23,229 --> 00:53:24,428
they set for themselves.

1091
00:53:24,428 --> 00:53:25,940
They're unrealistic.

1092
00:53:25,940 --> 00:53:28,566
And many have no goals at all.

1093
00:53:28,566 --> 00:53:31,316
But Peter says we receive;

1094
00:53:31,316 --> 00:53:33,769
we get...

1095
00:53:33,769 --> 00:53:36,964
We get what we were made for;

1096
00:53:36,964 --> 00:53:38,748
why God made us;

1097
00:53:38,748 --> 00:53:40,575
why He redeemed us;

1098
00:53:40,575 --> 00:53:43,187
what our purpose in life is.

1099
00:53:43,187 --> 00:53:45,582
Man's chief end is to glorify God

1100
00:53:45,582 --> 00:53:47,803
and enjoy Him forever.

1101
00:53:47,803 --> 00:53:49,334
We never do it perfectly.

1102
00:53:49,334 --> 00:53:52,372
We would do it perfectly,

1103
00:53:52,372 --> 00:53:55,822
but we achieve more and more satisfaction

1104
00:53:55,822 --> 00:53:57,235
for the Lord.

1105
00:53:57,235 --> 00:53:59,026
I do it for the Lord.

1106
00:53:59,026 --> 00:54:04,082
Not for me.

1107
00:54:04,082 --> 00:54:05,768
The goal.

1108
00:54:05,768 --> 00:54:07,407
We receive the goal of our life -

1109
00:54:07,407 --> 00:54:08,855
the salvation of our souls.

1110
00:54:08,855 --> 00:54:11,599
That's how it ends, isn't it?

1111
00:54:11,599 --> 00:54:14,543
You're not just a body.

1112
00:54:14,543 --> 00:54:16,765
You are a soul, aren't you?

1113
00:54:16,765 --> 00:54:18,502
You are.

1114
00:54:18,502 --> 00:54:21,193
An animal is just a body.

1115
00:54:21,193 --> 00:54:24,146
I put a jug of water down

1116
00:54:24,146 --> 00:54:25,508
and he'll drink it;

1117
00:54:25,508 --> 00:54:27,549
give him some food and he'll eat it.

1118
00:54:27,549 --> 00:54:29,453
I'll bring a mate and he'll copulate

1119
00:54:29,453 --> 00:54:34,269
because he's just an animal.

1120
00:54:34,269 --> 00:54:39,332
People who aren't aware 
that they are souls

1121
00:54:39,332 --> 00:54:43,518
resort to the animal 
dimension of their lives,

1122
00:54:43,518 --> 00:54:45,098
don't they?

1123
00:54:45,098 --> 00:54:50,012
Eating, drinking, copulating.

1124
00:54:50,012 --> 00:54:53,518
I drive up to Aberystwyth -
my town of 50 years

1125
00:54:53,518 --> 00:54:55,609
along the cliff tops

1126
00:54:55,609 --> 00:54:57,825
in a road from (unintelligible)

1127
00:54:57,825 --> 00:54:59,070
and there's a view

1128
00:54:59,070 --> 00:55:01,283
that's just particularly moving to me.

1129
00:55:01,283 --> 00:55:04,042
The green grass of a large field

1130
00:55:04,042 --> 00:55:05,528
goes down to the cliffs,

1131
00:55:05,528 --> 00:55:07,521
and then there's the Irish Sea

1132
00:55:07,521 --> 00:55:09,809
and the sun is setting,

1133
00:55:09,809 --> 00:55:13,044
and there are some cows in the field.

1134
00:55:13,044 --> 00:55:14,520
It's a beautiful sight.

1135
00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:16,821
Do I hear one cow saying to the other,

1136
00:55:16,821 --> 00:55:20,205
"Lovely sunset tonight, Blodwyn."

1137
00:55:20,205 --> 00:55:22,123
No, I don't. And the other cow saying,

1138
00:55:22,123 --> 00:55:29,226
"Yes, it is a great sight, 
isn't it, Gladys?"

1139
00:55:29,226 --> 00:55:31,438
I'd be a vegetarian if cows could

1140
00:55:31,438 --> 00:55:34,763
speak to one another.

1141
00:55:34,763 --> 00:55:35,853
But they can't.

1142
00:55:35,853 --> 00:55:38,718
They just look at the grass;

1143
00:55:38,718 --> 00:55:41,699
at their instincts. That's all.

1144
00:55:41,699 --> 00:55:44,942
They don't see the glory of God.

1145
00:55:44,942 --> 00:55:52,301
They don't see it.

1146
00:55:52,301 --> 00:55:55,054
Your soul is ruined by sin,

1147
00:55:55,054 --> 00:55:56,648
and you're not seeing the power

1148
00:55:56,648 --> 00:56:01,002
and glory of God in this world.

1149
00:56:01,002 --> 00:56:03,486
My Father made it.

1150
00:56:03,486 --> 00:56:05,716
Through Jesus Christ, He made it.

1151
00:56:05,716 --> 00:56:08,023
Without Him was not anything 
made that was made.

1152
00:56:08,023 --> 00:56:09,420
This is my Father's world.

1153
00:56:09,420 --> 00:56:12,475
This is my Savior's world.

1154
00:56:12,475 --> 00:56:15,059
And that's what your goal is -

1155
00:56:15,059 --> 00:56:16,848
to please Him and honor Him,

1156
00:56:16,848 --> 00:56:18,760
and look forward to being with Him,

1157
00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:21,160
and to a new heavens and a new earth,

1158
00:56:21,160 --> 00:56:24,772
when He will descend

1159
00:56:24,772 --> 00:56:26,848
this groaning universe,

1160
00:56:26,848 --> 00:56:29,993
and there won't be one rogue molecule

1161
00:56:29,993 --> 00:56:32,553
in all the world that doesn't show

1162
00:56:32,553 --> 00:56:35,336
the righteousness of Christ.

1163
00:56:35,336 --> 00:56:37,333
A new heavens and a new earth

1164
00:56:37,333 --> 00:56:40,963
where righteousness dwells.

1165
00:56:40,963 --> 00:56:43,508
I want to be there.

1166
00:56:43,508 --> 00:56:45,869
I want to see that.

1167
00:56:45,869 --> 00:56:48,032
Come with us.

1168
00:56:48,032 --> 00:56:49,481
It will do you good.

1169
00:56:49,481 --> 00:56:51,334
Come with us.

1170
00:56:51,334 --> 00:56:54,253
Don't be in unbelief any longer.

1171
00:56:54,253 --> 00:56:57,819
Don't go on now finding 
another excuse tonight

1172
00:56:57,819 --> 00:57:04,566
why you're not going 
to trust in Jesus Christ.

1173
00:57:04,566 --> 00:57:06,482
But you're going to come to Him.

1174
00:57:06,482 --> 00:57:09,712
Now coming to Jesus Christ

1175
00:57:09,712 --> 00:57:13,592
is a movement of your inmost being,

1176
00:57:13,592 --> 00:57:15,473
your heart, your life,

1177
00:57:15,473 --> 00:57:18,705
as the Holy Spirit takes the Word

1178
00:57:18,705 --> 00:57:23,408
that's been preached to you about His Son,

1179
00:57:23,408 --> 00:57:28,205
and He makes you ready

1180
00:57:28,205 --> 00:57:30,816
to saying,

1181
00:57:30,816 --> 00:57:35,251
"I'm not going on any 
longer in my unbelief."

1182
00:57:35,251 --> 00:57:37,718
"I'm going to turn from it."

1183
00:57:37,718 --> 00:57:40,057
"I'm sorry that it's been so long."

1184
00:57:40,057 --> 00:57:44,427
"I'm sorry that I've had one 
vain excuse after another."

1185
00:57:44,427 --> 00:57:46,644
"And from now on,

1186
00:57:46,644 --> 00:57:49,446
I'm going to trust in Jesus Christ."

1187
00:57:49,446 --> 00:57:50,733
Now, you've got to say it.

1188
00:57:50,733 --> 00:57:53,905
There's no formula at all.

1189
00:57:53,905 --> 00:57:56,657
But you've got to start speaking

1190
00:57:56,657 --> 00:58:01,248
to Jesus Christ about you and Him.

1191
00:58:01,248 --> 00:58:03,465
Just somewhere quiet.

1192
00:58:03,465 --> 00:58:08,863
Now, of course, we pray. Now.

1193
00:58:08,863 --> 00:58:12,439
But you keep praying

1194
00:58:12,439 --> 00:58:15,989
until you know He's answered you.

1195
00:58:15,989 --> 00:58:18,216
You keep praying until you have

1196
00:58:18,216 --> 00:58:21,903
the inward witness of the Holy Spirit.

1197
00:58:21,903 --> 00:58:23,823
And you'll know.

1198
00:58:23,823 --> 00:58:28,891
You'll know by a peace, a trust,

1199
00:58:28,891 --> 00:58:34,048
a joy, a rest.

1200
00:58:34,048 --> 00:58:36,957
Because He promises that.

1201
00:58:36,957 --> 00:58:39,147
"Come unto Me all ye that labor

1202
00:58:39,147 --> 00:58:40,363
and are heavy laden,

1203
00:58:40,363 --> 00:58:43,138
and I will give you rest."

1204
00:58:43,138 --> 00:58:46,860
Oh, I can cope with a 
crowd this size, Jesus says.

1205
00:58:46,860 --> 00:58:48,311
If all of Denton comes;

1206
00:58:48,311 --> 00:58:50,745
if all Dallas, if all Texas,

1207
00:58:50,745 --> 00:58:53,138
all get into their cars and buses,

1208
00:58:53,138 --> 00:58:55,626
because Jesus is here.

1209
00:58:55,626 --> 00:58:58,725
I can cope.

1210
00:58:58,725 --> 00:59:03,442
All men with their antagonisms,

1211
00:59:03,442 --> 00:59:05,276
or women with their phobias,

1212
00:59:05,276 --> 00:59:08,385
or children with their anxieties.

1213
00:59:08,385 --> 00:59:11,644
You come. You come.

1214
00:59:11,644 --> 00:59:15,406
You give your heart. You give your life.

1215
00:59:15,406 --> 00:59:17,635
It's just a movement now -

1216
00:59:17,635 --> 00:59:19,480
private movement.

1217
00:59:19,480 --> 00:59:21,634
You begin to talk to Him

1218
00:59:21,634 --> 00:59:23,491
about your future.

1219
00:59:23,491 --> 00:59:28,015
And you say it's unbearable without Him.

1220
00:59:28,015 --> 00:59:30,937
Why you've been away 
so long - you're sorry.

1221
00:59:30,937 --> 00:59:34,802
And from now on, you're 
going to follow Him.

1222
00:59:34,802 --> 00:59:36,665
We want you.

1223
00:59:36,665 --> 00:59:40,505
That's why Jesus Christ has 
brought you here tonight.

1224
00:59:40,505 --> 00:59:41,560
Do you know that?

1225
00:59:41,560 --> 00:59:45,310
That's really the reason.

1226
00:59:45,310 --> 00:59:47,866
That you could have 
these wonderful privileges -

1227
00:59:47,866 --> 00:59:49,628
Someone to believe in

1228
00:59:49,628 --> 00:59:52,719
and love and give you joy,

1229
00:59:52,719 --> 00:59:57,404
and you have your souls saved.

1230
00:59:57,404 --> 01:00:00,988
And you see the purpose in life.

1231
01:00:00,988 --> 01:00:05,333
I can't understand how anyone

1232
01:00:05,333 --> 01:00:07,553
can hear this offer

1233
01:00:07,553 --> 01:00:11,584
of what the Lord will do for you tonight

1234
01:00:11,584 --> 01:00:17,377
and go away saying "no!"

1235
01:00:17,377 --> 01:00:20,688
How can you do that?

1236
01:00:20,688 --> 01:00:22,084
When He's brought you here

1237
01:00:22,084 --> 01:00:26,120
and He's telling you
of His wonderful benefits;

1238
01:00:26,120 --> 01:00:31,539
these wonderful blessings and privileges.

1239
01:00:31,539 --> 01:00:32,680
You come to Him.

1240
01:00:32,680 --> 01:00:34,759
You come to Him just as you are

1241
01:00:34,759 --> 01:00:37,354
to just what He is now:

1242
01:00:37,354 --> 01:00:40,842
this welcoming, loving Savior.

1243
01:00:40,842 --> 01:00:42,915
"He that comes to Me,

1244
01:00:42,915 --> 01:00:45,863
in no way will I cast them out."

1245
01:00:45,863 --> 01:00:47,458
However bad it's been;

1246
01:00:47,458 --> 01:00:49,086
however hypocritical.

1247
01:00:49,086 --> 01:00:51,006
You may be thinking,

1248
01:00:51,006 --> 01:00:54,303
oh, if the people sitting next to me

1249
01:00:54,303 --> 01:00:56,047
knew what sort of man,

1250
01:00:56,047 --> 01:00:57,822
what sort of woman I was,

1251
01:00:57,822 --> 01:01:00,252
they'd move away in shock.

1252
01:01:00,252 --> 01:01:03,653
You come. You particularly come

1253
01:01:03,653 --> 01:01:10,501
to this Savior just as you are.

1254
01:01:10,501 --> 01:01:14,370
Let's pray.

1255
01:01:14,370 --> 01:01:16,833
Lord, You have brought us here

1256
01:01:16,833 --> 01:01:20,074
to meet with Jesus Christ.

1257
01:01:20,074 --> 01:01:22,192
How privileged we are!

1258
01:01:22,192 --> 01:01:25,824
There are people meeting 
the prison warden tonight.

1259
01:01:25,824 --> 01:01:28,063
There are people seeing a doctor

1260
01:01:28,063 --> 01:01:30,460
and a surgeon tonight.

1261
01:01:30,460 --> 01:01:34,329
There are people meeting crooks.

1262
01:01:34,329 --> 01:01:37,752
There are people who are 
going to hurt them tonight.

1263
01:01:37,752 --> 01:01:39,882
There are men who are 
going to abuse them.

1264
01:01:39,882 --> 01:01:42,733
But we've met with the lovely,

1265
01:01:42,733 --> 01:01:46,197
loving, sweet and holy Jesus Christ.

1266
01:01:46,197 --> 01:01:49,812
Oh, thank You for being here, dear Savior.

1267
01:01:49,812 --> 01:01:51,816
Thank You for Your kindness

1268
01:01:51,816 --> 01:01:55,857
and patience with us for so long.

1269
01:01:55,857 --> 01:01:57,758
Now, we come just as we are,

1270
01:01:57,758 --> 01:02:01,223
without one plea.

1271
01:02:01,223 --> 01:02:03,539
Without any excuse.

1272
01:02:03,539 --> 01:02:04,819
Please take us.

1273
01:02:04,819 --> 01:02:06,787
Please receive us.

1274
01:02:06,787 --> 01:02:08,922
Please, from now on,

1275
01:02:08,922 --> 01:02:14,393
help us to live with Thee and for Thee.

1276
01:02:14,393 --> 01:02:16,965
We ask it for Your greater glory

1277
01:02:16,965 --> 01:02:19,304
and our eternal good.

1278
01:02:19,304 --> 01:02:23,187
Amen.

1279
01:02:23,187 --> 01:02:27,460
Now we'll sing our last hymn.