WEBVTT 00:00.908 --> 00:06.536 [SPEAKER_00]: This month, we celebrate a special holiday of Thanksgiving. 00:06.616 --> 00:10.281 [SPEAKER_00]: And I wanted to have a few messages on this subject of Thanksgiving. 00:10.381 --> 00:13.966 [SPEAKER_00]: And with that, this one obviously comes to mind. 00:14.006 --> 00:15.948 [SPEAKER_00]: Many of you have learned this in Sunday school. 00:16.089 --> 00:17.871 [SPEAKER_00]: And you've probably taught it. 00:17.951 --> 00:21.256 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's not necessarily unfamiliar ground. 00:21.336 --> 00:23.118 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure to most of you. 00:23.218 --> 00:29.667 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm not going to try to maybe teach you something you've never learned before. 00:30.052 --> 00:30.953 [SPEAKER_00]: of being thankful. 00:31.775 --> 00:38.805 [SPEAKER_00]: There are some symbols in this portion of Scripture, some beautiful typologies that I want to try to express to us this day. 00:38.845 --> 00:44.073 [SPEAKER_00]: And let mercy is something that most of us will never understand or encounter. 00:44.434 --> 00:51.024 [SPEAKER_00]: I doubt anybody in this room knows somebody that, yeah, I know a guy that has let mercy, you know, you just don't hear that. 00:51.905 --> 00:58.776 [SPEAKER_00]: Closes I've been probably that I know of and in Haiti, we were driving and one of the 00:59.009 --> 01:13.251 [SPEAKER_00]: pointed out a colony where still at this point, lepers are, and they would, again, as most countries do, separate them into their numbers and keep them there, keep them away from others. 01:13.992 --> 01:19.481 [SPEAKER_00]: And there's a lot of myth, a lot of things to go along with leprosy. 01:21.063 --> 01:25.590 [SPEAKER_00]: This portion of scripture that describes these 10 lepers, 01:25.807 --> 01:27.669 [SPEAKER_00]: is only found in a book of Luke. 01:27.689 --> 01:30.652 [SPEAKER_00]: You will not find this account and any of the other gospels. 01:31.593 --> 01:54.278 [SPEAKER_00]: And this account giving us about these lepers shows how they were together and even though many believed that the nine that didn't come back to thank word Jews and we have the one that came back that is described as the Samaritan and yet because of 01:55.220 --> 01:59.945 [SPEAKER_00]: And that shows where we're heading to and how leprosy is a picture of the center. 02:00.725 --> 02:01.847 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a picture of sin. 02:02.868 --> 02:05.050 [SPEAKER_00]: And it is not partial to one or the other. 02:05.931 --> 02:10.395 [SPEAKER_00]: It goes towards old men whether Jew or Gentile, even a Samaritan. 02:12.437 --> 02:17.622 [SPEAKER_00]: To this day and age, Leopard colonies do still exist if you did not know that. 02:18.543 --> 02:22.527 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of the countries as I looked online defined are anywhere from China. 02:22.895 --> 02:29.525 [SPEAKER_00]: to India, to Egypt, as I express Haiti, and you say, well, you have mentioned the United States. 02:30.266 --> 02:30.627 [SPEAKER_00]: It's here. 02:31.388 --> 02:50.016 [SPEAKER_00]: It's in Hawaii, the record that I read was updated about March of this year and a specific place in Hawaii as many of the tropical areas the legacy is more prone to be in those areas and Hawaii is one of them. 02:51.127 --> 02:58.877 [SPEAKER_00]: Over one and a half million people right now, as it's latest findings, have leprosy in the world. 02:59.377 --> 03:06.286 [SPEAKER_00]: There are over 1,000 colonies around the world where they take these and seclude them. 03:06.907 --> 03:10.331 [SPEAKER_00]: And what's said is it's done out of much ignorance now. 03:12.514 --> 03:14.957 [SPEAKER_00]: Matter of fact, this rare disease, 03:15.528 --> 03:31.002 [SPEAKER_00]: basically is a bacteria that attacks the skin, the nerves, and the mucus membrane, such as the eyes, and people with leprosy, develop sores on their skin, and lose the sensitivity that they have through their nerves. 03:31.683 --> 03:45.315 [SPEAKER_00]: Contrary, this is something I didn't know, contrary to the folklore is that leprosy, they believed caused members of your body to literally fall off. 03:45.987 --> 03:57.984 [SPEAKER_00]: Matter of fact, what happens is the fingers, et cetera, become numb and up curling up this horrible disease and causes a lot of secondary infections as a result of that. 03:58.765 --> 04:15.049 [SPEAKER_00]: And interesting, too, is that leprosy can be transmitted to humans and mostly through through the mouth, saliva, things like that. 04:15.383 --> 04:20.551 [SPEAKER_00]: The armadilla, if you didn't know it, actually carries leprosy. 04:20.571 --> 04:22.553 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 04:22.574 --> 04:23.555 [SPEAKER_00]: So beware. 04:25.398 --> 04:28.983 [SPEAKER_00]: If you see an armadilla, just stay away from them, okay? 04:33.189 --> 04:34.952 [SPEAKER_00]: You know the disease can actually be cured now. 04:35.933 --> 04:44.125 [SPEAKER_00]: If they get on it between two and three weeks, the person goes dormant in the body and 04:44.645 --> 04:47.270 [SPEAKER_00]: You say, why don't they take care of them in other countries? 04:47.310 --> 04:54.502 [SPEAKER_00]: They still have the same mindset of this horrible thing, probably happen to you and you're a cursed person. 04:54.762 --> 04:58.950 [SPEAKER_00]: So we're going to seclude you and keep you all by yourself and let you just die. 04:59.671 --> 05:03.698 [SPEAKER_00]: And we'll throw some food and water at you from a distance. 05:03.718 --> 05:06.062 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's the thought that we have. 05:06.548 --> 05:09.192 [SPEAKER_00]: In the text, I do need to be very pointed today. 05:09.712 --> 05:16.181 [SPEAKER_00]: We have got a full service with communion, so I want to try to be very pointed and try to get to where we're heading. 05:17.503 --> 05:29.619 [SPEAKER_00]: Many believe, as you'll see, the scriptures, and these who are looked at with leprosy, they obviously did something really horrible to get the disease such as this. 05:31.301 --> 05:35.847 [SPEAKER_00]: They had to have done something really bad, and this must be some type of a punishment, 05:35.945 --> 05:48.926 [SPEAKER_00]: that is going your way, because it doesn't happen to everybody just to select you, not even sure, if you look at the science behind it, there's still not sure about all of the logistics and how a person actually gets it. 05:49.687 --> 05:53.413 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it is such a strange disease. 05:53.900 --> 06:07.004 [SPEAKER_00]: And so those who would have it would be surely put to the side, and as the outward skin and the mobility and everything starts to change, they just basically put them to the side and let them die. 06:07.044 --> 06:14.457 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a picture in the scriptures, though, leprosy is that I have mentioned it is a picture of sin. 06:14.740 --> 06:29.177 [SPEAKER_00]: and how that affects the inside and penetrate throughout the entire human being, and they look at them as a person that is a sinner who now is rejected and they are cursed and you put them to the side. 06:29.877 --> 06:32.120 [SPEAKER_00]: It's about the worst thing that a person could have. 06:34.523 --> 06:39.128 [SPEAKER_00]: These, as we read the story, are in 06:39.850 --> 06:54.652 [SPEAKER_00]: Because as these men are together, they lift up their voices and begin to owe yelling, cry out to Jesus, because the law would have them separated, much of the law, talks of the leprosy and these type of things. 06:54.712 --> 07:04.025 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you get into the Old Testament, you'll see how if they find this on the skin and it had any kind of appearance of leprosy, they had to go to the priest. 07:04.786 --> 07:05.908 [SPEAKER_00]: And the priest weren't just 07:06.580 --> 07:18.033 [SPEAKER_00]: taking care of offerings, they actually determined illnesses and sicknesses and, you know, they would look at the scalp and they would look all over the body and say, yeah, this looks like it now, this doesn't look like it. 07:18.293 --> 07:20.275 [SPEAKER_00]: So you're allowed to continue when the public. 07:21.096 --> 07:36.553 [SPEAKER_00]: And so these priests were actually involved with making a sentence on the person's life. 07:37.006 --> 07:40.158 [SPEAKER_00]: Because you can't be in the public, you can't be right with people. 07:42.566 --> 07:43.891 [SPEAKER_00]: Or what a job that would have been. 07:43.931 --> 07:48.990 [SPEAKER_00]: As these men were 07:49.443 --> 08:01.879 [SPEAKER_00]: a far off and they begin to lift their voices and they begin to cry to Jesus and as we see many other times individuals were healed of this leprosy but nothing like this story. 08:01.899 --> 08:18.100 [SPEAKER_00]: These men begin to stand a far off and they start lifting up their voices and they start yelling at the top of their lungs and this is what they cried out. 08:18.653 --> 08:20.835 [SPEAKER_00]: have mercy on us. 08:21.496 --> 08:22.677 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot right within that. 08:24.759 --> 08:33.446 [SPEAKER_00]: There are a lot of people that were claiming Messiah, claiming a lot of abilities, but none had the reputation that Jesus had. 08:34.407 --> 08:46.298 [SPEAKER_00]: And they specifically know that He is here and they be in cryout master that you are the one over top of us, but what they cry out interestingly is for the mercy. 08:46.919 --> 08:57.812 [SPEAKER_00]: is another word of saying, pity that you would have compassion on an individual, and as they are looking at Jesus, they're saying, Lord, would you please pity us? 08:59.114 --> 09:01.637 [SPEAKER_00]: Would you have some mercy and compassion towards us? 09:02.898 --> 09:04.340 [SPEAKER_00]: There's no doubt in their voices. 09:06.042 --> 09:13.811 [SPEAKER_00]: They're asking this with a lot of straightforwardness with heartfelt belief that Jesus, we've got the rumor that you can do this. 09:14.112 --> 09:16.875 [SPEAKER_00]: Would you please just have mercy on us? 09:17.547 --> 09:29.379 [SPEAKER_00]: It is, it is no coincidence that Jesus is going through this region in Samaria and the Galilee area and is never coincidence that these men are there and it's no coincidence that Jesus is there. 09:29.699 --> 09:31.881 [SPEAKER_00]: We call it a divine appointment. 09:34.384 --> 09:41.071 [SPEAKER_00]: And by pointing that out this day, ladies and gentlemen, we are having a divine appointment today. 09:42.392 --> 09:47.537 [SPEAKER_00]: We have prayed for this moment. 09:48.192 --> 09:49.494 [SPEAKER_00]: and the understanding of it. 09:50.496 --> 10:00.994 [SPEAKER_00]: Because there may be some here this day, just like these, you were there, but it is time for you to hear about Jesus, and it is time for you to cry out and call for mercy. 10:02.036 --> 10:07.064 [SPEAKER_00]: Because it is not a physical healing that you may need, but rather a spiritual. 10:07.885 --> 10:09.749 [SPEAKER_00]: You'll remember how this concludes. 10:10.270 --> 10:12.934 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, to the one that came back, you are faith. 10:13.555 --> 10:14.617 [SPEAKER_00]: has made you whole. 10:15.258 --> 10:21.146 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a spiritual healing that ultimately that was being looked for here, not just a physical. 10:22.128 --> 10:27.596 [SPEAKER_00]: And so these men as they cry out and they cry out for mercy, they expected help. 10:28.577 --> 10:41.436 [SPEAKER_00]: In my friend, I am here to tell you that at 19 years old, when I realized I needed healing from my sin, pictured in leprosy, that when I called to my God for mercy, 10:41.956 --> 10:51.626 [SPEAKER_00]: And when I called unto him and expected him to save, he did, and he will save you just the way you are. 10:52.807 --> 10:55.870 [SPEAKER_00]: As it goes on, the story goes on as they cried out. 10:56.250 --> 11:04.238 [SPEAKER_00]: The first thing that Jesus says in verse 14 is when he saw them, he said unto them, now it's interesting what he said, it's also interesting what he didn't say. 11:05.279 --> 11:07.862 [SPEAKER_00]: He never said, okay, I'm going to heal you. 11:08.737 --> 11:13.945 [SPEAKER_00]: The only thing he says is, go show yourself to the priests. 11:13.965 --> 11:16.830 [SPEAKER_00]: He didn't say, and as you go on your way, you're going to be healed. 11:18.212 --> 11:22.298 [SPEAKER_00]: He just said, go see the priests, and all of them did. 11:22.338 --> 11:26.224 [SPEAKER_00]: And as they went, of course, they were healed, every one of them. 11:26.865 --> 11:27.927 [SPEAKER_00]: But go show yourself. 11:28.295 --> 11:28.936 [SPEAKER_00]: to the priest. 11:28.956 --> 11:57.475 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, according to the law of Moses, as I mentioned earlier, it was expected that these men with a leprosy would go to have the priest determine whether they are healed or whether they still have this infectious disease and they the priest would then create a sentence on their lives that was going to change everything for the rest of their lives. 11:58.518 --> 11:58.818 [SPEAKER_00]: do. 12:00.520 --> 12:10.511 [SPEAKER_00]: I feel as I was reading through Matthew Henry and he made this comment sending them off was a test of their faith. 12:12.533 --> 12:15.656 [SPEAKER_00]: You'll remember in the Old Testament there was a leader. 12:16.457 --> 12:23.945 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus eludes to it in the gospel's also and the man's name was name and he wasn't a Jew. 12:24.025 --> 12:25.707 [SPEAKER_00]: He was a Gentile. 12:26.193 --> 12:29.438 [SPEAKER_00]: And it was during the time of the prophet Alaisha. 12:30.319 --> 12:33.504 [SPEAKER_00]: And Kate said, hey, I know somebody can heal you. 12:33.524 --> 12:35.707 [SPEAKER_00]: So of course, they're conversing back and forth. 12:35.747 --> 12:37.089 [SPEAKER_00]: And Alaisha says, don't listen. 12:37.109 --> 12:38.431 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to go Jordan River. 12:38.671 --> 12:40.574 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to dip seven times and you'll be healed. 12:41.535 --> 12:45.541 [SPEAKER_00]: And the first thing that Damon does is like, why should I do it? 12:45.561 --> 12:46.663 [SPEAKER_00]: That there's plenty of water here. 12:47.524 --> 12:49.607 [SPEAKER_00]: Why would I have to go to that specific place? 12:50.008 --> 12:51.150 [SPEAKER_00]: Why seven times? 12:51.911 --> 12:53.533 [SPEAKER_00]: Why should I listen to this guy? 12:54.644 --> 13:21.613 [SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, leaders, you know, guys with him says, well, if, you know, he was asked for a lot of money, you probably would have given it to him, or if he would ask you to do something really hard, you probably would have done it, all he's saying is go, let's just go deaf and do what he says to do seven times, let's do it and sure enough, not the first, not the second on through, but it was the seventh time that he went under that it was healed. 13:22.673 --> 13:27.978 [SPEAKER_00]: that gives a revealing of what we believe, the faith that we have. 13:27.998 --> 13:31.362 [SPEAKER_00]: And God does test and bring us to the place, will you believe me? 13:31.402 --> 13:33.364 [SPEAKER_00]: Will you do what I'm asking you to do? 13:33.424 --> 13:36.848 [SPEAKER_00]: You may have an idea, well, it sounds too easy to me. 13:36.908 --> 13:42.954 [SPEAKER_00]: Why not make it a little bit more difficult, or something that I have to sacrifice, so I would have to do. 13:43.855 --> 13:51.803 [SPEAKER_00]: But instead, Jesus just says to these men, just go show yourself to the priest, and as they did, and they're not very far. 13:52.441 --> 13:56.547 [SPEAKER_00]: But as they are on their journey, they turn around and they're saying, okay, I don't understand this. 13:56.607 --> 13:57.168 [SPEAKER_00]: What do you think? 13:57.228 --> 13:57.529 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know. 13:57.549 --> 14:10.408 [SPEAKER_00]: We were there not long ago and they said, yep, you got leprosy and keep yourself away from people and as you're going, can you imagine as they're looking down and looking at each other and they're seeing their skin become whole. 14:11.730 --> 14:20.743 [SPEAKER_00]: They're feeling their faces, the sensitivity now that was in their legs and in their hands that was starting to go numb and die. 14:21.112 --> 14:50.680 [SPEAKER_00]: is starting to come back to life, and that quickly, they are made full, and it's not long because sure enough, the one turns around and comes running back to thank Jesus and the other nine or like, well, he wants us to go to the priest, we're going to go and guess what we can do today, any thing we want now. 14:51.419 --> 14:53.081 [SPEAKER_00]: things to obey. 14:54.802 --> 14:56.124 [SPEAKER_00]: God's Word is not that hard. 14:56.624 --> 15:00.007 [SPEAKER_00]: My effect, it tells us that his commandments are not grievous. 15:01.829 --> 15:03.451 [SPEAKER_00]: My effect, they are what's best for us. 15:05.152 --> 15:07.575 [SPEAKER_00]: It is not hours to question why. 15:07.615 --> 15:09.897 [SPEAKER_00]: It is hours to do. 15:09.937 --> 15:15.162 [SPEAKER_00]: There are things folks as your pastor, there are things in the Bible. 15:15.803 --> 15:20.447 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't understand why the Lord has just 15:20.933 --> 15:26.340 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe something that will be easier, and yet God says, just do it my way. 15:27.582 --> 15:33.410 [SPEAKER_00]: When I heard the gospel of Jesus Christ, as a kid, I heard about Jesus, you know, I knew about it. 15:33.430 --> 15:37.735 [SPEAKER_00]: We celebrated Easter at home and in Christmas, those were the two times a year we prayed in our house. 15:38.236 --> 15:39.838 [SPEAKER_00]: I never did, my brother usually did. 15:39.878 --> 15:43.163 [SPEAKER_00]: And you know, and others would pray, I'd never prayed. 15:43.764 --> 15:47.869 [SPEAKER_00]: And so we would celebrate, we knew about him, but we didn't, I didn't know him. 15:49.435 --> 16:01.118 [SPEAKER_00]: And then when I started going to church and I started understanding about a relationship, I began to pull together what I used to believe about God versus what the Bible was saying. 16:01.960 --> 16:10.397 [SPEAKER_00]: Everything that I was taught in the religions that I studied was you have to do, you have the sacrifice, you have to give up. 16:11.187 --> 16:27.191 [SPEAKER_00]: and it was all about works and what I need to do to prove to the deity that was out there in my life that I'm really sincere and if you do enough, then what he's gonna do is give you something as a result of your work. 16:27.211 --> 16:31.958 [SPEAKER_00]: So as a result of your sacrifice and times that I would have stained from things. 16:32.499 --> 16:38.528 [SPEAKER_00]: You realize even in the accord activities I was into, the my leader made me get off the drugs. 16:39.402 --> 16:47.659 [SPEAKER_00]: You would think that he would have pulled that together, but he was testing me to see whether I would sacrifice and give up those type of things to follow. 16:50.485 --> 16:59.824 [SPEAKER_00]: God is asking you one simple thing, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. 17:00.462 --> 17:10.714 [SPEAKER_00]: God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son, that who's so ever believed in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17:10.734 --> 17:14.778 [SPEAKER_00]: First, John 5, He that half the son, half life. 17:15.539 --> 17:18.903 [SPEAKER_00]: He that half not the son, half not life. 17:19.684 --> 17:24.529 [SPEAKER_00]: The these things that I written under you that believe that you may know that you have eternal life. 17:24.965 --> 17:38.119 [SPEAKER_00]: Verily Verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word and believeeth on Him that ascends me, have ever lasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is past from death unto life. 17:38.139 --> 17:40.746 [SPEAKER_00]: With a mouth, confession is made unto salvation. 17:41.671 --> 17:49.281 [SPEAKER_00]: Hebrew, excuse me Romans, chapter 10, fluently walks through this whole process with the heart is what we believe with. 17:49.742 --> 18:06.784 [SPEAKER_00]: And God is asking you, calling on you, working inside of you, if the Spirit of God listened to him, if he is working inside of you right now, don't say no, don't resist, to listen, to the simplicity that God has laid out for you to become a Christian. 18:07.608 --> 18:14.640 [SPEAKER_00]: For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, shall be saved." 18:14.660 --> 18:18.205 [SPEAKER_00]: That's the simplicity that God has created, even children. 18:18.746 --> 18:20.569 [SPEAKER_00]: Matter of fact, there's probably some in this room. 18:20.609 --> 18:22.853 [SPEAKER_00]: You got saved at that wicked age of five. 18:23.995 --> 18:29.384 [SPEAKER_00]: Instead of the wicked age of 19, or maybe later on in life as some in this room have. 18:30.305 --> 18:31.928 [SPEAKER_00]: See, it's about faith. 18:32.279 --> 18:35.766 [SPEAKER_00]: and believing in a Lord Jesus Christ and what He has done. 18:36.047 --> 18:39.914 [SPEAKER_00]: Just listen to the words, an obey what He is saying. 18:40.435 --> 18:41.497 [SPEAKER_00]: It is a simple thing. 18:41.818 --> 18:43.181 [SPEAKER_00]: And then you say, well, where do you work? 18:43.241 --> 18:44.383 [SPEAKER_00]: Come in, trust me. 18:44.664 --> 18:51.317 [SPEAKER_00]: When He saves you, just like this leper, after He was healed, He came back and He worshiped. 18:52.529 --> 18:55.493 [SPEAKER_00]: He falls down before Him and everything changed. 18:55.913 --> 18:58.516 [SPEAKER_00]: Matter of fact, if Jesus would have said, this is what I want you to do. 18:58.797 --> 18:59.718 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to do that. 18:59.798 --> 19:03.723 [SPEAKER_00]: You know that this man would have jumped up and willingly have done it. 19:04.263 --> 19:05.865 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's what we as Christians do. 19:06.186 --> 19:19.802 [SPEAKER_00]: We are ordained to works that God is before ordained that we should walk in them and He wants us to serve Him because we love Him, because we want to please Him, because of all that He's done for us. 19:20.086 --> 19:24.411 [SPEAKER_00]: Expect the help, call for the mercy, and he will save you. 19:26.053 --> 19:38.768 [SPEAKER_00]: As these men turn around and saw what had happened, it's interesting that only one of them, and you'll see that in verse number 15, one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back. 19:39.609 --> 19:48.540 [SPEAKER_00]: And notice what first thing he does is he is coming back to Jesus is with a loud voice. 19:50.427 --> 19:59.686 [SPEAKER_00]: With this man realized, in an instance, is that what happened to him, it was impossible for him to do for himself. 20:00.467 --> 20:03.694 [SPEAKER_00]: Christ did for them, and in particular, this one. 20:04.012 --> 20:06.615 [SPEAKER_00]: with they could not do for themselves. 20:07.036 --> 20:13.204 [SPEAKER_00]: My friend, if you are expecting a spiritual healing, you cannot do it yourself. 20:14.005 --> 20:32.668 [SPEAKER_00]: It is a miracle, it is a work of the Holy Spirit of God inside of you as he begins to draw you to himself, as begins to work inside of you, knocking on your heart's door saying, this is truth, you need Christ, you need Jesus, you need Him to be your Savior, 20:33.222 --> 20:46.294 [SPEAKER_00]: And as he works inside of you, if you, by faith, just say, you're right, God, I need you, and you call on him to be your personal Savior in miracle happens inside of you that you cannot accomplish yourself. 20:46.755 --> 20:47.537 [SPEAKER_00]: He saves you. 20:48.279 --> 20:49.241 [SPEAKER_00]: He redeems you. 20:49.261 --> 20:51.366 [SPEAKER_00]: He regenerates you. 20:51.464 --> 20:57.676 [SPEAKER_00]: You are born again into the very family of God, the blood of Jesus Christ washes away your sin. 20:58.017 --> 21:00.722 [SPEAKER_00]: You are given eternal life. 21:01.463 --> 21:02.665 [SPEAKER_00]: You have a home in heaven. 21:02.966 --> 21:05.611 [SPEAKER_00]: You become a brother and sister in Christ for us. 21:05.972 --> 21:08.697 [SPEAKER_00]: You now have access to God. 21:08.677 --> 21:17.044 [SPEAKER_00]: You have the privilege of being able to access his throne at any given time to boldly come to his throne because you are now his child. 21:17.504 --> 21:20.027 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a miracle what God does at salvation. 21:20.307 --> 21:29.515 [SPEAKER_00]: And all that you have to do is say, as the one man and a later chapter says this, he's smoothest chest and said, Lord, have mercy on me, a sinner. 21:30.095 --> 21:38.262 [SPEAKER_00]: And it says he walked away a righteous man. 21:38.596 --> 21:43.262 [SPEAKER_00]: He came to save those who could not save themselves and that is all human beings. 21:44.443 --> 21:47.987 [SPEAKER_00]: Only one, though, recognized this source. 21:48.007 --> 21:57.058 [SPEAKER_00]: And as he came back, he glorified God because it was the gift of God and he begins to cry out with the loudest voice possible, almost like the Notre Dame fans. 22:01.544 --> 22:08.552 [SPEAKER_00]: It is amazing how we can get a little crazy at games and we talked about crying with 22:14.202 --> 22:19.830 [SPEAKER_00]: You go to some of these countries, and that's what I love about how they send. 22:20.911 --> 22:28.061 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not always on key, but it is, oh, how I love Jesus, it's with conviction. 22:29.543 --> 22:30.905 [SPEAKER_00]: It's like, I mean it. 22:32.247 --> 22:33.589 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not embarrassed. 22:34.590 --> 22:36.032 [SPEAKER_00]: Others were here listening. 22:37.034 --> 22:43.062 [SPEAKER_00]: God is going to be glorified in my life. 22:43.514 --> 22:45.056 [SPEAKER_00]: And here we are, Christians. 22:46.618 --> 22:49.041 [SPEAKER_01]: There is a name, I love to hear. 22:49.061 --> 22:54.047 [SPEAKER_00]: I love to sing its words, and we sing it, and we might be in tune. 22:55.589 --> 22:57.531 [SPEAKER_00]: But it's almost like we're embarrassed. 23:00.275 --> 23:00.415 [UNKNOWN]: Why? 23:02.417 --> 23:02.978 [SPEAKER_00]: It's what I love. 23:03.639 --> 23:04.560 [SPEAKER_00]: The Haitians. 23:06.177 --> 23:19.900 [SPEAKER_00]: and this guy's saying at you know you've been in church mm-hmm i mean they sing with her whole heart some of you had the privilege of having a pastor Jackson who's uh 23:20.825 --> 23:23.829 [SPEAKER_00]: In close to glory, but he was here with the orphans. 23:25.050 --> 23:27.313 [SPEAKER_00]: And his little girls, they got up on this stage. 23:28.254 --> 23:29.636 [SPEAKER_00]: And they began to sing. 23:31.278 --> 23:32.920 [SPEAKER_00]: And they're in Haiti. 23:33.160 --> 23:36.244 [SPEAKER_00]: It's really hard for them as they're singing to be still. 23:37.366 --> 23:40.790 [SPEAKER_00]: So those little girls are starting to move. 23:40.810 --> 23:42.452 [SPEAKER_00]: And they're starting to get into this song. 23:42.853 --> 23:44.835 [SPEAKER_00]: And they're singing with their whole heart. 23:45.336 --> 23:50.342 [SPEAKER_00]: And not one of you got up and left. 23:50.812 --> 23:58.300 [SPEAKER_00]: It's because these little girls love Jesus, and they were not afraid to cry it out. 23:58.320 --> 24:00.602 [SPEAKER_00]: Do not be ashamed of the gospel of Christ. 24:01.463 --> 24:02.244 [SPEAKER_00]: You sing it out. 24:02.304 --> 24:12.254 [SPEAKER_00]: You glorify God as part of our Thanksgiving folks, and then it says that He fell down a verse 16, He fell down on His face. 24:12.294 --> 24:14.777 [SPEAKER_00]: That's called humility. 24:15.787 --> 24:20.612 [SPEAKER_00]: part of this whole Thanksgiving is I can't do it, God's done it for me. 24:21.153 --> 24:26.719 [SPEAKER_00]: I fall down before him to let him understand you, Lord, are above me. 24:26.739 --> 24:31.144 [SPEAKER_00]: I am beneath you, unworthy even to be in your presence. 24:31.164 --> 24:33.987 [SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, that's how we should go to prayer every time. 24:36.410 --> 24:38.993 [SPEAKER_00]: Sunday, I might 24:40.137 --> 24:49.009 [SPEAKER_00]: Bubblegum Christianity as people go on, yeah, I love Jesus about as much reverence is I don't know what, it's like no reverence at all. 24:51.212 --> 24:59.203 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's like folks, do we understand whose presence we are in as we pray? 25:00.084 --> 25:08.035 [SPEAKER_00]: The God of all creation, the one who sent his son to die on the cross for our sin, and it didn't have to, we wanted to. 25:08.892 --> 25:12.996 [SPEAKER_00]: And he dies on the cross, and now we're going to go, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, thanks for doing that for me. 25:13.256 --> 25:15.318 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's move on with what's really important in life here. 25:18.200 --> 25:19.882 [SPEAKER_00]: We should fall down before him. 25:21.043 --> 25:31.693 [SPEAKER_00]: And if not physically in our hearts, he says humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that he will exalt you then in due season. 25:32.994 --> 25:36.537 [SPEAKER_00]: We've lost that wonderful art of worship. 25:37.613 --> 25:48.064 [SPEAKER_00]: And we're so afraid of expressing ourselves, don't be afraid to fall down before him, at least in your heart, if not physically. 25:49.706 --> 25:52.028 [SPEAKER_00]: And we are overwhelmed, we fall down. 25:52.148 --> 26:06.523 [SPEAKER_00]: I have seen many collapse, many people that got the news, a love one just died. 26:08.613 --> 26:38.130 [SPEAKER_00]: Have we lost being overwhelmed with what God has done for us and saving and if you will spiritually healing us from our disease of sin, the leprosy that was contaminating and and separating us from God, separating us from people, separating us from all things that now we have been healed and we are now made one to be with Him, how thankful we should 26:38.110 --> 26:40.272 [SPEAKER_00]: to the Lord and save your Jesus Christ. 26:40.333 --> 26:48.702 [SPEAKER_00]: And you'll be reminded, if you do not do it now, you will one day, you say, I'll never bow my knee to anybody, I am God, there's nobody over top of me. 26:48.742 --> 26:51.645 [SPEAKER_00]: That's called humanism, it's a God of humanism, if it didn't know that. 26:52.086 --> 26:55.289 [SPEAKER_00]: And a lot of Americans are there, there's no other God. 26:55.850 --> 27:00.495 [SPEAKER_00]: I am my own God, I determine what's right, I determine what's right in my own life. 27:00.916 --> 27:02.878 [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody's gonna tell me what to do. 27:03.419 --> 27:06.362 [SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, one day you will. 27:06.646 --> 27:17.682 [SPEAKER_00]: Because Philippians 2 tells us that there will be a day that every knee will bow, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father, do it now. 27:18.663 --> 27:19.364 [SPEAKER_00]: That's my advice. 27:20.366 --> 27:20.826 [SPEAKER_00]: Do it now. 27:21.588 --> 27:22.108 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't wait. 27:22.589 --> 27:35.067 [SPEAKER_00]: Humble yourself, and then he says, 27:36.565 --> 27:40.008 [SPEAKER_00]: There are other times in his scriptures when people would fall down before an angel. 27:40.068 --> 27:45.053 [SPEAKER_00]: The angel would quickly tell them to get up off of their knees, get off, and don't worship me worship God. 27:45.553 --> 27:47.335 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus never refused the worship. 27:49.377 --> 27:52.680 [SPEAKER_00]: He deserves it, and He expects it of us. 27:54.842 --> 27:59.306 [SPEAKER_00]: You say, but I'm above that, no, you're not. 28:01.068 --> 28:06.353 [SPEAKER_00]: If you recognize what He has done for you, it will cause you to worship Him. 28:07.868 --> 28:31.210 [SPEAKER_00]: In other words, if we could open up just for a moment, the gates to hell and listen to the voices to understand its heat, to understand its darkness, to understand what it is all about and close that lid and then we looked at Jesus and said, that's what you saved me from. 28:32.877 --> 28:39.567 [SPEAKER_00]: I think everyone in this room literally would somehow collapse before God and thank Him. 28:40.608 --> 28:57.653 [SPEAKER_00]: If we were able, somehow to open up heaven, and to take a look at its beauty, to understand what it feels like just for a moment to have a body this whole, where there's no glasses 28:58.088 --> 29:20.468 [SPEAKER_00]: No hearing aids, no hospitals, no pills, perfect unity, and we were to open up and to see the streets of gold, and the beautiful pearly gates, God went to throne, and then we were just to close that, and then come back to the here and now, how quickly we would fall down and say, God, I'm not worthy of that. 29:21.072 --> 29:28.750 [SPEAKER_00]: And yet the blood of Jesus Christ is what made it possible to cleanse us from our sin and to wash it away. 29:29.031 --> 29:31.216 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's gonna lead us in a moment in the communion. 29:33.461 --> 29:38.052 [SPEAKER_00]: As we take communion, the word Eucharist for thanks. 29:39.162 --> 29:42.926 [SPEAKER_00]: It's that Greek word for, we are going to give thanks for the body. 29:43.367 --> 29:48.072 [SPEAKER_00]: We're giving thanks for the precious blood of Jesus Christ that was filled for us. 29:48.913 --> 29:59.825 [SPEAKER_00]: And this, in a way, in a memorial service, is you and I as Christians looking back at what happened nearly 2,000 years ago, being overwhelmed in our hearts and saying, God, thank you for dying for me. 30:00.165 --> 30:02.368 [SPEAKER_00]: God died for you. 30:02.428 --> 30:06.452 [SPEAKER_00]: He gave His life for all of us. 30:09.453 --> 30:10.615 [SPEAKER_00]: only one came back. 30:11.676 --> 30:12.698 [SPEAKER_00]: Would you have been the one? 30:12.738 --> 30:15.602 [SPEAKER_00]: He was a Samaritan. 30:16.904 --> 30:18.647 [SPEAKER_00]: He was the outcast of the group. 30:19.648 --> 30:25.076 [SPEAKER_00]: He was the one had a weird way of his religion and how he worshipped him where he worshipped compared to the Jews. 30:25.857 --> 30:37.114 [SPEAKER_00]: And yet many believe that these nine were Jews in the Samaritan was the only one that came 30:38.663 --> 30:43.568 [SPEAKER_00]: only one came back and confessed and gave thanks and worshiped. 30:45.130 --> 30:52.858 [SPEAKER_00]: The other nine were more interested in going to the priest to be pronounced clean than to thank the one who made them clean. 30:54.199 --> 30:55.020 [SPEAKER_00]: How do we give thanks? 30:55.080 --> 31:00.646 [SPEAKER_00]: We glorify God with our mouth, we humble ourselves before Him, and we follow it to save your speed. 31:01.046 --> 31:07.573 [SPEAKER_00]: And we literally say thanks. 31:08.836 --> 31:17.386 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a portion of Scripture that I have grown to love through the years and off when I give my complete testimony of what God saved me out of and saved from. 31:18.307 --> 31:27.397 [SPEAKER_00]: I will use this portion of Scripture and don't get afraid, but it takes about two hours to go through it. 31:28.097 --> 31:37.628 [SPEAKER_00]: We're not doing that obviously today. 31:37.996 --> 31:39.357 [SPEAKER_00]: in this portion of Scripture. 31:40.699 --> 31:46.646 [SPEAKER_00]: And even though you're not the apostle Paul, the same thing that happened to the apostle Paul happened to you. 31:46.686 --> 31:58.318 [SPEAKER_00]: And I want you to see when Paul, and this is later on in his life, this is not right after he say, this is many years later in his life, is he reflecting back and what God did for him? 31:58.979 --> 32:07.108 [SPEAKER_00]: Look how he expresses this, first Timothy, chapter one, 32:07.443 --> 32:10.626 [SPEAKER_00]: The grace of our Lord, I'm sorry, I'm going to back up first 12. 32:11.026 --> 32:17.812 [SPEAKER_00]: And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord who has enabled me for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry. 32:18.093 --> 32:20.475 [SPEAKER_00]: That's Pastor Nate and I prayer many times. 32:21.756 --> 32:26.300 [SPEAKER_00]: Who was before a blasphemer and a persecutor? 32:27.441 --> 32:27.902 [SPEAKER_00]: Ingerious. 32:28.602 --> 32:36.049 [SPEAKER_00]: But I obtained mercy that it's the word because I did it, 32:37.092 --> 32:42.960 [SPEAKER_00]: And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love, which is in Christ Jesus. 32:44.002 --> 32:45.544 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a faithful saying. 32:46.485 --> 32:57.000 [SPEAKER_00]: And worthy of all acceptation, the Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the chief. 32:57.181 --> 33:00.906 [SPEAKER_00]: Now remember, you're supposed to be putting your name there. 33:01.814 --> 33:10.206 [SPEAKER_00]: Remember, you're supposed to put your life right there because everyone in this room should look at themselves as the greatest sinner of all. 33:12.529 --> 33:30.555 [SPEAKER_00]: How be it for this cause, I obtain mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all long-suffering, all my friend, to understand how God is patient with you, who is patient with me, and his long-suffering is to you, he's waiting, calling on you, calling to get 33:33.573 --> 33:38.274 [SPEAKER_00]: And this was for a pattern to them, which should he or after believe on him to life everlasting. 33:39.178 --> 33:39.499 [SPEAKER_00]: Now. 33:40.390 --> 33:54.463 [SPEAKER_00]: because of the salvation now, because I'm saved and going to have now, because He's called me into ministry now, because of all that He has done under the King, E, eternal, immortable, immortal, invisible. 33:54.763 --> 34:01.049 [SPEAKER_00]: The only wise God be honored and glory forever and ever, amen. 34:01.529 --> 34:07.815 [SPEAKER_00]: Every time you think about what God has saved you from, you should break forth into praise. 34:09.196 --> 34:13.021 [SPEAKER_00]: What we deserve is death and hell, we don't deserve heaven. 34:14.182 --> 34:18.427 [SPEAKER_00]: What we deserve is not what we're going to get. 34:18.448 --> 34:24.055 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not because I good you are, it's because I good God is. 34:25.336 --> 34:31.063 [SPEAKER_00]: It's because I good Jesus is, and He loves you, and He gave His life for you. 34:31.083 --> 34:34.107 [SPEAKER_00]: And you say, I don't need them. 34:36.145 --> 34:37.327 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm okay the way I am. 34:37.367 --> 34:40.031 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's an I told people for years. 34:41.073 --> 34:42.094 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't need God. 34:42.575 --> 34:43.276 [SPEAKER_00]: I have my own. 34:43.316 --> 34:44.217 [SPEAKER_00]: I have my own beliefs. 34:44.258 --> 34:46.321 [SPEAKER_00]: I have my own way of doing things. 34:48.724 --> 34:49.546 [SPEAKER_00]: It's gonna fail, yeah. 34:51.208 --> 34:52.450 [SPEAKER_00]: It can't give you a prediction. 34:53.632 --> 34:54.433 [SPEAKER_00]: God loves you enough. 34:54.453 --> 34:55.555 [SPEAKER_00]: He's gonna keep working on you. 34:57.897 --> 35:00.761 [SPEAKER_00]: There's people chuckling right now because they've been where you are. 35:01.342 --> 35:04.446 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, I'm young, I got a lot of time, mmm, mmm, mmm, so did I. 35:05.768 --> 35:12.077 [SPEAKER_00]: And God started breaking me and breaking me and breaking me and breaking me until finally, I'm like, I need God. 35:14.080 --> 35:15.221 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't have to go to that route. 35:16.483 --> 35:17.264 [SPEAKER_00]: He can save now. 35:18.866 --> 35:19.868 [SPEAKER_00]: He's calling. 35:20.468 --> 35:21.049 [SPEAKER_00]: He'll save you. 35:23.693 --> 35:25.896 [SPEAKER_00]: He's worthy to be praised. 35:27.108 --> 35:37.266 [SPEAKER_00]: And what you'll find yourself in and is a whole new life, just like this leper, go on now, healed and made whole. 35:38.328 --> 35:43.497 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, Father, we share some concept from where we're word and I pray that you'll bless and use it. 35:44.523 --> 36:09.214 [SPEAKER_00]: I do not know who might be here this day in struggling, and they have been fighting you, they have been fighting you, and they've been wanting to do it their own way, and they just need to trust you, obey Lord your word, Lord I pray that you'll work in them, do not 36:10.679 --> 36:17.211 [SPEAKER_00]: work in their life, bring cause, Lord, for them to turn to you. 36:17.271 --> 36:26.628 [SPEAKER_00]: The Lord, I pray that as we come to your throne, there may be some right now that are saying, I didn't realize it. 36:28.210 --> 36:35.303 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't realize Jesus loved me and gave His life for me like this, and at this time for me to call on Him, to be my Savior, 36:36.380 --> 36:43.070 [SPEAKER_00]: Or if there are some like this in this room this day, may they right now pause and call on you. 36:43.932 --> 36:45.133 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, it has been nice clothes. 36:45.234 --> 36:49.520 [SPEAKER_00]: My friend, if you're here, and you say, that's Carl, that's me, I need to be saved. 36:50.261 --> 36:51.263 [SPEAKER_00]: I've been listening to this. 36:51.323 --> 36:52.785 [SPEAKER_00]: I've been hearing others talk about it. 36:52.805 --> 36:58.033 [SPEAKER_00]: My mom and dad are somebody else and talk, and it is decision time. 36:58.722 --> 37:00.566 [SPEAKER_00]: And it is time for me to call on you, Lord. 37:00.626 --> 37:04.095 [SPEAKER_00]: You just say simple words like this. 37:04.115 --> 37:06.961 [SPEAKER_00]: We talked about not me, not anybody in this room. 37:07.001 --> 37:08.325 [SPEAKER_00]: You are talking to God. 37:08.826 --> 37:11.231 [SPEAKER_00]: If you want to say it out loud, you say it out loud. 37:11.312 --> 37:13.136 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't you be embarrassed. 37:13.156 --> 37:17.085 [SPEAKER_00]: You just say dear God, I know I'm the sinner. 37:17.065 --> 37:23.992 [SPEAKER_00]: And I know that Jesus Christ died on the cross reminds sin, and I believe he rose again for me. 37:24.012 --> 37:27.695 [SPEAKER_00]: I call on you now, save me for my sin. 37:28.296 --> 37:43.090 [SPEAKER_00]: Give me the eternal life that you promised, make me whole, heal me Lord spiritually. 37:44.504 --> 37:48.692 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to rejoice with you after the service to come up. 37:49.333 --> 37:49.874 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me know. 37:49.894 --> 37:52.379 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll be down by the piano after the service is over. 37:52.820 --> 37:54.383 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, Pastor Carl, that was me. 37:54.423 --> 37:55.766 [SPEAKER_00]: I called on the Lord today. 37:55.786 --> 37:57.329 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to help you to grow. 37:57.389 --> 38:04.162 [SPEAKER_00]: We want to help you to understand what God's done for you and that we want to be here to pray with you and for you. 38:04.743 --> 38:05.685 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's stand together.