3ABN On the Road

Knock, Knock. Who's There?

Three Angels Broadcasting Network

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Participants: Dwight Hall

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Program Code: OTR000876


01:00 You know, it's a blessing to be here tonight.
01:05 How about you? Amen.
01:07 And to see something that has happened
01:10 because of faith.
01:13 Listen, less than a year ago this wasn't even a conception.
01:18 And since then, we have printed
01:20 well over 300,000 Bibles.
01:23 We received probably
01:25 over 15,000 used Bibles which probably represents,
01:28 I don't know, 5 or 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,000 people
01:32 that have got involved, in not just United States,
01:36 we've got people from Norway,
01:37 from Australia, from New Zealand, from Germany,
01:40 you name it, people have got involved.
01:43 You know why?
01:44 Because they believe it's time to be involved,
01:47 don't you?
01:49 It's time for you now to get involve.
01:50 We can't just sit back on the tracks
01:52 and wait for somebody else to do the job for us.
01:55 And it doesn't matter if you're 5 years old
01:57 or if you're 85 years old, as long as you can breathe,
02:00 you can play a part.
02:02 We've had young children that have...
02:06 In a primary class, they saw the DVD, they said,
02:09 "I want to be a part of this,"
02:11 and they got other children in their class
02:13 to give used Bibles and donations.
02:15 You know, and it's not about
02:17 the money for me, or for Remnant,
02:19 or anyone 'cause it's not for me,
02:20 it's not for them, it's for people
02:22 that need the truth, amen.
02:24 And I just want to thank each and every one of you
02:26 that have played a part in this
02:28 and continue to play a part in this.
02:30 I do also want to mention
02:32 before I start that I've been over to Africa
02:35 now three times in the last,
02:37 probably, seven or eight months,
02:39 I'm leaving with my brother here in another week.
02:42 And so it'll be four times in less than a year.
02:44 I had never been there before in my life.
02:46 I've been to almost every place else in the world
02:48 but I had never been over to Africa,
02:50 and it just amazed me
02:51 that the people that are hungering
02:54 and thirsting for the Word of God.
02:56 And so we have a satellite office over there.
03:01 And Philip is a printer, he's a businessman,
03:04 and he loves the Lord,
03:06 and we heard about this on 3ABN.
03:07 When we went over there, he said, you know,
03:10 "I would like to help anyway that I can,"
03:11 and he's going full time
03:15 into this Bible for Africa project over there.
03:16 So he's our eyes and our ears,
03:18 and I just want to thank him too
03:20 because I'm sure he's watching right now
03:22 all the way over in Africa.
03:23 And everyone like I said is playing a part.
03:26 3ABN also has played a tremendous part
03:29 because if it wasn't for the satellites
03:33 beaming the signals down,
03:34 people wouldn't know about this.
03:36 How in the world...
03:37 You know, my mom always said that I had a loud mouth
03:39 and so did my teachers when I was growing up,
03:42 but as loud as my mouth is, I don't think that
03:45 I could yell loud enough to get around the world.
03:48 But with technology that we have today,
03:51 we can use it for the glory of God.
03:52 Amen. Amen.
03:54 Amen.
03:56 Before we start, I would just like to kneel,
03:58 I'm inviting you to kneel with me if you'd like.
04:01 I enjoy kneeling when I pray
04:04 because it continues to let me know
04:07 that I am a created being and I give glory to God.
04:11 So if you like to kneel with me before I start,
04:13 I'd appreciate that.
04:21 Father in heaven, oh, Father, I feel so blessed
04:27 to be here this evening.
04:29 And yet, Father, frightful
04:33 because without You I can do absolutely nothing.
04:38 You give me my very breath, You've given me my wisdom.
04:44 And so Father, please the scary part is that
04:47 I would get off into my own tangent,
04:49 my own thinking, and I don't want that.
04:51 So right now, Father, I pray that
04:53 You will take my lips and anoint them.
04:56 And, Father, these words that I speak will not be my words
05:00 or nothing to glorify myself
05:03 but, Father, You would be glorified.
05:06 And then, Father, I pray
05:07 that You will push the evil angels away.
05:09 We've had bad weather come through
05:10 and yet, Father, it's not raining now.
05:13 Father, we've had lightning that comes in here,
05:16 that came in here just a little while ago
05:18 and knocked the leg out of electricity here
05:22 and yet, the consumers were here
05:25 and fixed it in time.
05:28 Father, You are the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
05:34 Father, You are forever future,
05:39 not just forever history, and You see every need.
05:44 Father, I know that You're glorified by this work.
05:48 And so, Father, I pray right now
05:49 that You'll touch people's hearts
05:50 that they will be open,
05:52 that You'll send Your Holy Spirit upon each one.
05:54 And, Father, I thank You for hearing this prayer
05:57 because I prayed in faith and in the name of Jesus, amen.
06:05 Knock, Knock. Who's There?
06:09 Another title that I have, an older title is,
06:11 "Quiet. Do You Hear Something?"
06:13 If you turn in to your Bibles right now,
06:15 I want to get started in the Bible.
06:16 Turn into the last book, Revelation,
06:18 so last book of the Bible.
06:20 And I just would like to start out by reading something.
06:23 It's, you know, in Revelation, there are seven churches,
06:28 and I'm going to read about the last church,
06:30 just a little phrase that will start this off about,
06:33 "Knock, Knock. Who's There?"
06:35 So Revelation 3:20.
06:39 I love to hear the pages turn to the Bible
06:40 'cause it's not my words but it's God's Word.
06:43 And that's why we're trying to get these Bibles
06:45 over to South Africa and all of Africa actually.
06:47 And we've actually had phone calls
06:49 from Papua New Guinea,
06:51 from South America, from Mexico, people are saying,
06:54 "We've heard about this, can you please help us
06:57 get Bibles in our language also?"
06:59 And so it's the Word of God that changes people.
07:02 And so that's why we want to read from the Word of God.
07:04 Amen.
07:06 Okay, Revelation 3:20, it says,
07:11 "Behold, I stand at the door and," do what?
07:14 "Knock." "Knock."
07:16 "Behold, I stand at the door and knock.
07:18 If anyone hears My voice and opens the door.
07:22 I will," what? "Come in."
07:23 "I will come in to him and dine with him,
07:27 and he with Me."
07:29 So there are some things here that takes place.
07:31 Number one, who's the one knocking on the door?
07:34 Jesus. Jesus.
07:36 Now do we have to open our doors?
07:38 No. It's our choice.
07:41 God has always loved us so much
07:43 that He allows us to make free will choice.
07:45 I am so thankful because I've always said,
07:47 if I went to heaven no matter how blissful it was,
07:53 if I thought that the Lord was making me a robot,
07:58 I wouldn't want to be there.
08:00 I just wouldn't want to be there.
08:01 I wouldn't be Dwight.
08:02 You know, and sometimes I thought,
08:04 can you imagine every one,
08:05 every time they got up in the morning,
08:06 you know, and they walked out of there,
08:08 dwelling or whatever,
08:09 and every one just all of a sudden...
08:13 You know, I think about...
08:14 I share this sometimes that if that was the case,
08:18 I can just imagine my guardian angel
08:20 when I make it to heaven,
08:22 my guardian angel said, "Dwight,
08:24 before you do anything, I've got to do something."
08:27 I said, "Well, what you've got to do?"
08:28 "Well, just here, sit down."
08:30 And all of a sudden as I sit down,
08:32 he's standing at back of me and he's doing something
08:34 to the top of my head.
08:37 And so I feel all of a sudden,
08:38 I feel the top of my head come off,
08:40 you know, and he's got like a screwdriver
08:42 and he's tweaking me, and all of a sudden gone...
08:46 See, I couldn't stand that. I don't want to be a robot.
08:51 And God loves us so much,
08:52 not only did He send His Son Jesus,
08:56 but He's allowing us to love Him by our own free hearts.
08:59 That's the God I want to serve, don't you?
09:02 And so each one of us have that opportunity.
09:05 Number one, number one,
09:06 we need to hear the knock, right?
09:09 And number two, we need to let him come in.
09:11 And He said...
09:12 He says this, which is so neat, and this is what I want.
09:14 I can't wait till this happens, He says, "I will come in."
09:20 He says, "If anyone hears my voice,"
09:24 you know, and there's an if there,
09:25 "If anyone hears my voice and opens the door,"
09:30 and opens that door, takes action,
09:33 "I will come in to Him,
09:34 and dine with Him and he with Me."
09:38 Do you know that God is ever sending
09:42 messages to you
09:44 through the Holy Spirit, constantly?
09:47 He's sending message...
09:49 Do you hear Him speak to you through the Holy Spirit?
09:53 I know that when I was younger,
09:55 I wanted to hear God speak to me.
09:56 But there was something, there was a problem,
10:01 I just wasn't hearing.
10:02 And then if I thought it might be God, I wonder,
10:03 "Is this God or is this just me thinking?"
10:07 And I don't know about you
10:09 but sometimes I get kind of confused.
10:12 Have you ever been confused?
10:13 Have you ever said, "Is this me thinking this,
10:17 or is this the devil putting a temptation in me,
10:19 or is this the Holy Spirit speaking?"
10:22 Any of you... Hands out there.
10:24 I hope so because it's happened to me before.
10:27 And I've had people come up to me and say,
10:29 "Dwight, how do you know
10:31 when God truly is speaking to me?"
10:35 Number one is, God impresses the mind,
10:38 the conscience, right up here, He impresses us.
10:41 But, you know, impressions alone are dangerous.
10:43 Did you know that? I've had people tell me this.
10:45 You know, these things are kind of funny
10:47 but they aren't, but they're little humorous,
10:50 but probably they shouldn't be.
10:51 But I've had people tell me, you know, Dwight, I was praying
10:55 that if God wanted me to have a new car
10:57 or used car, I had this old clunker,
11:00 and so I believe that God wanted me to have this car.
11:02 And so I prayed this morning, I got on my knees and I said,
11:06 "Lord, if it's Your will
11:09 and You want me to have this car,"
11:10 in fact, I really like the color red,
11:14 "So if you want me to have this nice red car,
11:16 I'm going to drive down this...
11:17 Our city this morning.
11:20 And if I see a red car on the car lot,
11:24 then it's Your will I should have that car."
11:26 I've had people tell me that.
11:29 Now do you think just because they see that car,
11:31 it's God's will?
11:32 No.
11:34 That's why we always have to test,
11:38 we always have to test
11:41 by the Word of God those impressions
11:43 because Satan can tempt.
11:44 Did he not tempt Jesus?
11:46 Absolutely, if he tempted Him, he certainly can tempt us.
11:48 And we must learn to say,
11:50 get thee, what, behind me, Satan.
11:53 And so we need to know that's still smaller.
11:55 We need to know
11:57 when it's the Lord speaking to us.
12:00 You know, I know that many of us have said,
12:06 I've said it, if only God would speak to me
12:09 in clear black and white language,
12:12 I would do whatever He wanted.
12:15 I've said that so many times.
12:17 "Lord, just tell me what you want and I'll do it."
12:21 And yet, I believe that God truly is
12:23 trying to tell us what He wants.
12:25 But sometimes we don't hear. And why is that?
12:33 I like you to turn into Kings, 1 Kings 19.
12:35 I like to share a little bit, an example of that.
12:37 1 Kings 19:11, 12,
12:41 1 Kings 19 in the Old Testament,
12:46 there's a 1 Kings, there's 2 Kings.
12:48 And this is a story about Elijah.
12:51 So it's 1 Kings, what did I say, Chapter...
12:55 Good, you're listening chapter 19:11, 12.
13:02 Are you there yet? Good.
13:06 Okay, verse 11.
13:07 It says, "Then He said, 'Go out,
13:09 and stand on the mountain before the Lord.'"
13:12 Now who's the one, who is the He?
13:16 "Then He said," who is the He? That was the Lord.
13:20 So you could say, "Then the Lord said,
13:21 'Go out and stand on the mountain
13:23 before the Lord.'
13:24 And behold, the Lord passed by,
13:26 and a great and strong wind tore into the mountains,"
13:29 It just didn't blow by the mountain,
13:32 it says this wind tore by the mountain.
13:34 Pretty good graphic words.
13:36 It says, "Into the mountains and broke the rocks in pieces,"
13:41 now I don't know about you,
13:42 but I lived out in Montana for seven years,
13:45 and right out of our window,
13:46 you could see the Rocky Mountains,
13:47 10,000 foot peaks.
13:49 And, you know, you see the tree line
13:51 at about 8,000, and then you get about
13:53 2,000 feet of nothing but solid rock.
13:57 Now I don't know, I've been out there,
13:58 I've climbed some of those peaks,
14:01 and it would take an awfully strong wind
14:04 to knock some of those mountain peaks off
14:06 and tear the rocks into.
14:08 Wouldn't it?
14:09 So now here's Elijah, picture it now,
14:11 Elijah goes out and stands, it says...
14:13 It says, "And these rocks were broke off in pieces
14:17 before the Lord, but the Lord was,"
14:18 what, you've got that?
14:20 What does it say? But the Lord wasn't there.
14:24 Well, I think that was kind of the Lord.
14:27 It says, "Before the Lord,
14:28 but the Lord was not in the wind.
14:29 And after the wind an earthquake,
14:31 but the Lord was not in the earthquake.
14:33 And after the earthquake a fire,
14:35 but the Lord was not in the fire,
14:37 and after the fire," a what?
14:40 "A still small voice." "A still small voice."
14:44 You know, I've often said, "Lord, just shout to me.
14:49 I want to hear You."
14:52 But the Lord speaks to our conscience
14:56 in a still small voice.
15:00 And this translation,
15:02 if you look it up in the Hebrew,
15:04 I don't know Hebrew by the way, but I can look it up
15:06 and it tells me the exact translation.
15:08 It's a delicate whispering voice.
15:12 Delicate.
15:14 "Dwight, you should do this."
15:17 And if we're not quite, we can't hear.
15:23 This was my problem, you know why,
15:24 because Dwight Hall is a big dreamer,
15:28 and that's a good thing, that's a good talent,
15:30 but it's also a weakness if I don't give it to the Lord.
15:33 And so I can get myself so busy even doing good things
15:38 that I fail to listen to that still small voice.
15:43 Even at Remnant Publications with all the good
15:45 that's going on, there are times
15:47 when I've gotten so busy doing God's work,
15:53 I'm not listening and I get myself in trouble.
15:57 We all can't, it doesn't matter if you have a ministry,
16:00 it doesn't matter about anything,
16:02 we need to learn to listen to that still small voice.
16:04 I like to share an example.
16:07 I call it my birthright.
16:08 I know some of you have heard it before
16:09 but it's the best I ever can come up with.
16:13 I dedicated my heart to Lord back in 1984.
16:18 And I mentioned last night that I took this Bible,
16:21 it's the same Bible I bought it.
16:24 It's been rebound,
16:26 it's all marked up. I bought it.
16:28 I said, "Lord, I'm going to study this book,
16:30 even if it's the most boringest book I've ever read."
16:33 Now there are some good stories,
16:34 Moses, David and Goliath,
16:37 some of the stories here in Jesus,
16:38 you know, the water into wine, all these miracles,
16:41 there are some neat things,
16:42 but a lot of I just couldn't get.
16:45 But I said, "Lord, I will taste
16:47 'cause you said, 'Taste and see that I'm good.'
16:49 I will read this. I will make it my study.
16:52 I will understand... I will memorize it."
16:54 And so I did.
16:55 And I started tithing my time now.
16:57 You know what the word "Tithe" means?
16:59 It means 10%.
17:01 We always use it for money because we want to give
17:04 10% of our income to God, but it just means 10%.
17:08 So I thought when I wake up in the morning,
17:10 I'm going to give the first part of my day to God.
17:13 So how many hours is that?
17:16 That's 2.5 close, 2.4, 2.5 hours.
17:19 And I would get up in the morning,
17:20 I would get on my knees, and I would pray,
17:23 and I would ask God to help me to understand this,
17:25 and I would get in this Bible, and I would start reading,
17:28 and I would start studying.
17:29 And I did it, and I was so on fire
17:30 for the Lord that I was learning a lot of things.
17:34 But as I was learning,
17:36 because I'm an aggressive person,
17:37 I'm Type A, people know me, so I would go into our church
17:41 and I would go in and I would try to...
17:43 I would come right up to them and say,
17:44 "Hey, do you know, we ought to be doing this?
17:46 And, you know...
17:48 Did you know we should be doing this?"
17:50 And pretty soon when I would come in,
17:54 if the people didn't think that I saw them,
17:57 they would turn their backs and walk away.
17:59 And I saw that sometimes and it hurt me
18:01 'cause I was honest, but you see,
18:04 I was trying to tell them things
18:06 that may be I wasn't living myself.
18:10 Well, this one particular morning,
18:12 this was after probably a year or so,
18:16 I got up very early, and I was starting,
18:17 and I was asked to do our prayer meeting that night,
18:19 it was a Wednesday evening.
18:20 And so I got up and I said,
18:22 "Lord, what can I talk to the
18:24 dear saints about a church tonight?"
18:27 And so as I was praying, and as I was studying,
18:32 I thought I'm going to talk about probation
18:33 that Jesus is coming soon.
18:34 Probation will close, like it says in the Bible,
18:36 "And the righteous will be righteous still,
18:38 and wicked will be wicked still,"
18:39 and we have got to make a decision
18:41 either for God or for not.
18:43 I don't care if you go to church.
18:45 Are you going to make a decision for God?
18:46 So as I got up that morning,
18:49 I was late for our family worship,
18:51 we always had morning worship,
18:52 we ate breakfast together.
18:54 And so I got up a little late and so I really rushed
18:56 to worship with the family,
18:57 and then Deb had made a nice breakfast.
19:00 And I said, "Honey, I'm not going to able to eat."
19:03 I got to get to work.
19:05 And I said, "But, you know what,"
19:07 I said, "I'll be home for dinner."
19:09 And you know what she did to me,
19:10 this is a terrible thing for a woman to do this to guys,
19:12 at least to me, she did this, she went...
19:15 She rolled her eyes at me. I don't like that.
19:19 And so I said, "You just don't understand."
19:22 And she said, "Apparently, not."
19:24 I said, "You got this nice beautiful house,
19:26 you got three beautiful children,
19:27 you know, I'm working all the time for you."
19:31 And I said, "You'll see, I'll be home for dinner."
19:35 You know what she did,
19:36 I would think that she'd had sense enough
19:38 not to do this again, but she went...
19:43 And I like proving people wrong,
19:46 so I make sure that I am going to be home for dinner.
19:49 And so it came to about 12 o'clock.
19:52 And just at the time I was going
19:54 to get out of my office
19:55 and head for home, the secretary bust me.
19:58 She said, "Dwight, you've got a guest
20:02 that just came in that I think you need to see."
20:03 And I said, "Listen," I said, "not now."
20:05 I said, "stall him, I got to go home."
20:08 And she got off the line and came back and she said,
20:11 "But this person isn't going to take very long,
20:13 and so I really think you
20:15 probably ought to see him, they are passing through."
20:18 And so I thought, "Oh, boy,
20:19 why does these things happen to me?"
20:20 So I get on the phone and go...
20:23 You know, how the phone goes in ring.
20:25 And my wife said, "Hello. Hi, honey."
20:32 You know what her first words out of her mouth was,
20:35 "You're not going to be home for dinner, are you?"
20:37 How do they know these things?
20:41 I said, "Well," I said, "You don't understand."
20:42 She said, "You're right, I don't."
20:44 And I said, "But listen, I'll be home for supper."
20:47 And I said, you know, I'm going to be speaking
20:48 so I said, "Make sure that my clothes are around my suit,
20:51 my Bible, and everything."
20:52 And I said, "I'll come home, we'll go together."
20:54 So we hung up the phone, and I was busy at work again,
20:58 and just about the time I should be going home,
21:00 I had another interruption.
21:02 I had to call her again.
21:06 "Hello. Hi, honey.
21:12 I know, you want me to get your clothes
21:14 and you want me to bring them into the office.
21:16 Thank you, sweet heart, you've got to be nice."
21:20 So she came in with the kids and they sat down in the chair,
21:25 I'll never forget, I was at my desk,
21:27 and I was doing some busy work
21:29 'cause I had to get it done, just one last thing.
21:31 And I said, "Honey, how was your day today?"
21:39 And she started telling me but I wasn't listening
21:41 'cause I was too busy,
21:43 'cause I was doing something much more important.
21:46 And my wife could see that, so she trailed off.
21:47 And about that time, one of the children said,
21:49 "Dad, guess what I did today?"
21:54 "Not right now. I don't have time."
21:59 And so they were quiet.
22:00 I kept working making one last phone call,
22:03 my wife was looking at the clock and she said,
22:06 "Dwight, you know what's time,
22:08 it's 20 after 7,
22:10 and prayer meeting is in 10 minutes."
22:12 "Don't you know that I know how to tell time?
22:17 I know what time it is.
22:18 It's right up there on the wall, it's 20 after 7."
22:23 And so she didn't say anything.
22:25 And about two minutes later, I said,
22:26 "Deb, get the kids out in the vehicle
22:28 'cause I don't want to have to wait."
22:30 And so she got up and she start going out.
22:32 And so I took my clothes off in the office,
22:34 I was putting my shoes and my pants,
22:36 and put my tie on.
22:37 And you know what, I started reach for the belt,
22:40 I couldn't find my belt. She forgot my belt.
22:44 How could my wife forget my belt?
22:47 There's only like seven things, like my shoes, my socks,
22:50 my pants, my shirt, my tie, my jacket, and my belt.
22:54 Seven things, I mean,
22:56 what did she have to do all day, anyway?
22:58 She only has three kids, I mean, come on.
23:02 Now as bad as this seems,
23:05 I've had a lot of people come up to me
23:06 afterwards and say, you know, "Dwight,
23:09 you and I have a lot in common."
23:13 And so I ran out, jumped in the vehicle,
23:18 started it up and I said,
23:20 "Deb, how could you forget my belt?
23:23 I can't believe. What did you do all day?"
23:27 By that time, I ripped out of the drive
23:29 and I'm going a little fast, it's only about a mile
23:32 and a half or so to the church from our office.
23:34 And she said, "Dwight, don't you think
23:37 you're going just a little fast?"
23:39 "Don't you think I know how to drive?
23:40 I see the speedometer right in front.
23:42 You want to drive?"
23:46 By then, one of my kids said, "Dad, guess what I did?"
23:50 "Sit back and be quite.
23:52 I'm trying to think what I'm going to say
23:53 to our saints at the church tonight."
23:57 And so I went there, and we parked,
23:59 I jumped out of the vehicle, left my kids behind
24:02 and my wife behind, and I'm walking in the church,
24:05 and I'm shaking, "Oh, we're good
24:06 for being here, thank you so much.
24:07 We're gonna have a great time.
24:09 And I talked about probation closing,
24:10 I shared my heart.
24:13 And when we got done, as we were going home,
24:18 my wife was sitting there quietly with my kids.
24:22 And I all of a sudden said,
24:23 "Honey, if these people don't change,
24:29 they're not going to ever make it."
24:32 And the Holy Spirit spoke to me and I heard Him.
24:35 The Spirit said, "Dwight, if you don't change,
24:37 then you will be lost."
24:40 You see, friends, we've got to learn to listen.
24:45 And if we're so busy that we don't hear God,
24:48 I don't care what religion we are
24:50 because religion and a church
24:53 will never ever save us, ever.
24:58 It's our relationship with Christ
25:00 and it's just not a relationship that says,
25:02 "I know Jesus, I love Jesus."
25:04 Because in Matthew 7:21 it says, Lord, Lord,
25:06 look at all these things I've done in your name.
25:09 And Lord said, "What?
25:10 Depart from me because I never knew you."
25:16 Do you hear that still small voice tonight
25:20 speaking to you?
25:24 I know that night I went home, and I got on my knees,
25:26 and I said, "Lord, save me or I'll perish."
25:30 I mean, I'm studying your Word 2.5 hours every...
25:33 I'm memorizing Bible text, we sing scripture songs,
25:37 you know, we've been teaching our children,
25:39 I mean, "Lord, why in the world don't I have more power
25:43 because I'm learning this Word."
25:47 And the Lord said,
25:49 "Be still and know that I am God."
25:53 Are we too busy?
25:55 I know I get way too busy at times.
25:58 Do you hear that
26:00 still small voice speaking to your heart?
26:03 And you know what the sad part about it is,
26:07 there are many so called "Christians."
26:10 They go to church they are still living carnally,
26:15 is that true or false?
26:17 Okay, right.
26:19 There's probably people here right now.
26:21 I don't know they are living carnally.
26:24 You know what it says in Galatians 5,
26:25 let's look it up real quick.
26:27 The fruits of the Spirit, Galatians 5,
26:32 and the Lord brought me to this because you see, I had a...
26:36 We have a scripture song, I certainly won't sing it,
26:39 you wouldn't want me to.
26:42 But the fruits of the spirit, and we sang that
26:45 as a scripture song to our children.
26:50 But, you know, I fail sometimes to read the other part of it.
26:54 Galatians 5:19
26:59 and I'll read through 26, okay?
27:02 Are you there? Okay, amen.
27:04 It says, "Now the works of the flesh are evident,
27:07 which are, adultery, fornication,
27:09 uncleanness, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred,
27:13 contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath,
27:16 selfish ambitions, dissensions, and heresies."
27:21 Boy, I don't know, I don't know if I could name anything else.
27:26 I don't know about you, but I've had some problems
27:28 with some of these.
27:29 Have you?
27:31 And that's when we're carnally minded.
27:32 But listen to this, it says...
27:34 And it goes on, it says, "Envy, murders,
27:36 drunkenness, revelries, and the like,
27:38 of which I tell you beforehand,
27:40 just as I also told you in time past,
27:42 that those who practice such things will," what?
27:46 "Not inherit the kingdom of God."
27:49 I didn't say it, the Bible did.
27:50 And when I read that, I thought wow!
27:53 Even though I know all scriptures...
27:54 What does it say in 1 Corinthians 13,
27:56 that's the love chapter, even though I know all things,
27:58 you can prophesy, and have all these things,
28:00 if I have not," what? "Love."
28:04 It availeth nothing.
28:06 And some times, take 1 Corinthians 13
28:08 and instead of the love there,
28:10 put Christ 'cause God is what? Love.
28:13 So if I have not Christ
28:15 because we're supposed to represent Jesus Christ.
28:20 But this is what every one of us
28:21 as Christians should desire, pray for,
28:24 and strive for right here.
28:26 "But the fruit of the Spirit is,"
28:27 what? "Love, joy, peace,
28:31 long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
28:34 gentleness, self-control against," what?
28:38 "Such there is no law."
28:40 Isn't that what you want tonight?
28:42 I do. I do.
28:44 I long for that every day of my life.
28:46 And you know why? Because your religion
28:49 is not what church you go to,
28:52 your religion is your everyday life.
28:55 That's the religion that most people
28:57 when you meet them in the grocery store,
28:59 when you meet them at a lumber company,
29:01 when you meet them
29:02 at a car dealership, wherever you go.
29:04 The religion that many people will only see is a religion
29:07 that you have within your heart.
29:10 How many times, say someone pulled out
29:12 in front of you and you want to give them
29:14 some obscene gesture
29:15 and scream at the top of your lungs,
29:17 which they can't hear you anyways.
29:20 And probably they didn't even know
29:21 they pulled out in front of you.
29:24 Is that the fruits of the Spirit
29:27 or the fruits of the devil when you yell and get upset?
29:32 I've done it many a times.
29:35 God wants us to hear that still small voice.
29:44 As I started listening to that still small voice,
29:51 I had trials, I struggled.
29:56 I'll never forget one time that we were...
30:01 I call it my Ryder truck experience.
30:04 I was up in Montana and I know that
30:07 my family, Uncle Rene, Aunt Barbara,
30:08 and my father and my mother, and my brothers,
30:12 some that have been up there, 50 miles of gravel road,
30:16 bumpy and dusty in the summer.
30:18 And I had this big truck, and it was a Ryder truck,
30:21 it was a big 24 foot in case Ryder truck
30:25 that we had loaded our stuff up
30:26 when we went from Michigan to Montana to live.
30:28 And when I got there, took the box off,
30:30 and made a flat bed out of it
30:32 so I could haul lumber and whatever else.
30:33 But it needs quite a load for the springs
30:35 to ride halfway decent.
30:37 And so I went down and picked up these doors,
30:40 they stained them and varnished them,
30:41 they were nice six panel doors,
30:42 and I strapped them onto that wagon,
30:45 at the back of the truck bed.
30:48 And as I was going, I prayed,
30:49 "Lord, please let these doors ride well,
30:51 I've gotten strapped down tight."
30:53 And so as I was driving down that road,
30:56 the old truck is bouncing around,
30:58 and I got my wife sitting next to me
30:59 and my three children, they were pretty small,
31:01 they're sitting over here in this one seat.
31:03 There's a window that's in back,
31:05 it like an oval window that you could see,
31:06 and I could see the doors, if not I could see them
31:08 in the big rearview mirrors.
31:12 Well, it wasn't long before those doors
31:14 were kind of bouncing around.
31:15 The straps loosened up.
31:17 My wife could see a little bit of stress in me.
31:19 She knows how to figure me out.
31:22 We're married over 30 years now, praise God.
31:25 You know, people, when I get through some of these messages,
31:27 you know what they say, they say, "You know, Dwight,
31:29 I appreciate the honesty of your messages
31:31 because you give me hope,
31:33 and that's why I share my messages
31:36 'cause I don't want you to think that I'm up here,
31:37 and I've got it made.
31:39 I only have it made when I humble my heart
31:40 every single moment of the hour of the day.
31:44 And when I share some of these things,
31:46 the reason I'm sharing because you can say,
31:48 "If Dwight did all that, I certainly have hope."
31:51 So we'll have people come up
31:53 and, Deb and I would be together
31:54 and they'll say, "You know, Dwight,
31:56 I appreciate your honesty and bearing your soul.
31:59 And, Deb, I don't know how you could live
32:01 with such a jerk for all these years."
32:04 And I'm glad that she has.
32:06 And here's what she says to them,
32:07 "I knew that he would grew up and mature someday."
32:10 She had faith in me, praise God, amen.
32:13 I'm thankful for that. And so now, I...
32:17 She said, "Dwight, it'll will be okay."
32:19 And the kids even were saying, "Daddy, it'll be okay."
32:21 I said, "I know, it'll be okay."
32:23 And so I stopped the truck out and I strapped those down
32:25 even harder and it's tight.
32:27 I said there's no way they're going to loosen up.
32:28 Growing up in construction,
32:30 I know how to tie knots, and pull straps,
32:31 and make things so they don't move,
32:33 I mean, it's not like, you know,
32:34 I've never done this before.
32:36 And so I strapped it down, I jumped in the truck
32:37 and stepped on the gas,
32:39 but I'm only going maybe 30 miles an hour.
32:41 Now for me, that's pretty slow.
32:43 But the road is bumpy and those doors are,
32:46 right away within a two miles they started bouncing again,
32:49 and top one is moving, and I'm thinking,
32:51 these are furnished, and I mean,
32:53 I've spent all this money,
32:54 and so I'm getting little more stressed out,
32:55 and my wife is feeling it, you know, and she says,
32:58 "It'll be okay."
32:59 I said, "I don't want to be okay."
33:02 And the kids say, "It'll be okay, Dad."
33:04 So I stopped and I went back out,
33:05 and I said, "Lord, you know, you need to give me patience.
33:07 Now I need patience."
33:09 And so I strapped those doors down again,
33:11 and I jumped in the truck, and I took off again,
33:13 and it wasn't three miles and those doors
33:15 are bouncing around again.
33:17 And at that time I lost it.
33:20 Now the spirit is whatever whispering in my ear,
33:23 Isaiah 30 says that the word would speak,
33:26 what, does anyone know that?
33:29 Let's look that up right now. I want to just take a pause.
33:31 Look that up, Isaiah 30, chapter 30.
33:34 You have to know that God speaks to us,
33:37 we got to learn to listen.
33:39 Isaiah 30, I think it's verse 21.
33:45 Isaiah 30, about the middle of the Bible.
33:48 Isaiah 30:21, it says,
33:53 "Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying,
33:56 'This is the way,'" what? "Walk in it."
34:00 And the Lord was speaking to my heart,
34:01 "Dwight, please give your heart to me."
34:05 But you see, I was so concerned about the doors
34:10 that I was not listening to God.
34:14 So, you know, instead of stopping the truck,
34:18 taking a breath, praying to the Lord,
34:19 if I had to just stopped and said,
34:21 "Kids, just ask the...
34:23 Kids, would you pray for your Dad?
34:24 He's struggling right now." No, I'm dad, I can handle it.
34:29 So, you know what I did instead of stopping,
34:30 I just stepped on the gas.
34:33 I don't care as the logs are flopping around,
34:34 and I ruined them anyways,
34:36 maybe if I go faster it won't be so bumpy.
34:38 Those doors were just flopping all over the place.
34:42 Finally, I just jammed on the brakes,
34:45 I jumped out,
34:47 I jumped in the back of that truck,
34:50 I grabbed the very first door, and I picked it up,
34:51 and I just threw it.
34:53 I was so upset.
34:55 And I went down for that second door,
34:56 just like this, and you know what I saw,
35:00 have you ever been to zoo before?
35:02 I mean, my kids and my wife that oval window,
35:05 they had their nose plastered up against the window,
35:10 and they were just...
35:11 My kids, they were wide eyed, and I felt like, you know,
35:15 you ever watch the gorilla and they throw things around.
35:17 I felt like I was in the cage, I was the gorilla
35:20 and they were outside watching their dad,
35:22 their gorilla dad.
35:24 Pastor Corey mentioned today
35:26 about the beast in us.
35:27 Well, believe me, I had the beast in me.
35:30 And as I was down there with those, that next door,
35:34 my wife with her nose plastered against that, she just went...
35:39 Like, I can't believe this.
35:41 And at that time, that little pause,
35:46 God said, "Dwight, won't you give this to me?
35:52 It's not about your doors.
35:54 This is your situation, this is your...
35:57 Will you please give it to me? That's what I'm here for.
36:00 There's power if you'll surrender.
36:06 Dwight, just...
36:08 Just look out, it's a beautiful day,
36:09 look at the snow capped mountains."
36:11 And believe me, we've had people come up
36:12 to our place up there and people said,
36:14 "I've only seen this on a postcard."
36:18 But I didn't care about a tent,
36:20 I didn't even care about my doors,
36:22 I only cared about me, myself, and I.
36:25 Lord said, "Please,
36:28 don't you want to walk with me?"
36:31 I paused.
36:33 I looked out there
36:35 and saw those beautiful mountains.
36:36 I said, "Lord, please I need your strength right now."
36:46 Thankful to say that I stood there,
36:49 the Lord just impressed me to stay there
36:51 till I calmed myself.
36:55 As I'm standing there... "Have you ever got upset?"
36:58 And when it's all over, you feel like
36:59 you're the stupidest fool in the world.
37:01 Has that ever happened to you?
37:04 I mean, my kids are still staring,
37:06 I'm thinking "Ah, what kind of a father am I?"
37:11 I'm so glad I got loving children
37:13 that forgive their dad, and a loving wife.
37:15 Amen.
37:17 I got out, picked that other door up, put it back up,
37:22 I prayed, "Lord, please I don't care
37:25 about the doors anymore, I just want to walk with you."
37:28 Strapped them down,
37:30 doors never moved the rest of the way home.
37:33 See when we ask for patience,
37:37 don't expect nothing to come our way.
37:41 When you ask the Lord to help you in your finances,
37:43 don't think that the Lord is going to give you
37:45 a bunch of money, He's not.
37:50 The Lord is trying to get you and I
37:53 into the heavenly kingdom, it's a choice.
37:56 And that really, really, only reason we're here
37:58 is because we are developing a character like Jesus.
38:03 Amen.
38:04 And once we're starting with that on that road,
38:07 then we can share that with others.
38:11 And so when you learn that, it's not that big of a deal,
38:13 but believe me, it's tough, it's a struggle,
38:15 it's been a struggle for me.
38:17 I tell people I got my temper honestly from my father,
38:20 "Hi, Dad."
38:22 I tell people, it takes 30 some years
38:25 to get a professional temper like that.
38:27 I worked on it all years, all 34 years.
38:33 But the Bible says,
38:35 "Can a leopard change its spots?"
38:36 But through Jesus Christ how many things are possible?
38:39 All things are possible.
38:42 And by God's grace, that old man that's inside me,
38:47 I have been learning day-by-day,
38:49 month-by-month,
38:50 and year-by-year to keep it put down
38:53 because Christ is reigning in my heart and in my soul.
38:57 Amen. Isn't that what you want?
39:03 Sometimes we have to take a step backwards
39:06 to take two feet forward.
39:09 Sometimes we have to realize that
39:11 just because we're doing good things
39:13 doesn't always necessarily mean that we're doing the best
39:16 because you see the enemy of best is good.
39:20 When I hear people say, "That's good enough"
39:21 that bothers me
39:24 because the enemy of best is good.
39:26 We need to do what, the best for our Master.
39:30 And so I like you to turn into scriptures
39:32 and I'll share an example.
39:34 If you turn to 1 Samuel 18... What did I say?
39:40 1 Samuel 18.
39:42 Okay, good.
39:43 1 Samuel 'cause there's two Samuels in the Bible,
39:44 1 and 2. So it's 1 Samuel 18.
39:49 I think it's kind of neat.
39:50 That's why as you start reading the scriptures
39:52 and apply it to your life, these scriptures will jump out.
39:54 They're not that difficult with a Holy Spirit to teach you
39:57 how to understand these things
39:59 and put them very practical in your everyday life.
40:01 Okay, so 1 Samuel chapter, what?
40:05 18. You're listening.
40:07 Praise God.
40:08 Samuel 18:6-9.
40:18 Are you there? Yes.
40:20 Okay.
40:21 It says, "Now it happened as they were coming home,
40:24 when David was returning
40:25 from the slaughter of the Philistine,
40:27 that the women had come out
40:29 of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing,
40:32 to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with joy,
40:35 and with musical instruments."
40:37 Now picture that.
40:38 All the cities along the way
40:40 as he was coming back from battle,
40:41 here's King Saul with his army, and these women are coming out
40:46 because it's the women, 'cause the men are fighting.
40:48 And the women are coming out with their tambourines,
40:50 they're dancing in the Lord, and here's what's going on,
40:52 picture this, it says,
40:54 "So the women sang as they danced,
40:56 and said, 'Saul has slain his,'"
40:58 What?
41:00 "Thousands, but David has slain,"
41:02 What? "Tens of thousands."
41:05 And here's what it says, "Then Saul was very angry,
41:08 and the saying displeased him, and he said,
41:12 'They have ascribed to David ten thousands,
41:13 and to me they have ascribed only thousands.
41:18 Now what more can he have but the kingdom?'
41:22 So Saul eyed David from that day forward."
41:26 Do you know what gave David the strength
41:29 and the power to slay as tens of thousands?
41:31 Do you know what he was doing before that?
41:34 What was David? What was his...
41:37 He was a shepherd.
41:40 And I keep going to the story about,
41:43 when he slayed Goliath and he went there
41:44 and his brothers said, "What are you doing here?
41:48 Why aren't you back with the sheep
41:50 where you belong?"
41:51 And he'd been out there.
41:52 You know what, he'd sling that sling,
41:54 and he'd swing it around, and he'd aim it to trees,
41:57 he probably put a bullseye on there,
41:59 he probably would do all kinds of,
42:00 he got so good with that sling.
42:03 And he would go out there he would sing songs
42:06 because you see that wilderness experience for him
42:10 was training him to be the next king.
42:11 Now King Saul, on the other hand,
42:14 had done many great things.
42:15 Hadn't Saul won a lot of battles?
42:17 I mean this is a battle they had won.
42:19 He won a lot of... He was doing God's work.
42:21 He was fighting for the Israelites,
42:23 Israelites was the church.
42:24 He was going out there fighting those battles,
42:26 he was winning those battles,
42:27 but Saul was losing touch with who?
42:30 God. Read it.
42:32 After a while, he actually goes
42:33 to the Witch of Endor to spiritualism.
42:39 And here at one time, he was a great king, why?
42:42 Because he forgot to take time
42:47 to commune with God.
42:51 Are you forgetting to commune with God?
42:53 Would you make that right decision?
42:56 I like to share with you a last story that,
43:00 it's kind of graphic.
43:03 But when we listen to that voice,
43:05 we need to obey.
43:06 And sometimes we ask for things
43:08 and God shares these things with us.
43:10 He gives such an illustration that I will never forget,
43:15 I've had many of them.
43:20 I don't know about you but I believe that
43:21 every one of you want to walk with God.
43:23 Amen. Amen.
43:25 I want to be in the heavenly kingdom.
43:28 At the end of my days,
43:30 whether I live to be of an old age
43:32 and I do not believe that's going to happen,
43:35 maybe I'll get in a car accident,
43:36 who knows maybe tonight.
43:38 I don't have a hold on the future, do you?
43:41 But I know one thing, I want to be submitted
43:44 and committed to Jesus Christ every single moment of the day.
43:52 And so in my quiet time, I was asking Him to bring up
43:56 anything in my heart that He needs to bring up.
43:59 And one thing, as a man,
44:01 I've always concerned myself with.
44:02 I think I'm just a normal average guy that, you know...
44:06 God created us this way but because of sin,
44:09 Satan has perverted it.
44:11 And, you know, man was always supposed
44:12 to be the aggressor not the woman.
44:15 And man was supposed to look woman...
44:17 Women are beautiful.
44:18 And so God created it that way.
44:21 And so, you know, but because of perversion and sin,
44:23 it's messed up, there's rapes, there's all kinds of
44:26 perversions out there, it's terrible.
44:29 I want to go home, don't you?
44:30 And so I said, Lord, you know, what would happen
44:33 if someone is trying to tempt me,
44:34 and maybe they threw me in prison,
44:37 and all of a sudden they brought in
44:39 three or four beautiful women scantily dressed.
44:43 Would I be able to stand firm?
44:46 Would I be able to keep my eyes focused on my Savior
44:49 no matter what?
44:53 Maybe, men, you've never asked that question to women.
44:56 Maybe you've never asked that question,
44:57 but I'm an honest person, and I don't try to hide sin.
45:00 I want to say, "Lord, I want you to show me
45:03 where I need to grow in my life."
45:07 And so as I was asking the Lord that,
45:11 the Lord just impressed me.
45:12 "If you will keep your eyes on Me,
45:15 you won't have to worry about that."
45:16 Well, it was probably a few months later,
45:18 I was over in Europe speaking over there
45:20 with a good couple friends of mine,
45:22 and I was in that room,
45:23 and I got up very early in the morning, and I walked out,
45:26 I didn't want to wake them up, and it was it like a...
45:28 it was like a big mansion,
45:31 and they had rooms in there where people were staying.
45:33 And so I walked out,
45:34 and there was some night lights in the hallway,
45:36 and there was this couch.
45:38 And so I went there and I knelt right by that couch
45:42 and I must have been praying for about half an hour,
45:43 "Lord, please show me my need of a Savior.
45:46 Please help me keep my eyes focused on you today."
45:49 If there's anything in my life, "Please teach me, Lord,
45:51 what I need to know today right at this minute."
45:56 And so I got up, and of course, I always ask the Lord
45:58 to give me a heart of understanding
46:00 to send the Holy Spirit upon my heart.
46:02 And so I got up, I just opened my Bible,
46:06 and just kind of got comfortable on that couch,
46:08 and all of a sudden across the hall,
46:11 it was probably five or six feet at least,
46:13 I heard a door latch.
46:17 And as it unlatched, obviously, you know, what would you do?
46:21 If you've got your...
46:22 If you're reading, what are you going to do
46:24 if there's a door that unlatches,
46:25 and it's like 5 o'clock in the morning,
46:26 nobody's up, what would you do?
46:29 Would you look up and wonder who that is.
46:31 And so I looked up
46:33 and this lady, I don't know her name,
46:36 didn't see her after that, probably 85, 90, very old.
46:41 And she walked out, and she had no clothes on her.
46:45 Now I don't know about you, but that ruins a quiet time.
46:50 And I'm not usually a speechless person,
46:53 ask my folks, ask my wife, or my kids,
46:56 but I just want to know,
46:59 if there was a picture taken, I was probably like...
47:03 I mean, it shocked me.
47:05 And so I thought this lady would see me
47:08 and she would turn around but she was,
47:11 you know, I don't know if she was in a right mind,
47:13 she could have been sleepwalking,
47:15 I don't know, I didn't ask her.
47:17 But she just kind of shuffled
47:19 and she had a worst shrug in her hand.
47:21 She was kind of shy and she was walking right for me.
47:24 Now that bench was at the back of the wall,
47:28 you know, I want to hide, I want to go somewhere,
47:30 but I mean you're only five or six feet
47:32 and she keeps coming right up,
47:33 until she's standing right next to me,
47:35 never said a word, and neither did I.
47:38 And I didn't know what to do, you know.
47:40 And I was so shocked, I never put my eyes back,
47:44 I'm just looking.
47:45 And I want you to know something, I did not lost,
47:48 I'm almost 52 years old,
47:51 and I can tell you that because of sin,
47:54 as we grow older, our flesh grows older.
47:57 It gets more wrinkly, you know.
47:59 And I can tell you that
48:02 I was not lusting in the least little bit.
48:05 I just didn't know what to do.
48:07 And she walked right up to me, and she turned around,
48:12 and shuffled back into her room and shut the door.
48:20 That was it.
48:22 I mean, I closed my Bible, and I ran back to my room.
48:28 And I thought, "Man, I hope I don't ever...
48:30 I hope she didn't recognize me,
48:32 I hope that I don't see her again."
48:34 And I got on my knees 'cause it's still quite.
48:36 I said, "Lord, why?
48:39 I got up, I had a nice beautiful prayer,
48:43 I want to have quiet time, I want to learn...
48:44 Why did you do this?
48:46 You could have kept her in that room,
48:48 You could have put me on another bench,
48:50 You could have kept me somewhere else.
48:51 Why at this exact time did You do this to me?
48:55 And you know what, in the quietness of my soul,
49:01 the Lord said, "You see that flesh,
49:04 that's what all sinful flesh will look like
49:06 if it grows old enough."
49:08 Dwight, you've been talking, you've been praying to me about
49:11 would I sin, would I commit adultery?
49:14 Dwight,
49:19 is it worth that?
49:25 Is it worth it?
49:27 Will you sell your soul for a bowl of stew?
49:33 You remember in Old Testament,
49:36 where Esau was very hungry, there was Jacob and Esau,
49:39 do you remember the story?
49:42 And Esau was the eldest, and he held the birthright,
49:45 and that birthright was not only for the physical
49:48 to get all the money and all the land,
49:50 that birthright was also a spiritual birthright.
49:52 He was to be the priest, he was to be the patriarch,
49:55 he was to take the torch,
49:56 he was to hold that torch up high,
49:58 and say, "I am a patriarch.
49:59 I am a man that loves the Lord, God.
50:05 And I will teach my children after me."
50:07 But he allowed himself on emotions,
50:10 and he went in there,
50:12 and Jacob by deceit, he wanted the birthright
50:14 because, you know, first of all,
50:16 his mother kind of messed Jacob up a little bit,
50:19 and she was a little deceitful.
50:20 But here's the point, Jacob really longed
50:23 not so much for the physical,
50:25 he knew that Esau didn't really care,
50:27 and he wanted that spiritual birthright
50:30 'cause he loved Jesus.
50:32 And so now here comes Esau, and he comes home and says,
50:34 "I'm hungry.
50:35 Jacob, you've got some stew, and I want that now."
50:37 And Jacob thought "Here's my time.
50:39 I know my brother, we're twins.
50:41 You know, guess what, Esau, you know what,
50:43 I'll consider it,
50:44 but I want you to give me birthright."
50:45 And what did Esau say, he said, "What good is a birthright
50:47 when you're hungry?
50:50 Just give it to me, you've got it,
50:51 I don't need it anyways."
50:53 And so that's what took place.
50:55 Now if you go back in Hebrews,
50:57 let's go to Hebrews real quick here.
50:59 Hebrews 12, Hebrew 12.
51:11 Hebrews chapter what?
51:13 12. Good for you.
51:14 Hebrews 12, that's almost
51:17 in the last of the New Testament.
51:19 Hebrews 12:16, 17.
51:23 Here's what happened,
51:25 you know, way down the line here,
51:26 what it says, it says...
51:33 What did I say? Did I say...
51:35 I might have made a mistake there.
51:37 Yeah, chapter 12, yep, 16 and 17, thank you.
51:40 Keep me straight.
51:41 It says, "Lest there be any fornicator
51:44 or profane person like," who?
51:46 "Esau."
51:47 "like Esau, who for one," what?
51:52 "morsel..."
51:53 I mean, do you know what the word "morsel" means?
51:57 I don't know about you, but I couldn't live
51:58 on a morsel of food.
52:01 But Esau, it said,
52:05 "Who for one morsel of food sold his birthright."
52:10 Now this is the sorry thing.
52:11 It says, "For you know that afterward,
52:13 when he wanted to inherit the blessing,"
52:15 did not he want to inherit it?
52:17 Yes, he did.
52:18 It says, "when he wanted to inherit it," it said,
52:21 "he was rejected,
52:22 for he found no place for repentance,
52:24 though he sought it diligently with tears."
52:32 One day, brothers and sisters, it will be too late.
52:39 Is the Lord knocking on your heart this evening?
52:43 Don't you want to hear that still small voice?
52:47 Don't you want to start learning to obey the Lord
52:50 because you love Him?
52:51 Doesn't matter what anyone else says.
52:53 Take time.
52:54 Have a wilderness experience which means that
52:56 take time with God wherever you're at.
53:00 Learn to walk with God.
53:02 He loves you so much.
53:04 He has paid more than the penalty.
53:09 He's asking for your heart.
53:14 Don't sell your soul for a lousy piece of flesh,
53:20 or a morsel of food
53:22 because it's a blink of the eye
53:25 of what we're living here.
53:28 It's not worth it. It's not worth it.
53:33 Would you kneel with me as we close?
53:42 Father in heaven, oh, Father, my heart is burdened
53:46 for Your precious people here.
53:49 Father, I pray that You'll touch their hearts,
53:50 I pray that they will make a decision now
53:53 this moment.
53:54 Father, please guide them, direct them, encourage them.
53:58 I know there are people here that are discouraged,
54:01 but Father, the very point that they're discouraged
54:04 gives you the chance of working a mighty miracle in their life.
54:07 Father, please help them to keep their eyes
54:09 focused upon You.
54:11 I pray, Father, that You might continue to encourage us,
54:14 let each one tonight, right now in the knees,
54:16 Let them know how much, Father, that you love them.
54:19 Now Father, I thank You for this opportunity to be here
54:23 and for these dear souls to be here.
54:25 I know it's been Your timing.
54:28 And so, Father, I pray these things
54:30 in the precious and holy name of Jesus, amen.


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