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Practicing Patience Pt.1

As Larry was sharing his testimony this evening, it was exactly along the lines of what we were going to teach on tonight. I always like the way that happens. We were sharing Sunday night, and one of the things that has concerned me in the hour that we're living in, and I made reference to it the other night as we were sharing, and it's the fact that in this environment we're living--because of technology, because of all of the different advantages that we have, the blessings that we have--much of Father's glory is being stolen from our midst. We might, in lip service, give thanks to God, but are we really convinced in our hearts that God is the source of all of our blessings, of everything that's working well in our lives; that God is our healer, that He is our provider and in the chaotic world that we're living He is our very present help in trouble? Are you really trusting in Him daily for everything? Are you trusting in Him for your daily bread? Are we trusting in Him to cover us with His feathers, for His glory to be our rear guard? Are we trusting truly that God is going before us daily and making a way where there isn't any way in the natural; or in your mind do you think things are pretty well mapped out, things are going well? I want you to understand that there is a spiritual war raging around us and regardless of what things look like right now, you're in jeopardy. In the invisible realm the enemy of your souls is plotting your destruction right now. There are plans every day to take away all of your well-being. If Jesus were not interceding for us, if the Comforter was not giving us wisdom and strength, if the angels of God weren't battling for us, we wouldn't be standing. Are we conscious of the war that we're in? Yet so much of it is disguised with all of the glitz, and the glitter, and the comforts, and all of the lies and fantasy that we're living in.

My desire has been over these last sessions, and as we go into this thing, is to get us to walk and live by faith; to move away from trusting in all of the natural things--our bank accounts, the food we have, the home, the shelter we're living in, the job that we have, our own physical strength, our own natural abilities, and to be able to come back to that simplicity of being able to pray in faith the Lord's prayer. The world is constantly deceiving us and vexing us, and all that are around us; all of the religious trappings, the prosperity gospel, and the seeker friendly gospel. All of this spirit of antichrist that's building the great whore of the religious system that's been seen so long as Rome. Rome is a primary participant; but I want to tell you Rome is married to Los Angeles, TBN (Trinity Broadcast Network) and many of the other religious empires. Did you know that Willard Cantelon started that thing--TBN right now, TBN charismatic television station? Are you all aware of that? Channel fifty-four, I believe it was called in L.A., was something that Willard helped acquire and gave it to Paul Crouch; so let's blame Willard. It's a good thing he's gone home, amen? We'd be hunting him down. TBN right now is replaying, for the edification of all of you, in case you need some great edification, Arch Bishop Sheen's programs from the late fifties, early sixties. The whore that will be drunk with the blood of the saints, selling the masses on the success of Christianity through the seeker friendly, the get rich quick blessing movement. Many of us think that way more than we would like to admit.

Turn over if you would this evening to Hebrews, Chapter 6. I want to talk about the faith to stay on this course of the straight and narrow with steadfastness to where we're not tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine; to where we're not seduced by the get rich quick mentality, the bless me mentality, the prosperity gospel, the unity gospel, seeker friendly, friends of the world which makes us enemies with God; friends with false prophets which makes us apostate. Not only now calling Catholics brother, but Muslims, and every day it's eroding around us. What are we doing to protect out minds? What are we doing to clarify our vision? What are we doing to prepare the next generation should Jesus tarry? What are we doing to live in this world in a way that would glorify God and use it and not abuse it? Larry's testimony was the perfect example of that. He went to the doctor and they did some of the surgery. He used it but he didn't abuse it. He didn't trust in it. He doesn't give glory to it. It's done by faith. These are some of the things that we need to learn how to do and to walk in. The apostle says in the sixth chapter of Hebrews, verse 10, "For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: That ye be not slothful..." Let's not become lazy in our pursuit. He says just the opposite, of course, in Philippians. "I pour myself out. I totally exhaust myself in pursuit of the mark, the prize, the high calling of God." Slothfulness isn't just lying in a cot. If the commandment, the mandate is total exertion then anything less than that becomes an act of slothfulness or letting off, slacking up. You say, "How do you do that? You can't go at a hundred percent all of the time." No, you can't in the natural, but you can in the spiritual, praying without ceasing. You don't have to slack up in your prayer. You can pray without ceasing. Our pursuit in the spirit realm--faith always works, its alive, the Word of God in us is powerful. The labor that we do in the temporal, natural realm of prayer and study and obedience to good works has limit by time, space and energy. The thing that's motivating us, faith, the love of God, the awareness of His presence, the desire to be used more never ceases. It grows constantly in us as He's working in us to will and to do of His good pleasure. Are you consciously wanting to be poured out more for the glory of God? Are you looking for that spiritual enabling to press a little harder, to have more revealed to you of what truly is dung?

Now, remember we gave you a definition the other day of what dung is. It's everything that you used to trust in; everything that you used to give glory to and honor to, everything that used to be a treasure before regeneration. He said, "All of those things that used to be treasure to me, everything that I used to count profitable I now count worthless. That is no longer what appeals to me." Now, let's blow it down to what it really is so we don't get sidetracked, because we all have different tastes and we all have different appetites. It's self, it's pride, it's the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life and everything that works for acquisition toward those things. The things that I used to trust in, my own intellect, the things I used to desire, the praises of men, wealth, power; whatever it is, physical gratification. Natural man delights and glories in those things that used to be the treasure, and now I count it refuse. I set it aside that I might win Christ. Now, how do I do that? By pressing, by fully extending myself. "Be not slothful."

Where would you say you are today in that pursuit, and in that acquisition of the things that are eternal? Are you still pressing for more? Are you content with where you are? Do you understand that there's more to be known about yourself? The only way you can know more about yourself is by knowing more about Him. The closer we draw to Him, and the more we know Him the more we realize the mess we are. The closer we draw to Him the greater we see ourselves so we can eventually say--you want to know what the greatest revelation will bring you? I'm the chief of sinners. The man that had the greatest revelation of God said, "I'm the chief of sinners." The man that had the greatest revelation of God said, "In me, that is in my flesh, dwells no good thing." The man that had the greatest revelation of God said, "Lest having preached to others I be cast away." He wasn't over-confident. He knew what was in him. Do you know what's in you? Do you know what you're made of? "Yeah, well they'll all forsake you Lord, but not me." Hmm, I've heard that somewhere before. Well then, how can we become confident, how do we rest? By ceasing from your own labors. How do I know that things are going right? Are you still pressing with all of your might or are you going backwards? There's no neutral in this thing. You're either going forward or you're going backwards. You can't stand still in the kingdom of God. Having done all, what? Stand. Now, that stand isn't a neutral. That stand is an active, it's a setting forth, it's a constant partaking against the enemy; it's a striking out, an occupying of what's been taken. "I'm not giving up an inch of what's been taken for God. I'm pressing on to drive the enemy out."

Listen to what he says here in this Hebrews passage, "Be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises." Don't be slothful; join up with the great cloud of witnesses. Who are we identifying with today? Don't you love reading some of the--I love to read the Bible characters. I like to study these guys. We all have certain people that we can relate to and guys that stand out to us in the Scriptures. Most of us like some of the same guys; others will pick more obscure personalities. Then we come into the current generation. Don't you love reading the biographies? You read about your David Brainerds. Don't you love studying and reading about the Wesleys? You see your A. W. Tozers, and your R. A. Toreys, and your D. L. Moodys. (You know, when you really get spiritual you just use initials.) You read about the lives of these men and you find out that all of them were so conscious of who they really were. People say about preachers, "The closer you get to them"--the people that get closer to me, some people say, "You have to be careful because if people get too close they'll see your feet of clay." Feet of clay nothing; it goes clear to my head! Periodically, there's the glory of God in these earthen vessels, amen? You look at these men and they were men of like passion that just had the coal taken from the altar and put on their lips; a people who took what they had and entered into that holy place and saw the Lord high and lifted up and His glory filling the temple. "Lord, I'm a man of unclean lips that dwell among a people." If You could use a Moses who wasn't perfect, then maybe You could use me. Oh, I'm not in his league but he wasn't perfect. If you could use an Abraham, he wasn't perfect, he was of like passion; I'm not in his league. But you know what, I can doubt. I can take things into my own hands and take Hagar and produce things in my own strength. I can do that, and God can still use you, praise God!

What we're talking about is practicing patience, steadfastness, not quitting, standing under the pressures of God that are conforming us into the image of Jesus Christ. You see, when that pressure comes on, a lot of us want to back out of the thing. We don't backslide, we just say, "That's enough. This is far enough. I'm not ready to go into the fire, I'm not ready to totally have all of the dross--there are areas that I want to hold back, there are areas I'm afraid of, there are areas that hurt." The difference between these men and people like us is they went all the way. They offered it all up. We read of all of their feet of clay and then we see God's boast in them in Hebrews eleven because God sees the end of what His blood has effected for us in a people, who, if they endure, if you're patient to the end, if you endure to the end and you don't faint you're going to reap, praise God!

In these next sessions I want to encourage you to start looking to God, and the seduction of self and the seduction to ease and comfort and this natural tendency to become static. Begin to put yourself out there where you have to live beyond yourself by faith. I don't mean being presumptuous. I'm not talking about throwing yourself off the pinnacle. I'm not even talking about anything in the natural. I'm talking about something internally that says, "I'm going to start believing God instead of my job, instead of my ability." We say we are, but are we? If we are not, without faith it is impossible to please God. So no matter what we're doing we're not pleasing God. It doesn't matter whether we're fellowshipping with one another, there's no strife among us, we have friends, we're a community, we're raising up moral children--without faith it's impossible to please God. So are we living by faith or are we living by religious habit? Are we living by faith or are we living by communal peer pressure, our morality? Are we living by faith or are we living like the rest of the world does and calling it faith? We're still fearful all the time, fearful that there might not be enough. Maybe I'll lose--there is no fear in faith, there is no fear in love. Perfect love, perfect faith, casts out fear. Are you afraid you're not going to measure up? Are you afraid you're not going to be equal to the Joneses? Are you afraid you're not going to get that acquisition of that thing you're looking for? Are you afraid you're going to lose what you have? You're afraid that your kids are going to end up on drugs. You're afraid your kids are going to backslide. You have not received the spirit of fear but of love, power and a sound mind. Amen? If all of these other things are storming our minds and controlling our thoughts and haunting us, then we're just Pharisees, and the Scripture says we're to be followers of those who through faith and patience inherit the promise. Faith isn't enough-- faith and patience.

We've done a number of teachings over the years on patience, but just to refresh your memory and to show you patience isn't just endurance. You know that poster? Just as soon as I said that word, endurance, it flashed in my mind. There's that "Hang In There" poster of the cat, and he's hanging on there like this. Of course, some of us are saying, "Hang in there so I can get a better shot at you." (That's just to ruffle some of your feathers. I just enjoy doing that.) I really wouldn't hurt that poor, harmless animal--if he stays out of my yard.

We realize that it's not just endurance; the word "patience" means to be consistent in our pursuit, consistent in our method, which is God's way and not man's way. Patience is: are you doing it God's way habitually, every day or are you back and forth, double-minded? "Let not the double-minded man think that he shall receive anything of the"--but we're receiving stuff and we're being blessed and we're saying, "Praise God, God is blessing me." Is it God or is it you? That's something you're going to need to find out. If you're not sure, guess what? You're going to be in fear. If you're sure it's God then nobody can take it from you. If God is the source of it then no man can take it from me, but God can, and if He wants it He can have it, praise God. Where are you? "Well, I think it's faith, but then I'm doing it in my own strength, but I really want to believe God." Is it the Lord's? "Everything I have is the Lord's." Really? He's the author of it He's the finisher of it. Are you just as content without it as with it? Are you just as happy when it's gone, when God removes these things in your life? Do you know how to be abased and how to abound? Do you know how to glory in the Lord? Do you know how to stand and say, "The Lord gives, the Lord takes; blessed be the name of the Lord," and you don't change in that, you're honoring God? You've stopped judging God? As Job, you've learned to put your hand over your mouth; consistent living, patient. None of this stuff bothers me. I'm not tossed to and fro. I'm not caught up with the new religious fads. I'm not caught up with the world's propaganda. I'm too busy wanting to be more like God. I'm too busy wanting to see less of me.

Do you like yourself? I hate myself. I hate everything about me that isn't like Jesus. There's nothing of it that appeals to me. Tragically, I see too much of it. As you watch these men enter into the fire of God's righteousness, the course they take is the course of Mount Mariah. God will put His hand on your treasure and demand of you to offer it up if you're going to enter this realm we're talking about. In the life of a Moses, offered himself up for the people of God. He was moved with compassion for the people of God, and for his whole life they just murmured against him. All he got was complaining to the point where he was provoked and said, "Dear God, you rebels, must I fetch this water?." He smites the rock and God said, "You have need of patience, and for that you're not entering into the Promised Land." This path that we're talking about is the path of the bedchamber of that child as you lay on the floor weeping and interceding, and the child dies anyway. You rise up and you anoint yourself and say, "He can't come to me but I can go to him." And story after story into the lives of the contemporaries. There's a fire to enter, a refining process that our faith might be purged and purified as pure gold. Are you ready to follow these folks? If we're following those who through faith and patience are inheriting the promises of God, we're following them into a furnace. We're following them into a lion's den. We're following them into a conflict with the armies of Jericho. We're following those who dead end at the Red Sea and are surrounded by the chariots of Pharaoh. Faith and consistence; faith and endurance.

Look what he goes on to say, "For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise" (verses 13-15). Get verse 15, "After he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise." What was the endurance that was going on? He was enduring the death process. He was enduring that maturation. He was enduring the revelation of his own unbelief so that he could eventually say, "Lord I believe, help my unbelief." When you can come to making that statement in faith, guess what? You can then be like Abraham, a candidate to be called the father of faith. He is the father of our faith. A whole period of his life was in unbelief. He just didn't know he didn't believe. He thought he was doing the will of God. He thought he was doing it God's way, "Surely this is what the Lord would have. I'm doing it for God." How much have you been doing for God lately? How convinced are you that what you're doing is for God, you're sold on that and nobody could tell you any differently? Maybe, should Jesus tarry, a month from now, a year from now, you're going to look back and see that you were just rocking Ishmael. "Well, how do I know?" Are you progressing or digressing? Are your methods faith or religion, morality, community? What are you trusting in?

He goes on and he makes the comment here, he says that because he patiently endured he obtained the promise. The next question we have to ask ourselves, "What do I do when the heat comes on? Do I patiently endure it? Do I stand fast?" Do I, as James says, count it all what? Joy. "...count it all joy when you fall into diverse temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing" (James 1:2-4). How many of you think you lack in your life? Then you have to go through trials. You have to go through pain, through the purging process. So here's the next question: Are you enduring, are you staying in it and are you doing it with--count it all, say it--Joy? "Well, man its bad enough to have to do it, now we have to count it joy?" If you can't count it joy you don't really understand what's going on. You don't understand the good news that there's becoming less of you and more of God. That when this thing is over, God is going to get the glory and not you. "Lord, I rejoice that this process is emptying me that You might be seen in me." So the process continues, men that are seeking to glorify God.

The Lord is speaking of His own presence and His own methodology here in verse 16, "For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec." What's all that that he's saying? Men look for contracts and oaths. "We promise, I swear, I make an oath, I make a covenant, a contract, I guarantee it." And when it's by someone who has reputation, who has wherewithal, and some person that has the capacity guarantees the loan. When you go down to Chase Manhattan Bank or one of these and they guarantee the loan you feel a lot better than when it's Slick Willy's Hot Dog and Loan Institution. In Peter, He swore by Himself. Here's what we're asking--are we trusting in Chase Manhattan, are we trusting in the latest doctor's methods and reports? Are we going to trust in the chemotherapy, are we going to trust in the radiation, are we going to trust in the new, latest microbiology researches, and the genetic engineers? "Because He could swear by no greater He swore by Himself." "By My stripes you are healed." Because He could swear by no greater He swore by Himself, "I will open the windows of Heaven and pour out blessings that you can't contain." Because He could swear by no greater He swore by Himself, "I will never leave you nor forsake you. I will not leave you comfortless. My peace I give unto you, not as the world gives give I unto you. I'll do exceeding abundant above anything you could ask or think. If you'll seek first the kingdom and My righteousness, I'll add to you all of these things that are necessary." Because He could swear by no greater He made promises through His Word to us, and He put it forth in two immutable things. God cannot lie. "Well, that's only one." Well, you see, the covenant was between two, Father and Son. God cannot lie; a covenant made between two people that can't lie. Between two that are capable of producing everything that They said They would and more than you could even imagine. One of Them enters into the veil before us after the order of Melchisedec and represents us, and comes back and cuts covenant with us and is made one with us and blesses us with His righteousness. Like David and Jonathon we come as paupers, and the kings robes are placed upon us, and all that He was is given us. "Be followers of those who through faith and patience are inheriting the promises."

So now I'm a new man and I'm not limited by my own natural abilities. I'm no longer governed by genetics, by environment, the sin environment of this world. The nature of my father Adam, for sin no longer has dominion over me. I'm living by faith. I'm saying what God says about it, not how I feel, not how I act, what God says, and I'm pursuing that with all my heart. This is that great cloud of witnesses. These are the people that we're to hook up with, not only the biblical examples, but also those that are around us. If you're not where you want to be, who are you hanging out with? As parents, we're always concerned with who our kids are hanging out with and are they going to be good for our kids. That's wisdom. Father is the same way. He's interested in who you're hanging out with, looking for positive influences. Every one of us is emboldened by those that are around us, and we'll look and say, "Well, praise God, if they're going to do I'm going to do it. I can do that." The fact of the matter is the majority of us are followers. So find somebody worthy to follow. Some of you are saying, "Well, that sounds like a follower is some kind of weak person." No, it's a wise person, if you're following the right person. Guess what? Look behind you, you have somebody following you. "You mean I'm not the last guy? I'm not the biggest dork on the block"? No, there's a whole line of them behind you. "Well, who's the last guy?" He'll never know because God will keep adding on and adding on the line. Every time you turn around somebody's there, and we're all heading in the same direction, and we're all going to receive the same rewards.

Now, what are we doing here? I want to, for this evening, encourage us to look at what this patience aspect is all about, this consistency in the midst of temptations, test and trials. Turn over to James for just a second, the first chapter, verse 2, "My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this..." Remember that the word "temptation" there doesn't mean being tempted to sin. It means to be tested or tried or put under pressure, or a proving of what the substance really is. It's a refining process. The process, the test, it brings the dross to the top so that there can be a refining and the purity of the gold can remain. James says, "Count it joy when this pressure starts coming on you." Let me ask you a question: you know when things start--in the natural we call it when things start getting tough. "I'm getting pressure on my job. I may lose my job. Our finances are tight. I'm battling sickness in my body. My parents are on my case." All of that is to make you a better person. Are you rejoicing in it? "No." Well, why? "Well, I had other plans." You mean plans that didn't include rough times, trials, tribulations, opposition? You mean you were confident in what you wanted to do was absolutely one hundred percent the will of God because you equate your will, your desire, your lust with God's will? You know, it's bad enough that some of us want to put our ideas off as God's will, but it's really bad when we put our lusts off as God's will. "This is God, this is what God wants for me." If you will pursue Christlikeness, agenda free, God will work in you to will and to do His good pleasure. God will reveal His will for you. Do you want to know His will? "This is the will of God even your sanctification." That's what the Scripture tells us. Your purification, your separation to be used wholly for God. Think about that. That's sanctification. This is the will of God, that you become a utensil. He's speaking toward, typically, if we look at typology, he's speaking toward those things that were used and consecrated in the temple. Did you know that you couldn't go to the temple and grab one of the temple goblets and use it at the picnic? You can't use one of the temple utensils that are used for the Shewbread to go do the weenie roasts.

I wonder what it would be to have a life wholly set apart for God. Now, in most of our minds we find, with that thought, ourselves in some monastery somewhere. That's not being used for God. Being used for God is sharpening somebody else's life. It's being salt, it's being light. Being used for God is lifting up hands that are hanging down. Being used for God is freely giving what we so freely received. It's not isolation. It's not that monastic, catholic mentality. What would it be like to be wholly set apart for God? Think about that! This is exciting stuff! When you're at the ball game you're wholly set apart for God. When you go to the job you're wholly set apart for God. You're right where God wants you, and He's putting words in your mouth, and He's putting faith in your heart. He's causing you to speak a word in season, and to lay hands on the sick, and cast out devils, to proclaim the Gospel. Yet all of this busyness of the mundane distracts us, and we get concerned about this temporal issue, and concerned about that temporal issue, and we're worried about our kid's college. We need to be concerned about their souls, wholly set apart for God. This is that consistency, that pursuit. This is that patience that in the midst of all these trials, whatever these pressures are that are testing whether we're going to believe God and call things that are not as though they were--Abraham who was strong in faith giving glory to God, calling those things that are not as though they were, or do we revert back? Have you ever noticed in different techniques--and I'll end with this--whether it's athletics or whatever it is, it could be in business; you learn some new technique and you learn how to do it better, and until it really begins to be a part of your life, naturally, when you get put under pressure, what happens? You revert back to the way you always did it. You know the right way, you know the right technique but the pressure drives you back to what you really are habitually. These pressures are to reveal to us what we're trusting in, who we really are. It's just a test that shows you how you're doing today.

We've talked about that example before--some of you that were such a pain in the neck to the rest of us. You'd prepare yourself and it was test day, and you loved that because that was your day to shine. I always hated tests in school because I never studied. You used to have to pay a fine if your books got messed up. Do you remember that? In the olden days they didn't have covers with fancy things when I was a kid, so we'd always get grocery bags and cut them up and you'd cover your books. I was a senior and brought my books home, and some of you are going to think that I covered them up. I couldn't be bothered with that. My mother, you know all of you helpful moms are always doing stuff for your kids that they should be doing. So here I am a senior, my mom covers my books. This is exactly how it happened the first day of school, I took them home, all my books got covered, I carried them back to school the next day, last day of school (he takes the books out for the first time all year). No fines, those things were perfect. The pages were still stuck together. I'm not bragging, I'm just telling the truth. I hated test day. It was hard without reading those books. I guarantee you I couldn't have passed those classes without game shows. Hey, you don't want to mess with me on a trivia contest. When I was in the ninth grade, I've told you the story, my mom was depressed. She was suicidal and she went one year and never got out of her nightclothes, never left our house. I was the one that had to stay home most of time to watch her and make sure she didn't kill herself. I watched soap operas and game shows. I think I saw the first episode of All My Children and you know, they haven't solved their problems yet. I hated test day. Then others would come in there--I used to love Leave It to Beaver. Others would come in there and you remember that girl in Beaver's class? "Miss Landers!" She always had the answer, always studying, always telling on Beaver. We had one of those girls in our class. I'm trying to study and I'm preparing for tests now. You can count it joy because I know all the answers right now. How many of you'd like me to give you the answers to the test? Here are the answers, this will get you through every test: God is good, Jesus is Lord, His Word is true, I'm a loser. That'll get you through every test. By faith and patience--we're going to talk about that in detail next session. "Be followers of those who through faith and patience are inheriting the promises of God."

Father, we thank You for Your Word tonight. We believe that You'll stir our hearts, that You've touched us in the inner sanctum, somehow, tonight by Your Spirit, and You have provoked us to jealousy; a jealousy for Your glory. And when we've seen Abraham, and we've seen Moses, and we've seen David, and we've seen Daniel, we've seen Peter, and we've seen James, and John, and Paul, and Spurgeon, and Moody, and Tozer, and Torey. We want to be used for Your glory and we can be. If we could pray that prayer in genuine faith, "Lord, here am I, send me. I just want to be used up for Your glory! I count it all loss that I might win You and come to the knowledge of the excellency." The worse the world becomes the better we look, but we're not that good and we need to be like You. Grant it, we ask, Father, in Jesus' name, amen.

Let's stand before the Lord. As Gary plays for us for just a moment--this is the will of God, even your sanctification, wholly set apart for God. Everything is about Him, everything is for Him, everything is by Him. Let's sing it together. Just worship tonight. Hallelujah! Be glorified we ask, Father, in Jesus' name, amen.

Before you go turn to somebody next to you and say, "You have need of patience." Amen. Go in peace. God's love go with you.

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