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2022 Wednesday afternoon Blind camp service
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in this episode, you will hear what took place on August 3, 2022 Wednesday afternoon Blind temp service.
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Hymns and Themes of Faith
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mic on august third wednesday afternoon blind camp service 2022 mic off
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What a joy divine, leaning on the everlasting arms. What a blessedness, what a peace is mine, leaning on the everlasting arms.
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Leaning, leaning, safe and secure from all alarms. Leaning, leaning, leaning on everlasting arms.
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Oh, how sweet to walk in this pilgrim way. Leaning on the everlasting arms. Oh, won't bright the bath grows from day to day. Leaning on the everlasting arms. Leaning, leaning.
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safe and secure from all alarms. Leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting unknown.
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To dread what have I to fear, leaning on the everlasting arms. I am blessed peace with my Lord so near, leaning on the everlasting arms, leaning, leaning.
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Safe and secure from all alarms. Leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arms. David, do you have one picked out? Anybody? I see Kelly has her hand up.
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Pass it on. I think that's in here. That's in here. No. Okay. Sorry, Kelly.
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Was grace that taught my heart to fear and grace my fears relieved? How precious did
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That grace will appear the hour I first believe.
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Has promised good to me His grace might be secured
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He will my shield and ocean me as long as life endures. Through any danger, stars and stars,
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I have already come. His grace hath brought me safe thus far, and grace will lead me home.
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When we've been there 10,000 years, bright shining as the sun, we know us here.
Exploring the Hymns 'In the Garden' and 'Near the Cross'
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It's an awesome thought, isn't it? We have another mother.
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choice you do okay Kristin in the garden that's in here yeah in the garden we're gonna do in the garden first and then what is it
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I come to the garden alone While the dew is still on the roses And the voice I hear falling on my ear The song of God is closest
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and he walks with me and he talks with me and he tells me I am his own and the joy we share as we tarry there none other has ever known
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He speaks and the sound of his horns. It is so sweet the birds hush their singing. And the melody that he gave to me within my heart is ringing.
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and he walks with me and he talks with me and he tells me I am his own and the joy we share as we carry there none other will ever know
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I'd stay in the garden with him, though the night around me be falling. But I give me gold through the voice of hope. His voice to me is calling.
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And he walks with me, and he talks with me, and he tells me I am his own. And the joy we share as we tear be there, none other
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They'll ever know. 312. 312. New to cross. Good place to stay.
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near the cross, ere a precious fountain, free to all the healing stream, those from Calvary's mountain, in the cross,
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In the cross be my glory ever. In my raptured soul shall find rest beyond the river.
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In the cross, in the cross, in the cross,
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Be my glory ever, till my rancher's soul shall find rest beyond the river.
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In the cross, in the cross,
Prayer and Divine Guidance
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In thy glory ever, till my raptured soul shall find rest beyond the river.
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All this land just beyond.
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Things on.
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May thy day and with each passing moment
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Strength I find to meet my trials here. Trusting in my father's wife, me snowman, I've no cares for worry or for fear. He's whose heart has gone beyond no measure.
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Gives unto each day what he means best. Lovingly it's part of pleasure and pleasure, mingling toil with peace and rest. Every day the Lord himself is near me.
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With a special mercy for each hour. All my cares he feign would hear me cheer me. We whose name is counselor and power. The protection of this common treasure.
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is a charge that on himself he laid. As our days, your strength shall be in measure, is a pledge to me he made. I'll be damned in every table,
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That is our face-week consolation offered me within my holy word. Help me, Lord, when toil and trouble leading, there to take us from a father's hand.
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One by one, a little moment's eating, till I reach the rise.
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Grace is Lord, we thank you for your tender love for us and your provision for our needs. We're understanding from this experience this week that day by day, you will provide moment by moment what we need and we can rest in you for this. We praise and thank you, Jesus. Amen. Okay, big Dave, what's your question? What's the name?
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And he was in the hospital for a while. He was back home when he was in my house. He had a claim of anxious. I think it was caused by a boss owner or something. But anyway, he got out of the house and he would win about 2.30. Now he's wasted back down to 2.30.
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And he's taking breathing treatments. And he's got to see four doctors and see what they're going to do with more of them.
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Well, let's pray for Mike now. Gracious Lord, we have heard Dave's report on his friend Mike. Lord, we lift him up before you knowing that you're the God who heals. You're the God who hears and answers prayers. We can rest in you, we can trust you, and we thank you in Jesus' name.
Biblical Story of Cain and Abel
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Amen.
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What a story we have for tonight. We're in Genesis chapter four. It's one of the saddest stories. Our grandparents were well not overwhelmed by losing two boys in one day.
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But I'm getting ahead of myself. Adam knew his wife Eve, and she conceived. And for a son, they named him Cain. And that name Cain means I have acquired a man from the Lord. I believe Eve thought this was the promised seed. I believe Eve thought Cain was the promised Messiah.
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We, with looking from the other side, are saying, oh, what a disappointment she's being set up. I believe Cain, oldest son, was a leader, tried to help his brothers follow in what he thought was the right way. But I've also recognized, as I've meditated on this chapter,
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Cain was a complainer. He was critical. He was not praising the Lord, but rather questioning God's grace. And he said God was too harsh in kicking Adam and Eve out of the garden. God was mean in not allowing them access to the tree of life. He did not speak well of God, but rather he criticized God. And that will always get you into trouble.
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It hurts us. We are strengthened as we praise the Lord and we hurt ourselves when we say bad things about you. May we be wise to talk right about God. Now, verse two says, she bore again in this time,
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His brother Abel. Now, Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. The name Abel means breath. A breath of fresh air. And here was Abel. And Abel, in contrast to Cain, appreciated and understood the salvation story his daddy was explaining to him. He understood this sacrificial system. They both watched their father.
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do sacrifices on a regular basis. Some have suggested that every Friday evening in preparation for the Sabbath they had a sacrifice. I don't read that, I don't know, but I do know. I recognize enough from that Old Testament system that it was regular.
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The boys learned, they observed, they understood that these sacrifices pointed to Jesus, who was the propitiation, the sacrifice, the remedy for their sin. Verse three, in process of time it came to pass that Cain brought an offering of fruit of the ground to the Lord.
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Abel also brought the firstborn of his flock. And the Lord respected Abel and his offering. These boys, I believe, are now grown. Now, I don't know what it means to be grown at that day and time. Today, you get to be counted as legally grown when you're, what, 18 and can buy beer? I don't know.
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21 18 you go to the army. It's crazy stuff But now here's something you may know this you may not know this I
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But the male brain really is not mature until about 27 or 28 years of age. A little bit messy. But yeah, we're counted as if we're old enough to be making decisions. Scary stuff, especially with what I told you about on Monday night. But we are fearfully and wonderfully made. I wouldn't doubt that these boys were older than 20, maybe as old as 40.
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but they're deemed old enough to be making their own connection with God. Now, how old were you when you made your connection with God? I was baptized when I was 12, 1961.
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Precious, moving experience. Young pastor, his first series of meetings, and I jumped in there, and I was one of seven to get baptized that day in a late, clear late. Precious, precious. I was old enough to make that decision, but let me tell you, I faced a lot of life since then, and I had to renew my commitment to the Lord since then. That wasn't a one and done kind of a thing, and usually isn't.
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But I do believe that age 10, 11, 12 is old enough and a wise time for a person to be making a commitment, a commitment in baptism and saying, I want to be on the Lord's side. I don't know how old Cain and Abel were, but they were old enough to take responsibility for their own walk with the Lord rather than saying, whatever's good for Dad, he's good enough for me.
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And Cain decided, since he'd done all this critical self-talk, he decided that I've grown these fruits and vegetables. They look nice. I'm going to give them to God, and God ought to accept what I give him. Are you listening to me? People are still saying that. I'm going to give God what I want to give him, and he better accept it.
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Instead of reading the word of God and saying, what does God tell me he wants? We tell him what we want to give him, upside down and backwards. And it goes all the way back here to Genesis chapter four. Cain is deciding what he wants to do for God as if by him doing something for God, he obligates God to do something for him. Where does this love start?
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God so loved that he gave. God is loved and God shines his love into my life and now I have the opportunity to respond to his love and response means obedience. It just means obedience. That's how we say I love you. That's how we express love is by doing those things that are pleasing to the person.
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I don't do, for those people I love, what makes me feel good. I need to find out what makes them feel good, and do those things that help them to feel good. How much more true that is in relationship with God, and he gives us in his holy word what he wants, and Cain knew what he was told to do. But he decided he was going to do something different.
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I call it works righteousness, a self-generated offering. And it's still happening. I hear people saying, well, those Old Testament rules about clean and unclean foods, they were good enough for them, but I'm only going to follow the ones that I understand why.
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Well, that's going back to Eve's foolishness. She analyzed that fruit and it looked like it would taste good and be nutritious. It probably did and probably was. It was not poisonous fruit. It was deadly fruit. There's a difference. People who are saying, I'll obey God when I can give a reason for his command are setting themselves up ahead of God.
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whether it be in clean and unclean foods or the day of worship that we choose to worship him on. Or, can I step on some clothes? And Tim starts to laugh. Caffeine's not all that bad, is it? You can buy any coffee any time you want to, except that God has said, it's not good for you, and drugs,
00:30:53
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It's a drug. And so is nicotine. But nicotine isn't so bad. A lot of thousands of people, pipes and cigarettes and whatever, cigars. And even we've got these vaporizers.
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We decide that God should be satisfied if I just, I know he said no, but it can't be all that important. Cain's sin was setting himself up as if he could tell God what was right and wrong. And how many of us have been doing the same thing?
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OK. Troublesome thing. I should point this out before I go on and talk about Abel. I want to end on a positive note. Yeah. Cain taught his children to do it just like he did.
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And so, they were messed up. Genesis 4, 16 through 24, you can read it when you have a chance. He had a son that he named Enoch. I know there's another Enoch that is on the good side, but this Enoch was not on the good side. And named the city that he built after his son, you see the self-anchorandisement,
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the idea of how important I am, I am having this child and I'm naming my city after my child, I'm making my child important, it becomes worship of family rather than worship of God. It got so bad that in chapter six we find that Cain and his family are called sons of men, whereas those who are honoring God are called sons of God.
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By the fourth generation, we find polygamy has come in and murder. More murder. Not quite the same as Cain, but I believe Abel died in faith. He brought the required offering. He brought a lamb.
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He slipped the throat of that land. He took the skin off the land. He carefully separated out as he was instructed the fat and he put this all on the altar and he got down on his knees and he said, Lord, I recognize that this land cannot cover my sin.
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But it points to the Messiah who does cover my sin. He understood the plan of salvation at least enough that he could bow there before God and worship. And God responded to that offering with fire from heaven that consumed that offering and Abel was satisfied. But Cain was angry.
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because God would not send fire to consume Cain's sacrifice. Now in process of time, people started lighting their own fires to consume their sacrifice and say that God had to be satisfied and they ignored it. But Cain was waiting for God to approve by sending the fire and God didn't send the fire. And he went away grumbling and complaining.
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And of course, he as the leader, the oldest son, he told Abel that, Abel, it's your fault that God's not honoring my sacrifice. You're doing it the way God said, and you should do it the way I'm saying so that God has to honor us both together. That's the way of evil. Let's do it together, and it must become all right if we do it together. No, it doesn't get any better. We discover,
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Abel remonstrated with his brother. God remonstrated with Cain. Isn't this something? This is still happening, folks. Not so much with voices from heaven to the ones who are doing evil, but voices of the righteous speaking to the ones who are doing evil, saying, straighten up, fly right.
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The Lord said to Cain, what are you so angry about? Why have you got a frown on your face? Verse seven, if you do right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. Sin's desire is for you, but you need to conquer it.
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Cain was invited by God to get the victory over the sin that was afflicting him. It hasn't ripened to murder yet, but criticizing God is sin. Verse 8, Cain talked with Abel, his brother, came to pass when they were in the field that Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him. Now, I don't know how long he premeditated that murder, but it was bloody and messy and awful.
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The first child born in this world has killed his brother. Adam and Eve knew it's our fault. We sinned first and now we see the full ripening of sin in our boy who has killed our other boy. They lost two sons in one day.
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The one who is a murderer is estranged from the family the rest of his life. Parents don't know what to do with this. Some of you are parents and you've gone through some of these achy, achy experiences. And you still love the child, but how can you embrace them when they have done such awful things? God sent Cain away. He moved away.
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But God spoke to him first, verse nine. The Lord said to Cain, where is Abel your brother? I love God. You're so gracious to us. And he asks him, he gives him an opportunity to repent. I believe there was still hope and help for Cain if he would repent, if he would acknowledge his sin, if he would say, I really blew it. But he makes excuses.
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Am I my brother's keeper? Am I responsible for my brother? Yes, I am. Yes, you are. And as sighted guides, we know we're responsible. And it really hurts us when we fail to tell there's a step here and then somebody starts to stumble. It pains us when we realize that we haven't been keeping our brother well enough. And it should.
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And don't think that because you're blind you're off the hook, because you have an influence with people in your circle too. You have opportunity to tell people about Jesus. And we have the responsibility to keep pointing hearts and lives to Jesus. Where is Abel your brother? And he said, am I responsible for my brother? God said to Cain, verse 10, what have you done?
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The voice of your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground. I am feeling the pain of that dead boy. Now, remember.
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If you die in faith, it's just a nap. I know it's been a 6,000 year nap for Abel, but it's just a nap, a resting until the resurrection. If you're walking with Jesus, you walk with Jesus in this life, and you just take another step into the next life. Some of us, I believe, will be translated without seeing death, but the death rate on this earth has been almost 100%. We have two, record of two,
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who were taken from this earth without dying. But God is faithful. And even those who die in faith, the next thought, the next scene, the next experience they have will be to see Jesus coming in the clouds of glory and restoring them to health and strength. That bloody wound on Adam's, excuse me, on Abel's head will be all healed.
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What a God. What a wonderful God. And, of course, Abel's going to look around and say, who are all these cousins?
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The nieces and nephews, they're no grandchildren. Well, we have no evidence that Abel had any children. It definitely appears that he didn't. I believe that it was very appropriate for Adam's sons to marry Adam's daughters, and there was lots of children in that day and time. I was listening to, I think it was Sean Brewster talking about how there would have been millions of people on the Earth by the time of the flood.
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God told Cain, you are in trouble. What you've done is really bad. You are cursed with the curse, which is, for the earth has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. Then God said to Cain, and this follows through with the rest of us, even though we're not descended from Cain, when you till the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength to you.
00:40:50
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You're going to have to work harder to get the soil to produce its strength. And today, we study how to do the fertilizer. We know we've got to fertilize our garden if we want it to grow well. A fugitive and a vagabond, you shall be on the earth.
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bringing the lamb to the required offering. He understood what the lamb represented that this lamb represents the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. He was trusting God to do what he could not do.
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He trusted that God would atone for his sin, justification.
Concluding Prayers and Gratitude
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He trusted that God would empower him to rise above sin, sanctification, and Abel understood that in Christ he would be restored to full communion with God. That's glorification.
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We today face choices. We can praise God day by day, even though we go through trials. And I'm not minimizing the loss of sight. I have enough trouble with my eyes to understand that sight's pretty, pretty important. But there's things more important than being able to physically see.
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to have faith in God and His provision for us is so much more important than physical sight or hearing or smelling or tasting or feeling. God has given us these senses that we can praise Him and we should with all we have and He doesn't expect any more than we can give and He multiplies what we use to glorify Him
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Thank you, David, for the flute you played for us. On his hands. I love it. And some of you got here early enough to hear his cornet playing. You are not only use it or lose it, the gifts God gives you, but by using them as he gives them to us, he multiplies them in our life. When I married Bonnie, she could play the piano and the accordion. And now she can play the piano and the accordion
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She could already play the organ some too. But she added the fife and the flute and the dulcimer, both the mountain dulcimer and the hammered dulcimer. Because she's using the gift of music for the glory of God, he multiplies it in our hands. Hallelujah. Use it for his glory and let him use you. God has a purpose for every one of us. He has a way that we can live for his glory.
00:44:06
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I believe Abel did. We can have it, Abel's faith. We can walk in love. We can walk in obedience. We can live lives of praise to God now and to eternity. Let's pray. Gracious Lord, as we contemplate the experience of Cain and Abel, we realize that we have a choice moment by moment.
00:44:30
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Will we be complainers, or will we be crazers? Will we be thanking you, or will we be criticizing the lot that we have? Lord, we invite you, and yes, we plead with you to help us to learn to praise and thank you for whatever happens for your glory and for our salvation in Jesus' name. Amen.
00:45:05
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OK. Thank you, Pastor. Appreciate it. I guess we need to have a discussion about tomorrow, about who's going to ride with who tomorrow.
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