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(Derek) Welcome to Hope Sabbath School,
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an in-depth, interactive study
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of the Word of God.
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We are in the middle
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of an amazing series
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entitled Present Truth in Deuteronomy,
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so many lessons for our lives today!
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We're going to study today
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Remember, Do Not Forget.
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You say, "Pastor Derek, remember what?"
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Well, stay tuned because we'll learn
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some counsel from Moses
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that would not only bless
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the children of Israel,
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but will bless your life today.
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Welcome to Hope Sabbath School
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and welcome to the team.
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And you can tell I'm excited today, right?
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And the reason I'm excited
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is because one of our team members
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is going to be leading the discussion
today.
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And I just want to say, Sabina,
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I'm looking forward to the study.
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It's going to be a great study together.
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We're also happy to have
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some remote team members joining us.
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Travis, welcome from Michigan.
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Good to see you again, glad you're here.
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Puia, all the way from Hawaii.
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Pastor Puia, good to see you,
glad you're here.
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And, Jonathan, Maryland, good to see you
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from Maryland, Jonathan.
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And, you know, we're excited
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to have our remote team members
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because they expand the platform for us
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while we can only have
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a limited number here in the studio.
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But we're always happy to hear from you,
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our Hope Sabbath School members.
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My first note is from a Facebook page.
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Do you know, we have 180,000 followers
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on our Facebook page,
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and I was interested that it's about even,
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51 percent women, 49 percent men,
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and the greatest percentage,
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55 percent, are aged 25 to 44.
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So, we've got a lot of young adults
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joining us on Facebook.
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And Marge, we want to thank you
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for your comment on our Facebook page.
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Marge writes and says,
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"I discovered this show,
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Hope Sabbath School, late last year.
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Since then, I watch daily on your website.
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God has changed my life."
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(Team) Amen!
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(Derek) "I was just baptized.
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I love you guys, the way
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you unpack the Scriptures
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and make application to our lives.
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I'm originally from the Philippines,
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but California is now my home.
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Blessings to all.
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Keep on blessing the world.
Thank you."
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Well, Marge, you brought joy
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to our hearts today.
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We're so thankful that you made
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a commitment to follow Jesus
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as your Savior and Lord,
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and you confessed that in baptism.
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God bless you as you continue
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to study with us,
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and to all of our Facebook community.
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That's a lot of people, isn't it, 180,000.
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Carmen writes to us from Canada
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and says, "I really do enjoy
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Hope Sabbath School,
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and I've been blessed.
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I belong to a small Adventist company
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located among Canada's
First Nation people.
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Please pray for us as we spread
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the gospel of Christ.
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We will continue to pray for you,
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your team, and Hope Sabbath School. Amen."
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(Team) Amen.
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(Derek) Carmen, thanks for writing to us.
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Your mission assignment there
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among Canada's First Nation peoples,
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God bless you in your work.
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Well, here's a note
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from a donor couple in Arizona.
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And, you know we don't read their names.
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We don't want to promote people,
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but we do want to say thank you,
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because we're a donor-supported ministry,
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especially at this time of year.
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If you're thinking about,
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"Can I be part of this miracle
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called Hope Sabbath School?"
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Absolutely. In fact, write to me
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at sshope@hopetv.org.
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I'll tell you how you can be used by God
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to impact the world.
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Or, you can go to our website,
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hopetv.org/hopess,
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just click on the donate button and say,
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"I want to be part of the miracle."
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Well, here's a note from Arizona,
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"We want to tell you
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that Hope Sabbath School
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is a real blessing to our lives.
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We watch your program as part
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of our personal worship and Bible study.
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We utilize your notes
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when it's our turn to teach.
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We really appreciate
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the direct approach from Scriptures,
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that we can trust your teaching
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because it relies on God's Word." Amen?
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(Team) Amen.
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(Derek) "We're sending you a gift
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as we've gotten a little bit of money.
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We felt like we should share this
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so you can continue your ministry.
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Thanks to the entire team,
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both those in front
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and behind the cameras,
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for all that you do,"
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and a gift of 1,440 dollars. Amen?
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(Team) Amen.
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(Derek) I want to just say thank you.
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You say, "Well, [we] were blessed,"
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but you chose to share that blessing
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so the gospel can go to the world.
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So, thank you so much.
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And thanks for encouraging
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our media team as well.
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They are an important part of our team.
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Sally...I don't know the last time
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we got an email from Borneo Island,
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Sarawak, East Malaysia.
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Well, Sally writes and says,
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"I came across this channel, and I found
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Hope Sabbath School on YouTube.
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I've watched other studies,
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but I like Hope Sabbath School the best."
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(Team) Amen.
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(Derek) "This is because
of the management,
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you read some of the testimonies,
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and the discussions are awesome.
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It's a blessing; thank you
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from Borneo Island." Amen?
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(Team) Amen.
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(Derek) Over 200 countries we know
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using our Hope Channel app,
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so thank you for being part of our family.
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Here's one last note, from Illinois
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in the United States, Ricky writes.
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You say, "Tell us about Ricky."
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He said, "I'm a 68-year-old physician.
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I live near Hinsdale, Illinois.
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I often watch your program
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in preparation for Sabbath School.
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It brings joy to my heart
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and tears to my eyes.
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It's heartwarming in sincerity."
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Then notice this last sentence,
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"Thank you for the reassurance
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that salvation is a gift of God."
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(Derek, Team) Amen.
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(Derek) Ricky, thanks for writing
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to us from Illinois.
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You know, it's really amazing, isn't it,
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to see the diversity
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of our global Hope Sabbath School family.
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Right now we need all of you
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to sing with us our theme song
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from Deuteronomy 31, verse 6,
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"Be strong and of good courage,
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do not fear nor be afraid of them;
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for the Lord your God,
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He is the One who goes with you.
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He will not leave you nor forsake you.”
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Let's sing it together.
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♪ music ♪
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(Derek) Well, I am looking forward
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to the study today.
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Sabina, something we ought to remember
and not forget.
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Why don't you lead us
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in prayer as we begin.
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(Sabina) Yes, my delight.
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I'm so excited to be here,
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but let's pray before we start
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the study, okay?
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Our heavenly Father,
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it's such a wonderful day
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You brought us together
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here in this studio.
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And, we really want to turn to You, Lord,
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we turn our hearts, our minds,
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everything in us, and we ask
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that Your Holy Spirit
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will be in our midst.
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Father God, there is nothing in us, Lord,
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that can bring salvation,
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but I know Your words
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and the experiences we share here
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that are inspired by Your words
may change lives.
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So, I pray, Lord, that You are
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going to be speaking to us,
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You will speak to those
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who will be watching us
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in a very special way, Lord.
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You help us grow more
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into knowing who You are,
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who You want us to be.
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And may this be, Lord, a blessing
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to those who will watch.
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In Your name I pray. Amen.
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(Derek, Team) Amen.
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(Sabina) Okay, so today,
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as we start off this lesson,
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as we record it here in the studio,
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it happens to be my birthday.
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I know probably when the people
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who will be watching us,
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it's not going to be, any longer, the day;
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this is not a live show.
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But, I'm very excited
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because it happens also
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that it's usually, on my birthday,
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a time of reflection.
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It's a time when I usually take to spend,
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you know, in prayer with God
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reflecting about my past experiences
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and especially the ways
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that He has led me thus far.
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It's during my birthday
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when I kind of have that time
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to say, well, is there anything
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that I can do better?
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Is there anything that I have
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not yet, you know, adjusted in my life
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according to God's will?
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And most importantly,
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it's a time to be thankful
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because I can recall
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all the great things God has done for me.
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And for me, even as I stand here
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as part of Hope Sabbath School,
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it's part of the great works
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of God in my life.
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If it was not because of Jesus
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coming into my life,
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I wouldn't be here witnessing, right?
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(Derek) That's right.
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(Sabina) So, I'm thankful that it happens
to be my birthday.
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And, more than that, interestingly enough,
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the title of this lesson,
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as Pastor Derek was saying, is Remember.
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And it's not without a reason.
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When you look to the Scriptures,
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out of the 66 books of the Bible,
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Deuteronomy is one of the books where you
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see the word "remember" appear the most.
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I was checking here,
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the word "zakar" in Hebrew,
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which is the word that would translate
to "remember,"
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appears in the book of Deuteronomy
15 times,
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and this is just less than Psalms,
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Ezekiel, Isaiah, and Jeremiah,
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but proportionately it's very close
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to Psalms, which is the first one.
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So, we can almost say
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that it's one of the books
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in which the word "zakar" or "remember"
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proportionately appears the most.
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So, there might be a reason
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why God has inspired those
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who have written the Word of God
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to really remember something
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using this book, right?
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So, to start off finding out
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why are those "remembers" so important,
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I'm going to ask Stephanie
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if Stephanie could take us
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to the book of Deuteronomy,
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chapter 8, verse 18,
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and we are going to start looking
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at the first type of remember
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that God has for us. Stephanie.
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(Stephanie) The New King James
Version says:
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(Sabina) Okay, so what is the type
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of remember already that we see here?
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Do you see something? Yes, Jason.
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(Jason) Well, we need to remember God,
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so we need to remember
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who's the One who is in charge,
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who is the One guiding us,
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who is the One that we have
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that relationship with.
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(Sabina) So, that's a remember God, right?
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That's the first remember that we see.
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We also have some other texts in the Bible
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where there is a similar appeal.
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Maybe, Pedro, would you take us
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to Jeremiah, chapter 51:50,
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and there we are going to find out
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a little bit more about this type
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of remember that God asks us to have.
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(Pedro) I'll be reading
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from the New King James Version,
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Jeremiah 51:50, and it says:
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(Sabina) And, is there anything else here
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that you see that, compared
to remembering God,
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stands out to you about this experience
that they had?
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Maybe, why is it that they are
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here in a distant land?
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It says that they are away
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from their special place, Jerusalem.
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Why would it be important to remember?
Yes, Jason.
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(Jason) Well, because they are not
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in the place where God
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originally had them be.
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Because, if you look
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at the context of Deuteronomy,
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they are about to go into this land,
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and that's where, the chosen land,
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God's chosen people, and yet this verse
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is telling them to remember
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back to that place,
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because when Jeremiah is writing this,
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or the context he's writing it in,
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they're not in that location.
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(Sabina) Yes, thank you so much.
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And now maybe, Kim,
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would you take us to Ecclesiastes 12:1?
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That's another text in Scripture also
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that we can find a similar type
of remember.
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(Kim) Yes, I'll be reading
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from the English Standard Version:
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(Sabina) Thank you so much, Kim.
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And so, why do you think it's so important
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to remember God, both in the good
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and in the bad days?
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(Jason) Well, in our lives,
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we're going to have both good
and bad days,
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and if we want that relationship,
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that connection with God, to be strong,
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we need to have that time of remembrance
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back to the good days
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to get us through the bad days
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that we will have that are
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just a part of life.
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(Sabina) Okay, interesting, yeah.
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(Derek) I think a lot of times, Sabina,
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we try to figure out
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the solutions to our problem
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rather than the One who is the solution
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to all of our problems.
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And so, it's interesting,
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it doesn't say, "Remember the things
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that the Lord can do with...," no.
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Just, "Remember the Lord your God."
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And so there's that focus on God
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who He is, as a God who loves us,
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emptied heaven for us,
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and just remember Him, connect with HIm.
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(Sabina) Yeah, absolutely.
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I was considering also, Pastor Derek,
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because we are going to see
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other types of remembers
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that come up here in this book,
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and here is the thing:
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There is a special type
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of remembering of the Lord
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that is not for anything
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He has done for us, right?
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We just need to turn to Him
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as we have been discussing
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in the lessons before,
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not necessarily for the things
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He has done or not,
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but simply because He's our Creator,
right?
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Yes, Pedro.
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(Pedro) We see here,
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going back to the first text
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in chapter 8 of Deuteronomy,
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he's telling that, remember God
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because He's the One
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who gives you power.
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Now, the power aspect here we can see,
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he's talking about He is the One
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who provides to us.
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You know, He fed them in the wilderness.
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He brought them water;
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He brought them the support
that they needed.
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During difficult times
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and during good times,
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we need to know where we can
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draw our strength from,
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and that's from the Lord.
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(Sabina) Yes, Puia.
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(Puia) Back from where we read
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in Ecclesiastes 12 there,
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God says, "Remember your Creator
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in the days of your youth."
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I believe this is very practical
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for young people, because when we're young
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we think that we're strong
and we're healthy,
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and we think that that's how life
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is always going to be.
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But the truth is that we get old,
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and then we're not as strong
as we used to be.
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And I think it's very important
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to remember that one day we will be weak.
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One day we will not be able to do
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the things that we were
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able to do when we were young.
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So, serve God and remember God
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when you have the strength
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and all the might.
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(Sabina) Exactly.
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(Derek) It's also true,
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Puia's correct, of course,
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but you may not live to be old.
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So, remembering Him now,
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connect with Him now,
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because today is actually the only gift
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we know we have for sure.
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(Sabina) Yes. Amen. Absolutely.
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And one interesting thing also...
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Jonathan, first you speak,
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then I can share.
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(Jonathan) Okay, I was just thinking
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about all the different verses,
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but the one that struck me first
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was Deuteronomy 8:18 where it talked
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about wealth, gaining wealth.
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I know, if anybody had thought
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about getting a house
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in the last few weeks or months,
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it is pretty crazy right now.
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And my wife and I are
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kind of in a position
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where we're okay where we are,
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but we really need to be at some point.
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And just reading that it is God
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who promises to take care of us,
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we can look in the past and see
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how He has, in our lives,
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in all these different ways.
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And so, just like we said,
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in every area of our life,
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we can look back and say, "Wow, Lord,
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You've taken care of me."
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Okay, I can trust the craziness
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of the housing situation
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and whatever else in my life to Him.
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(Sabina) Yes, so, and not only,
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as you were sharing,
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in bad times or when we are
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in challenges when we may need something,
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but also simply for who He is
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in the good days as He has
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something to offer to us.
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And that's not just simply
material things,
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but it's a relationship.
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And that relationship
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is much more important than whatever it is
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that He can give to us, right?
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So, let's continue looking here
in Scripture,
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another type of remember.
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Now that we have established already
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that it's simply important
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to acknowledge God -
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that's not a remember of, oh,
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you had forgotten that God exists;
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it's to acknowledge Him in your ways -
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what other types of remembers
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has Moses written here
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for us to remember?
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So, maybe, Daniel, if you could take us
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to Deuteronomy, chapter 24, verse 18.
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(Daniel) And I'll be reading
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from the New King James Version.
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Deuteronomy 24:18 says:
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(Sabina) Awesome. So, what other type
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of remember do we see here? Yes, Pedro.
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(Pedro) We see that God is trying
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to help him to remember
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where they're coming from.
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You know, "I'm the One
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who delivered you from slavery.
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You had a life before you encountered Me,
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and I want you to know
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that I'm here to help you.
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I'm here to rescue,
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and I'm here to deliver you
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from your condition
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that you put yourself in."
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(Sabina) Okay. Puia, I saw your hand.
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(Puia) Yes, I believe this text,
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in the context of where this is written,
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if we read the previous verse,
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God is talking to them
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about how they are to relate
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to others, like strangers,
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the fatherless, the widows,
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the most vulnerable groups
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of people in the society.
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And He told them, "Remember
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where you were from.
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Remember where I delivered you from."
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So, "As you relate to others,
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remember that I saved you,
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so be kind to others, too."
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(Sabina) Yes. Jason.
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(Jason) And in addition
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to the Who saved them,
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it's also how He saved them.
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So, it's important
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they remember the whole process,
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because it's not like God just spoke,
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and they left Egypt.
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There was a whole process
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that went on there,
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with the plagues, with the Red Sea.
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And so, this is a pattern
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that's important because sometimes,
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later in life when they're in a good spot,
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or maybe they're going through struggles,
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it's important to remember,
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they'd been in struggles before,
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and God has rescued them in a mighty way,
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even when it seemed hopeless.
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(Sabina) Yes, amazing, that's really true.
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If we continue looking now
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at Deuteronomy 5:15,
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we are going to see
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that this is a pattern.
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Stephanie, would you please
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read for us Deuteronomy 5:15?
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(Stephanie) Sure, and I'll be reading
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from the New King James Version:
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(Sabina) Okay, so, what else
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in this particular text can we learn?
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Do you see something special here, too?
Yes, Pedro.
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(Pedro) We see here that this chapter
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is a revision of the Ten Commandments,
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and it's very interesting to see
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that the fourth commandment
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being mentioned here is addressed
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differently from the Ten Commandments
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in the book of Exodus.
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There's no change, in some ways,
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of the Ten Commandments,
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it's just that there was an emphasis here,
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different from the emphasis
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of the other mentioning.
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The first time it was written, in Exodus,
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it is mentioning God as a Creator
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and the importance for us to worship Him
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on the Sabbath day as a Creator.
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And here it's showing you
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it's the same aspect of worshiping God,
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but not only as our Creator
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but also as our Redeemer,
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the One who saves us from our sins,
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saves us from the slavery of sin.
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Or, in their case here, reminding them
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that, "I was the One
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who brought you out of slavery."
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(Sabina) Amen. We are going to look more
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into that particular topic,
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but, yeah, it's true.
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That's an important shift
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on the perspective of why they
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should keep the Sabbath
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and what could be the remember
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that they would bring to their hearts now.
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Also, then, let's look
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at Deuteronomy 16:12, and maybe, Kim,
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if you could take us there.
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And we are going to start thinking,
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why is it that it's important to us
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to have a similar attitude
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in remembering, also? Yes.
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(Kim) Sure, I'll be reading
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from the English Standard Version:
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(Sabina) Okay, so what dol we see
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in this particular Scripture here
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that we can maybe relate
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to our own experience?
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Can you relate with someone
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who has been a slave? Yes, Puia.
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(Puia) Well, I have not been a slave,
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to answer your last question there,
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but I believe personally,
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how I believe these texts
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are applicable for my life
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is that it reminds me
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to remember my humble beginnings,
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where God called me from
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and how He had led me.
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So, it in a way prevents me from pride
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to remember that, oh,
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I came from humble beginnings.
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So, I need to continually depend on God,
00:23:26.181 --> 00:23:28.111
even if He leads me to places
00:23:28.111 --> 00:23:30.259
that I never expected to be.
00:23:30.259 --> 00:23:32.648
And I think the word remember, itself,
00:23:32.648 --> 00:23:35.086
kind of points out that we tend
00:23:35.086 --> 00:23:36.517
to forget as human beings.
00:23:36.517 --> 00:23:38.500
So, I think that's a very important word
00:23:38.500 --> 00:23:40.114
for us, even today.
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(Sabina) Yes, Daniel.
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(Daniel) I'm sure that though none of us
00:23:43.497 --> 00:23:45.216
have been slaves, literal slaves,
00:23:45.216 --> 00:23:47.030
but we've all been slaves to sin.
00:23:47.030 --> 00:23:48.648
And this is just a reminder for us
00:23:48.648 --> 00:23:50.122
that God has delivered us
00:23:50.122 --> 00:23:51.548
from whatever sins that we've
00:23:51.548 --> 00:23:53.172
been dealing with in the past.
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And it brings us hope for the future.
00:23:54.931 --> 00:23:57.043
(Sabina) Yes, thank you, Daniel.
Yes, Jason.
00:23:57.043 --> 00:23:58.250
(Jason) Yes, and building
00:23:58.250 --> 00:24:00.031
off this idea from Daniel,
00:24:00.031 --> 00:24:02.542
I've never been a physical slave
00:24:02.542 --> 00:24:05.554
in the sense that the Hebrew people were;
00:24:05.554 --> 00:24:07.404
however, we've been slaves,
00:24:07.404 --> 00:24:08.843
not just to sin, but sometimes
00:24:08.843 --> 00:24:11.086
even to the opinions of other people,
00:24:11.086 --> 00:24:13.845
or even slaves to our jobs,
00:24:13.845 --> 00:24:18.890
or possibly even slaves to "good" things
at times.
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So, we all probably have a story
00:24:21.541 --> 00:24:23.245
of how we've been rescued,
00:24:23.245 --> 00:24:24.866
we've been redeemed from something
00:24:24.866 --> 00:24:26.211
that we were a "slave"
00:24:26.211 --> 00:24:27.965
or we were in bondage to.
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(Sabina) Yes, absolutely.
00:24:29.739 --> 00:24:32.369
And maybe to discuss further
on that topic,
00:24:32.369 --> 00:24:36.512
why don't we read together
Ephesians, chapter 2.
00:24:36.512 --> 00:24:37.440
We're going to read
00:24:37.440 --> 00:24:40.921
from verse 1 to verse 13.
00:24:40.921 --> 00:24:44.382
So, Ephesians 2, verses 1 to 13,
00:24:44.382 --> 00:24:47.219
and maybe, Kim, if you
00:24:47.219 --> 00:24:48.846
could take us there.
00:24:48.846 --> 00:24:50.796
(Kim) Sure, I'll be reading
00:24:50.796 --> 00:24:52.907
from the English Standard Version,
00:24:52.907 --> 00:24:56.735
Ephesians, chapter 2, verses 1 through 13:
00:26:16.424 --> 00:26:18.481
Okay, verse 11:
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(Derek) Amen.
00:26:50.875 --> 00:26:52.400
(Sabina) Thank you so much, Kim.
00:26:52.400 --> 00:26:53.767
So, we see here, it's true
00:26:53.767 --> 00:26:56.272
that we have not been slaves in Egypt.
00:26:56.272 --> 00:26:57.573
Maybe some of those
00:26:57.573 --> 00:26:59.055
who are watching us today
00:26:59.055 --> 00:27:01.120
may have experienced living in slavery.
00:27:01.120 --> 00:27:02.785
It is true that it's a real problem
00:27:02.785 --> 00:27:05.071
even nowadays, unfortunately,
00:27:05.071 --> 00:27:06.428
and we should pray for those
00:27:06.428 --> 00:27:07.845
who are in that position.
00:27:07.845 --> 00:27:09.627
But I think none of us has been part
00:27:09.627 --> 00:27:11.338
of this particular group that we are
00:27:11.338 --> 00:27:13.150
reading of here in the Bible, correct?
00:27:13.150 --> 00:27:15.544
But, it is true that it is
00:27:15.544 --> 00:27:17.973
still very important that we remember
00:27:17.973 --> 00:27:19.994
the ways in which, even today,
00:27:19.994 --> 00:27:22.309
God has delivered us from something.
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And why would you say that?
00:27:23.941 --> 00:27:25.125
Why is it so important
00:27:25.125 --> 00:27:29.640
that we would bring that to our minds?
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(Derek) I'm thinking of the Apostle Paul,
Sabina.
00:27:33.073 --> 00:27:34.806
Three times in the book of Acts
00:27:34.806 --> 00:27:36.860
he gives his testimony.
00:27:36.860 --> 00:27:38.179
And you could say,
00:27:38.179 --> 00:27:40.061
"We already heard it in chapter 9,"
00:27:40.061 --> 00:27:42.047
but he tells it again and again.
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I think it's important for two reasons.
00:27:47.032 --> 00:27:49.288
One, I think it reaffirms
00:27:49.288 --> 00:27:50.903
in our own hearts how good
00:27:50.903 --> 00:27:53.007
God has been to us.
00:27:53.007 --> 00:27:54.610
Like, Daniel said, He's
00:27:54.610 --> 00:27:57.669
delivered us from bondage.
00:27:57.669 --> 00:27:59.775
But it's also very powerful
00:27:59.775 --> 00:28:02.346
for people around us,
00:28:02.346 --> 00:28:05.214
because we call that a testimony, right?
00:28:05.214 --> 00:28:08.414
It's our testimony of what God has done
in our lives,
00:28:08.414 --> 00:28:10.650
and I think that's why Paul
00:28:10.650 --> 00:28:12.608
is constantly sharing; he says,
00:28:12.608 --> 00:28:14.511
"I'm the worst of sinners," you know,
00:28:14.511 --> 00:28:17.031
"Christ died..., I'm the chief one."
00:28:17.031 --> 00:28:19.275
And people are moved
00:28:19.275 --> 00:28:20.763
by that kind of testimony.
00:28:20.763 --> 00:28:24.274
So, I think the human response would be,
00:28:24.274 --> 00:28:26.245
"I don't want to talk about my mistakes."
00:28:26.245 --> 00:28:28.459
Well, we shouldn't glorify them,
00:28:28.459 --> 00:28:30.084
but we should be willing to say,
00:28:30.084 --> 00:28:34.313
"This is where I was when Jesus found me.
00:28:34.313 --> 00:28:36.501
And this is what He did for me,
00:28:36.501 --> 00:28:39.259
and here is where I am now,"
that's my testimony.
00:28:39.259 --> 00:28:41.019
(Sabina) Yes, and also, Pastor Derek,
00:28:41.019 --> 00:28:43.086
what I'm thinking is that not only do you
00:28:43.086 --> 00:28:44.536
show to other people,
00:28:44.536 --> 00:28:46.038
but also it will change the way
00:28:46.038 --> 00:28:48.601
that we deal with others.
00:28:48.601 --> 00:28:50.345
Just as God was using
00:28:50.345 --> 00:28:51.969
this particular verse here
00:28:51.969 --> 00:28:54.078
to help them understand
00:28:54.078 --> 00:28:56.978
why they should treat others
00:28:56.978 --> 00:29:00.799
unlike they were treated,
00:29:00.799 --> 00:29:02.788
so, in the same manner, when we consider
00:29:02.788 --> 00:29:04.402
God's grace in our lives,
00:29:04.402 --> 00:29:06.842
we also are going to extend grace
to others, right?
00:29:06.842 --> 00:29:07.726
(Team) Yes.
00:29:07.726 --> 00:29:09.642
(Sabina) I'm curious to hear
00:29:09.642 --> 00:29:12.392
some of the stories here in our group.
00:29:12.392 --> 00:29:15.431
Jonathan, do you have a story?
00:29:15.431 --> 00:29:17.438
(Jonathan) While I am thinking of a story,
00:29:17.438 --> 00:29:18.744
although I probably could,
00:29:18.744 --> 00:29:20.468
I was just thinking how, in verse 7,
00:29:20.468 --> 00:29:23.188
you get this picture that in the future
00:29:23.188 --> 00:29:24.484
when we're in heaven,
00:29:24.484 --> 00:29:30.889
we'll be for eternal ages rejoicing,
00:29:30.889 --> 00:29:34.103
and that will be the glory of Christ,
00:29:34.103 --> 00:29:36.026
is seeing what He did in our lives.
00:29:36.026 --> 00:29:38.691
And just throughout heaven's eternal ages,
00:29:38.691 --> 00:29:40.523
that will be not what we've done
00:29:40.523 --> 00:29:42.081
but what He's done in our lives.
00:29:42.081 --> 00:29:44.615
It's kind of a picture that amazed me.
00:29:44.615 --> 00:29:47.064
(Sabina) Amen. Yes, Jason.
00:29:47.064 --> 00:29:50.048
(Jason) So, I used to be a slave
00:29:50.048 --> 00:29:53.711
to the opinions of others.
00:29:53.711 --> 00:29:55.739
And I still, it matters, you know,
00:29:55.739 --> 00:29:57.997
what other people think,
maybe in relationship
00:29:57.997 --> 00:30:00.190
to being a good witness to Christ.
00:30:00.190 --> 00:30:01.748
But I remember many times
00:30:01.748 --> 00:30:03.568
I would be too afraid to do something,
00:30:03.568 --> 00:30:05.292
whether it was right or wrong,
00:30:05.292 --> 00:30:08.447
simply because of what another person
thought.
00:30:08.447 --> 00:30:10.522
If a friend thought
00:30:10.522 --> 00:30:12.227
that this would be uncool,
00:30:12.227 --> 00:30:13.492
I wouldn't want to do it.
00:30:13.492 --> 00:30:15.208
Or, if they thought, "I saw a friend
00:30:15.208 --> 00:30:17.306
wearing their hat backwards,"
00:30:17.306 --> 00:30:19.425
I would want to wear my hat backwards.
00:30:19.425 --> 00:30:21.035
And it's not so much whether it's
00:30:21.035 --> 00:30:22.442
right or wrong, the behavior,
00:30:22.442 --> 00:30:23.694
but it's, I was doing this
00:30:23.694 --> 00:30:25.059
because I cared so much
00:30:25.059 --> 00:30:27.303
about what this other person thought.
00:30:27.303 --> 00:30:29.123
Or, I wanted to wear my shirt this way
00:30:29.123 --> 00:30:31.571
because this is how another person did.
00:30:31.571 --> 00:30:33.100
And so, there was a time, yeah,
00:30:33.100 --> 00:30:34.666
when I wasn't a physical slave,
00:30:34.666 --> 00:30:36.705
but I was a slave to the opinion
of others.
00:30:36.705 --> 00:30:37.609
And I basically had
00:30:37.609 --> 00:30:38.817
to go through experiences
00:30:38.817 --> 00:30:40.455
where I realized it doesn't matter
00:30:40.455 --> 00:30:41.690
what other people think;
00:30:41.690 --> 00:30:43.370
what matters is what God thinks.
00:30:43.370 --> 00:30:45.059
(Sabina, Team) Amen.
00:30:45.059 --> 00:30:46.507
(Derek) That's a breakthrough.
00:30:46.507 --> 00:30:47.767
(Sabina) So, anyone else
00:30:47.767 --> 00:30:49.871
with a beautiful experience
of deliverance,
00:30:49.871 --> 00:30:52.541
where God has delivered you so far?
00:30:52.541 --> 00:30:57.421
I'm sure you have been delivered
of something.
00:30:57.421 --> 00:30:58.321
Well, I can say...
00:30:58.321 --> 00:30:59.805
(Derek) Travis, I think...
00:30:59.805 --> 00:31:04.087
(Sabina) Oh, Travis, go ahead, share.
00:31:04.087 --> 00:31:05.694
(Travis) Well, God has
00:31:05.694 --> 00:31:09.191
delivered me in many ways.
00:31:09.191 --> 00:31:11.120
I think there's a verse in the Bible
00:31:11.120 --> 00:31:13.446
that says, "God, I can't
00:31:13.446 --> 00:31:15.065
count the ways," right?
00:31:15.065 --> 00:31:18.382
Well, that's kind of where I am
in my walk,
00:31:18.382 --> 00:31:22.274
but I know that I'm not the man
00:31:22.274 --> 00:31:26.821
that I want to be, and I desire
to be a godly man.
00:31:26.821 --> 00:31:30.513
But as I look back at my past,
00:31:30.513 --> 00:31:32.297
I do recognize that there are things
00:31:32.297 --> 00:31:35.890
that I don't do now
00:31:35.890 --> 00:31:37.734
that I used to do before.
00:31:37.734 --> 00:31:41.426
And that can only be explained
00:31:41.426 --> 00:31:43.080
by the fact that God
00:31:43.080 --> 00:31:46.778
is a loving, miracle-working God,
00:31:46.778 --> 00:31:51.109
and He's promised to finish the work
in all of us.
00:31:51.109 --> 00:31:53.535
But I hang on that promise all the time.
00:31:53.535 --> 00:31:55.980
I'm just thankful that, while I may
00:31:55.980 --> 00:31:57.866
not be where I want to be,
00:31:57.866 --> 00:31:59.849
that I see things falling off,
00:31:59.849 --> 00:32:03.037
the closer and closer that I get to Jesus,
00:32:03.037 --> 00:32:05.020
and the more and more I walk with Him.
00:32:05.020 --> 00:32:06.486
And for me, that's
00:32:06.486 --> 00:32:08.216
just been an amazing journey.
00:32:08.216 --> 00:32:09.326
(Sabina) Wow, thank you
00:32:09.326 --> 00:32:11.110
so much for sharing, Travis.
00:32:11.110 --> 00:32:13.151
I was sharing also that I,
00:32:13.151 --> 00:32:14.437
when I look to my life,
00:32:14.437 --> 00:32:15.935
it's like Travis was sharing,
00:32:15.935 --> 00:32:16.934
there are many things
00:32:16.934 --> 00:32:19.658
I can kind of recall, you know, events
00:32:19.658 --> 00:32:20.518
of things that God
00:32:20.518 --> 00:32:22.496
was changing my course.
00:32:22.496 --> 00:32:24.686
But certainly I think that the main one
00:32:24.686 --> 00:32:26.400
is when I came to Jesus.
00:32:26.400 --> 00:32:27.817
He changed my course
00:32:27.817 --> 00:32:30.017
and delivered me from meaninglessness
00:32:30.017 --> 00:32:31.655
and gave me a mission.
00:32:31.655 --> 00:32:33.204
So, a person who is walking,
00:32:33.204 --> 00:32:36.739
not exactly knowing what they were
about in life,
00:32:36.739 --> 00:32:38.196
who are seeking for meaning,
00:32:38.196 --> 00:32:41.157
who are seeking for direction,
00:32:41.157 --> 00:32:42.404
God gave me a mission,
00:32:42.404 --> 00:32:43.929
and this mission is still valid.
00:32:43.929 --> 00:32:44.980
It's been now 20 years
00:32:44.980 --> 00:32:46.522
since I came to Jesus,
00:32:46.522 --> 00:32:48.661
and this mission only grows and grows.
00:32:48.661 --> 00:32:51.318
So, He not only delivers us from sin,
00:32:51.318 --> 00:32:52.485
but He can deliver us
00:32:52.485 --> 00:32:53.933
from, as Jason was saying,
00:32:53.933 --> 00:32:55.836
a kind of self-consciousness
00:32:55.836 --> 00:32:58.338
or excessive consideration of things
00:32:58.338 --> 00:33:00.029
we shouldn't be considering
00:33:00.029 --> 00:33:03.347
or sin of any sort, or in my case,
as I was saying,
00:33:03.347 --> 00:33:05.028
a sense of meaninglessness
00:33:05.028 --> 00:33:06.470
and giving me a mission.
00:33:06.470 --> 00:33:07.710
So, I'm sure that whoever
00:33:07.710 --> 00:33:08.689
is watching us today
00:33:08.689 --> 00:33:10.603
may have so many stories of ways
00:33:10.603 --> 00:33:12.947
that God has delivered you thus far;
00:33:12.947 --> 00:33:15.199
even if you have not been
a slave in Egypt,
00:33:15.199 --> 00:33:17.821
you can bring that to your memory, right?
00:33:17.821 --> 00:33:21.830
And let's look a little further,
then, in Scriptures,
00:33:21.830 --> 00:33:24.156
because, not only we are going
00:33:24.156 --> 00:33:25.486
to acknowledge that we are
00:33:25.486 --> 00:33:27.588
supposed to remember the ways
00:33:27.588 --> 00:33:29.298
that God has delivered us,
00:33:29.298 --> 00:33:31.840
but also this is part of remembering
00:33:31.840 --> 00:33:34.692
our past history of the Lord, right?
00:33:34.692 --> 00:33:35.880
So maybe, Pedro, if you
00:33:35.880 --> 00:33:40.636
would take us to Deuteronomy 32:7.
00:33:40.636 --> 00:33:41.850
So, we'll be reading
00:33:41.850 --> 00:33:44.474
from Deuteronomy 32:7 and learn
00:33:44.474 --> 00:33:47.340
a little more about this remember
00:33:47.340 --> 00:33:48.787
that God has for us.
00:33:48.787 --> 00:33:50.194
(Pedro) Sure, I'll be reading
00:33:50.194 --> 00:33:52.834
from the New King James Version,
00:33:52.834 --> 00:33:55.652
Deuteronomy 32:7, and it says:
00:34:08.821 --> 00:34:10.419
(Sabina) Okay, so what is it
00:34:10.419 --> 00:34:17.715
that Moses is calling, here,
the people to do?
00:34:17.715 --> 00:34:18.885
(Sabina) Yes, Stephanie.
00:34:18.885 --> 00:34:20.314
(Stephanie) Remember the past.
00:34:20.314 --> 00:34:22.173
(Sabina) Remember the past. Yes, Pedro.
00:34:22.173 --> 00:34:23.836
(Pedro) Reading this, it reminds me
00:34:23.836 --> 00:34:26.351
of reading my Bible, because looking
00:34:26.351 --> 00:34:28.071
to "consider many generations."
00:34:28.071 --> 00:34:29.416
Ask what your parents have
00:34:29.416 --> 00:34:30.605
gone through in the past.
00:34:30.605 --> 00:34:31.682
But I think we have
00:34:31.682 --> 00:34:34.267
a collection of history here
00:34:34.267 --> 00:34:37.365
of how God's people have been affected
00:34:37.365 --> 00:34:40.224
by choosing God and also not choosing him,
00:34:40.224 --> 00:34:41.544
and take into consideration
00:34:41.544 --> 00:34:43.324
and take the right act.
00:34:43.324 --> 00:34:46.931
(Sabina) Yes, I see Travis' hand up.
00:34:46.931 --> 00:34:48.230
(Travis) I'm thinking, too,
00:34:48.230 --> 00:34:49.626
as we're reading this,
00:34:49.626 --> 00:34:52.236
that God is telling us
00:34:52.236 --> 00:34:54.965
this isn't just biblical history
00:34:54.965 --> 00:34:56.150
that we could look into.
00:34:56.150 --> 00:34:58.586
I mean, we have religious leaders,
00:34:58.586 --> 00:35:00.484
I have religious mentors
00:35:00.484 --> 00:35:03.655
and people who are older than me,
00:35:03.655 --> 00:35:05.960
who've had past experiences,
00:35:05.960 --> 00:35:08.777
and it's great to seek counsel.
00:35:08.777 --> 00:35:10.166
You know, when it's the past,
00:35:10.166 --> 00:35:11.763
or we can look at the Reformation
00:35:11.763 --> 00:35:13.604
over the years and things like that
00:35:13.604 --> 00:35:16.488
and see where God has led people
in the past
00:35:16.488 --> 00:35:17.600
and see where people
00:35:17.600 --> 00:35:18.775
have failed in the past,
00:35:18.775 --> 00:35:20.542
because in that we can gain knowledge
00:35:20.542 --> 00:35:21.956
for the future.
00:35:21.956 --> 00:35:23.914
(Sabina) Amen. Yes.
00:35:23.914 --> 00:35:26.514
So maybe, also, if we look, now,
00:35:26.514 --> 00:35:29.267
in Romans 15:4,
00:35:29.267 --> 00:35:33.111
can someone read Romans 15:4?
00:35:33.111 --> 00:35:34.243
And, Jason, would you
00:35:34.243 --> 00:35:36.493
read that for us, please?
00:35:36.493 --> 00:35:38.007
(Jason) Sure, I have
00:35:38.007 --> 00:35:40.244
the New King James Version here.
00:35:40.244 --> 00:35:44.084
Romans, chapter 15, verse 4, says:
00:35:57.578 --> 00:35:58.685
(Sabina) Wow.
00:35:58.685 --> 00:35:59.842
(Derek) So, I think it's
00:35:59.842 --> 00:36:01.053
really important, Sabina,
00:36:01.053 --> 00:36:02.826
we're not just asking parents
00:36:02.826 --> 00:36:05.226
and grandparents, "Tell us some stories."
00:36:05.226 --> 00:36:07.260
We're asking how they've seen God
00:36:07.260 --> 00:36:09.465
leading in their lives,
00:36:09.465 --> 00:36:11.186
because it's our past history
00:36:11.186 --> 00:36:14.185
with the Lord that we want to remember.
00:36:14.185 --> 00:36:17.126
And sometimes we may be surprised
00:36:17.126 --> 00:36:18.808
when grandma shares
00:36:18.808 --> 00:36:21.744
a life-changing experience that she had
00:36:21.744 --> 00:36:24.298
and how it affected the course of her life
00:36:24.298 --> 00:36:26.531
and then her children and now you.
00:36:26.531 --> 00:36:28.742
So, I think these are the stories,
00:36:28.742 --> 00:36:31.443
because we could preoccupy ourselves
00:36:31.443 --> 00:36:35.435
just with information
about the family tree,
00:36:35.435 --> 00:36:38.420
but it's, "Grandma, grandpa, mom, dad,
00:36:38.420 --> 00:36:41.471
tell me how you've seen God, the Lord,
00:36:41.471 --> 00:36:45.081
leading in your life, in our family."
00:36:45.081 --> 00:36:46.630
(Sabina) Yeah, and Pastor Derek,
00:36:46.630 --> 00:36:48.242
you just made me remember
00:36:48.242 --> 00:36:51.975
Deuteronomy 6, verses 6 and 7,
00:36:51.975 --> 00:36:53.569
and that's right after the Shema,
00:36:53.569 --> 00:36:55.735
which we have studied previously here
00:36:55.735 --> 00:36:57.277
in one of our classes.
00:36:57.277 --> 00:36:58.708
And it's interesting that God,
00:36:58.708 --> 00:37:00.980
knowing the way that we are tailored,
00:37:00.980 --> 00:37:02.889
you know, the way that we are made,
00:37:02.889 --> 00:37:05.274
He encourages the people of Israel
00:37:05.274 --> 00:37:08.107
to actually do that, to teach each other
00:37:08.107 --> 00:37:09.683
in walking in the way.
00:37:09.683 --> 00:37:13.622
And that's Deuteronomy 6:6,7;
00:37:13.622 --> 00:37:15.987
Stephanie, would you read that
for us, please?
00:37:15.987 --> 00:37:18.832
(Stephanie) Sure, and the New
King James Version says:
00:37:36.508 --> 00:37:39.970
(Sabina) Wow, and even further,
verse 8 says:
00:37:47.587 --> 00:37:49.545
So, I think it's very gracious of God
00:37:49.545 --> 00:37:51.476
that He gave us the Word.
00:37:51.476 --> 00:37:53.245
And, as we saw in Romans,
00:37:53.245 --> 00:37:56.411
as Jason read for us here, Scriptures,
00:37:56.411 --> 00:37:58.681
they were given with a purpose.
00:37:58.681 --> 00:38:01.162
And God, knowing how we were made,
00:38:01.162 --> 00:38:03.262
He wanted us to have the opportunity
00:38:03.262 --> 00:38:06.412
to, through repetition, remember it,
00:38:06.412 --> 00:38:09.569
to have it fixed in our long-term memory.
00:38:09.569 --> 00:38:11.718
He was not trying to make it hard for us
00:38:11.718 --> 00:38:13.247
to remember those things.
00:38:13.247 --> 00:38:14.875
In writing, in teaching
00:38:14.875 --> 00:38:16.277
how we should teach,
00:38:16.277 --> 00:38:17.448
He wants us to have
00:38:17.448 --> 00:38:19.857
a better ability of remembering, even,
00:38:19.857 --> 00:38:24.022
because we are short-sighted,
short memory.
00:38:24.022 --> 00:38:26.579
If you look at the ways that people learn,
00:38:26.579 --> 00:38:27.771
even the ways that they
00:38:27.771 --> 00:38:29.083
learn to memorize things,
00:38:29.083 --> 00:38:30.610
usually it takes repetition.
00:38:30.610 --> 00:38:32.039
That's the third step.
00:38:32.039 --> 00:38:33.820
I don't know if someone knows
00:38:33.820 --> 00:38:35.543
some things here about cognition
00:38:35.543 --> 00:38:36.852
and how you learn,
00:38:36.852 --> 00:38:38.611
the thing is that you need attention,
00:38:38.611 --> 00:38:40.368
and then you have this retention.
00:38:40.368 --> 00:38:42.179
And the final process is that you need
00:38:42.179 --> 00:38:44.335
to recover the information.
00:38:44.335 --> 00:38:45.420
And God, knowing that
00:38:45.420 --> 00:38:46.812
because He created us,
00:38:46.812 --> 00:38:48.446
He not only asks His people
00:38:48.446 --> 00:38:51.183
to keep doing so to help each other,
00:38:51.183 --> 00:38:52.647
but also He reminds us here
00:38:52.647 --> 00:38:53.638
in the New Testament
00:38:53.638 --> 00:38:55.367
that we should ourselves be looking
00:38:55.367 --> 00:38:57.744
at Scripture for learning. Yes, Pedro.
00:38:57.744 --> 00:39:00.185
(Pedro) I found that very important,
00:39:00.185 --> 00:39:01.952
because many times when we're looking
00:39:01.952 --> 00:39:04.132
into content or information about people,
00:39:04.132 --> 00:39:06.687
there's always the aspect of influence.
00:39:06.687 --> 00:39:07.962
What is this person trying
00:39:07.962 --> 00:39:09.342
to bring to your life?
00:39:09.342 --> 00:39:10.661
You know, you read a book;
00:39:10.661 --> 00:39:12.246
what is the purpose of this book?
00:39:12.246 --> 00:39:13.468
And we see that the Bible
00:39:13.468 --> 00:39:15.013
and the Christian realm,
00:39:15.013 --> 00:39:19.324
where people are trying to help you
reach to Christ.
00:39:19.324 --> 00:39:21.457
I had a conversation
00:39:21.457 --> 00:39:24.271
with someone yesterday who was asking
00:39:24.271 --> 00:39:26.697
about why the book of Judges was written,
00:39:26.697 --> 00:39:28.358
why those stories were written.
00:39:28.358 --> 00:39:29.458
It's for us to remember
00:39:29.458 --> 00:39:31.469
what the condition of man is
00:39:31.469 --> 00:39:33.891
when God is not present.
00:39:33.891 --> 00:39:35.117
So, why we have some
00:39:35.117 --> 00:39:36.449
of those horrible stories,
00:39:36.449 --> 00:39:38.461
well, they're not to give you nightmares.
00:39:38.461 --> 00:39:40.469
It's for us to remember what happens
00:39:40.469 --> 00:39:42.590
when we separate from God
00:39:42.590 --> 00:39:44.211
and we do as we please.
00:39:44.211 --> 00:39:47.384
(Sabina) Yes. Jonathan.
00:39:48.488 --> 00:39:49.633
(Jonathan) Yeah, I think
00:39:49.633 --> 00:39:50.974
this is a powerful reminder
00:39:50.974 --> 00:39:53.041
for the need for family worship.
00:39:53.041 --> 00:39:54.858
I've been a part of, well,
00:39:54.858 --> 00:39:58.846
my current in-laws are great
with family worship.
00:39:58.846 --> 00:40:00.868
They are always having
00:40:00.868 --> 00:40:02.615
all these kids involved.
00:40:02.615 --> 00:40:05.028
And we have a worship every Friday night
00:40:05.028 --> 00:40:06.571
with the whole family over Zoom.
00:40:06.571 --> 00:40:08.648
And we can see that there's
a real challenge
00:40:08.648 --> 00:40:10.235
with the younger generations
00:40:10.235 --> 00:40:11.907
that don't know their Bibles,
00:40:11.907 --> 00:40:13.231
and how do we help them.
00:40:13.231 --> 00:40:15.186
So, I think this is addressing
00:40:15.186 --> 00:40:16.871
that same problem that has
00:40:16.871 --> 00:40:17.978
always been a challenge
00:40:17.978 --> 00:40:19.619
of how we help the next generation
00:40:19.619 --> 00:40:22.667
learn who God is; it's finding time
00:40:22.667 --> 00:40:25.087
to remind them what He's done
in our lives,
00:40:25.087 --> 00:40:26.706
what He's done in Scripture,
00:40:26.706 --> 00:40:28.454
and putting that before them
00:40:28.454 --> 00:40:30.329
so they don't forget.
00:40:30.329 --> 00:40:31.637
(Sabina) So, it sounds like
00:40:31.637 --> 00:40:33.464
it's not just about our own process
00:40:33.464 --> 00:40:35.499
of memorizing and remembering things,
00:40:35.499 --> 00:40:38.067
but also it's for other people.
Yes, Pedro.
00:40:38.067 --> 00:40:39.729
(Pedro) I agree with Jonathan,
00:40:39.729 --> 00:40:40.938
and even more, that's why
00:40:40.938 --> 00:40:42.305
we have Sabbath School.
00:40:42.305 --> 00:40:43.697
You know, Hope Sabbath School
00:40:43.697 --> 00:40:45.965
is here to help us go through the Bible
00:40:45.965 --> 00:40:48.219
and remind ourselves what God
00:40:48.219 --> 00:40:49.712
has said in His Word.
00:40:49.712 --> 00:40:51.851
Every day, I have to worship
00:40:51.851 --> 00:40:53.611
with my daughter at home,
00:40:53.611 --> 00:40:55.977
and it's so good to be reminded
00:40:55.977 --> 00:40:58.406
through her stories, simple stories,
00:40:58.406 --> 00:41:00.238
the life of David and Daniel,
00:41:00.238 --> 00:41:02.723
and see that she's absorbing that.
00:41:02.723 --> 00:41:04.334
And I'm able to be reminded
00:41:04.334 --> 00:41:06.650
of God's love through that teaching.
00:41:06.650 --> 00:41:08.273
(Sabina) Amen. Yes.
00:41:08.273 --> 00:41:10.248
That's truly amazing, right, isn't it,
00:41:10.248 --> 00:41:11.695
and to have a father -
00:41:11.695 --> 00:41:13.626
I thank God, Pedro, because I'm sure
00:41:13.626 --> 00:41:15.427
your daughter is going to remember
00:41:15.427 --> 00:41:16.796
a lot of the things that you
00:41:16.796 --> 00:41:18.507
and your wife are teaching to her.
00:41:18.507 --> 00:41:20.473
And that's to the glory of God
00:41:20.473 --> 00:41:22.024
and for her good, right?
00:41:22.024 --> 00:41:23.649
And I see that God also,
00:41:23.649 --> 00:41:24.752
He is trying to make
00:41:24.752 --> 00:41:27.322
a similar process to help us
00:41:27.322 --> 00:41:29.042
to remember His goodness.
00:41:29.042 --> 00:41:30.905
You know, when I think about the feasts
00:41:30.905 --> 00:41:31.961
that were established
00:41:31.961 --> 00:41:33.045
in the Old Testament,
00:41:33.045 --> 00:41:35.300
even the feasts, each one of them,
00:41:35.300 --> 00:41:38.208
they had a purpose of helping people
00:41:38.208 --> 00:41:41.105
to remember God's plan of salvation,
00:41:41.105 --> 00:41:42.970
to remember God's goodness,
00:41:42.970 --> 00:41:46.094
their deliverance, to look forward
for the future.
00:41:46.094 --> 00:41:48.095
So, even if someone didn't have access
00:41:48.095 --> 00:41:49.891
to the Word of God at that time,
00:41:49.891 --> 00:41:53.004
if it was not as accessible
as it is for us,
00:41:53.004 --> 00:41:54.191
they could remember
00:41:54.191 --> 00:41:55.837
even through their rituals
00:41:55.837 --> 00:41:57.890
about God's goodness, right?
00:41:57.890 --> 00:41:59.834
Jason, were you saying something?
00:41:59.834 --> 00:42:02.068
I saw you were agreeing with that.
00:42:02.068 --> 00:42:03.520
(Jason) I was just saying yes,
00:42:03.520 --> 00:42:06.139
and that's awesome having the rituals,
00:42:06.139 --> 00:42:07.320
having the sacrifices,
00:42:07.320 --> 00:42:08.899
because they're an object lesson.
00:42:08.899 --> 00:42:10.641
So, we have the Word of God,
00:42:10.641 --> 00:42:12.690
we can read it, but for those
who couldn't,
00:42:12.690 --> 00:42:15.151
they could see it in action.
00:42:15.151 --> 00:42:16.570
(Sabina) Amen. Yes, so it's
00:42:16.570 --> 00:42:19.761
a good thing to help us, right?
00:42:19.761 --> 00:42:21.991
Like it's some material, visual something.
00:42:21.991 --> 00:42:23.932
Their senses were involved also
00:42:23.932 --> 00:42:26.121
in that experience, so that probably they
00:42:26.121 --> 00:42:28.563
would more easily remember the things
00:42:28.563 --> 00:42:30.496
that God had been doing in their lives
00:42:30.496 --> 00:42:33.860
as a people, and personally, also.
00:42:33.860 --> 00:42:35.787
So, let's look further here.
00:42:35.787 --> 00:42:40.747
Maybe we should turn to Deuteronomy 8,
00:42:40.747 --> 00:42:41.968
if we could go there.
00:42:41.968 --> 00:42:44.902
Kim, would you take us there, please,
00:42:44.902 --> 00:42:47.658
Deuteronomy, chapter 8, and if you
00:42:47.658 --> 00:42:50.767
would read verses 2 and 4.
00:42:50.767 --> 00:42:52.071
(Kim) Sure, I'll be reading
00:42:52.071 --> 00:42:54.465
from the English Standard Version,
00:42:54.465 --> 00:42:56.275
Deuteronomy 8, verse 2:
00:43:10.109 --> 00:43:11.182
Verse 4:
00:43:17.347 --> 00:43:19.722
(Sabina) Wow. So, these people,
00:43:19.722 --> 00:43:21.665
they really had wonderful things
00:43:21.665 --> 00:43:23.434
to remember about what God had done
00:43:23.434 --> 00:43:25.035
in their lives, right?
00:43:25.035 --> 00:43:27.033
Isn't it amazing, imagine spending
00:43:27.033 --> 00:43:29.980
40 years wandering in the desert,
00:43:29.980 --> 00:43:31.485
and the Word of God says
00:43:31.485 --> 00:43:34.052
that their garments did not wear out,
00:43:34.052 --> 00:43:35.977
and neither did their feet swell
00:43:35.977 --> 00:43:38.487
during these 40 years.
00:43:38.487 --> 00:43:40.887
So, just like with them, I imagine
00:43:40.887 --> 00:43:42.189
that some of us here
00:43:42.189 --> 00:43:43.635
among, not only the people
00:43:43.635 --> 00:43:44.612
who are watching us,
00:43:44.612 --> 00:43:47.450
but our really little group here,
00:43:47.450 --> 00:43:51.589
that maybe you have some experience
00:43:51.589 --> 00:43:52.750
with God in which He
00:43:52.750 --> 00:43:55.933
has been blessing you, and His presence
00:43:55.933 --> 00:43:58.411
and power have been revealed.
00:43:58.411 --> 00:43:59.514
Would you like to share
00:43:59.514 --> 00:44:07.264
some of those experiences, maybe, with us.
Yes, Travis.
00:44:08.544 --> 00:44:10.133
(Travis) Well, I'm going to share
00:44:10.133 --> 00:44:13.665
an experience actually, a testimony
00:44:13.665 --> 00:44:16.976
that I have experienced
with somebody else.
00:44:16.976 --> 00:44:20.436
Her name was Sherry, actually she wrote in
00:44:20.436 --> 00:44:21.465
a couple of years ago
00:44:21.465 --> 00:44:23.513
through Hope Sabbath School.
00:44:23.513 --> 00:44:25.367
And I had been conversing
00:44:25.367 --> 00:44:27.308
with her for two years,
00:44:27.308 --> 00:44:29.129
and now she's part of a Bible study
00:44:29.129 --> 00:44:31.022
that I do every Friday night.
00:44:31.022 --> 00:44:34.139
But she seemed, you know, just down.
00:44:34.139 --> 00:44:37.242
And we would share Bible experiences;
00:44:37.242 --> 00:44:38.793
this is what this was all about.
00:44:38.793 --> 00:44:40.173
We would go back and reflect
00:44:40.173 --> 00:44:42.163
on Bible promises, Bible experiences,
00:44:42.163 --> 00:44:43.668
and this has been happening
00:44:43.668 --> 00:44:45.411
week after week through the years.
00:44:45.411 --> 00:44:47.405
And I have never seen
00:44:47.405 --> 00:44:48.876
such a transformation.
00:44:48.876 --> 00:44:50.228
Just this last week,
00:44:50.228 --> 00:44:53.474
she's in our Bible study, and she's happy.
00:44:53.474 --> 00:44:55.542
It's like God has transformed her,
00:44:55.542 --> 00:44:57.976
and I'm thinking, as we're going
through this study,
00:44:57.976 --> 00:44:59.546
"Well, it was the Word of God
00:44:59.546 --> 00:45:02.192
where she saw God leading
00:45:02.192 --> 00:45:03.530
other people in the past
00:45:03.530 --> 00:45:05.019
through the Scriptures,
00:45:05.019 --> 00:45:07.229
that has transformed and changed
her life."
00:45:07.229 --> 00:45:09.012
And she's just a miracle,
00:45:09.012 --> 00:45:12.089
and it's a blessing to have her
in our study.
00:45:12.089 --> 00:45:17.359
(Sabina) Awesome. Any other stories?
Yes, Jonathan.
00:45:17.359 --> 00:45:18.435
(Jonathan) One that I
00:45:18.435 --> 00:45:19.835
always like to go back to
00:45:19.835 --> 00:45:23.791
was when I was a student missionary
in the Philippines.
00:45:23.791 --> 00:45:28.348
It was living out in a grass hut,
nothing there,
00:45:28.348 --> 00:45:29.783
just way away from everything.
00:45:29.783 --> 00:45:31.417
I had to hike to it a little ways.
00:45:31.417 --> 00:45:33.692
But, the people there,
00:45:33.692 --> 00:45:35.558
we were so close to them.
00:45:35.558 --> 00:45:38.419
A small group of us student missionaries,
00:45:38.419 --> 00:45:41.746
we were very close to the need
00:45:41.746 --> 00:45:44.139
and to depending upon God.
00:45:44.139 --> 00:45:46.324
And I remember so many times up there
00:45:46.324 --> 00:45:48.180
where I was seeking God,
00:45:48.180 --> 00:45:50.012
and God really showed Himself up
00:45:50.012 --> 00:45:51.046
and kind of called me
00:45:51.046 --> 00:45:52.201
to where I am today
00:45:52.201 --> 00:45:53.657
and kind of gave me a picture
00:45:53.657 --> 00:45:54.659
of where I should be.
00:45:54.659 --> 00:45:58.104
And so that was a very memorable place
to go back to.
00:45:58.104 --> 00:46:00.810
(Sabina) Awesome, that sounds
so impressive.
00:46:00.810 --> 00:46:03.930
Puia, you had your hand out also?
00:46:03.930 --> 00:46:06.971
(Puia) Yes, I struggled for a while
00:46:06.971 --> 00:46:09.670
in my teenage years with doubts
00:46:09.670 --> 00:46:12.865
about God's existence and God's
love for me.
00:46:12.865 --> 00:46:18.065
And I remember very dark times in my faith
00:46:18.065 --> 00:46:21.352
where I struggled to hold onto God.
00:46:21.352 --> 00:46:24.648
And I remember in my darkest hours,
00:46:24.648 --> 00:46:27.559
filled with questions that I cannot answer
00:46:27.559 --> 00:46:29.989
and filled with doubts
00:46:29.989 --> 00:46:32.507
and discouragement in my faith,
00:46:32.507 --> 00:46:35.240
I remember experiencing the presence
00:46:35.240 --> 00:46:38.383
of God in a way that I have
00:46:38.383 --> 00:46:40.210
never experienced before, where I felt
00:46:40.210 --> 00:46:42.735
that Jesus was very close to me,
00:46:42.735 --> 00:46:44.354
even in my darkest hour.
00:46:44.354 --> 00:46:47.270
So, that is what I go back to
00:46:47.270 --> 00:46:50.327
whenever I experience difficult times
today.
00:46:50.327 --> 00:46:52.547
I remember, "God was with me there,"
00:46:52.547 --> 00:46:53.430
And so, He's going
00:46:53.430 --> 00:46:54.998
to be with me now, too.
00:46:54.998 --> 00:46:56.500
(Sabina) Amen. Amen.
00:46:56.500 --> 00:46:57.974
That sounds amazing; thank you,
00:46:57.974 --> 00:46:59.673
Puia, for sharing that story.
00:46:59.673 --> 00:47:00.791
I also have a story
00:47:00.791 --> 00:47:02.966
that I often bring back to memory
00:47:02.966 --> 00:47:03.974
that happened to me
00:47:03.974 --> 00:47:07.749
when I was a teenager;
I was about 18.
00:47:07.749 --> 00:47:10.291
I remember being in a classroom,
00:47:10.291 --> 00:47:11.780
and a professor was speaking
00:47:11.780 --> 00:47:13.049
against Jesus,
00:47:13.049 --> 00:47:15.160
and I decided just to leave the class.
00:47:15.160 --> 00:47:17.665
I took my things with me and I left.
00:47:17.665 --> 00:47:19.973
And I remember having a long conversation
00:47:19.973 --> 00:47:22.428
with God on my path back home,
00:47:22.428 --> 00:47:24.086
and really upset, disappointed
00:47:24.086 --> 00:47:25.862
because that person appeared
00:47:25.862 --> 00:47:27.459
to be prospering in their ways.
00:47:27.459 --> 00:47:28.679
You know, as a professor,
00:47:28.679 --> 00:47:29.931
he was well known,
00:47:29.931 --> 00:47:33.044
people liked him and everything.
00:47:33.044 --> 00:47:37.562
But I felt so disenfranchised
during that time
00:47:37.562 --> 00:47:38.722
and also very upset
00:47:38.722 --> 00:47:41.352
because he was speaking against Jesus.
00:47:41.352 --> 00:47:42.530
So, when I arrived home,
00:47:42.530 --> 00:47:44.407
my sister, she told me that she knew
00:47:44.407 --> 00:47:45.525
I was coming back home.
00:47:45.525 --> 00:47:46.722
She was praying;
00:47:46.722 --> 00:47:48.782
God impressed her, the Holy Spirit.
00:47:48.782 --> 00:47:50.295
And she asked me to read
00:47:50.295 --> 00:47:52.042
two passages in the Bible,
00:47:52.042 --> 00:47:54.146
one in the book of Psalm 73
00:47:54.146 --> 00:47:55.470
and another one in the book
00:47:55.470 --> 00:47:57.186
of Songs of Solomon
00:47:57.186 --> 00:47:58.956
that I forgot already, unfortunately.
00:47:58.956 --> 00:48:00.783
I didn't take note at the time.
00:48:00.783 --> 00:48:02.028
And interestingly enough,
00:48:02.028 --> 00:48:03.546
we don't have time here,
00:48:03.546 --> 00:48:05.337
but if you would read Psalm 73,
00:48:05.337 --> 00:48:07.289
it was exactly every one
00:48:07.289 --> 00:48:09.636
of my thoughts in order,
00:48:09.636 --> 00:48:12.032
how I had thought of them one by one,
00:48:12.032 --> 00:48:13.219
even in my conversation
00:48:13.219 --> 00:48:14.488
when we got back home.
00:48:14.488 --> 00:48:16.540
He was just revealing to me
00:48:16.540 --> 00:48:19.546
everything just how I had just thought.
00:48:19.546 --> 00:48:21.341
And I find it amazing
00:48:21.341 --> 00:48:23.720
that He knows us so fully.
00:48:23.720 --> 00:48:26.627
And what's more interesting,
Pastor Derek,
00:48:26.627 --> 00:48:28.646
is that when I came to the seminary,
00:48:28.646 --> 00:48:31.443
I learned that Psalm 73
00:48:31.443 --> 00:48:33.960
happens to be a Psalm
00:48:33.960 --> 00:48:35.939
that points to the final conclusion
00:48:35.939 --> 00:48:37.668
of what's going to happen
00:48:37.668 --> 00:48:40.689
to those who are not following God.
00:48:40.689 --> 00:48:43.277
In simple words, you know,
00:48:43.277 --> 00:48:47.740
God is giving, there, the response
to evil.
00:48:47.740 --> 00:48:49.067
It says that one day
00:48:49.067 --> 00:48:50.856
there will be a judgment.
00:48:50.856 --> 00:48:52.494
At the time that I read the Psalm,
00:48:52.494 --> 00:48:54.049
I was just impressed how God
00:48:54.049 --> 00:48:55.611
could know my every thought.
00:48:55.611 --> 00:48:56.908
But nowadays I even know
00:48:56.908 --> 00:48:58.418
that He was actually responding
00:48:58.418 --> 00:48:59.674
to me, to my concern.
00:48:59.674 --> 00:49:01.737
So, that's a memorable experience
00:49:01.737 --> 00:49:02.787
that I had with Him
00:49:02.787 --> 00:49:03.984
that I will never forget.
00:49:03.984 --> 00:49:05.674
And I often bring it to memory.
00:49:05.674 --> 00:49:07.628
If I'm going shaky on my faith,
00:49:07.628 --> 00:49:09.493
or a little unhappy or sad,
00:49:09.493 --> 00:49:11.246
I know He knows my every thought.
00:49:11.246 --> 00:49:12.262
Yes, Pastor Derek.
00:49:12.262 --> 00:49:14.187
(Derek) I've been blessed, Sabina,
00:49:14.187 --> 00:49:15.541
as I'm sure many have,
00:49:15.541 --> 00:49:18.579
to see many miracles in my life,
00:49:18.579 --> 00:49:20.852
miracles of transformation,
00:49:20.852 --> 00:49:23.203
people, just their lives turned around.
00:49:23.203 --> 00:49:26.399
Whenever that happens, I sit down
00:49:26.399 --> 00:49:28.585
and I write it down.
00:49:28.585 --> 00:49:30.415
And I put the day, the date.
00:49:30.415 --> 00:49:31.814
I remember a young lady
00:49:31.814 --> 00:49:34.847
who used to cut herself and burn herself.
00:49:34.847 --> 00:49:36.043
She had so much pain.
00:49:36.043 --> 00:49:38.378
I remember the day, May 13,
00:49:38.378 --> 00:49:39.953
I can give you the year,
00:49:39.953 --> 00:49:41.563
when Jesus healed her.
00:49:41.563 --> 00:49:43.431
And I write that down.
00:49:43.431 --> 00:49:46.239
It's like building a little altar
00:49:46.239 --> 00:49:48.016
of worship to God.
00:49:48.016 --> 00:49:49.807
And, you know, one
00:49:49.807 --> 00:49:51.457
of our early Adventist pioneers
00:49:51.457 --> 00:49:55.711
wrote a book, Way Marks and High Heaps.
00:49:55.711 --> 00:49:56.771
What he meant is build
00:49:56.771 --> 00:49:58.786
some places that remind you,
00:49:58.786 --> 00:50:00.313
just like the children of Israel
00:50:00.313 --> 00:50:02.014
stacked those stones up
00:50:02.014 --> 00:50:05.069
as a reminder, "Thus far God has led us."
00:50:05.069 --> 00:50:07.296
I think it's really powerful
00:50:07.296 --> 00:50:09.528
and really the theme of the lesson
00:50:09.528 --> 00:50:12.041
is don't forget those times,
00:50:12.041 --> 00:50:13.205
and don't let your momma
00:50:13.205 --> 00:50:15.263
or your grandpa forget those times either.
00:50:15.263 --> 00:50:16.932
Let them tell you those stories.
00:50:16.932 --> 00:50:18.061
And you have nothing
00:50:18.061 --> 00:50:20.218
to fear for the future
00:50:20.218 --> 00:50:21.982
if you'll remember the way
00:50:21.982 --> 00:50:24.180
God has led you in your past.
00:50:24.180 --> 00:50:25.928
And, of course, that's why the enemy
00:50:25.928 --> 00:50:28.138
wants us to just forget those things - no!
00:50:28.138 --> 00:50:30.558
Remember, remember the Lord,
00:50:30.558 --> 00:50:32.544
remember what He's done in your life,
00:50:32.544 --> 00:50:34.350
remember His activity
00:50:34.350 --> 00:50:37.570
in your past history, so valuable.
00:50:37.570 --> 00:50:39.584
And then you have a testimony to share.
00:50:39.584 --> 00:50:40.929
(Sabina) Amen. Pastor Derek.
00:50:40.929 --> 00:50:42.505
Yeah, that's a good idea,
00:50:42.505 --> 00:50:43.921
just keep record of that.
00:50:43.921 --> 00:50:45.050
One day maybe you can
00:50:45.050 --> 00:50:47.271
share that with other people.
00:50:47.271 --> 00:50:49.566
So, we also have another type of remember.
00:50:49.566 --> 00:50:52.326
We are going to look there very quickly.
00:50:52.326 --> 00:50:55.063
So, we saw already in Deuteronomy
00:50:55.063 --> 00:50:56.696
that there is the type of remember
00:50:56.696 --> 00:50:58.088
of simply a knowledge of God,
00:50:58.088 --> 00:50:59.368
remembering that He exists
00:50:59.368 --> 00:51:00.809
and giving Him honor.
00:51:00.809 --> 00:51:03.202
We also recognized that there is a type
00:51:03.202 --> 00:51:05.138
of call to remember
00:51:05.138 --> 00:51:06.790
where He delivered you from
00:51:06.790 --> 00:51:08.654
and how He delivered you,
00:51:08.654 --> 00:51:09.870
whatever is the case,
00:51:09.870 --> 00:51:13.097
your sin or a bad situation in your life.
00:51:13.097 --> 00:51:14.661
And we also have considered
00:51:14.661 --> 00:51:16.476
that He asks us simply to remember
00:51:16.476 --> 00:51:19.046
His works in general in your life.
00:51:19.046 --> 00:51:20.367
And now, we also have
00:51:20.367 --> 00:51:22.166
a different type of remember,
00:51:22.166 --> 00:51:24.729
and we are going to check there,
00:51:24.729 --> 00:51:26.308
and Pedro, I think, had already
00:51:26.308 --> 00:51:27.858
started off on that topic.
00:51:27.858 --> 00:51:29.553
So, Pedro, maybe if you could
00:51:29.553 --> 00:51:32.217
take us back there, and that's
00:51:32.217 --> 00:51:38.286
in Deuteronomy 4:40.
00:51:38.286 --> 00:51:40.135
No, before that, I'm sorry,
00:51:40.135 --> 00:51:44.071
let's look at Deuteronomy 5:12.
00:51:44.071 --> 00:51:45.631
(Pedro) Okay, I'll be reading
00:51:45.631 --> 00:51:47.466
from the New King James Version,
00:51:47.466 --> 00:51:50.114
Deuteronomy 5:12, and it says:
00:51:56.870 --> 00:51:58.164
(Sabina) Okay, so what type
00:51:58.164 --> 00:52:01.064
of remember is different here?
00:52:01.064 --> 00:52:03.848
That it's different than what we've
00:52:03.848 --> 00:52:06.220
seen before in the Sabbath commandment
00:52:06.220 --> 00:52:07.492
because here it appears
00:52:07.492 --> 00:52:10.006
as "observe," and not "remember," right?
00:52:10.006 --> 00:52:11.508
(Pedro) Yes, when we're looking
00:52:11.508 --> 00:52:13.446
through the texts, and I read verse 15,
00:52:13.446 --> 00:52:14.846
which was in the same context
00:52:14.846 --> 00:52:16.204
or the same commandment,
00:52:16.204 --> 00:52:17.802
you know, the fourth commandment.
00:52:17.802 --> 00:52:19.802
And He asks us to remember
00:52:19.802 --> 00:52:22.417
the aspect of the slavery
00:52:22.417 --> 00:52:23.605
they had gone through.
00:52:23.605 --> 00:52:25.265
But when we see "observe,"
00:52:25.265 --> 00:52:26.795
we're also reminded
00:52:26.795 --> 00:52:29.449
that in the fourth commandment in Exodus,
00:52:29.449 --> 00:52:31.191
we see the word "remember."
00:52:31.191 --> 00:52:32.661
And observing and remembering
00:52:32.661 --> 00:52:34.395
have a correlation with each other.
00:52:34.395 --> 00:52:36.943
And God wants us to remind ourselves
00:52:36.943 --> 00:52:39.149
that He is our Creator.
00:52:39.149 --> 00:52:41.343
He is the One who made us
00:52:41.343 --> 00:52:43.138
in the first place.
00:52:43.138 --> 00:52:44.328
(Derek) I think "observe"
00:52:44.328 --> 00:52:46.267
is an active remembrance.
00:52:46.267 --> 00:52:48.012
You know, "I remember,
00:52:48.012 --> 00:52:49.841
I'm not going to do anything about it,
00:52:49.841 --> 00:52:51.229
but I remember...," no, no.
00:52:51.229 --> 00:52:53.682
This is saying "actively remember,"
00:52:53.682 --> 00:52:56.157
and the Sabbath is a gift of a time
00:52:56.157 --> 00:52:58.268
to actively remember God,
00:52:58.268 --> 00:52:59.743
how He delivered you,
00:52:59.743 --> 00:53:01.592
His leading in your past history.
00:53:01.592 --> 00:53:03.135
Well, when you think about that,
00:53:03.135 --> 00:53:05.100
you can look forward to every Sabbath
00:53:05.100 --> 00:53:06.961
because He's not only our Creator,
00:53:06.961 --> 00:53:09.175
but He is the One who has delivered us.
00:53:09.175 --> 00:53:12.205
And actively remembering that, I think,
00:53:12.205 --> 00:53:13.572
brings joy and courage
00:53:13.572 --> 00:53:15.828
and hope to your life.
00:53:15.828 --> 00:53:17.412
(Sabina) Yes, so, it doesn't mean
00:53:17.412 --> 00:53:18.455
that He was no longer
00:53:18.455 --> 00:53:20.071
willing them to remember, right?
00:53:20.071 --> 00:53:21.720
So, it's not that it was missing.
00:53:21.720 --> 00:53:23.269
It's not that in the second time
00:53:23.269 --> 00:53:25.029
that Moses was reinforcing the law
00:53:25.029 --> 00:53:26.936
that this was no longer important,
00:53:26.936 --> 00:53:28.956
but actually that it was very important.
00:53:28.956 --> 00:53:30.742
Maybe it was now part
00:53:30.742 --> 00:53:31.996
of their life already,
00:53:31.996 --> 00:53:34.491
but they needed to keep doing it
00:53:34.491 --> 00:53:37.320
instead of ever stopping.
00:53:37.320 --> 00:53:40.404
So, as we come to the closure
of the lesson,
00:53:40.404 --> 00:53:42.997
I would like you to share with me
00:53:42.997 --> 00:53:45.893
what do we need to do...
00:53:45.893 --> 00:53:47.569
What do we do that eventually can
00:53:47.569 --> 00:53:49.654
cause us to forget everything
00:53:49.654 --> 00:53:56.858
that God has done for us? Yes, Travis.
00:53:56.858 --> 00:53:58.496
(Travis) I was thinking on a point
00:53:58.496 --> 00:54:00.582
that we just made about the Sabbath.
00:54:00.582 --> 00:54:02.585
There was a general friend of mine
00:54:02.585 --> 00:54:05.254
that I made friends with in Australia.
00:54:05.254 --> 00:54:06.495
And he had shared with me
00:54:06.495 --> 00:54:08.564
how he would fall occasionally.
00:54:08.564 --> 00:54:09.959
And it seemed to be a period
00:54:09.959 --> 00:54:11.521
of every seven days.
00:54:11.521 --> 00:54:12.686
He said, "I'll be good,
00:54:12.686 --> 00:54:14.463
and then I would stumble into sin."
00:54:14.463 --> 00:54:16.412
And then it made me think of the Sabbath,
00:54:16.412 --> 00:54:18.028
and as we're just discussing this,
00:54:18.028 --> 00:54:20.552
I'm thinking, God has given us
00:54:20.552 --> 00:54:22.844
the Sabbath as a time to reflect
00:54:22.844 --> 00:54:24.019
on how He has led,
00:54:24.019 --> 00:54:25.991
and how He has delivered in the past.
00:54:25.991 --> 00:54:27.821
If we take that day to spend with Him
00:54:27.821 --> 00:54:30.994
as a day of reflection,
00:54:30.994 --> 00:54:32.451
by the end of the six days,
00:54:32.451 --> 00:54:34.159
maybe, as Derek had mentioned,
00:54:34.159 --> 00:54:36.215
you know, if we didn't do that,
00:54:36.215 --> 00:54:39.765
we would fail to remember
00:54:39.765 --> 00:54:40.839
the way God has led.
00:54:40.839 --> 00:54:43.328
So, taking that time to reflect,
00:54:43.328 --> 00:54:44.787
I think it is important,
00:54:44.787 --> 00:54:46.186
because when we take the time
00:54:46.186 --> 00:54:48.136
to reflect on how He has led in the past,
00:54:48.136 --> 00:54:49.424
as Derek mentioned earlier,
00:54:49.424 --> 00:54:51.145
we don't have to fear the future.
00:54:51.145 --> 00:54:52.898
(Sabina) So, we're saying
00:54:52.898 --> 00:54:55.034
that if we don't bring
00:54:55.034 --> 00:54:57.388
those things to memory, we may forget.
00:54:57.388 --> 00:54:58.659
Yes, Jason, I see you have
00:54:58.659 --> 00:54:59.892
something else to share.
00:54:59.892 --> 00:55:01.887
(Jason) Sure, so we can forget,
00:55:01.887 --> 00:55:04.079
and Deuteronomy actually talks about this.
00:55:04.079 --> 00:55:05.534
We don't have time to read it,
00:55:05.534 --> 00:55:07.648
but in Deuteronomy 8:10-17
00:55:07.648 --> 00:55:09.405
there's a whole description
00:55:09.405 --> 00:55:11.608
that Moses warns the people.
00:55:11.608 --> 00:55:13.604
It talks about when they're full,
00:55:13.604 --> 00:55:14.762
they had forgotten God.
00:55:14.762 --> 00:55:16.580
They had all this prosperity.
00:55:16.580 --> 00:55:17.937
And so, it's not that God
00:55:17.937 --> 00:55:19.742
doesn't want us to have these things,
00:55:19.742 --> 00:55:20.917
but we need to make sure
00:55:20.917 --> 00:55:22.662
that these things don't separate us
00:55:22.662 --> 00:55:24.476
from remembering where we were.
00:55:24.476 --> 00:55:25.655
And so, if we have
00:55:25.655 --> 00:55:28.612
too much satisfaction in those things,
00:55:28.612 --> 00:55:30.452
that it sort of takes us
00:55:30.452 --> 00:55:32.197
away from where we were
00:55:32.197 --> 00:55:35.436
and makes us somehow forget
00:55:35.436 --> 00:55:36.581
who gave us these things
00:55:36.581 --> 00:55:38.149
in the first place, which is God.
00:55:38.149 --> 00:55:39.449
(Sabina) Amen. Yes, Pedro.
00:55:39.449 --> 00:55:41.461
(Pedro) I love what Derek had mentioned,
00:55:41.461 --> 00:55:44.695
observe, it's an active remember.
00:55:44.695 --> 00:55:46.369
There are so many things we can do,
00:55:46.369 --> 00:55:47.460
spending time with God
00:55:47.460 --> 00:55:48.829
and spending time listening,
00:55:48.829 --> 00:55:50.237
spending time with the time
00:55:50.237 --> 00:55:51.601
that He has prepared for us.
00:55:51.601 --> 00:55:53.109
Those are things that we can do
00:55:53.109 --> 00:55:54.758
actively to remember; I love that.
00:55:54.758 --> 00:55:56.067
Thank you for sharing that.
00:55:56.067 --> 00:55:57.894
(Sabina) Awesome. Thank you so much.
00:55:57.894 --> 00:55:59.396
I really just want to encourage
00:55:59.396 --> 00:56:01.385
each one of those who are watching us
00:56:01.385 --> 00:56:02.519
to bring to your memory
00:56:02.519 --> 00:56:04.101
the things that give you hope.
00:56:04.101 --> 00:56:05.907
I'm reminded of this verse
00:56:05.907 --> 00:56:07.298
in the book of Lamentations
00:56:07.298 --> 00:56:08.778
that says that we need to bring
00:56:08.778 --> 00:56:09.827
to our mind the things
00:56:09.827 --> 00:56:10.923
that will give us hope.
00:56:10.923 --> 00:56:11.929
And I'm sure you have
00:56:11.929 --> 00:56:14.001
already experienced something with God.
00:56:14.001 --> 00:56:16.265
Even if you have been away from His path,
00:56:16.265 --> 00:56:18.018
bring to memory when was that day
00:56:18.018 --> 00:56:19.233
where He found you
00:56:19.233 --> 00:56:20.941
in your moment of sadness,
00:56:20.941 --> 00:56:22.531
when He delivered you.
00:56:22.531 --> 00:56:24.148
Where did He bring you from?
00:56:24.148 --> 00:56:25.701
I know where He brought me from,
00:56:25.701 --> 00:56:27.355
and I'm so excited that I am here
00:56:27.355 --> 00:56:29.516
standing before you and before God,
00:56:29.516 --> 00:56:30.923
not because I'm perfect
00:56:30.923 --> 00:56:32.966
or because I have anything special
00:56:32.966 --> 00:56:34.238
to offer of my own,
00:56:34.238 --> 00:56:36.201
but because He has delivered me.
00:56:36.201 --> 00:56:37.427
He has done things to me,
00:56:37.427 --> 00:56:38.301
and because I keep
00:56:38.301 --> 00:56:39.601
bringing them to my memory,
00:56:39.601 --> 00:56:42.241
I keep looking to them and to God,
00:56:42.241 --> 00:56:43.727
I know that there is a future
00:56:43.727 --> 00:56:46.977
that awaits me, even in the moments
of difficulties.
00:56:46.977 --> 00:56:48.088
So, thank you so much,
00:56:48.088 --> 00:56:49.621
and please stay with us.
00:56:49.621 --> 00:56:52.680
(Derek) Amen. Thank you so much, Sabina.
00:56:52.680 --> 00:56:54.270
Let's pray together.
00:56:54.270 --> 00:56:58.004
Father in heaven, our hearts
are strangely warm.
00:56:58.004 --> 00:56:59.987
We just want to praise You.
00:56:59.987 --> 00:57:01.278
You've been so good to us,
00:57:01.278 --> 00:57:02.919
and we don't want to forget.
00:57:02.919 --> 00:57:05.301
We want to remember You as our God,
00:57:05.301 --> 00:57:06.562
how You've delivered us
00:57:06.562 --> 00:57:09.328
and how You've led in our past history.
00:57:09.328 --> 00:57:10.446
And, God, we just want
00:57:10.446 --> 00:57:11.595
to praise You forever,
00:57:11.595 --> 00:57:14.219
so accept our worship today,
00:57:14.219 --> 00:57:15.769
and may we always keep You first
00:57:15.769 --> 00:57:17.928
and foremost in our lives.
00:57:17.928 --> 00:57:20.032
In Your holy name we pray. Amen.
00:57:20.032 --> 00:57:21.029
(Team) Amen.
00:57:21.029 --> 00:57:23.560
(Derek) Thanks for joining us
for Hope Sabbath School.
00:57:23.560 --> 00:57:26.093
Go out and share the good news
with those around you.
00:57:26.093 --> 00:58:29.285
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