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Where will you find another Savior
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like Jesus Christ?
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So powerful and so loving.
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So omnipotent and so sympathizing.
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And I can't understand how
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if you've heard about Him
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and if He's nudging you now,
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and He's saying to you,
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it's true, you know...
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what this guy with a funny
accent is saying to you.
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It's true. It's true.
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You need a Savior.
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And not just any Savior, but this Savior.
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Because He is so, so great.
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So great.
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And without Him, there's
going to be a future -
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you're on your own, son.
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You're on your own, girl.
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As you make the big decisions in your life
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about who you're going to marry,
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and what you're going to do,
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and how you're going to work,
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and what's going to be fun...
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you're on your own.
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And when you get ill
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and when you're lonely,
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you're on your own.
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And when you're dying,
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if you don't take my Savior,
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just you and an appalling eternity.
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And this great Savior -
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He's brought me here
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and He's brought you here,
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and we're talking about Him, aren't we?
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We're just ordinary people.
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We're not very beautiful people.
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We're not very smart.
We're not very wealthy.
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All we've got to share with the world
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is the Lord Jesus Christ.
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And we're inconsistent.
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We're sorry we're not
as patient and loving
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and caring as we should be.
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We're sorry about that.
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But we don't preach ourselves.
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We're not your answer.
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And all this congregation put together
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with all the talents and the gifts
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that they have -
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they're not your answer.
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This is not your answer.
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He is your answer.
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This wonderful Savior Jesus Christ.
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And so we want you to know Him
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as your Lord and Savior
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by reading the Bible,
listening to the preaching,
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sitting under the ministry,
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reading the books and the leaflets
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and so on that we give you.
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We want you to think about these things.
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We want you to know Him
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because we want you to make
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an intelligent response.
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You've been edified.
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You've learned about Jesus Christ
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from what we tell you
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so that you know who He is.
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Jesus is worthy of your mind,
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of your intellect.
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Bring your mind with you
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every Sunday when you come here.
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We want you to know Him.
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But we want you to submit to Him.
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If He's going to be your Savior,
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He's also going to be your Lord.
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And you can't separate the two.
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You know, I marry people,
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and I stand here,
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and she comes down the aisle
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and he's there glowing in anticipation.
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And she looks so lovely.
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And then I say to her at
one point in the service,
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"Do you take him to
be your loving husband?"
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"Do you take him now to be your husband?"
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And she has to think...
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"Well, I'll take his credit cards.
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And I'll take his car,
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but I don't take his dirty washing.
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And I don't want to be the
mother of his children."
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If she said that, I would say,
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right, I pronounce you man and wife.
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I can't say that, can I?
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Because she's going to
take him as her husband.
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The two are going to become one flesh.
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And there's a special
relationship between the two.
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And so I've told you about this
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wonderful Savior.
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And He's a wonderful Lord too.
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And if you're going to become
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a follower of Jesus Christ,
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He doesn't take His crown off
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before He comes into your heart and life.
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He comes with His crown
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and His crown rights over you;
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over all the big decisions
that you have to make.
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This Savior - He'll forgive your sins.
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Isn't that wonderful?
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The great chains that bind you
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to your past,
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and the things that make you blush
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and you groan at 2:00 in the morning
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as you remember the people you've hurt.
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And He'll forgive you. He'll forgive you.
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Yes.
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But He comes as your Lord.
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And you can't separate what
God has joined together.
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Lord and Savior. Jesus Christ.
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He's here and He comes into your life
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for you from now on to serve Him.
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And if there are some things that are
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tremendously precious to you,
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your mind, your love of music and sport,
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your relationships -
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you can't keep them from Him.
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The dearest idol you've known has to go.
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You have to give it over to Jesus Christ,
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this Savior who is also the Lord.
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You have to hand them to Him.
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And then He'll do something wonderful.
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He'll give them back to you,
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but no longer will they
be lording it over you.
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And you can have them,
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but they are then in a servant's role.
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So you can keep your interest in cameras
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and photography,
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and your interest in music and sport,
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and all the things that
we are interested in -
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God's creation gifts.
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You're not going to serve them.
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You're not going to live for them.
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You're going to live for Him.
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This great Savior who has
come into your life now
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as your Lord.
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And you bow to Him.
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And you receive Him.
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You can receive Him now where you are
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just sitting and listening to me
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and thinking about all I said to you
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about the great Jesus Christ.
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And you can think,
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yeah, it's about time I stop
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sitting on the fence,
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and stop putting it off
until another Sunday.
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I'll have Him.
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I must have Him.
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A friend of mine was talking
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to a Scottish farmer named Douglas.
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Douglas didn't want to come
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to evangelistic meetings.
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David spoke to him and spoke to him.
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Look, he said, in this hand
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I've got everything that
you have as a farmer,
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and as a highland wrestler,
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and as a good Scotsman -
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your health and strength
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and all your future - it's there.
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And in this hand,
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I have Jesus Christ.
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Which one are you going to take?
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It's the same decision that
faces you this morning.
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Are you going to have
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all that this world has to offer?
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Is it: I want that.
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Or are you going to take
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this great, sympathetic, divine,
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tender, loving, Savior Jesus Christ
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for now and forever.
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Which one?
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Which one are you going to have?
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Which one?
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You've got to choose.
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You must choose.
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He says He's your God.
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He's your God. He's your Lord.
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Which one are you going to choose?