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Time is short What is your life?
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It's even a vapor that appeareth for a little time And then vanisheth away
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If someone had told me when I was 20 years old
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That life was very short And would pass just like that
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I wouldn't have believed it And if I tell you
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that You don't believe it either I cannot get young people
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to understand How brief life is How quickly it passes It seems like yesterday I was in school
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Every one of us here has been given the same amount of time in a day 1 ,440 minutes a day
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168 hours per week
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What a thing it is when you think
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that you have just one short life to spend And it'll soon be over I'd write down my priorities in life
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And I'd get committed to certain priorities
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Now is the accepted time The things we ought to do
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The classes we ought to take The books we ought to read Do it now
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The family that needs you Spend more time now
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Write that letter home now That you've been meaning to write
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Money you ought to give Give now Time for study Do
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it now People you ought to witness to Do it now Every time the clock ticks It seems to say now
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Today If you will hear his voice
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there may not be a tomorrow for you and for me
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because there's a warning to time time is running out for all of us time is too short for indecision
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and vacillation do not halt between two opinions
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fools say that time is long every morning we have 86 400 seconds to spend and to invest
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and each day the bank name time opens a new account for you
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and for me it allows no balances and no overdrafts
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if you fail to use the day's deposits the loss is yours the Bible says redeem the time
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because the days are evil and the days in
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which we're living are very evil if there was ever a time for the gospel
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that can transform the human heart it's now jesus said as
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long as it is day we must do the work of him
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that sent us the night is coming
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when no man can work the night is going to come
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in your life yet there was a serenity about the work
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of the lord jesus it's the quality of life not the length
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jesus only had 33 years
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and it ended on the cross to the world he was a failure at
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that moment yet at the end of his life he said I finished the work
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that thou gavest me to do it doesn't matter whether you live another year
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or two years or five years will your work be finished
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is there a quality to it is there a dedication to
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it suppose all of our members tithe their time to witness
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for Christ as we tithe our income for the church fill your heart with the word of God I've found
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that those who know the scriptures are the ones that have the power today.
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But we need men and women who walk with God.
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And if you do that, you too can finish the work that God gave you to do.
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And help us to realize the brevity and the urgency of time.
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And may we invest what little time we have in the kingdom of God.
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God said there's coming a day when I'm going to shake the world but some things will not be shaken
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some things remain in other words there's coming a time
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when the world will be pressed
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and there'll be no way out those times come in your life in your home tension friction financial trouble
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you're pressed and there doesn't seem to be a way out there is an answer there is a way
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Jesus said I am the way but in the midst of all this changing
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there are some things that never change think of it a moment what never changes
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the nature of God doesn't change
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God hasn't changed
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he hasn't changed to adapt himself to our generation god is unchanging i am the lord god i change not
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god is unchanging in his holiness we're all guilty
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of coming short of God's holy requirements and we're all sinners
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and we're all in need of the grace and mercy of God
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and that's why the Lord Jesus came
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and died on the cross he died for your sins he died for mine
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and God took your sins and laid them on Christ God changes not in his holiness
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and let me tell you
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because he is our holy God he is also unchanging in
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his judgment there is a judgment day coming our god is
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a consuming fire the bible is filled with stories of judgment
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our lord talked more about hell than he did heaven there
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is a day of judgment coming god is a holy god
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and you and i are going to stand there and when i stand there
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i'm not going to ask for justice i'm going to ask
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for mercy i need mercy i need the grace of god i need the forgiveness of god
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and i want to tell you a wonderful thing god loves you
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and he offers you tonight forgiveness and he offers you mercy god can forgive every sin you've ever committed
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god can wipe the slate clean because of christ not because you deserve it
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for by grace are you saved through faith and
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that not of yourselves it is the gift of god not
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of works lest any man should boast you can't work your
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way to heaven you can't buy your way to heaven god
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is unchanging he's unchanging in his love god loves you that's
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the most wonderful thing to go to bed with at night to know
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that god loves me god forgives me god is interested in me but i must receive him Secondly,
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the word of God does not change The grass withereth
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and the flower faded But the word of our God shall stand forever
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I settled that a long time ago
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There are a lot of things in this Bible I don't understand There are questions you could ask me
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that I cannot answer
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I don't know all the answers in this book how can
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a finite mind like mine comprehend the infinite I cannot
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so one day I opened the Bible and I said oh Lord I accept this is your word by faith
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and that settled it from that moment on
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when I quote the scriptures I know
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that I'm quoting the Word of God it's a living word
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and lastly the way of salvation has not changed all these
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centuries the way to the kingdom of god is exactly the same
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jesus said i am the way the truth and the life no man cometh to the father but by me
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he will never change but you must change
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the whole bible is a love story it's God's love affair
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with the human race you see God has all those billions
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of planets out there all those hundreds of billions of stars and it's all God's
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but of all the planets in the whole universe
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the whole universe stands in awe at the love that God showers on this little planet called the earth
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we are the only planet in so far as I know
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that are in rebellion against God
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and yet in spite of our rebellion in spite of our disobedience in spite of our sins God loves us
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that's the thrilling thing about it
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and God loves every person in the whole world with a love that is beyond our comprehension.
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And God proved his love by giving his son on the cross.
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If you ever doubt that God loves, look at the cross because God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself.
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That's the greatest illustration of love in the whole world is the cross
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because god is saying from the cross i love you i love you i love you
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you and i was saved by the cross our lord loved us
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so much that he gave his only son to die on
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that cross now love is not feeling you say i feel i love him
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it's not feeling love is doing love is a verb god
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did something god gave his love god commended his love toward us in
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that while we were yet sinners christ died for us the apostle john looking at
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that cross said behold what manner of love the father had bestowed upon us
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and when you look at that cross and think about it
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that the romans used the instrument of execution on a colossal scale
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and they put nails in the hands and spikes in the feet
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and spat on the people
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and mutilated the bodies broke their legs to help them die quicker
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and all sorts of terrible things the most cruel death in the whole world is the death of the cross
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and our lord was hanging there with the mocking crowd making fun of him
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and he hung there for you and you and you
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and god was saying I love you Jesus laid down his life for us
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and that's the reason the scripture says there's no other way
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to heaven you can't be saved any other way you cannot
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find life with a capital L any other way you cannot
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gain entrance to the kingdom of heaven without coming to the cross
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because if God could have found another way he would have found it it's God's love it's
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so deep and so wide and so high and so great
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and has such dimensions to it that no words in any language can describe it
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it's a love that god has for you
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that in spite of the fact
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that you were rebelling against him in spite of the fact
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that you were a sinner in spite of the fact
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that you broke his laws he gave his son to shed his blood
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in spite of everything we've ever done God loves
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and words cannot describe it
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and God says the moment you receive his son his savior
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he gives you the spirit of God to live in your heart
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and the spirit of God produces this love in you
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and through you that's the reason Jesus said thou shall love
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thy neighbor as thyself it's a supernatural love for your neighbor you may not like your neighbor
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but you can love your neighbor god's love
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in our hearts produced by the holy spirit supernaturally produced no i cannot love everybody
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but god can give me the capacity to love everybody
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and maybe your wife is irritable maybe you are irritable god can take you
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and change you and transform you and transform that relationship until you can fall in love all over again
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God can take you young people here tonight and forgive your past sins, every one of them.
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Think of it, every sin forgiven and make your heart just as clean
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as it was the day you were born and resensitize your conscience which is in danger of becoming hardened
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and give you a new tenderness and give you the real meaning of love.
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let jesus christ come into your heart let him forgive your past sins let him change your life
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and say from this moment on i want him to be
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in control of my life i want him to sit in the cockpit of my life
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and run it
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and direct it i turn my life over to him tonight
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millions are crying what can i do to be saved from the pressures of life the pressures are just
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so great we have great technology to save time, but we have less time than ever.
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Escapism is a subconscious mechanism to escape reality.
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Job said, my days are spent without hope.
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Isaiah the prophet said, even the youths shall faint and be weary.
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Cain, who had killed Abel, had a terrible guilt in his life, and he said, my burden is greater than I can bear.
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Job, who suffered so much in the Bible, wanted to die.
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Thousands of people are suffering from some sort of mental illness.
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We're called the tormented generation.
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The tensions in the home, problems at work, health problems, making ends meet.
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We want to scream at life.
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We want to escape from life.
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The psalmist said, and I said, oh, that I had the wings like a dove, for then I would fly away and be at rest.
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Have you said that?
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I'd like to just fly away from my problem.
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Get away from it. And have rest.
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The psalmist longing to escape has become the cry of the world today.
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But there doesn't seem to be any way out for you.
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To those people Jesus said, I'm the way out.
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Jesus said, I'm the door.
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By me if any man enter in he shall be saved.
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Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shall be saved.
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Jesus said I am the way the truth and the life no man comes to the father but by me
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in the sight of God man is an individual
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and God looks upon you as an individual
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that he loves he has the hairs of your head numbered
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he sees the sparrow fall he loves you he's interested in you
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and he wants you to talk to him and tell him what your problems are and he will help you
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He loves you so much that He died on the cross for you and shed His blood for you.
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And if you repent of your sins and receive Him into your heart, you'll be saved.
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You'll go to heaven.
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You don't have to straighten out your life first.
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You don't have to go home and do something good in order to find Christ.
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You do that after you've come to Christ.
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We don't have to make ourselves well before going to a doctor He sees sick people.
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He doesn't see well people.
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Jesus was called the great physician.
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He said, it is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.
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And we're all sinners, so are you.
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The blind man came to Jesus just as he was.
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The leper came just as he was.
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You can come to Christ tonight just as you are.
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You don't have to go and clean up anything.
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You don't have to go change clothes and put on your Sunday best.
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Just come as you are and say, Lord, I am just a person in need of Christ.
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I need to know that I know Christ.
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What do I have to do to believe?
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You have to become as a little child.
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The Bible says all the way through the New Testament that we enter the kingdom of God by faith.
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Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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In Ephesians 2, it says, For by grace are you saved through faith.
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Now, grace means something you don't earn.
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You don't work for it.
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You can't work your way to heaven.
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You can't get good enough to get to heaven.
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The word believe implies commitment, surrender.
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You believe in the person of Christ.
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And that word believe means that you commit your life to Him.
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you're not trusting anything for your future.
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The little boy that I heard about, he said, you know, this life is short,
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but from what I've heard, eternity is awfully long.
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And said, we better spend our time getting ready for eternity
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because we never know what the next hour is going to bring forth, what the next day is going to bring forth.
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Now is the accepted time today is the day of salvation.
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Come while you can.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 225 sentences and 2674 words to shadow. The speech runs for 18:17. The speaker talks at a steady 146 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 88% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 less common words from the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
- spite /spaɪt/ (noun) — Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the desire to unjustifiably irritate, annoy, or thwart; a want to disturb or put out another; mild malice.
- sin /ˈsɪn/ (noun) — A violation of divine will or religious law.
- forgive /fɚˈɡɪv/ (verb) — To pardon (someone); to waive any negative feeling towards or desire for punishment or retribution against.
- judgment /ˈd͡ʒʌd͡ʒ.mənt/ (noun) — The act of judging.
- mercy /ˈmɝsi/ (noun) — Relenting; forbearance to cause or allow harm to another.
- neighbour /ˈneɪbɚ/ (noun) — A person living on adjacent or nearby land; a person situated adjacently or nearby; anything (of the same type of thing as the subject) in an adjacent or…
- commit /kəˈmɪt/ (verb) — To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
- transform /tɹænsˈfɔɹm/ (verb) — To change greatly the appearance or form of.
- scripture /ˈskɹɪpt͡ʃɚ/ (noun) — A sacred writing or holy book.
- suffer /ˈsʌfɚ/ (verb) — To undergo hardship.
- priority /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/ (noun) — An item's relative importance.
- settle /ˈsɛtəl/ (verb) — To determine (something which was exposed to doubt or question); to resolve conclusively; to set or fix (a time, an order of succession, etc).
- shake /ˈʃeɪk/ (verb) — To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
- invest /ɪnˈvɛst/ (verb) — To spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in.
- tension /ˈtɛnʃən/ (noun) — The condition of being held in a state between two or more forces, which are acting in opposition to each other.
Phrasal verbs you will hear
- die on (verb) — To die under the care or watch of (someone).
- look at (verb) — To observe or watch.
- ask for (verb) — To request; to order.
- clean up (verb) — To make an area or a thing clean; to pick up a mess; to tidy.
- come in /ˌkʌm ˈɪn/ (verb) — To enter.
- come into (verb) — To obtain (usually money or property), especially through inheritance.
- fall in (verb) — To collapse inwards.
- have in (verb) — To allow in; grant permission or admittance to; invite in or over; admit.
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 50 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: thrill /θɹɪl/, tithe /taɪð/, wither /ˈwɪðɚ/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shake /ˈʃeɪk/, tension /ˈtɛnʃən/, salvation /sælˈveɪ.ʃn̩/, execution /ˌɛk.sɪˈkjuː.ʃən/, physician /fəˈzɪʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: priority /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/, rebellion /ɹɪˈbɛl.i.ən/, eternity /əˈtɜɹnəti/, execution /ˌɛk.sɪˈkjuː.ʃən/, mechanism /ˈmɛk.ə.nɪ.zəm/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like spite, sin, forgive.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | has been given · I've found · hasn't changed |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | has been given · be finished · will not be shaken |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | those who know · women who walk · conscience which is |
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.