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Thou art worthy, thou art worthy, thou art

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worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor

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and power.

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For thou art worthy, O Lord, for thou

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hast created all things, hast created, thou hast

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created all things, and for thy pleasure they

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are and were created, for thou art worthy,

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O Lord.

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I am missionary Richard Yerby in Japan, calling

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on Japanese Buddhists to repent of and to

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forsake their satanic idols and to turn to

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the one true living God who created them

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and then to live the remainder of their

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lives on earth to give glory and honor

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and power to their creator because he is

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most worthy and deserving of the greatest glory.

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Also, he himself is all-powerful and he

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is soon to draw them before his judgment

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bar to judge them according to his righteous

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standard.

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My friend, listen to me now.

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God is soon to bring you and me

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before his judgment bar in like manner.

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He warns us all in his holy Bible

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that it is a fearful thing to fall

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into the hands of the living God.

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He more fearfully warns us that our God

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who created us is a consuming fire and

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he solemnly calls upon us to prepare to

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meet our God in judgment.

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The title of this sermon is Almighty God's

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Pleasure.

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I just sang the scripture that is in

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Revelation chapter 4, verse 11, which reads, Thou

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art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and

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honor and power, for thou has created all

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things and for thy pleasure they are and

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were created.

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Each and every person on earth should voice

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the following prayer to our almighty God creator.

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Almighty God in heaven, my creator and my

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soon coming judge, right now, please instill within

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me complete knowledge and full belief that thou

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dost most certainly exist and that thou didst

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create all things that are and were created,

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the entire universe.

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Please give me full understanding of thy pleasure

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in creating me individually, personally, for thy pleasure.

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Please assure me that the way for me

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to bring pleasure to thee is by repenting

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to God in heaven and trusting in God

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the Son, Jesus Christ, the divine savior unto

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mankind to save me eternally from thy holy

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wrath that is upon my sins.

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Guide me to diligently study thy holy Bible

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and obey it fully, loving thee with all

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my heart and loving other people as I

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love my own self.

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Amen.

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Because I am preaching on God's pleasure, first,

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please think with me on pleasure in the

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broadest realm, looking at holy scriptures that teach

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us spiritual truths concerning pleasure that each of

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us should seriously consider.

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Hebrews chapter 11, speaking of Moses, records the

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following words in verse 25, choosing rather to

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suffer affliction with the people of God than

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to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a

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season.

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The next verse, 26, says of Moses, esteeming

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the reproach of Christ, greater riches than the

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treasures in Egypt, glory, for he had respect

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unto the recompense of the reward.

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Thus, the Bible teaches us that there are

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pleasures of sin, a truth that we readily

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know, and that is likely the main motive

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for the entire human race willfully sinning to

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derive those pleasures.

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Another common motive for sinning is attempting to

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cover up a sin or sins already committed

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by lying, denying having committed a sinful act,

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or by murdering a witness to the awful

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sin already committed.

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If you are a Christ rejecter who is

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living to enjoy the pleasures of sin, then

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please think ever so seriously on the eternal

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truth that they endure only for a season.

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As Hebrews 11, 25 proclaims to you personally,

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if you are a fellow Christian believer, it

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behooves you to constantly, daily, bear in mind

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that you are duty-bound to God, your

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Creator, your Savior, and your soon-coming Judge,

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to be a watchman to the lost and

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perishing souls around you, to constantly warn them

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to flee God's wrath to come.

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God forbid that we neglect this crucial, eternal,

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life-saving duty and glorious privilege.

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Please invite everyone that you can to listen

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to this sermon on my website listed as

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number 2026-2 under Radio Sermons Audio.

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My website URL is christisall.us. Separate those

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three words with two dashes, christ-is-all

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.us. Rescue the perishing, care for the dying,

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Jesus is merciful, Jesus will save.

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Christ's rejecting friend, were you to live past

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90 years of age in health sufficiently good

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enough to still be enjoying your favorite sins

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to that age, 90 years of enjoying those

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vain pleasures cannot begin to compare with a

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never-ending eternity of weeping and gnashing your

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teeth in hell's flaming torment, totally void of

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any hope of ever being released or ever

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freed from that torment.

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Get some spiritual sense into your head and

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repent now while it is the day of

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salvation.

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The wages of sin is death, the Bible

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clearly warns us, that second death is an

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eternal death of torments in hell fire.

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Right now, you Christ rejecter can turn to

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life everlasting and pleasures forevermore if only you

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will choose to do so.

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Listen to what David proclaimed to God in

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Psalm 16, verse 11, thou will show me

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the path of life, in thy presence is

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fullness of joy, at thy right hand there

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are pleasures forevermore.

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Lost friend, listen to me right now, please

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sincerely pray the following prayer.

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Christian friend, listening on the radio right now,

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please quickly intercede for the salvation of each

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precious lost soul who is also listening.

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Pray, my creator God, please draw me unto

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thee to enable me to sincerely turn unto

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thee to be saved to the utmost eternally,

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enable me to fully forsake the ways of

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death and to embrace the path of life

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everlasting, the fullness of joy and pleasures forevermore.

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Amen.

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Listen as I now read Psalms 36, verses

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7 through 9, verse 7, how excellent is

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thy lovingkindness O God, therefore the children of

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men put their trust under the shadow of

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thy wings.

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Verse 8, they shall be abundantly satisfied with

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the fatness of thy house and thou shalt

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make them drink of the rivers of thy

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pleasures.

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Verse 9, for with thee is the river

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of life, in thy light shall we see

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light.

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Lost friend without Christ, please make the following

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prayer, your heart cry to your almighty creator

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right now, almighty God, right now, please make

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me fully knowledgeable of the excellency of thy

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lovingkindness unto me personally.

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Enable me to put my trust under the

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shadow of thy wings.

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Please abundantly satisfy me with the fatness of

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thy house and make me to drink of

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the rivers of thy pleasures.

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I confess that with thee is the river

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of life.

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Please cause me to drink of the water

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of life.

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Help me to walk in thy divine light

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so that I will see light.

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Enlighten my darkened heart, I pray, amen.

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Listen now to Ezekiel chapter 33, verse 11.

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Say unto them, as I live, saith the

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Lord God, I have no pleasure in the

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death of the wicked, but that the wicked

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turn from his way and live.

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Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways,

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for why will you die, O house of

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Israel?

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Also Proverbs chapter 9, verse 6, forsake the

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foolish and live.

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Go and go in the way of understanding.

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Earnestly pray the following prayer, please.

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Lord Jesus Christ, thou didst love me personally

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with the greatest love there is, in that

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you laid down your life on the cross

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to take the punishment of my sin, the

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punishment of death in my place, eternal death

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in hell.

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Please enable me to fathom the depth of

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that love, and that thou hast no desire

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to send me to those eternal flames of

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hell fire, but rather loves me and desires

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that I repent and turn from my evil

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ways in order to avoid that never-ending

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death of torment.

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Please enable me to utterly forsake the foolish

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and to live, live forever in pleasure and

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to go in the way of understanding.

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Oh, our Lord's great compassion and mercy and

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grace toward us.

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Listen to it again in Luke chapter 12,

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verse 32.

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As Christ is speaking to his disciples, he

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says to them, Fear not, little flock, for

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it is your father's good pleasure to give

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you the kingdom.

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You pray now, please.

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Almighty God, the Father in heaven, please take

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me unto thee.

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Make me thine own child to give me

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the kingdom of God in heaven, a home

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in thy glorious heaven and pleasures forevermore.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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The scripture in Proverbs chapter 21, verse 17,

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speaks of the pleasure of the world and

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the pleasure of sin when it reads, He

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that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man.

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1 Timothy 5, 6 is similar as it

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reads, But she that liveth in pleasure is

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dead while she liveth.

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And 2 Timothy chapter 3, verse 4 speaks

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of people who are, quoting now, lovers of

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pleasures more than lovers of God.

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Referring to people who love the pleasures of

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sin and of the world more than they

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love God.

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Would you pray now, Lord Jesus Christ, God's

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savior unto mankind, please save me from loving

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sinful and worldly pleasures.

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Please save me from living in sin and

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worldly pleasures.

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Please help me to love my creator God

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with all my heart and to shun sinful

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and worldly pleasures.

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Amen.

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James chapter 5 in the New Testament, toward

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the end of the New Testament, chapter 5

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and verse 5 of James, the book of

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James, reads like this, You have lived in

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pleasure on the earth and have been wantom.

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Ye have nourished your hearts as in a

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day of slaughter.

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Please pray, my creator God, please convince me

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that sinful and worldly pleasures cannot satisfy my

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soul, but that they do the exact opposite

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of satisfying.

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They leave a wantom, lacking feeling in one's

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soul.

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Please cause me to seriously consider the diminishing

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returns that harmful vices give with continued use,

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tobacco, alcohol, drugs, and such, lose their ability

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to stimulate and satisfy and bring pleasure.

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No longer do they feel pleasant, but rather

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need to be consumed simply to stave off

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the horrible pains of withdrawal.

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Amen.

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In the gospel of John chapter 4, verse

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13, Jesus told the woman of Samaria who

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came to the well to draw water, Whosoever

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drinketh of this water shall thirst again.

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That natural water in that earthy well is

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a type of the water of the world.

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Which is sinful and worldly pleasures.

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It does not satisfy the human soul.

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Soon after drinking it, thirst rises again.

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And each successive drink gives less and less

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satisfaction drinking of the water of the world.

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That leads to burnout.

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By that, I mean no satisfaction is found

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in life.

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And too often that totally empty, void soul

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sees no profit in continuing to live that

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wantom, hollow, meaningless, unfulfilled life and tragically thereby

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commit suicide.

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In the early 1980s, in an extremely rich

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affluent suburb of a large renowned U.S.

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city, a high school teenager committed suicide.

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Shock and deep grief throughout the community.

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But in a few days, a second teen

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took their own life.

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And a third precious young soul soon did

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likewise.

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Parents and teachers assembled at student body together

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in a desperate meeting, demanding that the kids

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fess up to those adults in charge of

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their lives.

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Just exactly what those kids were up to.

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Soon, sheepish, timid confession came forth.

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A few of us made a suicide pact.

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Those parents figuratively and likely literally threw up

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their hands in desperate, shocked unbelief.

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Why, they exclaimed, we gave you everything.

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And right there was the very cause of

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those teens ending their own young lives.

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Their parents drowned them in the deadly waters

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of the world.

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They drank of practically every possible worldly pleasure

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available to them.

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And in their affluence, most any pleasure that

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money could buy was available to them.

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Upon obtaining a driver's license at age 16

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or so, many of those teens could name

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the new luxury car they desired to their

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parents.

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And the parents bought it for them.

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Many of the girls wore expensive diamond rings

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or such jewelry to school.

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They lived in fancy two or three story

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houses that had large game room basements.

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But they found it strange that drinking to

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the full of many such fancy pleasures left

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them bored and thirsty.

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No satisfaction, no fulfillment.

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An affluent childhood turned out to be a

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curse to them instead of a blessing.

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That is a truth that cannot be escaped.

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Some concluded that their lives would never be

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any better than the void life they were

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now living and opted to end their lives.

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On two different occasions, when I was in

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the States briefly from Japan and preaching in

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churches in that area, I walked those very

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neighborhoods in that affluent suburb, leaving a gospel

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pamphlet at each door.

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I marveled at the grandeur of one after

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another, two or three story high palatial palaces

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on immensely macucured lawns lining the street.

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It looked like paradise on earth.

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A far cry from the dilapidated wooden shacks

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I grew up in.

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Now, my childhood was the exact opposite of

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theirs.

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The blessing of dire poverty and little boy,

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miserable slave labor on a dirt farm.

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Our whole family, parents and children, slaving away

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at hard manual farm labor, barely eking out

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a living.

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Much adversity it was, but an amazing thing

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was that as I toiled hard during my

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childhood and teen years, never once was there

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any thoughts of suicide.

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Living at the bottom of the totem pole

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of life left room for hope, for future

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improvement, something better to look forward to, something

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brighter to strive diligently for.

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Those rich suburbanite teens had it all, but

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their young souls still came up empty, causing

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some of them to end it all with

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suicide.

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Philippians 2 verse 13 reads, for it is

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God which worketh in you both to will

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and to do of his good pleasure.

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Rest assured that it is impossible for you

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to find sufficient joy, satisfaction and fulfillment in

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life unless your creator God worketh in you

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both to will, desire to, and to do

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of his good pleasure.

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Why not pray to him now?

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My creator God, please change my selfish heart

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into a heart that wholly wills and desires

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to do the good pleasure.

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Help me to fully yield my heart to

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thee right now for the purpose of thee

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doing thy good pleasure in me.

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Amen.

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Listen to 2 Thessalonians 1 11.

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Wherefore also we pray always for you that

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our God would count you worthy of this

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calling and fulfill all the good pleasure of

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his goodness and the work of faith with

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power.

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Christian friend, listen to me now.

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Would you please pray that for me?

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I sincerely desire God to count me worthy

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of his calling to me personally and for

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almighty God to fulfill all the good pleasure

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of his goodness and the work of faith

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and godly Holy Ghost power in my life

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of service unto him here in Japan, my

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Lord and my all.

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2 Corinthians 12 verse 10 always thrills my

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soul and challenges me each time I meditate

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on it.

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It reads, therefore I take pleasure in infirmities,

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in approaches, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions,

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in distresses for Christ's sake.

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For when I am weak, then am I

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strong.

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The Bible teaches us of a natural man

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that is inside each of us.

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Our natural man naturally does not desire such

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hardship in life, much less take pleasure in

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them.

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It takes a spiritual man to take pleasure

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in such adversity.

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Please pray for me to be such a

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spiritual man.

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Rich worldly parents who take pleasure in heaping

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worldly pleasures upon their children to often tragically

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see those precious children commit suicide or die

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of drug abuse or such before those children

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reach 30 years of age.

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Ecclesiastes 12, one commands us thus wise.

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Remember now thy creator in the days of

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thy youth, while the evil days come not,

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nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt

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say, I have no pleasure in them.

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Consider the great extent which people's souls are

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not fulfilled, the degree to which many folks

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are finding little or no pleasure and satisfaction

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in life.

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This unpleasant emotion particularly besets elderly folks as

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the years draw nigh.

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In times past, say 150 years ago, when

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most people lived on the land, making their

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livelihood off the land as God ordained in

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Genesis 3, 23, it was quite common for

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three to four family generations to be living

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in the same one house or within walking

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distance of each other.

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The most elderly generation daily receiving God ordained

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pleasure, joy, satisfaction and fulfillment from regularly being

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with two or three generations of their offspring.

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Genesis chapter 50, verse 23, speaks of Joseph

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bringing up great grandchildren on his knees.

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Of course, he lived to be 110 years

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old, but my main point here is that

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his third generation of direct descendants live on

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his knees.

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In the devil's modern world of the day,

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it is not rare for the oldest generation

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of people in their 80s that all their

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descendants live a several hour airplane flight away

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or 12 hours or more away by car.

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That is regrettable, leaving the elderly generation lonely.

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The afflictions and adversities that beset me as

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I exalt the Savior, Jesus Christ here in

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Japan are ever so light, but the joy

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that he bestows upon me for doing so

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is joy unspeakable and full of glory.

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I am the most blessed soul on the

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face of this earth.

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My soul is satisfied and fulfilled.

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I lack nothing.

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Pray for me as I preach to the

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Japanese that my preaching will be effective to

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win many lost Buddhist souls to the Lord.

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God bless you, my Christian friend.