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Quran Recitation Really Beautiful Amazing Recitation By Raad Mohammed Al-Kurdi New 2017 l - Duration: 9:47.

And it was revealed to Noah that, "No one will believe from your people except those who have already believed,

so do not be distressed by what they have been doing.

And construct the ship under Our observation and Our inspiration and do not address Me concerning those who have wronged;

and do not address Me concerning those who have wronged; indeed, they are [to be] drowned."

And he constructed the ship, and whenever an assembly of the eminent of his people passed by him, they ridiculed him.

He said, "If you ridicule us, then we will ridicule you just as you ridicule.

And you are going to know who will get a punishment that will disgrace him [on earth] and upon whom will descend an enduring punishment [in the Hereafter]."

[So it was], until when Our command came and the oven

We said, "Load upon the ship of each [creature] two mates and your family,

and your family, except those about whom the word has preceded, and [include] whoever has believed." But none had believed

and [include] whoever has believed." But none had believed with him, except a few.

And [Noah] said, "Embark therein; in the name of Allah is its course and its anchorage. Indeed, my Lord is Forgiving and Merciful."

And it sailed with them through waves like mountains, and Noah called to his son

and Noah called to his son who was apart [from them], "O my son, come aboard with us and be not with the disbelievers."

[But] he said, "I will take refuge on a mountain to protect me from the water."

[Noah] said, "There is no protector today from the decree of Allah , except for whom He gives mercy."

between them, and he was among the drowned.

And it was said, "O earth, swallow your water, and O sky, withhold [your rain]." And the water subsided,

and the matter was accomplished, and the ship came to rest on the [mountain of] Judiyy.

And it was said, "Away with the wrongdoing people."

And Noah called to his Lord and said, "My Lord, indeed my son is of my family; and indeed, Your promise is true;

and indeed, Your promise is true; and You are the most just of judges!"

MISTAKE

He said, "O Noah, indeed he is not of your family; indeed, he is [one whose] work was other than righteous,

so ask Me not for that about which you have no knowledge. Indeed, I advise you, lest you be among the ignorant."

[Noah] said, "My Lord, I seek refuge in You from asking that of which I have no knowledge.

And unless You forgive me and have mercy upon me, I will be among the losers."

It was said, "O Noah, disembark in security from Us and blessings upon you

and blessings upon you and upon nations [descending] from those with you.

But other nations [of them] We will grant enjoyment; then there will touch them from Us a painful punishment."

That is from the news of the unseen which We reveal to you, [O Muhammad].

You knew it not, neither you nor your people, before this. So be patient;

So be patient;

indeed, the [best] outcome is for the righteous .

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You Can Walk A Mile For A Camel -- And Pay A Lot More - Duration: 2:10.

ELSA: NOW AT 8:30 P.M. THE COST

OF SMOKING JUST WENT UP BIG

TIME IN CALIFORNIA.

WELCOME BACK EVERYONE I AM ELSA

RAMON.

PETER: SMOKERS ARE FILLING THE

FERN OF A NEW TAX THAT WENT

INTO EFFECT TODAY.

ELSA: WE EXAMINE THE HIGHER

COST AND HAVE REACTION FROM

PEOPLE WHO CONTINUED TO LIGHT

UP.

REPORTER: THE SMOKE HASN'T

SETTLED ON CALIFORNIA'S NEW

CIGARETTE TAX YET.

STICKER SHOCK IS SETTING IN.

DEFINITELY.

IT IS SHOCKING.

REPORTER: OVERNIGHT CALIFORNIA

CIGARETTE TAX WENT FROM $0.87

PER PACK $2.87.

IT MIGHT MAKE ME QUIT

BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO SPEND

AN EXTRA TWO DOLLARS EVERY, BY

CIGARETTES.

ELSA: LOOK AT THESE PRICES.

IF NEWPORT IS YOUR PLEASURE,

COUGH UP $9.06.

THIS PACK OF MARLBORO IS MORE

THAN $0.40 A CIGARETTE.

WHEN I WAS A TEENAGER THESE

WENT FOR $0.65 A PACK.

I WOULD KNOW.

CLERKS AT A NUMBER OF PLACES

THAT SOLD CIGARETTES SAY THERE

WAS A RUN ON THEM LAST NIGHT

BEFORE THE PRICES WENT UP.

TODAY, THE CLERKS LIKE MOHAMMED

TOLD ME THAT THEY ARE HEARING

THIS FROM SMOKERS.

IS TOO MUCH.

REPORTER: CIGARETTE SALES ARE

DOWN ALREADY AND THAT IS KIND

OF THE IDEA BEHIND THE TAX.

WE ARE TARGETING TO KEEP

KIDS FROM EVER WANTING TO

START.

REPORTER: YOUNGER SMOKERS,

OLDER SMOKERS, SOME ARE

HERE.

WE HAD SOME CUSTOMERS TODAY

THAT DO NOT WANT TO PAY THE

TAXES THEY CAME IN HERE AND

STARTED VAPING.

REPORTER: BASIC STORE SUPPLIES

THEY TOLD ME RUN $40-$50.

AS OF TODAY, THESE ITEMS ARE

PART OF THE CIGARETTE TAX FOR

THE FIRST TIME.

SOME BELIEVE VAPING IS

HEALTHIER THAN SMOKING.

OUR LUNG CANCER EXPERT IS NOT

SO SURE.

WE DON'T KNOW ALL OF THE

INFORMATION.

REPORTER: HE SAYS CIGARETTE

SALES HAVE BEEN SLIDING SINCE

THE 1980S.

THE SOUND OF IT, THE SALES ON

THE SLIPPERY SLOPE AS OF TODAY

IN OUR STATE.

THANKS TO THE NEW TAX.

WILL ENCOURAGE YOU TO

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Faut il un GROS MEDIATOR pour jouer du jazz manouche ? - Apprendre le Jazz Manouche - Duration: 8:44.

Hi, Clément here

So today in this video, I will talk about picks

because I'm often asked questions about picks which type of pick to choose

Do we need small or big picks

tortoiseshell, wood, bone, horn picks, etc.

There is a lot of choice

So I will try to talk about the different types of picks I used learning guitar

I will talk about their advantages and disadvantages

and I prepared a few examples that I will show you as well

and then I will give you my opinion on the pick's size

if you absolutely need a big pick to play gypsy jazz

On the table I have a few picks

For example I have this one

this one is a stone pick agate to be precise

It's a big pick and rather thick

3 or 4mm

it's a Dugain

It allows you to have a big sound

but there is a slightly metallic aspect

I don't know if the microphone picks it up

when playing a high string

it can make small noises like those

That's for the stone picks

there is bone picks as well

It's also a Dugain... As you can see

Here you have it for the bone pick

this pick is made out of buffalo horn

It's also a big pick from Dugain

I'm not going to try them all on the guitar

there is also picks like this one in ebony

This one is made out of tortoise shell

It's someone that watches my video on Youtube that gave it to me

If he watches thanks againS

so it's in tortoise shell

This one is the classic pick, a black Dunlop

This one, a Dugain again, I believe it's acetate

I don't recall exactly

this one is also a small pick

a small Dunlop pick

So there is a lot of type of picks

and some guitarist say that to play gypsy jazz you need big picks

Dugain picks, horn, bone, tortoise shell picks that kind of things

conversely some say that you need to use small thin picks like this

So, it depends a bit on people

when I started playing gypsy jazz guitar more than ten years ago now

At first I would use Dugain picks, that why I have several here on the table

and I tried many materials, I tried wood, horn, bone, stone, etc

back then I liked it a lot

I played a lot with the agate one

it allowed me to have a big sound

but the downside of these is that it wears down a lot more the strings

the pick won't wear down

this one I have it since forever, I never lost it

In general we lose them before wearing them down since it's stone

On the other hand with stone picks, it'll wear down a lot more your strings

I had my string thread that would go because of the stone of the pick

a bit after that I started playing on small picks

this type of picks, this one is a black Dunlop of 2mm

right here

I started playing with that type of picks, just to see how it's like

and I thought that it was a bit more flexible and more satisfying to play with

and since then I play exclusively with those picks

so black Dunlop 2mm

so, I'm not advertising for Dunlop, I'm not sponsored by them

but there are many guitarist playing with those picks

So either the 2mm black ones or the green ones

these ones are a bit more flexible they are 1.5mm

and I think that compared to Dugain picks or any big picks in shell or horn

I find it more flexible and pleasing

playing the guitar, that being said it's also a matter of taste

and we can perfectly have a big sound playing the guitar using a small plastic pick

if you the live of Bireli Lagrène in Vienne

I believe it was in 2002, it's a really well known DVD

and you can find videos on Youtube I think, you'll see Bireli playing with small plastic picks

and since people saw Bireli playing with a small pick

everyone switch to small picks

and then we realized it works very well and we can have a big sound with a nice tone

using small picks

but then there will always be gypsy jazz purists that will tell you

in order to play gypsy you need a big pick in tortoise shell or in bone that is 3 or 4 mm

to have a big sound, it's a point of view that I don't share

that being said it's up to you to try it out, you can buy a big pick to see if you like it

or try small picks like those

Personally I only play with small plastic picks it's suits me well and I don't want to change it

to summarize all that, I don't think there is one type of pick for gypsy jazz

It depends of your feeling on the guitar

it's something personal, try out different things

try small, big and average picks

and try to keep the pick that fits you best

the one with which you are more at ease

I don't think it's true if someone tells you that you need a particular pick to play gypsy jazz

because we can perfectly play with small ones

So here you go, a small video on picks

that way next time you ask me a question on picks, because I receive a lot of them

I'm often asked which pick, strings I use, etc.

I will refer you back to this video, that way you know everything about how I use my pick

After, the pick has three sides, the tip and the two round ones

there are multiple ways to use them, some will use the tip

others will use one round side, one or another

to have less grip on the string with a corner a bit more round

that also is up to you to try it, it'll depend on the musician

again the best solution is to try it out, and make up your own opinion

That's it for today, if you liked it think about giving a thumb-up on Youtube

If you are on the website you can go to Youtube to give the thumb-up it's always appreciated

I will make a summary PDF to download on the website

if you are on Youtube, click on the description, there will be a link leading you to the website

and if you are the website apprendre-le-jazz-manouche.com the PDF is downloaded at the end of page

See you soon for an upcoming video

Hey! Did you like the video?

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I Need a Savior Because I'm Dying - Duration: 28:31.

[ANNOUNCER] The following

program is brought to you

by the friends and

partners of Time of Grace.

[MUSIC]

[PASTOR MATTEK]

Hello, I'm Pastor Jeremy

Mattek from Time of Grace.

I will never forget the

day that we found out my

mother-in-law was

diagnosed with cancer.

I was driving along the

freeway and I saw that my

cell phone was ringing.

It was my wife calling at

a time of day when she

doesn't normally call.

I picked up the phone and

she gave me the news.

Those are hard moments for

us; hard moments when we

think about our mortality.

The fact that all of us,

in some way, we're dying.

Today, Pastor Jeske has a

very encouraging message

for us to help us face

those moments; a reminder

that we need a Savior

because we are dying.

[MUSIC]

[PASTOR JESKE] I

have heard these

statements dozens and

dozens of times in my

life.

I don't like going to

hospitals; all those sick

people creep me out.

It gives me the willies to

go in there; I won't.

Even if my mother's in the

hospital, I'll call her.

I'm not going; I don't

like being in a hospital.

I hate funeral homes.

I don't like being around

dead bodies.

I'm not going to do it.

I don't like cemeteries;

I'm not going in a

cemetery.

I know a ton of people who

will not buy life

insurance because they

can't make their brains

grasp the fact that I'm

going to be dead someday

and I want to cushion the

blow of my death on my

family.

They just drag their feet,

drag their feet, and drag

their feet and never do it

because the thought of

their own death is so

repulsive they just push

it off.

At least half of all

Americans refuse to make

out a will because the

thought of thinking about

their own death is so

repulsive to them, so

frightening to them, so

creepy, so stressful they

just won't do it.

Well, today I want to dig

into Scripture with you -

not for buzzkill; this is

a happy day - it's the

Lord's Day and I've got

great news.

But first we have to

confront some hard news

and that is that the

reaper is coming after all

of us and one day he will

catch up to us and we will

go down.

And if you can't handle

that thought it's because

you've not been reading

your Bible for the

Scripture is full of help

to prepare for that day.

It must not catch you

unaware.

Today is the second of the

Sundays of Bible studies

where I am encouraging you

in this Lenten season,

when the purple colors

come out, some things we

must think about are our

aching desperate need for

a Savior for things we

cannot do for ourselves.

And because this is

stressful and because it's

humbling, people don't

like to do it but you

must.

Last week, we dug into

Scripture and were

confronted with our aching

need for the forgiveness

of our sins.

We like to pretend we're

fine; that sin is somebody

else's problem but no -

look in the mirror to find

the chief of sinners.

There he is, there she is,

looking right back at you.

Today, I want to talk to

you about mortality.

We need a Savior simply

because we're dying.

And I'd like to dig into

Psalm 90 with you, it's

the Psalm of Moses, and

invite you to do one of

two things: Either get a

Bible and look up Psalm 90

or just lean back and I'm

going to read it for you,

along with a little music

to help you grasp its

impact, and I would like

to - usually I kind of go

through things

verse-by-verse with you

but today, I would like

you just to hear the whole

poem and I would like you

to hear what may be the

very first psalm of our

150 ever to be written

because it's the Psalm of

Moses, the first author

God chose for his word.

Listen now to the words of

Psalm 90: "Lord, you have

been our dwelling place

throughout all

generations.

Before the mountains were

born or you brought forth

the earth and the world,

from everlasting to

everlasting you are God.

You turn men back to dust,

saying, "Return to dust, O

sons of men."

For a thousand years in

your sight are like a day

that has just gone by, or

like a watch in the night.

You sweep people away in

the sleep of death - they

are like the new grass of

the morning: Though in the

morning it springs up new,

by evening it is dry and

withered.

We are consumed by your

anger and terrified by

your indignation.

You have set our

iniquities before you, our

secret sins in the light

of your presence.

All our days pass away

under your wrath; we

finish our years with a

moan.

The length of our days is

seventy years, or eighty,

if we have the strength;

yet their span is but

trouble and sorrow, for

they quickly pass, and we

fly away.

Who knows the power of

your anger!

For your wrath is as great

as the fear that is due

you.

Teach us to number our

days aright, that we may

gain a heart of wisdom.

Relent, O Lord!

How long will it be?

Have compassion on your

servants.

Satisfy us in the morning

with your unfailing love,

that we may sing for joy

and be glad all our days.

Make us glad for as many

days as you have afflicted

us, as many years as we

have seen trouble.

May your deeds be shown to

your servants, your

splendor to their

children.

May the favor of the Lord

our God rest upon us;

establish the work of our

hands for us - yes,

establish the work of our

hands."

Moses' life could

basically be divided into

three trimesters; each of

roughly forty years of

duration.

Born a Hebrew slave-child,

slave-baby, in Egypt, at

risk of being beheaded by

the royal order of the

Pharaoh, his mother - in

order to save her precious

little boy's life - gave

him up for a watery

adoption hoping that the

miracle of babies would

touch the heart of an

Egyptian woman.

Knowing that the hearts of

males are often cold,

Moses' mother, Jochebed,

put her baby in a little

tiny wicker little boat, a

little boatlet, and shoved

him out in the Nile hoping

he would be discovered.

And exactly, that is what

happened.

The daughter of the

Pharaoh himself fished

little Moses out of the

water and decided to adopt

him and brought him up as

an Egyptian though knowing

that he was a little

Jewish baby.

And she risked her life to

defy the Pharaoh's edict

and she saved him.

Moses was educated, became

literate.

Unlike most of the slaves,

his fellow Israelite

slaves who were consigned

to a life of drudgery

making bricks, Moses

became literate - could

read and write - which was

wonderful and helpful for

he was chosen by God to be

the first author of the

new technology called a

written Bible.

Up until that point, all

the communication from God

to people and from people

to each other was all

oral, was verbal.

Moses became the writer

and that became possible

because he was an educated

man.

Moses was impatient as a

younger man, decided to

start the revolution

himself.

And with his own hands, he

killed an Egyptian who was

tormenting one of the

Hebrew slaves.

God knew that he was going

to bring about a great

exodus but that was not

the moment and this was

not how it would be done.

And Moses had to run for

his life and God arranged

for him to escape but he

became a shepherd where he

went to the school of

patience - God's college

of patient knowledge - and

he became a shepherd and

God taught him to wait and

to trust and to let God's

time be his time.

And in fact, God waited so

long that Moses lost his

fire for liberation so

that in the final

trimester when God did

appear to him in that

burning bush, Moses didn't

want to go.

And Exodus' first chapters

- one, two and three - are

lists of excuses, some

sort of credible, some

feeble, as Moses tried to

get out of the very job he

was willing to kill once

to do.

But he did agree and he

represented the God of

Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob

before the Pharaoh and led

the mighty exodus.

Moses beheld the ten

plagues.

Moses saw the glory of the

Lord, the pillar of cloud

and fire, that moved out

in advance to lead the

Israelite people; at

night, a pillar of fire

protecting them from the

attacks of the Egyptians.

Moses, I think, wrote this

Psalm, the one you just

heard, as an older man.

This doesn't sound like a

young man talking, does

it?

Young men are impatient.

They're eager.

They're optimistic.

They think they can lick

the world.

When you start to have

some snow on the roof and

maybe less and less of it,

you slow down a little

bit, you think more.

You also observe patterns

and the reason most of all

why I think that this was

written by Moses in his

later years is he said,

"Our lives quickly pass."

When you're young, life

goes slow.

You just got the itch,

you're impatient, you

can't wait and like time

just seems to crawl when

you're young.

You get bored so easily

because you don't have

control of your life;

you're at the behest of

other people.

When you get older, you

have your independence but

half your energy has been

taken away from you by

that time and it just

seems to fly away.

I was talking to my

mother-in-law once on the

phone and talking about

her day and I said, "Tell

me about your day."

She said, "Well, I got up

and got dressed and made

the bed, cleaned up, made

myself a nice breakfast,

ate a nice breakfast,

cleaned up all the dishes,

and then I vacuumed the

rug and then it was time

for lunch [Audience: Laughter]

and I made

myself a nice lunch and

really enjoyed it and then

cleaned it up.

And by the time I put the

dishes away, I took a

little snooze, I read a

little bit, and then all

of a sudden it was time

for supper."

[Audience: Laughter] And

that was her day.

And then a little TV and

it was time for jammies.

That was her day and she

was tired by the end of

the day.

That's what life becomes

for us.

That's what lies ahead for

me.

A wise person told me once

- if I've shared this with

you, I'll remind you of

it; some of you haven't

heard it - I have never

heard a better way of

describing the speed at

which our lives just flow

away better than this.

A guy told me once: "Life

is like a roll of toilet

paper.

[Audience: Laughter] The

closer you get to the end

the faster it goes."

And that's really true!

Ask any person who's older

than seventy, they can't

even tell where the years

fly away anymore.

They look around and

suddenly it's autumn and

then they lose track of

time a little bit and

suddenly it's spring.

Time just flies and Moses

said our years quickly

pass and we fly away.

This Psalm sounds pretty

melancholy, doesn't it?

I think I know why: Moses

had witnessed death on

many scales.

He had witnessed personal

death; he had killed a man

with his own hands.

He watched a human being

die right in front of him.

How does that not change

you forever?

He had witnessed God

drowning the chariot

troops of the Pharaoh.

He watched the waters

close over them.

He may have heard their

gurgling screams as they

were drowning and he

watched what had been this

like cavalry unit all be

killed all at once.

Do you think that wasn't a

sobering sight?

There were at least 1.2

million adults who went

out of Egypt with Moses

and yet, because of their

content and disregard for

the promises of God, God

said all of the grown-ups,

everybody twenty and

older, is going to die in

the desert and in the

forty years of their

wandering in the

wilderness, all but a

couple of those 1.2

million people died.

Do the math - 1.2 million

people over forty years

averages 85 or so funerals

a day.

Death was in the Israelite

camp every day and Moses

could see it.

He could see the reaper

cutting people down.

And so, his melancholy

poem about the certainty

of death is something we

need to pay attention to

because this is not

somebody else's problem.

This is our problem and

Moses has got six

takeaways for you from

this powerful Psalm.

And it's not creepy; it's

just reality.

This isn't buzzkill; it's

good life planning.

This isn't depressing for

what it will do is drive

you to find your

confidence, your hope, and

your gladness of heart -

not in yourself, for

you're mortal and fading

away like a cut flower

like mown grass that is

green when it's cut but a

day later will be brown

and dead.

Here's where your joy

comes from: Putting your

eyes on Christ.

Here are the six things

Moses wants you to know.

First, God is awesome and

eternal.

The all-powerful Creator,

eternal in both directions

- in geometry, when you

see a line, they put the

little arrow on either

side of the line, right?

Do you know - do you

remember sophomore high

school geometry?

The line goes endlessly in

both directions.

That is the existence of

your God who is eternal,

knows neither a beginning,

middle or an end.

Past, present, and future

are all the same to him.

He is constant existence

everywhere all at the same

time.

He has been our dwelling

place.

He is our safe place, our

refuge.

He's where we can hide.

He's our rock.

He's our anchor.

He is our organizing point

for all of our thinking.

"Before the mountains were

born or you brought forth

the earth and the world,

from everlasting to

everlasting, you are God."

So with Moses, we worship

someone way older than we

are - in fact, he's older

than the oldest rock on

earth - and he will exist

into all eternity.

Just enjoy making yourself

small before someone so

great.

Enjoy the comfort of

knowing someone as small

and weak as you can find a

refuge of someone who

likes you, knows your name

and likes you, so that you

may find rest in him.

Number two: Confess your

sins.

The difficulties of the

people on earth and the

miseries of the people of

Israel were because of

their own sin.

"We're consumed by your

anger Lord," Moses says,

"because you've set our

iniquities before you, our

secret sins in the light

of your presence" for

before you Lord, nothing

is secret.

This is healthy.

It's not creepy, it's not

morbid.

It isn't hangdog, it's not

depressing.

Just admit your aching

need.

The great one holds you

accountable for how you

behave and expects you to

be as holy as he is.

Don't blame somebody else.

Don't make excuses.

Don't make light of it.

Don't laugh it off.

Don't say, "Well," - don't

get out your pointing

finger and say, "Not my

problem."

Now there's the sinners.

Admit it for yourself so

you can become healthy.

As long as you hold your

sins inside and don't

acknowledge them before

God, they're like a

poison; they're toxic.

It's like an acid eating

away inside your heart.

Dump it out so that you

can become healthy for you

will find forgiveness

complete in Jesus for them

all.

Third: Realize that human

death is not the result of

the fact that medical

science just has not quite

yet found the cure.

For every disease that

medical science can find a

cure for, God will find a

way to bring death in some

other way.

And death will chase us

until the end.

"You sweep people away in

the sleep of death," like

God's just brooming them

off; every day he brooms a

few more people off the

planet.

This is a bitter truth of

our existence but it's an

absolutely vital one for

you to see and

acknowledge.

Death is the result of the

curse of God upon humanity

because of our sins.

"The soul that sins shall

die," Scripture says, and

we see that coming true

day after day, one by one.

Rate of inflation for

death never changes, does

it?

One per person.

And it happens to us all.

This isn't morbid talk;

this is just reality.

And you can't really have

a happy life until you

come to grips with this

sad fact that human death

is the result of human

sin.

Point number four: Learn

the lesson of this.

Verse 12 Moses says,

"Teach us to number our

days aright so we may gain

a heart of wisdom."

What should we conclude by

looking at when the angel

of death moves through?

Learn from this and

realize our time on this

planet is quickly slipping

away.

Yesterday, in this very

building, a young woman in

her twenties was laid to

rest; way sooner than

anybody wanted or dreamed

it would ever happen.

You don't know the number

that's going to be

chiseled - the second

number - on your

tombstone.

So prepare now since you

don't know.

Now is the time to take

care of this business to

come before your Lord.

Where do you go for the

dilemma of our sin?

Where do you go to escape

the angel of death?

"Relent, O Lord" Moses

says, verse 14: "Satisfy

us in the morning with

your unfailing love."

That's a Hebrew word whose

Greek equivalent, charis,

is grace.

We go to God's grace that

he has a rescue plan that

he gives because of his

inside goodness; not

because of your or my

achievements.

Verse 16 towards the end:

"May your deeds be shown

to your servants and your

splendor to their

children."

Moses, you might envy

Moses, because he got to

see the glory of the Lord.

He got to see the ten

plagues smacking Egypt

down.

He got to see the huge

pillar of cloud.

He got to see the golden

box of the ark of the

covenant and the bright

cloud going inside of the

tabernacle.

But something Moses never

saw was the fulfillment

that he was waiting for;

the fulfillment of the

arrival of the Savior.

You and I have a

phenomenal advantage over

even Moses; one of the

greatest of God's Old

Testament leaders because

you have had shared with

you the good news of the

arrival of the Savior as

God said.

You have the certainty of

the forgiveness of your

sins.

You have the certainty of

the resurrection of

Christ.

You have the certainty now

of knowing that you will

rise, as well.

And that means that the

death stalker has no

terrors for us; that this

doesn't have to be creepy

talk for Christians

because we need a Savior

but we have a Savior.

And his immortality, his

resurrection, guarantees

both your forgiveness and

your resurrection, as

well.

When Moses says, "Make us

glad once again for as

many days as you have

afflicted us," that is

where your gladness of

heart comes from.

It comes not when your

eyes are focused on

yourself, your

achievements, your

efforts.

Look at Jesus and gladness

will come to your heart.

"May the favor of the Lord

our God rest upon us."

That is where our

salvation comes from.

God's favor through Christ

resting upon us.

And number six - this kind

of surprises you; you

might think that would

have been a great place

for the Psalm to end - but

Moses finishes with

saying: "Establish the

work of our hands for us -

yes, establish the work of

our hands."

You might think that that

would be a great place to

end by Moses says, "Lord,

establish the work of our

hands."

In other words, what we're

doing right now for God

still matters!

And as individuals and as

a congregation and as

Christians, we have the

unbelievable privilege of

sharing this hope, how to

escape, how to find some

gladness in a world full

of struggle and

bitterness, how to find an

exit, how to live beyond

that death angel who goes

around cutting people

down.

How grass and flowers that

are cut and dying once

again get their color back

and bloom once again.

Establish, Lord, our work

that we do in your name to

make great your name to

tell people about the

Savior that we have.

And in that way, his favor

rests upon us but it will

also rest upon everyone

who hears that precious

gospel message.

We need a Savior because

we're dying but because of

our Savior, we are alive!

That's good news for God's

people.

Let everybody say "Amen!"

[MUSIC]

[PASTOR MATTEK]

Pastor Jeske just had an

incredible message on the

reality of death and those

can be very difficult

moments for us.

I remember one day a

number of years ago, my

wife and our two small

daughters were driving

through Chicago and my

sister-in-law was in the

car with her, traveling

with her.

I was back at home many

miles away and my phone

rang.

I picked it up and it was

my sister-in-law and the

first words out of her

mouth were "everybody's

okay," which wasn't a good

sign.

They had been hit by a

semi in Chicago traffic.

They had been driving

through stop and go

traffic and my wife

stopped in time when the

vehicle in front of her

stopped, but the semi that

was behind her wasn't able

to slam on the breaks in

time and so the semi

smashed into the back of

our minivan, crumbled the

whole thing.

My two little girls were

in the back seat of the

minivan; amazingly, they

weren't hurt.

Those moments can be very

difficult as we think

about the mortality of

those we love and even

ourselves.

But Pastor Jeske told us,

as he reminded us, the

best place to look during

those moments isn't really

at death; the best place

to look is at our God -

our awesome and our

eternal God - who wants to

be so close to us as we

walk through the valley of

the shadow of death that

he comes down to this

earth and goes through it

himself, gets crunched by

death, only to rise above

it on Easter morning.

What a glorious message to

give us hope and

confidence and freedom as

we walk through this life.

I'll be back in a minute

to pray with you.

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would like to take a

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those who support this

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You are the ones who allow

us to take the sweet

gospel of Jesus to hurting

hearts just like mine and

just like yours.

Let's bow our heads and

pray together.

Dear Lord Jesus, We are so

grateful for your

sacrificial love that led

you to the cross, to go

through the valley of the

shadow of death yourself,

to stand by our side and

be the sacrifice for our

sins.

We're so grateful for your

victory over death on

Easter morning that allows

us to live with hope and

joy and confidence, even

as we walk through those

valleys.

Keep that message on our

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This whole world needs

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In your name we pray,

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JEREMY PEARSONS: So you need to understand that there are some

things that are coming in your life and mine, get excited about

it, get to a place where you're expecting it. But you need to

also recognize and ask the Lord, "Am I ready?"

(Singing) I know my God has made the way for

me. I know my God has made the way for me.

ANNOUNCER: Kenneth and Gloria Copeland welcome their grandson,

Jeremy Pearsons, to host today's Believer's Voice of

Victory. Learn how you can be "fit" for the fight of faith

and prepared for every good work. Now here's Jeremy.

JEREMY: The one thing I want to be more than

anything else is fit for my Master's use. That's why we've

been looking at what Paul wrote to Timothy in II Timothy 2, and

talked to him about being a vessel that's sanctified. That's

Verse 21, a vessel that's "sanctified and useful to the

Master." I want Jesus to look at me and say, "Yeah, you, I can

use you," to be fit for His use, to be in shape, to be in a

condition where He can use me to get something done in this

world. And that should be the beat of your heart too, because

you know He loves you, or you better know that. That better be

the bedrock foundation that your whole life is built on: God

loves me, Jesus loves me. And on top of that, you need to realize

that He's called you, and there is a grace and an anointing on

your life to do something in this world for Him, to have an

impact on this world. But you've got to understand that just

because He loves you and just because He's called you doesn't

necessarily or automatically mean He can use you maybe in the

shape you're in, maybe in the shape I'm in. And that's why the

Lord spoke to me some months ago and said, "Jeremy, I want you

fit by 40." So I'm sitting here as a 37-year-old guy,

realizing--doing the math, okay, I've got two and a half, three

years left at this point, because something's coming. When

I turn 40, I am--I'm fully persuaded that there is a new

phase of life in ministry that's on its way. And like I said to

you a couple of days ago, I'm excited about that. That stirs

me up to think that way. But right on the other hand, it's

also very sobering to realize that what He's saying to me is,

"I can't give it to you right now. You're not ready for it. I

can't bring that next phase, that next step into your life,

not in the shape that you're in." But that's why God is so

gracious and He's so merciful to give me two, three years to get

ready for it. That's the mercy of God. And you need to learn to

realize sometimes that the thing you wish you had right now or

the thing you think you need right now, oftentimes you don't

have it because of the mercy of God. And God's standing there

saying, "Look, I've got it for you, but I can't give it to you

because you're just not ready for it." I remember when the

Lord brought Sarah and I together. It's an amazing,

miraculous story. I won't get into all the details. It's just

one of those stories that will make you believe in God. He did

it. He did it. But before He did it, I mean, He had this timing

with it. There were some people in our family, well before Sarah

and I ever even met each other, that they knew her, and they

were trying to set us up and trying to get us together. And

they had invited her to come down to Fort Worth, I think it

was for a New Year's Eve service. And it was New Year's

Eve '06, going into '07. And they invited her to come, but

she was already committed to lead worship at the church she

was a part of. And so she didn't come. And you might ask

yourself, "Oh, wow, don't you wish you had met her sooner?"

Because, see, we didn't end up meeting for another three

months. You might think, "Didn't you wish you had met her

sooner?" No! Absolutely not! Because I remember that night

specifically. I remember what was going on in my life that

night. I remember being just kind of in some turmoil with

some friends and relationships, and stuff was just not clicking,

just a lot of drama; probably that I had let in. I was not

ready to meet Sarah. And had I met her, I don't know that I

would have eyes--would have had eyes to see her, to see the gift

of God and what He was doing for my life. So God had her, and she

was ready. He was ready to give her to me, but I wasn't ready.

He had His timing. So you need to understand that there are

some things that are coming in your life and mine. Get excited

about it. Get to a place where you're expecting it. But you

need to also recognize and ask the Lord, "Am I ready? Am I in

shape, ready for You to bring this thing?" And that's what

Paul said, "You need to be useful to the Master, fit for

His use, and prepared for every good work." And what is the good

work that you're to be prepared for? It's the thing that He's

called you to do. That may look different for you than it does

for me, but that's for you to find out. And you need to

understand, you will never be more satisfied doing anything

other than the thing He's called you to do. You'll never be more

blessed doing anything other than the thing that He's called

you to do. That's where your prosperity is, that's where your

peace and your joy is. That's where your healthy relationships

are, is in the thing He's called you to do. So ask yourself, "Am

I in shape, and am I ready?" The reason this has been such a

strong thought in me over the last several months is because I

had to get a healthy dose of correction from the Lord on it.

And I told you about sitting out there on that balcony that day

in summer of 2016 on vacation with Sarah, a hotel balcony just

looking out over the pool, the ocean, and the Lord speaking to

me and saying, "Jeremy, get fit by 40." He's given me this

window of time. But some of the things I'd begun to realize

shortly before that, and then subsequently from that, was that

there had been some opportunities that the Lord had

opened doors to in my life and ministry that I had to get

honest with Him and realize, I wasn't ready. For example, many

of you know that my grandparents, Kenneth and Gloria

Copeland, just in the last year and some, have launched the

Believer's Voice of Victory Network, this major arm of

outreach and ministry where it's just a network of faith teaching

and faith preaching 24 hours a day, seven days a week. And

before--shortly after they launched that and before they

invited other guests to be on it, my grandfather called me.

This would have been in, oh, July of two thousand--I'd say

15, I think. I may have that wrong, but I think that's about

right. And he said, "Jeremy, your grandmother and I want to

extend this invitation to you and Sarah to have your program

on our network." Well, that's wonderful. I knew that the call

of God on my life and on Sarah and I together was to be in

television ministry. The Lord had told us that years ago,

"Begin taking steps towards a television ministry." Now, six,

almost seven years ago, Sarah and I launched out from KCM and

started our own ministry, and now we're a partner ministry

with this one. And the Lord had instructed in our own, "I want

you to have a television broadcast. Use this outreach,

Believer's Voice of Victory, as an awesome example to us of what

it's supposed to look like and what it's supposed to

accomplish." So in my mind, we're taking steps towards this.

But he called me in July of that year and said, "Now, listen, in

September, we're going to start putting other ministries on

there." Well, that's just a couple of months. And I

realized, "Wow, I'm not ready. I don't have a program yet." So we

start hurrying. And I ended up speaking to somebody here at KCM

about it and they said, "Listen, you know, it's--it's just an

open invitation so that when you are ready, there's a place for

you here on the network." Okay, so that kind of makes me feel

better about it, thinking I don't have to have this ready in

a matter of days. So, September comes. We didn't have a program.

October, we don't have a program. November, December,

January. Just--just shortly after the new year that year, I

wake up to myself one day and realize, what am I doing? My

grandfather called, what, six months ago, five, six months ago

now, and gave me--gave me this golden opportunity that so few

people get, to go on television and preach the Gospel all over

the world, to do the thing God's called me to do, and I still

haven't done it? It's like I woke up. I'm like, the Holy

Spirit just shook me and said, "Pssh, pssh, what are you doing,

boy?" And I remember going to my staff somewhere about February

last year, 2016, and said, "Guys, are you familiar with the

term 'light a fire'?" Ha-ha. "Because that's what God's doing

under me, and that's what I want to do under all of you, under

us. We have got to get this broadcast out." And we got

serious about it. And just in a matter of days, just a matter of

weeks, we started making our own television broadcast. And it

might not have looked perfect right away, but we were working

at it. And everybody doing it, it was--it was all our first

time to do any of it. There was nobody there that was trained to

do it, nobody there that went to school for it. I had nothing but

a room full of willing hearts, and it was enough. And we got

going on it. But shortly after we got started, you know, the

Lord spoke to me, and He said, "Jeremy, you should have been

ready the day he called. You should have been ready to go

with that television broadcast the day your grandfather called

you." And, man, that came all over me. And I thought, "Lord, I

don't even know how I would have done that, but I should have

been." I should have been ready the day he called, and if I

wasn't, I should have got ready the day that door opened for our

broadcasts to go on. And still, I wasn't. And can I tell you

that I let six, seven months go by before we finally went on

air? And by the grace and the mercy of God, we got ready. And

by His grace, we're on today. But I have had to reconcile with

Him the fact that I let seven months go by. That's seven

months of preaching. That's seven months of being all over

the world making altar calls, giving people opportunity to be

born again. That's seven months of giving people opportunity for

their heart to resonate with what Sarah and I are doing and

partner with us in this. That's seven months of opportunity to

preach the Gospel and see people's lives changed by it. I

wasn't ready. And Sarah and I got together, and we got

together with our staff, and we made this our theme, not just

for 2017, but for the rest of the life of our ministry: "We

will be ready." I'll be ready when the door opens. So when the

Lord says to me, "Jeremy, I want you fit by 40," you better

believe, man, that when 40 gets here and the door of opportunity

swings open wide for whatever He's calling us into next, you

better believe I will be there with one foot in the air, ready

to step through that threshold. Never again will I stand at the

threshold of an open door for seven months, unable to walk

through because I wasn't ready. Now, what about you? What about

you? What will you do with this Word? Because I guarantee you,

something's coming. Something is coming in your life that you

need to be in shape and ready for. That's why we've been

looking at I Timothy 6:12 that talks about "fighting the good

fight of faith." The Wuest translation says, "Be constantly

engaged in this contest of faith." Don't disengage from it.

Don't unhook your faith. Stay engaged in this fight of faith.

Why? Because something's coming that you need to be in shape and

ready to go for. That's the condition you need to be found

in at all times. And here is the good news: If you're not in

shape right now, get honest with yourself. Call on the mercy of

God, and you can get in shape. You can get fit for the fight of

faith. But when Paul said that to Timothy, he said, "Get into

this fight, be good at this fight, Timothy. Don't

just--don't just stand in the ring and flail your arms. Don't

just take blind swings. No. Have some technique to your fight."

"Be constantly engaged in the contest of faith, which

contest," he said, "is marked by the beauty of its technique."

Don't just be in the fight. Be good at it. Don't just run the

race. Run in such a way that you obtain the prize. Don't just get

in the--get in the ring, get in the fight and box the air.

That's not doing anything. You're not making any impact

there. Get in the fight and get some technique to your faith

fight. So, in the time that we have left, I want to go to

Romans 4. We're going to look at the life of Abraham. And this

man's life is the one that the Scripture uses to show us what

good technique looks like. And again, remember, the difference

between somebody who's just starting out in something and

somebody who's a professional at it is just a mastery of the

basics. When a kid's just learning a sport, they're

learning the very basics of that sport. But then you take

somebody who's a professional at it, and all that person is is

somebody that's grown in it and developed in it and become a

master of those basics. So you take somebody like Kenneth and

Gloria Copeland, who I look at, and many of us look at, and

think, "Wow, that is a--they are masters at the fight of faith."

Well, really, all you're looking at is somebody who has mastered

the basics. So, when we're talking about developing this

technique of faith, we're not going to jump into something

you've never heard. We're not going to talk about some facet

of faith that's never been talked about before. We just go

back to the basics of it, and we just remind ourselves and train

ourselves in these things until we become a master at these

techniques. Romans 4, this is the New Testament account of the

life of Abraham. And I want to begin reading in Verse 13. We're

going to read down through the rest of this chapter. Notice

what it says here beginning here in Romans 4:13. It says, "For

the promise that he," Abraham, "would be the heir of the world

was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but

through the righteousness of faith." Now, I love this verse

because in one verse you have an explanation of everything that

God was able to do in the life of Abraham and now what He's

able to do in the life of those of us who believe in Jesus. He

said, "God didn't make this promise to Abraham. He wasn't

promised to be the heir of the world through the

righteousness--or excuse me, through the law, but through the

righteousness of faith." Have you ever stopped to wonder why

the Spirit of God would have to use the life of Abraham in the

New Testament to try to preach what Jesus has just done for us?

I've always thought it was interesting that here we are

reading New Testament, but we've gone back to this Old Testament

person to find out what Jesus has just done. And I think the

answer is right here in this verse, Paul writing to these

people who have lived under the reality of the law for so long

and the requirement of the law and trying to measure up to that

law and trying to perform to a high standard to that law. And

they've lived all their lifetimes subject to the bondage

and the fear of death. Why? Because they know, "Man, if I

don't perform right, I've got death hanging over my head." So

Paul, trying to communicate to these people what's just been

accomplished through Jesus, he's saying, "Look, I've got to take

you back to a time before the law ever existed." That's what

Abraham is. He's per all that. He's prelate. He's--he's got a

relationship with God. He lived at a time when there was nothing

between God and man but God's word towards His man and man's

faith in his God. That's the only thing that was between

them. There was no law that separated them. There was no

consciousness of sin that separated him. And Paul's

saying, "I've got to somehow communicate to you what's just

been accomplished in and through Jesus. And to do that, I've got

to take you back to a time before the law ever existed and

the only thing between God and man was faith." That's it. And

Paul's saying, "Praise God, because of Jesus, now the only

thing between you and God is God's word to you and your faith

in Him." That's what Abraham is a picture of to us. In Verse 14,

"If those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void and

the promise made of no effect, because the law brings about

wrath; for where there is no law there is no transgression.

Therefore it is of faith, that it might be according to

grace--" See, you always see those two working hand in hand:

Faith working with grace, and grace working with faith, grace

begets faith, begets grace, begets faith. Grace is God

speaking to you. Faith is you speaking to Him. And when you

get into that conversation with Him, then you answer back, then

He can have something else to say to you, and then you answer

that back. And faith is the only appropriate response to grace.

"Therefore it's of faith that it might be according to grace, so

that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to

those who are of the law but also to those who are of the

faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all (as it is

written, 'I've made you a father of many nations') in the

presence of Him whom he believed--God, who gives life to

the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though

they did." God, who called those things that be not as though

they were. We're talking about the basics of faith. Come back

to the basics. Some of you heard these truths decades ago, and

for whatever reason, you let it slip. For whatever reason, you

forgot to keep feeding on this. Well, I'm sitting here telling

you today, reengage with the contest of faith. Get back in

this thing and go back to that thing that so just got you so

excited decades ago, that thing where you found out there was

power in your words, and you could speak to things and it

would change, you could speak to situations, and they had to

change, you could speak to sickness, and it had to leave

because the very basics of faith are calling those things which

be not as though they were. This keeps going. Listen to this,

Verse 18, "who, contrary to hope, in hope believed--" Here

again, basics of faith. Let's unpack that sentence a little

bit. "Contrary to hope, in hope believed." The word "hope" just

means expectation. Abraham, according to the natural, had no

reason to expect a son, and yet he expected one. That's what

that means, "contrary to hope, in hope believed." There was no

reason naturally to expect this thing to turn out good, and

still, he expected. Still, he expected the promise of God to

come to pass. Again, Verse 18, "who, contrary to hope, in hope

believed, so that he became the father of many nations,

according to what was written, 'So shall your descendants be.'"

Verse 19, "not being weak in faith, he did not consider his

own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old),

and the deadness of Sarah's womb. He did not waver," he

didn't stagger, "at the promise of God through unbelief, but was

strengthened in faith--" He wasn't weak in faith, he was

strengthened in faith. What have we been talking about for days

now? Getting fit for the fight of faith. Abraham wasn't weak.

You've got to come to the point--ugh, I wish we had more

time on this broadcast. But you've got to come to the

point--and I suggest you do it right now--come to the place in

your life where you decide, "I'm done being weak. I'm finished

with weakness." That's the place I had to come to almost two

years ago. Like I said to you a day or so ago, just growing up

this skinny, scrawny kid, never really putting on muscle, I had

to decide, "I'm done being weak. I'm going to start working out.

I want to see what that does." And as you can tell, it's done

quite a--well, it's still a work, okay? Okay? We're--faith

has not yet become sight, but soon. But you've got to make the

decision that, spiritually speaking, you are done being

weak. You are done letting sickness walk all over you. You

are done being defeated. You are done living--living in

depression, living in oppression. You are done being

walked over. You're done being a skinny, scrawny spiritual

person. It's now time for you and I to get fit for this fight

of faith and begin developing and being strengthened like

Abraham, strengthened in faith. I want you to notice what that

does. "He was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God." Is

that what it said? "Strengthened in faith, giving glory to God."

Giving glory to God doesn't just mean you stand there with your

arms up and say, "I give you glory, give you glory, give you

glory, give you glory." No. Faith gives Him glory. When you

will stand in faith in the middle of the storm while your

sight is still unseen, and you'll boldly declare the Word

of God, you'll boldly speak what the Word of God has already

said, that gives God glory. He loves it. He loves it. So make

the decision right now before you do anything

else today. Say it out loud, "I'm done being weak.

I'm going to be strong in my faith." Amen?