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Alan Parker ~ Biblical Holiness: A Guide for Sinners

Alan Parker

Radical Holiness: Steps to a Sanctified Life

Sacred Intimacy: Sex and Spirituality

Soul Hunger: Why Hollywood Hurts Your Holiness

Forever Free: Change You Can Really Believe In

Jerry Page

Janet Page

A Life of Prayer, Part I

A Life of Prayer, Part II

All right, we want to welcome you back this afternoon.

You've had food, and it's in the afternoon, and things happen.

I remember once how I had a, hearing the story about this guy who always had somebody who fell asleep in his congregation.

And he was going, oh no, what am I going to do with this guy?

So 1 day he decided to play a joke on him.

So in front of the whole congregation he says, I'm going to make sure he never falls asleep again.

So very softly he said, will all those going to heaven please stand?

And everybody in the congregation stands up except this 1 guy who's out there.

And he says, now all those going to hell, please stand.

And then the guy looks at the pastor and says, now, why are you and I the only guys standing?

So I will try and keep you awake this afternoon, but help me out where you can, all right?

We're looking at how Hollywood affects your holiness.

And we want to, before we go into this, what I've been doing with every session is I would like us to just sing a song that I feel really connects us with holiness and that's Lord Prepare Me to be a sanctuary.

So if someone could start that out for us.

To be a sanctuary pure and holy, Pride and true, With thanksgiving, I'll be a Living sanctuary, Lord for You.

Father, we are so grateful to be in Your presence again this afternoon.

You know that our holiness is on the rocks.

We want to find out how Hollywood affects that holiness, Lord.

We want to create a new momentum of young people who will take your holiness seriously.

Help us not to be dependent on the things around us, but instead to be focused on You, in Jesus' name.

Sorry, let me get some water here so that I've got enough voice to make it through.

Okay, at least a few hands go up, you're honest.

You start reading the hymnal because the preacher's going on about something you don't know.

I remember sitting in a congregation in Africa, and the preacher was going on about the stars, all these constellations.

And so the translator was going, I don't know where he's at.

Because first of all, the stars in the northern hemisphere are different from the stars in the southern hemisphere.

So we didn't even have words to describe what he was talking about.

So the translator says, I'm just going to preach my own sermon.

So he starts preaching away in the other language, and the guys, you know, he's looking at you, translating, you know, he keeps preaching away.

And then he gets through about midway And he says oh he's still up there And I'm he keeps preaching a sermon everyone's a many and at least church was a little more exciting that day But the reality for most of us is that church can be boring in fact religion can be boring there.

There is a diminishing of Spirituality And so we have to take a look at what is going on here.

Especially on a Sabbath morning when you're sitting around and everyone's sharing their opinions on the Sabbath school lesson.

Some of you say my prayer life is ritualistic.

I've prayed the same prayer for 20 years.

Doesn't the Lord know what I want to say?

And so We feel like there's nothing to it.

I don't seem to be able to really focus on God.

There you are saying, Dear Lord, please be with me.

And the next thing you know, You're waking up and you're going, what happened?

Then we go to church and we put on spiritual masks, but we're bored at church too.

And so we get to Sabbath school lessons and this completes the background to the lesson, but everybody has fallen asleep.

The guy's got a little remote control and he says, hey, the mute button works at church too.

Have you noticed when you're in church, you can totally tune out what the guy's saying up in front.

And you know, 20 minutes later, what did he say again?

When you're reading your Bibles, have you ever had this experience?

You're reading your Bibles, and 5 minutes later, you say, what did I just read?

And yet, this is the generation that has a cry of the heart.

You know this famous contemporary song, holiness.

Holiness is what you want for me, for me.

Take my will, conform it to yours, to yours, O Lord." You know this song?

Fascinating, you know, how everybody gets together for revival sessions.

I remember reading the story, I think it was Dwight L.

Moody, and he had a whole group of people all lined up there to get revival.

He says, I just want to find out here, you know, just to find out.

He says, how many of you pray for at least 30 minutes a day?

He says, alright, alright, maybe I made it too complicated.

How many of you definitely pray for 15 minutes every day?

And about half of the group raise their hands.

Now I wonder what would happen if we asked the same question.

See, we talk about holiness, we want holiness, but somehow it is not translating into our lives.

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Alan Parker ~ Biblical Holiness: A Guide for Sinners

Soul Hunger: Why Hollywood Hurts Your Holiness

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