Transcript of message from TV Broadcast 811 -- taken from Closed Captioning Text

-- Brother Jimmy Robbins: Thank God for that wonderful worship service.

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I won't be up here very long and I pray the Lord will help me to deliver my burden that I have. When Paul and the family there were singing Paul sung a line. It went something like this--can you sink or fall so low that God's grace can't come down and reach where you are... something like that. Do you remember that? Some things just flooded my mind and my spirit. I'll share it briefly and if the Lord's in it we thank God for that. If not, then we move on to what the Lord really wants.

I want to say this to you that when... Marriage is a beautiful thing. It's a wonderful thing. When you have a young man and a young woman, they court. They spend quality time together and most of the time it would be intimate in the sense of sharing their heart with one another. They're not ashamed to just tell 'em the least little thing that went on that day in their life and you're growing in your relationship. And it becomes a strong relationship and the courtship is not enough. There comes a time when you get married and the Lord joins you together and now you're one. Outside of coming to the Lord Jesus Christ and being born again that is the second step down. Can you say amen to that?

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It is. It's a beautiful thing. You pull together. You walk together. You live your life together and you're one in everything that you do. You should be that way. God, help us to be one. God, help us to love our wives. God, help our wives to love their husbands. It's a beautiful thing.

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And if your marriage relationship is not healthy, get at it. Work at it. Pray together. That's a good place to start. Pray together. Read the Bible together. Get on your knees and cry together. It's a special thing. This young man that's married, after a period of time for whatever reason he begins to stray or it could be the wife that strays. In this case I'm gonna say the young man begins to stray. It seems like every beautiful woman that comes before his eyes he just can't...he just can't get his eyes off of her. And then there's another one and another one. All of a sudden, here's this wonderful marriage beginning to slip. It's beginning to slip. And she says, "What's wrong, honey?" Oh, there's nothing wrong. Well, you don't act the same. You're not saying the things to me that you used to say.

And then there's further distance and David...I'm talking about little David that was a shepherd. He kept the sheep. He killed the lion and he killed the bear and he worshiped his Lord and his Savior. He worshiped Him--worshiped Him. And David killed the giant. David was in love with his Lord. This young man was in love with his wife. This young man went off one night, told his wife he had to work late. He lied. He committed adultery. It's happening all the time. It should never be named among God's people.

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Fornication--it should not be named among God's people. We should not be that way. This young man broke his vows. His wife found out about it. It broke her heart. Can you imagine? Can you imagine years of courtship and love, tenderness and your spouse goes to bed with another woman? It would rip your heart out. God's people...God's people...I'm not talking about the heathen. I'm talking about God's people. They went whoring after other Gods. In Jeremiah it says, return unto me, oh back sliding Israel. Return, return unto me.

You know, when this husband...they go to therapy nowadays. I'm not kicking that. Maybe a Christian therapist could help. Beloved, it is a scar on that heart that you can not wash off. I'm talking about a scar. I'm not talking about sin. I'm talking about a scar. There's a breach. David was the king. He was supposed to go to war when kings go to war. He lived in the big house. The troops went out.

David looked. He saw a beautiful woman. Women in those days took liberties that they would not ordinarily take. All the men were out fighting the war. The men weren't there. They had eunuchs to take care of a lot of things and they just took privileges and there she was--Bathsheba. She was naked and she was beautiful. Every man in this building tonight--if you tell me that you're not affected by a beautiful woman, there's no blood in your body or something.

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God made women special. David looked. He saw. He lusted. Go get her for me. Bring her to me. Who is she? Uriah's wife--that should have been a red flag right there. She was not single. David took her, had sex with her and she became pregnant. King David did that.

And then he says, I've got to fix this. He brought Uriah home, gave him a party, gave him food. Now go be with your wife so that he would think that he got his wife pregnant. Be sure your sins will find you out. Sin will take you further than you want to go. It will keep you longer than you want to stay and it will definitely cost you more than you want to pay. "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting." (KJV). Life everlasting.

This poor bride...this wife cried herself to sleep. She couldn't have the husband in the same room. She just couldn't quite get it together. She just imagined who it was and what happened. Now that's painful. How do think God feels? How do you think God feels when we go whoring in this world, drifting away from the first love?

You say well, what do you mean whoring? I'm clean--I'm clean. I don't do that. Yes, you do. Yes, I do. We have been whoring after other gods. We've been running here and been running there. We want this and do that and do the other--the pride of life, the lusts of the flesh, all of those things. Beloved, God is calling us back.

And I want to say this to you tonight whoever you are. I know there's somebody here tonight. God showed me this. You are laden down with a burden--a big bag, a burden of sin tonight. And the devil's already convinced you--part of this was brought out last night. You've gone too far. You've done too much and God can't save you. That's a big lie. He didn't call the righteous but He called sinners to repentance.

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You're a perfect candidate. You say Brother Jimmy, I can't hardly sleep at night because of the guilt. God can wash it white as snow.

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God can wash it away. Oh my God. Turn to Psalms 51. He can wash it all away. David says, "Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin." Cry out to Him, in other words. "For I acknowledge..." That's it--acknowledge your transgressions. "...my sin is ever before me." It won't go away unless you repent and ask God to help you.

"Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightiest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me to hear joy and gladness..." This joy and gladness will come back to you. "...that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me." Praise God! God will create in you a new heart tonight.

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He'll wash you thoroughly. Praise be to God. You know... I'll hold that just for a minute. I'm getting old, and I'll forget it if I don't say it. Listen. God has selective amnesia. You say, I don't believe it. I do. God casts our sins into the Sea of Forgetfulness. He don't remember a one of them, not one. Praise God!

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Glory to God! You know the devil has a photographic memory. He remembers every one of them. You say, go talk to Jesus about it. It's under the blood. Praise God! Psalms 103, "Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. Who forgiveth..." most of your sins...your past sins.

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"Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases. Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's. The Lord executeth righteousness and judgement for all that are oppressed. He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel. The Lord is merciful and gracious..." I like this, "...slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy." God's a merciful God.

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He's not up there with a club ready to beat you on the head. He loves you, "...slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever. He hath not dealt with us after our sins..." Listen to that, "He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him."

Now get this, "As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us." Can you measure that? I can't. "Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth." I won't read any further. Right there I'll stop.

Beloved, you know that you've sinned and you know you have this heavy burden. You don't have to carry it anymore. God can deliver you from this burden. "Come unto me, all thee that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give thee rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly." He'll give us rest, beloved. You can go out here tonight free. The sin will be gone.

You say, Brother Jimmy I'm a Christian. You don't understand. You've strayed. You're back-sliden. You come back tonight and God will wash it all away. He'll take it all away and then you can be rejoined with the One that loves you. He spoke in Jeremiah. He said that land was greatly polluted but he said, I will take you back. Come unto me back-sliding Israel. Isn't that the love of God?

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If that's not the love of God, I don't know what is. I thank the Lord tonight for loving me so much and not giving up on me. I deserve to go to hell and to burn in those flames, but I can stand up here tonight with joy in my heart and tell you that Jesus is worth it all.

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And Jesus has paid it all.

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He's paid it all--paid in full. You don't have to crawl on your hands and knees on stones and scratch your knees and blood run out for ten miles. You bow the knee and you mean it. God will renew you tonight. Praise God!

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-- Brother Tony Talbert: Praise God! I'm not gonna read much Word. This has been a burden on my heart for some time and I believe it's the Lord. You know, let's don't be deceived. We all need to examine our self.

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The Lord's talking to all of us. He ain't just talking about them that have physically gone out and committed fornication. There's a spiritual fornication that we all are committing. That's the greater need. God ain't calling one or two to repentance. He's calling this whole church to repentance.

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Our heart is in the things of this world more than it is toward Him. God wants to clean us up, beloved. How's He gonna use a people that are halfway...have a heart halfway toward Him and half toward somebody else? Judgment must first begin at the house of God. And as it begins here God can use us.

But until He gets us cleaned up...and don't look at your heart and say...don't look at me and say that we have no sin. We all do. There's not a single one of us that don't have our heart and more in the things of this world--more...our heart is more toward having things that can bring us no peace than it is toward seeking God. Listen. Our brethren were examples. Abraham dwelled in tents. His heart was not in this world. He wasn't worried about having something for tomorrow. What he was concerned about was doing God's will today.

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We, all of us, need to examine our self. We're not isolated. I'm talking about everyone us from every elder that's here, including myself right on down to the least one that can hear what I'm saying. We need to examine our self. We don't need to rend our garments. We need to rend our hearts.

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God wants a people that serve Him whole hearted, not half hearted.

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We've committed two evils--we've forsaken the fountain of life and we've hued us out cisterns. Those cisterns can be many different things. They can be our heart's desire is to gain money, to gain real estate, to gain fine clothes, fine cars, but they rob us from God. He's a jealous God. He don't want a halfhearted people. Listen beloved--He's cleansing. The cleansing starts at the top and goes right on down. We need to take heed to what's taking place.

We had an opportunity--I had an opportunity to speak to some of the young men last night. I don't want to put them on the spot, but it's just an example. We come into these assemblies here. I'm talking to myself. We come in these assemblies and we hear this Word and we apply it to everybody else, but then we go right out and we live just like we did before we came in here. Beloved, if it don't change us...what does God do? He changes us. We're supposed to be an ever increasing being changed and transformed in the image of His Son. I'm afraid we've stopped, but God is saying come to me. Return to me and I'll heal you.

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He'll heal us. Let's somehow by God's grace and as these men continue here... I believe the Lord is pleading with us face to face.

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Let's have an open heart. If we don't have an open heart we can't even examine our self, but as God examines us let Him pour the healing balm in. Let Him wash away the filth of the daughters of Jacob. That's us. Go over there in Isaiah 4. You don't need to really turn there.

How does He wash away the filth of the daughters of Zion? It's by judgment. Judgment's taking place right now in our very midst, right here. Let's let it flow. Let's let it flow from the top of our head, the crown of our head to the soul of our feet and cleanse--cleanse and wash away the filth of the daughters of Zion. That's us beloved. Let God do a complete work. I don't want Him to do a halfway work. I want Him to do a complete work in me that we might be in a place where we can be a light.

It goes on to speak of that. Let's turn over there. It goes on to speak. He's got people, sheep that are not of our assembly here. He wants to bring 'em, but how can He bring 'em to us? He wants to have His people--a church where they can come. They can come and there'll be a protection here, a covert from storm and rain. But first He has to get us in place where we are in a position where we can be a help, where He can use us. God don't work in the sky somewhere floating around. He uses a people.

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And He won't bypass us. God, help us not to rend our garments but to rend our hearts tonight.

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