Participants: Dwight K. Nelson
Series Code: 10AYC
Program Code: 10AYC000001
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00:16 Good evening AYC. Good day mate.
00:21 Good day. Good day, good day, good day. 00:25 It is such an honor to be here in this incredible 00:31 country, I can't believe Australia. Where did 00:36 you come up with this. I am going back, flying 00:41 back on Monday back to Andrew's University, 00:43 where I pastor. But I am going back on Monday 00:46 and I am telling them, hey guys, we're doing it 00:48 backwards. You're suppose to have summer 00:52 in the winter, I never seen anything like this, 00:56 do you know what the temperature was, 00:57 1 week ago this last Sabbath in Johnny's hometown, 01:01 in my hometown, minus 12 degrees centigrade. 01:07 Can you believe that? We got to figure out 01:09 how you do it and then we're gonna do it. 01:12 It is a great idea. I tell you what I think 01:15 this AYC is an incredible gift of God to your country. 01:20 Amen. Oh! Man, I've been 01:22 down to Melbourne, Karen and I, by the way 01:24 let me introduce my girlfriend to you, these 01:26 lights are bright. I've never seen them 01:28 quite this bright but I think I can see her sitting 01:30 right over there, I want you to see, she's been 01:32 my girlfriend and wife for 37 years, here she is, 01:35 so it's a treat to have her with me. 01:39 Thank you for taking two Yankees in like 01:42 this, we are honored to be here. 01:45 But you know what we just, we just spent the 01:49 weekend in Melbourne Thursday night through 01:51 Sunday, late afternoon, I'm telling you, I'm telling 01:55 you the truth, I am the one getting the blessings. 01:59 When you see people like, when you see people 02:02 like Lizzie, and Enoch and Sherilyn, Johnny, 02:08 standing up here, this is the power of AYC. 02:11 When young adults, I got 3500 young adults alright, 02:15 they are my pair, they're in my church, 3500 at 02:17 Andrew's University. But when I see turned 02:21 on for the Lord Jesus young adults as we 02:24 watch tonight with these four, I'm thinking 02:27 of myself, Pastor Gary, you were spot on. 02:30 I am thinking of myself, it doesn't get any 02:31 better than this. Because I really do 02:34 believe that God is raising up a movement, 02:38 I believe we're at the edge of time, I believe 02:42 Jesus is coming soon. Amen. 02:44 And but before he comes he is going to 02:48 sweep this planet with a generation of young adults 02:52 who are set ablaze for him. So we are so honored 02:58 and humbled to be able to share this weekend with you. 03:02 I got a prayer warriors some of them are Aussies 03:06 back at Andrews University, who are praying for 03:08 these two weekends. They prayed us right 03:10 through Melbourne, God did something very 03:12 special in Melbourne and then I said guys, 03:15 you don't back off now, you pray all the hard 03:17 because we're going to Sydney. We're going to Sydney 03:23 and NSW, New South Wales. Listen, when we, when 03:30 we got out of Melbourne, we drove over to in a 03:34 Eden, have you ever heard of Eden. 03:35 Yeah. And Karen and I have 03:37 just spend last three days driving up the 03:39 beautiful Australian coast. And I am telling you 03:43 the water is so clear I know you could read a 03:46 newspaper 30 meters down. Absolutely clear. 03:51 We sat at a table with some kids from New Castle, 03:55 it's in Queensland. Yes. 03:57 I guess it gets better if you keep going to North 03:59 is that true, it just keeps getting better. 04:00 Yeah. That's what they're 04:01 telling me, okay guys, I can take your word for stuff. 04:04 I just can't know this. But in this beautiful land 04:09 where the Holy Spirit is moving, we've got 04:11 prayer cover, we've got prayer cover back at 04:14 Andrews University and a young adult named 04:17 Sandy and her prayer team are praying, so we 04:20 can move into tonight teachings with confidence 04:24 in the Holy Spirit. Now listen, before 04:26 I pray with you. I want to put something 04:29 on the screen for you. I want to show you why 04:31 I believe we're living at the end of time. 04:33 I am not gonna parse the newspapers, I saw the, 04:37 I saw the, what's the name of the paper here in the Sydney, 04:41 Telegraph, Daily Telegraph, saw that one too. 04:46 Saw the paper in the Sydney, read the paper 04:48 in the Melbourne, I am not gonna parse any headlines 04:50 forget that. See that website on your screen, its not 04:54 on the study guides, you better write this one down 04:55 if you ever wanna check it out and say, hey is this 04:57 Dwight guy really telling the truth. 04:58 Yeah. ChrisMartenson.com, 05:00 a friend of mine is a physician in California, 05:04 he came back to Andrews University 05:05 this last summer, which would be winter for you, 05:07 in July and I said hey friend, 'cause we roomed across 05:11 the hall from each other in college, I said hey friend, 05:13 what you've been reading lately, he said, Oh Dwight, 05:15 you go to check out ChrisMartenson.com. 05:17 So I went to ChrisMartenson.com, 05:20 checked it out. And I am telling you 05:22 what, forget the headlines, let me give you only 05:25 one illustration from ChrisMarinson.com. 05:28 Then I'm gonna have prayer we're plunging 05:29 into tonight's teachings, alright. 05:30 One illustration here it is. By the way if you go to 05:34 ChrisMartenson.com, you gonna look up in 05:36 the upper right hand corner and it'll say crash 05:39 course, short course, they're a bunch of 05:41 YouTube presentations, you want to watch 05:43 those, it's all PowerPoint, you'll never see his face 05:44 but you'll hear his voice. Okay, so he did this and 05:48 I'm gonna now pass it onto you. 05:49 Why I don't need a headline to know that 05:51 Jesus is coming soon, don't have any headline to bring. 05:54 Watch this, you see that sports park on the screen, 06:00 that is the sport that you do not know. 06:04 No, that's not Aussie football, that's 06:07 American baseball. Now you play baseball 06:10 here don't you, you just call it cricket, but it's 06:11 still baseball isn't it. Yeah I know, I know 06:15 the West Indians were here, I know that the Aussies 06:18 took them to the cleaners, I saw that little 06:20 bit of the News. Alright so this is a 06:23 baseball stadium, let me get my little laser going 06:27 here, because I wanna show you for the sake of this 06:30 illustration, Chris Martenson I wanna show you, I am 06:35 gonna take you. Okay, I'm gonna take you 06:37 and I'm gonna handcuff you. Alright. Here is where I'm 06:39 gonna handcuff you, I am gonna handcuff you, 06:41 this would be, can you see this little section up here, 06:43 this will be the nose bleed section, I mean this is 06:45 really high, this is the plain field here, this is. 06:47 I am gonna handcuff you to one of the little 06:50 chairs, those are your handcuffs. 06:53 Now, what I'm gonna do is I am gonna leave 06:55 you up there and I am gonna walk all the way 06:57 down here to the pictures man, you see that little, that 07:01 little mount of paper, that's the pictures man. 07:07 Okay. And I have in my hand a magic eye dropper, 07:13 okay. The reason its magic you watch, 12 O'clock noon 07:18 is when I handcuff you, no, no 12'O' clock noon 07:20 is when I release the first drop of water, 07:22 you are up there at the top, I release a drop of water. 07:25 Now the reason this is a magic eye dropper is 07:27 because every 60 seconds that single drop of water 07:31 will double in size. So that after 60 seconds 07:35 instead of 1 drop how many do I have I have two. 07:37 So after two minutes instead of two drops 07:39 how many do I have, I have four and then I have eight 07:42 and so on and so on. Okay, here is the question 07:44 Chris Martenson asked this, this made a 07:45 believer out of me. He said alright guys, 07:49 if I drop the first drop at 12 noon, how much time 07:53 do you have to extricate yourself from that, from 07:57 those handcuffs and get out of there before you drown. 07:59 Because for the sake of illustration, we need to 08:01 also assume that this is water tight. 08:03 Alright, so you can fill it with a tap of water. 08:05 Alright. How much time do you have? You tell me, 08:12 how much do you think, let me tell you this at 12:44, 08:16 okay 44 minutes later at 12:44, kind of because I got 08:20 the flowers here, it's a little hard to do this. 08:21 But at 12:44, there will be, there will be 5 feet 08:25 of water on the plain field. Alright 5 feet of water. 08:30 93% of the stadium is still empty no water, 12:44, 08:35 now how much time do you have? Hold on to your seat, 08:39 because the answer is in 5 minutes and by 12:49, 08:44 the entire stadium will be full of water to the roof. 08:51 You have 5 minutes, for 44 minutes and only 5 feet 08:56 of water, 93% empty. In the last 5 minutes 08:59 boom the whole thing fills. What's happening here, 09:02 watch this. He quotes a philosopher named 09:05 Albert Bartlett. The greatest short coming, you see it 09:08 on the screen. "The greatest short coming 09:09 of the human race is our inability to understand the 09:13 exponential function." It's the power of compounding, 09:18 put a little money in the bank, isn't that right, put 09:20 a little money in the bank, not these days, but put a 09:21 little money in the bank you know it kind of keeps 09:23 it compound expose to right, compound boom, boom, boom. 09:26 Geometric, remember this from math days, 09:29 geometric progression. Chris Martenson said, 09:34 says, that's what happening to the planet watch this. 09:38 Human population beginning of time, whenever that is, 09:42 he says whenever that is, alright. 09:44 There it goes the graph. There is the graph. 09:45 There is the graph. There is the graph. 09:47 1900s,1980s, 1990s, 2000, 2005, 2007, he calls 09:53 it the hockey stick graph, you know what a hockey stick 09:54 looks like though. So it's shaped like a 09:56 hockey stick, it's just down low and nothing 09:59 happening, nothing happening, and all of a sudden, 10:01 watch another one, he says let's talk about, lets talk 10:04 about the economy indebtedness. 10:06 Global debt, beginning of time nothing, nothing, 10:09 nothing, nothing, nothing, 1800, 1900, 1990, 2000, 2005, 10:14 2007, Australia and the United States and the 10:17 western world, China the east, straight up, says let's 10:24 talk about oil depletion. How much oil is the planet 10:26 using, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, 10:28 here in the, at the end of the 2007, 2008, 2009 10:34 hockey stick again. You know what, when 10:37 I got through, when I got through this study on 10:42 ChrisMartenson.com I said to myself wait a minute, 10:44 I went and got Karen, I said Karen, if there were sign, 10:48 if no prophecy were left to be fulfilled. 10:51 If the planet only had itself we would run out of time. 10:57 The last 5 minutes, suddenly, when you think you have 11:00 all the time in the world, in 5 minutes it's over. 11:04 That's my point guys. In five minutes its over, 11:09 he said well I don't think, I don't feel like here in 11:11 Sydney that Jesus is coming soon. 11:13 Forget how do you feel, in 5 minutes it can all end. 11:16 That's my point, watch this, I saw some words that I 11:20 found in Ellen White, but there weren't from 11:22 Ellen White, watch this, Horace Brock PhD, economy, 11:26 look at this, "All in all, we have witnessed problems 11:29 that originated within the United States give rise 11:31 as truths, the problem we started it, I apologize, 11:35 we've witnessed problems that originated within the 11:37 United States give rise to global scenarios that were 11:39 virtually unthinkable as, I can't see that next word 11:43 because it's blackening, what's the next word, 11:45 as recently as the summer of 2008, and do so, well what 11:49 are the last two words, binding speed." 11:52 A hundred years ago, a little lady wrote these words 11:55 "great changes just before the end of time are to take 11:58 place in our world, and the final movements, 11:59 what are those last two words blinding speed, 12:02 no rapid ones. " One more line, The 12:04 Great Controversy. "The end will come more 12:06 quickly than we expect." Guys, guess what, we're the 12:11 prime time generation, you are the prime time 12:15 generation. For these four sessions that you and I have 12:18 together, that's our theme prime time, 12:21 prime time, prime time. You right. So when hear 12:25 stories like these, we're gonna hear more of these 12:27 all the way through the weekend, trust me, 12:29 when I hear stories like this, I am saying Pastor Gary 12:32 you nailed it. I am saying, God is 12:35 raising up a prime time generation, the last 12:39 generation potentially, doesn't set any days, the 12:43 last generation potentially if you will seize this 12:46 movement and give it everything you have for 12:48 the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. 12:50 Man, that's why I am so excited about you, 12:52 I am so proud of you. Alright, lets pray, I promised 12:54 to pray and then we'll plunge into tonight's teaching. 13:02 Dear God, in this hot place, here we are just 13:09 thinking about this warms our spirits. 13:14 So what's it mean, prime time, you could, 13:18 you could rapid up in 5 minutes. 13:25 Dear God, if there ever were a generation poised 13:30 by heaven itself to alert this planet to it's soon 13:34 coming king, this is the generation. 13:36 If there ever were young and ready to be mobilized, 13:39 here they are Father, take them right here in Sydney. 13:43 Make this an unconventional weekend, don't 13:48 limit it by our faith. Unleash it by your Spirit. 13:53 We pray in Jesus name. Amen. What is in that prayer, 14:01 while we were praying together, all of a sudden 14:04 its sounded like in around the house. 14:06 The ushers here have run around the run house, this 14:09 really is a round house isn't it. 14:11 Run around the round house and pull, pull, pull, 14:13 pull, pull, opened all the doors. 14:15 What if we heard it, while we were kneeling 14:18 in prayer, we heard it, just this low decibel moan, 14:23 groan, something way in off in the distance, moan, groan, 14:29 but then it gets crushed under it, its getting louder. 14:32 We're still, our eyes are closed, we're in prayer, 14:36 but it seems like that noise, where ever it is, somewhere 14:38 outside is approach the round house and then we 14:43 hear it and by the way where I come from in the 14:45 Middle West of the United States, Michigan, 14:47 called the midwest where I come from, we are trained 14:50 to listen for the sound of a freight train and if you 14:55 don't live near train tracks and you hear a freight, 14:58 you know what I mean by a freight train, you hear a 15:00 freight train, that is nature's way of saying 15:04 hold on, because a tornado is approaching your village. 15:09 You know what a tornado, you don't have tornadoes 15:10 here do you, you have them here, come on these 15:12 winds will go around like this, suck up everything, 15:14 'yeah tornadoes, they sound like freight trains. 15:16 So you and I are in prayer, our eyes are closed, and 15:19 we hear this moan and groaning and suddenly it is 15:21 an exploding sound and before we can even our eyes it's as 15:25 if all the fury of a cyclone has entered the round house, 15:30 where we are in prayer. We suddenly opened our eyes, 15:34 we're hearing this gale force shriek of a wind. 15:37 And we look up, we look up the curtains are perfectly 15:40 stationary, no movement, the wires aren't moving, 15:44 it's just the roar of a wind. Wide eyed, we look at 15:50 each other, what's happening and then we all see it, 15:53 simultaneously we see it, hovering half way between 15:57 that skylight and the floor, right about up here, a 16:01 Royally Broyally orange ball of fire, just suspended. 16:10 Hollywood couldn't do it, suspended in mid air, just 16:13 twisting and turning, fire. You've ever seen a steel 16:17 factory, you know they have these big, big cauldrons 16:20 that they pour the molten steel, you've seen 16:22 molten steel haven't you, like liquid, orange liquid, 16:24 so it's this orange liquid boiling but contained with 16:30 no container and then an invisible hand, while we're 16:32 watching, an visible hand out of nowhere reaches up and as 16:36 if it had a pairing knife. A little knife in it's hand, 16:41 peels off a slice of orange, and that orange darts across 16:45 him, the hand goes again, and by the time that 16:50 invisible hand is through, every bowed head, in this 16:54 round house auditorium has dancing fire atop it. 17:01 Pentecost, Pentecost, can you imagine what it 17:07 would have been like to be in the upper room, 17:10 hallelujah at Pentecost. Can Pentecost happen, 17:16 I have two freshmen, Uni students, we call them 17:18 university, but you call them Uni, so we'll do Uni, 17:20 two freshmen Uni students, now a freshman means 17:24 first year, is that what you call them here, first year. 17:26 Yeah, that's probably just as easy. 17:29 I had two first year students, sitting in my office, 17:31 my little office in the pioneer model church 17:33 right in the middle of Andrews University. 17:36 And they say hey Pastor, both of us new students 17:38 here at the Uni, we're burdened, we have a passion, 17:42 we believe its time for the Holy Spirit to be poured out. 17:44 I said Amen. Halleluiah. Yeah we believe its time 17:48 that Pentecost come. Wow! What should I say 17:53 to those boys, 19, 20 years old, 17:56 what should I say to them, hey guys time out, wow, 17:59 lets not get too ambitious here, is that what I am gonna 18:01 say to them, wrong generation guys, wrong time in history, 18:06 wrong place, would there be anything wrong with the 18:09 Holy Spirit pouring out himself in Pentecost, would 18:11 there be anything wrong with it. 18:13 Not on your life, we need Pentecost again, relinquish 18:18 for Pentecost again. I believe the faint stirrings 18:22 of the Holy Spirit are felt in the AYC 18:25 movement across Australia. The Spirit is holding this 18:31 generation in his hand. Ready for the final outpouring. 18:36 Open your Bible with me, is there enough light in 18:38 here for you to read. The goodness is I got the 18:40 words on the screen too, but open your Bible, 18:42 because I don't like us to think well we're just getting 18:44 together and putting everything on the screen, 18:46 open your Bible to the 1st Pentecost, Acts chapter 2, 18:49 Acts chapter 2, man its warm in here, would you be offended 18:55 if I took this off. I know it bothers Aussies, 18:58 but do you mind. Are you sure? 19:00 Alright. I got so many, I got so many power packs 19:05 on me I am afraid that they're gonna hit the wrong switch 19:07 and then I am going to go Pshew! I got three of them, 19:11 so don't be distracted by these. I am trying 19:14 not to be. Acts chapter 2, lets go, take a look at 19:18 Pentecost again, I'll put it on screen for you, let's go 19:20 Acts chapter 2 verse 1, "When the day of Pentecost 19:22 came, they were all together in one place." 19:27 I love conferences like this gets together, 19:30 it's good to be out in Western Australia, in Perth, 19:33 its good be up in Cannes, where you're gonna have 19:35 one of these. Its good to be down in Victoria or 19:39 New South Wales. But, when we come together 19:42 there is something special, God's going to do something 19:44 special this weekend. So they are all together 19:46 at one place. Suddenly, that description I just gave 19:49 you, that kind of eye witness description is based on the 19:51 original language of Greek. Suddenly a sound like the 19:54 blowing of a violent wind, notice its not a wind, 19:57 its only the sound of a wind. Suddenly a sound like the 20:01 blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled 20:03 the whole house where they are what, sitting. 20:07 They saw, see after that sound exploding to 20:12 the upper room. They saw what seemed 20:13 to be tongues of fire that separated, so when they 20:16 started those tongues of fire and the Greek, they 20:18 started in the central common place and then separately 20:20 like a hands cut in them. Tongues of fire that separated 20:25 and then came to rest on each of them and all of them. 20:29 Let's read this out loud together, and all of them 20:31 were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to 20:34 speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them. 20:36 Is this ecstatic language, utterances that no man can 20:39 understand on earth, no, no, no, we know 20:43 from the very next verse. This isn't just some 20:45 unintelligible language, people understood them. 20:48 Now they were staying in Jerusalem, God fearing 20:50 Jews from every nation under heaven. 20:51 All empires come and this is, this is Pentecost, this 20:55 is a Jewish celebration Pentecost, they're 20:57 all there in town. When they, these visitors 21:01 for all over the world, when they heard this sound, 21:03 a crowd, you can imagine they ran together in 21:06 bewilderment, because each one heard their own language 21:09 being spoken. Wait a minute I can understand that, 21:13 he's speaking Australia. Utterly amazed, they asked, 21:19 hey, wait a minute, aren't all these who are speaking 21:21 Galileans, which is code language for like country 21:25 bumpkins, illiterate, please, aren't all of these who are 21:29 speaking Galileans. Then how is it that each 21:31 of us hears them in our native language? 21:34 I am telling you, why we come from all points of the 21:36 compass, but when we're together the Holy Spirit 21:38 can do a miracle and not only gives us the gift of 21:41 tongues and give people the gift of hearing. 21:45 Guess what, I saw a forum 1, 2, 3, 4, tonight four 21:51 people given the gift of speaking. 21:55 Do you think any of them grew up and say when I get 21:57 older one day I want to stand in front of four hundred 21:59 people with some bright lights and I am gonna 22:01 tell them about Jesus. Do you think any of them 22:02 wanted to, even dreamed of doing it, no, why can 22:06 they do it? Holy Spirit. Amen. 22:09 Holy Spirit, they're not worried about themselves, 22:12 how am I sounding, how am I coming across, is this a 22:14 great story, is this a boring story. 22:15 They don't care, Holy Spirit gives us the gift of speaking 22:20 also gives the gift of hearing. 22:22 How is it that each of us hears them in our own 22:23 native language? Then Peter stood up with eleven, 22:26 raised his voice and addressed the crowd, 22:29 fellow Jews and all of you who life in Jerusalem, 22:31 let me explain this to you, listen carefully to what 22:33 I say, these people are not drunks, some of you are 22:36 saying that no. It's only nine in the morning! 22:40 What's happening here, I'll tell you what's happening. 22:42 This is what was spoken by the prophet 22:44 Joel in the last days. Oh! I love that. 22:47 Do you know what Peter inserts those words. 22:49 That's not from the Old Testament. 22:51 The Old Testament reads in those days, Peter 22:54 under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit puts, in the 22:56 last days and you know why I am grateful he did, 22:58 because that means you and I can look 23:00 forward to Pentecost 2. There's been a Pentecost 23:03 2000 years ago, there is another Pentecost coming. 23:07 In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit 23:09 on all people. And your sons and daughters will prophesy, 23:13 your young men will see visions, your old 23:15 men will dream dreams. Even on my servants, 23:18 both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in 23:23 those days, and they will prophesy. 23:27 Ladies and gentlemen, what do you say, we focused 23:31 for a few moments on the promise of God to bring 23:35 one day Pentecost 2. Take a study guide 23:39 out will you. Take a study guide out, 23:40 there should have been a study guide handed to 23:41 you when you came in. You didn't get a study guide. 23:45 Oh! We got some ushers who have a lot of work to do. 23:48 Oh my, I hope there's not just one usher. 23:53 Can we have some help, hey guys just jump up and 23:55 help this young lady will you, please. 23:59 Oh wait, we got some coming guys, 24:01 they're a head of it. Good. Make sure you get a 24:04 study guide, let me put it on the screen for you. 24:09 You will see this quotation at the bottom and I wanna 24:11 say that quotation to the variants, so here's tonight's 24:14 teachings, its prime time, playing with fire. 24:16 Playing with fire. Get the study guide, 24:19 because now I am gonna we'll move into a little teaching 24:21 time, the reason we have study guides at Andrews University 24:24 in the Pioneer Memorial church, so that what we 24:26 discover can go on, we can take it home with us, 24:29 we can brood on it, we can pray over it. 24:31 If I go too fast and you don't get a blank that's filled, 24:33 you see that website at the bottom, its on the top of 24:35 your study guide. www.pmchurch.tv. 24:38 That's a website for our, all our teachings at the 24:41 Pioneer Memorial church, they're all there, you can 24:44 subscribe to the podcast or the video cast. 24:47 The study guides are online and the answers 24:48 will be at the bottom. So if there's a blank that 24:51 we somehow over look here, don't you worry about it. 24:54 The answers will be at the bottom, they're online. 25:02 What will Pentecost fire look like, we got to get a 25:04 handle here on what Pentecost will actually be like. 25:09 Thank you, ushers you did a great job, God bless you. 25:11 Everybody got a study guide, lets go. 25:13 Alright, if you didn't get a study guide, just 25:15 hold your hand up and the ushers will look, will see 25:16 it and they'll know what to do. 25:18 Lets take that first, first blank, fill it in please, 25:24 in your study guide. The Greek word for Pentecost. 25:26 You've heard of pentagon, pentagram, how much is Pente? 25:31 Five. The Greek word for Pentecost, Acts 2:1, is 25:34 Pentecoste or 50th day, so write in the numbers, 25:39 50th day, for in the Jewish liturgical calendar. 25:42 If you subtract fifty days from Pentecost, you go all 25:46 the way back to the Feast of Unleavened Bread, or Passover. 25:51 Can we get that up there on the screen for you. 25:53 Get all the way back, count fifty days from 25:55 Pentecost, go fifty days backwards, it takes you 25:57 straight to Passover. That is a huge clue as to 26:01 the meaning of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. 26:03 Keep your pen moving, lets fill out the next one. 26:05 In other words the secret to Pentecost is in what 26:08 it follows, it follows the Passover. 26:11 So fill in the word Passover. And the secret to the Passover 26:15 is the passion of God. What's Passover about, 26:21 Passover is about passion. How do you know that Dwight, 26:24 Calvary is the supreme manifestation of God's 26:26 passion to save his lost earth children. 26:29 Calvary happened on Passover, so the secret to the 26:33 outpouring of the Holy Spirit, we got to go fifty days 26:35 back we get to Passover, what happen on Passover, 26:39 in the great economy of the universe, ah! God himself, 26:44 bless you, thank you very much. 26:46 God himself poured out his passion to save every 26:50 man and woman and child who'd every reborn on this 26:52 planet, he poured out his passion, say it aloud with me, 26:55 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only 26:59 begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him, should 27:03 not perish but have everlasting life." 27:06 Passion poured out at Calvary, and Passover 27:13 preceded Pentecost. So that, thus the key to 27:17 unlock Pentecost is to go back to Passover 27:19 and what's the secret of Passover, God's Passion 27:22 to save a lost human race. You think about it, 27:27 you think about this, way back here at the beginning 27:29 of time, Adam and Eve alright. Gates to the Garden of 27:32 Eden closed forever, in this life. Adam and Eve, 27:38 right here, you think about it, tell me true or false. 27:42 Every word since that time, every word of God, 27:46 every act of God, every intention of God, every 27:50 will of God can be defined by from that movement 27:54 on, can be defined by his passion to save the 27:59 lost human race. Everything God has done, 28:03 everything. True or false. True. 28:08 Ladies and gentlemen, it's true. 28:11 By the way that's why God can't sleep at night. 28:13 You think God sleeps at night, you kidding. 28:15 He can't sleep at night. How could you sleep, 28:18 if they were your children who had run away from 28:21 the home, name me one parent who loves his children, 28:25 who sleeps well after that day, until you hear from 28:28 you children again. Is there a parent who sleeps 28:31 while her children are gone. Please, the God of universe 28:38 passion, everything, so we get to Calvary, passion, 28:41 I would like to summit to you that every act of God, 28:44 since every will of God, every intention of God, 28:46 every event under God's control, everything since 28:50 has had to do with his passion to save lost people. 28:53 Which means ladies and gentlemen, AYC plays into the 29:00 hands of a God who can't sleep at night 29:04 until every child is at least found and give 29:09 him a choice to come home, true or false. 29:12 True. It's got to be true. 29:14 Everything, Christmas. I can still think of nothing 29:19 these days, except I must save, write that in, I must 29:23 save my children. I have got to, that's why he 29:27 came the first time, that's why he is coming the second 29:31 time, that's what Calvary is all about, I must save 29:35 my children. It's no wonder, because of that passion 29:40 that Jesus last words to his disciples, ah! Can you 29:43 believe this, turn one page back. 29:44 So you're in Acts 2, turn the page back to Acts 1. 29:48 Isn't this something, I am talking about the disciples 29:51 have a question for Jesus, this is just before his 29:52 ascension. They have a question, I'll tell you 29:54 these disciples were so Adventist, I am telling you, 29:56 they are Adventist to the core, they asked Jesus 29:59 a question, watch this. I see that I left out of 30:02 study guide, before I get to their great Adventist 30:04 question, I think you must have to fill this in. 30:06 Pentecost was and is about more than being 30:08 filled with God's Spirit, this is a key point. 30:11 I'm glad I'm reminded, watch this guys, 30:12 Pentecost was and is about more than being 30:15 filled with God's Spirit. You know what, you know 30:18 what, we say this, because some people will come you, 30:21 you'll be out in their streets, you'll be doing 30:23 door knocking and you come across a Pentecost 30:26 of Christian and says hey brother, do you have the 30:29 Holy Spirit, you know what your answer is if 30:31 anyone asked you do you have Holy Spirit, what 30:32 your answer, yes. Well show it to me he 30:36 says, see what he wants to know do you have 30:39 manifestations that prove the Holy Spirit is in you. 30:42 And then of course, you're very quick to remind him 30:44 that more important than the gifts of the spirit are 30:46 the fruits of the spirit and you live those without 30:48 publicly displaying them, you just do them. 30:52 But of course you know what he's asking for. 30:54 Aah! Pentecost, you see once we know the Passover 30:57 precedes Pentecost, Pentecost was and is about 30:59 more than being filled with God's Spirit, what is 31:01 Pentecost about, it was and is ultimately about 31:04 the infilling of God's fiery passion. 31:07 So when you ask, Karen and I right now are reading, 31:10 are doing 40 days of prayer, I'll tell you more about it 31:13 tomorrow night. We're doing 40 days of 31:15 prayer but the whole book, this little book that 31:16 they were reading together was 70 of our 31:18 senior leaders back in Andrews University, it's 31:20 focusing on the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, hey 31:22 listen guys, when you are baptized with the Holy Spirit 31:26 here's what comes into you, you are infilled with God's 31:29 fiery passion for lost people. That's how you know you 31:33 have the Holy Spirit, if you have a passion for the lost. 31:36 Now here comes that Adventist question. 31:37 Acts chapter 1 verse 6. So, when the disciples 31:40 meet with with Jesus they asked him Lord, this is a 31:44 very Adventist questions, are you, are you at this 31:47 time going to restore the Kingdom to Israel. 31:49 Hey Jesus is this the time when you come, oh! 31:53 There isn't an Adventist alive who doesn't ask that 31:54 question every now and then, I wonder if this is it, 31:56 could this be it. Doesn't your heart beat, 31:59 doesn't your heart quicken now and then 32:00 with that thought, could this be it. 32:03 A very Adventist question, but a very un-Adventist answer. 32:07 When Jesus says, hey wait a minute, hold, hold it. 32:09 It's not for you to know, it's none your business guys. 32:12 Don't worry, no worries, you have work to do first. 32:19 Isn't that something, it's not for you to know the 32:20 times or dates that the Father has set by his own authority. 32:23 What do you mean you have work to do, Ah! He 32:24 takes a breathe and then he says, but, now this that 32:28 great text, I know it's marked in the Bible. 32:30 Acts 1 verse 8 But you will receive power when 32:34 the Holy Spirit comes on you, and you begin to 32:40 display manifestations, no,no,no, no when the 32:42 Holy Spirit comes on you, you will be my witnesses 32:45 in Jerusalem and Judah and Samaria and to the 32:48 ends of the earth. Let me show you two 32:51 Greek words here fill it in, in your study guide please. 32:55 When the dynamite, because when Jesus says 32:57 you will receive power when the Holy Spirit 32:59 comes on you, the Greek word as you know is 33:01 Dunamis, Karen and I, as we were coming up the 33:03 coast from Victoria and to New South Wales. 33:06 We're going unto roads where they've had to 33:08 dynamite part of that coastal mountain range, 33:11 just blow it open, what's dynamite do, removes any 33:15 obstacle, opens the door. When the dynamite power, 33:18 Jesus is telling his disciples, when the dynamite 33:20 power of the Holy Spirit comes on you, he will fill 33:23 you with my passion. That's his point. You'll be 33:26 filled with my passion and you will be witnesses. 33:29 Now, time out, time out, watch this, do you know 33:31 that the Greek word for a witness is Martus, from 33:34 whence comes the English word, Martyr, because 33:37 what is a martyr, one who makes the ultimate witness 33:40 even with his death, her death. 33:43 Jesus says, you'll be my witnesses, by the way you 33:46 live, even the maybe the way you die. 33:48 You will my witnesses, one who witnesses through 33:50 life and even to death you will my witnesses to 33:53 the end of the earth. Key word, witnesses, 33:57 passion, 14 times in the Book of Acts, Luke will 34:00 repeat that word Martus, witnesses, Martyrs, you 34:04 would be my witnesses, he repeats it again and 34:07 again and again. Jesus point is inescapable. 34:12 Once my passion, once my passion becomes your passion, 34:18 you will become my witnesses. Let my passion come in 34:22 you then I am gone, boom, he's gone. 34:24 Very next verse, after he said this, he was taken up 34:28 before their eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. 34:32 They're watching, disappearing God, 34:34 nothing, they were looking intently up into 34:37 the sky as he was going when suddenly two men 34:39 dressed in white stand, they suddenly see them 34:42 standing beside them. "Men of Galilee, these 34:45 men said, why do you stand here looking up into 34:46 the sky, this same Jesus who has been taken from 34:49 you into heaven will come back in the same way you have 34:52 seen him go into heaven. " He's coming back, 34:56 didn't he just tell you he had something do 34:57 before he gets back? Oh yes he did. Once you 34:59 back go, back to the upper room prepare when the 35:02 Holy Spirit comes upon you, you're gonna become 35:04 my witnesses and that's exactly what happens. 35:09 Isn't that something, a reminder, he's coming back. 35:12 This is a written by William Willimon, in a 35:14 few opening verses Luke manages to reprove both 35:17 the enthusiasm and the speculation of uninformed 35:20 apocalypticism, that means that's all, this 35:23 headline, this is through probably the end with this 35:25 headline, this headline ah! Stop, stop, stop. 35:27 Uninformed apocalypticism apocalypticism on the one 35:31 hand or despair and stodginess of a church 35:33 without apocalyptic hope. Can you imagine not 35:36 having the hope that Jesus is coming 35:37 soon that will be awful. The angels keep the balance. 35:41 Jesus keeps the balance and so what do they do, boom. 35:45 Write it down, the same Jesus is coming back, but 35:47 you can't gaze into the Heaven forever, and the 35:49 angels say, you have a work and that work has 35:52 got to begin right now and they respond to this 35:55 as apostles returned to Jerusalem from that Hill 35:57 called the Mount of Olives, just a Sabbath day's walk, 36:00 I've stood on the Mount of Olives, looked over 36:01 that city, you could just imagine them, now their 36:04 hearts set ablaze, when they arrived, they went 36:06 upstairs to the room where they were staying. 36:08 By the way this is the room where they had the 36:09 last supper, the Lord's Supper. 36:11 They go up to that upper room where they were 36:13 staying, now watch this, they all joined together 36:16 constantly, you see Jesus says when the Holy Spirit 36:19 comes upon you, then you receive power. 36:21 So, what would be the object of your praying constantly. 36:26 They all joined together constantly in prayer, 36:27 along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus. 36:30 Hit the pause button right there, do you know that 36:32 that's the last place Mary the mother of Jesus is 36:35 mentioned in all the Bible. How would you like your 36:39 last point of reference in history to be the truth that 36:43 you were at a prayer meeting, isn't that good. 36:47 The mother of Jesus the last time we hear of her, 36:49 she was at prayer meeting, she was at a prayer meeting. 36:53 Boy, I don't know, do they have prayer meeting 36:56 back at the church where you're from. 36:58 Yeah, better find me at prayer meeting then Jesus, 37:01 if your mother was at prayer meeting Jesus, better find 37:04 me at prayer meeting, the last mention, there she is. 37:10 What's going on, they're asking, they're asking and 37:14 asking and asking, what are they asking for, ask 37:18 the apostles, I love this. Ellen White gives, pull 37:20 back the veil, she says okay. Here's what they were 37:22 asking for, the disciples prayed with intense 37:24 earnestness for a fitness to meet people and in 37:26 their daily conversations to do what, to speak words 37:32 that would lead what? Others, is this sinners or 37:35 others, sinners, you see what the passion is, even 37:40 though its blocked from my view, sinners are what 37:44 are never blocked from God's view. 37:46 God is always looking for another sinner to save, by 37:50 the way is it hard to be saved or easy to be saved. 37:53 Has God made it tough to be saved or is God finding 37:55 every excuse in the book to save every lost human 37:57 being he can find. What would you do if it 38:00 was your child that ran away from home, how 38:02 hard would you make it for your child to come 38:04 back home, how hard would you make it. 38:06 Tell me the truth, would you make it as tough as 38:09 nails, you would make it as easy as possible. 38:13 He will say that door is wide open, wait a minute, 38:16 didn't Jesus tell a story about a boy who ran 38:18 away and came home, that's the heart of the Father. 38:20 That's the heart of the Father, when you go door 38:23 knocking on Sabbath afternoon, every man and 38:26 woman and child on the other side of that door, is 38:29 somebody heaven has been opened and praying, 38:31 a friend of theirs, a friend of heavens 38:34 would reach one day. You're not just meeting 38:36 people, you're meeting runaway children, all over 38:40 the city of Sydney and you as a representative of 38:44 the Father are gonna say, hey someone misses 38:49 you very very much. Are you open to coming home. 38:56 The survey doesn't ask it that away. 38:58 Are you open to coming home, they'd kick you out, 39:01 wouldn't they. But, that's what you're asking, 39:04 would you, are you open to come home. 39:08 That's all God wants. That's all he wants. 39:14 They prayed with the passion, a passion 39:18 to save lost of people. So what would happen 39:22 tonight if you and I began to pray, this is kind of an 39:28 embarrassing question, that I am gonna ask you 39:30 after this statement. What would happen if 39:32 you and I begin to pray tonight. 39:36 That God would infill us with his passion to save 39:41 runaway children. This is the embarrassing 39:44 question, so I am not gonna ask you to raise 39:45 your hand and don't ask me to raise mine. 39:48 When was the last time you prayed, urged for 39:54 God to fill you with his passion for lost people. 40:02 You got down in your dorm room, your apartment 40:04 room, your house, got down on your knees and 40:10 you said God I have to have this passion, can I have it. 40:16 I am just going through my life as if my life is the 40:17 only thing that counts on this planet, I got to have 40:19 your passion God, would you please fill me, fill me. 40:28 One thing I know, because I have listened to 40:31 a lot of sermons, you cant preach God's passion into 40:35 people, preachers haven't been able to preach it into me, 40:38 trust me I am not going be able to preach it into you. 40:42 You can't get a good book you know just give me a 40:44 book, give me a podcast, give me some video that's 40:47 been circulating, some DVD, I got to just watch this DVD, 40:50 it will give it to me, it'll give it, give it to me DVD, 40:53 give it to me DVD, there's not a DVD on earth that 40:56 can give you a passion for lost people, you know why, 41:00 you cant even get a passion for lost 41:02 people from the Bible. You can hold that Bible 41:05 up to your head, you can hold that Bible up to your heart, 41:07 I want the passion, give me the passion, push it 41:09 through me, push it through me, it won't give you passion. 41:12 The Bible can do it. There's only one source 41:17 for the passion and guess who he is, he is the God 41:20 of this universe. Oh! Sure he breathes 41:24 through this, but he has to bring it, because you can 41:28 read the same chapter till you're blue in the face, 41:30 nothing happens and when the Holy Spirit, a light 41:36 goes off, there's only one source in this universe 41:39 ladies and gentlemen, and that source 41:42 is Almighty God himself. I beg of you, I beg of you, 41:48 ask me, ask me, hey how's it going, Luke, 41:51 Luke 11:9, ask and you will receive, seek and you 41:57 will find, knock and you will, and by way we're 42:02 the only language on earth that can do this, 42:04 the language that you and I speak hallelujah. 42:07 Watch this first letter to ask, what A, first letter of 42:14 seek, S first letter of knock K. ask. As if he 42:25 was considered as soon how we miss it. 42:27 Three times I am telling you to ask, but now you 42:29 take the first letter of all three of those commands 42:31 and it still spells ask. Ask me, if you who are evil, 42:35 Luke 11:13, if you who are evil know how to give 42:38 good gifts to your children, how much more will your 42:41 Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him. 42:47 You know what we got to begin this conference, we 42:49 got to begin this conference by ask, we got to ask. 42:55 Because you're the prime time generation, you're it, 42:57 we've been set up this whole race has been 43:00 set up because you came alone, we've been waiting 43:03 for you for a long time, the baby bloomers haven't 43:05 finished the work in case you haven't heard. 43:07 Amen. We baby boomers have, 43:10 we baby boomers are so weighed down with 43:14 everything in this life. Gods says, I love you 43:18 but I really love them because I can work with them. 43:24 Don't misunderstand me, he loves us all the same. 43:29 They did not ask for a blessing for 43:31 themselves merely. They were weighted with the 43:33 burden of the divine passion for the salvation 43:36 for the salvation of souls. They realized that the 43:38 Gospel was to be carried to the world, 43:40 and they claimed the power that Christ had promised. 43:44 Hallelujah. Ladies and gentlemen, jot it down, 43:47 one last, I think this is the last one, then I want 43:49 to end with that, Ellen White quotation. 43:51 The tongues of fire are proof enough that what 43:53 those ten days of prayer were seeking was the 43:55 power to be what? Effective, to be an 44:02 effective witness to the world, on behalf of the 44:04 Lord Jesus Christ, to be a witness that's 44:08 what we pray for. That's why that when 44:11 God answered their prayers he didn't send them ears, 44:14 he didn't send them fingers, he didn't them toes, he 44:17 took the tongue and he made into fire and he 44:19 said you want to speak for me, I'll give it you. 44:22 Boom, he gave us the gift we needed. 44:25 What we're asking for the passion, to talk in 44:29 front of others for you glory. Only you can make me 44:34 do that God, give for me your Spirit. 44:38 With such an army, I love this education page 271, 44:40 you see at the bottom here, you see this is why I believe 44:42 it's a prime time movement at the bottom of your study 44:44 Guide, with such an army as our young rightly trained. 44:47 That's what AYC is all about, training the young, 44:49 "with such an army as our young, rightly 44:50 trained, how soon the message of a crucified, 44:53 risen and soon coming Savior might be carried 44:56 to the world!" Watch this how soon might be 44:59 end come, the end of sorrow and suffering 45:02 and sorrow and sin. In five minutes the entire 45:09 stadium is filled, in five minutes that's why 45:17 we're prime time and that's why you are the 45:20 prime time generation. God has called you for 45:25 such a time as this. Will you be filled with the Spirit. 45:31 Real. I say let's ask right now, lets not do 45:35 another thing, just go to your knees, I'm gonna 45:36 come down there and join you, just go to our knees, 45:38 lets just ask Jesus, Jesus Pentecost 2 and if we don't 45:42 have Pentecost 2 that's okay Jesus I want the 45:45 filling with the Holy Spirit right now, I can wait, 45:46 if you want to wait for Pentecost 2, I'll wait Jesus, 45:49 but I am going on my knees now push the chairs around, 45:51 push the chairs around, so we get minimum of 45:53 three people, minimum of three, because some 45:54 of you came with a spouses or a girlfriend, I want 45:56 somebody else in that group. So, make the group more 45:58 than just the two of you, minimum of three, don't 46:01 pray to yourself minimum, move the chairs, move 46:04 the chairs, make the room, we're gonna pray and for the 46:07 next few moments you're gonna hear the 46:08 sound of prayers ascending to heaven 46:11 with one passion and that is dear God, fill me 46:15 with your passion, fill me with your spirit. |
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