I wanna share a story
with you, in fact the story
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so it's written so
succinctly that to make sure we
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get the point of the
story. I want to read the story
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too. I wanna end with
another story, powerful
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story in between we
will come radical word of
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Christ and I'm
praying with you as William
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Larison prayer and
Bruce just did a moment ago.
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The God will
commune with us through this
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radical word of Jesus
and we will know how he
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wants us to respond and
so let's began by praying
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and I am plunging
right into the teaching. Dear
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God, Sunday afternoon
in Sydney, Chinese New
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Year, a day as well
that the world reflex for few
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fleeting moments on
love. We go to the greatest,
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the supreme
manifestation of love in the
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universe, as we go to
the cross right now. Two
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stories and the radical
appeal may how you want us
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to respond be utterly
clear in our own minds and
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hearts, we pray
in Jesus name. Amen.
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Alright, here is the first
story, it's appears in John
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Ortberg's book.
Everybody is normal to you get
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to know them. I wanna
read the story to you.
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See the title up there,
you see why the title is the
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title, as we rap up our
prime time series. You're
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the prime time generation,
this is your call. Some
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years ago John Ortberg's
writing, some years ago
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I visited a little
museum on Nantucket Island
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that's an Eastern of
Boston, Massachusetts.
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That museum on
Nantucket Island, they voted to
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volunteer organization
forms centauries ago, in
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those days travel by
sea was extremely dangerous
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Australia. We've come
up the cost line; you've
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got buried sea,
buried ships cost line as you
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know. It was
dangerous for everybody, because
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of the storms in the
Atlantic along the rocky
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cost of Massachusetts;
many life's will be lost
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with a mile or so
of land. So a group of
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volunteers went into
the life saving business.
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They bended together
to form, what was called
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the Humane Society,
you know when I read this
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I'm thinking humane
society, I'm thinking you
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know dogs and cats,
do you have humane yeah.
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So, that's what I'm
thinking but that's not
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that. They call
themselves Nantucket Humane
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Society, these people
build little huts all along
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the shore, and they had
people watching to see all
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the time, whenever
ship went down. The world
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will go out in
these people would devote
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everything to save,
every life they could.
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They did not put
themselves at risk for money or
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recognition, they did
only because they price
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human life, to remind
them what was its stake the
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adopted a motto. Here
it is, you have to go out
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but you don't have to
comeback. This doesn't
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sound like a very cache
little recruiting slogan
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doesn't them. But it was
it is fascinating to read
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accounts of people,
who would risk everything
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even their life's to
save people, they had never
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mate. Over time things
changed, the after a while
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the US coast guard
began taking over the task of
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rescue for a while the
coastguard and now life
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giving, life saving
society were side by side
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eventual the idea the
car of day was. Hey let the
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professional do it,
they're better trained, and they
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get paid for it. Volunteer
stop manning the little
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huts, they start searching
the coast lines for ships
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in danger, they
stop sending teams out to
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rescue drowning people
yet a strange thing happened.
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They could it bring
themselves to disband,
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the Life Saving Society
still exist today, the members
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meet everyone's in a
while and they have dinners,
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they enjoy one and
another company. They're just
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not in the life saving
business anymore, so are
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we, are we really? I'm
talking about our church
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now, now the church
that I love and the church
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that you love. Are we
in the live saving business
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anymore, but of course
do I? Did you understand
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this is AYC? Then if
we're in the life saving
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business, how if you
committed your life and
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consecrated it's for
the rest of the journey that
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remains in your life,
that's my question? Consider
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with me a radical word
from the Lord Jesus, open
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your Bible with me,
please for the Gospel of
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John. Jesus, he's gonna
take the sailing matter for
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he's gonna move to in
an extremely opposite of
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matter for. But the
passion is the same,
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the Gospel of John
chapter 12, comes this is a
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surprise to some
people that in the Gospel of
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John there is no Lord
supper, is that amazing. No
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Lord supper, you know
why because John is now
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working with the second
generation, the story is
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already been told three
times by the synaptic. So,
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when John comes along,
he says I'm not the put
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Lord Supper in. I'm
going to encoded in John
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Chapter 6 where Jesus
says: I'm the bread if you
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eat my flesh and
drink my blood, you remember
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that? That is a Lord's
supper harmony embedded,
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mysteriously into the
Gospel. It's amazing in
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John's Gospel that
he never taste what the
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synaptic Gospel's take,
I eat in other words if any
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man will come after me,
that I'm taking this cross
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deny himself and
follow me, non of that in the
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Gospel of John, but
here is John's equivalent to
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that up Calvary appeal,
Gospel of John Chapter 12,
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John Chapter 12
drop down to verse 24.
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Gospel of John chapter
12 drop down in verse 24
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Jesus speaking I tell
you the truths I wanna pause
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button right there,
because if you're reading
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this line in the
original language not that the
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Jesus spoke, that was
there make, but they wrote
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in Greek, if you're
reading it in the Greek, you
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would read this way.
Amen, amen, so if you have
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the King James how
does that we read; verily,
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verily from how comes
out our word amen. I tell
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you the truth, only
John uses this, this secrete
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sign as an alert is, his
readers. If a double Amen
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appears, the two amen's
together. It's like John
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woven this massive red
flags in hold a time out,
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oh it's slow way down,
are you reading through
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the Gospel right now,
slow down. You're about
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to uncover, and
counter something radically
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important for you,
amen, amen Jesus says. Amen,
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amen let's put on the
screen, read it together."
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The truth is, this is
the new living translation,
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the truth is, amen,
amen, a kernel of wheat must
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be planted in the soil.
Unless it dies it will be
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alone-a single seed.
But its death will produce
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many new kernels-a
plentiful harvest of new
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lives. Those who love
their life, now this is the
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beginning to sound
like if you wanna follow me
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denies self take it up
you cross. Those who love
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their life in this
world will lose it. Those who
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despise their life in
this world will keep it for
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eternal life." Amen,
amen you wanna live, this is
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what time is grabble
calls Christ upside down
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kingdom, counter
culture of the Sydney, counter
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culture of the Australia,
super counter culture to
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the United States,
the exact opposite of the
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kingdom Lucifer has
established on this earth,
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because in Christ
kingdom, in the Christ upside
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down kingdom get these
guys, did you know this
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that if you want to be
first, you've got to become
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last. If you wanna be
great, you've got to become
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the least. If you wanna
be a leader and how many
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hearts wanna be
leaders, if you wanna be leader
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you must become a
servant. If you wanna win,
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you've got to lose and
if you wish to live, what?
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You go to Die. You
go to die, upside down
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kingdom, counter
cultural to the kingdom,
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Lucifer has setup and by
the way, I'm prince of this
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world, these are my
subjects and here how we
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live. Oh boy, you just
turn the television on,
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I tell you what, there
was a day, whenever we're
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having a television,
just catch the news anymore
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I wonder its value.
Oh! We got 3ABN appear,
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I take that back. I
know, it has slight value and
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we're telecast our
services as well, so there is a
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value guy comes up
with the technology and
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instantly Lucifer
seizes it. Satan turns into his
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kingdom, so that when
you ask the Tele today.
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You've, you've a mind
set that goes like this.
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If you can survive and
kill of the opposition,
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you win. Another one
who dies live no the one
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who lives, but doesn't
die wins. And so we, we've
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got stuff in America; I
sure hope you don't have
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it over here. We've
got stuff in America call
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survivor, no are you
serious? Deliver us look at
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that out least, out play,
out last. The last guy live,
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the last one not to
be voted off wins. That's
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Lucifer kingdom for
yeah, that has become so
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pervasive. That we
called reality television is
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become so pervasive.
That just a few weeks ago
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in the United States,
this really did happen.
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Dressed to the nice,
they deiced that they wanted
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to get on reality TV
and what better way to get
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on reality TV, and
then crash the party at the
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White House. I'm only
telling you about this,
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because they were in
Melbourne last weakened
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and a full page, back
page all be it. But the full
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page devoted to this,
past every security guard.
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All the way into the
heart of the White House,
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this husband and his
wife determine. That they
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would become
superstars and Oh boy, did it
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work, did they get in
the news, Melbourne gives
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them in whole page.
But unfortunately they did
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get into see the president
of the Unites States, but
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the White House
release the photograph and say
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ops they got past
security all the way into the
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hearts. Reality
television be the superstar, get
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your face on the
Tele, the kingdom of Lucifer
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verses the kingdom
of the Christ. You wanna
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follow me boy,
girl, you wanna follow me.
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You're gonna die, if
you wish to live. You're
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gonna lose, if you wish
to win, you're wanna be a
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leader someday, you
wanna grow up to be a
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leader and you're
gonna become the servant and
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doormat of everybody.
You wanna be first in my
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kingdom; you will
have to be last in my
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kingdom. May I did a
good job or that the other
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night, the upside
down kingdom, what Jesus
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talking about? "The
truth is a kernel of wheat
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must be planted in the
soil. Unless it dies it will
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be alone-a single seed.
But its death will produce
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many new kernels-a
plentiful harvest of new
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lives. Those who love
their life in this world will
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lose it, those who
despite their life in this world
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will keep it for eternal
life." Jesus says consider,
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consider the world of
the seed. You got grain in
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Australia, don't yeah?
Don't hay wheat fields like
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that. Yeah. And that's
from the U.S, but you got,
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wheat fields, what part
of Australia is the wheat
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country? The Hay
plains! The Hay plains,
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where are they? Hay
plains in New South Wales!
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New South Wales, oh!
We're in hay country,
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hallelujah great. Okay,
the hay plains, Jesus says
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let's go to the hay
plains guys, I wanna make the
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point to you and I
want to you get it and every
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time you drive to the
hay plains for the rest of
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your life. I want you
to remember, that's what
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Jesus is doing, he's take
it, he's take it the strip
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in, strip in those,
those kernels of that head of
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wheat and he holds in
his hand. He says, I wanna
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tell you something,
my kingdom is like this
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seeds. Seeds are the
amazing creation, aren't
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they? Right. You can
do anything you want with
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seeds and I've seen
some ladies in their kitchen,
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who on the top self,
will had this glass jars fill
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with seeds. Have you
seeing that, the popcorn
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seeds in it, our bean
of seed. You can put beans
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in a glass jar, as
lovely to have seeds on a self
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glass jars. I mean, you
can take some seeds, isn't
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this true and you can put
little oil up and put it in,
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in the microwave and
corn seeds, what are they
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do, when they get
them hot enough? They just,
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pop, pop, pop, pop.
Do you remember, when
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you're kid in school,
did you do this, did your
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teacher tell you
we're gonna make something
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special for mom at
home and she gave you
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popcorn and do you
have Elmer's Glue here,
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do you have some kind
of glue that you put on,
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you know there are
paper glue. And so, she
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gave you piece of a,
of construction paper and
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you put the little
corns, a kernels out and you
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made a smile and you
had the big eyes and you
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put the eyebrow up
and you take it home and
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mother put it on the
refrigerator for a few
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weeks, you remember
that. I mean, you can do
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anything you want with
seeds. You can pop those
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seeds and string them
together at Christmas time
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as now what we're do
just string them together.
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And we rap them
around the Christmas tree
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hallelujah. That's
just you can do with seeds,
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you can even stick
one up your nose, and you
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laugh but my brother
did that. My brother is
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planning a church in
San Francisco right now.
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We're kids growing up
in Japan together and the
00:14:55.46\00:14:58.03
mother notices the
Greg nose which just running
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all the time, just
run whole a day. She says,
00:15:00.10\00:15:01.83
you're got a, you're got
a fever; no you look like
00:15:02.30\00:15:04.50
you're fine but why
your nose always run. So, she
00:15:04.70\00:15:07.80
say alright Greg come
with me we're gonna take
00:15:07.80\00:15:09.26
Greg to the little
Japanese doctor and so we got
00:15:09.26\00:15:11.90
in the car go down to
the Japanese clinic and the
00:15:11.90\00:15:14.20
doctor said okay let
see, let see ohm aha oh! He
00:15:14.20\00:15:17.33
looks fine, let me
look up your nose, you know
00:15:17.33\00:15:19.03
they can do that and
he just look woof, woof,
00:15:19.03\00:15:23.13
a so. So, so he goes
ahead, he says, hey, hey.
00:15:24.20\00:15:30.23
hey. So he pulls, he
gets his long tweezers and he
00:15:30.43\00:15:34.30
goes right up into my
little brother's nose. And he
00:15:34.30\00:15:37.13
pulls it out, it was
a bean seed. And it was
00:15:37.13\00:15:41.83
already growing a
greens sprout, because it's
00:15:42.06\00:15:45.60
warm and moist in
there and so he just push
00:15:45.60\00:15:47.80
it out, way up there.
So, you can do, hey, hey you
00:15:47.80\00:15:51.96
can do all kinds of
things with seeds. Here is the
00:15:51.96\00:15:55.60
point, here is Jesus
point. Any of those, any of
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those exercises with a
seed, it has not fulfill the
00:16:00.50\00:16:05.46
seeds destiny has it.
No. Has it, I tell you what
00:16:05.73\00:16:09.93
ladies and
gentleman, Jesus is absolutely
00:16:09.93\00:16:12.20
inexplicably clear a
seed has one solitary purpose
00:16:13.23\00:16:20.43
in life, only one. And
what is that, yeah Jesus
00:16:21.03\00:16:29.03
declares in John. Please
Jesus declares in a Study
00:16:29.03\00:16:31.80
guide. Jesus declares
in John 12:24 and 25 that
00:16:31.80\00:16:37.03
the best seed, right that
in, that the best seed is a
00:16:37.30\00:16:43.70
buried seed. No, if
and buds about it Jesus is
00:16:44.13\00:16:51.66
utterly clear. The
best seed is a buried seed,
00:16:51.66\00:16:56.36
what you saying Lord:
An unburied seed is an
00:16:56.70\00:17:00.56
unfruitful seed. If
you're not buried, you're not
00:17:00.83\00:17:05.86
fruitful. You may still
be a seed, you may lovely
00:17:05.86\00:17:09.40
in a congregation, in
a glass congregation that
00:17:09.40\00:17:12.73
meets on the
seventh-day and for a few hours,
00:17:12.73\00:17:16.60
a hundred and twenty
seeds come together in
00:17:16.60\00:17:19.10
that lovely glass and
people driving by say oh!
00:17:19.10\00:17:22.23
There they're the people
in the glass church, what
00:17:22.73\00:17:26.13
beautiful seeds they
must be. You may look
00:17:26.46\00:17:30.83
good, but you have not
found your destiny yet as
00:17:30.83\00:17:34.93
a seed. They can put
little sticky glue all over you
00:17:34.93\00:17:38.33
and make a smiley
face forget somewhere, you
00:17:38.33\00:17:41.06
still have not
found your Devine destiny.
00:17:41.36\00:17:43.76
The best seed, said
aloud with me, the best seed
00:17:44.10\00:17:47.50
is a buried seed.
An unburied seed is an
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unfruitful seed, that
has missed its destiny and we
00:17:51.36\00:17:56.53
will not fulfill its
highest calling. Wow, What's
00:17:56.53\00:18:03.53
the point? Jesus does
not want us to miss it jet it
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down: You've got to
burry the seed in order to
00:18:06.93\00:18:11.23
grow the seed, that's
the point. Make sure you've
00:18:11.23\00:18:15.70
it; you've got to burry
the seed in order to grow
00:18:16.40\00:18:19.26
the seed that was Jesus
point. In his capable point
00:18:19.50\00:18:23.93
let's took this put it
another language, American
00:18:24.60\00:18:27.63
English, because the
message translation is
00:18:27.63\00:18:29.60
American English,
Eugene Petersons message
00:18:29.86\00:18:32.20
translation and we
wanna put it on the screen for
00:18:32.20\00:18:33.60
you, you can fill it up:
Listen carefully; there is
00:18:35.76\00:18:36.73
the double Amen,
amen, amen. Something,
00:18:36.73\00:18:39.00
something radically
significant is about to be
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spoken, so listens it
up: Unless a grain of wheat
00:18:41.66\00:18:46.10
is buried in the
ground. See you can't escape;
00:18:46.10\00:18:50.56
you can't a escape the
matter forth. Unless a grain
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of wheat is buried in
the ground, and dead to the
00:18:53.76\00:18:56.00
world. Oh! I was
listening carefully to Pastor
00:18:56.26\00:19:00.73
Justin this morning
talking about one foot in
00:19:00.93\00:19:03.03
the world and one foot
in the church. Well, you
00:19:03.03\00:19:05.43
can't do it, you can't
do it, and no man can serve
00:19:05.43\00:19:08.40
to masters. He would
love the one and hate the
00:19:08.40\00:19:10.63
other; you will hate
the one and love the other
00:19:10.63\00:19:12.00
you can't serve God in
the world impossible. So,
00:19:12.00\00:19:16.00
you got a chose and
if you haven chosen, you
00:19:16.00\00:19:18.10
have to chose, you
have to choose in less then
00:19:18.36\00:19:20.20
twenty minutes. You've
to choose, because you're
00:19:20.56\00:19:23.53
living in here and so am
I. You're not go back out
00:19:23.53\00:19:27.43
into Sydney and Australia,
startling to worlds are
00:19:27.43\00:19:30.86
you? I mean, how do
you what, what would go to
00:19:30.86\00:19:33.40
you're for either
world. You're a divided
00:19:33.40\00:19:35.60
specimen word close to
both. Unless a grain of
00:19:35.60\00:19:40.56
wheat is buried in the
ground, and dead to the
00:19:40.56\00:19:42.70
world, it is never any
more than a grain of wheat.
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But if it is buried,
it sprouts and reproduces
00:19:47.83\00:19:53.80
itself many times over."
The best seed is a buried
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seed. Paul comes along
in first Corinthians makes
00:20:02.13\00:20:04.00
the identical point;
this must be a critical point
00:20:04.00\00:20:06.63
for God to keep
reiterating it again and again.
00:20:06.63\00:20:09.13
Amen, amen get this
one God says: "When you
00:20:09.13\00:20:12.00
put a seed into the
ground, Paul reminds us,
00:20:12.00\00:20:14.00
it doesn't grown into a
plant unless it dies first."
00:20:14.30\00:20:18.10
The best seed is a
buried seeds; it's got to die
00:20:19.30\00:20:25.30
first. Ladies and
gentlemen the best seed
00:20:25.30\00:20:26.96
is a buried seed. This
is an, this is a rocket
00:20:26.96\00:20:30.33
science, this is
horticulture, the best
00:20:30.33\00:20:33.23
seed is a buried seed
so. What kind of seed you're
00:20:33.23\00:20:39.16
gonna beak, you live
in AYC and back out into
00:20:39.16\00:20:43.53
the wild world of
Australia again. What kind of
00:20:43.53\00:20:48.43
seed are you're gonna
be, when where our God is
00:20:48.43\00:20:52.16
gonna plant you. I
wonder where you're gonna
00:20:52.16\00:20:54.66
allow God to plant
you. He not gone to drop you
00:20:54.66\00:20:58.23
on the service of the
earth, do he's gonna dig a
00:20:58.23\00:21:00.53
hole and bury you in
the Farrell of this world
00:21:00.53\00:21:04.53
need, makes me wonder
where he's gonna buried
00:21:04.73\00:21:07.26
you. When we're down
in Melbourne few days
00:21:07.26\00:21:12.93
ago and I have an
chance to see newspaper here,
00:21:12.93\00:21:14.80
I've an heard the news,
it's just, have been the
00:21:14.80\00:21:18.43
great concentrate
here, but I got to see a few
00:21:18.43\00:21:20.20
newspapers. When
we're in Melbourne, they've
00:21:20.20\00:21:23.50
had a challenge in
Australia, some Indians
00:21:23.50\00:21:27.33
students have been
attacked, and you've heard
00:21:27.33\00:21:31.20
about that have you?
Yeah. Yeah, to the place,
00:21:31.40\00:21:35.13
to the place where the
police commissioner for
00:21:36.10\00:21:38.20
the city of
Melbourne, last weakened made a
00:21:38.43\00:21:42.03
statement and an
appeal for the news media, to
00:21:42.03\00:21:45.26
the Indian community.
You've got move out of
00:21:45.26\00:21:49.63
the poorest sections of
our city, move away crime
00:21:49.63\00:21:54.43
rate is natural gonna
be higher there, move out,
00:21:54.43\00:21:57.13
the only reason, I
access that's story and so that
00:21:58.53\00:22:01.23
you won't pretend.
That there is no poverty in
00:22:01.23\00:22:08.03
Australia, the second
most depress city in the
00:22:08.03\00:22:11.66
United States per
capita is 12 miles up the road
00:22:11.66\00:22:14.26
from Andrews
University. We've planted a
00:22:14.26\00:22:16.66
Church in the inner,
inner city. Now, I wanna
00:22:16.66\00:22:21.06
make an appeal, do
you know, I'm not step on
00:22:21.06\00:22:22.36
any leaders toes and
doing this. I wonder what
00:22:22.63\00:22:28.10
God is gonna plant you
in 2010. I praise God for
00:22:28.33\00:22:32.46
this vision, to reach
forty thousand students of
00:22:32.46\00:22:35.60
the University of New
South Wales and may God
00:22:35.60\00:22:38.73
flourish that young
adult planted, young adult let
00:22:39.00\00:22:42.20
Church hallelujah. But
here is my appeal, please,
00:22:42.53\00:22:48.43
please in your joy and
working with fellow Unis.
00:22:49.13\00:22:54.00
Who can afford the
education that they're
00:22:54.90\00:22:57.63
getting. Please don't
forget, the inner, inner
00:22:57.63\00:23:03.13
city of Sydney. Where
the improvers live and
00:23:03.40\00:23:08.96
the crime rates are
higher and people are
00:23:08.96\00:23:12.83
desperately trying to
survive. If we forget the
00:23:12.83\00:23:18.03
poor in our eagerness,
to reach the educated and
00:23:18.33\00:23:22.06
the suburbs. We've
missed, the passion of Jesus
00:23:22.06\00:23:30.90
heart, listen to I had
you know this. Because I
00:23:30.90\00:23:33.20
just been preaching on
it up high in the earth,
00:23:33.43\00:23:35.93
in January. Do you
know that Luke, who writes
00:23:36.30\00:23:42.10
the sermon on a
mount, after Matthew does.
00:23:42.10\00:23:44.66
In Matthew Sermon on
the Mount, here how it
00:23:45.66\00:23:47.30
goes, it begins that
this glorious, be attitudes
00:23:47.30\00:23:51.20
begin in Matthew,
you've memorized it: Blessed
00:23:51.20\00:23:53.86
are the poor in spirit
for theirs is the kingdom of
00:23:53.86\00:23:59.36
God, Luke comes along
under the inspiration of
00:23:59.56\00:24:02.36
the Holy Spirit and
instead of copying Matthew.
00:24:02.36\00:24:05.40
Because Matthew was
there and heard it, Luke
00:24:06.83\00:24:09.00
didn't hear it. Instead
of copying Matthew do you
00:24:09.00\00:24:12.46
know how Luke puts,
how Luke renders at the
00:24:12.46\00:24:14.50
attitude: Blessed are the
poor in spirit for theirs is
00:24:14.50\00:24:20.73
the kingdom of God,
he drops up in spirit. He
00:24:20.73\00:24:25.50
means no I'm talking
about dirt poor, blessed to
00:24:25.50\00:24:29.46
you, he said do I you
don't know that for sure.
00:24:29.46\00:24:31.33
Oh! I do because of
the next be attitude, in
00:24:31.53\00:24:33.53
Mathew it says:
Blessed are those who hunger
00:24:33.53\00:24:35.16
and thirst, after for they
shall be filled and look at
00:24:35.16\00:24:38.40
he's blessed are you
who hunger, for you who
00:24:38.60\00:24:41.50
will fit. Luke intentionally,
he just says Sermon
00:24:41.50\00:24:47.36
on the Mount. So,
that we will know that when
00:24:47.36\00:24:51.93
Jesus gets up as he
does two chapters earlier,
00:24:51.93\00:24:55.00
the be attitudes are
in Luke 6, two chapters
00:24:55.76\00:24:57.70
earlier Jesus gets up
Nazareth and he announced
00:24:58.40\00:25:00.46
the spirit of the Lord
is upon me quoting Isaiah
00:25:01.03\00:25:02.93
61:"The Spirit of the
Lord is up on me, because
00:25:03.30\00:25:05.60
he has anointed me to
preach the Gospel the good
00:25:05.60\00:25:08.03
news to the poor, we
spiritualize that whole
00:25:08.03\00:25:11.76
commutation away of
Jesus mission statement is
00:25:11.76\00:25:13.60
about the spiritually
poor, the emotionally poor
00:25:13.60\00:25:15.66
that fit, you know, no
nor the financially poor.
00:25:15.90\00:25:18.36
But Luke corrects that
misreading, two chapters
00:25:19.53\00:25:23.43
later in his rendition
of the, be attitudes. If you
00:25:23.43\00:25:26.46
ever wanna read a
Gospel that use or friendly to
00:25:26.46\00:25:28.93
the poor read the Gospel
of the Luke, it is written
00:25:28.93\00:25:33.60
for poor Christians in
the Roman empire, to take
00:25:34.26\00:25:36.73
hope. That they're
not the scum of the earth,
00:25:36.73\00:25:38.73
the God values them:
Blessed are you who are
00:25:39.33\00:25:42.20
poor, for yours is
the kingdom of God. Ladies
00:25:42.20\00:25:45.76
and gentlemen, because
of that we cannot remain
00:25:45.76\00:25:49.83
a moment that only
focuses on the bright,
00:25:49.83\00:25:52.93
the young and the
suburbs. We will have to move
00:25:53.20\00:25:56.76
into the inner city, for
the Lord Jesus Christ and
00:25:57.13\00:26:00.33
it will be painful and
it, something we don't know
00:26:00.33\00:26:02.80
how to do. And we will
have to console others,
00:26:02.80\00:26:05.33
who are already doing
it. But we will have to do
00:26:05.33\00:26:08.10
it, because in as much
as you have done this to
00:26:08.10\00:26:12.16
the least of these,
my brothers and sisters,
00:26:12.16\00:26:16.70
you've done it to me.
And if you haven done it to
00:26:17.06\00:26:20.00
them, you haven don't
to me yet. Every category
00:26:20.00\00:26:23.93
that Jesus listen
Matthew 25, the last story,
00:26:23.93\00:26:26.23
he tells on earth,
every categories is
00:26:26.23\00:26:28.10
disenfranchised,
alienated and marginalized
00:26:28.10\00:26:30.73
human beings. You're
either in jail, you're naked
00:26:30.73\00:26:33.20
it, you're hungry,
you're poor. You do it to them
00:26:33.20\00:26:37.00
and all my Ellen White
with all the goal of the
00:26:38.10\00:26:40.53
Spirit inspired writers
comes along and writes a
00:26:40.53\00:26:43.66
chapter in Desire of
Ages, devoted to Jesus last
00:26:43.66\00:26:46.80
story on earth. It's
called the least of these and in
00:26:46.80\00:26:50.40
that chapter the first
page of that chapter just
00:26:50.40\00:26:53.60
before Jesus dies. She
writes in an interpreting
00:26:53.60\00:26:57.80
this paragraph, listen
to this she writes: And
00:26:57.80\00:27:01.13
when the nations of the
world shall be assembled
00:27:01.13\00:27:04.00
before the king one
day in the final judgment,
00:27:04.00\00:27:07.30
their destiny in
eternity will be determined by
00:27:07.80\00:27:11.23
one condition what did
they do for the poor and
00:27:11.46\00:27:16.23
needy. I tell you what
that is a chapter that blows
00:27:16.43\00:27:21.43
Seventh-day Adventist,
which she was out of the
00:27:21.43\00:27:24.90
water, because I thought
that she got to the front
00:27:25.10\00:27:28.46
of the line, if you
kept the Seventh-day Sabbath,
00:27:28.46\00:27:30.93
well Jesus are
Sabbatarian, yeah. Did he create
00:27:32.56\00:27:35.73
the Sabbath? Is
the Sabbath true? Yeah.
00:27:35.73\00:27:38.30
Of course, so we got
that taking care of now.
00:27:38.86\00:27:40.80
You just want to make
sure I believe in it, you're
00:27:41.03\00:27:43.03
now known I do. But we
thought that it was our
00:27:43.03\00:27:46.96
Sabbatarianism that got
us to the front of the line.
00:27:46.96\00:27:50.00
And come to find out
from the inspired author of
00:27:50.00\00:27:52.93
Desire of Ages no. it
will be what you do for the
00:27:53.20\00:27:56.90
poor and needy. You
know why, because it's only
00:27:57.10\00:28:01.60
what you do for the
poor and needy that tells the
00:28:01.60\00:28:04.66
truth about the heart,
you're hiding that nobody
00:28:04.66\00:28:07.56
else on earth, but God
can see. And so can just
00:28:07.56\00:28:11.10
tell the universe trust
me, save her, trust me lose
00:28:11.10\00:28:14.00
him. All he has to do is,
say, listen I got the video
00:28:14.00\00:28:17.80
right here. I want you
to watch, watch how many
00:28:17.80\00:28:20.40
times, he watched by
somebody in need, watch
00:28:20.40\00:28:22.63
how many times she
drives through that section
00:28:22.63\00:28:24.73
of the city or purposely
drives way around it like
00:28:24.73\00:28:27.43
the levy in the good
samaritan. Just watch her
00:28:27.43\00:28:30.33
and tell me did, I
know she got the day of the
00:28:30.73\00:28:33.53
Sabbath right. But
did she get the way of the
00:28:33.53\00:28:36.20
Sabbath right. Amen.
No, she got the seven
00:28:36.20\00:28:40.20
rights, but she forgot
that it's not the seven,
00:28:40.43\00:28:45.76
that counts it's a seventh
in field with the heart of
00:28:46.80\00:28:52.06
Jesus Christ. Amen.
So, Ellen White come along
00:28:52.06\00:28:56.20
and say the last, and
so, so God can say hey, hey
00:28:56.20\00:28:58.06
universe check in,
where she, what about she do
00:28:58.06\00:29:01.33
with the poor. Because
well how I treat the poor,
00:29:01.33\00:29:04.10
well tell you how
selfish I'm, isn't that true?
00:29:04.10\00:29:07.86
What I do to the poor,
will tell you how selfish I
00:29:08.76\00:29:11.50
really am. You don't
know I'm selfish, I look like
00:29:11.50\00:29:13.90
a pretty good guy, I
go to Church just like you
00:29:13.90\00:29:16.40
do. It's what I do to
the poor that tells you what
00:29:16.40\00:29:20.63
my heart really is.
So, AYC, as you driven home
00:29:20.63\00:29:24.63
and somebody you've
drive past the section of
00:29:24.63\00:29:26.33
the city. That is the
heart of the Lord Jesus;
00:29:26.33\00:29:29.40
remember our mission
is not complete to save
00:29:29.66\00:29:32.80
those who are just like
us. We've to reach those
00:29:33.00\00:29:37.20
who are not like us.
Amen. Alright, so that seed
00:29:37.53\00:29:44.43
is a buried seed,
how do I know that Jesus
00:29:44.66\00:29:47.30
wants us in this, in the
inner, inner, inner city.
00:29:47.30\00:29:49.50
Look what he says in
verse 26: "All those who
00:29:49.80\00:29:51.86
want to be my
disciples must come and follow
00:29:51.86\00:29:54.40
me, where are you
going Jesus, because my
00:29:54.40\00:29:56.50
servants must be where
I am. And if they follow
00:29:56.50\00:29:59.10
me, the farther will
honor them." Will you like
00:29:59.10\00:30:01.40
that down please Jesus
says my servants must be
00:30:01.40\00:30:03.80
where I am? Where are
you Jesus? Tell us Jesus,
00:30:04.26\00:30:09.33
where are you? The
Desire of Ages chapter
00:30:12.36\00:30:13.36
leaves it without a
shadow of a doubt. By the
00:30:13.36\00:30:15.60
way in go much
earlier in the book Desire of
00:30:15.60\00:30:17.26
Ages, I am sorry I
don't have a page number for
00:30:17.26\00:30:18.76
this because you just
coming to me. But Jesus I
00:30:18.76\00:30:21.40
the paragraph goes
like the some people long to
00:30:26.06\00:30:28.40
go to the homeland of
Jesus, or they can stand in
00:30:28.40\00:30:30.90
Bethlehem. They can
gaze upon Nazareth. They
00:30:31.13\00:30:33.50
can look a Capernaum
and say, oh! I am where
00:30:33.50\00:30:36.00
Jesus is. You don't have
to go the writer of Desire
00:30:36.00\00:30:38.60
of Ages said, you need
not go for the footsteps of
00:30:38.60\00:30:42.73
Jesus are found in the
hovels of the city. Where
00:30:42.73\00:30:46.60
the poor lives out.
You want to go where Jesus
00:30:46.60\00:30:49.20
is? You find the poor
that's where he is, and
00:30:49.20\00:30:54.20
that's why ladies and
gentlemen when the final
00:30:54.20\00:30:56.93
judgment is convened
and the row call is being
00:30:56.93\00:31:00.90
made and I know
where in the judgment now,
00:31:00.90\00:31:03.00
somebody like that
woman who didn't get the
00:31:04.43\00:31:08.50
daylight, but the
got the way right.
00:31:08.80\00:31:11.90
Don't be surprised?
A rich American came to
00:31:15.80\00:31:19.86
Calcutta where
mother Teresa was. Where she
00:31:19.86\00:31:22.86
served and she died?
Serving the drags of society
00:31:22.86\00:31:26.16
and the rich American
came to her and say this is
00:31:26.80\00:31:29.46
driving me crazy. Why
are you waste your time
00:31:29.46\00:31:32.13
with these
people? Why do you do it?
00:31:32.60\00:31:33.93
And mother Teresa
replied, she said, we are at
00:31:34.36\00:31:37.40
contemplate of order.
First we meditates on Jesus
00:31:37.40\00:31:40.66
then we go out the
look for him in this guys "
00:31:41.16\00:31:44.06
In as much as you do
this to the least of these,
00:31:45.60\00:31:52.16
you do it to me." I
bailed them she says, do it to
00:31:53.43\00:31:58.96
me through them.
Through the text one more
00:31:58.96\00:32:08.00
time then I read that
story to you "All those who
00:32:08.00\00:32:10.36
want to be my disciples,
Jesus says, this is Verse
00:32:10.36\00:32:13.03
26, must come and
follow me. Because my
00:32:13.03\00:32:15.66
servants must be
where I am." Where you going
00:32:15.66\00:32:17.96
Jesus I want and I
will follow you, Jesus,
00:32:17.96\00:32:20.10
just I will give my life
for you, Jesus. Where are
00:32:20.33\00:32:24.50
you going? Oh! There
is no question in John 12,
00:32:24.50\00:32:27.36
look at Verse 32,
here is where I am going "
00:32:27.56\00:32:29.53
And when I am lifted
up, I will draw all men,
00:32:29.86\00:32:32.70
I will draw all women,
I will draw all people to
00:32:32.93\00:32:36.26
me." Where are you
going, Jesus? He said,
00:32:36.26\00:32:38.90
this indicate how
he was going to die.
00:32:38.90\00:32:40.93
See that's John's
quote: take up the cross and
00:32:40.93\00:32:43.06
follow me. Not a word
about the cross. The word
00:32:43.30\00:32:45.86
not even used in John 12,
but it's all there, If you
00:32:45.86\00:32:48.50
want to follow me,
AYC member deny yourself,
00:32:48.50\00:32:53.46
take up your cross,
drag it behind me. Where are
00:32:53.70\00:32:56.83
you going, Jesus? I am
going to die. You want to
00:32:56.83\00:32:59.13
come? I am going to
die. You want to come?
00:32:59.13\00:33:03.73
Where I am my servant
will be also. That's the
00:33:06.06\00:33:11.70
truth. You know, what
that's really is don't you?
00:33:11.90\00:33:14.13
They are talking about
this in some circle today
00:33:14.40\00:33:16.53
it's called "Downward
Mobility" somewhere you
00:33:16.53\00:33:18.90
are in the Uni right
now and you pick in a career
00:33:18.90\00:33:21.86
that is going to
just keep moment you,
00:33:21.86\00:33:23.43
Hallelujah, up the
ladder of success and I am not
00:33:23.43\00:33:27.33
against success and if
you get God calls you to
00:33:27.33\00:33:29.50
stay where you are,
you just stay where you are
00:33:29.50\00:33:31.80
you just stay where you
are sister, and I will be
00:33:31.80\00:33:32.76
cheering you on the
whole way I got 3,400 uni
00:33:32.76\00:33:35.46
students in my
Church, so I understand about
00:33:35.46\00:33:38.13
getting an education,
but after you have that
00:33:38.33\00:33:43.90
major and that
course sealed I wish you it
00:33:43.90\00:33:49.06
contemplate, not
upward mobility. Jesus says,
00:33:49.06\00:33:52.03
would you mind
considering downward mobility,
00:33:52.26\00:33:54.86
going down in order to
get up, and loosening in
00:33:55.60\00:33:59.46
order to win becoming a
servant in order to be a
00:33:59.46\00:34:02.86
leader, and die in order
to live for where I am my
00:34:02.86\00:34:08.16
servant will be also.
Wow! You have to go out,
00:34:08.16\00:34:14.43
but, hey, you don't
have to come back. Some
00:34:16.26\00:34:18.13
happens to you will
miss you, but we will see
00:34:18.13\00:34:20.20
you in heaven. You have
to go out, but you don't
00:34:20.20\00:34:23.40
have to come back. The
lesson of the Nantucket
00:34:23.40\00:34:26.56
Society before I read
that story a quotation of
00:34:26.56\00:34:29.20
Christ's Object
Lessons; here it is; "All who
00:34:29.20\00:34:31.76
would bring forth fruit
as workers together with
00:34:31.76\00:34:34.00
Christ must first fall
into the ground and die,
00:34:34.00\00:34:37.30
the italics are mine, the
life must be cast into the
00:34:37.90\00:34:40.43
furrow of the world's
need. Sidney's it's greatest
00:34:40.76\00:34:44.90
needs at your mission.
The life must be cast into
00:34:44.90\00:34:48.86
the furrow of the
world's needs Self-love,
00:34:48.86\00:34:50.93
self-interest, must
perish. But the life of
00:34:51.13\00:34:54.13
self-sacrifice, here is
the Jesus point, the life of
00:34:54.13\00:34:58.20
self-sacrifice is the
life of self-preservation.
00:34:58.20\00:35:00.96
The seed buried in the
ground produces fruit and
00:35:01.36\00:35:05.33
in turn this is
planted. Thus, the harvest is
00:35:05.33\00:35:07.33
multiplied. The
farmer preserves his grain by
00:35:07.33\00:35:10.20
casting it away. So
in human life, isn't it
00:35:10.20\00:35:12.80
something to give is to
live. Some of you made a
00:35:13.10\00:35:16.10
pledge yesterday for
this little offering there was
00:35:16.10\00:35:19.36
taken off for AYC.
You may wanna reconsidered
00:35:19.60\00:35:22.43
that pledge because look
to give is to live. Maybe
00:35:22.43\00:35:30.43
that was just a little
token something you scribble
00:35:30.43\00:35:33.10
down. To give is to
live. You believe in this
00:35:33.10\00:35:38.73
moment. You believe
in the young that this
00:35:38.73\00:35:40.43
moment is rising up.
You are to be putting your
00:35:40.43\00:35:42.50
major bucks behind
it to gives to live.
00:35:42.70\00:35:48.20
Let's putting few coins
out and tossing on a man
00:35:49.26\00:35:50.83
is a bucket comes by
isn't really giving. Now is it
00:35:50.83\00:35:53.80
unless like the widow
that Jesus watched you
00:35:54.00\00:35:57.13
thrown an every coin
you have, and that's why I
00:35:57.13\00:35:59.80
am judging you, but to
give is to live. We are
00:35:59.80\00:36:04.83
asking these kids to give
of their lives and in just
00:36:04.83\00:36:07.90
a moment I'm gonna
ask them they give of this
00:36:07.90\00:36:10.40
meal and we are well
into give. To give is to live
00:36:10.40\00:36:17.06
The life that will be
preserved is the life that
00:36:17.86\00:36:20.10
is freely given in
service to God and man, those
00:36:20.10\00:36:22.36
who for Christ's sake
sacrifice their life in this
00:36:22.36\00:36:25.16
world. Will keep it
unto life eternal? What's the
00:36:25.16\00:36:28.96
point to I, the point is
"The best seed is a buried
00:36:28.96\00:36:31.80
seed" that's the point of
Jesus teaching. That's the
00:36:31.80\00:36:35.50
point. We must take
home. I'm gonna read a
00:36:35.50\00:36:39.26
story to you now I
promise to you a story.
00:36:39.50\00:36:41.80
I am with this story
moves me every time I read
00:36:42.63\00:36:45.13
it true story. You will
get the point. Sit back and
00:36:45.13\00:36:51.30
listen now. Back in
1921, before your day in
00:36:51.50\00:36:56.40
mind, back in 1921, a
missionary couple named
00:36:59.50\00:37:00.60
David and Svea Flood
went with their two-year-old
00:37:00.60\00:37:03.20
son from Sweden to the
heart of Africa to what
00:37:03.20\00:37:06.20
was then called the
Belgian Congo, alright.
00:37:06.20\00:37:09.80
They met up with
another young Scandinavian
00:37:10.46\00:37:12.40
couple, the
Ericksons, and the four of them
00:37:12.40\00:37:14.13
sought God for
direction. In those days of much
00:37:14.33\00:37:17.10
tenderness and devotion
and sacrifice, they felt
00:37:17.40\00:37:20.20
led of the Lord to set
out from the main mission
00:37:20.20\00:37:22.56
station and take the
Gospel to a remote area.
00:37:22.56\00:37:24.93
When I just hang
around the other missionary,
00:37:25.16\00:37:26.60
we were going to
remote area. This was a huge
00:37:26.90\00:37:29.33
step of faith. At the
village of N'dolera they
00:37:29.33\00:37:32.46
were rebuffed by the
chief, who would not let
00:37:32.46\00:37:35.03
them enter his town
for fear of alienating the
00:37:35.03\00:37:37.13
local Gods. The two
couples opted to go half a
00:37:37.13\00:37:39.83
mile up the slope of
the mountain and build their
00:37:39.83\00:37:42.50
own mud huts. Can't get
into the village were live
00:37:42.50\00:37:45.06
up there. They
prayed for a spiritual
00:37:45.06\00:37:47.36
breakthrough, but
there was none. The only
00:37:47.36\00:37:49.50
contact with the
villagers was a young boy, who
00:37:49.70\00:37:52.33
was allowed to sell
them chickens and eggs twice
00:37:52.33\00:37:54.76
a week. Svea Flood a
tiny woman only four feet,
00:37:54.76\00:37:58.00
eight inches tall-decided
that if this was the only
00:37:58.00\00:38:00.96
African she could talk
to, she would try to lead
00:38:00.96\00:38:04.83
the boy to Jesus. And
in fact, she succeeded.
00:38:04.83\00:38:07.46
Amen, Amen. But
there were no other
00:38:08.10\00:38:12.33
encouragements.
Meanwhile, malaria continued
00:38:12.33\00:38:15.80
to strike one member
of the little band after
00:38:15.80\00:38:17.90
another. In time the
Ericksons decided they had
00:38:17.90\00:38:20.20
had enough suffering and
they left to return to the
00:38:20.20\00:38:22.50
central mission
station. David and Svea Flood
00:38:22.73\00:38:24.93
remained near N'dolera
to go on alone. Then, of
00:38:25.20\00:38:28.50
all things, Svea found
herself pregnant in the
00:38:28.80\00:38:32.40
middle of the
primitive wilderness. When the
00:38:32.40\00:38:35.40
time came for her to
give birth, the village chief
00:38:35.40\00:38:38.20
softened enough to
allow a midwife to help her,
00:38:38.20\00:38:41.30
and a little girl
was born, whom they named
00:38:41.70\00:38:44.00
Aina. The delivery,
however, was exhausting,
00:38:44.40\00:38:48.86
and Svea Flood was
already weak from bouts of
00:38:49.56\00:38:52.26
malaria. The birth
process was a heavy blow to
00:38:52.26\00:38:54.40
her stamina. She
lasted only another seventeen
00:38:57.00\00:38:58.00
days. Inside David
Flood, something snapped in
00:38:58.00\00:39:02.96
that moment. He dug a
crude grave, buried his
00:39:03.20\00:39:05.83
twenty-seven-year-old
wife, and then took his
00:39:06.10\00:39:08.33
children back down the
mountain to the mission
00:39:08.33\00:39:10.20
station. Giving his
newborn daughter to the
00:39:10.20\00:39:12.96
Erickson's, he
snarled, "I'm going back to
00:39:12.96\00:39:15.30
Sweden. I've lost my
wife, and I obviously can't
00:39:15.30\00:39:17.23
take care of this baby.
God has ruined my life."
00:39:17.23\00:39:20.43
With that, he headed
for the port, rejecting not
00:39:22.73\00:39:25.03
only his calling, but
God himself. Within eight
00:39:25.03\00:39:29.43
months both the
Erickson's were stricken with a
00:39:29.63\00:39:32.80
mysterious malady and
died within days of each
00:39:32.80\00:39:36.60
other. The baby was
then turned over to some
00:39:36.80\00:39:40.53
American
missionaries, who adjusted her
00:39:40.53\00:39:42.10
Swedish name to
"Aggie" and eventually brought
00:39:42.30\00:39:45.06
her back to the
United States at age three.
00:39:45.06\00:39:47.03
This family loved the
little girl and were afraid
00:39:48.46\00:39:50.13
that if they tried to
return to Africa, some legal
00:39:50.13\00:39:52.33
obstacle might
separate her from them. So they
00:39:52.33\00:39:54.06
decided to stay in
their home country and switch
00:39:54.06\00:39:55.96
from missionary work
to pastoral ministry. And
00:39:56.20\00:39:58.16
that is how Aggie
grew up in South Dakota,
00:39:58.16\00:40:00.63
and As a young
woman, she attended North
00:40:00.63\00:40:02.20
Central Bible College
in Minneapolis. There she
00:40:02.20\00:40:04.33
met and married a
young man named Dewey
00:40:04.33\00:40:06.33
Hurst. But listen up,
Years passed. The Hursts
00:40:06.33\00:40:12.10
enjoyed a fruitful
Ministry. Aggie gave birth first
00:40:12.36\00:40:14.83
to a daughter, then a
son. In time her husband
00:40:14.83\00:40:16.80
became president of a
Christian college in the
00:40:17.00\00:40:19.03
Seattle area, and Aggie
was intrigued to find so
00:40:19.03\00:40:21.86
much Scandinavian
heritage there. One day a
00:40:21.86\00:40:25.56
Swedish religious
magazine appeared in her
00:40:25.76\00:40:29.63
mailbox. She had no
idea who had sent it, and of
00:40:29.63\00:40:32.40
course she couldn't
read the words. But as she
00:40:32.40\00:40:34.76
turned the pages, all
of a sudden a photo stopped
00:40:34.76\00:40:37.70
her cold. There in a
primitive setting was a
00:40:37.70\00:40:40.90
grave with a white
cross and on the cross were
00:40:41.13\00:40:43.80
the words SVEA
FLOOD. Aggie jumped in her
00:40:43.80\00:40:49.90
car and went
straight for a college faculty
00:40:49.90\00:40:52.06
member who, she
knew, could translate the
00:40:52.06\00:40:53.36
article. "What does
this say?" she demanded.
00:40:53.36\00:40:55.00
What does this say?
The instructor took the
00:40:55.00\00:40:57.80
magazine and summarized
the story: It was about
00:40:57.80\00:40:59.66
missionaries who had
come to N'dolera long ago.
00:40:59.66\00:41:02.10
The birth of a white
baby, the death of the young
00:41:02.33\00:41:04.23
mother, the one little
African boy who had been
00:41:04.23\00:41:07.26
led to Christ and how,
after the whites had all
00:41:07.26\00:41:09.60
left, the boy had grown
up and finally persuaded
00:41:09.80\00:41:11.90
the chief to let him
build a school in the village.
00:41:11.90\00:41:14.33
The article said that
gradually he won all his
00:41:15.53\00:41:17.46
students to Christ
and the children led their
00:41:17.46\00:41:19.83
parents to Christ
even the chief had become a
00:41:19.83\00:41:22.76
Christian. Today
there were six hundred
00:41:22.96\00:41:26.43
Christian believers in
that one village, all because
00:41:26.43\00:41:30.16
of the sacrifice of
David and Svea Flood. But the
00:41:30.16\00:41:33.76
story is not over,
listen up. For the Hursts'
00:41:33.76\00:41:36.86
twenty-fifth wedding
anniversary, the college
00:41:36.86\00:41:39.10
presented them with
the gift of a vacation to
00:41:39.10\00:41:41.93
Sweden. There Aggie
sought to find her real
00:41:42.20\00:41:44.50
father. An old man
now, David Flood had
00:41:44.50\00:41:47.46
remarried, fathered
four more children, and
00:41:47.46\00:41:48.96
generally dissipated his
life with alcohol. He had
00:41:49.16\00:41:51.80
recently suffered a
stroke. Still bitter, he had one
00:41:52.03\00:41:54.53
rule in his family:
"Never mention the name of
00:41:54.53\00:41:57.36
God- because God
took everything from me.
00:41:57.60\00:42:00.33
After an emotional
reunion with her half brothers
00:42:02.26\00:42:04.80
and half sister, Aggie
brought up the Flood, that
00:42:04.80\00:42:07.33
this subject of
seeing her father. The others
00:42:07.33\00:42:09.20
hesitated. "You can
talk to him," they replied,
00:42:09.53\00:42:11.76
"even though he's very
ill now. But you need to
00:42:11.76\00:42:13.40
know that whenever he
hears the name of God,
00:42:13.40\00:42:15.33
he flies into a rage.
Aggie was not to be deterred
00:42:15.60\00:42:20.30
She walked into the
squalid apartment, with
00:42:20.73\00:42:23.40
liquor bottles
everywhere, and approached the
00:42:23.40\00:42:25.50
seventy-three-year-old
man lying in a rumpled
00:42:25.50\00:42:27.70
bed. "Papa" she said
tentatively. He turned and
00:42:27.70\00:42:33.13
began to cry. "Aina,"
he said. "I never meant to
00:42:33.13\00:42:36.56
give you away." "It's all
right, Papa," she replied,
00:42:36.56\00:42:39.33
taking him gently in
her arms. "God took care of
00:42:39.33\00:42:41.80
me." The man
instantly stiffened. The tears
00:42:41.80\00:42:45.20
stopped. "God forgot
all of us. Our lives have
00:42:45.43\00:42:46.40
been like this
because of Him." He turned his
00:42:49.20\00:42:51.26
face back to the wall.
Aggie stroked his face and
00:42:51.26\00:42:55.23
then continued, undaunted.
"Papa, I've got a little
00:42:55.23\00:42:59.50
story to tell you, and
it's a true one. You didn't go
00:42:59.50\00:43:02.50
to Africa in vain.
Mama didn't die in vain.
00:43:02.73\00:43:05.16
The little boy you
won to the Lord grew up to
00:43:05.50\00:43:07.23
win that whole village
to Jesus Christ. The one
00:43:07.23\00:43:09.80
seed you planted just
kept growing and growing.
00:43:09.80\00:43:11.93
Today there are six
hundred African people
00:43:12.30\00:43:14.76
serving the Lord
because you were faithful to the
00:43:14.96\00:43:16.76
call of God in your
life. Papa, Jesus loves you.
00:43:16.76\00:43:20.73
He has never hated
you." The old man turned
00:43:20.73\00:43:24.36
back to look into his
daughter's eyes. His body
00:43:24.36\00:43:26.96
relaxed, and he began
to talk. And by the end of
00:43:27.16\00:43:29.83
the afternoon, he had
come back to the God he
00:43:30.03\00:43:33.10
had resented for so
many decades. Over the next
00:43:33.30\00:43:37.50
few days, father and
daughter enjoyed warm
00:43:37.50\00:43:39.23
moments together.
Aggie and her husband soon
00:43:39.23\00:43:41.50
had to return to
America-and within a few weeks,
00:43:41.50\00:43:43.40
David Flood died
, but there is more.
00:43:43.90\00:43:47.56
A few years later, the
Hursts were attending a
00:43:49.10\00:43:52.40
high-level
evangelism conference in London,
00:43:52.63\00:43:55.10
England, when a
report was given from the
00:43:55.33\00:43:57.40
nation of Zaire (the
former Belgian Congo).
00:43:57.40\00:44:00.06
The superintendent
of the national church,
00:44:00.63\00:44:02.26
representing some
110,000 baptized believers,
00:44:02.46\00:44:06.63
spoke eloquently of
the Gospel's spread in his
00:44:08.46\00:44:10.50
nation. Aggie could
not help going up to him
00:44:10.50\00:44:12.40
afterward and asking
if he had ever heard of
00:44:12.70\00:44:14.53
David and Svea
Flood. "Yes, madam," the man
00:44:14.80\00:44:17.90
replied in French, his
words then being translated
00:44:18.23\00:44:20.46
into English. "It was
Svea Flood who led me to
00:44:20.46\00:44:23.53
Jesus Christ. I was
the boy who brought food to
00:44:23.53\00:44:26.96
your parents before you
were born. In fact, to this
00:44:26.96\00:44:29.30
day your mother's
grave and her memory are
00:44:29.30\00:44:31.90
honored by all of us."
He embraced her in a long,
00:44:31.90\00:44:36.46
sobbing hug. Then
he continued, "You must
00:44:36.46\00:44:40.36
come to Africa to see,
because your mother is the
00:44:40.66\00:44:42.96
most famous person in
our history, and " In time
00:44:42.96\00:44:47.60
that is exactly what
Aggie Hurst and her husband
00:44:48.20\00:44:51.40
did. They were
welcomed by cheering throngs of
00:44:51.40\00:44:54.10
villagers. She even
met the man who had been
00:44:54.10\00:44:56.10
hired by her father many
years before to carry her
00:44:56.10\00:44:58.16
back down the
mountain in a hammock-cradle.
00:44:58.16\00:45:00.66
But the most dramatic
moment, of course, was
00:45:02.06\00:45:04.96
when the pastor
escorted Aggie to see her
00:45:04.96\00:45:07.10
mother's white cross
for herself. She melt in the
00:45:07.10\00:45:12.13
soil to pray and give
thanks. Later that day, in the
00:45:12.13\00:45:16.63
church, the pastor read
from John 12:24: "I tell
00:45:16.63\00:45:21.13
you the truth, unless a
kernel of wheat falls to the
00:45:21.13\00:45:25.73
ground and dies, it
remains only a single seed.
00:45:25.93\00:45:29.70
But if it dies, it
produces many seeds." And then
00:45:30.23\00:45:34.33
he followed with
Psalm 126:5: "Those who sow
00:45:34.33\00:45:37.53
in tears will reap
with songs of joy."
00:45:37.53\00:45:42.56
If any man would
come after to me, if any
00:45:46.33\00:45:50.03
woman would come
after me, led her become a
00:45:50.03\00:45:53.76
seed and be buried in
the furrow of this world
00:45:53.96\00:45:59.76
and die for me. For if
she is buried and dies I
00:45:59.76\00:46:07.06
show reap a mighty
harvest one day. Isn't that
00:46:07.06\00:46:12.36
amazing? Is it true?
Look at Calvary, one seed,
00:46:12.36\00:46:18.60
one seed and we today
apart to that harvest.
00:46:19.93\00:46:25.10
The best seed no
question. The best seed is a
00:46:26.73\00:46:32.66
buried seed. When you
came in, and I actually
00:46:32.66\00:46:38.90
just a moment ago
when handed out the study
00:46:38.90\00:46:41.20
guide, this little piece
of paper was handed to you
00:46:41.20\00:46:43.40
as well. Would you
take it right now we gonna
00:46:43.40\00:46:44.96
end. But we not gonna
end without an appeal.
00:46:44.96\00:46:48.73
One more time, I
wanna make an invitation
00:46:50.93\00:46:54.00
today. This little
piece of paper some of us, but
00:46:54.00\00:46:59.90
we've been appealing
for through out this whole
00:46:59.90\00:47:03.73
weekend. Would you take
the piece of paper, is it
00:47:03.73\00:47:06.10
there? Did it handed
out. Do you have it? Oh!
00:47:06.10\00:47:09.60
You got it, okay. What
it's say, what it's first box,
00:47:09.60\00:47:14.10
I wanna accept Jesus
as my personal savior.
00:47:15.00\00:47:18.76
Then sing a song in
just moment, but I give you
00:47:19.30\00:47:22.10
chance to reflect with
me. Look at it is possible
00:47:22.30\00:47:27.93
to somebody here, has
not yet accepted Jesus as
00:47:27.93\00:47:31.23
Lord and savior. It
gone long away with it you
00:47:31.23\00:47:34.80
followed long or
there have been, nobody here
00:47:34.80\00:47:37.30
even knows it. As
another wrong would happen
00:47:37.30\00:47:40.00
nobody here knows
it, but in your heart you
00:47:40.30\00:47:42.26
know I just have not
surrender my life to him.
00:47:42.26\00:47:45.00
If that is you, right
now. Would you put a look
00:47:45.60\00:47:49.33
check mark here?
Would you put a check mark
00:47:49.33\00:47:52.43
here? I'm not gonna
invite you to come forward
00:47:52.93\00:47:55.16
today. So this is an
little bed and switch. So I
00:47:55.16\00:47:58.80
need you to be as
honest as you can because you
00:47:58.80\00:48:00.36
are the only one to
see this card plus that one
00:48:00.36\00:48:02.46
who will receive . If
you have not accepted Jesus
00:48:02.46\00:48:05.90
as your Lord and
savior, I wish you put a tick as
00:48:06.90\00:48:09.50
you stay in this country.
Fill up tick right there.
00:48:09.50\00:48:12.66
I accept Jesus as my
personal savior. Hey, is
00:48:13.63\00:48:17.60
there somebody here
who is yet to be Baptized?
00:48:17.60\00:48:20.53
I tell you what my
friend I stand on the shoulders
00:48:22.83\00:48:25.96
of all the appeals
that have been made prior to
00:48:25.96\00:48:28.06
this moment, but I'm
gonna to say it all over
00:48:28.06\00:48:29.90
again, there will never
be a moment as simple as
00:48:29.90\00:48:34.06
this one for you to
simply say, yes, I wanna be
00:48:34.06\00:48:38.50
Baptized. Get and
touch with me, get and touch
00:48:38.50\00:48:41.50
with me. I'm not
gonna be Baptized tomorrow,
00:48:41.50\00:48:43.60
I'm not gonna be
Baptized next week, but I will
00:48:43.60\00:48:45.60
be Baptized when Jesus
says, I am ready, but I
00:48:45.60\00:48:48.06
wanna Jesus to know I
am making the decision
00:48:48.06\00:48:50.83
today because if I
remain in unburied seed in the
00:48:51.10\00:48:54.80
water of Baptism, I am
a useless seed forever and
00:48:54.80\00:48:58.46
ever, Amen. I have to
be buried in the water of
00:48:58.46\00:49:03.06
the Baptistery. Before
I can grow to the harvest
00:49:03.06\00:49:07.60
God is dream for
me. If you haven't been
00:49:07.60\00:49:09.53
Baptized you are the
one who knows. Nobody
00:49:09.53\00:49:12.03
around you knows I
wish you take this moment
00:49:12.03\00:49:15.43
never simpler then
this. How could it be simpler?
00:49:15.43\00:49:16.56
Then do just alright do
I you are not to given the
00:49:16.56\00:49:22.06
decision. I want even
see this cards. I am going
00:49:22.06\00:49:24.66
to home. You are going
to home, but you telling
00:49:24.66\00:49:28.66
Jesus by that little
tick. I am choosing to follow
00:49:28.66\00:49:32.80
you. Somebody have
been touch with you, you
00:49:32.80\00:49:35.06
don't worry. Put a
right now. I like to recommit
00:49:35.06\00:49:40.20
my life to Jesus and be
re-baptized. If that's you,
00:49:40.20\00:49:42.70
right there. I was
Baptized in the Church I grow
00:49:43.86\00:49:47.20
up in, but it just kind
of Springfield, you know,
00:49:47.20\00:49:48.60
you know, you follow
Jesus now. You have to
00:49:48.60\00:49:51.56
buried. The seed has
to be buried just like the
00:49:51.80\00:49:55.10
master. Where the
master is you must go.
00:49:55.10\00:49:57.43
He went into the water
to be buried first. So, you
00:49:57.43\00:50:01.76
follow him. Let's put
a check mark right there.
00:50:01.96\00:50:04.20
Somebody be in touch
with you. Oh! Here comes
00:50:04.90\00:50:09.16
number 4. I would like
to recommit. I would like
00:50:09.16\00:50:13.46
to commit my life for
at least 6 months and more.
00:50:13.46\00:50:15.46
A full time Bible work.
I am will to be buried in
00:50:15.96\00:50:20.33
the furrow of
Sydney's need right now.
00:50:20.33\00:50:24.80
Melbourne's need right
now. I wanna be buried in
00:50:25.13\00:50:29.00
that furrow. I am
gonna hit the pause button on
00:50:29.00\00:50:31.46
my education. I am
gonna hit the whole button
00:50:31.46\00:50:35.23
on my professional
career. Hey, I was just talking
00:50:35.86\00:50:40.40
with guy yesterday.
This is just come in to me
00:50:40.40\00:50:42.06
right now. You know,
what he is a pharmacist.
00:50:42.06\00:50:46.06
You may know who is.
Yeah, he has been under
00:50:47.73\00:50:51.70
conviction that he
needs to hit the pause button.
00:50:52.00\00:50:54.03
Guess what? He is
going to hit the pause button
00:50:56.60\00:51:00.23
and God is going to
take care of everything back
00:51:00.23\00:51:02.46
on the job. Don't you
put in be on God to be able
00:51:02.46\00:51:06.66
to step here right now.
God is not going to make
00:51:06.66\00:51:09.00
the first move. You
make the first move. I've
00:51:09.00\00:51:11.20
already move for you
at Calvary what more you
00:51:11.20\00:51:12.90
that you want me to do
for you? I've already done
00:51:12.90\00:51:15.66
it. Now the move is
yours. Will you allow me to
00:51:15.66\00:51:20.83
throw you into the
furrow of the world's need and
00:51:20.83\00:51:24.06
I'm gonna pour the dirt
back on top of you. I will
00:51:24.06\00:51:26.90
bury you, but in that
buried state you will bring
00:51:26.90\00:51:30.43
forth seeds that will
increase my harvest and
00:51:30.43\00:51:34.73
enlarge my kingdom.
You are young professional
00:51:34.73\00:51:38.56
here and you saying I
don't know I just stood I
00:51:38.56\00:51:40.30
can do it. Don't
worry about how you make the
00:51:40.30\00:51:43.40
decision. Let God take
care of that how? So that's
00:51:43.40\00:51:48.86
box number 1, 2, 3, 4 if
you are available I would
00:51:48.86\00:51:55.13
sure be blessed for
Jesus to know you are making
00:51:55.13\00:51:59.40
your life on the line
for him right now. I do in
00:51:59.40\00:52:02.76
2011. They be my
guest. I do in 2015, how for
00:52:02.76\00:52:10.40
still hear for you. If
you heart right now is same
00:52:10.40\00:52:16.33
boy, girl I am talking
today commit to me your
00:52:16.70\00:52:21.90
life today. You got
Angina there is no choice.
00:52:21.90\00:52:26.66
He is already paid the
big price. He said, I give
00:52:27.96\00:52:31.20
you the grace to follow
after me. How about the last
00:52:31.20\00:52:34.70
box, I sense God call
on my life to commit my
00:52:34.70\00:52:36.83
life to full time
ministry I know what this one
00:52:36.83\00:52:39.66
stand for because they
told me what is stand for,
00:52:39.66\00:52:41.80
you know, the stands
for. Some of you. God is
00:52:42.40\00:52:47.66
going to call out of
what you are doing now to
00:52:47.66\00:52:51.20
full time Gospel ministry,
and that's what this one
00:52:51.40\00:52:55.16
about. Six months of
the year it perfect. God
00:52:55.16\00:52:59.96
needs you with your gift
to stay in the very career
00:52:59.96\00:53:02.30
track, track your
end in the profession you
00:53:02.30\00:53:04.46
already following.
Don't you move a wet you've
00:53:04.46\00:53:08.00
got to have you as a
radical disciples in the
00:53:08.00\00:53:10.23
calling that you have.
This is not saying over I
00:53:10.23\00:53:13.83
am somewhat feeling God
if I don't become a full
00:53:14.03\00:53:15.80
time Gospel worker.
Not true, not true, if that
00:53:15.80\00:53:20.73
happen every
profession on earth would be
00:53:20.73\00:53:22.63
bankrupt, every city
office would be empty that
00:53:22.83\00:53:25.50
radical disciples.
God is not in the mood for
00:53:25.50\00:53:28.93
emptying the cities
of his fervent young
00:53:28.93\00:53:32.30
disciples. He needs
you, but there some of you
00:53:32.30\00:53:35.70
and you know who you
are by what's happening
00:53:35.70\00:53:38.06
in your mind right
now. There are some of you
00:53:38.06\00:53:40.00
who have been wresting
with the call of Christ to
00:53:40.36\00:53:42.50
go into full time ministry.
You are a girl. You are
00:53:42.50\00:53:44.73
a boy. You are a
young adult woman. You are
00:53:44.73\00:53:46.83
young adult man, and
you've been wresting with
00:53:46.83\00:53:49.00
this. You may not
be so young. You may be
00:53:49.00\00:53:51.63
older than young, but
you've been wrestling with
00:53:51.63\00:53:54.30
the call of Christ. And
today he is going to say in
00:53:54.30\00:53:58.56
just a whisper to
your conscious, I mean you.
00:53:58.80\00:54:02.40
What about the guy of
front taking. Listen to the
00:54:03.30\00:54:05.26
one inside of you
talking. I mean you. If he says
00:54:05.46\00:54:08.90
to you I mean you,
you must. Put a check mark
00:54:08.90\00:54:13.80
right there. And let me
just say this I work on a
00:54:13.80\00:54:17.70
campus I already told
you where every discipline
00:54:17.70\00:54:20.56
you get Ph.D. and
every major we got a
00:54:20.56\00:54:22.90
theological seminar
there and you know, the
00:54:22.90\00:54:24.86
spirit I live by. I
believe the Church out to be
00:54:24.86\00:54:29.63
calling it's brightest
and best to full time Gospel
00:54:29.63\00:54:33.13
ministry. When they are
still in the deciding face
00:54:33.13\00:54:36.80
and so I am
absolutely un ashamed to look at
00:54:38.66\00:54:40.40
young man and young
woman that I've watched
00:54:40.40\00:54:42.26
up right the front
several times and I see them on
00:54:42.26\00:54:45.20
the campus and I am
watching them and I've
00:54:45.20\00:54:47.36
done this. I've gone up
to engineering major and I
00:54:47.36\00:54:49.46
said, you know,
something Glen, I am telling you
00:54:49.46\00:54:51.36
I believe you being
called to the ministry,
00:54:51.36\00:54:53.10
and that's send him to
a tailspin for a while and
00:54:54.60\00:54:56.20
pray about it and
took a long time to pray
00:54:56.60\00:54:58.50
through, but he is
today a Gospel ministry.
00:54:58.50\00:55:01.10
I think the Church
ought to be asking the
00:55:02.06\00:55:03.70
brightest, it's brightest
and best to be in Gospel
00:55:03.70\00:55:07.00
ministry. I make no
apology for that. I am not
00:55:07.00\00:55:09.76
saying a word about
any other career, but the
00:55:09.76\00:55:12.20
brightest and the best.
If the spirit of Jesus is
00:55:12.20\00:55:15.80
speak in your heart
and he is saying, hey, I am
00:55:15.80\00:55:18.70
talking to you right
now then I want you to put a
00:55:18.70\00:55:20.96
little check mark
there. Nobody is going to pack
00:55:20.96\00:55:22.96
your suitcases by
tonight and saying, shift
00:55:22.96\00:55:25.16
yourself where. You
have all the control you
00:55:25.16\00:55:27.63
need over your life,
but somebody needs to know
00:55:27.63\00:55:29.90
and somebody needs to
be in touch with you and
00:55:30.26\00:55:32.23
somebody can pray you
for this. So that's what
00:55:32.23\00:55:35.00
our last boxes on
there. Now would you feel it
00:55:35.00\00:55:39.06
out? Would you put
your name right here?
00:55:39.06\00:55:40.46
Just come on give
me your name and email.
00:55:40.46\00:55:42.20
Put your mobile right
there, put a right there.
00:55:42.63\00:55:46.20
If you are near Church
you go to Church, please
00:55:46.76\00:55:49.10
put that, that's help
you too. I am not asking
00:55:49.30\00:55:52.03
anybody to come
forward we have had, we have
00:55:52.23\00:55:54.00
had sufficient calls
that way. But I am treating
00:55:54.00\00:55:57.50
this just as seriously
as come forward call, just a
00:55:57.73\00:56:01.56
serious because how
you respond. It's what you
00:56:01.56\00:56:04.93
decide. So if you
already fill with our card I'm
00:56:04.93\00:56:09.63
not gonna ask you
to bow head right now
00:56:09.63\00:56:11.03
because I don't want
you watching what your
00:56:11.03\00:56:12.50
neighbors doing,
alright. So would you bow your
00:56:12.50\00:56:14.23
head if you've already
filled your card out just
00:56:14.23\00:56:15.83
bow your head and
start praying. Don't look at
00:56:15.83\00:56:18.00
me. There is nothing
to see. Just bow your head
00:56:18.20\00:56:20.93
right now and start
praying because somebody
00:56:20.93\00:56:23.30
right now in this last
moment of AYC is on the
00:56:23.30\00:56:26.76
line. Somebody right
now is deciding what I
00:56:26.76\00:56:31.10
should do and that's
somebody needs you praying
00:56:31.10\00:56:34.60
right deciding like
decider. Now I'm going to
00:56:35.26\00:56:37.40
stop talking now
and let the, praying.
00:56:38.06\00:56:41.26