Participants: Dwight Nelson
Series Code: 11GYC
Program Code: 11GYC000011
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00:29 When I gaze Into the night sky
00:35 And see the work Of Your fingers 00:42 The moon and stars Suspended in space 00:50 But what is man What is man 00:55 That You are mindful of him? 01:04 You have given man A crown of glory and honor 01:12 And have made him 01:14 A little lower than the angels 01:22 You have put him In charge of all creation 01:28 The beasts of the field The birds of the air 01:34 The fish of the sea But what is man 01:42 Oh, what is man Oh, what is man 01:48 That You are mindful of him? 01:58 O Lord, our God The majesty and glory 02:07 Of Your name 02:14 Transcends the earth And fills the heavens 02:24 O Lord, our God 02:28 Little children praise Him perfectly 02:35 And so would we And so would we 02:48 Alleluia, Alleluia 03:00 The majesty and glory of Your name 03:11 Alleluia, Alleluia 03:24 The majesty and glory Of Your name 03:34 Alleluia, Alleluia 03:45 Alleluia, Alleluia 04:04 Alleluia, Alleluia 04:17 Alleluia, Alleluia 04:41 How about God be praised GYC? Amen. 04:45 God be praised for that music we've just heard, 04:48 that was absolutely heavenly guys. 04:53 Bless you. Thank you for doing it. 04:54 Come to Andrews University anytime. 04:58 We would be-- we would be swept up 05:01 as we were just now to the throne room of heaven. 05:06 Well, it is such an honor 05:09 and a privilege to be here at GYC. 05:12 I'm gonna tell you, this is my first time at GYC. 05:16 And I'm just wondering, I'll bet you 05:18 there are few others who are here for the first time. 05:21 Be proud that you finally came to GYC 05:24 and put your hand up with me, huh. 05:26 Look at that. Wow, that's a lot of first timers. 05:30 Welcome to you as well. 05:32 Thank you Justin McNeilus, 05:33 for your invitation Sean Reed, 05:35 and the leadership team here at GYC. 05:40 It's a treat to be here. 05:43 And I'll tell you why I'm really stoked 05:46 about this kind of convocation. 05:50 I believe that communities that have been built 05:57 like this of the young are a fulfillment, 06:01 listen, are a fulfillment, 06:04 a direct fulfillment of divine prophecy. 06:08 No, I have found a prophecy in scripture. 06:12 I'm gonna share with you right now. 06:13 This is not the teaching. Don't start that clock yet. 06:16 This is before we get to the teaching. 06:19 I want you to open up your Bible right now. 06:22 I'm gonna show you a divine word. 06:24 This is clearly a Messianic Prophecy. 06:26 You're gonna recognize it instantly 06:28 when you read the words. 06:30 May I show you what is in the heart of this 06:34 Messiah coming Prophecy. 06:37 This should be Psalm 110. 06:38 All right, so open up your Bible the Psalm 110. 06:43 The most quoted Psalm in the New Testament in connection 06:47 with the Lord Jesus Christ, the Messiah Himself. 06:50 So we know that Psalm 110 is a Messianic Psalm. 06:57 Now I'm gonna be reading here in the New King James Version 07:01 whatever translation you have, it's fine to me, 07:03 I've got the New King James. 07:05 And by the way I just need to tell you this, 07:07 this is also the Andrews Study Bible. 07:12 You probably haven't heard about it yet. 07:15 And I don't know why Justin McNeilus left the ad 07:18 out of the program brochure when he's bringing down 07:20 the pastor from Andrews University. 07:22 So let me just say a word, 07:23 let me just say a word about Andrews Study Bible. 07:27 You got to have it. 07:30 You just have to have it. 07:32 This is--this is not just the New King James. 07:36 This is not just any Study Bible. 07:40 This is the only Official Study Bible 07:43 of the Seventh-day Adventist Church 07:44 with the scholars of our community 07:47 of faith weighing in and beneath the line. 07:51 Here is the line for Psalm 110. 07:53 Beneath the line, the small print has been composed by, 07:57 as it turns out men and women 07:59 who are friends of mine. 08:01 Most of them are at Andrews University. 08:06 The portions of scripture that present 08:10 a conundrum to your contagious witness 08:13 are beautifully dealt with here. 08:16 You'll get the--you'll find the missing pieces, 08:19 good for you. You'll find the connecting links. 08:23 So I hope before you leave, do they have exhibits here 08:28 where they put up these booths? 08:30 I've not been to the exhibit. Do they have? All right. 08:32 I'll just predict that there is a booth 08:36 that has the Andrews Study Bible in it. 08:39 If you can find that booth, 08:42 tonight after sundown. 08:44 I'm not talking about buying books on the Sabbath. 08:46 But after sundown, you'll find that booth. 08:50 You'll find the Andrews Study Bible waiting for you. 08:53 And by the way, if you're going to get one, 08:55 get the nice premium fine leather. 08:58 You will never regret the extra dollar or two. 09:02 That the Holy Spirit will bring back to you 09:05 as you invest in this study tool. 09:08 All right, so with that little commercial 09:11 out of the way. Psalm 110, let's go. 09:15 Clearly, this is Messianic because look at verse 1, 09:17 "The Lord says to my lord." 09:18 Oh, I have read that many times in the New Testament. 09:20 You absolutely have 09:23 because this is God speaking to the Messiah. 09:27 The Lord says to my lord writes David, 09:30 "Sit at my right hand until I make 09:31 your enemies your footstool." 09:32 That text appears all through the New Testament. 09:35 Drop down to verse 4 and The Lord has sworn 09:37 and will not relent you Messiah are a priest 09:40 forever according to the order of, what? " 09:43 according to the order of Melchizedek. 09:46 So we know this is about the Messiah now, but watch this. 09:51 It's verse 3, right in the middle. 09:52 This is why I'm so-- I'm so excited about 09:57 the raising up of an organization like this one. 10:00 Look at verse 3, speaking of the Messiah, 10:03 "Your people, Oh Messiahs shall be volunteers 10:07 in the day of your power." 10:09 That can also be translated by the way 10:12 as the NIV does in the day of your battle. 10:15 Now I'm gonna tell you that 10:16 this is one of the most difficult Hebrew passages 10:18 to translate in the Old Testament. 10:21 This is a tough one. 10:25 "Your people will be volunteers 10:26 in the day of your power or battle 10:29 in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning, 10:33 you have the dew of your youth." 10:37 Now little more of the fresher translations render it. 10:41 Here's one, "Your troops will be 10:45 willing on your day of battle. 10:47 Arrayed in holy splendor, the young will come to you 10:52 oh, Messiah, like dew from the morning's womb." 10:55 In other words, Messiah, 10:58 after you sit on the throne beside me, 11:01 before the end game is finished, 11:03 the final battle, your doors to your army will open 11:08 and the young will come to you. 11:12 Arrayed in holy splendor, they will come to you. 11:16 They will compose your end time army. 11:22 Ladies and gentlemen of GYC, that means 11:27 that any movement of the young at the end of time, 11:31 the young passionate for the Messiah 11:33 and the soon coming of our Lord Jesus Christ 11:35 any movement of the young for Christ at the end of time 11:39 is a direct fulfillment of Psalm 110 11:44 and this Messianic Prophecy. 11:45 Now listen, for years as a kid growing up in the church. 11:48 I'm the fifth generation Adventist, 11:49 now fourth generation preacher. 11:51 So I've hung around this church all my life 11:53 and I used to hear that quotation 11:55 from the little book "Education Ellen White." 11:58 What's that page number? I've got to scribble here 271. 12:00 Do you remember that quotation? 12:02 "With such an army as our youth, 12:04 rightly trained, might furnish, 12:06 how soon the message of a crucified, risen, 12:09 and soon-coming Savior might go to the earth. 12:13 How soon the end of suffering and sin!" 12:17 We've had that quotation for a century and a half. 12:21 But now right here in the heart of the Psalms 12:24 is a messianic prediction at the end of time. 12:28 Jesus army will be composed of the young. 12:32 Dominantly, dominantly the young 12:35 which is why I'm so proud of you. 12:37 You know what this is the holiday. 12:40 You could have been anywhere in the United States 12:42 or anywhere in the world, but here but you gave up 12:45 holiday time to come to this place. 12:49 With like minded, passionate hearts to focus 12:53 on the Lord Jesus Christ and the outpouring 12:55 of the Holy Spirit and I say good on you. 12:59 In fact I twitted, I twitted. 13:03 What's so funny about twitting? 13:06 My friend, Roy Gane who is here by the way. 13:07 He is one of our professor. 13:09 Did some of the notes in that Bible, 13:10 Roy Gane because I just got into twitter 13:14 over the Thanksgiving break and so I announcing 13:16 my congregation in the next Sabbath 13:17 that you can now find me at Dwight K. Nelson 13:21 and you can track along in the journey 13:23 and Roy came up to me and said, 13:24 "Dwight, I'm glad to hear that you're into twitter now, 13:27 so I suppose you really love the song 13:29 "In the twit by and by." 13:31 Which I thought was really 13:33 a misapplication of that gradient. But I twitted. 13:37 I twitted Thursday night, 13:38 it really does sound weird, don't they? 13:40 And I have a direct code, I scribbled it down here. 13:43 I send it to those that are tracking that 13:45 particular twitter account 13:50 is the quote "My take on the GYC 13:52 thus far 5,000 young adults eager to seek 13:56 the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, 13:58 undeniable passion for Christ, 14:00 thank God for them." Amen. 14:04 The bad thing about twitter 14:05 is you have to do in 140 characters or less. 14:08 It was not invented for preachers, trust me. 14:13 But that's the word I sent out. 14:14 So it is an honor to be here. 14:16 And honor to me with you, fellowship with you, 14:18 worship with you, and thank God 14:20 for these young preachers that 14:21 we've been having, man, this is been good. 14:26 And I've been coming early in the morning, I'm here. 14:29 Late in night I'm here and I'm getting blessed 14:32 every single time. Amen. 14:34 And I'm thanking God, you have got, 14:36 you are raising a preachers right and left 14:39 among the young for the Messiah's 14:41 strategic end game, hallelujah. 14:44 So I wanna pray with you. 14:47 The set is up for this teaching. 14:49 And I'll--I'm praying that God will open our eyes. 14:53 Help our hearts to hear 14:57 what is tucked way in the scriptures. 14:59 So let's pray. 15:00 Dear God, with an army, 15:05 with an army like this how soon 15:11 the end of suffering and sin, thank you Father. 15:17 For these young adults who've come from all over 15:21 the globe to share this weekend in Houston. 15:26 We will never be the same again for having been here 15:30 and we praise you. 15:32 You know what our theme is God fill me our earnest plea 15:37 and we're gonna keep praying 15:39 that prayer until Jesus comes. 15:43 As we move now into the Acts of the Holy Spirit, 15:48 open our ears to hear Him speaking 15:51 through the book He inspired 15:52 in His--in Christ name we pray, amen. 15:56 I'm gonna go back to the Book of Acts. 15:57 We've been going to the Book of Acts 15:58 again and again and again. 16:00 There's one story fortunately nobody has dealt with yet. 16:05 So I get to go to Acts Chapter 10. 16:07 Go to Acts Chapter 10 and by the way 16:09 that really is a name of the Holy Spirit. 16:11 It says at the top of the Old King James, 16:13 Acts of the Apostles. 16:14 Now really the title of the book should be 16:17 "The Acts of the Holy Spirit." 16:19 It is a chronicle of the movement 16:21 of the third person of God. 16:22 In fact, Pentecost, scholars believe, 16:24 a scholar suggests you can call Pentecost, 16:26 the Bethlehem of the spirit. 16:28 That's when the spirit incarnates himself 16:31 in a dramatic way into the human race. 16:36 Of course, he was operative 16:37 in the Old Testament, that's not the point. 16:40 And by the way did you love that Act story 16:42 that came from on the streets yesterday, 16:45 that bus driver running up and saying 16:46 what I must do to be saved. 16:48 That's straight out of Acts. 16:51 So we're getting Acts in the truth 16:52 on the waning moments of 2011. 16:57 A new year begins tonight. 16:59 One last time in Acts before the New Year, 17:03 Acts Chapter 10. You've already found it. 17:06 I was listening to this Sabbath school, 17:07 you know, with Sean and his friends 17:09 upfront here, talking about prayer. 17:12 You are now gonna be immersed 17:15 into a prayer saturated narrative. 17:19 I mean you're gonna have to embellish this way. 17:21 We don't have to move into fancy flight of English 17:23 on this way. This is just straight stuff. 17:28 And the spirit is ready to apply to our hearts. 17:30 So let's go, Acts Chapter 10 verse 1, 17:31 Your remember the story. 17:34 "There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, 17:38 a centurion in what was called the Italian Regiment." 17:42 All right, and he had a battalion of a 100. 17:46 Generally actually it was 80 under him as a centurion. 17:50 "He was a devout man, verse 2 17:52 and one who feared God with all his household 17:55 who gave alms generously to the people 17:57 and prayed to God always." 18:00 I love the way my friend Mark Finley put it 18:02 last night when we skyped him 18:03 and that was sure great to have him here. 18:05 And Mark would say, "Hey, hey, guys don't forget 18:08 all over this planet, there are men, women, 18:10 young adults, teenagers, and children who are hungering 18:13 to somehow connect with the living God. 18:16 They have no idea how to make that connection. 18:18 But they long for that connection." 18:20 I was flying down here from Cleveland, 18:23 South Maine in Cleveland, Huston 18:26 and I am sitting on the plane, 18:29 as it turns out by a farmer who owns 18:32 the largest farm in Indiana, the largest farm. 18:38 So we get to talking and he actually said, 18:40 I need to just tell you that you know, 18:43 your churches telecast there from Andrews University. 18:47 I watch it every night. 18:48 I said-- every Sunday night, 18:50 I'm sorry, every Sunday night. 18:51 I said Sunday night, that's at midnight. 18:53 We telecast it midnight, Sunday night. 18:55 What don't you watch at Sunday noon? 18:56 Because he says, "I'm active 18:57 in my Lutheran church, that's why. 19:01 But I stay up till midnight to watch." 19:04 I'd a book with me by N.T. Wright-- 19:07 a New Testament scholar 19:08 and the title of the book is Justification. 19:10 I brought it down to read." 19:11 And he says, "By the way, 19:12 Justification that's the word as we know as Lutherans." 19:14 And we fell on the conversation the whole way. 19:18 Getting off the plane, 19:19 I said, "Listen, how's your wife doing?" 19:20 And tears, she dies just three weeks ago. 19:25 Soon as we got off that plane, 19:26 we can pool into a corner in the waiting launch. 19:28 I said, "I wanna pray with you." 19:31 Got his name, his address, 19:32 I'm gonna be in touch with him. 19:34 There are God fearers all over this planet today. 19:38 God will find them and He will lead you to them. 19:40 I believe that what Mark explained last night. 19:43 So there's this Cornelius 19:45 who is by the way praying to God always. 19:48 I told you this is a prayer saturated narrative. 19:50 And about the ninth hour of the day, 19:52 that would be 3 o'clock in the afternoon. 19:53 He saw clearly in a vision an angel of God, 20:00 while he is in prayer, 20:01 there is this being standing there. 20:04 An angel of God coming and saying to him, "Cornelius." 20:10 And when he observed him, he was afraid. 20:12 Wouldn't you be when you're in prayer and all the sudden, 20:14 materialize as your guardian angel. 20:17 And he was afraid and he said, "What is it, Lord?" 20:19 So here the angel said to Cornelius, "Your prayers 20:22 and your alms have come up for a memorial before God. 20:25 Now send a man to Joppa 20:27 and send for Simon whose surname is Peter. 20:29 He is lodging with Simon the tanner, 20:31 and you find the house by the sea." 20:33 Isn't it great to know that God not only knows your name? 20:36 He knows your address of the house. 20:37 He knows your email address, 20:39 and He can send you anywhere on this planet, He needs to 20:41 or send anybody on this planet to you to find you. 20:46 He says, by the way there are two Simons here. 20:48 Don't get them mixed up. One's the tanner. 20:50 The other one that goes by Peter, 20:51 that's the one I'm sending you to. 20:55 So Cornelius, when the angel spoke to him in verse 7 21:00 and departed, Cornelius called 21:01 two of his household servants and a devout soldier 21:04 from among those who waited on him continually. 21:06 We are not talking about 21:08 a low ladder social economic personage. 21:11 We're talking about somebody up the ladder 21:13 who has multiple people who wait on him continually. 21:17 It's well to do? 21:19 And God is gonna send 21:20 a peasant fisherman to be the key. 21:25 Don't you ever be intimidated 21:27 by social economic class that's higher than yours? 21:31 Don't you ever suck it in and say, 21:32 "I'm not going, oh, that house is way too big, 21:35 I won't go there." 21:36 You never have to be afraid 21:39 because the God who has your name and address 21:42 will take care of the connection 21:44 with the upper echelons of society. 21:48 So he calls them, says hey, verse 8, 21:50 explain to them all these things 21:52 and they sent them to Joppa. 21:54 About 40 miles away about day and half journey. 21:56 The next day, okay, here's verse 9, 21:58 "The next day as they went on their journey 22:00 and drew near the city. Oh, here he comes now. 22:02 Peter went up on the household to pray." 22:05 I told you its prayer saturated. 22:07 He went up on the household to pray 22:09 about the sixth hour that would be noon. 22:13 You know what, do you get hungry 22:14 around the certain--around the same time everyday? 22:17 Just the juices begin flowing and you just--you know, 22:20 when I come home and Karen is there, 22:21 she often from work, she's a nurse 22:23 and so she's screwing around supper 22:25 and I just keep wanting to hang around the kitchen. 22:27 Don't you just a little, oh, 22:29 one more time, you don't get supper. 22:32 All right, obviously Peter who is hungry 22:35 has been hanging around the kitchen, say, 22:36 "Go to the roof. We will call you when we're ready." 22:42 So Peter goes to the roof. 22:44 And then he wanting, 22:46 being very hungry and wanted to eat. 22:48 But up on the rooftop, while they are making ready, 22:53 lunch has been cooked below. He fell into a trance. 22:57 And he saw heaven opened, 22:58 and an object like a great sheet 22:59 bounded the four corners. 23:01 Oh, how many times have we read this? 23:02 Bounded in the four corners the sheet descending to him 23:07 let down to earth and verse 12, 23:09 and there were all kinds of four-footed animals 23:11 of the earth, wild beasts, creeping things, 23:14 and birds of the air, yuck. 23:16 And a voice cries out in that trance, 23:20 "Rise, Peter, kill, and eat." 23:23 But Peter said, "Not so, Lord, 23:25 I have never eaten anything common or unclean." 23:28 And the voice spoke unto him again the second time, 23:29 "What God has cleansed, you must not call common." 23:33 And according to verse 16, this was done three times 23:36 and the object gone, disappears 23:39 and he comes out of this trance. 23:41 Where am I? Oh,what was that about? 23:46 Verse 17, "Now while Peter wondered within himself, 23:50 what this vision, which he had seen, meant." 23:54 He's brooding over there and saying what was that mercy? 23:58 Behold at that same split second, 24:00 the men who had been sent from Cornelius 24:02 had made enquiry for Simon's house, 24:05 and stood before the gate. 24:06 Yo, is this the house of the Simon beside the sea? 24:10 We see it beside the sea. Are you the Simon? Yes. 24:12 Do you have somebody staying with your name Simon as well? 24:15 Yes, we do. Can we come in? 24:18 And they called out and asked whether Simon, 24:20 his surname was Peter, was lodging there. 24:21 And while Peter was thinking now, look at this. 24:24 He is thinking about the vision. 24:26 The spirit said to him, 24:28 "Behold, three men are seeking you. 24:32 Arise therefore, go down, 24:34 and go with them, doubting nothing." 24:39 Now you're going to get thrown by this Peter. 24:41 You're going to go down those stairs 24:43 and you're going to say this 24:44 just does not seem to fit with my world view. 24:47 I need you to doubt nothing. 24:51 It will challenge your preset positions. 24:54 It will cause you to rip-- 24:59 can't read my own handwriting. 25:00 It will cause you to re-evaluate. 25:08 It will cause you to re-evaluate your traditions. 25:12 It will lead you to break with history. 25:17 I'm having hard time reading my handwriting because 25:20 I was putting this sermon together late last night. 25:25 I brought another sermon, also written for this moment. 25:32 But somebody sent a message to me 25:34 and I need to just thank that person. 25:35 I don't know who it is because 25:37 the person was not identified to me, 25:39 but somebody sent a message to me and said, 25:41 "You won't preach on that subject, 25:43 whatever that subject that was." 25:46 So I said, "Wow." 25:48 So I am back to my room, spent time in prayer. 25:51 And I'm saying, "God, please, what do I do? 25:55 I wasn't gonna--I wasn't going down that path anyway." 26:00 And after a long time in prayer, 26:03 late at night and early in the morning, 26:06 I've scribbled a few notes down. 26:08 So pardon my penmanship at that hour of the day. 26:15 So Peter, this is spirit speaking to him, 26:17 "Hey, Peter there're three men waiting for you, 26:21 arise therefore, go down 26:23 and go with them, doubting nothing." 26:27 I'm gonna assure you something boy. 26:28 It's gonna blow you out of this water, 26:31 it's another world of you, but you have got to see it 26:33 and heaven is ready for it now. 26:36 Doubt nothing, eyes open, ears listening, 26:41 I'll be in touch, adios, spirit is gone. 26:44 Now verse 21, when Peter went down to the men 26:47 who'd been sent to him from Cornelius, and he said, 26:49 "Yes, I am he whom you seek 26:51 for what reason have you come?" 26:52 They said to him verse 22 26:54 "Hey, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, 26:57 one who fears God, and has a good reputation 26:59 by the way among the nation of the Jews, 27:01 was divinely instructed by a holy angel." 27:05 Ellen White says, that when we get to heaven, 27:07 we're gonna hear a voice. 27:08 We're gonna turn around and that voice that 27:11 we recognize will be the voice of our guardian angel. 27:14 You have been hearing that guardian angel 27:16 every since you were knee high to a grasshopper, 27:18 that angel has been assigned to you 24/7 27:21 since you took that first gasp of air. 27:25 And that angel has been speaking to you, 27:26 but what is so neat about that line 27:28 is that the divine instructions-- 27:31 the instructions from the throne room 27:33 come from the guardian angel? 27:37 So be careful about saying no to what the voice inside 27:40 of you is calling you to decide. 27:44 That's God Himself through your angel. 27:47 This divine instructed by the holy angel 27:50 to summon you to his house, and hear words from you. 27:52 Then Peter invited them and by the way, this is huge. 27:55 Peter invites him in to spend the night. 27:57 Something already is beginning to happen. 27:59 The world view is beginning to crumble. 28:01 He would never, he would never had 28:04 a bunch of Pagan Romans come in and spend a night. 28:06 Listen there's a motel six down the road. 28:08 I will see you in the morning. 28:10 He says, "Come in, spend the night with us." 28:17 And the following day verse 24, 28:18 they entered Caesarea. 28:20 Now Cornelius, can you believe 28:22 the faith of this Pagan Roman believer? 28:24 Now Cornelius was waiting for them. 28:26 I've knew you would come. 28:28 I have everybody here already. 28:30 And he had called together 28:31 his relatives and close friends. 28:32 And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him at the door 28:35 and fell down at his feet, and started worshipping him. 28:38 And Peter was a big fisherman. 28:40 He has pulled a massive nets before. 28:42 He reaches down and grab that centurion by the collar, 28:45 don't you do that, 28:48 stand up I'm just a man like you. 28:51 Now what's up? Why am I here? 28:54 Oh, my, and as he talked verse 27, with Cornelius, 29:00 Peter goes into the living room. 29:01 And he found--he finds many of them already together. 29:03 Then he says well I might as well begin 29:05 my speech now and he says to them, 29:07 "Hey, do you know how unlawful 29:09 it is for a Jewish man to keep company with 29:11 or go to one of another nation? 29:13 Do you understand how counter cultural-- 29:16 counter societal this is for me 29:18 to even be standing in your living room? 29:20 Do you understand that? 29:22 But God, I need you to catch this line. 29:25 But God has shown me that 29:26 I should not call any man common or unclean. 29:33 Because the vision of Peter at lunch time 29:36 on top of that roof was not about Peter's diet. 29:40 It was about Peter's deportment. 29:43 And we're gonna change you boy. 29:45 We're gonna change your world view. 29:50 That's what the whole dream was about. 29:51 That's what the trance was, three times. 29:53 That's the trance. 29:55 So Cornelius, "Why am I here?" 29:57 Cornelius says, I will tell you verse 30. 30:00 "Four days ago I was fasting," 30:01 I told you this is saturated with prayer, 30:02 "I was fasting until this very hour, 30:05 and at the ninth hour" 3 o'clock, four days ago, 30:07 I prayed in my house, 30:10 and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing 30:11 and he said, "Cornelius, your prayer has been heard 30:13 and your alms have been remembered, 30:14 send to Joppa call for Simon, and Simon, 30:17 and so I sent immediately for you." 30:19 verse 33, "And by the way Peter 30:21 you have done well to come." 30:22 Sounds like a guy who's used to giving orders. 30:24 You did very well, glad you came. 30:27 Now therefore we're all present before God 30:30 to hear all the things commanded you by God. 30:35 You gonna have to tell what God has commanded you? 30:38 Oh, I tell you what Charissa, 30:40 that was powerful this morning, 30:42 I've been blessed by all of them 30:43 but this morning as she talking 30:44 remember about digging the ditches, 30:46 it doesn't make sense to do this. 30:49 When you get the command from God, 30:51 you're gonna have to, you're gonna have to, 30:53 you're gonna have to eat the resistance. 30:56 You're gonna have to do it anyway 30:58 if He's commanded you to say something, 31:00 you're gonna have to say it whether 31:02 it's comfortable to say it or not. 31:04 So thank you Charissa, 31:05 that really ministered to me this morning. 31:11 Then Peter, verse 34, 31:13 "Opened his mouth and he said in truth, 31:18 I perceive that God shows no partiality 31:22 but in every nation whoever fears Him 31:25 and works righteousness is accepted by Him." 31:30 God is looking for an excuse to save human beings. 31:35 And when he finds the heart that beats for Him, 31:37 the heart that longs for Him, 31:38 boom, He moves into that heart. 31:41 They're all over this planet, ladies and gentleman, 31:43 all over this planet right now, 31:48 but isn't that amazing. 31:50 Remember, Peter is now post Pentecost, 31:53 he's post Pentecost. 31:54 You see the Holy Spirit got poured out over here. 31:57 The Holy Spirit got poured out super charge. 32:00 We just, we just read it a moment ago in our scripture, 32:02 where he got poured down into that upper room, 32:06 filled with the spirit of the living God, tons of fire. 32:10 The Holy Spirit has got him poured out 32:13 and apparently the lesson needs to get through 32:16 to the church of Christ in the Book of Acts. 32:19 Would you mind turning back to Acts Chapter 2. 32:23 Peter dips into the well of Old Testament, 32:27 ancient prophecy and he pulls out 32:29 the prophecy of Joel 2 verses 28 and 29, 32:33 only under the inspiration of the Spirit, 32:35 he actually changes the wording. 32:38 And it shall come to pass in the last days. 32:41 Do you know that, those words in the last days 32:43 are not in the ancient prophet Joel? 32:45 They are simply not there. 32:47 Peter, under the inspiration of the spirit has inserted 32:50 that line and I'm so glad he inserted it 32:53 because if he hadn't we would think 32:55 that the Joel 2 Prophecy was only about the beginning 32:59 of the infant Christian church. 33:02 But because under the inspiration of the spirit, 33:04 he inserts the phrase 'in the last days', 33:07 we now know that it's gonna happen 33:09 all over again at the very end of time, isn't that right? 33:13 Boy, thank you, Peter, for being sensitive to the spirit 33:15 and inserting a phrase 33:17 that's not there in the Old Testament. 33:20 "And it shall come to pass in the last days, 33:22 says God that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh," 33:27 children of the Father, 33:30 how much of the flesh of this earth will receive 33:33 the Holy Spirit according to this prediction? 33:35 How much? Just say louder than that. 33:38 All. Say just a little louder please. 33:40 All. All flesh! 33:43 God through Joel and Peter now 33:45 will carefully delineate the categories of all flesh. 33:50 So I pour out my spirit on all flesh, number one, 33:53 "Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy," 33:56 that means that when I pour out my Spirit, 33:59 I will pour out my spirit on all genders. 34:02 Now look, there're not a lot of genders, 34:03 they're only two but that's what He means. 34:06 I will pour out my spirit on all genders. 34:13 That wall is gone. 34:15 And by the way, He goes on, 34:17 "Your young men will see visions, 34:19 and your old men shall dream dreams." 34:21 God says it by the way all flesh means all ages, 34:24 young, aged or in between age, 34:28 I'm no respecter of age. 34:30 That's why you're here today by the way, 34:32 I don't have to wait until someone reaches 34:36 a certain elderly age before she or he can be used. 34:42 God says I will pour out my spirit on all genders, 34:45 I will pour our My Spirit on all ages 34:46 and watch this one more category, verse 18, 34:49 "And I will pour out my spirit 34:50 on my men-servants and on my maid-servants. 34:54 I will pour out my spirit in those days 34:55 and they shall prophesy." 34:57 all ages, all genders, all social classes, 35:02 all social classes, no wall there. 35:07 Man, God is serious about this all flesh business. 35:12 And if He's serious about all flesh, 35:15 I guess you and I following the same Holy Spirit 35:18 would be moved in the same way. 35:21 So Peter has just talked this on the day of Pentecost 35:26 so when he launches into his little homily, 35:28 his little sermon here in Cornelius' 35:31 living room, that's why Peter can say, verse 34, 35:34 Peter opened his mouth, going back to the narrative, 35:36 "Peter opened his mouth and said in truth, 35:38 I perceive that God shows no partiality 35:41 but in every nation whoever fears Him 35:42 and works righteousness is accepted by Him." 35:45 Oh and Peter goes on, 35:46 "The word which God sent to the children of Israel 35:49 preaching peace to Jesus Christ, He is Lord." 35:54 that word you heard about, 35:56 Peter said hey, hey, Cornelius, sir? 36:00 Did you hear about this Jesus of Nazareth? 36:02 Oh yes, you have heard, haven't you? 36:04 Did you hear about this Jesus called the Christ the Messiah 36:08 who went through the land preaching peace. 36:11 That's a, that's a, that's a rather 36:12 strange phrase, preaching peace. 36:15 In some other place in Acts where Jesus is described 36:18 as moving through the land preaching peace. 36:21 Do you know when Paul comes along because Luke 36:23 who wrote Acts was a traveling companion of Paul 36:26 and could be on one of their trips. 36:27 Luke said, Luke said to Paul, listen! 36:29 You have to hear, 36:30 I have finally got the transcript of the, 36:32 of what Peter said in the home of the Centurion Cornelius. 36:35 Listen to this and so he may, 36:37 he may have rumble the line past Paul, Paul uses it. 36:41 Watch this, keep your finger 36:42 right here, we'll be right back. 36:43 But Ephesians, take a look at Ephesians for a moment. 36:46 Ephesians Chapter 2. 36:48 Oh, you probably read these words before 36:50 but what a, what a stirring depiction here. 36:54 Ephesians Chapter 2 verse 13, 36:57 "But now in Christ Jesus you who're once far off 37:02 have been brought near by the blood of Christ." 37:05 when Jesus stretched out His arms on Calvary, 37:08 that embrace took Him the entire planet 37:10 and through that embrace by the blood of Christ, 37:12 you've been brought near. 37:14 Read verse 14, "For He Himself is our peace," 37:19 peace is not a message, peace is a person. 37:21 "For He Himself is our peace, 37:23 who has made both one and has broken down 37:26 the middle wall of separation." 37:29 You see whenever you proclaim peace the walls come down. 37:32 So He has made both one and He's broken down 37:36 the middle wall of separation having abolished in His flesh 37:40 the enmity, that is the law, 37:41 the commandments and the ordinances 37:43 that would be the Old Testament law and its traditions. 37:45 Having abolished that so, not that, 37:47 not that Decalogue, you understand. 37:50 So having abolished 37:51 that He creates in Himself one new humanity, 37:54 one new man from the two, thus making peace. 37:58 Now He's moving to His, to His summation. 38:00 "And that He Christ might reconcile them 38:04 both to God in one body through the cross." 38:08 The cross is God's great plus sign, whenever God's put, 38:11 places jams the cross as a stake into the earth, 38:16 that plus sign declares that what was once separated 38:21 is now joined at Calvary. 38:23 What was once in enmity, an alienation is now joined. 38:28 God's great plus sign is Calvary, 38:31 brings the halves back together. 38:37 "So that He might reconcile both to God 38:40 in one body through the cross, 38:41 thereby putting to death the enmity" 38:43 now here comes, here's the line that Peter used first 38:45 "And He, Christ, came and preached peace 38:50 so that you who are far off and to those who were near." 38:53 For through him we both have access 38:56 by one spirit to the Father. 38:59 Oh, feel me, our earnest plea, 39:02 I wanna be filled with that Holy Spirit, 39:04 that's been our theme, 39:05 all the hours we've been together. 39:07 And what's the point, when the spirit feels us, 39:11 God's great plus sign pulls what has been desperate, 39:16 an alienated, pulls them together and they become one. 39:22 The walls, that's what Peter is saying to Cornelius, 39:25 the walls came down at Calvary. 39:29 All right, move to that, move to the wrap of the story. 39:33 Back to Acts, Acts 10, so Peter is preaching away. 39:39 And he declares in verse 36. 39:40 You heard about the word that God 39:42 sent to the children of Israel 39:43 preaching peace through Jesus Christ. 39:45 By the way when Jesus, just it hit me early this morning 39:49 when Jesus died on the cross, 39:50 He was feeling, fulfilling another Messianic Prophecy 39:54 that goes like this and the chastisement 39:56 of our peace was upon Him. 40:00 The punishment of our peace, 40:02 He took it so that we might have that peace. 40:05 God's great plus sign. 40:07 Oh, Cornelius, you've heard this stories, 40:10 you've heard verse 38, how God anointed 40:11 Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, 40:14 and he went about doing good 40:15 and healing all who were pressed by the devil, 40:17 for God was with him. 40:18 Have you heard that story? 40:20 "And we, by the way, 40:22 are witnesses of all the things 40:23 He did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem, 40:25 whom they killed this Christ by hanging on a tree." 40:29 Became the curse of the covenant. 40:31 Deuteronomy 27-30, "He became the ideal Israeli 40:34 who's cursed on behalf of the entire family of God, 40:38 hanging on a tree always speaks to that curse. 40:41 He was cursed, Cornelius so we might, 40:45 so that we might be brought together. 40:47 And verse 42, "He commanded us to preach to the people 40:51 and to testify that it is He who was ordain by God 40:53 to be judge of the living and the dead. 40:55 To Him all the prophets witness that, 40:57 through His name, whoever believes in Him 40:59 will receive forgiveness, 41:01 will receive remission of sense." 41:03 And Peter takes a breath to go into his next point 41:05 in his homily when in that instant, 41:10 all of the heaven explodes. 41:13 And what happens? Verse 44, 41:14 "And while Peter was still speaking these words," 41:19 the Holy Spirit had said to him, 41:20 hey, don't doubt nothing, doubt nothing, 41:23 you're gonna see which you haven't seen before. 41:26 While Peter was speaking these words, 41:30 the Holy Spirit fell on those. 41:33 You heard the word and those of the circumcision, 41:37 it's rather a strange phrase 41:38 for Dr. Luke to insert right here 41:40 but that's what he's calling those who are advocating 41:45 that little covenant seal remain in force." 41:52 And those of the circumcision party 41:53 who believed in Jesus were astonished, 41:57 as many as came with Peter 41:58 because the gift of the Holy Spirit 42:00 had been poured out on the Gentiles also. 42:03 For they heard them speak 42:04 with tongues and magnify God." 42:06 The world just came down between Gentiles and Jews. 42:10 Boom, it's gone. 42:12 And they're filled with the same 42:14 third person of the God had mercy. 42:19 And Peter dumfounded but the Spirit say, 42:21 hey, listen, don't doubt anything, 42:23 you're gonna see what you've never seen before. 42:26 And Peter answered, verse 47, 42:29 "Can anyone forbid water, 42:31 that these should not be baptized 42:33 who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?" 42:38 If they've received the same Holy Spirit as we have, 42:43 who's gonna say I move that we not baptize. 42:48 Peter says, can anybody forbid, 42:51 of course as we talk about question in verse 48, 42:54 "And he commanded them to be baptized 42:56 in the name of the Lord." 42:58 Under the water goes 42:59 that Pagan Roman believing Centurion, 43:02 he comes up, a son of God, 43:05 and a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. 43:09 Just like that the wall went down. 43:12 Wow, you know maybe GYC 43:17 strategic as it is in the end game 43:21 is called to in the same way as Peter, 43:26 be instrumental in taking the walls down. 43:30 Wouldn't that be something? Wow. 43:35 You, God calling you like Peter? 43:42 Oh, come on guys, we've been praying it now 43:43 since Wednesday night fill me, our earnest plea. 43:48 Why pray the prayer if you don't know 43:50 what will happen to you when you pray the prayer. 43:54 What will happen to you is, you suddenly are swept in 43:57 when you're filled with the spirit. 43:58 You suddenly are swept in to the strategic plan 44:01 of the soon coming Messiah 44:02 and you become in the name of the peacemaker, 44:06 you become a wall breaker. 44:09 In the name of peacemaker, you become a wall breaker. 44:14 Don't let anybody tell you, 44:16 you can't be like Peter, you're too young. 44:19 You're not too young, 44:20 God has positioned you right now for such a time as this. 44:25 In the name of the peacemaker, you become a wall breaker. 44:31 And I need to warn you, I need to warn you, 44:34 because we're really big on the Book of Acts at GYC 44:36 and I'm really glad we are. 44:38 I need to warn you that if we stay faithful 44:40 to what we're reading here, it may not go easy for you. 44:46 because the very next event, the very next event 44:49 when Peter gets back and reports what has happened, 44:53 hallelujah, the wall between 44:55 the Gentiles and the Jews has come down. 44:58 Guess what? Verse 2, 45:00 "And when Peter came up to Jerusalem. 45:02 Those of the circumcision, those who are hanging off 45:07 to that ancient tradition 45:09 and not seeing it released by Calvary, 45:12 those of the circumcision. 45:18 Oh, they were not very happy at all. 45:24 "And when Peter came up to Jerusalem, 45:26 those of the circumcision contended with him, 45:29 saying, Yo, Pete, you went to uncircumcised men, 45:33 yes, you did and you ate with them." 45:34 And you are in a heap of trouble now. 45:37 I'm telling you, in the name of the peacemaker, 45:41 wall breakers can run into major opposition. 45:47 But it happened to Peter. 45:49 You're not alone, it's okay. 45:53 And Peter says, hey, hey, hey, guys, please time out, 45:56 time out, let me just tell you what happened, 45:57 you're not gonna believe this and he tells the whole story. 45:59 He says I went to-- I had this little vision, 46:01 I couldn't figure out it meant, God came and said, 46:03 don't you call anything common or unclean 46:07 and then the street guy show up at the door 46:09 and he say, come to this centurion, 46:11 so we go to the centurion 46:12 and the house is packed with all his friends 46:15 and neighbors and family and while I'm--guys, 46:18 I'm telling you, while I was preaching about Jesus, 46:22 the peacemaker, the place exploded 46:25 and they started speaking in tongues, 46:27 they're speaking in languages other than their own, 46:30 they're filled with the Holy Spirit. 46:33 What am I supposed to do? Why are you so hard on me? 46:40 Verse 15, "And as I began to speak, 46:42 the Holy Spirit fell upon them, 46:44 as upon us by the way in the upper room of Pentecost. 46:47 Then I remembered, wow, 46:48 I remembered the word of the Lord how he said, 46:50 John indeed baptized with water, 46:52 but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit. 46:54 I remember Jesus said, there's gonna be a baptism 46:57 of the spirit associated with the baptism 46:59 of water and then Peter, 47:00 this is the last line of Peter in the story, 47:02 this is it verse 17. 47:05 If therefore, gentleman, 47:08 "If therefore God gave them the same gift 47:13 as He gave us when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, 47:17 who was I that I could withstand God?" 47:25 What could I do? 47:27 The same gift I have, I saw it in them. 47:31 The same gift you have I saw it in them. 47:34 What am I gonna say, ah, 47:35 you, no, no, you, no, no, no, you can't no. 47:40 "If therefore God gave to them 47:42 the same gift he gave us, 47:44 when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, 47:47 who was I, that I could withstand God?" 47:52 I couldn't. I had to. 47:55 My world view collapsed when the wall came down 47:59 and the spirit was poured out. 48:01 I had to do what I had to do, 48:04 guys, don't be so hard on me. 48:06 And listen to this, their response, verse 18, 48:09 "When they heard these things, 48:12 they became silent." 48:17 What was there to say? 48:20 Clearly, the Holy Spirit has gifted them 48:23 the same way the Holy Spirit has gifted us. 48:27 So what can I say? 48:32 And then the silence breaks out in the doxology 48:36 and they glorified God saying, 48:38 "Then God has surely granted 48:41 to the Gentiles repentance to life." The end. 48:47 Now I got to read this to you from, 48:49 this is from Acts of the Apostles. 48:51 Right here I put these words 48:52 scribble them on the top of my page. 48:54 This is Acts of the Apostles page 142, listen to this. 48:56 The exclusiveness, this is at the end of the story, 48:59 the exclusiveness established by the custom of ages 49:03 was abandoned and the way 49:06 was open for the Gospel to be proclaimed. 49:11 The exclusiveness that, 49:13 by the custom of ages was abandoned 49:17 and the way was opened to proclaim the Gospel, 49:23 because the wall came down. 49:25 I didn't know what else to do, 49:26 it just came down when I was there. 49:33 So if we're in the Pioneer Memorial church right now, 49:36 I would ask you to grab your smartphones 49:38 because I know that they're 7,000 smartphones right here. 49:42 And we have a setup with a Google voicemail number 49:45 that will flash on the screen in the middle of the sermon. 49:47 As I want to hear from you right now, 49:49 I need to hear from you right now. 49:50 Dial that number on the screen and tell me 49:52 what you believe are some of the walls 49:56 that might be surrounding us that a generation like yours, 50:02 maybe called by God to take down. 50:05 And you go chu-chu-chu. 50:06 I've never seen thumbs move as fast as yours. 50:09 Boom! And I got my iPad up here. 50:11 No, I'm sorry, I have Karen's iPad, 50:13 it doesn't belong to me. 50:15 She reminds me that. 50:16 I have her iPad here and hello, 50:20 listen to this and then I read it. 50:22 So we don't have that, let's just do it. 50:24 What is some of the walls 50:25 as you move out into the world? 50:28 You leave this place and you go into the New Year, 50:29 what are some of the walls that God, 50:31 surely the peacemaker, wants to take down? 50:34 Call out some of those walls to me right now. 50:36 And I repeat if I can hear. Racial division. 50:38 Racial division. You go girl. Access. 50:42 I wanna hold on, I wanna hold 50:44 that right here on racial division. 50:47 You know what ladies and gentleman, 50:50 you know what, the Seventh-day Adventist church, 50:53 we're having this revival and reformation appeal. 50:56 And by the way, Ted Wilson is a personal friend of mine, 50:58 we went to grade school together. 51:00 We're having this-- we're having this appeal 51:02 for revival and reformation, 51:04 but listen to me carefully as long as 51:07 we're divided between blacks and whites in North America, 51:12 this church will never be revived. 51:15 You can read it on my lips right here, 51:17 as long as we in North America 51:20 are divided by the blacks and the whites, 51:24 this church will never be revived. 51:27 You can't revive a church that has a wall up. 51:30 The wall has to come down, 51:31 then the church is revived. Amen. 51:35 So thank you for calling that out. 51:36 I receive that as from the Holy Spirit Himself, 51:38 it says Dwight, I'm gonna give you the first one 51:39 and it will be the racial wall. 51:42 Good for you. And guess what you are in it. 51:47 My generation, we haven't known 51:50 what to do with the wall, 51:52 so I have a white church on this side of Houston 51:54 and we have a, you know, 51:55 a Hispanic church over here 51:57 and we have a black church over here. 51:58 We just haven't known what to do with the wall. 52:02 But I'm praying for generation of people 52:05 who don't know better to come along and say, 52:08 you know what, there's not a black Ford motor company 52:11 and a white Ford motor company. 52:12 There's not a black IBM and white IBM, 52:15 why should there be a black Seventh-day Adventist church 52:17 and a white Seventh-day Adventist church 52:18 in the same city. Amen. 52:24 It's time for the walls to come down. 52:26 The Holy Spirit will not revive a church 52:28 that intentionally says we can't deal with this, 52:30 this is too big for us. 52:31 Guess what? That's why you're here, 52:33 God is raising up a generation that is saying, 52:36 you know what, time is up, time is up, 52:40 where a new world view is now taking place. 52:45 When the Holy Spirit is poured out 52:47 in the name of the peacemaker, 52:51 you'll become a wall breaker 52:54 just like Peter, just like Peter. 52:57 Ah, you'll run into people say, 52:58 you can't do that boy, you cannot do that. 53:00 We've been doing this for years this way, 53:02 you cannot do that girl, it's okay. 53:04 As they told Peter, you can't do that? 53:06 He said, what else can I do? 53:08 The Spirit's been poured out. 53:11 The wall has to come down. 53:16 So what are some of the walls? 53:18 Unforgiveness. Unforgiveness, very good. 53:22 Refusal to forgive, that is the wall between me and you 53:24 until even if I'm the innocent party, 53:27 Jesus says in Matthew Chapter 18, 53:29 if your brother has ought against you, 53:32 that would be Matthew Chapter 6 actually, 53:33 if your brother has ought against you, 53:35 you go to him, you're the innocent party 53:38 but that wall cannot stay up good for you, 53:40 that wall cannot stay up. 53:41 I heard somebody yell out from the back, reverence. 53:47 Yep, you're right. Irreverence, yeah. 53:52 Gossip. Gossip. 53:54 What a wall, I heard someone, what was it over here? 53:59 Lack of love. Lack of love. The lack of love. 54:06 In Sabbath school lesson today 54:07 we talked about Acts Chapter 2 54:09 and how when those 3,000 joined the church, 54:12 God broke down the walls 54:14 and this community became a passionate community of love. 54:18 Did you have bumps along the way. 54:20 Are you kidding? When you go to Acts Chapter 6, 54:22 the, the Greek Hellenist widows are saying, 54:25 Hey, it's no fair, you've given all, 54:27 you've given to the Jewish widows 54:29 more than you've given to us. 54:30 It's always messy when the community of faith 54:32 is called to become a community of radical love, 54:34 its tough stuff but you have to deal with it. 54:38 And God through the church found a way 54:40 to deal with those inequities, that's very good. 54:45 Access. Access. 54:46 Now what did you-- I've heard access twice, 54:48 what is, what do you mean by access? 54:50 Deaf access. What access? 54:52 Deaf access. Oh, deaf access. 54:55 You go, thank you, absolutely. And captioning. 55:00 All right, they're listening to you, 55:01 they're listening to you at 3ABN and captioning. 55:05 But, what you know she's making a point, 55:06 she's making a point, the translator 55:08 there is making a point 55:09 and that is what's the point of saying the Gospel 55:13 goes to the whole world and the unhearing 55:17 never get to read the Gospel. 55:21 A church cannot focus on just the hearing 55:24 and she's right on access by the unhearing. 55:28 Those ears one day, Isaiah declares will be unstopped. 55:32 As they hear the glories of those celestial choirs. 55:35 Politics, music. Music. 55:38 Well what? Politics. 55:41 Terminally ill patients. Terminally ill patients. 55:46 Hey, just use your smartphones there, 55:47 forget this, I can't, I can't just, 55:49 send me a note, send me a note. 55:53 Ladies and gentleman, ladies and gentleman, 55:56 you get the point, you get the point. 55:58 When in the name of the peacemaker, 56:00 we move out into a fractured 56:02 and walled world, we become wall breakers. 56:08 The world falls in love with wall breakers. 56:11 The world cannot tolerate another wall maker. 56:15 If God ever says Dwight, which you would rather be? 56:16 Would you rather be a wall maker or a wall breaker? 56:19 What would you answer him? 56:21 I would rather be a wall breaker. 56:25 There isn't enough, there isn't enough time left 56:28 to make sure the wall stay up, 56:30 the time has come for the walls to come down. Amen. 56:34 You're friends of the peacemaker 56:37 and He will make you a wall breaker 56:40 and that's the truth of the, of the Book of Acts, 56:43 that's the story of Cornelius in Acts Chapter 10 and 11. 56:50 I wanna read one more quotation. 56:54 Ellen White, Acts of the Apostles pages 90 and 91, 57:00 "Only as they were united with Christ 57:05 could the disciples hope to have the accompanying 57:09 power of the Holy Spirit. 57:13 In another words read it, 57:15 "Only as they took the walls down, 57:20 could they be entrusted? 57:22 With the million time outpouring 57:24 and revival of the Holy Spirit." 57:26 The walls have to come down for the church to be revived. 57:34 That's the point. 57:36 "Only as they were united with Christ 57:37 could the disciples hope to have the accompanying 57:39 power of the Holy Spirit 57:40 and the co-operation of angels of heaven. 57:43 With the help of these divine agencies, 57:45 when the walls are down, they would present 57:47 before the world a united front and would be victorious 57:51 in the conflict they were compelled to wage 57:54 unceasingly against the powers of darkness." God wins. 58:01 When the walls come down, He wins every time. 58:06 Who wants to keep the walls up? 58:09 The enemy of darkness. 58:12 Who wants to take the walls down? 58:14 God's great plus sign in Calvary. 58:18 When you follow the peacemaker, 58:21 you must become a wall breaker. 58:26 So here's a deal. 58:28 I wanna make an appeal right now. 58:33 I need to know, no, God needs to know. 58:39 If you're willing to put your life 58:42 on the line for taking down the walls. 58:47 When the spirit is poured out, 58:48 all genders are part of that outpouring. 58:52 When the spirit is poured out, 58:53 all ages are part of that outpouring. 58:56 When the spirit has poured out 58:57 all social classes are part of that outpouring. 59:01 I need to know, God wants to know 59:05 and on His behalf I ask you this, 59:08 are you willing to make yourself available 59:12 to be in the name of the peacemaker, 59:16 a wall breaker in the church 59:20 or outside the church, are you willing? |
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