You told me how that
Jesus gave His life for me
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You love me when
all others turned away
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My empty heart was yearning
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And Lord you kept me turning
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To tell me of the
truth, the life, the way
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And then I saw the Lord
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Then I saw the living the Savior
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living in your life
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Giving with Your hands
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Speaking with Your voice
Staring through Your eyes
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Yeah, staring through your eyes
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As you showed God's love to me
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All at once my eyes
could see, I saw Jesus
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Praise God, I saw the Lord
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I thirsted for the
water that can satisfy
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I hunger for the
matter from above
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You saw my need and thought me
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You told me Christ had got me
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And with your light
you showed me Jesus' love
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And then I saw the Lord
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Then I saw the
Savior living in your life
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Yes, living in your life
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Giving with your hands
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Speaking with your voice
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Staring through your eyes
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Yeah, staring through your eyes
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As you showed God's love to me
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All at once my eyes
could see, I saw Jesus
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Praise God, I saw the Lord
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And then I saw the Lord
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Then I saw the
Savior living in your life
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Yes, living in your life
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Giving with your hands
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Speaking with your voice
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Staring through your eyes
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Yeah, staring through your eyes
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As you showed God's love to me
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All at once my eyes
could see, I saw Jesus
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Praise God, I saw the Lord
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Giving with your hands
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Speaking with your voice
Staring through your eyes
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I saw the Lord
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Thank you. I am
sure you are blessed.
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If you are blessed I expect
that you are going to say,
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amen. Amen.
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Good morning
everyone. Good morning.
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Now, let's try
that again, shall we?
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Good morning
everyone. Good morning!
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It's just important
for the preacher to know
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that the people
listening are awake, that's all.
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I noticed some friends of
mine, some dear friends of mine
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when we passed in
election to Kentucky,
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some people down
here with the most--
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they were the best
church members in the world.
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I say that about
everyone actually.
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In Kentucky, we
had this little thing
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and Keith would
tell you about this.
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We had this thing when
people fell asleep in church.
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It wasn't good.
Here's what we would do.
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We had a deacon in the
church, his name was Jim.
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He is the head deacon.
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When someone fell asleep
during the church service,
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you knew trouble was coming
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because Jim would
stand up and walk out.
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And I knew trouble was
coming, I mean, I hated this.
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I dislike this
more than anybody.
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And Jim would walk out,
he would go to a cupboard
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we had out at the foyer
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with the word deacons
written on it, deacons.
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And he go out to
the deacons cupboard,
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this is what would
happen when somebody fell asleep
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in Lexington which
is not far from here.
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And Jim would go out
and he would get this--
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it was a big long pole
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that stood in the
corner of the deacon's closet
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and on the end of the
pole there was a knob,
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a rounded knob,
this what would happen.
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And then Jim would come
walking back into church,
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our beloved head deacon
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and he would be
holding the long pole
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and everybody
knew what was coming.
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And I--I mean, I
knew what was coming.
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I dreaded this.
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And Jim would come
in with the long pole
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and remember this is what
happen when somebody fell asleep
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in church and heads were turn
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and people will
look and they be--
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you know, when the dear
sisters out here would gasp
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a little bit, oh, not
again, dear God, help us.
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And when somebody
fell asleep in church,
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Brother Jim, the head deacon
would come up with that long--
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that long pole and he
walk right up the front
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and when someone
fell asleep in church
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he would take that pole and
jab, he would jab the preacher.
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Isn't that right?
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So please don't
fall asleep on me,
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it just makes me nervous,
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break on the
cold sweat. Not good.
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Well, it's a
blessing to be here,
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it's a privilege
to be here actually.
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What a great place to be,
ASI, the National Convention.
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What a blessing to be here.
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Now, theme for this
weekend, this week, weekend is
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"Its Time to be about--" what?
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"Our Father's
business." Do you believe that?
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I believe that, I believe
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it's time to be about
our father's business.
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So lets pray and talk
a little bit about this
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from what I hope will
be a biblical perspective.
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Please bow your head
with me as we pray together.
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Our Father in
heaven, we thank you
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that we can come to you
today in the name of Jesus.
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We are reminded of
the words of the old hymn,
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in our hand no price we bring
simply to the cross we claim.
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I thank you that we have
this, really this oasis of place
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where we can come together
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and celebrate that we are Yours
and be challenged a little bit.
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Challenged and inspire.
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Please Lord, would
you speak to our heart.
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And I pray that you
would be merciful to me
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and please do not
allow the fallenness
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and the
inadequacy of sinful humanity
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to get in the way of
the working of Your Spirit.
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I will not ask that You
send Your Spirit to be here,
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instead I will thank you
that Your Spirit is here.
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We consider this Your place.
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So speak here Lord and
be heard please, we pray.
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We ask this of
you in Jesus' name.
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Please join me in saying. Amen.
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I think I am right in saying
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that in this world
we love sure things.
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We love sure investments.
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If you knew that
there was a place
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that you could take your
hard earned money and invest it
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and you were
guaranteed a risk free return
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that was handsome,
that was attractive
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you'd be all over
that, you would love that.
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We like can't lose stuff.
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We like the idea of a
can't lose investment.
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One of the
reasons, one of the reasons
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so many people lost their
sure during the housing crises
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was that, well,
you can't possibly lose
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on real estate, right?
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That's one of the
reason so many people
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as many people as did came
out of this thing kind of hard.
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Unfortunately, many
can't lose investments
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turn out to be
can lose investments.
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That's just the way it is.
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We like sure
things. We like them.
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We like them in sports. We
like sure things in sports.
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Now what I am about to tell you
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is very difficult
to me to tell you.
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I would never-- I
will never say this again.
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It's difficult
for me to tell you,
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I am from New
Zealand originally.
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In 1987, the first
rugby world cup was held,
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it was held in New Zealand.
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New Zealand is traditionally
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the rugby super
power of the world.
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Now there's a South
African or two around here
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who's going to disagree
with me but I don't mind,
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I have the microphone and
they don't, so that's that.
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You can talk about South
African rugby when you preach.
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New Zealand was expected to win
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the 1987 world cup
and did. No problem.
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The last rugby
world cup was 2011,
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last year New Zealand
was expected to win it.
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New Zealand won it.
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Now we played
along with the French
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and allowed them to
think they were in the game,
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they pushed us a little
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but we won in 1987,
we were the favorites.
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We won in 2011,
we could not lose
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but do I need to tell you
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what happened in 1991 and 1995
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and 1999 and 2003 and 2007?
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New Zealand was the can't
lose overwhelming favorite
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in all of those
rugby world cups.
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And in all of those other
ones we didn't lose once--
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oh sorry, I wish that was true.
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We didn't win once.
So much for can't lose.
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Wait a minute, I feel I
am well having told you that.
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I have to find something
to make myself feel better.
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What can I tell you
that can make me feel better?
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In the Olympic
games, an Australian swimmer
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name James
Magnussen was the can't lose
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overwhelming
prohibitive favorite
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to win the men's
100 meters freestyle.
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He was the world champion.
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He was the fastest ever
man over 100 meters freestyle,
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one of swimming's glamour events
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wearing the
traditional swimsuit.
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You know, a few years ago
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they went to these
space age swimsuits
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made out of I don't know,
carbon fiber or something.
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They ban those.
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But wearing the
conventional swim suite,
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the missile, the
Aussies call them,
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the missile, the fastest.
He said, "I think I will win."
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The Australians
expected him to win.
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In his home town,
a very beautiful city
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called Port Macquarie people
got up early in the morning.
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Many of them went to town
square at 4:30 in the morning.
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Well, the domain
not a town square,
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there was a big screen
there, the citizens came out.
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His race was at
5:15, Australian time.
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And James Magnusson swam well.
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He swam so well, many
people thought he had won
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but he didn't
win, he came second.
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I feel better telling you that.
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He came second by
1/100th of a second.
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He couldn't lose
but he didn't win.
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Let's keep going.
1972, Munich Olympics.
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The New Zealand--
no, hang on a minute,
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I am on a-- I am
stuck in a grove.
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The United
States basketball team,
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the men's basketball
team had won the god medal
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at every Olympic
Games since 1936.
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They were on a roll
and they got to Munich
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and they couldn't lose.
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Then they played the
Soviet Union in the final
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and they couldn't lose.
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And with seconds to play they
were leading 50 points to 49.
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As a matter of fact,
America though that they had won
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until there was some
confusion with the clock.
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And they added a second.
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And then they added
another second I think it was.
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And they gave the ball back
to the Soviets with a second
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and a half left to
play or something like that.
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And something happened
and the Soviets scored.
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The United States went
home without the gold medal.
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They couldn't lose
but they didn't win.
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We like can't lose
especially when we don't lose.
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Wouldn't it be great to
have a can't lose proposition
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in the Lord's work?
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Wouldn't it be great
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to get involved in some
kind of evangelism outreach
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where you had God's assurance
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that doing this,
you just cannot lose?
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Now anybody who's been involved
in evangelism, you can say,
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"Oh no, hang on
man, we've held meetings,
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we've done outreaches,
we've had health programs,
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we've done all kinds
of community service,
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there's no such
things as a cannot lose
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proposition in evangelism."
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That's what somebody might say.
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But I want to take you
to a passage in the Bible
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that demonstrates to you
that in the work of evangelism,
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you cannot lose.
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Let's turn in our
Bibles to Psalm 126, Psalm 126.
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There is one of
the songs of ascents.
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Some times, I think my Bible,
it says a song of degrees.
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Same thing, yours might say
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under Psalm 126,
songs of ascents.
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Probably not written by David,
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certainly inspired by the
Holy Spirit of All Mighty God.
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These songs of ascents
were sung by worshippers
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when they went up to
keep certain feast days,
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Passover was one of them.
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Up, when they
ascended up to Jerusalem.
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And this Psalm
begins with the worshippers
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singing the words, Psalm 126,
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"When the Lord turned
again the captivity of Zion,
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we were like them that dream."
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Now, I read this the
first time and thought,
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this must be talking
about the captivity in Babylon.
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Not so, the expert says. Not so.
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Uh, possibly but not necessarily
and actually not likely.
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This could be the scholar
say any sort of captivity,
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any sort of
oppression, any sort of burden.
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The Lord turns them.
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"When the Lord
turned again the captivity,"
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and if you look at this
rather than just thinking back.
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If you take the narrative
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and transpose it
into a contemporary key,
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you will read this and discover
that the Bible writer believed
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that the Lord is able to
turn again our captivity.
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Can you say, amen?
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Whatever your burden is,
whatever your difficulty is.
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When you are
down, God lifts you up.
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When there is some captivity
taking place in your life,
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it is God who was
able to turn that thing.
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If you will press the
throne of God in faith,
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you will know
that it is the Lord
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who was able to turn
again your captivity,
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whether it is captivity to sin,
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whether it is captivity
to some crisis in your life.
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When you perceive, you
are held fast some place
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you don't want to be,
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you can know God is
able to turn your captivity.
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The worshippers going
up to Mount Zion knew that,
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they believe that.
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Verse 2, "Then was our
mouth filled with laughter,
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and our tongue with singing."
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Ladies and gentleman, I
would like to suggest you today
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that when God does
some great thing for you,
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you ought to have some laughter
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and you ought to have
some singing going on.
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I remember the first sermon
I preached on American soil.
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It was a terrifying experience.
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I preached in a
town in Pennsylvania.
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Names will be changed
to protect the guilty.
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I was a kid preaching my heart
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and I didn't even
know why I was preaching.
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I was doing an LE
program with a bunch of students
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and they said,
"Hey, you talk a lot.
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Would you preach?" Yeah.
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I said, "Man, I got to
fire up these Adventists."
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I preach the
First Angel's message.
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I said, "Wow,
there's something in there
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that everybody can
get excited about."
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And I preached.
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And I though to myself
this is not going well.
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And I preached again.
Man, I was hitting the high--
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the high notes
and some big points
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and I said this
will excite them.
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It excited them all right.
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And I walked
out of there saying,
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why did I agree to do this,
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I will probably
never preach again.
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And when they met me at
the door I was barraged.
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It was like an avalanche.
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Little old ladies were
hurling themselves at me
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from 10 or 12 feet away.
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God bless you, young man.
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The conference
president was there.
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Shook my hand,
just about rip my arm
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out of its arm socket.
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Man, we need more of
that in our churches.
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And while I was
standing there preaching,
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I thought they are
ready to throw me out.
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When the Lord
touches you and excites you,
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it ought to show and I
don't just mean during a sermon.
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When God has done
something for you,
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you shouldn't be
backwards about coming forward.
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Can you say, amen? Amen.
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We ought to be able to
stand up and say, glory to God.
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God is good. God has
done some good thing.
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"Our mouths are
filled with laughter
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and our tongues with singing,
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then said they
among the heathen,"
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We are still in verse 2.
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"The Lord has done
great things for them."
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Man, that's what you
want unbelievers to say,
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isn't that right?
People living way you live.
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Ought to be able to
say, those Christians,
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those Sabbath keepers,
those Seventh-day Adventists,
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God has clearly done
some great thing for them.
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Friend, if Jesus is
yours, if you keep the Sabbath,
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if you attend
church, if you can breath,
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if you believe let
it be seen by somebody
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that knowing Jesus makes
a difference in your life.
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Let it be seen.
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Lets somebody say,
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the Lord has done
great things for them.
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Jesus didn't say, I
have come into the world
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so that those who chose me
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are just the same
as everybody else.
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He came that we might
have life more abundantly.
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You don't have to be
doing cartwheels down the aisle
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but there ought to be
something going on in your life.
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Someone ought to be able to
say, these people are blessed.
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That's why God put
Israel where God put Israel,
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at the crossroads of the world.
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So people would go through
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and say, this
church is different.
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The blessing of God
rests on this thing.
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What did the
prophet Isaiah say? Arise.
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Next word he used
was what? Shine. Why?
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For your light is come
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and the glory of the
Lord is risen upon you.
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Friend, if God's
glory is risen upon you,
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it's going to be seen.
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If it's not going to be seen,
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you can blame your
Scandinavian ancestry.
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Or you can simply say, there's
something missing in my life.
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When God rises on you,
the world ought to know,
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let your neighbors see,
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your colleague-- don't
be one of these people.
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I think I lived
next to him for 30 years
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and didn't even know
they were Christians.
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The Lord has done
great things for them.
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Let people know.
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In the Book of Acts, they
took knowledge of the apostles
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that they had been
with Jesus. It showed.
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Revelation 18, what happens?
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Revelation 18:1,
the earth is lit up
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with the manifestation
of the glory of God
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in the people of God sakes.
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God put us on this earth
so people could look at us
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and say, it
obviously makes a difference
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when you are a
believer in Jesus.
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Somebody ought to say, amen.
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The Lord had done great things
for us where of we are glad.
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I can just imagine.
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The Israelites singing the
song on their way to Jerusalem.
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The Lord has done great
things for us and we are glad.
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I've told the story a
couple of times this summer,
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I don't mind telling it again.
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I was in Jerusalem a
couple of months ago.
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First time I'd every been.
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I am not an expert on Israel
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but I certainly love
being there, it was wonderful.
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We had held an event and it
is written evangelistic series
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in Paris, France.
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And because we are only this--
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it's close to Israel we
said, let's go, take a camera,
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films and inserts for some
of these television programs.
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And so we went.
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Friday night we went
down to the Western Wall
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and it was interesting,
I'd never been there.
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Some of you,
you have been there.
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You know what it's like.
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People were singing,
it was like a soccer game.
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You know, how they sing in
the stands of soccer games.
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It was--it was,
they were exuberant.
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They were jubilant,
they were demonstrative.
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Jewish people, I
lived near Jewish people
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when I lived in England and
they were pretty low key, man.
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I didn't expect this.
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All these rabbinical
students were down there.
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It was like a
party. It really was.
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It was like spring break.
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And there I was and I was
walking along by the scruple,
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make a little room here.
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I was walking along
next to this group of kids
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because I was-- well,
we were filming actually
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and I got talking to this kid
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from New York
City, 18 years old.
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I said to them,
"So what's going on,
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these guys look might happy?"
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he said, "Well, we are
down here to worship God."
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All right, tell me more.
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He said, "It's the Sabbath
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and we are down
here to celebrate
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the arrival of the Sabbath."
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You know
somebody-- somebody said
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that a Jewish
person cannot hear say,
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you Adventist know
how to keep the Sabbath.
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We Jews celebrate the Sabbath.
They were celebrating that.
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They are down there--
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now Tony Moore had
told me about this.
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He said, we went over
there to film for Tony stuff
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and he showed me
some of the footage
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of Friday night down there
and these guys are dancing.
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I looked at that, I said, "Wow,
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I wonder if we are going to
see that when we get there."
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They are dancing, they
are dancing around in circles.
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They grab each others arms.
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The New York kid said to me,
"Hey, why don't you join in."
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One of the really cool things
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about becoming
an Adventist for me,
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no more dancing.
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No, I am fine, man.
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It's okay, leave
it to the experts.
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Now you know,
this-- they weren't--
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this wasn't John Travolta.
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You know, they--
that wasn't disco dancing.
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They are
celebrating, they are exuberant.
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And he said join in with them.
I said, "No, man. It's okay."
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They are singing the Psalms,
at one stage it got silent.
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Hundreds of people
turned around all together--
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I would turn around
too but there's something
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I am not going to show you.
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They all turned
around at the same time.
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The sun was this
high above the horizon.
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He said, "We are
welcoming Queen Sabbath."
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I said, "Queen Sabbath?"
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Next minute they
are dancing again.
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I am just standing there
and minding my own business.
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Ho, I get pulled
over in the dancing line.
00:23:29.42\00:23:33.10
My mic came off into.
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I-- when in Rome you
got to do as the Roman.
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So now I am doing this thing
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and we are doing
this-- oh, oh, hey.
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I didn't know the
words, the guy says,
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"You don't know the
words, just feel the words."
00:23:41.73\00:23:43.70
So I am feeling the words.
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Let me say this with
respect ladies and gentlemen.
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And I say this with respect,
00:23:54.72\00:23:56.52
if a group of
Jewish people, Jewish Jews.
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I am not talking
about Messianic Jews.
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If they can get excited on
Friday night about the Sabbath.
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If they can be
excited about the Messiah,
00:24:05.01\00:24:08.41
a Messiah they don't know, a
Messiah they are waiting for.
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If they can say the Lord
has done great things for us,
00:24:12.53\00:24:16.61
I want to tell you
Seventh-day Adventists
00:24:16.64\00:24:19.78
who know the Messiah by name,
00:24:19.81\00:24:23.48
who know He's coming back soon.
00:24:23.51\00:24:27.03
Who have been given blessings,
00:24:27.06\00:24:29.56
limitless
blessings by All Mighty God.
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Man, we've got
something to be excited about.
00:24:32.37\00:24:37.30
People ought to be able to say,
00:24:37.33\00:24:38.81
the Lord has done
great things for them
00:24:38.84\00:24:41.68
we ought to be
able to say the same.
00:24:41.71\00:24:43.63
Friend, you ought to
be glad, God is yours.
00:24:43.66\00:24:47.38
Here with these
people, we are God's people,
00:24:47.41\00:24:49.52
I am saying, "No,
wait a minute that's us."
00:24:49.55\00:24:52.62
I am thinking if
you can be excited,
00:24:52.65\00:24:54.01
I can be more so excited.
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Here's what the
Psalmist went on to write,
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"Turn again our
captivity, O Lord,
00:24:59.65\00:25:01.13
as the streams in the south."
00:25:01.16\00:25:02.54
Luther wrote about this.
00:25:02.57\00:25:03.60
He said, it doesn't
matter if it's the Read Sea
00:25:03.63\00:25:04.97
or the Jordon or anything else.
00:25:05.00\00:25:06.75
He said the similitude is this,
00:25:06.78\00:25:08.60
like as by the mighty hand
you brought to pass miraculously
00:25:08.63\00:25:11.87
that the waters would
dried up and consumed.
00:25:11.90\00:25:13.82
So dry up O Lord and bring
to nothing all our captivity,
00:25:13.85\00:25:16.92
that's Martin
Luther through them a day.
00:25:16.95\00:25:18.71
So that's the waters.
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But now let's get to the
serious part of the Psalm,
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the business end of the Psalm.
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How it applies to us today?
00:25:22.99\00:25:24.40
Cannot lose
evangelistic outreach.
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Let's read verse 5,
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"They that sow in
tears shall--" what?
00:25:29.27\00:25:34.84
"Shall reap in joy."
00:25:34.87\00:25:37.64
And the next verse extrapolates
that out little bit,
00:25:37.67\00:25:41.37
"He that goeth
forth and weepeth,
00:25:41.40\00:25:43.70
bearing precious seed,
shall," give me the next word.
00:25:43.73\00:25:49.17
"Shall doubtless
come again--" with what?
00:25:49.20\00:25:53.34
"Rejoicing,
bringing his sheaves--"
00:25:53.37\00:25:56.17
where? There you go.
00:25:56.20\00:25:59.24
Somebody say, well, this
represents Jewish farmers
00:25:59.27\00:26:01.93
casting the last of their grain
into the ground and celebrating.
00:26:01.96\00:26:04.91
They are going to
reap, fine, maybe it does.
00:26:04.94\00:26:06.98
But as we look at
this through the lens
00:26:07.01\00:26:09.27
that God's end time
people look through.
00:26:09.30\00:26:12.45
We see an
application for us today.
00:26:12.48\00:26:14.38
An application that suggests
00:26:14.41\00:26:15.84
that God is urging us to
reach this world for Him.
00:26:15.87\00:26:20.68
"He that goeth
forth and weepeth,
00:26:20.71\00:26:22.56
bearing precious seed,
00:26:22.59\00:26:24.25
shall doubtless come
again with rejoicing,
00:26:24.28\00:26:26.98
bringing his sheaves with him."
00:26:27.01\00:26:29.02
God, friend, he's
speaking to you and me.
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Look at this.
He that goes forth.
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Now this
presuppose or something.
00:26:37.20\00:26:39.02
It presupposes that
God's people what? Go forth.
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Have you heard
the great commission?
00:26:44.08\00:26:45.87
"Go ye
therefore." Jesus said go.
00:26:45.90\00:26:50.07
The Psalmist says, go forth.
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I know I am
preaching to the choir here
00:26:51.68\00:26:53.60
but our theme is we--
00:26:53.63\00:26:55.77
it's time to be about
our father's business.
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I don't know if you know but
that's always the theme for ASI,
00:26:58.00\00:27:00.20
they just call
it different stuff
00:27:00.23\00:27:02.50
because when you are
part of this ASI movement
00:27:02.53\00:27:04.16
then you recognize that
the mandate for you life
00:27:04.19\00:27:09.81
is that it's time to be
about your father's business.
00:27:09.84\00:27:12.74
Old news, I know that.
00:27:12.77\00:27:14.52
The Savior told us what?
00:27:14.55\00:27:15.94
The harvest truly is great
00:27:15.97\00:27:19.18
but the problem is
the laborers are what?
00:27:19.21\00:27:21.28
Few. But the laborers are few.
00:27:21.31\00:27:26.71
The harvest is great
if ever there was a time
00:27:26.74\00:27:32.71
for all of God's
people to go forth,
00:27:32.74\00:27:36.68
that time is
now. Friend, go forth.
00:27:36.71\00:27:39.87
If God has been prodding you
00:27:39.90\00:27:41.55
in your comfort zone to
move out of that comfort zone
00:27:41.58\00:27:44.50
and do something for Him
00:27:44.53\00:27:45.81
on the frontline
somehow, go forth.
00:27:45.84\00:27:48.76
If it's that naive you've
been waiting to talk, you go.
00:27:48.79\00:27:50.97
A family member, you've been
waiting to reach, go, go forth.
00:27:51.00\00:27:54.38
Soon Jesus is coming back.
00:27:54.41\00:27:56.98
And how many times have
you heard so and so just died?
00:27:57.01\00:27:59.43
You know what, I tell you what.
00:27:59.46\00:28:02.07
The doctor who
rushed to my father's side
00:28:02.10\00:28:06.45
when my father had
his heart attack and died.
00:28:06.48\00:28:08.49
When he got there, dad was dead
00:28:08.52\00:28:09.94
but the doctor was a great guy.
00:28:09.97\00:28:11.18
I used to play squash with him.
00:28:11.21\00:28:12.29
That's the intelligent
person's racket ball.
00:28:12.32\00:28:14.60
Use to play
squash with the doctor.
00:28:14.63\00:28:16.08
He was a good guy.
Now I tell you what?
00:28:16.11\00:28:19.91
This is a family
show, so I won't tell you
00:28:19.94\00:28:21.41
everything about his lifestyle.
00:28:21.44\00:28:25.91
I though to myself,
that guy is a lovely guy.
00:28:25.94\00:28:28.97
He wept when my father died.
00:28:29.00\00:28:30.65
He wept. Oh, John--
my dad's name was John.
00:28:30.68\00:28:33.42
"Oh, John, I will miss you"
00:28:33.45\00:28:34.81
he said to my dead father.
00:28:34.84\00:28:36.39
Oh, John, I will miss you.
00:28:36.42\00:28:38.39
I though to myself, I got
to do something about this guy.
00:28:38.42\00:28:41.47
He said, he said, he
said something about God
00:28:41.50\00:28:45.26
and then he said not that
I know anything about that.
00:28:45.29\00:28:48.65
Speaking of himself.
00:28:48.68\00:28:50.34
Not that I know
anything about God.
00:28:50.37\00:28:51.49
I said, man, I got to
do something for this guy.
00:28:51.52\00:28:53.43
I got to do something.
I got to send him a book.
00:28:53.46\00:28:56.32
A voice, Steps to
Christ that, to the audios,
00:28:56.35\00:28:58.44
oh, send that to him, he
can listen to it in his car.
00:28:58.47\00:29:01.20
I will send him the
Steps to Christ book,
00:29:01.23\00:29:02.58
I will send him something.
00:29:02.61\00:29:03.80
Maybe he will burn
it, maybe he will listen,
00:29:03.83\00:29:05.94
maybe he will reject
it, maybe he will accept it.
00:29:05.97\00:29:10.20
I kept thinking to
myself every now and then,
00:29:10.23\00:29:11.62
it will be a great
idea to send the doctor
00:29:11.65\00:29:13.21
something about Jesus.
00:29:13.24\00:29:14.64
Then I heard
the doctor was dead.
00:29:14.67\00:29:19.58
Friend, if God is calling
you to go forth, go forth.
00:29:19.61\00:29:22.82
If God is calling you to
mission service at some place,
00:29:22.85\00:29:25.27
to leave your home, sell up, go,
00:29:25.30\00:29:26.98
go have a good talk
with Jesus but go, go.
00:29:27.01\00:29:29.70
God is looking for
people who would go forth.
00:29:29.73\00:29:32.14
God is looking for
people who will take a risk.
00:29:32.17\00:29:34.24
God is looking for
people who will say,
00:29:34.27\00:29:35.96
we will make a sacrifice.
00:29:35.99\00:29:38.87
God is looking for to say,
00:29:38.90\00:29:40.07
we will do something radical
00:29:40.10\00:29:41.44
even if it does freak
out our parents, we will go.
00:29:41.47\00:29:45.48
I was in Papua
New Guinea recently
00:29:45.51\00:29:47.09
and heard the story about a
great New Zealand missionary,
00:29:47.12\00:29:50.00
his name was Len Bernard.
00:29:50.03\00:29:51.35
He is still alive.
Great guy in his 90s now.
00:29:51.38\00:29:54.54
I haven't met him but
I've heard the stories.
00:29:54.57\00:29:57.60
Pastor Bernard
went to Papua New Guinea
00:29:57.63\00:29:59.44
and he saw the mountains
and he saw the valleys.
00:29:59.47\00:30:01.55
He said
somebody's got to go in there
00:30:01.58\00:30:02.86
and tell these cannibals
about Jesus, I am going.
00:30:02.89\00:30:06.47
They said to him don't go.
00:30:06.50\00:30:09.54
You will not come
out of there alive.
00:30:09.57\00:30:12.05
If you go, the
people are very hospitable.
00:30:12.08\00:30:15.64
Somebody is gonna
have you over for dinner.
00:30:15.67\00:30:17.68
He said somebody has to go.
00:30:23.01\00:30:25.28
You know, when I went there,
I went to the very village
00:30:25.31\00:30:27.57
Pastor Bernard had been
in. And when he was there--
00:30:27.60\00:30:29.60
when he was
there, somebody died.
00:30:29.63\00:30:32.42
He taught the people we're
gonna have Christian funeral.
00:30:32.45\00:30:35.13
But they had to stay up
all night guarding the body
00:30:35.16\00:30:37.41
so that nobody would
steal the body and eat it.
00:30:37.44\00:30:41.13
We're gonna teach you how
to have a Christian funeral.
00:30:41.16\00:30:42.89
You go there
now. There is no fear.
00:30:42.92\00:30:45.68
There is no devil worship.
00:30:45.71\00:30:47.67
You go there now.
There is no suspicion.
00:30:47.70\00:30:50.28
There is no filth.
There is no disease.
00:30:50.31\00:30:53.18
You'd live in that
village and be happy.
00:30:53.21\00:30:55.15
Beautiful. God has
made the difference.
00:30:55.18\00:30:57.88
It would not have happened,
it would not have happened,
00:30:57.91\00:31:01.89
without Pastor Bernard taking
the big risk and going in there.
00:31:01.92\00:31:05.35
I was there to cap off, it
is written God's Pod project.
00:31:05.38\00:31:08.90
We distributed the
thousands of mp3, audio Bibles.
00:31:08.93\00:31:12.52
The people, they can't
read or write, many of them.
00:31:12.55\00:31:15.41
Two-thirds of the
people in the country.
00:31:15.44\00:31:17.52
We took these things there.
00:31:17.55\00:31:18.94
Man, am I glad somebody
went forth before I went forth.
00:31:18.97\00:31:23.26
And I tell you
what I saw the results
00:31:23.29\00:31:25.20
of what Pastor
Bernard and others did.
00:31:25.23\00:31:27.28
When we were there
and we had a baptism,
00:31:27.31\00:31:28.56
a couple of witch doctors,
00:31:28.59\00:31:29.62
former witch
doctors were baptized.
00:31:29.65\00:31:32.24
And we talk about witch doctors
00:31:32.27\00:31:33.34
we say, "Oh, that was long ago."
00:31:33.37\00:31:34.79
Now one of them, he
had a bow and arrow.
00:31:34.82\00:31:36.73
He would step out in front
of his hut, shoot the arrow.
00:31:36.76\00:31:39.47
The arrow would fly for miles.
They say even hundreds of miles.
00:31:39.50\00:31:44.03
It would hit a pig
or some other animal
00:31:44.06\00:31:46.71
and fly back and
deposit the animal
00:31:46.74\00:31:49.25
at the front
door of the man's hut.
00:31:49.28\00:31:52.15
This was
happening just a year ago.
00:31:52.18\00:31:54.51
And I know what's happening,
because the man told me himself,
00:31:54.54\00:31:57.32
and the
missionary told me himself,
00:31:57.35\00:31:59.98
it's the real thing.
There's darkness out there, man.
00:32:00.01\00:32:03.72
And similar darkness, most
likely in your neighborhood,
00:32:03.75\00:32:06.06
we just call it
different things.
00:32:06.09\00:32:07.77
Friend, God is
calling us to go forth.
00:32:07.80\00:32:10.39
What happens when you go
forth? Is there a price to pay?
00:32:10.42\00:32:12.97
Pastor Bernard went froth.
00:32:13.00\00:32:14.31
He went a little forth, too
close to an airplane propeller,
00:32:14.34\00:32:18.53
chopped off his leg.
00:32:18.56\00:32:20.83
Other than that,
didn't cost him anything.
00:32:20.86\00:32:22.48
He was fine.
00:32:22.51\00:32:25.01
He's lying on the
ground without his legs.
00:32:25.04\00:32:26.40
He said get me to the hospital.
Not the hospital, a clinic.
00:32:26.43\00:32:29.67
We're talking
about a bush clinic.
00:32:29.70\00:32:31.21
They were taking
him to the bush clinic.
00:32:31.24\00:32:32.58
He said, "Hold on. Get my leg."
00:32:32.61\00:32:34.64
They said, pastor,
you won't be leaving them.
00:32:34.67\00:32:36.60
Oh, yes I will.
00:32:36.63\00:32:37.82
They can't
attach that leg, Pastor.
00:32:37.85\00:32:39.74
This is in the
1960's, early1960's.
00:32:39.77\00:32:44.87
He said will it God decide.
They got him to the clinic.
00:32:44.90\00:32:47.99
Now man, this is a clinic.
00:32:48.02\00:32:49.37
This is not Loma Linda
University Medical Centre
00:32:49.40\00:32:51.92
or University
Hospital here in Cincinnati
00:32:51.95\00:32:54.64
or U.K. Hospital down
in Lexington, Kentucky.
00:32:54.67\00:32:57.68
This was out in the bush,
00:32:57.71\00:32:58.74
50 years ago in the
Papua and New Guinea.
00:32:58.77\00:33:00.70
He said if God has used for me,
00:33:00.73\00:33:03.95
if God sees to
that I need my leg,
00:33:03.98\00:33:06.12
God will make it work.
00:33:06.15\00:33:08.28
They saw that leg on.
00:33:08.31\00:33:10.97
It took a few months.
00:33:11.00\00:33:13.13
Pastor Bernard
walked out, walked out--
00:33:13.16\00:33:17.24
do you believe in the
miracles, ladies and gentleman?
00:33:17.27\00:33:19.77
If you met him
today, you might notice
00:33:19.80\00:33:21.21
he walks with a slight limp.
00:33:21.24\00:33:23.38
There's a story
behind that limp.
00:33:23.41\00:33:24.65
What's the story?
00:33:24.68\00:33:25.82
The Lord had done great
things for us, can you say Amen?
00:33:25.85\00:33:30.44
Thank God for that.
00:33:30.47\00:33:31.62
He that goes forth and weeps,
00:33:31.65\00:33:34.72
the world will not be
one while we hang back.
00:33:34.75\00:33:39.34
It won't happen. He
that goes forth and weeps.
00:33:39.37\00:33:43.46
We can come at
this from two angels.
00:33:43.49\00:33:45.66
Number one, we weep because
we are burdened for souls.
00:33:45.69\00:33:49.14
We're burdened for souls.
00:33:49.17\00:33:51.82
We recognize
that they are people
00:33:51.85\00:33:53.20
that must be one without Jesus.
00:33:53.23\00:33:54.94
They must be
lost. We're burdened.
00:33:54.97\00:33:57.96
We cannot stand to see
00:33:57.99\00:33:59.11
our neighbors
leaving Christ for lives.
00:33:59.14\00:34:00.55
We got to go forth
weeping as it will,
00:34:00.58\00:34:03.67
either literally
or metaphorically.
00:34:03.70\00:34:06.15
And there's a second
thing that we might look at.
00:34:06.18\00:34:08.28
He that goes forth
recognizing his insufficiency.
00:34:08.31\00:34:12.04
Recognizing that she
isn't the answer here.
00:34:12.07\00:34:15.63
We go forward saying, God,
you must do something here.
00:34:15.66\00:34:18.58
Lord, I will go but you work.
00:34:18.61\00:34:22.64
We were holding a series of
meetings years ago in a town,
00:34:22.67\00:34:24.59
the name of which I
would love to tell you.
00:34:24.62\00:34:27.97
I said to a lady,
who's that man over there,
00:34:28.00\00:34:29.42
who's that man?
00:34:29.45\00:34:30.91
He looked like he
fit in, but evidently
00:34:30.94\00:34:34.38
she said, you
will never baptize him.
00:34:34.41\00:34:40.02
I thought to myself, well, I
don't do the baptizing anyway.
00:34:40.05\00:34:42.18
I leave that to
the church pastor,
00:34:42.21\00:34:43.50
but why do you say that.
00:34:43.53\00:34:45.02
Ah, he's been coming
around here for years.
00:34:45.05\00:34:47.50
You will never baptize
him. Man, did I pray that night?
00:34:47.53\00:34:51.39
Oh, God, please, please
show this lady what you can do.
00:34:51.42\00:34:56.68
Show this
congregation, what you can do?
00:34:56.71\00:34:58.83
I pled with God.
00:34:58.86\00:35:01.85
A month later, I stood
up near the Baptistery,
00:35:01.88\00:35:03.85
watched him get baptized.
00:35:03.88\00:35:05.11
I'm looking
around for that lady.
00:35:05.14\00:35:06.51
She didn't dare look at me.
00:35:06.54\00:35:10.36
I wanted to go up
there and say, ha!
00:35:10.39\00:35:15.94
But I was far too
Christian to do that.
00:35:15.97\00:35:21.31
Friend, God is able
isn't he? God is able.
00:35:21.34\00:35:24.48
When we put in God,
Lord I will go forth,
00:35:24.51\00:35:26.63
but I'm burdened
here. I'm weeping here.
00:35:26.66\00:35:29.17
"He that goeth
forth and weepeth,
00:35:29.20\00:35:30.40
bearing precious
seed," precious seed.
00:35:30.43\00:35:32.73
Has God given us
seed to go forward with?
00:35:32.76\00:35:36.14
Let's not be
confused about this.
00:35:36.17\00:35:38.78
The seed that God had
given His end time church
00:35:38.81\00:35:43.09
is the Three Angels
messages. Can we agree on that?
00:35:43.12\00:35:46.31
That's the seed.
00:35:46.34\00:35:48.02
Now you can say, now there is
more then one way to skin a cat.
00:35:48.05\00:35:51.21
Sure there are or
is, plenty of ways.
00:35:51.24\00:35:55.46
But friends ultimately,
00:35:55.49\00:35:57.22
the message God has given
us is the Three Angels message.
00:35:57.25\00:36:01.44
That doesn't mean you
need to be talking about beast
00:36:01.47\00:36:03.41
every time you open your mouth.
00:36:03.44\00:36:04.91
It means you're lifting up Jesus
every time you open your mouth.
00:36:04.94\00:36:08.77
It means that we need to
tell people that there's a way,
00:36:08.80\00:36:11.30
that there's a
Heaven, that there's a Savior,
00:36:11.33\00:36:13.77
that there's a seal of God,
that there's a Remnant Church.
00:36:13.80\00:36:18.76
We ought to be proclaiming
this message unapologetically.
00:36:18.79\00:36:24.37
I tell you what our problem is.
00:36:24.40\00:36:25.43
Many of our own
people have figured out
00:36:25.46\00:36:26.77
that the precious
seed isn't precious seed,
00:36:26.80\00:36:28.81
that's what they deduced.
00:36:28.84\00:36:30.52
I want to tell you
something that there's power
00:36:30.55\00:36:32.20
in the word of God.
00:36:32.23\00:36:33.98
There's power
in the word of God.
00:36:34.01\00:36:36.92
Power to change a life.
00:36:36.95\00:36:39.26
Power that reach somebody
that you think is unreachable.
00:36:39.29\00:36:42.28
Power to reach somebody
that you think is unwinnable.
00:36:42.31\00:36:45.88
God is able to do it.
00:36:45.91\00:36:48.07
I wonder if one of the reasons,
00:36:48.10\00:36:50.60
some parts of the
world are baptizing tons
00:36:50.63\00:36:53.92
and others are not is because
in some parts of the world
00:36:53.95\00:36:57.24
they're lifting up the
Three Angels messages proudly
00:36:57.27\00:36:59.69
and in other parts, they're
hiding it under the bush.
00:36:59.72\00:37:04.58
Now if you want
to start a church in
00:37:04.61\00:37:05.79
and a coffee shop,
I'm not gonna knock you.
00:37:05.82\00:37:07.29
If that's what God is
leading you to do it, do it.
00:37:07.32\00:37:08.90
He's never let me do that,
00:37:08.93\00:37:10.08
but thank God He has
led some people do that
00:37:10.11\00:37:11.94
because some people
had reached that way.
00:37:11.97\00:37:14.71
If you think you
need to change this
00:37:14.74\00:37:16.15
or change that or
take this approach
00:37:16.18\00:37:17.56
or do something that's
a little effort on God,
00:37:17.59\00:37:19.68
I'm not gonna
tell you that's wrong.
00:37:19.71\00:37:21.07
But I will tell
you way the power is.
00:37:21.10\00:37:23.80
The power is in the message
00:37:23.83\00:37:26.24
that God has
given us to proclaim
00:37:26.27\00:37:28.21
down here in the end of time.
00:37:28.24\00:37:29.72
Everything else
is a means to an end.
00:37:29.75\00:37:33.73
He that goes forth and weeps,
00:37:33.76\00:37:36.26
bearing precious
seed, precious seed,
00:37:36.29\00:37:40.56
I'm reminded of what
happened in Las Vegas, Nevada.
00:37:40.59\00:37:42.83
We had a
wonderful series of meetings
00:37:42.86\00:37:44.58
in Las Vegas earlier this year.
00:37:44.61\00:37:46.74
In cooperation with
Nevada-Utah Conference,
00:37:46.77\00:37:49.31
in cooperation with ASI,
00:37:49.34\00:37:51.07
God blessed so
beautifully there.
00:37:51.10\00:37:54.11
In the lead up to the meetings,
00:37:54.14\00:37:57.06
we had this tremendous
response to the project,
00:37:57.09\00:37:59.88
"Steps to Christ
mailing." Tremendous response.
00:37:59.91\00:38:03.57
And so they were
hundreds of people
00:38:03.60\00:38:05.13
who needed to be followed up.
00:38:05.16\00:38:07.20
One man lived way on
the north side of the town,
00:38:07.23\00:38:10.46
way on the north side.
00:38:10.49\00:38:11.98
A couple went there.
They said it's a long way.
00:38:12.01\00:38:15.05
He lives in a gated
community. We went twice.
00:38:15.08\00:38:19.27
We couldn't find him. We
are done. He is the name.
00:38:19.30\00:38:22.64
I say thank God they
turned the cart back in,
00:38:22.67\00:38:26.13
because Michael and
Phyllis got a hold of it.
00:38:26.16\00:38:27.58
They said where did
you say that man lives?
00:38:27.61\00:38:30.11
He's not that
far from our church.
00:38:30.14\00:38:32.07
We'll go. It's interesting.
00:38:32.10\00:38:34.02
Michael worked overnight.
He worked all night long.
00:38:34.05\00:38:36.65
And then when they
were so willing to do,
00:38:36.68\00:38:38.30
he wouldn't go to sleep.
00:38:38.33\00:38:39.37
He'd stay up all day,
going knocking down doors
00:38:39.40\00:38:41.35
and offering
Bible studies to people.
00:38:41.38\00:38:43.72
Praise the Lord. They
went to the man's home.
00:38:43.75\00:38:46.81
Oh, hey, hang on a
minute. Gated community.
00:38:46.84\00:38:48.85
But, you know, let me tell you,
00:38:48.88\00:38:50.97
if you live in
a gated community,
00:38:51.00\00:38:52.10
you won't like me saying this.
00:38:52.13\00:38:55.01
But if you ever want to
get into it gated community,
00:38:55.04\00:38:58.09
you know the trick light,
pull up to the gate and wait.
00:38:58.12\00:39:04.26
Someone is going
to come out soon.
00:39:04.29\00:39:08.92
That's your opportunity.
00:39:08.95\00:39:12.31
That wasn't gated with a
guard or rottweiler wire.
00:39:12.34\00:39:14.34
It was just a
gate. They went in.
00:39:14.37\00:39:17.10
They found the address.
They knocked on the door.
00:39:17.13\00:39:19.34
Nobody was there. They said, uh.
00:39:19.37\00:39:21.37
We'll come back. They
came back a second time.
00:39:21.40\00:39:24.27
They came back a third time.
00:39:24.30\00:39:26.25
They came back a fourth time.
00:39:26.28\00:39:28.62
When they knock down the
door for the seventh time...
00:39:28.65\00:39:33.16
they said there's nobody home.
00:39:33.19\00:39:34.91
And suddenly, the
door handle turned
00:39:34.94\00:39:39.64
and the door
opened and there he was.
00:39:39.67\00:39:41.17
And she said, you sure a
hard man to find at home.
00:39:41.20\00:39:45.00
And they left Bible studies.
00:39:45.03\00:39:46.12
They came back
and they came back.
00:39:46.15\00:39:47.79
You see what--
00:39:47.82\00:39:49.22
"He that goeth forth
and weepeth, burdened,"
00:39:49.25\00:39:53.16
we got to reach this man.
00:39:53.19\00:39:55.07
Bearing precious seed,
the fourth time he said,
00:39:55.10\00:39:59.75
"would you all mind stepping up,
00:39:59.78\00:40:01.02
I got some questions
about these Bible studies."
00:40:01.05\00:40:04.25
And then when he came to
the read these written meeting,
00:40:04.28\00:40:05.69
the Revelation Today meeting,
00:40:05.72\00:40:07.54
I was looking
forward to meeting him.
00:40:07.57\00:40:08.60
And when I met him,
he had one question.
00:40:08.63\00:40:09.93
His question was, "do you think
00:40:09.96\00:40:12.29
I should be re-baptized
00:40:12.32\00:40:13.76
or should I just join this
church on profession of faith?
00:40:13.79\00:40:17.03
No, no, no you meant
to say amen there. Amen.
00:40:17.06\00:40:19.24
That's right. That
was his only question.
00:40:19.27\00:40:22.77
He said there's a reason
God has kept me alive this long.
00:40:22.80\00:40:25.22
He was an older man,
00:40:25.25\00:40:26.41
because God wanted me to
learn his end time truth.
00:40:26.44\00:40:29.76
I say praise the Lord.
00:40:29.79\00:40:31.43
The Lord has done
great things for us.
00:40:31.46\00:40:33.31
When you go forth,
burdened, leaning on God,
00:40:33.34\00:40:36.92
Lord, we have got to find
a way to reach this person,
00:40:36.95\00:40:41.31
to reach this community.
00:40:41.34\00:40:42.69
Now I want you to see
what happens next verse 6,
00:40:42.72\00:40:46.65
"He that goeth
forth and weepeth,
00:40:46.68\00:40:47.90
bearing precious seed,"
yes this is driving in nuts,
00:40:47.93\00:40:50.47
shall--shall
what, shall next word,
00:40:50.50\00:40:52.81
shall let me
hear you, shall what?
00:40:52.84\00:40:55.77
"Doubtless!" "Doubtless."
00:40:55.80\00:40:57.68
I got to love that word.
00:40:57.71\00:40:59.38
"He that goeth
forth and weepeth,
00:40:59.41\00:41:00.69
bearing precious seed,
00:41:00.72\00:41:01.79
shall doubtless come
again with rejoicing."
00:41:01.82\00:41:06.02
Started talking about
can't loose propositions.
00:41:06.05\00:41:08.91
God gives you one right here.
00:41:08.94\00:41:11.21
He that goeth forth and weepeth,
00:41:11.24\00:41:13.64
bearing if you go
forward with the word of God,
00:41:13.67\00:41:18.29
the Bible says you will
doubtless without a doubt.
00:41:18.32\00:41:25.18
Come forth with rejoicing,
bringing your sheaves with you.
00:41:25.21\00:41:30.79
If you sow they'll
doubtless be a harvest.
00:41:30.82\00:41:35.21
Now I know, you're saying
but, but, but-- I don't mind.
00:41:35.24\00:41:38.19
I am not interested in
your but, in your objections.
00:41:38.22\00:41:42.71
See English language, I'm sorry.
00:41:46.21\00:41:49.10
Not interested.
00:41:49.13\00:41:51.36
I said a couple
of times in sermons
00:41:51.39\00:41:52.84
I was referring to people
00:41:52.87\00:41:53.92
who went to
India as missionaries.
00:41:53.95\00:41:56.63
And I said, man
they would go to India
00:41:56.66\00:41:57.91
to bang their head
against the brick wall.
00:41:57.94\00:41:59.30
They would
celebrate baptizing one.
00:41:59.33\00:42:01.96
Baptize one. They baptize one.
00:42:01.99\00:42:03.68
They would come home
they say, why did I even go.
00:42:03.71\00:42:05.32
I wonder, I asked
some return missionaries,
00:42:05.35\00:42:07.30
some old missionaries.
00:42:07.33\00:42:08.85
They said John that's
exactly what it was like.
00:42:08.88\00:42:12.15
And now you go to India
00:42:12.18\00:42:13.29
and you preach the word of God.
00:42:13.32\00:42:15.06
What's the
problem we have there?
00:42:15.09\00:42:17.01
We can't build the
churches fast enough.
00:42:17.04\00:42:20.13
It may take a while.
00:42:20.16\00:42:22.78
But you would doubtless
come again with rejoicing,
00:42:22.81\00:42:24.98
bringing your sheaves with you.
00:42:25.01\00:42:27.28
But John,
Evangelism doesn't work.
00:42:27.31\00:42:28.86
No, no, no, hang on a minute.
00:42:28.89\00:42:30.61
The problem is
people don't work.
00:42:30.64\00:42:32.86
Evangelism works. It was 1970.
00:42:32.89\00:42:36.58
George Vandeman, when
he was headed, he Written
00:42:36.61\00:42:39.12
held an Evangelistic
series, guess where?
00:42:39.15\00:42:42.42
Here. Right here.
00:42:42.45\00:42:45.94
And they were
multitude, ah, it's a big word.
00:42:45.97\00:42:48.97
They were many people baptized.
00:42:49.00\00:42:50.60
As a matter of fact,
the conference president
00:42:50.63\00:42:52.10
at that time
said we're gonna get
00:42:52.13\00:42:54.01
our pound of
flesh out of this guy
00:42:54.04\00:42:55.34
and so George was
holding meetings in Columbus,
00:42:55.37\00:42:57.63
Dayton and
Cincinnati simultaneously.
00:42:57.66\00:43:02.08
We're holding meetings in
Dayton later on this year.
00:43:02.11\00:43:03.88
They haven't asked
us to go to Columbus
00:43:03.91\00:43:05.43
and Cincinnati simultaneously.
00:43:05.46\00:43:07.38
Please don't
give them any ideas.
00:43:07.41\00:43:11.18
In Cincinnati in 19--
00:43:11.21\00:43:13.79
whatever, Robert
Booth beheld meetings.
00:43:13.82\00:43:16.28
You know, how many
people were baptized
00:43:16.31\00:43:17.47
in the city at the
end of that meeting?
00:43:17.50\00:43:21.33
457 people were baptized.
But John, that years ago.
00:43:21.36\00:43:28.73
That was before
there was electricity.
00:43:28.76\00:43:31.11
You know, the last time
ASI was held here in Cincinnati
00:43:31.14\00:43:33.55
there was a Youth for Jesus.
00:43:33.58\00:43:34.63
You know, Youth
for Jesus, right?
00:43:34.66\00:43:37.22
Kids holding
Evangelistic meetings.
00:43:37.25\00:43:39.28
In several
places around the city,
00:43:39.31\00:43:41.09
they were hundreds
and hundreds of people
00:43:41.12\00:43:44.77
who said they were going
to come up to the meeting
00:43:44.80\00:43:46.38
and dozens and dozens
00:43:46.41\00:43:48.67
more than a
hundred people baptized.
00:43:48.70\00:43:50.88
Children leading more than
a hundred people to Baptism
00:43:50.91\00:43:55.19
in secular
post-modern Cincinnati,
00:43:55.22\00:43:58.85
just a few years ago.
00:43:58.88\00:43:59.95
I got a question
for you. Does it work?
00:43:59.98\00:44:03.05
God says this thing will work.
00:44:03.08\00:44:05.60
The word He
used was "doubtless."
00:44:05.63\00:44:08.33
Now I do want to
express that there's more then
00:44:08.36\00:44:10.78
just public Evangelism
as part of Evangelism.
00:44:10.81\00:44:14.48
But Evangelism is Evangelism.
00:44:14.51\00:44:16.02
And if you want to
share a loaf of bread
00:44:16.05\00:44:17.26
over the back
fence with your neighbor,
00:44:17.29\00:44:18.74
do it, that's Evangelism.
00:44:18.77\00:44:20.47
If you want to look
after your neighbors' kids,
00:44:20.50\00:44:22.32
so she can go
shopping so you can demonstrate
00:44:22.35\00:44:24.08
the love of
Jesus, that's Evangelism.
00:44:24.11\00:44:26.32
You bet it is.
00:44:26.35\00:44:27.49
If you want to
operate a soup kitchen
00:44:27.52\00:44:28.86
or feed the homeless or go
to the prison, it's Evangelism.
00:44:28.89\00:44:32.29
If you want to gather
some interests together
00:44:32.32\00:44:34.36
and preach the word of
God and share the word of God,
00:44:34.39\00:44:36.73
it's Evangelism and this
work cannot be without fruit.
00:44:36.76\00:44:40.81
I read somewhere,
"don't be discouraged.
00:44:40.84\00:44:43.47
Oh, man in our town, we
haven't seen a breakthrough."
00:44:43.50\00:44:45.89
Doesn't mean
there hasn't been one,
00:44:45.92\00:44:47.66
doesn't mean there won't be one.
00:44:47.69\00:44:49.98
My buddy, Ron Halverson
was telling me the story,
00:44:50.01\00:44:51.83
you've probably heard the story.
00:44:51.86\00:44:53.75
If you haven't, I'm
gonna tell the story.
00:44:53.78\00:44:55.03
It's a great
Ron Halverson story.
00:44:55.06\00:44:56.72
Ron, sorry man, I'm
about to use your story,
00:44:56.75\00:45:01.17
in front of everyone.
You can use two of mine.
00:45:01.20\00:45:06.59
This story is worth
my ten best stories.
00:45:06.62\00:45:10.40
Ron Halverson
was at a camp meeting
00:45:10.43\00:45:12.39
and he eyed one of
the camp meeting speakers
00:45:12.42\00:45:14.87
that were
backstage. He said hmm.
00:45:14.90\00:45:17.30
That's the famous Evangelist
who went to a certain city
00:45:17.33\00:45:20.79
and they spent a
boat load of money.
00:45:20.82\00:45:23.36
I need a boat load.
00:45:23.39\00:45:26.27
And they got a
handful of Baptists.
00:45:26.30\00:45:28.69
And these
Evangelists have thought
00:45:28.72\00:45:29.81
that the meetings have
been a colossal failure.
00:45:29.84\00:45:32.73
Ron went up to me
and said, "well, done.
00:45:32.76\00:45:34.86
Glad to meet you.
00:45:34.89\00:45:35.92
I remember those
meetings, you held in new"--
00:45:35.95\00:45:38.10
wasn't going to tell
you the city, in some place.
00:45:38.13\00:45:43.25
Evangelist
wasn't too interested.
00:45:43.28\00:45:45.60
Ron said I had heard you I had
12,000 Baptisms at that meeting.
00:45:45.63\00:45:50.24
No, brother
Halverson, that's not right.
00:45:50.27\00:45:52.02
We just had a handful.
Oh, no. Oh, no, Ron said.
00:45:52.05\00:45:56.17
Oh, no, brother, I
heard you had 12,000 Baptisms.
00:45:56.20\00:45:58.74
No, no, you must
be hearing it wrong.
00:46:03.73\00:46:05.07
Oh, no, no, no brother, 12,000.
00:46:05.10\00:46:08.90
He said, let me tell you.
00:46:08.93\00:46:10.64
You baptize the lady
00:46:10.67\00:46:11.86
in that series of
meetings named misses so and so.
00:46:11.89\00:46:16.12
Her son was a
good buddy of mind,
00:46:16.15\00:46:19.55
who led me to the
Lord and in my ministry
00:46:19.58\00:46:22.68
so far we
baptized 12,000 people.
00:46:22.71\00:46:25.72
He said, "Elder, I understand
00:46:25.75\00:46:27.63
you have 12,000
Baptisms in that meeting.
00:46:27.66\00:46:32.16
Thank you, for
telling me, brother.
00:46:32.19\00:46:33.99
A young Evangelist said to me,
00:46:34.02\00:46:35.05
said, "John, man he is
a friend of mine, John.
00:46:35.08\00:46:37.01
I held a meeting in Arkansas,
"oh, man, how did it go?"
00:46:37.04\00:46:41.62
No what's wrong?
What's the matter?
00:46:41.65\00:46:42.68
How did it go? How
many Baptisms you have?
00:46:42.71\00:46:44.47
And that's not always
the measure. How many?
00:46:44.50\00:46:46.32
He said, "Oh, man, just two."
00:46:46.35\00:46:49.71
I said two Baptisms. Oh, man.
00:46:49.74\00:46:53.06
I said what's the
population of that town?
00:46:53.09\00:46:56.28
He said three
thousand. Three thousand!
00:46:56.31\00:46:59.65
You ought to be jumping for joy.
00:46:59.68\00:47:01.38
Now this was just
after the Mark Finley
00:47:01.41\00:47:02.85
had held his Written
meeting in San Diego.
00:47:02.88\00:47:05.31
I said Mark Finley just
held a meeting in San Diego.
00:47:05.34\00:47:07.47
They had four hundred Baptisms.
00:47:07.50\00:47:09.62
He said, oh, don't
tell me. I should hang on.
00:47:09.65\00:47:11.95
San Diego has got
1.3 million people.
00:47:11.98\00:47:15.30
Do the math.
00:47:15.33\00:47:16.50
Four hundred Baptisms
in the city of 1.3 million
00:47:16.53\00:47:19.94
is not as good as two
Baptisms in the city of 3000.
00:47:19.97\00:47:23.58
I said, "man, you did
better than Mark Finley."
00:47:23.61\00:47:28.58
Hey, no disrespect, Mark.
You did better than Mark Finley.
00:47:28.61\00:47:31.87
Oh, he stood up.
00:47:31.90\00:47:34.96
Don't worry about how
many heads you can count.
00:47:34.99\00:47:38.53
If you go
forward weeping, burdened
00:47:38.56\00:47:42.49
and you saw precious
seed God has promised,
00:47:42.52\00:47:45.86
you will doubtless
come again with rejoice
00:47:45.89\00:47:48.73
and bringing your
sheaves with you. Doubtless.
00:47:48.76\00:47:51.12
"So shall my word be that
goeth forth out of my mouth,
00:47:51.15\00:47:53.99
it will not return to me void,
00:47:54.02\00:47:55.52
but it shall
accomplish that which I please,
00:47:55.55\00:47:59.07
and it shall prosper in
the thing whereto I sent it."
00:47:59.10\00:48:01.73
God calls us simply to "Go."
00:48:01.76\00:48:07.01
Brand new Adventist,
00:48:07.04\00:48:08.99
pardon me if you've
heard the story before.
00:48:09.02\00:48:11.15
I say brand new Adventist.
I'm looking at the clock.
00:48:11.18\00:48:15.58
Ah, it's better
to apologize later
00:48:15.61\00:48:17.57
than to ask for
permission beforehand.
00:48:17.60\00:48:23.06
And so, I was
baptized in England.
00:48:23.09\00:48:26.51
The next day I
returned to New Zealand,
00:48:26.54\00:48:28.69
called up local church.
00:48:28.72\00:48:29.75
I don't know where it
was, how to get there, nothing.
00:48:29.78\00:48:31.89
He said there is
a guy in your town
00:48:31.92\00:48:33.55
who comes to this church.
00:48:33.58\00:48:34.64
I said no, no
there's no Adventist
00:48:34.67\00:48:36.37
in my old town. Yes.
00:48:36.40\00:48:37.90
He told me the name of the guy.
00:48:37.93\00:48:39.00
I said that guy is a big
shot in our Catholic Church.
00:48:39.03\00:48:44.65
I said I know a fellow by
that name, but it's not him.
00:48:44.68\00:48:47.37
He calls the
guy, he says Bradshaw,
00:48:47.40\00:48:48.81
John Bradshaw, can you
give him right to church?
00:48:48.84\00:48:50.50
He said John Bradshaw,
00:48:50.53\00:48:53.38
he said I know
what John Bradshaw,
00:48:53.41\00:48:54.57
that's not him.
That's not possible.
00:48:54.60\00:48:57.90
When we met, oh, man,
00:48:57.93\00:49:00.05
I can still see
his little white man
00:49:00.08\00:49:01.53
driving of my
mother's blacktop driveway.
00:49:01.56\00:49:03.75
Oh, it's you I
said. He said it's you.
00:49:03.78\00:49:05.75
We couldn't believe it.
00:49:05.78\00:49:07.68
And there he had his four kids,
00:49:07.71\00:49:08.74
the daughter and the three sons.
00:49:08.77\00:49:10.20
If he hadn't joined
the Adventist church...
00:49:10.23\00:49:13.33
But that was just four
00:49:13.36\00:49:17.76
and sweet
daughter, nine years old.
00:49:17.79\00:49:20.68
We had a great time.
00:49:20.71\00:49:22.24
Years later, I'm preaching
back in that same church.
00:49:22.27\00:49:25.61
I'm bringing the
sermon into a closing.
00:49:25.64\00:49:27.89
God says make an altar call.
00:49:27.92\00:49:30.45
I said, no I cannot
do that. Make an altar...
00:49:30.48\00:49:32.69
no, no, I will just
make a regular altar appeal.
00:49:32.72\00:49:34.55
Make an altar call.
00:49:34.58\00:49:35.61
I said there's
something, you don't understand.
00:49:35.64\00:49:38.01
God likes that about me.
00:49:38.04\00:49:39.07
I help Him with the
things He can't understand.
00:49:39.10\00:49:41.04
I said there's
something you don't understand.
00:49:41.07\00:49:43.58
I come back from New Zealand
00:49:43.61\00:49:44.64
and you all think I
sound like a New Zealander.
00:49:44.67\00:49:46.47
The New Zealanders think
I sound like an American.
00:49:46.50\00:49:49.08
It's very disconcerting.
00:49:49.11\00:49:51.86
I said if I make an
altar call they'll think,
00:49:51.89\00:49:53.63
I think I'm a big
shot American preacher
00:49:53.66\00:49:55.46
and I'm showing
off. I can't do that.
00:49:55.49\00:49:57.20
I'm not gonna
make an altar call.
00:49:57.23\00:49:59.02
And right when I
said that to the Lord,
00:49:59.05\00:50:01.15
one of the pastors came forward
00:50:01.18\00:50:02.39
and started playing an
appeal song on the piano.
00:50:02.42\00:50:04.82
I looked down.
00:50:04.85\00:50:06.42
He looked up at me
and nodded his head.
00:50:06.45\00:50:12.29
I'm
outnumbered. Make the appeal.
00:50:12.32\00:50:15.87
I see a young lady stand
up, she's got a baby on her hip,
00:50:15.90\00:50:17.83
I say, hey that's the girl.
00:50:17.86\00:50:21.49
Oh. She comes forward.
I talk to you at the back.
00:50:21.52\00:50:24.33
She waits to talk. I
said how is it going?
00:50:24.36\00:50:28.12
John, see says,
things aren't good.
00:50:28.15\00:50:30.97
Mom and dad
have left the church.
00:50:31.00\00:50:32.84
In fact, they split up.
00:50:32.87\00:50:34.40
Dad went back to
drinking alcohol.
00:50:34.43\00:50:36.83
My brothers they don't come.
00:50:36.86\00:50:37.90
The elder's one smoking dope,
00:50:37.93\00:50:39.35
and the others
wanting to smoke dope.
00:50:39.38\00:50:42.88
I hardly ever come to church.
00:50:42.91\00:50:44.25
But this morning, I felt
like God said go to church.
00:50:44.28\00:50:46.34
And when I came
and you were preaching,
00:50:46.37\00:50:48.26
I knew that God was calling me
00:50:48.29\00:50:49.84
and I knew that God was
calling me back, join back.
00:50:49.87\00:50:55.38
And I gonna go and I'm gonna
bring my whole family back.
00:50:55.41\00:51:02.01
You got to admire people.
00:51:02.04\00:51:04.03
On the inside I said,
that will never happen.
00:51:04.06\00:51:06.94
I mean, come on. The
dad was an alcoholic.
00:51:06.97\00:51:10.01
He got off the booze and
now he's gone back to drinking.
00:51:10.04\00:51:11.95
Oh, he's done.
00:51:11.98\00:51:13.90
The parents, they've
been married 25 years.
00:51:13.93\00:51:15.40
Now they split up and
now they back together.
00:51:15.43\00:51:19.20
They're not
coming back together.
00:51:19.23\00:51:20.53
The brothers, the
teenage boys out in the world
00:51:20.56\00:51:22.58
maybe the oldest was 20 years
something, out in the world.
00:51:22.61\00:51:25.99
They're not all coming
in. I said what a great idea.
00:51:26.02\00:51:29.32
You go, get your
family. I will pray for you.
00:51:29.35\00:51:34.22
My prayer wouldn't
have been worth two cents.
00:51:34.25\00:51:37.86
She said I'm
gonna and get my family
00:51:37.89\00:51:39.14
and bring the whole
lot of them to Jesus.
00:51:39.17\00:51:40.64
We got to come back.
God's calling us all.
00:51:40.67\00:51:43.02
You see the Bible
says, "he that goeth forth
00:51:43.05\00:51:44.61
and we bearing precious
seeds shall," what? Doubtless.
00:51:44.64\00:51:48.74
Come again with
rejoicing bringing his sheaves.
00:51:48.77\00:51:51.23
I come back a
couple of years later
00:51:51.26\00:51:52.35
and hold an
Evangelistic series there.
00:51:52.38\00:51:54.38
Well, there's my girl and
she comes bounding up to me.
00:51:54.41\00:51:57.42
John, have you
heard. Heard what?
00:51:57.45\00:51:59.21
Mom and dad are
back in the church.
00:51:59.24\00:52:01.90
What happened?
00:52:01.93\00:52:02.96
Well, dad got off the
booze. They got back together.
00:52:02.99\00:52:04.66
They've been
re-baptized, I think it was.
00:52:04.69\00:52:06.56
They're back in the church
and there's-- they're involved,
00:52:06.59\00:52:09.54
they'll be
working in the series.
00:52:09.57\00:52:10.81
I said, well,
hallelujah. Take that.
00:52:10.84\00:52:17.21
What about the
rest of the family?
00:52:17.24\00:52:19.82
My oldest brother
coming back to church.
00:52:19.85\00:52:23.23
How about your husband?
00:52:23.26\00:52:24.50
He's agreed to attend
the archeology seminar.
00:52:24.53\00:52:28.32
The husband is sitting
in the archeology seminar.
00:52:28.35\00:52:30.26
He leans over to
the wife he says,
00:52:30.29\00:52:32.22
you know, I think what this guy
00:52:32.25\00:52:33.28
is saying about
Noah's Ark is true.
00:52:33.31\00:52:35.50
Yes, of course it's true.
00:52:35.53\00:52:37.98
If it's true then
the Bible is true.
00:52:38.01\00:52:40.37
I have been telling you for
years that the Bible's true.
00:52:40.40\00:52:43.66
If the Bible is true, then
I should get baptized. What?
00:52:43.69\00:52:48.51
Yeah, I should get
baptized and join the church.
00:52:48.54\00:52:50.68
I think that's what I will do.
00:52:50.71\00:52:51.74
As a matter of fact,
let's get your brothers
00:52:51.77\00:52:53.88
and bring them in too.
00:52:53.91\00:52:57.24
By the time the series was over,
00:52:57.27\00:52:58.52
they had all made
decisions for Baptism.
00:52:58.55\00:53:01.00
And when I was back for a Youth,
00:53:01.03\00:53:02.08
I went a year later,
guess he was front and center.
00:53:02.11\00:53:04.97
The daughter was
running the show.
00:53:05.00\00:53:06.84
The husband, he was there too.
00:53:06.87\00:53:08.53
One of the boys
became a student missionary.
00:53:08.56\00:53:11.24
One of the boys
did something else
00:53:11.27\00:53:14.01
and one of the
boys did something else,
00:53:14.04\00:53:15.11
but the point is
they all came to Jesus.
00:53:15.14\00:53:18.34
And the husband became
"It is Written" Bible worker.
00:53:18.37\00:53:21.67
Somebody ought to
say Amen out there. Amen!
00:53:21.70\00:53:23.87
Friend, "he that goeth forth
00:53:23.90\00:53:26.09
and weeps
bearing precious seed,"
00:53:26.12\00:53:28.29
tell me shall what?
00:53:28.32\00:53:29.78
"Doubtless, come
again with rejoicing
00:53:29.81\00:53:31.82
bringing his sheaves with him."
00:53:31.85\00:53:32.91
This is cannot lose
proposition, cannot lose.
00:53:32.94\00:53:37.55
God is just asking you if
you'll go forth, that's all.
00:53:37.58\00:53:43.62
If you are out
there on the frontline,
00:53:43.65\00:53:45.37
God bless you, pray and ask that
00:53:45.40\00:53:48.03
the spirit would
work like never before.
00:53:48.06\00:53:49.80
Friends, Jesus
is coming back soon.
00:53:49.83\00:53:53.39
This isn't maybe.
This isn't possibly.
00:53:53.42\00:53:55.38
This isn't perhaps.
00:53:55.41\00:53:56.56
Jesus is coming back
and when He comes back
00:53:56.59\00:53:58.90
there will be
people ready to meet Him.
00:53:58.93\00:54:00.70
There will be
people who will say,
00:54:00.73\00:54:02.11
I'm standing on the platform
of the Three Angels messages.
00:54:02.14\00:54:05.20
I'm standing on Jesus
as my Lord and savior.
00:54:05.23\00:54:07.69
He's the sea.
Friends, let's go forward.
00:54:07.72\00:54:11.62
If we weep, we weep,
00:54:11.65\00:54:13.06
but we bear precious seed.
00:54:13.09\00:54:14.66
And God says,
"we shall doubtless"
00:54:14.69\00:54:17.31
come again with, what?
00:54:17.34\00:54:18.68
Rejoicing! Rejoicing!
00:54:18.71\00:54:26.62
Bringing our sheaves with
us, what do you say? Amen!
00:54:26.65\00:54:29.27
Let us pray, "Our
Father and our God,
00:54:29.30\00:54:33.53
we thank you today for Jesus.
00:54:33.56\00:54:36.75
We thank you that you've
called us out of darkness
00:54:36.78\00:54:38.50
into your marvelous life.
00:54:38.53\00:54:41.01
We thank you today
that you've commissioned us.
00:54:41.04\00:54:46.10
You've given us
the greatest work
00:54:46.13\00:54:47.73
that there ever was
that is sharing Jesus.
00:54:47.76\00:54:51.84
Lord some of us we
don't know what we're doing.
00:54:51.87\00:54:54.01
We're all ill-equipped really.
00:54:54.04\00:54:56.12
We're all in adequate
and we're all tainted by sin.
00:54:56.15\00:54:58.90
We thank you that our
sufficiency is of Christ
00:54:58.93\00:55:00.83
and that we're
collaborate together with you.
00:55:00.86\00:55:02.95
Lord thank you for
this beautiful psalm.
00:55:02.98\00:55:05.62
Encourage us to go forth.
00:55:05.65\00:55:07.92
Bearing the precious
seed, and Father we believe,
00:55:07.95\00:55:10.61
we will doubtless
come again with rejoicing,
00:55:10.64\00:55:13.48
bringing our sheaves with us.
00:55:13.51\00:55:14.93
We thank you for
this wonderful truth
00:55:14.96\00:55:16.48
and these blessed promises.
00:55:16.51\00:55:18.96
And we pray today in Jesus name,
00:55:18.99\00:55:20.89
please join me and
say, Amen and Amen.
00:55:20.92\00:55:25.01
Give me ears to hear Your Spirit
00:56:16.91\00:56:22.46
Give me feet to follow through
00:56:22.49\00:56:27.96
Give me hands to
touch the hurting
00:56:27.99\00:56:33.15
And the faith to follow You
00:56:33.18\00:56:38.62
Give me grace to be a servant
00:56:42.31\00:56:47.61
Give me mercy for the lost
00:56:47.64\00:56:52.73
Give me passion for Your glory
00:56:52.76\00:56:57.60
Give me passion for the cross
00:56:57.63\00:57:03.27
And I will go where
there are no easy roads
00:57:03.30\00:57:08.52
Leave the comforts that I know
00:57:08.55\00:57:13.28
I will go and let
this journey be my home
00:57:13.31\00:57:19.10
I will go I will go
00:57:19.13\00:57:27.10
I'll let go of my ambition
00:57:37.76\00:57:42.86
Cut the roots that run too deep
00:57:42.89\00:57:47.70
I will learn to give away
00:57:47.73\00:57:52.53
What I cannot really keep
00:57:52.56\00:57:57.83
What I cannot really keep
00:57:57.86\00:58:04.26
Help me see with eyes of faith
00:58:04.29\00:58:11.33
Give me
strength to run this race
00:58:11.36\00:58:17.45
And I will go where
there are no easy roads
00:58:17.48\00:58:22.66
Leave the comforts that I know
00:58:22.69\00:58:27.34
I will go and let
this journey be my home
00:58:27.37\00:58:32.60
I will go I will go
00:58:32.63\00:58:37.70
I will go Lord where
Your glory is unknown
00:58:37.73\00:58:42.67
I will live for You alone
00:58:42.70\00:58:47.79
I will go because
my life is not my own
00:58:47.82\00:58:55.04
I will go
00:58:55.07\00:58:58.02
I will go I will go
00:58:58.05\00:59:06.02