Participants: John Bradshaw
Series Code: 12ASIC
Program Code: 12ASIC000005
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00:32 You told me how that Jesus gave His life for me
00:37 You love me when all others turned away 00:43 My empty heart was yearning 00:46 And Lord you kept me turning 00:48 To tell me of the truth, the life, the way 00:52 And then I saw the Lord 00:54 Then I saw the living the Savior 00:58 living in your life 01:04 Giving with Your hands 01:06 Speaking with Your voice Staring through Your eyes 01:11 Yeah, staring through your eyes 01:14 As you showed God's love to me 01:19 All at once my eyes could see, I saw Jesus 01:27 Praise God, I saw the Lord 01:36 I thirsted for the water that can satisfy 01:41 I hunger for the matter from above 01:46 You saw my need and thought me 01:49 You told me Christ had got me 01:52 And with your light you showed me Jesus' love 01:56 And then I saw the Lord 01:57 Then I saw the Savior living in your life 02:03 Yes, living in your life 02:06 Giving with your hands 02:09 Speaking with your voice 02:12 Staring through your eyes 02:14 Yeah, staring through your eyes 02:17 As you showed God's love to me 02:22 All at once my eyes could see, I saw Jesus 02:30 Praise God, I saw the Lord 02:37 And then I saw the Lord 02:38 Then I saw the Savior living in your life 02:44 Yes, living in your life 02:48 Giving with your hands 02:50 Speaking with your voice 02:53 Staring through your eyes 02:55 Yeah, staring through your eyes 02:58 As you showed God's love to me 03:03 All at once my eyes could see, I saw Jesus 03:11 Praise God, I saw the Lord 03:18 Giving with your hands 03:20 Speaking with your voice Staring through your eyes 03:25 I saw the Lord 03:39 Thank you. I am sure you are blessed. 03:41 If you are blessed I expect that you are going to say, 03:43 amen. Amen. 03:45 Good morning everyone. Good morning. 03:47 Now, let's try that again, shall we? 03:50 Good morning everyone. Good morning! 03:53 It's just important for the preacher to know 03:55 that the people listening are awake, that's all. 03:58 I noticed some friends of mine, some dear friends of mine 04:02 when we passed in election to Kentucky, 04:04 some people down here with the most-- 04:05 they were the best church members in the world. 04:10 I say that about everyone actually. 04:14 In Kentucky, we had this little thing 04:16 and Keith would tell you about this. 04:19 We had this thing when people fell asleep in church. 04:24 It wasn't good. Here's what we would do. 04:27 We had a deacon in the church, his name was Jim. 04:29 He is the head deacon. 04:31 When someone fell asleep during the church service, 04:34 you knew trouble was coming 04:35 because Jim would stand up and walk out. 04:38 And I knew trouble was coming, I mean, I hated this. 04:41 I dislike this more than anybody. 04:42 And Jim would walk out, he would go to a cupboard 04:44 we had out at the foyer 04:45 with the word deacons written on it, deacons. 04:49 And he go out to the deacons cupboard, 04:50 this is what would happen when somebody fell asleep 04:53 in Lexington which is not far from here. 04:56 And Jim would go out and he would get this-- 04:58 it was a big long pole 04:59 that stood in the corner of the deacon's closet 05:02 and on the end of the pole there was a knob, 05:06 a rounded knob, this what would happen. 05:08 And then Jim would come walking back into church, 05:11 our beloved head deacon 05:13 and he would be holding the long pole 05:14 and everybody knew what was coming. 05:18 And I--I mean, I knew what was coming. 05:21 I dreaded this. 05:22 And Jim would come in with the long pole 05:24 and remember this is what happen when somebody fell asleep 05:26 in church and heads were turn 05:28 and people will look and they be-- 05:30 you know, when the dear sisters out here would gasp 05:32 a little bit, oh, not again, dear God, help us. 05:35 And when somebody fell asleep in church, 05:37 Brother Jim, the head deacon would come up with that long-- 05:40 that long pole and he walk right up the front 05:43 and when someone fell asleep in church 05:45 he would take that pole and jab, he would jab the preacher. 05:59 Isn't that right? 06:03 So please don't fall asleep on me, 06:04 it just makes me nervous, 06:06 break on the cold sweat. Not good. 06:12 Well, it's a blessing to be here, 06:13 it's a privilege to be here actually. 06:15 What a great place to be, ASI, the National Convention. 06:17 What a blessing to be here. 06:19 Now, theme for this weekend, this week, weekend is 06:24 "Its Time to be about--" what? 06:27 "Our Father's business." Do you believe that? 06:30 I believe that, I believe 06:31 it's time to be about our father's business. 06:33 So lets pray and talk a little bit about this 06:36 from what I hope will be a biblical perspective. 06:39 Please bow your head with me as we pray together. 06:44 Our Father in heaven, we thank you 06:45 that we can come to you today in the name of Jesus. 06:50 We are reminded of the words of the old hymn, 06:52 in our hand no price we bring simply to the cross we claim. 06:59 I thank you that we have this, really this oasis of place 07:03 where we can come together 07:04 and celebrate that we are Yours and be challenged a little bit. 07:10 Challenged and inspire. 07:12 Please Lord, would you speak to our heart. 07:16 And I pray that you would be merciful to me 07:21 and please do not allow the fallenness 07:28 and the inadequacy of sinful humanity 07:31 to get in the way of the working of Your Spirit. 07:34 I will not ask that You send Your Spirit to be here, 07:36 instead I will thank you that Your Spirit is here. 07:39 We consider this Your place. 07:41 So speak here Lord and be heard please, we pray. 07:46 We ask this of you in Jesus' name. 07:48 Please join me in saying. Amen. 07:53 I think I am right in saying 07:54 that in this world we love sure things. 07:58 We love sure investments. 08:02 If you knew that there was a place 08:05 that you could take your hard earned money and invest it 08:08 and you were guaranteed a risk free return 08:13 that was handsome, that was attractive 08:16 you'd be all over that, you would love that. 08:18 We like can't lose stuff. 08:20 We like the idea of a can't lose investment. 08:22 One of the reasons, one of the reasons 08:24 so many people lost their sure during the housing crises 08:27 was that, well, you can't possibly lose 08:31 on real estate, right? 08:33 That's one of the reason so many people 08:35 as many people as did came out of this thing kind of hard. 08:38 Unfortunately, many can't lose investments 08:41 turn out to be can lose investments. 08:43 That's just the way it is. 08:45 We like sure things. We like them. 08:48 We like them in sports. We like sure things in sports. 08:52 Now what I am about to tell you 08:53 is very difficult to me to tell you. 08:54 I would never-- I will never say this again. 08:56 It's difficult for me to tell you, 08:57 I am from New Zealand originally. 08:59 In 1987, the first rugby world cup was held, 09:03 it was held in New Zealand. 09:04 New Zealand is traditionally 09:06 the rugby super power of the world. 09:09 Now there's a South African or two around here 09:11 who's going to disagree with me but I don't mind, 09:13 I have the microphone and they don't, so that's that. 09:16 You can talk about South African rugby when you preach. 09:22 New Zealand was expected to win 09:24 the 1987 world cup and did. No problem. 09:28 The last rugby world cup was 2011, 09:30 last year New Zealand was expected to win it. 09:32 New Zealand won it. 09:33 Now we played along with the French 09:35 and allowed them to think they were in the game, 09:37 they pushed us a little 09:38 but we won in 1987, we were the favorites. 09:40 We won in 2011, we could not lose 09:44 but do I need to tell you 09:45 what happened in 1991 and 1995 09:50 and 1999 and 2003 and 2007? 09:55 New Zealand was the can't lose overwhelming favorite 09:58 in all of those rugby world cups. 10:00 And in all of those other ones we didn't lose once-- 10:02 oh sorry, I wish that was true. 10:05 We didn't win once. So much for can't lose. 10:08 Wait a minute, I feel I am well having told you that. 10:12 I have to find something to make myself feel better. 10:14 What can I tell you that can make me feel better? 10:18 In the Olympic games, an Australian swimmer 10:20 name James Magnussen was the can't lose 10:23 overwhelming prohibitive favorite 10:25 to win the men's 100 meters freestyle. 10:27 He was the world champion. 10:29 He was the fastest ever man over 100 meters freestyle, 10:34 one of swimming's glamour events 10:36 wearing the traditional swimsuit. 10:38 You know, a few years ago 10:39 they went to these space age swimsuits 10:41 made out of I don't know, carbon fiber or something. 10:44 They ban those. 10:46 But wearing the conventional swim suite, 10:47 the missile, the Aussies call them, 10:49 the missile, the fastest. He said, "I think I will win." 10:53 The Australians expected him to win. 10:55 In his home town, a very beautiful city 10:57 called Port Macquarie people got up early in the morning. 10:59 Many of them went to town square at 4:30 in the morning. 11:03 Well, the domain not a town square, 11:05 there was a big screen there, the citizens came out. 11:08 His race was at 5:15, Australian time. 11:12 And James Magnusson swam well. 11:14 He swam so well, many people thought he had won 11:17 but he didn't win, he came second. 11:18 I feel better telling you that. 11:19 He came second by 1/100th of a second. 11:23 He couldn't lose but he didn't win. 11:29 Let's keep going. 1972, Munich Olympics. 11:32 The New Zealand-- no, hang on a minute, 11:34 I am on a-- I am stuck in a grove. 11:36 The United States basketball team, 11:38 the men's basketball team had won the god medal 11:41 at every Olympic Games since 1936. 11:45 They were on a roll and they got to Munich 11:48 and they couldn't lose. 11:50 Then they played the Soviet Union in the final 11:53 and they couldn't lose. 11:55 And with seconds to play they were leading 50 points to 49. 12:00 As a matter of fact, America though that they had won 12:03 until there was some confusion with the clock. 12:06 And they added a second. 12:07 And then they added another second I think it was. 12:09 And they gave the ball back to the Soviets with a second 12:12 and a half left to play or something like that. 12:15 And something happened and the Soviets scored. 12:18 The United States went home without the gold medal. 12:20 They couldn't lose but they didn't win. 12:24 We like can't lose especially when we don't lose. 12:28 Wouldn't it be great to have a can't lose proposition 12:34 in the Lord's work? 12:36 Wouldn't it be great 12:38 to get involved in some kind of evangelism outreach 12:42 where you had God's assurance 12:45 that doing this, you just cannot lose? 12:51 Now anybody who's been involved in evangelism, you can say, 12:54 "Oh no, hang on man, we've held meetings, 12:56 we've done outreaches, we've had health programs, 13:00 we've done all kinds of community service, 13:03 there's no such things as a cannot lose 13:07 proposition in evangelism." 13:09 That's what somebody might say. 13:11 But I want to take you to a passage in the Bible 13:13 that demonstrates to you that in the work of evangelism, 13:17 you cannot lose. 13:19 Let's turn in our Bibles to Psalm 126, Psalm 126. 13:26 There is one of the songs of ascents. 13:30 Some times, I think my Bible, it says a song of degrees. 13:33 Same thing, yours might say 13:35 under Psalm 126, songs of ascents. 13:39 Probably not written by David, 13:41 certainly inspired by the Holy Spirit of All Mighty God. 13:45 These songs of ascents were sung by worshippers 13:50 when they went up to keep certain feast days, 13:52 Passover was one of them. 13:54 Up, when they ascended up to Jerusalem. 13:57 And this Psalm begins with the worshippers 14:00 singing the words, Psalm 126, 14:03 "When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, 14:08 we were like them that dream." 14:10 Now, I read this the first time and thought, 14:12 this must be talking about the captivity in Babylon. 14:14 Not so, the expert says. Not so. 14:17 Uh, possibly but not necessarily and actually not likely. 14:21 This could be the scholar say any sort of captivity, 14:24 any sort of oppression, any sort of burden. 14:28 The Lord turns them. 14:29 "When the Lord turned again the captivity," 14:32 and if you look at this rather than just thinking back. 14:36 If you take the narrative 14:37 and transpose it into a contemporary key, 14:40 you will read this and discover that the Bible writer believed 14:43 that the Lord is able to turn again our captivity. 14:47 Can you say, amen? 14:48 Whatever your burden is, whatever your difficulty is. 14:53 When you are down, God lifts you up. 14:55 When there is some captivity taking place in your life, 14:59 it is God who was able to turn that thing. 15:02 If you will press the throne of God in faith, 15:06 you will know that it is the Lord 15:08 who was able to turn again your captivity, 15:10 whether it is captivity to sin, 15:12 whether it is captivity to some crisis in your life. 15:16 When you perceive, you are held fast some place 15:20 you don't want to be, 15:22 you can know God is able to turn your captivity. 15:26 The worshippers going up to Mount Zion knew that, 15:29 they believe that. 15:30 Verse 2, "Then was our mouth filled with laughter, 15:34 and our tongue with singing." 15:37 Ladies and gentleman, I would like to suggest you today 15:39 that when God does some great thing for you, 15:43 you ought to have some laughter 15:44 and you ought to have some singing going on. 15:48 I remember the first sermon I preached on American soil. 15:54 It was a terrifying experience. 15:57 I preached in a town in Pennsylvania. 16:01 Names will be changed to protect the guilty. 16:05 I was a kid preaching my heart 16:06 and I didn't even know why I was preaching. 16:08 I was doing an LE program with a bunch of students 16:11 and they said, "Hey, you talk a lot. 16:12 Would you preach?" Yeah. 16:17 I said, "Man, I got to fire up these Adventists." 16:19 I preach the First Angel's message. 16:21 I said, "Wow, there's something in there 16:23 that everybody can get excited about." 16:25 And I preached. 16:31 And I though to myself this is not going well. 16:36 And I preached again. Man, I was hitting the high-- 16:38 the high notes and some big points 16:40 and I said this will excite them. 16:42 It excited them all right. 16:47 And I walked out of there saying, 16:48 why did I agree to do this, 16:49 I will probably never preach again. 16:53 And when they met me at the door I was barraged. 16:58 It was like an avalanche. 16:59 Little old ladies were hurling themselves at me 17:00 from 10 or 12 feet away. 17:03 God bless you, young man. 17:06 The conference president was there. 17:08 Shook my hand, just about rip my arm 17:10 out of its arm socket. 17:11 Man, we need more of that in our churches. 17:15 And while I was standing there preaching, 17:18 I thought they are ready to throw me out. 17:21 When the Lord touches you and excites you, 17:25 it ought to show and I don't just mean during a sermon. 17:28 When God has done something for you, 17:31 you shouldn't be backwards about coming forward. 17:35 Can you say, amen? Amen. 17:37 We ought to be able to stand up and say, glory to God. 17:40 God is good. God has done some good thing. 17:44 "Our mouths are filled with laughter 17:46 and our tongues with singing, 17:48 then said they among the heathen," 17:50 We are still in verse 2. 17:51 "The Lord has done great things for them." 17:55 Man, that's what you want unbelievers to say, 17:57 isn't that right? People living way you live. 18:01 Ought to be able to say, those Christians, 18:04 those Sabbath keepers, those Seventh-day Adventists, 18:07 God has clearly done some great thing for them. 18:12 Friend, if Jesus is yours, if you keep the Sabbath, 18:17 if you attend church, if you can breath, 18:20 if you believe let it be seen by somebody 18:25 that knowing Jesus makes a difference in your life. 18:29 Let it be seen. 18:31 Lets somebody say, 18:32 the Lord has done great things for them. 18:35 Jesus didn't say, I have come into the world 18:38 so that those who chose me 18:40 are just the same as everybody else. 18:42 He came that we might have life more abundantly. 18:45 You don't have to be doing cartwheels down the aisle 18:47 but there ought to be something going on in your life. 18:50 Someone ought to be able to say, these people are blessed. 18:54 That's why God put Israel where God put Israel, 18:56 at the crossroads of the world. 18:58 So people would go through 18:59 and say, this church is different. 19:03 The blessing of God rests on this thing. 19:06 What did the prophet Isaiah say? Arise. 19:08 Next word he used was what? Shine. Why? 19:11 For your light is come 19:14 and the glory of the Lord is risen upon you. 19:17 Friend, if God's glory is risen upon you, 19:20 it's going to be seen. 19:23 If it's not going to be seen, 19:25 you can blame your Scandinavian ancestry. 19:32 Or you can simply say, there's something missing in my life. 19:34 When God rises on you, the world ought to know, 19:36 let your neighbors see, 19:37 your colleague-- don't be one of these people. 19:40 I think I lived next to him for 30 years 19:42 and didn't even know they were Christians. 19:44 The Lord has done great things for them. 19:47 Let people know. 19:48 In the Book of Acts, they took knowledge of the apostles 19:51 that they had been with Jesus. It showed. 19:53 Revelation 18, what happens? 19:56 Revelation 18:1, the earth is lit up 19:59 with the manifestation of the glory of God 20:02 in the people of God sakes. 20:05 God put us on this earth so people could look at us 20:08 and say, it obviously makes a difference 20:11 when you are a believer in Jesus. 20:13 Somebody ought to say, amen. 20:14 The Lord had done great things for us where of we are glad. 20:17 I can just imagine. 20:19 The Israelites singing the song on their way to Jerusalem. 20:22 The Lord has done great things for us and we are glad. 20:26 I've told the story a couple of times this summer, 20:28 I don't mind telling it again. 20:31 I was in Jerusalem a couple of months ago. 20:32 First time I'd every been. 20:34 I am not an expert on Israel 20:35 but I certainly love being there, it was wonderful. 20:38 We had held an event and it is written evangelistic series 20:41 in Paris, France. 20:44 And because we are only this-- 20:45 it's close to Israel we said, let's go, take a camera, 20:48 films and inserts for some of these television programs. 20:52 And so we went. 20:53 Friday night we went down to the Western Wall 20:56 and it was interesting, I'd never been there. 20:58 Some of you, you have been there. 20:59 You know what it's like. 21:01 People were singing, it was like a soccer game. 21:04 You know, how they sing in the stands of soccer games. 21:07 It was--it was, they were exuberant. 21:09 They were jubilant, they were demonstrative. 21:14 Jewish people, I lived near Jewish people 21:16 when I lived in England and they were pretty low key, man. 21:20 I didn't expect this. 21:22 All these rabbinical students were down there. 21:24 It was like a party. It really was. 21:26 It was like spring break. 21:29 And there I was and I was walking along by the scruple, 21:32 make a little room here. 21:33 I was walking along next to this group of kids 21:35 because I was-- well, we were filming actually 21:41 and I got talking to this kid 21:42 from New York City, 18 years old. 21:44 I said to them, "So what's going on, 21:46 these guys look might happy?" 21:48 he said, "Well, we are down here to worship God." 21:52 All right, tell me more. 21:55 He said, "It's the Sabbath 21:57 and we are down here to celebrate 21:59 the arrival of the Sabbath." 22:02 You know somebody-- somebody said 22:03 that a Jewish person cannot hear say, 22:06 you Adventist know how to keep the Sabbath. 22:07 We Jews celebrate the Sabbath. They were celebrating that. 22:12 They are down there-- 22:13 now Tony Moore had told me about this. 22:15 He said, we went over there to film for Tony stuff 22:18 and he showed me some of the footage 22:20 of Friday night down there and these guys are dancing. 22:23 I looked at that, I said, "Wow, 22:24 I wonder if we are going to see that when we get there." 22:27 They are dancing, they are dancing around in circles. 22:29 They grab each others arms. 22:30 The New York kid said to me, "Hey, why don't you join in." 22:39 One of the really cool things 22:40 about becoming an Adventist for me, 22:43 no more dancing. 22:47 No, I am fine, man. 22:48 It's okay, leave it to the experts. 22:50 Now you know, this-- they weren't-- 22:51 this wasn't John Travolta. 22:54 You know, they-- that wasn't disco dancing. 22:56 They are celebrating, they are exuberant. 23:00 And he said join in with them. I said, "No, man. It's okay." 23:03 They are singing the Psalms, at one stage it got silent. 23:08 Hundreds of people turned around all together-- 23:10 I would turn around too but there's something 23:11 I am not going to show you. 23:12 They all turned around at the same time. 23:16 The sun was this high above the horizon. 23:20 He said, "We are welcoming Queen Sabbath." 23:24 I said, "Queen Sabbath?" 23:26 Next minute they are dancing again. 23:27 I am just standing there and minding my own business. 23:29 Ho, I get pulled over in the dancing line. 23:33 My mic came off into. 23:34 I-- when in Rome you got to do as the Roman. 23:37 So now I am doing this thing 23:39 and we are doing this-- oh, oh, hey. 23:40 I didn't know the words, the guy says, 23:41 "You don't know the words, just feel the words." 23:43 So I am feeling the words. 23:51 Let me say this with respect ladies and gentlemen. 23:54 And I say this with respect, 23:56 if a group of Jewish people, Jewish Jews. 23:59 I am not talking about Messianic Jews. 24:01 If they can get excited on Friday night about the Sabbath. 24:05 If they can be excited about the Messiah, 24:08 a Messiah they don't know, a Messiah they are waiting for. 24:12 If they can say the Lord has done great things for us, 24:16 I want to tell you Seventh-day Adventists 24:19 who know the Messiah by name, 24:23 who know He's coming back soon. 24:27 Who have been given blessings, 24:29 limitless blessings by All Mighty God. 24:32 Man, we've got something to be excited about. 24:37 People ought to be able to say, 24:38 the Lord has done great things for them 24:41 we ought to be able to say the same. 24:43 Friend, you ought to be glad, God is yours. 24:47 Here with these people, we are God's people, 24:49 I am saying, "No, wait a minute that's us." 24:52 I am thinking if you can be excited, 24:54 I can be more so excited. 24:56 Here's what the Psalmist went on to write, 24:59 "Turn again our captivity, O Lord, 25:01 as the streams in the south." 25:02 Luther wrote about this. 25:03 He said, it doesn't matter if it's the Read Sea 25:05 or the Jordon or anything else. 25:06 He said the similitude is this, 25:08 like as by the mighty hand you brought to pass miraculously 25:11 that the waters would dried up and consumed. 25:13 So dry up O Lord and bring to nothing all our captivity, 25:16 that's Martin Luther through them a day. 25:18 So that's the waters. 25:20 But now let's get to the serious part of the Psalm, 25:21 the business end of the Psalm. 25:22 How it applies to us today? 25:24 Cannot lose evangelistic outreach. 25:26 Let's read verse 5, 25:29 "They that sow in tears shall--" what? 25:34 "Shall reap in joy." 25:37 And the next verse extrapolates that out little bit, 25:41 "He that goeth forth and weepeth, 25:43 bearing precious seed, shall," give me the next word. 25:49 "Shall doubtless come again--" with what? 25:53 "Rejoicing, bringing his sheaves--" 25:56 where? There you go. 25:59 Somebody say, well, this represents Jewish farmers 26:01 casting the last of their grain into the ground and celebrating. 26:04 They are going to reap, fine, maybe it does. 26:07 But as we look at this through the lens 26:09 that God's end time people look through. 26:12 We see an application for us today. 26:14 An application that suggests 26:15 that God is urging us to reach this world for Him. 26:20 "He that goeth forth and weepeth, 26:22 bearing precious seed, 26:24 shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, 26:27 bringing his sheaves with him." 26:29 God, friend, he's speaking to you and me. 26:32 Look at this. He that goes forth. 26:37 Now this presuppose or something. 26:39 It presupposes that God's people what? Go forth. 26:44 Have you heard the great commission? 26:45 "Go ye therefore." Jesus said go. 26:50 The Psalmist says, go forth. 26:51 I know I am preaching to the choir here 26:53 but our theme is we-- 26:55 it's time to be about our father's business. 26:58 I don't know if you know but that's always the theme for ASI, 27:00 they just call it different stuff 27:02 because when you are part of this ASI movement 27:04 then you recognize that the mandate for you life 27:09 is that it's time to be about your father's business. 27:12 Old news, I know that. 27:14 The Savior told us what? 27:15 The harvest truly is great 27:19 but the problem is the laborers are what? 27:21 Few. But the laborers are few. 27:26 The harvest is great if ever there was a time 27:32 for all of God's people to go forth, 27:36 that time is now. Friend, go forth. 27:39 If God has been prodding you 27:41 in your comfort zone to move out of that comfort zone 27:44 and do something for Him 27:45 on the frontline somehow, go forth. 27:48 If it's that naive you've been waiting to talk, you go. 27:51 A family member, you've been waiting to reach, go, go forth. 27:54 Soon Jesus is coming back. 27:57 And how many times have you heard so and so just died? 27:59 You know what, I tell you what. 28:02 The doctor who rushed to my father's side 28:06 when my father had his heart attack and died. 28:08 When he got there, dad was dead 28:09 but the doctor was a great guy. 28:11 I used to play squash with him. 28:12 That's the intelligent person's racket ball. 28:14 Use to play squash with the doctor. 28:16 He was a good guy. Now I tell you what? 28:19 This is a family show, so I won't tell you 28:21 everything about his lifestyle. 28:25 I though to myself, that guy is a lovely guy. 28:29 He wept when my father died. 28:30 He wept. Oh, John-- my dad's name was John. 28:33 "Oh, John, I will miss you" 28:34 he said to my dead father. 28:36 Oh, John, I will miss you. 28:38 I though to myself, I got to do something about this guy. 28:41 He said, he said, he said something about God 28:45 and then he said not that I know anything about that. 28:48 Speaking of himself. 28:50 Not that I know anything about God. 28:51 I said, man, I got to do something for this guy. 28:53 I got to do something. I got to send him a book. 28:56 A voice, Steps to Christ that, to the audios, 28:58 oh, send that to him, he can listen to it in his car. 29:01 I will send him the Steps to Christ book, 29:02 I will send him something. 29:03 Maybe he will burn it, maybe he will listen, 29:05 maybe he will reject it, maybe he will accept it. 29:10 I kept thinking to myself every now and then, 29:11 it will be a great idea to send the doctor 29:13 something about Jesus. 29:14 Then I heard the doctor was dead. 29:19 Friend, if God is calling you to go forth, go forth. 29:22 If God is calling you to mission service at some place, 29:25 to leave your home, sell up, go, 29:27 go have a good talk with Jesus but go, go. 29:29 God is looking for people who would go forth. 29:32 God is looking for people who will take a risk. 29:34 God is looking for people who will say, 29:35 we will make a sacrifice. 29:38 God is looking for to say, 29:40 we will do something radical 29:41 even if it does freak out our parents, we will go. 29:45 I was in Papua New Guinea recently 29:47 and heard the story about a great New Zealand missionary, 29:50 his name was Len Bernard. 29:51 He is still alive. Great guy in his 90s now. 29:54 I haven't met him but I've heard the stories. 29:57 Pastor Bernard went to Papua New Guinea 29:59 and he saw the mountains and he saw the valleys. 30:01 He said somebody's got to go in there 30:02 and tell these cannibals about Jesus, I am going. 30:06 They said to him don't go. 30:09 You will not come out of there alive. 30:12 If you go, the people are very hospitable. 30:15 Somebody is gonna have you over for dinner. 30:23 He said somebody has to go. 30:25 You know, when I went there, I went to the very village 30:27 Pastor Bernard had been in. And when he was there-- 30:29 when he was there, somebody died. 30:32 He taught the people we're gonna have Christian funeral. 30:35 But they had to stay up all night guarding the body 30:37 so that nobody would steal the body and eat it. 30:41 We're gonna teach you how to have a Christian funeral. 30:42 You go there now. There is no fear. 30:45 There is no devil worship. 30:47 You go there now. There is no suspicion. 30:50 There is no filth. There is no disease. 30:53 You'd live in that village and be happy. 30:55 Beautiful. God has made the difference. 30:57 It would not have happened, it would not have happened, 31:01 without Pastor Bernard taking the big risk and going in there. 31:05 I was there to cap off, it is written God's Pod project. 31:08 We distributed the thousands of mp3, audio Bibles. 31:12 The people, they can't read or write, many of them. 31:15 Two-thirds of the people in the country. 31:17 We took these things there. 31:18 Man, am I glad somebody went forth before I went forth. 31:23 And I tell you what I saw the results 31:25 of what Pastor Bernard and others did. 31:27 When we were there and we had a baptism, 31:28 a couple of witch doctors, 31:29 former witch doctors were baptized. 31:32 And we talk about witch doctors 31:33 we say, "Oh, that was long ago." 31:34 Now one of them, he had a bow and arrow. 31:36 He would step out in front of his hut, shoot the arrow. 31:39 The arrow would fly for miles. They say even hundreds of miles. 31:44 It would hit a pig or some other animal 31:46 and fly back and deposit the animal 31:49 at the front door of the man's hut. 31:52 This was happening just a year ago. 31:54 And I know what's happening, because the man told me himself, 31:57 and the missionary told me himself, 32:00 it's the real thing. There's darkness out there, man. 32:03 And similar darkness, most likely in your neighborhood, 32:06 we just call it different things. 32:07 Friend, God is calling us to go forth. 32:10 What happens when you go forth? Is there a price to pay? 32:13 Pastor Bernard went froth. 32:14 He went a little forth, too close to an airplane propeller, 32:18 chopped off his leg. 32:20 Other than that, didn't cost him anything. 32:22 He was fine. 32:25 He's lying on the ground without his legs. 32:26 He said get me to the hospital. Not the hospital, a clinic. 32:29 We're talking about a bush clinic. 32:31 They were taking him to the bush clinic. 32:32 He said, "Hold on. Get my leg." 32:34 They said, pastor, you won't be leaving them. 32:36 Oh, yes I will. 32:37 They can't attach that leg, Pastor. 32:39 This is in the 1960's, early1960's. 32:44 He said will it God decide. They got him to the clinic. 32:48 Now man, this is a clinic. 32:49 This is not Loma Linda University Medical Centre 32:51 or University Hospital here in Cincinnati 32:54 or U.K. Hospital down in Lexington, Kentucky. 32:57 This was out in the bush, 32:58 50 years ago in the Papua and New Guinea. 33:00 He said if God has used for me, 33:03 if God sees to that I need my leg, 33:06 God will make it work. 33:08 They saw that leg on. 33:11 It took a few months. 33:13 Pastor Bernard walked out, walked out-- 33:17 do you believe in the miracles, ladies and gentleman? 33:19 If you met him today, you might notice 33:21 he walks with a slight limp. 33:23 There's a story behind that limp. 33:24 What's the story? 33:25 The Lord had done great things for us, can you say Amen? 33:30 Thank God for that. 33:31 He that goes forth and weeps, 33:34 the world will not be one while we hang back. 33:39 It won't happen. He that goes forth and weeps. 33:43 We can come at this from two angels. 33:45 Number one, we weep because we are burdened for souls. 33:49 We're burdened for souls. 33:51 We recognize that they are people 33:53 that must be one without Jesus. 33:54 They must be lost. We're burdened. 33:57 We cannot stand to see 33:59 our neighbors leaving Christ for lives. 34:00 We got to go forth weeping as it will, 34:03 either literally or metaphorically. 34:06 And there's a second thing that we might look at. 34:08 He that goes forth recognizing his insufficiency. 34:12 Recognizing that she isn't the answer here. 34:15 We go forward saying, God, you must do something here. 34:18 Lord, I will go but you work. 34:22 We were holding a series of meetings years ago in a town, 34:24 the name of which I would love to tell you. 34:28 I said to a lady, who's that man over there, 34:29 who's that man? 34:30 He looked like he fit in, but evidently 34:34 she said, you will never baptize him. 34:40 I thought to myself, well, I don't do the baptizing anyway. 34:42 I leave that to the church pastor, 34:43 but why do you say that. 34:45 Ah, he's been coming around here for years. 34:47 You will never baptize him. Man, did I pray that night? 34:51 Oh, God, please, please show this lady what you can do. 34:56 Show this congregation, what you can do? 34:58 I pled with God. 35:01 A month later, I stood up near the Baptistery, 35:03 watched him get baptized. 35:05 I'm looking around for that lady. 35:06 She didn't dare look at me. 35:10 I wanted to go up there and say, ha! 35:15 But I was far too Christian to do that. 35:21 Friend, God is able isn't he? God is able. 35:24 When we put in God, Lord I will go forth, 35:26 but I'm burdened here. I'm weeping here. 35:29 "He that goeth forth and weepeth, 35:30 bearing precious seed," precious seed. 35:32 Has God given us seed to go forward with? 35:36 Let's not be confused about this. 35:38 The seed that God had given His end time church 35:43 is the Three Angels messages. Can we agree on that? 35:46 That's the seed. 35:48 Now you can say, now there is more then one way to skin a cat. 35:51 Sure there are or is, plenty of ways. 35:55 But friends ultimately, 35:57 the message God has given us is the Three Angels message. 36:01 That doesn't mean you need to be talking about beast 36:03 every time you open your mouth. 36:04 It means you're lifting up Jesus every time you open your mouth. 36:08 It means that we need to tell people that there's a way, 36:11 that there's a Heaven, that there's a Savior, 36:13 that there's a seal of God, that there's a Remnant Church. 36:18 We ought to be proclaiming this message unapologetically. 36:24 I tell you what our problem is. 36:25 Many of our own people have figured out 36:26 that the precious seed isn't precious seed, 36:28 that's what they deduced. 36:30 I want to tell you something that there's power 36:32 in the word of God. 36:34 There's power in the word of God. 36:36 Power to change a life. 36:39 Power that reach somebody that you think is unreachable. 36:42 Power to reach somebody that you think is unwinnable. 36:45 God is able to do it. 36:48 I wonder if one of the reasons, 36:50 some parts of the world are baptizing tons 36:53 and others are not is because in some parts of the world 36:57 they're lifting up the Three Angels messages proudly 36:59 and in other parts, they're hiding it under the bush. 37:04 Now if you want to start a church in 37:05 and a coffee shop, I'm not gonna knock you. 37:07 If that's what God is leading you to do it, do it. 37:08 He's never let me do that, 37:10 but thank God He has led some people do that 37:11 because some people had reached that way. 37:14 If you think you need to change this 37:16 or change that or take this approach 37:17 or do something that's a little effort on God, 37:19 I'm not gonna tell you that's wrong. 37:21 But I will tell you way the power is. 37:23 The power is in the message 37:26 that God has given us to proclaim 37:28 down here in the end of time. 37:29 Everything else is a means to an end. 37:33 He that goes forth and weeps, 37:36 bearing precious seed, precious seed, 37:40 I'm reminded of what happened in Las Vegas, Nevada. 37:42 We had a wonderful series of meetings 37:44 in Las Vegas earlier this year. 37:46 In cooperation with Nevada-Utah Conference, 37:49 in cooperation with ASI, 37:51 God blessed so beautifully there. 37:54 In the lead up to the meetings, 37:57 we had this tremendous response to the project, 37:59 "Steps to Christ mailing." Tremendous response. 38:03 And so they were hundreds of people 38:05 who needed to be followed up. 38:07 One man lived way on the north side of the town, 38:10 way on the north side. 38:12 A couple went there. They said it's a long way. 38:15 He lives in a gated community. We went twice. 38:19 We couldn't find him. We are done. He is the name. 38:22 I say thank God they turned the cart back in, 38:26 because Michael and Phyllis got a hold of it. 38:27 They said where did you say that man lives? 38:30 He's not that far from our church. 38:32 We'll go. It's interesting. 38:34 Michael worked overnight. He worked all night long. 38:36 And then when they were so willing to do, 38:38 he wouldn't go to sleep. 38:39 He'd stay up all day, going knocking down doors 38:41 and offering Bible studies to people. 38:43 Praise the Lord. They went to the man's home. 38:46 Oh, hey, hang on a minute. Gated community. 38:48 But, you know, let me tell you, 38:51 if you live in a gated community, 38:52 you won't like me saying this. 38:55 But if you ever want to get into it gated community, 38:58 you know the trick light, pull up to the gate and wait. 39:04 Someone is going to come out soon. 39:08 That's your opportunity. 39:12 That wasn't gated with a guard or rottweiler wire. 39:14 It was just a gate. They went in. 39:17 They found the address. They knocked on the door. 39:19 Nobody was there. They said, uh. 39:21 We'll come back. They came back a second time. 39:24 They came back a third time. 39:26 They came back a fourth time. 39:28 When they knock down the door for the seventh time... 39:33 they said there's nobody home. 39:34 And suddenly, the door handle turned 39:39 and the door opened and there he was. 39:41 And she said, you sure a hard man to find at home. 39:45 And they left Bible studies. 39:46 They came back and they came back. 39:47 You see what-- 39:49 "He that goeth forth and weepeth, burdened," 39:53 we got to reach this man. 39:55 Bearing precious seed, the fourth time he said, 39:59 "would you all mind stepping up, 40:01 I got some questions about these Bible studies." 40:04 And then when he came to the read these written meeting, 40:05 the Revelation Today meeting, 40:07 I was looking forward to meeting him. 40:08 And when I met him, he had one question. 40:09 His question was, "do you think 40:12 I should be re-baptized 40:13 or should I just join this church on profession of faith? 40:17 No, no, no you meant to say amen there. Amen. 40:19 That's right. That was his only question. 40:22 He said there's a reason God has kept me alive this long. 40:25 He was an older man, 40:26 because God wanted me to learn his end time truth. 40:29 I say praise the Lord. 40:31 The Lord has done great things for us. 40:33 When you go forth, burdened, leaning on God, 40:36 Lord, we have got to find a way to reach this person, 40:41 to reach this community. 40:42 Now I want you to see what happens next verse 6, 40:46 "He that goeth forth and weepeth, 40:47 bearing precious seed," yes this is driving in nuts, 40:50 shall--shall what, shall next word, 40:52 shall let me hear you, shall what? 40:55 "Doubtless!" "Doubtless." 40:57 I got to love that word. 40:59 "He that goeth forth and weepeth, 41:00 bearing precious seed, 41:01 shall doubtless come again with rejoicing." 41:06 Started talking about can't loose propositions. 41:08 God gives you one right here. 41:11 He that goeth forth and weepeth, 41:13 bearing if you go forward with the word of God, 41:18 the Bible says you will doubtless without a doubt. 41:25 Come forth with rejoicing, bringing your sheaves with you. 41:30 If you sow they'll doubtless be a harvest. 41:35 Now I know, you're saying but, but, but-- I don't mind. 41:38 I am not interested in your but, in your objections. 41:46 See English language, I'm sorry. 41:49 Not interested. 41:51 I said a couple of times in sermons 41:52 I was referring to people 41:53 who went to India as missionaries. 41:56 And I said, man they would go to India 41:57 to bang their head against the brick wall. 41:59 They would celebrate baptizing one. 42:01 Baptize one. They baptize one. 42:03 They would come home they say, why did I even go. 42:05 I wonder, I asked some return missionaries, 42:07 some old missionaries. 42:08 They said John that's exactly what it was like. 42:12 And now you go to India 42:13 and you preach the word of God. 42:15 What's the problem we have there? 42:17 We can't build the churches fast enough. 42:20 It may take a while. 42:22 But you would doubtless come again with rejoicing, 42:25 bringing your sheaves with you. 42:27 But John, Evangelism doesn't work. 42:28 No, no, no, hang on a minute. 42:30 The problem is people don't work. 42:32 Evangelism works. It was 1970. 42:36 George Vandeman, when he was headed, he Written 42:39 held an Evangelistic series, guess where? 42:42 Here. Right here. 42:45 And they were multitude, ah, it's a big word. 42:49 They were many people baptized. 42:50 As a matter of fact, the conference president 42:52 at that time said we're gonna get 42:54 our pound of flesh out of this guy 42:55 and so George was holding meetings in Columbus, 42:57 Dayton and Cincinnati simultaneously. 43:02 We're holding meetings in Dayton later on this year. 43:03 They haven't asked us to go to Columbus 43:05 and Cincinnati simultaneously. 43:07 Please don't give them any ideas. 43:11 In Cincinnati in 19-- 43:13 whatever, Robert Booth beheld meetings. 43:16 You know, how many people were baptized 43:17 in the city at the end of that meeting? 43:21 457 people were baptized. But John, that years ago. 43:28 That was before there was electricity. 43:31 You know, the last time ASI was held here in Cincinnati 43:33 there was a Youth for Jesus. 43:34 You know, Youth for Jesus, right? 43:37 Kids holding Evangelistic meetings. 43:39 In several places around the city, 43:41 they were hundreds and hundreds of people 43:44 who said they were going to come up to the meeting 43:46 and dozens and dozens 43:48 more than a hundred people baptized. 43:50 Children leading more than a hundred people to Baptism 43:55 in secular post-modern Cincinnati, 43:58 just a few years ago. 43:59 I got a question for you. Does it work? 44:03 God says this thing will work. 44:05 The word He used was "doubtless." 44:08 Now I do want to express that there's more then 44:10 just public Evangelism as part of Evangelism. 44:14 But Evangelism is Evangelism. 44:16 And if you want to share a loaf of bread 44:17 over the back fence with your neighbor, 44:18 do it, that's Evangelism. 44:20 If you want to look after your neighbors' kids, 44:22 so she can go shopping so you can demonstrate 44:24 the love of Jesus, that's Evangelism. 44:26 You bet it is. 44:27 If you want to operate a soup kitchen 44:28 or feed the homeless or go to the prison, it's Evangelism. 44:32 If you want to gather some interests together 44:34 and preach the word of God and share the word of God, 44:36 it's Evangelism and this work cannot be without fruit. 44:40 I read somewhere, "don't be discouraged. 44:43 Oh, man in our town, we haven't seen a breakthrough." 44:45 Doesn't mean there hasn't been one, 44:47 doesn't mean there won't be one. 44:50 My buddy, Ron Halverson was telling me the story, 44:51 you've probably heard the story. 44:53 If you haven't, I'm gonna tell the story. 44:55 It's a great Ron Halverson story. 44:56 Ron, sorry man, I'm about to use your story, 45:01 in front of everyone. You can use two of mine. 45:06 This story is worth my ten best stories. 45:10 Ron Halverson was at a camp meeting 45:12 and he eyed one of the camp meeting speakers 45:14 that were backstage. He said hmm. 45:17 That's the famous Evangelist who went to a certain city 45:20 and they spent a boat load of money. 45:23 I need a boat load. 45:26 And they got a handful of Baptists. 45:28 And these Evangelists have thought 45:29 that the meetings have been a colossal failure. 45:32 Ron went up to me and said, "well, done. 45:34 Glad to meet you. 45:35 I remember those meetings, you held in new"-- 45:38 wasn't going to tell you the city, in some place. 45:43 Evangelist wasn't too interested. 45:45 Ron said I had heard you I had 12,000 Baptisms at that meeting. 45:50 No, brother Halverson, that's not right. 45:52 We just had a handful. Oh, no. Oh, no, Ron said. 45:56 Oh, no, brother, I heard you had 12,000 Baptisms. 46:03 No, no, you must be hearing it wrong. 46:05 Oh, no, no, no brother, 12,000. 46:08 He said, let me tell you. 46:10 You baptize the lady 46:11 in that series of meetings named misses so and so. 46:16 Her son was a good buddy of mind, 46:19 who led me to the Lord and in my ministry 46:22 so far we baptized 12,000 people. 46:25 He said, "Elder, I understand 46:27 you have 12,000 Baptisms in that meeting. 46:32 Thank you, for telling me, brother. 46:34 A young Evangelist said to me, 46:35 said, "John, man he is a friend of mine, John. 46:37 I held a meeting in Arkansas, "oh, man, how did it go?" 46:41 No what's wrong? What's the matter? 46:42 How did it go? How many Baptisms you have? 46:44 And that's not always the measure. How many? 46:46 He said, "Oh, man, just two." 46:49 I said two Baptisms. Oh, man. 46:53 I said what's the population of that town? 46:56 He said three thousand. Three thousand! 46:59 You ought to be jumping for joy. 47:01 Now this was just after the Mark Finley 47:02 had held his Written meeting in San Diego. 47:05 I said Mark Finley just held a meeting in San Diego. 47:07 They had four hundred Baptisms. 47:09 He said, oh, don't tell me. I should hang on. 47:11 San Diego has got 1.3 million people. 47:15 Do the math. 47:16 Four hundred Baptisms in the city of 1.3 million 47:19 is not as good as two Baptisms in the city of 3000. 47:23 I said, "man, you did better than Mark Finley." 47:28 Hey, no disrespect, Mark. You did better than Mark Finley. 47:31 Oh, he stood up. 47:34 Don't worry about how many heads you can count. 47:38 If you go forward weeping, burdened 47:42 and you saw precious seed God has promised, 47:45 you will doubtless come again with rejoice 47:48 and bringing your sheaves with you. Doubtless. 47:51 "So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth, 47:54 it will not return to me void, 47:55 but it shall accomplish that which I please, 47:59 and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it." 48:01 God calls us simply to "Go." 48:07 Brand new Adventist, 48:09 pardon me if you've heard the story before. 48:11 I say brand new Adventist. I'm looking at the clock. 48:15 Ah, it's better to apologize later 48:17 than to ask for permission beforehand. 48:23 And so, I was baptized in England. 48:26 The next day I returned to New Zealand, 48:28 called up local church. 48:29 I don't know where it was, how to get there, nothing. 48:31 He said there is a guy in your town 48:33 who comes to this church. 48:34 I said no, no there's no Adventist 48:36 in my old town. Yes. 48:37 He told me the name of the guy. 48:39 I said that guy is a big shot in our Catholic Church. 48:44 I said I know a fellow by that name, but it's not him. 48:47 He calls the guy, he says Bradshaw, 48:48 John Bradshaw, can you give him right to church? 48:50 He said John Bradshaw, 48:53 he said I know what John Bradshaw, 48:54 that's not him. That's not possible. 48:57 When we met, oh, man, 49:00 I can still see his little white man 49:01 driving of my mother's blacktop driveway. 49:03 Oh, it's you I said. He said it's you. 49:05 We couldn't believe it. 49:07 And there he had his four kids, 49:08 the daughter and the three sons. 49:10 If he hadn't joined the Adventist church... 49:13 But that was just four 49:17 and sweet daughter, nine years old. 49:20 We had a great time. 49:22 Years later, I'm preaching back in that same church. 49:25 I'm bringing the sermon into a closing. 49:27 God says make an altar call. 49:30 I said, no I cannot do that. Make an altar... 49:32 no, no, I will just make a regular altar appeal. 49:34 Make an altar call. 49:35 I said there's something, you don't understand. 49:38 God likes that about me. 49:39 I help Him with the things He can't understand. 49:41 I said there's something you don't understand. 49:43 I come back from New Zealand 49:44 and you all think I sound like a New Zealander. 49:46 The New Zealanders think I sound like an American. 49:49 It's very disconcerting. 49:51 I said if I make an altar call they'll think, 49:53 I think I'm a big shot American preacher 49:55 and I'm showing off. I can't do that. 49:57 I'm not gonna make an altar call. 49:59 And right when I said that to the Lord, 50:01 one of the pastors came forward 50:02 and started playing an appeal song on the piano. 50:04 I looked down. 50:06 He looked up at me and nodded his head. 50:12 I'm outnumbered. Make the appeal. 50:15 I see a young lady stand up, she's got a baby on her hip, 50:17 I say, hey that's the girl. 50:21 Oh. She comes forward. I talk to you at the back. 50:24 She waits to talk. I said how is it going? 50:28 John, see says, things aren't good. 50:31 Mom and dad have left the church. 50:32 In fact, they split up. 50:34 Dad went back to drinking alcohol. 50:36 My brothers they don't come. 50:37 The elder's one smoking dope, 50:39 and the others wanting to smoke dope. 50:42 I hardly ever come to church. 50:44 But this morning, I felt like God said go to church. 50:46 And when I came and you were preaching, 50:48 I knew that God was calling me 50:49 and I knew that God was calling me back, join back. 50:55 And I gonna go and I'm gonna bring my whole family back. 51:02 You got to admire people. 51:04 On the inside I said, that will never happen. 51:06 I mean, come on. The dad was an alcoholic. 51:10 He got off the booze and now he's gone back to drinking. 51:11 Oh, he's done. 51:13 The parents, they've been married 25 years. 51:15 Now they split up and now they back together. 51:19 They're not coming back together. 51:20 The brothers, the teenage boys out in the world 51:22 maybe the oldest was 20 years something, out in the world. 51:26 They're not all coming in. I said what a great idea. 51:29 You go, get your family. I will pray for you. 51:34 My prayer wouldn't have been worth two cents. 51:37 She said I'm gonna and get my family 51:39 and bring the whole lot of them to Jesus. 51:40 We got to come back. God's calling us all. 51:43 You see the Bible says, "he that goeth forth 51:44 and we bearing precious seeds shall," what? Doubtless. 51:48 Come again with rejoicing bringing his sheaves. 51:51 I come back a couple of years later 51:52 and hold an Evangelistic series there. 51:54 Well, there's my girl and she comes bounding up to me. 51:57 John, have you heard. Heard what? 51:59 Mom and dad are back in the church. 52:01 What happened? 52:02 Well, dad got off the booze. They got back together. 52:04 They've been re-baptized, I think it was. 52:06 They're back in the church and there's-- they're involved, 52:09 they'll be working in the series. 52:10 I said, well, hallelujah. Take that. 52:17 What about the rest of the family? 52:19 My oldest brother coming back to church. 52:23 How about your husband? 52:24 He's agreed to attend the archeology seminar. 52:28 The husband is sitting in the archeology seminar. 52:30 He leans over to the wife he says, 52:32 you know, I think what this guy 52:33 is saying about Noah's Ark is true. 52:35 Yes, of course it's true. 52:38 If it's true then the Bible is true. 52:40 I have been telling you for years that the Bible's true. 52:43 If the Bible is true, then I should get baptized. What? 52:48 Yeah, I should get baptized and join the church. 52:50 I think that's what I will do. 52:51 As a matter of fact, let's get your brothers 52:53 and bring them in too. 52:57 By the time the series was over, 52:58 they had all made decisions for Baptism. 53:01 And when I was back for a Youth, 53:02 I went a year later, guess he was front and center. 53:05 The daughter was running the show. 53:06 The husband, he was there too. 53:08 One of the boys became a student missionary. 53:11 One of the boys did something else 53:14 and one of the boys did something else, 53:15 but the point is they all came to Jesus. 53:18 And the husband became "It is Written" Bible worker. 53:21 Somebody ought to say Amen out there. Amen! 53:23 Friend, "he that goeth forth 53:26 and weeps bearing precious seed," 53:28 tell me shall what? 53:29 "Doubtless, come again with rejoicing 53:31 bringing his sheaves with him." 53:32 This is cannot lose proposition, cannot lose. 53:37 God is just asking you if you'll go forth, that's all. 53:43 If you are out there on the frontline, 53:45 God bless you, pray and ask that 53:48 the spirit would work like never before. 53:49 Friends, Jesus is coming back soon. 53:53 This isn't maybe. This isn't possibly. 53:55 This isn't perhaps. 53:56 Jesus is coming back and when He comes back 53:58 there will be people ready to meet Him. 54:00 There will be people who will say, 54:02 I'm standing on the platform of the Three Angels messages. 54:05 I'm standing on Jesus as my Lord and savior. 54:07 He's the sea. Friends, let's go forward. 54:11 If we weep, we weep, 54:13 but we bear precious seed. 54:14 And God says, "we shall doubtless" 54:17 come again with, what? 54:18 Rejoicing! Rejoicing! 54:26 Bringing our sheaves with us, what do you say? Amen! 54:29 Let us pray, "Our Father and our God, 54:33 we thank you today for Jesus. 54:36 We thank you that you've called us out of darkness 54:38 into your marvelous life. 54:41 We thank you today that you've commissioned us. 54:46 You've given us the greatest work 54:47 that there ever was that is sharing Jesus. 54:51 Lord some of us we don't know what we're doing. 54:54 We're all ill-equipped really. 54:56 We're all in adequate and we're all tainted by sin. 54:58 We thank you that our sufficiency is of Christ 55:00 and that we're collaborate together with you. 55:02 Lord thank you for this beautiful psalm. 55:05 Encourage us to go forth. 55:07 Bearing the precious seed, and Father we believe, 55:10 we will doubtless come again with rejoicing, 55:13 bringing our sheaves with us. 55:14 We thank you for this wonderful truth 55:16 and these blessed promises. 55:18 And we pray today in Jesus name, 55:20 please join me and say, Amen and Amen. 56:16 Give me ears to hear Your Spirit 56:22 Give me feet to follow through 56:27 Give me hands to touch the hurting 56:33 And the faith to follow You 56:42 Give me grace to be a servant 56:47 Give me mercy for the lost 56:52 Give me passion for Your glory 56:57 Give me passion for the cross 57:03 And I will go where there are no easy roads 57:08 Leave the comforts that I know 57:13 I will go and let this journey be my home 57:19 I will go I will go 57:37 I'll let go of my ambition 57:42 Cut the roots that run too deep 57:47 I will learn to give away 57:52 What I cannot really keep 57:57 What I cannot really keep 58:04 Help me see with eyes of faith 58:11 Give me strength to run this race 58:17 And I will go where there are no easy roads 58:22 Leave the comforts that I know 58:27 I will go and let this journey be my home 58:32 I will go I will go 58:37 I will go Lord where Your glory is unknown 58:42 I will live for You alone 58:47 I will go because my life is not my own 58:55 I will go 58:58 I will go I will go |
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