You have given new
meaning to the word remnant.
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God bless you.
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The few, the
proud and the chosen,
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it's good to see
you this morning.
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And I trust that you
have been at least as blessed
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as I have been from
your time at GYC this year.
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This is actually my
first experience at GYC
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and I'm so grateful.
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I have spend years
encouraging church members
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and other people to come to GYC
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and now I will always be
able to speak from experience
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when I tell folks that
this is where they ought to be,
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if they want to be
blessed and encouraged
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and lifted up before God.
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What do you say?
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I want to just take
a moment to acknowledge
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the leaders of
GYC and thank them
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for turning on
this wonderful event,
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this venue where God's Spirit
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can work in such a powerful way.
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Over the years,
the leaders of GYC
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have done a remarkable job.
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Of course we
seek to lift up Jesus
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but I'm giving thanks
where I believe thanks is due.
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And I didn't do this when
I had an opportunity earlier
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but I wanted to
thank Elder John Freedman,
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the president of the
Washington Conference.
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Obviously, the support
of the Washington Conference
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is being important
and greatly appreciated.
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I know not all of
you ran this morning.
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About that, uh?
The 5k this morning.
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Yeah, don't think the Bradshaw's
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aren't gonna be represented.
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My wife did an awesome
job running 5k this morning.
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Awesome.
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So proud of her. Excellent.
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I hope that you are praying
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for the revolution to continue
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in God's church
around this world.
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I don't want to be selfish,
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but I would like
you to pray for me,
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I have a six
evangelistic meetings
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coming up over the next year
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with It Is
Written and Escrito Está,
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our Spanish language ministry
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has at least as
many in the United States
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and other places as well.
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I would like to
take this opportunity
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to encourage you to participate
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in revelation today
taking place in Charlotte,
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North Carolina in
October of this year.
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It's gonna be
broadcast and webcast
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and all kind of cast.
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And you will be able to be
part of it wherever you are.
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So perhaps, this is
something your church
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wants to participate in,
or you want to do at home
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or in your office,
in your place of work,
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in your dormitory or something.
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Another
opportunity to gather people
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to get around the Bible
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and encourage them
into the word of God
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and I would ask you to
be praying for this event
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and everything that's taking
place in the name of Jesus
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for the
up-building of His kingdom
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and the proclamation of
the Three Angels' Messages.
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Well, let us pray
if you don't mind,
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and we'll pray
expecting God to bless us
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as we open the Bible today.
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Let's pray.
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Our Father and our God,
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we come to You in
the name of Jesus.
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That our old song
said, in our hand,
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no price we bring
truly to the cross we cling.
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Heavenly Father,
as this convocation
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comes to a conclusion,
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we pray that You would unleash
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the power of Your spirit again.
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I'm not going to
ask that you be here
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or that You come into this place
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as sure as the sun
is shining in the sky,
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we know that You
are here, we know that.
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My prayer is that You
would allow for us to be here.
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Take our minds, take our hearts,
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unite our will with Your will.
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Allow our faculties to be
absorbed into Your purposes.
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And let these minutes
be such as would draw us
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into Your words
and into Your heart.
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Bless us now please
for Your glory we pray
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in Jesus' name, amen.
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It was the cool December
day and the year was 1773.
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A group of patriots known
as the Sons of Liberty boarded
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three ships in Boston harbor
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and went to work unloading
342 crates of their contents.
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The crates had been delivered
by the East India Tea Company
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and they contain
some of India's finest,
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if you allow me to
put it that way tea.
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This was no small matter.
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Our children have
tea parties today.
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We think that is cute.
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The government of Great Britain
did not think this was cute.
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Britain responded decidedly,
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determined to restore British
authority in Massachusetts,
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Britain past a series of laws
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that they believed essentially
would reform government,
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reform
government in the colonies.
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The past several acts
in the British parliament,
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five of them become
known as the Intolerable Acts,
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four of them
really related directly
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to what was taking
place in the Massachusetts.
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The fifth one
was the Quebec Act,
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but the patriots
didn't like that either.
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The Quebec or the Quebec Act,
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in large the problems of Quebec
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and brought it all the
way down to the Ohio River.
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The colonies
didn't like that either.
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But the four acts that really
stuck in the corral with ease.
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One was the Boston Port Act.
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In retaliation against
what the patriots have done,
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the Boston Harbor was closed
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until the East India
Tea Company had been repaid
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for the tea that had been lost.
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The patriots
didn't like that much.
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The Massachusetts Government Act
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brought the
colony of Massachusetts
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directly under the
control of Great Britain
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just like that.
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And so the colonies
and the other colonies
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started to fear that their
autonomy would be taken away,
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not that you could
really call it autonomy.
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They fear that Britain would
act similarly against them.
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Freedom was disappeared.
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The Administration of
Justice Act meant that
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royal subject in the colonies
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could should
Britain choose be tried
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for crimes levied against them
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in Britain rather than
here in the United States,
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what was not the
United States yet.
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George Washington
called this the murder act.
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He said, what
this will accomplish
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that British can
do anything at all,
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harass us anyway they like
and they will get away with it.
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This is intolerable he said,
the intolerables they were.
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And the fourth one
was the Quartering Act,
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this was an elaboration
upon or enlargement of an act
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that was already in existence
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placing the burden
or rather onerous burden
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of housing, billeting caring
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for British
soldiers on the colonies.
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And the colonies
didn't like that.
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Enough they said of
taxation without representation.
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Why should we put up with this?
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The royals, they are treating us
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with scorn, indignity.
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British Prime
Minister Lord North misjudged
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the sediment in these colonies.
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The Americans by now had
little regards for any laws
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that the British
passed, had little regard.
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And they already
began organizing for war.
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It was in 1775
that the shot was fired,
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that has been
described since then
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as the shot
heard around the world.
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And the American Revolution
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developed into the
revolution every war.
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A royal decree was issued.
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It declared that the
colonists were traitors.
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The colonists said bring it on,
because there's no going back.
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And on July the 4th 1776,
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the United States of America
were formed or was formed.
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A new nation, new
liberties, new opportunities,
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yea verily new
responsibilities as well.
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And all came
out of a revolution.
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A revolution occurs when
the parties involve decide
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that they will no
longer tolerate the status quo.
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There has to be
change of decisive assault.
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People say we
will no longer go along
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with existing conditions.
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There has to be a
change. People say this is it.
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We are turning over a new leaf
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and there would
be no going back.
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You can think
about some of the world's
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great revolutionaries,
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the founding
fathers, heroes, imperfect,
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but they step
forward when the moment came
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and they acted decisively
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and the world has
never been the same since.
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Heroes such as Martin Luther,
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heroes such as Dr.
Martin Luther King Junior,
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heroes such as Gandhi are
not praising his theology.
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But you know
Gandhi was a revolutionary
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who brought change
and it was needed change.
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Not all revolutionaries
are created equal.
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Some are
remembered as being infinites
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more than famous, Che Guevara.
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A revolutionary died in Bolivia
at the hands of CIA, I believe.
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Vladimir Lenin,
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no not a hero of
mine, but a revolutionary.
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Karl Marx,
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I don't know
subscribe to his point of you,
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but a
revolutionary nevertheless.
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Mao Zedong, I don't
want a revolution like that,
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taking place on our soil,
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but nevertheless chairman
Mao was a revolutionary.
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People who brought change,
people whose actions lineup
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with the dictionary
definition of revolution.
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If you look in the dictionary,
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you will discover
that revolution is,
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listen, listen
because this becomes
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very important to
us on a personal basis.
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A revolution is
that I read for you,
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an overthrow or repudiation,
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and the thorough replacement
of an established government
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or political system
by the people governed.
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Think now, friends,
because this is direct
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implications and
consequences for you and me.
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A repudiation of an overthrow
of the system governing you.
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That's the
definition of revolution.
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Another definition
is, a sudden complete
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or marked change in something.
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You know where I'm going today.
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A sudden complete or
marked change in something.
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The first revolutionary
we read about in the Bible
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is a surprising revolutionary.
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He began as
Lucifer the light bearer,
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we called him Satan today.
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The Bible calls him a deceiver,
a liar and the father of it.
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He is the
accuser of the brethren,
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but he was a revolutionary.
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There in heaven all was
perfect and all was love.
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There was a perfect system,
there was a perfect government,
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but this revolutionary
rose up against it,
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he said, we will
not have a government
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that brings glory to God,
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but we will have
a government instead
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that brings
glory to the creature,
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not the creator.
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Lucifer said, and you know it
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for it is
written in Isaiah 14:12,
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I will be like the Most High.
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I cannot stand the status quo.
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There must be a change,
change will begin with me.
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Lucifer, the first recorded
revolutionary in the Bible.
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You could argue with that.
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None I hope you will,
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because there is
another revolutionary
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that we will talk about soon.
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The Bible is a
book of revolutions.
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And as we've seen over
these last few days at GYC,
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the Book of Acts is
where we find evidence
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of something
truly revolutionary.
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Now, the first, the
greatest revolutionary
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there ever was, was Jesus,
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and truthfully
you could say that
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Jesus was the
original revolutionary,
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because long ago in
the council of peace,
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Jesus said, if somebody falls,
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if this world goes
to hell, I will go.
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Jesus was the lamb slain
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from before the
foundation of the world.
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He said in case,
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there's a revolution down there,
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let me make a
decision right here.
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we will have
provided for their salvation,
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I will get them
out of jail free,
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I will go if I need to,
Jesus stood up and said,
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here am I, sent me.
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The father said, all right,
should that happen you will go.
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Jesus came to a
world darkened by sin
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and He offered salvation.
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He came to a
planet mired in tradition
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and He brought truth.
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He traveled to a
distance spot in the universe
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where there was
failure and He offered victory
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where there was
mediocrity or even worse,
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Jesus proffered excellence.
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Instead of wickedness,
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Jesus came and He held
out the hope of righteousness,
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and for death
Jesus offered life.
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Jesus was and
is a revolutionary.
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But there is
something interesting
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about that revolution
that was conceived in heaven
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and then really took
place here on the earth.
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Jesus started the revolution
by intent in heaven long ago.
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He brought a massive
revolution to our world
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that was dead and
trespasses in sins.
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When He came, He was
born as a baby in Bethlehem
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and then when He
ministered and lived
00:14:37.59\00:14:38.90
and ultimately died
on an old rugged cross.
00:14:38.93\00:14:42.88
But Jesus when
He left this earth
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and ascended to heaven,
00:14:45.51\00:14:46.89
left the revolution in the hands
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of some interesting characters.
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It was a misfit church.
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You think you see
things in your church
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that you don't like.
00:15:06.34\00:15:09.73
We had so many
grumblers in the church today.
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It's true, there's
plenty to grumble about.
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You are in the church,
there something right there.
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But if the
grumblers would attempt
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to be part of the solution,
00:15:29.67\00:15:32.05
rather than just
amplified the problem,
00:15:32.08\00:15:34.97
this would be not
a different church,
00:15:35.00\00:15:37.93
but a different world,
00:15:37.96\00:15:39.09
ladies and
gentlemen, a different world.
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It was a misfit
church back then.
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Just days before
Jesus went to heaven,
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the Bible says, His
very closest friends
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and this is a direct
quote forsook Him and fled.
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Imagine, Jesus being dragged
off to that kangaroo court
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and thinking, well
I'm gonna be dead soon
00:16:03.29\00:16:06.06
and the future of the church
rests upon some yellow-bellies
00:16:06.09\00:16:10.03
who in My moment of
need forsook me and fled.
00:16:10.06\00:16:14.39
Would you have taken that risk?
00:16:14.42\00:16:16.53
No, you would not.
00:16:16.56\00:16:19.24
Two of Jesus' inner
circle was so corrupt,
00:16:19.27\00:16:24.62
that their method of
solving interpersonal conflicts
00:16:24.65\00:16:28.22
was to appeal to deity
to send fire from heaven
00:16:28.25\00:16:33.30
to burn up the people
who disagreed with them.
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Can you imagine that?
00:16:37.43\00:16:39.95
You got problems with somebody
00:16:39.98\00:16:41.13
in your dormitory
if you are in college
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and you go to the dean and
say, I think I have a solution,
00:16:43.66\00:16:47.70
let's pray that
God sends fire down
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from heaven and burns here up.
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That's what
Jesus was dealing with.
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Judas had a devil.
00:16:58.03\00:17:01.90
Now, Jesus didn't leave
00:17:01.93\00:17:02.97
the future of
the church with him,
00:17:03.00\00:17:05.43
but you know that like
leavened in dough Judas'
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influences
leavened the disciples,
00:17:10.32\00:17:12.85
you understand that?
00:17:12.88\00:17:15.01
Thomas, Doubting
Thomas, Philip weak in faith,
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the great
revolutionary had left the earth
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and he was passing
the torch on to others.
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What could possibly
come off this revolution?
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Open your Bible with me please,
00:17:38.24\00:17:39.84
sorry to take so
long getting there,
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Luke Chapter
24, Luke Chapter 24.
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And we'll pick
it up in verse 49.
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Jesus is about to
checkout of this earth
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and He is dealing with
His little group of failures
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and He says this to them.
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Luke 24:49.
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"And behold, I send the
promise of my father upon you,
00:18:02.16\00:18:08.41
but tarry in the
city of Jerusalem
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until you been endued
with power from on high."
00:18:11.46\00:18:15.13
Jesus look at
them and He realized
00:18:15.16\00:18:17.81
they were
failures, they were frail,
00:18:17.84\00:18:21.21
they had more than foibles,
this was a broken bunch.
00:18:21.24\00:18:25.26
Peter denied him like he did,
00:18:25.29\00:18:27.70
I mean Jesus was
looking at this group
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and He said, you are not
gonna get it done on your own,
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but it was never God's intention
00:18:33.93\00:18:36.38
that the church
get it done on its own.
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Jesus said, made provision
for a group of failures,
00:18:40.64\00:18:43.25
so that they could
be raging successes
00:18:43.28\00:18:46.07
in prosecuting
the gospel commission.
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And he said to them, wait
00:18:49.61\00:18:52.54
until you be endued
with power from on high.
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And then verse 53 says,
they responded positively,
00:18:55.99\00:19:00.21
they were
continually in the temple,
00:19:00.24\00:19:02.30
praising and blessing God
and then Luke write, amen.
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And we all ought
to say amen to them.
00:19:05.96\00:19:07.78
Jesus left them behind
00:19:07.81\00:19:09.18
and where would
you have found them?
00:19:09.21\00:19:10.28
In the temple.
What were they doing?
00:19:10.31\00:19:12.09
worshipping, praising,
praying, they were waiting,
00:19:12.12\00:19:15.07
they were pressing
close to the heart of God.
00:19:15.10\00:19:17.25
We know, you've
got something big,
00:19:17.28\00:19:18.95
we are here, and we are ready.
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What happened as a result?
00:19:22.92\00:19:25.19
The Book of Acts
happened as a result.
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For some of reason,
the Book of Acts is called,
00:19:27.82\00:19:29.28
the Acts of the Apostles.
00:19:29.31\00:19:30.81
It should really be called
the Acts of the Holy Spirit
00:19:30.84\00:19:33.08
because when you
look at the Book of Acts,
00:19:33.11\00:19:34.91
the disciples did
nothing, other than,
00:19:34.94\00:19:39.23
provide
themselves as vessels through
00:19:39.26\00:19:42.10
which the Holy
Spirit could work.
00:19:42.13\00:19:44.46
God was gonna get a work done,
00:19:44.49\00:19:46.30
that the
disciples would be tools
00:19:46.33\00:19:48.32
in the hands of a mighty God.
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We read about this.
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Book of Pentecost took place
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and when I read
about this thing in Acts,
00:19:53.47\00:19:55.38
in a book called the
Acts of the Apostles,
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in the Bible book.
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Here's what I discovered,
00:19:59.66\00:20:00.72
I've cobbled a
few points together.
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Here's what the disciples
knew, when Pentecost took place.
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Here's what the disciples knew,
00:20:07.47\00:20:08.99
when they pressed in
close to the heart of God,
00:20:09.02\00:20:10.68
here's what they knew.
00:20:10.71\00:20:12.22
They knew, that they had
a representative in heaven
00:20:12.25\00:20:14.84
and advocate of
the throne of God.
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Did you know that today?
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In solemn, all
day bowed in prayer
00:20:18.07\00:20:20.40
repeating the assurance,
00:20:20.43\00:20:22.19
what so whether you shall
ask of God and in my name,
00:20:22.22\00:20:25.12
he will give it to you.
00:20:25.15\00:20:26.91
They believed what God had said,
00:20:26.94\00:20:31.04
revolutionary, as
the disciples waited
00:20:31.07\00:20:34.41
for the
fulfillment of the promise
00:20:34.44\00:20:35.61
they humbled their
hearts in true repentance
00:20:35.64\00:20:38.97
and confessed their unbelief.
00:20:39.00\00:20:43.46
But they were
comforted by the thought
00:20:43.49\00:20:44.78
that they were forgiven
00:20:44.81\00:20:46.26
and they determined
that so far as possible,
00:20:46.29\00:20:48.40
they would atone
for their unbelief
00:20:48.43\00:20:49.97
by bravely
confessing him before the world.
00:20:50.00\00:20:52.00
Let me stop
there and editorialize
00:20:52.03\00:20:53.45
just a little bit.
00:20:53.48\00:20:56.69
Unfortunately,
there are some people
00:20:56.72\00:20:57.99
who struggled with
idea that they are forgiven.
00:20:58.02\00:21:01.91
Could God really forgive
me after what I have done?
00:21:01.94\00:21:05.16
Does God really have a
place for me in His work,
00:21:05.19\00:21:07.22
when you stop and consider
00:21:07.25\00:21:08.28
how sinful I have been and I am?
00:21:08.31\00:21:10.49
Look where I am now.
00:21:10.52\00:21:11.87
Could God use somebody like me?
00:21:11.90\00:21:13.47
I want to tell you something,
00:21:13.50\00:21:14.53
it's time to take
your eyes of yourself
00:21:14.56\00:21:16.71
and put your eyes on a
mediator in heaven sanctuary.
00:21:16.74\00:21:20.28
When you look at you,
00:21:20.31\00:21:21.34
the answer will
always be defeat.
00:21:21.37\00:21:22.92
When you look at Jesus,
00:21:22.95\00:21:24.12
the answers will
always be victory.
00:21:24.15\00:21:26.22
Can God use you? Yes, He can.
00:21:26.25\00:21:28.67
Sinful you? Yes, He can.
00:21:28.70\00:21:30.72
Let's not talk
anymore about your sinfulness.
00:21:30.75\00:21:33.66
That's our self problem.
00:21:33.69\00:21:37.10
We'd like to define
issues with self by saying,
00:21:37.13\00:21:40.06
well, you know, I
really wanted a hamburger,
00:21:40.09\00:21:42.48
but I prayed and I just
walked right on by McDonalds'
00:21:42.51\00:21:45.49
and I've got
victory of our self.
00:21:45.52\00:21:49.88
All right, that
probably qualifies.
00:21:49.91\00:21:54.56
But in the big
picture I could care less.
00:21:54.59\00:21:59.38
There's another victory
over self, you ought to get
00:21:59.41\00:22:00.95
and that's the
victory over self doubt.
00:22:00.98\00:22:03.65
That's the victory of
our self condemnation,
00:22:03.68\00:22:05.88
that's selfishness man,
00:22:05.91\00:22:07.58
that's all it is,
that's self centeredness.
00:22:07.61\00:22:09.89
Look beyond yourself
00:22:09.92\00:22:11.52
and look at Jesus in
heaven's sanctuary and say,
00:22:11.55\00:22:14.33
misfit though I might
be, broken though I am,
00:22:14.36\00:22:18.25
failed though I be,
my hope is in Christ,
00:22:18.28\00:22:22.43
my hope is in heaven,
00:22:22.46\00:22:24.52
I have a mediator at
the right hand of God
00:22:24.55\00:22:28.76
in the Most Holy Place
of the heavenly sanctuary,
00:22:28.79\00:22:31.55
Jesus, the Bible tells
you in the Book of Hebrews,
00:22:31.58\00:22:34.21
He went to heaven for us.
00:22:34.24\00:22:36.69
He is for you not against
you. The disciples believe that.
00:22:36.72\00:22:40.62
They looked at
their litany of failures
00:22:40.65\00:22:43.17
and they said wait
it's not about our failures,
00:22:43.20\00:22:45.84
it's about Jesus
and His great victory.
00:22:45.87\00:22:49.12
What else do we read?
00:22:49.15\00:22:51.11
The disciples pray
with intense earnestness
00:22:51.14\00:22:53.76
with intense earnestness
for a fitness to meet men
00:22:53.79\00:22:56.80
and in the daily
intercourse to speak words
00:22:56.83\00:22:58.51
that would leads
sinners to Christ.
00:22:58.54\00:23:00.10
This is what they prayed for.
00:23:00.13\00:23:01.71
God give me words,
00:23:01.74\00:23:03.30
putting away all difference,
all desired for the supremacy,
00:23:03.33\00:23:06.73
they came close together
in Christian fellowship.
00:23:06.76\00:23:09.07
Read-- you just
turn back a few pages.
00:23:09.10\00:23:11.20
These were the same clowns
00:23:11.23\00:23:12.50
who were fighting about
who would be the greatest.
00:23:12.53\00:23:14.38
Now that was gone.
00:23:14.41\00:23:17.88
"These days of
preparation were days
00:23:17.91\00:23:19.25
of deep heart-searching.
00:23:19.28\00:23:20.98
The disciples felt
their spiritual need
00:23:21.01\00:23:22.62
and cried to the
Lord for the holy unction
00:23:22.65\00:23:26.34
that was to fit them for
the work of soul saving."
00:23:26.37\00:23:31.87
It's a wonder that we don't pray
00:23:31.90\00:23:35.36
and plead for the Holy
Spirit to fill us every day,
00:23:35.39\00:23:39.72
every night, maybe you do,
00:23:39.75\00:23:41.30
but if you don't, you
are missing out on something.
00:23:41.33\00:23:44.04
This is what the
disciples prayed for.
00:23:44.07\00:23:45.76
"They did not ask for a blessing
00:23:45.79\00:23:47.10
for themselves merely.
00:23:47.13\00:23:48.89
They were
weighted with the burden
00:23:48.92\00:23:51.75
of the salvation of souls.
00:23:51.78\00:23:55.13
They realized that the gospel
was to be carried to the world,
00:23:55.16\00:23:58.32
and they claimed the
power that Christ had promised.
00:23:58.35\00:24:04.22
In obedience to
the word of the Savior,
00:24:06.93\00:24:08.50
the disciples offered their
supplications for this gift."
00:24:08.53\00:24:12.05
Jesus said pray for
the gift and so they did.
00:24:12.08\00:24:15.15
And in heaven, I love this,
00:24:15.18\00:24:17.32
"In heaven Christ
added His intercession."
00:24:17.35\00:24:21.87
Isn't that something?
00:24:21.90\00:24:23.71
You're on your knees praying
00:24:23.74\00:24:25.04
and Jesus is in heaven
adding his prayers to yours.
00:24:25.07\00:24:28.13
You're down
here appealing to God
00:24:28.16\00:24:30.09
to do some great thing
and Jesus is in heaven,
00:24:30.12\00:24:32.47
adding his
intersession to your pleadings.
00:24:32.50\00:24:34.46
Oh, praise the Lord
for such a great savior.
00:24:34.49\00:24:37.69
He claimed the
gift of the spirit.
00:24:37.72\00:24:40.40
You got to love this.
00:24:40.43\00:24:41.50
Jesus claimed the
gift of the Holy Spirit,
00:24:41.53\00:24:44.78
so that He might
pour it upon His people.
00:24:44.81\00:24:49.94
Look what was
about to take place.
00:24:49.97\00:24:51.79
Jesus said, there's
gonna be a revolution.
00:24:51.82\00:24:53.97
He said to the disciples,
00:24:54.00\00:24:55.23
you are going to
lead the way, yes you are.
00:24:55.26\00:24:57.40
But in order for you to be
successful revolutionaries,
00:24:57.43\00:25:01.77
there's
something you gonna need.
00:25:01.80\00:25:04.59
They didn't have to get together
00:25:04.62\00:25:05.79
and plot and strategizes the way
00:25:05.82\00:25:07.24
they are going to get weapons.
00:25:07.27\00:25:08.34
They knew, their
weapon would come from above.
00:25:08.37\00:25:10.84
They didn't need to
go off to a training camp
00:25:10.87\00:25:12.53
in the middle of the desert
and practice guerilla warfare.
00:25:12.56\00:25:15.27
They knew that the
warfare they were involved in
00:25:15.30\00:25:18.06
would be carried
out under the unction,
00:25:18.09\00:25:19.77
under the aegis of the great
Holy Spirit of almighty God,
00:25:19.80\00:25:22.09
they knew that.
00:25:22.12\00:25:23.86
Jesus pledge to
provide the Holy Spirit,
00:25:23.89\00:25:27.34
so that the
revolution could go forward
00:25:27.37\00:25:29.80
like fire through the stubble.
00:25:29.83\00:25:33.54
The entire Book
of Acts is the story
00:25:33.57\00:25:36.00
how the revolution
was pressed forward.
00:25:36.03\00:25:38.46
Pentecost, spirit
of God was poured out.
00:25:38.49\00:25:41.99
Peter preached
a powerful sermon.
00:25:42.02\00:25:44.03
The people were
pricked in their heart.
00:25:44.06\00:25:46.03
Men and
brethren, what shall we do
00:25:46.06\00:25:47.78
and 3,000 were
baptized in a day.
00:25:47.81\00:25:50.68
In the next chapter
Peter and John went to pray.
00:25:50.71\00:25:53.86
They met a layman on the way.
00:25:53.89\00:25:56.16
He asked them for a gift
00:25:56.19\00:25:57.73
and they said,
silver and gold have I none,
00:25:57.76\00:26:00.15
but such as I have give by the,
00:26:00.18\00:26:02.10
in the name of
Jesus Christ of Nazareth
00:26:02.13\00:26:04.27
do what tell me
now, rise up and walk,
00:26:04.30\00:26:06.40
and he went walking and
leaping and praising God.
00:26:06.43\00:26:10.98
Peter preached with power,
the spirit convicted hearts,
00:26:11.01\00:26:15.16
thousands believed a
great company of the priests
00:26:15.19\00:26:19.17
were obedient to the faith.
00:26:19.20\00:26:21.19
The Spirit of God went further.
00:26:21.22\00:26:24.36
It wasn't just the
actions of the apostles,
00:26:24.39\00:26:27.40
but the Spirit of God went down
00:26:27.43\00:26:28.96
and dealt with the
motives of the apostles.
00:26:28.99\00:26:32.00
Peter went on to
roof top to pray.
00:26:32.03\00:26:33.91
You got to be
careful if you pray,
00:26:33.94\00:26:34.97
because God will
answer your prayer.
00:26:35.00\00:26:36.47
He might not give you
an answer that you like.
00:26:36.50\00:26:38.36
Peter went up there to pray
00:26:38.39\00:26:40.08
and as he was
up on the roof top,
00:26:40.11\00:26:41.61
there was a
knocking at the gate,
00:26:41.64\00:26:42.96
someone had
come to call him down
00:26:42.99\00:26:44.15
nearly Cornelius' house.
00:26:44.18\00:26:45.62
Peter had seen a vision,
00:26:45.65\00:26:46.68
a great sheet knit
together at the four corners,
00:26:46.71\00:26:49.67
filled up with unclean creatures
00:26:49.70\00:26:51.53
descending to the earth.
00:26:51.56\00:26:52.90
God said, rise
Peter, kill and eat,
00:26:52.93\00:26:55.70
and Peter said, uh-uh,
00:26:55.73\00:26:56.98
I'm not eating
that, that's unclean.
00:26:57.01\00:27:00.80
And God eventually
got through to Peter
00:27:00.83\00:27:02.35
and told him that
what he was trying
00:27:02.38\00:27:03.48
to communicate
with him, was that now,
00:27:03.51\00:27:05.34
even though his
theology was right,
00:27:05.37\00:27:06.72
his heart was wrong.
00:27:06.75\00:27:07.78
Get over there
to the gentles man,
00:27:07.81\00:27:09.36
don't be a racist.
00:27:09.39\00:27:11.04
That was the
message in Acts Chapter 10.
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Peter enough of your racism.
00:27:12.99\00:27:14.71
Peter got the message.
He yielded and he went.
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He said I perceive that
God is no respecter of persons.
00:27:17.17\00:27:20.42
There was a
revolution taking place
00:27:20.45\00:27:22.50
in the heart of Peter,
00:27:22.53\00:27:25.07
then there was a Prophet Agabus,
00:27:25.10\00:27:26.29
there were Philips four
daughters who prophesied.
00:27:26.32\00:27:29.02
Philip went out
into the wilderness, why?
00:27:29.05\00:27:31.15
Because he was
led by the Holy Spirit
00:27:31.18\00:27:34.19
to meet with the
utopian and when he was done,
00:27:34.22\00:27:36.48
the Spirit of
God caught him away,
00:27:36.51\00:27:39.38
took him to another place.
00:27:39.41\00:27:40.93
This was what
happened under the power
00:27:40.96\00:27:44.81
of the Holy Spirit of God.
00:27:44.84\00:27:47.34
At Antioch there
were certain prophets
00:27:47.37\00:27:49.03
and teachers, there's Barnabas,
00:27:49.06\00:27:50.26
and Simeon that
was called Niger,
00:27:50.29\00:27:52.79
Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen
00:27:52.82\00:27:55.11
who been brought up with
Herod the Tetrarch, and Saul.
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Aren't you glad for that?
00:27:59.49\00:28:01.06
Because when they fasted
and prayed and appealed to God,
00:28:01.09\00:28:05.82
the Holy Spirit spoke up
and said separate unto me
00:28:05.85\00:28:10.45
Barnabas and Saul
and the Spirit of God
00:28:10.48\00:28:14.39
sent them on their way.
00:28:14.42\00:28:16.74
It says those very
words in the Bible.
00:28:16.77\00:28:22.04
Friend, if there is
going to be a revolution,
00:28:22.07\00:28:25.42
the revolution
will take place when we
00:28:25.45\00:28:27.81
and the Holy
Spirit are connected,
00:28:27.84\00:28:30.03
that's when it would take place.
00:28:30.06\00:28:32.20
God is eager to
empower the revolutionaries.
00:28:32.23\00:28:36.54
Over there in the Middle
East there are revolutionaries,
00:28:36.57\00:28:39.04
and there are terrorist states
if I can just call them that
00:28:39.07\00:28:42.25
who are eager to supply them
00:28:42.28\00:28:43.67
with armaments to
provide the power,
00:28:43.70\00:28:46.42
to push the revolution forward.
00:28:46.45\00:28:49.62
Spirit of God is
eager to provide the power
00:28:49.65\00:28:51.90
to push the revolution forward.
00:28:51.93\00:28:54.10
There was little
failure in the Book of Acts,
00:28:54.13\00:28:55.88
when the apostles, the disciples
00:28:55.91\00:28:57.81
attached themselves to
the Holy Spirit of God.
00:28:57.84\00:29:00.85
There was transformation within
and without there was power.
00:29:00.88\00:29:05.58
I remember when I
was a Catholic teenager
00:29:05.61\00:29:07.34
about 14 years old,
00:29:07.37\00:29:10.63
I started to kick around
with the baptized youth group.
00:29:10.66\00:29:13.83
Some kids in my high school,
00:29:13.86\00:29:15.41
you know, when we go
down to Westy's house
00:29:15.44\00:29:17.32
and they had a
great big living room down
00:29:17.35\00:29:18.63
with the two rivers come
together at their old house.
00:29:18.66\00:29:21.69
And these youth
group leaders would come,
00:29:21.72\00:29:23.58
you know, and
weed, I don't know,
00:29:23.61\00:29:24.64
what we would do, I
don't remember too well.
00:29:24.67\00:29:25.99
I remember one thing,
00:29:26.02\00:29:28.21
that they will be
singing and someone would pray
00:29:28.24\00:29:30.02
and there would
be games and games,
00:29:30.05\00:29:31.19
there's been lot of games,
but this just what it was,
00:29:31.22\00:29:35.07
but then there
was a little stool,
00:29:35.10\00:29:36.39
it was about this
high and was made of wood.
00:29:36.42\00:29:38.89
And if you are unlucky,
00:29:38.92\00:29:40.17
maybe if you got
the question wrong
00:29:40.20\00:29:41.68
or you came last in
middle of competition,
00:29:41.71\00:29:44.17
it was your sentence to
go and sit on the stool.
00:29:44.20\00:29:48.38
It was just an inconspicuous
looking wooden stool
00:29:48.41\00:29:51.10
that's all it was.
00:29:51.13\00:29:52.91
But you didn't
know when you got there
00:29:52.94\00:29:54.30
because nobody told
you, you found out though.
00:29:54.33\00:29:58.15
Somewhere over
there, there was a switch
00:29:58.18\00:30:00.49
and when the youth group leader
flipped the switch, suddenly,
00:30:00.52\00:30:06.91
suddenly you got moving.
00:30:06.94\00:30:09.57
There was electricity
connected to the stool
00:30:09.60\00:30:12.93
and when the switch was flipped,
00:30:12.96\00:30:14.79
you didn't see the electricity,
00:30:14.82\00:30:17.13
but you sure
felt the electricity
00:30:17.16\00:30:19.76
and that
electricity got out of the seat
00:30:19.79\00:30:21.77
well, it got into the
seat, if you know what I mean,
00:30:21.80\00:30:24.13
and throw the individual
and you got to move in,
00:30:24.16\00:30:26.69
you couldn't help but move.
00:30:26.72\00:30:29.51
You didn't have to do anything
00:30:29.54\00:30:31.11
but sit there and wait
for the power to arrive
00:30:31.14\00:30:35.40
and when the power arrived,
you could not remain the same.
00:30:35.43\00:30:39.37
People try, but
it couldn't be done.
00:30:39.40\00:30:43.60
Friend, if you
would just sit there
00:30:43.63\00:30:46.94
and allow God to do
what God wants to do,
00:30:46.97\00:30:50.70
you cannot be the same,
you might not see it happen
00:30:50.73\00:30:54.15
but you will its effect,
you will see its results,
00:30:54.18\00:30:56.98
when the Spirit of
God gets the holds of you,
00:30:57.01\00:30:59.33
there will be power, real power,
00:30:59.36\00:31:02.86
there will be a
revolution when God sends us,
00:31:02.89\00:31:06.27
the person of the
Holy Spirit there is power.
00:31:06.30\00:31:08.94
When God's revolutionary,
00:31:08.97\00:31:10.89
simply let the Holy
Spirit have their way,
00:31:10.92\00:31:13.01
that's when there's
a powerful revolution.
00:31:13.04\00:31:15.08
Holy Spirit said
to Peter, remember,
00:31:15.11\00:31:17.39
go to Cornelius' house.
00:31:17.42\00:31:20.13
What did Peter do?
00:31:20.16\00:31:21.19
He just went. He
didn't have to go.
00:31:21.22\00:31:24.09
Keep in mind
Peter didn't have to go,
00:31:24.12\00:31:26.23
Peter could have easily said,
00:31:26.26\00:31:28.08
not me, you got the wrong guy.
00:31:28.11\00:31:30.84
Those are gentles
over there, and I hate them
00:31:30.87\00:31:32.82
because there are different race
00:31:32.85\00:31:34.51
and I've been bred to hate
them and taught to hate them
00:31:34.54\00:31:37.11
and that we used the scriptures
that justify hating them,
00:31:37.14\00:31:39.87
God I will not go and if I go,
00:31:39.90\00:31:42.43
my credibility with
the church will be blown.
00:31:42.46\00:31:48.18
But Peter didn't say that,
God said go, and Peter went.
00:31:48.21\00:31:53.01
Notice this, in Acts 16:6,
00:31:53.04\00:31:55.57
"When they had
gone throughout Phrygia
00:31:55.60\00:31:56.98
and the region of Galatia,
00:31:57.01\00:31:58.62
they were
forbidden by the Holy Ghost
00:31:58.65\00:32:01.41
to preach the word in Asia.
00:32:01.44\00:32:04.21
After they were come to Mysia,
00:32:04.24\00:32:06.75
they assayed to
go into Bithynia,
00:32:06.78\00:32:09.00
but the Spirit
did not allow them."
00:32:09.03\00:32:14.81
Now, they
simply could have said,
00:32:14.84\00:32:17.12
we have this annoying feeling.
00:32:17.15\00:32:20.04
We believe God
doesn't want us to go,
00:32:20.07\00:32:22.73
but we are going to go anyway.
00:32:22.76\00:32:26.69
You know what that's like,
00:32:26.72\00:32:28.84
last night
undoubtedly some of you all
00:32:28.87\00:32:31.18
heard the call of the wild.
00:32:31.21\00:32:33.64
It's New Year's Eve.
00:32:33.67\00:32:36.15
Come on now,
00:32:36.18\00:32:37.40
don't tell me
you gonna sit around
00:32:37.43\00:32:39.57
in your little hotel room
00:32:39.60\00:32:40.88
and go down to some prayer room.
00:32:40.91\00:32:42.94
Oh, no, the flesh began to call,
00:32:42.97\00:32:45.88
Satan placed an agent
somewhere near you perhaps
00:32:45.91\00:32:49.44
and said this is
the way walking in it.
00:32:49.47\00:32:53.69
And you know how it can
be when temptation comes.
00:32:53.72\00:32:56.52
God calls us to
yield, these guys were told,
00:32:56.55\00:32:59.94
don't go there, they didn't go,
00:32:59.97\00:33:01.52
they could have,
but they didn't go.
00:33:01.55\00:33:05.33
"A vision appeared
to Paul in the night,
00:33:05.36\00:33:06.64
There stood a man of Macedonia,
00:33:06.67\00:33:08.02
and prayed him, saying,
00:33:08.05\00:33:09.18
Come over into
Macedonia, and help us."
00:33:09.21\00:33:11.00
That's where Paul went.
00:33:11.03\00:33:12.16
You see, Paul might have
00:33:12.19\00:33:13.65
had his own
agenda, but he didn't.
00:33:13.68\00:33:15.05
He simply made himself
available to the agenda
00:33:15.08\00:33:17.97
of the Holy Spirit
and when he did that,
00:33:18.00\00:33:21.72
there was no
obstruction in the work of God.
00:33:21.75\00:33:24.56
The work of God
went forward with power
00:33:24.59\00:33:28.02
because the
disciples simply said,
00:33:28.05\00:33:30.40
let's do Your thing.
00:33:30.43\00:33:34.29
Not everybody was called
by God and did God what asked.
00:33:34.32\00:33:38.02
You've heard of Jonah,
00:33:38.05\00:33:40.02
Jonah went in the
opposite direction.
00:33:40.05\00:33:44.20
You know what Peter did?
00:33:44.23\00:33:45.86
Oh, I didn't know him, no way,
00:33:45.89\00:33:47.86
conviction was telling
Peter, Peter confess Jesus,
00:33:47.89\00:33:50.97
but Peter fought it off.
00:33:51.00\00:33:52.62
Judas against the conviction
of the Holy Spirit sold Jesus.
00:33:52.65\00:33:59.96
There are plenty of
examples in the Bible
00:33:59.99\00:34:02.57
of people who knew better,
00:34:02.60\00:34:04.21
Balaam attempted to
prophesy against God's people.
00:34:04.24\00:34:07.94
Call a curse of God down on
God's people knowing better.
00:34:07.97\00:34:11.91
Donkey had to talk to Balaam
to get him straightened out.
00:34:11.94\00:34:16.43
I hope that you
are getting a picture
00:34:16.46\00:34:18.18
of what fueled the revolution,
00:34:18.21\00:34:22.77
not simply the Holy Spirit.
00:34:22.80\00:34:25.75
The Spirit of God was the power,
00:34:25.78\00:34:27.43
really was the
fuel, that's true,
00:34:27.46\00:34:29.52
but the disciples
yielding their will to God
00:34:29.55\00:34:34.61
enabled the
revolution to go forward.
00:34:34.64\00:34:38.81
Friend, when you leave
here, something is gonna happen.
00:34:38.84\00:34:42.60
You are going to be
confronted with the decision.
00:34:42.63\00:34:46.56
Is life going to
be business as usual
00:34:46.59\00:34:50.58
or will the Holy Spirit
have control of your life.
00:34:50.61\00:34:55.13
God is gonna speak
to you and call you
00:34:55.16\00:34:56.89
and you gonna have to be
confronted with the decision
00:34:56.92\00:34:58.80
and the decision isn't to
do, the decision is to yield.
00:34:58.83\00:35:01.59
Will I let God
have His way in my life?
00:35:01.62\00:35:05.89
Fascinating what God will do,
00:35:05.92\00:35:07.01
I remember being a
student literature evangelist.
00:35:07.04\00:35:10.16
And I was canvassing in
some hallways in the south,
00:35:10.19\00:35:12.95
and I had a good day
and I was driving back home,
00:35:12.98\00:35:16.43
and as I drove
fast a couple of homes.
00:35:16.46\00:35:18.81
On this side, I can still
see it like it was yesterday
00:35:18.84\00:35:21.33
was an elderly couple
sitting on their porch
00:35:21.36\00:35:23.36
and over here
was a mom, and a dad,
00:35:23.39\00:35:25.72
and two kids
playing in the front yard,
00:35:25.75\00:35:27.30
playing with the ball.
00:35:27.33\00:35:29.51
And I drove past
them and came to the T,
00:35:29.54\00:35:31.88
I flipped on
indicator was turning left
00:35:31.91\00:35:33.69
and God said, go back.
00:35:33.72\00:35:35.83
And I said no need for that,
00:35:35.86\00:35:36.92
I had a good day
and I kept on driving.
00:35:36.95\00:35:39.75
God did not give
up, God said go back.
00:35:39.78\00:35:43.78
And, you know, if
you see two families,
00:35:43.81\00:35:45.54
elderly and young,
00:35:45.57\00:35:46.73
you gonna go to the young family
00:35:46.76\00:35:47.89
because they want to at
least buy the kids books
00:35:47.92\00:35:49.32
and that lady she's
gonna want to cook surely.
00:35:49.35\00:35:52.40
And then you gonna interest
them in the message book
00:35:52.43\00:35:54.00
and they want to
raise their kids in fear
00:35:54.03\00:35:55.95
and admonition of the Lord.
00:35:55.98\00:35:58.87
No, no, I'm not going back.
00:35:58.90\00:36:00.07
If I was gonna go back God,
00:36:00.10\00:36:01.23
I will go back
to the young people.
00:36:01.26\00:36:03.33
But I'm not going back,
I'm driving down the road,
00:36:03.36\00:36:04.86
that's strike
two God said again,
00:36:04.89\00:36:06.42
John go back and go
to the elderly couple.
00:36:06.45\00:36:11.47
I didn't hear a voice,
00:36:11.50\00:36:12.53
of course I didn't hear a voice,
00:36:12.56\00:36:13.59
but it was a strong and
overwhelming impression,
00:36:13.62\00:36:16.44
I pulled into a driveway,
I stopped in the driveway,
00:36:16.47\00:36:19.48
I said out loud, Lord,
00:36:19.51\00:36:21.43
I think I'm fooling myself here.
00:36:21.46\00:36:25.34
But just in case this is you,
00:36:25.37\00:36:27.01
I will go back
and see what happens.
00:36:27.04\00:36:28.63
I went back, pulled into the
driveway of the elderly couple,
00:36:28.66\00:36:31.43
got my bag over my
shoulder, got out of the car,
00:36:31.46\00:36:33.62
walked up the little
rise leading to their porch
00:36:33.65\00:36:36.07
and the man or the woman
00:36:36.10\00:36:37.23
I don't remember which one said,
00:36:37.26\00:36:38.92
"Uh what's that
you got for us today?"
00:36:38.95\00:36:43.93
I started canvassing them,
00:36:43.96\00:36:45.59
I'm handing books
out here to the lady,
00:36:45.62\00:36:47.82
the lady was the decision maker,
00:36:47.85\00:36:49.14
the husband was a nuisance.
00:36:49.17\00:36:50.74
He just was asking questions.
00:36:50.77\00:36:52.97
In the end I pulled out
three or four books, I said,
00:36:53.00\00:36:54.74
you look through these
while I talk to your wife,
00:36:54.77\00:36:56.55
canvass the wife.
00:36:56.58\00:36:57.66
They brought one or
two of everything I had.
00:36:57.69\00:37:00.01
I went on my way
praising the Lord
00:37:00.04\00:37:01.90
that truth had been
left behind in this home.
00:37:01.93\00:37:04.55
They were buying kids--
not, they weren't buying kids.
00:37:04.58\00:37:09.75
I've sold a lot of things
in my time but never children.
00:37:09.78\00:37:13.16
They were buying
books for their kids,
00:37:13.19\00:37:15.06
books for their grandchildren,
books for themselves.
00:37:15.09\00:37:17.49
I'm saying God when
I just listen to you,
00:37:17.52\00:37:20.51
you will do something great.
00:37:20.54\00:37:23.13
You might think this
was a small illustration.
00:37:23.16\00:37:26.20
Yes for you maybe
because God tells you to go
00:37:26.23\00:37:28.54
and raise dead people.
00:37:28.57\00:37:29.61
Well back then, he
was telling me to go
00:37:29.64\00:37:31.12
and sell books to living people,
00:37:31.15\00:37:33.89
and when I did
as a young broke LE
00:37:33.92\00:37:37.30
and the money
has been handed over
00:37:37.33\00:37:39.17
and I'm thinking God,
00:37:39.20\00:37:40.47
more for the souls
than for the money,
00:37:40.50\00:37:43.14
I'm saying this is
huge, whatever you are doing,
00:37:43.17\00:37:45.40
God is gonna do something great.
00:37:45.43\00:37:47.08
When you'll listen
to the voice of God,
00:37:47.11\00:37:49.85
that's all God wants us to do.
00:37:49.88\00:37:51.87
Put ourselves in the place,
00:37:51.90\00:37:53.14
where we hear Him
and then yield to Him.
00:37:53.17\00:37:56.24
The message of the gospel
00:37:56.27\00:37:58.64
is the message of
yielding to our God
00:37:58.67\00:38:02.03
who wants to do
something great in your life.
00:38:02.06\00:38:04.59
You don't have to sweat that
00:38:04.62\00:38:05.70
you aren't capable of greatness,
00:38:05.73\00:38:07.27
God is capable of greatness.
00:38:07.30\00:38:09.96
You don't want to tell me,
00:38:09.99\00:38:11.09
but I'm too weak
because I've read in the Bible
00:38:11.12\00:38:13.42
where God says my strength
is made perfect in what?
00:38:13.45\00:38:17.58
Weakness.
00:38:17.61\00:38:19.00
God is looking for the weak.
00:38:19.03\00:38:23.73
And if you can
turn up at God's throne
00:38:23.76\00:38:25.01
and say, Lord, I
believe I'm weak,
00:38:25.04\00:38:26.45
God says all
right, now you've got it.
00:38:26.48\00:38:28.32
I remember it was early this,
00:38:28.35\00:38:29.61
no, it wasn't, it
was last year, wasn't it?
00:38:29.64\00:38:31.58
Last year in Paris,
00:38:31.61\00:38:32.64
when we held an
evangelistic series in Paris.
00:38:32.67\00:38:35.11
If you want
people to pray for you,
00:38:35.14\00:38:36.78
go hold the meeting in Africa.
00:38:36.81\00:38:38.26
If you want
people to just envy you,
00:38:38.29\00:38:39.91
go hold the meeting in Paris.
00:38:39.94\00:38:45.11
In Paris, we're
having a large baptism,
00:38:45.14\00:38:47.41
hundred or so
people being baptized.
00:38:47.44\00:38:49.13
Praise the Lord.
00:38:49.16\00:38:50.75
And the baptism
is just taking place,
00:38:50.78\00:38:52.28
I don't have a role in that,
00:38:52.31\00:38:53.35
I'm standing back and
enjoying what's going on,
00:38:53.38\00:38:55.54
and they run to
me and they grab me
00:38:55.57\00:38:56.76
and they say to me,
00:38:56.79\00:38:57.82
pastor we need your
help with something,
00:38:57.85\00:39:01.34
beautiful French accent.
00:39:01.37\00:39:03.60
We need you, I said,
how can I help you, huh?
00:39:03.63\00:39:08.89
Pastor, there's a lady
00:39:08.92\00:39:10.03
who does not
want to get baptized.
00:39:10.06\00:39:13.85
Oh man, that's too bad.
00:39:13.88\00:39:15.63
What do you want to me to do?
00:39:15.66\00:39:17.95
We want to come
and change her mind.
00:39:17.98\00:39:23.07
Yeah, that's what I do,
00:39:23.10\00:39:24.13
I change people's
mind, bring her on.
00:39:24.16\00:39:26.57
I will fix this
lady in a moment.
00:39:26.60\00:39:29.36
Just bring me to her, I
will work with my magic.
00:39:29.39\00:39:33.70
I said, sister,
what's the problem.
00:39:33.73\00:39:34.85
She spoke to me
through translator,
00:39:34.88\00:39:36.10
she said, I don't
want to get baptized.
00:39:36.13\00:39:37.37
I know that, why not?
00:39:37.40\00:39:39.61
She said, I fear
that after I'm baptized
00:39:39.64\00:39:41.22
I will fall and fail.
00:39:41.25\00:39:42.49
I said, you will.
00:39:42.52\00:39:44.70
She like, I said
you've just demonstrated to me
00:39:44.73\00:39:49.93
that you're
ready to be baptized.
00:39:49.96\00:39:51.96
What do you mean?
00:39:51.99\00:39:53.53
I said if you are confident
00:39:53.56\00:39:54.60
that you are gonna
get out of the water
00:39:54.63\00:39:55.89
and then walk on
water, I will be worrying.
00:39:55.92\00:39:58.36
But you recognize
that you are weak, right?
00:39:58.39\00:40:00.45
Yes, pastor, tears
streaming down her face.
00:40:00.48\00:40:04.36
I fear that I will fall.
00:40:04.39\00:40:07.11
I said, you don't
have to worry about that,
00:40:07.14\00:40:09.10
you give your life to Jesus,
He will live His life in you.
00:40:09.13\00:40:13.25
And should you fall,
you know where I went?
00:40:13.28\00:40:16.14
We have an
advocate with the Father,
00:40:16.17\00:40:19.02
Jesus Christ, the Righteous.
00:40:19.05\00:40:20.67
Sister, get up and
go and get baptized.
00:40:20.70\00:40:23.03
God is gonna take care of you
when you get out of the water.
00:40:23.06\00:40:26.66
She recognized her weakness.
00:40:26.69\00:40:28.10
We all must
recognize our weakness
00:40:28.13\00:40:30.31
because once you think
00:40:30.34\00:40:31.39
you are 10 foot
tall and bullet proof,
00:40:31.42\00:40:32.75
you don't even need
the Holy Spirit anymore.
00:40:32.78\00:40:35.42
When you are weak, then
God can make you strong.
00:40:35.45\00:40:38.63
God says yield, when you yield,
00:40:38.66\00:40:41.25
the Holy Spirit will do
what the Holy Spirit will do.
00:40:41.28\00:40:44.44
And if the Holy
Spirit calls you to go
00:40:44.47\00:40:46.32
and sweep a floor in the
fellowship hall of the church,
00:40:46.35\00:40:50.08
you sweep that floor for Jesus.
00:40:50.11\00:40:53.86
And the Baptist
who rent your church
00:40:53.89\00:40:55.51
or the people have a
birthday party in your church,
00:40:55.54\00:40:57.69
you gonna come
and they gonna say.
00:40:57.72\00:40:58.82
That floor, I'm so impressed.
00:40:58.85\00:41:03.12
What kind of people
would have such a floor?
00:41:03.15\00:41:08.61
I want to worship with
them on a floor like that.
00:41:08.64\00:41:14.45
And if God calls you to preach
00:41:14.48\00:41:15.87
to stadium full of
people, then so be it.
00:41:15.90\00:41:18.93
God calls you to be a
missionary in Mongolia,
00:41:18.96\00:41:21.35
go there.
00:41:21.38\00:41:22.41
If God calls you to be
a missionary in Manhattan,
00:41:22.44\00:41:24.72
don't turn back.
00:41:24.75\00:41:25.85
If God calls you
to be a missionary
00:41:25.88\00:41:27.79
at school or at home,
that's what you want to be.
00:41:27.82\00:41:32.48
God didn't call all
of us to be the head
00:41:32.51\00:41:33.92
or the tail or
the hand or the foot,
00:41:33.95\00:41:35.41
He called all of us to take part
00:41:35.44\00:41:37.08
in the great
work that He is doing.
00:41:37.11\00:41:38.62
Let God use
you, He will use you.
00:41:38.65\00:41:42.41
It's all great
when God uses you.
00:41:42.44\00:41:44.74
All great, the Holy
Spirit wants to do a work.
00:41:44.77\00:41:48.33
Holy Spirit cannot
put anything in your hand
00:41:48.36\00:41:51.56
when your fist is all closed up.
00:41:51.59\00:41:54.74
Paul wrote to the
Romans, in Romans 6:16,
00:41:54.77\00:41:56.90
he said this, he
said "Know you not,
00:41:56.93\00:41:58.81
that to whom you yield
yourselves servants to obey,
00:41:58.84\00:42:00.90
his servants you
are to whom you obey,
00:42:00.93\00:42:02.77
whether of sin unto death,
00:42:02.80\00:42:04.25
or of obedience
unto righteousness."
00:42:04.28\00:42:05.74
Paul said, you are
the servant of someone.
00:42:05.77\00:42:09.21
You are the servant of
either of sin or of obedience
00:42:09.24\00:42:11.59
and you get to choose
who you're the servant of.
00:42:11.62\00:42:14.81
Isn't that something?
00:42:14.84\00:42:16.91
Look with me, I'm a
bit late getting to this.
00:42:16.94\00:42:18.39
Look with me in Acts Chapter 9,
00:42:18.42\00:42:20.99
I'm gonna show
you a revolution here.
00:42:21.02\00:42:25.18
Before there was a revolution,
there was a revolutionary.
00:42:25.21\00:42:30.24
And in order for Paul
to be a revolutionary,
00:42:30.27\00:42:32.54
they had to be revolution
that took place in his life.
00:42:32.57\00:42:35.77
A Holy Spirit inspired and moved
00:42:35.80\00:42:39.94
and executed revolution.
00:42:39.97\00:42:43.47
I want you to notice
what it says in Acts 9:1.
00:42:43.50\00:42:46.13
"And Saul yet
breathing out threatening
00:42:46.16\00:42:50.26
and slaughter against
the disciples of the Lord."
00:42:50.29\00:42:53.20
How about that?
00:42:53.23\00:42:55.74
I mean those words
are graphic aren't they?
00:42:55.77\00:42:58.26
Breathing out,
threatenings and slaughter
00:42:58.29\00:43:01.83
went to the high priest,
00:43:01.86\00:43:03.17
he said, give me some letters,
00:43:03.20\00:43:04.24
I'll go to
synagogues in Damascus,
00:43:04.27\00:43:06.41
I will fix him Christians.
00:43:06.44\00:43:08.80
On this way, God confronted him.
00:43:08.83\00:43:11.98
"Saul, why you prosecuting me?"
00:43:12.01\00:43:13.85
And he answered by
saying, Lord, who are you?
00:43:13.88\00:43:18.50
He tremble in the
presence of God as he might.
00:43:18.53\00:43:23.47
But he asked a
question, he said in verse 6,
00:43:23.50\00:43:28.29
what do you want me to do?
00:43:28.32\00:43:32.51
God told him,
"Arise, and go into the city,
00:43:32.54\00:43:36.28
and it will told you
there what you have to do."
00:43:36.31\00:43:38.93
In others, what
do you want me to do?
00:43:38.96\00:43:41.07
I'm not telling you.
00:43:41.10\00:43:44.45
But if you get up
and go to the city,
00:43:44.48\00:43:46.16
you will find out.
00:43:46.19\00:43:50.12
Elijah came and said,
"Now prophet will you heal me?
00:43:50.15\00:43:52.20
No, no, no, no,
go down to the river,
00:43:52.23\00:43:53.47
I'm not interested.
00:43:53.50\00:43:55.68
This was God fending
Saul off just a little bit.
00:43:55.71\00:43:59.78
Saul, will you exercise faith?
00:43:59.81\00:44:01.69
Saul, will you
learn faith right away?
00:44:01.72\00:44:04.39
You're cruising in a graduation,
00:44:04.42\00:44:05.70
you say, I don't
know what I'm gonna do.
00:44:05.73\00:44:06.78
Don't sweat that, make
yourself available to God.
00:44:06.81\00:44:09.32
He got a millions
things for you to do.
00:44:09.35\00:44:11.94
And one thing that
He is gonna show you
00:44:11.97\00:44:13.64
brighter than all of the others.
00:44:13.67\00:44:15.68
Hang in there.
00:44:15.71\00:44:17.32
Saul was
breathing out-- what was it?
00:44:17.35\00:44:19.77
Threatenings and slaughter.
00:44:19.80\00:44:22.13
Go down to the city,
they will tell you there.
00:44:22.16\00:44:24.16
He gets down to the city.
00:44:24.19\00:44:25.82
Before he got there,
the Lord spoke to Ananias.
00:44:25.85\00:44:30.90
And He said, now I
want you to go down
00:44:30.93\00:44:32.12
and rondevu with somebody.
00:44:32.15\00:44:33.54
Ananias was petrified.
00:44:33.57\00:44:35.10
Lord in verse 13,
00:44:35.13\00:44:36.46
"I have heard by
many of this man,
00:44:36.49\00:44:37.95
this man has a reputation,
00:44:37.98\00:44:39.66
how much evil he has done
to your saints at Jerusalem."
00:44:39.69\00:44:44.14
God said you go,
it's gonna be okay.
00:44:44.17\00:44:46.97
I have called him. Ananias went.
00:44:47.00\00:44:48.99
Verse 17 he
called him, brother Saul.
00:44:49.02\00:44:52.86
Just that phrase
alone knocks me out.
00:44:52.89\00:44:55.60
The scales fell from his eyes.
00:44:55.63\00:44:57.65
And what do you read?
00:44:57.68\00:44:59.31
Saul was strengthened,
00:44:59.34\00:45:00.88
he hung out in
Damascus for a while.
00:45:00.91\00:45:02.93
And right away he preached
Christ in the synagogues
00:45:02.96\00:45:07.15
that Christ was the son of
God and the people were amazed.
00:45:07.18\00:45:14.31
"Is not this he
that destroyed them
00:45:14.34\00:45:17.78
which called on
this name in Jerusalem,"
00:45:17.81\00:45:20.86
They were amazed.
00:45:20.89\00:45:22.18
We know what he is like,
this brother has changed.
00:45:22.21\00:45:25.57
I want to
challenge you young person,
00:45:25.60\00:45:28.28
whatever age you are,
00:45:28.31\00:45:31.23
we have young
people of all ages at GYC.
00:45:31.26\00:45:35.22
Go from here and amaze somebody.
00:45:35.25\00:45:40.62
Not by going back to the
church and copying at them about
00:45:40.65\00:45:43.07
they ought to be
enthusiastic like you
00:45:43.10\00:45:46.13
or you can do that too.
00:45:46.16\00:45:49.24
Not by going back to the church
00:45:49.27\00:45:51.73
and dazzling people
00:45:51.76\00:45:56.39
with your lifestyle reform.
00:45:56.42\00:46:00.51
Do that. Do that too.
00:46:00.54\00:46:03.06
But amaze people by letting them
00:46:03.09\00:46:06.40
look at you and
say, wait a minute,
00:46:06.43\00:46:08.33
this is the man who
used to be like this,
00:46:08.36\00:46:11.48
but look at him now.
00:46:11.51\00:46:13.97
This is the young woman,
who used to act a certain way,
00:46:14.00\00:46:17.36
but look at her now,
00:46:17.39\00:46:20.12
something is going
on, that is revolutionary.
00:46:20.15\00:46:24.53
Friend of mine,
God invited to church
00:46:24.56\00:46:28.45
so he went and
when he was at church,
00:46:28.48\00:46:30.46
the preacher
challenged all of the husbands,
00:46:30.49\00:46:32.41
go home and don't complain about
00:46:32.44\00:46:33.95
anything to your
wife for two weeks.
00:46:33.98\00:46:41.31
He said to a
friend on his way home,
00:46:41.34\00:46:42.59
these Seventh-day
Adventists are cranks,
00:46:42.62\00:46:45.33
that's unreasonable.
00:46:45.36\00:46:48.77
He got home, he didn't complain
00:46:48.80\00:46:49.91
about anything for two weeks.
00:46:49.94\00:46:52.04
Wife thought he had gone mad.
00:46:52.07\00:46:56.76
By the end of
two weeks, she said,
00:46:56.79\00:46:58.91
I don't know what they
did you in that church,
00:46:58.94\00:47:01.37
but I'm coming along
this week to find out.
00:47:01.40\00:47:06.54
They're now parents in Israel,
00:47:06.57\00:47:08.80
they have got family
that are in ministry.
00:47:08.83\00:47:12.88
The revolution
began in the heart,
00:47:12.91\00:47:16.00
yielding to the power of
God, the revolution was seen.
00:47:16.03\00:47:22.86
Saul was revolutionary
00:47:22.89\00:47:25.89
because a
revolution began in his life.
00:47:25.92\00:47:29.73
Friend, when you
go home from GYC,
00:47:29.76\00:47:32.47
be the
revolution you want to see.
00:47:32.50\00:47:36.39
Be a revolution.
00:47:36.42\00:47:38.13
If you can't stop one, be one,
00:47:38.16\00:47:40.82
that's revolution enough.
00:47:40.85\00:47:43.17
Let the revolution begin in you.
00:47:43.20\00:47:45.96
You get to choose
today who you gonna serve,
00:47:45.99\00:47:48.29
whose it gonna be.
00:47:48.32\00:47:49.75
Have you chosen to serve
God with all of your heart.
00:47:49.78\00:47:53.84
I know there are
bunch of you have,
00:47:53.87\00:47:55.24
praise the Lord,
but I'm guarantying you,
00:47:55.27\00:47:57.06
he will bunch you in heaven.
00:47:57.09\00:48:01.89
And it would be a
tragedy to go home from here,
00:48:01.92\00:48:06.72
the same as when
you arrived, tragic.
00:48:06.75\00:48:13.23
We got flashlights
all over our house,
00:48:13.26\00:48:17.32
some of them work.
00:48:17.35\00:48:22.08
We really need to
change the batteries
00:48:22.11\00:48:23.51
because if there were
some sort of power outage,
00:48:23.54\00:48:26.48
I know what would happen,
I would run to the flashlight
00:48:26.51\00:48:28.15
and press the button,
there would be no power.
00:48:28.18\00:48:29.76
And I would be
say, how silly of me.
00:48:29.79\00:48:33.81
I have the flashlight and
I know where the power is,
00:48:33.84\00:48:37.87
but I neglected to
put the two together.
00:48:37.90\00:48:40.47
It could be a
matter of life and death.
00:48:40.50\00:48:43.75
Why would we not
yield to the power
00:48:43.78\00:48:48.78
and let the
revolution begin in us.
00:48:48.81\00:48:52.84
Why would we not?
00:48:52.87\00:48:55.85
As powerfully as God
works at events like this,
00:48:55.88\00:48:58.47
I don't want you
to think that GYC
00:48:58.50\00:49:01.53
is the revolution,
it's revolutionary.
00:49:01.56\00:49:07.70
But a revolution
doesn't take place
00:49:07.73\00:49:09.19
within four
walls over four days,
00:49:09.22\00:49:11.92
it may begin.
00:49:11.95\00:49:14.00
But you got to
take the revolution back
00:49:14.03\00:49:15.51
to where you came
from, your home, your church,
00:49:15.54\00:49:19.06
your workplace, your school.
00:49:19.09\00:49:22.49
Wherever you are, the revolution
00:49:22.52\00:49:23.73
is got to go from here
00:49:23.76\00:49:25.28
and become a reality out there.
00:49:25.31\00:49:28.66
What were those
definitions of revolution
00:49:28.69\00:49:30.13
we discussed earlier
out of the dictionary?
00:49:30.16\00:49:32.23
An overthrow or repudiation
and the thorough replacement
00:49:32.26\00:49:35.01
of an established government
00:49:35.04\00:49:36.52
or political system
by the people governed.
00:49:36.55\00:49:38.30
Before you come to
Jesus, you're being governed,
00:49:38.33\00:49:41.59
by the enemy of source,
there must be a revolution
00:49:41.62\00:49:44.16
that throws that
form of government off.
00:49:44.19\00:49:47.72
It's a tyrannical
form of government.
00:49:47.75\00:49:54.17
A sudden complete or
mark changed in something.
00:49:54.20\00:49:58.94
If Jesus isn't the
ruler of your life,
00:49:58.97\00:50:01.52
you are governed by self.
00:50:01.55\00:50:03.22
Let's just say it this way.
00:50:03.25\00:50:04.51
It's the devil leading
you around by the nose.
00:50:04.54\00:50:09.16
Let there be a
revolution in your life,
00:50:09.19\00:50:11.86
where self will is
swallowed up in Christ's will,
00:50:11.89\00:50:15.52
that's a revolution.
00:50:15.55\00:50:17.90
A sudden complete of
mark change in something.
00:50:17.93\00:50:20.75
That's conversion, isn't it?
00:50:20.78\00:50:24.06
That's when a child of
enemy becomes a child of God.
00:50:24.09\00:50:28.85
That's when the Holy
Spirit took cowardly Peter
00:50:28.88\00:50:32.99
and changed him into
the bold Peter who said,
00:50:33.02\00:50:35.42
we ought to obey
God rather than men.
00:50:35.45\00:50:38.49
You won't be able to
light a fire in your church
00:50:38.52\00:50:40.24
until God has lit a fire in you.
00:50:40.27\00:50:42.10
You can't call
anybody out of Babylon
00:50:42.13\00:50:43.76
until God has
taken Babylon out of you.
00:50:43.79\00:50:45.78
You can talk about
the mark of the beast
00:50:45.81\00:50:47.34
until you are blue in the face,
00:50:47.37\00:50:48.42
but if you are a beast,
00:50:48.45\00:50:54.10
all of your words
aren't gonna mean much
00:50:54.13\00:50:56.00
in the final analysis.
00:50:56.03\00:51:00.19
Friends, we got
a message to share.
00:51:00.22\00:51:02.32
I thank God for the
message God has given us,
00:51:02.35\00:51:04.32
given his church, I thank God.
00:51:04.35\00:51:09.26
I know there are
times that it feels like
00:51:09.29\00:51:11.11
you're getting
blown this way and that,
00:51:11.14\00:51:12.52
I know that, I know that.
00:51:12.55\00:51:17.93
That doesn't mean that
Jesus is not in your midst.
00:51:17.96\00:51:19.65
The disciples were in the boat,
00:51:19.68\00:51:20.77
they had to wake Him
up, Lord save us we perish.
00:51:20.80\00:51:22.59
Jesus was right there,
they thought they gonna perish.
00:51:22.62\00:51:24.84
Jesus is with us in this church.
00:51:24.87\00:51:26.80
Amen.
00:51:26.83\00:51:29.09
He is gonna get
the good ship Adventism
00:51:29.12\00:51:30.54
over to the other side.
00:51:30.57\00:51:32.12
Now when Saul may
landfall at multi,
00:51:32.15\00:51:34.33
he had to grab hold of a
little chunk of the boat.
00:51:34.36\00:51:36.09
If that's all
that's left by the time
00:51:36.12\00:51:37.46
we come to the
other side, so be it.
00:51:37.49\00:51:40.21
But hang on to Jesus.
00:51:40.24\00:51:42.71
Hang on to the great truths
00:51:42.74\00:51:44.06
He has committed to this church.
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Hang on, we got
a message to share
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and we got a message to live.
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You can talk about
revolution and that's good.
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God wants you
to be a revolution.
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If you already
having an Enoch experience.
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If you are eating the
right amount of almonds
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and drinking eight
glasses of water every day
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and spending time in
prayer, God bless you.
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But if you are not,
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now is the time to
enlist in the revolution.
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A revolution like no
other, where God works,
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to turn you inside out
and put you right side up.
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I've known scoundrels
who have been used by God
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in a mighty way.
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I spoke to a fellow who
used to be the principal
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of an academy in New
Mexico, oh many years ago.
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He told me about
some of the things
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that the academy
students were doing then,
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the boys in the dorm,
you think it's bad today?
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It was as bad then.
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He told me some of these guys
are conference president now.
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I said, who? He
wouldn't tell me.
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I baptized a witch
doctor earlier this year.
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That one anything I have
done, I just did the baptism,
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there was a team of
people who worked with them
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and led them to Jesus.
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You wait and see,
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God will use a witch
doctor for His glory.
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I met someone here
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and I ask this
individual here at GYC.
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Do you know pastor so and so?
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Oh, yes, he is great, and he is.
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But the last conversation
I had with pastor so and so
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was when he said to
me, John I like to fight.
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I like to go out
to bars and get drunk
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and find the biggest guy
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and take him
outside and beat him up.
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He gets lots of decisions
for baptism these days.
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I wonder.
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That's the last
conversation I had with him.
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Now he is a soul winner,
winning souls left and right,
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inspiring young
people, inspiring older people
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and the last time I
spoke with him face to face,
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he said I want to go out
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and fight with
someone right now.
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Not exhibit A, this is the guy
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that's gonna cause a revolution.
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Oh, let's ordain him.
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If God can get hold of that guy
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and revolutionize a
corner of the world.
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You got no excuse.
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I know former gamblers
who teach Sabbath school
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and drunks, former
drunks who sit on church boards
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and form allies who
lead pathfinders in,
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former drug users,
who are Bible workers now,
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doing great work for God
because a revolution started.
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How?
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Did they say to themselves,
I'm gonna fix myself.
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No, they didn't.
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They said, I need Jesus to
do in me what I can't do myself.
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Will Jesus do it?
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Or does He only do
it for somebody else?
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He does it for you.
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The Bible says
in Philippians 2:13,
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"It is God who
works in you both to will
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and to do for
his good pleasure."
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It is God's good pleasure
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to straighten
you up, lift you up
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and use you in some
great way for His glory.
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That's what God will do.
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Paul had it figured out,
not I, but Christ lives in me.
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He wrote to the Colossians,
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he told them the
mystery of the gospel
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was Christ in
you, the hope of glory.
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Man, I remember once
breaking my arms playing rugby
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and they took me
to the emergency room
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and they needed to
anesthetize my arm,
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and they had my arm back.
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The doctor put a needle
somewhere here in my armpit
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and as he started
injecting the anesthetic,
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it felt like fire,
I've never felt that before.
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All through my arm,
bam and in instance I said,
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wow the body is
an amazing thing,
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through your
body just like that.
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When the Holy
Spirit gets into you,
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Christ in you the hope of glory,
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it's gonna be--
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there will be
burning, all right,
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a burning in your
heart, a change in your life.
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There will be a
revolution that begins in you
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and then it has to flow
out, it has to flow out.
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I want to share
with you a secret
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that shouldn't be a secret.
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Don't let it be a secret.
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I read this in a
book the Desire of Ages.
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If you haven't
read it lately, read it.
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Soon as they get through
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the Great
Controversy this time around,
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I'm going back to
the Desire of Ages.
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Listen to this, listen
to this and be blown away.
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If this doesn't blow
you away, check for a pulse.
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This is amazing, listen to this,
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I don't need to read
it, but I'm gonna read it,
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in case I
forget and screw it up.
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Page 668, if we consent...
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What was that
word? If we do what?
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Give me another
word, that means what?
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Yield, you got
it, allow I like that.
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If we consent, so we consent,
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we go okay,
okay, is it consenting?
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Okay, someone's
gonna me 5 dollars,
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okay that consenting right?
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All right.
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"If we consent, He
will so identify Himself
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with our thoughts and
aims, so blend our hearts
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and minds into
conformity to His will."
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Okay I'm going too fast.
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"If we consent, He
will so identify Himself
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with our thoughts and aims,
He will so blend our hearts
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and minds into
conformity to His will."
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That when obeying
Him, hang on to your seats.
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We shall be but
carrying out our own impulses.
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Amen.
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The will,
refined and sanctified,
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will find its
highest delight in cheering
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for the Seattle Seahawks.
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No, somehow that's not
your highest delight anymore.
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We'll find it's highest
delight in doing His service,
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when we know God as it is
our privilege to know Him,
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our lives will be
lives of continual obedience.
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Through an appreciation
of the character of Christ
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through communion with Him,
sin will become hateful to us.
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That's what God will do.
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If you let Him, if you consent,
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friend, let the
revolution begin.
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