Participants: John Bradshaw
Series Code: 12GYC
Program Code: 12GYC000013
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00:11 You have given new meaning to the word remnant.
00:16 God bless you. 00:18 The few, the proud and the chosen, 00:21 it's good to see you this morning. 00:22 And I trust that you have been at least as blessed 00:25 as I have been from your time at GYC this year. 00:30 This is actually my first experience at GYC 00:32 and I'm so grateful. 00:35 I have spend years encouraging church members 00:38 and other people to come to GYC 00:41 and now I will always be able to speak from experience 00:43 when I tell folks that this is where they ought to be, 00:47 if they want to be blessed and encouraged 00:49 and lifted up before God. 00:50 What do you say? 00:52 I want to just take a moment to acknowledge 00:56 the leaders of GYC and thank them 00:59 for turning on this wonderful event, 01:03 this venue where God's Spirit 01:05 can work in such a powerful way. 01:07 Over the years, the leaders of GYC 01:09 have done a remarkable job. 01:11 Of course we seek to lift up Jesus 01:13 but I'm giving thanks where I believe thanks is due. 01:16 And I didn't do this when I had an opportunity earlier 01:18 but I wanted to thank Elder John Freedman, 01:21 the president of the Washington Conference. 01:24 Obviously, the support of the Washington Conference 01:26 is being important and greatly appreciated. 01:32 I know not all of you ran this morning. 01:38 About that, uh? The 5k this morning. 01:44 Yeah, don't think the Bradshaw's 01:45 aren't gonna be represented. 01:49 My wife did an awesome job running 5k this morning. 01:53 Awesome. 01:59 So proud of her. Excellent. 02:05 I hope that you are praying 02:08 for the revolution to continue 02:10 in God's church around this world. 02:12 I don't want to be selfish, 02:14 but I would like you to pray for me, 02:15 I have a six evangelistic meetings 02:19 coming up over the next year 02:20 with It Is Written and Escrito Está, 02:22 our Spanish language ministry 02:25 has at least as many in the United States 02:29 and other places as well. 02:30 I would like to take this opportunity 02:32 to encourage you to participate 02:34 in revelation today taking place in Charlotte, 02:37 North Carolina in October of this year. 02:40 It's gonna be broadcast and webcast 02:42 and all kind of cast. 02:44 And you will be able to be part of it wherever you are. 02:48 So perhaps, this is something your church 02:50 wants to participate in, or you want to do at home 02:53 or in your office, in your place of work, 02:54 in your dormitory or something. 02:57 Another opportunity to gather people 02:59 to get around the Bible 03:00 and encourage them into the word of God 03:02 and I would ask you to be praying for this event 03:06 and everything that's taking place in the name of Jesus 03:09 for the up-building of His kingdom 03:11 and the proclamation of the Three Angels' Messages. 03:15 Well, let us pray if you don't mind, 03:18 and we'll pray expecting God to bless us 03:21 as we open the Bible today. 03:22 Let's pray. 03:26 Our Father and our God, 03:27 we come to You in the name of Jesus. 03:31 That our old song said, in our hand, 03:35 no price we bring truly to the cross we cling. 03:43 Heavenly Father, as this convocation 03:46 comes to a conclusion, 03:50 we pray that You would unleash 03:55 the power of Your spirit again. 04:01 I'm not going to ask that you be here 04:04 or that You come into this place 04:07 as sure as the sun is shining in the sky, 04:12 we know that You are here, we know that. 04:16 My prayer is that You would allow for us to be here. 04:22 Take our minds, take our hearts, 04:27 unite our will with Your will. 04:31 Allow our faculties to be absorbed into Your purposes. 04:39 And let these minutes be such as would draw us 04:43 into Your words and into Your heart. 04:49 Bless us now please for Your glory we pray 04:53 in Jesus' name, amen. 05:00 It was the cool December day and the year was 1773. 05:09 A group of patriots known as the Sons of Liberty boarded 05:12 three ships in Boston harbor 05:16 and went to work unloading 342 crates of their contents. 05:23 The crates had been delivered by the East India Tea Company 05:27 and they contain some of India's finest, 05:32 if you allow me to put it that way tea. 05:37 This was no small matter. 05:40 Our children have tea parties today. 05:43 We think that is cute. 05:45 The government of Great Britain did not think this was cute. 05:50 Britain responded decidedly, 05:53 determined to restore British authority in Massachusetts, 05:57 Britain past a series of laws 06:01 that they believed essentially would reform government, 06:04 reform government in the colonies. 06:08 The past several acts in the British parliament, 06:12 five of them become known as the Intolerable Acts, 06:15 four of them really related directly 06:17 to what was taking place in the Massachusetts. 06:18 The fifth one was the Quebec Act, 06:21 but the patriots didn't like that either. 06:22 The Quebec or the Quebec Act, 06:24 in large the problems of Quebec 06:26 and brought it all the way down to the Ohio River. 06:29 The colonies didn't like that either. 06:32 But the four acts that really stuck in the corral with ease. 06:35 One was the Boston Port Act. 06:37 In retaliation against what the patriots have done, 06:39 the Boston Harbor was closed 06:43 until the East India Tea Company had been repaid 06:46 for the tea that had been lost. 06:47 The patriots didn't like that much. 06:50 The Massachusetts Government Act 06:52 brought the colony of Massachusetts 06:54 directly under the control of Great Britain 06:56 just like that. 06:59 And so the colonies and the other colonies 07:00 started to fear that their autonomy would be taken away, 07:03 not that you could really call it autonomy. 07:05 They fear that Britain would act similarly against them. 07:09 Freedom was disappeared. 07:11 The Administration of Justice Act meant that 07:14 royal subject in the colonies 07:18 could should Britain choose be tried 07:21 for crimes levied against them 07:23 in Britain rather than here in the United States, 07:26 what was not the United States yet. 07:29 George Washington called this the murder act. 07:32 He said, what this will accomplish 07:33 that British can do anything at all, 07:35 harass us anyway they like and they will get away with it. 07:37 This is intolerable he said, the intolerables they were. 07:40 And the fourth one was the Quartering Act, 07:42 this was an elaboration upon or enlargement of an act 07:46 that was already in existence 07:48 placing the burden or rather onerous burden 07:50 of housing, billeting caring 07:54 for British soldiers on the colonies. 07:56 And the colonies didn't like that. 07:58 Enough they said of taxation without representation. 08:02 Why should we put up with this? 08:04 The royals, they are treating us 08:06 with scorn, indignity. 08:10 British Prime Minister Lord North misjudged 08:12 the sediment in these colonies. 08:15 The Americans by now had little regards for any laws 08:17 that the British passed, had little regard. 08:21 And they already began organizing for war. 08:23 It was in 1775 that the shot was fired, 08:28 that has been described since then 08:30 as the shot heard around the world. 08:34 And the American Revolution 08:37 developed into the revolution every war. 08:40 A royal decree was issued. 08:42 It declared that the colonists were traitors. 08:47 The colonists said bring it on, because there's no going back. 08:51 And on July the 4th 1776, 08:54 the United States of America were formed or was formed. 08:58 A new nation, new liberties, new opportunities, 09:02 yea verily new responsibilities as well. 09:08 And all came out of a revolution. 09:14 A revolution occurs when the parties involve decide 09:17 that they will no longer tolerate the status quo. 09:20 There has to be change of decisive assault. 09:25 People say we will no longer go along 09:28 with existing conditions. 09:29 There has to be a change. People say this is it. 09:33 We are turning over a new leaf 09:35 and there would be no going back. 09:37 You can think about some of the world's 09:39 great revolutionaries, 09:43 the founding fathers, heroes, imperfect, 09:47 but they step forward when the moment came 09:50 and they acted decisively 09:52 and the world has never been the same since. 09:57 Heroes such as Martin Luther, 10:00 heroes such as Dr. Martin Luther King Junior, 10:04 heroes such as Gandhi are not praising his theology. 10:08 But you know Gandhi was a revolutionary 10:10 who brought change and it was needed change. 10:14 Not all revolutionaries are created equal. 10:19 Some are remembered as being infinites 10:22 more than famous, Che Guevara. 10:26 A revolutionary died in Bolivia at the hands of CIA, I believe. 10:33 Vladimir Lenin, 10:34 no not a hero of mine, but a revolutionary. 10:36 Karl Marx, 10:38 I don't know subscribe to his point of you, 10:40 but a revolutionary nevertheless. 10:42 Mao Zedong, I don't want a revolution like that, 10:45 taking place on our soil, 10:46 but nevertheless chairman Mao was a revolutionary. 10:49 People who brought change, people whose actions lineup 10:53 with the dictionary definition of revolution. 10:58 If you look in the dictionary, 10:59 you will discover that revolution is, 11:01 listen, listen because this becomes 11:03 very important to us on a personal basis. 11:06 A revolution is that I read for you, 11:07 an overthrow or repudiation, 11:11 and the thorough replacement of an established government 11:16 or political system by the people governed. 11:21 Think now, friends, because this is direct 11:23 implications and consequences for you and me. 11:26 A repudiation of an overthrow of the system governing you. 11:32 That's the definition of revolution. 11:35 Another definition is, a sudden complete 11:38 or marked change in something. 11:41 You know where I'm going today. 11:43 A sudden complete or marked change in something. 11:48 The first revolutionary we read about in the Bible 11:52 is a surprising revolutionary. 11:55 He began as Lucifer the light bearer, 11:57 we called him Satan today. 11:58 The Bible calls him a deceiver, a liar and the father of it. 12:03 He is the accuser of the brethren, 12:05 but he was a revolutionary. 12:08 There in heaven all was perfect and all was love. 12:11 There was a perfect system, there was a perfect government, 12:14 but this revolutionary rose up against it, 12:16 he said, we will not have a government 12:19 that brings glory to God, 12:21 but we will have a government instead 12:22 that brings glory to the creature, 12:24 not the creator. 12:26 Lucifer said, and you know it 12:27 for it is written in Isaiah 14:12, 12:30 I will be like the Most High. 12:32 I cannot stand the status quo. 12:34 There must be a change, change will begin with me. 12:39 Lucifer, the first recorded revolutionary in the Bible. 12:46 You could argue with that. 12:48 None I hope you will, 12:49 because there is another revolutionary 12:51 that we will talk about soon. 12:52 The Bible is a book of revolutions. 12:56 And as we've seen over these last few days at GYC, 12:59 the Book of Acts is where we find evidence 13:01 of something truly revolutionary. 13:05 Now, the first, the greatest revolutionary 13:09 there ever was, was Jesus, 13:10 and truthfully you could say that 13:12 Jesus was the original revolutionary, 13:14 because long ago in the council of peace, 13:16 Jesus said, if somebody falls, 13:19 if this world goes to hell, I will go. 13:21 Jesus was the lamb slain 13:24 from before the foundation of the world. 13:26 He said in case, 13:27 there's a revolution down there, 13:29 let me make a decision right here. 13:31 we will have provided for their salvation, 13:33 I will get them out of jail free, 13:35 I will go if I need to, Jesus stood up and said, 13:38 here am I, sent me. 13:40 The father said, all right, should that happen you will go. 13:43 Jesus came to a world darkened by sin 13:46 and He offered salvation. 13:47 He came to a planet mired in tradition 13:50 and He brought truth. 13:52 He traveled to a distance spot in the universe 13:55 where there was failure and He offered victory 13:58 where there was mediocrity or even worse, 14:00 Jesus proffered excellence. 14:04 Instead of wickedness, 14:05 Jesus came and He held out the hope of righteousness, 14:08 and for death Jesus offered life. 14:12 Jesus was and is a revolutionary. 14:18 But there is something interesting 14:19 about that revolution that was conceived in heaven 14:22 and then really took place here on the earth. 14:24 Jesus started the revolution by intent in heaven long ago. 14:29 He brought a massive revolution to our world 14:32 that was dead and trespasses in sins. 14:34 When He came, He was born as a baby in Bethlehem 14:37 and then when He ministered and lived 14:38 and ultimately died on an old rugged cross. 14:42 But Jesus when He left this earth 14:45 and ascended to heaven, 14:46 left the revolution in the hands 14:50 of some interesting characters. 14:56 It was a misfit church. 15:03 You think you see things in your church 15:06 that you don't like. 15:09 We had so many grumblers in the church today. 15:15 It's true, there's plenty to grumble about. 15:19 You are in the church, there something right there. 15:26 But if the grumblers would attempt 15:29 to be part of the solution, 15:32 rather than just amplified the problem, 15:35 this would be not a different church, 15:37 but a different world, 15:39 ladies and gentlemen, a different world. 15:42 It was a misfit church back then. 15:47 Just days before Jesus went to heaven, 15:49 the Bible says, His very closest friends 15:52 and this is a direct quote forsook Him and fled. 15:57 Imagine, Jesus being dragged off to that kangaroo court 16:03 and thinking, well I'm gonna be dead soon 16:06 and the future of the church rests upon some yellow-bellies 16:10 who in My moment of need forsook me and fled. 16:14 Would you have taken that risk? 16:16 No, you would not. 16:19 Two of Jesus' inner circle was so corrupt, 16:24 that their method of solving interpersonal conflicts 16:28 was to appeal to deity to send fire from heaven 16:33 to burn up the people who disagreed with them. 16:37 Can you imagine that? 16:39 You got problems with somebody 16:41 in your dormitory if you are in college 16:43 and you go to the dean and say, I think I have a solution, 16:47 let's pray that God sends fire down 16:49 from heaven and burns here up. 16:54 That's what Jesus was dealing with. 16:58 Judas had a devil. 17:01 Now, Jesus didn't leave 17:03 the future of the church with him, 17:05 but you know that like leavened in dough Judas' 17:10 influences leavened the disciples, 17:12 you understand that? 17:15 Thomas, Doubting Thomas, Philip weak in faith, 17:22 the great revolutionary had left the earth 17:27 and he was passing the torch on to others. 17:33 What could possibly come off this revolution? 17:38 Open your Bible with me please, 17:39 sorry to take so long getting there, 17:41 Luke Chapter 24, Luke Chapter 24. 17:47 And we'll pick it up in verse 49. 17:51 Jesus is about to checkout of this earth 17:55 and He is dealing with His little group of failures 17:58 and He says this to them. 17:59 Luke 24:49. 18:02 "And behold, I send the promise of my father upon you, 18:08 but tarry in the city of Jerusalem 18:11 until you been endued with power from on high." 18:15 Jesus look at them and He realized 18:17 they were failures, they were frail, 18:21 they had more than foibles, this was a broken bunch. 18:25 Peter denied him like he did, 18:27 I mean Jesus was looking at this group 18:30 and He said, you are not gonna get it done on your own, 18:33 but it was never God's intention 18:36 that the church get it done on its own. 18:40 Jesus said, made provision for a group of failures, 18:43 so that they could be raging successes 18:46 in prosecuting the gospel commission. 18:49 And he said to them, wait 18:52 until you be endued with power from on high. 18:55 And then verse 53 says, they responded positively, 19:00 they were continually in the temple, 19:02 praising and blessing God and then Luke write, amen. 19:05 And we all ought to say amen to them. 19:07 Jesus left them behind 19:09 and where would you have found them? 19:10 In the temple. What were they doing? 19:12 worshipping, praising, praying, they were waiting, 19:15 they were pressing close to the heart of God. 19:17 We know, you've got something big, 19:18 we are here, and we are ready. 19:22 What happened as a result? 19:25 The Book of Acts happened as a result. 19:27 For some of reason, the Book of Acts is called, 19:29 the Acts of the Apostles. 19:30 It should really be called the Acts of the Holy Spirit 19:33 because when you look at the Book of Acts, 19:34 the disciples did nothing, other than, 19:39 provide themselves as vessels through 19:42 which the Holy Spirit could work. 19:44 God was gonna get a work done, 19:46 that the disciples would be tools 19:48 in the hands of a mighty God. 19:50 We read about this. 19:52 Book of Pentecost took place 19:53 and when I read about this thing in Acts, 19:55 in a book called the Acts of the Apostles, 19:57 in the Bible book. 19:59 Here's what I discovered, 20:00 I've cobbled a few points together. 20:02 Here's what the disciples knew, when Pentecost took place. 20:07 Here's what the disciples knew, 20:09 when they pressed in close to the heart of God, 20:10 here's what they knew. 20:12 They knew, that they had a representative in heaven 20:14 and advocate of the throne of God. 20:16 Did you know that today? 20:18 In solemn, all day bowed in prayer 20:20 repeating the assurance, 20:22 what so whether you shall ask of God and in my name, 20:25 he will give it to you. 20:26 They believed what God had said, 20:31 revolutionary, as the disciples waited 20:34 for the fulfillment of the promise 20:35 they humbled their hearts in true repentance 20:39 and confessed their unbelief. 20:43 But they were comforted by the thought 20:44 that they were forgiven 20:46 and they determined that so far as possible, 20:48 they would atone for their unbelief 20:50 by bravely confessing him before the world. 20:52 Let me stop there and editorialize 20:53 just a little bit. 20:56 Unfortunately, there are some people 20:58 who struggled with idea that they are forgiven. 21:01 Could God really forgive me after what I have done? 21:05 Does God really have a place for me in His work, 21:07 when you stop and consider 21:08 how sinful I have been and I am? 21:10 Look where I am now. 21:11 Could God use somebody like me? 21:13 I want to tell you something, 21:14 it's time to take your eyes of yourself 21:16 and put your eyes on a mediator in heaven sanctuary. 21:20 When you look at you, 21:21 the answer will always be defeat. 21:22 When you look at Jesus, 21:24 the answers will always be victory. 21:26 Can God use you? Yes, He can. 21:28 Sinful you? Yes, He can. 21:30 Let's not talk anymore about your sinfulness. 21:33 That's our self problem. 21:37 We'd like to define issues with self by saying, 21:40 well, you know, I really wanted a hamburger, 21:42 but I prayed and I just walked right on by McDonalds' 21:45 and I've got victory of our self. 21:49 All right, that probably qualifies. 21:54 But in the big picture I could care less. 21:59 There's another victory over self, you ought to get 22:00 and that's the victory over self doubt. 22:03 That's the victory of our self condemnation, 22:05 that's selfishness man, 22:07 that's all it is, that's self centeredness. 22:09 Look beyond yourself 22:11 and look at Jesus in heaven's sanctuary and say, 22:14 misfit though I might be, broken though I am, 22:18 failed though I be, my hope is in Christ, 22:22 my hope is in heaven, 22:24 I have a mediator at the right hand of God 22:28 in the Most Holy Place of the heavenly sanctuary, 22:31 Jesus, the Bible tells you in the Book of Hebrews, 22:34 He went to heaven for us. 22:36 He is for you not against you. The disciples believe that. 22:40 They looked at their litany of failures 22:43 and they said wait it's not about our failures, 22:45 it's about Jesus and His great victory. 22:49 What else do we read? 22:51 The disciples pray with intense earnestness 22:53 with intense earnestness for a fitness to meet men 22:56 and in the daily intercourse to speak words 22:58 that would leads sinners to Christ. 23:00 This is what they prayed for. 23:01 God give me words, 23:03 putting away all difference, all desired for the supremacy, 23:06 they came close together in Christian fellowship. 23:09 Read-- you just turn back a few pages. 23:11 These were the same clowns 23:12 who were fighting about who would be the greatest. 23:14 Now that was gone. 23:17 "These days of preparation were days 23:19 of deep heart-searching. 23:21 The disciples felt their spiritual need 23:22 and cried to the Lord for the holy unction 23:26 that was to fit them for the work of soul saving." 23:31 It's a wonder that we don't pray 23:35 and plead for the Holy Spirit to fill us every day, 23:39 every night, maybe you do, 23:41 but if you don't, you are missing out on something. 23:44 This is what the disciples prayed for. 23:45 "They did not ask for a blessing 23:47 for themselves merely. 23:48 They were weighted with the burden 23:51 of the salvation of souls. 23:55 They realized that the gospel was to be carried to the world, 23:58 and they claimed the power that Christ had promised. 24:06 In obedience to the word of the Savior, 24:08 the disciples offered their supplications for this gift." 24:12 Jesus said pray for the gift and so they did. 24:15 And in heaven, I love this, 24:17 "In heaven Christ added His intercession." 24:21 Isn't that something? 24:23 You're on your knees praying 24:25 and Jesus is in heaven adding his prayers to yours. 24:28 You're down here appealing to God 24:30 to do some great thing and Jesus is in heaven, 24:32 adding his intersession to your pleadings. 24:34 Oh, praise the Lord for such a great savior. 24:37 He claimed the gift of the spirit. 24:40 You got to love this. 24:41 Jesus claimed the gift of the Holy Spirit, 24:44 so that He might pour it upon His people. 24:49 Look what was about to take place. 24:51 Jesus said, there's gonna be a revolution. 24:54 He said to the disciples, 24:55 you are going to lead the way, yes you are. 24:57 But in order for you to be successful revolutionaries, 25:01 there's something you gonna need. 25:04 They didn't have to get together 25:05 and plot and strategizes the way 25:07 they are going to get weapons. 25:08 They knew, their weapon would come from above. 25:10 They didn't need to go off to a training camp 25:12 in the middle of the desert and practice guerilla warfare. 25:15 They knew that the warfare they were involved in 25:18 would be carried out under the unction, 25:19 under the aegis of the great Holy Spirit of almighty God, 25:22 they knew that. 25:23 Jesus pledge to provide the Holy Spirit, 25:27 so that the revolution could go forward 25:29 like fire through the stubble. 25:33 The entire Book of Acts is the story 25:36 how the revolution was pressed forward. 25:38 Pentecost, spirit of God was poured out. 25:42 Peter preached a powerful sermon. 25:44 The people were pricked in their heart. 25:46 Men and brethren, what shall we do 25:47 and 3,000 were baptized in a day. 25:50 In the next chapter Peter and John went to pray. 25:53 They met a layman on the way. 25:56 He asked them for a gift 25:57 and they said, silver and gold have I none, 26:00 but such as I have give by the, 26:02 in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth 26:04 do what tell me now, rise up and walk, 26:06 and he went walking and leaping and praising God. 26:11 Peter preached with power, the spirit convicted hearts, 26:15 thousands believed a great company of the priests 26:19 were obedient to the faith. 26:21 The Spirit of God went further. 26:24 It wasn't just the actions of the apostles, 26:27 but the Spirit of God went down 26:28 and dealt with the motives of the apostles. 26:32 Peter went on to roof top to pray. 26:33 You got to be careful if you pray, 26:35 because God will answer your prayer. 26:36 He might not give you an answer that you like. 26:38 Peter went up there to pray 26:40 and as he was up on the roof top, 26:41 there was a knocking at the gate, 26:42 someone had come to call him down 26:44 nearly Cornelius' house. 26:45 Peter had seen a vision, 26:46 a great sheet knit together at the four corners, 26:49 filled up with unclean creatures 26:51 descending to the earth. 26:52 God said, rise Peter, kill and eat, 26:55 and Peter said, uh-uh, 26:57 I'm not eating that, that's unclean. 27:00 And God eventually got through to Peter 27:02 and told him that what he was trying 27:03 to communicate with him, was that now, 27:05 even though his theology was right, 27:06 his heart was wrong. 27:07 Get over there to the gentles man, 27:09 don't be a racist. 27:11 That was the message in Acts Chapter 10. 27:12 Peter enough of your racism. 27:14 Peter got the message. He yielded and he went. 27:17 He said I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. 27:20 There was a revolution taking place 27:22 in the heart of Peter, 27:25 then there was a Prophet Agabus, 27:26 there were Philips four daughters who prophesied. 27:29 Philip went out into the wilderness, why? 27:31 Because he was led by the Holy Spirit 27:34 to meet with the utopian and when he was done, 27:36 the Spirit of God caught him away, 27:39 took him to another place. 27:40 This was what happened under the power 27:44 of the Holy Spirit of God. 27:47 At Antioch there were certain prophets 27:49 and teachers, there's Barnabas, 27:50 and Simeon that was called Niger, 27:52 Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen 27:55 who been brought up with Herod the Tetrarch, and Saul. 27:59 Aren't you glad for that? 28:01 Because when they fasted and prayed and appealed to God, 28:05 the Holy Spirit spoke up and said separate unto me 28:10 Barnabas and Saul and the Spirit of God 28:14 sent them on their way. 28:16 It says those very words in the Bible. 28:22 Friend, if there is going to be a revolution, 28:25 the revolution will take place when we 28:27 and the Holy Spirit are connected, 28:30 that's when it would take place. 28:32 God is eager to empower the revolutionaries. 28:36 Over there in the Middle East there are revolutionaries, 28:39 and there are terrorist states if I can just call them that 28:42 who are eager to supply them 28:43 with armaments to provide the power, 28:46 to push the revolution forward. 28:49 Spirit of God is eager to provide the power 28:51 to push the revolution forward. 28:54 There was little failure in the Book of Acts, 28:55 when the apostles, the disciples 28:57 attached themselves to the Holy Spirit of God. 29:00 There was transformation within and without there was power. 29:05 I remember when I was a Catholic teenager 29:07 about 14 years old, 29:10 I started to kick around with the baptized youth group. 29:13 Some kids in my high school, 29:15 you know, when we go down to Westy's house 29:17 and they had a great big living room down 29:18 with the two rivers come together at their old house. 29:21 And these youth group leaders would come, 29:23 you know, and weed, I don't know, 29:24 what we would do, I don't remember too well. 29:26 I remember one thing, 29:28 that they will be singing and someone would pray 29:30 and there would be games and games, 29:31 there's been lot of games, but this just what it was, 29:35 but then there was a little stool, 29:36 it was about this high and was made of wood. 29:38 And if you are unlucky, 29:40 maybe if you got the question wrong 29:41 or you came last in middle of competition, 29:44 it was your sentence to go and sit on the stool. 29:48 It was just an inconspicuous looking wooden stool 29:51 that's all it was. 29:52 But you didn't know when you got there 29:54 because nobody told you, you found out though. 29:58 Somewhere over there, there was a switch 30:00 and when the youth group leader flipped the switch, suddenly, 30:06 suddenly you got moving. 30:09 There was electricity connected to the stool 30:12 and when the switch was flipped, 30:14 you didn't see the electricity, 30:17 but you sure felt the electricity 30:19 and that electricity got out of the seat 30:21 well, it got into the seat, if you know what I mean, 30:24 and throw the individual and you got to move in, 30:26 you couldn't help but move. 30:29 You didn't have to do anything 30:31 but sit there and wait for the power to arrive 30:35 and when the power arrived, you could not remain the same. 30:39 People try, but it couldn't be done. 30:43 Friend, if you would just sit there 30:46 and allow God to do what God wants to do, 30:50 you cannot be the same, you might not see it happen 30:54 but you will its effect, you will see its results, 30:57 when the Spirit of God gets the holds of you, 30:59 there will be power, real power, 31:02 there will be a revolution when God sends us, 31:06 the person of the Holy Spirit there is power. 31:08 When God's revolutionary, 31:10 simply let the Holy Spirit have their way, 31:13 that's when there's a powerful revolution. 31:15 Holy Spirit said to Peter, remember, 31:17 go to Cornelius' house. 31:20 What did Peter do? 31:21 He just went. He didn't have to go. 31:24 Keep in mind Peter didn't have to go, 31:26 Peter could have easily said, 31:28 not me, you got the wrong guy. 31:30 Those are gentles over there, and I hate them 31:32 because there are different race 31:34 and I've been bred to hate them and taught to hate them 31:37 and that we used the scriptures that justify hating them, 31:39 God I will not go and if I go, 31:42 my credibility with the church will be blown. 31:48 But Peter didn't say that, God said go, and Peter went. 31:53 Notice this, in Acts 16:6, 31:55 "When they had gone throughout Phrygia 31:57 and the region of Galatia, 31:58 they were forbidden by the Holy Ghost 32:01 to preach the word in Asia. 32:04 After they were come to Mysia, 32:06 they assayed to go into Bithynia, 32:09 but the Spirit did not allow them." 32:14 Now, they simply could have said, 32:17 we have this annoying feeling. 32:20 We believe God doesn't want us to go, 32:22 but we are going to go anyway. 32:26 You know what that's like, 32:28 last night undoubtedly some of you all 32:31 heard the call of the wild. 32:33 It's New Year's Eve. 32:36 Come on now, 32:37 don't tell me you gonna sit around 32:39 in your little hotel room 32:40 and go down to some prayer room. 32:42 Oh, no, the flesh began to call, 32:45 Satan placed an agent somewhere near you perhaps 32:49 and said this is the way walking in it. 32:53 And you know how it can be when temptation comes. 32:56 God calls us to yield, these guys were told, 32:59 don't go there, they didn't go, 33:01 they could have, but they didn't go. 33:05 "A vision appeared to Paul in the night, 33:06 There stood a man of Macedonia, 33:08 and prayed him, saying, 33:09 Come over into Macedonia, and help us." 33:11 That's where Paul went. 33:12 You see, Paul might have 33:13 had his own agenda, but he didn't. 33:15 He simply made himself available to the agenda 33:18 of the Holy Spirit and when he did that, 33:21 there was no obstruction in the work of God. 33:24 The work of God went forward with power 33:28 because the disciples simply said, 33:30 let's do Your thing. 33:34 Not everybody was called by God and did God what asked. 33:38 You've heard of Jonah, 33:40 Jonah went in the opposite direction. 33:44 You know what Peter did? 33:45 Oh, I didn't know him, no way, 33:47 conviction was telling Peter, Peter confess Jesus, 33:51 but Peter fought it off. 33:52 Judas against the conviction of the Holy Spirit sold Jesus. 33:59 There are plenty of examples in the Bible 34:02 of people who knew better, 34:04 Balaam attempted to prophesy against God's people. 34:07 Call a curse of God down on God's people knowing better. 34:11 Donkey had to talk to Balaam to get him straightened out. 34:16 I hope that you are getting a picture 34:18 of what fueled the revolution, 34:22 not simply the Holy Spirit. 34:25 The Spirit of God was the power, 34:27 really was the fuel, that's true, 34:29 but the disciples yielding their will to God 34:34 enabled the revolution to go forward. 34:38 Friend, when you leave here, something is gonna happen. 34:42 You are going to be confronted with the decision. 34:46 Is life going to be business as usual 34:50 or will the Holy Spirit have control of your life. 34:55 God is gonna speak to you and call you 34:56 and you gonna have to be confronted with the decision 34:58 and the decision isn't to do, the decision is to yield. 35:01 Will I let God have His way in my life? 35:05 Fascinating what God will do, 35:07 I remember being a student literature evangelist. 35:10 And I was canvassing in some hallways in the south, 35:12 and I had a good day and I was driving back home, 35:16 and as I drove fast a couple of homes. 35:18 On this side, I can still see it like it was yesterday 35:21 was an elderly couple sitting on their porch 35:23 and over here was a mom, and a dad, 35:25 and two kids playing in the front yard, 35:27 playing with the ball. 35:29 And I drove past them and came to the T, 35:31 I flipped on indicator was turning left 35:33 and God said, go back. 35:35 And I said no need for that, 35:36 I had a good day and I kept on driving. 35:39 God did not give up, God said go back. 35:43 And, you know, if you see two families, 35:45 elderly and young, 35:46 you gonna go to the young family 35:47 because they want to at least buy the kids books 35:49 and that lady she's gonna want to cook surely. 35:52 And then you gonna interest them in the message book 35:54 and they want to raise their kids in fear 35:55 and admonition of the Lord. 35:58 No, no, I'm not going back. 36:00 If I was gonna go back God, 36:01 I will go back to the young people. 36:03 But I'm not going back, I'm driving down the road, 36:04 that's strike two God said again, 36:06 John go back and go to the elderly couple. 36:11 I didn't hear a voice, 36:12 of course I didn't hear a voice, 36:13 but it was a strong and overwhelming impression, 36:16 I pulled into a driveway, I stopped in the driveway, 36:19 I said out loud, Lord, 36:21 I think I'm fooling myself here. 36:25 But just in case this is you, 36:27 I will go back and see what happens. 36:28 I went back, pulled into the driveway of the elderly couple, 36:31 got my bag over my shoulder, got out of the car, 36:33 walked up the little rise leading to their porch 36:36 and the man or the woman 36:37 I don't remember which one said, 36:38 "Uh what's that you got for us today?" 36:43 I started canvassing them, 36:45 I'm handing books out here to the lady, 36:47 the lady was the decision maker, 36:49 the husband was a nuisance. 36:50 He just was asking questions. 36:53 In the end I pulled out three or four books, I said, 36:54 you look through these while I talk to your wife, 36:56 canvass the wife. 36:57 They brought one or two of everything I had. 37:00 I went on my way praising the Lord 37:01 that truth had been left behind in this home. 37:04 They were buying kids-- not, they weren't buying kids. 37:09 I've sold a lot of things in my time but never children. 37:13 They were buying books for their kids, 37:15 books for their grandchildren, books for themselves. 37:17 I'm saying God when I just listen to you, 37:20 you will do something great. 37:23 You might think this was a small illustration. 37:26 Yes for you maybe because God tells you to go 37:28 and raise dead people. 37:29 Well back then, he was telling me to go 37:31 and sell books to living people, 37:33 and when I did as a young broke LE 37:37 and the money has been handed over 37:39 and I'm thinking God, 37:40 more for the souls than for the money, 37:43 I'm saying this is huge, whatever you are doing, 37:45 God is gonna do something great. 37:47 When you'll listen to the voice of God, 37:49 that's all God wants us to do. 37:51 Put ourselves in the place, 37:53 where we hear Him and then yield to Him. 37:56 The message of the gospel 37:58 is the message of yielding to our God 38:02 who wants to do something great in your life. 38:04 You don't have to sweat that 38:05 you aren't capable of greatness, 38:07 God is capable of greatness. 38:09 You don't want to tell me, 38:11 but I'm too weak because I've read in the Bible 38:13 where God says my strength is made perfect in what? 38:17 Weakness. 38:19 God is looking for the weak. 38:23 And if you can turn up at God's throne 38:25 and say, Lord, I believe I'm weak, 38:26 God says all right, now you've got it. 38:28 I remember it was early this, 38:29 no, it wasn't, it was last year, wasn't it? 38:31 Last year in Paris, 38:32 when we held an evangelistic series in Paris. 38:35 If you want people to pray for you, 38:36 go hold the meeting in Africa. 38:38 If you want people to just envy you, 38:39 go hold the meeting in Paris. 38:45 In Paris, we're having a large baptism, 38:47 hundred or so people being baptized. 38:49 Praise the Lord. 38:50 And the baptism is just taking place, 38:52 I don't have a role in that, 38:53 I'm standing back and enjoying what's going on, 38:55 and they run to me and they grab me 38:56 and they say to me, 38:57 pastor we need your help with something, 39:01 beautiful French accent. 39:03 We need you, I said, how can I help you, huh? 39:08 Pastor, there's a lady 39:10 who does not want to get baptized. 39:13 Oh man, that's too bad. 39:15 What do you want to me to do? 39:17 We want to come and change her mind. 39:23 Yeah, that's what I do, 39:24 I change people's mind, bring her on. 39:26 I will fix this lady in a moment. 39:29 Just bring me to her, I will work with my magic. 39:33 I said, sister, what's the problem. 39:34 She spoke to me through translator, 39:36 she said, I don't want to get baptized. 39:37 I know that, why not? 39:39 She said, I fear that after I'm baptized 39:41 I will fall and fail. 39:42 I said, you will. 39:44 She like, I said you've just demonstrated to me 39:49 that you're ready to be baptized. 39:51 What do you mean? 39:53 I said if you are confident 39:54 that you are gonna get out of the water 39:55 and then walk on water, I will be worrying. 39:58 But you recognize that you are weak, right? 40:00 Yes, pastor, tears streaming down her face. 40:04 I fear that I will fall. 40:07 I said, you don't have to worry about that, 40:09 you give your life to Jesus, He will live His life in you. 40:13 And should you fall, you know where I went? 40:16 We have an advocate with the Father, 40:19 Jesus Christ, the Righteous. 40:20 Sister, get up and go and get baptized. 40:23 God is gonna take care of you when you get out of the water. 40:26 She recognized her weakness. 40:28 We all must recognize our weakness 40:30 because once you think 40:31 you are 10 foot tall and bullet proof, 40:32 you don't even need the Holy Spirit anymore. 40:35 When you are weak, then God can make you strong. 40:38 God says yield, when you yield, 40:41 the Holy Spirit will do what the Holy Spirit will do. 40:44 And if the Holy Spirit calls you to go 40:46 and sweep a floor in the fellowship hall of the church, 40:50 you sweep that floor for Jesus. 40:53 And the Baptist who rent your church 40:55 or the people have a birthday party in your church, 40:57 you gonna come and they gonna say. 40:58 That floor, I'm so impressed. 41:03 What kind of people would have such a floor? 41:08 I want to worship with them on a floor like that. 41:14 And if God calls you to preach 41:15 to stadium full of people, then so be it. 41:18 God calls you to be a missionary in Mongolia, 41:21 go there. 41:22 If God calls you to be a missionary in Manhattan, 41:24 don't turn back. 41:25 If God calls you to be a missionary 41:27 at school or at home, that's what you want to be. 41:32 God didn't call all of us to be the head 41:33 or the tail or the hand or the foot, 41:35 He called all of us to take part 41:37 in the great work that He is doing. 41:38 Let God use you, He will use you. 41:42 It's all great when God uses you. 41:44 All great, the Holy Spirit wants to do a work. 41:48 Holy Spirit cannot put anything in your hand 41:51 when your fist is all closed up. 41:54 Paul wrote to the Romans, in Romans 6:16, 41:56 he said this, he said "Know you not, 41:58 that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, 42:00 his servants you are to whom you obey, 42:02 whether of sin unto death, 42:04 or of obedience unto righteousness." 42:05 Paul said, you are the servant of someone. 42:09 You are the servant of either of sin or of obedience 42:11 and you get to choose who you're the servant of. 42:14 Isn't that something? 42:16 Look with me, I'm a bit late getting to this. 42:18 Look with me in Acts Chapter 9, 42:21 I'm gonna show you a revolution here. 42:25 Before there was a revolution, there was a revolutionary. 42:30 And in order for Paul to be a revolutionary, 42:32 they had to be revolution that took place in his life. 42:35 A Holy Spirit inspired and moved 42:39 and executed revolution. 42:43 I want you to notice what it says in Acts 9:1. 42:46 "And Saul yet breathing out threatening 42:50 and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord." 42:53 How about that? 42:55 I mean those words are graphic aren't they? 42:58 Breathing out, threatenings and slaughter 43:01 went to the high priest, 43:03 he said, give me some letters, 43:04 I'll go to synagogues in Damascus, 43:06 I will fix him Christians. 43:08 On this way, God confronted him. 43:12 "Saul, why you prosecuting me?" 43:13 And he answered by saying, Lord, who are you? 43:18 He tremble in the presence of God as he might. 43:23 But he asked a question, he said in verse 6, 43:28 what do you want me to do? 43:32 God told him, "Arise, and go into the city, 43:36 and it will told you there what you have to do." 43:38 In others, what do you want me to do? 43:41 I'm not telling you. 43:44 But if you get up and go to the city, 43:46 you will find out. 43:50 Elijah came and said, "Now prophet will you heal me? 43:52 No, no, no, no, go down to the river, 43:53 I'm not interested. 43:55 This was God fending Saul off just a little bit. 43:59 Saul, will you exercise faith? 44:01 Saul, will you learn faith right away? 44:04 You're cruising in a graduation, 44:05 you say, I don't know what I'm gonna do. 44:06 Don't sweat that, make yourself available to God. 44:09 He got a millions things for you to do. 44:11 And one thing that He is gonna show you 44:13 brighter than all of the others. 44:15 Hang in there. 44:17 Saul was breathing out-- what was it? 44:19 Threatenings and slaughter. 44:22 Go down to the city, they will tell you there. 44:24 He gets down to the city. 44:25 Before he got there, the Lord spoke to Ananias. 44:30 And He said, now I want you to go down 44:32 and rondevu with somebody. 44:33 Ananias was petrified. 44:35 Lord in verse 13, 44:36 "I have heard by many of this man, 44:37 this man has a reputation, 44:39 how much evil he has done to your saints at Jerusalem." 44:44 God said you go, it's gonna be okay. 44:47 I have called him. Ananias went. 44:49 Verse 17 he called him, brother Saul. 44:52 Just that phrase alone knocks me out. 44:55 The scales fell from his eyes. 44:57 And what do you read? 44:59 Saul was strengthened, 45:00 he hung out in Damascus for a while. 45:02 And right away he preached Christ in the synagogues 45:07 that Christ was the son of God and the people were amazed. 45:14 "Is not this he that destroyed them 45:17 which called on this name in Jerusalem," 45:20 They were amazed. 45:22 We know what he is like, this brother has changed. 45:25 I want to challenge you young person, 45:28 whatever age you are, 45:31 we have young people of all ages at GYC. 45:35 Go from here and amaze somebody. 45:40 Not by going back to the church and copying at them about 45:43 they ought to be enthusiastic like you 45:46 or you can do that too. 45:49 Not by going back to the church 45:51 and dazzling people 45:56 with your lifestyle reform. 46:00 Do that. Do that too. 46:03 But amaze people by letting them 46:06 look at you and say, wait a minute, 46:08 this is the man who used to be like this, 46:11 but look at him now. 46:14 This is the young woman, who used to act a certain way, 46:17 but look at her now, 46:20 something is going on, that is revolutionary. 46:24 Friend of mine, God invited to church 46:28 so he went and when he was at church, 46:30 the preacher challenged all of the husbands, 46:32 go home and don't complain about 46:33 anything to your wife for two weeks. 46:41 He said to a friend on his way home, 46:42 these Seventh-day Adventists are cranks, 46:45 that's unreasonable. 46:48 He got home, he didn't complain 46:49 about anything for two weeks. 46:52 Wife thought he had gone mad. 46:56 By the end of two weeks, she said, 46:58 I don't know what they did you in that church, 47:01 but I'm coming along this week to find out. 47:06 They're now parents in Israel, 47:08 they have got family that are in ministry. 47:12 The revolution began in the heart, 47:16 yielding to the power of God, the revolution was seen. 47:22 Saul was revolutionary 47:25 because a revolution began in his life. 47:29 Friend, when you go home from GYC, 47:32 be the revolution you want to see. 47:36 Be a revolution. 47:38 If you can't stop one, be one, 47:40 that's revolution enough. 47:43 Let the revolution begin in you. 47:45 You get to choose today who you gonna serve, 47:48 whose it gonna be. 47:49 Have you chosen to serve God with all of your heart. 47:53 I know there are bunch of you have, 47:55 praise the Lord, but I'm guarantying you, 47:57 he will bunch you in heaven. 48:01 And it would be a tragedy to go home from here, 48:06 the same as when you arrived, tragic. 48:13 We got flashlights all over our house, 48:17 some of them work. 48:22 We really need to change the batteries 48:23 because if there were some sort of power outage, 48:26 I know what would happen, I would run to the flashlight 48:28 and press the button, there would be no power. 48:29 And I would be say, how silly of me. 48:33 I have the flashlight and I know where the power is, 48:37 but I neglected to put the two together. 48:40 It could be a matter of life and death. 48:43 Why would we not yield to the power 48:48 and let the revolution begin in us. 48:52 Why would we not? 48:55 As powerfully as God works at events like this, 48:58 I don't want you to think that GYC 49:01 is the revolution, it's revolutionary. 49:07 But a revolution doesn't take place 49:09 within four walls over four days, 49:11 it may begin. 49:14 But you got to take the revolution back 49:15 to where you came from, your home, your church, 49:19 your workplace, your school. 49:22 Wherever you are, the revolution 49:23 is got to go from here 49:25 and become a reality out there. 49:28 What were those definitions of revolution 49:30 we discussed earlier out of the dictionary? 49:32 An overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement 49:35 of an established government 49:36 or political system by the people governed. 49:38 Before you come to Jesus, you're being governed, 49:41 by the enemy of source, there must be a revolution 49:44 that throws that form of government off. 49:47 It's a tyrannical form of government. 49:54 A sudden complete or mark changed in something. 49:58 If Jesus isn't the ruler of your life, 50:01 you are governed by self. 50:03 Let's just say it this way. 50:04 It's the devil leading you around by the nose. 50:09 Let there be a revolution in your life, 50:11 where self will is swallowed up in Christ's will, 50:15 that's a revolution. 50:17 A sudden complete of mark change in something. 50:20 That's conversion, isn't it? 50:24 That's when a child of enemy becomes a child of God. 50:28 That's when the Holy Spirit took cowardly Peter 50:33 and changed him into the bold Peter who said, 50:35 we ought to obey God rather than men. 50:38 You won't be able to light a fire in your church 50:40 until God has lit a fire in you. 50:42 You can't call anybody out of Babylon 50:43 until God has taken Babylon out of you. 50:45 You can talk about the mark of the beast 50:47 until you are blue in the face, 50:48 but if you are a beast, 50:54 all of your words aren't gonna mean much 50:56 in the final analysis. 51:00 Friends, we got a message to share. 51:02 I thank God for the message God has given us, 51:04 given his church, I thank God. 51:09 I know there are times that it feels like 51:11 you're getting blown this way and that, 51:12 I know that, I know that. 51:17 That doesn't mean that Jesus is not in your midst. 51:19 The disciples were in the boat, 51:20 they had to wake Him up, Lord save us we perish. 51:22 Jesus was right there, they thought they gonna perish. 51:24 Jesus is with us in this church. 51:26 Amen. 51:29 He is gonna get the good ship Adventism 51:30 over to the other side. 51:32 Now when Saul may landfall at multi, 51:34 he had to grab hold of a little chunk of the boat. 51:36 If that's all that's left by the time 51:37 we come to the other side, so be it. 51:40 But hang on to Jesus. 51:42 Hang on to the great truths 51:44 He has committed to this church. 51:45 Hang on, we got a message to share 51:48 and we got a message to live. 51:53 You can talk about revolution and that's good. 51:56 God wants you to be a revolution. 52:01 If you already having an Enoch experience. 52:04 If you are eating the right amount of almonds 52:05 and drinking eight glasses of water every day 52:08 and spending time in prayer, God bless you. 52:11 But if you are not, 52:13 now is the time to enlist in the revolution. 52:16 A revolution like no other, where God works, 52:19 to turn you inside out and put you right side up. 52:22 I've known scoundrels who have been used by God 52:25 in a mighty way. 52:27 I spoke to a fellow who used to be the principal 52:30 of an academy in New Mexico, oh many years ago. 52:34 He told me about some of the things 52:35 that the academy students were doing then, 52:37 the boys in the dorm, you think it's bad today? 52:39 It was as bad then. 52:42 He told me some of these guys are conference president now. 52:46 I said, who? He wouldn't tell me. 52:58 I baptized a witch doctor earlier this year. 53:00 That one anything I have done, I just did the baptism, 53:02 there was a team of people who worked with them 53:04 and led them to Jesus. 53:05 You wait and see, 53:06 God will use a witch doctor for His glory. 53:11 I met someone here 53:12 and I ask this individual here at GYC. 53:14 Do you know pastor so and so? 53:16 Oh, yes, he is great, and he is. 53:20 But the last conversation I had with pastor so and so 53:23 was when he said to me, John I like to fight. 53:28 I like to go out to bars and get drunk 53:31 and find the biggest guy 53:33 and take him outside and beat him up. 53:40 He gets lots of decisions for baptism these days. 53:48 I wonder. 53:51 That's the last conversation I had with him. 53:53 Now he is a soul winner, winning souls left and right, 53:57 inspiring young people, inspiring older people 54:00 and the last time I spoke with him face to face, 54:02 he said I want to go out 54:04 and fight with someone right now. 54:07 Not exhibit A, this is the guy 54:10 that's gonna cause a revolution. 54:12 Oh, let's ordain him. 54:16 If God can get hold of that guy 54:19 and revolutionize a corner of the world. 54:24 You got no excuse. 54:26 I know former gamblers who teach Sabbath school 54:28 and drunks, former drunks who sit on church boards 54:31 and form allies who lead pathfinders in, 54:34 former drug users, who are Bible workers now, 54:36 doing great work for God because a revolution started. 54:40 How? 54:41 Did they say to themselves, I'm gonna fix myself. 54:43 No, they didn't. 54:44 They said, I need Jesus to do in me what I can't do myself. 54:49 Will Jesus do it? 54:50 Or does He only do it for somebody else? 54:53 He does it for you. 54:54 The Bible says in Philippians 2:13, 54:56 "It is God who works in you both to will 55:00 and to do for his good pleasure." 55:03 It is God's good pleasure 55:05 to straighten you up, lift you up 55:07 and use you in some great way for His glory. 55:11 That's what God will do. 55:13 Paul had it figured out, not I, but Christ lives in me. 55:17 He wrote to the Colossians, 55:18 he told them the mystery of the gospel 55:20 was Christ in you, the hope of glory. 55:23 Man, I remember once breaking my arms playing rugby 55:26 and they took me to the emergency room 55:29 and they needed to anesthetize my arm, 55:32 and they had my arm back. 55:34 The doctor put a needle somewhere here in my armpit 55:36 and as he started injecting the anesthetic, 55:39 it felt like fire, I've never felt that before. 55:43 All through my arm, bam and in instance I said, 55:46 wow the body is an amazing thing, 55:47 through your body just like that. 55:53 When the Holy Spirit gets into you, 55:55 Christ in you the hope of glory, 55:57 it's gonna be-- 55:59 there will be burning, all right, 56:02 a burning in your heart, a change in your life. 56:07 There will be a revolution that begins in you 56:09 and then it has to flow out, it has to flow out. 56:11 I want to share with you a secret 56:12 that shouldn't be a secret. 56:13 Don't let it be a secret. 56:15 I read this in a book the Desire of Ages. 56:18 If you haven't read it lately, read it. 56:19 Soon as they get through 56:20 the Great Controversy this time around, 56:22 I'm going back to the Desire of Ages. 56:24 Listen to this, listen to this and be blown away. 56:28 If this doesn't blow you away, check for a pulse. 56:35 This is amazing, listen to this, 56:37 I don't need to read it, but I'm gonna read it, 56:38 in case I forget and screw it up. 56:40 Page 668, if we consent... 56:46 What was that word? If we do what? 56:49 Give me another word, that means what? 56:51 Yield, you got it, allow I like that. 56:55 If we consent, so we consent, 56:57 we go okay, okay, is it consenting? 57:00 Okay, someone's gonna me 5 dollars, 57:01 okay that consenting right? 57:03 All right. 57:04 "If we consent, He will so identify Himself 57:09 with our thoughts and aims, so blend our hearts 57:12 and minds into conformity to His will." 57:16 Okay I'm going too fast. 57:17 "If we consent, He will so identify Himself 57:22 with our thoughts and aims, He will so blend our hearts 57:25 and minds into conformity to His will." 57:29 That when obeying Him, hang on to your seats. 57:32 We shall be but carrying out our own impulses. 57:36 Amen. 57:39 The will, refined and sanctified, 57:42 will find its highest delight in cheering 57:45 for the Seattle Seahawks. 57:50 No, somehow that's not your highest delight anymore. 57:52 We'll find it's highest delight in doing His service, 57:56 when we know God as it is our privilege to know Him, 57:59 our lives will be lives of continual obedience. 58:06 Through an appreciation of the character of Christ 58:08 through communion with Him, sin will become hateful to us. 58:16 That's what God will do. 58:18 If you let Him, if you consent, 58:20 friend, let the revolution begin. |
Revised 2015-02-12