Well, Danny,
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it's the Sabbath morning in ASI.
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Absolutely. We see
thousands of people here.
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That's right. And
lot of music, lot of--
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it's gonna be a lot of prayer,
lot of music, lot of testimony
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and great speaking
by Pastor Mark Finley.
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Yes, and we get the privilege
of introducing this program.
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Absolutely.
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Now, we have a
tough act to follow.
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The Micheff
Sisters did the 9 o'clock.
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The Sabbath School.
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By the way Cinda's mike
went out there for a second.
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And what she was saying is,
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through all three sisters
were born in Battle Creek
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which is about
40 miles from here.
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Oh, yeah, yeah.
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So they were Michiganders. Yeah.
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Now their dad's
from Southern Illinois.
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On that side West
Frankfort, you know.
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Right.
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But the girls and family
they were all from up here.
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Well, we certainly
make a claim to the family,
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I guarantee that.
Absolutely. Absolutely.
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But Grand Rapids,
Michigan is the place
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to be this morning, Jim.
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For those of you
joining us around the world.
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You got to be
inspired this morning
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to see what God is
doing ASI or people
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who shared Jesus
and the marker place
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around the world and we're glad
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that you've
joined us here today.
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You know there's
nothing more thrilling than ASI
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because what you're
looking at is people
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that truly are involved
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because they love
God and love His work.
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They're not--
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and many of them are
not paid to do what they do.
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And they go around
the world-- Absolutely.
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So right now we
want to join them
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on the platform so
that you don't miss
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one single moment of
this Sabbath morning.
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Being able to
welcome a lot of people
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but I know there is more here.
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And we want to make
sure that everyone knows
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how grateful we
are that you are here.
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That you are
coming to worship with us,
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that you are
coming to spend some time
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at the ASI Convention.
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We appreciate you for that.
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We hope you'll come again
and the same thing is true
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for our viewing audience
warm, warm welcome today
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to the ASI Convention.
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I'd like to encourage you
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all to say a
special word of prayer
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in your own
hearts that you may open
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your hearts to whatever it is
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that the Lord is
going to do for us this day.
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God bless you all.
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I'd like to invite you
to bow with me in prayer.
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I'm going to kneel
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and if you're
comfortable doing that,
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you can do that to.
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Our kind heavenly Father,
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thank You so
much for the privilege
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of coming to You in prayer.
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I thank You that we have
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the opportunity to join
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with the heavenly universe today
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and praising You
for Your creative power
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to restore the image
of Christ in our hearts.
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I pray for the ASI family,
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for us as a whole and
for each family individually
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that's represented here in
our world wide church family.
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I pray for the
leaders and for the lay people
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and that You will
send Your Holy Spirit
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to draw our
hearts close together.
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We confess that we
have been self righteous
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and we haven't always
been in tune to hear Your voice
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but today I pray
that in the service
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and in all that's done
that we would lift up Jesus.
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I thank You in the precious name
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of Your Son, amen.
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I invite you all
to stand together
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as we sing our opening
song this morning Jesus Saves.
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We have heard a joyful sound
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Jesus saves, Jesus saves
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Spread the gladness all around
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Jesus saves, Jesus saves
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Bear the news to every land
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Climb the steeps
and cross the waves
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Onward, 'tis our Lord's command
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Jesus saves, Jesus saves
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Waft it on the rolling tide
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Jesus saves, Jesus saves
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Tell to sinners, far and wide
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Jesus saves, Jesus saves
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Sing, ye islands of the sea
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Echo back, ye ocean caves
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Earth shall keep her jubilee
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Jesus saves, Jesus saves
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Sing above the battle's strife
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Jesus saves, Jesus saves
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By His death and endless life
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Jesus saves, Jesus saves
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Sing it softly through the gloom
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When the heart for mercy craves
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Sing in triumph o'er the tomb
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Jesus saves, Jesus saves
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Give the winds a mighty voice
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Jesus saves, Jesus saves
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Let the nations now rejoice
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Jesus saves, Jesus saves
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Shout salvation full and free
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Highest hills and deepest caves
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This our song of victory
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Jesus saves, Jesus saves
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You sounded
beautiful. Please be seated.
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Good morning and
happy Sabbath ASI.
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Isn't it a
blessing to be here today?
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Yes, it is.
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And you know when you see me
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what am I gonna
be talking about?
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The offering and projects
that the offering will support.
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And so today is no different,
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we want to bring
before you some projects
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and highlight how
God is going to bless us
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through the offering.
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With me is Dr. Larry Blackmer
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and he's the vice president
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with the North American Division
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Education Department
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and Ed Zinke who is
a businessman with ASI.
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And so he is on several
General Conference committees
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and as a consultant
with By Design Science.
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Dr. Blackmer, tell
us about the project
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By Design
Science and how it began.
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A number of years ago,
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when the curriculum committee
brought a recommendation
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to the union
directors of education
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to put a
secular science textbook
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on the kitchen table
of every Adventist home
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in Adventist education.
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We really
struggled with that decision.
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There were no other
Christian textbooks available
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so in faith the
directors of education
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and the office of education
North American Division
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voted to develop a distinctly
Seventh-day Adventist science,
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elementary science
series grades one through eight.
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That's just--
Isn't that's phenomenal?
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I know that when
I was growing up,
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I was learning about science
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but it was from a
different perspective
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and I was grateful to
have Christian parents
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and Christian
teachers to tell me
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what the Bible
said about creation.
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You have some pictures
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that you would
like to share with us
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that gives us some idea
what they're gonna look like.
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Yes, you can see
here on the pictures.
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This is the grade one to four.
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On the right you will see
all of the scope in sequence.
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We really set out
rigorous science develop
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within the worldview
of the Adventist church.
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So every grade
level has a science,
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a journal as a teacher's edition
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and it has a student edition.
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There's also included
with this are e-text books,
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so we began from
the very beginning.
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When we
designed this curriculum,
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we said that we
wanted to have e-text books,
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high
technology, rigorous science
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developed for not
only our classrooms
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but for multi grade classrooms.
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We had a committee that
worked on home schooling
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to make sure that these
textbooks were available
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for home schools
and it was interesting
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because we had to
raise about $6 million
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to do this textbook series.
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And the first
half million dollars
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came from a
publishing company of Catholics,
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that said we can no
longer put a secular textbook
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on our Catholic kitchen tables.
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And we want to put
your Adventist textbook,
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we will give you the
first half million dollars
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if we can put
your Adventist textbook
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on our Catholic kitchen tables.
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Amen.
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Now we'll take a
inside look at layout.
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Yes.
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The next picture, you can see
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that the layouts
are very colorful.
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They have scripture, lessons,
all the way through the text,
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they are well done, they're--
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it's an inquiry
base science program.
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So it's not a lecture program.
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We actually lead the
students through to love science
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and to learn about
the Adventist worldview.
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And this covers
all of the grades.
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Grades one through eight.
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Grades one through eight,
so that's in the next picture.
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Yes, the next
picture are the covers
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for all of the textbooks.
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You can see this is
the eighth grade textbook
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and all the other
textbook covers are there.
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Now
interestingly you have a grid
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with all the theories
of evolution, so help me.
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This is in the
eighth grade textbook.
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We believe that our
students need to understand
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the theory of evolution,
the theory of evolution
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and so we talk about
evolution in our textbooks,
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but we always bring them
back to an Adventist worldview.
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So it is very-- we
cover it very clearly,
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we talk about evolution
and we don't hide the fact
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that many
people believe in that.
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And I understand,
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you're actually
developing a high school text.
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Right now, we're in the process
of developing a 9 and 12--
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9th and 10th
grade biology textbook
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that would be a By Design,
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Dr. Tim Standish is going
to be our editor from GRI,
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and here is the
cover that you can see,
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what we're
working on for By Design.
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Now for whom will
this text be available?
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I already hear
that there are Catholic,
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the Catholic
denomination is interested,
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obviously for
Seventh-day Adventist
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or are there other
that might be interested?
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Sure, we make this
available, they're e-textbooks,
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the printed textbooks are
available for home schoolers,
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for Griggs University
and International Academy,
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we're partners in
this process to make sure
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that they have
access to the books,
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so it's available to anyone.
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Excellent, excellent.
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And tell me, you
know, I think that can I see
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where this is something
where the time has come
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for this to happen but why now?
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Well, that's a good question.
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And actually I
guess my question is
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why not 60 years ago?
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I would have loved to
have this set of textbooks
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when I went through.
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And I would like to thank Larry
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for the wonderful vision
that has pulled this together.
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It's not an easy
task to write a textbook.
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I didn't realize that
till I had the privilege
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of having a very
small part in it,
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but there has been many
resources from a publisher
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that's capable of
handling textbooks to people
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that know what's
required for every stage,
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so that the textbook
will pass all the requirements
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to scholars, to
Adventist scholars,
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to Adventist
worldview, Adventist philosophy
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and theology, as well as
testing it on various levels
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and getting input from teachers
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and finally revising
again based upon that,
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so it's a huge task
and, Larry, I appreciate it.
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And to connect the dots for us.
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Why is it important for us
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to teach our
children about creation?
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Well, you know,
the theory of evolution
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is the
contemporary God of our society.
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And it really denies
the role of the Bible
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in understanding the world.
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Most of evolution actually
denies the existence of God,
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and where it does
accept the existence of God,
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it dramatically reinterprets God
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from the biblical perspective.
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But evolution is a way
of looking at the universe,
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a way of looking at the world,
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way of understanding ourselves,
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it's made it into almost
every discipline, sociology,
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psychology, business, education,
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all the sciences,
and so on and so forth
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and so basically when
our children are taught
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evolution or theistic evolution,
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they're taught a worldview
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that is completely
foreign to the Bible.
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And I think probably
the most tragic thing
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is they're not taught
about the God of the love,
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the God of love of the
Bible and given the opportunity
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to enter a personal
relationship with Him.
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Gentlemen, thank you so much,
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we are thrilled
about this project
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and happened to be in
partnership to support it.
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Thank you very much. Thanks.
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And now we will have
a very inspiring report
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about our New
Beginnings DVD Project.
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Thank you, Debbie.
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You know today, Grand
Rapids is a very historical spot
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because brothers and sisters,
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14 years ago
we're in Grand Rapids
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and we introduced this product,
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this program called the
New Beginnings DVD Project
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and it was right here.
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And because of your
generosity and support,
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we could tell stories,
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Norman and I could
spend the whole convention
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telling stories
about what has happened
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with this program
through the last 14 years.
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But today we're only
gonna talk about two of them.
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And, Norm, what has happened
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with DVD Project
since we started?
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Well, I believe that
thousands of training sessions
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have been held, hundreds
of thousands have been trained
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and millions have been
impacted for the gospel.
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We're gonna talk about
Angola first, last year--
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Did you all hear that?
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There is been millions of people
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that have heard this
gospel through this program.
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Millions, I tell
you we're so blessed.
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Last year, Angola was
the featured target country
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in the South African
Indian Ocean Division
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for evangelism.
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Every pastor,
every lay evangelist,
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every church worker
was tasked to go to Angola
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and hold the meeting.
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We have brethren
here from Angola.
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Can you wave to us today?
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There are approximately
60 Angolans over here,
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I see the hands.
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They also invited
international ministries,
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they invited
Maranatha to build churches.
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They invited
Remnant Publications
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that provided 100,000 Bibles.
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They invited
Lightbearers Ministries
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that sent them
container loads of literature
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and they invited
ASI to do DVD training.
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And we responded
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because you have given
generously in the past.
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We had money in our fund,
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we were able to provide
4,000 Portuguese language DVDs.
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We were able to provide
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4,000 Abundant Living
Portuguese language DVDs
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and we printed 8,000
manuals in the Ukraine
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and aero freighted them
from Kiev, Ukraine to Luanda.
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This was only possible
because we were organized,
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we've done this funding
and this program was ongoing
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and we could
respond to the invitation.
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Amen.
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If you think about it,
we train 4,000 lay people.
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Now, this is unique
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because the one of
the requirements of this
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is that they had to
been baptized last year.
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So these were all
brand new Adventists
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that we trained in
the-- it was a sandy area,
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it was very difficult situation,
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very hot but the lay people,
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the people that were
excited about telling others
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about Jesus came to the meeting
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and we trained 4,000 lay people,
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brand new lay
people to share the gospel.
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Number one, the
reason why they did that is
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because number one
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is they don't
know they can't do it,
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because they are new Adventists.
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Number two is you can't
teach what you don't know.
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And number three
is that they are--
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they have non-Adventist friends
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that they can
bring to the meetings
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and tell them about Jesus.
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And they are using these players
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and these materials
over and over again.
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And I wrote down the
number but so far today,
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now this is been since
September of last year,
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so hasn't been a full year yet.
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And these new
Adventists have brought in
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5,437 souls into the kingdom.
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Amen. Amen.
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Now when you think about that
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and you think about
the opportunity of sharing
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Jesus around the world
and you've been so blessed
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and generous to
give of your means
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to be able to
help fund this project
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and we got more and
more exciting things
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that are happening
around the world, and Angola,
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we please pray for our
brothers and sisters in Angola,
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because we know that
they have a opportunity
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to tell others about
our soon coming Savior.
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Thank you. Sure.
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But now second place
that I want to talk about,
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that we want to talk
about today is Manila.
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And we had the
privilege of going to Manila.
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Now what's special
about two of these--
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these two
gentlemen that are before us,
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Benny Moore and Duane Mckey
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as they were from
the very beginning,
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started the idea.
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They were one of the
main people that came around,
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came to us, to
came up with the idea
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for the New
Beginnings of getting lay people
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involve with sharing
Christ in this dramatic way.
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And, Benny, what did we do?
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We went to the Manila,
didn't we in this year?
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What did we do?
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Well as I recall, I had
a suitcase full of DVDs.
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Yes.
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I think we took 2,000
DVDs to be used in training.
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There is something I've
learned in working in evangelism
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through the years and
that is that empty seats
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don't respond too
well to the gospel.
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And the only way
the seats can be full
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is when our members are involved
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and bring their
friends and family.
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And so with the DVD training,
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we were able to
help give them tools
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that they could use
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and actually
beginning the study process
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with their friends and family.
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Amen.
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And then bring
them to the meetings.
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And it really made the
success for the meetings.
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And, Duane, what
happened after that?
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Absolutely exciting.
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It was back, just
in May we were there.
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That's right.
This May, that's right.
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We had almost--
well, you'll tell us later,
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Elder Wilson said
how many baptisms?
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But can you
imagine a swimming pool,
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thousands of
people being baptized.
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We had ASI
people there, we had--
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we had Adventist World Radio.
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We had 3ABN. That's right.
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And the North
American Division president,
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a secretary Elder Wilson,
he had the major meeting.
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It was thrilling,
75 meetings in all.
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Amen. Amen. The
youngest speaker?
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The younger speaker was 16
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and the oldest I
think was 85, is that right?
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85. 75.
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75 that is great.
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And tell us the results
of what happened after that?
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Well, by the end of
the meetings May 17,
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there were 9,558 baptisms.
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Amen.
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But soon after that
because of the follow ups,
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it went past 10,000.
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So we're very thankful
for the Lord's guidance
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and certainly we
are thankful to you,
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ASI for the help
that you have given us
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and on behalf of North
Pacific Union conference,
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please allow me to
express this to you.
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So I also thank you to
Share Him to all of you
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and also yes to Elder
Wilson for coming over
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and being our
main speaker there.
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Thank you. Thank you very much.
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You know, it's amazing
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how that when we
take our ministries,
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when we work
together what happens?
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Lord never adds,
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He multiplies when we
work together for Him.
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And that's what so exciting
about being in these churches
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by working
together, all bringing,
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all these ministries together.
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We're able to do way more
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than we could
ever do by ourselves.
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Thank you, gentlemen
for your contribution
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and it's exciting to
see what the Lord is doing.
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You mentioned
about Harare, Zimbabwe.
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Oh, please, real
quick. Yes, oh, yeah, please.
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We have DVD trainings
going on in Harare, Zimbabwe
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another 2,000 people
will be trained in December.
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And the next May, the
middle two weeks of May,
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we need a 100 speakers.
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I already had 30 from the
Arkansas-Louisiana Conference.
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I need 30 young people.
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I need another 70
preachers from here.
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This group of
people could come for 70.
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You know,
Denzel, if you only deal
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with the gifts of
God has given you.
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You don't really
need God's blessings
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but if you get out of the boat,
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like Peter and
you start to sink,
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when you're preaching
the evangelistic series,
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you need God's blessings.
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If you want to
experience a special experience,
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come and preach
in Harare, Zimbabwe.
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So those of you that
would love to go to Harare,
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please see Duane and we
would love to have you come
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and participate in the joy
of telling others about Jesus.
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But you can also do it
in your own home as well.
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You don't have to go to Harare
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but we'd love for
you to come as well.
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Thank you very much.
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Now one of the--
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one of the
advantages of being in ASI
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and being involved in leadership
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is a fact of admiring people
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that really that
inspire us to lead.
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And I'm just so blessed
to have Elder Wilson here,
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who has not only-- he's so busy
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but he's actually
taking his own time
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and holding
evangelistic meetings himself.
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And, Elder Wilson,
thank you for your leadership
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and the inspiration
that you are giving us
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to do our part to
hasten the Lord's return.
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Thank you.
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I just want to praise God
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for the incredible
evangelistic emphasis
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that ASI has in
everything that they do.
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Thank you for your
personal involvement
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and thank you for
your corporate attention.
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Everything from Youth for Jesus,
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last night we saw
incredible display of that
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of what's happened
here in Grand Rapids
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to the one day church,
to evangelistic activities
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all over this world and
what you've just heard about.
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This exhibit hall
is filled with people
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who have
evangelism as a passion.
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One of those aspects
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that ASI has been very
heavily involved with an--
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in which they
have helped the 2014
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Hope Manila iCare
evangelistic effort,
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which covered scores
and scores of locations
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is the New
Beginnings Bible studies
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and evangelistic outreach.
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It was a tremendous blessing
to this enormous outreach
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to the Greater Manila Area.
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And I want to
thank ASI, thank Denzel,
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thank so many others
who personally invested
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time and effort into
laying an incredible foundation
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for the reaping that
took place in Manila.
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Without the
involvement of our lay people,
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our church members involved
in carefully sowing the seed,
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public evangelism
would reap hardly anything.
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But it is the combined effort
of everyone working together
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including the tremendous
outreach of New Beginnings.
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And we're looking
forward to the same thing
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happening in Harare,
Zimbabwe as has been mentioned
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and it can happen everywhere.
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Don't just rely on those
who are publicly involved,
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be involved with
evangelism on a personal basis.
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God will bless you for it.
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It's part of God's
great plan for the loud cry,
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the latter rain is coming,
be a part of God's great work
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as we look forward
to Jesus soon coming.
00:26:05.41\00:26:09.10
And now we have a
very interesting interview
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about a project the Holbrook
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Seventh-day
Adventist Indian School.
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And with me here at the podium
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is Jovannah Poor Bear-Adams.
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She is the vice principal
and the principal Pedro Ojeda.
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And I want to
start first, Jovannah,
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to have you
share a little bit of
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what you were sharing with me
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about your
childhood and teen experience?
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All right.
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Well, I'm in
Oglala Lakota Sioux,
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from the Pine
Ridge Indian Reservation
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in South Dakota.
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And with that
comes a lot of beauty,
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a lot of culture
and a lot of pain.
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Before I went into my teen years
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'cause you said
childhood and teen,
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I was sexually abused by
my step dad for two years
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before I had the
courage to tell my mom.
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And the reason I was
afraid to tell her was
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because I was afraid
she was gonna be mad at me.
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I know she was on her--
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she had been married
three times right now
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and my step dad.
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When we--
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when I finally had
the courage to tell,
00:27:23.40\00:27:26.19
we went to court and they--
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we got a
restraining order out of it
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and that's the most
that happened with it.
00:27:30.36\00:27:34.95
During that time I was
raped by one of my cousins,
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you know, when he was supposed
to be watching us at our house.
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The first time I had alcohol,
00:27:41.72\00:27:44.22
I was about six
or seven years old.
00:27:44.25\00:27:46.29
The first time I had a cigarette
00:27:46.32\00:27:47.64
was around the same time.
00:27:47.67\00:27:51.80
When after my mom
had divorced my step dad,
00:27:51.83\00:27:54.49
she left us at
my grandma's house
00:27:54.52\00:27:56.34
and she abandoned us
there and moved to the city.
00:27:56.37\00:27:59.06
And it was at my grandma's house
00:27:59.09\00:28:01.53
where I experienced
00:28:01.56\00:28:03.76
what it felt like
to really be hungry.
00:28:03.79\00:28:07.17
They were times, my
grandma was bipolar,
00:28:07.20\00:28:11.14
she has diabetes and
she was almost blind.
00:28:11.17\00:28:15.36
So she-- we tried to take
care of her in her wheelchair,
00:28:15.39\00:28:18.99
cleaning her feet and
we lived off a food stamps.
00:28:19.02\00:28:23.50
And something
about the food stamps
00:28:23.53\00:28:24.87
'cause you're thinking you know,
00:28:24.90\00:28:25.93
you got taking care
of-- you got food stamps.
00:28:25.96\00:28:28.79
But the way that we
shopped, we bought Doritos,
00:28:28.82\00:28:33.47
soda we drank
soda like it was water.
00:28:33.50\00:28:36.20
We ate frozen pizzas.
00:28:36.23\00:28:39.05
You know, pork chops,
bacon, just junk food.
00:28:39.08\00:28:43.72
And we would eat, you know,
00:28:43.75\00:28:45.15
like we were kings for
about a week and a half.
00:28:45.18\00:28:48.67
Now through this
whole childhood experience,
00:28:48.70\00:28:50.87
I get the pictures
just very difficult
00:28:50.90\00:28:53.78
and you didn't have a lot
of positive family support
00:28:53.81\00:28:56.72
or role models.
00:28:56.75\00:28:57.87
Then you came to a
point in your teen years
00:28:57.90\00:29:00.17
where you decided, you wanted
to do something different.
00:29:00.20\00:29:02.56
You thought that
you could beat this
00:29:02.59\00:29:04.84
and be someone different.
00:29:04.87\00:29:07.06
You know, I thought that
I was going to be different
00:29:07.09\00:29:11.54
from everybody
on the reservation
00:29:11.57\00:29:13.59
that, you know, they
think that, you know,
00:29:13.62\00:29:15.97
we're just drunks.
00:29:16.00\00:29:17.15
You know, the people we
lived just off the reservation
00:29:17.18\00:29:19.72
and I thought I'm
gonna be different from them.
00:29:19.75\00:29:22.24
But nobody
noticed, no one noticed
00:29:22.27\00:29:24.70
that I was
trying to be different
00:29:24.73\00:29:26.12
and I was rejected by my friends
00:29:26.15\00:29:28.19
by people in the town
00:29:28.22\00:29:29.63
that I lived in just assuming
that I was like every other,
00:29:29.66\00:29:32.78
you know, person who
came off the reservation.
00:29:32.81\00:29:35.41
And I decided I
didn't care anymore.
00:29:35.44\00:29:38.03
You know, I--
you think I'm gonna--
00:29:38.06\00:29:40.07
you think I'm a
drunk, I'm gonna be a drunk.
00:29:40.10\00:29:42.43
And I was 14 years
old, you know, 13, 14
00:29:42.46\00:29:45.41
and I started
drinking more like a lot.
00:29:45.44\00:29:49.06
I started getting high marijuana
00:29:49.09\00:29:52.06
started smoking,
going to parties.
00:29:52.09\00:29:53.95
I dated a
different guy every week.
00:29:53.98\00:29:56.47
And my sister told
me my younger sister,
00:29:56.50\00:29:59.56
she told me that she hated me.
00:29:59.59\00:30:01.53
And she just wished you know--
00:30:01.56\00:30:03.28
that I wasn't-- I
wouldn't be around her anymore.
00:30:03.31\00:30:06.15
So then what happened?
00:30:06.18\00:30:07.33
Your sister said, I
wish you would leave.
00:30:07.36\00:30:09.26
So you left? Yeah, I did leave.
00:30:09.29\00:30:12.11
I looked at myself
00:30:12.14\00:30:13.99
and I became
disgusted with who I was.
00:30:14.02\00:30:16.32
You know, I was exactly
00:30:16.35\00:30:17.85
what I told
myself I wasn't gonna be.
00:30:17.88\00:30:20.14
And so you got on the truck,
00:30:20.17\00:30:21.70
kind of through an invitation
00:30:21.73\00:30:22.89
you're going with your friend
and you ended up at Holbrook.
00:30:22.92\00:30:26.45
So tell us now what
happened at Holbrook
00:30:26.48\00:30:28.77
that started to
turn this around?
00:30:28.80\00:30:32.04
I had a family there,
00:30:32.07\00:30:33.94
I had people at
Holbrook Indian school
00:30:33.97\00:30:37.42
who, they didn't even know me
00:30:37.45\00:30:39.38
and they got me
birthday presents,
00:30:39.41\00:30:41.92
they took me on
their family vacations
00:30:41.95\00:30:44.79
over home leave
00:30:44.82\00:30:45.87
because I
couldn't have go back home.
00:30:45.90\00:30:47.82
I knew Christ and I you know,
I didn't want to know Christ
00:30:47.85\00:30:52.58
but I started to know Christ
00:30:52.61\00:30:54.15
like I didn't understand
any kind of love to be.
00:30:54.18\00:30:58.99
That's phenomenal.
00:30:59.02\00:31:00.05
That's wonderful, now
00:31:00.08\00:31:01.88
you did that and obviously now
00:31:01.91\00:31:04.44
you're vice
principle at Holbrook,
00:31:04.47\00:31:07.30
so tell me how that happened?
00:31:07.33\00:31:11.69
Well, I went to Union College
00:31:11.72\00:31:14.83
and you know, I
wanted to make more,
00:31:14.86\00:31:16.73
I knew that I was going to
help native American people,
00:31:16.76\00:31:20.15
I knew that you
know, the people who--
00:31:20.18\00:31:22.94
the stuff that I went through
God wouldn't have allowed it,
00:31:22.97\00:31:25.51
unless he was gonna
make me strong enough
00:31:25.54\00:31:28.01
to be able to help
other people like me.
00:31:28.04\00:31:30.46
And so I went to Union College,
00:31:30.49\00:31:32.35
got my degree in
English education
00:31:32.38\00:31:34.36
and that wasn't easy,
00:31:34.39\00:31:36.00
you know, that
wasn't an easy thing to do,
00:31:36.03\00:31:37.73
I struggled through
college, I struggled,
00:31:37.76\00:31:40.09
my grandma died, my
sister became homeless
00:31:40.12\00:31:42.40
and I wanted to go
back and be with her.
00:31:42.43\00:31:45.01
But I fought through college
and I stayed and you know,
00:31:45.04\00:31:49.30
I had a job offer
in Lincoln, Nebraska
00:31:49.33\00:31:52.48
to be able to
start working there
00:31:52.51\00:31:54.10
immediately
afterward but I told them,
00:31:54.13\00:31:56.59
I said, if Holbrook will have me
00:31:56.62\00:31:58.36
that's where I'm going first.
00:31:58.39\00:32:00.42
Amen so Holbrook
saved you of sorts
00:32:00.45\00:32:04.51
and you wanted to
go back and give back
00:32:04.54\00:32:06.38
so that you
could help save others.
00:32:06.41\00:32:07.76
Absolutely. Amen.
00:32:07.79\00:32:09.74
Pedro, I want to ask
you is Jovannah's experience
00:32:09.77\00:32:14.67
different from the
kids that come to Holbrook?
00:32:14.70\00:32:18.32
Well, thanks for
asking that question, Debbie,
00:32:18.35\00:32:20.83
and the
unfortunate answer is no.
00:32:20.86\00:32:24.47
Many of our students go
through similar circumstances.
00:32:24.50\00:32:29.30
And what is Holbrook doing
00:32:29.33\00:32:31.29
to address that
issue with the kids?
00:32:31.32\00:32:34.74
We're doing
everything that we can
00:32:34.77\00:32:36.89
but that sounds really general,
00:32:36.92\00:32:39.69
program that we
started a year ago
00:32:39.72\00:32:41.53
is called the New
Year Health Initiative.
00:32:41.56\00:32:44.91
New stands for nutrition,
exercise and wellness.
00:32:44.94\00:32:48.95
And it covers the whole child
wellness includes counseling.
00:32:48.98\00:32:53.64
We're setting out the
quality counseling program
00:32:53.67\00:32:56.08
at our school.
00:32:56.11\00:32:57.75
And one of the particular
aspects of this program
00:32:57.78\00:33:04.94
is what we called our
garden-to-plate program.
00:33:04.97\00:33:08.56
And for that we need to restart
our agricultural program,
00:33:08.59\00:33:13.29
our green houses and our garden.
00:33:13.32\00:33:15.66
They're in a
little bit of disrepair
00:33:15.69\00:33:17.35
because they haven't
been used in a few years.
00:33:17.38\00:33:19.81
And so we need help with that.
00:33:19.84\00:33:22.23
And that's where
ASI through the offering
00:33:22.26\00:33:24.53
will provide some
assistance for this program.
00:33:24.56\00:33:26.50
Very much so. Okay.
00:33:26.53\00:33:28.24
And tell me why is this program
so essential to the students?
00:33:28.27\00:33:33.29
It is essential because it deals
00:33:33.32\00:33:35.82
with the basic
needs that students have.
00:33:35.85\00:33:40.06
Without those basic
needs been met, Debbie,
00:33:40.09\00:33:44.41
our students cannot function,
especially academically
00:33:44.44\00:33:48.88
and the public is
figuring this out.
00:33:48.91\00:33:52.16
If you read the
articles by ASCD and CDC
00:33:52.19\00:33:55.61
they're figuring this out now.
00:33:55.64\00:33:58.00
I want to ask,
Jovannah, if there is one thing
00:33:58.03\00:34:01.07
that you want to
tell the ASI audience
00:34:01.10\00:34:03.35
that you want them to know
about students at Holbrook.
00:34:03.38\00:34:06.98
And how they can help
00:34:07.01\00:34:08.04
or what would you
want to say to them?
00:34:08.07\00:34:10.52
All right, hello, ASI.
00:34:10.55\00:34:14.05
One thing that I
would want you to know
00:34:14.08\00:34:15.61
is I've heard a
lot of controversy
00:34:15.64\00:34:18.46
about giving to a place
like Holbrook Indian School,
00:34:18.49\00:34:22.12
people who come from
this kind of poverty,
00:34:22.15\00:34:24.54
this kind of
abuse that even though
00:34:24.57\00:34:27.43
we're giving to this,
00:34:27.46\00:34:28.50
they come to our school,
it's not making a difference.
00:34:28.53\00:34:31.76
There are kids
who leave our school
00:34:31.79\00:34:33.71
and they go back
to their lifestyle
00:34:33.74\00:34:35.23
or they go to college
and they get called home
00:34:35.26\00:34:37.26
and they actually go home
00:34:37.29\00:34:38.64
and they don't
go back to school.
00:34:38.67\00:34:40.85
But every now and
then and there is somebody
00:34:40.88\00:34:44.07
who comes out of it,
there is somebody like me
00:34:44.10\00:34:47.56
who comes out of
it and they go back
00:34:47.59\00:34:49.98
and they help
people and there is more
00:34:50.01\00:34:52.59
and that I see kids
in our school right now
00:34:52.62\00:34:56.25
who are going to do
that, I just know it.
00:34:56.28\00:34:59.56
And how much is one life worth?
00:34:59.59\00:35:03.59
Thank you very much, Jovannah.
00:35:03.62\00:35:06.62
Now we have a
project that we're familiar
00:35:06.65\00:35:10.83
with the one day church project.
00:35:10.86\00:35:13.84
Thank you.
00:35:13.87\00:35:17.69
And we want you to
take in the information
00:35:17.72\00:35:20.63
to understand how one day church
00:35:20.66\00:35:22.58
is actually helping
children just like Jovannah.
00:35:22.61\00:35:26.23
Good morning, ASI.
00:35:29.89\00:35:33.32
You know, when I think of ASI,
00:35:33.35\00:35:35.88
I think you
make the difference--
00:35:35.91\00:35:39.68
that ASI makes
such a difference here.
00:35:39.71\00:35:42.66
I think back
just on a few projects
00:35:42.69\00:35:44.92
and we had big
projects, small projects.
00:35:44.95\00:35:48.28
I remember the picture rolls,
00:35:48.31\00:35:50.30
120,000 picture
rolls around the world.
00:35:50.33\00:35:55.84
And you know as I go out
into some of the villages,
00:35:55.87\00:35:58.63
I see them, they
have around their neck
00:35:58.66\00:36:01.39
and they're preaching with them
00:36:01.42\00:36:02.63
and they're just as good today
00:36:02.66\00:36:04.33
as they were
when we send them out.
00:36:04.36\00:36:06.45
It's incredible, I
think of Myanmar, Burma,
00:36:06.48\00:36:10.00
365 churches and
schools in one year.
00:36:10.03\00:36:14.38
And I think of
roofs over Africa.
00:36:14.41\00:36:16.87
You remember we had the
building over here to our left,
00:36:16.90\00:36:21.56
and sat there all
week with no roof.
00:36:21.59\00:36:24.35
Then we had the roof program
00:36:24.38\00:36:26.19
and the roof came
down and sat on there.
00:36:26.22\00:36:30.24
As a result 11,000
roofs were put on large
00:36:30.27\00:36:35.01
and small churches
through out Africa.
00:36:35.04\00:36:37.58
ASI that's making a difference,
00:36:37.61\00:36:39.59
but then I think
of this special place,
00:36:39.62\00:36:43.59
Grand Rapids, 14 years ago.
00:36:43.62\00:36:47.87
Evangelism in
India had just started.
00:36:47.90\00:36:51.31
Now since then as a
result of ASI and Maranatha
00:36:51.34\00:36:55.25
it's been over 1 million members
00:36:55.28\00:36:58.24
in India, the growth.
00:36:58.27\00:37:00.23
Yes, ASI, you make a difference,
00:37:00.26\00:37:02.20
but I think the one
special little girl,
00:37:02.23\00:37:05.72
some of you old
timers remember Laxmi,
00:37:05.75\00:37:09.19
the little girl that we
carried out on the stage,
00:37:09.22\00:37:11.81
the girl put that
effort would lay on her stomach
00:37:11.84\00:37:14.75
and pedal her bike
there, Laxmi now has grown.
00:37:14.78\00:37:19.14
She is been
rehabilitated somewhat,
00:37:19.17\00:37:21.71
and she walks with sticks.
00:37:21.74\00:37:23.87
She is been
through Spicer College
00:37:23.90\00:37:25.79
and she is now a teacher.
00:37:25.82\00:37:27.98
Wow, what a wonderful thing.
00:37:28.01\00:37:30.50
Think how heaven
will be to Laxmi,
00:37:36.16\00:37:39.33
when she can walk with Jesus.
00:37:39.36\00:37:42.75
Now I've had the
opportunity to be involved
00:37:42.78\00:37:44.71
with many churches
all over the world.
00:37:44.74\00:37:50.30
Work in many, many countries
and many of these countries,
00:37:50.33\00:37:53.71
I have worked with Maranatha
and self supporting ministry.
00:37:53.74\00:37:58.31
Then we sold our business
00:37:58.34\00:38:01.43
and I thought
well, maybe retirement.
00:38:01.46\00:38:06.18
Well, that lasted
about a day and half,
00:38:06.21\00:38:10.44
it's not for me I
can tell you that.
00:38:10.47\00:38:13.80
And I just felt there is
more God wanted me to do,
00:38:13.83\00:38:18.64
He had something big
in mind and I wasn't--
00:38:18.67\00:38:25.65
I just wasn't comfortable.
00:38:25.68\00:38:27.97
Now at the same time, we had
explosive growth in the church.
00:38:28.00\00:38:32.41
The church was
growing several a day.
00:38:32.44\00:38:36.72
And one weekend Maranatha was
00:38:36.75\00:38:38.70
at our church
having a weekend rally.
00:38:38.73\00:38:43.75
It was about 11
o'clock at night,
00:38:43.78\00:38:45.48
it's dark and then
Don Noble, and I remember
00:38:45.51\00:38:47.77
he has sat on our couch,
he put his head in his hands
00:38:47.80\00:38:51.23
and he says, Garwin,
00:38:51.26\00:38:52.31
I don't know
what we're gonna do.
00:38:52.34\00:38:54.16
We had these thousands
of thousands of requests
00:38:54.19\00:38:58.00
and we just can't
take care of them,
00:38:58.03\00:38:59.74
we can't build
them fasten enough,
00:38:59.77\00:39:01.83
it's growing faster.
00:39:01.86\00:39:04.34
And I had a thought
00:39:04.37\00:39:06.39
and I believe the one
day church was God ordained.
00:39:06.42\00:39:09.96
I said, Don,
have you ever thought
00:39:09.99\00:39:12.33
about building it
from the roof down?
00:39:12.36\00:39:15.99
Now with the roofs over Africa,
00:39:16.02\00:39:17.54
they put the sides up
and then we roofed it.
00:39:17.57\00:39:20.32
But the weather and so forth,
00:39:20.35\00:39:21.94
it was, it
holds some challenges.
00:39:21.97\00:39:25.40
And that's how the
one day church started.
00:39:25.43\00:39:28.65
Monday morning we went to work
00:39:28.68\00:39:30.09
with our first one day
church and it's improved.
00:39:30.12\00:39:33.05
Since then we
have built dormitories,
00:39:33.08\00:39:34.77
greenhouses, housing units,
00:39:34.80\00:39:36.83
complete
hospital complex at Chad,
00:39:36.86\00:39:44.69
and the list goes on.
00:39:44.72\00:39:46.00
We built and sent
containers to Zimbabwe,
00:39:46.03\00:39:48.74
Mozambique, Malawi, Ghana,
00:39:48.77\00:39:51.26
well, that it's a big
long list most of the world.
00:39:51.29\00:39:55.49
Now here is the
important thing ASI,
00:39:55.52\00:39:58.16
to date we have manufactured
00:39:58.19\00:40:00.57
5,700 one day
churches and over one million
00:40:00.60\00:40:05.93
of your brothers and
sisters are meeting today
00:40:05.96\00:40:08.62
in a one day structure.
00:40:08.65\00:40:10.39
ASI, that's making a difference.
00:40:10.42\00:40:13.36
That's making a difference.
00:40:13.39\00:40:18.58
Now we can manufacture
them, but we need the supporting
00:40:18.61\00:40:21.80
ministries to erect them.
00:40:21.83\00:40:24.75
And that is where the
ultimate example of ASI
00:40:24.78\00:40:30.44
and self supporting
ministries working together
00:40:30.47\00:40:34.19
in a partnership is
the one day program.
00:40:34.22\00:40:38.09
We have many partners
but two of our partners
00:40:38.12\00:40:41.48
are here today.
00:40:41.51\00:40:43.22
One, Alan Knowles
of Riverside Farms.
00:40:43.25\00:40:46.12
Lot of people
know Riverside Farms.
00:40:46.15\00:40:49.13
And Don Noble of
Maranatha Volunteers.
00:40:49.16\00:40:53.28
Now I'm gonna ask Alan.
00:40:53.31\00:40:54.79
I've known Alan, we've worked
together building churches
00:40:54.82\00:40:59.02
since 1985 I believe, Alan.
00:40:59.05\00:41:01.76
Alan, tell us what
is it like when you put
00:41:01.79\00:41:04.16
a one day church in a bush?
00:41:04.19\00:41:06.18
You know, Garwin, I got
a phone call the other day
00:41:06.21\00:41:09.04
on Sunday morning.
00:41:09.07\00:41:10.57
Well, Luca Mionde called
me, said, Mr. Alan, Mr. Alan,
00:41:10.60\00:41:13.65
we have a problem.
00:41:13.68\00:41:16.01
Well, we were going to
camp meeting on Sabbath,
00:41:16.04\00:41:18.33
somebody burnt our
grass roof down on our church
00:41:18.36\00:41:21.79
and it knocked the walls
down, we were waiting for a roof
00:41:21.82\00:41:24.86
and I said, Luca, we're
gonna have a solution for you.
00:41:24.89\00:41:28.05
And we got-- changed
our schedule a little bit
00:41:28.08\00:41:30.63
and we drove in there
about a 1,000 kilometers
00:41:30.66\00:41:34.72
from Riverside out
in a very rural areas
00:41:34.75\00:41:39.41
and it's just amazing to see
00:41:39.44\00:41:43.99
in the poverty areas the energy
00:41:44.02\00:41:47.99
that was put out to
help us build that church.
00:41:48.02\00:41:50.77
On the first picture we have,
00:41:50.80\00:41:54.21
it's the picture of the
joy that happens, Garwin,
00:41:54.24\00:41:58.28
when we start that building
00:41:58.31\00:42:00.27
and as we start
putting the roof on,
00:42:00.30\00:42:02.06
the ladies put down
their cooking sticks,
00:42:02.09\00:42:05.65
put down their pots
and they start marching
00:42:05.68\00:42:11.92
and clapping their
hands and singing praises,
00:42:11.95\00:42:15.00
praises to their God in heaven
00:42:15.03\00:42:17.70
who Has given
them a miracle today.
00:42:17.73\00:42:22.03
And at the end of that
song, they say thank you
00:42:22.06\00:42:26.05
and they say thank you so
loud, if you listen carefully,
00:42:26.08\00:42:30.05
I believe it's about
three or four times a day,
00:42:30.08\00:42:32.52
Garwin, now that
you'll hear a thank you
00:42:32.55\00:42:35.08
from all over the
world for a one day church
00:42:35.11\00:42:37.33
that goes up.
00:42:37.36\00:42:38.76
If you listen carefully,
you'll hear them singing
00:42:38.79\00:42:41.66
thank you, God.
00:42:41.69\00:42:42.92
Thank you for the brothers
and sisters in North America
00:42:42.95\00:42:45.74
who have sacrificed that we
can have this miracle today.
00:42:45.77\00:42:50.34
And they worship
under that permanent roof,
00:42:50.37\00:42:52.89
now probably only one in
miles around in their villages.
00:42:52.92\00:42:57.32
And they just want
to say thank you to ASI.
00:42:57.35\00:43:00.54
Thank you for that.
00:43:00.57\00:43:01.91
Thank you, Alan.
00:43:01.94\00:43:03.88
But, folks, there's more.
00:43:03.91\00:43:05.04
Don Noble of
Maranatha Volunteers.
00:43:08.67\00:43:11.76
Maranatha Volunteers is
known throughout the world
00:43:11.79\00:43:15.24
and Don has been the
president for a number of years.
00:43:15.27\00:43:18.01
Don, tell us what's happening.
00:43:18.04\00:43:22.02
You've heard
about the Angola DVD.
00:43:22.05\00:43:25.77
Tell us about Angola
and the one day church?
00:43:25.80\00:43:28.95
Thank you,
Garwin. Good morning, ASI.
00:43:28.98\00:43:32.81
It's great to be here.
00:43:32.84\00:43:34.60
And, you know,
the one day church
00:43:34.63\00:43:36.62
and school is working well
in many places around the world
00:43:36.65\00:43:39.61
but one place that it's
a really, really great fit
00:43:39.64\00:43:43.01
is the country of Angola.
00:43:43.04\00:43:44.66
If you're not
familiar with Angola,
00:43:44.69\00:43:46.97
it's a country
in Western Africa,
00:43:47.00\00:43:49.67
about 20 million
people, Portuguese speaking.
00:43:49.70\00:43:52.67
They are rich in resources,
oil, diamonds but unfortunately
00:43:52.70\00:43:58.29
most of the people
are extremely poor.
00:43:58.32\00:44:01.01
In fact I want to show
you a picture of where--
00:44:01.04\00:44:04.01
this is a typical
street where your fellow
00:44:04.04\00:44:08.53
Seventh-day
Adventist church members walk
00:44:08.56\00:44:12.32
when they go to church.
00:44:12.35\00:44:14.05
Another one that you can see is,
00:44:14.08\00:44:16.77
this is about what you would see
00:44:16.80\00:44:17.99
if you flew in on an airplane
into Luanda, the capital.
00:44:18.02\00:44:22.85
It looks like that for
miles but it's interesting to me
00:44:22.88\00:44:28.50
Seventh-day Adventists baptized
00:44:28.53\00:44:33.97
right now in
the county of Luanda
00:44:34.00\00:44:36.00
out of 20 million members.
00:44:36.03\00:44:40.01
Good news.
00:44:40.04\00:44:41.84
I got better news.
00:44:41.87\00:44:44.43
How many do you think
meet on Sabbath morning
00:44:44.46\00:44:46.85
with 400,000 members?
00:44:46.88\00:44:50.35
Any idea? Less than 400,000?
00:44:50.38\00:44:54.63
1.5 million.
00:44:54.66\00:44:57.53
1.5 million people
meet on Sabbath morning.
00:44:57.56\00:45:00.54
And I want to show
you some of the places
00:45:05.35\00:45:07.01
that they meet, just a
couple of quick pictures.
00:45:07.04\00:45:11.52
This is one of many
pictures that we took,
00:45:11.55\00:45:14.82
here's another one
that-- yes, that is the church
00:45:14.85\00:45:19.02
and when you
look at that picture,
00:45:19.05\00:45:22.28
you can think
about when you're looking
00:45:22.31\00:45:25.06
for a Seventh-day
Adventist on Sabbath morning,
00:45:25.09\00:45:27.06
how would you spot
one in the city of Luanda?
00:45:27.09\00:45:30.12
What would you
think you would look for?
00:45:30.15\00:45:33.39
Carrying a Bible?
00:45:33.42\00:45:35.74
Dressed as good as you
could possibly hope for?
00:45:35.77\00:45:38.41
No.
00:45:38.44\00:45:39.75
The thing you look
for is an umbrella...
00:45:39.78\00:45:41.55
on a sunny day
because that's the roof
00:45:44.17\00:45:46.86
to their church, is an umbrella.
00:45:46.89\00:45:49.75
So when we
provide them a church,
00:45:49.78\00:45:52.31
it's very exciting for them.
00:45:52.34\00:45:54.17
In fact I've a
picture of a crew building
00:45:54.20\00:45:57.55
a one day church in Luanda.
00:45:57.58\00:45:59.04
Last week, Garwin, we
just finished 100 churches,
00:45:59.07\00:46:04.96
one day churches.
00:46:04.99\00:46:06.45
Yeah, and some of
them are extra long
00:46:06.48\00:46:08.38
and just in the Luanda area.
00:46:08.41\00:46:10.69
So you saw the crowds
in the earlier pictures,
00:46:10.72\00:46:14.68
you know that they need churches
00:46:14.71\00:46:16.14
in that country,
00:46:16.17\00:46:17.34
so it's exciting to
be able to part of that.
00:46:17.37\00:46:21.05
Another picture that
you actually already saw,
00:46:21.08\00:46:24.52
the reason I
wanted to show it again
00:46:24.55\00:46:26.14
is because this
particular church
00:46:26.17\00:46:29.34
was finished by the women.
00:46:29.37\00:46:32.05
I don't know where the men
were but the women stepped up
00:46:32.08\00:46:35.64
and they actually
bought the property,
00:46:35.67\00:46:37.49
went on and bought the blocks
and they did the physical work
00:46:37.52\00:46:42.26
and that church is
the result of the women
00:46:42.29\00:46:46.91
in that area deciding
that they wanted a good place
00:46:46.94\00:46:49.56
to worship God, so
praise the Lord for that.
00:46:49.59\00:46:51.56
One of the things
that actually came
00:46:57.14\00:46:58.55
a little after
the one day church
00:46:58.58\00:47:00.61
is the one day school and
that has really gone well.
00:47:00.64\00:47:05.51
And here's the place, Angola
is the perfect place for it.
00:47:05.54\00:47:09.52
Here's a country that years
ago used to have the largest
00:47:09.55\00:47:14.92
and perhaps the
best education system
00:47:14.95\00:47:17.72
in the country.
00:47:17.75\00:47:18.78
Many of the government officials
00:47:18.81\00:47:20.77
currently were at
the primary school
00:47:20.80\00:47:23.17
in the Adventist
system before the war,
00:47:23.20\00:47:25.11
they had 40 years
of war in that country
00:47:25.14\00:47:27.96
and it's almost
devastated the country
00:47:27.99\00:47:30.26
but those leaders have--
00:47:30.29\00:47:33.37
now they're looking
to Seventh-day Adventists
00:47:33.40\00:47:35.17
to come back and
build those campuses again,
00:47:35.20\00:47:37.09
200 campuses were
destroyed during the war.
00:47:37.12\00:47:40.96
And now, Garwin, I
got the final number
00:47:40.99\00:47:43.39
yesterday of the
requests for actual classrooms,
00:47:43.42\00:47:47.04
one day classrooms in
the country of Angola,
00:47:47.07\00:47:50.22
it's 5,402.
00:47:50.25\00:47:54.43
Yeah, it's real.
00:47:54.46\00:47:56.35
It's a real big request.
00:47:56.38\00:47:59.14
Today we're only
asking for your help with 200,
00:47:59.17\00:48:03.46
the first 200 and
that's quite a few
00:48:03.49\00:48:07.46
but the first 200 and--
00:48:07.49\00:48:09.35
10,000 kids.
00:48:09.38\00:48:10.58
Yeah, we figure
about 50 in a classroom,
00:48:10.61\00:48:14.15
they normally put 70
to 90 but we're gonna
00:48:14.18\00:48:17.13
make a little more spacious,
00:48:17.16\00:48:18.41
put 50 in so
that's 10,000 young people
00:48:18.44\00:48:24.29
as a result of the
offerings this morning, Garwin.
00:48:24.32\00:48:27.18
And if we want to see
God's work expand in Angola
00:48:27.21\00:48:29.93
which we do, great
place, we got to start
00:48:29.96\00:48:32.61
with Christian education.
00:48:32.64\00:48:33.67
Thank you.
00:48:33.70\00:48:35.59
ASI, you're making a difference.
00:48:35.62\00:48:38.33
Angola, 1,000 churches.
00:48:38.36\00:48:41.65
And, you know, all
those churches in Angola,
00:48:41.68\00:48:43.97
they're 27 foot wide
00:48:44.00\00:48:45.80
and they're an extra three base.
00:48:45.83\00:48:48.25
So these are big churches,
these are church schools,
00:48:48.28\00:48:52.30
Christian education, the genius
00:48:52.33\00:48:55.56
of the
Seventh-day Adventist church.
00:48:55.59\00:48:58.73
We have 40,000 children
00:48:58.76\00:49:05.03
in one day church schools today.
00:49:05.06\00:49:07.38
40,000, that's
making a difference
00:49:07.41\00:49:10.04
and with Angola,
that will be 50,000.
00:49:10.07\00:49:14.05
50,000 people or children
getting Christian education.
00:49:14.08\00:49:19.06
ASI, you make a difference.
00:49:19.09\00:49:21.19
And I would not be here today
00:49:24.16\00:49:25.69
if it wasn't for
Christian education.
00:49:25.72\00:49:27.73
I believe in it
with all my heart.
00:49:27.76\00:49:31.45
The one day program truly
equals souls for eternity.
00:49:31.48\00:49:37.64
One day soon the
heavens will open.
00:49:37.67\00:49:40.37
One day soon Jesus will return.
00:49:40.40\00:49:43.27
One day soon thousands
and thousands of men, women,
00:49:43.30\00:49:47.68
boys and girls
will meet their savior.
00:49:47.71\00:49:51.34
They will meet their
savior because of the one day
00:49:51.37\00:49:54.86
church and school.
00:49:54.89\00:49:56.55
Thank you.
00:49:56.58\00:49:58.07
And, ASI, aren't we
looking forward to that day
00:50:04.43\00:50:08.14
when Jesus will come?
00:50:08.17\00:50:11.46
Throughout this convention,
00:50:11.49\00:50:12.86
we have
attempted to bring to you
00:50:12.89\00:50:15.08
and highlight
projects from individuals
00:50:15.11\00:50:18.35
and from
ministries to let you know
00:50:18.38\00:50:21.00
how we are trying to
reach the world for Jesus.
00:50:21.03\00:50:24.50
We so
desperately want to go home.
00:50:24.53\00:50:26.25
I was remarking to
someone in the back just today
00:50:26.28\00:50:29.05
that when I think
back when I was last here
00:50:29.08\00:50:31.14
in Grand Rapids
at an ASI Convention,
00:50:31.17\00:50:33.69
that was 14 years ago, 14 years.
00:50:33.72\00:50:38.43
I don't want to be
here another 14 years.
00:50:38.47\00:50:42.21
We heard this
morning, Elder Wilson who said
00:50:42.24\00:50:45.12
one of the best investments
00:50:45.15\00:50:47.18
we can make is
in our young people,
00:50:47.21\00:50:49.97
in our youth.
00:50:50.00\00:50:51.50
This is the time, this is now.
00:50:51.53\00:50:55.27
We heard this morning
about the science books,
00:50:55.30\00:50:58.48
so that we can
educate our young people
00:50:58.51\00:51:00.74
about the
Christian-- the creation story
00:51:00.77\00:51:04.32
and so they can
understand that God
00:51:04.35\00:51:06.18
is the one who
created this world.
00:51:06.21\00:51:08.90
We heard from
Jovannah that the Holbrook
00:51:08.93\00:51:11.85
Seventh-day Adventist school
made a difference in her life.
00:51:11.88\00:51:15.64
We want these
schools to make a difference
00:51:15.67\00:51:18.16
in other children's
life just like our children.
00:51:18.19\00:51:21.78
The New Beginnings DVD training,
00:51:21.81\00:51:23.78
setting the stage
for the difference
00:51:23.81\00:51:25.66
that can be made by
training thousands of people
00:51:25.69\00:51:28.91
to take the word to the world.
00:51:28.94\00:51:32.13
Then finally the one day schools
00:51:32.16\00:51:35.27
and the opportunity for
us to partner with one day
00:51:35.30\00:51:39.96
so that 10,000 to start,
00:51:39.99\00:51:43.23
10,000 children
can learn about Jesus.
00:51:43.26\00:51:46.25
And while look at
these children behind me,
00:51:46.28\00:51:48.60
I think about I
just look at one of them,
00:51:48.63\00:51:52.23
there is probably
about 100 kids coming up here
00:51:52.26\00:51:55.42
behind me, each one of them
00:51:55.45\00:51:57.76
representing 100
children in Angola.
00:51:57.79\00:52:03.32
So 10,000 children are
represented visually here
00:52:03.35\00:52:08.14
before you and I ask
you which of these children
00:52:08.17\00:52:12.59
would you not
want to see in heaven.
00:52:12.62\00:52:15.10
Which of the children in Angola
do we not want to go there?
00:52:15.13\00:52:20.16
Which of the
children in around the world
00:52:20.19\00:52:23.37
do we not want to
learn about Jesus,
00:52:23.40\00:52:25.81
the creator of the universe?
00:52:25.84\00:52:28.34
I don't think
there's a correct answer
00:52:28.37\00:52:30.71
to that other than none.
00:52:30.74\00:52:32.61
We want all of our children
and all of us and as many
00:52:32.64\00:52:37.12
as we can reach to go to heaven.
00:52:37.15\00:52:39.64
And I tell you, I talk
to the children and I said,
00:52:39.67\00:52:43.03
I want you to come and
join me so that we can ask
00:52:43.06\00:52:46.39
all of your parents
and all of your friends
00:52:46.42\00:52:48.76
to please put as much
forward in the offering
00:52:48.79\00:52:52.91
so that we can
tell other children
00:52:52.94\00:52:54.88
like you about Jesus.
00:52:54.91\00:52:57.97
And they were so excited.
00:52:58.00\00:52:59.75
They had so many
questions, they want to know
00:52:59.78\00:53:02.85
what they could do and I
said, you know what, children,
00:53:02.88\00:53:05.78
all you need to
do is to thank ASI.
00:53:05.81\00:53:09.31
And so I asked
them and I ask them now.
00:53:09.34\00:53:12.56
Children, what do
you want to say to ASI?
00:53:12.59\00:53:16.48
Thank you, ASI!
00:53:16.51\00:53:19.96
So they are thrilled
and they are looking forward
00:53:19.99\00:53:23.49
to your offerings to
support the projects listed
00:53:23.52\00:53:26.98
in your program so
that we can reach out
00:53:27.01\00:53:29.39
and tell the world about Jesus.
00:53:29.42\00:53:31.52
Children, thank you
for coming and helping me
00:53:31.55\00:53:34.99
collect the offering for ASI
00:53:35.02\00:53:37.14
and to support
all of these projects
00:53:37.17\00:53:39.64
that we want to tell Jesus
00:53:39.67\00:53:42.07
that other
children around the world
00:53:42.10\00:53:45.09
have a wonderful time
00:53:45.12\00:53:46.49
and you can go
back to your classrooms.
00:53:46.52\00:53:48.89
They're having fun
with these balloons
00:53:48.92\00:53:51.36
and I tell you I
can't wait to see
00:53:51.39\00:53:54.73
10,000s of 10,000s of
children around the tree of life
00:53:54.76\00:54:00.23
when we get to heaven.
00:54:00.26\00:54:01.64
And it'll all be
because of partly
00:54:01.68\00:54:05.39
because of the
offerings that you give today
00:54:05.42\00:54:07.92
in the ASI offering.
00:54:07.95\00:54:10.24
As the deacons come
forward to collect the offering,
00:54:10.27\00:54:12.66
I just want to review
with you and have you take out
00:54:12.69\00:54:15.35
your offering envelopes
and I want you to be prayerful
00:54:15.38\00:54:21.44
as you place in the envelope,
00:54:21.47\00:54:25.41
as you consider what
would God have you give,
00:54:25.44\00:54:29.15
what would God have you pledge,
00:54:29.18\00:54:31.19
just complete the
information on the left,
00:54:31.22\00:54:33.50
you can just check off a
box or add in the information
00:54:33.53\00:54:36.80
for the donation
you would like to give
00:54:36.83\00:54:39.13
and or the pledge amount
00:54:39.16\00:54:41.34
as well as your
contact information
00:54:41.37\00:54:44.01
there on the left.
00:54:44.04\00:54:45.54
So we would ask you
to do that just now.
00:54:45.57\00:54:47.48
You may have
already completed it
00:54:47.51\00:54:49.19
and feel moved that
you need to do more,
00:54:49.22\00:54:51.93
just scratch it out and
do what God tells you to do.
00:54:51.96\00:54:56.34
So I'm gonna ask the
deacons if they would go ahead
00:54:56.37\00:54:59.08
and lift the
offering at this time.
00:54:59.11\00:55:01.26
And while they do,
would you pray with me?
00:55:01.29\00:55:05.37
Jesus, we thank You so much
for giving us the opportunity
00:55:05.40\00:55:08.69
and the
privilege to work with You,
00:55:08.72\00:55:12.50
to ready people
for Your second coming.
00:55:12.53\00:55:15.42
We ask the Lord
that you would help us
00:55:15.45\00:55:16.92
that we might be
obedient to the leading
00:55:16.95\00:55:18.94
of Your Holy Spirit,
that you would help us to see,
00:55:18.97\00:55:22.03
what it is that we can
do to make this a reality.
00:55:22.06\00:55:25.71
We thank You,
Lord, for the means
00:55:25.74\00:55:27.39
that You have provided
00:55:27.42\00:55:28.89
and that You have entrusted us
00:55:28.92\00:55:30.70
with the ability
to store the resources
00:55:30.73\00:55:33.52
you've given to
us and that you have
00:55:33.55\00:55:35.74
trusted us to be
channels of blessing to others.
00:55:35.77\00:55:40.39
So be with us now
and might we bless others
00:55:40.42\00:55:43.70
so that you can come quickly.
00:55:43.73\00:55:45.68
We thank You in
Jesus' name. Amen.
00:55:45.71\00:55:48.41
It's my privilege to address
our ASI audience on 3ABN.
00:55:59.14\00:56:03.76
And I want to thank you
for joining and watching
00:56:03.79\00:56:06.31
the program this
morning and also participating
00:56:06.34\00:56:08.73
in our offering.
00:56:08.76\00:56:10.13
I want to say a
special thank you
00:56:10.16\00:56:11.50
to all of those individuals
who maybe ASI members
00:56:11.53\00:56:14.13
that are not here
this year, we miss you.
00:56:14.16\00:56:16.61
We want you to
know that we're pleased
00:56:16.64\00:56:17.75
you're receiving
the ASI blessing with us
00:56:17.78\00:56:19.50
via the 3ABN television network.
00:56:19.53\00:56:21.56
And those of you
who maybe 3ABN viewers
00:56:21.59\00:56:24.32
that just happen
to stumble on to ASI,
00:56:24.35\00:56:26.42
we want to
welcome you here as well.
00:56:26.45\00:56:28.30
Hope you received
a fantastic blessing.
00:56:28.33\00:56:30.86
If any of you, ASI members
as well as other 3ABN members
00:56:30.89\00:56:34.74
would like to
participate in this offering,
00:56:34.77\00:56:37.56
we just wanted to
give you that privilege
00:56:37.59\00:56:39.04
and tell you how
you could do that.
00:56:39.07\00:56:40.68
There are three
ways that you can give.
00:56:40.71\00:56:43.28
One way is you can see
00:56:43.31\00:56:44.37
an address on the
screen momentarily,
00:56:44.40\00:56:45.97
that is the address
of our ASI organization
00:56:46.00\00:56:48.28
in Silver Spring, Maryland,
00:56:48.31\00:56:49.49
just write out
checks, send that in, mark it,
00:56:49.52\00:56:51.93
ASI offering
and for those of you
00:56:51.96\00:56:54.56
who may be having a cell
phone, there's a text address
00:56:54.59\00:56:57.89
as well, if you
want to text a pledge in,
00:56:57.92\00:56:59.65
you can feel free to do that,
00:56:59.68\00:57:01.29
as well if you want to go online
00:57:01.32\00:57:03.17
to ASIministries.org.
00:57:03.20\00:57:06.05
There's a big red button
right there that says donate
00:57:06.08\00:57:09.42
and you are welcome
to just hit that button
00:57:09.45\00:57:11.50
and follow the directions
and you can participate
00:57:11.53\00:57:13.38
in this offering as well.
00:57:13.41\00:57:14.93
I want to thank you all
for your generous support
00:57:14.96\00:57:18.65
and for being a part
of our ASI Convention here
00:57:18.68\00:57:21.15
in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
00:57:21.18\00:57:22.85
Now there's also
a telephone number
00:57:22.88\00:57:24.31
up on the screen for
our office in Silver Spring.
00:57:24.34\00:57:26.62
If for any reason
any of you would like to
00:57:26.65\00:57:28.03
call and talk
with someone there,
00:57:28.06\00:57:29.75
one of our team members
00:57:29.78\00:57:31.88
about the ASI organization
or if you would like
00:57:31.91\00:57:34.40
to talk to someone about a gift
that you want to make to this
00:57:34.43\00:57:36.90
offering, feel free
to call that number.
00:57:36.93\00:57:39.12
God bless you and
have a wonderful Sabbath.
00:57:39.15\00:57:41.09
I'd like to invite
you, I'd like to invite you
01:00:02.95\01:00:05.88
to turn with me in your
Bibles to Romans Chapter 1,
01:00:05.91\01:00:11.82
Romans Chapter 1.
01:00:11.85\01:00:14.40
One of my favorite
passages in the scriptures,
01:00:14.43\01:00:16.82
one of the most
powerful I believe.
01:00:16.85\01:00:19.52
We're in Romans
Chapter 1 and we're gonna begin
01:00:19.55\01:00:22.58
reading with verse 14.
01:00:22.61\01:00:26.06
"I am debtor both to the Greeks,
01:00:26.09\01:00:30.34
and to the
barbarians, both to the wise,
01:00:30.37\01:00:33.47
and to the unwise.
01:00:33.50\01:00:35.60
So as much as in me is,
I'm ready to preach the gospel
01:00:35.63\01:00:40.25
to you that are in Rome also.
01:00:40.28\01:00:42.83
For I am not ashamed
of the gospel of Christ,
01:00:42.86\01:00:47.41
for it is the power
of God onto salvation,
01:00:47.44\01:00:50.58
to everyone that
believes, to the Jew first
01:00:50.61\01:00:53.59
and also to the Greek.
01:00:53.62\01:00:56.30
For therein is the
righteousness of God
01:00:56.33\01:00:59.47
revealed from faith to
faith, as it is written,
01:00:59.50\01:01:04.34
the just shall live by faith."
01:01:04.37\01:01:08.48
May the Lord add His
blessing to this reading.
01:01:08.51\01:01:12.30
Pastor Mark Finley is
not a stranger to any of us,
01:01:12.33\01:01:15.68
I assume.
01:01:15.71\01:01:17.04
Pastor Mark Finley is a
friend to Seventh-day Adventist.
01:01:17.07\01:01:21.10
He's a friend to
supporting ministries.
01:01:21.13\01:01:23.65
He's a friend to ASI.
01:01:23.68\01:01:26.60
He was telling
me a few minutes ago
01:01:26.63\01:01:28.06
that he's been
coming to ASI since 1988
01:01:28.09\01:01:33.81
and he says since that time,
01:01:33.84\01:01:36.52
he's only missed a
couple of conventions
01:01:36.55\01:01:39.96
and so now we've
come to the place
01:01:39.99\01:01:42.46
where we
wouldn't think of having
01:01:42.49\01:01:44.26
a convention without him.
01:01:44.29\01:01:45.98
Well, that's a
bit of an exaggeration
01:01:46.01\01:01:47.94
but I believe it's true.
01:01:47.97\01:01:49.41
We're truly, truly
happy that he is with us.
01:01:49.44\01:01:52.84
He was sharing with
me just a few comments
01:01:52.87\01:01:55.61
on what his sermon
would be this morning
01:01:55.64\01:01:58.08
and I'm excited.
01:01:58.11\01:01:59.21
I'm not gonna miss a word of it.
01:01:59.24\01:02:00.90
He wants to develop for us
the grace of God to our souls
01:02:00.93\01:02:06.12
and the cross of
Calvary and I can't wait.
01:02:06.15\01:02:09.30
May God bless his reading.
01:02:09.33\01:02:11.64
One faith, one hope, one Lord
01:02:47.58\01:02:51.60
One church for which He died
01:02:51.63\01:02:54.53
One voice
01:02:54.56\01:02:56.73
One song we lift in praise
01:02:56.76\01:03:02.99
To Him Who was and is
01:03:03.02\01:03:06.03
And shall be evermore
01:03:06.06\01:03:12.69
There is one body, one spirit
01:03:21.75\01:03:25.74
As you were called to one hope
01:03:29.95\01:03:33.99
One Lord, one baptism and faith
01:03:38.30\01:03:42.23
One God and Father of all
01:03:46.48\01:03:50.68
One God and Father of all
01:03:50.71\01:03:54.96
One God and Father of all
01:03:54.99\01:03:58.48
Who is in you all
01:04:00.92\01:04:07.72
One faith, one hope, one Lord
01:04:15.81\01:04:19.91
One church for which He died
01:04:19.94\01:04:23.81
One voice
01:04:23.84\01:04:25.75
One song we lift in praise
01:04:25.78\01:04:32.01
To him who was and is
01:04:32.04\01:04:35.04
And shall be evermore
01:04:35.07\01:04:42.04
Though we be many people
01:04:42.07\01:04:45.25
Diverse with various gifts
01:04:48.44\01:04:51.78
We are given to each other
01:04:55.73\01:04:59.00
For the unity of faith
01:05:02.69\01:05:06.39
To grow in the knowledge
01:05:06.42\01:05:10.05
Of the Son of God
01:05:10.08\01:05:13.65
In the fullness
01:05:15.30\01:05:20.66
Of Christ
01:05:20.69\01:05:24.18
One faith, one hope, one Lords
01:05:30.51\01:05:34.29
One church for which He died
01:05:34.32\01:05:38.79
One voice, one song
01:05:38.82\01:05:42.35
We lift in praise to him
01:05:42.38\01:05:47.51
Who was and is
01:05:47.54\01:05:49.53
And shall be evermore
01:05:49.56\01:05:55.93
One faith, one hope
01:05:55.96\01:06:00.04
One Lord, one God
01:06:00.07\01:06:04.27
Amen.
01:06:12.46\01:06:13.99
Thank you for the song,
it's inspired our hearts,
01:06:20.94\01:06:24.32
encouraged us and
prepared us for worship.
01:06:24.35\01:06:27.91
For the last 25 years, Teenie
01:06:27.94\01:06:29.82
and I've
attended ASI Conventions.
01:06:29.85\01:06:32.08
We have missed very, very
few during that period of time.
01:06:32.11\01:06:36.92
And ASI has enriched our lives.
01:06:36.95\01:06:40.08
We've been
blessed in our fellowship
01:06:40.11\01:06:43.04
with consecrated
Seventh-day Adventist
01:06:43.07\01:06:46.61
lay people who are committed
to the mission of the church
01:06:46.64\01:06:51.40
and committed to working
01:06:51.43\01:06:52.90
with church organization
to see God's work powerfully
01:06:52.93\01:06:58.71
impact this world for Christ.
01:06:58.74\01:07:01.36
So thank you ASI
for enriching our lives
01:07:01.39\01:07:06.75
and for leading us
to a broader vision
01:07:06.78\01:07:10.52
of what lay people can do.
01:07:10.55\01:07:13.07
This morning as we talk
about the one motivation
01:07:13.10\01:07:17.08
stronger than any other
that will finish God's work
01:07:17.11\01:07:21.29
on earth, let's pray together.
01:07:21.32\01:07:23.96
Father in heaven,
open our eyes to see
01:07:23.99\01:07:29.32
the cross in a deeper, fuller,
01:07:29.35\01:07:33.72
broader, richer way.
01:07:33.75\01:07:37.10
May we see Jesus
giving up all for us
01:07:37.13\01:07:42.44
and may we give all to Him.
01:07:42.47\01:07:46.30
May we sense His grace
pardoning us, forgiving us,
01:07:46.33\01:07:52.24
redeeming us,
empowering us, transforming us
01:07:52.27\01:07:57.68
and may that make a
difference in our lives.
01:07:57.71\01:08:00.80
The hour is too late to come
01:08:00.83\01:08:05.41
and to go as we are.
01:08:05.44\01:08:08.30
Your people are assembled
on Sabbath in Grand Rapids.
01:08:08.33\01:08:14.05
Come and do something
special, in Christ's name, amen.
01:08:14.08\01:08:19.46
Amen.
01:08:19.49\01:08:21.38
Robert Robertson
was eight years old.
01:08:21.41\01:08:26.07
He was living a carefree life,
01:08:26.10\01:08:29.81
playing enjoying life
in a little English village
01:08:29.84\01:08:33.52
and there in
1743, his father died,
01:08:33.55\01:08:39.69
changed his life
dramatically as any child knows
01:08:39.72\01:08:43.23
who at a young age
has lost the father.
01:08:43.26\01:08:47.39
Robert was bright,
intelligent but headstrong,
01:08:47.42\01:08:53.18
difficult for
his mother to handle.
01:08:53.21\01:08:55.93
She did everything she could
but he went from bad to worse.
01:08:55.96\01:09:02.41
When he was 14 years
old, his mother sent him
01:09:02.44\01:09:05.82
to London to
apprentice with a barber.
01:09:05.85\01:09:09.87
She thought if he got a
job and useful employment
01:09:09.90\01:09:12.78
that would make a significant
difference in his life.
01:09:12.81\01:09:15.41
It did not.
01:09:15.44\01:09:17.57
Things went from bad to worse.
01:09:17.60\01:09:19.99
He began drinking
heavily, gambling,
01:09:20.02\01:09:24.36
got in with the wrong crowd.
01:09:24.39\01:09:26.52
And when he was 17, he
and some of his buddies
01:09:26.55\01:09:30.50
decided to go to an
evangelistic meeting
01:09:30.53\01:09:33.28
held by George
Whitfield and he wanted
01:09:33.31\01:09:36.81
to mock the evangelist
01:09:36.84\01:09:39.35
and wanted to
create quite a scene
01:09:39.38\01:09:42.12
at the meetings.
01:09:42.15\01:09:43.98
But as
Whitfield opened his Bible
01:09:44.01\01:09:46.63
and began to talk about Jesus.
01:09:46.66\01:09:49.18
There was a
strange stirring in this
01:09:49.21\01:09:52.81
17 year old boy's heart.
01:09:52.84\01:09:55.81
There's a strange
awakening in his soul.
01:09:55.84\01:10:01.25
He felt the
warmth of Christ love.
01:10:01.28\01:10:04.33
He sensed the
magnificence of Christ grace,
01:10:04.36\01:10:08.29
and although he
did not go forward
01:10:08.32\01:10:10.18
in the altar call that
night, for three years,
01:10:10.21\01:10:13.88
Robert was haunted
by a vision of the cross
01:10:13.91\01:10:19.37
that he got at 17 years old.
01:10:19.40\01:10:21.50
When he was 20,
December 10th, 1755,
01:10:21.53\01:10:25.41
he surrendered
his life to Christ.
01:10:25.44\01:10:28.81
It changed his life totally.
01:10:28.84\01:10:30.95
Shortly thereafter he took
theology, became a preacher.
01:10:30.98\01:10:36.37
Methodist preacher.
01:10:36.40\01:10:38.34
He was preparing a
sermon one Sunday morning
01:10:38.37\01:10:42.54
for a little church
in Norfolk, England,
01:10:42.57\01:10:45.55
and to accompany that
sermon he wrote a song,
01:10:45.58\01:10:49.82
the hymns words speak of a grace
01:10:49.85\01:10:52.44
we do not deserve
and a debt we cannot pay.
01:10:52.47\01:10:56.35
They speak of
mercy beyond relief.
01:10:56.38\01:10:59.55
They speak of forgiveness
beyond our comprehension.
01:10:59.58\01:11:03.37
They speak of grace
beyond our human understanding.
01:11:03.40\01:11:06.75
You know the song well.
01:11:06.78\01:11:07.86
Come, thou fount
of every blessing
01:11:07.89\01:11:11.16
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace
01:11:11.19\01:11:15.71
Streams of
mercy, never ceasing...
01:11:15.74\01:11:18.68
You know the song.
01:11:18.71\01:11:20.01
Jesus sought me when a stranger
01:11:20.04\01:11:21.51
Wandering from the fold of God
01:11:21.54\01:11:23.63
He, to rescue me from danger
01:11:23.66\01:11:26.04
Interposed His precious blood
01:11:26.07\01:11:28.70
O to grace how great a debtor
01:11:28.73\01:11:32.84
Daily I'm constrained to be
01:11:32.87\01:11:35.55
Let Thy goodness, like a fetter
01:11:35.58\01:11:38.60
Bind my wandering heart to Thee
01:11:38.63\01:11:42.06
This morning we look
at the Book of Romans
01:11:42.09\01:11:45.29
and we cry out
with a hymn writer,
01:11:45.32\01:11:47.87
O to grace how great a debtor
01:11:47.90\01:11:52.12
Daily I'm constrained to be
01:11:52.15\01:11:55.63
Take your Bibles, please
and turn to the Book of Romans.
01:11:55.66\01:11:59.76
Romans the first chapter,
01:11:59.79\01:12:02.36
you may have it
in a printed copy,
01:12:02.39\01:12:05.63
you may have it on
your iPhone, your iPad,
01:12:05.66\01:12:10.16
but look at the
text and do not text.
01:12:10.19\01:12:16.39
Romans 1:14 and onward.
01:12:16.42\01:12:21.52
What is the single motivation
01:12:21.55\01:12:26.01
that impelled the early church
01:12:26.04\01:12:29.41
to take the gospel to the world?
01:12:29.44\01:12:32.58
I suggest to you that the
cross came before Pentecost.
01:12:32.61\01:12:39.06
I suggest to you that
being filled with grace
01:12:39.09\01:12:44.73
comes before being
filled with the spirit,
01:12:44.76\01:12:48.85
unless the church
comes to the cross
01:12:48.88\01:12:52.68
and it's broken at the
cross and transformed by grace,
01:12:52.71\01:12:58.48
the power of
Pentecost will not fall.
01:12:58.51\01:13:03.76
The cross always
comes before Pentecost.
01:13:03.79\01:13:07.61
Take your Bible and turn
to Romans the first chapter
01:13:07.64\01:13:12.24
and we're looking
there at verses 14-16.
01:13:12.27\01:13:17.74
Romans 1 beginning
with the 14th verse.
01:13:17.77\01:13:22.51
The Apostle Paul says...
01:13:22.54\01:13:26.32
"I am a debtor both to Greeks,
01:13:26.35\01:13:29.70
and to the
barbarians, both to the wise,
01:13:29.73\01:13:32.40
and to the unwise.
01:13:32.43\01:13:34.19
So much as in me is, I'm ready
to preach the gospel to you
01:13:34.22\01:13:39.09
who are in Rome also.
01:13:39.12\01:13:40.98
For I am not ashamed
of the gospel of Christ,
01:13:41.01\01:13:44.10
for it is the power
of God to salvation,
01:13:44.13\01:13:47.34
for everyone who
believes, to the Jew first
01:13:47.37\01:13:50.49
then to the Greek.
01:13:50.52\01:13:52.51
For in it the
righteousness of God
01:13:52.54\01:13:54.69
is revealed from faith
to faith, it is written,
01:13:54.72\01:13:57.45
the just shall live by faith."
01:13:57.48\01:13:58.91
Notice Paul makes
three I am statements.
01:13:58.94\01:14:01.52
He says I am a
debtor, he says I am ready
01:14:01.55\01:14:06.01
and he says I am not
ashamed of the gospel of Christ.
01:14:06.04\01:14:08.94
We will look at that
first phrase this morning.
01:14:08.97\01:14:13.07
I am a debtor.
01:14:13.10\01:14:14.83
It is the
essence of indebtedness
01:14:14.86\01:14:18.16
that in prompts and
motivates Paul's witness.
01:14:18.19\01:14:22.42
Paul was a debtor.
01:14:22.45\01:14:23.52
In Christ he found mercy.
01:14:23.55\01:14:25.80
In Christ he found forgiveness.
01:14:25.83\01:14:28.27
In Christ he found pardon.
01:14:28.30\01:14:30.18
In Christ he found grace.
01:14:30.21\01:14:32.14
In Christ his
life was transformed.
01:14:32.17\01:14:34.68
In Christ he was made new.
01:14:34.71\01:14:36.54
In Christ he had a
new reason for living.
01:14:36.57\01:14:39.38
And the passion
that motivated him
01:14:39.41\01:14:41.63
was this debt to the
Christ that died for him.
01:14:41.66\01:14:45.45
The crucified
Christ redeemed him
01:14:45.48\01:14:47.81
from the guilt of the past.
01:14:47.84\01:14:49.40
The resurrected
Christ gave him power
01:14:49.43\01:14:51.87
for the present and
the returning Christ
01:14:51.90\01:14:54.44
gave him hope for the future.
01:14:54.47\01:14:56.24
Paul cries out from
the depths of his being,
01:14:56.27\01:14:58.91
I am a debtor.
01:14:58.94\01:15:01.82
It is the essence of death.
01:15:01.85\01:15:04.11
Paul continues
describing this amazing grace
01:15:04.14\01:15:08.01
through the Book of Romans.
01:15:08.04\01:15:09.94
He could never get tired
of telling of God's grace.
01:15:09.97\01:15:13.52
He was never bored of
sharing the story of the cross.
01:15:13.55\01:15:18.82
There was a passion within him.
01:15:18.85\01:15:21.00
If you are
motivated, merely to make a name
01:15:21.03\01:15:24.13
for your ministry that
is insufficient motivation.
01:15:24.16\01:15:27.54
If you're motivated by pride,
01:15:27.57\01:15:29.14
that is insufficient motivation.
01:15:29.17\01:15:31.89
The cross of Christ,
laying the glory of man
01:15:31.92\01:15:34.85
in the dust.
01:15:34.88\01:15:35.92
If you talk more
about your ministries
01:15:35.95\01:15:37.48
than you do about Jesus,
more about your accomplishments
01:15:37.51\01:15:40.12
than you do about Jesus.
01:15:40.15\01:15:41.55
Something is wrong, if
there's a tinge of pride
01:15:41.58\01:15:44.61
in your soul about who you are.
01:15:44.64\01:15:47.90
The third angel's messages,
01:15:47.93\01:15:49.48
"Fear God and
give glory to Him."
01:15:49.51\01:15:52.23
Amen.
01:15:52.26\01:15:53.29
The Book of Roman
shares that glory is Jesus.
01:15:53.32\01:15:57.70
It's the laying of all
glory of man in the dust.
01:15:57.73\01:16:00.73
When we don't care about
who we are but who Jesus is.
01:16:00.76\01:16:04.15
When we're more concern
about giving glory to him
01:16:04.18\01:16:06.21
than we are to ourselves.
01:16:06.24\01:16:08.27
When we we're more
anxious to glorify his name
01:16:08.30\01:16:10.58
than we are our name.
01:16:10.61\01:16:12.93
When we talk more about
Him than we do ourselves.
01:16:12.96\01:16:16.87
When we don't
care who gets the glory
01:16:16.90\01:16:18.85
but we desire His work
to go forward powerfully.
01:16:18.88\01:16:22.03
The spirit of God will be
poured out in an amazing way
01:16:22.06\01:16:26.25
on a people that are
united to give Him glory.
01:16:26.28\01:16:29.33
Amen.
01:16:29.36\01:16:30.39
Now what is the
basis of this indebtedness?
01:16:30.42\01:16:33.80
What is the real
story of the cross?
01:16:33.83\01:16:36.76
What is the real story of grace?
01:16:36.79\01:16:39.58
Romans the 3
chapter, Romans Chapter 3,
01:16:39.61\01:16:43.76
we look at the Book of
Romans, the story of grace.
01:16:43.79\01:16:47.33
Grace is amazing,
Romans the third chapter,
01:16:47.36\01:16:51.52
we look there at
verse 23 and onward.
01:16:51.55\01:16:54.54
"For all have
sinned and fall short
01:16:54.57\01:16:57.15
of the glory of God."
01:16:57.18\01:16:58.21
That is you, that is me.
01:16:58.24\01:16:59.91
We are sinners by birth.
We are sinners by nature.
01:16:59.94\01:17:03.99
The heart is
deceitful above all things
01:17:04.02\01:17:06.26
and desperately weakened.
01:17:06.29\01:17:08.07
In us there is no righteousness.
01:17:08.10\01:17:10.45
We are
condemned to eternal loss.
01:17:10.48\01:17:13.31
Verse 23,"For all have sinned
01:17:13.34\01:17:16.09
and come short
of the glory of God,
01:17:16.12\01:17:18.04
Being justified
freely by His grace
01:17:18.07\01:17:22.61
through the redemption
that is in Christ Jesus,
01:17:22.64\01:17:26.18
whom God set forth to be
a propitiation by His blood,
01:17:26.21\01:17:31.20
through faith, to
demonstrate His righteousness,
01:17:31.23\01:17:35.30
because in His
forbearance God passed
01:17:35.33\01:17:38.56
over the sins that
were previously committed."
01:17:38.59\01:17:41.88
Now notice this
word propitiation.
01:17:41.91\01:17:44.69
This is quite an amazing word.
01:17:44.72\01:17:49.45
You can translate
propitiation satisfaction
01:17:49.48\01:17:54.02
in Christ death on
the cross, he satisfies
01:17:54.05\01:17:59.57
the justice of God in meeting
the demands of a broken law.
01:17:59.60\01:18:05.80
So you can
translate propitiation
01:18:05.83\01:18:07.93
as satisfaction.
01:18:07.96\01:18:10.37
But there's an
interesting association
01:18:10.40\01:18:14.41
in the Greek language.
01:18:14.44\01:18:16.48
The word propitiation
is in a family of words
01:18:16.51\01:18:20.94
that are the Hilasterion family.
01:18:20.97\01:18:24.38
Now the word mercy
seat in the sanctuary
01:18:24.41\01:18:27.40
is a
Hilasterion and propitiation
01:18:27.44\01:18:30.94
is in a family of words
01:18:30.97\01:18:32.43
that leads you to the sanctuary.
01:18:32.46\01:18:35.54
In the sanctuary of
the Israel in the court,
01:18:35.57\01:18:40.59
there is the altar, it is there
01:18:40.62\01:18:42.64
that the sacrifice is
slain in the bloody shed.
01:18:42.67\01:18:46.97
The priest takes that blood
and goes into the holy place
01:18:47.00\01:18:50.47
of the sanctuary.
01:18:50.50\01:18:52.64
And sprinkles the
blood before the veil.
01:18:52.67\01:18:55.85
But once a year, on
The Day of Atonement,
01:18:55.88\01:19:00.21
the high priest enters
into the most holy place
01:19:00.24\01:19:03.76
of the heavenly of
the earthly sanctuary.
01:19:03.79\01:19:07.92
And sprinkles the blood
there on the mercy seat,
01:19:07.95\01:19:13.01
the Hilasterion.
01:19:13.04\01:19:14.70
Now below this mercy seat
is the Ten Commandment law,
01:19:14.73\01:19:19.23
the Ark-- it's the
Ark of the Covenant.
01:19:19.26\01:19:21.46
There on the mercy
seat are the two cherubims.
01:19:21.49\01:19:26.79
And so there on
The Day of Atonement,
01:19:26.82\01:19:31.75
reconciliation that has
been wrote out in the court
01:19:31.78\01:19:37.88
is finally applied
to the entire universe
01:19:37.91\01:19:41.18
in the universe
ultimately becomes clean
01:19:41.21\01:19:45.32
at the end of
the Day of Atonement.
01:19:45.35\01:19:47.78
The mercy seat is the
place where God's love and grace
01:19:47.81\01:19:54.44
and justice meet together
in the ransom of sinners.
01:19:54.47\01:20:00.97
The bloodshed in the court
01:20:01.00\01:20:03.27
is finally brought
into the tabernacle
01:20:03.30\01:20:06.67
in an ultimate Day of Atonement
01:20:06.70\01:20:09.19
to cleanse the
entire universe for sin
01:20:09.22\01:20:12.07
to apply what
Jesus did on the cross.
01:20:12.10\01:20:16.22
So when Paul says
here in Romans Chapter 3,
01:20:16.25\01:20:21.57
he talks about the
fact in Romans 3:23,
01:20:21.60\01:20:27.31
"Whom God set forth to be
propitiation by His blood."
01:20:27.34\01:20:31.61
What is he saying?
01:20:31.64\01:20:32.88
He's saying Christ satisfies
the demands of the law.
01:20:32.91\01:20:36.34
The just assumes the
role of those who are unjust.
01:20:36.37\01:20:42.27
The righteous assumes the
role of those that are sinners.
01:20:42.30\01:20:45.69
The innocent assumes the
role of those that are guilty.
01:20:45.72\01:20:49.07
The perfect one
assumes the role of the ones
01:20:49.10\01:20:51.77
that are imperfect.
01:20:51.80\01:20:53.21
We see this again in
Romans the 5 chapter.
01:20:53.24\01:20:56.71
Romans 5:6-8, what is
the story of the cross?
01:20:56.74\01:21:02.85
The story of the cross
is the divine son of God,
01:21:02.88\01:21:07.90
the one
worshipped by all the angels,
01:21:07.93\01:21:11.02
the one who'd knew no
sin becoming sin for us.
01:21:11.05\01:21:14.96
For cursed is everyone
that hangs on the tree,
01:21:14.99\01:21:18.19
the story of the cross
01:21:18.22\01:21:19.83
is more than the story of
nails through Jesus' hands
01:21:19.86\01:21:22.65
and a crown of
thorns upon His head
01:21:22.68\01:21:24.59
and blood running down His face
01:21:24.62\01:21:26.48
and His feet being
spiked to a wooden bar.
01:21:26.51\01:21:29.98
It is more than the
story of Judas betraying Him
01:21:30.01\01:21:33.66
and Peter denying Him.
01:21:33.69\01:21:35.49
And the Romans forsaking
Him and nailing Him there
01:21:35.52\01:21:40.18
and the Jews not
quite understanding
01:21:40.21\01:21:42.22
what was going on there.
01:21:42.25\01:21:43.88
It is much more than that.
01:21:43.91\01:21:45.60
The story of the cross
is the story of the divine
01:21:45.63\01:21:49.81
sinless perfect Son of God,
01:21:49.84\01:21:53.29
assuming the condemnation of sin
01:21:53.32\01:21:56.34
for the entire human race.
01:21:56.37\01:21:58.28
A judgment bar is
set up on the cross
01:21:58.31\01:22:00.83
and Christ is considered
before the whole universe
01:22:00.86\01:22:03.90
to be a sinner for you and me.
01:22:03.93\01:22:05.95
And He
experiences on that cross,
01:22:05.98\01:22:08.30
the death that I
should have died.
01:22:08.33\01:22:09.85
The death that
you should have died,
01:22:09.88\01:22:11.47
not merely a physical death,
01:22:11.50\01:22:13.41
but He plunges
the depths of the tomb
01:22:13.44\01:22:16.31
and He goes into
hell itself for us
01:22:16.34\01:22:19.10
as He hangs on that cross.
01:22:19.13\01:22:20.89
Take your Bibles please
01:22:20.92\01:22:21.95
and look at
Romans the 5 chapter.
01:22:21.98\01:22:23.94
Romans 5 we're looking
there at verse 6 and onward.
01:22:23.97\01:22:28.28
"For when we were
still without strength,
01:22:28.31\01:22:30.75
in due time Christ
died for the ungodly."
01:22:30.78\01:22:34.96
Christ did not die
because we were godly,
01:22:34.99\01:22:37.59
He died because we were ungodly.
01:22:37.62\01:22:40.67
Notice verse 8,
01:22:40.70\01:22:42.06
"But God demonstrates
His own love toward us,
01:22:42.09\01:22:45.00
in that while we
were still sinners,
01:22:45.03\01:22:47.38
Christ died for us."
01:22:47.41\01:22:50.96
Christ grace is unmerited.
01:22:50.99\01:22:53.72
It's undeserved. It's unearned.
01:22:53.75\01:22:56.00
Jesus died the
agonizing painful death
01:22:56.03\01:22:59.13
that all sinners will die.
01:22:59.16\01:23:00.65
He experienced the fullness
01:23:00.68\01:23:02.48
of the Father's
wrath against sin.
01:23:02.51\01:23:05.18
He was rejected so
we could be accepted.
01:23:05.21\01:23:07.46
He died the death that was
ours so we could live the life
01:23:07.49\01:23:09.92
that was His.
01:23:09.95\01:23:11.06
He wore the crown of thorns
01:23:11.09\01:23:12.15
so we would wear
the crown of glory.
01:23:12.18\01:23:14.03
He was nailed
upright in torturous pain,
01:23:14.06\01:23:18.04
so that we could
reign on a throne
01:23:18.07\01:23:19.86
with the redeemed of all ages,
01:23:19.89\01:23:21.30
wearing robes
of royalty forever.
01:23:21.33\01:23:23.03
Marvel of all
marvels. Wonder of all wonders.
01:23:23.06\01:23:29.31
In our shame and guilt
Jesus did not reject us.
01:23:29.34\01:23:33.02
On the cross, He
descended to the depths of hell,
01:23:33.05\01:23:37.57
so we could ascend to
the heights of heaven.
01:23:37.60\01:23:41.78
I love the way
Ellen White puts it.
01:23:41.81\01:23:44.85
In language that no
human pen could write.
01:23:44.88\01:23:50.19
In words so
sublime, so magnificent
01:23:50.22\01:23:54.59
that one almost does not
want to read them standing
01:23:54.62\01:23:58.47
but fall to their knees.
01:23:58.50\01:24:00.36
Listen Desire of Ages page 753,
01:24:00.39\01:24:03.76
"Upon Christ as our
substitute and surety
01:24:03.79\01:24:08.55
was laid the iniquity of us all.
01:24:08.58\01:24:11.70
He was counted a transgressor,
that He might redeem us
01:24:11.73\01:24:15.93
from the
condemnation of the law.
01:24:15.96\01:24:18.45
The guilt of
every descendant of Adam
01:24:18.48\01:24:21.39
was pressing upon His heart."
01:24:21.42\01:24:22.98
Now think of it.
01:24:23.01\01:24:24.70
He hangs on the cross
01:24:24.73\01:24:27.38
and the guilt of
every descendent of Adam,
01:24:27.41\01:24:31.83
the guilt of every
sin ever committed.
01:24:31.86\01:24:35.33
The condemnation of
every sin ever committed.
01:24:35.36\01:24:38.77
The shame of
every sin ever committed
01:24:38.80\01:24:41.51
is pressing upon Him.
01:24:41.54\01:24:43.17
We continue.
01:24:43.20\01:24:44.54
"The wrath of God against
sin, the terrible manifestation
01:24:44.57\01:24:49.46
of His displeasure
because of iniquity,
01:24:49.49\01:24:52.09
filled the soul of His
Son with consternation."
01:24:52.12\01:24:56.41
Listen next paragraph.
01:24:56.44\01:24:58.04
"Satan with his
fierce temptations
01:24:58.07\01:25:00.88
wrung the heart of Jesus."
01:25:00.91\01:25:03.87
What is Satan
tempting Jesus about
01:25:03.90\01:25:06.04
as He hangs on the cross?
01:25:06.07\01:25:07.16
Next sentence.
01:25:07.19\01:25:08.30
"The Savior could not see
01:25:08.33\01:25:10.37
through the portals of the tomb.
01:25:10.40\01:25:12.16
Hope did not present
to Him His coming forth
01:25:12.19\01:25:15.53
from the grave a conqueror,
01:25:15.56\01:25:17.05
or tell Him of the Father's
acceptance of the sacrifice.
01:25:17.08\01:25:20.87
He feared that sin
was so offensive to God
01:25:20.90\01:25:25.72
that their
separation was to be eternal.
01:25:25.75\01:25:29.01
Christ felt the anguish
that the sinner will feel
01:25:29.04\01:25:32.84
when mercy shall no
longer plead for the human race.
01:25:32.87\01:25:36.02
It was the sense of sin,
bringing the Father's wrath
01:25:36.05\01:25:39.94
upon Him as the
sinners substitute,
01:25:39.97\01:25:42.07
that made the cup
He drank so bitter,
01:25:42.10\01:25:43.98
and broke the
heart of the Son of God."
01:25:44.01\01:25:45.56
So when Jesus is
hanging on the cross,
01:25:45.59\01:25:48.28
Satan says to Him,
01:25:48.31\01:25:50.28
if you go through with this
01:25:50.31\01:25:52.08
bearing the guilt in
shame of the human race,
01:25:52.11\01:25:54.59
You will never
see your Father again.
01:25:54.62\01:25:56.75
The separation is to be eternal
01:25:56.78\01:25:59.23
and although Jesus
said before the cross,
01:25:59.26\01:26:01.92
you destroy this
body in three days,
01:26:01.95\01:26:03.44
I'll raise it up again.
01:26:03.47\01:26:04.77
On the cross, the
guilt of sin is so great.
01:26:04.80\01:26:08.02
The shame of sin
is so overwhelming.
01:26:08.05\01:26:10.34
The condemnation of sin
that He bears for the human race
01:26:10.37\01:26:13.25
is so large, so huge.
01:26:13.28\01:26:15.88
All He senses on that cross,
01:26:15.91\01:26:18.96
is that if He
goes into that grave,
01:26:18.99\01:26:21.20
He will be separated
from the Father forever.
01:26:21.23\01:26:24.24
The separation will be eternal
and Jesus says on that cross,
01:26:24.27\01:26:29.57
"I would rather
experience hell itself
01:26:29.60\01:26:33.47
and be not in
heaven with my father,"
01:26:33.50\01:26:35.78
if Mark Finley can be there.
01:26:35.81\01:26:37.89
If John can be
there, if Mary can be there.
01:26:37.92\01:26:40.58
This is a love so amazing.
01:26:40.61\01:26:42.65
This is a love so incredible.
01:26:42.68\01:26:44.97
This is a love so divine
01:26:45.00\01:26:47.47
that all I can do
is fall at His feet
01:26:47.50\01:26:49.88
and say, I'm a debtor.
01:26:49.91\01:26:51.84
A debtor to grace.
01:26:51.87\01:26:54.08
This is the story of the
Christ that loves us so much,
01:26:54.11\01:26:57.33
that He would rather
experience hell itself
01:26:57.36\01:26:59.84
than have you lost.
01:26:59.87\01:27:01.51
This is the story of
boundless, unfathomable,
01:27:01.54\01:27:04.70
incomprehensible, undying,
unending, infinite love.
01:27:04.73\01:27:09.52
That longs for us to be
with Him through all eternity.
01:27:09.55\01:27:15.78
Notice the text. This
is what motivated Paul.
01:27:15.81\01:27:19.59
This was the passion
beating in his heart.
01:27:19.62\01:27:22.28
This was the fire in his
belly and this is the passion
01:27:22.31\01:27:26.57
that will inspire
an end time church
01:27:26.60\01:27:29.02
to go to the end of the world,
01:27:29.05\01:27:31.09
that the passion of the cross,
01:27:31.12\01:27:33.51
the transformation
of the grace of Christ.
01:27:33.54\01:27:36.58
We cry out with
Paul in Romans 1,
01:27:36.61\01:27:38.68
notice what Paul says.
01:27:38.71\01:27:40.42
Romans 1 Paul says,
01:27:40.45\01:27:43.06
I'm a debtor to the
Greeks and the barbarians.
01:27:43.09\01:27:46.18
The Greeks were
the educated elite.
01:27:46.21\01:27:48.66
The Greeks were
01:27:48.69\01:27:49.73
the sophisticated intellectuals.
01:27:49.76\01:27:52.23
The Greeks were
the higher classes.
01:27:52.26\01:27:54.37
In Greek
understanding of culture,
01:27:54.40\01:27:56.77
the barbarians
were everybody else
01:27:56.80\01:27:59.24
and so what is Paul saying,
01:27:59.27\01:28:00.95
I'm indebt to the
educated and the uneducated,
01:28:00.98\01:28:04.38
to the rich and the poor,
01:28:04.41\01:28:06.04
to the royal class
and the working class.
01:28:06.07\01:28:08.44
I'm indebt for all humanity.
01:28:08.47\01:28:10.91
Catch a glimpse of
Paul's passion for lost people.
01:28:10.94\01:28:14.82
He couldn't stop
telling the story.
01:28:14.85\01:28:17.35
In Acts 16, he tells the
story to a business woman
01:28:17.38\01:28:21.59
in Thyatira called Lydia
01:28:21.62\01:28:23.79
and she's converted
and becomes a member of ASI
01:28:23.82\01:28:27.51
and uses her
resources to spread the gospel.
01:28:27.54\01:28:31.58
Later in the
chapter Paul and Silas sing
01:28:31.61\01:28:33.94
God's grace in prison
01:28:33.97\01:28:35.44
and a Philippian jailer
and his family are baptized.
01:28:35.47\01:28:38.72
In Acts 17 Paul shares
God's grace with philosophers
01:28:38.75\01:28:42.01
in Athens and some
of them are baptized.
01:28:42.04\01:28:44.75
Later in the Book of Acts
he tells the story to Felix
01:28:44.78\01:28:48.13
and to Agrippa, Roman rulers
and they stand there trembling
01:28:48.16\01:28:52.47
before the grace of God.
01:28:52.50\01:28:54.08
Paul goes to Rome
01:28:54.11\01:28:55.95
and there in prison he
tells the story of God's grace.
01:28:55.98\01:28:59.52
And some in Caesar's household
are baptized throughout Acts.
01:28:59.55\01:29:04.67
Paul never tires
of telling the story.
01:29:04.70\01:29:06.78
He echoes it from
Jerusalem to Rome.
01:29:06.81\01:29:09.39
He proclaims it to Roman
rulers and Jewish slave girls.
01:29:09.42\01:29:12.86
He shares that in prisons,
on ships, in market places,
01:29:12.89\01:29:15.76
in the country
side, in private homes
01:29:15.79\01:29:18.04
and public squares.
01:29:18.07\01:29:19.35
Why? What prompts
him? What motivates him?
01:29:19.38\01:29:23.03
He's motivated by one
thing not the desire to baptize
01:29:23.06\01:29:26.98
more than anybody else.
01:29:27.01\01:29:28.37
Not the desire
to make his ministry
01:29:28.40\01:29:30.02
the best, the
highest, the greatest.
01:29:30.05\01:29:31.72
Paul doesn't talk about
himself, you read Romans,
01:29:31.75\01:29:34.35
you read Philippians,
you read Colossians,
01:29:34.38\01:29:36.24
you read Ephesians.
01:29:36.27\01:29:37.37
He's is so in love with Jesus.
01:29:37.40\01:29:39.33
Jesus has changed
his life and Paul says,
01:29:39.36\01:29:41.73
redeemed how I
love to proclaim it.
01:29:41.76\01:29:43.99
Redeemed by the
blood of the Lamb.
01:29:44.02\01:29:45.81
Amen. That's Paul.
01:29:45.84\01:29:47.64
Passionate about this Christ.
Transformed by this Christ.
01:29:47.67\01:29:51.26
Did he have any difficulties?
01:29:51.29\01:29:53.11
I'll tell you one
thing, if there's a one proud
01:29:53.14\01:29:57.50
selfish tinge in your body.
01:29:57.53\01:30:02.04
When the going gets
tough, you're gonna drop out.
01:30:02.07\01:30:04.73
You will get Paul.
01:30:04.76\01:30:06.05
2 Corinthians 11: 24-28.
01:30:06.08\01:30:13.99
Did Paul have
problems preaching the gospel?
01:30:14.02\01:30:17.54
Why didn't he give up?
01:30:17.57\01:30:19.36
What kept him going on?
01:30:19.39\01:30:22.19
2 Corinthians 11:24-28,
01:30:22.22\01:30:26.02
here he is telling
his story verse 24,
01:30:26.05\01:30:29.07
"From the Jews five times
01:30:29.10\01:30:30.53
I received forty
stripes minus one."
01:30:30.56\01:30:32.28
Give up Paul, this thing
about preaching the gospel
01:30:32.31\01:30:35.51
talking about
grace this is tough.
01:30:35.54\01:30:37.31
Five times they
beat you verse 25,
01:30:37.34\01:30:41.57
"Three times I was beaten
with rods; once I was stoned;
01:30:41.60\01:30:45.21
three times I was
shipwrecked; a night and a day
01:30:45.24\01:30:48.33
I have been in the
deep; in journeys often,
01:30:48.36\01:30:50.36
in perils of waters,
in perils of robbers,
01:30:50.39\01:30:52.68
in perils of my own countrymen,
01:30:52.71\01:30:54.26
in perils of the
Gentiles, in perils in the city,
01:30:54.29\01:30:56.93
in perils in the country."
01:30:56.96\01:30:58.38
And that must
been easy life, right.
01:30:58.41\01:30:59.97
"In perils in the sea, in
perils among false brethren,
01:31:00.00\01:31:02.73
in weariness and toil,
in sleeplessness often,
01:31:02.76\01:31:05.32
in hunger and
thirst, in fastings often,
01:31:05.35\01:31:07.06
in cold beside other things."
01:31:07.09\01:31:09.22
I mean that's kind of you know,
01:31:09.25\01:31:10.55
that's a little humor showing,
intense his story, I'm beaten.
01:31:10.58\01:31:13.98
I'm shipwrecked. I
stay in the night and day.
01:31:14.01\01:31:17.04
They hit me with
rods, they forsake me.
01:31:17.07\01:31:19.47
Then he says
beside other things,
01:31:19.50\01:31:24.92
why did you keep doing it Paul?
01:31:24.95\01:31:27.87
What was the motivation?
01:31:27.90\01:31:30.64
Why didn't you just give up?
01:31:30.67\01:31:32.73
Why didn't you go
home and make tents
01:31:32.76\01:31:35.31
and live a comfortable life.
01:31:35.34\01:31:37.81
2 Corinthians 5 he explains why.
01:31:37.84\01:31:41.23
He summarizes the
heart of the reason.
01:31:41.26\01:31:44.00
In 2 Corinthians 5
01:31:44.03\01:31:46.39
is one of the
most powerful passages
01:31:46.42\01:31:51.37
in all of scripture
that motivates evangelism,
01:31:51.40\01:31:55.17
that motivates witness
when you come to the cross,
01:31:55.20\01:32:00.60
and your heart is
transformed by the grace of God.
01:32:00.63\01:32:05.02
When you understand grace
and its transforming power,
01:32:05.05\01:32:10.01
when it wills up inside of you
01:32:10.04\01:32:13.31
and you see what
Christ has done for you
01:32:13.34\01:32:16.93
that He's forgiven you
01:32:16.96\01:32:18.78
that in Christ
your guilt is gone.
01:32:18.81\01:32:21.12
In Christ there
is no condemnation.
01:32:21.15\01:32:23.96
In Christ there's a
new power in your life
01:32:23.99\01:32:27.46
that makes you over again.
01:32:27.49\01:32:29.44
In Christ there is a new hope,
01:32:29.47\01:32:32.18
when that living
Christ enters your life,
01:32:32.21\01:32:35.77
you cannot be silent.
01:32:35.80\01:32:37.93
Amen.
01:32:37.96\01:32:39.28
Whether you get
accolades or you do not.
01:32:39.31\01:32:42.91
Whether the days are
tough or they are not.
01:32:42.94\01:32:47.30
Whether the journey is
long and the mountain is high
01:32:47.33\01:32:51.09
and the road is rough.
01:32:51.12\01:32:53.23
There's a passion in
your life to tell the story.
01:32:53.26\01:32:56.58
2 Corinthians 5 we
see at there verse 14,
01:32:56.61\01:33:00.53
"For the love of
Christ constrains us."
01:33:00.56\01:33:06.22
What's that word constrains me?
01:33:06.25\01:33:07.92
It compels us, it
causes us to do things
01:33:07.95\01:33:11.29
for the love of
Christ constrains us
01:33:11.32\01:33:14.96
because we judged us that
01:33:14.99\01:33:16.58
if one died for all then all die
01:33:16.61\01:33:19.08
and He died for
all that those who live
01:33:19.11\01:33:22.70
should no longer
live for themselves.
01:33:22.73\01:33:26.92
Amen.
01:33:26.95\01:33:27.98
And we who are saved by grace.
01:33:28.01\01:33:31.24
Echo the same sentiments
as Paul, grace liberates us,
01:33:31.27\01:33:36.10
grace empowers
us, grace changes us,
01:33:36.13\01:33:39.41
grace transforms us and grace
compels us to tell the story.
01:33:39.44\01:33:43.70
What do you say?
01:33:43.73\01:33:45.77
We can do no other.
01:33:45.80\01:33:47.66
Good news is for sharing
01:33:47.69\01:33:50.05
and we too are
debtors for grace.
01:33:50.08\01:33:52.47
What has Christ done for you?
01:33:52.50\01:33:54.89
In the divine drama of destiny
in the providence of God,
01:33:54.92\01:34:00.15
you too have
been touched by grace.
01:34:00.18\01:34:02.87
His grace has pardoned you.
01:34:02.90\01:34:04.73
His grace has
freed you from guilt.
01:34:04.76\01:34:07.27
His grace has redeemed you.
His grace has empowered you.
01:34:07.30\01:34:11.23
His grace has led you to
be a son or daughter of God.
01:34:11.26\01:34:16.59
His grace has guided you
into the advent movement,
01:34:16.62\01:34:20.32
a divine
movement God has raised up
01:34:20.35\01:34:22.96
in the last days
of earth's history.
01:34:22.99\01:34:24.71
You are here
today because of grace.
01:34:24.74\01:34:28.27
And grace motivates us.
01:34:28.30\01:34:30.12
Great grace compels us.
01:34:30.15\01:34:32.18
We're not primarily
motivated by numbers.
01:34:32.21\01:34:34.23
We're not
motivated by statistics.
01:34:34.26\01:34:35.97
We're not motivated by the
desire to attract attention.
01:34:36.00\01:34:39.04
We're not
motivated by the desire
01:34:39.07\01:34:40.90
for notoriety or publicity.
01:34:40.93\01:34:43.38
We're motivated by one thing.
We are motivated by grace.
01:34:43.41\01:34:47.99
We're motivated by the
love of the one who redeemed us.
01:34:48.02\01:34:51.98
We're motivated by the
love of the Christ that hung
01:34:52.01\01:34:54.40
on Calvary's cross for us.
01:34:54.43\01:34:56.88
We're motivated by a love that
is so powerful, so redeeming,
01:34:56.91\01:35:00.76
so life transformational,
01:35:00.79\01:35:03.25
we could nothing
else but tell the story.
01:35:03.28\01:35:06.01
What has motivated?
01:35:06.04\01:35:07.74
Adventists,
through the centuries
01:35:07.77\01:35:11.06
to lead their
families, to lead their friends,
01:35:11.09\01:35:15.33
to cross oceans, to
traverse desert sands,
01:35:15.36\01:35:20.20
to climb rough mountain passes,
01:35:20.23\01:35:23.31
to fought rivers, to
brave mosquito infested jungles.
01:35:23.34\01:35:28.90
What has motivated
these Adventist pioneers?
01:35:28.93\01:35:34.26
One thing, the love of Christ.
01:35:34.29\01:35:37.51
They were motivated by grace.
01:35:37.54\01:35:40.82
And they could do
nothing else but tell the story
01:35:40.85\01:35:46.01
of a soon coming returning Lord.
01:35:46.04\01:35:49.50
One of the hallmarks of
much of today's Christianity
01:35:49.53\01:35:52.53
is many of us have
lost the fire in our belly.
01:35:52.56\01:35:55.58
We've lost the
burning desire in our hearts.
01:35:55.61\01:35:58.05
We've lost the zeal.
We've lost the vision.
01:35:58.08\01:36:00.03
We've lost the passion.
01:36:00.06\01:36:01.83
But the weakness of
early Adventist pioneers
01:36:01.86\01:36:04.95
is when they come
to Christ and the cross
01:36:04.98\01:36:07.21
and have a vision of that cross
01:36:07.24\01:36:08.80
and when they're
indebted to grace.
01:36:08.83\01:36:11.40
And they sense there's a
story to tell to prepare a world
01:36:11.43\01:36:14.53
for the coming of Christ.
01:36:14.56\01:36:16.09
They often left family, friends,
01:36:16.12\01:36:17.76
braved unusual circumstance
I think of George Riffel.
01:36:17.79\01:36:23.03
George Riffel and
his brother Frederick
01:36:23.06\01:36:26.39
were Germans living
in Russia, Moravians,
01:36:26.42\01:36:29.61
later part of the 19th century.
01:36:29.64\01:36:32.57
George Riffel and his
brother decided to leave Russia,
01:36:32.60\01:36:37.59
move to South
America or North America.
01:36:37.62\01:36:41.99
Frederick came to North America,
01:36:42.02\01:36:43.90
settled in Kansas,
01:36:43.93\01:36:45.57
George came to first Brazil
01:36:45.60\01:36:49.28
and then he
moved into Argentina.
01:36:49.31\01:36:51.22
They were
farmers, planted crops,
01:36:51.25\01:36:54.22
Frederick in
Kansas, George in Argentina.
01:36:54.25\01:36:58.83
But George fell in tough times.
01:36:58.86\01:37:00.71
He had six years of
very difficult farming,
01:37:00.74\01:37:05.67
crop failure,
living among the Germans
01:37:05.70\01:37:08.30
speaking portion of Argentina
01:37:08.33\01:37:10.89
decided to join his
brother in Kansas and he did.
01:37:10.92\01:37:14.22
And there in
1885, these two brothers
01:37:14.25\01:37:18.07
George Riffel and
his brother Frederick
01:37:18.10\01:37:21.01
became Seventh-day Adventists.
01:37:21.04\01:37:24.41
They developed some
of the richest farms
01:37:24.44\01:37:29.78
in the central
portion of Kansas.
01:37:29.81\01:37:33.10
They were
prosperous business people.
01:37:33.13\01:37:36.80
But there was a
stirring in George's soul.
01:37:36.83\01:37:41.43
There was a
moving in George's heart.
01:37:41.46\01:37:44.77
He could not live a
comfortable convenient life
01:37:44.80\01:37:51.30
in Kansas.
01:37:51.33\01:37:52.88
Farms were
prospering, crops were growing.
01:37:52.91\01:37:56.34
But George Riffel
had come to Christ.
01:37:56.37\01:37:59.96
He was indebt and
he thought about that
01:37:59.99\01:38:04.23
German speaking
community in Argentina.
01:38:04.26\01:38:08.23
In late 1800s and
he said to his brother,
01:38:08.26\01:38:12.34
I'm gonna sell out everything
in the farm and I'm gonna go.
01:38:12.37\01:38:16.12
I'm gonna go to Argentina.
01:38:16.15\01:38:18.60
I have to tell the story.
01:38:18.63\01:38:21.04
I've got a passion in my heart.
I've got a fire in my belly.
01:38:21.07\01:38:24.60
George Riffel, this lay
person went to South America.
01:38:24.63\01:38:28.38
At that time we did not have
01:38:28.41\01:38:29.92
one Seventh-day Adventist
church in South America.
01:38:29.95\01:38:34.15
Riffel gets there
begins sharing Christ,
01:38:34.18\01:38:37.53
begins translating
literature there in Argentina
01:38:37.56\01:38:42.92
place called Crespo, Argentina.
01:38:42.95\01:38:46.96
A number of people accept Jesus.
01:38:46.99\01:38:49.35
They accept the
Adventist message.
01:38:49.38\01:38:50.99
They accept the Sabbath.
They become Sabbath keepers.
01:38:51.02\01:38:53.21
They're looking for
the coming of Jesus,
01:38:53.24\01:38:54.28
but there's no
Adventist pastors of course,
01:38:54.31\01:38:56.14
no Adventist churches.
01:38:56.17\01:38:57.49
So George Riffel this lay person
01:38:57.52\01:38:59.81
baptizes 50 of them.
01:38:59.84\01:39:01.97
Writes to the General Conference
01:39:02.00\01:39:03.63
in glowing terms brethren
01:39:03.66\01:39:06.82
I've been down here in Argentina
01:39:06.85\01:39:08.58
working as a lay person.
01:39:08.61\01:39:09.83
I just baptized 50 people, come.
01:39:09.86\01:39:13.23
The General Conference wrote him
01:39:13.26\01:39:14.91
an interesting letter back.
01:39:14.94\01:39:17.15
My dear brother, you
do not have authorization
01:39:17.18\01:39:20.82
to baptize down there.
01:39:20.85\01:39:23.29
Riffel writes them back.
01:39:23.32\01:39:26.27
Oh, I thank God for
consecrated dedicated laymen
01:39:26.30\01:39:29.84
who want to
cooperate with the church.
01:39:29.87\01:39:31.54
Riffel writes them back.
01:39:31.57\01:39:32.95
My dear brethren, thank
you for giving me that counsel
01:39:32.98\01:39:36.77
but please send somebody quick
01:39:36.80\01:39:38.31
because I have
more people to baptize.
01:39:38.34\01:39:41.32
The brethren did it
01:39:41.35\01:39:43.96
and when
Frederick Wheeler rather
01:39:43.99\01:39:47.32
when Frank Westfall
came in 1894 to Argentina,
01:39:47.35\01:39:53.55
he found a whole
group that Riffel and other
01:39:53.58\01:39:56.72
literature evangelists
had gotten ready to baptize.
01:39:56.75\01:40:01.47
The Seventh-day Adventist
church in South America,
01:40:01.50\01:40:07.02
largely started
01:40:07.05\01:40:09.41
because a Seventh-day
Adventist business person
01:40:09.44\01:40:15.46
was willing prompted
by the cross of Christ
01:40:15.49\01:40:22.03
sensing his debt to all humanity
01:40:22.06\01:40:27.03
to share the story of Christ
01:40:27.06\01:40:29.53
and the Adventist
message to go to South America.
01:40:29.56\01:40:33.22
And today we've over
01:40:33.25\01:40:38.29
Seventh-day
Adventists in South America.
01:40:38.32\01:40:41.07
Ten thousand six hundred
churches in South America.
01:40:41.10\01:40:45.59
I just got an
email from the president
01:40:45.62\01:40:48.07
of the South American
Division Erton Kohler,
01:40:48.10\01:40:50.37
and he was talking to me about
comprehensive health evangelism
01:40:50.40\01:40:53.87
and we've just
written a new book
01:40:53.90\01:40:55.37
on health and spirituality.
01:40:55.40\01:40:57.39
And he said, "Pastor
Mark, in our division alone,
01:40:57.42\01:41:00.60
we're gonna pass out
01:41:00.63\01:41:06.49
of this book on
helping Jesus, what do you say?
01:41:06.52\01:41:08.91
Amen.
01:41:08.94\01:41:09.99
The church was
started by lay people.
01:41:10.02\01:41:11.92
I think of China.
01:41:11.95\01:41:13.29
Abraham La Rue, a
shepherd, a woodcutter
01:41:13.32\01:41:18.45
and living in
California comes to Christ.
01:41:18.48\01:41:23.54
He has a burning ambition.
01:41:23.57\01:41:24.91
He's praying one day, The
Lord impressed him go to China.
01:41:24.94\01:41:27.28
He's 65 years old.
01:41:27.31\01:41:29.66
Writes to the
brethren, and the brethren say,
01:41:29.69\01:41:32.36
oh, thank you
for your commitment
01:41:32.39\01:41:34.06
but you are too
old to go to China.
01:41:34.09\01:41:37.69
You're 65 and by the way
we don't having the budget.
01:41:37.72\01:41:41.11
You know what
that lay person does?
01:41:41.14\01:41:43.27
Hitches a ride on a freighter,
goes half way to China,
01:41:43.30\01:41:47.67
goes to Hawaii but then
he works witnesses there.
01:41:47.70\01:41:51.63
He ends up in China ultimately,
01:41:51.66\01:41:54.80
shares the gospel in China
and eventually coming to China
01:41:54.83\01:42:01.58
is J.N. Anderson,
01:42:01.61\01:42:03.17
who finds converts
from Abraham La Rue,
01:42:03.20\01:42:05.91
a lay people.
01:42:05.94\01:42:06.98
If you look at the
countries around the world,
01:42:07.01\01:42:11.69
the Seventh-day Adventist church
01:42:11.72\01:42:15.31
is rooted in a lay movement.
01:42:15.34\01:42:18.24
Scores of our
countries were started
01:42:18.27\01:42:20.90
by consecrated lay people,
01:42:20.93\01:42:23.13
who sensed the
moving of the spirit of God.
01:42:23.16\01:42:28.20
Lay people, motivated by
love, made sacrifices for Christ
01:42:28.23\01:42:32.68
and witness in
the first century.
01:42:32.71\01:42:34.79
Lay people motivated by love
01:42:34.82\01:42:37.20
have made sacrifices throughout
the history of Christianity
01:42:37.23\01:42:40.22
and these same lay people are
motivated by the love of Christ
01:42:40.25\01:42:44.50
are doing some amazing things
01:42:44.53\01:42:46.37
in the last
century of earth's history.
01:42:46.40\01:42:49.11
The work of God will
not flicker like a candle
01:42:49.14\01:42:53.44
and go out in obscurity.
01:42:53.47\01:42:56.00
Listen to the
words of the prophets.
01:42:56.03\01:42:58.71
Listen to the words of Jesus,
01:42:58.74\01:43:00.55
Matthew 24 look
there please at verse 14.
01:43:00.58\01:43:07.78
Jesus completes His
sermon on the last day events.
01:43:07.81\01:43:13.27
Matthew 24:14, this
gospel of the kingdom,
01:43:13.30\01:43:18.67
this what of the kingdom?
01:43:18.70\01:43:20.64
This gospel. What is the gospel?
01:43:20.67\01:43:22.55
It's the good news that
independent of my merit,
01:43:22.58\01:43:26.05
Christ has redeemed
me on Calvary's cross.
01:43:26.08\01:43:28.59
What is the gospel?
01:43:28.62\01:43:30.00
It's the good news
that in Jesus I'm justified.
01:43:30.03\01:43:33.24
What is the gospel?
01:43:33.27\01:43:34.42
It's the good news that
in Christ I'm sanctified.
01:43:34.45\01:43:37.39
The same grace that justifies me
01:43:37.42\01:43:39.93
by His grace, he'll sanctify me.
01:43:39.96\01:43:41.98
What is the gospel?
01:43:42.01\01:43:43.43
It is the message of
scripture that Christ died,
01:43:43.46\01:43:46.84
Christ was
resurrected, Christ is living
01:43:46.87\01:43:49.55
and Christ is coming again.
01:43:49.58\01:43:52.54
"And this gospel of the kingdom
01:43:52.57\01:43:54.38
will be
preached in all the world
01:43:54.41\01:43:56.28
as a witness to all nations,
then the end will come."
01:43:56.31\01:44:00.37
The third-- the
first angel's message,
01:44:00.40\01:44:02.95
Revelation 14 Chapter.
01:44:02.98\01:44:05.13
Notice in these
end time messages
01:44:05.16\01:44:08.71
that there is an end time hope
01:44:08.74\01:44:11.49
and that end time
hope is that men and women
01:44:11.52\01:44:15.79
transformed by God's grace.
01:44:15.82\01:44:18.07
Men and women
empowered by God's grace.
01:44:18.10\01:44:22.12
Methods will
not finish the work,
01:44:22.15\01:44:25.63
television, radio,
literature will be used of God
01:44:25.66\01:44:30.27
but they are not
the prime agencies
01:44:30.30\01:44:32.38
to finish God's work.
01:44:32.41\01:44:33.79
God will use people, lay people,
01:44:33.82\01:44:36.58
pastors, administrators.
01:44:36.61\01:44:38.77
Men and women like you and me
01:44:38.80\01:44:41.13
who have an authentic
experience with Christ,
01:44:41.16\01:44:44.03
who've been
transformed by the grace of God.
01:44:44.06\01:44:46.46
What did the early disciple say
01:44:46.49\01:44:48.40
when they were
told not to preach?
01:44:48.43\01:44:51.85
You remember what Peter said.
01:44:51.88\01:44:53.71
He said, "How can
we not speak the things
01:44:53.74\01:44:58.24
we've seen and heard."
01:44:58.27\01:45:01.90
The world longs for an
authentic representation
01:45:01.93\01:45:08.67
of human life, in
human life of the gospel.
01:45:08.70\01:45:12.36
And the Three Angels' Message,
the first angel's message says,
01:45:12.39\01:45:15.94
"And I saw another angel
flying in the midst of heaven,
01:45:15.97\01:45:19.76
having the ever lasting
gospel to go to every nation,
01:45:19.79\01:45:26.17
kindred, tongue and people."
01:45:26.20\01:45:28.46
The preaching of
the everlasting gospel
01:45:28.49\01:45:31.28
will leap across
geographical boundaries.
01:45:31.31\01:45:34.16
It will penetrate
earth's remotest areas.
01:45:34.19\01:45:37.15
It will reach people of every
language and every culture.
01:45:37.18\01:45:40.16
It'll impact the entire world.
01:45:40.19\01:45:42.15
The foundations of hell
will tremble, for Jesus said,
01:45:42.18\01:45:46.84
I will built my church
01:45:46.87\01:45:48.95
and the gates of hell
will not prevail against it.
01:45:48.98\01:45:52.77
Amen.
01:45:52.80\01:45:54.26
Grace is greater than sin.
01:45:54.29\01:45:57.39
Love is greater than hate.
01:45:57.42\01:46:00.18
Light will dispel the darkness.
01:46:00.21\01:46:03.15
And Revelation 18
says, in verse 1, John says,
01:46:03.18\01:46:09.67
"I saw the earth lightened
with the glory of God."
01:46:09.70\01:46:14.01
The glory of His love.
The glory of His character.
01:46:14.04\01:46:16.26
I love the way
Ellen White puts it.
01:46:16.29\01:46:18.13
Listen to these words,
Great Controversy, page 670,
01:46:18.16\01:46:22.18
"Servants of God,
with their faces lighted up
01:46:22.21\01:46:25.55
and shining with
holy consecration."
01:46:25.58\01:46:27.84
What are their
faces lighted up with?
01:46:27.87\01:46:29.56
The grace of God.
01:46:29.59\01:46:31.06
What are their faces shinning
with the holy consecration
01:46:31.09\01:46:33.75
about the passion.
01:46:33.78\01:46:35.74
The fact that they are
indebt to share the cross.
01:46:35.77\01:46:38.70
"Servants of God,
with their faces lighted up
01:46:38.73\01:46:41.13
and shining with
holy consecration,
01:46:41.16\01:46:42.98
will hasten from place to place
01:46:43.01\01:46:44.78
to proclaim the
message from heaven.
01:46:44.81\01:46:46.52
By thousands of
voices, all over the earth,
01:46:46.55\01:46:49.12
the warning will be given.
01:46:49.15\01:46:51.12
Miracles will be wrought,
the sick will be healed,
01:46:51.15\01:46:53.10
and signs and wonders
will follow the believers."
01:46:53.13\01:46:55.23
What we are going to
experience in end time
01:46:55.26\01:46:58.00
is absolutely magnificent.
01:46:58.03\01:46:59.41
Yes, persecution has come.
01:46:59.44\01:47:01.13
Yes, there'll be a time
when church and state unite.
01:47:01.16\01:47:03.91
Yes, there will
be economic boycott
01:47:03.94\01:47:05.92
but my brother, my
sister, look beyond that
01:47:05.95\01:47:09.29
to the glory of men and
women transformed by the cross.
01:47:09.32\01:47:14.04
Paul says, "God forbid
that I should glory in anything,
01:47:14.07\01:47:17.17
save the cross of Christ."
01:47:17.20\01:47:18.86
Men and women transformed
by grace, filled by the spirit,
01:47:18.89\01:47:22.70
passionate about witness
01:47:22.73\01:47:24.31
who go out to the
ends of the earth.
01:47:24.34\01:47:25.96
Listen to this statement,
01:47:25.99\01:47:27.66
Review and
Herald, July 23, 1895,
01:47:27.69\01:47:30.56
"Many will be seen
hurrying hither and thither,
01:47:30.59\01:47:34.24
constrained by the Spirit of God
01:47:34.27\01:47:36.66
to bring the light to others.
01:47:36.69\01:47:38.36
The truth, the word of God,
is as a fire in their bones,
01:47:38.39\01:47:41.98
filling them
with a burning desire
01:47:42.01\01:47:45.68
to enlighten those in darkness."
01:47:45.71\01:47:48.56
Look at this one.
01:47:48.59\01:47:49.88
Testimonies,
volume 9, page 28-29,
01:47:49.91\01:47:52.82
"I saw jets of light shining
from cities and villages,
01:47:52.85\01:47:56.80
and from the high places
01:47:56.83\01:47:58.33
and the low places of the earth.
01:47:58.36\01:48:00.23
God's Word was
obeyed, and as a result
01:48:00.26\01:48:03.29
there were memorials for
Him in every city and village.
01:48:03.32\01:48:06.60
His truth was proclaimed
throughout the earth."
01:48:06.63\01:48:09.22
Memorials in
every city and village.
01:48:09.25\01:48:12.51
IskolokoyCafe God's
word true, what do you say?
01:48:12.54\01:48:14.98
Amen. Is God's word true?
01:48:15.01\01:48:17.17
Is God gonna do what He said?
01:48:17.20\01:48:19.42
Is He gonna do it through you?
01:48:19.45\01:48:20.85
Amen.
01:48:20.88\01:48:24.85
Is your one goal to
be broken at the cross?
01:48:24.88\01:48:31.40
Amen.
01:48:31.43\01:48:36.36
Is your one goal to
bring His name glory?
01:48:36.39\01:48:43.18
Do you have some
self centeredness
01:48:43.21\01:48:46.67
still in the heart?
01:48:46.70\01:48:49.10
Some pride still in the heart.
01:48:49.13\01:48:52.08
You have a theological pride
01:48:52.11\01:48:55.23
because you know the
word and others don't.
01:48:55.26\01:48:59.49
You have an institutional pride.
01:48:59.52\01:49:05.47
Because your
ministry is doing so good.
01:49:05.50\01:49:09.87
You have a professional pride
because of academic degrees.
01:49:09.90\01:49:15.31
You have a pride
because you're not proud.
01:49:15.34\01:49:23.09
When Jesus has a people
01:49:23.12\01:49:27.08
that are more interested
in His glory than their glory,
01:49:27.11\01:49:35.08
when Jesus has a people
who are broken at the cross
01:49:35.11\01:49:41.31
and all they
want is what He wants.
01:49:41.34\01:49:46.28
All they care about
is what He cares about.
01:49:46.31\01:49:51.78
All they want is to
bring glory to His name
01:49:51.81\01:49:56.17
and not theirs.
01:49:56.20\01:49:58.80
When Jesus has a people
who are so charmed by grace,
01:49:58.83\01:50:05.50
so filled with love, so
transformed at the cross,
01:50:05.53\01:50:12.57
they will be safe for him
01:50:12.60\01:50:15.66
to pour out His Holy Spirit upon
01:50:15.69\01:50:19.79
to finish His work on earth.
01:50:19.82\01:50:23.16
This is the destiny to
which you have been called.
01:50:23.19\01:50:29.01
This is heaven's
appeal to your heart.
01:50:29.04\01:50:33.07
This is Christ
appeal to your soul.
01:50:33.10\01:50:37.87
Will you accept heaven's appeal?
01:50:37.90\01:50:41.63
As a debtor to grace,
01:50:41.66\01:50:44.74
will you fall on your knees
01:50:44.77\01:50:49.94
and say Jesus I'm
a debtor to grace.
01:50:49.97\01:50:54.23
You paid such an
infinite price for me.
01:50:54.26\01:50:58.33
There's a passion in my heart.
01:50:58.36\01:51:00.79
I've seen a vision of Christ,
01:51:00.82\01:51:03.59
a Christ who would
rather go into the grave
01:51:03.62\01:51:07.28
and never come out
then for me to be lost.
01:51:07.31\01:51:10.38
A Christ that would rather
be condemned for all eternity
01:51:10.41\01:51:15.06
if that was necessary
for me to be in heaven.
01:51:15.09\01:51:18.14
A Christ with a boundless
unfathomable, undying love,
01:51:18.17\01:51:22.00
I've seen that price.
01:51:22.03\01:51:25.30
I have to tell the story.
01:51:25.33\01:51:28.43
Are the words of your
heart, the words that--
01:51:28.46\01:51:32.15
I will sing of my Redeemer
and His wondrous love to me.
01:51:32.18\01:51:37.03
On the cruel cross he suffered.
01:51:37.06\01:51:39.68
From the curse, He set me free.
01:51:39.71\01:51:42.65
Sing-- oh, sing of my Redeemer
01:51:42.68\01:51:45.16
with His blood He purchased me.
01:51:45.19\01:51:48.07
On the cross He
sealed my pardon.
01:51:48.10\01:51:50.20
Paid the debt and set me
free. Let's stand and sing it.
01:51:50.23\01:51:54.84
I will sing of my redeemer
and his wondrous love to me.
01:51:54.87\01:51:59.37
Make this song your commitment.
01:51:59.40\01:52:01.53
Let Jesus touch your heart
with the words of the song.
01:52:01.56\01:52:05.31
Their pride be crushed,
may arrogance be demolished.
01:52:05.34\01:52:10.65
May self be set aside,
01:52:10.68\01:52:13.38
and may Jesus and
Jesus only be exalted.
01:52:13.41\01:52:16.43
I will sing of my redeemer.
Let's sing it together.
01:52:16.46\01:52:18.86
I will sing of my Redeemer
01:52:31.04\01:52:37.05
And His wondrous love to me
01:52:37.08\01:52:43.05
On the cruel cross He suffered
01:52:43.08\01:52:49.42
From the curse to set me free
01:52:49.45\01:52:55.56
Sing, oh, sing of my Redeemer
01:52:55.59\01:53:02.23
With His blood He purchased me
01:53:02.26\01:53:08.80
On the cross He sealed my pardon
01:53:08.83\01:53:15.64
Paid the debt, and made me free
01:53:15.67\01:53:23.63
I will tell the wondrous story
01:53:23.66\01:53:30.76
How my lost estate to save
01:53:30.79\01:53:37.20
In His boundless love and mercy
01:53:37.23\01:53:43.86
He the ransom freely gave
01:53:43.89\01:53:50.48
Sing, oh, sing of my Redeemer
01:53:50.51\01:53:57.52
With His blood He purchased me
01:53:57.55\01:54:04.29
On the cross He
sealed my pardon,
01:54:04.32\01:54:11.35
Paid the debt And made me free.
01:54:11.38\01:54:18.03
Now we're gonna pray.
01:54:18.06\01:54:20.64
But before we
pray, the spirit of God
01:54:20.67\01:54:23.91
is speaking to
somebody here today.
01:54:23.94\01:54:26.64
What is righteousness by faith?
01:54:26.67\01:54:32.08
It is the glory of God
01:54:32.11\01:54:35.01
in laying man
and woman in the dust
01:54:35.04\01:54:39.06
and doing for us
01:54:39.09\01:54:41.44
what we cannot do for ourselves.
01:54:41.47\01:54:45.09
Christ loved you so much
01:54:45.12\01:54:48.53
that heaven wouldn't
be heaven without you.
01:54:48.56\01:54:51.59
He did not remain in that tomb.
01:54:51.62\01:54:54.24
He's resurrected from the dead.
01:54:54.27\01:54:56.36
He's alive, He's coming again
01:54:56.39\01:55:01.21
and He's longing for His church
01:55:01.24\01:55:04.51
to want to be in heaven
as much as He wants us there.
01:55:04.54\01:55:09.85
He's longing for His
church, transformed by grace,
01:55:09.88\01:55:15.67
empowered by
love, indebted to grace
01:55:15.70\01:55:23.08
to share His
gospel with the world.
01:55:23.11\01:55:24.54
Is there somebody here today?
01:55:24.57\01:55:26.80
This is not a general
appeal, it's specific.
01:55:26.83\01:55:30.29
Somebody here today
01:55:30.32\01:55:32.97
that you sense this meeting
is gonna change your life,
01:55:33.00\01:55:36.61
that you want to say Jesus,
01:55:36.64\01:55:38.31
there's something
I've got to surrender,
01:55:38.34\01:55:39.74
something I've got to give up.
01:55:39.77\01:55:41.53
Lord, I want
nothing between you and me.
01:55:41.56\01:55:44.82
Lord, if you love me that much,
01:55:44.85\01:55:47.19
Lord, I want to tell the story
01:55:47.22\01:55:49.86
somebody that senses
the call of God to service.
01:55:49.89\01:55:57.04
Somebody that's
sitting in the church
01:55:57.07\01:55:59.50
but you sense the
call of God to witness.
01:55:59.53\01:56:01.73
And you just want to
raise your hand and say,
01:56:01.76\01:56:03.72
I'm going out of these doors,
01:56:03.75\01:56:05.39
sensing Christ
love in a new way.
01:56:05.42\01:56:07.54
Sensing Christ grace
and I cannot be silent,
01:56:07.57\01:56:10.67
I want to make a change
in my life to tell the story.
01:56:10.70\01:56:13.04
Can I see your hand?
01:56:13.07\01:56:14.47
God bless you, God bless you.
01:56:14.50\01:56:16.14
God bless you.
01:56:16.17\01:56:18.07
Somebody else the
second appeal before I pray.
01:56:18.10\01:56:23.14
You can only know that
there is no self-centeredness
01:56:23.17\01:56:28.62
and pride in your heart.
01:56:28.65\01:56:31.32
If you can honestly rejoice
when somebody else's ministry
01:56:31.35\01:56:36.65
is more successful than yours.
01:56:36.68\01:56:40.53
Do you rejoice at
the successes of others?
01:56:40.56\01:56:44.59
Do you sense that we're a
team as an Adventist family?
01:56:44.62\01:56:52.17
Would you like to say Jesus?
01:56:52.20\01:56:54.33
See, Jesus wants to do more
through you as an individual,
01:56:54.36\01:56:57.59
He wants to do more through
you as a business person.
01:56:57.62\01:57:00.58
He wants to do more
through your ministry.
01:57:00.61\01:57:03.09
We have not dreamed yet
01:57:03.12\01:57:05.87
what God is gonna do
through ASI miniseries.
01:57:05.90\01:57:09.09
We haven't dreamed yet.
01:57:09.12\01:57:10.70
What's God gonna
do through pastors?
01:57:10.73\01:57:12.57
What's God gonna
do through lay people?
01:57:12.60\01:57:14.18
What's God gonna do through
01:57:14.21\01:57:16.53
initiatives of the
General Conference?
01:57:16.56\01:57:17.88
We haven't dreamed of that yet.
01:57:17.91\01:57:19.45
The earth will be
lighted with the glory of God.
01:57:19.48\01:57:22.70
Memorials for God in
every village, in every town.
01:57:22.73\01:57:30.15
Would you like to say Jesus,
01:57:30.18\01:57:32.04
take away any
tinge of pride in me.
01:57:32.07\01:57:37.70
May the glory of Your name
01:57:37.73\01:57:40.21
and Your name alone be revealed.
01:57:40.24\01:57:42.73
If you-- if that's
Spirit of God has put his finger
01:57:42.76\01:57:44.88
on something in your
life, you want to say God,
01:57:44.91\01:57:47.54
help me be broken at the cross,
01:57:47.57\01:57:49.82
so you can do
something in my heart,
01:57:49.85\01:57:51.64
would you just raise your hand.
01:57:51.67\01:57:53.97
Oh, my Father, my Father,
we've heard the voice of God.
01:57:54.00\01:58:01.44
We've heard the
appeal of the cross.
01:58:01.47\01:58:04.63
We've heard the call of grace.
01:58:04.66\01:58:08.61
May we go out of here
deep within our hearts
01:58:08.64\01:58:11.95
crying with Paul.
01:58:11.98\01:58:13.79
God forbid that I should glory
01:58:13.82\01:58:18.28
in anything except
the cross of Christ.
01:58:18.31\01:58:20.73
For the cross
comes before Pentecost
01:58:20.76\01:58:23.22
and Calvary comes before
the outpouring of Holy Spirit.
01:58:23.25\01:58:27.19
Oh, God, work in us.
01:58:27.22\01:58:29.68
And work in these
ministries and use us in ways
01:58:29.71\01:58:34.09
beyond for we could imagine
01:58:34.12\01:58:35.90
for the glory of
the name of Jesus.
01:58:35.93\01:58:38.52
Amen.
01:58:38.55\01:58:40.34
Let's sing one more verse.
01:58:40.37\01:58:42.10
And then God
bless you as you go.
01:58:42.13\01:58:43.85
Sing one more verse.
01:58:43.88\01:58:45.23
I will sing of my Redeemer
01:58:49.76\01:58:55.95
And His heav'nly love to me
01:58:55.98\01:59:01.90
He from death to
life Hath brought me
01:59:01.93\01:59:08.45
Son of God with Him to be
01:59:08.48\01:59:15.04
Sing, oh, sing of my Redeemer
01:59:15.07\01:59:21.82
With His blood He purchased me
01:59:21.85\01:59:28.57
On the cross He sealed my pardon
01:59:28.60\01:59:35.57
Paid the debt, and made me free
01:59:35.60\01:59:43.12
Oh, Father, send
us from this place,
01:59:43.15\01:59:45.56
filled with Your grace,
01:59:45.59\01:59:47.71
compel to tell
the story of a dying,
01:59:47.74\01:59:52.44
living, interceding,
01:59:52.47\01:59:54.91
coming Lord in
the name of Jesus.
01:59:54.94\01:59:57.92
Amen.
01:59:57.95\01:59:59.31