It is a marvelous afternoon
to be in Spokane, Washington.
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And one of the reasons
that I love Spokane so much
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is because it's almost Canada,
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where you can almost
see Canada from Spokane,
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and the look and
feel of this town
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reminds me of home.
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We've come to an hour
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where we're going to talk
about the most important thing
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that you can do as a believer.
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I mean apart from
giving your heart to Christ,
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repenting, confessing
your sins, apart from that,
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the most important
thing that you can do
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is share your faith in
Jesus Christ with someone
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who has not yet discovered
what He can do for them.
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That's the most
important thing we can do.
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I'm convinced that God gives
us that task for our own good.
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He could send angel bands
like He did to the shepherds
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to proclaim the
gospel of Jesus Christ,
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but what God in His
infinite wisdom has chosen to do
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is to have sinful human lips
tell the story of redemption.
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So that it gets handed
on from sinner to sinner
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and we all find our way home,
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and that does
some things for us.
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I mean, it
accomplishes the work of God,
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but it also does
something for us.
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I've noticed something.
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When you're busy
sharing your faith with others,
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your focus comes
back off of yourself
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because you're so engrossed
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in the salvation
of somebody else.
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God plants the
mind of Christ in you
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so that you're no
longer self-absorbed.
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It gets self out of the way
so that God can work with you
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and your engage
bringing someone else to Christ,
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and the end result of that
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is that we're all
happier Christians.
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It brings joy.
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I don't know if you've noticed,
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but there is less and less joy
in this world that we live in.
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I make a habit of
walking the city streets
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of every city that I go to.
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I go early in the morning
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and I just look at
the faces of people
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on the sidewalk and
I've got to tell you,
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there is not a lot of
joy left in this world.
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And if I'm really
honest as a gospel preacher,
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sometimes I stand in the pulpit
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and I look at the
faces in the congregation.
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And sometimes
there's not a lot of joy
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in some congregations.
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Some of the saints look like
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they were
baptized in lemon juice.
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But that's because
we're not doing the one thing
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that God asked us to do,
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and there is only thing
that God asked us to do.
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Jesus said in Luke
11:28, "Yea, blessed are they
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that hear the word
of God and keep it."
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If you do the thing
that God asked you to do,
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blessed are you.
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The original word is
"makarios," it's happy.
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That's how you bring joy back
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because you're no longer
engaged with your own problems
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and your own self.
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You're engaged in
the kingdom of God,
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and how can you not be happy
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when you're engaged
with the kingdom of God.
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This afternoon you're going
to hear stories from people
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who have found that joy.
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And at this moment,
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you're going to
meet a cardiologist,
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his name is Brian
Schwartz, he works at Kettering
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and he works on
actual physical hearts,
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but he's found the joy
of working on the heart
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that's longing
for Christ as well.
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Thank you very much,
Shawn. I appreciate that.
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And I'm a cardiologist,
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the heart doctor who
works out of Kettering Hospital
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in Dayton, Ohio area.
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And I'm just going
to share a little bit
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about my experience
with sharing with patients.
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Up until just
about ten years ago,
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I as a
specialist in the cardiology
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practiced my trade
and it was really a job.
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I went to work,
I saw my patients,
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I did that very well,
but it was just simply a job.
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About ten years ago,
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I became challenged
after becoming a member of ASI
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and also joining an
organization called AMEN,
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the Adventist
Medical Evangelism Network
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to think
differently about my practice,
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and to think about how I
could turn that into a ministry.
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And I was challenged
early on over ten years ago
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by Pastor Mark Finley to
begin praying with my patients.
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And since then I've learned
to also share Bible verses.
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We started
praying with our staff
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and also even started the Bible
study group with our patients
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but the thing I
want to focus on today
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is just the simple power
of praying with patients.
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That revolutionized my practice.
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It invigorated my
life, it gave me a new energy
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and it just help me realize
that I wasn't just doing a job,
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I was doing a ministry.
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And so, I've had the
opportunity as a physician
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to interact with people
from all classes of life.
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Fortune 500 CEOs that fly
in their own private jets,
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I would never
have the opportunity
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to have contact
with such people.
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The chief of
the fire department,
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and so I got in the habit.
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Chief of the fire department
for one of our communities
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needed a heart
valve replacement.
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And I got him to see the surgeon
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and got him through that surgery
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and while we
were working come up,
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I've grown accustomed to
just saying to all my patients
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that by the way,
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one of the things I
offered to do with my patients
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is to have a prayer with them,
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is that something
that you'd appreciate.
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He got tears in his eyes.
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When he actually had a
surgery, I prayed with him again
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and then just
before he went back--
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When I left him, for him to
go back to surgery, he said,
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"Could you just
pray one more time?"
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He really appreciated that.
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Later I found out
he wasn't a believer,
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he didn't attend church,
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he may have been
raised a Christian
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but that hadn't
become important to him,
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but it was planting seeds.
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Later on, I also
prayed with a guy named Billy.
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You can picture a guy like this.
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He is wearing a mullhawk,
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he is in his
60s, little bit rough.
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He probably has no friends.
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He is just a really rough guy
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who sits at home
playing computer games all day
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and was very antisocial.
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Billy, one of the
things I offered to do
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with all my
patients is to have a prayer,
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would that be okay.
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He got tears in his eyes.
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Billy considers
himself an atheist.
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You know, right
away not much happened.
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But two years down the road,
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when the fire department
chief was in for just a visit
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to check on his valve.
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At the end of the
conversation he is like,
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"Doc, you're a spiritual
guy, can you just tell me
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why do you believe
the Bible is true?"
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And all of a sudden that turned
into a 45 minute conversation
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until my nurse had
to knock on the door
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and say, "Oh, there's
other patients waiting."
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Billy, who I met, I
saw him once at Walmart
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and the temptation is,
"Oh, no, there is Billy,
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I'm going to go the other way."
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But because my practice
has turned into a ministry,
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I actually went
up to him and said,
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"Hey, Billy, how are you doing?
It's good to see you here."
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And his wife later
came and thanked me
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for just being nice to
Billy 'cause nobody is.
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And a year or two down the road,
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Billy is like
"Doc, how can somebody
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as smart as you believe
that God created all this.
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Do you really believe that?"
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And there was another
30 minute conversation
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about creation with the guy
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who considers
himself to be an atheist.
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I have, I would
challenge all of you now
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to think of
yourselves as missionaries,
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you're either in
mission field or a missionary.
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And I think
differently about what I do now.
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You know I'm not
big in the sports
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but I can imagine
from being in Ohio
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if I went to
Cincinnati Reds game,
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I would go back
to work the next day
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and talk about, hey,
what did you do this weekend?
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Well, I went to a game
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and that would be no
big deal to talk about that.
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I've gotten in the habit
now of talking in the cath lab
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to the staff that's there
about what I've been doing
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and I'll do at
this weekend after ASI.
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Been to the General Conference,
I came back and shared
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what I heard at
the General Conference.
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In 1888 Conference I came
back and shared just how great
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the righteousness of Christ was.
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And there's always somebody
in my cath lab who will say,
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"Hey doc, what did
you do this weekend?"
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And that's just an
opening to say, hey,
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I went to this conference.
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It was really cool.
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And they go really,
"what did you learn?"
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And I'll just start sharing it.
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Some people are
starting to roll their eyes,
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but they're
listening to this conversation,
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and so, it's
important to do that.
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One more story.
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I train cardiology fellows that
come from all over the world.
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One of my fellows is a--
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He is from
Pakistan, he is Muslim.
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He has been watching
me this whole last year
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just praying with patients,
to ministering to their needs,
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and just watching my life,
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and he's been asking
questions here and there.
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One of the things we do is have
a Bible study with patients.
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And one time he saw us
carrying the video projector
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and a computer and he says,
"Oh, I'll carry that for you.
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Where are you going?"
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I said, "Oh,
we're going downstairs,
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we have a Bible study.
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And he came, helped
set up the equipment.
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I said, "Well,
you're welcome to stay."
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I didn't think he'd be
the least bit interested,
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but he stayed.
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He stayed through a series
of eight of these Bible studies
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that we've been doing
just with the video projector,
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not hard to do, but he stayed.
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For the last, about
12 weeks before he left,
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he came to each of
these Bible studies
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and we would talk.
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"Do you believe in Jesus?"
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Well, yeah, he believed he was
one of the five great prophets.
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I said, "Do you
believe the Bible?"
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He said, "Well, yeah,
the Prophet Muhammad said
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the Bible was a good book."
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And I said,
"Well, but the Bible says
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that Jesus is the Son of God."
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And we could confront
these things back and forth.
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In the very last Bible
study that we were at together
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before he is moving
on to another hospital,
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he came up to me and said,
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"Just thank you for
inviting me to these studies."
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I didn't really invite him,
he practically invited himself.
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He said, "You know,
I just want you to know
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that I believe that
Jesus is coming again soon,
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and when He comes, I
want to be ready to meet Him.
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There is nothing
like that to really see
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how you can touch and transform
somebody that you believe in.
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One last story.
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There is a patient I
didn't do anything with.
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I just offered to have a prayer.
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Here name is Evangeline.
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After I prayed
with her, I said, look,
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you need to make
some lifestyle changes
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and I referred her
to the CHIP program
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that my church does and
just encouraged her to go.
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And because I prayed with her,
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because I took
those few extra moments
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just to minister to her needs,
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she was willing
to go to the church
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to sign up for the CHIP program.
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She just
stopped me in the church
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about four or five
weeks ago and just said,
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"Dr. Schwartz, I
just want to know
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what weekend you're
actually gonna be in church
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this summer."
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Been there twice
this whole summer.
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We've been
traveling to so many things.
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And I said,
"Well, Evangeline, why?"
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And she said,
"Well, I'm gonna baptized."
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And next weekend she
is gonna be baptized.
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And it's just a
powerful experience
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to see nothing that hard,
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just taking a few minutes
to live a spiritual life,
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and people will really
come out of the woodwork
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to ask you, "Why you
believe what you believe,"
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and it changes lives.
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Thank you.
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Our next testimony really
doesn't need much introduction.
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She is a former
first lady of ASI
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and the author of five books.
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Madlyn Hamblin is going to
share with you this afternoon
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how God is using
their personal influence
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to lead people to Jesus
Christ through Bible studies
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and through business.
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So, Madlyn, share what
Jesus is doing through you?
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Hey, everyone, I
bring you greetings
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from my home church
in Jackson, Michigan,
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and we have the
oldest continuous
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Seventh-day Adventist
congregation in the world.
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It was established in
1849. And you know what?
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We are so blessed because
our pastor is a GYC president,
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Moise Ratsara.
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My story is pretty simple.
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It's not anything great,
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just things that
anyone of you could do.
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Back in 1979,
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my husband and I attended
our first ASI Convention,
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and you know, it changed
the direction of our lives.
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We began to make
witnessing a priority.
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For many years I
entertained people in my home
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with veggie meal, and we
would have a Bible study.
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And I also did health
events for our church.
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During this
time, my husband Ray,
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held Daniel and
Revelation seminars
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and more than 25
people were baptized.
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When we were
younger, our witness consisted
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mainly of
individual things that we did,
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and we made it a point to have
training as much as we could.
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And we noticed
that some of the people
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that were baptized from seminars
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did not stay long
term in the church.
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Subsequently we
moved and changed churches.
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And now I was living
in a strange community
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and I didn't know my neighbors.
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I felt like God was calling me
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to reach my
neighborhood for Christ,
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but the neighbors were
very intimidating to me.
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So at first, I just
shared my homemade bread
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and vegetables from the garden.
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And as our friendships grew,
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we became more aware
of the needs of our--
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the families in
our neighborhoods.
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And when our
church asked members
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to start holding
small groups in their home,
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we wanted to support this idea
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but we felt we were
really too busy to do that.
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So to take, make
a long story short,
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we took the plunge
and with trepidation
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we invited four
neighborhood families
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to our home for our weekly
Tuesday evening Bible study.
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And we also included
a newly baptized couple
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from our church,
plus a friend of ours
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whose husband was
not a church member.
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We would have the
study on Tuesday night,
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then we would
share a small snack
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or a drink in conversation,
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and our friends
seem to just love this.
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This group has continued
now for about four years.
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We started out by
showing the Lee Venden videos
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on how to have a
relationship with Jesus.
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Next we picked
the book of the Bible
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and we read
though it verse by verse,
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because this was
really non-threatening
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to people who
were not of our church.
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They were very adamant
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that their
doctrines were what was right.
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And then last winter
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we began showing the
Thunder in the Holy Land DVDs
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with great success.
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Our doctrines are
just beautifully presented
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and we're in the
process of learning patience
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and dependence
on the Holy Spirit
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to lead souls to His church.
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We also host
social events in our home,
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and one neighborhood couple
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has started
bringing their friends
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who now attend our Bible
study on a semi-regular basis.
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Several of our
neighbors have attended church
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for special
events such as concerts
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and cooking schools,
and one couple even attended
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a complete
evangelistic series last year.
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And although we're not studying
with all of our neighbors,
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the thought has come to me
that if we reach one family,
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they in turn will reach
others who will reach others
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and our efforts
are really multiplied
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and to a great
degree, this is Christ method,
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His work was largely personal,
and through that one soul
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sometimes thousands
were brought to Christ.
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We're also learning
that witnessing for Christ
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is not about
numbers, it is a process.
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It's about
diligence and patience
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and reaching those in
our own circle of influence.
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It is steadily and
consistently sharing God's Word
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with those who are
interested and want to listen.
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God is showing us to that
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we really need to
have a holy boldness,
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and when He lays a
name on your heart,
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you really need to make sure
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that you're inviting that person
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to do something with you
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so that he will
learn about Christ.
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And we're not discouraged
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because all of our
Bible study interests
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have not accepted
everything that we teach.
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We only sowed the seed
and pray for God's Holy Spirit
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to nourish and grow,
and bring to harvest.
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Right now we're
working with seven people
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in our Bible study group,
and Ray has a personal study
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with someone
outside of our home,
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and I have a young
lady that I'm studying with.
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You know, in one of
Ellen White's vision,
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she was pointed
down to the last days
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and those are the
days that we're living in.
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And she saw
hundreds and thousands
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visiting families in their
home opening the Word of God.
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And Ray and I want to
be two of those people
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that she saw in that vision
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having a personal
mission to those around us,
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doing what lies
closest in our neighborhood,
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but you know, with
prayer and patience,
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we're just gonna
leave the baptisms to God.
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Thanks you so, Madlyn.
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Thank you, Madlyn,
that was beautiful.
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Our next guest, you may
know from Living Waters,
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Daryl and Mary Jo
Oft from Payson, Arizona.
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Today, you're gonna hear about
00:17:40.29\00:17:41.96
something other
than Living Waters.
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You're gonna hear
about how their business
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is now able to
support multiples ministries,
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and so, they are able
to forward the work of God
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in a number of exciting ways.
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Daryl and Mary Jo,
come out and tell us
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what God is doing through you.
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Happy Sabbath,
and we are so happy
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to be here at ASI today.
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As Shawn said,
most of you know us
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from our Living Waters ministry,
00:18:02.81\00:18:04.81
but today we're
gonna focus on our business
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that we have in Arizona,
00:18:07.68\00:18:09.08
and how that helps
to support our ministry.
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In the year 2000, we
started Diversified Solutions
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which provides
occupational health services
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to a variety of clients
across the state of Arizona.
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In 2004, we decided to
expand to Globe, Arizona.
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And just as we had
opened our office there,
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we had economic downturns
of not of our own doing,
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but we thought that
we're gonna lose our business.
00:18:38.75\00:18:41.35
We spoke with
financial counselors
00:18:41.38\00:18:44.19
and they said, "You
probably will be going bankrupt,
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and we would advise you
00:18:46.99\00:18:48.42
to start moving
in that direction.
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This was the first opportunity
that we really had to learn
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to trust in God
fully with our business.
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In 2005, we had an
unexpected encounter
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where we were asked to go
on a mission trip to Kenya.
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Now we were the most
unlikely missionaries.
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We were just
ordinary business people,
00:19:08.48\00:19:11.15
and the long and the short
is we went on the mission trip
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and before we left, we realized
how important it was to us
00:19:14.68\00:19:19.62
for the first time what it
was really like to experience
00:19:19.65\00:19:23.66
trusting fully in God.
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And so we got on
our knees and we said,
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"God, don't ever let us
go back and be the same."
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And He didn't do that.
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You know, and 2006 was
our first ASI experience.
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That catapulted our ministry
00:19:40.51\00:19:43.95
and we learned the value of ASI.
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We learned how important it was,
00:19:47.15\00:19:49.82
the encouragement
that we had at ASI,
00:19:49.85\00:19:52.25
the love of the people
00:19:52.29\00:19:53.76
and the incredible
networking opportunities
00:19:53.79\00:19:57.06
to see how other
people do think so.
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We're gonna share a
little bit with you right now
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about how we use our business
00:20:01.33\00:20:03.63
to share the good news of Jesus.
00:20:03.67\00:20:06.20
In our offices,
ASI has taught us
00:20:06.23\00:20:09.54
how to use our
business to witness for Christ.
00:20:09.57\00:20:14.34
And we just like
to share a few ways
00:20:14.38\00:20:16.01
that we had done that.
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First of all with our staff,
00:20:17.95\00:20:19.28
there is a marvelous opportunity
00:20:19.31\00:20:20.92
to witness to our staff,
00:20:20.95\00:20:22.88
both in the way
that we handle things
00:20:22.92\00:20:25.02
as well as the way
that we treat them,
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the way that we can be
sensitive to their needs
00:20:28.79\00:20:31.59
and pray with them,
and we have actually found
00:20:31.63\00:20:34.93
changes happening in
the lives of our staff
00:20:34.96\00:20:37.73
as a result of them being
associated in our business.
00:20:37.77\00:20:41.40
With our clients, the people
that they come in for services,
00:20:41.44\00:20:44.77
we often have opportunities
to listen to their stories
00:20:44.81\00:20:47.84
and to share with
them and to pray with them.
00:20:47.88\00:20:50.81
We've seen their
lives changing too.
00:20:50.88\00:20:54.25
One of the big things we
learned from coming to ASI
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is the importance of literature,
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so we have a lot of literature
on both of our offices.
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And it's really fun to watch
00:21:02.32\00:21:04.23
how interested
people are in the literature
00:21:04.26\00:21:07.73
and how often they
pick it up and read it.
00:21:07.76\00:21:10.23
And we've found that--
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Quite a few people
will come back to our office
00:21:11.77\00:21:14.84
just to get the next
signs of the Times Magazine,
00:21:14.87\00:21:18.21
even though they didn't need
to come in for anything else.
00:21:18.24\00:21:22.58
Our copy machine
00:21:22.61\00:21:23.95
is quite an
interesting witnessing story.
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Our supplier, our
technician for our copy machine
00:21:27.12\00:21:30.45
told us one day
00:21:30.49\00:21:31.82
that we don't seem to
ever be calling him for service
00:21:31.85\00:21:35.02
compared to all
his other clients,
00:21:35.06\00:21:37.03
and he just wonders
what's so different about us.
00:21:37.09\00:21:40.26
And that's another
chance to give the glory to God.
00:21:40.30\00:21:44.13
In our office we have actually
partnered with our local church
00:21:44.20\00:21:47.84
to have a radio
station in the studio
00:21:47.87\00:21:50.64
located right in our office.
00:21:50.67\00:21:53.44
As well as the
equipment for Good News TV
00:21:53.51\00:21:56.28
is now out of
our office as well,
00:21:56.31\00:21:58.38
where they have 24/7 programming
00:21:58.41\00:22:01.78
for the community around us.
00:22:01.82\00:22:04.85
We really enjoyed also
being able to participate in
00:22:04.89\00:22:08.79
and partner with the
Bridges to Health program
00:22:08.82\00:22:12.56
that was done in
San Francisco last year,
00:22:12.59\00:22:14.76
the medical mission events
00:22:14.83\00:22:16.56
as well as the Arizona
Sunshine event in Arizona
00:22:16.63\00:22:20.90
just this past June.
00:22:20.94\00:22:25.01
Our business is also
something that has allowed us
00:22:25.04\00:22:27.88
to have the resources
00:22:27.91\00:22:30.15
that we need to be
able to do our ministry
00:22:30.21\00:22:32.61
with Living Waters as well.
00:22:32.65\00:22:36.08
Diversified Solutions,
00:22:36.12\00:22:39.35
our business for His purpose.
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Our business
still has challenges
00:22:43.69\00:22:45.49
like all of yours if
you're business people.
00:22:45.53\00:22:47.86
We've had business challenges,
we've had health challenges,
00:22:47.86\00:22:52.10
we have growth challenges,
we have time challenges,
00:22:52.13\00:22:55.17
it's not without the challenges
00:22:55.20\00:22:57.04
but we have learned
that we can trust God
00:22:57.07\00:23:00.08
who has put us in business.
00:23:00.11\00:23:02.78
In 2005 when we made our
commitment to go to Africa
00:23:02.81\00:23:07.52
even though our
business was still growing
00:23:07.55\00:23:09.68
and we were struggling,
00:23:09.72\00:23:11.49
God stood behind our commitment.
00:23:11.52\00:23:15.69
And our revenue
started increasing
00:23:15.72\00:23:18.73
by 35 percent per year
for the next ten years.
00:23:18.76\00:23:23.33
Two years ago it plateaued out,
00:23:23.37\00:23:25.10
and the reason it plateaued out
00:23:25.13\00:23:27.00
is because we
started talking to God
00:23:27.04\00:23:29.07
and we realized we could not
continue to grow our business
00:23:29.10\00:23:32.97
and at the same time
continue to grow our ministries
00:23:33.01\00:23:36.54
that we wanted to.
00:23:36.58\00:23:37.95
So now we're
asking God to show us
00:23:37.98\00:23:40.58
how to decrease our
responsibilities with business,
00:23:40.62\00:23:44.79
so that we can increase our
opportunities with ministry.
00:23:44.82\00:23:49.39
You know, you
often hear the phrase
00:23:49.42\00:23:50.99
that you can't run a
ministry like a business,
00:23:51.03\00:23:54.13
that may be debatable,
but what we have found
00:23:54.20\00:23:57.00
is that we need to run
our business like a ministry.
00:23:57.03\00:24:01.14
Our business is a
faith based ministry,
00:24:01.17\00:24:06.01
and we have
thanked God over and over
00:24:06.04\00:24:08.81
for the
opportunities that He gives us
00:24:08.84\00:24:11.21
to exercise that
faith by trusting Him.
00:24:11.25\00:24:14.52
If you want to know
any more about our ministry
00:24:14.55\00:24:17.19
in Kenya, Living Waters,
00:24:17.22\00:24:19.12
or about how we share
Christ in the marketplace
00:24:19.15\00:24:21.49
in our business,
00:24:21.52\00:24:22.86
please stop by our booth
this evening, space number 432.
00:24:22.89\00:24:27.40
Thank you.
00:24:27.40\00:24:28.73
A mighty fortress is our God
00:26:20.98\00:26:25.65
A bulwark never failing
00:26:25.68\00:26:30.52
Our helper He, amid the flood
00:26:30.59\00:26:35.36
Of mortal ills prevailing
00:26:35.39\00:26:41.30
For still our ancient foe
00:26:41.33\00:26:45.27
Doth seek to work us woe
00:26:45.30\00:26:49.34
His craft and power are great
00:26:49.37\00:26:53.58
And, armed with cruel hate
00:26:53.64\00:26:57.88
On earth is not his equal
00:26:57.91\00:27:04.85
Did we in our
own strength confide
00:27:04.89\00:27:10.09
Our striving would be losing
00:27:10.16\00:27:15.73
Were not the
right Man on our side
00:27:15.76\00:27:21.40
The Man of God's own choosing
00:27:21.44\00:27:27.18
Dost ask who that may be?
00:27:27.21\00:27:31.08
Christ Jesus, it is He
00:27:31.11\00:27:35.15
Lord Sabaoth, His Name
00:27:35.18\00:27:39.32
From age to age the same
00:27:39.35\00:27:43.76
And He must win the battle
00:27:43.83\00:27:51.17
And though this
world, with devils filled
00:27:51.20\00:27:57.97
Should threaten to undo us
00:27:58.01\00:28:03.88
We will not fear,
for God hath willed
00:28:03.91\00:28:09.72
His truth to triumph through us
00:28:09.75\00:28:15.46
The Prince of Darkness grim
00:28:15.49\00:28:20.06
We tremble not for him
00:28:20.13\00:28:24.57
His rage we can endure
00:28:24.60\00:28:29.17
For lo, his doom is sure
00:28:29.20\00:28:34.38
One little word shall fell him
00:28:34.41\00:28:41.28
That word
00:29:00.67\00:29:02.87
Above all earthly powers
00:29:02.90\00:29:10.18
No thanks to them
00:29:10.21\00:29:13.95
Abideth
00:29:13.98\00:29:19.22
The Spirit
00:29:19.25\00:29:22.26
And the gifts are ours
00:29:22.29\00:29:28.40
Through Him
00:29:28.43\00:29:30.50
Who with us sideth
00:29:30.57\00:29:37.61
Let goods and kindred go
00:29:37.64\00:29:42.28
This mortal life also
00:29:42.31\00:29:47.02
The body they may kill
00:29:47.05\00:29:52.22
God's truth abideth still
00:29:52.25\00:29:57.93
His kingdom
00:29:57.96\00:30:00.80
Is forever
00:30:00.83\00:30:06.63
Forever.
00:30:10.47\00:30:17.85
Amen!
00:30:25.69\00:30:27.52
Marvelous grace
of our loving Lord
00:31:09.73\00:31:15.70
Grace that exceeds
our sin and our guilt!
00:31:15.74\00:31:21.34
Yonder on
Calvary's mount outpoured
00:31:21.38\00:31:26.92
There where the
blood of the Lamb was spilt
00:31:26.98\00:31:32.62
Marvelous grace, God's grace
00:31:32.65\00:31:37.93
Grace that will
pardon and cleanse within
00:31:37.96\00:31:42.93
Marvelous grace, God's grace
00:31:42.96\00:31:48.00
Grace that is
greater than all our sin!
00:31:48.04\00:31:54.98
Sin and despair,
like the sea waves cold
00:32:04.19\00:32:11.76
Threaten the soul
with infinite loss
00:32:11.79\00:32:19.40
Grace that is greater
00:32:19.43\00:32:22.60
Yes, grace untold
00:32:22.64\00:32:27.08
Points to the refuge
00:32:27.14\00:32:30.61
The mighty cross
00:32:30.65\00:32:36.28
Marvelous,
infinite, matchless grace
00:32:51.23\00:32:57.04
Freely bestowed
on all who believe!
00:32:57.07\00:33:02.68
You that are
longing to see his face
00:33:02.71\00:33:08.15
Will you this
moment His grace receive?
00:33:08.18\00:33:13.76
Marvelous grace, God's grace
00:33:13.79\00:33:19.36
Grace that will
pardon and cleanse within
00:33:19.39\00:33:24.53
Marvelous grace, God's grace
00:33:24.57\00:33:29.74
Grace that is
greater than all our sin!
00:33:29.77\00:33:37.61
Grace that is greater
00:33:37.65\00:33:41.42
Than all our sin!
00:33:41.45\00:33:49.42
God is our mighty fortress.
00:34:11.88\00:34:15.68
It is as we memorize His
word and hiding in our hearts,
00:34:15.72\00:34:20.69
that we have
the assured defense,
00:34:20.76\00:34:22.76
and yet around
this mighty fortress,
00:34:22.79\00:34:24.39
there is a battle raging.
00:34:24.43\00:34:26.70
This battle is raging
between Christ and Satan.
00:34:26.73\00:34:30.23
And you want to know who
is Satan's biggest ally is?
00:34:30.27\00:34:33.50
Ourselves, and yet we have
this blessed assurance and grace
00:34:33.54\00:34:38.47
that God will carry us through.
00:34:38.51\00:34:40.84
Some of us may be
called to be martyrs for Him
00:34:40.88\00:34:44.11
and others may be
just intense struggles
00:34:44.15\00:34:47.28
but we can know and be assured
00:34:47.32\00:34:48.92
that Christ's strength
is perfect in our weakness.
00:34:48.95\00:34:52.32
I can do all things
00:34:56.29\00:35:01.33
Through Christ
who gives me strength
00:35:01.36\00:35:06.20
But sometimes I wonder what He
00:35:06.23\00:35:10.31
Can do through me
00:35:10.34\00:35:17.25
No great success to show
00:35:17.28\00:35:22.65
No glory of my own
00:35:22.68\00:35:26.65
Yet in my weakness He is there
00:35:26.69\00:35:31.49
To let me know
00:35:31.53\00:35:36.93
His strength is perfect
00:35:36.97\00:35:41.54
When our strength is gone
00:35:41.57\00:35:48.21
He'll carry us
00:35:48.24\00:35:51.75
When we can't carry on
00:35:51.78\00:35:59.75
Raised in His power
00:35:59.79\00:36:04.26
The weak become strong
00:36:04.29\00:36:11.53
His strength is perfect
00:36:11.57\00:36:17.54
His strength is perfect
00:36:17.61\00:36:23.88
We can only know
00:36:27.22\00:36:32.32
The power that He holds
00:36:32.35\00:36:37.23
When we truly see how deep
00:36:37.26\00:36:41.20
Our weakness goes
00:36:41.23\00:36:48.14
His strength in us begins
00:36:48.17\00:36:53.44
Where ours comes to an end
00:36:53.48\00:36:58.65
He hears our humble cry
00:36:58.68\00:37:02.45
And proves again
00:37:02.48\00:37:06.92
His strength is perfect
00:37:12.99\00:37:18.27
When our strength is gone
00:37:18.30\00:37:25.37
He'll carry us
00:37:25.41\00:37:29.01
When we can't carry on
00:37:29.04\00:37:36.89
Raised in His power
00:37:36.92\00:37:41.32
The weak become strong
00:37:41.36\00:37:48.80
His strength is perfect
00:37:48.83\00:37:54.00
His strength is perfect
00:37:54.04\00:37:59.84
Raised in His power
00:37:59.87\00:38:05.11
The weak become strong
00:38:05.15\00:38:12.35
His strength is perfect
00:38:17.99\00:38:25.50
His strength
00:38:25.53\00:38:27.54
Is perfect.
00:38:27.57\00:38:35.51
Is there one more number?
00:38:48.86\00:38:50.23
Once to every man and nation
00:39:28.03\00:39:33.37
Comes the moment to decide
00:39:33.44\00:39:39.01
In the strife of
truth and falsehood
00:39:39.04\00:39:44.51
For the good or evil side
00:39:44.55\00:39:50.12
Some great cause,
some great decision
00:39:50.19\00:39:55.76
Off'ring each
the bloom or blight
00:39:55.79\00:40:02.26
And the choice goes by forever
00:40:02.30\00:40:08.10
Twixt that
darkness and that light
00:40:08.14\00:40:14.31
By the light of burning martyrs
00:40:27.52\00:40:33.19
Christ, Thy
bleeding feet we track
00:40:33.23\00:40:38.87
Toiling up new Calv'ries ever
00:40:38.90\00:40:44.64
With the cross
that turns not back
00:40:44.67\00:40:50.31
New occasions teach new duties
00:40:50.38\00:40:56.18
Time makes ancient good uncouth
00:40:56.22\00:41:02.92
They must
upward still and onward
00:41:02.96\00:41:08.76
Who would keep abreast of truth
00:41:08.80\00:41:15.07
Tho' the cause of evil prosper
00:41:29.38\00:41:34.69
Yet the truth alone is strong
00:41:34.72\00:41:40.56
Tho' her portion be the scaffold
00:41:40.60\00:41:46.13
And upon the throne be wrong
00:41:46.17\00:41:51.84
Yet that
scaffold sways the future
00:41:51.87\00:41:57.81
And, behind the dim unknown
00:41:57.85\00:42:04.65
Standeth God within the shadow
00:42:04.69\00:42:11.36
Keeping watch above His own
00:42:11.39\00:42:18.20
Above His own.
00:42:29.71\00:42:36.22
Amen!
00:42:41.16\00:42:45.36
Christ Object
Lessons about page 69.
00:42:45.39\00:42:50.00
But that statement says
when the character of Christ
00:42:50.03\00:42:52.30
shall be perfectly
reproduced in His people,
00:42:52.33\00:42:54.57
then Christ will come
to claim them as His own.
00:42:54.60\00:42:58.41
Some people have felt
00:42:58.44\00:42:59.77
that means if
we just buckle down
00:42:59.81\00:43:01.34
and pray more and study more
00:43:01.38\00:43:03.04
and perfect ourselves
more, Jesus will come.
00:43:03.08\00:43:05.45
Now, is prayer important? Yes.
00:43:05.48\00:43:07.95
Bible study, indispensable.
00:43:07.98\00:43:09.58
Those are important activities
00:43:09.62\00:43:10.99
but having the character
of Christ reproduced in us
00:43:11.02\00:43:13.46
is so much broader
than just those things.
00:43:13.49\00:43:17.23
If you have the character
of Christ reproduced in you,
00:43:17.26\00:43:19.33
something else happens,
there is a story in John 4,
00:43:19.36\00:43:24.27
where it says,
Jesus on His way home
00:43:24.30\00:43:25.80
must need to go through Samaria.
00:43:25.83\00:43:27.94
We know that
wasn't tactically true
00:43:27.97\00:43:29.54
because there was another route
the Jews took to miss Samaria,
00:43:29.57\00:43:32.34
so they wouldn't
become contaminated
00:43:32.37\00:43:34.28
by going through the
territory, so what does it mean
00:43:34.31\00:43:36.91
that Jesus must
needs go through Samaria.
00:43:36.95\00:43:39.25
It's simple, there's a
woman sitting there at the well
00:43:39.28\00:43:43.55
in the heat of the day
that needs a kingdom of Christ.
00:43:43.59\00:43:46.55
And when the character of Christ
00:43:46.59\00:43:48.09
is reproduced in His church,
00:43:48.12\00:43:50.23
we won't be able
to help ourselves
00:43:50.29\00:43:52.46
but go through Samaria
00:43:52.49\00:43:54.23
and share what
Jesus has done for us.
00:43:54.30\00:43:56.33
Ladies and Gentlemen,
may I have your attention?
00:44:21.26\00:44:25.29
I want to introduce to you
00:44:25.33\00:44:29.20
In this corner of
the good and the right
00:44:29.23\00:44:32.97
Stands a champion robed in white
00:44:33.00\00:44:37.11
His height exceeds the heavens,
His weight outweighs the world
00:44:37.17\00:44:41.28
His reach reaches
everywhere, His age is evermore
00:44:41.31\00:44:46.38
He is higher than the
highest Greater than the great
00:44:46.41\00:44:50.85
No one will ever
take His crown away
00:44:50.89\00:44:54.89
He's mightier than the mightiest
00:44:54.92\00:44:57.39
He reigns from above
00:44:57.43\00:45:02.40
He's the all-time undisputed,
undefeated champion of love
00:45:02.43\00:45:09.67
He left His
hometown to enter this arena
00:45:15.31\00:45:19.31
To raise His
hands in victory for me
00:45:19.35\00:45:23.39
An angry crowd crucified
this king who wore their crown
00:45:23.42\00:45:27.56
As they gladly watched
the champion going down
00:45:27.59\00:45:31.53
But I will never count
Him out, for I'm a witness of
00:45:31.56\00:45:35.90
The day He rose
to retain the title
00:45:35.93\00:45:38.27
"Champion of Love"
00:45:38.30\00:45:41.00
He is higher than the
highest Greater than the great
00:45:41.04\00:45:45.51
No one will ever
take His crown away
00:45:45.54\00:45:49.61
He's mightier than the mightiest
00:45:49.64\00:45:52.01
He reigns from above
00:45:52.05\00:45:57.19
He's the all-time undisputed,
undefeated champion of love
00:45:57.25\00:46:03.86
He is higher than the
highest Greater than the great
00:46:03.89\00:46:08.43
No one will ever
take His crown away
00:46:08.46\00:46:12.40
He's mightier than the mightiest
00:46:12.43\00:46:14.97
He reigns from above
00:46:15.00\00:46:20.08
He's the all-time
undisputed, undefeated champion
00:46:20.11\00:46:24.58
The all-time
undisputed, undefeated champion
00:46:24.61\00:46:28.38
The champion of love.
00:46:28.42\00:46:36.39
There's a line
00:47:24.94\00:47:27.91
that's been
drawn through the ages
00:47:27.94\00:47:35.18
On that line
00:47:35.22\00:47:37.75
Stands the old rugged cross
00:47:37.79\00:47:45.76
On that cross
00:47:45.79\00:47:48.53
A battle is raging
00:47:48.56\00:47:55.50
For the gain of man's soul
00:47:55.54\00:48:01.51
Or it's loss
00:48:01.54\00:48:03.38
On one side
00:48:06.28\00:48:09.12
March the forces of evil
00:48:09.15\00:48:15.89
All the demons
00:48:15.92\00:48:18.79
And devils of hell
00:48:18.83\00:48:25.90
On the other
00:48:25.93\00:48:28.87
The angels of glory
00:48:28.90\00:48:35.81
And they meet
00:48:35.84\00:48:38.38
On Golgotha's hill
00:48:38.41\00:48:46.29
The earth shakes
00:48:46.32\00:48:48.32
With the force of the conflict
00:48:48.36\00:48:54.73
And the sun refuses
00:48:54.76\00:48:59.37
To shine
00:48:59.40\00:49:04.04
For there hangs God's son
00:49:04.07\00:49:08.81
In the balance
00:49:08.84\00:49:12.98
And then through the darkness
00:49:13.01\00:49:19.52
He cries
00:49:19.55\00:49:22.72
It is finished
00:49:22.76\00:49:25.36
The battle is over
00:49:25.39\00:49:31.97
It is finished
00:49:32.00\00:49:34.90
There'll be no more war
00:49:34.94\00:49:41.44
It is finished
00:49:41.48\00:49:44.35
The end of the conflict
00:49:44.38\00:49:50.79
It is finished
00:49:50.82\00:49:53.56
And Jesus is Lord
00:49:53.59\00:49:59.26
Yet in my heart
00:50:05.70\00:50:09.47
The battle was still raging
00:50:09.50\00:50:17.01
Not all prisoners
00:50:17.05\00:50:20.68
Of war had come home
00:50:20.72\00:50:25.79
These were battlefields
00:50:28.82\00:50:32.39
Of my own making
00:50:32.43\00:50:39.73
I didn't know
00:50:39.77\00:50:42.37
That the war had been won
00:50:42.40\00:50:49.71
But then I heard
00:50:49.74\00:50:52.38
That the king of the ages
00:50:52.41\00:50:59.22
He had fought all the battles
00:50:59.25\00:51:04.46
For me
00:51:04.49\00:51:08.46
And that victory was mine
00:51:08.50\00:51:12.67
For the claiming
00:51:12.70\00:51:17.94
And now praise his name
00:51:17.97\00:51:22.54
I am free
00:51:22.58\00:51:26.61
It is finished
00:51:26.68\00:51:30.35
The battle is over
00:51:30.39\00:51:36.73
It is finished
00:51:36.79\00:51:39.46
There'll be no more war
00:51:39.49\00:51:45.03
It is finished
00:51:45.07\00:51:48.37
The end of the conflict
00:51:48.40\00:51:54.74
It is finished
00:51:54.78\00:51:57.41
And Jesus is Lord
00:51:57.48\00:52:03.99
It is finished
00:52:04.02\00:52:06.55
And Jesus is Lord
00:52:06.59\00:52:13.40
Jesus is Lord.
00:52:13.43\00:52:18.83
Amen!
00:52:22.14\00:52:23.47
Jesus has forever won
the great controversy.
00:52:29.94\00:52:36.65
By dying on the
cross for our sins
00:52:36.69\00:52:39.79
and paying the ultimate
price, He has forever disproved
00:52:39.82\00:52:43.06
all of Satan's lies
about the character of God.
00:52:43.09\00:52:46.76
But there is one more
event we've to look forward to
00:52:46.80\00:52:49.03
is Jesus' second coming.
00:52:49.06\00:52:52.27
Each one of us needs
to lift up the trumpet
00:52:52.30\00:52:54.50
and let it ring throughout
all the towns, villages,
00:52:54.54\00:52:59.37
and cites that
haven't heard the good news.
00:52:59.41\00:53:02.11
The good news that
Jesus has died on the cross
00:53:02.14\00:53:04.75
for our sins.
00:53:04.78\00:53:06.28
And number two,
that He is coming again,
00:53:06.31\00:53:10.99
let's all be ready.
00:53:11.02\00:53:12.35
Lift up the
trumpet, and loud let it ring
00:53:32.44\00:53:36.48
Jesus is coming again!
00:53:36.51\00:53:40.78
Cheer up, ye
pilgrims, be joyful and sing
00:53:40.82\00:53:45.22
Jesus is coming again!
00:53:45.25\00:53:49.52
Coming again, coming again
00:53:49.56\00:53:54.13
Jesus is coming again!
00:53:54.20\00:53:58.63
Echo it, hilltops,
proclaim it, ye plains
00:54:08.14\00:54:12.45
Jesus is coming again!
00:54:12.48\00:54:16.99
Coming in glory,
the Lamb that was slain
00:54:17.02\00:54:21.69
Jesus is coming again!
00:54:21.72\00:54:26.26
Coming again, coming again
00:54:26.29\00:54:30.83
Jesus is coming again!
00:54:30.87\00:54:36.00
Jesus is coming again!
00:54:55.92\00:55:01.16
Tempests and
whirlwinds, the anthem prolong
00:55:01.20\00:55:09.17
Jesus is coming again!
00:55:09.20\00:55:15.31
Coming again
00:55:15.34\00:55:21.92
Coming again
00:55:21.95\00:55:28.46
Jesus is coming
00:55:28.49\00:55:34.36
Again!
00:55:34.36\00:55:38.00
Nations are angry
by this we do know
00:55:49.48\00:55:53.88
Jesus is coming again!
00:55:53.92\00:55:58.52
Knowledge
increases, men run to and fro
00:55:58.55\00:56:03.32
Jesus is coming again!
00:56:03.36\00:56:07.50
Please stand and sing.
00:56:07.56\00:56:09.10
Coming again, coming again
00:56:09.13\00:56:14.07
Jesus is coming again!
00:56:14.14\00:56:16.20
The sky knows that
00:56:16.24\00:56:19.57
Coming again
00:56:19.61\00:56:22.11
Coming again
00:56:22.14\00:56:24.75
Jesus is coming again!
00:56:24.78\00:56:28.75
He is coming again
00:56:28.78\00:56:32.99
Coming again
00:56:33.02\00:56:35.86
Jesus is coming again!
00:56:35.89\00:56:40.63
Coming again
00:56:40.70\00:56:44.97
Amen!
00:56:50.07\00:56:51.44
Let us remain
standing as we pray together.
00:56:56.71\00:57:00.25
Father in heaven,
00:57:00.28\00:57:01.62
we have been so inspired
this afternoon, this evening
00:57:01.65\00:57:04.15
by the beautiful heavenly music.
00:57:04.22\00:57:06.59
Father, we believe
that Jesus is coming again.
00:57:06.62\00:57:10.89
Father, we had been
inspired by missionaries,
00:57:10.96\00:57:12.99
local missionaries,
overseas missionaries
00:57:13.03\00:57:15.60
has inspired us
to do be more zealous
00:57:15.63\00:57:19.30
in our local mission work.
00:57:19.33\00:57:21.34
Father, help us
not only to be inspired
00:57:21.37\00:57:24.04
but to do the mission
work You're calling us to do.
00:57:24.11\00:57:27.41
Father, we've also heard
from the mayor of Spokane,
00:57:27.48\00:57:30.58
we pray Your blessing upon him
as he leads a small city out.
00:57:30.65\00:57:35.52
And Father, we pray
00:57:35.55\00:57:36.89
that the
presence and the influence
00:57:36.92\00:57:39.39
of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
00:57:39.42\00:57:41.29
in this community
will not be forgotten.
00:57:41.32\00:57:45.23
Father, now as we finished
this part of our program,
00:57:45.26\00:57:48.93
as we finish this part,
00:57:48.96\00:57:51.07
we pray that Your Holy
Spirit will go with us,
00:57:51.10\00:57:54.14
we ask for Your
Spirit's presence
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in Jesus' name, amen.
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