Good evening, everyone.
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Did you have a
blessed Sabbath? Yes.
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How many of you
had a very blessed ASI?
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Raise your hand.
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How many of you are sad
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that ASI is gonna be
over in like, two hours?
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Well, it is been a
wonderful time together
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Wayne, Steve,
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we've had a great
time here this week.
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And I know that the Lord
has much in store for ASI
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in the years ahead,
in this coming year.
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How can we, Wayne,
stay connected to ASI
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throughout the year?
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Well, there's all kinds of
ways that we can stay connected
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and probably the
best place to start
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is to go to our website.
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We're going to have a
graphic up here on the screen
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where you can see
all different ways
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that you can stay
connected with us.
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But, if you go to our website,
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you will see right there that
you can connect on Facebook,
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you can connect on Twitter,
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you can send us a
message directly as well
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if you would like.
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And we look forward to
staying in touch with you
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throughout the year.
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All right.
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And, we'll get
that slide up there
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but, Wayne, we were
going to ask them to,
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while you are
here, before ASI is over,
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if you could, if
your on social media,
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to take your phone,
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maybe snap a picture
tonight even during the meeting
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or when you go
to the exhibit hall,
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find your favorite exhibit.
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I think we did
this last year, Wayne.
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That's right. Yes.
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And if you can snap a picture,
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post it on social
media and put our hash tag.
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That's right.
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So you see it up
here on the screen there.
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So you can see the hash tag
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that we've been using
throughout the convention.
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So we invite you
to use that hash tag,
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#ASIConvention2015.
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Take a picture of your friends
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and post it on any of
your choice of social media,
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and so we can let the world know
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what we've experienced here.
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And we also have our
website listed there as well.
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Absolutely.
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So you can see
here, ASIMinistries.org.
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In fact, that particular link
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is if you want to find
more information about joining,
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but you can easily find
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all of the other
information as well.
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You can send us a
text message if you wish,
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you can even send it to
us right now at the number
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on the screen
there, 301-844-6035.
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And we also want to bring
to your attention that we have,
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on your seats, we have
a brochure that talks more
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about ASI as well and
it's different departments,
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it's different
dimensions, and evangelism tools
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that are
available free of charge.
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A lot of tools that
it would be very useful
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and interesting for you
along with QR codes for you
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to scan if you
want more information.
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Amen. Thank you Wayne.
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He's our
communications director,
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has done
outstanding job this last year
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with moving us forward.
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Brother Steve
Dyckman, is in a couple of...
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well, probably less
than two hours, Steve,
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you're going to the
president of this organization.
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And he's been
serving as our Vice President
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for membership though
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and he has a
passion for ASI membership.
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Steve, I know we've got a lot
of potential members out here.
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Tell us about that.
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We have given you the
opportunity this evening
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by placing some of our
ASI membership applications
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on about every third or so
chair there in the audience.
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So if you're not an ASI member
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and you want to
consider becoming an ASI member,
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after being here
with us this weekend,
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experiencing the
joys and blessings of ASI,
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we invite you to
pick up this application
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and take a look inside.
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Just going to briefly describe.
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Actually, it's
better if you go online
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and fill out the application,
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but this paper
gives you something
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to take home to help you connect
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with the proper
website et cetera.
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And so, I want to just mention
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here's those who
qualify for ASI membership.
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If you own a business.
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So if you're a
business owner you qualify,
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that business
qualifies as what we call
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an organizational member of ASI.
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Or if you're a
501-C3 nonprofit ministry,
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your ministry probably qualifies
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to become a member of ASI.
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Our third category
is Associate Membership.
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If you are a
professional person,
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a doctor, lawyer,
dentist or some other profession
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and you do not
own your own practice
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but you work for someone else,
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you qualify for a
category of membership called,
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Associate Membership.
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We invite you to
consider joining ASI,
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becoming part of the family
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and helping us to
move God's work forward
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around the world.
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As you've been here
this week and you've seen
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that it's a worldwide
event as we get together.
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Amen.
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And, Steve, just real quick,
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if I'm sitting out
there and I'm thinking,
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"Oh, I don't know about
going to member of ASI."
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What would you
say to that person?
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Why should they
become a member of ASI?
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What I would say to
you is, it's a powerful,
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spiritual
experience for one thing.
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You've been here this
weekend, you have been blessed.
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If you've been listening
to the meetings, the seminars,
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the speakers, it would be
very, very difficult to go away
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and not have a
personal blessing.
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And to me, the
power for me personally
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is that I go home energized
and encouraged to do more
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in sharing the
gospel with other people,
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and realize
that my participation
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in ASI helps me do something
that I could never do alone.
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ASI members
engaging together today
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have supported
projects all around this world,
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doing amazing things to
help advance God's kingdom.
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I can't do that by myself,
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but when we as a
group come together
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we can do things like that.
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It's a powerful
experience for me,
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I invite you to join us
and let it change your life.
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Amen. Thank you so
much, Steve. Thank you, Wayne.
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And may God bless you, Steve,
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as you lead us in
this next two year.
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Amen. Amen.
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At this time, we are
going to invite some,
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well, there are some
good looking gentlemen
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that are come out here.
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And this first one, Taylor.
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Hinkle is, you're with
an organization called GYC.
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Is that right,
Taylor? That's right, Kyle.
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And you know, I understand
that you have something
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to tell us about that
involves everyone here,
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tell us about that tonight.
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Absolutely, this
last year at Phoenix, GYC,
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we launched an
very fascinating program
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which I think is one of
the most impactful things
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that GYC has
done in quite a while
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and it's the one
million GLOW challenge.
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One million
GLOW? One million GLOW.
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In one year? In one year.
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The goal is to get
every attendee in GYC
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to be sharing GLOW
tracts with the friends,
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their neighbors,
putting on gas pumps,
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all sorts of different things,
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getting them involved
in the mission of GLOW.
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Okay, so that's great.
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So you cha, I was
actually there, Taylor,
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I remember being
challenge to do that.
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And thank you for that.
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But what does that
have to do with me ASI,
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I mean that's GYC, right?
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Well, I know that GYC
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is really kind of a relationed
organization to ASI, right,
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almost a little child of ASI.
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And we don't
want to be let astray.
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We know that we should be
partnering up together, amen.
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And so what we're
looking to do is as GYC and ASI,
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we would like
to partner together
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for this next year
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to pass out one
million GLOW tracts.
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Now, Kyle, there's something
that's amazed me about ASI,
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this is my first one.
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I didn't realize that you
guys are into big numbers.
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By God's grace
you're able to raise
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lots of money for missions
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and we praise the Lord for that.
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But I think, by
God's grace we can pass out
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over a million
GLOW tracts as well.
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Amen.
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So you're saying that if
we can raise up $1.7 million,
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oh, maybe we can pass out
at least one million GLOW.
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Absolutely. All
right, that's awesome.
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So, Taylor, next to
you is Nelson Ernst.
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Nelson, you are
the GLOW director
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for the Pacific
Union Conference.
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And, Nelson, by the
way, what are some ways...
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Tell us first of all,
why we should share GLOW
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and what are some
ways that we can do that?
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Yeah, good question.
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Well, as your first question,
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why should we
pass out GLOW tracts,
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I think that's a
very appropriate question.
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I like that, Taylor.
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I'll share a
story to illustrate.
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Recently we got a
phone call from this lady
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who had her husband
passed away and she was poor,
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she didn't have
money for a regular burial,
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so she cremated him.
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When she went
and told her priest
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that she had cremated him,
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the priest told
her, all aghast that,
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"Oh, you cremated him
that means that you made it
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so they can't go to heaven."
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And this woman was just
under this terrible burden
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that you know, she barred
husband from going to heaven,
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when all of a sudden she
got one of our GLOW tracts
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on the topic of guess what?
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State of the Dead.
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And so much to her relief,
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she found out what the truth was
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about what happens when you die.
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And it was an
incredible experience for her.
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So why do we do
literature? Why do we do GLOW?
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Because it helps people. Okay.
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So that's powerful, Nelsen.
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But here's the
question, how can we do this?
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What are some ways
that we can involved,
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get involved in
passing out GLOW?
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Sure.
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There's a lot of different ways.
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I'm going to share a
method, I think Bobby will too.
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But basically,
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one of the basic ways is just
carrying literature with you
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in your pockets
wherever you go in your purses
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and giving it to people
as you find opportunity.
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One of my favorite ways
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and probably the
most efficient way
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of getting out large numbers
of literature in everyday life
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is believe it or
not in parking lots.
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Every time you go to
a store park far away
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from the entrance of the store
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and weave in and
out of a few cars.
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And while you're doing that
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you can take your
little GLOW tracts,
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and I don't like to put
them on the windshield wipers,
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but what I like
to do is I take them
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and I bend them a little bit
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and I pop them right
inside of that car door.
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Nobody sees you.
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Nobody rejects
you. Oh, it's perfect.
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And my wife, she loves it
too, it's a perfect method.
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So that's method number
one that I would recommend.
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Method number two, is
utilizing gas stations.
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You know, Jehovah's Witnesses
have the market on Laundromats,
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and I think as Adventists
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we should take
over the gas stations.
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So, one way that we can do
this is every time you know,
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the receipt prints out,
stick a GLOW track there,
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put it inside, your GLOW track
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instead of where the pump handle
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goes into the little,
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you know thing
that it goes into.
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And, yeah, you can leave
it right there on the gas pump
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and amazing things happen.
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We have lots of
stories to share about people
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who had divine appointments
when they pass out you know,
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GLOW at gas stations.
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So those are two methods.
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And last, last, I
just heard a story today
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about 100 year old
grandma from this area
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who went to a mall, Macy's,
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she asked the
people who work there,
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"Hey, can I put
these GLOW tracts
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in the pockets
of all the jeans?"
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And they said, "Yes."
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So there's an
opportunity as well.
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So if someone
that's 100 can do it...
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That's right.
Everybody here can do it.
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Amen. All right. That's right.
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So, Nelson, and
now that's the way
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that so many of us have
heard about passing out GLOW.
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But next to you is an
another good man here,
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Robert Carani, my friend.
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And, Bobby, you
have a specific way
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that ASI members,
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specifically
people who own businesses
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where they have offices
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that they can get involved
in an ASI GLOW challenge.
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Tell us about that. Yeah.
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If you take the cards
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that you will
found on your seats,
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as you came in.
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On the back of
that there's two things.
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Nelson just talked about
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wherever you go
passing out tracts,
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I want to talk for just a minute
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about the business challenge.
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Since ASI kind of has its motto
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sharing Christ
in the marketplace.
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Many people owned
businesses and I'm guessing
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that if you
don't own a business,
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you've probably
been into a business.
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How many have been
into a business before?
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All right, well then this
is, this challenges for you,
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especially if
you own a business.
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And with this business challenge
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is you sign up for
this, you get a rack,
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and you get trucks
sent to you every month
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that you can use
to fill that rack
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and put in your business.
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Even if you
don't own a business,
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we've had people,
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different churches
that have made goals
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to sponsor putting literature
racks in the communities,
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at Laundromats, at
hospitals, doctor's offices,
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wherever they
can find a good spot.
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We've even had them
put in a gas station,
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little mini marts.
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Wherever you can
think of that has space
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for a literature rack,
you can sponsor a rack,
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you can sign up for
this business challenge,
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and go and just fill that rack.
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It's the perfect way
for the Laodicean church
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to pass out literature
because it passes out itself,
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you don't have to do anything.
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All you do is put the
literature in the rack
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and it distributes itself.
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And the rack does the work.
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It does the work
for you. That's great.
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And now, Bobby,
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how are we going to
keep track of this challenge?
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Yeah, if you see the website
that's on your card there
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GLOWNorthwest.org/ASI, and
I think they have that link
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if you're watching on
3ABN, GLOWNorthwest.org/ASI,
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you will be able
to sign up for that
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from wherever you
are around the world.
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You can sign up for that.
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There you can sign up
for the business challenge
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or you can just get GLOW tracts
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and you can keep track
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of all the
literature that you distribute,
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you can either call
us or do it online there
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and tell us how many
tracks you've been distributing.
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All right.
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And, Nelson, where
can we get the literature
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after tonight's meeting?
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Yeah, good question. We
actually moved our booth.
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It's not in the booth area,
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it's right out
of the exit doors.
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So as you come
out of the exit doors,
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if you need literature,
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we're going to be
right there for you.
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All right.
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So, Taylor, and
I'll finish with you,
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we are going to join with GYC.
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Here's what we're going
to do. Are you ready ASI?
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Are you ready
for this challenge?
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We are going to join GYC
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in meeting your one million goal
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before December.
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Amen. Amen?
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Can we do that
ASI? What do you say?
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And then at GYC
you're going to challenge us
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to do something.
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Absolutely, at
GYC, this next year
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we're going to
challenge all of the attendees
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that come to join ASI
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and meeting their
goal for the next year.
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Okay, so we're going to
help each other reach our goals,
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what do you say? Amen.
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And by God's grace more
and more people will hear
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the truth of our
Lord Jesus Christ.
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Amen.
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So thank you, and, Nelson,
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anything you'd
like to close with?
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A quick story,
a quick testimony?
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Oh, boy, quick stories.
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Yeah, actually,
I'll share one with you
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just to illustrate
the impact of a tract.
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Recently a young woman,
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her little brother went
out collecting hollowing Candy,
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he came back, she
sorted through his candy,
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her little brother's
candy, found a GLOW tract
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that had been given
to her little brother.
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She read it, she
called in for Bible studies,
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ended up going Colportering
for the next 10 weeks
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after she met that Bible
worker and he recruited her,
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got baptized at the end of
the Colportering and summer,
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and then went to a
two year Bible College
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called Souls West, where
she's currently a student.
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Amen.
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Because she found a tract
00:14:21.06\00:14:22.39
in her little
brother's candy bag,
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because some Adventist
passed it out to hollowing.
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Amen.
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I can testify, I'm the
pastor of the baptizer.
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That's right, that's
right. That is a powerful story.
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May God be praised.
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Thank you guys, for what you do
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and may the work of
GLOW continue to expand.
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Praise the Lord,
isn't that wonderful?
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Aren't you glad
to be a part of ASI?
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Doesn't it really inspire you?
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Well, here we are at the
end of our wonderful session
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here in Spokane.
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And it has been such a blessing.
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And what a
wonderful Sabbath day.
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Amen. Amen.
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It has been
from morning till now
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it has been a
wonderful experience.
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It's my privilege
tonight to introduce a friend,
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Frank Fournier,
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who is the
current ASI president.
00:15:07.47\00:15:11.81
Now you've
already met the new one,
00:15:11.84\00:15:13.98
Steve Dyckman,
00:15:14.01\00:15:15.48
but Frank still has a
couple hours of glory,
00:15:15.51\00:15:17.88
so let's encourage him.
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I'm sure after
serving two terms faithfully,
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four years,
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he's looking forward
to a little break as well.
00:15:25.29\00:15:28.06
But he's saved
the best to the last.
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So tonight, you get to
hear from Frank Fournier.
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Now, for our 3ABN
audience and some from Spokane
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that may not really
know Frank very well,
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it's interesting to see
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how the Lord
has led in his life.
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So I'll take just a moment
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to go back and tell
you a little bit about it.
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Frank was born and
raised a Roman Catholic
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in a French-Canadian home.
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When he was 16-years
old he had a bright idea,
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I've had enough school
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and he went off
into the logging industry
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for a couple of years.
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From there, he
graduated to the coal mines,
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not the coal mines actually,
it was nickel and copper.
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And he spent almost the
next 10 years in the mines.
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While he was there,
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in the latter part
of that time period
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the spirit of the
Lord began to work on him,
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he had been
reading different things
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and not finding satisfaction,
00:16:29.38\00:16:31.52
and eventually he
turned to the Bible.
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And you can almost
put the rest together.
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There is power
in the word. Amen.
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And so he began
to read the Bible
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and his life was
transformed and he became,
00:16:41.63\00:16:45.40
through a province of the Lord,
00:16:45.43\00:16:46.90
he learned of
Seventh-Day Adventists
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and eventually was baptized.
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It started a career in
his life in what we call
00:16:51.34\00:16:55.08
self-supporting ministries
or supporting ministries,
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we use the term today.
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And he started in
Woodland Park, Canada,
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were he served first,
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and for the last 40
years he has continued to work
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in various institutions
such as Fountain View Academy,
00:17:07.82\00:17:11.86
which we have heard from today.
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Riverside Farm
Institute in Zambia,
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Eden Valley in
Colorado, and currently,
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he is the
executive vice president
00:17:21.34\00:17:23.84
for Outpost
Centers International
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an umbrella organization
00:17:26.14\00:17:28.44
that helps to network
with multiple ministries,
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100 different ministries in
more than 30 some countries.
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He's happily
married for 47 years,
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and he has three
children, and 12 grandchildren.
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So he's a happy camper.
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Frank's a student of the word.
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He's knowledgeable in
the Spirit of Prophecy
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and with the
blessing of the Holy Spirit,
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he will share
tonight a powerful message
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called 'Go, ye out to meet Him.'
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Please pray for
Frank in our open hearts
00:18:05.01\00:18:07.58
as we hear him tonight.
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Good evening, everyone.
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I was going to say,
it's a blessing to be here.
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It's been a blessing
to be here all along.
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And I found myself
facing you more often
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than makes me comfortable.
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Jesus is coming. Amen.
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And in Matthew 25:6 it
says, "Go ye out to meet Him."
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Now if we know the parable
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this is the parable of
the wise and foolish virgins.
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We know that this
'going out to meet him',
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is not the condition
for being ready to meet him,
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because half of
these young virgins
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were not ready to meet him,
00:18:58.10\00:18:59.87
they were not
prepared to meet him.
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And this is what I want
to talk with you tonight.
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How is it that
they were not prepared,
00:19:05.87\00:19:08.88
yet, they were
going out to meet him?
00:19:08.91\00:19:10.98
Is it possible that
you and I are not prepared
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for Jesus to come?
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As a matter of fact
in Amos 4:12, it says,
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"Prepare to meet thy God."
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This is not an option.
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The Lord is giving us a command,
00:19:25.19\00:19:27.13
the Lord is telling us
that we should be intentional
00:19:27.23\00:19:31.47
about the
preparation that we need to make
00:19:31.50\00:19:34.84
in order to be
ready for Jesus to come.
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I'm going to ask
you to bow with me,
00:19:37.87\00:19:40.28
we're going to ask the Lord
to speak to us this evening.
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Heavenly Father,
thank you for being our God,
00:19:45.08\00:19:49.92
thank you for the time
that we've had together
00:19:49.95\00:19:52.95
this past few days,
00:19:52.99\00:19:54.52
and for the Spirit of
God as it has moved among us.
00:19:54.56\00:19:57.86
Thank you, for all the speakers,
00:19:57.89\00:19:59.36
and all the inspiration.
00:19:59.39\00:20:01.80
And this evening as we
come together for the last time,
00:20:01.83\00:20:05.27
we're looking
for thy Holy Spirit,
00:20:05.30\00:20:07.80
we're looking for freedom,
and power, and understanding,
00:20:07.84\00:20:12.64
especially as we
look at ourselves
00:20:12.67\00:20:15.24
in the terms of
being prepared to meet you.
00:20:15.28\00:20:18.45
And we thank you.
In Jesus name, Amen.
00:20:18.48\00:20:23.28
To interest you to
come to the meeting tonight,
00:20:23.35\00:20:26.22
you may have
read in the ministry
00:20:26.25\00:20:28.39
that I wrote
this, "If as a church,
00:20:28.42\00:20:32.66
we only had six months to work,
00:20:32.69\00:20:35.03
would we spend our time
arguing women's ordination,
00:20:35.06\00:20:38.83
new age mysticism,
theistic evolution,
00:20:38.87\00:20:42.34
and internal politics
or would we buckle down
00:20:42.37\00:20:45.44
to deal with the issue
most important to God?"
00:20:45.47\00:20:49.34
Now obviously
that begs the question,
00:20:49.38\00:20:51.55
what is the issue
most important to God?
00:20:51.58\00:20:55.28
Now don't get me wrong,
all these issues that I name
00:20:55.32\00:20:58.85
just a few minutes
ago, are important to God,
00:20:58.89\00:21:01.62
and they are ought to
be important to us also.
00:21:01.66\00:21:04.23
It's just that I
have in my head the idea,
00:21:04.26\00:21:06.83
the notion that if every
single Seventh-Day Adventists
00:21:06.90\00:21:10.43
in the world, 80 million of them
00:21:10.47\00:21:12.47
were focused on present truth.
00:21:12.50\00:21:17.41
If every Seventh-Day
Adventists was focused on,
00:21:17.47\00:21:20.44
what it means
that Jesus is working
00:21:20.48\00:21:22.44
in the most holy
place of the sanctuary?
00:21:22.48\00:21:24.85
If we knew what
it meant to be living
00:21:24.88\00:21:26.98
in the
anti-typical day of atonement,
00:21:27.02\00:21:28.98
if we understood the
three Angels' messages
00:21:29.02\00:21:31.25
and what it is that
God expects of his people,
00:21:31.29\00:21:35.29
I believe that all the issues
00:21:35.32\00:21:37.43
that we think are issues
today would be non-issues
00:21:37.49\00:21:39.89
because they would
be eclipsed by the truth
00:21:39.96\00:21:42.33
that we ought to be focused on.
00:21:42.36\00:21:44.60
And the only reason
that they are issues
00:21:44.63\00:21:47.37
is because they
are controversial
00:21:47.40\00:21:50.27
and the only reason
they are controversial
00:21:50.34\00:21:52.24
is because we are not
united, and we are not united
00:21:52.27\00:21:55.38
because our experience
is not what it ought to be.
00:21:55.41\00:21:59.11
We are not ready.
00:21:59.15\00:22:01.82
And we revealed
that we're not ready.
00:22:01.85\00:22:03.59
And I don't have time
to list all the adjectives
00:22:03.62\00:22:05.89
that Ellen
White would use to say
00:22:05.92\00:22:07.66
why we're not ready,
00:22:07.69\00:22:09.12
and why it is that the
Lord would have come along here
00:22:09.16\00:22:11.49
this except that we
aren't insubordinate,
00:22:11.53\00:22:14.10
and because we're worldly,
and because we're selfish,
00:22:14.10\00:22:17.07
and because we strive,
00:22:17.13\00:22:19.77
and we're
fighting for supremacy,
00:22:19.80\00:22:21.80
and all those other things
that she has to say about it.
00:22:21.84\00:22:24.31
But that's the
truth, it's only proof
00:22:24.34\00:22:27.08
that as a people
we are not ready.
00:22:27.14\00:22:31.68
In Daniel 8:14,
00:22:31.71\00:22:34.02
you all know it by
heart, on to 2300 days,
00:22:34.08\00:22:38.75
then shall the
sanctuary be cleansed.
00:22:38.79\00:22:41.09
Do you know
that this verse birth
00:22:41.12\00:22:43.89
the Seventh-Day
Adventist church?
00:22:43.93\00:22:46.39
You know, we say
that, and we've heard that,
00:22:46.43\00:22:49.40
and we know that,
and then in our minds,
00:22:49.43\00:22:51.83
I don't know what
happens in our minds.
00:22:51.87\00:22:55.50
But it had to be an
awfully powerful verse
00:22:55.54\00:22:59.04
in order that there
be 80 million people,
00:22:59.07\00:23:01.64
all denominated,
organize together
00:23:01.68\00:23:04.48
to prepare a world for
the second coming of Jesus.
00:23:04.51\00:23:07.62
There's power in that verse,
00:23:07.65\00:23:10.09
sometimes we
don't understand it.
00:23:10.12\00:23:14.82
I think the power of it
is because Jesus transferred
00:23:14.86\00:23:18.63
from the holy
place of the sanctuary
00:23:18.66\00:23:20.90
to the most holy
place of the sanctuary,
00:23:20.93\00:23:23.00
and he went there
00:23:23.03\00:23:24.40
because he intended
to raise for himself
00:23:24.43\00:23:27.20
the Seventh-Day Adventist church
00:23:27.24\00:23:29.10
so that he could prepare them,
so that he could grow them,
00:23:29.14\00:23:33.01
so that he get
them into the place
00:23:33.04\00:23:34.88
where they would reflect
the image of Jesus so perfectly
00:23:34.91\00:23:38.48
that the whole
world would be lightened
00:23:38.51\00:23:40.48
with the glory of his character.
00:23:40.52\00:23:42.85
But, friends,
we've lost sight of that,
00:23:42.88\00:23:45.85
we really have because
00:23:45.89\00:23:47.79
we have become more or
less in our thinking nominal.
00:23:47.82\00:23:51.63
We see ourselves as
just another denomination,
00:23:51.66\00:23:54.50
when we are not just
another denomination.
00:23:54.56\00:23:57.63
We are indeed a
movement of destiny.
00:23:57.67\00:24:00.74
I hope you know that.
00:24:00.77\00:24:02.10
So we've occupied our
minds with minor matters.
00:24:02.14\00:24:06.27
In the Book,
Acts of the Apostles,
00:24:06.31\00:24:07.84
page 50, paragraph 1,
00:24:07.88\00:24:10.18
"Whenever minor
matters occupy the attention,
00:24:10.25\00:24:14.12
the divine power..."
00:24:14.15\00:24:15.65
and I stop right there, I
just hesitate right there.
00:24:15.68\00:24:17.82
Do you know what
the divine power is?
00:24:17.85\00:24:21.29
The apostle Paul
says, in Romans 1:16,
00:24:21.32\00:24:24.46
"I am not ashamed of the gospel
00:24:24.49\00:24:26.56
because it is the
power inherent in God
00:24:26.59\00:24:30.03
to save them that believe,"
00:24:30.07\00:24:32.97
the Jew first
and also the Greek,
00:24:33.00\00:24:34.70
"For there in
00:24:34.74\00:24:36.07
is the righteousness
of Christ revealed."
00:24:36.10\00:24:39.01
And when you
analyze that long enough
00:24:39.04\00:24:40.84
you will see that
there is some words here
00:24:40.88\00:24:43.35
that are synonymous,
00:24:43.41\00:24:44.75
the word power, the word gospel,
00:24:44.78\00:24:46.15
the word righteousness of
Christ all mean one thing,
00:24:46.18\00:24:49.58
it is the power of God to save.
00:24:49.62\00:24:52.42
That's what it is.
00:24:52.45\00:24:53.82
In Faith and Works,
page 27, paragraphs 0,
00:24:53.86\00:24:57.63
"Divine power and
the human agency combined
00:24:57.66\00:25:01.66
will be a complete success.
00:25:01.70\00:25:03.47
Why?
00:25:03.50\00:25:04.83
For Christ's righteousness
accomplishes everything."
00:25:04.87\00:25:08.14
What does Christ
righteousness accomplish?
00:25:08.17\00:25:10.81
That's where the power is.
00:25:10.84\00:25:12.41
Christ's righteousness
accomplishes everything.
00:25:12.44\00:25:15.48
So we'll go
back to our quotation
00:25:15.51\00:25:17.28
"Whenever a
minor matters occupy,
00:25:17.35\00:25:19.55
the attention, the divine power
00:25:19.58\00:25:21.75
which is
necessary for the growth
00:25:21.78\00:25:23.49
and prosperity of the church,"
00:25:23.52\00:25:25.15
which is
necessary for the growth
00:25:25.19\00:25:27.36
and prosperity of ASI,
00:25:27.39\00:25:28.99
which is necessary for
the growth and prosperity
00:25:29.02\00:25:31.33
of the North American Division,
GC, OCI, the local church,
00:25:31.36\00:25:34.83
I don't care
what you want to say,
00:25:34.83\00:25:36.87
all the power that is
necessary is in the Holy Spirit
00:25:36.93\00:25:41.27
and in God
himself, in Jesus Christ.
00:25:41.30\00:25:44.41
So, "Whenever minor
matters occupy the attention
00:25:44.44\00:25:47.61
the divine power which
is necessary for the growth
00:25:47.64\00:25:50.41
and prosperity of the church,
00:25:50.45\00:25:52.41
which would bring
all other blessings
00:25:52.45\00:25:54.42
in its train is lacking though
offered in infinite plenitude."
00:25:54.45\00:26:00.49
What's the problem?
00:26:00.52\00:26:02.46
Minor matters
occupy the attention.
00:26:02.49\00:26:07.76
And we know that we have delayed
00:26:07.76\00:26:10.37
the second coming
of Jesus, don't we?
00:26:10.40\00:26:13.00
It's very biblical.
00:26:13.03\00:26:14.37
I'll have you turn
with me to Revelation 7,
00:26:14.40\00:26:16.57
you can see it there.
00:26:16.60\00:26:17.94
I've preached this before,
00:26:17.97\00:26:19.31
maybe some of you have
heard this just the same,
00:26:19.34\00:26:21.11
it's obvious
that we have delayed
00:26:21.14\00:26:22.94
the second coming of Jesus.
00:26:22.98\00:26:24.58
And it isn't he who
is delaying anything.
00:26:24.61\00:26:28.08
He would have
come long here this,
00:26:28.12\00:26:29.58
we have the
proof of it right here,
00:26:29.62\00:26:31.22
we're in Revelation 7.
00:26:31.25\00:26:34.26
Now in Revelation 7,
00:26:34.29\00:26:36.66
Jesus sends four
angels what to do?
00:26:36.73\00:26:40.10
Do you remember?
00:26:40.13\00:26:42.03
Now, obviously,
you can't talk to me,
00:26:42.06\00:26:43.73
I probably wouldn't
hear you from where you are,
00:26:43.77\00:26:45.63
but usually people say,
that he sent the four angels
00:26:45.67\00:26:48.97
for the purpose of holding
back the winds of strife.
00:26:49.00\00:26:51.64
Friends, that isn't true.
00:26:51.67\00:26:54.14
This is what the
angels end up doing
00:26:54.18\00:26:56.14
but that's not
why they were sent.
00:26:56.18\00:26:58.18
They were sent to
destroy the earth,
00:26:58.21\00:27:00.58
and every tree, and
everything that's in the sea.
00:27:00.65\00:27:03.42
They were sent to destroy
because Jesus was coming.
00:27:03.45\00:27:06.99
Look at verse 2, 3,
this is Revelation 7,
00:27:07.02\00:27:12.79
"I saw another angel
ascending from the east..."
00:27:12.83\00:27:15.40
Keep your eye on that
angel, we'll come back to him.
00:27:15.43\00:27:18.40
"I saw another angel
ascending from the East,
00:27:18.43\00:27:20.97
having the seal
of the Living God
00:27:21.00\00:27:22.80
and he cried with a
loud voice to the four angels
00:27:22.84\00:27:25.37
to whom it was given to
hurt the earth and to sea."
00:27:25.41\00:27:29.71
To whom it was given to
destroy this earth saying,
00:27:29.74\00:27:33.42
"Don't do it, don't do
it, hurt not the earth,
00:27:33.45\00:27:35.42
neither the sea, nor the
trees till you have sealed
00:27:35.45\00:27:38.29
the servants of our
God in their foreheads."
00:27:38.32\00:27:41.69
And so you can see
that things are on hold,
00:27:41.72\00:27:43.83
the Holy Spirit being poured out
00:27:43.86\00:27:45.63
and latter rain
power is on hold.
00:27:45.66\00:27:49.20
The loud cry is on hold,
the time of trouble is on hold,
00:27:49.23\00:27:52.83
the seven last place can't fall,
00:27:52.87\00:27:54.47
the battle of
Armageddon can't be fought,
00:27:54.50\00:27:56.54
Jesus cannot come.
00:27:56.57\00:27:58.17
And why is it?
00:27:58.21\00:27:59.54
It's because the
servants of our God
00:27:59.57\00:28:01.78
are not sealed
in their foreheads,
00:28:01.81\00:28:03.78
we're not prepared,
we're are not ready.
00:28:03.81\00:28:08.48
I don't know how I'm
going to emphasize this tonight.
00:28:08.52\00:28:11.75
I really, really don't.
You know we're in trouble.
00:28:11.79\00:28:15.99
If I ask you where in
the Bible we should go to see
00:28:16.02\00:28:21.06
what is the
problem with God's people?
00:28:21.10\00:28:23.06
Where would you look?
00:28:23.10\00:28:25.13
Well, it's very easy,
00:28:25.17\00:28:26.50
that's right, it's Revelation 3.
00:28:26.53\00:28:28.34
We know that for sure.
00:28:28.37\00:28:29.94
We are neither hot
nor cold, we are lukewarm,
00:28:30.01\00:28:32.94
we are deceived thinking
00:28:32.97\00:28:34.91
that we're better than
we are really, spiritually.
00:28:34.94\00:28:38.15
We feel no need of God
because we are self righteous,
00:28:38.18\00:28:40.98
self sufficient, self satisfied,
00:28:41.02\00:28:43.12
we're spiritually
poor, spiritually naked,
00:28:43.15\00:28:45.05
spiritually blind,
00:28:45.09\00:28:46.59
and the whole, the real problem,
00:28:46.62\00:28:48.16
the bottom line of this
thing is that we don't know it.
00:28:48.19\00:28:52.13
Can you imagine
we don't know it.
00:28:52.16\00:28:53.70
This chapter on Laodicea
00:28:53.73\00:28:56.53
is very, very
clear and clarifying
00:28:56.56\00:28:58.93
what our spiritual condition is.
00:28:58.97\00:29:00.87
We read it all the time,
we preach it all the time,
00:29:00.90\00:29:03.24
and in the end, God looking down
00:29:03.27\00:29:04.94
the annals of times
can point to God's people
00:29:04.97\00:29:07.14
and say, "They don't know it."
00:29:07.21\00:29:09.88
Even though, I have told
them in clear words right here
00:29:09.91\00:29:13.28
in the Bible, we
have not believed...
00:29:13.31\00:29:15.72
but as he call
himself, in the true witness
00:29:19.05\00:29:20.89
and what he has to
say for us in his counsel.
00:29:20.92\00:29:23.66
And the proof of the
fact is that we don't believe
00:29:23.69\00:29:27.13
is that we have
not taken the counsel.
00:29:27.13\00:29:30.50
It's obvious, we have
not taken the counsel.
00:29:30.57\00:29:32.97
"Buy of me gold
tried in the fire,
00:29:33.00\00:29:37.64
and white raiment, and eyesalve.
00:29:37.67\00:29:41.88
You know, God even
sent two young men in 1888,
00:29:41.91\00:29:45.55
in order to
flesh this out for us
00:29:45.58\00:29:47.92
so that we could be better
00:29:47.95\00:29:49.65
or more easily
understand this thing.
00:29:49.68\00:29:52.72
And friends, we've been
like the 10 spies in Numbers 14,
00:29:52.75\00:29:57.46
haven't we?
00:29:57.53\00:29:59.36
God said to them "I'm
going to give you the land,
00:29:59.39\00:30:02.06
go in there and
possess the land."
00:30:02.10\00:30:04.23
And they said, "Well,
couldn't we go in there
00:30:04.27\00:30:06.03
and spy the
land," and the Lord says,
00:30:06.07\00:30:07.90
"Go on in there and tell
me what you think about it.
00:30:07.94\00:30:10.37
It's a great
land, it really is."
00:30:10.41\00:30:12.11
So they go in
there and they come back
00:30:12.14\00:30:13.58
and they say, "It was
great land, it really was.
00:30:13.64\00:30:15.68
But do you know that
there are giants there?"
00:30:15.71\00:30:19.35
There were giants
there. And God said, "So?"
00:30:19.38\00:30:25.29
"Yeah, yeah but you
don't know the walls,
00:30:25.32\00:30:26.92
you know how
high the walls are?"
00:30:26.96\00:30:28.96
And God said, "So?" "yeah.
00:30:28.99\00:30:32.63
But they have iron chariots
and we are like grasshoppers
00:30:32.66\00:30:35.80
in our own site compared
to these people over there."
00:30:35.83\00:30:39.20
And God said, "I didn't
ask you to tackle these giants
00:30:39.23\00:30:42.34
or these walls.
00:30:42.37\00:30:43.74
I told you that
I'm giving it to you."
00:30:43.77\00:30:47.21
And, friends,
it's the same thing,
00:30:47.24\00:30:48.84
it's been the same thing for us.
00:30:48.88\00:30:50.68
When we studied this
thing as a denomination
00:30:50.71\00:30:53.18
we've come to Revelation 14,
00:30:53.21\00:30:55.65
where the three
Angles' messages are
00:30:55.68\00:30:57.72
and we begin to realize
00:30:57.75\00:30:59.75
that God is wanting us
to be like the 144,000.
00:30:59.79\00:31:04.33
With God's character
written in our frontal lobe,
00:31:04.36\00:31:07.73
not corrupted
with false doctrine,
00:31:07.76\00:31:10.43
following Jesus
whether so wherever he goes.
00:31:10.47\00:31:13.70
No guile in our mouth
00:31:13.74\00:31:15.07
and faultless
before the throne of God,
00:31:15.10\00:31:17.07
we need to be
perfect, we need to be ready.
00:31:17.11\00:31:19.71
God wants to make a
special demonstration with us,
00:31:19.74\00:31:22.38
he wants this demonstration
to cover the whole world,
00:31:22.41\00:31:25.58
and we look at it and
say, "Oh, wait a minute,
00:31:25.61\00:31:27.65
it's a lot easier to be just
like other churches around."
00:31:27.68\00:31:30.25
I mean, after all
isn't that a high bar?
00:31:30.29\00:31:33.62
We can't be like that.
00:31:33.66\00:31:36.56
Well, friends I want
to tell you something,
00:31:36.59\00:31:38.49
we are well able to do this.
00:31:38.53\00:31:41.56
Amen. Because it
isn't us doing it.
00:31:41.60\00:31:45.03
It's the same thing
00:31:45.07\00:31:46.47
as for the children
of Israel way back then.
00:31:46.50\00:31:48.97
It's the same thing, God
has promised to work in us
00:31:49.00\00:31:53.51
if we will work it
out just what he gives us.
00:31:53.54\00:31:57.81
In the book Early Writings,
00:31:57.85\00:31:59.95
were I usually get my
impetus is in the chapter
00:32:00.05\00:32:02.95
called The
Shaking, it's on page 269.
00:32:02.98\00:32:05.82
Ellen White is
speaking about the future,
00:32:05.85\00:32:07.66
as future to our
time today, it really is.
00:32:07.69\00:32:10.86
She's speaking of the future
00:32:10.93\00:32:13.03
and she see's
two groups of people
00:32:13.06\00:32:14.96
in the
Seventh-Day Adventist church
00:32:15.00\00:32:16.53
in the future from now.
00:32:16.56\00:32:18.13
And the one group
is with strong faith,
00:32:18.17\00:32:20.50
in agonizing
cries, pleading with God.
00:32:20.54\00:32:23.10
There pictured
perspiring profusely and...
00:32:23.14\00:32:26.11
they have an internal
struggle, an internal struggle.
00:32:29.84\00:32:34.08
Doesn't say what it is,
00:32:34.12\00:32:35.45
just that it's an
internal struggle.
00:32:35.48\00:32:37.25
She pictures another group
00:32:37.29\00:32:38.75
and they're indifferent
about the whole situation
00:32:38.79\00:32:41.82
and doesn't say what
they're fighting about.
00:32:41.86\00:32:43.63
I mean, what the issue is,
00:32:43.69\00:32:45.33
it's just that
it's just that way.
00:32:45.36\00:32:48.50
And for years, I've been
studying this thing on my knees
00:32:48.53\00:32:51.53
and all the while
I've been thinking
00:32:51.57\00:32:53.47
what is it that
will get us to the place
00:32:53.50\00:32:55.87
where we're going
to agonize with God
00:32:55.90\00:32:57.97
like Jacob
agonized with God and said,
00:32:58.01\00:33:00.48
"We won't let you go
except you bless me."
00:33:00.51\00:33:04.68
So something's got to bring
us to that place as a church
00:33:04.71\00:33:07.55
and I always thought, well,
00:33:07.62\00:33:08.95
maybe the national
Sunday law will do it.
00:33:08.98\00:33:10.82
I assume when the
national Sunday law comes,
00:33:10.89\00:33:12.95
if it should hit us any day now,
00:33:12.99\00:33:15.29
I think it would bring
us to our knees, don't you?
00:33:15.32\00:33:18.49
But I've come to realize,
no, that's not going to be it.
00:33:18.53\00:33:21.83
I believe and I got
this, conviction this week
00:33:21.86\00:33:23.97
sometime that the issue
00:33:24.03\00:33:26.40
is somehow the Lord's
going to get through to my brain
00:33:26.43\00:33:29.84
that I am not as
perfect as God wants me to be.
00:33:29.87\00:33:36.04
That I don't
reflect the image of Jesus
00:33:36.08\00:33:38.51
like, he wants me to
reflect the image of Jesus.
00:33:38.55\00:33:42.05
And that I cannot do it,
00:33:42.08\00:33:44.59
all my righteousness's
are as filthy rags,
00:33:44.62\00:33:48.12
there is none
righteous, no, not one.
00:33:48.16\00:33:54.03
But God has
promised to do it, right?
00:33:54.10\00:33:56.63
Yeah.
00:33:56.70\00:33:58.03
What is justification by faith?
00:33:58.07\00:33:59.80
Ellen White says,
"It is the work of God.
00:33:59.83\00:34:02.64
It's his work to lay the
glory of man in the dust."
00:34:02.67\00:34:07.08
That's how he's going to do it.
00:34:07.11\00:34:09.21
One of these days we're
going to wake up groveling
00:34:09.24\00:34:12.65
because we have not by faith,
00:34:12.68\00:34:14.75
follow Jesus
where he wants us to go.
00:34:14.78\00:34:17.09
He's going to bring us there.
00:34:17.12\00:34:19.09
And I can't wait
but at the same time
00:34:19.12\00:34:21.29
I wish I could
bypass this thing.
00:34:21.32\00:34:23.83
It's going to be painful. Yeah.
00:34:23.86\00:34:27.76
And half the church
will be wise in this matter,
00:34:27.76\00:34:30.53
half the church will be foolish.
00:34:30.57\00:34:33.70
I'm still in Early
Writings, page 270,
00:34:33.74\00:34:36.87
want you to hear this.
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"I saw that the
testimony of the true witness
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has not been half heeded."
00:34:41.11\00:34:43.71
Now what is the
testimony of the true witness?
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It's the Laodicean message.
Watch, watch carefully now.
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"The Solemn testimony,
00:34:50.39\00:34:52.32
upon which the
destiny of the church hangs,
00:34:52.35\00:34:55.99
has been lightly esteemed
if not entirely disregarded."
00:34:56.02\00:34:59.46
If our destiny hangs
on the Laodicean message,
00:34:59.49\00:35:04.50
do you think we ought to
take this thing seriously?
00:35:04.53\00:35:07.97
What do you think?
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But you know, God
in His graciousness,
00:35:09.37\00:35:11.17
in the paragraph above,
00:35:11.21\00:35:12.71
he narrows this thing even more.
00:35:12.74\00:35:15.11
The straight
testimony called forth
00:35:15.14\00:35:16.85
by the counsel
of the true witness.
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What God has done
here is taken all Bible,
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and by the way, friends,
we ought to live by every word
00:35:21.88\00:35:24.22
that proceeds out of
the Bible, isn't that true?
00:35:24.29\00:35:26.55
Yes, it's true.
00:35:26.59\00:35:28.16
But God takes the whole Bible,
00:35:28.19\00:35:29.92
he concentrates it down to
one verse, Revelation 3:18,
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and he says, the
destiny of the church,
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the destiny of souls
00:35:36.67\00:35:38.57
hangs upon the
reception of that verse.
00:35:38.60\00:35:43.37
"Buy of me gold
tried in the fire,
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and white
raiment, and eyesalve."
00:35:46.68\00:35:49.01
It's amazing.
That's what it says.
00:35:49.04\00:35:52.18
Now you're
still in Revelation 7,
00:35:52.21\00:35:56.25
"And there we saw
that God send an angel
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with the seal
of the living God."
00:36:00.62\00:36:01.96
Do you know who
that Angel is? Do you?
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Let me read it to
you, Early Writings, 118,
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paragraph 1, "I then
saw the third angel,"
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of Revelation 14,
"said, my accompanying Angel,
00:36:14.27\00:36:18.34
fearful is his work,
awful is his mission,
00:36:18.37\00:36:21.74
he is the angel that is
to seal the wheat from the,
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for the heavenly Garner.'"
00:36:24.78\00:36:26.35
Do you see which angel it is?
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The ceiling
angel of Revelation 7
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is the angel of
Revelation 14, the third Angel.
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In Early
Writings, 258, watch now,
00:36:35.36\00:36:38.39
"I was shown three steps,
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the first second and
third Angels' messages,
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the destiny of souls
hangs upon the manner
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in which they are received."
00:36:47.10\00:36:49.97
The three Angles' messages.
00:36:50.01\00:36:51.94
Now watch what we just
heard, and I don't know
00:36:51.97\00:36:54.78
if you put it
together, but watch,
00:36:54.81\00:36:56.54
"The destiny of souls
00:36:56.58\00:36:57.91
hangs upon receiving
the three Angels messages,
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the destiny of the church hangs
upon receiving the council,"
00:37:00.58\00:37:03.42
of Revelation 3:18.
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So here's the question,
00:37:05.69\00:37:07.12
on how many things
can our destiny hang?
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And I'm here to tell
you it's only one thing,
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because it's one,
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and the same thing
the third Angles' message.
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Have you ever wondered what
the third Angles' message was?
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Why is it that Elle White says,
00:37:19.60\00:37:21.50
"It's righteousness
by faith in verity."
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Well, we're just
seeing it right now,
00:37:23.74\00:37:25.54
the third Angles' message is,
00:37:25.57\00:37:27.58
"Buy of me gold
tried in the fire,
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and white
raiment, and Eyesalve."
00:37:30.68\00:37:33.45
And then I want you to
repent and let me in already.
00:37:33.52\00:37:37.85
Five years ago,
00:37:37.89\00:37:40.86
my vice
president At Eden Valley,
00:37:40.89\00:37:44.23
she was working in the kitchen
00:37:44.26\00:37:46.19
and I happened to be
walking through the kitchen,
00:37:46.23\00:37:48.26
it was a time of convention.
00:37:48.30\00:37:49.90
I was just walking through
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and she arrested me right there,
00:37:51.30\00:37:53.03
and she said,
"Doesn't Ellen White say,
00:37:53.07\00:37:56.37
that the third Angels'
message is righteousness
00:37:56.40\00:37:58.47
by faith in verity?"
00:37:58.51\00:38:00.51
Well, actually, it
doesn't say that, it says,
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"Justification by
Faith is righteousness."
00:38:01.98\00:38:04.18
But its the same
thing, it's the same thing.
00:38:04.21\00:38:06.78
And I said, "Yes,
that's what it says."
00:38:06.85\00:38:09.25
So she go on to say,
00:38:09.28\00:38:10.62
"How is it then
when our evangelists
00:38:10.65\00:38:13.89
are conducting an
evangelistic series
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and they speak on the
third Angels' message,
00:38:15.66\00:38:18.69
they speak about
the mark of the beast,
00:38:18.73\00:38:20.33
and the and the
resulting wrath of God.
00:38:20.36\00:38:22.80
Where is
righteousness by faith in that?"
00:38:22.83\00:38:27.17
Have you been able
to answer that question?
00:38:27.24\00:38:29.47
You know, I
didn't have much time
00:38:29.50\00:38:30.84
that day I was
just passing through,
00:38:30.91\00:38:32.31
I wasn't thinking
about anything like that.
00:38:32.34\00:38:34.51
But it's amazing
00:38:34.54\00:38:35.88
because I think
today that the Holy Spirit
00:38:35.91\00:38:37.25
must have inspired
me because, I said,
00:38:37.28\00:38:40.82
"It's in there not
explicit in the text.
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It's implied.
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It's there, it's
there by contrast."
00:38:45.49\00:38:48.02
And you know five years later,
00:38:48.06\00:38:49.86
after studying this
thing as long as I have,
00:38:49.89\00:38:54.30
I still believe the same
thing that that's where it is.
00:38:54.36\00:38:57.97
In the beast of Revelation 14,
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you will not find
righteousness by faith.
00:39:01.67\00:39:05.34
You're going to find
righteousness by works,
00:39:05.37\00:39:07.21
you're going to find
righteousness by force,
00:39:07.24\00:39:09.41
you're going to find
righteousness by legislation,
00:39:09.44\00:39:12.55
by flattery, by bribery.
00:39:12.58\00:39:14.55
If nothing else works
00:39:14.58\00:39:15.92
you'll find
righteousness by torture.
00:39:15.95\00:39:17.82
And when it's all said and done,
00:39:17.85\00:39:19.19
there's no righteousness
there at all, none.
00:39:19.22\00:39:21.62
In essence, the
beast does not care a hoot
00:39:21.66\00:39:24.36
about righteousness.
00:39:24.39\00:39:25.73
All he cares about
is control. That's it.
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Theologically, you cannot
find righteousness by faith
00:39:29.56\00:39:33.23
with the beast because the faith
00:39:33.27\00:39:35.87
that you find in righteousness
by faith implies self-distrust,
00:39:35.90\00:39:40.18
which necessitates
putting our faith in God
00:39:40.21\00:39:42.91
for righteousness.
00:39:42.94\00:39:45.88
With the beast, we are
expected to put our faith
00:39:45.91\00:39:49.28
in the traditions of men,
in church decrees and creeds,
00:39:49.32\00:39:53.56
in
ecclesiastical pronouncements.
00:39:53.59\00:39:56.12
We are expected to put the human
00:39:56.16\00:39:58.06
above the divine.
00:39:58.09\00:39:59.46
And, friends, that always leads
00:39:59.49\00:40:00.90
to the mark of the
beast, that's what it is.
00:40:00.93\00:40:02.93
It's in forcing human
dogma above the word of God.
00:40:02.96\00:40:07.54
That's all it is,
that's what it is,
00:40:07.60\00:40:09.27
it is righteousness by faith
in the message by contrast.
00:40:09.30\00:40:14.44
Now you and I have
two problems, of course,
00:40:14.48\00:40:16.75
and we're
already looking at them.
00:40:16.81\00:40:18.65
First of all, we've never
felt our need of the counsel
00:40:18.68\00:40:21.85
of the true witness.
00:40:21.88\00:40:23.25
And the reason for that is
we've been comparing ourselves
00:40:23.28\00:40:26.35
among ourselves.
00:40:26.39\00:40:27.72
We look at other denomination
and it's obvious to see,
00:40:27.76\00:40:31.16
doctrinally they don't match up,
00:40:31.19\00:40:33.36
because we have based our
doctrines on the word of God
00:40:33.40\00:40:37.03
and they have based
their doctrines on traditions
00:40:37.10\00:40:39.33
and a mixture
of the word of God.
00:40:39.37\00:40:41.17
And it hasn't worked for them,
00:40:41.20\00:40:42.54
and we could debate
them any time and win.
00:40:42.57\00:40:45.14
And because we do,
00:40:45.17\00:40:46.81
we think we're doing really well
00:40:46.84\00:40:48.54
and we're ill focused,
ill focused all together.
00:40:48.58\00:40:53.75
We have a form of godliness.
00:40:53.78\00:40:55.68
But we deny the power thereof,
00:40:55.72\00:40:58.52
because the
righteousness of Christ
00:40:58.55\00:41:00.16
has not been internalized.
00:41:00.19\00:41:02.29
There isn't anything I want more
00:41:02.32\00:41:03.96
than to experience
Christ as my righteousness,
00:41:04.03\00:41:07.50
to have them take
possession of this individual
00:41:07.50\00:41:10.53
and to work through me
00:41:10.57\00:41:11.90
so that he can do
whatever he wants.
00:41:11.93\00:41:14.94
What can God do if he
gets hold of you and me?
00:41:14.97\00:41:18.41
He can do anything.
00:41:18.44\00:41:20.54
The second thing
that is a problem
00:41:20.58\00:41:22.54
is that generally speaking,
00:41:22.58\00:41:24.28
we do not understand
the three Angels' messages.
00:41:24.31\00:41:28.75
We don't.
00:41:28.78\00:41:31.25
In 1888,
Materials, 165, paragraph 4.
00:41:31.29\00:41:36.32
There are few and Ellen
White will saying in one place,
00:41:36.36\00:41:39.49
not 1 in 100, there are few
00:41:39.53\00:41:42.56
even of those who
claim to believe it
00:41:42.60\00:41:45.07
that comprehend the
three Angels' messages,
00:41:45.10\00:41:47.77
and yet, this is the
message for this time.
00:41:47.80\00:41:52.04
How many of you are
living in this time?
00:41:52.07\00:41:55.58
That's a stupid question.
We're all living in this time.
00:41:55.61\00:41:59.18
I'm living in this time
00:41:59.21\00:42:01.02
and this message
is for this time.
00:42:01.05\00:42:03.05
Don't tell me it's
not applicable today.
00:42:03.08\00:42:06.76
Then she says, just
five more little words,
00:42:06.79\00:42:09.59
"It is present truth."
00:42:09.62\00:42:14.00
Our ASI secretary
treasurer in January made a trip
00:42:14.00\00:42:17.63
to another continent,
and they had meetings on,
00:42:17.67\00:42:22.50
at ASI they had a big ASI
meeting on another continent
00:42:22.54\00:42:26.21
and there were officials there.
00:42:26.24\00:42:27.58
And after the meetings,
00:42:27.61\00:42:28.94
a group of
officials all got together
00:42:28.98\00:42:30.71
and eventually during
that meeting one official,
00:42:30.75\00:42:33.48
I'm not going to tell you
whether he is an ASI official
00:42:33.52\00:42:36.69
or non-church
official or who he is.
00:42:36.75\00:42:38.55
But an official
stood up and said,
00:42:38.59\00:42:40.76
"I don't see what the three
Angels' messages have to do
00:42:40.82\00:42:44.09
with our identity."
00:42:44.13\00:42:47.50
And our secretary
treasurer jaw dropped like...
00:42:47.56\00:42:52.70
How can that be?
00:42:52.73\00:42:54.07
That doesn't make any sense.
00:42:54.10\00:42:55.44
How is it then that we
have three Angels' message,
00:42:55.47\00:42:59.04
three Angels'
pictured on our marquees
00:42:59.07\00:43:01.48
before the churches,
00:43:01.51\00:43:02.84
and our walls
outside the church,
00:43:02.88\00:43:04.75
and on our walls
inside the church,
00:43:04.78\00:43:06.28
and on the pulpit,
00:43:06.31\00:43:07.65
three Angels'
messages everywhere, 3ABN even.
00:43:07.68\00:43:11.59
Why do we go there
00:43:11.62\00:43:12.95
if we don't
understand what it means,
00:43:12.99\00:43:14.39
if it has nothing to
do with our identity.
00:43:14.42\00:43:17.66
Now you might say, poor people.
00:43:17.69\00:43:22.26
Well, don't say poor people.
00:43:22.30\00:43:24.93
If I was to call you
up, could you explain to me,
00:43:24.97\00:43:30.71
to us what the
three Angels' messages
00:43:30.77\00:43:34.04
have to do with our identity?
00:43:34.08\00:43:36.61
Could you?
00:43:36.64\00:43:37.98
I don't want to be
too hard on anyone,
00:43:42.15\00:43:45.15
after all it took me 40
years to make a connection
00:43:45.19\00:43:48.56
between Revelation 14 to
third Angle to Revelation 7,
00:43:48.59\00:43:55.76
to understand
that the sealing Angel
00:43:55.80\00:43:59.30
is the Angle of Revelation 14.
00:43:59.33\00:44:02.67
It took me 40 years to
realize that the message,
00:44:02.70\00:44:07.21
"Buy of me gold
tried in the fire,"
00:44:07.28\00:44:08.91
is the three Angels' messages,
00:44:08.94\00:44:10.85
to us and to the world as it is.
00:44:10.88\00:44:14.32
Do you know that
we call the Angels,
00:44:14.35\00:44:16.35
the fourth Angel
in Revelation 18,
00:44:16.38\00:44:19.22
that he gives a loud
cry of the third Angel?
00:44:19.25\00:44:23.26
Do you see that
third angel is everywhere.
00:44:23.29\00:44:27.40
Because we're living
at this time and God wants
00:44:27.40\00:44:30.87
and wants us to understand
what this is all about
00:44:30.93\00:44:33.80
and how important it is for us.
00:44:33.84\00:44:37.47
You and I are in
specials spiritual trouble.
00:44:37.51\00:44:44.01
Did you ever hear the
phrase in the Old Testament,
00:44:44.05\00:44:47.95
'The God of our fathers,
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob?'
00:44:47.98\00:44:51.69
Did you ever hear that?
00:44:51.72\00:44:53.19
Why is it that God bunches
up those three names like that
00:44:53.22\00:44:57.23
in the Old Testament so often?
00:44:57.29\00:44:59.43
Well, the reason is
because it takes Abraham, Isaac,
00:44:59.46\00:45:03.06
and Jacob to produce Israel.
00:45:03.10\00:45:06.20
That's what it is.
00:45:06.23\00:45:08.04
These are simple
symbols of course,
00:45:08.07\00:45:10.21
and Abraham is known for what?
00:45:10.24\00:45:14.64
Faith, right?
00:45:14.68\00:45:16.14
Sure, he believed God
00:45:16.18\00:45:17.85
and it was
accounted to him for what?
00:45:17.88\00:45:19.81
Righteousness.
00:45:19.85\00:45:21.18
He believed God so much
he was willing to sacrifice
00:45:21.22\00:45:23.82
that upon which he had bestowed
the most affection ever.
00:45:23.89\00:45:27.96
That's how much he had faith,
00:45:27.99\00:45:29.56
when God asked
him to do something,
00:45:29.59\00:45:30.99
he trusted God in the matter.
00:45:31.03\00:45:32.66
It's amazing.
00:45:32.69\00:45:34.00
Now Isaac, what
is Isaac, known for?
00:45:34.10\00:45:37.80
He's a child of promise.
00:45:37.83\00:45:40.40
I don't know how long
Abraham and Sarah were married,
00:45:40.44\00:45:43.47
50 years, 60
years, 70 years, 80 years.
00:45:43.51\00:45:47.24
Do you think that in this time
00:45:47.28\00:45:48.61
they did not try
to have children?
00:45:48.64\00:45:51.75
My guess is they were
always trying to have children.
00:45:51.78\00:45:54.32
How long would they
have had to continue to try
00:45:54.35\00:45:57.65
in order to
succeed to have children?
00:45:57.69\00:46:00.19
They could never have
done it because she was barren,
00:46:00.22\00:46:02.76
could not have children.
00:46:02.79\00:46:04.19
The only reason
they had children
00:46:04.26\00:46:06.06
is because God had
promised to give it to them
00:46:06.09\00:46:08.40
and he worked an
absolute miracle,
00:46:08.43\00:46:11.80
it was a creative act.
00:46:11.83\00:46:15.70
Do you know that we
need to be born again?
00:46:15.74\00:46:18.67
Do you know that you can't...
00:46:18.71\00:46:21.11
how many people
can make themselves,
00:46:21.14\00:46:24.55
can bring
themselves into this world?
00:46:24.58\00:46:27.25
It doesn't work
that way, we can't do it.
00:46:27.32\00:46:31.19
And it was especially
hard for Abraham and for Sarah,
00:46:31.22\00:46:34.06
of course, it was a miracle.
00:46:34.09\00:46:37.03
The third one on our
list of course, is Jacob.
00:46:37.06\00:46:40.03
Now Jacob is a
special individual
00:46:40.10\00:46:41.66
and I'd like to focus on
him because we are like Jacob,
00:46:41.70\00:46:45.30
we are
spiritual, we are religious.
00:46:45.33\00:46:47.50
He wanted the birth
right, he wanted the blessing,
00:46:47.54\00:46:49.57
he wanted the
priesthood of the family
00:46:49.60\00:46:51.41
right from the beginning.
00:46:51.44\00:46:52.77
The angle had told
his mother, didn't he?
00:46:52.81\00:46:56.85
That he would have the blessing,
00:46:56.91\00:46:58.35
he would have the birth right,
00:46:58.38\00:46:59.71
he would be the
spiritual priest in the family.
00:46:59.75\00:47:02.05
He wanted it.
00:47:02.08\00:47:03.42
He didn't want anything
bad, he wanted something good.
00:47:03.45\00:47:05.85
The only problem is
he didn't have any tools
00:47:05.89\00:47:07.89
by which to bring
this thing to happen,
00:47:07.92\00:47:10.49
so he worked with what he had.
00:47:10.56\00:47:13.83
And he had a
collaring temperament.
00:47:13.86\00:47:17.77
And he got what he wanted,
00:47:17.80\00:47:19.40
but in the end he
didn't get what he wanted.
00:47:19.43\00:47:21.97
No, no.
00:47:22.00\00:47:24.21
He had to cheat his brother,
he had to lie to his father,
00:47:24.24\00:47:26.78
he had to
connive with his mother,
00:47:26.81\00:47:28.61
he thought he
got what he wanted,
00:47:28.64\00:47:30.45
and all he got is
exiled from his mother
00:47:30.48\00:47:32.68
and from his
family for 20 years.
00:47:32.71\00:47:35.55
He comes back 60
to 90 years later,
00:47:35.58\00:47:37.95
excuse me, he comes back
00:47:37.99\00:47:40.46
when he is 60
to 90 years of age.
00:47:40.49\00:47:42.92
I don't know
exactly how old he was,
00:47:42.96\00:47:45.06
and different people you talk
to tell you different things.
00:47:45.09\00:47:49.40
And then his brother
comes with an army to meet him.
00:47:49.43\00:47:53.20
Jacob is scared to death
because he knows it's his fault
00:47:53.23\00:47:56.37
and he deserves
what he's going to get.
00:47:56.40\00:47:58.47
So he gets on his
knees to pray with God,
00:47:58.51\00:48:00.61
he's going to
claim two promises.
00:48:00.64\00:48:02.21
God said, "You go out
there and I'll protect you."
00:48:02.24\00:48:04.35
That's one promise.
00:48:04.38\00:48:06.51
And while he's praying
and pleading this promise,
00:48:06.55\00:48:08.68
somebody comes along,
puts his hand on his shoulders,
00:48:08.72\00:48:10.92
he thinks it's an enemy,
00:48:10.95\00:48:12.29
and he wrestles from midnight
to the breaking of the day.
00:48:12.32\00:48:15.06
That's a long time to
wrestle, I'll tell you that.
00:48:15.09\00:48:19.29
Eventually he realizes
00:48:19.33\00:48:21.30
that who he is
wrestling with is Jesus Christ,
00:48:21.33\00:48:23.77
and he lays hold on Jesus,
00:48:23.80\00:48:25.70
he lays hold on
Jesus, and he agonizes.
00:48:25.73\00:48:28.67
With strong faith
and agonizing cries
00:48:28.70\00:48:31.01
he pleads with God,
00:48:31.04\00:48:33.01
I will not let you go
until you convert my soul,
00:48:33.04\00:48:37.95
until you give me a new
heart, and a new spirit.
00:48:37.98\00:48:40.22
Has God promised
to do that for us?
00:48:40.25\00:48:43.49
Is it true? Do you have it?
00:48:43.52\00:48:46.15
Do you have it to the
extent that God can use you
00:48:46.19\00:48:50.56
to enlighten the whole
world with his own character?
00:48:50.63\00:48:54.83
That's what it's all
about. That's what we want.
00:48:54.86\00:48:58.67
That's what is
righteous by faith.
00:48:58.70\00:49:01.07
In 7 BC...
00:49:01.10\00:49:02.64
Thank you.
00:49:02.67\00:49:04.04
In 7 BC, pages
980, paragraph 3, watch,
00:49:04.07\00:49:08.38
"Everything is now at stake."
00:49:08.41\00:49:12.15
How many things?
00:49:12.18\00:49:13.95
Everything is at
stake, now, at this time.
00:49:13.98\00:49:17.79
"The third Angels' messages
00:49:17.82\00:49:20.29
is to be regarded as
of the highest importance.
00:49:20.32\00:49:23.12
It is a life
and death question."
00:49:23.16\00:49:26.13
That's what she writes.
00:49:26.16\00:49:27.50
Now let me tell you
something, it is for me.
00:49:27.56\00:49:32.30
Everything that the
Laodicean message has to say
00:49:32.33\00:49:34.97
about the Laodicean
church applies to me.
00:49:35.00\00:49:38.01
I am neither hot
nor cold, I am lukewarm,
00:49:38.04\00:49:40.88
I'm self-sufficient,
I'm in self righteous,
00:49:40.91\00:49:43.78
I'm complacent, I'm indifferent,
00:49:43.85\00:49:45.38
and all the other adjectives
that Ellen White could use.
00:49:45.41\00:49:48.88
Now would I be wrong
to think for a moment
00:49:48.92\00:49:50.69
that I'm alone in this thing?
00:49:50.72\00:49:52.19
No.
00:49:52.22\00:49:53.56
Why are we here
on 171 years later?
00:49:53.59\00:49:56.83
This is why.
00:49:56.86\00:49:58.19
Why haven't we taken
this thing seriously?
00:49:58.23\00:50:00.33
Why are we running with it?
00:50:00.40\00:50:01.76
Do you see how
important this is to God.
00:50:01.80\00:50:04.03
This is the only thing
that's delaying his coming.
00:50:04.07\00:50:07.30
Volume 9, page 19, paragraph 1,
00:50:07.34\00:50:11.17
"Seventh-Day Adventists
have been given a work
00:50:11.21\00:50:13.54
of the most solemn importance,
the most solemn importance,
00:50:13.58\00:50:18.15
the proclamation
00:50:18.18\00:50:19.51
of the first, second
and third Angels' messages.
00:50:19.55\00:50:21.48
They are to allow nothing
else to absorb their attention."
00:50:21.52\00:50:24.92
How many other
things? Nothing else.
00:50:24.95\00:50:27.86
Well, friends, we
have allowed other things
00:50:27.89\00:50:30.09
to absorb attention.
00:50:30.13\00:50:31.99
From soup to nuts
we have allowed it.
00:50:32.03\00:50:34.93
In Testimonies to
Ministers, 331, paragraph 2,
00:50:34.96\00:50:38.30
"The third Angels' message
is to be our burden of warning.
00:50:38.33\00:50:42.60
The side issues are
not for us to meddle with."
00:50:42.64\00:50:46.14
So what are we doing
00:50:46.17\00:50:47.64
all tangled up in
women's ordination,
00:50:47.68\00:50:50.68
in spiritual formation,
in jazz with mysticism,
00:50:50.71\00:50:53.65
in reinstating dead feasts
00:50:53.68\00:50:55.42
and basing the
Sabbath on the lunar calendar,
00:50:55.45\00:50:57.85
in denying the personhood
of the spirit of Holy Spirit.
00:50:57.89\00:51:00.86
In promulgating
conspiracy theories
00:51:00.89\00:51:03.19
that fly through
our inboxes every day
00:51:03.22\00:51:06.53
should we leave all
that confusion to Babylon?
00:51:06.56\00:51:10.07
Shouldn't we? That's
why Babylon is confused.
00:51:10.13\00:51:13.80
Why do we go there?
00:51:13.84\00:51:16.07
Especially when God
has given us a message
00:51:16.10\00:51:20.54
that we'll turn
this world upside down,
00:51:20.58\00:51:23.21
we get all
involved everywhere else.
00:51:23.24\00:51:24.71
Do you know why
Babylon has fallen?
00:51:24.75\00:51:27.82
Go with me to
Genesis 11, Genesis 11.
00:51:27.85\00:51:34.92
This of course is the
story of the fall of Babylon.
00:51:34.96\00:51:38.93
There's a man there
by the name of Nimrod.
00:51:38.96\00:51:41.16
He's a mighty hunter
according to the Bible.
00:51:41.20\00:51:43.53
According to Google,
00:51:43.60\00:51:44.93
they say that his
name is kind of a by-word.
00:51:44.97\00:51:47.70
You're just such an
Nimrod. Like, you're so stupid.
00:51:47.74\00:51:51.24
Who in the world can think
to get to heaven using brick
00:51:51.27\00:51:53.24
and mortar, that's
pretty dumb really.
00:51:53.31\00:51:55.61
But you know
that wasn't the issue,
00:51:55.64\00:51:57.28
that wasn't the issue.
00:51:57.31\00:51:59.85
We're in Genesis 11,
the issues in verse 3, 4,
00:51:59.88\00:52:04.49
"And then they said
to one another, go to,
00:52:04.52\00:52:07.56
let us make
bricks and by implication
00:52:07.59\00:52:10.73
let us burn them thoroughly."
00:52:10.76\00:52:12.96
Verse 4, "And they said,
go to, let us build us a city,
00:52:12.99\00:52:16.97
and by implication,
00:52:17.03\00:52:18.37
let us build us a tower
whose top reach unto heavens,
00:52:18.40\00:52:20.84
and let us make a name,
lest we be scattered abroad
00:52:20.90\00:52:24.77
over the face of
the whole earth."
00:52:24.81\00:52:27.91
That's the issue friends.
00:52:27.94\00:52:29.64
Let us, five
times in two verses.
00:52:29.68\00:52:32.41
Let us, we can't trust
God, let us save ourselves.
00:52:32.45\00:52:36.89
Let us do religion our way.
00:52:36.95\00:52:38.99
Let us make a
name for ourselves.
00:52:39.02\00:52:41.32
And Nebuchadnezzar
had the very same issue.
00:52:41.36\00:52:43.43
You member in the
Book of Daniel 4:30,
00:52:43.49\00:52:49.90
"Isn't this Babylon
00:52:49.93\00:52:51.27
that I have built for my glory?"
00:52:51.30\00:52:54.34
And on and on he went.
00:52:54.37\00:52:55.80
What happened to poor
old King Nebuchadnezzar?
00:52:55.84\00:53:00.68
And what about his grandson?
00:53:00.71\00:53:03.35
When Daniel
approach him, in Daniel 5
00:53:03.38\00:53:05.58
and I'm going to
skip going over there,
00:53:05.61\00:53:07.22
you know the story.
00:53:07.25\00:53:09.08
He said, "Though you
have known all these things,
00:53:09.12\00:53:13.69
yet, you took all
the glory to yourself."
00:53:13.76\00:53:18.76
You turned your back
on God, you did religion
00:53:18.79\00:53:22.13
the Babylonian way.
00:53:22.16\00:53:24.57
Well, friends, what about us?
00:53:24.60\00:53:29.47
Isn't that the whole issue?
00:53:29.50\00:53:34.04
We can't save ourselves.
There isn't anything we can do.
00:53:34.08\00:53:40.18
You heard Pastor
Bradshaw this morning,
00:53:40.22\00:53:45.05
amazing sermon on
Righteousness by Faith.
00:53:45.09\00:53:47.82
How clearly he
said it out there,
00:53:47.86\00:53:50.99
"Can an
Ethiopian change his skin?
00:53:51.03\00:53:53.66
Can a leopard change his spot?
00:53:53.70\00:53:55.46
Neither are ye who are
custom to do evil do good.
00:53:55.50\00:53:58.77
You can't, you can't. You can't.
00:53:58.80\00:54:01.27
And unless you get God to
work a miracle on your behalf,
00:54:01.30\00:54:04.41
you're going to do
religion human way."
00:54:04.44\00:54:07.18
You're going to
do the best you can
00:54:07.21\00:54:08.54
with what you've got
00:54:08.58\00:54:09.91
and what you've
got is not sufficient.
00:54:09.94\00:54:11.28
It's not going to work,
there is none righteous,
00:54:11.31\00:54:13.31
no not one, all our
righteousness is filthy rags,
00:54:13.35\00:54:17.09
God needs to
work a miracle in us.
00:54:17.12\00:54:19.22
He needs to give us the
gift of his own righteousness
00:54:19.25\00:54:22.19
so that he glorifies himself
in this world through us.
00:54:22.22\00:54:28.86
That's what it is. Lord
help us what he is saying.
00:54:28.90\00:54:32.67
I'm going to
invite you to stand.
00:54:38.67\00:54:43.11
And we're going
to pray together,
00:54:43.14\00:54:44.48
then you can sit down again,
00:54:44.51\00:54:45.85
because we're going
to introduce our team.
00:54:45.88\00:54:48.88
Shall we stand?
00:54:48.92\00:54:50.25
Heavenly Father,
Lord, we understand.
00:54:54.02\00:55:01.00
I don't know why
it is that as a church
00:55:01.03\00:55:02.83
we've never fully
bought into your plan.
00:55:02.86\00:55:06.94
Why the Three Angle's messages
haven't made the impression
00:55:06.97\00:55:09.74
they should have
made on our hearts.
00:55:09.77\00:55:12.34
Why it is that we do church
like other people do church,
00:55:12.37\00:55:16.54
in our own strength
with our own wisdom,
00:55:16.58\00:55:20.65
fighting among ourselves
00:55:20.72\00:55:22.75
while all the while
all we would have to do
00:55:22.78\00:55:24.72
is get on our knees
and ask you to show us
00:55:24.75\00:55:26.69
and we just have to follow.
00:55:26.76\00:55:28.49
Lord, forgive us, we failed you.
00:55:28.52\00:55:32.06
But thank you,
thank you, thank you,
00:55:32.09\00:55:34.56
for the gift of
your righteousness
00:55:34.56\00:55:36.43
and forgiveness,
and for your love
00:55:36.46\00:55:39.67
and we know that
it's not too late
00:55:39.70\00:55:42.67
and we're going
to follow through.
00:55:42.70\00:55:44.74
Bless as we
pray, and we thank you.
00:55:44.77\00:55:47.18
In Jesus' name, amen.
00:55:47.24\00:55:49.24
Though you are homeless
00:55:56.32\00:56:00.69
Though you're alone
00:56:00.72\00:56:04.73
I will be your home
00:56:04.76\00:56:11.93
Whatever's the matter
00:56:11.97\00:56:16.00
Whatever's been done
00:56:16.04\00:56:20.28
I will be your home
00:56:20.31\00:56:27.92
I will be your home
00:56:27.95\00:56:35.59
I will be your home
00:56:35.62\00:56:43.10
In this fearful fallen place
00:56:43.13\00:56:51.04
I will be your home
00:56:51.07\00:56:58.71
When time reaches fullness
00:57:02.32\00:57:06.45
When I move my hand
00:57:06.49\00:57:10.66
I will bring you home
00:57:10.69\00:57:17.90
Home to your own place
00:57:17.93\00:57:21.57
In a beautiful land
00:57:21.60\00:57:25.71
I will bring you home
00:57:25.74\00:57:33.01
I will bring you home
00:57:33.05\00:57:40.56
I will bring you home
00:57:40.59\00:57:48.00
From this fearful fallen place
00:57:48.03\00:57:55.97
I will bring you
00:57:56.00\00:58:00.61
Home
00:58:00.64\00:58:06.01
I will bring you
00:58:06.05\00:58:11.52
Home.
00:58:11.55\00:58:18.86