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Series Code: 15GYC
Program Code: 15GYC000013B
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00:34 Amen. Good morning, everyone.
00:36 Good morning. 00:37 I nearly said happy Sabbath, it's not a happy Sabbath, 00:40 it's a good Sunday morning. 00:42 And I'm very happy to be here with you 00:43 and haven't we've been blessed at GYC this year? 00:47 I come from a land far, far away. 00:50 I come from Australia 00:51 and I can't wait to go back home 00:53 and take back a good report of all that 00:55 we have been blessed with 00:57 and that we've been fed with here 00:59 at this conference session. 01:00 And it's my just great privilege now 01:03 to be able to share with you a message 01:05 that the Lord has placed on my heart. 01:08 And I pray that as you hear this message 01:10 that it will not make you feel comfortable 01:13 but that you'll leave this place discontent. 01:16 Would you bow your heads with me 01:17 as we open with the word of prayer? 01:20 Loving Father in heaven, 01:22 we thank You Lord for bringing us to this moment. 01:25 We thank You Lord for the many blessings 01:27 that You have given to us here this weekend. 01:30 And Lord as we study the Bible again together 01:33 for the last time here, 01:35 we invite Your Holy Spirit to be present in our midst. 01:39 I pray Lord that You would speak through me 01:41 that You would speak through me to Your people 01:43 and You would give to us a message 01:46 that we need to hear this morning. 01:48 May Jesus be uplifted 01:50 and may we be inspired to service is my prayer 01:53 in Jesus' name, amen. 01:55 Amen. 01:56 It was a Sunday morning back home in Australia 02:00 and I was upstairs in my bedroom 02:02 when I heard a scream come from downstairs 02:05 in our house and it was my mom. 02:07 So I rush downstairs, 02:08 there was my mom and my dad 02:10 and they were trying to get the dishwasher out 02:13 from inside our kitchen, 02:15 they were trying to pull the dishwasher out and I said, 02:17 "What's the matter?" 02:19 And my mom said, 02:20 "There is a snake in the house." 02:21 I said, "Really, how big is it? 02:23 Well, it sounded pretty big from all the descriptions 02:25 that I heard, 02:26 and so dad got the dishwasher out 02:29 and then we were all 02:30 just trying to poke things underneath 02:32 the cavity there in the kitchen. 02:34 And we couldn't seem to find 02:35 the snake beneath the cupboards. 02:38 And as the longer and longer time went on, 02:40 I began to wonder if there really was a snake 02:43 in the house after all because I thought, 02:45 maybe my parents were making it up. 02:47 My sister had an ingenious idea. 02:50 She decided to get a stick 02:52 and she taped her iPhone to it with the camera 02:56 and she stuck it in the hole with the torch 02:58 just to see, 02:59 if we could see if the snake was there 03:00 and there was nothing that we could see there. 03:03 And so that night we sat around in the kitchen 03:06 and we were watching that cavity there 03:08 as we were eating our dinner that night 03:11 and then when we decided to go to sleep, 03:13 I recognized that the next day 03:16 everybody else in my house was going to be going to work 03:20 and I was going to be the only one home the next day. 03:23 Well, the next day comes and everybody goes 03:26 and they apologize to me 03:27 that they had to leave me at home with the snake. 03:30 And I'm wondering, you know, maybe there isn't even a snake, 03:33 maybe it was just a big lizard or something like that. 03:35 Well, the phone rings and I answered the phone 03:38 and it was somebody from church 03:40 and they wanted to know something 03:41 so I answered their question. 03:43 And I said, "Well, it's about lunch time here, 03:44 I'm going to go downstairs and have lunch with the snake." 03:48 They said, "Really?" 03:49 And I explained the story how I'd come downstairs 03:52 when I heard my mom scream. 03:54 And he started to tell me how in South America 03:57 they have snakes so large, they could eat people. 04:00 And I don't know if that's true 04:02 but I was having all these mental pictures in my mind 04:05 of these giant snakes and I'm thinking, 04:06 oh, great, now I'm going to go downstairs 04:08 and have lunch with one. 04:10 So I come down the stairs and I opened the doors 04:14 because I closed everything 04:15 because I didn't want the snake coming upstairs. 04:17 I'm looking around, 04:19 I thought I can't see anything 04:20 everything looked the way I left it. 04:22 I thought I'm just gonna go check the family room, 04:25 the rumpus room. 04:26 So I went into the rumpus room and I did something, 04:29 I don't usually do 04:31 and I don't recommend you do this, 04:32 but I jumped onto the lounge. 04:35 And when I jumped into the lounge, 04:36 I looked on the other side of the lounge 04:38 and there was a snake looking at me, 04:41 I screamed, it screamed, 04:42 I ran, it ran 04:44 and I went straight back upstairs 04:47 shut my bedroom door and I sat there, 04:49 and I realized that there was a snake in my house 04:52 and I'm in my room 04:53 and it could go anywhere now in my house 04:56 and I wouldn't know where it went. 04:57 So I came back downstairs 04:59 and instead of going to the rumpus room, 05:01 I ran outside 05:02 and I'm looking at the snake 05:04 inside my house from the outside. 05:07 And I took my phone out and the first person 05:10 that I thought of calling was my dad 05:12 because my dad has always been my protector, 05:14 he's always been there to keep me safe. 05:16 My dad that works in the city maybe an hour away, 05:19 but I called him anyway and I said, 05:21 "Dad, I found the snake." 05:23 He says, "Oh, good. 05:24 I said, "It's inside the house, it's here in the house." 05:26 And he says, "Great, let it out." 05:30 I said, "Dad, I can't just go and let snake out." 05:33 And so he says, "Well, 05:34 that's the only way you're gonna get it out." 05:36 So I thought well, if dad can't help me, 05:38 I'll call my mom. 05:40 My mom is a Bible worker for our church back home. 05:42 And she was in the middle of the Bible study 05:44 when she took my call. 05:46 I said, "Mom, I found the snake." 05:48 She said, "Praise the Lord, 05:49 she said, let me pray with you." 05:52 I said, No, I need you here, I need help." 05:55 My sister was working 05:57 and so it was just me and the snake 05:58 and I figured all right, I'm all alone here, 06:01 it's just me, the snake and the Lord, 06:02 so I took our phone, 06:04 our home phone and I clipped it to my waist, 06:07 I put gloves on and I put, 06:09 took a broom in my hand and a good can of Mortein. 06:12 Do you know what Mortein is? 06:13 No, in Australia it's a bug spray. 06:16 So I had a bug spray, a broom, gloves and my phone. 06:19 And I took the highest chair from our kitchen 06:22 and I planted it there and I watched the snake. 06:25 It had gone beyond the piano 06:27 and it stuck its head up on the other side 06:29 and it would come out like this, look at me, 06:31 I would look at it and it would stand up, 06:33 it get scared, go back behind the piano 06:35 and I just sit down again waiting. 06:38 That siege went on for two whole hours. 06:44 I sat there watching it, it sat there watching me 06:46 until finally it went behind the piano 06:49 and I thought all right, 06:50 I've got gloves on, this should be okay, 06:51 so I ran over open the doors, 06:54 ran back sat there and finally he slithered outside. 06:57 And you know what? 06:59 It was just a little green tree snake 07:00 so it wasn't even poisonous or anything like that. 07:03 But still in my mind 07:05 it was a very courageous moment. 07:07 And as I think of this incident, 07:11 it reminds me, you know, 07:13 it wasn't fun being in that siege moment, 07:16 but I can tell you what, 07:17 there was a much more serious siege 07:20 that the Israelites had to endure. 07:21 You see, for the Israelites there was no way of escape, 07:25 there was no glass door for them 07:27 to let the enemy out of. 07:29 Israel was outnumbered 07:31 by one of the most powerful armies in the world. 07:34 Flight was impossible, 07:37 fight was out of the question 07:38 and fright seem to be the only option. 07:42 The Syrian army had surrounded the city of Samaria 07:47 and they were going to stay there, 07:48 they were prepared to continue their patient siege 07:52 until either the Israelites surrendered 07:54 or starved to death. 07:56 And things were so bad, I want you to see it with me. 07:59 Come back in time with me in your Bibles 08:02 to the Book of 2 Kings, 2 Kings 6, 08:07 and we will begin our reading in verse 25. 08:11 2 Kings 6:25, 08:17 we'll read through to 29. 08:19 2 Kings 6 and the Bible reads in verse 25. 08:25 "And there was a great famine in Samaria, 08:28 and indeed they besieged it, 08:30 until a donkey's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, 08:34 and one fourth of a kab of dove's droppings 08:38 for five shekels of silver. 08:41 Then as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, 08:44 a woman cried out to him, saying, 08:46 "Help my Lord, Oh king!" 08:49 And he said, "If the Lord does not help you, 08:51 where can I find help for you? 08:53 From the threshing floor or from the winepress?" 08:56 Then the king said to her, "What is troubling you? 08:59 And she answered, 09:00 "This woman said to me, 'Give your son, 09:03 that we may eat him today, 09:05 and we will eat my son tomorrow.' 09:07 So we boiled my son and ate him. 09:10 And I said to her on the next day, 09:12 'Give your son, that we may eat him.' 09:14 But she has hidden her son." 09:17 So, friends, the insanity and the horror of this famine 09:21 under this siege was so great, 09:24 that mothers were boiling and eating their own children. 09:28 Now whenever I travel and I call home, 09:31 my parents, my mom always asks me 09:33 how things going and all of that, my dad, 09:35 the first question he asks me is always the same, 09:39 he wants to know what I'm eating. 09:40 Says, what you're eating. 09:41 My dad is from Samoa 09:43 and it's an island in the South Pacific 09:45 and my mom is from Australia. 09:47 So if I look mixed up that's the reason why, 09:49 and so food is very important to Samoans, 09:52 so that's why dad just wants to know what the food is, 09:55 and so I have now taken into everywhere I go, 09:58 I make it a habit to photograph my food 10:00 so that I can show him. 10:01 But I tell you what, 10:03 the food was not worth photographing back in Samaria. 10:06 Things were so bad 10:07 and all the king could do about it 10:09 as you continue to read the passage was that 10:11 he would tear his clothes 10:13 and weep as he walked along the walls of his doomed city. 10:17 In Patriarch, Prophets and Kings it says, page 258, 10:22 "Never had Israel been brought into 10:24 so great a strait as during this siege. 10:28 The sins of the fathers were indeed 10:30 being visited upon the children and the children's children." 10:35 Friends, Israel had forgotten two things. 10:38 Number one, that she served a powerful God, 10:41 and number two that she needed to trust Him. 10:44 And don't ever think that 10:45 the devil isn't trying to convince you 10:48 to forget those two things 10:49 as well that you cannot trust God 10:52 and that He is not powerful enough to help you. 10:55 He knows that if he can succeed in starving us 10:58 from the bread of life 11:00 and from drinking from the fountain of living waters 11:02 that we too will turn to biting and, 11:06 and to treating one another with contempt 11:08 through gossip and criticism, 11:10 selfishness and hate. 11:13 If he can convince us 11:14 to live off other people's sermons 11:16 whether they are on YouTube or AudioVerse. 11:19 If he can convince us to live of the spiritual food 11:22 we might find and spiritual names 11:24 on Facebook or Instagram. 11:26 He knows that we are on the sure word 11:29 to eventually being starved to death 11:31 because we are learning to lean on others 11:34 instead of learning to lean on Jesus and His word. 11:38 But, friends, when hope seemed hopeless, 11:42 God had a message of hope for His people 11:45 and announcement of hope for them. 11:48 That even though they had turned their bags on Him, 11:51 the Holy Spirit, 11:53 he comes upon the Prophet Elisha. 11:55 And Elisha gives a message to Joharam the King 11:59 and the message is this that within 24 hours 12:03 the famine would be over 12:05 and there would be enough food for everyone. 12:08 Let's read what happens in 2 Kings 7:1-2, 12:14 "Then Elisha said, Hear the word of the Lord, 12:17 thus says the Lord, 12:19 tomorrow about this time a seah of fine wheat 12:23 shall be sold for a shekel, 12:25 and two seahs of barley for a shekel 12:28 at the gate of Samaria. 12:29 So an officer on whose hand 12:31 the king leaned answered the man of God, 12:34 and said, look if the Lord would make windows in heaven, 12:37 could this thing be? 12:39 And he said, in fact you shall see it with your eyes, 12:42 but you shall not eat of it." 12:45 You know what? 12:47 They might get the announcement 12:48 for the winner of Miss Universe from, 12:51 but the God of the universe never makes mistakes 12:54 when He makes announcements. 12:55 Amen. Amen. 12:57 By the way when I do this that means amen. 12:59 So, friends, the officer of the king though 13:02 when he hears this announcement from the prophet's lips, 13:05 he finds it too hard to believe in the promise of God. 13:09 He rejects the promise and so the prophet says, 13:12 that because he rejects the promise 13:15 he would miss out on the promised blessing. 13:18 Do not reject the promises of God, 13:21 trust in the promises of God because watch this, 13:24 while this is happening, just outside the city 13:28 there is an incredible story unfolding. 13:30 And we continue to read in verse 3, 13:33 "Now there were four leprous men 13:36 at the entrance of the gate 13:39 and they said to one another, 13:41 'Why are we sitting here until we die?" 13:45 Outside the city that is starving to death, 13:49 outside those walls sits four men. 13:53 And these men are not just miserable, 13:56 they're not just wretched, 13:57 they are hungry and not only that, 14:00 but they are diseased. 14:02 The Bible tells us they are lepers. 14:04 As my sister said to me, 14:05 at least nobody wanted to eat them, 14:07 that's probably the only good thing 14:09 about their predicament right now. 14:11 And they were so cut off from society, 14:14 they've been removed from society, 14:15 they're outside the walls, and you know what, 14:18 sometimes in these cultures if a family member had leprosy, 14:22 not only would they banish them from the city, 14:24 but the families back home 14:26 would even hold the funeral service for them. 14:29 They were dead to them 14:30 as far as their families were concerned, 14:32 that's how cut off they were. 14:35 These men were living off the garbage 14:37 that was let down over the wall to them 14:40 but because there was no food in the city, 14:42 you can imagine there hasn't been a lot of garbage 14:45 that has been let down over the wall to them. 14:48 And by the way as a little side note, 14:50 I used to think that leprosy was a disease that 14:52 ate away at your limps. 14:54 Actually what it does is it numbs your nerves 14:57 so that you feel no pain at all, 14:59 which is why you damage your extremities to the point 15:03 where you can lose them 15:04 or they get infected without notice 15:06 because nothing hurts. 15:09 So they have nothing, they're lepers, 15:12 they're outside the city, 15:13 they're dying not only of the corruption 15:16 of their diseased flesh but they're dying 15:19 because they've eaten nothing for days. 15:21 And it's within this context 15:24 that one of them turns to the others 15:27 and he says with bloodshot eyes, 15:30 "Why are we sitting here until we die." 15:34 It's one of the most profound questions in all the Bible. 15:38 Why are we sitting here until we die? 15:41 He was discontent to continue with the way things were 15:46 and so he goes on to suggest in verse 4, If we say, 15:50 "We will enter the city the famine is in the city, 15:54 and we shall die there: 15:56 if we sit still here, we die also. 15:58 Now therefore come, 16:00 and let us surrendered to the army of the Syrians, 16:03 if they keep us alive we shall live 16:05 and if they kill us, we shall only die." 16:08 They were in a catch-22 situation. 16:10 If leprosy didn't get them, starvation surely would, 16:14 and so they figured 16:15 they take a chance on the Syrians. 16:17 Maybe the Syrians would have compassion on them. 16:20 But think about this for just a moment. 16:23 If their own countrymen have banished them 16:25 from the city, 16:27 what on earth makes them think 16:29 that the Syrians will have compassion on them? 16:32 What would the Syrians do with four lepers? 16:35 I don't know, 16:37 but God has not forgotten about them. 16:40 Keep reading verse 5, 16:42 "And they rose at twilight 16:44 to go into the camp of the Syrians, 16:46 and when they had come to the outskirts 16:48 of the Syrian camp, 16:50 to their surprise no one was there. 16:53 For the Lord had cause the army of the Syrians 16:57 to hear the noise of chariots, and the noise of horses, 17:00 the noise of a great army, so they said to one another, 17:04 look, the king of Israel has hired against us 17:07 the kings of the Hittites, 17:09 and the kings of the Egyptians to attack us. 17:12 Therefore they arose and fled at twilight, 17:15 and left the camp intact, their tents, their horses, 17:19 and their donkeys, and they fled for their lives. 17:23 My sister, I mean, she text me on her phone, 17:27 sometimes she's so excited about something 17:29 or she is so busy trying to text me 17:31 as quickly as she can. 17:33 She forgets to correct the spelling 17:35 on the autocorrect that comes through. 17:38 And so my nickname, so my name is Charissa. 17:40 My nick name is Reece, 17:42 but I get texts from her that say, 17:44 hey, Ross where are we going tonight, 17:47 or I get things from her that says, 17:49 "Hey, Russ, I'm catching the bus 17:50 or something like this." 17:52 One morning I got a text from her that said, 17:54 "Hey, Russ, I have something amazon to tell you." 17:58 I want to tell you 17:59 we are at an amazon moment here in scripture. 18:03 Friends, nothing is too hard for God. 18:06 No situation is too hard for God. 18:09 Can God help you? Yes, He can. 18:11 No matter what you face, can God help you? 18:14 Yes, He can. 18:15 I work in the Adventist Media Center 18:17 back home in Sydney. 18:19 And some of our, 18:21 some of my colleagues they went overseas, 18:23 they went to Novo Tempo in Brazil. 18:25 And they came back with an amazing testimony 18:27 that they heard there. 18:29 They were told the story of a student there 18:32 who was attending a university 18:34 and one of their exams fell on a Sabbath. 18:37 So they had a choice, 18:38 do they sit the exam on Sabbath 18:39 or do they honor God. 18:41 They chose to honor God 18:42 and the university would not let this student 18:45 change the day of their exam. 18:47 Well, the student prays, guess what, word gets out, 18:51 a wealthy Adventist man 18:53 buys the university 18:54 and the student is able to sit their exam. 18:57 So listen, it has to be a true story 19:01 because it was told at the Adventist Media Center. 19:03 Now listen, if there is a seed, God can split it. 19:08 If there is a furnace, God can cool it. 19:11 And if there is a siege, 19:12 God can break it with the soundtrack, 19:15 a good one, 19:16 that's what he did right here to an absolute miracle. 19:19 There was now an abandoned abundance of food 19:23 and things for an army of at least 100,000 men 19:28 right outside the gates of a city 19:30 that was starving to death 19:32 and going to bed afraid every night. 19:35 They had no idea 19:37 what was just outside the walls. 19:39 Verse 8, 19:42 "And when these lepers came to the outskirts of the camp, 19:45 they went into one tent, and ate and drank, 19:48 and carried from it silver, and gold, and clothing, 19:51 and went and hid them, 19:53 then they came back and entered another tent, 19:55 and carried some from there also, 19:57 and went and hid it." 20:00 So, friends, the curtain rises on a new sin, 20:03 and in my mind's eye, 20:05 I can see all four of them 20:07 stealing softly into the Syrian camp at twilight. 20:12 Perhaps as they come in, they're trembling, 20:14 their hands are already raised in ready surrender, 20:18 shh, softly, 20:20 your tread is loud enough to wake the dead, 20:23 if they're sleeping, let's not wake them, 20:25 shh, come on, guys, keep it down. 20:28 And as they come into the camp, 20:30 one of them enters the first tent that they reach, 20:34 hands up, he looks in 20:36 and next thing the others hear is guys, 20:38 guys come and see this, 20:41 you've got to see this, nobody here. 20:43 Really, are you sure? 20:45 Yeah, come in, come and see. 20:48 I haven't seen a table like this 20:50 since Thanksgiving. 20:51 And so all four of them enter into the tent 20:55 and sure enough the tent is empty. 20:59 And there on the table 21:00 right in front of them is a warm meal, 21:03 it's freshly prepared 21:04 and so they come 21:06 and no one needed to suggest what needed to happen 21:08 next they could eat that food, 21:09 it is gone and as they're eating, 21:11 they look around the tent, and 21:12 they see gold and silver and oh, 21:15 designer Syrian clothes all around them. 21:18 And so they change their clothes 21:19 and decide to bank their bounty 21:22 beneath the nearest tree stump. 21:24 On and on throughout the night, these four ravenous lepers, 21:29 they go from tent to tent 21:31 hoarding and hiding all that they could carry. 21:34 You and I cannot even begin to imagine 21:38 the delirious joy that these lepers felt that night. 21:42 They had more food than they could have wanted 21:45 or eaten in a lifetime. 21:47 They had gone from rags to riches in a single day. 21:52 Truly, God had opened the windows of heaven for them. 21:56 And, friends, isn't this what it's like 21:58 when we find Jesus. 21:59 Come on now. 22:00 Isn't this what it's like, 22:02 do you remember what it feels like, 22:03 what it felt like when you first fell in love with Jesus 22:06 because, friends, these lepers I believe are a picture of us. 22:11 Sin, all sin is terminal but, friends, 22:15 as soon as there was sin, there was a savior. 22:18 And when we come to Jesus, 22:20 what do we find more than we could ever imagine? 22:23 We find amazing grace, blessed assurance, 22:27 showers of blessing and a love that will not let us go, amen. 22:31 We find that for God so loved the world 22:34 that He gave His only begotten Son 22:37 that whoever believes in Him 22:39 should not perish but have everlasting life. 22:42 That's what we find when we come to Jesus. 22:45 But notice what happens next. 22:47 Verse 9, "Then they said to one another, 22:50 we are not doing right, 22:53 this is a day of good news and we remain silent, 22:56 if we wait until morning light, 22:58 some punishment will come upon us, 23:01 now therefore come let us go 23:03 and tell the king's household." 23:06 How many tents they had been through 23:09 before this thought finally hits one of them? 23:13 The Bible doesn't say, 23:14 all we know is that 23:16 as they're feasting in one of those tents, 23:19 suddenly this new thought begins to dawn upon them. 23:23 What are we doing? 23:26 What we are doing right now is scarcely human? 23:30 How can we sit here feasting and hoarding this wealth 23:36 when the whole city filled 23:38 with our family and our friends, 23:40 and our loved ones is about a stones throw away 23:43 and they're dying of starvation just there. 23:47 Their laughter ceases 23:49 and silent descends on these four 23:52 as they now chew upon this new realization 23:57 as they do in silence 23:59 the horror film of the hollow eyes 24:02 and the hideous meals 24:03 back in Samaria replays over in their minds. 24:07 They remember how that very morning 24:09 they had seen the king walking along the walls 24:12 and weeping over their doomed city. 24:15 And suddenly as they remember these things, 24:19 they discovered contentment morphs 24:23 into a strong feeling of discontent 24:27 and they can eat no more. 24:29 Interestingly enough Josephus says that one, 24:32 one of these four was Gehazi, 24:35 the former servant of Prophet Elisha 24:38 who had received leprosy of Naaman, 24:41 the Syrian commander for being greedy. 24:44 You continue to read in Jewish writings 24:46 and they go on further to say that the other three 24:49 who were with him were most probably his three sons. 24:53 And if this is the case, 24:54 then Gehazi was probably the first one 24:57 who came to the realization that they now come to. 25:00 The Hebrew might be translated this way. 25:03 This is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace, 25:07 that is a sin. 25:09 In the Middle East, they say if you know 25:12 where the water is 25:13 and you don't tell somebody about it, 25:15 you don't tell people where the water is, 25:18 they call that the sin of the desert. 25:21 And so we read verse 10 and 11, 25:23 "So they went and called to the gatekeepers of the city, 25:27 and told them saying, 25:28 we went to the Syrian camp 25:30 and surprisingly no one was there, 25:33 not a human sound, only horses and donkeys tied, 25:36 and the tents intact. 25:38 And the gatekeepers called out 25:39 and they told it to the king's household inside." 25:43 Friends, I think 25:45 this is the one of the finest illustrations 25:47 of what it means to share Jesus with others 25:51 that we find in all the Bible 25:52 because, friends, 25:54 true evangelism is just one beggar telling other beggars 25:57 about where they found bread. 25:59 These four lepers told the gatekeepers, 26:02 and the gatekeepers told the king's household 26:04 and before you know it, 26:06 the news of this good news has spread 26:09 right throughout the city of Samaria. 26:11 They were the most unlikely people to rescue a city 26:15 but God often uses the most unlikely people, 26:19 and that means that God can use and I as well. 26:23 Well, friends, I want you to know 26:26 that today is a day of good news. 26:29 I don't know if you watch much of the news 26:31 or read it in the newspapers, but I have watched some news, 26:34 and I had read some of the papers. 26:36 And every time I watch the news or see the papers, 26:39 I'm appalled at what I see there, 26:41 I think, oh, 26:42 I've seen the worst headline but no, 26:43 there is always one that's much worst than that. 26:45 And I want to tell you that today, 26:47 the everlasting gospel of Jesus Christ is still 26:50 the best news that there is. 26:53 And in Matthew 24:14, Jesus said, 26:56 "That before he could come back, 26:58 before he could come back 27:00 this gospel of the kingdom was to be preached in all the world 27:04 and then the end would come." 27:06 And there is one other place in the Bible 27:08 where we find a gospel 27:10 that must go to all the world before Jesus comes back, 27:13 it's in Revelation 14. 27:16 There we find three angel's messages 27:18 and the angels have, 27:20 the first angel, he has the everlasting gospel 27:22 which is to be preached in all the world. 27:24 And as we continue to read this message, 27:26 we discover that one of the reasons 27:29 why the spreading of this message is so urgent. 27:32 It's because there is another city at the end of time 27:35 in a very serious condition like Samaria of all 27:39 who had turned her back on God. 27:41 Babylon is fallen 27:42 and things are so bad that are going on inside of her 27:46 that they are abominations in the sight of God. 27:50 Let me read to you this quote, 27:52 Testimonies volume 9, page 19. 27:55 "In a special sense Seventh-day Adventists have been 27:59 set in the world as watchmen and light bearers. 28:03 To them has been entrusted 28:05 the last warning for a perishing world." 28:09 There is no other warning after this. 28:12 To them has been entrusted 28:14 the last warning for a perishing world. 28:18 On them it's shining wonderful light 28:21 from the word of God, 28:22 they have been given a work of the more solemn import, 28:26 the proclamation of the first, 28:28 second and third angels' messages. 28:31 There is no other work of so great importance, 28:35 they are to allow nothing else to absorb their attention. 28:40 Now let me ask you something. 28:42 If these lepers felt it to be their solemn sacred duty 28:48 to announce deliverance to a perishing city, 28:52 how much more should we feel it 28:54 our solemn sacred duty to share the everlasting gospel 28:58 with the perishing world. 29:01 I want you to imagine something, 29:03 this is a hypothetical or as my friend Sania says, 29:05 the hypothetical situation. 29:07 I want you to imagine that this country, 29:10 the United States of America was experiencing 29:13 a severe famine. 29:16 And we heard about it back in Australia 29:19 and we had compassion, 29:20 we had compassion so we put together 29:22 a fleet of ships 29:24 and we weighted them with life sustaining supplies 29:27 to send help to the United States of America, 29:30 to help the people here. 29:32 And so we sent that fleet off with praise and well wishes, 29:35 but along the way as our fleet is heading for your country, 29:39 they passed Hawaii and they decided to stop. 29:43 And they stopped in Hawaii 29:44 and they liked the beaches there. 29:46 In fact there was some good prospects for business there 29:49 and so they started to trade there, 29:51 and all the while the thought of the dying 29:55 and the perishing in this country 29:57 was pushed out of their minds. 29:59 You know what, if that happened today, 30:01 you and I would look at that 30:03 and we would say that such an action was inhuman. 30:08 I actually just paraphrased, 30:09 I put it in my own words 30:11 an illustration that Ellen White 30:12 uses in her writings, 30:14 and at the end of her illustration, 30:16 she says this, 30:18 Christians are daily repeating this sin. 30:24 Testimonies volume 8, page 25, 30:27 can I read to you another quote? 30:28 Christ Object Lessons, page 303, 30:31 multitudes of perishing, 30:34 "The destiny of a world hangs in the balance. 30:36 But this hardly moves the people, 30:38 hardly moves those who claim to believe 30:41 the most far reaching truth ever given to mortals. 30:44 There is a stupor, 30:46 a paralysis upon the people of God 30:48 which prevents them from 30:50 understanding the duty of the hour. 30:53 Again the Review and Herald, Review and Sabbath Herald, 30:55 "My brother my sister, 30:58 is it nothing to you to know that 31:00 every day souls are going down into the grave unwarned 31:04 and unsaved, 31:06 ignorant of their need of eternal life 31:08 and of the atonement made for them by the Savior. 31:11 These are very strong quotes. 31:14 Spurgeon, the great Baptist preacher, 31:17 one of the greatest preachers 31:19 I think the world has ever seen. 31:20 He loved Jesus so much, 31:23 I love that when I was reading a biography on his life. 31:25 The biographer wrote of how one night 31:28 while Spurgeon was asleep, 31:30 he broke out into a sermon about Jesus in his sleep. 31:34 His wife woke up, took notes, 31:37 handed them to him the next morning 31:38 and he went down to the tabernacle 31:40 and preached it. 31:41 That's how consumed Spurgeon's heart was with Jesus. 31:44 He loved the Lord, but you know what, 31:47 that love for the Lord 31:48 always causes us to love people as well. 31:53 And he loved people, listen to what he said. 31:57 This is, this is good Spurgeon English. 31:59 If sinners will be damped, 32:01 at least let them leap to hell over our bodies. 32:05 And if they will perish, 32:07 let them perish without arms about their knees, 32:10 imploring them to stay if hell must be filled, 32:13 at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, 32:16 and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for. 32:23 There was a family 32:25 and they were traveling home after a family holiday. 32:28 And as they were driving along the road, 32:30 they were enjoying, 32:32 you know, talking in the car 32:33 and they had a little eight year old boy 32:34 and he's sitting in the back seat 32:36 and he's talking away to his mom and dad in the front seat. 32:38 They came over a hill and as they came over a hill, 32:42 another car coming around the corner was flying 32:44 at top speed and it ended up veering into oncoming traffic, 32:48 and as that car comes around, it veers into oncoming traffic, 32:51 next thing you know, this is terrible accident 32:54 and cars and bodies are going places 32:57 and several cars stopped but this family they soared, 33:00 they were shocked and they just kept driving. 33:03 That night, as they are going to go to sleep, 33:07 the father puts his son into his bed 33:10 and the son had not spoken much 33:12 ever since he saw what he saw that afternoon. 33:15 And he says to his son, 33:17 he says, "Son, try to sleep." 33:19 And the little boy was silent, 33:21 and finally he broke out into tears 33:23 and he said daddy, 33:25 how can we sleep when people die. 33:30 My friends, every day thousands are dying 33:35 without any knowledge of Jesus Christ 33:37 or the salvation that he gave to purchase them. 33:41 The salvation he purchased for them by giving his life. 33:45 According to the Adventist Frontier Missions website, 33:48 I got this, this is fresh, 33:50 there are 7, 000 unreached people groups 33:54 representing more than two billion people 33:57 in our world today, 33:58 86 percent of these unreached people groups 34:01 live in the 10/40 window 34:02 which stretches across northeastern Africa 34:05 and across southern Asia as well. 34:08 Not only that but even in our own backyard, 34:11 there are people here 34:12 who have never heard the gospel. 34:14 Most people never attend church 34:16 because no one has ever invited them. 34:19 But Jesus' instruction to you and I has been very clear. 34:23 If He Himself was here to give this charge this morning, 34:27 He would be telling us to go there for 34:30 into all the world and teach them, 34:32 baptizing them in the name of the Father, 34:34 the Son, and the Holy Spirit. 34:35 He would be charging us to go and share the gospel. 34:39 So my friends, how can we sit here? 34:42 How can we just come to conference after conference 34:44 and just sit here and be satisfied like this? 34:48 Paul could not be satisfied 34:50 with sitting around and doing nothing. 34:51 In 1 Corinthians 9:16, he says, 34:55 Woe is onto me if I preach not the gospel. 34:58 He was committed to the gospel of Christ. 35:01 Too many of us are like this man who went, 35:05 who professed conversion 35:06 and he was talking with his minister 35:08 and the minister said to him, have you joined the church, 35:11 have you joined the church and the man said, "No, 35:14 I'm a converted man 35:15 and I don't need to join the church 35:16 because the dying thief, he never joined the church. 35:20 Well, do you talk to your neighbors about Jesus? 35:23 No, the dying thief, 35:24 he never talked to his neighbors about Jesus. 35:27 I don't think I have to. 35:28 Well, do you support missions in any way? 35:31 Do you give to missions? 35:32 The man looked at his pastor, said pastor, 35:35 the dying thief never gave to missions 35:38 and he was promised eternal life. 35:40 Well, said the minister, my friend, 35:42 the difference between the two of you is that 35:45 he was a dying thief and you are living one. 35:49 Sometimes I wonder 35:51 if maybe God had told us the gospel was a secret, 35:55 maybe it would have spread more quickly 35:56 because we don't want to tell everybody about it. 35:59 Friends, the world needs to know 36:01 that there is a fountain filled with blood 36:04 and sin is plunged beneath 36:06 that flood lose all the guilty stains. 36:09 People need to know the gospel, 36:11 everybody deserves to know about Jesus. 36:15 How can we sit here and do nothing? 36:20 I don't know, oh, 36:22 probably that came from America, Popeye, 36:24 are you familiar with Popeye? 36:26 Okay. 36:27 We have that in Australia too. 36:30 Well, some of you might have grown up 36:31 watching a bit of Popeye, the sailorman. 36:34 And you will remember that Popeye, 36:35 he has a girl in his life it's Olive 36:38 and every time Olive is in trouble, 36:41 Popeye usually come the minute changes. 36:44 He gets so worked up and if, 36:47 if she is in danger 36:48 or if something could potentially harm Olive, 36:50 he explodes, and he shouts, 36:54 that's all I can stand, I can't stands it no more. 36:57 And he pops the can of spinach downs it 36:59 and off it goes and saves Olive 37:01 from whatever could happen to her. 37:02 You know what? 37:04 I think we need to have a Popeye moment as a church. 37:08 We cannot be contempt to let this go on like this. 37:12 Do you think that God is content 37:15 to let the world perish around us like this? 37:18 No. 37:20 How can we be content when God is not content? 37:24 The divine discontent, 37:25 oh, that is in the heart of God or to stir us, 37:29 in order to touch us, in order to move us as well. 37:33 Oh! 37:35 Amen. 37:36 Friends, Calvary happened 37:38 because the heart of God could not be content 37:42 until the way of salvation had been made for you and I. 37:46 The Godhead was rent asunder 37:48 because God could not bear 37:49 the thought of an eternity without you. 37:52 The Bible tells us in Romans 5:8, 37:54 but God demonstrates His own love toward us in that 37:58 while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 38:03 We have got to lay our lives down 38:06 for the purposes of God. 38:09 This is not a Sabbath picnic. 38:11 It's not an eternal potluck. 38:14 This is an invitation to challenges. 38:18 It's not an invitation 38:20 to continuously good and happy times. 38:22 Friends, we are at war. 38:24 Lives, eternal destinies are at stake. 38:27 After the terrible events of September 11, 38:30 a pastor in your country, 38:32 he said these words in a passionate sermon, 38:34 he said, "My mind is forever branded 38:38 with the story that I heard of police officers 38:40 from the city of New York. 38:43 As people were fleeing from a crumbling building, 38:46 there were police officers and firemen 38:49 and others running toward the building 38:52 saying run for your life at their own peril, 38:56 and in some cases he said, 38:58 I believe they knew they were going to die 39:01 but there was a sense of duty. 39:03 Oh, that our own sense of duty would not be less 39:08 for God's kingdom than that of the police officers 39:11 and firemen who had, 39:12 they had for those who are perishing 39:14 in a burning falling tower. 39:17 Amen. 39:19 Time I believe is running out. 39:22 The clock of prophecy is ticking. 39:25 I think we would be stunned speechless 39:28 if we knew how much time we really have left. 39:32 The situation is serious, it's the saints who are not. 39:37 Friends, Testimonies volume 8, page 28 says, 39:41 Christ gave himself for sinners. 39:45 When we truly know, 39:48 when we truly understand and meditate 39:51 on how God bankrupted heaven for you 39:54 and for me when we truly know the love of God for us, 39:58 then we two will get this, 40:00 we will have this burning divine 40:02 discontentment in our hearts 40:05 for the salvation of the world around us 40:07 and it will consume us. 40:09 We'll think about it all day, 40:11 we will toss and turn over it at night 40:13 because it grips us, 40:15 it will kick and scream inside of us 40:17 until we will say I can't stand this no more, 40:20 Lord, please send me, 40:22 show me how I can reach out 40:24 to the perishing world around me 40:26 and take the gospel to them. 40:29 Well, our theme verse 40:30 for this whole weekend has been 40:33 from Revelation 17:14, 40:36 if you want to read it with me, 40:37 please go there, Revelation 17:14. 40:48 Revelation 17:14, 40:50 we probably should have this memorized by now. 40:53 It says, "These will make war with the Lamb, 40:56 and the Lamb will overcome them, 40:58 for He is Lord of lords and King of kings, 41:01 and those who are with Him are called chosen 41:06 and faithful." 41:08 Friends, those who are with him are called chosen and faithful. 41:14 Every heart with Jesus. 41:17 Every heart that has Jesus living 41:19 inside of it is a missionary. 41:22 And every heart without Jesus is a mission field. 41:26 When we have a relationship with Jesus, 41:29 when we have this relationship with the Lamb, 41:32 his mission becomes our mission. 41:35 We too will want to be about our Father's business as well. 41:39 Amen. 41:40 Dwight Moody, an amazing wonderful soul winner. 41:44 He once made a vow, 41:47 never to let a day go by 41:49 without witnessing to at least one person. 41:52 One night he was going to go to sleep, 41:55 it was 10 pm at night and then he realized something. 41:59 He hadn't shared Jesus with anybody that day, 42:02 so he put his coat on walked outside, 42:04 and the first man he found standing underneath a lamp post 42:08 or a light post, 42:09 he said, "Excuse me, friend, 42:10 do you know Jesus Christ?" 42:12 That man broke out into a rage. 42:15 Who do you think you are? 42:16 Where do you come from?" 42:18 He found himself that man went 42:19 and found the elder of the church 42:21 and he complained about what Moody was doing 42:23 and how he had accosted him on the street 42:25 and the elder pleaded with Moody, 42:27 please stop what you are doing. 42:29 Try and do things differently. 42:31 Moody didn't changed, he continued to do this 42:33 and you know what, three months passed 42:37 and the man eventually came to Moody's home and apologized. 42:41 And when he apologized, he told him, 42:44 how that question that Moody had asked him 42:46 that had set his mind thinking and asking questions. 42:49 God had let him on a journey 42:51 and Moody was able to lead that man 42:53 in a prayer of surrender to the Lord Jesus Christ. 42:56 Moody was an uncultured, untrained, shoes salesman. 43:01 He was not ordained. 43:02 And yet God used him to lead thousands of people 43:07 to faith in Jesus Christ. 43:10 Friends, estimates vary, 43:11 but it is taught that he has lead us, 43:15 he lead, sorry, 43:16 as many as a million people 43:18 to profess faith in Jesus Christ. 43:22 If God can use Moody, God can use us as well. 43:26 We should do that as well. 43:28 It takes courage to share Jesus today 43:32 and it took courage to share the good news with the city 43:36 that was already cutting them off for those lepers. 43:39 It was a brave thing to go back to the people 43:42 who had mistreated them, 43:43 who had ignored them and despised them. 43:46 But, friends, those lepers went back, 43:48 because they felt that upon them 43:50 rested the duty of saving Samaria 43:54 and to delay even till the sun again reddened 43:57 the morning sky would be to sacrifice life. 44:02 To keep their secret for just 24 hours 44:06 might mean that hundreds back home 44:08 might die of starvation within the walls of Samaria. 44:12 And this brings me to another point, my friends, 44:15 the divine discontentment of heaven, 44:17 when we catch it, 44:18 when we feel it, 44:20 it will stir us to action for the world around us. 44:24 Doing nothing is not an option for us. 44:28 We get one chance at life, this is it. 44:32 You and I were made for a mission. 44:35 Amen. Amen. 44:38 We have to do that again. 44:39 You and I were made for a mission. 44:43 The great commission, 44:44 and notice it's the great co-mission, 44:46 when we go, we do not go alone, 44:49 God is with us. 44:51 It's time you and I felt discontent, 44:53 the divine discontentment of heaven 44:56 burning in our hearts over our own spiritual refuge, 45:00 and over the salvation of the lost 45:02 and starving souls around us. 45:04 GYC, that's you. 45:06 I want to charge you this morning to be discontent. 45:11 Be discontent with your devotions 45:14 until your devotional life draws you 45:16 into great devotion to Jesus. 45:19 Be discontent with your prayer life 45:21 until your prayers are red hot with sincerity 45:24 and total surrender. 45:26 Let us be discontent until like Moody, 45:29 we have shared the everlasting gospel of Jesus, 45:32 either by word or deed with someone every day. 45:37 Let us be discontent 45:39 until our churches are active 45:41 centers of soul winning and evangelism. 45:44 And if you must gossip, gossip the gospel. 45:47 Let us be discontent 45:49 until our board meetings are busy 45:51 not with deciding the color of the carpet, 45:54 but with the prayerful development of a plans 45:57 for the urgent and strategic sharing of the gospel 46:00 with the perishing world around us. 46:03 Let us be discontent 46:05 until our oath on the altar of sacrifice is laid 46:09 and our hearts does the Holy Sprit 46:12 have full control over. 46:13 Amen. 46:15 Oskar Schindler was the member of the Nazi Party 46:19 and he is responsible for saving 46:22 over 1, 100 Jews in Poland 46:25 during the holocaust, amazing story. 46:28 More than 6,000 people are today alive in Europe, 46:32 The United States and Israel as a result of what he did. 46:37 When Germany finally surrendered, 46:40 Schindler knew that he was a wanted man 46:42 for using the Jews as slave laborers and so, 46:47 there is a film that portraits his story and his life, 46:50 and at the end of the film there is a powerful scene 46:53 and I want to relate it to you right now. 46:55 In the last scene of this film, 46:58 Schindler is surrounded by the 1,000, a 1,000 Jews, 47:02 whom he has saved by having them work for him 47:06 and his accountant turned friend Itzhak Stern, 47:10 I hope I said that right. 47:12 He gives Schindler a gold ring 47:14 and on that ring is an inscription 47:17 which Stern translates for him, 47:19 and he says this, its Hebrew from the Talmud, it says, 47:23 "Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire." 47:27 And Schindler is deeply moved by this gift 47:30 and by all those that surround him, 47:32 who are thanking him for what he has done for them. 47:36 He says, "I could have got more out, 47:38 I could have got more." 47:41 Stern reassures him, it's okay, Oskar, 47:43 there are 1, 100 people alive because of you. 47:48 He says, "If I had made more money, 47:50 I threw so much away, 47:52 if I had made more money, you have no idea. 47:54 I did, I just didn't do enough." 47:57 And he is weeping again, Stern says, "You did so much, 48:00 it's okay." 48:01 Schindler laments, this car, why did I keep this car. 48:05 There are ten people right here, 48:07 ten people right here, 48:09 he takes off his Nazi batch, 48:12 it's a lapel and it was made of gold, 48:13 he says, this is gold. 48:15 Two more people right here, at least two, may be one, 48:18 they would have given me at least one more person. 48:21 I could have saved one more person. 48:25 My friends, Jesus is coming soon 48:29 and when he comes, 48:30 he's goanna split open that eastern sky, 48:33 he's goanna come with all the holy angles of heaven, 48:36 and on that day when every eye will see him. 48:39 It won't matter how much money we have in the bank. 48:42 It won't matter what car we drove. 48:46 It won't matter even how many GYCs we went to. 48:50 The only thing that will matter is whether or not 48:52 we have been faithful to Jesus 48:54 and faithful to his course in sharing the gospel. 48:58 Because, friends, if we don't share who will? 49:01 We've got to tell others about Jesus. 49:04 I believe that God is going to move 49:07 in a mighty way through his church 49:10 in the very near future. 49:12 I believe that the greatest days of this 49:14 great advent movement are just in front of us. 49:17 God is going to pour out his spirit 49:20 with Pentecostal power, latter rain power and, friends, 49:24 God's people are going to rise up 49:25 and this world will be impacted with the love 49:28 and the light of God 49:29 with his truth and with his glory 49:31 and the work will be finished. 49:34 And in the same way that God took care of the enemy 49:37 that surrounded Samaria, 49:39 God will take care of the battle as well. 49:41 The battle is not ours, it is God's, 49:44 but we must take care of the good news. 49:47 We must take that good news to our king's household, 49:51 because the king's household is in every kindred, 49:54 nation, tribe, tongue and people. 49:56 They are in Australia. 49:58 They are in New Zealand. 49:59 They are in Mexico. 50:01 They are in Peru. 50:02 They are in the jungle villages of India. 50:04 They are in the teaming millions of China. 50:06 They are in the Middle-East as we've heard on Sabbath. 50:08 Friends, they are everywhere, 50:09 they are in the islands of the sea, 50:11 and they are waiting for someone 50:13 to come and share the gospel with them, 50:15 someone to come and bring the bread of life to them, 50:18 so that their heart hunger can be satisfied and, 50:21 friends, we haven't. 50:24 How can we sit here and do nothing. 50:27 This is the day of good news. 50:30 Amen. 50:31 This is the day of good news. 50:33 And God's heart is aching. 50:35 It is longing, it is yearning 50:37 to feed a hungry world through us 50:41 with the bread of life. 50:42 I want you to know that as I speak these words, 50:46 that I feel like I am preaching to myself. 50:49 So I look at my own life, 50:51 I am appalled at the indifference 50:53 that I showed to a perishing world around me. 50:56 And today I want to commit to change, 50:59 but I want to invite you to meditate, 51:01 we are going to sing a song right now. 51:03 My friend Sania and my sister Marleta 51:05 and I are going to sing a song, 51:07 it's called 'My house is full but my field is empty'. 51:11 As the song is sung, 51:13 I pray that you'll be blessed by the message 51:15 but at the end of it, 51:16 I'm going to ask you to make a commitment. 51:31 There is peace and contentment 51:37 In my Father's house today 51:42 Lots of food is on his table 51:48 And no one is turned away 51:52 There is singing and laughter 51:57 As the hours pass by 52:02 But a hush calms the singing 52:07 As the Father sadly cries 52:16 My house is full 52:21 But my field is empty 52:27 Who will go and work for me today 52:37 It seems my children all 52:41 Want to stay around my table 52:47 But no one wants to work in my field 52:57 Push away from the table 53:02 Look out through the windowpane 53:06 Just beyond this house of plenty 53:11 Lies a field of golden grain 53:16 And it's ripened unto harvest 53:21 But the reapers, where are they? 53:26 In the house Oh, count the children 53:30 Hear the Father sadly say 53:39 My house is full 53:44 But my field is empty 53:50 Who will go and work for me today 54:00 It seems my children all 54:04 Want to stay around my table 54:10 But no one wants to work in my field 54:20 My house is full 54:25 But my field is empty 54:30 Who will go and work for me today 54:40 It seems my children all 54:43 Want to stay around my table 54:49 But no one wants to work in my field 55:01 No one wants to work in my field 55:07 In the harvest field now ripened 55:13 There's a work for all to do 55:19 Hark! the Master's voice is calling 55:26 To the harvest calling you 55:40 Amen. 55:42 My, friends, that is the message 55:45 that I want to leave you with, 55:47 that his house is full but his field is empty. 55:51 Who will go? 55:52 Will you go? 55:53 If you are content with the way things are in your life 55:58 and in your church, 56:00 then don't respond to this appeal. 56:02 But if you sense the divine discontentment of heaven 56:06 for the way things are in this world 56:08 for the lost and perishing that are around us 56:10 and you are willing to say, 56:12 Lord, here I am, send me, I will go. 56:15 Then if that is the case would you stand to your feet 56:18 wherever you are, 56:19 because we want to be discontent with the same divine 56:22 discontentment of heaven today. 56:25 Let us pray together. 56:27 Our loving Father in heaven, 56:29 you see us standing before you now 56:31 because we get it, we feel it, 56:34 we feel the burden on your heart 56:37 for the lost and perishing that are around us. 56:39 We recognize that you have blessed us 56:42 and to whom much is given much is required. 56:45 Lord, I pray, 56:47 that this divine discontentment in our hearts, 56:50 it will grip us, it will stir us, 56:52 it will make us toss and turn at night until we say, 56:55 Lord, take us, use us, send us wherever you need us, 56:59 because we want to share 57:01 what you have given with us to others. 57:03 And so, Lord, we thank you, 57:05 we praise you for Jesus. 57:06 We thank you for the many blessings, 57:08 for the good spiritual fruit that we have had here. 57:11 But, Lord, as we go, 57:13 bless us as we go, go with us 57:15 and may we find many 57:17 whom we are able to share 57:19 the gospel of Jesus Christ with. 57:21 So that one day soon when Jesus comes, 57:23 we won't have to pray with eyes closed. 57:26 But we will look up, 57:27 we will see you face to face 57:29 and not only we, but our loved ones, 57:31 our friends and those whom 57:33 we have been able to labor for and work for 57:36 to bring the gospel to them as well. 57:38 And so, Lord, thank you for blessing us now, 57:41 our lives are in your hands as we leave this place, 57:44 in Jesus' name we pray. 57:45 Amen. 57:46 God bless you, you may be seated. |
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