In a world
surrounded by darkness,
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there is a voice that
whispers to every young heart,
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urging them to find
the treasure of truth.
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Those who follow the path
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will discover eternal riches
beyond their wildest dreams.
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Join us now for an
"Amazing Adventure,
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A Journey for Life with Jesus."
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Good evening,
friends, welcome again
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to an "Amazing Adventure."
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We're so glad
that you are joining us
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where ever you are,
you might be at a home,
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perhaps you at a church,
maybe you're at your school,
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where ever you might
be, welcome to the program.
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We're so glad that you're
here and to all of our children
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here in the
Dallas area in Texas,
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welcome I am glad you're here.
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You're looking
really good today,
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dressed in your
Amazing Adventure T-shirts.
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Has anyone looked at the
study guide for last night
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and filled in the
answers, done the activities,
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looks like
almost all of you did.
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You know these
study guides are filled
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with all kinds of
great amazing facts.
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I was just
looking at the study guide
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that you're gonna get tonight.
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Did you know that a
few days ago when we had,
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Hurricane Ike, make
his way up into Texas.
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The wind was about
110 miles per hour.
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But on Neptune, the average wind
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is about 1,200 miles per hour,
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that's pretty strong, isn't it?
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Well, you'll
find that and a whole
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lot of other interesting
facts in the study guide,
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so be sure to get it on
your way out this evening.
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Also for those of our
sites, the different sites,
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the coordinators tonight
will be using our decision card,
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so you might want to
get that ready pass that,
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Doug, will call for it
at the end of the program.
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For more information
about the study guides
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or the Bibles
that we've been using,
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please visit the
Amazing Facts Kids website.
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It's amazingfactskids.org.
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Let's stand as we sing
together "Life Is An Adventure."
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Life is an
adventure Following the King
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Everyday with Jesus
Makes us want to sing
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Walking in the
spirit He will lead the way
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With His word to guide
us Glowing deep inside us
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Nothing can divide
us Following the King
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Life is an
adventure Following the King
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Everyday with Jesus
Makes us want to sing
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Conquering with
kindness Everywhere we go
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Voices we are
raising Jesus we are praising
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Life is so
amazing Following the King
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Life is so
amazing Following the King
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Please remain standing as
we have our scripture reading
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and prayer for this evening.
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I'm gonna invite our two
volunteers to come forward.
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I'm gonna ask us if you
would introduce yourself.
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Tell us your name
and how old you are?
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My name is, Bahomie Thalehemann,
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and I am 12 years
old, all right thank you.
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What is the scripture that
you're gonna be reading today?
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We're going to be reading
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John Chapter 14 verses 2 and 3.
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"In my Father's
house are many mansions,
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if it were not so, I
would have told you so.
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I go to prepare a place for you.
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And if I go and
prepare a place for you,
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I will come again and
receive you to Myself,
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that where I am,
there you may be also."
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All right, well,
thank you very much.
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Tell us your
name, how old you are?
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My name is, Madeline,
and I am 13 years old.
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Thank you, Madeline,
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you're gonna have the
prayer for us this evening.
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Let's bow our heads as we pray.
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Dear Jesus, thank you for today,
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thank you for
all you've given us.
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Please let this
rest of the day be good
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and keep us safe,
in Jesus name, amen.
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Amen, thank you very much.
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I'm gonna invite, Pastor Doug,
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to come forward for
our Bible questions.
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Well, Pastor Doug,
here we've another program
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this evening and we
have some video questions.
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So let's start with that.
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All right, we're
ready to do that.
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My name is Elyse,
I am nine years old
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and my question is, where
is the Garden of Eden, now?
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That's a good question.
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We all know about
the Garden of Eden,
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that beautiful
paradise that the Lord made
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in the very beginning,
everything was perfect.
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The Bible tells us, God said
it was good, good, very good.
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Now, that was God's
garden, he planted it.
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And of course
after the flood of Noah,
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some people say they discovered,
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the Garden of Eden, but
nobody has really discovered it.
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I believe that
the Garden of Eden,
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and the Bible doesn't
specifically say this,
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but I believe that
the Garden of Eden,
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was taken up by
the Lord to Heaven
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and it will be in
the New Jerusalem.
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Now the Bible does say
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in Revelation
Chapter 21 and Chapter 22.
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You've got the tree of life
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that was in the Garden of
Eden, is gonna be in heaven.
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And I think the
Lord did something
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to preserve that tree.
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You know the Bible
tells us in Revelation 21,
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the New
Jerusalem, we have a lesson
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coming on that is gonna come
down from God out of heaven,
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when Jesus comes back or
at the end of the 1,000 years.
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If God can bring a
city down out of heaven,
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can he take a
Garden up into heaven?
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Yeah, so I think,
the Garden of Eden,
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is up in paradise
right now, God saved it.
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And we're gonna get
to go there some day.
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It wasn't
destroyed by the flood.
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All right well,
we've another question
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that somebody wrote in.
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It's Tristan, he is in
fourth grade and he asks,
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why did you do the
"Amazing Adventure Series?"
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All right perhaps,
Tristan is wondering
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why do we do this series?
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Well, I think this is one
of the most important things
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that "Amazing
Facts" has ever done,
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in doing a special
evangelistic and exciting series
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about the Bible just for kids,
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because you have your
whole lives before you.
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And if you make
decisions during this series
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to put Jesus,
first in your life,
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nothing is more
important than that.
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And so everything
that's happening here
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with a television
broadcast and with the program
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and the lessons and the
Bibles is all to help you
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be prepare for the
most exciting adventure.
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The one of going
through this life
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with Jesus, on into eternity.
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And so, we just thought it
was the most important thing
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we could do and
that's why we did it.
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Amen, we have
another video question, okay.
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My name is
Michael, I'm 10 years old
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and my question is did Jesus
have any brothers and sisters?
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Yes, He did, the Bible tells
us that Jesus had four brothers
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and he had at least two sisters.
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It names four of
his brothers, I mean,
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if I could remember
their names, Judas, Simon,
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is it Joses, and Pastor
Ross, knows the other one,
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now he remember and it says
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his brothers and his sisters,
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doesn't say how many,
but in order to say sisters,
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is that one or two?
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It's got to be at least two.
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So may be He had four
brothers and twenty sisters.
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We don't know, but it says
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He had sisters
and so, yes He did.
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All right, now were they born
before Jesus or after Jesus?
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Oh, that's a good question.
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You know some people
are surprised to know
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that Jesus' brothers and sisters
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were probably older than Him,
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they were the
children of Joseph.
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See, Joseph,
probably lost his first wife
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and he had a
whole oogle of kids,
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before he married, Mary.
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And then so, Jesus, had
these older brothers and sisters
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and one reason we
know that when Jesus,
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was hanging on the
cross, He committed the care
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of his mother to
the Apostle John.
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And so if it was His--
He would normally done it
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to His real
brothers and sisters.
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Okay, well, we have
another question from Faith,
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she is a fifth grader.
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What is the best thing
that you can do for God?
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Wow, that is the
most important question.
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The best thing
you can do for God
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is to surrender
your life to Him.
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You know, being a Christian,
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is a battle that
you win by surrender.
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You win by surrendering
your life to the Lord.
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Everybody is
gonna serve somebody.
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You can say well, I
don't want to serve anybody
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and if you say that
you're really serving the devil.
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There is no such
thing as a middle road.
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Jesus said, "He that is
not with Me is against Me."
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And so if you don't make
your decision to be for Jesus,
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what does that mean?
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You're for the devil.
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So the most important
thing you can do is to say Lord,
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I want to surrender
my heart and life to You,
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I can't do it with out You,
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but I want to
trust you with my life.
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I believe you've a big
plan for me and I am yours.
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And when you say that
you give God permission
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to activate His
power in your life.
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He won't force His
love on you, I mean,
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He loves you, but He won't force
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you to love
Him, you must choose.
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Right, I think our
last question for today
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is a video question, so
we'll finish up with that.
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Hi, my name is Ashtyn.
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I'm 11 years old
and my question is,
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why was the flood
40 days and 40 nights?
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Why was the flood of
Noah, 40 days and 40 nights?
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Well, 40 is an
interesting number in the Bible.
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You know, there is a lot of 40s.
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Moses, spend 40
years growing up in Egypt,
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then he spend 40
years in the wilderness,
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then he spend 40 years
leading the children of Israel
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from Egypt to the Promised Land.
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King David,
reigned for 40 years.
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King Saul, reigned for 40 years,
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King Solomon,
reigned for 40 years.
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Jesus was out 40
days in the wilderness.
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Moses went up the
mountain for 40 days,
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lot of 40s in the Bible.
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Forty seems to represent
a generation in the Bible
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and so these 40s
that it talks about
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like the 40 days when it rained,
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it means a new beginning,
something is gonna happen
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that will bring a new beginning
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and you'll often
see that there is an,
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a new change
after 40 in the Bible.
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Okay, well thank you
very much, Pastor Doug.
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We have some
special music brought to us
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by the amazing
adventurous singers.
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The song is "My God
is a Righteous God."
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Jesus knows my
every word and deed
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Jesus longs to
meet my deepest need
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He lives now to intercede
He will surely stand by me
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My God is a righteous
God My God is a holy God
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My God is a faithful God
He will surely stand by me
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Jesus' love has
drawn my heart to Him
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Jesus' love has
washed away my sin
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His word makes me pure within
He will surely stand by me
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My God is a righteous
God My God is a holy God
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My God is a faithful God
He will surely stand by me
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Christ has saved
me From sin's penalty
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Christ will keep me For eternity
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He guides
through Life's stormy sea
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He will surely Stand by me
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My God is a righteous
God My God is a holy God
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My God is a faithful God
He will surely stand by me
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Sing to Lord
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My God is a righteous
God My God is a holy God
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My God is a faithful God
He will surely stand by me
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Amen. Thank you so much.
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That's the truth,
that's a beautiful song.
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We're so glad that you
are here with us again tonight
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and this series still has
more than half of it to come.
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Right now is a night
number three out of ten nights.
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And we have an
exciting presentation tonight
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that's dealing with a
"Journey Through The Stars."
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Now I don't know about
you, but when I look up at night
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and I see the sky
and these clear stars
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that go on for ever.
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I just feel there is
yearning to go up there.
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And I have just had
this dream for years
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that someday I could
be on the Space Shuttle
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or go visit the
International Space Station.
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Pastor Doug, loves to fly.
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If I'm on a motorcycle,
I'm looking for jumps.
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If I am skiing,
I'm looking for jumps.
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I fly an airplane, I'm a pilot.
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And if I'm skiing or
whatever I'm doing on the water
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I always wanted to
go through the air.
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And for me, the one
of the greatest things
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that could happen is to
just fly through the stars.
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You know I was
very interested to learn
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that back in 2004, for the
first time a private company,
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they won a very big award
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I think it was
over a million dollars
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because they were
able to send a man
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into space and back again.
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It was a private company
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and it was
called "SpaceShip One."
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And they actually piggy
back this little bitty spaceship
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on top of another plane
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that was called
the "White Knight."
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And the White Knight
flew real high in the sky
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and then Spaceship
One took off from that one
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and it just
shot up like a bullet
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breaking the
sound barrier many times
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until it got up to
space, made it over 65 miles up,
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it is over 320, 200,000
feet and then it stayed up
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there for few
minutes, long enough
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for the
astronauts to eat some M&M'S
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that were floating around.
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He wanted to
make his M&M'S float.
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And then he came back
down again and it landed
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and I thought oh,
they are practicing,
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so they can take
private people up into space.
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How many of you would
like to go up into space?
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Wouldn't that be
fun to be weightless?
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But that would be
nothing because if you just
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go up into space
around our planet,
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you haven't gone very far.
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I mean, even if you go like
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the Voyager 1 or
the Voyager 2 spacecraft
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to the end of our solar system,
you haven't gone very far.
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I like looking at the
stars through a telescope.
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Some of you heard
about the Hubble Telescope.
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It's the most powerful
telescope that they have got
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in the world right now.
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And when we look
through the Hubble Telescope,
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you see the most incredible
things, space is huge.
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Sometimes you look
up at the sky at night
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you think you're
looking at a star.
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You're looking at a galaxy,
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a whole cluster of
stars like that one
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that's on the screen right now.
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From far away that looks
like one little dot of light,
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but you get closer you
find out that it is a galaxy
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that might have a
100 million blazing suns,
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not counting all the
planets that would be in there.
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We live in the,
Milky Way galaxy,
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which is I think
that if you were to travel
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the speed of light, first
of all you'll get a ticket,
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no you won't it, because
the police is gonna catch you.
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You go a
186,000 miles per second
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it would take you 100,000 years.
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Think about how far you would be
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in one second, 186,000 miles.
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If you--how far
would you be in a year
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if you went
186,000 miles per second?
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It would still
take you 100,000 years
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just to go across the
little dot in the universe
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called our Milky Way galaxy.
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Space is huge and
heaven is way back out there.
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Many believe that it's in the
Constellation Nebula of Orion.
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And there is some
beautiful things in space.
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I like this picture I
got from the Hubble website,
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it's a Nebula but
it-- it looks like an eye,
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out in the space they call
it sometimes "The God's Eye."
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Isn't that sound, it looks
like he is looking down at you.
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But that's actually
a Nebula up in space.
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Wouldn't you like to
fly through the stars?
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You know, what I am
telling now is absolutely true.
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You can, if you
trust what I am saying
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and you trust the Bible.
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You can take a
trip through space
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and fly through the
stars and you won't need
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a spaceship and you
won't need an astronaut suit.
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Wouldn't you like to do that?
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Wouldn't you like
to be able to skip off
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of the moon and go fly
down the red canyons of Mars
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and go circle Saturn and
ones where the rings are.
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And then just take off
like a sharp past Pluto,
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except you won't
go the speed of light,
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or the speed of sound,
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you'll be going
thousands of times faster.
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Angels travel well
the way we describe it
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as the speed of thought.
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They can just go-- it's true.
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Jesus is coming back
and He is gonna take those
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that trust and love Him up
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and they're gonna take
a journey in an incredible
00:18:09.93\00:18:12.17
amazing adventure through space.
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It is real and you have the
opportunity to be on that trip.
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How many of you
would like to go?
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I know a man paid
two million dollars,
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I don't know
personally but I heard about it.
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So that he could go up
into the space station.
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You can go on this trip
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and your ticket is paid for
by Jesus, isn't that exciting?
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He is coming back to
get those who are ready,
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take them on that trip.
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We're gonna talk about
the return of Jesus tonight.
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Let's get to our lesson
"Journey Through The Stars"
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is our lesson tonight.
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This is lesson
number three in the series.
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Question number
one, you're ready?
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Will Jesus really
come back to earth again
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and take us through
the stars to heaven?
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Let's find out what
Jesus said in His own words
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and this was our
scripture reading tonight.
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He said "In my Father's
house are many mansions.
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I go to prepare a place for you.
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And if I go and
prepare a place for you,
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I will come again and
receive you unto myself,
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that where I am,
there you may be also."
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He says I'm gonna go and He did,
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He said, I'm gonna come back,
so that you can be with me.
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He is preparing
the place for you,
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how sad that would be if
you left that beautiful mansion
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He has prepared for you vacant,
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because you don't
get ready for His coming.
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Wouldn't it be
terrible to miss the bus,
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when Jesus comes?
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I've missed some planes before
and it's an awful feeling.
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When your whole
adventure, your whole trip
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you're just sitting
there in the airport,
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you see the plane
taken off and there you are.
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Well, you want to--
don't want to miss it
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when Jesus comes, amen.
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You want to be ready for that.
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He says again in
Revelation 22 verse 12,
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"Behold, I am coming quickly,
and my reward is with Me,
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to give to every man
according to his works."
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When Jesus comes He is
going to reward people.
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And so if you trust Him
and give Him your heart,
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He will take you with Him
through that trip through space
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and you can live
for ever and ever.
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Question number two,
this is very important.
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How will Jesus
come the second time?
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Let me tell you why this
question is so important.
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When Jesus came the first time,
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He came to earth as a
baby, remember, first time?
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His people, the Jewish
people they had Bibles,
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they had their Old
Testament and in the Bible
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they were prophecies about
Jesus coming the first time.
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But they weren't reading them,
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or they were
misunderstanding them
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and they thought that
when Jesus came the first time,
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He was gonna come
like a "Conquering King."
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But they miss the
part where He said,
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He was really coming
the first time as a lamb.
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He comes next time like a
lion, with power and majesty.
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They didn't know
how He was coming
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and so when He came as a baby
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they said, oh,
that can't be Him.
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We're expecting
our Messiah to come
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as a mighty power and
so they were mixed up,
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they were deceived.
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It says, in Acts
Chapter 1 verse 9,
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it tells us how He is coming.
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It says, "While they
watched, He was taken up,
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and a cloud received
Him out of their sight."
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They saw Him going
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and as Jesus was
ascending up into the sky.
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It says, "Behold,
two men stood by them
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in white apparel, who said,
00:21:17.67\00:21:20.34
"Men of
Galilee, why do you stand
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gazing up into the heavens?
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This same Jesus, who was
taken from you into heaven,
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He will come in like manner
as you saw Him go into heaven."
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Now see what these
angels were saying.
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When Christ went to
heaven the first time,
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the disciples were
standing, they were watching Him
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go up into the clouds,
probably look something
00:21:38.70\00:21:41.18
like the clouds
around Pastor Ross' feet
00:21:41.19\00:21:43.17
when the program begins.
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And they watch
Jesus just disappear
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and they kept
staring and the angels said
00:21:46.60\00:21:48.72
why you're
gazing up into the sky?
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The same Jesus,
is it the same one?
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Is gonna come in the
same way as you saw Him go.
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Now, did they see Him go?
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Yeah, are we
going to see Him come?
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Was Jesus real
when He went to heaven?
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Remember after He
rose from the dead.
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Bible says, they
touched his hands,
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He ate in front of
Him, they hugged Him,
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He was real person.
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He's gonna be real
when we comes back.
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Some people say,
oh, Jesus, already came,
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He was spiritual coming.
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Oh, when Jesus
comes, you're gonna know
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it's gonna be very real.
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You're not only need
to know that He is coming.
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You need to know something
about how He is coming,
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so you won't be deceived.
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And it says, "He
left in the clouds,
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He is coming in the clouds.
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When he left he was
real when He is coming
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He's gonna be real.
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When he left He was visible,
00:22:39.72\00:22:41.04
when he comes back
He will be visible,
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you'll see him,
everybody is gonna know.
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Question number three,
00:22:45.52\00:22:47.52
"Will we be able to
see Jesus when He comes?
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Or is He going
to arrive secretly?
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You know, there is a
lot of very dear people
00:22:54.31\00:22:57.39
and they read the
Bible, but they mix up
00:22:57.40\00:22:59.24
some of the verses a little bit
00:22:59.25\00:23:00.88
and they think that
when Jesus comes again,
00:23:00.89\00:23:02.68
it's gonna be a secret.
00:23:02.69\00:23:04.46
That you're gonna be
driving down the road talking
00:23:04.47\00:23:06.44
to grandma and if grandma
is ready and you're not ready,
00:23:06.45\00:23:09.47
all of sudden grandma
is going to disappear.
00:23:09.48\00:23:11.64
And if grandma
is driving the car
00:23:11.65\00:23:13.14
and you're talking to
her and she disappears,
00:23:13.15\00:23:16.49
you're in trouble because
that car will be going down
00:23:16.50\00:23:18.20
the road without
grandma any more.
00:23:18.21\00:23:20.77
And there might be a
pilot flying the plane,
00:23:20.78\00:23:22.63
all the pilots disappear and
the passengers who aren't ready,
00:23:22.64\00:23:25.32
the plane is going
to crash or something.
00:23:25.33\00:23:27.28
And there are
people they believe this--
00:23:27.29\00:23:29.95
that Jesus coming
is gonna be secret
00:23:29.96\00:23:31.47
and folks they're
just gonna disappear.
00:23:31.48\00:23:33.69
But the Bible
says, when the Lord comes
00:23:33.70\00:23:35.48
everybody is going to know it,
everybody is going to see it.
00:23:35.49\00:23:40.26
Now I'm going to
illustrate a few things to you
00:23:40.27\00:23:42.07
from the Bible
here in just a moment.
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Read in Matthew
24, and you know, kids,
00:23:43.87\00:23:46.49
I know I'm giving
you a lot of verses
00:23:46.50\00:23:48.53
and I want to tell our friends
who are watching at the site.
00:23:48.54\00:23:50.77
Hopefully you've got a
piece of paper and pencil,
00:23:50.78\00:23:53.30
because I go
through them so fast
00:23:53.31\00:23:55.20
you don't have time
to look them all up.
00:23:55.21\00:23:57.43
Because I want to cover as much
as I can during the program,
00:23:57.44\00:24:00.06
but chalk down the
verses when you get them,
00:24:00.07\00:24:02.27
or they will be on the
DVD's they're on the screen,
00:24:02.28\00:24:04.86
but I want you to check on,
00:24:04.87\00:24:05.96
Pastor Doug, there is a
lot more verses in the lesson
00:24:05.97\00:24:08.65
than I'm able to cover
during our one hour talk.
00:24:08.66\00:24:11.90
Matthew 24 verse 26, Jesus
is warning us not be deceive.
00:24:11.91\00:24:17.05
He said,
"Therefore if they say to you,
00:24:17.06\00:24:19.50
'Look, He is in the
desert!' do not go out,
00:24:19.51\00:24:22.31
or 'Look, He is
in the inner rooms!'
00:24:22.32\00:24:24.08
do not believe it.
00:24:24.09\00:24:25.92
For as the lightning
shines out of the east
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and flashes even on to the west,
00:24:29.11\00:24:31.62
so also the coming of
the Son of Man will be."
00:24:31.63\00:24:35.89
Have any of you
ever been outside
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in a lighting
storm when it flashes?
00:24:38.16\00:24:40.50
And after flashes a few
seconds later then you hear
00:24:40.51\00:24:43.40
the thunder and a
closer the lightening is,
00:24:43.41\00:24:47.30
the sooner you hear the thunder.
00:24:47.31\00:24:49.52
I remember being in
the lightening storm
00:24:49.53\00:24:51.05
when I was
little boy, I was inside
00:24:51.06\00:24:54.18
with my head under the blanket,
I was little bit scared,
00:24:54.19\00:24:56.86
put my head under the pillow
00:24:56.87\00:24:58.70
and I could still
see the lightening flash.
00:24:58.71\00:25:01.73
Lightening was
the brightest light
00:25:01.74\00:25:03.59
that they knew back then.
00:25:03.60\00:25:05.82
All right, gonna illustrate
something I need a volunteer
00:25:05.83\00:25:08.24
to look in the mystery chest.
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You know, I'm gonna kind
take a different route here,
00:25:11.17\00:25:14.97
want to come down
here, you want to help me?
00:25:14.98\00:25:16.62
Right, you come on up here.
00:25:16.63\00:25:18.31
Well, you need
to be patient here,
00:25:18.32\00:25:19.79
we're gonna try and cover
as many helpers as we can.
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Now, in the mystery chest
you're gonna find something,
00:25:22.15\00:25:24.48
it looks like a police radar gun
00:25:24.49\00:25:26.89
and you'll find
something else in there,
00:25:26.90\00:25:28.17
so don't take that,
just take out the thing
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that looks like big police
radar gun, can you find that?
00:25:29.94\00:25:35.63
Okay, you know what that is?
00:25:35.64\00:25:39.17
It's not a police radar
gun, but it looks like one.
00:25:39.18\00:25:42.39
Who knows what that is?
00:25:42.40\00:25:43.65
Flash light.
That's a flash light.
00:25:43.66\00:25:45.84
And what's this? Flash light.
00:25:45.85\00:25:51.27
All right, I want you to also--
00:25:51.28\00:25:53.26
don't sit,
looking for Bible here.
00:25:53.27\00:25:55.03
All right, I want
to try something here.
00:25:55.04\00:25:56.73
Can you close your
eyes, what's your name?
00:25:56.74\00:25:58.16
Vicky, close your
eyes for second, all right.
00:25:58.17\00:26:02.14
Can you tell them,
my lights on your eyes?
00:26:02.15\00:26:03.54
Yeah, yeah, okay because you're
right here next to me, okay.
00:26:03.55\00:26:08.42
Now you all close
your eyes for second.
00:26:08.43\00:26:10.48
don't cheat, don't cheat,
00:26:10.49\00:26:12.31
close your eyes,
keep your eyes close,
00:26:12.32\00:26:13.91
did I turn on the light? Yes.
00:26:13.92\00:26:15.94
You are cheating. You saw it?
00:26:15.95\00:26:19.82
Yeah. This one
is a little harder.
00:26:19.83\00:26:22.17
Are you afraid for me to shine
this in your eyes? No, okay.
00:26:22.18\00:26:26.21
This is like a million lumens,
00:26:33.30\00:26:34.66
a cameraman don't
want me to shine this
00:26:34.67\00:26:36.27
in the camera lenses,
but can you notice that?
00:26:36.28\00:26:38.55
I'll tell you what,
we have a lot of fun,
00:26:40.67\00:26:43.05
I go camping with my boys.
00:26:43.06\00:26:44.89
Let me try something here,
go ahead and close your eyes.
00:26:44.90\00:26:48.45
I turn on the
light, did I turn on?
00:26:48.46\00:26:51.00
No, right close your eyes.
00:26:51.01\00:26:52.30
Put your hands over
your eyes, I just wonder.
00:26:55.27\00:26:58.76
You could feel it, can't you?
00:26:58.77\00:27:00.37
Even with your hands
over your eyes, okay,
00:27:00.38\00:27:01.88
thank you very much, Vicky.
00:27:01.89\00:27:03.56
I go camping with my boys,
00:27:03.57\00:27:04.91
and I tell you
it's a lot fun too.
00:27:04.92\00:27:06.29
You go out there right
in there with this thing
00:27:06.30\00:27:07.60
and you go boom, boom.
00:27:07.61\00:27:08.98
You can shoot it
up into the clouds
00:27:08.99\00:27:10.41
and it goes a long way.
00:27:10.42\00:27:12.33
See how bright this
is, everybody got a chance?
00:27:12.34\00:27:14.72
Okay, oh, I don't
want to leave anybody out.
00:27:14.73\00:27:19.57
Now even with your eyes
closed, close your eyes,
00:27:19.58\00:27:24.28
close your eyes for a second.
00:27:24.29\00:27:25.86
Okay, now, what's gonna
be brighter I wanna ask you.
00:27:28.53\00:27:35.17
What's gonna be brighter?
00:27:35.18\00:27:38.06
That light,
lightening or Jesus coming?
00:27:38.07\00:27:42.14
Jesus coming, is
anybody gonna say,
00:27:42.15\00:27:45.67
oh, did Jesus come in an
hour and go and I missed it
00:27:45.68\00:27:48.70
or is it everybody
gonna know when Jesus comes?
00:27:48.71\00:27:52.26
Everybody is gonna
know when Jesus comes.
00:27:52.27\00:27:54.18
I'll say, yet some
people think it's a secret.
00:27:54.19\00:27:56.29
The Bible says, in
Revelation Chapter 1 verse 7,
00:27:56.30\00:28:00.45
"Behold, He is
coming with clouds"
00:28:00.46\00:28:02.95
and did you say that
with me what that's say?
00:28:02.96\00:28:04.95
How man eyes? Every eyes.
00:28:04.96\00:28:06.66
Every eye will see
Him, that means every eye
00:28:06.67\00:28:10.33
of everybody alive in the
world, they're gonna see it.
00:28:10.34\00:28:14.16
Not only they're gonna
see it, they're gonna hear it.
00:28:14.17\00:28:17.50
The second coming
of Jesus is gonna be
00:28:17.51\00:28:19.23
the most climatic
event in the world.
00:28:19.24\00:28:21.33
You can read in
First Thessalonians
00:28:21.34\00:28:23.02
Chapter 4 verse 16
"For the Lord Himself"
00:28:23.03\00:28:26.78
it's really gonna be Him,
00:28:26.79\00:28:28.39
"will descend from
heaven with a shout,"
00:28:28.40\00:28:30.78
now I'm not
gonna ask you to shout,
00:28:30.79\00:28:32.06
but I bet we got
some good shouters here,
00:28:32.07\00:28:33.66
but you can't
shout like the Lord.
00:28:33.67\00:28:36.41
"And with the
voice of the arch-angel,
00:28:36.42\00:28:38.84
and the trumpet of God."
00:28:38.85\00:28:41.79
All right I need a volunteer.
00:28:41.80\00:28:44.73
I'm going this way, I
want to be fair here, let see.
00:28:44.74\00:28:48.78
All right, yeah, matter of
fact you want to grab a friend?
00:28:52.04\00:28:55.81
You grab a friend.
00:28:55.82\00:28:57.18
All right, hurry up, you
guys got to come up here.
00:28:58.70\00:29:01.34
You're gonna be sorry.
00:29:01.35\00:29:02.77
All right, come on up here,
00:29:05.46\00:29:06.70
there is
something left in the chest,
00:29:06.71\00:29:08.00
very carefully get
that out of the chest.
00:29:08.01\00:29:10.57
There is something I
want you very carefully
00:29:10.58\00:29:11.95
get out of the
chest, wave at the camera
00:29:11.96\00:29:14.01
while you're looking in there.
00:29:14.02\00:29:15.79
Okay, now very
gently bring that out,
00:29:15.80\00:29:19.20
okay, you can
shut the chest now.
00:29:19.21\00:29:22.92
All right, now either you
guys, know how to play trumpet?
00:29:22.93\00:29:26.64
No. Oh, that's okay, I
don't either, but I'll do it.
00:29:26.65\00:29:29.79
All right, come
up here for a second.
00:29:29.80\00:29:31.39
You're covering your
ears, what's the matter?
00:29:31.40\00:29:33.46
Now, you guys, know each other?
00:29:33.47\00:29:34.82
Yes. You're friends?
00:29:34.83\00:29:35.88
Okay, here's
what we're gonna do.
00:29:35.89\00:29:37.78
What's your name? Monaso.
00:29:37.79\00:29:39.20
Monaso, okay,
you stand right here,
00:29:39.21\00:29:41.29
and you come over here
as you will put your ear up
00:29:41.30\00:29:44.32
against Monaso's
ear, you guys are friends,
00:29:44.33\00:29:45.99
don't worry just, no,
your ear not your finger,
00:29:46.00\00:29:47.74
put your ear up
there, all right, hang on,
00:29:47.75\00:29:50.04
now I'm gonna blow in this ear
00:29:50.05\00:29:51.19
and you tell me if
you hear anything okay.
00:29:51.20\00:29:53.98
No, no, no, I'm not
gonna do that, okay.
00:29:53.99\00:29:59.10
You tell me if
you can here this.
00:29:59.11\00:30:01.46
Okay, can you hear that? Yeah.
00:30:01.47\00:30:03.14
Okay, go ahead
and cover your ears.
00:30:03.15\00:30:05.23
Yeah, you can still
hear? Or you cover his ears.
00:30:08.02\00:30:10.14
Put your hands on your
ears and you cover his hands.
00:30:10.15\00:30:14.04
Matter of fact, you close
your eyes, it might even help.
00:30:14.05\00:30:15.83
Could you hear that? Yeah.
00:30:20.67\00:30:22.88
Okay, you can sit
down. Thank you very much.
00:30:22.89\00:30:24.59
Give them a hand
for their good job.
00:30:24.60\00:30:26.21
All right, now what's louder?
00:30:32.21\00:30:34.99
My trumpet or
the Lord's trumpet?
00:30:35.00\00:30:37.27
Lord's trumpet, is it gonna
be a secret when Jesus comes?
00:30:37.28\00:30:41.94
No, the Bible uses
the loudest language
00:30:41.95\00:30:45.64
there is to
describe the second coming.
00:30:45.65\00:30:48.39
Remember, when
Jesus came the first time.
00:30:48.40\00:30:50.93
He came as a gentle
baby. He came like a lamb.
00:30:50.94\00:30:53.51
He came as our
sacrifice, the first time.
00:30:53.52\00:30:56.15
But, when He comes again,
He is not coming like a lamb.
00:30:56.16\00:30:59.63
He is coming the next time
not quietly, it's not a secret.
00:30:59.64\00:31:03.10
He is coming like a lion,
there is going to be a shout,
00:31:03.11\00:31:06.00
it's gonna be with majesty.
00:31:06.01\00:31:07.16
It's gonna be with trumpet
and the earth's gonna be shaking
00:31:07.17\00:31:09.93
and everybody is going to know.
00:31:09.94\00:31:11.60
You know, why
you want to be ready
00:31:11.61\00:31:12.97
to take that trip
through the stars?
00:31:12.98\00:31:15.18
Because this world is
going to be in bad shape
00:31:15.19\00:31:17.23
when Jesus comes and
you don't want to miss it.
00:31:17.24\00:31:19.79
Some of you're
thinking well, Pastor Doug,
00:31:19.80\00:31:22.12
doesn't the Bible say when
Jesus come it's like a thief?
00:31:22.13\00:31:25.65
Yeah, it does say that.
00:31:25.66\00:31:27.90
Yeah, you probably, you're
correct if you've heard that.
00:31:27.91\00:31:30.25
The Bible does
say Jesus is coming
00:31:30.26\00:31:31.91
like a thief in
more than one place.
00:31:31.92\00:31:33.71
But let's read what it says.
00:31:33.72\00:31:36.68
You can read in Second
Peter Chapter 3 verse 10.
00:31:36.69\00:31:40.15
Some of you have Bibles, you
might have time to find that.
00:31:40.16\00:31:43.19
"But the day of the Lord will
come as a thief in the night,"
00:31:43.20\00:31:46.70
now listen to what
happens in that day.
00:31:46.71\00:31:50.90
"In which the heavens
pass away with a great what?
00:31:50.91\00:31:55.08
Noise, The heavens
pass away with great noise
00:31:55.09\00:31:59.12
and the elements
melt with fervent heat
00:31:59.13\00:32:02.44
that means intense heat
00:32:02.45\00:32:04.31
and both the earth and the
works in it are burned up."
00:32:04.32\00:32:08.70
Now, if the heavens are
passing way with a great noise,
00:32:08.71\00:32:11.23
that means the atmosphere
and the elements are melting.
00:32:11.24\00:32:15.42
Is it sound like a secret?
00:32:15.43\00:32:17.76
What is it mean when it
says, He comes like a thief?
00:32:17.77\00:32:20.04
Pastor Doug, is not proud
of it, but I told you I was--
00:32:20.05\00:32:22.96
a little bit of
trouble when I was growing up.
00:32:22.97\00:32:24.94
You know, I used to be a thief.
00:32:24.95\00:32:26.87
I am not proud of it,
Jesus has forgiven me,
00:32:26.88\00:32:28.81
but I used to steal things.
00:32:28.82\00:32:30.77
And I've learned that
it never pays to steal,
00:32:30.78\00:32:32.85
because it seem like
every time I stole something
00:32:32.86\00:32:34.65
I got caught or somebody
stole something from me,
00:32:34.66\00:32:37.40
it just didn't pay.
00:32:37.41\00:32:39.21
But, when I was gonna break
into home and steal something,
00:32:39.22\00:32:42.02
I never send
them an announcement
00:32:42.03\00:32:43.44
and said I'll be
coming to visit you,
00:32:43.45\00:32:45.31
I'm gonna be stealing stuff.
00:32:45.32\00:32:47.73
I always came,
it was a surprise,
00:32:47.74\00:32:49.80
but when I came and I
took something they knew it.
00:32:49.81\00:32:53.34
See what I'm saying?
00:32:53.35\00:32:54.32
So Jesus says, His coming
is going to be a surprise,
00:32:54.33\00:32:56.79
but it doesn't mean
that when it happens
00:32:56.80\00:32:58.24
nobody is going to
know, that's what He means.
00:32:58.25\00:33:01.07
You're not gonna
read in the newspaper
00:33:01.08\00:33:02.66
the day after Jesus comes.
00:33:02.67\00:33:04.65
Jesus came yesterday and all
the report about Jesus coming,
00:33:04.66\00:33:08.56
that's not how
it's gonna happen.
00:33:08.57\00:33:11.08
So everyone is going to know.
00:33:11.09\00:33:12.67
Question number four, who
is with Jesus when He comes?
00:33:12.68\00:33:18.89
Oh, I heard some of you
know the answer to this.
00:33:18.90\00:33:21.43
Let's go to-- let
Jesus answer this for us
00:33:21.44\00:33:23.37
and you'll find in
Matthew Chapter 25:31,
00:33:23.38\00:33:26.87
there is several verses.
00:33:26.88\00:33:28.97
Jesus is speaking "When the
Son of Man comes in His glory,
00:33:28.98\00:33:33.60
and all the holy
angels with Him,"
00:33:33.61\00:33:38.52
how many angels with Him?
00:33:38.53\00:33:39.87
All, all, how
many angels are there?
00:33:39.88\00:33:43.56
Millions, well, does
everybody have a guardian angel?
00:33:43.57\00:33:47.38
Yes, and there are six billion
people in the world today
00:33:47.39\00:33:53.01
and so if there
are six billion people
00:33:53.02\00:33:54.64
they're at least
six billion angels
00:33:54.65\00:33:56.12
and I think some people
not only have a guardian angel,
00:33:56.13\00:33:58.57
there is a recording angel.
00:33:58.58\00:34:00.22
He may not be writing,
he's probably got video.
00:34:00.23\00:34:02.84
And everything we say
and do God knows, doesn't He?
00:34:02.85\00:34:05.84
It's all recorded, so
there are billions of angels.
00:34:05.85\00:34:10.15
Can you imagine what it
would be like when Jesus comes?
00:34:10.16\00:34:12.56
It says again in Matthew 24:31,
00:34:12.57\00:34:15.11
"He will send His
angels with a great sound of,
00:34:15.12\00:34:17.43
there is our trumpet again,
00:34:17.44\00:34:19.01
with a trumpet, and
they will gather together
00:34:19.02\00:34:21.72
His elect from the four winds,"
00:34:21.73\00:34:23.70
that means from all
corners of the earth,
00:34:23.71\00:34:25.56
four winds, four winds,
our north, south, east, west,
00:34:25.57\00:34:29.60
that means everywhere
00:34:29.61\00:34:30.73
"He will gather together
His elect from the four winds
00:34:30.74\00:34:33.01
from one end of
heaven to the other."
00:34:33.02\00:34:35.25
All His angels will be
there to gather all that
00:34:35.26\00:34:37.68
are ready for that
trip through the stars.
00:34:37.69\00:34:40.57
And again you read
in Second Thessalonians
00:34:40.58\00:34:42.55
Chapter 1 verse 7 and 8.
00:34:42.56\00:34:44.13
"When the Lord Jesus is revealed
00:34:44.14\00:34:46.07
from heaven with
His mighty angels,
00:34:46.08\00:34:50.44
in flaming fire taking vengeance
on those who know not God."
00:34:50.45\00:34:54.72
And so think about when
Jesus rose from the dead.
00:34:54.73\00:34:58.00
God send an
angel down from heaven,
00:34:58.01\00:35:00.08
they rolled away the
stone and threw it aside
00:35:00.09\00:35:03.00
and there were
some Roman soldiers
00:35:03.01\00:35:04.35
there guarding the
tomb, brave Roman soldiers.
00:35:04.36\00:35:06.79
What did they do when
they saw that one angel?
00:35:06.80\00:35:09.81
They got so scared they
fell over like they were dead.
00:35:09.82\00:35:13.28
One angel, can you imagine
how the wicked are going to act
00:35:13.29\00:35:17.20
when the heavens are filled
with billions of mighty angels?
00:35:17.21\00:35:22.49
You need to be
ready when Jesus comes,
00:35:22.50\00:35:25.53
because there's going
to be two kinds of people,
00:35:25.54\00:35:27.02
those that will reach
out and say I'm ready Lord
00:35:27.03\00:35:29.72
and others that
will run from Him.
00:35:29.73\00:35:32.03
You know, if I go out
at night with this light,
00:35:32.04\00:35:34.99
I'm having fun with this,
00:35:35.00\00:35:36.10
but I want to
illustrate something.
00:35:36.11\00:35:39.13
And there are
cockroaches on the ground.
00:35:39.14\00:35:42.45
What the cockroaches do
when you shine light on him?
00:35:42.46\00:35:45.02
They run, but if you go
out at night in the woods
00:35:45.03\00:35:49.09
and you shine this, you
know, what starts happening
00:35:49.10\00:35:50.62
with the moths, do
they run from the light
00:35:50.63\00:35:53.27
or come to the light?
00:35:53.28\00:35:54.50
They fly to the light and
so everybody when Jesus comes,
00:35:54.51\00:35:58.58
it's either going to
be a cockroach or a moth.
00:35:58.59\00:36:00.99
They're gonna run from the light
00:36:01.00\00:36:03.25
or they gonna fly to Him.
00:36:03.26\00:36:05.45
And so you want to
have Jesus in your hearts,
00:36:05.46\00:36:07.12
you're ready
when He comes, right?
00:36:07.13\00:36:09.52
Again something else
exciting is gonna happen.
00:36:09.53\00:36:11.98
It says in,
First Thessalonians 4
00:36:11.99\00:36:13.70
and this is Chapter 4 verse 16,
00:36:13.71\00:36:15.89
"For the Lord
Himself will descend
00:36:15.90\00:36:17.71
from heaven with a shout,
00:36:17.72\00:36:18.96
with the voice of an archangel,
with the trumpet of God."
00:36:18.97\00:36:21.33
We've read that part, but
I want to keep reading now
00:36:21.34\00:36:23.69
"And the dead in
Christ will rise first."
00:36:23.70\00:36:26.77
So when Jesus comes,
there is a resurrection.
00:36:26.78\00:36:30.39
Some of you may
be have a loved ones,
00:36:30.40\00:36:31.94
you might have a
grandma, or grandpa,
00:36:31.95\00:36:33.34
or friend, or someone who's died
00:36:33.35\00:36:34.53
and you're
waiting for Jesus to come.
00:36:34.54\00:36:36.31
So they can come back to life,
00:36:36.32\00:36:37.79
that's when it's gonna
happen, when Jesus comes.
00:36:37.80\00:36:40.33
Those who died trusting in Him
00:36:40.34\00:36:41.91
are gonna be given
glorified immortal bodies
00:36:41.92\00:36:44.96
and we'll talk about
that more on another night.
00:36:44.97\00:36:47.67
Then, what about
those of us who are alive,
00:36:47.68\00:36:49.91
what happens to us?
00:36:49.92\00:36:51.61
It says, "Then we
who are alive and remain
00:36:51.62\00:36:54.84
we shall be caught up together
00:36:54.85\00:36:57.75
with them in the clouds
to meet the Lord in the air."
00:36:57.76\00:37:01.88
And that's when
we begin our journey
00:37:01.89\00:37:03.64
from this world
that's gonna be destroyed.
00:37:03.65\00:37:07.07
He will make a new one later.
00:37:07.08\00:37:08.87
We're gonna begin our journey
00:37:08.88\00:37:09.87
through space
back to those mansions
00:37:09.88\00:37:11.74
He has prepared
for us in heaven,
00:37:11.75\00:37:13.69
won't that be something?
00:37:13.70\00:37:15.39
And you'll be
able to just fly around
00:37:15.40\00:37:17.67
and try out your new
wings that will be exciting,
00:37:17.68\00:37:20.73
I want to be
there, don't you friends,
00:37:20.74\00:37:21.94
I want to be ready.
00:37:21.95\00:37:23.24
Now when we looked at
the Second Coming of Jesus,
00:37:23.25\00:37:25.75
I don't want you to be deceived.
00:37:25.76\00:37:27.29
It says, that His
coming is literal,
00:37:27.30\00:37:29.93
personal, it's visible,
it's audible, it's physical,
00:37:29.94\00:37:35.63
it's vitalizing, it's
glorious, it's climatic,
00:37:35.64\00:37:38.12
you're gonna feel
it, you're gonna see it,
00:37:38.13\00:37:39.63
you're gonna hear
it, it's gonna be bright,
00:37:39.64\00:37:41.36
the earth is gonna be shaking,
00:37:41.37\00:37:42.62
there's gonna be a resurrection.
00:37:42.63\00:37:44.28
Let me ask, does that
sound like a secret? No.
00:37:44.29\00:37:48.90
And yet the devil has
got a lot of dear people
00:37:48.91\00:37:50.77
believing that Jesus
coming is going to be a secret,
00:37:50.78\00:37:53.37
nothing secret about it.
00:37:53.38\00:37:54.35
Number five, will everyone go to
heaven when Jesus comes again?
00:37:54.36\00:37:59.48
No, it would be nice to
think everyone would go,
00:37:59.49\00:38:03.64
but Jesus is very clear
that the road to eternal life,
00:38:03.65\00:38:09.32
few find it because
few are looking for it.
00:38:09.33\00:38:12.45
Most people are just happier
00:38:12.46\00:38:14.03
with what's
happening here in the world.
00:38:14.04\00:38:15.87
They're preoccupied
with their entertainment
00:38:15.88\00:38:18.00
and their
television and their videogames
00:38:18.01\00:38:20.25
and stuff like that, right?
00:38:20.26\00:38:22.56
So they don't think about Jesus
00:38:22.57\00:38:25.03
and so a lot of
people won't be ready.
00:38:25.04\00:38:27.25
Revelation 6:16, "The wicked say
00:38:27.26\00:38:30.09
to the mountains and the rocks,
00:38:30.10\00:38:31.35
Fall on us and hide
us from the face of Him
00:38:31.36\00:38:33.83
who sits upon the throne."
00:38:33.84\00:38:35.59
And it goes on and
says in Isaiah 11 verse 14,
00:38:35.60\00:38:38.49
"With the breath of His
lips He will slay the wicked."
00:38:38.50\00:38:42.75
So the very-- when He speaks
00:38:42.76\00:38:44.72
the wicked are destroyed
by the breath from His lips,
00:38:44.73\00:38:47.39
because they're not ready.
00:38:47.40\00:38:48.79
Again Jesus said, "And,
behold, I come quickly,"
00:38:48.80\00:38:52.27
Revelation 22:12,
"And my reward is with me,
00:38:52.28\00:38:56.00
to give to every man
according to his work."
00:38:56.01\00:38:58.89
He is coming, He is coming soon,
00:38:58.90\00:39:00.98
He is coming very quickly
00:39:00.99\00:39:02.49
and everyone is
going to be rewarded.
00:39:02.50\00:39:03.91
We're saved by grace but
we're rewarded by our works,
00:39:03.92\00:39:06.83
because our behavior shows if
our hearts are changed, right?
00:39:06.84\00:39:10.56
Now, there are several
signs I want to give you quickly
00:39:10.57\00:39:12.80
that tell us about Jesus coming.
00:39:12.81\00:39:14.55
So you will know it soon
and you won't be deceived.
00:39:14.56\00:39:18.27
Number six, what are some
of the signs of Jesus coming?
00:39:18.28\00:39:23.28
I bet you know
some of these answers,
00:39:23.29\00:39:24.89
but we're gonna go
through not all of them,
00:39:24.90\00:39:27.16
but many of the main signs.
00:39:27.17\00:39:29.09
Jesus was sitting on
the Mount of Olives one day
00:39:29.10\00:39:31.80
and His disciples
gathered around Him.
00:39:31.81\00:39:34.00
He told them that Jerusalem
was going to be destroyed.
00:39:34.01\00:39:36.75
They thought that meant it
would be the end of the world.
00:39:36.76\00:39:39.98
And so they said what,
when this is gonna happen?
00:39:39.99\00:39:42.96
"Tell us, when
will these things be?
00:39:42.97\00:39:45.58
What will be the sign of Your
coming and the end of the age?"
00:39:45.59\00:39:49.00
Or the end of the world.
00:39:49.01\00:39:50.30
And He gave them the
answers of a number of signs
00:39:50.31\00:39:53.45
that we can know
when His coming is near.
00:39:53.46\00:39:55.69
And let me tell you right
now before we even get into it,
00:39:55.70\00:39:58.35
we're very
close to Jesus coming.
00:39:58.36\00:40:01.41
I believe that you're
living in the generation
00:40:01.42\00:40:03.64
that will see Jesus come.
00:40:03.65\00:40:05.71
One thing He told
us-- the first thing
00:40:05.72\00:40:07.24
He said is to be
careful about "False Prophets."
00:40:07.25\00:40:11.48
Jesus warned us about wolves
that come in sheep's clothing.
00:40:11.49\00:40:16.69
Matthew Chapter
24 verse 11, it says,
00:40:16.70\00:40:20.36
"Then many false prophets
will rise up and deceive many."
00:40:20.37\00:40:25.28
Oh, you know, I'm getting of--
00:40:25.29\00:40:26.26
and a signal something
very important is happening,
00:40:26.27\00:40:30.50
you know, we got word that
there might be a special visitor
00:40:30.51\00:40:34.34
that was gonna
come, how many of you know
00:40:34.35\00:40:36.17
that President George W.
Bush, was coming to Texas,
00:40:36.18\00:40:38.88
because of the hurricane.
00:40:38.89\00:40:40.06
He was going to view the damage
00:40:40.07\00:40:41.71
and we put out a request to see
if he can come by our meetings
00:40:41.72\00:40:44.33
because he heard
about the miracle
00:40:44.34\00:40:45.46
that happened here
last night, did he make it?
00:40:45.47\00:40:47.86
Did President Bush, he
did President Bush is here.
00:40:47.87\00:40:52.38
Oh, let's all
welcome the president.
00:40:52.39\00:40:56.95
We're so glad that you're here.
00:40:56.96\00:41:00.21
You look like
you've been working hard
00:41:00.22\00:41:02.82
and you need a
little more than usual too.
00:41:02.83\00:41:07.08
So what brings you
by the--to visit us
00:41:07.09\00:41:09.62
here at our
"Amazing Adventure Program?"
00:41:09.63\00:41:11.65
Well, I just heard
about this great meeting
00:41:11.66\00:41:14.32
and had to come
see it for myself.
00:41:14.33\00:41:17.77
Oh, isn't that
exciting, the president is here.
00:41:17.78\00:41:20.83
When did you pick up
a South African accent?
00:41:20.84\00:41:24.44
Oh, it's a Texas accent--One of
your International visits, ha?
00:41:24.45\00:41:29.54
How many of you
believe this is President Bush?
00:41:29.55\00:41:31.71
Who is this? Mr.
Freeze--I don't know.
00:41:37.66\00:41:41.20
You don't know
who it is, do you?
00:41:41.21\00:41:43.31
Well, who are you?
00:41:46.40\00:41:47.72
You look like,
President Bush, to me.
00:41:47.73\00:41:49.92
President Bush.
00:41:49.93\00:41:54.95
I think, something look
suspicious here about your face.
00:41:54.96\00:41:57.45
All right, I think
you have to take that off
00:42:03.33\00:42:05.27
and show us who you really are.
00:42:05.28\00:42:06.58
The jinx is up, oh.
It was hot in there.
00:42:09.16\00:42:14.78
I thought. Thank you
very much Pastor Ross.
00:42:14.79\00:42:18.43
You know, sometimes people
00:42:18.44\00:42:19.80
pretend to be
somebody else, don't they?
00:42:19.81\00:42:22.65
You know, what's gonna
happen in the last days?
00:42:22.66\00:42:25.50
Satan is going to
put on a Jesus mask,
00:42:25.51\00:42:27.78
except his is not
gonna look so rubbery.
00:42:27.79\00:42:31.18
He's gonna seep if
he can impersonate Jesus
00:42:31.19\00:42:34.39
and he is very powerful
with the tricks of illusion.
00:42:34.40\00:42:37.57
How many wants to say thank you
00:42:37.58\00:42:38.56
Pastor Ross to
help us on with that.
00:42:38.57\00:42:40.64
He is probably been wearing
00:42:43.13\00:42:44.22
that rubber mask
for half an hour.
00:42:44.23\00:42:47.91
You know, I've got a
picture on the screen
00:42:47.92\00:42:49.16
I want to show you real quick
00:42:49.17\00:42:50.14
it's what they call
an optical illusion.
00:42:50.15\00:42:52.92
Now, if you look
in the middle of that,
00:42:52.93\00:42:55.83
do you see that
there are black spots,
00:42:55.84\00:42:57.40
how many of you see black spots?
00:42:57.41\00:42:59.90
Do you what there
are no black spots.
00:42:59.91\00:43:03.07
You try to pick one
of them out, look at it.
00:43:03.08\00:43:05.32
Whenever you
try to put your eyes
00:43:05.33\00:43:06.48
on one of the black
spots they move, don't they?
00:43:06.49\00:43:08.74
Because they're not there,
but when you look in the middle
00:43:08.75\00:43:11.25
it looks like they're there,
00:43:11.26\00:43:13.46
it's called an
optical illusions.
00:43:13.47\00:43:15.79
The devil is the
master of illusion
00:43:15.80\00:43:18.51
and disguise and impersonation,
00:43:18.52\00:43:20.26
He knows how to
pretend that he is an angel
00:43:20.27\00:43:22.70
and that's why Jesus said,
00:43:22.71\00:43:23.68
be careful about false
Christ and false prophets.
00:43:23.69\00:43:27.41
How are we gonna
know the difference?
00:43:27.42\00:43:30.77
We've seen just in recent years
many very evil, false prophets
00:43:30.78\00:43:36.36
and people who
pretended that they were Jesus.
00:43:36.37\00:43:38.63
How can we know?
00:43:38.64\00:43:40.00
We've got to read our Bibles,
haven't I been telling you?
00:43:40.01\00:43:42.43
How many read your Bible today?
00:43:42.44\00:43:44.96
Good for you read it
and when you go home tonight
00:43:44.97\00:43:48.57
pick your Bible up, pick a
spot, read the word of God,
00:43:48.58\00:43:53.06
it will keep you from
being deceived by the devil,
00:43:53.07\00:43:55.69
because the
Bible is gonna tell you
00:43:55.70\00:43:57.19
how to expose his deceptions.
00:43:57.20\00:43:59.63
Some other signs
that Jesus is coming soon,
00:43:59.64\00:44:01.71
I've got to go
through them quickly.
00:44:01.72\00:44:03.36
Wars and Disasters, do we
have war in the world today?
00:44:03.37\00:44:07.18
Yes, and it's very
sad that when people die
00:44:07.19\00:44:09.86
and sometime the
innocent people are dying
00:44:09.87\00:44:11.50
and it's very tragic,
are there natural disasters?
00:44:11.51\00:44:15.19
Yes, or matter of fact, we
just had a natural disaster,
00:44:15.20\00:44:18.78
we showed you the Ike Hurricane
pass right near Dallas, Texas,
00:44:18.79\00:44:22.47
yesterday and it was raining
for the first time in history,
00:44:22.48\00:44:25.81
this church, right
on top of this spot
00:44:25.82\00:44:28.49
and matter of fact I got
a couple of drops on my head
00:44:28.50\00:44:30.65
and we prayed all this weekend
00:44:30.66\00:44:33.19
that the Lord would push
that storms somewhere else.
00:44:33.20\00:44:36.17
We need to pray for
the people that got beat up
00:44:36.18\00:44:38.58
pretty bad in
Texas from that storm.
00:44:38.59\00:44:40.88
There's natural disaster
all over the world, everyday.
00:44:40.89\00:44:44.13
Sometimes
thousands of people die.
00:44:44.14\00:44:47.37
They had a
tsunami a few years ago,
00:44:47.38\00:44:49.36
240,000 people
died, a natural disaster.
00:44:49.37\00:44:54.48
These things are
happening more frequently.
00:44:54.49\00:44:56.92
Earthquakes and floods,
fires, I'm in California,
00:44:56.93\00:45:00.23
we had record forest
fires this year in California,
00:45:00.24\00:45:03.53
all at one time,
hundreds and even
00:45:03.54\00:45:05.63
over a thousand
fires were burning.
00:45:05.64\00:45:08.26
That's one of
the signs Jesus said,
00:45:08.27\00:45:09.95
these things will increase.
00:45:09.96\00:45:11.13
Another sign that I
think is really important,
00:45:11.14\00:45:13.76
"Knowledge Will Increase."
00:45:13.77\00:45:15.94
You can read for instance
in Daniel Chapter 12 verse 4,
00:45:15.95\00:45:19.44
it says, "But you
Daniel, shut up the words
00:45:19.45\00:45:22.13
and seal the book
until the time of the end,
00:45:22.14\00:45:25.04
for many who run to and
fro people travel to and fro
00:45:25.05\00:45:29.24
more quickly
today than ever before.
00:45:29.25\00:45:31.33
In just a few hours I
can be back in California.
00:45:31.34\00:45:34.46
Do you know back in the
days of your great grand parents
00:45:34.47\00:45:37.12
or my grand father, it could
take days to get to California,
00:45:37.13\00:45:42.20
before airplanes and
before that it could take
00:45:42.21\00:45:45.11
weeks on a train and
before that it would take months
00:45:45.12\00:45:48.61
on a horse or a foot or wagon.
00:45:48.62\00:45:51.24
In one generation
things have changed so much,
00:45:51.25\00:45:55.07
knowledge has increased, not
only do people go to and fro,
00:45:55.08\00:45:58.53
knowledge has increased,
it's just absolutely fantastic.
00:45:58.54\00:46:02.32
How quickly things are changing,
00:46:02.33\00:46:04.20
you look at all the
inventions they now got
00:46:04.21\00:46:05.86
microscopic
robots they're developing
00:46:05.87\00:46:08.14
or you actually
swallow a camera if the doctor
00:46:08.15\00:46:10.64
wants to see if
you got a tummy ache
00:46:10.65\00:46:12.10
you can swallow
a camera in a pill,
00:46:12.11\00:46:15.06
it goes in, it
takes a bunch of pictures
00:46:15.07\00:46:17.36
I won't tell you how
they collect it later
00:46:17.37\00:46:18.89
and then they
check it out the film.
00:46:18.90\00:46:21.18
And things are all microscopic
00:46:21.19\00:46:23.65
and I won't ask
for show of hands
00:46:23.66\00:46:25.34
how many of you
have one of this Vee's?
00:46:25.35\00:46:27.99
I didn't want to
ask for show of hands.
00:46:28.00\00:46:30.95
But I figured they were
plenty of you out there,
00:46:30.96\00:46:33.13
but they got these
whole interactive games now,
00:46:33.14\00:46:35.14
pretty soon they got them
where you put these helmet on
00:46:35.15\00:46:37.18
and it does all
the exercise for you.
00:46:37.19\00:46:39.00
I guess well, some of you
actually have to exercise.
00:46:39.01\00:46:41.78
In just one generation,
00:46:41.79\00:46:43.54
look at all the
changes that have happened.
00:46:43.55\00:46:46.39
When I did my
grandfather's funeral,
00:46:46.40\00:46:48.28
I thought about he died at 93,
00:46:48.29\00:46:50.66
all the changes he
saw, grew up, wanted home,
00:46:50.67\00:46:53.71
kerosene light, use
horses to get around
00:46:53.72\00:46:57.29
and he watch
things change from that
00:46:57.30\00:46:59.14
where they use cannon balls
to fight to nuclear weapons,
00:46:59.15\00:47:03.16
from kerosene to electricity,
00:47:03.17\00:47:06.48
from the
telephone to the television,
00:47:06.49\00:47:09.77
to the internet, to satellite,
00:47:09.78\00:47:12.02
it's all showing us
Jesus is coming soon.
00:47:12.03\00:47:14.56
Speaking of that another
sign of Christ soon coming
00:47:14.57\00:47:18.02
is the gospel is
going to the whole world.
00:47:18.03\00:47:20.60
Jesus said, in
Matthew Chapter 24 verse 14,
00:47:20.61\00:47:24.81
"And the gospel of the
kingdom will be preached
00:47:24.82\00:47:26.95
in all the world for a
witness to all nations,
00:47:26.96\00:47:30.58
then the end will come."
00:47:30.59\00:47:33.19
Do you know, right now
while we were doing this program
00:47:33.20\00:47:37.01
these cameras are recording it,
00:47:37.02\00:47:38.59
it's bouncing of satellites
all across North America,
00:47:38.60\00:47:42.54
Three Angels Broadcasting
and Hope Channel are carrying
00:47:42.55\00:47:45.17
the signal all around the world
from this church right here.
00:47:45.18\00:47:49.56
The gospel is being
preached to young people
00:47:49.57\00:47:51.47
just like you in Australia,
in South Africa, in Europe,
00:47:51.48\00:47:55.69
in many different
parts of the world.
00:47:55.70\00:47:58.18
Jesus said, the gospel will
be preached in to all the world
00:47:58.19\00:48:02.72
for witness to all
nations then the end will come.
00:48:02.73\00:48:08.34
Do you believe Jesus? Yes.
00:48:08.35\00:48:10.07
Are you ready for that
trip through the stars?
00:48:10.08\00:48:12.35
Another sign of the times,
00:48:12.36\00:48:14.36
Jesus said there would
be a lot of selfishness.
00:48:14.37\00:48:17.30
People, only
thinking about themselves
00:48:17.31\00:48:18.82
that's the opposite of love.
00:48:18.83\00:48:20.81
Now, I know you don't ever fight
00:48:20.82\00:48:22.10
with your brothers or sisters
or friends at school, right?
00:48:22.11\00:48:25.28
So many times our fights,
00:48:25.29\00:48:27.74
oh, you don't need to
raise your hands I already knew.
00:48:27.75\00:48:30.09
I had kids in my
home for 30 years, I know.
00:48:30.10\00:48:33.92
But that's one of the signs,
00:48:33.93\00:48:35.97
we need more love
in our hearts now.
00:48:35.98\00:48:37.92
You can read in
Second Timothy Chapter 3
00:48:37.93\00:48:39.94
verse 2 and 4-- 1, 2, and 4.
00:48:39.95\00:48:43.23
"But know this,
that in the last day's
00:48:43.24\00:48:45.70
men will be lovers of
themselves, lovers of money,
00:48:45.71\00:48:49.56
lovers of pleasure
rather than lovers of God."
00:48:49.57\00:48:53.10
That's a sign of a last days
Jesus said, people cold hearted.
00:48:53.11\00:48:56.87
We see brutal
examples of crying.
00:48:56.88\00:48:59.36
People just don't
care about each other
00:48:59.37\00:49:00.98
and they will shoot strangers
00:49:00.99\00:49:01.96
for a pair of
tennis shoes or something.
00:49:01.97\00:49:04.90
And it's--you can read
in Matthew 24:12 Jesus said,
00:49:04.91\00:49:07.72
"Because
lawlessness will abound,"
00:49:07.73\00:49:09.80
people are without law,
"the love of many grows cold."
00:49:09.81\00:49:14.53
Again, disobedient to parents
and there is so many signs
00:49:14.54\00:49:18.00
that tell us
that Jesus is coming.
00:49:18.01\00:49:20.58
They're fighting all of the
divorces that are happening.
00:49:20.59\00:49:23.32
This is not God's plan, He
wants people to love each other.
00:49:23.33\00:49:27.10
Children it says,
disobedient to their parents.
00:49:27.11\00:49:29.46
Oh, it bothers me
when I hear parents
00:49:29.47\00:49:31.05
calling their children
and the children don't listen.
00:49:31.06\00:49:35.64
You need to obey your parents,
00:49:35.65\00:49:37.00
that's one of the
Ten Commandments, right?
00:49:37.01\00:49:39.81
Number seven, how can I
be ready for Jesus coming?
00:49:39.82\00:49:43.68
How many of you want to
know the answer to that?
00:49:43.69\00:49:46.48
Friends, at home do you
want to know the answer to that?
00:49:46.49\00:49:48.81
Be ready for Jesus coming.
00:49:48.82\00:49:51.05
Jesus said, "Behold, I
stand at the door and I knock.
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And if any man hears My voice,
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and opens the
door, I will come in."
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He wants to come
into your hearts.
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You know, years ago when
I went to a military school
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back when I was,
well, I first time I went
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I was five years old I
went to military school,
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then I went
again from 11 till 13
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and here's the picture here
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of me and a buddy
named Bobby Boyar,
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in our dressed
uniforms in military school.
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I think I was
about 11 or 12 there.
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I was 12, 11 in that
picture because when I was 12,
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I had stripes in my
uniform, I was company clerk
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and every year they
would inspect our rooms
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and boy, I tell you
they-- military school
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you never had to clean your room
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like I had to clean my room,
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I'll just tell
you that right now.
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We had to clean our floor,
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so you could eat
our food, I mean it.
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We had to fold our
underwear in our drawer
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and they measure
how you folded it
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with the ruler, it's a truth.
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We washed our
windows inside and out,
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I know how to wash windows,
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so there are
absolutely no streaks in it.
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Matter of fact, I'm probably
little eccentric with cleaning,
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because of the time I
spend in military school,
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cleaning,
cleaning and I remember
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we would wax our
floors especially once a year
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we would have what
they call government
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inspection and the
most important people
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in the military would inspect
New York Military Academy.
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It was the elementary school for
West Point that's where I went.
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And we had one
of the top general,
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four-star
generals in the country,
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General William Westmoreland,
was inspecting one year.
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And it was during the
time of the Vietnam war--
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actually, yeah, it
was still going on then.
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And we all had to
stand and it was a big--
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we had hundreds if
not thousands of cadets,
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we had to stand at
attention in our doorway,
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floors all polished
waiting for the general to come.
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We don't know
when he was gonna come
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because he'd stop
at different rooms
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and some rooms failed inspection
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and ooh, you got in
trouble if you fail inspection.
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And we would
stand there at attention
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in our dress uniforms
all our buttons polished,
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our shoes polished
and after waiting hours
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because he inspected
every room in the whole academy.
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Some of the kids on my
floor got tired of waiting
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and there were no
officers on our floor,
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we were on the second floor,
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they were all
on the first floor.
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And the kids got tired
of waiting and they said,
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oh, he is not here,
someone look at the window,
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see if we can see him coming.
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And you know
what they like to do?
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They take off their shoes
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and the floor is all
waxed it was like ice
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and they run up and down
the halls and they would slide,
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they run as fast as they could
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and they would slide
and some of the kids I said,
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don't do that, he is gonna
come you're gonna get caught.
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They said oh, no,
someone look at the window
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watch for him,
but one of the guys
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who was looking at
the window watching
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he wanted to have fun too.
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And so instead of watching
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for General
William Westmoreland,
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and his entourage
come to Dingley Hall
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and inspect our
building and our rooms,
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the kid who was
supposed to be the look out,
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he got out in the hall
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and he was going
up and down the hall.
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Pretty soon we
had three or four kids
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and they're taking
turns and they're laughing
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and they're racing
up and down the hall
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and they go-- they had stopped
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and they had slide
and knock each other down
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they just slide
in this wax floor
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and you know I've
to admit it was fun.
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But we shouldn't
have been doing it then
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because we were getting ready
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for the most important
inspection of the year.
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And all of a
sudden we heard attention,
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and I forget exactly they
said something to introduce,
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General William Westmoreland,
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and right when he walked
out into the middle of the hall
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with his entourage
two kids went sliding by
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and they looked
up, they couldn't stop
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and they looked up
and they saw the general
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and they weren't ready.
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Do you think they passed
or failed inspection? Fail.
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Oh, I tell you, you know, I
was standing there on my door
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at attention with
my white gloves on,
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and I kept wanting to
play with the other kids,
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but I thought,
you know, as soon as
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I'll do that he is gonna come.
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And I said, I want to
be ready when he comes,
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I want to pass inspection.
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And, oh, was I glad and
you know what I got to slide
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all I wanted after
inspection up and down the hall.
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That was not the time to do it.
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Well, Jesus is coming friends,
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and not just because we
want to pass inspection,
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but because we love Him.
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We don't want to wait till
the last minute to get ready.
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We want to be
ready now, right? Yes.
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If you knew the school teacher
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was coming to
visit you, would you wait
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until you saw her
coming up the drive way
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before you cleaned your room.
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Or you wanna have things
ready to receive her before?
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Well, I am
promising you right now
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because Jesus is telling you,
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I'm coming again and
He wants you to be ready.
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He wants to take you to
that place He has prepared.
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He wants us so
much, He died to save you.
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There is gonna be two kinds
of people when Jesus comes,
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those that are ready
and those that are not.
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There will be
some that will look up
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and say this is our God,
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we waited for Him
and He will save us.
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They're looking
for Jesus to come.
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They're excited
about His coming.
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They want to tell their friends,
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and getting others
ready for His coming.
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And then there
are some who will say,
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no I'm gonna live now for
the world and for the devil,
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I don't really
want to live for Jesus,
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I'm gonna live for
myself and you know
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those people are
never very happy.
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My last question is.
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Do you believe that
Jesus is coming soon
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and do you want to
be ready when He comes?
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Yes. What is your decision?
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I am hoping that
you have some cards here
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and we only got a minute left,
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so we let's pass
it on very quickly.
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And I would like to ask you
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and you may have to
finish this after prayer
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when we're off the air.
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But I want to ask everybody
to make a decision tonight.
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Write your name,
your address on the card.
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They're
distributing pencils here,
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hopefully they're distributing
these things in your group.
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Very simple questions,
do you want to accept Jesus?
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Put a yes, put a
check in box number one,
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if you wanna say, I want
to give my heart to Jesus
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and follow His
teachings in the Bible.
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Check box number two,
if you would like to say,
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I want to be baptized and
have all of my sins washed away?
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You can make a decision
tonight to accept Jesus.
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And check box number three,
may be you would like to talk
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to pastor or one of your
church leaders about baptism.
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I like to encourage you to make
that decision tonight friends.
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I'm gonna have prayer with this
group after we go off the air.
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I hope the
leaders who are watching
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will have prayer
with their children
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and talk to them
after we go off the air.
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When is our next meeting?
00:56:23.06\00:56:25.11
Tomorrow night, I know some
of you have school tomorrow,
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but this is the most important
adventure in the world,
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just for seven more nights.
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We're looking
forward to seeing you.
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Tomorrow night, we're going to
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talk about "The
Code of the King."
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So right now, you have
prayer with your groups,
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we'll be having prayer.
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God bless you.
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