Participants: Mark Fox
Series Code: AMP
Program Code: AMP000008A
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00:04 We are racing towards the global crisis at the close.
00:09 God is going to set up His kingdom on earth. 00:13 Preparation for the tribulation and the translation 00:17 is to develop a character like Jesus Christ 00:21 to reach every hamlet, 00:22 every village, every man, every child, every person in India, 00:27 every person in South America 00:28 must hear these three angles' messages. 00:34 These are stories that illustrate the kind of fabric 00:37 of character and perseverance that we need to go through 00:41 the tribulation just as certainly as they did. 00:44 The Bible makes it very clear 00:45 we are living in an unusual hour. 00:47 The last grains of sand are trickling 00:50 through the hourglass of time 00:52 and the door probation is about the swing shut. 01:00 And so the Bible makes it very clear you can have a comeback. 01:03 Take your Bible and turn with me to the Book of Hosea. 01:07 The Book of Hosea that's after the Book of Daniel. 01:10 God's precious promises is how we overcome, amen. 01:15 How many know we have to overcome the three S's, 01:18 sin, self and Satan. 01:22 How? By the scriptures. 01:24 How many agree the power of the Word of God? Amen. 01:27 And so Hosea 14:4, can we read this together? 01:31 Are you ready? Here we go. 01:33 "I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely, 01:38 for My anger has turned away from him." 01:42 You can have a comeback. 01:44 I don't care how far you have backslid, 01:46 you can be healed of your backsliding. 01:49 I say this there is healing in this house today. 01:53 And so the Bible says that 01:55 you can even get something else back. 01:57 How many agree along the way we get so busy, 02:00 along the way we cover sometimes, 02:03 we lie down defeated sometimes 02:06 but we can have a comeback. 02:07 And maybe you lost something else 02:10 and the Bible says you can get it back. 02:11 What else could that be? 02:13 And we look here at 02:14 the Book of Revelation Chapter 2. 02:16 The words are in red so who is speaking? 02:19 Jesus is speaking. 02:22 "Nevertheless I have this against you, 02:24 that you have left your" what kind of love? 02:29 First love. 02:31 How many love the Lord today? 02:33 My question is do you still have your first love. 02:37 The Bible makes it very clear that 02:39 if we ever love the Lord more than we do today 02:44 the Bible says we must do something about it 02:47 to get it back. 02:48 And I'm here to tell you that Jesus knows, 02:52 if we have left that honeymoon experience with Him. 02:55 If we lost that fervor, if we have ceased 02:58 praying with fervency in our prayer 03:00 and with importunity and a faith 03:03 that will not be denied 03:05 if we are reaching out 03:06 to touch Jesus with that peculiar touch, 03:09 if we are getting that live call from off the altar, 03:12 if we are on fire for Jesus, Jesus knows. 03:16 And the good news is, you want some good news, 03:19 you can get your first love back. 03:23 How many would like to be in love? 03:25 You know, at the job place 03:27 when somebody falls in love 03:29 I don't care what their mood was prior, 03:31 I don't care if they are on a rollercoaster of moods, 03:33 you don't know what mood Joe is gonna be in, 03:36 you don't know what a mood that Saul is gonna be in 03:39 but, boy, when they fall in love all of a sudden 03:42 how many agree everything is lit up. 03:45 When we fall in love with Jesus 03:47 people take knowledge we have been with Jesus. 03:49 Amen. 03:51 And so look here at Revelation 2:4, 5, 03:53 "Nevertheless I have this against you, 03:55 that you have left your first love." 03:57 And that Jesus tells us. 03:58 He gives us practical instruction what to do, 04:02 how to get it back. 04:04 "Remember therefore from where you have fallen," 04:11 you got to go back. 04:12 How did you lose it? What happened? 04:15 What did you do differently? 04:16 Oh, it might have been a sudden drop? 04:18 It might have been a gradual, 04:20 a gradual backsliding condition. 04:24 "Remember therefore from where you have fallen, repent" 04:29 repent of what that you lost your honeymoon. 04:32 Repent that you lost that fervency, that glow, 04:36 repent that you've lost that first love. 04:39 You mean to tell me that I need to repent 04:43 of being in love with the Lord 04:45 but not fervently in love with the Lord. 04:50 And so the Bible makes it very clear-- 04:51 by the way as I crisscross North America 04:53 I meet thousands of wonderful people 04:57 but I'm here to tell you, you know what, 04:58 I meet good people but the question is are we on fire? 05:02 Because good people don't go to heaven, 05:03 only those who are on fire of the Jesus. 05:07 You read the Laodicean message, 05:09 it's a message of, if you don't get on fire 05:12 and repent of your lukewarmness your just as lost 05:15 as the prostitutes and harlots and tax collectors and so forth 05:19 according to the Word of God. 05:21 Nicodemus was in the church and Jesus said 05:23 you need to born again 05:25 or you will not make it to the kingdom of heaven. 05:27 How many agree, it's time to fall in love with Jesus 05:32 so that we don't care about what anybody thinks 05:34 except we know that our heart is in tune 05:37 throbbing with Jesus heart. 05:38 Amen. Does that make sense? 05:40 And so I want you to notice here beloved 05:42 the Bible says here, Jesus says, 05:44 "repent and do the first works," 05:46 do what you used to do. 05:49 Take time in prayer. Take time in Bible study. 05:52 And notice here "or else I will come to you quickly 05:56 and remove your lampstand from its place unless you repent." 06:00 So I would say this before I get into my testimony 06:04 I'm here to tell you, you can have a testimony. 06:07 You might not have gone out go into the world. 06:09 You might have been lost in church. 06:11 You might like the Lord and know a lot about the Lord 06:15 but I'm here to tell you let's get that first love back, amen. 06:19 Let's get that first love back and that can be our testimony. 06:22 Amen, that can be our testimony. 06:25 Revelation 12:11. 06:27 How many agree if you've lost 06:28 your first love and you get it back, 06:29 how many agree that is a powerful testimony. 06:32 Revelation 12:11, 06:36 "And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb" 06:39 the merits of Christ, the worthiness of Christ, 06:44 the righteousness of Christ. 06:46 That's how we overcome. 06:47 We overcome by claiming His blood. 06:50 Listen, "They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb 06:54 and by the word" that blood became their testimony, amen. 06:58 How many agree you ought to shout for joy 07:00 when you think about the blood of Jesus 07:02 that saved the wretch like you and I? 07:04 And so notice here the Bible makes it very clear 07:07 "by the blood of the Lamb and by the word." 07:09 This is the word. 07:11 How many agree the Word of God becomes our testimony? 07:13 You don't have to invent a testimony. 07:16 Your testimony is based on 07:17 what God is doing in your life, amen. 07:19 And as it's expressed in the Word of God notice here, 07:21 "And they did not love their lives to the death." 07:26 Psalms 103, notice Psalms 103, Psalms 103, 07:31 we were at Psalms 102 but now we are going to Psalms 103:10. 07:36 This encapsulates how I feel about what God has done 07:42 to an unworthy sinner like me. 07:46 "He has not dealt with us according to our sins," 07:51 He has not dealt with us according to our sins, 07:55 "nor punished us according to our iniquities." 07:58 One word that sums that up grace, grace. 08:03 He does not treat us the way we deserve. 08:06 Last week I shared with you 08:08 how I was raised in a pastor's home. 08:10 My father is a retired pastor in Portland, Oregon. 08:14 I grew up one of four boys 08:17 and during my turbulent teenage years 08:20 I decided I was not interested in church, 08:24 I was not interested in God, 08:26 I didn't want to follow the Lord, 08:29 I wanted to do my own think. 08:30 Like Frank Sinatra sang, I did it my way. 08:35 And so I was very, very restless. 08:38 I was very, very empty 08:41 but you wouldn't always know it 08:43 because I was always laughing and always hanging around mine 08:46 here's keywords I will throw 08:48 a keywords during my testimony. 08:50 I was always around my circle of friends. 08:53 I hated to be, here's that dreadful word, alone. 08:59 I didn't like being alone especially as a teenager 09:03 I had always be on the phone. 09:05 This is just sound for me and mom and dad, 09:07 always had to be on with phone. 09:08 This was long time before cell phones. 09:10 And so I would always be hanging out with my friends 09:14 much of them should grin and dismay 09:16 and disappointment of my parents. 09:18 And so I shared with you how the Lord saved me 09:22 from that near fatal motorcycle accident in 1975. 09:26 I was 17-years-old coming from a bar 09:29 on our way to another bar. 09:30 My buddy Bob's Harley-Davidson Sportster 09:32 I was on the back seat, you know, 09:34 a VW pulled out in front of us 09:36 and slammed into it. 09:38 I ended up in the hospital ten days. 09:41 I shared that with you last week 09:42 but the Lord saved my life 09:44 because I know that if I died then I would have gone down 09:48 to a Christ-less grave. 09:50 How many are glad to be alive today? 09:51 You got a chance today. You got a shot at heaven. 09:54 Can you say, amen? 09:56 The second episode that I highlighted last week 09:59 is how the Lord delivered me 10:01 from basically a near fatal overdose of LSD. 10:07 The devil tried to take my mind 10:11 from those mind altering potent drugs. 10:16 Many people who take these drugs-- 10:18 well, let's just put it this way, 10:19 they are never the same. 10:21 God delivered me and answered to my parent's prayers. 10:25 Thank God for parents that still believe in prayer. 10:29 And so the third episode 10:31 not only did the Lord deliver my life 10:33 from that near fatal motorcycle accident, 10:35 not only did the Lord deliver me 10:37 from that near fatal overdose of LSD 10:41 but the Lord also delivered me from almost going to jail 10:45 as I shared with you last week 10:46 for three to five years 10:48 because of getting in trouble with my friends. 10:53 God delivered me and gave me my freedom. 10:56 How many are thankful for freedom? 10:59 And so I will tell you this, 11:03 the forth episode was I met Shirley 11:09 and if your name is Shirley forgive me for saying this 11:11 but it was surely a mistake. 11:15 Shirley and I as you know met each other 11:17 in a discotheque dance floor, moved in together, 11:20 talked about grandiose ideas about getting married. 11:23 During while I was there living together she cheated on me, 11:26 went away for the weekend. 11:27 I had just quit smoking and drinking and drugs 11:31 for the relationship 11:32 she didn't ask me to do it I did it. 11:34 Anyway I thought it would help our relationship. 11:36 I decided that my good looks and my charm 11:39 and my words couldn't try to keep her faithful to me 11:42 and so I thought well, maybe quitting drinking 11:44 and drugs I will do everything 11:46 although she continued to smoke and drink 11:48 and then you know when she cheated on me 11:51 I ate humble pie and my heart was broken 11:55 and I went out and got drunk and so forth. 11:58 By the way I am giving the abbreviated version. 12:00 I shared with you last week 12:02 that Jesus gave enough brief details 12:05 about the prodigal's life going away from the father 12:08 so you could appreciate the homecoming, in Luke 15. 12:11 And so at any rate all I know is that I went out and partied 12:16 and I came back practically passed out 12:18 and that was one week after I had quit everything. 12:22 The devil knew, oh, no, he starting to make 12:24 a little progress although I didn't do it for the Lord. 12:27 I didn't give my heart to the Lord, 12:28 I was doing it for this relationship. 12:30 And how many agree the Lord still working, 12:32 working on every single person 12:35 "not willing that any should perish 12:37 but that all should come to repentance" 2 Peter 3:9. 12:40 And so I was, I was devastated and out of that desperation 12:45 when she came home and my mind and as head were spinning 12:49 and I was trying to drown it out by the rock music 12:52 but just before she came home I share with you last week, 12:55 I said to myself basically essentially 12:58 I'm sick and tired about being sick and tired. 13:02 And so right then and there was a, 13:05 was a time in my life 13:07 where I see smoking and drinking and drugs 13:10 I have never touched ever since. 13:13 And that was before I gave my heart to the Lord. 13:15 So nobody can tell me you can't quit cold turkey. 13:18 No, I know you can. 13:20 And so she came back, tried to patch things up 13:24 but in the back of mind I was very restless. 13:29 I wanted to marry her 13:31 but "God's ways are higher than our ways," 13:35 Isaiah 55:8, 9 and there. 13:38 How many agree, God's plans do not always coincide 13:41 with your grandiose plans. 13:44 God says, I know. 13:46 Sometimes we don't have a clue. 13:47 I know the plans I have for you. 13:50 Plans to give a future and hope 13:52 if you would just let Me play in for you, Jeremiah 29:11. 13:56 And so around this time I decided to move back home 14:02 and I decided that we need to have God in our relationship 14:05 because my parents and my father's 14:08 associated Pastor Dave Holden were bugging me saying, 14:11 Mark, you're living in sin. 14:12 Mark, you're living in sin. 14:14 If you want to have this relationship last, 14:17 you want durability you got to move back home 14:20 and I thought well, you know what, 14:21 I'm not able to keep her fable so maybe that will work. 14:24 So I decided to go back home and I said, Shirley, 14:28 we've got to have God in our relationship 14:30 and I'm sure she thought he has lost it. 14:35 And I said, we are going back to church. 14:38 So we started going to church and around this time 14:42 we got a brochure in the mail. 14:43 My dad got a brochure in the mail 14:45 from his colleague Mark Finley. 14:49 Now you got to understand that in 1975 14:52 my father's pastoring there in Hartford, Connecticut, 14:55 Mark Finley was an evangelist 14:57 for the Southern New England Conference 14:59 of Seventh-day Adventist. 15:00 And so in 1975 they did a campaign together, 15:05 a crusade together 15:06 and my parents would confide in him 15:08 because in 1975 I was at my worst. 15:11 I was a borderline alcoholic, 15:14 chain smoker practically smoking two packs a day. 15:17 Would you agree there is not much time for the intervals? 15:21 On drugs, almost going to jail, 15:24 hanging around the wrong group of friends 15:28 and they would confide to Mark Finley 15:29 in his Radiant Living evangelistic team. 15:33 Mark, pray, pray, pray, for our son. 15:36 Teenie Finley, pray for our son and all evangelistic team, 15:40 pray for our wayward son. 15:42 Have you ever asked people to pray for your children? 15:44 Guess what, it works. 15:47 If you are going through a personal crisis in your life, 15:50 if you are facing financial challenges, 15:53 if you are suffering from health problem, 15:55 if your marriage is needing a miracle, 15:57 if you have a special concern for your children, 16:00 whatever you need maybe give us a call 16:02 and we will pray with you. 16:03 For your prayer requests call us at 1-855-336-FREE. 16:09 "If the Son sets you free, 16:11 you are free indeed," John 8:36. 16:19 It works, get people praying for your loved ones 16:24 and throw me in the mix, would you. 16:27 And so honest time, got this brochure in 1975, 16:35 just fast forward 1975 and so I tell Shirley 16:39 we are gonna go to this series of meetings. 16:41 And so we would make, we would drive in our Pinto 16:44 and we would make that trip, 16:46 45 minute a trip from Hartford to Springfield, Massachusetts. 16:53 And so we would make this trip night after night. 16:56 The Lord was tugging my heart strings 16:58 and there was that altar call 17:00 and I wanted to go forward in the altar call. 17:02 Shirley, let's go forward. 17:03 No, I'm not going forward, well, I'm not going. 17:05 She said, you go forward. 17:07 I'm not going forward if you are not going forward 17:09 been there done that. 17:12 Mark Finley said to me at the door one night, 17:15 I would like to talk to you. 17:17 And I said, sure. 17:18 Well, the evangelist has time for little old me. 17:21 I was a high school drop out after ninth grade. 17:23 I caught the tail end of the hippie movement 17:25 and so I was going nowhere fast 17:27 but a evangelist wants to talk to me. 17:29 Well, sure, great. 17:30 So after the people left he said, 17:33 Mark, I have a promise I want to share with you from 17:36 a little tiny Book of Joel 2:25, 17:39 "I will restore to you all the years 17:42 which the swarming locust has eaten." 17:44 Locust eaten? 17:46 He said, Mark let me explain it this way. 17:48 If you give your heart to Jesus those years that you have given 17:52 in the drugs and drinking and smoking and all of those things 17:56 and the trouble you have been in, 17:57 if you give your heart to Jesus He will restore you. 18:03 I can tell you here today there is healing in this house. 18:07 There is healing in this house. 18:09 How many believe Jesus is here right now? 18:12 He wants to do something in your life right now. 18:16 This is your time. This is your time. 18:19 This is your moment. This is your day of a miracle. 18:23 You need a miracle in your life, 18:25 ask Him for that miracle right now as we speak. 18:29 And so I'll tell you 18:32 a little after that I went to my dad. 18:36 Now you got to understand 18:38 that my dad and I had not been close. 18:42 During this turbulent teenage years 18:45 at times I even told my parents, I hate you. 18:52 But your kids can come back home. 18:53 Can you say, amen? 18:56 Now we are very close. 18:58 I don't feel, I don't feel good 19:00 unless I talk to my parent's every day. 19:04 And so I went to my dad because I could see, 19:08 there was not a future with Shirley. 19:10 So I'm like, I don't want to go back to drinking, 19:13 don't want to go back to drugs. 19:14 What am I gonna do with my life? 19:15 I was a shipper and receiver in a printing envelope company. 19:19 Wasn't getting paid much 19:21 but I did have a 1966 Satellite Convertible 19:23 that was jacked up, does that count? 19:27 About the only thing I had to show for my meager paycheck 19:29 because I squandered it 19:30 like the prodigal son on righteous living. 19:32 And so I went to my dad, 19:33 you can understand that there in East Hartford, Connecticut 19:35 they are at the pastor's parsonage. 19:37 There was the family room downstairs 19:39 and adjoining the family room was a bar. 19:43 Well, it was intended to be a bar a little cubbyhole 19:45 with a bar counter and then underneath 19:47 was a bar shelf for all the booze and so forth 19:50 and instead my dad cleaned that out made it a pastor study 19:53 and he would be in that little cubbyhole 19:54 and I would lean over to get some counsel from 19:57 and I was leaning over and I say, 19:59 hey, dad, you think there is anything 20:01 I can do in the Lord's work? 20:05 Well, my dad, my dad confided in me years later. 20:11 He said, Mark, you added to shovel book, 20:14 you are-- just came out of that hippie movement. 20:17 I mean, Mark, you are a high school dropout, 20:19 you had been on drugs and everything, 20:21 you were involved there with Shirley and everything. 20:24 Mark, I must admit that my heart 20:26 was list glass that shattered. 20:28 I didn't know what to tell you my faith faltered. 20:31 You ask me is there anything you could do in Lord's work, 20:34 I didn't know what a muster up would tell you. 20:38 My dad said, my faith was challenged. 20:42 Never underestimate what my Jesus can do 20:47 not what man can do, what Jesus can do. 20:52 And so my parents were praying though 20:54 but I'm gonna agree you got to mingle some more faith, 20:56 more faith with the prayers they were believing. 21:00 And so around that time my brother Dena, 21:05 I'm one of four boys, I'm number two 21:07 and his number three, my brother Dena, 21:09 had what I would consider 21:10 to be a dramatic conversion experience. 21:15 My brother Dena became a colporteur 21:20 even before he finished academy. 21:22 He left academy after his junior year, 21:25 Adventist academy and he decided he wanted 21:27 to colporteur for a while and even preached once 21:30 and he would give Bible studies, share Christ 21:34 and sell Christian literature and so forth. 21:36 And we shared a bedroom two twin beds 21:40 and I noticed as he would get up in the morning, 21:43 he would get up early in the morning something 21:45 that I did not want to do with my kind of lifestyle. 21:48 And so I noticed when he would get up in the morning 21:52 he would drop down on his knees and he would pray 21:55 and then he would go out for hours 21:58 in a corn field and pray and read. 22:02 He'd usually have a stack of books 22:04 he was bringing with him like "Desire of Ages" 22:06 and by Ellen G. White and the Bible and so forth. 22:10 He would go out there for hours and he would come back 22:14 with peace and glow in his countenance. 22:19 I just watch that, I observe that, 22:24 I observe that 22:27 and I thought I'm stressed, 22:31 I'm restless, my heart is broken, 22:35 I don't know what the future holds 22:38 but I was just watching. 22:40 How many agree people are watching you? 22:43 They are trying to see if they want what you have. 22:45 Trying to see, they are sizing you up, they are assessing. 22:49 How many agree we're all on candid camera? 22:55 And so I'll tell you what happened 22:58 I wanted what he had. 23:01 I noticed, I made a connection in my mind. 23:05 I saw Mark Finley working for Jesus happy. 23:10 I saw Teenie Finley working for Jesus, happy. 23:14 I saw my brother Dena 23:16 and Radiant Living evangelistic team, 23:19 I saw them working for Jesus, happy. 23:22 I made a simple equation but profound. 23:26 If you want to be happy just don't go to church, 23:29 work for the Lord 23:32 because I noticed in church that not everybody was happy 23:37 and I didn't want what they had. 23:40 But I watched people who work for Jesus and I said, 23:43 you know, I got to get some of that. 23:46 And so I went to my bedroom as I could see I repeat, 23:51 no future with Shirley there. 23:53 Oh, but I didn't let go yet even though my parent's said, 23:57 Mark, give her up. 24:00 So I knelt down in my bedroom 24:04 one sunny spilled day sun shining through the window 24:09 and I remember just looking up. 24:11 Now you got to understand I didn't have a prayer life. 24:12 I didn't have a study life. 24:14 I was too preoccupied then trying 24:16 to get God to straight and surely out 24:18 so we get married and live happily ever after. 24:22 Just being honest with you. 24:24 And so I knelt down 24:26 and I said a sincere, short, simple prayer. 24:33 Dear, God, is there anything I can do in your work. 24:40 And I must admit it was like the devil piped up. 24:42 Give me a break. 24:44 You are high school drop out I don't think God needs you. 24:51 So I just left it there 24:54 three days later out of the clear blue 25:00 my uncle Jerry Fox on my dad's side of the family, 25:04 younger brother of his called out of the clear blue 25:07 we hadn't heard from him in over ten years 25:12 but three days after I prayed 25:15 I'm sure the Lord thought we better move in quickly 25:18 because this Mark is little too valid. 25:21 We better answer this one fast. 25:24 And so out of the clear blue, hey, Bruce. 25:28 My dad's name. 25:30 Do you think that Mark can come out here to California-- 25:34 Connecticut, California many miles apart. 25:38 Could you think he can come out here and help us get started? 25:42 It's kind of a Christian enterprise 25:44 where we are doing some health ministry for Jesus. 25:47 Well, it's associated with the church. 25:49 We are trying to get started a vegetarian restaurant 25:55 and a combined with a fine art gallery 25:59 in Monterey, California. 26:02 And we live in Carmel Valley 26:04 and he can come and live with us 26:06 and he can come work with us 26:08 and we will take good care of him. 26:11 And my dad is like, wow. 26:15 My dad knew, my dad knew where this call came from. 26:22 And so my parents shared the call. 26:26 I'm like uncle Jerry also said 26:28 if Dena wants to come too that's fine as well. 26:33 And so I'm calculating after my parents told me this. 26:38 My dad said, Mark, this is the call from God. 26:46 And so I thought okay, what am I gonna do with Shirley. 26:50 Now stay here. 26:51 So I'm calculating and I'm thinking well, 26:55 so I worked on it. 26:56 I'm gonna try to abbreviate. 26:58 I tried to say, you know, make plans, you know, 27:00 tying to get her to come out 27:02 with of fly out to get married or whatever 27:04 I didn't know all across the boards. 27:06 So... 27:07 Finally they had a farewell for me at my workplace 27:11 and with a lot tearful goodbyes, 27:15 say goodbye to Shirley but around this time 27:17 I had been working now with my brother Dena. 27:20 I said, Dena let's go work for God 27:23 together in California 27:25 because I didn't want to be alone, alone, alone. 27:30 And so at any rate I said, 27:32 Dena, you know, let's work for God. 27:35 He said, Mark, I will pray about it. 27:36 I said, all right. 27:38 So here he would comeback to me and say, 27:39 Mark I'm still praying bout it. 27:41 I said, come now let go work for God. 27:42 I said, you have blessed me so immensely, 27:46 you have been an inspiration to me, 27:47 I look up to you, let's go work for God together. 27:51 He said, I think I may go. 27:53 I said, great, great. 27:54 And then the next day, Mark, I'm not sure I want to. 27:57 Then the next day, maybe I will go 27:59 and I'm like come on now, let's go work together. 28:03 Finally, on the eve of our departure my brother and I 28:08 put some of our belongings there in our car, 28:11 it was packed to the gills 28:12 and so on the eve of our departure 28:15 with my brother barely agreeing 28:17 to go kind of could go one way or the other. 28:19 I'm saying this for good reason. 28:20 I know where I'm going. 28:24 My dad said, Mark, let's walk around the block. 28:27 My dad is a walker 28:29 and so he lived to be 130 but anyway 28:32 so he said, Mark, let's go for walk. 28:35 I said, okay, dad. 28:37 So we walked around the block, quarter mile block there 28:40 at night underneath the starlit skies 28:42 and we had one of those unforgettable father son chats. 28:47 And he said, Mark, 28:49 you are gonna look back at this 28:52 as being the turning point 28:55 in your life. 28:58 My dad was right as he usually is. 29:02 Next morning it came time to leave. 29:06 My brother Dena was having misgivings. 29:08 I tried to drown it out 29:10 and so finally he agreed to get in the car, snap, snap, 29:13 they snap some pictures I just saw them recently. 29:16 I didn't even know they had picture snapping 29:17 and pictures of us getting into the car 29:19 and us taken off to California. 29:22 And so I'm thinking you know what, 29:23 if I have to say goodbye to my friends 29:26 long time before I say goodbye to my friends 29:28 because I quit smoking and drinking 29:30 and I have to say goodbye to my workplace 29:34 and I have to say goodbye to mom and dad and my family. 29:37 I'm not saying goodbye to my brother Dena because 29:40 I need him because he has a clear connection with heaven. 29:44 He has a pipeline to God I need him. 29:48 I can't go alone, alone, alone. 29:53 And so rambling down the highway 29:55 and then again, man, I never driven that far out. 29:59 We are going to California, couple thousand miles away 30:02 so we are rambling down the highway. 30:03 I'm kind of excited and as we were going along 30:06 I noticed he seemed to be wrapped in prayer. 30:09 So we are driving along and then he blurts out, Mark, 30:12 pull over to the side of the road. 30:14 I said, why, what's the problem? 30:16 I think we need to pray. 30:18 Oh, boy, 30:21 and I said okay. 30:22 So we pulled over. 30:24 He said, Mark, I think we need to pray for a sign. 30:28 If God wants me to go forward with you to California 30:32 or you to take me back home, back home, alone. 30:38 I said, okay, we prayed 30:41 and after he prayed for sign 30:44 I was ready to interpret any sign 30:46 in my favor only a matter of interpretation. 30:50 So after we prayed we rambled down the highway. 30:54 I'm happy as lark and he is prayerful. 30:57 I said, come on, man, we are gonna have 30:59 a great time in California. 31:00 Come on, Dena, we are gonna work for God. 31:02 Get a vegetarian restaurant 31:04 fine art gallery start come on, man. 31:06 And so we are driving along Mark, 31:08 pull over to side a little. 31:09 Oh, man, can't we do this prayer in California? 31:13 So we pulled over to side of the road, 31:15 said the same old prayer like Jesus, 31:17 in the Garden of Gethsemane. 31:20 And so he prayed for sign, gulp. 31:24 After he prayed for sign there again 31:26 I was poised ready to go. 31:29 The interpret sign of my favor I didn't want even think 31:33 about the prospect of having 31:34 to take my brother home and go on. 31:37 So we stop, we made it to York, Pennsylvania 31:41 where my father used to pastor 31:44 and there was some friends there, 31:46 a family there the Mummert's that agreed 31:48 to have us come and stay 31:50 from Friday night over the Sabbath 31:53 and then we would resume 31:54 our trip to California on Sunday morning. 31:56 So they agreed. 31:58 So we stayed there and almost 31:59 the entire time my brother Dena was intensely seeking God. 32:06 Dangerous saw in my opinion 32:10 and so Sunday morning came 32:12 and I tried to cheer him up, come one we are gonna go work 32:14 for God but my brother's conscience was smiting him. 32:20 He felt that God was calling him 32:22 to go back and for me to go alone. 32:27 So on Sunday came my brother Dena said, Mark, 32:31 I would like to drive. 32:34 You know, I usually had a monopoly 32:35 at the wheel because well, 32:36 that was my pride and joy but I thought okay, 32:38 if this will pacify him sure. 32:40 Okay, Dena, no problem. 32:41 So I let him the keys and said, goodbye Mummert's. 32:43 And so he put on shades and started up the car. 32:47 We started rambling down the highway so okay, 32:48 this is cool. 32:50 As long as he is gonna go to California with me, 32:52 that's the only thing that counts in this. 32:54 And so you see I had my plans, had my plans. 32:58 You know the Bible says "A man plans his way, 33:00 but the Lord directs his steps," Proverbs 16:9. 33:04 And so as we were rambling down the road 33:07 I noticed that we are approaching the exit 33:10 that we need to take 33:12 to continue in our pursuit California. 33:15 And so I said, Dena you are not slowing down. 33:17 He wasn't slowing down. 33:19 I registered in my mind in a split second 33:21 he is gonna drive me back home so that he can get out. 33:25 All right, I said no way. I said, Dena, catch the exit. 33:27 He pulled one of those maneuvers, you know, 33:29 you pass the exit but you get it anyway. 33:31 And so I said, you are not driving anymore, 33:33 pull over to the side of the road. 33:34 So he pulls over to side of the road. 33:36 I'm shaking, he is shaking, big brother, little brother. 33:38 And so, you know, he is shaking and I said, 33:41 you are not driving anymore. 33:42 Man, and so we switch places and he had turned the car off. 33:47 Every detail counts. 33:50 God is in the details. 33:52 When you pray He is in the details. 33:56 And so he was shaking, I was shaking 33:59 and we switch side although huffy, 34:01 going to serve the Lord 34:04 my way. 34:06 And so we switch places and I was trembling, 34:08 he trembling and one of his I think it was pretty much him 34:12 suggest let's pray again. 34:14 Said the same old prayer 34:16 like Jesus saying the same prayer 34:18 in the Garden of Gethsemane. 34:19 It was a struggle to surrender, 34:25 so intense. 34:29 And so after we prayed the same old prayer 34:33 my brother praying, Lord, intervene, give us a sign. 34:37 In Jesus name, amen. 34:40 I said, Dena, don't worry we can fly-- you know, 34:42 when we out to California 34:43 you want to fly back I understand. 34:46 Hopefully he would change his mind. 34:50 Okay, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, 34:54 I looked over and he smiling. 34:57 My car was not starting. 35:02 And so I got out of my car, popped the hood 35:05 and I'm looking at the car. 35:07 I'm not a mechanic 35:08 but I used to toy around with it little bit 35:10 and I knew 35:12 there is a problem here and I couldn't out. 35:14 My brother comes around he is comforting me. 35:16 You know, Mark, people in the Bible, 35:18 Jacob, Abraham, and what I can't remember 35:20 but he would say, you know, they went to trial. 35:21 I didn't want to hear all that. 35:25 And so I flag down a car, they gave me a jump. 35:29 We drove it to a nearby gas station 35:32 diagnoses your battery has a dead cell, it's gone. 35:39 I said, wait a minute, that battery is new. 35:43 And he answered to my brother's prayer God killed my battery. 35:46 You know, God can do that if He wants. 35:52 And so we slapped in a new battery in there, 35:56 close the hood, 35:57 pulled up my parent's credit card 35:59 so I can, you know, get a little help from them 36:01 and rambled down the highway again. 36:04 Oh, the car started up right away 36:06 and so we are rambling down the highway 36:08 and I'm happy and now my brother is prayerful. 36:13 We are driving along, driving along, driving along. 36:15 Hey, Mark? 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Why don't you just stay there, why don't you just stay there, 38:39 check into the hotel and then tomorrow 38:41 when we all come we can make a decision together? 38:44 I said, look, I'm not turning around 38:47 and then I noticed my brother seeing that mom and dad 38:51 would make any headway my brother took off. 38:55 I said, mom and dad, I got to go. 38:56 I left them partly hanging. 38:57 I ran up the door and I saw my brother 38:59 is running away from me 39:02 and I thought just so I'm just scoping the area 39:04 and I ran around the side of the hotel 39:06 there is my brother doing something like this 39:10 and he is praying. 39:12 And I come up all huffy, you know, 39:13 scared me to death and so I come up all huffy, 39:16 he looks at me 39:18 with a look of love. 39:19 I'm gonna agree, you know, 39:21 you the looks to your family members. 39:24 He looked at me with a look of love 39:27 and he said, Mark, 39:30 I love you. 39:32 I don't want to do anything to hurt you. 39:34 I just want to do God's will. 39:38 "A soft answer turns away wrath" Proverbs 15:1. 39:42 It did for a moment till the devil popped up 39:45 alone, alone, alone, alone. 39:48 California alone, alone. 39:50 No way, hey, come on, Dena, let's get going. 39:53 I got in the car and it was muscled against muscle. 39:57 I had a few more muscles there, I was something boxing 39:59 all the time and so I muscled. 40:01 My brother want to get out of the car, 40:02 I wasn't gonna let in, out of the car. 40:05 It was muscled against muscled. 40:06 I'm holding the door, he is trying to get out. 40:11 I don't who suggested it 40:13 but we decide we better pray again. 40:18 and after we prayed the same old prayer 40:22 like Jacob, wrestling with the Lord. 40:25 After we pray, Dean, I'll take you back home. 40:30 Did I said that. 40:32 I really felt shocked that that came out of my mouth 40:38 but I started to feel something 40:41 that I had never felt in my life. 40:45 It came from in here 40:50 I said, Dena, 40:52 I'll take you back home. 40:55 I started stronger. 40:59 I started up the car my brother is still up against the car 41:05 and the car started right away and I started heading back. 41:09 And he said, Mark, wait a minute, 41:12 I don't think you have to take me all the back home. 41:14 And he started rummaging through 41:16 the maps that he had brought, 41:17 he was my navigator more than one way. 41:20 Not only my spiritual navigator but he loved geography, 41:23 lobed maps and so he is rummaging 41:25 through the maps and he says, Mark, 41:28 okay, go down here and take this next exit. 41:30 So we took the next exit, 41:31 all right, take a right, all right, take a left. 41:34 He took me to an apparently 41:36 rundown train station in Martinsburg, West Virginia 41:40 little dot on the map in Northern West Virginia 41:44 and he said, Mark, let's pray. 41:47 And by the way as I started heading back 41:50 my brother eased down on the chair and I said, 41:52 Dena, I'm sorry. 41:55 And my brother said, Mark, I forgive you. 42:01 And so we went to that train station. 42:04 He said, Mark, we need to really pray. 42:06 We need to pray that this train station is still in service 42:09 and that we can get a ticket and that there is a train 42:12 going back to Connecticut 42:14 so you don't have to drive me back 42:16 and that we have enough time to do that. 42:19 That day we were broken down 42:23 for two hours. 42:26 We called or rather we went to check the train schedule 42:31 and the train that we needed 42:34 for him to go back to Connecticut 42:35 was coming in two hours. 42:39 God's timing is always perfect, right on. 42:46 And so we called my parents 42:48 after my brother purchased the tickets. 42:51 Started to get some of his belongings together. 42:55 Mom, dad, my brother called, 42:58 Dena is gonna come back home 43:00 or my brother called and he said, 43:01 I'm coming back home by a train. 43:04 My parents breathe a sigh of relief. 43:08 And then the close rose two hours, 43:12 the train arrived 43:15 and before my brother boarded the train 43:18 I could feel something building up, 43:22 building up inside of me 43:25 and I said, Dena, I love you. 43:29 I'm really gonna miss you. 43:31 I'm really gonna miss you. 43:33 Mark, you will be okay, the Lord will be with you. 43:37 I didn't fully understand what that meant. 43:39 And I said, Dena, I look up to you so much. 43:42 Mark, you are gonna be all right, 43:44 you're gonna be all right. 43:46 Bye, Dena, bye Mark. 43:50 And he went up the steps into the train 43:54 and the door shut and I'm looking 43:57 and the train began to move down the tracks. 44:00 I'm looking to see if I can see him one more time 44:03 and the train passes off, you know, the distance 44:05 and the snow flakes are falling heavily. 44:09 And after the train passes into the horizon 44:14 I look at my car and I'm feeling, 44:18 I'm feeling something I had never felt before. 44:21 I got in my car 44:24 and I bowed my head 44:27 and I cried the tears of a lifetime 44:30 and I just broke down. 44:31 The Bible says, 44:33 "Fall on the rock and be broken" 44:34 Matthew 21:44. 44:36 And I just fell on broken on the Lord 44:38 and I said a prayer like this. 44:40 I said, O, dear Lord, O my Father in heaven, 44:44 please be with me. 44:46 I need Your presence, I need your companionship 44:51 and it was as if the Lord I just felt His presence 44:55 and I felt a "peace that passeth understanding" 44:59 Philippians 4:7. 45:01 Beyond the words I couldn't believe 45:03 what I was feeling for the first time in my life peace 45:07 and it was as if the Lord sat down next to me. 45:12 He's been my companion ever since. 45:15 It was as if the Lord said to me 45:18 "I'm the friend that sticks closer than a brother," 45:24 Proverbs 18:24. 45:27 And so as I started driving down-- 45:29 actually the roads were treacherous as I recall it. 45:33 Gone through Virginia, I remember automatically 45:38 talking to my Father in heaven, 45:40 talking to Jesus, talking. 45:42 Nobody said it's time to pray. 45:44 I just talked to Him because 45:46 I felt and sensed His nearness, His presence. 45:50 "I have set the Lord always before me, 45:53 because He is at my right hand I shall not be moved," 45:56 Psalms 16:8. 45:58 There is joy in the presence of the Lord 46:01 pleasures forevermore, Psalms 16:11. 46:05 And so I checked into a hotel last thoughts at night, Jesus. 46:11 Woke up in the morning in the hotel room, thoughts of Jesus. 46:16 And then as I'm driving along I had some cassette tapes 46:20 of an evangelist by the name of E. E. Cleveland. 46:24 I'm sure Steve and Hiram probably recognize the name. 46:28 E. E. Cleveland and his subject that he was preaching on 46:31 was Christ our righteousness and about 46:36 how you can depend on Jesus and He will take you places, 46:41 He will change your life. 46:43 Trust in His righteousness. It touched my heart. 46:45 I would listen to Christian music. 46:47 I would listen to some Christian music, choir music, 46:50 I would listen to just beautiful moving music. 46:55 By the time I arrived in California 46:57 after being three days alone with God. 47:03 I wanted to shout from the housetops, 47:06 Jesus is my best friend. 47:09 Jesus is all I need. 47:11 Have you found that to be true in your life? 47:15 Have you discovered it's okay at times to be alone, 47:18 it's okay to just you and God to be in solitary? 47:23 Is it-- have you discovered that as you take time with Him? 47:29 He wraps His arms around you and whispers in your heart, 47:32 I love you. 47:33 "I have loved you with an everlasting love, 47:37 and therefore with loving kindness 47:39 I have drawn you," Jeremiah 31:3. 47:42 Oh, beloved, 47:44 "The Father Himself loves you," 47:49 John 16:27. 47:52 Beloved, I've got a message for you today, 47:55 God is in love with you. 47:58 "I am poor and needy, yet the Lord thinks upon me," 48:02 Psalms 40:17. 48:04 "Blessed are the poor in spirit, 48:07 for their is the kingdom of heaven," 48:09 Matthew 5:3. 48:10 Do you feel poor in spirit? 48:12 Do you mourn over your spiritual declension? 48:16 Do you mourn over your mistakes then you shall be comforted, 48:20 Matthew 5:4. 48:22 O beloved, I need to close. 48:25 You might ask, Mark, what happened to Shirley? 48:30 I understand that she never did stay with the remnant, 48:34 never did and I don't know what happened 48:36 but I pray that God is with her wherever she is. 48:39 But God had a better plan. 48:42 God had a better way. 48:44 "God now unto him who is able to do 48:47 exceedingly abundantly 48:49 above all that we ask or even think," Ephesians 3:20. 48:54 I was there in California for about ten months 48:57 in my experience with Jesus, that first love experience. 49:02 And while I was leaving, I was a camp counselor 49:05 also at camp Tawonga Yosemite National Park. 49:09 And then my parents were calling me, Mark, 49:12 why don't you come home dad has a new call 49:16 to pastor in the outskirts of Chicago 49:18 at the Oak Park Seventh-day Adventist Church 49:20 and, Mark, why don't you come and help us move 49:24 and you can work on your GED. 49:28 I said, I'll pray about it. 49:32 I learned, you don't do anything, 49:37 you don't do anything unless you talk to Jesus 49:40 because now He is that driving. 49:43 He is there at the wheel. 49:46 And so I kept telling that for weeks and weeks. 49:51 Mark, come on we got to know, 49:52 the Lord hadn't reveal it to me yet. 49:54 But then I said, I'm gonna take a whole day with God 49:57 and after taking that whole day with God 49:59 the Lord showed me I want you to go back. 50:01 I said, okay, Lord. 50:03 Now that You spoken I want to hear Your voice. 50:05 " My sheep hear my voice, and they follow me" John 10:27. 50:08 Hear His voice today. 50:10 There is healing in this house. 50:13 There is restoration in this house. 50:16 There is intimacy with God 50:17 more than ever before in this house. 50:20 Now listen to me, 50:22 I was leaving California, I told mom and dad, 50:24 I'm go to go back home. 50:26 I'm gonna come there 50:28 and so as I was leaving California 50:31 at the border between California and Nevada 50:34 I was driving along and I was crying 50:37 because I was leaving California 50:40 where I found this new experience. 50:43 I found them along that trip along 50:45 but that new experience with Jesus. 50:47 And I was wondering what is the future hold. 50:50 And I have my Bible 50:51 I don't know who has recommend this 50:52 but I have my Bible in my passenger seat because 50:55 the Bible has become my companion. 50:57 And I took the Bible and please don't do this. 51:02 But anyway I'm driving along and I just looked down 51:06 I randomly just open-- you know, 51:07 God can do that sometime. 51:09 You know, you got to be careful about this 51:10 but I just open the Bible, God knew my heart. 51:13 I was just longing, I wanted to hear from Him 51:16 and I just opened the Bible. 51:18 "If you speak what is precious and not what is worthless 51:24 you shall be as my mouth." 51:27 I thought, Lord, 51:29 you are calling me to preach. 51:33 All His biddings are enabling, so I'm thinking I-- 51:36 I'm a high school dropout. 51:38 You say, Lord, okay. 51:41 I took a plane from Chicago because 51:43 I took my car there Chicago to Connecticut, 51:46 was re-baptized, re-baptized, 51:49 everybody is crying in the church, like, 51:50 the pastor's prodigal son. 51:54 And then we relocated to Chicago 51:57 and the first day I was there 52:00 Ed Lindsay, the manager of the Adventist Book Center 52:03 said, "Mark, would you please work 52:05 at the Adventist Book Center as a sales clerk?" 52:07 You will be up in the front. 52:08 You will be the main person 52:10 everybody talks to and so forth. 52:12 I'll pray about it 52:15 and the Lord impressed me, take the job, this is of Me. 52:19 So I became a sales clerk and people would come in 52:22 and pastors would come in 52:24 and I shared my testimony with them. 52:26 Mark, would you come preach at our church 52:28 and share your testimony? 52:29 I'll pray about it. 52:31 And so I would go, so my calendar 52:33 was being filled up. 52:34 I said to the Lord, I said, Lord, 52:36 if You want me to preach 52:37 I'm not going around asking to preach. 52:39 If You want me to preach 52:40 You're gonna have to have them come to me. 52:42 And that's what happened. 52:44 I humbly say that my calendar was being filled 52:47 with appointments that God has ordained. 52:49 And then they had asked me do week of prayers 52:52 and that was really ironic 52:53 that I who had only a ninth grade education 52:56 would be given a week of prayer at academies. 53:01 And them Mark Finley comes into the Adventist Book Center 53:05 and I'm like, Mark, it's good to see you 53:09 and he looks at me, Mark, double take. 53:11 He said, Mark, it's good to see you. 53:13 Mark, we are getting started 53:15 the Lake Union Soul Winning Institute in Hinsdale 53:19 and why don't you come 53:21 and we'll train you to be a Bible worker. 53:23 Wow, that sounds great. 53:25 I'll pray about it. 53:28 I prayed about it and the Lord impressed me. 53:30 You go in there. 53:31 Adventist Book Center helped to even fund me to go 53:34 and I was among the first graduates 53:37 with a Bible structure certificate. 53:41 Ninth grade education. 53:43 I became a Bible worker for three years 53:46 and I ended up doing my first crusades 53:48 with a ninth grade education. 53:49 What's your excuse? 53:56 Let me tell you something, 53:58 God does not ask are you qualified. 54:02 He asks, are you available. 54:04 Are you available because 54:05 I can infuse you with my Holy Spirit? 54:08 And so I'll tell you what happened. 54:09 I'm getting to my wife, hold on, here's what happened. 54:14 I was a Bible worker for three years 54:16 and then my president Everett Combo 54:19 said Mark, I would like you to come in the office. 54:21 I would like to meet with you. 54:23 Oh, no, what did I do wrong. 54:24 And he said, Mark, have a seat. 54:27 He said, Mark, I think you ought 54:28 to go up to Andrews University 54:30 and I think in three years you should finish 54:33 your Bachelor of Arts in Theology 54:34 and then come back here 54:36 and we will give you some churches for you to pastor. 54:39 Okay. 54:41 So I left the office thinking 54:44 does he know I only have a ninth grade education. 54:47 I didn't want to offer that to him. 54:49 Secondly, I'm kind of reframing in my mind what you just said. 54:54 I'm rehearsing it. 54:55 So what he is saying is, Mark, 54:57 you don't have a job unless you get an education. 55:00 But you know what, 55:02 setbacks are setup for transition, 55:08 to a higher level the god hasn't store for you 55:10 When I say higher level 55:11 that just means a different phase in your life, 55:13 a different chapter in your life. 55:15 How many agree, you are waiting on the Lord? 55:17 No, it's preparation for what He is about to do. 55:21 And so I'll tell you 55:23 what was going on, 55:25 I had been studying sample GD tests 55:30 and I was bombing, big time 55:34 and I'm like panic attack 55:36 I got to go up to Andrews University 55:38 and I can't even pass this lousy GED tests. 55:42 How am I gonna do this? 55:44 And I came out of the YMCA after working out one time 55:47 with a buddy and I get in my car 55:49 and I got this big Andrews University bulletin 55:52 with all the requirements and everything. 55:53 It's like and I'm like, Lord, and I'm crying. 55:58 I'm saying, Lord, how can this be 55:59 I'm gonna go to Andrews University 56:01 I'll have a job I got to get this education. 56:04 How can this be? 56:05 I'm sorry but I did it again. 56:07 I open up my Bible and Mary was saying how can this be, 56:12 the Holy Ghost will come upon you. 56:14 I say, okay, Lord. 56:16 I went up to Andrews University 56:17 in five years with the Holy Spirits help 56:19 I went from the ninth grade education 56:21 to a Masters of Divinity. 56:23 Now that's Jesus, that's Jesus. 56:26 Now I must admit I didn't deserve to pass Hebrew 56:29 but I passed anyway. 56:33 But I met my wife at the administration building. 56:36 She had just come up from 56:38 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 56:42 and I asked her out tea 56:44 at the university cafeteria 56:50 and a couple years later 56:52 we got married, March 22, 1987. 56:56 God had so much in store for me. 57:02 My dream come true 57:04 was when my friend Mark Finley 57:07 called me and said, Mark, 57:09 come work with me at "It Is Written" 57:12 because it was my dream 57:14 that the one who had helped me when I was disheveled hippie. 57:19 Oh, my friends, God has a call in your life. 57:25 Do you love Him today? 57:28 Please don't turn away. 57:31 What a friend, what a friend you have in Jesus. 57:39 Although sudden and alarming changes 57:41 are sweeping across the globe 57:43 you and your family can be prepared 57:45 to face the future with confidence. 57:48 The complete set of Amazing Prophecies 57:50 on DVD are available for a gift of $60 or more. 57:54 Call us at 1-855-336-FREE 57:59 or send your check or money order 58:01 to Forever Free Ministries, 58:03 2001 Munro Park, 58:06 Corinth, Texas, 76208. 58:11 If you would like to have Mark Fox 58:12 hold an Amazing Prophecy seminar 58:14 or a marriage seminar weekend 58:15 in your church contact us today, 58:18 markfox @foreverfreeministries.org |
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