Are you looking for an exciting
change in your life? Well, get
ready for a breath of new life.
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Byrd.
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Matthew 28:19 and 20: "Go ye
therefore, and teach all" what?
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Audience: Nations. "Baptizing
them in the name of the" what,
everybody? of the Father, the
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Son, and the Holy what?
Audience: Ghost. "Teaching them
to observe all things whatsoever
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I have commanded you: and, lo, I
am with you" what? Audience:
always "Even unto the end of the
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world. Amen." Father, bless us
now for the next couple of
moments, speak for your servants
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heareth. to gain entrance in
this place in our lives, that,
God, you would stop it right
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now, that we might be focused in
on what you have for us, because
what you have for me and what
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you have for us, it is for me
and for us today. And when the
appeal is made, may individuals
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respond, we pray, in Jesus'
name, Amen. Is it time to head
to the hills? Is it time to head
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to the hills? We're living in a
time of fear, panic, terror, and
alarm. The Ebola virus has
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become the major topic of
conversation everywhere as 4,877
people have been killed this
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year by Ebola alone. Then,
according to one World Health
Organization worker, we really
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don't know how many actual
deaths we have, because there
are a lot of people who have
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died either alone or in the bush
in West Africa. We know one man
has died here in the United
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States, we know three, two
nurses that worked with the man
have been infected, and now a
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New York doctor is being
reported as being infected.
People who have come in contact
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with these people are now being
tested for infection. Is it time
to head to the hills? ISIS, the
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Islamic State of Iraq, whose
members want to create an
Islamic state governed by an
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extremist interpretation of
Islamic law, is out of control
in the Middle East. Thirteen
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thousand square miles is
stretched between Syria and
Iraq, about the size of Belgium,
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is thought to be under Islamic
state control. Other estimates
suggest that ISIS controls an
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area closer to 35,000 square
miles, which is about the size
of Jordan. In June alone, 1,922
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people were killed as a result
of ISIS, the deadliest month on
record. Some of these killings
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taken out on women and children
are some of the most gruesome
acts you can witness in your
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life. Beheadings. Machine guns,
taking people out in a direct
line as if children were
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standing in a water fountain
line. Some have urged our
President, President Obama, to
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send our troops to the Middle
East and restore order against
ISIS. But then on the flip side,
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some have said, leave them
alone. Let them solve their own
problems, and let them kill
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themselves among themselves. But
don't be deceived. A main reason
for all this fighting is not a
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holy war, but it's also a money
war. An estimated three million
dollars is the daily revenue of
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ISIS. Why? Black gold. Oil.
Fighters with ISIS have taken
control of oil and gas fields
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across northern Iraq and Syria
that now controls a volume of
resources and territory
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unmatched in the history of
extremist organizations. There
are zero--how many, everybody?
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Zero openly practicing
Christians thought to be left in
the city of Mosul where ISIS has
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made Christianity punishable by
death. While it's impossible to
know if ISIS militants have
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actually chased every Christian
out of the city, recent reports
suggest that all remaining
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Christians have fled from Mosul.
Is it time to head to the hills?
Just last weekend, Hurricane
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Gonzalo ripped through the
island of Bermuda, closing down
the airport, creating power
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outages among 85 percent of the
country's residents, and called
in between two hundred and four
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hundred million in insured
losses over the weekend on
Bermuda, and it's only
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sixty-five thousand inhabitants.
Is it time to head to the hills?
Just yesterday, students are
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thinking it's a normal class day
at a Washington state high
school, when a student fatally
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shoots one classman, wounds four
others, and then turns the gun
on himself in the school
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cafeteria. Friends, is it time
to head to the hills? Ellen
White told us in "Prophets and
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Kings," whether we want to
believe or not, she's truth,
that we are standing on the
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threshold of the crisis of the
ages. She said, in quick
succession, the judgments of God
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will follow one another. Fire,
flood, earthquakes, war with
bloodshed. She said, iniquity is
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becoming so common a thing that
it no longer shocks the senses
as it once did. This trouble
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will not cease until Jesus
comes. So I don't care what news
station you watch: CNN, HLN,
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TBS, TNT, ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, or
whatever it is, you are seeing
earth's pains leading up to
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Jesus' soon return. Events
taking place around the world
don't just happen by accidents.
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Ellen White says that God has a
purpose in permitting these
calamities to occur. You say,
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well, why does God allow this?
How could a good God allow all
this? She says, God permits
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these calamities to occur
because they are one of his
means of calling men and women
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to their senses. The sad thing
is, we see these things, we hear
these things, and it does
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nothing to us. Business as
usual. But what she's trying to
tell us is, God is showing us
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every day that the coming of
Jesus, that the time of Jesus'
return, is getting closer by the
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day. Don't think that the day of
Jesus' return will tarry. Don't
think that Jesus is just
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waiting, God is putting it off
until a later time. Don't think
God is sitting around his
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celestial courts twiddling his
thumbs. God has set a day. God
has set a time. God has circled
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that day on his divine calendar,
and God will not miss it. Jesus
is soon to come. Aud: Amen. So
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is it time to head to the hills?
Is it time to go into hiding for
fear of persecution? Is it time
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to cower down in fear of what's
happening in the world? My
answer to you today is no. It's
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not time to be scared. It's not
time to panic. It's not time to
be afraid. It's not time to be
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scared. But it's time to sound
the alarm. It's time to tell a
dying world that Jesus is soon
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to come. Go ye therefore, teach
all nations, baptizing them in
the name of the Father, the Son
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and the Holy Ghost. Understand
that the events under the sixth
seal in Revelation 6, the great
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earthquake, the dark day, The
only thing, friends, left to
occur in Earth's history is the
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main event under the seventh
seal, which is the second coming
of Jesus Christ. Jesus has
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charged us, go ye therefore,
teach all nations. It's not time
to retreat. It's not time to
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withdraw. It's not time to move
back, draw back, run back or go
back. It's time to press
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forward. This is what I've been
waiting for. This is what we've
been praying for. This is what
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we've been preaching for and
teaching for and singing for.
This is what we've been fasting
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for. The devil is alive. It's
not time to be scared. It's not
time to run to the hills. It's
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time to sound the alarm. Now,
the George Barna Group, one
largest leading religious
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research groups in the U.S.,
reports that right here in
America people are being
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deceived every day. The report
says 59 percent of Americans
don't even believe Satan exists;
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51 percent believe praying to
dead saints is beneficial; 35
percent believe you can actually
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communicate with the dead; 50
percent believe salvation is
earned and not a gift, so forget
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the concept of grace; 44 percent
believe that the Bible, the
Karan and the Book of Mormon are
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all different expressions of the
same truth. There are 2.2
billion Christians of all ages
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around the world, representing a
third of the estimated global
population of seven billion,
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which, friends, means that there
are 4.8 billion people who do
not believe in or follow Jesus
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Christ. Of this amount, nearly
three billion live in what we
call the 10/40 window, where
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Christianity isn't taught, it
isn't practiced, nor is it
known. Atheists compose and
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comprise an estimated two
percent of the world's seven
billion people. Which means
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there are more than 140 million
people who don't even believe in
God. But more than that 16
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percent of the seven billion
people are nonreligious, which
means 1.12 billion people in our
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world could care less about
religion. But then I read my
Bible. And Acts 4:12 says that
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there's no other name under
heaven whereby we can be saved,
but save the name of Jesus.
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Which means it's not time to
head to the hills, but it's time
to tell the world about Jesus,
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tell them Jesus was born, tell
them he was reared in a
carpenter's shop, tell them he
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amazed the great preachers and
teachers of the day, tell them
he was baptized in the muddy
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Jordan, tell them that Jesus
healed the sick, raised the
dead, five thousand hungry souls
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he fed. Tell them that when
you're sick Jesus heals you,
that when you're hungry Jesus
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feeds you, that when you're
naked Jesus clothes you, that
when you're down, Jesus picks
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you up, when you're out, Jesus
reaches and pulls you back in.
Tell somebody about Jesus. Tell
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them he's the Savior, that he's
a deliverer, that he's a healer,
that he's a preacher, that he's
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a teacher, that he's a way
maker, that he's a mountain
mover, that he's a problem
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solver, that he's a marriage
saver, that he's a bill payer,
that he's a financial clearer,
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that he's a heart fixer, that he
is a cancer killer. Tell
somebody about Jesus. Quit
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talking about problems and talk
about Jesus. Quit talking about
foolishness and talk about
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Jesus. Quit talking about people
and talk about Jesus. Several
years ago in my birth state of
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Louisiana in the city of New
Orleans, a celebration took
place at a municipal pool in New
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Orleans. The party around the
pool was held to celebrate the
first summer in memory without a
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drowning at the New Orleans City
Pool. In honor of the occasion,
200 people gathered, history
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says they found a fully dressed
body in the deep end. They tried
to revive Jerome Moody, And
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because no Christian has told
them about Jesus, their eternal
life is jeopardized because they
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didn't know Jesus. The early New
Testament church was committed
to reaching the lost for Jesus
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Christ. We need to raise the
bar, Oakwood, in raising our
commitment toward reaching
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others for Jesus Christ. I was
readying a book, "The
Purpose-Driven Church" by Rick
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Warren. You all know Rick
Warren. It's not heresy, but I
was reading. He pastors the
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Saddleback Church there in
California. And he said, "Strong
churches are built on purpose."
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The starting point, he said, for
every church should be the
question, Why do we exist? Why
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are we here? Why does the church
exist? Why does this church
exist? Why is this church here?
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Why do we come here week after
week? Is this just a country
club for people with like minds
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and attitudes? Is this just a
place where we come to see who's
who and what's what? Is it just
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a place where we come to
entertain ourselves? Is it just
a place where we come to meet Is
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this a hospice or a hospital? Is
it a place where we come to make
people comfortable before they
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die, or is it a place where sick
people can come and let the
Master Physician do spiritual
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surgery, which may disrupt our
lives, disrupt our habits,
disrupt our preferences, disrupt
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our way of thinking, but in the
end, hallelujah, we're made
hold? Is this a place where
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somebody can come in here
broken, but leave blessed? Is
this a place where one beggar is
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trying to tell another beggar
where they can find bread, or
should we just pack up, close
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shop, head to the hills, and let
everybody fend for themselves?
Why do we exist? What difference
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do we want to make as God's
church? Do we really want to see
people fall in love with Jesus?
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Will we really want to see a
people who are excited in Jesus,
that when they think about the
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goodness of Jesus and all he's
done for them, their soul cries
out, hallelujah, thank God for
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saving me? I've learned it's
easier to preach what you
practice than to practice what
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you preach. Oh, we gotta go and
tell somebody. Tell somebody
about Jesus. Tell them what
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Jesus has done for you. Tell
them what Jesus can do for them.
Friends of mine, we're living in
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unique times of Earth's history.
Christianity with its over two
billion people is just about
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everywhere, and the Lord has
given us this opportunity to
take the message of Jesus Christ
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to people to hear this gospel
message. Go ye, therefore. But
too many of us either lack the
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confidence in what the
Scriptures say, or we're not
familiar enough with them to
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feel bold in our speaking. Now
bold, let's be clear, does not
mean odd-ball. Bold means bold.
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Bold does not mean crazy. Bold
is confidence. Bold is
courageous. The phrase actually
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means natural speech, which
means you don't have to sound
like somebody else. All you've
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got to do is work in your own
armor and go tell somebody. Do I
have a witness in this place?
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Everybody up in here, everybody
watching, has a story to tell.
You and you only know for
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yourself what God has done for
you in your life. There's power
in your testimony. Every day
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someone's asking the same
question. Is God hiding His face
from our problems? Why do bad
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things happen to good people?
Does God really hold my destiny
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Dr. Byrd with a message already
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in progress. And so today you
should make a declaration that
as often I can come in contact
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with different people, I'm not
going to try and wrestle them
down by the collar and make them
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listen to what I say, but I'm
just going to tell them the good
things that Jesus has done for
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me. Another thing: Don't assume
that people actually know the
gospel message. We think people
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know, but they really don't
know. Each of us could take a
handful of rocks, stand in our
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driveways at our homes, and
throw the rocks in different
directions in our neighborhood,
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and for every rock that falls on
a house, there's somebody in
your community with a house that
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has never heard the real
persuasive, clear gospel of
Jesus Christ. They don't know.
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We think they do, but they
really don't. They're not able
to say that Jesus was
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miraculously and spiritually
born of a virgin, that he
precariously died on Calvary,
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supernaturally resurrected to
the voice of God, and
spiritually ascended back on a
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cloud to heaven, and that one
day soon he will Contact us at
miraculously return on the
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clouds to get his people that
belong to him. All you got to do
is turn on the television. Look
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at some of these Christian TV
programs. And I'm a TV preacher.
And you'll wonder when you
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watch, do these people really
know the gospel message, or are
they ashamed or lack the
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confidence in the gospel to do
what the gospel is really able
to do? You see, many--that's all
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right, I'm going to say it
anyhow--many of the pulpits in
America have compromised. Many
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of our churches have gotten
soft. We've gotten soft on
scripture and soft on sin. We've
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become heavy on forgiveness and
light on repentance. Preach,
Pastor Byrd. This is why many
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people are trying to repackage
the gospel in so many ways to
connect, to be relevant. And I
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certainly believe that there are
cases when you must practice
that. But yet there are other
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times when people want to water
down the message. But the Lord
didn't say to us that you're the
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one that will convert them so
water down the gospel. Jesus
said, just tell them. Just tell
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them. And leave the converting
to the power of the Holy Ghost.
You just tell them. You just
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tell them about Jesus, tell them
about his life, tell them about
his love, tell them about his
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power, tell them about his
commandments, tell them about
his awesomeness, tell them about
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his majesty, tell them about
Jesus. So many people are
searching for the gospel that
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when you open up your mouth,
they're just waiting for you to
tell them so they can hear. Now,
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let's be real. When was the last
time you told somebody about
Jesus? I ain't talking about the
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Sabbath. I ain't talking about
the 2300 days. I'm not talking
about the state of the dead,
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stewardship or diet. When was
the last time you told somebody
about Jesus? You weren't trying
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to proselytize them, you weren't
trying to convert them, you
weren't trying to change them,
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you weren't trying to make them
an Adventist, but you were just
telling them about Jesus. When
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was the last time you told
somebody about his matchless
grace? When was the last time
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you told somebody about his
timeless forgiveness, his
unconditional love When was the
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last time you told somebody
about Jesus? When was the last
time, friends, you told somebody
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not of your great church, but
that you serve a great Lord? Not
that you're in a great
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conference, but you serve a
great Lord. Not that you're part
of a great denomination, but
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that you serve a great Lord. Not
that you heard a great sermon,
but that you serve a great Lord.
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Not that you heard a great song,
but you serve a great Lord. Not
of a great building, but that
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you serve a great Lord? When you
talk about religious things, do
you talk about church or do you
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talk about Jesus? When you talk
about religious things, do you
talk about a singer or do you
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talk about Jesus? When you talk
about religious things, do you
talk about a preacher or do you
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talk about Jesus? Young people,
do you talk about AYS and the
praise and worship, or do you
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talk about Jesus? Because it
wasn't a church, it wasn't a
singer, it wasn't a preacher, it
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wasn't a program, it wasn't any
of those things that saved you,
but somebody knows, when you
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were deep in the pits of your
sin, that it was Jesus. I told
you two weeks ago, I'll tell you
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again. Look back over your life,
look at how many times you
thought you weren't going to
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make it, how many times you had
bills you couldn't pay, problems
you couldn't solve, habits you
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couldn't break, enemies you
couldn't have peace with. Look
at how many people tried to kill
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you. Out to destroy you. Tried
to character assassinate you.
How many times over your life
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have you thought you weren't
going to make it, that you
thought you weren't going to get
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in school, but Jesus brought you
through? Not a church, not the
preacher, not a singer, not the
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