What kind of soil are
you preparing for harvest?
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Will you nurture
the ground you walk on?
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Are the seeds you're planting
in the soil able to grow
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and produce more seeds?
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Will what you grow,
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not only sustain
yourself but others?
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These are important
questions for our lives.
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Here is John Carter,
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as he continues to unravel
the mysteries of the kingdom.
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"We ended part one
with a text from Matthew,
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can we go over this text
again before we continue?"
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Wayne, it's a great question.
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It's one that has
divided Christians
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for literally hundreds of years,
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especially since
the days of John Calvin.
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Now let me read you
the controversial text.
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Matthew 13:14-15,
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here it is.
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"And in them the
prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled,
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which says:
'Hearing you will hear,
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and shall not understand,
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and seeing you will
see and not perceive,
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for the hearts of
these people have grown dull.
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Their ears are hard of hearing,
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and their eyes they have closed,
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lest they should
see with their eyes
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and hear with their ears,
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lest they should understand
with their hearts and turn,
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so that I should heal them."
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Now, it's interesting,
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my friend, that the
Bible says their eyes,
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they have closed their
ears, they have closed.
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This is an act of the will.
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Jesus said to
the religious leaders
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in His own day, I
wanted to draw you to Myself.
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I wanted you to
come to Me for salvation.
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But then He said those
significant words He said,
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"But you would not."
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I have the
ability to say yes or no.
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God has given to me the capacity
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of freedom of choice.
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And if I open my
heart to the Spirit of God,
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He will draw me to salvation,
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and He will bring me to
Christ and I will be redeemed.
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"Do you think some people
ignore God because they think
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it would have a
negative impact on their lives?"
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I've grown to
understand the subject
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a little bit more
as I've grown older,
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because I've had the privilege
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of speaking to
millions of people.
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I've seen so many
people come to Christ.
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I've seen people
respond to the voice
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of the Spirit of God.
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I've seen the Word of
God get down into good soil.
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And I've seen people
actually run to Christ.
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What I'm saying is this,
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and I'm not trying to be
judgmental but I'm saying this.
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It's almost
impossible to get someone
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to see an idea
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when their
salary, when their income,
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their lifestyle depends
upon they're not seeing it.
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Did you get this?
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It's almost impossible
for somebody to see the truth
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when his salary
depends upon his not seeing it.
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So here comes this
tremendous conflict
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in the human heart.
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Remember, Jesus
said this, John 5:40,
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"You refuse to come to me,
so that you might have life."
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They could have come.
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When Jesus stood
on the Mount of Olives
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and wept over the
great city of Jerusalem,
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He said, "How often I
wanted to draw you to Myself,
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but you would not."
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I want you to
know this, my friend,
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the greatest
truth in all the Bible
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is the truth of the love of God.
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That God loves you,
and Christ died for you.
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And He sends the Holy Spirit.
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And if we do not resist Him,
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He will draw us to
Christ and to salvation.
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Believe it and you
will see the glory of God.
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"Should the
church try to get rid
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of all the hypocrites
and humbugs in the church?"
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You think it'd be a
good idea to get rid
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of all the
hypocrites and the humbugs?
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You know, God didn't
make us the judge, did He?
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God is the judge.
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I'm glad that God is the judge.
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Some people think, you
know, they are the judge.
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This has happened in history.
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But I want you to think
about something right now.
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I want you to think about this.
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This is not original
with me by any means.
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But I'm going to
say just the same.
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Somebody said,
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if you're looking
for the perfect church,
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don't join it
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because it won't
be perfect anymore.
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There are no perfect churches,
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because there are
no perfect people.
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You say, "No,
no, but I'm perfect."
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No, my friend.
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Our perfection is
found only in Christ.
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It is the gift of God.
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Matthew 13:24-28.
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I want to read you this
passage out of the Bible,
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because these are the
words of our blessed Lord.
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"Another parable He
put forth to them saying:
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'The kingdom of
heaven is like a man
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who sowed good
seed in his field,
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but while men slept,
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his enemy came and sowed tares
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among the wheat
and went his way.
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But when the grain had
sprouted and produced a crop,
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then the tares also appeared.
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So the servants
to the owner came
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and said to him, Sir,
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did you not sow
good seed in your field?
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How then does it have tares?
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He said to them, an
enemy has done this.
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The servants said to him,
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do you want us to
go and gather them up?
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And Jesus said, no.'"
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And Jesus said, no.'"
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We're going to
wait until the harvest.
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And here Jesus is talking
about the church because,
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my friend, in the true
church of the living God,
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you got good wheat,
and you got bad tares.
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You got the good and the bad.
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You got the sincere, and
you've got the hypocrites.
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And God is the judge
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and we should not be thinking
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of having an inquisition.
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You know, the
wheat and the tares,
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the good and the bad.
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You got them in the pews,
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and you've got
them in the pulpits.
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You've got them
in the leadership
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of the church.
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You've got them
among the lay people,
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you've got them everywhere.
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But Jesus said,
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"They both grow
together till the harvest."
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It is not our work to try
to get rid of the hypocrites.
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And as you said
before, and the humbugs,
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this is the work of God,
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we should let God be the judge.
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Shall we have an inquisition?
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Well, they try
that, you know, in Spain,
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they tried it all
throughout Europe.
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The Roman Catholic
Church decided they would purge
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the Holy Catholic
Church of all the heretics.
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You know about this, don't you?
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They burned to death
millions and millions of people.
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I've got pictures I've taken,
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I've gone into some of
the great museums in Europe.
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I've seen the
pictures of the Inquisition.
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It was a time of hell
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because people
tried to play God.
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But Jesus said,
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"They both grow
together till the harvest."
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Now, let me read to you
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from Matthew 13:28
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and onwards.
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Listen.
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"He said to them,
an enemy has done this.
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The servant said to him,
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do you want us then to go
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and gather them up?
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But he said, no lest
while you gather up the tares,
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you also uproot
the wheat with them.
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Let both grow
together until the harvest,
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and at the time of harvest,
I will say to the reapers,
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'First gather together the tares
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and bind them into
bundles to burn them,
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but gather the
wheat into my barn."
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It seems very
apparent to me that God
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is telling us leave it alone.
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I'm going to deal
with this when I come
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as the judge of
all men and all women.
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Remember,
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God never gave you and
me the role to be the judge.
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God is the judge.
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"People watch
Christians say one thing
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and then do another.
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Doesn't this
hypocrisy hurt the church
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and keep people
from seeking God?"
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I know there are people
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who are like the Pharisees
think that they're the judge
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and they've got the right
to get rid of all the humbugs
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and all the phonies,
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but God knows the heart
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and God isn't
finished with me yet.
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He's not finished
with you yet, my friend.
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God is working on people.
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Let's give God some time.
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We need some time ourselves.
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Let me read you
from Matthew 13:37,
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and onwards.
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"He said to them:
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'He who sows the good
seed is the Son of Man.
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The field is the world,
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the good seeds of
the sons of the kingdom,
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but the tares are the
sons of the wicked one.
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The enemy who
sowed them is the devil,
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the harvest is
the end of the age,
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and the reapers are the angels.
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So God is the judge.
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God is going to
clean up His church.
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God is much wiser than we are.
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And we should leave the
work of judging to the judge.
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That's God.
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"What is the harvest
and when does it happen?"
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Well, I'm glad it's
not the harvest yet, is it?
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I'm glad that God
has given us some time,
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I'm glad that God is patient,
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I'm glad that God
is patient with me.
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I'm a very imperfect person.
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I'm glad that my Heavenly Father
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is patient with me,
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as God is patient with
you, and your children,
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who sometimes can
be quite obnoxious.
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I'm just talking about children,
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you know, just as
a broad statement,
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because, you know,
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sometimes it's
tough bringing up kids,
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but God is
patient with our children.
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Let me read you a
text, Matthew 13:42-43.
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"Therefore as the
tares are gathered
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and burned in the fire,
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so it will be at
the end of the age.
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The Son of Man will
send out His angels,
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and they will
gather out of His kingdom
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all things that offend,
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and those who
practice lawlessness,
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and will cast them
into the furnace of fire.
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There will be wailing
and gnashing of teeth.
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Then the righteous
will shine forth as the sun
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in the kingdom of their Father.
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He who has ears to
hear, let him hear!"
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So I say, let's go
easy on our young people.
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A lot of young
people have been driven out
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of the church by
Pharisees who think that God
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has made them the judge,
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but the Bible tells me
that the harvest takes place
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at the end of the world.
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That's why we're not
going to start an Inquisition.
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My friend, this is the
very, very Word of God,
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and I wanted to
sink down into our souls.
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Let us treat
others as God treats us.
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What do you say?
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"Pastor Carter, do
you believe in miracles?
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Can God actually make
the impossible possible?"
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Do I believe in miracles?
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Yes, I do.
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I've seen miracles.
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I believe in miracles.
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I believe in the
greatest miracle of all.
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You know what the
greatest miracle is?
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The miracle of the love of God,
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that God loves
sinners, like you and me.
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Let me read you
Matthew 13:31-32.
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Read this chapter
through, my friend.
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It's a fantastic chapter.
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Let these words sink
down into your souls.
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Let it get into the
good soil in your good heart,
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brother, sister.
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Matthew 13:31-32,
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"Another parable He
put forth to them saying:
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'The kingdom of heaven
is like a mustard seed,
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which a man took
and sowed in his field,
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which indeed is the
least of all the seeds,
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but when it is grown,
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it is greater than the
herbs and becomes a tree,
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so that the
birds of the air come
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and nest in its branches.'"
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Listen to this.
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God loves to
take a small beginning
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and make it into
something fantastic and great.
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God is the God of small things.
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That God can
grow into big things,
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He can take your dreams,
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dreams of faith
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and make them miracles, wonders.
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Danny Shelton came
with us to Russia in 1992,
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a long time ago now,
seems like yesterday.
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We had this tremendous campaign,
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3ABN stood with me.
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These people were
my tremendous friends.
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They helped me raise the budget.
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People say, "Where do
you get the money from?"
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The saints of God send it to
us and Danny Shelton helped me
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raise the budget,
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and after this campaign
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where thousands of
people were baptized
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in the Volga
River, Danny got a dream.
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He said, Brother John,
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we need to build
here a great church
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and a great evangelism center
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because we've only got
one little tiny church.
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So God was putting the
seed into Danny's heart,
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into his mind.
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And so, a member of
the team gave him $100,000.
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You may think
that's a huge sum of money.
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Well, it is a fair sum of money
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but when you're
buying a big piece of land,
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doesn't seem to go very far.
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But Danny found
this piece of land
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that had been
dedicated by the communists
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to build this great
communism youth center,
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huge place but
they hadn't finished it,
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the place looked
like a bombed-out
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ruin from the Second World War.
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But Danny had the
seed, the mustard seed.
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And he started to raise money,
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he started to talk
it around in America,
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and other places
and people started
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to send their money,
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they started to
send their seeds.
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And today in Russia
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is the largest
Protestant Church building,
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the largest
Protestant evangelism center.
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It's also a great
television center.
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Dr. Julia Outkina
is in charge of it
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with a fantastic
team of young people.
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It's absolutely marvelous.
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I've been there
so, so many times,
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and every time I go,
I'm mightily blessed.
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My friend, God is
the God of small things.
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God wants to take
something small in your life
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and grow it
into something great.
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Have faith in God, my friend,
don't listen to the naysayers.
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Don't listen to the
people who said can't be done.
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Believe in the God
who believes in you.
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Believe in the God
of impossible dreams.
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"I'm looking at Matthew,
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and there's a
parable about making bread.
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Can you go into this?
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And tell us how much yeast
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is needed to
make a loaf of bread?"
00:17:16.63\00:17:19.80
Well, you're really
asking the wrong person,
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you ought to be asking Beverley.
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Beverley is the authority
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or she ought to be asking David,
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who's the camera
person here today,
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you ought to be asking him
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because he makes
all that sort of stuff,
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but I've never made a
loaf of bread in my life.
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I want to live a bit longer.
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I don't want to be
poisoning other people
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and poisoning
myself but now okay,
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let me read you the text.
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Matthew 13:33...
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"Another parable
He spoke to them:
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'The kingdom of
heaven is like leaven,
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which a woman took and
hid in three measures of meal
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till it was all leavened."
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How much yeast?
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Well, if your guts say a
couple of pounds of flour,
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I understand you don't put
in a couple of pounds of yeast.
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It will probably get so big,
would blow you out of the room.
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That wouldn't be good for you,
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wouldn't be good
for your indigestion
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when you try to
eat bread like this.
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I'm told you get a
tiny little bit of yeast.
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And a tiny little bit
of yeast in a lot of flour.
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And a little bit goes a long,
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long way.
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What's the little bit of yeast?
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It is the gospel of Christ.
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You say, you know, I
just can't do anything.
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I'm not getting any help here.
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I got no money.
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I get no support.
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I want to do something for
God, but I just got nothing.
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Hey, you may only
have a little bit of yeast.
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But a little bit of
yeast with the blessing of God
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becomes our
tremendous loaf of bread.
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I'm saying to you
today, believe, believe,
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put away your unbelief.
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Ever heard of Adoniram Judson.
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He was a great American
missionary who went to Burma,
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absolute saint of God.
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When he got to Calcutta,
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he discovered from his
previous theological teachings
00:19:36.77\00:19:40.78
that he hadn't fulfilled
all of his duties towards God.
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He wasn't baptized.
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So Adoniram Judson
goes and gets baptized
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at this little Baptist Church
over the door are the words.
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Attempt great things for God,
00:19:52.45\00:19:56.32
expect great things from God.
00:19:56.36\00:19:59.49
Let me say to you again.
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Get it down here, believe it,
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attempt great things for God,
00:20:04.83\00:20:09.17
expect great things from God.
00:20:09.20\00:20:13.98
That got down into
the soul of Judson.
00:20:14.01\00:20:16.34
He became this
fantastic missionary
00:20:16.38\00:20:20.12
to Burma and God used him.
00:20:20.15\00:20:22.15
My friend, God used
him to do mighty miracles.
00:20:22.18\00:20:27.49
Listen, please,
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please
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believe in the God
of the impossible dream.
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Believe in miracles,
00:20:37.97\00:20:40.57
believe in the God
who believes in you,
00:20:40.60\00:20:44.64
believe in the God
of the mustard seed,
00:20:44.67\00:20:47.51
believe in the God
of the bit of yeast.
00:20:47.54\00:20:51.58
Don't listen to the naysayers.
00:20:51.61\00:20:53.55
Don't listen to the
people who've got no faith.
00:20:53.58\00:20:56.22
The church is full of
people who've got no faith,
00:20:56.25\00:20:58.85
don't listen to them.
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Church boards and
conference committees
00:21:01.72\00:21:03.83
are filled often with
people who've got no faith.
00:21:03.86\00:21:07.20
They seem to
think that their work
00:21:07.23\00:21:08.93
is to stop the
work from going ahead.
00:21:08.96\00:21:12.57
But have faith in God.
00:21:12.60\00:21:15.90
Remember, Danny Shelton.
00:21:15.94\00:21:18.24
Remember Julia Outkina,
00:21:18.27\00:21:20.28
believe in the God of the yeast,
00:21:20.31\00:21:22.71
believe in the God
of the mustard seed.
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Believe and you'll
see the glory of God.
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"Continuing on in Matthew,
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what is the meaning
of the treasure hidden
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in a field?"
00:21:36.73\00:21:40.53
Well, let me read
you the whole text
00:21:40.56\00:21:42.30
because if we get the text,
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then at least we can try
to make a commentary on it,
00:21:44.23\00:21:47.50
Matthew 13:44-46, here we go.
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"Again, the kingdom of heaven
00:21:53.21\00:21:54.54
is like treasure
hidden in a field,
00:21:54.58\00:21:57.51
which a man found and
hid, and for joy over it,
00:21:57.55\00:22:00.35
he goes and sells
00:22:00.38\00:22:01.88
all that he has
and buys that field.
00:22:01.92\00:22:04.92
Again, the kingdom of heaven
00:22:04.95\00:22:06.29
is like a merchant
seeking beautiful pearls who,
00:22:06.32\00:22:09.42
when he had found
one pearl of great price,
00:22:09.46\00:22:14.16
went and sold all
that he had, and bought it.
00:22:14.20\00:22:18.40
You know, who the treasure is?
00:22:20.70\00:22:22.87
What the treasure represents?
00:22:22.90\00:22:25.67
It represents Christ,
00:22:25.71\00:22:28.81
the Bible, the gospel.
00:22:28.84\00:22:32.11
You may be a multi billionaire.
00:22:32.15\00:22:35.02
God doesn't care
00:22:35.05\00:22:37.49
how much you got or
how much you haven't got.
00:22:37.52\00:22:40.09
But you're gonna have a
lot of this world's goods.
00:22:40.12\00:22:42.19
But if you don't have Christ,
00:22:42.22\00:22:44.99
and the gospel,
00:22:45.03\00:22:46.76
and the Word of
God in your soul,
00:22:46.80\00:22:49.66
you're a pauper,
terribly poor person.
00:22:49.70\00:22:54.10
But once you have
Christ, you have this treasure.
00:22:54.14\00:22:57.67
And to gain Christ,
00:22:59.11\00:23:00.84
we must be prepared to
sell everything that we have,
00:23:00.88\00:23:04.41
and go and buy that field.
00:23:04.45\00:23:07.75
My friend,
there's a field for you.
00:23:07.78\00:23:11.55
And in that field,
00:23:11.59\00:23:12.92
there is the
treasure and that treasure
00:23:12.95\00:23:15.26
is worth more
than anything else.
00:23:15.29\00:23:17.86
So go do whatever it
takes to accept Christ
00:23:17.89\00:23:22.50
and the gospel.
00:23:22.53\00:23:24.30
The Pearl of great price.
00:23:24.33\00:23:26.00
What is meant by the
Pearl of Great Price?
00:23:26.03\00:23:29.17
The Pearl of Great
Price, are you still listening?
00:23:29.20\00:23:32.54
The Pearl of
Great Price is Christ.
00:23:33.98\00:23:37.01
He is the Pearl
that grows more glorious
00:23:38.68\00:23:42.88
as the days go by.
00:23:42.92\00:23:46.65
No price can be placed upon Him.
00:23:46.69\00:23:50.63
What would we
give to gain Christ?
00:23:50.66\00:23:53.16
What would we give to
have Christ, my friend?
00:23:53.19\00:23:57.43
There's nothing that we can give
00:23:57.47\00:23:59.40
that would equal Christ.
00:23:59.43\00:24:04.54
All the riches of this world
cannot compare with Christ.
00:24:04.57\00:24:08.88
The gospel gives forgiveness.
00:24:10.55\00:24:13.01
It gives hope.
00:24:13.05\00:24:14.72
It gives joy.
00:24:14.75\00:24:16.18
It gives contentment.
00:24:16.22\00:24:19.62
It gives everlasting life.
00:24:19.65\00:24:22.62
Believe in Christ, my friend,
00:24:22.66\00:24:24.69
and you have everlasting life.
00:24:24.73\00:24:27.16
He is the Pearl of
Great Price believe,
00:24:27.20\00:24:29.83
believe, believe.
00:24:29.86\00:24:31.37
Listen to the words
00:24:31.40\00:24:33.70
of the greatest of the apostles,
00:24:33.74\00:24:35.40
one of the
greatest personalities
00:24:35.44\00:24:37.84
that this old world
has ever seen, St. Paul.
00:24:37.87\00:24:41.94
Philippians 3:7-11,
00:24:41.98\00:24:45.25
"But what
things were gain to me,
00:24:45.28\00:24:47.05
these I have
countered loss for Christ.
00:24:47.08\00:24:50.79
Yes, indeed I also
count all things loss
00:24:50.82\00:24:55.52
for the
excellence of the knowledge
00:24:55.56\00:24:57.53
of Christ Jesus, my Lord,
00:24:57.56\00:24:59.83
for whom I've suffered
the loss of all things,
00:24:59.86\00:25:03.06
and count them as rubbish,
00:25:03.10\00:25:05.33
that I may gain
Christ and be found in Him,
00:25:05.37\00:25:08.80
not having my own righteousness
which is from the law,
00:25:08.84\00:25:12.77
but that which is
through faith in Christ,
00:25:12.81\00:25:15.38
the righteousness
which is from God by faith,
00:25:15.41\00:25:18.75
that I may know
Him and the power
00:25:18.78\00:25:20.85
of His resurrection,
00:25:20.88\00:25:22.35
and the
fellowship of His sufferings,
00:25:22.38\00:25:24.95
being conformed to His death,
00:25:24.99\00:25:27.22
if, by any means,
00:25:27.26\00:25:29.26
I may attain to the resurrection
00:25:29.29\00:25:34.60
from the dead.
00:25:34.63\00:25:36.16
All says nothing compares.
00:25:36.20\00:25:39.50
He said, "I've
given up everything
00:25:39.53\00:25:40.94
I count them as dung,
00:25:40.97\00:25:43.84
horse manure,
that I may have Christ.
00:25:43.87\00:25:48.08
My friend, believe in Christ.
00:25:48.11\00:25:51.78
When we ran the campaign Kiev,
00:25:51.81\00:25:55.82
had such vast crowds of people.
00:25:55.85\00:25:59.32
But a family, a big
group came from Chernobyl,
00:25:59.35\00:26:02.36
just on the
outskirts of Chernobyl.
00:26:02.39\00:26:04.33
They came in an
old broken down bus
00:26:04.36\00:26:06.39
with their pastor.
00:26:06.43\00:26:08.16
I said, "What brings
you to the meetings you've,
00:26:08.20\00:26:11.23
come from a radioactive area."
00:26:11.27\00:26:12.93
They said, "We've come
that we may gain Christ."
00:26:12.97\00:26:16.57
I said to the pastor,
"Why do you stay young man?
00:26:16.60\00:26:21.04
Don't you know
this may kill you?"
00:26:21.08\00:26:22.94
He said, "That I
may gain Christ."
00:26:22.98\00:26:27.48
He said, "I don't
care about my life."
00:26:27.52\00:26:29.85
The only thing
that counts he said,
00:26:29.88\00:26:33.05
"Is Christ, Christ."
00:26:33.09\00:26:37.39
My friend, from my
heart to your heart,
00:26:37.43\00:26:43.10
believe in Christ.
00:26:43.13\00:26:45.77
Let this seed go
down into good soil.
00:26:45.80\00:26:49.07
Accept the Pearl of Great Price,
00:26:51.51\00:26:53.61
take Him into your heart.
00:26:53.64\00:26:56.51
Take the treasure
00:26:56.54\00:27:01.15
with Christ.
00:27:01.18\00:27:03.18
You and I have
everything we need.
00:27:03.22\00:27:07.29
Believe in the
Christ who believes in you.
00:27:09.32\00:27:13.36
Amen.
00:27:16.56\00:27:21.97
Many people no
matter what their age
00:27:22.00\00:27:24.87
still have their
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00:27:24.91\00:27:27.71
It's hard to let them go.
00:27:27.74\00:27:29.78
Their stitches might be
loose, the stuffing flat,
00:27:29.81\00:27:33.78
one ear a little lopsided,
00:27:33.82\00:27:36.05
but they were
always there for us.
00:27:36.08\00:27:38.75
Imagine giving a child
their very first teddy bear,
00:27:38.79\00:27:42.82
especially when
they are sick and lonely.
00:27:42.86\00:27:45.99
They will always remember
00:27:46.03\00:27:47.56
that someone they
didn't even know cared enough
00:27:47.60\00:27:50.67
to bring them a new
friend when they needed it most.
00:27:50.70\00:27:53.94
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00:28:13.96\00:28:16.93
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