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>>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH
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AND THANK YOU FOR JOINING US
TODAY FOR CENTRAL STUDY HOUR.
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WE'RE SO GLAD THAT YOU'RE HERE
WITH US WHEREVER YOU'RE JOINING
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US FROM AROUND THE WORLD.
WHETHER YOU'RE WATCHING LIVE
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STREAMING AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' OR
IF YOU'RE HERE IN THE SANCTUARY,
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IF YOU'RE LISTENING ON THE RADIO
OR ON THE VARIOUS NETWORKS.
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WE'RE SO GLAD THAT YOU'RE HERE
WITH US AND AS IS OUR CUSTOM WE
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LIKE TO PREPARE OUR
HEARTS FOR THE STUDY BY SINGING.
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YOU KNOW, IN THE BIBLE,
WHEN GOD'S CHILDREN SANG AMAZING
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THINGS HAPPENED. I
THINK OF THE STORY OF PAUL
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AND SILAS. THEY WERE
JUST BEATEN AND HAULED
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OFF TO PRISON. WHAT DID THEY DO?
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THEY PRAYED AND THEY SANG AND AS
THEY WERE SINGING AN EARTHQUAKE
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CAME AND IT TOOK OFF THEIR - IT
JUST - THEIR SHACKLES FELL OFF
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AND THE GATES OF
THE PRISON WERE OPENED.
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AND THEN I THINK OF THE OLD
TESTAMENT - 2 CHRONICLES CHAPTER
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20 - JUDAH WAS ABOUT TO GET
ATTACKED BY A MULTITUDE AND -
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GOT A LITTLE NERVOUS -
JEHOSEPHAT PRAYED. THEY FASTED,
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THEY PRAYED AND GOD SAID,
'THIS BATTLE IS IN MY HANDS.
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THE BATTLE BELONGS TO THE LORD.'
DO YOU KNOW WHAT THEY DID?
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THEY SANG. AND THE
BIBLE SAYS, IN VERSE 22,
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'AS THEY BEGAN TO SING THE
LORD SET AMBUSHES AGAINST THE
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CHILDREN OF AMMON, MOAB,
AND MOUNT SEIR WHICH WERE COMING
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AGAINST JUDAH AND
THEY WERE SMITTEN.'
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DOESN'T THAT MAKE YOU FEEL
LIKE SINGING THIS MORNING? AMEN.
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WHETHER YOU'RE
HAPPY, SING SONGS TO GOD.
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IF YOU'RE STRUGGLING, IF YOU'RE
SAD, IF YOU'RE DISCOURAGED, IF
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YOU'RE ANGRY, IF SOMETHING'S
BOTHERING YOU PRAY TO THE LORD
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AND SING SONGS TO HIM
AND SEE WHAT HE CAN DO.
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IF YOU DON'T KNOW
WHAT TO SING, STAY WITH US.
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WE'RE GOING TO SING TWO
OF YOUR FAVORITES RIGHT NOW.
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THESE ARE SONGS THAT WERE CHOSEN
BY OUR CHURCH FAMILY - OUR
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VIEWERS - AND WE'RE GOING TO
SING 'AT THE CROSS' - HYMN #163.
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THIS IS A SONG REQUEST BY GREG
IN ARKANSAS, IRENE IN AUSTRALIA,
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EMMA IN BAHRAIN, ROBERT IN
BELIZE, TONAO IN BRAZIL, LEON
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AND BETTY IN CALIFORNIA, CAMILO
IN COLOMBIA, SHERACE, PAIGE,
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MAX, SAMUEL AND ISHBAH
IN ENGLAND, PAOLO IN ITALY,
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IMMANUEL IN MALAYSIA, ANITA IN
MARYLAND, MAGALIE AND MICHA IN
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MAURITIUS, DENNIS IN MINNESOTA,
SELINA AND JOJO IN NETHERLANDS,
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DANIELA IN NORWAY, JESSIE IN
PAPUA NEW GUINEA, FREDDY IN THE
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SOLOMON ISLANDS, MAILA AND
JACQUELINE IN ZAMBIA, AND MASTER
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IN ZIMBABWE. AND APPARENTLY
THERE WERE EVEN MORE NAMES THAT
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REQUESTED THIS SONG BUT
THE LIST WOULD BE WAY TOO LONG.
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'AT THE CROSS' - HYMN #163.
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(MUSIC)
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>>IF YOU HAVE A HYMN REQUEST WE
INVITE YOU TO GO TO THE WEBSITE,
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'SACCENTRAL.ORG' AND
CLICK ON THE 'CONTACT US' LINK.
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IT'S VERY EASY, JUST GO IN THERE
AND REQUEST YOUR SONG AND IT
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WILL BE SUNG ON AN UP AND
COMING SABBATH. OUR NEXT HYMN IS
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HYMN #206 - 'FACE TO FACE'
-HYMN #206, VERSES 1, 2 AND 4.
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>>AMEN. I JUST
CAN'T WAIT SO I JUST LOVE
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TO DAYDREAM AND IMAGINE WHEN I'M
GOING TO SEE HIM FACE TO FACE.
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I GET SO EXCITED. LET'S PRAY.
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DEAR HEAVENLY FATHER, WE THANK
YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS SABBATH
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MORNING THAT YOU'VE BROUGHT US
HERE TOGETHER TO WORSHIP YOU, TO
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SING PRAISES TO
YOU, TO LOVE YOU.
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LORD, WE PRAY THAT YOUR SPIRIT
FILL THIS ROOM AND FILL OUR
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HEARTS. AND LORD, MAY WE BE
TOUCHED BY YOUR PRESENCE. LORD,
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PLEASE ACCEPT THIS WORSHIP
SERVICE AS A SMALL TOKEN OF OUR
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LOVE FOR YOU. WE LOVE YOU DEAR
LORD. WE THANK YOU IN JESUS'
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NAME. AMEN. TODAY OUR
LESSON WILL BE BROUGHT TO US BY
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OUR SENIOR PASTOR
HERE, PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR.
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>>THANK YOU VERY MUCH,
JENNY AND OUR SINGERS. WE REALLY
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APPRECIATE IT. I WANT
TO WELCOME OUR EXTENDED
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CLASS THAT ARE WATCHING VIA
TELEVISION RIGHT NOW. AND WE
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HAVE A LOT OF SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
MEMBERS AROUND THE WORLD.
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IT ALWAYS IS VERY EXCITING TO ME
WHEN YOU HEAR THE SONG REQUESTS
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COME IN, LITERALLY, FROM
AROUND THE GLOBE AND I'VE BEEN
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TRAVELING A LOT THIS YEAR
AND IT'S FUN TO GO SEE PEOPLE IN
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EVERY PART OF THE WORLD WHERE AT
LEAST THEY SPEAK ENGLISH - AND
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IT'S ALSO TRANSLATED IN SPANISH
IN OTHER PLACES - TO SEE SO MANY
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PEOPLE WHO ARE A PART OF THIS
CLASS AND THAT'S VERY EXCITING
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FOR US. IN KEEPING WITH
THAT THOUGHT, I WANT TO SHARE
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SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT WITH
YOU. I HAVEN'T DONE THIS BEFORE
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BUT I THOUGHT ABOUT IT AND
I THINK IT'S APPROPRIATE. AS I
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TRAVEL, I DON'T ALWAYS TAKE
MY SABBATH SCHOOL QUARTERLY WITH
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ME, BUT I DO STUDY IT AND
THE REASON IS BECAUSE I NOT ONLY
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HAVE IT ON MY LAPTOP - I'VE
GOT ALL THE DEVICES - I'M A TECH
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GEEK. HOW MANY OF
YOU HAVE A SMART PHONE?
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LET ME SEE YOUR
HANDS. QUITE A FEW OF YOU.
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HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE A
DUMB PHONE? JUST A SIMPLE PHONE.
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BUT IF YOU CAN GET ON THE
INTERNET WITH YOUR PHONE - HOW
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MANY OF YOU HAVE LIKE AN
IPAD OR YOU'VE GOT THE INTERNET?
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THERE'S AN
APPLICATION YOU CAN DOWNLOAD.
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I STUDY MY LESSON - THE GENERAL
CONFERENCE HAS THE WHOLE SABBATH
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SCHOOL STUDY ON AN APPLICATION
AND ON BOTH MY PHONE AND MY IPAD
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I JUST DOWNLOAD THIS AND AS
I TRAVEL I'M ABLE TO STUDY IT.
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NOW HERE'S THE EXCITING
THING, NOT ONLY DOES THE GENERAL
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CONFERENCE HAVE AN APPLICATION
WHERE YOU CAN STUDY YOUR LESSON
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ON YOUR COMPUTER - BECAUSE I
ALREADY TAKE MY ELECTRONIC STUFF
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WITH ME. WHEN
YOU TRAVEL, YOU KNOW,
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LUGGAGE IS GETTING EXPENSIVE
SO I'M GOING LIGHTER AND LIGHTER
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ALL THE TIME TO TRY AND GET IT
ON THE PLANE AND SO IF I ALREADY
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HAVE MY SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY ON
MY PHONE AND ON MY IPAD, I LEAVE
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THIS AT HOME AND SO YOU
MIGHT BE ABLE TO DO THAT.
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SO IF YOU TRAVEL OR YOU WANT
TO DO YOUR LESSON AT WORK, IT'S
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REAL HANDY THAT WAY.
AMAZING FACTS HAS AN APPLICATION
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WHERE YOU CAN ACTUALLY WATCH THE
SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY GUIDES AND
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I'M GOING TO TELL YOU
HOW TO GET THAT REALLY QUICK.
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I KNOW THIS IS GOING TO SEEM
LIKE A SHAMELESS PROMOTION BUT I
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THINK IT WILL
HELP YOU IN YOUR STUDY.
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VERY SIMPLE, IF YOU'VE GOT A
TEXT PHONE - YOU'RE NEVER GOING
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TO HEAR A PASTOR SAY THIS DURING
A LIVE BROADCAST - TAKE OUT YOUR
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TEXT PHONE, MAKE SURE IT'S
MUTED, AND WHAT YOU DO IS YOU
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SIMPLY TEXT
'99000' AND SAY, 'GETAPP'.
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IF YOU TEXT '99000' AND SAY
'GETAPP' IT'LL SEND YOU A LINK.
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YOU CAN DOWNLOAD
THE AMAZING FACTS APP.
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IT NOT ONLY HAS THE ENTIRE
SABBATH SCHOOL STUDIES THAT WE
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DO, YOU CAN PLAY THEM - THEY
COME THROUGH CLEAR AS A BELL -
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NO JUMPING - AT LEAST ON
MY - IT'S JUST VERY SMOOTH.
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YOU CAN WATCH THE
LESSON PRESENTATION.
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BUT IT'S GOT ALL OF THE AMAZING
FACTS BOOKS THAT ARE FREE, THE
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STUDY GUIDES IF YOU
WANT TO GIVE BIBLE STUDIES.
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THIS WHOLE QUARTER IS DEALING
WITH REVIVAL AND REFORMATION AND
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DOING EVANGELISM. YOU
COULD DO EVANGELISM THAT WAY.
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YOU'LL HAVE ALL THE STUDY GUIDES
RIGHT THERE ON YOUR IPAD, ON
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YOUR SMART PHONE,
ON YOUR ANDROID PHONE.
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IT WORKS ON ALL OF THEM AND -
SO YOU MIGHT DO THAT. HOPEFULLY
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THEY'LL - YEAH - THEY'LL
HAVE IT UP ON THE SCREEN.
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NOW OUR OFFER IS ALSO IN KEEPING
WITH THE THEME OF EVANGELISM.
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WE'RE DOING SOMETHING
WE'VE NEVER DONE BEFORE.
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WE FIGURE IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
REVIVAL AND REFORMATION AND
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DOING EVANGELISM AND SOUL
WINNING, THEN AMAZING FACTS
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WANTS TO MEAN BUSINESS ALSO.
WE'RE OFFERING SOMETHING FREE
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THAT WAS VERY EXPENSIVE TO
PRODUCE, BUT WE THINK IT'S THAT
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IMPORTANT AND WE'RE
THIS CLOSE TO THE END.
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ANYBODY THAT ASKS, AMAZING FACTS
WILL SEND YOU - AND WE'RE HOPING
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THERE'S AT LEAST ONE FOR EVERY
CHURCH - THIS IS A MANUAL ON HOW
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TO DO EVANGELISM. IT IS
BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED.
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IT IS VERY SIMPLE IN HOW IT
EXPLAINS HOW TO GO - FOUR MONTHS
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BEFORE THE MEETINGS BEGIN,
THREE MONTHS BEFORE THE MEETINGS
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BEGIN, GETTING A COMMITTEE
TOGETHER, HOW TO DO IT, WHAT A
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BRIDGING EVENT IS, HOW TO
DEVELOP THE SMALL GROUPS, HOW TO
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DO THE EVANGELISM. IT'S
GOT THE WHOLE MANUAL ON HOW
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TO DO AN EVANGELISTIC PROGRAM
THAT YOUR CHURCH CAN SET UP A
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COMMITTEE AND YOU CAN DO SOUL
WINNING. IT'S STILL PROVEN -
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IN SPITE OF PEOPLE THAT
SPEAK NEGATIVELY ABOUT PUBLIC
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EVANGELISM, STATISTICALLY IT IS
STILL THE MOST EFFECTIVE THING.
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NOW AMAZING FACTS ALWAYS -
WE HAVE PEOPLE THAT WRITE US AND
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SAY, 'WE LEARNED THE MESSAGE
FROM THE INTERNET AND WE WERE
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STUDYING ONLINE' OR 'WE SAW THE
PROGRAMS ON TV' BUT, ULTIMATELY,
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WHEN YOU DO PUBLIC
EVANGELISM THEN PEOPLE COME.
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AND I JUST DID AN INTERVIEW
WITH SOME OF OUR FOLKS HERE.
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THEY STARTED OUT WATCHING
ON TV AND THEN THEY SAW THE
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EVANGELISTIC MEETINGS AND THAT
WAS THE BRIDGE TO FINALLY BRING
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THEM IN. SO IF YOU
CALL AND ASK FOR OFFER
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#790, WE WILL SEND THIS
TO ANYBODY WHO ASKS FOR IT.
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HOPEFULLY, THAT'S WITHIN
NORTH AMERICA, BUT IF YOU ARE
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INTERESTED OVERSEAS YOU HAVE
TO CALL OUR OFFICE - WE HAVE TO
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FIGURE OUT WHAT - HOW TO
DO THAT WITH THE POSTAGE.
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THE NUMBER AGAIN IS 866-788-3966
AND WE'LL SEND THIS TO YOU IF
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YOU PROMISE TO USE
IT. THAT SOUND FAIR?
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YOU'RE JUST CURIOUS OR YOU
JUST WANT SOMETHING FOR KINDLING
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DON'T SEND FOR IT. IF
YOU'RE GOING TO USE IT AND
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READ IT THEN
WE'LL SEND THAT TO YOU.
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ALRIGHT, WE'RE GOING
TO GET INTO OUR LESSON.
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OUR LESSON TODAY IS #4 - WE'RE
GOING THROUGH OUR QUARTERLY ON
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'REVIVAL AND REFORMATION'.
I REALLY APPRECIATE PASTOR
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FINLEY'S QUARTERLY THAT
HE'S WRITTEN AND WE HAVE - IT'S
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'WITNESS AND SERVICE: THE
FRUIT OF REVIVAL' - 'WITNESS AND
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SERVICE: THE FRUIT OF REVIVAL'.
OUR MEMORY VERSE IS FROM ACTS 1,
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VERSE 8 AND I'D INVITE YOU TO
SAY THAT WITH ME. THIS IS FROM
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THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION,
ACTS 1, VERSE 8. ARE YOU READY?
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"BUT YOU SHALL RECEIVE POWER
WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS COME
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UPON YOU; AND YOU SHALL BE
WITNESSES TO ME IN JERUSALEM,
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AND IN ALL JUDEA AND SAMARIA,
AND TO THE END OF THE EARTH."
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WHY DOES GOD GIVE US
THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT?
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SO YOU CAN BE WITNESSES FOR
ME. THE REASON - AND OBVIOUSLY
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PEOPLE WHO ARE FILLED WITH THE
HOLY SPIRIT ARE REVIVED, RIGHT?
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IF YOU'VE GOT A PEOPLE BAPTIZED
WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT IS A
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REVIVED GROUP. WELL,
WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT
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MORE ON HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN.
BUT HE GIVES US THE HOLY SPIRIT
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SO WE CAN SPEAK IN TONGUES.
IS THE HOLY SPIRIT A FRUIT OF
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THE SPIRIT OR A
GIFT OF THE SPIRIT?
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JESUS SAID YOU'LL KNOW THEM
BY THEIR FRUITS. THE HOLY SPIRIT
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IS A GIFT OF THE SPIRIT. YOU
WILL KNOW THEM BY THEIR FRUITS
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AND SO THE FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT
ARE LOVE, JOY, PEACE, SO FORTH
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BUT HE GIVES YOU THE HOLY
SPIRIT SO YOU CAN BE A WITNESS.
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NOW IF ONE OF THE WAYS YOU'RE
A WITNESS IS BY HAVING THIS
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MIRACULOUS ABILITY TO PREACH
AND TEACH IN MANY LANGUAGES AND
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THAT'S A GIFT OF THE SPIRIT,
WELL THAT IS A WAY TO WITNESS.
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BUT I THINK - I'VE BEEN TO
CHURCHES BEFORE - USED TO BE
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PART OF A CHURCH AND THEY SAID
THE WHOLE PURPOSE IN GETTING THE
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HOLY SPIRIT - MADE IT SOUND LIKE
SO YOU COULD BABBLE IN TONGUES
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AND THAT WAS IT. AND
EVERYONE WOULD GET TOGETHER
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AND BABBLE AND SAY, 'WASN'T
THAT A WONDERFUL SERVICE?'
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WEREN'T REACHING
ANYBODY BY DOING IT.
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THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF THE
HOLY SPIRIT IS THAT YOU MAY BE
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WITNESSES IN YOUR LIFE AND
GO OUT AND REACH OTHER PEOPLE.
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ALRIGHT, CHRIST'S PARTING
COMMISSION AND HIS PROMISE.
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NOW SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR
ME MARK 16, VERSES 15 AND 16.
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WE GAVE THIS TO SOMEBODY - GENE,
I THINK, HAS THAT ASSIGNMENT.
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AND WHILE WE ARE GETTING CUED UP
FOR THAT, I'LL BE READING SOME
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OF THE OTHERS.
WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THE
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COMMISSION - VARIOUS FORMS OF
THE GREAT COMMISSION IN MATTHEW,
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MARK, LUKE AND JOHN - GET
THE CLEAR TEACHING OF JESUS.
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I THINK MOST OF US KNOW MATTHEW
28:19-20, "GO THEREFORE AND MAKE
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DISCIPLES OF ALL THE NATIONS,
BAPTIZING THEM IN THE NAME OF
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THE FATHER AND OF THE SON AND OF
THE HOLY SPIRIT, TEACHING THEM
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TO OBSERVE SOME OF THE THINGS
THAT I'VE COMMANDED YOU" - I
00:17:58.90\00:18:02.66
KNEW OUR CHURCH WOULD CATCH THAT
- "TEACHING THEM TO OBSERVE ALL
00:18:02.66\00:18:06.06
THINGS THAT I HAVE COMMANDED
YOU; AND LO, I AM WITH YOU
00:18:06.06\00:18:09.76
ALWAYS, EVEN TO
THE END OF THE AGE."
00:18:09.76\00:18:13.00
I'M WITH YOU
ALWAYS IS WHAT JESUS SAID.
00:18:13.00\00:18:15.93
NOW HE WANTS US
TO GO EVERYWHERE.
00:18:15.93\00:18:18.80
NOW MATTHEW - I LIKE MATTHEW
BECAUSE IN MATTHEW 11:28 YOU'VE
00:18:18.80\00:18:23.96
GOT THE GREAT INVITATION: "COME
UNTO ME ALL YOU WHO LABOR AND
00:18:23.96\00:18:28.56
ARE HEAVY LADEN AND I WILL
GIVE YOU REST." COME TO ME.
00:18:28.56\00:18:32.13
THEN YOU GO TO MATTHEW 28 AND HE
SAYS, 'GO'. AND THE WHOLE GOSPEL
00:18:32.13\00:18:37.63
IS REALLY SUMMARIZED IN THE
GREAT INVITATION AND THE GREAT
00:18:37.63\00:18:41.26
COMMISSION. THE GREAT
INVITATION IS TALKING ABOUT
00:18:41.26\00:18:44.56
WE COME TO JESUS -
IT'S THIS LOVE RELATIONSHIP.
00:18:44.56\00:18:47.53
THEN AFTER YOU COME TO
JESUS THEN YOU'VE GOT THE GREAT
00:18:47.53\00:18:50.26
COMMISSION: YOU GO
FOR HIM. LOVE THE LORD,
00:18:50.26\00:18:53.53
LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR.
COME UNTO ME, GO FOR ME.
00:18:53.53\00:18:58.20
AND THAT JUST, YOU KNOW, IT'S
LIKE YOU BREATHE IN, YOU BREATHE
00:18:58.20\00:19:01.13
OUT. YOU TAKE BLOOD
IN, YOU LET BLOOD OUT.
00:19:01.13\00:19:05.03
YOUR HEART AND YOUR LUNGS - IT'S
ALL A RHYTHM OF RECEIVING AND OF
00:19:05.03\00:19:08.73
GIVING AND IT'S ALL SUMMARIZED
IN COMING TO JESUS FOR THE
00:19:08.73\00:19:12.76
PURPOSE OF GOING FOR JESUS.
SOME PEOPLE COME TO CHURCH EVERY
00:19:12.76\00:19:16.46
WEEK BUT THEY NEVER GO.
THEY ARE JUST CONSTANTLY COMING
00:19:16.46\00:19:19.80
TO JESUS WANTING FORGIVENESS,
WANTING TO FEEL GOOD AND THEY
00:19:19.80\00:19:23.10
NEVER TELL ANYBODY AND YOUR
RELIGION WILL BECOME STAGNANT
00:19:23.10\00:19:26.23
IF YOU'RE ONLY TAKING AND
NOT GIVING, IT BECOMES STAGNANT.
00:19:26.23\00:19:30.93
YOU'VE HEARD ME SAY BEFORE
YOU'VE GOT, THERE IN THE JORDAN
00:19:30.93\00:19:33.46
VALLEY, TWO SEAS
- VERY DIFFERENT.
00:19:33.46\00:19:36.53
BOTH SEAS - BODIES OF WATER
- ARE FED BY THE SAME RIVER.
00:19:36.53\00:19:42.16
JORDAN RIVER RUNS INTO THE SEA
OF GALILEE AND THE JORDAN RIVER
00:19:42.16\00:19:45.00
RUNS INTO THE DEAD SEA.
BUT THEY'RE VERY DIFFERENT.
00:19:45.00\00:19:47.96
ONE IS FULL OF LIFE AFTER
THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF FISHING.
00:19:47.96\00:19:50.93
THE OTHER ONE IS DEAD. IT
DOESN'T HAVE MOSQUITO LARVAE.
00:19:50.93\00:19:53.43
IT DOESN'T HAVE A
POLLYWOG, THERE'S NOTHING IN IT.
00:19:53.43\00:19:56.06
IT'S BECAUSE ONE IS CONSTANTLY
TAKING BUT IT'S ALSO GIVING.
00:19:56.06\00:19:59.93
THE JORDAN RIVER RUNS INTO THE
NORTH SIDE OF THE SEA OF GALILEE
00:19:59.93\00:20:03.16
AND RUNS OUT THE SOUTH.
IT'S KEPT FRESH BECAUSE IT'S
00:20:03.16\00:20:05.73
RECEIVING AND GIVING. THE
DEAD SEA, BECAUSE IT'S THE
00:20:05.73\00:20:09.30
LOWEST PLACE ON EARTH, IT
EVAPORATES BEFORE IT CAN RUN OUT
00:20:09.30\00:20:12.13
THE OTHER SIDE. IT
ONLY TAKES AND IT BECOMES A
00:20:12.13\00:20:14.96
SINKHOLE OF MINERALS AND IT IS
SO BITTER AND CONCENTRATED THAT
00:20:14.96\00:20:20.50
NOTHING CAN LIVE IN IT.
AND SO, THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS TO
00:20:20.50\00:20:23.16
US. WE BECOME STAGNANT. IF
WE'RE CONSTANTLY - IT'S LIKE
00:20:23.16\00:20:26.50
LUKEWARM - WE'RE CONSTANTLY
TAKING AND WE'RE NOT GIVING,
00:20:26.50\00:20:31.36
YOUR EXPERIENCE IS
GOING TO BECOME BITTER.
00:20:31.36\00:20:34.80
YOU'VE GOT TO BE LETTING THE
LORD FILL ONE HAND SO YOU CAN
00:20:34.80\00:20:39.16
GIVE WITH THE OTHER
HAND. COME TO ME AND GO FOR ME.
00:20:39.16\00:20:41.76
ALRIGHT, MARK
16:15 AND 16 - GENE?
00:20:41.76\00:20:44.66
>>"AND HE SAID TO THEM, 'GO INTO
ALL THE WORLD AND PREACH THE
00:20:44.66\00:20:49.50
GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE AND
HE WHO BELIEVES AND IS BAPTIZED
00:20:49.50\00:20:54.00
WILL BE SAVED, BUT HE WHO DOES
NOT BELIEVE WILL BE CONDEMNED.'"
00:20:54.00\00:20:58.56
>>NOTICE A COUPLE THINGS HERE:
IF YOU LOOK IN MATTHEW HE SAID,
00:20:58.56\00:21:02.10
'GO AND TEACH.' IF YOU
LOOK IN MARK HE SAID, 'GO
00:21:02.10\00:21:04.70
AND PREACH.' ARE TEACHING
AND PREACHING DIFFERENT?
00:21:04.70\00:21:08.63
WELL, THEY ARE, BECAUSE
THE BIBLE SAYS THAT JESUS WENT
00:21:08.63\00:21:11.56
THROUGHOUT THEIR VILLAGES
TEACHING AND PREACHING AND SO IT
00:21:11.56\00:21:15.30
SAYS THAT THEY'RE REALLY TWO
THINGS. PREACHERS ARE REALLY -
00:21:15.30\00:21:18.73
IT'S THE PROCLAMATION -
TEACHING IS MORE EDUCATION.
00:21:18.73\00:21:22.86
IT SAYS HE SAT DOWN AND TAUGHT
THE PEOPLE, WHICH IS A LITTLE
00:21:22.86\00:21:25.30
DIFFERENT FROM WHEN HE STOOD UP
AND PREACHED AND SO TEACHING IS
00:21:25.30\00:21:29.63
YOU KIND OF USE THE SOCRATIC
METHOD WHERE YOU'RE ASKING
00:21:29.63\00:21:32.16
QUESTIONS AND THEY MIGHT
BE ASKING QUESTIONS AND YOU'RE
00:21:32.16\00:21:36.10
ANSWERING AND IT'S A LITTLE
MORE INTERACTIVE THAT WAY.
00:21:36.10\00:21:39.23
PREACHING IS JUST, 'LISTEN HERE'
AND YOU PROCLAIM, YOU KNOW?
00:21:39.23\00:21:44.06
BUT BOTH ARE INVOLVED.
00:21:44.06\00:21:46.13
TEACHING AND PREACHING
- BUT THEY INVOLVE GOING.
00:21:46.13\00:21:49.66
BY THE WAY, DO YOU THINK THAT
THE LAST WORDS OF JESUS SHOULD
00:21:49.66\00:21:52.70
HAVE A FIRST
PRIORITY FOR CHRISTIANS?
00:21:52.70\00:21:56.46
LAST THING HE SAYS HERE IN THESE
GOSPELS IS 'GO - TEACH, PREACH,
00:21:56.46\00:22:01.70
MAKE DISCIPLES.'
ALRIGHT, THEN HE TELLS US WHAT
00:22:01.70\00:22:05.46
TO TEACH: 'ALL
THINGS I'VE COMMANDED YOU.'
00:22:05.46\00:22:07.66
AND YOU LOOK IN LUKE 24, VERSE
46, "THUS IT IS WRITTEN, AND
00:22:07.66\00:22:13.80
THUS IT WAS NECESSARY FOR
THE CHRIST TO SUFFER AND TO RISE
00:22:13.80\00:22:16.43
FROM THE DEAD THE THIRD DAY, AND
THAT REPENTANCE AND REMISSION OF
00:22:16.43\00:22:19.73
SINS SHOULD BE PREACHED IN HIS
NAME TO ALL NATIONS, BEGINNING
00:22:19.73\00:22:24.36
AT JERUSALEM." WHERE WAS
THE HOLY SPIRIT POURED OUT?
00:22:24.36\00:22:27.20
IN JERUSALEM - IT STARTED THERE
- "BEGINNING AT JERUSALEM AND
00:22:27.20\00:22:30.50
YOU ARE
WITNESSES OF THESE THINGS."
00:22:30.50\00:22:32.40
- YOU ARE WITNESSES - TAKE THIS
MESSAGE TO ALL THE WORLD ABOUT
00:22:32.40\00:22:36.20
CHRIST AND HIS FORGIVENESS.
THAT'S AN IMPORTANT EMPHASIS
00:22:36.20\00:22:39.50
THAT LUKE MAKES. JOHN -
JOHN IS ALWAYS DIFFERENT.
00:22:39.50\00:22:44.50
JOHN CHAPTER 20, VERSES 21
AND 22, "SO JESUS SAID TO THEM
00:22:44.50\00:22:50.53
AGAIN, 'PEACE TO YOU!'"
- WHEN HE APPEARED IN THE
00:22:50.53\00:22:52.83
UPPER ROOM - "AS THE FATHER
HAS SENT ME, I ALSO SEND YOU.'"
00:22:52.83\00:22:58.10
- HE JUST SORT OF SUMMARIZED
IT: 'I'VE BEEN SENT AND AS
00:22:58.10\00:23:01.06
YOU'VE WATCHED ME FOR THREE AND
A HALF YEARS, I WANT YOU TO DO
00:23:01.06\00:23:03.36
WHAT I DID. I
WANT YOU TO FORGIVE
00:23:03.36\00:23:06.13
AS I FORGAVE. I WANT YOU TO LIVE
AS I LIVED. AS THE FATHER SENT
00:23:06.13\00:23:09.13
ME I'M SENDING YOU.'
AND HE SAID, "PEACE TO YOU!"
00:23:09.13\00:23:13.16
"AND WHEN HE SAID THIS HE
BREATHED ON THEM AND SAID TO
00:23:13.16\00:23:15.96
THEM, 'RECEIVE THE
HOLY SPIRIT.'" - NOW THAT'S
00:23:15.96\00:23:18.00
INTERESTING, THEY
RECEIVED SOME FORM OF A BAPTISM
00:23:18.00\00:23:20.40
OF THE SPIRIT
EVEN BEFORE PENTECOST.
00:23:20.40\00:23:22.83
I MEAN, FORTY DAYS LATER THEY
RECEIVED THE HOLY SPIRIT IN A
00:23:22.83\00:23:26.33
SPECIAL POWER, BUT HE EVEN
PROMISED THEM THE HOLY SPIRIT
00:23:26.33\00:23:29.66
RIGHT THERE AND
HE BREATHED ON THEM.
00:23:29.66\00:23:31.93
BY THE WAY, HOW DID GOD ANIMATE
ADAM? AFTER GOD MADE ADAM
00:23:31.93\00:23:39.43
HE BREATHED INTO HIS
NOSTRILS THE BREATH OF LIFE.
00:23:39.43\00:23:44.13
HOW DID JESUS ANIMATE THE
CHURCH? HE BREATHED ON THEM.
00:23:44.13\00:23:49.36
AND SO A NEW CREATURE - THE
CHURCH - WAS BORN, YOU MIGHT
00:23:49.36\00:23:52.90
SAY, AFTER THE RESURRECTION. NOW
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT THAT WE GO.
00:23:52.90\00:23:58.23
WELL, FOR YOUR SALVATION
AND FOR THE SALVATION OF OTHERS.
00:23:58.23\00:24:03.76
HOW IMPORTANT IS IT TO THE
LORD THAT PEOPLE ARE SAVED?
00:24:03.76\00:24:07.06
GOD SO LOVED THE
WORLD THAT HE SENT HIS SON.
00:24:07.06\00:24:10.56
THE COMING OF JESUS AND THE
DEATH OF JESUS ARE A TESTIMONY
00:24:10.56\00:24:14.16
THAT THIS IS A PRIORITY TO GOD.
GOD IS ABSOLUTELY DESPERATE.
00:24:14.16\00:24:21.16
IF YOU'RE A PARENT AND YOU LOOK
OUT THE WINDOW AND YOU SEE YOUR
00:24:21.16\00:24:23.80
CHILD IS IN THE STREET AND
YOU'RE UP ON THE SECOND OR THIRD
00:24:23.80\00:24:26.20
FLOOR AND THEY'RE PLAYING IN
THE STREET AND YOU SEE A TRUCK
00:24:26.20\00:24:29.63
COMING AND THEY DON'T SEE THE
TRUCK BUT THERE'S A MAN STANDING
00:24:29.63\00:24:31.93
ON THE SIDEWALK AND YOU
SHOUT OUT 'GRAB MY CHILD!
00:24:31.93\00:24:36.93
LITTLE BROTHER LEFT HIM. HE'S
GOING TO GET HIT BY THE TRUCK!'
00:24:36.93\00:24:39.86
AND THEY SAY, 'IT'S NOT
MY PROBLEM, IT'S YOUR CHILD.'
00:24:39.86\00:24:43.36
OR 'I'M BUSY' OR 'LATER' AND
THEY DON'T, HOW WOULD YOU FEEL?
00:24:43.36\00:24:49.16
HOW DOES GOD FEEL WHEN HE SAYS,
'PEOPLE ARE PERISHING AND I WANT
00:24:49.16\00:24:55.70
YOU TO GO AND TELL THEM SO THEY
DON'T DIE, BUT THEY LIVE AND NOT
00:24:55.70\00:24:59.83
ONLY DO THEY LIVE BUT THEY LIVE
A MUCH BETTER LIFE THAN EVEN
00:24:59.83\00:25:03.30
THIS LIFE BECAUSE THEY'LL LIVE
FOREVER IN PARADISE' AND YOU
00:25:03.30\00:25:06.76
DON'T TELL THEM? IS
THAT INDIFFERENCE EXCUSABLE?
00:25:06.76\00:25:10.93
IT'S A GOOD QUESTION, ISN'T IT?
ARE THERE PEOPLE WHO WILL NOT
00:25:10.93\00:25:15.96
HEAR IF WE DON'T TELL THEM.
'OH, HE'LL GET SOMEONE ELSE TO
00:25:15.96\00:25:19.66
TELL HIM.' NO. THERE'S CAUSE
AND EFFECT. THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO
00:25:19.66\00:25:24.20
WILL NOT BE SAVED IF THE
CHURCH DOES NOT TELL THEM.
00:25:24.20\00:25:28.46
THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO MAY NOT BE
SAVED BECAUSE I DID NOT TAKE THE
00:25:28.46\00:25:34.20
OPPORTUNITIES I HAD.
YOU NEED TO LIVE WITH THAT
00:25:34.20\00:25:38.20
REALITY TOO.
THROUGH YOUR LIFE HAVE YOU
00:25:38.20\00:25:40.36
MISSED OPPORTUNITIES?
THAT OUGHT TO MAKE YOU SHUDDER
00:25:40.36\00:25:43.96
- IT DOES ME. SO I
WANT TO DO MY BEST TO BE
00:25:43.96\00:25:47.03
OPEN TO THE SPIRIT'S LEADING
TO SEIZE THOSE OPPORTUNITIES.
00:25:47.03\00:25:51.60
THAT'S WHY PAUL SAID, 'I HAVE
BEEN FAITHFUL TO PREACH AND MY
00:25:51.60\00:25:54.23
HANDS ARE CLEAN FROM
THE BLOOD OF ANY MAN.'
00:25:54.23\00:25:56.13
ONCE I UNDERSTOOD THIS MESSAGE
I TOLD EVERYBODY I COULD.
00:25:56.13\00:26:00.43
AND DON'T WORRY, I
MEAN, GOD FORGIVES.
00:26:00.43\00:26:02.33
I DON'T WANT YOU TO LIVE WITH
CONSTANT GUILT, BUT YOU OUGHT TO
00:26:02.33\00:26:04.90
HAVE ENOUGH. IF
YOU'RE NOT MOTIVATED BY LOVE
00:26:04.90\00:26:07.20
THEN USE GUILT - USE WHATEVER IT
TAKES. RIGHT? AND TELL PEOPLE.
00:26:07.20\00:26:13.03
AND IF YOU'RE NOT DOING IT FOR
THE RIGHT REASONS THEN DO IT FOR
00:26:13.03\00:26:15.36
THE WRONG REASONS
BUT DO IT. DO SOMETHING.
00:26:15.36\00:26:18.83
AND SHARE WITH PEOPLE.
GOD WANTS PEOPLE SAVED.
00:26:18.83\00:26:22.33
LET'S READ SOME VERSES ON
THAT. SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME
00:26:22.33\00:26:24.36
EZEKIEL 18:23. WHO HAS THAT?
00:26:24.36\00:26:27.76
I GAVE IT - MIKE - RIGHT
HERE - GET YOUR MICROPHONE.
00:26:27.76\00:26:29.76
PANCHO, YEAH - HOLD
YOUR HAND UP. I'LL GET TO YOU
00:26:29.76\00:26:31.93
IN JUST A MOMENT. I
ALWAYS LIKE TO GET PEOPLE
00:26:31.93\00:26:33.70
LOCKED AND
LOADED SO THEY'RE READY.
00:26:33.70\00:26:35.30
1 TIMOTHY 2, VERSE 4, IT SAYS,
GOD "WHO DESIRES ALL MEN TO BE
00:26:35.30\00:26:42.10
SAVED AND TO COME TO
THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH."
00:26:42.10\00:26:45.06
SOME OF YOU KNOW WHAT CALVINISM
IS - THE IDEA OF 'ONCE SAVED
00:26:45.06\00:26:49.23
ALWAYS SAVED' AND 'THE ELECT'
AND 'GOD'S GOING TO SAVE WHO HE
00:26:49.23\00:26:52.36
WANTS' AND HE JUST SORT OF LOOKS
DOWN FROM HEAVEN AND HE GOES,
00:26:52.36\00:26:55.50
'EENY, MEENY, MINEY, MOE.
I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU NOT,
00:26:55.50\00:26:58.80
I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU NOT.'
AND HE DECIDES HE'S GOING TO
00:26:58.80\00:27:01.30
SAVE SOME AND NOT OTHERS.
AND THEN YOU'VE GOT PEOPLE WHO
00:27:01.30\00:27:05.46
BELIEVE IN FREE WILL
- THAT WE GET TO CHOOSE.
00:27:05.46\00:27:09.26
WE - SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS,
METHODISTS, AND A LOT OF OTHER
00:27:09.26\00:27:12.63
DENOMINATIONS ARE OF THE
CATEGORY OF CHRISTIANS THAT
00:27:12.63\00:27:15.30
BELIEVE - AND THERE'S EVEN
BAPTISTS - SOME BAPTISTS ARE
00:27:15.30\00:27:17.06
SPLIT - SOME ARE
FREEWILL BAPTISTS AND SOME ARE
00:27:17.06\00:27:19.66
CALVINISTIC BAPTISTS AND YOU'LL
HEAR BOTH - EVEN ON THE RADIO.
00:27:19.66\00:27:24.83
I'M TALKING ABOUT THE PANORAMA
OF CHRISTIANITY. BUT THERE'S A
00:27:24.83\00:27:28.66
DANGER WITH THE CALVINISTIC
TEACHING. IT'S SORT OF LIKE GOD
00:27:28.66\00:27:32.10
HAS HIS ELECT AND HE'S GOING
TO SAVE WHO HE'S GOING TO SAVE
00:27:32.10\00:27:34.33
AND THERE'S NOTHING
YOU OR I CAN DO ABOUT IT.
00:27:34.33\00:27:36.60
THE DANGER WITH THAT DOCTRINE
IS THERE'S A VERY LACKADAISICAL
00:27:36.60\00:27:40.16
ATTITUDE AMONG THOSE
CONGREGATIONS ABOUT YOU AND I
00:27:40.16\00:27:43.80
HAVE A CHOICE TO DO SOMETHING
AND THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE A
00:27:43.80\00:27:47.13
CHOICE TO ACCEPT CHRIST AND
IF YOU DO NOT DO ANYTHING, THEY
00:27:47.13\00:27:52.60
MIGHT PERISH AND GOD DOES
NOT WANT ANYONE TO PERISH.
00:27:52.60\00:27:56.00
IT'S NOT LIKE GOD JUST DOESN'T
WANT THE ELECT TO PERISH, HE
00:27:56.00\00:27:59.43
DOESN'T WANT ANYONE TO
PERISH, SEE WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:27:59.43\00:28:02.83
AND SO THIS IDEA THAT GOD IS
CHOOSING SOME TO BE SAVED AND
00:28:02.83\00:28:05.26
SOME TO BE LOST MAKES IT SOUND
LIKE HE WANTS SOME TO BE LOST.
00:28:05.26\00:28:07.96
NO, HE WANTS
ALL MEN TO BE SAVED.
00:28:07.96\00:28:10.93
FOR INSTANCE, 2 PETER, 3:9, "THE
LORD IS NOT SLACK CONCERNING HIS
00:28:10.93\00:28:16.26
PROMISE, AS SOME COUNT
SLACKNESS, BUT IS LONGSUFFERING
00:28:16.26\00:28:19.56
TOWARD US, NOT WILLING
THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH."
00:28:19.56\00:28:25.30
'GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD, HE
GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON THAT
00:28:25.30\00:28:27.43
WHOSOEVER BELIEVES IN
HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH.'
00:28:27.43\00:28:30.73
HE WANTS
'WHOSOEVER' TO COME TO HIM.
00:28:30.73\00:28:33.36
ALRIGHT, READ FOR US
EZEKIEL 18:23, PLEASE.'
00:28:33.36\00:28:36.73
>>EZEKIEL 18:23, "'DO I HAVE ANY
PLEASURE AT ALL THAT THE WICKED
00:28:36.73\00:28:40.63
SHOULD DIE' SAYS THE LORD, GOD,
'AND NOT THAT HE SHOULD TURN
00:28:40.63\00:28:44.60
FROM HIS WAYS AND LIVE?'"
>>HOW IS HE GOING TO TURN?
00:28:44.60\00:28:48.96
HOW IS SHE GOING TO TURN?
YOU KNOW, I THINK IT'S VERY
00:28:48.96\00:28:52.63
INTERESTING - AND OUR LESSON
NEXT WEEK WILL TALK MORE ABOUT
00:28:52.63\00:28:55.33
THE CONVERSION OF PAUL - SAUL
AT THAT POINT - LATER CHANGED TO
00:28:55.33\00:28:59.50
PAUL. BUT AFTER HE
SAW THE LORD, JESUS
00:28:59.50\00:29:02.46
DID SOMETHING MIRACULOUS
TO INTERVENE IN REACHING SAUL.
00:29:02.46\00:29:06.73
HE SAID, 'LORD WHAT
DO YOU WANT ME TO DO?'
00:29:06.73\00:29:08.03
YOU KNOW, HE'S STRUCK BLIND.
GOD SAID, 'SOMEONE WILL COME AND
00:29:08.03\00:29:11.46
TELL YOU.' AND FROM
THAT MOMENT ON SAUL HAD
00:29:11.46\00:29:15.60
TO DEPEND ON OTHER PEOPLE TO
LEAD HIM BY THE HAND AND THEN HE
00:29:15.60\00:29:19.83
WAS IN SOMEONE'S HOUSE
PRAYING AND THEN ANANIAS CAME.
00:29:19.83\00:29:23.13
GOD USED OTHER PEOPLE - HE SAYS,
'LOOK PAUL, YOU ARE SINCERE AND
00:29:23.13\00:29:27.76
YOU'RE SINCERELY WRONG.
I AM GOING TO INTERVENE.'
00:29:27.76\00:29:30.26
EVERY NOW AND THEN GOD WILL
INTERVENE TO SAVE A PERSON AND
00:29:30.26\00:29:33.20
DIRECTLY SPEAK TO THEM.
BUT THESE ROAD TO DAMASCUS
00:29:33.20\00:29:36.86
EXPERIENCES ARE VERY RARE.
99.99999 PERCENT OF THE TIME GOD
00:29:36.86\00:29:43.60
IS GOING TO REACH
PEOPLE THROUGH PEOPLE.
00:29:43.60\00:29:46.23
EVERY NOW AND THEN AN ANGEL WILL
SHOW UP AND TALK TO SOMEONE.
00:29:46.23\00:29:49.53
AND WE LOVE THOSE
STORIES, DON'T WE?
00:29:49.53\00:29:51.96
SOMETIMES GOD JUST HAS TO GO
OUT THERE AND YOU'VE HEARD THE
00:29:51.96\00:29:54.10
STORIES OF THE BUSHMEN IN AFRICA
AND AN ANGEL APPEARED TO THEM
00:29:54.10\00:29:57.23
AND SAID, 'LOOK, I WANT YOU TO
GO TO THIS MISSION AND THEY'RE
00:29:57.23\00:29:59.80
GOING TO TELL YOU WHAT TO DO.'
BECAUSE THEY WERE NEVER GOING TO
00:29:59.80\00:30:02.30
BE REACHED UNLESS GOD
INTERVENED - THIS WHOLE PEOPLE.
00:30:02.30\00:30:04.86
AND SO SOMETIMES GOD INTERVENES
BUT MOST OF THE TIME HE IS GOING
00:30:04.86\00:30:08.80
TO USE YOU AND ME TO
REACH PEOPLE. WHAT A PRIVILEGE.
00:30:08.80\00:30:12.83
WOULDN'T ANGELS BE
A LOT MORE EFFECTIVE?
00:30:12.83\00:30:15.73
WOULDN'T THEY BE MORE EFFICIENT?
00:30:15.73\00:30:18.53
MORE ACCURATE?
WHY DOES HE USE US?
00:30:18.53\00:30:22.20
BECAUSE IN USING US, NOT ONLY
ARE WE REACHING OTHERS, WE ARE
00:30:22.20\00:30:26.46
BEING REACHED
WHILE WE ARE BEING USED.
00:30:26.46\00:30:29.83
SOMETHING HAPPENS
TO US IN REACHING OUT.
00:30:29.83\00:30:32.96
THE GREATEST JOY IN THE WORLD
IS WHEN GOD USES YOU TO SAVE
00:30:32.96\00:30:35.96
ANOTHER SOUL. AND IT'S
JUST WONDERFUL FOR ME -
00:30:35.96\00:30:39.33
NOT ONLY TO BAPTIZE PEOPLE
- WHAT'S REALLY EXCITING -
00:30:39.33\00:30:41.43
BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THERE'S AN
ATTRITION RATE AMONG PEOPLE WHO
00:30:41.43\00:30:44.03
COME TO THE LORD.
EVEN JESUS HAD THAT.
00:30:44.03\00:30:46.83
IT'S WHEN YOU SEE THEM YEARS
LATER AND THEY'RE THEN SERVING
00:30:46.83\00:30:50.23
THE LORD, THEY'RE DOING BIBLE
WORK, MISSION WORK, EVANGELISM -
00:30:50.23\00:30:53.60
IT JUST THRILLS ME
WHEN YOU SEE THAT IT STUCK.
00:30:53.60\00:30:57.23
WE'VE ALL SEEN PEOPLE THAT
KIND OF HOP IN AND THEY HOP OUT.
00:30:57.23\00:31:01.10
AND THEN I WATCH PEOPLE WHO
COME IN SLOWLY AND THEY STAY.
00:31:01.10\00:31:05.50
YOU KNOW THEY PUT THEIR ROOTS
DOWN CAREFULLY AND THEY STUDY
00:31:05.50\00:31:07.80
AND I THINK, 'BOY, IT
TOOK FOREVER FOR THEM TO GET
00:31:07.80\00:31:09.46
BAPTIZED.' THOSE
PEOPLE USUALLY - THEY
00:31:09.46\00:31:12.03
STICK BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT IT
THROUGH. YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
00:31:12.03\00:31:15.76
AND SO IT'S EXCITING FOR ME
WHEN YOU SEE THAT AND IT'S THE
00:31:15.76\00:31:18.90
GREATEST JOY AND IT HAS A
SANCTIFYING INFLUENCE ON YOU.
00:31:18.90\00:31:22.36
BY THE WAY, WHILE YOU'RE SHARING
CHRIST WITH SOMEONE ELSE, THE
00:31:22.36\00:31:25.96
HOLY SPIRIT HAS TO GO THROUGH
YOU TO REACH SOMEONE ELSE WITH
00:31:25.96\00:31:29.06
THE LIVING WATER. AS
THAT WATER IS RUNNING THROUGH
00:31:29.06\00:31:31.43
YOU, IT HAS A
PURIFYING INFLUENCE.
00:31:31.43\00:31:34.60
YOU ARE ACTUALLY TOUCHED BY THE
REFRESHING OF THAT SPIRIT AS IT
00:31:34.60\00:31:40.20
GOES TO SOMEONE ELSE.
AND SO THAT'S WHY YOU WANT TO
00:31:40.20\00:31:42.73
BE INVOLVED. REVELATION 22
- STILL DEALING WITH THE FIRST
00:31:42.73\00:31:46.70
SECTION HERE - 22:17, OF COURSE,
THIS IS THE LAST CHAPTER IN
00:31:46.70\00:31:50.20
THE BIBLE, "AND THE SPIRIT
AND THE BRIDE SAY, 'COME!' AND
00:31:50.20\00:31:53.93
LET HIM WHO HEARS SAY, 'COME!'
AND LET WHO THIRSTS COME.
00:31:53.93\00:31:58.33
WHOEVER DESIRES, LET HIM
TAKE THE WATER OF LIFE" - HOW? -
00:31:58.33\00:32:01.90
"FREELY." SO IS GOD
RESTRICTING SALVATION
00:32:01.90\00:32:04.66
TO AN ELECT - SELECT FEW OR
TO EVERYBODY? WHOSOEVER WILL.
00:32:04.66\00:32:10.10
SO I REJECT THIS CONCEPT THAT
GOD HAS A FEW THAT HE WANTS TO
00:32:10.10\00:32:16.10
SAVE AND
THERE'S ONLY THIS ELECT.
00:32:16.10\00:32:19.46
GOD WANTS EVERYONE TO BE SAVED
AND HE WANTS EVERYONE TO BE
00:32:19.46\00:32:21.96
INVOLVED IN REACHING EVERYONE.
ALRIGHT, ACTS 20, VERSE 2,
00:32:21.96\00:32:27.10
'RECEIVING THE PROMISE' AND
IT TELLS US IN VERSE 40 HERE -
00:32:27.10\00:32:31.33
MAYBE BEFORE I READ THAT LET'S
JUST GET THE NEXT PERSON SET UP.
00:32:31.33\00:32:35.10
MATTHEW 4:18 - WHO HAS
THAT? WE GAVE THAT VERSE OUT
00:32:35.10\00:32:39.23
TO SOMEONE? ARE YOU READY?
00:32:39.23\00:32:40.90
MATTHEW 4:18 - OKAY, WE'LL GET
THAT TO YOU IN JUST A SECOND.
00:32:40.90\00:32:44.13
I'M GOING TO READ ACTS 2, VERSES
40 AND 41, "AND WITH MANY OTHER
00:32:44.13\00:32:48.63
WORDS HE TESTIFIED AND EXHORTED
THEM," - THIS IS PETER PREACHING
00:32:48.63\00:32:52.23
ON THE DAY OF PENTECOST -
"SAYING, 'BE SAVED FROM THIS
00:32:52.23\00:32:55.80
PERVERSE GENERATION.'"
YOU KNOW, I JUST WONDER IF
00:32:55.80\00:33:01.20
BACK IN THE DAYS OF JESUS IF
PETER WAS CAUSING - IF PETER IS
00:33:01.20\00:33:05.43
CALLING HIS GENERATION PERVERSE,
WHAT WOULD HE SAY TODAY?
00:33:05.43\00:33:09.36
I JUST WONDER. "THEN
THOSE WHO GLADLY RECEIVED
00:33:09.36\00:33:14.86
HIS WORD" - HOW
SHOULD WE RECEIVE THE WORD?
00:33:14.86\00:33:17.20
GLADLY - "WERE BAPTIZED; AND
THAT DAY ABOUT THREE THOUSAND
00:33:17.20\00:33:21.00
SOULS WERE ADDED TO THEM."
FROM THE SIMPLE SPIRIT-FILLED
00:33:21.00\00:33:25.63
PROCLAMATION OF THE WORD THEY
WERE CONVICTED. YOU GO TO ACTS
00:33:25.63\00:33:29.26
4:4, "HOWEVER, MANY OF THOSE
WHO HEARD THE WORD BELIEVED;
00:33:29.26\00:33:33.66
AND THE NUMBER OF THE MEN
CAME TO BE ABOUT FIVE THOUSAND."
00:33:33.66\00:33:37.70
AND THERE WERE PROBABLY
WOMEN BEYOND THAT AS WELL.
00:33:37.70\00:33:40.30
SO YOU'VE GOT THREE THOUSAND
BEING BAPTIZED AND THEN YOU GO
00:33:40.30\00:33:42.60
TO ACTS CHAPTER 4 - FIVE
THOUSAND BEING BAPTIZED AND
00:33:42.60\00:33:47.63
PEOPLE WERE RESPONDING TO THE
INVITATION. THEY WERE RECEIVING
00:33:47.63\00:33:53.66
AND THEN THEY WERE SHARING
AND THE CHURCH WAS GROWING.
00:33:53.66\00:33:56.86
NOW, WHEN GOD CALLS US HE CALLS
US TO FOLLOW HIM FOR A PURPOSE.
00:33:56.86\00:34:03.50
ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ
FOR US MATTHEW 4:18 THROUGH 20.
00:34:03.50\00:34:07.16
>>MATTHEW 4:18 THROUGH 20, "AND
JESUS, WALKING BY THE SEA OF
00:34:07.16\00:34:11.63
GALILEE, SAW TWO BROTHERS, SIMON
CALLED PETER, AND ANDREW HIS
00:34:11.63\00:34:16.56
BROTHER, CASTING A NET INTO THE
SEA; FOR THEY WERE FISHERMEN.
00:34:16.56\00:34:20.83
THEN HE SAID TO THEM, 'FOLLOW
ME, AND I WILL MAKE YOU FISHERS
00:34:20.83\00:34:24.93
OF MEN.' THEY IMMEDIATELY LEFT
THEIR NETS AND FOLLOWED HIM."
00:34:24.93\00:34:29.13
>>THERE'S A LOT WE
CAN LEARN FROM THIS.
00:34:29.13\00:34:31.50
JUST BEFORE I COMMENT I'M GOING
TO READ LUKE'S RENDITION OF THE
00:34:31.50\00:34:33.93
SAME STORY - OR A SIMILAR STORY.
00:34:33.93\00:34:36.93
LUKE 5:9, "FOR HE AND ALL WHO
WERE WITH HIM WERE ASTONISHED AT
00:34:36.93\00:34:40.70
THE CATCH OF FISH WHICH THEY HAD
TAKEN; AND SO ALSO WERE JAMES
00:34:40.70\00:34:44.16
AND JOHN, THE SONS OF ZEBEDEE,
WHO WERE PARTNERS WITH SIMON.
00:34:44.16\00:34:47.16
AND JESUS SAID TO
SIMON, 'DO NOT BE AFRAID.
00:34:47.16\00:34:50.36
FROM NOW ON YOU WILL CATCH MEN.'
SO WHEN THEY HAD BROUGHT THEIR
00:34:50.36\00:34:53.76
BOATS TO LAND, THEY
FORSOOK ALL AND FOLLOWED HIM."
00:34:53.76\00:34:56.66
NOW AS YOU READ THE GOSPEL,
YOU'RE GOING TO - IF YOU'RE A
00:34:56.66\00:34:59.03
GOOD STUDENT, YOU'RE GOING TO
NOTICE THERE'S A DISCREPANCY IN
00:34:59.03\00:35:02.06
THE STORY OF HIS
CALLING THE FISHERMEN.
00:35:02.06\00:35:05.46
ONE TIME THEY'RE CLEANING THEIR
NETS, ANOTHER TIME HE FILLS
00:35:05.46\00:35:08.76
PETER'S BOAT WITH FISH AND HE
SAYS, 'FOLLOW ME.' WHY IS THAT?
00:35:08.76\00:35:13.46
BECAUSE JESUS CALLED THEM IN
A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT SEGMENTS.
00:35:13.46\00:35:16.93
YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE
MINISTRY OF JESUS GOING ON FOR
00:35:16.93\00:35:20.16
THREE AND A HALF YEARS.
WHEN THEY FIRST CALLED THEM THEY
00:35:20.16\00:35:22.43
WERE OUT JUST CLEANING THEIR
NETS. THEY BEGAN TO FOLLOW HIM.
00:35:22.43\00:35:26.00
THEY WENT THROUGH A SEASON OF
TEACHING AND PREACHING AND THEN
00:35:26.00\00:35:28.26
THEY RAN OUT OF MONEY AND PETER
AND JOHN AND ANDREW AND JAMES -
00:35:28.26\00:35:31.33
THEY WENT BACK AND
RESUMED FISHING AGAIN.
00:35:31.33\00:35:33.43
MAYBE JESUS WENT HOME TO SEE THE
FAMILY AND THEN HE SAID - THEY
00:35:33.43\00:35:37.83
WERE GETTING BUSY WITH THEIR -
THEY HADN'T COME BACK TO FOLLOW
00:35:37.83\00:35:40.50
HIM AGAIN. THEY GOT BACK IN
THEIR WORK AND HE SAID, 'LOOK,
00:35:40.50\00:35:42.86
YOU'VE GOT TO COME FOLLOW ME.'
AND HE PREACHED FROM THEIR BOAT,
00:35:42.86\00:35:44.93
PRAYED, FILLED THEIR NETS,
AND SAYS, 'YOU GUYS ARE AFRAID
00:35:44.93\00:35:47.40
YOU'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE
YOUR RESOURCES IF YOU FOLLOW ME.
00:35:47.40\00:35:50.13
YOU'VE GOT TO
STAY FOLLOWING ME.'
00:35:50.13\00:35:52.90
AND YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHY JESUS
SAID 'IF A MAN PUTS HIS HAND TO
00:35:52.90\00:35:56.23
THE PLOW AND LOOKS BACK' - THEY
WERE STARTING TO LOOK BACK AND
00:35:56.23\00:35:59.06
WONDERING IF FOLLOWING JESUS AS
ITINERANT PREACHERS - HOW WERE
00:35:59.06\00:36:02.20
THEY GOING TO BE SUSTAINED?
CHRIST FILLED THEIR NETS THAT
00:36:02.20\00:36:05.83
TIME TO SHOW THEM, 'DON'T WORRY,
I'LL TEACH YOU TO CATCH MEN AND
00:36:05.83\00:36:11.36
YOU'LL BE SUSTAINED BY THAT.'
IT SAYS, 'YE THAT PREACH THE
00:36:11.36\00:36:14.96
GOSPEL - THOSE THAT PREACH THE
GOSPEL ARE FED BY THE GOSPEL.'
00:36:14.96\00:36:18.20
YOU REMEMBER WHEN PETER RAN OUT
OF MONEY ONCE, HE HAD TO PAY A
00:36:18.20\00:36:20.40
TEMPLE TAX? WHAT DID
JESUS TELL HIM TO DO?
00:36:20.40\00:36:23.10
HE SAID, 'WELL, SO THAT WE DON'T
OFFEND THEM - WE WANT TO OBEY
00:36:23.10\00:36:26.76
THE LAWS OF THE LAND - PETER
GO FISHING' - THIS IS A LOOSE
00:36:26.76\00:36:29.10
PARAPHRASE. AND HE
WENT DOWN TO THE SEA AND
00:36:29.10\00:36:31.56
HE SAID, 'CAST IN YOUR HOOK'
- NOT A NET THIS TIME, A HOOK -
00:36:31.56\00:36:35.06
'AND THE FIRST FISH THAT
YOU BRING UP IS GOING TO HAVE A
00:36:35.06\00:36:37.56
PIECE OF GOLD IN ITS
MOUTH. TAKE THAT AND PAY THEM.'
00:36:37.56\00:36:44.06
DID YOU EVER HEAR ME TELL THE
AMAZING FACT ABOUT SOME MARINES
00:36:44.06\00:36:47.93
THAT WENT FISHING ON
SAM RAYBURN LAKE IN TEXAS?
00:36:47.93\00:36:51.96
AND THEY CAUGHT THIS TROUT
- TRUE STORY - AND THE TROUT -
00:36:51.96\00:36:58.40
WHEN THEY BROUGHT IT INTO THE
BOAT IT WAS PLOPPING AROUND THE
00:36:58.40\00:37:00.60
BOTTOM OF THEIR BOAT AND A
GOLD RING FELL OUT OF ITS MOUTH.
00:37:00.60\00:37:06.40
AND THEY THOUGHT THAT WAS
INTERESTING AND THEY LOOKED AT
00:37:06.40\00:37:08.90
THE RING AND IT WAS A CLASS RING
FROM UNITED TECHNICAL INSTITUTE.
00:37:08.90\00:37:12.63
WE HAVE ONE VERSION OF THAT HERE
IN RIGHT UP ON 5 - THEY HAD ONE
00:37:12.63\00:37:15.73
IN TEXAS - AND THEY CLEANED IT
OFF AND IT HAD A MAN'S NAME - I
00:37:15.73\00:37:20.96
DON'T REMEMBER THE NAME - THEY
TOOK SOME WD-40 AND A TOOTHBRUSH
00:37:20.96\00:37:23.63
THAT WAS IN THE TACKLE BOX
AND THEY CLEANED IT OFF AND THEY
00:37:23.63\00:37:26.43
READ THE NAME AND THEY SAID,
'WELL, SOMEBODY PROBABLY LIVES
00:37:26.43\00:37:29.46
AROUND HERE' AND THEY GOT ON
THEIR IPHONES, RIGHT OUT THERE
00:37:29.46\00:37:31.66
ON THE LAKE, THEY CALLED TWO OR
THREE PEOPLE BY THIS NAME - THE
00:37:31.66\00:37:35.16
SECOND ONE SAID,
'IS THIS A JOKE?'
00:37:35.16\00:37:37.13
THEY SAID, 'NO, WE FOUND A
CLASS RING FROM UNITED TECHNICAL
00:37:37.13\00:37:39.70
INSTITUTE.' THEY
SAID, 'I LOST THAT' - SHE
00:37:39.70\00:37:42.70
HANDED THE PHONE TO HER HUSBAND
AND HE THOUGHT IT WAS A JOKE -
00:37:42.70\00:37:44.66
HE SAID, 'I LOST THAT RING 20
YEARS AGO FISHING ON THE LAKE.'
00:37:44.66\00:37:48.00
CAUGHT A FISH - AND THEY MET UP
WITH HIM AND GAVE HIM HIS RING
00:37:48.00\00:37:51.83
BACK. WHAT ARE
THE CHANCES OF THAT?
00:37:51.83\00:37:54.26
SO WHEN THE BIBLE SAYS THAT
PETER CAUGHT A FISH WITH A PIECE
00:37:54.26\00:37:58.03
OF GOLD IN ITS MOUTH,
CAN IT HAPPEN? SURE IT DID.
00:37:58.03\00:38:02.10
IF YOU'RE FISHING FOR MEN, EVERY
NOW AND THEN YOU'LL CATCH A FISH
00:38:02.10\00:38:05.46
THAT'S GOT GOLD IN ITS
MOUTH. I DON'T MEAN THEIR TEETH.
00:38:05.46\00:38:08.53
AND THE LORD WILL
SUPPLY. AND, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE
00:38:08.53\00:38:15.46
SHEPHERDING THE SHEEP, EVERY NOW
AND THEN YOU GET TO SHEAR THE
00:38:15.46\00:38:17.80
WOOL, RIGHT? YOU'RE
SUSTAINED BY THE GOSPEL.
00:38:17.80\00:38:21.63
PEOPLE WILL COME IN THAT WILL
SUPPORT THE WORK AND JESUS WAS
00:38:21.63\00:38:23.90
SAYING, 'TRUST ME.' DID
PEOPLE SUPPORT THE MINISTRY?
00:38:23.90\00:38:27.63
THE BIBLE SAYS, 'AND THERE WERE
CERTAIN WOMEN THAT FOLLOWED THEM
00:38:27.63\00:38:29.73
THAT MINISTERED UNTO
THEM OF THEIR SUBSTANCE.'
00:38:29.73\00:38:32.56
JUDAS WAS THE TREASURER AND
THERE WERE PROBLEMS THERE - WE
00:38:32.56\00:38:35.10
KNOW ABOUT THAT - BUT PEOPLE
GAVE MONEY TO SUPPORT THEM AS
00:38:35.10\00:38:39.16
THEY WENT AROUND
PREACHING THE GOSPEL.
00:38:39.16\00:38:40.73
SO THEY NEEDED TO BE CALLED A
COUPLE OF TIMES INTO FULL-TIME
00:38:40.73\00:38:44.10
MINISTRY TO TRUST AND 'FOLLOW
ME' - HE SAYS - 'I WILL MAKE YOU
00:38:44.10\00:38:49.83
FISHERS OF MEN.' YOU
KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS?
00:38:49.83\00:38:52.06
AS YOU FOLLOW HE WILL TEACH YOU
- IT DOESN'T HAPPEN IN ONE DAY -
00:38:52.06\00:38:56.70
'AS YOU FOLLOW
I WILL TEACH YOU.'
00:38:56.70\00:38:58.93
SOME OF THEIR METHODS WERE
WRONG. THEY WENT THROUGH ONE
00:38:58.93\00:39:00.93
TOWN AND THE SAMARITANS WOULDN'T
ACCEPT JESUS AND JAMES AND JOHN
00:39:00.93\00:39:04.30
SAID, 'LORD, GIVE
US THE POWER OF ELIJAH.
00:39:04.30\00:39:06.53
WE'LL CALL FIRE DOWN AND BURN UP
THE WHOLE VILLAGE BECAUSE THEY
00:39:06.53\00:39:09.53
DIDN'T ACCEPT YOU.'
AND JESUS SAID, 'NO, THAT'S
00:39:09.53\00:39:12.53
PROBABLY NOT THE
WAY TO DO EVANGELISM.'
00:39:12.53\00:39:15.50
HE SAYS, 'YOU DON'T
KNOW WHAT SPIRIT YOU'RE OF.'
00:39:15.50\00:39:17.76
THAT SAME VILLAGE THEY WANTED TO
BURN UP, LATER ACCEPTED JESUS.
00:39:17.76\00:39:21.76
IF YOU READ IN THE BOOK OF ACTS
DID THE PEOPLE IN SAMARIA ACCEPT
00:39:21.76\00:39:25.10
JESUS LATER? WHAT IF
THEY'D BURNED THEM ALL UP?
00:39:25.10\00:39:28.03
SOMETIMES PEOPLE YOU THINK THAT
ARE BEING MEAN TO YOU AND YOU
00:39:28.03\00:39:30.76
SHOULD PRAY A METEOR HITS THEM
AND - YOU DON'T KNOW, THEY MIGHT
00:39:30.76\00:39:34.43
BE CONVERTED. PAUL, WHO
WAS STONING STEPHEN - WHAT IF
00:39:34.43\00:39:38.70
STEPHEN HAD SAID, 'LORD, RAIN
FIRE DOWN UPON HIM.' INSTEAD HE
00:39:38.70\00:39:41.93
SAID, 'FATHER, FORGIVE HIM.'
RIGHT? WAS PAUL CONVERTED LATER?
00:39:41.93\00:39:46.53
AND STEPHEN AND SAUL WILL MEET
EACH OTHER IN HEAVEN AND THE
00:39:46.53\00:39:48.90
LAST PICTURE THAT STEPHEN HAD OF
SAUL HE WAS THERE PRESIDING OVER
00:39:48.90\00:39:52.33
HIS EXECUTION -
HIS UNJUST EXECUTION.
00:39:52.33\00:39:55.43
SO BE CAREFUL ABOUT HATING YOUR
ENEMIES, THEY COULD BE CONVERTED
00:39:55.43\00:39:58.43
AND BECOME YOUR
BROTHERS SOME DAY.
00:39:58.43\00:40:00.13
THE DISCIPLES HAD TO
LEARN THAT AND IT TOOK TIME.
00:40:00.13\00:40:03.90
IT TAKES TIME - WE'RE
STILL LEARNING THAT, RIGHT?
00:40:03.90\00:40:06.60
AND SO IT WAS THROUGH FOLLOWING
JESUS THEY WERE LEARNING TO BE
00:40:06.60\00:40:09.50
LIKE JESUS AND THE PRINCIPLES
OF 'HOW DO YOU CATCH PEOPLE?'
00:40:09.50\00:40:14.36
NOW I COULD JUST STOP RIGHT
HERE AND TALK ABOUT FISHING.
00:40:14.36\00:40:17.50
I'M A VEGETARIAN BUT I LIKE
FISHING. A FEW WEEKS AGO I WENT
00:40:17.50\00:40:22.23
AND STOCKED FISH IN A POND AND
I GO CATCH AND THROW THEM BACK.
00:40:22.23\00:40:25.96
AND IT'S FUN, I MEAN, I WON'T
ASK FOR A SHOW OF HANDS BUT
00:40:25.96\00:40:29.10
THERE'S JUST SOMETHING ABOUT
CASTING YOUR LINE INTO THE DARK
00:40:29.10\00:40:34.43
MYSTERIOUS WATER WONDERING WHAT
KIND OF CREATURES ARE LURKING
00:40:34.43\00:40:37.93
DOWN THERE AND WHAT WILL COME
UP. DEEP SEA FISHING IS REALLY
00:40:37.93\00:40:41.20
INTERESTING BECAUSE YOU HAVE
NO IDEA UNTIL YOU GET A LITTLE
00:40:41.20\00:40:44.30
CLOSER TO THE SURFACE
WHAT IN THE WORLD YOU GOT.
00:40:44.30\00:40:46.80
AND SO DIFFERENT KINDS OF LINES
OR NETS OR METHODS - SOME FISH
00:40:46.80\00:40:52.90
YOU CATCH DURING THE DAY,
SOME YOU CATCH DURING THE NIGHT.
00:40:52.90\00:40:55.36
SOME YOU CATCH WITH A LURE, SOME
YOU CATCH TROLLING, SOME YOU
00:40:55.36\00:40:57.53
CATCH WITH A LINE JUST
STANDING STILL IN THE WATER.
00:40:57.53\00:41:00.76
ALL THESE DIFFERENT - AND GOOD
FISHERMEN KNOW YOU HAVE FUZZY
00:41:00.76\00:41:05.10
LURES AND FLIES AND
YOU'VE GOT WORM-LIKE ONES.
00:41:05.10\00:41:07.63
YOU'VE GOT THE SILVER SPOON ONES
AND YOU'VE GOT SOME THAT YOU
00:41:07.63\00:41:09.80
KIND OF TUG AS IT GOES AND
THERE'S ALL THESE DIFFERENT
00:41:09.80\00:41:12.03
TECHNIQUES - WHY? FISH ARE
DIFFERENT. AT DIFFERENT TIMES OF
00:41:12.03\00:41:16.30
DAY YOU USE DIFFERENT METHODS
AND DIFFERENT KINDS OF BAIT.
00:41:16.30\00:41:20.96
AND IF THERE'S SO MANY
INTRICACIES - THERE ARE WHOLE
00:41:20.96\00:41:23.83
CHANNELS - NOW THIS, TO ME,
IS BORING, BUT THERE ARE WHOLE
00:41:23.83\00:41:26.10
CHANNELS WHERE PEOPLE JUST WATCH
FISHING ALL DAY - DEDICATED -
00:41:26.10\00:41:30.83
AND THEY'VE GOT CHANNELS FOR
GOLF AND THAT'S WHAT I THINK IS
00:41:30.83\00:41:32.50
REALLY SAD - PEOPLE
WATCHING GOLF ALL DAY LONG.
00:41:32.50\00:41:39.43
BUT THERE'S A SCIENCE TO
IT THAT NEEDS TO BE LEARNED.
00:41:39.43\00:41:44.53
AND HE NOT ONLY SAID, 'FOLLOW ME
AND I'LL TEACH YOU TO FISH FOR
00:41:44.53\00:41:48.16
MEN. FOLLOW ME AND YOU'LL BE
A GOOD SHEPHERD.' HE USED ALL
00:41:48.16\00:41:52.70
THESE ILLUSTRATIONS - 'FOLLOW
ME YOU'LL BE A GOOD FARMER.
00:41:52.70\00:41:55.63
YOU'LL CAST A SEED OUT
AND YOU'LL HAVE A HARVEST.'
00:41:55.63\00:41:58.10
JESUS TRIED TO USE - IS
THERE A SCIENCE TO SHEPHERDING?
00:41:58.10\00:42:02.03
THERE'S A LOT TO KNOW ABOUT HOW
TO DO IT RIGHT AND HOW TO DO IT
00:42:02.03\00:42:03.83
WRONG. IS THERE A
SCIENCE TO FARMING?
00:42:03.83\00:42:06.30
THERE'S SEASONS AND SEED AND
WEEDS AND ALL KINDS OF THINGS
00:42:06.30\00:42:09.20
YOU'VE GOT TO KNOW IF
YOU WANT TO GET A HARVEST.
00:42:09.20\00:42:11.60
AND JESUS SAID, 'YOU FOLLOW
ME AND I'LL TEACH YOU HOW TO BE
00:42:11.60\00:42:15.56
PRODUCTIVE IN A HARVEST.
WHETHER THAT'S WOOL OR FISH OR
00:42:15.56\00:42:21.96
GRAIN.' AND HE
SAID, 'FOLLOW ME AND I'LL
00:42:21.96\00:42:24.60
TEACH YOU HOW.' YOU DON'T
KNOW IT. RIGHT AFTER YOU ACCEPT
00:42:24.60\00:42:27.26
JESUS YOU'RE GOING
TO MAKE SOME MISTAKES.
00:42:27.26\00:42:30.16
FIRST EVANGELISTIC MEETING I
DID I WAS IN TEXAS IN A TENT.
00:42:30.16\00:42:34.53
I WAS A LAYMAN, I WAS
NOT A CONFERENCE EMPLOYEE.
00:42:34.53\00:42:37.56
I WAS JUST A
LAYMAN DOING EVANGELISM.
00:42:37.56\00:42:39.40
I HAD BEEN DOING BIBLE STUDIES
IN DIFFERENT CHURCHES AND HAD
00:42:39.40\00:42:41.53
ENOUGH PEOPLE FROM THESE
DIFFERENT CHURCHES WHERE I - I
00:42:41.53\00:42:44.90
MEAN, I WAS GOING TO CHURCH
OF CHRIST, BAPTIST, METHODIST
00:42:44.90\00:42:47.00
CHURCH - I WAS TEACHING SUNDAY
SCHOOL IN METHODIST CHURCH.
00:42:47.00\00:42:49.70
I'M NOT TELLING YOU ALL TO USE
MY METHODS, IT'S JUST GOD OPENED
00:42:49.70\00:42:52.16
THESE DOORS AND FINALLY I
WENT TO THE CONFERENCE AND SAID,
00:42:52.16\00:42:55.90
'GIVE ME A TENT!' I
DON'T KNOW HOW I EVER
00:42:55.90\00:42:57.46
PERSUADED THEM BECAUSE, TO
ME, FOR A CONFERENCE TO GIVE YOU
00:42:57.46\00:43:00.50
THEIR CAMP MEETING TENT - THIS
KID OUT THERE IN THE MIDDLE OF
00:43:00.50\00:43:04.46
NOWHERE - BUT THEY GAVE ME
THE TENT AND I DECIDED TO PUT
00:43:04.46\00:43:09.33
TOGETHER AN EVANGELISTIC SERIES.
00:43:09.33\00:43:11.86
AND I THINK I'D ONLY BEEN TO ONE
EVANGELISTIC SERIES IN MY LIFE -
00:43:11.86\00:43:15.76
WELL PARTS OF ANOTHER ONE -
SO I KNEW ALMOST NOTHING ABOUT
00:43:15.76\00:43:18.86
EVANGELISM AND I DID
SO MANY THINGS WRONG.
00:43:18.86\00:43:23.06
I MEAN, IT WAS
JUST - IT WAS SAD.
00:43:23.06\00:43:25.46
I THINK I DID, LIKE, YOU KNOW,
I JUST PREACHED, YOU KNOW, THE
00:43:25.46\00:43:30.46
SPEAKING IN TONGUES - ALL THESE
PENTECOSTALS THERE AND RIGHT
00:43:30.46\00:43:32.90
AWAY I WANTED TO
TELL THEM ABOUT THAT.
00:43:32.90\00:43:34.60
THEN I TOLD THEM ABOUT THE BEAST
AND THEN I TOLD THEM ABOUT - AND
00:43:34.60\00:43:37.06
I DIDN'T KIND OF LEAD THEM ALONG
AND USE ANY KIND OF TACT - AND I
00:43:37.06\00:43:41.76
THINK MY AUDIENCE WENT FROM
70 TO 20 IN ABOUT THREE DAYS.
00:43:41.76\00:43:46.40
BAPTIZED TWO PEOPLE BUT, OH MAN
- AND I REMEMBER AN EVANGELIST
00:43:46.40\00:43:51.40
FROM LUBBOCK, TEXAS CAME TO
VISIT MY MEETINGS AND HE SAID,
00:43:51.40\00:43:54.73
'DOUG, THIS SERIES OF
MEETINGS IS REALLY FOR YOU.'
00:43:54.73\00:43:57.86
I SAID, 'WHAT DO YOU MEAN?'
HE SAID, 'IT'S SO - YOU'RE GOING
00:43:57.86\00:43:59.26
TO LEARN A LOT. IT'S GOING
TO BE REALLY GOOD FOR YOU.'
00:43:59.26\00:44:01.16
I SAID, 'OH NO, NO - I'M GOING
TO REACH THE WORLD, YOU KNOW.'
00:44:01.16\00:44:03.26
HE SAID, 'NO, YOU'LL - THIS
IS REALLY - THIS FIRST SERIES IS
00:44:03.26\00:44:06.00
ALWAYS FOR THE EVANGELIST
TO LEARN HOW TO DO EVANGELISM.'
00:44:06.00\00:44:09.53
AH NOW, LOOKING BACK, I
GO, 'YEAH, HE WAS RIGHT.'
00:44:09.53\00:44:12.00
I DID REACH A COUPLE
PEOPLE BUT I HAD A LOT TO LEARN.
00:44:12.00\00:44:15.16
YOU HAVE TO MAKE SOME
MISTAKES. YOU GET THE POINT?
00:44:15.16\00:44:17.73
DON'T BE AFRAID OF
DOING SOMETHING WRONG.
00:44:17.73\00:44:20.70
IF YOU'RE AFRAID OF DOING
SOMETHING WRONG YOU'LL NEVER DO
00:44:20.70\00:44:22.80
ANYTHING RIGHT. IF YOU
WANT TO DO IT RIGHT YOU
00:44:22.80\00:44:25.60
MUST FIRST BE WILLING TO
FAIL AND MAKE SOME MISTAKES.
00:44:25.60\00:44:28.90
TRY SOMETHING. ONE OF
THE PROBLEMS WE HAVE IN
00:44:28.90\00:44:31.93
THE CHURCH TODAY WHEN IT COMES
TO SOUL WILLING IS WE'RE SO
00:44:31.93\00:44:34.73
AFRAID OF DOING SOMETHING
WRONG WE DO NOTHING VERY WELL.
00:44:34.73\00:44:38.33
WE'RE SO AFRAID OF DOING
SOMETHING WRONG WE DO NOTHING -
00:44:38.33\00:44:41.23
WE'RE SO AFRAID 'I WON'T
KNOW WHAT TO SAY TO THIS PERSON.
00:44:41.23\00:44:43.43
I FEEL IMPRESSED TO SAY
SOMETHING BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT
00:44:43.43\00:44:44.96
TO SAY.' SO WE
DON'T SAY ANYTHING.
00:44:44.96\00:44:47.20
WELL, MAYBE WE'LL SAY IT WRONG
OR YOU'LL STUMBLE OVER YOUR
00:44:47.20\00:44:50.13
WORDS, BUT WHO KNOWS? YOU
MIGHT CHANGE A LIFE AND WE
00:44:50.13\00:44:56.46
NEED TO PRAY GOD'LL GIVE
US COURAGE TO TRY SOMETHING.
00:44:56.46\00:44:59.96
NOW, IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT TO
SAY, THE FALL BACK SERMON ALL OF
00:44:59.96\00:45:04.43
US CAN USE IS YOUR
PERSONAL TESTIMONY.
00:45:04.43\00:45:08.70
TELL - NO ONE CAN ARGUE
WITH WHAT GOD MEANS TO YOU.
00:45:08.70\00:45:12.46
TELL YOUR STORY. YOU
FIND MANY EXAMPLES OF THAT.
00:45:12.46\00:45:16.40
FOR INSTANCE - ALRIGHT, SOMEBODY
LOOK UP FOR ME JOHN 4:28-30.
00:45:16.40\00:45:20.53
WE GAVE THAT SLIP OUT, I THINK,
TO SOMEBODY - WHO HAS THAT?
00:45:20.53\00:45:23.13
HOLD YOUR HAND UP,
KATHLEEN, SO WE CAN SEE YOU.
00:45:23.13\00:45:26.53
I'M GOING TO READ JOHN -
THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 1:40 AND 41 -
00:45:26.53\00:45:30.13
NOTICE HOW OFTEN IN THE
BEGINNING OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN
00:45:30.13\00:45:33.53
EVERYBODY'S FINDING OTHERS
AND BRINGING THEM TO JESUS.
00:45:33.53\00:45:37.50
IT SAYS IN JOHN 1:40, "ONE OF
THE TWO WHO HEARD JOHN SPEAK," -
00:45:37.50\00:45:41.83
JOHN THE BAPTIST - FOLLOWED
JESUS WHEN HE SAID, 'THIS IS THE
00:45:41.83\00:45:44.80
LAMB OF GOD' HE SAID, 'HE IS?
WELL I'M GOING TO FOLLOW HIM.'
00:45:44.80\00:45:47.53
"AND FOLLOWED HIM, WAS
ANDREW, SIMON PETER'S BROTHER.
00:45:47.53\00:45:51.33
HE FIRST FOUND HIS OWN BROTHER
SIMON," - SO WHERE DID HE START
00:45:51.33\00:45:53.96
HIS EVANGELISM? WITH HIS FAMILY.
00:45:53.96\00:45:56.56
HE SAID, 'I'M GOING
TO GO TELL MY BROTHER.' -
00:45:56.56\00:45:58.40
"AND SAID TO HIM, 'WE HAVE
FOUND THE MESSIAH' (WHICH IS
00:45:58.40\00:46:01.43
TRANSLATED, THE CHRIST).
AND HE BROUGHT HIM TO JESUS."
00:46:01.43\00:46:03.86
ANDREW, YOU KNOW, IT NEVER
SAYS ANDREW PREACHED A SERMON.
00:46:03.86\00:46:06.53
BUT IF YOU NOTICE IN THE BIBLE,
A LITTLE BOY - ANDREW FINDS A
00:46:06.53\00:46:10.66
LITTLE BOY, HE BRINGS HIM TO
JESUS. THE GREEKS WANT TO TALK
00:46:10.66\00:46:14.46
TO JESUS, ANDREW
BRINGS THEM TO JESUS.
00:46:14.46\00:46:16.86
HIS OWN BROTHER, HE
BRINGS HIM TO JESUS.
00:46:16.86\00:46:18.76
ANDREW IS ALWAYS JUST
BRINGING PEOPLE TO JESUS.
00:46:18.76\00:46:20.83
IT NEVER SAYS ANYWHERE
THAT ANDREW PREACHED A SERMON.
00:46:20.83\00:46:24.26
YOU SEE PETER AND JOHN PREACHING
BUT ANDREW HAD A GIFT OF JUST
00:46:24.26\00:46:28.50
KIND OF TALKING TO PEOPLE AND
SAYING, 'HEY, I'VE GOT SOMEONE I
00:46:28.50\00:46:31.16
WANT YOU TO MEET.'
AND INTRODUCING THEM.
00:46:31.16\00:46:33.43
SO YOU MAY NOT BE A PREACHER.
YOU MAY NOT BE A TEACHER.
00:46:33.43\00:46:36.20
YOU CAN BE AN INTRODUCER.
WE CAN DO THE WORK OF ANDREW.
00:46:36.20\00:46:41.06
AND THEN YOU HAVE IN JOHN 1:44 -
WE'RE JUMPING AHEAD IN THE SAME
00:46:41.06\00:46:44.30
CHAPTER, "NOW PHILIP WAS FROM
BETHSAIDA, THE CITY OF ANDREW
00:46:44.30\00:46:48.13
AND PETER. PHILIP
FOUND NATHANAEL AND SAID
00:46:48.13\00:46:50.86
TO HIM, 'WE HAVE FOUND HIM OF
WHOM MOSES IN THE LAW, AND ALSO
00:46:50.86\00:46:53.36
THE PROPHETS, WROTE - JESUS OF
NAZARETH, THE SON OF JOSEPH.'"
00:46:53.36\00:46:58.90
- NAZARETH? - "AND
NATHANAEL SAID TO HIM,
00:46:58.90\00:47:01.83
'CAN ANYTHING GOOD
COME OUT OF NAZARETH?'"
00:47:01.83\00:47:04.60
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, NAZARETH
HAD A BAD REPUTATION AND I - YOU
00:47:04.60\00:47:10.40
KNOW - AND SO INSTEAD OF
ARGUING WHAT DOES PHILIP DO?
00:47:10.40\00:47:16.40
HE SAYS, 'COME AND SEE.'
YOU KNOW, THAT'S THE SAME THING
00:47:16.40\00:47:21.13
HE HEARD JESUS SAY.
THEY SAID TO JESUS, 'MASTER
00:47:21.13\00:47:23.53
WHERE ARE YOU DWELLING?'
JESUS SAID, 'COME AND SEE.'
00:47:23.53\00:47:26.56
WHEN YOU INVITE PEOPLE TO
AN EVANGELISTIC MEETING, 'WHAT
00:47:26.56\00:47:28.76
CHURCH IS PUTTING
THIS ON?' 'COME AND SEE.'
00:47:28.76\00:47:31.73
'WHAT DO THEY BELIEVE
ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM?'
00:47:31.73\00:47:33.43
'COME AND SEE.' 'DO
YOU GUYS BELIEVE IN THE
00:47:33.43\00:47:35.66
BAPTISM OF THE HOLY
SPIRIT? ARE YOU CALVINISTIC?
00:47:35.66\00:47:38.80
WHERE DO YOU STAND ON THE
TRIBULATION?' 'COME AND SEE.'
00:47:38.80\00:47:42.90
DON'T ARGUE WITH THEM.
THAT'S GOOD EVANGELISM.
00:47:42.90\00:47:45.56
I'VE HAD TO COUNSEL OUR CHURCHES
BEFORE - JUST BEFORE A MEETING
00:47:45.56\00:47:48.86
BEGINS WHEN PEOPLE ARE ASKING
QUESTIONS - SAY, 'COME AND SEE.
00:47:48.86\00:47:52.06
OH, HE'S GOING TO TALK
ABOUT THAT. YOU WANT TO COME -
00:47:52.06\00:47:54.03
ASK HIM THAT QUESTION.'
DON'T LET THEM SUCK YOU IN -
00:47:54.03\00:47:57.30
GET THEM IN THE
DOORS IS VERY IMPORTANT.
00:47:57.30\00:48:00.60
ONCE THEY MEET
JESUS THEN THINGS HAPPEN.
00:48:00.60\00:48:02.76
ALRIGHT, SOMEONE'S GOING
TO READ FOR US JOHN 4:28-30 -
00:48:02.76\00:48:06.23
WHERE IS THAT? OVER HERE, SORRY.
00:48:06.23\00:48:09.13
>>JOHN 4:28-30, "THE WOMAN THEN
LEFT HER WATERPOT, WENT HER WAY
00:48:09.13\00:48:17.10
INTO THE CITY, AND SAID TO THE
MEN, 'COME, SEE A MAN WHO TOLD
00:48:17.10\00:48:22.53
ME ALL THINGS THAT I EVER
DID. COULD THIS BE THE CHRIST?'
00:48:22.53\00:48:27.36
THEN THEY WENT OUT OF
THE CITY AND CAME TO HIM."
00:48:27.36\00:48:30.93
>>WELL, THAT'S A GREAT STORY.
00:48:30.93\00:48:32.26
CAN THE LORD USE ANYONE
AND EVERYONE TO WIN SOULS?
00:48:32.26\00:48:37.53
HE DELIBERATELY USES SOME OF
THE MOST UNLIKELY CANDIDATES.
00:48:37.53\00:48:41.26
HE USES THIS WOMAN OF SAMARIA
WHO MAY HAVE HAD A QUESTIONABLE
00:48:41.26\00:48:44.00
REPUTATION - JESUS COMES FROM
A TOWN OF QUESTIONABLE ORIGINS -
00:48:44.00\00:48:49.56
AND THEN HE USES MARY
MAGDALENE WHO HAD A QUESTIONABLE
00:48:49.56\00:48:52.23
REPUTATION AND HE TELLS THEM
TO GO AND TELL OTHERS AND THAT
00:48:52.23\00:48:57.96
MEANS IF THE LORD CAN
USE THEM, HE CAN USE ANYONE.
00:48:57.96\00:49:01.23
THIS WOMAN WHO HAD - I MEAN, SHE
HAD BEEN MARRIED FIVE TIMES AND
00:49:01.23\00:49:05.60
SHE'S GOT THIS FELLA - EVERYBODY
IN TOWN KNOWS THEY'RE NOT
00:49:05.60\00:49:08.13
MARRIED AND THEY'RE LIVING
TOGETHER AND JESUS USES HER AND
00:49:08.13\00:49:11.96
WHAT WAS THE FIRST
THING THAT SHE USED?
00:49:11.96\00:49:14.33
HER TESTIMONY. SHE
SAYS, 'COME AND SEE.'
00:49:14.33\00:49:17.83
AND DO YOU THINK THE EXPRESSION
ON HER FACE SAID SOMETHING TOO?
00:49:17.83\00:49:20.83
SHE MUST HAVE LOOKED LIKE
SHE WAS IN TOTAL AMAZEMENT AND
00:49:20.83\00:49:24.33
BELIEF AND
EXCITEMENT - 'COME AND SEE!
00:49:24.33\00:49:26.23
COME AND SEE!' AND,
YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES YOUR
00:49:26.23\00:49:28.26
BODY LANGUAGE AND
YOUR EXPRESSION SAYS A LOT.
00:49:28.26\00:49:31.96
'WANT TO COME TO MY CHURCH?'
THAT'S NOT GOING TO WORK.
00:49:31.96\00:49:35.66
'COME TO - AW, WE'VE GOT
THE GREATEST - COME VISIT OUR
00:49:35.66\00:49:37.93
CHURCH!' WE ALL
WANT TO HAVE A CHURCH
00:49:37.93\00:49:40.96
LIKE THAT - THAT
WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT, RIGHT?
00:49:40.96\00:49:44.10
SO YOU'VE GOT THE PERSONAL
TESTIMONY - WHO SHARES HIS
00:49:44.10\00:49:46.20
TESTIMONY THE MOST
IN THE BIBLE, WHO KNOWS?
00:49:46.20\00:49:48.80
PAUL DOES. YOU FIND
PAUL - AND PAUL HAD A
00:49:48.80\00:49:52.90
PRETTY DRAMATIC TESTIMONY -
JESUS APPEARS TO HIM, RIGHT?
00:49:52.90\00:49:55.83
THERE ON THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS
AND I COUNTED FOUR OR PARTS OF
00:49:55.83\00:50:01.80
FIVE TIMES HE REFERS TO HIS
TESTIMONY - NOT JUST IN THE BOOK
00:50:01.80\00:50:06.96
OF ACTS, BUT
ALSO IN HIS LETTERS.
00:50:06.96\00:50:09.16
PAUL CONSTANT - AND, YOU KNOW,
IF YOU SAW JESUS FACE TO FACE
00:50:09.16\00:50:11.50
WOULD YOU ALWAYS
BE REMEMBERING THAT?
00:50:11.50\00:50:13.46
YOU'D BE ALWAYS
TELLING PEOPLE YOUR TESTIMONY.
00:50:13.46\00:50:15.46
WELL, FRIENDS, YOU DON'T HAVE TO
HAVE AN ANGELIC VISION OR HAVE
00:50:15.46\00:50:20.40
JESUS GIVE YOU SOME EPIPHANY ON
THE ROAD TO SAY THAT YOU'VE GOT
00:50:20.40\00:50:24.80
A TESTIMONY. IF YOU
HAVE ACCEPTED JESUS AND
00:50:24.80\00:50:27.63
IF THERE WAS A TIME IN YOUR LIFE
WHEN YOU KNOW YOU SURRENDERED TO
00:50:27.63\00:50:30.63
JESUS, AND YOU EXPERIENCED THAT
TRANSFORMATION, YOU'VE GOT A
00:50:30.63\00:50:34.63
TESTIMONY. TELL
WHAT HE MEANS TO YOU.
00:50:34.63\00:50:37.13
IF YOU DON'T HAVE AN EXPERIENCE
THEN YOU NEED TO HAVE ONE.
00:50:37.13\00:50:40.40
YOU NEED TO SURRENDER COMPLETELY
TO THE LORD. ACCEPT HIM.
00:50:40.40\00:50:43.20
YOU OUGHT TO, BY FAITH,
EXPERIENCE SOME PEACE AND JOY
00:50:43.20\00:50:45.76
AND A TRANSFORMATION - YOU WERE
DEAD, YOU'RE ALIVE - YOU WERE
00:50:45.76\00:50:48.43
LOST, YOU'RE FOUND.
THERE SHOULD BE A DIFFERENCE.
00:50:48.43\00:50:51.46
YOU WERE HEADING FOR
DESTRUCTION, YOU'RE HEADING FOR
00:50:51.46\00:50:53.20
LIFE - AND SHARE
YOUR STORY WITH PEOPLE.
00:50:53.20\00:50:58.26
TELL WHAT A DIFFERENCE
HE'S MADE IN YOUR LIFE.
00:50:58.26\00:51:00.36
AND THAT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT
SERMON EVERYBODY CAN PREACH.
00:51:00.36\00:51:04.06
AND ONCE THAT'S HAPPENED YOU
WANT TO TELL PEOPLE ABOUT IT.
00:51:04.06\00:51:07.46
AND, BY THE WAY, THAT'S IN ACTS
22:6-8 - WHERE PAUL IS SHARING
00:51:07.46\00:51:12.26
HIS PERSONAL TESTIMONY THERE.
I HEARD ABOUT A MAN AND THERE'S
00:51:12.26\00:51:17.40
A LOT OF VARIATIONS OF THIS
STORY BECAUSE IT'S HAPPENED MANY
00:51:17.40\00:51:20.26
TIMES, BUT THE VERSION I
HEARD IS THERE WAS A MAN WHO WAS
00:51:20.26\00:51:25.46
LEGALLY BLIND. HE DID
HAVE HIS EYES AND HE WORE
00:51:25.46\00:51:27.80
GLASSES BUT HE HAD TO USE
A CANE. YOU'VE PROBABLY SEEN
00:51:27.80\00:51:29.96
PEOPLE THAT CAN SEE SOMEWHAT
BUT THEY STILL USE A CANE.
00:51:29.96\00:51:32.73
WELL, EITHER THIS PROCEDURE
WAS DEVELOPED OR HE DIDN'T KNOW
00:51:32.73\00:51:38.16
ABOUT IT, BUT FINALLY HE WENT
AND HE HAD SURGERY AND AFTER,
00:51:38.16\00:51:42.73
YOU KNOW, BEING 25 OR SOMETHING
YEARS OLD NEVER KNOWING HE COULD
00:51:42.73\00:51:47.16
SEE - HIS EYES WERE TOTALLY
CORRECTED WHERE HE DIDN'T - NOT
00:51:47.16\00:51:49.93
ONLY NEED A CANE,
HE DIDN'T NEED GLASSES.
00:51:49.93\00:51:52.40
HE WAS SO - IT MADE SUCH
A DIFFERENCE IN HIS LIFE.
00:51:52.40\00:51:55.03
HE WAS SO EXCITED THAT HE WENT
TO THAT DOCTOR WHEN HE HAD HIS
00:51:55.03\00:51:57.63
FINAL VISIT AND THEY TOOK THE
BANDAGES OFF AND HE COULD SEE,
00:51:57.63\00:52:00.20
HE SAID, 'CAN I HAVE
SOME OF YOUR BUSINESS CARDS?'
00:52:00.20\00:52:02.50
THEY SAID, 'WELL
HERE'S A COUPLE.'
00:52:02.50\00:52:04.93
HE SAID, 'NO, NO.' HE
SAYS, 'LET ME SEE THE BOX.'
00:52:04.93\00:52:07.23
HE'D TAKE A STACK OF THEM - HE
WAS ABLE TO GET A JOB - AND ON
00:52:07.23\00:52:12.03
HIS WAY TO WORK IN NEW YORK CITY
HE WENT THROUGH THE SUBWAY AND
00:52:12.03\00:52:14.43
AS THE TRAIN WAS TAKING HIM
FROM ONE END OF THE TOWN TO THE
00:52:14.43\00:52:17.46
OTHER HE WOULD GO UP THROUGH THE
SUBWAY AND HE'D SEE ANYBODY WITH
00:52:17.46\00:52:20.13
GLASSES AND HE'D
SAY, 'I WAS BLIND.
00:52:20.13\00:52:22.96
I WENT TO THIS DOCTOR AND NOW
I CAN SEE AND I DON'T EVEN NEED
00:52:22.96\00:52:25.50
GLASSES.' 'I WAS
BLIND.' AND HE WAS SO
00:52:25.50\00:52:27.90
EXCITED AND HE WAS TELLING
EVERYBODY ABOUT THE DOCTOR.
00:52:27.90\00:52:30.26
ISN'T THAT WHAT WE'RE DOING WHEN
WE BECOME CHRISTIANS AND WE'VE
00:52:30.26\00:52:34.80
HAD THAT KIND OF
TRANSFORMATION IN OUR LIFE?
00:52:34.80\00:52:36.96
WE'RE LOOKING FOR PEOPLE WHO
ARE BLIND THAT WANT TO SEE AND
00:52:36.96\00:52:41.66
YOU PASS OUT THE BUSINESS
CARDS. IT'S NOT THAT HARD.
00:52:41.66\00:52:45.03
GIVE A BIBLE. GIVE THEM A TRACT.
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THERE'S SOMETHING
THAT EVERYBODY CAN DO.
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SO WE ARE SAVED FOR
THE PURPOSE OF SERVICE.
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'DESIRE OF AGES' - HERE'S A
QUOTE HERE I WANTED TO SHARE
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WITH YOU - PAGE 347 - TALKING
ABOUT OUR PERSONAL TESTIMONY,
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"OUR CONFESSION OF HIS
FAITHFULNESS IS HEAVEN'S CHOSEN
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AGENCY FOR REVEALING
CHRIST TO THE WORLD."
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- WOW - "WE'RE TO ACKNOWLEDGE
HIS GRACE AS MADE KNOWN THROUGH
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THE HOLY MEN OF OLD.
THAT WHICH WILL BE MOST
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EFFECTUAL IS THE
TESTIMONY OF OUR OWN EXPERIENCE.
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WE ARE WITNESSES FOR GOD AS
WE REVEAL, IN OURSELVES, THE
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WORKING OF A
POWER THAT IS DIVINE."
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IN YOUR FAMILY DO
PEOPLE SEE A DIFFERENCE?
00:53:25.53\00:53:28.53
IN YOUR LIFE CAN
PEOPLE SEE A DIFFERENCE?
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YOUR NEIGHBORS, THE
PEOPLE YOU WORK WITH.
00:53:30.56\00:53:32.93
IT'S ALWAYS KIND OF SOBERING
WHEN SOMEONE TALKS TO YOU,
00:53:32.93\00:53:37.40
YOU'VE KNOWN FOR YEARS AND THEY
SAY, 'OH, YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN?
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I DIDN'T KNOW YOU
WERE A CHRISTIAN.'
00:53:39.13\00:53:40.93
PEOPLE OUGHT TO KNOW. IT
OUGHT TO BE SEEN IN OUR LIVES.
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JOHN SHARED THAT WITH
HIS PERSONAL EXPERIENCE.
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THIS IS IN 1 JOHN - 1 JOHN 1,
VERSES 1 THROUGH 4, "THAT WHICH
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WAS FROM THE BEGINNING, WHICH WE
HAVE HEARD, WHICH WE HAVE SEEN
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WITH OUR EYES,"
- WE HAVE SEEN IT.
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HE STARTS HIS LETTER BY SAYING,
'I'M GIVING YOU MY PERSONAL
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TESTIMONY' - "WHICH WE HAVE
LOOKED UPON, AND OUR HANDS HAVE
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HANDLED, CONCERNING THE WORD OF
LIFE - THE LIFE WAS MANIFESTED,
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AND WE HAVE SEEN, AND BEAR
WITNESS, AND DECLARE TO YOU THAT
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ETERNAL LIFE WHICH WAS WITH THE
FATHER AND WAS MANIFESTED TO US
00:54:12.23\00:54:16.16
- THAT WHICH WE HAVE SEEN AND
HEARD WE DECLARE TO YOU, THAT
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YOU ALSO MAY HAVE FELLOWSHIP
WITH US; AND TRULY OUR
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FELLOWSHIP IS WITH THE FATHER
AND WITH HIS SON JESUS CHRIST.
00:54:22.33\00:54:25.30
AND THESE THINGS WE WRITE TO
YOU THAT YOUR JOY MAY BE FULL."
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WE'RE TELLING YOU WHAT WE'VE
SEEN, WHAT WE'VE HEARD, WHAT
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WE'VE WITNESSED, WHAT
OUR HANDS HAVE HANDLED.
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I TOUCHED HIM, I LEANED ON
HIS BREAST, I SAW HIM EVERY DAY.
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GOD BECAME A MAN.
PERSONAL TESTIMONY.
00:54:39.40\00:54:43.03
WHEN SOMEONE TELLS YOU THAT
- YOU KNOW, MARKETING AGENCIES
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KNOW THIS IS TRUE - THERE ARE
A LOT OF INFOMERCIALS THAT THEY
00:54:47.93\00:54:52.66
HAVE - THERE ARE CERTAIN
CHANNELS THAT AFTER A CERTAIN
00:54:52.66\00:54:54.93
TIME OF DAY THEY DON'T
HAVE REGULAR PROGRAMMING.
00:54:54.93\00:54:56.76
IT'LL SAY IN A LITTLE BOX AT THE
TOP, 'PAID ADVERTISEMENT' - BUT
00:54:56.76\00:55:00.93
IF YOU DON'T SPOT THAT, YOU'LL
THINK, 'THIS IS AN EXCITING
00:55:00.93\00:55:03.76
PROGRAM.' AND
IT'LL HAVE A COUPLE OF
00:55:03.76\00:55:06.16
PEOPLE THAT ARE UP FRONT AND
THEY'VE GOT THIS ROOM FULL OF
00:55:06.16\00:55:08.53
FOLKS THAT ARE GOING 'OOH AND
AAH' AND THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT
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THIS HANDY DANDY VEGETABLE
CHOPPER THAT CHANGED THEIR LIFE
00:55:11.40\00:55:14.43
AND SAVED THEIR FAMILY AND THEIR
MARRIAGE AND THEIR HEALTH AND
00:55:14.43\00:55:17.76
EVERYTHING. AND THE
PEOPLE ARE GOING, 'OH YES!'
00:55:17.76\00:55:20.66
AND THEY'RE CLAPPING AND THE
CAMERA SWEEPS THE PEOPLE WHO ARE
00:55:20.66\00:55:23.03
WATCHING THAT LOOK SO EXCITED
AND THEY'LL COME UP AND GIVE A
00:55:23.03\00:55:25.46
TESTIMONY, 'I HAD ONE OF THESE
TOO AND MY VEGETABLES ARE SO
00:55:25.46\00:55:28.20
MUCH BETTER AND MY WHOLE LIFE
CAME TOGETHER BECAUSE OF THIS
00:55:28.20\00:55:30.76
THING.' AND PEOPLE START
TO - PHONE LINES LIGHT UP AND
00:55:30.76\00:55:34.30
EVERYONE ORDERS THESE THINGS
AND YOU KNOW WHAT'S DOING IT?
00:55:34.30\00:55:36.86
THE TESTIMONIES. THE
PERSONAL TESTIMONIES.
00:55:36.86\00:55:40.86
IT MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE AND
THE PEOPLE ON MADISON AVENUE AND
00:55:40.86\00:55:44.56
THE ADVERTISERS KNOW - THEY'VE
GOT A WHOLE WEBSITE THAT'S
00:55:44.56\00:55:49.53
CALLED 'ANGIE'S LIST'
WHERE PEOPLE WILL CHECK OUT THE
00:55:49.53\00:55:54.23
REFERENCES AND YOU GIVE YOUR
TESTIMONY ABOUT SOME SERVICE OR
00:55:54.23\00:55:57.40
PROJECT OR PLUMBER OR SOMETHING
THAT YOU NEEDED AND THEY SAY,
00:55:57.40\00:56:04.76
'DO I GET A TESTIMONY?' OR
YOU GO TO BUY A PRODUCT AND
00:56:04.76\00:56:08.60
YOU SAY, 'WHAT ARE
THE STARS UNDERNEATH?
00:56:08.60\00:56:11.06
HOW WERE THEY RATED BY
OTHERS? DO OTHERS LIKE THEM?'
00:56:11.06\00:56:15.30
AND SO YOU GET ENOUGH PEOPLE
THAT ARE GIVING A TESTIMONY THAT
00:56:15.30\00:56:18.76
SAYS, 'THIS IS TRUE. THIS
IS GOOD. THIS CHANGED MY LIFE.'
00:56:18.76\00:56:22.06
FOLKS ARE ALL
LOOKING AROUND FOR PURPOSE.
00:56:22.06\00:56:24.06
A LOT OF UNHAPPY PEOPLE
OUT THERE, RIGHT? AND SO
00:56:24.06\00:56:26.76
YOUR PERSONAL TESTIMONY IS
VERY POWERFUL AND MY TIME IS UP.
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A LOT MORE GOOD STUFF
IN THIS LESSON, FRIENDS.
00:56:31.10\00:56:33.46
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>>IN SIX DAYS GOD CREATED
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00:57:20.60\00:57:24.40
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00:57:24.40\00:57:28.06
ON THE FIRST DAY. WHAT HAPPENED?
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00:57:28.06\00:57:32.40
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