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>>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.
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WE'RE SO GLAD THAT YOU'RE
TUNING IN. WHETHER THIS IS YOUR
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FIRST TIME OR YOU ARE A REGULAR
THAT TUNES IN EVERY WEEK,
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NO EXCEPTION, WE ARE SO GLAD
THAT YOU ARE JOINING US TODAY.
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AND WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD
TO STUDYING TOGETHER, WHETHER
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YOU'RE HERE IN THE SANCTUARY
OR YOU ARE AROUND THE WORLD.
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WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY ONCE
A WEEK TO OPEN UP GOD'S WORD AND
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STUDY TOGETHER AND, OF COURSE,
BEFORE WE DO THAT, WE SING YOUR
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FAVORITE SONGS. AND SO
WE'RE GOING TO START WITH
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#434 TODAY - 'WE
SPEAK OF THE REALMS'.
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THIS IS A REQUEST FROM OUR
FAMILY AROUND THE WORLD, PAUL
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AND EVELYN IN AUSTRALIA, BIRDIE
AND RALPH IN THE BAHAMAS, EDWY
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IN BARBADOS, JASMINE IN THE
BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS, PAUL IN
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CANADA, ALWYN AND MARETTE IN
DOMINICA, SOPHIE AND MAUREEN IN
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ENGLAND, PRISCILLA IN FLORIDA,
ALSTON, ASHTON, CHERRELL, LINDA,
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WILFRED AND KAREN IN GRENADA,
ZEPTA IN INDONESIA, YVONNE,
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DONNOLEE, TAMIEKA, TANIKA,
JANNEIL AND JASEICA IN JAMAICA,
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RUTH AND MAXWELL IN KENYA,
CARLA, SHELLEY, RAYMOND, SHAWN,
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VENITA AND CARLA IN NEW YORK,
ANDRE, KASHA AND AMANDA IN SAINT
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LUCIA, DECKLAN IN SAINT VINCENT
AND THE GRENADINES, AND VIKKI,
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TONI, JUDY AND CHERYL IN
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO. WE'RE GOING
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TO SING THE FIRST, SECOND,
AND FOURTH STANZAS - #434.
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(MUSIC)
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>>IF YOU HAVE A FAVORITE
SONG THAT YOU WANT TO SING WITH
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US ON AN UPCOMING PROGRAM, IT IS
SUPER SIMPLE SO IF YOU'VE NEVER
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DONE IT, I'LL
TELL YOU HOW TO DO IT.
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GO TO OUR WEBSITE AT
'SACCENTRAL.ORG', CLICK ON THE
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'CONTACT US' LINK, AND ANY SONG
THAT IS HERE IN THE ADVENTIST
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HYMNAL IS THERE ON THE
WEBSITE FOR YOU TO PICK FROM.
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AND YOU CAN SING YOUR FAVORITE
SONGS WITH US BECAUSE THIS
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PROGRAM IS NOT JUST ABOUT
US HERE AT CENTRAL CHURCH IN
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SACRAMENTO, IT'S ABOUT THOSE OF
YOU AROUND THE WORLD WHO JOIN US
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EVERY WEEK AND WE HEAR FROM
YOU THAT YOU LOVE SINGING THESE
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HYMNS WITH US AND
THAT'S EXCITING FOR US.
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IT'S NOT JUST US
THAT LOVE THESE SONGS.
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SO GO TO OUR WEBSITE, SEND IN
YOUR FAVORITE SONG AND RIGHT NOW
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WE'LL SING #63 AS WE CONTINUE
WORKING OUR WAY THROUGH THE
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HYMNAL SINGING ALL
THE SONGS WE DON'T KNOW.
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AND I KNOW YOU AT HOME
ARE ENJOYING THIS BECAUSE I'VE
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RECEIVED SEVERAL MESSAGES SAYING
THAT YOU LOVE LEARNING THESE NEW
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SONGS. ONE LADY, 'I'VE BEEN
IN THE CHURCH SEVENTY YEARS AND
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YOU'RE SINGING SONGS I'VE NEVER
HEARD AND I LOVE IT.' SO THAT'S
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WHAT WE'RE DOING - WORKING
OUR WAY THROUGH THE HYMNAL.
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THIS IS THE LAST SONG IN THE
'OPENING OF WORSHIP' SECTION.
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NEXT WEEK IS THE
'CLOSE OF WORSHIP'.
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#63 - 'O COME, LET
US SING TO THE LORD'.
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WE'RE GOING TO SING THE
FIRST, SECOND, FOURTH AND FIFTH
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STANZAS - #63.
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(MUSIC)
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>>I FORGOT TO LET YOU
KNOW THAT YOSEF IN NEW ZEALAND,
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HOWARD AND DIANE IN MISSISSIPPI,
AND JOYCE IN KENYA REQUESTED
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THAT NEW SONG.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
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AT THIS TIME, LET'S
BOW OUR HEADS FOR PRAYER.
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FATHER IN HEAVEN, THANK YOU SO
MUCH FOR BRINGING US HERE TODAY
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TO STUDY YOUR WORD. AND
I PRAY THAT YOU WOULD BLESS
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US WITH YOUR SPIRIT, THAT YOU
WOULD FILL THIS PLACE, THAT YOU
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WOULD BE WITH EACH PERSON HERE
AND THOSE AROUND THE WORLD THAT
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ARE JOINING US.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EACH
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PERSON AND I JUST PRAY THAT YOU
WILL HELP US TO BE FAITHFUL SO
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THAT ONE DAY WE CAN MEET
TOGETHER ON THE STREETS OF GOLD
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IN HEAVEN AND HAVE ANOTHER
CENTRAL STUDY HOUR WITH YOU.
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WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR LOVING
US, FOR DYING FOR US, AND FOR
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GIVING US THE HOPE THAT ONE DAY
VERY SOON YOU'RE GOING TO COME
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BACK AND TAKE US HOME TO HEAVEN.
BE WITH PASTOR DOUG AS HE BRINGS
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US THE LESSON STUDY. IN JESUS'
NAME, AMEN. AT THIS TIME OUR
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LESSON STUDY IS GOING
TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY OUR
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SENIOR PASTOR HERE AT SACRAMENTO
CENTRAL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST
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CHURCH, PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR.
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>>SENIOR PASTOR.
THAT NEVER SOUNDS RIGHT.
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HELLO EVERYONE. HAPPY
SABBATH. HOW ARE YOU DOING?
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I WANT TO WELCOME THOSE
WHO ARE HERE AT CENTRAL CHURCH.
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I KNOW SOME OF OUR REGULARS ARE
AT CAMP MEETING THIS WEEKEND,
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BUT WE KNOW WE HAVE A LOT OF
FRIENDS THAT ARE TUNING IN AND
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WATCHING THROUGH SATELLITE
AND THROUGH THE INTERNET.
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AND WE WANT TO WELCOME OUR
EXTENDED CLASS AND OUR OTHER
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REGULAR MEMBERS.
WE'VE GOT A LOT OF CENTRAL
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MEMBERS - SORT OF ONLINE MEMBERS
- THAT ARE SCATTERED AROUND THE
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WORLD AND MAYBE SOME OF YOU
WHO ARE WATCHING ARE IN THAT
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CATEGORY, WHERE YOU HAVE NO
LOCAL CHURCH YOU CAN ATTEND, BUT
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YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW, 'IS THERE A
WAY FOR ME TO CONNECT WITH YOUR
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CHURCH IN SOME WAY?' VIA
THE INTERNET OR SATELLITE
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WE'VE GOT SOMETHING SORT OF
WORKED OUT TO TRY AND MENTOR AND
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NURTURE PEOPLE THAT WAY. IF
YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT
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BEING AN ONLINE MEMBER OF
SACRAMENTO CENTRAL, JUST GO TO
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'SACCENTRAL.ORG' - THAT SHOULD
APPEAR ON YOUR SCREEN THERE -
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AND WE'LL TELL
YOU MORE ABOUT IT.
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ALSO, FOR OUR FRIENDS WHO ARE
WATCHING, WE TYPICALLY HAVE A
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FREE OFFER THAT GOES
ALONG WITH THE LESSON.
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NOW THIS IS WHAT WE CALL A
'PREMIUM FREE OFFER' BECAUSE
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IT'S A FULL-SIZE BOOK AND
FOR ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE - OUR
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LESSON TODAY WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
REVIVAL AND REFORMATION AND
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UNITY IN THE CHURCH, IN
PARTICULAR, THERE'S A BOOK
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WRITTEN BY YOURS TRULY CALLED
'HOW TO SURVIVE AND THRIVE IN
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CHURCH' AND IF YOU WOULD LIKE
A FREE COPY OF THIS - 'HOW TO
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SURVIVE AND THRIVE IN CHURCH'
- JUST CALL THE NUMBER ON YOUR
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SCREEN - 866-STUDY-MORE - THAT'S
866-788-3966 AND WHEN YOU DO,
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ASK FOR OFFER #787 AND WE'LL
SEND THAT TO YOU JUST FOR ASKING
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- WITH THE PROMISE THAT
YOU'RE GOING TO READ IT AND THEN
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HOPEFULLY PASS IT ON - SHARE IT.
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WE'RE TRYING TO GET
THE MESSAGE OUT. AMEN?
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YOU KNOW, IN A MOMENT WE'LL GET
TO OUR LESSON, BUT BEFORE WE DO,
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SOMETIMES DURING SABBATH SCHOOL
WE HAVE A LITTLE MISSION REPORT
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FOR OUR FRIENDS WHO ARE WATCHING
AROUND THE COUNTRY AND OTHER
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PARTS OF THE GLOBE AND
WE'RE GOING TO DO THAT TODAY.
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WE WANT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF
ONE OF OUR FAMILY MEMBERS FROM
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SACRAMENTO CENTRAL THAT
JOINED GOD'S FAMILY HERE - TAMMY
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STEENSON, COME ON UP.
YOU'VE GOT A MICROPHONE? GOOD.
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AND I'LL LET YOU STAND ON MY
RIGHT HAND HERE BECAUSE IT'S THE
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GOATS THAT ARE ON THE
LEFT AND - YOU CAN BE A SHEEP.
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ACTUALLY, MY LEFT EAR
IS NOT AS GOOD AS MY RIGHT.
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BUT TAMMY JOINED THE FAMILY HERE
- MATTER OF FACT, I DON'T WANT
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TO TELL THE STORY, I'LL
LET YOU TELL A LITTLE BIT.
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YOU'RE A SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST
- NOW HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?
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>>I AM. I AM.
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>>HOLD YOUR MIC UP REAL
HIGH. >>I ACTUALLY BEGAN HERE AT
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SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
CHURCH IN THE YEAR 2004.
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I ACTUALLY HAD A KNOCK ON MY
DOOR FROM SOME AFCOE STUDENTS
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AND THEY INVITED ME TO AN
EVANGELISTIC SERIES THAT WAS
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STATIONED HERE WITH BRIAN
MCMAHON AND I CAME THROUGH THAT
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SERIES AND I WAS BAPTIZED
THAT FALL AND THEN, AFTER THAT I
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SERVED HERE FAITHFULLY IN THE
CHURCH AND I WAS ENCOURAGED TO
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GO TO AFCOE AND EVENTUALLY DID
THAT AND THEN RIGHT AFTER AFCOE
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I GRADUATED AND DID
SOME BIBLE WORK HERE.
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>>NOW, WHEN YOU
JOINED YOU WEREN'T ALONE.
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>>I WASN'T ALONE, NO. I
WAS WITH MY HUSBAND AND MY
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FAMILY, YEAH, DAVID STEENSON.
HE WAS BAPTIZED ABOUT A YEAR
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AFTER I CAME
INTO THE CHURCH HERE.
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>>NOW WHAT WAS YOUR BACKGROUND
BEFORE YOU HEARD THE KNOCK ON
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YOUR DOOR AND WERE INVITED
TO THE EVANGELISTIC PROGRAMS?
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>>I WAS A MEMBER OF
THE ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH.
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>>OKAY, THAT'S A LITTLE
DIFFERENT. I USED TO GO TO
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THE AOG CHURCH BEFORE I
WAS AN ADVENTIST TOO, SO...
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>>OKAY, YEAH. IT
IS REALLY DIFFERENT.
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>>DID IT TAKE AWHILE TO
GET USED TO THE DIFFERENCE IN
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THE WORSHIP SERVICES?
>>IT DID TAKE A LITTLE WHILE TO
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GET USED TO THE WORSHIP SERVICES
BUT, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOUR HEART
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IS SOLD OUT FOR GOD AND YOUR
LOVE FOR JESUS CHRIST IS STRONG,
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YOU'LL BE OBEDIENT TO HIS CALL.
>>AND WHEN PASTOR MCMAHON WENT
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THROUGH THE TEACHINGS,
THE TRUTH'S PRETTY CONVINCING.
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>>WELL IT IS
STRAIGHT FROM THE WORD OF GOD.
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>>YEAH. >>AND NOWHERE ELSE.
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>>AND SO YOU - YOU SORT OF -
YOU BECAME WELL-ACQUAINTED WITH
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AFCOE. NOT ONLY
DID AFCOE STUDENTS
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INVITE YOU, THEN YOU
BECAME AN AFCOE STUDENT.
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>>YES, I BECAME AN AFCOE STUDENT
AND THEN AFTER I GRADUATED I GOT
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TO WORK FOR SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
CHURCH AS A BIBLE WORKER AND
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THEN ALSO THERE WAS A CHURCH
PLANT - A CHURCH PLANT IN THE
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GRANITE BAY AREA AND WE GOT TO
BE A PART OF THE BEGINNINGS OF
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THAT WHEN IT WAS JUST
A LITTLE GROUP OF TWELVE.
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NOW IT'S WHAT?
ABOUT 250, 300 PEOPLE.
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>>300 PEOPLE AT
LEAST - EVERY WEEK.
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>>YEAH, SO IT'S GROWN QUITE
SUBSTANTIALLY OVER THE YEARS.
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AND THEN I EVEN WENT INTO
BEING AN INSTRUCTOR AT AFCOE.
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>>YEAH, SO TAMMY JUST WENT FROM
HEARING THE MESSAGE - I MEAN,
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SHE RESPONDED IMMEDIATELY
AND GOT INVOLVED IN SHARING IT,
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HELPED US PLANT A CHURCH, AND
THEN WHILE YOU WERE ENGAGED IN
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DOING THAT THE LORD STARTED
TO SPEAK TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY
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ABOUT A BIG STEP.
>>YEAH, A BIG STEP. YEAH.
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IN 2010 I HAD COME INTO THE
AFCOE PROGRAM AS AN INSTRUCTOR
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AND I WAS ASKED TO START TAKING
SOME STUDENTS DOWN THERE EVERY
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FOUR MONTHS AND WE DECIDED TO GO
TO - MEXICO WAS THE DESTINATION
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- AND THEN GOD LANDED ME IN A
LITTLE VILLAGE CALLED MAZUMIAPAN
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AND EVERY TIME I WENT DOWN THERE
MY HEART JUST GREW FONDER AND
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FONDER AND I HEARD THE VOICE
OF JESUS CALLING TO HELP HIS
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PEOPLE THERE, YEAH.
>>SO YOU MADE A BIG DECISION?
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>>WE DID. WE SOLD
OUR HOME OF 22 YEARS.
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WE RAISED OUR CHILDREN IN THAT
HOME. WE PACKED IT ALL UP AND
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PUT IT IN THE
BACK OF A DODGE RAM.
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>>AND YOU - AND
DAVE QUIT HIS JOB?
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>>HE QUIT HIS JOB,
YEAH. HE QUIT HIS JOB.
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WE BOTH CAME INTO AGREEMENT
THROUGH PRAYER AND MUCH SEEKING
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THE LORD AND SEEING WHAT HE
WANTED TO DO AND WE JUST SAW THE
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DOORS OPENING AND WE - OUR
HEARTS WERE JUST THERE WANTING
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TO SERVE AND HELP THE SUFFERING
AND PAIN THAT'S GOING ON.
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>>TELL US, BRIEFLY, NOW WHAT ARE
YOU DOING DOWN AT YOUR MISSION
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STATION THERE IN MEXICO?
>>WE ARE CURRENTLY FOCUSING ON
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HEALTH AND EDUCATION BUT,
OF COURSE, WE ARE HAND IN HAND
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WITH THE GOSPEL MESSAGE.
EVERYTHING THAT WE DO DOWN THERE
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WE'RE SHARING CHRIST AS WELL
AS THE PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH WITH
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THE PEOPLE DOWN THERE. >>AMEN.
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>>WE'RE DOING BIBLE STUDIES.
WE'RE DOING HEALTH CLASSES AND
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HEALTH FAIRS AND COOKING CLASSES
AND ALL KINDS OF DIFFERENT
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THINGS DOWN THERE.
>>HAVE YOU SEEN SOME LIVES
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CHANGED AND SOME
FRUIT OF YOUR LABOR?
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>>YES. YES. IT'S EXCITING.
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WE - ACTUALLY, ONE OF THE
STORIES THAT COMES TO MY MIND
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QUICKEST IS WE WERE GOING TO -
WE WERE IMPRESSED TO GO INTO THE
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PUBLIC SCHOOL THERE TO DO SOME
HEALTH - A HEALTH PROGRAM - AND
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WE WENT TO VISIT THE DIRECTOR
OF THAT SCHOOL AND WHEN WE CAME
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INTO HIS HOME AND SAT DOWN AND
DISCUSSED WHAT WE HAD PLANNED,
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HE LOOKED AT US IN SURPRISE AND
SAID, 'YOU WON'T BELIEVE THIS
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BUT NEXT WEEK WE'RE HAVING OUR
HEALTH WEEK AND WE DIDN'T KNOW
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WHAT WE WERE GOING TO DO
BUT WE'RE GOING TO INVITE YOU TO
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COME AND DO THE
HEALTH PROGRAM. >>AMEN.
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>>AND SO WE CAME IN, WE DID A
FOUR-DAY HEALTH PROGRAM THERE,
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THE KIDS LOVED IT.
THE PRINCIPAL LOVED IT.
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HE DECIDED TO GET JUNK FOOD OUT
OF THE SCHOOL AND - THIS WAS THE
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BIGGEST BLESSING - JUST BEFORE
I ARRIVED HERE IN THE STATES,
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THERE WAS AN EVANGELISTIC
SERIES AND WE SAW HIM THERE.
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>>OH, PRAISE THE
LORD! THAT'S EXCITING.
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>>VERY EXCITING. >>SO
NEAT THINGS ARE HAPPENING.
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SO I JUST - I REALLY WAS EXCITED
TO SEE TAMMY HERE TODAY AND
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WANTED HER TO SHARE HER STORY
BECAUSE I THINK THAT SHE AND
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DAVE ARE A GREAT EXAMPLE OF
EXHIBIT A OF SOMEONE WHO THEY
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HEARD THE MESSAGE, THEY
RESPONDED TO THE MESSAGE, THEY
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STARTED TO SHARE THE MESSAGE AND
THEN THEY WENT ALL THE WAY AND
00:15:55.63\00:15:59.33
SOLD EVERYTHING AND
WENT AND DID MISSION WORK.
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DO YOU FEEL LIKE THE LORD
LED YOU AND THAT WAS WHAT?
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>>ABSOLUTELY. ABSOLUTELY.
00:16:03.73\00:16:05.50
HE CALLS US TO LIVE HIS LOVE AND
I BELIEVE THAT THAT'S WHAT WE'RE
00:16:05.50\00:16:09.00
TRYING TO DO. >>AMEN.
00:16:09.00\00:16:10.20
WELL, THANK YOU SO MUCH
TAMMY. BLESS YOUR HEART.
00:16:10.20\00:16:12.53
I WAS GOING TO SHAKE YOUR HAND.
YOU CAN TAKE THE MICROPHONE.
00:16:12.53\00:16:16.06
GOD BLESS. THAT'S EXCITING.
00:16:16.06\00:16:18.86
I LOVE TO HEAR THAT STORY
AND IT'S GOOD TO SEE THEM AGAIN.
00:16:18.86\00:16:22.70
WELL, FRIENDS, I WANT TO
GET INTO OUR LESSON FOR TODAY.
00:16:22.70\00:16:25.90
IT'S GOING TO BE
AN EXCITING LESSON.
00:16:25.90\00:16:27.70
LESSON #7 -
GOOD BIBLICAL NUMBER.
00:16:27.70\00:16:30.63
IT'S GOING TO BE DEALING WITH -
NOW WE'RE TALKING ABOUT REVIVAL
00:16:30.63\00:16:33.30
AND REFORMATION - THIS IS A KEY
COMPONENT TO REVIVAL AND IT'S
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TALKING ABOUT 'UNITY:
THE BOND OF REVIVAL' - UNITY.
00:16:38.06\00:16:42.60
DO WE NEED
UNITY IN OUR CHURCHES?
00:16:42.60\00:16:45.60
AND WE'VE GOT A LOT OF
VERSES WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT.
00:16:45.60\00:16:48.40
ONE OF THE PRINCIPLE ONES IS
JOHN 17, BUT OUR MEMORY VERSE IS
00:16:48.40\00:16:52.86
- IT'S A LONG ONE - IT'S FROM
EPHESIANS 4, VERSES 1 THROUGH 3
00:16:52.86\00:16:56.96
- NEW KING JAMES VERSION
- EPHESIANS 4:1-3 AND I'LL
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APPRECIATE THOSE OF YOU WHO
CAN READ OUT LOUD ALONG WITH ME.
00:17:00.50\00:17:03.63
ARE YOU READY?
00:17:03.63\00:17:05.50
'I, THEREFORE, THE PRISONER
OF THE LORD, BESEECH YOU TO WALK
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WORTHY OF THE CALLING WITH
WHICH YOU WERE CALLED, WITH ALL
00:17:11.06\00:17:15.83
LOWLINESS AND GENTLENESS, WITH
LONGSUFFERING, BEARING WITH ONE
00:17:15.83\00:17:20.10
ANOTHER IN LOVE, ENDEAVORING TO
KEEP THE UNITY OF THE SPIRIT IN
00:17:20.10\00:17:25.06
THE BOND OF PEACE."
ENDEAVORING - SEEKING, TRYING.
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DOES IT TAKE EFFORT TO HAVE
UNITY? ANYONE OUT THERE MARRIED?
00:17:31.83\00:17:38.63
DOES IT TAKE
EFFORT TO HAVE UNITY?
00:17:38.63\00:17:41.40
IT DOES AND IT'S - SOMETIMES
YOU'VE GOT TO SURRENDER WHAT
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YOUR FIRST PREFERENCE MIGHT BE
IN PREFERENCE FOR YOUR SPOUSE.
00:17:45.16\00:17:50.96
AND IN ORDER TO HAVE UNITY IN A
GROUP, SOMETIMES THERE NEEDS TO
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BE ADJUSTMENTS, SELFLESSNESS.
NOW ONE THING I NEED TO SAY
00:17:53.40\00:17:59.73
RIGHT AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS
LESSON - UNITY IS A DANGEROUS
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WORD. UNITY IS A
BEAUTIFUL THING BUT
00:18:03.63\00:18:10.36
YOU CAN HAVE UNITY IN THE WRONG
CAUSE. IN THE LAST DAYS, YOU'RE
00:18:10.36\00:18:18.56
GOING TO HEAR MESSAGES ABOUT
UNITY THAT WILL BE COMING FROM
00:18:18.56\00:18:23.86
THOSE WHO HAVE THE SEAL OF GOD
AND YOU WILL BE HEARING MESSAGES
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ABOUT UNITY FROM THOSE WHO
HAVE THE MARK OF THE BEAST.
00:18:27.83\00:18:31.60
BECAUSE IT SAYS, 'ALL RICH
AND POOR, FREE AND SLAVE, AND
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EVERYTHING' - YEAH,
I GOT THAT MIXED UP.
00:18:38.50\00:18:42.46
BUT EVERYBODY - THEY'RE
ALL GOING TO BE FORMING A
00:18:42.46\00:18:45.90
CONFEDERACY BASED ON FALSE
TEACHINGS AND IF YOU BELIEVE THE
00:18:45.90\00:18:52.40
TRUTH, SOMETIME YOU'RE GOING TO
HEAR SOMEONE SAY, 'LOOK, WHY DO
00:18:52.40\00:18:55.43
YOU HAVE TO BE SO
STUBBORN ABOUT YOUR DOCTRINES.
00:18:55.43\00:18:57.30
YOU KNOW, IN THE NAME OF
UNITY JUST MAKE SOME COMPROMISES
00:18:57.30\00:19:02.16
WITH YOUR CONVICTIONS
AND WE CAN ALL GET ALONG.'
00:19:02.16\00:19:05.56
SHOULD WE EVER COMPROMISE TRUTH
TO OBTAIN UNITY? NO. SO WHEN WE
00:19:05.56\00:19:10.90
TALK ABOUT UNITY,
YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR ME TALK
00:19:10.90\00:19:13.20
ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF UNITY.
I'M TALKING ABOUT UNITY IN THE
00:19:13.20\00:19:16.10
CONTEXT OF THOSE WHO HAVE FIRST
DECIDED THEY'RE NOT GOING TO
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SACRIFICE ANY
PRINCIPLES OF TRUTH.
00:19:19.60\00:19:22.26
SO ONCE WE BELIEVE THE TRUTH AND
WE'RE COMMITTED TO THE TRUTH,
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THEN WE CAN BE WELDED
TOGETHER ON WHAT UNITY IS.
00:19:25.43\00:19:29.16
SO IN OUR LESSON WE'VE GOT A
NUMBER OF THINGS WE'RE GOING TO
00:19:29.16\00:19:32.53
BE CONSIDERING AND - FIRST OF
ALL, LET ME MENTION - I'VE GOT A
00:19:32.53\00:19:39.43
LOT MORE THAN I'M GOING TO BE
ABLE TO COVER IN OUR STUDY TODAY
00:19:39.43\00:19:43.53
AND SO, WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING
IS I'M POSTING MY LESSONS, WHICH
00:19:43.53\00:19:46.90
HAS SOME OF WHAT'S
IN THE SABBATH SCHOOL
00:19:46.90\00:19:48.46
LESSON AND SOME OF MY OWN
VISIONS AND HALLUCINATIONS,
00:19:48.46\00:19:52.53
ILLUSTRATIONS AND VERSES
AND SO WE'LL POST THOSE AT THE
00:19:52.53\00:19:56.76
SAC CENTRAL WEBSITE. IT
MAY ALSO BE AVAILABLE AT THE
00:19:56.76\00:19:59.96
AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE SO I'LL
- JUST WANT TO SAY THAT BECAUSE
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I'VE GOT MORE THERE.
TURN IN YOUR BIBLES FIRST TO
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JOHN CHAPTER 17. THIS IS
THE LONGEST PRAYER OF JESUS
00:20:05.53\00:20:09.70
THAT YOU FIND IN THE BIBLE.
IT'S ONE OF THE LONGEST PRAYERS
00:20:09.70\00:20:12.80
IN THE BIBLE, ACTUALLY, AND IT'S
HIS PRAYER TO THE FATHER AND ONE
00:20:12.80\00:20:18.00
OF THE CENTRAL THEMES OF THIS
PRAYER IS DEALING WITH UNITY.
00:20:18.00\00:20:22.63
NOW, GO WITH ME TO, FOR
INSTANCE, JOHN 17, VERSE 9 -
00:20:22.63\00:20:27.93
JOHN 17, VERSE 9 - AND HE
SAYS HERE, "I PRAY FOR THEM.
00:20:27.93\00:20:34.40
I DO NOT PRAY FOR THE WORLD BUT
FOR THOSE WHOM YOU HAVE GIVEN
00:20:34.40\00:20:37.36
ME, FOR THEY ARE YOURS.
AND ALL MINE ARE YOURS, AND
00:20:37.36\00:20:40.43
YOURS ARE MINE, AND
I AM GLORIFIED IN THEM.
00:20:40.43\00:20:43.43
NOW I AM NO LONGER IN THE WORLD,
BUT THESE ARE IN THE WORLD, AND
00:20:43.43\00:20:47.03
I COME TO YOU. HOLY
FATHER, KEEP THROUGH YOUR
00:20:47.03\00:20:50.20
NAME THOSE WHOM YOU HAVE GIVEN
ME," - HERE'S WHY - "THAT THEY
00:20:50.20\00:20:54.06
MAY BE ONE AS WE
ARE." THAT'S A TALL ORDER.
00:20:54.06\00:21:00.96
WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT
KIND OF ANALOGY OR WHAT KIND OF
00:21:00.96\00:21:03.93
STANDARD YOU MIGHT SET FOR
ONENESS AMONG GOD'S PEOPLE, WHAT
00:21:03.93\00:21:08.13
COULD POSSIBLY BE HIGHER THAN
TO SAY, 'WE'D LIKE THE KIND OF
00:21:08.13\00:21:11.03
ONENESS THAT JESUS AND THE
FATHER HAVE.' SOMEBODY PLEASE
00:21:11.03\00:21:15.30
TELL ME ANY UNITY THAT
WOULD BE TIGHTER THAN THAT.
00:21:15.30\00:21:19.33
IS THERE ANY STANDARD FOR UNITY
HIGHER THAN THE STANDARD OF THE
00:21:19.33\00:21:24.00
UNITY THAT EXISTS BETWEEN
GOD THE FATHER AND GOD THE SON.
00:21:24.00\00:21:28.13
'HEAR, O ISRAEL, THE
LORD OUR GOD IS ONE.'
00:21:28.13\00:21:32.06
AND THAT ONENESS DOESN'T MEAN
NUMERICAL QUANTITY, IT'S TALKING
00:21:32.06\00:21:36.36
ABOUT GOD IS ONE.
GOD IS A UNITED GOD.
00:21:36.36\00:21:40.76
AND JESUS SAID, OF COURSE,
MAN'LL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND
00:21:40.76\00:21:44.83
MOTHER AND CLEAVE UNTO HIS
WIFE AND THOSE TWO BECOME ONE.
00:21:44.83\00:21:49.86
SO JESUS COMPARES THE UNITY THAT
WE'RE TO HAVE BETWEEN THE UNITY
00:21:49.86\00:21:54.46
OF HE AND HIS FATHER - IT'S
OFTEN COMPARED EVEN TO THE UNITY
00:21:54.46\00:21:57.50
OF A MARRIAGE. IT'S
TALKING ABOUT THE MARRIAGE
00:21:57.50\00:21:59.70
SUPPER OF THE LAMB.
CHRIST WANTS YOU TO BE UNITED
00:21:59.70\00:22:02.96
WITH HIS CHURCH
AND WITH EACH OTHER.
00:22:02.96\00:22:07.23
THEN YOU GO TO JOHN 17 AND READ
VERSE 20, "I DO NOT PRAY FOR
00:22:07.23\00:22:12.76
THESE ALONE, BUT ALSO FOR THOSE
WHO WILL BELIEVE IN ME THROUGH
00:22:12.76\00:22:16.00
THEIR WORD;" PARK RIGHT
THERE FOR JUST A MOMENT.
00:22:16.00\00:22:19.40
YOU KNOW, HAVE YOU EVER
WONDERED, 'DID JESUS PRAY FOR
00:22:19.40\00:22:21.53
ME?' HE DOES HERE IN THIS
VERSE. DID YOU CATCH THAT?
00:22:21.53\00:22:24.86
HE SAYS, 'I'M NOT ONLY PRAYING
FOR THE APOSTLES, I'M PRAYING
00:22:24.86\00:22:28.70
FOR THE ONES WHO WILL BELIEVE
ON ME THROUGH THEIR WORD.'
00:22:28.70\00:22:31.96
ARE YOU ONE OF THOSE WHO IS
BELIEVING BECAUSE OF THE WORD OF
00:22:31.96\00:22:34.30
THE APOSTLES? JESUS
SAYS, 'I'M PRAYING FOR YOU.'
00:22:34.30\00:22:38.36
SO THAT SHOULD
MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER.
00:22:38.36\00:22:41.83
DOES GOD ANSWER
THE PRAYERS OF JESUS?
00:22:41.83\00:22:45.40
SEE WHAT I'M SAYING?
JESUS PRAYED FOR YOU.
00:22:45.40\00:22:48.96
"THAT THEY MAY BE ONE...THAT
THE WORLD MIGHT BELIEVE THAT YOU
00:22:48.96\00:22:54.76
SENT ME." ONE OF THE - WHAT IS
ONE OF THE WAYS THAT THE WORLD
00:22:54.76\00:22:57.46
BELIEVES THAT
CHRIST WAS SENT? OUR UNITY.
00:22:57.46\00:23:01.66
'ALL WILL KNOW THAT YOU ARE MY
DISCIPLES BY YOUR LOVE FOR ONE
00:23:01.66\00:23:04.80
ANOTHER.' AND I'M
READING - LET ME READ IN
00:23:04.80\00:23:07.13
VERSE 22 "AND THE GLORY WHICH
YOU GAVE ME I HAVE GIVEN THEM,
00:23:07.13\00:23:10.93
THAT THEY MAY BE ONE JUST AS
WE ARE ONE." - THERE YOU HAVE IT
00:23:10.93\00:23:14.50
AGAIN - "I IN THEM, AND YOU
IN ME; THAT THEY MAY BE MADE
00:23:14.50\00:23:17.70
PERFECT IN ONE, - ARE WE
PERFECT IF WE'RE NOT ONE?
00:23:17.70\00:23:21.66
THAT'S THE SEAL OF PERFECTION
- "THAT THE WORLD MAY KNOW THAT
00:23:21.66\00:23:26.13
YOU HAVE SENT ME, AND HAVE LOVED
THEM AS YOU HAVE LOVED ME."
00:23:26.13\00:23:29.26
ALRIGHT, SOMEBODY LOOK UP FOR
ME ROMANS 12:10 AND SOMEONE ELSE
00:23:29.26\00:23:32.83
HAS 1 JOHN 3:14. I'VE
GOT ONE HAND BACK HERE FOR
00:23:32.83\00:23:36.73
AL AND YOU JUST WAIT - AND OVER
HERE WE'LL GET JAN A MICROPHONE.
00:23:36.73\00:23:40.80
WE'RE NOT READY FOR YOU,
WE JUST WANT TO GET YOU READY.
00:23:40.80\00:23:43.06
ALRIGHT, I'M GOING
TO READ EPHESIANS 4:5-6.
00:23:43.06\00:23:46.93
THE BIBLE TELLS US THERE IS "ONE
LORD, ONE FAITH, ONE BAPTISM,
00:23:46.93\00:23:52.70
ONE GOD" - NOTICE HERE - ONE,
ONE, ONE, ONE - GOT FOUR ONES -
00:23:52.70\00:23:58.26
"ONE GOD AND FATHER OF ALL, WHO
IS ABOVE ALL, AND THROUGH ALL,
00:23:58.26\00:24:01.70
AND IN YOU ALL." SO
WAS IT EVER GOD'S PLAN?
00:24:01.70\00:24:06.46
IF JESUS SAID, 'ALL MEN WILL
KNOW THAT YOU ARE MY DISCIPLES
00:24:06.46\00:24:10.66
BY YOUR LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHER'
DID THE DEVIL HEAR THAT?
00:24:10.66\00:24:15.23
SURE, IT'S WRITTEN
DOWN. THE DEVIL CAN READ.
00:24:15.23\00:24:18.60
SO IF ALL THE WORLD IS SUPPOSED
TO KNOW THAT CHRISTIANITY IS THE
00:24:18.60\00:24:21.43
TRUTH BY OUR LOVE FOR ONE
ANOTHER, THEN WHAT WOULD THE
00:24:21.43\00:24:25.03
OPPOSITE OF THAT BE? IF
ALL THE WORLD IS SUPPOSED TO
00:24:25.03\00:24:28.23
KNOW WHO CHRISTIANS ARE BECAUSE
OF OUR UNITY AND COHESIVENESS,
00:24:28.23\00:24:32.80
THEN IT WOULD SEEM TO ME THE WAY
TO GET THE WORLD NOT TO BELIEVE
00:24:32.80\00:24:37.53
IS THROUGH OUR DIVISION.
NOW DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?
00:24:37.53\00:24:40.23
DO YOU WANT ME TO
SAY THAT A DIFFERENT WAY?
00:24:40.23\00:24:41.90
IF JESUS SAID EVERYONE IS
SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT WE'RE HIS
00:24:41.90\00:24:45.03
CHILDREN BY OUR LOVE FOR ONE
ANOTHER, THE DEVIL HEARING THAT,
00:24:45.03\00:24:49.16
HE WANTS TO
NEUTRALIZE OUR POWER.
00:24:49.16\00:24:51.03
PEOPLE WILL NOT BELIEVE BY
OUR INCONSISTENCY AND OUR BEING
00:24:51.03\00:24:56.06
DIVIDED. YOU KNOW,
SOME OF THE PROOF THAT
00:24:56.06\00:24:58.90
CHRISTIANITY IS TRUE IS THERE
IS NO RELIGION MORE DIVIDED.
00:24:58.90\00:25:04.16
THE DEVIL HAS - THERE'S NO
RELIGION IN THE WORLD THE DEVIL
00:25:04.16\00:25:06.80
HAS WORKED ON THAT
HAS BEEN MORE DIVIDED.
00:25:06.80\00:25:10.46
YOU'VE GOT A FEW FRAGMENTS OF
ISLAM - THERE MIGHT BE THREE OR
00:25:10.46\00:25:13.73
FOUR - TWO MAIN ONES.
AND YOU MIGHT HAVE A FEW
00:25:13.73\00:25:17.13
FRAGMENTS OF BUDDHISM AND
YOU MIGHT HAVE A FEW FRAGMENTS
00:25:17.13\00:25:21.00
WITHIN JUDAISM, BUT THERE ARE
NO - THERE'S NO RELIGION MORE
00:25:21.00\00:25:25.93
FRAGMENTED THAN CHRISTIANITY.
CHRISTIANITY IS A THOUSAND TIMES
00:25:25.93\00:25:29.60
MORE FRAGMENTED. WHY?
00:25:29.60\00:25:32.90
WHY WOULD THE DEVIL
WORK SO HARD TO FRAGMENT IT?
00:25:32.90\00:25:35.60
HOW MANY DIFFERENT DENOMINATIONS
ARE THERE THAT CALL THEMSELVES
00:25:35.60\00:25:37.86
CHRISTIAN? YOU
CAN'T KEEP UP WITH IT.
00:25:37.86\00:25:41.96
THERE ARE SO MANY NAMES
THAT SOUND LIKE OTHER NAMES BUT
00:25:41.96\00:25:45.20
THERE'S LITTLE NUANCES THAT ARE
DIFFERENT AND THEY'VE GOT ALL
00:25:45.20\00:25:47.40
THESE NAMES COPYRIGHTED AND
EVERY TIME THEY HAVE A SPLIT IN
00:25:47.40\00:25:49.73
THE CHURCH THEY FORM A
NEW DENOMINATION AND THEY JUST
00:25:49.73\00:25:53.80
CHANGE THE NAME A LITTLE BIT.
THE DEVIL HAS SOUGHT TO DIVIDE
00:25:53.80\00:25:57.73
THE CHURCH BECAUSE IT
NEUTRALIZES THE WITNESS OF
00:25:57.73\00:26:02.23
GOD'S PEOPLE. ALRIGHT, GO
AHEAD. AL, I THINK YOU'RE NEXT.
00:26:02.23\00:26:05.30
WHY DON'T YOU READ FOR
US ROMANS 12, VERSE 10?
00:26:05.30\00:26:08.73
>>"BE KINDLY AFFECTIONATE TO ONE
ANOTHER WITH BROTHERLY LOVE, IN
00:26:08.73\00:26:12.33
HONOR GIVING
PREFERENCE TO ONE ANOTHER."
00:26:12.33\00:26:15.43
>>SO ONE OF THE KEYS FOR
OUR HAVING UNITY IS TO BE KIND.
00:26:15.43\00:26:18.83
JUST PLAIN OLD KINDNESS.
'KINDLY AFFECTIONED ONE TO
00:26:18.83\00:26:21.00
ANOTHER IN BROTHERLY
LOVE GIVING PREFERENCE.'
00:26:21.00\00:26:26.03
IF YOU'VE GOT, YOU KNOW, AN
ARGUMENT ABOUT ONE PERSON HAVING
00:26:26.03\00:26:28.46
THEIR WAY OR ANOTHER PERSON
HAVING THEIR WAY, IF IT DOESN'T
00:26:28.46\00:26:30.80
MEAN SACRIFICING THE DOCTRINE,
GIVE PREFERENCE AND YOU'LL FIND
00:26:30.80\00:26:35.03
THAT IT BRINGS A LOT OF
UNITY WHEN YOU PUT OTHERS FIRST.
00:26:35.03\00:26:39.40
LET ME GIVE YOU ANOTHER VERSE -
AND THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL VERSE ON
00:26:39.40\00:26:42.46
UNITY - PSALM 133, VERSE 1.
I'M NOT SURE IF THIS ONE WAS
00:26:42.46\00:26:46.93
WRITTEN BY KING DAVID OR
NOT, "BEHOLD, HOW GOOD AND HOW
00:26:46.93\00:26:50.36
PLEASANT IT IS FOR BRETHREN
TO DWELL TOGETHER IN UNITY.
00:26:50.36\00:26:54.60
IT IS LIKE THE PRECIOUS OIL UPON
THE HEAD, RUNNING DOWN ON THE
00:26:54.60\00:26:58.26
BEARD, THE BEARD OF AARON,
RUNNING DOWN ON THE EDGE OF HIS
00:26:58.26\00:27:01.93
GARMENTS. IT IS
LIKE THE DEW OF HERMON,
00:27:01.93\00:27:04.40
DESCENDING UPON THE MOUNTAINS
OF ZION; FOR THERE THE LORD
00:27:04.40\00:27:07.56
COMMANDED THE
BLESSING - LIFE FOREVERMORE."
00:27:07.56\00:27:10.06
NOW WHAT DOES HE SAY
THAT THE UNITY IS LIKE?
00:27:10.06\00:27:13.26
VERSE 2, "IT IS LIKE THE
PRECIOUS OIL" - WHAT DOES OIL
00:27:13.26\00:27:17.73
SYMBOLIZE? HOLY
SPIRIT - "RUNNING DOWN ON
00:27:17.73\00:27:22.23
THE BEARD OF AARON." -
BEARD WAS THE PRIEST - THE
00:27:22.23\00:27:24.93
INTERCESSOR - "RUNNING DOWN ON
THE EDGE OF HIS GARMENTS...LIKE
00:27:24.93\00:27:29.33
THE DEW" - WHAT IS DEW
MADE OUT OF? WATER, RIGHT?
00:27:29.33\00:27:35.20
IT'S LIKE SHOWERS OF THE SPIRIT
AND THE OIL OF THE SPIRIT.
00:27:35.20\00:27:39.36
AND SO WHAT IS IT
THAT BRINGS THIS UNITY?
00:27:39.36\00:27:41.40
THESE ANALOGIES HERE - IT'S
THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT
00:27:41.40\00:27:45.26
UNITY WILL COME INTO THE CHURCH
GIVING US LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHER.
00:27:45.26\00:27:49.26
ALRIGHT JAN, I THINK YOU WERE
NEXT, YOU WERE GOING TO READ 1
00:27:49.26\00:27:52.40
JOHN 3 - IS IT 14 AND 15?
>>YES. "WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE
00:27:52.40\00:27:56.23
PASSED FROM DEATH TO LIFE;
BECAUSE WE LOVE THE BRETHREN.
00:27:56.23\00:28:00.70
HE WHO DOES NOT LOVE
HIS BROTHER ABIDES IN DEATH.
00:28:00.70\00:28:04.33
WHOEVER HATES HIS BROTHER IS
A MURDERER, AND YOU KNOW THAT NO
00:28:04.33\00:28:08.13
MURDERER HAS ETERNAL
LIFE ABIDING IN HIM."
00:28:08.13\00:28:13.16
>>NOW WE TALKED ABOUT THIS
BEFORE IN THAT THERE'S NOT ONLY
00:28:13.16\00:28:16.36
THE LETTER OF THE LAW, THERE'S
THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW AND WHILE
00:28:16.36\00:28:19.23
YOU MAY NOT LITERALLY COMMIT
ADULTERY, JESUS MADE IT CLEAR A
00:28:19.23\00:28:22.96
PERSON CAN COMMIT ADULTERY
IN THEIR HEART BY LOOKING AT THE
00:28:22.96\00:28:26.13
OPPOSITE SEX AND LUSTING.
AND YOU MAY NEVER THINK ABOUT
00:28:26.13\00:28:31.56
COMMITTING HOMICIDE, BUT A
PERSON CAN COMMIT MURDER BY
00:28:31.56\00:28:35.80
HATING HIS BROTHER IN HIS HEART.
JESUS SAID THAT - JOHN REPEATS
00:28:35.80\00:28:38.53
IT HERE. AND ONE OF
THE THINGS WE'VE GOT
00:28:38.53\00:28:41.36
TO HAVE IS LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHER
FOR US TO HAVE THE KIND OF UNITY
00:28:41.36\00:28:45.20
THAT JESUS PRAYED THAT
WE WOULD HAVE. HE GIVES US
00:28:45.20\00:28:49.63
SOME ANALOGIES IN THE BIBLE
TO HELP US UNDERSTAND UNITY
00:28:49.63\00:28:54.60
AND ONE OF THESE ANALOGIES,
HE COMPARES IT TO A BODY.
00:28:54.60\00:28:58.26
MATTER OF FACT, THERE'S SEVERAL
VERSES THAT TALK ABOUT THIS.
00:28:58.26\00:29:00.43
1 CORINTHIANS, 12, VERSE 12,
"FOR AS THE BODY IS ONE AND HAS
00:29:00.43\00:29:04.56
MANY MEMBERS, BUT ALL THE
MEMBERS OF THAT ONE BODY, BEING
00:29:04.56\00:29:07.80
MANY, ARE ONE
BODY, SO ALSO IS CHRIST.
00:29:07.80\00:29:11.16
FOR BY ONE SPIRIT WE WERE ALL
BAPTIZED INTO ONE BODY - WHETHER
00:29:11.16\00:29:15.76
JEWS OR GREEKS, WHETHER SLAVES
OR FREE - AND HAVE ALL BEEN MADE
00:29:15.76\00:29:20.00
TO DRINK INTO ONE SPIRIT.
FOR IN FACT THE BODY IS NOT ONE
00:29:20.00\00:29:23.60
MEMBER BUT MANY." YOU KNOW,
YEARS AGO, I GREW UP DURING THAT
00:29:23.60\00:29:28.43
GENERATION THAT YOU HAD
A STOMACHACHE, JUST TO PLAY
00:29:28.43\00:29:31.36
IT SAFE YOU HAVE
YOUR APPENDIX OUT.
00:29:31.36\00:29:34.23
MY BROTHER HAD HIS REMOVED AND
THAT WAS BACK IN THE DAYS WHEN
00:29:34.23\00:29:37.43
THEY SORT OF OPENED YOU
UP BOW TO STERN TO DO THAT.
00:29:37.43\00:29:41.20
AND IF YOU HAD A SORE THROAT
WELL, YOU MUST HAVE BAD TONSILS.
00:29:41.20\00:29:44.56
IF YOU HAVE TONSILLITIS
JUST YANK 'EM OUT. BECAUSE
00:29:44.56\00:29:47.43
'YOU KNOW, AFTER ALL THEY'RE
JUST SORT OF EVOLUTIONARY
00:29:47.43\00:29:49.80
VESTIGIAL REMNANTS OF SOMETHING
AND WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY DO
00:29:49.80\00:29:52.76
ANYMORE SO YOU
PROBABLY DON'T NEED 'EM.'
00:29:52.76\00:29:55.00
AND NOW THEY'VE COME TO DISCOVER
THERE IS ACTUALLY A PURPOSE FOR
00:29:55.00\00:29:59.43
THE TONSILS AND THE APPENDIX.
THEY'RE NOT JUST VESTIGIAL
00:29:59.43\00:30:03.43
REMNANTS AND SOME OF US MIGHT
THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE
00:30:03.43\00:30:07.70
SOME MEMBERS OF THE
CHURCH AND THEY'RE IMPORTANT.
00:30:07.70\00:30:10.13
THEY'RE THE BRAIN AND THE EYES
AND THE EARS AND THE MOUTH - AND
00:30:10.13\00:30:14.33
THE REST OF US ARE
JUST, SORT OF, THE TONSILS.
00:30:14.33\00:30:17.23
BUT THERE ARE NO TONSILS - WELL,
NO THERE MAY BE TONSILS BUT
00:30:17.23\00:30:21.90
THERE ARE NO VESTIGIAL
REMNANTS IN THE BODY OF CHRIST.
00:30:21.90\00:30:25.23
THERE'S A PURPOSE FOR EVERY
MEMBER AND IT'S IMPORTANT AND
00:30:25.23\00:30:29.66
GOD WANTS US ALL TO
USE OUR VARIOUS GIFTS.
00:30:29.66\00:30:33.00
SOME PEOPLE THINK, 'WELL, IF I'M
GOING TO BE A PART OF CHRIST'S
00:30:33.00\00:30:35.63
BODY I WANT TO BE THE
MOUTH AND DO ALL THE TALKING.'
00:30:35.63\00:30:38.36
OR, 'I WANT TO BE THE
EYES AND HAVE THE VISION.'
00:30:38.36\00:30:39.96
AND 'I WANT TO BE THE
EARS AND HAVE ALL THE HEARING.'
00:30:39.96\00:30:42.00
OR 'I WANT TO BE THE BRAIN AND
BE AT ALL THE BOARD MEETINGS.'
00:30:42.00\00:30:46.50
AND - PEOPLE - WHO
WANTS TO BE THE TOE?
00:30:46.50\00:30:50.36
ANYONE WANT TO BE THE TOE?
BUT IF YOU DON'T THINK A TOE'S
00:30:50.36\00:30:54.56
IMPORTANT JUST OFFER YOURS UP
AND FIND OUT. OR HIT IT WITH A
00:30:54.56\00:31:01.26
HAMMER AND SEE WHAT IT
DOES TO THE REST OF THE BODY.
00:31:01.26\00:31:04.43
SEE HOW IT SLOWS DOWN
THE MOVEMENT OF THE BODY.
00:31:04.43\00:31:08.13
IF YOU GET A BLISTER ON
YOUR FOOT - LITTLE THINGS.
00:31:08.13\00:31:13.66
YOU EVER GET AN
EYELASH IN YOUR EYE?
00:31:13.66\00:31:15.90
THE WORLD JUST HAS TO
STOP UNTIL YOU GET IT OUT.
00:31:15.90\00:31:19.60
AND SO EVERY MEMBER
OF THE BODY IS IMPORTANT.
00:31:19.60\00:31:23.80
THE PROBLEM IS SOMETIMES SOME
OF US DON'T KNOW WHAT WE ARE.
00:31:23.80\00:31:27.36
WE DON'T KNOW
WHAT OUR GIFTS ARE.
00:31:27.36\00:31:29.23
BUT HE'S GIVEN GIFTS TO
EVERYBODY FOR THE BODY AND SO
00:31:29.23\00:31:34.33
WE'RE SUPPOSED TO USE OUR GIFTS
IN THAT CAPACITY. SO THAT'S ONE
00:31:34.33\00:31:36.90
OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS
THAT GOD USES. BY THE WAY,
00:31:36.90\00:31:40.76
NOT ONLY ARE YOU A BODY -
IT TALKS ABOUT US BEING A MAN.
00:31:40.76\00:31:43.83
I JUST RAN INTO THIS ONE VERSE
THAT'S IN JUDGES 20, VERSE 1,
00:31:43.83\00:31:49.16
"SO ALL THE CHILDREN OF
ISRAEL CAME OUT, FROM DAN TO
00:31:49.16\00:31:52.03
BEERSHEBA," - THAT'S SAYING FROM
NORTH TO SOUTH - "AS WELL AS
00:31:52.03\00:31:55.36
FROM THE LAND OF GILEAD," -
THAT'S TO THE EAST - "AND THE
00:31:55.36\00:31:58.00
CONGREGATION GATHERED TOGETHER
AS ONE MAN BEFORE THE LORD AT
00:31:58.00\00:32:01.80
MIZPAH." THAT
MEANS THEY ALL CAME
00:32:01.80\00:32:04.00
TOGETHER WITH A COMMON PURPOSE.
IT WAS ACTUALLY TO COME TOGETHER
00:32:04.00\00:32:06.43
FOR BATTLE BUT THEY ALL CAME
TOGETHER WITH ONE HEART AND ONE
00:32:06.43\00:32:09.56
SOUL. THAT'S THE
WAY THE CHURCH SHOULD
00:32:09.56\00:32:11.36
FEEL, WE'VE ALL GOT A
COMMON BATTLE. WE NEED TO
00:32:11.36\00:32:13.40
COME TOGETHER AS ONE BODY
- AS ONE MAN - IN THIS FIGHT.
00:32:13.40\00:32:17.30
ANOTHER VERSE ON THAT, ROMANS
12, VERSE 4, "FOR AS WE HAVE
00:32:17.30\00:32:22.53
MANY MEMBERS IN ONE BODY, BUT
ALL THE MEMBERS DO NOT HAVE THE
00:32:22.53\00:32:25.76
SAME FUNCTION, SO WE, BEING
MANY, ARE ONE BODY IN CHRIST,
00:32:25.76\00:32:31.06
AND INDIVIDUALLY
MEMBERS OF ONE ANOTHER.
00:32:31.06\00:32:33.40
HAVING THEN GIFTS DIFFERING
ACCORDING TO THE GRACE THAT IS
00:32:33.40\00:32:35.93
GIVEN TO US, LET US USE THEM:
IF PROPHECY, LET US PROPHESY IN
00:32:35.93\00:32:41.13
PROPORTION TO OUR FAITH; OR
MINISTRY, LET US USE IT IN OUR
00:32:41.13\00:32:44.30
MINISTERING; HE WHO TEACHES,
IN TEACHING; HE WHO EXHORTS, IN
00:32:44.30\00:32:47.73
EXHORTATION; HE WHO GIVES, WITH
LIBERALITY; HE WHO LEADS, WITH
00:32:47.73\00:32:51.63
DILIGENCE; HE WHO SHOWS
MERCY, WITH CHEERFULNESS."
00:32:51.63\00:32:54.50
ALL DIFFERENT - AND, BY THE WAY,
THERE REALLY IS NO EXHAUSTIVE
00:32:54.50\00:32:59.33
LIST OF THE GIFTS OF
THE SPIRIT IN THE BIBLE.
00:32:59.33\00:33:03.13
SO WHEN YOU SAY, 'THIS
REPRESENTS ALL THE DIFFERENT
00:33:03.13\00:33:04.86
GIFTS' I DON'T THINK THERE'S
ANY ONE LIST THAT COVERS IT ALL.
00:33:04.86\00:33:08.00
I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF
DIFFERENT GIFTS THAT WE DON'T
00:33:08.00\00:33:11.46
THINK ABOUT. AND SO
YOU MIGHT SAY, 'WELL, MY
00:33:11.46\00:33:13.70
GIFT ISN'T REALLY LISTED.'
WELL, THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU
00:33:13.70\00:33:15.90
DON'T HAVE A GIFT.
WHAT ARE YOU GOOD AT?
00:33:15.90\00:33:19.26
WHAT HAS THE LORD BLESSED
YOU WITH? FIND AND PRAY ABOUT
00:33:19.26\00:33:21.73
HOW YOU UTILIZE THAT GIFT IN THE
CHURCH. YOU MIGHT HAVE VARYING
00:33:21.73\00:33:26.96
GIFTS OF CONSTRUCTION
OR SOME GIFTS OF ART.
00:33:26.96\00:33:32.43
THERE'S ALL KINDS OF DIFFERENT
GIFTS THAT GOD GIVES PEOPLE THAT
00:33:32.43\00:33:34.60
MAY NOT BE MENTIONED
IN THESE BIBLICAL LISTS.
00:33:34.60\00:33:36.93
PAUL WAS NOT TRYING
TO BE EXHAUSTIVE THERE.
00:33:36.93\00:33:42.83
ANOTHER EXAMPLE, NOW THIS IS
NOT IN YOUR LESSON BUT I THOUGHT
00:33:42.83\00:33:46.76
I MIGHT THROW IT IN.
THERE SEEMS TO BE AN ANALOGY TO
00:33:46.76\00:33:49.50
THE CHURCH THAT YOU CAN
FIND WITH A BOAT IN THE BIBLE.
00:33:49.50\00:33:53.63
SEE IF YOU DON'T AGREE.
00:33:53.63\00:33:54.90
1 PETER 3, VERSE 20 -
IT'S TALKING ABOUT DIFFERENT
00:33:54.90\00:33:57.23
ANALOGIES -
ILLUSTRATIONS - OF UNITY.
00:33:57.23\00:34:01.93
IT SAYS IN 1 PETER 3, VERSE 20,
"WHO FORMERLY WERE DISOBEDIENT,
00:34:01.93\00:34:06.16
WHEN ONCE THE DIVINE
LONGSUFFERING WAITED IN THE DAYS
00:34:06.16\00:34:08.53
OF NOAH, WHILE THE ARK WAS BEING
PREPARED," - WAS EVERYBODY SAVED
00:34:08.53\00:34:12.83
IN THE ARK IN NOAH'S DAY?
COULD YOU EVER SAY THERE WAS
00:34:12.83\00:34:16.93
ANYONE OUTSIDE THE
ARK THAT WAS SAVED?
00:34:16.93\00:34:19.46
ONLY THOSE IN
THE ARK WERE SAVED.
00:34:19.46\00:34:21.70
WAS IT DIFFICULT IN THE ARK AT
TIMES? BUT WERE THEY TOGETHER?
00:34:21.70\00:34:27.90
I SUPPOSE AFTER THE FIRST 20
DAYS WHEN THE WATER WAS STILL
00:34:27.90\00:34:31.50
COMING DOWN AND THE ANIMALS WERE
SEASICK AND MAYBE NOAH AND HIS
00:34:31.50\00:34:34.40
FAMILY WERE SEASICK AND ALL
THOSE ANIMALS AND ANYTHING THAT
00:34:34.40\00:34:38.63
WENT ALONG WITH HAVING
ALL THOSE ANIMALS TO CARE FOR.
00:34:38.63\00:34:41.06
NOT MANY WINDOWS IN THE
ARK - YOU REMEMBER THAT?
00:34:41.06\00:34:44.50
THAT MUST HAVE BEEN KIND
OF A NAUSEATING PLACE TO BE.
00:34:44.50\00:34:49.80
AND I BET THERE WERE TIMES WHEN
NOAH AND HIS FAMILY THOUGHT,
00:34:49.80\00:34:52.26
'I'M GETTING OUT OF HERE.
THEY DON'T APPRECIATE ME.'
00:34:52.26\00:34:56.86
THERE MIGHT HAVE
EVEN BEEN SOME ARGUMENTS.
00:34:56.86\00:34:59.46
'ALRIGHT, YOU FEED THE
ELEPHANTS. I FED THE ELEPHANTS
00:34:59.46\00:35:01.43
LAST TIME.' HE SAID, 'NO, I
CLEANED UP AFTER THE ELEPHANTS.
00:35:01.43\00:35:04.33
YOU FEED...' CAN YOU IMAGINE
SOME OF THE CONVERSATIONS?
00:35:04.33\00:35:08.00
BUT IS THERE ANY RECORD
THAT ANYONE IN THE BOAT JUMPED
00:35:08.00\00:35:10.30
OVERBOARD? AND AS
BAD AS IT WAS IN THE
00:35:10.30\00:35:14.46
BOAT, IT WAS WORSE OUTSIDE.
AND SOMETIMES PEOPLE LEAVE THE
00:35:14.46\00:35:18.73
CHURCH. YOU KNOW WHY?
00:35:18.73\00:35:20.43
BECAUSE THE ARGUING OR SOMETIMES
THEY SAY THERE'S HYPOCRITES OR
00:35:20.43\00:35:24.03
THINGS DON'T SMELL RIGHT.
00:35:24.03\00:35:28.70
IT PROBABLY DIDN'T SMELL
RIGHT IN THE ARK EITHER BUT THEY
00:35:28.70\00:35:31.83
NEEDED TO STAY TOGETHER BECAUSE
THAT WAS GOD'S VEHICLE OF
00:35:31.83\00:35:35.20
SALVATION AT THE TIME. THE
LORD ONLY HAS ONE VEHICLE OF
00:35:35.20\00:35:39.50
SALVATION IN THE WORLD
AND IT IS THE BODY OF CHRIST.
00:35:39.50\00:35:42.46
IT IS THE CHURCH.
AND AS ROUGH AS IT GETS
00:35:42.46\00:35:46.53
SOMETIMES, IF WE WOULD BE SAVED
WE MUST STAY IN THE BOAT, RIGHT?
00:35:46.53\00:35:51.70
OH, I DIDN'T FINISH
READING MY VERSE HERE - AS THE
00:35:51.70\00:35:56.80
LONGSUFFERING OF GOD "WAITED IN
THE DAYS OF NOAH, WHILE THE ARK
00:35:56.80\00:36:00.16
WAS BEING PREPARED, IN WHICH
A FEW, THAT IS, EIGHT SOULS,
00:36:00.16\00:36:03.13
WERE SAVED THROUGH WATER.
THERE IS ALSO AN ANTITYPE WHICH
00:36:03.13\00:36:06.63
NOW SAVES US - BAPTISM (NOT
THE REMOVAL OF THE FILTH OF THE
00:36:06.63\00:36:10.26
FLESH, BUT THE ANSWER OF A
GOOD CONSCIENCE TOWARD GOD),
00:36:10.26\00:36:12.96
THROUGH THE RESURRECTION OF
JESUS CHRIST, WHO HAS GONE INTO
00:36:12.96\00:36:15.20
HEAVEN AND IS AT
THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD,
00:36:15.20\00:36:17.66
ANGELS AND AUTHORITIES
AND POWERS HAVING BEEN MADE
00:36:17.66\00:36:20.00
SUBJECT TO HIM." LET
ME GIVE YOU ANOTHER BOAT
00:36:20.00\00:36:24.03
ANALOGY - NOW THIS IS A
STRETCH AND I'LL ADMIT IT.
00:36:24.03\00:36:27.03
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO SAY,
'PASTOR DOUG, HOW'D YOU GET
00:36:27.03\00:36:29.20
THAT?' THERE'S A
STORY IN ACTS - DO YOU
00:36:29.20\00:36:31.83
KNOW THE BOOK OF ACTS WHERE
IT TALKS ABOUT THE BIRTH OF THE
00:36:31.83\00:36:34.13
CHURCH ENDS TALKING ABOUT A
STORM AND A BOAT ON THE WATER?
00:36:34.13\00:36:40.30
QUITE A FEW STORIES
TALK ABOUT BOATS AND STORMS.
00:36:40.30\00:36:43.50
DOES JESUS HAVE AT LEAST
TWO STORMY BOAT EXPERIENCES?
00:36:43.50\00:36:46.93
ONE HE WALKS TO
THE BOAT, REMEMBER?
00:36:46.93\00:36:49.23
HE GETS IN AND THEY
FIND THEIR DESTINATION.
00:36:49.23\00:36:51.13
IN ANOTHER ONE HE'S SLEEPING IN
THE BOAT AND THEY NEED TO WAKE
00:36:51.13\00:36:52.80
HIM UP. DOES
JONAH HAVE A STORMY BOAT
00:36:52.80\00:36:55.70
EXPERIENCE WHERE
PEOPLE ARE SAVED?
00:36:55.70\00:36:58.46
AND THEN YOU'VE GOT THE BOOK OF
ACTS ENDS TELLING THE LAST FEW
00:36:58.46\00:37:03.86
CHAPTERS ABOUT THIS STORMY
JOURNEY AND JUST AS THEY'RE
00:37:03.86\00:37:07.93
NEARING THE SHORE OF MALTA -
LITTLE ISLAND I'VE BEEN TO OUT
00:37:07.93\00:37:11.16
IN THE MIDDLE OF
THE MEDITERRANEAN.
00:37:11.16\00:37:13.40
SOME OF THE SAILORS - THE BOAT
GETS - PART OF THE BOAT IS STUCK
00:37:13.40\00:37:17.50
IN THE SAND AND THE WAVES NOW
ARE BEATING THE BACK OF THE BOAT
00:37:17.50\00:37:21.40
AND THEY'RE AFRAID THAT THE BOAT
IS GOING TO JUST GET BROKEN TO
00:37:21.40\00:37:24.16
PIECES AND IT ULTIMATELY
DOES AND SOME OF THE SAILORS ARE
00:37:24.16\00:37:28.56
WANTING TO ABANDON SHIP EARLY
AND IT SAYS HERE - HERE IT IS -
00:37:28.56\00:37:34.16
ACTS 27, VERSE 30 - ACTS 27,
VERSE 30, "AND AS THE SAILORS
00:37:34.16\00:37:40.33
WERE SEEKING TO ESCAPE FROM THE
SHIP, WHEN THEY HAD LET DOWN THE
00:37:40.33\00:37:43.93
SKIFF" - THAT'S A LITTLE
LIFEBOAT THAT THEY KEEP ON THE
00:37:43.93\00:37:46.16
BOAT - "...UNDER PRETENSE
OF PUTTING OUT ANCHORS" - THEY
00:37:46.16\00:37:50.03
PRETENDED THEY WERE PUTTING OUT
ANCHORS AND THEY'RE HIDING FROM
00:37:50.03\00:37:51.86
THE SOLDIERS THAT ARE GUARDING
ALL THESE PRISONERS ON THE BOAT
00:37:51.86\00:37:54.30
- "...PAUL SAID TO THE CENTURION
AND THE SOLDIERS, 'UNLESS THESE
00:37:54.30\00:37:58.76
MEN STAY IN THE SHIP,
YOU CANNOT BE SAVED.'"
00:37:58.76\00:38:02.86
SO HE SAID 'UNLESS THEY STAY
WITH US, WE CANNOT BE SAVED.'
00:38:02.86\00:38:07.50
I THOUGHT THAT WAS AN
INTERESTING THING TO SAY - "SO
00:38:07.50\00:38:09.86
THE SOLDIERS CUT AWAY THE ROPES
OF THE SKIFF AND LET IT FALL
00:38:09.86\00:38:12.86
OFF." AND YOU KNOW WHAT
THE END OF THE STORY IS?
00:38:12.86\00:38:16.66
EVENTUALLY THE BOAT DID COME
APART AND EVERYBODY GOT TO SHORE
00:38:16.66\00:38:20.43
AND IT SAYS 'NOT
ONE MAN WAS LOST.'
00:38:20.43\00:38:22.80
BUT I THOUGHT
IT WAS INTERESTING.
00:38:22.80\00:38:24.80
PAUL INTERCEDED FOR EVERYBODY
ON THE BOAT - THAT THEY WOULD BE
00:38:24.80\00:38:27.23
SAVED - BUT HE SAID, 'UNLESS
WE STICK TOGETHER UNTIL THE END,
00:38:27.23\00:38:30.83
YOU CANNOT BE SAVED.' NOW
MAYBE I'M PULLING TOO MUCH
00:38:30.83\00:38:33.30
OUT OF THAT, BUT I THINK IT'S
IMPORTANT THAT, IF NOTHING ELSE,
00:38:33.30\00:38:35.90
THE POINT STILL IS TRUE THAT
THERE MAY COME A DAY WHEN GOD'S
00:38:35.90\00:38:42.40
CHURCH IS NO LONGER ABLE TO
FUNCTION AS AN ORGANIZATION IN A
00:38:42.40\00:38:46.26
WORLD THAT IS UNRAVELING.
DO WE ALL AGREE WITH THAT?
00:38:46.26\00:38:49.83
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU
CAN'T BUY OR SELL AND PEOPLE ARE
00:38:49.83\00:38:51.93
FLEEING TO THE HILLS AND
THE PLAGUES ARE FALLING OUT.
00:38:51.93\00:38:54.20
THE DAY IS GOING TO COME WHEN,
YOU KNOW, YOU'RE PROBABLY NOT
00:38:54.20\00:38:55.93
GOING TO HAVE BUSINESS CARDS
THAT YOU'RE HANDING OUT THAT
00:38:55.93\00:38:58.30
SAYS WHAT CHURCH YOU'RE PART OF
AND YOU WON'T HAVE THE ORGANIZED
00:38:58.30\00:39:03.16
STRUCTURE, PER SE, BUT AS LONG
AS POSSIBLE WE NEED TO STICK
00:39:03.16\00:39:08.03
TOGETHER. AND HERE'S
HOW I DRAW THE LINE -
00:39:08.03\00:39:11.73
WILL THERE EVER COME A DAY WHEN
YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO JUMP
00:39:11.73\00:39:13.96
SHIP? YEAH, WHEN IT
STARTS TO FALL APART.
00:39:13.96\00:39:18.03
WHEN IT FINALLY GOT WHERE YOU
JUST COULDN'T STAY IN IT BECAUSE
00:39:18.03\00:39:20.83
THE WAVES WERE BREAKING IT
APART, THAT'S WHEN THEY LEFT.
00:39:20.83\00:39:25.06
THERE MAY COME A DAY WHERE YOU
ARE NO LONGER ABLE TO PRACTICE
00:39:25.06\00:39:28.70
YOUR CONVICTIONS WITHIN
THE CHURCH - YOUR BIBLICAL
00:39:28.70\00:39:30.86
CONVICTIONS.
YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO.
00:39:30.86\00:39:33.10
NOW THERE ARE VARYING
BELIEFS FLOATING AROUND.
00:39:33.10\00:39:35.20
THERE'S SOME - AND I THINK
THERE'S APOSTASY IN THE CHURCH,
00:39:35.20\00:39:38.70
YOU HEAR WHAT I'M SAYING?
THERE IS APOSTASY IN THE CHURCH.
00:39:38.70\00:39:41.80
I WON'T GIVE YOU MY LIST -
I'VE GOT A LIST OF THINGS I WISH
00:39:41.80\00:39:44.16
THEY'D CHANGE. GOOD
NEWS IS I AM STILL FREE TO
00:39:44.16\00:39:47.86
PRACTICE MY
CONVICTIONS WITHIN THIS CHURCH.
00:39:47.86\00:39:50.53
YOU HEAR WHAT I'M
SAYING? SO I'M STAYING.
00:39:50.53\00:39:52.63
AS LONG AS I'M - I MEAN, LIKE
THIS - AS LONG AS I'M ALLOWED TO
00:39:52.63\00:39:56.06
FREELY AND PUBLICLY PROCLAIM
WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES WITHIN
00:39:56.06\00:39:59.80
THIS CHURCH, PRAISE THE LORD.
THERE ARE INDIVIDUALS AND THERE
00:39:59.80\00:40:03.10
ARE PRACTICES THAT
I THINK NEED REFORM.
00:40:03.10\00:40:06.40
BUT ISN'T THAT WHY
WE'RE STUDYING THIS LESSON?
00:40:06.40\00:40:08.60
REVIVAL AND REFORMATION.
THERE'S SOME THINGS I WISH THAT
00:40:08.60\00:40:11.33
WE WOULD REFORM AND SOME
AREAS WHERE WE NEED REVIVAL.
00:40:11.33\00:40:15.33
AS LONG AS YOU'RE ABLE TO
STILL PRACTICE AND PREACH YOUR
00:40:15.33\00:40:18.36
CONVICTIONS WITHIN THIS BODY, I
BELIEVE IT IS SPIRITUAL ISRAEL.
00:40:18.36\00:40:25.03
I'LL GIVE YOU A BIBLE EXAMPLE:
WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WENT
00:40:25.03\00:40:28.40
TO THE BORDERS OF THE PROMISED
LAND AND BECAUSE TEN OF THE
00:40:28.40\00:40:33.10
SPIES DID NOT HAVE FAITH -
REMEMBER, THEY SENT TWELVE SPIES
00:40:33.10\00:40:36.20
TO LOOK AT THE PROMISED LAND,
GETTING READY TO CROSS OVER -
00:40:36.20\00:40:40.03
WANTED TO FIND OUT WHAT IT LOOKS
LIKE - SPIES WANDERED FOR 40
00:40:40.03\00:40:42.70
DAYS - THEY CAME BACK AND TEN
OUT OF TWELVE GAVE A BAD REPORT
00:40:42.70\00:40:47.63
AND SO BECAUSE OF THAT - TWO
OF THEM HAD A FAITHFUL REPORT -
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JOSHUA AND CALEB, RIGHT?
THIS IS ALL NUMBERS CHAPTER 13
00:40:51.83\00:40:54.56
AND 14 - BUT BECAUSE OF THEIR
UNFAITHFULNESS AND BECAUSE THE
00:40:54.56\00:40:58.93
PEOPLE DIDN'T BELIEVE, GOD SAYS,
'ALRIGHT, BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T GET
00:40:58.93\00:41:01.50
IT RIGHT YOU'RE GOING
TO WANDER FOR 40 YEARS.'
00:41:01.50\00:41:04.70
SO GOD SAID TO JOSHUA AND CALEB,
'BUT BECAUSE YOU GUYS BELIEVED,
00:41:04.70\00:41:07.86
YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND
CROSS OVER ON YOUR OWN.
00:41:07.86\00:41:10.60
YOU CAN SEPARATE FROM THIS
FAITHLESS GROUP AND MOSES AND
00:41:10.60\00:41:14.23
AARON, THEY BELIEVED.' DID
GOD SAY THAT OR DID HE SAY,
00:41:14.23\00:41:17.20
'NO, YOU ALL HAVE TO
WANDER TOGETHER'? RIGHT?
00:41:17.20\00:41:21.46
WHEN ELIJAH BECAME DISCOURAGED
- THEY HAD THIS GREAT REVIVAL ON
00:41:21.46\00:41:25.00
MOUNT CARMEL AND THE FIRE OF
GOD CAME DOWN AND THEN LATER THE
00:41:25.00\00:41:27.83
RAIN CAME - WHEN
ELIJAH PRAYED SEVEN TIMES.
00:41:27.83\00:41:30.13
AND EVEN AFTER THIS GREAT
REVIVAL, JEZEBEL WAS STILL A
00:41:30.13\00:41:33.53
MEMBER OF THE CHURCH
- SHE WAS IN THE PALACE.
00:41:33.53\00:41:36.73
SHE SENT A MESSAGE TO ELIJAH AND
SAID, 'I'M GOING TO KILL YOU.'
00:41:36.73\00:41:39.36
ELIJAH SAID, 'THAT'S
ENOUGH! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
00:41:39.36\00:41:42.16
THESE PEOPLE ARE
CORRUPT. THEY'RE APOSTATE.
00:41:42.16\00:41:44.03
I'M OUT OF HERE.' HE
FLED, HE WENT THROUGH THE
00:41:44.03\00:41:46.43
WILDERNESS. GOD HAD PITY ON HIM.
00:41:46.43\00:41:49.33
EVEN THOUGH HE WAS GOING THE
WRONG WAY GOD SENT AN ANGEL TO
00:41:49.33\00:41:51.43
FEED HIM. HE GOT
TO MOUNT SINAI AND GOD
00:41:51.43\00:41:54.50
SAID, 'WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?
I DON'T REMEMBER SENDING YOU A
00:41:54.50\00:41:56.60
TEXT MESSAGE YOU WERE
SUPPOSED TO RUN TO MOUNT SINAI.'
00:41:56.60\00:41:59.66
HE SAID, 'OH LORD,
I'M THE ONLY ONE LEFT.
00:41:59.66\00:42:02.10
THEY'VE SLAIN THE PROPHETS AND
THEY DON'T BELIEVE AND I'M THE
00:42:02.10\00:42:04.30
ONLY ONE LEFT AND I LEFT.
I'M GETTING OUT OF THAT CHURCH.
00:42:04.30\00:42:07.46
THEY'RE JUST CORRUPT.
THEY'RE IN APOSTASY AND I'LL
00:42:07.46\00:42:10.86
JUST HAVE MY OWN CHURCH
- YOU AND ME, LORD, HERE AT
00:42:10.86\00:42:13.33
MOUNT SINAI.' AND
GOD SAID, 'WELL, FIRST OF
00:42:13.33\00:42:16.33
ALL, I HAVE 7,000 KNEES THAT
HAVEN'T BOWED TO BAAL THAT ARE
00:42:16.33\00:42:20.66
STILL BACK IN ISRAEL.
AND, YES, THERE IS A NEED FOR
00:42:20.66\00:42:23.63
REVIVAL AND REVIVAL HAD
STARTED AND YOU LEFT TOO SOON.
00:42:23.63\00:42:27.73
I'LL TAKE CARE OF JEZEBEL' - AND
HE DID, IF YOU KNOW THAT STORY.
00:42:27.73\00:42:31.16
IT DIDN'T END WELL FOR JEZEBEL.
THAT RHYMES. BUT GOD SAID,
00:42:31.16\00:42:39.10
'GET BACK IN THERE' AND HE
GAVE HIM SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS.
00:42:39.10\00:42:42.03
HE SAID, 'I WANT YOU TO ANOINT
ELISHA TO BE PROPHET IN YOUR
00:42:42.03\00:42:44.23
PLACE AND THERE'S GOING TO BE
A NEW KING OF SYRIA AND JEHU'S
00:42:44.23\00:42:47.23
GOING TO GET ANOINTED KING AND
HE'LL CLEAN HOUSE IN ISRAEL' -
00:42:47.23\00:42:49.53
AND HE TOLD HIM EXACTLY
WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN.
00:42:49.53\00:42:51.80
HE SAID, 'BUT WHAT
ARE YOU DOING HERE?'
00:42:51.80\00:42:54.20
AND A STILL SMALL VOICE TOLD HIM
THAT HE NEEDED TO TURN AROUND
00:42:54.20\00:42:57.50
AND GET BACK IN THERE. I
CAN SHOW YOU SEVERAL PLACES IN
00:42:57.50\00:43:00.56
THE BIBLE WHERE THERE WAS
APOSTASY AND GOD STILL SAID,
00:43:00.56\00:43:04.56
'UNTIL I TELL YOU
OTHERWISE, THESE ARE MY PEOPLE.'
00:43:04.56\00:43:08.26
YOU KNOW WHAT MADE
THE JEWS GOD'S PEOPLE?
00:43:08.26\00:43:11.26
PAUL TELLS US, 'UNTO THEM WAS
COMMITTED THE ORACLES OF GOD.
00:43:11.26\00:43:17.53
YOU REMEMBER WHEN THE SAMARITAN
WOMAN TRIED TO ARGUE WITH JESUS
00:43:17.53\00:43:19.90
AT THE WELL? YOU
KNOW, HE POINTED OUT HER SIN
00:43:19.90\00:43:23.06
AND SHE SAID, 'WELL,
LET'S CHANGE THE SUBJECT.
00:43:23.06\00:43:24.73
LET'S ARGUE THEOLOGY. WHAT
MOUNTAIN SHOULD WE WORSHIP ON?
00:43:24.73\00:43:28.40
SHOULD WE WORSHIP ON
MOUNT GERAZIM OR IN JERUSALEM?
00:43:28.40\00:43:31.70
YOU KNOW, SAMARITANS, WE
SAY IT'S MOUNT GERAZIM BECAUSE,
00:43:31.70\00:43:33.96
AFTER ALL, MOSES SAID THEY'RE
SUPPOSED TO GO UP MOUNT GERAZIM
00:43:33.96\00:43:36.33
AND PRONOUNCE THE BLESSING.
IT MUST BE MOUNT GERAZIM AND
00:43:36.33\00:43:40.36
JESUS SAID, 'LOOK,
SALVATION IS OF THE JEWS.'
00:43:40.36\00:43:44.60
THAT'S PRETTY CLEAR,
'SALVATION IS OF THE JEWS.'
00:43:44.60\00:43:47.50
WHEN WE STUDY THE BIBLE
YOU'RE READING A JEWISH BOOK.
00:43:47.50\00:43:49.36
'SALVATION IS OF THE JEWS.' WHY?
00:43:49.36\00:43:50.90
BECAUSE THEY NEVER MADE
ANY MISTAKES, THE LEADERS NEVER
00:43:50.90\00:43:53.20
DISOBEYED THEOLOGY, THEY NEVER
APOSTASIZED - NO, BECAUSE HE HAD
00:43:53.20\00:43:57.90
COMMITTED THE ORACLES OF
TRUTH TO THEM. THEY HAD THE WORD
00:43:57.90\00:44:01.03
OF GOD. THEY WERE THE
GUARDIANS OF THE WORD.
00:44:01.03\00:44:04.40
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS ARE GOD'S
PEOPLE IN THE LAST DAYS. WHY?
00:44:04.40\00:44:08.50
HE HAS COMMITTED TO US THE
ORACLES OF TRUTH - NOT ONLY IN
00:44:08.50\00:44:11.43
THE BIBLE, BUT HE'S GIVEN
US, ADDITIONALLY, THE SPIRIT OF
00:44:11.43\00:44:15.10
PROPHECY, WHICH I
BELIEVE IS INSPIRED.
00:44:15.10\00:44:17.96
AND, BY THE WAY, YOU
SHOW ME SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST
00:44:17.96\00:44:22.10
INSTITUTION, CHURCH, PASTOR,
PEOPLE THAT ARE DRIFTING INTO
00:44:22.10\00:44:26.56
APOSTASY AND I'LL SHOW YOU A
GROUP THAT'S NO LONGER READING
00:44:26.56\00:44:29.00
'SPIRIT OF PROPHECY'.
ALMOST WITHOUT EXCEPTION THAT'S
00:44:29.00\00:44:32.66
GOING TO BE A VERY
INTERESTING, PIVOTAL DIFFERENCE.
00:44:32.66\00:44:36.53
I DO BELIEVE THAT THERE WAS
SOMETHING SACRED THAT GOD GAVE
00:44:36.53\00:44:41.20
ELLEN WHITE - A MESSAGE FOR HIS
PEOPLE AND IT HELPS US MAINTAIN
00:44:41.20\00:44:45.63
A COHESIVENESS. AND
WHEN WE LOSE THAT, YOU JUST
00:44:45.63\00:44:49.33
WATCH - IT'S NOT VERY
LONG BEFORE THOSE PEOPLE END UP
00:44:49.33\00:44:52.60
GRAVITATING, THEY MIGRATE, THEY
EVOLVE INTO BEING - THEY'LL TURN
00:44:52.60\00:44:56.56
INTO A SEVENTH DAY PRESBYTERIAN
OR JOIN A FIRST DAY CHURCH
00:44:56.56\00:44:59.90
AFTER AWHILE. BUT AS
LONG AS WE KNOW WHAT THE
00:44:59.90\00:45:04.20
ORACLES OF TRUTH ARE, WE
REMAIN COHESIVE AS A PEOPLE.
00:45:04.20\00:45:08.16
THERE MAY BE APOSTASY IN THE
CAMP, BUT GOD WANTS US TO STICK
00:45:08.16\00:45:12.50
TOGETHER AND FIGHT
FOR REVIVAL, RIGHT?
00:45:12.50\00:45:15.56
THEY WERE TO SEEK FOR AND
FIGHT FOR REVIVAL AND THAT'S THE
00:45:15.56\00:45:17.73
MESSAGE ALL OF THE
PROPHETS WERE GIVEN CONTINUALLY.
00:45:17.73\00:45:21.40
AND, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE
PROPHETS EVEN NEEDED REVIVAL.
00:45:21.40\00:45:23.83
LOOK AT JONAH.
ALRIGHT, LET'S KEEP GOING.
00:45:23.83\00:45:26.80
I'VE JUST BEEN
PONTIFICATING HERE.
00:45:26.80\00:45:29.36
SOMEONE READ FOR ME - I'VE GOT
SOME VERSES I WANT YOU TO READ -
00:45:29.36\00:45:34.10
SOMEONE READ JOHN CHAPTER
15, VERSE 1 - WHO HAS THAT?
00:45:34.10\00:45:38.60
HOLD YOUR HAND UP -
RIGHT UP FRONT HERE.
00:45:38.60\00:45:40.76
AND WE TALKED ABOUT THE CHURCH
BEING LIKE A BOAT, IS THE CHURCH
00:45:40.76\00:45:46.70
SOMETIMES LIKE A BUILDING?
DO WE SEE UNITY IN THAT ANALOGY?
00:45:46.70\00:45:50.26
1 PETER 2, VERSES 4 AND 5,
"COMING TO HIM AS TO A LIVING
00:45:50.26\00:45:54.93
STONE, REJECTED INDEED BY MEN,
BUT CHOSEN BY GOD AND PRECIOUS,
00:45:54.93\00:45:59.13
YOU ALSO, AS LIVING STONES,
ARE BEING BUILT UP A SPIRITUAL
00:45:59.13\00:46:04.36
HOUSE," - A UNIFIED HOUSE WITH
THESE BRICKS INTERLOCKING - "A
00:46:04.36\00:46:08.66
HOLY PRIESTHOOD, TO OFFER UP
SPIRITUAL SACRIFICES ACCEPTABLE
00:46:08.66\00:46:12.53
TO GOD THROUGH JESUS CHRIST."
SO WE'RE ONE IN THAT WE'RE LIKE
00:46:12.53\00:46:16.90
A BODY AND WE'RE ONE IN LIKE A
BOAT AND WE'RE ONE IN THAT WE'RE
00:46:16.90\00:46:20.16
LIKE A BUILDING AND HERE'S
ANOTHER ONE - WE'RE READY.
00:46:20.16\00:46:23.16
GO AHEAD, MIKE. >>JOHN
15, VERSES 1 AND 2, "I AM
00:46:23.16\00:46:27.76
THE TRUE VINE, AND MY
FATHER IS THE VINEDRESSER.
00:46:27.76\00:46:31.60
EVERY BRANCH IN ME THAT DOES NOT
BEAR FRUIT HE TAKES AWAY; AND
00:46:31.60\00:46:36.93
EVERY BRANCH THAT BEARS FRUIT
HE PRUNES, THAT IT MAY BEAR MORE
00:46:36.93\00:46:41.66
FRUIT." >>SO HERE
YOU HAVE ONE BRANCH,
00:46:41.66\00:46:45.50
MANY DIFFERENT VINES GOING OFF
OF IT AND MANY CLUSTERS GOING
00:46:45.50\00:46:48.70
OFF OF IT BUT ALL THE SAP IS
COMING THROUGH THAT ONE BRANCH.
00:46:48.70\00:46:52.26
SO CHRIST IS THE VINE THROUGH
WHICH ALL THE BRANCHES COME AND
00:46:52.26\00:46:57.03
AS SOON AS YOU CUT OFF A GRAFT -
A LITTLE BRANCH OFF A GRAPEVINE,
00:46:57.03\00:47:05.76
HOW LONG IS IT GOING TO LAST?
IT MIGHT LAST A LITTLE WHILE IF
00:47:05.76\00:47:08.96
YOU KEEP IT IN WATER AND YOU
TRY AND GRAFT IT BACK IN, BUT IT
00:47:08.96\00:47:11.36
WON'T LAST LONG
IF IT'S SEPARATED.
00:47:11.36\00:47:13.40
HOW LONG DOES A FINGER LAST
IF IT'S SEPARATED FROM THE BODY?
00:47:13.40\00:47:18.80
YOU KNOW THEY'RE DOING MORE
AND MORE AND GETTING BETTER AND
00:47:18.80\00:47:20.80
BETTER AT REATTACHING LIMBS
THAT ARE ACCIDENTALLY AMPUTATED.
00:47:20.80\00:47:24.86
YOU KNOW, IT USED TO BE IF YOU
CUT OFF YOUR FINGER AND YOU PUT
00:47:24.86\00:47:26.90
IT BACK ON QUICK ENOUGH AND
IT'LL GROW BACK AND IT MIGHT BE
00:47:26.90\00:47:29.36
NUMB BUT YOU STILL GOT IT
THERE AND IT'LL STILL WORK -
00:47:29.36\00:47:32.83
IT'LL BE ALIVE. BUT
NOW THEY'RE GETTING WHERE
00:47:32.83\00:47:34.63
ONE MAN, I HEARD, HE LOST HIS
WHOLE HAND - A LOT OF NERVES -
00:47:34.63\00:47:37.83
AND THEY REATTACHED HIS HAND AND
THEY GOT MOST OF THE MAIN NERVES
00:47:37.83\00:47:40.86
CONNECTED AND HE'S ABLE TO MOVE
HIS HAND AGAIN. THAT'S PRETTY
00:47:40.86\00:47:43.40
REMARKABLE WHEN YOU HEAR
ABOUT SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
00:47:43.40\00:47:46.76
BUT HOW LONG WILL THAT HAND
LAST SEPARATED FROM THE BODY?
00:47:46.76\00:47:50.80
HOW LONG DO WE LAST WHEN
WE SEPARATE FROM THE BODY?
00:47:50.80\00:47:54.83
AFTER PETER WAS LIBERATED FROM
PRISON, WHAT'S THE FIRST THING
00:47:54.83\00:48:01.03
HE DID? WHERE DID HE GO?
00:48:01.03\00:48:03.83
HE WENT RIGHT AWAY TO THE HOUSE
- THIS IS ACTS CHAPTER 12 - HE
00:48:03.83\00:48:06.90
WENT TO THE HOUSE WHERE
THE CHURCH WAS GATHERED.
00:48:06.90\00:48:08.73
AS SOON AS HE WAS SAVED FROM
PRISON HE WENT TO WHERE THEY
00:48:08.73\00:48:11.26
WERE GATHERED. DO WE
NEED TO STAY TOGETHER?
00:48:11.26\00:48:14.73
YOU KNOW, PART OF BEING
ONE IS GATHERING IN ONE PLACE.
00:48:14.73\00:48:20.10
IF YOU WANT TO BE PART OF ONE
CHURCH - WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT
00:48:20.10\00:48:22.96
WAS POURED OUT WHAT DOES IT SAY
THERE IN THE BEGINNING OF ACTS?
00:48:22.96\00:48:28.20
'THEY WERE ALL GATHERED
IN ONE PLACE OF ONE ACCORD.'
00:48:28.20\00:48:31.96
BUT NOTICE, NOT ONLY ONE ACCORD,
THE HOLY SPIRIT - ONE PLACE.
00:48:31.96\00:48:36.33
JESUS SAID IN MATTHEW 18,
"WHERE TWO OR THREE ARE GATHERED
00:48:36.33\00:48:40.33
TOGETHER IN MY NAME, I AM
THERE IN THE MIDST OF THEM."
00:48:40.33\00:48:43.80
1 CORINTHIANS 5:4, "IN THE NAME
OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHEN
00:48:43.80\00:48:47.60
YOU ARE GATHERED TOGETHER," -
DO WE NEED TO GATHER TOGETHER?
00:48:47.60\00:48:51.43
YOU KNOW, ONE THING I'VE
OBSERVED IS THAT SOMETIMES THERE
00:48:51.43\00:48:56.40
ARE MEMBERS WHO, FOR WHATEVER
REASON, THEY SAY, 'YOU KNOW, I
00:48:56.40\00:48:58.90
DON'T GO TO CHURCH ANYMORE.
I DON'T GET ANYTHING OUT OF IT.
00:48:58.90\00:49:01.60
I'M GOING TO - I STILL
BELIEVE! I STILL BELIEVE.
00:49:01.60\00:49:03.83
I'M GOING TO READ MY BIBLE.
I'LL EVEN DO MY SABBATH SCHOOL
00:49:03.83\00:49:05.86
LESSON BUT, YOU KNOW, I DON'T
GET ALONG WITH SOMEONE THERE' OR
00:49:05.86\00:49:09.50
'IT'S TOO FAR TO DRIVE' OR 'I'M
TOO TIRED AT THE END OF THE WEEK
00:49:09.50\00:49:12.20
SO I'M GOING TO
DO CHURCH ALONE.'
00:49:12.20\00:49:14.50
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD ANYONE
SAY THAT? 'GOD UNDERSTANDS.
00:49:14.50\00:49:18.03
I CAN KEEP THE
SABBATH JUST ME AND THE LORD.'
00:49:18.03\00:49:21.00
NOW, IF YOU HAVE NO
OTHER ALTERNATIVE, YOU CAN.
00:49:21.00\00:49:24.83
BUT IF YOU'RE ABLE TO GATHER
TOGETHER AND YOU DON'T, YOU'RE
00:49:24.83\00:49:27.26
MAKING A MISTAKE BECAUSE THOSE
PEOPLE END UP BECOMING ECCENTRIC
00:49:27.26\00:49:32.60
SOMEHOW. YOU KNOW
WHAT I MEAN BY ECCENTRIC?
00:49:32.60\00:49:35.86
THEIR BELIEFS START TO GET
A LITTLE BIT ODD AND HAVE YOU
00:49:35.86\00:49:42.13
TALKED TO PEOPLE SOMETIMES
WHERE THEY'RE JUST WORSHIPING BY
00:49:42.13\00:49:44.70
THEMSELVES AND ALL OF A SUDDEN
THEY'RE COMING UP WITH SOME
00:49:44.70\00:49:46.50
REALLY ZANY IDEAS? YOU
NEED OTHER PEOPLE TO KIND OF
00:49:46.50\00:49:51.16
SAND OFF THE ROUGH
EDGES AND SPLINTERS.
00:49:51.16\00:49:54.16
WE NEED EACH OTHER TO DEVELOP
BALANCE BECAUSE WHEN YOU'RE JUST
00:49:54.16\00:49:58.96
KIND OF IN YOUR OWN LITTLE ORBIT
OUT THERE ALL THE TIME AND YOU
00:49:58.96\00:50:02.76
THINK THAT WHATEVER YOU DREAM
LAST NIGHT IS YOUR NEW THEOLOGY,
00:50:02.76\00:50:05.50
YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE, DEPENDING
ON WHAT YOU'RE EATING AND HOW
00:50:05.50\00:50:07.46
YOU'RE DREAMING, YOU'RE GOING
TO HAVE ALL KINDS OF CRAZY IDEAS
00:50:07.46\00:50:09.96
AND THOSE PEOPLE
JUST GET ECCENTRIC.
00:50:09.96\00:50:12.83
AND YOU NEED TO HAVE
ACCOUNTABILITY ABOUT WHAT YOU
00:50:12.83\00:50:15.63
BELIEVE AND BOUNCE YOUR IDEAS
- I KNOW I'VE COME UP WITH SOME
00:50:15.63\00:50:18.50
REALLY - I THOUGHT THEY WERE
VERY CREATIVE IDEAS AND I GOT
00:50:18.50\00:50:20.56
TOGETHER IN A SMALL GROUP AND
STARTED TO SHARE AND THEY ALL
00:50:20.56\00:50:22.70
LOOKED AT EACH OTHER AND LOOKED
AT ME AND THEN, 'DOUG, YOU'RE
00:50:22.70\00:50:27.16
GETTING OUT THERE.' AND
I WENT, 'OH YEAH, I GUESS
00:50:27.16\00:50:30.23
YOU'RE RIGHT.' YOU KNOW?
00:50:30.23\00:50:31.40
AND I NEEDED OTHER
PEOPLE TO TELL ME THAT.
00:50:31.40\00:50:33.70
AND IT HELPS US HAVE BALANCE
IN OUR BELIEFS. GATHER TOGETHER.
00:50:33.70\00:50:38.46
SIX DAYS' WORK SHALL BE DONE BUT
THE SEVENTH IS THE SABBATH OF
00:50:38.46\00:50:42.13
REST. IT IS A HOLY CONVOCATION.
00:50:42.13\00:50:45.36
YOU EVER GONE TO A CONVENTION?
IT'S A HOLY ASSEMBLY.
00:50:45.36\00:50:49.50
THE SABBATH IS NOT JUST A DAY
TO REST, IT'S A DAY TO CONVENE.
00:50:49.50\00:50:54.33
WE ARE TO COME
TOGETHER AND WORSHIP HIM.
00:50:54.33\00:50:55.96
HEBREWS 10 AND VERSES 24 AND 25,
"AND LET US CONSIDER ONE ANOTHER
00:50:55.96\00:51:00.80
IN ORDER TO STIR UP LOVE AND
GOOD WORKS, NOT FORSAKING THE
00:51:00.80\00:51:04.40
ASSEMBLING OF OURSELVES TOGETHER
AS IS THE MANNER OF SOME," -
00:51:04.40\00:51:07.86
THEY HAD THAT PROBLEM
EVEN BACK IN PAUL'S DAY.
00:51:07.86\00:51:10.06
SOME ARE JUST STAYING HOME.
00:51:10.06\00:51:12.16
"NOT FORSAKING THE ASSEMBLING
OF OURSELVES TOGETHER" - BY THE
00:51:12.16\00:51:16.76
WAY, WHEN JESUS COMES, DO YOU
KNOW HOW WE'RE GOING TO HEAVEN?
00:51:16.76\00:51:19.76
WE'LL BE CAUGHT UP
TOGETHER WITH HIM IN THE CLOUDS.
00:51:19.76\00:51:23.00
SO IF YOU WANT TO BE CAUGHT
UP TOGETHER, YOU NEED TO START
00:51:23.00\00:51:25.33
GETTING TOGETHER NOW
OR YOU MAY BE LEFT BEHIND.
00:51:25.33\00:51:29.70
AND THERE'S A WHOLE
SERIES OF BOOKS ABOUT THAT.
00:51:29.70\00:51:33.53
NOT THAT KIND OF LEFT BEHIND -
"NOT FORSAKING THE ASSEMBLING OF
00:51:33.53\00:51:37.70
OURSELVES TOGETHER AS THE MANNER
OF SOME IS" - NOTICE - "BUT
00:51:37.70\00:51:40.66
EXHORTING ONE ANOTHER," - THAT'S
WHAT I'M DOING NOW, TRYING TO
00:51:40.66\00:51:43.16
EXHORT YOU - "AND SO MUCH
THE MORE AS YOU SEE THE DAY
00:51:43.16\00:51:46.83
APPROACHING." - WHAT DAY IS
HE TALKING ABOUT? THE DAY OF THE
00:51:46.83\00:51:49.80
LORD. NOW PAUL SAID, 'AS
YOU SEE THE DAY APPROACHING
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2,000 YEARS AGO, DO WE
SEE THE DAY APPROACHING NOW?
00:51:52.73\00:51:57.00
LET ME READ ANOTHER VERSE FOR
YOU, ACTS 1, VERSE 8, "BUT YOU
00:51:57.00\00:52:00.56
SHALL RECEIVE POWER WHEN THE
HOLY SPIRIT HAS COME UPON YOU;
00:52:00.56\00:52:03.53
AND YOU SHALL BE WITNESSES TO ME
IN JERUSALEM, AND IN ALL JUDEA
00:52:03.53\00:52:08.10
AND SAMARIA, AND TO
THE END OF THE EARTH."
00:52:08.10\00:52:11.66
AND SO GOD SAYS THAT PART OF THE
WAY THAT WE WITNESS - YOU NOTICE
00:52:11.66\00:52:15.40
HE SAYS, 'YOU COLLECTIVELY
ARE TO BE MY WITNESSES.
00:52:15.40\00:52:18.73
WE'RE TO BE SHARING TOGETHER AND
GETTING THE MESSAGE OUT THERE.
00:52:18.73\00:52:22.30
AND THEN IT SAYS - ACTS 5, VERSE
42 - "AND DAILY IN THE TEMPLE,
00:52:22.30\00:52:26.23
AND IN EVERY HOUSE, THEY DID NOT
CEASE TEACHING AND PREACHING" -
00:52:26.23\00:52:30.10
SEE THE UNITY HERE?
THEY'RE GOING FROM HOUSE TO
00:52:30.10\00:52:32.23
HOUSE - THEY BROKE THEIR
BREAD AND ATE WITH GLADNESS.
00:52:32.23\00:52:37.13
ACTS 4:32 - NOTICE - "ONE HEART
AND ONE SOUL;" - AND THEN NOTICE
00:52:37.13\00:52:44.03
- "AND WITH GREAT POWER
THE APOSTLES GAVE WITNESS."
00:52:44.03\00:52:46.56
DO YOU THINK THERE'S A
CONNECTION BETWEEN THEIR ONE
00:52:46.56\00:52:48.56
HEART, THEIR ONE SOUL AND THE
GREAT WITNESS WITH GREAT POWER?
00:52:48.56\00:52:53.03
AND SO, AS WE HAVE THIS
UNITY AND WE'RE COLLECTIVE AND
00:52:53.03\00:52:58.20
TOGETHER, THAT'S WHERE
WE'VE GOT THE GREATEST POWER.
00:52:58.20\00:53:01.46
NOW, DO WE NEED TO BE ORGANIZED?
YOU NOTICE IN ACTS CHAPTER 6,
00:53:01.46\00:53:07.06
VERSE 2 PETER
GATHERS THEM TOGETHER.
00:53:07.06\00:53:10.26
HE SAID, 'YOU KNOW,
IT'S NOT APPROPRIATE.
00:53:10.26\00:53:11.76
IT'S NOT MEET THAT WE LEAVE THE
WORD OF GOD AND SERVE TABLES AND
00:53:11.76\00:53:15.73
EVERYBODY CAN'T DO EVERYTHING.'
THEY HAD TO DELEGATE DIFFERENT
00:53:15.73\00:53:19.20
JOBS FOR DIFFERENT PEOPLE.
THEY PICKED FOLKS AND CERTAIN
00:53:19.20\00:53:24.46
ONES WERE SELECTED. YOU
KNOW I'VE JUST COME THIS
00:53:24.46\00:53:28.86
WEEK FROM SPENDING THREE
DAYS BACK IN MARYLAND WITH OTHER
00:53:28.86\00:53:33.50
LEADERS OF THE CHURCH
DISCUSSING, IN PARTICULAR, WE'RE
00:53:33.50\00:53:36.56
TALKING ABOUT THE THEOLOGY OF
ORDINATION - I THINK MANY OF YOU
00:53:36.56\00:53:39.63
KNOW THERE'S A COMMITTEE WORKING
ON THIS NOW FOR TWO YEARS - FOR
00:53:39.63\00:53:43.00
THE NEXT TWO YEARS - WE'VE HAD
SOME MEETINGS - BUT IT'S REALLY
00:53:43.00\00:53:46.06
BEEN EDIFYING BECAUSE IT'S
FORCED US INTO A VERY DEEP BIBLE
00:53:46.06\00:53:49.06
STUDY IN 'HOW WAS THE
EARLY CHURCH ORGANIZED?'
00:53:49.06\00:53:52.90
BECAUSE WE WANT OUR CHURCH TO
FOLLOW THE BIBLE PATTERN, RIGHT?
00:53:52.90\00:53:56.73
AND IT'S VERY CLEAR THAT - YOU
REMEMBER THE STORY OF MOSES IN
00:53:56.73\00:53:59.60
THE OLD TESTAMENT - HE'S TRYING
TO HANDLE IT ALL BY HIMSELF AND
00:53:59.60\00:54:02.70
HIS FATHER-IN-LAW SAID, 'WHAT
IN THE WORLD ARE YOU DOING?
00:54:02.70\00:54:05.33
YOU'RE GOING TO WEAR YOURSELF
OUT SITTING DOWN JUDGING THESE
00:54:05.33\00:54:07.60
PEOPLE ALL DAY LONG. YOU NEED
TO GET SOME HELP. YOU NEED TO
00:54:07.60\00:54:09.96
DELEGATE. YOU NEED TO ORGANIZE.'
AND HE DIVIDED IT UP WHERE THEY
00:54:09.96\00:54:13.96
WERE CAPTAINS OF THOUSANDS AND
CAPTAINS OF HUNDREDS AND FIFTIES
00:54:13.96\00:54:17.90
AND TENS AND THEY DEVELOPED
AN ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM.
00:54:17.90\00:54:22.13
SAME THING FOR THE APOSTLES,
THEY - FIRST THE APOSTLES WERE
00:54:22.13\00:54:25.33
TRYING TO DO IT ALL AND THEY
SAID, 'LET'S GET SOME DEACONS.'
00:54:25.33\00:54:27.40
AND THEN THE DEACONS GOT BUSY
PREACHING AND TEACHING AND THEY
00:54:27.40\00:54:29.83
SAID, 'YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO HAVE
ELDERS IN EVERY CHURCH AND THEN
00:54:29.83\00:54:33.10
THEY COULD APPOINT DEACONS TO
DO SOME OF THE OTHER, YOU KNOW,
00:54:33.10\00:54:36.10
SERVICE-ORIENTED THINGS -
AND DEACONNESSES THAT WERE DOING
00:54:36.10\00:54:39.40
THOSE THINGS AND SO
WE'VE GOT TO GET ORGANIZED.'
00:54:39.40\00:54:42.63
AND I LOVE - I SHOULDN'T SAY 'I
LOVE' - IT JUST MAKES ME LAUGH
00:54:42.63\00:54:47.56
WHEN I HEAR PEOPLE SAY, 'WELL,
PASTOR DOUG, I'M SPIRITUAL BUT
00:54:47.56\00:54:52.43
I'M NOT RELIGIOUS.' AND
'I BELIEVE IN CHRIST AND THE
00:54:52.43\00:54:57.36
BIBLE BUT I DON'T
BELIEVE IN ANY ORGANIZATION.
00:54:57.36\00:55:01.10
I'M NOT PART OF ANY RELIGIOUS
ORGANIZATION' - AS THOUGH THAT'S
00:55:01.10\00:55:03.66
A DIRTY WORD. 'AN
ORGANIZATION IS BAD.'
00:55:03.66\00:55:06.96
IT'S LIKE BIG GOVERNMENT -
YOUR ONLY ALTERNATIVE, IF YOU
00:55:06.96\00:55:10.10
ARE NOT PART OF AN ORGANIZATION
IS YOU ARE PART OF A
00:55:10.10\00:55:13.40
DISORGANIZATION. THAT'S IT.
00:55:13.40\00:55:17.16
YOU ARE EITHER PART OF GOD'S
ORGANIZED WORK IN REACHING THE
00:55:17.16\00:55:20.23
WORLD OR YOU'RE JUST SORT OF OUT
THERE AS, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE KIND
00:55:20.23\00:55:23.63
OF AN INDEPENDENT RAMBO OR
SOMEONE JUST OUT THERE ON YOUR
00:55:23.63\00:55:30.63
OWN TRYING TO DO
IT ALL BY YOURSELF.
00:55:30.63\00:55:33.66
YOU'RE A LOT MORE EFFECTIVE
WHEN WE WORK AS AN ARMY.
00:55:33.66\00:55:36.43
YOU KNOW, SAMPSON DID IT
ALL BY HIMSELF - AND HE HAD
00:55:36.43\00:55:39.93
EXTRAORDINARY GIFTS. BUT
HOW DID IT END FOR SAMPSON?
00:55:39.93\00:55:43.00
HE WOULD HAVE ACCOMPLISHED A LOT
MORE IF HAD WORKED WITH GOD'S
00:55:43.00\00:55:46.33
PEOPLE AND HIS PARTICULAR GIFTS,
BUT HE JUST KEPT GOING ON HIS
00:55:46.33\00:55:48.90
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00:55:48.90\00:55:52.66
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WE'LL STUDY TOGETHER NEXT WEEK.
00:56:11.50\00:56:17.96
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