Participants: Pr. Mike Thompson
Series Code: CSH
Program Code: CSH021335
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00:46 >>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH 00:49 HERE IN SACRAMENTO,CALIFORNIA. WE'RE SO GLAD THAT YOU ARE 00:53 TUNING IN AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO OPENING UP GOD'S WORD AND 00:57 STUDYING TOGETHER TODAY. OF COURSE, BEFORE WE DO THAT, 01:00 OUR EXTENDED FAMILY AROUND THE WORLD - WHETHER YOU'RE LISTENING 01:04 ON RADIO, WATCHING LIVE ON OUR WEBSITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' 01:07 OR ON THE VARIOUS TELEVISION NETWORKS - MANY OF YOU HAVE SENT 01:10 IN SONG REQUESTS, SO WE ALWAYS START OUR PROGRAM SINGING 01:13 YOUR FAVORITES. TODAY WE'RE GOING TO BE SINGING 01:16 'WHAT HEAVENLY MUSIC'. I LOVE THIS SONG. 01:19 EVER SINCE - WELL, I WAS A TEENAGER, I THINK, WHEN I FOUND 01:23 THIS SONG. IT HAS BEAUTIFUL HARMONY SO 01:26 EVERYBODY HERE, IF YOU HEAR THE HARMONY IN YOUR HEAD, OR YOU CAN 01:29 READ THE MUSIC - THOSE OF YOU AT HOME - I WANT TO HEAR 01:32 A FULL CHOIR THIS MORNING. AND THERE'S ENOUGH OF YOU TO 01:34 HEAR ALL FOUR PARTS. LET'S SING TOGETHER 01:37 'WHAT HEAVENLY MUSIC' - #452 - AND WE HAD A LOT OF REQUESTS 01:42 FOR THIS SO I'M JUST GOING PICK A FEW OF YOU. 01:45 LOVELYN, NATHAN, AND JOE IN AUSTRALIA, DIAMOND IN HAWAII, 01:48 BEATRICE IN THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA, ARLENE, DARYL, AND RHYZA 01:51 IN SOUTH KOREA AND FAYE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, AND MANY MORE 01:55 OF YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SENDING IN 01:57 YOUR REQUESTS. AND WE'RE GOING TO SING ALL 01:59 THREE STANZAS - 'WHAT HEAVENLY MUSIC'. 02:01 (MUSIC) 03:57 >>WHAT HEAVENLY MUSIC. I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THE DAY 04:01 WHEN WE CAN TRULY HEAR HEAVENLY MUSIC. 04:06 IF YOU HAVE A FAVORITE SONG THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SING WITH US 04:08 ON AN UPCOMING PROGRAM, IT'S VERY SIMPLE. 04:11 YOU JUST GO ON THE COMPUTER, GO TO 'SACCENTRAL.ORG', CLICK ON 04:15 THE 'CONTACT US' LINK AND YOU CAN SEND IN YOUR FAVORITE HYMN 04:19 AND WE'LL DO OUR BEST TO SING THAT FOR YOU AS SOON AS 04:21 POSSIBLE. AND, HEY, DON'T FORGET - IT'S 04:23 NOT TOO SOON TO START SENDING IN YOUR CHRISTMAS REQUESTS, LIKE 04:27 SILENT NIGHT - BECAUSE WE WILL ACTUALLY BE SINGING THOSE SOONER 04:30 THAN WE REALIZE. IT'S COMING UP PRETTY QUICKLY. 04:33 OUR NEXT SONG - 'GOD BE WITH YOU' TILL WE MEET AGAIN IS #65 04:41 AND THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL SONG. AS WE'RE WORKING OUR WAY THROUGH 04:45 THE HYMNAL IT'S PROBABLY NOT ONE OF THE REALLY NEW ONES TO MOST 04:50 OF YOU BECAUSE I THINK IT HAS BEEN SUNG FOR A VERY LONG TIME 04:55 AND MORE ON A REGULAR BASIS, BUT IT IS A BEAUTIFUL SONG AND IT IS 04:58 THE NEXT ONE AS WE'RE WORKING OUR WAY THROUGH THE HYMNAL. 05:01 'GOD BE WITH YOU' TILL WE MEET AGAIN. 05:04 YOU KNOW, BEING A MISSIONARY - IN THIS DAY AND AGE WE HAVE 05:09 SHORT-TERM MISSION TRIPS SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO GIVE UP YOUR HOME 05:14 AND YOUR FRIENDS TO GO AND BE A MISSIONARY FOR A COUPLE OF 05:17 WEEKS. AND IT'S GREAT BECAUSE IT'S - 05:20 IT'S A GOOD WAKE-UP CALL FOR WHEN YOU COME BACK TO YOUR HOME 05:24 THAT YOU REALIZE HOW BLESSED YOU REALLY ARE AND HOW MUCH YOU 05:28 CAN DO EVEN IN YOUR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD. 05:31 BUT LET'S SAY - FIFTY YEARS AGO - A HUNDRED YEARS AGO - TO BE A 05:34 MISSIONARY, THEY WERE SENDING MISSIONARIES AROUND THE WORLD ON 05:38 BOATS AND WHEN YOU WENT TO BE A MISSIONARY IT WASN'T FOR A 05:43 COUPLE OF WEEKS. YOU DEDICATED YOUR LIFE TO THIS 05:47 AND YOU DIDN'T HAVE THE ASSURANCE THAT IT WAS JUST A 05:49 COUPLE WEEKS. YOU MAY NEVER COME BACK. 05:52 YOU MAY BE GIVING YOUR LIFE GOING OFF TO AN UNREACHED 05:57 CONTINENT - COUNTRY. IT WAS A SACRIFICE. 06:02 IT WAS TAKEN VERY SERIOUSLY AND WE HAVE A LOT TO LEARN FROM 06:06 THOSE THAT HAVE GONE BEFORE US - IN THE DEDICATION THAT THEY HAVE 06:11 AND BEING WILLING TO GIVE EVERYTHING. 06:13 AND THIS IS ONE OF THOSE SONGS THAT I'M SURE WAS SUNG MANY 06:19 TIMES - AS FAREWELLS WERE SAID, AS PEOPLE WERE LEAVING FOR WHO 06:25 KNOWS? 'GOD BE WITH YOU' TILL WE MEET 06:28 AGAIN - BEAUTIFUL SONG. WE'RE GOING TO SING THE FIRST, 06:29 SECOND AND FOURTH STANZAS. IT'S A REQUEST FROM ANNA MARIE 06:33 IN ARIZONA, HYLDA IN CANADA, LEO AND DOROTHY IN MICHIGAN, HOWARD 06:38 AND DIANE IN MISSISSIPPI, AND PASTOR JORGE, SUE ELLEN, JOSH 06:42 AND SARAH IN NORTH CAROLINA. FIRST, SECOND AND FOURTH 06:45 STANZAS. (MUSIC) 09:39 >>BEAUTIFUL. 09:40 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SENDING IN YOUR REQUESTS. 09:44 AT THIS TIME LET'S BOW OUR HEADS FOR PRAYER. 09:48 FATHER IN HEAVEN, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR GIVING US THE 09:53 OPPORTUNITY TO BE HERE TODAY, TO WORSHIP YOU, AND FOR THE 09:59 INSPIRATION OF THOSE THAT HAVE GIVEN EVERYTHING TO SERVE YOU - 10:06 THAT HAVE LEFT THEIR HOMES, THEIR FRIENDS, THEIR COUNTRIES - 10:12 AND HAVE GONE AROUND THE WORLD TO SPREAD YOUR LOVE. 10:16 AND I PRAY THAT THEIR SACRIFICES WILL NOT HAVE BEEN IN VAIN. 10:21 AND WE KNOW THAT THE WORK THAT MANY STARTED HUNDREDS OF YEARS 10:26 AGO - FIFTY YEARS AGO - HAVE BORNE A HUGE FRUIT ALREADY AND I 10:34 JUST PRAY THAT YOU WOULD CONTINUE TO BLESS THEIR EFFORTS 10:36 AND HOW THEY'VE TOUCHED OUR LIVES AND MAY WE ALWAYS BE 10:39 WILLING TO GO WHERE YOU WOULD LIKE US AND YOU'VE ASKED US 10:43 TO GO. BE WITH US AS WE OPEN UP YOUR 10:46 WORD AND WE STUDY TOGETHER. I PRAY THAT YOU'LL BE WITH OUR 10:48 SPEAKER AND EACH PERSON THAT CAN HEAR MY VOICE. 10:51 IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. AT THIS TIME OUR LESSON STUDY IS 10:57 GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR MIKE THOMPSON. 11:00 HE IS OUR HEALTH AND VISITATION PASTOR HERE AT CENTRAL CHURCH. 11:06 >>THANK YOU VERY MUCH DEBBIE AND THE CHORISTERS THIS MORNING. 11:09 HAPPY SABBATH EVERYBODY. IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU ALL. 11:14 WE HAVE A SPECIAL OFFER WHICH I WILL DO FIRST. 11:18 I SHOULDN'T SAY 'DO' BUT I WILL OFFER TO YOU FIRST. 11:21 IT'S ON THE SCREEN THERE. OUR FREE OFFER IS 'DETERMINING 11:25 THE WILL OF GOD' AND THIS IS OFFER #778. 11:32 IF YOU CALL THE NUMBER 866-788-3966 THEN AMAZING FACTS 11:40 WILL SEND IT TO YOU FREE. SO IT'S 'DETERMINING THE WILL OF 11:43 GOD' AND IT'S WRITTEN BY OUR OWN DEAR PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR. 11:48 IN THIS BOOK, PASTOR DOUG DEALS WITH SOME OF THE PRINCIPLES THAT 11:52 GOD USES AND THE PRINCIPLES THAT WE NEED TO KNOW AND EMPLOY BY 11:56 FAITH TO ASK GOD TO GUIDE US IN OUR LIVES BECAUSE THERE'S LIKE A 12:01 WEATHER VANE HERE AND THE WIND CAN BLOW IN ANY DIRECTION. 12:05 BUT WE'RE NOT TO BE CHRISTIANS LIKE WEATHER VANES, ARE WE? 12:08 WE'RE SUPPOSED TO GO WHERE GOD SAYS AND IF THE WIND BLOWS THAT 12:11 WAY WE GO THIS WAY. SO THIS'LL BE A VERY VALUABLE 12:15 BOOK FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO WANT TO UNDERSTAND MORE ABOUT 12:18 DETERMINING THE WILL OF GOD. SO 1-866-788-3966 OR 12:25 1-866-STUDY-MORE. OKAY, WE'RE ON LESSON #9 12:32 THIS WEEK, PURSUING OUR THEME ON 'REVIVAL AND REFORMATION' AND 12:39 THIS WEEK IT'S CALLED 'REFORMATION: THE OUTGROWTH OF 12:43 REVIVAL'. I'D LIKE TO READ THE FIRST 12:46 PARAGRAPH AS IT READS HERE IN THE LESSON. 12:49 IT TELLS US - THIS IS ON SABBATH'S PAGE - SABBATH 12:53 AFTERNOON. "REVIVAL IS AN ONGOING PROCESS. 12:58 DAILY OUR LORD INVITES US INTO THE JOY OF HIS PRESENCE. 13:03 JUST AS ISRAEL WAS NOURISHED BY THE MANNA THAT FELL FROM HEAVEN, 13:07 JESUS SPREADS OUT A SPIRITUAL BANQUET FOR US EVERYDAY. 13:13 OUR SOULS ARE NOURISHED, OUR SPIRITS REFRESHED, AND OUR 13:17 HEARTS REVIVED AS WE KNEEL QUIETLY BEFORE HIS THRONE, 13:21 MEDITATING UPON HIS WORD. TRUE SPIRITUAL RENEWAL LEADS TO 13:27 A CHANGE IN OUR THOUGHT PATTERNS, HABITS AND LIFESTYLE." 13:33 IT'S WHAT WE CALL A REFORMATION AND REFORMATION COMES FROM THE 13:39 TERM, AS YOU KNOW, REFORM. GOD CHANGES YOUR SHAPE, 13:43 SPIRITUALLY - CHANGES THE CHARACTER AND SO FORTH. 13:48 BUT I'D LIKE TO TAKE A LITTLE BIT OF LICENSE TODAY, IF YOU 13:52 DON'T MIND, AND I'M SURE YOU DON'T MIND BUT THE AUTHOR OF 13:54 THIS LESSON MIGHT MIND. THEY ARE EXCELLENT LESSONS, BUT 13:57 I'D LIKE TO TAKE A LITTLE BIT OF LICENSE AND CHANGE THE TITLE 14:01 FROM 'REFORMATION: THE OUTGROWTH OF REVIVAL' TO 'REFORMATION: THE 14:06 OUTGROWTH OF THE NEW BIRTH' OR 'REFORMATION: THE OUTGROWTH OF 14:11 CONVERSION' BECAUSE THAT'S REALLY WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT 14:14 TODAY, IN FACT, ALL THE WAY THROUGH THESE LESSONS. 14:18 BECAUSE AS REVIVAL NEEDS TO TAKE PLACE EVERY DAY IN OUR LIVES, 14:24 CONVERSION NEEDS TO TAKE PLACE. WE'RE ACTUALLY DEALING WITH 14:26 SYNONYMOUS THINGS AS IT SO HAPPENS, I BELIEVE. 14:30 AND SO, WE HAVE TO HAVE CONVERSION FIRST BEFORE WE CAN 14:34 HAVE A REFORMATION. WOULD YOU AGREE WITH THAT? 14:38 OTHERWISE, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? ARE YOU PICKING UP A GOOD OLD 14:42 MALLET AND THE SHARPEST CHISEL YOU CAN FIND AND YOU'VE GOT TO 14:45 FASHION OUT A NEW HEART FROM A LUMP OF ROCK OR GRANITE THAT'S 14:49 INSIDE - NOT LITERALLY INSIDE YOUR CHEST, BUT WE SPEAK OF 14:52 THE HUMAN HEART. IT'S LIKE A ROCK. 14:55 BUT, YOU KNOW, THAT'S HOW PEOPLE TRY TO REFORM THEMSELVES. 14:58 THEY PICK UP, AS IT WERE, THIS HAMMER AND THIS CHISEL AND THEY 15:00 START CHISELING AWAY AND, BOY, IT'S HARD WORK. 15:04 IT'S NOT VERY JOYFUL WORK AND IT'S A WORK THAT'S NEVER 15:07 COMPLETED. IT'S A PATH TO FAILURE. 15:13 SO, TO MOVE ON HERE, I'M ALSO GOING TO GO TO THE LESSON AND 15:18 READ SOMETHING AGAIN JUST TO GET US STARTED. 15:21 I'M ACTUALLY GOING TO THURSDAY'S SECTION BECAUSE - NO FRIDAY - 15:28 FRIDAY'S SECTION BECAUSE THERE IS A STATEMENT HERE AT THE TOP 15:32 OF THE PAGE THAT I WANT TO READ WHICH, AGAIN, I KNOW IT'S KIND 15:35 OF REINFORCING IT. I'M REPEATING SOME THINGS HERE, 15:39 BUT I LIKE THE WAY IT'S PUT HERE. 15:41 THIS IS FROM THE 'ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD' 15:44 FEBRUARY 25, 1902. THE WRITER SAYS, "A REVIVAL AND 15:51 REFORMATION MUST TAKE PLACE UNDER THE MINISTRATION OF 15:54 THE HOLY SPIRIT. REVIVAL AND REFORMATION ARE TWO 15:57 DIFFERENT THINGS. REVIVAL SIGNIFIES A RENEWAL OF 16:01 SPIRITUAL LIFE" - IT'S A NEW BIRTH, RIGHT? - 16:05 "A REVIVAL OF SPIRITUAL LIFE, A QUICKENING OF THE POWERS OF 16:09 MIND AND HEART, A RESURRECTION FROM SPIRITUAL DEATH. 16:14 REFORMATION SIGNIFIES A REORGANIZATION, A CHANGE IN 16:17 IDEAS AND THEORIES, HABITS, AND PRACTICES." 16:21 - THIS IS WHAT WE CALL SANCTIFICATION. 16:25 WHERE WAS I? - "REFORMATION WILL NOT BRING 16:29 FORTH THE GOOD FRUIT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS UNLESS IT IS 16:32 CONNECTED WITH THE REVIVAL OF THE SPIRIT." - 16:35 REVIVAL COMES FIRST, NEW BIRTH, THEN REFORMATION. - 16:38 "REVIVAL AND REFORMATION ARE TO DO THEIR APPOINTED WORK AND 16:41 IN DOING THIS WORK THEY MUST BLEND." 16:43 THEY MUST, INDEED, BLEND TOGETHER. 16:47 OKAY, SO LET'S - I WANT TO START IN SUNDAY AND I JUST HAVE TO 16:52 ADMIT WE WON'T GET TO THE END OF THE LESSON SO I READ THAT LITTLE 16:55 BIT FIRST SO I CAN SAY I READ SOMETHING OFF THE LAST PAGE. 16:59 WE WON'T - IT'S JUST SO RICH - IT'S JUST SO FULL. 17:02 IT SAYS, AGAIN, 'THE PROPHETS' - SUNDAY'S SECTION - 'THE PROPHETS 17:05 APPEAL FOR REFORMATION'. AND, AGAIN, I WANT TO TAKE SOME 17:10 LICENSE HERE, IF I MAY. THESE ARE WONDERFUL LESSONS BUT 17:13 I JUST WANT TO JUGGLE SOME THINGS AROUND. 17:15 I WANT TO CHANGE THIS TITLE AS WELL - SUNDAY'S SECTION - NOT 17:20 FROM THE PROPHET'S APPEAL FOR REFORMATION BUT THE KING'S 17:23 APPEAL FOR REFORMATION - SPECIFICALLY KING JEHOSHAPHAT. 17:30 BUT YOU GET DOWN LINE IN A FEW MOMENTS, WE'LL SEE THAT 17:33 JEHOSHAPHAT AND THE SUBJECTS OF HIS KINGDOM WERE FACED WITH THIS 17:37 GREAT CHALLENGE. THERE WAS AN INVASION PENDING 17:40 FROM THE AMMONITES AND MOABITES. BUT LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENED 17:45 FIRST IN CHAPTER 19. I WANT TO GO TO 2 CHRONICLES 17:50 CHAPTER 19, AND I WOULD LIKE SOMEBODY TO PLEASE READ - 17:56 WHERE ARE WE? - VERSE 4. 18:00 2 CHRONICLES 19 AND VERSE 4, YES PLEASE. 18:09 AND MICHAEL, I CAN HEAR YOU TALKING HERE SO YOU'RE UP. 18:13 >>2 CHRONICLES 19, VERSE 4, "SO JEHOSHAPHAT DWELT AT JERUSALEM; 18:18 AND HE WENT OUT AGAIN AMONG THE PEOPLE FROM BEERSHEBA TO THE 18:26 MOUNTAINS OF EPHRAIM, AND BROUGHT THEM BACK TO THE LORD 18:30 GOD OF THEIR FATHERS." >>YEAH. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 18:34 SO THIS IS IN THE SAME YEAR. THE EVENTS OF CHAPTER 19 ARE IN 18:38 THE SAME YEAR AS THE EVENTS OF CHAPTER 20. 18:42 YOU SEE HERE, JEHOSHAPHAT, HE WASN'T PERFECT. 18:44 GOD GIVES HIM A LITTLE BIT OF A DRESSING DOWN AT THE BEGINNING 18:47 OF THE CHAPTER, BUT NONETHELESS, HE WAS COMPARED TO A LOT WHO 18:50 HAVE BEEN BEFORE AND AFTER. HE WAS A GOOD KING. 18:54 AND HE HAD A BURDEN ON HIS HEART TO SEE A REVIVAL AND REFORMATION 18:58 IN HIS KINGDOM. AND SO, THIS IS ACTUALLY WHAT HE 19:02 AIMED FOR AND BY THE GRACE OF GOD THIS IS WHAT HE DID. 19:04 IT SAID, 'HE BROUGHT THEM BACK UNTO THE LORD GOD OF THEIR 19:10 FATHERS.' AND VERSE 9 HE TELLS THEM, 19:16 "WHEREFORE NOW LET THE FEAR OF THE LORD BE UPON YOU; TAKE HEED 19:22 AND DO IT." - 19:23 SO HE BRINGS THEM BACK FIRST - "FOR THERE IS NO INIQUITY" - 19:28 SORRY - YEAH - "FOR THERE IS NO INIQUITY WITH THE LORD OUR GOD, 19:30 NO RESPECT TO PERSONS, NOR TAKING OF GIFTS." 19:33 THAT WAS VERSE 7. NOW VERSE 9, "AND HE CHARGED 19:36 THEM SAYING, THUS SHALL YE DO IN THE FEAR OF THE LORD FAITHFULLY 19:40 AND WITH A PERFECT HEART." SO WE WOULD ASSUME GOD BLESSED 19:49 HIS EFFORTS AND HE BROUGHT THE PEOPLE BACK TO THE LORD AND THEY 19:52 FOLLOWED GOD NOT OUT OF MECHANICAL LEGALISM BUT WITH 19:56 A PERFECT HEART. THEY SOUGHT GOD WITH ALL THEIR 19:59 HEARTS AND THAT'S HOW IT HAS TO BE. YOU DON'T SHOW GOD THAT 20:03 YOU'RE SEEKING HIM BY SO MUCH DOING THINGS. 20:08 OF COURSE, THERE'S A PLACE FOR DOING THINGS, BUT GOD IS NOT 20:13 FOOLED BY PERFORMANCE - OUTWARD PERFORMANCE, GOD LOOKS RIGHT AT 20:16 THE HEART AND HE CAN SEE EXACTLY WHAT'S GOING ON INSIDE. 20:19 AND SO, WE NEED TO FOLLOW HIM AND SEEK HIM WITH A PERFECT 20:23 HEART IF WE EVER WANT REVIVAL AND REFORMATION. 20:27 AND THIS IS WHAT JEHOSHAPHAT WAS GETTING THE PEOPLE TO DO. 20:33 ANYWAY, AS WE KNOW - AS WE GO INTO THE BEGINNING OF CHAPTER 20:36 20, VERSE 1 IT SAYS, "IT CAME TO PASS AFTER THIS ALSO, THAT THE 20:41 CHILDREN OF MOAB, AND THE CHILDREN OF AMMON, AND WITH THEM 20:44 OTHER BESIDE" - SO THEY HAD SOME FRIENDS - "THE AMMONITES, CAME 20:48 AGAINST JEHOSHAPHAT TO BATTLE. THEN THERE CAME SOME THAT TOLD 20:52 JEHOSHAPHAT SAYING, 'THERE COMETH A GREAT MULTITUDE AGAINST 20:56 THEE FROM BEYOND THE SEA ON THIS SIDE SYRIA;" - AND THEY SAID, 20:59 'YOU KNOW, WE'RE JUST REALLY IN A PICKLE. 21:02 WHAT ARE WE GOING - WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?' 21:06 WELL, JEHOSHAPHAT CALLED THE PEOPLE TOGETHER. 21:10 IT'S A BASIC THING TO DO. 21:13 HE TAUGHT THEM PREVIOUSLY HOW TO SEEK THE LORD WITH A PERFECT 21:16 HEART AND HE SAYS, 'WE NEED TO SEEK GOD AGAIN WITH A PERFECT 21:22 HEART.' AND THAT IS WHAT THEY DID. 21:27 AND IN VERSE 5 OF 2 CHRONICLES 20 IT SAYS, "AND JEHOSHAPHAT 21:36 STOOD IN THE CONGREGATION OF JUDAH AND JERUSALEM, IN THE 21:40 HOUSE OF THE LORD, BEFORE THE NEW COURT, AND SAID, 'O LORD GOD 21:46 OF OUR FATHERS, ART NOT THOU GOD IN HEAVEN? 21:51 AND RULEST NOT THOU OVER ALL THE KINGDOMS OF THE HEATHEN? 21:55 AND IN THINE HAND IS THERE NOT POWER AND MIGHT, SO THAT NONE IS 21:59 ABLE TO WITHSTAND THEE? "I'D LOVE TO HAVE BEEN THERE, 22:04 WOULDN'T YOU?' THEN HE CONTINUES IN VERSE 7, 22:07 "ART NOT THOU OUR GOD, WHO DIDST DRIVE OUT THE INHABITANTS 22:11 OF THIS LAND BEFORE THY PEOPLE ISRAEL, AND GAVEST IT TO THE 22:15 SEED OF ABRAHAM THY FRIEND FOR EVER?' 22:18 AND THEY DWELT THEREIN, AND HAVE BUILT THEE A SANCTUARY THEREIN 22:21 FOR THY NAME, SAYING," - AND THEN IN VERSE 9, IT'S 22:25 INTERESTING, WE NOTICE HERE THAT JEHOSHAPHAT ACTUALLY REFERS BACK 22:31 TO THE DEDICATORY PRAYER OF SOLOMON WHEN SOLOMON PRAYED THAT 22:36 GOD WOULD ACCEPT THIS BUILDING THAT HAD BEEN BUILT IN HONOR OF 22:41 HIS NAME THE DAY THAT THE TEMPLE WAS DEDICATED. 22:44 AND IF YOU LOOK IN VERSE 9, THIS IS WHAT JEHOSHAPHAT SAID AND HE 22:50 WAS ECHOING THE WORDS OF SOLOMON: "IF, WHEN EVIL COMETH 22:55 UPON US, AS THE SWORD, JUDGMENT, OR PESTILENCE, OR FAMINE, WE 23:01 STAND BEFORE THIS HOUSE, AND IN THY PRESENCE, (FOR THY NAME IS 23:06 IN THIS HOUSE,) AND CRY UNTO THEE IN OUR AFFLICTION," - 23:10 WHATEVER THE CAUSE OF THAT AFFLICTION - EVEN ENEMIES. 23:13 AND IT MENTIONS THAT IN CHRONICLES CHAPTER 6. 23:16 IT SAYS, "THEN THOU WILT HEAR AND HELP." 23:21 SO HE PRAYED THIS PRAYER AND, AGAIN, IF YOU WANT TO GO, YOU 23:26 CAN SEE THAT, ACTUALLY IN 1 KINGS CHAPTER 8 WHERE SOLOMON 23:30 PRAYED THIS VERY SAME THING AND IN 2 CHRONICLES 6. 23:36 SO HE PRAYED THIS PRAYER AND IT SAYS, "AND ALL JUDAH" - VERSE 13 23:40 IN 2 CHRONICLES 20 - "AND ALL JUDAH STOOD BEFORE THE LORD WITH 23:44 THEIR LITTLE ONES, THEIR WIVES, AND THEIR CHILDREN." 23:50 THERE THEY WERE, THEY WERE VASTLY OUTNUMBERED. 23:53 THEY WEREN'T A PERFECT PEOPLE, BUT THEY HAD SET THEIR HEARTS TO 23:58 SERVE HIM. AND NOW THEY WERE UP AGAINST A 24:02 RUTHLESS ENEMY AND THEY CAME BEFORE THE LORD WITH THEIR 24:06 LITTLE CHILDREN - LITTLE KIDS - THEY'RE JUST STANDING THERE 24:10 HELPLESS. WHEN I READ THIS I KIND OF 24:13 PICTURED MYSELF COMING INTO HERE WITH MY LITTLE GRANDSONS, JUST 24:18 THEM AND ME AND PRAYING TO THE LORD BECAUSE SOMETHING IS GOING 24:22 TO HAPPEN TO US AND YOU STAND THERE FEELING SO HELPLESS AND 24:25 YOU LOOK AT YOUR LITTLE ONE - YOU LOOK AT THEIR LITTLE CURLY 24:26 HEADS AND YOU THINK, 'THEY'RE LOOKING TO ME TO PROTECT THEM. 24:29 IF THEY ONLY KNEW I'M JUST AS MUCH A LITTLE CHILD AS THEY 24:32 ARE.' AND IT'S IN THOSE MOMENTS - AS 24:36 YOU GET OLDER YOU SEE IT MORE CLEARLY - AT LEAST I DO - YOU'RE 24:38 JUST A CHILD AND YOU CRY OUT TO GOD, 'LORD HELP US!' 24:43 AND THE PROMISE WAS - AND I MENTIONED THIS IN MY PREVIOUS 24:47 SERMON THE OTHER WEEK - JEREMIAH 29 - HE SAYS, 'WHEN YOU CALL 24:53 UPON ME I WILL HARKEN UNTO YOU.' AND GOD HARKENED UNTO THEM AND 25:00 HE HEARD THEIR PRAYER. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? 25:02 AND THIS IS THE POINT THAT WE MUST NOT MISS. I'D LIKE TO BUT 25:08 I DON'T HAVE TIME, BUT IF YOU GO BACK TO THE DEDICATORY PRAYER OF 25:11 SOLOMON WHEN THE TEMPLE WAS DEDICATED AND FINALLY THAT GLORY 25:15 OF GOD CAME DOWN AND FILLED THE SANCTUARY, YOU'LL FIND THERE 25:18 WERE INSTANCES IN THERE WHERE SOLOMON CLEARLY SPELLED OUT A 25:22 CERTAIN PRECONDITION THAT THE PEOPLE HAD TO COMPLY WITH IF 25:27 THEY WERE TO RECEIVE GOD'S BLESSING AND HIS PROTECTION. 25:30 AND THAT PRECONDITION WAS - AND YOU'LL FIND IT - THAT THEY TURN 25:34 AWAY FROM THEIR SINS - THAT THEY SEEK FORGIVENESS FOR THEIR SINS. 25:39 AND JEHOSHAPHAT KNEW THIS AND SOLOMON KNEW THIS, INITIALLY. 25:43 FINALLY HE CAME BACK AGAIN TO HIS SENSES. 25:46 BUT JEHOSHAPHAT OBVIOUSLY KNEW THAT HE AND HIS PEOPLE AND THEIR 25:51 LITTLE ONES COULD NOT STAND THERE BEFORE GOD AND CLAIM THE 25:55 FULFILLMENT OF SOLOMON'S REQUEST AND NOW, MAKING IT THEIR OWN 25:59 REQUEST AND ASKING GOD TO DELIVER THEM FROM THEIR ENEMIES, 26:04 IF THEY'D NOT FIRST COME WITH A PERFECT HEART. 26:08 IF THEY HAD NOT, AS IT SAYS IN CHAPTER 19, VERSE 4, COME BACK 26:14 TO GOD. IF THEY HADN'T DONE THAT AND 26:17 THEY'D COME WITH SIN STILL DELIBERATELY BEING COMMITTED IN 26:20 THEIR LIVES WITH NO DESIRE TO REPENT, THIS PRAYER, BEAUTIFUL 26:24 AS IT WAS AND MEANINGFUL AND HEART TOUCHING AS IT WAS TO SEE 26:27 THEM STANDING WITH THEIR LITTLE CHILDREN, WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN 26:30 AN ACT OF FAITH BUT AN ACT OF PRESUMPTION. 26:34 AND WE MUST NOT MISS THIS POINT, MY FRIENDS, THAT WE'RE ALSO 26:41 ENGAGED IN A WARFARE. YOU DON'T NEED ME TO TELL THAT. 26:46 THERE ARE ENEMIES WITHOUT AND THE GREATEST ENEMY THAT I HAVE - 26:50 I'LL SPEAK FOR MYSELF - IS WITHIN. 26:53 IT'S MY OWN FALLEN FLESH. MY OWN SINFUL HEART. 27:01 THAT'S WORTH TEN THOUSAND OF THE WORST RUFFIANS AND VAGABONDS AND 27:06 THROAT CUTTERS YOU CAN FIND OUT THERE IS MY OWN HEART. 27:10 AND YOU AS WELL. DON'T TAKE OFFENSE AT THAT, 27:13 IT'S JUST A FACT. IF WE EVER WANT TO HAVE A REAL 27:19 REVIVAL AND A REAL REFORMATION THAT ONLY HAPPENS ONCE AND NEVER 27:25 HAS TO HAPPEN EVERY WEEK OR EVERY YEAR AT A WEEK OF PRAYER. 27:30 I MEAN THE REAL THING - THE REAL DEAL THAT HAPPENS ONCE AND 27:32 TAKES US RIGHT THROUGH TO THE COMING OF CHRIST, WE HAVE GOT TO 27:38 FOLLOW THESE PRINCIPLES OF SERIOUSLY SEEKING GOD WITH ALL 27:43 OUR HEARTS, ASKING HIM TO GIVE US THE GRACE TO REPENT, PUT OUR 27:47 SINS ASIDE, AND HAVE HIM REFORM US, AND THEN WE SHALL SEE THINGS 27:54 HAPPEN. WHETHER IT IS THE VANQUISHING OF 27:57 LITERAL ENEMIES, THE VANQUISHING OF SIN FROM OUR OWN HEARTS, AND 28:04 THE PREPARATION OF OUR HEARTS TO RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT AND 28:07 LATTER RAIN POWER AND SEE. YOU WATCH THIS MESSAGE GO LIKE 28:13 FIRE IN THE STUBBLE AROUND THE WORLD. 28:16 GIVEN BY PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT THEOLOGIANS - THERE'LL BE SOME - 28:20 PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT SCHOLARS, PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT STUDIED, 28:24 PEOPLE WHO DON'T EVEN HAVE GEDS. IF YOU HAVEN'T GOT ONE, GET IT, 28:29 IT'S USEFUL IN THIS WORLD. BUT PEOPLE, JUST ORDINARY PEOPLE 28:33 GOD WILL CALL FROM THE PLOW, HE WILL ANOINT THEM WITH THE SPIRIT 28:36 BECAUSE THEIR HEARTS ARE PERFECT TOWARDS HIM AND HE WILL USE THEM 28:40 TO DO A WORK WHICH WILL MAKE THE ANGELS AND THE UNFALLEN UNIVERSE 28:43 MARVEL AT WHAT THE GRACE OF GOD CAN ACCOMPLISH IN HUMAN BEINGS 28:49 WHEN THEY FALL BEFORE HIM AND SAY, 'LORD, HERE WE ARE. 28:52 I'M ALL YOURS. IT'S ABOUT TIME. 28:56 DO WHAT YOU NEED TO DO.' IF WE WANT - THE THING IN THIS 29:02 STORY ABOUT JEHOSHAPHAT IS, AS THEY PRAYED THIS PRAYER, THERE 29:08 WAS A MESSAGE CAME - A MESSAGE OF HOPE AND ENCOURAGEMENT 29:11 THROUGH WHO? THROUGH CERTAIN MEN WHO HAD 29:14 RECEIVED THE GIFT OF THE HOLY PROPHETS. 29:15 THEY WERE GIVEN THE GIFT OF PROPHECY AND YOU SEE THEM LISTED 29:19 THERE IN - CAN'T FIND IT - I THINK IT'S 2 CHRONICLES 20, 29:25 VERSE - OH YOU'LL FIND IT. I CAN'T FIND IT RIGHT NOW. 29:28 BUT THE MESSAGE CAME THROUGH FROM THESE MEN WHO HAD BEEN 29:33 ANOINTED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT. VERSE 14 - YOU'LL READ IT THERE. 29:39 THE PEOPLE RECEIVED THE MESSAGE OF THESE PROPHETS AND WHAT DID 29:43 THAT DO? IT GAVE THEM HOPE. 29:45 AND AS THEY HEEDED THE MESSAGE TO THE PROPHETS THAT GOD HAD 29:49 PLACED IN THEM - THEY'RE CONTEMPORARY PROPHETS - AND AS 29:52 THEY FOLLOWED THROUGH IN FAITH GOD GAVE THEM THE VICTORY. 29:55 GOD, HIMSELF, TOOK CARE OF THEIR ENEMIES. 29:57 HE SAID, 'YOU JUST WAIT. YOU WON'T HAVE TO FIGHT. 29:59 I'LL TAKE CARE OF THE AMMONITES AND THE MOABITES. 30:01 AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HE DID. AND APPLYING THIS, AGAIN, 30:04 TO REVIVAL AND REFORMATION, THE ONLY WAY, AS GOD'S REMNANT 30:09 CHURCH, WE CAN HAVE A REVIVAL AND REFORMATION IS TO LIVE 30:11 ACCORDING TO EVERY WORD THAT'S FOUND IN THIS AND LIVE ACCORDING 30:15 TO THE LIGHT THAT GOD HAS GIVEN US THROUGH THE PROPHET. 30:19 NEED I SPEAK ANY MORE SIMPLY? ELLEN G. WHITE. 30:26 THAT IS A SPECIAL TEST, I BELIEVE, FOR SEVENTH DAY 30:29 ADVENTISTS AND THERE'S TOO MANY JUST TOSSING ASIDE THIS - THEY 30:35 CONSIDER HER A LITTLE APPENDAGE FROM THE 19TH CENTURY - A SWEET 30:38 LITTLE GRANDMOTHER. SHE WAS A PROPHET OF GOD. 30:43 MAKE NO BONES ABOUT THAT. HAVE NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. 30:47 THAT FRAIL LITTLE WOMAN WAS A PROPHET OF GOD AND GOD HAS GIVEN 30:51 US LIGHT THROUGH THE PEN OF ELLEN G. WHITE, 30:54 WHICH WE ARE TO FOLLOW JUST AS MUCH AS THIS WORD. 30:57 AND WHEN YOU TOSS THOSE WRITINGS OUT - EXPECT REVIVAL AND 31:03 REFORMATION? FORGET IT. YOU'LL HAVE SOME COUNTERFEIT. 31:08 SOME LITTLE FIRECRACKER DISPLAY - PFFT PFFT PFFT PFFT - 31:13 AND IT'S GONE. 31:14 NO, YOU NEED TO HEED THE WORD GIVEN THROUGH THE PROPHET OF GOD 31:19 AND THAT'S WHY I CONCLUDE THIS SECTION WITH WHAT IT DOES - WHAT 31:21 DOES IT TELL US IN 2 CHRONICLES 20? 31:25 WAS THE WORD - VERSE 20 - "AND THEY ROSE EARLY IN THE MORNING 31:30 AND WENT FORTH INTO THE WILDERNESS OF TEKOA: AND AS THEY 31:33 WENT FORTH, JEHOSHAPHAT STOOD AND SAID, 'HEAR ME, O JUDAH, AND 31:37 YE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM; BELIEVE IN THE LORD YOUR GOD, SO 31:41 SHALL YE BE ESTABLISHED; BELIEVE HIS PROPHETS, SO SHALL YE'" - 31:46 WHAT? - "'PROSPER.'" WE GOT IT RIGHT. 31:51 OKAY, I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE ON NOW. I WANT TO GO TO MONDAY. 31:56 IT'S PAUL'S APPEAL FOR REFORMATION IN CORINTH AND, 32:01 AGAIN, I'M GOING TO READ FROM THE LESSON IN MONDAY'S SECTION. 32:05 I WANT TO READ FROM THE FIRST PARAGRAPH, I THINK - IT'S - 32:10 LET'S SEE - "IN HIS LETTER TO THE CORINTHIANS, PAUL EXPRESSES 32:15 GREAT CONCERN REGARDING THEIR SPIRITUAL CONDITION. 32:19 MANY MEMBERS HAD DRIFTED FROM GOD'S IDEAL. 32:23 THE SITUATION WAS SERIOUS" - AND IT REALLY WAS SERIOUS - 32:26 "INCLUDING SEXUAL IMMORALITY THAT, PAUL SAYS, WAS NOT SEEN 32:32 EVEN AMONG THE PAGANS. A WHOLE HOST OF PROBLEMS AROSE 32:37 THAT PAUL HAD TO ADDRESS. IN LIGHT OF THIS BACKGROUND IT'S 32:42 NOT DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND WHY THE CORINTHIAN CHURCH NEEDED 32:45 REVIVAL AND REFORMATION. AND GOING TO THE WORD OF GOD, 32:50 1 CORINTHIANS 5, VERSE 1. WOULD SOMEBODY OVER HERE CARE TO 32:54 READ 1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 5 AND VERSE 1? THANK YOU EILEEN. 33:00 1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 5 AND VERSE 1. 33:03 >>"IT IS ACTUALLY REPORTED THAT THERE IS SEXUAL IMMORALITY AMONG 33:06 YOU AND SUCH SEXUAL IMMORALITY AS IS NOT EVEN NAMED AMONG THE 33:10 GENTILES THAT A MAN SHOULD HAVE HIS FATHER'S WIFE." 33:14 >>THANK YOU VERY MUCH EILEEN. THERE'S NO NEED TO ELABORATE 33:18 HERE ABOUT WHAT WAS ACTUALLY GOING ON. 33:21 THIS WAS - IT WAS A REAL EXHIBITION OF MORAL DECADENCE, 33:27 TO SAY THE LEAST, SO I WON'T SAY ANYTHING FURTHER ABOUT THAT. 33:34 BUT THE POINT THAT PAUL MAKES HERE IS THIS, HE SAID - AND HE 33:38 DEALS WITH IT - AND HE WRITES TO THEM AND THANKFULLY IN HIS 33:42 LETTER TO CORINTHIANS DEALING WITH THIS ISSUE THEY DID RESPOND 33:46 TO THAT AND HE'S THANKFUL FOR THAT AND YOU CAN SEE THAT IN HIS 33:49 SECOND LETTER TO THE CORINTHIANS. 33:52 BUT THE POINT HE MAKES, HE SAYS, 'THIS KIND OF STUFF' - HE SAYS - 33:56 'NOT EVEN THE PAGANS ARE DOING IT.' 33:59 AND THIS IS HAPPENING IN GOD'S CHURCH. 34:02 PRETTY BAD, ISN'T IT? PRETTY BAD INDEED. 34:06 SO WHAT DO WE - WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THIS? 34:09 I WOULD SAY THIS: THERE WAS A CHURCH BEEN BLESSED WITH 34:15 HEAVEN-SENT LIGHT AND PRIVILEGES - I MEAN, THEY EVEN HAD THE 34:18 APOSTLE PAUL VISIT THEM. SO THERE'S ALL THIS LIGHT THEY 34:23 HAVE, THEY HAVE THIS GREAT PRIVILEGE AND WE'RE THE SAME. 34:27 WE'VE GOT MUCH HEAVEN-SENT LIGHT, WE'RE GREATLY BLESSED, 34:30 AND WE'RE HIGHLY PRIVILEGED AS A PEOPLE. 34:33 BUT THAT IS NO GUARANTEE FOR ANY OF US THAT WE CAN SAFELY 34:42 MAINTAIN OUR MORAL INTEGRITY AND CONTINUE TO BE VICTORIOUS IN THE 34:48 FIGHT UNLESS WE KEEP UP WITH THE LIGHT THAT GOD HAS SENT - UNLESS 34:55 WE KEEP IN LOCKSTEP WITH THE LIGHT THAT GOD HAS GIVEN TO US. 35:00 HEAVEN-SENT LIGHT - THIS MUST BE KEPT - I REALLY BELIEVE IN THE 35:05 FOREFRONT, WHEN IT COMES TO REALIZING THAT ANY REVIVAL AND 35:09 REFORMATION IN OUR INDIVIDUAL LIVES AND THEN AS A CHURCH - IT 35:14 INVOLVES KEEPING IN STEP WITH THE LIGHT. 35:17 AND A SECOND PRINCIPLE THAT PLAYS INTO THIS, THAT I'D LIKE 35:20 TO CONSIDER THIS MORNING: MORE SO MUST WE KEEP UP WITH THE 35:25 LIGHT THAT WE HAVE AND WE HAVE ADVANCED LIGHT, WE REALLY DO. 35:29 BUT THIS IS A PRINCIPLE THAT IS BORNE OUT SO MANY TIMES IN 35:32 DIVINE HISTORY, EVEN RECENT HISTORY. 35:37 THE GREATER LIGHT THE PEOPLE HAVE RECEIVED, THE GREATER 35:44 PRIVILEGES THEY HAVE, IF THEY DON'T TAKE THAT LIGHT AND 35:48 UTILIZE IT AND ALLOW THEIR LIVES TO CONFORM TO IT, THEY FINISH UP 35:56 IN EVEN GREATER SPIRITUAL DARKNESS THAN ANYBODY ELSE - 36:03 EVEN PAGANS. YOU CAN SEE THAT HAPPEN 36:06 TIME AND AGAIN. JUST A LITTLE QUICK SKETCH HERE, 36:10 SOMETHING HIT ME ONE DAY - I'M NOT SAYING IT'S A UNIQUE 36:12 THOUGHT, BUT I WAS QUITE PLEASED WITH MYSELF. 36:14 I THOUGHT, 'WOW, YEAH.' YOU LOOK AT WHERE THE GOSPEL 36:17 BEGAN IN PALESTINE, IT WENT EAST, IT WENT TO INDIA, CHINA, 36:21 GOT WAY OUT THERE AND THEN, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS OPPOSITION AND 36:25 STUFF AND IT WAS PRETTY WELL CRUSHED OUT, BUT THERE'S ALWAYS 36:28 BEEN LITTLE LIGHTS. ACTUALLY, THERE'S A LOT OF 36:30 LIGHTS OUT THERE. THERE'S A LOT IN CHINA. 36:34 I GOT A PHONE CALL THE OTHER DAY FROM A GENTLEMAN I WENT TO 36:37 NEWBOLD COLLEGE WITH BACK IN THE 1970S - HE'S FROM EGYPT - HE'S 36:42 FROM EGYPT - LATIF AND WE WERE TALKING ON THE PHONE. 36:48 EVEN IN EGYPT, EVEN IN IRAN THERE ARE LIGHTS AND ONE DAY 36:53 THEY'RE GOING TO - PFFT - COME OUT AND YOU'RE GOING TO SEE 36:55 THOSE LIGHTS IGNITE MORE LIGHTS. BUT NONETHELESS, THE GOSPEL WENT 36:59 JUST LIKE A TIDAL WAVE AND THEN IT DIED DOWN AND THERE'S A LOT 37:03 OF DARKNESS THERE IN THOSE NATIONS NOW. 37:05 AND THEN YOU TAKE THE SAME THING IN PALESTINE - HOLY LAND - WHEN 37:09 THE GOSPEL CAME AROUND THROUGH CHRIST AND THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH, 37:11 IT ALSO WENT WEST INTO EUROPE - IT MIGRATED WEST. 37:15 AND AS IT MIGRATED WEST WHAT HAPPENED IN PALESTINE WHERE THE 37:19 GOSPEL WAS FIRST ESTABLISHED? WHAT IS IT NOW? 37:22 IT'S A STRONGHOLD OF ISLAM. NOW YOU'VE GOT THE STATE OF 37:27 ISRAEL, YES, BUT THERE'S NOT A LOT OF CHRISTIANITY THERE. 37:32 AND I SAY IT VERY RESPECTFULLY, THEY'RE STILL CLINGING A LOT TO 37:35 THE OLD TYPES AND SHADOWS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. 37:38 SO DARKNESS WAS THERE BECAUSE IT WAS NOT FOLLOWED THROUGH ON. 37:41 SO THE LIGHT CAME WEST INTO EUROPE AND THEN WE HAVE WHAT 37:45 HAPPENED THERE. AND THEN THE REFORMATION COMES 37:48 ALONG AND THE LIGHT IS BLOTTED OUT AND THEN IT COMES BACK - 37:52 SORRY - THE LIGHT IS BLOTTED OUT UNDER THE PAPACY BUT THEN IT 37:55 COMES BACK UNDER THE REFORMATION AND WE HAVE A BLAZE OF LIGHT 38:01 THAT HAPPENS IN THE 1500S AND ONWARDS. 38:03 AND THAT TIES INTO THE BEGINNING OF THE GREAT ADVENT MOVEMENT 38:07 OVER IN EUROPE. BUT THE PEOPLE DID NOT RESPOND 38:10 TO THAT AS A WHOLE IN 1844. AND WHAT IS EUROPE LIKE NOW? 38:14 I KNOW BECAUSE I'M FROM THERE. IT'S A DARK SPIRITUAL PLACE. 38:20 MISSIONARIES USED TO GO FROM IRELAND. 38:24 PATRICK WENT FROM IRELAND. HE WAS A TRAILBLAZER FOR GOD. 38:29 MISSIONARIES WENT FROM SCOTLAND - SCOTLAND'S A TINY PLACE - THEY 38:33 WENT TO AFRICA. THEY WENT ALL OVER THE PLACE. 38:37 RAY AND ELIZABETH, YOU'VE BEEN TO GERMANY. 38:39 NICE MODERN COUNTRY, CIVILIZED BUT VERY SECULAR. 38:43 GERMANY, FRANCE, ENGLAND, THEY'RE ALL THE SAME. 38:47 THEY WERE ONCE PLACES WHERE THE GOSPEL GLOWED LIKE HOT COALS. 38:52 LIGHT EMANATED FROM THERE BUT THEY'RE DARK PLACES NOW BECAUSE 38:56 THE PEOPLE DID NOT LIVE UP TO THE LIGHT. 38:58 SO WHERE DID THE GOSPEL GO? IT MIGRATED WEST - WHERE? 39:02 TO THE NEW WORLD. AND WE KNOW THAT THINGS HAVE 39:06 HAPPENED HERE - AMAZING THINGS. GOD KEPT THIS CONTINENT UNDER 39:11 THE SHADOW OF HIS WING ESPECIALLY TO BECOME THE CRADLE 39:14 OF ADVENTISM. IF IT WASN'T FOR THIS NATION, 39:17 THERE WOULD NOT BE A FREE WORLD. THERE WOULD NOT BE A FREE WORLD. 39:21 I'M AN ENGLISHMAN BUT I'M PROUD OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 39:24 - I AM. I AM. I HAVE A BRITISH FLAG ON 39:28 THE BACK OF MY CAR BUT I'M STILL VERY PROUD OF THIS COUNTRY. 39:33 I'M PROUD. AND I'VE SAID IT BEFORE AND I'LL 39:36 SAY IT AGAIN: I THINK I'M MORE PROUD OF THE AMERICAN FLAG THAN 39:39 A LOT OF AMERICANS. SHAME ON YOU. 39:45 NOT ALL OF YOU BUT THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE LIKE THAT. 39:49 WE HAVE GREAT LIGHT. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? 39:54 WHERE THAT GREAT LIGHT WAS DEPOSITED IN THE CRADLE OF 39:57 ADVENTISM, A LOT OF THAT LIGHT IS GETTING PUSHED ASIDE AND YOU 40:02 KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING WITHIN THE REMNANT MOVEMENT? 40:07 THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE GOING INTO DARK, DARK SPIRITUAL MIDNIGHT 40:12 AND THEY THINK THEY'RE SO SMART AND THEY THINK THEY'RE 40:16 PROGRESSIVE AND THEY THINK THEY'VE GOT IT ALL RIGHT. 40:20 AND THEY SAY, 'WE NEED TO GO BACK TO THE REFORMATION OF THE 40:23 1500S - MARTIN LUTHER - JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH. 40:26 AMEN!' I COULDN'T SAY AMEN LOUDER THAN 40:29 THAT TO WHAT THEY'RE SAYING, BUT THERE'S ANOTHER SIDE AND I GOT 40:33 INTO EVANGELICALISM THE OTHER WEEK. 40:35 I'M NOT GOING TO LABOR THAT AGAIN TODAY, BUT UNLESS WE KEEP 40:39 UP WITH THE LIGHT AND FOLLOW THAT LIGHT THROUGH INTO THE 40:41 SANCTUARY, MOVE ON FROM THE - NO, TAKE THE CROSS WITH YOU. 40:44 YES. WE NEED THE CROSS. BUT WE NEED TO MOVE ON INTO 40:46 THE SANCTUARY, OTHERWISE SANCTIFICATION HAS NO PLACE 40:49 IN OUR BELIEF AND OUR PRACTICE. THE JUDGEMENT - WHAT'S THE POINT 40:53 OF THE JUDGMENT? ACTUALLY, I'M TALKING ABOUT 40:57 EVANGELICALISM. IT ALSO BRINGS IN THE 40:59 NATURE OF CHRIST. JESUS COULD KEEP THE LAW BECAUSE 41:04 HE HAD UNFALLEN NATURE. YOU CAN'T BECAUSE YOU DON'T. 41:07 ALL THESE THINGS THEY ALL PLAY IN - SO WHY WORRY ABOUT A 41:09 JUDGMENT? JUST REMAIN JUSTIFIED. 41:12 JUST KEEP CONFESSING CHRIST AND YOU'LL BE ALRIGHT. 41:15 WELL, YOU WON'T BE ALRIGHT BECAUSE GOD HAS GIVEN YOU MORE 41:18 LIGHT AND HE EXPECTS YOU TO KEEP UP WITH IT. 41:21 AND IF YOU KEEP UP WITH THAT LIGHT WE WILL BE SAFE. 41:23 AND WHEN EVERYTHING STARTS FALLING DOWN AROUND US WE CAN 41:26 COME BEFORE THE LORD - WE CAN TURN OUR FACES, AS IT WERE, AS 41:30 SOLOMON SPREAD HIS HANDS BEFORE THE TEMPLE, AS JEHOSHAPHAT 41:33 SPREAD HIS HANDS BEFORE THE TEMPLE AND WE CAN PRAY TO THE 41:36 LORD. WE CAN GATHER OUR LITTLE 41:38 CHILDREN BEFORE US - OUR LITTLE JACKS, OUR LITTLE WILLIAMS - 41:41 WHATEVER WE CALL OUR GRANDCHILDREN - AND WE CAN STAND 41:43 THERE AND SAY, 'LORD, HELP US.' GOD WILL HELP US IF, LIKE 41:52 JEHOSHAPHAT LED THE PEOPLE TO DO, WE HAVE GIVEN OUR LIVES TO 41:56 JESUS AND WE HAVE ALLOWED HIM TO CLEANSE US FROM SIN. 42:00 WE CAN STAND THERE WITHOUT PRESUMPTION, BUT IN FAITH AND 42:03 GOD WILL PROMISE - GOD WILL FULFILL HIS PROMISE. 42:06 HE SAYS, 'I WILL HEAR YOU AND I WILL DELIVER YOU.' 42:12 GOING TO GO TO TUESDAY. REVELATION'S APPEAL FOR 42:18 REFORMATION IN EPHESUS, OKAY? TUESDAY'S SECTION - WE'LL 42:23 PROBABLY GET INTO THIS AND TIME WILL PROBABLY BE ABOUT GONE, BUT 42:27 LET'S GIVE IT WHAT WE HAVE. I WANT US TO TURN TO REVELATION 42:31 CHAPTER 2, VERSES 1 THROUGH 6 - REVELATION 2, 42:36 VERSES 1 THROUGH 6. WE'RE NOT GOING TO READ ALL OF 42:41 THIS BECAUSE, AS I SAY, WE DON'T HAVE THE TIME. 42:46 BUT AS WE READ HERE - IN FACT, I'M GOING TO READ - I'M GOING TO 42:53 READ PARAGRAPH 2 IN TUESDAY'S SECTION. 42:58 OKAY, IT SAYS, "THE ANGEL INSTRUCTS JOHN TO WRITE THE 43:03 THINGS WHICH YOU HAVE SEEN - THE THINGS WHICH ARE, THE THINGS 43:08 WHICH WILL TAKE PLACE AFTER THIS. THE VISION OF THE SEVEN 43:12 CHURCHES RELATES TO THE PAST, THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE. 43:16 IT RECORDS THE TRIUMPH OF GOD'S CHURCH AS WELL AS ITS FAILURES. 43:20 IT SHARES THE CHURCH'S VICTORIES AS WELL AS ITS DEFEATS. 43:24 ALTHOUGH THE SEVEN CHURCHES CAN REPRESENT HISTORICAL CONTINUUM 43:28 OF CHRISTIAN FAITH DOWN THROUGH THE CENTURIES, THERE ARE VITAL 43:32 LESSONS IN EACH ONE OF THESE CHURCHES FOR GOD'S PEOPLE TODAY. 43:36 EPHESUS, FOR INSTANCE, PROVIDES A STRIKING ILLUSTRATION OF GOD'S 43:41 APPEAL FOR REVIVAL AND REFORMATION." AND IT DOES. 43:47 SO I WANT US TO LOOK HERE IN VERSE 4 OF REVELATION CHAPTER 2. 43:58 IN THE PREVIOUS THREE VERSES CHRIST HAS COMMENDED THEM FOR 44:02 CERTAIN ACHIEVEMENTS. HE'S COMMENDED THEM FOR THEIR 44:04 PATIENCE AND THEIR FIDELITY, THEIR LOYALTY, AND ALL THOSE 44:07 THINGS. VERSE 3 SAYS, "AND HAS BORNE, 44:09 AND HAST PATIENCE, AND FOR MY NAME'S SAKE HAS LABORED, AND HAS 44:13 NOT FAINTED." BUT VERSE 4 NOW, IT SAYS, 44:16 "NEVERTHELESS I HAVE SOMEWHAT AGAINST THEE, BECAUSE THOU HAS 44:20 LEFT THY FIRST LOVE." YOU'VE LEFT YOUR FIRST LOVE THEY 44:28 STILL HAD MUCH TO SAY ABOUT JESUS - PEOPLE IN EPHESUS - HIS 44:34 NAME WAS OFTEN ON THEIR LIPS, I'M SURE. 44:39 BUT REMEMBER THIS: LOVE FOR JESUS DOES NOT LIVE ON YOUR 44:42 LIPS. YOU DECLARE IT WITH YOUR LIPS, 44:45 BUT LOVE FOR JESUS EXISTS IN YOUR HEART, RIGHT? 44:49 THAT'S WHERE IT LIVES. THAT'S WHERE IT EXISTS. 44:51 YOU MERELY EXPRESS IT WITH YOUR LIPS. 44:54 AND, SAD TO SAY, MUCH OF THEIR LOVE FOR JESUS HAD BEEN SQUEEZED 44:59 OUT OF THEIR HEARTS TO MAKE ROOM FOR OTHER THINGS. 45:05 NOTICE, JESUS DOESN'T SAY TO THEM, 'YOU DON'T LOVE ME ANYMORE 45:11 AT ALL.' IT DOESN'T SAY THAT, IT JUST 45:14 SIMPLY SAYS YOU'VE LOST YOUR FIRST LOVE FOR ME. 45:18 IN OTHER WORDS, YOU'RE LOVING ME WITH A SECOND LOVE. 45:23 BUT HE NEEDS FIRST PLACE, RIGHT? IN OTHER WORDS, 'I DON'T HOLD 45:28 FIRST PLACE IN YOUR LIFE AND AFFECTIONS LIKE I USED TO DO. 45:32 YOU MAY STILL LOVE ME BUT YOU STILL LOVE OTHER THINGS MORE. 45:38 THEY COME FIRST AND I COME SECOND.' 45:41 AND YOU CAN ALMOST HEAR JESUS SAYING, 'YOU KNOW THAT REALLY 45:45 HURTS.' HE HAS FEELINGS, YOU KNOW. 45:49 HIS FEELINGS ARE MORE INTENSE THAN OURS. 45:53 WE HAVE FEELINGS BECAUSE HE MADE US TO BE A REFLECTION OF HIM. 45:56 HE SAYS, 'YOU KNOW, THAT REALLY HURTS. 45:59 I STILL LOVE YOU, BUT BOY YOU SURE KNOW HOW TO HURT ME.' 46:02 AND WE DO. YOU MAY HAVE HEARD THOSE WORDS 46:05 OF JESUS ECHO, PERHAPS, IN YOUR EAR ONCE IN A WHILE OR SOMEWHERE 46:09 IN YOUR HEART: 'OH, THAT REALLY HURT ME. 46:13 YOU DON'T LOVE ME LIKE YOU USED TO DO, DO YOU?' 46:17 YOU MAY STILL BELIEVE IN HIM AS MUCH AS EVER, BUT SOMEHOW HE 46:21 SLIPS FROM THAT FIRST PLACE BECAUSE YOU CAN DEVELOP VERY 46:27 EASILY AND I CAN DEVELOP VERY EASILY WHAT WE CALL DIVIDED 46:31 AFFECTIONS. DIVIDED AFFECTIONS FOR JESUS - 46:36 AND NOW HERE'S THE TRICKY STUFF - THIS IS WHERE THE HEART CAN BE 46:39 DECEITFUL. DIVIDED AFFECTIONS FOR JESUS MAY 46:43 STILL KEEP YOU RELIGIOUS ENOUGH TO KEEP COMING TO CHURCH AND 46:48 READING YOUR BIBLE SOME. DIVIDED AFFECTIONS FOR JESUS MAY 46:56 STILL KEEP YOU RELIGIOUS ENOUGH TO STILL KEEP PRAYING SOME. 47:05 DIVIDED AFFECTIONS FOR JESUS MAY STILL KEEP YOU THUMBING THROUGH 47:10 THE LESSON QUARTERLY - ESPECIALLY THIS ONE ON REVIVAL 47:13 AND REFORMATION SOME. BUT YOU'LL NEVER EXPERIENCE IT 47:24 IF ALL YOU HAVE IS SOME LOVE FOR JESUS AND HE DOESN'T HAVE YOUR 47:31 FIRST LOVE. IT'LL NEVER HAPPEN. 47:35 AND WHILE YOU JUST HAVE SOME LOVE FOR JESUS, YOU REALLY WON'T 47:39 WANT IT TO HAPPEN BECAUSE THE NATURAL HEART IT'S JUST 47:43 NATURALLY ADVERSE TO MAKING CHANGES. 47:45 SO WHEN YOU LET THE NATURAL HEART START GETTING THE UPPER 47:48 HAND OR TAKING HALF YOUR AFFECTIONS OR EVEN LESS, YOU 47:53 HAVE A BATTLE ON YOUR HANDS. I DO, WHEN IT GETS LIKE THAT. 47:58 I HAVE TO FIGHT. I KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. 48:04 REVELATION 2, VERSE 7, IT SAYS, "HE THAT HATH AN EAR, LET HIM 48:15 HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT SAITH UNTO THE CHURCHES. 48:19 TO HIM THAT OVERCOMETH WILL I GIVE" - AND TO HER THAT 48:22 OVERCOMETH - "WILL I GIVE TO EAT OF THE TREE OF LIFE, WHICH IS IN 48:29 THE MIDST OF THE PARADISE OF GOD." WHEN WE HAVE REVIVAL AND 48:37 WE KNOW HOW TO GET IT - IT'S THE NEW BIRTH - REFORMATION 48:41 WILL FOLLOW. GOD WILL SANCTIFY US. 48:46 HE WILL FILL US WITH HIS SPIRIT. 48:47 HE WILL USE US TO DO THE WORK AND WE WILL BE OVERCOMERS AND 48:54 THAT'S WHAT JESUS SAYS, 'YOU WILL BE AN OVERCOMER.' 48:58 "TO HIM THAT OVERCOMETH WILL I GIVE TO EAT OF THE TREE OF LIFE, 49:04 WHICH IS IN THE MIDST OF THE PARADISE OF GOD." 49:09 AND WHEN YOU STAND AROUND THAT TREE AND JESUS PLUCKS THAT FRUIT 49:15 AND HE PUTS IT IN YOUR HAND AND AS HE PUTS IT IN YOUR HAND AND 49:19 HIS HAND LIFTS UP AND YOU SEE THOSE SCARS, YOU'LL SAY, 'LORD, 49:23 I DON'T HAVE THE WORDS OR THE HEART TO THANK YOU ENOUGH, BUT I 49:31 PRAISE YOU BECAUSE YOU'VE GIVEN ME ALL ETERNITY NOW TO LEARN HOW 49:36 TO DO THAT.' AND WHAT A JOY THAT WILL BE. 49:42 (MUSIC) 49:55 >>IN APRIL 2001, THE LORD HAD OPENED SOME DOORS FOR 49:59 US TO DO A FULL CITY-WIDE EVANGELISTIC MEETING HERE IN THE 50:02 PHILIPPINES. WE HAD AN ARENA AND WE WERE 50:05 MEETING IN AN AUDITORIUM AND THOUSANDS WERE COMING AND PEOPLE 50:09 WERE RESPONDING. WE WERE VERY EXCITED. 50:13 THE PLAN WAS FOR KAREN TO JOIN ME ON THE 30TH OF APRIL AND ONE 50:18 MORNING I WOKE UP AND I GOT THE PHONE CALL THAT NO PARENT EVER 50:22 WANTS TO GET - THAT OUR SON HAD BEEN IN A SERIOUS CONSTRUCTION 50:26 ACCIDENT - AND I HAD TO PICK UP KAREN AT THE AIRPORT. 50:30 AND I JUST REMEMBER FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS, WAITING AT THE AIRPORT 50:33 DOING A LOT OF PRAYING, NOT KNOWING WHAT HAD HAPPENED 50:36 TO MICAH. AND WE HAD BEEN ABLE TO GET A 50:38 CALL THROUGH TO THE HOSPITAL AND THEY SAID HE WAS IN SURGERY - 50:41 HE WAS IN SERIOUS CONDITION - AND GOT BACK TO THE HOTEL ROOM 50:47 AND DISCOVERED THAT HE DID NOT SURVIVE THE SURGERY. 50:50 WELL, OF COURSE, THERE ARE NO WORDS TO DESCRIBE HOW 50:53 DEVASTATING THAT IS AND SO - I KNEW I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF AN 50:56 IMPORTANT MEETING. I KNEW HOW THE DEVIL HATED 50:58 EVANGELISM, BUT I NEEDED TO TELL THE LEADERS HERE THAT HAD PUT SO 51:03 MUCH TIME AND MONEY INTO THIS SERIES THAT I JUST HAD TO 51:05 GO HOME. AND I PROMISED THEM - I SAID, 'YOU KNOW, GOD WILLING, 51:09 I WILL COME BACK AND I WILL DO ANOTHER SERIES.' 51:20 >>PROMISE FULFILLED. PASTOR DOUG HAS RETURNED TO THE 51:22 PHILIPPINE ISLANDS TO CONTINUE THE WORK HE BEGAN YEARS AGO. 51:26 >>JESUS SAID - WHO? WHO DID I SAY? - JESUS SAID 51:30 THE SABBATH WAS MADE FOR MAN. THAT MEANS MANKIND. 51:35 DO WE STILL NEED WHAT GOD MAKES FOR MAN? 51:38 >>CROWDS OF PEOPLE REACHING CLOSE TO 2,000 GATHERED EACH 51:41 NIGHT TO LISTEN. MANY PEOPLE SIMPLY WALKING BY 51:44 STOPPED TO HEAR THE TRUTH FROM GOD'S WORD. 51:47 >>ONE THING THAT MADE THIS MEETING ESPECIALLY EXCITING AND, 51:49 WE THINK, FRUITFUL IS THAT THERE WAS AN ONGOING EVANGELISTIC 51:53 TRAINING PROGRAM WITH PAFCOE. 51:55 PAFCOE IS THE PHILIPPINE AMAZING FACTS CENTER OF EVANGELISM. 51:58 IT'S JUST WONDERFUL TO HAVE THAT ARMY OF ADDITIONAL WORKERS THAT 52:03 WERE DOING EVERYTHING FROM HELPING WITH THE OFFERING TO 52:06 SETTING UP FOR THE MEETING TO TAKING DOWN AND ALSO FOLLOWING 52:08 UP WITH THE BIBLE STUDIES AND THAT'S THE IMPORTANT PART. 52:11 THEY WERE LIKE A SMALL ARMY OF BIBLE WORKERS. 52:14 >>LAST YEAR OUR STAFF AND STUDENTS DID 50 EVANGELISTIC 52:17 MEETINGS AND BAPTIZED ABOUT A THOUSAND PEOPLE. 52:21 AND SO PAFCOE IS HELPING TO RETURN MANY OF OUR LAYPEOPLE TO 52:24 THE VISION FOR EVANGELISM - THE DESIRE TO WIN SOULS. 52:29 AND WHEN STUDENTS COME FROM AN ISLAND AND THEN GO BACK TO THE 52:33 ISLAND AND DO AN EVANGELISTIC MEETING, IT HAS AN 52:36 EFFECT NOT JUST ON THAT LOCAL CHURCH BUT THROUGHOUT 52:39 THE ISLAND. AND SO THE IMPACT OF PAFCOE IS TREMENDOUS. 52:44 >>AMAZING FACTS IS SPREADING GOD'S TRUTH THROUGHOUT THE 52:46 PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. EACH NIGHT OF THE MEETINGS THE 52:54 CROWDS GREW LARGER AND LARGER. ON THE FINAL DAY, THE MEETINGS 52:58 WERE HELD IN A LARGE SPORTS ARENA. 53:00 NEARLY 8,000 PEOPLE CROWDED IN TO HEAR THE TRUTH OF GOD'S WORD. 53:05 I SAT ON THE PLATFORM YESTERDAY, SAW ALL THE PEOPLE FILLING THE 53:08 STANDS - THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE - AND IT JUST MOVED ME TO TEARS 53:11 AND I JUST REALLY THOUGHT, 'LORD, YOU'RE HERE AND YOU'VE 53:13 HONORED YOUR PROMISE TO BLESS AND WORK THINGS TOGETHER FOR 53:16 GOOD. IT REALLY DID GIVE A SENSE OF CLOSURE AND COMPLETION AND 53:20 VICTORY TO WHAT WE HAD STARTED OUT BEFORE. 53:23 >>BECAUSE OF YOUR DECISION WE BAPTIZE YOU IN THE NAME OF GOD 53:27 THE FATHER, HIS SON JESUS CHRIST, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT, 53:31 AMEN. >>IT WAS A JOYFUL DAY. 53:35 143 PEOPLE WERE BAPTIZED. >>A LOT OF PEOPLE MADE DECISIONS 53:41 THAT WILL BE MEASURED IN ETERNITY. 53:44 I THINK ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS WE CAN DO TO 53:47 CONTINUE TO SEE THE AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY AND THE GOSPEL 53:51 GOING FORWARD IN THIS COUNTRY IS IT'S GOING TO TAKE MEDIA. 53:56 WE SAW DURING THE ALTAR CALL, AS HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE CAME FORWARD, 54:00 THE PASTORS VISITED WITH THEM AND ONE PASTOR SAID, 'MANY OF 54:04 THESE PEOPLE HAVE NEVER BEEN TO CHURCH.' 54:06 AND I SAID, 'HOW DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THESE THINGS?' 54:08 AND THEY SAID, 'WE'VE BEEN WATCHING AMAZING FACTS ON THE 54:10 INTERNET' OR 'WE'VE SEEN THE PROGRAMS ON 3ABN AND SOME OTHER 54:13 STATIONS.' AND SO WE REALLY BELIEVE IN THE 54:16 POWER OF MEDIA. WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO HAVE THE 54:18 GOSPEL WHERE THEY ARE WATCHING RIGHT NOW BECAUSE THE PLACE 54:21 IS STILL RIPE - THE HARVEST IS GREAT HERE - 54:24 THE PROGRAMS ARE FEW. >>THE COMING OF THE AMAZING 54:27 FACTS AND THE COMING OF PAFCOE - ESPECIALLY HERE IN OUR CHURCH - 54:31 IS REALLY A BLESSING. IT NOT ONLY REVIVED THE WHOLE 54:35 CHURCH, BUT ENCOURAGED EVERY MEMBER OF THE CHURCH TO 54:40 PARTICIPATE IN SPREADING THE GOSPEL. 54:43 >>WE ARE GOING HOME, FOLLOWING THIS SERIES, WITH A NEW 54:47 ENTHUSIASM FOR THE WORK IN THIS COUNTRY. 54:50 WE JUST THANK THE LORD - WE PRAISE THE LORD - THIS SERIES 54:53 REACHED OUR HIGHEST EXPECTATION. 54:55 AND WE WANT TO THANK YOU, OUR FRIENDS WHO MADE IT ALL 54:57 POSSIBLE, BECAUSE THIS PROGRAM WAS ENTIRELY FUNDED BY FOLKS 55:02 LIKE YOU THAT BELIEVE IN AMAZING FACTS AND BELIEVE IN THE MESSAGE 55:05 THAT WE'RE SHARING AROUND THE WORLD. 55:07 AND OUR FAMILY WANTS TO THANK YOU PERSONALLY FOR MAKING THIS 55:10 TRIP POSSIBLE - FOR US TO BE ABLE TO COME BACK AND TO FULFILL 55:13 A PROMISE TO PREACH THE GOSPEL HERE. AND, OF COURSE, 55:17 WE THANK AND PRAISE GOD AND GIVE HIM THE GLORY. 55:33 >>PAUL AND JESUS BOTH PREDICT THAT THE CHURCH OF GOD BECOMES A 55:37 FORCE AGAINST GOD. >>THE RADICAL FAITH THAT JESUS 55:42 TAUGHT HAD BECOME THE OFFICIAL RELIGION OF THE EMPIRE THAT 55:45 MURDERED HIM. >>THE SPEED WITH WHICH THE EARLY 55:51 CHURCH TOBOGGANED INTO APOSTASY WILL TAKE YOUR BREATH AWAY. 55:55 (MUSIC) >>IMPACT YOUR WORLD. 56:31 THE AMAZING FACTS CENTER OF EVANGELISM IS THE FIRST AND 56:34 ORIGINAL BIBLE TRAINING SCHOOL OPERATING FOR OVER TEN YEARS. 56:38 YOU'LL RECEIVE PRACTICAL TRAINING IN PERSONAL AND PUBLIC 56:40 EVANGELISM. LEARN HOW TO GIVE DYNAMIC PUBLIC 56:43 PRESENTATIONS, GIVE COMPELLING CHRIST-CENTERED BIBLE STUDIES 56:46 AND ALL WHILE GAINING A PERSONAL DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF GOD. 56:49 LEARN FROM DOUG BATCHELOR AND OTHER WORLD-CLASS EVANGELISTS. 56:53 >>THE WORLD IS FULL OF BUSY THINGS PEOPLE ARE DOING. 56:56 THERE'S A LOT OF WORK YOU CAN DO. YOU CAN BUILD HOUSES. 56:58 YOU CAN FIX CARS BUT, ULTIMATELY, WHEN JESUS COMES THE 57:01 HOUSES WILL BURN, THE CARS WILL MELT. 57:04 THE ONLY WORK THAT IS REALLY GOING TO LAST FOREVER IS WHEN 57:07 HEARTS ARE TRANSFORMED AND THIS IS WHY THE WORK OF AFCOE IS THE 57:10 MOST IMPORTANT WORK IN THE WORLD - BECAUSE THE RESULTS - CHANGED 57:14 LIVES - WILL LAST THROUGH ETERNITY. 57:17 >>TO ENROLL TODAY VISIT 'AFCOE.ORG' OR CALL 57:19 (916) 209-7249. >>IN SIX DAYS GOD CREATED THE 57:27 HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS MAN HAS 57:31 WORSHIPED GOD ON THE SEVENTH DAY OF THE WEEK. 57:34 NOW, EACH WEEK, MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WORSHIP ON THE FIRST DAY. 57:39 WHAT HAPPENED? WHY DID GOD CREATE A DAY OF 57:41 REST? DOES IT REALLY MATTER WHAT DAY 57:44 WE WORSHIP? WHO WAS BEHIND THIS GREAT SHIFT? 57:47 DISCOVER THE TRUTH BEHIND GOD'S LAW AND HOW IT WAS CHANGED. 57:51 VISIT SABBATHTRUTH.COM. (MUSIC) |
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