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>>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.
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WE WELCOME YOU TO THOSE THAT ARE
JOINING US LIVE ON THE INTERNET
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THIS MORNING. THOSE
THAT ARE JOINING US ACROSS
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THE COUNTRY AND AROUND THE
WORLD, AND RIGHT HERE IN OUR
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SANCTUARY, WELCOME AND IT
IS BY NO ACCIDENT THAT YOU HAVE
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JOINED US TO STUDY
GOD'S WORD TOGETHER.
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AS WE USUALLY DO, WE SING
TOGETHER BEFORE WE JUMP INTO
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GOD'S WORD WITH OUR PASTOR
AND TODAY IS NO EXCEPTION - HYMN
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#462 - 'BLESSED
ASSURANCE JESUS IS MINE'.
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THIS COMES AS A
REQUEST FROM RAQUEL IN BELIZE,
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LOUISA IN CANADA, KERYL IN
FRANCE, SVEINBJORN IN ICELAND,
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AND RICHIE IN NEW
ZEALAND. HYMN #462 -
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WE'RE GOING TO
SING ALL THREE VERSES.
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(MUSIC)
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>>WHAT A PRIVILEGE WE
HAVE THAT THAT IS OUR STORY AND
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THAT IS OUR SONG AND WE HAVE THE
PRIVILEGE AND THE HONOR TO SHARE
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THAT ALL OVER WITH EVERY PERSON
THAT WE COME IN CONTACT WITH.
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WHETHER IT'S AT THE GROCERY
STORE, WHETHER IT'S IN CHURCH,
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WHETHER IT'S AT WORK - WHEREVER
WE ARE - WE CAN SPREAD THE LOVE
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OF JESUS AND TELL THEM
OUR STORY, AMEN? IF YOU HAVE A
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SPECIAL HYMN - A FAVORITE HYMN -
THAT YOU'D LIKE TO SING WITH US
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ON A COMING STUDY TOGETHER,
IT'S VERY SIMPLE. YOU JUST GO TO
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OUR WEBSITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG',
YOU CLICK ON THE 'CONTACT US'
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LINK AND THERE YOU CAN REQUEST
ANY SONG IN OUR HYMNAL AND WE
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WILL SING THAT WITH YOU
ON A COMING STUDY TOGETHER.
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AS YOU - THOSE OF YOU THAT TUNE
IN VERY REGULARLY, YOU KNOW THAT
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WE ARE MAKING OUR WAY THROUGH
THE HYMNAL AND TODAY OUR NEW
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HYMN IS HYMN #70 AND THIS IS
ACTUALLY NOT A NEW HYMN TO ME,
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I HAVE BEEN SINGING THIS
SINCE I WAS A LITTLE GIRL.
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HYMN #70 -
'PRAISE YE THE FATHER'.
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THIS COMES AS A REQUEST
FROM JAMES IN CHILE, IMMANUEL IN
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MALAYSIA, HOWARD AND DIANE
IN MISSISSIPPI, KEN AND VERNA IN
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NEW HAMPSHIRE, JOHN IN
OKLAHOMA, AND DOLORES IN PERU.
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HYMN #70 AND WE'LL
SING ALL THREE VERSES.
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(MUSIC)
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>>LET'S PRAY. OUR FATHER
IN HEAVEN, IT IS AN AMAZING
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PRIVILEGE TO BE ABLE TO
COME BEFORE YOU AND CALL YOU OUR
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FATHER AND OUR SAVIOR.
AND SO, AS WE OPEN YOUR WORD,
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LORD, JUST SPEAK TO US -
SPEAK TO US AND HELP US TO HEAR.
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GIVE US EARS TO HEAR. GIVE
US EYES TO SEE YOU MORE CLEARLY.
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WE JUST THANK YOU THAT WE HAVE
THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE YOUR
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LOVE AROUND THE WORLD.
LORD, HELP US NOT TO BE ASHAMED.
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HELP US TO JUST GO BOLDLY BEFORE
THE THRONE AND SPREAD YOUR WORD
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SO THAT YOU CAN COME SOON.
WE THANK YOU THAT YOUR PROMISES
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ARE TRUE AND THAT YOU ARE TRUE
AND FAITHFUL AND THAT WE WILL
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SEE YOU SOON. PLEASE
BE WITH PASTOR CHRIS THIS
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MORNING AS HE OPENS YOUR WORD
TO US. LORD, JUST FILL US WITH
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YOUR SPIRIT THAT WE
CAN BE MORE LIKE YOU.
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I PRAY THESE
THINGS IN YOUR NAME, AMEN.
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OUR STUDY THIS MORNING
WILL BE BROUGHT TO US BY
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PASTOR CHRIS BUTTERY AND HE
IS THE FAMILY LIFE EVANGELISM
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PASTOR HERE AT
SACRAMENTO CENTRAL.
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>>THANK YOU. THANK
YOU SO MUCH. GOOD MORNING.
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EVERYONE SOUNDED TERRIFIC THIS
MORNING - NOT THAT YOU DON'T
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SOUND TERRIFIC
EVERY SABBATH MORNING.
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THANK YOU SO MUCH TO OUR
SONG TEAM AND CHORUS TEAM AND
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MUSICIANS AND EVERYONE
ELSE WHO'S PITCHING IN.
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AND THANK YOU FOR
SINGING SO NICELY THIS MORNING.
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WE WANT TO WELCOME YOU AND ALSO
WELCOME OUR ONLINE VIEWERS AND
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THOSE THAT ARE WATCHING
BY TV OR HEARING BY RADIO.
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JUST GLAD THAT WE COULD
ALL BE SITTING HERE TOGETHER -
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EVEN IF YOU'RE VIEWING
- AND STUDY GOD'S WORD.
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WHAT AN AWESOME THING TO DO.
I WANT TO MAKE SURE AS WE GET
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STARTED HERE THAT WE SEND OUT
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SO GLAD TO HAVE YOU ALONG AND
GLAD THAT OUR AUDIENCE IS HERE
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AND CONGREGATION IS HERE
SO WE CAN STUDY TOGETHER.
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WE'RE ACTUALLY GOING INTO
OUR FINAL - IT'S KIND OF A
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BITTERSWEET - GOING INTO
OUR FINAL LESSON THIS MORNING ON
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THIS QUARTER'S SABBATH
SCHOOL QUARTERLY, 'REVIVAL AND
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REFORMATION' AND EVEN THOUGH
WE'RE GOING TO - IT'S GOING TO
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COME TO A CLOSE THIS PARTICULAR
QUARTER, THE WORK'S NOT DONE,
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AND IT'S NOT ALL FINISHED UNTIL
WE ACTUALLY SEE JESUS COMING IN
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THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN,
AMEN? SURE. AND WE'RE GOING TO -
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WE'RE GOING TO GO RIGHT INTO
OUR STUDY HERE THIS MORNING -
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IT'S A GOOD ONE - THE
PROMISED REVIVAL, 'GOD'S MISSION
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COMPLETED' AND WE'RE GOING
TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THIS.
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WE'VE GOT OUR MEMORY TEXT HERE
AND IT'S JAMES CHAPTER 5, VERSES
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7 AND 8 AND WE WANT
TO READ THIS TOGETHER.
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IF YOU'VE GOT IT THERE IN YOUR
QUARTERLY IT'S FROM THE NEW KING
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JAMES VERSION - JAMES
CHAPTER 5, VERSES 7 AND 8.
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IT SAYS - AND IF YOU COULD READ
WITH ME - "THEREFORE BE PATIENT,
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BRETHREN, UNTIL
THE COMING OF THE LORD.
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SEE HOW THE FARMER WAITS FOR
THE PRECIOUS FRUIT OF THE EARTH,
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WAITING PATIENTLY FOR IT
UNTIL IT RECEIVES THE EARLY
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AND LATTER RAIN.
YOU ALSO BE PATIENT.
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ESTABLISH YOUR HEARTS, FOR THE
COMING OF THE LORD IS AT HAND."
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SO WE'LL - WE'LL LOOK AT A
LITTLE BIT OF THAT HERE THIS
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MORNING AS WE STUDY ABOUT GOD'S
WORK COMPLETED - GOD'S COMPLETED
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MISSION AND PROMISED REVIVAL.
YOU PROBABLY READ IN THE NEWS,
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JUST HERE RECENTLY, ABOUT A
64-YEAR-OLD LADY BY THE NAME OF
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DIANA NYAD - IN THE - IT TOOK A
PROMINENT PLACE, AS A MATTER OF
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FACT, IN THE NEWS, EVEN
CONSIDERING THE CHALLENGES
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TAKING PLACE OVER
THERE IN SYRIA AND SO FORTH.
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BUT DIANA NYAD MADE HISTORY
BY BECOMING THE FIRST PERSON TO
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SWIM FROM CUBA TO FLORIDA AND
SHE DID IT AT THE AGE OF 64 AND
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SHE DID IT IN 53 HOURS. I THINK
IT WOULD HAVE TAKEN ME A LITTLE
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BIT LONGER, HOW ABOUT YOU?
53 HOURS - SHE'S A LONG-DISTANCE
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SWIMMER SO I GUESS SHE JUST
PREPS AND DOES THINGS LIKE THIS
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AND SHE DECIDED SHE'D GO AHEAD
AND TRY THIS - AS A MATTER OF
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FACT, THIS WAS HER FIFTH
TRY AND SHE DID IT THIS TIME.
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ANOTHER TIME SHE WAS PREVENTED
FROM GETTING ACROSS BECAUSE
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SHE'D BEEN STUNG SEVERELY
BY SOME JELLYFISH AND COULDN'T
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FINISH IT. BUT THERE
WERE A LOT OF CHALLENGES.
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ON A SUNDAY NIGHT, APPARENTLY,
SHE WAS FEELING PRETTY COLD SO
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HER TRAINERS - THOSE THAT WERE
WITH HER - BY THE WAY, SHE DID
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THIS WITHOUT A CAGE.
SHE DID THIS WITHOUT A CAGE.
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IT WASN'T - IT WAS BACK IN 1997
THAT AN AUSTRALIAN - AND IT'S
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NOT FAIR WHEN AN AMERICAN JUST
SIMPLY OUTDOES AN AUSTRALIAN
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LIKE THIS, BUT BACK THERE IN
1997 AUSTRALIAN SUSIE MARONEY
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CROSSED ACROSS THE STRAIT AND
SHE DID THAT WITH A CAGE - THE
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FLORIDA STRAIT - SHE
DID THAT WITH A CAGE.
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BUT DIANA DIDN'T DO IT WITH
A CAGE AND SHE MADE IT ACROSS.
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SUNDAY NIGHT SHE HAD A BIT
OF A CHALLENGE BECAUSE SHE WAS
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FEELING COLD SO HER TRAINERS
DECIDED NOT TO FEED HER AND -
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BECAUSE THEY FIGURED IF SHE
WOULD KEEP SWIMMING SHE'D STAY
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WARM, YOU SEE. SHE ALSO
HAD SWOLLEN LIPS AND A SWOLLEN
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TONGUE BECAUSE OF THE SUN
AND THE SEA WATER AND SHE HAD
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ABRASIONS TO HER MOUTH BECAUSE
OF A SPECIAL SILICONE MASK THAT
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WAS MEANT TO KEEP THE JELLYFISH
AT BAY. BUT SHE COMPLETED -
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SHE COMPLETED HER GOAL - SHE
COMPLETED HER TASK AND SHE WAS
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PRETTY HAPPY ABOUT THAT. IF
YOU WATCH THE NEWS CLIPS SHE
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WAS PRETTY EXCITED AND,
YOU KNOW, TALKED TO THE NEWS
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BEEN HER GOAL FOR THE LONGEST
SHE COMPLETED TIME.HING THAT HAD
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THERE SEEMS TO BE, IN THE
HUMAN SPIRIT, AN INNER DRIVE TO
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COMPLETE WHAT WE START,
EVEN THOUGH SOME OF US MAY NOT
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COMPLETE SOME THINGS WE STARTED,
WE FEEL KIND OF BAD ABOUT THAT
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AND WISH WE HAD
FINISHED WHAT WE STARTED.
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AND, FOR ME, I GET INTO IT -
I EVENTUALLY GET INTO IT AFTER
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I'VE LOOKED AT IT FROM EVERY
- EVERY ANGLE - BUT ONCE I GET
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INTO IT, I JUST
DON'T WANT TO STOP.
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AND MY WIFE WILL TELL YOU
THAT WHEN I'M IN THE MIDDLE OF A
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PROJECT, NOTHING IS
GOING TO JUST STAND IN MY WAY -
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NOT EVEN FOOD IS GOING TO STAND
IN MY WAY. I'M GOING TO GET THE
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PROJECT COMPLETED - THAT
IS, IF IT RUNS OVER LUNCHTIME.
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I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT
DAYS WITHOUT FOOD, MIND YOU.
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BUT YOU WANT TO COMPLETE WHAT
YOU STARTED AND GET IT DONE.
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I GUESS THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF
UNWRITTEN BOOKS IN HISTORY AND
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SO SOMEONE COMMENTED
ONCE, 'BOOKS' - AND IT'S KIND OF
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OBVIOUS BUT IT WAS A BIT OF A
QUIP - HE SAID, 'BOOKS HAVE BOTH
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A FRONT AND A BACK.' BOOKS
HAVE BOTH A FRONT AND A BACK.
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THIS PERSON WENT ON TO
SAY THAT 'UNFINISHED BOOKS ARE
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WORTHLESS.' FOR SURE THEY ARE.
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THIS SEEMS TO APPLY TO PERHAPS
ANY UNFINISHED BUSINESS THAT WE
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MIGHT HAVE AND
WE WANT TO GET DONE.
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IT WAS A WISE MAN THAT SAID, 'A
DESIRE ACCOMPLISHED IS SWEET TO
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THE SOUL.' AND HE
ALSO SAID IN ECCLESIASTES
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7, VERSE 8, "THE END OF A THING
IS BETTER THAN ITS BEGINNING;"
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OF COURSE, THIS SPEAKS TO OR
SAYS THERE IS PURE SATISFACTION
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WHEN WE COMPLETE A
PROJECT AND GET IT DONE.
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I'D LIKE TO SUGGEST OR SUBMIT
HERE THIS MORNING THAT FINISHING
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WHAT YOU START IS A
DIVINE CHARACTERISTIC.
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IT'S A DIVINE CHARACTERISTIC.
WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT GOD, HE
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VENTURED INTO CREATING THIS
WORLD - SIX DAYS HE WAS MAKING
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IT AND THEN ON THE
SEVENTH DAY HE RESTED.
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GENESIS 2:2 AND 3 TELLS US
THAT HE HAD FINISHED HIS WORK.
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WHAT GOD SET OUT TO
START, HE ENDED - HE FINISHED.
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AND THEN, OF COURSE, WE
THINK ABOUT THE CROSS AND JESUS'
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FAMOUS WORDS, 'IT IS' -
WHAT FRIENDS? - 'FINISHED.'
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THAT'S RIGHT. JESUS
SAID, 'IT IS FINISHED.'
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THE PLAN OF SALVATION
WASN'T FULLY COMPLETE.
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HE NEEDED TO GO - BE RAISED AND
GO BACK TO HEAVEN AND INTERCEDE
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AND WRAP THINGS UP, BUT AS
FAR AS THE PAYMENT FOR OUR - THE
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PENALTY FOR OUR SIN WAS
CONCERNED, HE HAD PAID IT.
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IT WAS FINISHED. IT
WAS DONE. PAID IN FULL.
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WHAT JESUS
BEGINS HE LIKES TO END.
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AND THEN WHEN YOU COME ALL
THE WAY DOWN TO THE BOOK OF
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REVELATION, CHAPTER 21, YOU HEAR
GOD SAYING THESE THREE WORDS:
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'IT IS' - WHAT? -
'DONE' 'IT IS DONE.'
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ALRIGHT, SO I WANT TO - WE'RE
GOING TO LOOK AT A COUPLE OF
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VERSES TOGETHER THIS MORNING -
GET RIGHT INTO IT - SOMEONE HAS
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ACTS CHAPTER 3 AND
VERSES 20 AND 21 FOR ME.
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WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A COMPLETED
AND FINISHED WORK. WONDERFUL.
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JOHN CHAPTER 4 AND VERSE 34 -
YOU REMEMBER JESUS IS - JESUS IS
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TALKING WITH THIS SAMARITAN
WOMAN AT THE WELL AND HE HAS
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BEEN CONVERSING WITH HER FOR
SOME TIME AND THE DISCIPLES ARE
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KIND OF PERPLEXED AS TO WHY HE
IS TALKING WITH - A WOMAN #1 AND
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#2 A SAMARITAN AT THAT.
AND SO SHE'S - SHE'S IMPRESSED,
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MORE THAN IMPRESSED BY THIS MAN,
SHE SENSES THERE'S SOMETHING
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MORE TO HIM - THAT
HE'S GOT TO BE THE MESSIAH.
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SO SHE TAKES OFF AND SHE GOES
AND TELLS THE MEN OF THE TOWN,
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'COME AND SEE - COME AND SEE A
MAN WHO'S TOLD ME ALL THAT I'VE
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EVER DONE.' AND
WHILE SHE'S GONE THE
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DISCIPLES COME UP TO JESUS
AND THEY - THEY'RE CONCERNED
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BECAUSE, APPARENTLY, HE HASN'T
EATEN AND THEY SAID TO HIM,
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'JESUS, YOU NEED
TO TAKE SOME FOOD.'
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AND JESUS SAID, 'YOU KNOW, I
HAVE FOOD THAT YOU KNOW NOT OF.'
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AND THEN IN JOHN
CHAPTER 4, VERSE 34 HE EXPLAINS.
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HE SAYS - "JESUS SAID TO THEM,
'MY FOOD'" - MY MEAT OR MY FOOD
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- "'IS TO DO THE WILL OF HIM WHO
SENT ME, AND'" - DO YOU REMEMBER
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WHAT HE SAID NEXT? TO DO
WHAT - "'TO FINISH HIS WORK.'"
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JESUS CAME - HIS MEAT -
HIS FOOD - HIS ASPIRATION - HIS
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DESIRE IT WAS LARGER THAN FOOD
ITSELF, WAS TO DO THE WILL OF
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GOD THAT SENT HIM TO FINISH
THE WORK THAT HE GAVE HIM TO DO.
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ACTS 3, VERSES 20
AND 21 - THANKS JOLYNE.
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>>"AND THAT HE MAY SEND JESUS
CHRIST, WHO WAS PREACHED TO YOU
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BEFORE, WHOM HEAVEN MUST RECEIVE
UNTIL THE TIMES OF RESTORATION
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OF ALL THINGS WHICH GOD HAS
SPOKEN BY THE MOUTH OF ALL HIS
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HOLY PROPHETS
SINCE THE WORLD BEGAN."
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>>OKAY. SO THIS IDEA - THIS IDEA
OF - THIS IDEA OF GOD RESTORING
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ALL THINGS, TALKS ABOUT THERE
COMING A TIME WHERE THERE'LL BE
00:16:41.83\00:16:45.43
CONCLUSION TO THIS
ISSUE OF SIN AND SALVATION.
00:16:45.43\00:16:48.76
THERE'LL BE AN -
THIS WILL COME TO A CLOSE.
00:16:48.76\00:16:50.93
AND WHEN WILL IT HAPPEN 'THAT HE
MAY SEND JESUS' - THE TEXT SAYS
00:16:50.93\00:16:54.36
- 'WHO WAS PREACHED TO YOU, WHOM
HEAVEN MUST RECEIVE UNTIL THE
00:16:54.36\00:16:57.23
TIME OF RESTORATION.'
THERE'LL COME A TIME WHEN THERE
00:16:57.23\00:17:01.70
WILL BE A RETURNING OF THINGS
TO THEIR ORIGINAL CONDITION,
00:17:01.70\00:17:05.26
ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF GOD
- ACCORDING TO THE MOUTH OF HIS
00:17:05.26\00:17:08.36
HOLY PROPHETS SINCE THE
WORLD BEGAN, THE TEXT SAYS.
00:17:08.36\00:17:11.60
SO GOD HAS TO FINISH IT. GOD
IS GOING TO FINISH THIS THING.
00:17:11.60\00:17:17.46
NOW, CERTAINLY, HE DIDN'T START
THIS THING, BUT HE'S GOING TO
00:17:17.46\00:17:20.80
FINISH THIS THING. THE
DEVIL AND HIS IMPS CERTAINLY
00:17:20.80\00:17:23.53
STARTED THIS THING. AND
THEN OUR FIRST PARENTS BIT
00:17:23.53\00:17:26.63
ON AND THEY TOOK AHOLD OF THIS
THING AND SAID, 'YOU KNOW WHAT?
00:17:26.63\00:17:29.93
WE'RE JUST GOING TO KEEP MOVING
- MOVING FORWARD WITH THIS'
00:17:29.93\00:17:33.50
UNFORTUNATELY, BUT GOD STEPPED
IN AND SAID, 'WE'RE GOING TO -
00:17:33.50\00:17:36.76
WE'RE GOING TO END THIS THING.
YOU STARTED IT BUT I'M GOING TO
00:17:36.76\00:17:42.80
HE SENT HIS SON AND HE
CAME TO DIE IN OUR STEAD.
00:17:42.80\00:17:46.60
HE LIVED TO SHOW US HOW TO LIVE.
HE DIED AND THEN HE ROSE AGAIN
00:17:46.60\00:17:51.16
AND HE WENT BACK TO HEAVEN TO BE
OUR HIGH PRIEST - OUR ADVOCATE -
00:17:51.16\00:17:57.43
AND SO JESUS HAS TO
FINISH IT. HE HAS TO COME BACK.
00:17:57.43\00:18:04.66
THERE'S NO POINT COMING AND
FORGIVING US - NO POINT COMING
00:18:04.66\00:18:08.86
TO SEND - LEAVING AND THEN
SENDING HIS HOLY SPIRIT TO GIVE
00:18:08.86\00:18:11.86
US POWER AND VICTORY OVER SIN
AND THEN JUST KIND OF LEAVING
00:18:11.86\00:18:14.66
THE SIN CONDITION
TO CONTINUE AS IT IS.
00:18:14.66\00:18:17.10
JESUS IS GOING TO COME AND IT'S
GOING TO BE DONE AND IT'S GOING
00:18:17.10\00:18:19.90
TO BE ALL SAID AND DONE AND
OVER WITH. HE HAS TO FINISH IT.
00:18:19.90\00:18:23.53
HE DIDN'T START IT BUT JESUS IS
GOING TO FINISH IT, AMEN? SURE.
00:18:23.53\00:18:28.46
ALRIGHT, SO WE ENCOUNTER A BIT
OF A PROBLEM HERE - IT'S NOT A
00:18:28.46\00:18:32.36
BIG PROBLEM FOR GOD BUT THERE IS
A BIT OF A PROBLEM. IN MATTHEW
00:18:32.36\00:18:35.06
24 AND VERSE 14, WE
FIND THESE INTERESTING -
00:18:35.06\00:18:38.90
NOT INTERESTING
NECESSARILY, BUT FAMILIAR WORDS
00:18:38.90\00:18:41.70
AND POWERFUL
WORDS AND HOPEFUL WORDS.
00:18:41.70\00:18:44.83
MATTHEW CHAPTER 24 AND VERSE 14,
WE'RE TOLD THESE THINGS, "AND
00:18:44.83\00:18:51.93
THIS GOSPEL" - THIS IS JESUS
SPEAKING - "AND THIS GOSPEL OF
00:18:51.93\00:18:54.50
THE KINGDOM WILL BE PREACHED
IN ALL THE WORLD AS A WITNESS TO
00:18:54.50\00:18:59.63
ALL THE NATIONS, AND
THEN THE END WILL COME."
00:18:59.63\00:19:03.10
AND SO WHAT MUST
TAKE PLACE FIRST?
00:19:03.10\00:19:06.00
THE GOSPEL,
ACCORDING TO WHAT JESUS SAID.
00:19:06.00\00:19:08.70
THE GOSPEL MUST GO
TO THE ENTIRE WORLD.
00:19:08.70\00:19:11.83
NOW, THIS ISN'T JUST ANY GOSPEL
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE, IS IT?
00:19:11.83\00:19:15.40
YOU REMEMBER YOU GO OVER TO
REVELATION CHAPTER 14 YOU'VE GOT
00:19:15.40\00:19:17.83
THESE THREE ANGELS FLYING IN THE
MIDST - THERE'S ANGELS FLYING IN
00:19:17.83\00:19:21.33
THE MIDST OF
HEAVEN. WHAT DO THEY HAVE?
00:19:21.33\00:19:23.00
THEY HAVE THE
EVERLASTING GOSPEL.
00:19:23.00\00:19:26.33
AND SO UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF THE
EVERLASTING GOSPEL YOU HAVE THIS
00:19:26.33\00:19:29.23
THREE-POINT MESSAGE OF JUDGMENT
AND WORSHIPING THE CREATOR, YOU
00:19:29.23\00:19:33.53
GOT THE MESSAGE THAT BABYLON IS
FALLEN, AND THEN THE WARNING NOT
00:19:33.53\00:19:37.13
TO WORSHIP THE BEAST, WORSHIP
THE IMAGE, OR RECEIVE ITS MARK.
00:19:37.13\00:19:40.86
AND SO, IT'S NOT JUST ANY GOSPEL
- 'HEY, JESUS DIED ON THE CROSS
00:19:40.86\00:19:44.10
FOR YOU' - AND I DON'T WANT
TO REMOVE ANYTHING POWERFUL -
00:19:44.10\00:19:46.73
THAT'S POWERFUL - I DON'T WANT
TO REMOVE ANYTHING AWAY FROM
00:19:46.73\00:19:48.66
THAT, BUT THERE'S MORE TO IT
THAN JUST JESUS SIMPLY COMING TO
00:19:48.66\00:19:53.13
LIVE AND THEN DIE AND RISE
AGAIN. AS POWERFUL AS THAT IS,
00:19:53.13\00:19:56.70
AND AS NECESSARY AS THAT
IS, THERE IS MORE AND THE BIBLE
00:19:56.70\00:20:04.40
GOSPEL NEEDS TO BE TAKEN TO
THE ENTIRE WORLD. IT'S NOT JUST
00:20:04.40\00:20:07.70
ANY GOSPEL, IT'S THE EVERLASTING
AND PEOPLE NEED TO HEAR IT.
00:20:07.70\00:20:12.10
I THINK IT WAS IN MARK - MARK 16
- JESUS SAID, 'THE GOSPEL MUST
00:20:12.10\00:20:16.86
BE TAKEN TO EVERY CREATURE.'
THAT'S EVERYONE ON EVERY STREET
00:20:16.86\00:20:22.63
IN EVERY CUL-DE-SAC, ON EVERY
RURAL ROUTE, IN EVERY HIGH-RISE
00:20:22.63\00:20:26.56
APARTMENT - EVERYONE
MUST HEAR THE GOSPEL.
00:20:26.56\00:20:29.83
SO THE QUESTION IS: IS IT AT ALL
POSSIBLE THAT THIS CAN HAPPEN?
00:20:29.83\00:20:35.13
IN ORDER FOR THIS - THIS ISSUE
OF SIN TO COME TO A CLOSE AND
00:20:35.13\00:20:39.56
FOR JESUS TO COME BACK AND IS IT
POSSIBLE THAT THE GOSPEL CAN BE
00:20:39.56\00:20:43.93
TAKEN TO EVERYBODY
BEFORE HE RETURNS? YES, YES.
00:20:43.93\00:20:49.00
IT'S NOT MISSION
IMPOSSIBLE BECAUSE WITH GOD
00:20:49.00\00:20:51.46
IT'S MISSION POSSIBLE. I
JUST WANT YOU TO CONSIDER SOME
00:20:51.46\00:20:54.90
STATISTICS HERE JUST FOR A
MOMENT AND I GOT THESE HERE FROM
00:20:54.90\00:20:57.86
A LITTLE BOOK - IT'S INTERESTING
- AND IT SAYS THAT THERE ARE
00:20:57.86\00:21:01.26
SEVEN, OF COURSE, WE REACHED
THE SEVEN BILLION MARK ON PLANET
00:21:01.26\00:21:04.36
EARTH NOT TOO LONG AGO.
PRESENTLY THERE ARE OVER ONE
00:21:04.36\00:21:07.56
BILLION PEOPLE IN
BOTH CHINA AND INDIA.
00:21:07.56\00:21:10.00
THE CONTINENT OF AFRICA HAS JUST
TOPPED THE ONE BILLION MARK.
00:21:10.00\00:21:13.46
OF THE MORE THAN SEVEN BILLION
PEOPLE ON PLANET EARTH, ONLY 30
00:21:13.46\00:21:17.20
PERCENT OR 2.2
BILLION ARE CHRISTIAN.
00:21:17.20\00:21:21.53
THERE ARE 1.5 BILLION
MUSLIM, 1.1 BILLION SECULAR AND
00:21:21.53\00:21:26.66
AGNOSTICS AND ATHEISTS,
900 MILLION HINDUS, 376 MILLION
00:21:26.66\00:21:31.96
BUDDHISTS ALONG WITH HUNDREDS
OF OTHER RELIGIOUS GROUPS.
00:21:31.96\00:21:35.66
NOW, ALTHOUGH THE SEVENTH DAY
ADVENTIST CHURCH IS ONE OF THE
00:21:35.66\00:21:38.70
FASTEST GROWING CHRISTIAN
DENOMINATIONS BAPTIZING ABOUT A
00:21:38.70\00:21:41.96
MILLION PEOPLE EVERY YEAR, WITH
OVER 17 MILLION MEMBERS, WE ARE
00:21:41.96\00:21:46.63
APPROXIMATELY ONE PERCENT OF ALL
CHRISTIANS, WHICH MEANS WE ARE
00:21:46.63\00:21:51.73
ONLY A FRACTION OF THE
PERCENT OF THE POPULATION.
00:21:51.73\00:21:56.13
THIS PROPOSES A POTENTIAL
DILEMMA: A VERY SMALL FRACTION
00:21:56.13\00:22:00.93
OF PEOPLE TAKING THIS
MESSAGE TO THE ENTIRE GLOBE.
00:22:00.93\00:22:07.20
INTERESTING QUESTIONS AND THE
LESSON BRINGS OUT SOME OF THESE
00:22:07.20\00:22:10.80
QUESTIONS. HOW WILL
THE WORK ON EARTH EVER
00:22:10.80\00:22:13.70
BE FINISHED WITH
SUCH A SMALL NUMBER?
00:22:13.70\00:22:16.83
IF IT IS POSSIBLE FOR THE
GOSPEL, IN THE CONTEXT OF THE
00:22:16.83\00:22:19.73
THREE ANGELS' MESSAGES - IS IT
POSSIBLE FOR THE GOSPEL, IN THE
00:22:19.73\00:22:23.26
CONTEXT OF THE THREE ANGELS'
MESSAGES, TO CIRCLE THIS GLOBE
00:22:23.26\00:22:26.80
TO GET TO EVERY
INHABITANT IN A SHORT TIME?
00:22:26.80\00:22:29.23
WHAT - AND IF IT'S POSSIBLE,
WHAT WILL BE THE BREAKTHROUGH?
00:22:29.23\00:22:32.93
WHAT MECHANISM WILL GOD
USE TO BRING THIS ABOUT?
00:22:32.93\00:22:36.26
AND THAT'S WHAT THE
LESSON IS ABOUT HERE.
00:22:36.26\00:22:37.93
ROMANS CHAPTER 9 AND VERSE 28 -
YOU CAN TURN THAT - LOOK AT THAT
00:22:37.93\00:22:42.20
IN YOUR BIBLES - ROMANS 9:28 -
WE HAVE THIS ENCOURAGING THOUGHT
00:22:42.20\00:22:45.33
- ENCOURAGING WORDS - IT SAYS,
"FOR HE" - THAT IS GOD - "WILL
00:22:45.33\00:22:50.43
FINISH THE WORK AND CUT IT SHORT
IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, BECAUSE THE
00:22:50.43\00:22:57.53
LORD WILL MAKE A
SHORT WORK UPON THE EARTH."
00:22:57.53\00:23:01.90
SO WE HAVE SOME
ENCOURAGEMENT HERE.
00:23:01.90\00:23:03.50
WHO'S GOING TO
FINISH THE WORK? GOD.
00:23:03.50\00:23:05.96
NOW THAT DOESN'T LET
US OFF THE HOOK HERE.
00:23:05.96\00:23:08.80
GOD DESIRES TO USE AND WANTS
TO USE AND IS GOING TO USE FLESH
00:23:08.80\00:23:14.70
AND BLOOD - PEOPLE -
HUMAN BEINGS LIKE YOU AND I.
00:23:14.70\00:23:17.33
THERE'S A
PARTNERSHIP THAT TAKES PLACE.
00:23:17.33\00:23:18.80
GOD HAS ASSURED US THAT HE'LL
FINISH THE WORK, BUT HE WANTS TO
00:23:18.80\00:23:21.40
INVOLVE YOU AND HE
WANTS TO INVOLVE ME.
00:23:21.40\00:23:24.30
THIS IS A TEAM EFFORT. OKAY,
HOW DOES HE DO THAT? LET'S GO TO
00:23:24.30\00:23:28.86
SUNDAY'S LESSON 'THE PROMISED
POWER' - THE PROMISED POWER.
00:23:28.86\00:23:33.56
WE REMEMBER THE 2003
NORTHEAST BLACKOUT PRETTY WELL.
00:23:33.56\00:23:38.46
I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF YOU READ
ABOUT THAT OR HEARD ABOUT THAT.
00:23:38.46\00:23:40.76
IT DIDN'T AFFECT YOU OUT HERE.
A MAJOR BLACKOUT ACROSS SOME
00:23:40.76\00:23:45.36
NORTHEASTERN-MIDWESTERN STATES
- EVEN INTO EASTERN CANADA.
00:23:45.36\00:23:49.66
AND WE REMEMBER IT WELL BECAUSE
WE WERE ACTUALLY MOVING HOUSE AT
00:23:49.66\00:23:52.23
THAT TIME IN 2003. WE
WERE LIVING IN CANADA AND,
00:23:52.23\00:23:55.93
FORTUNATELY, I WAS ABLE TO PICK
UP A U-HAUL AND GET THAT IN TIME
00:23:55.93\00:24:00.20
BEFORE THE POWER OUTAGE,
WHICH OCCURRED AT 4:00 IN THE
00:24:00.20\00:24:02.26
AFTERNOON AND IT
LASTED FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS.
00:24:02.26\00:24:05.96
IT AFFECTED ABOUT 10 MILLION
PEOPLE IN ONTARIO, WHICH IS
00:24:05.96\00:24:09.36
WHERE WE WERE LIVING, AND 45
MILLION IN EIGHT STATES HERE IN
00:24:09.36\00:24:13.53
THE U.S. AND IT'S
THE SECOND - IT WAS THE
00:24:13.53\00:24:15.70
SECOND LARGEST
BLACKOUT IN HISTORY.
00:24:15.70\00:24:17.33
IN 1999 SOUTHERN BRAZIL HAD
A MAJOR BLACKOUT AND THAT HAS
00:24:17.33\00:24:22.20
REMAINED AT NUMBER 1. NOW
WHAT WAS FASCINATING ABOUT
00:24:22.20\00:24:25.46
THIS BLACKOUT WAS THAT MOST
ONTARIANS THOUGHT THAT - OR WHAT
00:24:25.46\00:24:32.20
CONCERNED THEM OR WHAT
GOT THEIR ATTENTION WAS THAT
00:24:32.20\00:24:35.03
WHEN THEY FOUND OUT THAT THE
OUTAGE CAME FROM A SOFTWARE BUG
00:24:35.03\00:24:38.56
IN AN ALARM SYSTEM IN THE FIRST
ENERGY CORPORATION IN OHIO,
00:24:38.56\00:24:46.26
IT GOT THEIR ATTENTION.
00:24:46.26\00:24:48.40
FOR THE FIRST TIME, ONTARIANS
REALIZED THAT THEIR POWER -
00:24:48.40\00:24:51.70
THEIR ENERGY SOURCES
- WERE COMING FROM OHIO?
00:24:51.70\00:24:56.73
THIS WAS ODD BECAUSE ON THE
COAST THERE, OF LAKE ONTARIO, A
00:24:56.73\00:25:00.20
COUPLE OF POWERFUL NUCLEAR POWER
PLANTS, WHICH PRODUCES ENOUGH
00:25:00.20\00:25:03.86
ENERGY FOR THE NEEDS IN ONTARIO
AND THEY FOUND OUT THAT THEY'D
00:25:03.86\00:25:09.86
BEEN BUYING ENERGY FROM
SOMEWHERE ELSE WHEN THEY'D HAD
00:25:09.86\00:25:13.16
ENERGY RIGHT THERE - POWER RIGHT
THERE - IN THEIR OWN BACKYARD.
00:25:13.16\00:25:17.30
THANKFULLY, THE BIBLE TELLS
US WE DON'T HAVE TO GO ANYWHERE
00:25:17.30\00:25:20.26
ELSE, CONJURE UP ANY OTHER
DEVICE TO RECEIVE POWER THAT GOD
00:25:20.26\00:25:24.06
WANTS TO GIVE US
FOR A FINISHED WORK.
00:25:24.06\00:25:26.00
JESUS OFFERS THIS TO US FREELY.
00:25:26.00\00:25:28.70
JESUS GIVES US A CLUE AS TO HOW
HE PLANS TO FINISH AND COMPLETE
00:25:28.70\00:25:33.13
HIS WORK SO THAT WE CAN LEAVE
PLANET EARTH TO BE WITH HIM.
00:25:33.13\00:25:36.30
MATTHEW CHAPTER 28 AND THERE'S
- SOMEONE HAS ACTS CHAPTER 1,
00:25:36.30\00:25:39.10
VERSE 8 THIS MORNING -
ACTS CHAPTER 1, VERSE 8 -
00:25:39.10\00:25:41.73
RIGHT DOWN HERE. OKAY, FABULOUS.
MATTHEW 28:18-20 - YOU REMEMBER
00:25:41.73\00:25:46.00
THESE WORDS OF JESUS - HE SAID
- AND HE SPOKE TO THEM AS HE'S
00:25:46.00\00:25:50.20
ABOUT TO LEAVE - HE SAYS, ALL
POWER - "'ALL AUTHORITY HAS BEEN
00:25:50.20\00:25:55.26
GIVEN TO ME IN HEAVEN AND
ON EARTH. GO THEREFORE AND MAKE
00:25:55.26\00:25:58.90
DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS,
BAPTIZING THEM IN THE NAME OF
00:25:58.90\00:26:02.50
THE FATHER AND OF THE SON AND OF
THE HOLY SPIRIT, TEACHING THEM
00:26:02.50\00:26:05.63
TO OBSERVE ALL THINGS THAT
I HAVE COMMANDED YOU; AND LO,
00:26:05.63\00:26:07.70
I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS,
EVEN TO THE END OF THE AGE.'"
00:26:07.70\00:26:11.36
SO JESUS GIVES US A CLUE RIGHT
HERE AS TO HOW HE'S GOING TO GET
00:26:11.36\00:26:16.06
THE WORK DONE -
THROUGH HUMAN INSTRUMENTALITY.
00:26:16.06\00:26:19.16
FIRST, BEFORE HE TELLS
THEM TO GO, HE TELLS THEM WHAT?
00:26:19.16\00:26:22.93
'I HAVE GIVEN - I HAVE' - WHAT?
- 'ALL POWER - ALL AUTHORITY HAS
00:26:22.93\00:26:27.06
BEEN GIVEN TO ME.' AND
THEN HE CLOSES THE GREAT
00:26:27.06\00:26:30.70
GOSPEL COMMISSION WITH
THE WORDS, 'LO, I AM WITH YOU
00:26:30.70\00:26:34.30
ALWAYS.' SO TWO
THINGS - HE PREFACES HIS
00:26:34.30\00:26:39.06
COMMAND WITH THE ASSURANCE
OF TWO THINGS: HE HAS POWER AND
00:26:39.06\00:26:43.33
THAT HE WILL BE WITH US ALWAYS.
OKAY, IN LUKE CHAPTER 24 AND
00:26:43.33\00:26:48.43
VERSE 49 - I'VE JUST GOT A
COUPLE OF VERSE HERE AND YOU CAN
00:26:48.43\00:26:50.53
TURN THERE OR YOU CAN
MARK THEM DOWN, THAT'S FINE.
00:26:50.53\00:26:52.70
JESUS CONTINUES THE THOUGHT.
00:26:52.70\00:26:55.06
HE SAYS, "BEHOLD, I SEND THE
PROMISE OF MY FATHER UPON YOU,
00:26:55.06\00:26:59.63
BUT TARRY IN THE CITY OF
JERUSALEM UNTIL YOU ARE ENDUED"
00:26:59.63\00:27:07.80
AND THEN IN ACTS CHAPTER 1
AND VERSE 8 - THANKS BROTHER.
00:27:07.80\00:27:12.06
>>BUT YOU SHALL RECEIVE POWER
WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS COME
00:27:12.06\00:27:15.03
UPON YOU; AND YOU SHALL BE
WITNESSES TO ME IN JERUSALEM,
00:27:15.03\00:27:19.06
AND IN ALL JUDEA AND SAMARIA,
AND TO THE END OF THE EARTH."
00:27:19.06\00:27:23.13
>>OKAY, WONDERFUL. SO HOW IS
IT THAT JESUS WILL BE WITH US
00:27:23.13\00:27:27.23
ALWAYS AS A MAN WHO DWELLS
IN HEAVEN? IN A GLORIFIED BODY,
00:27:27.23\00:27:32.36
YOU UNDERSTAND, BUT HE'S -
HE HAS TAKEN ON HUMAN NATURE.
00:27:32.36\00:27:36.33
HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT JESUS
SAYS HE CAN BE WITH US ALWAYS?
00:27:36.33\00:27:39.16
THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT
- THROUGH THE COMFORTER.
00:27:39.16\00:27:41.93
HE SAID, 'WHEN I LEAVE I'M
GOING TO SEND YOU A COMFORTER.'
00:27:41.93\00:27:43.70
AS A MATTER OF FACT, HE SAID,
'IT'S EXPEDIENT THAT I DO GO.'
00:27:43.70\00:27:47.06
AND, OF COURSE, THE DISCIPLES
WERE PROBABLY JUST BOTHERED BY
00:27:47.06\00:27:52.53
THAT TO A CERTAIN DEGREE.
'HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT IT'S
00:27:52.53\00:27:55.70
BETTER THAT YOU GO SO
YOU CAN SEND THE COMFORTER?
00:27:55.70\00:27:57.76
WE WOULD RATHER YOU.' BUT JESUS
WAS TELLING US A VERY POWERFUL
00:27:57.76\00:28:01.43
TRUTH AND THAT IS THAT THE HOLY
SPIRIT - 'I CAN ONLY BE IN ONE
00:28:01.43\00:28:05.46
PLACE AT A TIME, BUT THE
HOLY SPIRIT - EVERYWHERE.
00:28:05.46\00:28:10.43
HE CAN BE EVERYWHERE AND HE CAN
BRING TO YOU COMFORT AND HOPE
00:28:10.43\00:28:13.66
I'M GOING TO BE WITH YOU ALWAYS.
IT'S GOING TO BE THROUGH THAT
00:28:18.13\00:28:21.60
OTHER PARACLETE - THE COMFORTER
- THAT OTHER ADVOCATE -
00:28:21.60\00:28:26.03
THE COMFORTER - THE
THIRD PERSON OF THE GODHEAD.
00:28:26.03\00:28:29.90
AND WHEN HE COMES, THE BIBLE
SAYS HE WILL RECEIVE - YOU WILL
00:28:29.90\00:28:33.30
RECEIVE POWER TO BE MY WHAT?
WITNESSES. THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES
00:28:33.30\00:28:38.40
UPON GOD'S PEOPLE SO THAT
WE MIGHT BE HIS WITNESSES.
00:28:38.40\00:28:42.36
THAT WORD 'POWER' IS FROM THE
GREEK WORD 'DUNAMIS' FROM WHICH
00:28:42.36\00:28:46.90
WE GET OUR ENGLISH WORD -
DYNAMITE - THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT.
00:28:46.90\00:28:51.23
SO POWER - EXPLOSIVE INHERENT
POWER READY TO BE PUT TO USE IS
00:28:51.23\00:28:55.90
WHAT GOD BRINGS TO US IN THE
PERSON OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, YOU
00:28:55.90\00:29:00.90
UNDERSTAND. AND WHAT
WERE THE RESULTS WHEN
00:29:00.90\00:29:03.66
THE EARLY CHURCH RECEIVED THE
OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
00:29:03.66\00:29:06.40
THERE? WHAT WERE THE RESULTS?
00:29:06.40\00:29:08.63
I GLEANED SOME OF THESE
THINGS FROM THE LITTLE - IT'S A
00:29:08.63\00:29:14.13
COLLECTION OF THOUGHTS FROM
ELLEN WHITE - 'LAST DAY EVENTS'.
00:29:14.13\00:29:18.93
HERE ARE SOME OF THE - HERE ARE
SOME OF THE THOUGHTS AND YOU CAN
00:29:18.93\00:29:20.83
READ THIS IN THE BIBLE.
THEY WERE WORDS OF PENITENCE AND
00:29:20.83\00:29:23.83
THERE WAS CONFESSION, MINGLED
WITH SONGS OF PRAISE, FOR SINS
00:29:23.83\00:29:26.73
FORGIVEN. THERE
WERE THOUSANDS THAT WERE
00:29:26.73\00:29:29.86
CONVERTED. HEARTS
WERE SURCHARGED WITH
00:29:29.86\00:29:32.43
BENEVOLENCE. THE
GOSPEL WAS TAKEN TO THE ENDS
00:29:32.43\00:29:35.23
OF THE EARTH.
BACKSLIDERS WERE RECONVERTED.
00:29:35.23\00:29:38.26
THE DESIRE TO REVEAL
CHRIST-LIKENESS AND TO LABOR TO
00:29:38.26\00:29:42.43
ENLARGE THE BORDER OF THE
KINGDOM OF HEAVEN - ALL OF THESE
00:29:42.43\00:29:45.83
TOOK PLACE UNDER THE OUTPOURING
OF THE HOLY SPIRIT RIGHT THERE -
00:29:45.83\00:29:49.76
BACK THERE ON
THE DAY OF PENTECOST.
00:29:49.76\00:29:51.83
CAN IT BE THE SAME FOR US
TODAY? SOMETIMES WE GET A LITTLE
00:29:51.83\00:29:56.13
CONCERNED AND WE
WONDER, 'IS IT POSSIBLE?'
00:29:56.13\00:29:58.03
BECAUSE WE DON'T SEE IT TO THAT
EXTENT - LIKE WE SAW IT IN THE
00:29:58.03\00:30:01.26
EARLY CHURCH. WE'RE
GOING TO EXPLORE THIS HERE
00:30:01.26\00:30:05.73
AS WE GO INTO MONDAY'S LESSON.
I'M GOING TO SUBMIT TO US HERE
00:30:05.73\00:30:08.76
THIS MORNING - YES, YES, WHAT
WAS PROMISED BACK THEN WE CAN
00:30:08.76\00:30:13.50
EXPERIENCE TODAY. AND WE MUST
EXPERIENCE TODAY IF THE WORK IS
00:30:13.50\00:30:18.36
EVER GOING TO GET DONE. SO
WE'RE ON MONDAY'S LESSON AND
00:30:18.36\00:30:21.23
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE
EARLY AND THE LATTER RAIN.
00:30:21.23\00:30:23.86
AND HERE'S WHERE WE WILL BRING
IT DOWN TO OUR DAY AND AGE.
00:30:23.86\00:30:27.33
IF YOU'VE EVER LIVED IN A DRY
STATE - I THINK YOU DO, DON'T
00:30:27.33\00:30:34.20
YOU, YES WE DO -
CALIFORNIA - IT'S A LITTLE DRY.
00:30:34.20\00:30:38.16
WHEN THE RAINS COME -
PRETTY REFRESHING, ISN'T IT?
00:30:38.16\00:30:40.46
YEAH, IT'S REFRESHING,
IT'S NICE, IT'S AWESOME.
00:30:40.46\00:30:43.96
YOU CAN IMAGINE IF YOU LIVED
IN PALESTINE WHERE THERE'D BE A
00:30:43.96\00:30:48.03
SEASON OF RAIN - THE RAINY
SEASON - YOU CAN UNDERSTAND,
00:30:48.03\00:30:53.43
WHEN THE RAIN WOULD COME IT
WOULD JUST BE A MASSIVE RELIEF -
00:30:53.43\00:30:56.20
A REPRIEVE FROM THE HOT ARID
SUMMERS, YOU UNDERSTAND. BUT
00:30:56.20\00:31:01.53
MORE SO, IT WAS MORE IMPORTANT
BECAUSE - IT WAS VERY IMPORTANT
00:31:01.53\00:31:04.10
BECAUSE OF THE AGRICULTURAL
- THE SEASON OR CYCLES.
00:31:04.10\00:31:08.30
WHEN THE RAINS WOULD FALL
IT WOULD HELP TO BREAK UP THE
00:31:08.30\00:31:11.56
GROUND AND GERMINATE THE SEED
AND THEN AT THE LATTER END OF
00:31:11.56\00:31:15.36
THE - TOWARD THE TIME OF THE
HARVEST MORE RAIN WOULD COME,
00:31:15.36\00:31:18.70
WHICH WOULD RIPEN THE HARVEST -
VERY IMPORTANT AND SO BACK THERE
00:31:18.70\00:31:22.36
IN DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 11, VERSE
14, GOD PROMISED HIS PEOPLE -
00:31:22.36\00:31:26.83
AND YOU CAN COMPARE THIS WITH
LEVITICUS CHAPTER 26 AND VERSE 3
00:31:26.83\00:31:30.50
- GOD PROMISED HIS PEOPLE THAT
IF THEY WERE FAITHFUL AND THEY
00:31:30.50\00:31:33.36
WERE OBEDIENT AND THEY
HONORED HIM AND PUT HIM FIRST IN
00:31:33.36\00:31:35.83
EVERYTHING, HE WOULD SEND THEM
THE EARLY AND THE LATTER RAIN.
00:31:35.83\00:31:41.36
WE'LL DEFINE
THAT IN JUST A SECOND.
00:31:41.36\00:31:43.73
DEUTERONOMY 11, VERSE 14 - AND
SOMEONE HAS JOEL 2:23 - WE'RE
00:31:43.73\00:31:47.50
GOING TO LOOK AT JOEL
2:23 - THANK YOU MICHAEL.
00:31:47.50\00:31:49.76
DEUTERONOMY 11:14 SAYS, "THEN I
WILL GIVE YOU THE RAIN FOR YOUR
00:31:49.76\00:31:54.80
LAND IN ITS SEASON, THE EARLY
RAIN AND THE LATTER RAIN, THAT
00:31:54.80\00:32:01.13
YOU MAY GATHER IN YOUR GRAIN,
YOUR NEW WINE, AND YOUR OIL."
00:32:01.13\00:32:04.53
IT'S FASCINATING, WHEN YOU LOOK
UP THE WORDS 'EARLY RAIN' AND
00:32:04.53\00:32:07.83
'LATTER RAIN' IN THE BIBLE,
THOSE TWO PHRASES APPEAR SEVEN
00:32:07.83\00:32:13.36
TIMES TOGETHER IN THE
SCRIPTURES. WE WERE HAVING FUN
00:32:13.36\00:32:16.50
ON TUESDAY NIGHT AT PRAYER
MEETING, DISCUSSING THE LATTER
00:32:16.50\00:32:19.53
RAIN AND THE EARLY RAIN AND
LOOKING AT ALL OF THOSE TEXTS.
00:32:19.53\00:32:22.26
WE'RE NOT GOING TO DO THAT HERE
THIS MORNING, BUT SUFFICE TO
00:32:22.26\00:32:24.63
SAY, EARLY AND LATTER RAINS TO
AN ISRAELITE - TO SOMEONE LIVING
00:32:24.63\00:32:28.46
IN PALESTINE, EVEN
TODAY - VERY ESSENTIAL.
00:32:28.46\00:32:31.96
MUCH MORE ARID TODAY THAN IT
WAS IN THE DAYS OF JESUS AND THE
00:32:31.96\00:32:34.86
DAYS OF THE PROPHETS, YOU
UNDERSTAND. BUT IT WAS STILL
00:32:34.86\00:32:38.90
ESSENTIAL BACK THEN AND
STILL IS VERY ESSENTIAL TODAY.
00:32:38.90\00:32:41.80
THE EARLY RAINS WOULD FALL
- WOULD FALL JUST AROUND THE
00:32:41.80\00:32:46.73
AUTUMN TIME AND THAT
WOULD BE ABOUT OCTOBER.
00:32:46.73\00:32:50.56
AND AS I MENTIONED BEFORE, IT
WOULD CAUSE THE GROUND TO BECOME
00:32:50.56\00:32:53.86
SOFT SO THEY COULD BREAK IT UP,
PLANT THE SEED, THE SEED COULD
00:32:53.86\00:32:59.70
THE COLD WINTER MONTHS WOULD
SET WOULIN. THE LAND WOULD BE
00:32:59.70\00:33:02.86
COMPLETELY DEPENDENT UPON THIS
EARLY RAIN. AND THEN, THE LATTER
00:33:02.86\00:33:06.86
RAIN FELL IN THE SPRING JUST
BEFORE THE SUMMER AND THAT WAS
00:33:06.86\00:33:10.53
JUST BEFORE THE HARVEST DURING
THE MONTHS OF MARCH AND EARLY
00:33:10.53\00:33:14.73
APRIL AND THEY BROUGHT
THE CROPS TO FULL MATURITY.
00:33:14.73\00:33:19.63
THE BARLEY HARVEST IN PALESTINE
WOULD BE HARVESTED AROUND THE
00:33:19.63\00:33:23.93
MIDDLE TO END OF APRIL AND THEN
A MONTH LATER YOU'D HAVE WHEAT
00:33:23.93\00:33:27.46
AND THEN YOU'D GO INTO
THE SUMMER AND YOU'D HAVE YOUR
00:33:27.46\00:33:29.70
SUMMER FRUITS LIKE FIGS,
ETC. AND THEN OLIVES AND GRAPES
00:33:29.70\00:33:33.93
WOULD COME IN THE LATE
SUMMER INTO THE EARLY FALL.
00:33:33.93\00:33:36.50
SO THERE WAS A LOT OF
GROWTH TAKING PLACE AND A LOT OF
00:33:36.50\00:33:40.16
HARVESTING TAKING PLACE FROM
MARCH RIGHT THROUGH TO THE END
00:33:40.16\00:33:45.23
OF THE SUMMER
INTO THE EARLY FALL.
00:33:45.23\00:33:48.10
SO THAT WOULD
BE THE LATTER RAIN.
00:33:48.10\00:33:50.33
AND GOD, IT SEEMS, USES
THIS SYMBOLISM OF THE EARLY AND
00:33:50.33\00:33:53.33
LATTER RAIN TO SPEAK TO US OF
JESUS AND TO SPEAK TO US OF THE
00:33:53.33\00:33:56.90
HOLY SPIRIT. IN HOSEA
CHAPTER 6 AND VERSE 3 -
00:33:56.90\00:34:00.90
WE'RE GOING TO GET TO JOEL 2
IN JUST A MOMENT - BUT IN HOSEA
00:34:00.90\00:34:03.43
CHAPTER 6 AND VERSE 3 THE
BIBLE SAYS, "LET US KNOW, LET US
00:34:03.43\00:34:10.10
HIS GOING FORTH IS ESTABLISHED
AS THE MORNING; HE WILL COME TO
00:34:10.10\00:34:13.66
US" - BY THE WAY, WHO
IS THIS TALKING ABOUT?
00:34:13.66\00:34:16.63
IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE LORD -
HIS GOING FORTH IS PREPARED AS
00:34:16.63\00:34:21.10
THE MORNING, YOU UNDERSTAND,
IF WE PURSUE AFTER HIM - "HIS
00:34:21.10\00:34:24.40
GOING FORTH IS ESTABLISHED AS
THE MORNING; HE WILL COME TO US
00:34:24.40\00:34:27.73
LIKE THE RAIN, LIKE THE LATTER
AND FORMER RAIN TO THE EARTH."
00:34:27.73\00:34:33.10
TALKING ABOUT JESUS. IT'S
VERY INTERESTING, YOU SEE, GOD
00:34:33.10\00:34:36.60
PROMISES TO BRING AN ABUNDANT
BLESSING THAT WOULD NOURISH
00:34:36.60\00:34:40.33
AND REVIVE THE SPIRITUAL LIFE
THROUGH JESUS. BOTH THE EARLY
00:34:40.33\00:34:44.73
AND THE LATTER RAIN
HAVE A PERSONAL APPLICATION.
00:34:44.73\00:34:49.00
THE EARLY RAIN REFERS TO THE
DAILY WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN
00:34:49.00\00:34:52.56
CONVERTING US - CONVICTING
US - PERHAPS EVEN TEACHING US.
00:34:52.56\00:34:57.13
AND THE LATTER RAIN WOULD SPEAK
TO GROWTH IN CHRIST - DEVELOPING
00:34:57.13\00:35:02.66
A CHRIST-LIKE CHARACTER, OF
COURSE, ALL THROUGH THE POWER OF
00:35:02.66\00:35:06.83
THE HOLY SPIRIT. BUT
THERE IS - THAT'S A PERSONAL
00:35:06.83\00:35:09.83
APPLICATION AND
THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT.
00:35:09.83\00:35:11.83
THERE'S ALSO A HISTORICAL
APPLICATION AND WE'RE GOING TO
00:35:11.83\00:35:14.60
LOOK AT JOEL,
CHAPTER 2, VERSE 23.
00:35:14.60\00:35:22.13
YOUR GOD; FOR HE HAS GIVEN YOU
THE FORMER RAIN FAITHFULLY, AND
00:35:22.13\00:35:27.16
HE WILL CAUSE THE RAIN TO COME
DOWN FOR YOU - THE FORMER RAIN,
00:35:27.16\00:35:31.20
AND THE LATTER RAIN
IN THE FIRST MONTH."
00:35:31.20\00:35:33.63
>>OKAY, SO GOD PROMISES TO SEND
THE EARLY AND THE LATTER RAIN.
00:35:33.63\00:35:39.20
AND NOTICE - JUMP DOWN TO VERSE
28 NOW - JUMP DOWN TO VERSE 28,
00:35:39.20\00:35:44.13
"AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS
AFTERWARD THAT I WILL POUR OUT
00:35:44.13\00:35:46.80
MY SPIRIT ON ALL FLESH;" - GOD
USES THE SYMBOLISM OF THE EARLY
00:35:46.80\00:35:50.30
AND LATTER RAIN TO SPEAK
TO US OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:35:50.30\00:35:54.13
THE CONTEXT FOR THIS, IF YOU
READ RIGHT THROUGH TO VERSE 31
00:35:54.13\00:35:57.10
IS TALKING ABOUT THE LAST DAYS.
GOD WILL POUR OUT HIS SPIRIT
00:35:57.10\00:36:01.66
UPON ALL FLESH RIGHT BEFORE THE
GREAT AND TERRIBLE - GREAT AND
00:36:01.66\00:36:06.33
AWESOME - DAY OF THE LORD.
THAT WOULD BE JUST PRIOR TO
00:36:06.33\00:36:10.26
JESUS RETURNING AND SO THE BIBLE
USES WATER - RAIN - EARLY AND
00:36:10.26\00:36:16.16
LATTER RAIN TO
SYMBOLIZE THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:36:16.16\00:36:18.73
IT'S NOT THE FIRST TIME. IN
ISAIAH CHAPTER 44 AND VERSE 3
00:36:18.73\00:36:22.33
GOD DOES IT THERE THROUGH
HIS PROPHET. HE TALKS ABOUT -
00:36:22.33\00:36:24.03
GOD'S SAYING, "I'LL POUR
WATER UPON HIM THAT IS THIRSTY.
00:36:24.03\00:36:26.86
I WILL POUR MY SPIRIT
OUT UPON HIM WHO IS DRY."
00:36:26.86\00:36:30.03
AND SO, OF COURSE, THAT'S JUST A
COMMON HEBREW PARALLELISM WHERE,
00:36:30.03\00:36:35.80
INSTEAD OF RHYMING WORDS,
THERE'S RHYMING THOUGHTS - POUR
00:36:35.80\00:36:38.46
OUT WATER - I'LL POUR OUT
MY SPIRIT - YOU UNDERSTAND.
00:36:38.46\00:36:42.80
AND THEN, OF COURSE, JESUS
REFERRED TO HIMSELF AS WATER AND
00:36:42.80\00:36:49.76
THE SPIRIT OF GOD AS WATER IN
JOHN CHAPTER 7, VERSES 37 TO 39.
00:36:49.76\00:36:55.23
NOW, PETER, ON THE DAY OF
PENTECOST - AND WE'RE TALKING
00:36:55.23\00:36:58.86
ABOUT A LOCAL - WE'RE TALKING
ABOUT A HISTORICAL APPLICATION
00:36:58.86\00:37:01.83
FOR THE EARLY
AND THE LATTER RAIN.
00:37:01.83\00:37:03.86
WE'VE TALKED ABOUT A PERSONAL
- BRINGING CONVERSION - BRINGING
00:37:03.86\00:37:06.73
CONVICTION, BRINGING CONVERSION
AND INSTRUCTION AND THE LATTER
00:37:06.73\00:37:10.13
RAIN - THE HOLY SPIRIT WORKING
IN US TO DEVELOP A CHRIST-LIKE
00:37:10.13\00:37:14.36
CHARACTER. AND IN A
HISTORICAL SENSE, THE
00:37:14.36\00:37:16.90
EARLY RAIN FELL IN THE TIME
OF - AT THE TIME OF PENTECOST -
00:37:16.90\00:37:20.66
AT THE TIME OF THE EARLY CHURCH.
PETER APPLIED THE VERSES OF
00:37:20.66\00:37:24.33
JOEL 2:28-31 TO HIS TIME.
REMEMBER FOLK WERE SAYING,
00:37:24.33\00:37:28.86
'YOU GUYS ARE
DRUNK. WHAT'S GOING ON?
00:37:28.86\00:37:30.56
YOU'VE NEVER SAID OR DONE
ANYTHING LIKE THIS BEFORE.
00:37:30.56\00:37:33.83
YOU MUST BE OUT OF YOUR MINDS.'
PETER SAID, 'NO, NO, NO, WHAT
00:37:33.83\00:37:36.06
YOU'RE SEEING TODAY IS WHAT WAS
SPOKEN OF BY THE PROPHET JOEL IN
00:37:36.06\00:37:39.80
CHAPTER 2, VERSES 28
TO 31.' IT HAPPENED THEN.
00:37:39.80\00:37:43.83
BUT HERE'S THE QUESTION - HERE'S
THE QUESTION - JOEL 2 - IT'S
00:37:43.83\00:37:47.63
CONTEXT - IS FOR THE LAST DAYS.
WAS PETER WRONG IN APPLYING
00:37:47.63\00:37:51.86
THOSE VERSES TO HIS DAY? NO, HE
WASN'T. HE WAS UNDER INSPIRATION
00:37:51.86\00:37:57.66
AND HE USED THAT VERSE TO
DESCRIBE A PARTIAL FULFILLMENT -
00:37:57.66\00:38:03.50
A PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF
WHAT TOOK PLACE - A PARTIAL
00:38:03.50\00:38:07.93
FULFILLMENT OF THAT PARTICULAR
BIBLE PASSAGE, YOU SEE.
00:38:07.93\00:38:11.06
IT WASN'T WRONG FOR PETER TO
USE THAT. HISTORICALLY SPEAKING,
00:38:11.06\00:38:14.63
THE EARLY RAIN FELL
AT THE TIME OF PENTECOST.
00:38:14.63\00:38:17.86
THEN IN ACTS CHAPTER 3, VERSES
19 TO 21, IT'S INTERESTING WHAT
00:38:17.86\00:38:24.70
- WHAT PETER GOES ON TO SAY -
AND THIS IS ANOTHER SERMON THAT
00:38:24.70\00:38:29.60
HE'S PREACHING - ACTS CHAPTER 3,
VERSES 19 THROUGH 21 - HE SAYS,
00:38:29.60\00:38:40.23
"REPENT THEREFORE AND BE
CONVERTED, THAT YOUR SINS MAY BE
00:38:40.23\00:38:42.40
BLOTTED OUT, SO THAT TIME
OF REFRESHING MAY COME FROM THE
00:38:42.40\00:38:45.56
PRESENCE OF THE LORD,
AND THAT HE MAY SEND JESUS."
00:38:45.56\00:38:53.46
EARLY AND LATTER RAIN AND THESE
REFRESHINGS WILL COME BEFORE
00:38:53.46\00:38:57.66
WHEN? BEFORE JESUS
COMES. DID YOU SEE THAT?
00:38:57.66\00:39:01.80
DID YOU READ THAT? THAT
HE MAY SEND JESUS WHO HAS
00:39:01.80\00:39:06.43
PREACHED TO US
BEFORE, YOU UNDERSTAND.
00:39:06.43\00:39:09.26
IF YOU GO BACK TO ACTS CHAPTER 2
AND YOU LOOK WITH ME OVER THERE
00:39:09.26\00:39:12.53
AT VERSE - OH, SEE IF I CAN GET
THAT - YEAH, VERSE 39 - I WANT
00:39:12.53\00:39:16.23
YOU TO NOTICE - 38 AND 39 - HE
SAYS, "REPENT, AND LET EVERY ONE
00:39:16.23\00:39:20.36
OF YOU BE BAPTIZED IN THE
NAME OF JESUS CHRIST FOR THE
00:39:20.36\00:39:22.63
REMISSION OF SINS; AND YOU SHALL
RECEIVE THE GIFT OF" - WHOM?
00:39:22.63\00:39:26.23
- "THE HOLY SPIRIT. FOR
THE PROMISE IS TO YOU AND TO" -
00:39:26.23\00:39:30.36
WHO ELSE? - "YOUR CHILDREN,
AND TO ALL WHO ARE" - WHERE? -
00:39:30.36\00:39:34.56
"AFAR OFF, AS MANY AS
THE LORD OUR GOD WILL CALL."
00:39:34.56\00:39:38.93
IT'S VERY
IMPORTANT WE UNDERSTAND THIS.
00:39:38.93\00:39:41.06
WHAT THEY EXPERIENCED ON THE DAY
OF PENTECOST, PETER SAYS CAN BE
00:39:41.06\00:39:46.36
CONTINUALLY EXPERIENCED - YOUR
CHILDREN WILL EXPERIENCE IT,
00:39:46.36\00:39:50.70
THOSE THAT ARE FAR OFF - ANYONE
WHO CALLS ON THE NAME OF THE
00:39:50.70\00:39:53.06
LORD CAN EXPERIENCE WHAT WE
EXPERIENCED HERE - BACK HERE AT
00:39:53.06\00:39:57.76
THE DAY OF PENTECOST.
00:39:57.76\00:39:58.96
THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT FOR
US TO UNDERSTAND, YOU SEE.
00:39:58.96\00:40:01.50
AND WE JUST WENT TO ACTS CHAPTER
3 WHERE PETER TALKS ABOUT THIS
00:40:01.50\00:40:04.53
TIME OF REFRESHING - THE TIME
OF THE EARLY AND THE LATTER RAIN
00:40:04.53\00:40:07.86
THAT MUST BE POURED OUT
BEFORE JESUS COMES BACK.
00:40:07.86\00:40:11.36
WHY MUST THE
LATTER RAIN BE POURED OUT?
00:40:11.36\00:40:13.76
WHY MUST THE
LATTER RAIN BE POURED OUT?
00:40:13.76\00:40:15.56
WHY MUST THE HOLY SPIRIT
BE POURED OUT IN POWER UPON
00:40:15.56\00:40:19.23
GOD'S PEOPLE? WHY?
TO RIPEN THE HARVEST.
00:40:19.23\00:40:24.80
ISN'T THAT WHAT THE LATTER RAIN
WAS FOR? THAT'S WHAT THE LATTER
00:40:24.80\00:40:28.10
RAIN IS FOR OVER
THERE IN PALESTINE TODAY,
00:40:28.10\00:40:29.70
TO RIPEN THE HARVEST.
00:40:29.70\00:40:32.03
YOU KNOW, WHEN JESUS COMES BACK
IN REVELATION CHAPTER 14 AND
00:40:32.03\00:40:35.10
VERSE 14, WE'RE TOLD THAT HE
- WHEN HE COMES BACK - HE HAS ON
00:40:35.10\00:40:38.33
HIS HEAD A GOLDEN CROWN AND IN
HIS HAND A SHARP - WHAT FRIENDS?
00:40:38.33\00:40:42.03
SICKLE - A SICKLE IS AN
INSTRUMENT USED TO HARVEST AND,
00:40:42.03\00:40:48.30
AS A MATTER OF FACT, THE
ANGEL TELLS HIM, 'THRUST IN YOUR
00:40:48.30\00:40:50.53
SICKLE FOR THE EARTH IS
RIPE - READY FOR HARVEST.
00:40:50.53\00:40:54.66
SO BEFORE THERE IS A
HARVEST THERE MUST BE RAIN -
00:40:54.66\00:40:58.56
LATTER RAIN. BEFORE
JESUS COMES THERE MUST BE
00:40:58.56\00:41:00.80
THE OUTPOURING
OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:41:00.80\00:41:03.63
THE PROMISE IS TO YOU AND TO
YOUR CHILDREN AND TO ALL THOSE
00:41:03.63\00:41:06.73
WHO ARE AFAR OFF.
THAT'S A WONDERFUL PROMISE FOR
00:41:06.73\00:41:09.30
YOU AND FOR ME. GOD
IS HELPING US UNDERSTAND,
00:41:09.30\00:41:11.80
HERE HOW THE WORK
IS GOING TO GET DONE.
00:41:11.80\00:41:14.30
THROUGH THE
OUTPOURING OF THE LATTER RAIN.
00:41:14.30\00:41:17.06
AND IF YOU READ ABOUT IT AND
YOU STUDY ABOUT IT ALSO IN THE
00:41:17.06\00:41:19.20
'SPIRIT OF PROPHECY', YOU COME
TO UNDERSTAND THAT WHAT'S GOING
00:41:19.20\00:41:21.53
TO TAKE PLACE IS GOING TO
BE GREATER THAN WHAT TOOK PLACE
00:41:21.53\00:41:24.10
BACK THEN ON THE
DAY OF PENTECOST.
00:41:24.10\00:41:26.53
NOW SOME FOLK GET A LITTLE
WORRIED ABOUT THE LATTER RAIN -
00:41:26.53\00:41:28.86
THEY'RE NOT QUITE SURE WHETHER
THEY'RE FITTING THEMSELVES
00:41:28.86\00:41:30.66
GETTING READY FOR - THEY'RE
GETTING READY - IF THEY'RE GOING
00:41:30.66\00:41:33.10
TO BE READY TO
RECEIVE IT WHEN IT DOES FALL.
00:41:33.10\00:41:36.10
THEY GET ALL CONCERNED AND
DISCOMBOBULATED AND ALL FREAKED
00:41:36.10\00:41:38.83
OUT AND THEN THEY START GETTING
DISCOURAGED AND BACKPEDAL AND
00:41:38.83\00:41:42.26
THEN THEY LEAVE THE
CHURCH AND THEY GET ALL WORRIED.
00:41:42.26\00:41:44.46
THEY DON'T HAVE TO WORRY.
I'VE GOT A LITTLE STATEMENT HERE
00:41:44.46\00:41:46.43
FOR YOU. IT'S
FOUND FROM THE DEVOTIONAL
00:41:46.43\00:41:47.86
BOOK 'UPWARD LOOK' - I WANT YOU
TO LISTEN TO THIS - PAGE 283,
00:41:47.86\00:41:51.26
"WE NEED NOT WORRY
ABOUT THE LATTER RAIN."
00:41:51.26\00:41:53.70
NOW, WHAT SHE'S NOT SAYING
IS THAT WE NEED NOT - SHE'S NOT
00:41:53.70\00:41:57.03
SAYING WE SHOULDN'T BE PRAYING
FOR IT OR WE SHOULDN'T BE
00:41:57.03\00:41:59.23
SEEKING AFTER IT - WE'RE
GOING TO COME TO THAT IN JUST A
00:41:59.23\00:42:01.26
MOMENT. "WE NEED
NOT WORRY ABOUT THE
00:42:01.26\00:42:02.70
LATTER RAIN. ALL WE
HAVE TO DO" - LISTEN
00:42:02.70\00:42:05.50
CAREFULLY - "IS KEEP THE
VESSEL CLEAN AND RIGHT SIDE UP."
00:42:05.50\00:42:11.60
NOW SOME OF THOSE THAT WERE WITH
US AT PRAYER MEETING, WE READ
00:42:11.60\00:42:14.36
THIS STATEMENT. POWERFUL
STATEMENT. ALL YOU NEED TO DO
00:42:14.36\00:42:17.43
IS KEEP THE VESSEL CLEAN
AND RIGHT SIDE UP. POWERFUL.
00:42:17.43\00:42:22.83
SHE GOES ON TO SAY, "AND
PREPARED FOR THE RECEPTION OF
00:42:22.83\00:42:25.40
THE HEAVENLY
RAIN AND KEEP PRAYING.
00:42:25.40\00:42:28.13
LET THE LATTER RAIN COME INTO MY
VESSEL, LORD. LET THE LIGHT OF
00:42:28.13\00:42:31.20
THE GLORIOUS ANGEL WHICH
UNITES WITH THE THIRD ANGEL" -
00:42:31.20\00:42:34.06
WHAT SHE'S REFERRING TO IS
THAT ANGEL FROM REVELATION 18 -
00:42:34.06\00:42:37.00
THE FOURTH ANGEL THAT UNITES
WITH THE MESSAGE OF THE THIRD
00:42:37.00\00:42:40.36
ANGEL, WHICH IS JUSTIFICATION
BY FAITH IN VERITY.
00:42:40.36\00:42:43.50
THE THIRD ANGEL'S MESSAGE,
OF COURSE IT ALL ENCOMPASSES THE
00:42:43.50\00:42:46.90
FIRST AND SECOND ANGELS' MESSAGE
AS WELL, BUT AS THAT IS BEING
00:42:46.90\00:42:49.93
SWELLED AND AS THE MESSAGE
IS GOING TO THE WORLD, THE ANGEL
00:42:49.93\00:42:52.76
COMES DOWN WITH GREAT POWER
AND LIGHTENS THE EARTH WITH THE
00:42:52.76\00:42:56.63
GLORY OF GOD THROUGH HIS
MESSAGE AND HIS MESSENGERS.
00:42:56.63\00:43:01.00
"LET'S KEEP PRAYING," - SHE
SAYS - "THAT THE GLORIOUS ANGEL,
00:43:01.00\00:43:04.13
WHICH UNITES WITH THE
THIRD ANGEL, SHINE UPON ME.
00:43:04.13\00:43:06.83
GIVE ME A PART IN THE WORK.
LET ME SOUND THE PROCLAMATION.
00:43:06.83\00:43:10.46
LET ME BE CO LABORERS WITH
JESUS CHRIST, THUS SEEKING GOD.
00:43:10.46\00:43:15.73
LET ME TELL YOU" - SHE SAYS
- "HE IS FITTING YOU UP ALL THE
00:43:15.73\00:43:19.26
TIME GIVING YOU HIS GRACE."
NOW IF YOU'RE NOT PRAYING,
00:43:19.26\00:43:24.13
'LORD, FIT ME UP FOR YOUR WORK,
DON'T EXCUSE ME ANYMORE, BUT USE
00:43:24.13\00:43:27.86
ME, LORD IN YOUR WORK.
MAKE ME AN INSTRUMENT FIT FOR
00:43:27.86\00:43:32.50
YOUR USE. USE MY
WORDS, USE MY LIFE TO BE
00:43:32.50\00:43:35.76
A BLESSING TO SOMEBODY.' IF
YOU'RE NOT PRAYING THAT THEN
00:43:35.76\00:43:38.66
YOU CAN FORGET ABOUT THE
LATTER RAIN FALLING ON YOU.
00:43:38.66\00:43:40.86
THE LATTER RAIN IS GIVEN TO,
YES, RIPEN OUR CHARACTERS, BUT
00:43:40.86\00:43:44.96
ALSO TO SHARE THE MESSAGE.
THE TWO GO HAND IN HAND.
00:43:44.96\00:43:48.26
YOU CAN'T BE GROWING IN GRACE IF
YOU'RE NOT SHARING THE LOVE OF
00:43:48.26\00:43:51.10
JESUS WITH
OTHERS. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE.
00:43:51.10\00:43:53.33
YOU CAN'T BE - YOU CAN'T
BE GROWING IN CHRIST-LIKENESS
00:43:53.33\00:43:56.60
UNLESS YOU'RE LIKE CHRIST
- HELPING OTHERS AND SERVING
00:43:56.60\00:44:00.36
OTHERS. THE TWO GO HAND
IN HAND, YOU UNDERSTAND.
00:44:00.36\00:44:03.23
IT'S VERY IMPORTANT.
BUT YOU NEED NOT WORRY.
00:44:03.23\00:44:05.70
KEEP THE VESSEL CLEAN.
KEEP IT RIGHT SIDE UP AND PRAY,
00:44:05.70\00:44:09.26
YOU SEE. POWERFUL STUFF.
THAT BRINGS US TO TUESDAY
00:44:09.26\00:44:11.66
'THE PREREQUISITES
FOR THE LATTER RAIN'.
00:44:11.66\00:44:14.33
HOW IS IT THAT WE CAN
RECEIVE THE LATTER RAIN? GOD HAS
00:44:14.33\00:44:17.70
PROMISED IT. IT'S ASSURED
TO US. HOW DO WE RECEIVE IT?
00:44:17.70\00:44:21.16
WE GET A LOT OF CLUES, OF
COURSE, FROM THE EXPERIENCE OF
00:44:21.16\00:44:24.40
THE EARLY DISCIPLES ON THE DAY
OF PENTECOST AND ALSO FROM OTHER
00:44:24.40\00:44:29.06
BIBLE PASSAGES. WE'RE
GOING TO LOOK AT A FEW
00:44:29.06\00:44:31.63
HERE, ZECHARIAH CHAPTER 10 AND
VERSE 1 - AND SOMEONE HAS FOR ME
00:44:31.63\00:44:38.96
- DOES SOMEONE
HAVE ACTS 4:13? YOU DO?
00:44:38.96\00:44:42.53
OKAY, WONDERFUL.
ACTS 4:13 DOWN HERE.
00:44:42.53\00:44:45.03
THE PREREQUISITES
FOR THE LATTER RAIN.
00:44:45.03\00:44:47.06
I'M GOING TO GO THROUGH
THESE RELATIVELY BRIEFLY.
00:44:47.06\00:44:50.10
ZECHARIAH 10:1 SAYS, "ASK
THE LORD" - DO WHAT, FRIENDS?
00:44:50.10\00:44:53.93
- "ASK THE LORD FOR RAIN IN
THE TIME OF THE LATTER RAIN."
00:44:53.93\00:44:58.80
- LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION.
PROPHETICALLY SPEAKING -
00:44:58.80\00:45:00.86
HISTORICALLY SPEAKING, IS THIS
THE TIME OF THE LATTER RAIN?
00:45:00.86\00:45:03.93
IF YOU SAY NO THEN YOU DENY THAT
WE ARE NEAR THE SECOND COMING OF
00:45:03.93\00:45:08.26
JESUS. NOW, WE
DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHEN
00:45:08.26\00:45:09.66
THAT'S GOING TO BE, BUT WHAT WE
CAN BE ASSURED OF IS THAT HE IS
00:45:09.66\00:45:12.13
NEAR. HE IS VERY NEAR, EVEN
AT THE DOOR. YOU UNDERSTAND?
00:45:12.13\00:45:16.70
THIS IS THE TIME OF THE LATTER
RAIN SO WE'RE ENCOURAGED TO DO
00:45:16.70\00:45:19.53
WHAT? ASK. SO
FIRST PREREQUISITE - ASK.
00:45:19.53\00:45:23.56
'YOU HAVE NOT' - JAMES
SAID - 'BECAUSE YOU ASK NOT.'
00:45:23.56\00:45:27.13
JESUS SAID, 'ASK AND IT
SHALL BE GIVEN TO YOU.' YEAH.
00:45:27.13\00:45:30.56
MAN, SOME PARENTS MAY WITHHOLD
FROM THEIR CHILDREN SOME THINGS
00:45:30.56\00:45:34.56
THAT THEY NEED, BUT GOD SAYS,
'UNH UH, I'M WILLING TO GIVE YOU
00:45:34.56\00:45:38.80
EVERY GOOD GIFT. I'M
WILLING TO GIVE YOU MY HOLY
00:45:38.80\00:45:40.63
SPIRIT, YOU
UNDERSTAND, IF YOU JUST ASK."
00:45:40.63\00:45:43.60
THAT'S THE FIRST PREREQUISITE.
00:45:43.60\00:45:44.90
ACTS 3:18 TO 20 - WE READ THAT
JUST A LITTLE BIT AGO, WHERE
00:45:44.90\00:45:48.73
PETER SAYS, 'REPENT AND BE
CONVERTED - BE CONVERTED THAT
00:45:48.73\00:45:54.26
YOUR SINS MAY BE BLOTTED OUT SO
THAT THE TIMES OF REFRESHING' -
00:45:54.26\00:45:58.33
THE LATTER RAINS - 'MAY COME
FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD
00:45:58.33\00:46:01.40
AND THAT HE MAY SEND
JESUS, WHO WAS PREACHED TO YOU.'
00:46:01.40\00:46:04.60
JESUS CANNOT COME UNTIL THE
GOSPEL HAS GONE TO THE WORLD.
00:46:04.60\00:46:08.00
THE GOSPEL CANNOT GO TO
THE WORLD UNLESS WE RECEIVE THE
00:46:08.00\00:46:09.70
TIMES OF HIS REFRESHING. WE
CANNOT RECEIVE HIS REFRESHING
00:46:09.70\00:46:15.96
- THE REFRESHING RAINS OF THE
HOLY SPIRIT UNLESS WE REPENT AND
00:46:15.96\00:46:19.43
ARE - WHAT FRIENDS? - CONVERTED.
00:46:19.43\00:46:21.53
SO SECOND PREREQUISITE, WE
MUST BE THOROUGHLY CONVERTED.
00:46:21.53\00:46:24.23
JESUS MUST HAVE
OUR ENTIRE HEARTS.
00:46:24.23\00:46:26.20
NOT PART OF IT.
NOT 99 PERCENT OF IT.
00:46:26.20\00:46:28.70
HE MUST HAVE ONE
HUNDRED PERCENT OF IT.
00:46:28.70\00:46:30.50
NOT SOME - HE WANTS EVEN THAT
SECRET LITTLE CORNER WAY BACK
00:46:30.50\00:46:33.43
THERE IN THE BACK OF YOUR
HEART. HE WANTS THAT AS WELL.
00:46:33.43\00:46:35.70
WE MUST BE THOROUGHLY CONVERTED,
ALLOWING THE HOLY SPIRIT TO
00:46:35.70\00:46:38.60
CHANGE AND TRANSFORM OUR LIVES.
AND THEN PSALMS 119:25, THE
00:46:38.60\00:46:42.56
PSALMIST SAID, "MY
SOUL CLINGS TO DUST.
00:46:42.56\00:46:44.76
REVIVE ME
ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD."
00:46:44.76\00:46:47.20
WE NEED TO SATURATE OUR MINDS
WITH THE WORD OF GOD, AMEN?
00:46:47.20\00:46:52.00
SURE. THEN ACTS 1:14, "THESE
ALL" - TALKING ABOUT THE UPPER
00:46:52.00\00:46:55.83
ROOM EXPERIENCE BACK THERE WITH
THE EARLY CHURCH - "THESE ALL
00:46:55.83\00:46:59.46
CONTINUED WITH ONE ACCORD" -
THAT IS THEY WERE TOGETHER - "IN
00:46:59.46\00:47:07.06
PJESUS AND WITH HIS BROTHERS.
SO WE MUST BE PUTTING AWAY ALL
00:47:07.06\00:47:10.96
DISSENTION AND ALL STRIFE.
NO CLAIMS FOR THIS POSITION OR
00:47:10.96\00:47:15.06
THAT POSITION. WE ARE ALL
BRETHREN. WE ARE TO SERVE WITH
00:47:15.06\00:47:18.10
HUMBLE HEARTS BECAUSE
WE LOVE THE LORD JESUS.
00:47:18.10\00:47:21.10
AND THEN ACTS 4:31 SAYS, "AND
WHEN THEY HAD PRAYED, THE PLACE
00:47:21.10\00:47:24.43
WHERE THEY WERE ASSEMBLED
TOGETHER WAS SHAKEN; AND THEY
00:47:24.43\00:47:27.10
WERE ALL FILLED WITH THE
HOLY SPIRIT, AND THEY SPOKE
00:47:27.10\00:47:28.63
THE WORD OF GOD WITH BOLDNESS."
00:47:28.63\00:47:31.10
SO ANOTHER PREREQUISITE FOR
RECEIVING THE LATTER RAIN IS
00:47:31.10\00:47:33.90
THAT WE MUST BE
WILLING TO SHARE WITH OTHERS.
00:47:33.90\00:47:37.56
THAT'S WHY HE IS GIVEN - SO THAT
WE MIGHT SHARE IT MORE FULLY -
00:47:37.56\00:47:41.66
MORE POWERFULLY, YOU UNDERSTAND,
BEFORE JESUS COMES BACK.
00:47:41.66\00:47:45.00
NOW, WHAT WILL BE THE RESULTS OF
THAT? ACTS 4:13 - IF YOU WOULD
00:47:45.00\00:47:49.10
READ THAT FOR US. THANK YOU.
>>ACTS 4:13, "NOW WHEN THEY SAW
00:47:49.10\00:47:54.33
THE BOLDNESS OF PETER AND JOHN
AND PERCEIVED THAT THEY WERE
00:47:54.33\00:47:58.36
UNLEARNED AND
IGNORANT MEN, THEY MARVELED.
00:47:58.36\00:48:02.63
AND THEY TOOK KNOWLEDGE OF THEM
THAT THEY HAD BEEN WITH JESUS."
00:48:02.63\00:48:06.56
>>AMEN. WHAT WAS THE RESULT?
00:48:06.56\00:48:09.26
FOLK WERE ASTOUNDED AT THE
TRANSFORMATION THAT TOOK PLACE
00:48:09.26\00:48:18.66
TIME WITH JESUS. CAN THAT
BE NOTSAID OF YOU AND ME TODAY?
00:48:18.66\00:48:23.20
THAT FOLKS, 'MAN, THERE'S
SOMETHING DIFFERENT ABOUT
00:48:23.20\00:48:27.43
THAT GUY. AND IT'S
NOT A WEIRD DIFFERENT.
00:48:27.43\00:48:29.33
SOMETHING JUST SPECIAL
- THE PEACE, THE POWER.'
00:48:29.33\00:48:34.20
CAN IT BE SAID OF US TODAY THAT,
'MAN, THEY'VE SPENT TIME WITH
00:48:34.20\00:48:38.16
JESUS AND IT'S
TELLING'? MAN, WHAT A TESTIMONY.
00:48:38.16\00:48:41.86
SO THERE ARE SOME PREREQUISITES
FOR US, YOU UNDERSTAND, PRAYING
00:48:41.86\00:48:45.33
AND BEING LED OF THE SPIRIT,
FILLING OUR MINDS WITH THE WORD
00:48:45.33\00:48:48.50
OF GOD, BEING THOROUGHLY
CONVERTED, BEING WILLING TO
00:48:48.50\00:48:51.00
SHARE THE WORD
OF GOD WITH OTHERS.
00:48:51.00\00:48:53.46
WELL, WEDNESDAY'S LESSON
TALKS ABOUT THE BAPTISM OF FIRE.
00:48:53.46\00:48:57.66
MAN, I WANTED TO TALK A LITTLE
BIT MORE ABOUT THAT BUT BECAUSE
00:48:57.66\00:49:00.73
OF TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES
WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO MOVE ON.
00:49:00.73\00:49:03.36
BUT JUST SUFFICE TO SAY THE
BAPTISM OF THE SPIRIT AND FIRE -
00:49:03.36\00:49:07.90
SAME THING - AND IT SIMPLY
REFERS TO TOTAL IMMERSION IN
00:49:07.90\00:49:12.93
THE PRESENCE AND POWER OF
GOD. THAT'S ALL IT REFERS TO.
00:49:12.93\00:49:15.53
FIRE IS USED IN THE BIBLE
TO SYMBOLIZE GOD'S PRESENCE.
00:49:15.53\00:49:19.10
THE FLAMING SWORD OF THE ANGEL
TO FEND OFF THOSE WHO WOULD
00:49:19.10\00:49:23.86
THINK TO ENTER
THE GARDEN OF EDEN.
00:49:23.86\00:49:25.76
FIRE CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN
THAT CONSUMED THE SACRIFICE THAT
00:49:25.76\00:49:29.66
ELIJAH HAD BUILT AND
HAD PRAYED TO GOD ABOUT.
00:49:29.66\00:49:32.63
THE PILLAR OF FIRE BY NIGHT
THAT LED THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL.
00:49:32.63\00:49:37.26
FIRE REPRESENTS THE PRESENCE OF
ALMIGHTY GOD AND SO THE BAPTISM
00:49:37.26\00:49:41.73
OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND FIRE
SIMPLY REFERS TO THE IDEA OF
00:49:41.73\00:49:45.73
BEING TOTALLY IMMERSED AND
ENGULFED IN THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:49:45.73\00:49:49.06
LETTING HIM CLEAN UP OUR
LIVES. LETTING THE FIRE OF - HIS
00:49:49.06\00:49:53.86
PURIFYING FIRE - CLEAN UP THE
DROSS AND THE IMPURITIES OF OUR
00:49:53.86\00:49:59.13
LIVES SO THAT HE COULD PRESENT
US AS GOLD TRIED IN THE FIRE.
00:49:59.13\00:50:03.60
IT'S GOING TO GET HOT, BUT GOD
WANTS TO BURN UP ALL THE SIN IN
00:50:03.60\00:50:08.36
OUR LIVES SO THAT WHEN HE COMES
UP WE WON'T BE BURNED WHEN HE
00:50:08.36\00:50:12.20
BURNS UP SIN WHEN HE
COMES. HE WANTS US TO BECOME -
00:50:12.20\00:50:16.03
NOT COMBUSTIBLE. HE
WANTS TO BURN UP THE SIN SO
00:50:16.03\00:50:20.66
WE CAN STAND IN HIS PRESENCE
WITHOUT SIN AND WE'VE GOT TO LET
00:50:20.66\00:50:24.03
HIM DO THAT WORK IN
OUR LIVES ON A DAILY BASIS.
00:50:24.03\00:50:27.20
IT'S MORE URGENT THAN
WHAT'S TAKING PLACE IN SYRIA.
00:50:27.20\00:50:30.23
WHAT'S HAPPENING IN
SYRIA IS IMPORTANT, BUT THIS IS
00:50:30.23\00:50:32.66
FAR MORE URGENT BECAUSE WHEN
THIS IS DONE IN OUR LIVES, WHEN
00:50:32.66\00:50:38.46
OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY
SPIRIT AND THEN JESUS WILL COME.
00:50:38.46\00:50:41.26
THE WORK WILL BE
FINISHED. NO MORE WARS.
00:50:41.26\00:50:43.36
NO MORE RUMORS OF
WARS. NO MORE DEATH.
00:50:43.36\00:50:45.86
NO MORE BAD POLITICAL
DECISIONS. NONE OF THAT.
00:50:45.86\00:50:49.70
IT'S ALL GOING TO BE OVER.
00:50:49.70\00:50:51.73
AND JESUS WILL COME AND
SAY - THIS, MY FRIEND, IS SO
00:50:51.73\00:50:54.06
IMPERATIVE - IT'S SO
IMPERATIVE FOR A FINISHED WORK.
00:50:54.06\00:50:56.73
SOMEONE HAD
REVELATION 21, VERSE 6.
00:50:56.73\00:50:58.83
OKAY, WE'RE GOING TO READ
THAT HERE IN JUST A MOMENT.
00:50:58.83\00:51:01.46
JESUS WANTS TO FINISH THE WORK.
IN REVELATION 19:11 THROUGH 16
00:51:01.46\00:51:05.90
YOU HAVE THIS AWESOME
PICTURE OF JESUS COMING BACK.
00:51:05.90\00:51:08.40
"NOW I SAW HEAVEN OPENED" - THIS
IS VERSES 11 THROUGH 16 - "AND
00:51:08.40\00:51:12.66
BEHOLD, A WHITE HORSE. AND
HE WHO SAT ON HIM WAS CALLED
00:51:12.66\00:51:15.43
FAITHFUL AND TRUE, AND IN
RIGHTEOUSNESS HE JUDGES AND
00:51:15.43\00:51:18.83
MAKES WAR. HIS EYES
WERE LIKE A FLAME OF
00:51:18.83\00:51:21.63
FIRE, AND ON HIS
HEAD WERE MANY CROWNS.
00:51:21.63\00:51:24.30
HE HAD A NAME WRITTEN THAT
NO ONE KNEW EXCEPT HIMSELF.
00:51:24.30\00:51:27.43
HE WAS CLOTHED WITH A ROBE
DIPPED IN BLOOD, AND HIS NAME
00:51:27.43\00:51:30.83
IS CALLED THE WORD OF
GOD. AND THE ARMIES IN HEAVEN,
00:51:30.83\00:51:34.80
CLOTHED IN FINE LINEN, WHITE
AND CLEAN, FOLLOWED HIM ON WHITE
00:51:34.80\00:51:37.66
HORSES. NOW OUT
OF HIS MOUTH GOES A
00:51:37.66\00:51:39.66
SHARP SWORD, THAT WITH IT
HE SHOULD STRIKE THE NATIONS.
00:51:39.66\00:51:43.20
AND HE HIMSELF WILL
RULE THEM WITH A ROD OF IRON.
00:51:43.20\00:51:50.00
ALMIGHTY GOD. AND HE
HAS ON HIS ROBE AND ON
00:51:50.00\00:51:52.76
HIS THIGH A NAME WRITTEN: KING
OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS."
00:51:52.76\00:51:57.16
FRIEND, JESUS IS
COMING BACK SOON.
00:51:57.16\00:51:59.00
AND WHEN HE COMES HE'S COMING
WITH THE ARMIES OF HEAVEN.
00:51:59.00\00:52:02.10
HE'S NOT - HE'S NOT - LISTEN,
YOU'VE GOT TO UNDERSTAND THE
00:52:02.10\00:52:04.50
PICTURE HERE - RIGHT DOWN HERE
- THE MARK OF THE BEAST ISSUE -
00:52:04.50\00:52:07.43
IMAGE TO THE BEAST ISSUE -
AND GOD'S PEOPLE NEED RESCUING.
00:52:07.43\00:52:10.93
SO HE'S ON HIS HORSES AND HE'S
COMING TO RESCUE HIS PEOPLE TO
00:52:10.93\00:52:14.96
TAKE THEM - TO GET THEM OUT OF
HERE TO TAKE THEM TO BE WHERE HE
00:52:14.96\00:52:17.23
IS SO THAT GOD WILL
FINALLY GET WHAT HE WANTS.
00:52:17.23\00:52:20.46
REVELATION 21 AND VERSE 6.
00:52:20.46\00:52:23.30
>>"AND HE SAID
TO ME, 'IT IS DONE!
00:52:23.30\00:52:26.16
I AM THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA,
THE BEGINNING AND THE END.
00:52:26.16\00:52:29.50
I WILL GIVE OF THE FOUNTAIN OF
THE WATER OF LIFE FREELY TO HIM
00:52:29.50\00:52:34.20
WHO THIRSTS.'"
>>AMEN. IT IS DONE!
00:52:34.20\00:52:37.53
DON'T YOU WANT
TO HEAR THOSE WORDS?
00:52:37.53\00:52:39.30
A TIME IS COMING,
FRIEND, WHEN IT WILL BE SAID,
00:52:39.30\00:52:41.53
'IT IS FINISHED!' A TIME
IS COMING WHEN IT IS DONE.
00:52:41.53\00:52:45.03
SICKNESS WILL NOT
GET THE LAST WORD.
00:52:45.03\00:52:46.60
DEATH WILL NOT
GET THE LAST WORD.
00:52:46.60\00:52:48.40
NONE OF THAT'S GOING
TO GET THE LAST WORD.
00:52:48.40\00:52:50.03
GOD GETS THE LAST WORD.
00:52:50.03\00:52:51.36
HE'S GOING TO SAY, 'IT IS DONE!'
A MAN - THE DECISION FOR YOU AND
00:52:51.36\00:52:54.93
ME TODAY - THAT IS, THE QUESTION
THAT YOU AND I HAVE TO ANSWER IS
00:52:54.93\00:52:58.43
'ARE WE GOING TO BE
PART OF THE SOLUTION?
00:52:58.43\00:53:00.46
- GOD'S SOLUTION - AND ALLOW HIM
TO SO FILL US THAT WE MIGHT BE
00:53:00.46\00:53:04.86
USED OF HIM BY THE HOLY SPIRIT
WHEN HE POURS OUT THE HOLY
00:53:04.86\00:53:08.20
SPIRIT AND THE LATTER RAIN
SO THAT THE WORK CAN BE DONE.
00:53:08.20\00:53:11.83
IT CAN BE FINISHED AND JESUS CAN
WRAP THINGS UP IN HEAVEN AND HE
00:53:11.83\00:53:15.70
CAN COME BACK. IT'S
THE QUESTION YOU AND I HAVE
00:53:15.70\00:53:18.40
TO ASK - ANSWER. ARE WE
GOING TO BE A PART OF THE
00:53:18.40\00:53:21.36
SOLUTION OR ARE WE GOING
TO BE A PART OF THE PROBLEM?
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THERE'S A PART WITHIN ME
AND I HOPE IT'S WITHIN YOU
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THAT'S PULLING FOR GOD.
00:53:28.06\00:53:29.70
GOD WANTS TO
ULTIMATELY BE WITH YOU.
00:53:29.70\00:53:32.23
HE ULTIMATELY WANTS TO
JUST BE WITH HIS PEOPLE.
00:53:32.23\00:53:35.43
THAT'S WHAT HE'S WANTED FROM THE
BEGINNING AND THAT'S WHAT HE'S
00:53:35.43\00:53:37.46
GOING TO GET WHEN WE UNDERSTAND
THE BOOK OF REVELATION.
00:53:37.46\00:53:40.60
HE'S GOING TO
SPEND TIME WITH US.
00:53:40.60\00:53:42.33
WE'RE GOING TO TABERNACLE - HE'S
GOING TO TABERNACLE WITH HIS
00:53:42.33\00:53:44.73
PEOPLE AND THIS PLACE - THIS
EARTH - WILL BECOME THE HOME OF
00:53:44.73\00:53:48.36
THE REDEEMED. MAN,
CAN'T YOU JUST - CAN'T YOU
00:53:48.36\00:53:50.26
JUST WAIT FOR THAT? NO
YOU CAN'T WAIT FOR THAT.
00:53:50.26\00:53:53.00
YOU CAN'T WAIT FOR THAT AT ALL
BECAUSE JESUS WANTS IT SO BAD.
00:53:53.00\00:53:56.10
THERE'S GOT TO BE A PART IN
US PULLING FOR - PULLING FOR GOD
00:53:56.10\00:53:59.60
AND HOPING THAT HE
GETS WHAT HE WANTS.
00:53:59.60\00:54:01.80
MY FRIEND, WE'VE GOT TO
KEEP MOVING FORWARD, AMEN? WE'VE
00:54:01.80\00:54:04.86
GOT TO KEEP ALLOWING THE HOLY
SPIRIT TO WORK IN OUR LIVES.
00:54:04.86\00:54:09.46
KE
00:54:09.46\00:54:11.70
UPRIGHT. KEEP IT UPRIGHT.
00:54:09.46\00:54:11.70
KEEP IT RIGHT SIDE UP AND
YOU WILL EXPERIENCE - PRAY LIKE
00:54:11.70\00:54:15.13
THERE'S NO TOMORROW - AND YOU
WILL RECEIVE THE LATTER RAIN.
00:54:15.13\00:54:18.80
GOD WANTS A FINISHED WORK, AMEN?
00:54:18.80\00:54:20.86
AND I WANT TO BE A PART
OF THAT, HOW ABOUT YOU? SURE.
00:54:20.86\00:54:24.23
AND I WANT TO TELL YOU, THESE
HAVE BEEN AN EXCITING SERIES OF
00:54:24.23\00:54:26.60
LESSONS AND IT JUST - IT DOESN'T
END. THERE'S MORE LESSONS
00:54:26.60\00:54:29.26
TO COME AND WE WANT TO REMIND -
WE WANT TO REMIND YOU HERE TODAY
00:54:29.26\00:54:33.13
TO MAKE SURE THAT
YOU PICK UP YOUR LESSON.
00:54:33.13\00:54:35.06
I'M GOING TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT
THAT IN JUST A MOMENT HERE, BUT
00:54:35.06\00:54:37.23
I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU
UNDERSTAND THAT IT'S NOT DONE.
00:54:37.23\00:54:41.20
JESUS IS STILL TO COME AND
THE BEST IS YET TO COME AS WE
00:54:41.20\00:54:44.93
PREPARE OUR HEARTS AND OUR LIVES
FOR THE GREAT OUTPOURING OF
00:54:44.93\00:54:48.16
GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT.
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