Participants: Doug Batchelor
Series Code: CSH
Program Code: CSH021412
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00:45 >>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 00:49 WE ARE SO GLAD THAT YOU ARE TUNING IN AND JOINING US, 00:52 WHETHER THIS IS YOUR FIRST TIME OR YOU JOIN US EVERY WEEK - 00:55 IT DOESN'T MATTER. WE ARE JUST SO GLAD THAT YOU ARE 00:57 PART OF OUR SABBATH SCHOOL FAMILY ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND 01:00 AROUND THE WORLD. WHETHER YOU'RE LISTENING ON THE 01:03 RADIO, WATCHING US LIVE ON OUR WEBSITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG', OR 01:06 ON THE VARIOUS TELEVISION NETWORKS, MANY OF YOU - 01:10 MOST OF YOU - THAT JOIN US EVERY WEEK HAVE FAVORITE SONGS 01:14 AND WE HAVE HEARD FROM, I BELIEVE, PROBABLY PRETTY 01:17 MUCH EVERY COUNTRY ON THE PLANET HAS SENT IN A SONG REQUEST OVER 01:21 THE YEARS AND LIKE WE DO EVERY WEEK, WE SING THOSE WITH YOU. 01:26 SO IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND PULLING OUT YOUR HYMNALS HERE - THOSE OF 01:30 YOU AT HOME, JOIN WITH US AS WE SING ANOTHER FAVORITE - #476 - 01:34 JOIN WITH US - 'BURDENS ARE LIFTED AT CALVARY'. 01:38 (MUSIC) 03:30 >>THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR REQUESTING THAT LOVELY SONG. 03:33 IF YOU HAVE A FAVORITE THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SING WITH US ON AN 03:36 UPCOMING PROGRAM, IT'S VERY SIMPLE. 03:38 YOU JUST HAVE TO GET ON YOUR COMPUTER OR ON YOUR SMART PHONE 03:41 - WHATEVER YOU HAVE TO GET ONLINE AND GO TO OUR WEBSITE AT 03:44 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' AND CLICK ON THE 'CONTACT US' LINK AND YOU 03:48 CAN SEND IN YOUR FAVORITE REQUEST RIGHT THERE AND WE WILL 03:52 DO OUR BEST TO SING THAT FOR YOU ON AN UPCOMING PROGRAM. 03:55 OUR NEXT ONE, AS WE CONTINUE WORKING OUR WAY THROUGH THE 03:58 HYMNAL SINGING SONGS WE DON'T KNOW, THIS ONE ISN'T ONE THAT 04:02 YOU'VE PROBABLY NEVER HEARD BEFORE, BUT IT'S NEXT IN LINE 04:06 AND I'VE NEVER SUNG THESE WORDS TO THIS TUNE BEFORE SO WE'RE 04:09 GOING TO DO THAT TODAY. 'YE WATCHERS AND YE HOLY ONES' - 04:13 #91 - AND YOU WILL NOTICE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE IT SAYS 04:17 'A LOWER KEY IN #2' SO WHERE YOU'VE HEARD THIS IS HYMN #2. 04:22 SO WE'RE GOING TO BE SINGING #91 TODAY AND JOIN WITH US - 04:27 'YE WATCHERS AND YE HOLY ONES'. AND I SHOULD TELL YOU, LEON IN 04:35 CALIFORNIA, ANNETTE AND CARL IN GERMANY, CANAAN IN JAMAICA, 04:39 JOYCE IN KENYA, AND BETTY IN TEXAS REQUESTED THIS ONE. 04:43 (MUSIC) 06:55 >>I LOVE LEARNING THESE NEW SONGS OR PUTTING OTHER WORDS TO 06:58 FAMILIAR TUNES AND I KNOW THAT MANY OF YOU HAVE WRITTEN IN AND 07:03 SAID THAT YOU ARE ENJOYING GOING THROUGH THE HYMNAL WITH US. 07:06 IT'S GIVING US A CHALLENGE AND WE'RE ENJOYING IT AND I'M GLAD 07:11 THAT YOU ARE TOO. SO KEEP SENDING IN YOUR FAVORITE 07:13 SONGS AND IF WE DON'T KNOW THEM WE ARE GOING TO LEARN THEM. 07:17 AT THIS TIME LET'S BOW OUR HEADS FOR PRAYER. 07:20 FATHER IN HEAVEN, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BRINGING US HERE WHERE 07:25 WE CAN OPEN UP YOUR WORD, WE CAN STUDY TOGETHER, 07:27 WE CAN SING PRAISES TO YOUR NAME. 07:29 WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BLESSING US WITH THE SABBATH. 07:34 WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR LOVE AND YOU KNEW THAT WE WOULD NEED 24 07:40 HOURS EVERY SEVEN DAYS TO FOCUS ENTIRELY ON YOU AND FATHER, WE 07:49 JUST THANK YOU FOR GIVING US THE PROMISE THAT ONE DAY YOU ARE 07:54 GOING TO COME SOON AND TAKE US HOME TO HEAVEN WHERE WE WILL 07:56 HAVE ETERNITY TO SPEND PRAISING YOU AND WE JUST THANK YOU. 08:02 BE WITH US AS WE OPEN UP YOUR WORD AND WE STUDY TOGETHER. 08:05 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PASTOR DOUG AND HIS MINISTRY AND I PRAY 08:08 THAT YOU BE WITH HIM AS HE OPENS UP YOUR WORD AND SHARES IT RIGHT 08:11 NOW. IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. AT THIS TIME OUR LESSON STUDY 08:15 IS GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR. 08:23 >>MORNING. THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC. 08:26 I ENJOYED THAT ANTHEM - ALLELUIA. 08:30 HOW IS EVERYBODY? HAPPY SABBATH. I WANT TO WELCOME ALL THOSE THAT 08:35 ARE WATCHING ON 'CENTRAL STUDY HOUR'. 08:39 I WANT TO WELCOME THOSE WHO ARE ONLINE MEMBERS AND SOME WHO ARE 08:41 WATCHING VIA SATELLITE AND ON THE INTERNET AROUND THE WORLD 08:44 AND IT'S GOOD TO HAVE YOU JOIN US. 08:48 I WAS IN NASHVILLE LAST WEEK AND RAN INTO A LOT OF PEOPLE THERE 08:51 ON THE CONVENTION FLOOR - IT WAS VERY INTERESTING - THIS IS THE 08:55 'RELIGIOUS BROADCASTER'S CONVENTION' WHERE RELIGIOUS 08:58 BROADCASTERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD COME - AND IT'S NICE TO 09:01 SEE HOW WELL-REPRESENTED SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS WERE. 09:05 YOU KNOW, WE GO TO NOT ONLY FIND BROADCAST AVENUES, BUT WE GO TO 09:09 PRESERVE FREEDOM FOR CHRISTIANS TO BROADCAST. 09:12 YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES THE FCC HAS TRIED TO STIFLE RELIGIOUS 09:15 BROADCASTS. THEY SAY, 'THESE ARE PUBLIC AIRWAVES, WE SHOULDN'T BE 09:18 USING THEM FOR SPREADING RELIGION.' SO THERE'S BEEN A 09:21 MOVEMENT TO TRY TO SUPPRESS USING THE AIRWAVES FOR 09:25 BROADCASTING RELIGION. SO THAT'S ONE REASON WE GO, 09:30 BUT IT WAS GOOD. DR. BEN CARSON WAS THERE. 09:32 HE WAS THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER AND SO I GOT TO VISIT WITH HIM A 09:35 LITTLE BIT AND - ANYWAY, I SAW A LOT OF PEOPLE THERE. 09:39 I WENT TO MADISON, TENNESSEE AND PREACHED THERE IN THE CHURCH OF 09:42 BYRON CORBETT, A ONE-TIME AMAZING FACTS EVANGELIST AND A 09:47 LOT OF PEOPLE THERE WATCH CENTRAL STUDY HOUR AND SO 09:50 GREETINGS TO OUR FRIENDS. WE'RE CONTINUING WITH OUR LESSON 09:53 DEALING WITH DISCIPLESHIP. BEFORE WE DO, WE HAVE A FREE 09:57 OFFER, AS WE OFTEN MAKE AVAILABLE. 10:00 AND TODAY IT'S A BOOK - I THINK IT'S PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST 10:02 IMPORTANT THINGS WE COULD TALK RIGHT NOW - ON THE HOLY SPIRIT. 10:06 THIS IS A FAIRLY NEW BOOK AND WE HAVEN'T MENTIONED IT OFTEN, ON 10:09 THE HOLY SPIRIT BY YOURS TRULY. THIS TALKS ABOUT THE NEED FOR 10:12 THE HOLY SPIRIT. IF YOU'D LIKE A FREE COPY OF 10:14 THIS WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU. YOU ONLY NEED TO CALL AND ASK 10:18 FOR IT AND THEN MAKE A FIRM UNCHANGING COVENANT THAT YOU'LL 10:21 READ IT AND SHARE IT WITH SOMEBODY. 10:24 AND ASK FOR OFFER #723 WHEN YOU CALL AND THE PHONE NUMBER IS 10:28 866-STUDY-MORE - THAT ACRONYM MEANS 866-788-3966 - 788-3966 10:37 AND WE'LL SEND YOU THE BOOK JUST FOR ASKING. 10:40 DISCIPLESHIP - WE'RE ON LESSON #12 TODAY AND THE TITLE IS: THE 10:46 HARVEST AND THE HARVESTERS. AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE: 10:51 JOHN 15:8 - DO YOU HAVE YOUR QUARTERLIES OR YOUR BIBLE OPEN, 10:55 BECAUSE I'D LIKE YOU TO SAY THAT WITH ME. 10:57 IT MUST BE FROM THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION - OR FROM THE KING 11:00 JAMES VERSION HERE BECAUSE IT HAS NO OTHER VERSION LISTED. 11:03 JOHN 15:8, YOU READY? "HEREIN IS MY FATHER GLORIFIED, 11:10 THAT YE BEAR MUCH FRUIT; SO SHALL YE BE MY DISCIPLES." 11:15 DO YOU SEE A CONNECTION BETWEEN BRINGING GLORY TO GOD AND 11:18 BEARING FRUIT? WHAT IS THE FRUIT THAT GOD WANTS 11:22 CHRISTIANS TO HAVE? WELL, IN GALATIANS 5 IT TALKS 11:30 ABOUT THE FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT - AND WHAT ARE THEY? 11:34 HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER THE FIRST ONE? 11:37 LOVE, JOY, PEACE, LONGSUFFERING, GOODNESS, KINDNESS, MEEKNESS, 11:46 SELF-CONTROL - THESE ARE THE ATTRIBUTES THAT A CHRISTIAN 11:51 SHOULD HAVE IN THEIR LIFE. IF YOU HAVE THESE ATTRIBUTES, 11:55 THE FRUIT OF HAVING THE FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT WILL BE YOU WILL 12:01 BE BRINGING PEOPLE TO JESUS. THAT'S THE OTHER FRUIT. 12:04 WHAT'S THE HARVEST THAT JESUS IS COMING FOR IN REVELATION? 12:10 ISN'T THE BIBLE ALL ABOUT FARMING? 12:13 GOD BEGINS BY PLANTING A GARDEN - HE COMES WITH A SCYTHE - 12:19 A SICKLE - TO HARVEST IN THE END. 12:21 WHAT IS HE COMING TO HARVEST? SOULS. 12:27 AND WE TALK LATER IN THE LESSON ABOUT THAT FAMOUS STATEMENT OF 12:30 JESUS THAT THE HARVEST IS GREAT - BUT THERE'S A PROBLEM - THE 12:35 LABORERS ARE FEW. AND THEN HE SAYS, 'PRAY THAT THE 12:39 LORD WILL SEND MORE LABORERS INTO THE HARVEST. 12:42 THERE'S NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE THAT ARE ENGAGED IN TRYING TO REACH 12:46 THE LOST. I'D LIKE TO EMPHASIZE THIS. 12:50 GO TO JOHN 15 - THIS IS A VERSE I THINK YOU'LL FIND IN YOUR 12:53 LESSON - JOHN 15:1-8 - JOHN 15:1-8 AND I'M GOING TO 12:57 HIGHLIGHT A COUPLE OF THINGS IN HERE. 13:00 MAYBE WHILE WE'RE DOING THAT I'LL GIVE YOU A HEADS UP. 13:03 DOES SOMEBODY HERE HAVE - SOMEONE'S GOT JOHN 4:28. 13:07 OKAY, WE'LL GET A MICROPHONE TO YOU AND SOMEONE ELSE HAVE 13:14 REVELATION 2:3? OVER HERE? 13:17 WE'LL GET - IS THERE A MIC ON THIS SIDE? 13:19 DOCTOR STONE MIGHT BRING THAT TO YOU MIKE. 13:21 HOLD YOUR HAND UP. IN THE MEANTIME - ALRIGHT, LET'S 13:23 READ JOHN 15:1-8, "I AM THE TRUE VINE," - JESUS IS SPEAKING - 13:28 "AND MY FATHER IS THE VINE DRESSER. 13:30 EVERY BRANCH IN ME THAT DOES NOT BEAR FRUIT HE TAKES AWAY;" - SO 13:35 HOW IMPORTANT IS BEARING FRUIT TO JESUS? 13:38 AND EVERY BRANCH THAT BEARS FRUIT, HE PRUNES IT THAT IT 13:42 MIGHT BEAR MORE FRUIT." IS THE LORD BEING GREEDY? 13:46 HE DOESN'T WANT US JUST TO BEAR FRUIT, BUT IF YOU BEAR FRUIT, 13:47 INSTEAD OF JUST SAYING 'THANK YOU' HE SAYS, 'I WANT MORE.' SO 13:51 HE PRUNES IT. HE DOES EVERYTHING HE CAN THAT 13:54 IT MIGHT BEAR MORE FRUIT. "YOU ARE ALREADY CLEAN BECAUSE 13:57 OF THE WORD WHICH I HAVE SPOKEN TO YOU. ABIDE IN ME, 14:00 AND I IN YOU. AS THE BRANCH CANNOT BEAR FRUIT OF ITSELF," - 14:04 ALRIGHT, VERY IMPORTANT KEY: IF WE'RE GOING TO BEAR FRUIT FOR 14:06 HARVEST, CAN WE DO IT ON OUR OWN? 14:09 NO, NO MORE THAN A VINE CAN - A GRAPE TWIG - IF IT'S 14:13 DISCONNECTED FROM THE GRAPE VINE - "UNLESS IT ABIDES IN THE VINE, 14:18 NEITHER CAN YOU, UNLESS YOU ABIDE IN ME." 14:21 - SO THERE'S THE KEY: WE MUST ABIDE IN CHRIST TO BEAR FRUIT - 14:24 "I AM THE VINE, YOU ARE THE BRANCHES. 14:27 HE WHO ABIDES IN ME, AND I IN HIM, BEARS MUCH FRUIT;" - PAUSE 14:32 AGAIN - TWO KINDS OF FRUIT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT: FRUITS OF THE 14:35 SPIRIT, WHICH YOU MUST HAVE IF YOU'RE GOING TO BEAR THE OTHER 14:38 KIND OF FRUIT. YOU CANNOT HAVE THE FRUITS OF 14:40 THE SPIRIT: LOVE, JOY, PEACE, SO FORTH - 14:42 UNLESS YOU ABIDE IN CHRIST. THOSE ARE SPIRITUAL FRUITS. 14:47 YOU MUST BE - THERE MUST BE A SPIRITUAL CONNECTION TO HAVE 14:50 SPIRITUAL FRUIT. THERE IS SPIRITUAL SAP - THE 14:54 SPIRIT THAT FLOWS INTO YOUR HEART AND MIND THAT GIVES YOU 14:58 THE SPIRITUAL FRUIT. YOU NEED TO BE CONNECTED TO THE 15:01 LORD AND, IF YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE THE OTHER FRUITS OF SOULS 15:06 THAT ARE REACHED, YOU NEED TO BE CONNECTED. 15:09 "HE THAT ABIDES IN ME AND I IN HIM BEARS MUCH FRUIT; FOR 15:15 WITHOUT ME YOU CAN DO NOTHING...BY THIS MY FATHER IS 15:19 GLORIFIED" - I'M IN VERSE 8 NOW - "THAT YOU BEAR MUCH FRUIT; SO 15:24 YOU WILL BE MY DISCIPLES." NOTICE THE CONNECTION BETWEEN 15:27 BEING TRUE DISCIPLES AND BEARING MUCH FRUIT. 15:30 ARE YOU A DISCIPLE IF YOU DON'T BEAR ANY FRUIT? 15:34 WHAT DOES JESUS SAY IS THE RESULT OF THOSE THAT BEAR NO 15:38 FRUIT? THEY'RE PRUNED OFF - THEY'RE FRUITLESS VINES. 15:43 YOU KNOW THE PARABLE - THERE'S A PARABLE OF A FIG TREE - YOU ONLY 15:46 FIND THIS PARABLE IN LUKE CHAPTER 13 - 15:49 ABOUT A MAN THAT HAS A FIG TREE PLANTED IN HIS VINEYARD, OF ALL 15:52 PLACES. A FIG TREE IS IN THE VINEYARD. 15:54 AND FOR THREE YEARS HE COMES - THE OWNER - HE COMES AND HE'S 15:57 LOOKING FOR FRUIT ON HIS FIG TREE AND THERE'S NOTHING. 15:59 NOW THAT'S UNUSUAL BECAUSE MY NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR, WHO'S A 16:03 MEMBER HERE, HAS A FIG TREE RIGHT OVER THE FENCE AND THE 16:08 SQUIRRELS KEEP PLANTING THOSE FIGS ALL OVER MY YARD - IT'S 16:12 REALLY NICE TO REACH OVER THE FENCE AND GET SOME OF THEM, BUT 16:15 IT DOESN'T TAKE VERY LONG BEFORE A FIG STARTS BEARING FRUIT - 16:19 IT'S AMAZING - THE FIRST YEAR OR TWO THEY START BEARING FRUIT AND 16:22 THEY GROW VERY QUICKLY. SO FOR THREE YEARS THEY HAVE 16:25 NOTHING AND THE OWNER OF THE VINEYARD SAYS TO THE GARDENER, 16:30 THE ONE WHO CARES FOR IT, HE SAYS, 'CUT IT DOWN, IT'S TAKING 16:33 UP SPACE.' EVERY NOW AND THEN, YOU KNOW, YOU GET A DUD. 16:36 EVERY NOW AND THEN YOU GET A TREE THAT JUST DOESN'T DO 16:39 ANYTHING. HAVE ANY OF YOU SEEN AN ORCHARD 16:40 BEFORE WHERE YOU GET ALL THESE TREES AND THEY'RE ALL BLOSSOMING 16:42 AND THERE'S ONE THAT JUST DECIDES NOT TO BLOSSOM. 16:45 SOME TREES, FOR WHATEVER REASON, THEY'RE DEFECTIVE AND THEY'RE 16:48 JUST NOT FRUITFUL. AND HE SAID, 'LOOK, WE'VE GOT A DUD. 16:52 CUT IT DOWN.' AND THE VINE DRESSER, HE SPENT THREE 16:56 YEARS TAKING CARE OF THIS. HE THINKS, YOU KNOW, PROBABLY 16:58 SOME OF THEM JUST NEED ONE MORE YEAR. 17:01 SOME OF THEM ARE LATE BLOOMERS. YOU EVER HEARD THAT EXPRESSION? 17:04 HE SAID, 'GIVE IT ANOTHER YEAR.' AND - HE SAYS, 'I'LL DIG 17:07 AROUND IT. I'LL GIVE IT EXTRA IRRIGATION, 17:09 I'LL FERTILIZE IT, AND THEN IF IT BEARS FRUIT, GREAT. 17:13 IF NOT, CUT IT DOWN.' SO WHAT'S THE FATE OF FRUITLESS VINES AND 17:17 FRUITLESS TREES? WHY DOES IT CUMBER THE GROUND? 17:22 I WONDER WHAT THE LORD THINkS WHEN HE LOOKS DOWN FROM HEAVEN 17:25 AND HE SEES US COME TOGETHER FROM WEEK TO WEEK AND WE SING 17:28 THESE SONGS ABOUT THESE SUBLIME MAJESTIC THEMES OF THE GOSPEL 17:33 AND LIFE AND DEATH ISSUES AND WE GO OUT AND WE DON'T DO ANYTHING 17:37 ABOUT IT. WE HAVE NO PASSION BEYOND 17:41 PUTTING IN OUR TIME AT CHURCH - KIND OF PUNCHING THE CLOCK - AND 17:44 THEN WE GO HOME AND DO OUR OWN THING AND WE - OUR PASSION IS 17:46 NOT THE HARVEST. OUR PASSION IS NOT TO WIN SOULS 17:50 - TO BRING PEOPLE TO JESUS. YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT 17:55 IT, IT IS TRUE THAT THERE ARE TWO DESTINIES: LIFE AND DEATH. 18:02 EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD - THERE'S ONLY TWO ROADS - THERE'S NOT 18:04 MULTIPLE ROADS - THERE'S TWO ROADS: STRAIGHT 18:08 GATE, BROAD WAY TO DESTRUCTION. AND EVERYBODY'S ON THAT ROAD 18:12 SOMEWHERE IN THE CONTINUUM AND EVERYBODY YOU MEET IS HEADING 18:16 TOWARDS LIFE OR DEATH. THAT OUGHT TO BE THE THING THAT 18:20 DRIVES AND MOTIVATES US MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE IS TO GET 18:23 PEOPLE TURNED AROUND ON THE RIGHT ROAD. 18:25 I MEAN, I HEARD ONE TIME ABOUT THIS MAN THAT WAS DRIVING ON A 18:32 RAINY NIGHT - WE HAD SOME NICE RAIN YESTERDAY, AMEN? 18:36 THE MAN WAS DRIVING ONE OF THESE RAINY NIGHTS, HEADING DOWN A 18:39 COUNTRY ROAD AND HE - YOU EVER HAD THE WINDSHIELD WIPERS ON 18:42 FULL BUT IT'S STILL RAINING SO MUCH YOU CAN BARELY SEE? 18:46 HAD HIS HEADLIGHTS UP BRIGHT AND HE'S BY HIMSELF ON THIS ROAD AND 18:50 HE LOOKS OUT IN THE DISTANCE AND HE SEES WHAT LOOKS LIKE - AT 18:52 FIRST HE THOUGHT IT WAS A DEER AND THEN HE REALIZES IT'S A MAN 18:56 AND THIS MAN IS FALLING DOWN AND STAGGERING BACK AND FORTH IN THE 19:01 ROAD AND HE THOUGHT, 'OH MAN, THERE'S SOME CRAZY DRUNK OUT 19:03 HERE.' AND SO HE SEES HIM ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE ROAD - HE GOES 19:07 OVER TO THE LEFT SIDE OF THE ROAD SO HE CAN GET AROUND HIM 19:10 AND WHEN HE DOES THIS, THE MAN STAGGERS INTO THE LEFT SIDE OF 19:14 THE ROAD AND HE'S WAVING HIS ARMS AND CARRYING ON AND JUMPING 19:18 UP AND DOWN AND HE'S JUST - THIS GUY'S OUT OF HIS MIND AND SO HE 19:22 GOES BACK INTO THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE ROAD. 19:24 AND THIS MAN GOES BACK IN THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE ROAD. 19:25 NOW HE'S GETTING CLOSER AND CLOSER AND FINALLY HE THOUGHT, 19:29 'YOU KNOW, IF I CHANGE LANES REAL QUICK AT THE LAST MINUTE, I 19:32 CAN HIT THE GAS AND GET AROUND HIM SO HE CAN'T LIKE TRY AND 19:36 JUMP IN MY CAR OR ANYTHING.' AND JUST AS HE'S ABOUT TO DO THIS, 19:40 THIS MAN THROWS HIMSELF IN FRONT OF THE CAR. 19:44 HE SLAMS ON HIS BRAKES AND NOW THE DRIVER'S ALL NERVOUS AND 19:48 SCARED AND MAD AT ONE TIME AND HE JUMPS OUT AND HE'S YELLING AT 19:51 THE FELLOW AND HE SAYS, 'WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE YOU DOING? 19:53 ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND? ARE YOU CRAZY? 19:55 YOU'RE GOING TO GET YOURSELF KILLED.' AND HE THOUGHT HE WAS 19:58 DRUNK - AND THE GUY STARTS TO SOB. HE SAYS, 'THE BRIDGE IS 20:01 OUT! THE BRIDGE IS OUT!' HE SAID, 'I'VE STOOD THERE AND 20:04 WATCHED THREE CARS DRIVE OFF INTO THE WATER AND I COULDN'T 20:07 WATCH ANOTHER ONE.' DO WE REALIZE THAT PEOPLE ARE HEADING 20:13 OFF THE PRECIPICE INTO DESTRUCTION? 20:16 ARE WE TRYING TO STOP THEM? ARE WE JUST SAYING, 20:18 'YOU'RE ON THE WRONG ROAD. TOO BAD.' 20:21 THERE OUGHT TO BE AN INTEREST - THEY'RE OUGHT TO BE A 20:23 PASSION ABOUT TRYING TO WIN SOULS, AMEN? 20:28 THERE'S NOTHING MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE HARVEST. 20:30 MATTHEW 20, VERSE 1 - NOW I HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN SOME VERSES 20:33 ARE STANDING BY HERE, WE'LL GET TO THAT - JESUS SAYS, "FOR THE 20:38 KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS LIKE A LANDOWNER WHO WENT OUT EARLY IN 20:41 THE MORNING TO HIRE LABORERS FOR HIS VINEYARD." 20:45 - NOW, YOU KNOW - HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW THE PARABLE OF THE 20:47 LABORERS IN THE VINEYARD? HE GOES OUT EARLY IN THE MORNING 20:49 AND HE GETS SOMEONE - HE SAYS, 'I'LL PAY YOU A PENNY TO WORK 20:51 FOR THE DAY.' AND THEY SAY, 'GREAT! THAT'S FAIR. 20:53 THAT'S THE GOING RATE.' AND THEN THEY GO OUT. 20:55 THEN HE GOES OUT A LITTLE LATER - 10:00 OR SO AND HE SAYS, 20:57 'THERE'S STILL PEOPLE STANDING THERE.' HE HIRES EVERYBODY 20:59 STANDING THERE. HE SAYS, 'DO YOU WANT TO GO WORK IN MY VINEYARD?' 21:01 AND SO THEY ALL SAY, 'SURE!' AND THEY GO WORK. 21:04 BUT HE DOESN'T HAVE ENOUGH LABORERS SO HE COMES BACK AT 21:06 NOON AND THERE'S MORE THAT HAVE GATHERED. 21:08 HE SAYS, 'LOOK, YOU GO WORK IN MY VINEYARD.' AND THEY ALL GO 21:09 WORK. BUT HE STILL NEEDS MORE. 21:12 SO HE GOES BACK AT 2:00 AND FINALLY - HE KEEPS GOING BACK 21:14 ALL DAY LONG TRYING TO FIND ANYBODY THAT WILL WORK, RIGHT? 21:18 AND THEN AT THE ELEVENTH HOUR HE GOES BACK AND THERE'S STILL SOME 21:21 MEN THAT HE FINDS THAT AREN'T WORKING THAT COULD WORK. 21:23 HE SAYS, 'LOOK, I'LL PAY YOU WHAT'S FAIR. 21:25 YOU GO WORK.' AND YOU KNOW THE STORY, AT THE END OF THE DAY HE 21:28 PAYS THEM BEGINNING WITH THOSE WHO WORKED LAST TO THOSE WHO 21:32 STARTED WORKING FIRST. HE PAYS THEM ALL THE SAME AND 21:34 THE ONES WHO WORKED ALL DAY LONG, THEY GRUMBLE AGAINST THE 21:37 ONES WHO ONLY WORK ONE HOUR AND THEY SAY, 'LOOK, YOU'RE PAYING 21:39 THEM THE SAME AS US.' AND HE SAYS, 'LOOK, I'M PAYING YOU ALL 21:41 THE SAME AND I'M PAYING EVERYBODY WHAT I PROMISED. 21:45 DON'T BE JEALOUS BECAUSE I'M BEING MORE GENEROUS WITH THEM.' 21:49 NOW THE PURPOSE OF CHRIST'S PARABLE WAS HE WAS TELLING THE 21:52 JEWS, 'I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN THE CHOSEN PEOPLE FOR 2,000 YEARS. 21:55 DON'T BE UPSET, BUT I NOW CALL THE GENTILES IN TO ACCEPT THE 21:58 SCRIPTURES THAT YOU'VE SPENT ALL YOUR TIME GUARDING AND 22:03 PROTECTING AND SHARING. I'M GOING TO GIVE THEM ETERNAL 22:05 LIFE JUST LIKE I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU ETERNAL LIFE. 22:07 YOU DON'T GET ANY SPECIAL STATUS BECAUSE YOU'VE WORKED IN THE 22:09 VINEYARD LONGER. YOU'RE GETTING WHAT I PROMISED 22:12 YOU.' SO THAT'S PART OF WHAT THE PARABLE MEANS, BUT DON'T MISS 22:14 THIS POINT: AS LONG AS HE CONTINUES TO GO TO THE 22:20 MARKETPLACE, HE CONTINUES TO FIND WORKERS, HIS PROBLEM IS NOT 22:25 THAT THERE ISN'T ENOUGH HARVEST. THERE'S ALWAYS PLENTY OF 22:30 HARVEST. THE STORY NEVER SAYS THE HARVEST 22:32 IS OVER. THERE'S MORE HARVEST THAN THERE 22:34 ARE WORKERS IN THE STORY. DID YOU GET THAT? 22:37 HE IS LOOKING EVERYWHERE FOR PEOPLE TO WORK AND EVERY TIME HE 22:41 FINDS ONE HE HIRES HIM. THAT'S A VERY IMPORTANT POINT. 22:45 THAT MEANS THAT JESUS IS WILLING TO HAVE ALL OF US BE INVOLVED IN 22:49 THE HARVEST. AND HE ASKS - 22:51 YOU KNOW, WHEN HE SEES HIM IN THE MARKETPLACE HE 22:53 SAYS, 'WHY DO YOU STAND HERE IDLE?' 22:56 DO YOU REALIZE WITH HARVESTING THERE'S LIMITED TIME? 23:00 CROPS GO BAD. TIMING IS VERY IMPORTANT. 23:03 HARVESTING - IF YOU DON'T CATCH IT DURING THE HARVEST - 23:05 ESPECIALLY IF A RAIN COMES OR SOMETHING - OR A FROST - 23:08 IT COULD WRECK THE ENTIRE HARVEST. 23:10 SO TIMING, WITH A HARVEST, IS VERY IMPORTANT. 23:14 I THINK WE'RE LIVING IN VERY PORTENTOUS TIMES RIGHT NOW. 23:20 YOU KNOW, IT WAS INTERESTING, AT THIS RELIGIOUS BROADCASTERS' 23:23 CONVENTION, I WAS ON A COUPLE OF COMMITTEES WHERE WE MET WITH 23:27 SOME PEOPLE - ACTUALLY GOT A BRIEFING FROM THE SUPREME COURT 23:30 ON WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH SOME OF THE RELIGIOUS LAWS AND THE 23:34 CHRISTIAN LEADERS, THEIR HEADS ARE SPINNING WITH WHAT'S 23:37 HAPPENING MORALLY IN OUR COUNTRY WITH JUST THE TSUNAMI OF LAWS 23:42 THAT ARE BEING PASSED THAT ARE BASICALLY PERSECUTING 23:47 CHRISTIANS. THEY'RE TELLING CHRISTIAN 23:48 EMPLOYERS, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE TO HIRE PEOPLE REGARDLESS OF WHAT 23:52 THEIR RELIGIOUS VALUES ARE AND MORE AND MORE LAWS THAT ARE 23:57 UNDERMINING WHAT BIBLICAL MARRIAGE IS. 24:00 I MEAN IT'S JUST - PLACES YOU WOULD NEVER THINK OF, LIKE 24:04 OKLAHOMA AND SALT LAKE CITY, THAT YOU WOULD NEVER THINK THAT 24:09 THEY WOULD CAVE IN ON MARRIAGE, BUT CERTAIN JUDGES THERE ARE 24:13 CHANGING THINGS FOR A WHOLE STATE. 24:16 AND THEN THINGS ARE HAPPENING RELIGIOUSLY. 24:19 I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF YOU SAW - I JUST FIRST SAW IT LAST WEEK - 24:22 A VIDEO WHERE THE POPE GIVES A SPECIAL MESSAGE TO CHARISMATIC 24:28 CHRISTIANS AT A - HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE SEEN THAT? 24:32 YEAH, KENNETH COPELAND CONFERENCE AND HE GIVES THEM A 24:35 MESSAGE OF LOVE AND SAYS, 'WE ALL NEED TO UNITE. 24:37 THE PROTEST IS OVER. NOTHING SHOULD SEPARATE US ANYMORE. 24:41 I'M SENDING YOU AN EMBRACE. YOU NEED TO RETURN TO YOUR 24:44 MISUNDERSTOOD BROTHER JOSEPH.' AND THIS IS THE MESSAGE - 24:48 YOU CAN WATCH IT FOR YOURSELF. AMAZING FACTS POSTED IT WITH 24:51 SOME COMMENTARY IF YOU WANT TO SEE THAT. 24:53 AND THEN THE CHARISMATICS ALL TURNED AROUND - THEY SENT A 24:56 MESSAGE BACK TO THE POPE , 'WE'RE PRAYING FOR HIM. 24:58 WE'RE BLESSING HIM. WE LOVE YOU.' WHAT IN THE WORLD? 25:01 IT'S LIKE PROPHECY THAT WE'VE SAID THIS FOR YEARS - FOR 150 25:03 YEARS WE SAID THIS WOULD HAPPEN SOMEDAY AND SOME BACK IN - 25:06 PROTESTANTS SAID, 'THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN!' 25:09 DO YOU KNOW THE CHARISMATICS AND PENTECOSTALS USED TO BELIEVE THE 25:12 SAME THINGS ABOUT THE BEAST THAT WE BELIEVE? THEY DON'T ANYMORE. 25:19 THINGS ARE CHANGING RAPIDLY. ANYWAY, BECAUSE OF THE URGENCY 25:23 OF THE TIME SHOULD WE BE INVOLVED IN TELLING PEOPLE? 25:27 WHICH LEADS US TO THE NEXT SEGMENT, 'BEGGAR'S BREAD'. 25:33 YOU'VE OFTEN HEARD IT SAID, 'EVANGELISM IS ONE BEGGAR 25:37 TELLING ANOTHER BEGGAR WHERE THE BREAD IS. 25:39 OKAY, GO AHEAD AND READ FOR US PLEASE, JOHN 4:28-30. 25:46 >>"THE WOMAN THEN LEFT HER WATERPOT, WENT HER WAY INTO THE 25:49 CITY AND SAID TO THE MEN, 'COME, SEE A MAN WHO TOLD ME ALL THINGS 25:54 THAT I EVER DID. COULD THIS BE THE CHRIST?' 25:57 THEN THEY WENT OUT OF THE CITY AND CAME TO HIM." 26:01 >>YOU KNOW, I LOVE THE GOSPEL OF JOHN BECAUSE YOU'RE GOING TO 26:03 FIND THE STATEMENT 'COME AND SEE' SEVERAL TIMES - 26:07 'COME AND SEE'. WHEN THEY FIRST FOUND JESUS AFTER THE BAPTISM - 26:11 I THINK THIS WAS IN LAST WEEK'S LESSON, THEY SAID, 26:15 'MASTER, WHERE DWELLEST THOU?' WHAT WAS HIS ANSWER? 26:18 'COME AND SEE.' AND THEN AFTER HE REVEALS HIMSELF TO THEM - 26:23 MATTER OF FACT, THIS IS IN THE NEXT SEGMENT HERE. 26:25 YOU CAN GO TO JOHN 1:40 - JOHN 1:40 - "ONE OF THE TWO WHO HEARD 26:30 JOHN SPEAK, AND FOLLOWED HIM, WAS ANDREW, SIMON PETER'S 26:33 BROTHER. HE FIRST FOUND HIS OWN BROTHER 26:36 SIMON AND SAID TO HIM, 'WE FOUND THE MESSIAH' 26:38 (WHICH IS TRANSLATED, THE CHRIST). 26:40 AND HE BROUGHT HIM TO JESUS. NOW WHEN JESUS LOOKED AT HIM HE 26:44 SAID, 'YOU ARE SIMON THE SON OF JONAH. 26:45 YOU SHALL BE CALLED CEPHAS' WHICH IS TRANSLATED, A STONE). 26:48 THE FOLLOWING DAY JESUS WANTED TO GO TO GALILEE, AND HE FOUND 26:53 PHILIP AND SAID TO HIM, 'FOLLOW ME.' NOW PHILIP WAS FROM 26:56 BETHSAIDA, THE CITY OF ANDREW AND PETER. 26:58 PHILIP FOUND NATHANAEL AND SAID TO HIM, 'WE HAVE FOUND HIM OF 27:01 WHOM MOSES IN THE LAW, AND ALSO THE PROPHETS, WROTE - JESUS OF 27:04 NAZARETH, THE SON OF JOSEPH.' AND NATHANAEL SAID TO HIM, 'CAN 27:08 ANYTHING GOOD COME OUT OF NAZARETH?' PHILIP SAID TO HIM, 27:11 'COME AND SEE.'" YOU KNOW WHAT THE BEST MEANS OF EVANGELISM IS? 27:16 BETWEEN TELEVISION, RADIO, PRINTED HAND BILLS - YOU THINK 27:21 OF ALL THE DIFFERENT MECHANISMS FOR ADVERTISING AN EVANGELISTIC 27:24 MEETING - YOU KNOW WHICH ONE IS STILL THE BEST? 27:26 WORD OF MOUTH. A PERSONAL INVITATION. 27:31 YOU'VE GOT - THE PERSONAL TESTIMONY GOES A LOT FARTHER. 27:35 WE'RE ALL INFLUENCED BY ENDORSEMENT. 27:41 YOU KNOW, THEY SELL PRODUCTS ON TV THIS WAY. 27:43 THEY'VE GOT THESE INFOMERCIALS WHERE THEY'LL BE DEMONSTRATING 27:46 ANYTHING FROM SOME NEW KITCHEN - MIRACULOUS APPLIANCE TO A FRYER, 27:51 TO SOME PAINTING SOMETHING OR OTHER. 27:53 THEY'LL HAVE A STUDIO AUDIENCE THAT'S IN THERE ALL DRESSED 27:56 REALLY NICE AND THEY'RE LIT WELL, AND THEY'RE SHOWING HOW 27:58 THIS THING WORKS AND THEN EVERYONE'S GOING - THEY TURN 28:01 THE CAMERA ON THE AUDIENCE - 'OH WOW! OOH!' 28:04 AND WHAT HAPPENS IS THE PEOPLE WHO ARE WATCHING THEY GO, 'WELL 28:07 NOT ONLY ARE THEY SAYING THIS IS GREAT PAINT OR A GREAT 28:10 SLICER/DICER' - OR WHATEVER THEY'RE SELLING - 28:13 'BUT THE PEOPLE OUT THERE THINK IT'S WONDERFUL.' AND SO WE ALL 28:17 WANT TO KNOW WHAT OTHERS THINK. AND SO WHEN SOMEONE PERSONALLY 28:22 SAYS, 'WOW, I WENT TO THIS MEETING AND IT REALLY TOUCHED MY 28:25 HEART. YOU'VE GOT TO GO AT LEAST ONE 28:26 NIGHT - YOU'VE GOT TO GO.' 'OH MAN, NOT THAT CHURCH! 28:28 CAN ANYTHING GOOD COME OUT OF THAT CHURCH?' 28:31 DON'T ARGUE WITH THEM, SAY, 'COME AND SEE.' BY THE WAY, IF 28:35 YOU WANT TO REALLY SEE YOU MUST COME TO JESUS. 28:40 YOU COME TO CHRIST AND THEN YOU SEE. 28:44 SOME PEOPLE WANT TO UNDERSTAND THEOLOGY AND TRUTH AND THEY'RE 28:47 WAITING FOR FLUTTERY FEELINGS. FIRST YOU MUST SURRENDER TO 28:50 JESUS THEN YOUR EYES ARE OPENED. YOU COME TO HIM AND THEN YOU 28:55 SEE. SO THAT'S A GOOD WAY TO INVITE 28:57 PEOPLE. THE WOMAN AT THE WELL, DID SHE 29:01 NEED A DOCTORATE IN THEOLOGY TO BE A SOUL WINNER? 29:05 DID SHE HAVE TO BE A PASTOR TO BE A SOUL WINNER? 29:09 OR DID SHE JUST HAVE TO HAVE AN EXPERIENCE THAT SHE COULD SHARE 29:12 WITH SOMEBODY ELSE. EVERYBODY SHOULD BE INVOLVED IN 29:16 THIS KIND OF EVANGELISM WHERE, WHEN YOU FIND THE BREAD OF LIFE, 29:21 YOU TELL EVERYONE THAT'S HUNGRY, 'WE KNOW WHERE THE BREAD IS.' 29:25 BEFORE I LEAVE THAT THOUGHT, HOW MANY OF YOU - WHILE WE'RE 29:31 TALKING ABOUT BEGGARS LOOKING FOR BREAD, THERE'S KIND OF 29:33 EXHIBIT A OF THIS STORY IN THE BIBLE. 29:35 YOU REMEMBER THE STORY OF THE LEPERS? THERE'S FOUR LEPERS - 29:37 2 KINGS - THAT'S ONE PLACE IN THE BIBLE - 2 KINGS 7. 29:40 THERE'S A FAMINE IN SAMARIA - TERRIBLE FAMINE - BECAUSE THE 29:46 PEOPLE OF SAMARIA - THE NORTHERN TRIBES OF ISRAEL - THEY ARE 29:50 BEING SURROUNDED BY THE SYRIAN ARMY. 29:52 THE SYRIAN ARMY HAS THEM BESIEGED. 29:54 THEY CAN'T GET OUT. THEY CAN'T GET FOOD IN. 29:57 THEY'RE BASICALLY TRYING TO STARVE THEM INTO SURRENDER. 30:00 AND THE BIBLE SAYS THERE'S FOUR LEPROUS MEN. 30:04 THIS IS 2 KINGS 7, VERSE 3, "NOW THERE WERE FOUR LEPROUS MEN AT 30:08 THE ENTRANCE OF THE GATE; AND THEY SAID TO ONE ANOTHER, 'WHY 30:11 ARE WE SITTING HERE UNTIL WE DIE?" 30:12 'IF WE GO IN THE CITY THEY'RE STARVING IN THE CITY.' YOU READ 30:15 THE WHOLE STORY AND THEY'RE NOT ONLY EATING DONKEY HEADS AND 30:18 DOVE DROPPINGS, THEY'RE GETTING INVOLVED IN CANNIBALISM - IT'S A 30:22 TERRIBLE FAMINE. LEPERS CAN'T GO IN THE CITY 30:26 BECAUSE THEY'RE LEPERS SO THEY'RE OUTSIDE THE GATE. 30:28 THEY CAN'T LEAVE BECAUSE OUT THERE IS THE ASSYRIAN ARMY CAMP 30:31 COMPLETELY SURROUNDING THE CAPITAL OF SAMARIA. 30:34 AND SO FINALLY, THERE MAY HAVE BEEN A HUNDRED LEPERS IN THE 30:37 COLONY - THEY'VE ALL DIED OFF EXCEPT FOUR OF THEM ARE LEFT. 30:40 THEY'VE ALL STARVED. AND THE FOUR OF THEM SAY, 'IF WE 30:43 SIT HERE THEN WE'RE GOING TO DIE LIKE EVERYONE ELSE. 30:45 IF WE GO IN THE CITY, BECAUSE THEY'RE OBVIOUSLY NOT KEEPING 30:48 THE CLEAN AND UNCLEAN LAWS ANYMORE, THEY'RE EATING DONKEY 30:50 HEADS, WHAT GOOD WILL IT DO? THEY'RE STARVING. 30:53 IF WE STAY HERE WE'RE GOING TO DIE. 30:54 THE ONLY OPTION WE HAVE WITH ANY HOPE IS THAT WE GO SURRENDER TO 30:58 THE ASSYRIANS AND IF THEY HAVE MERCY ON US AND THROW US SOME 31:02 CRUMBS WE'LL LIVE. IF THEY KILL US, WE'RE DYING ANYWAY, IT'LL BE 31:05 QUICK.' RIGHT? SO THIS IS WHAT THEY'RE THINKING. 31:09 SO THEY COME TO THE POINT OF MAKING THAT COMPLETE SURRENDER - 31:11 WILLING TO DIE - BY THE WAY, THAT'S WHEN YOU REALLY START TO 31:14 LIVE IS WHEN YOU COME TO MAKE A COMPLETE SURRENDER - TAKE UP 31:18 YOUR CROSS. AND AS THEY GO DOWN TO THE 31:20 SYRIAN ARMY, THEY'RE AMAZED BECAUSE THERE'S NOBODY THERE. 31:25 ALL THE CAMELS AND THE DONKEYS ARE TIED OFF. 31:27 THE TENTS ARE STILL INTACT. THEIR CAMPFIRES ARE STILL 31:31 SMOLDERING WITH FOOD ON THE BARBECUE BUT THERE'S NO 31:35 SOLDIERS. THE BIBLE TELLS US WHAT HAPPENED. 31:38 THE LORD MADE THE SYRIAN ARMY TO HEAR THE SOUND OF AN APPROACHING 31:43 ARMY - OF HORSES AND CHARIOTS COMING - BECAUSE WHEN AN ARMY 31:46 MOVED BACK THEN, THERE WAS SO MUCH GROUND VIBRATION YOU COULD 31:49 HEAR THEM COMING. IT SOUNDED LIKE THUNDER IN THE DISTANCE. 31:52 AND THEY PANICKED - THE ASSYRIANS PANICKED. 31:55 THEY THOUGHT THAT THE ISRAELITES HAD HIRED THE EGYPTIANS OR THE 31:58 HITTITES OR SOMEONE TO COME AND ATTACK THEM AND THEY ALL - 32:01 WITHOUT EVEN SADDLING THEIR HORSES THEY GOT UP AND RAN FOR 32:03 THEIR LIVES. IT SAYS THEY THREW OFF THEIR 32:05 CLOTHES AS THEY RAN TOWARD THE JORDAN BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO 32:07 RUN FASTER - THEY DROPPED EVERYTHING. 32:09 NOW WHEN YOU BESIEGE A CITY, IT SOMETIMES TOOK YEARS. 32:15 WHEN THE ROMANS BESIEGED MASADA, IT TOOK THREE YEARS BEFORE THEY 32:18 COULD CAPTURE IT. SOME OF THE BIBLICAL SIEGES - 32:21 WHEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR BESIEGED JERUSALEM - TWO YEARS BEFORE 32:25 THEY SURRENDERED. YOU BRING A LOT OF FOOD IF 32:27 YOU'RE GOING TO GO - IF YOU GO TO CAMP MEETING FOR 11 DAYS, 32:29 YOU GUYS BRING ENOUGH FOR THE MILLENNIUM, RIGHT? 32:32 JUST ADMIT IT. YOU ALWAYS BRING TOO MUCH FOOD. 32:35 AND SO IF YOU'RE GOING TO GO CAMP OUT FOR TWO YEARS, 32:39 HOW MUCH DO YOU BRING? 32:41 THERE'S AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF PROVISIONS - ENOUGH TO FEED AN 32:45 ARMY - LITERALLY - SO THESE LEPERS WHO ARE STARVING, THEY 32:49 COME AND THEY FIND THIS CAMP - THIS ARMY CAMP - ABANDONED AND 32:53 THEY GO INTO ONE OF THE TENTS - THEY JUST WANT SOMETHING 32:55 IMMEDIATELY - AND THEY SEE THERE'S FOOD AND NOT ONLY IS 32:58 THERE FOOD - THEY'RE WEARING RAGS SO THERE'S BEAUTIFUL 32:59 CLOTHES. THEY TAKE THE CLOTHES AND THEY SAY, 'OH, THERE'S MONEY 33:01 HERE TOO.' AND THEY TAKE THE MONEY. 33:03 SO INSTEAD OF GETTING SOME CRUMBS AND A LITTLE WATER, THEY 33:05 GET FOOD AND THEY GET GOLD AND THEY GET CLOTHING AND THEY CARRY 33:09 ALL - THEY EAT WHAT THEY CAN AND THEY CARRY ALL WHAT THEY CAN TO 33:12 THE WALLS AND THEY BURY IT. AND THEN THEY LOOK AND THEY 33:17 DON'T SEE ANY MORE ACTIVITY DOWN AT THE CAMP AND THEY THINK, 'YOU 33:19 KNOW, THEY COULD COME BACK. WE'D BETTER GET MORE.' SO THEY 33:21 GO BACK AND THEY GET MORE. THEY BRING IT BACK. 33:23 AND THROUGH THE NIGHT THEY'RE GOING BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN THE 33:25 SYRIAN CAMP AND THE WALLS OF SAMARIA AND THEY'RE HIDING ALL 33:28 THIS FOOD LIKE PACKRATS BECAUSE THEY THINK, 'THEY MUST BE COMING 33:31 BACK. THEY DIDN'T JUST LEAVE.' AND THEN THIS IS ONE OF THE 33:34 GREAT VERSES IN THE BIBLE, 2 KINGS 7, VERSE 9, "THEN THEY 33:40 SAID TO ONE ANOTHER" - THESE ARE THE FOUR LEPERS - 33:44 "WE ARE NOT DOING RIGHT. THIS DAY IS A DAY OF GOOD NEWS, 33:49 AND WE REMAIN SILENT. IF WE WAIT UNTIL MORNING LIGHT, 33:53 SOME PUNISHMENT WILL COME UPON US. 33:56 NOW THEREFORE, COME, LET US GO AND TELL THE KING'S HOUSEHOLD.'" 34:01 - LET US GO AND TELL - ISN'T IT AMAZING THAT GOD CAN USE PEOPLE 34:06 LIKE LEPERS WHO ARE POOR AND WRETCHED AND MISERABLE AND BLIND 34:10 AND NAKED - HE CAN USE PEOPLE LIKE THAT TO SHARE THE GOOD 34:12 NEWS. HE CAN USE A PERSON LIKE MARY 34:15 MAGDALENE OR THE WOMAN AT THE WELL - KIND OF THE OUTCASTS OF 34:18 SOCIETY. GOD CAN USE ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE 34:21 TO SHARE THE GOSPEL. I ALWAYS HESITATE TO TELL YOU 34:24 THIS BUT THE FIRST FEW BIBLE STUDIES I GAVE I WAS A HIPPIE IN 34:27 A CAVE AND I WASN'T WEARING VERY MUCH. 34:30 BUT I FOUND THE GOSPEL AND SO I SHARED IT WITH THE OTHER HIPPIES 34:33 THAT I MET. AND SO, YEAH, IF YOU SAW THOSE 34:36 FIRST BIBLE STUDIES, YOU WOULD HAVE THOUGHT, 'THAT'S A LITTLE 34:39 ROUGH.' BUT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S SO MUCH THAT I DIDN'T 34:42 UNDERSTAND, BUT I SHARED WHAT I DID UNDERSTAND. 34:45 AND SO EVANGELISM IS - DON'T WAIT UNTIL YOU UNDERSTAND 34:48 EVERYTHING, SHARE WHAT YOU DO UNDERSTAND. EVANGELISM IS 34:52 ONE BEGGAR TELLING ANOTHER BEGGAR WHERE THE BREAD IS. 34:57 I TELL YOU WHAT, LET'S READ JOHN 15:26, "BUT WHEN THE HELPER 35:04 COMES, WHOM I SHALL SEND TO YOU FROM THE FATHER, THE SPIRIT OF 35:08 TRUTH WHO PROCEEDS FROM THE FATHER, HE WILL TESTIFY OF ME. 35:13 AND YOU ALSO WILL BEAR WITNESS, BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN WITH ME 35:16 FROM THE BEGINNING." SO LIKE THAT WOMAN AT THE WELL, 35:19 WHEN SHE FOUND JESUS SHE RECEIVED - HE REVEALED HIMSELF 35:24 TO HER - THE FIRST THING SHE HAD TO DO WAS GO TELL OTHERS. 35:27 AND WHEN THEY MAYBE ARGUED AND SAID, 'YOU FOUND THE MESSIAH? 35:31 WELL, WE'RE NOT SO SURE.' SHE SAID, 'COME AND SEE A MAN WHO 35:35 TOLD ME ALL THINGS EVER I DID.' THEY COULDN'T ARGUE WITH THAT. 35:38 THEY FINALLY DID GO SEE JESUS AND THEN THEY SAID TO THE WOMAN, 35:41 FIRST WE CAME BECAUSE OF YOUR RECOMMENDATION, NOW WE KNOW FOR 35:45 OURSELVES HE IS THE MESSIAH. SO PEOPLE NEED TO HAVE A 35:48 PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. OKAY I THINK WE'RE READY, MIKE. 35:51 GO AHEAD. >>REVELATION 2, VERSE 3, 35:55 "AND YOU HAVE PERSEVERED AND HAVE PATIENCE, AND HAVE 35:58 LABORED FOR MY NAME'S SAKE AND HAVE NOT BECOME WEARY." 36:03 >>ALRIGHT, THIS IS DEALING WITH THE SUBJECT OF IN THE HARVEST 36:06 YOU NEED PATIENCE. TIMING IS VERY IMPORTANT IN THE HARVEST. 36:11 AND SOME EXAMPLES THAT ARE GIVEN HERE - LUKE 24:49 - JESUS SAID, 36:17 "BEHOLD, I SEND THE PROMISE OF MY FATHER UPON YOU; BUT TARRY IN 36:23 THE CITY OF JERUSALEM UNTIL YOU ARE ENDUED WITH POWER FROM ON 36:28 HIGH." WELL YOU THINK AFTER JESUS ROSE 36:31 FROM THE DEAD HE'D WANT THEM TO GO RIGHT FROM THE TOMB AND TELL 36:34 EVERYBODY. BUT WHY DID JESUS TELL THEM TO WAIT? 36:38 THERE WERE SOME TIMING THINGS THAT NEEDED TO HAPPEN. 36:42 WHY DID HE WANT THEM TO WAIT UNTIL PENTECOST BEFORE HE POURED 36:44 OUT THE SPIRIT? ANYONE WANT TO RAISE THEIR HAND 36:48 AND OFFER A SUGGESTION? GOOD POINT. 36:55 I'M GOING TO REPEAT YOU SO FOLKS WILL HEAR WHAT YOU SAID. 36:57 ONE REASON IS THE FEAST OF PENTECOST - JEWS WOULD BE THERE 37:02 FROM ALL OVER THE ROMAN EMPIRE SO THE TIMING WAS PERFECT. 37:06 ANY OTHER IDEAS? WHY WOULD HE TELL THEM TO WAIT? 37:13 BEFORE PENTECOST, DID SOMETHING HAPPEN IN THE UPPER ROOM? 37:18 IDEA? BACK HERE. YES. ALRIGHT, SO HE COULD PREPARE 37:27 THEM FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT. WERE THE DISCIPLES ARGUING AMONG 37:32 THEMSELVES UP UNTIL THE LAST SUPPER? 37:35 WERE THERE SOME MISGIVINGS ABOUT WHETHER THEY COULD MAYBE TRUST 37:38 PETER - AFTER HE DENIED THE LORD? 37:40 I MEAN, THERE WERE ALL KINDS OF PROBLEMS. 37:42 SO WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE UPPER ROOM THAT PREPARES THEM FOR THE 37:45 OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT? THEY CONFESS THEIR FAULTS TO ONE 37:49 ANOTHER, THEY WERE PRAYING FOR ONE ANOTHER, THEY WERE PUTTING 37:51 ASIDE THEIR DIFFERENCES. BEFORE THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS 37:53 POURED OUT IT SAYS, 'NOT ONLY WERE THEY AT ONE PLACE, 37:55 THEY WERE OF ONE ACCORD.' WHENEVER I SAY THAT I ALWAYS 37:59 THINK OF A HONDA. THEY'RE ALL IN ONE ACCORD. 38:05 BUT THEY FINALLY NEEDED THAT UNITY. 38:08 SO JESUS SAID, 'ALL MEN WILL KNOW YOU'RE MY DISCIPLES BY YOUR 38:11 LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHER' RIGHT? SO THAT WAS VERY IMPORTANT. 38:13 TIMING IS VERY IMPORTANT IN EVANGELISM. 38:16 JESUS SAID, 'YOU'RE NOT READY YET. 38:17 YOU'RE NOT READY TO RECEIVE THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.' NOW 38:21 DOES THE HOLY SPIRIT COME IN DIFFERENT DEGREES? 38:25 WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT FELL ON THE APOSTLES AT PENTECOST, WE USE A 38:30 FARMING TERM TO DESCRIBE THAT. YOU KNOW WHAT I'M THINKING? 38:34 THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF RAIN - FORMER RAIN AND LATTER RAIN. 38:40 IN THE JEWISH ECONOMY IN MANY PARTS OF THE WORLD, FARMERS KNEW 38:43 - THEY DIDN'T HAVE ARTIFICIAL IRRIGATION. 38:45 THEY DEPENDED ON THE WINTER RAIN TO SPROUT THE WHEAT AND THEN 38:50 THERE WOULD BE A FORMER RAIN - A LATTER RAIN THAT WOULD PREPARE 38:54 IT FOR THE HARVEST SO THERE'D BE SPRING RAIN AND THE FALL RAIN 38:57 THAT WOULD PLUMP UP THE GRAIN JUST BEFORE THE HARVEST. 39:00 YOU NEEDED BOTH RAINS. NOW WE NEED - HAS THE FORMER 39:04 RAIN ALREADY COME? PENTECOST IS THE FORMER RAIN. 39:08 IT SPROUTED THE SEED THAT JESUS HAD BEEN SPREADING THAT GOT THE 39:12 GOSPEL GROWING. BEFORE THE HARVEST, WHEN CHRIST 39:15 COMES IN REVELATION WITH - TO HARVEST - THAT'S - YOU NEED THE 39:19 LATTER RAIN. SO ARE WE SUPPOSED TO NOW JUST 39:21 SIT IN CHURCH, CONFESS OUR FAULTS TO EACH OTHER AND WAIT 39:25 FOR THE LATTER RAIN BEFORE WE DO EVANGELISM? NO. 39:29 FIRST OF ALL, BECAUSE THE FORMER RAIN CAME. 39:31 GOD HAS NOT WITHDRAWN THE PROMISE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 39:35 DOES THE HOLY SPIRIT COME IN DIFFERENT DEGREES? 39:38 ABSOLUTELY. DID JESUS ONLY GIVE THE HOLY 39:41 SPIRIT AT PENTECOST OR DID HE BREATHE ON THEM IN THE UPPER 39:44 ROOM AND SAY, 'RECEIVE YE THE SPIRIT'? 39:47 WHEN HE SENT THEM OUT PREACHING DIDN'T THEY GET THE HOLY SPIRIT 39:49 THEN OR WERE THEY SPIRITLESS? OF COURSE THEY HAD THE SPIRIT 39:53 THEN, BUT A SPECIAL, POWERFUL BAPTISM - IMMERSION IN THE HOLY 39:57 SPIRIT HAPPENED JUST BEFORE PENTECOST. 40:00 THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN AGAIN. DON'T USE THAT AS AN EXCUSE TO 40:05 NOT BE DOING EVANGELISM WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT'S AVAILABLE 40:08 NOW. BECAUSE GOD WANTS THE CROP AND 40:11 HARVEST TO BE HAPPENING NOW. AND I MET A LOT OF - A LOT OF 40:15 CHRISTIANS THAT SAY, 'YEP, WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT'S POURED OUT 40:18 WE'RE GOING TO BE SPREADING THE GOSPEL EVERYWHERE. 40:20 BUT I'M PRAYING AND WAITING FOR THAT TIME.' NOW IT IS IMPORTANT 40:27 THAT - THERE IS A TIME TO WAIT AND TIMING IS VERY IMPORTANT. 40:32 YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE FIRST EVANGELISTIC PROGRAMS I DID - 40:35 I HAD NO EXPERIENCE. I WENT TO - I WAS IN DICKENS, 40:40 TEXAS AND I GOT A TENT FROM THE TEXICO CONFERENCE - DICKENS IS 40:44 OUTSIDE OF LUBBOCK AND I SAID, 'LEND ME A TENT.' I'D BEEN 40:48 PREACHING IN THIS - THERE'S A CHURCH OF CHRIST - I WAS 40:51 TEACHING SUNDAY SCHOOL IN A METHODIST CHURCH. 40:53 I WAS GOING TO THE LUBBOCK CHURCH ON SABBATH. 40:55 I WAS PREACHING IN TWO DIFFERENT BAPTIST CHURCHES ON SUNDAY. 40:59 THERE WAS NO ADVENTIST CHURCH IN THIS TOWN SO I SAID, 'I'VE GOT 41:02 ALL THESE INTERESTS' AND I SAID, 'I WANT TO DO A MEETING.' SO 41:04 THEY GAVE ME TENT AND OPENING NIGHT WE HAD 70 PEOPLE, WHICH IS 41:07 A LOT FOR A LITTLE FARMING COMMUNITY. I WAS SO EXCITED, 41:11 I THINK I TRIED TO GIVE THEM ALL 27 FUNDAMENTALS IN ONE WEEK. 41:16 I MEAN, YOU KNOW, I JUST - I GAVE THE RAPTURE AND THE STATE 41:20 OF THE DEAD AND - DON'T EAT PORK! 41:22 I WAS SO EXCITED AND IT WAS - YOU KNOW, THE LORD BLESSED - 41:29 STILL TWO PEOPLE WERE BAPTIZED BUT BOY I DECIMATED MY CROWD IN 41:34 NO TIME AT ALL BECAUSE I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND TIMING. 41:38 WHEN WE TEACH EVANGELISM NOW AND WE HAVE AN AFCOE PROGRAM, WE 41:42 TALK ABOUT THE ORDER OF MESSAGES - THE ORDER OF BIBLE STUDIES 41:46 THAT YOU GIVE. THERE'S REASONS FOR THAT. 41:49 YOU NEED TO THINK. YOU NEED TO BE INTELLIGENT. 41:51 FIRST YOU ESTABLISH CONFIDENCE IN THE BIBLE BECAUSE IF THEY 41:53 DON'T HAVE CONFIDENCE IN THE BIBLE, WHAT GOOD ARE THE OTHER 41:55 BIBLE STUDIES? THAT'S WHY SO MANY EVANGELISTS 41:57 START WITH DANIEL CHAPTER 2, BECAUSE IT BUILDS FAITH IN THE 42:01 BIBLE AND SO THERE'S A SEQUENCE AND THEN AFTER YOU COVER A HEAVY 42:06 SUBJECT WITH SOMEONE IN THE BIBLE STUDY, THEN TALK ABOUT 42:09 HEAVEN OR TALK ABOUT SOMETHING OF GRACE AND SALVATION. 42:12 TALK ABOUT SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO BE A LITTLE EASIER TO 42:14 CHEW AND SWALLOW. AND THEN YOU CAN GO BACK AND 42:16 GIVE THEM, WHEN THEY'VE DIGESTED THAT - SOMETHING THAT MAY ALSO 42:19 BE A LITTLE WEIGHTIER. BUT BOY, IF YOU JUST GIVE THEM 42:22 ONE KNOCKOUT PUNCH AFTER ANOTHER, YOU SEND THEM FLYING 42:25 AND THEY SAY, 'I CAN'T SWALLOW THIS.' SO TIMING IS VERY 42:29 IMPORTANT AND JESUS UNDERSTOOD THAT. 42:31 AND WHEN YOU'RE INVOLVED IN THE HARVEST, YOU NEED TO BE PATIENT 42:36 AND THAT'S WHAT MIKE WAS JUST READING: YOU HAVE 42:39 PERSEVERED AND HAD PATIENCE. PSALM 37, VERSE 7, "REST IN THE 42:44 LORD, AND WAIT PATIENTLY FOR HIM;" DO FARMERS NEED PATIENCE? 42:51 DOESN'T JAMES TALK ABOUT THAT - HOW THE FARMER PATIENTLY WAITS 42:54 FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CROP? DON'T GET DISCOURAGED IF YOU'RE 42:58 TRYING TO WIN SOULS AND YOU DON'T SEE AN IMMEDIATE REACTION. 43:02 HOW MANY OF YOU CAN THINK OF SOMEBODY THAT YOU'VE BEEN 43:05 PRAYING FOR THEIR SALVATION FOR YEARS? DON'T GIVE UP. 43:10 JUST REMEMBER, A DAY WITH THE LORD IS AS A THOUSAND YEARS - 43:13 I'M NOT SAYING YOU'VE GOT TO WAIT A THOUSAND YEARS - AND A 43:16 THOUSAND YEARS IS A DAY.' I'M JUST SAYING, 43:18 'GOD, HE HEARS OUR PRAYERS. HE DOESN'T ALWAYS ANSWER THEM AS 43:21 QUICKLY AS WE EXPECT AND I'LL BET YOU THAT HEZEKIAH PRAYED FOR 43:27 HIS SON MANASSEH. HE KNEW THAT HE WAS NOT 43:29 CONVERTED. HE PRAYED FOR HIM. 43:31 AND HEZEKIAH DIED, BUT GOD STORED THOSE PRAYERS IN HEAVEN 43:36 AND 50 YEARS LATER MANASSEH IS CONVERTED. 43:42 AND SO, YOU KNOW, GOD IS PATIENT. 43:45 SO YOU'VE GOT TO PERSEVERE WHEN YOU'RE INVOLVED IN HARVESTING. 43:50 AND I'VE GOT SOME PEOPLE ON MY PRAYER LIST - OF COURSE YOU 43:53 ALWAYS HAVE YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS, BUT I'VE GOT SOME OTHER PEOPLE 43:56 I'VE HAD ON A PRAYER LIST FOR YEARS AND I LOOK AT MY LIST - 43:59 THEY'RE STILL THERE AND I'M SAYING, 'LORD, I'M NOT GIVING UP 44:00 YET.' SO IF YOU'RE INVOLVED IN - IF YOU'RE INVOLVED IN SOUL 44:04 WINNING - AND ALL BELIEVERS SHOULD BE, WE NEED TO HAVE 44:07 PATIENCE. ACTS 1:4 AND 5 - 44:12 STILL TALKING ABOUT PATIENCE: "AND BEING 44:14 ASSEMBLED TOGETHER WITH THEM, HE COMMANDED THEM NOT TO DEPART 44:18 FROM JERUSALEM, BUT TO WAIT FOR THE PROMISE OF THE FATHER, 44:22 'WHICH,' HE SAID, 'YOU HAVE HEARD FROM ME; FOR JOHN TRULY 44:25 BAPTIZED WITH WATER, BUT YOU SHALL BE BAPTIZED WITH THE HOLY 44:28 SPIRIT NOT MANY DAYS FROM NOW.'" IS THERE SOMETHING THAT WE CAN 44:32 DO TO RECEIVE THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT OR ARE WE JUST 44:37 LOOKING AT GOD HAS IT ON HIS CALENDAR - WHEN THE DAY COMES, 44:39 IT COMES. I THINK THERE'S SOMETHING WE CAN DO. 44:44 WHY WOULD JESUS SAY - AND THIS IS - WELL, IT'S IN MATTHEW AND 44:50 IN LUKE - 'IF YOU THEN BEING EVIL GIVE GOOD GIFTS UNTO YOUR 44:54 CHILDREN, HOW MUCH MORE WILL YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN GIVE TO 44:57 THOSE THAT ASK? SO WHAT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT 45:01 THING WE CAN BE PRAYING FOR? 'ASK YE OF THE LORD RAIN IN THE 45:04 TIME OF LATTER RAIN.' AND SO I THINK EVERYDAY, THE THING THAT 45:08 WE SHOULD BE PRAYING FOR IS THE SPIRIT OF GOD. 45:11 AND THE MORE WE PRAY FOR THAT, THE MORE WE PREPARE OUR HEARTS 45:14 FOR THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 45:17 YOU KNOW WHAT BROUGHT THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT TO 45:21 THE APOSTLES? REALLY UNDERSTANDING THE MISSION 45:26 OF JESUS AND THE CROSS. WHEN THEY SAW CHRIST'S SACRIFICE 45:29 FOR THEM, THEY WERE ABLE TO FORGIVE EACH OTHER. 45:32 THEY WERE ABLE TO LOVE EACH OTHER AND THAT PREPARED THEIR 45:35 HEARTS FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT. WHEN THEY HUMBLED THEMSELVES 45:38 BEFORE THE LORD, HE WAS ABLE TO FILL THEM. 45:41 WHAT PREPARED THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL TO RECEIVE THE RAIN IN 45:44 THE DAYS OF ELIJAH? WHEN THEY FELL BEFORE THE LORD 45:49 AND THEY SAID, 'THE LORD, HE IS GOD. THE LORD, HE IS GOD.' 45:51 THEY HUMBLED THEMSELVES AND THEN GOD SENT THE RAIN. 45:54 THE OTHER THING THAT BROUGHT THE RAIN FOR THEM IS REFORMATION. 45:59 THEY KNOCKED DOWN THE FALSE ALTARS AND THEY GOT RID OF THE 46:04 PROPHETS OF BAAL - THEN GOD SENT THE RAIN. 46:08 SO I'M NOT SAYING YOU GO OUT THERE AND EXECUTE A BUNCH OF 46:11 FALSE PROPHETS, I'M JUST SAYING THAT THEY ARE PROBABLY IN OUR 46:14 LIVES AND IN OUR HOMES - WE HAVE IDOLS. 46:17 AND ONCE THEY DEALT WITH THE IDOLS GOD SENT THE RAIN. 46:20 THEY WEREN'T PREPARED TO RECEIVE THE RAIN. 46:22 HE - YOU KNOW, THE LORD CAN'T FILL A FULL VESSEL. 46:26 IF WE EMPTY OURSELVES HE CAN FILL US. 46:29 AND SO, THAT'S, I THINK, AN IMPORTANT PREREQUISITE. 46:32 ALRIGHT, ACTS 16:6 - NOW IT'S STILL TALKING ABOUT PATIENCE 46:37 HERE, "NOW WHEN THEY HAD GONE THROUGH PHRYGIA AND THE REGION 46:40 OF GALATIA, THEY WERE FORBIDDEN BY THE HOLY SPIRIT TO PREACH THE 46:44 WORD IN ASIA." NOW, YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS? 46:46 WHAT I READ INTO THAT, THEY MADE SOME EFFORT. 46:49 THEY WANTED TO GO INTO ASIA. PAUL SAID, 46:51 'I'VE GOT GREAT PLANS FOR ASIA!' 46:52 AND THE HOLY SPIRIT SAID, 'NO.' NOW HOW DO YOU THINK THE HOLY 46:55 SPIRIT - DID THE HOLY SPIRIT E-MAIL THEM OR TEXT THEM OR FAX 46:58 THEM OR - DO YOU THINK THEY NOTICED THAT GOD KEPT BLOCKING 47:02 IT AND HE WAS FORBIDDING THEM OR THEY JUST DIDN'T HAVE PEACE THAT 47:05 THE TIME WAS RIGHT. I THINK THEY JUST SENSED THAT 47:08 THE SPIRIT. SOMETIMES IT'S AN INNER SENSE 47:10 AND SOMETIMES PROVIDENTIALLY THINGS MAYBE DIDN'T OPEN UP. 47:14 - "AFTER THEY CAME TO MYSIA, THEY TRIED TO GO INTO BITHYMIA, 47:18 BUT THE SPIRIT DID NOT PERMIT THEM. 47:20 SO PASSING BY MYSIA, THEY CAME DOWN TO TROAS. 47:23 AND A VISION APPEARED TO PAUL IN THE NIGHT. 47:26 A MAN OF MACEDONIA" - NOW MANY BELIEVE THAT THIS MAN THAT 47:29 APPEARS IN THE DREAM - DO YOU KNOW WHO THAT IS? 47:33 LUKE. GOOD CHANCE, YOU KNOW WHY? 47:38 UP TO THIS POINT, WHEN YOU READ THE BOOK OF ACTS - IT SAYS, 47:41 'PAUL WENT HERE. PAUL WENT THERE. PAUL DID THIS. 47:43 PAUL DID THAT.' IMMEDIATELY AFTER THIS VISION LUKE BEGINS TO 47:46 SAY, 'WE WENT HERE. WE WENT THERE. WE DID THIS. 47:50 WE DID THAT.' SO IT'S LIKELY THAT PAUL SAW THAT THERE WAS 47:55 THIS DEDICATED GODLY PHYSICIAN NAMED LUKE IN MACEDONIA THAT WAS 47:59 PRAYING - LIKE CORNELIUS WAS PRAYING - THAT WAS PRAYING THAT 48:03 SOMEBODY WOULD COME AND GOD HEARD LUKE PRAYING AND PAUL CAME 48:09 TO MACEDONIA. - "STOOD AND PLEADED WITH HIM, 48:11 SAYING, 'COME OVER TO MACEDONIA AND HELP US.' NOW AFTER HE HAD 48:16 SEEN THE VISION, IMMEDIATELY WE SOUGHT TO GO TO MACEDONIA, 48:20 CONCLUDING THAT THE LORD HAD CALLED US" - FROM THEN ON IT'S 48:24 PLURAL IN THE BOOK OF ACTS - "CONCLUDING THAT THE LORD HAD 48:28 CALLED US TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THEM." AND SO THEY WENT. 48:32 BUT THE TIMING WASN'T RIGHT AND SO, YOU KNOW, THEY TRIED TO GO 48:36 HERE AND THEY TRIED TO GO THERE AND GOD SAID, 'NO'. AND, YOU 48:40 KNOW, MAYBE WEEKS WENT BY AND THEY WERE PRAYING ABOUT, YOU 48:41 KNOW, WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DO?' AND GOD OPENS ANOTHER DOOR. 48:47 HAVE YOU EVER HAD AN EXPERIENCE WHERE ALL OF YOUR PLANS GOT 48:50 MESSED UP AND YOU THOUGHT, 'I'VE BEEN PLANNING THIS FOR A LONG 48:52 TIME.' AND YOU'RE WONDERING WHY IT HAPPENED AND LO AND BEHOLD 48:54 SOMETHING EVEN BETTER HAPPENS? SO WE'VE GOT TO ALWAYS BE OPEN 48:58 TO GOD'S TIMING AND BEING PATIENT. I REMEMBER ONE TIME 49:03 MISSING A PLANE AND I JUST COULDN'T UNDERSTAND IT. 49:06 I WAS REALLY UPSET AND WHILE I WAS WAITING IN THE SAN FRANCISCO 49:11 AIRPORT, THE HOLY SPIRIT KIND OF SAID TO ME - I DIDN'T HEAR A 49:15 VOICE BUT, YOU KNOW, I FELT IMPRESSED THAT MAYBE THIS'LL 49:19 WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD. AND LO AND BEHOLD, THE TAXI 49:23 DRIVER WHO PICKED ME UP IN NEW YORK CITY STARTED TALKING 49:28 RELIGION WITH ME AND ALL THE WAY - WE GOT STUCK IN TRAFFIC AND I 49:31 WAS ABLE TO MAKE A GOSPEL PRESENTATION TO THIS GUY. 49:33 I STILL REMEMBER, HIS NAME WAS MICHAEL. 49:35 AND I GOT OUT OF THERE - YEAH - I GOT OUT OF THE TAXI JUST 49:39 PRAISING THE LORD AND THINKING, YOU KNOW, GOD ARRANGED THIS 49:42 WHOLE THING AND IF I HAD CAUGHT MY PLANE WE NEVER WOULD HAVE 49:46 MET, OSTENSIBLY - I'M ASSUMING WE WOULDN'T HAVE MET. 49:50 ANYWAY, SO GOD - SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO BE PATIENT BECAUSE HE'S 49:53 WORKING THINGS OUT. ALRIGHT, OH, WE'VE GOT A LOT TO COVER. 49:58 'EXERCISING AUTHORITY': IN THE HARVEST HE DELEGATES AUTHORITY 50:03 TO US. ALRIGHT, SOMEONE HAS MATTHEW 18:18, WHO HAS THAT? 50:06 OVER HERE? HI ELISA, WELCOME. 50:11 WE'LL LET YOU - WE'LL LET YOU GET SET UP FOR THAT AND I'M 50:14 GOING TO READ MATTHEW CHAPTER 16, VERSE 19. 50:18 THESE VERSES - NO, I'M GOING TO READ MARK 6:7 RATHER - MARK 6:7, 50:23 "AND HE CALLED THE TWELVE TO HIMSELF, AND BEGAN TO SEND THEM 50:26 OUT TWO BY TWO, AND GAVE THEM POWER" - 50:28 HE GAVE THEM AUTHORITY - "OVER UNCLEAN SPIRITS." - 50:32 YOU GO TO VERSE 13 - "AND THEY CAST OUT MANY DEMONS AND 50:35 ANOINTED WITH OIL MANY WHO WERE SICK, AND HEALED THEM." 50:39 NOW, COULD THEY DO THAT IN THEIR OWN POWER OR DID GOD DELEGATE 50:43 POWER TO THEM TO DO THESE THINGS? 50:47 IF GOD ASKS YOU TO GO FARMING - IF HE INVOLVES YOU IN THE 50:50 HARVEST, DOESN'T HE GIVE YOU THE AUTHORITY TO DO THAT? 50:54 DO WE HAVE THE WORD OF GOD GIVING US AUTHORITY TO SHARE THE 50:56 MESSAGE? ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, PLEASE READ MATTHEW 18:18. 51:01 >>"ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU, WHATEVER YOU BIND ON EARTH WILL 51:05 BE BOUND IN HEAVEN, AND WHATEVER YOU LOOSE ON EARTH 51:08 WILL BE LOOSED IN HEAVEN." 51:10 >>NOW THAT IS A VERY TROUBLING VERSE. BY THE WAY, 51:14 IT GOES ALONG WITH MATTHEW 16:19 - I'M GOING TO 51:17 READ FOR YOU RIGHT NOW. AND HE SAYS, "AND I WILL GIVE 51:21 YOU THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, AND WHATEVER YOU BIND ON 51:24 EARTH WILL BE BOUND IN HEAVEN, AND WHATEVER YOU LOOSE ON EARTH 51:27 WILL BE LOOSED IN HEAVEN." WOW. 51:30 DOES THAT MEAN THE LORD IS GIVING BELIEVERS THE ABILITY TO 51:35 DECIDE WHO IS SAVED AND WHO IS LOST? WHAT DO YOU THINK? 51:41 NO, BUT HAVE SOME MISUSED THIS VERSE? 51:44 THEY APPLY IT, FOR INSTANCE, TO CLERICS AND PRIESTS AND SAY THAT 51:48 THEY GET TO DECIDE WHO'S FORGIVEN AND WHO'S NOT FORGIVEN. 51:51 YOU KNOW, WHAT JESUS IS SAYING HERE IS BETTER UNDERSTOOD BY 51:54 KNOWING SOMETHING ABOUT HEBREW. IT WAS VERY COMMON AMONG THE 51:57 JEWS TO USE THE TERMS 'TO BIND' AND 'TO LOOSE'. 52:01 AND FIRST AND FOREMOST, IN THE GOSPEL - JESUS IS THE ONE - HE'S 52:08 THE SON OF DAVID THAT HAS THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM, RIGHT? 52:10 SO WHEN HE SAYS HE GIVES US THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM, IT'S THE 52:12 GOSPEL. WHAT SETS US FREE? YOU'LL KNOW THE WHAT AND IT WILL 52:15 SET YOU FREE? THE TRUTH. 52:17 AND SO, VERY SIMPLY, IN GIVING THE TRUTH TO BELIEVERS AND AS 52:22 THEY SHARE THE TRUTH WITH OTHERS, THEY'VE GOT THE KEYS OF 52:25 THE KINGDOM THAT IS ABLE TO SHARE THE GOSPEL. 52:30 NOW, I'M GOING TO SAY SOMETHING THAT'S MAYBE GOING TO BE 52:32 MISUNDERSTOOD. WE DO NOT BELIEVE THAT PETER IS 52:36 THE FIRST POPE - THAT THE ROCK UPON WHICH JESUS BUILT THE 52:40 CHURCH WAS NOT PETER BECAUSE HE SAYS, 'YOU ARE PETER. 52:44 YOU ARE A PEBBLE. BUT ON THIS 'PETRA'' - IT'S A 52:47 DIFFERENT WORD THAT USED - IT'S MIGHTY, IMMENSE GIBRALTAR-SCALE, 52:51 PRUDENTIAL ROCK - 'I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH.' THE ROCK WAS THE 52:54 STATEMENT OF PETER THAT JESUS IS THE MESSIAH. 52:59 ON THAT TRUTH THE CHURCH WAS BUILT. 53:01 BUT, HAVING SAID THAT, GOD - THERE'S ALSO KIND OF A DOUBLE 53:05 MEANING IN HERE - WHO IS THE FIRST ONE WHO 53:08 PREACHES AT PENTECOST? TO THE JEWS? PETER. 53:13 WHO IS THE FIRST ONE WHO PREACHES TO THE GENTILES? 53:16 CORNELIUS. NOT CORNELIUS AS IN THE FIRST 53:19 ONE - WHO IS THE FIRST ONE WHO PREACHES TO CORNELIUS? PETER. 53:23 SO, IN A SENSE, GOD DID USE PETER TO OPEN THE GOSPEL TO THE 53:31 GENTILES AND SO HE WAS SAYING, 'THINGS THAT WERE FORMERLY 53:35 BOUND' - WHAT DID PETER SAY WHEN HE WAS 53:38 INVITED TO THE GENTILE'S HOUSE? 'YOU KNOW THAT IT'S NOT LAWFUL 53:41 FOR ONE WHO IS A JEW TO ENTER THE HOUSE OF A GENTILE.' 53:46 BUT CHRIST WAS SAYING, 'I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU THE KEYS 53:48 TO THE KINGDOM. THOSE THINGS THAT YOU CONSIDERED 53:50 UNLAWFUL BEFORE - DON'T CALL THEM UNCLEAN. 53:53 THEY ARE CLEAN NOW. I WANT YOU TO GO TO THE GENTILES. 53:56 AND SO THE JEWS READING THIS UNDERSTOOD THAT. 53:58 MATTER OF FACT, I READ - I WAS DOING A LITTLE STUDY ON THIS 54:03 THAT WHEN A JEWISH RABBI WAS COMMISSIONED IT SAID, 'TAKE THOU 54:09 LIBERTY TO TEACH WHAT IS BOUND AND WHAT IS LOOSED.' AND SO THEY 54:14 WERE TALKING ABOUT THE LAW AND WHAT IS PERMITTED AND WHAT IS 54:17 NOT PERMITTED. AND SO THESE WERE VERY COMMON TERMS. 54:19 AND SO TALKING ABOUT WHAT IS BOUND AND TALKING ABOUT WHAT IS 54:23 LOOSED - THOSE ARE JUST TERMS THAT MEAN YOU WILL BE TEACHING 54:25 THE WORD OF GOD. YOU WILL BE TEACHING THE LAW AND 54:27 THE GOSPEL IS IN THAT TERM. OKAY, LOW ON TIME HERE - 54:33 'LABORERS FOR THE HARVEST' - MATTHEW 9:37 - SOMEBODY LOOK UP 54:37 FOR ME ISAIAH 53:6 - WHO HAS THAT? OVER HERE? 54:42 WE'LL GET YOU A MICROPHONE. 54:43 MATTHEW 9:37, "THEN HE SAID TO HIS DISCIPLES, 'THE HARVEST 54:49 TRULY IS PLENTIFUL, BUT THE LABORERS ARE FEW. 54:53 THEREFORE PRAY THE LORD OF THE HARVEST TO SEND OUT LABORERS 54:57 INTO HIS HARVEST.'" NOT ONLY SHOULD WE BE WILLING, BUT WHAT 55:01 SHOULD WE BE PRAYING FOR? OTHER LABORERS. 55:05 SHOULD WE JUST BE PRAYING THAT GOD WILL SEND LABORERS OR SHOULD 55:08 WE HELP MAKE SACRIFICE AND SUBSIDIZE LABORS? 55:13 NOT ALL OF US MAY FEEL THAT WE'VE GOT THE ABILITY, BECAUSE 55:16 OF OUR JOBS AND OUR FAMILIES, TO GO DO FOREIGN MISSION WORK, BUT 55:19 WE CAN PRAY - WE CAN PUT MONEY BEHIND OUR PRAYERS AND SACRIFICE 55:24 TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL, RIGHT? I WONDER HOW MUCH EVANGELISM 55:28 COULD BE DONE IF PEOPLE TOOK A PERCENTAGE OF THEIR RESOURCES 55:34 THAT THEY DON'T NEED FOR THEIR DAILY COMFORTS - 55:38 I MEAN, LET'S FACE IT. A LOT OF US HAVE STUFF STORED 55:40 AWAY - HOUSES AND LANDS AND THINGS - THAT WE - WAY BEYOND 55:43 WHAT WE NEED FOR OUR DAILY NEEDS. 55:45 IF WE TOOK A PERCENTAGE OF THAT AND SAID, 'I AM NOW GOING TO 55:48 MAKE A GREAT SACRIFICE AND COMMIT THAT TO THE GOSPEL.' THAT 55:51 WOULD OPEN THE FLOOD GATES OF RESOURCES FOR SPREADING THE 55:56 GOSPEL AROUND THE WORLD IN WAYS THAT NOBODY COULD MATCH. 56:00 IF WE WOULD SACRIFICE LIKE THEY DID IN NEW TESTAMENT TIMES - SO 56:03 IT'S NOT JUST PRAYING FOR THE HARVEST - IT'S NOT VERY 56:06 EXPENSIVE TO PRAY, IS IT? I THINK THERE'S MORE WE COULD DO. 56:09 OFFER OURSELVES - GO ON A MISSION TRIP. 56:11 AND IF YOU CAN'T PREACH, GO ON A MARANATHA TRIP - BUILD A CHURCH. 56:16 GET INVOLVED IN A 'SHARE HIM' PROGRAM. 56:18 AND THERE'S SOMETHING EVERYBODY CAN DO TO BE INVOLVED AND GET A 56:21 TASTE FOR EVANGELISM. THE HARVEST IS GREAT. 56:24 YOU KNOW, I HAVE PEOPLE SAY, 'I'M SO AFRAID TO SHARE MY 56:26 FAITH. SOMEONE MIGHT MAKE FUN OF ME. IT'S NOT VERY POPULAR. 56:29 I DON'T WANT TO BE RIDICULED AND' - I'VE FELT THAT WAY, 56:32 HAVEN'T YOU? HAVE YOU EVER BEEN SCARED OR INTIMIDATED? 56:35 YOU'RE IN A ROOM OF SECULAR PAGANS AND YOU'RE SAYING, 'MAYBE 56:38 I SHOULD SAY SOMETHING. OH, NOT HERE! OH NO! 56:40 THEY'LL STONE ME.' BUT, YOU KNOW WHAT I FOUND OUT WHENEVER I GET 56:46 THE COURAGE TO SAY SOMETHING? THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE IN THOSE 56:49 GROUPS THAT ARE HUNGRY THAN YOU MIGHT THINK. 56:53 JESUS SAYS THE HARVEST IS GREAT. THERE ARE A LOT OF SEEKERS OUT 56:56 THERE THAT YOU WOULD NEVER GUESS ARE SEARCHING. 56:59 THE HARVEST IS GREAT. THE LABORS - THE PROBLEM ISN'T 57:02 THE HARVEST - THE LABORERS ARE FEW. 57:05 ALRIGHT, READ FOR US ISAIAH 53:6. 57:08 >>ISAIAH 53:6, "ALL WE LIKE SHEEP HAVE GONE ASTRAY; WE HAVE 57:13 TURNED, EVERY ONE, TO HIS OWN WAY; AND THE LORD HAS LAID ON 57:17 HIM THE INIQUITY OF US ALL." 57:20 >>THERE'S THE LOST AND THE FOUND. 57:22 YOU CAN READ LUKE 15, WHERE HE GIVES THOSE PARABLES ABOUT ALL 57:25 THESE LOSTS THAT ARE OUT THERE. YOU'VE GOT THE LOST COIN, 57:28 THE LOST SHEEP, THE LOST SON - AND THEY MUST BE PURSUED. 57:33 THE SHEPHERD PURSUES. THE WOMAN PURSUES THE LOST COIN 57:36 AND THE HOLY SPIRIT PURSUES THE LOST SON THROUGH PROVIDENCE. 57:40 BUT ALL OF US ARE FOUND BECAUSE SOMEONE IS PURSUING AND WE NEED 57:43 TO BE INVOLVED IN THAT HARVEST. TIME IS UP BUT THE HARVEST IS 57:47 STILL GREAT. AGAIN WE HAVE A FREE OFFER AND 57:50 IT'S ON THE NEED FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT AND WE'LL SEND THIS TO 57:53 YOU FREE FOR ASKING. JUST CALL 866-788-3966 - 57:58 ASK FOR OFFER #723. GOD BLESS YOU FRIENDS AND, LORD 58:02 WILLING, WE'LL STUDY THIS LESSON 13 NEXT WEEK. 58:07 (MUSIC) |
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